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Five Things You Need To Know About The Division 2
by Matt Bertz on Jun 12, 2018 at 03:55 PM
Developer: Ubisoft Massive
Release: March 15, 2019
Rating: Not rated
Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC
The Division is back, and the sequel is taking the train down the coast to our nation’s capital. Turns out New York City isn’t the only devastated major metropolis; the virus spread throughout world, leaving countless dead, crippling economies, and leaving a serious power vacuum where rival factions vie for resources and isolated pockets of civilians try to eek out an existence. Full recovery is years (if not decades) away, but you have a more immediate concern. Seven months after the outbreak, agents suddenly lose contact with Division headquarters. You need to investigate what happened, push out the rival factions vying for control of the city, restore critical resources, and aid in the rebuilding efforts.
After watching a presentation and sitting down to an end-game play session, I have a much better idea of what to expect from The Division 2. Here are the big takeaways.
The New Setting Affords New Opportunities
Ubisoft says Washington D.C. is 20 percent bigger than midtown, and the developers at Massive are delivering an almost one-to-one recreation of the city using real data. That means locals should be able to easily find their way around, and by the end of spending hundreds of hours in the game, hardcore Division players should be able to offer guided tours of the city. The most exciting part of the new setting is it’s much more varied. Say goodbye to dark, snow-covered streets. D.C. has commercial areas that have been looted for several months, wooded areas where nature is reclaiming the land (seems a little early for that but we appreciate the sentiment), a flooded government center, Georgetown suburbs, and of course the historical sites that litter the mall. Ubi said each biome adds visual variety and play differently, requiring new approaches. We also noticed a towering wall covered in barbed wire – D.C. has a dark zone of its own – and you will have a base of operation that needs some work done.
Gunplay Is Less Spongy
Some shooter fans who prefer the glass cannon approach to weaponized combat never could warm up to how spongy the enemies were in The Division. Though I eventually got past this to see the greater equation of squad play, I admit it still felt weird needing to unload a full clip to down an unarmored sanitation worker. Though enemies still take more bullets to down than they would in a Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon game, Massive made unarmored enemies much less resistant to gunfire, speeding up the time to kill compared to the original game. Heavily armored baddies still take concentrated fire to take down, and their armor gradually gets destroyed as the skirmish unfolds. Speaking of armor, agents get the defensive benefit of a new armor system as well.
Massive Is Already Building Out The Endgame
Massive has seen the fallout of Destiny 2 and spent the last two years listening to its own community about how critical it is to have a robust endgame available for players once the campaign is wrapped and players hit the level cap. For The Division 2, the studio promises “accessible, deep, and varied” content once you hit that threshold. Solo play is still viable, but the concentration is clearly on cooperative play. For the first time, eight players can team up for larger raid missions, but the team also wants to provide endgame content for solo players and more casual agents. The Division 2 will feature World Tier from day one. During the presentation they also promised clear goals, continual rewards, and meaningful progression.
I asked if Ubi plans to offer a procedurally generated experience similar to the Underground, and Red Storm senior producer Tony Sturtzel said “we don’t have any news about that today, but we certainly understand that players enjoyed that experience, and we want to make sure that we give players content that they can attach to based on the way they like to play.” What about Survival? “The one thing that came along with that we can say we do NOT want to do is the community split aspect,” he said. This is why Ubisoft decided to offer all the first year content updates for free.
Specializations Extend Progression
Once you hit level cap, you gain access to a suite of specializations that give you access to new signature weaponry. The three options on display for the E3 demo were the Survivalist (crossbow), Demolitionist (grenade launcher), and Sharpshooter (.50 cal sniper rifle). These signature weapons all have special ammo you can pick-up during firefights for added punch, and each specialization has a unique progression path that allows you to create more variety with the build that you have via mod and talent unlocks. I played as the Survivalist, and the explosive bolts for the crossbow are powerful enough that I preferred saving them for when heavies arrived on the scene in our control point battle with the True Sons, a rogue paramilitary faction. You aren’t locked into an option once you choose it; you can hot swap these in and out and continue down their respective progression paths when they are equipped.
Customization Allows For More Personality
One of the things Ubisoft wants to push in The Division 2 is more player expression, which it is calling “peacocking.” Sturtzel said they have reserved vanity slots for things that you can only get by achieving certain accomplishments in the game. Think of them like trophies you can display on your character.
Ubisoft is also expanding the available wardrobe – sounds like we’ll have more options that expand beyond the Eddie Bauer catalog this time. “We know that people enjoyed the vanity, and we’ve been able to add some variety to that in the two years post-launch. We want to make sure we build from there in terms of the level of variety that we give players because we know that is a huge thing for them.”
The Division 2 is scheduled to release on March 15 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Ubisoft also plans to hold a beta, which you can sign up for here.
Matt Bertz
A 17-year veteran of games journalism, Matt Bertz loves to tell the stories behind the scenes of interactive entertainment. His primary beats are open world games, shooters, and sports games.
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Could oversaturation of home Android gaming platforms hurt industry? [Opinion]
By Ural Garrett , Updated Jun 10, 2013 09:03 PM EDT
By the end of this year, gamers will see the release of several Android-based consoles from Ouya, Nvidia, BlueStacks and even Mad Catz. Am I the only one who see the potential downfall of this?
Many years ago, Google's Android mobile operating system was seen as an open ended and free development tool that could take gaming to new heights of creativity. Now, the platform is filled with half-assed imitations of other half-assed imitations. The platform is yet to have a killer app that will draw gamers to the platform outside of being free. An overabundance of cheap quality won't help the platforms and could hurt the industry in relations to consumer expectations.
Too many consoles with different specs aren't going to help streamline development, which is one reason why many major publishers aren't running toward the platform in large numbers. Even the free-to-play model that been the main draw for players, isn't financial feasible for publishers who actually matter.
Will Activision create a Call of Duty that could potentially stand against its console or PC brethren? Considering how bad Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies is, I doubt that.
Many casual gamers are treating mobile gaming like the next big thing and the truth is, developers are too. Like many big things, however, they may lose traction.
Need an example? Look at Nintendo's Wii and Wii U. Motion gaming was seen as the future and yet, it's come and gone with a few remnants left.
Fickleness in trusting casual gamers may cause the industry to crash like it did in the 80s before Nintendo came and saved it. All of the platforms mentioned above truly lack a killer title to actually warrant purchase. Forgoing economical reasons, why should someone choose an Ouya over a Playstation 4 or Xbox One?
Candy Crush Saga or Modern Combat?
Even on the portable side, the NVIDIA Shield seems useless against Nintendo's 3DS or even Sony's Playstation Vita. It's quite obvious that it can't outpower both consoles even with its Tegra 4 processor. Hell, what truly separates Shield against other Android tablets besides the controller?
Many people enjoy tablet gaming because it is used in conjunction with other (and more important) usage like social media, checking emails and watching YouTube videos, amongst others.
My point? On it's own, Android isn't powerful enough to become a go-to gaming platform, which is why the likes of Ouya, NVIDIA Shield and Madcatz' consoles are going to crash and burn. Here's hoping that those flames don't spread to more respected parts of the industry.
TAG Google, Android, gaming, OUYA, Nvidia Shield, Portable Gaming, bluestacks, gamepop, PlayStation Vita, Sony, Nintendo 3DS, Mad Catz
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Mr. Hot Coldman\'s Peace Walker Kills Itself
During Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Big Boss learns that CIA Station Chief Hot Coldman—yes, that's his name—worked together with Dr. Strangelove to make a nuclear metal gear equipped with The Boss' A.I. Called Peace Walker, it was a remarkably dangerous creation that was made specifically to return nuclear fire in the event of an offensive attack.
rnSoon after its deployment, Peace Walker is mistakenly given order to return nuclear fire. A moment before the A.I. fires its ICBM, potentially summoning nuclear war, The Boss' A.I. comes alive and forces the Peace Walker to drown itself in Lake Nicaragua. The event is shown as a reawakening of the legendary The Boss and her anti-war philosophy.
Johnny Sasaki the Diarrhea Expert
Since the original Metal Gear Solid there's been a recurring appearance of a character who battles with bowel issues. Known as Johnny Sasaki, his first appearance was in Metal Gear Solid where he guarded the cell of Solid Snake. He would leave his post after experiencing a rush of diarrhea, opening up an opportunity for Snake to hide himself and escape. His name was only encountered later in the credits upon finishing the game.
rnIn Metal Gear Solid 2 Johnny wasn't physically encountered, and instead made a cameo when the player was provided a directional microphone to detect Richard Ames' pacemaker. Johnny's bowel movements could be heard through the wall during this sequence.
rnMetal Gear Solid: Snake Eater continued the ridiculousness as Johnny's Russian grandfather was met by Big Boss following his capture. To no surprise, he similarly battled diarrhea while guarding a cell block.
rnIn Metal Gear Solid 4 Johnny Sasaki was not only made into a major character, but his face was seen for the first time ever. Solid Snake encounters Johnny while he's having a bowel movement under the disguise of a barrel. Interestingly enough, Johnny would fight alongside Solid Snake during the game, and eventually marry Meryl Silverburgh leaving the audience in pure disbelief.
Illuminati Censorship
Throughout the Metal Gear Solid series a powerful organization comprised of wealthy individuals is mentioned. This world-controlling organization is made mysterious, bearing striking resemblance to what people in our real-world refer to as The Illuminati. It isn't until Metal Gear Solid 4 that the organization is featured front and center stage. rn rnDuring the course of Metal Gear Solid 4, the player regularly hears mention of a group with an obscure name. It turns out that when this name is heard, the person speaking is actually saying "The Patriots", the official name of the organization. However, thanks to nanomachine censorship, this is translated to "La-li-lu-le-lo" during communication. rn rnThe Patriots would later be revealed to be the support group of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater including Sigint, Para-Medic, and Major Zero, once again reinforcing that Hideo Kojima likes to correlate everything in the franchise no matter how insane it is.
MGS2 Simulation Reveal
Big Boss' appearance at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 was arguably unnecessary. What isn't arguable is how ridiculous the things he had to say were.
rnDuring his 10+ minute speech to Solid Snake in a graveyard, Big Boss would state that many of the events of Metal Gear Solid 2 were just a simulation and never actually took place. He would go on to explain that an A.I. created by Major Zero would try to assume control of the world, crafting alternate universes in the process. For those who didn't like Metal Gear Solid 2, it was a redeeming revelation. For everyone else, it was silly beyond belief.
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Nanomachines Explain Everything
Metal Gear Solid has employed various supernatural elements over the years. Given the series' commitment to a realistic world, these elements always stood out as something bizarre but explainable through natural means.
rnFor example, in Metal Gear Solid 4 Solid Snake would encounter an antagonist named Vamp, an ex-member of Dead Cell capable of running on walls at blazing speed, and even standing on water. He would even recover from significant wounds out of nowhere, making him seemingly invincible.
rnVamp, along with a large library of other supernatural elements in the series, would later be explained as the product of nanomachines, microscopic machines that would dwell in the bloodstream of individuals. It was such a ridiculous turn of events that it has remained common joke among gamers when discussing game elements that have no logical explanation.
Quadruple Agents
Undercover operations were an extremely important part of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater's storytelling. For one, The Boss' undercover defection from the U.S. to the Soviet Union was a major plot element, but it went much further from that.
rnIt's revealed later into the story that Revolver Ocelot is a U.S. Agent who is, similar to The Boss, now working with the Soviet Union. However, he shows moments of being a double agent as he works in the Soviet Union's favor. Shortly after, he becomes a triple agent, and then eventually a quadruple agent. It's all a mess of complexity that ultimately does the iconic character a disservice.
rnTo make matters worse, another character named Eva was similarly an undercover agent. Her motives are explained much more directly, but it's hard to dismiss the fact that Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater is overflowing with undercover agents.
The Arm
There is, simply put, nothing as controversial as Liquid Snake's arm. Chopped off during battle, the arm was soon transplanted onto the one and only Revolver Ocelot. Throughout Metal Gear Solid 4 Revolver Ocelot is shown behaving remarkably similar to Liquid Snake, explained as nanomachines in the arm taking over Ocelot's body. It's a far-fetched explanation that confused many players. rn rnHowever, the story makes a quick left turn out of nowhere and reveals that Ocelot was never controlled by the arm, but rather Ocelot hypnotized himself to behave and sound like Liquid Snake. Supposedly, he did this in order to fool The Patriots into thinking he was actually controlled by Liquid Snake. If you can't make sense of it, then you aren't alone. This single piece of the story is considered by many Metal Gear fans to be the worst plot element in the series' over 28 years of history.
Paz\'s Nether Parts Bomb
The story behind what Paz endured at the hands of Skullface prior to the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes was already way over the top. To give you an idea, she was apparently gangraped and beaten, among other things that could be regarded as worse.
rnAt the end of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes she is rescued by Big Boss in a dangerous mission. Members on-board the escape helicopter quickly learn that she has a bomb in her abdomen. It is surgically removed before detonation, saving the crew. However, she soon reveals that there is another bomb, inferring that it's inside her private parts. She jumps out of the helicopter just in-time for the nether parts bomb not to cause instant-death to Big Boss and his team. However, the helicopter crashes due to structural damage, trigger the beginning of Big Boss' multi-year coma.
MGS3\'s Supernatural Bosses
Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater's boss cast is regarded as one of the most consistently interesting in gaming history. However, that doesn't mean that their design is founded in reality. rn rnAmong the group of antagonists you have a guy who can control bees, another who produces electricity at will, a ghost, and an over 100 year old man who is better with a sniper rifle than anyone else in the world. It's got to be those nanomachines.
Visible Codec Conversations
Codec conversations have been an important element of Metal Gear since its inception. In Metal Gear Solid 4 Liquid Snake demonstrates that people can see each other through the system when he changes costume to fool Solid Snake. Given that codec is supposed to be radio communication through an ear piece, it makes absolutely no sense.
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ISS powers up its first humanoid robot called Robonaut 2
By Julius Motal 08.24.2011 :: 4:02PM EDT 08.24.2011
Robot workers exist in various industries, but until recently, space has not seen a robot astronaut. Granted, there have been rovers, but there was never a humanoid robot. Now, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have just turned on the stattion’s very first humanoid robot, the Robonaut 2, R2 for short.
R2 has been in space for six months without being powered up. The Space Shuttle Discovery’s last mission into space this past February had R2 as part of its cargo. Since then, R2 has been sleeping because the station crew’s schedule has been so full of tasks and experiments they just didn’t have time to turn it on.
R2 stands at 3 feet 4 inches tall. It would be taller if it had legs, but doesn’t actually need them at the moment. With its torso, arms, and head, R2 weighs a rather heavy 330 pounds. That weight is set to increase when it does finally get legs in 2013.
For the initial setup astronauts Satoshi Furukawa and Mike Fossum hooked up R2 inside the station, and power was sent from teams on Earth. R2 was then alive for two hours while engineers on the ground verified that everything was working properly, and fortunately everything was.
R2 has now gone back to sleep until September 1 when it will be powered up again. Engineers from the ground will then send commands to R2 that will cause it to move its arms and hands. Providing everything goes well, R2 will be able to assist with simple tasks next year.
It’s good to see that there’s still work being done in space following the termination of the shuttle program. Currently, one of R2’s twins is due to undergo field tests in Arizona. That R2 will have a four-wheeled base in an asteroid-mission simulation.
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Comic-Con: The awesome stuff we’re doing
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There’s only one thing Geek Crusade can say about this year’s San Diego Comic-Con panel schedule: it is JAM PACKED with awesome.
We will, of course, be at preview night today (starting July 18, 9am Singapore time), when the pilots for four brand new shows will be screened in Ballroom 20: Almost Human, The Originals, The Tomorrow People and The 100. Look out for our reviews, coming straight after.
We’ve also been granted some very exciting interview opportunities for Friday and Saturday, which will require some tag-teaming in order to attend all the awesome panels we want to cover. We can’t say too much at the moment, but follow us @GeekCrusade for updates!
Just like last year, we’re keeping Thursday (July 18) and Sunday (July 21) free for walking the convention floor. Come Friday morning (July 19), we’ll be camping out for a MEGA PANEL DAY in Hall H:
The World’s End (10-11am) with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright – the creative team behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz spill the beans on their apocalyptic comedy
Kick-Ass 2 and Riddick (1215 – 115pm), featuring Vin Diesel and Starbuck herself, Katee Sackhoff
Next up, the cast and crew of The Walking Dead (135-230pm) tell you what’s in store for season 4. In attendance -stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, David Morrissey, Scott Wilson, and Chad Coleman. They’ll be joined by executive producer and showrunner Scott Gimple, executive producer Robert Kirkman, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer Dave Alpert, and special effects makeup supervisor and executive producer Greg Nicotero
Another crazy popular TV show, Game of Thrones (250-345pm), will also be there. Featured cast include (deep breath): John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), and Richard Madden (Robb Stark). And let’s not forget Kit Harington a.k.a Jon Snow, who missed out on last year’s GOT panel due to an injury.
The highlight of the day – Sony & Screen Gems (405-615pm), where Sony unveils their summer slate of four movies. The cast and crew of Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, RoboCop and – get ready for this – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will all be in attendance.
Saturday (July 20) is going to be another red-letter day, and the moment for some big, big movies to take the spotlight in Hall H again. So we’ll be camping out once more.
There’s a mockingjay waiting in Hall H ©Lionsgate
The day starts with Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures Preview Their Upcoming Lineups (1045am-115pm), and panels for FOUR blockbusters. Godzilla, Seventh Son, 300: Rise of an Empire, Gravity and The Lego Movie will all feature. It’s unclear who’s going to be in attendance, but the stars of these movies include Jeff Bridges, Jeff Daniels, Eva Green, George Clooney and Alison Brie.
Next, Lionsgate (135-235pm) previews two upcoming movies. The panel for I, Frankenstein comprises director Stuart Beattie, Aaron Eckhart, and the gorgeous Yvonne Strahovski, formerly of Chuck and Dexter. Meanwhile, the cast of the hotly anticipated The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will come to Hall H for the first time. If Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t turn up, we will totes get a bow and some arrows and kill some animals. For sustenance, of course.
20th Century Fox (415-545pm) then takes the floor with a slate that is still TBA. Given the scoops and rumours circulating in the past week, we at Geek Crusade would put money on an X-Men: Days of Future Past panel, as well as announcements of an X-Force movie and a possible new Predator project.
It all ends with two Marvel Studios panels (6-7pm) for Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is the only confirmed guest as of now – but “many surprise guests” are promised.
You can find the full Comic-Con schedule here. And if you’re an SDCC noob, check out our Ultimate Comic-Con Survival Guide for some important information.
Look out too for our updates from Comic-Con every day, as we send out blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, Google+ Hangouts and Instagram videos. We will be especially active when we’re camping out in the early hours (PST) – hope the wifi connection holds up!
What are you looking forward to at this year’s Comic-Con? Leave us a comment and tell us!
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General News of Thursday, 10 February 2005
Source: GhanaWeb Correspondent
Ashesi students develop Java Traffic Light
Accra, Feb. 10 - A traffic light system developed by students of Ashesi University in Accra to solve the heavy traffic congestion on the La-Teshie dual carriageway intersection, near the La-Palm Beach Hotel, was launched in Accra on Thursday. The Java software controlled traffic light system estimated at 100,000 dollars operates using a "javelin stamp" and an ultrasonic sensor to efficiently and flawless direct traffic on the dual carriageway into a single lane.
The programme, which is part of a project work of the third year students of the University, requires them to use Java Software Programming and Discrete Mathematic knowledge to solve real life problems in society.
Giving the background to the project, Professor Sitsofe E. Anku of the Computer Science Department of the University said the traffic light could perform the role of a policeman by controlling the heavy traffic on the intersection. He said the chip in the light could also act as the eye that could merge the traffic on the La-Teshie road into a single lane.
Prof. Anku said the chip could be re-programmed to suit any traffic on the road at any time of year.
Mr Obinna Brandon Chuko, a third year Computer Science student, said an intelligent sensor, an advertising component and civic messages had been incorporated into the new traffic light system, making it unique as compared to other traffic devices in the country. He said the sensor could detect traffic ahead by sending beams to the system that would be indicated by the red light and when the traffic eased, the green light would appear.
Mr Ckoku said the advertising devise would help provide funds to maintain the project. He called for collaboration between the industrial sector and the Universities to help bring some of these innovations to fruition.
Mrs Eva Lokko, Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, commended the students for their ingenuity in coming out with this model. She called for the application of science and technology in solving some of the basic problems affecting the country.
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Sunshine on the Broch
Scott Milne
Published: 17:31 Sunday 07 February 2016
Fraserburgh Junior Arts Society will be holding auditions for parts in their production of musical Sunshine on Leith next week.
Taking place at the Dalrymple Hall and Arts Centre on Tuesday, February 9 at 7.30pm, the society is looking for males and females of Academy to retirement age to take part.
The production will be directed by Craig Roger, who said: “This show captures the essence of Scotland, and the Proclaimers’ great songs make this a great show to see and be in.
“We look forward to seeing our talented local people at the auditions.”
Sunshine on Leith was written by River City creator Stephen Greenhorn and first produced by Dundee Rep Theatre with arrangements by Hilary Brooks.
It has enjoyed a series of runs at Dundee Rep before three UK tours and subsequently adapted into a film starring Jane Horrocks and Peter Mullen.
The tale revolves around two young squaddies as they return to life in Edinburgh after a serving in war-torn Afghanistan. The score features hit songs from Scottish band The Proclaimers such as ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’, ‘I’m On My Way’, and ‘Letter from America’.
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Frontiers in Oncology
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Mini Review ARTICLE Provisionally accepted The full-text will be published soon. Notify me
Front. Oncol. | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00666
Mechanisms of resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors: potential implications and biomarkers for clinical practice
Amelia McCartney1, Ilenia Migliaccio2, Martina Bonechi2, Chiara Biagioni3, Dario Romagnoli3, Francesca De Luca2, Francesca Galardi2, Emanuela Risi1, Irene De Santo1, Matteo Benelli3, Luca Malorni1, 2 and Angelo Di Leo1*
1Hospital of Prato, Italy
2Sandro Pitigliani Translational Research Unit, New hospital in Prato, Italy
3New Hospital of Prato (NOP), Italy
The recent arrival of CDK4/6 inhibitor agents, with an approximate doubling of progression-free survival associated with their use in hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, has radically changed the approach to managing this disease. However, resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors is considered a near-inevitability in most patients. Mechanisms of resistance to these agents are multifactorial, and research in this field is still evolving. Biomarkers with the ability to identify early resistance, or to predict the likelihood of successful treatment using CDK4/6 inhibitors are yet to be identified, and represent an area of unmet clinical need. Here we present selected mechanisms of resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors, largely focussing on roles of Rb, cyclin E1 and the PIK3CA pathway, with discussion of associated biomarkers which have been investigated and applied in recent pre-clinical and clinical studies. These biological drivers may furthermore influence clinical treatment strategies adopted beyond CDK4/6 resistance.
Keywords: CDK4/6 inhibitors, biomarker, Thymidine kinase 1 (TK1), PIK3CA, palbocicib, Ribociclib, Abemaciclib, Resistance
Received: 10 May 2019; Accepted: 08 Jul 2019.
Mothaffar Rimawi, Baylor College of Medicine, United States
Tomás Pascual Martinez, Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain
Nuria Chic, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
Copyright: © 2019 McCartney, Migliaccio, Bonechi, Biagioni, Romagnoli, De Luca, Galardi, Risi, De Santo, Benelli, Malorni and Di Leo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Mx. Angelo Di Leo, Hospital of Prato, Prato, Italy, angelo.dileo@uslcentro.toscana.it
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FUJIFILM AT PHOTOPLUS EXPO 2018
Featuring the latest X Series and GFX mirrorless digital cameras, instax instant cameras, printing solutions and photo paper products
Valhalla, N.Y., October 24, 2018 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation will showcase its comprehensive range of new and innovative products at the PhotoPlus International Expo (Booth #537) from October 25 – October 27, 2018 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
At the expo, a variety of products will be featured including the new rangefinder-style FUJIFILM GFX 50R medium format mirrorless digital camera, FUJIFILM X-T3 mirrorless digital camera, and newest additions to the XF Lens lineup. Also on display in the booth will be mockups of the GFX 100 Megapixel concept model and lenses recently added to the XF and GF Lens Roadmaps. In addition, the new instax SQUARE SQ20, instax SQUARE SQ6 and SQ6 Taylor Swift Edition will be showcased in the booth, as well as photofinishing products including the GetPix Kiosk and FRONTIER-S DX100 printer, and quality photo paper products including Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper and the newly announced Fujicolor Crystal Archive Professional Paper Maxima.
The show will feature several Fujifilm-hosted professional photographer lectures at the booth including speakers who have trusted their work to X Series and GFX, instax and the DX100 printer. For the full speaker schedule, please visit www.FujifilmPPE.com.
Touch and Try the Newest X Series and GFX Mirrorless Cameras, XF and GF Lenses
The new rangefinder-style GFX 50R medium format mirrorless digital camera will be on display at the booth’s camera bar for guests to touch and try. The GFX 50R features the FUJIFILM G Format 43.8 x 32.9mm sensor with a 51.4MP resolution and high-performance X-Processor Pro image processing engine to provide outstanding color and tone reproduction. Equipped with a 0.77x 3.69M-dot organic “OLED” electronic viewfinder, the GFX 50R achieves accurate focusing despite the large size of the medium format sensor. This camera offers intuitive handling in a lightweight, rugged and weather-sealed body to meet the varying needs of photographers.
Also featured will be the FUJIFILM X-T3, the world’s first APS-C mirrorless camera capable of 4K/60P 10-bit recording to fulfill the performance needs of professional videographers. The X-T3 features a new, fourth generation 26.1MP X-Trans CMOS 4 APS-C sensor with no optical low-pass filter, debuts the quad core X-Processor 4 processor which provides incredible AF accuracy and speed, and boasts the highest performance in the history of X Series.
The booth will showcase the newest additions to the XF Lens lineup for guests to try, including the FUJINON XF8-16mmF2.8 R LM WR Lens, an ultra-wide angle zoom lens capable of providing outstanding edge-to-edge image-resolving performance, and the FUJINON XF200mmF2 R LM OIS WR Telephoto Lens, the first super-fast telephoto lens in the XF lens lineup, and its accompanying XF1.4X TC F2 WR Teleconverter.
The GFX 50R, X-T3, XF8-16mmF2.8 R LM WR and XF200mmF2 R LM OIS WR and other X Series and GFX bodies and lenses will be available to test for free through our on-site PPE 2018 Loan Program. Visit www.FujifilmPPE.com or Fujifilm’s Booth #537 to learn more.
Fujifilm will offer a Check and Clean area for X Series and GFX bodies and lenses, free of charge for existing system owners. Visit Fujifilm’s Booth #527 for full program details. Guests will also experience the majesty of large, beautiful fine art prints that will display images shot on X Series and GFX cameras, and printed on FUJIFILM photographic papers.
Instant Fun with the Newest instax Instant Cameras
The Fujifilm booth will feature the new instax SQUARE SQ20 hybrid instant camera, a sophisticated square format hybrid instant film camera that combines digital imaging technology with square film prints. The SQ20 is equipped with a digital image sensor and digital image processing technology to offer users the ability to select their favorite images to print, and even edit and apply various filters. Available in matte black and glossy beige, the SQ20 offers new and enhanced features never before seen in the instax line of instant cameras, including the new motion mode, time shift collage function and sequence filter. The camera also features a selfie mirror, built in timer and special shooting modes such as double exposure, bulb exposure and split mode for even more creative possibilities.
The instax SQUARE SQ6 square format analogue instant camera will be showcased at the booth, including the SQ6 Taylor Swift Edition, and stylish, newly announced colors – Ruby Red and Aqua Blue. The SQ6 is equipped with various features that allow users to be creative, including auto exposure control, three color filters that fit over the flash in orange, purple and green, and a selfie mode. The SQ6 also offers three unique modes – double exposure mode, macro mode and landscape mode – to ensure capture of any moment in an instant.
A Variety of Printing Solutions and Paper Products on Display
Visitors to the Fujifilm booth will see printing solutions including the GetPix Kiosk, a low cost platform for photo printing from mobile devices. The GetPix Kiosk’s ease of use provides an excellent way for people to print images from smartphones, allowing them to display and share special captured memories. Offering a flexible countertop or floor-standing pedestal, this kiosk takes up minimal space, making it ideal for small businesses and retail spaces. Fujifilm will also demonstrate on-site printing with the FRONTIER-S DX100, a high quality inkjet printer that can produce prints from 3.5” x 5” up to 8” x 39”.
In addition to the above printing solutions, Fujifilm will also showcase its Fujicolor Crystal Archive Papers, a family of traditional silver halide color papers, designed to produce the long lasting high quality color prints expected by professional photographers and their clients both for display and albums. Fujifilm will introduce a new and unique product for professional photographers, Fujicolor Crystal Archive Professional Paper Maxima. This silver halide color paper is designed for the professional print world, appropriate for creating high-end photography work to be displayed in galleries, or to showcase photography as art pieces. Fujicolor Crystal Archive Professional Paper Maxima features high D-Max for deep blacks and expanded color gamut, as well as improved image stability for longer life.
About FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Electronic Imaging
About FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Imaging
For more information, please visit www.fujifilmusa.com/northamerica, go to www.twitter.com/fujifilmus to follow Fujifilm on Twitter, or go to www.facebook.com/FujifilmNorthAmerica to Like Fujifilm on Facebook. To receive news and information direct from Fujifilm via RSS, subscribe at www.fujifilmusa.com/rss.
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation consists of five operating divisions and one subsidiary company. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including: instant cameras and film, photographic paper; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products; film; and one-time-use cameras; and also markets motion picture archival film and on-set color management solutions to the motion picture, broadcast and production industries. The Electronic Imaging Division markets consumer digital cameras, and the Graphic Systems Division supplies products and services to the graphic printing industry, including offset plates and supplies, digital printing equipment and large format printers and ink. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed circuit television, videography and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars. The Industrial Division and Corporate New Business Development Division deliver products derived from Fujifilm core technologies. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. sells and markets a range of Fujifilm products and services. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmusa.com/northamerica, go to www.twitter.com/fujifilmus to follow Fujifilm on Twitter, or go to www.facebook.com/FujifilmNorthAmerica to Like Fujifilm on Facebook. To receive news and information direct from Fujifilm via RSS, subscribe at www.fujifilmusa.com/rss.
FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings innovative solutions to a broad range of global industries by leveraging its depth of knowledge and fundamental technologies derived from photographic film. Its proprietary core technologies contribute to the fields of healthcare, graphic systems, highly functional materials, optical devices, digital imaging and document products. These products and services are based on its extensive portfolio of chemical, mechanical, optical, electronic and imaging technologies. For the year ended March 31, 2018, the company had global revenues of $23.0 billion, at an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar. Fujifilm is committed to responsible environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit: www.fujifilmholdings.com.
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Christine Appelbergh
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"We embarked upon a process of technological innovation, the final stage of which is the adoption of virtual servers and thin clients. These technologies, used by students and lecturers, have provided major advantages in terms of efficiency, maintenance, security, ease of use, and energy conservation."
Vincenzo Lezzi, Chief Information Officer Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta
LUMSA selects Fujitsu to implement PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN hyper-converged IT infrastructure, increasing flexibility and scalability
Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA) is a prestigious, internationally-recognized academic institution with 300 lecturers and approximately 6,000 students. It is the second oldest university in Rome after Sapienza. At the heart of LUMSA lies the close bond between humanistic tradition, with the university’s Catholic roots, and technological innovation.
LUMSA – Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta – is a non-state Italian university established on Catholic principles. LUMSA decided to consolidate its existing information systems and virtualize end-point clients, seeking simpler management and greater flexibility. This increases the level of service for lecturers and students and enhances data and access security.
Fujitsu SELECT Partner, PCS Group, worked with LUMSA to implement the FUJITSU Integrated System PRIMEFLEX for VMware vSAN, a hyper-converged architecture based on the FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY system, which supports more than 60 Fujitsu FUTRO Thin Clients, set to increase up to 200 in the near future.
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Simpler management of IT resources
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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson: We're Never Coming Back To Australia [Updated]
We're less than 24 hours out from the start of the Top Gear Festival in Sydney, and already Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has sworn never to come back to Australia. So what tipped him over the edge?
Image: Brendon Thorne/Stringer/Getty
Update: Top Gear presenter Andy Wilman speaks. Scroll down for the update.
After arriving to a relatively pleasant photo call yesterday on Sydney Harbour with co-host, James May and Top Gear Australia host Shane Jacobson, everything seemed to be going well for the scandal-prone Top Gear presenters.
You may remember last time that Clarkson was in the country for a Top Gear show, he called British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed, Scottish idiot". That wasn't a political comment: PM Brown does actually only have one functioning eye after an incident at a rugby match when he was but a lad, meaning that Clarkson was forced by interest groups to make an apology for his comments.
To avoid scandals like that happening on this trip, Clarkson's media appearances have been kept to a minimum. Less airtime means less chance to say something stupid, right? Not exactly.
News Limited today reports that Clarkson won't ever be coming back to Australia after he, co-presenter May and a third-party were chased down by the paparazzi last night in the Sydney waterfront suburb of Woolloomooloo.
A video of photographers chasing the team has been posted, in which one member of the party says that "you are the reason we're never coming back here". It is also being reported that Clarkson said that one of the photographers ought to be "thrown into the river".
Update: Top Gear producer, Andy Wilman has fired back about the altercation, saying that the man who allegedly spoke on Clarkson's behalf is nothing more than "a halfwit", and that the statements were indeed untrue.
Clarkson threw an update at Twitter making light of the whole affair:
So I had a conversation last night about how I would never go back to Austria. And NOW look what 's happened.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) March 7, 2013
Gizmodo Australia will be at the Sydney Top Gear Festival this weekend. Let us know if you're going in the comments!
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Maya Hawke Is the Internet’s New It Girl—She Just Doesn’t Care
The New Charlie’s Angels Trailer Is Here, Thank God
Selena Gomez Is Living Her Best Life at Her Cousin’s Bachelorette Party in Mexico
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Lauren Graham Says She'd Do a Gilmore Girls Movie and More Tidbits That Will Have You Feeling So Nostalgic
It's been years and years since Gilmore Girls ended, and I'm still not over it—nor, I suspect, are you. And my nostalgia for Rory and Lorelei Gilmore is at an all-time high after reading through Lauren Graham's Reddit AMA from yesterday. She shared so many tidbits and GG-related insights, that I had to share some of the best... On if she'd ever consider a Gilmore Girls movie... "Yes, IF a movie version could be as good as we'd all want it to be, I'd love to play that character again." On working with Edward Herrmann... Reddit user: "I have to ask what it was like getting to work with Edward Herrmann. He just seems like the kind of guy you could kick back and relax with (assuming you had a nice bottle of Scotch and a good, debatable historical topic)." LG: "You've pretty much nailed it." On sharing Lorelei's coffee addiction... "Sadly, yes. I drink it all day." How often does she say "Oy, with the poodles already!"? "Probably not nearly enough. However, I have incorporated Huzzah! into my repertoire." On what she misses most about Gilmore Girls... "I miss that writing, even though those long speeches could be a
It's been years and years since Gilmore Girls ended, and I'm still not over it—nor, I suspect, are you. And my nostalgia for Rory and Lorelei Gilmore is at an all-time high after reading through Lauren Graham's Reddit AMA from yesterday. She shared so many tidbits and GG-related insights, that I had to share some of the best...
On if she'd ever consider a Gilmore Girls movie...
"Yes, IF a movie version could be as good as we'd all want it to be, I'd love to play that character again."
On working with Edward Herrmann...
Reddit user: "I have to ask what it was like getting to work with Edward Herrmann. He just seems like the kind of guy you could kick back and relax with (assuming you had a nice bottle of Scotch and a good, debatable historical topic)."
LG: "You've pretty much nailed it."
On sharing Lorelei's coffee addiction...
"Sadly, yes. I drink it all day."
How often does she say "Oy, with the poodles already!"?
"Probably not nearly enough. However, I have incorporated Huzzah! into my repertoire."
On what she misses most about Gilmore Girls...
"I miss that writing, even though those long speeches could be a challenge."
On staying in touch with Alexis Bledel...
"Love her—we'll always have a special bond. Saw her in New York not too long ago. I had a nice lunch with TV mom Kelly and Amy S.P. as well. We went to Joe Allen, one of my faves."
On working with Melissa McCarthy...
"Truly hilarious and kind on set, and then I'd go see her in Groundlings and be blown away by the characters she created."
On getting all of GG pop-culture references...
"If I didn't, I'd look them up. Part of being an actor is research!"
On the most memorable moments...
"Hard to pick one moment, but I remember working long hours and getting really punchy. We'd start making up raps and singing 'Loving You' by Minnie Ripperton."
Sigh. Guess what TV show I'll be marathoning this weekend. Now that the Veronica Mars movie happened, I definitely think there's room for a Gilmore Girls movie, no? P.S. Find out where your favorite GG characters are now with our roundup.
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Company Led by Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Says Its Oil Will Flow Through Dakota Access Pipeline
By Steve Horn
DeSmogBlog 6 September 2016
Theme: Environment, Oil and Energy
In-depth Report: U.S. Elections
Continental Resources — the company founded and led by CEO Harold Hamm, energy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and potential U.S. Secretary of Energy under a Trump presidency — has announced to investors that oil it obtains via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale basin is destined for transport through the hotly-contested Dakota Access pipeline.
The company’s 37-page September 2016 Investor Update presentation walks investors in the publicly-traded company through various capital expenditure and profit-margin earning scenarios. It also features five slides on the Bakken Shale, with the fifth one named “CLR Bakken Differentials Decreasing Through Increased Pipeline Capacity” honing in on Dakota Access, ETCOP and how the interconnected lines relate to Continental’s marketing plans going forward.
In a section of that slide titled, “Bakken Takeaway Capacity” a bar graph points out that the opening of Dakota Access would allow more barrels of Continental’s Bakken fracked oil to flow through pipelines.
Dakota Access is slated to carry the fracked Bakken oil across South Dakota, Iowa and into Patoka, Illinois. From there, it will connect to the company’s Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCOP) line, which terminates in Nederland, Texas at the Sunoco Logistics-owned refinery.
From Keystone XL to Dakota Access
Previously, Harold Hamm was as an outspoken supporter of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, deploying the lobbying group he founded named the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance to advocate for KXL and a Bakken on-ramp which would connect to it. Once he realized the northern leg was doomed politically, Hamm began singing a different tune on Keystone.
“We’re supporting other pipelines out there, we’re not waiting on Keystone. Nobody is,” Hamm, also an energy adviser to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, told Politico in November 2014. “That thing … needed action on it six years ago. I just think it’s too late and we need to move on.”
One of those ‘other pipelines’ Hamm appears to have taken an interest in is Dakota Access (DAPL). Although to date, neither Hamm nor Trump have commented publicly on the DAPL project. Continental Resources told DeSmog that it does not comment on pipeline shipping contracts.
As The Intercept’s Lee Fang pointed out in a recent article, some oil from Dakota Access could feed export markets, despite Energy Transfer’s claims in a presentation that it will feature “100% Domestic produced crude” that “supports 100% domestic consumption.”
Hamm’s Domestic Energy Producers Alliance, as revealed in a December 2015 DeSmog investigation, led the successful public relations and lobbying campaign charge for lifting the crude oil export ban.
The battle over the fate of Dakota Access has pitted Native American Tribes, environmentalists and libertarian private property rights supporters against Energy Transfer Partners and state- and federal-level agencies which have permitted the project.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe awaits a decision by a Judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in its lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, set for September 9.
“Hamm is an oil profiteer exploiting the health of the water, farmland, and communities in the Dakotas and all downstream,” Angie Carter of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network — one of the over 30 groups comprising the Iowa-based Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition — told DeSmog. “In Iowa, we’ve called upon both Trump and Clinton to speak out against the pipeline.”
Like Trump, Clinton has yet to comment on the pipeline.
Image Credit: Continental Resources
The original source of this article is DeSmogBlog
Copyright © Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog, 2016
Articles by: Steve Horn
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SSC General Awareness Questions asked IN CGL 2018 Part 6
Posted on 2019-07-12 by Job Alert
SSC General Awareness Questions asked IN CGL 2018 tier –1 Part 6 One Line Questions And Answers for Upcoming SSC and UPSC Exams General Studies and General Awareness Based Question papers Preparation Purpose . for Updated SSC Recruitment . Every part Contains 50 Questions and Overall 498 Questions with Answers Published
SSC CGL General Awareness Questions and Answers :
1 .Scientific study of plant Pollen, spores and certain microscopic planktonic organism is called
2 .Branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians is called
Herpetology
3 .Study of the micro anatomy of cells, tissues and organs as seen through a microscope is called
4 .Kala Bhavana, founded in 1919 is a noted Institution of education and research in visual arts. It is located in
5 .Which pass connects Tawang with Lhasa?
Bum La pass
6 .Poush Mela displays local artisans displaying folk dances, music, food and culture of __________.
7 .In March 2019, who among the following was appointed as India's first Lokpal?
Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh
8 .The invasion of Timur in ______ AD marked the end of Tughlaq Empire
9 .Janku is a unique cultural custom followed in ________ as a Celebration of life
10 .As a reaction to Rowlatt Act, ___________ was organized as National Humiliation Day.
11 .Who was the first Indian to receive the Raman Magsaysay Award for his contribution to community leadership?
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
12 .What is the term used to describe the angular distance of a place North or South of Earth's equator?
13 .Which of the following is the third stage in the metamorphosis of a butterfly
14 .In economic terms what do you mean by 'intermediate goods'?
Goods sold between industriesfor the resale or production of other goods.
15 .The Maximum strength of the Bangladeshi Parliament is
The Maximum strength of the Bangladeshi Parliament is
16 .How many provinces is the country of Nepal divided into?
17 .Which world leader is awarded the St Andrew the Apostle, the highest order of the Russian Federation in the year 2019?
18 .Which of the following kings is regarded as the founder of the kingdom of Nepal?
Prithvi Narayan Shah
19 .The term 'Putt' is used in the sport
20 .Which of the following plants is carnivorous?
21 .Which tribe of Pakistan performs a traditional dance form called 'Waziri Dance'?
22 .The Khilafat movement of 1920 was organized as a protest against the injustice done to
23 .How many Canine teeth does an adult human have?
24 .Adal Tinkering Labs is an initiative by which of the following institutions?
25 .Who among the following was one of the governors during the reign of Alauddin Khilji?
Giyasuddin Tughlaq
26 .TV remote control work on the principle of
Infrared waves
27 .Who was appointed as the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for a period of 3 years in March 2019?
Ajit Kumar Mohanty
28 .Government of India nominated member of NITI Aayog __________, to head the Food and Agricultural Organisation in March 2019.
Ramesh Chand
29 .Who founded the Sayyid dynasty?
Khizr Khan
30 .Majuli, the largest river island in the world is located in
31 .Which of the following passes is known as the Gateway connecting Jammu and Srinagar?
Banihal pass
32 .____________ in Himachal Pradesh is a famous tourist attraction
Rohtang Pass
33 .A sustained rise in the general price level in an economy is called
34 .Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute on 17 December 1931?
35 .________ dance, performed by Buddhist to ward off evil spirits, is dance form of Himachal Pradesh
Chham
36 .The Musi and Bhima are tributaries of the river
37 .The Malimath Committee report deals with
Criminal justice System reforms
38 .Who attacked and looted the famous Somnath Temple in 1026 AD?
Mahmud of Ghazni
39 .Which country was the first to implement Goods and Service Tax?
40 .Which of the following is mined in the Badampahar mines of Odisha?
41 .Sundari, a well known species of trees is found in
42 .The Tata Iron and Steel company was established by Dorabji Tata in
43 .Who was the first female Director General of Police in Puducherry?
Sundari Nanda
44 .Which of the following elements is a metalloid?
45 .Methyl propane is an isomer of
n-butane
46 .According to The Economist Intelligence Unit Report, Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2019"
which of the following is not one of the three cheapest cities in India?"
47 .Which of the following places was ruled by the Wadiyar dynasty?
48 .Name the first ever judge of the Supreme Court against whom the motion of impeachment was introduced into parliament in independent India
Justice Ramaswamy
49 .In March 2019 who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Goa
Pramod Sawant
50 .JJ Thomson received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of
Electrons
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FIFA's Blatter Calls on Israel to Ease Travel Restrictions for Palestinian Soccer Players
Palestinians say will not ask for sanctions against Israel, but urge to find solution.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter in Zurich, at a press conference following the meeting between Israeli and Palestinian soccer authorities.Reuters
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter and delegates at the FIFA Congress called on the Israeli government on Wednesday to fully commit to FIFA's plans to ease restrictions on movement for Palestinian footballers.
"I call on the Israeli government to facilitate this movement and I go so far as to say its co-operation is crucial," Blatter told delegates who roundly applauded him.
He said that relations between the Israeli and Palestine football associations had generally improved since a Task Force was established at last year's Congress in Mauritius and the Israeli government needed to back FIFA's plans.
After Blatter spoke, Jibril Rajoub, the president of the Palestine FA said they would not be calling for any sanctions against Israel as he had implied a month ago, but that the suffering of Palestine football had to end.
"I call on those who are causing the suffering to stop and those that are suffering not to lose hope as they are part of the FIFA family," he told delegates from all 209 of FIFA's members including Israel.
After Rajoub's speech, Blatter congratulated the Israeli delegation for not responding negatively to Rajoub's pleas saying: "Israeli football, you are not abandoned and I congratulate today for keeping silent in the spirit of sportsmanship fair play."
Although Blatter said the situation had improved generally, FIFA, the PFA and the IFA as well as their respective confederations from Asia (AFC) and Europe (UEFA) were not close to a Memorandum of Understanding which he had hoped they would have been.
"The problems between Israel and Palestine have been going on for more than 50 years and it would not be possible for us to solve them in one year since the Task Force was established," he said.
"But we have made positive first steps."
He said a new committee would be formed to help monitor the progress of the relationship between the Israeli and Palestine FAs with consultations between the two continuing.
Israel appeared to inflame the situation earlier this week when it denied Palestine FA deputy general-secretary, Mohammad Ammassi, permission to travel from Gaza to the West Bank, from where he would have crossed to Jordan and on to Brazil for the Congress.
The PFA accused Israel of arbitrarily denying passage to Ammassi.
An Israeli official said Ammassi was banned from leaving the Gaza Strip because he had failed to follow procedure and submit his request at least 10 days prior to travel.
Israel cites security concerns for such restrictions, but has drawn international calls for greater freedom of movement for Palestinians through Israeli military checkpoints.
Top Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub.Nir Keidar
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Freight and passenger car
The truck starts at 8 pm at 30 km/h. Passenger car starts at 8 pm at 40 km/h. Passenger arrives in the destination city 1 hour and 45 min earlier. What is the distance between the city of departure and destination city?
s = 210 km
30 t = 40 (t-1.75)
s = 30 t
10t = 70
s-30t = 0
s = 210
t = 7
motion problems
Do you want to convert length units?
Truck and car
At 6h45min the truck started at a speed of 36 km/h. At 7h30m behind it a passenger car. Find the average speed of passenger car if it will catch truck 72 km away from the factory.
Drivers of passenger cars have calculated that at a speed of 60 km/h arrives at destination within 40 minutes. After 20 km refrain five minutes due a technical failure. How fast must go the rest of the way to the finish came at the scheduled time?
Cities A and B are 200 km away. At 7 o'clock from city A, the car started at an average speed of 80 km/h, and from B at 45 min later the motorcycle is started at an average speed of 120 km/h. How long will they meet and at what distance from the point A it
Opava is 360 km distance from Prešov. At 8:00 hour two cars started against each other from this cities at average speeds 88 km/h and 121 km/h. At what hour its will meet and what distance its travel if car started from Prešov is faster?
At 9:00 am two cars started from the same town and traveled at a rate of 35 miles per hour and the other car traveled at a rate of 40 miles per hour. After how many hours will the cars be 30 miles apart?
At 6 hours 40 minutes steamer sailed from the port at speed 12 km/h. At exactly 10 hours started sail motorboat at speed 42 km/h. When motorboat will catch steamer?
Pedestrian came started at 8h in the morning with speed 4.4 km/h. At half-past eleven cyclist started at 26 km/h same way. How many minutes take cyclist to catch up pedestrian?
A woman works at a law firm in city A which is about 50 miles from city B. She must go to the law library in city B to get a document. Find how long it takes her to drive round-trip if she averages 40 mph.
Bob traveled
Bob traveled 20 meters to Dave's house. He arrived in 3 minutes. What was his average speed for the trip.
So far, a storm has traveled 35 miles in 1/2 hour in direction straight to observer. If it is currently 5:00 p. m. and the storm is 105 miles away from you, at what time will the storm reach you? Explain how you solved the problem.
Vojta left the house at three o'clockat 4 km/h. After half hour later went from the same place Filip by bicycle at speed 18 km/h. How long take Tilip to catch up Vojta and how far from the house?
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Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
Hinckley hub will be built despite building firm Hallam's collapse
THE FIRM given the task of constructing Hinckley’s new multi-million pound council offices has gone into receivership with the loss of 100 jobs.
Emma RayContent editor
Hallam Contracts, of Oadby, had won the contract to build the new Hinckley Hub civic offices on the corner of Hawley Road and Rugby Road.
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council have confirmed that the firm had gone into receivership but said it wouldn’t affect work being carried out on the Hinckley Hub.
And Steve Atkinson, chief executive at Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, said the development would still be completed on schedule in the early part of 2013 despite the setback.
He said: “Hallam Contracts, the building contractor for construction work on the new Hinckley Hub civic offices went into receivership this week.
“I would like to take this opportunity to confirm that the Hinckley Hub building will still be completed as per the contractual agreement with the council’s development partner MRP and Aviva.
“The council’s development partner is now seeking to secure an alternative construction contractor to complete the works. It is anticipated this will happen within the next few days and construction works will continue. Council services will move into the Hinckley Hub during the early part of 2013.”
Hallam Contracts had been working on the £12 million project to build new headquarters for Hinckley and Bosworth for the last 10 months.
Once completed the 41,000 square feet office development will house staff of the borough council allowing it to vacate its current accommodation in Argents Mead and at St Florence House. It will also provide office space for other partner organisations.
No-one from Hallam Contracts was available for comment at the time of going to press.
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Post by Vanessa » Mon September 6th, 2010, 11:33 am
I have to say I'm with EC on this one - I thought it was a fabulous book, written with a sense of humour. I just loved it - it's definitely a keeper for me!
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Post by Misfit » Mon September 6th, 2010, 12:55 pm
[quote=""Leo62""]The cynic in me wonders if this is the case. A way for the (presumably mostly white) readers to engage with a difficult subject without feeling too confronted by ugliness.
I confess I haven't read the book, but I did hear a radio adaptation of it earlier this year and didn't much like it.
From what I've read of the civil rights era in Mississippi, the attitude to anyone black (or white) who stepped out of line was vicious and unrelenting violence. Black people were murdered with impunity for things much less serious than the poop pie incident...[/quote]
I've spent my entire life in the Pacific Northwest (with a short stint in Hawaii), so even though I recall the civil rights movement, the riots, etc. it was all from a newscast and not first hand. I think Leo might have a valid point, publishers can be leery of such hot topic matter and want to tone it down some.
I was thinking of getting the book out and trying myself but the hold count is as bad as I've seen for PG and Gabaldon's latest, 911 holds on 289 copies
Someone is definitely reading this book.
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Post by EC2 » Mon September 6th, 2010, 1:53 pm
Looking just now, it's at number 12 on Amazon UK's chart with 234 customer review.
Amazon.com is also at number 12 with 2,500 -ish reviews. My copy said 2 million copies sold in the USA, and that doesn't include library borrowings.
When I was doing a library tour before I'd read it, I was talking to a senior librarian who's job it was to buy books for their region. Hertfordshire I think, but don't quote me, as I did several gigs close together around that time. At that point they had a huge waiting list for the novel and she was buying in extra copies as it was a selection for Channel 4's TV Book Club. She also told me that she and the others on her book buying committee thought it was a superb read and all of their library reading groups would be discussing it.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
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Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
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Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Mon September 6th, 2010, 3:01 pm
I loved the Help. Unlike Michy, I did not find any of it contrived. I was a teenager, a very socially-conscious one, during the period described, and although I was in Los Angeles, I had black friends. Some of those had recently come from the Deep South, and from what they told me (along with later accounts) of their growing-up experiences, this book rang very true.
I could feel the constant tension in the story. The fact that nothing worse happened to the maids was also very typical--the tension, one which all black people in that area lived with, was the possibility that something horrible MIGHT happen to any of them, and that there would be no redress. As the Billie Holliday song goes,
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves, blood at the root.
But that was mostly done to the men. The woman just got raped, shoved, pushed, and taken advantage of. But they pushed it down and didn't complain, because doing so might get their fathers, husbands, and sons killed.
I remember the Medgar Evers murder well, you can still go back and see the news articles online, and since I was expecting it to come up, the danger felt very real to me. I kept wondering which of the characters was going to be caught in that.
The bit where the maid was put into jail without trial for the theft of a low-value bit of jewelry has several real precedents, some from the 70's.
A good companion read for the Help would be the Glass Castle--a memoir by (white) Jeannette Walls. The part in the South is a decade later, but you can see that it hasn't changed much. Mississippi is one of the worst for prejudice -- still is.
As to the characters being stereotypes, well, they might be, but I have lived with quite a few of those 'stereotypes' while sharing our home with abused women, about 40% of whom were women of color. Like most cliches, they exist because they reflect reality. I suppose they might be boring if the reader couldn't look through their own experience and say, "Yes, that was just like Sylvia," or "Stockett sure had Anna nailed, I almost think she might have known her." In which case, you don't need 'fresh' or surprising, accurate will do.
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Post by Michy » Mon September 6th, 2010, 3:02 pm
[quote=""EC2""]
As to still being around in 50 years. I do wonder these days if society has changed and how much will be classic in 50 years. Anyone remember what won the first Booker Prize 40 years ago without looking it up?[/quote]
50 years is a somewhat arbitrary number -- but a book has to have some sort of staying power to become a classic. Just how much time is subjective; I think it's something we only realize in retrospect. But even in today's society, we are still reading and talking about books that were written 50, even 100 years (or more) ago. Winning a literary prize definitely helps a book stand the test of time, although that in itself doesn't guarantee it will become a classic. Even being an Oprah pick doesn't guarantee it. I really don't see The Help winning any sort of prize or lasting over the long haul. Obviously, I could be wrong, but even if I am, I still think the book is highly over-rated. But then, I am used to swimming against the tide of popular opinion.
[quote=""Michy""]50 years is a somewhat arbitrary number -- but a book has to have some sort of staying power to become a classic. Just how much time is subjective; I think it's something we only realize in retrospect. But even in today's society, we are still reading and talking about books that were written 50, even 100 years (or more) ago. Winning a literary prize definitely helps a book stand the test of time, although that in itself doesn't guarantee it will become a classic. Even being an Oprah pick doesn't guarantee it. I really don't see The Help winning any sort of prize or lasting over the long haul. Obviously, I could be wrong, but even if I am, I still think the book is highly over-rated. But then, I am used to swimming against the tide of popular opinion. [/quote]
I'm not likely to be around 50 years from now, so I'll have to observe from the great beyond. I do wonder though through society's changes, if the books we discuss now that are 50-150 years old, will still be being discussed in 50 years' time. I'm not sure if The Help is a classic and it may well fall by the wayside as most books do, but I certainly loved reading it in the here and now.
