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Review: Intro
Content: Intro Positive Comments Negative Comments Conclusion The AvP community was up in arms for a long time before The Sequel came out, various hardcore fans screaming their demands, requests, pleas and a variety of threats across the available community sites and boards. One pleaded for the Predator to possess an ability to self-destruct [akin to the Predator movie], another demanded new guns/tools for the marine, a third brought back the notion of �alien spit� as a long-range weapon for the hissing monstrosity. And so it went for months and months. Disillusioned by AvP The Father [as produced by Rebellion], we waited for something deeper, fun and involving. AvP was a hallmark game, immensely scary, with a graphics engine that spewed out very impressive details, good textures and characters. But, there was NO storyline, only a collection of missions, which, between the three species, shared the same levels. The lack of proper editing tools also killed off AvP as a community building game. Fans watched in awe as UT, HL, CS and scores of other games began drawing in the available modding, mapping, skinning, voicing talent, and powerful communities were built, that carry the legacy of the original games with style and panache. True, often the original game is now only needed as the engine provider, while all the levels currently played are community-designed, still, a game�s legacy lives on. Not so in the AvP community. Despite impressive efforts by people like Bugmaker and Leinen to provide the necessary tools, AvP editing and modding remained an arcane and difficult art [only notable effort was by the AMP crew], so the frustrated community returned to watching the Predator and Alien movies, discussing the why�s, what if�s and whether�s that made up the AvP universe. Then, NOLF came out and we all got a first glimpse of the Lithech engine. The in-game movies were good and so was the gameplay. What clinched it, were the Austin Powers-inspired dialogues between the people you were going to kill. It was good to know they were human, had a life, petty squabbles, likes and dislikes. They were going to die nevertheless, but� One day, news began circulating that AvP2 was in the making and what was previously a simple �hardcore brigade� turned into a psychotic mob. I know- I was part of it. Then, as news of its engine emerged, many AvP players discovered NOLF and we finally knew what to expect. >>>Continue to next part: The Positive Comments Dear Reader: Don''t stop here!! Submit YOUR OWN AvP2 Review
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The Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee voted 13 to 6 to pass House Bill 316, along with two amendments, to change the state’s voting system. The bill was sponsored by state Rep. Barry Fleming. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Georgia voting machine debate pits election officials vs. tech experts
Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Senate votes Wednesday on $150 million statewide voting system
Georgia lawmakers are preparing for final votes on a statewide voting system that’s strongly supported by government workers experienced in running elections and just as staunchly opposed by computing experts who see an imminent threat to election security.
The conflict over election integrity will be a driving force in Wednesday’s state Senate vote to switch Georgia to a $150 million voting system that combines touchscreens and printed-out paper ballots. The state’s current electronic voting machines don’t produce paper ballots.
Voters would pick their candidates on touchscreens that are attached to ballot printers. Then voters could review their printed choices before inserting their ballots into scanning machines.
The Republican majority in the Georgia General Assembly is siding with election officials who want to install the new voting machinery, called ballot-marking devices, in time for next year’s presidential primary election. The measure, House Bill 316, has already passed the state House, and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp supports the voting technology.
8/30/18 - Grovetown - Susan McWethy, from Decatur, speaks against the use of bar codes and QR codes in vote printouts during public comment period. Voting machine companies demonstrated their products Thursday at the second meeting of Secretary of State Brian Kemp's Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections Commission, which is evaluating whether to switch from electronic voting machines to ones that offer paper ballots for verification and auditing. Vendors present included Clear Ballot, Unisyn Voting Solutions, Smartmatic, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, and Dominion Voting. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
Democratic legislators are aligned with cybersecurity experts who prefer paper ballots bubbled in with pens, a voting method that avoids the inherent risks of a computerized system.
There’s no evidence that Georgia’s voting machines have been hacked during an election, but computing experts say malware could be written so that it’s undetectable.
Election officials say voters can trust them to keep results accurate in the future, just as they have during the past 17 years when the current electronic voting machines have been used in Georgia. They dismiss concerns from the tech crowd, which says the danger of vote manipulation is real.
“We know the security of our system. We program these units ourselves, so we’re confident that Georgia will remain a state that isn’t hackable,” said Cynthia Willingham, the elections supervisor for Rockdale County. “With any voting system in the United States, there’s a possibility that it could be tampered with. The key is that, as election officials, we’ll ensure that it isn’t.”
But computing professionals say election administrators and state legislators are ignoring the potential problems of computerized voting and ballot-printing.
A group of 24 computer scientists sent a letter in January urging Georgia officials to abandon touchscreen voting. They include university professors who say computer-printed paper ballots wouldn’t be a reliable check on election accuracy because many voters wouldn’t verify or remember all their choices.
A study published in November found that nearly half of voters in a Tennessee election last year didn’t review their ballots printed from the same kind of machines as those under consideration in Georgia, and many voters who were surveyed misidentified which ballot they had voted on. The study was written by Georgia Tech researchers Richard DeMillo and Robert Kadel, and Marilyn Marks of the Coalition for Good Governance, who oppose ballot-marking devices.
2/20/19 - Atlanta - Richard DeMillo, Professor of Computing and Professor of Management at Georgia Tech, spoke about voting machine hacking during public comment. The Governmental Affairs Elections Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Alan Powell, held it's second day of hearings on House Bill 316, which would change the state's voting system. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Critics of ballot-marking devices also say that even though printed ballots include the names of candidates, votes would be encoded in bar codes that humans can’t authenticate.
“There’s nothing speculative about these vulnerabilities,” said DeMillo, a Georgia Tech computer science professor and former chief technology officer for Hewlett-Packard. “If exploited, it would affect the result of the election. It’s not a secure system.”
An unexplained irregularity
DeMillo said there’s already evidence of problems with electronic voting in Georgia: the unexplained drop-off in votes in the lieutenant governor’s race in November, an issue that occurred only on voting machines but not on absentee paper ballots. About 80,000 fewer votes were counted in the lieutenant governor’s race between Republican Geoff Duncan and Democrat Sarah Riggs Amico than the average of ballots recorded in 10 statewide contests in the Nov. 6 election.
It’s unknown whether the dip in votes occurred because of voting machine error, ballot layout, human choice, election hacking or some other reason.
Still, county election officials and Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said voters can have confidence in the state’s next voting system.
2/26/19 - Atlanta - Rep. Barry Fleming (left), R - Harlem, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and House Speaker David Ralston answer questions after the bill's passage. The Georgia House passed a bill Tuesday to buy a new $150 million election system that includes a paper ballot printed with a ballot marking device. But opponents to the bill, including many Democrats, say it would still leave Georgia's elections vulnerable to hacking and tampering. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
They said voting will remain easy on a touchscreen, paper ballots will be audited, votes won’t be discarded because of stray pen marks, and voting machines can accommodate people with disabilities by adjusting type size or providing audio through headphones.
“Touchscreen-marked paper ballots will provide the most accuracy and clarity in our elections since voters will have a clear choice with the touch of a button,” Raffensperger said. “The advantage of having that paper and being able to do that audit is you’ll know the winner really did win, the loser really did lose, and after the election you can move on.”
The outcomes of elections weren’t always immediately conclusive in Georgia last year. Democrat Stacey Abrams, who fell about 17,000 votes short of forcing a runoff, didn’t end her campaign until 10 days after November’s election for governor against Kemp. Another race, for the state House of Representatives, still isn’t settled because voters were incorrectly mapped into the wrong district or were ineligible to participate. A judge ordered a redo election between Republicans Chris Erwin and Dan Gasaway, which will take place April 9.
Polling on paper ballots
Most Georgia voters — about 55 percent — prefer paper ballots filled out by voters instead of by computers, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll conducted in January.
Voters who testified during hearings at the Georgia Capitol told lawmakers they support paper ballots completed by hand.
“When it comes to computers, it is not a matter of if something gets hacked, but when something gets hacked,” Eileen Nakamura, a Sandy Springs resident, said during a hearing last week. “When you have a computer system, that’s always the No. 1 problem.”
January 3, 2019 Atlanta - Dwayne Broxton, with Hart InterCivic, demonstrates his company's digital voting system at The Depot on Thursday, January 3, 2019. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
Longtime Georgia voting integrity advocate Garland Favorito agreed. He delivered documents to Kemp’s office this week seeking answers about election security and voting system costs.
“Consider what the voters and cybersecurity experts have said over and over again,” said Favorito, who founded the group Voter GA. “It’s just not in the best interest of the people of Georgia.”
Supporters of ballot-marking devices point out that paper ballots have a long history of fraud through ballot-box stuffing. In states that use paper ballots marked by hand, that problem is avoided because the number of ballots counted must match the number of voters who sign in at each precinct.
If the legislation passes the state Senate on Wednesday, it will return to the state House for a final vote since it was amended in a Senate committee. Then it would go to Kemp for his signature.
Afterward, Raffensperger’s office would solicit bids from voting machine companies, select a vendor and conduct test runs in municipal elections in November.
Georgia would become the first state in the country to use ballot-marking devices in every precinct. Some jurisdictions in 24 states use similar voting systems, often to assist voters with disabilities.
Stay on top of what’s happening in Georgia government and politics at ajc.com/news/georgia-government/.
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Hundreds reported missing in Laos after dam collapse
Several killed and fears death toll may rise after an under-construction hydro-power dam collapses in southern Laos.
24 Jul 2018 15:58 GMT
Hundreds of people are reported missing with several dead after a hydro-power dam under construction in southern Laos collapsed causing flash flooding that swept away villages.
The disaster left more than 6,600 people homeless, the Lao News Agency reported on Tuesday. It showed pictures of villagers wading through muddy floodwater carrying belongings. Others boarded rickety wooden boats or stood on the roofs of partially submerged houses.
Officials brought boats to help evacuate people in San Sai district of Attapeu province, where the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydro-power dam is located, as water levels rose after the collapse, ABC Laos news reported.
The dam collapsed at 8pm local time (1300 GMT) on Monday, releasing 5 billion cubic metres of water.
Several hundred people are missing after homes were swept away, the Lao News Agency said. It added "several people" had died.
Nearly 24 hours after the collapse, local authorities said they were struggling to gauge the extent of the disaster.
"We do not have any formal information yet about any casualties or how many are missing," an official in Attapeu province told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.
Villagers evacuate after the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydro-power dam collapsed in Attapeu province [ABC Laos News via Reuters]
Pauline Caspellan-Arce, from the International Federation of the Red Cross, said the extent of the disaster would become clearer over the next 24 hours. She said helicopters and boats would be used in search-and-rescue operations.
"We have a lower estimate in terms of the number of people displaced - about 1,000 and 170 missing. We'll get more certain figures by tomorrow hopefully," Caspellan-Arce told Al Jazeera.
'Battery of Asia'
One of Asia's poorest and most secretive countries, Laos is landlocked but aims to become the "battery of Asia" by selling power to neighbours through a series of hydro-power dams.
Environmental rights groups have for years raised concerns about Laos' hydropower ambitions, including worries over the impact of dams on the Mekong River, its flora and fauna and the rural communities and local economies that depend on it.
Maureen Harris, an expert on Laotian dams at the International Rivers NGO, said the flooding raised questions about dam standards and dam safety in Laos.
"This dam break shows the major risks from dams being built, and dam designs that are unable to cope with extreme weather events, such as very heavy rains that we've seen in the last few days," Harris told Al Jazeera.
410-megawatt dam
The $1.2bn project planned to export 90 percent of its electricity to energy-hungry Thailand and the remaining amount was to be offered up on the local grid.
The 410-megawatt capacity dam was supposed to start commercial operations by 2019, according to the venture's website.
Among the companies involved in the project are Thailand's Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, South Korea's Korea Western Power, and the state-run Lao Holding State Enterprise.
Laos: On the Borders of the Empire
SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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Pacific quakes spark tsunami fears
Little damage after two big quakes near Vanuatu but warning sends people fleeing.
The centre had warned that a tsunami might be destructive along the coasts near the epicentre of the two temblors, between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, but it later cancelled the warning after a 4cm tsunami was recorded at Lunganville on Espiritu Santo island in Vanuatu.
The US Geological Survey said the first quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck 294km northwest of the Vanuatu island of Santo, and 596km northwest of the capital of Port Vila, at a depth of 35km.
A second temblor, with a 7.3 magnitude, struck just 15 minutes at the same depth but 35km farther north of Santo and Port Vila.
A third quake of magnitude 5.7 was recorded nearly an hour later.
There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from officials in Vanuatu, a collection of nearly 200 islands.
"We have no damage reports yet, but we have had no contact with Santo so far," Take Rakau, a spokesman for the Vanuatu police, told the Associated Press news agency.
String of quakes
Coming just over a week after an 8.3 magnitude quake rocked the South Pacific near the Samoan islands, sparking tsunamis that killed around 180 people and devastated coastal villages in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, the authorities and residents took the alert seriously.
Mothers in Fiji took their children to higher ground after the warning [Matai Akauola]
In Fiji, Matai Akauola, a journalist, told Al Jazeera that many workers had evacuated their offices and were moving to higher ground.
The authorities in New Caledonia, a French territory, closed schools and urged people to get to higher ground.
New Zealand's emergency management ministry told people not to be on beaches or boats near the coast.
Moments before the Pacific quakes, a magnitude 6.7 tremor struck southeast of the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines, which is still picking up the pieces from a typhoon that killed at least 22 people last week.
Last week's quake and tsunamis near the Samoan islands were followed by a separate quake near the Indonesian city of Padang in west Sumatra which flattened thousands of buildings in the city and left hundreds dead.
Thousands remain missing and relief workers are battling to get aid to thousands made homeless.
Off Samoa's southern coast, specialist search divers continued to look for bodies this week as funerals continue to be held almost daily in tsunami ravaged villages across the coast.
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All-Creatures
Book and Video Review Guide
Moo-ving people toward compassionate living
The intent of this book and video review guide is to help us to live according to Kingdom standards which bring Heaven to earth.
COLD NOSES II
Examining More Evidence
By Gary Kurz
Copyright April, 2001
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We read this book right after finishing Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates and found it even more compelling in its presentation of the fact that animals do go to heaven. This book is particularly important for those who are grieving the loss of a beloved companion animal.
While reading Cold Noses II we felt as though Gary Kurz was a friend conversing with us. His warm, caring personality shines through his writing as he guides you through the Bible, God’s inspired Word.
The wonderful thing about these books, and this one in particular, is that no matter what the original purpose of the readers for reading them might be, they can gain a renewed purpose in life and a peace "that surpasses all understanding".
We recommend reading both books and keeping them as references.
In response to an extraordinary number of requests from readers to give them more, the author of Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates offers his sequel Cold Noses II. Exploring the Bible verses on the subject, the author provides both thoughtful and thought-provoking commentary concerning the future of animals, in particular, those we call pets.
In Cold Noses II, Gary Kurz picks up right where he left off with his previous book, applying his more than 17,000 hours of formal and personal Bible study, encouraging those who have suffered the loss of a dear pet by showing even more evidence of their continued existence. The author takes his gloves off in this presentation, separating fact from fiction and fantasy, and delivers a convincing case for those who are confused by some of the "new age". "feel good" ideas they have come across.
Through a website e-mail address, provided in his first book the author has provided follow-up assistance for those readers who have neeed more answers. Through hundreds of contacts with readers, he has identifies a variety of concerns that seem to be commonly held by those who have lost their best friends…concerns not anticipated in his first book, but addressed in earnest in Cold Noses II …such as, miracles., signs, visits from ghost pets, angelic influence, etc.
This book is a must read for anyone who wants to have a sound foundation on which to base their personal beliefs concerning the fate of their pets. Gary Kurz offers solid Biblical evidence for all the conclusions that he draws.
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Neural Networks: The Missing Link of AI?
February 04, 2017 by Robin Mitchell
Advancements have been made towards artificial intelligence, with neural networks leading the way as the most promising method.
For generations, computers that have the ability to think for themselves have been the stuff of science fiction. Neural networks could provide computers with the ability to identify objects and solve problems. However, scientists can't figure out why the computer reaches the conclusion it does. How can we make computers explain themselves?
Neural Networks in AI
In reality, such a system will not exist for a very long time because of three reasons:
Silicon's inability to rewire itself
The sheer number of connections in the brain far exceed the number of transistors on modern devices (100 trillion neuron connections against two billion transistors on the top-end Intel processors)
The difficulty of recreating the brain in software
A computer built like a brain would revolutionize the world. Image courtesy of Computer World
While computers are currently not self-aware, there are programs and algorithms that enable computers to learn and behave in a similar manner to the human brain. Neural networks are used to teach computers how to identify objects, recognize patterns, and even solve problems by feeding in stimuli, recording the output, and then feeding back a result (whether correct or not). Unlike typical programs, neural networks are not programmed with solutions and therefore have to go through many iterations of learning before they can reliably do their task.
Neural networks are similar to the human brain as they consist of simple units (similar to neurons) connected to other units via connection paths (neuron connections). Depending on feedback and stimuli, connections become weighted and units have adjusted threshold levels similar to how neurons in the brain work with connections becoming stronger with repeated learning.
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Computers Designed to Mimic Human Brains
Google Develops Neural Network
Neural Networks Explained
When neural networks are created and implemented to solve problems, they typically do very well at classifying data. However, one problem that exists with such systems is the act of explaining their answer.
If a person is shown a variety of images, some with people's faces and others without, they can reliably pick the face images (just like a neural network). When asked why they selected specific images a typical response would be “that image has a face because there is a person there who has a round face, eyes, ears, and hair”. However, a neural network would see the face but be unable to explain why there is a face in the photo.
Neural networks that are used to identify objects and images can, however, be taken apart to see what neurons are firing, which helps determine the explanation of the result. For example, a white square with two eyes painted on it may result in the neural network saying there is no face. If the system was taken apart, neurons dealing with eye recognition would be active but the other feature-related neurons would be inactive. This would show that the network detected too few features and concluded that there was no face. However, there are some neural networks that are almost the equivalent of black boxes, such as those designed to read text and handwriting.
Neural networks typically hide their inner workings. Image courtesy of Colin M.L. Burnett [CC BY-SA 3.0]
Neural networks and artificial intelligence, on the whole, are providing promising results in the medical field involving diagnosis. Doctors, however, require evidence and explanation as to why a diagnosis has been made. This is why researchers from MIT will present new methods for getting a neural network to not only provide predictions and classifications but also explanations as to why they came to their conclusions. But it's not just the medical field that is uneasy on taking advice from a computer, any decision where the cost is high for an incorrect prediction would also require some form of explanation for said decision.
Self-driving cars may have a lower crash rate than human drivers in the future but will people truly trust them over an actual human? And will a patient trust the diagnosis from a computer without being given any evidence? Artificial intelligence has a long way to go but neural networks are showing great promise in making AI a reality. However, unless such systems can explain their answers and thinking processes, the general public may be wary of accepting computer controlled systems with open arms.
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SeanC4 2017-02-06
You could try very simple random hill climbing to train such things:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/artificial-general-intelligence/TVvry50HEwI
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Young Dillinger (1965)
Directed by Terry Morse / Terrell O. Morse
Genres - Crime, Drama | Sub-Genres - Biopic [feature] | Run Time - 102 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
This exploitation crime drama offers a fictionalized account of John Dillinger just before he became known as one of the most ruthless mobsters of the 1930s. The tale begins as Dillinger and his girlfriend try to rob her daddy's safe and get caught red-handed. Dillinger takes the fall and goes to the joint where he encounters some of America's most infamous gangsters including Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson. Dillinger helps them all escape and together they become some of the most fearsome criminals ever. Because he is considered Public Enemy No. 1, Dillinger decides to undergo a total face transformation. Following the operation, he kills the surgeon, who was trying to force himself on Dillinger's moll. Later, he wrongs her and this ultimately leads to tragedy for him and for her. Keep an eye out for background people dressed in 1960s clothing, quite an anomaly for a film set in the '30s.
gangster, life, prison, youth
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Record wind farm construction underway at close of second quarter
Source: AWEA
07/26/18, 01:26 PM | Solar & Wind, Other Energy Topics | Offshore Wind, Utility Wind
A record amount of wind energy capacity is now under construction at wind farms across America, according to second quarter results released today by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Strong demand for low-cost wind power from utilities and other buyers, including major corporations like AT&T and Walmart this quarter, continues to drive the industry’s growth.
Wind power’s low cost makes it one of the most competitive energy sources in many parts of the country. And low costs continue to fall due to technological innovation and increased American manufacturing, along with the five year extension and phase out of the wind energy Production Tax Credit—which sunsets in 2019.
“Wind power’s job creating engine just kicked into a higher gear,” said Tom Kiernan, CEO of AWEA. “And all Americans will benefit as the record number of wind farms under construction begin delivering new revenue to rural communities and affordable homegrown energy to consumers.”
AWEA’s U.S. Wind Industry Second Quarter 2018 Market Report reveals wind farms totaling 5,322 megawatts (MW) started construction during the second quarter of 2018, bringing total construction activity to 18,987 MW. A single new American wind turbine represents 2.32 MW of capacity on average, roughly enough to power 750 typical homes.
Beyond projects currently under construction, another 3,901 MW of new wind power capacity entered advanced development. Projects in advanced development are likely to enter construction in the near term because they have achieved a major milestone such as placing a turbine order or finding a buyer for their power. The entire near-term U.S. wind farm development pipeline grew 13 percent over the previous quarter to a grand total of 37,794 MW under construction or in advanced development.
The U.S. wind industry installed 626 MW this quarter, bringing year-to-date installations to 1,032 MW. Those installations mean American power capacity cracked 90,000 MW nationally, extending wind’s lead as the largest source of U.S. renewable energy capacity. The country’s 90,004 MW of total installed wind capacity is capable of generating enough affordable, clean electricity to power over 27 million average homes.
Because wind power uses no fuel, buyers value the ability to lock in long-term, stable prices through power purchase agreements (PPA) or direct ownership of wind farms. Wind farm developers signed 1,524 MW of PPAs during the second quarter, and the overall volume of wind capacity contracted through PPAs is up 44 percent compared to the first half of 2017. Corporate customers including AT&T, Grupo Bimbo, Walmart, and Merck & Co accounted for 56 percent of contracted capacity in the quarter, with utilities contracting the remainder.
Utilities also announced plans to add 1,491 MW of wind capacity under direct ownership, including MidAmerican’s 591 MW Wind XII project in Iowa and Ameren Missouri’s 400 MW High Prairie project in Missouri.
Offshore wind power’s growing momentum reached new heights in three New England states this quarter. In May and June, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut selected competitive bids representing 1,400 MW of offshore wind capacity for development. Project developers are now working out PPA terms with utilities. Bringing these projects online is a major step toward scaling up U.S. offshore wind, which will create American jobs, infrastructure investment and economic opportunity throughout coastal communities.
Wind energy supporters around the country will celebrate the rapid growth in U.S. wind power and the opportunity it creates for job seekers, consumers and communities during American Wind Week, which kicks off in less than two weeks from August 5-11.
AWEA is the national trade association of the U.S. wind energy industry. We represent 1,000 member companies and over 100,000 jobs in the U.S. economy, serving as a powerful voice for how wind works for America. Members include global leaders in wind power and energy development, turbine manufacturing, and component and service suppliers. They gather each year at the Western Hemisphere’s largest wind power trade show, the AWEA WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition, next in Houston, May 20-23, 2019. Find information about wind energy on the AWEA website. Gain insight into industry issues on AWEA's blog, Into the Wind. And please join us on Facebook, and follow @AWEA on Twitter.
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Characterizations of $\omega$-limit sets in topologically hyperbolic systems
Almost periodic and almost automorphic solutions of linear differential equations
May 2013, 33(5): 1835-1856. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.1835
Unbounded solutions and periodic solutions of perturbed isochronous Hamiltonian systems at resonance
Anna Capietto 1, , Walter Dambrosio 1, , Tiantian Ma 2, and Zaihong Wang 2,
Department of Mathematics - University of Torino, Via Carlo Alberto, 10 - 10123 Torino, Italy, Italy
School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048
Received January 2012 Revised July 2012 Published December 2012
In this paper we deal with the existence of unbounded orbits of the map $$ \left\{\begin{array}{l} θ_1= θ+\frac{1}{ρ} [u(θ)-l_1(ρ)]+h_1(ρ, θ), ρ_1=ρ-u'(θ)+l_2(ρ)+h_2(ρ, θ), \end{array} \right. $$ where $\mu$ is continuous and $2\pi$-periodic, $l_1$, $l_2$ are continuous and bounded, $h_1(\rho, \theta)=o(\rho^{-1})$, $h_2(\rho, \theta)=o(1)$, for $\rho\to+\infty$. We prove that every orbit of the map tends to infinity in the future or in the past for $\rho$ large enough provided that $$[\liminf_{\rho\to+\infty}l_1(\rho), \limsup_{\rho\to+\infty}l_1(\rho)]\cap Range(\mu)=\emptyset$$ and other conditions hold. On the basis of this conclusion, we prove that the system $ Jz'=\nabla H(z)+f(z)+p(t)$ has unbounded solutions when $H$ is positively homogeneous of degree 2 and positive. Meanwhile, we also obtain the existence of $2\pi$-periodic solutions of this system.
Keywords: Hamiltonian system, unbounded solution., periodic solution, resonance.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34C25; Secondary: 34B1.
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August & Alarms.com Team Up On New Smart Lock App Features
By Daniel Golightly June 19, 2018, 3:29pm
Smart lock maker August Home has now announced a new partnership with Alarm.com which it claims will make locking and unlocking doors to a home both a lot easier and more secure. For those who may not be aware, Alarm.com is a U.S-based company that offers cloud-based security solutions in partnership with security panel suppliers such as DSC, Interlogix, Nortek, and Qolsys. This new partnership ties Alarm.com's services together with August's own connected door locks, adding the latter company's smart locks to the devices supported by Alarm.com. That opens up tons of possibilities when it comes to controlling how and when those smart locks secure or unlock an entryway. Not least among those new features is August integration with Alarm's "Scenes."
Scenes allow for multiple August locks to be interacted with simultaneously, along with other supported devices on that ecosystem. By way of example, using the associated app to set a "secure" scene might lock the doors to a home, while also arming alarms, triggering lights to turn off or on, and starting surveillance. A similar scene could also be enabled when it's bedtime or those systems could be disabled automatically once when a homeowner arrives at home. The integration brings far more than that to the table, however, thanks to new features being added to the smartphone apps for both Alarms.com and August. Locks can be set to secure a home or disable at a specific time following the tap of an Auto-Lock feature. Users can also set up location-based lock reminders or lock doors remotely at the tap of a button. Moreover, the integration allows for any unexpected activity, such as door locks being deactivated at unusual or unexpected times, to trigger app notifications.
As per the announcement, the features should be available starting June 19 to anybody who happens to own locks made by August Home and other systems associated with Alarms.com. With that said, it's worth pointing out that these are app-based updates and that means there's likely a roll-out associated with the new features. Since those can take several days to complete, it shouldn't come as too big of a shock if the updates haven't arrived just yet.
Source: August Home
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Home Uncategorized Qualcomm Brings World’s First 48-Core 10nm Processor
Qualcomm Brings World’s First 48-Core 10nm Processor
The largest maker of semiconductors for mobile phones said it produced a chip for servers is more advanced than the products of Intel Corp. as the company tries to break the stranglehold of its biggest rival in the Lucrative data center market.
Hence, Qualcomm Inc. goes forward in its project to bring to market an alternative to the dominance of the x86 server market: the new Centriq 2400 is a chip that has 48 cores ARMv8 and manufactured using 10-nanometer production process, and the US company confirmed the having already sent the first sample to its trading partners for testing.
Personalized Falkor based-architecture, constitutes the first wave of the second generation in this class for Qualcomm: also it is the first product to adopt a level of miniaturization, the same one that will be adopted also in the next generation of Qualcomm SoC for smartphones ( the future Snapdragon 835 ). Qualcomm, in any case, has no factories for the production of processors for mobile will turn to Samsung but did not clarify who will carry the new Centriq.
“It’s the first 10-nanometer server processor in the world,” said Anand Chandrasekher, a former Intel executive who runs Qualcomm’s server chips division. “We believe that we are not only the first but the only ones.”
So, Qualcomm is taking a hard blow to Intel’s most profitable business as it tries to diversify beyond smartphones. This is its first chip for the data center market. The company claims to have surpassed the advantage that Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has used for more than 30 years to dominate the personal computer and server chip market: more efficient manufacturing.
Typically Intel, which is the main supplier of CPUs for servers with more than 90 percent of the market in his hands, introduces new architecture versions on desktop processors and later also takes them on a server-class processors: in this case, the opposite is occurring.
It is perhaps early to determine that there has been a reversal of priorities in the computing world, but no doubt they are coming unhinged some points that previously characterized this market. But, Intel still remains the clear leader in several sectors, and Qualcomm is just one of the competitors who would like to carve out a place in the sun.
Qualcomm approach aims to simplify certain aspects of focusing CPU server architectures and controllers in a single chip, as well as enticed the big players like Amazon and Google who are always looking for ways to increase efficiency and decrease the complexity of their data centers.
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Teenage Fairytale Dropouts centers on a new generation of fairytale characters whose parents are the super famous icons of fairytale legend. Three very best friends – Jeremiah, the son of the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk, Trafalgar, the nephew of Merlin the Wizard and Fury, the Tooth Fairy’s daughter – are just normal teens with normal teen angst. But, nothing is normal about living in Fairytale Estates where people live in giant shoes and gingerbread houses and drive pumpkins.
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Toni Hassmann
Toni Hassman
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Jumping Rider
He is one of the most representative German international showjumpers. He lives in Muenster, where he work as rider, trainer, coach and manager. Affirmed in the youthful career, winning the individual gold and team bronze medal in 1995 and the gold team medal in 1996 at the Young Riders European Championship riding Zarras, Hassmann represented Germany in many Nations Cup, international Grand Prix and World Cup Finals. Among the horses that have marked his career there are Camirez B, Goldika, Lolita H. Excellent trainer of young horses that bring in its reserved international competition, Hassmann is always present in the main CSI European circuits.
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I Started Wearing Black
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"The kind of melancholia I'm talking about, by contrast, consists not in giving up on desire, but in refusing to yield. It consists, that is to say, in a refusal to adjust to what current conditions call 'reality' – even if the cost of that refusal is that you feel like an outcast in your own time." (Mark Fisher, Ghosts Of My Life, Zero Books 2014, p. 24)
In “Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures”, the author Mark Fisher outlines – to put it in a big way – a resistant melancholy. This stands in contrast to “leftist melancholy resignation”, as well as something which Fisher does not talk about: its common masculine counterpart, habitual post-left cynicism – as in “seen it all before”. Fisher calls this hauntological melancholy. Haunting, spooks, ghosts and apparitions are an almost constant presence on “I Started Wearing Black”, the second album by the Cologne-based artist Sonae (pronounced “so-nah”). The term hauntology shares a fate with retro-futurism when it comes to inflationary overuse and abuse. It's a conceptual container that looks good and can hold a lot, indeed, too much. Furthermore, hauntology has its peak season behind it; a term on the threshold of its expiration date. Nevertheless, I would like to rehabilitate hauntology and use it properly to characterize “I Started Wearing Black”, because the term is rarely as compelling to describe music as is the case here. The most recent other example could be “Asiatisch” by Fatma Al Qadiri, but with a completely different frame of reference. What are the ghosts of this music? It rustles, crackles, ruffles, crunches, rattles, scrapes, sometimes a beat emerges from the constant noise, sometimes an obscure voice mumbles incomprehensibly, sometimes a melancholy piano figure is prevented by this noise from coming too much to the foreground. It definitely is eerie – to bring into play another term used by Fisher in the title of his latest book, “The Weird and the Eerie”. In British pop-jargon, eerie first occurred to me more often when referring to particularly leftfield, spooky and... well... ghostly dub, a bass-heavy, echoing noise, from Augustus Pablo to Creation Rebel to Burial.
Unlike the Wald & Wagner records by Wolfgang Voigt, Sonae is not a kind of neo-romantic veiling with a tendency for escapist nebula. It is more a noise of latency. The noise signals a latent – not necessarily acute – threat, a latent uneasiness about... yes... about what? About a “System Immanent Value Defect”? That's the name of a track on “I Started Wearing Black” where something that sounds like a French Horn (or a foghorn?) battles for attention through or against the background noise.
An email from Sonae: “The piece 'System Immanent Value Defect' should actually be called 'I See Turkey'. I wrote it for my fellow student Elif – she is a pianist and Gezi Park activist from Istanbul. Through her I witnessed the inner conflict and agitation that political circumstances can create: her feelings of guilt when there was an attack, with her safe in Germany as a student, watching the events from afar. It was horrible. When her mother begged her not to come home because she feared for her safety, I felt a cold shiver run down my spine. I started with the piece from this mood, beginning with the piano, then the noise (modulated sinusoidal curves), which reminded me of waves and the then heatedly discussed Mediterranean sea: atmospheric, melancholy motifs. In contrast is the anger, the pressure, represented in corresponding sounds – hopefully audible! - During this time I started to think about world views as they can be found around the globe, in how far they held by societies and their political representation. I realized that I know of no political system that is actually about the people and what would do them good. It's always about positions, power, money. I thought that was a lot more frightening on a global scale than merely viewing Turkey in isolation. That's why the piece is called "System Immanent Value Defect", because our world suffers from precisely that. Everywhere, it's all about the wrong things.”
Between the wrong things there are happy moments. In the title track, after 184 seconds of rattling and hissing, a beat is unleashed, like an arrow released from a spanned bow, a beatific relief, if there is such a thing. “White Trash Rouge Noir” first meanders along spookily, then after 144 seconds it transforms itself into a distant cousin of Einstu¨rzende Neubauten’s “Yu¨ Gung”, but there is no Big Male Ego to be fed here, and the black in the album title is a completely different type of black from that of the Neubauten.
Furthermore, “I Started Wearing Black” was finished long before the black dresses were worn at the Golden Globes as a sign of protest against sexual violence. Sonae writes that she herself started wearing black some time ago. Her reasons are so-called personal ones: “... resulting from an individual situation (lovesickness), I started to wear black (gaining weight and feeling ugly).”
The political dimension of gaining weight, feeling ugly and therefore dressing in black in “I Started Wearing Black” lurks within the noise and never becomes explicit and only rarely manifest – or a manifesto. Sonae writes about the track “We Are Here”: “A piece for minorities... in this case, considering the current pop-feminist discourse, explicitly for women. Female artists have long been saying loud and clear that ‘we are here’ and ‘electronic music is not a boys club!’ But this pop-feminist moment should only be seen as one part of the dedication of the piece. It is for minorities, for the oppressed, who didn't belong enough.”
Klaus Walter
Sonae: I Started Wearing Black
Majority Vote Sonae 4' 20''
Rust Sonae 4' 40''
Dream Sequence (With Gregor Schwellenbach) Sonae 5' 42''
Soul Eater Sonae 5' 52''
I Started Wearing Black Sonae 6' 35''
White Trash Rouge Noir Sonae 4' 29''
System Immanent Value Defect Sonae 6' 09''
We Are Here Sonae 5' 32''
Michaela Meise Ich bin Griechin Martin Hossbach
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Hearts Hearts Goods / Gods Tomlab
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The end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 was a busy time for US regulators and standard-setters as two regulations and one consensus standard made the news. One regulation—long overdue—is final, the second regulation—also long overdue—was proposed, and the consensus standard is in the beginning stages of development.
All three have implications for oilseed processing and edible oil refining.
Final EPA Boiler Mact Rule Released
On December 20, 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released final clean air standards for large industrial boilers and solid waste incinerators. The soonest the MACT (Maximum Achievable Control Technology) rules can take effect is 2016.
EPA said that of the 1.5 million boilers in the United States, less than 1% (about 2,300) will need to meet numerical emission limits under the new rules. Approximately 13% (about 197,000) will need to follow work-practice standards such as conducting annual tune-ups. The remaining 86% are “clean and not covered by these rules,” the agency noted in its overview of the final regulation.
Industry sources report after reviewing the final rules that those processors who burn natural gas in their boilers will be less affected than those who use other types of fuels such as oil or biomass. The greatest effect is expected to be the ongoing reporting burden.
The US Department of Energy, through its regional Clean Energy Application Centers, will provide site-specific technical and cost information to those facilities that are currently burning coal or oil in their boilers. Likewise, the US Department of Agriculture will work with facilities with boilers that burn biomass to provide information about work-practice standards and how to conduct an energy audit, EPA said.
The effort to regulate boiler emissions began in 2004. A federal appeals court struck down EPA’s original standard in 2007. After reissuing the regulation in 2011, industry groups called the emission limits “unachievable.” EPA retooled the standards after consulting with industry.
An EPA analysis found that the emission reductions from the new rule will prevent up to 8,100 premature deaths; 5,100 heart attacks; and 52,000 asthma attacks per year. That analysis also found that industry will have to spend between $1.3 billion and $1.5 billion annually to meet the standards.
W. Randall Rawson, president and CEO of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association (ABMA) in Vienna, Virginia, commented on the new MACT rules in a written statement. He said: “The over 100 small-business, domestic manufacturer, and supplier members of ABMA have been ready and able since December 2011 to assist boiler users in developing innovative and affordable boiler-room-specific solutions to Industrial Boiler MACT challenges with myriad types of clean, efficient, fuel-flexible, affordable, and technologically-advanced products and equipment.”
More information on the new standards.
FSMA roll-out begins
The other recent regulatory news of note, of course, is the long-delayed beginning of the implementation phase of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The Act was signed into law in January 2011; the first two proposed rules were not released by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until January 2013.
The first proposed rule released in January concerns the production and harvesting of produce and, thus, will not affect the vegetable oil processing and refining industries. The second proposed rule, however, will: Titled “Preventive Controls for Human Food,” the proposed rule sets safety requirements for facilities that process, package, or store food for people. (The proposed rule on animal food and feed as well as rules regarding food imports and accreditation of third-party certification has yet to be issued. Those rules are in the pipeline, but as of late January 2013, FDA had not yet announced target release dates.)
At this point, it is too early to tell how the proposed rule may affect oilseed processing and edible oil refining. At press time, industry trade groups were busy analyzing all 680 pages of the proposed rule and preparing comments. (The 120-day comment period closes on May 16, 2013.)
“Our industry should pretty much be in alignment with the guidelines,” said one source, who asked to remain anonymous. “Our customers require us to have HACCP [Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point] programs.” The bigger question, the source said, concerns the audits mandated by FSMA. “We don’t know how deep and wide FDA will go when they come in to audit or what constitutes validation.”
Robert L. Collette, president of the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils, a trade group based in Washington, DC, USA, agrees. He added: “Our members already utilize HACCP programs so I agree with the comment about existing alignment. Of key interest is how FDA proposes to expand the concept of preventive controls for areas such as sanitation that are not typically documented as part of traditional HACCP programs.”
The best advice, all industry sources caution, is to be prepared. Do not wait for final implementation. Processors need to get the proper documentation started now if they haven’t already.
New combustible dust standard in development
The final action of note concerns development of a new combustible dust standard. In brief: The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA; Quincy, Massachusetts, USA) is restructuring its work on combustible dust standards. The group aims to develop a new standard (NFPA 652) that applies to every current dust standard and every industry. This effort has potentially significant implications for oilseed processing.
Enter a group of four associations that have banded together to represent the interests of the agricultural industry with regard to NFPA 652: the National Oilseed Processors Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the Corn Refiners Association, and the International Oil Mill Superintendents Association (IOMSA). On January 4, 2013, the coalition submitted comments to NFPA on a preliminary draft of NFPA 652 (Standard on Combustible Dust), with the assistance of Marc L. Fleischaker, partner and chair emeritus of Arent Fox LLP in Washington, DC, USA.
The intricacies of how NFPA voluntary consensus standards, local fire department codes, and US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations mesh are beyond the scope of this news item. Instead, the focus is on the effort, in NFPA’s words, “to provide the basic principles of and requirements for identifying and managing the fire and explosion hazards of combustible dusts and particulate solids” by developing NFPA 652.
NFPA currently oversees five major dust standards targeting specific types of dust:
NFPA 61, Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities;
NFPA 484, Standard for Combustible Metals;
NFPA 654, Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids;
NFPA 655, Standard for Preventing Sulfur Fires and Explosions; and
NFPA 664, Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Explosions in Wood Processing and Woodworking Facilities.
NFPA’s multiple combustible dust standards were a matter of background discussion when OSHA issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for combustible dusts in October 2009. Users could become confused when seeking the appropriate requirements to follow, OSHA reasoned, and could in some cases obtain either inconsistent or possibly conflicting guidance.
“NFPA created a new committee structure in response to user concerns,” explained Guy R. Colonna, division manager of NFPA’s Industrial & Chemical Engineering group. That new structure provides two things, he said: (1) an oversight body to work with all of the committees and standards to encourage and drive consistency and uniformity, and (2) a committee focused only on defining the fundamental process by which combustible dusts are identified, evaluated, and controlled. “It is understood that for some industries and dust types additional precautions could apply. Those measures will remain with the process-specific or dust type-specific standards,” he noted.
