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#259 Chris Kresser, L.Ac on The Functional Medicine Revolution
Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, Paleo nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the creator of ChrisKresser.com, one of the top 25 natural health sites in the world, and the author of the New York Times best seller, Your Personal Paleo Code (published in paperback in December 2014 as The Paleo Cure).
Chris teaches and practices functional medicine, a personalized approach to health care that recognizes the biological uniqueness of each patient. In contrast to conventional care, which is almost entirely focused on suppressing symptoms, functional medicine eliminates symptoms by addressing the underlying cause of a problem. It is an evidence-based field of health care that views the body as an interconnected whole, and recognizes the importance of these connections in health and disease.
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Tappan Zee Bridge deck installed in Prattsburgh
PRATTSBURGH — Two deck panels of a historic bridge were set up in place Friday as Steuben County Public Works crews continue replacement work on the 30-foot long Lyons Hollow Road Bridge in the Town of Prattsburgh. The panels lengthened the former bridge by 20 feet.
The 10-year-old panels were retrieved from the historic Tappan Zee Bridge, the longest bridge in New York State, and spanning the Hudson River from Grand-View-on-Hudson to Tarrytown. Built in 1952, the aging bridge was demolished in 2017.
County Engineer Steve Catherman said the panels will be placed on stub concrete abutments, with concrete back walls and wing walls. The new abutments will be set behind the existing abutments and protected with heavy stone fill.
New galvanized bridge and approach guide railing will complete the project, he said.
The project is coordinated through the NYS Thruway Authority at a savings to Steuben County of roughly $55,000.
County Public Works Commissioner Vince Spagnoletti said the panels the county will build two more bridges with Tappan Zee panels for a total savings of $165,000 on the three bridges.
“The State of New York’s foresight in making these panels available at no charge afforded a good opportunity for rural counties in upstate New York to save some money,” Spagnoletti said. “Steve Catherman was instrumental in working with the state to make this program possible.”
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Cockles book last four berth in County Cup
EXMOUTH became the first team into the last four of the Devon Senior Cup when they won 27-15 at Torquay on Saturday afternoon.
With the two sides both not enjoying the best of times this term in their respective League campaigns, this competition was seen as a real chance for glory for either and it was the Cockles who seized the moment in a game of excellent tempo, despite the terrible weather conditions.
The first half of the game saw the hosts have the benefit of the elements and the only score of the first 40 minutes saw the home side nab a converted try.
With the wind very much in their favour after the break and it did not take the Cockles long to restore parity.
The ball was worked across the park for centre Paul Morgan to charge over and a successful Sean Fayter conversion made it 7-7.
Young Fayter then tucked a way a penalty from some 40 metres to take the Cockles into the lead for the first time in the contest, but back came Torquay with an unconverted try and now they led.
Next on the score sheet was centre Mark Wathes as he crossed over in the corner and once more the lead changed hands.
It was soon 15 all as the hosts put away a penalty, but, before long, the Cockles were deservedly in front as the lively Wathes crossed for his second try of the game.
Fly-half Fayter calmly put away the conversion and suddenly there was daylight between the two teams.
Now Torquay needed to find another gear and they did, but they also found the Cockles defence shutting them out very confidently and the game was effectively over before, in the final seconds, Matt Ryan crossed for his first, and the Cockles fourth, try of the game to seal a richly deserved 27-15 victory and a semi final place.
l On Saturday the Cockles return to National Three (South West) action when they host fourth placed Chinnor with kick off at 2pm.
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Roommates: Sublease Who Allows Friends to Stay Over Unattended
Sublease Who Allows Friends to Stay Over Unattended
My question involves a roommate in the State of: New York
summary: Our subleassing roommate allows people to stay in her room unattended.
I live in with two other roommates, only me and another roommate is on the lease. We get along fine. After 2 years the non-leased roommate is going abroad for 3 months, intending to come back, she decides to sublease the room. That's fine. We all interview and approve a single person, Fran. The person pays for 3 months and the deposit upfront. I'd like to point out, that the sublease agreement was only signed by the non-leased roommate and Fran. The other roommate and I, who are on the lease did not sign anything.
This person is never at home, but always traveling a week at a time, which is totally fine. One day, while away, the Fran emails us if a friend can stay over, while she's away. We respond "no". We hardly know the Fran, much less the friend. However, against our wishes, this friend stays over one night in our apt when she lets her in (but stays somewhere else that night). We're befuddled by Fran's blatant disregard for our wishes.
Couple of weeks later, we come home to find another stranger in our apartment. She says Fran gave her the key, and she'll be staying for the week, while Fran is out of town.
I email Fran and say this is unacceptable. We're not a hotel and you need to tell your friend to leave. The next day, the friend leaves. But she refuses to return the key, saying that Fran gave it to her, not me. She also says that the sublease doesn't forbid friends from staying over. I'm not sure why I'm arguing with her, but Fran doesn't reply by email.
Is this true? If the sublease doesn't explicitly forbid friends from staying over and the giving key, that our hands are tied? Because we don't know just how many people have our key or if it's copied, can we change the lock at the expense of Fran's deposit after her sublease ends? We haven't bothered evicting Fran yet, but there are no plans to. If Fran decides to leave and break lease, do we need to give her the remainder of the rent that she prepaid?
Re: Sublease Who Allows Friends to Stay Over Unattended
Your roommate is allowed to have houseguests. If you wished to restrict her authority to have houseguests, the time to have done so would have been when you entered into your written rental agreement with her.
If a tenant terminates a month-to-month tenancy, and rent has been paid past the end of the legal notice period, the overpaid rent is to be returned.
You do have an unusual situation. You have a sublease signed by a person who has no lease from which to sublease. That's not an enforceable lease. But, even though you aren't on the lease, you have been operating in accordance with it by accepting rent, giving Fran a key, etc. But, since you haven't signed the lease, you are not legally clearly bound by any inadvertant omissions in the wording (the lack of a clause that says that Fran can not make keys and hand them out to her friends). So, the legal situation is not clear, but in any roommate lease one roommate indiscriminately passing out keys to the apartment would at least be frowned upon in court.
You have an unclear legal situation, but, in my opinion, a more important security and personal safety issue. You have no idea how many keys have been made or who has them. If personal items of yours turn up missing, you have no practical way of getting them back. An unplanned "guest" could be, or could be accompanied by someone who would do you bodily harm. In this situation, you have a right to protect yourself and your property.
I would recommend (1) change the lock (2) pack Fran's things and let her know she can pick them up along with a check (3) the amount of the check should be prorated rent for the rest of the 3 months from the date you do this plus the deposit minus all legitimate deductions from the deposit minus the rekeying expense. Let Fran initiate legal action if she wants to; she's got a tough case to prove.
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Lions’ repeat bid comes up short
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Terrence Thomas Feb. 27, 2016 Updated: Feb. 27, 2016 9:59 p.m.
The S.A. Christian girls soccer team always had an answer for everything its opponents had to offer during three previous TAPPS Division II playoff games that propelled it to the biggest stage. Usually, the reply consisted of a defense that yielded little, and an offense that capitalized on just enough of its scoring chances.
But with a second straight state championship in sight, the Lions found out the hard way that there was no solution to an age-old axiom — speed kills.
Swift-footed Tyler Grace recovered from its opponent’s early surge with an even more impressive one of its own, topping S.A. Christian 4-3 on Saturday at the Wheatley Heights Sports Complex. It was the Cougars’ first state championship — and it was claimed in dramatic fashion.
Tyler Grace (19-1-1) scored four unanswered goals to bounce back from a 2-0 deficit less than three minutes into the game. Sophomore forward Lexye Price led the charge, scoring both the momentum-changing and game-sealing goals. She scored the first of her two goals three minutes after S.A. Christian took a 2-0 lead, then added her final tally 5½ minutes into the second half to end the Cougars’ run of goals.
Brittani Smith and Allie McCracken added one goal apiece for Tyler Grace.
“We knew we could come back because we wanted it so bad,” Price said. “Once we scored that first goal, I think it helped keep us motivated and helped us get through that game. Once we got that fourth goal, I think everyone just knew we could do it. Our whole team just worked so hard for this, and I couldn’t be more proud of this team.”
S.A. Christian (19-9-2) looked as if it might cruise to another state crown when Madison Price and Hallie Hausman scored goals 45 seconds apart for a 2-0 advantage only 2 minutes, 40 seconds into the contest. Lauren Ross scored the Lions’ other goal to get them within 4-3 with 33 minutes remaining, but they got no closer.
“After we scored the two goals, our confidence level went up and we just weren’t expecting them to come back as hard,” Hausman said. “We let our guard down a little bit.”
Tyler Grace capitalized, using its speed to find openings in a S.A. Christian defense that entered Saturday’s match with three straight shutouts in the postseason.
“They were definitely a lot faster than us,” S.A. Christian sophomore defender Annaliese Aguirre said. “It was definitely difficult to see (the four goals allowed) on the scoreboard, but I know that we were fighting hard.”
Division III: Summerlyn Heller scored four goals — three in the first half — as Austin Veritas won its second straight state title, defeating Kerrville Our Lady of the Hills 5-0. Heller scored three goals in the game’s first 29 minutes. Halle McGinnis added the Defenders’ final goal.
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New Avengers: Age of Ultron Photos Released
Posted by Unknown Friday, August 29, 2014
Ready for some football?! No, wait. That's not right. Ready for some new, exciting Avengers: Age of Ultron pics?!? Oh yeah, we've got 'em right here. In addition to the images, we've got some commentary from yours truly, the resident comic book movie nerd here at Fanboys Anonymous. I'm making it my mission to provide the most comprehensive information out there on comic book films.
With Marvel dominating much in sight, we get some exciting pics on the upcoming Avengers sequel at a good time. Let's examine each one and do more than say what they are, but also postulate what it might mean for the story/film. I will speak of the characters only and not the actors playing them because I'm a comic books nerd and don't care about the actors in this context.
This first one shows director Joss Whedon and Hawkeye going over some stuff. First off, I love that Whedon is getting down with the action, showing Mr. Master Archer Hawkeye how it's done. Hawkeye has a new uniform that looks medieval in nature and I look for him to have a more active role in Age of Ultron. Whedon's script did a brilliant job of giving each member of the Avengers' team stuff to do in the first film, but I think Hawkeye was the only one that got the shaft somewhat. In fairness, the movie needed to have someone fall prey to Loki's machinations to show how dangerous he is, and Hawkeye was it.
Next up is a duo I love dearly, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. What I like best about Stark is that his true persona is more interesting than his alter ego, Iron Man. He has serious skills, and the scenes in the first film with Dr. Banner were really interesting. These are the two serious brains on the team, and it's nice to see them working together to figure things out. All the characters have their roles. Hulk is the tank, similar to Thor, while Captain America is the leader and Stark and Banner in non-Hulk form do the science stuff. That's great. Science stuff is a technical term, so it may go over your head. Don't worry, just keep reading. I use even deeper words.
The last image released is of two new members on the team, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. This is a different Quicksilver from the X-Men: Days of Future Past; some malarkey (that's a deep word) about the rights for the character wouldn't allow both studios to use him. I loved the DoFP guy and can't stand the actor here, but I'll reserve judgment until I see the film. Sorry, but he seems like a douche bag. Anyway, the destruction in the background is apparent, and maybe these two were called into action to help out the core team.
So there we go. What do people think of the images and the characters? How will Whedon weave his magic yet again next year? Sound off below.
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The Ironwood Tree by Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles heat up with doppelgangers, then dwarves, then a dastardly double-cross.
First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace children be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don't count on it! At school, someone is running around pretending to be Jared, and it's not Simon. To make matters even worse, now Mallory has disappeared and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry, just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. And the faerie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him - he's given them a queen...
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Advantage England as NZ limited to 241-8 in World Cup final
LONDON (AP) — England will chase 242 to win the Cricket World Cup for the first time after Liam Plunkett’s 3-40 helped to limit New Zealand to another middling total in the final at Lord’s on Sunday.
Every specialist New Zealand batsman got into double figures but only opener Henry Nicholls (55) reached a half-century in the face of a disciplined bowling effort from the tournament host.
Plunkett, one of the understated members of the England team, took center stage by removing New Zealand captain Kane Williamson (30) and Nicholls in the space of 14 balls. The seamer also took the wicket of dangerous allrounder Jimmy Neesham (19).
The Black Caps, who are also seeking their first world title, finished on 241-8. They have proved adept at defending relatively small totals in this tournament and Lord’s isn’t known for its heavy scoring in ODIs.
In the semifinals, India failed to chase down 240 against New Zealand in Manchester.
After winning the toss and choosing to bat first under cloudy and threatening skies, New Zealand again saw its opening partnership fail to set a platform for the innings as Martin Guptill was trapped lbw by Chris Woakes on 19. Worse, he burnt New Zealand’s review which would end up costing Ross Taylor his wicket later in the innings.
It brought Williamson to the middle early, not for the first time in this World Cup, and he was watchful to start with, picking up just two runs from his first 22 balls. He was never at his fluent best before going after a wide delivery by Plunkett and edging behind.
Umpire Kumar Dharmasena didn’t give it, England reviewed, and the replay showed a nick by Williamson, who will finish the tournament with 578 runs and an average of 82.57.
New Zealand was unable to accelerate in the middle overs, picking up just 35 runs from overs 20-30.
The loss of Taylor — New Zealand’s other big fish — felt big, especially the manner he was dismissed. Given out lbw to paceman Mark Wood, replays showed the ball was going over the stumps. He couldn’t review, though, as Guptill had wasted it.
Tom Latham plundered 46 off 57 balls as the Black Caps stumbled toward the 250-run mark by making 62 runs off the final 10 overs
Still, New Zealand has failed to reach 300 at this World Cup, a total widely considered par in modern-day ODI cricket. It was an improvement on its score of 183 in the 2015 final against Australia.
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BTC Guild Shutting down for Good, Cites Risks, BitLicense
BTC Guild has reverted to its original decision to shut down, citing the continued risks of doing business and the
Leon Pick | News ( CryptoCurrency ) | Tuesday, 16/06/2015 | 09:38 GMT+1 2015-06-16 08:38:57
Bitcoin mining pool BTC Guild has reverted to its original decision to shut down, citing the continued risks of doing business and the finalized BitLicense.
The pool currently contributes to approximately 2% of the total network hashrate, a decline from prior years.
Last year, it first floated its plans for closure. The pool’s operator, Michael Marsee, was concerned about the risk of successful attack against it. He also pointed to the unfolding of regulation in the US. The costs of compliance can be prohibitively high, and even if the pool can be compliant with New York’s BitLicense, “there are 49 other states which can put their own spin on things.”
However, he later decided to keep the pool operating, apparently upon the request of supporters.
His original decision now appears to be final. He again referred to the BitLicense regulations, now finalized, which would require transmitters of bitcoin to obtain specialized licensing. He explained:
“Additionally, the NYDFS BitLicense regulations have now become finalized, and the final regulations have enough gray area that BTC Guild is at risk. The fact that BTC Guild is not in New York does not matter, since it would be doing business with New York residents while they are physically in New York. This fact makes it possible for New York to attempt to claim jurisdiction to enforce regulations. Whether or not BTC Guild could win in defense of such an attempt is irrelevant, since the cost of defending the pool would be greater than any income the pool is expected to generate going forward.”
He also reiterated the risks of attack, saying, “The amount of funds at risk in the event of a compromise is significantly higher than what the pool could ever recover from.”
He also mentioned his growing concern over attempts to defraud pools. He said that BTC Guild’s luck has declined for over a year, unable to solve blocks with the same success it held previously. He speculated if it’s just bad luck, a small bug in older miners, or a large pool trying to hurt the competition, its activities impossible to detect.
