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Thursday marks missing Buckeye boy's 11th birthday, authorities continue search for him
Posted: 3:07 PM, Mar 16, 2017
By: Morgan Tanabe
Thursday was Jesse Wilson's 11th birthday.
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The young boy disappeared nearly eight months ago from his Buckeye home. A private investigator is now handling the case and in November he wouldn't confirm whether he believed Jesse was dead or alive when asked by ABC15.
Body camera footage released last August showed the missing boy and his mother, Crystal, talking to police officers in April after the boy was found in a neighbor's front yard. Jesse was reunited with his mother after she told officials he had climbed out of his bedroom window.
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Officers explained that they did not call the Arizona Department of Child Services because they had no reason to believe the boy was in danger.
In 2011, Avondale police were called to the Wilson's then home after receiving reports of child abuse. Authorities found two boys strapped to their beds with shoulder harnesses. Crystal allegedly told police that the harnesses were used because the boys previously snuck outside to play without her knowledge.
However, officers checked the boys for injuries and determined that they were fed and showed no signs of abuse.
Despite authorities determining that the kids weren't in danger, neighbors were still concerned. One woman said she recalled when Jesse would knock on neighbors' doors asking for snack and drinks. Another man said he fed the kids on at least three occasions while they waited in the summer heat for their mother to return home.
The Buckeye Police Department said investigators continue to receive tips from the public regarding the boy's disappearance but refused to comment further regarding the situation. However, they did confirm on Monday that the investigation is ongoing.
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Boots Opticians’ employees climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity
Home > Student & Members > Dispensing Optics Online > Latest news and features > Boots Opticians’ employees climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity
On Thursday 16 June 2016, twelve employees from Boots Opticians embarked on a once in a life time experience to Tanzania to climb the great Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the 1 in 10 people in Africa who can’t see properly because they need spectacles.
The event was pioneered by Boots Opticians senior development manager, Oliver Warner in 2015 to raise funds for Vision Aid Overseas’ 30th Anniversary. Oliver said “It feels like it has been a long time in the making, but it most definitely felt worth-while arriving at the summit with the sun coming up and the whole team reaching the peak together”.
Another climber, added “The whole experience was absolutely incredible; I loved every single minute of it and didn’t want to come home. Tanzania is so beautiful and the people were so friendly and welcoming. Knowing we’ve raised so much money is really rewarding too – I know the money will make a huge difference to so many people living with vision problems in Africa.”
So far the team have raised an incredible £39,000 with the total still rising as sponsorship money continues to be sent in.
The funds raised by Boots Opticians will help Vision Aid Overseas to continue to help more children like Adams from Zambia who, until he was prescribed spectacles, could not see the blackboard properly and was falling behind at school and adults like tailor Philippe from Burkina Faso whose brand new spectacles meant he could once again see properly to do his work and support his family.’
If you would like to support Vision Aid Overseas by organising a company sponsored event, call 01293 535 016 or email andy.holliday@visionaidoverseas.org.
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Character Profile: Prince Marth
Prince Marth Prince Marth
Mars Mars
Male Male
16 years old(14 in the flashback)(born in Akanea Year 588) 16 years old(14 in the flashback)(born in Akanea Year 588)
Prince of Aritia, heir to Akanea's throne Prince of Aritia, heir to Akanea's throne
"Everyone, look at me!" "Minna, miteite kure!"("Everyone, look at me!")(source: Super Smash Bros. Melee)
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Fire Emblem Fire Emblem
The above info came from Kirbyfan106, and was edited by yours truly (contact me). The image came from photobucket.
Character Description: Prince Marth
Marth, a.k.a. Mars, is the betrayed prince of the kingdom of Aritia (Altea in the game), whose veins carry the blood of legendary hero Anri.
He fled Aritia when the kingdom of Durhua (Dolua in the game) attacked, then, wielding his sword, Falchion, led a revolt and defeated the dark dragon Medeus, who ruled over Durhua. (That first sentence in this paragraph describes both the Fire Emblem game and the FE anime.)
Afterwards, Aritia was annihilated by King Hardin of Orleans, who had been possessed by Medeus after the dark dragon himself was defeated. Marth, of course, learned of this and freed Hardin from Medeus' posession, though letting Hardin die in the process. Then, Marth's army advanced to Durhua where Marth and the revived Medeus in his true form began their final battle. Marth's power of light was able to weaken Medeus' dark power, and with a strike from Falchion, Medeus was destroyed forever. After that, Marth returned to Aritia to rebuild it and the rest of the world, and he was able to rule in peace for the rest of his days.
Marth's father King Cornelius comes off as being rather abusive, and his sister Ellis seems to be a gentle confidante in his times of need. He also received Ellis's tiara as a parting gift when she was kidnapped by Garnef, the Supreme Priest of Khadin.
His debut was actually in the game "Fire Emblem: Ankokuryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi" (or, roughly translated, "Fire Emblem: Dark Dragon and Sword of Light"), the first game in the Fire Emblem series. He was the original hero of the Fire Emblem series.
Marth recently appears as a hidden playable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube. Here, all players have to do to unlock Marth is to use all 14 default characters at least once in 1-P Classic Mode or Vs. Mode, or fight 400 Vs. Matches. Marth plays a lot like Link (from the Legend of Zelda games) except he fights mainly using his sword. He is almost as fast as Captain Falcon (from the F-Zero: GP Legend anime and F-Zero games), and his moves are quick, though they don't pack much of a wallop. Marth is a middleweight character, meaning he's perfectly balanced in his weight and only gets smashed as far as Mario (from the Mario games), Link, Samus Aran (from the Metroid games), and other middleweights. He is also the only secret character to have a clone of his own. His clone is Prince Roy of Pharae, the hero of the Japanese-only Fire Emblem 6 game, whose father is Eliwood, a friend and teammate of Lyn, the heroine of the Fire Emblem 7 game, which was the very first Fire Emblem game to be released in America.
The above description came from Kirbyfan106, and was edited by yours truly (contact me).
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Dos Equis Introduces Its New ‘Most Interesting Man,’ and He Sure Is Different
Campaign gets 'contemporary twist'
In a bit of Doctor Who-esque regeneration, Dos Equis on Wednesday introduced its new Most Interesting Man in the World—to replace Jonathan Goldsmith, who retired from the role earlier this year. And this MIM isn't just a new face. He heralds a new approach to the ads, in what the brewer calls a "contemporary twist to the legendary character."
He's actor Augustin Legrand. And in the first hint that this isn't your worldly grandfather's Dos Equis campaign, Legrand is actually a French actor, and he delivers his first line as the MIM in Spanish.
Check out the launch spot, from Havas New York, here:
The Spanish setting and dialogue of the opening spot aren't merely incidental. Hispanic consumers are a much bigger part of the beer-drinking market than they were when MIM launched nine years ago. And of course, Dos Equis is a Heineken-owned brand with a Mexican name and heritage.
As for Legrand's version of the character, the brand says he'll be doing less reminiscing about past glories, which was the amusing Goldsmith style, and more hands-on adventure seeking in a kind of James Bond style.
"The new Most Interesting Man is a man of our times, and in this first glimpse, he shares hints of being a resourceful, rough and tumble guy, who remains a jack-of-all-trades hero that one would expect from the man bearing this infamous title," the brand says in a statement. "Viewers get a quick preview of his latest adventures and new friends including his love of sports, as he emerges from a well, ball in hand, to save a game of soccer."
The brand also describes Legrand's characters as "timelessly masculine" and "edgier and more daring." (It helps that Legrand is just 41, while Goldsmith is now 77.)
On the other hand, as different as Legrand's character will be, visually he looks quite a lot like Goldsmith, and the same voiceover actor introduces him. There's also a nice meta feel to this first spot, with the bartender asking Legrand literally if he's as interesting as his predecessor. Dos Equis is no doubt, deep down, wondering the same thing.
"The meaning of 'interesting' has evolved over the past decade, and this campaign features a new character and look and feel that opens the door to a world of interesting possibilities for today's Dos Equis drinker," Andrew Katz, vp of marketing for Dos Equis, said in a statement. "With the reboot of the campaign, we're celebrating the good times The Most Interesting Man has with friends wherever he travels, while highlighting our refreshing cerveza. In the coming weeks, fans will have the opportunity to get to know the new character in a uniquely interactive way."
The old campaign style isn't completely going away. The brand will return to the classic vignette style in its next commercial, breaking Oct. 19 and synced to Dos Equis' College Football Playoff sponsorship.
But the October launch will also show the modernization of the campaign, as it will include social integrations on Snapchat, including a national lens available for College Football Game Day on Oct. 22.
Client: Dos Equis
Title: "Cantina"
Agency: Havas Worldwide New York
Chief Creative Officer of the Americas: Toygar Bazarkaya
Chief Creative Officer of North America: Jason Peterson
Group Executive Creative Director, Managing Director: Jason Musante
Executive Creative Director: Jim Hord
Group Creative Directors: Keith Scott, Paul Johnson
Creative Directors: Jonas Wittenmark, Tobias Carlson, Paul Fix
Associate Creative Directors: Matthew Hock, David Fredette
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Jill Mansell
'The queen of witty, heart-warming, feel-good love stories' Red
Jill Mansell's books are full of love, life and friendship and have been bringing joy to readers for twenty-five years. She started writing fiction while working in the NHS, after joining a local creative writing class. She has since written over twenty Sunday Times bestsellers, including THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING, THE ONE YOU REALLY WANT and YOU AND ME, ALWAYS, and her books have sold over 11 million copies around the world.
Jill's hobbies include buying stationery, particularly magical new colours of ink for the fountain pen she uses to write all her books - Jill is one of the few authors who still write their books by hand. Jill also loves people-watching and finding new characters to put in her novels. So when you're out, make sure to always be on your best behaviour. And beware of beady-eyed authors carrying notebooks . . .
Jill keeps in touch with her readers on Twitter - @JillMansell - and Facebook - /OfficialJillMansell.
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Maybe This Time: The heart-warming new novel of love and friendship from the bestselling author 24-Jan-2019
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 3 BESTSELLER!
Heartwarming and joyful - the brand new romantic comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THIS COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING. An irresistible read for fans of Lucy Diamond and Katie Fforde.
'Mansell has delivered another winner with this compelling, thoughtful, emotionally intelligent book about love, friendship and not giving up' Daily Mail
Mimi isn't looking for love when she spends a weekend in Goosebrook, the Cotswolds village her dad has moved to. And her first encounter with Cal, who lives there too, is nothing like a scene in a romantic movie - although she can't help noticing how charismatic he is. But Cal's in no position to be any more than a friend, and Mimi heads back to her busy London life.
When they meet again four years later, it's still not to be. Cal is focusing on his family, and Mimi on her career. Then Cal dives into a potentially perfect new romance whilst Mimi's busy fixing other people's relationships.
It seems as if something, or someone else, always gets in their way. Will it ever be the right time for both of them?
The joy of Jill's novels:
'A heartwarming treat from one of my favourite writers' Katie Fforde
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What readers are saying about MAYBE THIS TIME:
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It Started with a Secret: The feel-good novel of the year, from the bestselling author of MAYBE THIS TIME 23-Jan-2020
Jill's Mansell's heart-warming new book is the feel-good novel of 2020. A beautiful Cornish setting, a chaotic family, a woman who's had enough of romance - or has she? Not to be missed by readers of Katie Fforde and Millie Johnson.
The trouble with secrets is that you can't guess what the consequences will be . . .
Lainey has just lost everything. Luckily one little fib (OK, quite a big fib) helps nail her dream job. Soon she's living in a stunning house by the sea, fending off obsessed fans for a retired - if far-from-retiring - actor and organising his charming but chaotic family. Yes, everyone thinks she's part of a couple and it's tricky keeping this secret. But at least she's not looking for love: with her disastrous relationship history, men are definitely off the agenda.
Except Seth, the actor's grandson, really is very attractive. There's growing chemistry and a definite connection between them. What would happen if he knew the truth?
But Lainey's not the only one with a secret - it seems everyone has them! And they're all about to start unravelling...
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Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay: The feel-good bestseller to brighten your day 12-Jan-2017
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MEET ME AT BEACHCOMBER BAY is a romantic, funny and unputdownable new novel about love and friendship from Jill Mansell, bestselling author of THE ONE YOU REALLY WANT and YOU AND ME, ALWAYS - 'A glorious, heartwarming romantic read' Woman & Home. Perfect for anyone who loves Milly Johnson, Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan.
'A glorious, heartwarming romantic read' Woman & Home
Love is in the air in St Carys, but you'd never know it - the people of this seaside town are very good at keeping secrets...
The man Clemency loves belongs to someone else. She has to hide her true feelings - but when she ropes in an unsuspecting friend to help, wires start to get crossed.
For the first time in Ronan's life his charm has failed him in winning over the woman he wants. Loving her from afar appears to be his only option.
Belle seems to have the perfect boyfriend, but something isn't quite right. And now a long-buried secret is slowly rising to the surface.
The truth has a funny way of revealing itself, and when it does St Carys will be a very different place indeed...
What readers are saying about Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay:
'Captivating, warm, light-hearted and funny. The prose is polished and beautifully descriptive, with characters you can't help but fall in love with' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
'An uplifting read set in beautiful Cornwall which was described so perfectly I felt I was there. Utterly charming' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars
'A total breath of fresh air. Jill Mansell certainly weaves a beautiful tale that captures us heart and soul' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
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Jenny Lanni, assistant professor of biology at Wheaton College, will present "Fish Tales: How the Zebrafish Grew its Long Fins."
"My research utilizes the zebrafish model system to explore the regulation of proportional growth in vertebrates. During normal development, growth is integrated such that relative sizes among structures and tissues are specified and maintained. My laboratory is studying a zebrafish mutant strain with fins that grow to over twice the normal length. This long-finned mutant is notable in that it maintains patterned overgrowth, distinct from the kind of aberrant proliferation seen in cancer and overgrowth disorders. As zebrafish share many of their genes with humans, we hope to use this mutant to identify conserved pathways that regulate growth in vertebrates. Zebrafish also possess the remarkable ability to regenerate their fins within two weeks of amputation. Thus, understanding the growth pathways that are activated in our mutant fish may lend insight into tissue regeneration."
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Robbie Pardoel
At age eleven Robbie got introduced to music. He owned an old, simple turntable, which gave the opportunity to mix two records. He spend most of his time practicing, with seamless mixing those two records being the final goal.
Ten years later, Robbie has grown into an appreciated artist in clubs throughout the Netherlands. Being eager to develop himself in each and every aspect of the club scene, he started organizing his own events, and in addition, began with producing music.
In the past year, he performed for large crowds on all major Dutch festivals with his brother Gers Pardoel, but most importantly, Robbie is focusing on his biggest personal interest, dance music.
He has set up a professional studio in which he is currently focusing himself on producing tracks, with the emphasis on big room sounds for the international commercial dance scene. Robbie’s style is defined by his experience with progressive house, but most of all, it is defined by his passion for pop music. His passion is clearly expressed in warm melodies, mixed with phat, danceable beats.
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By Huck N Roll On September 13, 2017 · 26 Comments · In 2017, German Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Reviews, SPV, Steamhammer
We’ve been seeing it since the dawn of time: when one band finds success, record company execs stumble over themselves trying to sign the next great version of that band. Rarely is the next great version actually found: instead, what we usually end up with are tepid versions of the original, competent yet missing that certain intangible (and more often than not also missing decent songwriting). Case in point: the critical success bands like Royal Thunder and Blues Pills have enjoyed in recent years. Record labels are wading through quagmires looking for the next great female-fronted retro blues/metal acts, and tossing half-baked ideas at us in the hopes that something sticks. So I find myself peeling Travelin Jack’s second album, Commencing Countdown, off my face, and trying to figure out which echelon they belong in.
Travelin Jack clearly live in the 70s, despite the band saying “there’s nothing retro about our material.” Talk about self-delusion. First, the band members have stage names like Flo The Fly, Steve Burner, and Alia Spaceface. Second, they put themselves together like a DIY-lite version of Kiss, with goofy clothes and even goofier makeup. And third, they list old-time acts such as Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple as influences. Honestly, that kinda works for me, gimmicks and all, as long as they can play and write. These Germans gave us a good taste of what they were about on 2015’s debut New World, so here’s hoping they can take things up another level.
Commencing Countdown kicks off majestically with “Land of the River,” and you know immediately where the focus is: Spaceface and her impressive pipes. But she’s not the only member who impresses quickly, as a solid, infectious groove that’s in no rush plants itself in the ground. “Land of the River” proves itself to be a perfect opening song, featuring great writing, a solid performance by the band, and some stellar vocal work. “Metropolis” carries on with more of the same: it’s a song that will definitely kick ass live, and for the more aurally discerning amongst us, it’s fun to hear the tape flange effect on the hi-hat. “Keep on Running” has a slinky riff, and is the most Blues Pills-y song here, while “Galactic Blue” is another grinding stomper that will kill live.
Sadly, Travelin Jack can’t maintain momentum through the ten songs presented here, and the reason for this frustrates me. Spaceface has a great voice, but it’s more effective when kept in check, and too often throughout Commencing Countdown she sings the hell out of the songs – too much hell, to the point of exhaustion. “Cold Blood” is a decent galloper of a tune, but the vocals get shouty, tiresome, and annoying. Slow burner “Time” should be her showcase, and during the slower moments it almost is, but she just can’t keep her performance in check all the way through. “Miracles” is grating, while “Fire” has an awesome pure 70s riff that is destroyed by shouting. It’s such an annoying performance that it almost negates all of her great work on earlier songs.
So when it’s all said and done, where do Travelin Jack fit within the greater scheme of things? Certainly not on the same level as Royal Thunder or Blues Pills, but definitely in the tier just below. A bit of restraint on the part of Alia Spaceface, a bit more variation in the songs, and the band could be on their way to bigger things. As it stands, Commencing Countdown is the kind of album that will have you pulling two or three songs out and adding them to your Favorites playlist. Here’s hoping the band’s next album as a whole can end up on a list like that.
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Steamhammer/SPV
Websites: travelinjack.bandcamp.com | travelinjack.com | facebook.com/travelinjackband/
Releases Worldwide: September 8th, 2017
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A Change of Climate
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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets. Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of 'good souls and sad cases', children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage. Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and Botswana, of the terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives, refuse to be put to rest and threaten to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves and their children. This is a breathtakingly intelligent novel that asks the most difficult questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy ever deserved? Can you ever escape your own past? A literary family saga written with the skill and subtlety of a true master, this is Hilary Mantel at her best.
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE FRSL is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction.
She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice.
The third instalment to the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, is in progress.
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New Tuscaloosa Restaurant’s Owners Carry on Family Legacy
The Tuscaloosa News
Fans of flavors from south of the border have a new restaurant to try in Tuscaloosa after a Tex-Mex eatery on McFarland Boulevard opened its doors. Alex Sanchez and his wife, Vanessa, have yet to hold a grand opening or a ribbon cutting, but the couple has been serving customers at La Cocina Bar & Grill since last Friday.
Vanessa Sanchez said La Cocina’s head chef hails from Mexico and brings that culture to the kitchen to produce authentic lunches and dinners. “We’re not a typical Mexican restaurant. We offer the most unique approach to modern Tex-Mex cuisine in Tuscaloosa,” she said.
Vanessa Sanchez said although this will be their first business venture together, running a restaurant is nothing new for her husband, whose family has been in the food business for years.
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Southcentral Alaska
Region 4 East: Interior, Anchorage and the Susitna Valley
Region 4 (east) begins at the Canadian border north of Valdez and continues westward through the Anchorage area, along Cook Inlet to the western border of GMU 16, along the Western Alaska Range. The area offers excellent opportunities for climbers in Denali National Park, the Chugach Mountains, and the Wrangell- St. Elias areas. Fishing and hunting opportunities are seemingly endless, as are hiking, mountain biking, camping (both on and off the road system). Winter sports such as ice fishing, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing and snowmachining are popular winter sports here, with numerous road-based and remote options. Region 4 (east) has three downhill ski areas, all accessible by road from Anchorage; Hilltop, Arctic Valley, and Alyeska.
The Road System
When it comes to access, Region 4 is a place of sharp contrasts. The eastern end is the most heavily roaded area in Alaska, but when you go west of Anchorage, roads disappear and you are limited to aircraft access almost exclusively. Let's look at the road system in this area.
The Denali Highway
A dirt track that is frequently closed in winter, the Denali Highway begins at the Parks Highway near Cantwell (on the fringes of Denali National Park), and continues east to the small town of Paxson, near the Gulkana River. The Denali Highway is a popular access corridor for hunters and fishermen, campers, and hikers, however it is very rustic and few amenities are available (including fuel) along the way. A nice exception is the lodge located at the MacLaren River crossing, where fuel, meals, and lodging are available.
The Glenn Highway
Beginning in Palmer and pointing east to its terminus with the Alaska Highway at Tok, the Glenn winds through Chickaloon, Sutton, Eureka, Glennallen and Gakona before coming to the small town of Tok. The road offers excellent access to the Matanuska River and other locations from which you can charter aircraft, unload a snowmachine, or put a boat in the water to experience recreational opportunities in the Chugach Mountains, the Talkeetna Mountains, or the Nelchina basin.
The Parks Highway
Originating in Anchorage, the George Parks Highway is the primary route north to Denali National Park, and Fairbanks. The drive to Fairbanks takes about 6.5 hours or so, depending on conditions, and it runs through some very remote country where few or no services are available. The Alaska Railroad roughly parallels the Parks for most of the way to Fairbanks, and actually crosses the highway in a few places.
The Seward Highway
The Seward Highway is, by far, the most well-traveled highway in the summer months. Linking Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula, it is the primary access corridor for travelers accessing the port towns of Whittier, Seward, Soldotna and Homer.
Public-Use Cabins
Region 4 (east) contains many cabins that are available for use by the general public. Most require advance reservations and user fees are usually charged by the night. Amenities are spartan; expect to find an outhouse, bunks with no bedding or mattresses, no food, no dishes or cookstove, and no power or running water. Most have wood-fired or oil-fired stoves for heat. See our Public-Use Cabins page for locations, recommended gear, reservation and contact information.
Boating in Region 4 East
Region 4 (east) offers whitewater rafting, lake boating, float hunting and float fishing both on and off the road system.
The Port of Anchorage offers recreational boat launch facilities and a host of other amenities of interest to saltwater boaters, however saltwater fishing opportunities are extremely limited in the silty, shallow, muddy waters of lower Cook Inlet.
The Port of Anchorage is a common jump-off point for boaters intending to access the lower Susitna or any of several tributaries to the Susitna system, namely the Yentna Rivr, Alexander Creek, Deshka River and Lake Creek.
Bremner River| Chitna River | Little Susitna River| Talachulitna River
Fishing in Region 4
Region 4 contains a generous population of lake trout, Dolly Varden, grayling, northern pike, and all five species of Pacific salmon. But because much of it is on the road system, some fisheries can become crowded in the summer months. Read through our fishing forums for details on the numerous opportunities.
Anchorage | Northern Cook Inlet
Hunting in Region 4
Region 4 (east) contains GMUs 11, 13, 14(A, 14(B) & 16.
Southcentral Alaska offers inexpensive, trail-accessible hunting opportunities for moose, caribou, Dall sheep, brown/grizzly bear, black bear, Rocky Mountain goat and wolf. Limited waterfowl hunting exists in this area, as does upland game bird hunting for grouse and ptarmigan
Want to learn how to hunt the species that inhabit Region 4 (east)? Visit our species pages, which provide information on species biology, distribution, and how to hunt the various species available in this region. A complete resource list on each species is also provided.
Bison | Black Bear | Brown Bear | Caribou | Goat | Moose | Sitka black-tailed deer | Wolf
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR HUNTERS IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA: If you have wounded an animal in the Anchorage / Portage / Mat-Su Valley area, and need help finding it, contact Alaska Game Search. They use blood tracking dogs to locate wounded game. Their two primary purposes are 1) to reduce the suffering of animals wounded by hunters and 2) to reduce the risks to the public, from wounded game animals. They work closely with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the Alaska State Troopers and receive most of their referrals from these organizations. They also take direct referrals from the public, and the service is free. You can contact them AT THIS LINK.
ADF&G Contact Information for Southcentral Alaska
ADF&G Management and Harvest Reports, a vital hunt-planning tool, can be found AT THIS LINK. Reports are listed in sequential order by species. For detailed research into population trends, review several reports. For more recent data contact the area biologist. The biologists for Region 4 are located in the office in Palmer. The phone number there is 1 (907) 746-6300.
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A picnic of promise
Gathered at the quarried Ilparpa site; Craig San Roque begins the story-telling. This and photos below by FIONA WALSH except where specified.
It is as though a mouth in the rockface has been prised open and stomach contents disgorged, teeth too. This is the deepest of the scars left by the quarrying of stone from the range rising along the southern side of Ilparpa Valley. The disgorgement settles on a flattened turnaround for trucks and machinery, high above the valley; a second smaller turnaround has been carved out below. The road leading up to it has eroded into a deep gully; just a goat track at the side holds on, buttressed by buffel grass and rock. Up this track we go, for a picnic of promise.
There is food yes, tables laden with crusty brown loaves, oil for dipping, olives, black and green, luscious yogurt, Mediterranean vegetables and fruits. No wine. Our town has an uneasy relationship with wine. It is banned in public places (in many private places too). Despite unlikely detection, we abstain.
Before we eat we hear the first part of a story of origins, an ancestral creation story for this food culture we so love. ‘We’, what ‘we’ is this? In a place like Alice Springs this is never a simple category. Looking around, at the crowd of loosely connected people, gathered by word of mouth, I can say it is a multi-cultural ‘we’ of recent arrivals whose history here might go back decades, even a generation or two, not longer and for some much shorter. Our ‘we’ also includes a few visitors, family and friends who have come especially and soon will go again.
The invitation to gather has filtered out from Craig San Roque, author of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (his original essay later adapted and drawn by Joshua Santospirito as a graphic novel), and a troupe of friends – musicians, artists, performers. They will work with him to tell the version he has penned of an old story. Bringing their various talents to it they will perform on the stage of the abandoned quarry’s higher turnaround.
We know from listening to Aboriginal people how intrinsically story and place are linked for them. When the connection is broken, something in them is broken. We know from The Long Weekend San Roque’s counsel that we likewise should “mind our own stories”. They are a critical part of our psychological inheritance. They help us think about who we are, how we came to be here, at this place and this time, and about how to act. “The Kore Story / Persephone’s Dog” is one of those.
Kore dancers, from left, Sia Cox, Miriam Pickard and Anna Flouris. Cox, of Greek descent and an artist, created the skirts, inspired by the designs of her great-grandmother, Cleopatra Katsoolis. Flouris, of Greek-Cypriot descent, was cultural custodian of the story. She offered a lesson in the pronunciation of the greek names and parts of the narrative in the Greek language. Photo by Erwin Chlanda.
For most of us picnickers, our ancestral places are found in old Europe and many of us experience at some level a sense of loss in our severance from these roots. This is acknowledged beautifully at the start of the performance by Genevieve O’Loughlin in her song, ‘The Emigrant’ (‘My long lost country I cry for you’). It tells a story of the Irish diaspora, but the themes are shared broadly by many migrant peoples. With physical displacement goes a cultural one – language, music, dance, story, connection with country all attenuate, even disappear. San Roque urges us to be mindful of the loss, to be mindful too of the imaginative possibilities of retrieval and to make the connections between past and present.
What we are about to hear begins at Delphi in ancient Greece, the navel or womb of the world, so the story goes. Two women are travelling …
Straightaway an echo sounds with the Aboriginal stories of central Australia, where the creation ancestors travel across the country, forming it as they go. So it is with Demeter, born from the Mother Rock at Delphi. Where she travels, the land divides, rivers run, mountains rise and plants grow. Daughter Kore follows in her footsteps; eyes grow in her, she learns to see and listen.
Left: Miriam Pickard in the role of Kore; behind her, Penelope McDonald as Demeter. Photo by Erwin Chlanda.
Demeter creates with a loving originary power, body and creation are one. “She rose up, she covered the whole world. The whole world inside her body; in the beginning. The whole sky inside her body. Two eagles flew around her, inside her. One flew to the east, one flew to the west. The two eagles flew right around the body of Demeter. They flew right around inside the skin of the sky; inside the body of the first mother.” In San Roque’s poetic script we hear the echo of Arrernte song, its rhythms and repetitions, its movements. And we look up: off the red cliffs at Ilparpa falcons soar in the updraft. It is as if the country and its creatures are taking part in the drama.
Demeter’s story describes the what and how of the Grecian land: “She marks out a line deep between the mountains. The Shining Mountains she calls them. She makes the line deep. It cuts through her body. She cuts a long cut between her breasts. Water runs always along this cut. Down this line a river will run, she says. It will run to the sea, it runs all the way down. She names it – Pleisto – the best. This is the best of rivers, she says. This river, I love.”
From watching and hearing, Kore begins to think, to explore the why of the way things are and their possibilities for sustaining life, working in with her companion dog. She sees that certain plants grow in certain places; she watches as the dog samples their fruits. She learns what is edible; she thinks about what to do to make the foods kind to the taste. Thus she washes in salt water the bitter ‘berries’ of the first olive tree. Soaking olives in brine: a recipe from the original hearth.
Why care? Why not simply pluck a jar from the supermarket shelves, enjoy the fruit and salt taste, and be done with it? For the beginnings of an answer, stand alongside Demeter and Kore – this mythic pair, Mother Daughter or Mother Maiden (the older and younger form of the one woman), associated with life-sustaining cereal plants, often called Earth or Corn-goddess. (In Roman mythology Demeter was known as Ceres, and Kore / Persephone as Proserpina.)
At the edge of the quarry cliff with them we look into the valley. It may be one of the most beautiful in the land, despite all its scars – the marks of a system of land management, if you can call it that. The rubbish dump. The sewage ponds, relying on evaporation in the dry heart of the driest continent on earth. The railway and highway along which the food and most else that we rely on is ferried into town. The pale grass across the valley floor looks soft and yielding in the late golden light, but we know it is buffel, an invasive species that is squeezing out native vegetation and elevating the fire risk to what remains. We can see very little that reflects deep thought and care, very little that will sustain us if, or rather when, times get tough. Yet we call it ‘civilisation’.
The sun sinks into the blue and purple mountains in the west, its last long rays lighting the vivid rockface behind us. We are called to the second part of the story-telling. Kore’s beloved dog samples a poisonous fungus and dies. “Kore cried out for her dog. Her dog did not move. / The wind moved, the sea moved, but the dog did not move. / What is this, said Kore, I have never seen this before. / She held her dog in her arms; she walked into the rocks.” And so Kore comes up against the ending that is part of all living things. In her grief she goes with him into the underworld.
Ruth Apelt gives a passionate rendering of ‘Dido’s Lament’ (‘When I am laid to earth’) by Henry Purcell, in dialogue with the grieving Kore.
In the fiery underworld scenes we see the spectre of all we have to lose, wrought by the poetry, amplified by the flames and black smoke; we see the destructive power of the worst of ourselves set loose upon the world. Yet there is something else going on at the same time: in Kore’s life with Hades whom she loves (we encounter him only as a resonant voice), she discovers the roots of things, the seedbed, and thus the continuing of things. There are different versions of the classical story: in some Hades is said to abduct and rape Kore; in this adaptation San Roque has chosen to show their travels underground as a sensual, thought-provoking exploration of “this world inside the world”, out of which Kore, renamed by Hades as Persephone, will emerge as “the one to teach the people”. She will teach them how things are destroyed and made again – the foundation of European agricultural practice. She carries that knowledge in her body and in her mind, intimately linked to the memory of her mother. It is the taste of pomegranate first given to her by Demeter that calls Persephone back from the underworld.
