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BILL-GREENS-MAINE
Maine-built Corsons ruled our lakes and ponds for decades
Corson boats were the Chevy station wagons of the 1960s and '70s in Maine. Made in Madison, they were a light, economical and durable boat that provided millions of memories for approximately 10,000 owners. They will be one of the highlights of the Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show, Aug. 11-13 in Rockland.
Author: Bill Green
CAMDEN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Corson boats are as much a part of Maine as blueberry pie. About 10,000 of these classic boats were produced in Madison between 1955 and the early 1990s.
There will be a gathering of Corsons at the Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show in Rockland from Aug. 11-13.
"They were the equivalent of the Chevy Bel-Aire," mused John Hanson, publisher of the magazine putting on the show. The magazine is celebrating its 30th year. This will be their 15th show.
Corsons were an early fiberglass boat. Because they cost less than $1,000 and weighed less than 1,000 pounds, they were affordable and maneuverable.
The fact that they were very durable hurt resale. "People never replaced their Corsons because they never wore out," Hanson said.
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NATION-NOW
FEMA: Trump administration will send ‘presidential alerts’ to cellphones across America
Donald Trump calling? FEMA will test 'presidential alerts'
Author: Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY
Published: 12:57 PM EDT September 15, 2018
Updated: 8:33 AM EDT October 2, 2018
President Donald Trump may soon communicate with you via your cellphone.
On Thursday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a test of the national system that allows "presidential alerts" to hit the majority of cellphones. The goal is to warn residents of national emergencies, such as dangerous weather.
The warning system "provides the president with the communications capability to address the nation during a national emergency," FEMA said on its website.
The test is scheduled to occur at 2:18 p.m. EDT Thursday.
Some cellphone users will receive a message with a header that reads "Presidential Alert." The text then will say: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed."
Info on the emergency alert test:
🔹It’s a nationwide test of the same system that pushes public emergency messages like AMBER alerts
🔹Presidential Alerts are only for national emergencies
🔹FEMA & @FCC are testing to ensure it will work when needed
FAQ: https://t.co/Op8T9AEpiF pic.twitter.com/FBC1AF7oHY
— FEMA (@fema) September 15, 2018
But not everyone is on board with the notion of presidential notifications.
"I don't want this," actress Alyssa Milano tweeted Saturday. "How do we opt out, @fema?"
I don’t want this. How do we opt out, @fema? I know trump isn’t big on consent but I don’t consent to this. https://t.co/A04twRU39p
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) September 15, 2018
Seems like Milano is out of luck.
Under federal law, users can opt out of the alerts for "imminent threats" and Amber Alerts about abducted children but "not for presidential messages," FEMA warns.
Thursday will mark the first national test of the "wireless emergency alerts." Congress authorized the public safety alert system in 2008. It began operating in 2012 and has been used regionally.
The agency, already grappling with the effects of Tropical Storm Florence, could delay the test of the alert system to Oct. 3 if there's a major weather disruption, but FEMA said Saturday that Thursday's test was still on.
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‘Resurgent Mahama has an unfinished business with Ghanaians’ – Sam George
The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Mr. Sam Nartey George has reiterated his belief in a ‘resurgent and more focused’ John Mahama ahead of the 2020 general elections.
According to Sam George, the changing circumstances of life, as well as the shortcomings of the Akufo-Addo government, has led to the public yearning for Mahama’s comeback.
Speaking in an interview with Godfred Akoto Boafo on Citi TV’s Face to Face program, Sam George said Mahama has gone through the mill to become a refined politician.
“This Mahama is one who has been toughened by the vicissitude of life, by the shock of an electoral defeat, by the fact that we may have taken certain things for granted in the past. Now, he’s realised that every minute counts. People are seeing it. If you look at his communications, listen to his language, [and you] listen to the things he says… you will realise that he has become a more focused Mahama. He knows what he is about. He’s got an unfinished business, he feels partly responsible for the hardships Ghanaians are going through.”
Mr. Samuel Nartey George cited what he terms as the ‘increasing sense of insecurity in the country’ resulting in the kidnapped girls issue and the brutal assassination of the Marketing and Public Relations Manager of the Tema Port, Mrs. Josephine Asante, Tiger Eye PI investigative journalist Ahmed Suale, and Joseph Migal Jinjer, a senior staff of the Ghana Water Company Limited as reasons why this current Government has failed Ghanaians.
External voting enhances legitimacy of regimes — Senegal’s Director of…
Mahama’s regime was Sodom & Gomorrah for cocoa farmers – NPP
On the closed fishing season, he explained that although the idea behind the decision is a good one, Government’s mode of implementation.
He insisted that government lacks the expertise.
“The only way this ban will be effective is if it’s an ECOWAS decision, across the borders. That way the fish can replenish stock, they are disenfranchising Ghanaian local fishermen for Togolese fishermen… It is not a bad idea sensu stricto, however the implementation is the problem of this government. They claim they have the men [but] we’ve realized that they don’t even have boys.”
Source: citinewsroom.com
External voting enhances legitimacy of regimes — Senegal’s Director of Elections
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Nine aspirants pick nomination forms to contest NDC in Bortianor primaries
Limit tenure of MPs to three terms – Concerned Voters Movement
Asawase NDC treasurer caged
NPP executives, EC official arrested for Voter registration fraud
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Courtesy of Tania Lombrozo
13.7: Cosmos And Culture
We Experience The World We Infer, Not The World As It Is
March 20, 2015 It can feel like our senses give us direct access to the world as it is now, and our memory to the world as it once was. Commentator Tania Lombrozo challenges these ideas.
Scent Bar, in central Los Angeles, is home to over 700 niche fragrances — several of which are neatly arranged here. Courtesy of LuckyScent hide caption
Courtesy of LuckyScent
The Scents And Sensibility Of LA's Nosy New Perfume Enthusiasts
February 22, 2015 Our sense of smell isn't simply a powerful trigger. It's a draw to scientists — and to a flourishing subculture in Los Angeles, where amateur perfumers collect fragrances like others collect stamps.
Opening statements are delivered in June 1990 in the Central Park rape trial in New York in this artist's rendering. The defendants — including Yusef Salaam (from left), Antron McCray and Raymond Santana, shown here — were convicted and imprisoned in part on what were later found to be false confessions. A new study shows it's surprisingly easy to implant memories of committing a crime. Marilyn Church/AP hide caption
Marilyn Church/AP
You Can Be Persuaded To Confess To An Invented Crime, Study Finds
Ozy.com
January 29, 2015 With a little misinformation, encouragement and three hours, researchers convinced 70 percent of the study's participants that they'd committed a crime. Some even recalled the fake events in detail.
When he was 59 years old, Greg O'Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Five years later, he is speaking publicly about his experience, even as his symptoms worsen. Courtesy of Greg O'Brien hide caption
Courtesy of Greg O'Brien
'How Do You Tell Your Kids That You've Got Alzheimer's?'
January 24, 2015 Writer Greg O'Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease five years ago. He describes what it was like to hear the news — and break it to his family.
Sleep well, young lad, so we can hear you tell us all the details in the morning. G. Lynn Sumner Co./Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis hide caption
G. Lynn Sumner Co./Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis
Sleep's Link To Learning And Memory Traced To Brain Chemistry
November 20, 2014 During sleep, the brain locks in existing memories and can even form new ones. Scientists say they are starting to understand how that happens. A midnight snack may interfere.
Leigh Wells/Ikon Images/Corbis
Some Things You Can Do In Your Sleep, Literally
September 11, 2014 For those who think there are not enough hours in the day, researchers may have just offered you a solution. The brain can continue tasks even while asleep, a study finds. Texting not included, alas.
The Star-Spangled Banner — the flag that inspired our National Anthem — on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Hugh Talman/Courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History hide caption
Hugh Talman/Courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
You Can't Escape Our Ever-Expanding Scope of Knowledge
June 27, 2014 Is there really a difference between knowing an answer and knowing how to find an answer? Commentator Alva Noë asks this question and shares his answer.
Debra Jenson, 2, hanging from a hook in her grandmother's kitchen. "Over the next 35 years, I watched each of my cousins, then my own children and my cousins' children be dangled from that hook. Between the photo and watching it happen to others, this is a powerful 'fake memory' for me." Debra Jenson/Instagram hide caption
Debra Jenson/Instagram
A #FakeMemory You Have To See To Believe
May 23, 2014 Photos from childhood can often elicit rich memories, even when we can't truly remember the event. We asked you to share your favorite #fakememory on Instagram; this is what you told us.
Seniors who learned more difficult skills like digital photography and Photoshop showed the greatest improvement in memory. Courtesy of UT Dallas hide caption
Courtesy of UT Dallas
Learning A New Skill Works Best To Keep Your Brain Sharp
May 5, 2014 Brain training has become a multimillion-dollar industry. But if you want to improve your memory, don't waste your time and money on brain games. You'd be better off learning how to quilt.
Tetsuro Matsuzawa/Primate Research Institute/AP
Krulwich Wonders...
The Ultimate Animal Experience? Losing A Memory Quiz To A Chimp
April 16, 2014 You've swum with dolphins, ridden camels, stalked tigers. Now, try taking a memory test with a chimp — and losing. It's fun, humbling and mind-boggling.
Francis Csedrik remembers details of being bonked hard on the head when he was 4, and having to go to the emergency room. Meg Vogel/NPR hide caption
Meg Vogel/NPR
The Forgotten Childhood: Why Early Memories Fade
April 8, 2014 Childhood amnesia descends gradually — and later than you might think, researchers say. Many 7-year-olds have robust memories of experiences from when they were 3 or even younger.
The illusion of an out-of-body experience made it harder for people to remember what happened. iStockphoto hide caption
Memories Can Go Astray When We Step Outside Our Bodies
March 10, 2014 Virtual reality can make people feel like they are experiencing the world outside of their bodies. The sensation can make it hard for the people to remember what happened to them.
The brain edits memories of the past, updating them with new information. Scientists say this may help us function better in the present. But don't throw those photos away. iStockphoto hide caption
Our Brains Rewrite Our Memories, Putting Present In The Past
February 5, 2014 Even people with good memories can have a hard time remembering the past accurately. That may be because the brain is constantly editing memories, updating them with current information. This may make good evolutionary sense. But it also means that some of your cherished memories may be wrong.
Researchers have only recently been able to use brain scans to detect Alzheimer's risk factors in living people. iStockphoto hide caption
Concussions May Increase Alzheimer's Risk, But Only For Some
December 27, 2013 Head injuries have long been considered a risk factor for Alzheimer's, but the evidence on that is mixed. A study finds that people who have memory problems decades after a concussion are more likely to have the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's.
Having a perfect memory can put a strain on relationships, because every slight is remembered. Katherine Streeter for NPR hide caption
Katherine Streeter for NPR
When Memories Never Fade, The Past Can Poison The Present
December 27, 2013 Only a rare few people have the ability to remember everything that happened in their lives. But that gift can seem like a curse, they say, keeping them marooned in the past and unable to enjoy the present. Forgetting, it seems, can be a good thing.
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NSWRL NEWS
Greatest Blues Moment Nomination 45
nswrl.com.au
Thu 3 Apr 2014, 08:00 PM
Michael O'Connor scores all the Blues points in a memorable performance in the sky-blue jersey.
In 2014, New South Wales and Queensland will celebrate the 100th State of Origin (Game One in Brisbane) to be played since the inception of the Origin format in 1980.
To mark the occasion, the New South Wales Rugby League is asking YOU to select the greatest Blues moment in Origin history.
From the moment Tommy Raudonikis led the Blues onto Lang Park for the inaugural interstate contest, State of Origin has produced some of the most iconic moments in Rugby League history.
Whether you were watching on television or cheering from the front row, who will ever forget Michael O’Connor slotting the match-winning conversion in driving rain in 1991, Andrew Johns returning to deliver one of the best individual performances we’ve ever seen in 2005, or Steve ‘Turvey’ Mortimer dropping to his knees and kissing the hallowed SCG turf after the Blues’ first series victory in 1985.
But they are just three great Blues moments. Over 100 days leading up to Game One in Brisbane, we’ll be highlighting one moment per day which will serve as a nomination for the greatest Blues Origin moment. We will then turn the decision over to the fans to decide the top ten Blues Moments from a century of Origin clashes.
Voting will open on May 28 (Game One) and close on June 18 (Game Two at ANZ Stadium). Nominations will be posted on the New South Wales Rugby League website, Twitter and Facebook pages and can be discussed using the hashtag #blues100.
We hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane and here’s hoping the NSW VB Blues can add to the memories in 2014!
Click here to view all of the 'Blues Moments' nominations
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Restaurants Tavern On Jane
This friendly neighborhood gem boasts great nightly specials in addition to their regular menu of comfort food favorites. Come enjoy the fire in this cozy & relaxing space where the staff will make you feel like family.
West Village Description
Tavern On Jane is located in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. The western slice of Greenwich Village—although some will tell you it's a separate neighborhood altogether; don't listen to them—the West Village is a somewhat sleepier version of its larger neighborhood, with many tree-lined streets populated by residential buildings and punctuated ever-so-lightly with restaurants and bars. The locals have fought notoriously hard throughout the years to keep raucous bars and clubs from staying open—or even opening at all—to preserve the relative quiet of their neighborhood.
The West Village stretches east from the Hudson River to 6th Avenue, and north from Houston Street to West 14th. It's northwestern corner is chewed off by the Meatpacking District, where the very sorts of restaurants and bars West Village residents try to keep out of their 'hood flourish. The majority of Bleecker Street's dining, shopping, and drinking options exist on the West Village's end of the street, with a small shopping mecca surrounding the intersection of 7th Avenue, where many high-end retailers have stores, like Brooks Brothers' Black Fleece, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Burberry, Marc Jacobs, and a whole lot more.
There's plenty of history here, and the bars are no exception—Dylan Thomas famously stumbled out of the White Horse Tavern heavy with whiskey on the night he expired at the Hotel Chelsea. For those aiming to avoid the thumping, throbbing nightclubs of the Meatpacking District, jazz can be had at Fat Cat, the legendary Village Vanguard, and smaller, quieter establishments like 55 Bar. If you'd like a more structured day of drinking, the folks at the Literary Pub Crawl put on a fantastic and informative tour.
The sophisticated residents of the West Village have led a number of excellent restaurants to open in the neighborhood, from Italian favorite Sant Ambroeus, April Bloomfield's game-changing gastropub The Spotted Pig, Yerba Buena, and Perry St.. Of course, if you're not in the mood for high-end cuisine in mood-inducing settings, there's pizza on offer at John's of Bleecker Street, but you'd be better served by walking a little further east and feasting one our favorite New York slice at Joe's. And if it's a burger you're looking for, the city's first Umami Burger is lurking over on 6th Avenue, while perennial favorite Corner Bistro is on 7th.
While the West Village is low on museums, it has two of the best independent cinemas in the city between Film Forum and neighborhood landmark IFC Center.
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Media|Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark
Media | Advertising
Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark
By BRIAN STELTER AUG. 13, 2009
ABOUT a dozen companies have withdrawn their commercials from “Glenn Beck,” the Fox News Channel program, after Glenn Beck, the person, said late last month that President Obama was a racist with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
The companies that have moved their ads elsewhere in recent days included ConAgra, Geico, Procter & Gamble and the insurance company Progressive. In a statement that echoed the comments of other companies, ConAgra said on Thursday that “we are firmly committed to diversity, and we would like to prevent the potential perception that advertising during this program was an endorsement of the viewpoints shared.”
The campaign against Mr. Beck is rooted in an advocacy group’s objection to the commentator’s remarks on July 28. Given the number of advertisers that have pledged to remove their spots, it appears to have been unusually successful.
Its success also indicates that as commentary on cable news reaches a rhetorical boiling point, advertisers may become more skittish about being near it.
“We have TV today that’s very polarizing and controversial,” said Donny Deutsch, the advertising executive and occasional host on CNBC and MSNBC, a rival to Fox News.
Last month, Mr. Deutsch listed some of the “Glenn Beck” advertisers and told MSNBC viewers that people who objected to Mr. Beck’s remark should write to the chief executives of the companies. In an interview, he said corporate decisions about where to allot ad dollars were the “ultimate check and balance.”
The sponsors’ shifts came after a campaign by ColorOfChange.org, a black political coalition, to contact sponsors of Mr. Beck’s program. The remark by Mr. Beck, a conservative radio host and comedian who joined Fox News in January, came not on his 5 p.m. talk show but on “Fox and Friends,” a raucous morning program.
That day, Fox News appeared to distance itself quickly from Mr. Beck’s remark that Mr. Obama was a racist, telling the TVNewser blog that Mr. Beck had “expressed a personal opinion, which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel.”
Two days later, ColorOfChange asked its 600,000 members to sign a petition addressed to Mr. Beck’s advertisers. It says more than 100,000 have signed.
Fox said the campaign had no financial effect.
“The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other day parts on the network, so there has been no revenue lost,” said a spokeswoman for the channel, a unit of the News Corporation.
After Glenn Beck said that President Obama was a racist, a political group began contacting his advertisers. Credit Nicholas Roberts for The New York Times
Still, ColorOfChange trumpeted the advertisers’ announcements as meaningful wins in news releases this month, and announced on Thursday that ConAgra, the pharmaceutical companies Roche and Sanofi-Aventis, and the electronics retailer RadioShack had pledged to remove ads from “Glenn Beck.”
An official at RadioShack told the advocacy group that it had not bought time directly on Fox News, but that a third-party manufacturer had cited the retailer in its commercials. RadioShack said it had asked the manufacturer, magicJack, to “immediately cease and desist running all commercials with our name tagged in the spot“ on the Beck program.
Other companies also said their spots had been scheduled during “Glenn Beck” by mistake. Ads for Procter & Gamble and S.C. Johnson appeared on a weekend repeat of Mr. Beck’s program by mistake, Fox acknowledged. Progressive said that its advertising order had specified “no Glenn Beck,” but Fox said it had bought a block of time with the channel that included Mr. Beck.
Past efforts to put pressure on cable news advertisers have met more resistance. In the spring, when the liberal group ThinkProgress protested Bill O’Reilly of Fox News by contacting corporate sponsors, most wrote back by blandly thanking them for taking the time to write. One Ford Motor employee even suggested they abandon the petition tactic, writing, “the silly form letters are just annoying and easy to delete.”
In the current media climate, one dominated by talk about health care and other politically tinged topics, hosts and commentators on TV and radio seemingly try to one-up one another with shocking comments every day. Recently, Lou Dobbs of CNN came under fire for raising questions about Mr. Obama’s citizenship. CNN said it had not seen any advertisers “looking to reallocate their money” from Mr. Dobbs’s program.
What Mr. Beck said about Mr. Obama in July was “race-baiting packaged as news,“ said James Rucker, the executive director of ColorOfChange. (Mr. Beck declined to comment.)
In what was ColorOfChange’s first direct appeal to advertisers, it told members it was fighting back by “hitting Beck where it hurts,” financially. The Beck program draws an average 2.2 million viewers a day, making it Fox News’s third-highest rated.
Mr. Rucker acknowledged that advertiser campaigns are tough, saying that “things have to be at a certain level in terms of being pretty extreme” for the sponsors to take action.
Mr. Deutsch, the chairman of the ad agency Deutsch Inc., said that “at a company like Procter & Gamble or G.M., the C.E.O.’s don’t know where all those ad dollars are going.” When they find out that their messages are being associated with controversial comments, they often “decide they can go somewhere else,” he said.
Calling Fox News a “good network,” Mr. Deutsch said advertisers could easily move their spots to other programs.
That is what several sponsors said they have done. Mr. Rucker said some of the advertisers “didn’t even know that they were actually enabling Beck” when they were contacted.
Mirroring the verbal combat among cable news channels, the advertiser pressure has become a divisive issue of its own. On conservative blogs this week, writers have questioned ColorOfChange’s motives and asked supporters of Mr. Beck’s to write to his advertisers as well.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page B4 of the New York edition with the headline: Host Loses Some Sponsors After an Obama Remark. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Theater|The Public Theater Cancels Several Performances of ‘Hamlet’
The Public Theater Cancels Several Performances of ‘Hamlet’
Oscar Isaac and Gayle Rankin in “Hamlet,” at the Public Theater.CreditCreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
By Sopan Deb
The Public Theater announced on Thursday that it was canceling several performances of its hugely popular production of “Hamlet,” starring Oscar Isaac, saying that the show’s physical demands were becoming too much for the cast.
“As an artist-driven organization, the welfare of our actors is always a top priority,” a spokeswoman for the theater said in a statement. “Over the last few weeks the intensity that ‘Hamlet’ requires of our actors over the four-hour show is starting to take a toll.”
Theaters rarely cancel multiple performances of limited-run shows — “Hamlet” is scheduled to close Sept. 3 — and it is especially unusual for productions that have high ticket demand. Some Broadway musicals have actors alternate in roles that are physically demanding, but performances are seldom canceled.
The “Hamlet” performances canceled are all Saturday matinees — Aug. 5, Aug. 12, Aug. 26 and Sept. 2. All evening shows are unaffected for the revival, which opened on July 13.
The spokeswoman didn’t provide specifics as to why the Public was canceling the Saturday performances or about the toll it has taken on the actors.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Public Theater Cancels ‘Hamlet’ Matinees. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Review: The Greatest of Danes, as Oscar Isaac Takes On ‘Hamlet’
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Editorial: Poor TVNZ7 ratings justify pulling plug
TVNZ7 was set up to give a platform for local content, such as 'Media7' presented by Russell Brown. Photo / Supplied
Two figures juxtaposed explain why the Government was right to stop funding TVNZ7, Television New Zealand's only non-commercial public service channel.
The first of these is the $15 million cost of running the channel each year. The second is the mere 207,000 viewers a week that it attracts.
This really is television for minority interests taken to extreme. By way of contrast, TVNZ's One News attracts 600,000 viewers each and every night.
That has not, of course, prevented condemnation of the Government's decision, which consigns the channel to closure in June next year. TVNZ7 programmes, such as The Court Report, Back Benches and Media7, are said to have reached a maturity that demands their continued screening.
But no matter how worthy they may have become, this has not been recognised and reflected in sufficiently strong viewing figures. In any event, such programmes can compete for a share of the $81 million NZ On Air funding pool if they wish to continue.
That is as it should be. The NZ On Air commissioning model has proved itself. It is facile to say the TVNZ7 shows will lose out automatically to reality television programmes and other more populist competitors in such a contest.
The current affairs shows and documentaries on the commercial channels prove otherwise. It is in these channels' interest to screen good locally made programmes.
It is not in New Zealanders' interests for money that could go towards this to be frittered away on a barely watched channel.
CORRECTION: This editorial quoted viewer figures for TVNZ7 that were based on an incorrect figure (207,000 a week) provided last year by the office of former Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman. According to Nielsen, TVNZ7 attracted an average monthly cumulative audience of 1.1 million last year. In December, it achieved a record 1.47 million viewers.
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1320 Ocean Dr
1320 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach Get Directions
Miami Beach Hotel
$26,000,000 $ USD R$ Brazilian real € Euro £ Pounds ¥ Yen Rubles
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16,928 Living Area (sf)
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16,928 Lot Size (sf)
South Beach – Trophy 46-room Art Deco hotel with restaurant/bar and 4COP liquor license across from the ocean on world-renowned Ocean Drive. Designed by architect Roy F. France in 1936, the Cavalier Hotel is an irreplaceable historic masterpiece and a beautiful Ocean Drive landmark. Recently reopened after extensive renovations, this oceanfront gem offers new luxuriously appointed guestrooms and interior spaces, while maintaining its exquisite Art-Deco façade. Mixed-use entertainment (MXE) zoning allows for hotel, retail, restaurant and more in a world-class destination. The property is offered fee simple and unencumbered by brand and management, affording a new owner maximum flexibility in an iconic beachfront location, which attracts millions of visitors each year.
Susan Gale
Ocean Access, Ocean Front
Waterfront?
Cooling: Central Building A/C
Floors: Terrazzo Floors, Wood Floors
Heating: Central Building A/C
Water View: Public Water
Waterfront Features: Ocean Access, Ocean Front
Column Description: Unknown
Construction Info: CBS Construction
Construction Type: CBS Construction
Design: Hotel
Roof Description: Concrete Roof
Sewer Description: Public Sanitation
Style: Hotel Waterfront
Total Floors in Bldg: 3.0000
Tax Amount: 118466
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Improving child nutrition and maternal health in India
We worked with the State Government's Social Welfare Department to introduce the Bihar Child Support Programme.
Tom Newton-Lewis
Shruti Viswanathan
Valentina Barca
Gunjan Jhunjhunwala
Kritika Singh
Purava Joshi
September 2012 – December 2016
Financial and Private Sector Development team Health team Nutrition team Poverty and Social Protection team
Private and financial sector Health Nutrition Gender Social protection Equity and inclusion
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Apurva Bamezai Mehjabeen Jagmag Sarthak Joshi Shweta Bahri Simon Hunt Tom Newton-Lewis 7597 BCSP
We worked with the State Government’s Social Welfare Department to introduce a maternal and child-focused social protection scheme in Bihar, India. The Bihar Child Support Programme, funded by the UK Department for International Development and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, was a conditional cash transfer aimed at improving child nutrition outcomes across one of the country’s poorest states. Our team led on the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the pilot phase of the programme, working closely with government officials, Anganwadi Workers, and Supervisors. 9,040 beneficiaries were enrolled in the intervention blocks within Gaya district during pilot phase. The pilot concluded in November 2016.
The impact evaluation showed that the Bihar Child Support Programme had significant effects on the proportion of children who were wasted and underweight, and the proportion of mothers who were underweight and anaemic. The evaluation generates important lessons for cash transfer programming, especially the Government of India’s new Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (Prime Minister’s Maternity Benefit Programme).
Under the BCSP, women were registered at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy and are eligible to receive INR 250 per month until the child is three years old. Women received the money only if they meet certain conditions, including attendance at village training days, regular child growth monitoring, and vaccination against measles.
We adopted an innovative approach to programme delivery, making use of existing infrastructure and widely used technology – mobile phones – to help ensure maximum enrolment and cost-effective operation. Under the scheme, frontline service workers (Anganwadi workers) used a specially developed mobile phone application to register beneficiaries, monitor their adherence to certain conditions, and identify gaps. Data were transmitted to a central server that generated payment lists and instructed the release of funds through direct bank transfers.
Our mixed-methods evaluation was designed to test the impact, effectiveness, and relative cost-effectiveness of the scheme to assess its scalability as a viable and useful policy instrument, aimed at improving child nutrition through behavioural change. We used a quasi-experimental survey design to quantify child development indicators across 6,600 households, complemented by in-depth qualitative studies. As part of this evaluation, we tested a series of questions designed to help identify the potential 'pathways to impact' that the BCSP may have, including:
a resource effect: whether the additional household income received due to the BCSP is translated into increased expenditure on food (and more nutritious food), healthcare, and other pro-nutrition expenditures;
an empowerment effect: whether the fact that the cash was transferred to the woman improved her status within the household, her decision-making power, control over resources, and time use;
an incentive effect: whether beneficiaries changed their behaviours and seek out available services in order to receive the money; and
a social accountability effect: whether beneficiaries pressured service providers to improve the accessibility and quality of services to enable them to meet the conditions.
This multi-year project helped improve understanding around the impact of social protection measures on child nutritional and maternal health outcomes in East India. Our evaluation provided policy-relevant insights into what helps trigger positive behavioural change, and our operational assessments of the programme systems help feed into design improvements.
Over the longer-term, these insights helped support the effective and efficient scale-up of the programme, improving early childhood development outcomes for even more families across Bihar and beyond.
More broadly, findings from the pilot helped inform and strengthen existing centrally- and state-funded Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes as part of the country’s wider national social protection framework.
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Evaluating a national maternity benefits transfer
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Manny Pacquiao, Arum Continue to Poke at Floyd Mayweather
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Even though Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are no closer to fighting now than they were two years ago, that hasn’t stopped either man -- or their camps -- from trash-talking back and forth.
In fact, aside from a brief hiatus for about four rounds this past Saturday, the exchanges between these two parties have been going on nonstop over the last few weeks.
During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Arum noted that because of Pacquiao’s complex fighting style, Mayweather is undoubtedly worried about the consequences of a potential dream match.
"Manny knows styles," Arum said. "So does Floyd. That's why Manny thinks Mayweather is not a difficult fight and Floyd knows Manny is a difficult fight.
“Not saying Mayweather thinks he can't beat Manny. But it's a very difficult fight. It's the one style that Mayweather, with his style, cannot, or shouldn't face. That's the only reason.”
Aside from the notion that Mayweather is afraid of Pacquiao, though, Arum added that there have been a lot of smoke and mirrors from Floyd’s camp regarding what’s really going on with negotiations.
“The first time around, we got involved in this insane discussion about blood testing. That was an ego thing. As soon as we realized that was an ego thing and who gives a sh--, then we agreed to unlimited testing,” said the promoter.
“That was a year and a half ago and this guy is still prattling 'take the test,'" Arum added.
Of course, Arum conveniently opted to not take the opportunity in front of him to address his side’s role in failed negotiations.
While he is entirely accurate about Mayweather’s ridiculous reluctance to admit that drug testing shouldn’t even be a topic of discussion anymore -- because Pacquiao has essentially agreed to everything demanded of him -- it’s important to note that Pacquiao and Arum have been slightly inconsistent as well. Not too long ago, the pair contradicted one another regarding the amount of money Mayweather allegedly requested being stumbling block in getting the fight put together.
Nevertheless, all of these pointless, endless, mildly slanderous back and forth accusations may all be moot if Pacquiao decides to fight 2010 Fighter of the Year Sergio Martinez after his November 12 bout against Juan Manuel Marquez.
Martinez, obviously, has been widely regarded as a legitimate challenger to Pacquiao’s throne, with the only problem in putting a match together between the two men being the massive size disparity involved. Now that Martinez is willing to come down to 150 pounds, though, that is no longer a problem.
While Pacquiao and Arum have been particularly loud over the last few months about talks with Mayweather falling apart, they have yet to address Martinez’s most recent comments about that potential match.
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SkyPark is an entirely new concept in urban living. It draws on a design innovation from the 1930s and the best of contemporary design and wraps it in a unique package. The project occupies a half city block and the residential units are actually single-family attached bungalows facing a common garden court that provides open space, light and air for all. The townhouse units have exterior front doors that face the open court. What makes the project unique is that it utilizes the air space over a public parking lot for its ground space, which is an elevated deck. The single level of units are placed across from each other separated by the court, which has controlled access from the surrounding public streets.
20 2-bedroom units between 850 950 square feet in one and two story configurations
6 3-bedroom units of 1,100 square feet in a two story configuration
1 1-bedroom unit of 665 square feet
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Two arrested, two on the loose after shots fired and pursuit
SPRINGDALE, Ar (KNWA).– Springdale police arrested two males after reports of shots being fired and breaking into cars.
According to a press release from Springdale police, officers responded to the area of Kimberly Place for people breaking into cars.
While officers were responding, they were advised the suspects had fled in a Ford Explorer and that the caller was chasing them west on Wagon Wheel Road.
The caller was chasing the vehicle when one of the occupants in the vehicle fired two shots at the caller in the area of Wagon Wheel and 40th Street. The caller then pulled over and waited for police to arrive on scene.
At approximately 1:56 a.m., an officer observed the suspect vehicle turn south on 48th Street from Sunset Ave. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver would not pull over.
A pursuit was initiated and continued south on 48th Street until the suspect vehicle wrecked out at the intersection of 48th Street and Celeste Drive in Johnson.
After the vehicle wrecked, a total of four occupants were seen running from the vehicle. Two males were arrested on scene and two males are still on the loose.
One of the males was identified as Billson Andereke. Andereke is being charged with flight from an officer.
A 16 year old juvenile was also arrested and being charged with curfew violation.
The suspect vehicle was not reported stolen and no weapon has been recovered at this time.
by AIMEE PICCHI / Jul 23, 2019
U.S. (CBS) -- The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would limit Americans' access to food stamps, reportedly removing more than 3 million people from the federal program. The plan would eliminate automatic enrollment in food stamps for poor families who receive welfare benefits.
The rule would erase what U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue called a "loophole" in welfare benefits. Currently, 43 states allow families who qualify for the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, or TANF, to automatically receive food-stamp benefits, a link that the USDA wants to sever. Ending that practice would cut food-stamp spending by $2.5 billion per year, the Reuters news agency reported.
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The KRBL is a premium basmati rice producing industry of India having the biggest market share in its domestic market. The company is expanding rapidly by the time it started exporting its rice brands globally. With experience of more than 100 years in this field, the company has really high chances of being success in neighboring countries or the country with somewhat similar market environment such as UAE. Significant research and business analysis are made on UAE using PESTLE analysis on basis of which decision can be made by management whether or not to export its rice products in UAE. Consumers purchasing power and attitude have also been studied which will be beneficiary to know the market trends.
With a multi-year legacy and a presence since 1889, KRBL Ltd. is India's initially incorporated rice organization with a far reaching product chain.
It was founded in 1889 in Lyallpur, Pakistan.
Not only in India, but also in Gulf countries, it is making its presence felt by the time.
The company is exporting its main trademark product India gate Basmati Rice to more than 75 countries and is the market leader in this segment.
Its solid retail presence over various sizes and price empowers the shoppers over all age groups and communities to purchase it therefore making it the top and most aspirational Basmati Rice player. Even the company created a number of distribution channels which helped them to penetrate their product in the domestic market. Also, they are giving more stress over exposure to new international markets to reduce their vulnerability in financial performance.
The company owes world’s largest integrated basmati rice milling capacity and its production capacity is about 195 metric tonnes (MT) per hour.
The management team of the company is having experience of more than 25 years in their industry and the team has been able to increase their market in both scale and scope using various means such as increasing in-house processing capacity, expanding vertical integration, expanding distribution channels, increasing product range and brand portfolio. The management has a strong belief in their strategies which keeps them away from bad debts and helps them in sustaining and increasing demand for their branded products in both international and domestic markets.
KRBL also have their own Research and development labs putting them on forefront for continuous improvement in their products. They are smart enough to give a number of by-products which add value to their company and increase their financial status.
The company is not only limited to production of basmati rice nowadays, due to their research and development, they have recently announced the launch of a super food which not only contain protein, minerals, fatty acids but also vitamins and minerals which is going to make them one ultimate stop food for completing the nutritive requirements of consumers belonging to all age categories.
Target International country
KRIB have a good scope and potential in making its business expand worldwide especially in Middle-east countries such as UAE. UAE has shortage of water and most of its land is covered with deserts because of which production of rice is very hard in that nation. India the homeland country for production of Basmati rice by KRIB also have healthy trade relations with UAE. Recently both these nations made a historic deal to make transactions directly into each other’s country, therefore eliminating the role of Dollar. It is an estimation that both these nations will touch the figure of $100 billion by 2020 in bilateral trade (Khaleej Times). As UAE seems to be a potential market for KRIB’s basmati rice, a PESTLE analysis has been made on this country.
pestle analysis of the uae
Political Factors
UAE itself is composed of 7 different emirates and these all have their own individual government organizations which makes management of these more flexible as compared to other nations. But, this nation has been in constant conflict with its neighboring countries in relation to ownership of land and oil. Although UAE has been successful in making its trade relations healthy with number of nations across the globe.
Economic Factors
UAE’s economic conditions can be easily judged by its high GDP as much as 348.7 Billion USD in 2016 making it the second largest economy in the Arab world. Even the rate of unemployment is very low in UAE.
Social Factors
Due to high-end paying jobs, the residents of UAE enjoys one of the most comfortable lifestyles in the world. With the rise in globalization, it brings a number of different cultures to UAE. Religion is something which has to be followed strictly in this nation, especially for their native women.
Technological Factors
Technology comes with a price, and this price is no barrier to the wealthy people of UAE. Their younger generations are becoming more and more tech-savvy which is attracting tech-giant companies around the globe to enter their market.
Legal Factors
In case of Legal factors, it is not hard enough to gain access to this nation, however for opening up a business there are certain laws to abide. Although, UAE is openly accepting new comers to their nation with little cost to pay.
This is one of the critical factor which affects everything related to UAE. This country has hot and dry weather conditions which makes it very hard for farming. But being close to coastal region, it has good scope in trading via sea routes.
Trading into UAE will help KRIB to have new opportunities in nearby future as UAE is considered to be gateway for trading into Middle-east.
Research analysis of target market
The population of UAE is about 8.6 million in which 88% are foreign citizens. This figure is believed to reach 9 million by end of this decade 2020. The market for food industry continues to grow here because of UAE being best tourist destination in middle-east and acceptance of foreign nationals for different food varieties also fuel this industry. Rice is nowadays the most favorite food for people living in UAE. One of the major news report of Gulf also made a report over it, stating UAE to be the one of the highest per capita consumers of rice in the world. A statistics report revealed by customs of Dubai further revealed that about per capita consumption of rice being 70 to 80 kg per year, making its daily consumption of rice being more than 220 g per day. The rate of consumption has increased much from 2012 when it was just 575 million kilos to 673 kilos in 2013 only. This consumption rate is much higher than global consumption rate which is only 64 kg per capita per year.
The main reason for high consumption of rice according to Gulf news is presence of high number of Asian population in this country. Indians, Bangladeshis and Filipinos have rice as their main source of diet which could be among main reasons for UAE’s high rate of consumption.
Also, due to wealth status of people living in UAE, rice seems cheaper to them while purchasing which persuade them to buy it as compared to wheat and other food products such as meat. Interestingly, biryani (rice dish) is regular food source for Emiratis and other Arab nationals along-with mandi and madhbi which are along popular rice-based dishes for them.
The purchasing attitude of consumers of Emiratis clearly illustrates that they have limited approach for purchasing their product online i.e. about 9 % of them prefer online shopping, which means sale of rice can be increased more by penetrating in deeply into their market stores by the same way KRIB did it into their domestic home country market. An analysis made on consumers of UAE also adds, only 14% of consumers came across new products online, while 77% of them become aware of product from stores only. Emiratis spent about 14% of their income on food and beverage.
KRBL needs to target local stores as it is clear Emiratis prefer traditional practice of purchasing their food by visiting stores on their own. Luckily, supply chain network in UAE is somewhat similar to that of Asian countries which will help KRBL to understand it in short period of time and they can penetrate their product into local market using their own strategies of making their supply and demand network strong as that was in India.
Being one of the favorite tourist destination in the world, there are number of hotel chains and restaurants all over UAE. People of UAE love going out for food and this segment of market can be easily targeted by KRBL using local retailers and distributors, and giving them un-interrupted supply.
Consumption Expenditure By Product Category as % of Total Expenditure
Food products, beverages and tobacco
Health and illness insurance
Transport and communication
Education and entertainment
(Source- Zawya on-line journal)
There is not much competition in market of UAE for export of rice as the agriculture sector itself employs of only about 7% of total work force, so the domestic production is very low in this country in case of rice. This is the main reason for not much competition from domestic industries of UAE in case of sale of rice, only competition will be with foreign companies coming over from other nations such as Thailand and Pakistan. They have a strong market share for export of milled rice to UAE. Recently a leading international agribusiness company Al Dahra Agriculture LLC had break the local record in UAE for rice milling, storage and their distribution at one of their site in Abu Dhabi. As per their report the production capacity of this plant is estimated about 80,000 metric tonnes of rice per annum.
On the basis of PESTLE analysis on UAE, KRBL will be having a win-win scenario in case of export of their basmati rice brand in Emirati nation. The society openly accept the new product especially Rice as it is among their main source of food. Being a nation with huge number of migrants mainly from Asia results in huge market for KRBL with little competition and also the economic conditions are not bad in UAE. The politics influence slightly for import export as the country is main hub for re-export to all the middle-east.