Many of the books cited as classics wind up on my bleurrgh rating.
If I had to pick my own classics for people to read 50 years from now (which would be totally different to the classics of the literati mafia I suspect), I'd go with Mort by Terry Pratchett and The Shining By Stephen King! As 2 titles anyway :- )
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Post by Miss Moppet » Mon September 6th, 2010, 3:49 pm
[quote=""Michy""] All in all I found the book to be an entertaining read, "good" but not "great"; certainly not The Classic that so many are proclaiming it to be. Just because a book tackles race relations doesn't automatically make it a classic. [/quote]
Exactly. I think that if a book tackles a subject like race, or the Holocaust, reviewers are actually afraid to say that they didn't like it or that it wasn't any good because they think it will seem that they're racist or anti-semitic. But that's not necessarily so. For example, I thought The Reader was tripe.
Michy wrote: To be a classic a book has to have a lasting impact and staying power; people are still reading and talking about it 50 years from now. Obviously it's too soon to know if people will still be reading and talking about The Help 10 years from now, much less 30 or 50, but I would put my money on it that it will be largely forgotten by then.
I would really like to ask the reviewers who are quoted in the front of the book saying this is a classic to rival Mockingbird what they felt they learned from the Help that they didn't know before. Was it that racism is bad? Was it that there used to be segregation? Was it that some maids loved the families they worked for and others hated them? Where's the big revelation? I don't see it. The only thing I learned from the book was how many uses there are for Crisco.
So, besides the ending, what else didn't you like about the book?
The plot - I thought it was ridiculous. The twists were inane, unlikely and oversold. For example: Minny is working secretly as a maid for Miss Celia and Mister Johnny. The whole 'working in secret' plot is utterly silly to start with, but then Minny is scared because she thinks Johnny has come home. Chapter ends with her perched on a toilet (the book is obsessed with toilets). Pages later we find out it wasn't Mr Johnny, it was a man come to read the meter. That's the kind of cliffhanger that used to disappoint me when I was ten years old reading Dana Girls books.
Minny is all worried thinking Johnny is going to shoot this strange black woman in his kitchen. Turns out he knew about her all the time. Not only is this a big anti-climax, it reinforces the false message of the whole book - sometimes we worry that violence and bad things will happen, but don't worry, they really won't. Everything is going to be all right, because nice white ladies like Miss Skeeter will make sure of it. How can reviewers compare this book to Mockingbird? Mockingbird was saying "Everything is not all right. Things need to change. White people can't put things right however much they want to, and most of them don't."
The characterisation - the characters were either stereotypes or caricatures. And when I say stereotypes, I'm not just talking about the black ones. I thought Minny was a version of Mammy and Aibileen was a Magical Black (her prayers really work!). There can be truth in stereotype, but there's nothing courageous in perpetuating it. The book is being called courageous when actually it takes the line of least resistance, presenting its readers with characters who are already familiar to them.
Skeeter, to me, was the worst of all...Lady Bountiful. She's an updated Ellen O'Hara. When Gretchen accuses her of exploiting the maids, Skeeter's response is that she's not making any money out of the book. Maybe not, but she gets a reference from a NY publisher. That's a huge thing when you have just left college and have very little experience. And quite a few insiders would know she was responsible for a bestselling book. It's her ticket out of Jackson. Of course she's exploiting them. Stockett either can't see it or doesn't want to. The scenes where the black characters say the white lady is just like family and where the maids tell Skeeter to go to New York and start her new wonderful life were some of the most cringeworthy I've ever read.
[quote=""Michy""]
BB -- "The Nanny Diaries set in 1960s Mississippi" -- what a great analogy! [/quote]
I actually think The Nanny Diaries is a better and more honest book than this one, in that it deals critically with race relations in the domestic sphere in the present day, rather than sanitising (toilets again!) what happened fifty years ago.
MLE wrote: The woman just got raped, shoved, pushed, and taken advantage of. But they pushed it down and didn't complain, because doing so might get their fathers, husbands, and sons killed.
That's exactly why I had problems with this book. I felt it was unrealistic that the maids would complain in print and all that would happen is that one of their husbands would lose his job. Minny has a teenage son - if he had been lynched, and she had to deal with that, and Skeeter had to deal with it, that to me would have lifted the book from a fluffy read to a serious read.
MLE wrote: A good companion read for the Help would be the Glass Castle--a memoir by (white) Jeannette Walls. The part in the South is a decade later, but you can see that it hasn't changed much. Mississippi is one of the worst for prejudice -- still is.
Thanks for the recommendation, will seek it out.
Vanessa wrote: I have to say I'm with EC on this one - I thought it was a fabulous book, written with a sense of humour. I just loved it - it's definitely a keeper for me!
I don't have a problem with people saying it's a good read - it wasn't a good read for me, but that's totally subjective and one person's good read is another's recycling bin fodder.
Leo62 wrote: A way for the (presumably mostly white) readers to engage with a difficult subject without feeling too confronted by ugliness.
I think so. And in a way, it wouldn't bother me. For example, I enjoyed Hairspray. It didn't bother me that it ended with everybody dancing around instead of everybody getting shot. It was a fun film with John Travolta in drag, nothing more, and no-one treated it as more. To me, the reception of The Help is as if Hairspray was being hailed as the most groundbreaking film about race relations ever.
It doesn't bother me that book clubs all over the country are loving this book, because book clubs are always loving books I think are rubbish, which is one reason I don't belong to a book club. It does bother me that The Help is already being taught in schools. That suggests it will be around in 50 years, and just as revered as it is now.
Miss Moppet -- I absolutely agree with everything you've said about The Help, but you said it all so much better than I ever could. I, too, thought the entire plotline of Minny working in secret for Miss Celia was completely silly. And as for the characters already being familiar to the readers -- that is absolutely what bugged me about them. I knew what every one of them, both black and white, was going to do and say before they ever did and said it. If Stockett's characters had reminded me of actual people I've known, that probably would have been interesting. Instead, they felt like they had all been recycled from characters I've already read about dozens of times before in other books. And some aspects of Aibileen I thought were definitely politically-correct 21st century, not authentic 1960s Mississippi.
I didn't realize The Help is being taught in schools; that's pretty disappointing.
As for The Glass Castle -- I read that a few years ago and loved it -- it is on my keeper shelf. I would never have thought of it as a companion to The Help -- to me it is a completely different book about completely different issues. But I highly recommend it. I loved it most of all because the author never trashes her parents (I hate those kinds of books). She presents them as they are, no sugar coating, but the fact that she loves them, anyway, and has no bitterness comes shining through. Jeanette Walls has another book recently out, I haven't read it, but probably will.
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[quote=""Miss Moppet""]Exactly. I think that if a book tackles a subject like race, or the Holocaust, reviewers are actually afraid to say that they didn't like it or that it wasn't any good because they think it will seem that they're racist or anti-semitic. But that's not necessarily so. For example, I thought The Reader was tripe.
I think you're absolutely right. A professional reviewer would never dare criticize the book as honestly as you have done, for fear they would be tarred and feathered. Or worse.
Coincidentally, I am currently re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird. It's been many years since I've read it, and I don't remember that much about it, believe it or not. I will be keeping this discussion of The Help in mind as I read it again (or listen to it, actually, as it's an audio version).
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The Racist Airheads That Call Themselves Women
By the time I got to high school women thought that boys that look like this
who had A-averages made friends with minorities in elementary school because they don't.
I harassed Warren Kinsella on the internet. And he didn't sue me because he believed what I was saying was true.
I have red hair and went to school in the 1980s. My classes were funny growing up. I went to school with 1rst generation Asians which changed the way that the kids socialized.
Girls in grades 1 to 3 are only attracted to boys with bright hair or blue eyes. By grade 3 I didn't have any friends: Boys that play with girls aren't popular.
So they put a black girl in my class.
Maybe she was just there for 3 weeks but I hung around with her all the time. That left the other kids disturbed.
What people remember of grade 3 is often contrived. By grade 4 when the other kids started to tolerate me they had forgotten I had been friends with a black girl.
By high school people reverted back into childhood: After having been racist and homophobic all they had to do to be moral was to like cool black people and decide that Hitler was bad.
People think that they unlearn racism by going on and on about Hitler while flooding the country with the vibrancy of the 3rd World.
Instead much happens on a subconscious level.
People perceived the first kids to make friends with minorities to be racist.
Over three years ago I told Warren Kinsella that normal looking guys...
Sat in class with beautiful women and on a subconscious-level thought that all of the girls liked them.
Then I argued with people on Reddit and I found that it happened on a conscious-level.
The idea that girls are disgusted with boys in grades 1 to 3 is a pretty crazy conspiracy theory to many.
So now I will blog about something that happened recently...
I was in a drug store.
There was Muslim woman and her son standing in line in front of me. Her son wanted her to by him something. She said excuse me and got out of line.
I continued to stand in line looking at the magazine covers.
I have peripheral vision: There's a white woman standing in line behind me. She started smiling and nodding her head at the Muslim kid.
I continued to look at the magazine covers. After smiling at the boy for 20 seconds she turned to me and scowled for a couple seconds.
I hadn't done anything. Maybe I should have started glaring at the kid so that the woman could feel good about herself.
AIDS created a lot of homophobia and what was important to the gay rights movement is that women had contempt for who had made friends with minorities in elementary school.
Girls at my high school would rather go out with...
Some people rode a high in the 1990s because they
had no black friends in grade 3.
rather than the boys they had liked or tormented in grade 3.
There was a lot of terrorism in the 1980s which went away with the start of a new decade. When the movie, 'Schindler's List,' was in theaters it was white people doing terrorism.
Many kids watched 5 hours of TV a day in the 1980s.
Is this what happens when the boys who had watched, 'The
A-Team everyday and the movie, 'Red Dawn,' grew up?
In the 1980s I don't think Spielberg's movies...
Caused little girls to like South Asians and Sikhs much.
After being overly critical of what boys looked like in elementary school by high school we unlearned racism by exaggerating and making stuff up about Hitler and women started paying it forward and backwards and teen LGBT was born:
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Heat Vision Live Feed Esq The Race Behind the Screen Bastard Machine Rambling Reporter The Fien Print
April 26, 2019 10:00am PT by Chris Gardner
Hollywood Gathers to Celebrate Greg Berlanti and Husband's New Daughter
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Greg Berlanti (right) and his husband, Robbie Rogers, gathered Hollywood power brokers for a special reveal April 14.
Amazon's Jennifer Salke, WarnerMedia Entertainment's Bob Greenblatt, and more met at an L.A. country club to celebrate the prolific producer's latest creation: a baby girl due in May via a surrogate.
On April 14, some of the industry's biggest execs (Amazon's Jennifer Salke, WarnerMedia Entertainment's Bob Greenblatt, Warner Bros.' Kevin McCormick) and other bold-faced names (Matt Bomer with husband Simon Halls, producer Donald DeLine, well-connected sisters Sara and Erin Foster) gathered at an L.A. country club to celebrate Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers' latest creation: a daughter.
The prolific 46-year-old producer and soccer star-turned-producer Rogers, 31, hosted the A-list event to announce that they are welcoming a girl into their family via a surrogate (they already have a 3-year-old son, Caleb). An insider tells THR that the girl, Mia, will arrive in May.
There was more good news for the couple this week. All American, the football drama produced by Berlanti and Rogers, was renewed by The CW for a second season. The show, described as a fish-out-of-water drama, starring Daniel Ezra and inspired by the life of former pro football player Spencer Paysinger, also stars Taye Diggs, Monet Mazur, Bre-Z, Greta Onieogou, Samantha Logan, Michael Evans Behling, Cody Christian, Jalyn Hall and Karimah Westbrook.
Also in the news this past week was that Berlanti and Rogers are among the A-list Hollywood couples that have partnered to support Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg at a June fundraiser. The two will co-host along with Ryan Murphy and David Miller, Matt Bomer and Simon Halls, Bryan Lourd and Bruce Bozzi, Jess Cagle and Matt Whitney, Kevin Huvane, and Billy Eichner.
A version of this story first appeared in the April 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
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Criminalization of DNS for phishing continues to advance
Cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, by registering more and more domain names, rather using web servers and domains they have hacked into. These “malicious domain registrations” accounted for half of all the domain names used for phishing in 2016, according to APWG.
A new global phishing survey from APWG documents that in 2016 there were at least 255,065 unique phishing attacks worldwide – an all-time high. Of the 195,475 domains used for phishing, the authors identified 95,424 domain names that the authors believe were registered maliciously by phishers – almost three times as many as they found in 2015.
“It was disheartening to see the registration of so many malicious domain names to mount attacks, after all the great work that’s been done to curtail phishers in recent years,” said Rod Rasmussen, Founder of R2 Cyber and co-author of the study. “This should be a wake-up call for the domain name industry.”
The study also revealed that contrary to conventional wisdom, many domain names registered by phishers are being “aged” and are not used immediately after registration. Recently registered domains receive low reputation scores from security and anti-spam companies that prevent consumers from receiving phishing-lure emails. So some phishers are evading those security measures by registering domains and then waiting until the domains are older and have better reputation scores.
The study also examined the use of the new top-level domains that have been introduced over the past three years. Phishing in the new top-level domains is rising, but is not yet as pervasive as in other sectors of the domains name space. However, by the end of 2016, almost half of the new top-level domains that were available for general registration by the public had phishing in them, and the new top-level domains are a place where phishers are purchasing domain names for themselves.
“In the meantime, phishers are employing another new trick that uses the domain name system,” said Greg Aaron, VP of iThreat Cyber Group and co-author of the report. “We call this ‘domain shadowing’, and is when a phisher manipulates an unsuspecting company’s DNS settings to insert multiple phishing sites onto the company’s servers—often hundreds of sites at a time. As always, we emphasize that companies must take strong, professional measures to protect their web hosting and email services—otherwise criminals will break into them and use them for their own purposes.”
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Explosive global attack delivers destructive Petya ransomware
Organizations award hackers up to $900,000 a year in bug bounties
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Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation Presents Donation Check to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, Inc.
HGAR News
White Plains, NY (December 2018) The Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS®, recently presented a check for $5,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, Inc. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. Reaching across religious, cultural, and racial boundaries, it seeks to rebuild a sense of community with the common goal of strong neighborhoods and dignity through homeownership.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh was founded in 1999 by a group of dedicated volunteers who shared a vision to revitalize Newburgh’s neighborhoods and help local hard-working, low-income families to create strength, stability, and self-reliance. Habitat Newburgh is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating, and preserving homes.
“We are so grateful for the continued support of the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors,” said Habitat Newburgh Executive Director Matthew Arbolino. “Their generous gift will help a local family build strength, stability, and self-reliance through affordable homeownership.”
“Established in 2004 and relaunched in 2013, the HG REALTOR® Foundation has donated thousands of dollars to charities and non-profits throughout the Hudson Valley. As concerned members of the communities we work in, the Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation participates in qualified community-based charities who serve the housing, hunger, health, happiness, and humane needs of citizens everywhere.
For more information or to apply for funding from the Hudson Gateway REALTOR® Foundation, please visit www.hgrealtorfoundation.com.
The Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS® is a not-for-profit trade association representing almost 12,000 real estate professionals doing business in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties, as well as the Bronx and Manhattan. It is the second largest REALTOR® Association in New York, and one of the largest in the country. It owns and operates the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service (HGMLS), offering more than 20,000 properties in the Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. It is among the top 50 largest MLSs in the country.
Mary T. Prenon
(914) 681-0833, ext 322
mary.prenon@hgar.com
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Jul 10 CHARTERS, GURAL, POPFINGER, TETRICK BALLOT CANDIDATES FOR HALL OF FAME
ATTRIBUTION – United States Harness Writers Association
GOSHEN NY – Tom Charters, Jeff Gural, Bill Popfinger, and Tim Tetrick have been selected by the Hall of Fame Screening Committee of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) as ballot candidates for this summer’s election vote toward harness racing’s highest honor, membership in the sport’s Hall of Fame.
The chapters of USHWA, the sport’s leading media organization, nominate deserving candidates based on prepared biographical information and discussion within the chapters. This list of names is then considered by the USHWA Screening Committee, with consultation with several Hall of Fame members, on Hall of Fame Day, the first Sunday in July at Goshen, and they then select the candidates for that year’s balloting, with the provision that anyone connected to a candidate is excluded from the discussion of and vote on that candidate’s viability. A person must receive 75% of the yes-no voted of the USHWAns eligible to vote and the current Hall of Fame members in order to join the Goshen pantheon.
Tom Charters worked his way through the ranks in harness racing, starting out as a caretaker (among his charges was Horse of the Year Delmonica Hanover) before becoming a racing secretary. In 1984 the Hambletonian Society hired Charters as executive director of the Breeders Crown, a newly-created series of season-end championship races, and his work in establishing the Crowns as signature events led to his being named executive director of the Society in 1994, then being promoted in 1998 to president and chief executive officer. Charters’ tireless work in such diverse fields as increasing racing handle, simulcasting and television production, international racing, and brand name establishment, plus the temperament to juggle all of these jobs along with dealing the wide range of personalities at the highest levels of the sport, firmly established him as one of the captains of the industry.
Jeff Gural was a longtime racing fan, owner, and breeder, associated with Allerage Farms, Little E LLC, and other equine partnerships, along with proprietorship of New York’s Vernon Downs and Tioga Downs racetracks, when he undertook the monumental task of leading the privatization of the sport’s flagship track in North America, The Meadowlands, away from a state-run operation of New Jersey. Enlisting the aid of many of the sport’s top figures in addition to large investments of his own money, time, and expertise, Gural has been the directing force of the revitalization of the mile oval, with a new grandstand built on the old backstretch side of the track, a facility and the parallel racing program aimed squarely at maximizing revenue for all of racing’s interlinked parties in today’s changing, challenging gaming environment.
Bill Popfinger has been a horseman for over 50 years, going from success at smaller tracks to operating a powerful Grand Circuit stable, and he continues his winning tradition today – a trainee of his won at Pocono on Monday. Popfinger first hit the harness limelight 50 years when he guided Lady B Fast to an upset win over the great trotters Fresh Yankee and Nevele Pride at Yonkers, and he cemented his stardom with his famous daring early move to the lead with Happy Escort, “the lights on, the horn honking, and the pedal to the metal,” to defeat heavy favorites Falcon Almahurst and Flight Director in the 1978 Little Brown Jug raceoff. That quote also cemented Popfinger’s nickname of “Showbiz,” and over the years he campaigned such marquee horses as Happy Motoring, Praised Dignity, Spellbound Hanover, Say Hello, and Spicy Charlie.
Tim Tetrick, at age 37, has already become one of only four drivers to have driven the winners of over $200 million in his career, and few doubt he will contend for the top spot, John Campbell’s $299M+ career total, before all is done – after all, any possible mishaps may not slow a man who already has two “bionic hips” after replacement surgery. Also the single-season money recordholder for a driver with $19.7M in 2008, Tetrick also produces quantity with quality, driving his 11,000th winner earlier this year, putting him ninth all-time, fifth among active drivers, and second in the 2019 dashwinning standings. The list of top horses associated with Tetrick is too long to mention here, but it is fairly safe to say that when it comes to Breeders Crown time and the selection of year-end awardwinners, the name “Tetrick” will be associated with several of the champions.
Charters, Gural, Popfinger, and Tetrick will be joined on the ballot by Phil Pikelny, former author and publicist, and Ken Weingartner, media relations manager for the USTA, the two ballot candidates for the Communicators Hall of Fame selected by USHWA directors at their annual meetings this past February.
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My Only One (Drama - 2018)
하나뿐인 내편 (ha-na-boon-in nae-pyeon)
Directed by Hong Seok-goo (홍석구)
Screenplay by Kim Sa-kyeong (김사경)
•Romance
KBS | Airing dates : 2018/09/15~2019/03/17
106 episodes - Sat, Sun 19:55 (2x40min episodes per day)
"My Only One" is a drama about a woman whose life is turned upside down by the appearance of her father who disappeared 28 years ago. She will discover the reasons behind why he had to hide.
My Only One | Cast
Choi Soo-jong
최수종
Kang Soo-il [Kim Yeong-hoon]
(강수일 [김영훈])
유이
Kim Do-ran
(김도란)
Lee Jang-woo
이장우
Wang Dae-ryook
(왕대륙)
Yoon Jin-yi
윤진이
Jang Da-ya
(장다야)
Jung Eun-woo
정은우
Wang Yi-ryook
(왕이륙)
Na Hye-mi
나혜미
Kim Mi-ran
(김미란)
Extended cast
My Only One
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[Ratings] "Mother of Mine" Hits 30% in 3 Weeks
KBS 2TV weekend drama "Mother of Mine" is well beyond the record of "My Only One" and it has only been three weeks,...More
Na Hye-mi to Star in KBS 1TV "Home for Summer"
Na Hye-mi is on a roll. She's starring in the KBS 1TV drama "Home for Summer" as Wang Geum-joo, the second child of The Wang Family,...More
[HanCinema's News] "My Only One" and "The Light in Your Eyes" Top Good Data Report in Their Final Weeks
As expected, "My Only One" remained at the top of the Good Data report in its final week, marking off its third straight ranking as number one. "The Light in Your Eyes" in its final week was a surprisingly close number two. While "My Only One" had an overall percentage of 16.24 (out of 100%), "The Light in Your Eyes" had 14.53% of social media mentions of the studied dramas,...More
[HanCinema's News] "Mother of Mine" to Fill the Big Shoes of "My Only One"
On March 19th at the Imperial Palace Hotel, KBS2 began the official rollout for "Mother of Mine". The new weekend drama will start in the 8 PM KST timeslot previously occupied by "My Only One",...More
[HanCinema's News] "My Only One" Hits Six Year Ratings Record
While "My Only One" failed to reach the 50% ratings record as some were anticipating this weekend, it did manage to hit a six year record for domestic broadcasts. The final number was 48.5%. To put this number into context, this means that approximately thirteen million people were believed to have watched it,...More
Choi Soo-jong From "My Only One" Becomes the Face of Fathers Everywhere
Choi Soo-jong's performance in "My Only One", the recently completed weekend drama that almost hit 50%, has won him recognition,...More
Choi Soo-jong of "My Only One" Can't Forget the 6 Months of Kang Soo-il
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Touching Ending, Choi Soo-jong Found Not Guilty, Becomes Orphanage Director
On the final episode of the KBS 2TV drama "My Only One", Kang Soo-il (Choi Soo-jong) requested a re-trial, and was found not-guilty. He also became an orphanage director. Previously, Kang Soo-il had been in jail under the false charges of killing someone. Wang Dae-ryook (Lee Jang-woo) found some suspicious elements in his father-in-law's case, and realized that he'd been framed. He started investigating the truth, including the real criminal, Yang Yeong-dal (Lee Yeong-seok), but it wasn't easy,...More
[Ratings] "My Only One" Fails to Reach 50% in the Ratings
"My Only One" failed to make it through 50% in the ratings, but it was close. According to Nielsen Korea, the KBS 2TV drama "My Only One" rated 42.8% and 48.9% on the 17th,...More
[HanCinema's News] "My Only One" and Lead Actor Choi Soo-jong Rank At the Top of Latest Good Data Report
On March 11th the Good Data Corporation released its latest weekly report on trends regarding dramas and drama actors. Based on analyzing references in social media, "My Only One" is the most popular drama and Choi Soo-jong the most popular actor,...More
KBS's "My Only One" Ready to Break 50% for First Time in 9 Years
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[HanCinema's News] Lee Young-eun and Na Hye-mi to Appear in New Daily Drama "Home for Summer"
A representative from Na Hye-mi's agency confirmed that Na Hye-mi is in the final stages of agreeing to appear in "Home for Summer", the new daily drama from KBS. This follows reports last month that Lee Young-eun was also taking a role,...More
[Spoiler] "My Only One" Choi Soo-jong's Name Finally Cleared
On the latest episode of the KBS 2TV drama "My Only One", Soo-il (Choi Soo-jong) regained consciousness and his name was finally cleared,...More
[Ratings] "My Only One" Hits 49.4%, Bumping 50%
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Choi Soo-jong (Kang Soo-il) from the KBS 2TV drama "My Only One", was put into the Intensive Care Unit. Soo-il decided to donate his liver to Jang Go-rae (Park Sung-hoon) who was going to die from liver cirrhosis. Na Hong-sol (Lee Hye-sook) and her family refused, but there was no one else to save Go-rae. Hong-sil ended up kneeling before Soo-il for help,...More
[Ratings] "My Healing Love" Ends While "My Only One" Experiences Explosive Popularity
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Will UEE and Lee Jang-woo Reunite?
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Keeps Climbing
"My Only One" set a new record. According to Nielsen Korea nationwide, the KBS 2TV drama "My Only One" rated 39.7% and 44.6%, which is an increase of 5.3% from the previous episodes. It also broke its own record of 42.6%,...More
[Spoiler] "My Only One" Park Sung-hoon Refuses to Break up With Na Hye-mi
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Breaks 40%
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Continues Its Lead
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Yoon Jin-yi witnesses Lee Jang-woo and UEE hug
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[Korean Drama Spoiler] 'My Only One' Episodes 75 - 78 Screenshots Added
Added episodes 75 - 78 screenshots for the Korean drama "My Only One",...More
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Breaks 40% Again
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Added episodes 67- 70 screenshots for the Korean drama "My Only One",...More
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Choi Soo-jong and UEE Part in Tears
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Ready to Break 40%
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Added episodes 61 and 62 screenshots for the Korean drama "My Only One",...More
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Rules the Empty Roost
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Im Ye-jin Thinks Choi Soo-jong Is a Thief
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Becomes the Weekend King
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" UEE Resigns
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Is In First While "My Healing Love" Sets a New Record
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" UEE Discovers Choi Soo-jong Is her Father
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Yoon Jin-yi Reveals Im Ye-jin's 300 Million Won Contract
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Breaks Its Own Record
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Lee Yong-yi Panics
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Park Sung-hoon Follows Drunk Na Hye-mi
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Sets New Record
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" UEE and Lee Jang-woo Are Adorably Sweet and Lovely
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Soars Over 30% as UEE and Lee Jang-woo Get Together
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Added episodes 27 -30 screenshots for the Korean drama "My Only One",...More
[Spoiler] "My Only One" UEE Frustrated with Childish Na Hye-mi and Im Ye-jin
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Sets Another Record
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" Lee Jang-woo Realizes Choi Soo-jong and UEE Are Father and Daughter
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Breaks Another Record
"My Only One" starring Choi Soo-jong, Lee Jang-woo, and UEE broke through 30%,...More
[Spoiler] "My Only One" Im Ye-jin Curses at Choi Soo-jong
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[Ratings] "My Only One" Sets a New Record
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[Spoiler] "My Only One" UEE gives Im Ye-jin two months
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Shadow's Talent (The Talent Show #1)
Tommy Muncie (Goodreads Author)
4.03 · Rating details · 34 ratings · 7 reviews
17 year old Shadow Hatcher has dreams of getting into a prestigious spaceflight academy, going to live in The Colony and leaving his family’s farm in Sussex behind him, but the odds are stacked against him: the people who get selected for Christensen’s Flight Academy usually have Seeker status and a mind power known as Talent. Shadow has neither, but is about to start a ch 17 year old Shadow Hatcher has dreams of getting into a prestigious spaceflight academy, going to live in The Colony and leaving his family’s farm in Sussex behind him, but the odds are stacked against him: the people who get selected for Christensen’s Flight Academy usually have Seeker status and a mind power known as Talent. Shadow has neither, but is about to start a chain of events that will lead him to people who might help him achieve his dreams. During a sleepless night spent climbing trees by moonlight, he witnesses a murder in the back lanes of his family’s farm, committed by a gangland drug dealer named Matt Carson, who peddles a highly contraband substance known as Dream Morphine and would happily see Shadow dead before he could make a witness testimony.
While waiting for the trial and watching his back, Shadow is reunited with a Dr Kit Calloway, who saved his life the previous year, partly thanks to possessing Talent and being liberal with the rules on its usage. When Kit shows an interest in helping Shadow achieve his dreams, Shadow begins to form ideas about how he might illegally acquire the same power and secrets Kit has to help him on his way to career success.
Kit is a rule breaker, and perhaps isn't so much better than the criminals who Shadow's witness testimony is about to put away. He leads Shadow deeper into a world of cover-ups and favours from people it is unwise to accept favours from, because Shadow has a past of his own to cover up for. His erratic, volatile friendship with the schizophrenic brother of the murderer he just helped imprison for life is only the start of it. The love of Shadow’s life, Ebony, is becoming increasingly afraid of what Shadow is getting into and will only let him take it so far before she refuses to be part of it, and Shadow's father has stories he refuses to tell about why he doesn't like the Talented, and how Shadow's ancestry might not be all it appears to be. Shadow’s increasing success will put him in danger he could never have known about, and he may come close to paying the ultimate price for achieving his dreams. ...more
Kindle Edition, 398 pages
Published June 23rd 2014 by Tommy Muncie
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Aug 20, 2014 Jdjade rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
It is mesmerising and very well written. Actually i cant really say i like where the story going half way through, as a lot of things happen to Shadow, and not happy with the ending [feel bad for Shadow and so unfair that a nice guy trying to save a friend and getting a slap back by that friend].
But the author is very good at spinning this tales that i cannot put the book down once i started. All in all i enjoy it but i hope there is a sequel hopefully Shadow have a fairy godmother/father to hel It is mesmerising and very well written. Actually i cant really say i like where the story going half way through, as a lot of things happen to Shadow, and not happy with the ending [feel bad for Shadow and so unfair that a nice guy trying to save a friend and getting a slap back by that friend].
But the author is very good at spinning this tales that i cannot put the book down once i started. All in all i enjoy it but i hope there is a sequel hopefully Shadow have a fairy godmother/father to help him. ...more
Jul 27, 2014 Alan H. Jordan rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shadow's Talent starts off with one of the most intriguing sentences that I've ever read: "When I couldn't sleep, I climbed." It immediately made me wonder about the person making the statement. What's good is that as I continued to read the book, the promise of the first sentence--that we would explore the protagonist's motivations were kept. Furthermore, we get to explore every major character, and to like or dislike them because there is sufficient character development, linked to a plot that Shadow's Talent starts off with one of the most intriguing sentences that I've ever read: "When I couldn't sleep, I climbed." It immediately made me wonder about the person making the statement. What's good is that as I continued to read the book, the promise of the first sentence--that we would explore the protagonist's motivations were kept. Furthermore, we get to explore every major character, and to like or dislike them because there is sufficient character development, linked to a plot that has many twists and turns.
To be honest, I didn't expect Shadow's Talent to be a four or five star read. I met the author in an online writer's forum, http://www.LitReactor.com, and most of the manuscripts that are workshopped there need help. That's why they're there. Tommy gave me a copy of the book for evaluation, and I decided that I liked it enough to buy it.
Tommy Muncie truly worked on the manuscript, and it flows. Here are some of the points that I really like:
* World building - Muncie creates a realistic universe for us to traverse.
* Hidden meanings- Even the character's first name, Shadow, has hidden meaning . I'm not going to reveal it because it's a spoiler.
* Character based conflict - Especially between the 17-year old boy who becomes a man and his girlfriend, Ebony.
* Discovery of medical facts that I didn't know before reading this
* Interesting phrasing, like "Everything was fast and slow at the same time, the electric Colony-cars and bikes gliding around with the buildings were their guiding lanterns."
* Realistic character development. e.g. "So now it was time for the truth. Getting into this conversation had been an accident, but now I was going to do something deliberate and force this out into the open. I didn't care about how callous and hateful I sounded. I didn't care that doing it still drunk from the night before was a bad idea and I'd probably live to regret it for years either."
* It's a fast read
* It even sounds good when read text-to-speech on a Kindle Fire. I happen to like to plug my Kindle into my car's sound system when I'm driving. Some books don't have enough poetry in the writing to sound good. Shadow's talent sounds good. (Not as good as a professional narration, but perhaps that will come.
What I didn't like--minor things, but they make this a four star review, not a five star review:
* There's a bit too much gratuitous cursing in the beginning. Now, this is subjective, but I would have preferred it if had about 20% fewer curse words, particularly in the beginning.
* There's a part in the middle where it seems to have too much character development for me, but I felt that way about Great North Road too, and that was international best seller.
* A couple of typos.
* The cover--don't judge the book by it. This book is filled with action, and the cover makes it look like a reflective book. If I hadn't known the author, I might have taken a pass on the book. I'm glad that I overrode my tendency to judge a book by its cover.
If you like thrillers that delve into character, buy this book. ...more
Apr 07, 2016 Lynn Hallbrooks rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: now-on-candi
As I was reading the book, I could see just how much the cover art fit.
This story is a mixture of New Adult, Science Fiction, Mystery/Crime Fiction, and Family Drama.
At 17 years old, Shadow saw something that significantly changed his life. Doing what he felt was the right thing caused more than trouble for the wrong-doers.
This story has multiple layers that are gradually peeled back to reveal something that I did not expect. Mr. Muncie did a great job not only at world building but leaving the As I was reading the book, I could see just how much the cover art fit.
This story has multiple layers that are gradually peeled back to reveal something that I did not expect. Mr. Muncie did a great job not only at world building but leaving the right amount of bread crumbs.
Warning: This book is for Mature Audiences due to Violence, Adult Language, and Sexual Situations. ...more
Jun 27, 2014 Joe rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I tried reading other kinds of books, like Stephen King, John Grisham, James Patterson etc... but they just didn't do it for me. The action started way too late. However, in Shadow's Talent the action started at the perfect moment. After the first 40 pages I could already notice myself longing to find out more about Hatcher. Some of the situations Hatcher got himself in to were pure genius. It was also the plot as a whole that was just superb. I urge everyone to read it. The thrill of this book I tried reading other kinds of books, like Stephen King, John Grisham, James Patterson etc... but they just didn't do it for me. The action started way too late. However, in Shadow's Talent the action started at the perfect moment. After the first 40 pages I could already notice myself longing to find out more about Hatcher. Some of the situations Hatcher got himself in to were pure genius. It was also the plot as a whole that was just superb. I urge everyone to read it. The thrill of this book will keep you turning pages until you finish. It had a fully satisfying ending. I just couldn't stop think WOW. It is my new favourite book and I cant wait to read some more of his books. ...more
Oct 09, 2015 Matthew rated it it was amazing
A very enjoyable read. Like others said, the first sentence grabs you and makes you want to know more about him. The setting is well developed with a plot that neither hits you over the head with everything at once or takes took long to show you what's happening. It's a very good pace and the story grabs you until you realize it's 3am and you were supposed to go to bed a while ago but *this big thing* happened and you have to find out how Shadow reacts. Definitely enjoyable and looking forward t A very enjoyable read. Like others said, the first sentence grabs you and makes you want to know more about him. The setting is well developed with a plot that neither hits you over the head with everything at once or takes took long to show you what's happening. It's a very good pace and the story grabs you until you realize it's 3am and you were supposed to go to bed a while ago but *this big thing* happened and you have to find out how Shadow reacts. Definitely enjoyable and looking forward to the rest of the serious. ...more
Dec 31, 2015 Thibaldo Manrique rated it liked it
I usually do not give bad reviews
Unfortunately, this one is going to be a middle of the road review, because it would be unfair to make it a really bad one.
First, I think this is more young adult fiction than mature fiction. That said, I would strongly object to having young impressionable people read it. Why? Because the very young protagonist , 17 for most of the book, spends roughly two third of the book stoned, high, drunk or hung over. Is irresponsible and a brat. He starts to be presented I usually do not give bad reviews
First, I think this is more young adult fiction than mature fiction. That said, I would strongly object to having young impressionable people read it. Why? Because the very young protagonist , 17 for most of the book, spends roughly two third of the book stoned, high, drunk or hung over. Is irresponsible and a brat. He starts to be presented and refered to by himself and others as a responsible, hard working, selfless and positive kid. None of that is reflected on his actions or his thoughts. Furthermore, he tends to be a slob.
The other part I am not to keen on is that this book reads like an ode to the 1%. The kid is supposed to be from a poor family, but has access and is "friends" to rich (very very rich) people. And he unabashedly envied everything they have. The rich folk literally shower him with very expensive gifts and at one point there is reference that a good f**k would be good for x or for y. Very much not my cup of tea. I am not a prude and can take sex scenes and themes when made relevant to the story, but these were just very cheap shots.
The story itself is nothing new. A fresh take on "mental powers" and such, but hardly something new.
In short, I did finish it, but found it depressing and not very engaging.
No typos or mistakes that jumped out at me, so good editing.
I will not read the rest of the series or other works by this author. ...more
Dec 08, 2016 Nh Goode rated it it was amazing
Talent indeed. Very impressive book.
One of the very few 5 star reviews I've given. Had to read this for 3 days to get to the end, and I'm now going to have to buy the next one in the series.
Great read, good characters, superb plot and the whole thing so matter-of-fact that you believe all of the fantastic, every-day things.
Really recommended.
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About Tommy Muncie
Tommy Muncie
Tommy Muncie was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1983, and grew up mostly in rural Dorset. He read German and Spanish at Sussex University before changing direction and going to Kingston Maurward Agricultural College to study countryside management.
Shadow’s Talent is his first published novel, four years in the making, and completed while undertaking volunteer work as a ranger in North Somerset. To Tommy Muncie was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1983, and grew up mostly in rural Dorset. He read German and Spanish at Sussex University before changing direction and going to Kingston Maurward Agricultural College to study countryside management.
Shadow’s Talent is his first published novel, four years in the making, and completed while undertaking volunteer work as a ranger in North Somerset. Tommy Muncie is also a member of the litreactor.com writing community and is known for his competition and workshop critiquing. Outside of writing he enjoys rock guitar playing and distance running. ...more
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Il segreto della Genesi
Tom Knox,
Sara Caraffini (Translator)
3.59 · Rating details · 3,886 ratings · 368 reviews
Londra. Efferati delitti scuotono la città, in una scia che presto si espande fino agli angoli più remoti delle isole britanniche. L’ispettore Forrester, di Scotland Yard, brancola nel buio. Ci sono solo pochi indizi che sembrano puntare verso una tradizione occultista sotterranea e potente. Chi c’è dietro quelle esecuzioni rituali? E perché i fatti di sangue sono sempre a Londra. Efferati delitti scuotono la città, in una scia che presto si espande fino agli angoli più remoti delle isole britanniche. L’ispettore Forrester, di Scotland Yard, brancola nel buio. Ci sono solo pochi indizi che sembrano puntare verso una tradizione occultista sotterranea e potente. Chi c’è dietro quelle esecuzioni rituali? E perché i fatti di sangue sono sempre accompagnati da strani scavi nelle vicinanze?
Sito archeologico di Gobekli Tepe, deserto della Turchia orientale. Il giornalista Robert Luttrell, inviato sul posto per un incarico di routine dopo una pericolosa missione, stringe amicizia con il direttore degli scavi, l’archeologo tedesco Franz Breitner, e la sua affascinante assistente Christine.
Rob apprende così la straordinaria storia del tempio più antico del mondo, costruito dodicimila anni fa e misteriosamente sepolto duemila anni dopo. E poi scoperto per caso in un’area che rappresenta forse la culla della civiltà, una zona in cui ancor oggi sopravvivono culti antichissimi, che precedono le religioni monoteiste, come il culto degli angeli... Ma qualcuno non vuole che gli scavi proseguano, ed è disposto a uccidere purché il segreto di quel tempio rimanga nascosto. Un segreto gelosamente custodito da millenni, eppure sotto gli occhi di tutti, nel libro della Genesi. ...more
Hardcover, La Gaja scienza, 416 pages
Published June 4th 2009 by Longanesi (first published 2008)
The Genesis Secret
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Jul 21, 2009 Sarah rated it it was ok · review of another edition
If you're looking for a book about a guy who agonizes over leaving his family as he trips about the world getting into trouble and picking up minor clues, friends, and a hot woman at archeological digs, punctuated by unbelievably squicky torture-murder scenes and interference from the usual protector/authorities, revealing essentially nothing until an Agatha Christie/Dan Brown-like 10-page monologue in the next to the last chapter explaining the entire mystery with some incredibly wild leaps in If you're looking for a book about a guy who agonizes over leaving his family as he trips about the world getting into trouble and picking up minor clues, friends, and a hot woman at archeological digs, punctuated by unbelievably squicky torture-murder scenes and interference from the usual protector/authorities, revealing essentially nothing until an Agatha Christie/Dan Brown-like 10-page monologue in the next to the last chapter explaining the entire mystery with some incredibly wild leaps in logic surrounding very key points, with no hope of ever proving it since most of the evidence has been destroyed, and ending with a happy-ending coda (minus those poor tortured souls) that, considering the narrator has just blown the entire world's belief systems apart at the seams and supplanted them with a morbid inevitability regarding our leadership, seems disengenuous at best, then, great, you will love The Genesis Secret. I would have given it 1 star, but I gave it an extra star for creative murders.
* WHY is it obvious that because of the skulls/history, the Yezedi worship a peacock? Why would they worship anything, since only they know the truth?
* The significance of the jarred sacrifices in the desert is not really revealed.
* It is highly unlikely that people would just allow all the evidence to wash away and not send divers after it. I mean, really. We are all to suffer in ignorance now because of the superstitious beliefs of the Yezedi?
* All these genius archeologists couldn't put the picture together, but a journalist could?
* If she's such a great archeologist, why on earth wouldn't she have documented the dig SOMEHOW and also not just cracked open a very ancient jar, already knowing what was in there? And really, the stuff was just, what, a foot down? And they just happened to randomly find the right spot in a mile area with no other equipment?
* So, if only we had resisted breeding with the superhumans, we would all be living in harmony with slightly dim but peaceful leaders?
And the best part of all:
Only a man would write a book in which the male protagonist sends his gorgeous and brilliant blonde French girlfriend home to meet his ex-wife alone and have the ex-wife love her instantaneously, trust her with her only child, and then not go on a murderous rampage when the girlfriend escapes alive while the child remains in danger, which she was in, thanks to the girlfriend. HAHAHAHAHA. Right. ...more
May 27, 2013 Joyreader rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Terrible!!!! Can I please, please, please have those hours back?
The only reason I finished this book was remembering what Stephen King said in his book, On Writing, that you can learn more about writing from bad books than good books sometimes and I wanted to be able to think about why it was so bad. And it was baaaaaaaaaaaad.
Really wish I hadn't finished it because it was gruesome, grisly, and gratuitously horrifying!
Things that went wrong:
1) Neutral to unlikable main character. Seems like an i Terrible!!!! Can I please, please, please have those hours back?
1) Neutral to unlikable main character. Seems like an idiot. Doesn't put his family first. Has little personality. He's a generic journalist. Yawn-fest.
2) Sagging middle of the book. Got boring and had to push through.
3) Characters making leaps of logic and connection that made absolutely no sense in order to advance the plot.
4) REALLY, REALLY awful torture/murder scenes that will leave you feeling yucky. I never want to be in the POV of the person being tortured and murdered. And if I was, at least make it realistic to the amount of pain they'd be in. Trust me, you'll feel sick and sorry for having read some of these scenes.
5) Speaking of unrealistic-this author must not have kids. He is SOOOO clueless about how people with children would really act. His ex-wife would NOT be happy his very new girlfriend showed up on his doorstep and wants to spend time with their daughter. She would be angry and protective of her daughter, not become chums with her. His daughter doesn't act right. He doesn't act in a very fatherly way and doesn't seem to put his daughter first.
6) Speaking of unrealistic part 2-one of the characters isn't traumatized by the end of the book. How could this be???? Unrealistic part 3-why does the character Christine even fall for the main character? She's too smart for him and he's not very redeeming!
7) The main character NEVER does anything to save himself. In fact, by being an idiot, he endangered everyone else. He doesn't figure things out, he doesn't act like a hero. He just stumbles around stupidly putting himself into dangerous situations and always and I mean every single time, getting saved by someone else. The police, a Kurd, his girlfriend, the police again, etc. Arggghhhh! He is good at checking his email and staring at his phone.
8) Lame, lame, lame "secret" at the end which is given to us in a massive info dump. Page after page of text in quotations (who talks like that?) with the main character monologue-ing. And monologueing to the person who actually saves him. Oooo, you figured out the puzzle dude. Who cares? The action/climactic scene is over. The puzzle was stupid and the other guy had to save you.
Unless you want to analyze the ways that books go wrong, (and I think I hit most of them here already for this book) do yourself a favor and RUN away from this book.
I agree with another reviewer. Pick up a James Rollins book if you want fun action/adventure. ...more
May 17, 2012 Paulo "paper books always" Carvalho rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: mystery, thriller, adventure
This is going to be a hard book to review. Overall it was an enjoyable book but I thought it felt short to my expectations half way there. And the ending was abysmal. The author really wanted to wrap things up and make all alive characters to live happily ever after. So unlike... life.
Praises
The Pace - The book really flows from chapter to chapter and the tale until the last 100 pages we follow two different characters. Our main protagonist and the DCI Forrester.
History - So much history and a This is going to be a hard book to review. Overall it was an enjoyable book but I thought it felt short to my expectations half way there. And the ending was abysmal. The author really wanted to wrap things up and make all alive characters to live happily ever after. So unlike... life.
History - So much history and archaelogy in this book that really made me search the net about it. I really enjoy all the detailed information (I read in the net that the german diggers on the site that this book take place were a bit sad because Tom Knox strech the fiction). Nevertheless to me a book is a discovery. Everything they say about a culture I search to see if it is true or fiction. I learn a lot.
The lore - Most of the times the interpretation of the bible fails to achieve anything besides pure fiction and you dismiss it as a Dan Brown wannabe. (Not that I love him). Tom Knox made this novel about Genesis. How humankind is the way it is. Why they left the Hunter-Gatherer society to farming. Why humankind is so propense to violence and sacrificies. Why the similarities between several cultures that are quite apart. The Gigantopithecus relation and hominin. Enfin. Really enjoy it all.
The gore - The depictions of some of the killings are really good. It made me unconfortable. Yes indeed. If I wanted rainbows and pussycats I would read a romance novel. The reason we read thrillers is for a fast paced book with a lot of tension.
Main Character Luttrell - He is quite frankly a guy that just do things. Why would the Yezidi tell him all the secrets? That just stupid. A religion that supposedly don't mix with other cultures and keep their secrets, well, secret. Why share it with a journalist? That's stupid.
Loveable Christine - That's a ridicolous good girl. She is almost perfect without flaws. The love with Lutrell just springs up from nowhere. Now a spoiler (view spoiler)[ She should have die. I mean. There is an intense scene when Lutrell and some police officers just watch our main antagonist kill a woman that we know is christine. Then he founds her? That's so... stupid. At that moment I was giving a five star for Tom Knox giving me some itchy gruesome dead and I really was looking forward how Lutrell was going to surpass that vision. Then he founds her... Oh my... The authors from Thrillers books don't like to kill characters. It's like they don't want anything bad to happen to them. They kill off stage characters we don't give a crap just to make the story go. In the end everything is fine and they live happily ever after. The lack of tension is abysmal in most thrillers I read. (hide spoiler)]
Main Antagonist - What a heck was that??? He was the bad guy? So he knows he is a super inteligent psycothic and he talks and talks and talks... He has all characteristics of a comic evil mastermind.
We don't know if he has a cat but... you get the picture. At least he killed some people in some interesting ways...
The Child - (view spoiler)[ The son of Lutrells experiences something just awful. But after being rescued it's just like nothing had happenend. After all she was threatened and obliged to watch a woman being killed like in the style of blood eagle. (hide spoiler)]
Police Forrester - His child had die (and when know it in the beginning) but it has no influence whatsoever in the tale. But in my opinion he was a better protagonist than Lutrell (even if Lutrell had twice the amount of chapters than Forrester).
The Ending - (view spoiler)[So they won, the bad guy died (even if he achieved his purpose) and after only a couple of weeks of knowing each other Luttrell and Christine get married and NO repurcusions remain in their mind. Even Forrester smile. A old woman had to die, of course, and the young couple inherited her house. Its a beautiful present with a big red ribbon where everything was wrap up just perfect. I couldn't imagine a more... stupid ending. Don't get me wrong I like happy endings from time to time. But this one was just ridicolous. (hide spoiler)]
The real question of this book remains. Why was a massive temple built, several thousand years before "civilization" was born, and then covered it up with rocks? Why humankind left the hunter-gathered way to follow a more ardous, less rewarding, time consming way (farming)? These two questions are quite good Tom Knox. Why why why?
Advisable
To someone who wants to read abot archaelogy and history. For a fan of thrillers... hmm maybe to a thriller afficionado. ...more
Nov 05, 2010 Lowell Usedo rated it it was ok · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Written in a similiar manner as the Dan Brown books, The Genesis Secret is vague about what is real and what is fiction. At the beginning of the book is the disclaimer "The Genesis Secret is a work of fiction. However, most of the religious, historical, and archaeological references are entirely factual and accurate."
This book is a thriller set in various locations in Kurdistan, Iraq, England and Ireland. The main focus is the connection between ancient religions, the origin of mankind as told i Written in a similiar manner as the Dan Brown books, The Genesis Secret is vague about what is real and what is fiction. At the beginning of the book is the disclaimer "The Genesis Secret is a work of fiction. However, most of the religious, historical, and archaeological references are entirely factual and accurate."
This book is a thriller set in various locations in Kurdistan, Iraq, England and Ireland. The main focus is the connection between ancient religions, the origin of mankind as told in Genesis, and modern day secret Satanic occultic groups. The starting point is the site of Gobekli Tepe. You can find information about Gobekli Tepe online, but its basically an archealogical temple site that predates every other similiar site in the world. What is fascinating is how advanced Gobekli Tepe is in relation to its age. It has sculptures and reliefs. There is artistry coming from an age that predates the invention of the wheel. The purpose of the temple is also a mystery and so the author creates a fictional story explaining the origin of man.
One of the key points of the story has to do with Human Sacrifice and the relationship between man's intelligence and his capacity for violence. First, I will talk about the capacity for violence. The book makes the assumption that the higher IQ a particular race or group of people have, the higher the propensity for violence they will have. The book uses Hitler, Pol Pot, Napoleon, and various other well-educated and intelligent individuals as examples. I will disagree with this point and instead say that intelligence has nothing to do with morality. A person with low intelligence can be just as violent as a person with high intelligence. The only difference between the two is the ability to plan and execute their actions intelligently with full effect. Hitler was able to influence the highly intelligent German people to look the other way while he and his army executed millions of Jews. We tend to think that because we are a higly advanced civilization with scientific and technological discoveries that we have learned some sort of basic morality, but I don't believe that to be true. As a Christian, I believe that morality comes only from following the laws of God.
Human sacrifice is another prominent theme in the book. Many different methods of human sacrifices from many different civilizations are discussed. It is said that human sacrifices are made to please gods. An example is the God of Abraham. It is said that Abraham is the founder of 3 major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is not true. Abraham is not the founder of Christianity. Christianity is based on Jesus Christ who came thousands of years after Abraham. Abraham is also not the founder of Islam. Islam more directly comes from Abraham's son, Ishmael, who was banished to the desert along with his mother.
The book says the Abraham was "obsessed with sacrifice" and that he was "ready to sacrifice his son". It then makes the mistake of claiming that all 3 major religions are sacrificial religions based on this statement. This also is not true. Abraham was not obsessed with sacrifice, and he was ready to sacrifice his son, but he never actually did it. Abraham never committed any human sacrifices. Instead, he sacrificed sheep as a symbol of purification from sin.
Jesus Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, but He never asked for anyone to offer themselves as a human sacrifice nor to kill anyone else. Instead, Jesus asks us to be LIVING sacrifices. He asks us to turn away from the cares of the world and OBEY the LAWS of God.
The whole purpose of the finding the so-called true origin of man is simply to undermine the truth of the Living God found in the Bible. Men, especially rich and powerful men, have always wanted to find their different "truth" to obey because they hate the laws of God. God teaches to love, forgive, and to obey Him, but men want to do as they please. Aleister Crowley, the famous Satanist, says "Do as thou wilt" or "Do whatever you want." Man wants to do whatever he wants, which means that he wants to disobey God's laws and follow his own selfish desires. That is the reason why there are so many secret societies like freemasons. They want to do as they please, break the laws of God, and pretend like they are following a so-called "truth" These are the lies and deceptions of Satan, and it is the agenda of this book. ...more
Sep 14, 2012 K. rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2012, adventure, crime, would-not-read-again, library, setting-middle-east
Plot summary: Archaeologists in Turkey have just discovered a stone temple dating to 10,000BCE. But there is evidence that the temple was deliberately buried ten thousand years ago. Journalist Rob Luttrell is sent to report on the excavation, and gradually uncovers a shocking secret and a string of gruesome murders.
Thoughts: UGH. This book just never ended. It took a REALLY long time to get to the point. Prior to that, it was just a bunch of loose threads with very little sense of cohesion. Some Plot summary: Archaeologists in Turkey have just discovered a stone temple dating to 10,000BCE. But there is evidence that the temple was deliberately buried ten thousand years ago. Journalist Rob Luttrell is sent to report on the excavation, and gradually uncovers a shocking secret and a string of gruesome murders.
Thoughts: UGH. This book just never ended. It took a REALLY long time to get to the point. Prior to that, it was just a bunch of loose threads with very little sense of cohesion. Some of the sentence structure was really odd, especially in regards to punctuation. I'm sure it was all grammatically correct, it just didn't flow very well. Example: "As he sluiced the sleep from his face and hair, he thought about Christine: how it had happened. Them; the two of them; him and her." I mean, I love a semi-colon as much as the next girl, but really???
My main problem was the level of detail in regards to the murders, which generally (view spoiler)[recreate ancient methods of human sacrifice (hide spoiler)]. I'm sorry, but I don't want to read about how if you flay someone's skin off a bit at a time, you can keep them alive for hours. Or hear about all the straggly tendons and veins and stuff hanging out of the bottom of a severed head. Also, if dead babies make you sad, you should definitely steer clear of this book. There's a LOT of stuff about child sacrifice, as well as ancient jars filled with gloopy dead babies.
Other problems I had with it?
- Christine flashes her archaeology credentials to get something on a plane. Uh, I have an archaeology degree and worked on a bunch of digs. There's no such thing as archaeology credentials, short of hauling your degree around with you.
- Lizzie, Rob's 5 year old daughter, alternates between seeming like a toddler and seeming like a much older child. Also, she's kidnapped, witnesses several deaths (including one where the person's intestines are taken out and boiled in front of them), and is nearly killed by a psychotic madman, and yet in the end? "She seems to have, basically, forgotten it all. A little frightened of the dark. Think that was the hood."
- It's kind of obvious from the get go that a relationship is going to develop between Rob and Christine. But it goes from them being friends in one chapter to ten days later and they're sleeping together in the next, which was a) confusing, because the "ten days later" part came in at the bottom of the page, and b) stilted. There was no demonstrated change to the relationship or character development. It was just *BAM* they're sleeping together now.