“She can hear the singing of women. She comes up. Kore comes up. / She comes up through the crack in the rock, she is a like a fig tree in the morning. / The birds gather, wings flicker; birds shimmer in the leaves of the fig tree. // Coming up by the rock hole in the morning, Persephone, water shining along the roots, water shining on the leaves of the tree, birds flickering. She comes up. // I can feel on my tongue, the taste of my mother, I am coming out, she cried. I am coming out …”
In the West we have moved a long way from minding the simplest of connections. We plug the gaps with technological know-how but are starting to see how it is bringing the earth undone. The gift of this picnic with Persephone was to put us back in touch with the beginnings of our European kind’s understanding of the earth, its what and how and why, and the way we can work with it. To follow that thread back across the millennia, to dwell for a while in that early time, to heed the fundamental wisdoms of our ancestral culture, is a deeply nourishing experience.
Significantly the ancients locate our origins in the generative body and minds of women, the original Mother Daughter or Mother Maiden pair. As a woman I felt I had waited a long time, all my life really, to experience such an honouring of Mother Daughter in the world – the World becoming, Mother Daughter becoming, intertwined, intuitive, intelligent and loving.
Not bad qualities to carry into our contemporary lives and times, to put towards the repair of so much ruin.
San Roque tells us that Perspehone’s story was performed at Eleusis in Greece for two thousand years, its participants sworn to secrecy on pain of death. It was banned and the site destroyed in 396 AD by “fervent champions of a new religion”.
“I think some of her story went underground,” he says, “and re-appeared in icons that feature a mother in grief at the loss of her son. And his return. As the woman returned from the dark in the form of Persephone.”
Today Eleusis is a broken site, “a memorial to loss”, like the Ilparpa quarry: “I have seen simple and broken places like this across the countries where old ceremonies were performed and lost,” says San Roque. “And artillery shells and madmen ruined their grace. Because of that ruin I wrote this story.”
Here, in the central Arrernte homeland, we too can see the sites where old ceremonies were performed and lost, sites that are scarred, hemmed in, sometimes ruined. For those of European descent perhaps a new awareness of our own long lost countries and classical cultures can put us in the way of better seeing this history and hearing Arrernte stories: not the little husks of stories from interpretive panels and brochures; the stories as told by living Arrernte people and as they deeply imagine them in paintings, song and dance; stories still embodied in the country.
“The lines Demeter draws are the lines we should not change. The places Demeter has placed here for a reason. Those places hold the world in balance. / The cave, the granite, the tree, the river and the flow of clear water. She says, ‘I love this place’, and so, we love this place.”
The original poetic script by Craig San Roque, ‘The Kore Story / Perspehone’s Dog’, can be found in the book Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes Evolving, edited by VB Rutter and T Singer, Routledge, New York, 2015, available at Red Kangaroo Books.
For the story behind the Kore skirts, see Against the tide: the soft figuration of Sia Cox
Posted: September 30, 2015 at 11:05 am ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment
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Craig san Roque
Posted December 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
This is a response to David Tacey’s comment. Thank you David for your kind words but a note about the pomegranate and the traditional story that features abduction, rape, deception, trickery and, despite all that, Persephone returns and brings with her the spring.
In the Ilparpa version I used my poet’s licence. I changed the story, or rather I brought out aspects that were not of interest to the writers of the ancient Homeric hymns.
The work has changed, the climate is changing, the place of women in our society has, thankfully, changed and though deception rape and abduction continue we took another turning.
The lady was not for burning. The Ilparpa Persephone shows a Kore / young woman who takes control of her intelligence, her actions and manages the underworld and attends to the fertile world’s renewal. I changed the story.
Elaine Oberg
Amazing experience sending my whole body in “goose bumps”!
So many deep lying connections awaiting to re-awaken within me …
Thank you, Craig, for bringing this out of the darkened underworld and bringing it into an awareness of present day.
I read this on the eve of the environmental talks when hopefully “Millions of Women” will come out of the dark to help protect our beautiful earth and home.
May a deep healing of the past, “power over nature” begin honoring all of life and the union of opposites within each of us bring forth the peace and love we all hope for.
Victoria Jovanovski
Posted November 9, 2015 at 9:42 am
I found it a beautiful recapitulation of a very old story in film and poetic coverage and a lovely exploration of human inter-relationship with narrative landscape. Thanks, I thoroughly enjoyed it though I had small quibble too, this with the quoted adaptation.
Abduction and rape is an initialising act of violence in the Persephone story and the cause of Demeter’s intense sufferings and wanderings and cannot be written out.
It is the raising of aggressive forces which brings on disintegration, submission, despondency, separation, differentiation and consequence. All in the process of time and as the local creation stories also attest.
Hades needs the Kore’s untouched potential for growth and blossoming and her birthright as carrier of the Mysteries. As a chthonic force he cannot redeem the dark spectre of himself or find three dimensional expression without it.
Seeds remain a many layered aspect of the story and relate to jurisdictions. Persephone through her long incubation and learning becomes a Goddess who, like Hermes, has the particular power to travel the three realms.
To dismember place in one’s psychic apparatus seems likely to block one’s power to travel the three realms. Demeter’s teachings?
David Tacey
Posted October 26, 2015 at 9:46 am
This is a magnificent story, beautifully written Kieran Finnane and the photos are breathtaking.
It is a testament to the wonderful and ongoing contribution of Craig San Roque to central Australian culture(s). However, I think there is one glitch in the story as told by Kieran.
She writes: “It is the taste of pomegranate first given to her by Demeter that calls Persephone back from the underworld”.
However, my understanding of the story is quite different. Hades agrees to Zeus’ request that Persephone is released back to the world, and Hades reluctantly agrees to relinquish his bride.
However, he tricks the other gods and Persephone by giving her pomegranate seeds to eats, which guarantees that she will be forced to return to the underworld for a third of every year (the winter months).
So it is not Demeter who gives these seeds, but the dark trickster Hades. Anyway, this is my recollection of the Greek myth. Best wishes to all, David Tacey.
Christine Munday
Wonderful presentation which has been captured so eloquently in the press and so beautifully on film.
Well done everyone!
Fiona Walsh
photographs and insights
Kieran, again your writing reveals new and different insights. Even though I had read the script in its evolving stages, seen the performances, photographed the performances, you’ve given deeper meaning to the experience. I will explain more later. A heartfelt thank you for your eloquence.
For those who would like to see more Persephone’s Picnic photos copy this URL to your browser:
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Cast, crew, audience photos of Persephone’s Picnic can be seen at: https://www.flickr.com/gp/131503324@N07/BHj2b2
Posted September 30, 2015 at 12:57 pm
Thankyou Alice Springs News for a review that captures exactly the spirit and intention of this event. When we began work on the story we had no idea how it would turn out on that rocky precarious site. Thankyou to everyone who took the risk of climbing the hill, listening and looking over Ilparpa valley.
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Recent Fiery Air Ambulance Helicopter Crashes Illustrate Danger Of Crashworthy Fuel Tank Loophole
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In 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued new regulations for helicopter safety, as discussed previously in a prior issue of this Report. Many of the new, stricter regulations were aimed at addressing the major causes of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) crashes. While HEMS owners and operators have been implementing the new safety regulations, one problem persists and continues to claim the lives of pilots and patient passengers – dangerous fuel tanks.
It is a problem that changed David Repsher’s life on July 3, 2015. David was a flight nurse on Air Methods Flight for Life AS350B3e that day and Heliweb.com reported that he accompanied flight paramedic Matt Bowe and pilot Pat Mahaney on a seemingly routine trip aboard the medical helicopter. As the helicopter was departing St. Anthony’s Summit Medical Center in Frisco, Colorado, a problem occurred that sent the aircraft into a tailspin and after struggling to regain control for more than 30 seconds, it crashed to the ground in the hospital’s parking lot.
The incident was captured on surveillance video and showed that the three crew members survived the crash. However, just seconds after the crash, fuel that leaked from the ruptured tanks ignited. All three crew members barely escaped the flames before the helicopter burst into a ball of fire. Pat succumbed to his injuries within a few days of the crash while Matt was released from the hospital soon after the tragic incident. However, Dave was burned on almost 90 percent of his body.
After a year in the hospital, countless surgeries and other procedures and following several near-death experiences, Dave was released from the hospital. While he was still alive and thankful, his ravaged body no longer reflected the athletic outdoorsmen he was before the crash. Months spent in a medically induced coma dropped his weight from 180 pounds to 89. The strong antibiotics he needed to fight off infection destroyed his kidneys, requiring him to have four hours of dialysis five nights a week for the rest of his life or until he can find a donor.
An in-depth investigation into the dangerous fuel tanks by Denver, Colorado, NBC affiliate KUSA 9News explains how the tragic turn in Dave’s life could have been prevented. The KUSA investigative team discovered that despite a decades-old solution, a federal loophole allows even modern helicopters to use fuel tanks with dangerous designs.
In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory noted that Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson invested $3 million into research and development of a crashworthy fuel system. By this time in military aviation, military leaders had learned that the fuel tank design was often the culprit for the fiery helicopter crashes that claimed the lives of many pilots. If the plastic encasement was not crashworthy the tanks would crack on impact, releasing fuel. The volatile atmosphere would not need much to spark a hot, fast burning fire, igniting the aircraft into a ball of flames. Industry insiders compare the flimsy design to a large milk jug.
In the 1970s, the U.S. military began incorporating safer alternative fuel tank designs like the Robertson Crashworthy Fuel System or the “Robbie Tank,” according to the National Aviation Hall of Fame. The fuel system was first used in the Army’s Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter in April 1970. The alternative design with its “ballistically tolerant, self-sealing fuel cells” is safer and has been credited with saving thousands of lives. Before the new design, 40 percent of Army pilot fatalities occurred in severe crashes that resulted in fires. Retired Army Colonel Dennis Shanahan told KUSA that by 1976, when he began researching the issue, every Army helicopter was equipped with newer and sturdier designed fuel tanks. Yet, helicopter manufacturers continue to resist making the same upgrades on civilian helicopters despite the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FAA’s efforts.
For example, the Flight for Life AS350 helicopter Dave was riding on when it crashed was manufactured by Airbus in 2014. However, the first AS350 was certified in 1977. A 1994 FAA mandate carved out a loophole to pacify helicopter manufacturers more concerned with their bottom lines than keeping passengers safe. The mandate required all helicopters certified after 1994 to be fitted with a crash-resistant fuel system when it is manufactured. Therefore, while the aircraft was approximately only a year old, legally it was still able to fly with flimsy fuel tanks since it was certified nearly 20 years before the mandate.
The cost of the upgrades, which is the equivalent of one to two percent of the manufacturing cost, is still considered steep by helicopter manufacturers. Industry experts estimate the cost to retrofit an existing helicopter is approximately $100,000 while the current price of the AS350 helicopter, for example, is $1.6 million. And, following a March 2016 Safety Recommendation Report issued by the NTSB, manufacturers still have the option not to retrofit. Although it recommended retrofitting all helicopters, it stopped short of requiring the action.
As of last summer, nearly 84 percent (4,700 of the 5,600) of the helicopters manufactured since the 1994 mandate do not use crash-resistant tanks.
Sources: Jere Beasley Report, KUSA 9News, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, National Aviation Hall of Fame, National Transportation Safety Board
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Beirut Hospitality Co: Lebanon's Troubled F&B Sector
The Beirut Hospitality Company (BHC) has recently attracted my notice. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, allow me to enumerate their restaurant portfolio: Momo at the Souks, Café M, Relais Foch, [Grid], and The Garden. If you’re not wincing yet, let me clarify further.
Momo at the Souks shut down in the second half of 2014. The high-end restaurant, serving fare inspired by Moroccan, Lebanese and French cuisines, hailed from London where it is a widely celebrated and glamorous dining venue. It shuttered for a month or two before being transformed into the winter popup, TWENTY SEVEN, a “concept pub” run by Sky Management Group—the same folks behind Sky Bar, the O1NE, and Liza.
Café M once perched at the tip of Beirut Souks facing Cinema City. A smart-chic cafe-restaurant in the grub and ambiance it dished up, it used to be a hit among families with young children, who'd streak across the adjacent plaza on scooters and tricycles. Today, its attractive two-terraced dining area is the location of Starbucks' second outlet in downtown Beirut.
I dined once at Relais Foch, a French restaurant that boasted a delicious mi-cuit salmon steak as well as other pleasant fare. A hotspot at lunchtime among local bankers, businessmen and the general cigar-puffing crowd, Relais Foch suffered from very slow business in the evenings. It closed its doors a few months ago, and guess who’s moving in? Boubess Group, with a yet-unveiled concept.
You’re probably familiar with [Grid], an urban coffee shop that crafts alluring double-chocolate muffins, spiced oatmeal-raisin cookies, and the lightest cinnamon rolls conceivable. The stand-alone outlet next to La Cave de Joel Robuchon wine cellar in Beirut Souks is incessantly bustling with guests, and the Librairie Antoine outlet also seems to be paying the bills. Few might recall the full-fledged kitchen and restaurant [Grid] launched in Zaitunay Bay next to St. Elmo’s Brasserie. It didn't linger long, vacating its shop almost as swiftly as it had occupied it.
Heavenly pastries from The Garden
So what remains? The Garden, renamed from “Sweet Tea” when Michelin-starred French pastry chef Yannick Alleno withdrew from his Beirut project, has kept up the same high standards for its refined patisserie. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the looks and hygiene of the place. A serious facelift is needed, especially in the neglected restrooms, and the space needs a new breath of life. It screams abandoned. Customer volume is sporadic, and I surmise that the tea salon may soon reach its fateful end.
It pains me to see the hospitality sector suffering the way it is in Lebanon, particularly in the strangled stronghold that is downtown Beirut. When a holding group loses a considerable volume of its portfolio in the span of one year, the misery is that much more unbearable. Back to the drawing board for BHC.
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Home Imagine Cup Microsoft Malaysian students announced as winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Finals
Malaysian students announced as winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Finals
Microsoft crowned Team PINE from Malaysia as the winner of its second Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Regional Finals, after a nail-biting finale against 14 other teams from across the region. Six other teams were also selected to continue their journey at the Imagine Cup World Finals which will be held in Seattle in July.
Team PINE developed a handheld sensing device that can help pineapple farmers efficiently and effectively evaluate optimal levels of ripeness prior to harvest, and in a non-intrusive manner. This is because traditional methods of determining ripeness use a refractometer, which subjects the fruit to destructive analysis. Team PINE’s solution aims to minimise wastage and help pineapple farmers maximise the percentage of harvest brought to market for export.
The first runner-up and second runner-up places were awarded to Team BeeConnex from Thailand, and Team 7x from Singapore, respectively.
Team BeeConnex from Thailand came up with the Smart Hive; an IoT device that enables beekeepers to track and monitor the health of a beehive. The device is also able to alert beekeepers when potential issues are detected within the hive.
Singapore’s Team 7x created ProCubeX, an interactive smart-learning cube designed as an early intervention tool for children with dyslexia. The cube will intelligently generate an individualized education plan for dyslexic children, triggering multisensory stimulation as well as the parts of the brain responsible for language learning.
In all, seven teams from the Imagine Cup APAC Regional Finals were selected to continue their innovation journey to the next level at the Imagine Cup World Finals. The seven teams are:
Team PINE
Team BeeConnex
1st Runner-Up
Team 7x
2nd Runner-Up
Team Beehive Drone
*Worldwide Finalist
Team Classum
Team En#22.45km
Team SochWare
* In no particular order of merit
The student teams will take their innovation journey to the next level at the Imagine Cup World Finals. Held in Seattle this July, the World Finals will gather more than 50 student teams from all over the world, all vying for the top prize of up to US$100,000, mentorship opportunities with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, as well as Azure grants and credits to bring their winning solution to the market.
Team Onyx from the Philippines created Bionyx – a mobile app that scans and analyzes fingernails and helps individuals easily identify diseases related to the liver, heart, lungs, and blood. They were one of 15 finalist teams who participated in the regional finals came from nine countries, including Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. These teams were selected from local finals that were held in each country earlier this year. To find more about each team and their cutting-edge innovation, please click here.
Dave Miller, Commercial Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft Asia Pacific, said: “Imagine Cup has always strived to be the platform for students to turn their dreams into entrepreneurial realities. Every year, we have the privilege to witness great ideas from budding innovators working hard to solve pressing challenges with smart, effective solutions. We are here to help them take their first steps towards achieving their goals, and we are excited to see how their ideas will define the future we will live in.”
The “People’s Choice Award” accolade was awarded to Team BeeTech from Vietnam, who developed a Smart Car Box that can help car owners pre-empt any possible complications before they occur. The team garnered admiration from fans through an online voting component of the regional finals.
This year’s judging panel includes Siti Norliza Mohd Sahar, Director, Talent & Digital Entrepreneurship, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC); Kelvin Tan Cheng Kian, Programme Director, National University of Singapore Enterprise; Michael Teoh Su Lim, Founder, Thriving Talents; Bikesh Lakshminand, Founder & CEO of 1337 Ventures; Alvin Chai, UX Consultant & Co-founder of Netizen Experience; LJ Chiu, Director, Audience Evangelism, Commercial Software Engineering, Microsoft, and Chris Auld, Director, Technical Evangelist, Commercial Software Engineering, Microsoft.
Michael Teoh Su Lim, Founder, Thriving Talents, shared: “This year’s competition saw many outstanding projects by talented students who have the passion to solve real-world issues that many countries in the region face today. We are excited by the passion and depth of innovation we’ve seen this year and are positive that they will make a difference in our digital future.” Michael is also an Imagine Cup alumnus, having previously participated in the New Zealand Imagine Cup in 2008, with his team taking home the Consumer’s Choice Award that year.
Microsoft forms partnerships to develop next generation of technologists in Asia Pacific
This year, Microsoft partnered with the U.S. Department of State’s Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST), Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), and Siri Ventures, for the Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Finals. Microsoft’s partnership with these organizations is a strong testament of the commitment to empower young talents to innovate and build real world solutions that enable people to achieve more for a better future.
GIST is the U. S. Department of State’s flagship science and technology entrepreneurship program that works to support and empower young innovators from 130 emerging economies around the world. GIST partners with the Imagine Cup competition in a shared commitment with Microsoft to use technology to solve the world’s toughest problems by inspiring student creativity, and empowering students to realize their visions by using new technology platforms.
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation or MDEC (formerly known as Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd.) is the lead agency in driving the digital economy in Malaysia under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia. Since its inception 20 years ago, MDEC’s mission is to develop the nation’s digital economy. MDEC’s implementation efforts are centered on driving investments, building local tech champions, catalyzing digital innovation ecosystems and propagating digital inclusivity.
Siri Ventures is owned by Thailand’s largest property developer, Sansiri, and its strategic shareholder, Siam Commercial Bank. Siri Ventures is a corporate venture capital who recognizes the need for technology acceleration, acquisition and adoption, either by creating, investing and partnering with startups in the real estate and adjacent industries. They are on the constant lookout for startups who will innovate the ecosystem through cutting edge technology and ideas to market.
The partnerships aim to encourage youth and entrepreneurship, provide students with opportunities and training to hone their digital skills in cutting-edge technologies, as well as fuel their creativity in building innovative solutions that matter.
Held annually since 2003, the Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition, known affectionately by participants as the “Olympics of student technology competitions”. This year’s Imagine Cup encouraged teams to “Code with Purpose”, whereby projects were developed to address a community or societal issue with technology.
For more information about Imagine Cup, please visit https://www.imaginecup.com/.
Malaysian students announced as winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Finals Reviewed by Primus on 4/24/2018 Rating: 5
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MLA condemns arson attack on building site
South Antrim MLA Declan Kearney with local Sinn F�in rep Noel Maguire.
South Antrim MLA Declan Kearney has strongly condemned an arson attack on two houses under construction at new housing development site in Antrim.
Construction began in recent weeks at the ‘Ballyveigh’ site on the Ballygore Road where Hagan Homes are to build 250 new properties in a £30m development.
The Sinn Fein Assemblyman said that on Sunday night, two of the first three houses at the development were destroyed in an arson attack.
“This is the biggest housing development in Antrim in over 10 years,” Mr Kearney said.
He added: “It will significantly increase the local housing stock and provide a welcome mixed housing site suitable for first time buyers, families and those who may wish to downsize.
“Last Sunday night two of the first three houses at an advanced stage of construction were destroyed in a serious arson attack.
“This was a disgraceful act of premeditated criminality.”
Mr Kearney said his party has already been in contact with the PSNI locally to request that they ensure a thorough investigation is conducted aimed at detecting and prosecuting those responsible.
He added: “The ‘Ballyveigh’ project represents a huge investment in the local town economy. That ambition is undermined by what has happened.
“I have asked the PSNI to increase patrolling in the area to help maximise security of this site and I would also appeal to community and civic leaders in the area to do all they can to support the developer and contractor in taking forward this five year building programme.
“At a time of continuing austerity which severely impacted our local construction industry, projects such as the ‘Ballyveigh’ development are essential investments in the regeneration of the South Antrim economy.”
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Home >> Photos & Videos >> Through the lens: Introducing RIAT 2014 – the largest military air show in the world
BAE Hawks of the Red Arrows, sporting a special 50th anniversary tail livery.
Through the lens: Introducing RIAT 2014 – the largest military air show in the world
Vedant Agarwal August 19, 2014 Photos & Videos 2 Comments
The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air-show. Held annually at the Royal Air Field Fairford near the town of Swindon in the United Kingdom, RIAT is actively supported by the world’s flying forces, since the show is held in aid of the Royal Air Force (RAF) charitable trust.
This year RIAT was held from July 11 to 13, which is also coincidentally the 50th anniversary of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, better known as The Red Arrows, which fly nine BAe Hawk jet trainers in formation. This year the Hawks are sporting a special livery celebrating their anniversary.
In celebration of the Red Arrows’ anniversary, four other aerobatic teams also participated in RIAT this year, the Patrouille de France of the French Air Force, Frecce Tricolori of the Italian Air Force, the Patrouille Suisse of the Swiss Air Force and the Breitling jet team. Unfortunately also in attendance was the horrible British weather which did not make for good photography.
For the show opening the Red Arrows performed a special flypast with the leaders of the four other teams. The Red Arrows trailed the blue and red smoke and let the visiting teams’ leaders trail the white smoke, making the three colours of the Union Jack.
A special flypast of the Red Arrows with the team leaders of the Patrouille de France, Frecce Tricolori, Patrouille Suisse, and the Breitling jet team.
A member of the Red Arrows explained the banking in the fly-past was especially challenging due to the vastly different handling characteristics of the different aircraft of each team.
The entire formation makes a sweeping right banking turn, made challenging due to the different flight characteristics of the visiting aircraft.
After the flypast the Red Arrows flew away from the show ground to prepare for their display. This preparation time is also used by the squadron leader to decide which routine is to be performed depending on the weather conditions. During this time the leaders of the four other teams did a final flypast and peeled away one by one and land.
The leader of the Breitling jet team peeling away from the leaders of the Patrouille de France, Frecce Tricolori, and Patrouille Suisse.
The show included a massive static display and a flying program that was ten hours long each day with virtually no break in between. In comparison the flying display at Aero India is about two hours long with breaks in between. The flying program was a mix of almost every type of flying machine used by uniformed forces, fighters, trainers, transports, and helicopters. Unfortunately the show missed performances by the British Vulcan and the huge let-down of the F-35 Lightning II which was grounded by an engine fire incident in the United States.
Turkish Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 40 91-0011 in ‘Solo Turk’ livery
Turkish Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 40 91-0011. Performing a high speed fly-by. This aircraft wears a special ‘Solo Turk’ demo team livery.
Aeronautica Militare Italiana Alenia C-27J Spartan MM62217
Aeronautica Militare Italiana Alenia C-27J Spartan MM62217. Taking off at a steep angle.
Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M-4 Fitter 3216 and 9616
Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M-4 Fitter 3216. Taking off for a display with it’s sister plane.
Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M-4 Fitter 9616. Performing a high speed fly-by with it’s wings in the full swept back position.
Aerobatics with Royal Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook ZA714
Royal Air Force Boeing CH-47 Chinook ZA714. See the crew member waving out of the door as the helicopter REVERSES down the runway with the front set of wheels up in the air.
Over the next few weeks we will be posting pictures from the displays at RIAT 2014 along with interior shots from some very interesting aircraft, please subscribe via email to get updates on all our posts. (Look near the top right of the page for the free subscription box).
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The Volvo S90 is a refreshing Scandinavian alternative in an executive saloon segment filled with big-hitting German rivals. This new R-Design trim is, for now at least, its sportiest variant.
Available with either of the 2.0-litre diesel D4 or D5 engines at launch (with a hybrid T8 to join later), R-Design gets a black grille, 18in alloys, dual exhaust pipes and sports seats, as well as a sporty suspension set-up and a lavish leather and nubuck interior.
We’re driving the D5 variant, which isn’t a full-blooded Polestar performance model (although a Polestar Optimisation Pack is available) but still offers a 2.0-litre twin-turbo diesel engine with 232bhp and 354lb ft, all-wheel drive and eight-speed automatic transmission.
In the UK, R-Design is expected to be the joint most-popular trim in the S90 range, alongside entry-level Momentum. It offers head-turning looks, a plush interior and the promise of a sportier drive, but it faces tough competition from all-wheel drive BMW M Sport and Mercedes-Benz AMG Line rivals in its class.
What's it like?
It looks the part, but - as with the V90 R-Design - the lowered suspension doesn’t do many favours for its ride. It’s 15mm lower, the springs have been shortened and stiffened, and it also gets passive monotube dampers which use one valve to deliver compression and rebound damping.
That translates into a ride that delivers sharp jolts and thumps over imperfections, especially around town and on B-roads. It's much better on smooth surfaces though, offering a more compliant and relaxing ride. The stiffer suspension does also offer a trade off for better driving dynamics, with tighter body control and sharper cornering, but as the improvement is only minor it’s still worth ticking the £1500 option to get adaptive dampers with rear air suspension. This removes the lowered ride height and will generally make the S90 more comfortable - which is surely one of the main reasons why you'd be considering this car anyway.
The S90 R-Design is adept at cruising over long motorway stretches, with an interior that remains quiet apart from some tyre noise over coarse surfaces, and the semi-autonomous Pilot Assist function is a great asset for removing some stress from particularly monotonous treks. But when you hit some country roads, this R-Design model ultimately doesn't deliver the same levels of engagement as its German counterparts, even if it is still enjoyable in its own right. The all-wheel drive system offers lots of grip, but the steering doesn’t offer much feel and its self-centring occasionally feels overly keen as well, especially in the weightier Dynamic mode.
Performance is impressive and it'll munch through overtakes without any problem, but it doesn't feel properly quick or agile like a BMW 5 Series 530d xDrive (which is a noticeable 1.6sec quicker from 0-62mph) does. The D5 engine does, however, have a clever PowerPulse air compressor which reduces turbo lag. This means response is good even at low revs, and power is delivered smoothly, with only the slightly sluggish eight-speed auto gearbox impeding the slickness of the acceleration.
The S90’s interior is beautifully crafted. Aside from the impeccable fit and finish there’s plenty of space for all, the boot is a good size, the 9.0in touchscreen infotainment system is incredibly intuitive and R-Design adds a crystal clear 12.3in digital instrument display.
Should I buy one?
The S90 is an excellent, classy car, but this R-Design trim compromises some of the standard car's best qualities - chiefly its ride comfort. Not only that, but the quality of the competition - the excellent BMW 5 Series M Sport and Mercedes-Benz E-Class AMG Line - only highlights the lack of cohesion to be found in the R-Design's harsh ride quality and slightly flat-footed handling. Even so, in most areas, the Volvo shows itself to be a very credible contender and it does undercut its rivals on price (even if almost £50k after a few options is pretty steep for this version).
The R-Design range costs from £32,955 for the front-wheel-drive 187bhp D4 model, which is considerably cheaper and more efficient, if slower, than this D5 model. So unless you need that all-weather security and extra oomph from the engine then you’re probably better off going for the D4, and spending some of the money you save on adding air suspension. The excellent entry-level Momentum variants of the S90 still make more sense overall, though.
Volvo S90 D5 PowerPulse AWD R-Design
Location Birmingham; On sale Now; Price £41,955; Engine 4 cyls, 1969cc, twin-turbocharged, diesel; Power 232bhp at 4000rpm; Torque 354lb ft at 1750-2250rpm; Gearbox 8-spd automatic; Kerb weight 1763kg; 0-62mph 7.0sec; Top speed 145mph; Economy 58.9mpg (combined); CO2 rating & BIK tax band 127g/km, 27%; Rivals BMW 5 Series, Mercedes-Benz E-Class
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Two guys
Two guys are standing at the bar. One says to the other, what do you drive? Oh says his friend, a Volvo S90 R-Design D5 PowerPulse AWD. Presumably somebody at some point thought this monicker was a good idea and someone equally stupid signed it off.
Nice car, although seemingly
Nice car, although seemingly needs expensive air suspension to work properly. What it really needs, though, is a nice petrol six under the bonnet.
scrap wrote:
Or a straight 5 or V6 (if worried about tax and do the mileage then a V6 diesel) just so as you'd know you'd spend nearly £45,000 on something other than a common or garden 2.0 diesel 4 pot.
typos1 - Just can’t respect opinion
None of these 2 ton loaded
Exec cars are really sports saloons are they? Once you move from the small exec to the large you get much better refinement but the weight makes it difficult to make a sporty drive.
Those big air vents
I know the interior of S90 is highly regarded, but every time I look at its dash, my eyes can't help but get drawn to the two vertical massive air vents in the middle, which look very unsightly and take away from the look of the dash.....at least to my eyes.
abkq
A very handsome car, but why
A very handsome car, but why oh why can't designers make the area below the front grille and lights look convincing - it almost always looks a mess and an afterthought.
abkq wrote:
It's better on the non R-Design models. The rear end is the problem for me. Saw one in black the other day and it looked bland and dated.
The endless German comparisons serve no purpose...
For decades now Volvo cars almost invariably comment on what fine cars they are that lack the German dynamic qualities. Who cares? The article above mentions that it is "fun in it's own right" which I wholeheartedly agree with, having owned one. My best friend had a comparable-sized BMW that we used to swap. When taking one of them to give a good thrashing on a great road, the BMW did have an edge, but that was such a rare occurrence that I was always, always glad to have my Volvo back for the real world.
The Germans have mastered the art of building cars that reviewers find hard to criticize, though they have little soul or character. Volvos have soul, character, and are fun to drive, in their own way. The entire conversation needs a reboot, though I really don't care that much as long as excellent cars like this are available. On an average day the benefits of what this car has to offer far exceed the "dynamic edge" the Germans have, which for all intents and purposes is unusable day to day.
apologies, meant "For decades
apologies, meant "For decades now review of Volvo cars..."
Ski Kid
agree it needs a 6 cylinder in that price range
it probably is a nice car except for the harsh ride as notedon the R design but you are paying for A SIX CYLINDER AND GETTING FOUR AT THAT PRICE.Probably aGREAt second hand buy unless the turbos are thrashed after trying to wring out the bhp.