KRBL should try to make a strong distributor chain in UAE as the country poses similar market conditions with their home country.
KRBL’s home country marketing plan will be successful in UAE also due to same cultural backgrounds of their society.
It should try to start its export as soon as possible because there is no China threat in this segment at the moment, and the competition is only with Pakistan and Thailand.
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Meet the Russian-American Hacker Who's on Your Side
Michael Borohovski
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People shaking up their fields, old dogs doing new tricks, and those who like to bring the ruckus.
Because while curiosity might have killed the cat, it might have also made him really, really rich.
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The Daily Dose AUG 13 2017
Hi Friend, it’s me, The Tick, and I’ve got exciting news! I have joined OZY as an editor — of the super variety! It’s a job with words, and grammar and stuff! Because there’s only one thing mightier than the pen: Me! And from Aug 25, you can watch me be mighty on Amazon Prime.
GI Joes? No. Nothing about the playworld of plastic dolls held much purchase for Michael Borohovski, a New York native and the only son of Russian immigrants who’d hooved it out of the Soviet Union for Israel as soon as they could. His interests trended toward the mysteries inside machines: “erector sets I could put together, or little calculators and computer toys I could take apart and play with,” explains Borohovski on a recent Sunday in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. “I was interested in why and how things worked, rather than just that they did.”
An impulse that led to semi-typical pre-teen pursuits like magic, juggling, and keyboards, but also really atypical ones. At 9, Borohovski started figuring out Visual Basic and COBOL, inelegant programming languages that still have the power to baffle but that he was teaching his college sophomore sister. She never used them, largely due to a lack of interest, but Borohovski? A totally different story.
“It was a eureka moment for me because I could actually make my computer do stuff,” says the now-30-year-old. A Pentium 133 that Borohovski split the cost of with his parents was now making pretty algorithmic light shows. He was also using it for games, Sub 7 to be exact, and then, presciently, hacking games. “My best friends and I would have wars with each other where we’d steal each other’s accounts and try to one-up each other,” he recalls. “That was actually how we got better.”
Hacking is not a technical issue, it’s a political one.
The “we” being Borohovski and a friend who formed Intense Beta Elite, or IBElite, a site that posted screenshots of and info on leaked Microsoft beta releases and had tons of traffic, according to Borohovski — until the pair got girlfriends and started high school. Borohovski got into Stuyvesant High School — the most selective of New York City’s nine specialized high schools — that gathered kid geniuses from across the five boroughs and set them loose. By the time he was 16, Borohovski was interning at Morgan Stanley and running his first company.
“My family needed the money,” he says simply. His company, Glexicon Communications, a web hosting company and VPS provider, made the fatal mistake of picking up contracts from a failing company in the same space only to see its workload triple just as everyone on staff was taking SATs and trying to get into college. The upshot? The company died after 18 months, and Borohovski, who planned to join the military if he didn’t get into one of the two schools he’d applied to, headed off to the first to accept him: MIT.
And in short order internships at financial companies and Apple and trying to hammer out a plan while teaching computer science to Palestinian and Israeli kids in the Middle East. But it wasn’t until he graduated that a worldview started to coalesce. He was doing software security – vulnerability discovery and exploit development – for the defense and intelligence community at a company called ManTech, and hating it. Then he and Ainsley Braun, a fellow MIT grad, came to see that danger was literally everywhere. “We were constantly finding vulnerabilities in websites we used every day,” Borohovski says. “And we decided to stop them on the development level.”
That decision, taken in 2011, took the form of Tinfoil Security, which offered simple, automated security tools, precisely when the security space was heating up. Their company launch also dovetailed with Ken Ross, longtime Silicon Valley angel investor, turning his interest to DevOps. “Scanning apps that are being developed before they go to market,” said Ross, who put his money where his mouth was, “was a smart way to stop the bad guys before they could do much damage.”
Like by hacking an election? Borohovski, fluent in Russian, takes a breath and, speaking like a man whose pauses say as much as the sentences on either side, opines, “Putin’s main interest is staying in power, and Russia has always been aggressive regarding cyber-warfare. So has China and the U.S. But hacking is not a technical issue, it’s a political one. In other words: the means has always been there.”
A sentiment seconded by 99.44 percent of the folks on a well-traveled hacker’s forum on Reddit, where the general consensus is that even the smart folks are never quite smart enough. “Bad guys are going to get in wherever they want to,” says Stanford engineering PhD Albert Chang.
And while it’s not entirely clear that Borohovski and Tinfoil are in any position to stop them completely, that’s not really the point, says Nick Schilbe, a computer security expert and former senior director at WhiteHat Security. “Let’s assume the hacker or bad guy is a roach,” Schilbe says. “Most companies don’t have roaches but live in a neighborhood that can easily become roach infested. And all of them pretty much have holes in the foundation, leave food out constantly and have clutter everywhere.”
Which makes for a hell of a business model. One that Tinfoil Security, in the six years since launch, seems to have sold to tens of thousands of clients ranging from small businesses to the enterprise and Fortune 10 companies. Sold with the implicit understanding that you can pay the bad guys to work for you, in which case they become the good-bad guys (Tinfoil’s staff is 20 deep with another 15 hires planned for 2017). Or you can hope your luck doesn’t run out — though no one with a realistic grasp of the digital world appears to put much stock in luck.
“Look, my parents believed that everything had to be tried once, or you’d regret not trying it,” Borohovski says. “This philosophy has stuck with me.” The difference being that most hackers will try more than once, and from elections to business and the business of elections, it seems smarter to keep stuff safe than not.
“Security is very complicated,” Ross says. To which Borohovski might and did respond: “Well, it’s not supposed to be easy.”
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BC Racers (a.k.a. Stone Racers) Download (1995 Sports Game)
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BC Racers is a kart racing game starring characters from the Core Design's Chuck Rock series of games.
Each of the racers in this game rides a prehistoric motorcycle with a side car. On each two-character team, one person drives the motorcycle, and the other fights off opponents using clubs, punches, kicks, etc.
Graphics in BC Racers consist of a flat landscape decorated with scaled sprites to compose the track and scenery.
Back in the stone age the millionaire and playboy Millstone Rockafella arranges a bike race of the wilder kind. The winner will receive the "Ultimate Boulder Bash Bike" - a must-have for every cool caveman. So it comes that 8 teams - 6 of them consisting of 2 persons and the other two of single-dinos - race this tournament. Among the riders are some well known VIPs (at least if you spent lots of time playing other caveman games) : Chuck Rock & Chuck JR, Cliff Ace and Roxy, Stiggy and many more.
From the main menu you have the choice how difficult your game should be: Practice, Easy, Medium and ROCKHARD. Each difficulty level has 8 heats which makes a total of 32 tracks. If you win all 8 heats you gain a trophy. After being successful in all races you will get the adored boulder bash bike.
The first thing you have to do is to chose one of the 5 teams to race with. The next screen is a 3D racetrack and the camera zooms to your Fred Flintstone-like bike waiting for the starter-caveman to swing the flag. All bikes (except those of the dinos) have a sidecar with the second team member. He (or she) is responsible for hitting the other bikes with his (or her) special weapon. We have hammers, clubs, a screaming female and stuff like that depending which team you chose. If you hit one of the other bikes they get damaged or they drift off the track. But be careful if you are hit or if you ram the other bikes (or the obstacles on and next to the track) as your bike can be damaged, too. If your bike is wrecked you have to use one life to restart the current race.
The first race is in "Rock City". After that you have a night rally, desert drive, jungle rumble, swamp stomp, blizzard blitz, cave rave and finally the volcano dash. If you gathered enough points during each race, you get the trophy and the sceneries repeat with harder tracks.
For real fun try the two player split-screen mode and race against your friends. This feature increases the replay-factor dramatically.
The controls are a bit confusing at first. If you have no joystick you accelerate with "q" and brake with "a". To go left press ',' and to go right use '.' (full stop). Use to punch and to activate your nitro-boost. Hitting 'a' while steering makes it a handbrake turn. Press 'P' to pause the game. When paused you can change Graphical detail-levels with the function keys (F1, F2...).
The graphics in the game are quite good (320 x 200 pixels, bitmap objects in a "flat" 3D world). To conclude all that I have to say that BC Racers is a nice racing game that used the up-to-date technology of the early 90s. If you love games like WackyWheels you may have a lot of fun with BC Racers but it surely has not the quality to become an evergreen since the tracks do not vary enough and there are no power-ups or special weapons you can discover. I would give it 3 out of 5 possible points.
Small race game in the prehistoric. Looks like Mario Kart, but it's not. Really. The graphics are okay. But you can't do much else then drive..
A fun prehistoric racing game that was also released on many console systems, e.g. 3DO and Megadrive. The storyline is as simple as the gameplay: millionaire caveman Millstone Rockafella has arranged a formula BC contest with a Ultimate Boulderdash Bike as the prize. A host of bizarre characters have entered in pairs -- one driving, one deploying weapons from the side-car -- in a wacky race across eight circuits ranging from a 'jungle rumble' to the hellish 'volcano dash'.
There are four skill settings and they make a significant difference in game, with 'easy level' loop tracks suddenly spawning all sorts of dog-leg corners and chicanes on harder difficulty settings. Other than that, it's all very straightforward with no power-ups or unusual hazards -- apart from bridges and leaps. Besides one-player mode, you have a choice of competing against a second player alone or with all the racers included. Getting down to gameplay, the first minutes you need to get used to the steering which reacts much stronger than in the shareware kart games. This really is not a problem here, since the controls are much more manageable than the overly- sensitive steering of Virgin's SuperKarts. In BC Racers, you get used to it quite fast. The first stage is easy and just a warm-up. The second one features a race at night as extra difficulty. There's a light spot in front of you, in the area of your front lamp, but the view is much worse than in the first stage. Upcoming stages feature bridges and ramps - too bad if you miss them - and even snow. After eight stages, the settings repeat but with new courses. This way, you get 32 levels in all. The higher ones have quite interesting course lay-outs (in contrast to the rather simple first eight levels) with narrow passages and even narrower short-cuts. As they get very difficult later on, it should be enough to keep you occupied for a while. Even more in split-screen two-player-mode, of course, which harks back to the days of Epyx's Pitstop, with very good graphics detail that isn't very pixellated. Overall, if you enjoy Wild Wheels or other kart racing games, you'll enjoy BC Racers. Not a top dog, but recommended -- and best of all, the game was released as freeware in 1995 :)
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MiG-29 Fulcrum Download (1998 Simulation Game)
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MiG-29 Fulcrum is a gorgeous game. The texture maps on all of the planes are very highly detailed, the terrain is attractive and exaggerated in height so that its more fun to fly low on your ingress to target. Your own plane is a sight to behold though. I have not ever seen planes looking this good in a sim before. The texture mapping is damned near photorealistic. The planes also feature little touches like the ability to see yourself through the canopy of the cockpit. Best off all, the inside of the MiG-29 features the most detailed 3-D virtual cockpit ever seen in a flight sim. It actually looks better than some 2-D cockpits in sims like Jane's F-15. MiG-29 Fulcrum even reflects the control panels on the canopy.
Once you pick your mouth up off of the floor you might also begin to notice the gameplay in MiG-29. It's fun. Most other sims usually elicit a somewhat more complex, err... different reaction. MiG-29 its just... fun. The gameplay feels very reminiscent of Mission Studios Jetfighter 3 or FullBurn, without the narrative depth. Slightly arcade-ish, accessible, in general a fun little firefight. Aw heck, this game is a fun rehash of F-22 Lighting II, Novalogic's first polygonal 3D sim.
Now, the planes don't move completely unrealistically and generally have a moderately believable feel to them. The difference between MiG-29 and more complex sims is simple: you can jump in to this game, familiarize yourself with a few controls, and kick afterburner within a few minutes, unlike more complex simulations which require hours of study and an advanced degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
Most avionics systems are controlled automatically. The plane creates a shoot list for you that may be cycled through, you actually never have to use you radar for targeting or identification, its all done for you. Hell, your wheels even automatically retract after you take off. The designers of this game realized that they were making an arcade-ish "simulation" and designed missions that, assuming you succeed, would make you a triple ace after 20 minutes of game time.
It really is not hard to kill your enemies, missiles usually work unusually well (the reverse of which being that they are very hard to evade yourself), and getting kills with the cannon is almost laughably to easy once you get in range. The lack of realism shows most obviously in landings and takeoffs. You'll have a very, very easy time placing your MiG-29 back on terra firma. A lot of this is due to the fact that you can take off and maintain flight at velocities usually associated with falling like a brick.
But, whether or not this is a realistic or believable simulation of what it is actually like to fly an MIG-29, it is still his an enjoyable romp through them wild white clouds and the dainty blue sky. Speaking of clouds; MIG-29 features the thickest cloud level in recorded computer history, a trait inherited from F-22 Lightning II. Actually, the engine featured in MIG-29 and F-16 Multirole Fighter (It's sister game, released simultaneously) is simply an updated version of the F-22 L2 engine.
Sound is good. There ain't nothing spectacular in the audio department, but there is nothing wrong there either. Much like the rest of the game the sound satisfies but doesn't warrant a letter home to your dead hamsters and other assorted pets. I do have one problem with the music though. This is a game about Russia, hell you can even have the control tower talk to you in Russian if you want! So why is it that the music is generic American techno? Have the designers of this game never listened to the music in "The Hunt For Red October"? Russian themes could have been used to make some truly memorable music and lend some much needed atmosphere to the game. Would a little mandolin have killed them?
So, in the overall estimation of the game there isn't anything to scream in pain about, and certainly nothing to moan in pleasure (with a Russian accent) about. The game elicits a pleasant grin. Basically it all comes down to this: MIG-29 is a good game for anyone who has never played a flight sim before, but would like to fancy themselves zipping along at mach 2.5 preserving communism. On the other hand, if you are a flight sim freak, you'd do better to look elsewhere for your hyper realistic aerodynamic fix. Fulcrum is a solid game with impressive graphics, perfect for the common, enforced, state-minded average Yuri.
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Sky Bet Are Making Kickabouts Better
Sky Bet,are 'Making Kickabouts Better' by giving away hundreds of Football League club-specific official Mitre Delta Hyperseam match balls.
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The balls are of the highest quality available, are FIFA Approved, and are the same as the balls the professionals use in training and during Football League games.
Sky Bet’s Head of Sponsorship David Tweed said: “It’s our mission to make things better this season and what better way to do this than to provide an upgrade to the tired footballs being used in kickabouts all over the country?
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In the extensive discussion of childlessness by choice in the September issue, I noted that there was no mention of what I consider to be the most important reason to choose to remain childless: What thinking person, who is aware of the many calamities we face as a result of population growth, can, in good conscience, choose to add to the problem? To me, remaining childless, or at least not exceeding replacement fertility, is the most responsible and unselfish choice. This would certainly be the most immediate answer I would give to anyone who inferred that childlessness by choice was “selfish”!
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I was surprised that there was no mention of a big reason for why this is the case: that population stabilization is viewed by some as a racist aspiration by white elites to suppress black and brown population growth both domestically and abroad. And that it is not population growth, but rather the rapaciousness of capitalism and the consumption of the top 1 percent that is the problem. At least that’s the attitude sometimes expressed on online forums that I’ve seen.
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Leilani Münter promotes environmental activism yet participates in professional auto racing, an industry with the carbon footprint of a brachiosaurus. Her advocacy of veganism and her choice to be childfree — even with a dream of race cars someday powered by hydrogen fuel cells or electricity — will not compensate for her profession’s current wasteful and CO2-spewing consumption of fossil fuels.
In an era when conservation of resources and wise stewardship of the planet are more important than ever, driving round and round a track at the highest possible speed is no longer a form of entertainment we should be glorifying. The sport of car racing should long ago have been relegated to the scrap heap.
I think you missed the single most important point that influences fertility decline: childcare costs. If economists are alarmed about not having enough future workers, they could support taxes and benefits sufficient for providing high quality childcare.
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American retail giant Target, currently in the process of a massive four-year, nationwide redesign of its more than 1,000 stores, this week revealed its first “next-generation” retail concept in Richmond, Texas. The 124,000-square-foot store is the first to be built from the ground up with the new concept in mind, which caters to both busy and not-so-busy shoppers equally with distinct entrances on opposite sides of the building.
Through the ‘ease' entrance, shoppers who are in a rush are greeted with a supermarket-like setup with a focus on quick, grab-and-go necessities like groceries, home supplies, pre-made dinners and last-minute gift ideas. Customers on this side of the building can also pick up online orders in-store or curbside directly to their trunk.
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One of the biggest riddles in physics is the apparent imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe. To date, there is no explanation as to why matter and antimatter failed to completely annihilate one another immediately after the big bang and how the surplus matter was created that went on to form the universe as we know it. Experiments conducted at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have contributed towards a resolution of this problem. For the first time a direct and high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton has been conducted successfully. The magnetic moment is one of the fundamental properties of protons, which combine with neutrons to form the nucleus of atoms. In principal, the method can also be used to measure the magnetic moment of an antiproton with a similarly high precision, making it possible to investigate matter/antimatter asymmetry. Related experiments are now being set up at the CERN research center in Geneva, Switzerland.
Years of preparation were necessary before the measurements were possible and the results obtained have far exceeded those of all previous attempts. In addition to Mainz University, the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, the Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, and the Japanese RIKEN research facility all took part in the experiment. Using a double Penning trap, the researchers were able to determine the relevant parameter, the so-called 'g-factor,' with a precision of 3.3 x 109. The result is 760 times more precise than all the results documented independently at Mainz University and Harvard University in 2012 and three-times more precise than the result obtained by an indirect measurement in 1972.
"Protons are like tiny rod magnets. They have a magnetic moment 24 magnitudes – equal to one millionth of a billionth of a billionth – weaker than a typical compass needle. This is the first time we have been able to measure anything on this scale," said Andreas Mooser, primary author of the study and a member of Professor Jochen Walz's research team at Mainz University. The key to success proved to be the use of a double Penning trap, i.e., an electromagnetic particle trap, to isolate and evaluate a single free proton. An analysis trap serves to detect spin-quantum jumps of the proton, while in a precision trap precise frequency measurements are conducted.
It has proved possible in the past to use Penning traps to directly measure the magnetic moment of individual particles such as electrons and their antiparticle counterparts, positrons. But adapting this approach for use with protons is an enormous challenge as the magnetic moment of a proton is 660 times smaller than that of an electron. The apparatus for the experiment needed to be far more sensitive. The collaborating partners were able to develop such a highly sensitive double Penning trap so that they could undertake the long-planned measurements.
Apart from the direct measurement performed in Mainz, the previous most precise measurements were obtained by means of an indirect method in 1972, where the hyper-fine structure of atomic hydrogen was measured and subsequently theoretical corrections were applied.
The principle of a direct measurement in a double Penning trap can also be used for the antiproton. "We can then compare the two results and test these against the fundamental predictions of the standard model," explained Stefan Ulmer, coordinator of the BASE joint project, which is currently setting up a corresponding experiment at CERN in Geneva.
Using the double Penning trap technique for the antiproton could enhance the precision of results obtained during the ATRAP project in 2013 by a factor of at least 1,000. Assuming that the measured values differ, this would represent an important step forward with regard to understanding the matter/antimatter asymmetry of our universe.
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Double Penning trap used to measure the magnetic moment of the proton. The double Penning trap is made of gold-plated cylindrical trap electrodes; the individual trap electrodes are isolated from one another using sapphire rings. During measurements the trap is in an ultra-high vacuum. To the right of the image is the outer housing of a detection instrument which allows for the observation of single protons. The entire structure is about 20 centimeters long.
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The oscillating proton (red) generates a tiny current which is recorded using highly sensitive electronic detectors. The red arrow represents the magnetic moment of the proton; the green lines indicate the magnetic field in the trap.
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May 5, 2009 Dan FleshlerComments(12)
At the AIPAC Policy Conference 20 years ago, Secretary of State James Baker made a widely publicized speech that, if I’m not mistaken, was written by Aaron David Miller. He told the throng:
For Israel, now is the time to lay aside, once and for all, the unrealistic vision of a Greater Israel. Israeli interests in the West Bank and Gaza, security and otherwise, can be accommodated in a settlement based on UN Resolution 242. Foreswear annexation; stop settlement activity; allow schools to reopen; reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights.
That was greeted with loud boos and catcalls. The audible hostility continued even though Baker also made serious demands of the PLO and the Arab states.
Twenty years later, Vice President Joseph Biden told the AIPAC Policy Conference:
“Israel has to work for a two-state solution. You’re not going to like my saying this…But don’t build more settlements. Dismantle existing outposts. Allow Palestinians freedom of movement.”
The video of the speech indicates there was applause from at least part of the crowd, probably the centrist, moderate Democrats who are part of the AIPAC family, contrary to the popular notion that the organization’s members are all Likudniks, neo-cons and settler supporters. Everyone else was silent. But there was no overt hostility.
I wasn’t there, but based on conversations with two people who were in the room, and based on past attendance at these conferences, I can guarantee that the rest of the crowd just sat there uncomfortably, waiting for the next applause line, hoping and praying that Biden would not challenge the Israeli government again. During these plenary speeches, they wait for chances to give standing ovations to any and every politician who declares a commitment to Israel. That is how they had greeted Biden’s earlier, mandatory statement that America’s commitment to Israel’s security would not change, and was non-negotiable. They were in no mood for a fight, even though Biden’s remarks were confrontational, even though one of AIPAC’s chief goals is to make sure there is no distance between official American and Israeli positions, no public disputes between the two governments.
Why the different reactions to the two speeches? One of them has to do with political style. Bush and Baker were “tone-deaf†when it came to dealing with the Jewish community, said UCLA Professor Steven Spiegel in my book. He thinks the Bush ’41 team could have reduced at least some tensions with Jews in the U.S. by paying more attention to their fears and insecurities about Israel. A president, Spiegel told me, “needs to reassure them with the rhetoric, then do the right thing.”
In contrast to Bush ’41 and Baker, Obama, Biden and Clinton have a much better feel for the organized Jewish community. They have been doing their best to reassure the community of their commitment to meeting Israel’s core security needs, even though there have been public disagreements with Netanyahu on a number of issues.
Another reason why Biden (and, before him, John Kerry, who also criticized the settlements) got away with it is that these days, AIPAC makes a greater effort to avoid public confrontations with American administrations. Attendees at these conferences are repeatedly told that speakers are guests in AIPAC’s house as well as friends of Israel, and the speakers should be treated accordingly.
AIPAC is terrified of a public spat with an overwhelmingly popular Democratic President and his administration. Contrary to popular belief, AIPAC’s highest priority is not to promote the policies of Israeli governments, although it generally tries to do so. The group is more interested in solidifying America’s short- and long-term relationship with Israel. For that, it needs access to and good relations with bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon and the White House. A public squabble with Obama and his team is not helpful to AIPAC staffers who need to get into the right rooms with the right people. They also need to get their board members into those very same rooms because that is an expected perk of voluntary leadership.
Bibi Netanyahu also seems to be doing his best to avoid a confrontation. In his videotaped speech to the AIPAC conference, he endorsed negotiations without preconditions and apparently abandoned his earlier commitment to addressing the Palestinians’ economic plight before serious political talks could occur.
But the confrontation probably can’t be avoided forever. Eventually, Obama will have to decide whether to insist loudly and clearly that, like Palestinian violence and incitement, Israel’s recalcitrant refusal to stop its settlements projects is unacceptable, and against American, Israeli and Palestinian interests.
If he stakes out that position, most American Jews –like most Americans—will support him. So will most of the U.S. Congress, although there will be some inevitable squalls from groups to the right of AIPAC and their congressional allies. If that happens, AIPAC will be in a tough position. Bibi should not count on the group’s ability to wriggle out of it, and give him the kind of raucous support it gave one of his mentors, Yitzhak Shamir.
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12 thoughts on “Baker and Biden at AIPAC: A Tale of Two Speeches”
Thomas Mitchell says:
Bibi is fairly safe on his initial trip. The crunch will come next year after the recession ends and Obama will have more time to devote to foreign policy. If Obama fails to make any headway in negotiations with Iran and Afghanistan and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, Obama and Clinton will be desperate for some sort of progress and success in the Middle East. That is when they will start sending the negative signals that indicate that a rift is starting to develop between Jerusalem and Washington.
Y. Ben-David says:
Why there is nothing new in Biden’s speech:
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/why_biden_s_words_have
I partly agree with Thomas. But he is falling prey to the idea that the Arab/Israeli conflict is somehow insulated from what is going on around the world, particularly in the Middle East. For example, in 1967, one of the factors that played a role in leading up to the war was the fact that the US was bogged down in Vietnam. If Thomas’ scenario about deterioration in Afghanistan and Pakistand (and we might as well add Lebanon which will shortly have elections which may bring Hizbullah to power and the planned draw-down of forces in Iraq and the possible nuclearization of Iran) this will certainly impact us here. If it is seen that radical Islamic forces are on the move in these places, then among the Palestinians and others in the area that could lead them to saying that these forces will also force Israel to make concessions without any such comparable move on their side, so they might as well wait and get everything without having to make any concessions to the “peace process”, leaving Obama’s big plans high and dry.
I just got Benny Morris’ new book “One State, Two States”. MANDATORY READING FOR EVERYONE!
I was flipping through it and I came across his description of the “Clinton Parameters”. The fact is that the Palestinans REJECTED them. There was no agreement on anything. However, so that the Americans would not cut them off, they called the rejection “acceptance with reservations”, but the reservations pretty negated the whole thing.
Importantly, it confirms what I stated here earlier: THE PALESTINIANS DO NOT AGREE TO JEWISH SOVEREIGNITY OVER THE WESTERN WALL.
claskov says:
Dan, I think this is germane, and something that deserves wide attention after the politically-motivated hit on AIPAC and Jane Harman. It’s from yesterday’s Washington Times. Whatever you think of that paper, the facts speak for themselves, and they rebut a lot of the conventional wisdom on recent events:
“Rep. Jane Harman, facing a likely primary challenge from the left flank of the Democratic Party, was one of the only lawmakers in 2003 to challenge the CIA’s program of harsh interrogations, according to a little-noticed letter to the CIA that was declassified last year.
The California Democrat’s position contrasts with that of a longtime colleague and rival, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Mrs. Pelosi has in the past two weeks said she was powerless to stop the interrogation program, which critics say included torture, and that she was never told that the program was actually being implemented.
Mrs. Harman, on the other hand, did voice some objections in 2003.
A Feb. 10, 2003, letter she sent to the CIA said that the interrogation program “raises profound policy questions and I am concerned about whether these have been as rigorously examined as the legal questions. I would like to know what kind of policy review took place and what questions were examined.”
In the letter, she also urged the CIA not to destroy tapes of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, an al Qaeda operative said to have been waterboarded, after an inquiry by the CIA’s inspector general.”
As an addendum, I would just say, thank God we live in a country where Jews can participate in government, and bring to bear their longstanding commitment to the alternate traditions of respect for law and vigilance regarding human rights that have been so central to Jewish history and thinking. Jane Harman has irrefutably shown her indebtedness to both of these pillars of Jewish culture, which have helped secure and perpetuate the liberties that we all enjoy in the United States of America.
An historical perspective on the “bash-AIPAC” movement:
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Thanks for the reference to the article on Harman. We take insights and truth here from any source, including the Wash Times. Keep in mind, though, that she’s still a Democrat, albeit a hawkish one. And given her defense credentials, she needs to protect herself among centrist voters. That doesn’t mean her notes were insincere. But communications from Congresspeople that are hidden often magically see the light of day when it is politicallly beneficial.
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The portion of the Western Wall commonly known as the Wailing Wall that opens onto the plaza and where petitioners insert their notes was not in dispute. What was in dispute was another smaller portion of the wall further on.
Dan, that is indeed something to bear in mind, but if your going to put a cynical construction on the whole thing, it’s surprising that Jane Harman was one of only a few to be clever enough to hedge her bets by straddling the issue. In contrast say, to Nancy Pelosi, who evidently had so such misgivings about appearing to endorse the CIA program without reservation.
claskov,
Very unusual response to a blog comment: maybe you’re right!
I’m sure your cynicism is more than warranted. I don’t harbor a great deal of faith in either party these days, excepting the individual lawmaker here and there. Strange for me, formerly a hardcore (and still registered) Democrat.
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How acupuncture could help with your seasonal allergies
By Kelsey Roy on May 7, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.
Spring is here, and for many that means seasonal allergies are too.
There are many ways to handle itchy eyes, runny nose or uncontrollable sneezing of allergies, both natural or with medication.
If you are looking for a natural way to help combat allergies (and aren't scared of needles), some studies show that acupuncture may be worth a try.
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, a 2015 evaluation of 13 studies showed that acupuncture could help with symptoms of allergic rhinitis, or hay fever.
The studies involved almost 2,400 people. The review found that the groups that received acupuncture reported reduced nasal symptoms compared to the groups that didn't.
That same year, the American Academy of Otolaryngology issued practice guidelines that recommends clinicians to offer or refer acupuncture to patients suffering with allergies that would like an alternative to medicine.
How does acupuncture help with seasonal allergies?
Allergies come from a reaction in the immune system. From a Western medicine point of view, the use of acupuncture along with a traditional Chinese medicine herbal formula can help regulate the body's immune system, according to Dr. Sean Yu, owner of Jing River Acupuncture.
Acupuncture has been a practice of traditional Chinese medicine for hundreds of years, and offers its own explanation on how acupuncture can help with allergies.
"The basic theory is that there are 14 channels that flow out of the body. Each channel, we also call them meridians, is connected to an internal organ," Yu said. "There are more than 500 points on the meridian. The points look like a well. The qi energy flows through it, so when we puncture the points, it can regulate the qi energy's flow through the meridian. It can balance the whole body."
Qi is the vital energy that flows through a person's body, Yu added.
So what does this mean for your seasonal allergies?
There are two channels that are focused on when a patient receives acupuncture for allergy symptoms. One channel is the lung, the other is the stomach.
"In Chinese medicine, the lung qi opens the orifice in the nose," Yu explained.
To target the lung channel, needles are placed in the arm and chest. For the stomach channel, needles are focused around the nose, down to the stomach and sometimes the leg.
Yu has been studying and practicing acupuncture for over 20 years. In 1991, he graduated from medical school in China, and has been practicing both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine since.
Yu moved to the United States in 2004 to teach acupuncture and other subjects at the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Roseville. After six years with AAAOM, Yu left to open his first clinic in Hastings.
Yu runs clinics in Hastings and Woodbury, as well as Edina. The clinic in Hastings is located at 117 Third St. W. The clinic in Woodbury is located at 6949 Valley Creek Road, Suite 260.
For more information on Yu's practice, visit www.jingriveracupunctures.com, or call 952-686-8589 for the Hastings clinic and 651-674-3790 for the Woodbury clinic.
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by: Rudy Williams
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) — Billboards are supposed to grab your attention, but one local pastor is using them to sell a path to salvation. Pastor Kia Moore’s billboards use the word “mane,” a word somewhat unique to Memphis.
Even Memphis Tigers Coach Mike Norvell took notice tweeting, “Love the 901 – #MemphisMane.”
“We joke about this being a pop-up church that I could literally have church in my truck because I carry a lot of church stuff with me,” said Moore.
Moore leads the Church at the Well, established only six months ago. The church meets every Sunday in the White Station High School auditorium in East Memphis.
Moore is showing us things she uses during worship that she carries around in the back of her Ford Explorer.
“Stuff for kids, blessed oil for when we pray, some more signage.”
You may not be familiar with Moore’s fledgling congregation, but you’ve no doubt seen its messages posted on billboards at Walnut Grove and Poplar at 240 branded with Memphis’ icon word “mane.”
Social media erupted over these billboards reading *For God so loved Memphis Mane,* and Facebook friends love it. It took a long time for Moore to gather the courage to move forward with the messages.
“Knowing that people would be questioning, ‘Why did they use Mane with a scripture?’ In my mind I was like, you’re already a woman. Just wait,” said Moore. “Then eventually I was like I don’t care what people think I’m doing.”
A marketing professional, Moore knew exactly what she was doing. The Bible tells the story of Jesus meeting Mary at the well. Moore says those billboards are invitations for all to meet her at the Well.
“So, those billboards are missional,” said Moore. “We wanted to go after people who use Mane every day, who have been in Memphis all of their lives, who read the Bible but might not see themselves in scripture.”
The “mane” billboards were supposed to come down the day after Easter, but the billboard company has offered the Church at the Well an extended run. Moore says not having the expense of a brick and mortar church allows them to afford the billboards at well under a hundred dollars for a week.
“I’m doing exactly what God called me to do,” says Moore.
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September 04, 2016 / V. The Guerrilla Economist
Turn on most business news stations and you will still hear Brexit being talked about, although now it is mostly as an excuse by companies who failed to make their estimated earnings for the last quarter.
But want to hear these paid tools discuss the black swans of Deutsche Bank and the insolvent Italian banks? At best you better tune into the late night European Squawk on the Street to even catch a glimpse of this.
Yet these pale in comparison to an upcoming event that will make even Britain's exit from the Eurozone little more than a casual summer storm. And what is this potentially earthshaking event?
The Italian Referendum... which current Italian President Matteo Renzi has staked his entire political career upon.
“An important election is coming up, and I’m not talking about the US presidential election. The upcoming referendum in Italy this fall will have a major macroeconomic impact on the world. But hardly anyone outside of Italy is paying much attention to it—yet.
I’ve been saying for some time in interviews around the country that the referendum in Italy could have even more of an impact than the Brexit vote did in the UK. And like the Brexit vote, it is rife with emotion and political turmoil, making the outcome too close to call.
The current prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has basically bet his career on this referendum, which would allow him to enact much-needed reforms. In fact, they’re the same reforms that I have written about in my letters over the past five years and that I talked about in my previous two books.
Italy has about as sclerotic a governmental process as any country in Europe. And that is saying something. There is no end to corruption and crony politics. Each faction wants to keep the status quo and keep its perks but wants everybody else to give theirs up. If you’re a voter in Italy, your frustration is understandable.
This vote in Italy needs to go on your economic radar screen. If the “no” vote wins, Renzi has promised to resign. This would throw Italy into a political crisis. Then there would be a real potential to elect parties that would call for a vote on whether to stay in the European Union. And at this point, it is not clear what the Italians would decide to do.
Know this: The European Monetary Union does not work very well, if at all, without Italy. A “no” vote would be the death knell of the euro.”
— Mauldin Economics
For the European Central Bank, Italy has long been a linchpin for its survival, especially since like with Greece, its inclusion into the EU was done using manipulated financial data at the hands of none other than Goldman Sachs. And it is why following the scandal that threw out the duly elected Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi, the European Commission planted a banker in the office of Prime Minister (Mario Monti), and implemented austerity measures that ensured that Italy would be under the dominion of the ECB for decades.
But like with Britain's referendum vote, and the rise of political candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in the U.S., and Marine Le Pen and Beppo Grillo in Europe have provided Prime Minister Renzi the cover he needs to trust that the nationalist frequency shift taking place across the globe will be on his side in breaking Italy's deadlocked parliament, and allow the Italian people to potentially do in finance what the UK did in geo-politics.
One thing is for certain, the crumbling of the European Union is well under way, and should the Italian Referendum succeed as it did North of Gibraltar in Britain earlier this summer, then that end for the EU, as well as the Euro, will come much faster than anyone could anticipate.
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UN Children's Fund UNICEF said on Thursday that it aims to inoculate 67,000 children in Ituri province
According to UNICEF, nearly 2,000 people have died from measles across DRC so far this year
Latest health data from DRC point to around 115,000 cases of suspected measles in the country
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa - Health workers have started a massive measles vaccination campaign in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a region that's in the grip of the second deadliest Ebola virus outbreak on record.
UN Children's Fund UNICEF said on Thursday that it aims to inoculate 67,000 children in Ituri province.
They're just a small fraction of the 400,000 people displaced by an upsurge in communal violence and clashes between Government forces and non-State armed groups in the resource-rich area.
According to UNICEF, nearly 2,000 people have died from measles across DRC so far this year, more than two-thirds of them children under five.
Latest health data from DRC point to around 115,000 cases of suspected measles in the country, far more than the 65,000 tally last year.
Ebola a complicating factor in protecting the vulnerable
Tackling the measles outbreak is complicated by the fact that its symptoms – fever, redness around the eyes, diarrhoea – are similar to those displayed by Ebola patients.
On Wednesday, the DRC authorities reported that the latest Ebola outbreak – affecting Ituri and neighbouring North Kivu province - has killed 1,646 people since it began last August, while 683 people have recovered.
To avoid infection with Ebola virus, measles vaccinators must wear surgical gowns to prevent contact with blood or other bodily fluids carrying the deadly haemorrhagic disease.
Initial focus is on 'unsanitary' camps for displaced
As the measles vaccination campaign begins in Ituri, the UN agency said that it is focusing initially on protecting 27,000 children living in crowded camps in and around Bunia, the largest town in the province.
Many have been displaced by multiple attacks and counter-attacks involving Hema herders and Lendu farmers in recent months, as well as clashes between Congolese armed forces and non-state actors.
"The combined threat of Ebola and measles for the thousands of families living in overcrowded and unsanitary displacement camps is unprecedented," said UNICEF DRC Representative Edouard Beigbeder.
Ituri is home to 35 camps which are scattered across the province, UNICEF says.
Insecurity makes area 'virtually inacessible'
Many of those living in them are far away from treatment centres, the UN agency added in a statement, which noted that armed groups have destroyed up to half the health facilities in territory that is "virtually inaccessible" owing to insecurity.
"The northeastern part of DRC is home to one of the worst humanitarian crises today," Mr. Beigbeder said. "Whether it is from measles, Ebola, or the reality of living in a displacement camp, children are at grave risk. We must do everything we can to protect them."
Measles campaigns are also being planned for Tchomia and Nyankunde health zones, elsewhere in Ituri.
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Coma To 21-K!
Ingrid Schoeman had tuberculosis – and suffered traumatic side effects from her TB medication. Running helped restore her health.
Lisa Abdellah | 9 July 2018
Recently, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi released a video to raise awareness about tuberculosis and support the TB Proof #UnmaskStigma campaign. TB Proof is an organisation that advocates for safe and effective treatment for South African TB survivors. He wore a white mask emblazoned with the words ‘Zero Stigma’, to symbolise the unmasking of the shame associated with the disease.
The high-profile politician’s sentiments are echoed by Ingrid Schoeman, an activist for TB Proof who survived traumatic side effects from the medication she was given to treat drug-resistant TB: liver failure, a coma, and damage to the peripheral nerves in her feet.
“When I came out of hospital after 75 days, my feet looked like a baby’s; soft, as though they’d never walked on anything before,” recalls the Pretoria 32-year-old. “I struggled to wear shoes, and when my feet touched carpet, they burned as though an electric current was passing through them.
I struggled to wear shoes, and when my feet touched carpet, they burned as though an electric current was passing through them
“Neuropathy in the feet was one of a handful of distressing side effects I suffered. Phumeza Tisile, a student friend of mine and now a powerful TB activist, is deaf today because of the treatment she took. The idea that TB survivors are administered medication that is known to cause hearing loss in up to 50% of the people who take it is ludicrous.”
But Ingrid is grateful for the suffering she endured with TB, as she can now relate to others in South Africa who get sick and suffer because of it.
And because of the shame that surrounds TB, it’s seldom talked about. While it’s true that people with immune-suppressive diseases such as HIV and diabetes are more at risk of contracting TB, so are children and pregnant woman. Healthcare workers are six times more likely to be hospitalised for drug-resistant TB than the general population. TB spreads through the air, so anyone can get it.