Implications for oilseed processing
IOMSA and the other coalition member associations have all been represented on the NFPA 61 and NFPA 654 committees for many years.
“NFPA 61, in particular, has been written and rewritten with significant grain industry input,” notes Marc Fleischaker in the coalition’s comment letter. This is the root of one major concern of the coalition: Might the complexity added by the proposed new standard end up fostering confusion and actually lead to less safe conditions?
The coalition believes that a generic standard, such as NFPA 652, should not override a standard developed specifically for a particular industry, such as NFPA 61. Further, “there is a specific federal OSHA standard involving grain handling facilities, which contains requirements that are not consistent with the draft NFPA 652 standard,” the comment letter points out.
These inconsistencies, the coalition says, could lead to a facility being deemed to be compliant with the OSHA standard (29 CFR 1910.272) but not with NFPA 652, or the reverse.
The coalition also argues that a phase-in or implementation schedule for hazard assessment be provided for the new standard. “Certainly, NFPA needs to be careful about adopting standards with effective dates that make compliance impossible,” the comment letter suggests.
Further comments cover various inconsistencies in the draft document as well as questions concerning several explosibility and combustibility tests called for in the draft.
The standard development process for NFPA 652 is in its early stages. NFPA received approximately 150 comments on the first draft by the closing date of January 4, 2013, according to Colonna. A report on the first draft is due on September 6, 2013. The second draft comment period will close on November 15, 2013. The final standard is scheduled for completion in the third quarter of 2014. At that point, it will be presented for action at the next NFPA Technical Meeting, with publication expected in 2015.
“We are committed to the coalition’s work to ensure that the final standard is as favorable to oilseed processing as possible,” Doug Kennedy, current IOMSA president, affirmed.
The new OSHA rules on combustible dust are also well off in the future. The official regulatory calendar shows that the agency expects to begin its Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act review in October 2013. That review takes 90 days. Only after that can OSHA publish the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with regulatory text to which public comments can be submitted. Whether—and when—a proposed rule will be published in 2014 remains to be seen.
Sidebar–OSHA and combustible dust
Applicable requirements of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) include:
§1910.22 Housekeeping
§1910.307 Hazardous Locations
§1910.1200 Hazard Communication
§1910.269 Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (coal handling)
§1910.272 Grain Handling Facilities
General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (Employers must keep workplaces free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm.)
Complete OSHA fact sheet on combustible dust and OSHA’s Hazard Communication Guidance for Combustible Dusts are available. The preliminary draft of the proposed new National Fire Protection Association’s standard (NFPA 652) is available.
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Can Different Music Choices Affect Your Driving Habits?
posted by Arnold & Itkin
Research has long supported what we have always known—playing your favorite music in the car improves your mood and overall outlook. In the wide spaces and open skies of many Texas highways, the only thing that keeps us awake on long drives is our music. A 2012 study found that when drivers played music, their moods were more positive and upbeat. But is that a good thing?
An Israeli study from 2013 shed some light on the relationship between your mood, your music, and your driving. They enlisted 85 young drivers to complete six driving challenges alongside an experienced driving instructor, totaling 40 minutes of drive time. On two of these trips, the drivers were allowed to play their favorite music. On two trips, researchers played easy listening music. On the last two trips, no music was played.
All 85 drivers committed at least 3 errors in 1 trip or more. 27 drivers needed only a verbal warning, but 17 needed the instructor to intervene to avoid an accident. Keep in mind, due to the presence of the instructor, the subjects drove safer than they might usually drive. How did their music affect their driving performance?
With drivers’ music choices: 98% made errors
With no music at all: 92% made errors
Here’s what’s strange—there’s a tiny difference between the drives that featured their own playlists and no music at all. You would expect a much larger difference, especially since drivers increased the volume of their own music while driving. But how did the drivers do who had background music and soft rock softly playing?
Only 77% made errors on these trips.
Some researchers believe that our favorite songs inspire driving behaviors that ultimately distract us. These include singing, head rocking, or even miming instrument playing while driving. Yes, air guitar solos are incredibly dangerous if you do them at the wheel--especially when on a demanding drive or road.
It’s All About the Beat
Another study suggests that upbeat music in the car can end up being a hazard. According to the research project, music that you listen to while driving can increase your risk of an accident, depending on the nature of the beat. Researchers took 8 participants and analyzed the changes in their driving habits based on what kind of music was playing from the stereo.
Each driver was instructed to drive for 500 miles. The first 250 miles were without music, but after that, drivers were instructed to listen to a designated playlist. Each playlist featured 1 of 4 musical styles: dance, hip-hop, heavy metal, and classical. A male and female driver each received one of these playlists for their drive.
Those who were driving too fast music or music with an upbeat tempo had a tendency to speed or drive recklessly. This is because scientific research proves that upbeat music can increase levels of adrenaline in the body and accelerate a person's heartbeat. This can cause a person to get distracted while behind the wheel, but it also motivates that driver to increase his or her speed.
Other findings regarding music show that specific genres may affect people seriously. One motorist in the study was told to drive to heavy metal, and increased his speed as a result. Another driver was told to listen to hip-hop, and she tended to brake and accelerate more suddenly than the other drivers.
Is Classical Better for Driving?
However, it’s not the style of music that led to different driving habits. Many proponents of classical music cite its soothing effect on listeners, but the driver listening to the classical playlist drove more erratically than normal. One driver stated the variety of tempos and musical changes gave her a headache.
Specifically in this study, the song Hey Mama by the Black Eyed Peas created dangerous driving habits. The song Come Away With Me by Norah Jones encourages safe driving behaviors. Researchers suggest that drivers listen to music with a low beat and a soothing effect. This will help keep them from feeling irritable or rushed.
What’s the Safest Music to Drive To?
Dr. Simon Moore of London University believes the ideal driving music matches a person’s resting heart rate (between 60-80 beats a minute). At this tempo, a driver’s adrenaline is not affected by the music, and their mood is not altered in a way that affects their driving. He does add that listening to music you don’t like can create as much of a distraction as a person’s favorite music.
So, in summary: choose easy listening that you like, but isn’t necessarily music you love enough to sing. While this may not be good news for people who love rocking out to their favorite songs in the car, it may mean safer roads for all of us if we kept our personal karaoke sessions separate from our commutes.
Talk to a lawyer at Arnold & Itkin today if you were involved in a car accident and the other driver's music choices may have encouraged his or her dangerous behaviors. Whenever you are not at-fault for an accident, you have the right to seek compensation for all damages. Don't hesitate to discuss your situation with a Houston personal injury lawyer at Arnold & Itkin today!
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Native Voices Changing the Story
Saturday, April 28 | 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Tommy Orange, Katherena Vermette, moderated by Carolina De Robertis
These two powerful rising voices are breaking new ground in Native literature. Pam Houston wrote of Tommy Orange, “Remember his name. His book’s going to blow the roof off.” His novel “There There” is a remarkable look at urban Indian experience that Margaret Atwood described as “a gripping deep dive into urban indigenous community in California: an astonishing literary début!” Katherena Vermette is a writer from the Métis nation in Canada whose multifaceted novel “The Break” follows a Native woman and her neighbors after an assault. One of many rave reviews described “a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country—and the strength that helps them survive.” Bonus: The first 100 attendees to this session will receive an excerpt of Orange’s book, set to hit shelves in June.
2018-04-28 11:45:00 2018-04-28 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Native Voices Changing the Story These two powerful rising voices are breaking new ground in Native literature. Pam Houston wrote of Tommy Orange, "Remember his name. His book's going to blow the roof off." His novel "There There" is a remarkable look at urban Indian experience that Margaret Atwood described as "a gripping deep dive into urban indigenous community in California: an astonishing literary début!" Katherena Vermette is a writer from the Métis nation in Canada whose multifaceted novel "The Break" follows a Native woman and her neighbors after an assault. One of many rave reviews described "a stark portrayal of the adversity that plagues First Nations women in this country—and the strength that helps them survive." Bonus: The first 100 attendees to this session will receive an excerpt of Orange's book, set to hit shelves in June. The Brower Center Tommy Orange, Katherena Vermette, moderated by Carolina De Robertis Get Tickets
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The Imperative for Truth: Academy Award-Winning Documentarian Errol Morris in... Are We There Yet? The Best American Road Trips
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Jazz Beyond Jazz
Howard Mandel's Urban Improvisation
#jazzlives weekend update: 12-day count of tweeting fans
September 7, 2009 by Howard Mandel
Buzz about who played live jazz where marked with the hashtage #jazzlives flew throughout cyberspace this weekend — catch it all here. The impromptu campaign produced anecdotal evidence that a young and vigorous audience for America’s modern
vernacular creative music does indeed exist, spreading enthusiastic word via the social network Twitter of sets at Chicago, Tanglewood, Los Angeles (x2), Detroit and Stevens Point (Wisconsin) jazz festivals and gigs in New York, Tokyo, etc,. far and wide.
number of tweets labeled with the #jazzlives hashtag since Thursday, Sept. 3 is
812, which hasn’t touched the number that who attended Woodstock 40 years ago but isn’t bad as far as getting folks to independently raise their hands (or rather, use their thumbs) to shout ‘Yes, I love live jazz’ in 140 characters or less. It’s actually pretty encouraging, representing a hard-core eager
to identify themselves with the idea, and a sign that it might grow legs.
on the #jazzlives idea also developed — the Detroit International Jazz Festival
started its own campaign, raising
about 20 tweets. Some people linked to photos in their tweets, and I suspect video cam clips will turn up depicting the range of people turning out to hear the music. Some people urged the campaign to migrate to Facebook or other ways of expanding it. Technical difficulties preclude using FB in easy conjunction with Twitter, but all possibilities ought to be explored and implemented — it’s a free idea, folks so feel free to take it and run with it.
It’s true that a lot of the tweets were posted by only a handful of Twitterers (Twitters? Tweeters? Twits?). A few — especially early on, were from publicists and radio show hosts who didn’t abide by the rules: No advance promo, no cds, only live and live-on-radio mentions, please. Yet the distribution from across the world is impressive, the number of tweets from attendees at the Chicago and Tanglewood jazz fests, where onstage MCS and musicians themselves urged audiences to do it, is instructive, and the enthusias, as in the sampling below, is clear, occasionally poetic, infectious:
day at Chicago Jazz Festival yesterday! Muhal making history! #jazzlives
Post fest hang is at the Hungry Brain somewhere on the north side of Chicago.
Lucky 7s play to a packed house. Few over 35. #jazzlives
Billy Childs Chamber Ensemble is tearing it up at ACJF [Angel City Jazz Festival]
Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney and Sean Jones now playing at Tanglewood – Faddis just introduced himself as Chuck Mangione. #jazzlives
Pretty sure I’m now a huge Dee Alexander fan #jazzlives
yeah that was pretty cool. I had not seen that before #jazzlives
At Chicago’s Jazz Fest with #S_B, which is pretty much the best way to usher in my 24th year of life. #jazzlives
#jazzlives in Chicago!!! @ the 31st Annual Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park!
There IS a new wave of young Jazz followers!!!
a blast. . . . . .At jazz
fest baby! . . . Great
event, and FREE! . . . Even
being alone, it doesn’t get better than this. . . . wOOt!!
From Chicago jazz fest!!
. . . Perfect
Labor Day relating at the Riverfront Jazz Festival in Stevens Point, WI. . . What a
joyous weekend it’s been exploring jazz with my neighbors. . . McCoy
Tyner, Junko Onishi, Quasimode among others at the Tokyo Jazz Fest . . . Thorny
Brocky brough some exciting sounds to San Francisco’s Red Poppy Art House
tonight . . Jose
James jams, sings, scats, swoops, slams @Detroit Jazz Fest . . . heard
the Jeff Lofton Trio at Annie’s, the Ephraim Owens & Friends at Elephant
Room + Andre Heyward & Russell Gunn #jazzlives in Austin. . .
and the Buttons at Cafe Maude — brilliant young button accordionist plays
old/timey jazz, with Sousaphone #jazzlives
fantastic jazz soak the soul with amazing music . . .
this is magic . . .
Figarova rocking (jazzing?) that piano. . . It’s going to be hard to leave mid-set. . .
Parker, who is alive, at Chicago Jazz Fest going into the songs of Curtis
Mayfield (who is not . . but still). #jazzlives
saw Evgeny Lebedev’s World Trio at Tanglewood — Encore was a smart version of
Message In A Bottle #jazzlives
Terri [sic] Gibbs
was cutting it up at the West Coast Jazz Party last night . . .
Fred Anderson is weaving long melodies and flourishes through
Josh Abrams and Hamid Drake’s persistently flowing groove . . . austere lyricism . . .
Tia Fuller is a super saxophonist & deep composer. She was
great last nite w/ Sean Jones @ Dirty Dog. #jazzlives
It’s Labor, but not exactly hard labor . . .
Esperanza Spalding leading a scat singalong as her closer at
Chicago Jazz Fest reminds me to go #jazzlives
The count continues . . . as long as listeners care to post about who they like and where. Thought has been given to the notion that every year at Labor Day, when so many jazz fests occur, a self-executed census of jazz listeners take place, something like the annual Great Backyard Bird Count. In Chicago, at least, incredulous reactions to the recently released National Endowment for the Arts data on jazz audience demographics led to the NEA conducting focus groups at the fest and the Chicago Jazz Partnership (led by The Boeing Company) surveying the crowd about their “happy images” of the fest experience. What happens with information gleaned from those initiatives is not yet known, but it’s always good to have information. Whatever else comes from #jazzlives, I’ll let you know.
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Scott Townsend says
Twitter is a great tool that helps people speak up and identify themselves. Hashtags are a great system to help people unite.
I’m sorry, but you’re clueless. Here you can find a list of terms tweeted more than jazzlives for a little perspective: http://dropyouraxe.blogspot.com/
HM: Fascinating list — should I believe this campaign, foisted by a clueless blogger on a Twitter-world that’s interested in Adam’s farts, was an abject failure? I wish it had gone more viral, and learned that representatives from the stage (musicians included) urging typically non-Twittering jazz audiences to make the point did increase tweets. But the point is made that there are some fans out there who want to be heard about who they hear. And they represent many more.
Thanks for the response Howard.
This campaign does make the point that there is a fan base that wants to be heard. For me, though, it also confirms that the base is exceedingly small, even smaller than I thought, and probably relatively old–which is the very simple point I think a lot of jazz fans were trying to make since the Teachout piece was published.
I won’t say it’s a failure. If nothing else, it’s a first foray into a medium that’s an increasingly popular way of spreading info, so kudos to the tweeters.
HM: Yes, a first foray into a new medium, an early attempt to get people activated, which resulted in a small core group doing so. Having kept an eye on the Twitterers, I don’t think it can be said that most of them were older than 40 (not sure about this, just from what I gathered and many I talked to or corresponded with directly). The experiment produced some data, unofficial, not statistically relevant, hard to quantify. It didn’t prove anything one way or t’other. Though the idea was nicely promoted by several influential websites, blogs and some newspapers and radio (Sirius Satellite Radio will announce the campaign over the next 12 days; the Ottawa Observer just got the widget up!) it didn’t go viral, suggesting to me that to start a movement takes a larger push than what we had. I’m glad we tried it.
I still don’t credit Teachout’s conclusions that the future for jazz looks bleak. For one thing, the brand new Down Beat lists 170 colleges running jazz programs, a number far greater than we had 35 years ago, and which begs explanation. Secondly, the findings released by the NEA seem to have been partial — more information from the report is evidently forthcoming (I don’t assume it will contradict the data already out, but may re-contextualize it). The process by which the data was gathered seems to have covered a geographical spread over which “jazz events” were not evenly distributed, so if people didn’t have a chance to attend jazz events — no, then they couldn’t have attended any. But more on this issue will follow, when information becomes available. Let’s watch the surveys.
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My books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006). Of course I'm working on something new. . . Read More…
About Jazz Beyond Jazz
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ESP Disks — origins of jazz beyond jazz
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Matthew Shipp, my feature for The Wire, 1998
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Reckoners, Book 1
By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his wills. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners.
A single voice actor doesn’t do the story justice
Another awesome story by Sanderson
Reviewed: 27-07-2018
I am not surprised I have loved this book, I am a true Sanderson supporter - he doesn't miss when it comes to the Cosmere. But this was different. A post-apocalyptic world with the original signature Brandon always leaves in his work. Absolutely fantastic. The reader was obviously carefully selected - matches the main character perfectly, and his performance adds a lot to the experience. Totally recommend this audiobook - I'll be listening to the next book in the series in a minute or two.
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
In a world recovering only slowly from evil, a world where allomancers wield immense power through their ability to unleash the magic bound up in common metals, someone who can burn metals that no-one has burned before can tip the balance....
Doesn't live up to the Final Empire
By Oliver on 09-12-2018
As always, I am delighted by this author and the performance of the reader. Starting the next book right away.
Oathbringer
The Stormlight Archive, Book Three
Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
From the best-selling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artefacts from a past civilisation that can win wars.
By stephanie joanne on 20-11-2017
Totally worth all the waiting
Such a great addition to the story! I'm a bit bummed that the next one won't come out until 2020 or so. But these books are fantastic, so we'll just have to wait. Excellent performances by both readers that totally capture the spirit of the characters and Roshar.
Arcanum Unbounded
The Cosmere Collection
Welcome to New York Times and Sunday Times best seller Brandon Sanderson's first collection of short fiction. These wonderful works, originally published individually, have been collected for the first time and convey the true expanse of the Cosmere.
Good collection
By Matthew on 23-03-2017
Different and super enjoyable
These short novels helped me realise how much I still need to learn about the Cosmere. The performers are absolutely great, and the stories are fantastic as always.
The Pillars of Creation
Sword of Truth, Book 7
By: Terry Goodkind
Narrated by: Jim Bond
Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, Jennsen seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. Richard Rahl and his wife, Kahlan, have been reunited after their long separation, but with winter descending and the paralyzing dread of an army of annihilation occupying their homeland, they must venture deep into a strange and desolate land.
Average story, great narration.
Another great chapter to the story
Not only was the book great, but this performance was the best of the series so far. 100% recommend this version.
Faith of the Fallen
Narrated by: John Kenneth
A Sister of the Dark captures Richard and takes him deep into the Old World, to the very heart of the Order, while his beloved Kahlan remains behind. Free because of Richard's sacrifice for her, but unwilling to abandon the cause of the Midlands, Kahlan violates not only prophecy but her last pledge to Richard and raises an army against the advancing horde of the Imperial Order.
Uneasy feeling of political manipulation.
By Kenneth DN Parker on 03-04-2018
Another great chapter of the story
Not too much to think about... Just read/listen to the whole thing. These books are awesome!
Temple of the Winds
Narrated by: Dick Hill
The dangerous, fanatical Imperial Order, under the leadership of the power-mad Emperor Jagang and his multitude of demonic underlings, unleashes a deadly plague. To find a cure, Richard Cypher and his beloved Kahlan Amnell must seek out the legendary Temple of the Winds, a fortress of evil sealed away for three thousand years. But the path of the Seeker of Truth is never an easy one - even if he can reach the Temple at all, there is no guarantee he'll ever return.
Classic Sword of Truth quality
Another great listen by Goodkind
It is a marvelous story. The performance is good, but could have been improved some what by listening the previous books and attempting to remain a bit more consistent with tones and pronunciation. Still, really good listen, loved it.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
By: George R. R. Martin
Narrated by: Harry Lloyd
A century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros.... A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there were Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience.
By Molly on 21-01-2016
A great read and listen
This is a very enjoyable story. It's to A Song of Fire and Ice what The Hobbit is to The Lord of the Rings. Absolutely, one hundred percent recommended.
Fear the Future
The Fear Saga, Book 3
By: Stephen Moss
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Piloted by a six-year-old girl, the godlike Skalm guards the Districts of TASC. Her family is long dead. Her adopted father is a synthetic copy of an alien, her nanny an artificial mind connected via subspace to every part of the globe, feeding the young girl information, finding prey to satiate her growing thirst. But the young girl is an innocent, a victim, one of millions the war has already claimed.
Worth reading for the conclusion.
By Dale Christopher on 02-10-2016
I absolutely loved this series. Each book is a step deeper into science fiction, but carefully paced for the reader to accept every element and enjoy every character. I thoroughly recommend these books. Performance was sublime all the way along.
Fear the Survivors
The Earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet have striven for and died in an effort to scour the skies of four vast alien satellites, but their success has brought a terrible vengeance down upon us. While alien agents stalk the Earth, a team of exhausted scientists and military outcasts struggle to fight them among a planet on the brink - the brink of plague, the brink of war, and the brink of an invasion larger than they can possibly imagine. But they have allies.
By Nathan on 16-06-2016
Buying the third book ASAP
Just great. I love the story, the writing, and the reader's performance. If you liked the first book of this series you will be delighted by this one. Logical yet surprising and thrilling.
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Gabriel's Rapture
By: Sylvain Reynard
Narrated by: John Morgan
Series: Gabriel's Inferno, Book 2
Gabriel's Inferno
Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well-respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.
Souls Too Tortured for My Taste
By Lulu on 10-03-12
The Florentine, Book 1
Narrated by: John Michael Morgan
Raven Wood spends her days at Florence's Uffizi gallery restoring Renaissance art. But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes her life forever. When she intervenes in the senseless beating of a homeless man, his attackers turn on her, dragging her into an alley. Raven is only semiconscious when their assault is interrupted by a cacophony of growls followed by her attackers' screams.
A romantic vampire love story
By Katherine on 01-31-16
The Man in the Black Suit
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Acacia Santos excels at her job as concierge at the prestigious Hotel Victoire in Paris. When her superior, Marcel, is attacked in a supposed random mugging, she is tasked with serving one of the hotel's most mysterious and attractive guests. Nicholas Cassirer checks into the hotel under an assumed name every three months. Usually, he stays in the penthouse suite with a beautiful female companion but on this occasion, he arrives alone.
Would you read again or listen again?
By Pam on 02-25-18
By: E L James
Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn, Jessica O'Hara-Baker
London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work, and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past.
Good story but way too slow paced......
By Pam Audio-Fanatic on 04-17-19
Gentleman Sinner
By: Jodi Ellen Malpas
Narrated by: Julie Garthan, Jack George
Fall in love with a mysterious and tortured hero in this number-one New York Times best-selling author's steamy, suspenseful romance about an "irresistible" (Booklist) British alpha and the one woman who may be able to save him - as long as he can protect her from his dark past.
Gentleman sinner not soo....😞
By Scott on 02-11-19
By: Penelope Sky
Narrated by: Michael Ferraiuolo, Natalie Eaton
They've taken my father. They'll take me next unless I comply with their demands. Taking down the most powerful man in Italy. Cato Marino. The man is accompanied by his security team everywhere he goes. His fortress in Tuscany is impenetrable. He's the most paranoid man in the country.
SHE’S DONE IT AGAIN.. A 5 ⭐️ NON-STOP LISTEN
My husband is cruel, ruthless, and despicable. I hate him with every fiber of my being. The only reason I haven't killed him or tried to run away is because of the promise I made. I sold myself to save someone I loved...and this is the price I have to pay. I was sitting alone in a bar when the most handsome man walked inside. Striking blue eyes, cheekbones as sharp as glass, and a muscular body fit for a war. He was gorgeous. I couldn't take my eyes off him. When he bought me a drink, I didn't say no. I'd been unfulfilled for so long, and I wanted a real man for the night.
A RIVETING JOURNEY.. AND A CLIFFHANGER ENDING
Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Megan Tusing
Gavin Kingsley burst into my life in a sharp and unexpected twist of fate. You know his type - arrogant, dangerously handsome and impossible to ignore. Something dark within him calls to the shadows inside me. I long for the kind of heart-wrenching passion I've only read about, and his tragic past reads like one of my favorite literary classics. Raw. Visceral. Captivating. Together, we're a perfect mess. The deeper I fall into his world, the more I crave him like a drug - he pushes every boundary I have and challenges everything I thought I wanted.
Not quite satisfying but good
By sonia on 09-19-17
By: Katy Evans
Narrated by: Charlotte Penfield
One night was all it took, and I forgot everything and anything except the sexy fighter in the ring who sets my mind ablaze and my body on fire with wanting. Remington Tate is the strongest, most confusing man I've ever met in my life. He's the star of the dangerous underground fighting circuit, and I'm drawn to him as I've never been drawn to anything in my life. I forget who I am, what I want, with just one look from him. When he's near, I need to remind myself that I am strong - but he is stronger.
INTENSE, RAW, ABSOLUTLELY FANTASTIC!!
By BluBumbleB on 12-30-13
The Everest Brothers
An Alpha Billionaires Series
By: S. L. Scott
Narrated by: Sebastian York, Ava Erickson
The Everest Brothers is a compilation of contemporary romance, royal romance, and romantic suspense best-selling novels. These alphas fall hard and love harder while sweeping the women in their lives off their feet. You will fall head over heels for these billionaire heroes with hearts of gold while cheering for the confident women who steal their hearts.
By Robin Puckett on 06-08-19
The Dirty Duet
By: Laurelin Paige
Narrated by: Elena Wolfe
When I met Donovan Kincaid, I knew he was rich. I didn’t know he was filthy. Truth be told, I was only trying to get his best friend to notice me. I knew poor scholarship girls like me didn't stand a chance against guys like Weston King and Donovan Kincaid, but I was in love with his world, their world, of parties and sex and power. I knew what I wanted - I knew who I wanted - until one night, their world tried to bite me back and Donovan saved me. He saved me, and then Weston finally noticed me, and I finally learned what it was to be in their world.
Omg, this Heroine is infuriating!
By V from Kansas on 05-02-19
The Controversial Princess
Narrated by: Anda Bell Llewelyn
Her father is The King of England. She is The Controversial Princess. Regarded as down to earth by the press and rebellious by The King, Princess Adeline refuses to bow to the royal expectations her title carries. She knows better than anyone that the united front of the royal family is nothing but smoke and mirrors - lies and secrets masked by power and privilege. She wants no part of it, and she will never surrender to The King's demand to marry a man she does not love. But despite Adeline's determination to retain her free will, she remains deeply unfulfilled, feeling caged.
NOT A HEA!
By Mercedes on 05-28-18
Slay: Rivalry
Slay Quartet, Book 1
Edward Fasbender is a devil. He’s my father’s business rival, a powerful, vicious man who takes what he wants and bows to no one. I only took the meeting because I was curious. I thought he was going to offer me a job. But that's not what he's after at all. His proposal is much more intriguing, and I see an opportunity. An opportunity to turn the tables and bring down the devil. I've gotten in trouble playing these games before. I know when the risk is too great, when the stakes are too high. I know how to be cold and strong-willed and destructive.
It was nothing less than expected!
By Patricia Villali Koett on 06-09-19
Luna and the Lie
By: Mariana Zapata
Narrated by: Callie Dalton, Gomez Pugh
Luna Allen has done some things she would rather no one ever know about. She also knows that, if she could go back in time, she wouldn’t change a single thing. With three sisters she loves, a job she (mostly) adores, and a family built up of friends she’s made over the years, Luna figures everything has worked out the way it was supposed to. But when one of those secrets involves the man who signs her paycheck, she can’t find it in her to regret it. Despite the fact that he’s not the friendliest man in the world. Or the most patient.
By JM Saenz on 04-20-19
National best-selling author Sylvain Reynard continues the story of Gabriel and Julia, two lovers bound together by their darkest desires.
But those very desires may destroy them....
Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex.
But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever?
In Gabriel’s Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the listener’s mind, body, and soul, forever.
©2012 Sylvain Reynard (P)2012 Penguin Audio
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I swoon for the Professor!
I couldn't wait for the audio version of Gabriel's Inferno or Gabriel's Rapture (I've read both of these books in print).
This is an amazing adult love story. It's so beautifully written and brings out so many emotions. This is a sexy book with real romance. I'm absolutely in love with the Professor (Gabriel).
If you enjoy flawless writing, romance and good character development then this book is for you!!! However, I would suggest reading Gabriel's Inferno first. (you will not be disappointed)
This series is complete "purr-fection" for the romance reader.
🔹🔹🔹CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹
Newark, New Jersey, United States
JUST BRILLIANT FROM BEGINNING TO END
If you haven't already listened to Gabriel's Inferno start with that one as these books tell of a journey of a love affair that will grab you and carry you away with it, mesmerising you as you go and it will leave you totally speechless.
If you are a true romantic you will love these books as they tell of the difficult and very painful journey that Gabriel and Julia's love has as they are finally found out and the disastrous consequences that transpire as a result. There are no descriptive sex scenes but only slight references to their passion, I would have preferred them a little hotter but this omission did not spoil the story at all.
Prepare to be moved, prepare to sigh and cry and prepare to put your life on hold because, once started, these books cannot be put down until the final word.
Worth the credit? They are like no other book I've read or listened to, they are SO captivating, SO enjoyable and SO well written that to score them as a mere credit doesn't do them justice - but I would have gladly spent many more credits on them and awarded them 10 stars - but beware - if you're not into a totally romantic story then this is not the book for you.
Intellectual Passion for the Woman with a Mind
What did you love best about Gabriel's Rapture?
Rarely has a set of books (both this one and Gabriel’s Inferno) grabbed my gut, my heart, and my brain. Having both been a grad student and an instructor at the university level, let me assure you that everything about this book happens to real people. Intellectuals are incredibly turned on by the life of the mind and it stokes passions that frequently become both physical and emotional between grad student and professor – they are, after all mature adults. And yes, the university does struggle to balance the power by inflicting all kinds of hypocritical regulations regarding fraternization between the two. While I loved my time in the academy, I was not immune to its hypocrisy and power struggles. We see that hypocrisy so clearly in so many scenes with the Dean and the investigations. Gabriel’s Rapture was real to me. I’m starting to wonder if the author uses a pseudonym because he is also a professor in addition to his writing. His language, his knowledge of Dante and the Renaissance arts, his ability to provide the intellectual truths (in this case literature) as he lectures both in and out of the academy is a little too on point for a novelist who hasn't been there and lived it himself. So, maybe it’s the realism and the familiar sadness is what I loved the best. Gabriel’s seething sensuality is not born just of the physical and carnal. Living the life of the mind is indeed sensual for those that take that journey, and his pain of an anguished past is not unique to a fictional character. I saw myself and many I know in his character and in Julia. This book was perfection in every way. Each sentence, each description, each scene – is well thought out and amazingly heart-rending. The author has made us believe these characters and his art is a gift he gives freely to his readers. I am grateful he has decided to write a third book to this series because I'm not ready to let go -- not yet.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Gabriel's Rapture?
Everything is memorable about this book, but what stands out for me, aside from the steamy sensuality between Gabriel and Julia are the scenes following the Dean’s “inquisition,” when we as reader know that Gabriel and Julia will be (for a time) painfully separated. When he whispers to Julia to “read Abelard’s 6th letter” I cried like a baby. Julia’s heartbreak is palpable, and Gabriel’s sacrifice is agonizing.Again, this book is full of metaphors of the sacred. Starting with the name of his mother, look for them. They are there everywhere and made me catch my breath more than a few times.
Have you listened to any of John Morgan’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have not because he tends to narrate non-fiction, but his performance is award-worthy, He caught every nuance, every smile, every gasp, every humorous reference. A deep baritone of a voice that became Gabriel in my imagination, perfectly acted/spoken. He most definitely added to the sensual experience.
This is a book that is not to be missed. Be ready to let wash over you and change you forever.
A Beautiful Continuation of a Wonderful Love Story
If you could sum up Gabriel's Rapture in three words, what would they be?
Touching, Stunning, and Brilliant
What does John Morgan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His voice translated the feelings of the characters.
Yes, it was very hard to stop listening.
Sylvain Reynard wrote a beautiful love story and I am anxiously waiting for the third book!
My Sticky Little Leaf
"By doubting we come to inquiry ,by inquiry we come to truth " -Abelard Looking for a great and beautiful romance? Do yourself a favor and skip the front rack at the bookstore, and go directly to SR’s “Gabriel Inferno” series and prepare to lose your self in this labyrinth of a true love.
What about John Morgan’s performance did you like?
I must say that listening to this story was a very entertaining, SR's writing is poetic and John Morgan captured his poetry with unusual sensitivity. I liked his performance a great deal.I defenitly will listen more of him,
Brilliant sequel!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes I am, every chance I got!
I thought that Gabriel's Inferno was excellent, but the sequel, Gabriel's Rapture is absolutely fantastic!!! Usually the first book in a series is the best, well not is this case. Sylvain Reynard is growing as a writer and this book proves that. To be honest, I didn't know what to expect when I begun reading it. I did have some questions left unanswered from GI, but for me the end was complete and wasn't asking for more. Again, like the first book, you'll find the author's knowledge and taste in literature, art, music and food amazing and exquisite. Reading this book makes you want to book the next flight to Italy, sniff Aramis/Agent Provocateur, taste the food, drink Chianti, listen to the playlist etc. (yes, guilty I've done a few of those things)
The story starts exactly where GI had left of. I don't want to reveal too much, I will only say that Julia will surprise you. The way she endures the agony of separation is remarkable and shows how strong she really is. I was touched by the way that Julianne and Gabriel's relationship blooms and the real soul mates emerge. The author takes us into a journey of redemption, forgiveness, sensuality, unconditional love and pure happiness. This novel was heart wrenching and deeply emotional, but well worth it in the end. At times I felt like my soul was crying along with my eyes, and other times I felt euphoric, my heart swelling with joy. It's such a beautiful story that I could read times and times again.
This is now my all time favorite book. It left a deep imprint on my soul. I can't wait to see what Sylvain Reynard has in store for book Gabriel's Redemption, the last one in the series. Knowing him, it will definitely be astonishing.
Thank you, Sylvain Reynard for writing and sharing such a beautiful masterpiece. And for having Jhon Morgan reading it.
My favourite quote: "Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all?"
BluBumbleB
Professor please come teach me!!!
From start to finish I have thoroughly enjoyed this book! For me, this series has everything I need in a novel..love, a good plot, great characters, sensuality, and a really great narrator. My favorite character is most definitely the Professor!!!!! I love everything about this character, flaws and all! People have compared this to 50 shades of grey, which I read and enjoyed immensely, but something about Gabriel ( the professor) just did it for me. There are numerous similarities between 50 shades and this series, but the biggest difference is there is no BDSM. The sex is not overly graphic but still very very sensual, and the build up to it is likely one of the best aspects of the book. I highly recommend this book along with the first. i will listen again and again! Credit worthy for sure!
BATON ROUGE, LA, United States
Yes, I like the storyline.
Julia, she was innocent and wild at the same time
Which scene was your favorite?
When Julia grabbed her laptop and ran out of the house.
MORENO VALLEY, CA, United States
Powerfully captivating
Where does Gabriel's Rapture rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The two book series ranks at the very top. This should be made into a film....I'm sure it would rival "Gone with the Wind".
The personalization of the human condition, how we relate to one another. Second and even third chances to make wrongs right.
Yes, Gabriel's Inferno..he is beyond awesome! Each character took on their own personality (became three dimensional), because of the way he narrated this book.
There are no words! I couldn't put it down...even lost some sleep over this one.
This is by far and away the best series I have ever read! A must read
I'll be waiting for this authors next book....I will be reading all this authors works.
This series was inspired me to read more on Dante as well. I could relate to many of the scenes in Italy having been there..it sure made me hunger to return! Very romantic!!!!!!
The first and second book is great and worth it. Its one of my favorite.
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Turn the Ship Around!
A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
De : L. David Marquet
Lu par : L. David Marquet
5 out of 5 stars 4,8 (13 notations)
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Int'l Edit.)
De : Simon Sinek
Lu par : Simon Sinek
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their successes over and over? People like Martin Luther King, Jr.; Steve Jobs; and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. Their natural ability to start with why enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.
idées correctes mais arguments 400% foutaises
Écrit par : Louis le 29/04/2019
The Miracle Morning
The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life - Before 8AM
De : Hal Elrod
Lu par : Rob Actis
What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any - or every area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would be solved? What if I told you that there is a "not-so-obvious" secret that is guaranteed to transform any - or literally every area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible?
A oublier
Pitch Anything
An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
De : Oren Klaff
Lu par : Oren Klaff
When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a-kind method to raise more than $400 million - and now, for the first time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation. Whether you’re selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, Pitch Anything will transform the way you position your ideas. According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn’t an art - it’s a simple science.
Écrit par : Céline LZ le 24/04/2015
The DevOps Handbook
How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
De : Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and others
Lu par : Ron Butler
More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater - whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud. And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.
Écrit par : Constantin JEAN le 25/07/2018
New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
De : General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins, and others
Lu par : Paul Michael
When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment and training - but none of the enemy's speed and flexibility. McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom to create a 'team of teams' that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralised decision-making authority.
A Leadership Fable
De : Patrick Lencioni
Lu par : Charles Stransky; introduction by Patrick Lencioni
In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
De : Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
Lu par : Nicole Forsgren
How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for listeners to apply in their own organizations.
A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
De : Mark Manson
Lu par : Roger Wayne
For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Everything is in the title
Écrit par : Gali-Jean D. le 14/12/2018
De : Daniel Kahneman
Lu par : Patrick Egan
The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
Livre fascinant, audiolivre raté
Écrit par : Daly le 29/05/2015
How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
De : Kim Scott
Lu par : Kim Scott
Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism - delivered to produce better results and help employees develop their skills and boundaries of success. Great bosses have strong relationships with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees.
need to read this again !
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
De : Dan Heath, Chip Heath
Lu par : Charles Kahlenberg
In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
A Brief History of Humankind
De : Yuval Noah Harari
Lu par : Derek Perkins
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
Epic knowledge for mere mortals
Écrit par : nreyes le 03/11/2017
"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers."
David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine, he was responsible for more than a hundred sailors, deep in the sea. In this high-stress environment, where there is no margin for error, it was crucial his men did their job and did it well. But the ship was dogged by poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention in the fleet.
Marquet acted like any other captain until, one day, he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why the order wasn’t challenged, the answer was, "Because you told me to." Marquet realized he was leading in a culture of followers, and they were all in danger unless they fundamentally changed the way they did things.
That’s when Marquet took matters into his own hands and pushed for leadership at every level. Turn the Ship Around! is the true story of how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the U.S. Navy's traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control.
Before long, each member of Marquet’s crew became a leader and assumed responsibility for everything he did, from clerical tasks to crucial combat decisions. The crew became fully engaged, contributing their full intellectual capacity every day, and the Santa Fe started winning awards and promoting a highly disproportionate number of officers to submarine command.
No matter your business or position, you can apply Marquet’s radical guidelines to turn your own ship around. The payoff: a workplace where everyone around you is taking responsibility for their actions, where people are healthier and happier, where everyone is a leader.
©2013 L David Marquet (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC
"I don't know of a finer model of this kind of empowering leadership than Captain Marquet. And in the pages that follow you will find a model for your pathway." (Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
"David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation. He doesn't just know how to lead, he knows how to build leaders. His ideas and lessons are invaluable to anyone who wants to build an organization that will outlive them." (Simon Sinek, optimist and author of Start With Why)
5 out of 5 stars 4,8 sur 5
Commentaires Audible.de
Damien Thouvenin
Passionnant !
Ce livre est passionnant, à plusieurs égards :
- c'est un livre sur le management, pour les managers, écrit par un militaire qui a renversé tous les préjugés sur le modèle militaire de direction
- il est raconté à la manière d'un journal de bord du commandant de sous-marin en mission ce qui ajoute une dimension dramatique sympa
- il est lu par son auteur qui sait rendre vivantes les situations qu'il raconte
- et surtout les idées qu'il apporte sont révolutionnaires, et pas mal applicables dans l'entreprise (en particulier le fameux "I intend to" que j'utilise très souvent maintenant)
Can't wait to put this to work-track needs editing
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Not only educational, but entertaining. I definitely think this was time well spent.
The audio track needs to be re-edited. The cuts often resulted in repeated words or phrases, indicating that an editor needs to take a listen and re-splice the track.
33 sur 33 personne(s) ont trouvé cet avis utile.
Buddha Weatherby
Phenomenally Enlightened Leadership
I served 4 years each with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army and this just became one of my favorite books on leadership . (I have read hundreds.)
This book demonstrates the potential of unleashing and supporting dedicated, but otherwise normal people to achieve their missions, without unnecessary friction to impede them. I have previously only known of this style of leadership through emancipation in small elite teams and task forces.
It is fascinating to learn how well it worked on the scale of an entire submarine crew. Captain Marquet's turn-around story for his crew is quite exemplary.
I also recommend The Mission, The Men, and Me; as well as, Team of Teams. They cover much of the same ground from very different angles.
Bryon E Brandt
Becoming a Leader That Others Want To Follow
When I read this book it felt like it was my psychic biography. I wasn't a nuclear submarine captain, but I did train Iraqi soldiers in Iraq with similar results from similar techniques and thought processes about what people are capable of with the right leadership.
If you want to achieve more, because your people achieve more, this is the book for you.
But it does seem like a bit of a conundrum, that if you apply what David teaches, that you likely become a leader that others want to follow, even though this isn't the intent of his Leader-Leader, leaders-at-every level model.
Though, if you continue grow and develop the people under and around you, this will only be a temporary plateau as they continue to grow into their full fullness and potential as leaders in their own right.