He also ruled out the pool’s sale because of his personal attachment to the project and concern over user privacy and security. “There is no (reasonable) price the pool would be sold for,” he added.
He recommends members to move to the following pools: BitMinter, Elgius, Kano CK Pool and P2Pool.
The pool will shut down by the end of this month, with members having until September 30 to withdraw funds.
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Saturday February 16 2019
Diego Simeone not slowing down at Atletico Madrid
Diego Simeone has signed a new contract at Atletico Madrid and he appears hungrier than ever for success ,as Rob Hemingway explains.
Diego Simeone has penned a new contract with Atletico Madrid and – in a mark of his importance to the club – will reportedly earn more than star player Antoine Griezmann.
The Argentine, whose seven-year tenure already far exceeds any of his La Liga managerial counterparts, continues apace towards Miguel Munoz’s record fourteen seasons in charge of Real Madrid. “I'm convinced this is the right step”, he announced. “I truly believe in this club and above all in the players, who are the ones who have pushed me to take this decision.”
CEO Miguel Angel Gil Marin – who said the club is “living its best spell in over 115 years of history” – will hope Simeone’s signature triggers a number of the Argentine’s disciples to renew their own contracts, such as Jan Oblak and Lucas Hernandez. The future of the two has come under scrutiny in recent times, and the site www.apuestasdeportivas24.org has full odds on the future of the stars.
Los Colchoneros are certainly on an upward trajectory. The new stadium has been a key component, with its capacity increasing matchday revenues, Wanda’s naming rights contributing €10m a season, and other events swelling the coffers, such as this year’s Champions League final.
Having already won La Liga and reached Champions League finals with one of the lowest net spends in Europe, it will be fascinating to see how Simeone and technical director Andrea Berta deploy their new-found financial muscle.
They will likely continue to recruit players that are young and mouldable (the average age of arrivals since last June is 23) or available for loan, such as Alvaro Morata. The one big difference could be a once-a-year marquee signing, as seen in the past two seasons with the re-signing of Diego Costa (breaking their transfer record which had stood since Radamel Falcao’s 2011 arrival) and Thomas Lemar.
Morata’s arrival is intriguing. One wonders whether he’s been given game-time guarantees – as he won’t have wanted to swap Chelsea’s bench for Atleti’s – but Simeone clearly believes he can be a success in his rigid system alongside Costa and Griezmann: “There’s no question that Morata and Costa are compatible in a solid, structured team. Morata gives us different possibilities since he's a finisher striker. He’s an important player for us.”
With Costa likely to be reintroduced gradually after injury and a heavy upcoming schedule – starting with Saturday’s trip to Rayo and then the Champions League clash with his former employers Juventus – Morata won’t be short of chances to stake his claim. With a world-class stadium, top stars renewing and a side in consistent contention for honours, Los Rojiblancos will attract more talent.
There have been links to RB Leipzig’s Dayot Upamecano and Gremio’s Walter Kannemann – coached briefly by Simeone at San Lorenzo – to replace Inter-bound Diego Godin. But perhaps most critical to the club’s future is rebuffing advances off the pitch from the likes of Manchester United for Berta, who has been a transformative figure. He has a strong relationship with Simeone but the lure of a new project with a wealthy super club may, in the end, prove too strong.
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Benitez given price for long-term PL target, £4m will seal deal
Written by: Dave Woods
By Harry Sykes
Newcastle have been offered Swansea winger Jefferson Montero as he enters the last year of his contract at the Liberty Stadium, according to a report.
The Northern Echo claims that Benitez was interested in Montero in January, and that he could still be an option for the Magpies if a deal for preferred target Adama Traore from Middlesbrough doesn’t materialise.
It is claimed that Traore would cost the Magpies £15million and that means that Montero would be a much cheaper option at around the £4million mark.
Benitez is keen to add more attacking width to his side ahead of the new Premier League campaign, and these are two of the options that he has been linked with.
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[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum
Where first/birth/natural/real mothers share news & opinions. And vent.
A son refuses to meet his birth/first mother
While parents all over the country felt a special urgency to hug their children after the horror of Newtown, there's one group of parents who can't--those who lost their children to adoption.
Heidi Russo is one of them. Six weeks after her son was born in 1987, she handed him over to a social worker who gave him to Rick and Teresa Kaepernick. Russo's son, Colin Kaepernick, is the starting quarter back of the San Francisco 49ers, and has led them in the NFL playoffs. Kaepernick has rebuffed Russo's attempts to meet him.
Heidi Russo, still in the shadows
Russo was 19, single and living in Milwaukee when her son was born. She had decided to keep her child until a family friend who worked for Lutheran Social Services introduced her to the Kaepernicks. "'They were such giving, wonderful people from the moment I met them,'' she told Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports. Because Wisconsin law required a six-week wait before a child can be adopted, Russo had kept her son with her so he would not have to go to foster care. Like us, Russo suffered profound pain at losing her son. When Russo visited her father who lived in Fond du Lac where the Kaepernicks lived at first, "she'd find herself looking for the Kaepernicks, hoping to see Colin.'"
The Kaepernicks sent letters and pictures for the first six or seven years. "'I would find myself waiting and waiting for the letters and the pictures, so much so that I wasn't moving on with my life,' Russo said. 'I was depressed and anxious.' ...There were 'many times' that she wanted to go get Colin back from the Kaepernicks.'" When he was four, the family moved to California. He was a star football player in high school, and later at the University of Nevada.
FOUND HER SON ON MYSPACE
Russo is now a registered nurse living in the suburbs of Denver. Several years ago she found her son on MySpace and wrote to him. It took six weeks to hear back from him. "'He had questions about his father and I tried to get answers for him.,' Russo said. Since then he has exchanged a few messages with her but most of her tweets--in response to his general comments about, say, his body fat level--have gone unanswered. She saw him for the first time in 2010 when the University of Nevada played Colorado State and watched him play. "'I kept looking at him, thinking our eyes might meet. ...I kept thinking it happened, but he never came to see me after the game.'" On August 26 of this year, she attended the 49ers' preseason game at Denver and reunited with the Kaepernicks but did not meet Colin. "'You couldn't ask for better people than Rick and Teresa, how they have loved him and taken care of him.'"
The Kaepernicks say they are supportive of whatever Colin wants to do, but they and Colin "have always been uncomfortable with the term 'adoptive' parents." Virgil Green, Kaepernick's teammate and roommate at Nevada said "'I think he would view it as almost treasonable to them to meet his biological mother or father. They did such a great job giving him everything he needed to be successful in life.'"
"'I know I couldn't have given Colin everything he needed growing up,' Russo said 'But I ask myself a lot of the time, 'Would loving him have been enough?'" The short answer is most likely "yes." The NFL, the NBA, MLB, the Olympic team, many other sports leagues are full of great athletes raised by single mothers. Clearly, Kaepernick inherited his strength and athletic ability from his biological parents--Russo is six feet tall and played volleyball, basketball, and track in high school. She's smart and attractive. A solid citizen and a loving mother to an eight-year-old son, Kaepernick's half brother.
Though she so much wants to meet him, Russo said she’d understand if he never does. “'Yes, there’s always that, but I just stay positive for him,'” Russo told NBC Sports. “'That’s what is important. That’s what you’re supposed to do as a parent.'” We can understand that meeting your first mother with all these other people around, after a NFL football game, is far from ideal--in fact, it sounds ridiculous--but it would not have come to this had he not been refusing to meet her. Going to a game and hoping to meet him there is the move of a desperate first mother.
LOST CHILDREN REFUSE TO MEET FIRST MOTHERS
We at FMF have know many other incredibly fine mothers whose lost children refuse to meet them. When a Portland mother whose 54-year-old daughter is a successful musician wrote to her daughter after finding her ten years ago, the mother received a letter from the Tennessse Department of Health and Human services, which archived all adoption records, threatening her with legal action if she attempted to contact her daughter again. The mother waited several years and wrote her daughter again, this time receiving no response. The mother is a talented musician in her own right and raised a son who is also a successful musician. This mother went to the theater in Chicago where her daughter performs. It was an unreal experience; the similarity of their appearance and the way they played the piano was uncanny. The mother gave a note to an usher to give her daughter, asking for a meeting, but received no response. Maybe the daughter never received the note; but maybe she did.
The daughter of a friend of Jane's refused contact until the daughter had medical problems. When the daughter wanted to know if heredity played a role in her fertility problems, she contacted the mother for the information through the adoption agency. She wanted her address kept secret. Jane's friend volunteered all her medical history, and passed on the address of her biological father, and also let him know about the daughter's inquiries. He then wrote the daughter through the adoption agency. The daughter then wrote her mother--through the agency--cutting off all contact because of the "transgression" of contacting the father.
While the daughter had her first mother's address--which was included when she wrote her daughter through the agency--the mother could not possibly give the birth father any contact information, because all of the parents' contact was through the agency. And yet the daughter was furious? Enough to cut off all contact? What, exactly was she furious about? Her birth parents had no way to contact her, since communication had been done through the agency. This behavior strikes us as the epitome of irrational, but adoptees say we cannot understand their turmoil. This we believe. They cannot understand the grief of first mothers when they refuse contact.
After birth mother Jane Guttman's son refused contact, she poured out her grief in a moving memoir, The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow. Sheila Ganz whose daughter rejected her for many years, buried herself in artwork and produced a film about adoption loss, Unlocking the Heart of Adoption. After many years, the daughter finally agreed to meet Sheila.
FEAR OF 'BETRAYING' ADOPTIVE PARENTS
Why adult children refuse to meet their original parents? In some cases, adoptees have legitimate reasons; their mothers are mentally ill, or are addicts of one sort or another. Some adopted individuals refuse contact because their natural parents ask for money.
But in many cases, fear of betraying their adoptive parents is the major reason, as may be the case for Kaepernick. Somehow the message has been conveyed to Kaepernick that even meeting one's biological mother is an act of treason, and violates the unspoken contract between adoptive parent and adoptive child, no matter the age. It may not have even been the parents, in this case, the Kaepernicks, who instilled this message, but the arrangement itself--I am the (only) parent, you are the (my) child, that other person (your natural mother) is gone--may implant a sense that the child, even as an adult, must not make any move to the natural parents without mortally wounding this arrangement. Lorraine so well remembers her daughter, Jane, after a day of sight-seeing and shopping and closeness, suddenly turning sullen and non-responsive, acting as if she was having a terrible time. Later she would tell Lorraine that she suddenly did feel guilty; this day felt too good, her feelings had to be disloyal to her adoptive parents.
Lorraine has an acquaintance who is an adoptive mother, who has told Lorraine that she has asked her daughter if she would like to find her birth mother, but the daughter says she is not interested. This adoptive mother, however, is the same woman who, days after the suicide of Lorraine's daughter, interrupted a conversation when a friend of Lorraine's--who knew her daughter--referred to the woman as "Lorraine's daughter." The other woman could not help herself, she had to correct the language: Lorraine's daughter was not her "daughter," she was her "birth daughter." If it is necessary to correct that language in such a situation, one can only imagine the meta messages her ADOPTED daughter has been receiving all her life. It is no surprise that the woman told her adoptive mother she is "not interested" in finding her "birth" mother. Lorraine has never been able to find the will to ask this woman--the adoptive mother--how her "adopted daughter" is doing these days, but she thinks it plenty when they are thrown together.
THREAT OF POLICE INVOLVEMENT
One first mother wrote to Lorraine years ago saying that after she wrote to her grown daughter, she received a letter saying never to contact her again, that she would get the police involved if she did, and that she even dreaded her birthdays because her first mother might send her a card. Lorraine read the letter, and knows it was cruel to the core. The woman had never met her daughter or been a pest, as the letter indicated, she only wanted to meet her daughter. Lorraine counseled her that there was nothing she could do. Any relationship--or meeting--was up to the daughter. Fast forward a decade. Lorraine heard from mother a year ago, and mother and daughter have a warm relationship, all that the mother could desire. Once the adoptive parents were out of the picture, her daughter contacted her, and said that her adoptive parents had pushed her to write that letter, and refuse any meeting.
We know of many cases were after reunion that seems to go well, the adopted individual does not want a relationship, and to our mind, invents or exaggerates an incident, an offhand word, and turns that into a reason for no contact. We understand that the emotions triggered by a relationship may be more overwhelming, for we know many mothers do the same thing. We know that many first mothers and individuals who were adopted choose not to search. We are not writing about that here today.
We are talking about the total refusal, such as that of quarterback Colin Kaepernick, to even meet one's birth mother once. Perhaps he feels that in the middle of a football season, he can not handle the emotions that he knows will be unleashed. But perhaps what his teammate suggested: his adoptive parents will see it as an act of treason. That may or may not be the case--they met with his first mother--and that is a good sign. The blame lies, it would seem, not with them, but with the culture itself that has so inculcated the concept of adoption as an erasure of one's origins, and thus a reason to sever all ties with one's natural parents. It is the adoption culture of the past, it is the adoption culture of the present. And it is wrong, a base lie at its core.
EXPRESS TRUE FEELINGS AFTER MEETING FIRST MOTHER
In actuality, many adoptees report that meeting their first parents improves their relationship with their adoptive parents, perhaps because it allows them to express their true feelings. Others say they are willing to meet their first parents only after their adoptive parents die. And many others--every searcher is aware of this--do not look for their birth parents until their adoptive parents die. It happens so often, and it is so sad for everyone involved.
Perhaps Kaepernick was aware not until the news articles came out of the grief his mother has suffered from losing him; first mother pain is often neglected in media stories about adoption, the focus instead on the happiness of the adoptive family. Kaepernick may not have appreciated what a meeting would mean to his mother, or how much sorrow he inflicts by not meeting her. Perhaps after football season is over, perhaps when no one else is around, Kaepernick will contact his other mother, Heidi Russo, and agree to meet her, at least once. We have often said that first mothers owe their children at least one meeting, at least one session where all questions are answered. We would hope that the opposite would be true.--Jane and lorraine
See follow up post:
A Call Kaepernick should make--to his birth mother
COMMENTS CLOSED HERE, PLEASE REFER TO LATER POST 2/3/13
Birth mother still trying to connect with new 49ers starting quarterback Colin Kaepernick
Woman who gave him up for adoption still supports Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick's biological mother tries to forge relationship with the 49ers star quarterback she gave up as unwed teenager
For a different reaction to meeting his natural mother from a football player, read Tim Green's memoir: A Man and His Mother : An Adopted Son's Search
"All-American. Co-valedictorian of his class. NFL first-round draft pick. Law school graduate. Best-selling author. TV commentator. Family man. Green had it all?except knowledge of his biological mother. Here he recounts his search for her."--Reed Business Information
I loved this book. He both loves his adoptive parents but searches and finds without dissing his natural mother. --lorraine
Waiting to Forget: A Motherhood Lost and Found: Forced by societal pressures to give her baby up, she suffered emotional trauma both before and for years after the birth. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter and found herself terrified by the possibility of losing her younger child, a fear she can now trace back to her uncertain decision to give up her son. This is a truly wonderful read for both first mothers and adopted individuals.
The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow: A Mother's Quest for Healing : "A memoir spanning three decades of loss and love, regret and remorse. Jane Guttman allows her readers to participate in her healing process..."--Amazon
Posted by Jane Edwards at 3:16 PM
Labels: adoptees who refuse contact , Colin Kaepernick , Heidi Russo , Jane Guttman , Sheila Ganz , The Gift Wrapped in Sorrow , Unlocking the Heart of Adoption
suz December 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Great post ladies. I can relate. As it approaches eight years in reunion with a daughter that refuses contact or meeting or communication, this post touched me and yeah, made me feel a bit better about things
Kay December 27, 2012 at 4:45 PM
So sad that Colin can't see or doesn't care about the pain this causes his first mother. As a mother of adoption loss who also lives near Denver, I would love to meet her! I'm saddened that we live in a culture where anyone would think it is okay to deny a simple meeting. My heart goes out to both mother and son, and to all, like Suz and others, who patiently wait, holding onto the slightest glimmer of hope. I wish you peace.
sibu03 December 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM
Is there any legal basis for this? Could you get a restraining order on someone simply for writing you a letter or two?