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Sir Cyril Smith abuse claims: Police forces split cases
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20416307
Image caption Sir Cyril Smith's brother Norman said he denied abuse allegations
Allegations of sexual abuse by Sir Cyril Smith will be investigated by different police forces, depending on when it was said to have taken place.
Lancashire Police will look at pre-1974 claims, with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) taking on post-1974 inquiries.
Several residents of a Rochdale boys' hostel in the 1960s have claimed they were indecently assaulted by the late MP, when the town was in Lancashire.
Rochdale became part of Greater Manchester's jurisdiction in 1974.
Sir Cyril, who was knighted in 1988 and died in 2010, was the Liberal MP for Rochdale from 1972 to 1992.
Assistant Chief Constable of GMP, Steve Heywood, said the division had been made to "clear up any confusion" around investigations into the claims.
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Sir Cyril's brother Norman said the late MP denied abuse allegations.
Currently, no allegations have been made to GMP about the alleged abuse claims, while the Lancashire force has received one complaint, made by current Rossendale councillor Alan Neal.
Previously, a GMP spokesman had said Lancashire Police was taking the lead in all investigations around the alleged historical abuse claims, with the Greater Manchester force providing support.
However, ACC Heywood said the decision would make it "explicitly clear" which force would investigate which allegations.
"The geographical boundaries were redrawn in 1974 - previously Rochdale was a part of Lancashire Police, but post-1974 it became part of Greater Manchester Police," he said.
"Therefore, to make it explicitly clear, Greater Manchester Police will now investigate any reports of abuse that happened after 1974, and any abuse that happened before that date will be investigated by Lancashire Police."
He also repeated that GMP was examining its records to see if it had been involved in investigating any historical allegations of abuse made about Sir Cyril before.
"There has been a lot of speculation in the media about whether Greater Manchester Police investigated allegations in the 1980s and 1990s [and] we are examining our records," he said.
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Rebrand for Finland's baby boxes
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Image caption Most Finnish parents opt for the box rather than a cash payment (baby not included)
Finland is hoping to rebrand its celebrated baby box with a new, more inclusive name as the government gift for new parents celebrates its 80th anniversary.
National benefits agency Kela, which administers the scheme, launched the discussion earlier this week, asking "Does the name of the maternity kit discriminate against dads?", national broadcaster Yle reports. "Or is maternity box so good a name that it should not be replaced?" it adds.
Finns can suggest new ideas and vote on the name on Kela's website.
In Finland, the gift is known as the maternity box, and the suggested change has led to a spirited discussion, as well as some off-the-wall ideas.
While many of the comments on newspaper Ilto Sanomat's Facebook page thought changing the name would be a waste of time and money, others picked up the idea and ran with it.
Amid the more sober posts suggesting "baby kit" or "family kit", one poster quipped "How about the 'consequences of sex kit'?"
Image copyright Milla Kontkanen
Image caption The maternity box can double up as baby's first bed
The box is a gift from Finland to expectant mothers, and is a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys.
A mattress at the bottom transforms the box into a bed.
It has been credited in some quarters as helping Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates.
The government offers a cash grant as an alternative gift, but the vast majority of parents opt for the box.
Image caption Not just for newborns, the box comes with items that can be grown into
For the whole family
Families Minister Annika Saarikko told Ilta Sanomat that the idea for the name change came as the government was discussing an increase in the maternity box scheme budget. Changing the name, she said, "would delight many fathers".
Ms Saarikko says that the end result need not be about gender neutrality, but rather focussing on the family. "Most of the products are directed at the baby," she says, "Getting a package is a great joy for the whole family, including the father. That's why I am thinking about this."
But in a society where not all children are born into the traditional nuclear family, even that lofty ideal faces problems.
"What do you mean 'family kit'?" one commenter said of a popular suggestion. "Not all mothers have a family before the baby is born."
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The BMW 530e plug-in hybrid.
ELECTRIFYINGLY UNCONVENTIONAL.The BMW 530e plug-in hybrid.
Think creatively. Move with the times. Two essential concepts for sustainable concepts. The BMW 530e iPerformance implements both approaches perfectly and remains way ahead of its time. It relies on electrifying driving pleasure and, thanks to the plug-in hybrid drive, looks forward to a bright future.
BMW 530e iPerformance (3):
Fuel consumption in l/100 km (combined): 2.3–2.1
CO2 emissions in g/km (combined): 52–47
Power consumption in kWh/100 km (combined): 13.9–13.3
VEHICLE CONCEPT.
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The BMW 530e iPerformance combines an electric motor and a 4-cylinder TwinPower Turbo petrol engine to create the highefficiency BMW eDrive plug-in hybrid drive. This enables purely electrical, locally emission-free short-range driving with a dynamic driving performance and – combined with the 4-cylinder petrol engine – long-distance capabilities.
DRIVE SYSTEM.
The drive's core components include a 135 kW (184 hp) 4-cylinder petrol engine with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology, a 70 kW (95 hp) electric motor and a high-voltage lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 9.2 kWh. When running on electricity alone, the vehicle has a range of around 45 km and an electric top speed of 140 km/h.
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Intelligent energy management optimises the hybrid drive's power-efficiency factor by predictively choosing the appropriate drive. For example, available navigation data is used to identify in advance the sections of the route and driving situations that are best suited for the electric motor or for charging the high-voltage battery.
DRIVING EXPERIENCE.
The BMW 530e iPerformance has various drive modes, with which the driver can exert a great influence on real fuel consumption. The result in practice depends firstly on the choice of driving modes – and secondly on personal driving behaviour.
The BMW 530e iPerformance makes a very self-confident appearance in an unmistakeable business suit: kidney grille slats in typical BMW i blue. Blue wheel hub covers. A BMW i logo on the front side wall. eDrive logos on the Hofmeister kink and on the doorsill finishers.
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The My BMW Remote App for plug-in hybrids for iOS and Android shows detailed information on the current status of the BMW 530e iPerformance – such as the battery charge level and the remaining range. Remote control can be used to schedule charging operations via the weekly timer.
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The vehicle can be charged from household power sockets with the charging cable included or on the go from public charging stations with a cable available from BMW accessories. The navigation system and BMW Remote App give information about the location and availability of suitable stations. Billing can be carried out via the BMW ChargeNow card, for example.
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Actor Vidyut Jammwal acquitted in a 12-year-old assault case
Posted By: Daliya Ghose On Monday, 17th June 2019,18:06
Big relief for the ‘Junglee’ actor Vidyit Jammwal. The actor Vidyut Jammwal was acquitted by a court in Mumbai due to "lack of evidence" in a 12 years old assault case.
The Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Bandra acquitted the actor and his friend, Harishnath Goswami, in a 2007 old assault case. Both of them were accused of assaulting a businessman.
“The action hero is now totally free. The action hero only does ‘action’ in the movies is all I’d like to say,” he told ANI after the verdict.
The ‘Commando’, was accused of smashing a bottle on a person’s head at a five-star hotel in Mumbai in the year 2007. Following the incident, the businessman, a resident of Juhu, filed an FIR against Vidyut and his friend.
Lawyer for Vidyut Jammwal , Aniket Nikam said: “The case pertains to an allegation levelled against Vidyut Jammwal in the year 2007 of assaulting somebody while he was partying in a club in Mumbai.”
“During the trial, we were able to establish that there was absolutely no incriminating evidence against the actor,” he said, further asserting that “the court has accepted our submissions today and acquitted Jammwal.” Harishnath Goswami, a friend of Vidyut who was also named in the matter, has been acquitted as well.
“The prosecution has failed to establish any evidence. Hence both Vidyut Jammwal and his friend Harishnath Goswami have been acquitted in the matter,” Nikam said.
The 38-year-old is a trained martial artist and has acted in several Bollywood movies including ‘Force’, ‘Commando’.
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After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan. He commanded an immense armada, the largest fleet the world had ever seen and his success seemed assured. The Japanese were vastly outnumbered and facing certain death, but they prayed to their gods for survival and the very next day Khan's entire armada were destroyed by a 'divine wind', the kamikaze. The legend of the kamikaze has endured for centuries, and was revived as a Japanese national legend during the Second World War, culminating in the suicide bombers they sent to attack the Allies but the truth has remained a mystery. Only now, after decades of painstaking research and underwater excavation can leading marine archaeologist James Delgado reveal the truth of what really happened to Khubilia Khan's fleet.
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MSU students, grads offering a "different option" with escape room business
By Lewis Kendall Chronicle Staff Writer
Lewis Kendall
A group of Montana State University students and recent graduates is betting on the collective cleverness of Bozeman with a new business that requires participants to put their heads together to solve timed puzzles.
That’s the idea behind Bozeman Breakout, a series of recently popularized “escape rooms” that opened in Bozeman in mid-February.
Groups of two to six people book the rooms, located near the University Square Shopping Center, where they are locked in and have an hour to solve various puzzles (correctly answering a riddle to receive the combination to a safe, for example) in order to escape. The rooms have themes such as “The Asylum,” as well as “The Heist” and “Apollo 13,” which are set to open in the next few weeks.
Rates start at $25 per person and reservations are required at least an hour in advance online or by phone.
Belgrade has its own escape room, Escape Room Montana, located on Madison Avenue.
Bozeman Breakout’s founding group of five friends, all of whom have a background in art or design, decided on an escape room as a way to give locals a more engaging and unique form of evening entertainment.
“I like going to the breweries as much as everyone else, but being a young person in Bozeman, it feels like that’s what everyone does every weekend,” said CEO Dylan McDowell. “This gives people a different option.”
“We think escape rooms are super awesome and the entertainment of the future,” McDowell added. “They’re one of the few things you do where you’re actually a part of it, rather than observing.”
McDowell, 24, who works as a landscape designer for Cashman Nursery during the day, was part of MSU’s Blackstone LaunchPad incubator, as well as entrepreneurial group LaunchCats, which he described as “tremendously helpful” in starting his own business.
McDowell’s girlfriend Christy Jacobson is Bozeman Breakout’s creative director, in addition to secretary/treasurer Sarah Cochran, head of set design Drew Sortaberg and head of construction management Gabe Mortenson.
“There are some difficulties with it but I wouldn’t want to be in business with anyone else,” McDowell said.
“Starting a business as a young person is a risky venture; you’re diving into the abyss in some sense. It’s been a really great experience, we’ve been really successful and hopefully it keeps trending that direction.”
Kendall can be reached at 406-582-2651 or lkendall@dailychronicle.com. He is on Twitter at @lewdak
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Larger health warnings for cigarette boxes but no slims ban
8 October 2013 BHF Press Office
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A key vote in the European Parliament means health warnings on cigarette packs will get bigger, but slim cigarettes have disappointingly not been banned.
Today’s MEP vote (Oct 08) on the EU Tobacco Products Directive will mean:
Health warnings will cover 65 per cent of cigarette packs, on both sides and top of the box
A ban on flavoured tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes
A ban on cigarettes being sold in packs of less than 20
However, MEPs in Strasbourg voted against a ban on slim cigarettes, regulating e-cigarettes in the same way as medicines, and the introduction of standardised cigarette packs.
Maura Gillespie, our Policy Programme Director, said: “MEPs have missed an opportunity to make real inroads into curbing the number of young people taking up smoking.
Now it’s up to the UK Governments to show they’re made of stronger stuff and introduce standardised packs without delay.
“It’s positive news that cigarette warnings are getting substantially bigger but MEPs could and should have gone further. Research shows health warnings that take up 75 per cent or more of a cigarette box are more effective at reducing the attractiveness of products among our young people.
“The ban on flavoured tobacco is also welcome but it’s extremely disappointing slim cigarettes have not been banned. They’re dangerous products - often targeted at young women - that can mislead people about the harms of smoking.
“Now it’s up to the UK Governments to show they’re made of stronger stuff and introduce standardised packs, stripped of attractive branding, without delay.”
Our survey found current cigarette packs only put a third of UK teenagers off smoking, compared to nearly half of teenagers in Australia, the first country in the world to adopt standardised packaging.
The same poll showed around 8 in 10 British teenagers want the UK Government to introduce standardised cigarette packs.
Later this month, the House of Lords will also be debating a cross-party amendment to the Children and Families Bill, which could help standardised packaging become a reality in the UK. Under the reform, cigarette packs will be a generic size and colour which, research shows, makes warnings about the harmful effects of cigarettes stand out more.
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Stylist Law Roach Builds Fashion Blueprints for Music's Biggest Names
by Cat Scavelli
For most celebrity stylists, to have your red carpet look picked-up by a major publication is a significant milestone. For Law Roach, it's transforming celebrities into icons. Roach, who's successes garnered him the cover of The Hollywood Reporter's Power Stylists issue, has trademarked the title Image Architect, styling a modest list of musicians like Zendaya, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and Celine Dion.
In an exclusive interview with Billboard, Roach gives advice to starting stylists, discussing how to find your muse, and what it takes to work with entertainment's elite. As a stylist, he develops a creative blueprint to turn legendary musicians into fashion's favorite muses. Roach is able to help his clients feel liberated and achieve a strong sense of self expression because the work is truly collaborative.
Speaking to his artistry, "The biggest misconception about being a stylist is that it is the most glamorous job in the world -- getting to travel with celebrities and all these beautiful clothes. I wish everyone could see the hours and hours of prep, the emails, the notes, the missed Fed Ex shipments, the stress. I get really obsessive, especially with a new client. If they're a musician (my team and I) look at every single music video, every single red carpet, every press appearance, and we dissect the things that we think are great."
He continues to tell Billboard about his impressive roster of clients and work ethic, "I really try to figure out who my clients are. Someone like Celine Dion, we've known her music for years but I don't think the world got a chance to really dive into who she was, as far as style and fashion. I always think that it's my responsibility to figure out exactly who they are at this moment, or who they want to be, and help take them there."
On Behalf of American Airlines, Law Roach is highlighted as a Limitless individual -- someone who pushes past the phrase, 'sky's the limit'. Read more information about Open Air and the Limitless series here.
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£20M-rated Spurs talisman being eyed by Inter Milan as club open talks with star’s agent about transfer
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Inter Milan are reportedly eyeing up a move for Spurs and Belgium midfielder Moussa Dembele, with it being stated that the Italian giants have already began talks with the player’s agent over a move.
This is according to the Daily Mail, who are stating that the north London club are after at least £20M for the former Fulham maestro, and that the club are planning to hold further negotiations with the player’s representatives this week after having already held talks the player’s agent recently.
MORE: Manchester United respond as Tottenham make transfer enquiry for key first-teamer
The news outlet are also stating that the player is looking to take a more relaxed approach at this point in his career, with the player himself finding it tricky to compete with the physical demands of English football at the age of 30.
Inter are looking to hold further talks with Dembele’s agent in the near future
Since moving to north London from Fulham in the summer of 2012, the Belgian midfielder has managed to develop himself into one of the most dominant and effective midfielders in the entire league.
The player’s ability to keep the ball even in the most unlikeliest of scenario’s, as well as his ability to dominant almost every other midfielder in the league on his day.
The 30-year-old has been a key part of Spurs side these past few seasons, and it would definitely be interesting to see who the club move for as a replacement for the Belgian should he depart for Italy.
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Joseph Goodwin Muir1
#25951, b. 1 March 1874, d. 26 November 1924
Joseph Goodwin Muir was born on 1 March 1874 in Kentucky, USA.1,2 He married Ella Margaret Crosby, daughter of William A. Crosby and Elizabeth Angeline Johnson, on 12 July 1899 in McLean County, Illinois, USA.3 He died on 26 November 1924 in Heyworth, McLean County, Illinois, USA, at age 50.1
Children of Joseph Goodwin Muir and Ella Margaret Crosby
Joseph Russell Muir1,4,5 b. 13 Sep 1900, d. 7 Jun 1945
John Elwood Muir4,5 b. 15 Feb 1909, d. 1 Aug 1991
FamilySearch, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947.
1900 US Census, Illinois.
FamilySearch, Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935.
Minnie Ethel Bright1
#25952, b. July 1886
Minnie Ethel Bright was born in July 1886 in Kansas, USA.2,3 She married James Newton Crosby, son of William A. Crosby and Elizabeth Angeline Johnson, on 11 May 1904 in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA.1
Children of Minnie Ethel Bright and James Newton Crosby
Delmar N. Crosby+2,4 b. 14 Jul 1906, d. Apr 1982
Ruth I. Crosby4 b. c 1916
Melva P. Crosby5,4
FamilySearch, Ohio County Marriages, 1789-1994.
Delmar N. Crosby1
#25953, b. 14 July 1906, d. April 1982
Delmar N. Crosby was born on 14 July 1906 in McLean County, Illinois, USA.2,1 He was the son of James Newton Crosby and Minnie Ethel Bright.1,3 He married Helen (?) circa 1929.4 He died in April 1982 in Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA, at age 75.2
Child of Delmar N. Crosby and Helen (?)
Dosline Crosby5
SSDI.
Ruth I. Crosby
#25954, b. circa 1916
Ruth I. Crosby was born circa 1916 in McLean County, Illinois, USA.1 She is the daughter of James Newton Crosby and Minnie Ethel Bright.1
Melva P. Crosby
Melva P. Crosby is the daughter of James Newton Crosby and Minnie Ethel Bright.1,2
Nellie Ellen Nelson
#25956, b. 13 January 1889, d. January 1981
Nellie Ellen Nelson was born on 13 January 1889 in Illinois, USA.1,2 She married John Warren Crosby, son of William A. Crosby and Elizabeth Angeline Johnson, on 10 May 1906 in DeWitt County, Illinois, USA.3 She died in January 1981 in Parma, New Madrid County, Missouri, USA.1
Child of Nellie Ellen Nelson and John Warren Crosby
Wendell G. Crosby+2,4,5,6 b. 2 Nov 1909, d. Mar 1978
1910 US Census, Missouri.
FamilySearch, Illinois County Marriages, 1810-1934.
Wendell G. Crosby1
#25957, b. 2 November 1909, d. March 1978
Wendell G. Crosby was born on 2 November 1909 in Missouri, USA.2,1 He was the son of John Warren Crosby and Nellie Ellen Nelson.1,3,4,5 He married Pansy Allen on 20 February 1934 in Malden, New Madrid County, Missouri, USA.6 He died in March 1978 in Parma, New Madrid County, Missouri, USA, at age 68.2
Children of Wendell G. Crosby and Pansy Allen
Wendell Crosby5
Barrie Crosby5
Ancestry.com, Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002.
Joseph Russell Muir1
#25960, b. 13 September 1900, d. 7 June 1945
Joseph Russell Muir was born on 13 September 1900 in McLean County, Illinois, USA.1 He was the son of Joseph Goodwin Muir and Ella Margaret Crosby.1,2,3 He died on 7 June 1945 in Peoria, Illinois, USA, at age 44.1
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Victor Thomas Burness1
#6462, b. 2 August 1849, d. 27 January 1895
Victor Thomas Burness was born on 2 August 1849 in 5 Turner Square, Hoxton Old Town, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.2 He was the son of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 He was baptized on 22 August 1849 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.3 He married Emma Humphreys, daughter of Henry John Humphreys and Emma Smith, on 25 September 1882 in St Peter Church, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England.4,5 He died on 27 January 1895 in 65 Maidstone Street, Haggerston, London, England, at age 45.10
Descendants of Jacob Burness
Children of Victor Thomas Burness and Emma Humphreys
Victor Thomas Burness+2,3,4,11 b. 11 Dec 1882, d. 15 Mar 1916
George Burness+2,3,4,11 b. 11 Mar 1884, d. 4 Aug 1953
Bertie Burness+2,3,4,5,11 b. 30 Nov 1885, d. 18 Nov 1964
Beatrice Burness+2,3,12,5,11 b. 12 Jun 1887, d. 10 Jan 1955
Henry Burness2,10 b. 30 Jan 1889, d. 9 Nov 1889
Frank Burness2,3,10,11 b. 9 Nov 1890, d. 29 Dec 1892
Emma Burness13,10 b. 19 Mar 1892, d. 23 Mar 1892
Ethel Maud Burness+2,3,12 b. 29 May 1893, d. 1958
John Burness2,3,10 b. 14 Aug 1895, d. 4 Nov 1895
Birth Registration, General Register Office, transcribed by: Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
Ancestry.com, London Births and Baptisms 1813-1906.
Marriage Registration, General Register Office, transcribed by: Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
Ancestry.com, London Marriages 1754-1921.
1851 English Census, Middlesex.
Death Registration, General Register Office, transcribed by: Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
1891 English Census, London.
Marriage Registration, General Register Office.
Birth Registration, General Register Office.
Mary Ann Burness1
#6463, b. 13 November 1855, d. 1914
Mary Ann Burness was born on 13 November 1855 in 9 Goldsmiths Row, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.1,2,3,4,5,6 She was baptized on 9 December 1855 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.1 She married Robert Phelps, son of Robert Phelps, on 23 October 1887 in St Peter's Church, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England.2,3 She died in 1914 in Bethnal Green, London, England.7
Children of Mary Ann Burness and Robert Phelps
Robert Thomas Phelps+8,9,10 b. 4 Sep 1888
George Phelps+8,9,10 b. 15 Feb 1890, d. 1975
John Phelps11 b. 21 Sep 1891, d. 1892
Mary Ann Phelps9 b. c 1894, d. 1911
General Register Office, England Death Index 1837-1915.
Stephen Alan Bye, e-mail to John George Burness.
Sarah Burness1
#6464, b. 4 May 1857
Sarah Burness was born on 4 May 1857 in 9 Oakford Place, Haggerston, Middlesex, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.1,2,3,4,5,6 She was baptized on 31 May 1857 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.2 She married Alfred Hatley, son of Edward Hatley, on 29 May 1876 in St Mark, Old Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.3,4
Children of Sarah Burness and Alfred Hatley
Sarah Hatley+7 b. 1 Jan 1877
Mary Ann Hatley+7,8 b. 14 Sep 1878
Alfred Hatley+8 b. 1 Jun 1881, d. 1950
Caroline Hatley8 b. 21 Jun 1883, d. 1905
William Hatley8 b. 6 Oct 1885, d. 28 Mar 1918
Elizabeth Matilda Hatley+8 b. 3 Jun 1888
Ellen Beatrice Hatley+8,9 b. 7 Apr 1893
Ernest Hatley+8,9 b. c 1895
Caroline Sophia Burness1
Caroline Sophia Burness was born on 12 November 1860 in 24 New Ivy Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.1,2,3,4,5,6 She was baptized on 16 December 1860 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.2 She married George Oram, son of William Oram, on 9 April 1882 in St Peter Church, Hackney, Middlesex, England.3,4 She died in 1927 in Shoreditch, London, England.7
Child of Caroline Sophia Burness and George Oram
George Thomas Oram8,9,10 b. 30 Jun 1884
Elizabeth Burness1
Elizabeth Burness was born on 2 May 1865 in 4 New Ivy Street, Hoxton Old Town, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.1 She was the daughter of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.1,2,3,4,5,6 She was baptized on 28 May 1865 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.2 She married John Robert Robinson, son of Samuel Robinson, on 5 October 1890 in St Thomas Parish Church, Camden Town, St Pancras, London, England.3,4
Children of Elizabeth Burness and John Robert Robinson
Ellen Robinson7,8 b. 11 Sep 1891
Harriet Robinson9 b. 15 Jun 1893, d. 1893
John Robert Robinson7,8 b. 11 Jun 1896
George Henry Robinson9 b. 15 Mar 1898, d. 1900
Alfred Robinson7 b. 11 May 1899, d. 1901
Walter Robinson8 b. 5 Jan 1903
Elsie Evelyn Robinson8 b. 29 Oct 1904
Jessie Dorothy Burness1
#6467, b. 3 September 1870, d. 1937
Jessie Dorothy Burness was born on 3 September 1870 in 4 New Ivy Street, Hoxton Old Town, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.2 She was the daughter of Thomas Edmund Burness and Harriet Maria Micci.2,1,3,4,5,6,7,8 She was baptized on 25 September 1870 in St Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England.1 She married George Ballard, son of George Ballard, on 2 August 1891 in St Mark, Old Street, Shoreditch, London, England.3,4 She died in 1937 in Hackney, London, England.9
Children of Jessie Dorothy Burness and George Ballard
George Ballard8,10 b. 3 Sep 1893
Jessie Ballard8,10 b. 19 Jan 1898
Thomas Fowler Burness1
#6468, b. 30 January 1816, d. 10 June 1888
Thomas Fowler Burness was born on 30 January 1816 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.2,3 He was the son of Thomas Burness and Elizabeth Toone.2,3,4 He married Esther Clarke, daughter of James Clarke and Mary Hunt, on 16 July 1839 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.4 He died on 10 June 1888 in 283 Morton Street, Gorton, Lancashire, England, at age 72.1
Descendants of Thomas Burness
DNA Chart for Descendants of Walter Burness
Children of Thomas Fowler Burness and Esther Clarke
Fanny Burness5,6 b. 4 May 1840, d. 20 Sep 1860
Thomas Frederick Burness+5 b. 3 Jan 1842, d. 20 Dec 1909
Esther Burness+5,7,8 b. 2 Mar 1844
Alfred Burness9,1 b. 6 Jun 1845, d. 16 Apr 1846
Mary Ann Burness9,1 b. 25 Aug 1848, d. 4 Sep 1849
Mary Ann Burness+4,8,10,11 b. 16 Aug 1851
Alfred Burness+4,12,8,10 b. 23 May 1855, d. 26 Oct 1913
James Arthur Burness+4,12,8,10 b. c 1857, d. 25 Mar 1926
FamilySearch, England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Ancestry.com, England & Wales Christening Records 1530-1906.
1841 English Census, Berkshire.
Research of Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
1861 English Census, Isle of Man.
1871 English Census, Lancashire.
Death Registration, New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, transcribed by: Lawrence Ruxton Burness.
Mary Hulse1
#6469, b. 17 January 1791, d. 30 November 1861
Mary Hulse was born on 17 January 1791 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.2 She was the daughter of Thomas Hulse and Elizabeth (?)2,3 She was baptized on 20 January 1791 in St Margaret, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.2 She married Thomas Burness, son of Thomas Burness and Mary Emly, on 12 March 1818 in St Martin's, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.1 She died on 30 November 1861 in Harlington, Middlesex, England, at age 70.4
Children of Mary Hulse and Thomas Burness
Joseph Burness3,5 b. 29 Dec 1821, d. 6 Dec 1881
Frederick A. Burness+3,5 b. 7 Jun 1823, d. 16 Oct 1867
Mary Ann Burness+3,5 b. 26 Oct 1824, d. 1896
Samuel Levering Burness+3,2 b. 18 Jun 1826, d. 10 Dec 1911
Elizabeth Hulse Burness+3,5 b. 6 Mar 1828, d. 1902
James Ruff Burness3,5 b. 17 Sep 1832, d. 6 Mar 1865
FamilySearch, England Marriages, 1538-1973.
1841 English Census, Leicestershire.
Thomas Burness1
#6470, b. 22 March 1791
Thomas Burness was born on 22 March 1791 in Norwich, Norfolk, England.1 He was the son of William Burness and Amy Fowler.1 He was baptized on 23 March 1791 in St Augustine, Norwich, Norfolk, England.1
IGI.
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Bolton and Google join forces for unique live Hangout
@OfficialBWFC
Fans from around the world join to welcome Neil Lennon for first home game in charge
Bolton Wanderers made history ahead of the recent game against Brentford by being the first club to allow fans from around the world to welcome a new manager for his first home match in charge.
Via the club’s first Google+ Hangout, ahead of kick off live streams of fans from around the world were projected onto the perimeter LED hoardings that surround the pitch at Macron Stadium.
Fans located around the world sported their Bolton Wanderers colours in their own homes and offices with their streams displayed pitchside as the players and manager emerged from the tunnel ahead of kick off.
Ollie Smyth, Google+ Football Community Manager, said: “We were delighted to help Bolton Wanderers bring their fans together using Google+ to welcome Neil Lennon to Macron Stadium.
“It was great to see so many Bolton fans show their support on the club’s first ever Google+ Hangout.”
The official Bolton Wanderers Google+ page is accessible by CLICKING HERE.
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Abraham Lincoln and Immigration
2016-06-26T18:59:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f60/20160626190224003_hd.jpgJason H. Silverman talked about his book, Lincoln and the Immigrant. He described Abraham Lincoln’s encounters, as a lawyer and politician, with immigrants, including Haitians, Cubans, and Germans. These encounters, Silverman argued, persuaded Lincoln that immigration boosted America’s economy.
Jason H. Silverman talked about his book, Lincoln and the Immigrant. He described Abraham Lincoln’s encounters, as a lawyer and politician, with… read more
Jason H. Silverman talked about his book, Lincoln and the Immigrant. He described Abraham Lincoln’s encounters, as a lawyer and politician, with immigrants, including Haitians, Cubans, and Germans. These encounters, Silverman argued, persuaded Lincoln that immigration boosted America’s economy. close
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UL certifies Stratos' FTTX interconnect products
October 2, 2006 -- The products are now certified to full compliance with Telcordia GR-326.
October 2, 2006 -- Stratos Optical Technologies, a supplier of fiber-optic connectors and components, announced that it has successfully completed and passed the full set of tests and facility audits by UL for the Stratos SC APC 900 µm Type II media connector and jumper cable assembly.
The Stratos products are now certified to full compliance with Telcordia GR-326, Issue 3 general requirements, performance requirements, service life tests, and reliability tests. The ITL compliance also demonstrates manufacturer adherence to the standard Telcordia reliability assurance program. The Stratos internal manufacturing and process controls were also audited and certified by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
The Stratos SC APC components are used as patch cords for central office and outside plant interconnects, and as pigtails for the ONU/home side, either for triplexers (enabling triple play) or bi-directional transceivers. The interconnect components are currently among the top selling products for FTTX fiber connectivity in the North American market by RBOCs, according to Stratos.
The certification of Stratos' SC APC line follows the products' certification by the North American Intermateability Program, which must be passed by all suppliers of FTTX connectivity in North America. A supplier to telecom and enterprise customers, Stratos entered the outside plant market segment in 2005 with the introduction of a passive optical network (PON) connectivity system specifically designed to address the needs of municipalities, local phone companies, independent service providers, and building developers.
The Stratos FTTX line includes fiber cabling, inside and outside plant enclosures, splitters, WDM modules, cabinets, and test equipment.
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Texas boy interrupts July 4th parade to tie police officer's shoe
When a Texas police officer's shoe came untied during an Independence Day parade, a young boy jumped in to save the day.
Jarrick Wilson, a member of the Arlington Police Department, tells Yahoo! News that he noticed the problem in the middle of the parade and signaled for his fellow honor guard officers to slow down until he could figure out a solution.
Each of the officers was holding either a flag or a shotgun, so passing off Wilson's flag while honoring United States Code governing how the flag is carried and displayed was going to be tricky — if not downright impossible — he said.
Thankfully the boy, known only as Josh, sprinted into the street and tied the officer's shoe.
”Y’all just don’t know how he helped me out today lol.. Happy 4th of July,” Wilson wrote on Facebook, according to Yahoo! News. “Sometimes Officers need help from the community as well! Thanks again, Josh.”
Arlington's police chief was quick to praise the youngster on Twitter, promising him a challenge coin for his good deed. Like many police departments, Arlington officers hand out ceremonial challenge coins to honor everyday people who go above and beyond.
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At this grand hotel in Indiana, a little library holds hidden secrets on its shelves
By Chris McNamara
Feb 05, 2019 | 6:05 PM
| WEST BADEN SPRINGS, Ind.
