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Dec 30 The Shape of Water
Thriller, Romance, Mystery, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
A pleasant mishmash of classic horror movies, silent films, musicals and Cold War thrillers, Benecio— excuse me —Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water confidently balances the humor, tension, melancholy and heart that the above genre blend suggests.
Set in an early ‘60s Baltimore fleshed out with convincing period design, the film opens with a beautiful character introduction of mute cleaning lady Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a woman of immense quiet yearning who lives above a movie theater and works at a nearby government laboratory.
Interactions with lonely neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins), an out-of-work illustrator with his share of demons, and protective co-worker friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer) convey Elisa’s soulful kindness, but she begins to bloom when scientists bring an aquatic, manlike creature from South America to the lab for testing.
Seemingly on the same family tree as the titular entity of Creature from the Black Lagoon, the visitor is a wonder of makeup and character design. Under the copious scales, gills and fins, Doug Jones essentially plays a hunkier, less chatty version of his Abe Sapien from the Hellboy movies and makes a strong argument for old school, practical effects over motion-capture.
Momentarily hampering The Shape of Water, however, is the suddenness with which Elisa takes to the creature and her willingness to put herself in the proximity of a firmly established danger. Without a scene of her pining for the newcomer or otherwise thinking of him or checking on him in innocent ways, their connection comes off as assumed — or, at best, lazily destined — instead of the believable one that gradually and charmingly occurs.
With sadistic security figure Strickland (Michael Shannon) treating the perceived abomination with hostility and kindly Dr. Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg) pursuing his own interests, Elisa plots to free her new acquaintance from the lab. In turn, the creature beautifully showcases some of his hidden talents and inspires his allies to look beyond their despair and perceived flaws.
Made for a reported $19 million, cast-wide strong performances and the filmmakers’ concerted efforts give The Shape of Water the appearance of costing several times more than that amount. Aiding the effort is the intricate sets’ uses of pistachio green and brighter hues of that color, which Giles’ former boss posits is a sign of the future, and del Toro’s textbook fluid camerawork.
Alluring as the color palette is, the director originally wanted The Shape of Water to be entirely in black and white, and while Fox balked at the idea, he manages to get one heartfelt sequence in that mode near the end.
Elevating an already good film close to greatness, the scene and its surrounding balanced parts make a convincing argument for one of the year’s best films. Though it may not speak to any grand national, global or social issue like The Post or Get Out, as intelligent escapism and a reminder of humanity’s potential, it’s tough to beat.
Grade: A-minus. Rated R. Now playing at Carolina Cinemark and the Fine Arts Theatre
(Photo: Fox Searchlight)
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Announcing the 2018 “Champion for Animals” Award Recipients
This week, we were proud to announce the recipients of the third annual ASPCA “Champion for Animals” award, a recognition honoring organizations and individuals who have shown outstanding dedication to end dogfighting in their communities.
This announcement comes just before National Dogfighting Awareness Day on April 8, a day created to highlight the brutality and pervasiveness of dogfighting in America, reveal little-known truths about the blood sport and to encourage animal lovers nationwide to act against this brutal form of animal cruelty.
The 2018 ASPCA “Champion for Animals” recipients are:
Cedar Bend Humane Society for playing a significant role in helping the ASPCA find safe and loving homes for countless victims of dogfighting, and for educating its community about important animal cruelty issues. As a dedicated ASPCA Response Partner, Cedar Bend has gone above and beyond last year in supporting the ASPCA’s efforts to end dogfighting and help animal victims of cruelty and neglect find the homes they need and deserve.
Detective James Keller of the Jacksonville Police Department for his diligence investigating a dogfighting operation in the Onslow County, North Carolina area. Detective Keller worked in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies on a case in which 155 dogs were rescued from multiple properties in December 2016. The investigation resulted in the federal indictment of 10 individuals on dogfighting and drug-related charges. Detective Keller continues to investigate dogfighting cases in his community.
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Terry Mills, ASPCA Director of Blood Sports and Detective James Keller of the Jacksonville Police Department.
The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department (ENRD) for their commitment to enforcing the Animal Fighting Prohibition Act, and their increased dedication to prosecuting federal animal fighting cases. Through ENRD’s collaboration with investigatory agents across the Justice Department, 10 individuals have been indicted on federal animal fighting charges and nearly 700 dogs have been rescued from federal dogfighting cases in the last two years. In addition, the number of animal fighting investigations overseen by the Justice Department nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017, and more than 200 federal, state and local investigators have received animal fighting training, ensuring they have the resources needed to properly identify, investigate and prosecute dogfighting throughout the country.
From Left: Joseph Poux (ENRD), Varu Chilakamarri (ENRD), Nancy Perry (ASPCA), Jeff Wood (ENRD), Richard Patch (ASPCA), Seth Barsky (ENRD).
“Dogfighting is one of the most heinous forms of animal abuse, forcing dogs to live their entire lives on heavy chains and brutally fight other dogs as dogfighters profit from their torture,” said Stacy Wolf, Senior Vice President of the ASPCA’s Anti-Cruelty Group. “Individuals and organizations recognized for this award have demonstrated steadfast commitment to ending the suffering of these dogs and stamping out this barbaric blood sport. From investigating and prosecuting dogfighting to finding homes for rescued animals, law enforcement, prosecutors and animal welfare agencies have made this issue a priority, sending a clear message that dogfighting will not be tolerated in our country.”
According to a newly released ASPCA national poll measuring the gap between the public’s awareness and understanding of dogfighting and its prevalence in the U.S., 57% of people believe dogfighting never happens in their community, fewer than one-third, 31%, are very confident they would recognize the signs of dogfighting and only 53% reported suspected dogfighting activities to local authorities—while 25% did nothing. These results show us that days like National Dogfighting Awareness Day, and people like Detective Keller and those working for Cedar Bend and ENRD are still necessary in the education of our communities and critical in the fight to break the chain of violence.
Since 2010, the ASPCA has assisted with approximately 200 dogfighting cases in at least 24 states, and has impacted nearly 5,000 victims of dogfighting through rescue, consultations and investigations. Despite being a felony in all 50 states, dogfighting continues to be a rampant underground activity, and the ASPCA estimates that there are tens of thousands of dogfighters in the U.S.
As our work to end dogfighting continues, we are proud to be able to work side-by-side with deeply devoted individuals like those being honored this week. Congratulations to all of our recipients of the ASPCA “Champion for Animals” award.
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Celestial meeting cut short
News | May 30, 2014
Michael McLaughlin
A team of lawyers and land experts representing the Celestial Land Co. Ltd. spent almost four hours giving a presentation to the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners for approval to develop the Celestial-owned property on Bulkley Drive off Maroon Creek Road.
That was as far as the meeting went before Commissioner Michael Owsley had to leave at 7 p.m., halting the proceedings at that point.
The group opposing the development at the requested site, known collectively as Neighbors, did not have a chance to give their presentations, so the meeting will be continued at a date yet to be determined.
At the next meeting, Neighbors will give its presentation as to why it opposes the current location of the proposed development. There also will be a period set aside for public comment.
Neighbors consist of the Roaring Fork Land & Cattle Co., JM Skyways, the James Bulkley Family Trust, Katherine Bulkley 2006 Family Residence Trust and the Bruce E. Carlson Trust. Glenn Horn, Gideon Kaufman and Mark Hamilton represent neighbors.
The Celestial team is requesting approval of its activity envelope, site-plan review and special review to develop a 13,250-square-foot home and caretaker unit on the 35-acre property. It also is requesting to put in debris-flow and avalanche-mitigation structures, develop a debris-flow basin, driveway and on-site wastewater-treatment system.
Pitkin County’s site-plan-review process results in the location of structures and other improvements and activities within an appropriate activity envelope on the property that avoids hazardous areas and minimizes environmental and visual impacts.
Stan Clauson, a local expert on landscape architecture and urban design, spoke on behalf of the Celestial group, saying the site chosen to develop the Celestial property meets all the county requirements to develop within a moderate hazard zone. He said the group has gone beyond what it would take to be effective in minimizing avalanche risks on the property.
“There’s been this elaborate discussion about safety that’s largely mythical,” Clauson said. “What it comes down to is a neighbor that doesn’t want a house built there because it’s in their view area.”
Celestial lawyer John Fognani said his group has worked hard for the past five years to adjust its plans to meet county recommendations.
“This overall process has only made this project stronger,” he said. “We’ve demonstrated with expert opinions and demonstrations that there is no better site than where we’ve proposed.”
Over the course of the past several years, the activity envelope on Celestial’s property has been approved four times by the county, only to have each approval challenged.
Neighbors also sent an email to the county commissioners Tuesday requesting a motion to strike former hearing officer Tom Smith’s 2013 approval of the activity envelope.
The commissioners denied the motion.
mmclaughlin@aspentimes.com
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CEntrance Releases New “Mini-M8? at T.H.E. Show QA
New, slimmer version of best-selling HiFi-M8 designed for In-Ear Monitors - See more at: http://www.c2meworld.com/the_wire/centrance-releases-new-mini-m8-at-t-h-e-show/#sthash.336B3EJr.dpufNew, slimmer version of best-selling HiFi-M8 designed for In-Ear Monitors
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New, slimmer version of best-selling HiFi-M8 designed for In-Ear Monitors
Newport Beach, CA- May 28, 2014 – CEntrance, Inc.a leader in portable digital audio technology is heading to the T.H.E. Show Newport. The Newport Beach exhibition is Southern California’s largest gathering of the audiophile community. At the show, CEntrance will release its new Mini-M8(tm) (‘Mini Mate’) portable DAC. The new product is a slimmer version of the Company’s best-selling HiFi-M8, and has several enhancements including compatibilty with in-ear monitors (IEM). The Mini-M8 will be available for pre-ordering at the show.
“We are very excited to be offering a version of our HiFi-M8 specifically designed for in-ear monitors,” saidMichael Goodman, Managing Director of CEntrance. “The new Mini-M8 has a longer battery life, two additional inputs and it’s thirty-percent slimmer than the original, all for under $600.”
“Our customers will also be happy to know that the ultra-powerful HiFi-M8 is back in stock as well!” added Goodman.
In addition to the new product announcement, CEntrance is revealing “GloveAudio,” a brand extension, which will focus on small amplifiers for existing MP3 players.
Come meet CEntrance in theHeadphonium Pavilionat the 2014T.H.E. Showin Newport Beach, CA, May 30-June 1, and say hello to Managing DirectorMichael Goodmanand Business Development DirectorBill Ford. For more information on the show visit:http://theshownewport.com/visitors/index.html
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Newport Beach, CA- May 28, 2014 – CEntrance, Inc. a leader in portable digital audio technology is heading to the T.H.E. Show Newport. The Newport Beach exhibition is Southern California’s largest gathering of the audiophile community. At the show, CEntrance will release its new Mini-M8(tm) (‘Mini Mate’) portable DAC. The new product is a slimmer version of the Company’s best-selling HiFi-M8, and has several enhancements including compatibilty with in-ear monitors (IEM). The Mini-M8 will be available for pre-ordering at the show.
“We are very excited to be offering a version of our HiFi-M8 specifically designed for in-ear monitors,” said Michael Goodman, Managing Director of CEntrance. “The new Mini-M8 has a longer battery life, two additional inputs and it’s thirty-percent slimmer than the original, all for under $600.”
Come meet CEntrance in the Headphonium Pavilion at the 2014 T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach, CA, May 30-June 1, and say hello to Managing Director Michael Goodman and Business Development Director Bill Ford. For more information on the show visit: http://theshownewport.com/visitors/index.html
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Bangladesh's 'golden fibre' comes back from the brink
By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Dhaka
Media captionWATCH: Jute has been processed in the same way for generations
Jute, a vegetable fibre that can be spun into sackcloth, used to be the 'golden fibre' of Bangladesh.
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It brought much-needed foreign income to the impoverished nation.
But it lost its lustre in the 1980s after synthetic materials like polythene and plastics were introduced.
Now the natural fibre has made a spectacular comeback.
Exports of jute and jute products from Bangladesh this fiscal year crossed a record billion dollars as demand for the natural fibre is steadily increasing.
Image caption Jute is grown all over Bangladesh
With growing environmental awareness, jute, which is bio-degradable, has become the preferred alternative to polluting synthetic bags.
Jute is considered to be the second most important natural fibre after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage. It is mainly grown in eastern India, Bangladesh, China and Burma.
Until recently the fibre was used mostly as a packaging material. With a diversification of jute products, the demand for jute has increased.
"By processing the fibre mechanically and by treating it chemically, now jute can be used to make bags, carpets, textiles and even as insulation material," says Mohammad Asaduzzaman, a scientist at the Bangladesh Jute Research Institute in Dhaka.
Image caption After harvesting, the jute is stored in water until it begins to rot
When synthetics like polythene bags came into widespread use, the demand for jute declined and many jute mills in countries like Bangladesh were shut down.
Thousands lost their jobs and farmers shifted from jute to more profitable rice cultivation.
Today, as demand increases, more farmers are returning to this traditional crop.
It is estimated that nearly five million farmers are involved in jute plant cultivation in Bangladesh. It plays a key supportive role to the rural economy of Bangladesh.
Once the jute plants are harvested they are bundled together and immersed in running water and allowed to rot.
Image caption One it has become soft, the jute fibre is separated by hand
Then the fibres are stripped from the plant. The stripped fibre is dried and later sent to mills for processing.
Golam Moazzam, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, in Dhaka says: "It is important to note that policy support also contributed to its widespread use of jute both locally and internationally.
"For example, the Bangladeshi government has made it compulsory to use jute bags for packaging of food grains."
New uses
Jute is also versatile, strong and long-lasting and scientists say they are discovering more uses for it in different sectors.
For example, Geotextiles, a diversified jute product, is used for soil-erosion control and also used in laying roads to give more durability. The natural fibre is also used to make pulp and paper.
Image caption Once dry, the jute fibres are bundled and sent to factories to be processed
Bangladeshi scientists are now working on an ambitious project to blend jute fabric with cotton to produce denim fabric.
They say if the jute plant is harvested earlier than the usual period of 120 days, then it gives a softer fabric.
"If this special quality of fibre is chemically modified and bleached then it becomes softer. If we can blend it with cotton then we can manufacture denim fabric and diversified textile products," says Mr Asaduzzaman
If this process can be commercialised, he says, it will bring down the demand for cotton, which is also becoming dearer day by day.
The price of fabric can be reduced by a half, bringing benefits to the country's garment sector.
Image caption The resurgence of the jute industry has created jobs for many local people
However, there are bottlenecks.
Special machines are required to blend this fibre with cotton and they are yet to be produced commercially. Scientists hope spinning factories will be able to install these machines in the near future.
"Unfortunately, there is not much research going on in terms promoting diversified jute products," says Mr Moazzam.
"Countries like Bangladesh and India, who are the major jute exporting countries, should conduct collaborative research to find out diversification of jute products."
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Insular dwarfism
Insular dwarfism is the process and condition of the reduction in size of large animals - almost always mammals - when their gene pool is limited to a very small environment, primarily islands.
This effect has manifested itself many times throughout natural history, including with dinosaurs and modern animals such as elephants and human beings.
There are several proposed explanations for the mechanism which produces such dwarfism, which are often considered likely to be co-contributing factors, including an evolved gene-encoded response to environmental stress, as well as a realtime selective process where only the smaller of the animals trapped on the island survive, as food declines to a borderline level. The smaller animals need fewer resources, and so are more likely to get past the break-point where population decline allows food sources to replenish enough for the survivors to flourish.
Among the most famous examples of insular dwarfism are:
The Channel Islands Mammoth which lived on the prehistoric island of Santa Rosae in the California Channel Islands, and the small Woolly Mammoths of Wrangel Island, Siberia.
Dwarf elephants in the recent natural history of islands, Malta, Crete, Cyprus, and Sicily.
A (disputed) species of hominin called Homo floresiensis, from fossils found on Flores Island, Indonesia.
Dinosaurs, including the recently validated Europasaurus, on Mesozoic islands such as Haţeg Island.
There are also proposed instances of this process occurring among plant life, the appearance of dwarf sequoia / redwood trees being one such proposal.[citation needed]
This process, and other "island genetics" artifacts, can occur not only on islands, but also in other situations where an ecosystem is isolated from external resources and breeding. This can include caves, desert oases, and isolated valleys. An example of this is the "pygmy" people of Africa, such as the Mbuti, who evolved a small size while in genetic and ecological isolation in a dense jungle region.
There is an inverse form of this process, island gigantism, wherein small animals, lacking the predators of their normal homes, may become "gigantic" when breeding in isolation. An excellent example is the Dodo, the ancestors of which were normal-sized pigeons. Another process in the increase of body size occurs in cold regions of the Earth (see Bergmann's Rule). Bigger bodies reduce the surface-to-mass ratio which reduces the loss of heat, so bigger bodies have advantages over smaller ones. Examples of this include the Siberian Tiger, the largest living member of the cat family; the Polar Bear, the largest extant land carnivore; and the Emperor Penguin, the tallest and heaviest living penguin species.
Additional examples
Carnivora
Channel Island fox in California, United States, and the enigmatic, nearly extinct Cozumel fox
Honshū Wolf in Japan
Bali Tiger
Cozumel Island Raccoon
Ungulates
The strange, tiny Balearic Islands Cave Goat (Myotragus balearicus) in Majorca and Minorca and its close relative Nesogoral, from Sardinia which became extinct after human settlement
Philippine water buffalo, Tamaraw, Anoa and other dwarf bovids from South East Asia
Several prehistoric species of hippopotamus from the Pleistocene of Mediterranean islands (such as Phanourios minutis) and Madagascar
Dwarf deer species on the Philippines (Philippine Sambar, extant), and Crete (Candiacervus ropalophorus), Ryukyu Islands of Japan (Cervus astylodon) and Gargano (Hoplitomeryx) (all extinct)
The tiny flightless Inaccessible Island and Laysan Rails
The dwarf nodosaurid Struthiosaurus from Europe, and the dwarf allosaur from South Australia
Island gigantism
Foster's rule
Deep-sea gigantism
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Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist
MBBS FRCP CCST
+ Colorectal surgery
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy PEG
Upper GI endoscopy and dilatation
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Dr Raman is a Consultant Gastroenterologist able to offer a comprehensive Gastroenterology service including consultation and endoscopy at BMI The Meriden Hospital. He is able to provide both a diagnostic and a therapeutic endoscopy service with the latest state of the art equipment, which is available at the Endoscopy unit at The Meriden Hospital. Endoscopy procedures he provides include:
Diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI Endoscopy
Diagnostic and therapeutic Colonoscopy
Dr Raman in 2016 became Director of Medical Education at George Eliot Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Hon Assoc. Professor at the University of Warwick and at Warwick Medical School, Clinical Lead for Alcohol Services in North Warwickshire and Lead Clinician for GI cancer at the George Eliot Hospital.
Dr Raman did his training in general medicine at University Hospital in Coventry and Warwickshire and got his MRCP in 1997. He then underwent higher specialist training in Gastroenterology and Medicine in Liverpool.
He has been a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the George Eliot Hospital since November 2003. He Dr Raman has a major research interest in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and has published and presented papers on both sides of the Atlantic. He has special expertise in lasers in endoscopic treatment of cancer, which he has set up at the George Eliot Hospital.
He is happy to see referrals in all aspects of liver disease, reflux and dyspepsia, inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome and also suspected upper and lower GI cancer in addition to general medicine.
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Royal College of Physicians, London
West Midlands Physicians Association
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Laser therapy for upper GI and colorectal cancer
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THE X6THE ALL-NEW BMW X6
Uncompromisingly non-conformist – the new BMW X6 stands for provocative self-assertiveness. Above all, this is visible in the extremely athletic body of the vehicle along with the new, distinctive design language, which is displayed by the supreme exclusivity and visionary technologies such as the impressive BMW kidney grille ‘Iconic Glow’ . All of this primarily points to one thing: absolute dominance, which the new BMW X6 demonstrates quite matter-of-factly on every route thanks to a powerful engine, precise suspension and features such as the xOffroad package. Experience a previously unseen new way of exceeding expectations with the new BMW X6.
BMW X6:
Fuel consumption in l/100 km (combined): to be confirmed
CO2 emissions in g/km (combined): to be confirmed
UNIQUE SELLING POINTS.
The highlights of the new BMW X6.
DOMINANT DESIGN.
PURE RADIANT POWER.
THE MASTERFUL SUSPENSION.
GENUINELY MUSCULAR.
DISPLAYS TRUE GREATNESS.
TRAILBLAZER.
The Adaptive M suspension Professional leads to absolutely masterful agility.
In the third generation, the BMW X6 is more than ever a self-confident, independent character: its modern design embodies power and presence. Dynamic proportions and powerful surfaces are the reason for the well-trained aesthetics of the new BMW X6 and authentically visualise its qualities. Large, distinctive BMW design elements testify to sovereignty and a clear extroversion.
Domagoj Dukec, Leiter BMW Design
ATTRACTIVE POWERHOUSE.
The design of the BMW X6.
Eye-catching: the new BMW X6 doesn’t even have to move to set itself apart from the crowd. It achieves this while standing still thanks to its powerful proportions and expressive design, in combination with the BMW Individual high-gloss Shadow Line. After sunset, in particular, is when the provocateur reveals its true character. This is because the exclusive BMW ‘Iconic Glow’ kidney grille makes the true extent of the vehicle’s extroversion apparent. And when the impressive 22” wheels first start to roll, that is finally the point at which no resting pulse is safe. In contrast, the interior, thanks to exclusive materials and its driver-centred orientation, offers equal levels of thrills and relaxation.
SENDS YOUR PULSE SOARING.
The bold BMW kidney grille ‘Iconic Glow’ and the new bumper of the BMW X6.
HIGHER, FASTER AND BROADER.
The narrow LED headlights and distinctive tailpipes emphasise the mighty rear.
EVERY VIEW IS A PANORAMA.
The Panorama glass roof Sky Lounge produces a boundless sense of spaciousness.
DOMINATES DOWN TO THE TINIEST DETAIL.
The interior impresses with exclusive materials and fine glass applications.
POINTING TO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS.
The driver-oriented cockpit with sport seats and especially large 12.3“ displays ensures optimum operability and maximum comfort.
CREATED TO LEAD.
Attributes of an alpha beast: the top performance of the 530-hp 8-cylinder petrol engine, the outstanding precision of the Adaptive M suspension Professional or the effortless cooperation between Adaptive 2-axle air suspension and xOffroad package turn the new BMW X6 into the ideal leader of the pack on every terrain.
INTO THE EARS AND UNDER THE SKIN.
M sport exhaust system.
EVEN MORE STABLE. EVEN MORE DYNAMIC.
The Adaptive M suspension Professional.
PEAKING AT THE PRESS OF A BUTTON.
With the xOffroad package of the BMW X6.
Since its market launch, the BMW X6 has been a frontier crosser and pioneer at the same time - a highly emotional vehicle that polarises and even provokes through its appearance and posture.
INTELLIGENT BEAST.
The innovative technologies of the BMW X6.
Muscular mastermind: the technology of the new BMW X6 is equal in every way to its athletic performance. This is instantly recognisable by the innovative BMW Laserlight in the X design, which provides the powerful front with a focused look. After opening the door – easily and conveniently by Digital Key using a smartphone or the Key Card – you are greeted by the latest highlights in matters of communication and entertainment. As soon as you have placed your drink in the temperature-controlled cupholder, which keeps it either hot or cold at the touch of a button, you enjoy the incomparable sound of the Bowers & Wilkins Diamond surround system while you plan your destinations via the innovative operating concept using the BMW Operating System 7.0. En route, the latest generation of BMW assistance systems then ensure that you not only arrive at your destination in the utmost comfort but also in safety. Technology meets a thirst for action.
PUTS EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE SHADE.
The BMW Laserlight.
MORE AUTHORITATIVE THAN EVER.
The latest generation of BMW assistance systems.
SETS ITS OWN STANDARDS.
With impressive 12.3” screens for even greater clarity.
CLEVER AND COMFORTABLE.
Smart Access by Digital Key via smartphone or Key Card.
ADAPTS TO YOUR PREFERENCES.
The temperature-controlled cupholder.
GETS THE MOST OUT OF EVERY TONE.
The Bowers & Wilkins 3D Diamond surround sound system.
SUPERIOR IN EVERY RESPECT.
The BMW X6 Individual.
Uniqueness in its most dominant form: the BMW Individual equipment options further highlight the distinctive appearance of the new BMW X6 with exclusive paint finishes combined with fine leather upholsteries and interior trims.
EXCLUSIVE GRANDEUR.
ALWAYS IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY.
THE BMW X6 IN DETAIL.
Explore equipment, details and facts
THE BMW X6 M50i
Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The values of the vehicles labeled with (2) are preliminary.
The values of fuel consumptions, CO2 emissions and energy consumptions shown were determined according to the European Regulation (EC) 715/2007 in the version applicable at the time of type approval. The figures refer to a vehicle with basic configuration in Germany and the range shown considers optional equipment and the different size of wheels and tires available on the selected model.
The CO2 efficiency specifications are determined according to Directive 1999/94/EC and the European Regulation in its current version applicable. The values shown are based on the fuel consumption, CO2 values and energy consumptions according to the NEDC cycle for the classification.
For further information about the official fuel consumption and the specific CO2 emission of new passenger cars can be taken out of the handbook of fuel consumption, the CO2 emission and power consumption of new passenger cars, which is available at all selling points and at https://www.dat.de/angebote/verlagsprodukte/leitfaden-kraftstoffverbrauch.html.
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Rapper Badshah creates World record with his new song ‘Paagal’
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Today Latest Bollywood News Covers – “Rapper Badshah creates World record with his new song ‘Paagal'”
The Indian rap star Badshah broke a world record with his new number, "Paagal", dethroning the popular South Korean group BTS by recording more than 75 million views in 24 hours.
A few minutes after its release, the song – an absolute rhythmic bang pop – has become a viral sensation.
"I am ecstatic and overwhelmed by the amount of love we have received in the past 24 hours," Badshah said.
"Paagal" was created with the aim of propelling India's music across borders and making our presence felt. My fans have made every effort to help me achieve my dream. We are going ahead with this one, "he added, a song published on Sony Music India's YouTube channel.
BTS's "Boy with luv" with Halsey was the most watched YouTube video in 24 hours. He had reached 74,600,000 …
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Romney ignored warnings about Ryan’s history of lies, exaggerations
Rep. Paul Ryan: Lies, damn lies and vice presidential candidates (Reuters)
Campaign professionals vetting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a potential Republican vice presidential candidate warned Mitt Romney‘s strategists that the Congressman had a “history of exaggeration and prevarication” that could become a campaign issue and distraction but the GOP presidential nominee’s team ignored the warnings.
Romney campaign insiders tell Capitol Hill Blue that an intense internal battle raged inside the campaign over Ryan’s history of blatant lies, factual misstatements and exaggerations.
Those supporting Ryan pointed out that Senator Joe Biden had a similar history when then-candidate Barack Obama tapped him as a running mate in 2008. Biden had lied about his military record, admitted plagiarizing the speeches of others and padded his resume.
“It’s starting to look like both camps give potential vice presidential candidates lie detector tests and then consider only those who flunk,” groaned one senior Republican strategist, who asked not to be identified.
Campaign insiders say Romney was so determined to capture support of the tea party that reveres Ryan that he was “more than willing” to overlook the Congressman’s casual relationship with the truth.
“Paul Ryan is a loose cannon. He’s Mitt Romney’s Sarah Palin and his involvement with the campaign will sink the Republican Party in this election,” said another GOP pro, who also asked to remain anonymous.
“When I heard Ryan was on the short list, my first reaction was ‘oh, Christ, here we go again,’ ” the longtime GOP operative said Sunday. “The man tells so many whoppers so often that I’m not sure he even knows when he’s lying.”
Ryan’s disassoication with reality will keep fact checkers busy from now until November. News organizations found multiple lies, exaggerations and half-truths in his convention speech and his claim that he once ran a marathon in under three hours brought a quick reversal after the record showed otherwise.
“I misspoke,” Ryan said.
He does that a lot.
Paul Ryan admits lying about his incredible marathon time claim
Paul Ryan wages war on facts – The Star-Ledger – NJ.com (blog)
Fmr. Bush strategist calls out Paul Ryan over convention speech lies
Ryan already at odds with Romney team
Romney wants his risky pick to play it safe
Mary September 7, 2012 at 12:20 am
The more I read about Mitt Romney and Lyin Ryan. The more I believe that Obama is the way back to a GREAT AMERICA! Never voted in all my life until 4 years ago. I have two sons in the Army, my oldest has served 6 tours in Afganistan, and my youngest is now in Kawaitt. But if not for Obama he would have still been in Iraq. I am proud to have two sons that serve this country proudly. As as a New Yorker that lost family in 9-11 I am happy to confirm that Obama got Osama. Thank you God for the small favors in life.
thepoliticalcat September 6, 2012 at 12:46 pm
There’s a real, and very important difference between the bragging and exaggeration that Joe Biden has occasionally engaged in and the CONSTANT, unending stream of lies about trivial nonsense that Paul Ryan is giving us. EVERYBODY exaggerates their accomplishments a little now and then. But this guy doesn’t seem to understand the difference between “exaggerating a little” and outright LIES. He can’t run A marathon, he must run a marathon faster than any reasonable civilian. He can’t climb A mountain, he must climb FORTY of them. Biden’s exaggerations were small, and attributable to braggadocio or the natural human impulse to make oneself look/seem better than one is. Ryan’s lies are mean, devious, bullshit, easily discoverable with a few minutes of thought. It’s almost as if the guy has no control over the truth. He’s pathological, and he lies about TRIVIAL stuff. Nobody cares if he enjoys marathon running or mountain climbing. But we ALL care when it looks like he simply cannot tell the truth about ANYthing.
catbyte4 September 4, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Wow. A stellar decision, Mitt.
Sam Bisquit September 4, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Lyin’ Ryan !!! PRICELESS !!!
Peter John September 4, 2012 at 2:11 am
#LyinRyan
Lyin’ Ryan on the rise
He fed the public forty lies,
Then answering how fast he’d run
He turned his lies to forty-one
Jim B. September 4, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Peter!….I see you’ve created a clever rendition of the Lizzie Borden rhyme:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
stevekass September 4, 2012 at 1:26 am
And the lies keep coming fast and furious. On mittromney.com today, Ryan said: “Last year, under President Obama’s failed leadership, 1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy.” The actual number was just under 48,000, not 1.4 million.
Sam P September 4, 2012 at 10:25 am
Ahh, don’t let facts come in the way of reality. This Socialist, Muslim, Kenyan, Anti-American Dictator is ruining it for the United States. His predecessor presides over the greatest economic boom in US history and this OhBummer ruined it all. Remember, if the economy is great, we built it. If its bad, then it’s Obama’s fault. Now don’t get me wrong, bush did set the Bin Laden raid in motion, but W had no role, none whatsoever, in how the economy is performing. USA, USA, USA…
Mat Wilson (@matwilson6) September 4, 2012 at 12:40 am
The Tea Party IS OVER !
http://mdatoz.com/fox2
DEE September 4, 2012 at 12:15 am
could fox news stoop any lower…!!
woody188 September 3, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Is the tea party right wing Likud? It’s amazing how all of a sudden the “tea party favorites” are all big supporters of Israel and war without end. Whatever happened to “taxed enough already?”
James Trout September 4, 2012 at 1:03 am
The Tea Party was an astroturf reinvention of the Republican Party after the least popular administration of our lifetime. They are not just opponents of taxation, they care about social issues as well as evidenced by the increase of anti choice measures hitting the state legislatures. It is time that the so called “liberal media” stopped pretending that they are their own organization.
woody188 September 5, 2012 at 2:37 pm
I just don’t know how there is such a disconnect between “taxed enough already” the original tea party mantra to now unlimited war spending and far right social agenda. I’ve heard it from Doug a million times that it was an astroturf from the Republicans but I still believe it was originally a grassroots effort that was absorbed by big tent Republicans. When I first started talking with tea party members, many of them were Democrats!
Sandy Price September 3, 2012 at 3:21 pm
You are right PIA. Fox is made for Ryan!
Pondering_It_All September 3, 2012 at 3:04 pm
That’s just what Ryan needs on his resume: Once he and Romney lose the election, he’s all set to go work for Fox News! 🙂
Willie Buck Merle September 3, 2012 at 10:40 am
long-ish
Sandy Price September 3, 2012 at 8:29 am
Our government is very much aware that the voters are basically ill-informed on matters of the truth that our leaders have avoided. Yes indeed, the tea party’s influence has turned the GOP into a false agenda that only exists in their collective minds. Even the RNC agenda is filled with lies to attract the Evangelical voters.
I became aware of this in 1988 when Pat Robertson influenced the GOP to go after Islam and put the entire world under an Empire of American Christian power. I didn’t believe what I had read and voted for Bush 41; it was my last Republican vote.
This same attitude brought down the Roman Empire, and grew to be in opposition to what was written in our Constitution.
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Today's climate and energy headlines
DAILY BRIEFING UK ‘likely’ to host critical climate conference next year
June 19. 2019. 9:59am
UK ‘likely’ to host critical climate conference next year
Today's climate and energy headlines:
UK 'likely' to host critical climate conference next year
Ex-chief scientist fears for UK climate plan if Boris Johnson is PM
Tory leadership race: Teen challenges contenders on climate change
Eight EU countries to phase out coal by 2030
Husky photograph reveals troubling reality of melting ice in Greenland
The Times view on Boris Johnson and Heathrow’s third runway: Expansion Rebellion
Heathrow’s expansion plans make a mockery of the zero emissions strategy
Temperature extreme records: World Meteorological Organization metrological and meteorological evaluation of the 54.0°C observations in Mitribah, Kuwait and Turbat, Pakistan in 2016/2017
The effect of global change on mosquito-borne disease
Thermal stress induces persistently altered coral reef fish assemblages
The UK is “likely” to host next year’s UN climate talks after reaching a deal with its main rival Italy, report BBC News and others. Under the partnership deal, the UK will host the main event and a preliminary meeting will be held in Italy, BBC News reports. An official decision is expected in the coming days – though the UK-Italy bid is unlikely to face any serious challenges, Climate Home Newsreports. “Turkey has also expressed an interest to host the conference, but there are little signs it stands a chance of winning,” it adds. The Financial Times says the bid signals that “the UK is likely to play a leading role in climate diplomacy as president of the 2020 dialogue”. The FT adds: “The talks in 2020 are seen as being crucial for shaping the future direction of the Paris climate agreement, the global accord signed by nearly 200 countries, because the signatories will be required to produce new climate targets that year.” Jonathan Bartley, the co-leader of the Green party, tells the Guardian that the bid reinforces the need for major policy changes in the UK. He said: “To be the hosts when you are still pursuing the failed policy of fracking, massively subsidising fossil fuels, planning on expanding aviation and traffic, and building substandard energy-inefficient homes, would be a massive embarrassment.” Reuters, PA and BusinessGreen also have the story.
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The UK’s former chief scientist Prof Sir David King has “expressed alarm” at the prospect of Boris Johnson becoming prime minister, the Guardian reports. King told the Guardian that he served as the UK special representative for climate change when Johnson was appointed foreign secretary in 2016. Johnson oversaw a 60% cut to King’s team of climate attaches across the world from 165 to 65, King tells the Guardian. King adds: “The cuts were devastating because it was just at the point that we had to deliver the Paris agreement.” He also says that the cuts cost the UK its leadership position at climate negotiations. King confronted Johnson on the issue in a meeting early in 2017, according to the Times. “He seemed to be unaware of the cuts that had been made,” King tells the Times. “First of all he assured me that there would be no more cuts — and secondly he did ask me not to take this into the public domain.” The Times also carries a long interview with King, which covers his ideas for tackling climate change, including by “refreezing the Arctic” and growing vast underwater kelp forests.
Elsewhere, Environment Agency chief Sir James Bevan has told the Daily Mirrorthat “a lot of people will die” if urgent action is not taken to tackle climate change.
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The contenders for the Tory leadership race faced a challenge on climate change from a 15-year-old climate striker during a live debate broadcast on BBC One last night, BBC News reports. During the programme, climate striker Erin asked the candidates to commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2025. “None of the leadership hopefuls agreed to bring forward the deadline, and Erin said she was not impressed,” BBC News says. The international development minister Rory Stewart told the audience that he was “deeply proud” of the new 2050 target and “it was the most ambitious set by an advanced industrial economy”, BBC News adds. (Carbon Brief has produced an in-depth Q&A on the UK’s net-zero target.) The environment secretary Michael Gove “thanked the girl for her activism, though added that he wished the strikers hadn’t missed school”, according to the National.
Elsewhere, several publications carry a new poll finding that 69% of people in the UK want urgent political action to tackle climate change. HuffPost reports that three quarters of those questioned in the survey said they were concerned about climate change, with 71% wanting their MP to back plans to “protect nature and curb rising temperatures”. The poll of 2,000 people was carried out by Opinium on behalf of the Climate Coalition and Greener UK, HuffPost reports. The Guardian and BusinessGreen also cover its results.
Eight of the EU’s 28 countries have committed to phasing out coal for electricity production by 2030 to tackle climate change, AFP reports. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, accepted the pledges yesterday as contributions to the bloc’s efforts to deliver on the Paris Agreement, AFP says. “More and more member states are making the political commitment to phase out coal in the next decade,” EU climate and energy commissioner Miguel Arias tells AFP. The Financial Times reports that EU leaders will meet tomorrow to debate whether to adopt a bloc-wide target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. “An EU assessment on Tuesday found that the bloc is currently not on track to meet its 2030 target to draw 32% of electricity from renewable sources, because countries’ individual energy policies are insufficient to meet the collective goal,” the FT adds. EurActiv reports that Hungary has “quietly lent its support” to the 2050 target, but “sees nuclear power as the main way of meeting the target”.
Meanwhile, a story in the Guardian says that the EU commission has warned that the UK’s climate plan is “unclear” and missing “key details” on areas such as “boosting renewable energy and cutting subsidies for fossil fuels”.
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Many publications report on “an extraordinary photograph” showing huskies pulling sleds through ankle-deep meltwaters on top of the Greenland ice sheet. The photograph was taken last week by climate scientist Steffen Olsen in the Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, the Independent reports. The photo is also featured by, among others, the Guardian, BBC News, Metro, Lad Bible and ITV News.
The Independent Read Article
An editorial in the Times remarks on the Heathrow expansion and “why it should never have been given the green light”. It reads: “Virtually doubling Heathrow’s capacity is not the answer. The number of flights using the airport will rocket from 476,0000 annually now to 756,000 by 2050 – the year that Britain aims to have reduced greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. There is no such thing as a net-zero jumbo jet.” It adds that Boris Johnson once promised to lie down in front of bulldozers to stop the Heathrow expansion, but “when the moment for political bravery arrived, he couldn’t be bothered to turn up in parliament to vote against it”. Elsewhere, an editorial in the Daily Mirror writes on the links between climate change and flooding: “Wild swings can be reduced if we change how we live to tackle climate change and installing flood defences is cash well spent.” In the US, an editorial in the New York Post writes on what it calls a “bogus climate-change law from New York’s cynical leaders”.
Editorial, The Times Read Article
Green party MP Caroline Lucas writes in the Guardian that Heathrow’s planned expansion would “make a mockery of the zero emissions strategy”. She says: “The truth is that aviation growth and our expectation of cheap flights cannot continue. The draft aviation strategy is an opportunity to address this, starting with a commitment to ensuring aviation makes a fair contribution to actual reductions in UK carbon emissions.”
Caroline Lucas, The Guardian Read Article
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially confirmed temperature extremes of 53.9C in Mitribah, Kuwait on 21 July 2016 and 53.7C in Turbat, Pakistan on 28 May 2017. A WMO committee “agreed that quantity and quality of documentation of both observations were excellent”, the accompanying study explains. “The Mitribah, Kuwait temperature is now accepted by the WMO as the highest temperature ever recorded for Asia,” the paper says. The authors add that “the two observations are the third and fourth highest WMO‐recognised temperature extremes and, significantly, they are the highest, officially recognised temperatures to have been recorded in the last 76 years”.
International Journal of Climatology Read Article
When projecting changes in mosquito-borne diseases, focusing solely on the effects of climate change “is insufficient to predict future risk”, a new review paper finds. “Although many global processes, such as land-use and socioeconomic change, are thought to affect mosquito-borne disease dynamics, research to date has strongly focused on the role of climate change,” the authors note. Future research on the topic should “consider growing evidence for additional factors that modulate disease risk”, the authors suggest, as well as adopting “new technologies, including developments in remote sensing and system dynamics modelling techniques, to enable a better understanding and mitigation of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing world”.
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Mass coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures has resulted in lasting changes to fish communities in the Seychelles, a new study suggests. Using a 23-year dataset, researchers found that communities changed “fundamentally” after coral bleaching in 1998. Large predator fish such as snappers and very small fish such as damselfish dramatically reduced in number and were largely replaced by seaweed-loving fish like rabbitfish, the study finds. With bleaching events likely to become more frequent as warming continues, the authors warn that “fish communities historically associated with coral reefs will not re‐establish, requiring substantial adaptation by managers and resource users”.
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Proportionate liability in construction, engineering, building and property development
Julian Mellick
What is proportionate liability? When can it have unintended consequences? How can you circumvent it? How will the proposed reforms to proportionate liability laws affect you?
What is proportionate liability?
Proportionate liability is the principle that where two or more people are concurrently responsible for certain types of economic loss, their liability is limited to the extent that they are responsible for it.
It operates throughout Australia via a patchwork of state and commonwealth legislation and affects a very broad range of claims. These can arise from either a failure to take reasonable care, including negligence claims and some contract and breach of a statutory duty claims, or from misleading and deceptive conduct (including certain claims under ASIC, Corporations and Competition and Consumer legislation).
Proportionate liability trumps contractual allocations of risk
In most jurisdictions, contracting out of proportionate liability is not expressly allowed. This can have important and unintended consequences.
For example, say you engage a builder to construct high rise apartments. The contract states that the builder will fully indemnify you for loss or damage caused by structural failure. The apartments collapse due to the negligence of the builder’s engineer.
As a result of proportionate liability you may not be able to recover any amount from the builder, despite having a contractual indemnity which provides that the builder will assume 100% of your loss. If the engineer becomes insolvent and has inadequate insurance, you may end up wearing the whole bill.
That’s not the least of it.
Proportionate liability trumps contractual indemnities
In most jurisdictions, concurrent wrongdoers cannot rely upon indemnities to avoid proportionate liability.
This can have even more undesirable and unexpected consequences.
For example, say you are engaged to construct a wind farm. You subcontract out the supply of the turbines to a manufacturer and obtain a full indemnity on their performance. When built, the turbines fail to meet outputs. The wind farm operator sues you.
You attempt to pass on the loss to the turbine manufacturer, but are met with a claim that the turbine is faulty because of a part manufactured without reasonable care by a supplier.
Proportionate liability may mean that you can’t recover any amount from the manufacturer, despite having a contractual indemnity which provides that the manufacturer will assume 100% of your loss.
Making proportionate liability work for you
Proportionate liability generally advantages downstream parties (downstream contractors, subcontractors, consultants and suppliers) and disadvantages upstream parties (principals and upstream contractors and subcontractors).
It is therefore not surprising that most companies try to avoid proportionate liability when they are upstream and affirm it when they are downstream.
Where it is in your interests to avoid proportionate liability, it pays to be aware of the main circumvention techniques.
Circumventing proportionate liability by contracting out
One option is to try to contract out of the relevant legislation. This may be more or less successful depending upon where you are located.
For example, NSW, WA and Tasmania allow contracting out. Queensland doesn’t. Other states are silent (hence there is a risk that they will implicitly not allow contracting out).
Accordingly, to increase the prospects of success, the contracting out clause could be located in a contract that provides that it is governed by the laws of NSW, Tasmania or WA.
However, where parties seek to manufacture this outcome artificially by choosing a governing law which permits contracting out even though it does have any connection to the subject matter of the contract, the choice may be unenforceable.