"When a Portland mother whose 54-year-old daughter is a successful musician wrote to her daughter after finding her ten years ago, the mother received a letter from the Tennessse Department of Health and Human services, which archived all adoption records, threatening her with legal action if she attempted to contact her daughter again."
I will never understand how anyone can justify not simply writing a postcard saying "Terribly sorry, but I just don't feel like I'm open to contact at this point in my life. I will keep your information should this change. Wish you the best."
Jane Edwards December 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM
It does seem odd that you can get a restraining order against someone sending a letter. Tennessee may have special laws regarding first parents contacting their lost children. Here's what my friend emailed me about the incident:
"The adoption was handled by the Family Service Agency, a private adoption store. All adoption records are kept in Nashville and any requests for non-identifying information, birth certificates, etc. are handled by the Post-Adoption Unit. ...When I sent my initial letter to Lisa 5 years ago now, I can only guess she (or more likely her lawyer husband) contacted the Post-Adoption Unit and said she did not want any contact with me. The letter the State sent me may have been a form letter but it was very harsh and threatening. I keep asking myself why? When the adoption took place 53 years ago, I live in Oregon and she lives in Illinois, why does Tennessee give a shit at this point? Another adoption crazy-making policy."
I think adoptees may use harsh tactics to scare away their mothers because they don't think of their mothers as human beings with feelings. They may be genuinely, although irrationally, frightened. They view their mothers as some kind of haunting demon.
Some first mothers respond in similar fashion to their surrendered children when the mothers are contacted.
Kellie C December 27, 2012 at 8:19 PM
My mother-in-law is an adoptee who refused her first mother's attempts at contact. I have been told that her fist mother cam to my MIL's high school, and it upset my MIL so much she left school for the day.
My husband and I lived in the same small town where his parents grew up. When we were married, someone put the announcement in the local newspaper. The announcement mentioned where I was employed. A few weeks after the wedding, I received a letter from my MIL's first mother. when i realized what it was, i gave it to my husband to give to his mother. I don't think she ever met her first mother.
I didn't understand what adoption was all about then, but when I look back this woman's desperation for a reunion with her daughter is very sad. If only I'd understood...my daughter would not be suffering the loss of her own daughter to adoption.
I spent my first Christmas with my mother this year. We had been having a lot of trouble with our relationship, and I suddenly decided to invite her for Christmas dinner. She surprised herself by saying, "I'd love to, what time?"
It was wonderful. Now I realize why I have always hated holidays. I could never understand why people got excited. I just missed my mother. I hated my wedding, because no one in my family was there. All my milestones were lacking something, and I never knew what. It was my mother.
I feel so violated. How could society think it was OK to do that to me? To steal the joy from my world, and try and replace it with strangers.
I had a little brother! I was raised a lonely only child of older, dull parents. My mother was young and beautiful and full of life.
I can understand the loyalty to the adoptive parents. I felt guilty even thinking about my mother. I was never allowed to speak of her.
I was supposed to be happy, and I was made to feel there was something lacking in ME because I wasn't.
It took me a long time to break free of that slave mentality. I now feel that I lived my life in chains, trying to be someone I could never be. It was a terrible price for a person to pay.
My a mom lives with me. I would only invite my real mother over when she was out of town. This Christmas I decided I deserved to have my mother over for dinner, and if A mom didn't like it, she could go somewhere else. And guess what? They sat and ate together, and NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.
It was powerful, and wonderful, and so right. I love my mother, and I'm not going to feel guilty about that ever again.
Lee December 27, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Well, I can defintely relate to this subject! Unfortunately... I still wait for contact with my daughter who will be 44 this coming May. I got my non-identifying information in March, 2006, and in September, 2006 made "contact" with a letter. Unfortunately, I had to write a letter to her a-mom, as she was "off the grid" so to speak! In October 2006 received a letter from her amom saying that I had "upset" daughter very much with my letter and if and when she was ready for contact she would... Oops! In January, 2007 I did finally (!) receive a response from her and she asked for no contact but thanked me for my letter and said she loved me. In April of 2009 I sent her a 10 page letter - wishing her a 39th birthday and explaining 'why' she was adopted, about her birth, etc. asking if we could just meet one time - and got a "nasty"/"angry" email asking me to NOT contact her ever again! If she wants contact she will. I truly believe it's because of her amom - amom was NOT happy I had made contact - as you see I signed a paper that said that! LOL! I wrote back (in that 10 page letter) NO, I never signed any paper that said I would have no contact - I signed a paper relingishing my rights as a "parent", not to never search! So I sit and pray... I have tried to "go back" to the time before search, but we all know that ain't going to happen!! LOL!
Peace to all - and Happy New Year!
Lorraine Dusky December 27, 2012 at 10:29 PM
Amazing that the adoptive mother would think you signed a paper that said you would never contact her. Like, where did she get that idea? She assumed it because it is so convenient. It is easier to rest at least knowing you have told your daughter you would like to meet her.
Happy New Year too. And peace in your heart.
Jane Edwards December 28, 2012 at 12:47 AM
One of our readers passed along information which may explain why the State of Tennessee wrote to a mother telling her she could not contact her lost daughter.
"Back in 1997 Tennessee passed a law which gave some access to birth records to adopted persons and also some access to birth parents (might have been a registry or CI program for them or something like that. I don't recall).
But I recall that there was a contact veto placed in the law. This was for BOTH sides and it has caused lots of heartache and fear. I have heard of adopted people who are afraid to go to some towns in Tennessee for fear they will run into a relative and violate the contact veto and be guilty of a crime (after receiving a gov't letter telling them not to contact anyone in their family)."
Tennessee's law came out of the Georgia Tann/Tennessee Children's Home horror. With the help of a corrupt judge, Tann arranged for children to be taken from their parents and placed for adoption with affluent people, mostly in New York and California. Many Hollywood notables in the 1930s and 40s obtained their children from Tann. The 1997 Tennessee law was enacted in response to media stories in the 1990s about those wrongly adopted and their first parents trying to find each other.
Lorraine Dusky December 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Michele:
Late with this response but I read your comment again this morning when I had more time: so so so happy to hear a good story about you and your natural mother--and they ate together and nothing happened! The world did not fall apart, and neither did your adoptive mother. Thank you so much for telling your good reunion story and We know you will have a Happy New Year!
good wishes for a continued good relationship--with all of your mothers.
Bee December 28, 2012 at 10:42 AM
I read this post and thought, Yes. You nailed it. Then I read this
http://www.singleinfertilefemale.com/2012/12/bans-birth-mothers-and-broken-hearts/
And thought, wow, people just do not get it.
No wonder there is so much misunderstanding when it comes to adoption.
Fortunately, many of her commenters are gently disagreeing with her.
Lorraine Dusky December 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Bee:
I couldn't read that endless blog you linked to all the way to the endless end but I got her point: woe is me, I want to adopt internationally, I will be the parent whose kid doesn't want to meet his biological parents. Perhaps you or someone could gently urge her to read our post?
G Dean December 28, 2012 at 6:50 PM
I am an adoptee who received a copy of my original birth certificate this past summer. I sent a letter to my first mother in July and got no response. Her Facebook page went completely private 3 days after I sent my letter... Not a coincidence in my opinion. Hoping that she is checking out my Facebook page, I have posted some links to FMF in hopes that reading your blog would give her some insight as it has done for me.
Regarding adoptees that refuse contact... Even if you are a part of the adoption triad, that doesn't mean that you are aware of the plight of other members of the triad. Before attempting contact with my first mother, I did some research on how to write my letter. I stumbled on this site where I was able to read about the perspective of first mothers, and it has been enlightening and invaluable. Earlier in my life, I might have been one of those who refuses contact fearing hurt it might cause my a-parents. I had 1 conversation with my a-mom about searching for f-mom when I was a teenager, and a-mom could not understand my curiosity. I knew then and there that It was a threat to her for some reason.
It's very much about ignorance vs. education.
Bee, I posted a comment on that single infertile female blog telling her she had everything wrong and asking her to read our posts on Russian adoptions and Heidi Russo/Colin Kaepernmick.
Thanks G Dean,
We're happy to have been of help. We hope that your mother comes around. Sometimes it just takes time.
A second mom December 29, 2012 at 7:20 PM
I hope that woman from the blog does come to your site and read and read and read some more. She should be so lucky!
I did not come across FMF until a couple of years ago but you have taught me a lot. Prior to that I was fortunate to become friends with some first moms whose blogs you actually link to on your site, which is probably how I got here.
Anyway long story short, there are still too many insecure a-parents out there. I'm not sure what the solution is to that. I've tried writing about my experiences hoping that it would help other a-parents to relax but I guess some people refuse to change. Or simply don't want to.
As I write this, my son is about five hours from home with his natural grandparents Nini and Papaw. He'll spend a few days with them for a late Christmas and to celebrate the New Year. And he'll see his father while there. Have already gotten texts from his father and grandmother about what he's doing up there, as well as some texted pictures.
We saw his mother four days before Christmas and had a nice time. All of us decided to wander around a Target a couple of hours later and while doing so he said "I have two moms" and smiled. One of those moments to remember...
He is only seven. As I've said before, I was unfortunately pretty clueless as to the pain and challenges that he would face as an adopted person. Thanks to this site and others, I'm more aware and (hopefully) prepared to help in whatever way I can. One way that is most important is that his family have complete access to him. T-o-t-a-l and complete!
How does my rambling tie in to this post you are probably asking? My son knows ALL of his family. It has NEVER been threatening. It has NEVER made me feel like less of a parent. If only more a-parents would let their guard down, they would find this out. And their child would be the better for it.
Thank you for this post. As an adoptive parent, I want my daughter to feel that she can contact her natural family. This post really helped me see how simple words, phrases, and attitudes can send the opposite message of what I mean. She's only 4 months old right now, so this is timely. It's the perfect time for me to think of what I say and how I say it.
Barbara December 30, 2012 at 10:37 PM
I saw an article about Colin Kaepernick and Heidi on a sports website, and it was followed by dozens of callous, unbelievably cruel posts, such as "she didn't want him until he was famous" and "she's probably after his money." And it went downhill from there. I was so appalled that I put a post on that site chastising them for their cruelty and trying to explain it a little. A few more milder posts and then the post ended. People just don't get it at all.
h2o_girl December 31, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Darla, I just want to give you a hug right now. Thank you for being such a great mother to your son.
Lorraine Dusky December 31, 2012 at 3:16 PM
I find the nasty comments so sad, assuming the worst about a mother who wants to meet her son. While I do think that doing the job Kaepernick is trained for is quite different than the psychological challenge of meeting one's mother, I have hope that when the season is over he will take that step.
Thanks, Second Mom, for your lovely comment--we love to hear from good people like you. I think it is impossible for the non-adopted, and most adoptive parents, to understand the depth of meaning conveyed in a few words, a look, sigh. For instance, all that I hear and read indicates that if an adoptee ever referred to his first mother in conversation simply as "my mother," it would be seen as the treason one of Kaepernick's teammates referred to. Without actually knowing that is the message they have conveyed, we don't know if that is true in the Keapernick family.
But I am sure it is true in 99 percent of most adoptive households. I am not writing this to denigrate any adoptive mother; I'm just saying that more looseness and less fear would open up possibilities to their adoptive children and built a relationship on sturdier ground. First mothers/ adoptive mothers: both are mothers.
One of our readers emailed me and said no one should force another to have a relationship with someone.
We're not suggesting Kaepernick commit to a relationship. We're simply urging him to man up and meet the woman who gave him life. He's fearless in front of 350 pound linemen trying to take his head off; surely he could survive an a hour or so with Russo.
Robin January 1, 2013 at 8:35 AM
Any mother who relinquishes a child for adoption should have no expectation of having any contact, much less a relationship, with the child ever again. If any adoption agency or attorney guarantees you otherwise, they are lying. Hopefully, this realization will encourage more mothers to keep their babies.
Daisy January 1, 2013 at 9:41 AM
This post is meant to encourage ALL FM's. When Jane said "it takes time"...it does ..more time than we could have ever imagined. Never give up hope & keep occasional contact. I waited 37 yrs and then rode the roller coaster of reunion for 6 more but this Christmas I spent with my daughter and all that time just floated away. It's worth the wait. Hugs to you all esp Lo and Jane for this site.
maybe January 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM
I second Robin's comment about not expecting anything in the future. Young women are sold the idea that a relationship will be possible but we all know it's a crap shoot.
A second mom January 2, 2013 at 8:03 PM
Thank you h2o_girl, that is very sweet of you to say. I truly feel that hearing adoptee and natural mom's perspectives have brought our family to where we are today. I will always be grateful to everyone who has shared their feelings and experiences with me.
Have to agree with Robin and maybe. Way too many people make promises to expectant mothers in order to get their babies. I personally know a couple of mothers that this has happened to. And I've heard stories from many more. One of my friends never heard from the a-parents once they left the hospital with the baby. Despite all kinds of romantic promises...
My opinion has been that these people must not believe in hell if they can do such a thing to a trusting woman and an innocent child.
Bee January 8, 2013 at 7:25 PM
That blogger, Single infertile female has dedicated an entire post to you at First Mother Forum.
http://www.singleinfertilefemale.com/2013/01/first-mother-forum/#comments
She' basically saying Wow! I understand you've been through a lot but do you have to bring me down? All I want to do is raise someone else's kid. Why can't I do that in peace without having to think about those pesky first mothers? Do you have to be so bitter? Just put on a happy face and hand over your kid already!
And the comments are revolting.
Lorraine Dusky January 8, 2013 at 8:25 PM
Bee: I know she connects to this post at the blog, but the action is over at the current post, so I hope you will take this conversation over there.
At least one of the commenters stood up for me. Nice.
rachel January 23, 2013 at 4:19 PM
Oh, they are still at it at SIF and Rain, so upset with you folks and adoptees such as moi. What don't they understand about what adoption does to the soul of the adopted? Everything.
Okay, maybe I don't think that Colin Kaepernick owes his mother at least one meeting, but how about doing it at least once because it is the humane thing to do? She could have aborted and then the 49ers might not be in the Superbowl. Just sayin.
Maybe because Colin's birth mom is seeking publicity by doing stories with Yahoo, he is reluctant to meet her or maybe he knows her motives (fame). It's his choice. If he said no, then she should not hound him in the press for her shot at the brass ring. Let him live his life. She gave him up, if he says no, then stay out of the press hounding him.
Mother January 31, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Just an absurd statement you made she wants the fame or the brass ring? Really, maybe Colin needs to be a man and meet his mom the woman who gave him life.
You also said she should just take no for an answerl. Let him live his life. I think he has lived his life. Thanks to his mother he has been able to do that live a life! If he shows slightest bit of interest he probably will feel like he is betraying his adopters. What a terrible position to be in and because of that he isn't living his life his adopters have made sure of that he will "hurt" them if he wants to know the truth of his origins.
I just heard he is donating to heart foundation guess his adopters lost two children to that disease. Is he living his life or is he living his adopters life. He sounds to me to be very vulnerable and they dictate.
Thankfully, my son had enough in him to stand up to his adopter. He told her she knew her mom.