“I knew something was wrong, so I visited the doctor,” says Schoeman. “A chest X-ray revealed a small black spot, but they didn’t know what it was. Four days later, the spot had deteriorated so much that they suspected it was double-lobe pneumonia.
“Finding out I had TB was actually a relief, because at least then I knew what was making me feel that way.”
Schoeman was admitted to hospital on 5 February 2012; little did she know she was to spend the next two and a half months there. Three weeks in, the treatment she was taking caused her liver to fail, and she fell into a coma. She was in ICU for about a month.
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Bedridden, she lost her independence. She had a tube stuck in her nose and another in her stomach, as well as a drain in her chest; and her arms were blue, because nurses drew blood from them every day to check her electrolytes. When she saw them arriving to draw blood, she would already be in tears at the thought of how much it was going to hurt.
Schoeman found herself in other situations she would never have imagined: she would brush her teeth and spit into a plastic bowl, only to vomit into the same bowl minutes later, when the medication made her feel nauseous. Nurses would have to roll her over and tell her to hold onto a bar while they washed her, as she was too weak to sit up or get out of bed.
“Sometimes, the button I used to call the nurses would fall out of my hand,” Schoeman remembers. “I would stare at it lying on the floor, and feel frustrated because I couldn’t get out of bed and pick it up. And I couldn’t call anyone to help me, because I was in isolation, so I would have to wait until someone physically entered the room.”
It wasn’t all bad. Schoeman remembers the kindness of strangers; and of her physician, Dr Stickells, who would sit with her and empathise. Once, one of the nurses washed Schoeman with scented soap instead of the usual alcohol solution, telling her she wanted her to feel nice for a change. They also sang with her, and played music.
There was humour, too. “What’s up, Eight Months?” the nurses would tease affectionately – when Schoeman’s liver failed, her stomach retained fluid and was very swollen, which gave the impression she was heavily pregnant.
Schoeman’s family visited her in hospital, as did her friends. They told her about work and made her laugh, and she fondly remembers they once brought her Easter eggs.
Schoeman had been bedridden for so long, she left hospital weighing around 40kg; and the muscles on the tops of her feet were so weak, she couldn’t walk properly. Foot cramps would wake her during the night, forcing her to stand up or rub her feet.
She did manage to go on holiday. But because she couldn’t walk upstairs to the restaurant at her hotel, her meals had to be brought down to her on the ground floor. Once, she slipped and fell by the side of the pool, and onlookers stared as she tried – and failed – to get up again. It was humiliating. For a while after that, Schoeman walked more slowly, her back hunched, always looking down at her feet, afraid of falling.
“It’s important that when you’re going through a tough time, there are people who love you and give you hope that things are going to be okay – at the same making you laugh and realise that there is lots of fun to be had in life,” Schoeman says now.
Luckily, she had just such a support system. Once a week, she would stay with her family; they would cook together and enjoy nature, and she felt she could be herself. She’s the youngest of three, and playing with her sisters’ kids provided a much-needed, fun-filled escape from reality.
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A physio began to help Schoeman with basic exercises – using resistance bands, lifting the front part of her foot. She started swimming with a group of women, too; she jokes that they were at least 50 years older than her she was, but the sessions became the highlight of her week.
“I’d never thought of myself as competitive before; but once I saw a lady in her 90s was about to beat me to the end of the pool, I went for it.”
When Schoeman finished her TB treatment and took medication to relieve the pain in her feet, her health returned, and her quality of life improved dramatically. She was still aware she had TB, but she no longer felt limited. Now, she felt free.
Schoeman’s time in hospital had been a painful reminder that having time on your side isn’t always guaranteed, because your life can change in an instant. She’d also thought about all the things she still wanted to do. She’d been inspired by her dad, a Comrades finisher, and her mom, who also enjoys being active.
Surviving a coma had helped her find the confidence she needed to take up running herself. She joined the BestMed Madibaz running club in PE; and running, in turn, increased her self-confidence.
Now based in Pretoria, Schoeman runs six times a week, and has finished four half marathons. Though she confesses she’s no hundred-metre sprinter, she pushes herself to run long distances on the trail, because it gives her the sense of freedom, of moving forwards, that she longed for when her world shrank to the size of a hospital bed.
Campaigning for better treatment options for TB sufferers, Schoeman believes, will prevent others experiencing the same trauma she did, and so many other South Africans still do. Sharing her story, she encourages people who experience the early warning signs of the disease – a cough, night sweats, fever, unexplained weight loss – not to feel ashamed about seeking treatment, so that they don’t infect their families or the broader community with this airborne disease.
When Schoeman travels to speak about her experiences, she takes her running shoes. To her, running through a new place mirrors her triumph over TB, and she notices things she might have missed before.
“Even if the going is slow, I enjoy feeling free and physically able to be active and outdoors,” she says.
I vow not to walk; because I never want to forget how it felt to want to walk when I couldn’t.
Schoeman is an inspiring example to all who doubt they can run; because if someone who started off in a coma can become a runner, what’s stopping you?
For more information, visit tbproof.org.
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The historically important and staggeringly beautiful city of Budapest is one of the key locations in Europe, and is high on most people’s ‘must visit’ lists.
Flights from Budapest with Qatar Airways connect with all major international destinations across the globe, but the sheer elegance and charm of this incredible city will always draw you back. Its ultra-modern Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport is the gateway to and from the ‘Twin City’ and offers an excellent passenger experience whether you’re a first-time traveller or a regular visitor.
Budapest International Airport is well served by public transport. One of the most direct routes to and from the airport is via the efficient bus service. Bus 200E runs between Terminal 2 and the Kőbánya-Kispest metro terminal (metro line M3), via the Ferihegy train station(trains to the Nyugati railway station in Budapest).
Train passengers can travel to the airport by catching a train from Nyugati railway station in Budapest to Ferihegy station, which is the closest to the airport. Taxis are plentiful, and hotels can also organise limousine services for VIP passengers. There are plenty of parking options, including short and long-term stay car parks, and a special business car park, which offers passengers a transfer bus to the terminal. All car parking areas have 24-hour CCTV monitoring.
Arriving at Budapest
Passengers flying from Budapest with Qatar Airways depart from Terminal 2B. After Check-in passengers can access the SkyCourt Hall lounge area and Duty Free facilities before boarding. You should aim to arrive at least two hours before your flight is due to depart.
Facilities at this expansive airport are very good, and recent renovations and improvements have also made finding your way around easier. A good range of retail outlets selling both local goods and luxury accessories are ideal for those last-minute impulse buys, while other traders offer travel essentials to make your journey more pleasant.
A good choice of cuisine is also available, ranging from on-the-go snacks and coffee through to international cuisine.
At Qatar Airways, we are proud to be an award-winning airline – but we also realise this comes with an ongoing responsibility to each and every one of our passengers. You can expect only the very best - the latest in-flight entertainment and the freshest cuisine prepared by our dedicated award-winning chefs. Everything we do is about meeting and exceeding the expectations of our passengers, whether they are travelling for business or pleasure, and this why when you book flights from Budapest to Doha with Qatar Airways you can expect the highest standard of excellence from the moment you check in to the moment you land.
Doha is one of the Middle East’s largest and most vibrant cities, a thoroughly modern destination that welcomes both tourists and business travellers. Whilst its gleaming skyscrapers tell of a booming economy, there’s much more to this jewel of the Gulf, and Qatar’s rich heritage is still evident in the city’s souqs and fascinating museums, such as the Museum of Islamic Arts.
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51st Directors’ Fortnight May 15-25, 2019
Lynn Shelton spent a decade as an editor and an experimental and documentary filmmaker before writing and directing her first feature film. We Go Way Back premiered at Slamdance in 2006, where it picked up the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature. Shelton’s second feature, My Effortless Brilliance, premiered at SXSW in 2008 and won her the 2009 Independent Spirit [Acura] Someone to Watch Award. Humpday, which won a Special Jury Prize for Independent Spirit in filmmaking at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, is Shelton’s third feature film.
Humpday
Feature film - 1h34 - Fortnight 2009
With Alycia Delmore - Joshua Leonard - Mark Duplass
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Jeremy Northam to play Charles II in Devil’s Whore sequel New Worlds
The Tudors star will play a ruthless and unpleasant version of the Merry Monarch in the Channel 4 historical drama
By Ben Dowell
Monday, 29th July 2013 at 9:30 pm
New Worlds, Channel 4’s follow up to its acclaimed 2008 period drama The Devil’s Whore, will feature a very unpleasant, tyrannical and brutal Charles II who will be played by The Tudors’ Jeremy Northam, RadioTimes.com can reveal.
“In New Worlds, the restored King Charles II has betrayed his promise of tolerance and is now exerting a tyrannical and brutal rule over his people with torture, hangings, show trials and state terror being commonplace across England,” said Channel 4 of its four-part drama.
Also starring is The Fall’s Jamie Dornan and Games of Thrones’ Joe Dempsie.
Dornan, who played the handsome killer in The Fall, takes on the part of idealistic outlaw Abe in the drama set in England and America in the 1680s.
Dempsie, who stars as heroic blacksmith Gendry in GoT, plays an American colonist opposing the English crown.
The piece has been co-written by Peter Flannery with Martine Brant and is being seen by the boradcaster as a companion drama to Flannery’s hit 2008 period piece The Devil’s Whore.
Set during the 17th-century English civil war, The Devil’s Whore featured a cast including Andrea Riseborough, Dominic West, Michael Fassbender and John Simm.
Nurse Jackie actress Eve Best will play Angelica, the character portrayed by Riseborough in The Devil’s Whore. Now Countess of Seacourt, she will be seen striving to protect her daughter Beth, played by Freya Mavor (Skins, The White Queen).
Also appearing in the new drama is Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) as Ned’s wife Hope.
Filming begins this month for a transmission next year.
Channel 4 Head of Drama Piers Wenger said the piece will be a “compelling” drama with a “diverse and glittering cast”.
Jeremy Northam
The Devil's Whore
Rebecca Front and Tom Hollander trade comedy for drama in ITV’s Doctor Thorne
Call the Midwife is the most fearless show on television
All about The Devil's Whore
Jeremy Piven gets ready to bid farewell to Mr Selfridge
Art Malik: television has gone backwards – it’s no longer colourblind
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Renato Orara Exhibition View
Renato Orara
Selected Work Biography Shows Series Catalogues
Renato Orara (b. 1961, Philippines) draws discrete objects stripped of context, meaning, and narrative that are the currency of Realism to create vessels of ink and energy that push the mind beyond the limits set by language and concepts.
With conceptual roots that go back to his interventions, performance art, and exhibitions on the streets of Manila in the late 70s, Orara took an eight-year hiatus from art-making to practice Zen meditation. Re-emerging in New York in 1989, he resumed his art, this time taking it up as a discipline that mirrored his practice. He filled the blank pages of a book with commonplace objects, layering them with ballpoint ink until they ceased to be about things.
By 1996 his work, "Ten Thousand Things That Breathe," found their way into alternative spaces in Bangkok, Tokyo, and Manila. In 1998 and 1999 he had his first solo exhibitions in the US at the Palo Alto Cultural Center and at Hosfelt Gallery in California.
His exhibition at the Drawing Center in NYC (2002) paved the way for inclusion in Initial Encounters (2004), a show featuring ten artists selected by Drawing Center curators from a decade of exhibitions at the institution. Both shows ushered in a string of gallery exhibitions in the US (Andrea Rosen Gallery, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Gallery Joe, OSP Gallery, Joseé Bienvenu Gallery, Leo Fortuna Gallery) and other parts of the world (the Travelling Gallery, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Alon Segev Gallery, and Silverlens Gallery).
Over time, Orara re-introduced concepts into his work branching out into the following series: "Drawer Drawings," "Iraq Memorial," "Bookworks," and "Bloodworks." His works are in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, and Singapore Art Museum.
Art Fair Philippines, 2018Art Fair Philippines, 2017Translación, 2017Art Basel Hong Kong, 2016Renato Orara, 2016Renato Orara, 2015Library Bookworks, 2009
BloodworksBookworksIraq MemorialLibrary BookworksMarked BillsNew Yorker SeriesTen Thousand Things That Breathe
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Fall Into Love
By Melody Anne, Sara Rider, Samantha Joyce, L.E. Bross and Rachel Goodman
(Part of Unexpected Heroes)
LIST PRICE: AU$ 5.99
Amazon's Kindle Store
Cuddle up and fall in love with this collection of five wonderful romances. Whether you’re in the mood for saucy or sweet, small town or big fame, sports or cooking, this anthology has it all, featuring a novella from New York Times bestselling author Melody Anne and your new favorite debut authors: Sara Rider, Samantha Joyce, L. E. Bross, and Rachel Goodman.
Once Taken by Melody Anne: A new lodge has opened in the hills of Montana and its owner, Jenna Pine, just wants to make it through another lonely Christmas. One night she says a prayer out loud on her balcony, never imagining that anyone would be listening, or that she’s about to get more than she could ever hope for.
For the Win by Sara Rider: What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.
Flirting with Fame by Samantha Joyce: Elise Jameson is the secret author behind the bestselling Viking Moon series. But when a stranger poses as Elise, the painfully shy, deaf nineteen-year-old starts to see how much she’s missing. Can she really hide in the shadows forever? This clever, coming-of-age debut is for anyone who has ever felt unsure in her own skin.
Right Where You Are by L. E. Bross: In this smart, snappy romance—the first in the Second Chances series—a college senior finds herself sentenced to community service, where she happens to meet a bad boy who might just be exactly what she needs.
From Scratch by Rachel Goodman: This critically acclaimed novel, hailed as “smart, sexy, and funny” (Publishers Weekly) is a down-home, feel-good Southern romance that explores one woman’s journey back home to Dallas, Texas, where her family is cooking up a plan that doesn’t quite suit her tastes…
Melody Anne
Melody Anne is the New York Times bestselling author of the Unexpected Heroes series—a spin-off of her wildly popular Billionaire Bachelors novels featuring the handsome Anderson men—as well as the Tycoons series and the Surrender series. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Sara Rider
Growing up, Sara Rider dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player. When that dream was squashed by her extreme dislike of running, she decided to do the next best thing: write about professional soccer players. By day, Sara spends her time working in the field of research ethics and daydreams about plotlines and character arcs. She spends far too much time at public libraries and never leaves the house without a paperback or an e-reader stuffed into her purse.
Photograph by Jessica Blaine Smith
Samantha Joyce
Samantha Joyce is an active participant in local theater in her native Toronto, where she lives with her husband. She is the author of Flirting With Fame and Dealing in Deception.
L.E. Bross
L. E. Bross is living her own happily-ever-after in Maine with her husband, two boys, and a houseful of four-legged fur babies. You can find her at LeeBross.com and on Twitter @Lee_Bross. Right Where You Are is the first new adult novel in her Second Chances series.
Rachel Goodman
Rachel Goodman is the critically acclaimed author of the Blue Plate series. She was raised in Colorado on Roald Dahl books and her mother’s award-worthy cooking. Now an engineering professor at her alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, she has not lost her passion for culinary discovery or a well-told story. A member of RWA, she continues to hone her craft through the Writer’s Path at SMU while seeking to create the perfect macaroni and cheese recipe.
Publisher: Pocket Star (October 2016)
Book Cover Image (jpg): Fall Into Love
eBook 9781501151767
Author Photo (jpg): Samantha Joyce
More books in this series: Unexpected Heroes
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SIPRI welcomes new Director
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Smith as its new Director. Smith will assume his post on 1 September 2015.
The United States leads upward trend in arms exports, Asian and Gulf states arms imports up, says SIPRI
Success of future peace operations will depend on managing expectations, allocating resources and balancing states’ contributions, says SIPRI
Sales by largest arms companies fell again in 2013 but Russian firms’ sales continued rising
Sales of arms and military services by the largest arms-producing companies—the SIPRI Top 100—totalled $402 billion in 2013 according to new data on international arms production launched today by SIPRI.
First ever mapping of activities of external security actors in Africa confirms trend towards multilateralism and ‘Africanization’
Announcing the launch of SIPRI Yearbook Online
Oxford University Press (OUP) and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are pleased to announce that SIPRI Yearbook Online is now available for institutional and individual subscription.
SIPRI warmly congratulates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai on being awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
SIPRI welcomes new Governing Board Chairman
The Swedish Government today appointed Ambassador Sven-Olof Petersson as the new Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board. Ambassador Petersson will formally take up his position on 1 September 2014, and succeeds Göran Lennmarker, who stepped down earlier this year.
Nuclear forces reduced while modernizations continue, says SIPRI
Press statement by the SIPRI Governing Board: Changes in leadership at SIPRI
The Governing Board of SIPRI and Professor Tilman Brück have agreed that Professor Brück will leave his position as Director of SIPRI as of 30 June 2014.
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81-year-old Upland man convicted of molesting boy
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PUBLISHED: August 6, 2010 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 10:08 am
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – An 81-year-old Upland man was convicted of criminal charges this week for molesting a boy under 14 in his neighborhood.
Clarence Gordon pleaded no contest Thursday in West Valley Superior Court to a felony count of sexual battery.
Gordon’s plea, made as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, carries a 300-day jail sentence, five years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 3.
“Given his age and lack of criminal record it’s an appropriate disposition,” said Gordon’s prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Karen Schmauss.
Gordon was arrested in June after a boy in his neighborhood told police Gordon molested him after asking the boy to come to his home in the 2200 block of Wendy Way to help him move furniture.
According to a police report attached to Gordon’s court file, the longtime Upland resident admitted to police that he touched the boy.
In a 2005 Daily Bulletin profile, Gordon said he was a retired steelworker and married father of two who had lived in Upland since the 1950s.
Before his arrest, Gordon regularly attended Upland City Council meetings and spoke during the public comment segment of the meetings.
According to the police report, Gordon walked to the boy’s home at about 11:30 a.m. on June 18 and asked his mother if the boy could come over.
The boy’s family had known Gordon for several years, so his mother felt comfortable allowing the boy to go with Gordon.
Once Gordon and the boy were alone in the house, Gordon touched the boy’s genitals for 15 to 30 minutes, the boy told police. The boy said Gordon continued over his objections.
After the boy’s family contacted police, Gordon acknowledged he touched the boy, but he said the boy consented to the touching.
will.bigham@inlandnewspapers.com
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle November 30, 2018 8:00am-8:31am CET
bialik guest. managed by for. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin world leaders gather in argentina for the g. twenty summit trade tensions will be in the spotlight with china still long in a tit for tat terrorist tussle with the u.s. but there's a berrisford for germany as the chancellor's plane is grounded on the route forcing her to miss the start of the summit. tensions between ukraine and russia will also
be discussed all the g twenty sidelines we hear from russians living across the current straight from crimea putting their hopes in moscow to resolve the crisis and its own precedents in humanitarian crisis the words of tier one is mayor as an influx of migrants trying to reach the united states stretches the city's resources to break. with. fellow i'm terry martin good to have you with us the g. twenty summit is getting under way today in buenos iris it's the first time the meeting of the world's largest economies has been held in south america. and michael though is missing the start of the summit after the plane she was traveling in had to make an unscheduled landing her plane. only been in the air for an hour
when an electronic system malfunction forced it to turn around and land in the western german city of cologne told reporters it was a serious malfunction and praised a very excellent crew on board delays likely to complicate burkle schedule of meetings the two day summit. over more of us bring in our political correspondent cape radio a cape chancellor merkel's arrival at the g. twenty in buenos aires has been delayed a problem with her plane apparently what exactly happened was that there is you mentioned terry the plane they called. the government craft had in fact only been in the air an hour last night when it began to circle over the netherlands before turning around in the direction of germany and making an unscheduled landing in. port in western germany and now merkel has said has this morning that there was a serious malfunction on the plane away haring from several jemma media outlets
this morning that it was in fact a problem with the plane's radio communication system which caused the plane to land of course there will be a more thorough investigation to determine the exact cause but the initial post a local newspaper in the area where that plane landed has since now started reporting that the government is talking all possibilities including criminality so of course we are still expecting more details. ok well so if plane can't fly how is the chancellor and the rest of the delegation getting to argentina. well both michael and all of the german finance minister had to spend the night in bone last night and they're expected to travel later today on a government to madrid and then fly further on on the final leg of their journey to board us aires on a commercial flight so of course michael still won't be able to make it to the
opening of the g twenty summit and of course this delay too is likely to complicate his schedule with meetings with other g twenty leaders over the next couple of days . the plane that usually travels on this government plane the con love nor is the name of it it is maintained by germany's military what does that say about the state of readiness of germany's military when they can't be relied upon to transport the head of government to a major international a bit because this is a really hefty embarrassment for germany and it's no secret that the german defense has huge saw shortcomings as being several reports in recent years about lack of reports of equipment and also faulty equipment and as you mentioned this as they called odds and i'll add was itself is part of the look for the german air force but one of the issues as well is there has been a debate for some time that the these aircraft the government protégé in particular are simply too old but of course the german government is always wary of entering
into parliament and suggesting that they should get a new act of course wherry of a backlash and claims that they want or necessary look serious but of course there are problems that there have been problems with this aircraft before earlier this year when the german president frank i was in bella ruse his aircraft too was grounded for a short time due to different technical problems that time so clearly this delay today from a school isn't a one off event take you very much for the. brady there. once chancellor merkel makes it to argentina she's set to meet russia's vladimir putin as she seeks a diplomatic solution to the latest crisis between moscow and kiev that's after last weekend's naval clash off the crimean peninsula before meeting for the summit merkel hosted ukraine's prime minister in berlin he urged europe to impose harsher
sanctions on russia. a warning for europe ukraine's prime minister visits berlin calling for support in the escalating conflict with russia his country wants nato to send ships to the sea of us all to provide security they should be abolished the should the recent russian aggression in the sea of as of could happen anywhere in the world should realize this it also affects europe. but german chancellor angela merkel has rebuffed the request for military support saying words not weapons are needed and taught simply because despite the current situation we ask you claim to be smart because we can only resolve this in talks with one another because there is no military solution to all of these conflicts. and that some get merkel has blamed russia for sparking the conflict which began on sunday in the
catch straight between russia and the annexed crimea peninsula russian forces attacked and seize three ukrainian vessels and their crew and he's prosecuting the sailors for violating its borders the ukrainian intelligence agency now says it has recordings that show a russian fighter jets and helicopter fired on the vessels during the clash at sea . in the port city of mariupol close to the border ukrainians are unsure what the recent imposition of martial law will bring. that means we're carrying on martial law hasn't brought any particularly harsh restrictions with it but here's a list of course says the risk of more conflict with russia we've been at war with them for four years already especially now after what they did to our ships. just. as surely as many of the mood if you look at martial law change in my life i mean this is my fifth year as a refugee me i left everything it down just in came here martial law isn't going to
help me which is. nearby the saber rattling continues with russia parading its missiles in crimea. and ukraine showing off its defenses. but neither side shows any sign of retreating from a fart. so with tensions melting between ukraine and russia how is all this affecting the lives of people living near the front lines so to speak a reporter emily short one travel to the russian city of thomas on the curch straits that's where the naval standoff happened on sunday and where a new bridge links the russian mainland to the annexed crimean peninsula. it's business as usual for luke. she's been a taxi driver for two years in the town of tamanna on the azoff see the population here is around ten thousand and many of them know ludmilla live miller herself
moved here from the year olds recently but tells me most people here have relatives across the scene ukraine she says people usually don't want to talk about politics in her taxi even when it's happening right on their doorstep. but the. people on panicking they try not to talk about the conflict. it's so close it's wearing but i'm sure nothing will happen. at the local market people admit they're shaken by the recent clash in the nearby sea. means this someone. will be the first affected it's all right it's scary. it's not scary i don't think anything will happen thank. the ukrainians where we used to live together so well. i used to go to ukraine to keep if we were like relatives. it's not for us regular people to decide the politicians up there was
sorted out it's an unpleasant situation i just want peace and not this. time on is at the foot of the crimean bridge. have been building here in the as a c. for months especially since the bridge was opened in may luke milam moved to tom and to be near the scene she says she sometimes comes here for a break from taxi driving even in the winter the fifty four year old says her relatives and children back in. are worried about her but she's optimistic about the future of the azoff see me all spoke quietly to see calms me down sometimes when i want to answer to a question i ask this season and if the next wave is big that means the answer is yes. i am very hopeful that the men will figure out everything everything will be fine. and we will. use the of what you do need.
it seems to be stormy everywhere it might be apropos for ludmilla to now ask the azoff see whether this stormy political situation will eventually calm down. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a former lawyer of u.s. president has pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a trump real estate deal in russia michael cohen is a key figure in his investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election. health ministry says the current ebola outbreak in the east of the country is now the second biggest in history with more than four hundred confirmed and probable cases efforts to curb the epidemic are being hampered by a surge of violence in the democratic republic of congo. the world health organization has warned of a resurgence of measles worldwide the number of infections jolt more than thirty
percent last year compared to twenty sixteen the w.h.o. recorded increases in almost every part of the world including wealthy countries such as germany where vaccination coverage has historically. hi. police in hong kong say five people have been killed and more than thirty injured in a bus crash on the main road to the airport the bus was ferrying stuff from the cathay pacific airline to work when it plowed into a broken down tax. to mexico where the mayor of tia juana has called the plight of state of migrant stranded in his city an unprecedented humanitarian crisis the child on the u.s. backed scheme border is dealing with an influx of around seven thousand american central americans who are trying to reach the u.s. to apply for asylum they only had a shelter for a third that number leading to squalid conditions for migrants who have trekked
thousands of kilometers in search of a new life. the most unique thing about one of us biggest chanter for the so-called caravan migrants is that it provides hardly any shelter at all at least not from the elements not from the rain and not from the cold during freezing nights during the day i am this he commanded by city officials to hold a maximum of just two thousand five hundred people this place now houses more than six thousand migrants and in a few days that number will rise to seven thousand including more than one thousand babies toddlers and young children. we need cindy pinera we talked to her about a week ago she had just arrived with two more for four sisters and without her father the family had gotten separated on their journey to tijuana now they are reunited but conditions here have to magically deteriorate it only took them on we're in really bad shape as you can see everything is what we are tired we
couldn't get any sleep last night it's hard when the babies are all wet it's getting worse for us with no real place to stay. this tent is not even mine. that beat the noise near the city of tijuana some state agencies and the increasing number of n.g.o.s are doing what they can to cope with the situation infection and diseases are on the rise headlights are a problem overall hygiene is a major concern to us mayor says he's battling what he calls an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in his town with almost no help from the central government in mexico city its people we're dealing with it's integrity they can eat they need a place to sit they need a place to sleep they need to please a dignified place not us we are working with them right now what would happen if someone would start a riot down there who's going to be responsible mexico city has finally sent more
federal police and some military two to one but that doesn't solve the city's financial problems as it spends almost thirty thousand dollars a day on its migrant crisis a fortune for the border town if you know someone who could help us out. we have a mere here in this office and read them really. to juana want it. in india thousands of farmers have gathered in the capital delhi for a two day rally against the agricultural policies of prime minister narendra modi's government thursday tens of thousands of people took to the streets among their demands are new minimum prices for their crops india is holding a general election next year and while the country's farmers overwhelmingly voted for modi in the last election all in rural incomes has led to waning support for
the government. our correspondent sonia talked to the protesting farmers and asked them about their grievances. blundered when there's a drought becomes follow during floods across underwater we get no relief. in sight out of the air that are when our crops fail we just lose everything. the government does nothing to help us. understand at the hands of land i am where farm laborers we have no land my husband can't work i have young children i have come to fight against the government that got a little now i have. taken a loan because we're not getting fair prices for across a college education my children every farmer i know is trapped in huge debt because they actually i wonder why this million kids not most people assume we do you close
people all assume of course. you support do i want more mention about a fight things there say we came here in the parliament is here i was struggling before the parliament is big and can make their votes mean we came here and we want to pretend raise more the golden mean. and joining us now from delhi is the song your fall their car good to see you've been on the streets talking to those farmers this isn't the first time that they've taken to the streets in delhi tell us more about why they are protesting. hi terry i mean that's right this really isn't the first time you know the last year and a half we've seen major rallies by farmers in many indian cities including mumbai and also in delhi and the background to this is that for many years now india's farming sector has really been blighted by by drought by falling incomes by field
crops and this does take a heavy toll on india's farmers the bulk of whom are poor you know for instance recorded drought forces farmers in some parts of india to migrate to towns and cities during the dry spell you know when harvest failed farmers that are often forced to borrow money often at higher cost sometimes from private money lenders in order to buy seeds and fertilizers even pay for their own health care and there are studies in india that say that you know every other causes of death trap farmers who are unable to pay back the loans really commit suicide in desperation so i think it's a really grim situation for the bulk of farmers so certainly this is really a crisis about conditions for growing crops not being favorable or or their government policies that are to blame for for the crisis the farmers are facing. well you know terry if you speak to experts here many of them will say that there
are you know many structural problems here that are to blame and they have been in place literally for decades i mean the one thing we need to remember is that all almost half of india's population works in the farming sector and yet farming contributes just about sixteen percent of the country's g.d.p. so what's very simply you know farms employ a lot of people but they're simply producing too little so i think what some of the problems other india's farms are going to marginal and small in size that is a lack of modernization there's a lack of water conservation and that also in turn you know reserve the cost of inputs like seeds and fertilizers and indication ok so it's a complex problem what is the indian government doing about it. well if you speak to farmers if you spoke to us today out of the streets they'd say you know the government is simply not doing enough for them i mean you know prime minister narendra modi was elected back in two thousand and fourteen and one of the promises he made was that he promised to double the family incomes by twenty twenty two but critics say you know he's falling off in the short of that talking to dave
today's thought is really a real show off anger against the government and on the seas which who many perceived to be you know fueled in favor of the rich and the private sector many farmers today told me that they believe that the government you know bailed out private companies began to default was flee the country and get farm was left to fend for themselves so i think the protests today is also really sending a clear message to prime minister the government as it see through election. sunny thank you so much that was t w song you're fond of there in delhi thank you now the final of south america's champions league competition we're talking football will now take place in spain the second leg of the copa libertadores between two buenos aires clubs has been postponed twice because of violence last weekend plans of river plate pelted the team bus across town rival
boca juniors breaking windows and injuring some players who were also affected by tear gas fire to disperse the crowd cup organizers say they chose madrid in part because that city has the largest population of argentinians outside it and. meanwhile here in germany one of the bonus lee is surprise teams this season frankfurt pushed through to the knockout stages of their upper league tournament with the help of boisterous fans they beat one of last season's finalists olympique marsay forward yo bitch gave his side the lead in the opening minute or say made life easy with a pair of own goals on either side of half time frankfurt sealed the win with a second goal from which the four nil victory means they win group h. again to spare. elsewhere in the champions league in the europa league i should say and drew one zero at home with ball gary inside little gretz
thanks to a game tying goal in the eighty fifth minute later cruzan still lead their group and lights the last one nil away at their austrian sister clubs all sport life city now hold only a faint chance of offense. well we're talking about the g. twenty today in our in the news very much so hot here and more on the g. twenty is hopes of a averting an even worse trade war as sure terry and it is not an easy time for multilateralism world leaders gathering and burnous are as a bracing themselves for fraud negotiations they'll be discussing a whole host of issues but trade will be on top of the agenda one of the most closely watched meetings will be between us president donald trump and his chinese counterpart dejan pain the two countries are still locked in a trade dispute that is showing little signs of a resolution and continues to weigh on markets around the world the united states
so far is imposed tariffs on two hundred fifty dollars billion dollars worth of chinese imports and has threatened much more china in turn has slapped tariffs on one hundred ten billion dollars worth of american made products so the spot continues to have an impact on trade around the world let's discuss that that a bit more and bring in craig he's a senior market analyst at wanda and joins us now from london there is hello craig everyone personally will be watching trump interacting with g.e. . when his eyes there will be see an increase in a still if he's or a show of unity and cooperation what do you expect. i think in the mirror both leaders will probably want to sell this as a successful talk they don't to be seen to be wasting each of the time both have an
interest in cooperation whether this actually leads to anything more significant though is where i become more skeptical whether i'm not convinced that they state for example that will even. the increase in tar if that's one of the year when the two hundred billion dollars which are currently standing at ten percent let alone the own winding of previously impose tariffs i think there's still a lot of discussions to be hott i don't think china is yet willing to cede to the demands of the us which is becoming increasingly hawkish on the trumpet ministrations to the contrary that very disputes aside is there anything or anyone else to watch this g. twenty meeting economically speaking well that's the interesting thing the g twenty meetings were effectively set up to try and improve cooperation and increase global growth and globalization really has now it seems to be focused on repairing the fractures which are appearing whether it be the u.s. trying to change trade disputes whether it be the talk of cots irish now coming
from the trumpet ministration against walls other countries such as germany the ukraine situation right now is also quite fragile the saudi arabia situation again politically is also going to be on the agenda for many and then of course in the u.k. here we've got prices i think they're going to be plenty of things to discuss trying to repair the damage of the last few years as far as money is concerned and issues that you do think that will be a clear loser or clear winner of that meets. i'm not sure if this is necessarily going to be a clear loser or winner i think one of the things people are most interested in is whether the twenty countries are going to be as so great on the draft communique because we've seen from previous meetings because of the amounts of issues particularly by the temperate ministration that countries not disagree on not goes for trade those are things like climate change we've seen plenty of occasions when they've failed to a great on this communique at the end of the meeting because all of these all of
these differences so that's going to be one of the key things i think we're going to be focusing on ransom's of winners and losers i don't expect this to be anything major to come from this we just need to see some form of gradual progress to give people some form of optimism that this isn't going to last forever. thank you very much. germany the country's biggest lender is in trouble again after allegations of money laundering emerged on thursday. dropped more than three percent after the news broke that police had conducted raids on its offices some one hundred seventy policemen search for evidence supporting. the bank helped. to pocket money linked to crime the allegations relate to commission comes in huge known as the panama papers the investigation is focusing on the period of the period beginning. when c.e.o.
. headed the group's order to depart. south korea has sent a train across the world's most heavily militarized border into north korea for the first time in more than a decade it's part of a drive to modernize the north. reconnected with the south. south korean engineers will inspect one thousand two hundred kilometers of trucks over the next eighteen days travel as far as north korea's border with china the south with ministry experts say. international standards could cost billions of dollars. that you're watching news from there's more news coming up. you have to be a football fan. thanks very much.
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died from the entrovirus d68 on september 25. the cdc confirmed the results this past friday. another 4-year-old with symptoms is awaiting his test results. he shareholder a classroom with waller. officials say there's no way to pinpoint where ely contracted the virus, but it's common infecting ten to 15 million a career according to the cdc, but the d68 strain is dangerous. while the school fights the virus, ely a triplet with two sisters is being remembered by his father in this statement. and hoalt officials say parents -- and health officials say parents need to keep an eye on any symptoms that are similar to the common cold, parents should encourage good hygiene and plenty of hand washing. >> the cdc said the likelihood of a child in delaware having ebola is low. the child is in an isolation room at bay health hospital out of the an abundance of caution. hospital staff will continue to monitor the child until the cdc and doctors determine it is safe for the child to go home. >> coming up next in the next half-hour another american sick with ebola is on the his way back from lie b
died from the entrovirus d68 on september 25. the cdc confirmed the results this past friday. another 4-year-old with symptoms is awaiting his test results. he shareholder a classroom with waller. officials say there's no way to pinpoint where ely contracted the virus, but it's common infecting ten to 15 million a career according to the cdc, but the d68 strain is dangerous. while the school fights the virus, ely a triplet with two sisters is being remembered by his father in this statement....
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d 68 september 5. the cdc confirmed d 68 results this past friday and medical examiner confirmed the cause of death saturday. another 4-year-old with symptoms is waiting for results from his sample sent to the cdc. the two boys shared a classroom. one in morning free school and the other afternoon class. officials say there is no way to pinpoint where eli contracted the virus. the superintendent reit graded a change in procedures. >> we'll do above and beyond cleaning and wiping off desks and making sure water fountains are cleaned down. >> reporter: including alerting parents as quickly as they can. >> we said we would ramp that up and try to get out and communicate as quickly as we possibly can. and we've been doing that sending out the all call or robo call. >> reporter: while the school fights virus they're mourning eli triplet with two sisters remembered by father and part of this estimate released sunday "he was a beautiful mix of eagerness and hesitancy, need and striving and caution and surprise. all of which were grounded in a pure, unconditional love."and the school superin
d 68 september 5. the cdc confirmed d 68 results this past friday and medical examiner confirmed the cause of death saturday. another 4-year-old with symptoms is waiting for results from his sample sent to the cdc. the two boys shared a classroom. one in morning free school and the other afternoon class. officials say there is no way to pinpoint where eli contracted the virus. the superintendent reit graded a change in procedures. >> we'll do above and beyond cleaning and wiping off...
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report erp and registered nurse ali gorman is with the latest from cdc and dann cuellar is in dallas where it originated let's begin team coverage with you dap, good evening. >> good evening, monica, federal officials say the decision to move nina pham to nih is maryland was in best interest of texas health presbyterian the at the significance was not made by the trained biohazard unit at nih or confidence with this hospital. >> this is video showing nina pham in her hospital room. she was getting -- from the doctors treating her sgloo nina pham left texas health presbyterian in an ambulance today as crowd of well workers gathered with shines to sew her on. a hospital spokesman asked people to honk horpingz to show support. >> late thursday night the special plane from dpal as carrying 6-year-old arrived in frederick maryland to be driven by ambulance to beth he's aday. the hospital said this is right to move her, and it is reported as many as 75 people cared for thomas dunkin that later died from ebola virus later today hazmat crews were decontaminating the second nurse that got. it
report erp and registered nurse ali gorman is with the latest from cdc and dann cuellar is in dallas where it originated let's begin team coverage with you dap, good evening. >> good evening, monica, federal officials say the decision to move nina pham to nih is maryland was in best interest of texas health presbyterian the at the significance was not made by the trained biohazard unit at nih or confidence with this hospital. >> this is video showing nina pham in her hospital room....