Circumventing proportionate liability by use of indemnities
In WA, NT and Tasmania it is possible for concurrent wrongdoers to use indemnities to avoid proportionate liability by reallocating losses. In NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT it isn’t.
Circumvention by arbitration or expert appraisal
Another option is to compel disputes to arbitration or expert appraisal in the hope that proportionate liability does not apply. This met with some success in one Tasmanian case.
This option will be more likely to work if it is made clear in the dispute resolution clause that the resolver does not have the power to apply the proportionate liability regime.
There is, however, considerable uncertainty as to how and the extent to which proportionate liability applies in an arbitration. This may warrant attention when parties are considering whether to agree to an arbitration clause.
Using a cut-out agreement or deed poll
Take the situation where you are a principal and your claim for defective work against a contractor is met with a defence that the defects were caused by a subcontractor. If you didn't (or can't) contract out of proportionate liability then you may be unable to recover against the contractor. Moreover you may have no cause of action against the subcontractor. A common strategy to avoid this situation is to create legal relationships with persons who may be found to be proportionately liable.
A principal, for example, could enter into a separate "cut out" deed with a subcontractor, whereby the subcontractor promises to the principal that it will exercise due care in carrying out its obligations owed to the head contractor under the subcontract. The principal could then have a direct cause of action against the subcontractor.
The same result can be achieved by requiring the subcontractor to enter into a deed poll in the principal’s favour.
This strategy is powerful because it can be used to link any two project participants, irrespective of whether there would otherwise be any cause of action between them.
It can also be integrated neatly with project documentation or approvals. If necessary, it can also be backed up by securities, including bank guarantees.
Insurance gaps due to proportionate liability
It is important to note that contracting out can affect insurance. Most policies don’t cover contractual liabilities assumed as a result of contracting out of proportionate liability. This is because they generally contain an exclusion to the extent that a party assumes a greater liability than that which would otherwise apply at law.
Take the example of a contractor who is found to be liable for a claim from a principal when, if it had not contracted out of proportionate liability, it would have only been liable for 10% of the claim.
The contractor may get stung when it discovers that 90% of its liability is not covered by insurance. The principal too may be exposed because 90% of its claim could be uninsured.
Solutions to this problem include arranging separate "gap" policies or negotiating existing policies so that they provide coverage.
New legislation affects home builders and developers
As discussed in our earlier article, Changes to home building in NSW have implications for builders, developers, owners corporations and owners, the Home Building Amendment Bill 2011 (NSW) came into effect on 25 October 2011.
Amongst other things, it has exempted claims for breaches of statutory duties under the Home Building Act from proportionate liability.
Typically, this may make life more difficult for builders and developers who are sued by owners corporations or owners and who wish to apportion liability to subcontractors and consultants. They may need to fall back on third party cross-claims and statutory claims for contribution (where available). They may also need to utilise cut-out agreements and deed polls more frequently.
Proposed legislation to resolve inconsistencies between states
The patchwork nature of proportionate liability legislation has lead to significant inconsistencies and ambiguities across Australia.
In an effort to resolve this and address some of the inequities identified above, in September 2011 the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) put forward draft model provisions for a new harmonised law. The draft provisions contemplate:
prohibiting contracting out except in higher value contracts ($5-10 million plus)
allowing concurrent wrongdoers to use indemnities to reallocate losses
allowing a court to take into account the responsibilities of concurrent wrongdoers (whether or not they are notified, parties to the proceedings or have settled)
clarifying that proportionate liability will apply to arbitrations and external dispute resolution schemes.
Interestingly, it is not clear whether these provisions would have retrospective operation. The Master Builders' Association and Housing Industry Association have already made submissions to SCAG.
Proposed reforms would benefit the construction industry
There are some positives to take away from the proposed changes.
Apart from making the law more certain, they would give parties the freedom to allocate proportionate liability as they see fit, via indemnities and, at least in larger projects, contracting out.
However, whether the proposed changes will help or hinder you will depend upon what you do and which state you are in.
For example, if you are a principal, developer or upstream contractor in NSW, WA or Tasmania then the changes may restrict your current rights to contract out of proportionate liability when dealing with contractors, suppliers and consultants. You may then need to consider the circumvention techniques discussed above.
If you are a contractor, subcontractor, consultant or supplier in NSW, Victoria, Queensland or the ACT, then the changes may give you a new entitlement to avoid concurrent liability using indemnities. You will then need to incorporate appropriate indemnification clauses into your subcontracts in order to take advantage of this new right.
It may be quite some time, however, before agreement is reached in relation to any reform.
Even when it is, developers, builders, contractors and consultants in the construction industry will have to be as vigilant as ever to protect their interests, avoid losses and mitigate risk.
Julian Mellick Partner
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Cyclopropylcarboxamidinium chloride.
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S-benzylisothiouronium chloride.
13C CPMAS NMR spectroscopy as a probe for porphyrin-porphyrin and host-guest interactions in the solid state.
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Source I am gratified and overwhelmed by the supporters across District 4 that came out to vote for me for Assembly on June 7th. I want to thank them and the many volunteers and individual donors who helped make our campaign possible. And I want to congratulate all my...
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy | Source
Winters Mayor Cecilia Aguiar-Curry will represent the 4th Assembly District in the state Legislature for the next two years, having defeated Republican Charlie Schaupp in Tuesday’s general election.
Aguiar-Curry had received 63.6 percent of the vote by early Wednesday morning with an unknown number of provisional and late-arriving absentee ballots still to be counted.
That Aguiar-Curry would win the general election was not really in doubt — the left-leaning 4th Assembly District has repeatedly sent Democrats to Sacramento — and winning the June primary was the larger challenge.
There Aguiar-Curry faced off against two other well-known local Democrats in former Davis Mayor Dan Wolk and Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor, in addition to Davis resident Dr. Mark Kropp and Schaupp, the lone Republican in the race. Aguiar-Curry and Schaupp finished 1-2 in that race.
But despite the odds being in her favor in the general election, Aguiar-Curry said Tuesday night that she “never took anything for granted,” traveling 1,200 miles a week to meet with voters throughout the sprawling 4th District — which includes Yolo, Colusa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties — over the past few months.
Victory on Tuesday, she said, “feels great.”
Looking ahead, Aguiar-Curry expects to focus on many of the same issues in the state Legislature that were priorities for her as mayor of Winters, including water and agriculture and expanding internet access to rural communities.
Schaupp, an Esparto farmer and former U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel running for the second time in the 4th Assembly District, did not return phone calls seeking comment Tuesday night.
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Lolita from Interstellar Space
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Christine Nguyen taking her dress off to go nude before laying back on an over-sized chair and having a guy kiss his way down her chest to suck on her breast. The guy then puts his head between her legs to go down on her for a while. They then have sex, Christine on all fours over the arm of the chair as the guy stands behind her. Part 1 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
3:16 - 68.36 MB - 1280x720 px November 14th, 2014 @ 8:53 am Christine Nguyen - Lolita from Interstellar Space - 1.mp4
Christine Nguyen on all fours on a chair as a guy has sex with her from behind, causing her breasts to bounce. She and the guy then move to a leather couch where Christine rides the guy. Part 2 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
Christine Nguyen joining Anna Morna in bed where the two girls go naked and Anna lays back as Christine licks and sucks on her nipples. Christine then goes down on Anna for a bit before laying back herself so Anna can give her oral sex. Anna then moves up to finger Christine while licking her nipple as Christine grinds against her hand. Part 1 of 2 of a lesbian sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Anna Morna on top of Christine Nguyen with one hand down between Christine's legs as she continues to finger her. The girls then get into a scissor position, grinding against each other on top of a bed. Part 2 of 2 of a lesbian sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Anna Morna giving a guy oral sex while bent over naked at the edge of a swimming pool. She then stands in the water as the guy has sex with her from behind. Part 2 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
Anna Morna starting off in a as she lays a guy back on a table and goes down on him as she reaches over to pull her top off and play with her breast with one hand. We then see Anna standing naked as the guy has sex with her from behind as she leans over the table. Part 1 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Anna Morna naked as she has sex with a guy on top of a table, riding him in reverse as the guy grabs her butt from behind. The guy then sits up and she continues to bounce in his lap and the guy reaches around to grab and kiss her breasts. Part 2 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
Anna Morna kneeling on a bed as she makes out with a guy and he takes her top off to expose her breasts while kissing her. We then see Anna naked on her back as the guy sucks on her breasts and moves between her legs to go down on her and finger her at the same time. The guy then has sex with her, Anna's legs up in the air over her shoulders and her breasts bouncing while she lies on her back. Part 1 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Karlie Montana having sex with a guy in reverse cowgirl, bouncing on top of him as he puts his hands on her butt cheeks. We then see Karlie on all fours on the hospital bed as the guy continues to have sex with her from behind. Part 2 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
Karlie Montona naked on a sofa as a guy kisses his way down her stomach and then goes down on her as she plays with her breasts. We then see Karlie on her side as the guy has sex with her from behind. Part 1 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Karlie Montana naked on her side on a leather couch as a guy has sex with her from behind. Karlie is then seen on all fours with the guy behind her again, her breasts bouncing as she and the guy continue to have sex. Part 2 of 2 of a sex scene. From Lolita from Interstellar Space.
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Where: Bryce Jordan Center, University Park
Info: bjc.psu.edu/original-harlem-globetrotters-0
Lenten Fish Dinner
For $10 you can eat-in/take-out a dinner of fried or baked fish, french fries, salad, rolls and a beverage at The Church of the Good Shepherd.
When: Friday
Where: The Church of the Good Shepherd, 867 Gray’s Woods Blvd., Port Matilda
Pink Zone Basketball Game
The annual basketball game honoring breast cancer survivors will see the Penn State Lady Lions face-off against Ohio State. Last year, the BJC was packed with 9,124 fans, 640 of which were breast cancer survivors.
When: noon Sunday
Info: papinkzone.org
VanDance
State College modern dance company VanDance will perform “JazzBird” and “Steel Valley Rhythms” at The State Theatre.
When: 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday
Where: The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., State College
Info: www.facebook.com/events/2115208888712769
Frank Ready: 814-231-4620, @fjready
Crash on U.S. Route 322 after police chase
How $1.37 million in state funds will expand Centre County’s affordable housing options
By Marley Parish
Centre County received $1.37 million in PHARE funding and works to expand its affordable housing services. State Rep. Scott Conklin thinks Centre County residents will be impacted positively by the funding, saying he has an end goal of ‘a place to call home.’
State College man charged after multi-agency child pornography investigation
Is P-O’s Jon Condo, a 13-year NFL vet, done with football? Condo talks NFL, Philipsburg in Q&A
Changes are ahead for 2 Centre County parks. How you can help decide what’s next
The Centre County Farm Tour will be bigger than ever, and now at no cost to visitors
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Go Plant Fleet Services – one of Transport Britain’s partners – has secured a major deal worth more than £25 million with a local authority. One of the UK’s leading …
Business owners urged to check vehicles comply with emissions standards
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Business owners have been urged by the Mayor of London to check that their vehicles comply with the stricter emissions standards. Sadiq Khan gave this reminder to business owners three …
£22 million available for businesses working on ultra-low or zero emission projects
The UK Research and Innovation, and Innovate UK bodies have allocated up to £22 million for those businesses working on projects that will accelerate the use of ultra-low or zero …
Scotland’s First Minister makes extra £16.7 million green transport funding pledge
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has made a funding pledge to help the country lead the way in green transport. Ahead of the official unveiling of her Programme for Government, …
Commercial vehicle production in the UK increased by 12.8% in July
Commercial vehicle production in the UK increased by almost 13% in July, new figures released reveal. Following the news from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) that car …
London to increase its electric bus fleet by introducing 68 zero emission vehicles
London will have the largest electric bus fleet on the continent, after it was announced that 68 new buses will be added to the growing network next summer. The announcement …
Expanded ULEZ will reduce transport pollution in London
The transport industry will have a greater responsibility to reduce pollution in London after Sadiq Khan announced the expansion of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in 2021. Covering an area …
Taskforce launched to boost London’s electric vehicle infrastructure
The Mayor of London has set up a taskforce that will help to boost electric vehicle infrastructure in the capital. The encouragement to increase the number of rapid charge points …
Production of commercial vehicles increased in April
The number of commercial vehicles manufactured in the UK in April rose by 19%, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Bucking the …
Government allocate £48 million for buses that will cut emissions
The Transport Minister has announced £48 million fund that will help local authorities cut the emissions of their buses. Nusrat Ghani said the funding will create an ultra-low emission bus …
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THQ: No Hits, Bleeding Money, Laying Off 600 (THQI)
Eric Krangel
Feb 5, 2009, 10:50 AM
When we were in school, we considered getting an “82” on an exam a B-minus. So when video game publisher THQ (THQI) brags its “product highlights” of the quarter were scores on review-aggregation site Metacritic of 82 on “Saints Row 2,” 80 on “WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009” and 81 on “de Blob,” you know the company had a weak product lineup.
And THQ’s earnings, released today, show it. The company reported a loss of $0.14 a share, compared to consenus analyst hopes of $0.08 per share profit. Revenue fell 30 per cent to $357.3 million, well below a consensus estimate of $403.4 million.
The company announced it would lay off 600 employees, about 24% of its workforce.
No formal guidance other than to say “THQ expects fourth quarter results to be significantly below its previous expectations.” Key new releases include Warhammer: Dawn of War II on PC, WWE Legends of WrestleMania on Xbox 360 and PS3, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand on Xbox 360 and PS3, and Deadly Creatures on the Wii, none of which are eagerly anticipated.
Shares of THQI were down 9.4% after hours.
THQ Blows Q2 Earnings, Laying Off 250
Gaming’s Winners And Losers: Take-Two Soars, THQ Tanks
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Elon Musk settles fraud charges with SEC for infamous 'funding secured' tweet, must step down as Tesla chairman and pay $20 million fine
Michelle Mark and Reuters
Sep. 29, 2018, 5:44 PM
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Tesla's Elon Musk has settled with the SEC, according to an announcement Saturday.
The SEC sued Musk on Thursday, alleging Musk tweeted "false and misleading statements" in August about taking the company private.
As part of the settlement, Musk will neither admit nor deny the allegations, and he will resign as Tesla chairman. Musk and Tesla will also each pay a $20 million fine.
Tesla's Elon Musk has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in an agreement that will require Musk to resign as chairman of the company for at least three years and pay a $20 million fine, the SEC announced Saturday.
Musk, who as part of the agreement will neither admit nor deny the allegations, is expected to remain CEO.
The US regulators had sued to remove Musk from the electric carmaker's leadership, alleging that Musk had made "false and misleading" statements after he tweeted about taking the automaker private.
"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured," Musk said on Twitter in August.
The SEC had alleged that Musk knew at the time the potential transaction was "uncertain and subject to numerous contingencies." The tweets caused Tesla's stock price to jump by more than six percent shortly afterward, leading to "significant market disruption."
Musk has been directly involved in almost every detail of Tesla's product development and technology strategy, and is credited as the driving force behind the loss-making company's ability to raise capital.
The cost of insuring Tesla debt against default rose to its highest price ever on Thursday and the plummeting share price attracted new short sellers, who bet against the stock. Short sellers notched $1.27 billion Thursday alone in paper profits, according to S3 Partners, which said Tesla recently regained the title of most-shorted US stock.
The billionaire entrepreneur said he had done nothing wrong and the company's board said it supported him.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported that Musk believed he had a verbal deal for financing from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to take Tesla private.
Musk last month in a blog said he left a July 31 meeting with the fund's managing director "with no question that a deal with the Saudi sovereign fund could be closed."
The SEC in its suit said the meeting between Musk and the fund "lacked discussion of even the most fundamental terms of a proposed going private transaction."
Musk, 47, walked away at the last minute from a settlement with the SEC that would have required him to give up key leadership roles at the company for two years and pay a nominal fine, according to reports on Friday.
But sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, told Reuters that while Musk was ready to go to trial he could still settle. They did not discuss possible terms.
CNBC reported that Musk had turned down an SEC deal to give up his role as chairman, while Fox Business Network reported that Musk had been offered a temporary ban as CEO.
Aeisha Mastagni, a portfolio manager for the California State Teachers' Retirement System, a Tesla investor, said she was concerned about the board's ability to oversee Musk and the company and that she would welcome changes to Tesla's board.
"I think this board is insular, ripe with conflicts; it's the poster child for bad corporate governance," she said.
The board also lacks a director who could take over for Musk, said investment adviser Cornerstone Capital's research chief, John Wilson. "The problem for investors is that an investment in Tesla is an investment in Elon Musk," he said.
Musk has hired Stephen Best at Brown Rudnick, who successfully defended internet billionaire Mark Cuban in an insider trading case, according to people familiar with the plans who also asked not to be identified. He also hired former Assistant US Attorney Chris Clark of Latham & Watkins to defend him in the case, the people said.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The SEC declined to comment on the settlement reports.
One person with knowledge of the SEC's thinking said on Friday that the SEC civil lawsuit or a potential settlement did not preclude further action by the Justice Department, which has a higher standard of proof to make a criminal case.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
In a previous fraud case over blood-testing firm Theranos, the Justice Department brought criminal charges three months after the SEC announced its settlement with the company's founder Elizabeth Holmes.
"The SEC wouldn't delay its case for the DOJ," said Teresa Goody, CEO of law firm Goody Counsel and a former SEC attorney.
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Inside New York City Cyber Command - a government agency most people know nothing about that's leading America's biggest city into the future
Brennan WeissMay 5, 2018, 17:31 IST
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Most people have never heard of NYC Cyber Command (NYC3), but it is perhaps one of the most important government agencies in America's biggest city.
It is responsible for protecting the city from cyberattacks and other online threats that could have devastating consequences for millions of NYC's residents.
Although the Command is nearly two years old, most New Yorkers have no idea what it is or how it began - until now.
NEW YORK - In the fall of 2012, President Barack Obama's defense secretary, Leon Panetta, arrived to Manhattan's west side to deliver an unprecedented speech about cyber warfare.
Aboard the USS Intrepid, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier now functioning as a museum along the banks of the Hudson River, Panetta devoted his entire speech to a topic seldom discussed in public by such a senior government official, let alone a member of the president's Cabinet.
The US was on the verge of a "cyber Pearl Harbor," Panetta warned.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta addresses a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels October 10, 2012.Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Attackers could target and shut down power plants, water treatment facilities, and gas pipelines that would "cause physical destruction and the loss of life. It would paralyze and shock the nation and create a new, profound sense of vulnerability."
Panetta's words were stretched for emphasis and enunciated with such clarity that it was impossible to overlook what he was saying:
A cyber Pearl Harbor.
The invocation of one of the deadliest attacks ever on American soil would surely raise some eyebrows. But the tides of war were changing, and Panetta wanted the country to know about it in no uncertain terms.
The speech struck a chord with the crowd of mostly New York City business executives and national security professionals.
Among them, sitting at a far-off table in the corner of the room, was a little-known cybersecurity specialist named Geoff Brown.
Finding the right man to lead NYC3
Geoff Brown, chief information security officer for New York City and head of NYC Cyber Command.Team8
On a Wednesday in March, Brown, 41, now the chief information security officer for New York City, was just wrapping up a call in a conference room in downtown Manhattan.
Rows of empty cubicles amid an otherwise nondescript interior made the office feel less like secondary office space for NYC's cutting-edge Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT for short), and more like an empty set from a '90s movie that never got off the ground.
The conference room wasn't any less drab, except for a display case in the corner memorializing a two-page document as if it were the US Constitution:
Executive Order No. 28. July 11, 2017. New York City Cyber Command.
"It's really a brilliant document," said Brown, the man charged with leading New York City Cyber Command (NYC3), the government agency Mayor Bill de Blasio established last year to lead the cyber defense of the city.
In the summer of 2016, Brown was hired as the city's CISO, reporting directly to DoITT Commissioner Anne Roest, who has since retired from city government. She said he was "exactly what we were looking for."
He understood the biggest risk was people.
"Brown viewed [the job] as a balance between business and security and he understood the biggest risk was people," Roest told Business Insider. "The implementation of cyber is extremely technical, and to find someone who can speak about it at a level a layman can understand is a rare find."
Anthony Shorris, NYC's former first deputy mayor and one of the driving forces behind founding NYC3, had equally complimentary things to say about Brown: "He is comfortable in kind of a theoretical ambit, but also very ready to deal with the midnight phone call."
"This is not just a job about boxes and wires," Shorris continued. "It's about getting people who run very large enterprises to be willing to work in a collaborative way with somebody whom they don't know at all in a functional area they know very little about. And he had a good manner in working his way through that - being forceful without being threatening."
'We should not have to be held hostage'
Disruption of civilian life by hackers who find their way through the backdoor into the controls of critical systems - whether it's the switch to a power grid, the wheel to a car, or the password to a computer - is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Yet governments from the local to the federal level have generally been slow to keep up with the evolving landscape of threats that cities face every day in cyberspace.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks at a press conference in Atlanta on Jan. 4, 2018. A week after the cyberattack, Bottoms said the city continued to operate despite ongoing troubles caused by a cyberattack on its computer network.AP Photo/David Goldman
Just ask Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta.
On March 22, unidentified hackers broke into the city's computer network, placing malware on its systems and restricting access to vital data. The culprits demanded officials pay them $51,000 in bitcoin to unlock the government's encrypted systems.
A week after the attack, Bottoms was still calling it "a hostage situation."
Municipal court hearings were rescheduled and residents were unable to pay traffic tickets and water bills online for weeks. Atlanta Municipal Court finally reopened on April 16.
In the last two months, hackers have launched similar ransomware attacks against the Department of Transportation in Colorado and MedStar Health, a non-profit that operates 10 hospitals in the Washington, DC area.
Such attacks are so insidious and oftentimes so insufficiently understood that they rarely make front-page news. But the consequences could be severe, as some city officials recognize.
Yet others are still dragging their feet to do anything about it.
"There are a lot of cities that don't put cybersecurity right up there as a major issue for them to worry about," Herb Lin, a cyber policy and security expert at Stanford University, told Business Insider. "The problem is cybersecurity has never been treated, up until recently in some cities, as something that warrants high-level, concentrated attention."
Cybersecurity has never been treated, up until recently in some cities, as something that warrants high-level, concentrated attention.
In NYC's case, Lin said, the fact that "some cognizant body in government made a conscious decision to say, 'cybersecurity is really important for us and we're going to put resources, time, and money into establishing a consistent and organized response to cyber threats' ... you could make the argument that that's the most important thing."
Brown realizes this and hopes NYC3 sets an example for other cities to shift away from what he calls "the Marcus Crassus model," an analogy he admits he borrowed from someone else.
Crassus, a legendary general in Ancient Rome, formed the first known private fire brigade at a time when the city had no public firefighting force. When a property was on fire, Crassus wouldn't let his men fight the raging flames until he had negotiated a price for his services with the property owner.
"Eventually, society realized that that is not the approach we should take. We should not have to be held hostage by people that are going to help us," Brown said. "Right now unfortunately, I think in cybersecurity we have the old Marcus Crassus model, where if you have enough money and you have a problem, you can pay the best and the brightest to come and help you."
In other words, only those who know the importance of online security and who have the means to buy sophisticated anti-malware software are able to protect their digital lives.
The rest are left out to dry. NYC3, Brown says, is trying to fix that inequity.
'New York is always blessed and cursed by the same thing'
Crowds walk through Times Square as a cold weather front hits the region in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 28, 2017.Andrew Kelly/Reuters
NYC is not the first major US city to implement sweeping cybersecurity reforms.
In 2013, four months after assuming office, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an executive order calling for a Cyber Intrusion Command Center that would serve as the singular agency responsible for identifying cyber threats, responding to intrusions, and protecting the city in cyberspace.
A year later, Tim Lee, a veteran CISO at the port of Los Angeles, was promoted to lead cybersecurity efforts citywide.
But even with Garcetti's executive order, Lee realized the city still had a long way to go.
"There was no coordination, no threat information sharing, and no standards and policies applied to all of the city's departments," Lee told Business Insider. "Each department was running its own operations."
So Lee started pushing for the creation of a centralized threat management platform that would allow the city to funnel intelligence from each department into a single feed. This so-called Integrated Security Operations Center opened in 2015.
The fact that NYC and LA have the most advanced cybersecurity defenses in the US should come as no surprise. They are the No. 1 and 2 most populated cities in the country, respectively, which also makes them a bigger target for hackers intent on causing significant harm.
But being a prime target has its advantages.
"New York is always blessed and cursed by the same thing," Shorris said. "The fact that it's so enormous and so visible makes it a bigger target than any other city, which is a curse, but it is also blessed with more resources than any other city."
NYC and LA have simply been able to afford things that other, less-resourced cities could only dream of.
In June 2017, for example, de Blasio unveiled Cyber NYC, a long-term plan aimed at positioning the city as a "global leader for cybersecurity" through public-private partnerships. With it, he announced a $30 million investment to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals and to help support and grow the local cybersecurity industry.
NYC3 has also teamed up with New York University to provide students studying cybersecurity access to the Cyber Range, a virtual network provided by NYC3 that simulates real-world security vulnerabilities and attacks.
"Cybersecurity is a contact sport," Nasir Memon, the founder of NYU's cybersecurity program, told Business Insider. "You have to engage in these simulated exercises like the Army or Marines do."
How a team of 30-somethings came to lead NYC Cyber Command
Quiessence Phillips speaks at the BSidesNYC information security conference on January 20, 2018.Brennan Weiss/Business Insider
After Brown started at DoITT, the idea of centralizing the city's cyber defenses under one agency wasn't formalized yet.
But several months, and many meetings and big-picture discussions later, the notion of a cyber command began to crystallize.
"What Anne and I began talking about was the realization that we had not made sufficient investment in [cybersecurity] generally," Shorris said. "This was not a lane anyone was really driving in. There wasn't a point of accountability for it."
Their solution was NYC3, which Shorris described as an all-of-government approach that would enable the city to more effectively respond to cyber threats and potential attacks.
When they brought the idea to de Blasio, Shorris said the mayor had "zero" hesitation.
"He understood instantly that [cyberspace] was a threat," Shorris said. "He reads the paper like anybody else and knows this is a big issue. He was very supportive from beginning to end."
In the months following de Blasio's executive order, the Command's top brass started to take shape.
In October 2017, Quiessence Phillips, 34, who formerly led the cybersecurity incident response team at Barclays, was hired as the deputy CISO for the threat management unit to "fight the fight" (as Brown put it). She'd also help lead NYC3 as part of the city's network operations center, a hub in Brooklyn where computer technicians and engineers monitor potential security threats 24 hours a day.
Other city agencies and law enforcement partners also operate out of the hub.
A month later, Michael Krygier, 34, a former consultant at the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, was hired as the Command's deputy CISO for urban technology. Krygier often thinks about what the security of the city will look like when faced with the widespread use of new technology, like self-driving cars and ambulance drones.
Colin Ahern, 32, a military intelligence veteran deployed twice to Afghanistan, was brought on as the team's deputy for security sciences to help engineer the tools NYC3 uses to execute its mission. Mike Kenney, 33, is Brown's chief of staff.
Anthony Shorris speaks after being announced by New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio (R) that he will be the incoming administration's First Deputy Mayor in New York, December 4, 2013.Lucas Jackson/Reuters
NYC3's team is relatively small, but growing. Brown said he has a vision for the Command to be a couple hundred people.
The executive staff - Kenney and the three deputies - is young and excitedly ambitious, yet not in the naïve or overly idealistic way that one might expect a group of millennial technology enthusiasts to be.
"I understand intrinsically how daunting, in all honesty, this is and how quickly things can occur. It's just the nature of the beast," Brown said. "I am the one that's accountable. I really am. I'm proud to own that on behalf of our city."
Although NYC3 is a standalone agency, the executive team works closely with DoITT, and briefs the first deputy mayor on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, either over the phone or in writing. They speak more frequently if an urgent threat warrants it, but will hold a face-to-face briefing at least every few weeks to get City Hall up to speed on the volume and trends of threats at home and abroad.
'When bad things happen, they actually affect real people'
After Brown, a New Jersey native, graduated from college, he worked as a researcher at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank focused on security issues.
Then came 9/11.
Like so many Americans in the aftermath of that day's tragic events, Brown found a role to play in the nation's collective response.
By chance, Brown had a friend whose sister knew one of the co-leads of the NYC-based office of the 9/11 Commission, a bipartisan group of officials Congress tasked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attacks.
He was hired as a research assistant.
"The Commission exposed me to a number of really weighty things," Brown recalled. "That experience taught me a lot about the national security apparatus, but also that when bad things happen, they actually affect real people."
JP Morgan Chase & Co sign outside headquarters in New YorkThomson Reuters
Soon after his work with the Commission, Brown started working on international affairs and cybersecurity issues within the government, including at the US State Department, although he provided few other details about the nature of his sensitive work.
He left his experience immediately following public service equally undefined, except to say that he went on seeking "entrepreneurial pursuits" in the private sector.
"You will have some questions when it comes to who I am and what made me, but please know there are very important reasons why we have gaps in that narrative - like very important reasons," Brown said cryptically.
After those "entrepreneurial pursuits," Brown joined JPMorgan for two years as the head of the bank's cyber threat intelligence team, and then led the threat management program at a payment processing company called First Data.
After another two years there, Brown said he was beginning to settle on a life in the private sector.
"I had done my part, I thought. I had done work more so than many people do in many different places all over the world to help our country," he said. "I was like, 'I did my thing. I'm going to make a ton of money now. I'm just going to kill it.'"
Then he got a call about an exciting opportunity that had just opened up in NYC. And the choice was simple.
No room for failure
New York City Mayor de Blasio announces NYC Secure, a cybersecurity initiative to protect New Yorkers online on March 29, 2018NYC
Despite its importance, NYC3 has largely flown under the radar.
Since de Blasio's executive order in July 2017, the Command has been featured only sparingly in the press. Aside from a Q&A with a small local outlet and an interview with a niche podcast, one might never know that Brown has one of the most important jobs on the Eastern seaboard.
But such a lack of awareness isn't likely to last. During a press conference with de Blasio last month, Brown made his biggest public appearance yet to announce a new mobile phone app - conceived by the NYC3 team - that New Yorkers will be able to download starting this summer to help protect themselves online.
While the success of this initiative remains to be seen, its vision is consistent with that of NYC3: Cybersecurity is no longer a peripheral concern that should be relegated to technocrats in government.
It is something that concerns everyone, Brown says.
"If I wasn't supposed to be here, I wouldn't be here. I'd be another one of these people in our industry, out there," Brown said as he swiveled in his chair to point out the window of his ninth floor conference room at the banks and hedge funds scattered across downtown Manhattan.
"If this city is going to remain the commerce capital of the world, we're going to have to be really good when it comes to our technology, which means we're going to have to be safe and secure. If we're not, it's going to be a problem."
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Budget 2019 — the full speech
Read the full 2019 budget speech as delivered by finance minister Tito Mboweni
20 February 2019 - 14:38
Finance minister Tito Mboweni arrives at parliament in Cape Town ahead of his budget on Wednesday February 20 2019. Picture: RUVAN BOSHOFF
In the 2019 State of the Nation Address, our President set out an ambitious agenda for our nation. It is an agenda that speaks to the South Africa that we can be. It is a task list for all of us. It lays out a series of interventions that will put South Africa on a bold new path.
How do we make this renewal a reality?
I turned to the Good Book for guidance. In Zechariah 8 verse 12 it says: “For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their due; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.”
As a part-time farmer, I know that in order for the people to “possess all these things”, we have to plant anew.
It is time for us to sow the seed of renewal and growth.
But for the seed to be prosperous, as Zechariah enjoins us, we must first cultivate the soil. Once we have planted the seed, we must nurture it, water it, and protect it from the extremes, the elements and time.
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Despite our best efforts, sometimes, ravages and risks such as pests or rot could attack our green shoots, but we must persevere; we must prune and pluck away at the rot, until there is growth. This we must do as a collective.
If we look after what we sow, and what we have ploughed and laboured over so tirelessly, since the founding of our democracy, it will grow and the seed will bear fruit. However, if we abandon our fields, the seeds we plant will wither.
A few years ago, Madam Speaker, one of my predecessors handed out succulent plums to the members of this house, to demonstrate the times of plenty we were in.
Today, we walk into this house with an iconic South African plant, the aloe ferox.
This is one of the best known South African plants. It has a long history of medicinal use. It is resilient, sturdy and drought resistant. It withstands the elements. We must take the bitter with the sweet. Today, I bring you a seed to prove that if we plant anew, we can return to those plum times.
Madam Speaker, our President has set us on a track of renewal. But today, I will leave the poetry (and the singing) to the President. I am here to speak about hard facts and figures.
This Budget is built on six fundamental prescripts:
Achieving a higher rate of economic growth
Increasing tax collection
Reasonable, affordable expenditure
Stabilising and reducing debt
Reconfiguring state-owned enterprises
Managing the public sector wage bill
To plant the seeds of our future will not be easy. There are no quick fixes. But our nation is ready for renewal. We are ready.
Developments since the October Medium Term Budget Policy Statement
In October, during the 2018 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), I outlined our main budget fiscal outlook. At that time, I projected that in 2018/19 tax revenue would be R1.3trn and that spending would be about R1.5trn. That left us with a budget deficit of R215bn, or 4.3 per cent of GDP.
I said that we were at a crossroads, and that we could go either to heaven, or the other way.
Growth in 2019 will disappoint again, Tito Mboweni says in budget statement
The Treasury has revised down its growth forecast from 1.7% to 1.5%
Then, we expected economic growth of 0.7% in 2018. This is still our estimate. But, many of the risks that we warned about have materialised. We now expect a slower but still steady recovery after the 2018 technical recession. It is expected that real GDP growth in 2019 will rise to 1.%, and then strengthen moderately to 2.% in 2021.
South Africa is a small open economy and we are impacted by events in the global economy World growth is now expected to slow, constraining South Africa’s export growth forecast.
These macroeconomic conditions have led to a weaker economic outlook.
Madam Speaker, walk with me on a journey of how we have chosen to respond to the challenges facing us.
Tax revenue and raising SARS capacity
First, we must look at the President’s task list. Then we must match the resources we have to the plan.
In this current year, tax revenue has been revised down by R15.4bn compared to our October estimate.
Approximately half of the increase in the shortfall since October is due to higher than expected VAT refunds. This lowers revenue collection for the year, but puts money back into the economy.
VAT refunds behind expected dip in tax revenue
Tax revenue for the 2018/2019 fiscal year is expected to miss the target set in the medium-term budget policy statement
SARS is being fixed. My thanks go to Judge Nugent and his Panel for their wise counsel.
On their recommendations:
A new Commissioner will be appointed in the coming weeks.
A new Illicit Economy Unit launched in August 2018 will fight the trade in illicit cigarettes and tobacco.
The large business unit was a major source of tax collection, and its skill was renowned. This unit will be reintroduced and will be formally launched in early April 2019.
SARS is strengthening its IT team and its IT systems and this is crucial for our tax collection efforts.
Information sharing agreements with allies will help fight cross-border tax evasion schemes.
Judge Davis will assess the tax gap, which is the difference between revenue collected and what ought to be collected. We will also review the proliferation of duty free shops inside South Africa.
Fiscal prudence requires some tax changes. We propose additional revenue measures of R15 billion in 2019/20. There will be a slight upward adjustment of the tax-free threshold for personal income taxes, with no change in the current personal income tax brackets. Together these will raise R12.8bn.
No direct increases in corporate and individual taxes
A gain of R12.8bn will accrue to the fiscus because no adjustment has been made to tax tables to take bracket creep into account
Madam Speaker, excise duties on alcohol and tobacco will be increased, as follows:
1. The excise duty on a can of beer goes up by 12 cents to R1.74
2. A 750ml bottle of wine will have an excise duty of R3.15, which is 22 cents more
3. The duty on a 750ml bottle of sparkling wine goes up by 84 cents to R10.16
4. The duty on a bottle of whiskey will go up by R4.54 to R65.84
5. A pack of 20 cigarettes goes up by R1.14 cents to R16.66
6. The excise duty on a typical cigar will go up by about 64 cents to R7.80
7. There will be no change to the excise duty on sorghum beer
8. Fuel levies will increase by 29 cents per litre for petrol and 30 cents per litre for diesel
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Fuel levies are also set to rise — on top of the carbon tax — and those with a sweet tooth will not be smiling
The Road Accident Fund levy increase is not enough to match the Fund’s R215 billion liability. We urge the Department of Transport to quickly resubmit the Road Accident Benefit Scheme Bill for Parliament’s urgent consideration. It will help stabilise fuel prices.
The National Treasury will work with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Economic Development to explore the introduction of an export tax on scrap metal.
The ordinary taxpayer is fully tax compliant and pays their fair share. Thuma Mina. Paying your taxes is the right thing to do.
Let me turn to our spending projections.
Since October, government has taken steps to adjust baseline expenditure downwards by a total of R50.3bn over the medium term.
Half of these reductions come from adjustments to government’s spending on compensation. R12.8bn comes from measures to reduce spending on specific programmes.
Provisional allocations are made for the financial support to Eskom and the Infrastructure Fund. This offsets the baseline reductions and as such the expenditure ceiling is revised upwards by R16bn over the next three years.
In October, I quoted Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. After a few months in the role, I feel that Oliver Twist might be more appropriate this time.
In short, ‘Please Sir, may I have some more.’
The SOEs pose very serious risks to the fiscal framework. Funding requests from SAA, SABC, Denel, Eskom and other financially challenged state-owned enterprises have increased, with several requesting state support just to continue operating.
Isn’t it about time the country asks the question: do we still need these enterprises? If we do, can we manage them better? If we don’t need them, what should we do?
State-owned enterprise restructuring
Madam Speaker, I said in October that we would have no holy cows when it comes to our approach to state owned enterprises.
In the State of the Nation Address, the President announced a clear and executable plan for electricity. At the core of this plan is the subdivision of Eskom into three independent components. This will set the electricity market on a new trajectory, and allow for more competition, transparency and a focused funding model.
Pouring money directly into Eskom in its current form is like pouring water into a sieve.
I want to make it clear: the national government is not taking on Eskom’s debt. Eskom took on the debt. It must ultimately repay it. We are setting aside R23bn a year to financially support Eskom during its reconfiguration.
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The fiscal support is conditional on an independent Chief Reorganisation Officer (CRO) being jointly appointed by the Ministers of Finance and Public Enterprises with the explicit mandate of delivering on the recommendations of the Presidential Task Team. We will make announcements in this regard in the coming weeks.
Minister Gordhan and the strong team he has built at the Department of Public Enterprises will continue to exercise close and ongoing monitoring of Eskom.
Other state-owned enterprises
On other state-owned enterprises, we are reviewing our framework for state-owned enterprise support. Government has revised the contingency reserve upwards to R13bn for 2019/20 to respond to possible requests for financial support.
Financial support will be budget neutral as far as possible.
During this past financial year, total guarantee utilisation increased by R51.1bn:
Eskom used an additional R50bn of its R350bn guarantee in 2018/19.
Denel was granted a further R1bn guarantee.
SAA guaranteed debt increased by R6.2bn.
My congratulations to the Land Bank, which repaid debt, reducing government’s guarantee exposure. Other entities reduced their guarantees, unfortunately in some cases as a result of appropriations.
We must tighten the guarantee rules. If a state-owned enterprise applies for a government guarantee for operational purposes, it will be required to appoint a CRO in concurrence with the National Treasury and its bondholders.
The CRO will undertake a full operational and financial review. When banks need state support, we appoint a curator. When provincial and municipal finances are in disarray, government can take over the running of the administration. These rules should also apply to all SOEs.
Cabinet is considering a proposal to end the issuing of guarantees for operational purposes. Expiration dates on guarantees will also be strictly enforced. As the President announced, strategic equity partners will be found where possible.
Budget2019
The consolidated fiscal framework
To summarise: in this coming year, we expect revenues of R1.58trn and spending of R1.83trn. That means we will spend R243bn more than we earn.
Put another way, we are borrowing about R1.2bn a day, assuming that we don’t borrow money on the weekend.
This coming year, interest expenditures will be R209.4bn. This is R1bn per day. The expenditure and tax adjustments are designed to largely counteract the additional allocation for Eskom and the revenue shortfall. As a result, gross national debt will still stabilise at about 60 per cent of GDP in 2023/24, broadly in line with our October forecast.
We are masters of our own destiny.
Our determination to regain our fiscal prudence will form the basis of our economic recovery. We will be on our way back to the plum years.
As we face the future, I am reminded of the words of one of the continent’s independence leaders, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah: “…the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge – a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of (people). Dare we ask for more in life? ”
Restoring our finances and fixing our state owned enterprises will take great courage. But it can be done.
Division of revenue
Madam Speaker, the Budget remains redistributive. Taxes raised in wealthier areas fund poorer provinces and municipalities. In this budget, 47.9% of nationally-raised funds are allocated to national government, 43% to provinces and 9.1% to local government over the medium term, after providing for debt-service costs and the contingency reserve. Pro-poor spending continues to grow in real terms.
Medium-term spending plans
Let me start my presentation on government’s spending priorities by taking you through the key interventions government is taking to reduce compensation spending.
Wage bill adjustments
The public wage bill is unsustainable. We must shift expenditure to investment. National and provincial compensation budgets will be reduced by R27 billion over the next three years.
The first step is to allow older public servants who want to do so, to retire early and gracefully. This will save an estimated R4.8bn in 2019/20, R7.5bn in 2020/21 and R8bn in 2021/22. In time this will be complemented by limits on overtime and bonus payments as well as pay progression. The system of staffing our diplomatic missions is unjustified and should be reviewed urgently.
As a gesture of goodwill, members of Parliament and provincial legislatures and executives at public entities will not be receiving a salary increase this financial year.
My colleague, Minister Ayanda Dlodlo will outline the details of the early retirement framework during the course of the week.
No more funds for public-sector wages
Non-penalised early retirement and natural attrition will bring the wage bill down — but at the cost of experience and institutional knowledge
Fulfilling government’s programme of action
The budget proposes total non-interest spending over the next three years of R5.87trn. This after taking into account measures taken over the three years to consolidate the public finances. The largest allocations are R1.2trn for learning and culture, R717bn for health services (including National Health Insurance) and nearly R900 billion for social development.
The President set us these five tasks:
Accelerate inclusive economic growth and create jobs.
Improve the education system and develop the skills that we need now and into the future.
Improve the conditions of life for all South Africans, especially the poor.
Fight corruption and state capture.
Strengthen the capacity and capability of the state to address the needs of the people.
Mr President, let me illustrate how the Budget talks to your priorities.
Accelerate inclusive economic growth and create jobs
The private sector is the key engine for job creation. Government’s policy actions aim to end the uncertainty that has undermined confidence and constrained private sector investment.
The R300bn worth of pledges made at the Investment Conference last year demonstrate that there is pent-up private sector demand if we grab hold of the opportunity.
Visa requirements are being relaxed to make it easier for tourists to visit and invest in South Africa.
We have also increased the income eligibility thresholds for the highly successful employment tax incentive scheme. Jobs for 1.1m young people are supported by this programme.
From tough talk on saving Eskom and Sars, to increases on tax on alcohol and cigarettes - we take a look at which aspects of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s 2019 budget will hit close to home.
Data costs must fall!
My fellow Minister will shortly be issuing policy direction to ICASA for the licensing of spectrum. I will work relentlessly with the Minister until this matter is resolved. This includes resourcing ICASA for this mandate.
Government has allocated R19.8bn for industrial business incentives, of which R600m has gone to the clothing and textile competitiveness programme. This will support 35 500 existing jobs and create about 25 000 new jobs over the next three years.
The Jobs Fund is a vital complement to private sector job creation. The Fund has disbursed R4.6bn in grant funding, and created well over 200,000 jobs since inception. The allocation to this Fund will rise over the next three years to R1.1bn.
R481.6m is allocated to the Small Enterprise Development Agency to expand the small business incubation programme.