So yeah. No. If you want an action adventure story with some kind of archaeology element, go read James Rollins or Will Adams or David Gibbins or Matthew Reilly instead. ...more
Jun 17, 2010 Robin rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: thriller, archaeological-mystery
This one flip-flopped between a journalist at the Gobekli Tepe site and a detective in the UK investigating a series of brutal and strange murders (or attempted murders). Good writing style with a great concept, though I didn't like the eventual direction it took (don't want to go into detail and spoil it). There were a lot of gory details - it felt like a horror in the second half, some of it on par with the "Saw" movies. I had to skip over some of those parts. Not to mention the laborously lon This one flip-flopped between a journalist at the Gobekli Tepe site and a detective in the UK investigating a series of brutal and strange murders (or attempted murders). Good writing style with a great concept, though I didn't like the eventual direction it took (don't want to go into detail and spoil it). There were a lot of gory details - it felt like a horror in the second half, some of it on par with the "Saw" movies. I had to skip over some of those parts. Not to mention the laborously long rantings of a psychotic. The characters were believable at first but then started doing things that seemed contrived just for the sake of the plot. Overall, it was really good until about half way through and then started going downhill. Way downhill. By the end, I no longer really cared what the Genesis Secret was. Shame because it had real potential. ...more
Oct 13, 2009 Joyce rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Along the same lines as Dan Brown, but honestly:
1) The writing isn't as tight or compelling
2) The characters aren't as fleshed out
3) Sheesh. I think this guy has fetishes/racist undertones and writes about them under the guise of the antagonist.
4) At the end he literally says, "Here's the Genesis Secret:..." Am I insulted? Surprised? Cheated (for reading the 95% of the book)?
5) Couldn't get over the treatment of the daughter as a prop. Sorry, but am offended.
Just not thrilled.
Jun 15, 2009 Mia rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2009-books
Cardboard characters, slow moving plot, and seriously gruesome murders combine to make a pretty crappy novel.
Dec 22, 2011 Jeffrey Taylor rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The novel made a dramatic change of perspective starting with chapter 37. Up to this point the horror was presented at third hand but in this chapter Knox takes the reader to the commission of the crime and sees the sacrifice at first hand. At first I thought this was just gratuitous violence but later I came to understand the point. The reader had to experience the horror of the sacrifice and the way in which the sacrifice took place to understand and become willing to accept the story's explic The novel made a dramatic change of perspective starting with chapter 37. Up to this point the horror was presented at third hand but in this chapter Knox takes the reader to the commission of the crime and sees the sacrifice at first hand. At first I thought this was just gratuitous violence but later I came to understand the point. The reader had to experience the horror of the sacrifice and the way in which the sacrifice took place to understand and become willing to accept the story's explication of the roll of a non-human element being introduced to the genetic mix that we now find in ourselves. The willingness to self-sacrifice, competing with the desire to kill with cold precision and no mercy is the type of conflict of motives we find in human nature. This involved more than the standard story of psychotic behavior; this reases the question of our genetic roots and where this conflict came from.
When I came to chapter 39 and the interview with Janice Edwards I wondered what it was doing there. Why was Forrester interested in the inheritable quality of the penchant for extreme violence? The discussion was interesting but just seemed to be inserted as though it had been written for another story and was just pasted into this one.
I was expecting Isabel to turn up dead but not at Cloncurry's hands. I didn't see how she would be more successful in penetrating what seemed like an inbred, cult type religion than Rob had been and I did expect that she was highly motivated. She did not seem to be a person who could easily accept failure.
When I first learned that Christine was alive, I was pissed at Knox. It seemed he had just pulled her survival out of the hat as a gesture to the reader, a sort of reduction of the fear factor in expiation to the gods of publishing and timid readership. But as the final stage developed, the last Shakespearian act in which everybody dies, Knox needed her connection to Cloncurry's gang to get the principal players on the road to Baghdad, so to speak, and back to the source of darkness. Knox needed her alive to connect the dots to both the points of dramatic action and to the final explanations of the historic motives for the final development of his plot. It was really a brilliant story and a brilliant development of speculative analysis of our genetic development as a species.
I came to admire the final chapter with the marriage of Christine and Rob. The inclusion of the Greek Orthodox priest, the bouzouki players, the garden setting of the Princes Islands with its tamarack trees and the invitation to Kiribali not only seemed to dissipate his sinister behavior but also the dark aspect of place. Kiribali's interaction with the other wedding guests seemed to transform him into a demi- if not a super, hero.
I thought this a master work despite that some of the violence kept me awake at night like an adolescent after viewing a horror move on Halloween night.
Tom Knox ...more
Sep 30, 2009 Karen rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There are two stories going on at the same time and will end up intertwining as the plot thickens.
Rob Luttrell, British reporter survived a suicide bomber’s attack in Iraq. Still recovering from the horrific ordeal, his editor gives him a safe assignment or so he thought. He is to interview Franz Breitner, a German archeologist at the dig in the Kurdish sector of Turkey. Gobekli Tepe may be the oldest structure ever found, dating back twelve thousands years. Rob finds that the locals are less th There are two stories going on at the same time and will end up intertwining as the plot thickens.
Rob Luttrell, British reporter survived a suicide bomber’s attack in Iraq. Still recovering from the horrific ordeal, his editor gives him a safe assignment or so he thought. He is to interview Franz Breitner, a German archeologist at the dig in the Kurdish sector of Turkey. Gobekli Tepe may be the oldest structure ever found, dating back twelve thousands years. Rob finds that the locals are less than please over this discovery and have gone to great lengths to curse Franz and his work. Rob becomes romantically involved with Christine Meyer, the anthropologist at the site. When Franz is killed in a freak accident, Rob and Christine investigate to find out why someone would want him dead. What they unearth is shocking. Could Gobekli Tepe be the Garden of Eden and if so why had it been deliberately buried? Rob doesn’t have all the answers, but he sends his editor the article, not realizing his written words would put his young daughter and Christine in danger.
In the British Isles, there have been a series of brutal murders at sites linked with the Hellfire Club. This club was an elite social society known for its decadence and debauchery. The killers are upper-class college students with a psychopathic leader who stays one step ahead of the authorities. The leader wants something that the Yezidi (one of the ancient cult of religions known as the Cult of Angels) have kept secret. He believes this item was given to a member of the Hellfire Club centuries before and he believes Rob knows where it is.
The storyline is fast-paced and will keep you turning the pages to find out what will happen next. The history about Gobeki Tepe, Canaanites, the Yezidi and the Hellfire Club are cleverly woven into this macabre and sinister tale. Just to be warned, the torture practices of ancient societies that these killers used are described in horrifying detail.
For those who love a good thriller and enjoyed books such as Angels and Demons by Dan Brown would also enjoy this book as well. If you’re interested knowing more about the historical facts in The Genesis Secret, the author has pictures and descriptions of these places on his website. Quite interesting.
http://www.thegenesissecret.com/about...
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Jul 01, 2011 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Wow - I feel positively drained from reading this book - mostly in a good way. It was a great page-turner in which a British reporter's trip to research and write about an ancient archeological site in Kurdish Turkey gets complicated, at the same time a Scotland Yard detective tries to solve a series of brutal ritual killings occuring in the British Isles. The two stories eventually intertwine into one story. Be warned - this is not for the faint of heart. I was a bit skeptical about this book a Wow - I feel positively drained from reading this book - mostly in a good way. It was a great page-turner in which a British reporter's trip to research and write about an ancient archeological site in Kurdish Turkey gets complicated, at the same time a Scotland Yard detective tries to solve a series of brutal ritual killings occuring in the British Isles. The two stories eventually intertwine into one story. Be warned - this is not for the faint of heart. I was a bit skeptical about this book after reading the huge number of bad reviews on goodreads and amazon. In the end, I think it delivered a solid, interesting, thought-provoking story with definite hints of DaVinci Code and Katherine Neville's The Eight. I've read quite a lot in the forensic/murder mystery genre and this has the most difficult-to-read violence I've ever encountered. But for all those who thought it was terrible simply because of the very graphic violence, you completely missed the point. The violence is recreating historically accurate methods of human sacrifice from ancient cultures all over the world. Yes, it's disturbing, but it happened - and this is part of the whole crux of the story's conclusion. ...more
Sep 30, 2011 Katie Kenig rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: suspense, mystery
Cleverly told, this tale of a detective from Scotland Yard and a reporter from London weaves together science and adventure in a heady mix. There are some truly gruesome moments - historically, humans have been inventively and disarmingly cruel to one another, as both the detective and the scientist discover when the leader of a gang of not-quite-thugs (more like literate, intelligent college kids) begin re-enacting human sacrifice as it has been practiced in various cultures throughout the ages Cleverly told, this tale of a detective from Scotland Yard and a reporter from London weaves together science and adventure in a heady mix. There are some truly gruesome moments - historically, humans have been inventively and disarmingly cruel to one another, as both the detective and the scientist discover when the leader of a gang of not-quite-thugs (more like literate, intelligent college kids) begin re-enacting human sacrifice as it has been practiced in various cultures throughout the ages. Meanwhile, a well-known archaeologist is murdered at his dig site, a site that the reporter was doing a story on, as it may have held evidence of the very earliest human civilization.
This book reminded me of a cross between "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova (one of my favourite all-time books, so that's a compliment there) and Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" which I found enjoyable, but wasn't a huge hit with me. Throw in a female Indiana Jones type who becomes a sidekick (and fiancee) to the journalist and you have a well-rounded story that will keep you up late reading. There are some extremely gruesome scenes, which can be skimmed past without losing plot points if you have a weak stomach (or heart, like me.... wow humans were historically cruel.) ...more
Sep 18, 2010 Chessen rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The well written archeological detail was well worth the time and cost! I read the good, the bad, and the ugly from reviews before reading The Genesis Secret. I am not usually one to read graphic thrillers with pages of descriptive, gruesome torture. And I didn't with this book either. Thankfully, Tom Knox made the blood and guts an optional feature of the book. I was able to skip over the bits that hurt my sensibilities without missing any enjoyment. (Rather, preserving it in my case.) The solu The well written archeological detail was well worth the time and cost! I read the good, the bad, and the ugly from reviews before reading The Genesis Secret. I am not usually one to read graphic thrillers with pages of descriptive, gruesome torture. And I didn't with this book either. Thankfully, Tom Knox made the blood and guts an optional feature of the book. I was able to skip over the bits that hurt my sensibilities without missing any enjoyment. (Rather, preserving it in my case.) The solution to the deranged killer's motives is no less outrageous than a Dan Brown thriller, and as with Brown, the ride is really worth it. The novel is well paced, informative (without being a lecture), and the author's experience in good, old-fashioned journalism shines through in the style and tone! If you are fascinated by archeology and anthropology (particularly in Mesopotamia) and love a good fictional puzzle, then I highly recommend The Genesis Secret. ...more
Jul 28, 2011 Maurean rated it liked it · review of another edition
This should probably get a 3.5 rating, as I really did enjoy the story: The archaeological dig at Gobeckli Tepe (a site in Turkey, nearly 12,000 years old that was intentionally buried around 8000 b.c. for unknown reasons) is believed to be The Garden of Eden by the lead archaeologist on site. Rob Luttrell, a war reporter, is sent to write a public interest piece. But when the site is sabotaged, they discover links to a series of murders by a group of very depraved (yet brilliant) psychopaths wh This should probably get a 3.5 rating, as I really did enjoy the story: The archaeological dig at Gobeckli Tepe (a site in Turkey, nearly 12,000 years old that was intentionally buried around 8000 b.c. for unknown reasons) is believed to be The Garden of Eden by the lead archaeologist on site. Rob Luttrell, a war reporter, is sent to write a public interest piece. But when the site is sabotaged, they discover links to a series of murders by a group of very depraved (yet brilliant) psychopaths which are being investigated by Scotland Yard. Knox writing is very descriptive, and he does a wonderful job at bringing the reader along for the ride.
the only detraction, in my opinion, is the very detailed, very vivid and VERY gruesome details of the murders depicted. Definitely not for the faint of heart. ...more
Jun 23, 2011 Lisa James rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: owned, mystery
Fantastic book. Combines archaeology with murder, mystery, & the source of "the Genesis Secret", which uncovers what the 3 major belief systems, the Abrahamic religions, were based on. Drawing from secrets of the Hellfire Club, the Book of Enoch, 2 murders in different parts of the world, one at the real site of Gobekli Tempe, & one in the UK, end up being related. This follows the story of how those 2 converged, & the extremely intelligent psychopath behind it, Jamie Cloncurry, with Fantastic book. Combines archaeology with murder, mystery, & the source of "the Genesis Secret", which uncovers what the 3 major belief systems, the Abrahamic religions, were based on. Drawing from secrets of the Hellfire Club, the Book of Enoch, 2 murders in different parts of the world, one at the real site of Gobekli Tempe, & one in the UK, end up being related. This follows the story of how those 2 converged, & the extremely intelligent psychopath behind it, Jamie Cloncurry, with a genius IQ if close to 150.
There is never a dull moment in this book, lots of plot twists & turns, lots of action, etc.
A very worthwhile read for those who appreciate a good murder mystery, those who love archaeology, those who enjoyed the Dan Brown books, even though this book is a good deal bloodier. ...more
Aug 07, 2014 Cara rated it did not like it · review of another edition
I both really liked and really hated this book. I loved the history, archaeology, religious mystery etc. I also really enjoyed the characters, the excitement, and how you follow more than one thread for the first 2/3 of the book.
Then all of a sudden you read some of the most horrible things. I would have abandoned the book entirely, had it not been for such an great first half. Goodreads needs a "great book, SO not for me" option in its rating system!
Just be warned folks - this is a book for SAW I both really liked and really hated this book. I loved the history, archaeology, religious mystery etc. I also really enjoyed the characters, the excitement, and how you follow more than one thread for the first 2/3 of the book.
Just be warned folks - this is a book for SAW fans. ...more
Nov 10, 2010 Jason Davison rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: library-loan
This is a Dan Brown type story that wraps a few historical facts around a wildly theoretical alternative to existing biblical beliefs. The main protagonist is likable enough, but you have to question some of his methods for pursuing the answer to the mythical question and at how easily it seems to be discovered for someone that hasn't been chasing the mystery their entire life.
That all being said, it's a good mystery read, although I personally was a bit squeamish with some of the murders that t This is a Dan Brown type story that wraps a few historical facts around a wildly theoretical alternative to existing biblical beliefs. The main protagonist is likable enough, but you have to question some of his methods for pursuing the answer to the mythical question and at how easily it seems to be discovered for someone that hasn't been chasing the mystery their entire life.
That all being said, it's a good mystery read, although I personally was a bit squeamish with some of the murders that took place throughout the book. ...more
Apr 29, 2012 Michael rated it did not like it · review of another edition
The characters were unbelievable and there were far too many deus ex machina plot devices for this to be a compelling story. On top of that, there was simply too much gratuitously gory description of violent killings--the author seems to have had quite a fetish for it, but it grosses out the average reader (I'm a public defender--I'm not queasy about these things, but I still thought it was too much) without advancing the plot. Comparisons to the Da Vinci Code are inapt.
Oct 16, 2009 Gaye rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I found this title on a "Dan Brown read-alike" list. Mystery, action, religious secrets with some truth behind them...this is my kind of book.
A web site by the author separates truth from fiction: thegenesissecret.com
Oct 16, 2012 Marilyn Fontane rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Recommends it for: People who don't mind a lot of gore in their thrillers
Recommended to Marilyn by: close out at Borders
Shelves: mystery, adventure
I love DaVinci types of thrillers, and this book looked as if it would fill the bill. Half and half. Two tales seemingly disperate are in fact finally interwoven. In the first Rob Luttrell, a journalist, is sent by his editor Steve to investigate an archeological dig at Gobekli Tepe, a Garden of Eden site in Kurdish Turkey. The dig is led by Franz Breitner who claims it is 10,000 to 11,000 years old, but was completely buried around 8000 9000 BC. There is a lot of hostility from the Kurdish work I love DaVinci types of thrillers, and this book looked as if it would fill the bill. Half and half. Two tales seemingly disperate are in fact finally interwoven. In the first Rob Luttrell, a journalist, is sent by his editor Steve to investigate an archeological dig at Gobekli Tepe, a Garden of Eden site in Kurdish Turkey. The dig is led by Franz Breitner who claims it is 10,000 to 11,000 years old, but was completely buried around 8000 9000 BC. There is a lot of hostility from the Kurdish workers, but Rob is inspired by Breitner's helper, Christine Meyer who studied under Isobel Previn. Breitner is killed, apparently by his workers. So Christine and Rob poke around to try to find out what he has discovered that he is seemingly hiding. Since they go places they aren't supposed to, they are told by Officer Kiribali to get out of Sanliurfa (the original Ur of the Bible?) but they want to learn more about an isolated religious sect the Yezidi, who perhaps has ties to the site.
In the meantime DCI Forrester of Scotland Yard is investigating a series of grizly murders at the Ben Franklin house in London, on the Isle of Man, of a friend of Christine's, De Savory. All are graphic depictions of human sacrifice from around the world in ancient societies. They seem to be tied to Jamie Cloncurry, the modern head of the Hellfire Club which was in the 1700s led by one of his ancestors, Jerusalen (or Tom) Whaley and Francis Dashwood. The Hellfire Club, which had prominent men, was officially disbanned in 1774, but apparently lived on underground.
The two stories are tied together by Jamie Concurry who wants the Black Book of the Yezidi, and tries to force Rob's hand to get it by kidnappiing and offering to sacrifice Rob's daughter, Lizzie, and his now girlfriend, Christine. But did Jerusalem Whaley bring the book to Ireland or is it still in Turkey? Rob travels to Turkey to rescue his loved ones where Cloncurry tries to trap him in the Valley of Slaughter, near Gobekli Tepe which is to be flooded by the Great Anatolian Projedt of damming the Euphrates.
The great "secret" is an interpretation of Genesis 6 where the sons of God find the daughters of earth attractive. The Black Book contains proof that the sons of God were a different human species than the human daughters of man.
Well, it is an exciting plot--if you can stand the gratuitous blood and gore surrounding the various examples of human sacrifice. It is an interesting theory--supposedly bolstered by the fact that there is a real Gobekli Tepe which doesn't fit with accepted interpretations of early man. If unlimited violence doesn't bother you, you might find the book quite thrilling. ...more
There are two stories going on at the same time and will end up intertwining as the plot thickens.
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Mar 19, 2012 Matt rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I love historical mysteries and thrillers, especially when they relate to things that actually could have happened. I admit, the Dan Brown bug bit me and I have never been cured. I also like the historical genre when we look at the biblical past, as so much of what we know through THE GOOD BOOK is interpreted. Alas, many, like Brown, look to the New Testament, where things are much less controversial. I like those old texts where things are much vaguer. The early books that really create the fou I love historical mysteries and thrillers, especially when they relate to things that actually could have happened. I admit, the Dan Brown bug bit me and I have never been cured. I also like the historical genre when we look at the biblical past, as so much of what we know through THE GOOD BOOK is interpreted. Alas, many, like Brown, look to the New Testament, where things are much less controversial. I like those old texts where things are much vaguer. The early books that really create the foundation of some rules we use today, even though fundamentalists ruin it all with their blather. Knox examines the true beginning of it all in The Genesis Secret and asks, where DID we come from and WHY. He also seeks to have the reader challenge what they know about the ‘beginnings of life’ and whether it is all blather or has some innate truth.
Mixing biblical interpretation of the Book of Genesis with some archaeological back drop is genius, especially since this is how we'd find out about new discoveries to old tales. [I admit I am going through the television series BONES at present, so archaeological findings interest me a great deal!] The story, from this perspective is great at unearthing (pardon the pun) truths and possibilities, but doing so in such a way that the pope or televangelists will not toss curses on those who read the books. Juxtaposing the other thread of the story, a serial killer in the UK and environs, was also great, as it permits the reader to learn more about some of the truly horrific tortures cultures used to use on their peoples. The Swedes and Japanese, especially stunned me with the brutality, but I hold none of it against them nowadays.
When the two stories merge, the thrill aspect skyrockets and it only gets better as the pages go on. Knox is a great writer and has done some amazing things in this, his debut novel. I can see why it did so well and why I am interested in the second book (not a sequel) already!
KUDOS Mr. Knox. In me you have a fan!
Jul 26, 2012 David rated it liked it · review of another edition
Good book, though I enjoyed the factual a bit more than the fictional aspects of it. Knox isn't necessarily a bad writer and if you're one who likes a gory suspense thriller then you probably will like the story as well. As for myself, I was drawn to it and stuck with it mostly for the interesting and fairly well researched facts and history. The story itself I thought was a little overly dramatic and even a bit outlandish at points but again I'm not one drawn to that sort of writing so it's har Good book, though I enjoyed the factual a bit more than the fictional aspects of it. Knox isn't necessarily a bad writer and if you're one who likes a gory suspense thriller then you probably will like the story as well. As for myself, I was drawn to it and stuck with it mostly for the interesting and fairly well researched facts and history. The story itself I thought was a little overly dramatic and even a bit outlandish at points but again I'm not one drawn to that sort of writing so it's hard for me to judge it. I am however, still doing a bit of research to separate those facts and fictions and I must say I am enjoying the intellectual pursuits he has helped spawn through the novel. In this aspect Knox certainly does seem to come away a bit of a winner. In picking a subject matter that many people are drawn to, namely the religious and esoteric foundations of history that have made other novels such as The Da Vinci Code popular, he scores points with different types of readers. Gobekli Tepe, the temple in the novel being uncovered is a very real and mysterious site 8,000-12,000 years old, The Yazidi are truly an ancient race of people who live near the temple and even some of the Euro/American occult references in the novel are fairly accurate. For these things alone I would recommend the book to those interested in history, religion or the occult. The story to me seemed like just another Hollywood blockbuster in the making, which in the end with a good director, might also like the book be at least interesting and palatable. ...more
May 09, 2013 Natalie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I had mixed feelings when I began this book, it started off as another Dan Brown thriller, but it rapidly progressed into a different kind of story.
The book has two stories that converge together later in the story, both on an treasure hunt, one group in a peaceful informative way, the other in a very different, violent way.
I must admit that the author managed to paint some very vivid gruesome scenes in the book, making me feel a little queasy :O. These parts would have definitely found their pl I had mixed feelings when I began this book, it started off as another Dan Brown thriller, but it rapidly progressed into a different kind of story.
I must admit that the author managed to paint some very vivid gruesome scenes in the book, making me feel a little queasy :O. These parts would have definitely found their place in Silence of the Lambs.
I found the Archaeological information in the book very interesting and it was nice to read about it, as I had never before heard about Gobelki Tepe. ...more
Jul 16, 2017 Raewyn Honeycutt rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: adventure-thriller, fiction, crime-fiction
A journalist finds himself chasing a story in the Middle East that would lead him to be searching for some of the lost histories of humanity and ultimately putting his daughter and girlfriend in grave danger. A Scotland Yard investigator is trying to find a sadistic killer in the UK. A wonderfully woven tale on the origins of the major monotheistic religions, the link between homo sapiens and other hominids, it gives pause for thought (at least for those who aren't actively studying anthropology A journalist finds himself chasing a story in the Middle East that would lead him to be searching for some of the lost histories of humanity and ultimately putting his daughter and girlfriend in grave danger. A Scotland Yard investigator is trying to find a sadistic killer in the UK. A wonderfully woven tale on the origins of the major monotheistic religions, the link between homo sapiens and other hominids, it gives pause for thought (at least for those who aren't actively studying anthropology or the branch of archeology). Even the ending, which I won't spoil wasn't the typical toil of hurry up and get it over with - it was more explanatory and intriguing. I would rate it a page turner, but because I haven't read much in a long time and set this book to the side after a while, I can't be the authority on that. The book was probably harder to get into in the beginning because of the chopping and changing between the two main characters (the journalist and the investigator), but ultimately, they intersect. Relatively good pop fiction. I would be interested in reading more by Tom Knox. And no, he's not Dan Brown. Probably not quite as well crafted, but still a good read. But if you're into mysteries, secret societies, ancient religions, archeological hunts, mysterious objects, investigative (crime) novels, then I'd encourage you to read it. Caution: there are some graphic descriptions of torture - so if you have a weak stomach for such things, skip this book. ...more
Mar 25, 2019 Ari rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Robert Langdon meets Hannibal Lecter's nastier brother (squared).
One more novel sailing on Da Vinci Code's wake. Not as many mysteries to be solved but big biblical secrets to be revealed, the history of mankind re-written. Seems familiar to somebody else too? The Finnish publisher actually takes a everything out of the resemblance by naming the novel as "The code of Evil". How lame is that.
I do hope that the groundwork for this novel was thorough because some of the facts were quite interesting
I do hope that the groundwork for this novel was thorough because some of the facts were quite interesting. The facts I presumed to be facts that is. If not, this was merely a sadistic serial killer story with archeological flavourings - if they were also artificial flavourings the taste becomes partly repellent.
If you don't expect too much this is quite easy reading but as said partly very sadistic in the manner of dark age and inquisition. With obscure motives except for psychopathy. Which is always easy and useful when you want to feast with excessive violence without proper explanation. Way of the storytelling and screenwriting in our civilized world. Probably quite popular way as it's so widely used.
And whenever there was night, there was also moonlight. A miracle in its own right :-)
Pahan koodi
Nov 05, 2018 Pezquenin rated it it was ok · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Avoid reading it if you can.
The story doesn't make any sense. The plot is sketchy.
The bad guy is a psycho but the writer portraits him as trying to protect some secret... why? The bad guy's motivation is a really weak point in the story.
It is NOT CLEAR AT ALL why the Northmen mixing with Homo Sapiens connects to the three main religions, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Garden of Eden.
Christine's character is a specialist in bones, but lo and behold, she can read ancient languages and knows a lot ab Avoid reading it if you can.
Christine's character is a specialist in bones, but lo and behold, she can read ancient languages and knows a lot about lost religions and cults.
Rob's character (the journalist) travels somewhere to the Middle East, does nothing, interviews a couple of diggers, does nothing again, falls for the girl without any real romance, manages to get his daughter kidnapped while he is away, resolves to get to the bottom of the "mistery", worries non-stop about his daugther, makes an attempt at rescuing his daughter (hilarious: bypassing the police, kicking that door open... unbelievable), has a flurry of inspiration at the end... and the Police neglect their duty and let the "hero" go to Turkey/Iraq to rescue his daughter. ...more
Oct 09, 2018 Paul Pessolano rated it liked it · review of another edition
“The Genesis Secret” by Tom Knox, published by Viking.
Category – Mystery/Thriller Publication Date – 2009
What makes this book so interesting is that it is based on truth and the site, Gobekli Tepe, is an actual archaeological site in Turkey. Although this is a work of fiction it does require the reader to keep this in mind.
The Gobekli Tepe site is considered to be the oldest place known of human civilization, older than the Pyramids or Stonehenge. It could also be the place where all modern rel “The Genesis Secret” by Tom Knox, published by Viking.
The Gobekli Tepe site is considered to be the oldest place known of human civilization, older than the Pyramids or Stonehenge. It could also be the place where all modern religion has its beginnings.
Rob Luttrell, a correspondent back from a dangerous mission, is given the assignment of checking out the Tepe site as a stand down assignment. It turns out to be more dangerous than his original assignment.
At the same time in London, Scotland Yard Detective Forrester, is looking into several horrendous murders that include flaying of bodies and beheadings. There is the possibility that these are the works of a secret society that may have roots to the Tepe site.
Although gruesome in some parts, the book does put together a good mystery that finds its origins in the book of Genesis.
Jan 18, 2019 Susan rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: thrillers-suspense
3.5 Stars. This was a fast paced exciting book about the discovery of monoliths at Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia, Turkey. There are two parallel stories here that end up being part of the same story. In the UK the reader is presented with a series of gruesome murders. Meanwhile, at the site, a journalist has been sent to cover the dig but ends up discovering an explosive mystery surrounding the site that may upend the three Abrahamic faiths. The murders and the journey of discoveries made to uncover 3.5 Stars. This was a fast paced exciting book about the discovery of monoliths at Gobekli Tepe in Anatolia, Turkey. There are two parallel stories here that end up being part of the same story. In the UK the reader is presented with a series of gruesome murders. Meanwhile, at the site, a journalist has been sent to cover the dig but ends up discovering an explosive mystery surrounding the site that may upend the three Abrahamic faiths. The murders and the journey of discoveries made to uncover the big secret are exciting and well written. The reason I gave it 3.5 stars instead of 4.0 is because I don't really see the big reveal as that earth shattering. That could be because I have a background in Anthropology and am not a super religious person that believes in the Bible literally anyways. However, it also doesn't seem realistic. However, the characters are great, the mystery is well written and diverting. I've put the rest of his books on hold at the library and look forward to reading them. ...more
Feb 23, 2019 Alxandra rated it liked it · review of another edition
I enjoyed this book, but I have deep reservations. It appears that much of the archaeology is accurate, but I'm not an expert in that, but my cursory wikipedia style research supported the accuracy. Otherwise, the book just doesn't ring true.
The kid feels like a doll, just a raggedy ann doll dragged from scene to scene with no personality.
For a book about archaeology ... how many Jewish ladies are named, "Christine".
The gruesome and gory torture scenes are very difficult to read, but they are al I enjoyed this book, but I have deep reservations. It appears that much of the archaeology is accurate, but I'm not an expert in that, but my cursory wikipedia style research supported the accuracy. Otherwise, the book just doesn't ring true.
The gruesome and gory torture scenes are very difficult to read, but they are also inaccurate. Could the author have run it by a physician before implying that kidneys are peritoneal? Maybe, it was a transplant kidney which seems highly unlikely.
Typically, when I'm running into logic issues in a book, I can't finish it. But, this book did entice me and kept me reading even through those torture scenes which I wish I could forget. ...more
About Tom Knox
Tom Knox is the pseudonym of British journalist and writer Sean Thomas. His first novel, The Genesis Secret, focuses on the region known as Gobekli Tepe. His second novel, The Marks of Cain was published in 2010 and was concerned with the Basque Country. The front of the US hardcover dust jacket shows the title as Marks of Cain. A third book, titled Bible of the Dead was published in March 2011 an Tom Knox is the pseudonym of British journalist and writer Sean Thomas. His first novel, The Genesis Secret, focuses on the region known as Gobekli Tepe. His second novel, The Marks of Cain was published in 2010 and was concerned with the Basque Country. The front of the US hardcover dust jacket shows the title as Marks of Cain. A third book, titled Bible of the Dead was published in March 2011 and focuses on the Khmer Rouge. Sean Thomas lives in London.
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Jacked Up (Birmingham Rebels, #3)
Kane, Samantha *
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Erica's rating
I received a copy of this title to read and review for Wicked Reads
5 Holy Hades that was steaming hot for the first half & 3 meh stars for the las I received a copy of this title to read and review for Wicked Reads
5 Holy Hades that was steaming hot for the first half & 3 meh stars for the last half, 4 stars in total.
I read the Birmingham Rebels series out of order, reading book 4 first, then going back to book 1 and so forth. Jacked Up was my favorite for all four books thus far, and I'm thoroughly looking forward to more in the series.
There is a naughty indulgent vibe to this series, and I cannot get enough. It works as a great palate cleanser between heavy books or different genres, especially if you go back and forth between MF & MM like I do.
The first half of the book thoroughly titillated me, drawing me in and making me hot. I suffered from a serious case of the rosy cheeks and hoped no one was looking at my facial expressions. The second half, however, kind of fell flat for me.
If you're reading book 3, there's a good chance you've read at least two books in this series, so I'm not going to go in-depth into my review. There is a wash-repeat feel to the series, where each book follows the same plot lines. I wouldn't recommend reading back-to-back, as this would become more evident. But it's great to inject some seductive eroticism into your life every now and then.
King & Sam are great- friends for a longtime, to the point Sam is a member of King's family. They meet Jane in an unusually, highly naughty way, and it had me 'hooked'. For 50% of the book, this song and dance had me glued to the pages, but then what always happens in this series happened.
The two friends, who have a history, the reader 'feels' their intimacy, attraction, chemistry, tension, and love, yet it moves hyper-fast with their female addition, so fast, the reader doesn't get to know her nor do they get to see the three come together. So the reader is always left feeling as if the female is a third-wheel in the relationship.
While I loved Jane, her cowardly disappearing act, which was ironic when she thought herself the most 'brave' of the Disney princesses, mixed with her insane need to keep calling herself derogatory names for liking/lusting/loving King & Sam, it made me not like her. If I met her in person, she would have annoyed me to frustration. Prior to the running away, blaming everyone yet never owning what she wanted, and self-shaming herself, I liked the nurse.
Near the ending, when Randi appeared back on-scene, I decided Jane was a worthy addition to King & Sam's relationship, because Randi is still by far the worst addition to the series as a whole. There is a difference between badass and being abusive, bullying, rude, trashy, and unhinged- Randi in a nutshell as she called out Jane during the game. Randi puts a bad taste in my mouth.
So, in the end, by comparison, I liked Jane, even with her ironic 'bravery'. I will say, the tension between King and Sam is some of the most sizzling I've ever read, in any menage or MM romance book. My cheeks are still flushed.
I do recommend Samantha Kane for all your menage reading needs, and look forward to more in this series- hopefully a lot more books, because there are a ton of characters who have piqued my interests.
Gallagher, Lauren *
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The Best Laid Plans wasn't a wise choice to decide to read at bedtime, thi I received a copy of this title to read and review for Wicked Reads
The Best Laid Plans wasn't a wise choice to decide to read at bedtime, thinking to read a few chapters. I finished the novel about 2 hours before my alarm was set to go off, so I ended up laying there mulling over what I had just read.
Gabe & Shahid have been trying to adopt a child for nearly 10 years, always being waylaid either because they are a gay couple or mixed-religion (Catholic & Muslim) It doesn't matter that they've been in a stable relationship, own their own home, with Gabe a high school science teacher and Shahid a ER nurse, something always stalls the adoption process.
Kendra is their best friend and Gabe's coworker. The guys have seen her through some tough times, when her husband cheated on her and they divorced. Wanting to do something selfless for her friends, Kendra decides to become a surrogate for Gabe and Shahid, the old-fashioned way.
In the quest to have a child, old relationship wounds are opened up. Mostly dealing with Shahid's insecurity over his husband being bisexual and the divide due to their religious beliefs. Even married, Gabe spends all the Christian holidays alone.
On the pages of the novel is some major angst, heartbreak, twisted emotions, a deeper look at religion, and realistic love and romance.
Instead of a wedge in their relationship, I felt that Kendra was written as empathetic and compassionate, not as if she was trying to hone in on her friends' relationship. Gabe was easy-going and wore his heart on his sleeve. Gabe had chemistry with both Shahid and Kendra, and believe it or not, it felt rushed and forced more so with his husband than with his coworker friend.
The main reason I couldn't give 5 stars was due to Shahid. His characterization and his inner monologue and behavior conflicted. The selfless nurse, selfless husband, yet his inner monologue was judgey and all about his needs and wants. Yes, this added the angsty edge to the story.
As an ER nurse, it was a generous gesture to work during Christian holidays so his co-workers could take those days off, but it also felt as a way for Shahid to hide away from Gabe's family. But, when it came time for Kendra to have a true medical emergency, Shahid made it all about him, all about his relationship with Gabe. That seemed contradictory. Shahid was only able to see it from his POV, in a very uncompassionate manner where 'what may have never been' faded. However, Kendra suffered a 'real' loss, not one of what may have been. In the following pages, where Kendra was left with no friends or shoulders to cry on, she was subjected to both Gabe and Shahid wanting to talk about their relationship instead of her MAJOR heartbreak. That should have been the straw that broke the camel's back, where a self-respecting Kendra told them to get lost and stop using her, playing on her emotions. I was frustrated and furious at how clueless the guys were during this portion. They didn't support Kendra- they abandoned her while fighting and making it about themselves.
I just couldn't connect with how cold and unaffected Shahid truly was- a user and manipulator. When it came to Gabe's family and the Christian holidays, Shahid wouldn't join Gabe, but then would complain how Gabe's family didn't want to know him, didn't understand him. The holidays aren't necessarily about religion- they are a way to connect as a family. Gabe's family didn't know Shahid because Gabe only saw them for major events, events in which Shahid ran off and made sure he was unavailable, leaving Gabe alone when he should have had his husband beside him. (I'm not excusing how Gabe's family spoke of Shahid, but they also didn't know him. If you have a hard time dealing with those who are ignorant, educate them through familiarity, especially if they are actual family). Shahid only gave half of himself to Gabe, which is the only reason menage worked, because Gabe and Kendra gave all of themselves to each other and Shahid. You get married to have a partner, not where you pick and choose what aspects in life you want to be included/excluded from being involved with. In reverse, Gabe would have gone to Shahid's family for holidays.
Overall, I loved the book, but I was frustrated by Shahid, wanting to shake him and tell him to stop being so selfish by feigning selflessness. The ending was rushed after a slower paced novel that had scenes on repeat, but when true relationship development occurred, it flashed forward to an epilogue. ...more
Closet Confession
Alexander, Kindle *
Beginning my review at 14% of the Kindle edition supplied by the publisher, I received a copy of this title to read and review for Wicked Reads
Beginning my review at 14% of the Kindle edition supplied by the publisher, and I am just now hitting the first page of chapter one. Page after page of advertisements from Kindle Alexander’s previous books, including the covers and reviews. 14% of the book.
Off to read. I just felt the need to start my review with that major observation, as anyone downloading a sample will never get to the body of work to get a taste of the writing style. Complete review listed below upon the completion of the novella.
I will start by saying Closet Confessions is my first book by Kindle Alexander. She has a large fanbase within our review group, so I thought it time to pop my cherry, so to speak.
I enjoyed the easy flow of the author’s distinct voice and the writing style. The setting of the scene was very descriptive, allowing the reader to get a feel of the hospital and the narrator.
Noting something I’ve noticed time and time again: the generational divide between the narrators and their elders. Many books have 20somethings to 30somethings with elderly parents. In this situation, Dr. Baby has an aunt who just turned 83… 48 years his elder, his mother’s sister. That’s what I meant by the generational divide: we’re missing an entire generation somewhere.
The elderly aunt was a fun addition to the story. Meddlesome, ornery, yet sweet and loveable. Her need to find her nephew a date was cute.
Within a few pages, we meet Justin, a nurse and our other narrator. His fellow nurses are lusting over the newcomer, and Dr. Baby (Derek) finally pays attention to him.
I realized that when the content of the story started so far within the book that there would be an instant connection between the two as there was no room otherwise to build up to it. But this took instant to a whole new level.
One interaction- and they are locked in a closet together, already so lust-filled with the other’s hotness they can’t help themselves. (where readers will be confused and turned off, Justin kept speaking/thinking of his partner- his fellow nurses said he had a live in partner… so Derek (a doctor) flirting with him after that known fact is odd. And odder yet is Justin, who is beyond introspective and quiet, going against his own nature and his relationship to flirt back. But not only flirt…)
This all happens so quickly that there is absolutely no buildup. It’s just BAM! Closet.
Now, obviously if you’re reading this review after reading the book, this is explained. But it’s a bit jarring to read when in the ‘closet’ so to speak. I won’t ruin the twist, but by the time I figured it out… shrug.
To be honest, since this is my first KA book, I’m willing to try a full-length novel, as this short story’s pacing was on crack, with so much left out or simply told versus shown, and I’m not sure of the scope of the author’s storytelling abilities from this bit I just read.
Length of book It started at 14% & ended at 63%. Only 49% of the book was the finished product. Followed by scenes that weren’t included into the overall story. It was just an odd format for me, leaving me feeling disconnected from the story in general. I would have enjoyed the story if it had been told in a linear fashion, as the twist wasn’t that shocking. But being written in the fashion it was, the twist actually put me off from reading it (the narration was unreliable in the beginning because of said twist). If any of that makes any sense.
Just my overall thoughts on Closet Confessions.
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Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist
Ortiz, Monica Teresa *
Scarllet ✦ Underrated Lit Warrior's rating
it was amazing
we should not apologize / for what we are / never going to be
This chapbook is filled with truth, honesty and it allows us to look into the imaginings
This chapbook is filled with truth, honesty and it allows us to look into the imaginings of a future that hasn't happened yet. Monica Teresa Ortiz explores politics, being latinx and queer & the way of the spectator world i.e baring witness to these daily tragic and violent events that happen to our 'neighbors' and to our bodies.
There's just so much power in being able to put in words the way the U.S is fascinated with death "as a spectacle", so much so that it is oversaturated in the news and in our screens but similarly "no one wants to discuss death". It's our reality in this day and age where tragedy is shared through videos and talked about on Twitter. Not only that, but Ortiz brings in ethics and how bodies are controlled from where they are laid after death to the complete and utter power of being able to decide on who lives and who dies.
I also felt so touched by the poem to Selena: there was just so much love and loss and queerness within the words that it moved me to my core. I felt that and that's the gist of my thoughts on Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist: I felt every uttering in my chest and it's poetry like this that can help us survive this world. ...more
WITCHDOCTORPOET
Juju, Bola *
All that your ancestors had to
go through for you to be here
and you doubt yourself?
How dare you?
You come from a legacy of survival that must never be
questioned
I received WITCHDOCTORPOET by Bola Juju for review. This collection of poetry is definitely an offering of empowerment, strength, belief, and just utter soul-stopping words of wisdom. I found myself annotating my copy, especially when I found particularly amazing wordplay and magical imagery that just leaps and pours off the page.
There were some themes that I personally could not relate to, but empathy is strong within me and I could understand the emotions and thoughts and history behind those specific parts. It certainly did not hinder my connection with WITCHDOCTORPOET because sometimes you read poetry at the right time despite not fully understanding all of it - it still manages to hit you everywhere all at once.
Bola Juju has a way with words that is so visually pleasing and it constantly makes one pause to feel and digest. The intensity and the power within these poems about heritage, the female body, love, the African diaspora are unparalleled. What a stunning and powerful collection that I was blessed to have read. ...more
Ghost Ship: A Ghost Walk Novella
Solo, Kay *
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My Ghost Walk rating:
Ghost Walk : 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This story, these characters, this pairing gets me in the c h e s t.
Ghost Ship was so atmospheric and had the My Ghost Walk rating:
Ghost Ship was so atmospheric and had the most spooky Halloween mood throughout! I wrote a whole gushy review of Ghost Walk so anyone would know that I love Maaya so much because of how well written she is. Kay really took care of her development and her character so much so that she's one of my favorite protagonists ever written. I get so teary thinking about it, really, since I understand Maaya and want the best for her. Not only that, but her and Adelaide are everything to me. It was great to come back to them and the rest of the crew. They own my heart. ...more
Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)
Córdova, Zoraida *
Me: accidentally deletes this bomb book and my review off of my reads list
Also me: yikes :'((((( :oooooo
peluda
Lozada-Oliva, Melissa
if you ask me if i am fluent in Spanish i will tell you my Spanish is an itchy / phantom limb - reaching for words & only finding air / my Spanish
if you ask me if i am fluent in Spanish i will tell you my Spanish is an itchy / phantom limb - reaching for words & only finding air / my Spanish is my third birthday party: half of it is memory, the other half is that photograph on the fridge /is what my family has told me / if you ask me if i am fluent i will tell you that my Spanish is a puzzle / left in the rain / too soggy to make its parts fit so that it can look just like the picture on the box
One of the things I love about reading is that I can find stories and narratives that relate to my experiences, even if we're completely different. I found myself reflected in a lot of Melissa's very intimate and very frank collection of poems & I knew that I would because her whole premise of the "hairy" woman is Latinx culture. Here I am, listening to Mon Laferte and reading Peluda like the Latina that I am and I enjoyed every second of it. There are just SO MANY parts that are just like damn I #relate because that's the life we live, like !!!
My top favorites have to be: AKA What Would Jessica Jones Do?, Lip / Stain / Must / Ache, Wolf Girl Suite, & Yosra Strings Off My Mustache Two Days After the Election in a Harvard Square Bathroom. But I seriously thought all her poems were good .
I find that her voice and the way she writes is so funny and so familiar that it's like she's an older sister I've never had. After finishing this and flipping through my favorite ones twice, I went and found her on YouTube because I had to listen to her read these.
amazing amazing amazing -- I definitely look forward to more from Melissa in the future ...more
On a Sunbeam
Walden, Tillie
you do not understand how much the found family trope means to me. my heart is full. will i write a real review later? maybe, but i feel happy i've re
you do not understand how much the found family trope means to me. my heart is full. will i write a real review later? maybe, but i feel happy i've read this one. ...more
A Holiday By Gaslight: A Victorian Christmas Novella
Matthews, Mimi *
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Because it didn’t matter to you. You weren’t cringing with shame. You weren’t putting on airs. You were simply…you. A lady through and through. And on
Because it didn’t matter to you. You weren’t cringing with shame. You weren’t putting on airs. You were simply…you. A lady through and through. And one I very much wished to know better.
All the stars, honestly!!! What a charming way to spend my Christmas day: with this romantic and warm holiday read.
The brilliance of the Victorian era combined with the luscious Christmas cover invited me into A Holiday By Gaslight - plus a very favorable review by Destiny from destiny ♎ [howling libraries] had me adding it to be tbr in an instant. It was the completely magnetic characters of not only Sophie and Ned, but the entirety of the AHBG cast totally made me fall in love with this novella! The gorgeous writing style that had me envisioning, in awe might I add, the beautiful silks and cloths of the era was the sugar on top of the sugar cookies :') I just wanna gush about this one to anyone who'd listen lmao!!
She also included a lot of allusions to North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Just like with North and South's Margaret, Sophie is devoted to her family and her duty as the eldest daughter. She manages to take on these huge financial burdens as a result of Mrs. Appersett's (her father's) frivolity and totally extra personality. She does this because she cares for them so much, which it's something I loved about her.
Sophie Appersett is just an amazingly written character: strong, caring, intelligent, witty. Just like Ned, I wanted her burdens to be eased. He just wanted to take care of her and be there for her; which just was so well done. Their whole dynamic was so swoon-worthy and had me smiling like a fool. It was gentle, it was sweet, it was hella romantic, it was filled with banter. What's not to love let's be real.
Ned had this facade of stoic and coolness that was just a mask hiding everything he's thinking. I'm so glad we got to read both of their point-of-view because it was great to see how things seemed one way but were actually another a.k.a the whole start of the beautiful pining situation. This novella had equal amounts of pining, misunderstandings, laughs, a dramatic sister, romantic hand-holding, Christmas cheer, beautiful evening wear, jeez you name it!
It was SO GOOD and it's all I love about historical fiction tbh.
I really loved the author's note at the end because it was clear that the author did her research throughout the novella, which really made it all the more of a gem for me! ...more
The Poet X
Acevedo, Elizabeth *
And I think about all the things we could be if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.
The Poet X was filled with achingly beautiful ve
The Poet X was filled with achingly beautiful verses that reached into my heart and didn't let go. I just absolutely adored the way Acevedo included Dominican culture and wrote her poetry with NY slang because it was validating to read this and feel seen on the page. I also loved how she sprinkled in bits and pieces of every girl trying to find their voice in the world through Xiomara's story.
I literally devoured this book in about three hours and I need to collect my thoughts because all I can say is that this book is so breathtakingly powerful and I recommend it to everyone. ...more
The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)
Lepionka, Kristen *
Trying to force a connection hadn't gone very well for me before. But sometimes the connection insists on making itself. The universe sends you the sa
Trying to force a connection hadn't gone very well for me before. But sometimes the connection insists on making itself. The universe sends you the same lesson over and over until you learn it. The world is a series of patterns on its own; the coincidence is only in the discovery of them.
Holy hell do I love a good mystery! The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka has been recommended to me multiple times whenever I wish for an LGBTQ detective novel and it was not a disappointment. In fact, everyone who loves detective fiction like Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes but gay needs to pick this book up immediately.
Roxane Weary is this bisexual private detective with a bit of a drinking problem, a penchant for relationship issues, and in dealing (or not dealing) with the loss of her father. She's nowhere near a perfect detective, she is very smart and has good intuition but she sometimes (most times) makes mistakes and is a human with a heart and emotions.
We open her life with her cop father, Frank, having had died on the job. Frank and Roxane had a very tumulous relationship - both being stubborn, headstrong and very into alcoholic beverages, and throughout Roxane's case, we see her having trouble mourning and coping with that loss. It's always on the back of her mind, despite her not wanting to deal with thoughts of him at all.
Roxane's case is brought upon by Danielle, whose brother, Brad, is on death row and she is contracted to find evidence that exonerates him before his execution date, but it's not that simple. In attempting to solve a fifteen-year-old seemingly open-and-shut case, Roxane is constantly stopped and blocked by the small town police where the crime took place and she manages to find leads where there are none. Every time Roxane wanted to even ask one question, the cops were all up in her business which was so frustrating to read because it was just one way in which she was stumped in her investigation. I just kept on being like What are they hiding?
I loved this "who can you trust" suspense going on. Every turn she takes is riddled with secrets and uncertainty, nothing clicks in her investigation. but even when she is at rock bottom (or at the bottom of a glass of whiskey, girl needs to chill with the drinks), Roxane is stubborn as her father. That is a facet of their personality that she has trouble assimilating but everyone who knew him always mentions because like father like daughter. It helps her continue to investigate since she just does not give up. While she's investigating, another girl goes missing and time is ticking. She wants to figure out what is going on with her case but also, she wants to find the next missing girl before it's too late and figure out how in the hell these cases are connected.
My thoughts on Roxane are as follows: I know she's a bit of a mess, grief will do that to you, but she is a cool badass detective that cares so so much. Even when the odds are against her and she is pushed against her limits, she does not let it stop her. The mystery had me at the edge of my seat and I was even feeling like her when more facts kept piling up but did not connect.
I was absolutely, without a doubt, rooting for her to figure out the truth and to end up okay by the end of her investigation. Her character is real and everything about her is honest and written with care. The climax of the story had me remembering an episode of Criminal Minds and it definitely brought up the tension that had been surrounding me since the beginning up to one hundred notches. Literally, this went from 0 to 100 real quick because it felt like an honest slow burn of a mystery since we are tripping through this investigation along with Roxane.
I also love how queer this is but like how normalized that aspect of her life is. There's no surprise, Roxane is bi and it's just a part of her life that we are privy to.
All in all, I am READY for the next installment of Roxane Weary's story. I love love love mystery novels and I already have my eye on book two AND book three (whoa, Scarllet, a series?? You, interested in actually completing a series? It's THAT good!!) ...more
Summers, Courtney *
Listen to the audiobook if you can. That last bit, with West and the music in the background as he was talking about Sadie? I got chills and I nearly Listen to the audiobook if you can. That last bit, with West and the music in the background as he was talking about Sadie? I got chills and I nearly sobbed in the library. Courtney Summers ruined me and I need some time to process :x ...more
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
Elison, Meg *
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Have nothing, be nothing, call my name, what is the echo of silence.
Firstly, that audiobook is amazing to listen to. Narrated by Angela Dawe, I recomm
Firstly, that audiobook is amazing to listen to. Narrated by Angela Dawe, I recommend listening to the audiobook because she truly brings this terrifying story to life. She sold me on audiobooks.
5 🌟! Just read it. Don't read this review, I'm mostly just rambling about my thoughts on the book and different parts of the book that I thought fascinating. There's so much to unpack here and all of it is perfection (not all of it will be brought up here but just know, I'm thinking of it).
The Unnamed Midwife: We follow this woman from the moment she wakes up in the empty hospital from her fever induced sickness, alive and unaffected but confused and alone. She goes to her place and instantly we are forced to bare witness to the insanity that is this new intense world where there are no rules. This fever affected both men and women but men got better while women and children did not.
Feminism and subversion of gender: i.e what it means to be a woman in a world where women are scarce, how the female body is used as a currency by men and as property, taking control of your body and your self plus there's also motherhood and trying to populate the world again.
Storytelling: this is major! I have a thing about storytelling as a way to wrap the story together but also it being used as a way to connect this empty landscape through history. The way that she journals her journey and then manages to collect more stories that turn into The Book of etc was fascinating.
The lack of identity/name: The Unnamed midwife names herself a handful of names for other people, not for herself. Yet we never learn her real name even in her journal to reflect the reality of not actually needing a name. Names are for the world before this fever, before so many deaths, before she was surviving and not actually living.
Not only those points but being human in an inhuman landscape and so many different things surrounding what I loved about this book.
This was intense and frightening and just brutal, okay. It's definitely a big way of putting a magnifying-glass kind of focus on the world as it stands. Also: the unnamed midwife is bi, we learn about the rest of the world and how they are fairing (not just America), there's this wild phenomenon that comes about because of the immense power that the surviving women can yield (the Hives, which woah intense), there's this focus on just surviving without hope of the future but also a big focus on history and rebuilding community (and how that is reflected in different types of ways). It's amazing and emotional and harsh. Truly, what a book! ...more
A Room Away From the Wolves
Suma, Nova Ren
I saw the whole city spread out before me, sinister and strange and perfect. I was someone here. I was someone.
This is my first Nova Ren Suma novel..
This is my first Nova Ren Suma novel.. and wow. This is one of my favorites of 2018. Being witness to her success even before I dove into her novels, getting to meet her and have her sign my book: it was truly an amazing experience.
Her beautiful, powerful writing is filled with ghosts and this mystery that elevates everything from 0 to 100... I just fell in love with A Room Away From the Wolves. I don't even know if I could do this book justice, mainly why it's taken me ages to attempt a review, but I just adored reading this weird book so so so much. Her writing just calls to me. 5 🌟's! ...more
A&B (Mechanical Hearts, #2)
Lillis, J.C. *
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The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #2)
False Notes (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, #3)
A Race Against Time (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, #2)
Without a Trace (Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, #1)
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #1)
Reed, Amy *
If you adored MTV's Sweet/Vicious and bemoaned it's untimely cancellation, boy, have I got a book for you. The Nowhere Girls is a brilliant book about If you adored MTV's Sweet/Vicious and bemoaned it's untimely cancellation, boy, have I got a book for you. The Nowhere Girls is a brilliant book about sexual assault, feminism, female friendships, victimhood, love, family, identity, you name it. This book has everything. Though a fair warning, this book is very heavy and pulls no punches. Amy Reed doesn't hide anything and rape is very much the forefront of the conversation and how women's bodies are seen in the eyes of men. She writes every issue so well, I could not put the book down.
There are multiple pov's: Grace (sweet Christian girl new to Prescott), Rosina (punk gay Mexican girl), and Erin (marine biology and Star Trek loving autistic girl). And FYI: I absolutely LOVE all three girls so much!!! All three amazing girls live different lives and have different types of family but somehow are a part of something big: The Nowhere Girls.
Dear friends and classmates:
Are you tired? Are you scared? Are you tired of being scared?
Are you ANGRY???
It's some powerful stuff right there. The Nowhere Girls starts because the town had failed Lucy Moynihan and because of this horrible "The Real Men of Prescott" site that posted misogynistic tips on women and how to assert power over them. It begins with an email and turns into secret meetings, discussions and ideas of posters and fliers. It turns into this movement bigger than anyone had expected. And not only do we get their pov's, but we also get the Us chapters that encapsulate the different women and girls in Prescott, Oregon. Showing how there's not just one way to be a woman.