This book means so much to me, and is such a nice alternative to the all too common and sub-optimizing command and control, that I share it with almost everyone I know.
Great book but fire the audio technician
I highly recommend this book to managers (especially those in the Department of Defense); however, having paragraphs repeated sometimes was annoying. The audio production could definitely be improved. The author made up for any shortcomings he had as a reader by being totally engaged with the text.
J te A
Business Change in a Navy Setting
Great business story about a real fundamental cultural change aboard a submarine. The story takes the reader through the change - for which nobody, least the commander, is prepared. A dilemma? Of course, so that is why the book stays so interesting to the end. True story. Scary though that the original Navy-culture was so .... 1950's-like (to me). Good narration, fu read. Awesome if you are into organizational change and any liking with submarines or ships in general.
Gerardo A Dada
The Best Leadership Book I've Read
There are many leadership books that have lots of great quotations, thoughts and intellectually rich thoughts with a few examples.
This book is different. It is told as a story. A real world-story that illustrates the challenges, the tension between the old and the new ways of doing things, the risks, the necessary managing up , and the results of 'leader-leader' leadership style.
It is a fun book to read, full of practical knowledge. Almost like a real-world fable.
If you manage teams or if you aspire to be a great leader, this is the book you should get first. It has the power of changing an entire organization.
Woven into the engaging story are pearls of leadership wisdom. The listener does not have to recall isolated ideas but is shown how to accomplish the demonstrated leadership objectives. Delivery by the narrator is perfect.
Great book with some technical issues
If you could sum up Turn the Ship Around! in three words, what would they be?
I am considering making this required reading for everyone in my organization. This book along with a handful of others have served as a "rudder" for our management style. Getting the whole team to invest in the Leader, leader model is the real challenge. I believe, as Marquet suggests, that if we accomplish this in our firm, the sky is the limit.
David B. Waples
Management theory put to work in a real world situation
What made this book special to me is that it was read by the author who has great passion for the leadership methods implemented on USS Santa Fe. I highly recommend this book.
C. Thompson
Nice reminder!
As a former boat sailor it was refreshing to listen to this Captain and his leadership. I recalled a lot from his stories and language from days about my boats.
Uwe Michael Schirmer
Sehr interessant und lehrreich
Welchen drei Worte würden für Sie Turn the Ship Around! treffend charakterisieren?
Agile Management Lektionen.
Hätten Sie das Hörbuch am liebsten in einem Rutsch durchgehört?
Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?
Das Buch ist für alle interessant, die sich mit Führung und Führungskultur beschäftigen. Es bietet neue Blickwinkel auf das Thema.
One of the best books about modern leadership!
This book is probably one of the best books about leadership, organizational development and so-called empowerment I've ever read / listened to.
David Maquet tells his true story about changing a nuclear submarine into one of the most empowered systems in this world.
Marquet provides the reader with very powerful questions after each chapter. This book is not just for reading, it will change your life.
This book is a must read for everyone who calls themselves leaders, bosses, CEO or any leading position. I would put this book at the same rank as Laloux's Reinventing Organizations.
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Franchisees to Fuel Mining Town Strategy
Retail Food Group is looking for franchisees prepared to relocate to mining towns in Queensland and WA, with earmarked stores in at least nine locations, as it seeks to carve a slice of the boom.
RFG owns and operates multiple food franchises, including Donut King, Brumby’s Bakeries, Michel’s Patisserie, Esquires Coffee Houses, Big Dad’s Pies and Pizza Capers.
As part of its “mining town” strategy, RFG is now focused on identifying potential franchisees for earmarked stores, situated in major mining towns in Queensland and WA.
Queensland locations include Moranbah, Emerald and Mackay, while in WA locations include Kalgoorlie, South Hedland, Karratha, Newman, Carnarvon and Geraldton.
With regard to franchisees, RFG says it is looking for enthusiastic and motivated entrepreneurs who already live in these areas or are looking to relocate.
According to RFG, no previous business experience is required because all the necessary training is provided.
Faith Manning, RFG national sales and leasing coordination manager, told StartupSmart the company is confident it can attract franchisees to operate businesses in these towns.
“RFG is committed to assisting franchisees into our businesses, and is able to enter into discussions with suitable candidates in that regard,” Manning says.
Manning says the primary staff in an RFG-owned franchise is usually the franchisee, with support from casual staff, so finding workers shouldn’t be a problem.
Many small businesses that operate in mining towns struggle to survive due to their inability to match the huge wages offered by mining companies. But Manning isn’t concerned.
“From our experience, franchisees in these areas generally have success sourcing staff by looking at groups such as students, and spouses of those employed by the mining companies,” she says.
“As the majority of staff employed are on a casual basis, they are targeting a different pool of workers than those seeking work with mining companies.”
According to Manning, RFG will not be considering fly-in, fly-out arrangements, whereby workers operate on a roster, doing “shifts” in town but living elsewhere.
“Fly-in and fly-out is not appropriate at this stage as we are looking for those who are committed to owning and working in a small business in these areas,” she says.
“Currently, there is an untapped resource of people in these mining towns as the population expands and opportunities become available.”
“Due to the demand for retail options in these areas, enthusiastic candidates may consider relocating for a change of lifestyle and to take control of their business future.”
Manning says job security is also top of mind for a lot of people at the moment, which could serve as another incentive to become a franchisee in a mining town.
“RFG receives leads regularly from candidates within metro areas that are looking to capitalise on the mining boom and potentially relocate,” she says.
“Not everyone is suitable though, and we have a strict recruitment and approval process. We consider applicants’ suitability on their merits and life experiences.”
If you are interested in our franchising opportunities please visit our franchise pages on Australian Franchises.
bb's cafe
Big Dad's Pies
Brumby's GO!
Donut King
Michel's Patisserie
Author: Michelle Hammond
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Zipcar Starts Service at Three New York Airports
March 22, 2013 • by Staff
Zipcar started services at three New York area airports including Newark Liberty, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy (JFK) airports with 13 vehicles, according to a company announcement on March 20.
Zipcar is currently offering four vehicles at Newark Liberty Airport, four vehicles at LaGuardia Airport and five vehicles at JFK.
The cars are located in Zipcar-branded parking spaces at the Avis Car Rental pick-up facility at each airport.
Rates start at $12 per hour and $89 per day to rent a Honda Civic or Nissan Sentra model. Gas, insurance and 180 miles per day are included in the price.
The vehicles contain E-ZPass readers, and members will be billed separately for the toll charges.
“The availability of Zipcars at airports will provide increased options for members who may not need a full day rental car, or for those who need to travel somewhere not easily accessible by public transit,” said Zipcar President Mark Norman. “We believe this is the first in many new offerings that will enhance the value of Zipcar membership that we can provide thanks to the support of the Avis Budget Group.”
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By Sukanya Ray Ghosh · May 9, 2019 • 424 Vues
Tire News, Tires-Management, Tires-News
Bridgestone Continues Advancement of a Sustainable Global Tire and Rubber Supply Chain
Christine Karbowiak, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer of Bridgestone Corporation, asserts that real improvements in sustainability come when the company is able to work with collaborative partners across the supply chain. (Photo: Bridgestone)
Bridgestone Group recently announced that it has been making steady progress in implementing its Global Sustainable Procurement Policy.
With this policy, the company intends to create thriving and sustainable supply chains. The policy is aligned with the company’s aim to use “100 percent sustainable materials” by 2050 and beyond.
Bridgestone has entered into a partnership with EcoVadis, an organization known for providing sustainability, risk and performance ratings for global supply chains. Through this partnership, the company is able to constantly assess its suppliers’ current sustainability and figure out any additional support needed to improve performance. Monitoring and rating the environmental, social and ethical performance of its suppliers, Bridgestone seeks to identify and evaluate qualified suppliers and enable best practices. The constant assessment additionally helps in serving as a communication and improvement tool for the industry overall.
“We stand behind our commitment to sustainable procurement practices and have reinforced our efforts over the past year to understand how our suppliers are performing against our expectations for ethical, environmental, social and quality standards,” explained Christine Karbowiak, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Executive Vice President, Bridgestone Americas, and Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Bridgestone Corporation. “Real improvements in sustainability come when we work with collaborative partners across the supply chain. In addition to our work with EcoVadis, another great example is our participation as a founding member of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) – an independent platform that will lead improvements in the socio-economic and environmental performance of the natural rubber value chain”
Ever since the policy was adopted in February 2018, Bridgestone has amped up its efforts across the globe. The policy has been acknowledged by 98 percent (~1,600) of the company’s Tier 1 tire material suppliers as of March 2019. Majority of them are already in the process of finishing third-party assessments with EcoVadis. To keep up with its commitment, Bridgestone has trained several procurement, legal, technical and customer-facing personnel, among others across the company.
“Bridgestone is a great example of an organization that is leading in sustainability by increasing their focus on responsible procurement practices,” said Pierre-Francois Thaler, Co-CEO of EcoVadis. “Proactive collaboration with suppliers is the best way to improve performance across all corporate social responsibility indicators and drive positive change in the communities from which they source. This partnership will help Bridgestone build on their existing efforts and make a real, lasting impact.”
Implementing its Global Sustainable Procurement Policy is proof of Bridgestone’s commitment to fostering a thriving and sustainable supply chain, including natural rubber.
Aligned with the Group’s corporate social responsibility commitment “Our Way to Serve”, the policy sets down expectations for business partners and suppliers to operate with Respect of Human Rights, Environmental Standards and Product Quality. It also includes additional requirements for Land Conservation and Rights, Point of Origin Traceability and Resilience under its umbrella.
Bridgestone intends to focus on reviewing assessment findings, addressing immediate concerns and coming up with the go-forward strategy towards industry best practices for supply chain sustainability and transparency, this year.
Forward Thinker
Sailun Tire: Checking All the Boxes
Tagged: Bridgestone, Global Sustainable Procurement Policy, jack kazmierski, Sukanya Ray Ghosh, tirenews
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News + Politics
FIFA Claims “Zero Tolerance” On Discrimination; Citizens of World Cup Host Countries Might Disagree
By Helen
12:29pm PDT
Feature image via Funcheap
On Thursday, June 19th, FIFA announced that it was opening a case against Mexico to investigate the “improper conduct of spectators” a week earlier on June 13th, and on June 17th. The disciplinary proceedings began after allegations that Mexican spectators had used homophobic slurs during Mexico’s World Cup match against Cameroon and then later during the second match against Brazil. The organization also sought to punish Brazil for its fans’ use of homophobic slurs in retaliation against Mexican fans. However, only five days after FIFA announced the investigation, the organization has decided to drop all charges.
FIFA’s disciplinary panel explained that the chant issued by Mexican spectators “is not considered insulting in this specific context” and thus the investigation can be dropped. Indeed, there is a lot of disagreement about linguistic and cultural connotations of the word “puto,” which some Mexican soccer fans yell when an opposing team’s goalkeeper takes a kick. Hector Gonzalez Inarritu, chief operating officer of the Mexican national team, defended the chant as a cultural tradition, clarifying, “It is not aggression — it is something that we’ve had for a long time in the Mexican League and in international matches.” Others, like Piara Powar, a member of FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) and the Committee Against Racism, condemned the homophobic gesture claiming that “FIFA has strong regulations in this regard. Zero tolerance is what is required here.”
via Capolista
When FIFA initially committed to taking action against Mexico and Brazil, officials asserted in a statement that “FIFA takes a firm, zero-tolerance stand against any form of discrimination or racism.” Furthermore, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and FIFA President Sepp Blatter publicly announced their intentions to use the World Cup as a “platform to fight racism and discrimination.” Contrary to what President Rousseff and Blatter may daydream about, the World Cup has been a site of discrimination for a while.
On a smaller scale, there have been a series of neo-Nazi gestures at World Cup matches. Although Mexico and Brazil have taken a lot of heat for homophobic chants, FIFA officials spoke out against Russian and Croatian fans who displayed neo-Nazi banners during their matches against South Korea and Brazil, respectively. Also, at the Ghana-Germany game on June 21st, a Nazi sympathizer rushed the field, removing his shirt to reveal a Nazi message scrawled in black against his chest. Other spectators donned blackface for the game. Article 3 of FIFA’s Statutes implies that legal action will be taken against discriminatory groups or individuals. The article defines forms of discrimination as:
“on account of race, skin color, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason.”
Nevertheless, FIFA has not made clear what actions — if any — it will take against Russia and Croatia.
The neo-Nazi infiltrator takes off his shirt to reveal the message on his chest at the Ghana-Germany game
via News Observer
While FIFA cannot be blamed for individual groups that bring their hatred across borders, the World Cup in and of itself is a symbol of discrimination. Brazilian protestors have brought attention to the government corruption, police brutality that has resulted in the loss of civilian lives, and the gentrification that has led to the displacement of poor and Black Brazilians, all in the name of promoting the World Cup. Brazil is not an isolated example of the discrimination and societal violences that take place to make the World Cup possible; because of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, legislation like the “KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of the Re-emergence of Slums Act” arose as a measure to “clean up” the KwaZulu-Natal province in time for the soccer tournament, but actually surfaced as a tactic that further marginalized imojondolo, or “shackdweller” communities and invoked apartheid policies.
National governments enter into an agreement with FIFA to make accommodations for the capitalist spectacle of the World Cup by any means necessary. FIFA endorses a false “zero tolerance” for discrimination, though the money that funds the organization is often tied to the marginalization of already-oppressed groups. Furthermore, its show of international, friendly competition is a masquerade that hides the prevalent power dynamics that govern how citizens of various nations relate to each other on a global level. Especially with respect to non-Western host countries, the World Cup turns these nations into tourist traps and business ventures where the only way the Western world is encouraged to relate to these countries is through a process of exotification and commodification.
via Copa 2014
The World Cup fans who have chosen to support their nations through homophobic and/or racist chants need to do better, and FIFA should be encouraged to continue its public condemnations of the oppressive behaviors demonstrated by the spectators. However, FIFA’s commitment to anti-discrimination work is a shallow pledge that only exists insomuch as FIFA can act as the judge to outside groups and individuals that threaten the image of the tournament. Where are FIFA’s anti-discrimination statutes when the governments who host the World Cup oppress the poor, and the Black and Brown people? FIFA’s so-called platform to fight discrimination and racism is rather short and shaky.
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Helen McDonald is a 20-something Black lesbian feminist living off of pizza, social justice and a lil snark. By day, she's a community educator, teaching young people about healthy relationships. She also discusses the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality on her personal blog sapphosistah.tumblr.com and is a contributing writer at ElixHer.com
Helen has written 40 articles for us.
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As a fan of Futbol and of Mexico, our chant is not towards anyone but the goalie. It has always been a tradition as long as I remember
Karina Lucas
The amount of bullsh*t that comes out of FIFA and Dilma’s mouth is unbelievable. I’m Brazilian and the Brazilian crowd has been the most homophobic and stupid of the World Cup, specially at the Spain matches. Everytime Diego Costa touched the ball the whole stadium start chanting “Diego faggot” (backstory: he’s Brazilian and after he said he was going to become a Spanish citizen so he could be at the World Cup the brazilian coach said that he had a “chance” to be at the Brazilian Team. He chose Spain anyway and some fans aren’t very supportive of his decision). Besides, in every soccer match in the country (State or national championship) there’s a player being called a faggot. So the “zero tolerance” is only for the foreign press to believe that they really care about this stuff. Well, they don’t. They only care about the money in their pockets. And don’t get me started on the corruption and the amount of money used to build the stadiums, specially because some of them will never be used again.
Does my comment show that I’m a little mad at my country?
Azimutal Mind
As a fellow brazilian all I can guess is that FIFA realized that if they were to continue with the charges against the slur-chanting supporters they’d have to host crowdless matches. I don’t say that to belittle the crimes these people commit, as I’m one of many that suffer with it daily, but to highlight the fact that homophobia is so pathetically normalized within our sport world (and world-world) that, right now, it is completely, utterly, wholeheartedly impossible to avoid it during the WC matches. You probably get the picture of the problem, tho most outsiders will never truly grasp the actual situation – how much homophobia has been absorbed and is now claimed as part of “our culture”. Seriously, the average brazilian has been force-fed so much homophobic content it’s gotten to a point where our society is totaly insensible to it. They took “gayness” out of our hands and turned it into joke material, the lowest and most overused national curse. FIFA trying to sell the idea they’d be able to track down and punish prejudiced behavior is, in fact, nothing but trying to sell the idea they’d be able to cover the sun with a finger. Unrelatedly, is nice seeing another brazilian here (:
I was watching the USA-Ghana game in a bar here in Boston, and some girls at the next table starting saying racist shit about the Ghanaian players and fans. They said a really gung-ho fan who’d painted his face white was “praying to the tribal gods” (newsflash: most Ghanaians are Christians or Muslims…) and started chanting in a mock accent when they showed a Ghanaian player upset over the USA’s second goal. It realllllly put a damper on the excitement for me.
Racist and homophobic asshole fans, you aren’t doing ANYONE any favors. Even other people rooting for the same side.
I wonder if the mess that is the current World Cup will help FIFA reconsider holding it in Qatar in 2022.
I can’t say I’m holding my breath…
Xenia V.
No of course they won’t, they got too much bribe from Qatar to want to give it back.
I remember a friend’s parents told me(kind of pridefully) that in his native Poland they would make monkey noises any time a darker skinned player had the ball. I later took a look on Wikipedia to discover most eastern European countries have some history of racism when it comes to football/soccer matches. It’s a shame really.
I’m a fan of futbol, but it’s culture has always irritated me, the fans always being so violent & cruel (throwing bananas at PoC men for example). And it’s not just homophobic things coming out from latin fans. The sports anchors on Univision tend to call some of the athletes, El Negrito/moreno/negro (the black person) and I sink in my seat in embarrassment when I see other latins defending it saying “we say it out of love” BS because other athletes get nicknames like sniper, or they have their names/numbers said, take the time to learn your athletes name & not just their dark skin complexion. And it’s not just white/latin people with the anti-blackness, fans from all over the world are wearing cornrow/dreads/afro wigs with their countries flag colours on it, so embarrassing.
Futbol has been fraught with homophobia, sexism, and racism for as long as I can remember. But, then again, so is society in general. I remember when I was very young I always got called a lesbian or worse words just because I liked futbol — watching it, playing it, wearing jerseys, video games, etc. “Be careful, this one will grow up to be a big lesbian” is something I got used to hearing over time. Guess they were right! For some reason beyond my comprehension futbol is equated with masculinity, and those of us who are female bodied and happen to love the sport get our sexuality relentlessly called into question.
The whole culture surrounding futbol is messed up because of so many resasons… But FIFA and the larger society does nothing about it *shakes my head*.
The issues at the world cup just represent a larger societal problem that we are nowhere close to addressing thoroughly and effectively. Lets just hope that there are some significant changes by the next two world cups (Russia and Qatar). But I won’t hold my breath on that.
~Ends rant.
I know when countries host events like the world cup and the olympics there are so many leftover unused stadiums. It would be nice to see them utilized in some way to serve the citizens of the country once the event is over. This is just an idea I had and I think it could work. The seating area could be turned into terraced garden beds and the main field area can be used for large plants. That way the country can grow their own food in plots, like a community garden. It would make it useful and productive and not just an eye sore reminding them how much money they lost hosting the event and how much political corruption it took to have that eye sore.
I have to say, that guy in Ghana-Germany game isn’t a neo nazi. He is Leszek Ludomir a sport fan. That message in his chest is his email (hh”44″cc@gmail.com)you can check on facebook. If he was a neo nazi do you think a ghana player could touch him ?? no way .
Thanks for writing about this. Worst of all is the fact that Russia will be hosting the next world cup despite the legal and societal oppression of LGBT identified people. And Qatar has an even worse human right record – women are afforded very little rights. I find any comments that FIFA makes on ending discrimination laughable in the face of them awarding (what is a super important sporting event) to countries that have such discriminatory laws and practices in place. And to then defend it by saying FIFA isn’t a political organization. Bull shit. South Africa was banned from participating in international sports due to apartheid for damn good reason.
Countries that don’t afford all their citizens equal rights have no business hosting the 2nd biggest sporting event in the world.
Thanks for this article. I’m not understanding why an act isn’t insulting or homophobic because it’s tradition and only targeted at one person.
It’s only insulting if there’s an interest behind it. Like that Dani Alves issue with the banana. His reaction was planned by a marketing agency and some people made money selling t-shirts with the hashtag they created here in Brazil. But while the players and fans were holding anti-racism signs at the stadiums, some players were being called faggots. If someday they profit from something related to homophobia they’ll start “fighting” it.
as a gay latina, i didn’t understand at all why the use of that particular word was offensive at all. i have never heard “puto/a” used as a homophobic slur. hell i’ve even used the word from time to time. i understand why FIFA didn’t take action. it’s not super nice but neither are most soccer/futbol chants.
I just don’t see it as a big issue because it’s part of our chant. So screw those people who are offended
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Sandwiched between the two giants of South Asia, there lies a tiny magical Kingdom tucked away in the eastern Himalayan mountains. Explore and find out what brings smiles to the faces of the people of Bhutan, the only carbon negative country in the world. A country known for founding Gross National Happiness (GNH), a development philosophy that measures well-being not only of its citizens but of all its inhabitants.
On this 8 Days 7 Nights adventure through the hearts of four western districts of Bhutan, you will witness celebration of traditional living-culture, nomadic lifestyles of Bhutanese people living in high altitudes, traditional sports, sacred mask dances and get to taste a unique local cuisine. Explore rural villages and magnificent fortresses and climb to the most recognized iconic landmark in Bhutan, the Taktsang monastery perched on a sheer 800 meters rock cliff. Delve yourself into the soaring Himalayan peaks and rich ancient Buddhist culture and discover happiness.
Witness a lively festival and get insights about Bhutan’s nomadic yak herders and taste their exotic foods.
Visit some of the oldest temples in Bhutan complemented by exhilarating hike to 8th century sacred site where Bhutan’s iconic landmark, 17th century Paro Taktsang or Tiger’s Nest is located.
Explore the hearts of four western districts including the capital city and delve into rich Buddhist culture and find inner peace.
Discover what brings smiles to the faces of the people living in this bastion of the Buddhist Kingdom.
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Paro International Airport, Bhutan
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Only low season tariff applies as this tour runs annually in July.
US$1720– for single person traveller
US$1650per person – for a couple or group of 2 people
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Sustainable Development Fee (SDF) of US$65 per person per night to the Royal Government of Bhutan
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Surcharge of US$30 per night per person for a couple/two person travellers
All meals - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
7 Nights Hotel Accommodation on a twin sharing basis (double occupancy)
Dedicated land transport with driver for the entire duration of your trip within Bhutan
English speaking Licensed Tour Guide. Guides speaking other languages can be arranged at additional fee.
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Itinerary - 8 Days 7 Nights
All tour services we provide are independent with flexible itineraries which can be customized to suit your interest and requirement.
Day 1Arrive Paro International Airport - Sightseeing in Paro
Paro Altitude
2,195 meters (7,200 ft)
You will arrive at Paro International Airport, usually in the morning, by either Drukair or Bhutan Airlines. On the way, if the weather is clear enough you will see Great Himalayan mountain ranges. As you enter Bhutanese airspace and soon approach Paro valley, you would already notice the green mountainous landscapes and Paro river snaking down the valley.
After arrival, your visa will be stamped on your passport at the immigration counter. You will be received by our guide and driver at the exit gate. If your arrival time is way earlier than the hotel check-in time, we will visit one or two places of interest within Paro town. Otherwise, you’ll be heading straight to the hotel. Your guide and driver will assist you to check into the hotel so that you can relax for a while and then have lunch, your first taste of Bhutanese cuisine.
Visit National Museum of Bhutan (Ta Dzong)
The National Museum of Bhutan is located in Paro just above the Rinpung Dzong (administrative headquarter of Paro district). It is housed in an ancient watch tower called Paro Ta Dzong (Ta Dzong means “watch tower fortress”) built in 1649. It displays hundreds of ancient Bhutanese artifacts and artworks including traditional costumes, armour, weaponry and handcrafted implements for daily life. The collection at the National Museum preserves a snap-shot of the rich cultural traditions of the country. This unique ancient watch tower was converted into the National Museum in 1968.
Visit Paro Rinpung Dzong (Fortress of the Heap of Jewels)
Paro Rinpung Dzong (Rinpung Dzong means “fortress of the heap of jewels”) was built by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in 1646 and established as the administrative and monastic centre of the western region. Today, the Dzong serves as the office of the governor of Paro district and head of the district monk body in Paro.
A great annual festival known as Paro Tsechu is held in Rinpung Dzong from the eleventh to the fifteenth day of the second month of the traditional Bhutanese lunar calendar (usually in March or April of the Gregorian calendar). On this occasion, holy images are taken in a procession followed by a series of traditional mask dances conveying religious stories which are performed by monks for five days.
After visiting the Dzong, take a short walk to the traditional wooden cantilever bridge called Nemeyzampa, where your driver will be waiting for you. The roofed wooden cantilever bridge is built in a traditional style and this type bridges are called Bazam.
Note: The coverage of excursion on your first day will depend on your flight arrival time. If you arrive in the morning, you should be able to visit all of the sites listed above.
(Lunch, Dinner)
Overnight at the hotel in Paro.
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Day 2Paro / Haa Valley
Road Distance Via Chelela
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Normally 2 hours
Haa Altitude
After breakfast drive to the valley of Haa, home to the two most sacred temples in the valley – Lhakhang Karpo (white temple) and Lhakhang Nagpo (black temple). En route, hike to the Kila Gonpa Nunnery built on a steep cliff face and is home to dozens of Buddhist nuns and see the spectacular views of Paro valley and surrounding Himalayan mountains. Hike little farther up and then come to Chelela Pass, the highest motorable road in Bhutan at 3,800 meters (12,500 ft).
Hike to Kila Gonpa Nunnery
Enroute to Haa, we will hike to the Kila Gonpa Nunnery built on the face of a steep cliff. The nunnery is home to dozens of Buddhist nuns. On a clear day, you can enjoy panoramic views of the surrounding Himalayan mountains. From there hike little farther up and follow the ridge to reach Chelela Pass, along the way get spectacular views of both Paro and Haa valley.
Chelela Pass at 12,500ft above sea level
Chelela is the highest motorable mountain pass at an altitude of 3,800 meters above sea level. It is about one and a half hour drive from the main town of Paro. We will spend sometime hoisting prayer flags which you can buy from one of the shops in Paro town, enjoy the spectacular views of the surrounding mountains. The air is thin and fresh at this altitude. On a clear day, you can view beautiful surrounding mountains like Mt. Jomolhari.
After spending sometime exploring the pass, continue driving to Haa. As you descend on the winding roads through the forests of blue pine, oak and fir trees you will see the grand view of Haa valley. Upon arrival in Haa, head towards Lhakhang Karpo (white temple) and Lhakhang Nagpo (black temple).
Visit Lhakhang Karpo
Lhakhang Karpo (White Temple) was built in the 7th century by Tibetan king Songtsen Gempo in his mission to build 108 monasteries in order to propagate Buddhism. He built Lhakhang Karpo and Lhakhang Nagpo in the Haa Valley. According to a legend, a black and white pigeon were released to select sites to build the temples.
These two temples stand as the guardian sentinels keeping watch at the south entrance of the valley. The white pigeon landed on the foothills of the three mountains called Rig Sum Gonpo and is where the Lhakhang stands today.
The temple was named Karpo (white) as it was built on the site where the white pigeon landed.
Visit Lhakhang Nagpo
Located in Dumchoe village, the monastery was established in the 7th century by King Songtsen Gampo in his mission to build 108 monasteries in one day. It is situated towards the north of Lhakhang Karpo. Legend has it that King Songtsen Gampo released a black and a white pigeon to select sites to build the temples. The black pigeon landed a little north of the white pigeon, indicating the preordained site of the present Lhakhang Nagpo. The temple was named Nagpo (black) as it was built on the site where the black pigeon landed. Built on a lake; an opening in the floor of the temple serves as the channel to the underground lake. Lhakhang Nagpo serves as the seat for the guardian deity Da Do Chen.
(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Overnight at the hotel in Haa.
Day 3Full Day in Haa - Witness Haa Summer Festival
After breakfast, drive to the festival ground to witness and mingle among the local people at Haa Summer Festival. The Haa summer festival is a lively and uplifting celebration of traditional living-culture, nomadic lifestyles, unique Bhutanese cuisine, traditional sports and religious performances. It provides unparalleled insight into the lives and traditions of Bhutan’s nomadic herders. It displays a lively traditional living culture, nomadic life styles, demonstration of local cuisines, brewing of local ara, traditional sports, religious performances, dances, songs, artifacts and natural alpine flowers.
If you book this trip at least a month in advance, we can arrange a farm stay in one of the family farmhouses so that you can get a glimpse of rural life in Bhutan and enjoy the hospitality of the local people of Haa Valley. Farmstays are very popular at this time so we suggest you to booking much in advance.
Things to See and Do on the Festival Day
The Yaks and Their Utilization: Yaks are the primary livelihood of the people living a nomadic lifestyles at high altitudes in Bhutan for it gives milk and dairy products, fiber and meat, and yaks are heavy weights as beasts of burden. Watch as skilled local craftsmen weave yak hair into their traditional tents. Learn about the traditional arts of yak shearing and wool-making.
See how yak dairy products are transformed into delicious traditional meals that showcase the culinary traditions
Food, A Taste of Tradition: Sample the delicious Haapi Hoentoe, a dumpling which is made on by the people of Haa valley. It is made from buckwheat and stuffed with fragrant grated turnip, dried turnip greens, mushrooms, garlic, onions and chopped cabbage seasoned with ginger, ground walnut, chilli-powder, salt, butter, sesame and poppy seeds. Among the many tantalizing and exotic local food, the regional twist on the fiery national dish Ema Datsi (Ema means ‘Chilli’ and Datsi means ‘Cheese’) is also highly recommended. This variation of Ema Datsi uses yak cheese in place of regular dairy adding a delicious new dimension to the flavor of this classic dish.
Song and Dance: Come enjoy the lively folk songs and mask dances in this celebration of a timeless culture. Experience the long and sonorous Haapi Ausa, traditional songs extolling the virtue of their yaks that are typically sung while tending the animals.
Sports: Join in the competition and engage in the local sports such as Archery, Yak and Horse riding, Khuru darts), Soksum (light javelin throwing). These lively contests are energetic affairs accompanied by much laughter, singing and friendly taunts.
Overnight at Hotel OR Farmstay in Haa
Day 4Haa / Thimphu
Thimphu Altitude
2, 334 (7,660 ft)
After hearty breakfast, drive to Thimphu via Dobji Dzong, a 16th century fortress and pass through some villages before we arrive at the Chhuzom (confluence) where the Paro river meets Thimphu river. The two rivers form Wang Chhu and flows southward and is the major river running two hydroelectric power plants. Chhuzom is not only a river confluence but also a major road junction from where the road diverts to Paro, Thimphu, Haa and Phuentsholing in the south. After Chhuzom the road follows Thimphu river upstream.
On arrival at Thimphu, check into your hotel and then settle down for lunch.
Visit Bhutan Postal Museum
After lunch, we will begin half day sightseeing around Thimphu city by first visiting Bhutan Post Office which located in the heart of the city in the same building as Bhutan National Bank so you can also exchange your money into local currency if you wish.
The Postal Service in Bhutan was first launched in 1962 with the opening of a post office in Phuentsholing, a town in the south bordering with India. The Postal Museum was opened in 2015 to exhibit the story of Bhutan’s progress and development of communications and postal system in the country. If you are interested in philatelic products and stamp collection, they have a good collection of stamps, First Day Covers and stamp albums.
Visit Royal Textile Academy & Museum
Weaving is an integral component of the culture and tradition of Bhutan. With rapid development and exposure to the western culture, the art of weaving and production of its own handwoven textile is declining fast. To preserve and promote this living art, Her Majesty Queen Mother Sangay Choden Wanchuck established the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan in 2005 as a non-profit organization. Given the important role it plays in preserving and promoting our unique culture and tradition, The Royal Textile Academy was registered as a Civil Society Organization in 2011.
The Textile Museum showcases collection of artifacts to impart understanding of Bhutan’s rich textile traditions and way of life. The Museum consists of two galleries – The upper gallery which has a permanent display of the various types of textile weaves in the country and the lower gallery that displays temporary exhibitions on special themes.
Visit Tashichho Dzong – Open to visitors only after 5PM
Tashichho DzongDzong means Fortress in national language of Bhutan, Dzongkha, which means “Fortress of the Glorious Religion” is opened to visitors only after 5PM during working days and from 9AM to 5PM on weekends. The original Dzong, known as Dho Ngon Dzong was built in 1216 A.D. by Lama Gyalwa Lhanangpa on a location where Dechen Phodrang monastery stands today. It was acquired by Zhabdrung Ngawang NamgyelZhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel was a Tibetan Buddhist master who came to Bhutan in 1616 and unified Bhutan as a nation state in 1641 and renamed it as Tashichho Dzong. The original Dzong was destroyed by fire in 1771 and then relocated to the present location. The Dzong suffered several earthquakes and fires and was subsequently renovated and new structures added by successive rulers.
It was late His Majesty King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who renovated and enlarged the entire Dzong to its present form in 1962 over the period of six years. The magnificent architectural feat was achieved using traditional method without any blueprint plans or nails. It houses the Secretariat and offices of the King, the Throne Room, Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Central Monastic Body.
Overnight at the hotel in Thimphu
Hotel Amodhara
Tara Phendeyling Hotel
Day 5Thimphu / Punakha
Punakha Altitude
Today, after early breakfast, we will drive to Punakha Valley via beautiful Dochu La Pass. Before we embark on a 74km road journey which takes less than 3 hours under normal road condition, we will pay a short visit to the National Memorial Choeten, Buddha Point and pray for our safe journey ahead. Enroute, we will visit Chime Lhakhang, a late 16th century temple and finally end the day after visiting the historic and most beautiful Punakha Dzong.
Visit National Memorial Chorten
The National Memorial Chorten is a Buddhist Stupa built in 1974 in memory of the Late Third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who passed away in 1972. It is one of the important landmark in Thimphu. People from all walks of life comes here to pray and circumambulate and it is a good opportunity for you to observe how Bhutanese people devote themselves to daily prayers and take refuge in the teachings of the Lord Buddha.
Visit Buddha Point – Buddha Dordhenma Statue
The marvelous 169 feet tall bronze statue of Lord Buddha is located on a hilltop, Kuensel Phodrang, overlooking the Thimphu valley. From here you can see a nice view of Thimphu city. It was built to celebrate the 60th birth anniversary of the Fourth King His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck and also for the purpose of bringing peace in the world . The giant Buddha statue houses more than 100,000 8-inch tall Buddha statues of same type. The construction began in 2006 and was completed in 2015 after almost 10 years. The total cost of the entire project is well over US$100 million. We then start our journey toward Punakha.
Enroute, stop at Dochu La Pass – 3,150 meters (10,330 ft) above sea level
About 45 min drive from Thimphu towards Punakha is a mountain pass at an altitude of 3,150 meters above sea level from where you can see, on a clear day, some of the highest peaks of Bhutan. Before the construction of these beautiful 108 Druk Wangyal Choetens (stupas) in 2004, this mountain pass remained only as a sacred place blessed by a famous Buddhist saint, Lam Drukpa Kuenley in late 15th century. Her Majesty Queen mother Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck built these 108 stupas in memory of the fallen soldiers in a 2003 battle which was personally led by our Fourth King, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, against ULFA/BODO militants from neighbouring Indian state of Assam who camped illegally inside Bhutanese territory along the southern belt and refused to leave the country peacefully. There is also a temple called Druk Wangyal Lhakhang (temple) on a nearby hilltop built in honour of His Majesty the Fourth King. The past and future appears to merge in the details of the lhakhang (temple) and its structure tells the story of a supreme warrior figure, whose vision pierces the distant future in a fine blend of history and mythology. There is a nice cafeteria from where you can relax and view the surrounding mountains.
After a light snack and tea at Dochula Pass, we will continue driving towards Punakha, passing through some villages, the elevation drops gradually and the road winds through the pine trees. As you reach the lower valley, you will feel the drastic change in altitude from 3,150m just an hour and a half ago to 1,200m. Lunch will be served at Lobesa, a small town where a road tri-junction is located leading to Thimphu, Punakha, Wangdue Phodrang and further to the eastern and southern Bhutan.
Visit Chhime Lhakhang – Temple of Fertility
After lunch, we will do a 20 – 30 minutes walk to the famous temple called Chime Lhakhang through terraced paddy fields and farm houses.
Chime Lhakhang is located on a gentle hilltop near the village of Sopsokha. The site offers a panoramic view of the Punatsangchu river and Wandue Phodrang town.
Lama Drukpa Kuenley built a small black stupa on this hilltop to mark the burial site of demons whom he managed to subdue after chasing all the way from Dochula Pass, where the demons were terrorizing the travellers. This black stupa can be seen even today just outside of the main temple. It was Lama Ngawang Chogyel, the younger brother of Lama Drukpa Kuenley, who built the present temple in 1499 A.D.
Lama Drukpa Kuenley was a Tibetan Buddhist Master who travelled extensively in western and central Bhutan exercising his holy powers to subdue devils and liberate people from suffering during the late 15th century and early 16th century A.D. He was known as “Divine Madman” for his obscene behavior and outrageous ways of cleansing people from religious dogmatism and egoistic self-possession by exhibiting his strong desire for sex. He would often use his desire, emotion, and sexuality to arouse disillusionment, insight and delight in all he encountered. He would often use phallus as a tool to subdue malevolent spirits. Using the phallus was also intended to free up the social inhibitions enforced by the socially established values.
Today, one of the relics of Chime Lhakhang is a phallus. The blessing of the phallus is considered sacred particularly to women who are unable to conceive a child as it brings fertility to women, giving them ability to bear offspring. Because of this belief, people like to call Chhime Lhakhang as “Temple of Fertility”.
Married couples who are unable to conceive a child often come to this temple seeking blessings from the Divine Madman. As much as it sounds ‘too good to be true’, there are many stories of happy couples who are blessed with child after visiting the temple.
Visit the historic Punakha Dzong
Drive further towards Punakha town for about 30 mins and visit the historic Punakha Dzong which was originally known as Pungthang Dechen Phodrang, meaning the “Palace of Great Bliss”. It was built in 1637 A.D. by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (Tibetan Buddhist master who came to Bhutan in 1616 and founded nation-state of Bhutan) on a small stretch of land where the rivers Phochu and Mochu converge. Punakha Dzong is the second oldest and second largest Dzong in Bhutan. The Dzong served as the administrative centre and the seat of the Government of Bhutan until 1955, when the capital was shifted to Thimphu. Punakha Dzong displays exquisite and intricate Bhutanese architecture and it is the most beautiful dzong in Bhutan.
Today, it serves as the office of the governor and head of the monk body in Punakha district. It is also the winter residence of the Chief Abbot of Bhutan, Je Khenpo. During the winter months from November to April, the Je Khenpo along with the central monk body moves from Thimphu and resides in Punakha Dzong and moves back to Thimphu Tashichho Dzong during the summer. This tradition of maintaining a summer and winter residence was first introduced by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel himself in the 17th century and the tradition is still practiced to this day.
A great annual festival called Punakha Tsechu dedicated to Guru Padmasambhava (the saint who brought Buddhism to Bhutan in the 8th century A.D.) and Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel is held at the Dzong. Punakha Tsechu or religious festival is conducted from the tenth day of the first month of the traditional Bhutanese Lunar calendar which usually falls sometime during the month of February or March on the western calendar. People from far flung villages and other districts come to attend the sacred festival.
Leisure time in the town. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Overnight at a hotel in Punakha.
Hotel Lobesa
Meri Puensum Resort
Hotel Vara
Day 6Punakha / Paro
Approx. 128km
Today, before we drive back to Paro valley, we will do 2-hour return hike to Khamsum Yulley Namgyel Choeten a Buddhist temple built on the beautiful mountain ridge overlooking the fertile valley of Punakha. Enroute to Paro, visit the oldest Dzong in Bhutan built by Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel in 1631.
Hike to Khamsum Yulley Namgyel Choeten
After breakfast, hike to Khamsum Yuelley Namgyel Choeten. Located on a ridge overlooking the picturesque Punakha valley, this wonderful Buddhist structure is a fine example of Bhutanese architecture used in building temples, monasteries and Zangdogpelri (Zangdogpelri means “copper coloured mountain”, a multi-storeyed temple dedicated to Guru Rinpoche is a Buddhist tantric master “who brought Buddhism to Bhutan in the 8th century A.D.Guru Rinpoche). It was built over a period of almost 10 years under the patronage of Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck, one of the Grand Queen Mothers of Bhutan and was consecrated in 1999.
It takes only about 20 minutes drive from the main town of Punakha to the nearest road point. From there you cross a suspension bridge over the Punakha Mochu River (female river) and the trail takes you through paddy fields. Normally it takes just under one hour to reach the serene site of the marvelous choeten. The view below is stunning with glacial fed Mochu river snaking through the fertile Punakha valley.