A robust debate on land is taking place in South Africa. We are supporting private sector investments in agriculture by emerging farmers. R1.8bn is allocated for the implementation of 262 priority land-reform projects over the next three years. R3.7bn is set aside to assist emerging farmers seeking to acquire land to farm.
The Land Bank will support smallholders, and leverage partnerships with other financial institutions. It aims to disburse R3bn in the next fiscal year.
Improve the education system and develop the skills that we need
Learning and culture receives the largest share of spending as Government continues to provide access to quality basic and higher education, develop skills, provide training and contribute to social cohesion.
Over R30 billion is allocated to build new schools and maintain schooling infrastructure. An additional R2.8bn is added to the School Infrastructure Backlogs grant to replace pit latrines at over 2,400 schools. But to make certain these schools are effective centres of learning will also require parents to be a visible and constructive part in the governance of schools.
Fully subsidised education and training for the poor is government’s flagship higher education intervention. Over the medium term government will spend R111.2bn to ensure that 2.8m deserving students from poor and working class families obtain their qualifications at universities and TVET colleges.
Finally, the global renown of South Africa’s art and culture is an expression of our soft power and our heritage. Our public finance choices should reflect an intention to preserve and add to our cultural canon. Officials from the National Treasury and the Department of Arts and Culture will consider proposals for the development of a new national theatre, a new national museum, and also consider financial support for the National Archives, a national orchestra and ballet troupe.
Improve the conditions of life for all South Africans, especially the poor
In the fight against poverty and inequality, Government has allocated R567bn for social grant payments.
Welfare grants protected from inflation
One in three South Africans is the recipient of a welfare grant, with all grants getting increases in 2019
In 2019, the grant values will increase as follows:
R80 increase for old age, disability, war veterans and care dependency grants.
R40 increase for the foster care grant to R1,000.
The child support grant will increase to R420 in April and to R430 in October. Health services
In health, we need simple, effective interventions. We need more doctors and nurses. R2.8 billion has been reprioritised to a new human resources grant and R1bn for medical interns.
Provinces to get unspent NHI funds to fill critical posts in public healthcare
‘We need simple, effective interventions. We need more doctors and nurses,’ Tito Mboweni said in his Budget Review presentation
R1bn has been added to raise the wages of community health care workers to R3,500 per month. Finally about R319m is allocated to eliminate malaria in South Africa.
Access to housing
Government continues to focus on supporting people to own their own homes. Funding totalling R14.7bn over the two outer years has been reprioritised to two new conditional grants for informal settlements upgrading which will enable these households to have access to basic amenities.
Our Help to Buy subsidy helps first-time home buyers purchase a home. As a pilot, it gets R950m over three years.
Economic infrastructure
The South African National Roads Agency is allocated an additional R3.5bn over the next 3 years to improve non-toll roads. In October, I emphasised the importance of the user pay principle. It is a principle that we should uphold. In any future negotiations, this should be borne in mind.
Combating crime and corruption
Over the past couple of years South Africa has been grappling with corruption. We must root this out. National Treasury and the Department of Justice will work swiftly to support the establishment of the new Investigating Directorate in the NPA.
Zondo inquiry gets another R273m, but NPA is not so lucky
The NPA, which is alleged to have been politically influenced for the past decade, has been largely under capacitated and underfunded
Strengthen the capacity and capability of the state to address the needs of the people
My colleagues at provincial and municipal level are working as best as they can to deal with rising wage costs and reduced transfers. Provincial treasuries and the municipalities have a partner in the National Treasury to work with on their constitutional obligations.
Grants such as the Financial Management grant, and the Municipal Systems Improvement grant are available. The Public Audit Excess Fee Bill tabled today strengthens the Auditor General’s role in municipalities.
We need to build a strong culture of payment in our country.
Collecting the revenue due to the state is the underlying foundation of our democracy, of building a nation, and it is our duty to pay for services especially if we can afford to do so.
National Treasury will lead a process to encourage those, including government departments, who owe money to municipalities, to pay for services.
Finally, service providers must build what they promised at a reasonable rate. Thuma Mina. Pay your municipal bills on time.
Future proofing the budget
The budget is also about our long-term vision.
We spend a lot on infrastructure.
Four things will get us better infrastructure: First is to create a sensible project pipeline. Second, is streamlining the law to make it easier to build. Third, better information for everyone. And finally, is to actually build.
So far we are working on a wastewater treatment facility works in the Vaal, a solar water geyser programme and student accommodation. R625m is allocated to the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the Government Technical Advisory Centre and the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission to strengthen project preparation in this context and on a speeded up basis, projects based on rural roads and water will be prioritised.
Details on several priority projects can be found on the Vulekamali portal.
The infrastructure fund is a central pillar of the Budget and of reprioritisation. It will accelerate R526bn worth of on-budget projects by bringing in the private sector and development finance institutions.
In several instances the private sector will design, build and operate key infrastructure assets. In addition, government will commit R100bn over the next decade.
As we look to the future, I see the following huge shifts in society and the world.
The first is the rise of technology. Twenty-five years ago, the Budget was prepared on reams of paper, carefully stapled together. I reviewed this speech on my tablet, and you can keep track of the speech on Twitter right now. By the way, it is at #RSABudget.
Who knows how the Budget will be prepared in twenty-five years’ time?
Our budget spending has to focus on getting our country ready for technology. The first step is to fix the education system. Government is rolling out a maths and science grant. The Governor of the South African Reserve Bank is driving an ambitious FinTech programme, together with colleagues from the other financial-sector regulators.
The sustainability challenge affects us all. Climate change is real. The steps being undertaken at Eskom will allow us to expand renewable energy, and the carbon tax will come into effect from 1 June 2019.
The third challenge is rapid urbanisation. We cannot go on building horizontally, serious consideration must be given to “going up” as part of an integrated development strategy.
The final challenge is nationalism. In many successful economies, immigrants have been a source of dynamism. Narrow nationalism often leads to stagnation. We need to redouble our efforts to attract highly-skilled people to South Africa. Professor Ricardo Hausmann of Harvard University talks of the “know-how” that these individuals bring. Their skills are complementary to our own. We need to free our entrepreneurs from stifling regulations and complicated taxes. We will continue to work closely with our partners in the BRICS, the African Development Bank and the South African Customs Union.
Madam Speaker it is prudent to say that we are a shareholder in a number of multilateral institutions and this ensures that South Africa plays its rightful place on the continent and the world.
Before I conclude, my thanks to the President of the Republic for his leadership during this budget process. A word of appreciation to the National Treasury Director General and his team. Their good humour and determination have got us through a difficult Budget.
My thanks to Acting SARS Commissioner and Team SARS for persevering to restore the integrity of the institution, to the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank for his support and collegiality. To colleagues in the Cabinet, in the Minister’s Committee on the Budget, and all those that have supported us in this time.
I recall Psalm 23: “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
In summary, Madam Speaker, let me outline the highlights of this Budget:
We are taking tough steps to fix the fiscal position and state-owned enterprises.
Our children are our future. Most of the spending goes to education, and we will strengthen early childhood development and support higher education for the most deserving.
On land, we have set aside money to help our people buy their own houses, support land reform, and transfer title deeds.
On electricity, we face tough choices on Eskom.
We are reprioritising resources towards the President’s infrastructure fund and away from the wage bill.
Madam Speaker, this is a Budget that plants a seed for renewal and growth. It is all of our duty to tend the seed and see that it grows strong, tall and fruitful. It is a Budget for the future.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12.
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Department doing what it can to have 51 South Africans in China returned
The Department of International Relations and Co-operation is working on getting the SA citizens back, who were lured to China on bogus job offers, then had their passports taken
21 June 2018 - 14:29 Naledi Shange and Kgaugelo Masweneng
On Thursday, the Department of International Relations and Co-operation said it was doing everything it could to ensure the safe return of 51 South Africans stranded in China after finding themselves embroiled in a visa scam. The department’s minister Lindiwe Sisulu said Police Minister Bheki Cele and Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba had all been roped in to assist in the investigations. "Our embassy in Beijing is liaising with the Chinese authorities in addressing this matter. We are also in touch with the Chinese ambassador to SA to have their passports released. The Chinese ambassador to SA has made an undertaking that he will expedite the matter‚" Sisulu said in a statement. Her office said the group had been enticed by an agent to travel to China on a study visa while planning to work as English teachers. "The promise was that they would get their work visas on arrival in the country, which never materialised. While in China on study visas they started working‚ which was in ...
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Forbes Media Launches FMX: A “Brand Side Platform” Reaching the Affluent Business Decision-Maker Audience
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forbes Media announces the launch of Forbes Media Extension (FMX), a “Brand Side Platform” that provides marketers a premium digital environment across the Web for reaching affluent consumers and business decision-makers at scale.
Through highly defined Forbes Audience Segmentation Targets (FAST) and a Forbes Media Network (FMN) of editorially vetted publishers and channels, the platform expands the opportunity for advertisers to engage with the highly sought after Forbes reader.
“There is currently a strong demand for advertising targeted at high end consumers and influencers in a transparent environment,” said Kevin Gentzel, Chief Revenue Officer of Forbes Media. “FMX provides this trusted media environment, utilizing the strength and integrity of the Forbes brand to maximize the potential of reaching these users across Forbes.com and a premium network of sites.”
Terrence Kawaja, CEO and President of Luma Partners, added: "FMX is a prime example of the trend for premium publishers to leverage their brand equity (art) and audience data (science) to effectively target media at scale."
The Forbes Media Extension is comprised of the following components:
• Forbes Media Network, or FMN is a premium network of trusted media properties and extended Forbes channels reaching an affluent audience of engaged consumers and business decision-makers. All the FMN sites and channels must meet stringent audience and content standards, and are vetted by Forbes Editorial staff as well as third party measurement tools.
• Forbes Audience Segmentation Targeting, or FAST is a technology that combines Forbes proprietary data with third party information to create defined audience segmentations for retargeting across Forbes.com and the Forbes Media Network. Forbes will introduce six FAST categories at launch: Business and Finance, Small Business, Technology Professionals, In-Market Users, Wealth & Personal Finance, and Wealth & Lifestyle. The FAST categories have been developed to target individual users in multiple environments.
• Forbes Media Voice Creative Units, or FMV is a creative unit that combines an advertiser’s message with related Forbes content and branding that is targeted to a specific user’s preferences. Forbes Media Voice units will not appear on Forbes.com, but instead across the Forbes Media Network, giving advertisers the opportunity to leverage the Forbes audience beyond the Company’s branded media properties.
Forbes Media:
Forbes Media encompasses Forbes and Forbes.com, the leading business site on the Web that reaches on average more than 18 million people monthly. The company publishes Forbes and Forbes Asia, which together reach a worldwide audience of more than 6 million readers. It also publishes ForbesLife magazine, in addition to licensee editions in China, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Latvia, Middle East, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Other Forbes Media Web sites are ForbesWoman.com; RealClearPolitics.com; RealClearMarkets.com; RealClearSports.com; RealClearWorld.com and the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network. Together with Forbes.com, these sites reach on average nearly 25 million business decision makers each month.
Steve Forbes serves as Chairman and Editor in Chief. Mike Perlis is President and Chief Executive Officer. Lewis D’Vorkin is Chief Product Officer.
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Here's What Happens When You Piss Off A Huge Celebrity's Intensely Loyal Fans
When I exposed a bunch of Lady Gaga fans posing as Christian soccer moms on Twitter, I learned the hard way about the wrath of stans.
Posted on September 07, 2016, 03:25 GMT
Brad Esposito
BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia
Anna Mendoza for BuzzFeed
Yesterday, I wrote about something that was happening on the internet. I write about things that happen online all the time. In my regular morning internet search yesterday I found a celebrity forum in which the members were discussing the best ways to make Lady Gaga's newly announced single "Perfect Illusion" a hit of the summer.
I had stumbled upon a large group of Lady Gaga fans who were eagerly creating fake "Christian soccer mom" Twitter accounts and badgering radio stations to play Lady Gaga.
"You better be ready to request the song via Twitter," read a post. "Radio hosts hate homosexuals and stan (fan) Twitters, it’s a fact. Make an account with a soccer mom selfie avatar, make your username something like ‘ilovemykids123’ and write a bio about how you have three kids and a husband ... Then write a tweet like ‘@RadioStation ahah my kids luv this new GaGa song!!! driving me mad on my way to work!! play it please’."
It was hilarious and clever and organised with a clean precision that was almost scary. So I wrote about it, exposing the fake soccer moms for what they were.
And then the Lady Gaga fans, posing as Christian soccer moms, found me.
Laura Boles @laura_boles
@braddybb please delete this, you're invading my privacy and exposing my life for a couple of clicks on your site
02:02 AM - 06 Sep 2016
Becky Van Derbooben @mrsvanderbooben
@braddybb who are you?stop harassing me. I will call 911
The next 24 hours of my life were filled with countless messages from "soccer moms". Names like "Carol Jones" and "Becky Van Derbooben" were hounding me for things they believed they were owed: a public apology, a nice candle-lit dinner, a meeting with their son, who they were worried was becoming a "home of sexual", and dozens of requests to "send nudes".
If Twitter were a battleground, I had fired first without setting up any defence, and the soccer moms knew. They were going to "get" me. They were "smart Caucasian housewives" with "very good lawyers" and they were going to sue me. They kept calling me "sweaty" when they meant to call me "sweety". All of this from a group of fake soccer moms who were created as part of a conspiracy to promote Lady Gaga.
My Twitter was an endless stream of mothers calling for my attention, my TweetDeck columns flowing faster than I have ever seen. My direct messages, which I had foolishly left open, were full of soccer moms either ridiculing me, or calling me "daddy" while they asked for me to "choke them out".
"We need to diversify our profiles," one user wrote. "We can't all be middle class, Christian, white women. We need some 'cool dads' to tell dad jokes on Twitter, we need Trump supporters, we need sport fans."
Christian lady roleplay Twitter is not new. Fake Stepford Wives-esque Twitter accounts have existed for years, portraying the archetypal middle-class, stay-at-home mother. These accounts are crafted over time to appear as PG (if not G-rated) as possible, until the day Justin Bieber tweets about his new single and they reply with something along the lines of "fuck me in the ear with the hard cum of your sweet music".
The use of these accounts by fans for some sort of guerrilla marketing campaign, however, is new.
Hours after I originally published my story about the soccer moms, I checked the forums where I had found the Lady Gaga fans discussing their plan. They weren't talking about the plan anymore. It had already launched, been noticed, gone viral, and given them (and Lady Gaga) the publicity they wanted.
Now the discussion had shifted to one of community.
Lady Gaga's fans were beginning to create a community of soccer moms, not so much to harass me, or to harass radio stations, but to create a new group of people – real or otherwise – who all wanted to hear the new Gaga and talk about the pop star nonstop. And while all of this is very nice and interesting and fun, they are still messaging me with requests to be "fisted", or praying for my soul lest I end up in hell, a sinner, when I die.
The Lady Gaga soccer mom campaign is also interesting because it seems to have been born out of a belief that radio stations do not care for stans (a term used to describe a particularly obsessed fan) or homosexuals. The reasons why this claim was made, or what kind of experiences led to Gaga's most loyal fans believing this, aren't really clear.
One of the soccer moms told me they thought it was mostly that radio stations didn't respect stans. "From my experience in the site 'hating gays' is mostly a joke," they said. "Basically Gaga's demographic is homosexuals, so [fake] mothers are changing that belief by making Twitter accounts."
One of the members described GagaDaily.com, and being a stan in general, as a cult: "Members find Gaga Daily so captivating, it gets [them] addicted. That's why some members refer to the site as a cult."
Of course, all of this was told to me by a bunch of anonymous people on the internet posing as Christian soccer moms sending me messages saying "fuck me daddy", all as a conspiracy to get Lady Gaga's music played. So you'll have to take their word for it.
Last night, as I lay in bed trying to watch Netflix, getting my mind off of the endless stream of soccer moms in my mentions, my own mother texted me, worried and confused.
brad @braddybb
Just had a cool chat with my mum
"Brad, just read your Twitter feed!! You OK?" she asked urgently.
I explained the situation as best I could, my mother trying her best to understand. When I told her I was going to tweet our conversation, she told me not to identify her, lest the Christian soccer moms somehow come after her as well. My co-workers began printing out the tweets that were being sent to me and sticking them on my desk. There's a Change.org petition to "Stop Busfeed". I have been served a fake court summons.
This morning, the soccer moms began sending me emails. If Christian soccer moms did use Twitter this religiously, I would hope it wouldn't be all so litigious. Every soccer mom that has messaged me, regardless of the abuse or sexual requests, has wanted one thing: an apology. So here it is: I am sorry, Christian soccer moms, real and not real, for whatever I have done to disrespect you, your "home of sexual" sons, or your dead husbands. I am sorry, Lady Gaga fans, for shining a light on your social marketing scheme. Please leave me alone, I need some sleep.
Lady Gaga's "Perfect Illusion" is out Friday. Until then, the illusion remains online, a horde of stock images and stolen pictures of moms from Facebook, creating a community that I'm now a part of for god knows how long. After all of this I pray for one thing: I just really, really hope the fucking song is good.
Brad Esposito is a news reporter for BuzzFeed and is based in Sydney, Australia.
Contact Brad Esposito at bradley.esposito@buzzfeed.com.
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AppCritique Mobile App Vulnerability Assessment
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Today’s enterprise mobile app developers have their hands full. The mobile development ecosystem evolves at a rapid pace—far faster than the PC software world. Android and iOS software application program interfaces (APIs) change on a 9-month basis. Keeping apps updated with these latest features along with security fixes from Google and Apple is beyond a full-time job. Simultaneously maintaining full awareness of known vulnerabilities and threat actor’s evolving tools, techniques, and procedures is a juggling act that’s next to impossible.
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Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
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Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.
Show Out Got Brian
7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.
Heaven Now Show Audience
Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.
Singing Kid Been Since
And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Mistake Place Hard Rock
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Music Friends Always Worth
But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year.
Wait Sunday Doing Watch
But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
Time Nothing Doing Movies
Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.
Trying Hollywood Songs Sell
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
People Feel Over Actor
I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
Angel Doing Things Will
I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
July Heaven Start Follow
I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
Life Time Feel Hard
I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Family Three New New York
I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
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High School ‘Sexting’ Scandal Widespread, Possible Felony Porn Charges for CO Teens
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Merrill Hope
A massive sexting scandal involving hundreds of students unfolded this week in a Colorado high school where students, possibly as young as eighth grade, allegedly messaged nude photos of themselves and others. The teens were allegedly sharing and collecting them like baseball trading cards. The teens’ actions could end with some students being charged with felony child pornography.
Canon High School officials uncovered what appears to be a sexting scheme and cover up when an anonymous student tipped them off Monday to what was going on under their noses. Canon City police since took over the investigation to determine if any adults were involved and if any students were coerced into texting explicit photographs.
Some students sharing naked selfies and images of others may be as young as eighth grade, CBS News reported. So far, the investigation found an equal number of boys and girls sexting images of themselves and others on their cell phones.
On Thursday night, district officials called an emergency meeting at the high school located in a Colorado Springs suburb. Parents learned disturbing details including that under-aged students could be charged with Class 3 felonies for sexting. Fremont District Attorney Thom Ledoux emphasized the importance that parents understand “the mere possession of these materials does constitute an ongoing crime.”
Students concealed their activities using new technology. Locally, KOAA 5 reported “Photo Vault” as the primary phone app students used to mask the amassed nude photo collections. Canon City High School Principal Brett Meuli told CBS News: “It was flooring to us how on how many photos we are finding.”
Previously, Welsh told KOAA 5: “It got to the point of maybe a little bit of a contest to see who could collect the most.”
On Thursday, sophomore Jacine Valdez told KOAA 5: “Last year I did bring up something on the people that did start it and they dropped it. This has been going on for several years.” Although the superintendent wouldn’t comment on that claim, he noted at the emergency meeting that sexting was a schoolwide problem, adding: “It’s going on everywhere, my suspicion is with modern technology.”
Initially, all scrutiny centered on the football team, the first exposed in the purported sexting operation. School district officials implicated more than half of the players as involved. Welsh decided that Canon City High would forfeit their final football game of the season Saturday, a consequence for the teens’ actions.
How widespread the sexting scandal may be continues to unfold. Welsh called the behavior of students taking nude photos, sharing and collecting them like trading cards “not representative of what we teach our kids.”
A 2012 study examined sexting behaviors in seven Southeast Texas high schools. Students answered anonymous surveys and the results showed 28 percent of teens sent a naked picture of themselves through text messaging or email, 31 percent reported asking someone to sext them, and 57 percent were asked to send explicit images. A 2014 Pediatrics report based on that study found, for some teenagers, sexting preceded having sex. The Washington Post likened sexting to the new normal, calling it today’s “first base” and not necessarily indicative of only teens with at-risk behavior.
While some believe sexting is part of growing up in the 21st Century, it often plays a key role in teacher-student sexual misconduct cases, which are rampant nationwide. Breitbart Texas covers educator-student improper relationships and has cited expert Terry Abbott, a former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Education, who blames these same social media tools (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and text messaging) for creating “an open gateway” to the explosion of classroom sexual predators under the radar from parents and principals.
Canon City authorities plan to investigate each student on a case-by-case basis to make sure charges are filed appropriately. Ledoux hopes that hundreds of students will not face federal charges. “I’m confident in the system and the people that are involved in the system that we can achieve the right outcome in these cases somewhat regardless of what the laws are.”
Follow Merrill Hope on Twitter @OutOfTheBoxMom.
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New Japan quake kills two, with widespread damage reported
Mashiki (Japan) (AFP) – Rescuers desperately searched through the night for victims trapped in rubble after a powerful quake hit southern Japan, killing at least two and causing major damage, just over a day after another strong tremor in the same area.
The quake on the southwestern island of Kyushu sparked a fresh wave of destruction and was followed by a wave of aftershocks in the region where nerves are already frayed following Thursday’s earthquake that killed nine people.
The powerful shaking triggered a huge landslide that swept away homes and cut off a highway in one area, and unlike the earlier quake which mostly affected old houses, larger buildings were damaged and some toppled across Kumamoto prefecture, the epicentre of the quakes.
Public broadcaster NHK said that at least 470 people were injured in the latest tremor, while a government spokesperson said scores were trapped or buried alive.
Eleven people were stuck in a damaged apartment building in Minami-Aso near the landslide, a Kumamoto prefecture official said.
“We don’t know their condition,” he said, declining to be named.
Meanwhile, a large fire that broke out at an apartment complex in Yatsushiro city killed one person, city official Kiichiro Terada confirmed.
“We are also checking if any more people failed to escape,” he said, adding that the fire was under control.
NHK reported four dead in total, but Kumamoto officials gave a total a tally of two.
In nearby Kumamoto city, authorities were evacuating patients from a hospital over fears it could collapse and images showed the building slanted.
Hisako Ogata, 61, evacuated to a nearby park with her daughter, where some 50 other people sat on blue plastic sheets.
“We left my house as we could not stay due to continuous jolts,” Ogata told AFP.
“It was so scary,” she added. “Thank God we are still alive.”
An AFP journalist in the city at the time said he was jolted awake by powerful shaking, which sent the television set in his hotel room crashing to the floor. Staff urged guests to evacuate.
– ‘Really strong’ –
A ceiling at Kumamoto airport collapsed from the shaking, forcing the airport closed, Jiji Press reported, with no immediate plans to resume flights, and communications in the area were spotty.
The quake, measured at magnitude 7.0 by the US Geological Survey, struck at 1:25 am (1625 GMT Friday) at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles).
The Japan Meteorological Agency, which put the magnitude at a revised 7.3, initially issued a tsunami warning for the western coast of Kyushu but later lifted it.
Thursday night’s quake was measured at magnitude 6.2 by USGS, and 6.5 by the Japanese agency.
Some 20,000 soldiers will be deployed to the area over the weekend to help rescue efforts, Defence Minister Gen Nakatani told reporters.
Shotaro Sakamoto, a Kumamoto prefectural official, said Saturday’s quake felt comparable to Thursday’s.
“It was really strong… many people on the street appeared panicked,” he told AFP.
Meteorological agency official Gen Aoki said Saturday’s earthquake was the strongest to hit Japan in recent days, and said Thursday’s was merely a “precursor”.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was due to visit Kyushu later Saturday to inspect damage and rescue efforts, but Jiji Press reported his trip was cancelled.
“We are trying our best to assess the damage situation as it could spread,” he told reporters early Saturday.
Japan, one of the most seismically active countries in the world, suffered a massive undersea quake on March 11, 2011 that sent a tsunami barrelling into the country’s northeast coast.
Some 18,500 people were left dead or missing, and several nuclear reactors went into meltdown at the Fukushima plant in the worst atomic accident in a generation.
A nuclear plant on Kyushu was unaffected by Saturday’s quake, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the top government spokesman, told reporters.
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Trump vows tariffs will be ‘very fair,’ names winners and losers
Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump vowed to be flexible toward “real friends” of the United States as the White House prepared Thursday to roll out punitive trade tariffs — singling out Germany for criticism and adding Australia to a list of likely carve-outs.
Amid pitched policy battles inside his administration and fierce opposition without, the White House indicated the measures may, or may not, be signed later Thursday when Trump is set to host steel and aluminum industry and workers at the White House.
With hours to go until the 3:30 pm (2030 GMT) meeting, it was still unclear if it would see Trump sign the contentious tariffs into law, a signing of something symbolic or no signing at all.
But Trump made clear he was pressing press ahead with tariffs of 25 percent on foreign steel and 10 percent on aluminum, while saying Australia and “others” could be exempt — in addition to America’s neighbors and NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada.
“We are going to be very fair, we’re going to be very flexible” Trump told his cabinet, pointing to winners and losers from the contentious policy which has stoked fears of a global trade war.
If America reaches a deal on renegotiating its trilateral trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, he said, “it is most likely that we won’t be charging those two countries the tariffs.”
“We have a very close relationship with Australia,” he added. “We have a trade surplus with Australia, great country, long term partner, we’ll be doing something with them.”
The US leader also cited possible exemptions for unspecified “other countries.”
But Trump took aim at Germany — the biggest economy in the EU trade bloc — as a bad actor likely to face tariffs.
Railing against countries that had “taken advantage” of the United States, Trump accused Germany of behaving unfairly by contributing much less than the US towards the funding of NATO.
“We have some friends and some enemies where we have been tremendously taken advantage of over the years on trade and on military,” he said.
“If you look at NATO, where Germany pays one percent and we are paying 4.2 percent of a much bigger GDP — that’s not fair,” he said.
“So we view trade and we view the military, and to a certain extent, they go hand in hand.”
– Partners promise backlash –
Last week Trump stunned the world — and many in his own camp — with an off-the-cuff announcement of his tariff plan, made before White House lawyers had finished reviewing the legality of the move and before it was clear which countries would be targeted.
He cited Chinese overproduction and national security concerns as the main driver.
Since then the White House has scrambled to catch up, Trump’s top economic advisor Gary Cohn — who opposed the move — quit in protest and stock markets sank.
More than 100 Republican lawmakers have signed a letter to Trump expressing “deep concern” about the policy, which they warned could “undermine” economic gains from Trump’s own tax reforms.
Trade experts at the Peterson Institute now believe US allies — rather than China — will be disproportionately hit and imports to America cut by around $14 billion.
The European Union, Mexico and Canada have all warned they will retaliate, with the decision threatening to sour already vinegared trans-Atlantic relations.
The European Union has vowed to hit back with tariffs on items from steel to peanut butter, bourbon and denim — most of which are produced in states that Trump needs to win reelection.
“Trade wars are bad and easy to lose,” EU President Donald Tusk warned, rejecting Trump’s assertion they were “good and easy to win”.
As Trump has pressed ahead, his staff have tried to limit the fallout.
“We’re going to have sensible relations with our allies,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross insisted Wednesday.
“We’re not looking for a trade war,” he said.
Data released Wednesday showed the US foreign trade deficit widened in January to its highest level in nine years — heaping pressure on Trump, who had campaigned on a promise to reverse that trend.
Trump blamed the situation on his White House predecessors, while also taking aim at Beijing over the size of its trade deficit with the United States.
China meanwhile warned Thursday it was ready to respond to US tariffs if they materialize.
“Choosing a trade war is surely the wrong prescription, in the end you will only hurt others and yourself,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, adding that “China will certainly make an appropriate and necessary response.”
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Exclusive—EPA’s Andrew Wheeler: Green New Deal Activists Don’t Want American ‘Energy Domination’
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview at CPAC on Friday that Green New Deal activists do not want American ‘energy domination.’
Sean Moran
2 Mar 2019, 9:22 AM PDT
The Left Fears Kavanaugh Will Derail Its Green Agenda
Environmental activists are very concerned that Justice Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court is going to seriously jeopardize their green agenda.
12 Oct 2018, 5:08 AM PDT
Trump Administration to Rescind California’s Greenhouse Gas EPA Waiver
The Trump administration will reportedly move this week to rescind an Obama administration waiver that has allowed California to set its own vehicle fuel economy standards.
Chriss W. Street
25 Jul 2018, 12:02 AM PDT
Matthews: I Wonder If the Dow Going up Is Good News Because It Means Regulations Are Being Killed
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews stated he wonders if the Dow Jones going up is good news because the surge in the stock market means pieces of legislation like the Clean Water Act and Clean Air
Ian Hanchett
17 Jan 2018, 5:04 PM PDT
Federal Appeals Court: Trump EPA Cannot Delay Obama EPA Methane Rule
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, last week claimed the power to override President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency when the agency reconsiders an Obama-era regulation. While the specifics sound bureaucratic and are laced with legalese, this decision creates a new precedent that likely only the Supreme Court can reverse.
Ken Klukowski
Scott Pruitt: Paris Climate Agreement Would Have Driven More ‘Regulation Through Litigation’
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Joel Pollak discussed President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords on Monday’s show.
John Hayward
5 Jun 2017, 9:54 AM PDT
De León, California v. Trump over Federal ‘Clean Air’ Waiver
California’s Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) is promising to take President Donald Trump’s administration to court if it fails to renew the federal waiver that allows California to set stricter vehicle emission standards than the rest of the nation.
14 Mar 2017, 5:28 AM PDT
Setback for Obama: Supreme Court Blocks EPA CO2 Emissions Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an unusual move, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from going into effect, a rule that the challengers say would cause energy costs to skyrocket.
9 Feb 2016, 5:31 PM PDT
Study: Governments More Likely to Break Environmental Law Than Private Firms
Two professors of public policy conclude that governments are more likely to violate environmental law than private owners. “Publicly-owned facilities are more likely than similar privately-owned facilities to violate regulatory requirements under the CAA [Clean Air Act] and the SDWA [Safe Drinking Water Act],” as their recent study notes.
Michael Patrick Leahy
14 Oct 2015, 2:26 PM PDT
CEO Resigns as VW Scandal Could Cost up to $30B
CEO Martin Winterkorn just stepped down as CEO of VW Group after the company admitted that for the last 6 years they had installed sensor “defeat device” software to reduce emissions readings by up to 98 percent in 500,000 diesel-powered cars sold in the United States.
23 Sep 2015, 3:50 PM PDT
EXCLUSIVE– Rep. Kevin Cramer on EPA’s Attempted Waterway Grab: ‘Private Property Rights Are What’s at Stake’
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) reacted to a recent injunction that blocked a new regulation that would have granted the federal government jurisdiction over some waterways across the United States.
Alex Swoyer
30 Aug 2015, 6:58 PM PDT
Obama’s Coal Power Edict: Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Bobby Jindal Join Legal Challenge
Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Bobby Jindal have enlisted their states in a legal challenge to Obama’s new EPA coal power plant regulation.
5 Aug 2015, 8:43 PM PDT
A Taste of Things to Come for Electricity Consumers and Generators
One year ago, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, announced the controversial centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s climate change legacy: the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rule is slated for finalization this summer.
Marita Noon
Establishment GOP Claims McCain Challenger Kelli Ward Believes Chemtrails Conspiracy Theory
The state Senator has faced unsubstantiated accusations of belief in the “chemtrails” theory solely on the basis of a constituent-requested public forum on environmental quality she held back in June of 2014.
Michelle Moons
26 Apr 2015, 3:13 PM PDT
Obama: Climate Change Will Cause ‘More Frequent and More Severe Droughts’
In an interview with National Geographic, President Obama stressed the importance of California’s conservation efforts amid a fourth year of drought, laid out his expectations for this year’s climate conference in Paris, and reiterated America’s commitment to a “low-carbon future.”
Daniel Nussbaum
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Florida Teacher of the Year on Gun Violence: Parents Need to ‘Step Up’ and Control Their Kids’ Behavior
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A Florida middle school teacher who was named Teacher of the Year at her school said that parents need to “step up” and control their kids’ behavior.
Kelly Guthrie Raley, who was selected as Eustis Middle School’s Teacher of the Year 2017-2018 last month, wrote on Facebook Thursday in a now-viral post that as an educator, the lack of compassion and increase in violence she has noticed among students are caused by a “lack of parental support”:
“Parents, it’s time to step up!” Raley wrote, adding:
Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough “friends” at school. Be their parent. Being the “cool mom” means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME.
Raley’s message went viral; as of Saturday afternoon, her post had been shared more than 573,000 times—after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday.
The sixth-grade teacher added that when she began her teaching career 20 years ago, she never had to worry about parents getting angry at her or threatening her publicly because she brought up issues with their children’s behavior.
She said the trend of parents not wanting to take responsibility for their children’s behavior has to change if violence in the classroom is to be stopped.
Despite the many cries for gun control in light of the shooting, Raley said her post was not meant to push for gun control, but to encourage parents to love their children and students to show respect for one another.
“This post wasn’t about gun control,” she said. “This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures.”
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G A Gabriel Associes Cognac
Recently, Alexandre Gabriel and cellar master Christian Guerin of Cognac Pierre Ferrand, started collaborating with smaller cognac producers in the Charente region to facilitate their cognacs being bottled and sold under their own name. The resulting product is called G&A, which used to stand for Gabriel and Andreu and now stands for Gabriel & Associés. Every bottle features the original producer of the cognac in order to give them the visibility they deserve. Due to the large investment needed for in-house cognac production, many small wine growers have difficulty in distilling, ageing, blending and bottling their own cognacs and instead are forced to sell their grapes or distilled eaux-de-vie to larger cognac houses. The house of Ferrand gives them the opportunity to produce their cognac all the way to the bottling and hence allows cognac lovers to experience a whole new range of cognacs from lesser known producers who would otherwise not exist.
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History of Cognac G&A Gabriel et Associes
A separate arm of Cognac Ferrand, Gabriel & Associes was created specifically to offer cognacs that are unblended, coming from a single estate or chateau. As with all cognacs produced under the Ferrand empire, the emphasis is on producing individual, high quality artisan cognacs in the traditional methods that date back many decades. The concept behind Cognac Gabriel & Associés is simple – to provide the facilities and opportunity small cognac growers to produce their own product and allow it to be marketed and sold. By working with vineyard owners throughout the whole region of Cognac and collaborating closely with individual producers, it has been possible for Ferrand to produce very distinct and unique cognacs from each of the growing regions within the area.
Although Cognac G&A is a relatively new concept, the house of Ferrand has a history dating back hundreds of years. When Ferrand was set up as a modern business, it was by a man who was literally born into the wine making industry - Alexandre Gabriel. His years of experience and knowledge have been passed down through the years to the expertise that is tantamount in producing the cognac that we experience today.
Gabriel & Associés Cognac Today
In 2004, Ferrand invested in a state of the art blending hall, making them the most efficient production house in the whole of the Cognac region. By partnering with various small vineyard owners, each of the cognacs comes from a single chateau or estate and is not blended. These prestigious cognacs are only bottled to order, and each is sold under the G&A label with full details of the vineyard and terrain on the rear label of the bottle.
The cognacs produced are from the four different growing regions, Grande Champagne, Petite Champagne, Borderies and Fins Bois.
News, Products and Old Labels
Critics throughout the world have hailed G&A cognacs a resounding success. The ability to purchase purely single estate cognacs is something that more and more people are taking advantage of, and the USA is one of the markets where G&A cognac is particularly appreciated.
Visit G&A
It is possible to visit the estate of Cognac Ferrand, of which Cognac G&A is a part. To visit the individual estates of the G&A producers, contact Ferrand directly for information.
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Home > Government > Departments > Community Development > Develop in Westminster > Development Application Moratorium
Development Application Moratorium
Moratorium Removed
The 12-month development moratorium has been lifted, effective Monday, April 29.
Get details.
In July 2018, the City of Westminster approved a 12-month moratorium on new development applications in the area of the city generally north of 92nd Avenue to help address critical sanitary sewer capacity constraints.
The city moved quickly to impose the moratorium after further study of the system’s capacity made it clear additional steps were needed to protect public health and safety.
The moratorium applied only to new applications for development in the basin that would increase demand on the Big Dry Creek Interceptor Sewer.
Projects in the basin that do not increase the demand on the system or those projects that are not served by the Big Dry Creek Interceptor Sewer were able to move forward.
Projects in the Little Dry Creek basin and the North Huron basin were not affected.
View a map of the area
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City Council presentation - March 11, 2019
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City Council presentation - March 4, 2019
Project update - February 2019
Project update - January 2019
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Moratorium memorandum - review process guidelines
Planning Division - development review guide
View the City Council agenda memo
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City slowing development north of 92nd Avenue to address sewer capacity issues
Westminster: Open for business
What is the Big Dry Creek Interceptor Sewer (BDCIS)?
The BDCIS is a 22-mile long system that carries wastewater for treatment to the Big Dry Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility. The BDCIS serves approximately two-thirds of the city.
Is the city’s sewer system safe?
Yes. The city’s sewer system is safe. Residents and businesses are well-served by the existing system.
Where is the affected area?
Please see the map above of the affected area. This moratorium does not apply to areas of the city not served by the BDCIS, including Downtown, Westminster Station, areas generally south of West 92nd Avenue, and areas generally north of West 120th Avenue and east of North Huron Street (i.e. The Orchard).
What does a moratorium mean?
The city will not accept new applications for development that increase sewer demand on the BDCIS.
Who is impacted by the moratorium?
Applicants who are proceeding through the city’s development entitlement process cannot be guaranteed building permit issuance if the capacity for the BDCIS is met.
When did the moratorium begin and how long will it last?
City Council action on Monday, July 23, enacted a moratorium, and the moratorium itself went into effect at noon on Tuesday, July 24. The current moratorium is for 12 months for areas served by the BDCIS to allow for the study of potential improvements to the BDCIS and to more accurately predict construction timelines.
Why is this moratorium necessary?
Sewer modeling shows that the BDCIS, in existing condition, is unable to serve all applicants who seek new development in the city.
How will the city evaluate development projects underway before the moratorium?
The city will evaluate building permit issuance for those who have applied for development projects prior to the issuance of the moratorium on a first-come, first-served basis.
Do I need to restrict my water use?
No. While the city always encourages wise resource use and conservation where possible, no water restrictions are necessary due to the moratorium. You can flush, irrigate, etc. as normal.
Can I add a bathroom to my home?
Yes. Bathroom additions in residential homes are allowed and are not subject to the moratorium.
Can I remodel my home?
Yes. The moratorium does not affect current use of your home in any way.
Can I remodel my existing business?
In general, remodeling projects that do not place additional demands on the BDCIS will move forward as usual. The city will work with applicants for projects that would place additional demands on the BDCIS on a first-come, first-served basis as capacity of the BDCIS allows. The city will work with existing businesses to find solutions to offset impacts to the BDCIS through conservation methods.
Additional Developer FAQS
John McConnell, principal planner, at 303-658-2474 or by email at jmcconne@cityofwestminster.us.
Jenni Grafton, housing policy and development manager, at 303-658-2105 or by email at jgrafton@cityofwestminster.us.
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Fresh Election Will Not Hold In Rivers State..INEC
Against the backdrop of the recent suspension of the 2019 governorship election in Rivers State, halfway through the process, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Saturday in Port Harcourt that no fresh elections would be held in the state. Rather, INEC said there will be a process to complete the election, which was suspended on March 10 following violence at some collation centres. INEC National Commissioner supervising Bayelsa, Edo and Rivers states, Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu, made the clarification while addressing stakeholders as part of the process for the completion of the election.
Agbamuche-Mbu said results of the governorship election in 17 of the 23 local government areas of the state were safe in the strong room of the commission in Abuja.
Addressing the stakeholders, Agbamuche-Mbu said the commission would conclude the collation of the Rivers State governorship election between April 2 and 5, adding that the process will be transparent.
She said, “All the results are with us in our strong room. They have not been tampered with. We are going to conduct the collation transparently. INEC is here to complete this process and we shall complete the process successfully.”
The INEC National Commissioner said though the commission did not know the winners of the elections, all the results were intact in INEC’s custody. She also said INEC would religiously follow the timelines outlined by it for the collation of the governorship election results.
Head of Legal Department, INEC Rivers State, Mr. Don Umealor, outlined the supplementary regulations and guidelines for the conduct of elections. Umealor assured that all INEC staff involved in the collation of results would conduct the process with transparency. He said political parties will be given the opportunity to comment on the process, but nobody will be allowed to disrupt the collation process.
Umealor also listed those entitled to be at the collation centres to include collation and returning officers, INEC personnel, one polling agent per party or candidate, approved security officials, accredited observers, accredited journalists, and any other person or organisation approved by INEC.
The commission announced the 17 local government areas where it had collated results for the Rivers State governorship election. Administrative Secretary of INEC, Rivers State, Elder Etim Umoh, said the local government areas were Ahoada East, Bonny, Akuku-Toru, Obio/Akpor, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Omuma, Port Harcourt, Ikwerre, Emohua, Tai, Opobo-Nkoro, Andoni ,Eleme, Etche, Ogu–Bolo, Oyigbo, and Okrika.
Umoh stated that the local government areas where collation had not been concluded were Khana, Asari-Toru, Degema, Ahoada West, Abua/Odual, and Gokana. He said elections did not hold in Abua/Odual at all as materials were not dispatched to the area because of violence. In the case of Khana, he stated that materials were dispatched to polling units but none was returned also due to violence. In the other affected local government areas, elections took place and results were announced at some polling units before the suspension of the process.
Umoh stated that supplementary elections would hold where necessary in the six affected polling units in the six local government areas.
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Why being pure good is boring and why Saints never rule the world
February 16, 2017 by Max Noble in Behind the scenes, Our World
To attract others is a magnificent combination of art and science. There are rules that make sense and others, - not so. At least at the first glimpse.
Accept this: Pure goodness is boring. You are never attracted to pure goodness as much to something that has complex appearance, maybe event slightly sinister. That’s why James Bond has a drinking problem. That’s why Trump won the election. That’s why the women who make men wild, are not the most saintly ones. Forget the unnatural political correctness. People, that include you, love the hint of danger. You are provoked and stirred by it. It awakens you. And you love it. Life is dull and you want to break the dreary routines. You want to love the bad.
"Forget the unnatural political correctness. People, that include you, love the hint of danger." -Max Noble
To attract others. To make them interested. To make a sale. To convince anyone, you cannot rely on your goodness only. Yes, you can appear as a Saint, but to perfect the persuasion, you need to grow and accept that there are no living Saints. That is why the religions give the title of Saint, when the person has first passed away. When they lived, they were not Saints. Now that the person is not in vigor, the followers are free to construct the perfect image. Only fools believe in perfection. There is no perfection.
Truth of First Impression. When first impression happens, you need to be in charge of it. You don’t want to appear boring. You want others to want you. To do that, you need to accept the fact that a bore will never be as good as someone who creates excitement. The one who grabs your attention will always win over a dull, no matter how good they are. You need to hint something dangerous, forbidden, problematic even slightly threatening.
Final note. Never overplay this side of you when creating first impression. You don’t want to scare off people. You want their full attention, not run or fight reaction. The ideal good-evil balance is depended on you, but during the first impression it must only a slightest hint.
My name is Max Noble. I am an Adventurer, Cosmopolitan & Life Connoisseur, and I commit acts of nobleness around the world. This was my today's story about Evil in You, part of my book "The Laws of First Impression".