Elaine McNamara finds a note tucked inside a book in the small library at West Baden Springs Hotel. (Chris McNamara/for the Chicago Tribune)
There’s a time machine hidden in the unlikeliest of places.
Indiana’s French Lick Township, to be precise. Notable for being the birthplace of basketballer Larry Bird and … well …
That’s not to slight this sleepy, farm-freckled region that hosts the truly magnificent West Baden Springs Hotel, which rises like some misplaced temple amid the pedestrian pastures.
And, again, they’ve got a time machine here in French Lick, though it won’t transport your body to some fantastical future. Rather, it will carry your messages into eternity, so long as you jot them down on slips of paper and hide them inside books within the hotel’s lilliputian library.
Eddie and Jane McNamara communicate with future travelers at the West Baden Springs Hotel. (Chris McNamara/for the Chicago Tribune)
Let’s begin with the past; the history of West Baden Springs Hotel is as interesting as its architecture. Built in 1902, the resort was dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by local journalists who hadn’t traveled much. It ultimately hosted everyone from local farmers to Prohibition-era gangsters, who, according to director of hotel operations Steve MacKinnon, upheld a truce while relaxing on these grounds. Even bootleggers need breaks.
The resort closed with the stock market crash of 1929, and the facility was sold for $1 to local Jesuits, who maintained a seminary here for 30 years before the facility again transformed into a private college, which is what it was until the early ’80s. MacKinnon recently received, in the mail, a book stamped with the logo of the long-gone institution. “Sorry I forgot to return it!” reads the cheeky inscription.
Then — crickets — the facility went dormant for years. Grainy photos displayed around the hotel show crumbling walls and shattered ceilings. But a little over a decade ago, philanthropists Bill and Gayle Cook finished their work resurrecting the building to its original grandeur, and travelers have been reclining on couches in the lobby to gawk at the illuminated domed ceiling ever since. (This had been the largest free-span dome in the world, according to MacKinnon, until Houston’s Astrodome snatched away the title. Damn size-obsessed Texans.)
West Baden Springs Hotel is said to have had the largest free-span dome in the world until Houston’s Astrodome snatched away the title. (West Baden Springs Hotel)
Now, back to the present. Just off that gorgeous lobby is the little library with the secrets on the shelves.
Guest services manager Siobhan Morrison, who serves as informal librarian to just the couple hundred titles, isn’t sure who started this trend or when the first visitor hid the first note, but she understands the motivation for doing so.
“There is a history here,” she says. “And this is a way for guests to make their mark and be a part of that history.”
So what do people want to communicate to future readers?
Most of the messages inserted into or scribbled onto the books are sweetly bland — “To who reads this — have a great day!” There are steamy proclamations of love from newlyweds on their honeymoons: “He is everything my heart has ever desired.” There are doodles and recognitions of anniversaries, and warm wishes to unknown fellow travelers who will happen upon the notes.
“Dear Book,” begins an inscription from May 5, 2018. “My now husband brought me here as a surprise on our first Valentine’s Day. What an amazing weekend!!”
Some of the messages, though, are delightfully peculiar. “Kierra — If you found this you truly know your brother,” writes one sibling to another, innocuously enough, until you realize the note is tucked inside “Moby Dick.” Is the brother a lover of Melville or obscene puns? You be the judge.
A note scribbled on the inside cover of “Masterpieces of Mystery” begins with a review of that evening’s 38 Special concert. (You read that correctly.) The note-writer then descends into an admission of alcoholism, shifts to an analysis of his marriage, then returns to musing about the 38 Special gig. “Enjoyed the concert a lot!”
Agatha Christie never wrote plot twists that dizzying.
A note scribbled on the inside cover of "Masterpieces of Mystery" begins with a review of that evening's 38 Special concert. (Chris McNamara/for the Chicago Tribune)
On a late-summer visit to West Baden Springs — after a hilly horseback ride through the grounds and an uneven meal at a local diner stocked with Larry Bird memorabilia — my family adjourned to the library to propel our thoughts into the future.
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We had fun imagining far-off, faceless travelers stumbling across our notes and, perhaps, replying with some communiques for the next reader, whoever, whenever that may be.
And in the spirit of “Masterpieces of Mystery,” dear Tribune reader, I won’t reveal what I wrote or where I stashed my missive. But I will provide a clue for those who find themselves at this peculiar Midwestern literary time machine: My note can be found “After Twenty Years.”
Chris McNamara is a freelance writer.
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Taya’s Update – CKFF impacting over 8 marriages per week!
Taya Kyle • May 22, 2018
We launched the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation in 2014 with the aim of making a difference in the lives of married service couples around the country. By providing opportunities that life in the military or as a first responder may not afford them; whether that be due to time constraints, financial hardship and sadly, of course, injury or treatment; the CKFF team is doing whatever it takes to serve the marriages of those that serve us.
I remember the emotion of the first award call we made – then meeting that couple in Jamaica and how excited they were.
I’m proud to see the development of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation since that time. We now have four programs in operation – Date Night Out, Revitalization Retreats, Empowered Spouses Retreat and Mastering Your Marriage. This first quarter of 2018 has allowed us to serve more couples than ever before.
So far in 2018 on average, over 8 marriages per week have been impacted by a Chris Kyle Frog Foundation Program. The number equates to around 2.5 people every single day within the service community over the past three months that is feeling the support of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation! We’ve had so many amazing couples come into our ‘CKFF Family’ with heart-warming stories to tell.
Overwhelmingly, when a couple has been impacted by a Chris Kyle Frog Foundation program, the feedback also has common themes of affirmation: “we felt instantly at peace”, “we were able to communicate in ways we haven’t for years”, “he/she changed from the moment we arrived”, “we’ve continued to communicate since returning and things have never been better”.
As in every part of life, there isn’t always a silver lining, and of course, there are opportunities as an organization that may have fallen through the cracks – but God has his plan, and we must pace our grace in concert with that.
At this point of writing, we’re about to graduate our first group of Mastering Your Marriage participants. 42 couples from the military and first responder communities in Texas committed to this program – which has been an intense six-month curriculum-based program with Baylor University and the University of Texas, with support from The Moody Foundation and USAA.
Seeing these couples nervously gather the first weekend and then seeing the bonds that have been formed between them following their development – many who only met for the first time at the opening weekend has been so uplifting. They’ve realized they aren’t alone in feeling ‘that way.’
Their commitment to the six-month program shows a huge leap of faith from them to us in our ability to give them the tools they need to improve their marriage and to carry that ripple of positivity through to their family and friends.
Your support helps us daily to bring new couples to the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation and help deliver them the tools they need to build a stronger marriage platform. CKFF is not receiving Government grants – it’s the hard work of our team and donations from individuals and organizations allow us to build on those 2.5 people we can assist each day.
We are always looking for opportunities, whether it is for a Date Night Out through a local restaurant or entertainment facility; a sporting team your company sponsors or general opportunities to provide services for our couples on Revitalization Retreats – so please reach out through our partner or contact pages.
Our team also wants to hear from more couples from military service, veteran and first responder communities – nominate yourself for one of our programs and take some time out from service, pamper yourselves and each other by letting our Chris Kyle Frog Foundation team serve you. We know you’ll love it!
The number of couples the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation has impacted in the first quarter of 2018 shows how much we, as a collective, can achieve now and in the future. Our team set itself a challenge in 2018 to broaden our impact. And they are doing it.
I’m now challenging you to help the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation serve those who serve us -I think we can be even stronger next quarter and for the remainder of 2018!
Thank you for your continued support of the Chris Kyle Frog Foundation.
Take care and God Bless,
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Feed a Family of 4 on $10 a Day
By Sarah Butler
Updated on: October 28, 2010 / 5:59 PM / MoneyWatch
When I was growing up, my mother would serve something she called "economy dinner." Pasta, sauce, maybe a quarter-pound of hamburger meat mixed in and a little cheese sprinkled on top, baked together in the oven. We didn't understand the name, but we loved the dish.
I was thinking I need to find my own "economy dinner," as I had yet another supermarket freak-out while watching my grocery receipt print out and curl down two feet behind the register. At home with the receipt in front of me, I decided to crunch some numbers to see if I could feed my family of four for less than $100 a week.
Would it be possible to do 84 meals for less than $100? With room to spare, it turns out. According to my calculations, we could do it on $72.38. We'd be crying of boredom after Day 2. But we wouldn't be hungry.
If we ate cereal and milk for breakfast, a PB&J and an apple for lunch, and protein-enriched pasta with store-brand marinara and a couple of carrots sticks and broccoli or green beans for dinner, we could get by on $10.34 per day.
I won't bore you with the math, but this meal plan cuts out all the extras. No snacks, no OJ, no organic milk at $5.99 per gallon, no Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top of that pasta, no frozen yogurt at night in front of DWTS. The husband brown bags it to the office. I'll admit I included my coffee, at $2.15 per week, because I consider it essential, along with milk for the kids at every meal.
This exercise has been an eye-opener for me. Now that I know our family's bargain-basement dinner costs $3.40, I see the foods I thought were cheap (like a large pizza for $10) are pricey in comparison. And the foods I knew were expensive, such as a $10 steak, fish that's $14 per pound, or deli meat at $8.99 per pound, now seem top dollar.
Some of the splurges, like the organic milk, I'd opt to add back in. But that package of Pepperidge Farm Nantuckets does more to the bottom line (both bottom lines, really) than I've cared, up until now, to realize.
To get out of our pasta rut, I consulted with Leslie Bonci, a dietician at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, about other nutrient-rich foods that pack a lot of bang for the buck. Here's what she suggested:
Eggs: 99 cents per dozen, can be breakfast, lunch, dinner or hard-boiled for snacks.
Canned beans, like kidneys or chick peas: 79 cents for a 16-ounce can.
A five-pound roasting chicken ($5) could yield two dinners. For the first meal, roast with potatoes and carrots and eat half of the chicken. For the second meal, make a stir-fry with the leftover chicken and a bag of frozen mixed veggies ($1.29 for a 16-ounce bag) and serve over brown rice (99 cents for a 16-ounce bag).
Oatmeal costs $3.69 for a 42-ounce canister and has 30 servings. That could replace at least $7 worth of boxed cereal, and the oatmeal is more filling.
Bananas, at 49 cents a pound, cost less than most fruits, especially those "select" peaches and nectarines at $1.99 per pound. Bananas are definitely cheaper and healthier than the sugary granola bars I send in my daughter's lunch.
Texturized Veggie Protein, a lean meat substitute that's a lot like ground beef and can be added to pasta sauce or tacos, is $2.69 for 10 ounces.
What's your economy dinner? What are your cheap, healthy ingredients for a day of low-cost eating? Sign in below to offer suggestions.
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Steve Hopson, CC 2.0
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Cbus Property update - Building for the future
While the technology to deliver this is not available right now, developers like Cbus Property* are leading the way in green building design.
In large scale developments like Collins Arch in Melbourne, work spaces are being created to enhance the wellness of the people who will work there. Examples include improved energy consumption through reduced air flow and lighting sensors that determine when spaces are not being used and incorporating greenery as part of an urban forestry strategy to reduce the heat island impact that occurs in large cities. These are important aspects of green building design. It’s also about future-proofing buildings to enable retrofitting as technology changes such as converting traditional plant rooms into battery storage.
Cbus will own many of these finished buildings as longer-term assets. Developing buildings with WELL ratings, functional and flexible work place spaces and human-centric design will help us attract the best tenants over the entire lifecycle of the building and in turn maximise returns for members.
*Cbus Property Pty Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cbus and has responsibility for the strategic performance and management of Cbus direct property developments and investments.
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Apple iPhone 7 32GB Gold Unlocked (Certified Pre-Owned)
Apple iPhone 7 32GB .. $398.99 BUY
Apple announced its latest series of iPhone called 7 and 7 plus. iPhone 7 is the successor of iPhone 6s and 7 plus is of 6s plus. Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 plus is the latest flagship smartphone, It will be available for order very soon.
Apple brings the new and updated operating system iOS 10 with these iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus. iPhone 7 Unlocked comes with IOS 10 with latest chipset of Apple A10 Fusion and this time Apple brings Quad-core processor in iPhone 7 and GPU of six-core graphics. Just like before there is no memory card slot but the change is that this time iPhone 7 comes in three variants 32GB/128GB/256GB and it has 2 GB of RAM just like previous IPhone 6s.
The Apple iPhone 7 Unlocked has 4.7 inches of large IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen with 750 x 1334 pixels of resolutions and ~326 ppi pixel density. The new iPhone 7 has Ion-strengthened glass, oleo phobic coating protection with Wide color gamut display and 3D Touch display & new home button. Apple iPhone 7 weight is just 138 g (4.87 oz). Apple iPhone 7 comes with two stereo speakers and there is no 3.5mm jack for headphones now it has type C port to connect your headphones and charger, which will enhance the audio quality.
iPhone 7 Unlocked has upgraded 12 MP of rear camera with f/1.8, phase detection autofocus, OIS, quad-LED (dual tone) flash and Geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 8MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR (photo/panorama) and 7 MP of front facing camera with f/2.2, 1080p@30fps, 720p@240fps, face detection, HDR, panorama.
For the first time iPhone 7 launched with water resistant feature, this is IP67 certified - dust and water resistant and Water resistant up to 1 meter and 30 minutes. Apple iPhone 7 comes in Jet Black, Black, Silver, Gold, Rose Gold color.
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Philippine referendum returns big 'yes' vote on Bangsamoro self-rule
A woman casts her vote during the plebiscite on Bangsamoro Organic Law on Jan 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters. Marconi B Navales)
26 Jan 2019 05:30PM
MANILA: A predominantly Muslim area of the southern Philippines has returned a resounding "Yes" in this week's referendum on greater autonomy, boosting hopes for peace in one of Asia's most conflict-torn regions.
The plan to create a self-administered area for the Muslim-dominated parts of Mindanao was backed by 85 per cent of voters, the election commission said late on Friday, paving the way for a three-year transition towards elections for a legislature that will choose an executive.
Monday's referendum was the culmination of a tumultuous peace process between separatists and successive governments that aimed to settle decades of conflict, which have hampered development and kept these parts of Mindanao among Asia's poorest regions.
The instability and high rates of unemployed, unschooled youth made the areas fertile recruitment ground for bandits and Islamist extremists, who exploited grievances about neglect and stoked narratives of government duplicity in the peace process.
The endorsement by some 1.74 million voters comes as no surprise, and the new region to be called Bangsamoro (nation of Moros) will have greater powers to generate and invest more money in infrastructure, schools, healthcare and social welfare for its estimated 5 million inhabitants.
A ballot will now be held on Feb 6 to ask several other areas if they want to join.
The central government will oversee defence, security, and foreign and monetary policy, and soon appoint a transition authority nominated by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Vice President Leni Robredo said it was vital the central government helps Bangsamoro to build "a progressive economy and responsible local government".
"Let us guard and support the progress of this process because this is not yet the end of the fight for peace," Robredo said.
The vote came at a critical time for the Philippines, which saw disillusioned MILF factions break away and follow other armed groups in pledging allegiance to Islamic State.
That has stoked fears that fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria would join radicals from Malaysia and Indonesia in gravitating to Mindanao to capitalise on porous borders, jungles and mountains, and an abundance of arms.
Martial law has been in place in Mindanao since an extremist alliance overran Marawi City in 2017 and occupied it for five months, in what was the Philippines' fiercest and longest conflict since World War Two.
The army said three remnants of that alliance were killed on Thursday when troops discovered a makeshift jungle camp. It released images of trenches and what it said was Islamic State paraphernalia.
Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF's top peace negotiator, said on TV on Thursday that he hoped radical splinters of the separatist group, like those of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), would recognise the will of the people for peace.
"One of the BIFF leaders has already reached out," he said, without elaborating.
(Reporting by Martin Petty; Additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales; Editing by Tom Hogue)
Source: Reuters/na
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3 Legal Tips for Working With Cloud VARs
If you are like many independent agents and subagents, you may want to sell cloud services while minimizing responsibility for provisioning and support. One way you can do this is to team with a VAR. In this scenario, the VAR holds the contract with the cloud service provider and is obligated to provide first-level support to the customer. Meanwhile, you earn recurring revenue without worrying about such commitments. Unless, that is, the cloud provider stops paying. It can happen — and does.
Say, for instance, the VAR’s sole owner died without leaving a clear strategy for supporting customers, or the VAR shuts down the services side of its business. These are just two real-world scenarios that put one VAR — and, by extension, its agent partners — in breach of contract, jeopardizing their lucrative monthly compensation.
But you can protect yourself, your company and your recurring revenue when selling cloud services through VARs. Here are three tips from two top telecom lawyers:
1. Scrutinize the VAR’s contract with the service provider. Be sure to examine the assignment and termination clauses, said Mark Del Bianco, head of Law Office of Mark C. Del Bianco. And see if the service provider has agreed to differentiate between its recurring revenue and compensation for Tier 1 support in its contract with the service provider, said Del Bianco. If the service provider does this, you should be in the clear. If not, find out if the VAR has joined forces with an organization such as Technology Assurance Group. Such an association would take over support obligations in case of a VAR’s death, disability or some other form of discontinuation, said Ben Bronston, founder and owner of Ben Bronston – Telecom Lawyer. Overall, if any of the terms leaves you uncomfortable, or if your risk would be too great under that contract, then you should probably decline to work for that supplier.
2. Seek “step-in” rights. If you want to team with the VAR, “step-in” rights will let you fill the VAR’s shoes on any joint accounts if the VAR can’t fulfill its duties, Del Bianco said. There are caveats to this. First, your firm would have to be prepared to take over support functions. Second, this is mostly unexplored territory. “These teaming arrangements are mostly new, so the VAR’s agreements probably don’t address the issue,” Del Bianco said. “If the team is being put together at the behest of the service provider, …there may be leverage to include step-in rights in the VAR’s agreement with them.”
3. Choose wisely. “The most practical approach … is for an agent to only partner with a VAR that is large enough and has enough senior management to ensure continuity when the owner dies,” Bronston said. When you’re determined to work with a mom and pop business, though, try to convince that VAR to let you view its succession plan. If there is one, yet the VAR refuses to share it, you may be stuck. You’ll have to decide whether you’re willing to risk a possible gap in business continuity. But if the VAR simply does not have a succession plan, it’s fair to request that one be implemented, Bronston said.
Tags: Channel Partners, cloud computing, cloud service provider, cloud services, commissions, compensation, contracts, financial, legal, Mark Del Bianco, value-added reseller, VAR
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Madhouse Prague
This award-winning hostel duo increased direct bookings by 30% and decreased hours worth of manual work when they switched to Cloudbeds
With Cloudbeds, not only is the product good, the customer relationship is also great!
- Rodrigo Medina and Kraig Cooper
Rodrigo (Rod) Medina and Kraig Cooper met at a hostel in Prague in 2008. At that time, they both helped run the hostel for the property owner. After gaining experience, the two friends started having ideas to improve the hostel. That’s when they decided to open their own hostel together. Inspired by their love of Prague’s bars, clubs, pubs, and party scene, the pair opened their own party hostel,The Madhouse Prague, in 2012. Their main goal was to run the hostel their way and focus on fostering genuine connections with guests.
Within two years of opening, The Madhouse Prague was named “Best Hostel in the Czech Republic” and “6th Best Small Hostel Worldwide” by Hostelworld. Following the success of Madhouse, Rod and Kraig opened The Roadhouse Prague in an effort to provide a smaller, more laid-back accommodation for travelers who wanted to socialize, but in a non-party environment.
Rod and Kraig pour their heart, soul, and personalities into their properties and promote a “be yourself” atmosphere that has resulted in loyal guests who often return once or twice a year. As Rod puts it, “We are unique because our place is genuine. It’s a representation of everyone’s personality who works here.”
Both The Madhouse and The Roadhouse properties lacked a channel manager which was causing a lot of manual work and mistakes in their system. Rod and Kraig started implementing myallocator because it was “simple, easy, and had all the channels we used.” Soon they realized the properties also needed a full Property Management System (PMS). “We looked around and researched, but Cloudbeds was the best for us due to its simplicity and user-friendliness,” says Rod.
Smooth Implementation
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→ Double Star Observing
Zeta Bootis, tough rascal!
Started by Redbetter , Apr 02 2016 06:09 AM
#1 Redbetter
Redbetter
Loc: Central Valley, CA
I've been trying to split Zeta Bootis for over a week, mostly when it was still too low in the sky, and with poor to mediocre seeing. Despite this the 20" f/5 consistently hinted at its double nature by giving some odd "non-stellar" diffraction patterns even though the airy disk(s) were not seen. It is hard to describe, but you've probably seen these sort of interfering diffraction patterns with other tight doubles in various apertures.
Finally tonight I succeeded as the double neared zenith. The seeing settled somewhat although still not good enough to yield stable 1st diffraction rings or stable airy disks in the 20" (which was well equilibrated, fan off for the observation.) The 8" SCT would sometimes get a relatively stable diffraction ring for a few seconds, so the seeing might have nudged 7/10 in the best moments, but more like 5/10 was the norm. The SCT was showing an elongated airy disk above 500x when the seeing would allow, but it wasn't steady enough to provide satisfying proof of the double.
The 20" finally paired with moments of steady seeing at 625x and 833x to cleanly split the airy disks for several seconds at a time. This was repeated several more times over the next 20 minutes. "Cleanly" is a relative term in this case because it means that a dark line was evident between the two clearly seen disks and always with the same orientation. There was still all sorts of motion around the disks but they were staying fixed relative to one another. As for PA's, I couldn't tell which one was brighter. They are very closely matched. However, they were offset about 10 degrees from the diffraction spike which was roughly aligned on the preceding/following axis as they drifted.
Separation was tight. It appeared over 0.3" but I couldn't estimate how much more because the diffraction rings were never stable enough to determine where they were centered relative to the center of airy disks. WDS shows 0.5" measured in 2015. Based on the appearance in the 8" and 20" scopes I guestimate it closer to 0.4" separation. What is the current prediction?
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#2 fred1871
Loc: Australia
The 6th Orbit Catalogue ephemeris gives 0.400" for 2016.0, and 0.365" for 2017.0.
So you could take it as being 0.39" at the present time.
The orbit is grade 2, which means it's likely to be pretty accurate, and the listed period 125 years.
As the Rayleigh Criterion for a 20-inch aperture is 0.27", splitting this near-equal pair should be a matter of seeing conditions for that aperture.
Zeta Bootis will currently show slight elongation with an 8-inch; the usual limit for elongation is about 0.5Rayleigh, which is 0.34" for an 8-inch.
If we treat 0.39" as the Dawes limit, that gives an aperture of 11.7-inches for a Dawes type touching or tangent discs appearance; 0.39" as Rayleigh gives 13.9 inches, near enough to a C14 or similar, to get discs with an appearance of being just apart.
Because there are effects of perception as well as the optical factors in these matters, some observers will have visual experiences that differ a little from the above. That doesn't show that optical theory is useless. It shows there's an interaction between what optical systems do and how different perceivers see it. It's another of the YMMV situations (within reasonable limits).
Zeta Bootis will continue to close for some years. Those with larger scopes can follow this as the seeing allows. But it will be out of reach even for 20-inch scopes at minimum - less than 0.05". It's a very elongated orbit, the real size has been estimated as varying between 1.4AU and 64AU (Jim Kaler). Minimum separation is around 5 years from now. It should be back to 0.5" by about 2030, and keep increasing for many years thereafter.
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#3 junomike
junomike
Loc: Ontario
I know very little about the theory behind the "separation" but last year I found it interesting that I could clearly separate it with my C14 but not with my C11.
Wonder if the C14 will split it this year?
#4 Organic Astrochemist
Organic Astrochemist
Repeated attempts while near zenith -- that is great advice for trying to split the tightest doubles.
Last year I was very happy to see very noticeable elongation in Zeta Bootis with my 8". This year will probably harder to perceive.
#5 drollere
drollere
Loc: sebastopol, california
it's not an easy system to split. it is also a great system to use as a test the seeing at moderate magnification. you can tell immediately, just by looking at, it whether it's going to be a night for close pairs.
It is definitely a seeing test for the 20". That was one of the reasons to keep checking it as a way of qualifying what sort of seeing could accomplish the task and how much magnification I would need to examine the higher resolution presented by smaller airy disks and diffraction rings. I knew that the 20" could do the job within any range it was likely to be in at this time, the biggest question I had was how good would the seeing have to be to make it happen. Negative results can be as valuable in training the eye as the positive results. It also gave me some opportunity to experiment with the TV 3-6mm zoom.
I found it valuable that even in poorer seeing and lower on the horizon at high power I could regularly tell that the pair was not a single star when compared to the images presented by similar magnitude solitary stars. This was still true at times when it was impossible to tell which way the pair might be oriented because the airy disks were not visible for this or single stars.
Being ~5th magnitude probably made Zeta Boo more difficult than a 7th magnitude pair would have been for the aperture in the same seeing. They were so bright that the intense dancing/shifting diffraction rings usually wiped out the airy disks.
I'm finding I like having the 8" set up with the Dob for comparison. I would like to get a night of real 8-10 seeing here for both of these. I already know the 8" is showing the elongation in about 7/10 seeing, but the resultant stretched disk was not steady enough to examine closely or to get a PA estimate from the elongation.
I had a good look at Zeta Bootis at 500X in my 8" last night. Transparency was quite good and seeing was 4/5. To estimate the position angle I just watch the pair drift and estimate the position from the preceding star to that following (an error of at least +/- 10 degrees).
First I practiced with Izar B which was leading and well separated from Izar A that followed from the SE at approximately 160 degrees.
I could clearly see the elongation in Zeta Bootis and at times I glimpsed a peanut shape. I couldn't tell which component was leading (actually B) but the other followed at approximately 110 degrees in the SE.
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I had another night about a week ago when the seeing reached about 6-7/10 and was able to split it again more easily/cleanly than before. I only had the 20" set up, so no 8" SCT comparison this time.
Can't get good seeing here...the above is the best I've had. Not good enough to fine tune the SCT's collimation. Not good enough to star test the new 10"...especially with 30 mph gusts at present.
#9 Joe Bergeron
Vendor - Space Art
Loc: Upstate NY
I miss Zeta. Several years ago I used to split it regularly with my 6" refractor, but then it closed up too much. I don't suppose I'll last long enough to see it again, unless it's with the 32" scope on Mount Lemmon.
#10 cildastun
cildastun
Loc: Oxford, UK
I've never looked at this one before as I assumed it was beyond my aperture. However, last night with excellent seeing (4.5/5) and Zeta Boo well placed for me, I spent an hour on it with my 180 Mak. Clear elongation at x350 with hints of a peanut waist. With x540 (the highest I've been yet with this scope), the shape and diffraction rings were stable centre field, and showing the double nature very clearly. I was surprised at how little sharpness dropped off at the higher mag.
#11 Organic Astrochemist
Because Zeta Boo is both close and bright (mag 3.8) it is special and rewarding. Resolution in the human eye depends both on angular size and surface brightness. Increasing magnification renders details large enough to perceive. Unfortunately magnification also decreases the surface brightness of the image, degrading the eye's ability to perceive details.
The optimum magnification affords maximum size and maximum surface brightness. At 540X, you must have gotten very close to optimum magnification of Zeta Bootis with your 180 Mak. Great job.
Too bad there aren't more doubles like this pair. Much harder to do with dimmer stars.
#12 Konstantin 1980
Konstantin 1980
2 years ago I saw the ellipticity in the 4-inch diameter telescope. А year ago I telescope 254 mm in diameter was seen almost separate 2 disks
Edited by Konstantin 1980, 17 April 2016 - 02:36 PM.
#13 fred1871
Konstantin, your description from last year with 254mm telescope sounds like what would be expected.
But the two years ago with a 4inch is not plausible. To get elongation on Zeta Bootis with a 4-inch it would have to be further in the past, when the pair was a little wider. Two years ago the 6th Orbit Catalogue ephemeris gives 0.45" as the separation. The Rayleigh Criterion for a 4-inch is 1.36"; and 0.5-R, the usually accepted limit for detecting elongation, is 0.68".
To detect elongation at 0.33-R is quite simply not something that suggests a credible observation - unless the telescope has astigmatism, of flare effects due to seeing mimic slight elongation.
Looking up the older ephemeris for Zeta Bootis, the listed separation for 2008 is about 0.57" at this time of the year. Even that would be extraordinary with a 4-inch. It might be possible back then with a filter cutting out wavelengths above about 450nm. At blue/violet wavelengths resolution is potentially better. But even that technique would not be adequate for 2 years ago, in 2014.
I watched a lot of stars in the 4-inch telescope at the time. Zeta was the most difficult, I spent time on it, but often I could see perceptible ellipticity disc 4-inch reflector. Stars from a distance of 0.52 "- 0, 57" could be seen easily. In all cases it was wholly a coincidence with the orbit to within a few degrees. I am very keen observer, Zeta Bootes not give me 2 days, until the third day, when the atmosphere was very calm, 4-inch (110 mm) Soviet reflector (Mizar) ( I observed July 20, 2014 Zeta Bootes)
#15 Cotts
Cotts
Loc: Madoc, Ontario
Had a good look last night with the Lockwood 12.5" f/6.5. With my highest power, 5mm Nagler giving 423x, I could clearly see a notched pair or two disks overlapping by about 25%.... I did have to wait for 'those moments' of better seeing, though......
Tough at 0.4" or a bit less....
#16 junomike
I had a similar experience last week with my C14 but it was far more difficult ton ascertain the split than it was last year (in the C14 also). I've never made the split in anything smaller than my C14.
#17 glmorri
glmorri
My attempt at rendering an impression of the elongation of zeta bootis on 5/23 & 24 using a C8 with SAFIX and a Pentax XO 2.5 (approx 800X). Seeing was 3.5-4/5. It was the 'catch' of the night for both evenings.
? posted wrong photo?
What are we seeing here?
An enlargement of a quick sketch of zeta bootis, attempting to show the orientation of the elongation, and the broken first diffraction ring. North is up.
#20 drollere
nice drawing, glmorri.
CDSA2 gives the separation as 0.5" measured in 2012 (the most recent listed in WDS 2015.01), which is now inaccurate as the system is in a highly eccentric orbit, approaching periastron and closing rapidly. note that the ephemeride at stelle doppie is corrupt, but the pair is very likely below 0.4" by now according to 6th orbits.
I've had a closer look at data regarding Zeta Bootis, following the remarks I made in another thread on Lambda Ophiuchi. To the point, I checked the "Last precise Measure" list on the USNO/WDS site, where it gives 0.460" for 2015. One might assume 2015 being somewhere near 2016.5 as this is a measure, not an ephemeris number.
The 6th Orbit catalogue ephemeris has
2014.0 291.7 at 0.464"
So there's a small difference between the ephemeris (2015.5 would give ~0.417") and the 0.46" of the measure.
Likewise, the PA differs slightly - the measure in 2015 is 287.3, the ephemeris suggests ~289.9.
How precise exactly is the 2015 measure? That's something to evaluate over time as new measures are made in the coming years. More measures will need to be made over the next decade in particular, as the pair move through periastron, in order to determine if the current orbit calculation needs tweaking and by how much (as with Lambda Ophiuchi, it's grade 2, so not regarded as "definitive" at present). "How much" is the likely result; it won't be huge.