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ebola. this healthcare worker was under self monitoring regiment described by cdc and based on involvement in caring for patient thomas eric dunkin during his care that started september 28. >>> thomas dunk sint man treated at the texas hospital and died from ebola last week after contracting it in liberia. the healthcare working is in isolation and further testing by cdc is being done to confirm ebola. there's been more than 8,000 cases of ebola rye virus. 4,000 have died. >> mean while american journalist treated for ebola is showing signs of improvement. he is receiving an experimental drug similar to treatment rick schaffer received when he was treated at the same facility. he was infected while working as free lance camera man in liberia. >> ebola screenings started jfk international airport and they're expected to begin at four other major airports. they're taking temperatures. each has quarantine areas. a cdc cautioned no many how many layers put in place the risk will nev drop to deer owe. >> 6abc.com is your place for the latest information on the ebola outbreak. >>> m
ebola. this healthcare worker was under self monitoring regiment described by cdc and based on involvement in caring for patient thomas eric dunkin during his care that started september 28. >>> thomas dunk sint man treated at the texas hospital and died from ebola last week after contracting it in liberia. the healthcare working is in isolation and further testing by cdc is being done to confirm ebola. there's been more than 8,000 cases of ebola rye virus. 4,000 have died. >>...
were made from cdc to hospital in handling ebola. >> air travel in fact how this disease corss borders and it is certainly how to got to texas in the first place. >> with exception of medical teams fighting ebola the governor is calling for ban for air travelers of kuptyes hardest hit with the deadly virus. >> based on recent and ongoing developments i believe it responsibility to ban air travel from countries hit hardest by ebola outbreak. >> also today a carnival cruise ship was turned away from mexico as it was learned ebola worker that handles specimens from dunkin was on board. the cruise lines said the workinger what is in lislation and exhibited no symptoms. nurse nina pham was fatigued and good spirits. >> she's not deteriorating. can i not tell you at this particular time why we said fair because of patients confidentiality but she's stable now and resting comfortably. >>> and in closing there is no doubt event of past few days raised public anxiety. bit of emen jurjing news tonight. one of the first 48 foam come on "dunkin has been cleared she's shown no signs of virus for 21
were made from cdc to hospital in handling ebola. >> air travel in fact how this disease corss borders and it is certainly how to got to texas in the first place. >> with exception of medical teams fighting ebola the governor is calling for ban for air travelers of kuptyes hardest hit with the deadly virus. >> based on recent and ongoing developments i believe it responsibility to ban air travel from countries hit hardest by ebola outbreak. >> also today a carnival...
the way to the u.s. to receive treatment in nebraska. the head of the cdc will brief president obama on the crisis this afternoon. officials say they are confident there will not be a widespread outbreak in the county. they are monitoring 40 people who came into contact with a man named thomas duncan who remains in critical condition at a dallas hospital while haz/mat continues the second and final decontamination phase at his apartment. officials are looking at ways to limit the overall risks of americans from being infected. >> we'll look at what we do doesn't unintentionally increase our risk. if we make it harder to fight the outbreak in west africa, we increase our own risk. >> overnights the cdc confirmed that massachusetts doctor does not have veree occurrence of ebola. he was diagnosed with infection. >>> doctors in delaware continue to watch a patient from liberia who showed up at the bay health hospital on saturday. the likelihood of the child have esh e -- ebola is low. as a precaution officials have not cleared the child to go home. >> parents in mercer county, new
the way to the u.s. to receive treatment in nebraska. the head of the cdc will brief president obama on the crisis this afternoon. officials say they are confident there will not be a widespread outbreak in the county. they are monitoring 40 people who came into contact with a man named thomas duncan who remains in critical condition at a dallas hospital while haz/mat continues the second and final decontamination phase at his apartment. officials are looking at ways to limit the overall risks...
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the u.s. military forum in africa to help. and the cdc announced new health care standards for people treating patients with ebola. we'll have more on that the next half hour. >>> there is more on the human remains found in virginia. they were found during the search for hannah graham, who is missing for three weeks. and now the man charged with her disappearance, jesse matthew is indicted for abduction, rape and murder. >>> opening statements are starting today for the sentencing phase of jodi airis. she was found guilty of killing travis alexander in 2008 but could not agree on whether to give her life in prison or death. a new sentencing trial begins today with 12 jurors. >>> a berks county bails bondsman was raided today. they would only say they were searching for items related to the arrest of dean gurney in bucks county. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of presc
the u.s. military forum in africa to help. and the cdc announced new health care standards for people treating patients with ebola. we'll have more on that the next half hour. >>> there is more on the human remains found in virginia. they were found during the search for hannah graham, who is missing for three weeks. and now the man charged with her disappearance, jesse matthew is indicted for abduction, rape and murder. >>> opening statements are starting today for the...
thomas eric dunkin may have infected. so far, the cdc has not identified anyone. >> dunkin remains in texas health presbyterian hospital. his relatives are under armed guard after trying to violate the quarantine. >> they are not allowed out on the porch. >> reporter: he said his uncle flew in from liberia and began showing symptoms in the apartment complex in dallas. we called the center for disease control after a dallas emergency room nurse sent him home despite showing symptoms and traveling from west africa. warnings are going out by phone to more than 11,000 residents. >> while this may be concerning there is no on going danger to your health. >> reporter: note -- notifications are going out to airline passengers who were on the flight with dunkin. they are adding that the cdc believes the man had not spread the disease during the flight because he was not showing symptoms and not containous. >>> freelance camera man has been covering the ebola pandemic in liberia for numbers news. he has tested positive for the virus and flown home for treatment in the united states. a lot of p
thomas eric dunkin may have infected. so far, the cdc has not identified anyone. >> dunkin remains in texas health presbyterian hospital. his relatives are under armed guard after trying to violate the quarantine. >> they are not allowed out on the porch. >> reporter: he said his uncle flew in from liberia and began showing symptoms in the apartment complex in dallas. we called the center for disease control after a dallas emergency room nurse sent him home despite showing...
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promoting it very well. issanitizer around? >> yes. >> reporter: entrovirus d68 is common, the cdc said it infects 10 to 15 million people a year, but the "d"-strain is not. many who come to the virus had preexisting conditions, but waller did not. >> i think it's unfortunate that the family had to go through this. i think the school is taking every necessary precaution to make sure our children are safe. >> reporter: and another four-year-old boy who shared a classroom with waller does have some of the symptoms of the entrovirus d68 but his test results have not come back from the cdc. chad perdelli channel 6 "action news." >> all right, chad, thank you. >>> at this hour, funeral services are being held for trooper david kedra. hundreds of colleagues lined the streets outside christ the king church. they offered a salute for the procession of the funeral of david kedra. the burial following the funeral will be private, david kedra was during a training session accidentally at a public county train complex. >>> pennsylvania state police say a search team member possibly saw eric fr
promoting it very well. issanitizer around? >> yes. >> reporter: entrovirus d68 is common, the cdc said it infects 10 to 15 million people a year, but the "d"-strain is not. many who come to the virus had preexisting conditions, but waller did not. >> i think it's unfortunate that the family had to go through this. i think the school is taking every necessary precaution to make sure our children are safe. >> reporter: and another four-year-old boy who shared a...
are notifying the people on board and they are encouraged to contact the cdc for possible monitoring. she took care of thomas duncan before he died. today they claim that the protective gear worn by the staffers left part of their skin exposed. >> reporter: good afternoon we are told that nurse, amber vincent came down with a fever and immediately drove herself to the hospital and within 90 minutes was in isolation. >> another health care worker at this dallas hospital is infected with ebola like her colleague, nina pham is part of the team of 77 people involved in treating the ebola patient that died here last week, the others are being monitored with concerns that there could be more cases. >> it may be worse before it gets better, but it will get better. >> the cdc team is working on how these nurses caught ebola, they are alleging in part that the safety gear they wore left part of their skin exposed. >> they did not feel safe providing care for that patient. >> the hospital says they will continue to review and respond to concerns by the nurses and employees. the cdc
are notifying the people on board and they are encouraged to contact the cdc for possible monitoring. she took care of thomas duncan before he died. today they claim that the protective gear worn by the staffers left part of their skin exposed. >> reporter: good afternoon we are told that nurse, amber vincent came down with a fever and immediately drove herself to the hospital and within 90 minutes was in isolation. >> another health care worker at this dallas hospital is infected...
died from ebola. the director of the cdc was grilled he defended the cdc's decision to allow a second nurse to fly on a commercial jet before she was diagnosed. >> my understanding she did contact cdc and we discussed her symptoms. my understanding she reported no symptoms to us. >> calls for a travel ban could backfire by by encouraging people other ways to slip into the country. >> mayor nutter and the city officials will discuss preparations to deal with ebola and other indiana -- infectious diseases. chop has been selected to treat ebola in young patients. chop said it has been working on plans since august to treat an infected child while keeping other patients and staff safe. we have information at 6abc.com how the virus spreads and list of myths versus facts. >> state police will return to the scene of a deadly crash that happened earlier in bensalem. police say the mother of three was driving on i-95 south when she was cut off by the driver of a black does an. her jeep swerved and hit the guardrail and flipped several times. before the cashes the victim was on the phone
died from ebola. the director of the cdc was grilled he defended the cdc's decision to allow a second nurse to fly on a commercial jet before she was diagnosed. >> my understanding she did contact cdc and we discussed her symptoms. my understanding she reported no symptoms to us. >> calls for a travel ban could backfire by by encouraging people other ways to slip into the country. >> mayor nutter and the city officials will discuss preparations to deal with ebola and other...
o'hearn is at the big board. >> reporter: matt, the cdc is admitting it could have done more at that dallas hospital to prevent the spread of the potentially fatal disease. in fact, the cdc went as far as saying that nina pham the nurse that contracted ebola from thomas eric duncan so-called patient zero may have never been infected if experts had been on the ground since the beginning. to prevent another nurse or doctor from getting the disease, the cdc will now send a rapid response team to any hospital that diagnosis an ebola patient. thousands of nurses across the country are expected to join a conference call this afternoon to talk about how their hospitals are preparing to treat ebola cases. now, the nurses' union is pointing the finger at texas presbyterian hospital claiming it was not prepared to deal with an ebola patient and that's exactly how pham got infected. the ebola outbreak has global health officials on high alert. the world health organization is predicting up to 10,000 new cases a week in the next two months unless drastic action is taken. >> we've got a head star
o'hearn is at the big board. >> reporter: matt, the cdc is admitting it could have done more at that dallas hospital to prevent the spread of the potentially fatal disease. in fact, the cdc went as far as saying that nina pham the nurse that contracted ebola from thomas eric duncan so-called patient zero may have never been infected if experts had been on the ground since the beginning. to prevent another nurse or doctor from getting the disease, the cdc will now send a rapid response...
year according to the cdc, but the d68 strain is especially dangerous. >> we'll go above and beyond cleaning. >> reporter: while the school fights the virus, ely is being remembered by his father. he was a beautiful mix of eagerness and need and striving caution and surprise all of which were grounded in a pure unconditional love. and health officials are urging parents to be vigilant about observing symptoms they are like the common cold. they could be accompanied by a fever and the best way for parents and children to protect themselves is good hygiene and lots of hand washing. chad perdelli channel 6 "action news." >> thanks, chad. >>> the cdc said the likelihood of a child in delaware having ebola is low. the child remains in a private isolation room at bay health general out of the an abundance of caution. the child is symptom free. hospital staff will continue to monitor the child until the cdc and doctors determine it's safe for the child to go home. >>> can coming up in the next half-hour another american sick with ebola is now on his way back from liberia, as the first pers
year according to the cdc, but the d68 strain is especially dangerous. >> we'll go above and beyond cleaning. >> reporter: while the school fights the virus, ely is being remembered by his father. he was a beautiful mix of eagerness and need and striving caution and surprise all of which were grounded in a pure unconditional love. and health officials are urging parents to be vigilant about observing symptoms they are like the common cold. they could be accompanied by a fever and...
dallas to emory university hospital. the head of the cdc vincent should not have been allowed to fly from cleveland to dallas because she took care of thomas duncan. >>> two soccer coaches we tired because players taunted a player on the other side calling him ebola. the police chief in lehigh county said he moved from the region with the ebola crowd break. >> he was upset it got to that level. >> reporter: several students are facing disciplinary action. his parents live in west africa, and he said it worries about them daily. our coverage continues at 6abc.com. we have the latest on the dallas healthcare works as well as details on what the medical industry knows about ebola and pets. >> it's now 6:05. a beating inside philadelphia's largest prison is under investigation, but the suspect is not an inmate, but a prison guard. "action news" reporter, katherine scott filed this report. >> reporter: cameras from this correctional facility captured this last month. the officer punching the inmate while he was handcuffed. >> there's 15 close fisted punches at short range while mr. wi
dallas to emory university hospital. the head of the cdc vincent should not have been allowed to fly from cleveland to dallas because she took care of thomas duncan. >>> two soccer coaches we tired because players taunted a player on the other side calling him ebola. the police chief in lehigh county said he moved from the region with the ebola crowd break. >> he was upset it got to that level. >> reporter: several students are facing disciplinary action. his parents live...
knew she had the disease, the cdc admitted it errorred, giving permission to fly with a fever. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: even though the cdc maintains the level of risk around vincent extremely low air travelers are uneasy. >> it is making you wonder is it safe to get on any of these planes going anywhere. >> reporter: meanwhile, another nurse remains at this texas hospital her condition continuing to improve. health officials still investigating how the two became infected. that number expected to climb. >> this has been a nightmare for nurses across the nation. >> reporter: a review of the medical records reveal he had been in the hospital for two days before medical staff treating him switched to haz/mat suits. as health officials continue to monitor the travel of those who potentially had exposure to ebola, city officials are knocking on the doors to get the word out. we'll send it back to you. >> locally first responders are expressing concerns over encountering ebola patient. philadelphia department of health issued an advisory, but st
knew she had the disease, the cdc admitted it errorred, giving permission to fly with a fever. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: even though the cdc maintains the level of risk around vincent extremely low air travelers are uneasy. >> it is making you wonder is it safe to get on any of these planes going anywhere. >> reporter: meanwhile, another nurse remains at this texas hospital her condition continuing to improve. health officials...
sedation. he is on dialysis because of failing kidneys and on a ventilator. cdc doctor said u.s. has resources to keep it from spreading in this county, but has serious questions about stopping the epidemic at its source in africa. so. >> i'm concerned, the longer the other countries will have to fight this on their territory, as well. >> duncan's girlfriend and their family we blurred their faces to protect their privacy remain in an isolated community in dallas. the cdc is watching them for any signs of virus, so far they have been fine. >>> ebola survivor, is back in the hospital he has been isolated, he want to the hospital for a bad cough which may be pneumonia and pink eye. doctors think he got sick because the ebola virus depleted his immune system. >>> the cdc has confirmed the first child death by entrovirus d68 a preschooler in mercer county new jersey. ely waller died ten days ago. a second boy at the school has become ill. the virus has sickened 500 people in 43 states. >>> three people are hospitalized one in critical condition after an argument outside a west philadelph
sedation. he is on dialysis because of failing kidneys and on a ventilator. cdc doctor said u.s. has resources to keep it from spreading in this county, but has serious questions about stopping the epidemic at its source in africa. so. >> i'm concerned, the longer the other countries will have to fight this on their territory, as well. >> duncan's girlfriend and their family we blurred their faces to protect their privacy remain in an isolated community in dallas. the cdc is...
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happening on "action news" tonight, tough questions for the cdc on capitol hill, and they claim that the agency is not doing enough to keep americans safe from ebola. plus, local nurses are expressing concern that they are not ready to fight ebola should it show up in our hospitals. and it was the brightest and best women in the country here in philadelphia. sharrie williams have more on the conference for women. >>> the fight against ebola continues with the travel of amber vincent. the second nurse diagnosed with ebola. turns out she was cleared to fly despite having an elevated temperature that day. meantime, frontier airlines photo if iing passengers that through on that flight. they took five trips before being taken out of service but the likely hoods of those passengers feeling ill is really low. >> the head of the cdc was on capitol hill. car and travers live now with more on that. >> reporter: good evening rick and monica, dr. thomas freeden said that amber vincent should not have been allowed to fly on that frontier flight but she didn't tell lawmakers that she had sym
happening on "action news" tonight, tough questions for the cdc on capitol hill, and they claim that the agency is not doing enough to keep americans safe from ebola. plus, local nurses are expressing concern that they are not ready to fight ebola should it show up in our hospitals. and it was the brightest and best women in the country here in philadelphia. sharrie williams have more on the conference for women. >>> the fight against ebola continues with the travel of amber...
about the cdc and whether the medical community is taking the right steps to contain the virus. "action news" reporter sharrie williams joins us now with the very latest video, sharrie. >> reporter: rick, this second nurse to contract the virus is amber vinson. here she is landing at the atlanta airport tonight after the decision was made to fly her out of have dallas for treatment. there are now two american nurses battling the virus and one official warning, more cases are likely in the united states. in a bright yellow protective suit ebola patient amber vinson walk on her own into emery university hospital in atlanta. the the 29 year-old is the second health care worker to contract the ebola virus while treating thomas duncan in dallas. >> this is a heroic person, a person who dedicated her life and is dedicating her life to helping others. >> reporter: the day before vinson started displaying symptoms she was on a frontier airlines flight from cleveland to dallas, 132 people were on the flight and each one will be interviewed and potentially monitored. the cdc's director s
about the cdc and whether the medical community is taking the right steps to contain the virus. "action news" reporter sharrie williams joins us now with the very latest video, sharrie. >> reporter: rick, this second nurse to contract the virus is amber vinson. here she is landing at the atlanta airport tonight after the decision was made to fly her out of have dallas for treatment. there are now two american nurses battling the virus and one official warning, more cases are...
the u.s. samples frain latest ebola victim are transfered to cdc for further confirmation and officials are looking to locate anyone who came into "this patient. >> we're still confident that the precautions in place will protect the healthcare worker. we don't have a null naltis of all the care we're going through that now to try to understand specific elements of who came in contact with mr. dunkin around what circumstances on what day, et cetera, but we're confident that the pro caulks we have if place right now are protecting our healthcare workers. >> a want to stress before we bringp a doctor, a very important fact. you cannot contract ebola other than from the bodily xhups of symptomatic ebola. you cannot by working people in the street or being around contacts not sim matt tim. there in nothing in that that faces the basic premise of science. and while it's important that obviously bad news, it is not news that should bring about panic. >> "abc news". >> meanwhile the american journalist treated for ebola is improving, mukpo is in nebraska isolation unit and receiving
the u.s. samples frain latest ebola victim are transfered to cdc for further confirmation and officials are looking to locate anyone who came into "this patient. >> we're still confident that the precautions in place will protect the healthcare worker. we don't have a null naltis of all the care we're going through that now to try to understand specific elements of who came in contact with mr. dunkin around what circumstances on what day, et cetera, but we're confident that the pro...
heels of the cdc admitting its response to the first ebola case in texas was not sufficient. the organization also admits that nina pham the nurse who contracted the disease after treating thomas eric duncan may have never fallen ill if experts had been on the ground from the very beginning. so the cdc is vowing to change its practices to prevents another nurse or doctor from getting the disease. the cdc will now send a rapid response team to any hospital that diagnosis an ebola patient. meanwhile thousands of nurses across the country are expected to join a conference call this afternoon to talk about how their hospitals are preparing to treat ebola cases. the nurses' union is pointing the finger at texas presbyterian hospital claiming it was not prepared to deal with an ebola patient and that's how pham got infected and it will likely blame the hospital for this new case. again, just breaking, a second healthcare worker who cared for the first ebola patient in the u.s. has contracted ebola. very frightening for all of us but especially those medical personnel on the front lines
heels of the cdc admitting its response to the first ebola case in texas was not sufficient. the organization also admits that nina pham the nurse who contracted the disease after treating thomas eric duncan may have never fallen ill if experts had been on the ground from the very beginning. so the cdc is vowing to change its practices to prevents another nurse or doctor from getting the disease. the cdc will now send a rapid response team to any hospital that diagnosis an ebola patient....
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duncan but their travel was not restricted and now the cdc says it may have been a mistake. she was on a plane on monday, from cleveland to dallas on frontier one day before she started to show symptoms. they said there was little risk to other passengers. >> but we are putting into place extra margins of safety and we are contacting everyone that was on the flight. vincent's neighbors also cont t contact contacted. her home being diseffected. and they are concern that some other health care workers that cared for duncan are on min straight he leave could have ebola. vincent is transferred to emory hospital, where there is a unit made to handle ebola patients. in dallas, marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> hospitals and airports are on high alert because of ebola fears, but officials warn that those are not the only spots you could encounter an infected patient. david henry has more, workers in the walk-in health clinics are worried about coming across a potential case. >> reporter: that is right brian, this is one of eight health clinics operated by the city, they are gearing
duncan but their travel was not restricted and now the cdc says it may have been a mistake. she was on a plane on monday, from cleveland to dallas on frontier one day before she started to show symptoms. they said there was little risk to other passengers. >> but we are putting into place extra margins of safety and we are contacting everyone that was on the flight. vincent's neighbors also cont t contact contacted. her home being diseffected. and they are concern that some other health...
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duncan died of the virus here wednesday, hospital management claims that she followed cdc guidelines and wore protective gear. >> certainly very concerning, and, it tells thaws there is a need to enhance training and protocols to make sure that protocols are followed. protocols work. >> reporter: the nurse in her 20's started having symptoms friday night and drove herself to dallas health presbyterian hospital. within 90 minutes she was in isolation, later testing positive for the virus. officials now working fast to figure out hot nurses have been in close contact with, since she started feeling sick. one person, already in isolation, as a precaution. as crews decontaminate her home and apartment complex and wordings out to neighbors in person and by phone. >> please be advised that a health care work shore lives in your area has tested positive for ebola virus. >> reporter: officials are urging calm saying the community is not at risk. still, the cdc says that they are bracing for the possibility that other health care workers at this hospital, may also be affected. >> unfortunately, i
duncan died of the virus here wednesday, hospital management claims that she followed cdc guidelines and wore protective gear. >> certainly very concerning, and, it tells thaws there is a need to enhance training and protocols to make sure that protocols are followed. protocols work. >> reporter: the nurse in her 20's started having symptoms friday night and drove herself to dallas health presbyterian hospital. within 90 minutes she was in isolation, later testing positive for the...
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is waiting to find out right now from the cdc on test troults see if he has it, too. late little boy is still having trouble breathing. >> there's no fever. there's no more symptoms of cold. but we are having trouble with breathing still where he's gasping for air. >> tab that vasey is waiting for results on whether the illness that put her son in intensive care unit for four days is entrovirus d 68 same disease that last week killed a classmate at yardville elementary. >> i'm crossing my fingers it's not. it but, there's another sense of me i have a feeling it is. >> when he had the machines on i thought we were going to lose him. >> 4-year-old eli waller is believed to be the first child in country whose death is directly related to entrovirus d 68. he died in his sleep last week n a statement released yesterday his family describes eli as shy little puppy that wants only to make people proud and happy may be tripping a bit over his own paws and truly full of unconditional love. eli was triplet and his sisters show no symptoms but the family is awaiting test results from cdc. >> i
is waiting to find out right now from the cdc on test troults see if he has it, too. late little boy is still having trouble breathing. >> there's no fever. there's no more symptoms of cold. but we are having trouble with breathing still where he's gasping for air. >> tab that vasey is waiting for results on whether the illness that put her son in intensive care unit for four days is entrovirus d 68 same disease that last week killed a classmate at yardville elementary. >>...
had the disease, the cdc admitted it errorred -- errorred giving her permission to fly with a fever. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: even though the cdc maintains the level of risk of the 132 passengers around vincent is extremely low, air travelers are uneasy. >> is it safe to get on any of these planes going anywhere. >> reporter: meanwhile, another of duncan's nurses remains at this texas hospital her condition continuing to improve. health officials investigating how the two became infected. that number expected to climb. >> this has been a nightmare for nurses across the nation. >> reporter: done -- duncan's medical records reveal he was in the hospital for two days before the medical staff switch to haz/mat suits. city workers are work knocking on the doors of amber vincent to get the word out. >> back to you. >> our coverage of the ebola crowd break continues at 6abc.com. we have the latest on the dallas healthcare workers as well as global response to the crisis. >> 5:37. new this morning, a pennsylvania state lawmaker is speaking out ab
had the disease, the cdc admitted it errorred -- errorred giving her permission to fly with a fever. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: even though the cdc maintains the level of risk of the 132 passengers around vincent is extremely low, air travelers are uneasy. >> is it safe to get on any of these planes going anywhere. >> reporter: meanwhile, another of duncan's nurses remains at this texas hospital her condition continuing to...
precautions and the patient remains in isolation. >> this is all handles on deck. cdc detectives are on the ground in dallas hoping to keep the contagion contained. dallas area hospitals and schools and neighborhoods are on high alert after the first case of ebola was diagnosed in their city. the patient was in serious condition overnight under i say layings at -- isolation at texas health presbyterian. he flew through brussels and dulles and flew to dallas fort worth. 24 hours later he wawctd into an an -- walked into an emergency room and he said he was from liberia, but the nurse never passed the information along and sent him home. 2 days later he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. >> you have to know where the individual has been you have to know what potential exposure they've had. >> reporter: at jefferson university hospital dr. kathleen squares said protocol has been set and staff educated. ebola is not easily spread. you must have contact with bodily fluids. if a virus is expected, patients must be put in isolation. >> this is not an infection that can spread through the
precautions and the patient remains in isolation. >> this is all handles on deck. cdc detectives are on the ground in dallas hoping to keep the contagion contained. dallas area hospitals and schools and neighborhoods are on high alert after the first case of ebola was diagnosed in their city. the patient was in serious condition overnight under i say layings at -- isolation at texas health presbyterian. he flew through brussels and dulles and flew to dallas fort worth. 24 hours later he...
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cdc found samples taken from he lay waller were in fact entrovirus d 68 and hours later the mercer county medical examiner ruled eli's cause of death. he died thursday september 25 at home after showing symptoms of respiratory illness. eli attended yardville elementary school. during a saturday press conference officials announced that another 4-year-old student from the school also showed symptoms and samples were sent to the cdc to be tested for d 68. he did go to the hospital but is now at home doing well. the boys were in different preschool classes one in the morning and one in the afternoon but used same classroom. both boys left school september 19. >> we feel confident this school is as safe as it possibly can be sfwlt county public health officer eased concerns about the entrovirus saturday and school officials said they are doing everything they can including extensive cleaning in all schools. >>> and eli's father released a statement today saying in part he was a beautiful minimum of eagerness and hesitancy and need and striving and caution and surprise all of which were
cdc found samples taken from he lay waller were in fact entrovirus d 68 and hours later the mercer county medical examiner ruled eli's cause of death. he died thursday september 25 at home after showing symptoms of respiratory illness. eli attended yardville elementary school. during a saturday press conference officials announced that another 4-year-old student from the school also showed symptoms and samples were sent to the cdc to be tested for d 68. he did go to the hospital but is now at...
a public hearing to his if first responders are ready. someone at the cdc gave vincent permission to take flight from cleveland to dallas. she was part of the people being monitored who helped care for thomas eric duncan. a nurse being treated for ebola is in good condition. >> two soccer coaches from the lehigh valley have resign because some of the players taunted the player on the other team from west africa, they called him ebola. that led to a fight. the soccer coach who is the police chief in lehigh county is his legal guardian. he said the teen moved from not far from where the outbreak occurred. >> he was shaken by this and surprised it got to that level. his parents live in west africa, he says he worries about them daily. our coverageful ebola outbreak continues at 6abc.com. we have the latest on the dallas healthcare workers, as well as details on what the medical industry knows about ebola and pets. >> it is 5:04. a beating inside philadelphia's largest prison is under investigation. the suspect is not an inmate, but a prison guard. katherine scott is live in our satel
a public hearing to his if first responders are ready. someone at the cdc gave vincent permission to take flight from cleveland to dallas. she was part of the people being monitored who helped care for thomas eric duncan. a nurse being treated for ebola is in good condition. >> two soccer coaches from the lehigh valley have resign because some of the players taunted the player on the other team from west africa, they called him ebola. that led to a fight. the soccer coach who is the...
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texas health presbyterian hospital saying the worker followed cdc guidelines including wearing full protective gear while caring for thomas eric dunkinch the infection shows there was a breach in protocol. they're urgently trying to figure out how this happened. >> we're very concerned. >> officials saying there is no risk to the community but sending out a reverse 911 call to alert the healthcare workers neighbor. >> the healthcare workner your area tested positive for ebola virus. >> while hazmat cues rush to decontaminate her home, car and apartment complex. >> eye was so freaked out. >> as pretz obama was briefed on the first transition of ebola ever in the u.s. cdc says they're investigating and offering more training to the staff at this hospital. adding that they are prepared for the possibility of more patients here. >> unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola. this is because the healthcare work whorz cared for this individual may have had a breach of the same nature. >> and we're told one of the healthcare workers close co
texas health presbyterian hospital saying the worker followed cdc guidelines including wearing full protective gear while caring for thomas eric dunkinch the infection shows there was a breach in protocol. they're urgently trying to figure out how this happened. >> we're very concerned. >> officials saying there is no risk to the community but sending out a reverse 911 call to alert the healthcare workers neighbor. >> the healthcare workner your area tested positive for ebola...
" reporter andie mccormack has the store friday mercer county. >> i received a call from the state and cdc last evening, and that is when we referred it on to the medical examiner and she made confirmation this morning. >> reporter: four year-old eli waller could be first case where enterovirus d68 is the actual cause of the death. saturday the mercer county medical examiner announced eli's succumbed to the virus last thursday. this friday, the the enters for disease control confirmed the samples were in fact, d68. >> it is a reason to send samples to atlanta to confirm it was a d68 strain of the enterovirus. >> reporter: another little boy from the schoocame down with symptoms several weeks ago. he went to the hospital but we are told that now he is resting at home comfortably but doctors took samples from him and have sent them the two cdc. they are waiting to get those test results back. officials are optimistic his results will not show the the d68 d68 strain. both boys attend yardville elementary school, and share the the same classroom but not at the same time. one a attendant mornin
" reporter andie mccormack has the store friday mercer county. >> i received a call from the state and cdc last evening, and that is when we referred it on to the medical examiner and she made confirmation this morning. >> reporter: four year-old eli waller could be first case where enterovirus d68 is the actual cause of the death. saturday the mercer county medical examiner announced eli's succumbed to the virus last thursday. this friday, the the enters for disease control...
with breathing trouble. tests from the cdc ruled outent row virus d 68. and also today the mother of the second dallas nurse affected with ebola spoke to "good morning america's" robin roberts. >> she is doing okay just trying to get stronger. >> she talks to robin roberts from quarantine, saying her daughter amber is in good hands. at texas health presbyterian. roberts asked about the cdc's new guidelines. >> it your family and the family of all care givers a little disturbed that the cdc didn't put this protocol into place sooner. >> it is concerning more than anything, i'm so relieved it's in place now. it should help ensure that know one has to endure what amber and nina have to go through with her families. it's difficult. >> the cdc says they have to wear protective care with no skin exposed and rigorous training for putting on and taking off the gear and a trained monitor and the hospital must have an on site ebola manager. meanwhile in west africa there are small signs of progress. tons of food, water and supplies are coming in, going out to people in the affected countries.
with breathing trouble. tests from the cdc ruled outent row virus d 68. and also today the mother of the second dallas nurse affected with ebola spoke to "good morning america's" robin roberts. >> she is doing okay just trying to get stronger. >> she talks to robin roberts from quarantine, saying her daughter amber is in good hands. at texas health presbyterian. roberts asked about the cdc's new guidelines. >> it your family and the family of all care givers a...
of the cdc says both had contact with the patient when he was highly infected. the cdc has now bolstered their support. >> we have now insured that 24/7 there will be a site manager that will monitor how personal equipment is put on and taken off and what is done when people are in it. >> meanwhile, the cdc requested that vincent be moved to emory hospital, she will be treated by the same team that treated dr. kent brantly and nurse nancy writebol. now because she was on a flight the day before she got sick, the cdc is contacting 132 fellow passengers, the dr. i'll even farnham soez that is done out of an abundance of caution. >> on an airplane, even someone sitting next to you doesn't have symptoms next even though they are exposed to someone with ebola, they really don't pose a risk of transmitting until they are symptomatic. >> all the other health kark workers that took care of duncan are still being monitored. per protocol, if someone is being monitored for a possible infection they should not be flying or taking public transportation. the risk is low, because she did not
of the cdc says both had contact with the patient when he was highly infected. the cdc has now bolstered their support. >> we have now insured that 24/7 there will be a site manager that will monitor how personal equipment is put on and taken off and what is done when people are in it. >> meanwhile, the cdc requested that vincent be moved to emory hospital, she will be treated by the same team that treated dr. kent brantly and nurse nancy writebol. now because she was on a flight...
news can comes on the heels of the cdc admitting its response to the first ebola case in texas was not sufficient. the organization also admits nina pham the nurse who contracted the disease after treating thomas eric duncan may have never fallen ill if experts had been on the ground from the very beginning. so, the cdc is vowing to change its practices to prevent another nurse or doctor from getting the disease. the cdc will now sandy rapid response team to any hospital which diagnosed an ebola patient. tuesday night the nurse's union claims that nurses from texas health presbyterian hospital say there was a lack of training and preparation for treating a patient with ebola. some of the claims include that thomas duncan was left for several hours in the general population of the hospital even though he was showing symptoms of ebola and that initial nurses were not required to wear specialized masks and face shields. now, the hospital says it has numerous measures in place to provide a safe working environment but abc's dr. richard besser believes the possibility exists that the cdc ha
news can comes on the heels of the cdc admitting its response to the first ebola case in texas was not sufficient. the organization also admits nina pham the nurse who contracted the disease after treating thomas eric duncan may have never fallen ill if experts had been on the ground from the very beginning. so, the cdc is vowing to change its practices to prevent another nurse or doctor from getting the disease. the cdc will now sandy rapid response team to any hospital which diagnosed an...
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following new cdc guidelines to be clear the child is past 21 day maximum incubation period. and not showing symptoms. cdc said likelihood is extremely low of him having ebola in fact the child is not being tested for it now. health officials are keeping a close ion the situation. we'll update you as any new information becomes available. >> now to the other big story on "action news" parents in central jersey came looking to answers after the death of a 4-year-old boy. officials confirmed eli waller of hamilton township died from entrovirus d 68. parents were invited to attend a meeting to get information about the virus and what's being done to prevent the spread. annie mccormick is live in hamilton township with details on what the officials had to say, annie. >> and sarah, this little boy's death is gripping this community. tonight many parents in the same school district came out to ask questions and make sure their children will be safe when they head back to school. >> i need to know what they're going to be doing to take care of everything. >> parents went before a panel of health, s
following new cdc guidelines to be clear the child is past 21 day maximum incubation period. and not showing symptoms. cdc said likelihood is extremely low of him having ebola in fact the child is not being tested for it now. health officials are keeping a close ion the situation. we'll update you as any new information becomes available. >> now to the other big story on "action news" parents in central jersey came looking to answers after the death of a 4-year-old boy....
condition, meantime the cdc working to identify people that may have been in can't with this man after he became contagious. it is the first case of ebola ever diagnosed on u.s. soil, the infected person being treated in isolation at this dallas hospital. they are evaluating 12 to 18 people that he came in contact with. >> they are vowing to stop it. >> we'll stop it in its tracks. >> six people that transferred the patient to the hospital are released to go home and will be watched for three weeks. >> we are identifying everyone that he came in contact with and monitoring them for 21 days. >> the man left liberia apparently affected by the disease but had no symptoms. >> with ebola you are not infectious until you have symptoms. >> he came on his own to presbyterian hospital but the doctors said his symptoms were not unusual and then on tuesday he tested positive for ebola. dr. richard besser reporting from the front lines in liberia, says for the first time everyone that flies out of the country, everybody is screened. >> even when you are doing the right things, affected people can
condition, meantime the cdc working to identify people that may have been in can't with this man after he became contagious. it is the first case of ebola ever diagnosed on u.s. soil, the infected person being treated in isolation at this dallas hospital. they are evaluating 12 to 18 people that he came in contact with. >> they are vowing to stop it. >> we'll stop it in its tracks. >> six people that transferred the patient to the hospital are released to go home and will be...
transfusion from brantly because of his blood type. and the cdc is now reassessing its protocols as people from the cdc across the country are expressing their concerns. the virus is spreading worldwide, in germany a u.n. worker affected in liberia died overnight and the world health organization says there could be as many as 10,000 new cases per week in a month. and now they confirm the risk of ebola spreading in the u.s. is incredibly low. and the cdc says that other than health care workers at this hospital there is no threat that anyone else here has been infected. >> they are closely monitoring those health care workers and pham's dog and one person that was working with her. but they have shown know symptoms. >> "action news" is hosting a phone bank today to raise money to fight ebola. members of the liberian community are standing on hand to take your calls. call 1-877-940-6222. a doctor will be here answering questions on the "action news" facebook page, feel free to start submitting your questions now. and we have the latest on the ebola outbreak at 6abc.com. we have poste
transfusion from brantly because of his blood type. and the cdc is now reassessing its protocols as people from the cdc across the country are expressing their concerns. the virus is spreading worldwide, in germany a u.n. worker affected in liberia died overnight and the world health organization says there could be as many as 10,000 new cases per week in a month. and now they confirm the risk of ebola spreading in the u.s. is incredibly low. and the cdc says that other than health care...
matter as cdc issued strict guidelines for u.s. airlines in regards to ebola. the passenger finally exited the plane but not before making a statement that he wasn't african. >> i'm not african. >> boo. >> reporter: you could hear boos as he exited the plane as well. u.s. airways issued a statement saying they apologized for this inconvenience but safety of the customers and employees is priority. live from the satellite center, sharrie williams for channel six "action news", monica. >>> some employees walk off the job in protest in new york's laguardia airport. they are concern about potential exposure from travelers flying in from west africa. other airport employees across the the country were being trained today how to guard against infectious diseases. also part of the america's response, 500 u.s. soldiers are headed to liberia to help build an out break command center. the the cdc says medical community must get a handle on containing the infections. >> in the 30 years i have been working in public health the only thing like this has been aids and we have to work now so this i
matter as cdc issued strict guidelines for u.s. airlines in regards to ebola. the passenger finally exited the plane but not before making a statement that he wasn't african. >> i'm not african. >> boo. >> reporter: you could hear boos as he exited the plane as well. u.s. airways issued a statement saying they apologized for this inconvenience but safety of the customers and employees is priority. live from the satellite center, sharrie williams for channel six "action...
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in contact with as many as 115 people while sick and contagious. the head of the cdc said of them 50 people could be at risk. >> that group of 50 does include some individuals who traveled in the ambulance. we couldn't be 100% certain that other people in that ambulance may not have been exposeed and therefore, those individuals will be monitored for the 21-day period. >> reporter: topping the watch list, duncan's family seen on friday leaving the dallas apartment. so far, officials say the four are healthy. and to approve it, county leaders drove them to a new home at an undisclosed location. i am wearing the same shirt i was when i was in the car with the family. >> reporter: gone are the convoy of haz/mat trucks tarps and barrels and cleaning crews from the day before. confess remain why was duncan the first time only to be admitted days later. hospital officials called it a glitch in the procedures, but now claim there was no flaw. meanwhile, duncan's girlfriend told abc news on the phone they are doing well at their new home, but she said no one has told her how duncan is doing
in contact with as many as 115 people while sick and contagious. the head of the cdc said of them 50 people could be at risk. >> that group of 50 does include some individuals who traveled in the ambulance. we couldn't be 100% certain that other people in that ambulance may not have been exposeed and therefore, those individuals will be monitored for the 21-day period. >> reporter: topping the watch list, duncan's family seen on friday leaving the dallas apartment. so far,...
obama's ebola czar ron clean gets to work tomorrow. as we reported yesterday, the cdc is advising healthcare workers in the u.s. to be fully protected when treating ebola patients. the cdc can not require lops to follow the guidance. the u.s. and canada are pushing for approval of expert at a vaccines. >> philadelphia police say two armed holdups may have been carried out by the same woman. police were investigating a robbery at 57th street and chester avenue in west philadelphia and were then called to 60th street in kingsessing avenue at 9:00 last night. investigators say a woman walked into a store at that location and announced a holdup, grabbed an unknown amount of cash and fled. her description matches that of the earlier robbery. >>> fire at a doylestown nursing home forced an evacuation. chopper 6 was over the briarleaf nursing home on the 200 block of belmont avenue shortly after 8:00 last night. it broke out in an elevator shaft. firefighters quickly put it out. but the smoky conditions led to the temporary evacuation. no one was hurt. >> the battle over the philadelphia
obama's ebola czar ron clean gets to work tomorrow. as we reported yesterday, the cdc is advising healthcare workers in the u.s. to be fully protected when treating ebola patients. the cdc can not require lops to follow the guidance. the u.s. and canada are pushing for approval of expert at a vaccines. >> philadelphia police say two armed holdups may have been carried out by the same woman. police were investigating a robbery at 57th street and chester avenue in west philadelphia and...
airport is secure, one of the 18 airports that has a quarantine room, operated by the cdc and passengers are scened for any signs of illness. >> the current guidance is provided to us by the cdc, to observe all international travelers in the united states. for sickness or overt signs of illness, for their recent travel. >> hospital officials testifying that they are ready to handle any infectious disease that includes ebola except for childrens hospital that is december natded as a primary care center for pediatric cases, no singer hospital will act as a hub instead all emergency rooms and hospitals will be prepared to handle any case that shows up. >> live in city hall, david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> okay david. thank you. >> i want to remind everybody from home the facts about ebola, first of all this virus does not spread through the air or water, it only spreads through direct contact. another thing you need to know in reference to direct contact, the person must be outwardly sick or showing signs and even at that point have you to be in contact with blood or bodily fluids,
airport is secure, one of the 18 airports that has a quarantine room, operated by the cdc and passengers are scened for any signs of illness. >> the current guidance is provided to us by the cdc, to observe all international travelers in the united states. for sickness or overt signs of illness, for their recent travel. >> hospital officials testifying that they are ready to handle any infectious disease that includes ebola except for childrens hospital that is december natded as a...