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Person Using Stolen Identity Nominates Trump for Peace Prize
March 1, 2018 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donald Trump, Nobel Prize
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, says someone using a stolen identity has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the award, the Norwegian news agency said Thursday.
The NTB agency quoted committee secretary Olav Njolstad as saying it appears the same person was responsible for forging nominations in 2017, as well.
Njolstad who could not immediately be reached for comment, declined to identify the person, adding that Norwegian police have been informed.
“Every year, we get lots of invalid nominations, but these are nominations that are not valid because those who nominate are not qualified to do so,” Njolstad told NTB. “As far as I know, this is the first example of someone nominating someone by stealing another person’s identity.”
Norway’s Nobel Committee keeps candidate names secret for 50 years. However, those who can nominate candidates — parliament members, university professors, directors of peace research and international affairs institutes, and former recipients — can go public with candidate’s names.
In January, Henrik Urdal, manager of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, told The Associated Press that Trump had been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize but said the nomination “still lacks a strong academic justification.”
The leader of the independent Norwegian peace institute said it was “an American player with the right to nominate a candidate” who told him the person had tapped Trump. Urdal declined to name the person.
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Working Paper, No. 2003-24, 2003
The Growing Importance of Family and Community: An Analysis of Changes in the Sibling Correlation in Men’s Earnings
By David I. Levine , Bhash Mazumder
This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers’ economic outcomes has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings, family income and wages between brothers rose substantially between cohorts who entered the labor market in the 1970s and those who entered in the 1980s and early 1990s. This suggests that family and community influences shared by siblings have become increasingly important in determining economic outcomes. We find that the brother correlation in education did not change between these cohorts although the return to education did increase markedly. However, the rising return to schooling can account for at most, around 40 percent of the increase in the brother correlation in earnings.
David I. Levine
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A person was shot while standing in a yard in Penticton. - Image: Kristi Patton
VIDEO: Four people shot dead in Penticton, one man in custody
The City of Penticton was put on lockdown after a man went on a shooting rampage killing four people
Black Press Media Staff
UPDATE: 4:37 p.m.
Four people are dead in Penticton after a man went on a killing spree with a gun in two neighbourhoods Monday morning, and then surrendered at police headquarters.
Police are saying the victims and the suspect are known to each other.
RCMP Supt. Ted De Jager said the identities of the victims are not being released at this time, although did confirm that two men and two women died from gunshot wounds.
The suspect then offered himself up at the front desk of the Penticton RCMP detachment.
“It’s an ongoing investigation – we will look at the motive and what he was thinking, why this happened and what his motivations were,” said De Jager. “We are glad he did this, because the community isn’t on pins and needles, and that the community isn’t worried that someone who did something this tragic and horrific is out on the streets. Now he is not and that is a good outcome from an investigation perspective.”
De Jager said the community was very respectful to police who shut down the city for several hours while the incident unfolded.
“Everyone stepped up, they were calling us; they were helping the police. They were bringing water to those on scene and supporting some of the people who saw what happened, they stood by and gave support,” he said. “… that is the strength of the community.”
Investigation restrictions are in place, and are still limited to the 2400 block of Cornwall Drive and and the 400 block of Heals Avenue near Lakeview Street.
READ MORE: Standoff with Penticton RCMP ‘resolved’
The Southeast District Emergency Response Team was deployed near Skaha Lake Road and Yorkton Avenue for an unfolding incident. Police have determined this is not linked to this morning’s shootings. The matter has been resolved without any issues and police will be leaving the scene shortly.
Four people are dead following a series of shootings in Penticton.
A suspect allegedly shot a man at downtown Penticton on Lakeview Road about 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Then the suspect headed to Cornwall Drive, about 5 km away, where three more people were allegedly shot. All victims are reportedly connected to the suspect and none of the shootings were random as this was a targeted incident, says Supt. Ted De Jager.
Police are looking for anyone else who may have been hurt in the incident.
The suspect later turned himself at the front desk of Penticton detachment just before 12 p.m. He remains in police custody and his vehicle seized.
Update: Four people are dead following a series of shootings in #Penticton https://t.co/PIQ0Nkroyd
— Kristi Patton (@KristiPatton) April 15, 2019
The genders and identities of the victims are not being released.
“This is unprecedented in Penticton, this is unprecedented in most of our communities, but this is exactly what we train for and what we prepare for,” said Supt. Ted De Jager.
De Jager says the motive for these shootings is not known at this time; however there are reports the incident may have stemmed from a neighbour dispute.
The Emergency Response Team is currently on Skaha Lake Road attending an armed standoff that may or may not be connected to the earlier shootings.
Downtown Penticton remains on lock down, and residents are asked to stay in their homes. A police helicopter remains active in the area.
More than 30 Penticton officers remain actively working on the investigation.
ATTENTION: There is currently an active police incident taking place in the area of Westminster and Heales.
The public is advised to remain indoors. For more information, contact the Penticton RCMP detachment at 250-492-4300. pic.twitter.com/Cvl0jw96gP
— City of Penticton (@cityofpenticton) April 15, 2019
UPDATE: 12:57 p.m.
A man on Cornwall Drive says his neighbour was shot while working downtown, Monday morning.
He believes his neighbour died as a result of his injuries.
The Emergency Response Team along with Penticton RCMP have blocked Gulf Avenue down to Skaha Lake Road, and Skaha Lake Road to Sudbury beach.
About a half dozen people, parents children and staff remain locked down inside the Wayland Sports for Kids facility at 249 Westminster Ave. W.
According to Annette Card owner of the former FitKidz Gymnastics Club which moved to the new location earlier this year, everyone is remaining calm.
“We’re fine, but obviously worried,” said Card. “We’re just thinking yesterday (was) Salmon Arm and today Penticton, it’s kind of sad.”
Classes that were supposed to start around 1 p.m. have also been cancelled.
She first learned of the shooting earlier in the day.
“One of the parents was walking their child down here and he said there was a body there on the ground and police everywhere and helicopter,” said Card.
One man is dead following a shooting downtown Penticton, Monday morning.
Penticton RCMP continue to ask resident to avoid the area of Eckhardt Ave and Lakeshore Drive, as well as Main Street and Power Street. Residents should stay inside unless advised otherwise by police.
Media will meet with police at the Penticton detachment at 1 p.m. today, to provide an update on this daytime shooting.
Police tape surrounds the scene where it is believed one man was shot in #penticton this morning. pic.twitter.com/jxIHcY0xDg
UPDATE: 11:39 a.m.
A local man was working nearby when he heard about four gun shots ring out in downtown Penticton.
“I came outside to check and see what going on. I saw a guy walking up the street with a gun,” said the witness who did not wished to be named. “I didn’t think much of it at first when I heard the sounds because there are a few other shops around here so I thought someone was hammering something, then I saw the guy with a gun.”
He said the man with the gun allegedly appeared to be casually walking around with the weapon in his hand.
“He wasn’t in a hurry to get anywhere, he just sauntered off slowly,” he explained. “Couple cop cars race up the street shortly after and there was a helicopter out doing circles. I saw the RCMP walk out of the house with a baby in their arms.”
It’s believed the alleged shooter was last seen walking from Lakeview Street across to Westminster Ave and over to Haynes Street.
RCMP in Penticton are asking the public to avoid the downtown area and stay inside.
Officers are dealing with what they are calling a serious and unfolding incident.
The public is asked to avoid Eckhardt Ave and Lakeshore Drive, as well as Main Street and Power Street.
Police are asking the public to remain inside your residence, or place of work until they have issued further direction.
Police are on scene of a shooting in Penticton.
Reports of shots fired on Lakeview Street were called in about 11:00 a.m.
According to a witness on scene, a man was shot while standing in a yard.
The area around Lakeview Street is tapped off by police.
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Home|News|Update on the CSB Assessment into Fatal Explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Company in St. Louis, MO
Update on the CSB Assessment into Fatal Explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Company in St. Louis, MO
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s three person investigation team arrived onsite at the Loy-Lange Box Company to begin its assessment on Thursday April 6th. Since arriving on site the following activities and analysis have been conducted:
· CSB investigators visited all three sites impacted by the April 3rd incident: 1) Faultless Linen; 2) Pioneer Industrial Corp.; and 3) Loy-Lange Box Company.
· While early media reports were calling the equipment involved in the incident a “boiler,” the vessel that launched into the Faultless Linen building was a hot water storage tank also called a semi-closed receiver or SCR. This tank was part of a steam generator system that serves the same purpose as a boiler, but is of a different design.
· The SCR launched out of the Loy-Lange facility and into the Faultless Linen site, crashing into an office area. An initial examination found that the vessel appears to have landed top down into a room where three people were present.
· The three people in the office room were fatally injured. One worker at the the Loy Lange Facility was killed and a second remains in ICU.
· The structural integrity of the Faultless Linen office area is still being assessed. The failure mode of the SCR is unknown. Currently, it is too dangerous to enter the room to conduct an in-depth examination. The CSB has begun discussions with the appropriate entities on site to remove the equipment to allow forensic examination.
· An initial assessment also found that an approximately 12.5 foot long pipe, which had been attached to the SCR, crashed through the roof of the Pioneer facility. It stuck in the roof and punctured an office ceiling, where it remained until the company removed it to temporarily re-roof the hole to protect the building from water damage.
· Structural engineers retained by the CSB determined that the Loy-Lange site is not safe for CSB entry at this time. CSB investigators have photo-documented the perimeter.
· The CSB is coordinating its investigation efforts with local emergency responders and other federal agencies and investigative entities.
· CSB investigators are likely to remain on site for the next several days. Additional updates will be provided as the investigation develops.
The CSB is an independent federal agency whose mission is to drive chemical safety change through independent investigations to protect people and the environment. The agency’s board members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. CSB investigations look into all aspects of chemical incidents, including physical causes such as equipment failure as well as inadequacies in regulations, industry standards, and safety management systems.
For more information, contact public@csb.gov.
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Graduation eve
By Amelia Newcomb
@AmeliaNewcomb
Most people don't expect to be at the library the night before commencement. But that's where Simon Grote found himself last week at 11:15 p.m. The Harvard senior was returning books. Seven suitcases' worth, according to Leslie Chu, a fellow student who contributed these observations of the evening.
The late-night shuttle capped off an evening of receptions and dining with roommates and their families. Topics ranged from "the next step" to the meaning of happiness - an early start in putting that college education to the test.
It's not what Mr. Grote had anticipated. (For more seniors' views, see page 13.) As with many students, goodbyes were bypassed, even as new realities dawned (I'm leaving the center of the universe, where friends and resources and prime real estate are at my fingertips).
Grote, who had envisioned being with all his friends, said it was nonetheless a satisfying night. "This was a vivid, unusual experience," he said. As for his roommates, "It always seemed that we would be in touch, so I didn't feel that urgency to say goodbye."
Another classmate, Maggie Coe, wound down a day spent with family and friends by packing and writing out cards for her eight roommates. She dined alone on a sub, but then tradition took over.
"We have a ceremony we've done since we were freshmen," she said. "We take dried ... petals from all the flowers we've received or bought during the year and ... take them down to the footbridge and ... throw them in [the river] and talk. This year, we saved it for the night before graduation. We went down about 11:30 and were still sitting there at midnight when it became graduation day."
E-mail newcomba@csps.com.
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Nobel Prize 2018 In Physics Awarded to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland
Nobel Prize committee presented the Nobel Physics Prize 2018 award to one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.
They received this prestigious award for their discovery for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years, and for only the third time in its history.
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The UNICEF has appointed Ravi Venkatesan has its special representative of young people. Venkatesan will help provide strategic guidance and support UNICEF globally.
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OPPI re-elected A Vaidheesh as President for 2nd term
The Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) re-elected A Vaidheesh as President for the second consecutive year.
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Russia’s World Cup hero Igor Akinfeev retires from international football
Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev has announced his retirement from international football. The 32-year-old Igor Akinfeev played for CSKA Moscow club.
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The WebMD (aka com.webmd.android) application 3.5 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.
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Disneyland announces its official dates for…
Disneyland announces its official dates for events in 2019
Lunar New Year, Food & Wine, the dates are here
Mulan and Mushu join dancers as they perform during Mulan’s Lunar New Year Procession on the first day of Disney’s Lunar New Year celebration at California Adventure in Anaheim on Friday, Jan 26, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
By Marla Jo Fisher | mfisher@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: December 6, 2018 at 1:06 pm | UPDATED: December 6, 2018 at 5:24 pm
Get out your calendars, because Disneyland has just announced official 2019 dates for some of its most popular events, as well as some special occasions that you’ll want to know about.
And don’t forget that Disneyland’s 2018 Christmas decorations stay up until Jan. 6, and at Disney California Adventure until Jan. 8. We’ve also listed official anniversaries of popular rides, because Disney will typically have special events and/or merchandise connected to them.
And, note that, while these are official Disneyland events, we’ve also put together a calendar of all 2019 events at Disneyland, whether official or unofficial.
Jan. 18: It’s going to be Mickey-land in Disneyland starting on Jan. 18, when the park debuts the new “Mickey’s Mix Magic” nighttime show to celebrate the 90th birthday of Mickey Mouse. It will include projections at numerous locations throughout the park, a family dance party but fireworks only on “select nights.” The projections will appear on Main Street, Rivers of America and the facade of “It’s a Small World.”
Jan. 22-Feb. 18: The parks are celebrating “the love of Minnie and Mickey” in a Valentine month event, including special decorations along Main Street and Minnie’s Valentine Surprise — a scavenger hunt that involves purchasing a special map and stickers. People can search for hidden valentines around the park and return completed maps for a surprise.
Jan. 25: Mickey’s Soundsational Parade. This show returns to Disneyland with Mickey heading his new float, in honor of his 90th birthday, which is celebrated from the date the famous cartoon “Steamboat Willie” debuted.
Isaacs Simms, left, Sarah Pollock center, and Brenda Rogers sample the Banh ChuÕng (sticky rice cake with pork) during the first day of Disney’s Lunar New Year celebration at California Adventure in Anaheim on Friday, Jan 26, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Jan. 25-Feb. 17: It’s the Year of the Pig so Disney will inaugurate it with its annual Lunar New Year celebration in Disney California Adventure. Mulan’s Lunar New Year Procession is returning with her sidekick dragon, Mushu, and look for the Three Little Pigs to join the party. There are always lots of yummy Asian-inspired foods available during this event. Last year, they had a Lucky Wishing Wall and special musical performances as well.
Feb. 7: Disneyland After Dark: Sweethearts’ Nite. This is one of two specially ticketed events announced so far for 2019, that will include romantic dancing and a “Royal Ball” experience. There will also be couples characters on hand, special food, merchandise and more. Cost is $99 and tickets are now on sale.
March 1-April 23: Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival will provide plenty of tastings, specialty wines, craft beers, visits by celebrity chefs, cooking demonstrations and more. Kids can participate in Junior Chef a “hands-on “cooking” experience specially designed for young chefs.”
The Food & Wine Festival Disney California Adventure, 2017. (Photo by Mark Eades, Orange County Register/SCNG)
March 7: Disneyland After Dark: 90s Nite is another new special ticketed after hours event runs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and costs $99. Special food, music and appearances. disneyland.disney.go.com/events-tours/after-dark-90s-nite
Disneyland hasn’t said exactly when people will be able to journey to the planet Batuu when its new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land opens, but the best guess would be in June. In the new land, people will be able to pilot the Millennium Falcon spaceship, join a battle between the First Order and the Resistance, have a first-ever cocktail inside Disneyland at Oga’s Cantina and use the Play Disney Parks app to have special experiences.
June 6: Anniversary of the submarine voyage. Disney is calling this the 60th anniversary of the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, though many of us remember when this attraction was an earlier incarnation of the Submarine Voyage, which closed in 1998. It reopened as Nemo in 2007.
June 14: 60th anniversary for both the Matterhorn Bobsleds and the Disneyland Monorail.
Band-Tastic Cavalcade brings a parade of Disney characters to Main Street U.S.A. for a brief Disneyland run
Disneyland is cutting budgets and shows during slower than normal summer season, blog reports
Hyperspace Mountain to continue popular run at Disneyland through Halloween season
Disneyland eliminates Red Car News Boys trolley show at Disney California Adventure
July 17: 30th anniversary of Splash Mountain. This will also be the 64th anniversary of the opening of Disneyland park.
Aug. 9: It will be the 50th anniversary this year of Haunted Mansion and you can bet there will be festivities surrounding this.
Sept. 2: 40th anniversary of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
Halloween Time returns. No dates have been yet announced.
Christmas and holiday festivities will return in their typical annual fashion.
Plan your 2019 Disneyland trips around these 32 events
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Marla Jo Fisher
Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive, at least so far. She now writes the Frumpy Middle-Age Mom humor column that appears in the Orange County Register weekly. Due to her status as the cheapest person alive, she also writes about deals and bargains for the Register, including her Cheapo Travel column which also runs in newspapers around the country. When she's not having a nervous breakdown, she's usually traveling somewhere cheaply and writing about it.
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Ten Syrians arrested trying to smuggle 20 TONNES of cannabis worth £150million into Europe in a specially converted cargo vessel underneath massive slabs of granite
The Jupiter was boarded by Italian police in the Mediterranean last month
Europol received a tip-off that the cargo ship was smuggling cannabis
Experts spent 15 days searching the 97-metre long ship for its illicit cargo
The drugs were found in the ship's specially converted forward ballast tank
By Darren Boyle for MailOnline
Published: 07:45 EDT, 17 October 2015 | Updated: 12:52 EDT, 17 October 2015
Ten Syrians have been arrested trying to smuggle 20.5 tonnes of cannabis worth an estimated £150million into Europe hidden in a specially converted cargo vessel underneath massive slabs of granite.
The Cook Island-flagged merchant vessel Jupiter was boarded in the Mediterranean Sea by Italian Finance Police who are responsible for border security and taken under guard to the Port of Cagliari on Sardinia.
Europol confirmed that a major joint operation was launched after they received a tip-off that the freighter had drugs hidden beneath the legitimate cargo.
The 821 packages of cannabis, pictured, were hidden inside a cargo vessel registered in the Cook Islands
The drugs were contained in the forward ballast tank of the Jupiter, pictured, after a 15-day search
The drugs were hidden underneath a legitimate cargo of granite, pictured, which filled the vessel's hold
The drugs were found in a specially hollowed-out area in the vessel's forward ballast tank. In total 821 packages containing some 20.5 tonnes of cannabis was recovered.
Italian law enforcement agencies raided the vessel on the evening of September 26 after Spanish Guardia civil aircraft had kept it under surveillance.
It is understood that prior to its arrest, the vessel had visited Vigo in northern Spain, after crossing the Atlantic before heading south into the Mediterranean.
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After arriving in Cagliari, a specialist search team boarded the vessel and spent 15 days combing the vessel which is 97 metres long and 16 metres wide.
Italian searchers sought assistance from French experts who played 'a decisive role' in identifying the illegal activity behind the shipment.
According to Europol the drugs were found 'after a long and extremely complex search'.
A spokesman said: 'The enormous illegal load was found skilfully stashed in a large false bottom under the hold of the vessel with its only access hidden by hundreds of tonnes of granite being used as legal cargo.'
Europol received a tip-off that the vessel, pictured, was being used to transport a large amount of illegal drugs
The search team eventually found the drugs hidden in a specially constructed section of the ballast tank
10 Syrians arrested trying to smuggle 20 TONNES of cannabis into Europe
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Democrats could oust Texas elections chief who led voter purge. But will they?
Filed under Texas Legislature at Feb 21
Lauren McGaughy
Robert T. Garrett
James Barragán
Updated on Feb. 21 at 1:17 p.m. to include the stances of Sens. José Rodríguez, D-El Paso, Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas and Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound and at 3:20 p.m. to include the stance of Sen. Beverly Powell, D-Burleson.
AUSTIN — David Whitley is in damage control mode.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s choice for secretary of state, battered from the fallout over his office’s controversial voter fraud inquiry, needs the support of Senate Democrats to be confirmed. But it’s unclear whether they will wield their power to deny him.
The Dallas Morning News reached out to the 12 Democrats in the Texas Senate. Five now publicly opposed Whitley. Most refused to comment. And several others said they need more time, as Whitley sits down this week with key members in an effort to smooth things over.
Sen. José Rodríguez, head of the Senate’s Democratic caucus, previously told The News he was reserving judgment until Whitley finished meeting with other senators. On Feb. 21, however, he told The Texas Tribune he'd decided not to back the nominee.
"Only in extreme circumstances would I not defer to the Governor's choices. In this case, however, the damage has been done," Rodríguez, who was not speaking for the rest of the caucus, in a statement to The Tribune. "Many Texans mistakenly believe evidence of voter fraud has been found. Many now fear to vote, even though they are eligible. Although it is a difficult decision, I cannot support Mr. Whitley's nomination to serve as Secretary of State."
Whitley’s job now hinges on the handful of Democrats who have yet to weigh in. With mounting pressure from liberal groups to reject Abbott’s pick, will they back him or send him packing?
Texas Tracker: Your Guide to the State Legislature
'A hard nay’
Abbott appointed Whitley, a former aide, as the state’s top elections official in December after then-secretary of state Rolando Pablos resigned. But he still needs to be confirmed by the Senate to permanently get the job.
Gubernatorial appointees such as the secretary of the state need the backing of two-thirds of senators present, or 21 members if all 31 decide to vote. There are 19 Republicans in the Senate. If they all support Whitley, he would still need at least two Democrats to be confirmed.
By Feb. 21, half of the Senate’s 12 Democrats have confirmed they oppose Whitley’s nomination: Caucus Chairman Rodríguez, José Menéndez of San Antonio, Kirk Watson of Austin, Royce West and Nathan Johnson of Dallas, and Sen. Beverly Powell of Burleson.
“I’m a hard nay,” Menéndez said. “I can’t support his nomination.”
Johnson added, "Secretary Whitley's view of the role of the secretary of state is sufficiently different from mine that I cannot confirm him."
Stressing the importance of having all citizens engaged in the Democratic process, he said the recent voter purge "strikes me as priorities that are out of line with someone who should occupy that office."
Within weeks of his naming, Whitley came under fire for alleging that tens of thousands of noncitizens may have voted over the past several decades. Voting rights advocates quickly disputed those numbers, saying they were vastly overblown, and Democrats accused Whitley and his office of playing politics to suppress voter turnout after their party made significant gains in the midterm elections.
The debacle made Menéndez's choice easy.
Tens of thousands removed from potential non-citizen voters list after counties find flawed data
“It seems to me that there was either gross negligence or it was just incompetence, and neither one makes any sense,” he said. “My constituents share my concerns.”
But the Senate’s other seven Democrats have either declined to answer questions or said they needed more time to make a decision.
“I’m not in a rush,” Brownsville Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr. said Feb. 11, just before meeting with Whitley that afternoon. “I certainly want to be fair in the process."
"We are having discussions as a caucus on our position. I don't think any final decision has been made,” Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, added. Hinojosa's staff reiterated to The News on Feb. 21 that he had not yet made decision.
'The norm in Texas'
The uncertainty surrounding Whitley’s confirmation is rare in Texas politics.
In 2009 and again in 2011, Democratic senators were able to block two of then-Gov. Rick Perry's choices to be chairman of the State Board of Education. Two years later, bipartisan opposition scuttled the confirmation of Perry's insurance commissioner.
“The norm in Texas is to always approve a governor’s nominee. Usually these votes are foregone conclusions,” said Rice University political scientist Mark Jones. “Just the fact that we’re even talking about the governor’s nominee [possibly] being rejected is itself very noteworthy because it’s something that doesn’t normally happen.”
Any Democrats who end up siding with Republicans to confirm Whitley, Jones added, would be vulnerable to accusations of promoting voter suppression and almost certainly invite a primary challenger. What’s more likely is that Democrats will stick together — with the potential for a just few defectors, he said. If they choose to support Whitley, Democrats can fall back on the tradition of deference to the governor’s nominees, while the defectors can tell constituents they fought till the bitter end.
Interim Secretary of State David Whitley addressed the backlash surrounding a disputed list of noncitizen voters in Texas.
(Eric Gay/The Associated Press)
Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, questions Secretary of State David Whitley during his confirmation hearing, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Austin, Texas, where Whitley addressed the backlash surrounding Texas' efforts to find noncitizen voters on voter rolls. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
(Eric Gay/AP)
Secretary of State David Whitley, center, arrives for his confirmation hearing, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Austin, Texas, where he addressed the backlash surrounding Texas' efforts to find noncitizen voters on voter rolls. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Lucio hinted at that scenario earlier this week.
“We’ve had 20 secretaries of state since I got here," the long-time senator said. “I can’t ever remember not voting to confirm someone.”
Democrats who are on the fence could also signal to Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Senate, that they are willing to support Whitley if the top two state officials back legislation important to them. However, Jones said, if they begin feeling pressure from their constituents, more may move over to the “no” camp, which would make it difficult for any of the others to try to cut a deal.
Some Democrats may also be reluctant to oppose Whitley because they don’t want to cross Abbott, who has the power to veto lawmakers’ pet bills. The Republican governor has shown he has a long memory, even backing primary-election challengers to GOP House members who defied his wishes in 2017.
Hinojosa, who has served in the Legislature for all but six of the past 38 years, said despite these pressures, Democrats should be unified in the end.
“Obviously, the voting rights issue is a line in the sand,” he said on Feb. 11, adding that the actions by Whitley’s office are “intimidating.
“I think we'll decide as a group,” he said.
‘No excuse for Democrats’
Meanwhile, the lack of unified public opposition has angered liberal activists, who worry Senate Democrats may confirm Whitley despite their past protests. Progress Texas, a liberal advocacy group, has called on the Senate to reject Whitley’s confirmation, as has Common Cause, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
"There’s no excuse for Democrats to vote for this guy,” Progress Texas Executive Director Ed Espinoza said Feb. 12. “Every Democrat should be voting against him and for that matter, Republicans should vote against him too."
Whitley still enjoys support among Republicans, however. The issue is a safe one for the GOP, which has focused on fighting voter fraud, which is rare, for much of this decade, despite the fact that advocates and civil rights groups say such actions are veiled attempts to suppress minority voters. Experts have consistently found that voter fraud is rare.
Texas senators grill top elections officer, criticizing call to scrub voter rolls to find noncitizens
The governor still fully backs Whitley, Abbott’s spokesman John Wittman said, and Republican senators have said they would approve his appointment if given the chance. The GOP-dominated Nominations Committee, Whitley’s first hurdle, would likely approve him if given the chance.
But it’s unclear whether they’ll take a vote without knowing that Whitley has the votes he needs in the full Senate.
Nominations Committee Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham, R-Lakeway, has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, but said earlier this week that members probably will not vote on Whitley’s nomination that day.
Amarillo Sen. Kel Seliger, a rural Republican who has split with his party in the past, said if Whitley gets out of committee, he would vote to confirm him. The Senate should bow to a governor’s wish to name someone to an executive branch post, absent convincing evidence of wrongdoing or lack of qualifications, he said Feb. 12.
“I don’t see David Whitley engaged in voter suppression,” Seliger said. “It needs to be very clear before we turn somebody down.”
But other Republicans weren't so sanguine about his chances. Asked whether Whitley would become the next secretary of state, Finance Chair Jane Nelson said she wasn't sure.
"I don't know. I don't know," Nelson, R-Flower Mound, told The News on Feb. 19. "I think we would have voted on him if he was going to be. But I haven't counted votes."
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TextLucy Morris
Peckham Peace Wall
Southwark residents contribute to a positive relic addressing last year's riots
Peckham Peace Wall16
Last year riots spread through the UK after the death of Mark Duggan. In the days following, Peckham became an epicenter of unrest and despondency. The local community clubbed together and showed its support for their area with what has become the Peckham Peace Wall.
In a salute to social harmony, the Peckham Peace Wall is the positive result of direct community action. Located at Peckham Space, an art venue in Southwark, the piece began when local members marked their love of the area on post-it notes stuck to a boarded up Poundland. With the help of a local theatre group, Peckham Shed, and creative collective Garudio Studiage, this has become an eloquent and permanent art piece. Dazed spoke to Emily Druiff, director of Peckham Space, about the Peace Wall.
Dazed Digital: What was the aftermath of last year's riots in Peckham?
Emily Druiff: Some businesses were hit hard by the riots and it has taken some time for the insurance to come through but we are glad to say that they have been restored.
DD: How did this project come into existence?
Emily Druiff: The project has come from the ground as it were. Peckham Peace Wall was an idea that was initiated by Peckham Shed, a community theatre company, after the riot clean up on August 2011. Members of the public were invited to contribute to a boarded up shop front outside Poundland by adding post-it notes on the topic of why they loved Peckham. This grew in size rapidly (accommodating over 4,000 messages calling for peace on the streets). When the board was due to be taken down and for business to return to normal people wanted to keep the messages by popular request. This is when Peckham Shed came to asked us if we could maintain the project. Peckham Space then approached a local design collective, Garudio Studioage, who has devised a collaborative solution to transform the project into a permanent public artwork, which will launch Peckham Peace Month.
DD: What is your favourite aspect of the piece?
Emily Druiff: I love the fact that this is a project that has grown out of people’s passion for the area and the need to keep the streets a safe place to be.
Photography John Clare
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Portsmouth target Ronan Curtis has 'joined the navy' - says Kenny Shiels
Derry City boss, Kenny Shiels has bigger fish to fry than talk about Ronan Curtis' potential move to Portsmouth.
Published: 18:23 Thursday 10 May 2018
KENNY Shiels refused to be reeled in by questions from journalists fishing for the latest news on Ronan Curtis’ proposed move to Portsmouth, but there could well be a dramatic change of career for the talented striker.
While Shiels was unable to shed any further light on Pompey’s interest, the player could well be stationed in the port city of Portsmouth on England's south coast in the near future, if the City boss is to be believed.
Indeed, while he couldn’t be ‘Pacific’ about a potential transfer, Shiels quipped the player had waved goodbye to Brandywell and gone to join the navy.
“I got word this morning that he’s joined the navy,” said Shiels, with his tongue firmly planted in cheek. “HMS Alfred is there for him so that’s the only news I have at the minute. I don’t know when he’s getting sworn in but it will probably be quite soon.”
It’s highly unlikely Curtis’ career has changed course so dramatically given he took a full part in training today at Brandywell but Shiels will be hoping the striker can sail past Cork City’s defence and sink the Rebels when they meet tomorrow night.
Curtis was in cruise control on Monday night when he netted a first half hat-trick against Shelbourne before being called ashore on 77 minutes and Shiels will be hoping he can make a significant splash against the league leaders.
Meanwhile, Portsmouth boss, Kenny Jackett refused to be drawn on speculation regarding the player at his Press Conference this afternoon.
But the boss insisted the Blues will be proactive during the summer transfer window. Pompey are in advanced talks with Curtis over a move to Fratton Park and are willing to meet the substantial fee Derry City are demanding for the forward.
Although Jackett declined to comment on the 22-year-old’s future, he revealed he is looking to bring a number of new recruits to the League One club over the summer.
"He’s a Derry player and I don’t like talking about other teams’ players," said Jackett. "‘I don’t like it when other managers necessarily talk about my players or my club.
"We’re in a situation where we’re pursuing a number of options, definitely. ‘We are trying to be proactive and, if we can, build a good squad and a good side that will gel together well in pre-season."
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Everything you need to know about the big Easter getaway - roads, trains and planes
With millions of us expected to take to the roads during the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, gridlock is already anticipated
Emma Grimshaw
A familiar sight on the M32.. (Image: Simon Chapman)
Travellers are being warned to expect delays on the roads and on the trains as the big Easter getaway begins.
A whopping 20 million vehicles are expected to hit the roads for the extended bank holiday weekend – a 28 per cent growth compared to last year.
With the combination of a sunny spell, four days without work - for most of us - and the school holiday, it seems like the perfect time to head out of the city and to the beach or countryside.
But while the idea is glorious, hours of queues and gridlock will inevitably be in store for many of us.
Thursday should be the busiest day, as everyone piles onto the roads after finishing work, according to transport information supplier Inrix.
It highlighted the M5 southbound as one of the worst affected routes where journeys could take up to three times longer.
The M4 is one of the slowest motorways in the country - but Bristol's road aren't (apparently!)
Here are the worst times to travel according to Inrix:
• Thursday, April 13 between 4pm and 6pm
• Friday, April 14 between 10am and 2pm
• Monday, April 17 between 12pm and 5pm
Anticipating the carnage, Highways England has vowed to lift hundreds of miles of roadworks across the UK in time for the Easter rush.
For those getting away from Bristol, it could mean a little relief on what could be a long weekend in the car.
The move means that nearly almost 98 per cent of motorways and A-roads will be roadworks-free over the bank holiday.
More than 300 miles of roadworks to be lifted for the Easter getaway – but not in Bristol
But for those staying in Bristol over the Easter Bank Holiday - the news is not so good.
Bristol seems to have drawn the short straw and and will be in the two percent of places which continue to be blighted by works.
The city’s M32 roadworks will remain in place between junction two for Eastville and junction three for St Paul’s/Easton, alongside the average speed cameras.
The Trains
A number of rail services will be disrupted as Network Rail carries out more than 200 engineering projects across the UK.
Trains to London, Bath and Bristol are among those affected.
Buses and coaches will replace trains between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Oldfield Park, Keynsham, Bradford-on-Avon, Freshford and Westwood Village.
Major disruption expected as no trains between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa in April
The cancellations and diversions come as Network Rail is modernising Bath Spa station between April 8 and 23.
The Planes
And things aren’t looking much better for airline travellers.
More than 100,000 passengers are expected to use Bristol Airport this Easter weekend- a spike of more than 18 per cent compared to the same period last year.
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Passengers are advised to arrive at least two hours ahead of their flight and be aware of heavy congestion before they set off.
Avon Fire and RescueDramatic moment fire rips through caravan community in Bristol'I was in the caravan sleeping when everything started to burn'
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A Proper Broadway YouTube Spiral Courtesy of ADM21 & Their Splashy, Showstopping Itinerary
It's the gift we wanted most this holiday season and didn't even know it—15 of Broadway's most legendary showstoppers presented back-to-back in one incredible evening of dance. American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) returns to the Joyce Theatre in an all-new program "Broadway and Beyond", directed by Tony winner Wayne Cilento (Wicked, Aida, Sweet Charity) and highlighting the work of Broadway luminaries like Michael Bennett , Jerome Robbins, Susan Stroman, and Tommy Tune.
Photo by Kyle Froman
Below, BroadwayBox gives you a glimpse at some of the numbers that will be performed in all their OBC glory.
"We'll Take A Glass" from Grand Hotel
Original Choreography: Tommy Tune
"Pinball Wizard" from The Who's Tommy
Original Choreography: Wayne Cilento
"Gotta Dance" from the film Singin' In The Rain
Original Choreography: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
"Sweet Georgia Brown" from Bubbling Brown Sugar
Original Choreography: Billy Wilson
"Calling You", the Emmy-winning number from TV's So You Think You Can Dance
Original Choreography: Mia Michaels
“Beale St. Blues” from The Sid Caesar Comedy Hour (Begins at 1:47)
Original Choreography: Jack Cole (and Hey Chita!)
“Music And The Mirror” from A Chorus Line
Original Choreography: Michael Bennett
"Slap That Bass" from Crazy For You (Begins at 3:55)
Original Choreography: Susan Stroman
Get yourself over to The Joyce Theatre between Monday, December 21 and Sunday, January 3 to see these epic numbers come to life again with 'American Dance Machine for the 21st Century'.
American Dance Machine for the 21st Century
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You are at:Home»Yard News»Royston completes dredger engine overhaul
Royston completes dredger engine overhaul
By Drydock on 1st March 2019 Yard News
Power specialist Royston has completed an extensive overhaul of diesel engines on a Britannia Aggregates’ owned and operated dredger, which extracts sand and gravel from the seabed.
Engineers undertook the service work onboard the 100m, 3,610 gross tonnage Britannia Beaver, as part of a comprehensive refurbishment and maintenance programme of essential power systems.
The 1991 built A class dredger, which operates around the south-east coast of the UK, delivers aggregates to Brett-owned wharves around the South East of England, as well as customers outside the Brett Group both in England and other EC countries.
Powered by an eight-cylinder Mirrlees Blackstone 8MB 275 main engine – rated at 3000 kW – the work undertaken by Royston involved a full overhaul, which included the installation of a new crankshaft.
The engine was dismantled to enable engineers to undertake extensive maintenance and repair work on the block and sump sections before fitting new liners and carrying out critical repairs to the turbo, governor, fuel systems, clutch and exhaust system which were part of a comprehensive service programme.
Engine maintenance work was also completed by Royston on No. 1 generator – a Mirrlees Blackstone 6MB 275 – which has seen more than 50,000 running hours. This included cylinder head, piston, con-rod and gudgeon pin calibration testing.
Following completion of the engine servicing, comprehensive testing was undertaken, involving sea trials and incremental load increases in-line with the engine manufacturer’s specification.
Shawn Doering, Royston’s service manager on the contract, said: “We are delighted to build on our strong relationship with Britannia Aggregates, with particular regard to their Mirrlees Blackstone engines.
“Our experience with the engine and vessel type ensured that all works were carried out efficiently and speedily, enabling the dredger to return to operations as quickly as possible.”
Britannia Aggregates owns and operates the Britannia Beaver, which was custom built by Devon-based Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd before entering service in 1992. Its capable of dredging to a depth of 45 metres and has a 2594 m³ hopper volume capacity.
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Delayed Terminal Ileal Perforation in a Relapsed/Refractory B-Cell Lymphoma Patient with Rapid Remission Following Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy
Yongxian Hu, MD, PhD1, Jiasheng Wang, MD1, Chengfei Pu, PhD2, Kui Zhao, MD, PhD3, Qu Cui, MD, PhD4, Guoqing Wei, MD, PhD1, Wenjun Wu, MD, PhD1, Lei Xiao, PhD2, Yang Xiao, MD, PhD2, Jinping Wang, MD2, Zhao Wu, PhD,2, He Huang, MD, PhD,1
1Bone Marrow Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
2Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
3PET/CT Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
4Department of Hematology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Correspondence: He Huang, MD, PhD Bone Marrow Transplantation Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 79 Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, China Tel, Fax: 86-0571-87236706 E-mail: huanghe@zju.edu.cn
Co-correspondence: Zhao Wu, PhD Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd., Room 201, Building 4, 998 Halei Road, Shanghai, 201203, China Tel: 86-21-58950719 Fax: 86-21-58950719 E-mail: wuzhao@sidansai.com
Yongxian Hu, Jiasheng Wang and Chengfei Pu contributed equally to this work.
Received 2017 October 8; Accepted 2018 January 30.
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell strategy targeting CD19 (CART19) has prominent anti-tumor effect for relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphomas. CART19-associated complications have been gradually recognized, however, late-onset complications have not been extensively studied. Herein, for the first time we report a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patient with terminal ileum involvement obtained rapid remission and developed spontaneous terminal ileal perforation 38 days following CART19 infusion. The late-onset perforation reminds us that, for the safety of CART treatment, more cautions are warranted for the management of delayed GI complications.
Keywords: Refractory/relapse; B-cell lymphoma; Chimeric antigen receptor T cells; Terminal ileal perforation
Adoptive T-cell therapy with genetically engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell strategy targeting CD19 (CART19) has shown great potential for the treatment of B-cell malignancies, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphomas, CART19 therapy has demonstrated an overall response rate of 71%-73% and a complete remission (CR) rate of 50%-57% in recent trials [1-3]. Despite the promising response rates, safety issues still remain as a major concern for CART19 therapy. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS), neurological toxicities, and B-cell aplasia are most commonly encountered adverse events which have been widely recognized [4]. These adverse events occur hours or days following CART19 infusion and are usually well managed with aggressive supportive measures at early stage. On the contrary, lateonset complications of CAR T-cell therapy have not been extensively studied. Despite the scarcity of description, an early recognition of late-onset complications would be important to improve patients’ long-term outcomes. And, the recognition of late-onset complications would shed light on CART19 biological behaviors in vivo. Herein, for the first time we report a case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patient with terminal ileum involvement obtained rapid remission but developed spontaneous terminal ileal perforation 38 days following CART19 infusion.
The 36-year-old male patient had a lengthy and complicated oncological history. He initially presented to a local hospital in 2003 due to an enlarged left tonsil. An excisional biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of DLBCL, and no other enlarged lymph nodes were appreciated at that time. Then, the patient initiated a six-cycle therapy of EPOCH (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, etoposide, vincristine, and prednisone) and achieved CR. A routine follow-up in June 2014 noted multiple nodal enlargements involving bilateral posterior cervical and axillary lymph nodes. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan revealed intensive uptakes in the aforementioned sites, as well as the terminal ileum and the ascending colon. Then, a following CT-guided biopsy on the ascending colon mass was performed and afterwards confirmed a relapse of DLBCL (non-germinal center B cell type). After four cycles of R-CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone plus rituximab) treatment, a repeat PET/CT scan showed a partial remission with residual tumor activities in the terminal ileum. Two more cycles of R-IVAC (etoposide, ifosfamide, and cytarabine plus rituximab) were administered but still failed to achieve CR. The patient continued an alternative therapy and finally achieved CR (confirmed by PET/CT) after three more cycles of chemotherapy with rituximab, paclitaxel, and doxorubicin. Subsequently, the patient underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in March 2015 with conditioning regimen of carmustine, cytarabine, etoposide, and methotrexate. Seven months later, a repeat PET/CT in October 2015 revealed disseminated lymphoma relapsing regions including the terminal ileum, appendix, liver, mesentery lymph nodes, the left ilium, left femur, as well as axillary and cervical lymph nodes. The patient was treated by a following palliative therapy with thalidomide and rituximab until increased tumor burdens caused severe abdominal and back pain in May 2016. Given the patient’s good performance status, a cycle of GDP (gemcitabine, dexamethasone, and cisplatin) was used before the primary disease progressed. Then, the patient was recruited to a CART19 clinical trial (Chictr.org N, ChiCTROCC-15007008) in December 2016 under informed consent. A pre-recruitment PET/CT showed increased activities in the terminal ileum, mesentery lymph nodes, the pancreatic tail, left femur and vertebral body of S2 (Fig. 1A). After a lymphocyte-depleting chemotherapy by FC regimen (fludarabine 30 mg/m2 day 1 to 3, cyclophosphamide 500 mg/m2 day 2 to 3), CART19s were generated as previously reported [5,6]. The patient received an infusion of CART19s with a dose of 1.0×107 CART19s per kilogram.
The patient achieved complete remission 30 days after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell strategy targeting CD19 (CART19s) infusion with grade 2 cytokine release syndrome. (A) Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) showed lymphoma activities in the terminal ileum, the mesentery lymph nodes, the pancreatic tail, the left femur and the vertebral body of S2 pre-CART19 treatment. (B) PET/CT showed a complete remission 30 days post-CART19 treatment. (C) The patient developed fever 6 hours after CART19 infusion with the highest temperature 40.8°C and decreased to normal level after 5 days. (D) Serum levels of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, interferon γ (IFN-γ), C-reactive protein (CRP), D-dimer, and ferritin were elevated 2 days after the infusion and fell into the normal range within 4 days with supportive care.
After infusion, CART19s engrafted and expanded in peripheral blood. The patient developed fever (Fig. 1C) with marked elevation of serum interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, interferon γ (IFN-γ), C-reactive protein, D-dimer, and ferritin 2 days after the infusion (Fig. 1D); grade 2 CRS was diagnosed. The serum cytokines fell into normal ranges within 4 days of supportive care. A follow-up PET/CT 30 days after the infusion showed a CR (Fig. 1B). However, 38 days after CART19 infusion, the patient suddenly developed severe abdominal pain with exacerbated diffuse tenderness and guarding. An exploratory laparotomy observed a perforation in the terminal ileum at the site coincident with the site of lymphoma involvement indicated in PET/CT scan before the CART19 infusion (Fig. 2A and B). The perforation was subsequently repaired and the pathology of resected ileum showed concomitant partial necrotic tissues without infiltration of lymphoma cells or CART19 (Fig. 2C and D). No elevation of IL-6, IL-10, INF-γ, granzyme B, or other inflammatory cytokines was noted. Detections of serum cytomegalo-virus-DNA and EBV-DNA during perforation showed negative results. Three months after surgery, the latest follow-up PET/CT scan showed no observable residual lymphoma in ileal region adjacent to the perforated site.