Shadow February 2, 2013 at 11:37 PM
Maybe you aren't aware of this, but Colin Kaepernick's birth mother already went to his football games and tried to contact him when he was in college. That was long before he became the famous QB of the San Francisco 49ers, so fame/money is obviously not her motivation for seeking him out.
Lorraine Dusky February 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Thank you, Shadow. People who leave comments saying the only reason Heidi Russo wants to meet her son is because he is "famous," have no understanding of a mother's love. Their motive it just to diminish that; they want her to be the bad woman who gave him away and now is hoping to cash in on his ability and fame. And today of course is a big day--Superbowl.
I often don't have a favorite in the game but I admit I find I am not rooting for his team because of his refusal to meet her--not just now, but long before, as you point out.
Lorraine Dusky February 3, 2013 at 12:39 PM
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FreeAsABird April 6, 2015 at 3:22 PM
I have had a problem with first letters since I emailed the Childrens Home Society in Jax,Fla.I was sent all the strict forms.Then she told me she found my son around six months or so layer back in 2000 close enough anyway.She the SE told me to write him a first letter telling him who I am and that I would like him to know he has a birth mother and a 1/2 brother.I was told that everything had to be notorized and signed .I did everything to the T.... I called her about a month later and she tells me she lost the first letter and I was not allowed to write another.LOST' was not my fault.She said he was found and said YES to contact -or I would not have written the letter if he did not want contact.The SW had problems contactaing his office as he was a busy lawyer but his secretaries thought she was a solicitor? She went onto many odd tales of why she could not reach him at .home,work or anywhere.(even with all her resources) My search angel at the time said sounds like she was back peddling her way out of getting into any trouble as they are not supposed to say the adoptees occupation.Well he wasn't a lawyer as at the closing she said "Well he could have been a lawyer" No proof that he is alive as she was the soul and only intermediary ,she could have said he was on Mars but that was her words and I was to abide by any and all of them.Alot of women have experienced this cruelty having searching for their grown sons and daughters in the archives.They get more money if more family calls and wants a search for same.A search angel from Canada told me that this agency has cheated many parents and relatives of adoptee-leaving them forever separated not knowing if alive vs,vs or not all because of false tales from soul intermediary and especially the FIRST LETTERS never received and never to be re-written even if it was the SW's fault. Losing first letters is serious as who knows if it was put in waste can ? No laws ,no control.their soul words as gospel,not ours.
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Sedona’s New Crystal Magic: Salt
By FBN on September 3, 2016 in Sedona
The only time a health professional usually mentions salt is to warn the public not to eat too much of the most basic food additive, as it raises blood pressure, affects kidney function and more. However, people have known for thousands of years that the right kind of exposure to salt appears to have surprising health benefits, and many swear by the healing effects of an Epsom salts bath. While therapies involving salt are not new to Northern Arizona, two new Sedona businesses are now offering a cutting edge “saline solution” that is one of the top health and wellness trends worldwide: salt rooms.
Nothing can fully mimic a salt mine’s environment but that is the objective of halotherapy, or salt therapies. “The health benefits were discovered by salt cave workers, and in the Middle East and Asia where people hid in caves and seemed to come out very healthy,” said Heidi Kenney, director of the new Sedona Health Spa at The Collective Sedona (VOC), which now offers the holistic treatment.
First, salt in the form of 99.99 percent pure sodium chloride is heated then pulverized to red-blood-cell sized particles. Then, these particles are sent into a room where clients receive the therapy, breathing and absorbing the salt. According to Kenney, salt therapy benefits include weight loss, detoxification, improved brain function, stress relief, balanced hormones, allergy therapy and help with acne or sensitive skin irritations. She recommends no more than two sessions a week for no longer than eight weeks. Halotherapy in general is not yet a federally recognized medical treatment.
Said to have anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antibacterial qualities, this form of halotherapy is used as to treat respiratory ailments, like emphysema and seasonal allergy symptoms. “It’s like a Neti Pot for your body,” she said. “Instead of just your sinuses, you’re flushing your whole system! People will get addicted to it.”
She says this treatment should be avoided by those with high blood pressure, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, serious breathing disorders and certain immune systems concerns, Side effects appear to be signs the therapy is working: sinus draining, slight cough, fatigue from toxin drainage and minor skin irritation.
At the Sedona Health Spa, halotherapy is administered in its purpose-built Salt Room that blends function and form. Hand-mined Himalayan salt covers three of the four walls for an added therapeutic effect that also makes for a visually stunning and relaxing environment. The room is kept at 74 degrees by a LED and natural light.
“It’s warm, but nothing like a sauna,” said Kenney, who loves the fine layer of salt the treatment leaves in the room as evidence. Up to six people can be treated at once and prices start at $45 per person (sedonahealthspa.com/services/the-salt-room/).
Similar halotherapy is also being offered in West Sedona by Healing Salts Spa, which opened last month and offers open and private room sessions starting at $60 per person (healingsaltspa.com).
Other salt therapies available in the region include sea salt scrubs, saltwater float therapy and mineral sea salt soaks that are much like high-end Epsom salt baths. Purported therapeutic effects and counter indications mirror those of salt-room halotherapy, with a greater emphasis on circulatory and skin benefits and less on respiration and detoxification, according to treatment descriptions. QCBN
By Tom Vitron, FBN
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Soaking in salt rooms, like this one at Sedona Health Spa, is said to help people lose weight, increase their brain activity and provide relief from stress and allergies.
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Le Caprice, St James
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With its black and white décor, David Bailey photographs and long dining bar, Le Caprice is a model of urban elegance, but its reputation runs deeper. Opened in 1947 by Mario Gallati, former Maître d’ of The Ivy, it was relaunched in 1981 and quickly became a social institution with a devoted international clientele who enjoy unsurpassed service and a lively atmosphere, expertly marshalled by its Director, Jesus Adorno. In September 2011, the restaurant received a design refresh by Martin Brudnizki with touches including black oak panels, bevelled mirrors and a new black marble floor with white
double inlay border. A larger reception area was created by a back-lit ivory onyx bar with granite counter and 12 dining stools. Outside, royal blue awnings and topiary planters adorn the terrace for all-day dining overlooking the bustle of St James’s.
At the heart of Le Caprice’s renown is an always fresh and imaginative modern British and European menu sourced from the finest suppliers; a typical list might include grilled squid with chorizo, padron peppers & datterini tomatoes, Blythburgh pork belly with rosemary roasted roots & apple mash and San Daniele ham.
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Nightmare Creatures
Title : Nightmare Creatures
Platforms : Nintendo 64, Sony PlayStation, Windows
Publisher : Activision
Game Rating : 4.5
Review by : Ken Gagne
See the world! Fight monstrous creatures! Sounds like a dream of a game, but it isn't — it's Nightmare Creatures, a Nintendo 64 version of last year's PlayStation bomb, developed by Kalisto and published by Activision. (Also available for PC)
In 1666, the Great Fire swept London, destroying the secret Brotherhood of Hecate, a society with plans to take over the world or destroy it with virii capable of turning people into monsters. Now, in 1834, the diary of one of the original members has fallen into the wrong hands, and London is again threatened. It's up to Nadia and Father Ignatius to see no evil befalls the world.
Gameplay is 3D over-the-shoulder, reminiscent of Tomb Raider and Deathtrap Dungeon, but the control is not as easy to use. Characters can jump backward, but not run; items must be manually picked up, not just walked over; and there is no configuration option.
The camera follows the player's action slowly, if at all, so Up on the control stick does not always translate to Forward into the screen. Other times it switches to a distant point of action, trying to create a dramatic atmosphere, but confusing gameplay instead.
The game's challenge derives predominantly from battle. There are various combos of weapon and kick attacks, but it all comes down to button mashing. Enemies emerge frequently and with little variety, and fall easily to the basic attacks.
The setting is dark; set the light management meter to maximum if you're to have any hope of seeing where you're stumbling. The only feature that may mark the town as London is the fog that unimpressively rolls by the characters' feet.
The sprites themselves move jerkily, lacking frames of animation necessary to be fluid. Monsters can appear out of nowhere, yet lack any nightmare-inducing quality of appearance.
The music is unnoticeable. Exploding barrels, falling fences, and moaning zombies try to supply the atmosphere instead, but also fail.
There are two major documentation errors. First, the packaging does not state that games can be saved to the memory pak, although a password system is also available. Second, the manual refers to the C-buttons as the "control pad," so if it defines a function for Control Pad Up, it means C-Up.
Nightmare Creatures lacks any significant fun factor. It's a gauntlet of random attacks against a not-so-wide variety of mundane monsters who are just as poorly seen as heard. If the game's name is any indication of the developer's intent, the only place it succeeds in scaring is the game itself — a true "nightmare creature."
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Original publication: Sentinel & Enterprise, 11-Jan-99
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Turkey thanks with a little religion
Leave it to the experts to tell us how to deal with the in-laws, the five pounds we're bound to gain and the tragedy of whatever football teams lose today.
Thanksgiving isn't just a holiday, after all. You can change your whole attitude about life with some simple strategies, so says the New York Times.
The most psychologically correct holiday of the year is upon us.
Thanksgiving may be the holiday from hell for nutritionists, and it produces plenty of war stories for psychiatrists dealing with drunken family meltdowns. But it has recently become the favorite feast of psychologists studying the consequences of giving thanks.
I enjoyed the intro to the story, but the bursts of advice were a bit obvious to me. Start a journal, say thank you, don't counterattack, conduct a "gratitude visit." The possibilities really are endless. The author sought advice from a series of experts, naturally found from people with a PhD after their name.
In the piece, there's one little section in the piece that deals with faith, but it's rather brief.
Contemplate a higher power. Religious individuals don’t necessarily act with more gratitude in a specific situation, but thinking about religion can cause people to feel and act more gratefully, as demonstrated in experiments by Jo-Ann Tsang and colleagues at Baylor University. Other research shows that praying can increase gratitude.
This section isn't quite clear to me. Thinking about religion in general causes people to feel grateful? So if I'm just thinking about Buddhism, I'll produce a thankful spirit? Something tells me participation in religious rituals might have something to do with it, if you attend a service, pray, do meditation, or something, but it's unclear from the description what specifics the survey found.
A piece from Ansley Roan at CNN's Belief Blog explores some new religion details.
While gratitude is a perennial topic in religion publishing, today’s books differ from those being published 10 years ago, according to Marcia Z. Nelson, associate religion editor for Publishers Weekly.
“Since 2008, I’ve seen many religion books that are almost a prophetic cry against greed and excess,” she said. “The two things are related, ‘Be grateful for what you have.’ ‘You have more than enough.’ But I don’t see the same focus on gratitude, so much as being content.”
Research shows that feelings like gratitude and contentment don't always come easily.
“There’s something called the negativity bias,” said Rubin, the author. “Anything that’s negative catches our attention better than things that are positive. So having some kind of strategy can remind you of things to be grateful for.”
Be assured, your Facebook feed will be filled today with little tributes of thanks for family and friends. It's unclear whether that will do anything to boost your spirits, but it won't be surprising if you find mentions of faith here and there. Pumpkin image via Shutterstock.
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Family of murdered Guildford man Daniel Sommerville join knife crime protest
Shoes and trainers of stabbing victims were laid on the pavement outside number 10 Downing Street
Stephen Lloyd
The family of Daniel Sommerville , who died after being stabbed in a Guildford road, joined a march to 10 Downing Street to demand the government does something to tackle the knife crime .
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital on Sunday (June 3), demanding authorities to increase the number of stop and searches by police, impose harsher sentences on people caught with knives without a good reason and increasing sentences for knife wielders.
On July 17 in 2015, Nathaniel Johnson of Barkworth Road, Bermondsey, was sentenced to life in prison , with a minimum of 23 years, after a jury at Guildford Crown Court found him guilty of murdering Mr Sommerville .
Johnson, 25, stabbed Mr Sommerville, 24, in the heart with a 23cm kitchen knife following a confrontation at the junction of Aldershot Road and Worplesdon Road in Stoughton at around 3.30pm on February 2, 2015.
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Mr Sommerville’s mother, Julie Liddicott, his father, Andi Sommerville, and granddad Jim Sommerville were among those from across the country who joined the Anti-Knife UK organised rally, which saw shoes and trainers of stabbing victims laid on the pavement outside number 10.
Julie said: “We also placed a pair of Dan’s shoes along with many others.
“We went to represent Daniel and join other families who also live with the loss of a loved one through knife crime.
“A petition was also handed in asking for tougher sentences.
Daniel Sommerville’s mother Julie Liddicott, father Andi Sommerville, and granddad Jim Sommerville joined the Anti-Knife UK organised rally (Image: Julie Liddicott)
“There were many families who shared their stories of their loved ones families, who are still fighting for justice.
“We as a family will always support and sign petitions as we know the pain that this horrendous crime causes.
“We, the families, have this life sentence.
“Knife crime is getting worse and people need to be aware.
Daniel Sommerville, 24, died on February 2, 2015 following an altercation in Aldershot Road, Guildford (Image: UGC)
“It’s about bringing awareness as much as possible.”
Danny O’Brien, who created the not-for-profit organisation Anti-Knife UK in 2008 in the wake of high-profile attacks across the country involving young people, said it was an “all round successful day”.
“The Angels gave us perfect weather and we had a mixture of bereaved families and campaigners from across the country,” he added.
“Everyone who wanted to speak was given mic time and I feel that this protest helped a number of families who needed to be heard.
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“There were about 500 at the protest, including Keith Vazz MP and ex-police officer Peter Kirkham.
“I am pleased with the feedback from the protest and a massive thank to all who turned up.
“The petition handed in at the gate by Emma Caley and Amy Morgan will be discussed in Parliament so fingers and toes crossed.”
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Detroit Red Wings need a win. Here's what they need to do better
Red Wings need to be more aggressive in shooting if they're to ever win a game.
Detroit Red Wings need a win. Here's what they need to do better Red Wings need to be more aggressive in shooting if they're to ever win a game. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2018/10/19/detroit-red-wings-scoring/1685441002/
Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press Published 6:36 a.m. ET Oct. 19, 2018 | Updated 12:38 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2018
The Red Wings winless streak grew to 0-5-2, but there were positives in their latest loss. Filmed Oct. 18, 2018 in Tampa, Fla. Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press
Detroit Red Wings' Luke Glendening shoots between the defense of Tampa Bay Lightning's Tyler Johnson, left, and Victor Hedman and over goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy to score during the second period of their game Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Tampa, Fla.(Photo: Mike Carlson/Associated Press)
TAMPA, Fla. — The Detroit Red Wings demonstrated they can play well defensively, can play with poise, can do a lot of good things.
What they cannot seem to do is score enough, even when the chances are there.
Their winless streak has grown to 0-5-2, and if it is to snap, they can’t keep passing up shots.
“It was much more the way we need to play, the way we were playing earlier in the season,” coach Jeff Blashill said after the Wings lost, 3-1, to the Lightning Thursday at Amalie Arena. “I still think we are passing up chances to shoot the puck when we have scoring chances. We have to get that figured out.
“You wish some guys had a more natural mentality to shoot, but it’s just something we’re going to have to keep showing. Sometimes when you show things it’s in their face a little bit, where they understand it a little more clearly. And then in practice, if we’re doing 2-on-1s, let’s count how many times we’re shooting it, count how many times we’re scoring.”
The performance in Tampa Bay boosted the Wings’ confidence after two straight routs, as they looked competitive against one of the best teams in the NHL.
“It’s definitely more encouraging,” Jimmy Howard said after making 28 saves. “We battled for 60 minutes. We didn’t get the outcome that we wanted, but it’s a lot better effort than the last couple games. Second periods haven’t been our strong suit at all this year, but we did a great job in the second period, we drew a bunch of penalties.”