, that nurse is in stable condition in isolation. the cdc blaming this latest case on breach of protocol neither wearing or disinfecting that protective gear. how that happened is unclear. today investigators piecing together what went wrong at this dallas hospital that caused a nurse here to contract ebola. hospital officials say she wore a gown, gloves, masks and shield while treating the ebola patient that died here last week. abc dr. richard beser explains how mistake with wearing ar decome tan nateing the protective gear could have exposed her. >> if you have a cut it can get in indirectly. if you touch eyes, nose, mouth and it's on your skin that's how you get infected. >> other healthcare workers who treated dunkin at the hospital could also be infected. >> unfortunately it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of ebola. >> reporter: right now there's 48 people monitored exposed to dunkin before he was isolated this nurse was not one. only coming into contact after dunkin was hospitalized. now, experts are looking into her own ring of possible e
, that nurse is in stable condition in isolation. the cdc blaming this latest case on breach of protocol neither wearing or disinfecting that protective gear. how that happened is unclear. today investigators piecing together what went wrong at this dallas hospital that caused a nurse here to contract ebola. hospital officials say she wore a gown, gloves, masks and shield while treating the ebola patient that died here last week. abc dr. richard beser explains how mistake with wearing ar decome...
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virus or any virus going on. >> vase is keeping her son home from school until she hears from the cdc. >> ebola in spain may be the first time it's transmitsed outside of africa a nurse at hospital in madrid was part of a team treating a priest that was flown back to spain from sierra leone. that nurse was put into isolation. that priest died. doctors in dallas trying to save a man infected with ebola now have a new tool. the food and drug administration approved use of anti-viral drug for thomas eric dunkin and other infected americans. that dunkin remains in critical condition on dialysis and also on a ventilator. in anybody number american journalist ashaka amuko arrived where he was near the ebola outbreak. he's doing fairly well according to his mother. >> we're really happy that his symptoms are not scream yet. that he's arrived here still in relatively early phases. he seems to be in good spirits and we're still -- >> dyapa muxt kpo thinks -- mukpo thinks he may have been infected while helping disinfect a truck where a patient died. >>> we're learning about a possible local ca
virus or any virus going on. >> vase is keeping her son home from school until she hears from the cdc. >> ebola in spain may be the first time it's transmitsed outside of africa a nurse at hospital in madrid was part of a team treating a priest that was flown back to spain from sierra leone. that nurse was put into isolation. that priest died. doctors in dallas trying to save a man infected with ebola now have a new tool. the food and drug administration approved use of anti-viral...
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were on the plane with the nurse who tested positive for ebola. the cdc has cleared them to return to the state. the governor tried to relieve fears about that happening. >> you need to have more than a presence in the same airplane. you need to have some type of transference and touching of bodily fluids. we're trying to calm everybody down. >>> meanwhile, barack obama named ron klain always the ebola czar. should someone in our area test pose continue for ebola, mayor nutter and city officials discussed their preparation plans to deal with the outbreak, "action news" reporter, david henry has the details. >> i want to reassure all the philadelphians and the folks in the area, our team is working very, very hard and we know what we are doing. >> reporter: the city health commissioner said all city hospitals are prepared to treat and treat anyone who shows up with ebola. there are no cases of ebola in philadelphia, but if one shows up, it will show up at the university of pennsylvania hospital. it has agreed to treat healthcare workers who get infected in africa. anyone who has sym
were on the plane with the nurse who tested positive for ebola. the cdc has cleared them to return to the state. the governor tried to relieve fears about that happening. >> you need to have more than a presence in the same airplane. you need to have some type of transference and touching of bodily fluids. we're trying to calm everybody down. >>> meanwhile, barack obama named ron klain always the ebola czar. should someone in our area test pose continue for ebola, mayor nutter...
. >> reporter: the cdc said 350 people could be at risk. >> the people at risk would coe the people who traveled in the ambulance. therefore those individuals will be monitored for the 21-day period. >> reporter: topping the watch list, duncan's family seen here on friday, leaving their dallas apartment, so far officials say these four are healthy and to approve it, county leaders drove the family to their new home at an undisclosed location. >> i'm wearing the same shirt i was when i was in the car with that family. >> reporter: on saturday, a sense of normalcy back at the apartment. gone are the convoy of haz/mat trucks barrels and cleaning crews from the day before. but questions remain why was duncan sent home the first time only to be admitted days later. hospital officials called it a glitch in the procedures, but claim there was no flaw. meanwhile, duncan's girlfriend told abc news on the phone, she and the kids are doing well at their new home. but she is upset because she said no one has told her how duncan is doing in days. elizabeth hur, abc news dallas. >> an american doctor
. >> reporter: the cdc said 350 people could be at risk. >> the people at risk would coe the people who traveled in the ambulance. therefore those individuals will be monitored for the 21-day period. >> reporter: topping the watch list, duncan's family seen here on friday, leaving their dallas apartment, so far officials say these four are healthy and to approve it, county leaders drove the family to their new home at an undisclosed location. >> i'm wearing the same...
hours, that is enough reason for me to say i should be isolated and i should be quarantined. >> the cdc says vincent should not be flying. but abc news learned that she contacted cdc asked if she could be at the flight, and they gave her permission even though she had a slight fever. they say she initially misdiagnosed duncan and made mistakes afterwards and failed to provide information. >> meanwhile there are three closed in the dallas area that are john thank you. >>> officials are also explaining this video of amber vincent's hospital transfer that took the internet by storm. one man is standing by the tarmac without protective equipment. others are wearing hazmat suits and wheeling her in a suit as well on to her flight. they say that the man in plain clothes was a representative for the airline. they say that the suit would have hindered him from helping them keep protocol. he was not assisting them and it is not airborne. can you follow the ebola at 6abc.com, you'll find updates on the affected nurses and the mesh airs to monitor the virus in the united states. >>> traffic is mov
hours, that is enough reason for me to say i should be isolated and i should be quarantined. >> the cdc says vincent should not be flying. but abc news learned that she contacted cdc asked if she could be at the flight, and they gave her permission even though she had a slight fever. they say she initially misdiagnosed duncan and made mistakes afterwards and failed to provide information. >> meanwhile there are three closed in the dallas area that are john thank you. >>>...
. >> reporter: the cdc detectives are on the ground in dallas hoping to keep the contagion contained. dallas area hospitals and schools are high alert after the first case of ebola was diagnosed in their city. thomas dunkin was in serious condition under isolation at texas health presbyterian hospital. dunkin left liberia with no symptoms. he flew through brussels and dulles and dallas after four days he began to show symptoms. 24 hours he walked into an emergency room in dallas, his sister said he told the nurse he was visiting from liberia, but that the nurse never passed the information along. he was sent home. three days later he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance, at least 18 people who had close contact with him are being monitored. meanwhile, philadelphia hospitals are preparing for the case -- for the possibility that ebola comes to there hospital. at jefferson university hospital, protocols have been set and staff educated. ebola is not easily spread. you must have contact with bodily fluids. in the virus is suspected patients must be put in isolation. >> this is not an
. >> reporter: the cdc detectives are on the ground in dallas hoping to keep the contagion contained. dallas area hospitals and schools are high alert after the first case of ebola was diagnosed in their city. thomas dunkin was in serious condition under isolation at texas health presbyterian hospital. dunkin left liberia with no symptoms. he flew through brussels and dulles and dallas after four days he began to show symptoms. 24 hours he walked into an emergency room in dallas, his...
grilled cdc director tom freeden. he allowed the second nurse to fly on a commercial jet before she was diagnosed. >> my understanding that she did contact cdc and we discussed with her her reported symptoms. my understanding that she reported no symptoms to us. >> freeden called a travel ban from west africa could backfire by encouraging people to try other ways to slip into the county. >> mayor nutter and city officials will discuss how to deal with the effects of ebola and other infectious diseases. chop has been working on a plan since august to treat an infected child while keeping other patients and staff safe. >> dispatchers are acid to do become the first line of defense in berks county. 911 operators will be asking patients extra confess to see -- questions to see if they are showing any symptoms of ebola just? case they show up show up in berks county. dann cuellar is tracking developments in texas be texas and ali gorman is tracking developments in atlanta. >>> state police are trying to determine if a crash earlier in bucks county was caused by road rage. the crash killed li
grilled cdc director tom freeden. he allowed the second nurse to fly on a commercial jet before she was diagnosed. >> my understanding that she did contact cdc and we discussed with her her reported symptoms. my understanding that she reported no symptoms to us. >> freeden called a travel ban from west africa could backfire by encouraging people to try other ways to slip into the county. >> mayor nutter and city officials will discuss how to deal with the effects of ebola and...
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Historical observations reveal ancient Nova
Javier Barbuzano
Sky & Telescope
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:21 UTC
© K. Ilkiewicz and J. Mikolajewska
This image shows the ejected shell of the recovered Nova Scorpii 1437. The red tick marks show the current location of the source and the red plus sign marks the location of the shell center in 1437.
Astronomers and historians pinpoint the source of a 15th-century classical nova. It's currently regathering strength.
In 1437, Korean royal astronomers observed a new star appearing in the constellation Scorpius. "A guest star began to be seen between the second and third stars of Wei," they wrote in the Sejong Sillok, a chronicle of the reign of King Sejong who ruled Korea from 1418 to 1464. The star faded from sight after 14 days.
What the puzzled subjects of King Sejong witnessed was a classical nova - the outburst of a white dwarf in a close binary system when it collects sufficient hydrogen from its companion star.
In this scenario a white dwarf, normally hydrogen-poor, accumulates fresh gas on its surface until the bottom layers become deep and hot enough that hydrogen atoms begin to fuse. A runaway thermonuclear reaction ensues, turning the dwarf's thin surface layer into a shell-shaped hydrogen bomb.
But little is known about what happens to the binary system centuries after the white dwarf throws its tantrum. Astronomers think the system remains relatively unharmed and the gas transfer resumes, setting things in motion for another catastrophic event. Indeed, "recurrent novae" re-explode on observably short timescales.
A team led by Michael Shara (American Museum of Natural History) with help from Richard Stephenson (Durham University), a historian specializing in Asian astronomical records, followed the indications from the Sejong Sillok to look for the stellar system responsible for the guest star, now called Nova Scorpii 1437. "It was the best-located classical nova in over 2,000 years of records by Chinese, Korean and Japanese astronomers," Shara says. "We expected it to be faint, so a fairly precise location was essential if we were to have any realistic chance of recovering it."
© David A. Hardy http://www.astroart.org & Science and Technology Facilities Council
An artist's portrayal of a recurrent nova similar to Scorpii 1437.
Shara's team went to the records of the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH) project, which is digitizing the collection of 500,000 photographic sky patrol plates taken by Harvard astronomers between 1885 and 1993.
There, they found the object they were looking for in an image taken in 1923 with the 24-inch Bruce Doublet telescope at the Harvard Observatory station in Arequipa, Peru. Slightly off target from their interpretation of the Korean records, Shara found a shell-shaped structure - presumably gas ejected by the explosion, which has been expanding for the last 580 years. Inside the shell, they found a cataclysmic variable that new imaging confirms is the origin of Nova Scorpii 1437. It's now simmering unsteadily with faint brightness - around 16th or 17th magnitude. They explain their findings in the August 31th Nature.
Finding the source of this nova is important because it allows astronomers to observe its state nearly 600 years later. Cataclysmic variables are a broad category of objects that includes novae, recurrent novae, nova-like variables, and dwarf novae, but this observation suggests that all of these could be a single type of object observed at different stages of life.
From the DASCH imagery, Shara's team saw that the progenitor of Nova 1437 has turned into a dwarf nova, showing smaller eruptions that brighten up the system. These occur when the white dwarf captures gas from its companion at a particularly fast rate. Such episodes appear in images taken in 1934, 1935, and 1942.
The authors propose a unified life cycle of cataclysmic variables: The white dwarf in a binary system goes nova, then returns to its unsteady state as a "nova-like variable" as gas transfer from the companion star gradually resumes. After a while it begins to collect gas more quickly, showing "dwarf-nova" characteristics, until it eventually explodes again, re-starting the cycle.
Guided by ancient records, Shara and his team intend to look for even older novae in modern images. They hope to find whether such systems can eventually become detached binaries, where the gas transfer to the white dwarf stops completely.
Shara et al. "Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii ad 1437." Nature, August 2017.
Fungus FitzJuggler · 2017-08-31T06:28:55Z
It is not gas, it is plasma and Coronal Mass.
Stars blow off as the load conveyed to the plasma pinch becomes too much for the pinch to retain in the Birkeland Sheath that we call the star surface.
It explodes, taking with it internal objects as well. These may become stars or remain planets if they retain an orbit. In larger stars, the event is much milder but the results are the same.
Stars seed the Galaxy with other stars. The Galactic Filaments gather energy all the time. A "micro-filament" is attached to every body in space. But that attachment may change, altering EMF conditions with these consequences!
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Trump throws a fit when reporters note his own numbers prove him wrong
Trump came completely unglued on Friday when multiple reporters pointed out that his racist rhetoric about immigrants does not match up with federal government data, including from Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security.
“I use many stats,” Trump cried petulantly at one point when he was unable to come up with a specific rebuttal to the facts reporters cited.
The exchange came during a press conference in which Trump declared a national emergency to help him steal funds to build a wall along the southern border.
CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Trump to explain the discrepancy between his claims that there is a “national emergency” at the border, and data from the Department of Homeland Security showing “border crossings at a near record low.”
Acosta also pointed out that undocumented immigrants are “committing crime at lower levels than native-born Americans.”
After noting these facts, Acosta asked Trump if he was “concocting a national emergency here in order to get your wall because you couldn’t get it through other ways?”
Trump lost it. Rather than answer the question, Trump lashed out at Acosta’s employer, CNN.
“You’re CNN, you’re fake news,” Trump said. “You have an agenda. The numbers that you gave are wrong.”
But while Trump later claimed that he gets his statistics from the Department of Homeland Security, Acosta was correct about what DHS numbers say about border crossings — which means Trump was smearing his own administration’s crime statistics as “fake news.”
Brian Karem, White House correspondent for Playboy, followed up by asking Trump to “clarify where you get your numbers” on this subject.
“Most of the DEA [Drug Enforcement Agency] crime reporting statistics we see show that drugs are coming across at the points of entry, that illegal immigration is down, and the violence is down,” Karem pointed out. “So what do you base your facts on?”
After a tense back-and-forth in which Trump yelled at Karem to “sit down,” he finally replied, “I get my numbers from a lot of sources, like Homeland Security, primarily.”
“So your own government stats are wrong, are you saying?” Karem asked.
“I use many stats,” Trump repeated vaguely, “but I also use Homeland Security.”
Since Trump claims to use Homeland Security information, here is what U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, which is part of DHS, said in December 2017: “In FY17, CBP recorded the lowest level of illegal cross-border migration on record, as measured by apprehensions along the border and inadmissible encounters at U.S. ports of entry.”
Forbes noted that Trump officials often cherry-pick data from 2017 and 2018 to claim that illegal border crossings are skyrocketing, but that this just doesn’t represent reality.
This trend of decreasing border crossings also tracks with broader immigration patterns since 1980, Forbes points out: “Border Patrol apprehensions along the Southwest border plummeted by approximately 80%, from a high of over 1.6 million in FY 2000, to around 300,000 in FY 2017. (Apprehensions are considered a proxy for illegal entry, so the fewer apprehensions, the less illegal entry.)”
As for Trump’s desire to link all immigrants to an increase of criminal activity, Acosta was correct: Immigrants — whether documented or undocumented — commit crimes at a lower rate than those born in the United States.
The Wall Street Journal puts an even finer point on it: While the number of undocumented immigrants tripled between 1990 and 2013, violent crimes in the U.S. declined by 48 percent in the same period.
As for drugs coming into the country, CPB also does, in fact say most drugs are smuggled through points of entry — something a wall would do nothing to stop.
Trump is so desperate to build a wall that he even refuses to accept official data from his own government.
And when informed reporters call him out for his willful ignorance, Trump just can’t handle it.
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Venture Capital Trusts
Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) offer similar tax breaks to individuals as the Enterprise Investment Scheme. VCTs are managed by a variety of specialist fund companies. At SBM & Co, we advise individuals on tax efficient investments in the London area. Some information about VCTs is given below.
Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) are complementary to the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), in that both are designed to encourage private individuals to invest in smaller high-risk unquoted trading companies affected by the equity gap. While the EIS requires an investment to be made directly into the shares of the company, VCTs operate by indirect investment through a mediated fund. In effect they are very like the investment trusts that are obtainable on the stock exchange, albeit in a high-risk environment.
What is a VCT?
VCTs themselves are quoted companies which are required to hold at least 70% of their investments in shares or securities that they have subscribed for in qualifying unquoted companies. VCTs have a certain time period in which to meet the percentage test.
Other conditions are:
they must distribute 85% of their income
they must have a spread of investments with no single holding accounting for more than 15% of the value of total.
VCTs are exempt from tax on their capital gains and there is no relief for capital losses.
Reliefs available to investors
Income tax relief of 30% is currently available on subscriptions for VCT shares up to a limit per tax year of £200,000.
To qualify for income tax relief the shares must be held for a minimum of five years.
Investors are exempt from tax on any dividends received from a VCT although the credits are not repayable.
Capital gains arising on disposal of the shares are also exempt and for this relief, there is no minimum period of ownership. There is no relief for any capital losses.
Qualifying companies which a VCT can invest in
The definition of a qualifying company for VCT purposes is very similar to that applying for EIS. The company:
must be unquoted, although shares on the Authorised Investment Market (AIM) are deemed unquoted for this purpose. They may become quoted later.
must not deal in land, leased assets or financial, legal or accountancy services. In addition it must not be a trade that has a large capital aspect to it, such as property development, farming, hotels or nursing homes.
Over the years, governments make amendments to what are regarded as qualifying companies for a VCT to invest in. The thrust of the changes is to ensure well-targeted support for investment into small and growing companies, with a particular focus on innovative companies.
It is not possible to cover all the detailed rules in a factsheet of this nature. If you are interested in investing in Venture Capital Trusts please contact us, at SBM & Co, for further information.
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Hitting the redo button on evolution
Scientists are experimenting with bacteria to see if evolution plays out the same way every time
Tina Hesman Saey
Feb 11, 2009 — 12:00 am EST
People have always wondered why plants and animals are built the way they are. Charles Darwin, an Englishman who lived in the 1800s, was very curious about the shape of life forms, and did lots of experiments to find some answers. He came up with the theory of evolution, which helps explain how life on Earth came to be in its many forms.
A big part of Darwin’s evolution theory is a process called natural selection — you might have heard it called “survival of the fittest.” Natural selection says that plants, animals and other life forms that are best suited to their environment survive and have offspring. If the environment changes, organisms whose forms can change, or adapt, best over time to the new conditions have a better chance of surviving.
For instance, fish called sticklebacks have spines that keep bigger fish from gulping them down. Sticklebacks usually live in the ocean, where escaping from big fish is a problem, and spineless fish would quickly be gobbled up. But some kinds of sticklebacks live in ponds where there are no other fish to worry about. Instead there are huge insects, such as dragonflies, that can grab sticklebacks by their spines and eat them like you hold a Popsicle by the stick and slurp it up. In that case, having spines is bad. Some sticklebacks that live in these ponds have lost their spines over time. Now the dragonflies have nothing to hold on to, making this spineless fish “fitter” and able to produce more offspring than fish with spines who would get eaten by the dragonflies.
Scientists have wondered for a long time whether evolution would work the same way every time. Some think if you borrowed Hermione Granger’s time-turner and went back in time to do a redo of evolution, things would turn out basically the same as they are now. Some details might be different, but in general, evolution would probably make plants and animals that are very similar to the ones alive today.
But other scientists don’t agree. They think that if you hit the redo button, a small change somewhere along the line could produce very big changes later. It would be like recording a baseball game and then when you watched it again having one play change that lead to the other team winning.
Richard Lenski at Michigan State University in East Lansing is doing experiments with bacteria to find out who is right. In 1988, Lenski lined up 12 flasks at the start of his experiment. In each flask he placed identical bacteria, known as E. coli, and fed all of the bacteria the same food. The bacteria’s food is a liquid that contains vitamins, nutrients and a kind of sugar called glucose.
Bacteria that are better at using glucose grow faster. They also make many more copies of themselves (how bacteria reproduce) than bacteria that don’t digest glucose as well. Each day, Lenski randomly takes some of the bacteria and puts them in a new flask containing the same liquid. The remaining bacteria are frozen, which is like hitting the pause button. Scientists can go back later and start the experiment again with the paused, frozen bacteria. By now, the bacteria have made more than 45,000 generations, or groups of organisms born around the same time.
These 12 flasks contain separate populations of E. coli bacteria, all evolved from a single ancestor. Only the bacteria in flask A-3 (third from left in the back row) evolved the ability to eat citrate.
Neerja Hajela and Brian Baer/Michigan State University
By using a dozen different flasks, Lenski was basically setting up 12 different recordings of the same game, pushing “play” at the same time and watching to see if all the games would end the same. For many generations, all of the bacteria in all of the flasks seemed to be playing their games the same. All of the bacteria grew bigger than their ancestors and got better at eating glucose.
But then something different happened. The liquid food in the flasks also contains a type of sugar called citrate. E. coli don’t eat citrate. At least most E. coli don’t. But after about 30,000 generations, bacteria in one of the flasks suddenly started to chow down on citrate.
“They’ve been eating the main course for thousands of generations,” Lenski says. “They didn’t realize that there was a dessert tray around the corner.”
Zachary Blount sits in front of a tower of petri dishes. He used these dishes to test trillions of bacteria to see which evolved the ability to eat a chemical called citrate.
Brian Baer/Michigan State University
Zachary Blount, a graduate student in Lenski’s lab, replayed the citrate game more than 40 trillion times using the frozen bacteria. He found that the evolution game isn’t played the same every time. Fewer than one in one trillion bacteria make the plays that allow them to end up finding the dessert cart.
For now, the citrate-eating bacteria still eat their glucose dinner along with dessert. But maybe with time some of those E. coli will start eating only dessert, says Blount.
“It would be amazing,” Blount says. “It would be like teenagers who no longer like to eat pizza — they prefer broccoli.”
So who is right — the scientists who think evolution ends the same way each time? Or the ones who think that surprise endings are more likely? Both, says Lenski. In 11 flasks the game seems to be playing out the same, meaning that the first group of scientists is mostly right. But the rare appearance of the citrate eaters means that the group who believes in surprise endings is also correct, he says.
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Memories and Confessions
Danielle Burgos Featured June 4th 2018
Screening as part of Anthology’s Documentarists For A Day series, Visit, or Memories and Confessions announces itself plainly as “a film by Manoel de Oliveira about Manoel de Oliveira, on the purpose of a house,” a statement cleanly sidestepping the raw emotion motivating the film’s creation. As framing must be raised before a house is built, the framework necessary for a movie’s existence, normally hidden from view, opens the film as Oliveira notes its funding sources, groups beholden to, and collaborators, before moving on to the film proper.
Point-of-view ellipses of strangers invited to but encroaching on an unfamiliar home intersperse a straightforward personal history, the two separate works occupying the same space without quite touching. The floating segments are Visit, a meditation on the specific home from writer Agustina Bessa-Luís (whose novels Oliveira later adapted into several feature films), lightly overlapping Meditations and Memories, Oliveira’s direct audience engagement reflecting on his life, work, and family. The space is Oliveira’s home of forty years visited the day he lost it, sold to avoid foreclosure and pay off debts.
For a film about a man confronting his own mortality, what he then thought was the sum total of his life’s work, and forced to leave the space he’d created for both, the film has no trace of mawkishness. It’s straightforward, pragmatic even, in laying out the lives and locales that led to this abode we’re floating through. Places are introduced with the same care and detail as siblings and spouses, including Oliveira’s description of the prison that held him after the PIDE (a national security agency devolved into secret police) dragged him ill from his bed.
At the start Oliveira says with stoic finality, “Maybe I shouldn’t make a film like this. But it’s done.” Yet the story has a happy ending; 73 years old at the time, what Oliveira thought might be a final film reflecting on a stunted career turned out to be the start of an extremely fruitful and well-received period of work that only ended with Oliveira’s death at 106, the oldest active filmmaker until that point. Oliveira requested Memories and Confessions not screen until after his death; given the film’s honesty in capturing his personal nadir it’s understandable why, but with the film’s release, Oliveira’s instinct to preserve his intimate environ is proven sublimely correct.
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Mark Kozelek is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and occasional actor.
He is best known as the vocalist and primary recording artist of the indie folk band Sun Kil Moon, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums, and as the vocalist, guitarist and founding member of the indie rock band Red House Painters, with whom he recorded six studio albums from 1989 until 2001.
Alongside his bands, Kozelek also releases his own solo material - among his three projects, he has released over twenty studio albums. His debut solo material came in 2001 in the form of album 'What's Next To The Moon', and he followed this a with further nine more, including his most recent self titled effort, which is due for release in May 2018.
During his time, he has collaborated with a range of artists, including Ben Boye, Jim White, Sean Yeaton, Nicolás Pauls, with Desertshore, Jimmy LaValle and many more.
Kozelek will support his new record with UK tour dates in October. Catch him live by checking out the concert ticket information below on Stereoboard.
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Movie review: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is sweaty, grunty, loud, self-congratulatory
Ben Affleck (left) and Henry Cavill star as the titular characters in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice.MOVIE STILL: WARNER BROS
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Zack Snyder doesn't make movies for people; he makes them for bros. Or dudes. Or dudebros. And video game players. Which is why I found the experience of watching Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (PG13, 152 minutes, now showing, 1 star) a lot like walking into the winning team's locker room after a rugby match. It's sweaty, grunty, loud, self-congratulatory and, if movies had smells, pungent.
Director Snyder hates story. They get in the way of the important stuff, like having two sets of fists punch their way to emotional closure.
That is why you never understand why Batman (Ben Affleck) hates Superman so much that he wants the Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) dead. Bruce Wayne does mutter something to Alfred (Jeremy Irons) about saving the world from unchecked power, but nowhere in the script does it have Wayne pause to question his own right to vigilantism.
That would be thoughtful, and having self-awareness is not what this movie is about. For example, there is a long Rocky-style montage in which Wayne works out, in the most manly way possible - not with actual gym equipment (that would be for wussies) but with lorry tyres.
He is developing abs so he can be fitter, to beat up a guy who can crush a small planet between his arms. How many push-ups would it take? What timing on the 2.4 km run would be enough?
Displays of beefiness, in all its forms, are the point, sense be damned.
The plot is dead simple, but in between there is a lot of stuff that Snyder thinks is deep, such as arguments about how as Foreign Talent, the Kryptonian ubermensch cannot be trusted, even with his superhero Employment Pass. He is Donald Trump's worst nightmare, stealing jobs from local costumed vigilantes.
Another dead-end sub-thread is his liability for the battle damage to Metropolis, caused by the events of Man Of Steel (2013).
Real journalists are enlisted to spell out the arguments on televisions in the background, announcing - no, hammering you over the head with how important these moral and political issues are, so that you will go home believing you got smarter watching this, instead of dumber. If you saw Snyder's Watchmen (2009), this first-year philosophy course stuff is old hat.
In any case, both threads vanish in a puff of smoke midway, to make way for another incomprehensible thread, when Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) kicks off his plan for... what, it's never clear. But never mind, there's a mini-ad in there for upcoming franchises Aquaman and The Flash, so book your tickets early.
The climax of the film is an ear-splitting fight, in which one set of computer pixels fights another set of computer pixels, but what happens is never clear because Snyder likes flicker edits, dark shadows, smoke and camera lenses with a coating of grime.
But you walk away with a sense-impression that something big hit something bigger and then everything blew up.
The battles are like the ending of this movie - Snyder can't decide what he wants so he puts everything in, creating three false endings before the credits roll.
For a film that is aware of its own silliness, and revels in it, try Pee-Wee's Big Holiday (PG, 90 minutes, now showing on Netflix, 3.5 stars) - if you can put aside the strangeness of watching Paul Reubens, a 63-year-old man, play a child in everything but appearance.
The first movie featuring the Pee-Wee character in almost three decades sees Reubens meet movie star Joe Manganiello (playing himself), who convinces the eternal boy to break his vow of never leaving his hometown, Fairville. Pee-Wee heads out to New York City and immediately runs into trouble on the road.
A lot of the jokes are physical, and not just from Pee-Wee's Rube Goldberg contraptions. There's plenty of surreal fun in Fairville, a town that stayed in the 1950s while the rest of American moved on.
Pee-Wee's mix of Pollyanna optimism and ignorance about the modern world drives the comedy - fans of the sister Netflix show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt will see a resemblance between Kimmy and Pee-Wee.
Kimmy's world is more grounded in reality than Pee-Wee's, but both feature plenty of sweetness and an anarchic sense of fun, providing some respite in a comedy landscape littered with too much snark.
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Regency promenade dresses
Promenade dresses from The Mirror of the Graces (1811)
The second plate from The Mirror of the Graces; or the English lady's costume is of two carriage or promenade dresses and is accompanied by a full description.
A long purple pelisse à la militaire
“The second plate represents two figures in carriage or promenade costumes. The most prominent appears in a long pelisse, à la militaire, which is composed of purple or grey twill sarsnet, or of grass green velvet: an arched collar trimmed with Spanish braiding: the front of the bust ornamented with three rows of silk frogs the colour of the pelisse: arched military cuffs to correspond. The coat confined in the centre of the throat, and at the bottom of the waist, with a brooch and clasps of mother-of-pearl set in gold: a convent mob cap of Paris-net confined under the chin, and ornamented in front with a full flower blended with the curls of the hair; its colours tastefully contrasted with that of the pelisse: half boots or Roman shoes, of purple or buff kid: gloves, a pale lemon colour."
A frog is a decorative braiding used to embellish a garment at the same time as fastening it closed by means of a button and loop.
A frog fastening on a cloak
Pocket-less fashions
"The ridicule, when used, should be composed of the same materials as the coat, fixed into a gold lion snap. It is necessary, however, to observe, that this article (though exceedingly convenient, since fashion has excluded the use of the pocket) is considerably on the decline with females of a superior order; but as we hear of no substitute, it can never be completely banished till the fashion of the pocket is revived."
Ridicule for evening wear
from La Belle Assemblée (Jan 1812)
The necessity of the ridicule
A ridicule or reticule was a lady’s purse. It was designed to carry around personal items that used to be kept in a pocket underneath a lady’s skirts.
A pocket was a flat bag, tied around the waist, completely separate from the dress, and reached by means of a slit in the side seam of the skirt. Pockets fell out of favour in the early 19th century when fashions became more streamlined and it was no longer possible to hide a bulky bag under your skirts.
Ridicules came into fashion enabling ladies to carry around their belongings without spoiling the line of their dresses. The above description suggests that ridicules were on their way out, but in this instance, convenience seems to have outweighed the fashionable notions of “superior” ladies and ridicules remained in fashion.
A cardinal cloak with high plaited ruff à la Queen Mary
"The second figure in the plate appears in a round robe of plain Indian muslin, of a walking length, ornamented at the feet with needlework; a stomacher front, and Spanish cuff of the same: a cardinal cloak of coloured twill sarsnet, or green Merino cloth, with high plaited ruff à la Queen Mary: the cloak trimmed at the bottom with deep lace, or entirely round with fur: a helmet cap of white satin, blended with lace, confined under the chin with two narrow plaitings of net, and ornamented in front with a small cluster of Persian roses in moss: a cameo brooch confines the dress in front of the bosom, or at the throat; and a clasp of the same embraces the bottom of the waist: the gloves are Limerick or French kid.”
Limerick gloves
Limerick gloves were named after County Limerick in Ireland where they were first made and were a popular daytime accessory during the Regency period. Although often referred to as 'chicken skin' gloves, they were actually made from the skins of unborn calves. They were usually cream or yellow in colour and were renowned for their superior quality and thinness.
Read about Regency morning gowns in The Mirror of the Graces.
A lady of distinction, The Mirror of the Graces; or the English lady's costume (1811)
Candice Hern's fashion glossary
Photograph by Rachel Knowles
Labels: Regency fashion, Regency period, The Mirror of the Graces
It's reticule, not ridicule (?)
Rachel Knowles 3 July 2013 at 22:52
Actually it's both!
Reticule is from the latin for net, because they were often little net bags, but the similarity to the word ridicule was too much for a lot of [men] to resist so both terms were used...
Ridicule must have been an accepted term and not just a colloquialism as it is the term used in "The Mirror of the Graces" in the paragraph above on pocket-less fashions.
Thanks for another enlightening article, Rachel. For the most part, the more I learn about the Regency period, the more I like it. The fact that Limerick gloves were made of the skin of unborn calves is a bit off-putting to me, since I hate the thought that the calves were never allowed to live. (I'm not a vegetarian but getting closer to it every day.)
In the Regency era, I'm sure I would have been thought of as very strange! :)
I agree that the source of the gloves sounds gross. I was somewhat horrified to discover how they were made. :(
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The World's Great Wisdom
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Roger Walsh - Editor
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Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times.
What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world’s great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World’s Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions’ understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world’s accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.
Roger Walsh, MD is Professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Anthropology and Professor in the Religious Studies Program at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of several books, including The World of Shamanism: New Views of an Ancient Tradition.
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1971 Porsche 911 S/T
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Porsche developed the S/T, of which 33 were built in 1970 and 1971, taking full advantage of new FIA rules allowing a two-inch wider track.
Accordingly, wheel arches were widened to accommodate seven-inch front and nine-inch rear wheels. Weight reduction was even more radical, including thinner-gauge steel for the roof and floorpans. Heating ducts, seat slide supports, the glove-box lid, ashtray, sun visors and rear torsion-bar covers were deleted.
Transverse bars linked the strut towers, while soundproofing and under-seal were omitted and minimal paint was applied. Plastic front and rear bumpers, a plastic front lid and lightweight Plexiglas side and rear windows were included. The 2.5-litre engine produced 270 bhp, and upgraded ventilated disc brakes, Recaro sport seats and a variety of fuel capacities completed the specification.
Story by RM Auctions
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engine Flat-6
displacement 2500 cc / 152.56 in³
key drivers Björn Waldegård
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1971 Porsche 911 ST 9111300647. Björn Waldegård, the most successful 911 rally driver of the era, amassed high profile wins, including the 1968 Swedish Rally followed by wins at Monte Carlo in 1969 and 1970. The 1971 911 S/T offered here is one of five cars built in January 1971 to contest the East African Safari Rally, and it was driven by Waldegård himself. None of the Porsche entries completed the gruelling event, however, and only four of this group of cars still exist today, with just two still complete. This example, complete with correct 2.5-litre twin-plug racing engine, was authentically and painstakingly restored, retaining its original interior. Auction Source: 2010 RM Auctions Sporting Classics of Monaco
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The Clomping Foot of Orbis Tertius
May 22, 2016 Books, Speculative FictionFantasy, Jorge Luis Borges, Science Fiction, WorldbuildingWesley
(Edited to add: oddly, my RSS feed seems to be having trouble with the o-with-an-umlaut character that should go in Tlon. Please excuse the misspelling.)
So… as I said in my last post (oh so long ago now), recently I reread Jorge Luis Borges’s story “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” after it turned up on the shortlist for the Retro Hugo awards, juxtaposed with pulpy stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Leigh Brackett. Which, I grant, seems incongruous.
It’s possible to argue–I’ve seen arguments made, anyway–that salting a SF shortlist with classic literature is a dubious move. That such a list might simply be grabbing at cultural respectability, poaching a work that came from outside the SF tradition and therefore doesn’t really belong with it. What’s interesting about this argument is that it could just as easily come from people skeptical of genre fiction, or from genre fans who resent “literary” fiction and insist the beloved pulp of their childhoods is just as good as–no, better than–the books their ninth grade English teacher forced them to read. I would refuse to belong to these groups even if they were willing to have me as a member.
Genre is just a tool for describing what fiction is doing. Any interesting fiction does more than one thing, and might be grouped with any number of genres. The people of Tlon assume all books are the work of one all-encompassing author, whose mind they reconstruct by juxtaposing such wildly dissimilar volumes as the Tao Te Ching and the Arabian Nights; we probably shouldn’t go that far. But no laboratory test in existence can establish definitively how much of which genres any book contains. I’d argue that anyone who can come up with an argument (reasonable or not) for putting a particular work in a particular genre should feel free to do so. The only excuses you need are “Does this make for an enjoyable argument?” and “Could putting this story next to these others lead to interesting ideas?”[1]
For those who haven’t read “Tlon,” a summary: the narrator, a fictionalized Borges, hears of an imaginary world, Tlon, referenced only in an article on a nonexistent country appearing in a single bootleg copy of an encyclopedia. Later he discovers a volume from the Encyclopedia of Tlon which gives a more complete picture of Tlon’s radically different worldview.
SF still has a lot to learn for Borges. “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” like much of his work, is a story in the form of an essay. You don’t see this much in science fiction or fantasy. I mean, yeah, there aren’t massive quantities of fictional nonfiction in general. But it’s odd that essay-stories don’t turn up much more often in SF, because the format suits SF so well. Some strains of SF just want to build worlds, or speculate about new technologies’ effects on society, and these are too often the ones with clichéd plots and flat characters. Maybe these stories authors’ only cared about (and, incidentally, had the right sort of talents to deal with) the ideas that weren’t related to plot or character… but, not realizing that fiction didn’t have to be conventionally plotted and narrated, they bolted on perfunctory plots and characters about which they felt no real enthusiasm. A lot of golden-age-style engineering problem stories would benefit from being written as fake journal articles. A lot of epic fantasies would be better off as fictional travel writing in the vein of Leena Krohn’s Tainaron or Ursula K. Le Guin’s Changing Planes. Still, not many essay-stories turn up in Best SF collections; in genre the only writer I can think of who embraced the form enthusiastically was Stanislaw Lem, whose A Perfect Vacuum (which includes a nod to Borges) and Imaginary Magnitude collected reviews of, and prefaces to, nonexistent books.
“Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” uses its essay format to build a world in a small space. Worldbuilding is core to science fiction and fantasy, but it’s often seen as a distraction, an invitation for geeks to vanish down their own navels; M. John Harrison famously called it “the great clomping foot of nerdism”. (For the opposing view, see China Miéville.) “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” leans toward Harrison’s vision of worldbuilding as toxic labyrinth–but more on that later.
I sometimes agree with M. John Harrison, but I think there are different kinds of worldbuilding. One kind, the kind that can seduce a writer into compiling a thousand-page wannabe-Silmarillion recording the undistinguished deeds of indistinguishable gods and heroes, is boring. But I think other kinds are relevant to creating worlds with a sense of life, and characters who seem to live as citizens of those worlds instead of using them as sketchy backdrops for narcissistic protagonisting. One concerns itself with the material conditions of people’s lives–their food, their jobs and pastimes, their plumbing. Another, the kind of worldbuilding Borges is doing here, is concerned with how people in this imagined world think–not so much their surface opinions as the underlying philosophies and fundamental beliefs. What makes them tick.