(A, B) In the exploratory laparotomy, a perforation in the terminal ileum (B) was discovered at the site coincident with the location of lymphoma involvement reflected in positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan before chimeric antigen receptor T-cell strategy targeting CD19 (CART19) infusion (A). (C) Pathological findings by H&E staining showed no lymphoma cells and partial necrotic tissue. (D) Immunochemical staining revealed a negative result for CART19.
In this study, we reported a case of delayed terminal ileal perforation following rapid remission of CART19 therapy in a relapsed/refractory DLBCL patient. Such perforation case has not been reported previously. The patient achieved CR at 1 month after CART19s infusion, indicating that CART19s could rapidly migrate to lymphoma sites and eradicate lymphoma cells. Patients under chemotherapy usually achieve CR after four to six courses of treatment. The rapid remission by CART19 therapy potentiates a superior option for particular patients in the future.
Bowel perforation events have been reported in around 9% of lymphoma patients with gastrointestinal (GI) involvement, of which 55% occurred after chemotherapy [7]. In terms of histology, DLBCL was most commonly observed and associated with the highest frequency of perforation [8]. The small bowel was not the most commonly affected site, however, was at the highest risk of perforation [8,9]. The timing of GI perforation after the initiation of chemotherapy varied from 4 days to more than 5 weeks in previous reports [10-12]. Vaidya et al. [7] described that about half of the perforation post chemotherapy occurred within the first month. The late on-set of perforation after chemotherapy turns to be related with tumor necrosis and local inflammation, since a large portion of patients with delayed perforation had no viable residual tumor tissues at the perforation site confirmed by pathology [7]. Notably, bowel perforation after chemotherapy is associated with a high mortality, an early recognition and a timely treatment are critical to improve the overall survival.
Our patient had a delayed terminal ileal perforation 38 days following CART19 infusion. The delayed presentation of symptoms posed a great challenge for timely diagnosis and treatment. As most CART19 complications occur hours or days after infusion, few late-onset complications have been reported in reported clinical trials. There have been reports of delayed CRS that occurred weeks after CAR T-cell infusion [13-15]. The late manifestation of CRS seemed to be related with late in vivo CAR T-cell expansion [11]. GI complications in lymphoma patients after CAR T-cell therapy were rare in clinical trials. Turtle et al. [2] described a patient with known GI invasive lymphoma mass died from a fatal GI hemorrhage after a high dose CAR T-cell infusion. Wang et al. [15] also described a patient with submucosal involvement of stomach lymphoma died from a massive GI hemorrhage 3 weeks after CART-20 infusion, whose late presentation of GI hemorrhage was correlated with delayed elevation of cytokines. No elevated cytokines or CART19s expansion were observed in our patient during the ileal perforation. Also the CAR T-cells were not identified from the ileal tissue. We hypothesize that tumor necrosis might contribute to the later perforation event. The high dose-intensity chemotherapy increases the risk of perforation in GI DLBCL patients, while patients undergoing CAR T-cell therapy are facing a higher risk of GI perforation, given the consistent and vigorous anti-tumor effects by CAR T-cells. Moreover, same as most late-onset GI perforations after chemotherapy, our patient stayed in CR during GI perforation, indicating that CART19 therapy and chemotherapy might share a similar mechanism in late-onset perforation. As we know, patients early after CART19 treatment might suffer from pancytopenia and abnormal coagulation function. When GI perforation occurred at this stage, there was almost no chance for surgery, which would lead to a high mortality for these patients. In this case, the ileal perforation occurred after 1 month of CART19 therapy, at a stage the patient spared early complications and achieved CR. The late onset of perforation reminds us that, for the safety of CART19 treatment, more cautions are still warranted to manage delayed GI complications in those patients.
Collectively, perforation of GI lymphomas after chemotherapy has been well recognized while this case was the first report of perforation after CART19 treatment. The risk of GI perforation should always be aware of when treating a lymphoma patient with GI involvement. Additionally, this case brought forward another consideration that patients with GI lymphoma should be carefully evaluated before CART19 treatment. Along with the rapid evolvement of CAR T-cell therapy, an improved recognition of potential perforation complication is no-doubt critical for each involved patient. Still, more clinical trials are needed to address the location and timing of perforation in the disease course after CART19 therapy, to verify the probability and necessity of surgical intervention for these patients.
This work was supported by grants from 973 Program (2015-CB964900), the Natural Science Foundation of China (81230014, 81470341, 81500157, 81770201, 81730008), Key Project of Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province (2015C03G2010091).
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A Glimpse of Ancient & Modern China for Student
ETC-B14 Tour Code
China Student/Youth Travel
The student or young travelers have the big ambitions to travel in a strange land to see the unique culture, real insight of life despite the language and other barriers. We offer this trip to fulfill their desire with first hand experience in the most popular destinations in China, like fabulous Beijing, ancient Xian and bustling Shanghai! You will visit popular scenic spots like Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, the Great Wall, Ming Tombs, Hutongs, Bell Tower, Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum.
Duration: 9 days & 8 nights
Destinations: Beijing - Xian - Shanghai
Ending Point: Shanghai
1 Day 1 Arrival in Beijing
Be met at the airport and transfer to your hotel at downtown.
2 Day 2 Visit Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace
One day coach tour. First go to the Forbidden City. It is the essence and culmination of traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment with over 500 years’ history. Secondly go to the Temple of Heaven, included in the World Heritage List in 1998, is well-preserved Altars buildings. Thirdly go to the Summer Palace, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design, whose natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.
3 Day 3 Visit Mutianyu Great Wall, Ming Tomb
Today a coach tour to Mutianyu Great Wall and the Ming Tomb is planned. Mutianyu Great Wall is a World Heritage Sites and highlight ancient architecture. This less-crowded section of the Great Wall is about 2.5 hours' drive from downtown Beijing. Then the Ming Tomb is located in Changping District, about 50 kilometers from the northwest of Beijing, are surrounded by mountains on three sides. The tombs area is so vast that tourists only see two of the 13 tombs normally, Chang Ling and Ding Ling.
4 Day 4 Visit Wangfujing Shopping Avenue or Hutong or Houhai
Free day for your own exploration to Wangfujing Shopping Avenue or Hutong or Houhai. Wangfujing, anchored by large upscale shopping malls at each end of the pedestrian mall, is one of the most famous shopping streets. Hutongs, give a wonderful glimpse into yesterday’s world, the old way of life and traditional Beijing culture, and highlight the dramatic changes the rest of Beijing has undergone. Houhai, an integral part of Shichahai, was the royal exclusive pool in ancient time and now is a home to several popular restaurants, bars and cafes. Later, your own arrangement to the train station and board the overnight train to Xian.
5 Day 5 Visit Bell Tower, old quarters
In the morning, arrival in Xian, be met and transfer to hotel at downtown. Then you can enjoy free time to take own exploration to the symbolic Bell Tower which locates in the central downtown and was built in 1384 during the early Ming Dynasty with a height of 36 meters and covers an area of 1,377 square meters. Then a walk at the old quarters of the city is also in plan for you to experience the real life of Xian people.
Half day tour to Xian’s must-seeing sight--Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Museum. It is known as the eighth wonder of the world and a museum to display terra-cotta warriors and horses in Tang Dynasty. The museum mainly consists of three vaults and an exhibition hall and the Exhibition Hall of the Bronze Chariots. After the visit, your own arrangement to the train station and board the train to Shanghai.
7 Day 7 Visit the Bund, Nanjing Road, Yu Garden
Arrival in Shanghai, be met and transfer to the hotel at downtown. Free day for your own exploration all around this modern city. Our recommendations are: wander along the famous Bund to appreciate the modern and historical atmosphere there with the breeze blowing from Huangpu River. Then go shopping and take a glimpse of the bustling shopping center Nanjing Road. Yu Garden nearby is an ideal attraction--the only fully restored classical Chinese garden which was inaugurated in the Ming dynasty and has a total area of 20,000 square meters that demonstrates perfectly the sophisticated art and create a world in miniature.
8 Day 8 Visit Zhujiajiao, Shanghai Expo Park, Oriental Pearl TV Tower
Another free day for your own exploration. Suggest for some further trip. For example, the featured ancient and water town nearby Shanghai, Zhujiajiao is ideal for cozy. Unique old bridges across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees, and houses with courtyards where is full of antiquity, leisure and tranquility. Shanghai Expo Park, the French Concession, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower and so on are also highlights during Shanghai tour.
9 Day 9 Shanghai departure
Your own arrangement to the airport (possible via Maglev Train) for your flight to next destination.
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Barry Truax
Barry Truax’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Aarhus, Beijing, Belfast, Berkeley, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels, Burnaby, Cagliari, Chatham, Crest, Daegu, Denton, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Karlsruhe, Leicester, Lisbon, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico City, Montréal, Outremont, Rome, São Paulo, South River, Toronto and Vancouver…
Barry Truax is a Professor in both the School of Communication and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music. He has worked with the World Soundscape Project (WSP), editing its Handbook for Acoustic Ecology, and has published the book Acoustic Communication dealing with all aspects of sound and technology. As a composer, Truax is best known for his work with the PODX computer music system which he has used for tape solo works and those which combine tape with live performers or computer graphics. He releases many of these works on the Cambridge Street Records label which he founded in 1985. In 1991 his work Riverrun was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges (France), a category open only to electroacoustic composers of 20 or more years experience. He is also the recipient of one of the 1999 Awards for Teaching Excellence at Simon Fraser University. Barry Truax is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and a founding member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE).
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Convergence: Concert 10
South River (Ontario, Canada)
Sound Travels 2018: Sonic Spaces
Daegu (Republic of Korea)
ICMC 2018: Concert 7
Lisbon (Portugal)
Música Viva 2018: Encontro IX: Orquestra de Altifalantes
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World New Music Days 2017: Electroacoustic Music Concert
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Oceans: Concert 2
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Festival di Musica Contemporanea di Cagliari: Francesco Giomi in concerto
Mexico City (Mexico)
Siphonophora: Segundo Concierto
EMUFest 2016: Volontà III
Barry Truax’s complete calendar
July 1, 2019 Barry Truax, Solar Ellipse (1984-85) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
April 1, 2019 Barry Truax, Song of Songs (1992) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
March 11, 2019 Barry Truax, Basilica (1992) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
March 11, 2019 Barry Truax, Chalice Well (2009) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
October 8, 2018 Barry Truax / Norbert Ruebsaat, The Blind Man (1979) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
October 8, 2018 Barry Truax, East Wind (1981) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
August 6, 2018 Barry Truax, Sequence of Later Heaven (1993) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
December 11, 2017 Barry Truax, Arras (1980) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
August 17, 2017 Barry Truax, Pacific Fanfare (1996) Martian Gardens #896 / Global Community Radio Channel 2 (USA)
June 12, 2017 Barry Truax, Sonic Landscape No. 3 (1975, 77) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
November 7, 2016 Barry Truax, Wave Edge (1983) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
August 15, 2016 Barry Truax, Aerial (1979) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
All of Barry Truax’s broadcasts
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Generation Netflix
January 10, 2019 /in News /by Support
• Generation Z is entering the workforce. But why are they not turning up for interviews?
• What are the media and software recruitment influences that shape our career path choices?
• Jaguar Land Rover announces job cuts. How will this impact a slowing manufacturing recruitment space?
Why are young professionals dropping out of the hiring process?
One in five Generation-Z Applicants quit the hiring process
A study of young professionals has found a staggering drop-out rate among job applicants.
A report by Oleeo and MyKindaFuture found that almost one fifth (18 per cent) of the under-23 (‘Generation Z’) age bracket was likely to quit any given recruitment process. The fail rate remained high even when the candidate was offered a position. The fail rate is likely to concern both recruiters and their clients.
cost to clients is more than money
An average talent search costs upwards of £5,000 per placement. Selecting the right candidate for skills and cultural fit can be a long and arduous process. If that process must then be repeated almost immediately, the cost of recruitment becomes prohibitively expensive.
But there is a reputational cost, too. The Oleeo report found that just three per cent of Generation Z applications result in a successful placement. This leave 97 per cent of these social media-savvy candidates potentially unhappy with the recruitment experience – and more willing than ever to air their grievances.
And that single post to social media may cause serious and lasting reputational damage to a client.
The report emphasises the importance of thorough screening of candidates in the hiring process. It is a factor which clients value most in a trusted recruiter.
Charles Hipps, CEO and Founder of Oleeo, said:
“Generation Z demand a different kind of relationship with organisations.
“In a digital and relationship-centric era they expect to build a personal connection with potential employers in order to decide where to apply, and which offers to accept. With this generation used to using up to six screens at any one time, these relationships need to be developed across multiple platforms.
“Added to this, Gen Z expect information to be hyper relevant to them. For employers recruiting large numbers of young people, that’s an incredible mix of demands to meet, which is why technology is so important.”
Software Recruitment and High Tech Solutions
Mr Hipps’ commentary offers a few insights into expectations customers have of their recruiters in the modern jobs market. These expectations include some degree of marketing and recruitment automation.
Young professionals enjoy tailored content which is presented to them through algorithms. If your recruitment processes are less precision targeting and more “cast the net wide”, you may be doing more harm than good. Instead, an agile recruiter will be able to use automation tools to send high volume communications to candidates which fit the job description exactly.
If just one inappropriate candidate makes a shortlist, it increases the risk of reputational damage if they are rejected at an early stage. Worse: it increases costs and reduces the return on investment that your agency is offering, if they enter the interview process, but drop out before completion.
Screening is, therefore, one of the top considerations for agencies when choosing their recruitment software. A recruitment database can provide a fast, accurate overview of candidate reliability. Use the tools in your possession, or you are putting clients’ hiring budgets at risk.
Smart recruitment software will also protect your processes against calls of unconscious bias. The survey detected recurrent disparities in the fortunes of jobseekers from different demographics.
37.1 per cent of Generation Z women were expected to attend university; just 27.3 per cent of young male candidates required higher education.
Similarly, just 15 per cent of spaces on graduate schemes were claimed by black and hispanic candidates. White and Asian applicants took 85 per cent of graduate vacancies.
Television Choices: How a new generation works
New research confirms it: your viewing habits could be affecting your career choices.
Did you watch Bandersnatch over the Christmas holiday period? The episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror offered a novel experience: letting viewers decide the outcome of the story. But, when the roles are reversed, how does television influence our choices?
Some of the most popular TV shows are those which follow a specific profession – either as reality, or drama. Are these programmes subtly shaping the career choices made by millions of people? They are – and perhaps more than we would like to admit – according to one new recruitment industry survey.
This week, recruitment industry giants Reed published their findings into what influences our career choices. Their survey of more than 1,000 young professionals found that television and streaming sites were among the most powerful factors in shaping the jobs we look for. So what can we learn about future recruitment trends from the viewing habits of our candidates?
Is television your best recruitment tool?
Services and hospitality are the big winners from the cool factor of TV. An abundance of cooking shows appears to have encouraged many into the sector – with the Great British Bake Off named the most popular.
Police soap opera The Bill was seen as an influencer on career choices – despite being cancelled nine years ago.
More frightening than an episode of Black Mirror, however, is the revelation that BBC’s The Apprentice is the most influential programme for jobseekers.
The show, which transforms a group of sharp-suited young professionals into incompetent clowns before our very eyes, is seen as a vital lesson in job seeking by many.
But there is actually an important point here. The format of the show has helped to popularise the idea of recruitment gamification – turning hiring into a series of contests. As we learn to engage the latest intake of young professionals, perhaps we would be wrong to dismiss ideas taken from popular reality shows?
The programmes which most often influence jobseekers’ career choices are:
1. The Apprentice.
2. Dragons’ Den.
3. CSI.
4. Casualty.
5. Love Island.
6. The Bill.
7. The Crown.
8. Sex & the City.
9. X Factor.
10. The Great British Bake Off.
And the professions which have received the biggest boost to their popularity from television are:
1. Business
2. Law
3. Sales
4. Science
5. Media
6. Acting
10. Food / Hospitality
Laura Holden of Reed UK said: “The depiction of careers on TV, such as business, law and sales can make them popular career choices. TV plays a bigger part in our career choices and aspirations than we’d like to admit.”
Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,500 UK jobs
Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cut 4,500 UK jobs, it was revealed this week.
The announcement comes one week after we reported in our recruitment news that UK manufacturing is facing a hiring slowdown.
The news arrives following disappointing sales and anxiety over a no-deal Brexit.
China – the brand’s top performing territory – reported a 6 per cent fall in sales since 2017. While overall car purchases fell in China, JLR saw a 50% drop in sales in the final quarter of 2018.
A wider slump in sales of diesel vehicles hit the manufacturer disproportionately: 90 per cent of its current range is diesel models.
JLR’s CEO Ralph Speth said that a no deal brexit would cost the Just-In-Time manufacturer £1.2bn, through the loss of its frictionless supply chains
Jaguar Land Rover had already shed 1,000 workers since the Brexit Referendum. In the final quarter of 2018, it placed a further thousand members of staff on a limited, three-day week.
At the same time, JLR will re-locate production of its Discovery brand to Slovakia – with the creation of 2,000 jobs.
JLR currently boasts 44,000 members of staff in the UK. The newly-announced cuts will form part of a wider, £2.5 billion restructuring. It is expected that roles in management, administration, and marketing will be among the first to go.
Crucially, manufacturing, design, and engineering positions appear to have been saved. The decision suggests that the company has an eye on a sustainable future for the brand.
The automotive industry faces profound changes from new technology, set to transform bost production and products. Advanced automation is redefining job roles within the sector. Hybrid and electric vehicles – and self-driving vehicles – are also set to re-shape the marketplace.
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Roofer to the rescue after costumes stolen from dance show
Scott Miller and son Lewis Miller both directors of Compass Roofing who have donated money to replace the lost kids costumes stolen from a car for an upcoming show. Picture; Greg Macvean
A BIG-hearted business owner has stepped in to help young dancers after their costumes for an upcoming show were stolen.
Leith-based roofer Scott Miller acted after reading the Evening News’ story on Tuesday about the outfits being taken in teacher Andrea Mannion’s car.
Neighbours, parents and fellow dance schools have since rallied round in an outpouring of support.
“It’s all a bit overwhelming if I’m honest because I’m not used to all this help,” said Andrea, 49. “For Scott to offer help is such a nice surprise.”
The costumes for Andrea’s 65 dance students, aged three to 18, were in the car stolen from outside her Port Seton home last Monday.
Many of the outfits are more than 20 years old and irreplaceable – borrowed from a retired dance teacher or made by Andrea’s mum.
Scott, 48, owner of Compass Roofing, said: “My daughter used to go to dance class and she joked about dragging me to shows. But I know what this means to parents so I’m happy to get involved and help out in any way I can.”
Andrea is now in talks with Scott over what needs to be replaced, what can be borrowed and what can be made from scratch for the June 10 show.
Fabric, costumes and accessories will all be needed for the movie-themed annual event at Church Hill Theatre in Morningside.
On the bill will be modern jazz and ballet interpretations of films including Harry Potter and Mission Impossible.
“There are little bits and bobs parents can help with and a neighbour has even offered to sew costumes for us,” said Andrea.
“I won’t let the children down. They’ve been working on the show since last month and it’s not an option to cancel – I won’t give in.”
Widowed mother-of-two Andrea was woken at 5am last Monday to find the door forced open and car keys taken.
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Andrea’s £12,000 Kia was missing, along with bags of costumes and accessories for her Musselburgh-based school.
“Some of the costumes are irreplaceable – certainly in ten weeks – so it’ll be all hands on deck. Luckily, I’d taken some out midweek,” she said.
“Long-term I still need to replace the base costumes which get used year after year which’ll be really hard – it’s not just about this show. The children are really upset, particularly the younger ones – to see their little faces...”
Police are appealing for help in trying to find Andrea’s dark grey Kia Cee’d registration H20KEM.
Investigating officer DC Elsa Bunyan of Musselburgh CID said: “I’m keen to speak to anyone who saw or heard anything suspicious in this area in the early hours of last Monday, or anyone who may have seen the car or knows where it is now.”
Anyone with information can contact Police Scotland on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Emerging Markets Euromoney Country Risk
Mexico at risk from populism
Jeremy Weltman
Published on: Friday, February 09, 2018
Investor risk is heightened by the general election on July 1 and analysts fear it could see structural reforms undermined, weighing on economic growth potential.
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Populism is on the rise, but it could make Mexico too hot to handle
Lying 38th out of 186 countries in Euromoney’s country risk survey global risk rankings, Mexico remains the second-safest option in Latin America, trailing Chile in 16th place.
Mexico, a stable top tier-three borrower consistent with its investment grades, also has the full support of the IMF via a precautionary credit line should it become necessary.
The economy weakened for much of last year, but with GDP growth accelerating in the fourth quarter – underpinned by construction activity after the devastating earthquakes to hit the capital – forecasts for this year are improving.
The IMF has upgraded its 2018 growth prediction from 1.9% to 2.3%, matching last year’s estimated pace. This is within the central bank’s 2% to 3% forecast range and is broadly consistent with private-sector opinions.
The country was one of six in the region to see its total risk score fall slightly in 2017 in Euromoney’s survey, with experts downgrading their scores for a range of indicators, including institutional risk, policymaking and government stability, signalling political risk is the dominant theme.
Investors are watching on nervously as the electoral race enters its final stages.
In July, voters will have an opportunity to elect a new parliament and president to replace Enrique Peña Nieto, who is constitutionally barred from standing again.
The leftist candidate and former Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as Amlo), representing the National Regeneration Movement in an alliance with two other parties, is leading a pack of three frontrunners.
Another is the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate and former finance minister José Antonio Meade, also standing in coalition with two other parties.
The last is Ricardo Anaya, the former leader of the centre-right National Action Party (PAN), who resigned to form a left-right alliance with PAN, the Party of the Democratic Revolution and Citizen Movement.
Amlo’s campaign pledges to investigate oil contracts, eradicate corruption and address inequality must be weighed against speculation he might reverse parts of the government’s energy reforms ending the state monopolies and spurring private competition in the electricity and petroleum industries.
Although he is also promising to maintain macro-fiscal stability, Amlo’s plans are populist – and risky – with his rise reflecting public dissatisfaction with the established parties.
“If he gets elected, it will be less likely that the planned structural reforms in the energy, financial and telecommunications sectors will go ahead,” says ECR contributor Jacob Jordaan, specializing in international economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics.
“This will have negative effects on the Mexican economy.”
Negative impact
Even if Amlo does not win, Jordaan speculates the new government might decide to weaken or postpone the planned structural reforms, and together with the ongoing problems associated with crime and drug trafficking, this will also have a negative impact on the Mexican economy.
Another of Euromoney’s survey contributors stated privately that Amlo will be hard to beat in July.
“The financial markets are somewhat complacent about him this time around [he has stood twice before], based on the narrative of the new, moderate Amlo,” says the individual.
“However, as we approach the election and he shows his more radical side, there will be some nervousness and volatility.”
Whoever wins power has a tough job steering the country to prosperity, not least because of the risk of currency depreciation accompanying the elections and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Canada and the US, which is threatening to overrun and conflict with the elections.
With annual inflation climbing to 6.8% in December, its highest level in more than 16 years, the central bank is under pressure to respond to meet its 3% target rate – with a tolerance band of +/- 1% – by raising interest rates again after a move in December sent the benchmark rate up to 7.25%.
Higher borrowing costs will stifle economic recovery, while more generally any populist strategy might undermine other indicators – Amlo remains a key risk to achieving a favourable Nafta deal, with his promise to scrap energy reforms and his anti-trade slant.
However, if economic growth is undermined, and public spending raised, the deficit that is already heading higher this year to 2.4% of GDP, according to the IMF, could be worse, breaching the present government’s 2.5% target which aims to stabilize the debt.
Mexico’s external debt position, at around 40% of GDP, is not onerous by the standards of emerging markets, but if it drew on the flexible credit line available from the IMF the fiscal metrics become more complicated.
The IMF is talking down the possibilities, couching its analysis in comforting words of debt sustainability, but confidence is fickle, and it would not take too much to rattle the markets.
Mexico is not a very risky bet – but it is not a riskless one, with the elections potentially the game-changer.
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7 Things About Cordyceps That Will Surprise You
You've probably heard about how cordyceps worth even more than gold. But what is the real attraction of this hardy herb that makes it so highly prized?
1. Animals can get high on cordyceps
Even animals recognise the value of cordyceps. Himalayan yak herders first discovered that their animals became remarkably energetic and invigorated after grazing on an unidentified brown grass-like mushroom, growing from the head of a caterpillar.
2. Your survival chances with cordyceps improve greatly
Being stranded in a storm, your chances of survival look bleak. Yet a certain lucky Tibetan shepherd narrowly escaped the clutches of death, after finding and eating cordyceps. Cordyceps had helped him regain his energy and escape the storm. Marvelled villagers then named the sprout 'Yartsa Gunbu' - 'Winter Worm, Summer Grass', for its life-giving properties. Then therapeutic effects of cordyceps were first recorded in the oldest Tibetan medical dictionary in 710 AD.
3. Cordyceps increases the energy currency (ATP) in our body
While money is transacted in dollars and cents, energy is transacted in Adenoise-Triphosphate (ATP). ATP is high-energy molecule present in every single body cell and stores the energy we need to do just about anything and everything. It is also responsible for other essential body functions like muscle contraction, metabolism and cell growth. When our body systems are imbalanced (hormone disorders, improper nutrition, stress-related discomfort etc). ATP levels can be depleted at faster rate than they can be replenished. Energy levels drop and fatigue sets in. Cordyceps acts like a shot of caffeine to our lifeless bodies by increasing ATP levels which in turn translates to more energy throughout your day. And unlike caffeine which wears off shortly, the effects of cordyceps are longer-lasting, which means you can enjoy a constant state of vitality.
4. Cordyceps was reserved as an exclusive treat for only royalty in past
As cordyceps typically grows 10,000 square feet in the pristine wilderness of the mountainous regions of China, Tibet and Nepal, the harvesting of cordyceps involves precarious situations of scaling high altitudes and braving sub-zero temperatures. Due to its scarcity and highly treasured properties for healing and longevity, in ancient China, Cordyceps was exclusively set aside for consumption by emperors.
5. Surprise! Cordyceps is neither a worm nor a grass
Despite cordyceps' literal translation from its Chinese name - 'Winter Worm-Summer Grass', cordyceps is neither a worm nor a grass. Instead, it is a unique fungus that feeds on a worm (Ghost moth larvae). In a somewhat cruel fashion, the fungus slowly replaces the host tissue of the hibernating worm during the winter months, making this completion during the summer months, where a grass-like shoot erupts from the head of the fungus, thus giving the name 'Winter Worm-Summer Grass' a symbolic significance.
6. Cordyceps is the 'extraordinary secret weapon' behind many world medals
At the Chinese National Games in 1993, a group of female athletes from Northeast China won a series of medals and broke no less than 17 world records! Shocked, disbelieving outsider raised suspicion, claiming the athletes' excellent performance was owed to steroid abuse. Truth be told, the 'big secret' was simply a cordyceps drink which their coach revealed was taken regularly as part of the training regime.
7. You can identify a cordyceps' quality just by its colour
Just like how greyish-white hair is a splendid indication of ripe old age, the highest grade of rare wild cordyceps produces a greyish-white powder. This colour is the distinguishing mark of quality from the best of rare wild cordyceps - something that is also shared by our new Pure Cordyceps™.
Taming The Wild Cordyceps
In this article, we discuss the sustainability problem regarding the harvesting of wild cordyceps, and why a cultivatable variety is thus importa
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Your Guide to Menopause: Hormones, Hot Flashes, Painful Sex, and (Yes!) Happiness
The road to menopause has a few bumps in it. But there are ways to combat symptoms like vaginal dryness and painful sex — because these years can be some of the most rewarding ones yet.
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Ben Connor & Jess Judd shine over the 5k distance, whilst Josh Kerr breaks British U23 record – Weekend roundup
by Hannah Irwin June 16, 2019
Photo: Callum Gillett
International runners Ben Connor and Jess Judd clock fast times over the 5k distance, whilst the rest of the weekend was filled up with half marathons in the Czech Republic and Dartford.
The weekend also saw speedy 10k’s at the Speedway 10k, Richmond, Pilling, and Nottingham and a handful of British runners getting World Champs qualifying times in just one 1500m race in the US.
Fast10’s Hannah Irwin was not only racing over 5000m this weekend but brings you the weekend round up for UK athletes at home and abroad.
Friday night out
Friday’s Podium 5k road race saw some cracking performances, with 33 people running 16:35 and under, despite being faced with truly wet British weather conditions.
Ben Connor took gold in a time of 13:54, 48 seconds ahead of second place. The St. Helens & Sutton athlete, Matthew Crehan, ran the exact same time of 14:42 as he did at the Fast Friday 5,000, even with the conditions not being favourable. One second behind in third place, was Morpeth’s Nick McCormick in 14:43.
Photo: David Belshaw
In Scotland the race was run over 5 miles at the Black Rock 5. Both the men and women pulled out brilliant performances. Lamar university student, Jamie Crowe, ran his first 5-mile race since 2013, running a four minute, 21 second PB of 22:05. Behind Crowe, in 22:44, was James Donald followed by Neil Renault in 23:23.
The former European Junior 1500m Champion, Morag Millar, ran to the top of the podium. Millar ran a strong race to cross the line in 25:25, 36 seconds ahead of second place, Stephanie Pennycook. Third across the line was Central AC’s Natalie Stewart in a time of 27:32.
Saturday night at the races
Saturday was filled with races on the track and road, including the BMC Grand Prix in Loughborough, the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon, the Dartford midnight half marathon and the Pilling 10k.
Saturday’s BMC Grand Prix saw plenty of outstanding performances.
The U20 Halifax athlete, Max Burgin showed his strength over the 800m distance. Burgin set a new PB of 1:46.80 in a race he front ran from the gun, placing himself seventh in the all-time U20 rankings.
The Judd sisters dominated the Women’s A 5000m race. Jess ran her first PB in 2 years, to set a cracking time of 15:31 to take first place. Jodie, the younger Judd, was the first U23 to cross the line in a time of 16:04, one second inside of the U23 European qualifying time! The Swansea athlete, Verity Ockenden continued to prove her form, running 15:47 to place herself second to the elder Judd. [Weekend roundup author Hannah also ran an excellent PB of 16:36 at the event – Editor]
The Men’s 5000m race also had an impressive field. The St. Mary’s athlete, Emile Cairess, took the win in 13:50 to get himself a four second PB. Cairess was closely followed by Ellis Cross in 13:52 with another PB. Jake Shelley took bronze, crossing the finish line with a time of 13:56.
Also on the track an outstanding performance was given by Edinburgh AC’s Josh Kerr at the Brave Like Gabe men’s 1500m. Kerr crossed the line in 3:33:60 to get the win and break Steve Cram’s British U23 best! There was also a 3:35.95 PB for fellow Scot Neil Gourley and 3:35.74 for James West [who “bitch-kicked Gourley in the home straight”, whatever that means – Editor]
All three ran inside the qualifying time for the 1500m for the World Championships, which is a great sign for British middle distance running.
Over four times the distance, Steph Twell took to the road in the Czech Republic at the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon. Twell finished in fifth, crossing the line in 75:57. The 2:30 marathoner and recent winner of the Vitality London 10,000 led until halfway through the race, but faded in the second half.
Photo: Leigh Quinnel
Closer to home
The Dartford Midnight Half also took place on Saturday. Annaka Charters of Victoria Park Harriers dominated the race, finishing with a massive PB of 1:25:00, in an outright win.
The Pilling 10k, part of the Lancashire Race Series, saw Simon Croft of the Red Rose RR claim first prize in a time of 34:01, just under two-minutes ahead of Border Harriers’ Steven Berry. First woman across the line in a time of 43:59, was Blackburn Harriers’ Rachel Gavin, followed by Heather Travis in 45:05.
The fast and flat Speedway 10k did not disappoint. The rain managed to hold off to allow a very classy field of athletes to perform. At the top of the men’s podium, in an impressive 29:55 was Cardiff’s Matt Clowes. Behind him in second place was the Swansea athlete, Josh Griffiths. Griffiths clocked 30:12 whilst James Hunt ran 30:44 to come in third.
The first lady across the line was Lauren Cooper in a huge PB time. Cooper ran a 1 minute 34 second personal best to achieve a time of 34:54. The second lady home in 36:14 was Alaw Beynon-Thomas.
Also over the 10k distance, as part of the Surrey Road League was the Ranelagh Richmond 10k. Epsom’s Ollie Garrod claimed first place in 32:22, followed by Simon Baines of Thames Hare & Hounds in a time of 32:45 and Nick Marriage in third in 33:31.
The women’s race was won by Liz Davies with a significant lead. Davies just popped under 35-minutes, running 34:58 for the 10k distance. In second was Emily Wicks in 36:20 and third place went to Alice McGushin in 37:26.
In Nottingham, the Run For All- Nottingham 10k took place. Patrick Townsend of Notts AC took gold in the men’s race in 34:40, whilst Nicole Swaffield was first female across the line in 38:30.
On the trails
The long running Seven Hills of Edinburgh is described as “a combination of road-running, cross-country, hill-running, and urban orienteering [with] 14.3 miles in length and with 2200 feet of ascent/descent”. The men’s winner was New Zealand international runner Sam McCutcheon in 1:37:21, running for Corstorphine AAC and the women’s winner was Irish international Nicola Duncan running for Carnethy in a time of 2:05:46.
Photo: Peter MacDonald
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With every new year, there are new resolutions, new goals, new trends and of course, new color. So what goes into picking the color of the year? We got the chance to ask Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone’s executive director, first hand at the Las Vegas Design Center’s Color of the Year Celebration and Design Professional’s Holiday Gala.
Pantone is the world-renowned authority on color, and a lot of time and effort went into selecting the perfect hue to ring in 2012. Watch the video to learn more about why this year’s color of the year, tangerine tango, fit the bill.
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The Hate That Feels Like Love
by Elizabeth Scalia 3 . 1 . 11
Hatred,” says psychologist Robert Enright, “has a long shelf life. Once it enters into the human heart, it’s hard to get it out. It breeds destruction, discouragement, and hopelessness.”
Enright hails from the University of Wisconsin, in the so-called “liberal enclave” of Madison, where ongoing demonstrations by members of public employee unions against the elected governor have put some vivid moments of hatred on view. Reporter Mike Tobin of Fox News remarked, “A teacher was giving me the business yesterday, and the teacher told me she hates me because it makes her feel good” (emphasis mine).
Anyone who has ever been targeted by a pack of bullies understands. Venting hatred, especially under the righteous cover of a “cause,” gives one a sense of belonging and purpose and—quite unlike love—it does so in an expeditious and rather painless way. Mob-supported hatred removes openness from the social equation, and that in turn takes away vulnerability, leaving one with a powerful sense of communal well-being that can serve as a reasonable facsimile of being loved by others. One loves one’s hate because it makes one feel beloved.
On the surface, attaching oneself to a hate-collective seems a safe way to belong. One feels invited to the party; one no longer has to think for oneself, or worry about individual appearances or instincts. To continue to fit-in, to feel as if you were truly loved, all one needs to do is continue to hate—and that not even willingly.
This hate that feels like wide-open love is paradoxically limiting and self-defeating. Once hatred has become one’s social vehicle of choice, the travel options become limited: either stay the course and wear the peripheral blinders or attempt to break free and risk the very real possibility of being altogether ditched.
Regardless of whether one hates a Republican governor or a pro-abortion president or Hollywood or “fundamentalism” or “the system” or even a sports team, if one’s sense of belonging depends on hatred, then second-thoughts will flee and stagnation will follow. The only way to re-energize and to delay the inevitable endgame described by Enright as “destruction, discouragement, and hopelessness” is to find a new hate to love.
Hence, hating George W. Bush begat hating Sarah Palin, begat hating Christine O’ Donnell, begat hating Michele Bachman, begat hating Scott Wilson. Hating Bill Clinton begat hating Hillary Clinton begat hating Michael Moore, begat hating Bill Maher, begat hating Barack and Michelle Obama. In the hate-collective there must always be an Emmanuel Goldstein in order for love to feel fresh and new.
Now, some will say that these figures have earned a measure of distrust, which justifies the hate. But distrust is such a subjective and selective thing; if distrust is the acceptable impetus for hate, then anyone may claim justification for feeling and encouraging virulent (and eventually violent) hatred of others.
A racist can justify his racism by claiming a “reasonable distrust” against another race simply by pointing to history. A homophobe can rant at gays because he “distrusts” their proclivities; a Jew could hate a German because he doesn’t trust him not to regret Auschwitz. As we see in Great Britain, where a Pentecostal Christian couple has been excluded from the foster care system because they cannot affirm the homosexual lifestyle, the distrusting conventional wisdom—in this case distrusting a Christian’s ability to care well for children—can discriminate against whoever is not falling in line, and that discrimination can even be legislated into law.
The most insidious part of this Borg-like hate collective is how easily one can slip into its influence through the simple error of attaching real but disproportionate feelings of love onto things which are often illusory and ultimately temporary. I love my politics so much that I must hate you for your policies; I love my church so much that I must hate you for not loving it as intensely; I love the promise of my pension plan so much that I must hate you for pointing out that it is unsustainable; I love my opinions so much that I must not allow you to have opinions of your own.
Hatred is a twisting perversion of paradoxes wherein one can claim a love for God so fervent that it justifies hating another, even as God hates your hate, because it has been born of the absolute idol one has made out of one’s professed love.
A few years ago a university study confirmed the old adage that there is “a thin line between love and hate.” It seems that the same brain circuitry is involved in feeling both emotions, the major difference being that with feelings of love a large part of the of the cerebral cortex shuts down, along with judgment and reasoning abilities. With hate, much of the cortex remains open.
This makes perfect sense, in a way. We can always give a million reasons justifying our hate to others, but our love? Often we cannot explain our love at all, except as an open and full-hearted mystery, just like the unfathomable mysteries of God, redemption and mercy.
This study also helps explain why unreasonable love can so often tumble into hate, and why hatred, once engaged by reason, finds it so difficult to break freely into love.
It is that thin, thin line between love and hate that can so confuse our sensibilities, and thrust us so far apart from each other, and perhaps ourselves.
Elizabeth Scalia is the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos and blogs as The Anchoress. Her previous articles for “On the Square” can be found here.
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Business and Enterprise (BE Group) worked with Flint Spark Consulting because they needed help to ignite their people by getting their priorities in order (because when people share the big picture they are motivated to make a difference)
Flint Spark Consulting was commissioned to review and validate the organisation’s corporate values, to ensure they fit with the brand values; to identify and develop core behaviours. We were also asked to help to to communicate the vision, values and behaviours to a workforce of over 500 staff. BE Group were keen to make sure the communication process was engaging and also sustainable. They wanted the process to be facilitated by their own staff and managers rather than bringing in external facilitators to run the communications sessions.
Through focus groups we developed and tested the organisation’s values, and identified behaviours that would provide evidence that the values were being embraced.
Working with BigPicture Learning, a BigPicture Learning Map was then created to enable managers to effectively communicate the values organisation-wide, underpinned by training and support as required. The BigPicture Learning map was a unique, colourful visual metaphor that shared the big picture of the BE Group business. It brought BE Group’s core strategy, key business objectives and major change processes to life in a rich, clear and meaningful way. The BigPicture Learning Map made it possible for BE Group to get everyone up to speed quickly and consistently; energize it’s employees to contribute and reflect on how their roles deliver strategic imperatives.
The BE Group BigPicture Learning Map came with a comprehensive facilitator guide and toolkit to enable a consistently high-quality experience for BE Group facilitators and delegates alike. The large visually-rich storyboard and dialogue cards enabled leaders and managers to walk through strategy with their people. A combination of tools, games and exercises combined to engage employees.
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Flint Spark Consulting introduced the group to a series of innovative tools that helped us to establish a common set of values, objectives and ways of working that improved our business. Craig Smith’s thoughtful but challenging approach involved each and every member of our team in a process that generated real results and helped us to make us one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies To Work For 2011
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Flowing Forth United Methodist Church is a new church formed by the merger of historic Fourth Street UMC and Flowing Grace UMC. Our new name is obviously a reminder of our past, where we've come from as a congregation, but it is also much more.
"Flowing Forth" calls to mind a graceful and continuous movement forward and onward. Precisely the sort of life we are called to as followers of Jesus. We believe we are people called on a continuous journey forward with Christ as our guide with a graceful life toward neighbor and world as our chief mission and purpose.
We have a commitment to impacting the lives of people of all ages through preaching and teaching the Good News of Jesus and serving in His name. We are building a new future upon our past, and hope that you will be a part of our emerging story and what God is doing through us in the community of Aurora.
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How YouTube's Top Wildlife Star Turned Getting Bitten by Animals Into Over 13 Million Subscribers
Coyote Peterson of 'Brave Wilderness' says his job does not bite.
Image credit: Brave Wilderness
In this series, YouTube Icon, Entrepreneur speaks with the individuals behind popular YouTube channels to find out the secrets of their success.
Even though his videos are some of the most viscerally impactful on the internet -- ever see a guy get stung by a Japanese Giant Hornet? -- Coyote Peterson's key to YouTube success is shockingly mundane. "Stay consistent with your content," he tells Entrepreneur. "If you're going to start, don’t stop."
It's a philosophy that has worked for him. Known as “the Internet’s Steve Irwin," Coyote is the top wildlife YouTube star in the world. His "Brave Wilderness" series -- in which he's been bitten by literally hundreds of animals -- has over 13 million subscribers and 2.3 billion views. And that's just the beginning.
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This year alone, Coyote has written a book (King of Sting), been on the receiving end of the most painful sting in recorded history, launched a new digital series about dinosaurs in partnership with the Jurassic franchise, and announced that he will be face of an all-new Animal Planet series debuting in 2019.
Based on our conversation, the YouTube star somehow hasn't bitten off more than he can chew. Here's how he does it.
How did you get your start on YouTube?
We launched our channel in Sept. of 2014 and never expected it to grow this big and this fast. It pretty much started with an episode about me catching Common Snapping Turtles, and from there it was off and running. We had 52 episodes already shot when we released the channel, so it was just about releasing content as frequently as we could, and that consistency is what drew people toward it. In addition to that, what I think makes our content so successful is my own and my team’s background in filmmaking. We put a lot of thought into the content we produce -- from the music, to the cinematography, to the way we unfold the elements of the story. In a way, what we produce on YouTube are “mini-movies,” and I think a lot of our viewers and brands we work with notice and appreciate it.
How did you get into filmmaking and what inspired your love for wildlife?
I have been into filmmaking since I was in high school. I was heavily influenced by filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, and the way he always kept the audience in suspense from shot to shot using so many interesting techniques, from lighting and shot selection to music. My love for wildlife was heavily influenced by my mom, who always had me in the outdoors exploring as a kid, and certainly wildlife programs and presenters like Steve Irwin, Austin Stevens, Marty Stouffer, Jeff Corwin and Bear Grylls.
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How much time do you spend on a video, and what does that entail?
Each episode is unique, and some take longer than others. For example, the episode titled “Wolverine Face Off” took nearly four days to shoot and two weeks to edit. Whereas an episode about a red-eyed leaf frog that we find in the rainforest of Costa Rica happens much more quickly. You stumble upon the frog, film the episode, and can have it in the can in a matter of minutes. Post on an episode like that takes around one to two days. So, it’s a huge difference.
What bite or sting hurt you the most? What did it feel like?
Most painful bite was from a Gila monster, and that was an accidental bite. It felt like hot lava slowly working its way from my thumb, into my hand, slowly up my arm and eventually into my shoulder and chest. It was super scary, and there is no anti-venom; you must ride out the pain as your body absorbs the venom. My most painful sting came from the Executioner Wasp, that episode comes out late December and it was, without question, the most painful a sting has been. My arm was swollen for days, and eventually a small hole rotted in my arm from the venom at the sting site. Let’s just say you wouldn’t want to get swarmed by an angry nest of X-wasps.