**Also the romance is SO CUTE and the friendships are EVERYTHING. ...more
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
Sharpe, Tess *
This anthology is filled with stories and a cast of characters that carry so much weight and so much power. In average, my ratings ended up a whopping This anthology is filled with stories and a cast of characters that carry so much weight and so much power. In average, my ratings ended up a whopping 4.4 but I am not entirely sorry to give this whole book a 5 star rating. It was brilliant! The top four stories that I stan completely are Death in the Sawtooths, The One Who Stayed, The Gherin Girls, and Why They Watch Us Burn.
Starsong by Tehlor Kay Mejia: 4.5 🌟
The starsong is louder now, swelling in a way that says something's coming. Something bigger than just tonight. Buy maybe something steady. Something that doesn't have to make me feel afraid.
The cutest way to start off the anthology. It was fun to see technology and social media play a big role in a bruja's life. Like, a Latina who has an Insta with loads of followers? And she gets a sassy comment from a NASA loving girl? This f/f rep was adorable and sweet. I wish it was longer though!
Afterbirth by Andrea Cremer: 5 🌟
When dawn crept through the window, I had collected a treasure of hidden gems and stowed them in my mind.
The trial aspect of this story was so interesting and it's decidedly a witch story but I don't see it as played out or lacking.
The Heart in Her Hands by Tess Sharpe: 5 🌟
This is the thing about Bette: She will never let anyone control her again. Not even Fate Herself.
The basics of this story is this: Heteronormativity? Nope. This one is so creative and has one of my favorite types of tropes in stories: soulmate marks, like, how cool?? This one was strong for me and really, the quotation I chose speaks for how awesome this story is. It's about reclaiming control and power and choice. Plus f/f. Iconic.
Death in the Sawtooths by Lindsay Smith: 5++ 🌟
A person can tell you anything, but bones—those tell the truth.
What can I even say about this story? It includes the Lady of Slumber (death goddess) and a form of necromancy that people fear and ostracize because they fear death. It's so unique and dark and eye-catching. A lot of these stories include magic but aren't submerged into fantasy and this one is truly a fantastical merge of my favorite type of magic.
The Truth About Queenie by Brandy Colbert: 4 🌟
There's no negative energy in me or in this room. Just hope—and more belief in the power within me than I've ever had.
I really liked the idea of this story but the way it ended up being, left much to be desired. I wish there was less relationship drama and more magic, but at the same time it wasn't all bad of a read because I do like me some unrequited love angst.
The Moonapple Menagerie by Shveta Thakrar: 3 🌟
Pearl in hand, she reached into herself—past, present, and future—and cast the storytelling spell.
At first I skipped this one because I couldn't get into it and then I waited until I finished the book to go back to it. It was sweet. A whole witchy ensemble creating a play? Not knowing how to finish a story? Like relatable as hell. It was a cool concept but it didn't fully connect with me.
The Legend of Stone Mary by Robin Talley: 4.5 🌟
I forgive them, every one! I never meant to hurt them!
Witch and a witch hunter fall in love? Forgiveness to end a curse? F/F??? Sign me the hell up! I really enjoyed this one! I like the way Robin Talley crafts her stories and characters and this one was no different.
The One Who Stayed by Nova Ren Suma: 5++ 🌟
She didn't realize that all her roaring, living, breathing anger could create so much light.
I've been following Nova Ren Suma for a while but this is my first story of hers that I've read and I'm obsessed. This one was heavy and potentially triggering and so so so powerful. Her writing catches my attention and it's amazingly illuminating. A definite read in my book!!!!
Divine are the Stars by Zoraida Cordova: 5 🌟
"We become what we need," Marimar said, and though the stars were hidden, she knew they were listening.
I adore Zoraida's magical writing and her characters. The focus on family was strong for me; how dramatic family can be, how intense they can be, and it was part of the reason why I loved this one. Discovering your power and your strength is another reason why I loved this read.
Daughters of Baba Yaga by Brenna Yovanoff: 4 🌟
I was born to bury the saints in the yard.
This story shows us different ways witches weaponize their magic for revenge, to avenge. It took me a second to get immersed but when I did, I found it was a good story with a good message behind it.
The fact is that most of these stories are so well-written, even if they aren't your cup of tea, you can't fault that because this anthology is filled with amazing witchy goodness.
The Well Witch by Kate Hart: 5 🌟
She brought nothing but the water along behind her.
I kind of love this one a lot. It's a slightly Western story that managed to tug at my heartstrings through the intense characterization that Kate Hart blessed me with.
Beware of Girls With Crooked Mouths by Jessa Spotswood: 3 🌟
We have power that most women can't dream of, darling, but love—that's a luxury Campbell witches can't afford.
This story had a good start for me, seeing that this one had a premise of these witch sisters dealing with a curse. Not just any curse, but one that would turn a witch mad enough to murder her other sisters. A lot of magic and double-standards when it comes to the perceptions of others but it kind of fell flat for me at the end.
Love Spell by Anna-Marie McLemore: 3 🌟
I wondered how many hearts in this town held magic inside them. Knew it. Feared it.
The thing with McLemore's writing is that I don't seem mesh well with it, unfortunately. I know, I know. Everyone loves her stories, but I've read one of her novels and it soured me on her a bit. I did enjoy the story: a witch in love with an acolyte of the church. She writes love stories based on her own life so there is beautiful trans rep. But her type of magical realism isn't my style, though thankfully, it wasn't too sugary of a story for me.
The Gherin Girls by Emery Lord: 5++ 🌟
What a wonder—love that powerful, but so careful to never break anything in its path.
This story! Wow! Sisterly love that was reminiscent of the Halliwell sisters (Charmed) and of the Owens sisters (Practical Magic). I love how we not only get each sister's point of view, understanding where each sister was coming from, but we also get to feel their love for each other. It's a very character focused story (my absolute favorite kind) with a story that I want to hug to my chest. Plus there's Gnome, the cat, and well.. add a cat and the story ends up amazing imo.
The Only Way Back: This short story will not be in the finished copy so I am not rating this one.
Why They Watch Us Burn by Elizabeth May: 5++ 🌟
You understand the truth, though, don't you? The most terrifying thing in the world is a girl with power. That's why they watch us burn.
This one was a power way to end the anthology! This reflected how women have been viewed all throughout history: as witches, as temptresses. There's not only f/f rep but intense hope and intense power in connection and in standing tall. And I'm super glad they chose to end it in a bang because wow, okay! All the stars for this one! !!! I'm so speechless because of this one that I need a moment to let it fill my crevices and absorb thoroughly. SO. GOOD. ...more
Hutchinson, Shaun David *
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
4.5/5 🌟!
When I tell you I read We Are the Ants at the perfect time, I'm not being hyperbolic. I read this at a tremulous and shaky point, where I understood the heavy emotions radiating from this book and from every word written because I lived and still am living in it. It probably wasn't the wisest choice to read such a book last year while I was sensitive to the topic of depression and mental health but it really helped me feel like I was one hundred percent seen and understood.
Some parts (ahem, take a shot every time dicks are mentioned
It was beautiful and brutally honest. It's a book that will stay with me forever because even months later, I still have a visceral reaction to Hutchinson's prose and his bare honesty about humanity.
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goodreads: you finished we are the ants. what next?
me: uhm i'm a mess of emotions, i don't know what's next ! ...more
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
McGuire, Seanan *
My words haven't been working recently.. but this book shows that you don't need to say a lot to pack a hell of a punch.
Jane, Unlimited
Cashore, Kristin
The fact that this book has a Goodreads average rating of 3.37 is a travesty, a travesty I tell you. It's honestly one of my favorite books I've read The fact that this book has a Goodreads average rating of 3.37 is a travesty, a travesty I tell you. It's honestly one of my favorite books I've read in 2018 (so much a favorite that I pulled a reread a year later ^.^) I also got it signed and personalized!! 📚💓☂️ I really enjoyed this article on Jane, Unlimited. I rec reading that after checking out the book!!
Jane suddenly feels like a character in a novel by Edith Wharton or the Brontës. I'm a young woman of reduced circumstances, with no family and no prospects, invited by a wealthy family to their glamorous estate. Could this be my heroic journey?
Reading Jane, Unlimited was a journey through different types of genres with a variety of strange and mysterious characters in tow. I was SO enthralled from the first page to the last and I truly know that I'll come back to reread this story one day.
The basic premise revolves around Jane, or Janie, who dropped out of college after her aunt Magnolia died in Antarctica in one of her expeditions. Aunt Magnolia was a marine photographer — there's a lot of marine biology and deep-sea photographs threaded throughout. Umbrellas are also a big part of the plot, Janie has a thing about them. Creating them, designing them, loving them. They resemble jellyfish, don't they? (take a deep jellyfish breath, my most favorite phrase ever, from one anxious girl to another).
Janie deals with a lot of grieving and not knowing how to keep on, being lost in herself (which I found to be SO relatable and tugged at my heartstrings). She is invited by her rich, and equally as directionless, friend Kiran to her island home, Tu Reviens, and she agrees because she's in limbo and because her aunt had made her promise to go to Tu Reviens if she was ever invited. And that's where things take a turn for the weird and interesting.
Tu Reviens is a more than a mansion, more than a house. It's a being that has been created by different parts from all across the world. Janie meets and befriends a cast of characters, including:
Ravi, Karin's twin brother. He is all about the art and very charismatic.
Ivy, scrabble enthusiast. She is as quirky as Jane and forms an instant connection with her too.
Jasper, basset hound. He just won't leave Jane alone! Janie doesn't mind.. much.
And so many others that Janie just can't stop observing and trying to figure out.
I can't talk about the plot too much because I think this is one of those books that you have to just read without any knowledge of what is going to happen. Well, other than the fact that there is going to be some sort of genre-bending throughout the narrative... but even then, you just can't know how Kristin Cashore is spinning it until you're reading it and you're just like "WHAT IS HAPPENING?" There's intrigue and umbrellas and mystery and drama.
I just.. what a creative narrative! I was just so in awe whenever I opened the book up and realized the many levels within each subplot. Each path continuously adds information and you learn more and more about the lives of those who are staying in Tu Reviens and even aunt Magnolia herself. This story is definitely fantastical and so weird that all you can do in certain parts is laugh. By the end, though, I was holding the book to my chest, tears in my eyes, just in shock about things that happened at the beginning that make sense in the light of what is revealed to us. I was so emotional about Jane's journey in grieving for her aunt and trying to understand where it leaves her and what she is supposed to do.
I couldn't begin to tell you who my favorite character is (though Janie is a very formidable main character) or what my favorite path is (I won't even see the word Charlotte the same again) because I truly LOVED my ride and thought that every character added to the story.
The only real flaw that I could find, though, was the 'she says, he says' dialogue tags that sometimes took me out of the story. There wasn't much variety in the dialogue tags, which I noticed because it was so repetitive.
Other than that, I just recommend this book to anyone and everyone, and then once you're done, come gush with me about everything. This book healed something within me somehow and I'll forever treasure Jane, Unlimited for its strangeness and it's utter unabashed uniqueness.
Goodreads: You finished Jane, Unlimited. What's next?
Me: I don't know! I'm just so in love with this book, nothing can be next after this! ...more
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I loved this book so much I did a reread a couple months after my first read and yet again, I found myself sad to finish! Ghost Walk is certainly all I loved this book so much I did a reread a couple months after my first read and yet again, I found myself sad to finish! Ghost Walk is certainly all I've written below (amazing, awe-inspiring, funny, etc), but I didn't touch upon how hopeful it truly is. Hope and found family are both huge themes in this book and that is something we need more of in this world (especially now in this current climate).
As I was finishing my reread, I was smiling so hard, with tears in my eyes, just completely happy this book (and these characters) exists.
It comes as no surprise that I've rated Ghost Walk five amazing 🌟's, what with the wild emotional and fantastical ride that I was taken in these 800 pages. It's 800 pages worth of so much happening and so much character development and I never once felt like I was trudging along because I was so immersed in this story. The world-building is great, okay. People who are able to see ghosts and use the power of libris which in short is a magical way to seal ghosts and is so COOL!
Where do I even start?
Perhaps with Maaya Sahni--- one of the most well-written female character that I have had the pleasure of reading. She is only seventeen but had the world on her small shoulders, what with being able to see ghosts in a town where that gift is seen as a curse. Yet she continues on, even when she was so afraid for herself and her friends. She continued on even when forces beyond her control pushed her away through fear and hatred. Her bravery spoke to me so much, especially since her anxieties were explored so well as she communicated her fears to her friends. She contained multitudes within her and all I wanted was for everything to work out and for her to be wholly happy in her dreams of settling with her friends in a safe home. The friendships in it of itself really got to me. They were so well-written and powerful! The different voices for the cast of ghosts, pirates, friends, and everyone in between was brilliant.
How about Saber? With her hilarious but completely and utterly sappy self? And her amazing friendships with Maaya and the Ghost Hunters?
“Just curious: what happens when a ghost goes into a living room?”
Seriously, this is just one out of plenty quality jokes that happen when the Ghost Hunters and Saber connect.
The whole world could be burnt to ash and I wouldn’t be bothered, but… there are some people I’d prefer to stay alive, you know.” Saber got up before Maaya could answer, then floated quickly through the wall and out of sight. Maaya’s smile didn’t leave her face as she started getting dressed for the evening.
Maaya's friendship with Saber was so great to read and to experience because they really build themselves up and helped each other when needed i.e whenever Maaya needed a wingwoman or a great tough-love speech. Honestly, Maaya's friendships with Kim, Kalil and Sovaan a.k.a the Ghost Hunters, as well with Roshan, Adelaide and everyone else that she meets in her mission fell underneath the purest found-family trope ever and the found-family trope has to be my absolute favorite trope! Plus, the idea of kindness interspersed in the narrative to give Maaya hope even when it felt like there was none was so so so sweet to read. That's not to say I didn't shed a few tears... especially when I realized that I finished Ghost Walk. There was the perfect amount of angst and surprise mixed in with silliness and clutching-my-phone-to-my-chest-feels. And that leads to Adelaide Sol.
“Maaya,” Adelaide said warmly, and Maaya thought she had never heard her own name spoken in such a pleasant voice.
Adelaide, Adelaide, Adelaide. A bright sunshine that compliments strangers to befriend people and not be so shy. She's tall and confident, even when she's faking it. She's blunt and Captain of LSV Windfire. And SUCH a great friend to Maaya and Saber. I love her, let me just leave it at that!
Let me just add Rahu, the bane of my existence. We are showed how men like Rahu are the Worst because of the way they use their speech to negatively influence and sway people's minds/opinions. It was despicable how he understood people, used that understanding to capitalize on their fears and manipulated others to do his bidding. Here's something to hint as to his fate...
Adelaide whistled. “Oh, Maaya, that is beautiful. I do believe that qualifies as poetic justice.”
ALSO! No plot point is forgotten, every loose thread is tied up somehow, which I really liked. It's so clever and interesting. The only con I can think of is a couple of editing/spelling mistakes within the book. Plus a couple repetitive adverbs but it didn't minimize my enjoyment so it doesn't lose points for that, in my opinion. An addition to this: Kay Solo went back and made some edits based on comments made in reviews! I'm pretty glad she did so.
I'm not going to be leaving the world of Ghost Walk any time soon. And I'm not even sure I want to! I fell in love with the characters and the story, there's nothing better than that when it comes to reading!
And a couple of one liners from my status updates because why not: "shookth" "MY HEART" "oh man oh man oh MAN"
Addition: I'm including a neat-o graphic I made because it kind of makes me happy and excited :') I just love this book so much that I had to create this for tumblr!
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Reid, Taylor Jenkins *
It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love yo
It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.
5 ⭐'s! This book made me feel all of the emotions!!!!!
I felt for these characters and what they lived through during this time period, especially Evelyn Hugo. I always feel deeply for characters living in the 1930s-1950s when being exactly who they are and loving who their hearts choose is a dangerous act and may end with everything they wish for crumbling to pieces.
And the fact that this was historical fiction but read so realistic is a point to Reid. All the points, actually!!! Evelyn Hugo was nuanced for sure and you love her as her fans love her but also learn to see her as human and as someone with faults through Monique's narrative and her own. She is as human as you or me and Taylor Jenkins Reid succeeded in creating a multifaceted woman who does what she does to survive and to succeed.
True, I called a couple of things that were going to happen in the story but at the same time was surprised by twists that I never saw coming (which had me shook™)! I adored Evelyn Hugo's chapters so much more than Monique's present narrative, but that is a given because of the nature of Evelyn Hugo's story. We learn all about her ascent to stardom and how she got-shit-done using her womanly wiles and her exceptional wit. She played the long game even when she was abused and pushed against, her journey, even though she made some harsh choices were clear to see and we as readers can understand why she made those choices and the fear behind every choice.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is titled in such a way that one would think this book is straight as hell but nope! Reid plays with the reader's perception and makes it gay (i.e bi) as hell instead, which became an amazingly brilliant love-story that I just ADORED.
Everyone raves about this one and the hype is REAL -- I recommend it 100%!! ...more
Making a Tinderbox (The Tinderbox Tales, #1)
Sterner-Radley, Emma *
My first book of 2018 and its a five 🌟 read!! What an enchanting world, with even more breathtaking and magical characters. I just love Elise and Ness My first book of 2018 and its a five 🌟 read!! What an enchanting world, with even more breathtaking and magical characters. I just love Elise and Nessa's progression, their friendship was strong from the beginning which only led to an amazing romance. I loved the pining and the jealousy that Elise was dealing with when she believed her love was unrequited. The friendships that the girls gained was sweet to me, I love supporting characters that aren't just flat. I absolutely wish that sugar pumpkins were real because I could just imagine how amazing and delightful the scent must be ♡ Such beautiful descriptions and a beautiful world. The angst between them was a little jarring I do have to say, just because it was a little harsh after they spent the night together.. but it was resolved so nicely and yes so realistically that it didn't bring down my enjoyment of Making A Tinderbox. ...more
Girl Reporter
Roberts, Tansy Rayner *
I just love superhero stories so right off the bat, I was excited for this read. Girl Reporter offered a non-superhero and a millenial reporter's view I just love superhero stories so right off the bat, I was excited for this read. Girl Reporter offered a non-superhero and a millenial reporter's view on a world filled with this machine that churned out superheroes with powers and a new name.
5 🌟 for the way the author included Friday's privilege and for the excess snark and snips that made me laugh. It was a fun and easy read that made me excited! ...more
Magic, Murder & Mistletoe
Jane, Ellen *
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This is really That™ book, truly. What a lovely short read, just in time for the holidays. the romance was just perfect and realistic -- who doesn't l This is really That™ book, truly. What a lovely short read, just in time for the holidays. the romance was just perfect and realistic -- who doesn't love that bed sharing trope. Sinéad being so soft to Heather is my favorite thing and the magic was to die for. I have a soft spot for magical worlds and this sort of magical realism: talking wallpaper, talking cookies; it made me want to slow down and take in this world but at the same time read as fast as I can. ...more
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
I'm going to keep reading and rereading my favorite fragments ♡
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Architecture Full-Concrete Cabin Inspired By An Old Barn In The Swiss Alps
Full-Concrete Cabin Inspired By An Old Barn In The Swiss Alps
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Cheers! World of Beer opens in Canton
It's the only World of Beer in Michigan and it has opened its doors in Canton, offering hundreds of different beers
Cheers! World of Beer opens in Canton It's the only World of Beer in Michigan and it has opened its doors in Canton, offering hundreds of different beers Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/money/business/2016/10/24/cheers-world-beer-opens-canton-canton-michigan/92682460/
Darrell Clem, hometownlife.com Published 8:42 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2016 | Updated 8:53 p.m. ET Oct. 24, 2016
World of Beer opens
Susan and Richard Urban of Canton enjoying a Sea Dog Wild Blueberry, a Brooklyn Brewing Sorachi Ace, and a sausage and cheese board. Bill Bresler | staff photographer
Ashlee Harwell infuses Atwater Brewery Dirty Blonde with thyme and orange. Bill Bresler | staff photographer
Jennifer Ling carries two flights of beer to customers. Bill Bresler | staff photographer
World of Beer is open in Canton. Bill Bresler | staff photographer
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Kris Rufino, pouring for customers. Bill Bresler | staff photographer
Jennifer Ling carries two flights of beer to customers.(Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer)Buy Photo
Pour the beer and they will drink it.
A steady flow of thirsty customers Monday poured into World of Beer in Canton — the company's only Michigan tavern — and chose among 550 bottled brews and 50 beers on tap.
Thirst no more.
The drought for beer from about 30 countries had ended on an October day that was warm enough for some patrons to choose the patio.
Richard Urban of Canton sipped a Brooklyn Sorachi Ace while wife Susan opted for the Sea Dog Wild Blueberry, a wheat ale. They shared a serving board of spicy sausage and cheese.
"It's very good — nice and mellow," Susan Urban said of her beer.
Her husband said his Belgian-style beer had a slightly sweet, potent taste without being overpowering.
Working on the perfect pour. (Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer)
"Finally, Canton got it right for once," he said. "This place is long overdue. I think it's going to be very successful."
Tim Hackett of Canton arrived just before the 11 a.m. opening — among the day's first customers — and still sat on a bar stool just after 5 p.m., marveling over 12 large-screen TVs mounted on brick walls. He rode his bicycle to WOB, on Ford west of Lilley, and paced himself for opening day.
"I'm always (one of) the first customers at every new bar in Canton," Hackett said. "This is a beautiful bar."
While most of WOB's brews are craft beers, he joked that he was having "craft Miller Lite" because his taste buds prefer longtime beers that survive the latest trend.
Sitting next to him, Jamie Benaglio of Farmington Hills sipped on a Sea Dog Wild Blueberry as she explained she wasn't a stranger to World of Beer, having worked at a former WOB location in Ann Arbor that morphed into another bar because it simply didn't have enough space to accommodate a kitchen.
That makes Canton the company's only Michigan tavern, though Matthew Valentino, general manager, said a location could open by mid-December in Woodhaven. He and Canton WOB owner Chad Wilson bustled about the tavern as the crowd of customers shrugged off the Monday workday.
Ashlee Harwell infuses Atwater Brewery Dirty Blonde with thyme and orange. (Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer)
"I'm elated," Valentino said of getting the Canton WOB open. "I'm absolutely ecstatic."
Wilson said opening day marked the culmination of a dream that began more than a year ago to bring World of Beer to Canton. WOB is not a brewery, but Wilson said he is optimistic its vast selection of beer and diverse menu will draw a customer base from a 10-mile radius.
"We're very excited and very happy to bring this to Canton," Wilson said.
Canton World of Beer employs about 70 workers and has 6,000 square feet of space, including a patio that Wilson said should be enclosed by mid-December.
"It's going to be 80 degrees in the middle of January on that patio," he said.
WOB's parking lot had nearly filled at 5 p.m., indicating a strong interest in the tavern's opening. WOB employee Iviss Belaya came from Coconut Creek, Fla., to help train the Canton WOB workforce. She said it's among the nicest WOB sites she has seen.
World of Beer is open in Canton. (Photo: Bill Bresler | staff photographer)
"I can tell you right off the bat that this will be a successful store," Belaya said.
World of Beer's hours are 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. For more on the company, which has some 80 locations, go to https://worldofbeer.com/.
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Larry King & Cannon: School Day Stroll
October 23, 2011 Celebrity
CNN host Larry King was spotted with his 11-year-old son Cannon Edward on Friday (October 21) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The Larry King Live host – who was minus older son Chance, 12 – lovingly put his arm around his son as they took a leisurely after school stroll.
The 77-year-old television host recently tweeted about his CNN interview with Rum Diaries star Johnny Depp.
“Very excited 4 my intvw w/ Johnny Depp tonight @ 8pmET on CNN. Hear why Johnny called himself “box office poison!”
And incase you missed the original air date:
“If you missed it, my special with the incredible Johnny Depp will repeat this Saturday @ 8pET & 5pPT on @CNN !
Photos: GSI Media
Source: Larry King & Cannon: School Day Stroll
Jennifer Garner: Coffee Break In Beverly Hills
Jennifer Garner took a break from her busy day and stopped in at a Coffee Bean in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday (October 18). As she was exiting it looks like she paused to give directions to a passerby.
The Valentine’s Day actress was dressed casually in jeans and a billowy shirt that barely covered her growing baby bump.
It was family day for the Garner-Afflecks this past weekend as Jennifer and husband Ben Affleck were spotted with their adorable daughters Seraphina, 2, and Violet, 5, at a farmer’s market in Brentwood.
Photos: Flynet
Source: Jennifer Garner: Coffee Break In Beverly Hills
Viola Davis & Husband Adopt A Daughter: Genesis!
October 18, 2011 Celebrity / News
It’s a girl for Viola Davis and her husband Julian Tennon! Just two months after announcing her plans to adopt, the star of The Help is now mom to a baby girl named Genesis.
The happy news came courtesy not of Viola herself, but of her friend Octavia Spencer. During a speech honoring Viola, 46, at last night’s ELLE Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles, Octavia gushed that the star had become a mom “like, two days ago.”
Viola later confirmed the announcement, revealing that her new daughter’s name is Genesis.
The couple revealed their adoption plans at August’s Beverly Hills premiere of The Help: “We don’t have any children [together], but we’re about to adopt a baby,” Julian said at the time.
Congratulations to them on their new addition!
Photos: Bauer Griffin
Source: Viola Davis & Husband Adopt A Daughter: Genesis!
Taylor Armstrong: I’m Thankful To Be Here For My Daughter
Months after the startling suicide of her estranged husband, Russell, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Taylor Armstrong is opening up about her troubled marriage and the domestic violence that she says could have led to her own death.
“If cameras were not in my life, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t be sitting here today,” Armstrong tells KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, adding that if the Bravo reality show weren’t filming at the time, it’s possible that her 5-year-old daughter, Kennedy, could have been involved in the violent events that took place.
I’m thankful to be here especially for my daughter,” says Armstrong. “Imagine if she had two less parents instead of one.”
Taylor, who’s spoken out against domestic violence for years, believes that she pursued a spot on Housewives “subconsciously,” to shed a spotlight on her personal problems, telling the network, “I was handed a very specific mission, by the grace of God, through a tragedy.”
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For The Love Of Good Sleep, Stop Using A Top Sheet
They are trying to sabotage your night.
By Danielle Tullo
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Top Sheet (n): A flat linen that starts tucked into your bed and ends in a crumpled disaster, exposing your feet to the air in the middle of the night and creating more work for you in the morning.
I have a lot of feelings about top sheets, also known as flat sheets, also known as the useless linen that comes with the rest of your bedding set and might as well get thrown in the trash immediately. That might be a little harsh, I don't throw them out. But I do have a shelf in my apartment where all of my top top sheets go to die. They only come back from the dead when I have guests (that I don't like) spend the night on my couch.
Listen, I won't argue that these long pieces of fabric don't have some purpose. They're meant to be a barrier between you and your comforter because we're all kind of sweaty and sweat means fungal which means germs, and, well, you get it. But, really, I'd rather wash my duvet or comforter on the regular than deal with the daily struggle of a top sheet. Plus, that thing only makes you sweat more. It's really just a trap.
Have two people ever slept comfortably in the same bed with a flat sheet? I'd argue that no, they have not. It goes like this: Two people go to bed comfortably underneath one top sheet. As the night goes on, one person (or maybe both) starts to get sweaty and one (or maybe both) starts to toss and turn. The formerly tucked sheet comes undone and decides to trap one partner. At that point, the other person gets cold and begins playing a classic game of top sheet-tug-of-war. Eventually, the person who was taken in by the sheet realizes they are sweaty and unable to move their limbs and they decide to kick it off until it's in a ball at the bottom of the bed.
All top sheets really do is create extra work in your day-to-day life. When you're making your bed in the morning, you have to get the wrinkled and disheveled linen to cooperate and tuck it back in to place. When you're sleeping, it disrupts you and makes you wake up because it either fell off in your sleep and now you're shivering or it's wrapped so tightly around your body you are a top sheet burrito. There is zero consistency.
So, for the love of sleeping well at night and not waking up at 3 a.m. because your top sheet came untucked and now your feet are suddenly exposed, do not use one. Place it on a shelf and take it out when someone you're not totally crazy about invites themselves to stay for the holidays. It'll be their disaster to deal with.
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Sabarimala Temple Row: 'Derogatory Comments' On Women Costs Indian Man His Job In Saudi
Deepak Pavithram, a Keralite working with Lulu Hypermarket in Riyadh, was sacked on Tuesday.
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Deepak Pavithram was fired for his remarks on women.
DUBAI — An Indian man in Saudi Arabia has been fired from his job for posting "derogatory comments" on women, amid the Sabarimala temple row, a media report said Wednesday.
Deepak Pavithram, a Keralite working with Lulu Hypermarket in Riyadh, was sacked on Tuesday for making misogynistic and insensitive remarks about women on social media.
"We have a strict and zero tolerance policy with regard to our staff misusing social media to spread malicious or derogatory comments which might hurt religious sentiments," V Nandakumar, Chief Communications Officer at Lulu Group, told Khaleej Times.
"All GCC nations are home to a large cosmopolitan population from almost all countries in the world and we respect their sentiments, culture and religious beliefs," Nandakumar said.
Kerala expats in the Gulf took to social media to express their appreciation for Yusuff Ali M A, chairman and managing director of Lulu Group, for taking a strong step against the derogatory remarks, the report said.
This is the second termination in recent times by the Indian-owned retail giant on similar grounds.
In August, they had terminated the services of a Keralite expat in Oman after he posted distasteful comments about flood victims in Kerala.
The company took action against him even though he had apologised for the remarks the next day.
The Supreme Court on September 28 had ruled that women will be allowed entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala.
The temple opened its door for all women visitors of all age groups for the first time on Wednesday after the historic apex court ruling last month.
Tension prevailed Wednesday morning in Kerala's Nilackal, the main gateway to Sabarimala, after the police used force to disperse protestors opposing the entry of girls and women of menstrual age into the hill shrine.
The temple would be closed on October 22 after the five-day monthly prayer during the Malayalam month of Thulam.
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New Suez Canal opening in August 2015
by Trishelle Budhoo | Jul 14, 2015 | News | 0 comments
In a new update, Gard P&I Club analyzed the implication of the upcoming opening of the new Suez Canal, on global trade. It also cautioned owners on what to watch out for.
The new Suez Canal which is due to open on 6 August 2015 will increase the capacity of the existing canal allowing ships to pass north and south concurrently. A new canal will be created, parallel to the existing one, to cope with the expected growth of world trade.
Due to the lack of reliable navigational data prior to the opening of the new canal, Gard has recently received a number of enquiries from Members and clients about potential risks connected with the transit and navigation through the new Suez channel.
According to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), the long term goal is to increase the daily average of transiting vessels to 97 ships by the year 2023, up from 49 ships at present, to achieve direct unstopped transit for 45 ships in both directions, and increasing the permissible draft to 66 feet all through the Suez Canal. The 72-kilometre project includes a new 37-kilometre long parallel waterway, as well as deepening the current canal to 24m and expansion of the existing Suez Canal along a 35-kilometre stretch. By facilitating traffic of larger ships in both directions and minimising waiting times for transiting ships, the number of ships that the Canal can handle on a daily basis will increase. The transit times will be shortened from 18-22 hours to 11 hours and the waiting times for vessels will become 3 hours at most instead of today’s 8-11 hours. Two-way traffic will not be possible along the entire canal. There will be a long section with two-way traffic but passing places will be built on other sections with one-way traffic. The two canals will be connected by four smaller waterways. Ships will continue to use the canal in convoys but the convoys will be much longer.
Members and clients transiting the new canal should note the following;
Gard is presently not aware of any problems or specific dangers when transiting the new Suez Canal. According to the SCA no vessel will be allowed to pass through the waterway unless it is secure. However, no instructions or navigational warnings have so far been published by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA); http://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/nc.aspx.
According to our correspondent, El Hamamsy Marine Services Ltd in Egypt, no records of any safety/security issues or threats of any kind to the transiting of the Suez Canal have been made. There are no fixed transit schedules due to the new Suez Canal project. Members and clients should monitor the SCA website prior to entrance (http://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/)
According to a notice received from the SCA dated 13 July 2015, Masters of vessels transiting the Suez Canal are requested to submit a signed and stamped letter of undertaking, confirming that there are no weapons onboard. The letter must be among the documents submitted prior to Canal transit, as otherwise the vessel will not be allowed for transit.
Gard will monitor the situation and provide further information when available prior to or after the opening.
Source: Gard
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Gameloft previews Modern Combat 4 ‘Meltdown’ update, coming Wednesday
Christian Zibreg on June 17, 2013
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour made its way into the App Store last December and today French developer Gameloft is teasing a forthcoming update. Titled ‘Meltdown,’ the content update is of course free to players who bought the game and will be available on iOS starting Thursday, June 19, and “coming very soon” to Android.
The trailer included right below the fold mentions three new maps (Fracture, Extraction and Backfire), two new game modes and a brand new specialization (Demolition)…
Oh, and there will be two new weapons, the portable 40mm Thor GLP grenade launcher and the SFS CTK-12 sniper rifle.
From YouTube description:
Get ready to be blown away by Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour’s Meltdown update. Discover tons of explosive new content: New maps from Antarctica to Barcelona, new modes, new weapons, and a new Demolition specialization!
Earlier, Modern Combat 4’s first update brought us the Tygr X3 automatic SMG and the Compakt-665 solid multipurpose automatic assault rifle.
Modern Combat 4, as the name implies, is the fourth installment in Gameloft’s widely successful first-person shooter series. Powered by the new Havok Engine, the game delivers life-like animations, dynamic objects and console-quality visuals.
Perhaps most importantly, there’s a redesigned multiplayer mode with all-new ranking and a new loadout system with more than 20,000 weapon arrangements.
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour will set you back seven bucks via Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play store. In the case of Apple’s platform, the universal binary weighs in at a massive 1.54GB.
If you’re a fan of the genre, you may also want to check out an E3 trailer for the upcoming Modern Combat 5.
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Synaptics acquiring iPhone display chipmaker Renesas SP Drivers for $475 million
by Cody Lee on June 11, 2014 — no comment yet
As expected, touchscreen chipmaker has announced that it will be buying Renesas SP Drivers, the sole supplier of display chips for the iPhone. The deal is said to be worth $475 million—around the same price Apple was rumored to bid for the company earlier this year.
For those unfamiliar with Renesas, it’s a joint venture between Powerchip and Sharp that specializes in building LCD drivers for small and mid-sized LCD panels. These chips determine a display’s quality, and typically account for around 10% of a device’s battery usage…
Synaptics beats Apple to the punch on Renesas SP Drivers acquisition
by Christian Zibreg on May 27, 2014 — 6 comments
Apple has failed to follow through with its rumored acquisition of the chipmaker Renesas Electronics’ mobile display chip division, Renesas SP Drivers. Reuters reported Tuesday that the iPhone maker has definitely lost its bid to acquire Renesas to Synaptics, a company that builds touchpads and touchscreens for an array of mobile and desktop devices.
The development is especially newsworthy given that Synaptics was once an Apple supplier (the company is not listed on Apple’s list of 2014 suppliers). Basically, this means that the powerful consumer electronics powerhouse has gotten outbid by one of its former suppliers…
Rumor: Apple buying Renesas SP Drivers to improve iPhone battery life and image sharpness
by Christian Zibreg on April 1, 2014 — 10 comments
The Japanese business site Nikkei is reporting that Apple is in discussions with chipmaker Renesas Electronics concerning taking over their division that builds mobile display chips, Renesas SP Drivers.
The deal should enable Tim Cook & Co. to bring another technological piece under their roof and help Apple’s engineers “improve image sharpness and battery life” on iPhones.
Renesas Electronics is included on the official list of Apple’s suppliers. Apple is known for investing in its partners and suppliers when it makes sense. For instance, the company holds a ten percent stake in UK’s fabless semiconductor maker Imagination Technologies which provides blueprints for GPUs used in iOS devices…
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Arts & Entertainment By Jasmine Rodriguez | Wed Jun 20, 2018 | 12:00am
Kanye West’s Unfiltered New Album
‘Ye’ Combines Stripped-Down Instrumentals and Raw Lyrics
In the wake of the tumultuous chaos between Kanye West and the media, the rapper released Ye, his eighth studio album. While West’s 2016 album, The Life of Pablo, was full of experimental earworms and countless collaborations, Ye takes an unfiltered approach, symbolized by the stripped-down instrumentals on the album and the raw lyrical content. On Ye, West sheds his egotistical tendencies, revealing a sense of self-awareness that delves deep into his demons, which is exemplified on the album’s first track, “I Thought About Killing You,” on which West reveals the bleak thoughts raging in his brain. He manages to destigmatize his bipolar disorder by framing it as a superpower in the hard-hitting song “Yikes.” West proves his innovativeness as a producer by providing melodic explorations via lo-fi synths and eccentric Slick Rick and Black Savage samples. Throughout the album, West sprinkles his infamous punchlines that make listeners pause for two seconds and think, “Did he really just say that?” For example, on “All Mine,” West raps, “If I pull up with a Kerry Washington, that’s gon’ be an enormous scandal.” Despite Kanye’s controversial actions, and fans’ desire to have the “old Kanye back,” Ye is a monumental progression in his catalog as it paints the internal struggle of an outspoken, unorthodox figure.
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Golkonda Aluminium Extrusions Ltd Auditors Report.
TO THE MEMBERS
GOLKONDA ALUMINIUM EXTRUSIONS LIMITED
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of Golkonda Aluminium Extrusions Limited ("the Company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st March 2018, the Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), Statement of Changes in Equity and the Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, and a summary of the significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Managements Responsibility for the Financial Statements
The Companys Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance including Other Comprehensive Income, cash flows and change in equity of the Company in accordance with the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) prescribed under Section 133 of the Act, read with the Companies(Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, and other accounting principles generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditors Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
In conducting our Audit, we have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder and the other Order issued under section 143(1) of the Act.
We conducted our audit of the financial statements in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under Section 143(10)of the Act. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and the disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors judgment including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Companys preparation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An audit also includes evaluating he appropriateness of the accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Companys Directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.
In our opinion, and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the accompanying financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Ind AS and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March 2018, and its profit, total comprehensive income, the changes in equity and its cash flows for the year ended on that date.
Emphasis of Matters
We draw your attention to the following matters in the Notes to the financial Statements
Note No. 3.42 in the Notes to the financial statements regarding 10% Cumulative Redeemable Optionally Convertible Preference Shares (CRCPS) where preference shareholders have not exercised the conversion option and the Company has not made provision for unpaid dividends. Such Preference Shares have been shown as part of Equity (under Other Equity) and have not been categorized as Financial Liabilities.
Our opinion is not qualified in respect of this matter.
Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2016 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the Annexure A, a statement on the matters specified in the paragraph 3 and 4 of the order.
2. As required by Section 143 (3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit ;
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books ;
(c) The Balance Sheet, the Statement of Profit and Loss including Other Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity and the Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account ;
(d) in our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act;
(e) on the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on 31st March, 2018 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31st March, 2018 from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164 (2) of the Act ;
(f) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in "Annexure B". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Companys internal financial controls over financial reporting ; and
(g) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
(i) The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its financial statements in accordance with the generally accepted accounting practice Refer Note 3.20 to the financial statements;
(ii) The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivative contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses;
(iii) There has been no delay in transferring amounts, required to be transferred, to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
For Kapoor Jain & Associates,
Chartered Accountants,
Firm Registration No.: 015689N
New Delhi Sunil Kapoor
30th May, 2018 Partner
Membership No. 085666
Annexure A to the Auditors Report
The Annexure referred to in Independent Auditors Report to the members of the Company on the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018, we report that:
(i). a. The Company is maintaining proper records showing full particulars, including quantitative details and situation of fixed assets.
b. There is a phased programme of physical verification of the fixed assets, which in our opinion, is reasonable having regard to the size of the Company and the nature of its assets. However since the production is closed since July 2013 and it is unlikely to do the physical verification on a regular interval. Further company has sold substantially whole of its assets.
c. The Company does not have any immovable property, accordingly, para 3(i)(c) of the order are not applicable.
(ii) There is no inventory accordingly, para 3(ii) of the order are not applicable.
(iii)The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured to companies, firms, Limited Liability Partnerships or other parties covered in the register maintained under Section 189 of the Companies Act, 2013. Accordingly, para 3(iii) (a), (b) and (c) of the order are not applicable.
(iv) The Company has not granted any loans, made investments and provided guarantees and securities to parties covered under section 185 and section 186 of the Companies Act.
(v) According to the information and explanations given to us, the company has not accepted any deposits from the public within the meaning of Section 73 to 76 or any other relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 and the rules framed there under.
(vi) According to the information and explanation given by the company, the Central government has not specified maintenance of cost records under sub-section (1) of section 148 of Companies act 2013.Further production is closed since July 2013.Therefore clause (vi) of Paragraph 3 of the order is not applicable
(vii)According to the information and explanations given to us, in respect of statutory dues:
a. The company is generally regular in depositing with appropriate authorities undisputed statutory dues including Provident Fund, Employees State Insurance, Income Tax, Goods and Service Tax, Sales Tax, Service Tax, Customs duty, Excise duty, Value Added Tax, Cess and other material statutory dues applicable to it with the appropriate authorities.
b. There are no dues of Income Tax, Sales Tax, Service Tax, Customs duty, Excise duty, Value Added Tax which have not been deposited as on 31st March, 2018 with the appropriate authorities on account of any dispute except as under:
(Amount in Rs.)
Act Relevant Year Income under dispute (Rs.) Forum where dispute is pending
Income Tax A.Y. 2010-11 3,83,31,381 Commissioner of Income-Tax (Appeal)
Income Tax A.Y. 2013-14 3,16,39,704 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal
Sales Tax F.Y. 2001-02 4,84,54,376 Andhra Pradesh High Court
Entry Tax F.Y. 2012-13 1,82,717 Commercial Tax Officer
(viii)According to the information and explanation given to us, there is no amount repayable to bank and financial institutions as at balance sheet date. Accordingly, paragraph 3 (viii) of the Order is not applicable.
(ix) The Company did not raise any money by way of initial public offer or further public offer (including debt instruments) and term loans during the year. Accordingly, paragraph 3 (ix) of the Order is not applicable.
(x) According to the information and explanations given to us, no material fraud by the Company or on the Company by its officers or employees has been noticed or reported during the course of our audit.
(xi) According to the information and explanations give to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, the Company has paid/provided for managerial remuneration in accordance with the requisite approvals mandated by the provisions of section 197 read with Schedule V to the Act.
(xii) In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the Company is not a Nidhi company. Accordingly, paragraph 3(xii) of the Order is not applicable.
(xiii) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, transactions with the related parties are in compliance with sections 177 and 188 of the Act where applicable and details of such transactions have been disclosed in the financial statements as required by the applicable accounting standards.
(xiv) According to the information and explanations give to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, the Company has not made any preferential allotment or private placement of shares or fully or partly convertible debentures during the year.
(xv) According to the information and explanations given to us and based on our examination of the records of the Company, the Company has not entered into non-cash transactions with directors or persons connected with him. Accordingly, paragraph 3(xv) of the Order is not applicable.
(xvi) The Company is not required to be registered under section 45-IA of the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934.
Annexure - B to the Auditors Report
Report on the Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting under Clause (i) of Subsection 3 of Section 143 of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act")
We have audited the internal financial controls over financial reporting of Golkonda Aluminium Extrusions Limited ("the Company") as of 31 March, 2018 in conjunction with our audit of the Ind AS financial statements of the Company for the year ended on that date.
Managements Responsibility for Internal Financial Controls
The Companys management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal financial controls based on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). These responsibilities include the design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls that were operating effectively for ensuring the orderly and efficient conduct of its business, including adherence to companys policies, the safeguarding of its assets, the prevention and detection of frauds and errors, the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, and the timely preparation of reliable financial information, as required under the Companies Act, 2013.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the internal financial controls over financial reporting of the Company based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting (the "Guidance Note") issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Standards on Auditing prescribed under Section 143(10) of the Companies Act, 2013, to the extent applicable to an audit of internal financial controls.
Those Standards and the Guidance Note require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether adequate internal financial controls over financial reporting was established and maintained and if such controls operated effectively in all material respects.
Our audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the adequacy of the internal financial controls system over financial reporting and their operating effectiveness. Our audit of internal financial controls over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal financial controls over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. The procedures selected depend on the auditors judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Companys internal financial controls system over financial reporting.
Meaning of Internal Financial Controls over Financial Reporting
A companys internal financial control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A companys internal financial control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorisations of management and directors of the company; and
(3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorised acquisition, use, or disposition of the companys assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Limitations of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting
Because of the inherent limitations of internal financial controls over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of the internal financial controls over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the internal financial control over financial reporting may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the Company has, in all material respects, an adequate internal financial controls system over financial reporting and such internal financial controls over financial reporting were operating effectively as at 31 March 2018, based on the internal control over financial reporting criteria established by the Company considering the essential components of internal control stated in the Guidance Note on Audit of Internal Financial Controls Over Financial Reporting issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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Stephen Christian of Anberlin
October 28, 2018 By Brandon J. in Interviews, News | 2 Comments
An Interview With Stephen Christian of Anberlin
Written by: Brandon Jones
It’s been quite a while since I’ve interviewed you Stephen for Indie Vision Music. Fans are eager to hear the latest news on not just Anberlin, but about your life as well. So let’s get started
Brandon J. Tell me a little bit of what you’ve been up to the past 4+ years since Anberlin called it quits. You’ve released some Anchor & Braille material, a “solo” album and guested on some other band recordings also. What has that experience been like?
Stephen: It has been a roller coaster as far as music has been concerned. After first quitting the band I wanted nothing to do with music. I wanted to just hide out for tour buses and studios. As time went on I saw that the industry was a part of me. Songwriting was second nature and I had to indulge in both.
A&B was so much fun. I had a chance to work with my friend Ryan Bernal on the record “Songs for the Late Night Drive Home”. Honestly it is in my Top 3 favorite records I have ever put out, but I still didn’t want to tour.
Life on the other side was even better than how imagined it to be. I have time, I have energy, I have passions once again. Music is more than a paycheck, it’s a passion again.
Brandon J. Do you have a particular fondness for one project or another? How well received was the “solo” worship album last this past year? Has it opened doors for you to sing about your Faith in an open and revealing manner? Do you still play at local Churches with your music?
Stephen: The album was received well, not great. I think people expected it to be Anberlin with blatantly Christian worship lyrics and that wasn’t it at all. Those were songs that I wrote for Word Publishing but after writing them I felt like they were my story, my songs. So I just put them out under my name and called it “Wildfire”, on the label “BEC”.
Currently I am recording an ep in the same vein but better songs, production, and direction.
Brandon J. It has been recently revealed that Anberlin will play some sort of comeback show in December alongside your friends, Underoath. What has led to this collaboration?
Stephen: No COMEBACK, ANBERLIN IS DEAD. This is not a reunion but a reconciliation. We may do another show or tour down the road but we are not reforming. Like I said, we all love life on the other side of the band. No amount of money or cool experiences could draw us back in to who we used to be.
Underoath (Tim) reached out to Anberlin (his brother in law Nate) and came up with the idea. We had slowly been rekindling our friendships and it just seemed like a great way to end (?) the conclusion chapter of the book.
Brandon J. What has drawn you guys out of retirement and back on stage(s)?
Stephen: As Christian put it ‘Reformation, Reconciliation, Amendment, & A Correction’
Brandon J. Everyone is asking, will this be a permanent reunion? Is it a reunion even at all? Will NEW music be in your sights for 2019?
Stephen: No, No, & As of Now NO
Brandon J. If you do get back together and see how things go, performing again for fans and recording potential new music, will a label participate in promoting Anberlin or will you guys be going the independent crowd funding path? I noticed that T&N has shared your reunion show message, will that be the label you choose to work with moving forward?
Stephen: I am not sure we are going to record new music. If we did, it is because the people want it. We are not in the business of making this an occupation. We are in this for the past and the present. We are not trying to make this our future.
Brandon J. It has been nearly 5 years since Anberlin chose to end it. What message do you want to share with the world and fans now that you couldn’t do before during the heyday of the band? Is there a different approach to the band that you want to take now that you couldn’t before?
Stephen: I think the message is the same. Do what you love and love what you do, no matter if you are at the height of your career or it is not even off the ground. The approach is very different because we are not looking to get massive, sign a huge deal, tour extensively for years to come, etc. This is more on our time table. We don’t have mouths to feed like we did then (lawyers, MGMT, Techs, Merch Dudes, etc.)
Brandon J. How are the other members of Anberlin reacting to this new found love of performing again? Are they as excited as you to step on stage and blow people’s minds?
Stephen: They are very excited. I don’t think all of us were ready to get off the road when we did so this is going to be incredible. I actually think that we will be better performers than when we left because the fire will be back in our chests.
Brandon J. The members of Anberlin have all got their own individual bands/projects that they’ve been pursuing after the break up. Will those projects continue and what influence will their projects play on any “new” music you create? Will there be a return to the harder edge sounds of “Never Take Friendship Personal” and “Cities” or a mix of all styles found in your diverse discography
Stephen: I think they will all continue. Carrolhood has been playing out a lot recently, as well as Loose Talk. I believe they will continue just as strong. As for Joey, he is still producing in Austin, TX. with no hopes of touring at all. I know next year will be a big year for me. I just signed to First Company Management and plan to speak/play out frequently.
Brandon J. What album from your past do you feel best represents the future of this new Anberlin? What still remains a “Favorite” release that you all collectively worked on years ago? What songs are your favorite to play and perform on?
Stephen: I have no clue, I have been told “Lowborn” aged well, I am not sure. I know for sure if we are going to do it, we want it to be heavier. That’s what we were good at, that’s the energy we want at shows.
Brandon J. With so much division and a clashing of cultures not to mention unnecessary hate, what message do you want to take into this world? What voice do you feel that Anberlin has in this broken world we live in?
Stephen: I think if you asked every member of the band, we would have many different answers. For me personally, I want to be the light. I want to inspire others to move forward in their life, loves, and Faith. To me there is nothing more important I could preach from the platform I have been given.
Brandon J. Politics are such a touchy word and one that causes instant annoyance with people. How does the music of Anberlin play a part in this diverse political landscape we are a part of? Anything you would like to convey to people or share?
Stephen: I despise how that we as a generation are more known by what we hate rather than what we love, who we are against as opposed to who we are for. It breaks my heart to see the great divide. We are not The United States of America, tell me where is the unity? Where are we as a people united?
People obsess over politics now, it is their religion. They wear the hat and the T-shirt, display it on their Prius and Pickup Truck alike. They are addicted to 24 hour news cycle and thrive on spreading their self-absorbed social media evangelism, preaching their echo chamber rhetoric to those who already believe in the same thing.
And for what?
People cash in 4 years of anger and contempt to their fellow brothers and sisters for 1 day of voting, because unless you’re running for office, that is all your rage is good for.
Why don’t you turn off that channel, then a week before the election find an informed news source, gather all the information and then go vote. Then turn the TV back off. For most of us anything other than that is colossal waste of time.
Why not love one another, give to your neighbor, share what you have, treat others how you’d want to be treated, help the hurting, feed the poor….
So the question is, how is Anberlin involved with politics, and the answer is yes we are, once every four years. Then we go back to being decent humans.
Brandon J. I don’t know what it is but “The Unwinding Cable Car” still strikes me as a beautiful song with such an alluring melody. Do you enjoy that track (still) and if so what do you think people most take away from listening to it?
Stephen: I do like it, those lyrics mean a lot to me even now. Songs are like scrapbooks, when I go back and listen they give me a feeling of time and space, I can tell you exactly where I was when I finished that song, I think people end up taking away from those lyrics something different than what I intended them to be, but that is the beautiful thing about music. Music, like a piece of art hanging on a gallery wall, can be interpreted differently by different people. Fin, which I thought would never mean anything to anyone, resonates so deeply with people even though it is my story, summing up my own personal experience with the Holy Ghost. Yet years later no other (Anberlin) song has penetrated so many souls as that song.
Brandon J. What are some of your favorite Anberlin lyrics of the past and how applicable are they to your life now?
Stephen:
I feel like a shell of yester years gone by
Bad decisions like ghosts that just won’t die
I’m so sorry that I can’t apologize
What comes next is another long goodbye
-Down
I love that song, I have so many regrets, but I choose not to ponder on them and let them build up into resentment, instead I learn from them and leave them where they need to stay… in the past.
Brandon J. With such an explosion of music the past decade or so and easy access to millions of songs, what do you think will differentiate the music of Anberlin from so many clones, sound a likes, and manufactured goods flooding the marketplace? How does your music fit in? Please don’t tell me Anberlin will go a complete electronic/dance/pop 180 and try to get on Top 40 radio/pop playlists?
Stephen: All bands are welcome to experiment with their sound, but those who try to follow the fads fade fast. We just want to be Anberlin, if people mimic that’s cool, were not out to be anyone else but ourselves. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Brandon J. What are some of your favorite music groups and musicians to listen to from the past up until this current moment? Who are you enjoying in 2018?
Stephen: I am all about The War On Drugs, The National, Stevie Wonder, Kurt Vile, & Cautious Clay right now.
Brandon J. You’re a very focused, poetic and artistic guy with a heart for the written word. Are there any particular authors and novels/books that you’ve enjoyed reading lately? Anything from the past that you are just discovering?
Stephen: Right now I am on a self-awareness journey through books, some of my favorites of late are Sacred Enneagram by Chris Huertz, Better than Gold by Kevin Miller, Next Generation Leadership by Andy Stanley, and H3 by Brad Lomineck.
Brandon J. If Anberlin does reunite and play cross country/world shows, what places do you want to travel to and with what bands can we expect to see you with? Any chance for another Tooth & Nail Tour with classic bands? Any big tour opportunities that might be presented? Can we expect Anberlin to go with Bastille or Imagine Dragons or Portugal the Man? Maybe Jimmy Eat World and Anberlin? Heck ya!
Stephen: Oh man, Jimmy Eat World would be incredible, they and the Foo Fighters were the two bands that I always wanted to tour with but never did.
As far as places I would say SLC, Seattle, Thailand, London, Brazil (all of it), Australia (all of it), Chicago, & NYC.
Brandon J. How do you feel about current “Christian” artists and their influence on the world? Any faith based artists that you are enjoying lately? Anyone that you feel really impacts hearts and minds across the world?
Stephen: I am so proud of where ‘Christian’ artists have come; the topics, songs, and songwriting have come so far even in the last 5 years. I really enjoy LAEL, Royal, John Mark McMillian, & Knox Hamilton.
Brandon J. One more Anberlin question and this relates to album artwork. If there is another album, who do you want to design your art and what can we expect from a new Anberlin release?
Stephen: We have always prided ourselves on our art (except new surrender, ha) DITW and Lowborn were my favorite. Not sure what the future holds but either way It will be absolutely well thought out if it ever happens.
Brandon J. Lastly, how can us the fans best support you gentlemen and what prayer requests if any do you have? How can we support your personal ministry and walk with the Lord?
Stephen: Our families and futures, for me specifically I have taken a job at Calvary Church in Clearwater, Florida and want to touch people and help change lives in that community. Pray that the Holy Spirit gives me new and unique ideas to reach people for Jesus Christ. That God guides my decision making, and that I support the leadership of that Church and encourage the body. His will be done.
That about wraps up this interview. Make sure you check out Anberlin with Underoath on December 14th in Tampa, Florida. Tickets on sale now. Check out Anberlin website here for further info
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Stephen Christian
2 Comments on "Stephen Christian of Anberlin"
I like that your optimism for new music seemed to slowly erode his pessimism of that new music existing, to where, by the end, I am pretty sure you have him ready to record a new album.