Howard and Luke Glendening, who had the goal, and Justin Abdelkader all rallied around the need to stick with it.
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“It’s a good character test, good adversity to go through,” Abdelkader said. “Just have to stay together and continue to do things right.”
Abdelkader was part of a shorthanded rush with Christoffer Ehn during a Lightning power play in the first period, showing signs of playing better after a lousy start to the season. Anthony Mantha looked more engaged, as did Thomas Vanek. Frans Nielsen was denied with a masterful save by Andrei Vasilevskiy in the third period.
“We’re still trying to find a way to get our first win, but I think we take a lot of positives out of this game,” Abdelkader said. “We just have to continue to do things right, play the right way. We just have to find ways to bear down a little bit more. It’s frustrating.”
Mantha had a team-high four shots on net.
“I thought it was a step in the right direction for him, I thought it was a step in the right direction for Vanek, and I thought Nielsen played this best game,” Blashill said. “Certain guys trended the right way and we need to repeat that on Saturday.”
Contact Helene St. James: hstjames@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames.
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Working with operators in VBScript
Discussion in 'JavaScript and AJAX' started by Sanskruti, Apr 18, 2007.
An operator is a symbol applied to data values that causes the computer to carry out a specific operation on that data . In VBScript, operators are used to perform an operation. For example, an operator could be used to assign a value to a variable. An operator could also be used to compare two values. Below is a listing of VBScript operators and a brief description of them.
The first major class of operators is arithmetic operators. Arithmetic operators enable you to perform simple arithmetic on one or more variables. Most of these operators will be familiar to you because you have been exposed to them in everyday life. Arithmetic operators are a class of operators specifically intended to perform arithmetic on the corresponding data.
Addition (+)
The first arithmetic operator is the addition operator. The addition operator is used to add values, whether they are stored in variables, constants, or literal numbers. You also use the + operator to concatenate strings. You can add variables, numbers, and constants in a variety of combinations with the addition operator. For example, you can use the addition operator to add two numbers together and assign them to a variable:
Product = 2 + 3
You can also add a number to a variable and assign it to another variable:
Result = Quantity + 15
Subtraction (-)
The subtraction operator should also be very familiar to you. This operator works the same way the addition operator does except that it subtracts one or more numbers rather than add them. Otherwise, the syntax is the same. You can subtract two numbers and assign the result to a variable:
Result = 100 - 37
You can also use variables:
Result = 100 - Count
Multiplication (*)
Addition and subtraction are important, but you also need to be able to multiply values together. In most computer languages, the * symbol is used to indicate multiplication, not the x symbol. You might be able to use x on paper, but to the computer, x is a variable, not a multiplication symbol. If you enter the command
Result = 3 x 2
the interpreter will give you a syntax error. Rather, you should enter the command
Result = 3 * 2
to be correct.
Division (/ and \)
The division operator is the last of the four commonly used arithmetic operators. Among the common arithmetic operators, division is the most complicated arithmetic operation a computer performs. VBScript has two types of division operators. The first operator handles numbers with decimal points. Usually referred to as the floating-point division operator, it's represented by the / symbol If you are relatively new to programming, you might be wondering at this point if you can use a more familiar symbol for the same purpose. The answer is no; you cannot use the familiar Þ symbol in computer speak-you must instead use the / symbol for floating-point division. The floating-point division operator is designed to divide values with decimal points, but it can also divide numbers without decimals. The syntax for division is the same as any of the other operators presented so far:
c = a / b
This code divides the variable b into a and puts the result into the variable c. Similarly, you could use numbers and perform a division such as
c = a / 2
which, in this case, divides the variable a in half. If the variable a were set to some valid numeric value, say 3, the result stored in c would be 1.5.
The integer division operator essentially tells VBScript to return a non-decimal result. \ is used for Integer Division. Integer division is performed the same way floating-point division is, but the operator is different. The following code shows the syntax:
Result = a \ b
Exponents (^)
The exponent operator calculates a result based on the following formula:
result = number ^ exponent
Result = 2 ^ 3
evaluates to 8 because 2 * 2 * 2 = 8. The exponent function, which is available on most scientific and business calculators, is often used in formulas relating to science, engineering, and accounting.
Modulo Arithmetic (Mod)
The Mod function is another powerful arithmetic operator. Essentially, the Mod function returns the remainder after dividing one number into another. The syntax for the function is
Result = a Mod b
Negation (-)
The last of the arithmetic operators is the negation operator. Simply put, this operator changes the sign of a value contained in a variable or creates a negative number. For instance, the expression
Result = -2 * 3
results in assigning the value -6 to the variable Result.
Arithmetic Operator Precedence
Now that you have seen all the arithmetic operators that VBScript has to offer, you might be wondering how all the operators behave when put together in a single line of code. For instance, is the following line of code
2 * 3 + 6 / 2
equal to 9 or 6? When you combine arithmetic operators in an expression, you need to know the order of precedence of the operators. That is, what operations will the computer execute first as it moves from left to right across the expression?
+-------+-------------------------------------------+
| Order | Operation |
| 1 | Exponents (^) |
| 2 | Negation (-) |
| 3 | Multiplication (*) and division (/ and \) |
| 4 | Modulo arithmetic (Mod) |
| 5 | Addition (+) and subtraction (-) |
| 6 | String concatenation (&) |
Notice that multiplication and division are on the same level of precedence. In this case, multiplication and division are executed in left-to-right order when it's their turn in the order of precedence. The expression
has three arithmetic operators: multiplication, addition, and division. As you can see in this table, multiplication is the first operation performed in the expression as you move from left to right. Both multiplication and division have the same order of precedence, so they are handled on a first-come, first-served basis. Because the multiplication is first, it gets executed first. As a result, the first operation in the expression is 2 * 3, which equals 6. This reduces the expression to
6 + 6 / 2
That leaves an addition operator and a division operator in the expression. .The expression 6 / 2 equals 3, so the expression now becomes
Because only one operator remains, the choice is obvious-the result equals 9. VBScript follows this process of ordering an expression of multiple operators every time. When you are writing code, you must keep this order in mind.
One good way to maintain the order of expressions when writing and maintaining code is to designate sub expressions in parentheses. You can use parentheses freely in expressions, and they ensure that the sub expression will be fully evaluated first before it is evaluated as part of the larger expression. For example, you could write
c = 2 * 3 + 6 / 2
and c would evaluate to 9, as figured previously. You could also code the same expression as
c = (2 * 3) + 6 / 2
c = 2 * 3 + (6 / 2)
or even
c = (2 * 3) + (6 / 2)
and the results would still be the same: 9. However, with these statements, particularly the last one, the expression is much easier for a programmer to read and understand.
When using the parentheses approach, you must be aware of how subexpressions are evaluated. If you coded the statement as
c = (2 * 3 + 6) / 2
you get a result of 12 / 2 = 6 stored in c. The subexpression always gets evaluated first, which in turn affects the results of the overall expression. Because the human mind can digest information more easily by breaking it down into smaller pieces, subexpressions will make your code easier to follow and probably less error prone as well.
The first set of operators VBScript provides are arithmetic operators. This section discusses the second type: comparison operators. As the name implies, you use comparison operators to compare one or more variables, numbers, constants, or a combination of the three. VBScript has many different types of comparison operators, and each checks for a different comparison condition.
Equality (=)
You use the equality operator to see if a variable, constant, or number is equal to another. It's common to mistake the equality operator for the assignment operator, which is also represented by an equal sign. You use the assignment operator to set a variable equal to another variable, number, string, constant, or other data entity. For example, the statement
a = b
assigns the value contained in b to the variable a.
The equality operator, on the other hand, is used to test whether one value is equal to another. The syntax for the equality operator looks similar to that for the assignment operator:
where a and b can be variables, constants, or numbers. It is the context in which you use the expression that determines whether it is treated as an assignment or an equality check. Equality is always used in the context of checking a condition. For example, a statement
if a = b then
is an example of the equality operator because it is a conditional check. As a rule of thumb, you can assume that if a = b appears in a statement by itself, it is an assignment statement. If you see a = b as part of any other expression, it is used in the equality context.
Inequality (<>)
Another important comparison operator is the inequality operator. You use this operator to test whether a variable is not equal to another variable or some data element. The syntax for the inequality operator is
a <> b
where a and b are variables, constants, strings, or numbers.
Less Than and Greater Than (< and >)
You might have a condition where you don't care whether a variable is equal to another, but you do want to know whether it is greater than or less than another variable, number, or constant. In such a case, you need the greater-than and less-than operators. The syntax for these two operators is
a > b
a < b
where a and b are variables, constants, numbers, or strings, and the result is True if the expression is true.
Less Than or Equal To and Greater Than or Equal To (<= and >=)
Sometimes, you also might want to see whether a variable is greater than or equal to some other variable, constant, or number. Perhaps you want to know if it is less than or equal to the entity. Then, you can combine operators to use the less-than-or-equal and greater-than-or-equal operators, <= and >=. The syntax for these operators is
a <= b
a >= b
Object Equivalence (Is)
The syntax of the Is operator is
result = object_reference1 Is object_reference2
where object_reference1 and object_reference2 are references to objects and result is either True or False, depending on whether the statement is true.
This operator does not compare one object to another, nor does it compare values. This special operator simply checks to see if the two object references in the expression refer to the same object.
Comparison Operator Precedence
Unlike arithmetic operators, comparison operators do not have a specific order of precedence. They are simply executed as they are found from left to right across an expression. When VBScript encounters an expression such as
If 3 > 5 < 10 Then
VBScript will evaluate the conditions in the order they appear from left to right. In this case, the part of the expression that comes first, 3 > 5, is evaluated first as False. False in VBScript is equivalent to 0, so the expression becomes
If 0 < 10 Then
Because 10 is greater than 0, the expression is True.
The last category of operators in VBScript is logical operators. The logical operators might require a more significant amount of understanding to appreciate. Logical operators use the binary number system to represent information. The part of the binary number system used in this lesson is very simple: Expressions evaluate to True or False, respectively. A logical expression, such as
5 > 3
is a true statement and would return True if evaluated. If you inspect the value of True, you would see that it contains the true indicator of -1. It turns out that -1 is a convenient way to represent True internally in the binary system upon which your computer and VBScript are based.
Negation (Not)
The first operator is called the negation operator. This operator has the following syntax:
result = Not expression
Following is the result variable in relation to expression.
Negation (Not) results.
If expression is… Then result is…
+-----------+-----------+
|Expression | Result |
| True | False |
| False | True |
| Null | Null |
If you enter the expression
a = Not 1 > 2
where the expression is 1 > 2, the result is stored in the variable a. The value stored in variable a will be True. The expression 1 > 2 is false because 1 is not greater than 2. Not simply flips a false over to true or a true over to false. Because the expression is false, the Not operator makes the result true. As a result, the VBScript value for true, True or -1, will be stored in variable a. If the expression is null, the Not operator will return a null when applied to the expression.
Conjunction (And)
The conjunction operator compares two or more variables in some type of test. The syntax for the conjunction operator is
result = expression1 And expression2
Following is the result variable in relation to expression1 and expression2.
If expression1 is… and expression2 is… then result is…
+-------------+-------------+--------+
| Expression1 | Expression2 | Result |
| True | True | True |
| True | False | False |
| False | True | False |
| False | False | False |
In order to obtain True in the result variable, both expression1 and expression2 must be true. You often use this operator to make sure two or more conditions are true before performing some action.
Disjunction (Or)
Another frequently used logical operator is the disjunction operator. This operator has the same syntax as the conjunction operator:
result = expression1 Or expression2
Disjunction (Or) results.
| True | False | True |
| False | True | True |
This operator behaves quite a bit differently from the conjunction operator! In this case, any of the expressions can be true for the result to be true. The result is false only if all the expressions are false. You typically use this operator when you have to make a decision where any of a number of activities could occur, but only one must occur for the operation to proceed.
Exclusion (Xor)
The exclusion operator is another in the family of logical operators that you can use to make decisions based on the contents of one or more expressions. It checks whether one and only one condition is exclusively true. The syntax of the exclusion operator is
result = expression1 Xor expression2
Exclusion (Xor) results.
| True | True | False |
| False | True | True |
Logical Equivalence (Eqv) and Implication (Imp)
The remaining two logical operators are Eqv and Imp. The equivalence operator checks whether two expressions are bitwise equivalent to each other. The syntax is
result = expression1 Eqv expression2
The Imp operator performs a logical implication on two expressions. The syntax for that operation is
result = expression1 Imp expression2
If you're a very experienced programmer, you know what Imp and Eqv do, and you're probably glad to see them in the VBScript . However, if you're a beginner, you might be thinking at this moment, "What on earth is bitwise equivalence and logical implication?"
Like all the logical operators covered here, the Imp and Eqv comparisons are performed on a bit-by-bit basis and the results are set on a bit-by-bit basis. For the other operators, the functionality it provides and the expected results are intuitively obvious. For Imp and Eqv, the results are less intuitive. Of course, any expression is ultimately represented in bits on a computer, and to understand these operators, you must think in terms of these bits.
| False | False | True |
Implication (Imp) results.
Most types of programs use these operations infrequently, so they are typically known to advanced programmers.
Logical Operator Precedence
Like arithmetic operators, logical operators have an order of precedence.
+-------+-------------------+
| Order | Operation |
| 1 | Negation (Not) |
| 2 | Conjunction (And) |
| 3 | Disjunction (Or) |
| 4 | Exclusion (Xor) |
| 5 | Equivalence (Eqv) |
| 6 | Implication (Imp) |
Any type of operator is evaluated from left to right in an expression. For an example of logical operator precedence, consider the following code statement:
If a Xor b And c Or d Then
For this example, suppose a is true, b is false, c is false, and d is false. Moving from left to right, you have the operators Xor, And, and Or. Because And gets first precedence, the expression b And c is evaluated first. The result of False And False is False. As a result, the expression becomes
If a Xor False or d Then
Now, moving from left to right, the two operators are Xor and Or. Or is next in the line of precedence, so the next expression up for evaluation is False Or d. Because d is false, False Or False equals False. The expression becomes
If a Xor False Then
Now, Xor is the only operator left. Because a is true, True Xor False is True. As a result, the expression reduces to
If True Then
which means the code that follows the if-then statement will be executed. It is very important to understand the order of precedence when you have more than one expression connected together in a single statement.
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CDHT Launches Talent Hunt Tour in the US
Six companies based in the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (CDHT) launched a talent hunt tour in Boston and New York on September 15 and 16 respectively.
Following their brain gain program in London and Dublin in July, the talent hunters had in-depth communications with well-known companies and organizations in the United States.
The program, hosted by the CDHT's management committee, has been executed for 3 straight years. And in the tours in the past two years, the zone introduced over 160 high-end professionals from the Silicon Valley, Seoul, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Toronto.
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1999 Ch Lafleur Pomerol
Château Lafleur
Pomerol, Red Bordeaux
Cabernet Franc, Merlot
Robert Parker, April 2000, Score: 93
This wine is a brilliant success, it is one of the stars of the vintage. Lafleur's 1999 is atypically powerful and concentrated, with an inky, saturated purple color followed by a sensational nose of black cherry jam intermixed with liquid minerals, raspberries, and licorice. It is super concentrated, extraordinarily pure, with moderately high tannin. This dense, powerful, impressively endowed wine should turn out to be a classic for Lafleur. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2025.
Robert Parker, April 2001, Score: 91-94
The 1999 appears to be a sure bet. Readers may recall that Lafleur was one of the few Bordeaux vineyards to harvest before the heavy rains. The result is a dense purple-colored wine with terrific cherry cough syrup, licorice, truffle, and mineral aromas. Although tannic, it is full-bodied, dense, opulent, super-concentrated, and extremely long and well-balanced. It may turn out to be the finest Pomerol of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2025.