Enroute visit Simtokha Dzong
After driving for about 74km, we will stop at the outskirt of Thimphu and visit Simtokha Dzong which is built strategically on a ridge overlooking the Thimphu valley. The Simtokha Dzong is significant not only because it was the first Dzong built by Zhangdrung Ngawang Namgyel but also stands on the borders of three major regions: Thimphu, Paro and Wangdue Phodrang. Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel built this Dzong in 1631 to consolidate his rule over the western Bhutan. Simtokha Dzong is considered as the oldest Dzong in Bhutan.
One of the main statues inside the Simtokha Dzong is the statue of Buddha of Compassion. Legend has it that fortunate visitors are able to see a light shining forth from the chest of the Buddha. The Dzong has more than three hundred slate carvings from the 17th century. Recently, His Majesty the 5th King donated statue of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel which wasn’t there initially.
We will continue to drive towards Paro, on arrival check into hotel and relax or take a free stroll in the town.
Overnight at a hotel in Paro.
Day 7Full Day in Paro - Hike to Taktsang Monastery (Tiger's Nest)
Hiking Time
Paro Taktsang Altitude
3,120 meters (10, 236 ft)
Today, on the last day of your trip, you will be going on an excursion to the famed Taktsang Monastery and later in the afternoon visit one of the farm houses in Paro and indulge in a much needed relaxing spa – hot stone bath.
Hike to Taktsang Monastery at 10,240 feet above the sea level
Taktsang monastery is located on a sheer 800-meter rocky cliff in Paro. It normally takes about 2 hours to reach the monastery from the nearest road point. It is the most popular tourist attraction in Bhutan.
Taktsang, or the Tiger’s Lair (people prefer to call Tiger’s Nest), is regarded as one of the most important monasteries in Bhutan. Its history is associated with the visit of Guru Padmasambhava (known as Guru Rinpoche), the Indian saint who came to Bhutan and introduced Tantric Buddhism in the 8th century A.D. It is believed that Guru Padmasambhava flew into the cave from Kurtoe Singye Dzong in eastern Bhutan, riding on a tigress.
Taktsang is not only a sacred site visited by Guru Rinpoche but was also visited and blessed by many other renowned Buddhist masters; Langchen Pelgi Singye – one of the 25 disciples of Guru Rinpoche in the 8th century, Jitsun Milarepa – famous 11th century yogi, Phajo Drugom Zhigpo – 13th century saint who brought Drukpa school of Tibetan Buddism to Bhutan, Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel – the founder of nation-state of Bhutan in the 17th century, Desi Tenzin Rabgay – the fourth administrative ruler of unified Bhutan in the 17th century.
It was fourth Desi Tenzin Rabgay who built the Taktsang monastery in 1692. However, the monastery you see today is not the original structure. It was destroyed by fire in 1998. His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth King initiated and personally supervised the reconstruction of Taktsang monastery to its former glory. It was completed and consecrated in 2005.
Inside on of the temple is a Choeten, a Buddhist stupa built in memory of Langchen Pelgi Singye and holds his sacred body relic. It is believed that the Choeten fulfill wishes if you pray with pure devotion.
Lunch at Taksang Cafeteria
Visit 7th century Buddhist monastery – Kyichu Lhakhang
After visiting Taktsang monastery and a sumptuous lunch at Taktsang cafeteria, hike downhill to the road point where your driver will be waiting. From there we will visit Kyichu Lhakhang (Lhakhang means “temple”), which is located just a few minutes drive from the main town of Paro, is one of the oldest monasteries in Bhutan. It is believed to have been built in 659 A.D. by the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo.
According to the legend, spirit of a giant demoness lay spread across Tibet and Bhutan causing obstruction to the propagation of Buddhism. In order to subdue this demoness, King Songtsen Gampo was required to built 108 temples across the affected region. Kyichu Lhakhang, built to pin down the left foot of the giant demoness, is one of the two temples that were built in Bhutan. The other is called Jambay Lhakhang located in the district of Bumthang in central Bhutan and was built to pin down the left knee. Both the temples were believed to have been built overnight.
The old temple is known as Jowo Lhakhang and holds the original 7th century Jowo Jampa Statue in its inner chapel. Jowo Jampa is a Tibetan term for Buddha Maitreya, the Future Buddha. The outer hall of the Jowo Lhakhang houses the statue of Chenrizig, the God of Compassion Avalokiteshara.
Next to the Jowo Lhakhang is Guru Lhakhang which was built by Her Royal Grandmother Ashi Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck in 1971 and houses the statue of Guru Padmasambhava. Inside this temple is also a statue of her spiritual root teacher His Holiness Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche, a highly accomplished Buddhist master who passed away in 1992. Many important religious annual rites are conducted here at Kyichu Lhakhang under the patronage of Her Royal Grandmother.
Visit a Farm House and relax in the hot stone bath
Visit one of the beautiful farm houses in Paro and experience the traditional Bhutanese way of life. If you are interested, you can indulge in a traditional hot stone bath for an additional fee. Specially selected stones are heated in a wood-fired fireplace. The bath tub is made of wood and a medicinal shrub is added to the hot bath. You can enjoy locally brewed warm liquor known as Ara while soaking in the relaxing bath.
Later in the evening, delicious dinner of authentic Bhutanese cuisine will be served.
Day 8Departure from Paro
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Paro Internatioal Airport for your onward journey. Your guide will assist you to complete all exit formalities before you check-in.
(Breakfast)
Add-on Options
All tour services we provide are independent with flexible itineraries which can be customized to suit your interest and requirement. You can form a group to get discounts. Apart from the predesigned packages which have proven successful, Bhutan Acorn Tours & Travel can also arrange the following add-on activities to enrich your experiences in Bhutan. These activities can be fitted into any tour itineraries.
A short discourse on Gross National Happiness (GNH) by a renowned scholar
Astrology chart by qualified Buddhist Astrologer
Recitation of prayers by monks/nuns at a monastery/temple to remove obstacles and clear path (Barched Lamsel)
Wedding ceremony in traditional Bhutanese style
Dinner and cultural show (Folk dances and Sacred mask dances)
Archery – the national sports of Bhutan
Massage and Spa/Hot Stone Bath
Please note that some of the activities may involve extra fees.
Cancellaton & Refund Policy
All your deposits and any payment less administrative fees of US$100 per person will be refunded if you notify us at least 30 days prior to your arrival date. Refer the cancellation fee schedule below to determine the applicable charges:
DAYS TO ARRIVAL
CANCELLATION CHARGES PER PERSON
30+ US$100 administrative fee per person
16-29 20% of the total cost
8-15 50% of the total cost
0-7 days No refund is available
Curtailment
In case the trip is cut short or duration lost due to unforeseen reasons after arrival in Bhutan, no refund is available as the payment would have been already made to hotels and other logistics.
Delayed arrival or departure
There shall be no charges for the number of days of delay either during arrivals or departures or both, due to weather conditions, communication problems, cancellation or delay in Bhutanese airline flights, sickness or any other legitimate reason as Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) may deem reasonable. However, the Tourist will be charged on the actual expenses on accommodation, food, transport and any other services provided.
Originally built in 1692, Paro Taktsang stands on a sheer rock cliff at an altitude of 3,120m in Paro, Bhutan.
The view of Paro town with Paro River (Pachu) and green paddy fields. In the background is the 17th century Rinpung Dzong.
Haa Summer Festival Ground
A tourist trying her hand at one of the traditional games - Khuru (dart) during Haa Summer Festival
A tourist drapped in women's national dress (Kira) stands in front of tent made of yak hair at Haa Summer Festival.
Tashichho Dzong or the "Fortress of the Glorious Religion". Across the Thimphu River (Thimchu) on the left is the National Aseembly Hall of Bhutan and on the right is National Council Building.
The National Memorial Chorten is a Buddhist Stupa built in 1974 in memory of the Late King JIgme Dorji Wangchuck. It is one of the important landmarks in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Completed in 2015 over a period of 10 years, this magnificent 169ft tall bronze statue of Buddha Dhordenma stands on a hilltop overlooking the Thimphu valley.
Thimphu valley - The only capital city in the world without traffic lights and billboards.
108 Druk Wangyal Choetens or Sacred Stupas at Dochula, a mountain pass located at 3,150m above sea level in Thimphu on the national highway leading to the central, eastern and southern region of Bhutan.
Punakha Dzong built in 1637 is the second oldest and second largest Dzong in Bhutan. Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (Tibetan Buddhist master who came to Bhutan in 1616 and founded nation-state of Bhutan) built this Dzong on a small stretch of land where the rivers Phochu and Mochu converge.
With a wealth of stunning landscapes, sometimes a bird's-eye view offers an opportunity to appreciate the beauty of natural environment. The view of Yoebisa village in Punakha Valley as seen from Khamsum Yuellay Namgyel Choeten, Punakha, Bhutan
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Charlie Baker signs lockout benefits bill
BOSTON, MA – DECEMBER 10: Gov. Charlie Baker speak with reporters at the State House on December 10, 2018 in East Boston, Massachusetts. (Staff Photo By Angela Rowlings/Boston Herald)
By State House News Service |
PUBLISHED: December 31, 2018 at 9:36 am | UPDATED: December 31, 2018 at 10:40 am
Gov. Charlie Baker this morning signed a bill to extend unemployment benefits for locked-out workers, legislation for which unions of locked-out gas workers have clamored.
Locked-out workers from United Steelworkers Locals 12003 and 12012 planned to rally at the State House on Monday morning to urge Baker to sign the bill. Workers locked out since June 25 are due to exhaust their unemployment benefits in mid-January.
In an email to supporters on Sunday, Local 12003 President Joe Kirylo implored Baker to sign the bill, which calls for benefits to be extended for 26 weeks or until a lockout has ended, immediately to help families during the holiday season.
“Think about the fact that Senate President, Karen Spilka and House Speaker Robert DeLeo led both branches of the legislature to vote unanimously to pass the bill,” he wrote. “Why is the Governor keeping his constituents worrying about their future? Why does the Governor not see the goodness in helping working people who through no fault of their own have been locked out of work? Please sign the bill Governor Baker it is the right thing to do.”
Baker was on board with the Legislature as it explored ways to help locked-out workers and has for the last week said the benefits extension bill was under careful review. He expressed some apprehension about setting what he called “an unusual precedent” of having state government involve itself in a private business dispute.
In signing the bill Monday, Baker said it will help contribute to the safety of the state’s natural gas system in tandem with a gas safety bill that still needs a Senate vote to get to his desk.
“The integrity of the Commonwealth’s energy infrastructure is hugely important to the safety of the people of Massachusetts and this law, coupled with the bill our administration filed to require additional oversight of all natural gas projects, significantly increases accountability for all utility companies, and will help ensure that utilities use experienced crews with the proper supervision on all projects,” Baker said in a statement. “I eagerly await the Legislature’s approval of our bill to strengthen natural gas safety procedures and urge both National Grid and the Steelworkers union to swiftly reach consensus so that utility customers can receive the level of service and safety they deserve.”
– Colin A. Young/SHNS
State House News Service
Analysts: Harris’ Granite State push about future, not bump in polls
Excitement grows as Kamala Harris stops in N.H.
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Salas, Jo. "Stories in the Moment: Playback Theatre for Building Community and Justice." Stories in the Moment: Playback Theatre for Building Community and Justice."Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities.
Duffy, Daniel. “Autonomy, representation and Lekil Kuxlejal in Highland Chiapas.” Alone With Five Others: Dispatches from a Changing World. 2006: 12-29. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2006 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Agbaria, Farhat & Cynthia Cohen. “Working With Groups in Conflict: The Impact of Power Relations on the Dynamics of the Group.” Informally published article, Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, September 2000.
Cohen, Cynthia. “The Choreography of Conflict.” Ethically Speaking, Newsletter of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University, 2002, 6-7.
Cohen, Cynthia. “Working with Integrity: A Guidebook for Peacebuilders Asking Ethical Questions.” Waltham, MA: The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Brandeis University, 2001.
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Marcuello-Lopez, Myriam. "Syrian art in Beirut: Breaking boundaries and restoring hope." Thesis, MA in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2017.
Kingsley, Christopher. "A Retrospective History, Analysis, and Evaluation of Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East." Program report by the Heller School of Management and Social Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2001.
Musleh, Abeer. "Theatre, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in Palestine." Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence.
Nasrallah, Aida & Lee Perlman. "Weaving Dialogues and Confronting Harsh Realities: Engendering Social Change in Israel through performance." Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence.
Cohen, Cynthia. "Synergies: Women, Creativity and Peacebuilding." Revised Presentation Notes from Keynote Address, Mount Mary University, November, 2013.
Correa, Ana. "La Mujer de Negro de 'Adiós Ayacucho:' La no presencia (The Woman in Black of 'Goodbye Ayacucho': The absence)." In Spanish. Reflection on a theatral piece about the 'disappeared' people of Peru.
Lerner Febres, Dr. Salomón. "Memory of Violence and Drama in Peru: The Experience of the Truth Commission and Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani." Speech delivered in Spanish at Just Performance: Enacting Justice in the Wake of Violence, A Symposium of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, December, 2011.
Moinester, Margot. “Uzi Kurinda Imana We: A Story of Resilience in Rwanda.” Translations: Six Stories of (Mis)Understanding. Alone With Five Others: Dispatches from a Changing World. 2007: 34-41. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2007 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Amante, Darnisa. “New Voices in Johannesburg: Melody and/or Cacophony?” The Art of Coexistence: 6 Students, 4 Countries, 100 Questions. 2004: 6-16. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2004 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Berman, Kim with Stompie Selibe. “Artist Proof Studio: A Journey of Reconciliation.” A working paper of Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2005. Published in conjunction with the 2003-2004 Brandeis International Fellowship Program.
Cohen, Cynthia. “What is the role of the arts presenter in a community in crisis?” - Framing the Issue. Opening remarks at Association of Performing Arts Presenters pre-conference, New York City, January, 2015.
McConnell, Catherine. “Discovering the Role Art Plays in Creating Social Change.” Contrast and Connections: Nine Students reflect on Their Worldwide Internships/2008. 2008: 40-47. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2008 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Safran-Hon, Naomi. “The Art Therapy Centre: A Portrait.” Alone With Five Others: Dispatches from a Changing World. 2006: 50-61. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2006 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Schiller, Amy. “Artist Proof in South Africa: When Does Optimism Silence Memory?” The Art of Coexistence: 6 Students, 4 Countries, 100 Questions. 2004: 72-78. Brandeis International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Student Report for the 2004 Ethics Center Fellowship.
Beti Beti, Bonface. "Report: Trauma Sensitive Script Writing Training (for Theatre and Radio Drama)." Training hosted by AECOM International’s Viable Support to Transition and Stability (VISTAS) program for the USAID Office of Transition and Conflict Mitigation (OTCM) in South Sudan for the members of the South Sudan Theatre Organization (SSTO). Emerald Hotel, Nairobi Kenya October 24-28th, 2016.
Bandaranayake, Dharmasiri. "Sri Lanka: Time to bring cultural rights to the center of human rights discourse." A speech by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, Director General, Cultural Affairs Presidential Secretariat, Sri Lanka, delivered on September 15, 2017. May 18 Memorial Foundation, International Affairs Department, Asian Human Rights Commission Workshop, the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center Gwanjgu, South Korea, 2017.
Kois, Lisa. "The art of forgetting: a facilitation guidee." (No date). A film facilitation guide supported by Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (FLICT), Sri Lanka.
Palihapitiya, Madhawa. "The Created Space: Peacebuilding and Performance in Sri Lanka." Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence.
Ziessler, Hauke, Maggie Ziegel, with Cynthia Cohen and Kristin Parker. "A Vision of Aleppo." Brandeis University Design Lab, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2017. Published in conjunction with the 2016-2017 Brandeis Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation Program (CAST).
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Ba Futuru. "Transformative Arts and Human Rights Education (TAHRE) Guide." Teacher's manual for effective interactive artistic methods of working with adults and children around trauma, including conflict resolution and human rights methodology.
TAHRE Guide - Children's Version. Lession VII: Peaceful & Creative Conflict Resolution.
TAHRE Guide - Youth and Adults Version. Lesson 11: Peaceful & Creative Conflict Resolution.
Mulekwa, Charles. "Theatre, War, and Peace in Uganda." Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence.
Canter, Liz. “Memory and Imagination: How do artists remember the past while re-envisioning the future?” Student project submitted for COEX 250: The Arts of Building Peace, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, spring, 2007.
Cohen, Cynthia, Lesley Yalen, & Belle Brett. “Coexistence at Brandeis: Reflections and Recommendations.” Preliminary report from The Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence. April 2002.
Evangelou, Ellada. "A Diary of the IMPACT Design Lab: A semi-informal account of the process, the challenges and the people." IMPACT Project - Imagining Together: Platform for Arts, Culture and Conflict Transformation.Design Lab, Brandeis University September 2018.
Lindsay, Jacqui & Libbie Shufro. "A Call for a Boston Spring: Arts for an Urban Renaissance." Op-Ed Submission, Boston, MA, May 21, 2014.
Margrave, Paul. "A Memory of Arts for Social Change." Student final paper, Acting Together on the World Stage: Writing and Political Performance (TAPS 1500), Brown University, Providence, RI, 2013.
O'Neal, John. "Do You Smell Something Stinky? Notes and Conversations About Making Art in Racist, Imperial American in the 21st Century." Case Study for Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. Viol. II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities.
Sonneborn, Barbara. “Regret to Inform: A History of the Film.” Information about Barbara Sonneborn and her film Regret to Inform, film reviews, and stories from the Widows of War Living Memorial. Accessed in 2004 from http://regrettoinform.org/.
Terrazano, Sarah. "Fire in the Woods." Academy of American Poets Prize selection, Greater Boston Intercollegiate Poetry Festival and Brandeis's 2019 University and College Prize for the Academy of American Poets, 2019.
Urbain, Olivier. “Three Sessions Using Hawaiian-Style Reconciliation Methods Inspired by the Ho’oponopono Problem-Solving Process.” Unpublished paper, June 2004.
Walker, Polly. "Ceremonies of Dance and Song in Native American Peacemaking."
Walker, Polly. "Memorial: Pittsburgh and Jefferson Town." United States, 2018.
Assefa, Hizkias. “Peace and Conflict in Africa: Reflections from an African Peacebuilder.” Lectures presented at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November, 1999
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Precious little va-va-Froome in this dour cycling memoir
By Brendan Daly 4 years ago
The Climb: The Autobiography. By Chris Froome. Viking, €24.99. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Biography exposes conflicts that tormented singing star
Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend. By Karen Bartlett. Robson Press, €24.99. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Hitting the heights in Tyrol
The Tyrol region of western Austria offers a chance to marvel at some of the world's most majestic scenery, writes Brendan Daly.
Reflections on the mirror images of the past
The Self-Portrait, A Cultural History. By James Hall. Thames and Hudson, €25.15. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
How WWI was sparked by Princip among men
The Trigger. Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. By Tim Butcher. Chatto & Windus, €17. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
The brains of the operation tells the story of his career
Do No HarmStories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery. By Henry Marsh. W&N, €21.40. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
The enigma at the heart of film's biggest star
Charlie Chaplin. By Peter Ackroyd. Chatto & Windus, €18.90. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
The sweet science of nodding off - or not
The Secret Life of Sleep, By Kat Duff, Oneworld, €16.35, Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Treading carefully in the mind field
Falling into the Fire. A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis. By Christine Montross. Oneworld, €15.10. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Running a road less travelled
Running Free. A Runner's Journey Back to Nature. By Richard Askwith. Yellow Jersey Press, €21.40. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
A sweeping yet intimate portrait of a metropolis
BerlinImagine A City. By Rory MacLean. W&N, €18.90. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
A land of contrasts
To visit Laos in south-east Asia is to glimpse a country that's a sometimes uneasy mixture of ancient, spiritual and modern, writes Brendan Daly.
Man's grim record of crimes against nature
The Sixth Extinction. An Unnatural History. By Elizabeth Kolbert. Bloomsbury, €16.35. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
The man who shone a light on the NSA's dark arts
The Snowden Files. The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man. By Luke Harding. Guardian Faber, €16.35. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Philosopher's take on news media yields mixed results
The News. A User's Manual. By Alain de Botton. Hamish Hamilton, €23.90. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
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Jonathan Teeter takes us back to KNDRGRDN
KNDRGRDN (L to R: Eric Nelson, Jonathan Teeter and Max Bollinger) plays Crozet Pizza at the Buddhist Biker Bar on April 20. Photo: Ariana Miklowitz
During a recent KNDRGRDN gig at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, frontman Jonathan Teeter looked up from his guitar mid-song. Bodies were packed in tightly, close to the stage, and he could see people bobbing up and down and singing along to “Your Shadow.”
“Your shadow is coming in / Coming into my room / Your shadow is coming in / You, me and the sandman / Hanging, hanging, hanging / from the roof,” Teeter sang, grinning, joy apparent in his eyes behind his dark-framed glasses as he charmingly swayed back and forth.
He says it was “so, so cool” to have an audience full of friends and strangers connect to the music and sing along to one of his songs. “It’s exactly what I live for.”
Teeter, 26, has been playing in bands around Charlottesville for about five years. Before forming the three-piece KNDRGRDN (pronounced “kindergarten”), he played with the Co-Pilots, and he still plays the occasional solo gig for material that doesn’t quite fit with the loud-and-fast KNDRGRDN sound.
His catchy punk-lite songs with a Brit-pop edge will stick in your head for hours, even days, after hearing them. They stick because Teeter builds most of his songs around vocal melodies.
He says he knows he’s come up with a good vocal melody when he can imagine a trumpet playing it.
Teeter started writing songs when he was about 16. His parents bought him a guitar and he spent hours at a time playing chords in his bedroom and listening to Blur, The Clash and Pulp. During one of those sessions he started improvising lyrics over a chord progression. He says he didn’t know—at least not right away—that he was writing a song.
Now, his songwriting is much more intentional. He strives for simplicity, both in his solo material and in KNDRGRDN songs, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. “I want people to know…it’s pretty simple, straightforward rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s all very meticulously put together, and it takes a lot of work to make something so simple sound good,” says Teeter.
The frontman is pretty open about the KNDRGRDN elixir. He tends to write complex lyrics, so he puts most of his energy into singing; that limits his guitar playing, so he sticks to power chords, bar chords and just a couple of distortion and delay pedals. With no lead guitar, KNDRGRDN relies on bass player Eric Nelson to pump sonic blood through the veins of a song. “Eric will work forever on bass parts that work both as bass and lead instrument,” Teeter says.
It’s unusual, but that deep, rhythmic lead, coupled with Teeter’s vocal melodies, is what makes KNDRGRDN so damn catchy. There’s plenty to hear, but the songs are simple enough that if you’re standing in the audience, you can hear everything that’s going on, from vocals to power chords to rollicking bass and relentless drums. It’s music to sing and dance along to.
If you listen closely, you’ll hear great variety in Teeter’s lyrics. He wrote the audience favorite “Your Shadow” about Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic book series. “Tama Changes Stations” is about the death of Tama, a stray calico cat who became station master of a train station in Wakayama, Japan. “Police” is a protest song examining righteousness: “The stylish kids put in their false teeth / They cut off their hair and occupy Wall Street / I wish I were pure enough to believe / I wish then again that all the fakers would leave / Then there’s the problem with the police / They cut their hair and keep the peace / They keep it with guns / and they keep it with mace / They keep telling me I’m in the wrong parking space,” Teeter sings, his voice hinting at Ray Davies, Damon Albarn, Joe Strummer and Modern Lovers-era Jonathan Richman all at once.
Teeter sees music as a way to conjure images and tell a cinematic story in sound. “The Orange Grove” is an image-rich tune about a man who is told by angels he must watch over an orange grove. He decides he doesn’t like being isolated, “I need a family / and a good place to stay / I need love / I need money and change,” so he escapes from the orange grove only to realize that the outside world is just as horrible.
Sometimes it’s heavy stuff, but it’s life and it’s real, and KNDRGRDN tackles it all with youthful aplomb.
–Erin O’Hare
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Garbage trucks pitch in with Canton recycling effort
Ed Balint
Garbage trucks picking up recyclables. It’s an odd sight in Canton. But city officials say there’s a reason for it. They don’t have enough recycling trucks, and the ones they do have are not practical or large enough.
It’s a strange sight. City garbage collectors tossing plastic bottles, newspapers and other recyclable items into the back of a garbage truck, not a recycling truck.
Since the curbside recycling program’s inception, the city has used both recycling trucks and garbage trucks to collect paper, metal and plastic.
Based on the inquiries the city still receives, the practice continues to puzzle some residents. They wonder why they bother to dutifully pile aluminum cans, cardboard boxes and other items into the blue recycling bins.
City officials say not to fret. Even when the recyclables are chucked into a garbage truck, those items are not being hauled to a landfill.
The city has a firm policy not to mix garbage and recyclables in the same truck, said Derek Gordon, the city’s assistant service director.
However, the city may be making more efforts to inform the public on its recycling program, Gordon said.
“It’s an educational process,” he said. “And we’d love to have nine recyclable trucks out there marked recycling only, but it’s a resource issue.”
The city already has mentioned the multi-purpose trucks in its Canton Connection magazine. Information also is expected to be posted on the city’s website.
Another possibility is posting a notice on garbage trucks explaining they are also used to haul recyclable items, Gordon said.
So why do the garbage trucks double as recycling trucks?
For one, Gordon said, the city simply does not have enough recycling trucks to handle all of the routes. If the city relied strictly on recycling trucks, that would result in overtime costs, he said.
Most days the city operates nine trash routes and three recycling routes.
Garbage trucks also have more room than recycling trucks. So when garbage routes are finished, the recycling truck is replaced on the route.
And the three recycling trucks are outdated, Gordon said. The trucks were purchased at a time when recyclables had to be separated into groups, and not dumped into one heap. That now makes the recycling trucks less practical.
Several years ago, the trucks, along with 30,000 recycling bins, were purchased with a $700,000 grant from the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Joint Solid Waste Management District.
“The industry has changed and that has facilitated the need for a different type of truck,” Gordon said.
Recycling trucks also do not compact the materials to maximize space like a garbage truck does. So a recycling truck must travel to the recycling transfer station more often, said Larry Emerick, the city’s interim sanitation superintendent.
The city tried to sell the recycling trucks to another county in the waste district but found no buyers, Gordon said.
The city has explored trading the vehicles for a garbage compacting vehicle, but those trucks are more expensive, making a swap difficult, Gordon said.
Retrofitting is another option. However, in some cases, it’s cheaper to buy a new truck than to retrofit the recycling vehicles, he said. Recycling trucks also may not be able to properly support the addition of a compactor, Gordon said.
RECYCLING REVENUE
Roughly 30 percent of the city’s garbage collection customers participate in the curbside recycling program, according to the sanitation department.
Both the city’s garbage and recyclables are hauled to the Kimble Transfer and Recycling facility on Bolivar Road SW.
When the city launched its curbside recycling program in 2008, the sanitation department did not hire additional staff. Although the recycling program has resulted in overtime expenses at times, the program also generates revenue.
The Kimble facility pays between around $33 to $55 per ton to the city. The rate is market driven and fluctuates.
The facility receives about 160 tons of recyclable materials from the city per month. Kimble Transfer and Recycling is on pace to pay the city $80,000 or more for recyclables for the current 12-month period, said Keith Kimble, president of Kimble Companies, which includes the transfer and recycling facility.
The city used to pay Kimble roughly $28 per ton to accept the recyclables.
“As systems have become more efficient and we’ve invested in new equipment that allows us to separate (recyclables) more efficiently. ... We’ve been able to take a business that used to be a loss leader to more of a profit center,” Kimble said. “We’re just sharing those profits ... with the generator.”
Kimble said the business sells the recyclable materials to brokers, such as PSC Metals, and to paper mills, cardboard mills, the Timken Co., Anheuser-Busch and other businesses both in and outside of Ohio. Most sales are in Ohio, however, Kimble said.
Recycling material customers also can be overseas, he said.
“Sometimes the market values for materials aren’t that good and other times pretty brisk and robust,” Kimble said.
For example, he said, milk jugs have fluctuated from 3 cents to 43 cents per pound.
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FirstLight acquires cable construction firm for fibre build-out plans
11 July 2019 | Laurence Doe
FirstLight has acquired Todd Cable Construction to expand its fibre network capabilities and pursue development opportunities such as turnkey solutions to support 5G.
The Northeast US provider of fibre-optic data, internet, data centre, cloud and voice services will use its new acquisition, which has been agreed under undisclosed financial terms, to improve the time it takes to construct fibre projects for enterprise and carrier customers.
FirstLight’s has had a busy first quarter. It acquired Maine Fiber Company after focusing on a number of new products throughout the state and added to its portfolio of fibre-based services, kick-starting its 2019 growth. In March it also named Len Camara as its new CIO.
Kurt Van Wagenen, president and CEO of FirstLight, said: “Unlike our prior acquisitions, which were typically focused on purchasing existing fiber assets, this transaction dramatically broadens FirstLight’s capabilities to build new fiber by bringing construction talent in house.
“Over the years, we have cultivated a strong relationship with Todd Cable and have come to depend on their capabilities to meet our customers’ delivery timelines. Now as part of FirstLight, we can work more closely to better control this aspect of service delivery.”
Founded in 1999, FirstLight has been building and operating its own fibre optic network for 20 years. FirstLight serves the networking needs of national telecommunications providers, CLECs and enterprises.
Todd Warmingham, president and CEO of Todd Cable Construction, who will lead FirstLight’s construction services business unit, commented: “We have worked with FirstLight for many years acting as its construction arm.
“Through this relationship, we have come to appreciate all that FirstLight has accomplished over the past few years and respect its talented team. We are glad to be part of this vibrant organization and now have access to the resources and people needed to accelerate our growth trajectory and fully participate in the 5G evolution.”
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Proximus and Orange Belgium to set up unified mobile network to speed 5G
12 July 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray
Orange Belgium and Proximus – formerly Belgacom – are to set up a joint company to run their mobile networks.
The move, which will cost €130 million over three years, will speed up 5G roll-out in the country, say the companies, but it will also combine existing networks for 2G, 3G and 4G services.
Michaël Trabbia (pictured, left), CEO of Orange Belgium, said: “The timing of this mobile access network sharing agreement is important as it will allow us to accelerate 5G roll-out, while bringing significant environmental benefits by reducing the combined energy consumption by 20%.”
His counterpart at Proximus, Dominique Leroy (pictured, right), said: “It will allow us to embark on a faster and broader 5G roll-out while improving mobile network capacity and coverage to the benefit of our customers and while keeping a strong and differentiated customer experience. It will help us to realise operational cost efficiencies that will enable us to sustain future networks roll-out and fuel digital investments.”
The two companies will continue to run independent, competing services. Both companies will continue to have full control over their own spectrum assets and operate their core networks independently to ensure a service and customer experience differentiation, they said.
So far the two have done no more than signed term sheets, but they aim to reach a full contract by the end of 2019. “The signing of the term sheet is an important step in reaching a final mobile access network sharing agreement between Proximus and Orange Belgium,” said Leroy.
They said the shared network will improve coverage, with the consolidated number of mobile sites expected to be about 20% higher compared to each operator’s current standalone radio access network (RAN).
They said the move will reduce total energy consumption by the RAN by about 20%. Orange Belgium said the cumulative savings in operational and capital expenditure would be €300 million over 10 years.
“Mobile access network sharing is a trend in Europe which benefits consumers, as it enables more efficient investments to cope with the increasing data consumption,” said Trabbia.
The companies said the combination will allow them “to sustain the growing investment needs in network capacity, driven by continued exponential data growth, while also accelerating 5G roll-out and improving service quality”.
The next step is for dedicated teams from both operators to define the project in more detail, including the organisational model of the new joint venture, to reach a final network sharing agreement by the end of the year.
The purpose is to start the preparatory work in the first quarter of 2020, they said.
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Amid the Blackouts, Remaining Businesses Barely Survive
Home Uncategorized Blessed are the leakers…
Blessed are the leakers…
Francisco Toro
…for they bring us the juicy polling reports that don’t show up in the newspapers.
Quico says: Well, a pajarito put a copy of Hinterlaces’s advice to the Rosales Campaign in my inbox. To his credit, Schemel doesn’t quite buy the spin Noticiero Digital is putting on his polling. His basic message? Chavez can’t seem to get over 50%, but Rosales is not managing to win over Ni-Nis. The upshot? One out of every four votes is still up for grabs.
Schemel’s straightforward enough to just report what his poll shows: a bit less than half the people he’s polling say they will vote for Chavez, roundabout 30% say they will vote for Rosales, just under 10% say they know who they’ll vote for but won’t tell a pollster, and something like 15% still haven’t made up their minds.
Much speculation surrounds the 10% or so who “won’t respond.” Much of the dispersion in the polls we’re seeing in the papers seems to arise from different ways of treating these “no contesta” folk. Pollsters who lump them together with “undecideds” show Chavez leading by a lot, pollsters who lump them together with Rosales’s total show Chavez leading by a little. That’s the long and the short of it.
Schemel figures most of them will break for Rosales, which seems like a reasonable supposition. But how many precisely? Nobody really knows how to estimate this – and unlike ND, he doesn’t try.
Then there’s the 15% undecided. Conventional wisdom is that most undecideds end up backing the challenger – it’s called the Incumbent Rule, and it doesn’t always hold. Here’s how US Democratic polling guru Mark Blumenthal explains the dynamic:
The basic idea is that voters make their decisions differently in races involving an incumbent. When newcomers vie to fill an open office, voters tend to compare and contrast the candidates’ qualifications, issues positions and personal characteristics in a relatively straightforward way. Elections featuring an incumbent, on the other hand, are as Molyneux puts it, “fundamentally a referendum on the incumbent.” Voters will first grapple with the record of the incumbent. Only if they decide to “fire” the incumbent do they begin to evaluate whether the challenger is an acceptable alternative.
Voters typically know incumbents well and have strong opinions about their performance. Challengers are less familiar and invariably fall short on straightforward comparisons of experience. Some voters find themselves conflicted — dissatisfied with the incumbent yet also wary of the challenger — and may carry that uncertainty through the final days of the campaign and sometimes right into the voting booth. Among the perpetually conflicted, the attitudes about the incumbent are usually more predictive of these conflicted voters’ final decision than their lingering doubts about the challenger. Thus, in the campaign’s last hours, we tend to see “undecided” voters “break” for the challenger.
That’s the theory. Does it have any empirical support?
In 1989, Nick Panagakis, president of Market Shares Corporation (the firm that polls for the Chicago Tribune) analyzed results from 155 surveys, most from the late 1980s, all conducted during the last week before an election. In a famous article in The Polling Report, Panagakis found that in 82% of the cases, the undecideds “broke” mostly to the challenger.
Who are the undecideds in Venezuela right now? Schemel says they are disproportionately young and female. They are open to persuasion, and worried about the classics – street crime and economic issues (unemployment, poverty, etc.) but also disunity, and what he calls “the breakdown in values.”
At this late stage in the game, Rosales has yet to convince them that Chavez is responsible for the problems they have on these issues, or that he can do better. The key thing here is to differentiate Rosales’s approach from Chavez’s in voters’ minds, to make it clear to them how their values differ and how those different values would translate to different ways of governing. Schemel thinks these differentiations are still kind of fuzzy in the minds of many undecideds: Rosales’s job is to sharpen them.
The other trend Schemel notes is a genuine gap between the enthusiasm on the Rosales side and the apathy in the Chavez camp. This suggests to him the race could come down to turnout, and depressing chavista turnout could be the key. Alongside the damage Chavez does to his own side’s turnout every time his proposals turn hyper-radical, allegations of corruption really demotivate his followers. Expect to see more of them – not so much as a way of winning over new voters, but as a way of keeping chavistas at home on election day.
In the end, not that much has changed. Rosales has consolidated the traditional oppo vote, but he still has to pretty much run the table on the remaining up-for-grabs votes. Assuming the “won’t respond” folk really are all planning to vote for him, he has to win over 2 out of every 3 undecideds in the next two weeks, while trying to keep his supporters enthusiastic and Chavez’s demobilized. That’s hard, but not impossible. The guy has a fortnight to close the deal.
Addendum: It may be that the report this post is based on is dated – the darn thing didn’t have a date on it. However, now that ND is publishing Hinterlaces’s raw data every day, I can post updated 3-day moving averages of the underlying data. The latest slide shows undecideds are dwindling – down to just 6% – and it’s Rosales who’s reaping the gains:
This is still data from a phone poll, which probably undercounts very poor, phoneless people who tend to go for Chavez. But, again, it’s the trend, not the number…
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Asian monsoon rains will intensify as CO2 levels and temperatures increase.
That’s the prediction made by a new study, that also discovers the monsoon system has existed for at least 15 million years longer than previously thought.
Intense rainfall
The monsoon is the largest climate system in the world. It brings intense rainfall to much of mainland Asia and is the lifeblood of agriculture-reliant economies in the region. It can also bring devastating floods, as seen in Kashmir this week.
The research, published in Nature, found that the strength of monsoon rains has varied over the past 40m years as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has changed naturally.
The monsoon system emerged at a time when levels of CO2 levels were three or four times what they are today, the researchers say. It then weakened as CO2 levels gradually reduced and the Earth entered an ice age 34m years ago.
The study reinforces what scientists already know – that there’s a connection between the strength of the greenhouse effect and the Asian monsoon system. But as Dr Alexis Licht, lead author on the paper, tells us:
“This suggests that the monsoons may be more sensitive to global climate change than we thought.”
The latest IPCC projections suggest an increase in both average and extreme rainfall in south Asia (see figure below) in all scenarios of future emissions. According to Licht, their research “supports the last IPCC report, predicting intensified monsoonal precipitation in Asia.”
Past and Projected future monsoon rainfall for southern Asia, as percentage changes from present day. Different colour lines show different scenarios, with shading showing the range across the different climate models. IPCC
Temperature contrast
The monsoon is driven by the difference in temperature between the Asian continent and adjoining oceans. Land warms and cools more quickly than water, creating pressure differences in the atmosphere, which causes winds to strengthen.
In summer, when the land is warmer than the sea, winds blow over the Indian ocean towards the land, bringing heavy rains to most of southern Asia from June to September (as shown in the figure below). The rains are most intense where the winds rise over mountains, such as in southwest India.
As the land cools into Autumn, the winds reverse, bringing dry air over Asia for the winter.
Map showing the passage of the Asian monsoon over India. Arrows show wind direction in summer (red) and winter (green). Blue line illustrates the band of intense monsoon rains. Saravask, based on work by Planemad and Nichalp
Climate model projections for monsoon rainfall show increases in the future for two reasons. First, because warming will be more rapid over land, increasing the temperature contrast with the oceans. And secondly, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapour.
Projections also show that changes in the wind patterns will result in the monsoon starting earlier and finishing later.
Snail shells
Scientists had thought the Asian monsoon had started with the formation of the Himalayan mountains, between 22 and 25m years ago.
As the Earth’s landmasses shifted around, India moved north and collided into the rest of Europe and Asia. The land at the join between the two masses was forced upwards, forming the Himalayan mountains.
As air passes over these mountains it rises, causing water vapour in the air to condense and form clouds, which brings rain. Scientists had thought that the monsoon started once the Himalayas were there for the air to rise over.
Freshwater Snail Fossils from Myanmar. Alexis Licht 2012
But this new study suggests the monsoon was well established at least 15m years before the Himalayas formed. Scientists studied fossils of teeth from mammals and shells of freshwater snails found in Myanmar. By analysing the type of oxygen they contained, the scientists could establish whether they lived in periods of wet or dry conditions. What they found was evidence of a monsoon system in the pattern of wet summers and dry winters.
The findings reveal that the monsoon system was around in some form long before the Himalayas were formed. As Licht tells us:
“It shows that global events (such as global warming or cooling) have a similar – and most probably stronger – impact as regional topography on monsoonal intensity.”
The implications of their analysis are that as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere increase, and with it global temperatures, the Asian monsoon is likely to become more intense through the 21st century.
Main image: Indian woman walks in a flooded street of Calcutta, India. Credit: © Saikat Paul/Shutterstock.com.
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A man wears Google Glass at Apple's 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Robert Galbraith/Reuters
How to Make Google-Glass Users Really Sad
Shut off their techno-goggles without them knowing how, or why.
Omer Shapira is a software artist who makes neat stuff like a four-dimensional video game and a machine that creepily narrates recent cyberattacks (what The Awl has dubbed the "Internet Terror Phone").
Shapira sometimes presents his creations at the semiannual exhibit of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, which gathers the school's makers and geeks to demonstrate the latest in tech-art awesomeness. But lately, the 29-year-old Brooklyn resident has noticed a different sort of attendee at these events – Google Glass-wearing interlopers, who ask the students various permutations of the question: How do you plan to monetize these inventions?
This brazenness annoys Shapira. He wonders: Are they recording me? And then, For what purpose? Those wanting to hear more of Shapira's thoughts should read his gloriously profane Medium rant, titled "Nobody Goes to Art School to Make Money, so Fuck Off." Here's one of his choice opinions: "[I]f you’re recording the conversation without asking for permission – you're just an asshole. That shouldn't surprise you if you've had Google Glass on your head in any other social situation, but now you’re literally suspect of trying to steal an idea."