What are the other most painful stings?
It used to be the Bullet Ant, but in November we named the Japanese Giant Hornet as a more painful sting. As of December, the most painful sting in the world will be the Executioner Wasp. So the top stings in the world, as of now, and in my opinion -- because remember pain is always going to be opinion based -- are as follows, least painful to most painful: Velvet Ant aka Cow Killer, Tarantula Hawk, Warrior Wasp, Bullet Ant, Japanese Giant Hornet, Executioner Wasp. These stings rank as a “four” on the Insect Sting Pain Index, which is the highest ranking you can get. Talk about a world of pain!
What's your content strategy? How do you decide what and when to post?
Content is all based on what we get per location. We batch produce, which means that if we go to a location, we aim to get as much content as possible. Our record is 26 episodes in three weeks -- that happened last year in Australia. We release content based on what episode has gone through post production. We have a more “top secret” strategy as to what we release and when, but I can’t give away those secrets!
How do you leverage your YouTube account, and to what extent do you monetize it?
Our channel is monetized just like all other channels, based on Google ads that are placed before the video plays and sometimes during the middle based on its length. Other than that, we occasionally do branded partnerships with partners that speak to the same sense of adventure as the Brave Wilderness brand, such as our recent series titled “Jurassic World Explorers.” Over four episodes, we were able to be a digital microphone for Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World franchise, creating exciting new content exploring the real-world science and paleontological aspects of the dinosaur kingdom.
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Have you alwyas had an interest in dinosaurs?
I've been a fan of the Jurassic franchise since 1993 and the release of Jurassic Park. It's arguable to say that I am one of the biggest fans in the world, and certainly the biggest that has an audience like the Brave Wilderness channel. So, when the opportunity to team with Universal Pictures presented itself we were on-board 100%. We just produced the first season of “Jurassic World Explorers,” a series that takes an in-depth look at the dinosaurs of the franchise and how some of them compare to modern day reptiles and birds, and where dinosaurs now exist through the world of paleontology.
What advice do you have for other people who want to build brands on the platform?
One of the greatest joys of YouTube has been that it gives the creator freedom to post when it works for the creator’s schedule. There are no demands. However, it’s super difficult to keep up with releasing content every week, and more than once a week. So, like I said, it’s a tough road, but it can be done and you must really work at it to make this into a brand.
What's a misconception people have about YouTube?
I’m honestly not sure, ha, no one has ever asked that question. Maybe that it’s an easy job, because trust me, it’s anything but easy. But like I said, if you love what you do and are dedicated to your craft, even the greatest challenges become a ton of fun.
How have you seen your online pursuits evolve into the world of offline?
Our biggest project to date is a partnership with Animal Planet, which was just announced a few weeks ago. We will be producing a series for them in 2019 that will take our adventures to even more remote stretches of the planet. Our goal is to feature some of the planet’s most iconic predatory animals like Great White Sharks, Polar Bears, Komodo Dragons, Anacondas, etc. I can’t reveal too much about the series just yet, but as it develops into 2019, I promise things are going to get exciting!
Tell us about your new book, King of Sting. What is the "Schmidt Pain Index"?
King of Sting is about my climb up the Insect Sting Pain Index that was created by Justin Schmidt to rank the pain of insect stings. In my own way, I have evolved the index slightly by dethroning the Bullet Ant from being the most painful sting in the world and listing the Japanese Giant Hornet and the Executioner Wasp as being the two most painful, putting the once first-place Bullet Ant in third place. The index has been my map over the past three years to creating our famous sting episodes, and it has been so much fun bringing people excitement and education about insects. This content is certainly some of our most popular on the channel, Brave Wilderness, which is currently the No. 1 destination for animal enthusiasts -- with 2.3 billion views earned, and over 13 million subscribers. The book is now available anywhere books are sold.
See below for five of Coyote’s favorite videos:
1. Final Sting: "The Brave Wilderness channel is debuting our most anticipated YouTube video to-date this December: the most painful sting in recorded history. Fans have been begging for me to try the sting of the 'Executioner Wasp,' rumored to have a sting so painful that it could rewrite the science behind the Schmidt Insect Pain Index, and it really does pack a punch I will never forget!"
2. Wolverine Face Off: "In this episode, I realize one of my childhood dreams: the chance to come face to face with a Wolverine. Working alongside wolverine conservationist Steve Kroschel, I become the first show host to ever enter an enclosure with an unharnessed wolverine, one of the most ferocious predators on the planet!"
3. Jurassic World Explorers: "Working with the Jurassic franchise was a dream come true! We’ve been able to bring our fans deep into the world of the dinosaurs, while also exploring parallels of the ancient creatures in the modern age."
4. Animal Planet: "Buiilding upon our massive digital presence, we’re excited to bring the Brave Wilderness Emmy Award-winning content to a new platform in 2019: television! I will star in the new original series taking audiences on wild expeditions and rare, up-close animal experiences. The team and I, including our director Mark Vins and wildlife biologist Mario Aldecoa, call the partnership a triumph to the community we’ve created on YouTube -- now being able to bring Brave Wilderness to 360+ million homes worldwide and over 200 countries with the deal."
5. King of Sting: "I dreamed of writing an offline companion to the popular 'sting' videos on the Brave Wilderness YouTube channel. Reading is something I want my audience of kids and families to pursue as a way to continue learning about animals, and hopefully to inspire them to explore the outdoors together. The book features full-color stills from the show, beautiful illustrations and is packed with facts about the creatures we encounter. The King of Sting is a dream book I’m really proud of, and it’s available online and anywhere books are sold."
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HomeLexmotoLexmoto ZSX-R 125cc EFI
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£1695 “On The Road” inc Road Tax,etc.
Please contact us for a full personal quote over 12 or 24 or 36 months.
Building on the success of the Honda CBF- beating Lexmoto ZSX 125cc the ZSX-R 125EFI provides an upgraded specification design to offer the best value Naked Sports option available on the market. The new ZY125BB engine delivers a fantastic smooth and reliable performance which is ideal for those looking to obtain a hassle free ride. The updated styling sees a new set of graphics and the introduction of a screen to improve the front end aesthetics. The model benefits from an improved specification also. The suspension has been overhauled to offer USD front forks and a Mono rear shock. The braking has also been improved and now offers a rear disc brake to further improve handling and control. The ZSX-R also benefits from a 409 grade stainless steel exhaust system as standard. The Best value naked 125cc bike just became even better. Where the original ZSX was designed to match the Honda CBF and Yamaha YBR the ZSX-R is built to excel. Now equipped with Fuel injection technology and combined braking the ZSX-F offers the ultimate mix of quality and affordability
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Metro ‘Will Correct Russia Situation Soon, CEO Says
Published on Jun 4 2018 11:40 AM in Retail tagged: Trending Posts / Russia / Metro / Olaf Koch
The chief executive of Metro AG is hopeful that the German retailer will turn around its Russian business soon, he said on Monday.
"I am very optimistic we will correct that situation in the near future," Olaf Koch told an event in Berlin to promote Metro's cooperation with start-ups, describing the problems in Russia as "a bit of a hiccup".
Metro said last month it hopes to stabilise its shrinking Russian business in the coming months after overhauling management and introducing bulk discounts to attract more independent traders and restaurant owners.
In mid-May, Metro AG reported a 1.7% increase in sales in its Real hypermarket business for the first half of the year, with the division posting sales of €3.77 billion for the period.
Overall, Metro AG posted a 1.3% increase in like-for-like sales, of €18.56 billion, for the first half. Reported sales were down by 0.3%.
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10 Stories About Our Most Embarrassing First Movie Dates
It doesn't get much better than making out through all of High School High.
By Esquire Editors
Once, when we were young and inexplicably horny, a first date was a movie date. These were the flicks on those long ago Friday nights, the nights that showed us dating wasn't such a scary thing. Or, alternatively, the movies that showed us that dating was—and still is—a minefield. We didn't all get kissed, but we made memories all the same.
Here, 10 cinematic gems that introduced us to the adventure of finding love (or at least a sloppy make-out) in the darkened seats of a movie theater.
1. Garden State
"This is probably a cliche for every teenager in the early 2000s, but my first date movie—like real actual date—was Garden State. Don't worry, I know how annoying that sounds. But it's the truth, just as it's the truth that we kissed during the scene where Natalie Portman says she loves the Shins then gives Zach Braff the headphones to listen to 'New Slang.' I know, I'm the fucking worst, but I have only one first date and this was it and I have to live with it. It's actually kind of perfect though, because my dating life since has pretty much been a series cringeworthy scenes set to a pretty good soundtrack." — Matt Miller
2. Rain Man
"For a high school gay boy in the years before you could be an out high school gay boy, dating was 'interviewing female friends you'll occasionally have to make out with so nobody suspects anything.' When I was 17, I took a girl named Alison to Rain Man. For reasons known only to the MPAA, it was rated R, which meant nobody under 17 admitted without a parent or guardian. Alison (also 17) had left her purse in my car, and the box office person took a hard line. Alison showed some impressive sass in that moment—a crucial quality in a 17-year-old gay boy's female friend—but still had to run back to get her ID before we could buy tickets. We did not smooch, which was really nobody's fault. Decent movie." — Dave Holmes
3. Good Will Hunting
"As far as my first movie date memory goes, I must've blocked out my early teen experiences, because the first one I can clearly remember is Good Will Hunting when I was like a junior in high school. I went with my then boyfriend—who also accompanied me to see Titanic a few weeks later. Talk about rough romantic examples to live up to, damn. In the true spirit of teenage love, I'm sure we took full advantage of our time in the dark together, even if the relationship, like Leo in Titanic, ultimately went under." — Renata Sellitti
4. Home Alone
"Home Alone, probably a 7:15 p.m. showing. The date was arranged by Frankie, whose house I was at because he was my first friend to get call waiting. I borrowed a way, way-too-big, purple long sleeved Hugo Boss t-shirt from him because he was older than me and I was about to engage in a social interaction that I knew deep down I was nowhere near mature enough for. (I got so much Sour Patch Kids dust on that shirt during the movie.) I didn't get my hand around my date's shoulder, the big goal heading into it, until after Macauley Culkin puts the red-hot iron on the door knob for Joe Pesci to singe the living shit out of his hand. What a journey Macauley's taken since." — Michael Mraz
5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
"It was my first date ever, and I wore a baggy zip-up hoodie, because those were the years when baggy zip-up hoodies were like, really cool date attire. We saw whatever Mummy movie was out in 2008. I don't remember the plot, but I do remember squealing and covering my eyes a lot, so I guess that was the cute thing to do when you were 14. Anyway, he put his arm around me, which was really uncomfortable and perfect, and about halfway through, he asked me to be his girlfriend. I said yes. My mom picked me up at the end and insisted on getting out of the car to meet him and I about died of embarrassment." — Sarah Rense
6. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
"My first ever movie date (I think) was for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I think I was in 6th grade? It was fine, but I was a big wuss and was afraid to put my arm around my girlfriend. Luckily, someone came over and literally placed my arm around her as a joke, so I kept it there. Afterward, I was nervous (again) because I felt like we were at the kiss stage, but wasn't sure how to approach it. Then, right before her parents got there to pick her up, she pulled the trigger and kissed me. I didn't make the first move because assumed gender roles are lame—it definitely was not because I was afraid. Also, the movie was good because McConaughey's name was Ben, so, lots of laughs there." — Ben Boskovich
"My first movie date was to see Batman in 1989. I was 12, and, I can't exactly remember the details, but I had somehow befriended a girl from the next town over, and we'd sneak talks on the phone. Eventually, we decided to meet up for a date and have our parents drop us off at the movies. She never came. I haven't thought about that in at least 20 years until just now. I suppose it explains a lot about how I turned out. And why I can't perform sexually to this day without thinking about Michael Keaton." — Luke O'Neil
8. American Gangster
"My first ever first date movie was American Gangster, which is perhaps the worst first date movie in existence. The date itself was a bit awkward because we both were 15 and quickly became aware of how entirely un-romantic American Gangster is, but I suppose it went pretty well, because it led to a four-year relationship!" — Sammy Nickalls
9. High School High
"I'd just landed my very first girlfriend—success!—and we went to see John Lovitz's magnum opus with a group of friends. I was 12, and I didn't yet have the awareness that excessive PDA—as in sucking face for the entirety of an 86-minute-long film—is less than appropriate. Was the date a success? For me and her, absolutely. For everyone else in that theater, let's just say I've been paying their therapy bills ever since." — Eric Sullivan
10. 50/50
"I'm pretty sure my first movie date was sometime in September 2011 with my first boyfriend, and we saw 50/50, which stars Joseph Gordon Levitt as a cancer patient. In retrospect, it's a sad, not-great date movie, but I had a crush on JGL, so I wanted to see it. My boyfriend was kind of an angsty hipster type so I think he actually really enjoyed it." — Jamie Ballard
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GBP/USD is not enthusiastic about another Brexit vote
By Yohay Elam Published: May 15, 2019 09:55 GMT | Last Modified: May 15, 2019 11:55 GMT Forex News
GBP/USD is getting comfortable in a lower range amid relative market calm.
May will bring the Brexit deal to a fourth vote, and expectations are low.
The technical outlook is bearish for the currency pair.
Three is a lucky number in many traditions, but it was not a winner for UK PM Theresa May when she last brought the Brexit accord to parliament in late March. Will the fourth attempt succeed? The government has reportedly made preparations for a vote in early June.
The move comes after May’s meeting with opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn did not yield a breakthrough, albeit being labeled as “constructive.” Britain’s two main parties are still apart on the thorny issue of a customs union. And both sides are under pressure to ditch talks with their rivals.
The timing is not coincidental: it comes after the European Parliament elections which will are expected to be devastating for May’s Conservative Party. Fear of failure to deliver Brexit and to receive a punishment in the general elections may push MPs to support the accord. Or perhaps that is the hope. The chances that the House of Commons approves the deal are very slim. May is also trying to stave off some of her peers that aim to oust her.
Brexit is now in the spotlight as markets seem calmer about the US-Sino trade dispute. Also here, both economic giants remain apart, but some hope has emerged as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he will travel to Beijing for more talks.
The UK economy is doing well in the meantime. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8% while wage growth moderated to 3.2%, yet remaining well above inflation at 1.9%.
The focus shifts to the US with the retail sales report for April which is projected to show minor growth after a substantial increase in March.
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GBP/USD is suffering from downside momentum on the four-hour chart, and trades below the 50, 100, and 200 Simple Moving Averages. Moreover, the Relative Strength Index remains above 30, thus not indicating oversold conditions.
Initial support is at the recent lows of 1.2898. Further down, the April trough of 1.2870 is next. The following levels are already from February: 1.2830 and 1.2775.
Initial resistance awaits at 1.2925 that held pound/dollar down in recent hours. It is followed by 1.2970 seen earlier this week and 1.2990 that worked as support beforehand. 1.3035 and 1.3050 are next
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SFO fines FH Bertling £850,000 in Angolan bribery scheme
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Home Film Film Reviews Bonus Film Review: Sing
Bonus Film Review: Sing
Buster Moon dreams big for his theater in "Sing."
An animated musical for the holidays, Sing suffers from coming out the same weekend as a much better live-action musical. Even if we didn’t have La La Land in such close proximity, the movie would still probably look like the least inspired stretches of Zootopia and Pitch Perfect smashed together. The best I can say for this movie is that it’s much less bad than Trolls, which it’s largely replacing in the multiplexes. When Sing concentrates on the music in the last 20 minutes or so, it’s actually watchable.
Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) is a koala who owns a theater that’s failing financially, so he decides to save it by putting on a different kind of show, though the movie is rather unclear on what kind of shows he was putting on that flopped. Anyway, he’s going to hold a singing contest for all the animals who want to compete. He has no trouble drawing them, thanks to a typo that makes them think the cash prize is 100 times greater than it is.
That would be enough plot for this movie. Unfortunately, writer-director Garth Jennings (whose live-action credits include The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow) proceeds to spread the script way too thin by flitting among the singing animals who get to the final round, giving each of them an unsatisfying barely sketched-in plotline. The movie’s musical references range from Puccini to Gipsy Kings to Carly Rae Jepsen, and they wink by so quickly that we can’t get a purchase on them. This is especially true in the montage of failed auditioners, a golden comic opportunity that the movie heedlessly speeds over. The movie takes weird detours into Buster’s attempts to secure financing and forgets to make him interesting enough to hold the center of all this. And why cast a fine singer like John C. Reilly (as a rich-boy sheep) and then give him nothing to sing?
There is a nice sight gag when a bankrupt Buster gets back into his old car-washing job, and a running gag with a J-pop singing group of foxes that could have yielded more. The late Leonard Cohen gets a tribute here that his fans couldn’t have possibly imagined. Yet the movie doesn’t really find a groove until very late, when the final round of the singing contest comes up and the movie finally settles down to watch the performances. Reese Witherspoon (as an underappreciated mother of 25 piglets) picks her way daintily through “Shake It Off,” while Kingsman‘s Taron Egerton (as a soul-singing gorilla) acquits himself well with “I’m Still Standing.” Scarlett Johansson is usually least interesting when she’s singing, but (as a punk-rocker porcupine) she turns in a creditable version of the original song “Set It All Free.” Seth MacFarlane (as a jazz-crooning mouse) gets a bunch of jazz standards that suit his voice well, and Tori Kelly (as a stage fright-suffering elephant) rounds things off with a floorboard-rattling version of “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing.” All this star power and musical talent in the voice cast is great. It should have gone for more.
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Auburn names Pawlowski baseball coach
By Luke BrietzkeTimes Sports Correspondent
AUBURN � John Pawlowski�s Friday morning began in Charleston, S.C., when he received a 7:30 a.m. text message from Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs.
Jacobs wanted to know what Pawlowski�s schedule was like.
Pawlowski didn�t note how his previously scheduled day was shaped, saying only that he knew it had to change.
By the end of the day, Pawlowski had jumped on a plane, negotiated a contract and met the media as Auburn�s new head baseball coach.
�It�s been a whirlwind day, but I�m excited to be here,� said Pawlowski, who signed a five-year, $1.5 million contract.
Pawlowski comes to Auburn from the College of Charleston, where he led his team to three NCAA tournaments in nine years while compiling a 338-192-1 record. He also served as an assistant coach at Clemson, his alma mater, for five years and spent another year at Arizona State. Now he enters the SEC, a league he said is the best in the nation.
�I said this in my interview, I�m excited for the opportunity to coach in the SEC because it�s like playing the Yankees every weekend,� Pawlowski said.
Auburn hired Pawlowski Friday, 33 days after former baseball coach Tommy Slater resigned. Slater had never previously been a head coach and that was something Jacobs said was very important for Auburn during this process.
�It was definitely important for us to get someone who had some coaching experience,� Jacobs said. �He has great experience at College of Charleston and, obviously, with Clemson.�
The hire comes two weeks after Mississippi State hired former Kentucky coach John Cohen to lead its program.
Jacobs said he spoke with 12 different coaches about the job before ultimately selecting Pawlowski.
Now that Pawlowski has been introduced as Auburn�s new coach, he said his first plans are to round out his coaching staff. Pawlowski said several of his coaches at College of Charleston had been with him for his entire nine-year tenure, but he wasn�t sure whether they would follow him to Auburn.
Before he hires a staff, perhaps Pawlowski might even be able to catch his breath.
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Kaizer Chiefs v ZESCO United Match Report, 2019/01/19
Kaizer Chiefs 1-2 Zesco United (2-5 agg): Amakhosi eliminated from Caf Confed Cup by ruthless Zambian champions
Anthony Akumu and Jesse Were both netted for Zega Mambo, while Khama Billia scored Amakhosi's consolation goal
Kaizer Chiefs bowed out of the 2018/19 Caf Confederation Cup after losing 2-1 to Zesco United in a play-off round second-leg match in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The Soweto giants were keen to overturn a 3-1 first-leg deficit and advance to the group stages of the competition.
Ernst Middendorp made two changes to the team that beat AmaZulu FC 3-2 in a PSL match in midweek with George Maluleka and Khama Billiat returning to the starting line-up.
Zega Mambo, as Zesco are affectionately known to their passionate fans, were looking to secure another win over Amakhosi which would have seen them reach the group stages.
Middendorp's counterpart, George Lwandamina made one change to the team that took on Amakhosi in Ndola with Marcel Kalonda returning to the starting line-up after missing the first-leg through suspension.
Amakhosi had struggled to contain Zega Mambo's deadly attackers of Anthony Akumu, Jesse Were and Lazarus Kambole, who caused all sorts of problems for the Soweto giants' defence last weekend.
They continued right where they left off as Akumu got the opening goal of the match with a powerful low shot to make it 1-0 to Zesco 10 minutes into the game and Chiefs were now trailing 4-1 on aggregate.
The hosts' defence which had conceded five goals in their last four Confederation Cup matches, was in sixes and sevens, and the Glamour Boys nearly conceded again after a good move by the visitors.
Rahim Ousumanu found himself in a good position inside the Chiefs box, but the Zesco forward fluffed a glorious chance with only goalkeeper Virgil Vries to beat.
Chiefs, who had scored the majority of their goals (26.1%) between the 30th and 45th minute, pushed for the equalizing goal with the half-time break approaching.
The last chance of the first half fell for the 2001 Caf African Cup Winners' Cup champions when they were awarded a free-kick in a promising area, but Maluleka missed the target from the resulting set-piece.
Zesco were leading 1-0 at the interval and 4-1 on aggregate.
Middendorp made three changes in the second half, introducing Dax Andriamirado, Kabelo Mahlasela as well as Siphelele Ntshangase as the home side looked to level matters.
Chiefs were able to create several goalscoring opportunities, but they were wasteful as the likes of Mahlasela and Andriamirado missed the target.
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Chiefs did score in the dying minutes of the game through Billiat to make it 2-1 on the night with the Zimbabwean forward having also netted in Zambia.
However, the goal proved to be a consolation as Zesco held on to their slender lead and ultimately completed a double over Chiefs.
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A Wild Pursuit
(Duchess Quartet #3)
Eloisa James (Goodreads Author)
3.76 · Rating details · 3,259 ratings · 152 reviews
Could it be that she wanted his kiss as much as she longed to give hers?
It is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers and in the corners of fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows willfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes. Three years before, the debutante created a sensation by being found in a distinctly compromising position. Now, the ton has brande Could it be that she wanted his kiss as much as she longed to give hers?
It is whispered behind the fans of London's dowagers and in the corners of fashionable ballrooms that scandal follows willfully wild Lady Beatrix Lennox wherever she goes. Three years before, the debutante created a sensation by being found in a distinctly compromising position. Now, the ton has branded her as unmarriageable, her family has called her a vixen, and Beatrix sees no reason not to go after what—and who—she wishes.
And she wants Stephen Fairfax-Lacy, the handsome Earl of Spade. Beatrix, with her brazen suggestions and irresistibly sensuous allure, couldn't be more different from the earl's ideal future bride. Yet Beatrix brings out a wildness in the earl he has tried to deny far too long. Still, he's not about to play love's game by Lady Beatrix's rules. She may be used to being on top in affairs of the heart, but that will soon change. ...more
Mass Market Paperback, 381 pages
Published February 24th 2004 by Avon
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Duchess Quartet #3
Esme Rawlings, Helene Holland, Countess Godwin, Sebastian, Marquess Bonnington, Stephen Fairfax-Lacy, Beatrice Lennox...more, Rees Holland, Earl Godwin...less
Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, England (United Kingdom)
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Jan 27, 2011 Lindsay rated it really liked it
Shelves: estrangement, friendship, mooched, family, romance, house, party, regency, historical-romance
"The romance between Beatrix Lennox and Stephen Fairfax-Lacey was, to me, the least compelling of the plot strands in this novel. That isn't to say that I didn't enjoy it, just that I found the continuing story of Esme and Bonnington, and the dysfunctional relationship between Helene and Rees more interesting.
Once again James juggles a large cast of characters very well. A house party setting can seem a bit claustrophobic but after having read romances where the characters seem constantly to be "The romance between Beatrix Lennox and Stephen Fairfax-Lacey was, to me, the least compelling of the plot strands in this novel. That isn't to say that I didn't enjoy it, just that I found the continuing story of Esme and Bonnington, and the dysfunctional relationship between Helene and Rees more interesting.
Once again James juggles a large cast of characters very well. A house party setting can seem a bit claustrophobic but after having read romances where the characters seem constantly to be travelling from one place to another, this was a refreshing change. It allowed James to focus more on the relationships and emotions of her characters.
Aside from the romance, I really enjoyed the strong female friendships. The love and loyalty between Esme, Helene, Bea and Arabella was a delight to read and contributed a lot to my enjoyment of the novel.
Again, not my absolute favourite of James' novels, but a very enjoyable read." ...more
Jan 31, 2015 Katie rated it really liked it
Shelves: books-read-in-2015, how-library, books-read-in-2015-new, format-ebook
So, this isn't really historical romance. It's historical chick lt. Which is pretty awesome! The romance in the blurb--Bea/Stephen--didn't feel like that large a part of the plot. Which I suppose is a flaw--I didn't think there was enough there for them to fall in loooove--but I enjoyed the book too much overall for that to bother me.
The friendships are great and there are cool self-realizations for the wonderful female characters and lots of fun schemes and plots, mostly centered around poor St So, this isn't really historical romance. It's historical chick lt. Which is pretty awesome! The romance in the blurb--Bea/Stephen--didn't feel like that large a part of the plot. Which I suppose is a flaw--I didn't think there was enough there for them to fall in loooove--but I enjoyed the book too much overall for that to bother me.
The friendships are great and there are cool self-realizations for the wonderful female characters and lots of fun schemes and plots, mostly centered around poor Stephen pretending on being in a relationship with someone!
And it left me really excited for the last book. I am liking this series a lot. ...more
Aug 12, 2018 Zoe (Attic Salt Reviews) rated it liked it
Shelves: best-of-historical-fiction
Another sweet and endearing bodice ripper to get me through the week. I, once again, loved all the characters and how their different stories seemed to flow together so effortlessly.
The one thing I could possibly fault with A Wild Pursuit would be the endless cat and mouse that seemed to constantly flip on its head. One moment one woman is chasing a man, the next she is chasing another and the first man wants her. I got a bit dizzy by the end.
Other than that, it was another perfect read from El Another sweet and endearing bodice ripper to get me through the week. I, once again, loved all the characters and how their different stories seemed to flow together so effortlessly.
Other than that, it was another perfect read from Eloisa James! ...more
Nov 09, 2015 A.M. rated it liked it · review of another edition
Esme Rawlings, the even more heavily pregnant and recently widowed duchess is holding another house party. Problem is, the Marquess of Bonnington is slumming it up pretending to be one of her gardeners. He’s got quite good at it and gained some muscle since the last book when she was in the early days of her pregnancy. The baby is due any day now and Sebastian is still hoping that the baby is his, not her dead husband’s. It’s a tricky situation; he grappled with the husband Miles, in Esme’s bedc Esme Rawlings, the even more heavily pregnant and recently widowed duchess is holding another house party. Problem is, the Marquess of Bonnington is slumming it up pretending to be one of her gardeners. He’s got quite good at it and gained some muscle since the last book when she was in the early days of her pregnancy. The baby is due any day now and Sebastian is still hoping that the baby is his, not her dead husband’s. It’s a tricky situation; he grappled with the husband Miles, in Esme’s bedchamber and he dropped dead. It could have happened at any time, but society says Bonnington is responsible. Can he marry Esme when he caused her husband’s death?
Esme is holding bible reading sewing circle meetings of the local god fearing ladies to try and restore her reputation.
Her Aunt Arabella has shown up and brought her other friends as well. They all have different agendas.
Helene is desperately trying to attract the attention of her estranged husband, Rees and decides she should have a public affair to make him jealous; Lady Beatrix Lennox wants to have a fling with someone (anyone at all almost), and Esme is determined that she should announce her engagement to someone so that Sebastian gets the message and leaves her alone. They all pick the same man. Stephen Fairfax-Lacy, the handsome Earl of Spade and Member of the house of Commons. (unusual - he should be in the house of Lords.) He’s feeling pretty jaded and thought a trip to the country might perk him up.
It does that when he juggles his faux fiance, faux mistress and tries to convince Bea to seduce him, instead of the other way around.
Rees arrives when Helene writes to tell him she’s dying, Bonnington comes back to stay (now not in disguise), Bonnington’s socially terrifying mother arrives and insists on staying in the house as well to determine the baby is not his when it arrives. Plus, Esme’s hideous mother shows up after the birth and berates her for breastfeeding her new baby and for even showing it to her when she is still upset over the loss of Esme’s brother.
But Esme is among friends, and some of them are unexpected.
And Sloper, her butler seems to have it all under control. Except for the goat who eats hats. Nobody can control him.
(view spoiler)[Note to self: try and read the damn books in the right order… This is book 3 of the Duchess Quartet. I have read book 2 so it took me a few moments to remember who everybody was. It is a very extended cast, plus people have three different names, and that is often confusing.
I thought that if Esme had a boy, she’d be disinheriting the hero of the last book? Simon Darby - but other than his name being said once, he doesn’t rate a mention. He was rich, anyway wasn’t he? Lace making. I recall.
My problem is that I don’t much like Esme, I understand her a little better after seeing her mother, but I find her endless attempts at emotional manipulation tiring. Maybe it’s because I haven’t read book 1 but I can’t see why she was trying to bed her husband if she had a young lover. Lucky for her, Sebastian loves her because he wouldn’t put it up with it otherwise. And sadly, the other main character, Bea is a mini her.
I found Bea’s violent changes of character too much to deal with. Either, she’s the vixen coquette or she’s not. And I know it is a kind of self defense to pretend that you are even worse than what people say you are, but… annoying.
I did like Stephen; so he redeemed the book for me even if I can’t understand why on earth he found Bea intriguing. I just wasn’t sold on that romance. Perhaps it is because the book is less than half their story? (hide spoiler)]
3 complex house party stars ...more
Nov 13, 2011 Lori McD rated it really liked it
Shelves: female-bonding, favorite-author, fun-fluff, historical-fiction, easy-read, romance, chick-lit, regency, some-steam, guilty-pleasure
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book was very satisfying for me, primarily because of Sebastian and Esme. I wondered how the author would get round all the sticky parts of their relationship and be able to allow them a measure of true happiness without too much of a sting from the "ton". Bravo! Some of the original book's comedy of errors and role-playing.
And Stephen Fairfax-Lacy must be overjoyed by being the center of attention for 3 women at once! He's supposedly having an affair with Helene (Lady Godwin) while engaged This book was very satisfying for me, primarily because of Sebastian and Esme. I wondered how the author would get round all the sticky parts of their relationship and be able to allow them a measure of true happiness without too much of a sting from the "ton". Bravo! Some of the original book's comedy of errors and role-playing.
And Stephen Fairfax-Lacy must be overjoyed by being the center of attention for 3 women at once! He's supposedly having an affair with Helene (Lady Godwin) while engaged to Esme and chasing Lady Beatrix! But we all know that his heart if following his body straight to Lady B. It's a saucy Benedick-Beatrice combo from "Much Ado About Nothing", but with a twist: Beatrice (Lady B) is supposedly a debauched and "experienced" young woman who is unmarriagable, but knows just how to seduce a man with her dress, her makeup, and her come-hither eyes. Benedick (Stephen) is tired of his life, which up til now has been his seat in Parliament. While she sees him as a Puritan, he sees her as the Devil - what a perfect match!
And mothers make a showing here, too: Esme's mother who's way too prim and proper for her own good, and Sebastian's mother who only seems to be as rigid as her cane.
Esme finally has her baby - a boy, William, who she can't love enough. Everyone is convinced William is so very like his Papa, Miles. But make sure to read the Epilogues, where a certain birth mark comes into play.
Helene's estranged and wandering husband Rees also makes an appearance, as Helene attempts to make Rees jealous by throwing her "affair" with Stephen in Rees' face. Rees remarks that he wishes for what his friend Cam and his wife Gina have; Helene wants a child, but how will she ever have a child if Rees won't even touch her?
At the end of this book, Helene is determined to get a child however she has to, even if it means scandal. She's almost torn apart watching Esme with William, and Gina's called Helene to stay with her for her (Gina's) last part of her pregnancy. Helene is surrounded by mothers and children, while her own arms and heart ache. From the description of the last book in this series, "Your Wicked Ways", it appears as if Helene and Rees figure dominantly. Will Helene get her child? Will she and Rees reconcile or finally just call it quits and go their separate ways? If divorce is out of the question (it takes an act of Parliament), will Helene find the lover she wants and needs to not only give her a child but to fill her heart and soul, too? Let's find out! ...more
Mar 24, 2013 Sue rated it it was ok
Shelves: audio, regency
Glad this was a library read, narrated by Justine Eyre. So slow, so lacking in gumption that the only reason why I continued was because I had already invested to much time into it and only my ears were involved. The Narration was actually quite good, but a good narrator can only take material so far.
This plot really had some decent opportunities that is squandered, if EJ ever considered a rewrite, which I know some authors have done for earlier works. I'd recommend a bit more scandal (just tigh Glad this was a library read, narrated by Justine Eyre. So slow, so lacking in gumption that the only reason why I continued was because I had already invested to much time into it and only my ears were involved. The Narration was actually quite good, but a good narrator can only take material so far.
This plot really had some decent opportunities that is squandered, if EJ ever considered a rewrite, which I know some authors have done for earlier works. I'd recommend a bit more scandal (just tighten the pacing would help, three women with questionable morals should have been a good start), a bit more backbone and there were some great opportunities to laugh a bit that died on the vine, so improving those would be advisable.
2 is actually a bit higher than it deserves, but a 1 would be a book I couldn't possibly finish. So there you go.
True Rating:
1.5 for the story
4 for narration, I recommend the narrator not the story.
Too bad, I have enjoyed some of EJ's novels but this really didn't hit the mark for me. ...more
Aug 08, 2009 Felicia rated it really liked it
Shelves: romance, historical-romance
I read this out of order. I wish Amazon would have series lists so I don't have to spend 15 minutes figuring out order and then blindly getting whatever. Suffice it to say this book is YUMMALICIOUS! I love loved it, I liked the characters, lots of plots going on and besides a slightly weak ending it was very enjoyable. Will be reading the other 3 around these characters ASAP!
Apr 04, 2011 Claire rated it did not like it
Vaguely reminds me of the Decameron, assorted people assembled in a country villa where they passed time exchanging tales of nonsense, in case of this book however, sampling lives of nonsense. Like, if author thought this out, there's nothing remotely romantic and everything absolutely insane, making love in the field where the goat, sheep and other farm animals gambol. (Think dung in the unmentionables.)
Too many secondary characters cluttering up the plot.
Mar 28, 2011 Thenia rated it liked it
Shelves: 2011, series, reviewed, historical-romance
I liked the book but Esme and her idiotic reactions got on my nerves. Sebastian is not stuck up anymore and I like his determination.
Bea and Stephen make a good couple, but for some reason their story didn't touch me that much.
Looking forward to Rees and Helene's story.
Apr 02, 2018 Maria rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Shelves: historical-romance
I was not sure after finishing this book whether to file it under historical romance or science fiction-fantasy. A set of more hedonistic unappealing characters I could not have dreamed up. Lady Bonnington was the character that saved the book from being utter trash, and she was only a supporting character. Amoral at best and immoral at worst, the characters came across as ladies of ill repute rather than ladies of the beau monde. Nothing to admire here. As for the plot. Honestly, a goat?
Dec 01, 2017 Julier rated it liked it
Shelves: romance, audio, overdrive, historical-fiction, series, melodramtic
Melodramatic- like a farcical play - feigned relationships for a variety of reasons. And it went on and on...... I gave it 3 stars based on the skill of the narrator to keep me listening until I finished despite the silly characters and plot!
Sep 24, 2017 Ro rated it it was ok
Actual rating: 2.5/5 but rounded down to 2/5
Mar 27, 2018 Jeannessa rated it liked it
The characters are a bit vulgar for my taste. The continuing story of all of the other characters is still fun though. Just not a fan of reading about main characters that are quite so... Shallow? Base? Without morals?
Aug 18, 2015 Dayna rated it really liked it
Beatrix and Stephen were two wonderfully rich characters and I loved getting to know them. They had great chemistry and still managed to have a wonderful romance despite the messiness of the whole situation they were thrust into.
I liked that Bea was in a lot of ways strong and wholly herself, yet was balanced by very relatable fears and experiences as well. Despite her experience she was also naïve and innocent in a lot of ways, and it was great to see Stephen bring those things out in her.
Steph Beatrix and Stephen were two wonderfully rich characters and I loved getting to know them. They had great chemistry and still managed to have a wonderful romance despite the messiness of the whole situation they were thrust into.
Stephen was an interesting hero, coolly logical and yet inexplicably drawn to Bea despite her reputation.They had a wonderful chemistry and I enjoyed them getting to know each other.
I honestly wished that Stephen and Bea could have gotten more time in a book that should have been entirely theirs. As much as I like Esme and Sebastian, and I appreciate the challenges that their relationship had, I did wonder why they just hadn’t gotten their own book?
I understood that Esme was kind of the tie that binds as such between all of the books in the series, but it could have been balanced differently to achieve tell the stories in a deeper and even more enriching way.
I truly think that if these two could have gotten more time (Bea and Stephen) this book would have rated even higher for me.
The downer for this book, after really liking Esme for the first two books, was Esme. Pregnancy does bring about changes in your personality, which I understand, but she dithered and acted like an idiot and was wholly unlike the smart, perfectly normal woman who we started to know in the first book.
It could have been better in many ways, but what I got of the primary romance was great except for the stupid fake relationships that popped up along the way, it got a little silly there with that. However, a great read nonetheless.
Apr 13, 2012 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: romantic-reads
As it turns out, Esme gets half a book to herself and her naughty gardener (she's been slumming a la DH Lawrence, though we are thankfully spared ridiculous sentiments about naming body parts). She and Bonnington provide half the romantic intrigue in the book while Bea and Stephen have the other half (and then the foursome becomes entangled due to everyone's inability to be honest about their feelings and Esme's mommy issues - her mother is dreadful).
I do have to agree with Bea on the subject of As it turns out, Esme gets half a book to herself and her naughty gardener (she's been slumming a la DH Lawrence, though we are thankfully spared ridiculous sentiments about naming body parts). She and Bonnington provide half the romantic intrigue in the book while Bea and Stephen have the other half (and then the foursome becomes entangled due to everyone's inability to be honest about their feelings and Esme's mommy issues - her mother is dreadful).
I do have to agree with Bea on the subject of Helene - if I had a husband who enticed me to elope then ran about installing an appalling number of mistresses in my household I'd stab him with a fork/take to blunt objects, too. Helene is a rather pitiable character but a bit tiresome since this has been a third book with her as a side character and she's made little to no progress with that reprobate husband of hers (although I think they suffer from some of the same bedroom issues as Poppy and Fletch from the Desperate Duchesses series). ...more
Nov 12, 2011 Gail rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Kind of a double story going on here. A Member of Parliament who’s spent his whole life concentrating on politics is burning out and accepts an invitation to a house party in the country. There, he encounters a heavily pregnant widow, still one of the beauties of the land; her friend the wife of one of the most scandalous noblemen in the country; and the disgraced daughter of a duke who is acting as companion to the widow’s aunt. Things get really complicated, and this MP winds up the “lover” of Kind of a double story going on here. A Member of Parliament who’s spent his whole life concentrating on politics is burning out and accepts an invitation to a house party in the country. There, he encounters a heavily pregnant widow, still one of the beauties of the land; her friend the wife of one of the most scandalous noblemen in the country; and the disgraced daughter of a duke who is acting as companion to the widow’s aunt. Things get really complicated, and this MP winds up the “lover” of the friend, the “fiancé” of the widow, and besotted with the duke’s daughter. She’s the only one he actually kisses. The widow has her own romance, begun two books ago and finally finished in this one. A very good, entertaining read. ...more
Feb 19, 2009 L8blmr rated it liked it
I will state first that I still really like the way this lady writes. Now you know something negative is probably coming next. I did not like any of the women in this book with the possible exception of one of the main characters' aunt (for, despite the synopsis of this story, it is as much Esme's as Bea's).
The leading men, who possessed seemingly infinite patience with the harridans whom they were pursuing, were all they should be and I actually wished for better women for them to choose from, I will state first that I still really like the way this lady writes. Now you know something negative is probably coming next. I did not like any of the women in this book with the possible exception of one of the main characters' aunt (for, despite the synopsis of this story, it is as much Esme's as Bea's).
The leading men, who possessed seemingly infinite patience with the harridans whom they were pursuing, were all they should be and I actually wished for better women for them to choose from, though their devotion to their passive/aggressive future mates was ... admirable, I suppose.
I believe I have one more duchess in this quartet to read about, and, glutton for punishment that I am, no doubt I will acquire the book and loathe that "heroine" as well. ...more
Jun 09, 2016 Linda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: audiobook
Bea lost her reputation during a scandalous scene at a ball, so with nothing to lose, shes ready and willing to take part of everything she wants. When shes invited to a house party and meets a man she wants, shell try her best seduction and hope for the best.
Stephen didnt know what he was in for when he accepted the invitation to Infamous Esmes house party, but the ladies seem to have more than one plan including him in the works. Will he return to London unscathed?
Historical romance, feelings Bea lost her reputation during a scandalous scene at a ball, so with nothing to lose, she´s ready and willing to take part of everything she wants. When she´s invited to a house party and meets a man she wants, she´ll try her best seduction and hope for the best.
Historical romance, feelings and smutty fluff in a great combo, and we even get the conclusion to the sub-plot we´d had during the first two books. (Yay Esme! =) )
Listened to the audio version and the narration was great once again. ...more
Aug 01, 2012 Pam rated it liked it
I really enjoy Eloisa James' books, and didn't mind this one, but I did find it a bit slow at times. I like the characters and enjoyed reading the next installment in the lives of these duchesses, but did find that I skipped a few pages here and there to get to "the good parts".
Sep 07, 2018 KSSA added it
Story of Bea and Stephen is cute enough to finish the book while skimming Esme' s chapters. I found Esme despicable. She is manipulative enough drag others in her antics, help other girls helf-heartedly but immediately take their men if it suits her and then wallow in self-pity.
Nov 27, 2015 Angela marked it as deals · review of another edition
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Jun 28, 2018 Lani Smith rated it it was amazing
I feel like the blurb on the back of the book is misleading. If anyone was pursuing anyone, it would be Sebastian pursuing Esme. I loved seeing their story come to a HEA. The author did a wonderful job of bringing it to a realistic conclusion even with the scandals from the other 2 books.
Stephen and Bea spent so much of the book fighting AGAINST pursuing the other party I feel that the title/blurb is misleading. That said, I did like their parts of the story.
James is doing a wonderful job in the I feel like the blurb on the back of the book is misleading. If anyone was pursuing anyone, it would be Sebastian pursuing Esme. I loved seeing their story come to a HEA. The author did a wonderful job of bringing it to a realistic conclusion even with the scandals from the other 2 books.
James is doing a wonderful job in these books of balancing a large cast of characters and making you care for each sub-plot as much as you do the main plot. I can't wait to see Helene and Rees's conclusion in the final book of this series.
On a side note, not many romance novels feature childbirth. Many have an epilogue of pregnancy, but few have childbirth from the point of view of the woman giving birth and don’t do a fade to black. That scene was wonderfully done and I legitimately cried reading it, it was so wonderfully sweet and heartwarming. ...more
Sep 01, 2018 Joanne rated it really liked it
Went above my expectations. Originally I didn't want to read this book since Stephan and Bea as characters did not interest me. Ever since Duchess in Love, I was not very fond of Esme or Sebastian. I decided to read this novel because Esme and Sebastian were mentioned in Your Wicked Way and I wanted to get a full picture of their relationship before delving into Helene/Rees's story.