Just when I thought Lafleur might be abandoning its high octane, backstrapping, full throttle style of winemaking, the 1999 was conceived. This precocious terroir, which had very low yields, was partially harvested on September 11, one of the earliest right bank properties to harvest (forgetting the hail-damaged St.-Emilion vineyards that were forced to pick after September 5). A blockbuster effort, the 1999 may be the most powerful wine produced at this estate in more than a decade. Atypical for the vintage, it boasts a dense purple color as well as an explosive nose of spring flowers, minerals, black raspberries, cassis, and kirsch. Enormous in the mouth, ferociously tannic, full-bodied, and powerful, it is hard to believe that such a prodigious wine could have been produced in this vintage. Black fruits (particularly raspberries) continue in the wine's flavors. The finish is whoppingly long, but oh, so tannic. This is not for those seeking immediate gratification, as it will require significant cellaring (an aberration for a 1999 Bordeaux). Anticipated maturity: 2010-2035.
Jancis Robinson, November 2003, Score: 18.5
A bit of evolution at the rim, but essentially still pure purple. Very gorgeous now. Great power and depth and savour. Dry finish. Seems drier than the 2001. Jacques Guinaudeau told me he prefers his 1999 to the 1998.
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The small sub-region of Pomerol is situated north-east of the industrious city of Libourne. Pomerol's soils are predominately iron-rich clay with a smattering of gravel that produce wines with extraordinary power and depth. As a result of this clay-dominance, it has the highest percentage of Merlot planted in all of Bordeaux. Certain châteaux are produced exclusively from this grape, but most incorporate smaller quantities of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc as well. Despite its hefty (if not exclusive) proportion of Merlot, many people think of wines from this region as separate entities. As one wine aficionado stated recently, "It's not Merlot. It's Pomerol." Despite the region's small size, Pomerol contains some of the world's most sought after (and expensive) wines including Pétrus, Le Pin, Lafleur, l'Evangile and Vieux Château Certan. Unlike other Bordelais subregions, there is no system of classification. The châteaux are traded on reputation alone.
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Poll: Ehud Barak Makes It Into Knesset, Likud and Kahol Lavan on Par
Right-wing parties Hayamin Hehadash and Zehut that failed to pass the electoral threshold in the last election are projected five seats each in the September vote, according to public broadcaster's survey
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Likud and Kahol Lavan would get 30 Knesset seats each in Israel's September election, while Ehud Barak's Democratic Israel would have five, an opinion poll published on Tuesday shows.
According to the survey by public broadcaster Kan, the right-wing bloc would have 54 seats, without Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu, who refused to enter Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition after the April vote.
Likud, currently with 39 out of 120 Knesset seats after its merger with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu, would lose 9 seats according to the poll, while Kahol Lavan, that received 35 seats in the April vote, would lose five of them in the September ballot.
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Yisrael Beiteinu, which now has five seats, would garner nine seats, while the Union of Right-Wing Parties, which gained four seats in the April election, is predicted to only four.
The Joint List, a coalition of Arab-majority parties, is projected nine seats, a drop from the ten the parties that comprise it won in the April vote.
According to the poll, Labor would receive seven seats, one seat more than it garnered in April. Meretz would get six seats, two up from its current standing.
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Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism is expected to get eight seats, as it did in the last election. Shas is projected seven seats, a one-seat drop from the April election.
Right-wing parties Hayamin Hehadash and Zehut, which both failed to pass the 3.25-percent electoral threshold in the last election, are projected five seats each.
The survey was conducted by the Kantor Institute on July 4-7, 2019, among 586 respondents in a nation-wide, representative sample of the population age 18 and over. Margin of error: 4.3 percent.
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Time for Mueller to Speak
James Campion
This was Mueller’s baby. He signed his name to it. And it has predictably been politicized by Congress and constantly battered by Tweety McTweeter in the White House.
Things move so fast during this car-wreck presidency I am forced in mid-stream to abandon one column on Donald Trump’s spastic scramble to keep Congress and thus the American people away from his tax returns (Yikes, what horrors lurk within?) and shift gears to the breaking news on Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s recent eyebrow raising D.C. bombshell of a letter to Attorney General William Barr that was not only completely unexpected by out of character for the normally tight-lipped Mueller and unprecedented in the long history of special counsels and the justice department. Within hours of a report in the Washington Post about this unusually aggressive correspondence, Congress made it public, and man it is a doozy.
Mueller basically calls the Attorney General of the United States a liar, and worse yet, subsequently an accessory to Trump’s obstruction of justice the special counsel framed in his 448-page report, or at the very least making clear that Barr’s March 24 fluff-note disguised as a summary of the Mueller Report led to "public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation." At which point Mueller goes on to write, "This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
The letter is not long, but it is direct, (no one that makes his living in the law uses the term “threatens” lightly) and turns out to be a kill-hell bitch slap of a rebuke on the nation’s top law officer. In Barr’s grubby paws, according to the report’s author, there is no assurance of “full public confidence.”
And this point became far clearer during a heated exchange at Barr’s Senate hearing this week, as California Senator Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, got the beleaguered and stammering AG to admit that although he determined publicly more than once that the DOJ found no evidence of Trump’s obstruction of justice in the report, he never reviewed any of it before making this decision. Because, you know, he is only the nation’s attorney general and was the first one to have access to the most important official government document created in the last decade. I mean, why study it when you can merely make shit up.
Mueller concludes his stern warning on misinterpreting his two years of work by respecting the right of Barr’s office to review the material in the aforementioned report, but “that process need not delay release of enclosed materials.” In other words, “Hey, buddy, don’t use this whole ‘review process’ as an excuse to stonewall what is rightfully the American’s people’s document bought and paid for by them and researched and formulated for them.” And then with swift and severe precision Mueller slides effortlessly into his final paragraph with “Release at this time would alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen and would answer congressional and public questions about the nature and outcome of our investigation.”
This is the equivalent in writer’s parlance of a right-cross. Think of Mike Tyson in 1986 as a sentence. Barr would be the first-round casualty.
We know now that after digesting this little missive, Barr quite ceremoniously told Mueller to go fuck himself and took his sweet time before disseminating a rose-colored pro-Trump summary (that he later claimed was not a summary) of Mueller’s investigative opus and then before actually releasing the report held a surreal presser in which he tried to soften the obvious accusations that it levies on the president of the United States.
This tiptoe through bullshit is what landed Barr in front of Congress again – a request he playfully dodged before complying, keeping himself from contempt charges that tend to lead to disbarment and other things – and it has wrecked whatever possible credibility the AG could have had after he shamelessly campaigned for the gig by kissing Trump’s ample hindquarters.
This is about Robert Mueller today. It is his reputation that will be on the line next. What the special counsel does not get to do is throw stones at Barr’s rather flimsy glass house and then continue to play intellectual recluse floating above the fray with a smirk while occasionally being seen wandering in and out of D.C. churches every Sunday and leaking accusatory letters to the press. This was Mueller’s baby. He signed his name to it. And it has predictably been politicized by Congress and Trump apologists and constantly battered by Tweety McTweeter in the White House. There was less speculation in interpreting the Bible or late-Sixties Beatles songs than the Mueller Report. Its author needs to speak, and soon.
Now, there will be some who might claim that everything Mueller needed to do as a patriot and a respected investigator is encapsulated in this extensive report. Enough is enough. Leave the man alone. He did his job and did it well under scrutiny and leaks and hammering from all ends. But I disagree. As a writer, I believe it is incumbent on the author to stand up for the work and if there is any ambiguity in the interpretation of it then it must be put to rest. And this is not some novelist who can say, “I wrote it, you figure it out. It speaks to everyone differently. How you see it is where you come from emotionally and…blah blah blah.” This is law and it contains evidence and facts and it is being tossed around like a worn political football.
Mueller needs to fix this. And there is an easy way to put it all to rest; come out and speak. And not in an interview format on 60 Minutes or Oprah or CNN. He needs to conduct a press conference; a full, binding and unfiltered statement to the American people on where he stands, as his name is on the front cover of this massive undertaking that people are pulling apart. Book time on all the networks. Talk to us. Directly. Without media noise, a redacted tome, or certainly whatever lunacy comes from our game show president. It is that important.
And I don’t even mean sitting before Congress in some endless charade, which I assumed was coming no matter what was in the thing, never mind all the “The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law” – the key sentence in all this. But if Congress is considering additional investigations, and we know there are already 14 independent ones ongoing mentioned in the redacted version of the report, then Mueller cannot be coy. The future of this presidency, future ones, and the structure of this republic is on the line here.
The Mueller Report was #1 on Amazon’s best-seller list for days after its release. It is a bonafide smash. People are obviously very interested in what its author has to say about it and for all this guessing and litigating to cease. Everyone has a side and an idea about what level of crap the president is in. There is only one man for whom any of that matters, Robert Swan Mueller III.
And he needs to speak.
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</p> <p><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2017/picture_the_homeless_vacant_lots.jpg" alt="picture the homeless vacant lots" width="600px" /></p> <p>protesting unused vacant property (via @pthny)</p> <hr /> <p>In New York City, the demand for affordable housing<a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/housing/about/problem.page" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> far exceeds supply</a>.<a href="http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hra/downloads/pdf/news/publications/Turning_the_Tide_on_Homelessness.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Seventy percent</a> of the city’s homeless shelter residents are families. Families who should be in homes.</p> <p>Now, as the United States House of Representatives and Senate look to the conference committee to reconcile their respective<a href="https://www.novoco.com/comparison-house-and-senate-finance-committee-approved-tax-reform-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> tax reform bills</a>, the housing crisis that began in the 1980s will become a catastrophe unless we, the people, intervene.</p> <p>On paper, both the House and Senate plans retain the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) — which funds<a href="https://www.reis.com/cre-news-and-resources/bisnow-lihtc-program-now-funds-about-90-percent-of-us-affordable-housing-projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 90 percent</a> of the nation’s affordable housing developments. However, the House tax bill<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/tax-reform-bill-would-eliminate-future-supply-nearly-1-million-affordable-rental-housing-units" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> eliminates tax-exempt private activity bonds</a> (PABs) that fund half of all LIHTC projects.</p> <p>Although the<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/senate-tax-reform-bill-would-reduce-affordable-rental-housing-production-nearly-300000-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Senate bill</a> retains PABs, both bills cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent, dramatically<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/tax-reform-bill-would-eliminate-future-supply-nearly-1-million-affordable-rental-housing-units" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reducing the value of tax credits</a> that fund the remainder of LIHTC projects.</p> <p>Also included in the Senate bill is an amendment that imposes what amounts to an<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/senate-approves-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-some-changes-committee-passed-version" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> international alternative minimum tax</a> on any corporation with significant foreign operations. As a result, some large corporate investors might be deterred from claiming the LIHTC.</p> <p>No matter how the reconciliation pans out, it is clear that, if passed, federal tax reform will devastate<a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/housing/about/problem.page" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> more than a million low-income New Yorkers</a> searching for homes. And this isn’t the first federal policy to squeeze out affordable housing.</p> <p>Under President Reagan, government spending on subsidized housing was slashed from<a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $26 billion to $8 billion</a>, contributing to a<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/reagans-real-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> dramatic spike in homelessness</a>. As a private sector solution, Reagan signed the LIHTC into law in 1986 to counterbalance the cuts to direct federal spending.</p> <p>LIHTC’s market-based answer to affordable housing was<a href="https://ncsha.org/advocacy-issues/housing-credit" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> successful enough</a> that subsequent administrations maintained the program while<a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> continuing to whittle away at Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds</a>. LIHTC became the best — or rather, only — hope for Americans in need. But in cities like New York, LIHTC wasn’t enough to mitigate the surge and suffering of homelessness.</p> <p>Although<a href="http://www.nychdc.com/content/pdf/ProjectAdvertisements/NY%20LIHTC%20and%20Homelessness%20Report%20final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> LIHTC helped develop or preserve approximately 122,000 affordable properties</a> in New York City from 1994 to 2014, the city still endured a<a href="http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hra/downloads/pdf/news/publications/Turning_the_Tide_on_Homelessness.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> net loss of 150,000</a> rent stabilized apartments, leaving tens of thousands of New Yorkers with nowhere to go but the street or a shelter. </p> <p>Mayor Bill de Blasio responded to this crisis with a<a href="https://www.amny.com/news/politics/affordable-housing-plan-1.14990989" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pledge to add 100,000 affordable units</a> by 2020. But experts at Novogradac & Company estimate that, if the House tax bill passes, that number could<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/tax-reform-bill-would-eliminate-future-supply-nearly-1-million-affordable-rental-housing-units" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> fall by two thirds</a>.</p> <p>Even if PABs are retained in the reconciled bill, the corporate tax rate reduction alone will result in the loss of around<a href="https://www.novoco.com/notes-from-novogradac/senate-tax-reform-bill-would-reduce-affordable-rental-housing-production-nearly-300000-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 300,000 affordable units</a> nationally.</p> <p>By squeezing the funding pipeline for affordable housing tighter than ever before, both bills crush the supply of affordable housing and the low-income families that rely on it.</p> <p>This cannot happen — not on our watch, not in our city, and not in our country. This isn’t a partisan issue, it’s a moral one. We have a duty, to our city and our neighbors, to speak out against any provision that would threaten the supply of affordable housing at this most critical time in our country’s history.</p> <p>Although the House and Senate have approved their respective bills, the final version has yet to be agreed upon. Now is the time to urge our representatives to reject any final bill that removes the tax-exempt status of PABs and cuts the corporate tax rate.</p> <p>***<br /> George McDonald is founder and president of The Doe Fund. On Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/georgetmcdonald?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@GeorgeTMcDonald</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/thedoefund?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@TheDoeFund</a>.</p> <p>