Via email, Shapira shares a couple of experiences with the eyewear that led him to write his manifesto:
At the last ITP show, I presented a 4D video game with a lot of non-trivial math involved. About a minute through my explanation to a showgoer, I noticed someone who appeared to be filming the screen the entire time. He then asked me some questions, including when the release date for this is. It was very obvious he was looking for 'inspiration' for something that he has the resources to release faster with. This is something that happens in shows every now and then. With Glass it happens significantly more often.
A while ago, when this device was in closed beta, a CEO of a very big magazine publisher (we all work in media, so I'm not going to name names) recorded my entire technical discussion with him about some plant-embedded capacitive sensor I was working on with a friend. I only realized this after we were done (when he stopped the recording). During the entire conversation, he was acting as if I was wasting his time – I only realized in retrospect what really happened. I'd like to say that's what this technology does to people, but it may be a chicken and egg issue.
Enter Julian Oliver, a Berlin-based artist who specializes in making devious data gadgets – a grenade-shaped recorder that leaks information from private meetings, for instance, and a device that jams cellular-network access within a 25-foot radius. (Best not try obtaining that last one, as it's probably outlawed in your country.)
Oliver heard about Shapira's issues with Glassers, and something must've struck a similar chord because last week he released an evil little script to frustrate their voyeurism. "GLASSHOLE.SH" is meant to load on a small computer you hide at your work or art exhibition (Oliver suggests using a BeagleBone Black or Raspberry Pi). Once covertly installed, it scans the local network for Glass users and then kicks them off, without so much as a polite goodbye.
For comedy, the script is peppered with little barbs against Glass, including this sweet ASCII art:
Full disclosure: I know as much about Linux and coding as I do the internal anatomy of a dwarf lemur. I'm also not sure if the script works, or whether it's 100 percent legal. (Anybody possessing such knowledge should feel free to comment below.) Shapira believes it looks serviceable, though. "The deauth packet (aireplay...) is an old trick (popularized by Julian)," he says. "For legal reasons, I can't tell you whether or not I've tried it, but I've definitely seen those lines of code work."
Shapira wants people to know he's not against Glass, just the folks who use it with questionable manners. It's an "amazing piece of technology," he says, that sometimes unfortunately "voids any chance of honest communication in a space where it is present." He finds it surprising that Oliver, who has exhibited at the Tate Modern and won prizes at Prix Ars Electronica, deemed it worthwhile to explore his cantankerous complaint. But he's happy to have played a part in the latest salvo against the wearable vandal bait.
"All I did was to be angry on the Internet™, and he related to my rant and did that..." he says. "I'm honored."
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Second Department ordered BSA to determine whether special permit findings were met. In 2005, Alexis Lyublinskiy obtained an alteration permit to enlarge his one-story home at 136 Norfolk Street in Manhattan Beach. Initial demolition and construction work did not match building plans, and Lyublinskiy eventually demolished all but one of the original building’s walls and built a two-story house.
Buildings issued a stop-workorder after discovering that the house did not conform to the approved plans. Buildings rescinded the order, but later issued a second order after determining that the house exceeded the permitted floor area and violated wall height and side yard regulations. Instead of revoking the permit, Buildings issued a letter allowing the permit to be categorized as an alteration rather than new construction.
Lyublinskiy applied to BSA for a special permit to legalize the noncomplying building and claimed that the demolition was necessary due to water and termite damage. BSA denied the application. BSA noted that it was authorized to grant special permits for enlargements only, and it found that the demolition and construction work qualified as new construction and not an enlargement. 4 CityLand 75 (June 15, 2007).
Lyublinskiy filed an article 78 petition challenging BSA’s denial. A lower court granted the petition and ordered BSA to grant the special permit. BSA appealed and the Second Department modified the lower court’s ruling. Noting that BSA had granted a special permit to legalize an enlargement under similar facts, the Second Department found that BSA ignored its own precedent when it ruled that it was not authorized to grant a special permit to Lyublinskiy. The court ordered BSA to reopen the application in order to review whether the special permit findings were met.
BSA reopened the application and granted the special permit, finding that the building would not alter the neighborhood’s essential character. Addressing concerns expressed by opponents that the house violated other zoning regulations, BSA noted that Buildings would review whether the structure’s building envelope complied with all relevant zoning provisions.
BSA: 136 Norfolk Street, Brooklyn (111- 06-A) (July 13, 2010).
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Tonight Catherine Bott asks, ‘Can pop musicians ever write good classical music?’
The answer, you may not be surprised to know,is yes, of course. And Catherine has plenty of evidence to prove it, dating back to George Gershwin who made millions writing popular songs but whose aspirations were always to raise jazz and popular forms to the level of respectability given to classical works. Tonight we hear Gershwin’s own Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm’.
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Cruise News Aida Cruises Aida Cruises Brand New Ship Shows Off In Indian Ocean
Aida Cruises Brand New Ship Shows Off In Indian Ocean
By Emrys Thakkar
Aida Cruises has posted a new Easter tease of their brand new cruise ship the Aidaprima. The vessel looks just breathtaking as it sails the Indian Ocean towards Europe. The Aidaprima can ben seen coasting along with it’s new Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System that reduces the amount of friction with the water.
You can watch the video below:
The Aidaprima is a new generation ship built by Mitsubishi in Nagasaki, Japan. The vessel is the first of 2 ships for the German based cruise line and the largest built so far for Aida Cruises. Aidaprima was handed over to the cruise line on March 14 and since then has been making its towards Europe.
Even though the ship had been delayed many times cruisers can look forward to the first cruise sailing out Hamburg, Germany on April 30. The ships will sail 7-night cruise including a call at Southampton, UK. Purpose built for the German market with the latest building technologies from Japan, Aidaprima is a huge 124,500 gross tons and carrying 3,300 passengers.
The ship will be christened during the 827th Hamburg Port Anniversary on May 7. The second new generation Aidaperla is currently under construction by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in the Nagasaki shipyard and will enter service in 2017.
Largest Carnival Owned Cruise Ship Makes Mediterranean History
Emrys Thakkar - Apr 26, 2019
Aidanova which is the largest Carnival Corporation-owned cruise ship to date made history in the Meditteranean as the first cruise ship to be supplied by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).
Largest Ever Carnival Owned Cruise Ship Delivery Delayed
Emrys Thakkar - Oct 25, 2018
Aidanova which is the largest ever Carnival-owned cruise ship is delayed. The ship which will be operated by German-based Aida Cruises will now take delivery later than expected.
Largest Ever Carnival Owned Cruise Ship to Depart Shipyard
Emrys Thakkar - Oct 5, 2018
The largest ever Carnival-owned cruise ship operated by Adia Cruises will soon depart the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.
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April 17, 2013 News » Cover Story
Purple at heart
An excerpt from John Schwartz's memoir Oddly Normal
As spring of his freshman year rolled around, Joseph decided to act on something he had been thinking about since he had been to camp with the kids from YES. A counselor whose hair color seemed to change by the week had suggested that Joseph might want to dye his hair. Joseph first mentioned this desire to Jeanne at the end of the summer. Jeanne initially put him off, telling him to ease into the new environment and test the waters first. By the spring, though, Joseph was insistent. He was doing reasonably well in school; teachers had learned to say to their classes, "Okay, let's hear the answer from somebody other than Joseph." This time, Jeanne thought that the request was serious enough that we should discuss it as a family. So, one evening in March, Joseph told me, "I really want to dye my hair purple."
When he was little, Joseph had wanted to paint his room purple. It had always been his favorite color. But on his head? I didn't try to argue him out of it; dye, unlike a tattoo, isn't permanent. But I did want him to consider the possible consequences.
"You know, Joe, there is a pretty significant possibility that you will get pounded at school." He said that he understood but told me he didn't really think that would happen.
I called around to the local hair salons; none of them said they could do a purple dye job. So I decided that on Saturday, we'd head over to Astor Place Hairstylists, the venerable salon in the East Village. They've been cutting, fading, and dyeing since 1947. It's a place that has always been up for anything.
So on a chilly Saturday in March after Joseph finished up at the Gay Center, we walked over to Astor Place. The colorist, however, tried to talk Joseph out of his purple idea. "Purple is for ladies," she said. "It's not a good color for a boy." She recommended blue. Joseph agreed, and she set to work applying the peroxide that would bleach his dark brown hair enough to take the dye.
As his hair was going to yellowish white — and Joseph's scalp was burning from the harsh chemicals — he decided to dig in. He got up and told the colorist, "I really want the purple." She nodded and got out two small jars of dye. After a couple of hours (and about a hundred bucks, with the very nice haircut thrown in), his hair was an eye-popping shade of purple.
We drove back across the Hudson, and Joseph reminded me that he wanted to attend the school dramatic performance that evening. I walked him into the school to buy the ticket and saw the principal from across the entryway. And the principal saw Joseph. His eyes got pretty big. I couldn't read his facial expression, but if I were to guess, it was one of self-pity — as in, "I'm going to be dealing with this on Monday. This kid is going to get picked on, and it's going to end up in my office."
I went home and posted a few pictures to Facebook with the caption, "Joseph Schwartz has decided to see what life is like with purple hair for a while ..."
My brother Bob, who is bald, wrote, "I am jealous."
A friend who is a professor at a top-ranked law school wrote, "Buy black towels and pillowcases. I speak from experience here." I waited nervously for something bad to happen, but disaster never came. Purple hair was Joe's version of Sam's poncho: bright and attention getting, but ultimately part of his school persona.
Still, not all of the attention was friendly. A few days after going purple, Joseph was in the locker room after gym when one of the jocks came up to him and asked, "Why did you dye your hair purple?"
Joseph said, "Because it's awesome."
The other boy didn't accept that answer. "Yeah, but — Why didn't you dye it orange, or something?"
"Because orange would not look good with my coloring," Joseph explained.
The kid became even more insistent and pulled out some of the high-dollar vocabulary words from SAT prep: "But don't you understand — don't you understand — that the color purple has been appropriated by the homosexuals?"
A kid piped up from across the room, "He's really aware of that."
The jock responded, "I was just trying to warn him —"
At that point, another of the jocks came up and slammed Jock #1 into a bank of lockers. "He can dye his hair hot fucking pink if he wants to," the boy shouted. "He can dye it any fucking color he wants!" The two boys walked out of the locker room, arguing with each other about Joe's hair. Joseph turned to the boy he shared a locker with and said, "That was surreal."
Reprinted from Oddly Normal by John Schwartz by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Copyright © 2012 by John Schwartz.
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Christoph von Dohnånyi takes the reigns for the orchestra's 70th birthday concert, featuring Beethoven's immortal 9th
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Few musical works exemplify ‘Greatness’ like Beethoven’s 9th Symphony - a masterpiece that sits beyond other masterpieces. Written in the early 1820s by the profoundly deaf composer, it immediately represented new possibilities for the medium, with its unprecedented orchestral size, and more unusually for a symphony, its use of a vocal chorus which sings an ‘Ode to Joy’ in the memorable, epic and triumphant finale.
It’s always a treat - and to hear it played by the ever-reliable Philharmonia Orchestra, at the conclusion of its 70th Anniversary Gala Concert, will be little short of special. What’s more: they’ll be under the baton of the extraordinary German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi - grandson of the legendary composer Ernő - who, at the age of 86 is making fewer and fewer outings, each of them more precious as a result.
The night also will offer the chance to hear Robert Schumann’s stunningly beautiful Piano Concerto, which he completed in 1845. The young German composer began work on it some years previous: inspired by his to-be wife Clara, who premiered the piece at the piano, Schumann envisaged an amalgam of a symphony, a concerto and a sonata, and ended up with an exuberant work bursting with melody, energy and joy - it’s not to be missed.
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Robert Donlevy
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I believe that it is important that we, as staff, have the means of being heard. The role of Staff Governor should be just that, a person who is able to listen and take forward concerns, and positive staff feedback, to represent the workforce at a senior level. With future changes happening across the county for our services around creating a Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), I believe my 10 years’ experience in an Acute Foundation Trust, and over 5 years working in Cumbria Partnership, would enable me to make a valuable contribution as a Staff Governor.
What our organisation will look like in the future particularly interests me and how this will affect our patients, services and staff. I am interested in how the Trust work can work collaboratively and efficiently, while also achieving high standards during times of financial constraint, and how we can consistently act in line with our values of kindness, fairness, spirit and ambition.
I have 3 years previous experience of being a Staff Governor in Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust, one of the first ten Foundation Trusts created back in 2004. As a Staff Governor, I regularly took part in ‘listening surgeries’ to hear the voices of our staff and feed concerns back to the Board. I also have a Masters in Integrated Governance and established connections across the Cumbria Partnership.
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Eco Friendly Attitudes Lead to Holiday Ritual Changeup and River Cleanup
September 5, 2018 by Melissa Krupp Leave a Comment
This weekend, Sunday the 9th, is the start of Rosh Hashanah (ראש השנה)–the Jewish New Year.
Celebrated on the first of Tishrei (September/October) (תשרי), this holiday marks the beginning of inner reflection and atonement for one’s sins throughout the previous year. With modern attitudes becoming increasingly eco-conscious, one Rabbi is looking to change a common custom to make it more Earth friendly.
Rabbi Eliana Jacobwitz from Somerville, Massachusetts, will lead her congregation to the Blessing of the Bay Boathouse on the Mystic River for Tashlich (תשליך), a centuries-old ritual where sins are symbolically cast into bodies of water. This year, members of Rabbi Jacobwitz’s congregation will not be tossing the customary bits of stale bread, handfuls of breadcrumbs, or even left over matzah (מצה) from last Passover. (פסח) Instead, they’ll be throwing little pebbles.
Members of Temple B’nai Brith, a congregation in this Boston suburb with historic ties to conservatism, have likely been tossing bread into the river for well over a century!
The shift from food to rocks, is a recent change that follows the city’s new environmentally friendly rules that no longer allow bread to be tossed into the river. This is not only to protect fish but also to address other concerns people have with this practice.
“Yes, our congregation is environmentally conscious and this was an appealing reason to change something we care about on a social justice level,” says Jacobwitz. Practices to create an environmentally friendly tashlich are emerging beyond the city. Reports surfaced last year of a congregation in Ontario, Canada, using untreated wood chips in place of bread. Whatever they use, congregants aren’t meant to think that this is to undercut the work of repentance. This repentance extends from Rosh Hashanah, to Yom Kippur (יום כיפור) ten days later.
The subject was first raised three years ago when the Somerville Parks and Recreation Department notified the synagogue that tossing bread violated Environmental Protection Agency guidelines and local efforts to protect the environment. Feeding wildlife is harmful to their nutrition, leads to poor water quality, and disrupts the ecosystem. In addition to the harm it does to birds, animal feeding brought “an unintended invitation for animals around the boathouse,” said Jill Lathan, the Parks and Recreation director, “including issues with geese on the docks.”
At the time, cleanup efforts were paying off. This included relentless pollution from industry, development, and storm drainage. The river scored an A-minus from the EPA just last year. This is up from the D it received 11 years earlier. The 7 mile long river flows through 22 towns just north and west of Boston until it eventually reaches Boston Harbor.
In September of 2015, the city granted the synagogue a one-year waver, acknowledging its longstanding tradition of using bread for tashlich. Temple B’nai Brith assured the city it would educate members on more environmentally friendly items they could throw instead. Rabbi Jacobwitz eventually found that small pebbles had the most resonance. The sinking pebbles echo the last verses of the prophet Micah (7:19).
God will take us back in love; God will cover up our iniquities; You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
As a resident, Jacobwitz has noted the environmental improvements along the river in the past few years. “It’s lovely. The water is better.” She sometimes visits the area to think about her High Holiday sermons and can see that its being transformed. After much reflection the Rabbi has concluded that it’s not about bread versus pebbles. Rather, its about exchanging a ritual that has content with another that is just as compelling. Over time, she anticipates the newer ritual will take hold in a meaningful way.
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Sites Reservoir: Bond fund proposal must be ready in August
Bill Husa-Enterprise Record file photography A few buildings dot the landscape in the valley proposed for the Sites Reservoir.
By Heather Hacking |
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2017 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 30, 2018 at 12:00 am
Maxwell >> The plans to build a new reservoir near Maxwell have been a long time in coming. At this point, 30 agencies throughout the state are on the list to help pay for planning efforts and later receive a share of an estimated average yield of 500,000 acre-feet of water.
The next step is to apply for partial funding through Proposition 1 funds, the statewide water bond approved in 2014. Within the $7.5 bond amount, $2.7 billion is set aside for water storage projects.
The deadline to apply for the water project bond funding is Aug. 14, followed by review by several agencies that oversee projects like this, and a final decision on funding from the state Water Commission, explained Jim Watson, general manager for the Sites Joint Powers Association, www.sitesproject.org.
The review by public agencies is extensive, Watson said. California Fish and Wildlife has responded to the preliminary plans with 303 questions that need to be answered. Another 140 questions will be answered for the state Water Board. Reviews will include modeling for climate change and cost benefits.
A public meeting will take place sometime in the fall, probably in September, he said.
Moving ahead
Having a share of the state bond fund would move the project along. Yet, just as the Sites JPA is working on an application, others are as well. Other new reservoir proposals include Temperance Flats near Fresno and a plan to enlarge Los Vaqueros Reservoir in eastern Contra Costa County. Other projects may or may not be submitted for consideration when the Aug. 14 deadline arrives.
Whether the state Water Commission will approve some, all or none of the Sites Project is very much unknown. Planners on Sites note that public benefits, paid for through bond money, would include availability of cold water for fish, water supply flexibility, water for wildlife refuges and recreation.
“Our game plan is to give the state the first right of refusal for up to 50 percent of the project,” Watson said. Then priorities will be set, depending on what state agencies see as the most important. It may be water is earmarked for cold water for salmon, or wildlife habitat, or water supply for fish in the delta, as examples.
There could be entirely different priorities in the future, he said.
For water districts that would also be investors, the benefits are water supply for crops and cities.
Plans, money and time
The reservoir would store up to 1.8 million acre-feet, again with an average yield of 500,000 acre-feet.
One acre-foot of water is 325,851 gallons, or enough water to cover one acre of land with one foot of water.
The total project could cost $4.8 billion, Watson said. That number keeps rising as time passes.
Once approved, it could take 7-8 years for construction.
The Water Commission will consider proposals and deliver decisions on proposals in June 2018.
Difference in dams
All eyes have been focused on problems at Lake Oroville these past few months, while the Sites JPA continues with the planning process and bond proposal.
One key difference between the Sites proposal and other dams is that Sites would be “off-stream storage,” Watson said. This means water would be diverted from the river, but the river itself would not be blocked.
“We don’t fill by Mother Nature,” Watson said.
However, the “lessons learned” aspect of the scrutiny of Lake Oroville may end up impacting design of Sites Reservoir, he said. As the Division of Dam Safety learns more about what went wrong at Oroville, new information and rules may apply to any new construction, including Sites.
For example, when radial gates failed at Folsom Dam, new rules for reservoir gates were applied elsewhere.
The proposal for Sites is controversial. The biggest water agency on the list (see sidebar) is Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which pledged $1.5 million toward planning in April. Residents of Northern California are frequently wary when projects involve moving water from north to south.
Water is a shared resource, and when private investors pay for project they buy into a share of that resource. Dams also cover habitat with water.
Contact reporter Heather Hacking at 896-7758.
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Web site offers point-and-click splits
By Deborah Sharp, USA TODAY
Couples can find a mate, fill out a bridal registry and plan a honeymoon on the computer. Now they can also divorce online.
A Web site started last year by a Seattle attorney gives the unhappily wed in Washington, California, Florida and New York the option of dissolving their marriages online. Texas is next, and several other states are being considered.
The site is the latest twist in a do-it-yourself trend. Changing trends in the USA Average age of first marriage Divorce year male female Divorced Americans Divorces granted 1970 23.2 20.8 4.3 million 0.7 million 2000 26.8 25.1 19.9 million 1.2 million Sources: U.S. Census; National Center for Health Statistics
No national figures exist on self-representation. But some experts estimate that as many as half of 1.2 million couples divorcing annually in the USA do so without a lawyer representing at least one of the parties.
The Web site, www.completecase.com, differs from the many self-help sites offering advice, referrals or downloads of documents needed to file for divorce in a particular state.
For $249, the Web site prompts couples with questions on everything from dividing financial assets to deciding where the kids celebrate birthdays. The software then uses their answers to fill out the documents that a couple can download and submit to a court.
Requirements vary by locale as to whether a couple must show up in court or can mail in or fax their divorce filing. But in all cases, a judge must still sign the order ending a marriage.
Randy Finney, a family law attorney for 11 years and the founder of the Web site, says it was designed for uncontested divorces. It's not for couples with convoluted finances or for those fighting over child custody and who gets the dog.
"The decision to get a divorce comes way before the decision about how to get a divorce," says Finney, 35, who is happily married. "I don't think anyone takes their wedding vows so frivolously that they're going to get a divorce just because they can do it for $249."
Not everyone is thrilled with the notion of cyber-divorce.
Judges and lawyers fret that couples who use the Web site may believe they've had legal counsel when they haven't. And leaders in the movement to save marriages complain that point-and-click divorce further undermines the institution's supposed sanctity.
"I can only think of one use of the Internet that's worse and that's pornography," says Dennis Rainey, executive director of FamilyLife, a religious group based in Little Rock. "We're trying to do all we can to call people to keep their wedding vows."
FamilyLife has joined with 30 other organizations since 1999 in drawing 175,000 spouses nationwide to "I Still Do" ceremonies that affirm marriage.
Despite the marriage celebrations, about one-fifth of American men and women have been divorced at least once.
A study released last month by the U.S. Census shows about 90% of Americans will marry at some point. For men, 54% married just once. For women, 60%. Serial marriage is rare: Only 3% of Americans have married three times or more; 13% have married twice.
Finney estimates his Web site has helped 1,000 couples unhitch. Stacey Kiss of Seattle is among those who traveled to virtual Splitsville. The self-described "Internet junkie" says it took her and her husband of seven years about three hours one night to click through the Web site's detailed questions.
"We never got along on anything through our entire marriage, but we still managed to come to an agreement," says Kiss, 36, a hospital business-services manager. "Why drag it out and make it complicated?"
She says the online split was cheaper and easier than her first, traditional divorce. Now single, Kiss says she's comfortable with dot-com divorce, but she draws the line at cyber-dating.
"I like surfing the Web," she says, "but not for men."
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Ernesto Gomez and his wife Blanca had been planning to get a divorce for three years. They had already separated and worked out custody and child support for their two kids. But they had stalled on filing because they didn't want to deal with the hassle and expense. Hiring a lawyer, they were told, would cost at least $1,500. Using a free service offered by the court would involve numerous meetings spread out over several weeks.
So when Gomez heard an ad on the radio for a service called CompleteCase.com that would let him fill out the paperwork online for just $249, he decided to give it a try. Four days after he logged onto the site, he had the papers completed and filed in court. "CompleteCase gives you step-by-step instructions. You can't miss anything," says Gomez, a distribution-center manager in Miami.
Gomez is not the only one turning to the Internet to simplify the process. Other services, like divorcewizards. com and divorcesyourself.com also offer quickie online divorce kits, usually for $300 or less. No lawyer is involved unless a client chooses to pay extra for a consultation by phone or e-mail.
Brian Lee, president of legalzoom.com says his site has handled more than 30,000 divorces since its launch in 2001. Though people still have to convey their forms to the court, the process of filling out the paperwork can take less than an hour, thanks to simple online questionnaires that hand-hold customers through the process.
Online divorce is not an option if the couple can't agree on the terms. Even when they can, not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "Instant divorce is the last thing we need," says Mike McManus, president of the marriage advocacy group Marriage Savers. Instead of a divorce, McManus says, couples often just need time to cool off before working out their differences.
Still, such services are spreading. Utah and California offer do-it-yourself sites that let you fill the forms out online (for $20 at utcourts.gov/how to; free at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) Traffic on the California site rose from 6,800 page views in May 2002 to nearly 17,000 in May 2003. --By Anita Hamilton
Couples Can Untie the Knot Online; Divorce is a mouse click away, but not for everyone.
The Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, Calif.; Nov 19, 2001; MARTIN MILLER;
Abstract: Californians can legally split from their spouses over the Web site www.completecase.com and never have to set foot in a courthouse or lawyer's office. Legal papers can be completed within anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the complexity of the split, according to Randolph Finney, a Seattle-based family law attorney who founded the site.
For Californians, once the judge signs the documents, they are "legally binding and enforceable," says Finney, but per state law the divorce doesn't become finalized for six months.
Full Text: (Copyright, The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times 2001 All rights reserved)
The circle of online life is now complete. You can date online; you can marry online; and now you can divorce online.
Californians can legally split from their spouses over the Web site www.completecase.com and never have to set foot in a courthouse or lawyer's office. Legal papers can be completed within anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the complexity of the split, according to Randolph Finney, a Seattle-based family law attorney who founded the site.
For a flat fee of $249, the site walks divorcing couples step-by- step through such issues as community property and calculating child support payments. When the online form is completed, the applicant simply signs the papers and mails them to the courthouse.
But it's not for everyone. It works only for those couples who are parting amicably and filing for an uncontested divorce. "If you can't agree on who gets the kids, our site is not for you," says Finney, a married 35-year-old.
The site debuted earlier this year, but only to residents of Washington state. Last month, California was added, and soon Florida, New York and Oregon are expected to be added. So far, the site has helped process hundreds of divorces, says Finney.
The site has drawn critics who denounce the online divorce as yet another blow to society's bedrock institutions. The very ease of the process, some contend, makes family and marriage as disposable as an old appliance. Indeed, a similar site in England was recently condemned by the pope as immoral because it made divorce too easy.
Naturally, Finney disagrees. "I think our Web site has the opposite effect," he said. "If you're going to get divorced, let's do it in a civil manner. I really don't believe having something available that makes it easier and costs less money is going to encourage divorce."
The inspiration for the project came from his law practice, where he primarily handles divorces. It took about a year to get the site up and running. "On almost a daily basis, I would get clients who said they needed a divorce but didn't have the money or the patience with the legal process to pursue it," he said. "These people are really stuck between a rock and a hard place."
For Californians, once the judge signs the documents, they are "legally binding and enforceable," says Finney, but per state law the divorce doesn't become finalized for six months. "It isn't quite as fast as a Las Vegas divorce," he says.
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Analysis: Louisiana among states with most amicable divorces
By KSLA Staff, KSLA NEWS 12
It's generally assumed that once any couple has reached the stage of divorce, things have reached a low point.
But thankfully, divorce doesn't always have to be a bitter situation. Some couples manage to part ways as friends.
Many couples manage to part ways quite amicably; just look at the blissful ‘conscious uncoupling’ of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, or observe how Demi Moore and Bruce Willis holiday together with their new partners. There’s even a hot new trend for former husbands and wives to take ‘divorce selfies’ just after leaving court.
A recent analysis by CompleteCase.com found which states have the happiest and easiest divorces by comparing couples in each state who declared online that they were in agreement with each other against those who were not.
Louisiana came in the top ten when it comes to an easy, amicable divorce.
According to CompleteCase, which facilitates online divorces, completing divorce papers in the Pelican State, as well as other states from Oregon to Rhode Island can be a pretty painless process as this is where couples are more likely to have an uncontested divorce. Couples in these states might even remain friends afterwards.
Things are likely to be pleasantly cordial in states stretching across the nation from Hawaii to New York; there might be a few conversations through gritted teeth, or a little bit of sniping back and forth, but generally divorcing couples in these states can politely get through it all without too many recriminations.
However, if you live in Alabama, you’re not likely to have a quick or easy divorce; relationships which break down here can be the most disagreeable in the country when starting the divorce process. From bitter disputes over who owns what, to raging arguments over alimony, lawyers in the Yellowhammer state stand to do rather well.
Blake Shelton Opens Up About 'Fast' Divorce From Miranda Lambert
By Deborah Sharp, HUFFINGTON POST
Country music star Blake Shelton has finally addressed why his split from Miranda Lambert seemed so quick.
The two announced their divorce on Jul. 20, but according to US Weekly, it was finalized just hours after it was made public. Shelton had filed divorce papers two weeks earlier, TMZ reports.
In a recent interview with "The Bobby Bones Show," Shelton shared how he kept their breakup quiet.
"In Oklahoma, it happens so fast," said Shelton. "Like, Miranda and I didn't have any kids, and we had a prenuptial agreement, or whatever we had. So, it was like once we filed for divorce… it was like a nine or 10-day waiting period until it's over.”
He said that he was not too worried about rumours, or whispers about infidelity.
“By the time anyone knew anything, it was over.”
The superstar couple were married for four years and famously met in 2005 while Shelton was still married to first wife Kaynette Gern.
"I didn't know if it was just initial butterflies… I don't know what it was," Lambert told Hoba Kotb in 2011, about when she first met Shelton. "It was just this draw to each other."
But while those butterflies may have faded for the couple, their speedy divorce may have helped them avoid any further drama.
Oklahoma came in second in a ranking of states with the nicest divorces, according to new research from divorce form preparation service CompleteCase.com.
Shelton told "The Bobby Bones Show" that he and Lambert are still on good terms.
"Our whole thing was: You know, we're just going to be cool about this," said Shelton. "It is what it is. We're buddies."
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“I just want everyone to be friends,” Little girl has a heart-to-heart with mom about divorce
by KFOR-TV & K. QUERRY, NEWS CHANNEL 4
Divorce can be difficult on everyone involved, especially children.
6-year-old Tiana decided that she had seen enough of her parents’ arguments and fights following their divorce.
Instead of bottling up her emotions, the little girl decided to have a heart-to-heart with her mother.
“Mom, are you ready to be his friend?” Tiana asks. “Just try your best. I don’t want you and my dad to be replaced… and mean again. I want you and my dad to be placed, and settled, and be friends. I’m not trying to be mean, I just want everyone to be friends.”
While divorce is usually full of emotions, it doesn’t have to be a bitter experience.
An analysis by CompleteCase.com found which states have the most amicable divorces by looking at the number of couples who declared online that they were in agreement with each other.
In fact, researchers say Oklahomans tend to be pretty easy going when it comes to getting a divorce.
Experts say people with the easiest divorces live in Vermont, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Oregon, Kansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Delaware, Ohio and Texas.
The worst divorces tend to happen in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Hampshire, Florida, Wyoming, Nebraska and Tennessee.
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Tiffany Byrd Named Coordinator of Interscholastic Athletics in Baltimore City
Tiffany Byrd has been named the Coordinator of Interscholastic Athletics in Baltimore City, taking over for Bob Wade and Jessica Ivey. Both Wade and Ivey were laid off earlier in the summer by Baltimore City Public Schools, along with over 150 other employees.
Wade is a legendary coach in the Baltimore area, having coached basketball at both Dunbar High School and University of Maryland. He had held the Coordinator of Interscholastic Athletics position for 19 years.
Byrd is a former athletic director at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. She started her new job this past Wednesday.
All of us at County Sports Zone would like to thank Bob Wade and Jessica Ivey for all the great work they have done for athletics in Baltimore City! CSZ would also like to congratulate Tiffany Byrd on her new position! We look forward to working with her.
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Secrets of Selling at Craft Fairs: How to Get In, Make Sales, and Grow Your Business
We're gonna talk about branding your business building an identity and how to attract your that ideal customer that we're talking about uh what is branding can anybody answer this what what is brandy bring it although to me branding is when like how your business speaks to the world and identifies you okay so how your I'm just going to write is right now even though that's like not my favorite word just so you guys don't have to sit here and watch me write business of a jillion times okay, so how your business is viewed by the world yes ok I didn't mean to put words in your mouth cued by the world okay isn't it like uh an image synonymous to a product so that you like you think of starbucks or you know you think starbucks and then you know it's coffee or beverages I like your colors so when you think of starbucks think green gold I'm flashing colors okay? Your logo we'll have about your feelings okay or the could be maybe like a connotation to your logo adding to the feelings maybe fee...
lings company lis attack line maybe um years was what the way that maybe the connotation that comes with your logo so but that that might be a little bit further on the feeling company hoops running your recognition I guess how people recognize you there what was the one before that tagline that's what it was like everything that you're doing tio creates the first impression mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm first fresh wow this writing is really awesome if there's any three year olds that want a part time job writing my things on the board come on in um so branding branding is all of those things um but it's not any one of those things and the interesting thing wass out of all the questions I've asked which rolling out day one so it hasn't been that many this was the one that I felt like overall not everyone but overall there was the most like hesitation when we were answering um like, isn't it e I think it's the it's the recognition you know, like we're not asking a question, but we kind of are with a statement so which makes sense because I think branding is one of those things that it's like, oh, your business has to be well branded oh, of course it does yeah let's brand you know, but people don't really talk about what it means. So let's let's talk about some aspects of your business that communicate your brand so some of which we listed there one thing way don't talk about is your actual products so your products are going to communicate your brand your company name which we didn't talk about. So your name your business card, your logo, your tag line so we were right on with that any kind of marketing materials you have pretty marketing marketing materials so you know, postcards, any kind of hang tags, your line sheets if they're printed and your digital marketing materials, anything digital marketing materials, your social media accounts, your online presence, your website, your email signature, your newsletter how it's laid out on top of that, the stores that carry your line, what kind of stories your lying in, you know, who's carrying your products, that kind of store is representative of your brand, the types of craft shows you sell that. So whether you're selling at west coast craft, which rebecca mentioned, which is a very how do you describe that modern showcase? Yeah, it's like it's very it's, very modern it's very like on its very on trend lot of minimalist stuff. It's um, very design e I would say very or if you're selling at a show like patchwork, which is, like kind of more like a mish mosh, you know, like there's some designing stuff there, but then there's also some not designing stuff there, but the thing that everything else in common is that well made products, you know, whatever I it's uh I wouldn't buy everything in patchwork but I'm not our customer I'm not trying to please myself I'm trying to please our customers so uh so the types of craft shows that carry your stuff your actual booth your booth how it's merchandised how is displayed the way you're displaying yur stuff and your design elements font color, composition shapes and your process and your materials so if I'm ico style I'm probably using some bamboo yarn you know if that's part of my branding is being you know kant conscious of the environment uh and then one that I don't think people think about that much is your writing voice so when you're writing your bio when you're writing your product descriptions when you're writing your business description that voice is it very serious? Is it you know funny is it are you telling a story like does that reflect that reflects your brand and it needs teo I like to say branding is the you of your business even though it's not for you because you are, you know, obviously separate from your business but it's the you that you put into your business we were talking about we would all make a difference a different weaving it's that it's our design sense it's our insight it's all of that it's our style in our personality and are aesthetic it's all of those things um this is this is some stuff that I used to make when I made stuff this was probably I don't even know ten years ago or something so that's a bag made out of a record album you can't really see it a shirt and a skirt all different stuff I also meet like makeup bag's in art and all of this stuff and people be like when I would see my friends they would say oh my gosh it's so funny I actually saw somebody wearing your thing especially when I was selling at that flea market so I was selling a lot of stuff every week in the same town that I lived in so my stuff was everywhere people would say, why don't I told somebody where your thing how did you know it was so random? Nicole like I knew it was yours immediately, you know? And without even knowing it I had branding I had branded my business and I have done it without knowing it because everything I made I had such a strong, specific vision to start with and everything just went into that. So I mean, I also paid attention to my customers and you got feedback and all those things along the way I didn't just make whatever the heck I wanted whenever the heck I wanted to make it I took everything very seriously, but uh yeah, so when we talk about branding you have to start somewhere even if you already have your stuff maybe this is something you haven't thought about before and so now you're going to start thinking about it, which is it's kind of awesome if you already have your product is and you have a place to start to find your branding so the first thing I like to do and this is great for creatives is make a mood board so it's kind of like a vision board if you've heard of those but it's not for your like manifesting your life it's for manifesting your phones and colors in your brandy so what do you want to do is relax grab some magazines and start ribbon just rip rip, rip, rip it and whatever it is you need to do to relax you take a walk first you take ten depress you drink a glass of wine or a bottle of wine whatever it is that you need to dio to get into that zone where your inner critic is burke out of there and you're just feeling flowy that's what you need to dio so you rip all your stuff out and then once everything's ripped out then you start editing, you start thinking about shape and pattern and imagery and then you and then you glue it down and then you look you look at this so the example that I'm going to use throughout this branding thing is a fake company that I made up that I made up for the purpose of illustrating how this works. So this was the mood board that I made for this fake company. We're going to see what this has turned into so that you can see the whole process, you can also do it online, so this is, you know, I do logos and stuff like that in illustrations for people, and so I usually set up like, a secret pinterest board, and we, you know, look at that and that's how we do our our version of the mood board so that everybody can be adding stuff to it. Um, one of the things that you're you want to think about with this is color, so let's, just do a couple of real quick what, what? What is like a word that comes to your mind when you look at these colors together here, midcentury modern, great ocean ocean, thes colors, fun, old birthday, very loud, girls, girls, that was the first thing that came to my mind. I was like, girls, color is so important oh, my gosh, it's so important, you know, that they like, I'm sure maybe you don't know this, but they like make fast food they don't do it anymore but before they would like make fast food restaurants like yellow because like yellow you want to get away from it so people wouldn't stay in there long so they could help more customers you know there's a reason why there's that color I call it like I meant mental hospital blue you know it's like relaxing and like it's that color that you always see when you're watching a mental hospital in a movie my living room is that color if I need to be very relaxing uh so you really want to think about think about your your colors and what they're communicating and like you even look at the color color trend reports you know their parent pantone always picks their colors for the year and that doesn't mean those should be your colors for the year but look att the qualities of those colors they're picking bright colors you know people are attracted to that right now what are people into him mom if you're watching I am so sorry right now so these air some fonts that my mom really likes you might be familiar with the first one is called bradley hand and the second one is comic sands and when my mom first asked me to make a business card for her she wanted it in bradley hand or yet bradley hand and I was comic sans no don't use these phones that's it if you want to know what fonts not to use go to your computer and type in what are the most what funds should I not use overused fonts on center out type that in and look um fonts just like color font is going to communicate so much about your business so much so look at these fonts and think about what they convey like this shout something out somebody he's first to I end old I think I think bold when I see that business yeah, serious maybe boring news generic newspaper. Okay, so piers really bad examples oh, shoot. Well, we have one bad example uh somehow the fonts didn't transfer, so just ignore these pretend like they don't exist but particularly for use for an accounting firm, right? I had a really good ones here too. This was like a rock and roll thought for ashley rose floral and this abc modern was old english and there was another one that was a mechanic shop and it was in like, a really romantic flowy one. So pretend like that's that's what just happened? Okay, so when we're thinking about branding, we really want to stay true to ourselves and when I told you guys about you know that I kind of developed my branding without even realizing it but I pay attention to my customers you gotta listen that inner voice so um I had a women's line in his line nordstrom was like we want men's shirts from you to use a men's shirts told they know my rep this and I was strong you know? It was just like this really big deal I was so excited but they want to see him in a trade show that was like three days away so I was just like up all nigh every night I'm like my parents are helping my parents I didn't couldn't get him to my rep in time we had to drive out to las vegas to this trade show and I'm in the car the whole time hand sewing stuff you know clipping name tags doing all this stuff drive out to las vegas drop off my assurance nor someone oh can you change this how can you do this like you do this do this I went through like two more rounds of that and then didn't place an order and I was just like devastated and then I realized like it's okay big stores like that they will ask you to make changes the stuff it's very natural it's very normal but that needs to feel true to you and true to your brand and when that stopped feeling true to me and to my right and I kept going and I should have been like you know what we don't know worth it um, so this is a branding words brainstorm, you know, I was thinking about doing this is an activity, but I think I think that I think you guys can get the picture without it being an activity. So what I did is that same member were junior, a mood board that we did so that same company I did this year and I took what I knew about this company again and made them up on dh you start with something in the middle so scars made from sweaters and then the next word that comes your mind go next word that comes to your mind go next word, next word, next word and you keep doing that, and then when I'm done, I highlight all the words that, you know feel the feel good um, I myself you come up with your branding words, I actually fellow creative live instructor jasmine story saw her speak at a conference and she was talking about having your three branding words and my business partner and I kind of turned and looked at each other we're like, oh yeah, we're we're supposed to have some branding words, you know? And then we're like, hey, let's, come up with our branding words and this was the exercise I do this a lot when I'm trying to like, tap this is a great exercise for anything this brainstorm when you're trying to like tappin get past something tap into something new get get yourself outside so we came up with our three branding word than it's been so helpful everything we do we think ours are fun, creative, inauthentic so everything we do we say is this fun? Is this creative? Is this authentic? Does this postcard looked like this? This event we're thinking about doing is it like this? The next thing you want to do is create your ideal customer profile so coming up with a list of ten to fifteen questions that you would want to ask your customer mom hi these are my mom's shells that she makes she glues rosky crystals on them they're very beautiful my mom is very detail oriented they're absolutely perfect everything is placed millimeter this that whatever there is a customer for her but that customer is not at west coast craft you know that customer sometimes comes a patchwork but that customer is that, eh? You know farmers market that's in san juan capistrano which is a beach town you know that customers is somewhere else so it's about finding that ideal customer if you want to find them you have to know who they are how could you find someone if you don't know who they are? So if you have actual customers ask them and don't just say, give me information, give them something in return for their information, you know, offer them something. Hey, I'm doing a twenty percent off discount code for my shop for anybody that answers this survey, anybody that answers this survey has entered to win a free pair of earrings on her to win a gift certificate for my shop, give back when you ask for something, and then you're going to use that information to create your branding here's some of my customer profile questions so like, where is your customer live? What kind of magazines do they subscribe? Tio? How much money do they make? That's a really important to think about? And then I create this little guy here, please put all my questions there and then thought the answer is there, then this is one of our bonus material, so that the branding worksheet and this is what we use, all that stuff that we've been talking about to fill out. So this is the filled out one for my fake company, which ended up being called re scarves. So it's a company that makes scarves out of vintage sweaters in my head, everything that we talked about is on here we're gonna clean and simple colors, mostly neutral splashes of bright, sunny colors, you know, this is how you find that this is how you find that stuff? This is what re scarves branding fake branding looks like so ego feminine, you know, earthy what whatever it is crafty you know, all of these things that we were thinking about in there, we certainly didn't use that disgusting font that was on bob's a one accounting or whatever that wass yeah, and then once you have your branding, you wantto figure out if that brandy is going to stand the test of time, so you look at it and you think, does this look super like, trendy right now, you know, is this is this going to last my going toe like this logo in a year? Give yourself some time with your love, I'll take a listen from me, who doesn't do that? I'm just like quick, I need I need a logo I got to do it right now with my own stuff with my customers actually take the time and then three months later, I'm like, I really should've re shirts just fought everybody else is using this font right now, so really take your time. This is a big deal and you want to think about if it's unique and distinctive and if it tells that story of your business that you're trying to communicate and you also want to think about if it's uh communicating that personality of your business, you know, all those things that we talked about with branding, it's got to be there. People need to look at your stuff and say that's for me, or that isn't for me, you know, it shouldn't be a question. Do I like this or not? I like this. I need this. I want this it's for me. It was made for me. Give it to me now.