The Tlonites tick differently. Their worldview resembles the “subjective idealism” proposed by the 18th century philosopher George Berkely: Tlon denies that material reality exists. Instead there are actions and perceptions. Tlon’s languages have no nouns; one is composed entirely of verbs, another of adjectives, which they use to describe objects, which exist only when perceived. Tlon’s geometry insists that a moving person modifies the forms that surround them, its mathematics claims that counting changes an indefinite number into a definite one. In Tlon, ideas make things: the desire to find a lost object, or even the hope to find something previously unknown, can create new objects called hronir. In Tlon science and philosophy are more games than searches for truth. The point is to construct arguments that come to interesting conclusions.
In the final section of “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, ostensibly written seven years later, we learn about the secret society that invented Tlon at the behest of a rich American who wanted to prove God wasn’t the only entity who could create worlds, dagnabbit. The Encyclopedia of Tlon, it turns out, exists in its entirety.
Which brings us back to M. John Harrison’s suspicion of worldbuilding. When I looked up that famous “clomping foot of nerdism” quotation I was struck by a passage that seemed to resonate with Borges’s story:
It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn’t there. A good writer would never try to do that, even with a place that is there. It isn’t possible, & if it was the results wouldn’t be readable: they would constitute not a book but the biggest library ever built, a hallowed place of dedication & lifelong study. This gives us a clue to the psychological type of the worldbuilder & the worldbuilder’s victim, & makes us very afraid.
The Orbis Tertius group releases the entire Encyclopedia of Tlon into the wild, along with a handful of artifacts apparently from Tlon. Now Tlon is everywhere, more inescapable than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The public devours Tlon’s history, adopts Tlon’s culture. Schools teach Tlon’s languages. It’s what everyone on the internet is writing inane thinkpieces about. Everybody loves Tlon because Tlon is simple. Bizarre, yes. But Tlon is the product of human minds, so can be completely contained in and comprehended by human minds–unlike the infinite, complex, accidental, ultimately unknowable real universe that produced the minds that produced Tlon. In a few years, Borges speculates, the world will be Tlon.
So, worldbuilding. What’s it for? Potentially lots of things. I think a lot of them are good. Worldbuilding can create just the right environment to make a story work. Stories of other worlds can show readers other possibilities, good and bad; other ways of thinking or arranging societies. I’m even sympathetic to worldbuilding as consolation, providing imaginary places to daydream about. If occasional escapism helps someone exist in the world, I’m not one to sneer. (There’s a Lynda Barry quotation that turns up a lot on the internet: “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”)
But in these worlds some people find consolation of another, stupider kind. Science fiction and fantasy, the genres most concerned with worldbuilding, are beloved of geek culture, which in the 21st century is mainstream culture. (See: Marvel Cinematic Universe, inescapableness of.) See, geek culture has this pathology–well, geek culture has several pathologies, but this essay is concerned with just one. Geek culture has a habit of relating to its favorite fictions, especially franchises and expanded universes, through a kind of obsessive collector mentality. Not collecting things, collecting facts–fictional facts, at least. Memorizing every detail of the history of Middle Earth, knowing exactly which issue of X-Men each character was introduced in, remembering the name and personal history of every alien in the Star Wars cantina.
Which sounds harmless, but leads to so many annoyances. Like, any discussion involving a pop culture phenomenon, something like Star Trek or Sherlock Holmes, stands a nonzero chance of getting derailed by obsessives arguing over canon: which fictional facts fit with all the other fictional facts, and which have to be thrown out? I’m usually the first to argue that any critical approach can lead to an interesting conversation regardless of how generous you have to be to describe it as a “critical approach,” but even I must admit this stuff is tedious.
What’s worse are the geeks who form in-groups based on obsessive cataloguing, and resentfully police their boundaries with trivia. You’re not a proper fan unless you’ve read all the right science fiction novels,[2] or agree that the animated Star Trek series isn’t canon, or like the right version of Doctor Who. Women in particular seemingly can’t show interest in geek culture things without being quizzed on trivialities by tedious nerds hoping to expose “fake geek girls.”
And then there’s the way any remake, addition, or slight change to any media franchise brings man-children crawling out from under their rocks crying that their childhoods are being ruined.[3] And we have to put up with this nonsense constantly, because the studios that control 90% of American pop culture have run out of ideas and produce nothing but remakes, additions, and slight changes to franchises. As I write this the internet is up in arms because what appears to be a perfectly inoffensive remake of Ghostbusters happens to star women. It’s exactly as tiresome as turning on the radio and hearing the overplayed single you’re most sick of.
So why does this subset of geekdom treat exhaustive surveys of places that aren’t there with a seriousness normally reserved for nuclear nonproliferation treaties? Why the pathetic overreactions?
You might as well ask why everybody in Borges’s world is obsessed with Tlon. Exhaustively surveying a place that isn’t there is exactly the kind of worldbuilding Orbis Tertius does. As M. John Harrison notes, a literally exhaustive survey of the world would be too big for anyone to comprehend in its entirety. Reality contradicts itself, and it keeps changing–tripping people up with new facts. And, let’s face it, reality has terrible continuity. Like, the characters in the “United States” spinoff are supposed to be incredibly afraid of terrorism, but nobody does anything about the mass shootings happening every other day. What sense does that make? Something here isn’t canon! And then there’s that “quantum mechanics” business, which the writers are obviously making up as they go along. And don’t get me started on the way they keep randomly killing off major characters!
Tlon is orderly. Tlon can be catalogued, managed. Tlon can be mastered. The real world is confusing, but with Tlon the fans can feel like they’re in control… At least until Orbis Tertius decides to rewrite Tlon. Or add some new characters. Or remake it with a non-nerd-approved cast. That’s when the panic sets in.[4] The fans, tripped up by new facts, this formerly managable system out of their control, have to face the fact that they’re not masters of anything at all.
Borges identifies the impulse that drives people to Tlon–the desire to simplify and tame the universe–with the impulse that drove people to fascism and totalitarianism. When I look at the grimier edges of nerd culture I’m not sure he’s wrong. Note, again, how much of the behavior I’m describing is bound up with defining and expelling out-groups, and with sexism in particular–whining when the SF canon lets in authors from marginalized groups, refusing to accept the new, diverse characters added to their treasured franchises. There’s some irony in the fact that science fiction, a genre full of stories about opening minds, discovering new things, and accepting the alien, has fans terrified of the new and different in real life… but fictional difference and novelty are under control, and that’s how they like it. Imagine a nerd foot clomping on a human face–forever.
I have no solution for any of this. Neither does Borges in his story; he just does his best to take no notice. Maybe he has the right idea. There are styles of worldbuilding that don’t pander to obsessives and can handle glitches with grace; there are fictional worlds where two planets can have the same name and Atlantis can sink three times without falling apart.[5] Let the Tlonist geeks freak out whenever their authority over trivialities is challenged; I’ll be over here, actually enjoying myself. Only… maybe they could freak out where I don’t have to listen to them?
Incidentally, the first place I read “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” was in an anthology called The World Treasury of Science Fiction, which I read when I was young and just recently interested in SF. Like many older anthologies it had a serious gender imbalance–there were more women it could have included, if the editors had worked harder to find them–but within its limits it was a great anthology. It had lots of translated stories, some by writers I’ve never read elsewhere, and brought writers like Sheckly, Le Guin, and Bradbury together with writers like Borges and Boris Vian. ↩
Some SF fans will tell you proper SF fans should be conversant with the works of Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, which is like insisting that anyone interested in English literature absolutely must read Samuel Richardson. ↩
Invariably followed by a flood of superfluous online thinkpieces noting that, hey, man-children are crying, what’s up with that? ↩
Although continuity can be rewritten in the service of Tlonism, too. The last thirty years of DC Comics constitute an endless series of increasingly baroque and preposterous attempts to force their entire line into internal consistency. ↩
My favorite media franchise, Doctor Who, has over the years has gone off in any number of mutually contradictory directions. I might get annoyed when one particular strand of Doctor Who seems to be playing narrative Calvinball, but I don’t lose sleep over the fact that different strands of the series have featured two different versions of Human Nature with two different Doctors and two different political slants. This is a show that had an episode where the Doctor had to defeat somebody wanting to set Earth’s canon in stone to better catalogue it. And yet Doctor Who fans still have arguments about canon! ↩
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Arnold says:
Consider me one of those that resents literary fiction. Masturbatory drivel like Ulysses is as replete with obscure nerdism as any map-based fantasy novel, and the pretentious snobs who put such nonsense on a pedestal typically lack the self-awareness to recognise that their own literary interests (semiotics, sentence fetishism, whatever) are just as nerdy and escapist as those of the most schlocky pulp fans.
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Bradley Stratton: Enjoy the Premier League ride
Albion players celebrate promotion last season.
Steve Bailey
Published: 06:10 Wednesday 09 August 2017
After Brighton’s triumphant return to the Championship in time for the first season at the Amex six years ago, there was already the feeling that we could grace the Premier League in the near future.
My own prediction was that we would be there by 2015, so I was only off by two years!
We’re all aware of how the top flight of English football has changed since we were last there 34 years ago.
The popularity of the division across the world means that our club will receive greater exposure and have more eyes on it than ever before. Seeing our team and players take to the field as equals against the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United will be something many fans could only have dreamed of – and for me is one of many things I will be looking forward to seeing next season.
I think we will have a fight on our hands to avoid relegation, and it will be a tough transition from winning so much in the Championship for many.
If it does get bad, I hope supporters don’t start calling for Chris Hughton to go. Without him steadying the ship post-Hyypia and going on to mastermind our promotion, who knows where we’d be right now.
He’s earned the right to at least a full season in charge, and Burnley’s loyalty to Sean Dyche is the prime example of how sticking with him, even if we do go down, could pay off in the long run.
One of the sights I won’t forget from April 18 was in Dick’s Bar, as the final whistle went in the Derby-Huddersfield game to confirm our promotion and seeing Attila’s reaction as the dream became a reality.
It made me think about how the likes of him, Paul Samrah, Roy Chuter and Sarah Watts, among countless others, fought through those dark years in the ‘90s so that the next generation of fans like myself would still have a club to support.
They fought once again to ensure the club could get its beautiful, world-class stadium and I will always be grateful for what them, Dick Knight, Martin Perry, Tony Bloom and so many more have done to ensure Brighton and Hove Albion are where they are today.
Overall, I hope everyone can take some enjoyment from what’s to come in the next ten months.
It will be the first time Albion have been in the top flight in my lifetime and no matter how many more seasons we spend there, this will probably be the most memorable.
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TAG Alliances Ranked in Top Three Accounting Alliances Globally
For the fifth consecutive year, Accountancy Age Magazine has recognized TAG Alliances as one of the top three accounting associations in the world. The rankings, which are based on the collective revenues of the member firms, include 20 associations and alliances.
This year, TAG Alliances President Richard Attisha’s interview with the magazine provided the report's theme: "Firms switching networks like a game of ‘musical chairs.’"
“Richard Attisha, CEO at the TAG Alliances, a multidisciplinary alliance that includes law firms as well as accountancy firms, describes the current wave of movement between groups as ‘musical chairs’, a situation that he sees continuing, especially as some networks and associations choose to merge with others or dramatically change their strategic direction.
‘Firms are continually growing and expanding and in most conventional networks, where exclusivity of network or geography is a strict demand, more and more firms are looking for flexibility and independence,’ he says. ‘The biggest question facing firms when they find themselves at the crossroads of staying with their existing membership or moving to another association is ‘What about the years of investment and time that we have put into that group?’’
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The advice of an experienced lawyer can give you a good idea of what to expect in paying or receiving spousal support. While the broad objective of Georgia law is to protect each spouse's current standard of living to the greatest extent possible, the realities of each party's income, liabilities and current expenses will need to be taken into account in determining alimony. The need to pay for your legal representation is also an important consideration in temporary support questions that you should not overlook.
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Freshman Muszynski leads Belmont to win over Lipscomb
Nick Muszynski helped Belmont sweep Lipscomb this season
Freshman Muszynski leads Belmont to win over Lipscomb Nick Muszynski helped Belmont sweep Lipscomb this season Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2018/12/04/belmont-lipscomb-freshman-nick-muszynski-rick-byrd/2158792002/
Mike Organ, Nashville Tennessean Published 9:38 p.m. CT Dec. 4, 2018 | Updated 11:56 a.m. CT Dec. 5, 2018
Belmont was able to hold off rival Lipscomb when the Bisons failed to make a last second 3-pointer, giving the Bruins the "Battle of the Blvd" win. Autumn Allison, Nashville Tennessean
Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) gains control of the ball against Belmont forward Caleb Hollander (10) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018.(Photo: Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com)
The Battle of the Boulevard between Belmont and Lipscomb turned into a battle in the paint Tuesday night.
Belmont's Nick Muszynski and Lipscomb's Rob Marberry went at each other throughout the game at Curb Event Center before Muszynski finally helped the Bruins claim a 76-74 victory, their second over the Bisons this season, in front of a crowd of 3,478.
“I guess it’s pretty obvious these two wins we’ve been able to get are exceptionally good wins because that’s a really good basketball team,” Belmont coach Rick Byrd said.
Muszynski, a 6-foot-11 redshirt freshman, matched a career-high with 19 points to go with a career-high 11 rebounds and four blocks. He scored 12 points in the second half.
Hollander gives BU the lead! pic.twitter.com/I1FcQiHGNe
— Belmont Basketball (@BelmontMBB) December 5, 2018
The Pickering, Ohio, native also played a key role in Belmont's first win over Lipscomb on Nov. 15 when he had 16 points and nine rebounds.
Marberry, a 6-foot-7 senior from Franklin Road Academy, scored a season-high 26 points after making 10-of-17 field goals. He also had eight rebounds and a pair of blocks.
Marberry scored 10 of Lipscomb's last 15 points. He scored consecutive buckets that tied it up at 74-all with 32.5 seconds remaining.
Belmont improved to 7-1 while Lipscomb slipped to 6-2.
Freshman hit winning jumper
With the score tied 72-all, Belmont redshirt freshman Caleb Hollander stopped in the lane and hit a 15-foot jumper for the game-winning bucket with 4.9 seconds left.
Hollander finished with eight points.
Lipscomb's Nathan Moran missed a 3-point shot from deep in the right corner at the buzzer.
"As a guy that’s been in lot of these I just chalk it up as one more good one," Liscomb coach Casey Alexander said. "I’m really disappointed for our kids … but I’ve got no problems with effort, got no problems with fight, no problems with the way we competed.”
Belmont back on top
Belmont has won 13 of the last 15 games in the series.
Lipscomb snapped the Bruins' 11-game win streak with two wins last season.
Belmont leads the rivalry in the NCAA Division I era 22-11, but Lipscomb still owns a 75-69 lead in the overall series, which dates back to 1953.
Photos: Lipscomb vs. Belmont men's basketball
Belmont forward Caleb Hollander (10) and guard Michael Benkert (24) celebrate defeating Lipscomb at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) reacts after Lipscomb's loss to Belmont at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb guard Nathan Moran (5) gains control of the ball from Belmont guard Grayson Murphy (2) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont forward Caleb Hollander (10) scores the game-winning basket past Lipscomb forward Rob Marberry (0) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb forward Matt Rose (12) shoots over Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont head coach Rick Byrd claps during the first half against Lipscomb at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb head coach Casey Alexander yells to his team during the second half against Belmont at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
A fan wears a Belmont head coach Rick Byrd mask during the first half against Lipscomb at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Michael Benkert (24) guards Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) guards Lipscomb forward Rob Marberry (0) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) defends against Lipscomb forward Rob Marberry (0) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb forward Matt Rose (12) shoots over Belmont guard/forward Dylan Windler (3) during the second half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) battles with Lipscomb forward Rob Marberry (0) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Grayson Murphy (2) advances against Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) and forward Eli Pepper (22) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) battles Lipscomb center Ahsan Asadullah (2) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Kevin McClain (11) looks to pass past Lipscomb guard Nathan Moran (5) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont forward Derek Sabin (21) battles Lipscomb forward Eli Pepper (22) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Nick Muszynski (33) dunks against Lipscomb during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) gains control of the ball against Belmont forward Caleb Hollander (10) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Michael Benkert (24) shoots over Lipscomb forward Matt Rose (12) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont center Seth Adelsperger (50) shoots over Lipscomb forward Rob Marberry (0) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Grayson Murphy (2) shoots over Lipscomb guard Kenny Cooper (21) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont guard Kevin McClain (11) shoots over Lipscomb guard Michael Buckland (3) during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Lipscomb head coach Casey Alexander works with his team against Belmont during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Belmont fans cheer against Lipscomb during the first half at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. Andrew Nelles / Tennessean.com
Fast starts
Both teams got off to sizzling hot starts this season.
The Bruins went 6-0, their best start since 1994-95 when they were still in the NAIA. Their first loss came last Saturday at Green Bay 99-93 in overtime.
The Bisons got off to their best start since 2004-05. That included a win over nationally-ranked TCU.
After an 11-day break for final exams, Belmont will play at UCLA on Dec. 15 at 4 p.m.
Lipscomb will play Navy on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and then travel to Louisville on Dec. 12.
Reach Mike Organ at 615-259-8021 or on Twitter @MikeOrganWriter.
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Now Reading: Barry Smitherman’s Truthiness Problem on the Keystone Pipeline
Barry Smitherman’s Truthiness Problem on the Keystone Pipeline
Or, Why Barack Obama isn't just like Kim Jong-Il
Forrest Wilder Jan 24, 2012, 11:31 pm CST
photo by M.V. Jantzen (via Flickr)
This is quite possibly the most poorly thought-out op-ed by a Texas public official in a long while, or at least since Todd Staples issued a “Re-declaration of Independence” from the “terrorists [that] are invading Texas farms and ranches.”
On Monday, the Texas Tribune published a piece by Barry Smitherman — a Perry-appointed commissioner on the Texas Railroad Commission and author of If Jesus Were an Investment Banker (currently for sale on Amazon for the low, low price of $137.50) — excoriating the Obama administration for derailing the Keystone XL pipeline. Some highlights:
America was dealt a devastating blow by our “Dear Leader.” With the flick of his pen, President Obama killed 20,000 construction jobs, destroyed at least $7 billion in new investment, committed the U.S. to sending $36 billion a year to hostile dictatorships like Venezuela for years to come, and set the wheels in motion to send China almost 1 million barrels of North American oil every day.
Hugo Chavez isn’t the only one who is happy about Obama’s decision. The Communist Chinese Government is also thrilled.
In an ironic twist, the President’s Jobs Council released a report calling for an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, which would mean increasing North American oil and gas production. The next day, the president killed Keystone XL and eliminated 20,000 jobs, then hopped in Air Force One and used about 11,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Disney World. Unfortunately for America, Obama sees no problem with saying one thing one day and doing the opposite the next. Perhaps Disney World is a good place for the president to remain since he so clearly lives in a fantasy land.
In other words, Obama is just like a certain dead North Korean dictator because he refused to sign off on an unpopular and potentially environmentally disastrous project after Republicans in Congress imposed an arbitrary deadline. Oh, and his best friends are Hugo Chavez and the Red Chinese.
It’s not surprising that Smitherman, a former investment banker and staunch free-market ideologue, is in support of the Keystone pipeline. But his op-ed is still remarkably apopleptic. I don’t begrudge him that. I do take issue with several questionable assertions.
1) Myth: Keystone Is Finished
Smitherman writes his entire column as if Obama’s decision this month to reject a permit for the pipeline means it’s a dead deal. Not even the most ardent Keystone opponents believe that. Neither does the company or the vast majority of disinterested observers. Says the Washington Post:
A war of words is being fought on the campaign trail. And some House Republicans vow to again seek legislation to clear the path for the controversial pipeline. Environmental groups say they will fight not only new Keystone proposals but also other major oil pipelines that would carry crude from Canada’s oil sands region.
Meanwhile, TransCanada, which proposed the pipeline, said it will not only file a new permit application but also might pursue a truncated system within U.S. borders that would not require State Department approval.
The Obama administration has said the decision was “not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline” and that “it does not change [the] Administration’s commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil.”
2) Truthiness: The pipeline will create 20,000 jobs
Three times in his piece, Smitherman states that Obama’s decision “killed 20,000 construction jobs”; “kill[ed] off 20,000 construction jobs”; “eliminated 20,000 jobs.”
I emailed Smitherman to ask for his source. He replied that the figure came from TransCanada and Ray Perryman, a Waco-based economist-for-hire who was paid by TransCanada to do a much-criticized economic impact analysis.
The official company line from Keystone is that 13,000 construction jobs and 7,000 manufacturing jobs could be attributed to the pipeline. Smitherman appears to have made a factual blunder by citing 20,0000 construction jobs, rather than a total of 20,000 jobs from construction and manufacturing.
Those estimates come from Ray Perryman, an economist who hires out his services to corporations and industry associations. Perryman’s analysis for Keystone has been ridiculed not just for the 20,000 figure but also his finding that the pipeline will indirectly create 250,000 permanent jobs. Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations called Perryman’s analysis “dead wrong” and his methodology “opaque.” An independent analysis by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute found that the pipeline would “create no more than 2,500-4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department.”
Of course it’s beyond dispute that constructing a 1,700-mile pipeline will mean work for some people. The difficult question is, at what cost? Smitherman never wrestles with that question.
3) Truthiness: The Republicans Bear No Blame
Smitherman:
Finally, there are those who say the tight permitting timeline of the decision on Keystone XL is what caused its demise. That’s simply untrue. The first applications for Keystone XL were submitted in 2008, with 2011 being the expected permit issuance date. As recently as April 2011, the State Department issued a press release saying they expected “a decision on whether to grant or deny the permit before the end of 2011.” It was only after environmentalists joined with Occupy Wall Street protesters and held a circle around the White House that the president made a political choice to try to delay the decision until after the 2012 elections. Congress instead gave the president a two-month extension to the evaluation deadline, which forced the president to show his hand before the November election.
This is a bit of a straw man. The argument is that the Republicans wrecked Keystone, albeit probably just temporarily so, by inserting the abrupt two-month deadline into an unrelated, must-pass bill. The congressional Republicans did so despite warnings from the White House that Obama would respond by rejecting the pipeline permit. Smitherman fails to mention that there was no definite pipeline route to accept or reject. Nebraskans, including the Republican governor, had forced TransCanada to agree to move the route far away from the ecologically-sensitive Sandhills region.
That’s not to say that events leading up to the Obama-Congress tussle didn’t play a factor. They did. Indeed, one hopes and thinks that the summertime arrest of over 1,200 citizens at the White House opposed to Keystone (what Smitherman condescendingly refers to as “[holding] a circle” had some impact on Obama’s decision. Still, if your only interest is getting Keystone approved expeditiously, which I assume is Smitherman’s position, then you might question whether it was wise for the Republicans to force Obama’s hand. On the other hand, if you share the GOP’s appetite for creating situations in which Obama can look like a job-killing socialist, well, that’s a different story…
4) Sin of Omission: Smitherman Shrugs Off Environmental/Climate Concerns
Smitherman’s only nod to the staggering ecological and climate consequences of strip-mining the Canadian boreal forest for tar sands oil, filling vast pits with toxic tailings, and sending the carbon-intensive remainder 1,700 miles through a pipeline, owned by a company with one major pipeline disaster already on its record, a pipeline that would pass through and over aquifer, dell, forest, stream, river and creek to be refined in Texas so that the final products can be sold into a global market?
The environmentalists who opposed this project either aren’t very smart or they aren’t being honest. They should want that oil to be refined in the United States, where we have strong environmental regulations. Instead, the oil will now likely go to China, where environmental regulations are practically nonexistent, and where permitting consists of bribing the right Communist Party official.
Smitherman’s point doesn’t lack for a certain cynical realpolitik. It’s possible that Canada could still auction its tar sands off to another bidder, China perhaps. The conservative government has said as much. But Smitherman fundamentally misunderstands the opposition to Keystone. There are myriad reasons folks from Alberta, Canada to Houston oppose the pipeline. Some are hyper-local — East Texas landowners, for example, who don’t want to sacrifice their property for a pipeline that might leak, or native people in Canada who are seeing their waters poisoned by toxic tailings. Others are global — outrage that North American fossil fuel addiction is putting the planet’s climate at risk.
Changing the route of the pipeline will bring relief to some of the folks with more “NIMBY”-type concerns but it will also breed new enemies. And selling off to China instead of the U.S. changes precisely nothing in terms of the impact to Canada and the planet’s climate.
Forrest Wilder, a native of Wimberley, Texas, is the editor of the Observer.
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Mix Of The Week: Nick Curly
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There’s always something coming out the speakers in the Ticket Arena office, so we thought we’d share some of the sonic splendours that soundtrack all of our hard work. Now a weekly feature that brings a different artist to the fore each Thursday, the TA Mix Of The Week scours the vaults for some of our favourite sets of old and keeps a beady eye out for the classics of the future, serving up a taste of the artists that make us happy to do what we do.
Pioneering the underground house music scene for the last decade, Nick Curly is a name that requires no introduction for those that that had the pleasure of witnessing his signature sound that is perfect for letting loose on the dancefloor. With a back-catalogue of DJ appearances at some of the biggest dance music events across the world such as Hideout, Ministry of Sound, Sonus and many more, the label boss and music producer took his fierce mix of club bangers to Mannheim’s Timewarp in 2018 for a masterful set of house and tech anthems. Listen and discover tracks from the likes of Jesper Dahlbäck’s ‘What Is The Time, Mr. Templar’, ‘Can’t Stop Us’ by Richy Ahmed to the incredible ‘Real Love’ by NiCe7 and Pépé Bradock’s saucy precog remix of Cheek’s ‘Venus’.
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Collemattoni Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2013
Our Price: $135.00 $99.00
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Regions: Tuscany
Grape Type: Sangiovese
Winery: Collemattoni
Collemattoni Brunello di Montalcino Riserva is made from 100 percent Sangiovese.
Intense ruby red with brilliant burgundy reflects in color. Reminiscent of wild black fruits, vanilla and spices on the nose and dry, warm, slightly austere but velvety in the palate.
This wine comes from the oldest vineyard of Collemattoni: Fontelontano. Less than half hectare. It's one of the few Single Vineyard Brunello di Montalcino riserva.
Coming from a parcel with 15-18 year old vines planted in sandy clay and marl soils.
Harvest is 100% destemmed with a soft pressing, fermentation in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperature of 28-30°C, pumping over for the first week of maceration following by skin-contact maceration for 20-25 days with rack and return technique (delestage).
Malolactic fermentation completed. The delestage and the pumping over are then spaced out along the process.
Wine is slightly filtered before bottling.
"Moderately saturated red. Deep rich aromas of redcurrant, smoky dark chocolate-covered plum, vanilla, mocha and grilled meat. Silky-sweet on entry, then fine-grained and creamy in the middle. Boasts outstanding density and an exhilarating acid/tannin/fruit balance. Closes long and suave with a strong note of vanilla and other oaky spices. You can tell this was aged in smaller oak barrels (500 liter tonneaux). - Ian D'Agata" - - Antonio Galloni's Vinous (March 2019), 94 pts
Collemattoni takes its name from the farmhouse, which, over time, has become the trademark of our winery and of our wines. The farmhouse dates back to at least 1672, year in which it is registered in the parish archives as a family home. Collemattoni is located on a hill top on the south side of the municipal area of Montalcino, just a short distance from the village of Sant’Angelo in Colle.
Date Founded: 1988
Owner: Marcello Bucci
Winery Philosophy: Marcello Bucci , winemaker and owner of Collemattoni winery represents the soul of this estate and this project.
He studied winemaking in Siena and after some internship in some wineries in Montalcino where he had the opportunity to work with famous winemakers and agronomists, he convinced his father Ado to start his own project .
Today Marcello is the heart of Collemattoni! Thanks to his passion and initiative Marcello continues his daily work amongst his vineyards and the wine cellar.
At the beginning of 1980, Adon Bucci ( father of Marcello Bucci) bought the land and the farm house from the Church and the Bucci family started to produce wine. The 1988 has been the first vintage of Collemattoni Brunello di Montalcino.
Winery Acreage: 12 hectares (30 acres)
Winery Production: 5,000 / 9L cases
Varietals Produced: Sangiovese, Merlot, Canaiolo, Colorino and Trebbiano.
Winemaker: Marcello Bucci
Azienda Agricola Collemattoni owns 12 hectares:
7.5 hectares of Sangiovese grown in the villages of Collemattoni (2.5ha), Fontelontano (0.5ha), Sesta (2.70ha) and Cava (1.80ha).
The 4.5ha of Merlot, Canaiolo, Colorino and Trebbiano are all grown in the village of Orcia.
The age of the vines ranges between 5 years old for the youngest and 18 years old for the oldest vineyards.
The have been using organic farming methods for several years and the 2016 vintage will bear the organic certification.
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Humboldt riders earn NorCal title
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The high school riders of the Humboldt Composite Mountain Bike Club secured a NorCal Division-II Composite Team championship after taking first at the final race of the season, the Six Sigma Showdown near Lower Lake, on Saturday.
Humboldt won four of five races during the season en route to the championship, the first for the club. It finished with 9,987 points on the season, nearly 500 better than second-place Spartans High School Mountain Bike Composite.
Humboldt’s Elizabeth Odell finished the season as the top junior varsity girls rider while her teammate Meigan Butler finished the year as No. 2 in the varsity girls section.
Vivian Gerstein also took second on the season in her sophomore girls section and Tommy Robinson, seventh place in the junior varsity boys group. Rocco Previde, who races in the freshman boys section for Humboldt, finished 10th in his section.
All five will represent Humboldt at this weekend’s state championships event in Tehachapi on May 19.
The team’s head coach, Sean Robertson, was awarded “Coach of the Year” honors following Saturday’s championship-clinching win. He said he knew after the first race of the year that his club had what it takes to win a NorCal title.
“I saw how competitive they could be after our first race,” he said. “It’s very exciting to have won.”
Odell praised her head coach following Saturday’s win.
“I couldn’t imagine the team without him. I have made lots of friends from this team and it has really changed my life. I know I am not the only one,” she said.
Saturday’s race
On Saturday Humboldt beat out Spartans by over 150 points to take first place at the season’s final event.
Odell finished second in her section while Butler and Gerstein each took third place in their respective divisions.
Kyle Kroeker had a god day in the sophomore boys section, picking up a third-place finish, while Dillion Earle-Rouse finished seventh in the same grouping.
Ethan Hunt also nabbed a top-10 finish, ending his final race of the season in 10th place in the junior varsity boys section.
Andrew Butler
Born and raised in Eureka,Times-Standard sports writer Andrew Butler earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Humboldt State University.
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Schumer urges EPA to quickly put Hoosick Falls on Superfund list
He also seeks declaration of PFOA as a hazardous substance
By Rick Karlin
Updated 11:36 pm EDT, Monday, July 25, 2016
Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging the federal Environmental Protection Agency to fast-track efforts to get Hoosick Falls named as a federal Superfund site — a designation it already has on the state level.
The New York Democrat is also seeking a speedup in listing perfluorooctanic acid, or PFOA, which has polluted the community's water supply, as a hazardous substance.
"I strongly advise your agency to expeditiously complete the agency's numerical scoring of the site on the federal Hazard Ranking System,'' Schumer said in a July 22 letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The letter was obtained by the Times Union on Monday.
"I urge you to promptly complete and approve New York State's request that the St. Gobain McCaffrey Street site be added to the EPA's NPL," the letter added.
NPL is National Priorities List: the designation that comes with federal Superfund status.
New York officials in January requested the same federal designation, which could free up more money for remediation.
The EPA twice a year fields nominations for Superfund status with the next round coming this fall. A nomination is no guarantee of getting that status, however.
Schumer's letter is the latest development regarding Hoosick Falls, which has been reeling from a toxic water crisis traced to PFOAs which for years were released by St. Gobain Performance Plastics and its predecessor Honeywell International. The plant makes industrial tapes and materials that go into items like auto batteries and wiring used in aircraft. While not officially listed as a toxin, PFOA has been linked to a variety of cancers and thyroid maladies that appear to be plaguing Hoosick Falls residents at unusually high levels.
The EPA in late 2015 recommended that people stop drinking the water there, following growing suspicions about contamination.
If added to the nomination list, Hoosick Falls would compete with other sites around the nation for the federal Superfund program, said EPA spokesman John Martin.
That list is developed twice a year.
If it gets on the list, the government would seek cleanup money from the companies involved in the contamination. If no money was available there, funds could come from government coffers, said Martin.
"Any steps that can be taken to help further identify and clean up PFOA in Hoosick Falls is always welcome. The more resources and expertise Hoosick Falls can receive into understanding why and how this happened can only be of great benefit,'' said Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who represents the community.
Schumer's request comes amid plans by both Congress and the state Legislature to conduct public hearings on how the contamination problem evolved in Hoosick Falls.
Discussions leading up to the planned hearings have been tortured and contentious.
Cuomo critics, including McLaughlin, have charged the Administration with covering up and foot-dragging in responding to concerns in Hoosick Falls as they emerged about a year ago.
And the Democratic-controlled Assembly reversed itself in recent weeks, saying they would conduct hearings after earlier contending they were unnecessary.
The state departments of Health and Environmental Conservation have outlined their response, which included the installation of filtering devices, the creation of a hotline, and ongoing information sessions in the village.
[rkarlin@timesunion.com • 518-454-5758 • @RickKarlinTU
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Johnny Galecki returns to 'Roseanne' this week — see preview clips
The episode, titled "Darlene v. David," finds absent dad David returning to Darlene and the kids after many years away.
Johnny Galecki is returning to "Roseanne" this Tuesday — and we've got a pair of exciting preview clips.
The episode, called "Darlene v. David," finds David Healy (Galecki) making an unexpected visit to the Conner family home to see his ex Darlene (Sara Gilbert) and their kids, Harris (Emma Kenney) and Mark (Ames McNamara), after many years away.
Guess who’s back in Lanford. Watch #Roseanne tomorrow at 8|7c on ABC. pic.twitter.com/ado2x2N5fK
— Roseanne on ABC (@RoseanneOnABC) April 16, 2018
The first preview shows throwback footage of the young lovebirds to remind fans their romance was always ... "complicated."
The clip then flashes forward to show a grown-up, bearded David nervously greeting Dan (John Goodman) and Roseanne (Roseanne Barr), who aren't exactly thrilled by the absent dad's surprise appearance.
David's back, and not much has changed. #Roseanne pic.twitter.com/H73LlGt1Ur
A second clip shows David hilariously struggling to climb through the window of Darlene's old bedroom like he did as a teen.
"Why are you coming in the window anyway?" Darlene asks her ex.
"Does your dad still live here?" a terrified David answers. "That's why I'm coming in through the window."
John Goodman on 'Roseanne' reboot: The cast is 'grateful' to be back
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According to ABC, "Darlene v. David" finds David unexpectedly showing up for his daughter Harris’ birthday after being absent for years, forcing Darlene "to re-examine their relationship and the rest of the family."
One thing's for sure: Galecki is as happy as fans are to be back among the Conner clan. The "Big Bang Theory" star recently told E! News he was looking forward to watching the revival.
"I'm excited. I'm excited to see it," he said. "I was a big fan of the show before I had anything to do with anyone on the show, and so I'm excited."
"Roseanne" airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC.
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Host Rebuilds Third School in Colombia
Host finished rebuilding another school in Colombia early this month, and our Colombia Host Agency team celebrated the school’s inauguration with students, parents, and teachers last Thursday, December 6th.
“The principal and chief teacher got emotional sharing how thrilled and grateful they are that Host remodeled the school,” says Operations Manager Erika Cueto. “The students also showed their appreciation by performing two traditional dances for us.” Before Host volunteered to help, the school’s staff members tried to get funding from the state but were rejected because they are in such a rural area.
Host began the project in September 2018 at I.E.D. 11 de Noviembre sede La Esmeralda, which is the third Colombian school we have renovated. The school has four classrooms that accommodate 200 children between Pre-K and middle school grade levels.
Prior to the updates, the school had just one classroom, very thin and incomplete plywood walls, sand instead of concrete floors, broken bathrooms, no safe play area for the children, and a roof that trapped in heat and kept the classroom extremely hot.
In three months, Host demolished the entire school and rebuilt it, adding four classrooms separated by concrete walls, bookshelves in each room, ceiling fans, bathrooms, concrete floors, and an area for a playground.
“We are glad to have helped, and hope the community enjoys their newly-renovated school for years to come,” says Erika.
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Approvals of new Tasmanian housing are at their highest level since 2010. They are also running at higher levels than those seen in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis last decade. Tasmanian councils approved 281 new dwellings between them in December, according to trend terms Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. December was a ninth consecutive month of approvals growth since March last year, when they totalled 232. Monthly approvals fell as low as 157 in September 2016. The December total was the highest since August 2010. The growth in approvals came as the state’s population continued to grow at a faster rate than previously and the number of new home loans also increased. State population in the year to June grew at its fastest rate in about a decade. That included continued strength in net interstate migration, which had often been a weakness for Tasmania in the past. The state gained 674 more people from the mainland than it lost to the mainland in the June quarter alone, after a gain of 750 in the previous quarter. Tasmania gained 352 more people from overseas than it lost to overseas in the June quarter, the ABS estimated. Natural increase (birth less deaths) totalled 277. Tasmania had the nation’s strongest growth rate for new home loans in the year to the end of November. November home loan commitments were 10.2 per cent stronger in trend terms than in November 2017. National approvals decreased by 6.7 per cent ,comparing the same two months. In original terms, housing finance commitments by first home buyers increased in Tasmania by 19.3 per cent in the year to November. State Treasury analysis said the national increase was 11.1 per cent. Tasmania was one of only two states or territories with dwelling approval growth in December in trend terms. Tasmania had 1.1 per cent growth and the Northern Territory 1.7 per cent. National approvals are in a deep slump. National approvals fell by 8.4 per cent in December in seasonally adjusted terms as approvals of apartments tanked. The wider construction sector is also doing well in Tasmania. The state had $7.88 billion worth of big engineering construction and non-residential building equipment and investment projects under way or in various planning stages. That was according to Deloitte Access Economics’ latest Investment Monitor report, covering projects valued at $20 million or more.
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Tasmanian housing approvals at strongest level since 2010
HEALTHY PIPELINE: Approvals of new Tasmanian housing are at strong levels. Picture: Neil Richardson.
Approvals of new Tasmanian housing are at their highest level since 2010.
They are also running at higher levels than those seen in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis last decade.
Tasmanian councils approved 281 new dwellings between them in December, according to trend terms Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.
December was a ninth consecutive month of approvals growth since March last year, when they totalled 232.
Monthly approvals fell as low as 157 in September 2016.
The December total was the highest since August 2010.
The growth in approvals came as the state’s population continued to grow at a faster rate than previously and the number of new home loans also increased.
State population in the year to June grew at its fastest rate in about a decade.
That included continued strength in net interstate migration, which had often been a weakness for Tasmania in the past.
The state gained 674 more people from the mainland than it lost to the mainland in the June quarter alone, after a gain of 750 in the previous quarter.
Tasmania gained 352 more people from overseas than it lost to overseas in the June quarter, the ABS estimated.
Natural increase (birth less deaths) totalled 277.
Tasmania had the nation’s strongest growth rate for new home loans in the year to the end of November.
November home loan commitments were 10.2 per cent stronger in trend terms than in November 2017.
National approvals decreased by 6.7 per cent ,comparing the same two months.
In original terms, housing finance commitments by first home buyers increased in Tasmania by 19.3 per cent in the year to November.
State Treasury analysis said the national increase was 11.1 per cent.
Tasmania was one of only two states or territories with dwelling approval growth in December in trend terms.