Stephen was in New Mexico I thought working at a church. Looks like he’s going back to their home state. That’s cool
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Technology and IIoT
2014 IW 1000: Top 10 Tech Companies of 2014
Travis M. Hessman | Sep 29, 2014
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For the 2014 edition of our annual Tech Top 10 list, we've expanded our scope outside the U.S. to highlight the biggest and best tech manufacturers the world has to offer.
This year's list comes fresh from the 2014 IW 1000 and tells a very different story from last year's IW U.S. 500 ranking.
Last year, it was the component makers and technology providers that ruled the list – the Ciscos and Intels that keep the OEMs running.
Looking at the global story, though, it's clear that those old OEMs are still very much in charge.
From Panasonic and Sony to IBM and Microsoft, the kings of the 20th century are still alive and well on this list, translating their products to the digital age and connecting with a whole new generation of consumers.
However, the gadget makers have officially climbed their way to the top of the list.
This year's ranking details the wild growth of Samsung v. Apple in the smartphone wars and the preposterous profits they are collecting in their ongoing battle to the top.
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Reggie Miller's cheesy and wonderful 1990s TV talk show
Every Saturday night, Reggie Miller hosted his own talk show featuring big names like Dennis Rodman, Conan O'Brien and New Kids on the Block.
Reggie Miller's cheesy and wonderful 1990s TV talk show Every Saturday night, Reggie Miller hosted his own talk show featuring big names like Dennis Rodman, Conan O'Brien and New Kids on the Block. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2018/10/22/reggie-millers-cheesy-and-wonderful-1990-s-tv-talk-show/1729908002/
Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star Published 3:58 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2018
Reggie Miller on the set of his weekly talk show in the mid 1990s.(Photo: Courtesy of WTHR)
Before there was TNT, there was Reggie Miller sitting on a brown leather couch inside what looked like a warehouse, TV lights shining on his bald head, Miller dressed up like a schoolboy ready for class pictures.
There was a live audience hanging on his every word — about 120 people each week. There was music blaring as Miller emerged from a door, bounced down a winding staircase to enter the set. Once descended, he occasionally would break into dance, twirling and spinning to cheers and laughter.
And then came his guests. The guest list for "The Reggie Miller Show" was truly unbelievable — a who's who of sports, entertainment and politics of the 1990s.
Conan O'Brien. Dennis Rodman. Former vice president Dan Quayle. Charles Barkley. New Kids on the Block. The cast of "ER." Larry Bird. Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh. John Mellencamp. David Robinson. Powertrain.
Reggie Miller was a pioneer in TV, one of the first NBA superstars to have his own television show. (Photo: AP photo)
"Oh my gosh," said Dave Calabro, sports director for WTHR-13, who helped put on Miller's show. "It was the best."
It was cheesy and it was wonderful.
And many people today have no idea the show ever existed. As Calabro looked through the station's archives Monday, he found two huge boxes full of the show's film. None has been converted to a digital format.
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Yet for two seasons, every Saturday night, Indianapolis tuned into WTHR for "The Reggie Miller Show," which aired for 30 minutes beginning in 1996.
It was a time when Miller was in his heyday as the marquee player with the Pacers. In 2000, he would lead the team to the NBA Finals.
Dave Calabro helped guide "The Reggie Miller Show" by co-hosting, booking guests and assisting with Miller's bits. (Photo: Courtesy of WTHR)
"The show worked because of Reggie. His personality and that persona came through," said Calabro. "He was a natural at it from the very beginning."
There was the show where a thin and youthful Barkley sat next to Miller.
As he looked in Barkley's eyes, Miller said in a gruff, low voice: "Charles Barkley. Ferocious rebounder, intimidator, tough. Been out two weeks with a toenail missing."
The crowd roared. Barkley looked a bit ashamed.
"You know? It is embarrassing," Barkley said, as Miller laughed. "No, seriously, it is embarrassing because I’m supposed to be the baddest man in the world."
Reggie Miller teased Charles Barkley about missing games because of a toenail injury on "The Reggie Miller Show" in the 1990s. (Photo: Courtesy of WTHR)
Calabro played many roles on the show — which for its time was a trailblazing concept, a sports superstar on TV. Calabro co-hosted for a bit. He helped plan the guests and set up interviews. He helped with Miller's bits.
The script of the show included an opening monologue by Miller, followed by guests and, sometimes, a segment where Miller answered audience questions.
The show was planned around the Pacers' schedule, so if Chicago was in town playing, Rodman would be a guest. Most often, the guests came to Miller's studio. Sometimes, he went to them.
There was the show where Miller flew in a helicopter to Mellencamp's house for a sitdown with the Indiana-bred rock star. There was the taping in California, when "ER" was insanely popular, and Miller got the cast on set.
Indiana Pacers legend Reggie Miller
Reggie Miller and his family, right, raise his number to the roof of Conseco during a halftime ceremony. The Indiana Pacers host the Phoenix Suns at Conseco fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on Thursday night, March 30, 2006. The Indiana Pacers also retired Reggie Millers number in a halftime ceremony. Sam Riche/IndyStar file photo
Pacer Reggie Miller dons a team hat after he was introduced to the media at Market Square Arena following his being drafted by the Indiana Pacers. Rich Miller / The Star file photo
Former Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller, left, laughs with sportscaster Marv Albert, right, before the game between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005, in Miami. Miller is working the game as courtside reporter for TNT. AP Photo/Alan Diaz
Reggie Miller in this undated family photo. Photo provided
UCLA's Reggie Miller NIT Most Valuable Player, 1985. UCLA defeated Indiana University 65-62 in the basketball finals. Photo provided
Reggie Miller's rookie card, 1987-1988. These are basketball trading cards from the career of Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller, photographed at the Field of Dreams store at Circle Center Mall on Friday, May 20, 2005, the day after Miller's last career game, a loss to the Detroit Pisons. Sam Riche / The Star file photo
U.S. Olympic Men's team member Reggie Miller (10) celebrates his 3 point shot as time expired in their exhibition game against the Greek Olympic team at the RCA Dome Sunday, July 14, 1996. Miller lead all scorers with 21 points in the Dream Team's 128-62 victory. The Star file photo
Pacers Reggie Miller watches a shot go through the backet in the second half of their game #5 against the Lakers Friday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. ( Matt Kryger/ The Star file photo
In this photo provided by Turner Sports, Former Indiana Pacers player Reggie Miller, left, co-hosts "Live with Regis and Kelly" with Kelly Ripa, Friday, Oct. 7, 2005 in New York. Miller retired in May after 18 years with the Pacers, and now he's focused on becoming a clutch performer of a different kind. He has accepted a dual role as studio and game analyst for TNT's NBA coverage. AP Photo / Turner Sports, HO
Reggie Miller hits this technical foul shot late in the fourth quarter after Boston's Paul Pierce was ejected from the game. This was the last ponit Reggie scored in the game. The Indiana Pacers host the Boston Celtics at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN for the sixth game of the NBA Playoffs on Thursday night, May 5, 2005. The Pacers lost the game in overtime 92-89. The Star file photo
Pacers Reggie Miller plays tight defence on Chicago's Michael Jordan in the first half of game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals Sunday afternoon in Chicago. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller says goodbye to the Pacers fans as the voice of the Pacers Mark Boyle and Bobby Leonard following their last regular season game against the Chicago Bulls at Conseco Fieldhouse. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Official Indiana Pacers handout photo of Reggie Miller Photo provided
Reggie Miller, slamming one home against the Lakers at Market Square Arena, December 10, 1988. Frank Espich / The Star file photo
Reggie Miller shares a laugh with fans at MSA during a break in action in the game against Miami. The Star file photo
Reggie Miller and his sister Cheryl Miller in this undated family photo. The Star file photo
ndiana head coach Rick Carlisle and Reggie Miller walk off the floor after the big win, sending them to the next round. The Indiana Pacers traveled to the FleetCenter in Boston to take on the Boston Celtics for the seventh game of the NBA Playoffs on Saturday night, May 7, 2005. The Pacers won the game 97-70. The Star file photo
Pacer Rik Smits, left, is mobbed by teammate Reggie Miller and Mark Jackson after Smits hit a 15-footer at the buzzer to defeat Orlando 94-93. The win tied the series at 2-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals at Market Square Arena. Pacer Byron Scott is at right. Mike Fender / The Star file photo
Part of Pennsylvania St. was renamed to Reggie Miller Ct., Wednesday out front of Conseco Fieldhouse. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller and Boston's Gary Payton wait for the play to start in OT. The Indiana Pacers host the Boston Celtics at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN for the sixth game of the NBA Playoffs on Thursday night, May 5, 2005. The Pacers lost the game in overtime 92-89. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller waves the green flag at the start of the 2005 Indianapolis 500. Brian Howard, the actual flag waver, is behind Reggie. Mike Fender / The Star file photo
Pacer Reggie Miller, right, shares center court with fellow Pacer Scott Skiles, left, and Dallas Maverick Steve Alford before a Pacers vs. Dallas game on Dec. 23, 1987 at Market Square Arena. It was the rookie season for Miller, and homecoming for Alford who played college ball at Indiana. Skiles now (2005) coaches the Chicago Bulls while Alford coaches Iowa in the Big 10. The Star file photo
Former Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller,middle, greet Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James.right, as Reggie new co-worker and sports announcers for Turner Sports Dick Stockon,left, before the Pacers/Cavaliers game Thursday night at Conseco Fieldhouse. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller waits for the play near Tayshaun Prince and Richard Hamilton. The Indiana Pacers traveled to the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit to take on the Detroit Pistons for the second game of the second round of the NBA Playoffs on Wednesday night, May 11, 2005. The Pacers won the game 92-83. The Star file photo
Indy's Reggie Miller reacts to a call against him in the second half. The Indiana Pacers hosted the Miami Heat basketball team Thursday night, March 31, 2005 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN. The Pacers won the game in overtime 114-108. The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller and media relations David Benner take part in their pre-game ritual, where Reggie screams at Benner nose-to-nose for about 3-4 minutes. The Indiana Pacers host the Detroit Pistons at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN for the sixth game of the eastern conference semifinals of the NBA Playoffs on Thursday, May 19, 2005. The Pacers lose the game 88-79, for Reggie Miller's last game of his career. The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller is introduced as a starter before the game begins. The Indianapolis Pacers hosted the New York Knicks Tuesday night, April 6, 2004 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN. The Pacers won the game 107-86. The Star file photo
Reggie Miller thanks the fans, during a standing ovation, after being taken out of the game, for the last time, against the Pistons. The Indiana Pacers host the Detroit Pistons at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN for the sixth game of the eastern conference semifinals of the NBA Playoffs on Thursday, May 19, 2005. The Pacers lose the game 88-79, for Reggie Miller's last game of his career. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers' Reggie Miller, is pulled apart from Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant by Pacers coach and former NBA player Isiah Thomas, among others, after the pair exchanged words, and blows, at the end of their game Friday, March 1, 2002, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. AP Photo/The Ventura County Star, Rob Varela
Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller jumps on Ron Artest after Artest took a charging call against the Detroit Piston's in the second quarter of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final Monday evening at Conseco Fieldhouse. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller watches the game from the bench with his hand in a cast. The Indiana Pacers hosted the L.A. Clippers Wednesday night, November 10, 2004 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN. The Pacers got blown out, the final score was L.A. 102- Pacers 68. The Star file photo
Indiana's Reggie Miller draws the foul on Detroits Richard Hamilton late in the game, to send Miller to the foul line, for the last points of the game. The Indiana Pacers host the Detroit Pistons in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals at Conseco Fieldhouse on Saturday night, May 22, 2004. The Pacers win the game 78-74. The Star file photo
Indy's Reggie Miller hits this easy lay-up in first half action. Miller had 36 points in the game. The Indiana Pacers hosted the Portland Trailblazers Wednesday night, February 16, 2005 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN. The halftime score is Pacers won 95-87. The Star file photo
Reggie Miller cluthces his neck, signifying that the New york Knicks "choked" in the fourth quarter of game five of the Eastern Conference Finals June 1, 1994 at New York's Madison Square Garden. Miller scored 39 points in the Pacers 93-86 win over the Knicks. Paul Bereswill/AP photo/ New York Newsday
Indiana Pacers coach Larry Bird talks with Reggie Miller in the second half of their game Wednesday night against Milwaukee at Market Square Arena. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Reggie Miller waves to the crowd upon being introduced at halftime. The Indiana Pacers host the Phoenix Suns at Conseco fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on Thursday night, March 30, 2006. Also tonight the Indiana Pacers retired Reggie Millers number in a halftime ceremony. Sam Riche / The Star file photo
Former Indiana Pacers basketball player Reggie Miller addresses the crowd during his No. 31 jersey retirement ceremony in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 30, 2006. Miller spent his entire career as a Pacer and credited CEO Donnie Walsh, team president Larry Bird, team owners Melvin and Herbert Simon and the fans for making his stay special. AP Photo / Ann Heisenfelt
Reggie Miller thanks fans during a halftime ceremony. The Indiana Pacers host the Phoenix Suns at Conseco fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on Thursday night, March 30, 2006. Also tonight the Indiana Pacers retired Reggie Millers number in a halftime ceremony. Sam Riche / The Star file photo
Reggie Miller and head coach Larry Brown confer during game #5 of the 1996 NBA playoffs where the Atlanta Hawks beat the Pacers to advance to play Orlando. Reggie had been out for eye surgery and this was his first game back. The Star file photo
Reggie Miller was a devoted and loyal Indiana Pacer, playing all 18 years of his NBA career with the team. Star file photo
Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller drives past the defense of Miami Heats Rex Champman during the first half of action Thursday night at MSA. The Star file photo
Pacers Reggie Miller (left) and Charles Barkley of the Phoenix Suns (right) ham it up after a practice session saturday afternoon at market square arena as 3 year old Julian Strickland looks like hey whats going on here...Barkley and Miller are part of the dream team. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacer's and Dream Team player Reggie Miller kisses the forehead of Kelly Garrison, of Indianapolis, an Olympic gymnast in 1988, after the two lit the flame located on the stage on the Circle Tuesday night. The Olympic Torch made its final stop of the night on the Circle. The Star file photo
The Pacers' Reggie Miller takes the hard road as he drives the lane and draws a foul from Sacramento's 7-0 Olden Polynice (0). Corliss Williamson (4) tries to help out. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers Reggie Miller (31) goes up for two of his game high scoring effort past Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon (34) in 3rd period action at MSA Friday, January 31, 1997. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacer's Reggie Miller goes to the air in attempt to block a pass from Miami Heat's Tim Hardaway. Teammate Travis Best attempted to assist on the block as well. The Star file photo
Pacers vs the Celtics at MSA. Pacers' #31 Reggie Miller drives around Celtics' #30 Marty Conlin in first half action. Kelly Wilkinson / The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers co-owner Mel Simon, right, hugs Indiana Pacers' guard Reggie Miller, left, during the farewell ceremony following his final regular season game against the Chicago Bulls at Conseco Fieldhouse on April 20, 2005. Matt Kryger / The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers co-owner Mel Simon laughs with Reggie MIller after the game. The Indiana Pacers host the Chicago Bulls at Conseco Fieldhouse Wednesday, April 20, 2005 for the last regular season home game, and the last regular season home game for Reggie Miller, who is retiring after this season. The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers co-owners Herb Simon, left, and Mel Simon, center, talk with Reggie MIller after his last game as a Pacer. The Indiana Pacers host the Chicago Bulls at Conseco Fieldhouse Wednesday, April 20, 2005 for the last regular season home game, and the last regular season home game for Reggie Miller, who is retiring after this season. The Star file photo
Pacers' superstar Reggie Miller looked cool on the red carpet Friday at Conseco Fieldhouse before the Indianapolis premiere of "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks." Friday Feb. 26, 2010. Alan Petersime / The Star file photo
Reggie Miller and his older sister, Cheryl, showed up together on the red carpet for the documentary "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks." The siblings were greeted by more than 8,000 who made their way to Conseco for the charity event. Friday Feb. 26, 2010. Alan Petersime / The Star file photo
Indiana Pacers' Reggie Miller shoots a three-pointer with 5.1 seconds left in regulation to tie Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals with the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York Sunday, May 10, 1998. The Pacers went on to win the game 118-107 and take a 3-1 lead with Game 5 in Indianapolis Wednesday. The Star file photo
Reggie Miller, right, and his family raise his number to the roof of Conseco during a halftime ceremony. The Indiana Pacers host the Phoenix Suns at Conseco fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN on Thursday night, March 30, 2006. Also tonight the Indiana Pacers retired Reggie Millers number in a halftime ceremony. Sam Riche / The Star file photo
Inductee Reggie Miller hugs his sister, Cheryl Miller, during the enshrinement ceremony for the 2012 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Mass. Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. AP Photo / Elise Amendola
His show endeared Miller to Indiana fans, who loved that he was showing other superstars his town.
"That show had something to do with him becoming a very favorite player," Donnie Walsh, Pacers president at the time, told Pacers.com.
Sports radio personality Jake Query, who grew up in Indianapolis, couldn't agree more.
"Instead of going to 'New Kids on the Block' to do their show, he was saying, 'Come to Indianapolis to do mine,'" said Query, co-host of the "Query & Schultz" afternoon radio show on Fox Sports 97.5 FM and 1260 AM. "Instead of using Indiana as a spring board to get out of here, he grew Indianapolis' brand with himself."
Miller used his platform to introduce Indianapolis to other stars in a big way, he said.
Yes. The show was cheesy, at times.
"You watch it now and it's just as corny as a small town home video," said Query. "But it was the perfect example of the Indiana humility you see in Reggie. That is why he was so beloved."
Follow IndyStar sports reporter Dana Benbow on Twitter: @Dana Benbow. Reach her via e-mail: dbenbow@indystar.com.
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RETOSA takes a historic step at the 2017 Tourism Expo Japan
Travel / 29 September 2017, 3:00pm / Supplied Content
The Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa (RETOSA) hosted a record number of its Japanese market stakeholders at its Networking Reception at the end of the 2nd day of trading at the 2017 Tourism Expo Japan on the 22 September 2017.
In her welcoming address, the Chairperson of the Tourism Sub-Committee of the SADC Ambassadors in Tokyo, Zambian Ambassador, Mrs Ndiyoi Mutiti encouraged all the tour operators and travel agents present to sell the unique SADC tourism experiences. "The role of my office is to coordinate the efforts of RETOSA and the SADC group of Ambassadors based in Tokyo, Japan in promoting our region jointly to the Japanese Market. Our combined efforts aim to secure an increase in Japanese tourist arrivals".
She further called on the private sector in the Region to take advantage of the opportunity that is being created by RETOSA’s participation at the Tourism Expo Japan, Tokyo each year.
The South African Minister of Tourism, Ms. Tokozile Xasa gave the main address, her first at this Expo since her appointment as and Chairperson of the SADC Committee of Tourism Ministers, where she highlighted the importance of the work done by RETOSA in Marketing the Region.
She said: "I would like to thank JATA and RETOSA for affording SADC Embassies accredited to Japan an opportunity to participate in the Tourism Expo Japan 2017 and to afford our tour operators present here tonight an oppotunity to sell Southern Africa."
She assured the audience that, "All of us in SADC will continue to innovate and develop more tourism products that will not only bring mutual benefits to tourists and tour companies alike, but will continue to increase revenue simultaneously creating a positive economic impact on local communities in a sustainable way. The SADC region is unique and has diverse activities that can be enjoyed by both young and old tourist”
She further indicated that “JATA helps us create a collective approach to marketing Southern Africa which is impactful and cost-effective. See it as a clear demonstration of our unity in diversity, Ladies and gentlemen SADC is alive and open for business”.
The last item of the evening was the historic presence and special address by the Senior Vice President of JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency), Mr Hiroshi Kato, who re-committed JICA's support for the important work that RETOSA is doing. He emphasized the positive impact that the newly restructured RETOSA will have on the Region as it focuses on its new mandate – that of marketing the region.
JICA is encouraged by the transformation at RETOSA with Mr Kato saying, "We wish RETOSA well as we continue working closely with them into the future."
“This event is one of the ways in which RETOSA can clearly demonstrate that it has already begun to deliver tangible value to the SADC Member States. One-on-one meetings were organized on the sidelines of this Networking Reception between Ambassadors of the SADC countries in Tokyo and Mr Hiroshi Kato,” said Mrs Thembi Kunene-Msimang, Executive: Marketing and Communications at RETOSA.
In the case of South Africa, this means the Tourism Minister herself had an opportunity to directly engage with a key decision-maker of JICA and make a case for continued support from this world-class Cooperation Agency.
Mrs Kunene-Msimang concluded by confirming that, "The RETOSA management team is hard at work to secure funding assistance to enable it to participate at the 2018 Tourism Expo Japan. This time we call on all the tourism operators to come on board and join us in making a bigger impact for our Region in the Japanese Market. Details on how operators can participate will be communicated through all the tourism authorities of the SADC Member States as well as posted on our online platforms in due course.”
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Traffic wardens leave fans blue
PUBLISHED: 12:18 11 February 2002 | UPDATED: 11:19 03 March 2010
By Jessica Nicholls
WHILE grim-faced Blues fans licked their wounds at a 6-0 defeat, Ipswich traffic wardens were busy creating their own six zero scoreline.
As Ipswich Town wilted under the Liverpool onslaught, 60 parking tickets were issued to motorists parking along West End Road.
Those parked illegally along the roadside, pavements and verges returned to their cars after the match to find the dreaded white tickets fluttering in the breeze.
Not only miserable at such a huge defeat, fans will now have to dig into their wallets to pay the fixed penalty fine of £30.
It is not the first time that town fans parking close to the Portman Road ground have suffered at the hands of the traffic wardens.
In January smiles of victory at the 2-1 defeat of Tottenham were soon wiped from fans faces when a team of traffic wardens slapped more than 100 tickets on the windscreens of illegally parked cars.
And the purge looks set to continue as both police and traffic wardens have warned that there will be no let up if people continue to park illegally.
Many fans park on pavements and grass verges as well as on double yellow lines either to escape paying parking charges or because there is nowhere left to park in designated areas.
But senior traffic warden Carol Grimsey has warned that it will not be tolerated and that the way people park their cars is a danger to others.
She said: "There are clear signs on West End Road stating no waiting and there are also double yellow lines on either side of the road.
"The Highway Code clearly states that where there are no waiting signs and/or double yellow lines, this means the carriageway, pavement and verges."
Ms Grimsey said that the problems was particularly concerning on match days because of the volume of cars parked and the volume of pedestrians walking around.
She said: "Cars are driving over the pavement and easing their way into the flow of traffic causing severe congestion and delays."
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Journalism Matters
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Simb-iyez Wilson flips her Smithers Judo Club instructor Bernie Mattie during practice last week.
Judo nationals a family affair
Smithers Judo Club members Reid Williams and Sa-yez and Simb-iyez Wilson fought their way to junior national championships in July.
Nolan Kelly
To qualify for the event, the athletes had to attend at least two provincial selection tournaments and numerous training camps throughout the year, where they were noticed by Judo BC officials and asked to take part in the competition.
“They gained valuable experience and were recognized for their hard work and dedication and were given the nod by Judo BC to attend,” said Smithers Judo Club instructor Bernie Mattie.
“I am very happy that they have followed through on their goal to make their participation in junior nationals a reality.
“The kids busted their butts to qualify.”
All three are training hard in preparation for the Judo junior nationals July 4 to 7 in Richmond.
This is their first trip to a national-level competition.
Sa-yez, 16, and Simb-iyez, 14, are brother and sister and Williams, 14, is their cousin.
Sa-yez is a brown belt, while Simb-iyez and Williams are green belts.
“They all have the willingness to learn and dedication,” said Shane Henry, who is Sa-yez and Simb-iyez’s father and Williams’ uncle, adding a lot of the credit also has to go to Mattie.
“[Bernie] gives a lot of his time to teach these kids and it’s paid off.”
The three all mentioned cardio as one thing they need to work on to prepare to compete against some of the best martial artists in Canada.
“I need to do more running and endurance training to get ready,” Simb-iyez said.
Besides training over the next few weeks, the athletes are now fundraising so they can attend the Lower Mainland competition.
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U18 boys defeat Terrace for zone title
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Young author’s book sales help charities
Nathan McTeggart’s third children’s book, is set in the Williams Lake area during the 2017 wildfires
Michael Potestio / Kamloops This Week
Nathan McTeggart was in Kamloops on Thursday as his Interior book tour continues. The 13-year-old Coquitlam boy has written his third book, Brandy and Her Super Hero, which is set in the Williams Lake area during the 2017 wildfires. A percentage of sales of each book goes to specific charities, with the Firefighters Without Borders Canada and Pacific Assistance Dogs Society charities connected to the latest publication.
Photograph By Michael Potestio/KTW
There are two things in life Nathan McTeggart really enjoys — sports and helping people.
“He’s the kid that, if they’re playing a sport and someone goes down, he’s the kid to go over and help him,” said Nathan’s father, Keven McTeggart.
Nathan, a 13-year-old boy from Coquitlam, has been spending his summer vacation touring the B.C. Interior and promoting his third children’s book, which is set amidst the 2017 wildfires.
Brandy and Her Super Hero is about a dog that gets separated from her family during a forest fire in the Williams Lake area and her adventures in being reunited with family.
Proceeds from book sales will be going to Firefighters Without Borders Canada and Pacific Assistance Dogs Society charities. The goal is to raise $1,500 for each of the charities through book sales.
“I don’t really care about getting money back. I just care about helping people,” Nathan told KTW. “You don’t really need money as much as the people who are actually in pain and actually need it more.”
In Kamloops on Thursday at the office of Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone for one of multiple stops on his book tour, Nathan told reporters the inspiration for the story came when he learned of the forest fires that summer.
“I was really scared because I lived in Coquitlam,” Nathan said. “This is happening so often and I wanted to make everybody aware of it.”
The fictional story drew inspiration from Nathan’s life.
A friend Nathan met at a hockey camp had been displaced from Williams Lake due to the wildfires and Nathan got the idea for the dog when he went to the Superdogs show at last year’s Pacific National Exhibition.
He wrote the book last year, dictating his ideas to his father.
“I’d read it back to him and he’d dictate more until we got the whole book,” Keven said. “It’s all his imagination, which is really cool.”
Nathan’s books are published by Tellwell Talent Inc. and were illustrated by the students in the classes of his former Grade 4 teacher.
About 120 copies of Brandy and Her Super Hero have been sold in the month since its publication.
Nathan has ideas for seven more books, having put together three tomes since he was nine — the first two being Christmas stories.
The first book, Santa and His Super Hero, tells the story of firefighters rescuing Santa and started out as a bedtime story Keven would tell his son.
When he was eight, Nathan asked his dad if they could get the story published.
That book raised $2,000 for the B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Burn Fund and other charities.
It was followed by his second book, Zippy and His Hero — a story of Nathan following his shelf elf to the North Pole.
Brandy and Her Super Hero, along with Nathan’s other books, are available online at nathanssuperheroes.com.
A percentage of each sale goes to specific charities.
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Studying for the SAT in Kirkland, WA
Whether you're just getting started on your SAT prep in Kirkland or you're taking the test tomorrow, we've put together some tips to help raise your score. If you haven't registered for the SAT, you'll want to sign up at least one month in advance to avoid late fees. The SAT is offered seven times each year, on one Saturday in January, March, May, June, October, November, and December. It's wise to register early to avoid late-registration fees.
Once you're registered, check out average scores for schools you're applying to as well as whether or not the essay section is required. Many schools, like Northwest University or DigiPen Institute of Technology require students to complete the 50-minute essay section.
SAT prep courses are always available as an option to help you raise your score. If you can't find a local option in Kirkland, know there are many online options with live instruction available.
Colleges near Kirkland, Washington
Northwest University Kirkland, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1146 63%
DigiPen Institute of Technology Redmond, WA 4-year, Private for-profit 839 33%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA 4-year, Public 32718 58%
University of Washington-Bothell Campus Bothell, WA 4-year, Public 2407 77%
Seattle University Seattle, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 4306 71%
Seattle Pacific University Seattle, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 3016 77%
University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 2606 52%
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus Tacoma, WA 4-year, Public 2528 82%
Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 3305 78%
Saint Martin's University Lacey, WA 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1359 80%
The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 4-year, Public 4551 94%
Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 4-year, Public 13396 74%
Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 4-year, Public 10765 81%
Multnomah University Portland, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 576 87%
Warner Pacific College Portland, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1179 55%
Reed College Portland, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1452 43%
Pacific University Forest Grove, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1474 46%
George Fox University Newberg, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1967 69%
Linfield College McMinnville, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1678 77%
Willamette University Salem, OR 4-year, Private not-for-profit 1997 43%
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Michigan is a great place to go to college! Michigan has a number of top-ranked colleges, including Northern Michigan University and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in Green Bay, WI. To increase your chances of receiving an acceptance letter from the school of your choice, you'll want to optimize your SAT score.
If you're looking for the best SAT prep in Marquette, start here. We've compiled a list of local prep courses for the SAT, the top colleges in the Marquette area, and popular SAT test centers in Michigan.
The average student studying for the SAT in Marquette, MI spends about five weeks preparing for the exam. That's not possible for everyone, so there are always shorter study plans that can help you make the most out of the time you have. Once you've given some thought to your goals and available study time, schedule your SAT (and your prep) so that you have a clear target to work toward.
Colleges near Marquette, Michigan
Northern Michigan University Marquette, MI 4-year, Public 8684 72%
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Green Bay, WI 4-year, Public 6369 91%
Lake Superior State University Sault Ste Marie, MI 4-year, Public 2568 77%
Bellin College Green Bay, WI 4-year, Private not-for-profit 274 61%
Saint Norbert College De Pere, WI 4-year, Private not-for-profit 2113 81%
Silver Lake College Manitowoc, WI 4-year, Private not-for-profit 507 72%
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI 4-year, Public 8804 80%
Michigan State University , MI 4-year, Public 36290 70%
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Eastern Michigan University , MI 4-year, Public 17780 53%
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The FORMA Design studio was in charge of using the solid surface from PORCELANOSA Group, KRION, to design the Capital Aesthetic + Laser Center project. It has an unusual and ingenious layout, which divides the reception area, making a more effective use of the premises, and using colours to differentiate both spaces and brands.
Since it began in 1994, the FORMA Design studio has been awarded with a multitude of distinctions, winning the award granted by the American Institute of Architects 12 times, and winning the award granted by the International Interior Design Association on 18 occasions, among other important recognitions.
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PSV calls off B-BBEE deal over non-payment of R5m
PSV Holdings [JSE:PSV] has terminated its agreement with proposed B-BBEE partner Beryl Holdings following non-payment of a R5m subscription price due by Beryl, the industrial holding company said on Tuesday evening.
In a statement issued via the Stock Exchange News Service, PSV said in order to achieve its B-BBEE objectives, it had instead resolved to sell a percentage of PSV Industrial to a broad-based ownership scheme to establish an ownership trust.
"This sale will be structured to address broad-based ownership for the operating entities of the Group," it said.
PSV, which is listed on the JSE's alternative exchange, is a provider of steel, stainless steel, industrial supplies, specialised control valves, engineering linings, cryogenic equipment and storage tankers.
It also provides technology to the mining, water, waste water management, health care, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors in SA and the rest of Africa.
In September, it announced the B-BBEE transaction with Beryl Holdings, a subsidiary of diversified investment company Beryl Group, which focuses on strategic proprietary investments. Beryl is 100% black-owned and 95% female. Beryl was intended to acquire a 30% stake in PSV Industrial and a further 30% in PSV Asset Co.
PSV added in the September notice that the B-BBEE transaction was subject to a suspensive condition, namely that by October 2018, a subscription agreement between PSV and Regis in June should become unconditional and be duly implemented. The agreement with Regis was not mentioned in the latest update.
Fin24 contacted Beryl for comment on Tuesday evening, but had not received a response by deadline.
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O.J. Simpson joins Twitter, says he's 'got a little getting even to do'
By: Stephanie Toone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
O.J. Simpson has reportedly joined Twitter, and he claims to have opinions on “just about everything.”
Right around midnight Friday, Simpson announced via a video on the Twitter account @TherealOJ32 that he would soon share tweets and perspectives from the account. The page in just about 12 hours snagged nearly 150,000 followers.
“It should be a lot of fun,” Simpson, 71, said in the video. “I’ve got a little getting even to do, so God bless. Take care.”
Coming Soon!!! pic.twitter.com/R1tXOuuLgO
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) June 15, 2019
Simpson said the account was the only “official” account, since there had been other impostor accounts circulating.
Shortly after the video posted, it appeared that a duplicate account was created that shared several derogatory tweets, including one that simply read, “I killed her.” That account had about 12,000 followers as of Saturday afternoon.
The football legend has become more known for his alleged ties to his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson’s death than his remarkable college and NFL career. On Oct. 3, 1995, he was infamously acquitted of the killings of Brown Simpson and her companion Ron Goldman.
In 2008, Simpson,was convicted of armed robbery and served nine years in a Nevada prison. He was released on parole in October 2017.
In the hours since his Twitter account debuted, many have posted jokes and memes about Simpson, especially his comments about getting even.
Me: 2019 absolutely cannot get any more insane
OJ Simpson on twitter: pic.twitter.com/4PhZUHGfcu
— Jonah Fanning (@GmasterJ_2K18) June 15, 2019
When OJ Simpson post his 1st Twitter video and ends it with’ “I got a lot of getting even to do.” pic.twitter.com/RHk5ZuTEHB
— Pierre (@pwee31) June 15, 2019
"OJ Simpson" getting some followers! 👮♀️👮♂️ pic.twitter.com/shit7bEwHM
— CARA (@1MaKaraPalace) June 15, 2019
When OJ Simpson says he has some "getting even" to do: pic.twitter.com/qcmyrGRZxi
— sophie832 (@sophie832) June 15, 2019
Many commented that his arrival to Twitter was particularly strange, since it falls just a few days after the anniversary of the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman. (Their bodies were found on June 13, 1994.)
OJ Simpson joins Twitter three days after the 25th anniversary of the brutal "unsolved" (really heavy air quotes here) Nicole Brown Simpson & Ron Goldman murders. In his very 1st tweet he says he's got some getting even to do.
That's enough Twitter for today
See you Sunday pic.twitter.com/H2FisjyBRb
— Paul M. Banks (@PaulMBanks) June 15, 2019
OJ Simpson really decided to start a Twitter account on the week of the 25th anniversary of his wife's murder. pic.twitter.com/VHEFitovdA
— REAL 92.3 LA (@Real923LA) June 15, 2019
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How startups can skyrocket their apps with Flutter
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Despite the availability of cross-platform development tools such as PhoneGap from Adobe, Xamarin from Microsoft, and React Native from Facebook. Mobile app developers have always struggled with build high-performing applications that look native and are adaptable to spontaneous changes. As a result, there stood a distasteful difference between Native and Cross-Platform Apps.
Until Flutter happened.
Ever since it was first announced in May 2017, Flutter has been used by bigwig corporations- Google’s AdWords app, Alibaba Group’s Alibaba app, Abbey Roads Studios’ Topline, and the list goes on. Similarly, more and more startups are opting for flutter app development companies to create cross-platform apps. But is the hype around Flutter legitimate? Let’s find out.
What is flutter?
Understanding what makes futter so special is a conversation in itself. But in a nutshell, Flutter can be explained as, Google’s latest software development kit (SDK) that helps developers build beautiful, native, cross-platform mobile apps for Android, iOS, and web from a single codebase. It offers native machine code for mobile and desktop products as well as JavaScript for the web.
Why Startups need flutter?
Native Applications vs Cross-Platform Mobile Apps. Startups are often divided between which platform to choose. To answer that question, you first need to assess your expectations from the mobile app development company.
1. How much money can you spend on app development?
2. Is your target audience affiliated to Android, iOS or both?
3. How agile do you want the development process to be?
An average app compatible with both iOS and Android in a Flutter app development company takes about 250 hours to develop. Whereas if you were to develop the same app in a native app development company, it takes about 400 hours for iOS and 250 hours for Android.
The main difference being that unlike native platforms that have to make two separate versions for Android and iOS, Flutter uses a single codebase for both versions of the app.
Lowered developmental cost
Needless to say, developing two native apps for both platforms separately costs both more time and money. As Flutter app development companies take lesser time and resources to develop an app than their native counterparts, cost of development hours is almost half in flutter than in native platform.
Faster testing
Since the mobile apps developed in Flutter app development companies compliment both Android and iOS, and the development process is shorter. The testing process becomes twice as fast as QA experts have to test only one version of the application.
More time to market
It’s simply a dominoes effect. Since the development process in Flutter app development companies is faster and adaptable to both platforms, it’s can be tested much faster and launched and marketed sooner than your native app competitors. Naturally, this gives startups building apps with top flutter app development companies an upper edge than their native platform counterparts.
Customizable to changing needs
Besides the speed and lower development cost, Flutter makes app development process highly customizable to constantly changing expectations of a Startup.
Flutter uses Dart as its programming language that allows startups to make changes and see the results during the app development process itself. And with latest version Flutter 1.5, Dart offers support for conditional UI making the programming language even more compatible with disruptive changes.
FLUTTER UPDATES in 2019 include:
You can build 2D mobile apps with support for cameras, geolocation, network, storage, and more.
1.0 Stable Release
Flutter integration into existing android and iOS apps, so you can switch to flutter despite having an existing app in App Stores.
Add-ins such as Visual Studio Code and Android Studio code
A new suite of web-based tools for debugging and inspecting your flutter apps.
More widgets and classes for iOS apps
Enhancements in supporting ecosystem– publishing new packages for Google Maps, Firebase ML Vision, in-app purchases and WebViews.
Compiled code making flutter even faster with a 15% performance increase
Flutter also plans to branch out to web, Chromebook, Windows, Mac and embedded form factors.
Google touts Flutter as the future of mobile app development. It’s open-source so the platform learns and grows with developers from all over the world. As of 2019 itself, Flutter released several new updates that Startups should keep in mind when choosing a native platform against flutter app development platform.
Thanks to Flutter being an open-source platform, top flutter app development companies are constantly growing their skills and services. As a startup, you need a development process that’s customizable to your feedback and only Flutter can offer that adaptability with ease.
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Iran breaches key uranium enrichment limit in nuclear deal
by: JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press
From left to right, spokesman for Iran’s atomic agency Behrouz Kamalvandi, Iran’s government spokesman Ali Rabiei and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, attend a press briefing in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, July 7, 2019. The deputy foreign minister says that his nation considers the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers to be a “valid document” and seeks its continuation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Monday began enriching uranium to 4.5%, just breaking the limit set by its nuclear deal with world powers, while it is still seeking a way for Europe to help it bypass U.S. sanctions amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.
The acknowledgement by the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to The Associated Press shows that the Islamic Republic trying to increase pressure on those still in the 2015 nuclear deal. It also comes just days after Iran acknowledged breaking the 300-kilogram (661-pound) limit on its low-enriched uranium stockpile, another term of the accord.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, confirmed that Iran surpassed the enrichment threshold.
Experts warn that higher enrichment and a growing stockpile could begin to narrow the one-year window Iran would need to have enough material for an atomic weapon, something Iran denies it wants but the deal prevented. While the steps now taken by Iran remain quickly reversible, Europe so far has struggled to respond.
There are fears that a miscalculation in the crisis could explode into open conflict. President Donald Trump, who withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear deal over a year ago and re-imposed crippling economic sanctions on Iran, nearly bombed the country last month after Tehran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone. Even China, engaged in delicate trade negotiations with the White House, openly criticized America’s policy toward Iran.
“What I want to emphasize is that the maximum pressure the U.S. imposes on Iran is the root cause of the crisis in the Iranian nuclear issue,” said Geng Shuang, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman. “It has been proven that unilateral bullying has become a worsening tumor and is creating more problems and greater crises on a global scale.”
On Sunday, Trump warned that “Iran better be careful.” He didn’t elaborate on what actions the U.S. might consider but told reporters: “Iran’s doing a lot of bad things.”
Under the deal, Iran has been closely monitored by inspectors from the IAEA, which on Monday verified “that Iran is enriching uranium above 3.67%.” The Vienna-based agency did not specify how much beyond the threshold Iran has gone.
Enriched uranium at the 3.67% level is enough for peaceful pursuits but is far below weapons-grade levels of 90%. At the 4.5% level, it is enough to help power Iran’s Bushehr reactor, the country’s only nuclear power plant.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran’s nuclear agency, confirmed the increased enrichment to the AP.
“At the moment our enrichment is at around 4.5%,” Kamalvandi said. He did not elaborate.
Kamalvandi separately hinted in a state TV interview broadcast Monday that Iran might consider going to 20% enrichment or higher as a third step, if the material is needed and the country still hasn’t gotten what it wants from Europe. That would worry nuclear nonproliferation experts because 20% is a short technical step away from reaching weapons-grade levels of 90%. Kamalvandi also suggested using new or more centrifuges, which are limited by the deal.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Iran appreciated the efforts of some nations to save the deal, but offered a jaded tone on whether Tehran trusted anyone in the negotiations.
“We have no hope nor trust in anyone, nor any country, but the door of diplomacy is open,” Mousavi said.
He also gave a sharp, yet unelaborated warning to Europe about another 60-day deadline that Iran set Sunday. That deadline is Sept. 5, though Iran’s senior Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri described it as being Sept. 7. The different dates could not be immediately reconciled.
“If the remaining countries in the deal, especially the Europeans, do not fulfill their commitments seriously, and not do anything more than talk, Iran’s third step will be harder, more steadfast and somehow stunning,” he said. The remaining signatories to the deal with Iran are Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia.
The U.S. will not waver from its course of maximum pressure against Iran and “will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon,” Vice President Mike Pence told a pro-Israel Christian organization in Washington.
“Iran must choose between caring for its people and continuing to fund its proxies who spread violence and terrorism throughout the region and breathe out murderous hatred against Israel,” Pence said, in comments that were reinforced by national security adviser John Bolton, a longtime advocate of tough measures against Iran, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
America has implemented the “strongest pressure campaign in history against the Iranian regime,” Pompeo told the group, adding, “and we are not done.”
The U.S. has sent thousands of troops, an aircraft carrier, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and advanced fighter jets to the Middle East. Mysterious oil tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, attacks by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen on Saudi Arabia and Iran’s downing of a U.S. military drone have raised fears of a wider conflict engulfing the region.
French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and said they are trying to find a way by July 15 to resume international dialogue with Iran. It remains unclear what Europe can do, because Iran wants it to help Tehran sell its crude oil abroad.
Macron is sending his chief diplomatic adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, to Tehran on Tuesday, although it was not immediately clear how long he would stay or with whom he would meet.
U.S. sanctions have targeted Iran’s oil sales and top officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It’s also unclear what international company would risk U.S. sanctions to help Europe trade with Iran outside of the exceptions granted for food and medicine.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes Iran’s action would neither help preserve the agreement “nor secure tangible economic benefits for the Iranian people,” according to U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq.
Mousavi said he didn’t know where an Iranian supertanker was heading when it was seized off the coast of Gibraltar. Authorities there said they seized the Grace 1 last week and confirmed Monday it was fully loaded with crude oil. Its suspected destination was a refinery in Syria that is under European Union sanctions.
Hard-liners in Iran have demanded a British oil tanker be seized in response. State TV said Britain’s ambassador to Tehran had been summoned Monday for a third time.
A lawmaker also has suggested that Iran charge ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz, something Mousavi dismissed while insisting Iran’s right to patrol the waters off its coast.
“We are responsible for maritime protection of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. This is our region. This is our gulf,” he said, reiterating Iran’s longtime stance. “This is our innate duty to secure this region and sustain its security. Countries that claim from thousands of miles from here that they should guarantee the maritime security here are speaking exaggeratedly.”
Iran’s Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami also offered his own warning to the British over the tanker’s seizure: “It won’t remain without a response.”
Associated Press producers Mohammad Nasiri and Mehdi Fattahi and writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Kiyoko Metzler in Vienna and Tami Abdollah in Washington contributed.
‘Chatgate’ scandal throws Puerto Rico governor into crisis
by MICHAEL WEISSENTEIN and JOEL COLON, Associated Press / Jul 15, 2019
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nearly two years ago, Hurricane Maria exposed the raw dysfunction of Puerto Rico, collapsing long-neglected infrastructure and leaving several thousand dead on Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's watch. Last week, two of his top former officials were arrested by the FBI on corruption charges.
But the scandal that is threatening to buckle the boyish 40-year-old governor are the details of a profanity-laced and at times misogynistic online chat with nine other male members of his administration in which some of the U.S. territory's most powerful men act like a bunch of teenagers. The leak of at least 889 pages of the private chat has sunk Rosselló into the deepest crisis of his career.
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Adirondack Extreme Adventure Course Upgrades to State-of-the-Art Equipment
Stay Safe & Feel Confident Taking On This Epic Tree-Top Adventure Course
Outdoor recreationists and thrill seeking adventurists will love Adirondack Extreme Adventure Course’s aerial treetop course! And now, there’s even more reason to prioritize crossing this bucket list item off your list – they’ve recently upgraded to top of the line safety equipment.
The Highest Safety Standards for All Equipment
Adirondack Extreme Adventure Course recently announced the completion of over $200,000 in park upgrades, which includes state-of-the-art CLiC-iT® smart belay technology. This safety hooking system synchronizes the open/locked positions of the two carabiners used to clip into the treetop courses, which prevents the accidental release of both at the same time.
In other words, this technology makes it impossible for climbers to become unclipped from the course safety lines while they’re climbing.
While Adirondack Extreme has always made safety a top priority, owner Jamie Johnson explained that they’re simply keeping up with technology as it advances.
“The systems and gear we were previously using were top-rated, well-maintained, and had a 100% success rate at our park,” Johnson said in a statement. “The available technology for our industry evolved and improved, and therefore so did we.”
Additional Upgrades to the Kids Course
The safety equipment improvements are just a part of a series of upgrades Adirondack Extreme has taken on. This past fall, their Kids Course doubled in size with the addition of a second children’s course with higher elevations up to 24 feet, and 15 more obstacles like ziplines, a wavy bridge, a fish trap passage, and more.
In May of last year Adirondack Extreme upgraded the Kids Course with the Saferoller® continuous belay system. This system allows for fast, smoother transitions from obstacle to obstacle with continuous end-to-end rolling and hands-free movement.
The enhancements made to the Kids Course has allowed Adirondack Extreme to lower the age requirement from seven to six years of age. Guests of varying reach requirements are able to participate, and parents now have the option to enjoy the experience along with their children.
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Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke returns to the road with a series of shows this year, featuring frequent collaborators by Nigel Godrich and Tarik Barri (otherwise known as Tomorrow's Modern Boxes). Expect to hear tunes old and new as Yorke bares his soul on stage once more for North American audiences!
Finding critical acclaim and fame with his award-winning rock group Radiohead Thom Yorke has pursued various projects, including solo records, soundtracks and film scores . Yorke is also a human rights, environmental and political activist with his lyrics sometimes addressing the issues occurring in the world. With a voice that pierces your very soul, an evening with Thom and his insights is not one you'll forget in a while.
Performance date: 26 October 2019
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Church closing for good after century of worship
Updated: 8:58 AM CDT Oct 15, 2012
A Cedar Rapids church will be closing next month after more than a century of worship services in Cedar Rapids.The Rev. Tedd Bryant told Cedar Rapids television station KCRG that Eden United Church of Christ was struggling with attendance before the 2008 flooding forced the congregation from its building in southwest Cedar Rapids.The congregation was one of the few that returned to its building after the flooding, but the membership problems also returned. Bryant says fewer than 30 people had been attending regularly.The church has been serving the community and its membership since 1906. It will end that century-plus of service with the delivery of the final sermon there on Nov. 11.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa —
A Cedar Rapids church will be closing next month after more than a century of worship services in Cedar Rapids.
The Rev. Tedd Bryant told Cedar Rapids television station KCRG that Eden United Church of Christ was struggling with attendance before the 2008 flooding forced the congregation from its building in southwest Cedar Rapids.
The congregation was one of the few that returned to its building after the flooding, but the membership problems also returned. Bryant says fewer than 30 people had been attending regularly.
The church has been serving the community and its membership since 1906. It will end that century-plus of service with the delivery of the final sermon there on Nov. 11.
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Groups Plan To Sue Over Agency Negligence On Desert Tortoise, Other Wildlife
Groups Plan To Sue Over Agency Negligence On Desert Tortoise, Other Wildlife | KCET
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Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
the Threatened desert tortoise | Photo: Justin Ennis/Flickr/Creative Commons License
Charging that the Bureau of Land Management has failed to fulfill its legal obligations to monitor and report on threats to the desert tortoise and other imperiled species in the California desert, a consortium of environmental groups says it plans to sue the agency for its inaction.
The plaintiffs charge that BLM has failed to track the effects of a wide range of human activities in the California desert on the tortoise, as well as on other Endangered and Threatened desert animal and plant species. For seven years, say the plaintiffs, BLM has neglected to monitor the wildlife impacts of activities from mining and grazing to off-road vehicle use on desert public lands -- a violation of the Endangered Species Act.
The BLM has also failed to file legally mandated annual reports on those species with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As a result, say the groups, the federal government lacks basic information about the status of those protected species, putting the species involved at risk.
"Seven years of impacts, absent monitoring and changes in management, could doom critically endangered species," said Terry Frewin of the Sierra Club, one of the groups planning to sue. "The BLM's abdication of legal requirements and Fish and Wildlife Service's neglect of enforcement is setting up a crisis for these species already teetering on the brink of extinction."
Groups planning to join the Sierra Club in suing the BLM are the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and Desert Survivors.
In addition to the desert tortoise, species that have suffered inadequate monitoring and reporting by BLM include the peninsular bighorn sheep and the Lane Mountain milkvetch.
Annual reporting on the status of listed species, as well as on the effects of potentially destructive activity such as grazing and off-roading, is intended to provide a reality check for federal agencies charged with making sure those species aren't unduly harmed by human activity. Without that monitoring, land managers are essentially flying in the dark when it comes to predicting future impacts to the species in question.
"The Bureau of Land Management has shrugged off its duty to report impacts of grazing and off-road vehicle use on protected species on our public lands," said CBD attorney Lisa Belenky. "BLM says it's committed to conserving species and habitats in California deserts -- yet it has failed to comply with even the most basic requirements for management of desert tortoises and other rare and vulnerable wildlife."
For ongoing environmental coverage in March 2017 and afterward, please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine for historic material.
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DOJ’s New Corporate Compliance Guidance: Implementation, Operationalization and Effectiveness (Part IV of V)
Michael Volkov
While I hate to start out a posting with such “mumbo jumbo” terms, I had to come up with short hand descriptions of some otherwise fairly complex and robust topics under the new DOJ Guidance. In evaluating whether a corporate compliance program is being implemented effectively, DOJ has focused on three broad, but critical topics: (1) Commitment by Senior and Middle Management; (2) Autonomy and Resources; and (3) Incentives and Discipline.
In these areas, DOJ is pushing the envelope and demanding greater compliance excellence. It is no accident that DOJ is raising the bar on compliance programs – DOJ has seen first hand how companies fail to dedicate adequate resources, train their middle managers and ignore the occurrence of misconduct. The new expectations are specifically tailored to these observations and perhaps DOJ’s frustration in the enforcement arena.
The primary principle applied by DOJ is to focus on how a company operationalizes its “well-designed” compliance program. To define this term DOJ notes its focus on whether the compliance program is a “paper” program or one “implemented, reviewed, and revised, as appropriate, in an effective manner. Further, DOJ will examine “whether the corporation has provided for a staff sufficient to audit, document, analyze and utilize the results of the corporation’s compliance efforts,” and “whether the corporation’s employees are adequately informed about the compliance program and are convinced of the corporation’s commitment to it.”
Commitment by Senior and Middle Management
Under this factor, DOJ has boldly stated that “it is important for a company to create and foster a culture of ethics and compliance with the law.” To this end, DOJ specifically states “[t]he effectiveness of a compliance program requires a high-level commitment by company leadership to implement a culture of compliance from the top.”
To underscore this point, DOJ will examine whether senior management has “clearly articulated the company’s ethical standards, conveyed and disseminated them in clear and unambiguous terms, and demonstrated rigorous adherence by example.” In no uncertain terms, DOJ has mandated that senior management has to not only use words but must take specific actions to demonstrate their commitment to an ethical culture. In addition, DOJ stated that it will examine how “middle management, in turn, have reinforced those standards and encouraged employees to abide by them.
When examining conduct at the top, DOJ will focus on the “words and actions” of senior leaders, and specifically, concrete actions they have taken to demonstrate leadership in the compliance program. With respect to middle management, DOJ will determine if managers tolerated greater compliance risks in pursuit of new business or greater revenues, and whether they encouraged employees to act unethically to achieve business objective or impeded compliance personnel from carrying out their responsibilities. DOJ’s new focus is on shared commitment by senior and middle management stakeholders (e.g. business and operational managers, human resources, finance, procurement, legal) to ensure compliance and remediation of any deficiencies.
Finally, the DOJ Guidance reiterates the importance of compliance expertise on the board of directors and focuses on whether the board and/or external auditors have held private or executive sessions with compliance and control functions. In this area, DOJ intends to review the information that the board of directors and senior management examine in their oversight of the compliance program.
Autonomy and Resources
DOJ’s Guidance correctly focuses on the compliance staff’s authority and stature in the organization, as well as the structure of the compliance program. DOJ reiterated its focus on the sufficiency of personnel and resources dedicated to the compliance program, including the seniority of the compliance staff in the organization; sufficient staff to audit, document and analyze the compliance program functions, and autonomy from management, such as direct access to the board or the board’s audit committee. DOJ noted that the structure, autonomy and sufficiency of staff and resources will vary depending on the size of the organization.
In recognition of the key role that internal audit plays in a compliance program, DOJ will now evaluate whether the “internal audit functions are conducted at a level sufficient to ensure their independence and accuracy,” as an indicator of whether compliance personnel are in fact empowered and positioned to “effectively detect and prevent misconduct.”
DOJ also will determine whether the compliance staff has sufficient resources and “the quality and experience of the personnel involved in compliance, such that they can understand and identify the transactions and activities that pose a potential risk, the authority and independence of the compliance function and the availability of compliance expertise to the board.” To emphasize this latter point, DOJ will examine whether the directors establish an information and reporting system to provide management and the board with timely and accurate information.
As to the structure of the program, DOJ will examine who the chief compliance officer reports to in the company, whether to a business function, general counsel or CEO and/or board. In addition, DOJ will determine if compliance staff operate exclusively on compliance issues or have other responsibilities (e.g. ethics and compliance ambassadors). Finally, DOJ will seek an explanation for why the company structured the compliance program a particular way.
With respect to seniority and stature, DOJ will compare the compliance staff to other strategic functions in the company on the basis of seniority, compensation, rank, title, reporting line and access to key decision-makers. Further, DOJ will determine the level of turnover for compliance and other control functions, and the role of compliance in strategic and business decisions. In this regard, DOJ will inquire whether any transactions were stopped, modified or further scrutinized to address compliance concerns.