What comes out of this is that we can't be certain - at the level of precision rather than of close approximation - of the exact separation at a given date. Pretty close, yes. But is the pair currently at 0.38"? (ephemeris); or perhaps a tiny bit wider, at, say, 0.42" (based on the 2015 measure). It will matter to an orbit calculator. And it might matter to someone looking for boasting rights, "my scope split (whatever they understand by that term) a 0.38" pair" .
#22 Redbetter
Looking back, Zeta Boo was a clean split in my 8" SCT...back in '96. Seeing was 8/10. At the time I even noted one star as being brighter than the other in my sketch at 825x. I found my log of this some time after I made the original post.
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Richmond Coun. Harold Steves helped found the ALR 40 years ago and is vice-chair of Metro Vancouver's regional planning and agriculture committee.
Farmland defender Steves sees red over ALR threats
Fears grow for future of ALC, Metro Vancouver powers to control sprawl
Metro Vancouver’s determination to protect scarce agricultural land is in for a test as two local cities push to reclassify farms for development and the provincial government eyes radical changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve.
Richmond Coun. Harold Steves, who helped found the ALR 40 years ago, says the recent moves send an unfortunate signal that the firm line of the past may soon crumble, making trade in farmland very lucrative.
“The speculators are out buying up land already,” said Steves.
He pointed to a 130-hectare parcel of ALR farmland in south Richmond listed for sale this year at $55 million – at least double its agricultural value.
Steves recently spoke to prospective Asian buyers of the Gilmore Estates property, who he said had no idea what the ALR was or its relevance to their potential investment.
There are points all over the region where farmland defenders say agriculture is under attack.
The most prominent is Delta’s controversial Southlands development, which was approved by the local council last week and will go to an eventual vote of the Metro board.
The 217-hectare parcel of Tsawwassen agricultural land is outside the regional growth plan’s urban containment boundary and redrawing the line to allow construction of 950 homes and change the land designation from agricultural to general urban will take a two-thirds weighted vote of Metro directors.
Langley Township is also at odds with Metro, which has rejected the township’s plan to develop a “University District” of homes and shops on farmland near Trinity Western University.
Metro and the municipality are in court over whether the growth plan supersedes the community’s plan. Metro also rejected development plans in two other swathes of ALR farmland in Langley this fall.
Steves also opposes a plan in Port Moody to redevelop the former Ioco oil refinery lands, which he said will have the domino effect of removing industrial land and putting more pressure on farmland elsewhere from the port or industrial users.
On top of the internal tussling between local cities and the region over the growth strategy comes the province’s core review, which in part targets the Agricultural Land Commission.
Cabinet documents leaked last week suggested the ALR could be split into two zones, with an “anything goes” mandate in Interior areas beyond the Okanagan.
It also indicated the ALC could be modernized by moving it inside the agriculture ministry and that community growth applications could be decided by local governments.
Giving more control over farmland development to local cities and presumably taking it away from the regional district and the ALC would open the door to much more farmland alienation, Steves warned.
“That would effectively pit one community against the other in a rush for urban growth, expanding urban sprawl throughout the region.”
Steves called the apparent plans to end the ALC’s independence and alter the ALR an “amazing about face” so soon after an election by a government that had previously reviewed the commission and okayed a strategy to strengthen it and increase its budget.
Bill Bennett, the minister heading the core review, has denied major changes to the ALR are in the offing.
Metro’s regional planning and agriculture committee last Friday voted to call on the province to ensure the core review protects and enhances both the ALR and an independent ALC, and to reconfirm the ALC will get $4 million over three years to provide better oversight of ALR lands.
“It’s extremely important that the land commission be independent,” said Steves, who is vice-chair of the committee.
“We’re in for a major test of both the regional growth strategy and the Agricultural Land Reserve in the Metro Vancouver area,” he added. “These are major issues ahead of us that are a threat to food security in the region.”
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Cy-Fair takes top honors in girls district golf tournament
By Kevin Cook
Published 3:22 pm CDT, Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The Cy-Fair Lady Bobcats won the district title with a combined score of 648 (335-313), beating Cy Woods (669, 340-329) by 21 strokes. Pictured, from left, are Grace Ni, Sarah Carlat, Laura Palmer, Coach Donna Benotti, Kathryn Palmer and Esha Dewan. less
The Cy-Fair Lady Bobcats won the district title with a combined score of 648 (335-313), beating Cy Woods (669, 340-329) by 21 strokes. Pictured, from left, are Grace Ni, Sarah Carlat, Laura Palmer, Coach Donna ... more
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CYPRESS - The Cy-Fair High School girls’ golf team took home top honors in the district tournament, played at Cypress Lakes Golf Club April 4-5.
Though the best score in district (69-73 - 142) went to Cy Woods’ Gurleen Kaur, the Cy-Fair team managed to earn the title of best girls team in 17-6A with a combined 648 (335-313) to Cy Woods’ 669 (340-329), thanks to a strong second day and standout performances from freshman Grace Ni (78-75 - 153) and senior Sarah Carlat (84-76 - 160).
Cy-Fair head coach Donna Benotti stated that the honor of earning a district title means as much, or more, in Cy-Fair ISD as it does anywhere in the state.
“Any time you win that [17-6A] district championship, it’s definitely a great accomplishment,” Benotti said. “The pressure is strong and we have teams that are heavy contenders, and you have to perform two days in a row, which makes it more challenging.”
The success for the Lady Bobcats, Benotti asserted, is unprecedented and an auspicious start to what may prove to be a long run.
“This is the first team we’ve had able to participate at this level,” Benotti said. “This is the first team Cy-Fair ISD has ever had where three of the four players shot under 80. This is one of the strongest teams we’ve ever had at Cy-Fair.”
Ni, a freshman phenom surrounded by four seniors who has been studying the game of golf since the tender age of four, stated that her displeasure at what she termed an ‘okay’ day was outweighed by the satisfaction of the team victory.
“I definitely could have done a ton better,” Ni said. “I’m pretty happy that the whole team did well, though. It’s nice whenever everyone is doing well and you’re doing somewhat okay.”
The team, including Ni, Carlat, senior twins Laura (85-77 - 162) and Kathryn Palmer (88-85 - 173) and senior Esha Dewan (91-86 - 177), move on to the regional tournament, held April 11-12 at Eagle Pointe Golf Club in Mont Belvieu. Ni sees plenty of room for improvement in her already-strong game before the next round begins.
“I want to see if I can get some more distance on my drive,” Ni said. “There’s always room to improve the short game, clean up a little bit there. I want to win. Only time will tell how much the work is going to pay off. I’m really excited to see what the next day brings.”
Despite the quasi-solitary nature of the game, golf teams benefit from cohesion and leadership, and to a player, every one of the Lady Bobcats agrees that their team has the chemistry and composition to make a deep and meaningful run.
“We are so close, and I love it because I think we’re closer than a lot of other teams,” Carlat said. “We can all help each other, and even if someone has a bad day, we all kind of shrug it off, because we know how it feels. Being close helps, because we push each other to be our best.”
Laura Palmer agrees, citing Ni as the catalyst that pushed the Lady Bobcats to that next level.
“We’ve always been really close, through all four years,” Palmer said. “With Grace coming in, we’ve always needed that one extra person who could shoot a really good score, and she definitely brought that to the table. We’re all kind of low-80s, so having someone that can shoot even-par really raises our level.”
Benotti relishes the experience of coaching such a close-knit, competitive group of girls.
“It’s a fun group, and I feel honored just to get to coach these kids,” Benotti said. “They’re a lot of fun, but they’re not silly. They’re committed and devoted, but then their personalities are real fun. It’s fun to win.”
There may yet be more fun in store for the Lady Bobcats, with the regional tournament looming and the possibility of more wins and more fun lying directly ahead.
“We’re definitely hoping to qualify for state,” Benotti said. “That’s a big goal, and we’ve got a regional tournament where we have to play two consecutive days on a really hard course with a lot of strong competition, so there’s a lot of variables involved in that. Our first goal was to win district, and our second goal was to be able to compete at the state level.”
In addition to the Cy-Fair and Cy Woods girls teams, two individual medalists qualified for regionals, Cypress Ridge’s Nikita Patel (93-81 - 174) and Cypress Creek’s Kelly Swanson (91-86 - 177).
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Africa, Politics
Reading the newspaper in Addis Ababa. Cropped photo by Terje Skjerdal (CC BY 2.0)
By Asmamaw Gizaw
The rapid political opening in Ethiopia over the past year has seen an uptick in journalistic freedom and a sincere effort on the part of the government to foster a robust, independent, and diverse media sphere. To continue this progress, reforms efforts must work to undo the legacies of authoritarianism.
In this blog, I will explore the fault lines that challenge media reform in Ethiopia and provide recommendations for how the Ethiopian government, civil society, and international partners can take steps to mitigate those risks, moving toward robust, independent media in Ethiopia.
Threats to the Information Environment in Ethiopia
Two interrelated realities compromise the Ethiopian information space: anemic private media and rampant disinformation, which stokes ethnic and political divides within the country.
Before Ethiopia’s transition, draconian laws curbed freedom of expression, the government held de facto control of the supposedly independent journalist association, and the state had captured the means of media production. The last several months have brought promising changes. A coalition of civil society leaders, academics, and government officials is reviewing draft media laws, and in the meantime, the government is not applying the old, restrictive laws. Private media is growing and becoming less dependent on state controlled production. However, to create a free and vibrant media, more needs to be done to encourage the expansion of media freedom and protect newfound space against backsliding. Repressive laws remain on the books, jeopardizing progress should the transition process hit a road bump. Additionally, the existing journalism council has not been active for some time and is largely obsolete. The country needs a journalism association that can fulfill an independent watchdog role and set best practices, which is why a new group of this nature needs to be created. Moreover, private media remains frail. To illustrate the severity of the situation, one need only point out that there are more than 100 million people in Ethiopia, but there is no daily private newspaper.
The past authoritarian media system and its vestiges have driven the proliferation and consumption of disinformation and misinformation. Historically unreliable, propagandist state media steered Ethiopians to find alternative news sources, while at the same time, outsized state control of the information space meant alternatives were rare. These realities persist, leaving Ethiopians to derive their news from social media and other questionable sources, where disinformation and misinformation fuel ethnic tension and violence. While the impacts of this are palpable and in some cases, deadly, the origins and motivations are unclear. Going forward, private and state run media should be equipped to combat false narratives by providing citizens unbiased, truthful information.
These issues undermine media’s ability to tackle its unique role during the transition period. There is minimal communication between media and institutions important to the transition. Since taking power in April 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has held only one press conference. Vast swaths of the population have limited access to information because of private media’s limited capacity. This is complicated by the spread of misinformation and disinformation, which some media outlets engage in disseminating. Fact-based, easily accessible reporting is especially critical given that the political opening has not come without retribution–violence has driven displacement and the destruction of property across several regions. A full picture of the state of the country would help address the problems arising from the transition.
Road-map for Change
Much work remains to ensure that media can play its role in this delicate transition period and strengthen democracy in Ethiopia. Meaningful media reform will require all concerned bodies to collaborate, but it is also important that stakeholders play distinct roles. A true road-map will invariably require negotiation and course correction along the way, but I have outlined some of the necessary steps each party can take to achieve the goals of the transition.
The Ethiopian Government
1. Amend or annul the Mass Media and Anti-Terrorism Laws
2. Communicate more frequently and transparently with the press, including through press conferences
3. Publicize official documents on the media reform process
4. Enhance the capacity of media practitioners by offering training in information and broadcasting in accordance with the needs of the sector
5. Formulate a new media policy that:
Is accepted by media practitioners in both the electronic and print sectors and by media institutions
Includes adequate guidelines for the state, media institutions, and media practitioners to implement its provisions. Allow independent media the right to own and use publishing houses freely
Ends government control of the journalism association
Does not dictate a “developmental journalism” approach to reporting
Ethiopian Media and Civil Society
Establish an independent media council that would:
1. Function as an autonomous and independent body which issues and monitors good standards of media practice
2. Revise, update, enforce, and implement the Ethical Code of Practice for news agencies, editors, journalists, and other media professionals
3. Receive complaints about the violation of an Ethical Code of Practice
All Stakeholders
Expand lines of communication for discussing critical issues like who should be responsible for monitoring disinformation and how to build the capacity of private media, among others.
The media working group, established by the Prime Minister and housed under the Advisory Council for Legal & Justice Affairs, is a welcome fist stop along the road to reform with the potential to facilitate these recommendations. However, the group’s capacity may be insufficient for the scope of its directives. Comprised of fifteen volunteer academics, legal practitioners, journalists, and government representatives, the working group is tasked with producing a comprehensive diagnostic report on the sector, reviewing around thirty laws that impact Ethiopia’s media landscape, and proposing new laws. The enormity of this mandate has already hindered the group’s progress; the initial deadline for the draft mass media law was pushed back. This is not a reflection of the group’s capability, but the scale of the challenge. Given how critical the media will be to progressing and sustaining Ethiopia’s transition, the media reform process must be more concerted, better resourced, and more sustainable.
The international community can play a key role in realizing this goal, but should understand that its most valuable contribution would be to support Ethiopians in determining their own pathway to media reform. International partners can do this by encouraging and supporting broad dialogue and consultation among independent journalists, freedom of expression activists, human right defenders, and broadcast authority officials. External expertise is also welcome so long as our international partners recognize that no off-the-shelf blueprint will work. A successful road-map must recognize that the journey is as important as the destination.
Asmamaw Gizaw is a journalist and independent researcher from Ethiopia. His research focuses on media pluralism, freedom of expression and cyber-activism & security
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No charges against Indiana law enforcement who killed man pointing a BB gun
No charges will be filed against the Indiana law enforcement officers who shot and killed a man pointing a BB gun, a special prosecutor said.
No charges against Indiana law enforcement who killed man pointing a BB gun No charges will be filed against the Indiana law enforcement officers who shot and killed a man pointing a BB gun, a special prosecutor said. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/crime-and-courts/2019/05/01/no-charges-against-indiana-officers-who-killed-man-pointing-bb-gun/3638264002/
Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 10:14 a.m. ET May 1, 2019
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No charges will be filed against the Indiana law enforcement officers who shot and killed a man wielding a BB gun, a special prosecutor said Wednesday.
Christopher A. Schmitt, 58, was shot four times by a trooper and a deputy in 12000 block of Five Point Road in January, officials said.
Indiana State Police Trooper Jordan Craig and Dearborn County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Weigel were sent to the address for a report of a domestic disturbance.
When the officers arrived, they heard screaming from inside the home, and could see the struggle happening inside, officials said.
Within minutes, Schmitt emerged from the residence and pointed what the officers believed was a rifle, the prosecutor reported.
Special Prosecuting Attorney Ric Hertel, in his report, said Schmitt's wife had earlier in the day hid a shotgun from him. Hertel said the two were also arguing over a knife when law enforcement arrived.
Hertel said the man also had "toxic" levels of drugs and alcohol in his system.
Schmitt's wife said he told her he planned to die that day.
Craig fired twice at Schmitt. Weigel fired four times. Schmitt was struck four times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
"Trooper Craig and Deputy Weigel were confronted with a potentially life-threatening situation," Hertel wrote. "The special prosecutor finds no wrongdoing or criminal liability."
Enquirer media partner Fox 19 contributed to this report.
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Eric Eisenberg
With developments moving forward in the sale of MGM to co-financing company Spyglass Entertainment, things are looking up for the future of James Bond and The Hobbit. While the studio still has to refinance in order for things to become official, things are looking up to the point where start dates are beginning to be mentioned.
First up comes The Hobbit. We recently heard that MGM is fighting to have Martin Freeman play the lead role in the film by offering him a shooting schedule that would work around his other commitments. This idea, of course, makes no sense if MGM doesn't have a planned production date yet, but it now appears that they may. The Bolton News caught up with Sir Ian McKellen about the film and not only did he confirm that he will be returning as Gandalf (there was some question after comments he made earlier this year), but has said that the aim is now to begin production this January.
As for everyone's favorite British spy, Deadline has revealed that director Sam Mendes, who has been attached to Bond 23 since January, has taken himself out of the running for The Hunger Games due to his commitments to MGM. In the article, it's stated that the next Bond film could get started as early as next summer.
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Citrix Summit 2017: Big News, Bold Initiatives
Holy smokes! Did you catch the license number of the blazing hot conference that whizzed by last week?
That’s right: Citrix Summit 2017 came and went last week — in practically the blink of an eye! — bringing with it loads of big announcements, bold, new strategies, and strengthened partnerships. It also brought a great deal of excitement about Citrix renewed focus, leaving employees and partners alike hungry for new ways to win together in 2017.
In case you missed it, Citrix bloggers brought their “A” game to lay out all of the exciting news revealed last week in Anaheim. From amped-up versions of our industry-leading products, to exciting new partnerships and acquisitions, to the principles that guide everything for which Citrix stands, Summit 2017 was the best of the best in tech and in teamwork.
Right out of the blocks, in his Day One keynote, Citrix CEO Kirill Tatarinov brought out the big guns, announcing a new partnership with Red Bull Racing. Citrix has worked with Red Bull Racing since 2007, using its networking and virtualization expertise to keep the team at the pinnacle of F1 competition. As an innovation partner with Red Bull Racing, Citrix technology will support the team’s engineers, keeping them ahead of the competition at every turn. “Being able to get that innovative and tech advantage is the difference between being on the podium or looking up at the other teams. We have provided leading technology to Red Bull Racing for ten years, and now we are taking this relationship to the next level,” Kirill said.
The relationship with Citrix provides the Team with greater agility, enabling our engineers to work more effectively wherever they are in the world. Being able to innovate and react quickly to change is a crucial element of Formula One racing, and we see this extended relationship with Citrix as an opportunity to further support our engineers in developing greater car performance. —Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing Team Principal
We launched the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program to dramatically simplify the scalability and manageability of VDI environments for mid-market organizations. This is a big BIG deal because while large companies have depended on XenApp and XenDesktop to provide their employees with secure access to the apps and data they need to work anywhere at any time, mid-market companies lack the IT infrastructure, resources, and expertise needed to stand up VDI and secure app delivery deployments. I know, right?! So awesome.
But we didn’t stop there!
Citrix and Microsoft took their years-long strategic partnership to the next level, introducing XenDesktop Essentials — coming soon to the Azure Marketplace — which provides a straightforward XenDesktop service for delivering Windows 10 desktops on Azure that partners and customers can manage through Citrix Cloud.
Building on the Citrix-Microsoft partnership, we announced the general availability of the XenApp on Azure Cost Calculator, a convenient, easy-to-use web service that will provide you with a complete set of cost estimates for deploying Citrix XenApp on Microsoft Azure. This is a great feature in and of itself, but it’s made even MORE awesome because it was developed by women. That’s right: the lead engineers on this project were two of Citrix brightest female engineers (that warms the cockles of this writer’s heart). Citrix supports women in tech and that is just one more thing that sets Citrix apart from the pack.
We unveiled the integration of NetScaler Unified Gateway with Microsoft EMS. Together, Citrix and Microsoft joined forces to deliver to our customers a solution that offers conditional access for mobile users. YES! This solution allows IT administrators to define access control policies based on the state of the end user mobile device, which is well and truly awesome.
AND!
We had a cavalcade of product announcements. Citrix Lifecycle Management is now Citrix Smart Tools. Citrix Smart Tools are delivered via Citrix Cloud as a service comprised of several key components that don’t require installation. They accelerate and simplify the design, deployment and ongoing management of Citrix products.
There were new XenMobile Service Offerings! XenMobile is now fully integrated with Citrix Cloud, which means you’ll be able to deploy a complete digital workspace including XenMobile faster. And, the ongoing management of your workspace will be much easier with Citrix managing your workspace infrastructure.
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The release of XenServer 7.1 with Long Term Support clearly shows the industry that XenServer is a strategic technology for Citrix foundation for innovation that spans the Citrix stack, such as the unique PVS-Accelerator functionality, as well as for competitive differentiation and for driving important partnerships like HPE, Nutanix, and others. — Calvin Hsu, vice president, Product Marketing
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The faith filter: How conservatives parse the news
By Chava Gourarie, CJR
At a rally in Tennessee in late May, President Donald Trump reiterated a rallying cry about the dangerous MS-13 gang. “They’re not human beings. They’re not human beings,” Trump said to an approving crowd. “And this is why we call the bloodthirsty MS-13 gang members exactly the name that I used last week. What was the name?”
And the audience yelled out, “Animals!”
Trump’s use of the term split his supporters and opponents along familiar, ideological lines. In the original statement, Trump called MS-13 members animals during a White House roundtable on immigration. Democrats read it as a thinly veiled attempt to dehumanize all illegal immigrants and decried its use. Republicans—and Trump himself—quickly pointed out the left’s dishonesty in twisting Trump’s quote to include all illegal immigrants, and doubled down on the original equation.
The response to Trump’s comments exemplifies not just an ideological split between the conservative right and the secular left, but an epistemological one as well, says Francesca Tripodi. A researcher at Data & Society, Tripodi authored a report on the ways in which conservatives interrogate the news, after spending eight months embedded in Republican spaces in two Virginia cities.
Tripodi found that the conservative Republicans used practices rooted in Bible study to analyze statements made by the media. She calls this “scriptural inference,” an approach which relies on primary texts as a baseline for truth. For instance, unpacking a Bible verse to apply it to modern life, or relying on the Constitution when it comes to the right to bear arms. In the case of MS-13, the primary text was a statement from Trump, and the crux of the right’s argument revolved around whether he had literally said what the left claimed he did.
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The text-based approach is also used by right-wing pundits, who understand how it resonates with its audience. They consistently refer back to original secular sources, like the Constitution or a Trump tweet, in order to “fact check” how the media interprets them. “Drawing from a conservative Christian worldview, these groups critically interrogate media messages in the same way they approach the Bible,” Tripodi explains in the report.
“Scriptural inference” is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to right-wing interpretive strategies. But Tripodi’s work makes the case that it’s impossible to divorce media literacy from the epistemological and cultural context in which it’s practiced. For Christian conservatives, and for conservatives in general, faith-based notions of what constitutes truth and how to find it deeply influence political discourse, she argues.
The ethnographic work is based on interviews, observations, and hours of time spent in rallies, fundraisers, meetings of the Republican party of Virginia, and Bible study groups. Tripodi says she defines the people she encountered as conservatives because that’s how they chose to identify themselves, and lays out how deeply intertwined politics and religion were to their definition of conservatism.
Faith-based notions of what constitutes truth and how to find it deeply influence political discourse, Tripodi argues.
Tripodi did not initially seek out faith-based or religious people, but quickly began to observe the religious underpinnings to their engagement with media. “By going to Bible study with them, I realized that the practices I was seeing in a secular way were very much derived from a biblical reading of text and a very Protestant, I would argue, way of engaging with the Bible,” she says.
This practice of fact-checking the media and “doing their own research,” even when well-intentioned, can have negative consequences. On the extreme end, it may lead well-intentioned searchers to sources that confirm their existing beliefs, or even to further-right content. That’s because most media consumers begin their search for the truth on Google, and may not have the tools to interpret what they find.
Googling the truth
Of the college students, pastors, and soccer moms Tripodi interviewed, the vast majority first tried to figure out if a statement was true by using Google. They expected to find objective results.” “I believe basically it works as a fact checker,” a college student and Trump supporter told Tripodi. “I more click on the top ones because I know how Google works. It takes stuff that’s really new and relevant, and tries to put it on the top thing.”
Indeed, for most people, Google is the front page of the world, and is the first step in looking for information, particularly if one is looking to step outside a filter bubble. Users have an objective perception of Google to a degree (as opposed to Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube), because search is not connected to a social network and not driven by recommendation algorithms. In fact, Google is the most trusted source for news, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
But search may contribute to the filter bubble in a different way. Google serves up a menu of results that match a query, and if the search term is ideologically slanted, the results will be as well.
“That’s not how Google is designed, to present you with a range of results,” says Justin Hendrix, the director of the NYC Media Lab and an outspoken proponent for more accountability from tech platforms. “It’s designed to present you with as specific a result as possible.” A search could contribute to a closed circle, where a query leads users to the sources that align with its sentiment.
Conservative media outlets use this fact-checking process to their advantage. “Fox News and other conservative media sources are actually very much exploiting this process of scriptural inference in order to galvanize an audience that’s already disenfranchised with mainstream media,” Tripodi said. “They will just draw on the text, or draw on the full quote, in a way that I think resonates with people who make meaning in the same way.”
However, Google’s role in the filter bubble is not well researched, and it remains an open question to what degree our keyword choices and search patterns influence what content we’re exposed to.
Some Google search features have come under scrutiny in recent months. These features include autocomplete, which is tailored to users based on prior search patterns; prominently featured Twitter results, which are dynamic and appear to be related to popularity rather than reliability; and the knowledge boxes, many of which do not link back to a particular source.
But while tools like autocomplete are personalized, the main search results are not, according to research from Christo Wilson, an assistant professor and computer scientist at Northwestern University. He and his colleagues studied the personalization of Google results and found that results are generally not personalized (in the same language and country), except for certain local queries. Wilson and his co-authors tested whether political content was personalized by searching names of national and local politicians from browsers geolocated across the country, and the results remained the same.
But Wilson also found that search engines can be persuasive because of people’s trust in them. “It opens you up to persuasion,” he says. In a study, Wilson and his colleagues presented users with biased search results for political candidates, and found that they could shift voter preferences of undecided voters.
“Now, that’s not to say Google is showing things that are hyper-partisan,” says Wilson. “It’s saying if you were to go on Google and see something was hyper-partisan, you wouldn’t immediately think, Wow, that’s biased, or, That’s hyperpartisan, you actually sort of take it as given.”
Unlike social media algorithms, which purposely direct you to similar content, this is a more unintentional filter bubble, says Tripodi. It could potentially be counteracted, “if more people understood how these very simple syntax changes dramatically returns the ideological positions of what you search for.”
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It’s one thing for Google searches to reinforce existing beliefs. It’s much worse if searching for news leads you to Alex Jones, the manosphere, or the far-right networks. But Tripodi claims that could be the case.
That’s because center-right content from the likes of Fox News and PragerU are often closely linked to the network of information from conspiracy theorists and white supremacists—algorithmically through recommendation engines and social networks, and in message.
Such is the case with YouTube, according to two researchers also from Data & Society. Jonas Kaiser and Adrian Rauchfleisch started with a diverse list of channels representing the political spectrum and non-political content, then built a network map of the 13,500 channels the recommendation algorithm led them to. They found that the far-right networks were much more closely connected to each other, and that YouTube lumped GOP accounts and Fox News into the same community as Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed that Sandy Hook parents were crisis actors.
“Being a conservative on YouTube means that you’re only one or two clicks away from extreme far-right channels.”
“Being a conservative on YouTube means that you’re only one or two clicks away from extreme far-right channels, conspiracy theories, and radicalizing content,” the researchers wrote.
For example, searching “Rod Rosenstein” brings up news reports, a Wikipedia page, and Fox News videos in the top three results. Searching “Rod Rosenstein MSM,” brings up a video by conspiracy theorist QAnon in the top results. (MSM is often used by the right to mean “mainstream media.”)
Tripodi’s study bites off some big issues: media literacy, Google’s role in perpetuating filter bubbles, and the apparent overlap between center-right and far-right media networks. The important thing, she says, is to understand these approaches rather than dismiss them.
“We can’t call people who are conservative ‘non media literate,’” says Tripodi, “because they are actually extraordinarily media literate. They’re just approaching that form of literacy in a very different, but actually not so different, way.”
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Chava Gourarie is a freelance writer based in New York and a former CJR Delacorte Fellow. Follow her on Twitter at @ChavaRisa
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Erin and Ben Napier, stars of "Home Town," announce birth of daughter Helen
Erin and Ben Napier welcomed daughter Helen on Thursday, days before season 2 of "Home Town" premieres on HGTV
Erin and Ben Napier, stars of "Home Town," announce birth of daughter Helen Erin and Ben Napier welcomed daughter Helen on Thursday, days before season 2 of "Home Town" premieres on HGTV Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/entertainment/2018/01/04/erin-and-ben-napier-stars-home-town-announce-birth-daughter-helen/1006140001/
Hugh Kellenberger, Clarion Ledger Published 7:23 p.m. CT Jan. 4, 2018 | Updated 8:45 p.m. CT Jan. 4, 2018
Erin and Ben Napier of Laurel, Mississippi are the stars of HGTV's "Home Town." Season 2 of the show premieres in January 2018 and centers on the couple renovating homes in their small town. Wochit
The reality tv show "Home Town," features Laurel couple Erin and Ben Napier.(Photo: Special to The Clarion-Ledger)
The stars of HGTV's hit series "Home Town" have welcomed their first child into the world.
Erin Napier posted photos of herself and husband Ben with their daughter, Helen, on Instagram Thursday evening.
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The Laurel-based couple announced late last year they were pregnant during the filming of season 2 of "Home Town," which premieres Monday.
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The show, which was watched during season 1 by 15 million viewers, shows the Napiers renovating historic homes in Laurel for those moving into the area.
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A new hub is in the works to provide residents 50 and older on the Westside with the resources needed to age successfully in place.
What will be known as “Ville on the Hill,” the program is a membership-driven village that will provide a variety of services for Hilltop-area residents. It will be the fourth village in the Columbus area.
“The common thread of the village movement is the goal of enabling aging citizens to remain comfortably and safely in their homes for as long as possible,” said Barbara Camfield, who will serve as director.
Volunteers and paid staff will run the grassroots organization, with typical village services that include social events, home remodeling referrals and more.
“We will also have a circulator bus that will travel through the Hilltop community to assist in transportation once a week,” she said. “The circulator bus will begin running on Tuesdays in August.”
Camfield says it’s important to note that unlike other facilities such as senior centers, there is no physical location or community center. Instead, she says, the program is a resource hub that connects older residents who live in the Hilltop area with services they need to remain independent.
Collaborating on the project are the Greater Hilltop Area Shalom Zone, the Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center and the Hilltop YMCA, of which Camfield also serves as chronic disease prevention and senior program coordinator. She says the city of Columbus has provided funding to get the project under way as well.
The Rev. Meredith McDougle, who serves as executive director of the Greater Hilltop Area Shalom Zone, says social events offered through the resource hub will serve an important purpose.
“The social events that Ville on the Hill and the other villages are holding will be a key part of the strategy to fight social isolation and keep older adults active in the community,” she said.
Though the resource hub is still in the development stages, Camfield says organizers have begun a soft launch by attending events like the Hilltop Bean Dinner and the Summer Jam West to generate interest and spread the word about the village.
Events are in the works to include a social event in September and a safety event with the Columbus Division of Fire. Ville on the Hill organizers also are working with the Kiwanis Club of Columbus to help residents through the group’s Fall Clean-Up Day in October.
“Elders will have help with minor home repairs, yard work and other small maintenance projects,” Camfield said. “Volunteers from Columbus Kiwanis and others will complete these services free of charge.”
Because Ville on the Hill is a membership-based organization, Camfield says residents must sign up to take advantage of the services. However, the only requirements are that a person lives in the Hilltop area and is 50 or older.
Eventually, there may be a membership charge, though she says currently the first six months will be free for members.
“In 2020, we will reassess what can be done,” she said. “But first, we have to show the community that the Ville on the Hill is of value to them.”
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Microsoft's promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrust investigation of the company's position in the browser market.
The company will offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a choice screen through which they can pick the browsers they want to install on their PC. The screen will be offered to users in the European Union and some neighboring countries for the next five years via the Windows Update mechanism. In addition, PC manufacturers will be allowed to ship computers with competing Web browsers, as well as or instead of Internet Explorer.