Various elements of this book came together to make this an enjoyable read. Amongst them are Helene and Rees intera Went above my expectations. Originally I didn't want to read this book since Stephan and Bea as characters did not interest me. Ever since Duchess in Love, I was not very fond of Esme or Sebastian. I decided to read this novel because Esme and Sebastian were mentioned in Your Wicked Way and I wanted to get a full picture of their relationship before delving into Helene/Rees's story.
Various elements of this book came together to make this an enjoyable read. Amongst them are Helene and Rees interaction, Stephan and Bea back and forth flirtation, the friendship between Esme, Helene, and Bea and last but not least, a more in-depth reading of Esme's backgound. I came to appreciate Esme's character more and it gave me a better understanding of her actions.
All in all, I enjoyed this novel immensely. Now onto Your Wicked Ways! ...more
Jan 17, 2018 Lady rated it liked it · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Well, this review is pretty much the same as the others in this series. It’s an ok story, more for the other characters than the main couple.
Bea, to me, was quite annoying with the facade of being a wanton and actually just being a girl who wants to marry and have kids (it would be more interesting if she did enjoy sex and wanted more from a relationship than just pleasure). Stephen was quite lovely, even if I liked him more in the previous book, as it seems he lost part of who he was.
Another t Well, this review is pretty much the same as the others in this series. It’s an ok story, more for the other characters than the main couple.
Another thing: this book does not work as a stand alone, with all the stories coming from the others books of the series. Alas, on we go to the last one! ...more
Jul 11, 2017 Laura deLuna rated it really liked it
Shelves: summer-17
I was worried about the angst... I don't do angsty romance novels very well. I prefer ones where the hero and heroine marry early and spend the rest of the novel getting to know one another. It causes me stress to think that anything could get in the way of a happy ending...
But this book was rather well written in that aspect. And while there was a certain amount of pining and miscommunication, it was nothing that was so outrageous or unforgivable as I have read in some novels.
I always enjoy Elo I was worried about the angst... I don't do angsty romance novels very well. I prefer ones where the hero and heroine marry early and spend the rest of the novel getting to know one another. It causes me stress to think that anything could get in the way of a happy ending...
I always enjoy Eloisa James' writing. And I will continue to enjoy it. I actually own two or three of her books now I think. They are worth it. ...more
May 29, 2019 Fanny Mills rated it it was amazing
Shelves: caring-hero, pregnant, bad-girl, banter, delightful, regency, highly-recommend, fun, naughty, sensuously-sexy
I loved, loved, loved, this book.
This book hit all the delectable notes for a Regency era historical, and it was deliciously, sensuously steamy. How could I not love a book with so many great bad girls- Esme, her Aunt, & Bea- and the incredibly sexy gentlemen that were head over heels in love with them? Absolutely adored this book. Eloisa James is amazing.
(Esme is also very pregnant- it’s rare to find books, especially trad. Published romance, where the very pregnant heroine has steamy sex s I loved, loved, loved, this book.
(Esme is also very pregnant- it’s rare to find books, especially trad. Published romance, where the very pregnant heroine has steamy sex scenes with a hero who is very turned on by her pregnant body) ...more
May 09, 2018 Naomi Impellizzeri rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favourites
I really enjoyed this. It's been on my kindle list for a while and I had no idea where the story was going so it was very refreshing.
The various subplots were great, a really refreshing setting that kept you entertained and wanting more. Keen to read more from this series.
I loved Esme & Sebastian, what a gorgeous romance.
All the women where fantastic, supportive characters and the men were rather dashing.
James makes characters both desirable and flawed, thus making it feel all the more rea I really enjoyed this. It's been on my kindle list for a while and I had no idea where the story was going so it was very refreshing.
James makes characters both desirable and flawed, thus making it feel all the more real and inspiring hope that we can love ourselves and others. ...more
Jan 13, 2017 Jen rated it liked it · review of another edition
Alot going on in this book. Roughly 3 different stories taking place at a house party. The individuals in the 3 stories are all interconnected.
I felt like this book could of stood alone with only Stephen's & Bea story.
The conclusion of Esme and Sebastian should of been a novella.
Helene & Rees were not even worth mentioning.
Either way, through all the main characters & secondary characters jumbled, I did enjoy this novel.
Being a fan of Shakespeare, I especially loved three ending Alot going on in this book. Roughly 3 different stories taking place at a house party. The individuals in the 3 stories are all interconnected.
Being a fan of Shakespeare, I especially loved three ending scenes. ...more
Jun 20, 2017 Anna rated it it was ok
My least favorite book by Eloisa James. There were too many characters and it became confusing as to who was speaking to whom since both the first names and formal titles of each person are used interchangeably, depending on the person's relationship with the speaker. I found that I did not care enough about the characters to pay close attention.
Infedelity and promiscuity are not romantic and several of the main characters were engaged in both. If the story had just focused on one relationship, My least favorite book by Eloisa James. There were too many characters and it became confusing as to who was speaking to whom since both the first names and formal titles of each person are used interchangeably, depending on the person's relationship with the speaker. I found that I did not care enough about the characters to pay close attention.
Infedelity and promiscuity are not romantic and several of the main characters were engaged in both. If the story had just focused on one relationship, it might have worked but as it is, it was turning into a mess by the time I gave up on it. ...more
Jun 21, 2019 Janet K rated it it was amazing
While all of her books are well written, Eloisa James is a bit hit or miss for me. Occasionally she writes a huge hit for me, and this was one of them. From start to finish, I was hooked. Story was both poignant and funny, and I loved the H/H and the (even more compelling) side romance of Esme and the Marquess Bonnington. I have been reading the series out of order, but the books stand alone just fine.
Romance > Historical Romance
Historical > Regency
Historical > Historical Fiction
About Eloisa James
Eloisa James
New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeat New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.
After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report.
Eloisa...on her double life:
When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. It's rather like having two lives. The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance; I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. Yet the literature professor in me certainly plays into my romances. The Taming of the Duke (April 2006) has obvious Shakespearean resonances, as do many of my novels. I often weave early modern poetry into my work; the same novel might contain bits of Catullus, Shakespeare and anonymous bawdy ballads from the 16th century.
When I rip off my power suit, whether it's academic or romantic, underneath is the rather tired, chocolate-stained sweatshirt of a mom. Just as I use Shakespeare in my romances, I almost always employ my experiences as a mother. When I wrote about a miscarriage in Midnight Pleasures, I used my own fears of premature birth; when the little girl in Fool For Love threw up and threw up, I described my own daughter, who had that unsavory habit for well over her first year of life.
So I'm a writer, a professor, a mother - and a wife. My husband Alessandro is Italian, born in Florence. We spend the lazy summer months with his mother and sister in Italy. It always strikes me as a huge irony that as a romance writer I find myself married to a knight, a cavaliere, as you say in Italian.
One more thing...I'm a friend. I have girlfriends who are writers and girlfriends who are Shakespeare professors. And I have girlfriends who are romance readers. In fact, we have something of a community going on my website. Please stop by and join the conversation on my readers' pages.
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Quotes from A Wild Pursuit
“In fact, you should take a nap this afternoon, because there won't be much sleep tonight. I
mean to have you every way I can. I mean to intoxicate you and torment you so that you know precisely
how I feel about you." His finger trailed down her cheek and tipped up her chin.
"Don't mistake what is going to happen tonight." His voice was sinful, dark and hoarse. "You will never
forget the imprint of my skin after tonight, Esme. Waste your life chitchatting with ladies in lace caps.
Raise your child with the help of your precious Sewing Circle. But in the middle of all those lonely nights,
you will never, ever, forget the night that lies ahead of us.” — 3 likes
“That sleepy, sensual smile of hers ought to be outlawed. It said
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The quid pro quo of Texas’ workers compensation statute bars injured employees of a general contractor from bringing suit against employees of a covered subcontractor, their deemed fellow employees.
By Pillsbury's Construction & Real Estate Law Team
Pillsbury's Construction & Real Estate Law Team
Under the Texas code, the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy bar applies up and down: barring injured employees of subcontractors from bringing common law tort suits against a general contractor which provided workers compensation insurance, and also in reverse, barring injured employees of the general contractor from bringing suit against a subcontractor, even when the employees are covered under separate workers’ comp policies. So says the Texas Court of Appeals in Garza v. Zachry Construction Corp., 2012 WL 1864350 (Tex. Ct. App. May 23, 2012).
In Garza, an employee at DuPont’s Ingleside, Texas plant was injured when the railcar mover he operated came loose. He received workers’ compensation benefits through a policy provided by DuPont, and later brought common law tort claims against a subcontractor and two of its employees for negligence in causing the accident. The subcontractor, whose employees were covered by a separate workers compensation insurance procured by DuPont, successfully argued that DuPont was their deemed employer and the injured worker and subcontractor employees were deemed fellow employees. In this way, the subcontractor was shielded from such actions by the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy bar contained in Texas Labor Code section 408.001 as made applicable to subcontractors by Labor Code section 406.123. On appeal, the Court of Appeals agreed.
Garza, the injured employee, argued that the exclusive remedy bar could not apply where the subcontract specified that the subcontractor’s employees were not employees of DuPont, Garza’s employer. But even if they were deemed employees for purposes of statutory workers compensation benefits, the bar could not apply where the subcontractors were covered under a separate workers’ compensation policy than that covering DuPont’s employees. Lastly, if the statute does immunize the subcontractor, then it violates the open courts guarantee (assuring that a person bringing a well-established common-law cause of action will not suffer unreasonable or arbitrary denial of access to the court) in the Texas constitution.
In rejecting these arguments, the appellate court first ruled that the subcontract at issue required DuPont to procure workers’ compensation coverage for Zachry’s employees, “thereby, creating the legal fiction of DuPont as the ‘deemed employer’ and Zachry and its employees as ‘deemed employees'” under Entergy Gulf States, Inc. v. Summers, 282 S.W.3d 433, 438 (Tex.2009) and HCBeck, Ltd. v. Rice, 284 S.W.3d 349, 352 (Tex.2009). The subcontract, however, did not provide these same “deemed employees” with the other more traditional employee benefits enjoyed by DuPont’s actual employees. Secondly, the court ruled that nothing in the workers compensation statute, section 406.123, “specifies that when a general contractor purchases a workers’ compensation policy for its own employees and also purchases a second policy for its subcontractors, then its own employees and its “deemed” employees may freely sue each other simply because they receive their coverage under different policies, albeit from the same “employer” for work performed at the same job site.” According to the court, such an interpretation would be contrary to the purpose of the legislation – which is to encourage coverage of employees. Finally, the court concluded that Garza’s rights under the open courts provision are not violated because “[t]he workers’ compensation benefits he receives from his employer, which also provides those same benefits to its subcontractors, is an adequate substitute for his right to bring his tort claims against those subcontractors.”
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We have the only rising maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Women’s mortality rates indicate the effectiveness of a nation’s healthcare system. Our hospitals are not prepared or equipped to deal with obstetric emergencies! African American women die 2 to 3 times more often!
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The U.S. has the only rising maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Rita Henley Jensen broke this story in Women’s eNews! The emphasis now is on keeping premature and low birth weight babies alive vs. maternal care to increase the birth weight of their babies. The reasons women die are embolisms, infections, hemorrhaging and Pre-eclampsia — which is 50% avoidable! U.S. hospitals are not prepared or equipped to deal with obstetric emergencies!
Women’s mortality rates indicate the effectiveness of a nation’s healthcare system. There is no consistency in state’s reporting of maternal death due to their refusal to add this reason for death on Death Certificates.
– African American women die 3 to 4 times more often of pregnancy than white women.
– The World Health Organization (WHO) statistics are higher than the CDC’s.
– African American women experience racism by Medicaid when in pain.
– Women need a partner or advocate in delivery! “Every pregnancy needs a Midwife and a Doula,” says Rita.
– 100 Anti-Abortion Laws were introduced in the first two months of 2015!
What becomes news and what becomes the national conversation is determined by money and polls. Women journalists are widely unreported advocates of women’s stories. Rita Henley Jensen has a tremendous love for basic fairness. She founded Women’s eNews and is impassioned to “change journalism.” Women’s eNews has a focus on optimism, and the push-back by women toward solutions and advocacy to make things happen. “You have to stay informed to make change,” Rita says!
Rita Henley Jensen was a well-regarded journalist who founded the digital news service Women’s eNews. Rita died on Oct. 18, 2017. in Manhattan. She was 70. The cause was breast cancer.
Rita was in her mid-20s in Columbus, Ohio, when she broke free from her troubled marriage, relying on food stamps and other government aid to survive. She enrolled at Ohio State University, graduating in 1976, and then moved to New York City with her two children to attend Columbia University. She received a master’s degree in journalism in 1977.
Rita worked for The American Lawyer and The National Law Journal, among other publications. In 2000 she became the first editor in chief of Women’s eNews, which was started as a nonprofit by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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Understanding Inherited IRAs
April 12, 2018 Ryan LeBlanc Columns, Ryan LeBlanc 0
Financial Tidbits
What beneficiaries need to know and consider
At first glance, the rules surrounding inherited IRAs are complex. Here are some questions (and potential answers) to consider if you have inherited one or may in the future.
Who was the original IRA owner? If the original owner was your spouse, you have a fundamental choice to make. You can roll over your late spouse’s IRA into an IRA you own, or you can treat it as an inherited IRA. If the original owner was not your spouse, you must treat the IRA for which you are named beneficiary as an inherited IRA.1,2
What kind of IRA is it? It will either be a traditional IRA funded with pre-tax contributions or a Roth IRA funded with post-tax contributions.
Do you want to let the money grow and take RMDs or cash it all out now? In the case of a small IRA, many heirs just want to cash out – it seems bothersome to schedule tiny withdrawals out of the IRA across the remainder of their lifetimes. Money coming out of an inherited traditional IRA is taxable income, however – and if a lump sum is taken, the tax impact could be notable.1
If the IRA is substantial, there is real merit in scheduling Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) instead. This gives some of the still-invested IRA balance additional years to benefit from periods of growth and compound. Any future growth will be tax deferred (traditional IRA) or tax free (Roth IRA).1
Internal Revenue Service rules say that RMDs from inherited IRAs must begin by the end of the year following the year in which the original IRA owner died. These RMDs are required even for inherited Roth IRAs. Each RMD is considered regular, taxable income.1,2
One asterisk is worth noting regarding inherited traditional IRAs. If the original IRA owner died on or after the date at which RMDs are required for that IRA, then you can schedule RMDs during the remainder of your lifetime using tables in I.R.S. Publication 590 as a guide. If the original IRA owner died before that date, you have a choice of scheduling RMDs over a lifetime or withdrawing the whole IRA balance by the end of the 5th year following the year of the original owner’s death.2,3
What is the IRA’s basis? In other words, what is the amount on which the original IRA owner paid taxes? For an inherited traditional IRA, the basis equals the amount of all non-deductible contributions that the original IRA owner made. For an inherited Roth IRA, the basis equals the amount of total contributions made by the original owner.4
When you know the basis, you can figure out the percentage of an RMD from an inherited traditional IRA that is subject to tax. RMDs out of inherited Roth IRAs are not normally taxed, but if the inherited Roth IRA is less than five years old, you must determine the basis. The Roth IRA’s basis will be distributed to you first, then the Roth IRA’s earnings, and only the earnings will be taxed. Earnings can be withdrawn tax free from an inherited Roth IRA starting on the first day of the fifth taxable year after the year the Roth IRA was first created.1,4
Can you withdraw more than the RMD amount from an inherited IRA each year? Certainly, but keep in mind that a large, lump-sum payout could leave you in a higher tax bracket.1
What happens when you inherit an inherited IRA? As a secondary beneficiary to that IRA, you assume the RMD schedule of the person who was the primary beneficiary.1
Can you convert an inherited traditional IRA into a Roth IRA? The I.R.S. forbids this – with one exception. A spousal IRA heir who rolls over an inherited IRA balance into their own traditional IRA can arrange a Roth conversion.3
If you have inherited an IRA, talk with a financial professional. That conversation may help you determine a tax-efficient way to manage and withdraw these assets.
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Ryan LeBlanc is a managing member and founder of LeBlanc Wealth Management. As a locally based LPL Financial Advisor, Mr. LeBlanc specializes in objective asset management and wealth preservation planning for clients across the Southern Region. As president, Ryan serves as an LPL Financial Advisor, branch manager and registered principal for LPL Financial. In addition, he currently holds the series 6, 7, 24, 31, 52, 63 and 65 securities registrations. A native of New Orleans, Ryan graduated from Jesuit High School prior to attaining a B.S. from the University of Alabama with a specialization in investment banking.
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Escapegoat app returns: Enables users to offload sins to a virtual goat
In 2013, G-dcast, a San Francisco-based new media studio, launched the eScapegoat app, encouraging users to engage in deeper Jewish learning and to prepare for Yom Kippur by offloading their sins to a virtual goat, in an echo of an ancient repentance ritual. Now, the app is back, and has spawned Mini Goats—local mini-apps that let smaller communities re-enact this ritual virtually for a new, high-tech learning and community connection.
“Despite high synagogue attendance on Yom Kippur, literacy of the scapegoat story in Leviticus is very low,” said G-dcast founder and executive director Sarah Lefton. “This program is an easily accessible, fun way to engage people in thinking through the importance of personal and communal atonement rituals.”
Last year, the quirky, educational app was a hit in the press, with major coverage by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and Jewish newspapers from coast to coast and internationally. In two months, the app had 50,000 users who learned the fascinating, rarely discussed story of the scapegoat, submitted anonymous sins, and then read the sins of others in an interactive interface that integrates social media and real-world discussion. (To use the eScapegoat app, visit http://www.escgoat.com. To read some of the sins already shared through eScapegoat, visit: twitter.com/sinfulgoat.)
This year’s eScapegoat is a 2.0 version: brighter, sleeker, bouncier, and teaches even more about those storied scapegoats. And with the launch of customized “Mini Goats”—custom websites for individual communities to share sins, stories and behavioral goals - G-dcast is enabling smaller spaces, like synagogues, schools and youth groups—to focus their reflection and deepen community connections.
“All our work makes Jewish learning easy and effortless for people from all backgrounds,” Lefton explained. “Clearly it resonates with the digital natives of the millennial generation as a natural tie-in to the high holiday season and a starting point to explore their tradition. But, most importantly, eScapegoat is fun and lets you connect with others around your regrets, no matter how tame or edgy they are.”
The idea of Mini Goats was born last year, as G-dcast received reports of rabbis using eScapegoat-confessed sins in their synagogue programming in advance of the High Holidays. At Temple Sinai in Oakland, the rabbi even read some of the submissions from the pulpit on Yom Kippur. “We realized that private, ’walled-off‘ Mini Goats could be a powerful tool for communities because the interface really encourages sharing and that gets more interesting within a smaller community” Lefton said. “It lets people see what’s bubbling in their own backyards—all the regrets are so much more powerful when you know they belong to your neighbors and friends. It also creates a safe and private place for younger users in school settings.”
Mini Goat Details:
Communities can purchase the Mini Goat package for $99, which includes:
• A custom, private goat website that shuls and orgs can moderate with a login
• A virtual goat with the community logo
• Space on the mini-site to include community event info (promote classes, Yom Kippur service times, etc.)
• Inventive curricular support materials including activities for different age groups—children, teens and adults
To aid communities in marketing their Mini Goat, G-dcast also offers the “Goat-in-a-Box “optional add-on for $49, which includes an assortment of marketing materials such as eScapegoat posters, tote bags, stickers, and temporary tattoos.
To learn more about the Mini Goats, visit: http://www.g-dcast.com/minigoat.
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Diwali, the festival of lights: Celebrating the diplomatic way
The high commissioner of Canada and ambassadors of Mexico and Lithuania share with us their favourite Diwali moments.
more lifestyle Updated: Oct 17, 2017 20:13 IST
Nikita Saxena
Ambassadors from Mexico, Lithuania, and the high commissioner from Canada share with us their Diwali memories.(Raajessh Kashyap)
From biting into their favourite sweets to adding warmth to their homes with lights — the high commissioner of Canada and ambassadors of Mexico and Lithuania share with us their favourite Diwali moments.
DIWALI, THE INDO-CANADIAN WAY
Canadian ambassador Nadir Patel with wife Jennifer Graham and daughter Nylah Patel-Graham. ( Raajessh Kashyap/HT Photo )
The Canadian high commissioner to India, Nadir Patel and his wife Jennifer Graham will be celebrating their third Diwali in India. For them, the festival became more special after their daughter, Nylah’s birth. “Our daughter was born here in Delhi, so I’d say she is a pure Dilliwallah. Her first Diwali stands out in our minds,” says Nadir. “She was about four months old (she is two, now), and we were at a close friend’s home for the Diwali party. She was desperately trying to sleep amid all the noise,” he recalls.
It’s a time to say thank you. We’re here as diplomats but we’ve met a lot of wonderful people in India. Diwali lets us celebrate these bonds - Nadir Patel
For the family, celebrations are about gratitude. “It’s a time to say thank you. We’re here as diplomats but we’ve met a lot of wonderful people in India. Diwali lets us celebrate these bonds,” says Nadir. “We don’t burst firecrackers, one can celebrate without them,” he adds. Traditional Indian clothes, too hold favour with the trio. “We like to wear Indian clothes at any opportunity that we get. Diwali gives us a chance to wear colourful clothes for parties or while celebrating in office, and we love that!”
MEXICAN AMBASSADOR AND HER SWEET DIWALI
Mexican ambassador Melba Pria. ( Raajessh Kashyap/HT Photo )
Lights, getting together with friends, and floral rangolis are things that Mexican ambassador to India, Melba Pria enjoys about Diwali. “I just love the lights. It is beautiful to see how the lights of the small lamps conquer the darkness – be it the darkness of evil conquered by the light of good, or that of ignorance or despair which is overcome by knowledge and hope,” she says. And, she also looks forward to the sweets that are a part of the festivities.
I do not usually eat sweets, but throughout the year, I wait for Diwali so I can have the traditional Indian sweets with pistachio and a silver foil on it - Melba Pria
“I do not usually eat sweets, but throughout the year, I wait for Diwali so I can have the traditional Indian sweets with pistachio and a silver foil on it. The first time I ate it, I was so amazed to eat silver foil on a sweet. Mexico is the first producer of silver in the world and silver is important in my country. To see it used in this unique form was astonishing for me,” explains Melba. “I light up my home with candles. It is a day to decorate the house with floral rangoli, dress in traditional clothes and relax with lots of music, dance, fun and laughter,” she says.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME, FOR THE LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR
Lithuanian ambassador Laimonas Talat-Kelpsa. ( Raajessh Kashyap/HT Photo )
For Lithuanian ambassador to India, Laimonas Talat-Kelpsa, Diwali feels a lot like Christmas. “In a way, Diwali reminds me of Christmas celebrations. Like Christmas, everyone spends the day with their family members and the scale is the same too. It is exciting to see people so happy,” he says.
Diwali is the start of celebrations for us. The decorations and lights are not moved till Christmas. It’s only a couple of months but it gives us a very special feeling. - Laimonas Talat-Kelpsa
The ambassador has celebrated four Diwalis in India till now, and still gets excited about the festival. “Diwali is the start of celebrations for us. The decorations and lights are not moved till Christmas. It’s only a couple of months but it gives us a very special feeling. It makes us feel like we’re home and everyone remains happy,” he shares. “The tradition of having lights is very close to my culture. The region where we come from, the day starts ending very quickly this time of the year. So, the candle lighting is very natural to our families. Doing the same thing here gives us a homely feeling and warms up our heart,” he adds.
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Gun Owners of Canada > GOC Lifestyle > News and World Headlines > Northrop grumman fires up rugged solid-state laser weapon
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has test fired the first product in its next-generation FIRESTRIKE family of high-energy, solid-state lasers that meet goals for size and weight reduction and ruggedization for operational applications.
The tests, conducted in the company's Redondo Beach laboratory, demonstrated that the laser could burn through the skin and critical components of a target drone used to simulate anti-ship cruise missile threats to U.S. Navy ships.
The laser, called Gamma, uses a "slab" architecture similar to previous Northrop Grumman high-power lasers. It operated at 13.3 kilowatts for a number of shots over a total of 1.5 hours with stable performance and a beam quality that exceeded design goals, completing the initial phase of trials.
"We previously announced the design for a product called FIRESTRIKE™ that builds on our heritage of record-breaking, high-energy, solid-state lasers. Since that time we've invested our internal funds to fabricate, integrate and test a demonstration prototype of the FIRESTRIKE laser that we call Gamma," said Steve Hixson, vice president of advanced concepts, space and directed energy systems for Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector.
"Gamma has equaled or exceeded the performance we achieved in previous slab lasers, but the real advancement here is in packaging and ruggedization for operations in real-world military platforms," he added. The term "slab laser" refers to a class of high-power, solid-state lasers with a gain medium, or source of atoms that emit light, in the form of a slab about the size of a microscope slide.
"The Gamma demonstrator is built in a form factor that implements the size and weight reduction goals of the FIRESTRIKE design, which cuts the weight of the finished laser chain to 500 pounds and shrinks the volume to 23 inches by 40 inches by 12 inches, or about the size of two countertop microwave ovens," said Dan Wildt, vice president, directed energy systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
"This laser has also been ruggedized to demonstrate how robust operational FIRESTRIKE lasers can be," Wildt said. "Our company has more than 50,000 lower power laser devices in operation with the Defense Department. "We applied lessons from those systems to be sure this laser will be able to survive in real-world operational environments and keep operating reliably."
"Gamma implements a significant reduction in the number of internal optical components, while new mounting techniques eliminate sensitivity to vibrations. Key portions of the Gamma laser have already been subjected to vibration, shock and thermal testing to validate that these improvements have achieved design goals," said Wildt.
The Gamma demonstrator is a single "chain" or building block that is designed to be combined with other chains to create laser systems of greater power, as was demonstrated in Northrop Grumman's 105 kilowatt Joint High Power Solid State Laser.
"This hallmark for company lasers allows them to be combined coherently, meaning they retain their good beam quality, or the ability to focus energy at long ranges, even as more power is added," Wildt explained. "The Gamma laser was tested at a beam quality of 1.4, which beat the design goal of 1.5, and we expect it to keep improving. A perfect beam quality is 1. Owing to its excellent beam quality, the 13.3 kilowatt Gamma is also brighter than its design goal, meaning it can put more power on target at range."
The lethality testing used a single Gamma chain at short distance in a way that simulated the effects that a laser weapon of several chains aboard a Navy ship could achieve at a range of several miles. "We validated that the laser could produce the amount of energy we predicted, and that the energy would have the effect on the target that we predicted," said Wildt.
The components used in the test included the skin of a surplus BQM-74 drone and other parts configured to represent critical internal components. The BQM-74 was formerly produced by Northrop Grumman for the Navy as a representative cruise missile threat and used for testing defensive systems.
"The FIRESTRIKE laser, announced in 2008, forms the backbone near-term laser weapon systems from Northrop Grumman. Combined with advanced electro optical and/or infrared sensors, FIRESTRIKE™ line replaceable units and their subsystems can provide military services with active defense, offensive precision strike and enhanced situational awareness capabilities, all in the same weapon system," Wildt said.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-northrop-grumman-rugged-solid-state-laser.html
One problem I see is power. A traditional CIWS doesn't have anywhere near the requirement that even this laser has. I'd assume power would be at a premium in situations that would require the laser's use.
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Environment & Health • HKFP Voices
The unlivable dwellings in Hong Kong and the minimum living space
Alfred Ho
From the mundane shots of high-density residential units in movies, to the presentation of repetitive architectural patterns as urban aesthetics by the photographer Michael Wolf, Hong Kong dwellings always attract attention.
For some, living in a flat in this city might not be much better than living in a cage. The average living area per capita of Hong Kong’s subdivided flats is only 47.8 square feet, with rent costing around 40% of its household income. These figures come from recent research by the Institute of Future Cities (IOFC) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and a local concern group, the Platform of Concerning Subdivided Flats and Issues in Hong Kong.
The research reveals that the average monthly income of the subdivided flat household is HK$10,939.00. Their average monthly rent is HK$3,924.20. Comparing the research findings with those of the survey by Policy 21 Limited, commissioned by the government in 2013, the average living area per capita has reduced by almost 30% from 67.6 square feet to 47.8 square feet, while the rent to income ratio (RTIR) has increased by around 11%.
Just how big is 47.8 square feet? It is barely larger than a table-tennis table, measuring 9 foot by 5 foot. Ironically, the area of an individual cell in Stanley Prison is around 80 square feet, according to Wen Wei Pao. So, what is the minimal livable space? Are there any standards for minimum living space and how were these derived?
Photo: Ko Chun-ming.
There is currently no standard for minimum living space in Hong Kong. However, public rental housing (PRH) households with an internal floor area (IFA) smaller than 7 square metres per person may apply for a larger flat under the Living Space Improvement Transfer Scheme (LSITS) endorsed in 2005.
Taiwan is similar to Hong Kong in terms of its culture, average body dimensions of citizens and geography. Taiwan’s ‘Basic Living Standards’ were implemented by its Construction and Planning Agency Ministry of the Interior on 30 December 2012 and stipulate average minimum living floor areas per person.
The ‘Basic Living Standards’ is based on the research ‘Minimum Living Standards‘ carried out by the Chinese Society of Housing Studies in 2008. The research studied the findings and experiences of various countries concerning living area, structural safety, ventilation, natural lighting, hygiene, facilities, cramped conditions, rent and other aspects. For the research, a dwelling was divided into four living areas: bedroom, kitchen, dining hall, and toilet and bathroom. The average minimum living floor area per capita for different number of persons in a household is calculated with the minimum functioning areas of the 4 living areas according to different situations.
The average living space per capita in Hong Kong is around 160 square feet. In public rental housing it is 130 square feet – still much bigger than the 48 square feet for subdivided flats. It is, nevertheless, very small when compared to other countries or cities.
Hong Kong has a very high gross domestic product (GDP) per capita value. If space in a capitalist city, with a free market economy and minimal government intervention, represents wealth, does the disparity of its average living space imply a huge disparity in wealth?
When dwellings are not perceived as homes or space for living, or even as space for daydreaming as Gaston Bachelard described in ‘The Poetics of Space’, but as real estate for selling and leasing for profit, residential units are simply commodities. This mentality has given rise to the phenomenon of subdivided flats.
A subdivided flat is actually a box, with windows if the household is fortunate. No wonder some people call this type of flat a ‘shoe box flat’ or a ‘match box flat’.
Hong Kong always presents itself as an international city, but when will it attain an international standard in terms of the quality of its living space?
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Alfred Ho is an architect who focuses on urban research. Graduating from the University of Hong Kong and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Alfred is an expert on living spaces and public spaces. He has written for several local media including Stand News on topics like department stores and theme parks.
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DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big data and HPC acceleration. In so doing, the company said it’s bringing to the burgeoning enterprise market for AI some of the transferable capabilities – with an emphasis on small file speed-ups required in AI workloads –that the company has developed for HPC.
Launched here at the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt, EXA5 is the newest version of DDN’s EXAscaler Storage, designed to make the EXAscaler infrastructure easier to consume by offering what the company said are deeper integrations into AI and HPC ecosystems through simpler implementation and scaling models, visibility into workflows and global data management features.
DDN said EXA5 allows for scaling either with flash or with a hybrid approach “offering flexible scaling according to needs with the performance of flash or the economics of HDDs.” EXA5 is compatible with DDN’s AI pre-configured A3I storage appliances, reducing deployment time, the company said. Together they provide benchmarking, documentation and qualification with AI and GPU environments.
“We’re looking to eliminate some of that sprawl going on at the back end,” Kurt Kuckein, DDN director of marketing, told us. “Data lakes and distributed types of architectures with tightly coupled compute and storage are not able to drive the performance needed, and some archived solutions out there are too deep to be accessible. So what we’ve done is deliver exceptional performance while managing the cost profile, whether it’s cost per gigabyte served or cost per gigabyte stored on the back end.”
DDN’s objective, Kuckein said, is coupling best-in-class technologies, “extracting the ultimate value out of emergent architectures. “We hear about organizations frustrated, for example, by high end NVME systems, you put a file system in front of it and the performance would be cut in half.”
EXA5 features and capabilities include:
Strategem is DDN’s integrated policy engine for flash tiering with data management capabilities that DDN said enables users to manage most active data to scale-out flash tiers from scale-out hard disc drive (HDD) tiers. It also controls free space on flash, responding to changing demands and scanning storage devices directly to find target files.
Integration with DDN Insight for real-time analysis providing visibility into software and appliances for monitoring of DDN EXAScaler GRIDScaler, SFA and IME platforms, Insight is designed to “derive the most value from storage infrastructures and sorts running jobs by metadata activity and throughput operations,” the company said. DDN Insight identifies problem jobs, resolves performance issues and it is scalable, allowing for open back-end database and integration with other systems and switches to cope with millions of stats per second, according to DDN.
Gateway – DDN’s NAS type interface allows non-native DDN Lustre users to export file systems through DDN CIFS and NFS gateways, “providing another avenue to get access to high performance data,” the company said, “the supportive and robust solution can scale horizontally as needed to maintain consistency and lock semantics with Linux/Unix and Windows systems.
Small File Acceleration – Complementary to DDN’s granular metadata scaling capabilities, EXA5 has been built to improve scaling across EXAScaler servers, allowing efficient application of flash to small files while expanding the domain of file sizes from a few KB to multiple MB, according to DDN.
Kuckein said DDN’s small file performance is central to DDN’s efforts to enabling enterprise AI adoption.
“We’ve focused on small file performance mainly because historically its’s been something HPC applications did not drive as much as needed,” he said. “Typically, you loaded in really big files for streaming bandwidth-intensive operation, and truth be told, the HPC community is going to benefit as HPC workloads become more small file driven. Particularly the AI workloads will be mixed-type, with unstructured data, this is driving demand for better performance on small I/O operations. So we’ve done a lot of work on metadata and allowing for more efficiency out of flash-based systems. We’ve added additional flexibility and tune-ability to these, so no matter what the file size is, they all benefit from these accelerations.”
Data Protection – To guard against data corruption, EXA5 includes T10PI/DIX on an end-to-end basis, DDN said. With fully transparent applications, users are supported by EXAScaler through drives, resulting in minimal performance impact, according to the company.
EXA5 takes a key tenant-based approach to application life cycle production sets, “all the way from the application user space to the commit on the disc itself, so there’s a verification with each step that’s fully transparent to applications,” Kuckein said.
Security – EXA5 incorporates security measures that include KMIP and FIPS support plus EXA5 auditing capabilities and multi-tenancy.
“It provides the ability to audit access,” Kuckein said, “…to track who’s accessing files, when, what they’ve changed, if things are being tested in terms of denied access, all of that is logged and securely recorded in a lock-down log that can then be accessed for later auditing. We’ve been working on the depth of information that we provide in EXAScaler, going all the way to the users’ activity, and that allows us to diagnose misbehaving users who might be sucking up all the performance on a system, or to help us help customers tune their applications for I/O performance. So it allows us to granularly go from the disc drive itself, whether it’s flash or spinning media, to the end user application to determine what’s going on.”
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Tax-Free Childcare will eventually replace Employer Supported Childcare and has the advantage that the self employed, as well as employed individuals, can make use of the scheme. At HSA & Co, we can provide guidance on Tax-Free Childcare and Employer Supported Childcare in the Saffron Walden area.
The government has introduced a tax incentive for childcare Tax-Free Childcare (TFC).
Under TFC the tax relief available is 20% of the costs of childcare up to a total of childcare costs of £10,000 per child per year. The scheme will therefore be worth a maximum of £2,000 per child (£4,000 for a disabled child). Parents are able to apply for TFC for children under 12 (up to 17 for children with disabilities).
To qualify for Tax-Free Childcare all parents in the household must generally meet a minimum income level, based on working 16 hours a week (on average £131 a week) and each earn less than £100,000 a year and not already be receiving support through Tax Credits or Universal Credit.
Parents are able to register with the government and open an online account. The government will then 'top up' payments into this account at a rate of 20p for every 80p that families pay in.
Self-employed parents are able to get support with childcare costs using the TFC scheme, unlike employer supported childcare scheme. To support newly self-employed parents, the government have introduced a 'start-up' period. During this period a newly self-employed parent will not have to earn the minimum income level.
TFC and service issues
All parents of eligible children can apply for both 30 hours free childcare and TFC via a single website. Parents can apply online through the childcare service which can be accessed via the Childcare Choices website.
HMRC acknowledges that some parents did not receive the intended level of service when using the website and that they have subsequently made significant improvements. For those parents who have had difficulties in accessing the service, compensation may be available: see childcare service compensation.
Only childcare providers registered with a regulator can receive Tax-Free Childcare payments.
How does this relate to employer supported childcare?
Employer Supported Childcare (ESC) closed to new entrants in October 2018. ESC continues to be available for current members if they wish to remain in it or they can switch to TFC but parents cannot be in both ESC and TFC at the same time.
If you are in the Saffron Walden area please do contact us for guidance on Tax-Free Childcare.
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Anna flies home from a family holiday to help 'save' her brother Kingsley's marriage. Kingsley's wife, Dolly has just found out he has been having an affair with their live-in-nanny Gabriella and is threatening to leave him and take the children. Dolly's sister Kitty has just become engaged to music producer Skeet and wastes no time in telling everybody she knows. She hastily plans an engagement party at her parents' house. Socially awkward family friend Peter suffers from a case of very bad timing when he decides to ask Kitty if she'd ever be interested in being with him romantically.... She turns him down, gushing about how in love she is. He is humiliated - just as he expected he would be. Anna and Skeet meet by chance at the airport and when a terrible accident happens in front of them, they feel bonded. At the engagement party, Skeet and Anna are once again drawn to each other - which upsets Kitty. Anna leaves the party and Skeet goes with her. Anna refuses him but writes her phone number on his wrist. Skeet watches as she drives away in a taxi.... THEN it stops. Anna gets out. As if taken over by an unstoppable force they have sex in a lane-way. Meanwhile, Peter visits his sickly brother Nick before returning to his home on a farm out of town; Dolly questions whether she could ever take Kingsley back; Kitty becomes hysterical and Anna returns home to her husband Xander - shaken and changed forever.
Anna can't shake what happened with Skeet. He's calling her. And then he texts: What are we going to do? She attempts to focus her affections on her husband Xander but finds it difficult. She tries to block Skeet from her mind, but can't. Dolly and Kingsley pay Peter a surprise visit on his farm. Peter tries to convince Kingsley he is over Kitty's rejection and doesn't care about her anymore but Kingsley won't believe him. He tells Peter that Kitty has been sent to a 'wellness retreat' by her parents. We discover that she has had trouble with an eating disorder in her past. Meanwhile, Anna sneaks out of bed to meet Skeet. He convinces her to walk with him at night and despite her feeble attempt at resistance, she kisses him. Peter has a strange dalliance with a woman whose horse he euthanised, getting drunk and telling her what a loser he is at love. She tries to make him feel better by initiating sex, then falters due to old feelings she has for her ex. Peter feels rejected again. Then Kitty breaks out of rehab, determined to be better but in her own way. Anna, Xander, Dolly and Kingsley go out to the football. Dolly announces to Kingsley that she wants to sell their home in the city and move to the country - Gabriella included. Kingsley is not in a position to argue. Then to Anna's surprise, Skeet turns up and they are caught doing cocaine in the bathroom. Their affair is suddenly public as they are paraded through the crowd by security. Xander demands Anna end the affair immediately or he will make sure she regrets it. Anna begs him for forgiveness but knows in her heart that it is inevitable she and Skeet will be together again.
Anna has told Xander the affair is over but is sneaking away to see Skeet whenever she can. Xander is paranoid so he wants to check Anna's phone and whereabouts all the time. Meanwhile, Dolly and Kingsley have moved to the country where Dolly finds it less romantic than she thought it was going to be. The irony is that due to Kingsley's enforced commute to work she now spends more time alone with Gabriella. Peter's sickly brother Nick arrives on the farm and wants to stay. Peter knows that Nick wants money. Kitty tells her parents that if they think she is spoilt it's their fault and so they kick her out of home. She moves in with Dolly. Anna discovers she is pregnant. Then Xander witnesses Skeet sneaking out of the house, he shares this with Anna and demands she move out. Xander takes Kasper to the country so Anna can pack up her things... They stay with Dolly and Kingsley who turn it into a dinner party, inviting Peter and his brother Nick too. Xander gets into an argument with Nick about Kitty which ends in a punch up with Peter. Xander feels humiliated in front of his son. Anna goes to Skeet's house for the first time and is completely enchanted. It's magical and she manages to forget for one brief moment that the rest of her life is in pieces. Peter and Kitty steal a moment together and Kitty tells him she is ashamed about what she said before. She regrets turning him down. They kiss and it's fantastic.
Anna is five months pregnant and already packing her hospital bag - she has a bad feeling about the birth and is convinced the baby is going to come early. Skeet has been recording an ethereal young singer named Theresa and Anna can't help but be jealous of her. Dolly convinces Xander to stop feeling sorry for himself and that he can still win Anna back. Peter and Kitty have locked themselves in his farm house inside a bubble of new love. They promise each other that they will never fight - easier said than done. Dolly and Kingsley walk in on an embarrassing moment for their nanny Gabriella and end up giving her relationship advice which is extremely awkward for all. After an argument with Skeet, Anna finds herself knocking on Xander's door... He is sympathetic and cooks her dinner, offering her a 'holiday' from the hell they are in. Xander makes Anna feel better about the birth and the baby on the way. Kitty asks Peter about his past lovers (promising not to get jealous) and is disgusted to find out Peter has had the same bed since University. Despite her promise not to, Kitty gets extremely jealous and they have their first argument. Meanwhile, Anna goes into labour. She haemorrhages and in her deluded state keeps asking for Xander. Xander rushes to the hospital and Skeet meets him for the first time. Xander becomes smitten with the newborn baby girl and forgives them. Anna is very ill and so decides to go home with Xander who asks her to rethink their marriage. Anna tells him she loves Skeet. Peter and Kitty recover from their lover's tiff and he proposes on a tractor. Kitty says yes and then buys him a new bed. Anna leaves Xander's house and returns home to Skeet with their baby daughter. She can't help but think there is something horrible in their happiness. Kasper tells Xander that he doesn't want to see Anna anymore. Xander doesn't disagree.
Peter and Kitty's wedding preparations have begun and she is disappointed he is refusing to have it in a church. As a compromise, they issue a wedding invitation for a NOT-WEDDING to be held at Dolly's country house and they would like their guests to all wear white. Kingsley tells Anna about the not-wedding and makes it out like it's very informal. Anna talks to Skeet about attending - thinking it's time she was let back into Kitty and Dolly's family. After all, it's not an 'affair' anymore; they have a baby. How long can they be punished for? Anna turns up at the wedding, wearing RED. She stands out in the crowd of white. She is high on pills and alcohol and has the baby with her. Kingsley walks Anna out to wait for Skeet to pick her up, he's very worried about his sister. Skeet takes Anna home. Later that night at the wedding, Xander meets a woman who returns serve on the dance floor, Lydia. They seem a good match for each other, playing imaginary tennis to the music until Peter's brother Nick vomits blood. Over the next few days, Kitty supports Nick fearlessly into his death. Peter finds it confronting and disgusting but is in awe of who his wife turned out to be! Anna becomes more jealous and fears she is losing Skeet - who feels more and more out of his depth every time he is around her. Anna descends into a pit of self-loathing and despair. She takes more pills and drinks more. Kitty and Peter fall pregnant.