Selling at craft fairs is a big investment of time, money, and resources – it’s also one of the most powerful venues a crafter has for getting products in front of people. In Secrets of Selling at Craft Fairs: How to Get In, Make Sales, and Grow Your Business, Nicole Stevenson teaches you everything you need to know about working the craft fair circuit.
Craft shows are complex affairs. From the application, to the preparation, to the actual hustle there are many variables to plan and prepare for. Nicole has been a vendor at over 300 craft shows and produced over 40 – in this class she'll help crafters make informed, strategic decisions about where to invest their time and effort.
You’ll learn how to:
Find and apply to the right show
Develop your “look” using basic branding
Prepare for shows with products, checklists, staff, and a pitch
Merchandise and display products for maximum effect
Deal with pricing, permits, and taxes
Nicole will offer insights on troubleshooting common challenges so you aren’t left in the lurch without the equipment or information you need to do a great job. You’ll also learn strategies for keeping in touch with customers and building relationships with event producers that last long after the show ends.
The world of craft fairs is complex and it is not always easy finding the right match. Secrets of Selling at Craft Fairs: How to Get In, Make Sales, and Grow Your Business makes the process of finding your perfect fit as stress-free and fun as possible.
Craft Shows Should be a Part of Your Business
Introduction: How to Have a Successful Craft Show Experience
Why You Should Be Doing Craft Shows
There is serious value in getting your products out and in front of buyers at craft shows and markets.
Is Your Business Ready for a Craft Show?
Now is the Time for Craft Shows
Get Your Product Ready
Pricing Your Products
Smaller Craft Shows & Unusual Venues
Research Potential Shows
Apply to a Craft Show
Your Website & Online Presence
Writing About Your Business
Stellar Product Photos
Preparation: Create a Task Timeline
Marketing Before the Craft Show
Recruit Craft Show Assistants
Preparation: Packing Up Before the Show
5 Tips for Preparing Your Display
The Importance of Your Booth Display
Booth Display: Where to Get Inspiration
Brand Your Booth & Signage
Utilize Your Booth Space
Workshopping Booth Displays
Keep Your Customer in Mind
Engage with Your Customers
Sell with Storytelling
Craft Your Pitch
Conquer Craft Show Obstacles
Product Loss Prevention
How to Handle Difficult Customers
Strategies for Busy & Slow Shows
Discounts & At-Show Marketing
Celebrate After the Show
Follow Up with Producers
Connect with Customers
Build Your Community
Evaluate the Show
Plan for the Next Craft Show
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It was an awesome experience. I learned so much from Nicole. She is entertaining and so knowledgeable that I feel I left the show with soooooo much info. I loved being in the studio audience, I met so many great people, crafters and new friends I feel we all became one big support for each other. I am putting to good use everything I learned. I look forward to coming back to Creative Live for another learning experience. Craft Show Secrets taught me all the ins/outs of craft shows ...I'm excited for my next craft show. Time to Create!!!
Lisa Jones
Great Class! Full of practical information + tools about how to REALLY succeed doing shows. I have attended many a craft show and found an enormous amount of useful tips. I especially loved the bonus material! Thank you Nicole and Creative Live for keeping it real + FUN!!
I've been growing my business successfully online for the last six years, but hadn't shown my work in person for a decade. As a refresher, I took Nicole's craft show class to be sure that I made the most of the time I would have in front of my customers. Because of the preparedness and mindset that I gained from Nicole's teaching, my show was a huge success. My interactions with the customers, producers, and other vendors were genuine and joyful, building a stronger foundation for future business and relationships. This course took the worry and stress off my shoulders so I could enjoy the opportunity that I had. Thanks, Nicole! Tamara Kraft Pithitude
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Noah Desouza and the rest of his team mates through their gloves in celebration of their Cyclone Taylor Cup win in Campbell River on April 14. (Mike Davies/Black Press)
Revelstoke Grizzlies win Cyclone Taylor Cup
They beat the Victoria Cougars for the provincial title
Jocelyn Doll
Apr. 15, 2019 6:50 a.m.
The Revelstoke Grizzlies are the Jr. B provincial champions after a hard fought win against the Victoria Cougars at the Cyclone Taylor Cup in Campbell River.
The Grizzlies met the Cougars in their first round robin game April 11, losing 4-1. Their lone goal was a shorthanded breakaway by Kaeden Patrick.
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On day two of the tournament the Grizzlies played the North Vancouver Wolf Pack, winning 5-1.
Cody Flann scored the first goal of the game, assisted by Ethan Schaeffer. Raymond Speerbrecker scored the second, assisted by Ryan Pereverzoff. Brenden Vulcano score the third, assisted by Pereverzoff and Ullar Wiatzka.
Patrick scored the fourth and fifth goals of the game, assisted by Cody Flann and Vulcano and Jaden Hay and Flann.
Game three saw the Grizzlies meet the host team, the Campbell River Storm, winning 3-2. Matt Cadden tied the score in the second period assisted by Speerbrecker and Carter Anderson. Tommy Bodtker scored a short handed goal later in the second to tie the game at two.
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Hay, assisted by Cadden scored the winning goal in the third with just over six minutes left on the clock.
The Grizzlies once again met the cougars on April 14 for the championship game.
In the first two periods they outshot the Cougars 34-16.
Pereverzoff scored the first goal of the game, assisted by Jon Vandermolen, to tie it up.
Ryan Bedard took the lead in the second period, assisted by Josh Irvine.
Speerbrecker scored goal number three, assisted by Brenden Vulcano and Ethan Schaeffer.
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The third period saw the Cougars control the puck in the Grizzlies end of the ice for most of the game. Liam McGarva, goalie for the Grizzlies saw 12 shots, but many were blocked by his own teammates before they could get to the net.
Despite the two goal lead the tension was high and the fans watching in Revelstoke were on the edges of their seats.
But then Bedard scored two unassisted goals with less than three minutes left on the clock, sealing the deal for the Grizzlies.
This is the first time the Grizzlies have won the Cyclone Taylor Cup since 2010. It marks the end of the season for the team and the end of the line for five players who will be too old to play again next year.
READ MORE: What’s next for the players leaving the Grizzlies
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Ryan Bedard scored three of five goals for the Grizzlies in the Cyclone Taylor Cup final, securing the provincial championship title. (Mike Davies/Black Press)
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes stand against critics who want IPO
Published Wed, Apr 27 2016 10:18 AM EDT Updated Thu, Apr 28 2016 4:08 AM EDT
Matthew J. Belvedere@Matt_Belvedere
Uber CEO welcomes Huffington to board, comments on IPO
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Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride-hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.
"We are 5½-years old. And it's a little early in our lifecycle go there," Kalanick told CNBC's "Squawk Box, " referring to the IPO process. "We'll go there eventually. We have to find liquidity for ... [investors]."
Back in February, Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson was critical of Kalanick, saying: "He's wimping out. [Uber] should be a publicly traded company. ... You have a responsibility to give me my money back sometime."
Kalanick told CNBC that Wilson does not have money in Uber. "He passed on the Series B [funding round,] if I remember correctly. That was a $300 million valuation. Just putting that out there."
The Series B closed in January 2012. Since then, Uber's valuation has skyrocketed, currently estimated at about $62 billion.
Listening to the interview, CNBC's tweeted out Kalanick's response to Wilson. Moments later, Wilson responded to her tweet, writing Kalanick was "correct" about his passing on Uber.
Political and legal pressure on Uber
Uber also faces political critics in many cities across America and around the world, claiming among other things Uber drivers are taking jobs away from licensed taxi drivers and causing traffic problems.
"What we see is wherever Uber does well we eventually see resistance. And it's because we happen to be in an industry that has set things up [so] that essentially competition has been outlawed," Kalanick said.
In a speech outlining her economic policies in July, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton raised questions about services like Uber.
"As the on-demand economy creates exciting opportunities and unleashes innovation, it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future."
Kalanick countered by telling CNBC the average Uber driver works fewer than 10 hours per week. Uber "can become a safety net" for people looking for jobs or seeking the flexibility of working when they want.
"On the Uber system, it's not just about the on-demand economy where you're pushing a button and getting a ride," he said. "On the driver side, I can push a button and start work. And I can push a button and stop work whenever I choose."
"I think that's the story we need to get better at telling," he said.
In addition to political pressure, Uber has found itself at the center of thorny legal issues. Just last week, Uber agreed to pay $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit over how it classifies its drivers in California and Massachusetts.
Kalanick said the settlement "reaffirms independent contractor status" for drivers who "appreciate and prefer" that status.
"But it holds us to account in some ways. You should have a deactivation policy that's straightforward and transparent and essentially fair. There are things we have to do to get better, too," he said, referring to stipulations in the settlement.
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board
Arianna and I had a 'connection' from the beginning: Uber CEO
Also Wednesday, Kalanick announced that Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, is joining Uber's board of directors.
He told CNBC he's known Huffington for a few years and he felt that they had a connection from the beginning. "We have a simpatico thing on building companies.
In a post on Uber's website, Kalanick wrote:
"For those of us who know Arianna, it's clear she knows a thing or two about being an entrepreneur."
"From the start of our friendship it was obvious that she believes deeply in our mission."
"[Her] ability to tell stories is invaluable for an engineer like me, whose natural tendency is to rely on data."
Huffington, sitting next to Kalanick, told CNBC she was briefed extensively about the company in the lead-up to becoming a board member.
Kalanick walked her through "the big-ball bets for the future, through the controversies, through the cultural values," she said, adding the final meeting to get her on the board was last week.
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These works of art are too tiny to see (but trust us, they're there)
A Cornell Ph.D. student in applied physics etches famous works of art -- Escher, Magritte, Matisse -- onto silicon wafers used in modern digital devices.
Leslie Katz
December 3, 2014 11:59 AM PST
Robert Hovden has plagiarized famous works of art at the nanoscale and hung them for public display. Mike Blaney
You're looking at a reproduction of an M.C. Escher drawing, but you'd never know it. It's inscribed onto the surface of a silicon crystal wafer at a scale 500 times smaller than the eye can see.
Robert Hovden etched the Escher tessellations using focused high-speed ions. Why? Because he's a nanoscientist who spends his days studying objects with electron microscopes. And because maybe no one will notice he's copying famous works of art if the reproductions are so tiny.
The width of an eyebrow in this tiny replica of a Creative Commons-licensed painting matches the wavelegth of light. Robert Hovden
But don't call the intellectual-property cops just yet. Hovden has copied famous works of art deliberately and openly for his exhibit "When Art Exceeds Perception," an exploration of plagiarism in the age of bits and bytes.
"To take a piece of art, copy it and share it with the world without the original artists' permission is traditionally viewed as wrong and, in most cases, violates copyright laws...However, in a digital era where information is encrypted and stored in the atomic bits of nanoscale devices, answers to philosophical, moral and legal questions surrounding copyright become muddled," reads Hovden's statement for the exhibit, part of the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial "Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology."
For the campus-wide show, which runs through December 22, artists and scientists "explore the cultural and human consequences of seeing the world at the micro and macro levels, through nanoscience and networked communications." Participants have done things like render the microscopic textures of a sheet of paper as a 3D inhabitable landscape and create wearable sensors to detect methane and poisonous gases.
Hovden, a Cornell Ph.D. student in applied physics, etched works of art onto the atomically smooth, flat surfaces of silicon wafers used in modern digital devices. He chose works "where copyright is relevant to the discussion" -- pieces by Escher, Magritte, Matisse and contemporary artist Joy Garnett, who releases work under a Creative Commons license.
He rendered all of his microscopic replicas as tangible works rather than bits, but they're essentially just as invisible to the eye as digital data would be. Hovden does not include any magnification tools in the exhibit, saying that would defeat the point of the work.
Tiny crystal flowers bloom in a beaker
The tiniest sandcastle you will ever see
"Works of art are copied and reduced in size -- without permission," Hovden tells Crave. "But this has been taken to an absurd extreme. Each made so small they are beyond human perception. Not only can the human eye not see the copied work, but visible light itself is too big to observe the replicas."
So if the human eye even can't see the work, do the same rules around plagiarism apply?
"This is precisely the question this work raises," Hovden tells Crave. "Originality, ownership, control and expression of ideas is something that I tediously contemplate."
The work is highly conceptual, but any statements on copyright infringement aside, it's still a fascinating entrant to the field of microscopic art, which has recently seen the likes of beautiful crystal flowers formed in a beaker and teeny tiny sandcastles etched onto single grains of sand.
The focused ion beam used to create the works: a bit more complex than a pencil and paper. Robert Hovden
Discuss: These works of art are too tiny to see (but trust us, they're there)
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New Intamin Coaster for Hershey
Hersheypark has made official the addition of an Intamin hydaulically-launched Rocket Coaster to become the first of its kind in the eastern United States and first coaster of its type to feature inversions.The coaster will blast off to 72 miles per hour in two seconds to climb vertically to the sky 15 stories, twisting on the way up and then taking on the first straight drop on a Rocket Coaster, a plunge of 180 feet, before taking on three inversions - a 135-foot sidewinder Hershey is calling a 'Cobra Loop', an elevated Heartline Roll, and a diving turn inversion composed of a half roll and half corkscrew
called a Flying Snake Dive.It will be located on a four-and-a-half-acre site (seen at right) where the track will interact with existing rides and encircle the Trailblazer mine train.The only thing yet to be decided on is a name... Unlike last year's Roller Soaker, Hershey has narrowed it down to three names: Renegade, Steel Stampede, and Storm Runner, and voting is open at the park's site.Voting ends on midnight, August 19th, so head on over to Hersheypark.com and get your vote in!
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Siddaramaiah Confident Of Winning Trust Vote Says It S A Joint Decision
Siddaramaiah Confident Of Winning Trust Vote; Says It's A Joint Decision
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah.
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader Siddaramiah on Friday said the decision to seek a trust vote by the coalition government headed by HD Kumaraswamy was taken by the two ruling partners and asserted it has the numbers.
The Congress Legislature Party Leader also said he had been talking to disgruntled party MLAs barring Roshan Baig because he has been suspended.
“Yesterday we took the decision (on the trust vote) after discussions,” the former chief minister told reporters here.
Kumaraswamy, whose government is teetering on the brink of collapse after 16 MLAs of the ruling combine resigned, made the announcement about trust vote in the assembly earlier on Friday.
Replying to questions, Siddaramaiah said without numbers or confidence none will seek a trust vote.
"We have confidence, so we are moving the confidence motion," he added.
On how the ruling combine would muster the numbers, Siddaramaiah said, “How can we disclose now? You will come to know when the vote of confidence is moved. Things like how it will happen, who will be present cannot be disclosed now."
To a question, he ruled out the possibility of a counter-operation to the alleged toppling bid of BJP, saying his party did not believe in operations.
He refused to comment on the Supreme Court ordering status quo in the matter of resignation and disqualification of ten rebel MLAs.
However, he added the Speaker was empowered under the anti-defection law to decide on disqualification of MLAs.
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Ambulance service prepares for new network of community stations
Five ambulance stations in the Black Country and South Staffordshire are about to move to new locations as part of a service shake-up.
The Make Ready programme involves the creation of 24/7 fleet maintenance hubs with a dedicated team of Ambulance Fleet Assistants preparing, servicing and maintain the fleet of ambulances.
Oncoming ambulance crews collect their ‘made-ready’ vehicle and go to Community Ambulance Stations from where they respond to 999 calls.
The aim of the system is to cut down on the time crews spend dealing with issues such as cleaning their vehicle or restocking, which are times when they are unable to respond to medical emergencies.
Two fleet maintenance ‘hubs’ will be created within the Black Country, at Dudley ambulance station, in Burton Road, and at Electrium Point, in Willenhall.
Many existing ambulance stations are being replaced with new Community Ambulance Stations.
In the Black Country, the 13 traditional ambulance stations will be replaced by 29 new sites; 27 of them Community Ambulance Stations, plus the two hubs.
Five ambulance stations will be relocated to new community ambulance station locations, with the old buildings put up for sale.
Wombourne Ambulance Station, in Giggetty Lane, will be replaced by a community ambulance station within the town’s fire station, also in Giggety Lane.
Stourbridge ambulance station in Margaret Drive will be replaced with a new facility at the town’s fire station.
Oldbury ambulance station in Low Town is due to be replaced by a community ambulance station on the Granada Trading Estate.
Halesowen ambulance station, at Old Hawne Lane, will be replaced with a new facility in the town’s fire station.
Cradley Heath ambulance station in Lawrence Lane will be replaced by a community ambulance station at Cradley Enterprise Centre.
A spokesman for the West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "The new community ambulance stations will be leased at a fraction of the costs (rates, utilities etc.) associated with the currently owned buildings.
"The current level of ambulance cover in the Black Country will be maintained, but the ambulance service provided will increase overall with the introduction of Community Paramedic schemes in Stourbridge, Halesowen, Oldbury and Wombourne.
"Dedicated to their respective towns and immediate surrounding areas, Community Paramedics are paramedics with additional training in advanced patient assessment and procedures.
"They will be able to treat many more patients at the scene rather than them being conveyed to an A&E Department."
Stourbridge, Halesowen, Oldbury and Wombourne will each have a team of five Community Paramedics to ensure 24/7 cover.
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Android had a tough year compared to iOS in one crucial area
Eugene Kim
Jan. 6, 2017, 12:50 PM
Google's Android operating system owns nearly 90% of the smartphone market, but its popularity comes at a price: higher vulnerability.
According to this chart by Statista, based on data from CVE Details, Android's operating system saw the most number of vulnerabilities in 2016. That means Android was much more prone to a software glitch that could lead to hacker attacks than some of its competitors, including Apple's iOS which saw only a third of the number of vulnerabilities than the Android did.
The result, however, is a huge reversal from last year: the Android OS saw only 125 vulnerabilities while the iOS had 387.
CVE Details
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Tim Cook is throwing lots of shade — first at Amazon, then at Mark Zuckerberg
Kif Leswing
Mar. 28, 2018, 12:46 PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook was interviewed by Recode's Kara Swisher on Wednesday in Chicago.
He had some good burns for Amazon and for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Chicago on Wednesday to talk about schools and the company's new iPad.
Somehow, he still found time to burn some of Apple's closest competitors.
In an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, Cook had less-than-complimentary things to say about Facebook and Amazon.
First, he weighed in on Amazon's public search for a second headquarters, which has municipalities falling over one another to offer Amazon perks like tax breaks, infrastructure, and even a " Jeff Bezos Parkway."
Cook mentioned that Amazon's strategy required a lot of work for the cities pitching the company, even though only one winner will be selected.
"We're not doing the beauty contest," Cook said.
Then he was asked about Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook has been embroiled in a scandal since it became public earlier this month that the political data firm Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, stole data from 50 million users by abusing Facebook's tools.
What would Cook do if he were in Zuckerberg's shoes? Well, he wouldn't be, he says.
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The full interview with Cook airs a week from Friday at 8 p.m. ET on MSNBC. More context about Cook's quotes is available at Recode.
SEE ALSO: Apple's new iPad is a total misfire that shows how out of touch the company is with schools and kids
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Dennis Pyetsukh signs with Brown
Senior first male DCHS athlete in history to sign with Ivy League school
DCHS senior soccer forward Dennis Pyetsukh signs with Brown University Jan. 24. Pyetsukh is the first male athlete in Dawson County High School history to sign with an Ivy League school, according to Athletic Director Grady Turner. - photo by Jessica Taylor
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When Dennis Pyetsukh kicked his first soccer ball at three years old, his family knew he was something special.
“We noticed when we tried different sports we noticed he really loved this sport and [it became] a very big inspiration for him,” said his father, Eugene.
The Dawson County High School senior signed with Brown University Jan. 24 and made his scholarship acceptance official in front of his proud family, coaches, teammates and friends in what Athletic Director Grady Turner described as a “big, big day” in Dawson County.
“Rarely do you ever get to make history. Dennis is unaware that he is making history today. Dennis is the first male athlete in the history of Dawson County Schools to sign with an Ivy League school,” said Turner. “Not many of us get to be first and no matter whatever happens, he will always be the first.”
While on a camping trip with his family, Pyetsukh and his father sat down to talk about the soccer star’s future plans, still awaiting a call from Brown.
“I was a little worried trying to figure out what my future will be next year,” said Pyetsukh. “On the way home the next day, as soon as I pulled into my driveway I got a call from the head coach and he told me they would like me to be part of their team and from that point on I was committed.”
But that was only half of the battle. He was still waiting on his official acceptance letter to the college through admissions.
In early December, that official letter came, solidifying Pyetsukh’s future plans at the Ivy League institution. When he announced the news to his family, they, understandably, were thrilled.
“I said ‘it’s the best Christmas present ever!’” said his mother, Natalya, grinning ear to ear.
Of course, Brown University wasn’t the only scholarship opportunity on the table for Pyetsukh, as he had offers from many other colleges including Mercer, Emory, Northeastern, Colgate, West Point, Georgia Southern and Georgia State. Ultimately, after a summer trip to Rhode Island and then his official visit in September, Pyetsukh decided that Brown was the best fit for him.
“Once I first went up there I really fell in love with the college and the environment,” said Pyetsukh. “I really started to find a place there and know that this is where I want to be for the next four years.”
Being accepted into an Ivy League school is no easy feat, but Pyetsukh currently has a 4.3 GPA and plans to pursue a degree in business and finance with a minor in computer engineering. His father believes that soccer actually helped him become more disciplined. With limited time in the day split between practice and studying, Pyetsukh learned that there is no time to waste.
“All that time and work has definitely paid off not only in the athletic field but with his academics as well to be able to go to such a prestigious school and better his education and provide just endless opportunities,” said Coach Derek Waters.
Pyetsukh’s athletic talent and passion for soccer was recognized early on in his life. He began playing in park and rec teams when he was three and has been playing travel soccer since he was eight. He also has several impressive wins under his belt, including two wins at the Disney Cup International, national tournament champion and league champion, according to his father.
“He has never missed a soccer season since he was three years old,” said Natalya.
His older sister, Dasha, often helped Pyetsukh kick the ball around when he was little and says she is going to come up to visit him at Brown every weekend.
“My brother has perseverance, he always hustles, he always tries his best and he’s a true inspiration to me as an older sister,” said Dasha.
All of his coaches had nothing but positive things to say about Pyetsukh both on and off the field.
“Dennis is one of the rare kids that – as coaches – we never had to coach him,” said Coach Gray. “We just basically tell him where to go and what position he is going to play and then watch him do his thing – and quite a delight that is as a coach is to have somebody that is just going to do exactly what you want them to do in a supportive, outstanding way.”
Assistant Principal Brody Hughes described Pyetsukh as a top student, top soccer player and “a role model for everybody here to do our best and strive to be better.”
“As coaches we can say a hundred times to do what’s right, you know, do this, do that, but when a player says it, it means so much more. Dennis is one of those players,” said Coach Chess Hamby. “When Dennis comes through and says ‘you know we got to do what’s right, now’s the time to do it,’ it’s going to happen. And that’s what you want in a player aside from all the athletic ability he has. He’s a great leader, and that’s going to take him much further in life than soccer will.”
There was one coach who played an important part of Pyetsukh’s life who was not there: Jed Lacey. Head Coach Lacey, who died in August 2017, recognized Pyetsukh’s ability from the beginning.
“Coach Lacey talked to me a lot of times about Dennis. And one thing he said to me that stuck in my mind since Dennis was in the tenth grade was, Jed told me on numerous occasions that Dennis may be – if he’s not he is certainly one of the top one or two best soccer players to ever play at this school,” said Tuner. “As I’ve watched him grow from the tenth grade on I think about that all the time and this year especially I’m going to think about it every time I see him play. I’m going to think about what Coach Lacey said about him and I want you to know what he thought.”
Coach Derek Waters also acknowledged that Lacey recognized Pyetsukh’s talents early on in his high school career.
“From a very early time your freshman, sophomore year there was something special that stood out about you,” said Waters.
Pyetsukh’s father, Eugene, also spoke about Lacey’s incredible impact on his son. According to Eugene, Lacey took Pyetsukh to see other schools and to show off his abilities.
“Thank you Coach Lacey. He is not here with us today but I am sure he’s watching,” said Eugene.
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We prove that the Cayley graph and the coset geometry of the von Dyck group D(a, b, c) are linked by a vertex-to-edge duality.
MSC 2010: Primary 05E18; 20F65; 05C25; 05C15; 52C20; 51E99; 20F05; 22E40
Keywords: group actions on combinatorial structures; geometric group theory; incidence geometry; graphs and abstract algebra; tilings in 2 dimensions
The first author was supported by the project P201/12/G028 of the Czech Republic Grant Agency (GA ČR).
The second author was supported by the doctoral school of the University of Salerno.
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Citation Information: Mathematica Slovaca, Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 527–538, ISSN (Online) 1337-2211, ISSN (Print) 0139-9918, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ms-2015-0154.
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Madonna Explains Her Epic Fall at Brit Awards
"The universe was trying to teach me a lesson I guess."
By Sally Holmes and Nora Crotty
Today, at the Brit Awards, Madonna donnedher sexy matador costume and got on stage to perform her new song "Living gor Love" in front of an audience that included Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, and Rita Ora. But Madge should have taken a note from Katy Perry's Super Bowl performance and avoided the scene-stealing animal sidekick performers, because, brace yourselves, one of her bulls actually took her down mid performance. And there's a video.
But this is Madonna, she is a super star. And, like Chumbawamba says, "I get knocked down. But I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down." Bravo, Madonna.
Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I'm fine! ❤️#livingforlove
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"Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I'm fine! " Madonna captioned the pic.
Update: The fall seen 'round the Internet is now getting a further explanation from Lady Madge, herself.
According to theDaily Mail, Madonna has just filmed a segment for an upcoming episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, in which she discusses the painful and cringe-worthy moment.
"I'm never writing lyrics like that again!" she said, referring to the song's all-too-fitting lyrics, 'Took me to heaven and let me fall down / [...] Lifted me up and watched me stumble.' "The universe was trying to teach me a lesson I guess."
"I'm a creature of habit and I rehearse everything - everything, everything, everything - and I was thrown a wrench at the very beginning of my entrance," she explained. "I was told to tie my cape and start much further back than we had rehearsed so because I had to walk so much further, everybody was worried that my cape was going to slide off because it's quite heavy so they tied it really tight around my neck.
"So here I am marching in like a queen and I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled my silky string and it would not come undone and my two lovely Japanese dancers basically strangled me off the stage. I had a choice: I could either be strangled or fall with the cape, and I fell."
And for those of you worrying about the state of her derriere, Madonna said it wasn't her bum that got hurt in the fall —it was her head. "I know how to fall, I've fallen off my horse many times and I tucked and I have good core strength," she told Ross.
"But the thing is, I had a little bit of a whiplash and I smacked the back of my head so there was a man standing over me with a flashlight until about 3am making sure that I was still compos mentis."
During the interview, she also declined to re-watch the end of the performance. I think we can all agree that sometimes, the only thing more painful than actual pain... is having to relive it.
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British Sugar under fire after beet grower portal is taken down
PUBLISHED: 17:16 02 November 2018
Sarah Chambers
Sugar beet at British Sugar's Bury St Edmunds factory Picture: GREGG BROWN
British Sugar has come under fire from the National Farmers' Union (NFU) after technical difficulties led it to take down its online sugar beet grower portal, prompting criticism about its investment in the industry.
Colm McKay, agricultural director at British Sugar Picture: SU ANDERSON
NFU Sugar said it was extremely concerned about the impact on growers of British Sugar’s decision to take down its online grower portal for an indefinite period in the middle of the sugar beet campaign.
NFU Sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: “I think I speak on behalf of all growers in expressing my disappointment and frustration that this has happened. This portal provides the information that growers and hauliers need to get beet into British Sugar factories. It isn’t just a nice to have – it’s business critical.
“NFU Sugar will closely monitor the effectiveness of the interim measures British Sugar puts in place to communicate with growers and hauliers.
“More generally, we are concerned about the continued, historic, lack of investment by Associated British Foods into British Sugar. Until greater investment is forthcoming, the home grown sugar industry will struggle to compete effectively in the post-quota world.”
Michael Sly, chairman of the National Farmers Unions (NFU) national sugar board Picture: NFU
Colm McKay, agriculture director at British Sugar, said: “We have been experiencing technical difficulties with the our online Beet Account system. To investigate the cause of the problem and understand how to fix it the system will be down for the near future.
“We appreciate this will be frustrating for our growers and hauliers but our priority is to ensure the system is fully operational. In the meantime we have put in place a number of plans to provide support and minimise the disruption. These have included extending the hours for our Grower Services helpdesk, providing paper copies of documents and speaking to growers directly to offer support.
“To make our factories and operations more efficient in the past five years alone we’ve invested £250m as well as, together with our growers, investing £2m a year in R&D through the British Beet Research Organisation.”
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Sending our prayers: Christian rapper Thi’sl shot multiple times
Article By Frank White (Photo Credit: Instagram)
Christian rapper, Travis Tremayne Tyler, who simply goes by the stage name Thi’sl, was shot multiple times during an attempted robbery Tuesday. Some sources say he was attacked by some of the young men he was attempting to help.
Though the St. Louis, Missouri resident, 41, is expected to make a full recovery, his family and friends are soliciting prayers.
Thi’sl, a community activist known as a force for peace and change, has, in the past, hosted forums, events and meetings to encourage hope and peaceful alternatives to violence that plagues so many inner cities across the U.S.
According to a Rapzilla.com report, one of the gunshots in Thi’sl’s leg broke it, requiring surgery to repair it with a rod and bolts.
Once news hit on social media, it rapidly spread. Plenty of prayers have poured in from the Christian community—among the well-wishers is GRAMMY® Award-winning rapper, Lecrae, who admonished his followers to “stream his music & cash app him.”
A rapper named J. Monty posted a plea for prayer on behalf of Thi’sl on Instagram, saying, “He paved the way for many of us. Beyond music he’s committed to giving selflessly to see growth in his community and be a necessary voice in an unpopular position.”
In the emotional post, J. Monty added, “Everybody send your prayers up now.”
Photo Credit: Instagram
A mentor of many lost youth caught up in the lifestyle of drugs, gangs and violence that once ensnared Thi’sl, the urban evangelist witnesses to other men about how, through Jesus Christ, they can turn their lives around.
Thi’sl is a living example.
In 1999, he was incarcerated on suspicion of murder.
“Before my cousin was murdered he told me, ‘Don’t stop rapping, you gone help change the world, people gone listen to you,’ then he started naming different nationalities. At the time he told me that, all I wanted to be was a killer and dope boy,” Thi’sl said in a 2017 social media post. “Two weeks after he told me that I was arrested for murder. As the OG’s say though, ‘BUT LOOK AT GOD!’”
In 2009, Thi’sl accepted Christ, quit selling illegal drugs and devoted his life to Christian rap. Today, he is regarded as a pioneer in the Christian Hip-Hop movement.
A GoFundMe page has been set up on Thi’sl’s behalf. It says, “He will need prolonged and expensive rehabilitation after his immediate injuries are dealt with. He also has other daily household bills that will need to be handled while he is on this long journey to recovery. “
Our prayers go out to Thi’sl. To donate, click here.
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San Francisco Takes a Historic Step Forward in the Fight for Privacy
By Nathan Sheard
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today by 8-to-1 to make San Francisco the first major city in the United States to ban government use of face surveillance technology. This historic measure applies to all city departments. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance also takes an important step toward ensuring a more informed and democratic process before the San Francisco Police Department and other city agencies may acquire other kinds of surveillance technologies.
Face recognition technology is a particularly pernicious form of surveillance, given its disparate propensity to misidentify women, and people of color. However, even if those failures were addressed, we are at a precipice where this technology could soon be used to track people in real-time. This would place entire communities of law-abiding residents into a perpetual line-up, as they attend worship, spend time with romantic partners, attend protests, or simply go about their daily lives.
It is encouraging to see San Francisco take this proactive step in anticipating the surveillance problems on the horizon and heading them off in advance.
It is encouraging to see San Francisco take this proactive step in anticipating the surveillance problems on the horizon and heading them off in advance. This is far easier than trying to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle after it causes harm.
Today’s 8-1 vote appears veto-proof, especially because two sponsors of the ordinance were not in attendance. However, the fight for the privacy and civil rights of the people of San Francisco is not over. EFF will continue to work with our members, coalition partners, lawmakers, and neighbors, to urge Mayor Breed to sign into law the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance. Please join us in this fight by contacting Mayor Breed and expressing your support for the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance.
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Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | May 7, 2019
San Francisco: Stop Secret Spy Tech and Face Surveillance
Government use of many surveillance technologies, and especially face surveillance, can invade privacy and chill free speech. It also disproportionately harms already marginalized communities: it increases the likelihood that they will be entangled with police, ICE, and other agencies with a history of abuse, bias, and unlawful violence. San Francisco’s...
Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | December 24, 2018
Grassroots Networks Mobilize From Coast-to-Coast to Promote Digital Rights: 2018 Year in Review
The digital rights movement showed its strength this year by projecting influence in jurisdictions across the United States. Community organizations on both coasts, as well as the Midwest and the South, took action, promoting issues from net neutrality and civilian oversight of local police surveillance to the right to repair...
Cambridge, MA Joins Growing Ranks of Cities Requiring Civilian Control of Police Surveillance Tech
Last week, the City of Cambridge, MA became at least the tenth local jurisdiction in the U.S. to adopt a crucial measure enabling civilian control of police surveillance technology at the local level. The measure requires local police to obtain civilian permission before purchasing surveillance equipment, to document...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | December 11, 2018
Hardwood Floors, Natural Light and the Right to Choose Your ISP
Your landlord is prohibited from making deals that restrict you to a single video provider, and those prohibitions should apply to your broadband service as well. Yet, across the country, tenants remain locked into a single choice.
Deeplinks Blog by Camille Ochoa | December 6, 2018
Securing The Institutions We Rely On: A Grassroots Case Study
Grassroots digital rights organizing has many faces, including that of hands-on hardware hacking in an Ivy League institution. Yale Privacy Lab is a member of the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a network of community and student groups advocating for digital rights in local...
Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | October 9, 2018
Chicago Should Reject a Proposal for Private-Sector Face Surveillance
A proposed amendment to the Chicago municipal code would allow businesses to use face surveillance systems that could invade biometric and location privacy, and violate a pioneering state privacy law adopted by Illinois a decade ago. EFF joined a letter with several allied privacy organizations explaining our concerns, which...
Deeplinks Blog by Nathan Sheard | October 3, 2018
Lifting the Cloak of Secrecy From NYPD Surveillance Technology
For too long, the New York Police Department has secretly deployed cutting-edge spy tech, without notice to the public. Many of these snooping devices invade our privacy, deter our free speech, and disparately burden minority and immigrant communities. Fortunately, a proposed ordinance (“the POST Act”) would lift the cloak of...
Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | September 14, 2018
More Bay Area Jurisdictions Adopt Civilian Control of Police Spy Tech
This week, two California jurisdictions joined the growing movement to subject government surveillance technology to democratic transparency and civilian control. Each culminated a local process spearheaded by concerned residents who campaigned for years. First, on Monday, the City of Palo Alto voted 8-1 to adopt an ordinance to “Establish...
California Bill on Police Militarization Reaches Governor’s Desk
Among the many bills awaiting the signature—or veto—of Governor Jerry Brown is AB 3131, a measure that would ensure transparency about police militarization across the State of California. While we are disappointed in recent legislative amendments that weakened the original bill, we remain eager to see it signed...
Deeplinks Blog by Shahid Buttar | August 21, 2018
California Assembly Acquiesces In Secret Police Surveillance
For the second year in a row, the California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee has effectively killed a bill that was poised to ensure transparency, community oversight, and civil liberties regarding proliferating police surveillance technology. S.B. 1186 was approved by the California Senate, as well as by two Assembly policy...
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Blog The Peugeot 2008 GT Line and DS 3 Reviewed
The Peugeot 2008 GT Line and DS 3 Reviewed
In Car Reviews, Citroen, DS Automobiles, Peugeot by Neil Lyndon November 11, 2016
There may be nothing startlingly innovatory about the latest DS 3 (don’t call it a Citroen) and the new Peugeot 2008 GT Line; but they may mark an important and historic turning point for the PSA group.
Neil Lyndon looks forward to a bright future with Peugeot, Citroen and DS cars.
As far as new developments go in the DS 3, Cxtxxn says: “We have removed all Citroen branding from the car, so there is only DS branding.
The car also comes with the new Mirror Link and Apple Car Play systems which allow you to connect your iPhone or Android to the main screen. We have also added some new upholstery to the cars.”
Not exactly setting the heather on fire, then. In sum, the DS 3 remains a stylish and attractive rival to the Mini as a single person’s or young couple’s city get about but now it’s got a few more gizmos to brag about and a few less embarrassing badges to hide. No longer do you need to breathe the name Citroen when you tell them you’ve got a DS 3.
As for the supermini crossover 2008 GT Line, every one of its many virtues is low-key. In common with many contemporary crossovers, it has some of the outward show of the off-roader – reinforced wheel arches and sill and steel underbody plate – but lacks four-wheel-drive (though Peugeot’s Grip Control system, operated by a knob by the gear lever, is probably enough to overcome most slippery surfaces).
It’s pretty, comfortable, quiet and reasonably nippy. We took it on a family holiday and it easily swallowed the cases and bags for two adults and two children. It would be a terrific rental car. It turns in neatly on country roads and runs quietly and economically in the very high ratio sixth gear on motorways. The satnav is a nightmare (as it has been on Peugeots for years) but the clarity and unfussiness of the information/audio lay-out is a treat.
The price range £13,970-£20,920 is dead on the average for this class of car.
Both the DS3 and the 2008 GT Line might, therefore, be all a bit ho-hum but for one staggering fact: sound evidence suggests they might be well-made and give reasonable satisfaction to their owners. This is a revelation.
For the 25+ years that I have been writing about cars, it has been axiomatic among people who know about cars that only a schmuck would buy anything on four wheels that had been made in France. As a national newspaper columnist, I routinely received complaints by the dozen from readers who had been driven to distraction by the fallibilities of their Renault/Citroen/ Peugeot. Every time a new model came out, the representatives of those companies would promise that the bad days were over and that a golden new future was opening in which their cars would rival Japanese and Korean manufacturers for reliability. Then you’d borrow one for a week and, within days, it wouldn’t start. Or the entire electrical system packed up. Or a sliding roof got stuck half open.
When my son reached the age of 18, his car-loving godfather gave him a word of advice. “Germans make cars,” he said. “The French make food and wine. The Italians make clothes. It’s essential for your future happiness and well-being that you never get this mixed up.”
Now sit down and make sure you don’t faint: according to the latest J.D. ratings for owners’ experiences of actually owning a car, Peugeot stand fifth out of all manufacturers. That’s above VW, Ford and – can you believe it? – Toyota.
Citroen occupies the place just one below average. This is such a massive change that those rankings could make you rub your eyes with incredulity. In the past, year after year, those companies were firmly rooted near the bottom of every one of the industry’s impartial, objective surveys for reliability and after-sales service.
In those years, of course, representatives of PSA would – with a straight face – say that surveys such as J. D. Power’s were not to be depended on. Their method was fallible. Their participants weren’t neutral. Guff, guff, guff.