To eliminate bias, the choice screen is presented as a neutral window, not a full Internet Explorer window as Microsoft initially proposed, and the browsers are presented in random, rather than alphabetical, order. The five most popular browsers -- initially Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera -- will be displayed first, while users will be able to scroll the list to pick from seven others, initially AOL, Maxthon, K-Meleon, Flock, Avant Browser, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. The list will be reviewed every six months.
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The Commission informed Microsoft of its objections to the company's practice of tying Internet Explorer to its Windows operating systems on Jan. 15. By exploiting its dominant position in the operating system market, Microsoft prevented other software browsers from competing on their merits. The new choice screen will enable such competition, the Commission said Wednesday.
"We hope this closes a long chapter in a sometimes uneasy relationship with the Commission, and we hope it opens a new one," Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said at a news conference in Brussels.
Now that the Commission has accepted Microsoft's proposal, it becomes legally binding. If Microsoft fails to deliver, it could face a fine of up to 10% of its worldwide turnover, under E.U. antitrust law. The Commission will review the situation regularly to ensure that the choice screen is achieving the desired result, and may require Microsoft to make changes, it said.
Microsoft has also made some concessions on another complaint filed with the Commission, regarding the information it provides to third-party software developers to enable them to develop products interoperable with those of Microsoft. Without such information, it is difficult for other companies to develop software that collaborates with, or competes with, Microsoft products such as Office or SharePoint.
The Commission has not yet sent a statement of objections, or formal accusation, to Microsoft regarding the interoperability complaint, so the legal process has not begun, and Microsoft's concessions on this point are not legally binding.
Kroes hopes to make a decision "as early in 2010 as possible" either to drop that case or to file a statement of objections, she said Wednesday.
European Commission ends antitrust investigation of Microsoft, as reported by Nick Barber of the IDGNS.
Paul Meller in Brussels contributed to this report.
Peter Sayer covers enterprise applications for CIO.com.
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ConRes Ranked #7 Among World’s Most Elite 501 Managed Service Providers
12th Annual MSP 501 Identifies Top Forward-Thinking Global MSPs & Leading Trends in Managed Services
JUNE 25, 2019: ConRes has been named as one of the world’s premier managed service providers on the prestigious 12th-annual Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings.
Every year, MSPs worldwide complete an extensive survey and application to report their product offerings, growth rates, annual total and recurring revenues, pricing structures, revenue mix and more. MSPs were ranked according to a unique methodology that weights revenue figures according to how well the applicant’s business strategy anticipates trends in the fast-evolving channel ecosystem.
Channel Futures is pleased to name ConRes to the 2019 MSP 501.
“We are honored to be named to the MSP 501 list”, said CEO, Mary Nardella. “ConRes has invested significantly in our Managed Services practice. We strive to offer quality service and be a true proactive, go-to partner for our customers. We’re proud of the talent our team possesses and this award is a testament to their effort and dedication.”
In the 12 years since its inception, the MSP 501 has evolved from a competitive ranking list into a vibrant group of service providers, vendors, distributors, consultants and industry analysts working together to define the growing managed service opportunity.
“The 2019 MSP 501 winners are the most elite, innovative and strategic IT service providers on the planet, and they stand as a model of excellence in the industry,” says Kris Blackmon, Content Director of Channel Partners and Channel Futures and lead of the MSP 501 program. “As the MSP 501 Community grows, leagues of managed service providers learn from the successes of these winning companies, gaining insight into the best practices, strategies and technologies that elevate an MSP to the level of the 501 winners. Our heartfelt congratulations to the 2019 winners and gratitude to the thousands of MSPs that have contributed to the continuing growth and success of both the 501 and the thriving managed services sector.”
Ten special award winners will be recognized at the MSP 501 Awards Gala at Channel Partners Evolution, held this year September 9-12 in Washington, D.C. Nominations for these special awards, including Digital Innovator of the Year, Executive of the Year and the Newcomer Award, were included in the MSP 501 application, and all candidates were encouraged to submit for them.
In addition to deciding the rankings, the survey drives the creation of an annual in-depth study of business and technology trends in the IT channel, released each year at the Channel Partners Evolution conference. The full MSP 501 Report leverages applicant responses, interviews with industry experts and historical data to give a well-rounded picture of the managed services opportunity.
The complete 2019 MSP 501 list is available at Channel Futures.
The 2019 MSP 501 list is based on data collected by Channel Futures and its sister site, Channel Partners. Data was collected online from March 1 through May 31, 2019. The MSP 501 list recognizes top managed service providers based on metrics including recurring revenue, growth and other factors.
About ConRes
As a global IT solutions provider, ConRes helps organizations overcome challenges in four key areas: cloud, data center, digital infrastructure and security. When partnering with best-in-breed manufacturers, we bridge the gap between the manufacturer and the customer, making it easier for organizations to design, procure, implement and support IT solutions. ConRes is a Women-Owned Business Enterprise. WBENC 2005111735.
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Channel Futures, Channel Partners Online, Channel Partners Conference & Expo and Channel Partners Evolution are part of Informa Tech, a market-leading B2B information provider with depth and specialization in the Information and Communications (ICT) Technology sector. We help drive the future by inspiring the Technology community to design, build and run a better digital world through our market-leading research, media, training and event brands. Every year, we welcome 7,400+ subscribers to our research, more than 3.8 million unique visitors a month to our digital communities, 18,200+ students to our training programs and 225,000 delegates to our events.
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The 2018 MSP 501 list is based on data collected by Channel Futures and its sister site, Channel Partners. Data was collected online from Feb. 28 through May 31, 2018. The MSP 501 list recognizes top managed service providers based on metrics including recurring revenue, growth and other factors.
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Data management capacity is the next step for South Africa's mining sector
17 May 2019 Consultancy.co.za
As the concept of the ‘digital mine’ gains traction in the South African mining sector, the vast repositories of data that could be collected through monitoring of mining operations could prove revolutionary for the future of the sector, according to a senior executive at SRK Consulting.
Experts are increasingly commenting on the potential role that technology can play in mining. Last year, global professional services firm Deloitte launched an integrated solution for mining in South Africa, which revolved exclusively around the novel concept of a ‘digital mine'.
The digital mine leverages various Industry 4.0 tools to facilitate greater efficiency in the mining process, most of which relies on the use of Internet of Things sensors to gather vast pools of information in real time. These censors also have the capability of generating performance indicators in real time.
In addition, the data gathered can also be leveraged by automated tools to generate predictive maintenance capabilities, allowing for more detail and efficiency in planning. The applications and implications of a digital mine are far reaching, and experts are now examining these in detail.
Some suggest that the next step in this process is to develop capabilities in the data management domain, The volume of data being generated in this scenario is vast, and adept data management is crucial to ensure that the right value can be extracted from various dimensions.
“Geoscientific and geophysical data is used in many aspects of the mining value chain. It is used to target exploration programs in areas where we think there may be concentrations of economically extractable metals,” explains Mark Wanless, Principal Geologist and Partner at SRK Consulting.
“Surface mapping and drill hole data is used to map the presence of mineralisation underground. This enables the construction of 3D virtual models of the mineralisation and rocks, which allows mining engineers to design the mines in virtual reality to allow for the extraction of metals from underground. In operational mines, the mapping, drilling and sampling allow the refinement of the models that allow the mines to operate more efficiently by targeting the mineralisation more accurately,” he adds.
The analysis comes at a time when the South African mining sector is in dire need of innovative growth strategies, particularly as it looks to overturn its fortunes from recent years, when falling commodity prices have dented its revenues substantially.
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Morgan James Publishing’s New Book ‘The Titanic Effect’ Helps Startups Stay Afloat
Indiana University Kelley Professors and Indianapolis entrepreneur collaborate on a business book aimed at helping entrepreneurs avoid common pitfalls.
Press Release – updated: Jun 5, 2019 09:00 EDT
NEW YORK, June 5, 2019 – When the RMS Titanic set sail, no one on board had any inkling of the complete failure it would become. Likewise, the founders of most startups think that they will beat the odds – yet, 70% of startups do fail.
Morgan James’ new business book release, The Titanic Effect: Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties that Sink Most Startups by Todd Saxton, M. Kim Saxton and Michael Cloran, is a guide that helps new businesses avoid the “icebergs” blocking their path to success. The Titanic Effect was written for founders, startup employees, investors and entrepreneurship enthusiasts.
The tragic fate of the Titanic was caused not only by the iceberg it collided with but also due to a series of small decisions along the way. Similarly, many startup businesses sink due to unanticipated consequences or “hidden debts” they incur in their early stages of development. The Titanic Effect was written to help entrepreneurs and investors learn from these common errors so they do not repeat them in their own business. It includes helpful navigation tips and an iceberg Index startups can use to assess their own strengths and weaknesses.
The Titanic Effect combines the experience of business professors Todd and Kim Saxton with serial entrepreneur Michael Cloran of DeveloperTown. These professionals apply lessons from the Titanic, as well as case studies of both successful and unsuccessful startups, to help entrepreneurs and investors navigate the challenging early steps of a new business. In The Titanic Effect, individuals find practical advice to identify dangerous hidden debts and sail ahead to success.
“The idea for this book came from a conversation about ‘technical debt,’ often used in a software development context, in which shortcuts taken early in a startup’s life limit potential later,” said Todd Saxton. “But this challenge isn’t unique to product development; it applies to other domains as well. That led us to broaden the idea to a more holistic one — what we call in our book ‘hidden debt,’ or debts that are beneath the surface but can limit growth or sink even the most promising startup.”
“Most books about entrepreneurship and startups are ‘how-to’s,’ detailing all the things you have to do to succeed when creating your own venture. Our book tells you what not to do, and it shows you how to identify the potential issues that could keep you from being successful,” said Michael Cloran.
The Titanic Effect explains that taking on these hidden debts is inevitable, but startups must be careful to recognize that debt and take steps to mitigate the risks.
“Over our more than 20 years of working with student, alumni and venture community startups — and helping launch and investing in them as well–we have seen the same patterns of mistakes repeated over and over again,” explained Kim Saxton. “We made a list of the most common startup mistakes, and that’s the main focus of this book. Our goal is to bring these so-called ‘icebergs’ — or ‘debt-bergs,’ as we call them — out of hiding. Debt is not necessarily bad as long as you recognize, measure and manage it.”
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Todd Saxton, M. Kim Saxton or Michael Cloran, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674 or Kim Saxton at 317.413.6860.
Dr. Todd Saxton is a professor, author and businessman. Saxton is an Associate Professor and Indiana Venture Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business, where he has won many awards for his teaching on strategy and entrepreneurship. Saxton has also written many articles and book chapters containing effective corporate strategies. Saxton currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, but has also lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the D.C. area, and Bloomington, Indiana.
Additional information about Kim Saxton and Michael Cloran is available at the book’s website www.TitanicEffect.com.
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The Titanic Effect: Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties that Sink Most Startups by Todd Saxton, M. Kim Saxton and Michael Cloran will be released by Morgan James Publishing (New York) on June 11, 2019. The Titanic Effect—ISBN 9781642792140—has 254 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $17.95.
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Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)
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The Ministry of External Affairs said that the organisation had no right to interfere in India’s internal affairs.
“We categorically reject yet another unacceptable reference to matters internal to India in the Final Communiqué adopted at the conclusion of the 14th Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States held at Makkah, Saudi Arabia on 31 May 2019,” said a MEA spokesperson in response after OIC appointed Yousef Aldobeah of Saudi Arabia as a Special Envoy on Jammu and Kashmir.
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Democratic state treasurer candidate Betsy Markey stops in Craig
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Craig — Colorado treasurer candidate Betsy Markey visited Craig on Friday for a campaign stop.
“My 35 years of marketing and financial experience make me uniquely qualified for this position,” Markey told the Craig Daily Press, highlighting that she’s visited 75 percent of the counties in Colorado so far.
Markey is running against Republican state treasurer incumbent Walker Stapleton.
The Democratic candidate held a meet-and-greet with Moffat County constituents Friday at Downtown Books, where Moffat County Democrat JoAnn Baxter welcomed her to Northwest Colorado.
“I think she’s a really hard worker and will represent us well,” Baxter said. “My major area of concern is that the state treasurer sits on the PERA (Public Employees’ Retirement Association) board, and she supports my views that that board is fully funded. She wants to be an active supporter of PERA.”
Markey outlined top priorities she would focus on if elected, including supporting PERA, which provides retirement funds to teachers across Colorado.
The treasurer “has a responsibility to protect that retirement system,” Markey said. “I’ll be working hard on their behalf.”
More than 90 percent of the teachers who retire from Colorado schools stay in the state, Markey said.
She also spoke about the importance of taxes and accountability.
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Markey also highlighted that she would be more visible in all areas of Colorado, not just along the Front Range. She noted that she would be a full-time treasurer and not hold another job while in office.
Markey has “over 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Most recently, she served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” according to her website. “In 2008, Betsy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and proudly served the people of the 4th Congressional District. She is one of four women to have ever served in the U.S. Congress from Colorado.”
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The provincial government has announced $490,639 for a new tower crane operator training program to be delivered at the Operating Engineers College, Holyrood campus.
In a news release, the province said this program will be the only one of its kind in Atlantic Canada and will help meet demands for tower crane operators for projects such as the Hebron gravity-based structure.
The provincial funding is provided through the federal-provincial Labour Market Development Agreement. A total of more than $700,000 is being allocated for this program, provided through the provincial government, the Operating Engineers College and the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 904.
“The development of the tower crane operator training program is a true example of partnership in action and the direct result of the provincial government listening and being responsive to the needs of industry,” said Joan Burke, minister of advanced education and skills. “Newfoundland and Labrador will see as many as 70,000 job openings by 2020 and, as a government, we are working with our partners, including business, labour and training institutions, to take full advantage of the opportunities ahead.”
Under the new program, three 12-week training sessions will be offered over the next year, with about 10 students in each session. The first training session is planned to begin in October 2012 and will include a combination of classroom-based instruction and hands-on training.
“The Operating Engineers College provides operators with the opportunity to upgrade and enhance their skills, and to produce an on-going supply of apprentices and certified journeypersons to the construction industry,” said Lorna Harnum, administrator for the Operating Engineers College. “Now, because of the strong partnership that exists between the provincial government, the college, Operating Engineers Local 904 and industry, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians will have the opportunity to avail of the only tower crane program offered in Atlantic Canada.”
Students will have the opportunity to develop and apply skills needed to operate a tower crane through the use of a computerized simulator featuring crane controls, a cab-like enclosure, surround visual-system, life-like work sites and instructor’s station. Students will also gain field experience in using a 16-tonne tower crane, similar to the cranes to be used for the Hebron construction site.
“Through continued support and collaboration with all our stakeholders, the provincial government is helping to ensure labour demands are met so our economy can thrive,” said Burke. “In this time of unprecedented development in our province, we will continue with these efforts to help ensure today’s opportunities are securing tomorrow’s prosperity for all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.”
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A young, extraordinary alumnus you helped gives back to his alma mater.
Charles Barr Organ Scholarship recipient Bryan Dunnewald, student of Tom Bara, was extraordinary at Interlochen.
By the time he graduated in 2014 he had impressed fellow students and faculty, receiving the Young Artist Award, the Young Scholar Award, the Roger E. and Mary Jane Jacobi Award, the Fine Arts Award, and Einstein Award in Physics.
Now a Curtis Institute of Music organ student of Alan Morrison, Bryan continues to be extraordinary at Interlochen by giving back to his alma mater.
Asked what motivates him to give back to Interlochen, he said:
“Interlochen is very important to me, shaping my life musically and personally. General Dance, Advanced Physics, learning to write well, and jazz improvisation are just a few of the many transformative experiences at Interlochen which pushed my boundaries and expanded my horizons.
We are lucky to study and live in a community of dedicated peers, learning from our friends as much as our teachers. Those friends remain close, keeping the artistic community strong and providing inspiration and support long after graduation.”
This past summer, while serving as Tom Bara’s teaching assistant at Camp, Tom and Bryan talked about their vision for a new organ wing in Interlochen’s anticipated Music Building.
“Tom and I both thought…the new wing would bring the already excellent organ program to a new level, and so I knew I wanted to support it. I am fortunate to have studied organ at Interlochen, and I’m excited to see how the new organ wing helps a great and special teacher, program and institution continue to grow.”
This new year we can all be inspired to do more by someone so young already having done so much. Thank you Bryan for setting an extraordinary example in your commitment to the arts!
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Mosque head quits after imam’s genital mutilation view
A leader a Virginia mosque has resigned after the imam there made comments supporting genital mutilation
Mosque head quits after imam’s genital mutilation view A leader a Virginia mosque has resigned after the imam there made comments supporting genital mutilation Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2s52bYF
Matthew Barakat, Associated Press Published 12:10 p.m. ET June 9, 2017
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Falls Church, Va. — A leader at one of Virginia’s largest mosques has resigned after the imam there made comments in support of female genital mutilation.
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, who was director of outreach at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, posted his resignation Friday on his website.
Abdul-Malik says he’s leaving after “many reprehensible statements” by Dar Al-Hijrah’s senior imam, Shaker Elsayed, including his recent comments on genital mutilation.
In a recorded lecture, Elsayed described the practice as a way to avoid “hypersexuality” and “the honorable thing to do if needed.”
Dar Al-Hijrah’s board denounced Elsayed’s comments Monday. Two days later, it placed him on administrative leave.
In the lecture, Elsayed says that the practice, also known as female circumcision, has received a bad name because poorly trained surgeons are too aggressive in the procedure. He said the surgery is properly carried out with a minimalist approach “so that she is not hypersexually active. This is the purpose.”
Elsayed later issued a clarification through the mosque’s website saying that “Islam would never support anything that harms anybody’s well-being” and that he should have avoided his comments on hyper-sexuality.
“I hereby take it back. And I do apologize to all those who are offended by it,” Elsayed wrote.
Abdul-Malik says in his resignation that the board’s actions against Elsayed are insufficient.
“Ultimately, The Board of Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center is responsible for the direction of the community and its leadership. They are proceeding in a different direction than I believe is in the best interest of the congregation and the community at-large,” Abdul-Malik wrote.
Neither Abdul-Malik nor Elsayed immediately returned calls Friday morning.
The resignation comes amid genital mutilation controversy in the United States.
In Metro Detroit, authorities say as many as 100 girls may have had their genitalia mutilated during a 12-year conspiracy involving three local doctors. The government’s allegation is the latest development in a high-profile criminal case that is raising awareness about a procedure practiced by some members of the Dawoodi Bohra, a small sect of Shia Muslims.
The Falls Church mosque has been mired in controversy since the Sept. 11 attacks, when its imam was Anwar Al-Awlaki, who later left the U.S. and became a senior figure in al-Qaeda before being killed in a drone strike.
Elsayed has been controversial in his own right. He served as an unofficial spokesman for the family of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali during his 2005 terrorism trial. Abu Ali, who worshipped at Dar Al-Hijrah, was convicted of joining al-Qaida while studying overseas and plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush.
In a 2005 Associated Press interview, he defended the militant group Hamas, which the U.S. government designates as a terrorist group. “Everybody jumps on Hamas,” Elsayed said. “Look at how long Israel has occupied (Palestinian lands). How long did it take to say enough is enough?”
He also told the AP that dating is prohibited in Islam and that women cannot marry a man of their choosing without he woman’s family’s consent.
The Detroit News contributed.
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Starz Play Arabia to make first originals after closing US$125m
11th July 2017 @ 11:57
Starz Play Arabia has raised US$125 million (€110 million) to date after closing a third round of funding and plans to make its first push into original content.
Maaz Sheikh
In an interview with DTVE, Starz Play CEO Maaz Sheikh said that the company is looking to produce original Arabic shows, and is also hoping to launch the service in new markets by the end of the year.
This is part of a wider plans to continue improving Starz Play Arabia’s content line-up and user experience, following recent output deals with Universal and 20th Century Fox and the introduction of offline viewing options.
While Sheikh would not disclose how much of Starz Play’s US$125 million to date had come from its third round, the recently closed funding included participation from global asset management firm State Street Global Advisors, private equity firm Delta Partners and existing investors SEQ Capital Partners and Lionsgate-owned Starz – which remains Starz Play Arabia’s majority shareholder.
“We will be looking at co-producing or producing some original Arabic shows in the region that are relevant to the youth and relevant to the audience that we are targeting in the MENA region,” said Sheikh.
Discussing the content plans further, he said Starz Play Arabia’s originals would focus on the Saudi market, would be drama-oriented, and target its core market of 18-24 year-olds.
“One of the challenges in this region has been that free-to-air is very strong,” said Sheikh. “It’s [about] finding that content that’s differentiated from free-to-air… is different, edgy and compelling.”
Currently Starz Play Arabia is available in 19 countries across the MENA region and the SVOD service is now aiming to launch in two or three more markets by the end of the year – most likely in Q4.
“We are looking to expand beyond MENA with the recent investment, so the goal is to look into markets adjacent to MENA. Where we find opportunities with the right partners on the ground, those are the markets we’re going to focus on,” said the Starz Play boss without going into specifics.
On top of this Starz Play Arabia is looking to shore up its overall TV and movie offering, which includes US series and movies, Arabic content, as well as kids programming.
“Now we are working with all the major studios and strengthening our position also on the first-run TV shows and showing TV shows that are day- and date- with the US. That’s a big part of our investment,” said Sheikh.
In terms of strengthening Starz Play’s product and user experience, he said that the company continues to introduce new features and new technology.
“For example we recently rolled out a download function so customers can download content for offline viewing. Over 90% of our content now is available for offline viewing and can be downloaded,” said Sheikh.
“That’s been a big part of our evolution because, especially in North Africa where the mobile broadband rates can be expensive, people tend to download content on WiFi and then watch it in an offline mode.”
Starz Play Arabia first launched in April 2015 and now claims 700,000 subscribers across the MENA region.
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STOCKHOLM — The president of the European Jewish Congress says Sweden needs to be vigilant of anti-Semitism among some refugees seeking shelter in the Nordic country.
Moshe Kantor on Tuesday said that while Muslim refugees also face bigotry and racism, “anti-Semitism remains a significant problem in Sweden” and should be prioritized.
Kantor spoke to The Associated Press after a meeting in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
Sweden has received more asylum-seekers in recent years than any other European country, except Germany. Most come from predominantly Muslim countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“As Europeans we should be greatly sensitive to the suffering of others, especially those who are running away from oppression, but we cannot afford to import those conflicts and the mindset of hatred which sometimes created them onto the European continent,” Kantor said.
The situation of Sweden’s small Jewish community came under scrutiny six years ago as Jews in the city of Malmo said they faced threats and abuse, mainly from immigrants from the Middle East. Some even moved to Israel, saying they felt safer there.
Statistics from the Swedish National Council of Crime Prevention show that in 2014 there were 270 reported hate crimes directed against Jews and 490 directed against Muslims.
Lofven’s spokesman Dan Lundqvist Thelin said the prime minister was not available for comment, but added the government would post information about the meeting on its website later Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Friar Alessandro CD cover
No need to send Friar Alessandro to Bethlehem with a camera crew when the perfect image is in the Bridgeman archive.
Friar Alessandro, the first religious brother to land a major record contract, is nominated for his debut, Voice of Assisi, a collection of sacred music, produced by Mike Hedges, who previously collaborated with Manic Street Preachers.
Bridgeman are delighted to have been able to license Angel of the Lord Visiting the Shepherds, Sanctuary of the Shepherd's Chapel from a freso in Bethlehem by Umberto Noni, (fl.1830-40) for the CD album cover.
Approximately 2 km to the east of Bethlehem lies the village of Beit Sahour, where one of the most sacred places to Christians; the Shepherds' Field; is found, identified as the scene where the Angel of the Lord visited the shepherds and informed them of Jesus' birth.
Angel of the Lord Visiting the Shepherds, Sanctuary of the Shepherd's Chapel, Bethlehem (fresco) by Umberto Noni, (fl.1830-40) / Private Collection / Photo © Zev Radovan / The Bridgeman Art Library
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The Brussels-Wallonia Federation’s budget minister, André Flahaut (PS), head of the PS in the Chamber Laurette Onkelinx, the New Flemish Alliance MP Nahina Lanjri… These are just a few of the politicians that have called or written to the Foreigner’s office over the last few weeks. They mainly concern various asylum demands, the Het Laaste Nieuws said on Thursday.
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Before you snap a nature 'gram this summer, think about what you're doing to the environment
Outdoors experts are encouraging responsible posting on social media of sensitive places like Joshua Tree National Park, and others.
Kristin Scharkey, Palm Springs Desert Sun
Published 2:58 p.m. PT June 26, 2018 | Updated 10:38 a.m. PT July 21, 2018
Scroll through photos tagged in Joshua Tree National Park, and the Milky Way inevitably flashes across the screen. Night sky photography is a popular attraction in this boulder-laden landscape.
But in addition to the iconic rock formations, some photographers are heading out to capture the stars reflected in various bodies of water throughout the park. What they may not know – or choose to disregard – is that a lot of these places are sensitive and thereby protected as day-use only.
"They might have access to water for wildlife, and we like to limit humans going there," explains JTNP Social Media Specialist Hannah Schwalbe. "We want the wildlife to have a chance to access that water without a predator being around."
Night sky photographers heading into day-use-only areas is one example of an issue within the national park that Schwalbe says "is more likely" heightened by social media. The popularity of the shot may create a potential clamor for "retweets" and "likes," and yet the process of capturing it infringes on the limited water sources available to the park's wildlife. As more and more people are getting out to explore the wilderness, public lands across the country are feeling similar environmental tolls.
These days, outdoors experts are considering the role social media is playing – and can play – in amplification of behavior.
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A Joshua Tree National Park visitor takes a photo of the sunset at Key's View.
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“A downside of social media is we are now accustomed to instant gratification delivery,” says Casey Schreiner, founder and editor-in-chief of the popular website Modern Hiker. “Especially in something like the outdoors, where landscapes are very fragile, there’s a lot of things that you need training for, or at least [to] be aware of in terms of safety. I feel like when you just drop someone off in the middle of the woods, it’s a recipe for a problem.”
Geotagging, for example, has increased awareness of trailheads, overlooks, et cetera – and made their locations easy to find for a significantly wider audience. Users can simply plug in a location and go – without needing to reference trail guides, hiking manuals, visitors centers or informational websites like Modern Hiker.
In Joshua Tree, one Instagram account @naturetroller has taken to commenting with national park etiquette on posts depicting "bad" behavior, like visitors standing on Joshua trees (or hanging their hammock from them), dogs on hiking trails and more. Some park-goers may be willfully ignorant – others simply don't know what they don't know.
Schwalbe, who is hired through nonprofit Great Basin Institute, says her team tries to strike a balance between Leave No Trace messages and more inspirational or "human management" (like parking spot availability) shares. Last year, the team launched an #ExploreResponsibly campaign that's racked up more than 6,000 Instagram posts.
"I see my job, a lot of the time, as an educator," she says, "not just to inspire the public to love the park, but also how to visit."
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This issue of social media and the outdoors is one that Schreiner has "been paying attention to" for a long time (he's currently writing a book about it) and says is only "going to become more important to the outdoor community." He recently wrote a post with three guidelines for digital Leave No Trace principles to help teach newcomers "the responsible way to recreate outdoors" with their social media.
Schreiner's recommendations include: conscientious tagging (be vague), being mindful of what you're showing (responsible behavior), and setting a good example (showing yourself picking up trash, for instance).
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"Take a minute before you post and think about what message you’re sharing with your community," Schreiner explains. "You may just think, 'Oh, I’m just putting this online to get some likes and feel good about the hearts that are coming in under my photo, but you have an opportunity to teach people some pretty amazing things – sometimes they can be good and sometimes they can be bad."
Schreiner no longer geotags specific locations – only the larger park, for example, or a neighboring mountain. Joshua Tree National Park Association Executive Director Jacqueline Guevara says her team has taken the same approach with the organization's Instagram account. "We mix photos of the flora and fauna with landscapes, and there is always a lesson attached," Guevara explained via email. "We give people information on native plants and animals, along with tidbits on the geology and history of the area. Safety tips are always a favorite." Another technique, she says, is to share photos of spots where visitors can do guided hikes and lectures via JTNPA's Desert Institute.
“Take a minute before you post and think about what message you’re sharing with your community.”
Casey Schreiner, founder and editor-in-chief of Modern Hiker
When publishing a trail write-up, Schreiner says he’ll include the name of the trail in an Instagram post as well as the link to the Modern Hiker article, where interested visitors receive substantial background information – including trail ethics – and driving directions. It's always been important, he says, to "make things accessible to people but arm them with the information they need to have a good time and have a good time responsibly."
Land stewards are more strict when it comes to archaeological or sensitive sites. In a post about JTNP's Carey's Castle written by Shawnté Salabert, for example, Schreiner did not publish the driving directions and GPX coordinates typically included in Modern Hiker posts. Specifying the locations of sensitive sites, he explains, invites vandals and looters.
Schwalbe, too, advises avoiding geotagging "especially really sensitive areas or those secret spots [in] the park." Because so many places are now extremely popular, she says it's important for wildlife and vegetation to still have areas that see little visitation.
As for her team's approach to the park's social media accounts, Schwalbe says they "like to show instead of say." For example: "It's really cool for us to see someone who's tagged us that has put up a hammock appropriately," she explains. "So, if you attach a hammock to a rock that is not in a campground [fixed lines are not allowed in campgrounds since they can be a tripping hazard], that is A-OK and you can get a beautiful photo. ... We like to share that and say, 'Look, you can do this.' "
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Not just a problem, but a solution
Notably, the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics updated its own website with social media guidance in June. Education Director Ben Lawhon says that in the past six months, he received numerous emails, letters and phone calls requesting that the organization add an eighth principle addressing social media to its foundational seven. Since joining the center in 2001, Lawhon says he's seen a number of "hot button" issues like geocaching, personal locator beacons, spot devices and drones illicit a similar reaction. Ultimately, his team made the decision not to create an eighth principle, but to address social media under the existing seven.
These new social media guidelines are designed to "help people be part of the solution," Lawhon says. He tried to create guidelines that empowered people, instead of using negative words like 'don't.' Examples include "Tag thoughtfully," "Be mindful of what your images portray," "Give back to places you love," and "Encourage and inspire Leave No Trace in social media posts."
"Social media is a tool like any other," Lawhon says. "You can use an ax for good or you can go cut down a bunch of trees for bad. Social media's no different. Think if every social media post had a stewardship message or had Leave No Trace information in it, what a different situation we'd be in."
A visitor takes in a sunset at Keys View in Joshua Tree National Park.
Every two years, the center sends out a Biennial Land Manager Survey, and approximately a quarter of this year's respondents indicated social media was leading to additional impact and an increase in visitation to their public lands. (Lawhon says the results are more "armchair science" than publishable data.) While he doesn't know if social media is a "fanciful trend," he does think "we may see less egregious promotion of places than we have in the past."
"I think we are going to see a pull-back on social media promotion of the outdoors because even the casual user is now starting to see the unintended consequences," Lawhon says. "The hardcore users, for example, realized some time ago that, 'Hey, if I put a geotag on this photo, somebody's going to easily find this place."
There is a downside, Lawhon warns, to the wrong type of safeguarding in these conversations. "One of the risks we run is if we make the outdoors too exclusionary, who's going to come to its defense when it's on the chopping block?" he explains. "How do we find that balance point so that we do encourage people to enjoy our public lands, but we also need to figure out how do we promote these with a stewardship message?"