In terms of board reporting, DOJ will examine how often the compliance and relevant control functions report to the board and/or audit committee, whether senior management is present at the meeting and the company ensures independence of the compliance and relevant control personnel.
Finally, to the extent a company outsources compliance functions, DOJ will examine how the relationship is structured, what tasks are taken on by an outside provider, what level of access to information the outside provider has, and who is responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of the outside provider’s work.
Incentives and Discipline
Under this category, DOJ will examine the company’s disciplinary procedures, whether they are applied consistently across the organization, and whether the procedures are commensurate with the violations. As part of its disciplinary system, a company has to communicate that unethical conduct will not be tolerated and have swift consequences, regardless of the position or title of the employee.
In this area, DOJ will focus on who is responsible for making disciplinary decisions, how such procedures work for different types of misconduct, and whether the reasons for a disciplinary action communicated to employees. In reviewing a company’s transparency, DOJ will examine if the company has investigation-legal reasons for restricting information or pre-textual reasons to protect the company from whistleblowing or outside scrutiny.
As an example, DOJ cites the recent trend of companies that publicize disciplinary actions internally, where appropriate, and the deterrent value of such communications. Along with disincentives, DOJ noted that companies have beenusing positive incentives through personnel promotions, rewards and bonuses for improving a compliance program or demonstrating ethical leadership. In particular, DOJ observed that some companies have even made compliance a means of career advancement and/or a metric for management bonuses.
DOJ’s New Corporate Compliance Guidance: Does Your Compliance Program Work? (Part V of V)
DOJ’s New Corporate Compliance Guidance: Risk Assessments and Policies and Procedures (Part II of IV)
DOJ Issues New and More Robust Guidance on Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (Part I of IV)
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Rise of digital finance: Tokenising mining & metals assets - Can tokenised mining royalties and metal streams unlock a new investor base?
Rebecca Campbell, Andrzej Omietanski
White & Case LLP
The authors would like to thank Arnoud Star Busman, Chief Executive Officer of MineHub Technologies, Inc. (formerly Innovation Lead at ING), Alison Mangiero, President of the Tocqueville Group (TQ), Prat Vallabhaneni, partner, and Laura Kitchen, associate of White & Case LLP, for their contributions to this article.
Rapid advances in blockchain technology are reinventing the way companies operate and deliver products and services to their clients. These changes are particularly visible in the mining & metals industry, a sector that has been traditionally slow in adopting technological innovations. Yet blockchains and smart contracts, which to this point the sector has focused on as a source of productivity and transparency gains for the mining & metals global supply chain, could herald new sources of finance too. Miners face a persistently challenging environment to raise equity and equity-like capital to fund ventures. According to the State of Mining Finance 2019 Report produced by the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada and junior financing tracker Oreninc, funds raised via equity in 2018 were at the lowest recorded level in the past decade, with equity funding dropping approximately 40 per cent from 2017 to 2018. Could blockchain-based digital finance techniques provide a funding solution to miners?
drop in equity funding in global mining finance from 2017 to 2018
Source: State of Mining Finance 2019 Report, Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
Digital token offerings have emerged in the last few years as a new way to fund the development of emerging technologies. With their unique benefits, they are well placed to emerge as an alternative or a supplement to traditional financing options available to mining companies.
ICOs: a recap
The first example of a blockchain-based digital token offering was an initial coin offering (ICO) by Omni Layer, formerly known as Mastercoin, in early 2013. Omni is a digital currency and communications protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain. Since the first ICO in 2013, ICOs have, in short, exploded. An ICO is a method of raising capital in which investors participate in the fundraising by transferring government currencies (fiat), and/or cryptocurrencies to the issuer in exchange for digital tokens. The tokens represent a holder's right of benefit or performance vis-à-vis the issuer.
We need to reinvent ourselves… we are an old industry and there is no doubt we have changed and modernised… But we have not changed to the same extent that we have seen other industries reinvent themselves…
Jean-Sébastien Jacques, Rio Tinto CEO, October 2018
The underlying technology of the tokens is based on blockchain, which is maintained by a distributed network of computers and participants. Using cryptography to record transactions, blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum process, verify and track the trade of the relevant virtual currency (e.g., Bitcoin or Ethereum) securely across independent network components on a "peer-to-peer" basis. In summary, blockchains, and in particular public blockchains, can remove the need for a variety of intermediaries, at least from a technical point of view. Legally, what is necessary will be facts and circumstances specific and dependent on the jurisdictions involved (cf private blockchains, which are hosted by central parties and are by definition more controlled in a "walled-garden" style approach which can be desirable from a variety of standpoints, such as compliance).
From ICOs to STOs
Digital token offering structures have evolved—at a great pace—from initial coin offering to initial exchange offering (IEO) to security token offering (STO). ICOs have gained the most publicity out of those structures as an innovative "peer-to-peer" financing mechanism, raising more than US$5 billion in 2017 and more than US$11 billion in 2018, with some estimates of more than US$20 billion. But following the bursting of the "ICO bubble" in early 2018 and the negative press around various ICO scams, the (mostly unregulated) ICO market has been gradually drying out, while IEOs and STOs have been gaining traction. Issuers and investors are turning to more refined digital capital-raising solutions, giving more thought to compliance as regulators all around the world begin to formulate and crystallise their approaches to digital token offerings.
Digital token offerings are relatively easy to structure because of technologies like the ERC20 token— issued on the Ethereum blockchain—which simplifies the process necessary to create and distribute a new cryptographic asset. This allows issuers to prepare and launch token offerings quickly and effectively.
Miners keen on creative financing structures
As challenging financing conditions continue to persist, miners have been looking for creative financing options to fund their ventures, and in particular their growth projects. While traditional financing options—bonds, loans, project finance, prepayment, convertible bonds, equity—remain generally the most attractive and understood, it is now common for companies to access multiple financing sources to diversify their capital structure, combining traditional financing options with alternative financing sources—royalty, streaming and/ or private debt. Mining royalty and metal streaming financings have been particularly popular with miners in the last decade as an alternative financing source for growth projects, allowing access to early-stage capital without diluting equity ownership.
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What is mining royalty finance?
A mining royalty is a right to receive payment based on a percentage of mineral production or of the revenues or profits generated from the sale of those minerals at a mine. A royalty typically involves an up-front payment to the mining company from the royalty holder (i.e., investor) in return for a contractual undertaking from the mining company to pay a specified percentage of future revenue for a specified period. This can be based on a percentage revenue based on, for example, profit, net smelter return or production. The up-front payment received from a mining royalty investment can be used for many purposes, from general corporate purposes and capex to acquisitions and even exploration.
The flexibility and profit-sharing mechanism of mining royalty finance is particularly attractive as it allows mining companies, at various stages of their life cycle, to access up-front funding as a substitute to an equity raise to fund feasibility studies or debt in order to fund the development and construction of an asset.
Taking the traditional mining royalty finance model and combining it with an innovative digital financing wrapper in the form of an STO could provide a very attractive business model for both mining companies wishing to raise capital and for investors. Similarly, the mining stream financing model—a metals prepayment structure commonly used in the sector—would be potentially amenable to tokenisation. This may require the investor to accept a physical commodity settlement and is likely to evolve after "royalty tokenisation" has taken hold.
Royalty mining token: Structure and legal framework for an STO
There are many ways and options to structure a mining royalty token which includes investment from both US investors and non-US investors. For instance, a mining royalty token issuance could be split into two simultaneous token offerings—"Series A Tokens" and "Series B Tokens"—to ensure a "light regulatory burden" in compliance with US Securities Regulations. Series A Tokens could be issued only in the US to specific targeted investors who do not need an immediate liquid market and would be happy to hold onto the tokens, while Series B Tokens could be issued in another jurisdiction with favourable token issuance regulations towards non-US investors.
…maybe there needs to be a new way of funding mining projects…
Series A Tokens could be issued privately in the US by way of an STO to a select few investors through Regulation D Rule 506(c). In such a private US issuance, there is no limit on the amount of money that can be raised. It also allows the company to access a larger pool of investors via general solicitation. In addition, the filing process is relatively light. One limitation of this structure is that it's only open to accredited investors—investors earning above US$200,000 or with a net worth above US$1 million. The other one is that such securities would also be "restricted securities"—the investors would only be able to resell the security tokens into the market by using an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or a valid exemption from registration for the resale, such as via so-called Rule 144.
Series B Tokens could be issued to non-US investors in reliance on US Regulation S through an STO. Series B Tokens can be potentially listed on an exchange in a non-US "token friendly" jurisdiction, where such an issuance may allow for quick secondary market liquidity. Under US Regulation S, there is also no limit on the amount of money that can be raised, and general solicitation is allowed as long as it does not target any US investors. The cons are that Series B Tokens have resale restrictions on them with respect to US investors.
The royalty token offering gives greater control to the mining company in raising royalty-linked capital and potentially diversifies the sources of royalty finance away from the select group of listed royalty companies and specialist funds that have traditionally dominated this realm of mining finance.
All hype and speculation?
The recent rise of blockchain-powered digital financing tools in the form of ICOs created considerable hype and fuelled significant speculation. Some ICO scams tarnished the reputation of the underlying technology underpinning these digital financing tools.
The beauty of gold is that it's a solid asset. It’s been around for a very long time and will continue to be around. The problem with cryptocurrencies is that the market is always changing and you constantly have to watch it.
Randy Smallwood, CEO, Silver Wheaton
However, blockchain and the digital financing tools built on it are showing signs of a paradigm shift from speculation to application. We are entering a phase in which there is a realisation that unregulated— and in certain cases—speculative ICOs without any economic rationale may not be best suited to succeed as a widely adopted digital financing structure, especially by traditional investors. Rather, digital financing structures, such as STOs compliant with regulation and structured with a sound economic purpose, are more likely to succeed.
Recent tokenisation of real-world assets by Elevated Returns—a financial group focused on digitising traditional financial assets—through an US$18 million STO is a sign that regulated blockchain-powered digital financing tools will be embraced to raise capital by financing "real-world assets" and not only to raise capital for technological innovations, such as funding the development of source code.
Tokenisation will also come to the mining & metals industry. Traditional mining royalty financings, wrapped in an STO, are likely the first blockchain-based digital financing structures that will be widely applied in the mining & metals industry.
However, imagine the powerful combination of solid mining assets underpinning tokens (cryptocurrencies)…
A question of when, not if
The rise of digital financing structures will have profound implications for the mining & metals industry. Miners will be able to access alternative funding methods, which will be a welcome development, given the decline in equity funding into the sector. Industry players will now need to fully understand digital financing structures before engaging with miners who are raising such capital. For example, royalties and streams already give rise to unique inter-creditor considerations, as the interests of royalty and stream holders do not always sit comfortably with those of traditional senior creditors in an enforcement scenario. The added STO wrapper may further give rise to potential complications that may be important to the various financiers, and any implications should be dealt with as early as possible in the financing. Similarly, M&A transactions involving a mining company with an existing tokenised royalty in its capital structure will involve a slightly different due diligence process, which is likely to involve a blockchain technical adviser.
Will digital financing structures based on blockchain technology disrupt the mining sector ecosystem? It may take some time for the traditional ecosystem to change, but it's a question of when, not if.
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This Instant Image Translator Turns Your Cat Drawings Into Unholy Nightmares
Feb 24, 2017, 10:00am
Image: iStock
If you're crap at drawing, artificial intelligence (AI) technology may be able to turn you into Artgem… one day. For now, it can convert your crude cat doodles into amusing monstrosities. Try it out for yourself.
There's unlimited potential for machine learning and neural networks for the development of smarter artificial intelligence (AI). For example, you can use them to make computers recognise objects (which is harder than it sounds) for a range of different applications.
Google decided to open source its machine learning system TensorFlow in 2015 and since then a number of people have played around with it to create their own AI experiments.
One of these people is software engineer and cofounder of Pushbullet Chris Hesse, who ported an image-to-image translation model called pix2pix to Tensorflow and made it work in a browser.
He created a few image translation demos for several objects. One of them is called edges2cats, which is trained on around 2000 stock cat photos and can convert a line drawing of a cat into something that somewhat resembles the real thing.
The demo was made in JavaScript using the Canvas API that communicates with a back-end server that runs images through TensorFlow.
It's a great demonstration of what is possible with machine learning, but it has its limitations.
"Some of the pictures look especially creepy, I think because it's easier to notice when an animal looks wrong, especially around the eyes", Hesse admits on his blog. "The auto-detected edges are not very good and in many cases didn't detect the cat's eyes, making it a bit worse for training the image translation model."
With that said, edge2cats will spit out images that looks somewhat decent if you feed it more details.
If you're only giving it crude lines to work with though, you get something like this:
And if muck around with it, you get something that looks like it's from a HP Lovecraft novel:
Hesse also created similar demos for shoes, buildings and handbags. You can try it out for yourself here. It's recommended that you use the Google Chrome browser to make the most of these demos.
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Party on...
„The Pfannkuchen are too salty“, she remarked and he glanced up and answered: „You know they make comments about over-salting food“ He said and she quickly changed the subject. Yup, she knew and she knew he knew she was wondering if she was falling in love with someone who has just supposed to be an affair, nothing complicated.
Don’t get attached. Keep your focus, she thought. Nothing emotional, she told herself. No way, nobody needed that. Not him and not her.
„Sometimes I do think I might be slightly autistic, I mean I go on and on about this shit and stuff or sth...“ said H. „Hey, you really are not the first,“ Banality Girl heard her pussyvoice saying. And H. said: „Ok, good to hear that you know how to deal with that shit.“
I had such clarity after those three days of sex, she told FFF.
“All the stupid comma shit was gone.” FFF. laughed. “Because you know what I mean,” Banality Girl said. “I am working with two women on my level and there is all this competition, so one of them likes to point out my comma errors to the higher up, her personal BIG DADDY. It’s pretty obvious. I was quite proud of myself for sitting back and simply observing the last time that happened, not calling her out. I am trying to really focus on the fact that this specific BIG DADDY is not significant to me, I have one more year there and that is it. It is not my field but it is hers, and so she can and should by all means have his respect. But she has a tendency to small-minded perfectionism that is blocking her.
If I were to mentor her I would say just kick that out of your life. My sneaky suspicion though is in fact that he has an eye on me in the respect sense or maybe he is actually a pretty good boss...he showed me respect the other day and that made me, in turn, respect him. But I have too little experience working in a male dominated environment to really see through things. Although I did also work in a male dominated environment at the university, it is just that my direct superiors were all women.
Yeah, it does make me feel insecure and I have to remind myself that at that level it isn’t competence – it’s just power games. Most of the negotiating has zero to do with content, unfortunately. I am just so grateful you agreed to be part of the jury...it’s going to be tough but I got NTS in there she is another outspoken and cool woman.
Once you have 30 % women in a setting you can change the Old Boys’ Club dynamic, under 30% you are pretty much wasting my breath and your time. So let’s see what we can do.”
“Thank you,” FFF said. “I am glad you told me and also glad you told me we need 30%. I really hope you get to teach, you should be teaching, BG.”
“I know,” said Banality Girl.
FFF said, “But you are engaged, right? You do believe your art is important. I mean you are painting.”
“Sure,” said BG. “Actually I feel like I am dancing on my grave...do you remember that woman, what was her name? SFW?
That skinny fashionable woman doing that nineties style slightly Freudian photography thing from the point of view of an overindulged Westchester County teen, seriously thinking she was making art relevant to, I guess, women all over the world? Geez. With her silly Son-of-a-Convicted-Seventies-Terrorist boyfriend and his former philosopher lover who made herself out to be very interesting by stroking a pet rat she had with her.”
“OMG, yes,” said FFF. “That was just unbelievable, that hyped silly artist whom nobody speaks about any more, calling you a criminal for not being able to pay your student loans? Calling you a criminal at the dinner table among all those aging rich kids?” said Freedom Fighter Friend.
“I remember how that artist woman didn’t pay any attention to me except via typical condescension until she heard I had been in the soandso program and then she suddenly ‚saw’ me. Oh, the soandso program. Really? What a disgusting person.”
Freedom Fighter Friend said.
“I mean, I remember going to that program and all these rich white kids were speaking about labor and we could see from the window in SoHo over to the other building into, BG, literally INTO a sweatshop and these silly art students who had never actually had to use their bodies for labor speaking about art as labor...it seemed so incredibly ironic to me, when I had grown up seeing my immigrant parents come home from factory work with bruises...”
“Yeah...rich kids,”
said Banality Girl.
“Like the ones that come to Berlin feeling like they belong to some sort of ENCLAVE OF FUTURE LEADERS paying a ton of money to be part of a US Kaderschmiede, kind of like a Club Med with a tad of intellectual powdered sugar dusting from some TOP DOG or another, also imported from abroad. Nothing TOO challenging, though, especially politically. None of them seem to speak anything but English, nor do they know or care to meet any locals and so I… I mean, you DO wonder why they are even here in Berlin? Because Berghain?"
"I mean, I grew up around people like that, Expats who would insist on buying fruit on the US Army Base in Morocco instead of going to a local fruit stand. Fear of contamination … or just plain cultural laziness, I guess.”
“I never understood it. Or maybe I don’t want to. It’s all about class and privilege and not wanting to contaminate oneself with the banal precarities of life, local life, whatever that means. Still the same old shit, you are what you consume, or rather, how much money you can spend, and here you show how you can afford to consume ‘Berlin’. Locals are not consuming it in that sense and so they are gross. And you become gross if you become one of them. So you kind of sprinkle some of that hot shit, ‘labor’ or ‘Berlin” or whatever it currently is into your chatter pretending to be theory without really touching any of it.”
She paused.
“Not everybody is like that” she felt a need to quickly qualify what she said, lest she appear xenophobic. Was she?? She tried looking into herself…2 weeks ago she had been really angry when asking for a coffee in German and being unkindly reprimanded: "English, please". In a local Café. Why was she so touchy about that? Was she, in the end, actually somewhat reactionary inside? She wondered how to think about or not think about this mess. We are what we consume. That is it and it is true. Renau knew that about US style capitalism way back then and he knew how to show it, too. She felt vaguely nauseated as she contemplated how they all tended to hide the financial precarities of their artistic lives. Nobody really was open about how dire some of their lives were, financially. At the same time, perfectly reasonable school teaching jobs with actual long term perspective were seen as embarrassing. She was constantly afraid of looking at her account.She knew she was not the only one.
"Well. actually, there is way more to it than that," FFF pointed out. "Locals can be pretty...uhm...xenophobic." And she looked at Banality Girl. Marginalization and precarity does not prevent the marginalized from marginalizing..."
"That's true," said Banality girl. "Yeah." And sighed.
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Photos: Take a look inside a $350,000 McLaren supercar
By Julian Gill
Updated 7:46 am CDT, Friday, June 7, 2019
Houston Chronicle reporter Julian Gill drinks a soda as he test drove a McLaren 720S Coupe in the driveway of a Whataburger, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
Photo: Karen Warren, Staff Photographer
They're called supercars for a reason.
The McLaren 720S Coupe earned that status with a 710 horsepower engine and top speeds of 215 mph. It hits 60 mph in roughly 2.5 seconds, and someone decided to give this reporter the keys for a test drive.
Read more on HoustonChronicle.com: What it's like to drive a $350,000 supercar in Houston
The drive, which lasted about 45 minutes and included a stop a Whataburger, was part of a promotional event with McLaren North American President Tony Joseph, who was in town Wednesday to talk about the brand's future and its new car, the McLaren GT.
What it’s like to drive a $350,000 supercar in Houston
Chron.com reporter Julian Gill takes the McLaren 720S Spider on a spin to get a sprite at Whataberger. (Video: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle )
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While the new car is not yet for sale, Joseph's goal is to expand people's awareness of the brand. The company started by building a record-breaking road racecar in the 1990s, the McLaren F1.
Since then, it's added a slew of models to their lineup, including the 720S Coupe, which can be adjusted for a quick drive to Whataburger or a bonafide track race.
>>> Click through the photos to see more exotic cars at the Houston McLaren dealership
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Tecos allow season-high 17 runs in loss
By Jason Mack, LMTonline.com / Laredo Morning Times
Published 5:35 am CDT, Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Tecolotes Dos Laredos pitcher Cesilio Pimentel
Photo: Courtesy Of The Tecolotes Dos Laredos
The Tecolotes Dos Laredos ended their four-game win streak in emphatic fashion Tuesday as they set a season high for runs allowed opening their series at Diablos Rojos del Mexico with a 17-2 loss.
The 17 runs allowed was the second most the Tecolotes (42-34) have allowed since returning to Laredo in 2018. The high mark was a 23-3 loss at Monclova on July 3, 2018. The previous second-worst mark came in a pair of 16-2 losses with one Aug. 3 at Monterrey and another Sept. 2 and Monclova. The dominant offensive showcase was only the second best this season for the Diablos Rojos (42-30). Their high point was a 29-0 throttling of Bravos de Leon at home on June 5.
Cesilio Pimentel (6-4) took the brunt of the damage as his ERA climbed from 3.96 to 4.63. He lasted only 2.1 innings as he allowed eight runs (seven earned) off seven hits and two walks. Pimentel lasted at least five innings in his other eight starts this season. He also set new highs in runs and earned runs allowed. His previous highs were seven runs and five earned runs, and both came in starts lasting more than five innings.
A pair of relievers were also credited with multiple earned runs. Luis Heredia did not record an out as he allowed four runs off five hits and two walks. The five runs matched his season high, but it was two more than his previous worst of three earned runs allowed. Gabino Avalos had his second-longest outing of the season pitching 2.1 innings as he allowed three hits, three walks and two runs with two strikeouts. His previous longest outing was three innings. Andy Salcido allowed a pair of runs in the eighth inning, but they were both unearned.
Designated hitter Balbino Fuenmayor snapped his hit streak at 10 games as he was 0-for-3 before Amaury Cazana pinch hit for him in the eighth inning. During the hitting streak, Fuenmayor was 20-for-38 (.526) with 12 RBIs and five home runs.
The Tecolotes got on the board in the third inning as left fielder Misael German hit a one-out single, moved up on a walk by second baseman Juan Martinez and scored on a single from center fielder Johnny Davis cutting the deficit to 6-1. Shortstop Roberto Valenzuela followed with a single to load the bases, but third baseman Josh Rodriguez grounded into a 5-3 double play to retire the side.
One more run came across in the fourth inning, but it came after the Tecos gave up six more in the third. First baseman Rudy Flores drew a one-out walk, advanced on a single from catcher Arturo Rodriguez and scored with a single from right fielder Roberto Lopez. For the second straight inning, the Tecolotes were limited to one run thanks to a double play with a 6-4-3 ground out by German.
The Diablos Rojos added one run in each of the next three innings to become the third team this season to score 15 runs on the Tecolotes. They surpassed that total with two more runs in the eighth off a fielding error after leading off the inning with two walks and a hit batter to load the bases.
Despite being outscored 17-2, the Tecolotes weren’t far behind in the hit column with the Diablos Rojos holding a 16-10 edge. German, Lopez, Arturo Rodriguez and Valenzuela each recorded two hits.
The series continues at 7 p.m. Wednesday and closes out with a 4 p.m. showdown Thursday.
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Arizona Laws > Title 3 > Chapter 1 – AGRICULTURAL ADMINISTRATION
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Article 1 Department of Agriculture 3-101 – 3-109.02
Article 2 Agricultural Protection Act 3-111 – 3-114
Article 3 Agricultural Extension Work 3-121 – 3-128
Article 4 State Agricultural Laboratory 3-141 – 3-149
Article 5 Historic Agriculture Recognition 3-161 – 3-165
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Absconder: means a probationer who has moved from the probationer's primary residence without permission of the probation officer, who cannot be located within ninety days of the previous contact and against whom a petition to revoke has been filed in the superior court alleging that the probationer's whereabouts are unknown. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Access device: means any card, token, code, account number, electronic serial number, mobile or personal identification number, password, encryption key, biometric identifier or other means of account access, including a canceled or revoked access device, that can be used alone or in conjunction with another access device to obtain money, goods, services, computer or network access or any other thing of value or that can be used to initiate a transfer of any thing of value. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
accomplice: means a person, other than a peace officer acting in his official capacity within the scope of his authority and in the line of duty, who with the intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense:
1. See Arizona Laws 3-2013
Acquittal:
Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
A verdict of "not guilty."
Act: means a bodily movement. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Additional wagering facility: means a facility that is not the enclosure in which authorized racing takes place but that meets the requirements of section 5-111, subsection A and is used by a permittee for handling pari-mutuel wagering. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Adequate provocation: means conduct or circumstances sufficient to deprive a reasonable person of self-control. See Arizona Laws 3-3107
Adulterated: means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed by statute or administrative regulation or, if none, as set by established commercial usage. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Advance deposit wagering: means a form of pari-mutuel wagering that allows a person to deposit monies in advance in an account with an advance deposit provider and use the monies to pay for pari-mutuel wagering on live or simulcast racing that the advance deposit pari-mutuel wagering permittee accepts or makes. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Advance deposit wagering provider: means a betting system or multijurisdictional wagering provider that is authorized to conduct advance deposit wagering pursuant to this article. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
Aggrieved party: means a person who resides at, owns or leases property within a one-mile radius of a premises proposed to be licensed and who filed a written request with the department to speak in favor of or opposition to the issuance of the license no later than sixty days after the filing of the application or fifteen days after action by the local governing body, whichever is sooner. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Agricultural laboratory services: means the following services:
(a) Providing a residue analysis of:
(i) Raw, processed or manufactured agricultural commodities and products. See Arizona Laws 3-141
Agricultural operations: means all activities by the owner, lessee, agent, independent contractor and supplier conducted on any facility for the production of crops, livestock, poultry, livestock products or poultry products. See Arizona Laws 3-111
ALIRT agreement: means the Arizona livestock incident response team agreement established between the department and a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
Alternative fuel: means :
(a) Electricity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Animal food manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or in part from carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of poultry. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Applicant: means a person, partnership, association or corporation placing before the department an application for a permit or license. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
aquaculture facility: means the controlled propagation, growth and harvest of aquatic animals or plants, including fish, amphibians, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, algae and vascular plants. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Aquatic products: means aquatic animals and plants, or their by-products, that are produced, grown, managed, harvested or marketed. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Aquatic wildlife: means amphibians, fish, mollusks, crustaceans and soft shelled turtles found in a state of nature. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Area C: means that portion of Pinal county lying west of range 11 east, excluding that portion of the county lying within area A as defined in section 49-541 and that portion of the county within the jurisdiction of any Indian tribe, band, group or community that is recognized by the United States secretary of the interior and that exercises governmental authority within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent and including rights-of-way running through the reservation. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Arizona inspected and passed: means the carcasses and parts of carcasses have been inspected, stamped and passed in slaughtering establishments with state meat inspection service, and the carcasses and parts of carcasses used by such a slaughtering establishment or by a meat processor have been re-inspected and the operations in the preparation of meat and meat food products have been approved in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Assistant director: means the assistant director for the state agricultural laboratory. See Arizona Laws 3-141
Assistant director: means the assistant director of the office of agricultural safety in the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Associate director: means the associate director of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Associate director: means the associate director of the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2661
association: when used in reference to a corporation, includes successors or assigns. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Association: means a body of persons, corporations, partnerships or associations, united and acting together without a charter from the state for the prosecution of some common enterprise. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Beer: means any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation, infusion or decoction of barley malt, hops, or other ingredients not drinkable, or any combination of them. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
Benefit: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Biodiesel: means a mono-alkyl ester that meets ASTM D6751. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Biodiesel blend: means a motor fuel that is composed of biodiesel and diesel fuel and that is designated by the letter "B" followed by the numeric value of the volume percentage of biodiesel in the blend. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Biofuel: means a solid, liquid or gaseous fuel that is derived from biomass and that can be used directly for heating or power or as a blend component in motor fuel. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Biomass: means biological material, such as plant or animal matter, excluding organic material that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum or derivatives thereof, that may be transformed into biofuel. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Biomass-based diesel: means a diesel fuel substitute produced from nonpetroleum renewable resources that meets the registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the United States environmental protection agency under 42 United States Code 7545 and includes fuel derived from animal wastes, including poultry wastes and other waste materials, municipal solid waste and sludge and oil derived from wastewater and the treatment of wastewater. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Biomass-based diesel blend: means a blend of petroleum-based diesel fuel with biomass-based diesel. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Board: means the state liquor board. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Boxing: means the act of attack and defense with the fists, using padded gloves, that is practiced as a sport. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Branch office: means any fixed place of business, other than the primary office, where records are kept, mail is received, statements are rendered, money is collected, requests for service or bids are received, information pertaining to the business of pest management is given or pesticides are stored or disposed of. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Branch supervisor: means a certified applicator working at or from a branch office who is responsible for ensuring the training, equipping and supervision of all applicators of the branch office. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Brand: means the term, design or trademark and other specific designation under which an individual commercial feed is distributed in this state. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Bribe: means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, asked, offered, given, accepted or promised with a corrupt intent to influence, unlawfully, the person to whom it is given in that person's action, vote or opinion, in any public or official capacity. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Broken package: means any container of spirituous liquor on which the United States tax seal has been broken or removed, or from which the cap, cork or seal placed thereupon by the manufacturer has been removed. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Broker: means a person engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of livestock on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Business license: means a license that is issued pursuant to this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter to a person and that entitles that person and the person's employees to engage in the business of pest management. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Business of pest management: means engaging in, offering to engage in, advertising for, soliciting or performing pest management, including any of the following:
(a) Identifying infestations or making inspections for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Carcass: means all parts, including viscera, of a slaughtered animal that are capable of being used for human food. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Cardholder: means any person who is either:
(a) Named on the face of a credit card to whom or for whose benefit the credit card is issued by an issuer. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Certification: means the process of determining the accuracy of a commercial device to the standards of this state by a registered service representative or the division. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Certified applicator: means an individual who is licensed by the division to provide pest management services in accordance with this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Certified qualified applicator: means a certified applicator who is eligible to act as a qualifying party. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
Check: means any check, draft or other negotiable or nonnegotiable instrument of any kind. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
Chief veterinary meat inspector: means a qualified licensed veterinarian appointed by the director to supervise the state meat inspection service for the state and to carry out the provisions of this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Child care facility: means a facility that is regulated pursuant to title 36, chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
Clean air act: means the clean air act of 1963 (P. See Arizona Laws 3-3511
Club: includes any of the following organizations where the sale of spirituous liquor for consumption on the premises is made only to members, spouses of members, families of members, bona fide guests of members and guests at other events authorized in this title:
(a) A post, chapter, camp or other local unit composed solely of veterans and its duly recognized auxiliary that has been chartered by the Congress of the United States for patriotic, fraternal or benevolent purposes and that has, as the owner, lessee or occupant, operated an establishment for that purpose in this state. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Coin machine: means a coin box, turnstile, vending machine or other mechanical, electrical or electronic device or receptacle that is designed to receive a coin or bill of a certain denomination or a token made for such purpose and that, in return for the insertion or deposit of the coin, bill or token, automatically offers, provides, assists in providing or permits the acquisition or use of some property or service. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
Commercial device: means any weighing, measuring, metering or counting device that is used to determine the direct cost of things sold or offered or exposed for sale, or used to establish a fee for service if the cost is based on weight, measure or count, except that it does not include those devices used for in-house packaging, inventory control or law enforcement purposes. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Commercial feed: means all materials, except whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Commercial horse racing: means horse racing conducted other than by a county fair association. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Commercial motorized watercraft: means a motorized watercraft that carries passengers or property for a valuable consideration that is paid to the owner, charterer, operator or agent or to any other person interested in the watercraft. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Commission: means the Arizona game and fish commission. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Commission: means the historical advisory commission established by section 41-151. See Arizona Laws 3-161
Commission: means the Arizona racing commission. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Commission: means the Arizona state boxing and mixed martial arts commission. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Commodity: means any merchandise, product or substance produced or distributed for sale to or use by others. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Community supervision: means that portion of a felony sentence that is imposed by the court pursuant to section 13-603, subsection I and that is served in the community after completing a period of imprisonment or served in prison in accordance with section 41-1604. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Concessionaire: means a person, partnership, association or corporation that offers goods or services for sale to the public, a permittee or a licensee at an enclosure in which authorized racing takes place or an additional wagering facility. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Condemned: means the carcass, the viscera, parts of carcasses, meat, meat by-product or meat food products, so marked or identified, is unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, or an animal which has been inspected and found to be in a dying condition or affected with any other condition or disease that would require condemnation of its carcass. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Container: means any restrictive enclosure used to contain aquatic products for handling, packing or shipping. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Contest: means any boxing or mixed martial arts bout, event, contest, match or exhibition between two persons. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Contraband: means any dangerous drug, narcotic drug, marijuana, intoxicating liquor of any kind, deadly weapon, dangerous instrument, explosive, wireless communication device, multimedia storage device or other article whose use or possession would endanger the safety, security or preservation of order in a correctional facility or a juvenile secure care facility as defined in section 41-2801, or of any person within a correctional or juvenile secure care facility. See Arizona Laws 5-109
Control: means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an applicant or licensee, whether through the ownership of voting securities or a partnership interest, by agreement or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Controlling person: means a person directly or indirectly possessing control of an applicant or licensee. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Correctional facility: means any place used for the confinement or control of a person:
(a) Charged with or convicted of an offense; or
(b) Held for extradition; or
(c) Pursuant to an order of court for law enforcement purposes. See Arizona Laws 5-109
Corruptly: means a wrongful design to acquire or cause some pecuniary or other advantage to the person guilty of the act or omission referred to, or to some other person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
County fair racing association: means an association duly authorized by the board of supervisors to conduct a county fair racing meeting for the benefit of the county. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Craft distiller: means a distiller in the United States or in a territory or possession of the United States that holds a license pursuant to section 4-205. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Credit: means an express agreement with the drawee for the payment of a check. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Credit card: means :
(a) Any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, charge card, credit plate, courtesy card or identification card or by any other name, that is issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, either on credit or in possession or in consideration of an undertaking or guaranty by the issuer of the payment of a check drawn by the cardholder, on a promise to pay in part or in full therefor at a future time, whether or not all or any part of the indebtedness that is represented by the promise to make deferred payment is secured or unsecured. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Crime: means a misdemeanor or a felony. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Criminal negligence: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Criminal street gang: means an ongoing formal or informal association of persons in which members or associates individually or collectively engage in the commission, attempted commission, facilitation or solicitation of any felony act and that has at least one individual who is a criminal street gang member. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Criminal street gang member: means an individual to whom at least two of the following seven criteria that indicate criminal street gang membership apply:
(a) Self-proclamation. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Critical public service facility: means :
(a) A structure or fenced yard that is posted with signage indicating it is a felony to trespass or signage indicating high voltage or high pressure and is used by a rail, bus, air or other mass transit provider, a public or private utility, any municipal corporation, city, town or other political subdivision that is organized under state law and that generates, transmits, distributes or otherwise provides natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, electricity or a combustible substance for a delivery system that is not a retail-only facility, a telecommunications carrier or telephone company, a municipal provider as defined in section 45-561, a law enforcement agency, a public or private fire department or an emergency medical service provider. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Culpable mental state: means intentionally, knowingly, recklessly or with criminal negligence as those terms are defined in this paragraph:
(a) "Intentionally" or "with the intent to" means, with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense, that a person's objective is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Custody: means the imposition of actual or constructive restraint pursuant to an on-site arrest or court order but does not include detention in a correctional facility, juvenile detention center or state hospital. See Arizona Laws 5-109
Customer-formula feed: means a mixture of commercial feed or feed materials, or both, each batch of which is mixed according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Damage: means any physical or visual impairment of any surface. See Arizona Laws 3-3621
Damaging: means damage as defined in section 13-1701. See Arizona Laws 3-3614
Dangerous drug: means dangerous drug as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Dangerous instrument: means anything that under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Dangerous offense: means an offense involving the discharge, use or threatening exhibition of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or the intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury on another person. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Daytime: means the period between sunrise and sunset. See Arizona Laws 1-215
De minimis violation: means a condition or practice which, although undesirable, has no direct or immediate relationship to safety or health. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Deadly physical force: means force that is used with the purpose of causing death or serious physical injury or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of creating a substantial risk of causing death or serious physical injury. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Deadly weapon: means anything designed for lethal use, including a firearm. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Defacing: means any unnecessary act of substantially marring any surface or place, by any means, or any act of putting up, affixing, fastening, printing or painting any notice on any structure, without permission from the owner. See Arizona Laws 3-3614
Department: means the Arizona game and fish department. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Department: means the department of liquor licenses and control. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Department: means the department of gaming. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
Deprive: means to withhold the property interest of another either permanently or for so long a time period that a substantial portion of its economic value or usefulness or enjoyment is lost, to withhold with the intent to restore it only on payment of any reward or other compensation or to transfer or dispose of it so that it is unlikely to be recovered. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Desensitized: means that a horse's legs on arrival at the receiving barn or saddling paddock do not respond appropriately to tests for feeling administered by an official veterinarian. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Device: means any instrument or contrivance that is intended to be used for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest or other form of plant or animal life. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Devise: To gift property by will.
Diesel fuel: means a refined middle distillate that is used as a fuel in a compression-ignition internal combustion engine and that meets the specifications of ASTM D975. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Direct supervision: means the use of a pesticide under the instructions, control and responsibility of a certified applicator who is available if needed for consultation or assistance even though the certified applicator is not physically present at the time and place the pesticide is used. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Director: means the director of the department of liquor licenses and control. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Director: means the director of the department of gaming. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Distilled spirits: includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, gin, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, fruits preserved in ardent spirits, and any alcoholic mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, that may in sufficient quantities produce intoxication. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, barter or otherwise supply commercial feeds or customer-formula feeds, but does not include or apply to any feeds supplied for consumption on the premises of the supplier. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Distributor: means a person, firm or corporation that is engaged in the business of receiving carcasses, meat, meat food products, meat by-products, poultry or poultry products from state or federally inspected establishments and storing and distributing properly identified products to commercial outlets, processors or individuals and that conducts no processing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Division: means the animal services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Division: means the weights and measures services division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Division: means the pest management division of the department. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Division: means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Documented watercraft: means any watercraft currently registered as a watercraft of the United States pursuant to 46 Code of Federal Regulations part 67. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Dog racing: means racing in which greyhound dogs chase a mechanical lure. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Economic loss: means any loss incurred by a person as a result of the commission of an offense. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Employee: means any person who performs any service on licensed premises on a full-time, part-time or contract basis with consent of the licensee, whether or not the person is denominated an employee, independent contractor or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Employee: includes a person employed by an enterprise or an agent or fiduciary of a principal. See Arizona Laws 5-131
Employee: means any person performing agricultural services for an employer. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Employer: includes an enterprise or principal. See Arizona Laws 5-131
Employer: means any individual or type of organization, including this state and its political subdivisions, which has in its employ one or more individuals performing agricultural services for it in employment, including self-employed persons. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Entered: means that a horse or dog has been registered with an authorized racing official as a participant in a specified race and has not been withdrawn prior to presentation of the horse or dog for inspection and testing as provided in section 5-105. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Enterprise: includes any corporation, association, labor union or other legal entity. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Entity identifying information: includes , if the entity is a person other than a human being, any written document or electronic data that does or purports to provide information concerning the entity's name, address, telephone number, employer identification number, account number or electronic serial number, the identifying number of the entity's depository account or any other information or data that is unique to, assigned to or belongs to the entity and that is intended to be used to access services, funds or benefits of any kind that the entity owns or to which the entity is entitled. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
Entry: means the intrusion of any part of any instrument or any part of a person's body inside the external boundaries of a structure or unit of real property. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
escape: means :
(i) A departure from custody or from a juvenile secure care facility, a juvenile detention facility or an adult correctional facility in which the person is held or detained, with knowledge that the departure is not permitted, or the failure to return to custody or detention following a temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or for a limited period. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Escape: means departure from custody or from a juvenile secure care facility as described in section 41-2816, a juvenile detention facility or an adult correctional facility in which a person is held or detained with knowledge that such departure is unpermitted or failure to return to custody or detention following a temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or for a limited period. See Arizona Laws 5-109
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
establishment: means a house or place in which horses, asses, mules or burros are slaughtered, packed or processed. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
establishment: means a house or place in which horses, asses, mules, burros, cows, sheep or goats are slaughtered, packed or processed. See Arizona Laws 3-2691
Establishment: means a mobile or stationary building, plant, vehicle or structure where meat or meat food products are slaughtered or processed or offered for sale. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Executive director: means the executive director of the commission. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
Farm winery: means a winery in the United States or in a territory or possession of the United States that holds a license pursuant to section 4-205. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Farmland: means land devoted primarily to the production for commercial purposes of livestock or agricultural commodities. See Arizona Laws 3-111
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
Federal poultry products inspection act: means the act so entitled approved August 28, 1957 (71 Stat. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Federal public defender: An attorney employed by the federal courts on a full-time basis to provide legal defense to defendants who are unable to afford counsel. The judiciary administers the federal defender program pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act. Source: U.S. Courts
Fee fishing: means removing aquatic animals by any harvesting method from a privately controlled body of water as authorized by a direct or indirect payment of a fee. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Felony: A crime carrying a penalty of more than a year in prison.
Fenced commercial yard: means a unit of real property that is surrounded completely by fences, walls, buildings or similar barriers, or any combination of fences, walls, buildings or similar barriers, and that is zoned for business operations or where livestock, produce or other commercial items are located. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Fenced residential yard: means a unit of real property that immediately surrounds or is adjacent to a residential structure and that is enclosed by a fence, wall, building or similar barrier or any combination of fences, walls, buildings or similar barriers. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
Final grade treatment: means the establishment of a complete vertical barrier at the exterior of foundation walls in stem wall or monolithic construction. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Financial institution: means a bank, insurance company, credit union, savings and loan association, investment trust or other organization held out to the public as a place of deposit for funds or medium of savings or collective investment. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Financial interest: means any direct pecuniary interest. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Financial security: means liability insurance, a deposit of cash or certified monies, a surety bond or an irrevocable and unconditional letter of credit from a federally chartered financial institution or a financial institution as defined in section 6-101. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Firearm: means any loaded or unloaded handgun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun or other weapon that will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of expanding gases, except that it does not include a firearm in permanently inoperable condition. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Firm: means a business unit or enterprise that transacts business. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
Fleet owner: means a registered owner or lessee of at least twenty-five vehicles. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Force: means any physical act directed against a person as a means of gaining control of property. See Arizona Laws 4-205
Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
Forged instrument: means a written instrument that has been falsely made, completed or altered. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Fresh meat: means meat of a horse, mule, ass, burro, cow, sheep or goat, and includes any product containing any such meat. See Arizona Laws 3-2691
Funds: means money or credit. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Garbage: means waste consisting in whole or in part of animal waste resulting from handling, preparing, cooking and consuming of foods, including the offal from animal or poultry carcasses or parts thereof. See Arizona Laws 3-2661
Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
Gasoline: means a volatile, highly flammable liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that does not contain more than five one-hundredths grams of lead for each United States gallon, that is produced, refined, manufactured, blended, distilled or compounded from petroleum, natural gas, oil, shale oils or coal and other flammable liquids free from undissolved water, sediment or suspended matter, with or without additives, and that is commonly used as a fuel for spark-ignition internal combustion engines. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Gasoline dispensing site: means any site where gasoline is dispensed into a motor vehicle fuel tank from any stationary storage vessel. See Arizona Laws 3-3511
Gasoline provider: means any manufacturer of gasoline or any person who imports gasoline into a vehicle emissions control area by means of a pipeline or in truckload quantities for the person's own use within the vehicle emissions control area or any person who sells gasoline intended for ultimate consumption within a vehicle emissions control area. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Government: means the state, any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, board, commission, institution or governmental instrumentality of or within the state or political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Government license: means a license to serve and sell spirituous liquor on specified premises available only to a state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university or the national guard or Arizona coliseum and exposition center on application by the governing body of a state agency, state board, state commission, county, city, town, community college or state university or the national guard or Arizona exposition and state fair board. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Handle: means the total amount of money contributed to all pari-mutuel pools by bettors. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Harness racing: means horse racing in which the horses are harnessed to a sulky, carriage or similar vehicle and driven by a driver. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Historical prior felony conviction: means :
(a) Any prior felony conviction for which the offense of conviction either:
(i) Mandated a term of imprisonment except for a violation of chapter 34 of this title involving a drug below the threshold amount. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Homicide: means first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide. See Arizona Laws 3-3107
Horse: includes horse, ass, mule and burro. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
Horse racing: means racing in which horses are mounted and ridden by jockeys. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Horsemeat: means meat from a horse, ass, mule or burro, or any product derived wholly or partially from such animal. See Arizona Laws 3-2121
Human smuggling organization: means an ongoing formal or informal association of persons in which members or associates individually or collectively engage in the smuggling of human beings. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Immediate supervision: means the use of a pesticide by an individual acting under the instructions, control and responsibility of a certified applicator who is within the direct line of sight or within hearing distance of the individual and who is available for consultation or assistance at the time and place the pesticide is used. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
In the course of committing: means any acts that are performed by an intruder from the moment of entry to and including flight from the scene of a crime. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
In the course of committing: includes any of the defendant's acts beginning with the initiation and extending through the flight from a robbery. See Arizona Laws 4-205
Incomplete credit card: means a credit card on which part of the matter, other than the signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear before it can be used by a cardholder, has not been stamped, embossed, imprinted or written. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
Inhabitant: means a resident of a city, town, village, district, county or precinct. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Initial corrective treatment: means the first postconstruction treatment of any kind performed by a licensee, excluding a treatment performed under warranty by a licensee who has performed the pretreatment or new-construction treatment. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
Inquiry: means an initial investigation of possible violations of this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter based on information received from the public or division staff. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Insolvent: means that, for any reason, a financial institution is unable to pay its obligations in the ordinary or usual course of business or the present fair salable value of its assets is less than the amount that will be required to pay its probable liabilities on its existing debts as they become absolute and matured. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Inspector: means a state official of the division. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Inspector: includes chief veterinary meat inspector, veterinary meat inspector, lay meat inspector, livestock officer or any other employee appointed by the associate director, with the approval of the director, to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the livestock laws and rules adopted thereunder. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
intensive probation: means a program established pursuant to this chapter of highly structured and closely supervised probation which emphasizes the payment of restitution. See Arizona Laws 3-2902
Intoxication: means any mental or physical incapacity resulting from use of drugs, toxic vapors or intoxicating liquors. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this state. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Issue: means to deliver or cause to be delivered a check to a person who thereby acquires a right against the drawer with respect to the check. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Issuer: means any business organization, state agency or financial institution, or its duly authorized agent, that issues a credit card. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
Juror: means any person who is a member of any impaneled jury or grand jury, and includes any person who has been drawn or summoned to attend as a prospective juror. See Arizona Laws 5-233
Juror: A person who is on the jury.