Presumably, they’ve changed their tune now.
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Car reviewed: DS3 Prestige THP 165 S&S 6-speed manual – On the road £19,595, price as tested £21,840 0-62mph 7.5 secs Top speed 135mph Fuel Economy combined 50.4mpg CO2 emissions 129g/km Engine 1598cc 4 cylinder inline, transverse Max Power [email protected] Torque [email protected] Transmission 6-speed manual
Car reviewed: Peugeot 2008 GT Line BlueHDi 120 – On the road £20,170, price as tested £20,920 0-62mph 9.6 secs Top speed 119mph Fuel Economy combined 76.3mpg CO2 emissions 96g/km Engine 1560cc 4 cylinder Max Power [email protected] Torque [email protected] Transmission 6-speed manual
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You are at:Home»Yard News»New era starts well for West African drydock
By Drydock on 26th June 2019 Yard News
The years 2018 and 2019 have been strategically momentous ones for EBH Namibia. From the previous position of having South African shareholding, the company has moved to become a wholly Namibian-owned company, with 100% of the shareholding jointly held by the EBH Consortium and the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport).
At this juncture, the company has also taken the opportunity to rebrand itself, and is changing its name to Namdock. The stated objective is to be the preferred marine repair partner on the West African coast, building on its new status with the underlying ethos of integrity and service excellence – embodied in the tagline ‘Our Strength is Local’.
The year began on a high note with a major repair project from Sapura Energy, a completely new addition to Namdock’s customer base. “We were delighted to be able to announce the successful conclusion of the agreement with Sapura Energy, as it acknowledges EBHN’s high levels of expertise and experience in servicing the maritime oil and gas industry,” explains EBHN Acting CEO Heritha Nankole Muyoba.
The new project involved the reactivation of the SKD Jaya rig, a semi-submersible tender assisted drilling unit. This vessel had been cold-stacked offshore of Trinidad for the past few years. “Even though the rig had a skeleton crew on board maintaining it, in the tropical maritime environment, a certain amount of deterioration was inevitable,” explains EBH Namibia Project Manager William Diamond, who was responsible for managing the SKD project.
A four-man EBHN team flew to Trinidad to carry out a rapid but thorough assessment of the scope of work needed on the SKD Jaya; after which the rig was transported to Walvis Bay on the heavy-lift vessel, the Hua Hai Long.
The complexity of reactivating a rig such as this is considerable as, at 94 m long, 36 m wide and more than 20 m high, it is a very large structure. An indication of its size are its main power-units consisting of six Caterpillar diesels, with further power supplied by two 2000 kVA generators; while the two cranes on its superstructure have 170 foot and 140 foot booms respectively.
The Namdock team were charged not only with restoring this vessel to a seaworthy condition; but also with ensuring that it was safe and fully compliant with maritime legislation. To do this required adhering to a scope of work that was highly complex and involved a range of disciplines including rigging, fabrication, electrical and mechanical work, carpentry and painting.
“Having high levels of expertise in all these different areas makes us highly competitive in the international ship repair arena,” continues Diamond.
To complete the scope of work, the EBHN team essentially had to examine every square metre of the SKD Jaya; and then carry out maintenance, replacement or repair as required. Diamond explains that this involved some 17 different ‘sub-projects’ – such as ensuring that the accommodation and catering facilities were all in good order – as the rig could have as many as 160 workers on board at one time.
Other sections of the project that needed to be carried out included:
The refurbishing and testing of drilling equipment
Checking the operability of all lighting, signal and fire safety equipment
The removal/rehabilitation of the anchors and anchor wires
Removal and load testing of the deck crane cables
Servicing and repairing the engines, generators and heat exchangers
Calibrating the fog and weather monitoring systems
Replacing all anodes
“The future safety of the SKD Jaya crew is critically important, so we oversaw the re-certification of the life boats, the servicing and load testing of all davits, and the replacement and drop-testing of the helideck perimeter netting,” Diamond emphasises.
In addition to the above, further tasks included:
The removal and lab testing of the blow-out preventer test pump
Overhauling all valves on the rig
Assisting RigNet technicians with all satellite antenna connections
Supplying and reinstalling radio survey and satellite compass equipment
This project illustrates that Namdock has the ability to subcontract out specialist functions and see these through to completion. In addition, it also demonstrated the company’s excellent project management and problem-solving ability as, with a project of this scale, there are often unforeseen circumstances which need to be managed correctly.
For example, with the SKD Jaya project, it was necessary to offload a very large item of drilling equipment. The challenge was that the quayside was never designed to handle a piece of equipment this heavy. To avoid damage to the quayside and Sapura Energy’s equipment, the item was offloaded directly onto two unsynchronised flatbed units, which then successfully transported it – with great care – to a destination where it could be repaired.
What pleases Nankole Muyoba particularly is that the entire project was completed without any incidents. “Considering the number of people, the hours worked, and the challenges we faced, this was a truly notable achievement,” she says.
At the end of the project, in its Project Closure Report, client Sapura Energy stated that it was ‘very impressed and happy with EBH Namibia’s service’.
The company’s BBLT Project Manager Olivier Le Touzo explains that the ‘sail-away’ date for the completed project was 11 May 2019.
“The day before, we carried out our final inspection and found that everything was to our satisfaction. We were impressed, because EBHN needed to use the services of a number of subcontractors and it managed this aspect exceptionally well.”
Furthermore, Sapura Energy had many requests for tools, consumables and local repair services, to which EBHN responded quickly and efficiently.
“All in all, I have to say it was a great job by EBH Namibia,” says Le Touzo.
The SKD Jaya project is the latest in a series of high-level repair projects, which includes the replacement of the bulbous bow of the ship Huascar and the repair of the Angolan floating dock among other projects.
“The company’s long history of unrivalled experience and expertise, as well as our streamlined processes and procedures, means we are ideally placed to provide the highest standard of service in line with the clients’ requirements,” asserts Nankole Muyoba.
“We anticipate that this rig project is the first of a number that will provide Namdock, as well as our relevant stakeholders – and the Walvis Bay community – with strong sustainable revenue into the future,” she concludes.
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RFA: Washington State's Proposed Rule Hurts Ethanol
By Todd Neeley , DTN Staff Reporter
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Washington state’s proposed clean air rule is drawing criticism from the Renewable Fuels Association primarily because ethanol receives equal carbon treatment as fossil fuels in the proposal, according to public comments filed by the RFA this week. Even low-carbon fuel standards in Oregon and California, for example, give ethanol credit as a carbon reducer.
In comments to the state of Washington RFA said the state’s proposed rule would do even more damage to ethanol markets in the Washington and could hinder the development of advanced biofuels in the state. The rule would cap carbon pollution and is set to take effect in 2017.
“The proposed rule is inconsistent with virtually every other program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and could have the perverse effect of reducing or eliminating the production and use of liquid biofuels in Washington state,” RFA said in a news release Friday.
RFA said in its comments the state of Washington’s proposal essentially ignores “globally accepted bioenergy carbon accounting methods” for recognizing carbon benefits associated with biofuels and would trigger a so-called ‘poison pill’ legislative provision in the state. That provision would shift some $2 billion in funding from climate-friendly transportation investments to road and highway construction projects, if prior to July 1, 2023, any state agency files a rulemaking or implements a standard based on the carbon intensity of fuel.
The provision was designed to dis-incentivize the adoption of a clean-fuel standard a low-carbon fuel standard, or any other standard based on the carbon intensity of fuel.
RFA cites analysis done by the California Air Resources Board, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, and U.S. Department of Energy that conclude first-generation ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 30% to 60% compared to petroleum. Those analyses also conclude second-generation ethanol reduces GHG emissions by 80% or more.
“The proposed CAR treats biofuels and fossil fuels identically, which sets a dangerous carbon-accounting precedent with potentially far-reaching impacts,” RFA said in its comments. “Other GHG cap-and-trade programs exempt biofuels from a compliance obligation because it is broadly understood that bioenergy combustion emissions are ‘carbon neutral’ (i.e., the biomass recently removed an amount of atmospheric carbon through photosynthesis that is equivalent to emissions from combustion).”
The Washington proposal recognizes the carbon benefits of biomass in exempting emissions from biomass combustion in stationary sources such as use of woody biomass to generate electricity. It does not recognize the benefits of biomass in liquid fuels, however.
“It is perplexing that this approach would be (properly) applied to stationary emissions from bioenergy production from biomass combustion, but not to emissions from liquid biofuel combustion,” RFA writes in its comments.
“Implementing the CAR as proposed would set a perilous regulatory precedent, deter investment in the state’s biofuels market and compel reduced consumption of low-carbon biofuels.”
RFA said it is concerned advanced biofuels developers would avoid the Washington market and shift investments to Oregon, California, British Columbia and other regions.
“For these reasons...we strongly urge the department of ecology to exempt biofuels from compliance obligation in the final CAR,” RFA said.
Read RFA’s comments here: http://bit.ly/…
Todd Neeley can be reached at todd.neeley@dtn.com.
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The Greatest Showman : a spectacular and colorful show.5 min de lecture
par Emma 27 January 2018
This is early 2018’s musical movie! The Greatest Showman is the new American musical nugget that has just been released in our theaters. This spectacular show impressed us with its thousand-and-one colors and superb performances. Find our review in the article below!
The soundtrack of the film is already wreaking havoc on many countries’ charts, and so could the movie! In fact, this musical film has everything to become a reference in Broadway musical genre.
Title The Greatest Showman
Director Michael Gracey
Production Chernin Entertainment, Seed Productions,…
Soundtrack John Debney
Origin American
Duration 105 min
The Greatest Showman tells the true story of Phineas Taylor Barnum, a visionary and ambitious American entrepreneur that comes with a troupe of extraordinary characters and will stage the biggest show in the world under the name of Circus Barnum. The film celebrates the birth of show business and the wonder we experience when dreams come true.
The Greatest Showman’s magic is loading
And this from the appearance of the Twentieth Century Fox logo! We are surprised by an old logo before transforming into a more modern with a festive and catchy background music, even epic that gives us chills. We are directly immersed in the magical world of this colorful movie with a sumptuous scene of singing and dancing,introducing sumptuous Mr.Loyal or should I say Mr. Loyal Jackman and all his troupe. Everything changes in seconds that follow and the plot comes to us immediately. You must admit that these first five crucial minutes are composing an excellent introduction to the movie with the viewer who finds himself completely immersed in the story and the fantastic environment of The Greatest Showman.
Some influences taken from another Broadway musical
In The Greatest Showman‘s aesthetics, we find a strong inspiration from another monument Broadway musical genre: Moulin Rouge. This is undeniable and from the opening scene we can only think of Baz Luhrmann‘s eccentric film with certain references in choreography and imagery. Based on artificial and exaggeration, this is the absolute Luhrmann. But it works so well and the movie is visually a masterpiece! The Greatest Showman is in line with his ancestor and Baz can only be flattered by the tribute Michael Gracey makes in his movie.
A four-star cast for The Greatest Showman
To bring to life Phineas Taylor Barnum‘s fabulous adventure, it needed an exceptional bunch of actors and it is Hugh Jackman who has been chosen to play the role of this American philanthropist. With a Broadway voice that he has already exploited in Les Miserables in 2012, Hugh impresses us in The Greatest Showman and performs pretty vocal prowess. In the role of his wife Charity, Michelle Williams was the one and although she is excellent in this role, we regret its under-exploitation on screen. In terms of minor roles, Zac Efron and Zendaya both play respectively Philipp Carlisle, future partner of Barnum and Anne Wheeler, a young acrobat and circus member. They play admirably and are even better together. Indeed, a connection will be established between their characters and their perfect osmosis will be the consecration. Finally in the group of “monsters”, Keala Settle plays bearded woman Lettie Lutz and is very touching in The Greatest Showman. It is also the one who gives all shape to the acclaimed hit featuring in the film, This Is Me.
Where is happiness, it’s here
As Phineas Taylor Barnum, the movie’s director wants to put our eyes on it and play with our emotions. The Greatest Showman is a ball of energy and good humor that touches us in the heart, like a Disney! We are trapped in this world full of optimism and we go through all emotional stages: we laugh, we cry, we sing, we dance on our seat! Everything is there to have a good time. And it works because in the end, we can only smile at this movie, that advocates difference and that any dream can come true!
Impressive dancing parts
Of course, when we talk about a musical, we think about dance that has a crucial role in it. The Greatest Showman is no exception to the rule and challenges with impressive choreographies with modern and more traditional touches, including cabaret influences! The coordination between dancers is perfect and no one can only imagine the difficulty experienced by the actors to reach this level. One of the most striking dance scenes is probably the one in the air where Zac Efron and Zendaya perform an acrobatic choreography on the sublime song Rewrite The Stars. It turns out that this scene required a lot of time and training for the actors to do it properly. This does not surprise us and the result is just splendid.
A soundtrack that crushes everything worldwide
And after dance comes the inevitable music and in The Greatest Showman, there is not a single faux-step in the soundtrack. Occupying the top of the charts in many countries, this record is simply superb. We find songs sung by actors themselves, with epic like in the anthem of the movie The Greatest Show or Come Alive, emotion in the beautiful duet between Phineas and his wife Charity, A Million Dreams, which is joind by a dance of both actors to fall to the ground. We also note Never Enough performed by Rebecca Ferguson, which is not sung by her but The Voice US finalist, Loren Allred. Eventually, the must-have single is This Is Me, which won Golden Globe for Best Song and sends us a bewildering and unforgettable emotional power.
The Greatest Showman, a wonder that you shouldn’t miss
It must have been felt in your reading, but I was charmed by Michael Gracey‘s film. I was fascinated by its aesthetics and fantasy imagery,, strongly inspired by Moulin Rouge, as well as by the actors’ performances! Hugh Jackman is simply amazing and we revive Phineas Taylor Barnum‘s overflowing imagination! In addition, supporting roles by Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams are superbly interpreted. The magic operates and we attend a celebration of 105 minutes. With its sublime songs and divine choreographies, The Greatest Showman will delight you in early 2018!
A spectacular Broadway movie musical that will enchants you.
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1.3.P.1 Non - Discrimination / Equal Opportunity
Section 1.3 - Policy
Section 1.3.F.1 - Form to File a Complaint
The Compliance Officer is the Assistant Superintendent for Human Relations. Any person who feels unlawfully discriminated against or to have been the victim of unlawful discrimination by an agent or employee of the District or who knows of such discrimination against another person should file a complaint with the Compliance Officer. If the Compliance Officer is the one alleged to have unlawfully discriminated, the complaint shall be filed with the President of the Board. Complaints to either the Compliance Officer or Board President should be filed at the following address:
Dysart Unified School District No. 89,
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Trends in Gallbladder Cancer Incidence and Survival in Korea
Youngjun Wi, BS1, Hyeongtaek Woo, MD1, Young-Joo Won, PhD2, Jin-Young Jang, MD, PhD3,4, Aesun Shin, MD, PhD,1,4
1Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Cancer Registration and Statistics Branch, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea
3Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
4Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence: Aesun Shin, MD, PhD Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Korea Tel: 82-2-740-8331 Fax: 82-2-747-4830 E-mail: shinaesun@snu.ac.kr
Received 2017 June 9; Accepted 2018 January 23.
The current study was undertaken to examine the trend in gallbladder cancer (GBC) incidenceand survival in Korea.
GBC incidence data by histologic typewere obtained from the Korea Central Cancer Registry.Age-standardized incidence rates were calculated using the mid-year Korean population of2000 as a standard population, and a joinpoint regression model was used to calculate theannual percent change (APC) in incidence rates. Incidence by Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) summary stage and by geographical areas and female-to-male incidencerate ratios was also described.
The number of new GBC cases increased between 1999 and 2013. Nevertheless, the agestandardizedincidence rate decreased by 0.5% per year in men (p < 0.01), whereas theincidence rate in women did not change significantly over the same period (APC, –0.2;p=0.59). The most common histologic type was adenocarcinoma in both sexes. Based onthe SEER stage, the distant stage was the most frequent stage (41%), followed by theregional stage (37%). Ulsan (4.31/100,000 for men and 4.09/100,000 forwomen in 2009-2013) and Gyeongsangnam-do (4.15/100,000 for men and 3.54/100,000 for women)showed the highest GBC incidence, whereas the lowest incidence was observed in Seouland Gyeonggi-do. There were no significant sex differences in the incidence of GBC (femaleto-maleincidence rate ratio, 0.96).
The overall incidence of GBC in Korea did not change significantly over the 15-year period.Incidence for men and women was similar. However, geographical variation was found.
Keywords: Gallbladder neoplasms; Epidemiology; Incidence; Survival; Geographic variation
Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a relatively rare cancer, estimated to constitute 1.3% of the total cancer incidence worldwide and 1.7% of all cancer deaths [1]. Nevertheless, the number of epidemiological studies of GBC is insufficient compared to that of other neoplasms because of the low incidence rate and difficulty of tumor registration in GBC, given the anatomical complexity of hepatobiliary tract cancers [2]. The pathogenesis of GBC, in particular, is poorly known. Unlike other cancers, GBC is usually grouped with other biliary tract cancers in epidemiological research, making it even more difficult to distinguish its epidemiological features [3]. While bile duct cancer is more likely to present with pigment stones, GBC is more likely to present with cholesterol stones, leading to the view that lifestyle factors such as diet and obesity are more closely related to GBC than to bile duct cancer, which is likely to be related to chronic infection or inflammation [4].
There is apparent geographical variation in GBC worldwide. The incidence rates are high in Delhi (India), South Karachi (Pakistan), and Quito (Ecuador). High incidence rates are also found in East Asia (Korea and Japan), Eastern Europe (Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Yugoslavia), and South America (Chile and Colombia) [5,6]. In Asia, studies from India and Japan have reported gallstones, smoking, and alcohol consumption as risk factors for GBC [7,8]. In addition, there is a nationwide descriptive epidemiological study in Japan on the stage distribution and survival of GBC [9]. In Korea, GBC and other/unspecified parts of biliary tract cancer showed the 10th highest incidence rate and the sixth highest mortality rate from 2009 to 2013 [10]. As Korea is one of the countries with high GBC incidence rates, the aim of this study was to analyze the current trends in GBC in Korea by histologic type, stage, and geographical distribution.
1. Trends in GBC incidence
The Korea Central Cancer Registry (KCCR), a nationwide, hospital-based cancer registry initiated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1980. Since 1999, the KCCR has expanded cancer registration to cover the entire Korean population under the Population-based Regional Cancer Registry program. According to the International Classification of Disease for Oncology, 10th edition, biliary tract cancer is classified into two parts: GBC (C23.9) and other and unspecified parts of biliary tract cancer (C24). Only C23.9 data were used for the current analysis. Age- (5-year intervals) and sexspecific incidence rates and the number of cases of GBC patients between 1999 and 2013 were obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database. Histological subtypes of GBC were classified as follows: adenocarcinoma, papillary adenocarcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, oat cell carcinoma, and other specified cancers.
Age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs) were calculated using the world standard population as the standard population. Annual percent changes (APCs) for the incidence rates were calculated based on a linear model using the following formula: exp(b)×100, where b is the slope of the regression of the natural logarithm of the ASR in a calendar year. The 95% confidence intervals were obtained with a standard error from the fit of the regression and the t-distribution function. All analyses were stratified by sex.
2. Geographical variations in incidence
The ASRs of GBC by sex were obtained from 17 cities and provinces over three periods (1999-2003, 2004-2008, and 2009-2013). Since ASRs for only 2 years (2012 and 2013) were obtained from Sejong, it was not included in the analysis by provinces. Then, the ASRs were divided into the four index groups defined by quartiles of ASRs per 100,000 population: group 1 (ASR, 0.59-2.66), group 2 (ASR, 2.66-2.92), group 3 (ASR, 2.92-3.55), and group 4 (ASR, 3.55-5.63). The femaleto-male ratio (F/M ratio) was also calculated by region by using the ASRs for the period of 1999-2013.
3. Stage distribution and 5-year relative survival
The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) summary stage was used to group GBC into three categories: localized, regional, and distant. The localized stage is defined as cancer that is limited to the organ in which it began, without evidence of spread. The regional stage is defined as cancer that has spread beyond the primary site to nearby lymph nodes or organs and tissues, and the distant stage is defined as cancer that has spread from the primary site to distant organs or distant lymph nodes. Stage information was available from 2005 and divided into two periods (2005-2008 and 2009-2013) to be compared. The survival duration for GBC patients was determined as the interval between the date of initial diagnosis and the date of death, the date of loss to follow-up, or the closing date for follow-up. Personal identification numbers of patients were linked to the death certificate database of the Korea Statistics Office and followed until December 31, 2015. Patients only found in the death certificate database were excluded from the survival analysis. The 5-year relative survival rates were calculated using the Ederer II method based on an algorithm written in SAS (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) by Dickman [11], with minor modifications.
The study has been granted an exemption from ethics approval, since it used public data (exemption approval: Seoul National University Hospital IRB # E-1601-082-734).
1. GBC incidence and stage distribution
Table 1 shows the crude incidence rate and ASR of GBC by histologic type from 1999 to 2013. For men, the ASR of GBC significantly decreased from 3.11/100,000 (1999-2003) to 2.96/100,000 (2009-2013) with an APC of ‒0.5% (p < 0.01). The most frequent histologic type of GBC was adenocarcinoma, of which ASR significantly increased from 1.12/100,000 to 1.66/100,000, with an APC of 3.9% (p < 0.01). In papillary adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, oat cell carcinoma, and other specified cancers, no significant changes in the ASR were observed.
CR and ASR per 100,000 for gallbladder cancer and APC by sex and histological subtype, Korea Central Cancer Registry, 1999-2013
For women, the ASR decreased from 3.03/100,000 to 2.79/100,000, with an APC of –0.2%, but this trend was not statistically significant. Similar to that in men, adenocarcinoma in women showed the highest incidence among all histologic subtypes. The ASR of adenocarcinoma in GBC increased substantially from 1.11/100,000 to 1.45/100,000, with an APC of 2.7% (p < 0.01). In papillary adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, oat cell carcinoma, and other specified cancers, significant trends in the ASR were not observed.
In both men and women, GBC incidence increased exponentially by age (Fig. 1). For older age groups (80 years and older), the incidence rates increased between 2004 and 2013 compared to 1999-2003.
Age-standardized incidence rates of gallbladder cancer in three periods (1999-2003, 2004-2008, and 2009-2013) for men (A) and women (B).
2. Geographic difference
Fig. 2 and S1 Table show the geographic variation in ASRs across 16 cities and provinces in Korea. During 1999 and 2003, the highest incidence in men was observed in Daegu (5.63/100,000) and Gyeongsangnam-do (4.4/100,000), whereas the highest incidence in women was observed in Jeju (4.43/100,000) and Ulsan (4.34/100,000). During 2009-2013, the highest incidence was observed in Ulsan (4.31/100,000) and Gyeongsangnam-do (4.15/100,000) in men and Ulsan (4.09/100,000) and Gyeongsangnam-do (3.54/100,000) in women.
Geographic variation in age-standardized incidence rates per 100,000 for gallbladder cancer by province in Korea for men in 1999-2003 (A), 2004-2008 (B), and 2009-2013 (C) and for women in 1999-2003 (D), 2004-2008 (E), and 2009-2013 (F).
In most cities and provinces, the F/M ratio was below 1. Only five cities showed an F/M ratio over 1: Seoul, Jeju, Incheon, Busan, and Daejeon. The highest F/M ratio was found in Jeju (1.21), followed by Incheon (1.10), Busan (1.07), Daejeon (1.03), and Seoul (1.01).
Table 2 shows the SEER stage distribution of GBC. In two periods (2005-2008 and 2009-2013), most GBC patients, 2,535 (41.0%) and 4,105 (41.0%), were diagnosed at the distant stage, followed by 2,300 (37.2%) and 3,782 (37.7%) diagnosed at the regional stage, respectively. The percentages of patients diagnosed at the localized stage were the lowest, with 1,348 (21.8%) and 2,139 (21.3%) cases, respectively. The percentages for each stage did not change over time.
SEER stage distribution of patients with gallbladder cancer in two periods (2005-2008 and 2009-2013)
There was little improvement in the 5-year relative survival in patients with localized or regional stage cancers diagnosed during 2005-2008 and 2009-2013; however, no improvement in survival was observed for patients with distant or unknown stages during the same period (Fig. 3).
The 5-year relative survival rate for gallbladder cancer by Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results summary stage in two periods (2005-2008 and 2009-2013).
Despite the increase in the number of GBC cases for both sexes over fifteen years, the ASR for men decreased, and the ASR for women did not show a significant change. Adenocarcinoma was the most frequent histologic type for both sexes. GBC was diagnosed mostly at distant stages, followed by regional stages. In Korea, the GBC incidence in Daegu, Ulsan, Busan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, and Jeju was higher than the national incidence for both sexes.
The GBC incidence rate was slightly decreased in men, whereas no significant trend was observed in women between 1999 and 2013. In Shanghai, the GBC incidence rate continuously increased for both sexes between 1972 and 1994 [12]. Increasing trends were also observed for both sexes in England and Wales between 1971 and 2001 [13], while the incidence rate of GBC decreased in the Netherlands between 1989 and 1998 [14]. The incidence pattern was stable in the Dijon area in France [15].
Adenocarcinoma was the most frequent histologic type of GBC in both sexes, for which the ASR increased between 1999 and 2013. However, it is not clear whether this is a true increase, given the high proportion of unspecified cancers and the gradual improvement in the classification. In a nationwide survey of the United States between 1977 and 1988, 75.8% of GBC patients had the adenocarcinoma histological type [16]. According to hospital records, most of the histologic types were adenocarcinoma, accounting for 90%-100% of all cases [3,17].
The GBC incidence in Korea was between 2.96 and 3.12 per 100,000 in men and between 2.79 and 3.03 in women. This incidence is relatively higher than the incidence rates in other countries. Known risk factors such as Clonorchis sinensis and factors related to gallstones are widespread in the Korean area [18].
The F/M ratios of GBC in Korea were between 1.21 and 0.83. In most countries, the F/M ratios of GBC, including other biliary tract cancers, were higher than 2 [5], and sex has been recognized as a risk factor of GBC [5]. In contrast, Japan and Korea had F/M ratios of only approximately 1.3 [5]. One possible explanation for relatively high incidence of GBC in men than in women is the difference in prevalence of Clonorchis sinensis. It has been reported that prevalence of Clonorchis sinensis was 3.7% in men and 1.6% in women in year 1981 [19].
Accordingly, the SEER stage distribution between the two periods did not differ. However, the number of cases at unknown stages decreased, even though the number of overall cases increased. This result can be explained by diagnostic progress. Compared to the American SEER stage distribution, the percentage of cases at the localized stage was lower, and that of the distant stage was greater [20]. In other words, the high incidence of GBC in Korea was not associated with early detection of cancer. The percentage of cases at the TNM stage, according to Korean hospital data, was reported as follows: T1a and T1b stage between 32% and 56%; T2 stage between 30% and 55%; and T3 between 3% and 22%, respectively [21-23].
Daegu, Ulsan, Busan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, and Jeju had higher GBC incidence rates than the national incidence rate for both sexes. There are not enough studies to explain this result. However, this may be related to the egg positive rate of Clonorchis sinensis. This rate is highest in Gyeongsangnam-do, where the GBC incidence rate is also high [24]. However, the second highest egg positive rate was reported in Chungcheongnam-do, where the GBC incidence rate is not as high [24]. Other studies have shown that the prevalence of obesity requiring pharmacotherapy was highest in regions with a low incidence rate of GBC, except for in Jeju [25]. Although obesity is a risk factor for GBC, its nationwide distribution is not associated with its distribution in Korea.
One of the known risk factors for GBC is gallstone disease. History of gallstone disease and gallstone size are already known to be associated with GBC risk [26]. Gallstones that are larger in size (> 3 cm), volume, and weight; higher in number; and longer lasting can increase the risk of GBC [27]. Ethnicity is a risk factor for GBC as well [28]. In Chile, a country with high GBC rates, membership in the Mapuche population is the primary risk factor for the increasing GBC incidence [6]. In America, it has also been reported that Korean immigrants have a higher GBC incidence than do whites and blacks [29]. Early age at menarche, high body mass index, and smoking are also risk factors for GBC [8,30,31]. Studies show conflicting information regarding alcohol consumption as a risk factor [8].
In the SEER program, it was reported that the 5-year relative survival was 41.9% at the localized stage, 3.8% at the regional stage, and 0.7% at the distal stage from 1973 to 1987 [32]. Our results showed higher survival rates at all stages during the study period.
Limitations of the current study include a relatively high proportion of unspecified histology. The proportion of unspecified cancer in men was 60.8% in the first period (from 1999 to 2003) and improved to 36.8% in the most recent period (from 2009 to 2013). In women, the proportion of unspecified cancer was 59.1% from 1999 to 2003 and decreased to 43.8% from 2009 to 2013. Another limitation includes relatively high proportions of cases at an unknown stage, although this proportion has decreased as follows: 19.7% from 2005 to 2008 and 9.8% from 2009 to 2013. In addition, although the proportion of death certificate only (%) was in reasonable range during the study period, limited validity in the proportion of microscopic verification (%) was observed for GBC (S2 Table).
In spite of the limitations, the KCCR provides nationwide data covering the entire Korean population with high completeness.
In summary, the overall incidence pattern of GBC in Korea is stable. The incidence of GBC for fifteen years in Korea did not show significant changes. Incidence for men and women was similar. There was geographical variation in the incidence of GBC.
Supplementary materials are available at Cancer Research and Treatment website (http://www.e-crt.org).
This work was supported by a grant from Seoul National University Hospital (2016).
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Histological group
Overall Cases 3,202 4,039 4,856
CR 2.69 3.32 3.90
ASR 3.11 3.12 2.96 –0.5 –1.0 to 0.0 < 0.01
Adenocarcinoma Cases 1,156 1,761 2,732
Papillary adenocarcinoma Cases 60 105 131
ASR 0.06 0.08 0.08 1.1 –3.8 to 6.2 0.67
Mucinous adenocarcinoma Cases 11 27 24
ASR 0.01 0.02 0.01 - - -
Adenosquamous cell carcinoma Cases 33 34 73
ASR 0.03 0.03 0.05 2.1 ‒3.9 to 8.4 0.47
Squamous cell carcinoma Cases 29 27 34
Oat cell carcinoma Cases 7 8 30
Other specified cancer Cases 77 99 155
Unspecified cancer Cases 1,829 1,978 1,677
ASR 1.78 1.54 1.03 –4.9 –6.3 to ‒3.5 < 0.01
Oat cell carcinoma Cases 12 14 23
Other specified cancer Cases 89 103 178
CR, crude incidence rate; ASR, age-standardized incidence rate; APC, annual percent change; CI, confidence interval.
Localized 1,348 (21.8) 2,139 (21.3)
Regional 2,300 (37.2) 3,782 (37.7)
Distant 2,535 (41.0) 4,105 (41.0)
Unknown 1,637 1,187
Values are presented as number (%). SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results.
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MaxTV includes Bluetooth so end-users can stream music from their smartphones, tablets or computers. They can even up the experience of watching video or playing games on those devices by streaming the audio to the MT2."
The Proficient MaxTV contains four 2½" midranges and two 1" soft dome tweeters, front-mounted in a stereo Mid-Tweeter-Mid configuration. The left and right speaker systems are in their own internal enclosures. The powerful low end is produced by two 5¼" down-firing subwoofers, each in their own tuned and vented internal enclosures.
MaxTV uses four 20 Watt (RMS) digital amplifiers. The four amps are run in a 2 channel bi-amplified configuration. The two 5 ¼" low frequency drivers are each direct coupled to their own 20 Watt amp. The remaining two 20 Watt amps each drive the left and right front firing drivers. An on-board limiter protects the woofer's driver being over-powered and maintains clean and undistorted sound, at any output level.
The Proficient MT2 TV Speaker works with TVs mounted on stands or wall mounted. Used as a TV platform, the MT2 can support up to 160 pounds.
The Big Red Button Demo Kit
Proficient believes that once someone hears the difference MaxTV makes, they will buy it. Given this, Proficient will have "The Big Red Button" a 4" x 4" button that will let dealers compare the TV sound system and then MaxTV. Proficient dealers should contact their local Proficient rep for details.
Proficient MaxTV is shipping now with an MSRP of $599.
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Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis continues to deny PED use
The Super Bowl is supposed to be Ray Lewis’ triumphant last hurrah, but the Baltimore Ravens linebacker is currently shrouded in controversy after a Sports Illustrated report came out implying that the 17-year veteran used banned substances this season to recover from a torn triceps.
Ray day
Journalists asked Ray Lewis about these allegations during Tuesday’s Super Bowl XLVII Media Day, and the superstar LB was quick to refute them, stating: "Two years ago, that was the same report. It's not worthy of the press." Baltimore officials and coaches confirmed No. 52 has never failed a substance abuse test.
Breaking down some key matchups
If the 49ers can put consistent pressure on Joe Flacco, they will put themselves in a great position to win the Super Bowl. Conversely, if the Ravens can slow down Colin Kaepernick, they will be in a position to hoist the Lombardi trophy. If both of these things occur, we are in for a defensive battle.
How did they get here?
As crazy as it sounds, the Baltimore Ravens are in the Super Bowl. In only four days, this team will have the opportunity to play for their second title and complete a shocking playoff run that was almost entirely unexpected.
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Pet hospital open on Christmas makes a big difference
Adva Saldinger
Dec 26, 2008 at 12:01 AM Dec 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM
One minute Debbie Lynch�s new dog was playing with his Christmas presents and then he was gone.
Her dog, named Dog, found a way out of the fenced-in backyard, was hit by a car and rolled about eight times.
Lynch immediately rushed him from her home in Braintree to the VCA South Shore Animal Hospital in Weymouth.
�I�m extremely grateful this place is open,� she said. �I don�t know what I would have done if this place wasn�t.�
The hospital is open 24 hours a day 365 days a year, and for people like Lynch that makes all the difference.
Within an hour, Dog, a mastiff-boxer mix, had been X-rayed, had his cuts cleaned and was diagnosed � a pneumothorax � a collapsed lung.
Dog was admitted for an overnight stay at the hospital.
�They will keep a good eye on him,� said Lynch. �He�s in the best hands he can be in; that�s for sure.�
Lynch is grateful that it wasn�t worse, but has canceled her Christmas plans.
She was headed home to fix her fence, which she believes was broken by the recent snow storm.
For the doctors at the VCA working on Christmas is a sacrifice, but one they make willingly, said veterinarian Megan Brace.
�I think it�s important for the pets that are coming in,� said Brace. �I love being able to help pets and their families.�
She celebrated with her family on Christmas Eve when everyone got together.
�We are able to enjoy our time together and know that I will work,� said Brace.
The hospital saw several patients throughout the day in addition to Dog.
Sara Hawkins brought in her cat, Buddy, who has had kidney problems because his feeding tube was broken.
�It means a lot because he wouldn�t be able to eat,� said Hawkins, of Braintree. �I understand they sacrifice a lot and I�m greatly appreciative.�
The Mitchell family of Pembroke went to the hospital on Christmas to visit their dog Lucy, who has been there for almost a week after being hit by a car.
Caroline Mitchell said she was impressed with the care, saying that it was better than what people often receive when they are in the hospital.
�It�s put a different perspective on Christmas having your four-legged friend in the hospital,� said Graham Mitchell.
Adva Saldinger may be reached at asaldinger@ledger.com.
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Home Tips Tips – Cirrusworks Governor gets half a million
Tips – Cirrusworks Governor gets half a million
Cirrusworks Governor
Cirrusworks have just filed a form D with the United States securities and exchange commission. So far only $506,492 of the $1,000,000 requested funding has been received and no doubt Cirrusworks are hoping that this announcement will help complete the funding round. This half a million adds to the $4 million received in June 2014 from venture capital and should give the company stability at a time when it is poised to grow its revenue
David Giannini, CEO Cirrusworks
Founded by CEO, David Giannini in 2011 it has raised a total of $5.3 million in funds. It has recently announced its first distribution partner Earthbend. Ryan Donovan, general manager and vice president of sales and service at EarthBend commented “Our distribution partnership with CirrusWorks enables EarthBend to provide its channel partners with a simple, effective solution for enhancing Internet capacity in high traffic network environments.
“With the explosion of data throughput from mobile, streaming and web-based applications, the CirrusWorks Governor helps our reseller partners and their customers get the most from their infrastructure and circuit investment dollars.”
Cirrusworks Governor is their first product and the distribution deal is an important first step on the road to profitability. While the distribution deal was announced by the company on their website there was nothing similar in the filing as to whom the $500 million is coming from.
Governor : It looks after your bandwidth
Governor delivers dynamic bandwidth allocation for internet usage to public sector and corporate clients.Cirrusworks cite three applications where their technology is best suited: Office in the cloud, VOIP and Client Server and web application work loads.
The shared office space company Uber Offices is one client. The CTO of Uber Offices, Ryan Macaulay explains why he chose the product, “We needed technology that could keep up with the explosive demand for bandwidth generated from BYOD, web migration and streaming apps.”
For those companies with the challenge of performance on their bandwidth the Governor Auto-Algorithm™ (pending) patent methodology ensures that each user receives appropriate bandwidth for their individual usage pattern. Cirrusworks claims that this ensures that VOIP calls receive the quality they require and view it as superior technology to traditional bandwidth allocation and packet shaping algorithms.
The problem always seems to be the Network
There always seems to be a new company touting bandwidth improvements. Some are swallowed up along the way such as Packeteer being purchased by Blue Coat. Probably the best known is Riverbed, but new technology can challenge these established players and it will depend on the end strategy of the board and its investors to determine how successful Cirrusworks becomes. Certainly if the Governor produces the performance increases that Cirrusworks claims it could have a lot of happy customers and investors.
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Hi Steve – agreed, the “problem always seems to be the network.” As long as people, devices and software keep exponentially expanding data production and consumption, then network throughput will always be the weakest link in the performance chain. While traditional traffic shapers used DPI to force application-based prioritization, the current environment of unknown, uncontrollable, encrypted web-based traffic requires an entirely new way of optimizing your bandwidth capacity. That’s where CirrusWorks comes in! Check us out at http://www.cirrusworks.net.
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2004 Anchorman Ron Burgandy brings America’s Finest City to world attention.
1999 The first Legoland in the USA opens in Carlsbad.
1988 San Diego hosts its first Super Bowl, in San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium. Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos 42-10.
1980 The San Diego Trolley is dedicated. The tram system remains the best way to get around the city.
1974 "Swim-suit optional" zone at Black's Beach introduced, but removed 3 years later. Parts of the beach remain popular with nudists to this day.
1964 University of California at San Diego opens huge La Jolla campus to first class of undergraduate students. Sea World opens.
1959 Billy Wilder's film Some Like it Hot is filmed at the Hotel Del Coronado. Wilder describes working with Marilyn Monroe as being “in mid-flight, and there was a nut on the plane.”
1957 La Jolla resident Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) publishes The Cat in the Hat after being asked to develop a book to improve children's literacy.
1927 The Fine Arts Gallery in Balboa Park opens to the public. It is now the San Diego Museum of Art.
1919 Prohibition makes Tijuana a boom town as thousands of Americans cross the border to drink and gamble at the race tracks.
1915 Panama-California Exposition leaves a lasting legacy in the form of Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo.
1902 Native American inhabitants of Cupa, San Felipe and Warner Springs are evicted and removed to lands near the Pala Reservation, by decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1888 San Diego's 1880s real estate boom ends. By the end of the decade the population drops from 40,000 to 16,000.
1885 A transcontinental railroad arrives in San Diego, linking the city to the East Coast.
1870 Prospector Fred Coleman discovers gold near present-day Julian, sparking local "gold fever".
1867 "I have been nearly all over the world and it seemed to me to be the best spot for building a city I ever saw," says local legend Alonzo Horton about his arrival. San Diego experiences its first real estate boom.
1853 First known vigilantism occurs after tailor John Warren is found clubbed to death by the jawbone of an ox.
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. San Diego becomes part of the USA.
1821 Mexico ousts the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence and creates the Province of Alta California. California swears allegiance to Mexico one year later.
1774 The first colonists arrive in San Diego. A year later, Indians surround Mission San Diego de Alcala, set fire to its fragile wooden structures and chase the colonizers out.
1769 Gaspar de Portolà and his expedition start the Presidio of San Diego.
1602 Sebastián Vizcaíno arrives with his flagship "San Diego", sent north by Spain from Navidad in Mexico.
1542 Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo charts San Diego Bay.
10,000BC First signs of Native Americans living in the area
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We Found a Living Marlboro Man
And he's living because he didn't smoke
By Michael Howard
Eric Lawson recently became the fourth ex-Marlboro Man to die of a smoking-related illness.
Max Bryan "Turk" Robinson doesn't smoke. Never did. He's becoming one of the last of his kind because of it -- a living Marlboro Man.
Turk says he isn't the original Marlboro Man, but his predecessors were from a pool of actors portraying various professions perceived as manly – ball players, soldiers, pilots, hunters, and of course cowboys. This preluding campaign is remembered as the "Tattooed Man" series because of the tattoo on each smoker's hand.