Many outdoors experts feel the same. In an interview last year, former Mojave Desert Land Trust Executive Director Danielle Segura said tourism is "just another wave here like renewable energy or mining," and yet it provides for "a different kind" of opportunity: "The wind farms don’t have a voice."
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For Schwalbe, that balance between encouraging visitors to love their public lands while also doing it responsibly is something she thinks about daily.
"I can see the next generation – and I'm even counting my generation because I'm a millennial, too – not just as a problem but as a solution," Schwalbe says. "We're the ones who will be advocating. The next generation one day will have to choose: Do we give funding to these lands? Do we protect them? Do we visit properly?"
“One of the risks we run is if we make the outdoors too exclusionary, who's going to come to its defense when it's on the chopping block?”
Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics Education Director Ben Lawhon
Schreiner, too, lives in the tension of also being "very empathetic" to first-time hikers, or those who don't consider themselves one. He "strongly encourages" people to get outdoors. Since starting Modern Hiker in 2006, he's received opposition from those who fear the publicity will "ruin" their trails. But Schreiner says if he can get 10 percent of the people who read his site to give back in some way, he's having a "net positive effect." The more people who are interested in the wilderness, the more voices there are to protect it. “If you don’t know about those landscapes, and if you don’t care about them, then you don’t care when they’re threatened or destroyed,” Schreiner explains.
The challenge with social media is that impacts are not only cumulative but also individual, Lawhon says. Everyone's frame of reference for the environment is different, depending on when they first set foot in a location. Earlier in his career, Lawhon says it was easy to become jaded by watching the same negative impacts happen over and over again. "Now I'm older, I'm a parent, you start to say, 'OK, not everybody's coming from this from the same place,' " he says. "You can't be hard on someone just because they don't have three decades of experience in a place or in the outdoors in general."
The key, Lawhon says, is to encourage visitors to pay attention to their surroundings. "Know that this place may have looked just like it did 50 years ago because people practiced good Leave No Trace, and it may look very different in five years because people aren’t practicing Leave No Trace," he says.
"Post a shot of a beautiful place on Instagram, and ... say, 'Here's this place today,' " Lawhon concludes. "Let's all do everything we can to make sure that when I post a picture of this place in 10 years, it looks just the same.'"
5 WAYS TO DECREASE YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
1. Avoid geotagging the location of your posts. “You don’t need to tag the specific trailhead,” says Casey Schreiner, founder and editor-in-chief of the popular website Modern Hiker. “You can tag the park, you can tag the region, you can tag a mountain, and then if someone wants to search for it, they can find it on their own. But in that process of searching, ideally they’ll go to a site like Modern Hiker which gives you some of the background, the information, puts some Leave No Trace ethic in you, and you’ll learn a little bit about what you’re not supposed to do on those trails.”
2. Include best practices in your caption. "If a place is really sensitive or hazardous to get to, it doesn’t hurt to mention that,” explains Rebecca Lowry, founder of Joshua Tree Art Innovation Laboratory. You don’t want to “encourage people to go out to places that they might not be equipped to get to.” Joshua Tree National Park social media specialist Hannah Schwalbe says that when choosing which photos to repost, her team gives "a huge preference" to visitors who "talk about the stewardship issues and protection within the park."
3. When driving, use official pullouts for taking photos. Particularly in the desert, off-roading can disturb and destroy cryptobiotic soil, crushing whole communities of organisms along the way. The same goes for trails, too. Simply walking around a slower hiker can create a social trail. "We encourage people to follow established trails instead of blazing new ones, so we can all protect the integrity of the ecosystem," says Mojave Desert Land Trust Interim Executive Director Rich Weideman.
4. Photograph vegetation as is. Taking a photograph lying in a field of flowers, for example, crushes that entire field of flowers. "The minute you're modifying the behavior of wildlife [or vegetation], you're too close," Lowry says. Further, pay attention to signage – be aware if the area you're photographing is sensitive, protected or day-use only.
5. No selfies with wildlife! "We like to follow a rule of thumb here that if you stretch your hand and arm out in front of you, and you put your thumb up like a hitchhiker, if that can cover the wildlife, that's as far away as you should be," Schwalbe says. "You can get closer to smaller wildlife like the tortoises and then the big horn sheep you have to stay farther away from." When her team posts close-up photos of animals for the park's account, Schwalbe says they always mention the shots are taken with a telephoto lens.
Kristin Scharkey is the editor of DESERT magazine and community content editor at The Desert Sun. Reach her at kristin.scharkey@desertsun.com or on Twitter @kscharkey.
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In Scotland, Edinburgh City Council has given the green light for a plan to build 66 on-street EV charging points in 14 hubs across the city by 2020. This is only the first phase of what is called the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Business Case.
Highways England award charging network contracts
Highways England has awarded contracts worth a total £2.8 million, for the installation of more than 50 electric vehicle charging points across the country within the next nine months. BP Chargemaster and Swarco will share the work.
Swiss name winners of fast-charging network tender
The Swiss Federal Roads Authority (FEDRO) has now awarded the contract for fast-charging stations at 100 rest stops to four Swiss and one Dutch provider: Gotthard Fastcharge (GOFAST), Groupe e, Primeo Energie / Alpiq E-Mobility, SOCAR Energy Switzerland and Fastned.
Tesla presents next-gen Supercharger V3 (video)
Tesla has introduced the 3rd generation of its Supercharger. New power cabinets with 1 MW power and liquid-cooled cables enable peak rates of up to 250 kW for each charging electric vehicle at the new Supercharger locations, so no more splitting power.
Vattenfall expands into Norway with InCharge network
The Vattenfall energy group is launching its InCharge electric mobility network in Norway with immediate effect. Throughout this year, InCharge intends to expand throughout Norway in cooperations with partner companies to install numerous public charging stations.
Honda invests in EV charging provider Ubitricity
The Berlin-based streetlamp charging startup has confirmed our early report of Honda participating in their most recent funding round with a total pot of 20 million euros.
Oslo: Charging electric cars no longer free of charge
Electric car drivers in the capital of Norway must now pay for charging. Oslo has started the conversion of about 1,300 public charging points in the city to be able to charge a fee. The aim is not so much to cash in but to keep EVs from parking for free without charging.
London: Ubitricity to add 200 streetlamp EV chargers
Over 200 public electric vehicle chargers will go up on lampposts in London’s green borough of Richmond, provided by Ubitricity. The project was funded with a £300,000 grant from the Go Ultra Low City Scheme run by the Department for Transport.
Hamburg aims for 7,400 decentralised charging points
The German port city of Hamburg has launched the large-scale ELBE project together with a wide range of partners. The aim is to install 7,400 private charging points for tenants, apartment owners, employees and their employers but to manage these in a decentralised manner.
Endesa & Galp install 50 kW charging stations in Spain
Spanish utility Endesa and the Portuguese oil company Galp have agreed to install five 50 kW charging stations Galp gas stations as part of the infrastructure initiative CIRVE in Spain. It is to better connect Spain to the rest of Europe.
UK: ScottishPower to install strategic charging stations
Scotland’s utility ScottishPower wants to install rapid charging stations for electric cars “at strategically important locations throughout the UK”. The announcement is part of ScottishPower’s investment plan for its very own energy turnaround.
50% of Amazon deliveries to be net zero carbon by 2030
Online retail giant Amazon has announced its intention to send half of its parcels climate-neutrally by 2030. It is part of its ‘Shipment Zero’ programme, that outlines the use of electric vehicles, renewable energy and reusable packaging.
Shell takes over German battery manufacturer Sonnen
After having become a stakeholder in battery maker Sonnen last year, oil giant Shell is taking over to expand its residential energy storage and services. Sonnen is now to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell following approval by the regulatory authorities.
Germany sees record H2 fuel station growth
A total of 48 publicly accessible hydrogen filling stations were put into operation worldwide in 2018. Seventeen of them are located in Germany. Japan still has the largest number of public H2 fuel stations (96), ahead of Germany (60) and the USA (42).
Tritium equips its Ionity sites with liquid-cooled cables
Tritium is refitting its chargers at Ionity charging sites with liquid-cooled cables that will enable charging capacities of up to 350 kW. The first site with the new cables was recently opened in Nyborg, Denmark, as Ionity has confirmed to our German colleagues at electrive.net.
Fast-charging across the country with Petro-Canada
Petro-Canada has announced that it is building a network of electric vehicle fast-charging stations across the country. Construction is planned to kick-off this spring and the sites should be opening over the next year.
‘Plug In Suffolk’ launches with 100 stations
In England, EO Charging and Suffolk County Council are launching a charging network called ‘Plug-In Suffolk’ with 100 charging stations, which will be installed by local businesses across the county. This is the fully open public charging network in the UK, meaning that EV drivers make contactless payments with no need to register with networks […]
Poland: ABB delivering infrastructure tech to PKN Orlen
ABB is the third supplier to supply EkoEnergetyka and EFACEC Multi-Charger for the planned construction of 150 fast charging stations at PKN Orlen fuel stations in Poland. The Swiss company will be bringing their newest station Terra 54, successor to ABB’s sales hit Terra 53.
Power electronics for making charging points
In various trade fair discussions last year, electrive.com was told that the manufacturers of charging stations were struggling with the purchase of power electronics. Is there really such a shortage? And what are the causes? Michael Nallinger has been listening in around the industry.
SPIE is supporting IONITY infrastructure
The SPIE Group has received an order from Ionity to support the planned construction of 400 HPC sites in Europe by 2020. The French installation and maintenance specialist will take care of the installation and wiring of charging stations and the grid connection.
Qualcomm platform Halo now with WiTricity
WiTricity has acquired Qualcomm’s Halo technology platform and several patents in contactless power transmission. WiTricity says the acquisition will help accelerate the market introduction of inductive charging for electric vehicles.
Feb 8, 2019 - 03:54 pm
Electrify America presents details for phase 2
Volkswagen’s subsidiary Electrify America has provided details of the second phase of its US-wide charging infrastructure build-up plan, which includes $300 million in investment over 30 months, the implementation of which will begin in July 2019.
Hubject partners with Greenlots
Hubject has entered into a cooperation agreement with Greenlots, the recently acquired US charging network platform, now owned by Shell. The agreement concerns the implementation of Plug&Charge technology via the ISO 15118 standard on the North American market.
Innogy presents fast-charging robot
Innogy is showing a robot at the current E-world in Essen, Germany, that can plug a fast-charging cable in the car. The prototype was part of a research project Innogy ran with the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Mahle gets involved in inductive charging
In recent years, Mahle has intensified research in the field of wireless charging of electric vehicles and is now entering the development phase with the acquisition of licenses for WiTricity’s magnetic resonance technology.
Porsche now offers charging in five more nations
Porsche is expanding the digital charging service it launched last year by five new countries and new functions. The good news is, drivers of other electric or plug-in hybrid cars may register and use the network too.
Vattenfall showcases charging solution at World Ski Cup
Swedish energy provider Vattenfall is supporting the Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre, Sweden, with a mobile power storage system from Beck Automation. It includes eight BMW electric car batteries and charges ten all-electric snowmobiles.
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Take a Look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt's New Los Angeles Home
The actor recently purchased a three-bedroom house in Franklin Hills.
By Sarah Yang
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(500) Days of Summer star Joseph Gordon-Levitt just snagged a 1940 house designed by Paul R. Williams for $3.25 million. Located in Los Angeles's Franklin Hills (between Los Feliz and Silver Lake), the 3,771-square-foot Hollywood Regency- and ranch-style home features three bedrooms and four bathrooms. According to Variety, the house has many of its original features, including retro-looking bathrooms.
Gordon-Levitt and his new wife, Tasha McCauley, will also get to enjoy the home's red-brick terrace and swimming pool with a cabana. See more photos of the home below:
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April 06, 2011 Music » CD Reviews
By Reyan Ali
At Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St., SF) on Tuesday, Apr. 19. 8 p.m., $17. GAMH.com
John Hughes died a couple of years ago, but if the auteur behind Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles, and other definitive Eighties teen flicks could have taken on the same niche in this decade, he should have commissioned The Pains of Being Pure at Heart to write his soundtracks. Not only do Pains specialize in exquisitely carved power/dream pop that would have fit right into Hughes' old movies — think strains of The Cocteau Twins, Black Tambourine, and old Weezer, with guitars as airy as cotton candy but still retaining a little crunch — but the band's lyrics also tap into the same tortured wistfulness that was the filmmaker's forte. This isn't the first time that a Hughes/Pains link has been drawn, but on their second full-length album, Belong, the Brooklyn group so vividly reinforces that frazzled, teenage sentiment that once the connection is made in your head it becomes unavoidable.
Every Pains song doubles as an adolescent revelation, expertly capturing a period when feelings are impossibly muddled and aching make-or-break moments are part and parcel of growing up. Kip Berman's cooing, heavenly chorus on the album's opener exemplifies this idea: I know it is wrong, but we just don't belong/In their eyes, in the sun/No, we just don't belong. Despite the angst, Pains breathe a genuine sense of vulnerability into stories about first loves and big dreams by keeping its phrasing appropriately cryptic, and its musical movements understated. At worst, all this fragility threatens to turn the album into something saccharine, but off moments are rare. If emo was still what it once was, Belong would be the genre's new gold standard. (Slumberland Records)
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Home > Programme > Wednesday 29 May > Understanding disaster and climate change resilience to enhance resilience decision-making across scales-insights from the Flood Resilience Alliance
Understanding disaster and climate change resilience to enhance resilience decision-making across scales-insights from the Flood Resilience Alliance
Finn Laurien (Austria) 1; Reinhard Mechler (Austria) 1
1 - IIASA
Given increasing attention placed on strengthening disaster and climate resilience in international humanitarian and development work, there is a growing need to invest in its measurement and the overall accountability of ‘resilience strengthening’ initiatives.The Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) framework, which includes a fully operational, integrated measurement tool, takes a systems-thinking, holistic approach to serve the dual goals of generating data on the determinants of community flood resilience, and providing decision-support for on-the-ground investment. The FRMC has already been applied in over 100 communities worldwide; it has since been refined and application in a further cohort of communities has commenced including European countries like UK, Montenegro and Albania. The purpose of this session is to present four lessons how ‘resilience strengthening’ initiatives help to inform local to global decision-making on resilience.
The first presentation introduces the work by the Flood Resilience Alliance performed along the science-practice interface. The authors particularly focus on transformational risk management and examine whether and how transformation plays out with regard to relevant decision-making scales and how any insight generated may inform disaster and climate resilience as well as climate policy.
The second presentation shares experiences from practice how communities have respond to negative consequences. It highlights how understanding changing hazard profiles, prioritising different hazards, understanding implications for livelihoods and well-being are all essential components of effective resilience-building approaches.
Presentation three proposes a holistic metric and approach to understand flood resilience capacity and underlines the need for more conceptually standardized measurement of resilience. The talk builds on cluster analysis done on community resilience baseline studies implemented using the FRMC framework and data collection tool across 118 communities worldwide
The fourth presentation provides first results from a comparison between urban and rural communities were the FRMC tool has been applied. Based on the empirical findings and an literature review the current challenges and knowledge gaps in measuring urban resilience are highlighted.
The fifth talk examines the processes and mechanisms by which decisions about flood risk reduction in urban areas are taken and implemented. It develops a four-layer, multilevel framework for Urban Flood Risk Governance. The framework, informed by insights from urban flood risk governance analysis in the UK can be used for investigating what drives resilience in different temporal phases and with respect to influential catalyst actors/institutions.
The session targets researchers, practitioners and decision-advisors working on and interested in:
monitoring, assessing and acting on resilience and adaptation,
learning from experiences and best-practice solutions on resilience across the science-society-practice interface,
understanding current and future work of the Flood Resilience Alliance and opportunities for engagement.
The session is organised as plenary presentation with audience interaction. A short introduction to the session will lead into 4 shorter presentations (10 mins plus short technical questions), which then sets the stage for engagement with the audience around the 4 key lessons presented and any other relevant discussion items.
1. Reinhard Mechler, IIASA – Understanding the role of transformational risk management-insights from the Flood Resilience Alliance community cases
Risk management is seeing increasing attention in responses to disasters linked to natural hazards and climate change.Analysis including IPCC reviews have emphasised the role of learning, such as experiential learning, adaptive management and transformational learning.Risk management and policy can accordingly be broken down into incremental, fundamental and transformational interventions. Particularly,transformational risk managementis increasingly debated. Options under this rubric exhibit substantial overlap with interventions of disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation, yet may be focused further on avoiding and managing intolerable risks that touch on hard and soft limits, for which IPCC’s recent SR15 provides first evidence. While frameworks and concepts for transformation in the risk space have been put forward, there is little reported evidence at the level of implementation. We examine recent resilience practice by the NGO partners of the Flood Resilience Alliance across about 10 countries in the Global South enhanced by a number of expert interviews to categorize flood risk interventions summarized in a ‘Solutions Catalogue’. We particularly study the types and (perceived and actual) levels of risk targeted by interventions planned and implemented, the types of risk management and governance processes set up with relevant stakeholders as well as the learning generated.
2. Colin McQuistan, Practical Action: ZFRA – A partnership for disaster and climate change risk management; showing the limits of adaptation and the long-term process to reduce impacts
Poor communities around the world are facing increasing challenges from climate change, not only how to respond to the negative consequences but also how to adapt to the opportunities presented.This talk will share experiences from three countries across the globe (Nepal, Bangladesh and Peru), where climate change adds additional layers of complexity and uncertainty to individual, household and community decision making processes. The session will highlight how understanding changing hazard profiles, prioritising different hazards, understanding implications for livelihoods and well-being are all essential components of effective resilience-building approaches. But adaptation and resilience building must be coherent across multiple scales, so resilience assessment methodologies must not only provide information for local decision-making but should inform influencing so that communities can seek coherent support from local and national governments through evidence-based advocacy.
3. Finn Laurien, IIASA – The FRMC framework and tool. Dynamic cluster analysis for informing resilience decision processes
Given increasing flood risks worldwide driven by population growth and values of assets at risk, as well as changing climate patterns there is growing demand to better understand needs for and benefits of building disaster and climate resilience. A rigorous, data-driven approach for evaluating measures to enhance disaster resilience can inform efforts of policy, practice and finance. To this effect, the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance developed a holistic framework and approach for measuring community flood resilience in developing and developed countries – the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC). This presentation provides a summary of a cluster analysis of community baseline studies implemented using this framework and data collection tool. The analysis presents a typology of community flood resilience across 118 communities worldwide. Our analysis finds that uniformly low or high capitals cluster together in communities, i.e. we either find very low resilience levels across all five capitals (financial, human, natural, physical or social) or very high resilience levels. Our findings corroborate the importance of devising a holistic metric and approach to build flood resilience capacity’ they also underline the need for more conceptually standardized measurement of resilience to inform best-practice interventions with community stakeholders and influence policy across scales.
4. Viktor Roezer, LSE: Measuring flood resilience at the urban level – insights from the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance project
With an increasing flood risk in urban areas driven by a growing urban population and continuous settlement in flood-prone areas in combination with changing climate patterns, there is a growing need for cities to become more resilient to flooding. With the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) framework and operational tool the ZFRA has developed an empirical approach to measure and validate flood resilience on the community level. Initially designed in the context of rural communities in developing countries, the FRMC tool has been applied to over 100 communities globally.
This paper presents first results from a comparison between urban and rural communities were the FRMC has been applied. Based on these findings and an extensive literature review current challenges and knowledge gaps in measuring urban resilience on the community level are highlighted. Using the example of an urban case study in the U.S., insights are presented on how the FRMC can be adapted for the application in an urban OECD setting.
5. Sara Mehryar & Swenja Surminski, LSE – Urban Flood Risk Governance: Decision Making Process, Temporal Phases, and Catalyst Actors
Building flood resilience requires an integrated and adaptive approach, which is not without challenges. This study investigates the underpinning of flood resilience decision processes for the urban level and the catalysts for a more resilient outcome. Urban Flood Risk Governance (UFRG) refers to the process and mechanisms by which decisions about flood risk reduction in urban areas are taken and implemented. Decision processes in UFRG can be categorized with respect to different stages and temporal phases of decision making (i.e., mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery); they can also be distinguished regarding different categories of decision makers involved (households, policy-makers, and private sectors), and institutions that organize actors’ decision making (i.e., formal and informal rules and norms). This study draws on interdisciplinary literature review and insights from urban flood risk governance in the UK to establish a multilevel UFRG conceptual framework. The four-layer framework developed can be used for investigating what drives resilient UFRG in different temporal phases and with respect to influential catalyst actors/institutions. It can also serve as a basis for developing agent-based models to simulate potential resilience trajectories including assessments of policy effectiveness in terms of their long-term environmental as well as socio-economic influences.
6. Climate risk management and resilience
6.1 Risk management and systematic reduction of hazards in climate-sensitive sectors
6.2 Assessments of resilience and development of resilience action plans
resilience, assessment, governance, transformation, metrics
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Local authorities form tri-borough pensions team
By Nicola Sullivan 16th February 2012 11:09 am 3rd November 2015 5:43 pm
A new tri-borough pensions and treasury team has been formed following a shared services agreement between Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Kensington and Chelsea councils.
The new team, which will handle combined pension funds of £1.5 billion and cash investments of £500 million, will be led by Jonathan Hunt, tri-borough director for treasury and pensions, who took up his role working across the three councils’ operations in January.
Each local authority will retain its own pension fund and cash investments but the management of the three councils’ funds – worth a total of £1.5billion and around £500million respectively – will be handled by a team based at Westminster City Council.
Jonathan Hunt, leader of the Westminster team, said: “Our newly-combined team will look at better ways of working and sharing skills, and will provide better resilience within the team.
“We are also looking to improve our efficiency in terms of the number of contracts we have, and we will look at attracting more competitive rates for our investments across the three boroughs.”
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Music business blog extraordinaire Digital Music News has published some interesting graphics based on Google's new analysis of topics, which is still in its beta stage. The graphs show the measured interest in musical genres from 2005-2015, and every analyzed genre is down except for electronic dance music, which went sharply up, especially since 2013. Interest in rock, hip-hop, classical, jazz, blues, metal and disco (?) is all sharply down since 2005. Pop music popularity is also down, but only slightly so. It should be noted that interest in EDM seems to have peaked some time in 2014, and has gone just slightly down since then. See all the charts on the Digital Music News post.
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Doha Film Institute (DFI) Supports New Wave in Arab Cinema
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Your sister/best friend/coworker/neighbor discloses to you that he or she is having “relationship difficulties.” With a bit more digging, you come to learn these difficulties are actually domestic abuse—psychological, emotional, verbal, sexual — there may even be physical violence occurring. Your heart drops and your anger level rises. You jump into advice-giving mode: This is what you’re going to do now, you say, and you begin counseling your friend on how to leave their partner.
A week later, he or she acts like the conversation the two of you had never happened. Everything’s fine, they say, but your instincts tell you otherwise. Frustrated, you don’t know whether you should let it drop or keep pushing them to talk about it. After all, it could be a matter of life or death.
Sue Villilo, executive director at CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence in Ohio, explains why well-intentioned offers of help from loved ones can sometimes go unheeded by survivors.
“Leaving is often the most dangerous time in a relationship with intimate partner violence. It’s unlikely that the person making the offer knows everything about the situation. When leaving an abuser, a victim has to consider children, family, income, transportation, housing, and, most of all, safety.”
Most abuse involves psychological abuse tactics, which may mean survivors believe they are dependent on their abuser for any number of things—support, self-worth, money, basic survival needs. “They may not believe they have the ability to leave,” says Villilo.
There’s never a quick fix for someone living with abuse. “The abuse did not start overnight, therefore, getting out of a relationship [with an abusive partner] will not occur overnight,” says marriage and family therapist Tarra Bates-Duford of Family Matters Counseling Group.
The first step to helping is to simply listen to the survivor. According to a recent survey on DomesticShelter.org, “listening and supporting unconditionally” was ranked as the most helpful thing support persons did for survivors facing abuse.
Bates-Duford offered these additional tips to someone who wants to support a survivor who may not be ready to leave yet:
Educate. Help him or her recognize they are being abused and that this behavior isn’t part of a normal relationship. You may want to encourage them to call a domestic violence hotline where a trained advocate can better help them understand the signs of abuse.
Listen & Support. You can be most supportive by simply listening to what the survivor has to say. Remember that abuse is not an easy subject to discuss, so recognize the strength involved in telling his or her story.
Reassure. Let the survivor know that in no way did they cause the abuse; it’s not their fault and they never deserve it.
Remind. It may help to remind survivors that they are not alone. Four in 10 people experience at least one form of coercive control by an intimate partner in their lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women endure a physical assault by an intimate partner every year.
Should You Call the Police?
If the survivor isn’t listening to your pleas to leave, and you fear for his or her safety, you may think a phone call to the police will help. While your heart’s in the right place, there are some things to consider first, says Villilo.
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“If someone is aware of a violent event at the time when it happens, they should call the police,” she says. For instance, the survivor calls you and says her abuser is currently abusing her, is angry and has a weapon, or is threatening her or her children, ask her if she has or can call the police. If not, offer to make that call for her. Read more about how law enforcement handle these types of emergencies in “How Police are Trained to Respond to Domestic Violence.”
However, says Villilo, a general call to police to report a suspicion of abuse when you haven’t witnessed it yourself and it isn’t happening at that moment is, unfortunately, not as likely to get a police response. And, if it does, this could further endanger or alienate the person being abused.
“If you are struggling with whether someone you care about is experiencing domestic violence, call a local or national domestic violence hotline to speak with someone about the unique situation,” says Vililo. Advocates know how stressful it is to learn someone you care about is in danger or being hurt, they are trained to support you and help you develop effective strategies to assist family, friends or co-workers.
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The Financial Express > Fe world
The missing middle ground
Written by Subhash Agrawal | Updated: May 7 2005, 05:49am hrs
One of the most used, debated and generally cliched terms of our times is globalisation. There are millions of articles, doctoral dissertations, research forums and organisations that focus intensely on this subject, and yet, it is a rare essay or book that is objective, forceful and inspiring. Most of these voices are either rehashed or boringly arcane or ideologically committed especially true of economists or management consultants or NGO types; whose words appear to be self-indulgent ranting that leave many on the outside untouched.
There is either the Davos school of cheerleaders who see globalisation as a wonderful thing requiring no further explanation, like love or religion, and then there is the World Social Forum school of reflexive rejectionists who simply see it as a sinister conspiracy designed to enslave 99% of humanity.
It is only an occasional work that is simple, straight from the heart, punchy and balanced. Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University comes close, and his recent book In Defense of Globalization is so intelligently worded and well researched, but even he misses a larger human dimension. Maybe, one way to look at this debate anew is to look at how people feel about their life. There are many guides to this, whether rough, anecdotal or scientific. In fact, a search on Google for Whats wrong with the world elicits over 25,000 page hits while in comparison a similar search for whats right about the world produce less than 200 hits.
Of course, pain, angst and suffering make up the essential fuel for thought, but the vast gap still tells its own story.
While, we in India, tend to see globalisation as an insidious and mysterious force from the West, amazingly enough the fear of globalisation is true as much in rich countries as poor. In a worldwide survey of BBC viewers last year, it was seen to pose a more serious worldwide threat than either war or terrorism.
And one of the biggest non-fiction best selling books of recent times is Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester Brown, whose passionate plea, that modern civilisation is in trouble because we have created an artificially inflated bubble economy and the only sensible alternative is to stabilize consumption and population, has found a resounding audience amongst millions of readers.
From different angles and for different reasons, there is a thick fog of worldwide cynicism against those guiding our destinies, whether politicians, religious clergy, United Nations, multinational companies or even genetic scientists gone amok. And, this is despite the fact that the world has made so much progress in the last 100 years, including the removal of slavery, end of colonialism, spread of democracy, increased gender equality, better medical knowledge and facilities, healthier lives, and greater material prosperity. Despite all this, there a palpable sense that we are somehow being left behind.
Perhaps the common thread is our natural abhorrence at inequality of any kind. And, while the world is far better today, it is also far more unequal in wealth, power, access and status. This unbalance is becoming bigger and quantitatively different every passing minute, a phenomenon best reflected through Bill Gates. He has done some wonderful things, but are his achievements really equal to the quiet struggles, accomplishments and dignity of 100 million people Thats a rough calculation using his net worth and that of sub-Saharan Africa. Should any individual be really worth so many others
In other words, the gap now is so huge that what was once only a difference of degree has become a difference of kind.
Bill Gates is not a villain, and in fact he has donated much to charity, but those early notions of grace and humility which usually accompanied success are now rare.
The result is that many slick peddlers of globalisation have made empathy look wimpy while anti-globalisers have turned it into a frighteningly dull and bureaucratic monster. Plus, the latter have also made the quest for prosperity, a fundamental human driver, sinful. These are all absurd and aberrational responses. In the end, what really matter are people and not empty epithets or fancy labels.
Globalisation is neither universal nor a mirage; it is neither a conspiracy nor manna from heaven. The essence of its future success will rest on how well we can renew our lost sense of common bond and kinship.
The writer is Editor, India Focus
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→→Linguistics→Past Research & Resources→Documentation and Description→Traditional Jambi Malay
Peter Cole (University of Delaware and MPI EVA), PI
Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware and MPI EVA), Co-PI
Uri Tadmor (MPI-EVA Jakarta Field Station), Co-PI
Assistants (Delaware Graduate Students)
Yanti
Karthik Durvasula
Tim McKinnon
Data Collectors and Transcribers (in Jambi)
Hustarna
Titin Suryani
Takiddin
Heri Mudra
Aridem Vintoni
Raden Eko Martadinata
This project was a collaborative effort of the Department of Linguistics, MPI-EVA and researchers at the University of Delaware, with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The project was engaged in the study and documentation of Traditional Jambi Malay, an endangered Malay variety spoken in Jambi Province in southeast Sumatra, Indonesia.
This project studied Traditional Jambi Malay, an endangered Malay variety spoken in Jambi Province in southeast Sumatra, Indonesia. The Malay language originated in Sumatra, and dozens of Malay dialects are spoken on the island, none of which have been well described. Most native speakers of Malay live in Sumatra, many more than in Malaysia, for example. Yet there is not even one thorough grammatical description of a Sumatran Malay dialect. One of the expected results of this project was the first detailed description of such a dialect.
Traditional Jambi Malay is an ideal dialect for a study, because Jambi is widely considered to be original locus of Malayu/Melayu (the Malay-Indonesian term for ‘Malay’). It was from Jambi--and later from Palembang--that Malay spread throughout much of Southeast Asia. Thus, Jambi is an important key to understanding the complex diasystem of hundreds of Malay dialects. While Jambi Malay as a whole is not in immediate danger of extinction, conservative varieties of the language are being rapidly replaced by an urban koine, which is spreading from Jambi City. As a result of the koineization process, many of the distinctive features of Jambi Malay have been lost in Jambi City. As this process spreads to the hinterland, Traditional Jambi Malay will eventually cease to exist.
In addition to grammatical description of Traditional Jambi Malay, the long-term results of this project include:
Documentation of the language in the form of a computerized database of texts linked to digital recordings in a variety of genres, including narratives, conversations on various topics, songs, poems, riddles, jokes, and ritual texts.
Two volumes, consisting of oral history and folk tales respectively, to be published locally for the benefit of the community.
An automatically generated glossary of Traditional Jambi, which can be expanded into a full-fledged dictionary.
A series of theory oriented studies based on the data.