Kickboxing: means a form of boxing, including muay thai pursuant to rules and regulations of the United States muay thai association or another muay thai sanctioning body that is approved by the commission, in which blows are delivered with any part of the arm below the shoulder, including the hand, and any part of the leg below the hip, including the foot. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Knowingly: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any article. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed, or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed or customer-formula feed is distributed. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such article. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
Legal drinking age: means twenty-one years of age or older. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
License: means a license or an interim retail permit issued pursuant to this title. See Arizona Laws 4-101
License: means the license issued by the department to each employee or other person participating in any capacity in a racing meeting, including officials and employees of the pari-mutuel department. See Arizona Laws 5-101
License fees: means fees collected for license issuance, license application, license renewal, interim permit issuance and license transfer between persons or locations. See Arizona Laws 4-101
licensed premises: means the area from which the licensee is authorized to sell, dispense or serve spirituous liquors under the provision of the license. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Licensee: means a person who has been issued a license or an interim retail permit pursuant to this title or a special event licensee. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Litter: includes any rubbish, refuse, waste material, offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, organic or inorganic trash, debris, filthy or odoriferous objects, dead animals or any foreign substance of whatever kind or description, including junked or abandoned vehicles, whether or not any of these items are of value. See Arizona Laws 3-3614
Lot: means one or more consolidated containers identified as a single item or unit. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Manager: means a natural person who meets the standards required of licensees and who has authority to organize, direct, carry on, control or otherwise operate a licensed business on a temporary or full-time basis. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Manipulation key: means a key, device or instrument, other than a key that is designed to operate a specific lock, that can be variably positioned and manipulated in a vehicle keyway to operate a lock or cylinder, including a wiggle key, jiggle key or rocker key. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Master key: means a key that operates all the keyed locks or cylinders in a similar type or group of locks. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Material: means that which could have affected the course or outcome of any proceeding or transaction. See Arizona Laws 5-226
Material misrepresentation: means a pretense, promise, representation or statement of present, past or future fact that is fraudulent and that, when used or communicated, is instrumental in causing the wrongful control or transfer of property or services. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Means of transportation: means any vehicle. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of cattle, sheep, swine, goats or equines which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Meat food product: means any article of food or any article intended for or capable of being used as human food which is derived or prepared, in whole or in substantial and definite part, from any portion of any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, except such articles as organotherapeutic substances, meat juice, meat extract, and the like, which are only for medicinal purposes and are advertised only to the medical profession. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Meat processor: means any person, including jobbers, wholesalers or slaughtering establishments, who changes meat or meat food products in any way by cutting, mixing, blending, canning, curing or otherwise preparing meat or meat food products for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Meat wholesaler or jobber: means any person with an established place of business who buys meat or meat food products and offers them for resale, for sale to restaurants or for sale to the consuming public. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Merchant: means a person who is authorized under a written contract with a participating party to furnish money, goods, services or anything else of value on presentation of a credit card by a cardholder. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Microbrewery: means a brewery in the United States or in a territory or possession of the United States that meets the requirements of section 4-205. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Minor: means a person under the age of eighteen years. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Mislabeled: means :
(a) Varying from the standard of truth or disclosure in labeling prescribed by statute or administrative regulation or, if none, as set by established commercial usage; or
(b) Represented as being another person's product, though otherwise labeled accurately as to quality and quantity. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Misleading statement: means an offer to sell property or services when the offerer does not intend to sell or provide the advertised property or services:
(a) At a price equal to or lower than the price offered; or
(b) In a quantity sufficient to meet the reasonably expected public demand, unless the quantity available is specifically stated in the advertisement; or
(c) At all. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Mixed martial arts: means any form of competition or contest, other than boxing or kickboxing, in which blows are delivered and in which the competitors use any combination of tactics including boxing, wrestling, striking, kicking, martial arts and submission techniques. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
Motor fuel: means a petroleum or a petroleum-based substance that is motor gasoline, aviation gasoline, number one or number two diesel fuel or any grade of oxygenated gasoline typically used in the operation of a motor engine, including biodiesel blends, biofuel blends and ethanol flex fuels. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Motor vehicle racing event: means a race that uses unlicensed vehicles designed and manufactured specifically for racing purposes and that is conducted on a public or private racecourse for the entertainment of the general public. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Motorized watercraft: means any watercraft that is propelled by machinery whether or not the machinery is the principal source of propulsion. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Narcotic drug: means narcotic drugs as defined in section 13-3401. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
New-construction treatment: means a treatment that protects all cellulose components of a structure from subterranean termites and that is performed after a permanent concrete slab foundation is installed or footings and supports for a raised foundation are installed, but before the structure or a final grade treatment is completed. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Nighttime: means the period between sunset and sunrise. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Nonresident: means a citizen of the United States or an alien person who is not domiciled in this state and who is not a resident as defined in this section. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Nonresidential structure: means any structure other than a residential structure and includes a retail establishment. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Nonserious violation: means a condition or practice in a place of employment which does not constitute a serious violation but which violates a standard or rule and has a direct or immediate relationship to safety or health, unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the condition or practice. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Oath: includes an affirmation or declaration. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Obtain: means to bring about or to receive the transfer of any interest in property, whether to a defendant or to another, or to secure the performance of a service or the possession of a trade secret. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Occupied structure: means any structure as defined in paragraph 4 in which one or more human beings either is or is likely to be present or so near as to be in equivalent danger at the time the fire or explosion occurs. See Arizona Laws 3-3621
Off-sale retailer: means any person operating a bona fide regularly established retail liquor store selling spirituous liquors, wines and beer, and any established retail store selling commodities other than spirituous liquors and engaged in the sale of spirituous liquors only in the original unbroken package, to be taken away from the premises of the retailer and to be consumed off the premises. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Office: means the office of agricultural safety in the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by rule of the director for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Official device: means any device prescribed or authorized by the director for use in applying any official mark. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Official establishment: means any establishment as determined by the division at which inspection of the slaughter of poultry or the processing of poultry products is maintained. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by rule of the director to identify the status of any article or poultry. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Official proceeding: means a proceeding heard before any legislative, judicial, administrative or other governmental agency or official authorized to hear evidence under oath. See Arizona Laws 5-233
Official sample: means any sample of feed taken by the director or the director's agent and designated as official. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
On-sale retailer: means any person operating an establishment where spirituous liquors are sold in the original container for consumption on or off the premises or in individual portions for consumption on the premises. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Operate: means to operate or be in actual physical control of a watercraft while on public waters. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Operator: means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a watercraft. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Oral sexual contact: means oral contact with the penis, vulva or anus. See Arizona Laws 3-3433
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: means the person in possession of and legally entitled to dispose of aquatic products. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Oxygenate: means any oxygen-containing ashless, organic compound, including aliphatic alcohols and aliphatic ethers, that may be used as a fuel or as a gasoline blending component and that is approved as a blending agent under the provisions of a waiver issued by the United States environmental protection agency pursuant to 42 United States Code section 7545(f). See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Oxygenated fuel: means an unleaded motor fuel blend that consists primarily of gasoline and at least one and one-half percent by weight of one or more oxygenates and that has been blended consistent with the provisions of a waiver issued by the United States environmental protection agency pursuant to 42 United States Code section 7545(f). See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Package: means any commodity enclosed in a container or wrapped in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail trade. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Pari-mutuel wagering: means a system of betting that provides for the distribution among the winning patrons of at least the total amount wagered less the amount withheld under state law. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Participating party: means a business organization or financial institution that is obligated or permitted by contract to acquire by electronic transmission or other means from a merchant a sales slip or sales draft or instrument for the payment of money evidencing a credit card transaction and from whom an issuer is obligated or permitted by contract to acquire by electronic transmission or other means such sales slip, sales draft or instrument for the payment of money evidencing a credit card transaction. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Party officer: means a person who holds any position or office in a political party, whether by election, appointment or otherwise. See Arizona Laws 5-131
Peace officer: means any person vested by law with a duty to maintain public order and make arrests and includes a constable. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Peddler: means any person without an established place of business who buys meat or meat food products and offers them for resale, for sale to restaurants or for sale to the consuming public. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
percentage: means percentage by weight. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Permanent occupancy: means the maximum occupancy of the building or facility as set by the office of the state fire marshal for the jurisdiction in which the building or facility is located. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Permit: means a permit for a racing meeting issued under the provisions of this article. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, group, company, society or association. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Person: means both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies and associations. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Person: means a human being. See Arizona Laws 3-3107
Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association, and any agent, assignee, trustee, executor, receiver or representative thereof. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Person: includes a partnership, limited liability company, association, company or corporation, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other business unit. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association or agent. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Person: means the state, any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private corporation, individual partnership or other entity. See Arizona Laws 3-2661
Personal identifying information: means any written document or electronic data that does or purports to provide information concerning a name, signature, electronic identifier or screen name, electronic mail signature, address or account, biometric identifier, driver or professional license number, access device, residence or mailing address, telephone number, employer, student or military identification number, social security number, tax identification number, employment information, citizenship status or alien identification number, personal identification number, photograph, birth date, savings, checking or other financial account number, credit card, charge card or debit card number, mother's maiden name, fingerprint or retinal image, the image of an iris or deoxyribonucleic acid or genetic information. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Pest management services: means identifying infestations or making inspections for the purpose of identifying or attempting to identify infestations, making written or oral inspection reports or recommendations with respect to infestations and the application of pesticides or the use of devices not exempt by section 3-3603, subsection B, paragraph 17 for the purpose of eliminating, exterminating, controlling or preventing infestations. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating insects, fungi, bacteria, microbes, weeds, rodents, predatory animals or any form of plant or animal life that is, or that the director may declare to be, a pest and that may infest or be detrimental to vegetation, humans, animals or households or be present in any environment. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Physical evidence: means any article, object, document, record or other thing of physical substance. See Arizona Laws 5-233
Physical force: means force used upon or directed toward the body of another person and includes confinement, but does not include deadly physical force. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Physical injury: means the impairment of physical condition. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. Source:
Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Political subdivision: means a state agency, county, city, town, municipal corporation or school district or a special district formed pursuant to title 48. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Position of trust: means a person who is or was any of the following:
(a) The minor's parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian or foster parent. See Arizona Laws 3-3433
Possess: means knowingly to have physical possession or otherwise to exercise dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Possession: means a voluntary act if the defendant knowingly exercised dominion or control over property. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead, and includes chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, ratites and squabs. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Poultry product: means any poultry carcass, or part thereof, or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the director from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the director may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Poultry products broker: means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling poultry products on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
Preconviction custody: means the confinement of a person in a jail in this state or another state after the person is arrested for or charged with a felony offense. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
Premeditation: means that the defendant acts with either the intention or the knowledge that he will kill another human being, when such intention or knowledge precedes the killing by any length of time to permit reflection. See Arizona Laws 3-3107
Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. Source: U.S. Courts
Pretreatment: means a termite treatment that protects all cellulose components of a structure from subterranean termites, that is performed before a permanent concrete slab foundation is installed or in conjunction with establishing footings and supports for a raised foundation and that establishes thorough and complete horizontal and vertical treated barriers. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
prior felony conviction: includes any offense committed outside the jurisdiction of this state that was punishable by that jurisdiction as a felony. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Prior violation: means any violation for which disciplinary action was taken within a five-year period before the date of the violation for which current disciplinary action is sought. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
Probate: Proving a will
Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Processed: means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Product transfer document: means any bill of lading, loading ticket, manifest, delivery receipt, invoice or other documentation used on any occasion when a person transfers custody or title of motor fuel other than when motor fuel is sold or dispensed at a service station or fleet vehicle fueling facility. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Professional: means any person who competes for any money prize or a prize that exceeds the value of thirty-five dollars or teaches or pursues or assists in the practice of boxing or mixed martial arts as a means of obtaining a livelihood or pecuniary gain. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Property: means anything of value, tangible or intangible. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Property: means anything other than a structure which has value, tangible or intangible, public or private, real or personal, including documents evidencing value or ownership. See Arizona Laws 3-3621
Property: means any thing of value, tangible or intangible, including trade secrets. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Property of another: means property in which any person other than the defendant has an interest, including community property and other property in which the defendant also has an interest and, for damage caused by theft of scrap metal, the property of other persons damaged directly or indirectly as a result of the acts of the defendant. See Arizona Laws 3-3614
Property of another: means property in which any person other than the defendant has an interest on which the defendant is not privileged to infringe, including property in which the defendant also has an interest, notwithstanding the fact that the other person might be precluded from civil recovery because the property was used in an unlawful transaction or was subject to forfeiture as contraband. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Property of another: means property of another as defined in section 13-1801. See Arizona Laws 4-205
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Public: means affecting or likely to affect a substantial group of persons. See Arizona Laws 5-322
Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
public offense: means conduct for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or of a fine is provided by any law of the state in which it occurred or by any law, regulation or ordinance of a political subdivision of that state and, if the act occurred in a state other than this state, it would be so punishable under the laws, regulations or ordinances of this state or of a political subdivision of this state if the act had occurred in this state. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Public weighmaster: means any person who is engaged in any of the following:
(a) The business of weighing any object or thing for the public generally for hire or for internal use and issuing for that weighing a weight certificate intended to be accepted as an accurate weight on which a purchase or sale is to be based or on which a service fee is to be charged. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Qualifying party: means a certified qualified applicator registered with the division as the individual responsible for ensuring the training, equipping and supervision of all applicators of a business licensee or school district. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
Racing meeting: means a number of days of racing allotted by the commission in one permit. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
receiving: means acquiring possession or control of a credit card or accepting a credit card as security for a loan. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Recklessly: means , with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Recognized hazard: means an unsafe or unhealthful condition or practice recognized as such with respect to the standard of knowledge in the industry. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Reencoder: means an electronic device that places encoded information from the magnetic strip or stripe of a credit card onto the magnetic strip or stripe of a different credit card. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
Reference standards: means the physical standards of the state that serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Register: means the Arizona register of heritage agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-161
Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Registered retail agent: means any person who is authorized pursuant to section 4-222 to purchase spirituous liquors for and on behalf of himself and other retail licensees. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Registered service agency: means any agency, firm, company or corporation that for hire, award, commission or any other payment of any kind installs, services, repairs or reconditions a commercial device or tests or repairs vapor recovery systems or vapor recovery components and that has been issued a license by the division. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Registered service representative: means any individual who for hire, award, commission or any other payment of any kind installs, services, repairs or reconditions a commercial device or tests or repairs vapor recovery systems or vapor recovery components and who has been issued a license by the division. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Relative: means a parent or stepparent, ancestor, descendant, sibling, uncle or aunt, including an adoptive relative of the same degree through marriage or adoption, or a spouse. See Arizona Laws 3-3413
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
Renderer: means any person engaged in the business of rendering carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of poultry, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 3-2151
Repeated acts of violence: means :
(a) For licensed premises with a permanent occupancy of two hundred or fewer persons, two or more acts of violence occurring within seven days or three or more acts of violence occurring within thirty days. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Resident: means a person who is either:
(a) A member of the armed forces of the United States on active duty and stationed in this state for a period of thirty days immediately before the date of application for a watercraft decal. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Residential structure: means any structure, movable or immovable, permanent or temporary, that is adapted for both human residence and lodging whether occupied or not. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Restaurant: means any person who cooks or otherwise prepares and serves meat or meat food products for consumption by the ultimate consumer. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Restrain: means to restrict a person's movements without consent, without legal authority, and in a manner which interferes substantially with such person's liberty, by either moving such person from one place to another or by confining such person. See Arizona Laws 3-3413
Retail seller: means a person whose business purpose is to sell, expose or offer for sale or use any package or commodity by weight, measure or count. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Rule: means a written rule of agricultural safety and health governing places of agricultural employment which is adopted pursuant to section 3-3106 or 3-3108, exclusive of standards. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
sale: includes exchange. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Scanning device: means a scanner, reader or other electronic device that is used to access, read, scan, obtain, memorize, transmit or store, temporarily or permanently, information that is encoded on a magnetic strip or stripe of a credit card. See Arizona Laws 4-207.01
School: means any public or nonpublic institution, other than a child's home, that is established for the purpose of offering instruction to pupils in programs for preschool children with disabilities, kindergarten programs or any combination of grades one through twelve and that qualifies as a school pursuant to section 15-802. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Secondary standards: means the physical standards that are traceable to the reference standards through comparisons, using acceptable laboratory procedures, and that are used in the enforcement of weights and measures laws and rules. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Security interest: means an interest in personal property or fixtures pursuant to title 47, chapter 9. See Arizona Laws 4-221
Sell: includes soliciting or receiving an order for, keeping or exposing for sale, directly or indirectly delivering for value, peddling, keeping with intent to sell and trafficking in. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Serious physical injury: includes physical injury that creates a reasonable risk of death, or that causes serious and permanent disfigurement, serious impairment of health or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily organ or limb. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Serious violation: means a condition or practice in a place of agricultural employment which violates a standard or rule or section 3-3104, subsection A and produces a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result, unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of such condition or practice. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Service vehicle: means a motor vehicle, including a trailer attached to the motor vehicle, that is used to transport equipment or pesticides for the business of pest management. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Services: includes labor, professional services, transportation, cable television, computer or communication services, gas or electricity services, accommodation in hotels, restaurants or leased premises or elsewhere, admission to exhibitions and use of vehicles or other movable property. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
Sexual intercourse: means penetration into the penis, vulva or anus by any part of the body or by any object or masturbatory contact with the penis or vulva. See Arizona Laws 3-3433
Simulcast: means the telecast shown within this state of live audio and visual signals of horse, harness or dog races conducted at an out-of-state track or the telecast shown outside this state of live audio and visual signals of horse or harness races originating within this state for the purpose of pari-mutuel wagering. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Slaughter: means to kill cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines and to prepare the carcasses or parts of carcasses for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Slaughterer: means any person who slaughters cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines in a slaughtering establishment and prepares the carcasses or parts of carcasses for human consumption. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Slug: means an object, article or device that by virtue of its size, its shape or any other quality is capable of being inserted, deposited or otherwise used in a coin machine as a fraudulent substitute for a genuine token, lawful coin or bill of the United States. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
Source market fee: means the fee that an advance deposit wagering provider pays to a commercial permittee in the state where the advance deposit wagering customer resides. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Spirituous liquor: includes alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, tequila, mescal, gin, wine, porter, ale, beer, any malt liquor or malt beverage, absinthe, a compound or mixture of any of them or of any of them with any vegetable or other substance, alcohol bitters, bitters containing alcohol, any liquid mixture or preparation, whether patented or otherwise, which produces intoxication, fruits preserved in ardent spirits, and beverages containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Spouse: means a person who is legally married and cohabiting. See Arizona Laws 3-3433
Stage I vapor recovery system: means a combination of pipes and hoses that creates a closed system between the vapor spaces of an unloading gasoline cargo tank and a receiving storage tank so that vapors displaced from the storage tank are transferred to the gasoline cargo tank being unloaded. See Arizona Laws 3-3511
Standard: means any agricultural safety and health standard which has been adopted and promulgated by a nationally recognized standards-producing organization or the federal government and has the same meaning as and includes the term "code". See Arizona Laws 3-3101
State meat inspection service: means the meat inspection provided in sections 3-2041 through 3-2047 and sections 3-2049, 3-2051 and 3-2052, providing approved slaughtering plants with inspectors during all periods of slaughter to conduct antemortem and postmortem inspections of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines slaughtered. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
State of principal operation: means the state where a watercraft is primarily used, navigated or employed. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Statement: means any representation of fact and includes a representation of opinion, belief or other state of mind where the representation clearly relates to state of mind apart from or in addition to any facts which are the subject of the representation. See Arizona Laws 5-226
Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
Structure: means any device that accepts electronic or physical currency and that is used to conduct commercial transactions, any vending machine or any building, object, vehicle, railroad car or place with sides and a floor that is separately securable from any other structure attached to it and that is used for lodging, business, transportation, recreation or storage. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Structure: means any building, object, vehicle, watercraft, aircraft or place with sides and a floor, used for lodging, business, transportation, recreation or storage. See Arizona Laws 3-3621
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Supervisor: means the supervisor of aquaculture or the supervisor's authorized representative. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Supplier: means any person that imports gasoline into a vehicle emissions control area by means of a pipeline or in truckload quantities for the person's own use within the vehicle emissions control area or any person that sells gasoline intended for ultimate consumption within a vehicle emissions control area, except that supplier does not mean a person with respect to gasoline supplied or sold by the person to another for resale to a retailer within a vehicle emissions control area or to a fleet owner for consumption within a vehicle emissions control area. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Sworn statement: means any statement knowingly given under oath or affirmation attesting to the truth of what is stated, including a notarized statement whether or not given in connection with an official proceeding. See Arizona Laws 5-226
Telephone: means any device that a person uses for voice communications in connection with the services of a telephone company. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
Testify: includes every manner of oral statement under oath or affirmation. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Testimony: means oral or written statements, documents or any other material that may be offered by a witness in an official proceeding. See Arizona Laws 5-233
Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Arizona Laws 3-2601
Tough man contest: means any boxing match consisting of one minute rounds, between two or more persons who use their hands, wearing padded gloves that weigh at least twelve ounces, or their feet, or both, in any manner. See Arizona Laws 5-221
Trainer: means a person who is certified by the department pursuant to section 3-3125 for training individuals in agricultural health and safety standards. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Transporter: means a person that transports live aquatic animals or plants to persons who are licensed to resell, process or stock aquatic animals or plants. See Arizona Laws 3-2901
Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Underway: means a watercraft that is not at anchor, is not made fast to the shore or is not aground. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Undocumented watercraft: means any watercraft which does not have and is not required to have a valid marine document as a watercraft of the United States. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Unlawful: means contrary to law or, where the context so requires, not permitted by law. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC
Utility: means any enterprise, public or private, that provides gas, electric, irrigation, steam, water, water conservation, sewer or communications services, as well as any common carrier on land, rail, sea or air. See Arizona Laws 3-3614
Value: means the fair market value of the property or services at the time of the theft. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Vehicle: means a device in, upon or by which any person or property is, may be or could have been transported or drawn upon a highway, waterway or airway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Vehicle: means any means of transportation by land, water or air, and includes everything made use of in any way for such transportation. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Vehicle emissions control area: means a county with a population of one million two hundred thousand or more persons and any portion of a county contained in area A, or any portion of area B or C, except that such an area does not include a manufacturer's proving ground that is located in the vehicle emissions control area. See Arizona Laws 3-3401
Vending machine: means a machine that dispenses merchandise through the means of coin, token, credit card or other nonpersonal means of accepting payment for merchandise received. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
Veteran: means a person who has served in the United States air force, army, navy, marine corps or coast guard, as an active nurse in the services of the American red cross, in the army and navy nurse corps in time of war, or in any expedition of the armed forces of the United States, and who has received a discharge other than dishonorable. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Veterinary meat inspector: means a qualified licensed veterinarian appointed by the associate director, with the director's approval, to work under the direction of the chief veterinary meat inspector. See Arizona Laws 3-2001
Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
Voluntary intoxication: means intoxication caused by the knowing use of drugs, toxic vapors or intoxicating liquors by a person, the tendency of which to cause intoxication the person knows or ought to know, unless the person introduces them pursuant to medical advice or under such duress as would afford a defense to an offense. See Arizona Laws 3-1703
Watercraft: means any boat designed to be propelled by machinery, oars, paddles or wind action upon a sail for navigation on the water, or as may be defined by rule of the commission. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Waterway: means any body of water, public or private, upon which a watercraft can be navigated. See Arizona Laws 5-301
Weed: means any plant that grows where it is not wanted. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Week: means seven consecutive days beginning on Monday and ending on Sunday, mountain standard time. See Arizona Laws 5-101
Wildland: means any brush covered land, cutover land, forest, grassland or woods. See Arizona Laws 3-3621
Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Wine: means the product obtained by the fermentation of grapes, other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar or cider or any such alcoholic beverage fortified with grape brandy and containing not more than twenty-four percent of alcohol by volume. See Arizona Laws 4-101
Without consent: includes any of the following:
(a) The victim is coerced by the immediate use or threatened use of force against a person or property. See Arizona Laws 3-3433
Wood-destroying insect inspection report: means a written inspection report on a form approved by the director that is prepared in connection with the sale or refinancing of real property whether or not the report is used as part of the transaction. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Wood-destroying organisms: means organisms that attack, damage or destroy wood or wood-derivative products, but does not include birds or mammals. See Arizona Laws 3-3601
Workplace: means a location or site where temporary or permanent work is conducted in connection with agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-3101
Writ: means an order or precept in writing issued in the name of the state or by a court or judicial officer. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215
Written instrument: means either:
(a) Any paper, document or other instrument that contains written or printed matter or its equivalent. See Arizona Laws 4-205.04
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Dispensaries and Brands Giving Back for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Posted By Hannah Meadows On October 4, 2018 @ 8:00 am In Industry,Lifestyle,Strains & Products | 3 Comments
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According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation
, about every two minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. Globally, it is the most common type of cancer among women, but it can be diagnosed in men as well, affecting each gender regardless of size, race, or income level. There are over 3.3 million breast cancer survivors in the United States today.
Dealing With Breast Cancer: How Cannabis Can Help Patients Cope
Although scientific and technological advancements in the cancer research realm continue to move forward, we are still in the beginning stages to finding a cure for this common genetic disease.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings special attention to the cause, and those in the cannabis space have joined the fight. Below, check out which dispensaries and brands are supporting Breast Cancer Awareness by offering special products, deals, and donations supporting breast cancer research.
PhytoFamily: SuperFluid
(Courtesy of Phyto Fmaily)
For the entire month of October, PhytoFamily is donating a generous 50% of proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Foundation with purchases from their luxurious SuperFluid
line. I’ve personally been using their silky CBD Rosehip Oil
—ingredients include organic rosehip and full-spectrum distillate—every night and have already seen improvements and brightness in my skin. Beautify and soothe while supporting an incredible cause.
Linx Vapor: Linx Pink Gaia
(Courtesy of Linx)
Linx Vapor just released a bright pink version of their Dry Herb Vape Gaia
to encourage breast cancer patients and offer comfort during difficult times. Tune into their Instagram account
and find stories of support as Linx offers a platform for woman to share their truth and experiences dealing with the effects of breast cancer.
Your Farmacy in Maryland: Limited Edition Vape Pens
(Courtesy of Your Farmacy Dispensary)
Your Farmacy in Maryland
is running a series of deals for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They’ve partnered with RHYTHM to offer a limited-edition breast cancer awareness disposable vape pen, plus a free pre-roll or other deals with every purchase (while supplies last).
View Your Farmacy’s Menu
Green Thumb Industries: RHYTHM for a Cause Vape Pen
(Courtesy of Green Thumb Industries)
Green Thumb Industries has partnered with three breast cancer organizations and released a limited RHYTHM for a Cause vape pen to support breast cancer awareness. Alongside the Lynn Sage Foundation in Illinois, METAvivor in Maryland, and Living Beyond Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania, GTI will be selling vape pens across RISE dispensaries
for support and attention to this cause.
Check out these supportive RISE locations:
RISE — Joppa in Maryland
RISE — Silver Spring in Maryland
RISE — Amherst in Massachusetts
RISE — Carson City in Nevada
RISE — Carlisle in Pennsylvania
Evergreen Herbal: Pink Gene Foundation
(Courtesy of Evergreen Herbal)
The Pink Gene Foundation
is sponsored by Evergreen Herbal
to promote breast cancer research and awareness. Snap up Evergreen Herbal’s delicious 4.20 Bars or Saints & Sinners candies and get elevated while encouraging the education and continued research for breast cancer.
Evergreen products available in: Washington
The+Source: Moxie & The Ink Ribbon Foundation
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Nevada’s The+Source locations are leading Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donating proceeds of pink Moxie
batteries to the Ink Ribbon Foundation
for the month of October.
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TSX: LMC $2.00 Gold: $1414.00/oz
About Leagold
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Leagold Completes the Acquisition of the Los Filos Gold Mine
Leagold has acquired the Los Filos Gold Mine in Mexico for US$350 million from Goldcorp Inc. (“Goldcorp”).
The Los Filos operations consists of two open-pit mines, Los Filos and Bermejal, an underground mine at Los Filos and the opportunity to develop a new underground mine at Bermejal as an expansion project. During 2016, Los Filos produced 231koz of gold at an AISC/oz of $878[1].
Leagold has completed a C$179 million equity financing (US$133 million), US$50 million equity private placement, and US$150 million senior secured term loan.
Post closing, Leagold estimates its cash balance to be approximately US$76 million.
Russell Ball, Goldcorp’s EVP Corporate Development and CFO, has joined Leagold’s Board of Directors.
Leagold aims to build a new mid-tier gold producer with a focus on opportunities in Latin America; Los Filos is the first acquisition.
Vancouver, April 7, 2017 – Leagold Mining Corporation (TSX-V: LMC) (“Leagold” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the Los Filos Gold Mine in Guerrero State, Mexico for US$350 million (the “Acquisition”) from Goldcorp. The purchase price consists of US$279 million in cash and US$71 million in common shares of Leagold. See Table 1 for details on Leagold’s current capital structure and ownership. Russell Ball, Goldcorp’s EVP Corporate Development and CFO, has joined Leagold’s Board of Directors as Goldcorp’s nominee. Concurrent with this appointment, Jay Sujir has resigned from the Board. Leagold advises that its common shares will resume trading on the TSX-Venture Exchange at market open on April 10, 2017 under the symbol LMC, and that its Subscription Receipts (symbol LMC.R) have been converted into common shares and have been de-listed effective April 7, 2017.
Neil Woodyer, CEO stated “Today marks a strong beginning for Leagold with the Los Filos mine becoming our platform for growth. We have transformed into a low-cost gold producer in Mexico and we will immediately focus on optimizing the mine and progressing the drilling programs and related preparation work for the development of a new underground mine at Bermejal. We look forward to working with the Los Filos management team, the Los Filos workforce, and our local community partners as we develop and expand Los Filos for long-term success. In addition, we continue our search for additional acquisition and growth opportunities in Latin America, as we seek to grow into a multi-mine operator and create the next intermediate gold producer."
Leagold’s financing plan totalled US$333 million to fund the acquisition of the Los Filos Mine and includes the C$179.1 million (US$133 million) Subscription Receipt Offering that was completed on March 8, 2017 and the exercise of the over-allotment option for 1.5 million common shares granted to the underwriters, which was exercised today, a US$150 million Loan Facility and US$50 million Equity Private Placement being provided by a fund managed by Orion Resource Partners (“Orion”). The Mexican anti-trust commission (“COFECE”) has approved the completion of the Acquisition, but requires a second COFECE application with respect to a portion of Orion’s US$50 million equity investment. To accommodate this on-going process, the US$50 million has been split into a US$21 million private placement that has now been completed and a US$29 million subscription receipt financing, with each subscription receipt converting into one common share, without payment of additional consideration or further action, upon receipt of the second COFECE approval. To accommodate the cash funding deferral, Goldcorp has also agreed to defer US$29 million of the US$279 million cash portion of the Acquisition by accepting a short-term promissory note from Leagold. Upon receipt of the second COFECE approval, the US$29 million proceeds from the Orion subscription receipt financing will be paid to Goldcorp. The net proceeds from the various financings completed have been used to satisfy the US$250 million cash portion of the Los Filos Mine acquisition paid to Goldcorp and to provide for general working capital purposes. As such, Leagold’s group cash position post-closing is estimated to be US$76 million. The securities issued under the Equity Private Placement are subject to a statutory four-month hold period.
At closing, Leagold issued 34,635,091 common shares to Goldcorp, representing US$71 million at C$2.75 per share, and 10,244,182 common shares to Orion, representing US$21 million at C$2.75 per share. In relation to the acquisition financing, Leagold has also granted Orion 2,000,000 share purchase warrants that are exercisable in whole or in part for a term of five years at an exercise price of C$3.575 per share. The Loan Facility will bear interest at a rate equal to the greater of 3-month Libor and 1.00%, plus 700 basis points, and will mature on March 31, 2022. Principal repayments commence with the first repayment due on March 31, 2019 and with equal quarterly installments thereafter (i.e., fully amortizing from March 31, 2019 through to the March 31, 2022). The acquisition financing also provides for a gold offtake to Orion of 50% of the gold production at market prices from the Los Filos Mine, until cumulative delivery of 1.1 million ounces to Orion.
Equity Ownership
Prior to completion of the Acquisition, Leagold had 27,130,958 common shares and 63,640,000 Subscription Receipts issued and outstanding. At closing of the Acquisition, the Subscription Receipts converted into common shares, without payment of additional consideration or further action. Table 1 illustrates Leagold’s current capital structure and equity ownership and the anticipated capital structure and equity ownership upon receipt of the second COFECE approval.
Table 1: Capital Structure and Ownership
Notes to Table 1:
1 Number of common shares estimated using an CAD-USD exchange rate of 1.3415. Actual shares issued to Orion will be determined at the prevailing CAD-USD exchange rate at conversion and a share price of C$2.75 per share.
2 Neil Woodyer holds 7,557,550 common shares.
3 Frank Giustra holds, directly and indirectly, 5,037,900 common shares.
The C$179 million Subscription Receipt financing was led by BMO Capital Markets and UBS Securities Canada Inc. and included Scotia Capital Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., GMP Securities L.P. and TD Securities Inc. (the “Underwriters”). UBS Securities Canada Inc. is also acting as financial adviser to Leagold in connection with Orion’s US$150 million loan facility and US$50 million equity subscription transactions. BMO Capital Markets and UBS Securities Canada Inc. are acting as agents and joint bookrunners on the private placement to Orion.
The securities referenced in this release have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act or any U.S. state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an available exemption from the registration requirement of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Leagold Mining Corporation
Leagold aims to build a new mid-tier gold producer with a focus on opportunities in Latin America. Leagold is based in Vancouver, Canada and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol “LMC”.
On behalf of Leagold Mining Corporation
Neil Woodyer, Chief Executive Officer
For more information on Leagold please visit the Company website at www.leagold.com or contact:
Doug Reddy, SVP Technical Services
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" and “forward looking information” (as defined under applicable securities laws), including but not limited to, statements with respect to the pro forma equity ownership, and the conversion of the Subscription Receipts issued to Orion and plans for future development of the Los Filos Mine. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "expects", "expected", "budgeted", "forecasts" and "anticipates". Forward-looking statements and information, while based on management's best estimates and assumptions, are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks related to the receipt of all necessary approvals for conversion of the Orion Subscription Receipts; risks related to the Los Filos Mine, risks related to the successful integration of the acquisition; risks related to international operations; risks related to general economic conditions and credit availability, actual results of current exploration activities, unanticipated reclamation expenses; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; fluctuations in prices of metals including gold; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, increases in market prices of mining consumables, possible variations in ore reserves, grade or recovery rates; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes, title disputes, claims and limitations on insurance coverage and other risks of the mining industry; delays in the completion of development or construction activities, changes in national and local government regulation of mining operations, tax rules and regulations, and political and economic developments in countries in which Leagold operates. Although Leagold has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. The forward-looking statements and forward looking information are made as of the date hereof and Leagold disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements or forward looking information contained herein to reflect future results. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information. Please refer to Leagold's most recent filings under its profile at www.sedar.com for further information respecting the risks affecting Leagold and its business.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
[1] Sourced from Goldcorp’s 2016 Annual Report, page 40
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Soundcloud Lands $35 Million in Debt Funding
Soundcloud is making strides to improve it's platform for monetization
Harrison Williams
As a company that has had it's ups and downs over the course of the past year, Soundcloud landed some great news today by reporting it has secured 300 million Swedish krona (about $35 million) through Tennenbaum Capital Partners, reports Digital.
The new agreement also states that Soundcloud will have the opportunity to borrow 600 million Swedish krona (~ $70 million USD) through convertible bonds.
A spokesperson for Soundcloud released a statement to Tech.Eu that confirmed the deal:
"We can confirm that we secured a flexible credit line with Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP) early in 2015. It’s an attractive option for companies like SoundCloud that have a solid credit rating, and offers an appropriate funding option for a company at our growth stage."
Soundcloud's most recent reported funding came back in January 2014, according to Crunchbase, when the company secured $60 million from Index Venture Partners and the Chernin Group with Soundcloud valued at $700 million. Also, an interesting point to mention is that it has been nearly 3 years since SoundCloud reported any revenue figures, the last time being in 2013 when it was seeing $29 million loss on $14 million in revenues.
This news comes on the heels of an agreement regarding artist royalties between Soundcloud and PRS For Music, which settled a lawsuit last month. Soundcloud also previously announced a paid subscription service that further proves the company is working on ways to iron out their platform in order to increase revenue.
Soundcloud has also been catching heat from users due to the site removing content for supposed copyright infringement. Jackmaster recently had all of his mixes removed from the site, Lido had his account frozen and Oneman had his mixes removed as well. Bootlegs have also been taken down and has prompted the question of whether or not bootlegs should be allowed on the site. Whatever the case may be, news of debt funding is positive for Soundcloud and we'll be anxiously waiting more news on how the company will improve moving forward.
We'll have more information regarding Soundcloud as it arises.
[via: TechCrunch]
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MacAuley's 36-Save Night Helps Regina Topple Manitoba 3-1
By Manitoba Bisons
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WINNIPEG — A 36-save performance from Dawson MacAuley helped the Regina Cougars to a 3-1 win over the Manitoba Bisons on Friday night at Wayne Fleming Arena.
On top of a stellar performance from both net minders, the game also featured a frenzied pace and tons of team speed on both sides.
“We discussed this as a group on Monday morning, that Regina is in a situation where they were desperate for a win. We were going to get a hard-working, desperate team and we couldn’t afford to underestimate them, and I guess we did tonight,” Bisons head coach Mike Sirant said post game.
“We didn’t play with the same level of compete that we have in previous games. We didn’t play well as a team, and again, we just got away from our identity of who we are.”
The first whistle of the contest didn’t until occur until close to five minutes into the game, and close to 30 combined shots were peppered at Manitoba’s Byron Spriggs and Regina’s Dawson MacAuley in the opening 20 minutes.
The Bisons controlled the majority of the first half of action, utilizing their speed to generate some solid chances. Their best opportunity came on a loose puck in front of the net, however neither Brett Brooks or Thomas Freeman could pot the rebound.
Regina went to the power play just under halfway into the contest, which shifted the momentum to their side and helped them gain some confidence. Rookie forward Tate Coughlin had the squad’s two best chances with the extra man, however Spriggs stopped both of his backhand chances from in tight.
Manitoba got their first power play with seven minutes to go and had a couple of opportunities to open the scoring — the most notable on a shot from the slot from forward Devon Skoleski — however MacAuley was up to the task to keep the score level heading into the first intermission.
Regina opened the second period with the man advantage after a double minor by the Bisons take carried into the middle frame. Forward Tristan Frei had the visitors best chance on an odd-man rush, but his shot clanged off the near post.
Both teams continued to trade opportunities — including another Regina shot by Coughlin that went off the near post — however neither team was able to find the back of the net.
The tides turned in the Cougars side with 6:41 left though, as forward Zach McPhee picked up a pass that had clanged off the boards and beat Spriggs with a wrist shot shorthanded.
Manitoba pressed for the equalizer, and got some spirited energy from rookie Jeremey Leipsic, who was making his first start in the lineup, however his shot from in tight went just wide with two minutes to play.
Regina would then add to their lead shortly after, as rookie Arthur Miller managed to beat Spriggs with a top shelf shot from in tight to give the visitors a two-goal lead entering the third.
The Cougars added to their lead just under two minutes into the third period, as forward Corey Kosloski beat Sprggs after intercepting a puck right in front of the Bisons net.
Manitoba put their foot in the gas right afterwards and were able to solve MacAuley at 4:30, as forward Brett Brooks tapped in a rebound from defenceman Mackenzie Dwyer.
The Bisons would continue to put the pressure on, but couldn’t level the score, as MacAuley made some critical saves late in the contest, including a five-hole stop on forward Zach Franko with 1:39 to go after Manitoba had pulled their goalie.
With the win, Regina advances to 1-3-1, while Manitoba falls to 2-3-0. Both squads will be back at it tomorrow at 2 p.m., looking to finish the weekend off on a high note.
Mike Still, Bison Sports
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I've just watched Stan and Ollie on DVD. It was marvellous. I don't like Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge but I think he was born for the role as Stan Laurel. I found both of Stan & Ollie's wives, Lucille and Ida somewhat annoying. They could've formed their own double act - Munchkin and Meerkat. Laurel & Hardy perform their number 1 hit single "The Lonesome Pine". Locally, Norman Wisdom's name is mentioned twice.
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Same here. Running MS Edge on Windows 10 OS
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If any Syrian refugees do land on the island, in all probability they'll moan that what you give them by way of housing just isn't good enough. https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/07/31/news/syrian-refugees-speak-of-housing-problems-and-racist-attacks-in-west-belfast-1395013/
I apologize profusely for submitting an article from the Daily Wail. But you're not the only island population to court such a controversy. Remote Scottish island? One can see the place from Wemyss Bay. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3366575/Senseless-Syrian-refugees-foisted-remote-Scottish-island-high-unemployment-poverty-given-perks-locals-don-t-enjoy.html
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I visited the Isle of Man every summer between 2005 and 2009 just to attend the Manx International Rally or as it was later termed, the Rally Isle of Man. Between those years, I saw some changes. In 2008 I walked all the way to Abbeylands/Scollaig Road because there was a spectacular jump at the crossroads there. The stage was just about to start when along came an Abbeylands resident who moaned in the face of one of the marshals about being "shut in twice a year". "My son can't get to his gym. Is there anyone I could write to?" Of course, all the rally fans laughed at this "busybody". A year later, when I managed to get hold of a stage map - the stage was diverted well away from the crossroads. I couldn't fail but notice that the three-day event was reduced to two days. In 2009, a lot of the Irish rally crews didn't compete and the champagne corks were risk-assessed to be popped well away from spectators.
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A few quotes from "The First Day on the Somme" by Martin Middlebrook. "I might add that five minutes after the attack started, if the British public could have seen the wounded struggling to get out of the line, the war would have possibly been stopped by public opinion" - Pte. J.F. Pout.55th Field Ambulance. "It was pure bloody murder. Douglas Haig should have been hung, drawn and quartered for what he did on the Somme. The cream of British manhood was shattered in less than six hours". - Pte. P. Smith 1st Border Regiment.
The last man to die was killed at 10.58 a.m. It's inscribed on the headstone at St. Symphorien cemetery. The cause of death was that he was shot by sniper while excitedly running around celebrating that the war was over. Another interesting fact. In October 1915, the recruits of the 36th (Ulster) DIvision crossed the English Channel in three ships. The Lapland, the Onward and an Isle of Man paddle steamer - The Empress Queen.
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Grenfell - A Summerland survivor speaks out.
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The Reporter Selected As A 2016 Pacemaker Finalist
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We have a new Head Cheesemaker. Meet Jack Condron.
by Milawa Cheese | Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
We are pleased to introduce our new Head Cheesemaker, Jack Condron! Jack is a local lad that worked his way from our cheese sales counter, into the cheesemaking team and now finds himself as the head honcho. We fired some questions at him so that you could find out a bit more about the main man behind the Milawa cheese we all love.
Hi Jack, you’ve recently stepped up to head cheesemaker, talk us through your journey at Milawa Cheese Company.
I started at Milawa cheese in April 2013 where I was working retail in the cheese shop. While I was there I was asked many questions about the cheese making process, so I got permission to do a bit of work in the factory itself to gain a better understanding of our cheeses and provide accurate answers for our customers. During these shifts I really became enamored with the process, so I progressively started working more and more in the factory. At the time when I first begun in the factory I was the lackey, just doing the basic jobs for the cheesemakers at the time. When I expressed my interest in cheese making the guys really took me under their wing and I just tried to soak in everything they were telling me. I secured the role of assistant cheese maker when Luke Armstrong left in mid-2014. Luckily for me I had Tony Peterson (Head cheese maker) who really showed me the ins and outs of cheese making on a daily basis until he left for Bassine Specialty Cheeses in early 2016. I then assumed the role head cheesemaker and have worked in close conjunction with Stephen Russell to help better our cheeses and the cheese making process. I have Connor Bowes (assistant cheese maker) and Wade Goodwin (junior Cheese maker) working with me crafting cheeses, who have been absolutely brilliant and shown to be highly talented!
What were you doing before you came to us and how did cheesemaking become a passion?
I completed high school and like a lot of other kids I guess, had no idea what I wanted to do for a career. So I worked at McDonalds and became a shift assistant for a short period of time and then worked for an organic fertiliser company before coming to Milawa cheese. It’s quite easy to become passionate about cheese making, many people do it at home in their spare time as a hobby. I guess what I love about it is the idea of creating something delicious that other people really enjoy, the process too is a rare mix of art and science where you have to think about the microbes and how they work within a cheese and then also thinking about how that cheese will look and taste. It can be frustrating but it’s a thoroughly enjoyable job.
Our Factory manager, Steve Russell has been a mentor and is still helping out at Milawa Cheese – How has Steve helped develop you as a Cheesemaker?
Throughout my time here I’ve been lucky to have worked with such knowledgeable people who are widely renowned throughout the industry. Being able to learn from Tony Peterson and Stephen Russell, two guys which have over thirty years cheesemaking experience in cheese making was largely to my benefit. Since Tony’s departure Steve’s support and guidance has been invaluable, we have worked together to improve several cheeses and are continuing to work together to try and keep improving.
What do you think makes a good cheesemaker?
A good cheesemaker has to be observant, always monitoring the milk and the cheeses itself right through maturation (some of which take two years!).
What’s your favourite Milawa Cheese to make and what’s your favourite one to eat?
My favourite Milawa cheese to make would be the Tommé. Its process is unique and is a lot different compared to our other cheeses, it is made in a very farmhouse style in which the curd is treated and the whey extracted. My favourite one to eat however I the Milawa Blue, it’s loosely based on the Gorgonzola Dolce style and in my completely unbiased opinion is the best Blue in Australia (ok I’m completely biased there but it really is that good)
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We’ve been around a long time and many of our cheeses are iconic but do you have any new products in the mix?
We do have some in the works. I’ve made a cheese which is soon to be released as a limited edition (I haven’t even named it yet, happy to take suggestions), it’s a hard cow’s milk cheese which has been aged for six months. We also recently collaborated with Stomping Ground Brewery and made a beer washed rind cheese (some of the beer didn’t make it to the cheese, it uhh, got lost). We also have a few other experiments and trials but I can’t talk about those yet, it’s top secret.
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Health Benefits Program Open Season Dates Set
Military.com | By Janis El Shabazz
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- Open season for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and the Federal Flexible Spending Accounts Program will run Nov. 10 through Dec. 8, officials announced recently.
During open season employees and retirees will have the chance to review their current plans and make any changes they desire for the following year. Eligible employees who are not currently a part of FEHB may enroll during open season.
The average premium rate for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program will increase by 3.2 percent in 2015, according to U.S. Office of Personnel Management officials.
"There are two significant changes to health care and limited expense spending accounts," said Erica Cathro, an Air Force Personnel Center human resources specialist. "For the first time employees will be able to enroll in the flexible spending account program for a $100 minimum deposit and can carry over $500 in their health care and flexible spending accounts."
The first opportunity for carry over will be at the end of 2015. Current participants will not be able to carry over funds from 2014 to 2015; however, they will still have a grace period through March 15. Dependent care FSAs will continue to have a grace period each year, but participants cannot carry over funds from one year to the next.
There are no significant changes to the Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program.
In other FEHB news, some plans are opting out of the program and terminating their enrollment codes or reducing their service areas. Employees can find a listing of these plans, premium costs, comparison guides and individual plan brochures on the OPM website.
Cathro reminds employees that they should thoroughly review OPM Open Season guidance before making their selections.
For more information about this and other personnel issues, visit the myPers website. For detailed information on making open season elections, select "search all components" from the drop down menu and enter "7665" in the search window.
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Prince Harry leaves the army after a decade of service - now it's off to Africa
Kensington Palace announces end of 30-year-old royal's military career on Twitter
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Prince Harry leaves the army today
Prince Harry today left the military after a decade of service.
Kensington Palace announced that the 30-year-old royal had officially ended his army career via Twitter.
At 3.30pm their account posted a picture of Harry wearing Army fatigues to their 530,000 followers with the message: “After over 10 years of full-time service Prince Harry has today ended his @BritishArmy career.”
The prince will spend the next three months working on conservation projects in south Africa before returning to London in the autumn to volunteer assisting wounded soldiers with rehabilitation.
While in Africa he will join a team of rangers responding to reports of poaching attacks on elephants and rhinos as well as working with vets who save animals who have suffered cruel attacks.
In a statement today Kensington Palace said: “The Prince has had a fulfilling military career and considers it a huge honour to have served his country in the Armed Forces, during which time he has undertaken two operational tours of duty in Afghanistan, qualified as an Apache Aircraft Commander, spearheaded the Invictus Games and - most recently - undertaken an attachment with the Australian Defence Force.”
The statement added about Harry’s Africa visit: “The programme will cover a variety of activity in Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Botswana.
End of an era: The Prince had a 'fulfilling military career' says Kensington Palace (Image: Sgt Russ Nolan RLC/MoD via Getty Images)
“Prince Harry will learn about environmental education programmes and see up close the importance of linking the long-term future of southern Africa’s wildlife with the sustainable development of the communities who live alongside the wildlife.
The fact that Harry was leaving the military was announced in March.
He said the decision was “really tough” but he had reached a “crossroads” in his career and was looking forward to a “new chapter”.
Harry trained at Sandhurst in 2005 before being commissioned as an Army officer in 2006.
He has served two tours of Afghanistan in 2007/8 as a forward air controller and 2012/13 as an Apache helicopter pilot.
Prince Harry in the Army through the years
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Woman adapts ninja warrior course for children with disabilities
New program gives children with disabilities opportunity to experience Ninja Warrior obstacles
Gallery: New program gives children with disabilities opportunity to experience Ninja Warrior obstacles
By Emilly Davis | edavis@mlive.com
FENTON, MI- Lila Oberle, eight years old, has spastic quad cerebral palsy.
She uses a wheelchair for mobility and is nonverbal, but understands everything. Like most 8-year-olds, she just wants to have fun and do the things her friends do. However, that’s not always possible.
“It is nearly impossible to find truly adaptive experiences for our kids when their mobility is severely limited,” said Rachel Oberle, Lila’s mom. “If we go to a park, we’re lucky to find a single swing she can use, and they’re often broken. Places like trampoline parks don’t allow more than one person per trampoline and we aren’t able to let her jump alone.”
Many recreational opportunities for people with disabilities are listed as “accessible," but often the accessibility feature is a ramp leading up to an activity they can’t really participate in, Oberle said.
“That’s just the way it is,” Oberle said, explaining that she and her husband try to adapt themselves to whatever activity Lila wants to do.
Lately, Lila has been spending time at Tri County Ninja, a gym in Fenton inspired by American Ninja Warrior, the popular TV show in which contestants compete and take on an intense obstacle course designed to test their strength and endurance.
American Ninja Warrior obstacle courses are tough— they’re high-intensity, difficult courses featuring obstacles that most people probably think are only for the most fit, strong and able-bodied people.
It’s hard to imagine that the obstacles or even the ninja gym to be something feasible for a child with disabilities like Lila to ever even experience.
Tegan Roobol, a Howell resident and physical therapist, wants to change that perception.
Roobol works full-time as a physical therapist at Livingston Educational Service Agency, mostly working with kids who have disabilities or who have suffered traumatic injuries, in addition to being a mom to a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. In her free time, she likes to work out at Tri County Ninja.
A few months ago, Roobol was at the gym when she saw the sister of one of her physical therapy students running around the gym and enjoying the obstacle course. She thought to herself, “Wouldn’t it be cool if my student could be here, too?”
Roobol’s student is in a wheelchair and is only able to watch TV for fun after school. Many of Roobol’s students have severe impairments— some of them can’t talk or walk, and there’s very little they can do for themselves, so recreational opportunities outside of school are very limited.
It didn’t seem fair to Roobol that her student couldn’t enjoy the ninja gym, so although she didn’t know exactly what it would look like, she set about figuring out how she could adapt the experience and make it fun for her student.
Roobol had become friends with Tri County Ninja Owners, Megan and Ed McNulty, through American Ninja Warrior competitions. She asked them if she could use some of their space for her adaptive ninja sessions. The McNultys offered to let the students pay a reduced open gym rate for the session. Ed McNulty said he and his wife were really excited about helping Roobol.
“She puts a lot of work into it and gives these kids an opportunity to do a lot of stuff they normally would not be able to,” McNulty said.
Roobol’s student had a blast at the gym, and it quickly became a weekly occurrence. Roobol started asking other parents of children with disabilities if their kids would like to try the ninja warrior gym.
Some parents were skeptical and didn’t think their children would enjoy the gym, according to Roobol.
“The best part is the smiles that you see, and the ones that really surprise you with their abilities,” Roobol said. “You think, ‘There’s no way,’ and they blow you out of the water with the things they’re able to do.”
Oberle said the adaptive program has been amazing for Lila and their family.
“Lila’s friends at school all go to the gym, and something so physical would generally be out of the realm of possibility for her,” Oberle said. “Tegan has allowed Lila to experience the gym, just like her peers, while being properly supported and physically monitored by a professional.”
So what exactly does ninja warrior training look like for children with disabilities?
Roobol uses a wide variety of “adapted” gym equipment to engage her students and meet their needs during their ninja sessions. Large equipment is limited because she borrows most of it from her work, like a large platform swing the children can sit or lay on. Most of the equipment, however, Roobol creates herself, sometimes with the help of her husband.
She made a tabletop climbing board with bright, colorful labeled handholds for her students to grab onto if they’re able, or Roobol helps them by taking their hand in her own. For one of her students who is blind, Roobol made a tabletop peg board with handholds and bells.
The students also utilize a lot of the gym equipment already there, just in an adapted way. Sometimes students can walk or be guided along a balance beam close to the floor, lay or sit on a big wire spool, lay or sit on a trampoline with some bouncy balls. Sometimes, Roobol plays an episode of American Ninja Warrior on her iPad, and the student simply watches the show.
“If that’s what’s fun, that’s fine, it doesn’t have to be what we think of as the ‘correct’ way to do something,” Roobol said. “I just like the fact they’re out of their house in a public setting, with regular people doing normal things.”
Roobol said her sessions with students are still “trial and error,” because each children’s skills vary, and their skills vary from day-to-day. Just because a student may be able to do an activity one week, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be able to do it again the next week.
But that doesn’t stop Roobol. It just pushes her to come up with new ideas.
“With this clientele it’s easy to say, ‘Why does it matter?’ But everything different or new is better than not doing anything,” Roobol said. “If you see the smile on their face you would see why it matters. Listen to one of them laugh and tell me there’s not quality of life. There is. It’s just different from yours.”
Right now, Roobol holds one-on-on adaptive ninja sessions for her students weekly, or whenever she can. It can be hard to coordinate her schedule with the 10 to 15 students who participate, so it’s not uncommon for her to bring her two young children to the gym with her.
Soon, Roobol wants to offer “open gym” sessions with different stations set up, and the child’s family member or friend would help guide them at each station. She’s also been toying around with the idea of creating “competitions” in which one student at a time would be led through an adapted obstacle course while being cheered on by friends and family, which is unlike any experience most of the kids have had.
Roobol has big dreams for the future. She is in the process of creating her non-profit, Overcoming Obstacles: Adaptive Ninja & Climbing. She hopes she will be able to get more equipment made to help people with disabilities, and eventually hire other physical trainers to work with her so more children can be adaptive ninjas.
“I hope that it does turn into something where I can make money without charging families. I don’t want to bill insurance or have parents pay through their nose,” Roobol said. “I just want them to have recreational opportunities for their kids.”
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Jury selection underway in Michigan State Police trooper slaying trial
Updated Feb 18, 2014 ; Posted Feb 18, 2014
The trial begins for Eric John Knysz murder suspect in the shooting death of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II
Gallery: The trial begins for Eric John Knysz murder suspect in the shooting death of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II
By John S. Hausman | jhausman@mlive.com
LUDINGTON, MI – Jury selection got underway Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the murder trial of Eric John Knysz, charged with killing Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II by shooting him in the head Sept. 9, 2013.
As a lunch break neared after 1:30 p.m., a number of members of the jury pool had been excused. Mason County Prosecutor Paul Spaniola and defense attorney David Glancy had completed one round of questioning of 14 potential jurors called into the box.
The day began with a pool of 85 to 90 potential jurors. At least a dozen had been excused before the lunch break.
The selection began with general remarks and questioning of the entire jury pool by Mason County Circuit Judge Richard I. Cooper, then introduction of witnesses to see if any potential jurors had conflicts.
Spaniola introduced or read the names of at least 40 witnesses. They included the defendant’s father, John “Jack” Knysz, and wife, Sarah Knysz, as well as her attorney, John Spillan; Butterfield’s fiancee, Jennifer Sielski; and many law enforcement officers, among others.
Last on his list, Spaniola named Butterfield himself, showing his portrait on two large video screens in the courtroom. Spaniola did not explain the nature of Butterfield’s being a witness.
Glancy introduced only one witness: Knysz himself, a 20-year-old resident of the Irons area. That doesn’t necessarily mean he will testify, only that it’s a possibility.
Knysz's manner all day has been calm and unemotional. He's wearing a dark-red dress shirt, tie and dark slacks. Shot in the leg before his arrest, he was still using a cane as he entered the courtroom.
Several in the rural county’s jury pool said they were acquainted with either Butterfield or either Eric or Sarah Knysz. One man said he didn’t know Butterfield but had many relatives and friends among the state police and didn’t know if he could be neutral. The judge excused him.
Another man who said he works as a Michigan Department of Corrections officer at Oaks Correctional Facility in Manistee County said he didn’t think he could be fair. The judge excused him, too.
Numerous members of the jury pool said they had seen or read what they believed to be "inflammatory” media coverage of the case, a word the judge used to describe stories the jurors felt was meant to sway opinions about the case. None of those potential jurors was excused immediately; that was left for the lawyers to explore once individual jurors were called up into the box to be questioned.
John S. Hausman covers courts, prisons, the environment and local government for MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. Email him at jhausman@mlive.com and follow him on Twitter.
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SEPTA names Jeffrey Knueppel as its new GM
Jeffrey D. Knueppel, PE, was named the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) next GM, succeeding Joseph M. Casey, who is retiring at the end of the month.
With his appointment, Knueppel will oversee 9,300 employees and full operation of the sixth largest transportation agency in the country.
Prior to his appointment, Knueppel, a 27-year veteran SEPTA employee, served as deputy GM in charge of two divisions — operations and engineering, maintenance and construction (EM&C), as well as several staff support departments.
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Knueppel joined SEPTA in 1988 as an entry level structural engineer where his projects focused on the repair of aging elevated transit structures, bridges and tunnels. He quickly moved up within the organization and after several job advancements was promoted to chief engineer at the age of 36. He was assistant GM/chief engineer of the EM&C Division, before assuming the responsibility of deputy GM.
Under Knueppel's direction, the SEPTA team successfully completed 32 transit infrastructure improvement projects as part of its $191 million Stimulus program. The SEPTA ARRA Program has been nationally recognized for its efficiency, effectiveness, and innovative program management.
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An Invisible Crisis: Exploring Mental Health Needs in the Syrian and Iraqi Crisis
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Here's What Would Happen if Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted Today
By Zak Cheney-Rice
So this is how it ends: With volcanoes erupting in Iceland and Papua New Guinea this summer, Murphy's Law suggests it's only a matter of time before the U.S. gets its due.
And according to the American Geophysical Union, we may have a candidate: The Yellowstone "supervolcano," a slumbering giant that most recently erupted from beneath Yellowstone National Park 640,000 years ago.
U.S. Geological Survey photo of the Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park.Source: Flickr
More: Discovery reports the odds are slim of Yellowstone wreaking havoc for at least another few centuries.
But perhaps inspired by the musings of amateur geologists – who see recent helium emissions and odd bison migrations as ominous signs – the Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems journal has published a study projecting the fallout from such an event.
Obviously, it's bad news. Using a new "volcanic ash transport and dispersion model," the researchers determined a Yellowstone eruption would blanket much of the country in over three feet of ash, causing infrastructural disruptions and environmental devastation that would echo for years after.
And: Raw Story reports the ash would explode 240 cubic miles into the atmosphere, shutting down electrical communication and air travel nationwide and reaching as far east as New York and west as Los Angeles.
Don't think the wind would save you by blowing it all away, either:
"[The] eruption makes its own winds that can overcome the prevailing westerlies, which normally dominate weather patterns in the United States," says Larry Mastin, the scientist behind the study.
Graphic depiction of the electrical conductivity that feeds the Yellowstone volcano, provided by University of Utah geologists.Source: AP
Of course, Middle America would be hit the hardest: Projected damage to the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states includes decreased road traction leading to more car accidents, in addition to severe electrical shortages, blocked sewer and water lines, ruined crops and potentially fatal respiratory restrictions to people with breathing ailments, such as asthma, according to Raw Story.
Basically, we'd all be screwed.
But there is hope, at least for now: That is, we have a long ways to go before this is supposed to happen. And Discovery reports that a number of telltale signs would give us ample warning to evacuate.
That's not much to hang your hat on if you're a future American, but it's the little things that count, right?
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Chartwell-UCSF partnership: Gaining a deeper…
Chartwell-UCSF partnership: Gaining a deeper understanding of dyslexia
Teacher Billy Swift works with student Terrance White (center) at Chartwell School in Seaside on Thursday. (Vern Fisher – Monterey Herald)
By Hannah Hagemann | newsroom@montereyherald.com |
SEASIDE — What if schools created curriculum so precise lessons were personalized to each student’s brain? That’s one long-term goal of a new partnership forged between the UC San Francisco Dyslexia Center and Chartwell School in Seaside.
Chartwell is the second school to partner with UCSF on the project, which seeks to understand where dyslexia originates in the brain and the variety of symptoms it causes. UCSF is finding distinct dyslexia groupings, or phenotypes, throughout the population.
Marilu Gorno Tempini, co-director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center, says the study aims to holistically investigate dyslexia, “Thinking of the brain made from different muscles. You want to see the strengths and weaknesses in all the different muscles, to understand where the reading problem is coming from.”
Since 1983 Chartwell, a private school, has served students with a variety of language-based learning differences. Eighty percent of their students have dyslexia. The school groups students in classes based on assessments, not age, in grades first through 12th, and uses multi-sensory and individualized teaching techniques.
Chartwell School in Seaside. (Vern Fisher – Monterey Herald)
To take Chartwell’s curriculum to an even higher level of specificity, the match with the UCSF Dyslexia Center was an obvious one to Katrina Maestri, the chair of Chartwell’s board of directors.
Maestri’s own daughter, Chiara, who is a Chartwell student, underwent assessments at UCSF. “You take something that Chartwell does, which uses evidence-based programs to help these kids access and process information, but then UCSF takes this to the next level [by asking] what’s the root cause, and can we get even more precise with the interventions? And I think most importantly of all, can we help with the social-emotional piece of that?”
The powerful impact the results had on Chiara motivated Maestri to spearhead the partnership between the two institutions.
Chartwell student participants will spend roughly two days undergoing assessments for a “whole brain” evaluation. At the UCSF Dyslexia center, the children undergo an MRI, completing various cognitive tasks while researchers image and analyze what the brains look like during these tasks. Children also give a saliva sample to the researchers so they can explore the genetic aspect of dyslexia.
The second component of the evaluation puts the children in various virtual environments to explore other social, emotional, and cognitive traits involved in dyslexia, explained UCSF’s Gorno Tempini. Through tracking the children’s performance on video games and emotional reactions to video clips, the team can uncover each brain’s strengths and challenges. One of the emotional assessments involves the children watching video clips, while the researchers observe their facial expressions, and measure heart rate, and respiration.