</p> The New York City Campaign Finance Board and Its Scofflaws 2016-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 2016-10-06T04:00:00+00:00 https://www.gothamgazette.com/city/6561-the-new-york-city-campaign-finance-board-and-its-scofflaws Ben Max <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/cfb-website-grab.jpg" alt="cfb website grab" width="600" height="317" /> </p> <p>the NYC CFB <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/" target="_blank">website</a></p> <hr /> <p>On September 15, the city's Campaign Finance Board announced the latest round of fines coming out of the city election cycle that wrapped up nearly three years ago. The board <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/media/press-releases/2016-09-15-000000/cfb-votes-enforcement-matters-six-campaigns-holds-hearing" target="_blank">penalized</a> candidates from six unsuccessful campaigns -- for City Council, Public Advocate and the Mayor’s Office.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board found that Joel Bauza, a candidate for City Council in District 15, owed $350 for failing to file disclosure statements, late filing of disclosures, and for failing to document an in-kind contribution. Sean Henry, who ran for the District 42 City Council seat, was slapped with a $850 fine and also told to repay $23,993 in public matching funds received from the CFB. The board fined Catherine Guerriero, who ran for Public Advocate, $5,539 for seven violations, with the largest penalties for accepting contributions over the legal limit. And former mayoral candidate George McDonald was ordered to pay a whopping $34,350 for accepting over-the-limit contributions.</p> <p dir="ltr">If the past is a guide, most of these former candidates will cut the Campaign Finance Board a check and close the book on the campaign. A handful, however, may carry an IOU for years.</p> <p dir="ltr">According to CFB records, as of August 23, some 77 people owe a combined $2.16 million in fines or required repayment of public financing. Repayment of public funds accounted for $1.59 million of that amount. Given the hundreds of candidates who have participated in the city's pioneering and complex campaign finance system — which requires broad disclosure, offers generous public matching funds and restricts fundraising and campaign spending — and the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been raised and spent since that apparatus was launched in 1989, the overdue list is fairly small.</p> <p dir="ltr">The list includes long-shot candidates who haven't been heard from since their bid for public office ended. But Assembly Member David Weprin, State Senator Jesse Hamilton, City Council Member Andrew King, and Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Diana Reyna are on the roster as well.</p> <p dir="ltr">McDonald looks set to join that list. Head of the prominent nonprofit The Doe Fund, he claims his violations were the result of following state campaign finance law, which has more permissible limits for campaign contributions. He screamed at the CFB during its public hearing on his campaign fundraising, claiming he’d never pay the amount assessed.</p> <p dir="ltr">That list of 77 CFB debtors includes candidates who owe fines from as far back as the 2001 election cycle, suggesting that the board's enforcement tools could be sharper. At the same time, the presence of prominent names on the roster suggests that, for better or worse, CFB fines and repayments incurred through races gone by may shape future elections.</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">Crafted in response to municipal corruption scandals during the Koch administration and drastic disparities in candidate spending election cycle after cycle, the city's campaign finance law limits the sizes of campaign donations and requires detailed disclosure of where candidates' money comes from and where it goes. It also offers candidates a chance at public financing: If a campaign collects a threshold amount of money from a minimum number of donors, and agrees to a cap on total campaign spending, the board will match with taxpayer money some portion of the contributions the campaign collects from New York City residents.</p> <p dir="ltr">Along with the introduction of term limits in 2001, the public campaign finance system is credited with permitting dozens of political newcomers to mount credible campaigns for elected office in New York City. In the 2013 cycle, the board sent a combined $38.2 million in public funds to 149 campaigns; private donations to city campaigns in that cycle totaled $95 million.</p> <p dir="ltr">The campaign-finance system's twin missions of preventing corruption and using public financing to foster a more equal playing field lend themselves to strict rules about which entities can donate, how much can be accepted by campaigns, how campaign money can be spent, and the manner in which all of it is recorded and submitted to the board. To ensure compliance with those rules, the board regularly monitors campaign accounts, particularly for candidates who choose to participate in the public matching funds program. In September, a candidate from a 2015 City Council special election in Queens was <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/queens-woman-arrested-for-forging-campaign-donations/?utm_source=NYC+Campaign+Finance+Board+List&utm_campaign=fea6e825ba-CY2016_Press_Statement_Indictment_20160907&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35d7325629-fea6e825ba-290603253" target="_blank">indicted</a> for reporting fake donations in order to receive public matching funds. She was charged following a routine compliance visit by CFB personnel.</p> <p dir="ltr">"This is an example of how the CFB's rigorous audits help protect the public matching funds that ensure New Yorkers get elections focused on their interests, and not those of deep-pocketed special interests,” said Amy Loprest, CFB executive director, in a public statement after the indictment. “City taxpayers should be aware that the CFB discovered the alleged fraud and that no public funds were ever paid to this candidate.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The board also conducts extensive audits of every campaign once the election is over — a process that can take CFB staff years to complete. After an audit is complete, the board holds a public hearing where candidates may appear with legal representation to explain the circumstances of any possible violations or to dispute a finding by CFB attorneys. After hearing the case, the board votes on how to address the missteps identified during the review.</p> <p dir="ltr">The most common violations it finds are accepting corporate contributions, accepting over-the-limit contributions, making improper post-election expenditures, or filing disclosure statements late.</p> <p dir="ltr">For violations of the rules, the CFB can impose fines ranging from $100 to several thousand dollars per violation. Candidates and treasurers can also be held personally liable for those penalties. In the 2009 campaign, for instance, 89 of 232 campaigns were told to pay penalties. The median penalty amount for that cycle was $3,786.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board can also order a campaign to return public financing that the board deems the campaign did not qualify to use. Of the 140 campaigns that received public funds in 2013, 87 were ordered to repay more than $1.5 million of the $38 million that was dispensed.</p> <p dir="ltr">Campaigns that have money left over can use it to pay fines, but sometimes — particularly when large repayments of public funds are ordered — there is nothing left. The availability of public financing means city campaigns are now attracting true political novices — a healthy thing for democracy, but a complicating factor when it comes to collecting major fines. Some candidates simply don't have the savings or income needed to pay their debts. Others might just decide not to pay, even though they could.</p> <p dir="ltr">In its penalty letter to a candidate, the board typically gives 30 days for fines to be paid. If a candidate fails to pay fines or repay public funds, their name and the unpaid amount are posted to the CFB website. A candidate can choose to negotiate a payment plan with the board, in which case his or her name is not posted.</p> <p dir="ltr">A candidate may also choose to challenge the board’s decision in New York State Supreme Court within four months through what is called an Article 78 proceeding. These appeals, which are usually resolved within a year, largely go in favor of the CFB.</p> <p dir="ltr">Conversely, if violators do not pay fines, the board can sue them in civil court and obtain a judgement. In those cases, the board can put a lien on a candidate’s property and can garnish their wages. Court records indicate that since 1992 the CFB has sought court judgements against more than two dozen candidates, and often succeeded.</p> <p dir="ltr">Under a 2005 court decision, however, the board has less latitude when it comes to getting public funds repaid. While candidates are liable for fines, campaign committees are responsible for repaying public funds -- and committees often disband or run out of money before those funds can be paid back. The City Council later codified the thrust of the 2005 decision into law, tying the CFB’s hands. Pending repayments, not fines, count for a majority of the funds due to the CFB.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board does still have some leverage, however, against candidates who may want to run in a future election: individuals are unable to receive public funds if they have any pending fines or repayments left.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Candidates who owe penalties or public funds to the CFB are ineligible to receive future payments, which provides an effective incentive for candidates to fulfill their obligations,” Loprest said in a statement to Gotham Gazette and City Limits. “Information about candidates’ outstanding obligations is publicly available on our website, so voters can hold candidates accountable for the conduct of their campaigns. Beyond that, the CFB makes every effort to collect the penalties and public funds repayments that candidates owe.”</p> <p dir="ltr">And to make it known that those IOUs areout there. The overdue amounts are public knowledge. “We don’t write things off or forgive liabilities,” said a CFB spokesperson. “That’s part of the accountability of the program.”</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">Sixty-three former candidates currently owe penalties to the board; the largest overdue amount belongs to Felipe Luciano, an East Harlem community activist and journalist who racked up more than $54,000 in violations when he ran for City Council District 8 in 2005. Luciano was also a participant in the public matching funds program and was told to repay nearly $17,000.</p> <p dir="ltr">Also prominent on the list: Miguel Martinez, the one-time Upper Manhattan Council member who went to federal prison over a scandal dealing with stolen city money.</p> <p dir="ltr">When it comes to public funds repayment, Asembly Member Weprin's tab dwarfs all others: $319,700. The next highest is Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Reyna, who owes a repayment of $139,000. Martinez also owes the board substantial public funds repayments. Those three, along with 2001 City Council candidate Garth Marchant, represent the four largest debts to the CFB — comprising 36 percent of what the board is owed.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">MORE: <a href="http://citylimits.org/2016/10/07/who-owes-money-to-the-citys-campaign-finance-board/" target="_blank">Who Owes Money to the City Campaign Finance Board</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Weprin was assessed a substantial penalty for the conduct of his 2009 campaign for city comptroller. An investment banker by trade who chaired the City Council's Finance Committee during his tenure there, Weprin was assessed $28,000 in penalties for violations like accepting money from unregistered PACs or taking over-the-limit contributions. He paid those penalties. “The Assemblyman is committed to a fair election process and the responsible use of CFB funds,” wrote a spokesperson for Weprin, Sumeet Sharma, in response to questions.</p> <p dir="ltr">But the public funds repayment of $319,700 is still due. That stems from Weprin’s campaign opening a so-called segregated account, which is supposed to be used for expenses that public funds can’t be used on, like to make donations to other candidates or to pay debt from a previous election. The CFB concluded that Weprin’s 2009 campaign had deposited into that segregated account donations that were matched with public funds. It ordered the campaign to repay the matching funds associated with those donations. But by then, all the campaign’s money had been spent.</p> <p dir="ltr">Asked about the board’s findings, Weprin spokesperson Sharm told City Limits: “In 2010, after the Committee ceased to exist, the CFB made technical revisions to funds that were originally declared as valid contributions, deeming valid contributions as invalid. These repayments were requested one year after the end of the campaign and after the Committee was disbanded,” addding that “the Assemblyman does not agree with all of the determinations of the CFB as these funds were spent on campaign related expenses.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The amount owed by the 2009 campaign represents an undeniable obstacle to Weprin seeking municipal office again. In 2015, when David Weprin’s brother Mark gave up his City Council seat to take a state post, David Weprin notably did not vy to replace him--perhaps because he would have had to pay off his CFB debt if he wished to tap into public financing for such a campaign.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The CFB determined that these funds would have to be repaid by the Committee if David Weprin was to seek City Office,” Sharma wrote. “And althoughAssemblyman Weprin is committed to the overall mission of the CFB and will address any repayments if he does seek an office for the City of New York in the future.”</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">The fines don’t seem to discourage people from seeking public funds to run campaigns. In the 2013 election, 92 percent of candidates on the primary ballot participated in the program, according to CFB data.</p> <p dir="ltr">But some candidates do complain that the CFB’s disclosure and documentation requirements are severe and that the auditing process is long and drawn out. As is evident from the latest hearing, even though the CFB has about 50 employees, nearly half the agency, working full-time to audit campaigns, the process can take years.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’m a little bothered at the fact that three years later I’m still being called in,” Joel Bauza told Gotham Gazette after making his case to the CFB, “the treasurer is still being called in…to answer questions on stuff that we submitted on time and we gave to them the reasons. I don’t see the difference on what was written and what was said today.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Bauza also chose not to participate in the public matching funds program because of its “tedious” documentation requirements, a decision he said was made at the advice of State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. Bauza did praise the CFB for being informative and helpful during the entire process but insisted that there is room to improve. “I think there’s a lot of little tedious things, a lot of things that they need to look at again,” he said. “What they’re going to be questioning...Items that are noticeable where large amounts of contributions are made. Talk about those things, but little things...You’re going into the little things that don’t really make sense.”</p> <p dir="ltr">To its credit, the CFB carefully examines systemic issues after each election, proposes reforms to be enacted through legislation, and does routine updates to its rules. In September, the board proposed a number of <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/city/6531-campaign-finance-board-considers-rules-changes-including-controversial-coordination-proposal" target="_blank">rules changes</a> that would, in part, make it easier for candidates to run their campaigns. The board invited feedback that was heard at the September 15 meeting and will now consider that before approving the changes.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sean Henry, who ran in 2013 and did avail of the public financing program, shared some of Bauza’s views on the CFB. “I think sometimes the compliance requirements are little bit too onerous,” he told Gotham Gazette. “Campaigns are small. Especially when you start, you don’t have a lot of people. I think some of the documentation is not necessary. I think there are easier ways that things can be done.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He did say, though, that the CFB was “efficient” and “fair” to his campaign and in helping his people navigate the public funds program, and that he wasn’t entirely deterred from participating again. “It’s a good way for candidates to get involved in the process,” he said.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">NUMBERS: <a href="http://citylimits.org/2016/10/07/who-owes-money-to-the-citys-campaign-finance-board/" target="_blank">Who Owes Money to the City Campaign Finance Board</a>, at City Limits</p> <p>***<br />by Samar Khurshid of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits</p> <p>
</p> <p>Note: this story has been corrected to accurately reflect why Miguel Martinez went to jail, it was not related to CFB funds.</p> <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/cfb-website-grab.jpg" alt="cfb website grab" width="600" height="317" /> </p> <p>the NYC CFB <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/" target="_blank">website</a></p> <hr /> <p>On September 15, the city's Campaign Finance Board announced the latest round of fines coming out of the city election cycle that wrapped up nearly three years ago. The board <a href="http://www.nyccfb.info/media/press-releases/2016-09-15-000000/cfb-votes-enforcement-matters-six-campaigns-holds-hearing" target="_blank">penalized</a> candidates from six unsuccessful campaigns -- for City Council, Public Advocate and the Mayor’s Office.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board found that Joel Bauza, a candidate for City Council in District 15, owed $350 for failing to file disclosure statements, late filing of disclosures, and for failing to document an in-kind contribution. Sean Henry, who ran for the District 42 City Council seat, was slapped with a $850 fine and also told to repay $23,993 in public matching funds received from the CFB. The board fined Catherine Guerriero, who ran for Public Advocate, $5,539 for seven violations, with the largest penalties for accepting contributions over the legal limit. And former mayoral candidate George McDonald was ordered to pay a whopping $34,350 for accepting over-the-limit contributions.</p> <p dir="ltr">If the past is a guide, most of these former candidates will cut the Campaign Finance Board a check and close the book on the campaign. A handful, however, may carry an IOU for years.</p> <p dir="ltr">According to CFB records, as of August 23, some 77 people owe a combined $2.16 million in fines or required repayment of public financing. Repayment of public funds accounted for $1.59 million of that amount. Given the hundreds of candidates who have participated in the city's pioneering and complex campaign finance system — which requires broad disclosure, offers generous public matching funds and restricts fundraising and campaign spending — and the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been raised and spent since that apparatus was launched in 1989, the overdue list is fairly small.</p> <p dir="ltr">The list includes long-shot candidates who haven't been heard from since their bid for public office ended. But Assembly Member David Weprin, State Senator Jesse Hamilton, City Council Member Andrew King, and Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Diana Reyna are on the roster as well.</p> <p dir="ltr">McDonald looks set to join that list. Head of the prominent nonprofit The Doe Fund, he claims his violations were the result of following state campaign finance law, which has more permissible limits for campaign contributions. He screamed at the CFB during its public hearing on his campaign fundraising, claiming he’d never pay the amount assessed.</p> <p dir="ltr">That list of 77 CFB debtors includes candidates who owe fines from as far back as the 2001 election cycle, suggesting that the board's enforcement tools could be sharper. At the same time, the presence of prominent names on the roster suggests that, for better or worse, CFB fines and repayments incurred through races gone by may shape future elections.</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">Crafted in response to municipal corruption scandals during the Koch administration and drastic disparities in candidate spending election cycle after cycle, the city's campaign finance law limits the sizes of campaign donations and requires detailed disclosure of where candidates' money comes from and where it goes. It also offers candidates a chance at public financing: If a campaign collects a threshold amount of money from a minimum number of donors, and agrees to a cap on total campaign spending, the board will match with taxpayer money some portion of the contributions the campaign collects from New York City residents.</p> <p dir="ltr">Along with the introduction of term limits in 2001, the public campaign finance system is credited with permitting dozens of political newcomers to mount credible campaigns for elected office in New York City. In the 2013 cycle, the board sent a combined $38.2 million in public funds to 149 campaigns; private donations to city campaigns in that cycle totaled $95 million.</p> <p dir="ltr">The campaign-finance system's twin missions of preventing corruption and using public financing to foster a more equal playing field lend themselves to strict rules about which entities can donate, how much can be accepted by campaigns, how campaign money can be spent, and the manner in which all of it is recorded and submitted to the board. To ensure compliance with those rules, the board regularly monitors campaign accounts, particularly for candidates who choose to participate in the public matching funds program. In September, a candidate from a 2015 City Council special election in Queens was <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/09/06/queens-woman-arrested-for-forging-campaign-donations/?utm_source=NYC+Campaign+Finance+Board+List&utm_campaign=fea6e825ba-CY2016_Press_Statement_Indictment_20160907&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35d7325629-fea6e825ba-290603253" target="_blank">indicted</a> for reporting fake donations in order to receive public matching funds. She was charged following a routine compliance visit by CFB personnel.