Tasmania had 1.1 per cent growth and the Northern Territory 1.7 per cent.
National approvals are in a deep slump.
National approvals fell by 8.4 per cent in December in seasonally adjusted terms as approvals of apartments tanked.
The wider construction sector is also doing well in Tasmania.
The state had $7.88 billion worth of big engineering construction and non-residential building equipment and investment projects under way or in various planning stages.
That was according to Deloitte Access Economics’ latest Investment Monitor report, covering projects valued at $20 million or more.
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'About Time' Is a Tearjerker Gem
About Time is a decidedly goopy but downright wonderful little film about some rather large things.
Richard Lawson
Call me a terrible person, but I didn't cry during 12 Years a Slave. Though deeply moved by one of the year's strongest dramas, something about its august intensity appealed more to intellect than raw emotion. I didn't lose it at the cathartic, nerve-rattling end of Captain Phillips. I was dry-eyed when the credits rolled on the sad and soulful Dallas Buyers Club. All are good movies, ones likely, and rightfully, to be showered with awards in the coming months, but none of them teased out the big, blubbery feelings that one sometimes goes to the movies looking to access. Thank god, then, for About Time, a decidedly goopy but downright wonderful little film about some rather large things.
About Time comes to us from Richard Curtis, that almost insidiously talented purveyor of the kind of British charm, sparkle, and wistfulness that certain among us crave like a drug. Emma Thompson quietly acting the roof off the place while listening to Joni Mitchell in Love Actually? That's him. John Hannah reading an Auden poem at the titular funeral in Four Weddings and a Funeral? Curtis again, as a screenwriter at least. This dastardly fellow knows just how to send us (me?) into blissful fits of giddy elation — crafting perfect English worlds that are somehow both polished to a bright shine and wonderfully odd and idiosyncratic — before piercing our hearts with some defiantly graceful bit of sadness or broadly life-affirming insight. He's cruel, in a way, so callously playing our heartstrings. But he's so forgivable, as ultimately warm and big-hearted as his movies are. And in many ways, About Time represents the pinnacle of his particular abilities.
Before you freak out, Love Actually is still a darling Christmas classic that will be watched in my house at least once a year. But About Time takes itself a bit more seriously and narrows its view, or rather redirects it, and in so doing encompasses bigger themes, and strikes at deeper meaning. The film has largely been marketed as a romantic comedy, and for a stretch of the film it is just that. Wiry beanpole Domhnall Gleeson plays Tim, a young man on a quest for love, first with his sister's bombshell friend who comes to stay at the family's eye-poppingly beautiful seaside estate in Cornwall, and then with the bright-eyed American girl he meets-cute while working as a lawyer (solicitor? barrister? who the heck knows) in London. That girl, named Mary, is played by Rachel McAdams, making her second appearance in a time travel romance. Oh! Right! I should mention that shortly after his 21st birthday, Tim's father (Bill Nighy, wearing the role like a perfectly cut but slightly rumpled suit) informs him that the men in his family have the ability to go back in time, though only to moments that they've experienced in their own lives. So the clever trick of Tim and Mary's courtship is that the bumbling, lovestruck Tim can go back and fix mistakes he's made along the way. And while that perhaps poses some ethical and logistical questions, the conceit gently and slyly eases us into the movie's own clever trick.
The film, you see, isn't really a romantic comedy. It is, in fact, a movie about the entirety of life — the enjoyment of it, the swiftness of it, the sprawl and meander and chance of it all. That may sound corny, and it is! But wonderfully so. We watch as Tim goes from uncertain young man to uncertain married man to uncertain family man, aching and swooning montages chronicling the passage of time, all the while realizing that the uncertainty is what makes the journey worth it. Though Tim can pop back into moments past and rearrange things a bit, there's nothing to be done about the future, one simply has to try to enjoy the ride as best as one can. There's not much of a main plot in About Time, just as there isn't in most lives. Instead, like life, the film is a series of events both profound and silly, all handled with Curtis's winning dexterity and surprising understatement. His writing is elegant and sharp, the performances all lived-in and witty. I like this movie very much, you guys.
It will not be for everyone. Some will find it treacly and ungainly. Others will wonder why we should care about these affluent yuppies and their bourgie concerns. A few nerds will perhaps gripe about the questionable rules and mechanics of the film's version of time travel. But for that certain set, and I'd hope you know who you are by now, About Time will strike the same chord it did in me, the one that had me a weeping mess for, oh, the final 20 minutes or so of the film. Curtis's observations and urgings may be simple — try to enjoy the present moment, be grateful for what you have, be awed at the inherent wonder and beauty of what so often seems mundane — but the film offers them up so kindly and wisely that their simplicity only proves how vitally true they are. About Time is a bittersweet marvel of a tearjerker, and is, I'm not ashamed to admit, perhaps my favorite movie of the season so far. Not necessarily the best, mind you. Just the one I love the most.
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Car finance news
Car finance levels continuing at record pace
Stay up to date with the latest from The Car Expert
The latest consumer car finance figures show that customers are still borrowing more and more money on both new and used cars.
Results for April 2018, released last week by the Finance and Leasing Association, show that the number of new car finance deals matched the strong growth in private new car sales in the same month, bouncing back from a very poor month in April last year. The value of that lending continued to increase, resulting in about a 3% increase in average new car borrowing on private new cars.
Used cars also had a very strong month in April, after a small drop in March. While used car sales figures for the quarter won’t be released for a few months, a 20% increase in the number of used car finance deals was recorded. Combined with a 28% increase in the amount of money lent to consumers, this resulted in a 6% increase in the average borrowing on used cars. This made April the strongest month of the year to date for used car finance, which is unusual.
Cars bought on finance by consumers through dealerships
New business Apr 2018 % change on prev. year 3 months to Apr 2018 % change on prev. year 12 months to Apr 2018 % change on prev. year
Value of advances (£m) 1,606 +31% 5,883 +2% 18,962 +1%
Number of cars 81,734 +27% 300,464 -4% 974,659 -8%
Value of advances (£m) 1,569 +28% 4,474 +15% 16,282 +14%
Number of cars 134,159 +20% 383,666 +10% 1,406,333 +8%
Value of advances (£m) 3,174 +29% 10,357 +7% 35,244 +6%
Number of cars 215,893 +23% 684,130 +3% 2,380,992 +1%
Data (c) Finance and Leasing Association
Finance market continuing at record levels
Looking back at the results o er the last 12 months, the value of lending on new cars continues to increase despite the sales slump of the last year. Meanwhile, the used car market is continuing its steady march onwards and upwards. In fact, the total lending on used cars is closing in on the lending for new cars (albeit based on a greater number of deals).
Nearly 90% of all private new car sales are financed at point of sale through dealer-sourced finance, a number which continues to creep upwards. The majority of these sales are funded using a personal contract purchase (PCP), with an ever-decreasing number of private new car buyers using cash or other sources of finance to purchase their cars.
More car finance news and advice at The Car Expert
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Wates tops July contracts league
3 Aug 18 The Builders’ Conference BCLive contracts league table for July 2018 was won by Wates, ahead of Kier and Laing O’Rourke.
In total, the Builders’ Conference logged 684 new construction orders being placed in July 2018 with an aggregate value of £4,537m.
Of these, 186 were in the housing sector, giving a total monthly value for new orders in the housing sector of £1,503m.
The education sector delivered 193 new contract awards worth a combined £691m, while offices and roads recorded new contract awards worth £691m and £384.6m respectively.
Wates claimed top spot in the BCLive league table for July 2018 with a haul of seven contracts worth a combined total of £295.5m. The largest of these is for the construction of a £150m office block at Axis Square in Birmingham for London & Continental Railways.
Kier won the most construction contracts in July, with 19. The total value of these was £288.6m, putting it in second place for the monthly league table. Its largest was a £90m contract to build distribution warehouse and hub in Bedfordshire for B&M Retail.
Laing O’Rourke is granted third place for its share of the FLO joint venture with Ferrovial Agroman that is building the central section of the Thames Tideway tunnel under London. Laing O'Rourke is one of eight main contractors working on the £4bn project. [See previous report here.]
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Papua New Guinea villagers eat clay and toxic mushrooms as severe drought hits
Experts warn of crisis in the making in some provinces where extreme El Niño climate conditions have devastated crops
Jo Chandler
@jo_m_chandler
Tue 1 Dec 2015 22.51 EST Last modified on Wed 2 Dec 2015 00.24 EST
A family leaves their high altitude village of Kandep in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. They are walking with their pigs and dog to stay with relatives in a lower altitude and less drought-affected community. Photograph: Matthew Kanua/United Church PNG
People in drought-ravaged villages in Papua New Guinea are eating toxic mushrooms and clay to stave off hunger pangs as crops fail, vanishing water sources become contaminated and food, medical and fuel supplies are exhausted.
Leprosy and severe, potentially fatal, gastrointestinal cases have spiked in some villages in one province, including suspected cholera or typhoid, international experts working in the area reported.
They said populations in isolated communities across the rugged north and west of the country were enduring some of the worst of the fallout from this year’s extreme El Niño. Their villages are many days’ jungle walk to the nearest town, and accessible only by riverboat or charter flights.
Crops have been wiped out, rivers have dried up and schools and medical clinics have been forced to shut.
There are fears that this year’s emergency may equal or surpass the devastation of the 1997-98 El Niño when hundreds died in PNG, the toll claiming up to 7% of populations in some rural pockets.
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“Throughout September I was seeing people, mostly children, everyday with diarrhoea,” said Dr Penny Johnson, an Australian National University medical anthropologist who works regularly in the lower Fly river region in Western Province, home to an estimated 140,000 people.
“I was also seeing a lot of leprosy” – at least 16 cases in one community. “Open weeping ulcers seemed to be spreading from stagnant muddy bathing holes, as well as person to person.”
Johnson’s local colleague Jimmy Nebni advised her last week that people were now camping in the bush to escape the sun, that garden crops had rotted, and yam suckers for the next season’s crop were not sprouting.
“Animals are beginning to die and when we take some meat our bodies feel stomach pains, feel diarrhoea and weak bodies. We are praying to God for help in this situation.”
A Uniting Church-funded investigation into the effects of the drought, drawing on visits to 30 villages scattered through the highlands, found that staple sweet potato crops had been decimated due to the combined effects of drought and frost since the El Niño began in April.
“With most creeks drying up, everyone is now walking long distances to fetch drinking water from rivers. Drinking water is a universal concern but manageable,” reported drought assessor Matthew Kanua. “Water-borne diseases can pose serious risk as most people are drinking, bathing and doing their laundries in the rivers.”
Canadian anthropologist Professor Dan Jorgensen, who has been conducting field work in PNG’s far west Telefomin and North Fly districts for many years, has also documented cascading effects as drought chokes vital riverboat supply lines. Schools and medical clinics are operating on reduced hours or not at all.
Australian Sally Lloyd, who grew up in a village on the Middle Fly where her parents were missionaries, is part of a network of church, academic and community leaders lobbying the PNG and Australian governments and the World Food Programme for a heightened emergency response to the crisis.
She observed people eating clay during her most recent visit, in October. “It’s a special type of clay. Birds and other animals eat it when there is no food. People break it and chew it, it helps with the hunger, and helps if they are feeling sick.”
She remains in daily contact with people around Mougulu, and said conditions had deteriorated.
With garden supplies and store-bought foods now extremely scarce, staff at the medical centre reported locals foraging for wild mushrooms. Several have become comatose and many patients are being treated for diarrhoea and vomiting.
Drought assessor Kanua said he was concerned by the long-term impacts, even when conditions ease. Many families have culled their pigs, goats and sheep because there is nothing for them to graze on. Fish stocks have gone as ponds have dried up.
His assessment included accounts of widespread migration as desperate families abandon their homes and food gardens, travelling long distances to stay with extended family.
Paul Barker, the head of the PNG Institute of National Affairs independent think tank, said drought and frosts had affected crops throughout the country, with varying impacts.
“Across much of the country, from the highlands to remote islands … staple crops became largely unavailable, starting with taro, then sweet potato, and with even resilient cassava suffering, largely from borer infestations”.
Although recent rains have brought relief in some areas, “recovery is mixed … and if forecasters are right, may be in diminished quantities over the next six months. Also the loss of planting will invariably impose testing times into the new years, which is traditionally the ‘taim hangri’ in many parts of the country.”
The PNG government has pledged emergency aid but the reports indicate that, despite early warnings, in many of the surveyed communities the response has so far been slow, insufficient, or non-existent.
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MBAs need to teach soft skills
Employers agree that business education needs to provide its students with soft skills such as self-awareness and integrity
Liz Lightfoot
Mon 8 Dec 2014 19.05 EST Last modified on Thu 18 Dec 2014 04.12 EST
MBA graduates are in demand, but employers say they lack soft skills. Photograph: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images
MBA graduates are sought after and can command a salary premium, but according to a recent survey there is room for improvement. Employers say business schools are good at theory but not so good at developing soft skills, such as self-awareness, integrity and communication.
Too much focus on modelling and safe, purpose-built case studies are failing to give students the experience of real-life dilemmas, difficult choices and working relationships, they claim.
The study, The future of business education & the needs of employers, conducted by Hult Labs for Hult International Business School, led to the complete overhaul of the Hult MBA to put more emphasis on soft skills.
“We wanted to find out what employers think of MBA graduates generally, not just ours,” says Michael Lu, Hult’s vice-president of global marketing. “What stood out was how consistently employers from differently sized companies, industries and geographies all wanted the same thing.”
One of the most frequently cited areas for improvement was self-awareness. “Someone who always thinks they are right is not well prepared to be wrong,” says Lu. “What employers are really saying is that being ‘book-smart’ is not enough to prepare people for a fast-changing and complex future.”
The research found that many employers held negative views on both the process and the outcomes of traditional business education. Employers also felt that graduates needed 10 critical skills including self-awareness, cross-cultural competency and critical thinking. Business schools were criticised for not measuring students’ progress in these areas accurately or rigorously enough. They concluded that schools needed to increase the number of opportunities for students to gain experience of the real world.
Hult took the 10 most valued soft skills and built them into its MBA course in three areas: growth and professional mindset, interpersonal influence, and results through collaboration.
Students begin the course with a three-week immersion period in which they examine their strengths and weaknesses through team projects, and receive guidance on giving and taking feedback. They are measured on such things as whether they keep their emotions in check and whether they respond rather than react to challenging situations. Someone who always needs clear and complete instructions, and cannot cope with ambiguity, gets a low score, as would someone who cannot listen carefully or reacts defensively and angrily when challenged.
Former student Ron Marcovici, a successful advertising executive when he joined the Hult MBA, found being constantly assessed stressful at first. “No one likes to be criticised. But you hear the truth and what people think you are good at or could improve on – whether it’s your attitude to certain people or that you never show up on time to meetings.
“During the MBA year, every one of us changed and I can honestly say it was only for the best. There is no right answer. When you really understand that, you’re instantly cleverer than you were an hour ago.”
How the incredible Hult led me out of the kitchen
MBA graduate Mohammed Khalid: ‘Personal feedback was invaluable.’ Photograph: Trent McMinn
Mohammed Khalid says the emphasis on soft skills at Hult International Business School helped him make the move into a new career in technology.
Being a head chef is not just about cooking – it’s a management job with huge physical and mental demands, and although I had the technical skills, the softer skills had tended to go out of the window. The emphasis on self-awareness, integrity and working in teams attracted me to the Hult MBA.
I was also constantly challenged, working with different people from diverse cultures and backgrounds in every module.
The personal feedback from the students was invaluable – it’s about how others perceive you, which is sometimes not the way you think it is.
There was a huge emphasis on integrity, and working on these soft skills helped me get the position of sales account manager for Mindbody, the leading business management software provider for the health, beauty and wellbeing industry.
I learned in 12 months at Hult what it would probably have taken me another 10 or 12 years to work out.
Top 10 soft skills
1 Self-awareness
2 Integrity
3 Cross-cultural competency
4 Team skills
5 Critical thinking
6 Communication
7 Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty
9 Execution
Source: Hult Labs
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Four Corners basin 'waste' program ignites wave of protest2 weeks, 1 day ago
Alleged 'waste' of $4bn in Murray-Darling basin buyback scheme
John Ellicott
9 Jul 2019, noon
Irrigation near Griffith - the heart of a burning question over water rights, water buybacks and alleged waste of taxpayers money.
Simson says she'll ask ABC for apology over "bias"
An ABC Four Corners report on water rights buybacks in the Murrumbidgee valley has been roundly criticised by farm groups claiming bias and a lack of understanding of the fundamentals of the $4bn Basin water buyback scheme.
The report quoted several people saying the $4 billion water infrastructure buyback scheme was a "national disgrace" and a complete failure for the environment with no known benefit to the river systems. It said much of the government money was channeled into new irrigation schemes on farms.
It also showed instances where farmers had obtained buyback money to use on water efficiency measures on their farm for works they would have undertaken anyway.
It also featured NSW Farmers of the Year, the Andreazzas of Griffith, saying the scheme appeared to be a waste of taxpayers' money. They had used $100,000 of water buyback money on earthworks, after selling some of their water entitlements.
It also showed the Baxters of Berrigan who sold water entitlements for infrastructure improvements on their farm, saying they also would have done the improvements anyway.
Glen Baxter tweeted after the program: "Each megalitre of water traded for infrastructure has become part of the environmental portfolio. It's left farmers with a smaller consumptive pool, higher water prices and underutilized infrastructure."
He also retweeted this comment: ''so that means when nuts, or cotton or any other sector expands to use more water, it's at the expense of another sector like rice or dairy using less water. It doesn't mean more water used in irrigated agriculture across southern Basin".
The program questioned the expansion of the Webster company's nut and cotton production in the Murrumbidgee valley and claimed Webster had received over $41 million in Commonwealth water infrastructure money from water buybacks.
The Federal Minister for Water David Littleproud countered the assertion the scheme was for big business saying: "some 95 per cent of the On Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program projects are worth less than $1 million, with average project size of $152,000 across the 1500 projects. These are almost all small projects involving small farmers, not big companies".
Water Minister David Littleproud said the Four Corners program misrepresented the success of the water buyback scheme in the Murray-Darling Basin that was supporting communities by reinvesting in water saving infrastructure.
"The Plan has so far delivered 2100GL of water back to the river system with about another 500GL to go. 1200GL was recovered through buybacks mostly under Labor, 700GL through water efficiency projects and the balance through state government programs and gifted water," he said.
"Recovering large parcels of water from a company through water efficiency projects instead of effectively closing dozens of family farms in a small community through water buybacks is unarguably much better for those communities and the real families who live in them."
Both Mr Littleproud and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority say the ABC did not contact them for comment for the program. The Land has asked the ABC to give their views on the criticism of the program.
National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simson said the NFF would be "methodically working through the inaccuracies and errors pedalled in last night's program and would register a formal complaint seeking corrections from the highest level within the ABC".
The NFF's Fiona Simson wants the Four Corners program on the Federal water infrastructure buyback scheme taken to the highest level at the ABC "for corrections".
"At no point during the 45 minutes of television was reference made to the fact that since 2012 the Plan had returned 2100 gigalitres of water to the river system with almost 700GL coming from efficiency and infrastructure projects. A significant achievement in itself. Or that the majority of efficiency projects, were not carried out by large corporate farms but family farming operations with works valued at, on average, less than $152,000," she said.
Ms Simson said "little to no focus was given to the fact that farmers were required to sell water entitlements to the Government, i.e. return water to the environment, in order to access the infrastructure efficiency program. Therefore providing a net water gain to the environment."
"And absolutely no mention was made of the tough scrutiny that applications to access the programs are subject to or the milestone reporting and random 'spot checks' that are carried out by the Australian National Audit Office."
"But, we simply won't let representations like last night's 4Corners go unchallenged."
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for a Royal Commission after the Four Corners report.
"Billions $$ was meant for saving the Murray-Darling and the environment. Instead big business & foreign corporates are using it as a slush fund to maximise their profits.
"We need an immediate freeze on the accounts, and the Auditor-General needs to be called in!" she said in a tweet.
Cotton Australia's Michael Murray, General Manager, said the 'Cash Splash' story "guided the audience down a path of misrepresentation about the fundamentals of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan".
"It is understandable that the average viewer might have concerns about the Plan's irrigation efficiency programs that the show focused on. Given the way the show was presented, it would be understandable for a viewer to question whether the environment has gained anything under the Plan," Mr Murray said.
"However, at no stage did the episode attempt to explain how the Basin Plan has recovered 2100GL of water for the environment, with just under 700GL coming from irrigation efficiency and infrastructure projects. There also wasn't any effort to highlight the economic stimulus communities have received from the programs, rather than the economic devastation straight 'buybacks' have afflicted on many Basin communities.
"The idea propagated by Four Corners that irrigators are 'using more water' by taking up water efficiency schemes is false. The only way an irrigator can acquire more water is if they buy a licence that allows them access to more water from the existing water licence pool.
"Under the Plan, the government can either purchase water through buybacks or acquire water through funding irrigation efficiency schemes.
"While the upfront cost of buybacks is cheaper, the irrigator and their local community cannot make up for the lost production by the entitlement leaving the productive side for the environmental side.
"Efficiency projects are a more appropriate option because irrigators can do more with their remaining water, thereby underpinning communities.
"Here is the accurate breakdown of the efficiency scheme process that Four Corners so spectacularly failed to explain:
The water entitlement-holder nominates how much water their proposed project will save, and what works need to be done.
The Commonwealth (either directly, through the states, or another third-party) then agrees on how much to fund the project and what share of the estimated savings it requires (normally 50%).
The Commonwealth's share of the water entitlement is then transferred to its holdings as a licence entitlement.
"It is the irrigator who bears the risk; if the expected savings do not eventuate, there is no option for the irrigator to have the water entitlement returned. It is patently and demonstrably wrong to say there is no checking as to whether the savings are real. They are real, because the entitlement holder transfers the entitlement."
The NSW Irrigators Council's Luke Simpkins said: "Infrastructure programs require irrigation farmers to hand water back to the Government before the project starts. These programs result in real water being returned to the environment. The water register allows information on the amount of water transacted to the environment to be documented transparently. Projects are audited and undergo heavy scrutiny, with the funds administered by delivery partners - not irrigation farmers."
The program quoted a former director of the MDBA, Maryanne Slattery, who now works for the Australia Institute, claiming it was "horrifying" that a scheme designed to help the environment was "allowing irrigators to use more water".
"That program was supposed to reduce the amount of water that was going to irrigation, when it's actually increased the opportunities for irrigation ... all subsidised by taxpayers," she said.
Webster chairman Chris Corrigan. His company didn't want to be involved in the program because of perceived bias against it from previous programs.
Ms Slattery says the region where Webster was building dams was unsuitable for dams because of the high evaporation rates.
"You just see dam after dam after dam, these massive on-farm dams, in a place that is as flat as a table, that just should not have dams," she said.
"And then when you realise they're being paid for by the Commonwealth, under a supposedly environmental program, that's just horrifying."
Murrumbidgee Irrigation featured heavily in the program. Webster declined to be interviewed for the Four Corners Cash Splash program, citing the claim it felt the ABC had misrepresented their position in the past.
In a strong reply to the ABC's request for an interview for Cash Splash, the ceo of Webster Maurice Felizzi told an ABC researcher in a letter:
"This ... seeks to create a false narrative using simple, publicly available facts.
"This is an ..... attempt to derail rural companies, policy and the people involved in constructive agricultural pursuits."
The ABC put a number of questions to Webster before the program and this is how it responded.
"So, to answer (the) questions: - Webster is the biggest holder of water in the MDB outside of government. Answer: Webster have no way of knowing and neither does (the reporter).
- The chairman of Webster is Chris Corrigan. Answer: Yes, this is publicly available information.
- A company Mr. Corrigan led, Qube, donated $51k to the Liberal party in 2012. Answer: Webster has no way of knowing this. It presumably is publicly available information but of no relevance whatsoever to Webster.
- Brandan [sic] Barry is General Manager in charge of water at Webster, and is also a board director of the NSWIC. Answer: Yes, this is publicly available information.
- It also notes connections the Robinson family have had to Webster, and the links they have to irrigation lobby groups. Answer: The Robinson family through AFF (Australian Food and Fibre) were shareholders in Webster until 07 November 2018. Webster at no time asked or commissioned AFF or the Robinson family to contact or represent the interests of Webster with any politician nor do we have any knowledge that they did so."
As of midday on Tuesday, the ABC had not reported any reaction to the Four Corners program, but with an opinion piece on ABC online from The Conversation, saying the Murray-Darling issue was 'complicated'.
The opinion piece was from Q J Wang, a professor of infrastructure engineering, and Avril Horne, a research fellow at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, both at the University of Melbourne. It says a study suggested the buyback scheme was delivering to the environment.
"To investigate these claims, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority commissioned us to undertake an independent review to examine the best available data for every irrigation efficiency project funded across the basin.
"We found the government investment into irrigation efficiency projects has achieved 85 per cent of the 750 gigalitres per year target. The remaining 15 per cent of the target may be affected by unintended side effects.
"This policy means it does not make sense to compare the effect of efficiency projects directly with the recovery of environmental water."
In another statement late yesterday, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder also disputed the basis of the program.
It said the plan is "delivering real water to the environment".
"This water for the environment is being recovered from within the available take limits set for water use across the Basin.
"Through implementation of the Basin Plan, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has on average around 2000 gigalitres of water available each year for the environment. In fact about 20 per cent of the water previously used for irrigation across the Basin has been returned to the environment under a combination of water buy-backs and on-farm water efficiency projects.
"This water is being used to make a real difference to the environment and the communities that depend on it.
"In the Murrumbidgee River just last summer water for the environment helped prevent further fish deaths.
"Over 2000 kilometres of rivers across the Northern Basin has been reconnected during sustained drought.
"We have bought back endangered species from near extinction, including the endangered native Murray Hardyhead fish, now successfully returned to New South Wales for the first time in over 10 years.
"The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder does not have a role in administering water recovery programs. Design, operation and delivery of water recovery programs is a matter for the Federal Department of Agriculture.
"The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office was not approached by Four Corners for interview or comment."
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Anthropophagy was a Brazilian literary movement founded by the Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade. In 1928 he published a manifesto (original Portuguese). In it, he pointed out that Brazilian literature had cannibalised European models but he called for a modern Brazilian literature which would use native Brazilian primitivism to create a modernist Brazilian literature. Its leitmotif was Tupi or not Tupi that is the question (in English in the original text). (The Tupi were a native Brazilian tribe and, allegedly, cannibals.)
Manifesto in English
Manifesto in Portuguese
Manifesto Antropófago
“Cannibalist Manifesto”
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Endangered Gorillas Become Dinner for Rebels in the Congo
Sustainability made simple
Brian Merchant bcmerchant
Photo via Current
The already endangered Eastern Lowland Gorillas in the Congo are facing a brand new threat—rebel war. Due to deforestation, an illegal charcoal trade, and rising pollution, there were only 118 gorillas monitored before fighting intensified in the region. And now the Kahuzi-Biega national park that safeguards the gorillas may have to be closed down because of escalating violence, leaving the gorillas unmonitored, unprotected, and about to become dinner.The Eastern Lowland Gorilla is the largest living primate, and it could fall victim to the massive unrest in its native Congo--in the worst possible way.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been combating rebel troops since the government of Mobutu Sese Seko dissolved in the '90s, and now the fighting has reached the precious national park—Kahuzi is one of 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and could very well succumb entirely to environmental degradation and, yes, species loss.
Bloomberg contacted an Australian visitor who had to cut his trip to the region short due to the fighting:
Marc Blackstone . . . said his party of visitors was forced to cut short a trip to see the gorillas in Kahuzi- Biega last month when shots rang out nearby as gunmen attacked a civilian truck, killing 10.
And visitors aren't the only ones concerned with the violence, and the plight of the vanishing gorilla population.
The deputy head of the park, Dieudonne Boji, said Congolese troops deploying in the jungle across the volcanic mountains of South Kivu province are increasing pollution and deforestation in the 600,000-hectare (1.5-million acre) reserve where 118 gorillas are being monitored. The authorities may have to close the park if the security situation worsens, he said.
This gorilla was known as Karen by park authorities who kept watch over her before the violence. Photo via National Geographic
DRC soldiers have already erected a blockade at the entrance to the park, making it next to impossible for park authorities to carry out their work. And lack of oversight and habitat loss aren't the only problems the gorillas face: the Congolese rebels have already eaten two of the beloved beasts. Though it may seem cannibalistic, the desperate rebels are trapped and have few options for obtaining food. It goes to show that if the fighting carries on too long, human lives won't be the only casualties--an entire species could be extinguished as well.
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People News: Flurry of New Hires Marks Busy End of Summer
Traditionally a slower time for trade shows, companies in the industry utilized their time instead hiring new talent and promoting from within before the fall kicks off a busy season again.
The Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) hired Jason Means as director of membership. In his new role, Means will lead recruitment and retention programs for current and prospective ACVB members while managing the membership department.
Means brings nearly 10 years of combined hospitality and event experience to his new role.
“Jason’s knowledge and experience within the local hospitality community will be helpful as he works to retain and build our membership,” said Amy Patterson, vice president of business development and corporate events, ACVB. “This makes him a very valuable asset to our organization.”
Means most recently served as senior event manager with Hilton Atlanta. Prior to that, he worked as events manager for the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, where he oversaw volunteers, managed hotel relationships and supervised the hospitality program.
Shepard Expositions Services appointed Susan Hall to their executive team, filling the role of vice president of talent.
Hall brings deep knowledge in human resources, specifically staffing and recruiting, to the Shepard Team.
Previously, Hall served as the director of Human Resources at Spanx, a highly-recognizable international brand; and during the course of the past 20 years has maintained director level positions across the human resources space, including 9 years with Portman Holdings from 1998 to 2007.
In her new role at Shepard, Hall will be responsible for developing human asset strategic plan goals, implementing human resources policies and procedures, and complying with federal and state regulations related to employment and benefits.
The position will also be responsible for the well-being of all associates in connection with safety, benefits, training, performance management and career development.
“We conducted a long and in-depth interview process and Susan was a front-runner from the beginning. She is knowledge about the industry, our company and knows the important of driving customer satisfaction,” said Carl Mitchell, president, “Shepard is growing and Susan is the right person to continue to bring in the top-notch talent we pride ourselves on.”
Visit KC recently made a trio of appointments - Cori Day will assume the role of vice president of sales and services. Day brings to the tourism organization more than 16 years of experience in hospitality sales and marketing; Traci Preus was appointed to the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, bringing more than 25 years of experience in strategic marketing, public relations and advertising; and Ashley Jones assumes the role of vice president of partnerships and events, bringing with her 14 years of experience in destination management and community development organizations.
Visit Spokane is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris McKinney to the position of Director of National Accounts.
As a member of the Visit Spokane sales team, McKinney will work with meeting planners - specifically in the health, medical, scientific and engineering markets - to bring conventions and meetings to the Spokane region.
A veteran of hotel industry sales, McKinney previously worked for Marriot, Hilton and, most recently, Renaissance Seattle Hotel.
Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center, a full-service hotel and Central Oregon’s largest convention center, overlooking the picturesque Deschutes River, has hired Heidi Albertson as Director of national sales.
Nth Degree has strengthened its global presence by adding a new account director, Anthony Lacey, to its London office. Lacey will support European Director, Francis Mugford, and the company’s ongoing effort to expand event marketing and management services across its global portfolio.
Jason Ahart is bringing his 16 years of exhibit production experience to Olympus Group (“Olympus”) as its new COO.
Ahart’s focus as COO at Olympus will be quality initiatives and production systems, particularly Lean Manufacturing and long-term growth. As part of the executive team, Ahart will be responsible for the digital printing, sewing, purchasing, warehouse and prepress departments.
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The role of proteases in the pathogenesis of visceral hypersensitivity in inflammatory bowel diseases and irritable bowel syndrome
Venue: UAntwerp - Campus Drie Eiken - Building O - Auditorium O7 - Universiteitsplein 1 - 2610 WILRIJK (route: UAntwerpen, Campus Drie Eiken)
PhD candidate: Hannah Ceuleers
Principal investigator: Prof B. De Winter, Prof I. De Meester
Short description: PhD defence Hannah Ceuleers - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Visceral hypersensitivity, a mechanism underlying abdominal pain, is a major symptom in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBD and IBS both have an increasing prevalence, a negative impact on the quality of life and an enormous socio-economic burden. However, a curative treatment is still eagerly awaited up until today.
The available literature clearly points towards an implication of proteases in visceral hypersensitivity during IBD and IBS. Most of the studies focussed on the role of protease-activated receptors as a potential new treatment strategy for visceral pain, while direct serine protease inhibition has been investigated to a lesser extent.
Therefore, the aims of this PhD thesis were (1) to provide evidence for direct serine protease inhibition as a possible new treatment strategy for visceral pain in an TNBS-induced colitis rat model for IBD and a rat model for post-inflammatory IBS, (2) to validate a newly developed serine protease inhibitor in a neonatal acetic acid-induced mouse model and (3) to further unravel the mechanism of action of serine protease inhibitors during acute and post-inflammatory conditions.
We demonstrated a decrease in visceral hypersensitivity after the administration of the serine protease inhibitors nafamostat mesylate (commercially available), UAMC-00050 and UAMC-01162 (newly developed by the Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry of the University of Antwerp) in an acute TNBS colitis-induced rat model for IBD and a post-inflammatory IBS rat model. Furthermore, we validated these results in an acetic acid-induced mouse model for IBS. Additionally, we examined the protease profiles involved in the pathophysiology of visceral hypersensitivity during IBD and IBS, pointing towards an important role for matriptase and tryptase in IBD and for tryptase and trypsin-3 in IBS. In order to examine the downstream signaling pathways involved in serine protease signaling, we assessed the involvement of PAR and TRP receptors with a qPCR analysis. mRNA expression of PAR4 (colon and DRG T13-L2) and TRPA1 (DRG T13-L2) were significantly upregulated in post-colitis animals. Besides, PAR2 and TRPA1 immunoreactivity co-localized with CGRP-positive nerve fibers in control and post-colitis animals. Accordingly, trypsin-like activity was significantly increased in the colon but not in the feces. Fecal protease activity, assessed by an azocasein assay, was significantly increased in acute colitis and post-colitis animals compared to controls.
From these results we conclude that direct serine protease inhibition might encompass an interesting new treatment strategy for visceral pain in IBD and IBS patients.
Entrance fee: free
Registration: not required
Link: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/faculties/faculty-medicine-health-sciences/
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Jackson brings up Duncan death in fight with Manigault on 'Apprentice'
La Toya Jackson arrives for Macy's Passport Presents Glamorama at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on September 16, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo
NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- La Toya Jackson brought up actor Michael Clarke Duncan's death after a fight with his fiancee Omarosa Manigault on "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" in New York.
Duncan died last year, weeks after suffering a heart attack at his home. Manigault was credited with reviving him by performing CPR and getting him to the hospital.
Jackson brought the painful subject up during a confrontation with Manigault, who was her teammate on Sunday's episode of "Apprentice."
"Omarosa is the most evil person I have ever met. She's a no-good, conniving, scheming, cut-throat, probably pulled the cord on Michael Duncan Clarke," E! News quoted Jackson as saying.
Jackson also said Manigault probably caused Duncan's heart attack.
Show host and executive producer Donald Trump later fired Jackson after her team failed to create a successful 5-minute soap opera for Crystal Light, E! said.
Celebrities previous eliminated this season from the business-themed competition series this season are rockers Dee Snider and Bret Michaels.
Still in the competition are Manigault, Gary Busey, Lil' Jon, Lisa Rinna, Dennis Rodman, Claudia Jordan, Trace Adkins, Brande Roderick, Penn Jillette, Marilu Henner and Stephen Baldwin.
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Review: ★★ Two Little Women and a Stage, King’s Head Theatre
The brainchild of Amy Beckett and Tayla Kenyon, going under the moniker “Little Loopy Ladies”, this was an hour or so of self-proclaimed “odd sketches and bizarre banter”. In all honesty, I didn’t love it: I’m willing to accept that this may be down to a sense of humour difference, but this is a show which seems to cater solely for the amusement of friends, family, and the performers themselves. As the embryonic form of a sketch show, it was passable and shows some promise: it needs a great deal of work to make it into a slick, fully-fledged production even at fringe level.
The show consists of an opening musical number, then several sketches interspersed with performative scene changes and concludes with another musical number, essentially the first song with some different words. Both performers are in possession of good voices, accompanied by their director Michael Priestley on the guitar. Lyrically these songs are okay: they never quite catch fire though, and very quickly they become nothing more than the words “loopy ladies” repeated ad nauseam, reliant on wild physical gyrations for an injection of comedy. It is a bit lazy, and seems a waste of these performers’ talents – I would have been interested to see more witty musical numbers in this show. One place that could have done with more variation and spice were the scene changes, accompanied by the “scene change song” which is pre-recorded. The first scene change is funny, the second amusing, and the third tedious. The fourth, fifth etc. are best left unmentioned. These scene changes are another wasted opportunity for some more comedic action, and they drag the show rather than picking up the pace between sketches.
This malaise of repetition and drag is unfortunately also evident in the majority of the sketches themselves. For the most part, each scene started off promisingly in a variety of imaginative and less-so settings: a shopping channel, heaven’s waiting room, a chair-robics class and a witches’ interview were some of the more memorable. Energetic and enthusiastic to a fault, both Amy and Tayla are clearly very confident performers and they deliver their material with total commitment and verve. Particular praise must be given to Amy for some wonderful and amusing character work which, for me, was the saving grace of the majority of the sketches. Tayla was a commendable straight-man for the most part, with some break-out roles including a turn as Luther the Plumber in a casting sketch. However, there was an slight sense of self-indulgence at this moment as the performer seemed on the edge of making herself laugh: corpsing and near-misses can work in some situations in comedy, but unfortunately here it felt a little unearned.
The sketches work their way up to a peak and then run on, usually making the same joke or descending into a kind of madness that acts as a poor substitute for comedy, and then end: the show in microcosm. Physical exuberance and visual ridiculousness are not enough to carry this show, and despite the enthusiasm of the performers and their fans in the audience I was bored and a bit disappointed. The name “Little Loopy Ladies” is also infuriatingly infantilising, and I would suggest as such does the performers no favours. With some work, this could become a very competent sketch show: the nuggets of comedy are there, and the performers seem to be capable of more than they delivered.
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Alexander Skarsgard on the True Blood Finale: “It Was Unbelievably Emotional” to Film, I “Started Crying”
By Allison Takeda and Charles Thorp
True Blood's Alexander Skarsgard told Us Weekly about filming his final scenes for the HBO show, calling it an "unbelievably emotional" experience and noting that he "started crying" on set John P. Johnson/HBO
Who says boys don't cry? True Blood fans may have been sad to say goodbye to Alexander Skarsgard's sexy vampire Eric Northman on the show's Aug. 24 series finale, but no one is sadder than Skarsgard himself. Speaking with Us Weekly prior to the HBO drama's final episode, the Giver actor admitted he had a hard time keeping it together on set when filming wrapped.
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"It was unbelievably emotional," the star said of shooting his last scene. "That show has been such a huge part of my life. I've met some really good friends on that set, and there is no doubt that they will remain close friends forever."
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That said, Skarsgard knows it will "never be exactly the same" now that the series is over. "There's something about going to a location like that and just having these people as your family, and their families as your family," he told Us. "The last scene I filmed, I was just trying to take it all in and I started crying."
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He is happy, though, with how his character ended up. "I think how he ends fits with how he's lived," the Swedish-born star mused of Eric. "He's always had a clear mission and a clear agenda on his mind…I guess we'll have to see what the reactions are."