The Tattooed Man began as a way for Marlboro to distance itself from its then feminine reputation. Introduced in the 1920s, Marlboro originally targeted females with the slogan "Mild as May."In 1955, they discovered what companies like Brawny and Axe body spray would later abuse in kind – manliness sells.
Marlboro increased its sales 5,000% in 8 months and catapulted the brand to number 1 by advertising with various manly professionals donning hand tats. Once the Tattooed Man campaign determined that Americans preferred the cowboy smoker, it was time to ditch the actors and find the real deal.
Turk Robinson was out roping for the rodeo one day when photographer Cal Bernstein discovered him, a living monument to the weathered, virile, and unpretentious workingmen of America. Shortly thereafter: fame.
Cue Marlboro Man from mythical Marlboro Country. Cue Turk Robinson, a Choctaw Chief descendant and lifelong wrangler with an Oklahoma drawl as long as his 6'6" frame. Turk knows exactly why he was chosen by the tobacco titan: "The Philip Morris tobacco company got where they didn't like using the professional models and the stunt men in movies, and stuff like that. They just wanted working cowboys."
The Marlboro job came to him at a time when the FCC banned cigarette ads from TV in 1971, so there were no royalties rolling his way during Bonanza breaks. Turk worked under the spotlight whenever the stogy peddler called him up, but he spent the majority of his days winning rodeos and raising cattle on an Oklahoma ranch. Marlboro Man became just another way to provide for his family.
After Turk quit, Philip Morris continued to profit off of various other Marlboro Man models for years -- and four former Marlboro Men have died since of smoking-related illness.
"I just never did think it'd be too good for your health," says Robinson. "And I didn't like the smell of it. Still don't."
Esquire.com: Are you the original Marlboro Man?
Turk Robinson: No. The first one I remember was a guy that had a mustache and a tattoo on the back of his hand. It was probably in the late 40's or early 50's. Somewhere along in there. But the Philip Morris tobacco company got where they didn't like using the professional models and the stunt men in movies, and stuff like that. They just wanted working cowboys or rodeo cowboys that not be acting for the pictures and commercials.
ESQ: That's why they got you, huh?
TR: Yessir.
ESQ: You were a bulldogger? Am I saying that correctly?
TR: I could do all events, but mostly bulldoggin'. Roped bulls. Roped and rode horses. I could do it all, but bulldoggin' was my specialty. I won more money bulldoggin'. I owned a ranch here northwest of Hugo, the Turkey Track Ranch.
ESQ: So that was your profession outside of Marlboro?
TR: I didn't work steady for Marlboro. They'd call whenever they wanted me to meet them somewhere for 3 or 4 days at a time to do pictures.
ESQ: What did you do the majority of time when you were not working for Marlboro?
TR: I just went to professional rodeos and ranched. Cattle. I had steer and horses and cows and calves.
ESQ: How did your life change once becoming the Marlboro Man?
TR: A lot of people say, "There's the Marlboro Man!" They want autographed pictures, some of 'em, if I have any. And they still (say), "Gimme a picture!" I went over to Choctaw Casino. They opened a bar and restaurant over there, and they had me signing autographed pictures. I work part time at a casino, and they have me go to parades, rodeos, bullridings, and stuff. I kind of represent the casino and autograph pictures, magazines, or whatever they want.
ESQ: So a little bit of fame?
TR: Well, they go, "There goes the Marlboro man!" [Laughing.]
ESQ: Are you a smoker or have you ever been?
TR: No. I don't smoke.
ESQ: Did you smoke at the time you were doing the ads?
TR: Yeah, when you're doing them ads, you taking pictures. They call it "the product." I forget sometimes. They'll say, "put the product in your mouth." They want you to be smoking while you making the pictures.
ESQ: All right, but you were not a smoker at the time. Why did you not smoke?
TR: No. I just never did think it'd be too good for your health. And I didn't like the smell of it. Still don't.
(Turk's wife in background: "Wouldn't want smoke in the house!")
Anybody – it don't bother me if they smoke, but we don't smoke in the house.
ESQ: Philip Morris has been accused in the past of glorifying a harmful habit, and heavy restrictions have been enforced regarding how and where they can advertise. Should companies have the right to advertise however they please? Why/why not?
TR: Well, I kindly think they do. But they don't do any advertising now, anyway. They don't advertise cigarettes. They quit advertising on TV back before I quit working for them.
ESQ: You don't think there's anything wrong with…
TR: Well, they don't advertise. You don't see no ads advertising cigarettes on TV at all.
ESQ: They can still do it in print.
TR: I never see any, but they may do it. I don't... that's just like smoking. If anybody wants to smoke, I don't begrudge them for smoking just 'cause I don't. [long pause] It's not good for you.
ESQ: Do you have any career regrets?
TR: Nope. I just enjoy life, and kind of do what I want to.
ESQ: We heard there is a tombstone in Hugo with your name on it. Are there any urban myths surrounding you?
TR: About the monument at the cemetery, we lost our son. Passed away before his 21st birthday. He was a senior at Oklahoma University. He was in his fraternity room studying for an exam and his heart just stopped. That's the reason we have a triple monument. 1991 when he passed away. He was born in '70. October 22nd, one day before his birthday. So that's why we have the monument sittin' up out there. Neither one of us is... we're still both alive.
ESQ: The reason that I asked the question about your tombstone is because there was a myth that you had died of lung cancer. I was wondering if you'd heard that.
TR: Well, you can pull it up on Google. I've heard it though. They got some Marlboro information on Google on Turk Robinson.
ESQ: There was a guy, Eric Lawson, who passed away today. He was also a Marlboro Man, I believe after you. He died of smoking related causes. I was just wondering if you'd heard that.
TR: Well, I just saw it on TV. Oh, not TV -- on the computer. They had his picture on there. I didn't know him. I never had met him.
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Man & Boy: Giles Coren On 'The Foreskin Dilemma'
The Esquire columnist on making an important early life decision for his son
By Giles Coren
Dan Burn-Forti
My quest to create a better man than I am began with the selection of his mother. Initially, of course, it was my wife's perfect tits and loose morals that attracted me (qualities which, if they are passed on to my daughter, will create a whole heap of parenting issues of their own) but then, when I met her very tall father and sisters, I thought, "Hang on, this one could be a keeper".
Because the Corens stalled at 5ft 9ins some 500 years ago and ever since then have been a relatively small family. I did not enjoy being short at school and knew that the first gift I gave my son would have to be height. That way, if he was into sport but was a total malco, he could still play first-team rugby or get a gold medal for rowing. Also girls would talk to him in nightclubs without him having to be rich or interesting. Then I wanted him to be old for his year at school, so that as well as being bigger than the others, he might be more intellectually advanced. I was neither, and the 47 years I have spent trying to compensate for that have been exhausting. So we aimed for a spring conception and a winter birth.
But my wife, lovely tits notwithstanding, went and miscarried him the first time. In the dentist's chair of all places — poor guy must have thought he'd drilled right through her. (I apologise for "miscarried", by the way. It is a brutal, macho metaphor that suggests the fumbling of a straightforward pass by an inept receiver, when, in truth, foetal "stickiness" is now thought to be a genetic capability imparted from the male side.)
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That was in June 2012 and my wife was then inclined to shut up shop for the summer because after a miscarriage you are meant to avoid conceiving for three months and by then we'd be into the autumn and the possible horrors of a summer baby, which she didn't want any more than I did. But then on the night of 4 August, home late in a terrific mood from covering a historic day at the London Olympics, when Britain had won gold in the heptathlon, the 10,000m and the long jump, I hopped her bones like Greg Rutherford, hammered away relentlessly in the manner of Mo Farah and got one off (prematurely, before I'd got round to whacking a condom on) that stuck like Jessica Ennis's javelin.
We considered termination on the grounds of school year irritations but decided he had just scraped in and so nine months later, on 6 May 2013, my boy was born. Big, blond, silent, uncomplicated. Just like a man should be. He was perfect in every way. Except one.
"Yeurgh! What the fuck is that?" I said as the nurse handed him to me.
"That's his foreskin," said my wife Esther, from the bed.
"Oh yeah," I said. "Of course. Sorry. It's just that I've never seen one up so close before. It really is disgusting, isn't it? It'll have to go."
As the obstetrician and nurses blenched and tutted, Esther replied, very tactfully for one who had just shat a grenade, "There are different schools of thought on that but you know what I think: your son, your call."
So it had to come off. I couldn't look him or my ancestors in the eye — or anywhere else — if it didn't.
This — apart from the tits — was why I married her. Previous girlfriends, all of them gentiles like my wife, had made a massive fuss when the subject of circumcision came up. They spoke of genital mutilation, unnecessary infant pain and barbaric blood rituals. And so each time I would patiently explain: "Darling, for 5,000 years, since the covenant God first made with Abraham, male Corens have circumcised their sons. I may have drifted from the Judaic life but I will not be the one to break a chain that goes back 200 generations. Now put your keys on the hall table and go."
"But your lack of a foreskin made you unhappy!" they would protest. "You were teased at school! You were too shy to undress in front of a girl until you were practically 30! You said yourself it makes wanking trickier because you have to use so much spit to get a slide on! You've never even been inside a synagogue!"
And it's all true. But your tribe is your tribe. The Eighties boarding school anti-Semites may have got to me but that shouldn't give them a victory over my unborn son. Indeed, should he pass 6ft 6ins and 16 stone (as he rather promises to do), I'd quite like him to go and seek the motherfuckers out and butt-rape them to death with his giant, circumcised Jewish schlong.
No, I'm not Jewish by practice. But if my son chooses to be in later life, then he'll need the right cock to gain entry. (Although who has ever chosen to be a Jew?) And there's the thing about being protected from certain STDs and cancers, which some use as an argument for circumcision. But frankly, if I cut off his arms and legs that would stop him getting killed in a rock climbing accident, so it's not much of an argument.
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There was also the big problem of me not knowing how you're meant to look after a rank, flappy, old sock on the end of your dick. Doesn't it get all cheesy? I wouldn't want to be showing him internet pages of a load of old Christians piously scrubbing their bellends with Imperial Leather and have no answer to the question: "Why is mine all squinty and gross like an anteater when yours is all sleek and beautiful like a python, Dad?"
So it had to come off. I couldn't look him or my ancestors in the eye — or anywhere else — if it didn't. I only bottled it to the extent of not getting in a mohel — the ancient cutters who travel with their switchblade and a single skill and do it on the dining room table while you hold the boy down yourself — choosing instead to have it done by a fully qualified Indian (female!) doctor in a posh baby hospital.
It sounded terribly modern at the time but the woman made an awful hash of the day, showing up late, stacking up her clients in a waiting room like kettled protestors, and demanding cash in her actual hand before completing each hurried procedure. A mohel, I felt at the time, would surely have been less commercially grubby and more respectful of the solemnity of the occasion.
But then I guess the way to get your dick treated with a bit of feeling is not through a hasty cash transaction on neutral ground with a random foreign bird. It's a lesson Sam was always going to have to learn some time.
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Flight School Intensive (Two-Day Retreat)
by Women Writing for (a) Change, Jacksonville
Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 6:00 PM – Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 6:00 PM –
Sat, Aug 17, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
Marywood Retreat and Conference Center
235 Marywood Drive
Saint Johns, FL 32259
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FLIGHT SCHOOL INTENSIVE
Please join us for this vitally important new program on how to effectively raise — and amplify — your voice as a woman in our community. This special two-day intensive workshop will be held at the Marywood Retreat Center on August 16-17.
What: Two-day Flight School Intensive to help you amplify your voice in our community
When: Friday, Aug. 16, 6-9 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 17, from 9-5.
Where: Marywood Retreat Center, 235 Marywood Drive, St. Johns, FL
Lodging: A few rooms are available on site; otherwise, simply drive from home each day to manage costs.
Tuition: Early bird rate of $977 (deposit of $97). Includes meals, workshop content, participant workbook, personal coaching sessions, and customized journal. Lodging fees separate. Payment plans are available (see below).* Regular rate $997.
Community activists and leaders, non-profit leaders, teachers, artists, change agents, corporate presenters, professional facilitators, politicians, writers, church leaders, editors, publishers, reporters, or anyone with a good idea who wants to develop it further and share with the world (women only, please)
Many women (and men) make tragic errors when presenting: a) they hold back, and never share their big idea or passion with a wider audience; b) they are intimidated by current platforms (like TEDx) and don't bother applying; c) they speak too fast or too softly, so the audience can't connect with their message; d) they don't know how to properly prepare; e) they lack support on the day of the event; f) they give a great presentation but fail to connect with the audience during the Q&A g) they don't record their presentation so they can share it more easily afterward to amplify the message.
At this workshop, we will help you develop your own big ideas to create your own mini "Ted Talk." You'll also learn how to:
**deliver an effective speech or presentation
**manage your voice tone and body language
**handle Q&A effectively
**present effectively and convincingly
**prepare properly to build your confidence
**develop storytelling techniques
**develop your own style and your own voice (not copying others—including men)
**stand in the right place to help your audience connect with you
**read from a script while still making eye contact with your audience
**follow up to maximize your message getting out there
You'll also:
**refine the written materials that will support your work
**learn how to craft an opinion piece for the newspaper or write an effective letter to the editor
**be better able to present your ideas professionally on paper and in person at a community gathering
At the Intensive, you'll not only hear from facilitators Jennifer Wolfe and Elizabeth Reed, but also learn from master storyteller, TEDx Coach, and cultural icon Barbara Colaciello, as well as Hope McMath, artist, activist, and community change agent. And, during our follow-on coaching, you’ll get feedback from TEDx Organizer and Executive Producer Sabeen Perwaiz Syed as she listens to your presentations.
Elizabeth Reed is a professional speaker, KonMari consultant, and speaking coach. Her passion is to empower women to raise their voices. Elizabeth believes that every woman has a powerful message that can change the world. Through six years of active Toastmasters experience, including giving dozens and speeches and speech evaluations, Elizabeth has developed her own style of coaching speakers. She uses activities and games to help each woman claim her stage and share her unique message in a way that inspires the hearts and minds of audiences.
Barbara Colaciello is a shaper of stories: yours and mine, As a communication coach, dramatic arts educator, and producer-director in Jacksonville, Barbara teaches many things, but specializes in the art of improvisation, guiding students to discover their voices, tell their stories, create collaboratively, and grow as leaders.
Hope McMath is a cultural leader, educator, artist, and activist whose knowledge of, and passion for, the arts is matched by a strong commitment to social justice and generating positive change in organizations and the community. She connects the arts to community needs including education, accessibility, the environment, wellness, and inclusion and diversity. As a guest presenter in this program, she will share how she has learned to raise her voice here in Jacksonville and beyond.
Sabeen Perwiz Syed is the Executive Producer of TEDxJacksonville and has been with the organization since it started. In addition to leading important community dialogue through TEDxJacksonville, Sabeen is the Executive Director of Florida Nonprofit Alliance, a statewide coalition of nonprofits focused on research, collaboration, and advocacy. Her career has centered on empowering individuals through education at Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, Vital Voices and Pace Center for Girls. In addition, she is on the board of UNF’s School of Engineering and the Atlantic Institute of Jacksonville. She is also a member of Jacksonville Women’s Network, Women’s Giving Alliance and a mentor with City Year.
Jennifer Wolfe is a writer, facilitator, and community leader who’s helped facilitate change for people and organizations for the past 25 years. A journalist by trade and a licensed affiliate owner for Women Writing for (a) Change®, Jennifer is a passionate advocate for women’s voices. She leverages her life experiences, writing skills, and facilitation methods to help others who want to change the world.
PILOT PROGRAM
This program is a pilot program. We intend to ask our first circle of Flight School participants to help us refine it as well as shape a follow-on program that will meet their needs and give them more time to practice this fall.
The follow-on program will include group sessions, personal coaching, and development of your written and spoken message. We will also have a photographer available to take professional photos for your marketing materials and help with promotional actvities.
LIMITED SPACES! 12 spots available
Please join us for this powerful new program and learn how to get your ideas to Take Flight in our community!
*PAYMENT PLAN:
Total tuition: $997, - deposit of $97 = 900 balance. We will work with you on a payment plan for the balance.
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Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s private WhatsApp messages may offer new clues
Washington | Published: December 3, 2018 9:23:32 AM
"The more victims he eats, the more he wants," says Khashoggi in one message sent in May, just after a group of Saudi activists had been rounded up.
Jamal Khashoggi had sent the texts to Montreal-based activist Omar Abdulaziz, the CNN report said on Monday.
Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in over 400 WhatsApp messages that he sent to a fellow Saudi exile before he was murdered in October, described Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman as a “beast” and a “pac-man” who would devour all in his path, even his supporters, a media report said. Khashoggi had sent the texts to Montreal-based activist Omar Abdulaziz, the CNN report said on Monday.
The messages shared by Abdulaziz, which include voice recordings, photos and videos, paint a picture of a man deeply troubled by what he regarded as the petulance of the Crown Prince. “The more victims he eats, the more he wants,” says Khashoggi in one message sent in May, just after a group of Saudi activists had been rounded up.
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“I will not be surprised if the oppression will reach even those who are cheering him on.”
In almost daily exchanges between October 2017 and August 2018, Khashoggi and Abdulaziz conceived plans to form an electronic army to engage young Saudis back home and debunk state propaganda on social media, leveraging Khashoggi’s establishment profile and the 27-year-old Abdulaziz’s 340,000-strong Twitter following.
“(Jamal]) believed that MBS (the Crown Prince) is the issue, is the problem and he said this kid should be stopped,” Abdulaziz said in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
But in August, when he believed their conversations may have been intercepted by Saudi authorities, a sense of foreboding descends over Khashoggi.
“God help us,” he wrote.
Two months later, he was dead.
Abdulaziz on Sunday launched a lawsuit against an Israeli company that invented the software he believes was used to hack his phone.
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“The hacking of my phone played a major role in what happened to Jamal, I am really sorry to say,” Abdelaziz told CNN. “The guilt is killing me.”
Abdulaziz began speaking out against the Saudi regime as a college student in Canada. His pointed criticisms of government policies drew the attention of the Saudi state, which cancelled his university scholarship.
Canada granted him asylum in 2014 and made him a permanent resident three years later.
Abdulaziz first spoke publicly about his contact with Khashoggi last month after researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reported his phone had been hacked by military-grade spyware.
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High inflation marked 2013, expect economic recovery next year
Business/Economy hidden Dec 21, 2014 02:36:54 IST
New Delhi: Slowing growth and rising inflation marked 2013 which the country's economic managers would like to forget quickly in the hope that the new year will bring in new government and some good news.
The growth rate continued to slide throughout the year despite desperate attempts by the government to stem the tide with a host of traditional and innovative measures.
Pangs of inflation, driven mainly by rising prices of essential food items, added to the overall despondency in a year that saw the rupee dipping to its life time low level against the US dollar and the Current Account Deficit (CAD) soaring to historic highs.
Everything began well with the Finance Ministry's Economic Survey in February asserting that the growth rate during 2013-14 would improve to 6.1-6.7 percent, from decade's low of 5 percent recorded in the previous fiscal.
The euphoria was short-lived as the government efforts to boost growth have come a cropper with the economy slipping further into the quagmire and key parameters showing no signsof bottoming out.
Growth rate during April-September slipped to 4.6 percent from 5.3 percent in the same period last fiscal, and it is doubtful that the full financial year would show an uptrend.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram as well as Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan tirelessly, yet unconvincingly, tried to assure the industry and the people that the growth rate in 2013-14 would be above 5 percent or would not fall below the decade's lowest level witnessed last fiscal.
On the other hand, institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development came out with estimates of the country's growth, but none projectedover 5 percent expansion rate during the current fiscal.
In a recent forecast, IMF lowered the growth projection to 3.75 percent in 2013 from 5.7 percent estimated earlier. It, however, forecast about 5 percent in 2014.
Similarly, ADB lowered India's growth forecast for 2013-14 to 4.7 percent from 6 percent earlier. Like IMF, it too expects some improvement in the next fiscal and has projecteda growth of 5.7 percent. Other organisations have forecast a similar trend.
Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) had lowered the growth forecast to 5.3 percent from 6.4 percent.
RBI had lowered the growth projection for 2013-14 to 5.5 percent from its earlier estimate of 5.7 percent.
Besides trying to prop up growth, the economic managers struggled hard to tame inflation but failed despite best intentions and persistent efforts.
Inflation remained above the comfort level of the RBI and also the government, mainly on account of rising prices of essential food items, causing hardship to the common man.
Repeated assurances that inflation would come down provided cold comfort to people who continued to reel under high prices.
As per the latest data, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation soared to 14-month high of 7.52 percent in November, pushed mainly by rising prices of vegetables, particularly potato and onion. The retail inflation, measured by movement in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped to 11.24 percent during the month. There was a time when onion in certain market was sold at an exorbitant price of Rs 100 a kg.
The palpable resentment against Congress-led UPA government for its failure to check rising prices found its reflection in the recently concluded assembly elections, which had been dubbed as semi-finals before the general elections early next year. The Congress lost power in Rajasthan and Delhi and did badly in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
The declining value of the rupee and widening CAD were the other challenges the country faced this year.
The domestic currency started depreciating after the US Federal Reserve announced in June that it could gradually cut down the bond purchases with the improvement in the outlook.
The announcement sent the global stock and currency markets in a tizzy. India was not left untouched.
The rupee dipped to a historic low of 68.85 to a dollar in August. The BSE Sensex too bore the brunt. However, the efforts of the Finance Ministry as well as RBI, especially the new Governor Rajan, bore fruits and the rupee stabilised. The domestic currency has improved to around 62 to a dollar, while the BSE Sensex is trading above 21,000-mark.
CAD - which is the difference between the inflow and outflow of foreign currency - touched an all-time high of USD 88.2 billion or 4.8 percent of the GDP in 2013-14. Besides other things, high CAD had fuelled speculation in the domestic currency in the overseas markets.
The government tried to control the deficit by checking gold imports and promoting India as an investment destination.
RBI supplemented the efforts by imposing restrictions and laying down stiff conditions for gold imports. The initiatives yielded results, though there was a spurt in smuggling of goldon account of higher duties.
The government significantly relaxed the Foreign Direct Investment guidelines and raised the limits of overseas investment in financial markets. Although these steps did not provide immediate results, India did receive investment proposals from global companies like Tesco, Etithad, Singapore Airlines and AirAsia.
RBI on its part permitted banks to raise FCNR(B) deposits from abroad on liberal terms. The banks were also encouraged to raise funds in overseas markets. It also asked the oil marketing companies to purchase foreign exchange through off market deals for imports. These developments had a salutary impact on the exchange rate, which stabilised to the satisfaction of the Finance Ministry and the RBI.
RBI, however, wants the restrictions and extra-ordinary measures taken by the government and the central bank to go, so that the real stability could be achieved in the exchange rate. RBI has specifically pleaded for removal of restrictions on gold import to discourage smuggling, a proposal which did not find favour with the Finance Ministry.
The better part of the economic management during 2013 was the repeated assertion of Chidambaram that he would go the whole hog to retain the fiscal deficit to 4.8 percent of theGDP in 2013-14 fiscal.
On several occasions he said that he had drawn a red line that would not be breached and the effort would be to bring down the fiscal deficit to 3 percent by 2016-17.
Achieving tight fiscal deficit target in an election year is a difficult call in view of the fact that it would mean pruning plan expenditure by as much as Rs 1 lakh crore.
However, going by the Finance Minister's commitment, it appears that the fiscal deficit would be close to the target.
Another big effort undertaken by the government to improve investment and growth was setting up of the Cabinet Committee on Investment to clear mega projects which were held up for some reason or the other.
The CCI statistics is quite impressive as it has given green signal to over 280 held-up projects envisaging investment of Rs 5.5 lakh crore and many more were in the offing.
However, the results of these initiatives will take time and fruits would be reaped by the new government which would be formed after the general elections next year.
Updated Date: Dec 21, 2014 02:36:54 IST
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Home AFCON 2019 South Africa captain believes Win over Nigeria will be of Epic Proportion
South Africa captain believes Win over Nigeria will be of Epic Proportion
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(Top L to R) South Africa's defender Sifiso Hlanti, South Africa's midfielder Bongani Zungu, South Africa's defender Buhle Mkhwanazi, South Africa's goalkeeper Darren Keet, South Africa's defender Thamsanqa Mkhize, South Africa's defender Thulani Hlatshwayo, (bottom L to R) South Africa's midfielder Hlompho Kekana, South Africa's forward Percy Tau, South Africa's forward Sibusiso Vilakazi, South Africa's midfielder Themba Zwane and South Africa's forward Lebo Mothiba pose for a group picture during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) Group D football match between South Africa and Namibia at the Al Salam Stadium in the Egyptian capital Ciaro on June 28, 2019. (Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) (Photo credit should read JAVIER SORIANO/AFP/Getty Images)
If South Africa’s win over Egypt was an upset, victory over Nigeria will be even more significant for Bafana Bafana, Defender Thulani Hlatshwayo has suggested.
A Thembikosi Lorch 85th minute goal gave Bafana, perhaps, their biggest victory since clinching the AFCON title in 1996 and this team led by Thulani are daring to dream big.
Ahead of Wednesday’s quarter-final clash against Nigeria, Thulani truly, captured the importance of the game, pedigree of the opponent and history of their rivalry.
“We’ve now made it into the AFCON quarter-finals for the 6th time in our history, this gives us an opportunity to really chase our dream to win,” he told SAFA’s official website.
“Our next game is against our biggest rival team, Nigeria. We know playing them will be tough but we have a clear understanding of our mission, and we’ll give it our all once again.
“This is an opportunity for us to regain trust from the fans, to truly discover our identity and have confidence in our capabilities. As captain, I’m confident in the team and what we can achieve.
“There’s a lot of pressure on us to perform well, therefore it is our intention to do our best. It is no longer just about participating but about earning our place on the greatest stage in Africa.
“Whatever the outcome, this is only the beginning for us. I believe that this is a new era and opportunity to do well and participate more in global football competitions.
“The hope for this tournament is to bring the confidence South Africans once had in us when the team won the tournament in 1996,” Hlatshwayo said.
Previously, South Africa and Nigeria met twice in the Africa Cup of Nations; the Super Eagles winning on both occasions, including a 2-0 victory in the semi-final.
While Nigeria has had the edge on head to head in their 13 meetings [6 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses], South Africa are yet to lose to the Super Eagles in their last five encounters.
Current Head Coach, Stuart Baxter being the only Bafana Head Coach to guide the side to a win against Nigeria.
He scored a major point in the AFCON 2019 qualifiers when South Africa defeated Nigeria 2-0 in Uyo, two years ago.
The next meeting between the sides will be staged at the Cairo International Stadium on July 10.
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Where To Stay In Venice
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Venice's Grand Canal. (Photo: Getty Images)
Venice is a destination where each corner or bend reveals another unexpected gem or portal into a former ancient world. But which of its many snaking neighborhoods, or sestieri, is best to explore and discover? Each enclave of this exceptional city has its own charms and appeal. Expect well-heeled tourists and locals across the board in this sumptuous city, where gilded mirrors, marble floors and Murano chandeliers are the norm.
With endless delightful options for where to stay, here are the best places to stay in Venice:
Palazzo Morosini degli Spezieri
At Palazzo Morosini degli Spezieri, guests can expect to find nine elegant, under-the-radar apartments positioned in the San Polo district. The location is an important part of the equation—it is residential and central. History also plays a key role, as this 15th-century palace was once a bustling marketplace for spices. Special details include crockery that draws its inspiration from the building's architecture and Malin + Goetz toiletries in all the bathrooms. Each apartment suite is also fitted with a washer and dryer—ideal for longer stays. And while there is no restaurant, flakey croissants are delivered each morning from a local pastry shop.
Il Palazzo Experimental
Palazzo Experimental
Created by the team behind the Experimental Cocktail Club bars and hotels in Paris and London, this 32-room property has a youthfulness and freshness not typically associated with the grand dame properties of this Italian city. The midcentury modern aesthetic is the work of French designer Dorothée Meilichzon, and the restaurant boast a similar inventiveness. Located on the Giudecca Canal, it is easy to hail a gondola or summon the hotel pontoon. This group made a name for themselves with their creative cocktail concoctions, so be sure to make time to visit the rooftop bar.
Locanda Cipriani
The restaurant at Locanda Cipriani.
With only six bedrooms, this property first opened in 1935 and has been attracting celebrities ever since. (Ernest Hemingway stayed here while writing Across the River and Through the Trees.) Rooms at Locanda Cipriani feature stacks of books instead of TVs. The namesake restaurant is run by the same family that owns Venice’s world-famous Harry Bar and Venetian meals are served either in the leafy garden or inside under the exposed-beam ceiling.
Palazzo Barbarigo
Converted from a 16th-century Venetian palazzo, this sumptuous property is but a short walk from the Rialto bridge. The interiors are dark and sultry—with 18 rooms featuring soaring ceilings, rich velvet furnishing, feathered lampshades and a clever minibar concealed in a cocktail cabinet. There’s no restaurant, but there is a snack menu, as well as a few light lunch and dinner items. There is also a library and a lounge bar with pitch-perfect cocktails shaken before your eyes.
Hyatt Centric Murano
Housed in a former glass factory, this elegant property now run by the global Hyatt brand is located in LaGare, slightly removed from Murano's own bustling Grand Canal. One important detail throughout the interiors are the bespoke pieces of modern glass loaned by manufacturer Venini—and if time permits—book in for a private visit to their nearby factory. Interiors within the 119 rooms are replete with clean, crisp lines and the spacious executive rooms are split level.
Generator Hostel
Across the water from main sites of Venice, this lively property is located on Giudecca Island. Achingly cool and hip, this hostel is unlike any other property in Venice with its exposed brick walls and metal pipes and beams snaking across the ceilings. The design of this converted grain factory is quirky and eclectic and art from young local artists is often featured on the walls. Guests are kept busy with a host of events and entertainment, including film screenings, gigs, karaoke sessions and weekly DJ sets. And in a similar vein, there is a pool table, playing cards and board games scattered around.
Residenza de L’Osmarin
Residenza de l'Osmarin
With only three bedrooms, this pristine bed and breakfast is a consistent favorite escape in Venice. The rooms are welcoming—with elegant and the top-floor suite has its own roof terrace. Owner Maria Elisabetta makes divine cakes, and these are served every morning as part of the breakfast buffet, which also features teaming platters of ripe fruits and cereals. There's a beckoning terrace when the weather permits, which, thankfully, is often. And it's worth noting that there are no elevators in this three-story property.
The Rosa Salva
An incredible find in the center of San Marco, this chic and contemporary property has 22 well-designed rooms. Hospitality is also in the blood here, as six generations of the Rosa Salva family have worked in this business, and the family also owns Venice's most beloved pastry shop. As can be expected, breakfast is perfection, with direct-from-the-oven pastries appearing each morning, alongside more substantial cereals, yogurt, meats, cheeses and eggs.
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Our Websites Win Big in Annual Communicator Awards
Our Foster Web Marketing website and several of our clients’ sites competed in the 24th Annual Communicator Awards, and it was a clean sweep of victory for all of us in our submitted categories.
These awards recognize the hard work and creative innovation we’ve put into our websites and digital marketing, all with our perfect clients in mind.
What Are the Communicator Awards?
Judged by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA), the Communicator Awards recognize creative excellence in advertising, corporate communications, public relations, and other categories each year. These wins are a big deal for the businesses and organizations recognized because it is one of the largest awards of its kind in the world for communications and marketing. Communicator Awards indicate that the winners have exceeded industry standards, are highly regarded by their peers, and are positioned as some of the very best communicators in their fields.
The 2018 awards are broken into Awards of Distinction, which are awarded to “projects that exceed industry standards in quality and achievement,” and Awards of Excellence, which represent the very top honors offered by the program.
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The 2018 Communicator Awards winners were selected out of thousands of entries across the U.S. and internationally.
We are proud to announce the following wins for FWM and our clients.
Keller & Keller
Keller & Keller received an Award of Excellence in the category “Law and Legal Services for Websites,” as well as an Award of Distinction in the category “Function for Websites.”
What we love about this site: The emphasis on team photographs, client stories, and action-oriented headlines and panels evokes an immediate sense of care and competence, and tab-style navigation on the home page gives users a clear path to meet the team and get answers. Learn more about Keller & Keller’s story and the anatomy of a successful website.
The Voss Law Firm
The Voss Law Firm received an Award of Distinction in the category “Law and Legal Services for Websites.”
What we love about this site: If you think websites about insurance law have to be boring, you have to see this site. Bold images and intuitive navigation help guide visitors to most relevant answers to their questions, and the panel-style design presents information in an attractive, easy-to-scan format. It’s a perfect balance of eye-catching design and rich, readable content.
Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C.
Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C. received an Award of Distinction in the category of “Law and Legal Services for Websites.”
What we love about this site: This website uses subtle color cues and attractive graphics to help guide users to the best information. It’s easy for users to find the service areas that are relevant to them, and the presentation of accolades and testimonials builds trust as potential clients move through the site. Overall, the site delivers a great user experience that focuses on practical answers.
Foster Web Marketing
The Foster Web Marketing website received an Award of Excellence in the brand-new “Best Practices for Websites” category and an Award of Distinction in the “Marketing for Websites” category.
What we love about this site: We are so honored to be recognized by the Communicator Awards this year. We took our website through a major redesign process just last year, modernizing our design, images, content, and more for our online audience. We think it’s bigger, better, faster, and stronger than our previous design, and we love the way it looks and works for us and our own potential clients.
Congratulations to Our 2018 Communicator Awards Winners!
In a press release, Director of the AIVA Derek Howard commented, “This year’s class of entries embodies the ever-evolving marketing and communications industry. On behalf the Academy members, I’d like to applaud the entrants this season for their dedication to producing outstanding content as they continue to push the envelope of creativity.”
We heartily agree.
Congratulations to our team at Foster Web Marketing, Keller & Keller, The Voss Law Firm, and Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C.!
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Arfield and Katic must hit the ground running on Rangers return – Gerrard
Steven Gerrard expects Scott Arfield and Nikola Katic to hit the ground running when the pair finally touch down to rejoin their Rangers team-mates.
Defender Katic is due to link up with Gerrard’s side at their pre-season base in Portugal this week following Croatia’s exit from the European Under-21 Championships.
Midfielder Arfield also has commitments skippering Canada at the Gold Cup, where his side face Haiti in Saturday’s quarter-final showdown.
But there will be no settling in period once the 30-year-old does clock on, with Gerrard insisting both Arfield and Katic will be expected to take part in the gruelling sessions he has laid on to get his side back in top shape ahead of the new season.
Both men were given some early time off ahead of Rangers’ final game of last season and Gerrard believes they will have had enough rest and recuperation to ensure they are ready to go when next month’s Europa League qualifiers come around.
The Ibrox boss, whose side kick-off their campaign against either Progres Niederkorn or Cardiff Met University on June 18, told Rangers TV: “The reason they weren’t available for Kilmarnock was to try and benefit from that decision now.
“I think it affected us against Kilmarnock as I didn’t really want to change the team too much as we were on a great run with five wins out of five.
“But, because there wasn’t really much to play for, I had to think about now, and I had to think about getting them ready for the qualifiers which are about to hit us.
“So Katic will come straight back in – he had his three-week holiday before his tournament – and the same with Scott.
“They will have slightly different programmes to the others and it will be a lot easier for them to pick up the speed and integrate because their programme was different at the back-end of last season.”
The latecomers will find six new faces in the Rangers dressing room when they do return.
Gerrard has signed Jake Hastie, Jordan Jones, Sheyi Ojo, Greg Stewart and George Edmundson this summer, with Joe Aribo also waiting to sign off his move from Charlton.
And so far, Gerrard has been pleased to see his summer buys make a good first impression.
“They have done very well, and I would say every one of them so far has been a positive on the evidence of what we have seen,” he said.
“Both on and off the pitch, they are good people and hungry people who want to come in, contribute and make us better.
“That always sends shockwaves around the squad as people who have been here before realise the competition and the levels are going to go up, and as a manager you are hoping that comes out in results moving forward.
“So the message to the players is to keep pushing as we are going to have options in all the positions and a better quality than we had last season, and that is great news for everyone.”
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Hands helps No. 17 UCLA beat Presbyterian 80-65
AP Nov 20, 2018 at 2:11a ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jalen Hill’s career night on the boards helped UCLA avoid a big upset.
Hill had 20 rebounds to lead UCLA to an 80-65 win over Presbyterian College on Monday night.
“Of course I knew, I was the one who was going to get them” Hill said of how many rebounds he had. “It was about activity. I do what I do for my team and stay in my role. That’s what I did.”
Jaylen Hands had 19 points for the 17th-ranked Bruins (4-0), who had to fend off a rally by the Blue Hose (3-3) before pulling away. UCLA built a 24-point lead early in the second half, but saw it dwindle to three points. UCLA’s 21 turnovers didn’t help matters.
“I thought that was as careless as we’ve been since we started the season,” UCLA coach Steve Alford said. “Our turnovers were extremely careless and that hurt our defense.”
Presbyterian College outscored UCLA 39-20 over the first 12:20 of the second half to cut UCLA’s lead to 61-58. That was as close as Presbyterian would get as UCLA answered with a 12-2 run to put the game away.
“I think it was a little bit of Coach getting on our (behind) and a little bit of our pride,” UCLA guard Kris Wilkes said. “It was like our pride got taken away a little bit by them coming in and making that run, period. The first group didn’t do too great and the second group fell right in behind us. We have to play for 40 minutes.”
Hill helped the Bruins cause by pulling down so many rebounds, including seven on the offensive end.
“Proud of J-Hill,” Alford said. “Thought he had a tremendous night. Not only did he get 20 rebounds but had three assists, no turnovers, got a blocked shot, got a steal, made 5 of 6 free throws. Loved his activity. That’s the motor we’ve got to have from J. He was a huge bright spot tonight.”
Bruins freshman Moses Brown made the first basket of the game a good one with a slam dunk. Brown, the 7-foot-1 center who became the first freshman to record double-doubles in each of his first three games, was back at it Monday but fell three rebounds shy of a double double. He had an assortment of dunks, including an alleyoop dunk after a long crosscourt pass from Hands.
Adam Flagler led Presbyterian College with a game-high 29 points.
“To play against basketball royalty in UCLA and in a historic venue like Pauley Pavilion was special for our program,” Presbyterian coach Dustin Kerns said. “UCLA is the biggest team in America and makes scoring and defending difficult. I was proud of our fight and (we) made it a one-possession game late in the game. We showed a lot of toughness and this made us better.”
RAINING THREES
Presbyterian College missed 19 of 22 3-point attempts in the first half. The Blue Hose attempted 45 3-pointers and made 10 of 23 in the second half.
Presbyterian College (S.C.): The Blue House played back-to-back Top 25 teams as it lost its previous game to Marquette, 74-55. Those experiences against two of the best teams in the country should bode well in Big South Conference action.
UCLA: Is getting its newcomers plenty of experience and confidence, even if that playing time comes against teams that were outmatched. The Bruins also learned how to rally when its 22-point halftime lead was cut to 3.
Presbyterian: Hosts St. Francis (NY) on Nov. 28, following a holiday break.
UCLA: Plays No. 11 Michigan State on Thursday in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational.
Jaylen Hands
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
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I gave this game a 1 because 0 wasn't available.
User Rating: 1 | Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire PS3
By Axcalay | Review Date: July 29, 2009
I am not really a fan of Gundam or anything, but I thought that a game where you play as a giant robot fighting other giant robots would be fun... how wrong was I. Immediately after booting the game up I had to double check that I had bought a PS3 game! The first level looks absolutely dire, as though it was made in a basement by a bunch of crack heads who learnt C++ to afford their junk, but never really finished the course. But the graphics aren't the worse technical aspect. The frame rate, the controls, hell, this game is UNPLAYABLE! REPEAT! UNPLAYABLE! I'd even say it's an insult to say it looks like a PS2 game. Geez, it's crap. I played it for an hour, an hour of my life that I shall never get back, trying in vain to enjoy this peice of **** that I had just bought, then turned it off in disgust and sold it back to the store I bought it from for half the price I purchased it an hour before.
DO NOT BUY OR EVEN RENT THIS GAME UNLESS YOU WANT TO TORTURE YOUR WORST ENEMY BY MAKING HIM PLAY IT FOR A WHOLE MONTH. I GUARANTEE THAT BEFORE THE MONTH IS UP HE WILL BE BEGGING FOR YOU TO CUT OFF HIS HANDS AND GOURGE HIS EYES OUT.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire is a punch in the gut to the Gundam franchise and its fans.
By ian_fisher | Review Date: Mar 06, 2007 | PS3
Typically giant robots provide good times. This has been proved in animes such as The Big O, Evangelion and the classic Transformers. Giant robots have also proved successful in videogames such as Zone of the Enders, C... Read Full Review
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By Imperial_Colone | Review Date: Nov 19, 2006 | PS3
A good Gundam review? No, keep looking because the title was not meant to be in support of this game! Before the PS3 came out i spent alot of time snooping around here, as did alot of you and im sure most of you read the... Read Full Review
15 of 18 users found the following review helpful
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