Anna and Skeet have moved to the country in a futile bid for peace. Anna puts on a brave face for Dolly who visits her beautiful new house. Dolly is quietly jealous. Anna finds herself home alone with the baby more and more as Skeet makes any excuse to be back in the city with his work. Anna is convinced he is having an affair with Theresa, the singer. The clingier Anna is the more distant Skeet becomes. Their relationship begins to spiral. Meanwhile, the now heavily pregnant Kitty bumps into Skeet for the first time since he left her at their engagement party. She maintains her dignity and for the first time in her adult life, feels like a grown up. She decides she is ready to become a mother. Dolly and Kingsley discover the house they're living in is full of termites and are forced to move in with Peter and Kitty. They finally say goodbye to their nanny Gabriella and are much sadder than they ever anticipated but overall, they are proud of how far they have come. Kitty gives birth to a baby boy and is a natural mother. Surprisingly, she develops a newfound respect for her body which she has loathed until now. Meanwhile, Anna is not invited to Kasper's birthday party, which solidifies her guilt further. She breaks into Xander's house at dawn and sneaks into Kasper's bedroom to see him. Xander's new girlfriend Lydia finds her there. Xander confronts and asks Anna to leave. Feeling out of control, Anna goes to find Skeet but instead of consoling her they end up fighting. Anna is unable to manage her fears. She believes she gave up her son for Skeet but can't seem to hold onto either of them. She feels alone. AND THEN she discovers Theresa has been hiding away with Skeet. He pleads with her that it is nothing but Anna doesn't know what to believe anymore. This sends her into a spiral of mania that ends in her killing herself, to spite him. It's the ultimate revenge.
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High Alpha venture studio launches worker-safety software firm
October 15, 2018 | Anthony Schoettle
Keywords Banking & Finance / Investing / Software / Tech Companies / Technology
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Indianapolis-based venture studio High Alpha on Tuesday announced the launch of a new company—Anvl, a cloud-based software firm that plans to market business-safety applications to reduce and prevent injuries for maintenance workers.
Robin Fleming, Anvl’s co-founder and CEO, joined High Alpha earlier this year as entrepreneur in residence. She most recently was senior vice president of technology at Angie’s List.
“Our focus is helping companies ensure that their workforce returns home, injury free, at the end of the day," Fleming said about her company in written comments. "Our goal is to not only improve the safety of the workforce, but also increase their productivity while reducing costs for our customers.”
The idea for Anvl was originally brought to High Alpha by Cummins Inc., which was looking for ways to enhance safety within its organization, High Alpha partner Mike Fitzgerald said. Cummins is now a pilot Anvl customer, and the Anvl team is collaborating directly with Cummins technicians to help them shape a better product, High Alpha spokesman Drew Beechler told IBJ.
High Alpha officials ran Anvl through its a vetting process in late 2017 and said they were encouraged by its potential. High Alpha officials think the company’s footprint will eventually be global.
Anvl’s platform captures photos, annotations and comments from front-line workers, allowing them to capture and share their knowledge with management and other technicians. Anvl “helps technicians identify risks and implement safety controls in complex maintenance and service environments," and "intervene at the point of risk with custom interventions and stop-work triggers,” a description on its website says.
Anvl’s co-founder has a lengthy list of accomplishments in the tech sector.
In addition to working at Angie’s List, Fleming has held technology and engineering leadership roles at Teradata’s Marketing Applications Division (formerly Aprimo), Match.com, Worksoft and i2 Technologies (acquired by JDA Software Group). She was a 2015 TechPoint Tech 25 winner, a Tobias Fellows Alumni, and a past board member of the Women & Hi Tech. She also currently serves on the board of directors at Clear Software.
High Alpha did not disclose how much it plans to invest in Anvl, but it is part of the High Alpha Studio I portfolio, which gives some clue as to how much the organization will invest. High Alpha Capital I typically invests $250,000 to $1 million per enterprise in Studio I companies. The initial funding—likely a lower amount—will come from High Alpha Studio I.
In July, High Alpha announced it secured $85 million for High Alpha Capital II, a seed and Series A venture fund, and $16.65 million for its High Alpha Studio II, an enterprise-startup studio focusing on software-as-a-service companies.
The more than $100 million raised is almost triple what High Alpha raised in its first fundraising effort—for Capital I and Studio I—in 2015.
Because High Alpha Capital II is much larger than the first iteration, investments in individual companies will be larger, High Alpha partner Kristian Andersen said. Capital II’s investments will be from $750,000 to $2 million, he said.
Tech companies currently in the High Alpha portfolio are Pattern 89 (data science for social media), Doxly (legal transaction management), Zylo (managing SaaS subscriptions), Structural (employee success management), Sigstr (smart marketing through email signatures), Lessonly (employee training software), and Visible (investor relationship management).
High Alpha also launched Clear Scholar, which was acquired by Civitas Learning in June, and Octiv, which was acquired by Conga in March. Financial terms of those deals were not disclosed.
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Billie Lourd breaks silence on death of mother Carrie Fisher and grandmother Debbie Reynolds
Fisher's Star Wars' co-star Mark Hamill also penned a touching tribute to the late actress.
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Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd has broken her silence on the recent deaths of both her mother and grandmother Debbie Reynolds. The 24-year-old took to Instagram on 2 January to thank followers for their "kind words" and to admit that such well wishes have helped her through the tragic time.
Alongside a throwback photograph of herself with Fisher and Reynolds, the Scream Queens actress wrote: "Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a time I thought strength could not exist.
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"There are no words to express how much I will miss my Abadaba and my one and only Momby. Your love and support means the world to me."
Star Wars actor Fisher, 60, passed away on 27 December after suffering a heart attack during a flight from London to Los Angeles four days earlier. Less than 24-hours later, Reynolds – star of beloved classics such as The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Singin' In The Rain – died from a possible stroke.
â¤ð©âð©âð§â¤ Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a time I thought strength could not exist. There are no words to express how much I will miss my Abadaba and my one and only Momby. Your love and support means the world to me.
A photo posted by Billie Lourd (@praisethelourd) on Jan 2, 2017 at 10:09am PST
Lourd wasn't the only one who took to the internet to address Fisher's passing. Her former Star Wars' co-star and good friend Mark Hamill also penned an emotional letter via The Hollywood Reporter, on 2 January.
Late actor Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia alongside Star Wars co-star Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker Lucafilms
The 65-year-old, who played Luke Skywalker –brother of Fisher's iconic character Leia Organa – in the original film, wrote: "When you were in her good graces, you couldn't have more fun with any person on the planet... And then you could go 180 degrees opposite, where you were furious with one another and wouldn't speak for weeks and weeks.
"But that's all part of what makes a relationship complete. It's not all one sided. Like I say, she was a handful," Hamill continued. "She was high maintenance, but my life would have been so much drabber and less interesting if she hadn't been the friend that she was.
"I mean she was just so instantly ingratiating and funny and outspoken. She had a way of just being so brutally candid. I was just in awe of her. She was so committed to joy and fun and embracing life."
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Recent Acquisitions By Google, Salesforce, And Intel Seem A Little Desperate
By Billy Duberstein
06/16/19 AT 9:29 PM
Woody Allen once said a relationship is like a shark: It has to constantly move forward or it dies. It appears the same mentality applies in the world of tech stocks: If you're not growing, you're dying. Yet when successful tech companies become big enough, it becomes harder to grow, and many tech companies turn to mergers and acquisitions to achieve growth targets and fend off competition... but it usually comes at a price.
In the past couple weeks, three tech giants -- Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) -- have all made sizable acquisitions. But while savvy and well-timed acquisitions can lead to tremendous future gains, these three transactions seem like defensive attempts to fend off competition and buy growth at high prices. Here's why.
Alphabet buys Looker
The first big acquisition came from Alphabet, which announced on June 4 that it was acquiring data analytics start-up Looker for $2.6 billion. That's a big price tag, but Alphabet was actually already an investor in Looker through its venture capital wing Capital G. The two companies also share about 350 customers, according to CNBC.
Looker's analytics software works not just with Google Cloud Platform but all the major clouds, including Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure, and the company says it will continue to do so going forward.
It's interesting Google thought it necessary to purchase Looker outright, especially since both Amazon and Microsoft have their own in-house data visualization services, called Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft BI, respectively. That leads one to wonder why Google Cloud couldn't develop its own in-house offering.
The Google logo in colors. Photo: Google
The acquisition is the first major one under new Google Cloud head Thomas Kurian, who came to the company from Oracle in November. One explanation for the purchase could be that Kurian believes third-party (cloud-neutral) software firms like Looker will reign supreme in the next wave of the cloud revolution. Google, which got into cloud late after Amazon's multiyear head start, and which doesn't have the enterprise expertise of Microsoft, appears to be betting on, and promoting the vision of, multi-cloud usage for customers, in order to avoid "lock-in" to a single vendor.
Pushing a multi-cloud agenda would obviously benefit the laggard -- in this case, third-place Google -- by preaching diversification away from AWS and Azure and splitting workloads between all three. By purchasing Looker, Google indirectly benefits from the success of multi-cloud usage among its rivals, as long as they use Looker's software. In other words, something is better than nothing, even if it means ceding some cloud workloads to competitors.
Salesforce reacts by buying Tableau
Looker was not the only cloud-independent business intelligence software company out there. Two other large public data analytics/visualization firms were Domo and Tableau (NYSE:DATA). Just four days after the Google-Looker announcement, Salesforce announced it was acquiring Tableau in an all-stock deal for a whopping $15.7 billion -- a near-50% premium to Tableau's stock price at the time.
Tableau is Salesforce's most expensive acquisition to date, besting last year's $6.5 billion acquisition of Mulesoft. The Mulesoft purchase was also hugely expensive, with Salesforce paying over 20 times sales.
Salesforce is the leader in customer relationship management software, but as its core becomes larger, it becomes harder to grow, and rivals -- especially Microsoft -- are gunning for Salesforce's lead. Salesforce is reacting by trying to become a larger tech conglomerate to go head-to-head against the cloud infrastructure tech giants. That's why Salesforce is paying huge sums for companies that aren't directly related to its core CRM software business.
However, this all comes at a cost, and both the Tableau and Mulesoft acquisitions have a FOMO (fear of missing out) feel to them. Acquisitions are usually only accretive when an acquirer can greatly expand an acquisition's product beyond what the acquiree could do on its own, but it looks as though Salesforce is merely paying up for already-successful companies just to stay in the game.
Intel goes Barefoot
Finally, Intel completed the acquisition trifecta on June 10, buying private chipmaker Barefoot Networks for an undisclosed sum. While terms weren't disclosed, I imagine it was a hefty price, as Barefoot was, to Intel's credit, quite an attractive asset. Founded in 2016 by Stanford professor Craig Barratt, Barefoot makes programmable networking chips designed for massive data center switch architectures.
The company's P4 open source programmable chipset already found its way into Arista Networks switches last year, and into Cisco switches shortly thereafter. The acquisition of Barefoot will strengthen Intel's data center networking portfolio, where Intel aims to derive most of its growth over the next few years.
While Barefoot does appear to be a good asset, we won't know how much Intel paid for the company until the deal closes and Intel releases its financial statements. In addition, the acquisition also feels a bit reactive to NVIDIA's purchase of Barefoot peer Mellanox Technology back in March. It's also not clear why Barefoot would do better under Intel than it could independently, with one analyst saying, "The best thing Intel could do is leave [Barefoot] alone but use them strategically."
Whenever a company currently struggling for growth and losing market share in its core segment makes an acquisition in a hot sector, one should be wary of how much value it really adds, or whether the acquisition is really just a defensive move to avoid missing out on a big (and competitive) secular trend.
Unfortunately, it appears these three acquisitions all fall into the latter category.
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Teresa Kersten, an employee of LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Billy Duberstein owns shares of Alphabet (C shares), Amazon, and Microsoft. His clients may own shares of the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Amazon, Arista Networks, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Salesforce.com. The Motley Fool recommends Tableau Software. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
This article originally appeared in The Motley Fool.
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Looking Back: CO Dave Rorem retires after 27 years
Tammie Calder
Today marks the official retirement of Minnesota Conservation Officer Dave Rorem after 27 years on the job. A love of Rainy Lake has helped keep him here, says the 50-year-old retiree. He says the resurgence in the walleye population on the lake is his pride and joy. “I’ve seen it when it was bad and I’ve seen it when it was good,” said Rorem, who began working in Borderland in 1977. “I’d like to think that I was part of getting it reclaimed only from the standpoint of getting everybody to buy into the slot.”
International Falls police are investigating a burglary at Jim’s Eat Shoppe and Swede Charlie’s Pub that netted $1,750. According to Falls Police Chief Randy Borden, burglars entered the building after throwing a 90-pound umbrella stand filled with cement through the front door of Jim’s, 388 Third St. The restaurant keeps the umbrella stand outside the door for outdoor tables. It appeared as though burglars first tried to gain entry by taking the door to Swede’s off its hinges. Employees reported the theft at 5 a.m.
A Sasquatch hunter figures there’s a good chance that the mammal roams the woods of Koochiching County. Richard Johnson, 33, of St. Paul, suggests the Bigfoot is a little bit bigger than a human, lives underground, travels mostly by night, and stays in one vicinity for only a week. Johnson has pinpointed two quadrangular areas where he thinks the Bigfoot is most likely to be found – one in Koochiching County just south of Margie and another near the Bear River in Itasca County. Sasquatch also may be found in the general areas of Craigsville or Crane Lake, he says. He claims he saw a Sasquatch near Margie in November, 1978. Harvey Cole, district technician with the DNR office at Northome, confirmed that some unusual sightings have been reported over the years.
The Russian Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bramble will have commemorative services next Sunday. The church celebrated its Golden Anniversary Jubilee July 20-21, 1968, following its restoration after standing in disuse for approximately 35 years. Sunday’s service will commemorate the visitation of Our Lady of Tikvin in 1968. Archbishop John, Russian Orthodox Patriarch of the Midwest, brought the icon with him for the jubilee service last summer. The religious picture, encrusted with jewels and precious metals, was smuggled out of Latvia by Archbishop John when he escaped the Russians.
A beautiful summer Sunday attracted a capacity crowd to the annual Masonic picnic at Carroll’s Beach and pavilion, according to general chairman Virgil Christensen. Women of the Order of Eastern Star, headed by Worthy Matron Mrs. Rod Mansfield, served the potluck dinner in the pavilion. The afternoon was spent in games and races, swimming and in consuming many gallons of pop and free ice cream.
Fort Frances News by Mrs. C.E. Hollands:
Inspection of gardening operations in the wartime housing zone on Phair Avenue warrants the participation of the Horticultural Society and qualifies the area for special prizes donated by W.T. Russell for the best horticultural developments in that area, President George E. Mack reported. Six prizes will be awarded, three for residences on either side of the avenue. Those persons desiring to enter for this competition are required to notify the secretary, Major A.D. Gordon, by letter or by phoning 240 or 241.
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Bullet to the Head
Bullet to the Head Poster Debut
The brand new one-sheet for the Stallone comic book movie.
By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:15 am
We're stoked to debut the brand new poster for Bullet to the Head, the upcoming action thriller starring Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater, Jon Seda, Weronika Rosati, Jason Momoa. Walter Hill directs.
Read our advance movie review of Bullet to the Head!
Based on a graphic novel, Bullet to the Head tells the story of a New Orleans hitman (Stallone) and a Washington D.C. cop (Kang) who form an alliance to bring down the killers of their respective partners.
Bullet to the Head opens February 1.
Rated "R"
DeveloperN/A
Release DateFebruary 1, 2013
Platformstheater
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Student-Athlete of the Week: Driven to succeed, Christian Pluchino controls his own destiny
The first Student-Athlete of the Week of 2016-17, Christian Pluchino is a perfect 4.0 student and has helped lead the Ascenders football team to a No. 2 national ranking
Senior Christian Pluchino arrived at IMG Academy in 2013 as a freshman. He was definitely ambitious, as he endeavored to play both lacrosse and football for the Ascenders. However, the New Jersey native found his home on the gridiron, and became the first-ever freshman to start a game for IMG Academy Football in 2013. Since then, he’s proven himself on the field and in the classroom. Pluchino’s 4.0 GPA and impressive standardized test scores, in addition to his consistent play, have earned interest from the likes of Ivy League programs Princeton, Columbia and Yale, but also from Division-I football programs like Louisville, Buffalo, Western Kentucky and Southern Miss.
“Everyone that comes here wants to develop as a person and as a student-athlete – That’s the main goal,” remarked Christian. “Being a student here has made me more meticulous and better at time management, but my favorite thing is the friends that I’ve made here.”
The 6-foot-2 linebacker has indeed made many friends during his time at IMG Academy. He is active in the National Honor Society, and regularly joins the group for community service projects in and around Manatee and Sarasota County, Florida.
Christian has not verbally committed to a university's football program yet, but he is interested in studying law. Beyond law, he hopes to one day have a role with the U.S. military. His aspirations fall right in line with his ceaseless attention to detail.
On the field, Christian has been a leader amongst his peers, and a season ago he was among the team’s leaders in total tackles as he helped lead the team to its first undefeated regular season. So far in 2016, Christian is among the team leaders in tackles with 27, and has helped the team achieve a 4-0 record and No. 2 national ranking nearing the midpoint of the season. He will also be the first student to play a full four-year high school football career at IMG Academy since the addition of the varsity program in 2013.
Away from the classroom and the field, Christian is likely either taking a pre-game nap or settling down for his favorite pastime of watching movies. Notably, his favorite film is Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.
Get to Know Christian
Hometown: Berkeley Heights, N.J.
Parents: Diane and Gary
Years at IMG Academy: 3+
SAT: 1800
ACT: 28
Best Advice Ever Received: “You are the only one in charge of your destiny.”
Biggest Influence/Role Model: Major Jeremy Tannehill. He’s taught me many lessons and he’s helped shape our team into what we are today
Favorite Subject: English, because I like writing
Favorite Teacher: Keith Russo
Student Clubs/Societies: National Honor Society
Hobbies: I love to watch movies
Sports Role Model: Luke Kuechly (Carolina Panthers LB) because he’s the best at his position and smart
Favorite Sports Team: The New York Giants
Favorite Author/Book: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Favorite Singer/Band: Eminem
Favorite Movie/TV Show: The Dark Knight
Favorite Actor/Actress:
Favorite Food: Steak
Favorite Restaurant: Outback Steakhouse
Coach: Head Coach Kevin Wright and Linebacker coach Tommy Langford
Position: Linebacker
Years in Football: 7
Any records in your sport?: I will always be the first freshman to start for the IMG Academy football team
Superstitions: I have to have a pre-game nap
Twitter Handle: @CPluchino55
Describe Yourself in One Word: Driven
Editor’s Note: IMG Academy features a “Student-Athlete of the Week” award while class is in session. Students are nominated based purely on academic achievements and are chosen by a committee of educators from our boarding school.
Links to Past Winners for 2015-16 school year…
Jake Fauske (Baseball)
Sebastian Derby (Boys Soccer)
Jango Glackin (Football)
Emily Chu (Golf)
Mauricio Orozco (Tennis)
George Prince (Lacrosse)
Simar Bhatia (Girls Basketball)
Cole Wells (Tennis)
Anna Dovgopolyi (Tennis)
Martin Jaramillo (Golf)
Lutwin de Macar (Tennis)
Teo Pollini (Soccer)
Katarina Kozarov (Tennis)
Mika Liu (Golf)
Tanner Beachy (Baseball)
Regan LaBelle (Girls Soccer)
Gautham Mudireddy (Tennis)
Leah Smith (Girls Soccer)
Theo Tran (Tennis)
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Scam Alert - Immigration Scam
Caller ID immigration spoofing scam Indian nationals living in New Zealand are being targeted by a new wave of scam phone calls claiming to be from Immigration New Zealand. The callers threaten deportation and demand payment to a Western Union account in India.
The scamThe callers fraudulently claim to be calling from Immigration New Zealand and tell the person that there has been a problem with the processing of their visa and/or arrival card information.
Often the caller has some details of the person they are speaking to, such as name, date of birth, and/or address. The caller may also quote reference numbers, although these do not appear to match Immigration New Zealand client or application numbers.
The callers are quite persistent, aggressive, and sound authoritative. As the callers have personal details of the person they are speaking to, the recipient of the call often believes it is genuine.
The callers demand that the victims pay money into a Western Union account or face serious consequences, such as deportation.
Calls have been made using numbers showing as the Immigration Contact Centre (09 914 4100) and Crime Stoppers (0800 555 111), but with an extra zero at the beginning.
The scammers are using a technology known as caller ID spoofing that allows a legitimate phone number to appear when the call is actually being made from another number, quite possibly from outside of New Zealand.
This particular scam has been going on since around mid-2013 and appears to target only Indian nationals.
Immigration New Zealand first posted a warning about the scam on its website on 20 October 2013 and Consumer Affairs last posted a warning in August 2014.
To date, almost 300 Indian nationals have reported being called by the scammers with the dollar values involved typically ranging from $1000 to $5000.
Our adviceImmigration New Zealand never requests money over the phone. No matter how important the caller may sound, do not pay.
Contact the New Zealand Police or report the call to Scamwatch.
Further advice can be found on the Immigration New Zealand and Consumer Affairs websites.
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“A reality of pure echoes”: symbol and communion in Pirandello, chi? by Amelio Memè Perlini
Maria Grazia Berlangieri
V. Valentini, Nuovo teatro made in Italy 1963-2013, Roma, Bulzoni Editore, 2016, p. 78.
R. Tessari, Teatro italiano del Novecento, Le Lettere, Firenze 2003, p. 146 and 147.
F. Cruciani, Lo spazio del Teatro, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992, p. 4.
M. Perlini, F. Quadri, Teatro La Maschera, Pirandello, chi? Intervista con Memè Perlini, in F. Quadri (edited by), L’avanguardia teatrale in Italia (materiali 1960-1976), Torino, Einaudi, 1977, v. II, pp. 468-475.
Cfr. R. Mele, Pirandello, chi? Il cinema selvaggio di Memè Perlini, in G. Bartolucci, F. Menna (edited by), Uso, modalità e contraddizioni dello spettacolo immagine, pp. 98-103.
Cfr. M. Perlini, F. Quadri, Teatro La Maschera, Pirandello, chi? Intervista con Memè Perlini, cit.
G. Bartolucci, L’uso dell’immagine in Memé Perlini PIRANDELLO: CHI? Regia di Memé Perlini, in G. Bartolucci, F. Menna (edited by), Uso, modalità e contraddizioni dello spettacolo immagine, pp. 87-90.
Cfr. F. Menna, Immagine per sé, immagine per l’altro, in G. Bartolucci, F. Menna (edited by), Uso, modalità e contraddizioni dello spettacolo immagine, pp. 13-17.
M. Perlini, F. Quadri, Teatro La Maschera, Pirandello, chi? Intervista con Memè Perlini, cit., p. 475.
C. Grazioli, Pirandello chi? Una drammaturgia del buio, in www.nuovoteatromadeinitaly.com, 2015.
C. Grazioli, Proiezione, spazio, materia: comporre e scomporre con la luce, in V. Valentini, Nuovo teatro made in Italy 1963-2013, cit., p. 331.
Cfr. R. Mele, Pirandello, chi? Il cinema selvaggio di Memè Perlini, in G. Bartolucci, F. Menna (edited by), Uso, modalità e contraddizioni dello spettacolo immagine, cit., p. 98.
A.M. Ripellino, Pirandello a testa in giù, in «L’Espresso», 21 January 1973.
M. Perlini, “Locus Solus”, in F. Quadri, L’avanguardia teatrale in Italia. Materiali (1960-1976), Einaudi, Torino 1977, 2 voll., II, pp. 484-490.
Cfr. F. Quadri, Pirandello, chi?, in F. Quadri (edited by), «Skema», October 1974, year VI, number 10, (Teatro d’Avanguardia), pp. 48-49.
Imaginal is a word that Michel Maffesoli borrows from Gilbert Durand and Henry Corbin, cfr. M. Maffesoli, Fenomenologie dell’immaginario, S. Leonzi (edited by), Roma, Armando Editore, 2009; M. Maffesoli, La contemplazione del mondo. Figure dello stile comunitario, (translation by A. Petrillo), Milano, Costa & Nolan, 1996.
M. Perlini, Pirandello, chi? Intervista con Memè Perlini, in F. Quadri (edited by), L’avanguardia teatrale in Italia (materiali 1960-1976), Torino, Einaudi, 1977, v. II, p. 474.
V. Valentini, La linea del Settanta (1968-1977), in Id., Nuovo teatro made in Italy 1963-2013, cit., p. 52.
Ivi, p. 55.
Pirandello, chi? by Memè Perlini (1973). Published in G. Bartolucci, D. Rimoldi, Immagine-Immaginario, Torino: Studio Forma, p. 25
The direction of theatre of the 1970s, as Valentina Valentini writes, characterized New Theatre in Italy with its tendency to expand beyond geographic and disciplinary borders and, at the same time, with its tension towards a common core (body, gesture, movement) to “find shelter in the place of theatre like in the productions of Teatro-Immagine (as defined by Bartolucci) by Mario Ricci, Memè Perlini, Giancarlo Nanni, Giuliano Vasilicò”.1 Taking shape behind the large number of productions of those years, though in a “contradictory and disjointed way […] was what had always been missing nationally in this sector: a cultural context unencumbered by an elite idealism, but committed to the vivacious materiality of the performing practice”.2 This is the complex heterogeneous context that emerged behind the remarkably distinct artistic individualities, like a common stratified “river bed” along the broken embankments between art and other theoretical fields. And so it was obvious that Pirandello chi? by Memè Perlini should be “hosted” at the Beat ’72 in Rome: a “place of expressive potential”3 where the issues alluded to above found a fundamental meeting ground. A space for research in theatre in which the experimentation of new expressive models connected (and permeated) the social fabric with the practice of theatre.
Memè Perlini’s work on Pirandello’s play was in fact a process of permeation, in the Latin sense of per- “through” and meare “transit”. Six Characters in Search of an Author represented a double enlightenment for him: one that could be termed public, concerning his way of understanding the stage, the other inherent to a personal and collective unhappiness that “filled his days and nights”4 and which he wove into the writing of Pirandello chi?, staged for the first time in 1973, as mentioned above, at Beat ’72 in Rome. Perlini transposed the fragmentary nature typical of society at that time into what he defined as fragment-images, aimed at reducing the body of the actor on stage into sections of light and darkness, in the idiosyncratic drive to “parcel, shatter theatrical objects (fear of the body) but also a clear attempt to reconstruct them (desire to represent)”.5 His intent was to elicit the same process in the “reactive quality” of the viewer that was triggered during the preparations, i.e. an elaboration of dreams-action, in which neither the description nor the poetic complexity are the terms that define his first “swollen and voracious” opera, but on the contrary, a spatial vision that uses Pirandello’s structure to bring a neurotic quality to his “personal jumble” of experiences as a comic artist and illustrator, the influence of film, the suspicion of the body, from a desire to find the essence through the contours by which it is delineated.6 Giuseppe Bartolucci’s description of the performance reads:
The stage will always be dark, lit only by small light sources that will be maneuvered as required by the director and by the actors. The tendency will be to an analytical object that will highlight the internal multiplicity of this use, including the sound aspect. There will be no characterization of the role (the father will also be the head comedian, and mother at the same time) there will be no direct relationships between the different characters. The dimension of the performance will tend to create the fantastic images that will tend towards the atmosphere of dreams and unconscious images, the voice will always be exasperated, it will stutter, suffocated, speedy, with its sounds transformed as far as possible into musical elements.7
In Pirandello, chi? – considered by many critics to be influenced by Bob Wilson’s passage through Europe in the 1970s – “the light isolates parts of images, sections bodies, brings hands, arms, legs out of the dark, like a repertory of anatomy”, a close-up focusing on “the deep psychic, individual and collective structures that bring to light fears and anxieties and liberate them “.8 Perlini uses the light sources to draw the vision of the spectator into a film frame that drives the action on stage in a syncopated rhythm supported by the music of Philip Glass. He perceives slowness in fact as deceleration and “indigestion”:
“slowing down” is food for the refined, I refer to people who are hungry, for themselves, for what they see and feel at the same time.9
As Cristina Grazioli writes:
The result is a visual picture in fluid metamorphosis (a canvas becomes a cart pushed by Pierrot, an actor-puppet emerges from the cart, the cart becomes a white bride, the figures disappear into the darkness). An example is the opening scene of the production: in total darkness, except for a ray of light that “comes out of the hands of an actor” and projects towards the back a rectangle of light, inside which appear the made-up faces of five actors together with a dove in flight. When the “picture” (the light projection) disappears, a general appears hanging from a trapeze that seems to turn upside down thanks to a play of light. In this alternation of appearances and disappearances a sequence of figures appears, objects, details of images, brought back to life like oneiric fragments of light directed by beam shapers, backlighting and shadow effects (in the darkness of the stage the actors or the director direct the projectors they hold in their hands, personally enabling the processes of metamorphosis).10
Perlini makes “cinema without cameras”11 which uses neither film clips or slide shows, but instruments specific to the stage (substantially the lights of the projectors, objects, costumes and masks), thereby obeying a double code: theatre and film.12 In an interview with Franco Quadri, Perlini asserts that it all began with a spot of color, then:
when we accepted the black of the Beat we began to think of white as a reaction; and then the actors […] you have to deal with the bodies, with the movements, with the colours, with the forms of those, objects and people, with whom you are working to shape the image.13
While the bodies of the actors are sectioned by the light alternating with the darkness, the dialogues are minimal. All that remains of the text and the allusions to Pirandello’s lines are “tatters, sporadic lines that when torn asunder in this way (for example the “pale blue envelope”) become chillingly resounding”.14 The characters seem to emerge from the amusement parks of Perlini’s childhood: a general hanging on a trapeze, the dove, an actor sitting with his back to the audience, a ballerina filled with foam rubber, an actress dressed in red mimicking the gestures of someone being violently slapped on the face, a little girl’s costume, an actor-puppet, Pierrot, an actress wearing a 1940s dress with her buttocks exposed, and others still, up to the solitary image of Madama Pace, the maitresse in Pirandello’s play. The figures fill and clear the scene in a dizzying sequence of oneiric scenes that, at the end of the performance, slip away into the darkness encumbered only by the noise of the objects with which the actors saturate the space. The woman with the 1940s dress returns holding candles, she hangs them on a thread that burns until they fall, taking the performance back to its point of departure: steeped in darkness. Several years later, Perlini wrote:
I love fragments more than anything. […] I love the object as a means to defer to the imagination. […] The only friendly presence is the light from which fragments emerge as impossible means of escape and voices […] that erase the paths and create a reality of pure echoes.15
His “image-theatre” thus achieves a reality of pure echoes. He engages in a process of abstracting the contents and the material limits of the stage, going through the torture of the process, the bodies, the “humours” of the actors and splintering the Pirandello source. As Franco Quadri wrote in Pirandello chi?, the movement of a light through absolute darkness teaches us that the only thing that exists on stage is what we see, not the actor or the character, but the sole fragment of the actor occasionally brushed by a source of light that can suddenly switch off or change direction.16
The imaginal world of Pirandello chi? like every imaginal world relies on a community-based ideal.17 The image-theatre rises above the exclusivity relegated into personal poetics. The performance described so far does not merely amount to a collection of images added to an avant-garde body of work, on the contrary it leads to the establishment of a network in which meaning resides in relationships. The process of theatre always ends in polysemy: the direction is “released “into the collective on stage in which even the props are reactive elements, and where there is full awareness, for example that the actors are “live material” that transforms, disperses, distorts:
But it takes people to do theatre, physically I mean, and you can’t invent it at the table. I had lots of notes, drawings, which I forgot, or better yet, discovered exactly as they were on stage, whereas it is important to rely on the bodies, the movements, the colours, the shapes of those, objects or people, whom you are working with to develop the image. I actually wish these young people lived with me […].18
Perlini draws a contrast between “living eating and breathing politics” – which characterized the generation between the end of the 1960s and the 1970s – and the social use of reality. He releases the work into the collective process, inside the Beat ’72 “container” in which the relationship between the arts was explored in programmes that fostered experimentation beyond genres.19 This intermingling in Pirandello chi? is “visual therapy”, individual and generational liberation through images, that reveals what was highlighted by Valentina Valentini in regards to the above-mentioned “direction of the 1970s”:
childhood, play, dramatization, workshop and experimental theatre […] coexist through the material contribution of collective work at the level of research into relationships”, interdisciplinarity and teamwork, workshop, collective writing-action, scientific description-designing; all antidotes in the struggle against “disintegrated didacticism” and “the worst aestheticism”.20
This is the composition of the vertices in the relationship between the avant-garde and the process of breaking with the “traditional” theatre of the time, between Perlini’s highly personal poetics and the relationship with the spectator whose “heart must be pierced and blood made to boil”: a founding and essential action that gives its dramaturgical images a reason. Interrelations are the essential basis for the symbolic activity triggered by Pirandello chi?. As Mauss and Durkeim have shown, there is symbol because there is communion, and communion is a bond that can give the illusion of reality. Perlini’s “unreal reality” may therefore be understood as the symbolic legacy that channels forces and affections that on stage veer from individual to the collective imagination. This, in the 1970s, guaranteed New Theatre in Ital the freedom it needed to “explore places that were then unknown without having the certainty of reaching a destination”.21
Pirandello, chi?
by Memè Perlini
directed by Memè Perlini
cast Franco Bullo, Ivan Galì, Johna Mancini, Ornella Minetti, Rossella Or, Franco Piacentini, Edmondo Zanolini
debut performance Rome, Beat 72, 3 January 1973
new version Rome, Teatro La Piramide, February 1986
cast Franco Piacentini, Rossella Or, Lidia Montanari, Alessandro Genesi, Roberto Pagliari, Giuseppe Barbizi
set design Antonello Agliotti
music Philip Glass
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Does BJP stand a chance in saffronising Kerala, a state with 54% Hindus?
The RSS spurs the advance of the BJP in God's own country, but obstacles remain.
Jeemon Jacob
UPDATED: October 14, 2017 09:03 IST
The CPI(M) and the RSS have been at loggerheads in Kannur in north Kerala for over four decades now, both giving as good as they got as the Sangh parivar outfit made inroads into the communist bastion. And that is where matters stood till last year's state elections when, after years of being no-hopers in the state, the BJP finally managed a seat in the assembly. The path to making electoral inroads had opened, and the RSS-BJP was eager to pull out all the stops.
Of late, political violence in Kerala has been a matter of some debate, and the party was quick to latch on to it. A concerted, polarising campaign with the theme, 'Against jehadi-red terror', was set in motion, the twin targets being Islamist terrorists and the ruling Marxists. BJP president Amit Shah flagged off the the 'janaraksha yatra' on October 3 and joined the march on the opening day. Even Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath was roped in for a day during which he reasoned that the state should "act against love jihad, which is a growing concern in Kerala and contiguous Karnataka".
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath during the yatra in Kannur
These are just some elements in a virulent campaign in which the BJP and other entities of the Sangh Parivar accuse the Left Front government and CPI(M) chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan of "annihilating its political rivals". The RSS-BJP claims that it has lost 125 workers to the violence since 2001 (Kannur police records between 2007 and 2017 put the figure at 37; 17 from the RSS-BJP, for the CPI(M), 16) .
Worse still, the campaigners allege, is the fact that the highest incidence of violence is in the chief minister's hometown, Pinarayi, where 14 of them were killed. Significantly, Shah missed the march through the town, as he returned to Delhi for other consultations, but promised to return before the conclusion of the 14-day yatra, on October 17 at the southern end of the state.
This is only part of the BJP's ambitious expansion plan for the state. The party is hoping a sustained campaign against the LDF will propel the party into emerging as the leading opposition in the state, eclipsing the Congress-led UDF. But for this, both the party and the militant RSS must enlist the rank and file like never before. "The ongoing effort has already shaken the CPI(M) bases in north Kerala. It's only by strengthening the party and associate organisations that we will make a dent," says a senior BJP leader, adding that "the response so far is encouraging".
Clearly, it is not just wishful thinking. "We have 200,000 active cadre and another 193,000 followers. There are 5,200 daily and 800 weekly shakhas now. All this we achieved in just five years," claims RSS state secretary P. Gopalan Kutty Master. The spurt is significant, with the RSS becoming a draw among students and other youth. Kannur tops in this followed by Alappuzha and Thrissur districts in central Kerala. Meanwhile, the growth of Sangh affiliates such as the trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, which in some places has dislodged the Congress-affiliated INTUC, has also helped the BJP's growth.
Yet, it is far from enjoying widespread appeal, despite the fact that 54.7 per cent of the population is Hindu. The irony is that in the country's most literate state, the Hindus are still caste-driven, making it a greater challenge for the BJP. Which is another reason why veteran party leader O. Rajagopal, elected to the legislative assembly last year, took so long to get there. Like his Nemom constituency, the neighbouring Kazhakoottam and Vattiyurkavu assembly constituencies (also part of the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency) have long been RSS strongholds, but the numbers never translated into seats.
"It is the RSS's success in attracting a section of the Hindus that is enabling the BJP here," says political commentator J. Ajith Kumar. "They may use a similar strategy, projecting the RSS as the sole protectors of the Hindu majority to garner support. The constant harping on love jihad and red terror could spark a sectarian divide." Other analysts are sceptical, though. "The RSS and the rest of the Sangh parivar have no future in the state as it practises 'annihilation politics'. Its anti-minority tag will also not help in Kerala," says former MP Dr Sebastian Paul. He points to the "demographic reality of Kerala" as the major challenge. "How do you saffronise a state with 26.7 per cent Muslims and 18.4 per cent Christians in a population of 33.34 million?"
Echoing similar sentiments, Malayalam short story writer and ex-bureaucrat N.S. Madhavan says, "The future of the RSS is bleak because it has already hit saturation point, crossed the cusp of optimal growth in recent years. Its halo has little appeal as it intimidates the very soul of the state." In his view, this strategy of spreading disinformation will boomerang on the party.
However, party president Shah has definite plans - he's eying the Ezhava vote bank, which accounts for about 39 per cent of the population. The Bharat Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), floated by Vellapally Nateshan of the Sree Narayana Dharama Paripalana Yogam, an Ezhava outfit, was purportedly the enabler in the BJP increasing the NDA vote share in Kerala to 15.3 per cent in the 2016 assembly polls. "Traditionally, the Ezhavas have been CPI(M) backers. So only by winning them over can the BJP diffuse the clout of the Marxists. They have gained marginal acceptance in some pockets of central Kerala by aligning with the BDJS," explains former legislator and Kerala Congress (Mani) faction leader Joseph M. Puthussery. That said, the BJP's ties with the BDJS have been rocky. Just months back, a vacillating Vellapally was heard badmouthing the BJP central leadership on TV, though he soon changed tack again.
With all that is happening in the state, the CPI(M) still seems unperturbed. "Kerala's secular society has never capitulated to their attempt to paint the state in a communal colour," says state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishan. "We are confident that we can fight them politically. The people of Kerala back our progressive agenda as the party stands for development of the state."
But on the ground, they are not taking any chances. In a deft counter strategy, the Marxists are also organising similar events like their own 'shobha yatra' on the occasion of Sri Krishna Jayanti on September 12, and now a series of rallies to counter what BJP leaders have said during the janaraksha yatra. The BJP too realises that it is in for a long war in the state. As former state president and lawyer P.S. Sreedharan Pillai puts it, "Our plan is not merely to increase vote share but build up quality cadre in the state."
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Innovative Moneypouch Keeps Cash Under Control
Almost 150 primary schools,including 52 in England,are now using a unique product from a Belfastprinting company to help parents of young children manage and safeguard cash for dinners and other items.
Moneypouch, an eye-catching and strongly branded envelope, has been developed by TH Jordan Commercial Printers with help from Invest Northern Ireland’s Design Development Programme (DDP).
“Moneypouch is the development of a business that we’ve built up over many years in providing collection envelopes to churches throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland,” says Jim Parkhill, TH Jordan’s managing director. We were researching new business opportunities and identified a market demand for a product that would make it possible for parents and primary schools to manage money more effectively and,of course, safely.
“Following an initial approach from a teacher who was using our church envelopes and suggested something similar for use in school, we carried out market research and began to develop the new product. We found that young children were carrying cash to school in everything from empty plastic bread bags to sweet wrappers. Often teachers, who are understandably reluctant to handle money, had to search for loose cash in a pupil’s school bag,” he adds.
Mr Parkhill said the research showed that parents would welcome an envelope to help them organise cash on a weekly basis.
“We recognised that it also had to be a ‘fun’ item for the youngsters; something colourful with which they could identify and find easy to use. So, we decided to seek help from Invest NI’s Design Group. Staff there were tremendously supportive and introduced us to Positive Design Consultants under the Design Development Programme. Working with Positive introduced new thinking to our strategy, by developing a strong,distinctive yet youthful and vibrant brand identity that has impact and instant recognition.
“It’s been a tremendous success with parents, pupils and teachers. Another important benefit of Moneypouch is that it gives youngsters experience in handling money,” adds Mr Parkhill.
Alastair Eves, director of Invest NI’s Design Group, says: “Moneypouch is a simple but very effective example of innovation that meets a market need. TH Jordan has used design to add value to an established product, thereby developing an extensive market opportunity.Design is essentially the application of creative thinking to the development of ideas and products.
“The Design Development Programme offers practical support that enables local companies to enhance their design and marketing capability and to exploit quickly to new business opportunities,”he adds.
TH Jordan, which has been in business for over 100 years, currently employs 16 people at its printing works in Millar Street, Belfast.
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Doctor Who? Doctor Turner. That's Who.
In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the great sci-fi series, Trilobyte Games is proud to offer Tender Loving Care at a reduced price. What do these two Doctors have in common? Read on!
TLC, starring John Hurt, is a provocative, psychological thriller that lifts the touch screen entertainment experience to new heights.
"...a great and fascinating combination of computer game and movie.” - McDonald's Kino News
"... one of the most effective interactive films that has ever entered the mainstream market." - Digital Bayou
"... an engaging, interactive movie for grown-ups ..." - The Portland Oregonian
Starring two-time Oscar-nominee and 4 time BAFTA winner John Hurt (Alien, V for Vendetta), and based on a novel by Andrew Neiderman (Devil’s Advocate), TLC provides all of the pleasures of a traditional motion picture while satisfying the voyeuristic and self-analytic interests engaged by its unique interactive elements. TLC is not like other so-called interactive movies; its design is unprecedented in that the viewer’s psyche is the invisible director of the tale, determining both character and plot development every step of the way. The possible alternative versions of the experience are virtually infinite.
You, the viewer, must help psychiatrist Doctor Turner (John Hurt) unveil the desperate triangle of power, lust, and deception formed by his beautiful, tragic patient, her dangerous husband, and the enigmatic, seductive psychotherapist who suddenly enters their lives. Your own psyche becomes the key to what happens on the screen. Your answers to Doctor Turner’s probing questions about the characters’ behavior, and about your own personal psychology, invisibly determine the course of action and outcome of the story. TLC is a sort of virtual biofeedback device that senses your desires, needs, and fears, and then shapes its story to reflect, and satisfy, your deepest cravings. You, too, become one of Doctor Turner’s patients. You can read your own developing personality profile after each Q&A session with the Doctor, and receive ongoing psychological analysis throughout the game.
Tender Loving Care is an absolutely unique experience, combining high-end movie production with computer game-like interactivity for the first time. It’s also the very first title made specifically for iPad years before there was an iAnything; it’s not a re-purposed movie you’ve seen before, or a ported-over computer game. TLC takes full advantage of touch screen technology in a way no one else has even imagined before now.
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• AirPlay enabled video playback
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• Multiple plot lines and multiple endings
• Extensive extra content in the house
• Many screens are zoomable using a two finger gesture. Helpful to iPhone/iPod users.
» Download Notes «
Tender Loving Care is a big file, nearly 1 GB. It is best downloaded to iTunes and then synced with your device.
Tender Loving Care was created by David Wheeler and Rob Landeros, co-founders of Aftermath Media. David Wheeler wrote and directed TLC, and Rob was the Creative Director and Designer for the project. Both have extensive experience in entertainment media and are keenly interested in exploring ways to further the art of storytelling through the most advanced interactivity options available with new media technologies. Indeed, they’ve established themselves at the forefront of a new style of movie-making by trail-blazing both the concept and execution of “enhanced movie experiences.” The iOS version was produced by Trilobyte Games and Hennes Productions and designed by Landeros to create a modern touch screen based interactive movie.
For much more information about this remarkable interactive movie, please visit the Aftermath Media website at http://www.aftermathmedia.com/tlc/.
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