This project is partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, grant number BCS0444649.
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Microsoft Pledges to Protect Linux and Open Source With Its Patents
NEWS ANALYSIS: A decade after claiming that Linux and open-source software infringes on more than 200 of its patents, Microsoft is now pledging its patents to the Open Invention Network in support of Linux.
In a move that would have seemed unfathomable a decade ago, Microsoft announced on Oct. 10 that it is joining the Open Invention Network and contributing 60,000 patents.
With the patent pledge, Microsoft is making its patents available to OIN members in a bid to help protect Linux against patent claims. Microsoft is positioning its move as part of its multiyear plan to support Linux and embrace the open-source ecosystem.
"We believe the protection OIN offers the open source community helps increase global contributions to and adoption of open source technologies," Erich Andersen, corporate vice president and chief IP counsel at Microsoft, wrote in a statement. "We are honored to stand with OIN as an active participant in its program to protect against patent aggression in core Linux and other important OSS technologies."
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The OIN was founded in 2005 as an effort to share patents in a royalty-free way to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications. ,
Microsoft for its part was once one of the most voracious patent claimants against Linux and open-source technologies. In 2007, Microsoft alleged that open-source technologies infringed on at least 235 Microsoft patents. The same year, then Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Linux vendors, including Red Hat, had an obligation to "pay up" for infringing on Microsoft's patents.
Things have changed a lot since 2007. Ballmer is no longer the CEO of Microsoft, and the official position of Microsoft on Linux is no longer one of rivalry. In 2016, Microsoft became a platinum member of the Linux Foundation, taking a large step away from its past.
"We were thrilled to welcome Microsoft as a platinum member of the Linux Foundation in 2016 and we are absolutely delighted to see their continuing evolution into a full-fledged supporter of the entire Linux ecosystem and open-source community." Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, wrote in a statement sent to eWEEK.
Yet even after joining the Linux Foundation and becoming an active contributor to multiple open-source efforts, the issue of the 235 patents has remained. Despite repeatedly saying that it "loves Linux," Microsoft had never formally renounced its patent claims. The patent move to the OIN appears to be a step in that direction.
When asked by eWEEK if the OIN patent agreement involved the 235 patents that Microsoft alleges that open-source software infringes on, Microsoft provided a nuanced statement.
"We’re licensing all patents we own that read on the ‘Linux system’ for free to other OIN licensees," a Microsoft spokesperson wrote in an email to eWEEK.
In a Twitter message to eWEEK, Nat Friedman, vice president of developer services at Microsoft, provided some additional clarification.
"It includes all patents, but OIN coverage is limited to the Linux System. So only patents reading on the Linux System are relevant to OIN," Friedman wrote. "This isn’t a fixed list and we didn’t exclude any patents."
Even with Microsoft’s patent move to the OIN, there is still likely going to be some skepticism in the broader open-source community about the company’s intentions. Erasing nearly two decades of animosity is not an easy task. That said, a decade after telling Linux vendors to "pay up" over patents, it sure does look like Microsoft has now come full circle, as an active contributor and supporter of open-source technologies.
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Symantec Brings Workload Assurance Security to the Cloud
Symantec is expanding its cloud security portfolio with new cloud workload assurance capabilities, enhanced cloud workload security features and a new Managed Cloud Defense service.
Symantec announced a series of new and improved products and services on Oct. 9, all designed to help advance the state of security in the cloud.
Among the new offerings announced by Symantec is Cloud Workload Assurance (CWA), a product that helps harden secure configurations in the cloud. Symantec's Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) for Storage, meanwhile, is being enhanced with data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities, while the CloudSOC CASB is being expanded with new customization and API features. Symantec is also launching a Managed Cloud Defense service to help organizations secure their cloud deployments.
"Symantec cloud security solutions can be consumed by customers in multiple ways depending on deployment plans," Eric Andrews, vice president of cloud security at Symantec, told eWEEK."Our cloud solutions are engineered to integrate with other Symantec products that extend existing services or as stand-alone products."
CWA will protect Symantec’s customers from cloud resource misconfigurations in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, according to Andrews.
"CWA is a cloud security posture management solution that provides visibility and control of the cloud infrastructure management plane to eliminate security vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices such as CIS Foundations Benchmarks," he said. "It automatically discovers cloud resources and instances, continuously monitors and remediates configuration errors, and provides compliance assurance and reporting—reducing security risks and eliminating manual auditing for security and DevOps."
Symantec, meanwhile, has enhanced CWP with new capabilities. In addition to discovering and scanning Amazon S3 cloud storage buckets for malware, CWP users can now also apply DLP policy to information stored in Amazon S3 buckets, Andrews said.
With CWP's new DLP capabilities, organizations can benefit from automatic classification of sensitive information and compliance with regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), he said.
CloudSOC CASB
Symantec's CloudSOC (Security Operations Center) CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) is also being enhanced as part of the cloud security update. To date, CloudSOC CASB has protected cloud apps through both APIs and Symantec's gateway, Andrews said.
"While several cloud apps have well-defined APIs, others do not," he said. "Our new custom gatelet feature allows us to provide deep controls for virtually any cloud app, including apps the customers develop themselves."
Managed Cloud Defense
The cyber-security skills gap is one that has been documented in multiple reports in recent years as a challenge for organizations of all sizes to find enough IT professionals to handle cyber-security tasks. In an effort to help organizations with that challenge, Symantec is launching a Managed Cloud Defense service that provides 24/7 guidance and prioritization on critical incidents occurring in the cloud.
The Managed Cloud Defense service provides cloud-native monitoring services across the public cloud, including AWS and Azure, as well as popular software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as Office 365. With the service, Andrews said Symantec will monitor all onboarded devices for threats, analyzing the collected security data and correlating it with the Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN). The service also provides cloud-trained security professionals for guidance, assistance with remote investigations, containment and threat hunting, to help organizations get ahead of emerging threats.
Looking forward, Andrews said Symantec will continue to expand its cyber-security portfolio for both cloud and on-premises environments.
"Symantec is committed to providing customers with advanced threat and data protection in cloud-only environments as well as hybrid cloud environments," Andrews said. "Symantec will continue to innovate and expand the Integrated Cyber Defense platform to increase customers’ security posture, maintain compliance and reduce complexity of security operations."
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Robert C. Creighton is managing partner at Farrell Fritz where he concentrates on general corporate practice with a particular emphasis on merger and acquisition transactions and representing banks in commercial lending matters.
Bob counsels businesses in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures and other business combinations, shareholders’ agreements, partnership agreements and employment agreements, and matters of corporate law generally. He has also counseled institutional lenders in connection with commercial lending transactions, including secured and unsecured commercial financing, leveraged acquisitions, term loans, revolving credits, and syndicated facilities.
Bob has experience in the healthcare industry ranging from advising a regional managed care company in connection with strategic transactions, advising physicians’ practices in connection with general corporate advice and advising not-for-profit hospital boards in connection with various corporate governance issues. He represented Winthrop University Hospital (now NYU Winthrop) in its affiliation with NYU Langone Health System.
Representation of Winthrop-University Hospital (now known as NYU Winthrop Hospital) in its affiliation with NYU Langone Health System.
Negotiated on behalf of Eastern Wholesale Fence in connection with the sale of the company’s business to a private equity purchaser, including the negotiation of rollover equity and related agreements.
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What Does 2,000-Times-Faster Broadband Look Like?
It ain’t just about pink pixels. From innovation to infrastructure, a new breakthrough from across the pond could have far-reaching, super-fast implications.
How fast is 2,000 times faster? Is that, like, Michael Johnson-with-a-rocket-strapped-to-his-back-while-running-downhill fast?
An idea that researchers at a Welsh university are busy working on goes a long way toward illuminating this idea–and what it means for the future of, well, nearly everything.
The Bangor University scientists have successfully increased broadband speeds by this amount using very similar tech to that currently in use, with limited cost impact. Let’s count the (super-high-speed) ways this could change our lives.
First, a lightening quick history of Net data rates
Remember the bad old days of dial-up Net and then the arrival of fast, wired broadband DSL? Download speeds went from a snails pace tens of kilobits per second to all the drama of galloping horse, with speeds of hundreds of kilobits per second.
On dial-up you could check your email, have a chat via AIM or surf an often text-based web. But live online gaming could only work for slower-paced strategy games due to low speeds and the latency between moves being updated, and downloading even a low-resolution movie took forever (a 700MB film would’ve taken about a day to download).
With DSL broadband, image-rich webpages could be glanced at and surfed past because they downloaded in seconds and then you would move on and play World of Warcraft with thousands of other people in near-real-time. At typical DSL speeds, a 700MB movie could be downloaded in just about the time taken to watch it. Skype, and other streaming video services like YouTube were enabled. Pink pixel websites (ahem) that cause such consternation to some began to be among the web’s most popular destinations.
Now home fiber broadband systems are available, and they offer speeds of hundreds of megabits per second, thousands of times faster than dial-up speeds. Web pages on browsers thus download almost instantaneously, and acquiring a gigabyte sized update to your computer’s operating system is something that can happen quickly and quietly in the background. A 700MB movie file downloads in minutes, while you simultaneously check your mail or FaceTime someone.
The ultrafast broadband home
But the Bangor team’s effort, which involves some clever signal processing and a similar kind of laser-and-fiber optic setup to today’s home fiber systems, can pump up to 20 gigabits of data per second down the fiber. That’s roughly a million times faster than dial up speeds.
As the BBC points out this is speedy enough to download a full HD movie file (not just a compressed low-res 700MB version) in just 10 seconds. This is one of the first reasons you’ll be wanting ultra-fast broadband in your home, but it’s only partly about current generation TV.
An iPad screen already far outperforms HDTV in terms of sharpness and resolution. And this precedes the next wave in home entertainment–4k television. A 4k TV screen is 4000 pixels or so wide, versus the 1280 of an HDTV, and that means it can show cinema-quality video. But thanks to this size, each frame of the video needs so much more data that it’ll push even fiber Internet tech. That’s where next-gen broadband will come in.
Ultrafast broadband could also make video calling a reliable full-resolution process free of glitches, and that could transform habits like telepresence. Why commute to the office, when you could have a live big-screen video chat with your office mates? And, indeed, 3D video could work if you needed a more immersive telepresence system.
Also remember that in a few years many previously inanimate objects in your home will be connected online in the “internet of things.” My home already has 14 networked devices, each supping data over broadband…but that’s going to increase when we’re able to Google to find our car keys. Indeed at an innovation conference this week a Philips representative said he expected 50 billion devices to be online by 2020–six times the global human population. Ultrafast broadband would enable more of these devices to share your home connection, and also for more data to be sent to and from each one at a faster rate.
Business as unusually fast
While some may quibble about the absolute details thanks to the source, there are many studies like the recent one by network equipment maker Ericsson that correlate broadband speed with economic boons. This particular study of 33 OECD countries suggested that for every doubling of broadband speed results in economic changes that boost GDP by at least 0.3%, which equates to roughly $126 billion right now.
The reasons for this are manifold, including faster and more efficient data moving within a company’s corporate systems, better real-time access to consumers and clients, faster payment processing and so on, and all of these would be boosted by faster Net. Wall Street is already busy chasing toward millisecond-scale trading, and it’s impossible to quantify what benefits would arise from 2,000 times faster networking–though they’d be large.
Infrastructure fixes in no time flat
Ultrafast broadband solutions like this can also have benefits in behind the scenes technology you’ll rarely have to think of–the giant mess of wires and computers that your broadband supplier needs to get data across the world to your home, place of work or smartphone. By speeding up data transfers, the Bangor system could lower infrastructure costs and thus indirectly lower end-user costs. It could also future-proof the system against the burden of installing more conventional servers and fiber to cope with ever-increasing data consumption.
When you read news like AT&T’s plans to spend $14 billion on broadband and wireless infrastructure for current-gen tech, spread over the next three years, you can see how important a large-scale infrastructure saving could be.
Best of all, systems like that proposed by Bangor can be more tolerant of errors and low quality fiber, which improves network resilience and again can lead to lower costs. And the capability for using less machinery to achieve faster data rates has an impact on energy consumption and thus the carbon footprint of a network.
Innovating at the speed of now
There’s something of a push for faster broadband access across the world, and even government bodies from Scotland to New Zealand are playing their part. This interest comes from perceived benefits in terms of economic stimulus and perhaps even better government 2.0 services. Labor party spokesperson Richard Baker has even been quoted as saying that Scotland’s current plan is not only about boosting small businesses and better use of cloud computing for big data, but that “high speed internet was all about having a socially inclusive society, in which no one is left out of the equation.”
But governments will leap at ideas like Bangor’s because ultra-fast broadband could lead to more innovation… in a sort of “if you build it, they will come” style. We may not even be able to imagine what these innovative new businesses and services will be like yet, in the same way a dial-up consumer in the 1990s would have a hard time imagining Instagram.
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80% Differential in Federal and Private Sector Compensation
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By Ralph R. Smith on September 24, 2017 in Pay & Benefits with 0 Comments
The debate on compensation for federal employees goes on.
The latest report on this topic will not be well received by federal employees as it argues federal workers are substantially overpaid when total compensation is considered.
The Federal Salary Council says that federal employees are underpaid by about 35%. This organization does not take into account benefits, only salaries, and their method of calculating these results is obscure and shows different results from most other studies.
Nevertheless, the Salary Council conclusions and recommendations do have an impact on federal salary levels. The President’s Pay Agent often adopts at least some of the Council’s recommendations for increasing locality pay scales for federal employees throughout the United States and for expanding the number and geographic areas covered by locality pay.
In its latest report, the Salary Council concluded: “Taking into account existing locality pay rates averaging 20.16 percent, the overall remaining pay disparity is 34.07 percent.”
In April 2017, the Congressional Budget Office released a report that found federal employees earn 17 percent more than comparable private sector employees in their total compensation— with wide variances depending on the education level of employees. (See Dueling Statistics on Federal Employee Pay)
A new report by Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute uses data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on pay and benefits to analyze the federal employee pay situation. The data from Cato does not include uniformed military personnel, only civilian federal employees.
Trends in Federal Pay
Cato has been analyzing federal employee pay and benefits for several decades. Their studies show that in 1990, the average federal employee total compensation package was 39 percent higher than average private compensation. By 2000 the federal pay advantage was up to 50 percent. By 2016 it was 80 percent according to the BEA data.
In 2016, federal civilian workers had an average salary of $88,809, according the BEA data.
In comparison, the average salaries for the 114 million private-sector workers in the United States was $59,458.
When federal employees’ benefits, including health care and pensions are included, the federal employee compensation advantage gets much larger than in the private sector, according to the BEA data.
According to the Cato report, “In 2016 total federal compensation averaged $127,259 or 80 percent more than the private-sector average of $70,764….” (See also Federal Pay Tops Most Industries)
Reasons for Federal Employee Pay Increases
The increase in federal compensation comes from several sources according to the Cato study.
Legislated increases in general pay
Increases in locality pay
Expansions in benefits
Growth in the number of high-paid jobs as bureaucracies become more top-heavy
Routine adjustments that move federal workers into higher salary brackets regardless of performance, and by federal jobs that are redefined upward into higher pay ranges.
Opening Up a Can of “Whoop-Ass” on Recalcitrant Legislators
Politics also plays a role in determining the federal employee compensation package. Federal employee unions routinely use their money and influence during elections to oppose Congressional representatives who do not support federal employee compensation increases.
The Cato article highlights comments from AFGE’s National President who “aggressively denounced lawmakers who stood in their way as ‘fools,’ and said that the union would ‘open up the biggest can of whoop ass on anyone’ who opposed its demands on pay and other issues.” (See How to Attract Federal Professionals to a Union: Open a Can of “Whoop-Ass”)
Federal Employees are Not “Hamburger Flippers”
One of the most common comments from readers on articles concerning the total compensation package for federal employees is that “We are not hamburger flippers.” In other words, the private sector average includes many lower paying jobs that do not exist in large numbers in the federal sector. See, for example, the comment below posted on one of FedSmith’s past articles.
Presumably because the comment is cited so often, author Chris Edwards addressed this in the Cato summary of federal employee compensation.
Some people argue that the government has a unique high-end workforce that deserves to be paid handsomely. But the federal workforce has always had a heavy contingent of skilled professionals, such as lawyers. So that factor does not seem to explain why federal compensation has grown faster than private-sector compensation in recent decades. (A 39 percent differential in 1990 to an 80 percent differential in 2016.)
And, as noted by the CBO report cited above and noted in the Cato summary as a rebuttal to this comment, among less-educated workers, the federal government pays better. But, for highly educated workers, the private sector pays better.
Overall Conclusion of Cato Study
The federal government has become an elite island of secure and high-paid employment, separated from the ocean of average Americans competing in the economy.
© 2019 Ralph R. Smith. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced without express written consent from Ralph R. Smith.
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Ralph Smith has several decades of experience working with federal human resources issues. He has written extensively on a full range of human resources topics in books and newsletters and is a co-founder of two companies and several newsletters on federal human resources. Follow Ralph on Twitter: @RalphSmith47
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Fenwick & West Obtains Patent Litigation Verdict for Informatica
A jury in San Francisco federal court awarded Fenwick & West client Informatica Corp. (NSDQ: INFA) a $25 million verdict against Business Objects (NSDQ: BOBJ). The award was based on the finding that Business Objects willfully infringed two Informatica patents by sales of its Data Integrator product.
Fenwick & West filed the suit on behalf of Informatica in July 2002, asserting that the ActaWorks product, now sold by Business Objects as Data Integrator, infringes several Informatica patents including U.S. Patent Nos. 6,014,670 and 6,339,775, both entitled "Apparatus and Method for Performing Data Transformations in Data Warehousing." Earlier, the judge determined that, as a matter of law, Business Objects and customers’ use of the Data Integrator product infringed Informatica’s patents. Today, a jury determined that the patents are valid, that Business Objects' infringement was willful, and that a reasonable royalty for Business Objects’ infringement is $25 million. The jury’s determination that Business Objects infringement was willful permits the judge to increase this reasonable royalty damages award up to three times.
Fenwick & West will continue to vigorously defend Informatica's intellectual property rights. In later proceedings, the judge will determine the scope of any injunction to be entered against Business Objects, a potential award of enhanced damages and Informatica’s attorney’s fees, and Business Objects’ defense based on the claim that Informatica engaged in inequitable conduct. An appeal by Business Objects also is expected.
The Fenwick & West trial team included litigation partners Lynn Pasahow, David Hadden, Darren Donnelly and Virginia DeMarchi; and litigation associates Carolyn Chang, Ryan Tyz, David Lacy Kusters, David Schumann and Albert Sieber.
About the Fenwick & West Patent Litigation Group
Fenwick & West attorneys have handled some of the most prominent IP litigation over the past two decades, including securing one of the largest IP litigation settlements of 2005--a $400M settlement for its client Compuware against IBM--and one of the largest patent verdicts of the past fifteen months, a $74.7M patent litigation verdict for client Asyst Technologies against Jenoptik. The firm is ranked by Managing Intellectual Property as one of the top five West coast firms for IP litigation and was recently awarded "Most Innovative Use of Technology by a Law Firm" by American Lawyer Media for the firm's proprietary electronic discovery tools.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,700 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale.
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Episode 06 – Todd Masterson
Todd discusses 5 things that changed his life:
How he struggles with his age every day
Receiving a large inheritance and wasting it
Going on strike from the TV series, Fashion Police, and how it was the completely wrong decision
Always feeling like he’s being left behind by friends
When Todd came out of the closet while studying abroad in London.
About Todd:
Todd is a comedian, writer, and producer from West Hollywood, CA.
Named one of Culture Stocked’s “Gay Comedians To Watch In 2016,” he’s written for film and television icons including Joan Rivers and James Franco. His most recent work includes producing season 7 of the hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race on LogoTV.
Catch Todd doing his stand up comedy at various stops up and down the West Coast beginning in September 2016.
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Part of Talbot Road 'dug up for remedial works' to nearly finished tramway extension
Workers in Talbot Road at the height of the project to extend the tramway
Part of Talbot Road in Blackpool town centre have been dug up for remedial works linked to the tramway extension, it was reported.
A Blackpool Council spokesman told the BBC work on the controversial extension, which will link the track on the Prom to Blackpool North train station, is nearly over, and said: "While the final aspects are underway, there are also some remedial works taking place."
The spokesman added: "During our quality checking process we have identified a number of areas where we have asked the contractor to carry out additional work to ensure it meets the standard we expect.
"This is not unusual on a scheme of this size and will be completed as soon as possible."
Workers were pictured using a digger in a lay by beside the track.
There will also have to be some work in the road, it was understood, which may lead to further road closures.
Nobody at Blackpool Council could be reached for a comment this evening.
Wildflower plan could transform Lancashire's roadsides into "wildlife havens"
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High Five to Taylor Swift (And 5 More Things to Consider)
Every so often your pals at FMC take the weekend to do stuff like… make music. Seems like whenever we do, a major industry story breaks.
To wit: Taylor Swift’s open letter to Apple regarding the “free trial” period for Apple Music, during which the 12th largest company in world decided it would not be paying royalties to artists and rightsholders.
Props to T-Swift for standing up on principle. Her letter seems to have turned the tide in Cupertino—as of Sunday, Apple had scrapped their previous policy and decided to pony up during the free trial.
But as is typical in the wild and crazy world of the music industry, there’s more to consider. Here are five things to keep in mind about Apple Music, Taylor Swift, independent labels and working artists.
1. Taylor Swift is a force to be reckoned with.
It’s exciting to see someone in the artist community stand up for the value of music. Especially when she doesn’t really have to—Swift enjoys a large and loyal fanbase, chart-topping releases and is a success by any metric. Whether her recent stances benefit her brand is far less important than the simple fact that they help to refocus the conversation around artists. (Hence the high-five.)
2. Most of the artists and music managers we talk to want streaming to work.
There are concerns about who streaming ultimately works FOR. Right now, there are crucial debates about everything from how royalty calculations are made on the mainstream services to potential alternatives to the full-catalog model. You can be part of these conversations at the 15th Future of Music Policy Summit (Oct. 26-27, Georgetown University, Washington, DC)—registration is open; what are you waiting for?
3. Apple is a really big company.
Like, huge. They don’t really even need music at this point, apart from the brand benefit. So it’s pretty significant that they decided to change their policy. This will likely have a ripple effect and may end up impacting how “free” is perceived on other platforms. It’s impossible to predict where things will end up, but our immediate takeaway is this: there’s a difference between “ad-supported” free music, where rightsholders are paid, and “let us use your music for free to grow our business,” where they are not. Apple made such a big deal about the fact that their service would be straight-up subscription that it’s somewhat surprising that they’d step in it like this. Especially when they have more cash on hand than the US Treasury.
4. Indie labels deserve a ton of credit for this outcome.
The global independent label community was first to point out how strange it was that Apple would force them to give away their music for a quarter of a year in what seems like a brazen attempt to displace Spotify. The Worldwide Independent Network, the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) and indie label chiefs like Martin Mills from Beggars Group had already suggested that they weren’t willing to subsidize the free trial before Taylor Swift wrote her letter. However, both pressure points were important to the result. One represented a business community pushing back against deal terms; the other a savvy artist with a strong moral argument and fanbase that could create a PR nightmare even for a company as generally well-loved as Apple.
5. Services like Apple Music, Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody don’t compensate artists directly.
They pay the labels, and the labels pay the performers under contract. Unafilliated artists are paid through aggregators like CD Baby, Tunecore and DistroKid. So this complicates the picture as far as artist revenue is concerned. Debates about “freemium” models and royalty calculations are very important, but so is the idea of transparency in the overall industry. Future of Music Coalition is all about making sure that artists have a more complete picture of all the business and legal structures that impact their livelihoods. We’ll keep on talking about all of it—from Taylor Swift to tomorrow’s visionary music-makers. We’re psyched you’re with us.
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Judge Orders Strauss-Kahn Released From Jail
A New York judge ordered on Friday that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn be released from jail and sent to an unspecified temporary home in Lower Manhattan where he will be detained under armed guard.
New York prosecutors told New York Supreme Court Judge Michael Obus that an initial location for Strauss-Kahn to be detained had fallen through. Strauss-Kahn is facing charges he tried to rape a hotel maid.
Obus earlier on Friday received a $1 million cash bail and $5 million insurance bond from Strauss-Kahn's lawyers.
Strauss-Kahn, who has spent the past four nights at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail, has denied charges of a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.
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After gimme games to close pool play, US will need more from bench to win basketball worlds
ISTANBUL – The last U.S. basketball team was so stacked that Dwyane Wade was the sixth man. Chris Paul and Chris Bosh were also part of that second unit, one good enough to beat any starting five in the world.
When Mike Krzyzewski looked down at the bench he has now Monday, it sure didn't seem he liked what he saw.
After the reserves faltered, the U.S. coach stuck with the starters for nearly the entire second half to pull out a 70-68 victory over Brazil that kept the Americans unbeaten in the world championship.
Krzyzewski and his players said they learned something from their first test in this tournament. But was one of those lessons this: All these youngsters on the U.S. roster can't be trusted when times get tough.
"I don't know if they tensed up, but they honestly didn't play as much tonight as they did in the last few games," veteran guard Chauncey Billups said. "But they'll have more opportunities and they'll do a better job next time."
After Group B's off day Tuesday, the reserves should get plenty of time in the Americans' final two group games. They face the bottom two teams in the pool, starting with Iran on Wednesday before closing against winless Tunisia.
Things should become more difficult with the arrival of the knockout round, which means the starters are going to need some help. Krzyzewski believes all his players now see what it takes to provide it.
"We've only been together for a few weeks. I don't know until you're in these situations if we're going to have the character to win when you can't hit a shot, when someone is playing such good defense," he said after the game. "Tonight I found that and that's a good thing. That's a really good thing to find out about our team."
Krzyzewski made his normal early substitutions in the first half, but the subs struggled to defend Brazil's pick-and-rolls. Realizing the game was going to be won with defense, he had starters Billups, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, Lamar Odom and Andre Iguodala on the floor for at least 15 minutes apiece after halftime to win a thriller.
"Wow what a game USA vs Brazil. Way to find a way to get that W y'all. Keep it going," LeBron James, a starter on the Olympic team, wrote on his Twitter page.
To do so, the guys who were on the floor realize they'll need the ones on the bench. After all, depth is supposed to be one of this team's strengths.
"We just have to take the last two games again one at a time try to get something done," Iguodala said. "Give everybody some key minutes in the next two games and everybody get their confidence where it needs to be going into the elimination round."
The Americans are inexperienced internationally beyond Billups, Odom and Tyson Chandler. They're still adjusting to the nuances of the game, such as the traveling violations they've repeatedly committed.
The entire Olympic team had competed previously and was well-versed in FIBA play. The current group lags far behind a team such as Brazil, which played together last summer while winning the regional qualifier for the world championship.
"It is a different team. It is a lot of young players, I think the first time that they come to the world championships," said Brazil guard Leandro Barbosa, citing everything from the ball to the calls as differences from the NBA game.
"I think that causes a little problem for them, being different games. So in that situation, we've got a little advantage, so it's good for us."
Neither of the remaining pool opponents has the talent to exploit that. The main interest in the Iran game comes from local journalists trying to hype it because of the political tensions between the countries, but Krzyzewski downplayed that.
"This is a sporting event," he said. "We have respect for Iran. I actually played in Iran in the 1970s when I was on the U.S. Armed Forces team. I have great feelings for their country. They're sportsmen and so are we. We'll have a great game."
It shouldn't be close, but another might be later in the tournament. The Olympic team never had that concern, but these Americans say they don't mind.
"We can't worry about how much we win by, winning the same fashion as other USA teams. All of that's out the window," Billups said. "All we need to do is get wins. Win every game we can and we'll worry about everything else later."
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Book club members say they were kicked off California wine train due to race
FILE - In this June 2, 2011 file photo, a couple takes pictures at the back of the Napa Valley Wine Train as it makes its way through St. Helena, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Members of a California book club have claimed they were asked to leave a train during a group outing over the weekend because of their race.
The eleven club members, all but one of whom is African-American, told KTVU that they are considering legal action after they were ordered off the Napa Valley Wine Train Saturday afternoon. Their story became public Monday and stirred social media reaction, with many using the hashtag "#laughingwhileblack"
Wine train spokesman Sam Singer told the Associated Press train employees had asked the women to either quiet down or get off the wine train and accept a free bus ride back to their starting point.
"The book club clearly was fun-loving, boisterous and loud enough that it affected the experience of some of the passengers who were in the same car, who complained to staff," he said.
Book club member Lisa Renee Johnson, an author from Antioch, Calif., admitted to KTVU that a manager on the train repeatedly told the women they were laughing and talking too loudly, but insisted "we didn't do anything wrong."
The women said that servers and bartenders on the train apologized, telling them previous groups had been more rambunctious without being asked to leave.
Johnson said the train company contributed to the situation by selling them seats that were scattered throughout the car, even after the members made clear they were traveling as a group. The seating arrangement made conversation more difficult, Johnson said.
"Noise is going to come along with that," admitted Johnson, "and laughter, because it's fun! It's wine and not just a glass of wine, it's free-flowing wine."
Johnson chronicled the episode via cellphone videos. On Facebook, Twitter and Yelp on Monday, defenders of the women posted videos of other, past noisy groups celebrating on the wine train, which offers food and wine to passengers as they roll to Napa County wineries in updated Pullman cars.
"We were treated like we didn't belong there, and we paid our money just like everyone else," insisted Johnson, "if they cannot accommodate groups, they should not take our money as a group."
Wine-train employees marched the book club members through six railroad cars before escorting them off the train, the women said.
The company refunded the women's ticket money, Singer said.
On average, Singer said, individuals or groups are asked to get off the wine train once a month for one reason or the other. "It's not a question of bias," he said.
However, a police spokeswoman in the Napa Valley town of St. Helena, which the wine train summoned Saturday, said it was the first time she recalled the wine train seeking police help removing a large group.
The 11 women, one of them 83 years old, already were off the train when St. Helena police arrived, police spokeswoman Maria Gonzalez said.
"When we get off the train, the police are just standing there," described member Katherine Neal, "and they're looking at us like, 'these are the unruly people?'"
Wine train employees had called the police to deal with what they reported were "11 disruptive females," Gonzalez said. Police arrived at the railway siding and found "there was no crime being committed ... nobody was intoxicated, there were no issues." So officers left, Gonzalez said.
In the past, she said, the town's police had responded to wine-train calls to offload passengers because of domestic incidents on board or for fighting.
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Hospital: 5 people injured in Md. mall shooting and aftermath have been treated and released
Shoppers are evacuated by police after a shooting at The Mall in Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Columbia, Md. Police say three people died in a shooting at the mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) (The Associated Press)
Police move in from a parking lot to the Mall in Columbia after reports of a multiple shooting, Saturday Jan. 25, 2014 Howard County, Md. Police in Maryland say three people died Saturday in a shooting at a mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (The Associated Press)
Map shows the details of the Columbia Mall and locates it near Baltimore.; 2c x 7 inches; 96.3 mm x 177 mm; (The Associated Press)
COLUMBIA, Md. – A Maryland hospital says five people injured in a mall shooting and its aftermath have been treated and released.
The shooting on Saturday at the Mall in Columbia ended in three deaths, including that of the gunman.
Howard County General Hospital tweeted late Saturday that the five others who were injured had all been treated and released.
One patient was reported to be a shooting victim while at least three other patients sustained other injuries.
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