Chartwell School teacher Shane Whitman helps student Gordon Swint in class on Thursday. (Vern Fisher – Monterey Herald)
Gorno Tempini says the emotional and social aspect of the evaluation is especially innovative, “Typically in psychiatry people give questionnaires and they ask parents ‘Is your child anxious, is your child distressed, is your child depressed?’ And here we’re trying to measure in an objective way so we could better, for instance, decide if and what medication a child might need.”
Thirty six Chartwell students are participating in the study this year and six students are undergoing assessments with the UCSF team now. For each child, the data from these assessments will illuminate which parts of their brain are most affected by dyslexia, and how that translates to their academic and social life. “For instance, if you have a child that is weak in visual spatial function but very strong verbally, you want to teach them math verbally. It’s not that they have a math problem, it’s the dyslexia that is highly likely to be associated with difficulties in learning other things visually,” said Gorno Tempini.
The next component of the study relies on parents and teachers to incorporate the team’s findings into specific lesson and life strategies for the student, and report to UCSF on the progress the student is making through a computer database. Armed with details on how dyslexia affects the student individually, the hope is that by implementing targeted changes in the classroom, and at home, the student will experience more academic and personal success. Chartwell anticipates incorporating the results of the study into their curriculum by spring of 2019. Jodi Amaditz, director of academics for Chartwell, says. “The information that UCSF provides us would allow us to group like-learners more intentionally, and more specifically than we even do now.”
For Maestri’s daughter, the knowledge she received on her own brain’s inner workings was empowering, “Chiara ends up knowing her brain much better, so she is in a better position to self-advocate. She can describe to other people why she does what she does, without shame, because she knows it’s just how her brain works.”
While these individual-scale goals are important to UCSF and Chartwell, both institutions see the broader implications this study could have on the overall education system. “This is the early work, the research, the data collection…so that it changes education for everybody in the country,” said Chartwell Head of School, Kate Mulligan. Amaditz spoke on the cultural shift she hopes the study will push forward, “Where I think it’s really revolutionary is that people will recognize that dyslexia is medical, it’s genetic… You can study a person’s brain.”
For Gorno Tempini the data from this first “discovery cohort” will be integral in developing wide-scale tools for the general public. While the study assessments are still experimental, the ultimate goal is to use similar methods to create standardized diagnostic tools for dyslexia. These screenings could appear as a game on a tablet, that pediatricians and teachers would use to screen children for dyslexia starting at a young age, even before they read.
And that’s key, says Amaditz. “It’s a model of wait and see,” she says. “But they can find out before the kids are actually reading… that these students are going to start to struggle in a traditional classroom. Then you can intervene early and teach them the way they need to be taught immediately, then they won’t struggle and have all the social, emotional difficulties.”
Gorno Tempini also stressed the importance of screening children at a young age, “We know that the brain is more plastic earlier on so the brain responds better to intervention much better and faster… in the first 10 years it’s particularly a sponge.”
About 15 to 20 percent of the U.S. population has a language-based learning difference, with dyslexia being the most common, “and that 20 percent is too valuable to throw away,” Mulligan says.
Hannah Hagemann
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MSA gives evidence to Scottish inquiry
The MSA has given evidence to the Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) into the tragic deaths of four people on the 2013 Snowman Rally and the 2014 Jim Clark Rally.
The FAI commenced in Edinburgh on 18 July. Rob Jones, MSA Chief Executive, gave evidence on behalf of the governing body throughout Tuesday. This included setting out the MSA’s response to the 29 recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Motorsport Event Safety Review (MESR). Additionally, Simon Blunt, MSA General Secretary, has been in attendance throughout the proceedings.
With almost all evidence now given, the FAI will hear submissions from the various parties involved later this month. The Sheriff will then deliver his report in due course.
The MSA wishes to take this opportunity to reiterate once again its condolences to the family and friends of the four victims.
Entries open for JLT MSA Volunteer and Club of the Year Awards
Entries are open for the 2017 JLT MSA Volunteer and Club of the Year awards, which aim to build on last year’s stunning record of over 100 nominations showcasing the very best of UK motorsport. Read more
Clarification: red flag procedures
The MSA has issued a clarification of red flag procedures in Circuit Racing. This clarification, shown as red additions, is as follows: Read more
Clarification: heating of tyres
The MSA has issued a clarification of the recently published regulation change regarding the heating of tyres in Sprints, Hill Climbs and Drag Racing. This clarification, shown as red additions and struck through deletions, is as follows: Read more
MSA Asphalt Rally Championship returns in 2018
The MSA Asphalt Rally Championship will return in 2018 with new a title sponsor, an exciting TV package and a challenging calendar of events. Read more
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The Pink Panther ending
Bird Box quotes
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Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Josh Brolin, Karen Gillan, Letitia Wright, Paul Bettany, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Tessa Thompson, Tom Hiddleston, Zoe Saldana
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Marvel
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Continuity mistake: On the spaceship, Peter is talking to Tony, and has his hair swept back with gel or similar. When he says "You can't be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man if there's no neighbourhood", we cut to Tony then back, and Peter now has a fringe with no gel. In later shots it's back how it was before.
Continuity mistake: When Doctor Strange attempts to use the Time Stone on Ebony Maw, Maw ties up Doctor Strange telepathically and strangles him unconscious. Beside Doctor Strange is a police car and a motorbike tipped on its side. Maw then lifts the ground Doctor Strange is lying on, but the police car has been replaced by an SUV and the motorbike has disappeared. The shadows also change. (00:23:25)
Continuity mistake: When Thanos brings Vision back to life using the Time Stone, Thanos is standing a couple steps away from him after bringing him back. Wanda then tries to stop him, and it cuts to a wide shot where he suddenly is a couple of steps closer with his hand suddenly around Vision's neck. Thanos then pushes her with his other hand and in the next shot, Thanos is then reaching to put his hand around Vision's neck even though he was just shown with his hand around Vision's neck already. (02:09:35)
Continuity mistake: When Tony is talking with Pepper, she unties Tony's sleeves from around his shoulders when she points out the unit on his chest. The sleeves are hanging over Tony's shoulders in the wideshot as he says, "I'm just trying to protect us," but when it cuts to the closeup the sleeves have vanished, between shots. (00:12:20)
Continuity mistake: When Groot creates a handle for the axe with his arm, he chops off the arm and it lands on the ground. The sharp end is facing to the right when it lands, but when it begins to lift, the sharp end is now facing to the left. (01:44:20)
Continuity mistake: Thanos' ship is near the ground in New York but seconds later when Peter senses it, the ship is higher, at building level. (00:18:10)
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Continuity mistake: In the flashback to Gamora's planet while Thanos is walking beside Gamora, Ebony Maw disappears in the open view. (00:43:20)
Continuity mistake: In New York after Bruce tries to become Hulk, in one shot there's a minor mudstain on his shirt, then the angle changes and it's suddenly a massive brown splat. (00:22:15)
Continuity mistake: When Peter sees the ship whilst he is on the school bus, he taps Ned on the shoulder and asks him to make a distraction. When he taps Ned on the shoulder, Ned has earphones in both ears, and one of the earphones falls out when Peter taps him, whilst the other earphone remains in his ear. But in the next shot, neither of his ears has an earphone in them. (00:18:25)
Continuity mistake: The blanket used by Thor on the Guardians' ship moves several times between shots. (00:32:55)
Continuity mistake: When Ebony Maw walks past the dead Asgardians, Corvus Glaive walks past him with his spear upright then the other way up. The spikes on the spear change shape too.
Continuity mistake: When Ebony Maw is walking past the dead Asgardians, the camera pans from feet up to his face, and Corvus Glaive is walking past him. The shot cuts to a different angle, where Corvus Glaive is now several meters away from him. (00:01:35)
Continuity mistake: On Titan, when Tony begins speaking with Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Drax and Mantis, in the shot where he says "We gotta coalesce", Spider-Man is standing a few feet away from Tony and is facing him, but in the next shot, Spider-Man is suddenly standing closer to Tony and is now facing the others. (01:22:50)
Continuity mistake: When Heimdall is stabbed the sword gets into his chest around his heart, in the next scene they take the sword away from closer to his stomach.
Continuity mistake: Thor says "You talk too much" whilst Thanos has his hand grabbing Thor's head. Thanos' fingers are close together on one side, with his thumb holding the other side. Two shots after, when Thanos asks Loki for the Tesseract, Thanos' fingers are spread apart. Two shots after that, when Thanos says "Or your brother's head", his fingers are suddenly close together again. (00:02:55)
Continuity mistake: When Loki reveals the Tesseract to Thanos, the first shot shows him holding it against his fingertips raised above his palm, but when Thor tells Loki he really is the worst brother, the Tesseract is now being held in his palm. Also, when Thanos tells Loki his optimism is misplaced, the Tesseract is still being held in his palm, but when the shot cuts, it is now being held against his finger tips raised slightly above his palm. (00:03:45)
Continuity mistake: Just after Tony realises Drax isn't listening to him, Star-Lord tells Tony not winging it isn't really what they do. In this shot, Tony is looking at Star-Lord. Spider-Man asks what exactly is it that they do, and Tony is suddenly looking at Spider-Man, then Mantis says "Kick names, take ass" and Tony is suddenly looking at Drax and Mantis. (01:22:25)
Continuity mistake: When the armies are approaching the barrier in Wakanda, in the shot where M'Baku is first chanting with his army, T'Challa is approaching him and Captain America, Black Widow and Bucky are a couple of feet next to him. When they stop, Captain America is standing ahead of Black Widow. It then cuts to T'Challa saying "Thank you for standing with us", and Captain America, Black Widow and Bucky are now side by side. (01:37:40)
Continuity mistake: Before Heimdall sends Hulk to earth he moves his hand between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Thor, Rocket and Groot begin charging towards the army after arriving in Wakanda, the shot from behind them shows Rocket and Groot running slightly behind Thor. Then it cuts directly to a shot in front of them, just before Thor jumps into the air, and Rocket and Groot are now further back. (01:45:50)
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On the spaceship, Peter is talking to Tony, and has his hair swept back with gel or similar. When he says "You can't be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man if there's no neighbourhood", we cut to Tony then back, and Peter now has a fringe with no gel. In later shots it's back how it was before.
Spoilers! Red Skull makes his long-awaited return to the MCU after his appearance in Captain America: The First Avenger. We discover that he's been guarding the soul stone as punishment, of sorts. However he's played by Ross Marquand, not Hugo Weaving.
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Firefall Officially Shuts Down
Chris Hughes | 7th July 2017
Red 5 Studios has decided to call it a day and has confirmed the Firefall shutdown. As of today, Friday, July 7th, the shooter MMO has sunsetted. That said, the Firefall IP will press on in at least a couple of different forms according to staff announcements.
The announcement to shutter the game was made on the Red 5 Studios website this past Wednesday, July 5th. “With heavy hearts, we regret to inform you that after much review and analysis, Red 5 Studios have decided to suspend the Firefall efforts,” reads the post. “Thank you for being an important part of the Firefall experience and for your loyalty and dedication to the online community.”
While the game itself is closed, the studio still has plans for the Firefall IP itself, with focus moving to a mobile version as well as a PlayStation 4 version. In a post made on the game’s official site back in May, the team expressed the desire to accept “feedback from all sources including former employees of the studio”, and stated that enthusiasm for the IP as a motivating factor for alternate development of Firefall. “We feel the value of the Firefall IP is not only recognized by gamers but the capital market as well,” reads the post.
The Red 5 Studios post has noted that current development focus is based on the mobile version of Firefall, with rewards being offered to former Firefall founders and players. Red 5 has stated that updates will be arriving, though it did not commit to a timeline on when those updates will be.
It’s a shame that Firefall had to shutter, but it’s also perhaps not a great shock to many fans of the genre. We certainly hope for the best for Red 5 Studios and the development team behind Firefall and are looking forward to hearing more about the IP’s development on other platforms.
Sources: Red 5 Studios site, Firefall site
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Shooter
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Status: Shut down
Fee: Free to play
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Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall 180g 2LP
Product Code: MFSL2-446
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Easygoing Portrait of Down-Home Soul Singer Coming into His Own and Establishing an Indelible Bond Between Performer and Audience
On par with the most treasured concert albums of the 60s and 70s, Bill Withers' transformative Live at Carnegie Hall is a forgotten classic – an easygoing portrait of a down-home soul artist coming into his own in front of an audience eager to share every moment of his brilliance. Soothing with subtlety, charming with calmness, and healing with a vocal timbre as relaxing as his grooves, Withers uses the stage to expand the range of favorites and engage in dialog with the crowd. Distinguished with sonics that restore the performances' balance and improve the soundstaging, this reissue takes you inside the venue.
Moreover, aspects that really make this concert document unique – the energetic crowd, Withers and his band's willingness to extend arrangements, and the undeniable communicative bond between the performer and his fans – are brought into fuller relief. While most live albums give you the sense of what transpired, our reissue allows it to seem that what you're hearing and sensing is happening right now, in the moment. You are as much a participant as listener. For this reason and more, Live at Carnegie Hall ranks with James Brown's Live at the Apollo and B.B. King's Live at the Regal. No small claims, but the proof is in the grooves.
The antithesis of the sweaty R&B shouter that prowls the edge of stages, Withers deals in mellowness and vulnerability, qualities that come to fore. The songs here span soul, blues, and folk and often times, contain elements of all three styles. Live at Carnegie Hall also deals with serious subject matter with unflinching honesty and simple directness. Companionship, poverty, war, maturity, family, and love all crop up within Withers' tunes, yet the messages are never overly cumbersome or preachy. Credit goes to his easygoing style and relatable lyrics, not to mention a tight-as-a-vice band that on this night is simply "on."
"One more time?" Withers asks in response to a request for another stanza during "Use Me," and like the snap of fingers, his musicians are right back on cue, the crowd clapping along on every beat. This classic, as well as the instantly familiar "Ain't No Sunshine," poignant "Grandma's Hands," and all-time favorite "Lean On Me" are delivered with utmost soulfulness, passion, and electricity. Few, if any, live albums demonstrate such a bond between the crowd and artist as Live at Carnegie Hall. You'll definitely want to be there.
Friend of Mine
World Keeps Going Around
For My Friend
I Can't Write Left Handed
Lonely Town, Lonely Street
Hope She'll Be Happier
Let Us Love
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Posted on September 15, 2018 by Bryan Walters
Blue Devils tame Panthers, 55-20
By Bryan Walters - bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com
CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — They definitely hopped back up after getting knocked down.
After suffering a late heartbreaker at Jackson last week, the Gallia Academy football team responded by putting up season-highs in rushing, total yards and total points on Friday night following a 55-20 thumping of host Chesapeake in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both programs at Bill Davis Stadium in Lawrence County.
The Blue Devils (3-1, 1-0 OVC) led wire-to-wire in the Week 4 gridiron clash as the guests churned out 525 yards of total offense while building leads of 14-7 and 28-14 over the first two quarters of play.
The Blue and White drove the proverbial nail into the coffin during a third period that saw three different rushers produce scores, allowing the Blue Devils to increase their lead out to 48-20 headed into the final period.
Briar Williams tacked on an 18-yard score in the fourth for a 35-point cushion, giving GAHS its largest lead of the night.
Gallia Academy grinded out 426 rushing yards on 43 carries, an average of 9.9 yards per attempt, and also produced 99 passing yards while picking up the program’s third consecutive OVC triumph.
The Panthers (2-2, 0-1), conversely, mustered 201 rushing yards on 37 attempts and also managed 56 passing yards for a final total of 257 yards of offense.
The Blue Devils claimed a 15-10 edge in first downs and finished the evening plus-1 in turnover differential. Jacob Campbell forced a fumble that was picked up Cory Call for the only takeaway of the game.
Campbell also started the scoring early in the first quarter with a nine-yard run, then tacked on a successful two-point conversion run for an 8-0 edge.
Carson Nida followed with a 58-yard scamper that allowed the Purple and White to close within 8-7, but the hosts were ultimately never closer.
Lane Pullins tacked on an 18-yard run near the end of the first for a 14-7 contest, then Justin McClelland added an 11-yard scamper early in the second for a 21-7 cushion.
Austin Browning pulled the Panthers back to within a possession following a four-yard run, but the guests received another McClelland score — this time from 16 yards out — to take a 28-14 advantage into the break.
James Armstrong started third quarter outbreak with a 65-yard jaunt to paydirt that gave the guests a 35-14 edge.
Pullins and McClelland also added TD runs in the third, sandwiched around a Will Todd scoring run, that allowed the Blue Devils to take a commanding 48-20 lead into the finale.
Gallia Academy had eight different ball carriers in the game, and all eight produced at least double digits in gains.
McClelland paced the guests with 90 yards on a dozen carries, followed by Pullins with 84 yards on 11 attempts and Armstrong with 84 yards on four totes.
McClelland was 7-of-13 passing for 99 yards. Call led the wideouts with four catches for 35 yards, while Armstrong hauled in two passes for 38 yards.
Cade Roberts led the defense with seven tackles, including a pair for loss. Trentin Waller and Cole Davis also had four stops apiece for the victors.
GAHS was flagged six times for 60 yards and punted twice for an average of 41 yards. Chesapeake, on the other hand, punted five times for an average of 21.4 yards and were also penalized seven times for 45 yards.
Browning led CHS with 81 rushing yards on 12 carries and also completed 3-of-11 passes for 56 yards.
After surrendering 34 points in their Week 1 opener against Meigs, the Blue Devils have allowed just 35 points in the their three contests since.
Gallia Academy returns to OVC action Friday when it travels to Portsmouth for a 7 p.m. contest with the Trojans.
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com
Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101.
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China Marketing Weekly: How to Monetize a Podcast in China with Ximalaya
This week, we discuss WeChat making travel smoother for its users, a new video-based messenger rolled out by Douyin, government censoring “effeminate male idols”, and more.
Also, do you know which WeChat generation you belong to based on your emoji usage? Dig in!
We’re hiring! If you know anybody that would love our company culture and has skills in Chinese digital marketing of any type, send them our way! This is one of our rare self-promotions in the newsletter! Here’s the message.
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Six readers asked us if they can make money podcasting in China and how they might go about it. So, we wrote up a long post on the massive audio platform Ximalaya, how Chinese people are using it, the monetization methods available, and how to promote a podcast. - Get it here.
Douyin launches a video-based instant messaging app that may challenge WeChat. “Duoshan” is somewhat similar to Snapchat - the video messages disappear after 72 hours in order to provide “stress-free” sharing. Short-lasting videos similar to Snapchat or Instagram Moments have not peaked in China yet. Duoshan is based on an idea of convenient messaging, similar to extremely popular WeChat’s voice messages - just upgraded to the 5G era. Some say there’s no space for another messaging app (see what happened to Bullet Messenger…), but Duoshan relies on Douyin’s 500 million monthly active users. - Read more (English/Chinese)
Show WeChat your commonly used emojis and WeChat will tell you how old you are… According to “The WeChat Annual Data Report 2018”, the app’s vast user base can be grouped into five generations, each can be described based on their most commonly used emoji. Even I have to say its accuracy is disturbing!
What creepy data has the platform also collected? People born in the 00s have a sweet tooth, Millennials like sleeping in and use public transport a lot, older generations love browsing through their WeChat Moments. - Read more (English)
Weibo will not display an actual number of likes and reposts when they exceed 1 million - it will just show “1 million+”. It is a step on the way to fight fake comments and reposts coming from both bots and the “water army”. The same step was taken before by video-streaming platform iQiyi last year. - Read more (English)
Male earrings censored on iQiyi, video-streaming platform. As ridiculous as it is, there’s been a new regulation that has not yet been announced officially that bans men from displaying such an affront to “national masculinity.” Apparently, it was unknown when the content was being shot, so the platform had no choice but to blur the earrings out.
Just as the trend for “androgynous and effeminate male idols” is growing in China, the government and state media are trying harder to fight it. - Read more (English)
Alipay launches its annual Lunar New Year promotion which has become a holiday tradition. Every year, two weeks before the holiday, Alipay users start collecting “lucky cards” - when you scan a 福 character anywhere you can get one of five cards. The more sets of five different cards you collect, the better the chances that on Lunar New Year’s Eve you could win a prize. The annual gala is not a thing anyone would miss! - Read more (Chinese)
Famous martial arts actor, Yen Zidan, roasted for working with the German brand who released “Fuck You China” T-shirts. The actor was one of the catwalk models for Philipp Plein during Milan Fashion Week and was quickly spotted by Chinese netizens. Heated discussion arose, even after the actor released a public apology saying he did not know about the T-shirt campaign. He published quite a few social media posts about loving his country etc. However, the timing couldn’t be worse as the Chinese Internet is still sensitive after the recent Dolce and Gabbana incident. - Read more (Chinese)
Jack Ma opens a music bar to create opportunities for young musicians. HHB Music House has immediately become the most hip place in Hangzhou. But Alibaba’s founder says he doesn’t care about making money. Alibaba’s ecosystem has created millions of work places for delivery men, craftsmen, farmers; and now it’s time for musicians. Ma expressed his hope that HHB Music House will change the industry and create opportunities for both musicians and investors. - Read more (Chinese)
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Who can you not imagine life in China without? Delivery guys, of course! They became such an inseparable part of our daily lives as they can deliver basically anything to you within 30 minutes, more or less. If they suddenly disappeared, life would be incomplete. But… who are they?
Based on the latest report, 77% of them come from the countryside (that explains their accents…) and they earn on average 4k to 8k RMB (600 to 1.2k USD), only 10% of them make more than that - but there are some lucky ones who make up to 30k (4,4k USD). 91% of them are males, averaging around 29 years old; one-third owns an apartment, one-fourth - a car.
Meituan enters the “fresh e-commerce” world, offering products such as fresh vegetables, fruits, meats, seafoods, and eggs delivered to customer’s houses from local warehouses. “Anything you need for your daily meals within 30 minutes at your doorstep”. The service is only available in Shanghai, but is soon expected to expand as “fresh e-commerce” is becomes relevant in China, for now, mostly thanks to Alibaba’s Hema supermarkets. - Read more (Chinese)
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The two-child policy did not encourage expected growth in the birth rate, quite the contrary happened. In 2018, the number of live births decreased by 14.2% - meaning that 2.5 million fewer children were born. Statistically, this is the lowest number since 1790, and China now faces a serious population crisis. - Read more (Chinese)
The government thought that, after years of the one-child policy, allowing people to have more children would be a game changer and expected a baby boom. However, saying that the reception was luke-warm is an overstatement. Society may be growing richer, but raising one child in China is not a cost everyone can afford- not to mention two of them! It’s calculated that the cost of bringing up a child is at least 2 million CNY (300k USD). Another thing is that, in a society used to generations of only children, raising a child requires the joint effort of six people: parents and both sets of grandparents.
Not to mention the general trend of young successful people that do not want to have many children or any children at all.
- Sesia
It’s often discussed by Western media that China should become a fully democratic nation. So many cases are brought up where human rights are broken; the trending topic of 2018 was the infamous “social credit system.” But, as an expat in China, I know well that the coin has two sides. For those who’ve never been to China and base their opinions just on what they hear from media outlets - I can imagine China seems scary. But what do Chinese people really think about their daily lives? - See the video here.
To sum it up, Chinese people feel rather free. They think China is a safe and stable country, and their government is more efficient at decision-making than multi-party democratic countries - and that’s why China developed so fast. Do they feel restricted? Sometimes, yes, but generally they feel more free than Westerners paint it.
WeChat users can now apply for a visa to 32 countries through a mini-program. The platform announced they want to ensure a smoother one-stop service for the country’s growing number of tourists. The new feature is being rolled out a few weeks after Alipay announced it was possible to apply for a Canadian visa with Alibaba’s Sesame Credit score. - Read more (Chinese)
The list of things that you CAN’T do on your mobile is becoming shorter in China.
WeChat cooperates with Global Blue in Japan to ensure a smooth tax refund process to Chinese tourists. Instead of filling in forms at the airport, Chinese tourists can now go to Hankyu Department Stores and scan a mini-program code at an unmanned counter to receive a full tax payback straight to their WeChat wallet. A similar feature is offered by Alipay in European countries. - Read more (Chinese)
It is an important step as Japan is a popular shopping destination - the Chinese often go there just for a day and buybuybuy! A smoother tax refund process may be a serious driver for them when choosing a destination. Another popular spot is Korea.
China aims at bringing their English exams to an international standard. The first step: linking China's Standard of English Language Ability (CSE) standard to IELTS. The Chinese Ministry of Education wants to unify the exams that are currently available in China to make sure students have clear objectives for their learning process. The issue young Chinese people often face now is that they’re not able to use their language skills in real life. The standardized tests focus on all abilities: reading, writing, listening and speaking, and are supposed to help them change it. - Read more (English/Chinese)
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Sparkling with energy, a cluster of young stars lights up a cavity in the roiling dust of the Tarantula Nebula NASA, ESA, F. PARESCE (INAF-IASF, BOLOGNA, ITALY), R. O'CONNELL (UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE), AND THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 SCIENCE
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 looks through the Horsehead Nebula in a uniquely detailed infrared image. NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA)
Two spiral galaxies, collectively known as Arp 273, prepare to merge 300 million light-years away. NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA)
The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are hurtling toward each other at 300,000 miles (480,000 kilometers) an hour. NASA, HOLLAND FORD (JHU), THE ACS SCIENCE TEAM AND ESA
Gas from a dying star resembles a butterfly, its lacy wings formed by the ejection of its outer layers. NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE SM4 ERO TEA
This ghostly ring is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, an unknown substance believed to make up the structure of the cosmos. NASA, ESA, M.J. JEE AND H. FORD (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
Over several months, Hubble captured a cosmic spectacle—a ragged balloon of dust that appeared to expand around the star V838 Monocerotis. NASA, ESA AND H.E. BOND (STSCI)
In this spectacular image, the spiral Sombrero galaxy is seen almost edge on. NASA AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA)
Star birth and star death create cosmic havoc in a panorama of the Carina Nebula assembled from multiple Hubble images. N. SMITH (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) AND NOAO/AURA/NSF
This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through. NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE TEAM (STSCI/AURA). ACKNOWLEDG
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European Illusions
David Calling
By David Pryce-Jones
About David Pryce-Jones
The level of unreality created by the masters of Europe is reaching new heights. It is like hallucinating to observe the politicians driving in expensive cars to meet one another, inspecting guards of honor, arranging for ministerial get-togethers, and all the while the construct that put them into office is collapsing all around them. These same politicians chatter extensively about saving the euro and the European Union, about bailouts and firewalls and fiscal pacts, as though words were deeds. No satirist could do justice to the sight of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly elected French President François Hollande shaking hands and vowing to work together to save the union and its currency. Insofar as this pair has any coherent ideas, they disagree. All they have in common is the precariousness of their position. Just trounced in local elections, Mrs. Merkel and her party are well on the way to joining the gathering crowd of electoral rejects. As for Hollande, he believes that growth comes from higher taxes and hundreds of thousands more state jobs, and all in arch-protectionist France. It can’t be long before such socialist illusion comes back to haunt that country.
Our satirist will also find it comic that the masters of Europe blame the Greeks while determined to ensure that the Greeks are rescued to carry on regardless. I cannot hold it against the Greeks. Entry into the EU was their opportunity as rather poor people to enrich themselves on other peoples’ money. Who would refuse such a gift? Of course they want to go on free-loading so pleasantly. It’s all part of the joke that they have voted for a politician called Alexis Tsipras, who in his well-honed Communist style believes that Greece should continue to pocket other peoples’ money. There’s consistency! But Greece came up with the wrong answer in its general election, and the masters of Europe may well make it vote and vote again until they have the right answer — though nobody can tell what that might be.
Ordinary people everywhere recognize reality, and now do not believe a thing they hear from the masters of Europe. The last world war and the Cold War survive in folk memory, and everyone is hunkering down for the hardships and injustices now brewing — defaults, conversions into new currencies, runs on banks, mass unemployment, everything that Mrs. Lagarde of the IMF in her elegant French salon way calls “messy.” Not forgetting violence. Fascist parties are rising once more. The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party did well in the last Greek election and will do better in the next. The other side of it is the climbing suicide rate, especially among retired professional people who are defenseless as their pensions are cut.
In 1940, a book with the title “Guilty Men” became a historic marker by naming and shaming the democratic politicians whose ineptitude had allowed the Hitler catastrophe to unfold. What’s wanted now is an onslaught of just that kind to excoriate and drive out of the public arena the politicians whose fantasies about power, lack of insight into human nature, and refusal to acknowledge mistakes, have brought Europe to another perilous pass.
David Pryce-Jones is a British author and commentator and a senior editor of National Review.
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By Bob Connors
Published Mar 4, 2010 at 11:16 AM | Updated at 11:30 AM EST on Mar 4, 2010
Hot soup around the corner sounds good on a chilly day.
Jessica Hazan is taking her soup to the streets.
Two years ago, Hazan started her own business, delivering homemade soups to customers who order them online or over the phone. But now, she's expanding her business, setting up a cart and selling her soups around New Haven, the New Haven Register reports.
And her business, simply known as The Soup Girl, couldn't be better. "The cold weather helps us," Hazan told the paper. "People think of soup."
Much like New Haven's popular Cupcake Truck, and the new Cheese Truck, Hazan uses Twitter to let the lunchtime crowd know where she'll be.
The Decade in Eating
But the bulk of her business still comes from her soup deliveries. She prepares the soups in the kitchen of the Olde School Saloon and Bistro, a new, separately-owned restaurant on State Street, the Register reports.
The former teacher from Hamden says it's been a life-long dream to do something like this.
“I always wanted to pursue something culinary, and I figured it was now or never. I decided to give it a shot,” Hazan told the paper.
She offers three soups per week. One has meat or seafood, one is vegetarian and the other one is vegan. In a tweet on Wednesday, Hazan was offering Loaded Baked Potato, Lentil and West African Peanut soups.
Hazan takes the cart out on Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you can't make it out to meet her, the business will deliver soups to homes and offices in New Haven, North Haven, Cheshire, Wallingford and Hamden, according to the paper.
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Another Prisoner Shot And Killed At Delhi's Rohini Court, Just Like April
The victim, so far identified by only his first name, Vinod, was killed while he was leaving the court after a hearing.
Delhi | Edited by Amrita Ray | Updated: November 13, 2017 15:39 IST
Prisoner shot in Rohini: Incident happened in corridor when undertrial was being taken back from court.
New Delhi: A prisoner who the police was escorting for a hearing in a court in Delhi has died after being shot at. The gunman has been arrested at the Rohini court complex in northwest Delhi.
The victim, so far identified by only his first name, Vinod, was killed while he was leaving the court after a hearing. "The incident happened in the corridor near the canteen area when the undertrial was being taken back from the court, police said. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead," reported the Hindustan Times.
The shooter is suspected to have posed as a litigant, reported another website.
In April, a prisoner being tried for murder was killed by a man on a motorcycle as he was brought to the same court by the Haryana police.
Delhi-NCR Likely To Receive Moderate Rains, Says Weather Agency
Why Congress Councillor Threw Garbage In Front Of North Delhi Mayor's Office
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A Good Citizen
AHappyPanda said:
Huh...that doesn't really change anything for me, I never had the intention to go to Polygon anyway (I only regularly visit GB and scroll through Kotaku and Joystiq RSS headlines) but...what? Haha
I'm behind the times obviously, did anyone from Polygon ever address this publicly?
Gies posted in the GAF thread about the "documentary" -- but as you can guess it was nothing but excuses. It'd be wrong to say he addressed anything.
RedNumberFive
benny_a said:
And that goods are exchanged for money is not a hypothetical in the writing industry.
I think it was Jeff Green that told the story that when he first started for a magazine the different editors would take their free books they got from the various companies they were covering and traded them in at book shops that gave you the money instead of vouchers for the trade-in.
(Hopefully I'm not wrong with specifics, but it definitely was told on GFW Radio.)
Of course that doesn't mean that everyone that gets these press kit things does it. A large group of people will probably adorn their office if they are fans of the game. And if the office is full it will be thrown away.
A lot of people will throw it out immediately or give it to friends that are into these things.
Some give it away to their audience using various contests.
Most non-personalized gifts do however have a monetary value attached to them and the less scrupulous people might end up selling it on Ebay.
And this seemingly impropriety is a very real thing to me. Now that I'm aware of the expensive flag that went to Giant Bomb I want to know who ends up with it. I would call it curiosity, they would probably call it jealousy. ;-)
True, and this is why a good ethics and COI policy should exist - to avoid any perceived conflicts of interest. This is key, as your readership should have no doubt where you stand.
FartOfWar
cameron said:
Are Shawn Elliot and Jeff Green message board conspiracy theorists, too?
I'll sum up my perspective on it like this:
Writer Ron Jonson sneaked into the Bilderberg Bohemian Grove ceremony (another reading recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0743233212 ). As part of his reporting for his book he had crackpot Alex Jones with him (basically combining two threads of the same story about conspiracy theorists in one fucking hilarious field trip). All Jonson was going to do to get in was dress like a wealthy asshole and wear an entitled expression as he got to the gates. It worked. Jones, however, suspected that Jonson was a Bilderberg spy and instead climbed a cliff and tumbled through poison oak before crashing the party like a less funny Chris Farley. Jonson documented what he saw as an absurd and slightly perverted crypto-fraternity party for dull dickheads with money, time, and ego to spare. Jones, of course, was convinced that he had tumbled through the gates of hell itself and was happy to survive his encounter with Satan. Those who look for literal money hats are like Jones in that they allow the dudes at Bohemian Grove to laugh off their lunatic detractors. Meanwhile, with his more measured approach, Jonson is able to start unravelling a real and no less interesting story.
faceless007
JonathanEx said:
You seem to keep misunderstanding my basic point. Everyone has different ethics. Generally people have them within some similar area. I don't want to throw out bullshit hypotheticals, but things like what counts as a conflict? Polygon have gone with no gifts more than $50, some say no gifts at all. Guess what, ethics is your own decision and opinion. You might say no gifts is the only way. Others will disagree.
But most conflict of interest/ethic policies are guidelines. They work you through decisions. They don't tell you what decision to make - that's your decision based on those ethics.
You act like the mere fact that different people disagree precludes the mere possibility of standards being set to any level of specificity. This takes ethical relativism to an absurd extent and is nothing more than an attempt to avoid being held responsible within your chosen profession. Your statement is equally true of every other field of professional journalism--different individuals in the field might differ as to what constitutes unethical behavior--from political journalism to sports journalism to entertainment journalism, but that doesn't stop credible publications in each field from creating explicit and detailed guidelines to follow and ordering their reporters to follow them, and anyone who doesn't agree is free to find work elsewhere. They even consult with each other on ethics policies because they know that's important to the field as a whole, not just an individual publication, that they all strive to enforce ethical policies. This is because they all know that whatever minute disagreements might pop up between individuals, it's far more important to maintain at least a base level of professional integrity and accountability to prevent conflicts of interest from arising, and they know that their credibility among readers is diminished if they can't even promise their readers that they've given a certain amount of thought and consideration to journalistic ethics. Yes, these are hard questions for any journalistic organization to ask itself, and coming up with consensus won't be easy. That hasn't stopped journalists in every other field from doing so.
So if you want to handwave away the prospect of being held to any sort of baseline standard of ethical conduct because everyone's got their own, like, opinion, man, you're free to do so. Just don't call yourself a fucking journalist.
GarthVaderUK
Ledsen said:
Wings over Sealand articles (second article has summary) 1 2
John Walker's (Rock Paper Shotgun) blog (start with Games Journalists, And The Perception Of Corruption)
Shawn Elliot - 1 (aegies is Arthur Gies of polygon.com) 2 3 4 on the psychology of PR
Jeff Green on the way it actually works
ShockingAlberto on his view as a former games writer
Jason Schreier (Kotaku) has no interest writing about this
N'Gai Croal initial reaction on Twitter
Chris Schilling (freelance) likes both people involved and so doesn't want to write about it
Danny O'Dwyer (Gamespot UK) on why his site won't cover this (audience is not interested) - 1 2 3
Jim Sterling: http://www.gamefront.com/critics-in-the-headlights/
TotalBiscuit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2keHyS_Ooo
JonathanEx
www.jonathancresswell.co.uk
RedNumberFive said:
Exactly! That's why these boiler plate policies exist. At no point should you be questioning if an action is right or wrong. You should already know the answer. There is no excuse in legitimate journalism or business for any less.
No room for ethical dilemmas in legitimate journalism? Let me return your Googling favour with one example.
I agree that a good company should set up their policies - but will a policy say "a cup of tea is alright"? If it does you've really overwritten your bloody policy.
faceless007 said:
I've been a bit too fighting an extreme than I want - there's a lot in there I agree with. Publications have their own codes (which is why I mentioned that they're guidelines). But I just wanted to throw in the point we can't assume every single person at every single publication should adhere to the exact same standards posted by someone on a forum - the debate at times here has been a bit ONE SIZE FITS ALL and I didn't think that helped too much - you need to discuss the nuances to find out what the policies should be.
Gomu Gomu
Dude, sorry for not replying to you earlier question. I see you already found the links. Aside from the people listed above, Ryan Davis of GB opted for the "I'm not a journalist" excuse.
conman said:
We all know that everyone in the gaming press knows what's going on. They all know that we're fuming about it here on GAF, Twitter, and various blogs and forums. And we know that they know. And still, we're treated to silence, dismissive attitudes, and denial.
That is because they hold their audience in contempt.
It often shines through in the way they talk about 'gamers'.
Mafro
hegotgames.com
SolidSnakex said:
Various press kits
Really pissed me off that in pretty much all cases they put much, much more effort into these packages for the press than they do collector's editions for the fans that actually pay money for the games.
GarthVaderUK said:
Thanks, added!
Gomu Gomu said:
Dude, sorry for not replaying to you earlier question. I see you already found the links. Aside from the people listed above, Ryan Davis of GB opted for the "I'm not a journalist" excuse.
No problem Would like a direct quote before I add that one if anyone has one.
Great article, but you're comparing a search for truth with accepting free toys. Your example is a clear ambiguity. Going out for free drinks with a PR team is not. Regardless, no hurt feelings, this has been a great discussion.
Dr Dogg
Watching (or rather listening) to TotalBiscuit's take on it I can totally agree with what he's saying that it's a question of trust and that you trust you are getting an honest and unbiased view. I think some people have lost that for good after this whole sorry affair.
Aside from the people listed above, Ryan Davis of GB opted for the "I'm not a journalist" excuse.
Can't say I'm surprised. But I hope this puts into perspective why the whole "not a journalist" crap easily turns into an excuse to shirk responsibility. Then again, I've never been a fan of the GB Dudebro Frat House for exactly that reason.
AHappyPanda
Mafro said:
Reviewers' favorable opinions translate into our dollars. This is not surprising.
That being said, I don't really have an issue with PR kits unless they're being abused nefariously somehow ATF (selling on ebay for example)
It's PR jobs to gussy this stuff up (I've worked with PR departments on multiple clients previously, different industry) so it's understandable to present the culmination of thousands of man hours and millions of dollars into a nice, cool looking package to present to folks.
But I understand people's views of seeing as a "gift" of some time. But, again, millions of dollars, thousands of hours went into a single product, so there's a sense of pride in seeing something presented nicely.
Fjordson
TotalBiscuit is great. Good to see he's said something on this.
And honestly, I don't mind Jim Sterling either. I know he's not popular around these parts, but I prefer him to a lot of other games writers out there.
A shame that the number of major outlets writing about this is so small.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
Ore-Gone.. not Ory-Gone.
I think really the people so up in arms are actually just frustrated with the game industry as a whole, and this is really just a scapegoat for those frustrations.
It's like "we have all these awesome games, but they all suck" attitude that's all over these days.
I mean, do want previews that just say the game is shit and garbage right now? Do we want reviews that just destroy every mediocre game you don't like?
Honestly, yeah gaming sites are pretty in bed with PR guys.. but I'm really not understanding how it effects the end game.. the games we play.
The games speak for themselves, either they suck or they don't. There's tons of outlets to help you find out if a game is for you... but I guess if you look at places like IGN, Gamespot, 1UP, GiantBomb, Kotaku as just hype sites and gamer culture you might leave less disappointed.
I mean remove all the PR bullshit that's built-in and I can't really envision how things are that different from now in the end.
I guess I don't want all serious game talk all the time... I mean refresh the frontpage of GAF any time and it reads very much like what you'd see on gaming sites in one form or the other.. it's just we are discussing it.
Fistwell
Yeah well... they don't value user scores as much.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Toronto, ON. Canada
Exactly. I would gladly pay for them but companies and press have different agenda.
ZanzibarBreeze
Ryan Davis of GB opted for the "I'm not a journalist" excuse.
Is it bad that I don't have a problem with that? For me, I don't go to Giant Bomb for reviews or for criticism. I sort of look at them as comedians, and I really just go there because they make me laugh. In other words, there's no reviews or other commentary there for me to take seriously, because I don't take anything on that website seriously.
That's not a knock against them -- just a reflection of how I view that site. I adore those guys and the content they put out.
Not surprising, but no less gross.
NervousXtian said:
Would it be cliché to tag quote here..?
RionaaM
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SunhiLegend said:
Fantastic gif, and so true.
EternalGamer
Link from Shawn Elliot's post is incredibly relevant here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XBmJay_qdNc#
ZanzibarBreeze said:
That's how I view the site also, and it's not a slight against them at all. To me, it's like listening to friends bullshit around and talk/play videogames. I'm a Premium member and have loved it.
Plus if you've followed them for as long as some have, like me, you get a sense of each person's tastes in games, and they make that very transparent. So when they do review a game I'm interested in, I take that into account.
CambriaRising
www.EndlessBacklog.com
Yeah, I don't have an issue with it either. He isn't really a journalist. He reviews a game once in a blue moon but mostly he just hosts the QLs, TNT, and Bombcasts.
I like Giant Bomb too but that doesn't mean they should get a pass. I mean, if that is what Ryan said that is totally non-reflective. Giant Bomb built is' reputation and grew largely out of a scandal directly related to this kind of thing. And whether or not you call yourself a "journalist" doesn't really matter. You write about games. You expect people to value your opinion. You should therefore care about where and how your opinions may be influenced and/or compromised.
If they actually kept that Assassin's Creed 3 collector's edition thing, I absolutely I have a problem with that.
Lancehead
While I think there's a debate to be had there, that's a tangent to this discussion.
CambriaRising said:
They are opinion formers. If they agree that this is a problem, they now have a chance to speak up. I hope they take it instead of brushing it off as "not their thing".
Except you'd know when your friend got a $500 wooden box full of swag from a publisher and you'd know to take that into account.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Toronto/Guelph
The way the podcasts I listen to and sites I read react to this story will seriously affect my opinion of them going forward. Any type of dismissive, sitting-on-my-high-horse-above-the-conspiracy-theorist-rabble attitude will get dropped like a hot potato.
Exactly what I'm thinking. If they ignore it, I'm done. If they belittle us as "conspiracy theorists," I'm done. Time to clean house and see who the folks with real integrity are.
Well, at least Weekend Confirmed covered it... well, they covered Keighley and must have recorded before all this shit went down, so hopefully they'll come back to it.
Andrea was surprisingly cool with getting free PS3s and what not anyway.
But yeah, I don't expect this to get any wide coverage in the press. They just don't care.
I think the difference there is that Jeff has basically said that he sees his job as a consumer reports type reviewer and that is the site's focus. He's actively mocked the idea of the "Pauline Kael of video games" for over 6 years, if not longer, so even if you don't like his position on the issue at least he's honest about it.
NoirVisage
chickdigger802 said:
Remember with the whole gerstman thing?
I remember there were 1up guys picketing outside of GS office and long blog posts from many press guys.
Times changed?
they had a reason then, this is not even worth it.
Branduil said:
Any gaming website that refuses to cover this, I am going to move from apathy to actively loathing. I don't care if you're an incompetent journalist, but when someone in your profession loses their job because they stood up for what's right, and you refuse to say anything, I'm sorry, but I consider you scum.
ha ha, my word.
The games that sell dictate what games get made next.
benny_a
extra source of jiggaflops
I hope you extend the same courtesy to Geoff Keighley then. It must have been many years since his last review in any official capacity.
Syriel
Can someone enlighten me, what is the spectrum of salaries for your typical vidya game editor for a big site like ign?
I feel like I need that to get a clearer perspective atm.
Associate Editor (entry level) usually starts around $30,000 USD
Senior Editor is around $50,000 USD
Management and Director level positions will make more, but the vast majority of the people who are actually writing content are earning between $30-$50k/year in the US.
Interestingly enough, most of the super fancy press kits are EU. Most US game press kits consist of a retail boxed game and a USB stick with images (or a link to a FTP site)
Here's the list from yesterday:
Forbes 10-25
Gamesutra 10-25
John Walker (personal site) 10-24
John Walker (personal site) 10-25 (piece 1)
Kill Screen 10-25
Penny Arcade 10-25
WorthPlaying 10-25
www.neogaf.com
FartOfWar said:
Your posts are becoming expensive to me. But keep them coming.
EternalGamer said:
Can't say I don't disagree, but can't say I agree either. These people have jobs, some do them better, more honestly, and more open than others. It's those that do the former that we hope can rise to the top and influence those below them.
Rapstah
Is anyone asking Geoff Keighley to write up a piece on this whole thing?
Syriel said:
Now live on that in a major US city.
Curufinwe
King_Moc said:
Because he really isn't very bright? That'd be a fair bet. He's just blindly protecting his pals in the industry.
He's not dumb, but his public comments on this topic have been embarrassing.
Chie Satonaka
This is probably the most upsetting thing I've seen all day, as someone who loves swag and Collectors Editions.
Now I want to be a Games "Journalist" even more.
Patrick Klepek just put an article up on Giant Bomb that touches on this whole thing - http://www.giantbomb.com/news/worth-reading-102612/4426/
jschreier
I'm on my phone - tried to read through everything. Apologies if I missed some of your points, but let me try to address a few:
- I try not to take twitter too seriously, and I have a tendency to joke about serious issues. (See: presidential debates.) That doesn't make them any less serious. Conflict of interest in this field is indeed a serious issue.
- I think today's Silicon Knights story (among many, many others) is good proof that Kotaku is not very concerned with how angry a story might make publishers.
- Again, I can't speak for all of Kotaku, but I can tell you that I wasn't actively thinking "oh shit shouldn't cover this!" I've been busy working on a few stories (like this one, which took me a ton of time: http://kotaku.com/5954973/as-fans-say-starcraft-is-dying-blizzard-plans-some-big-changes) among many other things. Believe it or not, I don't just sit around all day reading GAF. I read John Walker's stuff yesterday, loved it, briefly thought about this story, and decided to work on other things instead.
- All that said, you folks bring up some good points. Maybe I should have covered this issue! I really don't know. I think the idea of press covering press is always nuanced, and I don't like the idea of telling other people how to do their jobs, nor do I like being "journalism ombudsman." My mentality in recent months has been to just do my job to the best of my ability, refuse to make compromises, and stay away from criticizing how other media do their jobs, for the most part. Is that the right mentality to take? Dunno. Is there really an easy answer there?
I'm also not sure it fits within our goals of spending most of our energy on stories that could appeal to broader audiences. Again, I really don't know. I think it's more nuanced than has been suggested here.
But I hate that some of you are boiling this down to "site doesn't cover this? They're part of the problem!" Not every site covers the same things, and not every site is necessarily interested in media issues like this one. You're all right that this is serious, problematic, and worth talking about. But there's no dogma that everyone in the gaming industry has to cover every single serious issue. Sometimes different publications just have different goals.
jschreier said:
Respectfully, I think that this has become a big enough movement to at least warrant a mention on your website. Certainly it could be fit somewhere in-between the cosplay stories. Looking at the front page now, I would say that it is a more important story than "A Whole Bunch of Square-Enix Games Are on Sale This Weekend."
JeffGreen
97.5: The Brodeo
This wasn't quite it, but that's okay. The story is sort of similar, and in any case kind of amusing. This was back when I worked at the now-defunct Ziff Davis Press. They made computer books. At one point we made one that was rolled up and shipped in a can. It was called "Can Do DOS." No really.
Anyway, I was a book editor, as were all my colleagues. They were our own books that we published. When new ones came in, some of the editors (NOT ME) would take piles of them and sell them to used book stores etc in exchange for credit. I would never have done anything so shady. What *I* did (only once) is trade a couple programming books to my landlord at the time....for a bag of weed. I have no regrets.
I think it's just a case of people expecting even a canned response along the lines of "We don't let PR people buy review scores on our site". Not mentioning the story itself seems to make you complicit, even if you have benign reasons for not covering the story in depth.
JeffGreen said:
How can I believe anything you saw now?! I'm throwing out my CGW/GFW back issue collection!
Chie Satonaka said:
Funnily I think this is how this whole turn of events started (not pointing a finger or anything). It's almost like a recruitment advert "You like fancy editions of games? Well why not become a games 'journalist' and all your wildest dreams can come true".
The last few years have been somewhat depressing for games related media. All the talk has been focused on business, forecasts, attach rates, publishers, practices, ect. ect. and seldom about games themselves.
Atrophis
Notts, UK
Its Jon Ronson dude. He also covered this episode in a TV series of the same name, its hilarious viewing. He's great, everyone buy all of his books.
What I don't understand is how can you consider your site to be about gaming when you will gladly report about a guy killing his wife by kissing her or a chinese teacher that dresses up as a maid because her class got good grade but then won't report about a subject that can't be more about the gaming industry than that...
Hey Jeff, anybody told you that you're awesome today? Can't wait to see you on Oktobercast lol.
Fjordson said:
Now, let's move on.
the best part of the article.
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Onward is Pixar’s Next Film, Stars Chris Pratt and Tom Holland
By Jeff Scott On Dec 13, 2018 11:33 AM EDT
We know that Toy Story 4 arrives in theaters this coming June, but after that Pixar has been relatively mum. They previously teased at D23 that their next story would revolve around a “suburban fantasy”. Now, that suburban fantasy has as title – Onward.
Disney and Pixar aren’t giving up much in regards to Onward. The film’s director, Dan Scanlon, stated in a press release that “At Pixar we try to create stories that come from some kind of personal truth.” And that Onward “was inspired by my own relationship with my brother.”
Scanlon’s relationship with his brother will be conveyed on screen by a duo of teenage elves. And those two elves are to be played by a couple of fellas that Disney and Marvel fans are quite familiar with – Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Chris Pratt and Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s Tom Holland. Disney and Pixar confirmed that the fantastic Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer will have roles in the movie as well.
The movie itself is said to revolve around a world in which fantasy beings such as trolls, elves, centaurs and the like live within a mundane world much like our own. Cell phones and fast food are the norm, and magic seems to be a thing of the past.
The brothers that Pratt and Holland portray venture out into the world in the hopes of finding whether magic truly exists anymore. And surely, they’ll run into plenty of shenanigans along the way.
With the announcement of Onward, Disney and Pixar also confirmed that the movie will be arriving in theaters March 6th, 2020. Hopefully the studios will drop a trailer at some point over the coming months so we can get a look at this world first hand. But at the latest, I imagine we’ll get a good look at the project with a trailer attached to Toy Story 4 when it arrives next year.
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Jeff Scott
Growing up a 90's kid, Jeff found his love for gaming during Nintendo's heyday. Because of that, you could (perhaps sadly) call him a "Nintendo Fanboy" to this day.
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CBI saga continues: Delhi HC verdict on Asthana on Friday one day after Alok Verma is removed
The Delhi High Court on Friday will announce its verdict on former CBI special director Rakesh Asthana’s plea to quash the FIR against him on charges of bribery. The charges were first taken up by former CBI director Alok Verma who accused Asthana of accepting bribes. Asthana, in return, charged Verma with similar acts of corruption following which the apex court ordered a Central Vigilance Commission inquiry. The two CBI officers were then sent on a forced leave by the government. On Thursday, a three-person committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved to oust Verma a few days after the Supreme Court reinstated him. Opposition however claim that the government was driven to divest Alok Verma of his powers after he started an investigation on the controversial Rafale deal. In a tweet, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Prime Minister sacked Alok Verma out of fear of being caught. “Sacking the CBI Chief #AlokVerma twice in a row, clearly shows that he is now a prisoner of his own lies,” Gandhi wrote.
Largest ever BJP National Council meeting to start today, 12000 delegates to attend
The BJP national council will be holding a two-day meeting on the Ramlila grounds starting today to discuss a host of issues, including the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah are slated to attend the meeting. This will be the last of such meetings before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and will also be the largest meeting of the party's National Council. Around 12,000 delegates will be inaugurated by the BJP President in the meeting.
Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for farmers to be announced
The Bhartiya Janata Party led-government is all set to clear the direct benefit transfer scheme for farmers, as per sources. According to reports, DBT worth Rs.4000 per acre per season with interest-free crop loan up to Rs 1 lakh per farmer will be given to farmers. The compensation will be calculated based on size of land holdings. But, will these schemes for farmers be enough to boost BJP’s chances in the upcoming polls? Read Sindhu Bhattacharya analysis here.
‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ on former PM Manmohan Singh's days in office to release today
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‘Triple Talaq’ ordinance re-issued by the union Cabinet
The Union Cabinet on Thursday allowed the re-promulgation of the ‘Triple Talaq’ ordinance. The ordinance would have lapsed on January 22 after the Rajya Sabha failed to pass the Bill, despite the lower house giving its approval. An ordinance has a life of six months after which it has to be replaced by a bill, that must be passed by the Parliament within 42 days (six weeks), else it lapses. The 'triple talaq' bill criminalizes the Muslim practise of Triple Talaq, which allows men to divorce their wives by uttering the word talaq three times in quick succession.
Sheila Dikshit Appointed as Delhi Congress Chief
A few days after Ajay Maken put in his resignation, Sheila Dikshit was appointed as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President. Although, Maken had cited reasons of ill-health, many have said that he was unhappy with the party’s plans to draw an alliance with the Aam Admi Party for the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls. But, the former chief did make it a point to congratulate Sheila Dikshit over Twitter. Dikshit, who is 80-years-old, has been a three-time chief minister of Delhi.
PIL against Quota Bill: No Constitutional basis for the bill, only economic criterion cannot be considered
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed against the recently introduced constitutional amendment, which accords 10% reservations to the economically weaker sections within the general category. The PIL was filed by the NGO Youth for Equality on the grounds that the economic criterion cannot be the only basis for reservation and the amendment stands in violation of the Constitution. Earlier this week, the bill that was passed unanimously by the Rajya Sabha, set a quota, which will be over and above the existing 50 per cent reservation to SCs, STs and Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
Chhattisgarh becomes the third state to bar CBI from probing cases without state government’s consent
The Congress-led Chhattisgarh government on Thursday decided to withdraw the general consent given to Central Bureau of Investigation to conduct raids and probes. Chhattisgarh is the third state to do so, after Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal also decided to withdraw consent under Section 5 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, which accords such powers to the investigating agency.
Cricketers Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul face two-match ban for ‘sexist’ comments
Cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul face a two-match ban for controversial comments made on the chat show ‘Koffee With Karan’. Following the interview, many slammed Pandya’s comments as being misogynistic and sexist. Committee of Administrators chief Vinod Rai on Thursday recommended a two-ODI ban for the duo.
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Another movie to hit the theatres today is the Vicky Kaushal-starrer ‘URI: The Surgical Strike’, which is based on the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian army in 2016. Watch News18.com’s review of the movie. Watch News18.com's review.
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