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Regardless, nothing can take away from his experience on the show, which he'll carry with him always — along with, perhaps, a souvenir from the set. While most of the props are being auctioned off for charity, Skarsgard's costar Kristin Bauer (who played his faithful, super-sassy vampire kin Pam) managed to steal a very meaningful memento for him.
"Pam grabbed my fangs for me," he shared.
(The Giver, also starring Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, is in theaters now.)
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Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far is a special program aired on the Sci Fi Channel that summarizes the first 2 seasons of the Re-imagined Series. The special was intended to attract new viewers and offers no new content for frequent viewers of the series.
Narrated by actress Mary McDonnell (voicing the narration in her character of Laura Roslin), The Story So Far ignored several supporting and significant story arcs and character developments in the interest of the program's limited 43 minute air time.
This episode takes us back to the time when Lee Adama was commanding the Pegasus. We are introduced to Kendra Shaw, acting 2nd in command on the Pegasus.
1 raptor has gone missing and a rescue mission is launched to recover it. We see Kendra's arrival on the Pegasus just before the first cylon attack and her rise through the ranks in the aftermath of the attack. She had to make tough descisions to ensure the survival of the BSG, following Admiral Cain's lead.
A continuation of Razor, with a focus on Kendra Shaws point of view. The search and rescue mission changes when the crew discovers an old Cylon ship with the first version of the humanoid cylons onboard.
The story is told in flashbacks, taking us back to the days when the Pegasus was flying solo, and even back to the first Cylon war.
A look back at the first three seasons of the sci-fi space opera, with commentary by executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.
The Phenomenon
Battlestar Galactica: Phenomenon is a celebrity-studded celebration of the show's impact on pop culture. Seth Green, Brad Paisley, Joel McHale, and others, wax poetic about why Battlestar Galactica is one of the best frakkin' shows on television.
Battlestar Galactica: The Lowdown was a special documentary/promotional program that discussed the origins of the Battlestar Galactica Miniseries that aired on the Sci Fi Channel on Novemeber 26, 2003.
Catch the Frak Up
A 13 minute narrated video clip giving you a full update of what has happened in Battlestar Galactica up to Season 4 Episode 10.
Face of the Enemy (1)
While on his way to get some R&R Gaeta's Raptor makes an unexpected detour.
While stranded in the middle of space, Gaeta and the other passengers realize that time and air is limited.
Gatea realizes that he knows one of the Eights more than he lets the others believe.
After Pilot Eight's death, the passengers begin to suspect foul play.
While trying preserve the air supply, Gaeta thinks back to the Eight he knew on New Caprica.
Gaeta decides to go with Eight's plan on getting them home.
As Hoshi and Racetrack search for the missing Raptor, Gaeta realizes that he might not be as safe as he thought.
With almost all the passengers dead, Gaeta realized that sometimes it's hope in others that blinds you.
With the help of Eight, Gaeta makes some harsh realizations about himself.
Face of the Enemy (10)
With no hope of rescue in sight, Gaeta has to make a final decision about his future.
The Top 10 Things You Need To Know
Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Battlestar Galactica to be ready for the final episodes.
The Last Frakkin Special
Before the last episode airs, cast and crew talk about the series; its inception, the casting, music, how it developed, the challenges that had to be overcame, the legacy it will leave behind and the memories everyone will leave with.
The Plan storyline begins before the attack on the 12 colonies and will show events mainly from the perspective of two Cylon agents, Cavil and Anders.
The Resistance (1)
Galen Tyrol and Saul Tigh attempt to recruit new soldiers for the resistance against the Cylon occupiers on New Caprica.
Tyrol and Jammer are unsuccessful in recruiting Duck into the Resistance. Tigh proposes a controversial hiding place for the weapons cache.
Tigh and Tyrol hide the weapons while Duck discusses religion with his wife, Nora.
Cally and Nora worship at the temple and talk about Galen and Duck's religious beliefs. The Cylons go on the attack.
Duck mourns Nora's death. He asks Tyrol whether the Resistance hid guns at the temple.
Tigh and Barolay are pleased that the Cylon crackdown has brought in over 150 new recruits to the Resistance. Jammer is still upset about Nora's death and Duck's grief.
Tigh and Tyrol discuss Jammer's detention by the Cylons. Tigh fears that Jammer will give up the Resistance members.
Doral offers to "help" Jammer prevent future massacres.
Tyrol greets Jammer after he is released from the detention center. Duck returns to his tent to mourn his wife's death.
The Resistance (10)
Duck makes a dangerous decision regarding the Cylons. Jammer appears to have made a different decision.
Razor Minisode (1): Day 4,571
William "Husker" Adama prepares for his rookie combat mission as a Viper pilot.
Razor Minisode (2): The Hangar
A moment in Galactica's hangar rattles young Adama's nerves before his first combat flight.
Razor Minisode (3): Operation Raptor Talon
Vipers and Raiders face off in a brutal firefight above a remote world defended by the Cylons.
Razor Minisode (4): Free Fall
Losing his Viper is just the start of rookie William Adama's problems today.
Razor Minisode (5): The Lab
Downed rookie pilot William Adama discovers a gruesome Cylon secret project.
Razor Minisode (6): Survivors
William "Husker" Adama struggles to free human prisoners from the Cylon lab.
Razor Minisode (7): Escape
Adama witnesses the rise of a new Cylon threat and gets unexpected news from the Galactica.
Battlestar Galactica : Blood & Chrome
The adventures of young William Adama in the First Cylon War.
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What Finding Purpose in Your Career Really Means, According to Mark Zuckerberg
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It’s what drives us to find a job we love. It’s what the world tells us is even more important than money, fame, or success.
But what does it actually mean?
Here’s a twist: Purpose isn’t exactly about you.
Or, so says Mark Zuckerberg in his 2017 commencement speech at Harvard University, his (almost) alma mater. His pride and glory, Facebook, started as a way to connect students, but what he didn’t realize—but is so grateful he discovered—is that Facebook could be so much more powerful. That it could become a way to connect the world.
And this is how he uncovered the meaning of purpose:
Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness…But it’s not enough to have purpose yourself. You have to create a sense of purpose for others.
Finding meaning in your career takes more than just helping yourself thrive. It’s about working toward something that will ultimately make everyone better and happier.
And more importantly, you don’t have to save the world to do this. Maybe it’s about applying to jobs that work with clients to improve processes, or working for a company with a strong mission of doing good, or even initiating a new project in your current role.
As Zuckerberg says, we reward people for personal success, but don’t get rewarded enough for taking the leaps that’ll help everyone succeed.
And those leaps may just be the key to career happiness.
If you’re now in the mood to watch even more inspirational speeches, check out:
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Happiness , Syndication , Career Advice , Finding Your Passion , Getting Started , New Grads
Photo of Mark Zuckerberg courtesy of YouTube.
Previously an editor for The Muse, Alyse is proud to prove that yes, English majors can change the world. She’s written almost 500 articles for The Muse on anything from productivity tips to cover letters to bad bosses to cool career changers, many of which have been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., CNBC's Make It, USA Today College, Lifehacker, Mashable, and more. She calls many places home, including Illinois where she grew up and the small town of Hamilton where she attended Colgate University, but she was born to be a New Yorker. In addition to being an avid writer and reader, Alyse loves to dance, both professionally and while waiting for the subway.
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Oxbridge over recruits from eight schools, according to Sutton Trust charity
Robert Liow at King's College London (University of London)
A study by social mobility charity Sutton Trust has found that Oxbridge over-recruits from eight schools.
Using admissions data from 2015 to 2017, the study found that places were disproportionately awarded to students of just eight schools, most of them private. 1,310 places went to students from those schools, while 2,900 other schools, accounting for three-quarters of all secondary schools, made up just 1,220 of the remainder.
While the charity was using anonymised data, it believes most of the places went to students from private schools, with several large sixth-form colleges in the mix.
Published data indicates the following schools are likely to be in the top eight:
Eton College, Berkshire - independent, yearly fees of £40,668
King's College School, London - independent, yearly fees of £21,600
Magdalen College School, Oxford - independent, yearly fees of £18,477
St Paul's School, London - independent, yearly fees of £25,032, boarding of £37,611 per year
St Paul's Girl's School, London - independent, yearly fees of £24,891 or £26,760 (Year 12 entry)
Westminster School, London - independent, yearly fees of £27,174 or £29,709 (sixth form entry), boarding of £39,252 per year
Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge - state sixth form college
Peter Symonds College, Hampshire - state sixth form college
The study blames the disparity on a lack of advice and guidance for applicants, and recommended better information be provided on entry requirements as well as for Oxbridge admissions to take candidates' backgrounds into account.
However, in an article on the Cambridge University Student Union website, the SU's Access and Funding Officer Shadab Ahmed cautioned against drawing the wrong conclusions from this study.
They wrote: "Whilst of course headlines are always written to be provocative, to pit two extremes of a radically unequal and unfair educational system against each other is completely unjust and fuels the divide that applicants often perceive, further dissuading them from applying. To compare the schooling of the “super-elite” top independent schools with comprehensives on the brink of closure is nonsensical."
"Instead of focusing on the state vs independent dichotomy, external parties should be focusing on other metrics of disadvantage and under-representation: FSM1, IMD2, POLAR3 and ethnicity for example. If addressed properly, we would indirectly increase the number of state-educated students, in a meaningful way. A more holistic view of the issue is needed."
Some activists for the National Union of Students criticised the survey as well, with the former Cambridge SU Women's Officer and current NUS Women's Campaign NEC 2nd Place Lola Olufemi referring to it as "flog[ging] a dead horse" and NUS PGR Rep Amelia Horgan calling for attention to be focused elsewhere.
I see we continue to flog the dead horse that is “””Oxbridge Admissions”””
— Lola Olufemi (@lolaolufemi_) December 8, 2018
oxbridge is bad and should rightly be destroyed but I wish that people would spend anywhere near as long talking about the fact that a significant number of universities in the uk might not even survive marketisation
— amelia (@joan0fsnark) December 8, 2018
The administrations at Oxford and Cambridge nonetheless acknowledged the scale of the problem. Martin Williams, Oxford University's pro-vice-chancellor for education, said: "We are very much aware that Oxford must work harder to attract a more representative selection of students from across the UK."
A spokesman for the University of Cambridge welcomed the idea that "more support should be made available to students before they choose their A-level subjects and agree there should be more provision of careers advice", but rejected "lowering grade requirements" as it would "place unfair pressure on students and that is something the university cannot support".
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TV Review: Lucifer (Season 3, Episode 26)
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Phuket Immigration: new detailed form to monitor education visa holders
News Phuket
PHUKET: Language schools will be required to fill out a more in-depth form for visitors applying for education visas from November 1, as part of attempts by Immigration to control the number of people working illegally in Phuket.
By Tanyaluk Sakoot
Friday 18 October 2013, 04:59PM
Education visas are required by foreigners who want to stay in Thailand to study.
Subjects that can be studied in Phuket range from teaching of English as a foreign language (TEFL) through to Thai boxing and mixed martial arts. However, some people use this visa as simply a way to stay in the country, do not attend language classes and often find work instead.
At a meeting at Phuket Immigration yesterday (October 17), it was announced that from November 1 staff at language schools will have to fill out a new form for every student enrolling who requires an education visa.
The form is more specific than previously, and now requires details of how many language classes the student will attend per week (including days and times) and what exactly they will be learning on every given day.
Authorities plan that this new form will make it easier to monitor students who are in Thailand on the education visa but who skip classes and/or work illegally.
Last week a post was made on ThaiVisa’s web forum, with the poster, “Phronesis” (a Greek word for wisdom or intelligence), informing forum readers: “There are 42 language schools in Phuket. They are being called to a meeting with immigration on October 17.
“Immigration want to do away with the student visa because of its abuse by Russians and other foreigners working illegally on the island. So … if you are like me … and are currently staying in Phuket on a ED visa … don’t get too comfortable.”
Last week, after questions by The Phuket News, the Superintendent of Phuket Immigration, Pol Col Sanchai Chokkayaikij denied any intention by Immigration to launch a drive to find people misusing ED visas, or to stop issuing them.
At yesterday’s meeting, Col Sanchai asked for “more active cooperation” from schools when it came to the education visas.
He said the students had to attend classes, and if the students were absent more than 10 times, the schools had to inform Immigration and the visas could be cancelled. He also raised the point that people could not work legally while they were on an education visa.
He explained to the 20 or so language school representatives how to fill in the new form correctly.
Col Sanchai said he encouraged students on the education visa not to leave their extensions to the last minute. Extensions could be obtained up to 45 days before the visa expires, and the student would not lose any days of the visa.
“Immigration police have found some problem cases, where foreigners have been registered as having an education visa but are doing something else, like working. This is not correct,” he said.
Col Sanchai gave an example after the meeting about a Russian man who arrived in Thailand on January this year on an education visa.
He was later arrested in Chalong on drugs charges, and his education visa was cancelled – though the exact details of why the visa was cancelled are not known.
“This is the reason that schools should be careful about foreigners who come to study in Thailand. The school or place where they study should observe which students do not study in class, because they might be working or doing other illegal things.
“I hope this meeting will allow for more understanding about this issue for the owners of schools or places of study.”
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THE PRAIRIE BLOSSOMS
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Avignon, France: House Concert
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Private house concert
La Salle des Fêtes, St-Etienne-Vallêe-Française
La Mas du Sauvage Concert
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The Prairie Blossoms share stories and songs at one of our favorite intimate concert venues.
Tickets $10 at the door.
Zoar Poland Mission Benefit Concert: Featuring Marv & Rindy Ross, John Nilsen, and The Prairie Blossoms
Zoar Poland Mission Benefit Concert, featuring Marv & Rindy Ross, John Nilsen and The Prairie Blossoms
Marv & Rindy Ross are the singer/songwriter duo who founded Seafood Mama, Quarterflash, and The Trail Band. Oregon natives, they are best known for their five top-forty songs with Quarterflash including their #3 hit, Harden My Heart.
After a decade in the eighties of gold and platinum records and extensive touring with acts like Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, and Jefferson Starship, the Rosses moved back to Oregon and created The Trail Band - a brass and string folk ensemble that has released thirteen CDs and has toured internationally, including a rare two-week series of appearances in North Korea.
Marv & Rindy also co-created the hit Artist Repertory Theater musical, The Ghosts of Celilo garnering eleven Portland-area musical theatre awards. The Rosses received the Legends" award from the Portland Music Association, were inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, and received an Alumni Award of Excellence from their alma mater, Western Oregon University.
John Nilsen is an award-winning, delightful pianist who features elements of folk, classical and jazz. He has a warm and welcoming reparte with audiences and plays his original songs with beauty and grace and also accompanies himself on some original vocal tunes as well.
Like each of the past twenty-five years, John played two hundred and fifty performances
in 2018, most being out of Oregon. Nilsen splits his performances between touring
nationally as an in-demand pianist with a national and international presence,
performing with the John Nilsen Trio, which has toured internationally, and with John's guitar/vocal rock band, John Nilsen & SWIMFISH.
John has given back to his community by teaching songwriting residencies and
speaking to students in schools throughout the country, and locally including every
school in the West Linn/Wilsonville School District over the past twenty-five years.
The Prairie Blossoms (Karen Kitchen & Mel Kubik) perform a program of contemporary and traditional Native American music, drawing from an engaging repertoire of tribally-specific American Indian songs: Lullabies, stomp dances, round dances, stick-game songs, planting songs, and more; using their voices, a variety of percussion instruments, and piano to share unique songs and stories
They perform in many different languages including Cree, Creek-Seminole, Cherokee, Paiute, Dakota, English, French, Lakota, Osage, Pima, Polish, Spanish, and more.
Both women were raised on the prairies of Kansas (Mel: Polish-German-American) and Oklahoma (Karen: Osage Nation), and in the midst of well-established and varied music careers, were brought together to collaborate on a small project (put together by Marv Ross) in Portland, OR in early 2000...melding Native American songs with contemporary musical arrangements, and again during the development of "Ghosts of Celilo" with Marv Ross. They reunited in 2016, in a trio (Cedar Rose). In June of 2018, they formed The Prairie Blossoms, and immediately began work on a number of recording projects. Their first CD, "Till the Star Rises Here was released in February 2019.
Karen and Mel are part of the eight-person team going to Poland and, in addition to the curriculum, will be sharing Native American songs, stories, and crafts with our Polish hosts and the kids (ages 6-12) at Dziegielow English Camp in July 2019.
Advance Tickets are $20 each or $30 a pair at Zoar Lutheran Church and https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4255167 or $25 at the door.
All of the proceeds from this concert will fund this mission project. We deeply and humbly appreciate your generous support.
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Security shocker: 75% of US bank websites have flaws
Insecure by design
By Dan Goodin 25 Jul 2008 at 23:13
The vast majority of US bank websites jeopardize the security of their online customers by including design flaws that expose passwords and are susceptible to tampering by attackers, researchers say.
In a paper titled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws," researchers from the University of Michigan found 75 percent of bank sites surveyed had at least one such design flaw. The report was presented Friday at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University.
"To our surprise, design flaws that could compromise security were widespread and included some of the largest banks in the country," said Atul Prakash, a professor in the university's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who initiated the study. Doctoral students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders also participated.
The flaws aren't bugs, but rather features built into the design of the sites. They include:
Placing secure login boxes on insecure pages, i.e. pages that aren't protected by secure sockets layer. That allows passwords to be intercepted through man-in-the-middle attacks.
Putting contact information and security notices on insecure pages. This makes it easy for scammers to change addresses and phone numbers listed on the page.
Not making it clear when the website is redirecting customers to a page outside the bank's domain. As a result, customers don't know whether to trust the site.
Allowing inadequate user IDs and passwords. Sites frequently allowed email addresses as user IDs and didn't require strong passwords.
Emailing sensitive information. This included passwords and statements.
The report was based on the examination of websites for 214 financial institutions. The study was conducted in 2006, so it's possible the designs have been cleaned up. But we doubt it. ®
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ID on a blockchain? Maybe. ID on Bitcoin? Forget it
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The 8 Best Strategy Board Games of 2019
Try one of these fun board games to get everyone thinking
By Camryn Rabideau
Courtesy of Amazon
Best Overall: Catan at Amazon
"Reviewers call the game addicting and love that the board is always changing."
Runner Up, Best Overall: 7 Wonders at Amazon
"This game takes a lot of thinking but the gameplay is relatively quick."
Best Budget: Mastermind at Amazon
"Fun for the whole family and a great way to teach critical thinking skills."
Best Cooperative: Betrayal at House on Hill at Amazon
"Players work together and strategize to achieve a goal—and win."
Best for Beginners: Carcassonne at Amazon
"This tile-laying game is easy to pick up but provides rich gameplay."
Best for Adults: Pandemic at Amazon
"Requires oodles of strategy as you race to cure infectious diseases."
Best for Families: Labyrinth at Amazon
"Will keep both kids and adults entertained, and each round is quick."
Best for Two Players: Blokus Duo at Amazon
"A two-person adaptation of the original Blokus that's challenging and fun."
Best Overall: Catan
One of the most popular strategy board games right now is Catan, and for good reason. This unique game is praised for its addicting gameplay and impressive replay value.
Catan is designed for three to four players (though expansion packs allow you to play with up to six people), and each game takes around an hour. To play, each person build settlements around the island, which is composed of randomly arranged hexagon-shaped pieces that allow for a different board layout every time. While there is some luck involved, Catan requires a lot of strategy if you want to come out on top. You must anticipate which resources will be most valuable as you build and make sure you're paying attention to what other players are doing to keep them from getting ahead.
Runner Up, Best Overall: 7 Wonders
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Another extremely popular strategy board game that will never get old is 7 Wonders. Similar to Catan, you must have a long-term strategy as you play this highly-rated game, and what makes it particularly fun is you never know who's going to win.
You can play 7 Wonders with three to seven people, and each game takes around 30 minutes. Reviewers note that the instructions often seem a bit overwhelming when you first read them, but once you get the hang of the game, it will fly by as you draft cards, build your city, construct architectural wonders and vie for military supremacy.
Reviewers love that this game takes a lot of thinking, yet gameplay is relatively quick. Many enjoy that you might think one person is in the lead, but you never know who will come out on top when you tally up the points. Some even go as far as to call it the best board game they’ve ever played!
Best Budget: Mastermind
Many modern board games are rather expensive, costing $50 or more! If you're looking for a strategy game to get your mind working but don't want to pay that much, you should look into Mastermind.
This classic game is played with two people, the code maker and the code breaker. In the simple, quick gameplay, players take turns setting and solving secret codes with colored pegs. There are more than 2,000 possible combinations, and you'll need to use deductive reasoning and logic to crack your opponent's code in 10 moves or less—otherwise, they get the points!
According to reviewers, Mastermind is fun for the whole family and a great way to teach critical thinking skills. However, several note the quality of the case and pegs is not the best.
Best Cooperative: Betrayal at House on Hill
In cooperative board games, players work together to achieve a goal, instead of competing against one another. If you're looking for a strategy-based cooperative game, you should definitely consider Betrayal at House on Hill.
This board game requires three to six players and takes around 60 minutes to play. You begin by exploring the creepy haunted house together, until one player “betrays” the group. Everyone must then work together to defeat the defector—or else you lose! Reviewers say it takes a little while to pick up the rules of Betrayal at House on Hill, but many enjoy that there are a host of various scenarios and different layouts with every game, which keep it interesting.
Best for Beginners: Carcassonne
If you're new to a strategy board games, many people recommend the top-rated game Carcassonne as a starting point. This tile-laying game is easy to pick up, but provides rich gameplay that you’re sure to enjoy.
Carcassonne can be played with two to five people, ages 8 and up, and each game takes around 35 minutes. The premise of the game is to develop a medieval fortress city, laying down one tile at a time, and gathering up followers to populate it. However, at the same time, you must pay attention to what your opponents are doing, blocking their progress or stealing their points when you can.
According to reviewers, this makes a great two-player strategy game, and many say it’s easy to set up and understand—perfect for beginners. Plus, there are expansion packs available to make gameplay more complex once you’ve mastered the base game.
Best for Adults: Pandemic
If you’re looking for a challenging board game for adults, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by Pandemic. This cooperative board game requires oodles of strategy as you race to cure infectious diseases that are wreaking havoc across the world.
Pandemic can be played with two to four players, and each game takes around an hour. All players must work together to contain and cure four diseases that are spreading across the globe, but it requires a bit of strategy to stay ahead of outbreaks. If you don’t work quickly enough, an epidemic will strike, setting back your progress! If the diseases spread too quickly, your whole group loses.
Reviewers can’t say enough about Pandemic, writing that it’s incredibly challenging and addicting. You’ll want to play again and again until you can best it, but that’s easier said than done!
Best for Families: Labyrinth
Strategy board games can be fun for the whole family, and if you’re looking for a game that will keep both kids and adults entertained, you’ll definitely want to check out Labyrinth.
This board game can be played with two to four people, and each game takes 20 to 30 minutes. It’s recommended for kids ages 8 and up, but many reviewers say younger players can easily pick up the game. To play Labyrinth, you race around the maze-shaped board, trying to locate all your particular objects and characters. However, other players can change the maze, thwarting your plans.
Reviewers say this is an amazing game to teach strategy and logic, and it’s entertaining for both children and adults, making it a wonderful family board game.
Best for Two Players: Blokus Duo
Only have two players for game night? That’s ok, just break out Blokus Duo for a fun strategy board game. This game is designed for just two people, and it’s appropriate for anyone ages 7 and up.
To play Blokus Duo, players take turns placing Tetris-style pieces on the board, connecting their colored pieces at the corners. You’ll race to put down as many pieces as possible, blocking your opponents moves when you can, until the board is filled. The person who put down the most pieces wins! Reviewers love this two-person adaptation of the original Blokus, writing that it’s challenging but incredibly fun.
Want to take a look at some other options? Check out our round-up of the best two-player board games.
Our writers spent 2 hours researching the most popular strategy board games on the market. Before making their final recommendations, they considered 16 different board games overall, screened options from 10 different brands and manufacturers, read over 40 user reviews (both positive and negative), and tested 3 of the games themselves. All of this research adds up to recommendations you can trust.
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Tridel looks to connect vertical residents online
By Susan PiggBusiness Reporter
Wed., June 25, 2014timer2 min. read
Canada’s biggest condo developer, Tridel, has partnered with social network site Bazinga! in an effort to boost the sense of community — and connection — in its vertical cities.
Tridel has been testing the online and mobile platform — touted as “the killer app for happy condos” — in four new GTA condo buildings and plans to expand it, over time, across all its projects.
The two-year-old upstart site is now in almost 100,000 condo and some rental homes across the country, says founder and CEO of the Vancouver-based Bazinga!, Joseph Nakhla.
Bazinga! is more than just a Facebook for highrise buildings, stresses Tridel vice president of sales and marketing, Jim Ritchie.
Not only has it helped residents connect online to find tennis partners and help with dog walking, the app has given the developer new insights into its buyers.
“It’s a real-life laboratory. This isn’t just a tool for neighbours to get acquainted, it enables them to have conversations with each other and with building managers where communication is typically one-sided, going out,” says Andrea DelZotto, a spokesperson for Tridel.
In addition to making social connections, residents can use the private site to book building amenities, access details on condo rules and centralize pesky but important appliance manuals.
It even provides a 24/7 forum for asking questions and raising concerns about issues in the building, under the watchful eyes of property managers.
“You can take peoples’ concerns and turn them into opportunities,” says Ritchie.
In one case, a resident mentioned online that they were planning to weatherstrip the gap under their unit’s door. Tridel was able to point out to everyone that the gap is critical to air circulation and minimizing cooking smells in the hallways.
“This takes the smart home to the next level,” says founder Nakhla.
“Developers are no longer thinking of themselves as just people who build four walls. They are realizing there is a need to create healthy communities that can thrive long after the buildings are built.”
Nakhla has seen residents in some buildings use Bazinga! to organize bulk buys of products at a discount.
He, and Ritchie, see that as a huge growth area going forward, with Bazinga! able to negotiate special rates on, say, contents insurance or discounts in area stores advertising specifically to building residents.
If nothing else, points out Ritchie, Bazinga! is a neat replacement for all those peg boards and paper notes that have graced highrise lobbies over the years.
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TTC subway service resumes between St. George and Pape
By Michael YangStaff Reporter
Wed., June 1, 2016timer1 min. read
TTC subway service has resumed after a small fire at Bloor-Yonge Station suspended service on Line 2, between St. George and Pape stations, for several hours during the Wednesday morning rush hour.
TTC CEO Andy Byford confirmed to reporters shortly after 9:15 a.m. that subway service has resumed along Line 2, with a few residual delays.
According to Toronto firefighters, the fire broke out after a track-level malfunction around 5:30 a.m.
TTC personnel had to be evacuated after smoke began filling the station. Two staff members were treated at the scene for minor smoke inhalation.
The fire was put out fairly quickly, but repair crews remained on-site until about 8:45 a.m. Shuttle buses were dispatched in droves to rescue stranded subway passengers on Line 2.
West-end passengers also saw longer wait times as several trains were trapped in a holding centre east of Yonge due to the incident.
Byford later said that a smoking power cable was part of the problem, and that repairs crews had to splice in a replacement.
“I find this intensely frustrating because any time this happens, it knocks back the work we’ve been doing over the last five years,” Byford said, noting that this fire isn’t related to any previous problems on Line 2.
Byford promised an investigation into why the power cable started smoking.
With files from Brennan Doherty
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Woman shoots 3, self at YouTube HQ in California in possible domestic dispute
By Ryan NakashimaThe Associated Press
Sudhin Thanawala
Tues., April 3, 2018timer2 min. read
SAN BRUNO, Calif.—A woman opened fire Tuesday at YouTube headquarters, wounding three people before fatally shooting herself as terrified employees huddled inside, police and witnesses said.
After receiving multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire, officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s suburban campus sandwiched between two interstates in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Bruno.
YouTube employee Dianna Arnspiger said she was on the building’s second floor when she heard gun shots, ran to a window and saw the shooter on a patio outside.
She said the woman wore glasses and a scarf and was using a “big huge pistol.”
“It was a woman and she was firing her gun. And I just said, ‘Shooter,’ and everybody started running,” Arnspiger said.
She and others hid in a conference room for an hour while a male employee repeatedly called 911 for updates.
“It was terrifying,” she said.
Television news footage showed people leaving the building in a line, holding their arms in the air. Officers patted them down to make sure none had weapons.
Officers discovered one victim with a gunshot wound when they arrived and then found the shooter with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound several minutes later, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said.
He said two additional gunshot victims were later located at an adjacent business and that a fourth injured person suffered an ankle injury.
The headquarters has more than a thousand engineers and other employees in several buildings. Originally built in the late 1990s for the clothing retailer Gap, the campus south of San Francisco is known for its sloped green roof of native grasses.
Inside, Google several years ago famously outfitted the office with a 3-lane red slide for workers to zoom from one story to another.
Zach Vorhies, 37, a senior software engineer at YouTube, said he was at his desk working on the second floor of one of the buildings on the campus when the fire alarm went off.
He got on his skateboard and approached a courtyard, where he saw the shooter yelling, “Come at me, or come get me.”
There was somebody lying nearby on his back with a red stain on his stomach that appeared to be from a bullet wound.
He said he realized it was an active shooter incident when a police officer with an assault rifle came through a security door. He jumped on his skateboard and ran away.
San Francisco General Hospital received three patients: a 36-year-old man in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition, a spokesman said.
The hospital said later that it did not expect to receive more patients.
Police have responded to reports of a shooting Tuesday at YouTube headquarters in Northern California. Footage shows people grouped outside being patted down. Google, which owns YouTube, tweeted that they are cooperating with authorities. (The Associated Press)
Google, which owns the world’s biggest online video website, posted on Twitter that the company was co-ordinating with authorities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it also responded.
The White House said U.S. President Donald Trump was briefed on a shooting and that officials were monitoring developments.
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The Latest: Crane lifts sunken tour boat out of Danube River
Tues., June 11, 2019timer4 min. read
BUDAPEST, Hungary - The Latest on the fatal Danube River boating accident in Hungary’s capital (all times local):
Workers in Hungary have raised out of the Danube River a sunken tour boat involved in a deadly accident last month.
A huge floating crane on Tuesday placed the Hableany (Mermaid), water still streaming out of its hull, onto a barge at the scene of the May 29 collision between the tour boat and a river cruise ship. Four bodies were recovered from the boat soon after its top reached the surface.
Nineteen South Korean tourists and a Hungarian crewman were previously confirmed to have died, with eight people listed as missing. Only seven of the 35 people on board were rescued.
Officials said earlier that police would take possession of the Hableany as part of their investigation into the nighttime crash during heavy rain.
Hungary’s interior minister and a South Korean official have visited the site at Budapest’s Margit Bridge, where rescue crews are using a huge floating crane to lift a sunken tour boat out of the Danube River.
After lifting much of the top of the Hableany (Mermaid) to the river’s surface, rescuers could be seen adding another wire strap to the back of the boat as water was being pumped out of the boat’s hull. Four bodies were recovered from the boat soon after its top reached the surface.
Rescuers plan to lift the boat unto a barge and hand it over to police, who are continuing their investigation into the May 29 collision between the Hableany and the Viking Sigyn, a much larger river cruise ship.
Nineteen South Korean tourists and a Hungarian crewman were previously confirmed to have died, with eight people still listed as missing. Only seven of the 35 people on board were rescued.
The bodies of four victims appear to have been recovered from the sunken Danube River tour boat being brought to the surface in Hungary’s capital.
Rescue personnel could be seen early Tuesday on a barge next to the partially raised boat, carrying stretchers, each with a body bag on them. Divers, meanwhile, were continuing to search the hull of the boat in the early stages of the lifting procedure.
A huge floating crane is being used at Budapest’s Margit Bridge, where the boat sank May 29 after colliding with a much larger river cruise ship.
Nineteen South Korean tourists and a Hungarian crewman are confirmed to have died, with eight people still listed as missing. Only seven of the 35 people on board — 33 South Koreans and two Hungarian crew members — were rescued.
The raising of the sunken Danube River tour boat is underway in Hungary, with parts of the boat already visible on the river’s surface.
A huge floating crane, barges and rescue personnel could be seen working early Tuesday at Budapest’s Margit Bridge, where the Hableany (Mermaid) sightseeing boat sank May 29 after colliding with much larger a river cruise ship.
Nineteen South Koreans and a Hungarian crewman have been confirmed dead, with eight people missing.
The lift is planned in several stages, depending, for example, on the condition of the hull as the boat is raised off the river floor and also on whether any bodies are found in the wreckage.
Hungarian and South Korean rescuers started efforts Tuesday to raise a sunken tour boat out of the Danube River after a fatal collision.
A huge floating crane, barges and rescue personnel could be seen early morning at Budapest’s Margit Bridge, where a sightseeing boat sank May 29 after colliding with a much larger river cruise ship.
Nineteen South Koreans and a Hungarian crewman have been confirmed dead, with eight people missing. Seven people were rescued after the nighttime collision amid heavy rain.
Rescue officials said Sunday that preparations for the lift, including divers installing four wire harnesses under the Hableany (Mermaid), were nearly complete, with some technical and security details pending.
The lift is planned in several stages, depending, for example, on the condition of the tour boat’s hull as it is raised off the river floor and also on whether any bodies are found in the wreckage.
Efforts to search for the missing victims of the accident and to raise the Hableany have been hindered by the Danube’s high springtime water levels — which were expected to fall significantly over the coming days in Budapest — and the river’s fast flow, as well as near-zero visibility under water.
The captain of the other ship in the collision, the Viking Sigyn, has been under arrest since June 1.
Police on Sunday carried out another inspection of the Viking Sigyn, which left Budapest less than 48 hours after the collision with the Hableany but was back in Hungary on a scheduled trip and docked at the town of Visegrad, north of Budapest.
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Broadcom to Take $2 Billion Hit From Huawei Ban
By Asa FitchWSJ
Thu., June 13, 2019timer3 min. read
Broadcom Inc. said it would make $2 billion less in annual sales than expected following the U.S. ban on exports to Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co., becoming one of the first big chip makers to quantify the financial impact of the Trump administration’s escalating trade dispute.
Few U.S. chip companies who ship components to Huawei have reported financial results since the Commerce Department last month placed the Chinese company on the so-called entity list, which bars businesses from supplying U.S. technology to Huawei without a license. That has left the economic effects of the move and broader trade tensions difficult to ascertain.
If Broadcom’s outlook was any indication, however, those effects could be severe, costing U.S. semiconductor companies billions of dollars in sales.
San Jose-based Broadcom, which makes a range of radio-frequency chips and circuits that go inside mobile phones and mobile-networking stations, made around $900 million of revenue from Huawei in its previous fiscal year ended in November, Chief Executive Hock Tan said on a call with analysts. That represented about 4.3% of its total revenue.
Broadcom customers—largely equipment manufacturers to which it supplies parts—were already being more careful about their purchases in early May before the Huawei ban, which only deepened their caution, Mr. Tan said. The $2 billion reduction in revenue guidance reflected Huawei as well as bigger fears among customers about the future, he said.
“With respect to semiconductors it is clear that the U.S.-China trade conflict, including the Huawei export ban, is creating economic and political uncertainty and reducing visibility for global [manufacturing] customers,” he said.
Shares of Broadcom fell more than 8% during aftermarket trading on Thursday, when the company also said second-quarter revenue fell short of analyst expectations.
Broadcom’s gloomier guidance could spread across the semiconductor industry as other big players, including Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp., begin to reconsider their outlooks in light of the Huawei ban and a broader anxiety about the geopolitical future, analysts say. Huawei is one of the U.S. chip industry’s most lucrative customers.
“Everybody probably has to cut just due to Huawei if nothing else,” said Stacy Rasgon, an analyst at Bernstein Research. “Almost everybody has some exposure.”
Some smaller chip companies have already warned that the Huawei ban will ding their revenue. Qorvo Inc., which makes radio-frequency products, and Lumentum Holdings Inc., which makes optical networking products, both reduced their quarterly revenue guidance last month by about $50 million.
Analog Devices Inc., a larger chip maker, gave guidance for its fiscal third quarter in May that came in around $100 million below what analysts expected, largely due to the Huawei situation.
Shares of these chip makers, including Qualcomm and Intel, fell in late trading after they were all up in the regular session.
While Huawei may not account for a huge share of Broadcom’s revenue—which totaled nearly $21 billion last fiscal year—the damage both from the Chinese telecom giant and the broader slowdown is much greater in absolute terms than at any company that has reflected the effects in its guidance so far.
On the analyst call Thursday, Mr. Tan said while underlying demand for products with Broadcom’s technology remained strong, the cloud of geopolitical worry effectively canceled that out.
“The uncertainty of the environment has put in place concerns about placing additional orders and active reduction of inventory out there,” he said.
As it reduced its revenue outlook, Broadcom also missed revenue targets for its second quarter, citing slowing sales in its wireless business in addition to the weakness caused by strains with China. Revenue rose 10% from a year earlier to $5.52 billion but was down 4.7% from its first quarter. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected $5.68 billion in revenue for the quarter.
For the year, Broadcom lowered its revenue forecast to $22.5 billion from $24.5 billion. The company reported a profit of $691 million, or $1.64 a share, compared with $471 million, or $1.12 a share, a year ago.
Write to Asa Fitch at asa.fitch@wsj.com
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As a true freshman and in his first career start, he graded out at 71 percent. @dylanwonnum74 is the #SECFB Freshman of the Week. pic.twitter.com/7CDclbuZyG
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) October 29, 2018
Returned to the lineup and made his presence felt with a pair of sacks, including one to seal the victory over Tennessee. @DWonnum is the #SECFB Defensive Lineman of the Week. pic.twitter.com/9f1SYLB8lu
How about a little history?@DWonnum and @DylanWonnum74 are the first brothers in @SEC history to win Player of the Week honors in the same week. pic.twitter.com/uLse645FxK
— Gamecock Football Info (@GamecockFBInfo) October 29, 2018
D.J. had two sacks in a return from a foot injury.
Dylan Wonnum graded out at 71 percent and helping the Gamecocks rush for 224 yards on 5.6 yards per carry. He was the first Gamecock true freshman to start on the offensive line since Mike Matulis in 2011.
“Dylan did outstanding,” quarterback Jake Bentley said after the game. “Just really poised, really stayed in the moment and understood what he had to do. Didn’t try to do anything outside of his ability. Really just locked in to what he had to do.”
D.J. Wonnum was USC’s top pass rusher in 2017, but tore a ligament in his foot in the opener agaisnt Coastal Carolina. He tried to play against Georgia, but missed the next five games.
“D.J.’s a good football player. He’s very productive in everything he does. It’s great to have him back,” Muschamp said, laughing. “He’s a very good football player, but he also gives you a presence on your football team as far as leadership and calmness and how we play. A lot of people look to D.J. when things aren’t going so well.”
South Carolina offensive lineman Dylan Wonnum (79) saw playing time during the second half of the game against Texas A&M at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, SC, Saturday, October 13, 2018. Tim Dominick tdominick@thestate.com
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England on the ropes as David Warner pays for his punch
John Westerby
June 14 2013, 1:01am, The Times
Warner, the Australia opening batsmen, was suspended for punching RootGetty
Alastair Cook tried last night to put a brave face on having to play the equivalent of three cup finals in eight days after England’s failure to defend a target of 294 seriously dented their prospects of winning a first global 50-over tournament.
Sri Lanka ran out comfortable winners by seven wickets with 17 balls to spare at the Oval and defeat was compounded by an injury to Jonathan Trott that leaves the batsman in doubt for what is now a critical Champions Trophy game against New Zealand in Cardiff on Sunday.
Another loss will force England out of the event and, with heavy rain forecast for most of the day, their hopes may come to hinge on the final group A game between Australia…
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