</p> <p dir="ltr">"This is an example of how the CFB's rigorous audits help protect the public matching funds that ensure New Yorkers get elections focused on their interests, and not those of deep-pocketed special interests,” said Amy Loprest, CFB executive director, in a public statement after the indictment. “City taxpayers should be aware that the CFB discovered the alleged fraud and that no public funds were ever paid to this candidate.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The board also conducts extensive audits of every campaign once the election is over — a process that can take CFB staff years to complete. After an audit is complete, the board holds a public hearing where candidates may appear with legal representation to explain the circumstances of any possible violations or to dispute a finding by CFB attorneys. After hearing the case, the board votes on how to address the missteps identified during the review.</p> <p dir="ltr">The most common violations it finds are accepting corporate contributions, accepting over-the-limit contributions, making improper post-election expenditures, or filing disclosure statements late.</p> <p dir="ltr">For violations of the rules, the CFB can impose fines ranging from $100 to several thousand dollars per violation. Candidates and treasurers can also be held personally liable for those penalties. In the 2009 campaign, for instance, 89 of 232 campaigns were told to pay penalties. The median penalty amount for that cycle was $3,786.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board can also order a campaign to return public financing that the board deems the campaign did not qualify to use. Of the 140 campaigns that received public funds in 2013, 87 were ordered to repay more than $1.5 million of the $38 million that was dispensed.</p> <p dir="ltr">Campaigns that have money left over can use it to pay fines, but sometimes — particularly when large repayments of public funds are ordered — there is nothing left. The availability of public financing means city campaigns are now attracting true political novices — a healthy thing for democracy, but a complicating factor when it comes to collecting major fines. Some candidates simply don't have the savings or income needed to pay their debts. Others might just decide not to pay, even though they could.</p> <p dir="ltr">In its penalty letter to a candidate, the board typically gives 30 days for fines to be paid. If a candidate fails to pay fines or repay public funds, their name and the unpaid amount are posted to the CFB website. A candidate can choose to negotiate a payment plan with the board, in which case his or her name is not posted.</p> <p dir="ltr">A candidate may also choose to challenge the board’s decision in New York State Supreme Court within four months through what is called an Article 78 proceeding. These appeals, which are usually resolved within a year, largely go in favor of the CFB.</p> <p dir="ltr">Conversely, if violators do not pay fines, the board can sue them in civil court and obtain a judgement. In those cases, the board can put a lien on a candidate’s property and can garnish their wages. Court records indicate that since 1992 the CFB has sought court judgements against more than two dozen candidates, and often succeeded.</p> <p dir="ltr">Under a 2005 court decision, however, the board has less latitude when it comes to getting public funds repaid. While candidates are liable for fines, campaign committees are responsible for repaying public funds -- and committees often disband or run out of money before those funds can be paid back. The City Council later codified the thrust of the 2005 decision into law, tying the CFB’s hands. Pending repayments, not fines, count for a majority of the funds due to the CFB.</p> <p dir="ltr">The board does still have some leverage, however, against candidates who may want to run in a future election: individuals are unable to receive public funds if they have any pending fines or repayments left.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Candidates who owe penalties or public funds to the CFB are ineligible to receive future payments, which provides an effective incentive for candidates to fulfill their obligations,” Loprest said in a statement to Gotham Gazette and City Limits. “Information about candidates’ outstanding obligations is publicly available on our website, so voters can hold candidates accountable for the conduct of their campaigns. Beyond that, the CFB makes every effort to collect the penalties and public funds repayments that candidates owe.”</p> <p dir="ltr">And to make it known that those IOUs areout there. The overdue amounts are public knowledge. “We don’t write things off or forgive liabilities,” said a CFB spokesperson. “That’s part of the accountability of the program.”</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">Sixty-three former candidates currently owe penalties to the board; the largest overdue amount belongs to Felipe Luciano, an East Harlem community activist and journalist who racked up more than $54,000 in violations when he ran for City Council District 8 in 2005. Luciano was also a participant in the public matching funds program and was told to repay nearly $17,000.</p> <p dir="ltr">Also prominent on the list: Miguel Martinez, the one-time Upper Manhattan Council member who went to federal prison over a scandal dealing with stolen city money.</p> <p dir="ltr">When it comes to public funds repayment, Asembly Member Weprin's tab dwarfs all others: $319,700. The next highest is Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Reyna, who owes a repayment of $139,000. Martinez also owes the board substantial public funds repayments. Those three, along with 2001 City Council candidate Garth Marchant, represent the four largest debts to the CFB — comprising 36 percent of what the board is owed.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">MORE: <a href="http://citylimits.org/2016/10/07/who-owes-money-to-the-citys-campaign-finance-board/" target="_blank">Who Owes Money to the City Campaign Finance Board</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Weprin was assessed a substantial penalty for the conduct of his 2009 campaign for city comptroller. An investment banker by trade who chaired the City Council's Finance Committee during his tenure there, Weprin was assessed $28,000 in penalties for violations like accepting money from unregistered PACs or taking over-the-limit contributions. He paid those penalties. “The Assemblyman is committed to a fair election process and the responsible use of CFB funds,” wrote a spokesperson for Weprin, Sumeet Sharma, in response to questions.</p> <p dir="ltr">But the public funds repayment of $319,700 is still due. That stems from Weprin’s campaign opening a so-called segregated account, which is supposed to be used for expenses that public funds can’t be used on, like to make donations to other candidates or to pay debt from a previous election. The CFB concluded that Weprin’s 2009 campaign had deposited into that segregated account donations that were matched with public funds. It ordered the campaign to repay the matching funds associated with those donations. But by then, all the campaign’s money had been spent.</p> <p dir="ltr">Asked about the board’s findings, Weprin spokesperson Sharm told City Limits: “In 2010, after the Committee ceased to exist, the CFB made technical revisions to funds that were originally declared as valid contributions, deeming valid contributions as invalid. These repayments were requested one year after the end of the campaign and after the Committee was disbanded,” addding that “the Assemblyman does not agree with all of the determinations of the CFB as these funds were spent on campaign related expenses.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The amount owed by the 2009 campaign represents an undeniable obstacle to Weprin seeking municipal office again. In 2015, when David Weprin’s brother Mark gave up his City Council seat to take a state post, David Weprin notably did not vy to replace him--perhaps because he would have had to pay off his CFB debt if he wished to tap into public financing for such a campaign.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The CFB determined that these funds would have to be repaid by the Committee if David Weprin was to seek City Office,” Sharma wrote. “And althoughAssemblyman Weprin is committed to the overall mission of the CFB and will address any repayments if he does seek an office for the City of New York in the future.”</p> <p dir="ltr">* * * *</p> <p dir="ltr">The fines don’t seem to discourage people from seeking public funds to run campaigns. In the 2013 election, 92 percent of candidates on the primary ballot participated in the program, according to CFB data.</p> <p dir="ltr">But some candidates do complain that the CFB’s disclosure and documentation requirements are severe and that the auditing process is long and drawn out. As is evident from the latest hearing, even though the CFB has about 50 employees, nearly half the agency, working full-time to audit campaigns, the process can take years.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’m a little bothered at the fact that three years later I’m still being called in,” Joel Bauza told Gotham Gazette after making his case to the CFB, “the treasurer is still being called in…to answer questions on stuff that we submitted on time and we gave to them the reasons. I don’t see the difference on what was written and what was said today.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Bauza also chose not to participate in the public matching funds program because of its “tedious” documentation requirements, a decision he said was made at the advice of State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. Bauza did praise the CFB for being informative and helpful during the entire process but insisted that there is room to improve. “I think there’s a lot of little tedious things, a lot of things that they need to look at again,” he said. “What they’re going to be questioning...Items that are noticeable where large amounts of contributions are made. Talk about those things, but little things...You’re going into the little things that don’t really make sense.”</p> <p dir="ltr">To its credit, the CFB carefully examines systemic issues after each election, proposes reforms to be enacted through legislation, and does routine updates to its rules. In September, the board proposed a number of <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/city/6531-campaign-finance-board-considers-rules-changes-including-controversial-coordination-proposal" target="_blank">rules changes</a> that would, in part, make it easier for candidates to run their campaigns. The board invited feedback that was heard at the September 15 meeting and will now consider that before approving the changes.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sean Henry, who ran in 2013 and did avail of the public financing program, shared some of Bauza’s views on the CFB. “I think sometimes the compliance requirements are little bit too onerous,” he told Gotham Gazette. “Campaigns are small. Especially when you start, you don’t have a lot of people. I think some of the documentation is not necessary. I think there are easier ways that things can be done.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He did say, though, that the CFB was “efficient” and “fair” to his campaign and in helping his people navigate the public funds program, and that he wasn’t entirely deterred from participating again. “It’s a good way for candidates to get involved in the process,” he said.</p> <p style="text-align: center;">NUMBERS: <a href="http://citylimits.org/2016/10/07/who-owes-money-to-the-citys-campaign-finance-board/" target="_blank">Who Owes Money to the City Campaign Finance Board</a>, at City Limits</p> <p>***<br />by Samar Khurshid of Gotham Gazette and Jarrett Murphy of City Limits</p> <p>
</p> <p>Note: this story has been corrected to accurately reflect why Miguel Martinez went to jail, it was not related to CFB funds.</p> Key to Vision of Closing Rikers, City Council Bail Fund Moves Through State Process 2016-03-03T21:28:32+00:00 2016-03-03T21:28:32+00:00 https://www.gothamgazette.com/state/6206-key-to-vision-of-closing-rikers-city-council-bail-fund-moves-through-state-process kfan <p><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/24339210493_21fa58928c_z.jpg" alt="MMV SOTC bail fund story" height="393" width="600" /></p> <p>Mark-Viverito delivers her State of the City (photo: William Alatriste)</p> <hr /> <p>Last year, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito unveiled <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5588-bronx-program-serves-as-inspiration-for-mark-viveritos-city-wide-bail-fund-proposal" target="_blank">her plan</a> for a fund that would cover bail for poor individuals charged with low-level criminal offenses who would otherwise be forced to wait in a city jail for their court date. The Council dedicated $1.4 million of budget funds to back the project, which is nearing launch.</p> <p>The program, if successful, could not only keep hundreds of individuals from staying in jail because they can't afford bail, but also lead to the expansion of state law that oversees and licenses bail funds, allowing for more criminal charges to be covered and higher bails paid.</p> <p>The Council bail fund is going through a fairly lengthy process to get up and running, with no clear start date more than a year after the initiative was announced. Mark-Viverito recently said she expects it to be functional in the coming months, but that the bureaucratic process of getting licensed by state overseers takes time. The fund has just been approved as a not-for-profit charity by the state attorney general's office, the second in four key steps. A heightened sense of urgency around the bail plan has emerged after Mark-Viverito <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/6164-mark-viverito-doubles-down-on-criminal-justice-reform-in-state-of-the-city" target="_blank">announced this year</a> that she hopes it will be a key element of actualizing "the dream" of closing Rikers Island jails. </p> <p>About 10,000 people are currently held in Rikers Island and other city jails, most awaiting a court appearance after being arrested for a low-level, non-violent offense. Some have been in jail for weeks or months because they can't afford bail and the criminal justice system moves at a snail's pace. It is a situation that many, including Mark-Viverito, have decried with increasing intensity over the past two years.</p> <p>"We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations, and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people – mostly low-income black and Latino males – are locked up at Rikers," Mark-Viverito said during her 2015 State of the City address.</p> <p>She continued: "For instance, if you are accused of jumping a turnstile or committing other minor offenses in New York City, you may be locked up. And if you can't afford bail you will spend on average 15 days in jail. The results are predictable: people lose their jobs, or their housing, and cannot take care of their children while they are in custody. These are people who are accused of minor offenses and are still considered innocent in the eyes of the law. This is not justice."</p> <p>During this year's State of the City address, on Feb. 11, the speaker said that she wants to see "the population of Rikers to be so small that the dream of shutting it down becomes a reality." She announced a new criminal justice commission, led by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, that will make recommendations for how to improve the criminal justice system.</p> <p>Last week while discussing her belief that Rikers Island should eventually be closed, Mark-Viverito cited her bail fund as something that will reduce the population over time. Asked when she expected the bail fund to start, Mark-Viverito said she is waiting to be licensed by the state.</p> <p>"We're waiting for the state, unfortunately, there's some state authorizations you need...some sort of licensure is needed," Mark-Viverito told reporters. "We needed, initially, a federal authorization, we've received that, we're waiting for the state, once that's done, we're ready to roll out. It's just we can't...without that authorization. So hopefully within the next months. It's just a normal process, obviously we are on top of it, but it's a normal process, it's bureaucratic."</p> <p>In follow-up conversation with Gotham Gazette, representatives of Mark-Viverito's office stressed the process is going well, is not an undue burden, and that the hope is to launch the program in a few months. The office said the process to incorporate the program began officially in July 2015. The first step involved registering as a non-profit on the federal level; the second, attorney general approval as a charity. With that second step complete, the application will go to the state Department of Financial Services, which licenses charitable bail funds.</p> <p>As approved by the AG, the fund shows "Initial directors" George McDonald, of The Doe Fund and David Howard, and Alphonso Wyatt, who were previously associated with the the fund. According to its bylaws, "The sole member of the Corporation shall be The Doe Fund, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation." McDonald is the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.doe.org/" target="_blank">The Doe Fund</a>, which has worked for decades to employ, house, and train homeless New Yorkers to help them stabilize their lives.</p> <p>According to the filing, "the purpose" of the new organization will be "to assist indigent defendents charged with low-level crimes avoid the experience, complications and related hardships of pretrial detention caused by their inability to afford bail." Once it becomes a bail fund, it will "provide bail assistance" and "research, analyze and document the effectiveness and social impact of" its activities.</p> <p>Before 2012 Mark-Viverito's bail fund wouldn't have needed state approval because charitable bail funds operated in a legal gray area. That year, Bronx state Senator Gustavo Rivera successfully advocated for a state law to oversee bail funds after a judge ordered an organization in his district to stop covering bail.</p> <p>Now, as bail funds grow in popularity, Rivera said he is working with the state Department of Financial Services to smooth the application process and guide smaller groups that are interested in opening funds. Rivera said that as the evidence of the efficacy of such programs grows he hopes to expand the law that now only covers misdemeanor offenses and has a cap of $2,000 bail.</p> <p>Rivera was approached by the Bronx Defenders (a nonprofit legal defense group) in 2010 shortly after he defeated disgraced then-Sen. Pedro Espada for his seat. When the bill passed in 2012, the Bronx Freedom Fund became the state's first licensed charitable bail fund.</p> <p>Since then the group has shown promising results, <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5588-bronx-program-serves-as-inspiration-for-mark-viveritos-city-wide-bail-fund-proposal" target="_blank">which Mark-Viverito and others have noticed</a>. It released a study last year showing that 97 percent of its clients returned to all their court appearances - some to more than 15 dates in a row. The group says that 27 times its bail money was returned even before the conclusion of a case. Out of 188 cases, 62 percent ended in a dismissal of all charges, 22 percent in a violation that carries no record, and 12 percent with a misdemeanor plea and no jail time.</p> <p>The fund has $100,000 to pay bail and it is periodically replenished when their clients fulfill their court obligations. Individuals are interviewed by the fund to determine their eligibility. Alyssa Work, former director of the Freedom Fund, told Gotham Gazette last year that the application process involved a defendant filling out a form, and her checking to see if they have family and community ties or steady employment. She also would evaluate their criminal record.</p> <p>Rivera has held a two roundtables on bail funds and has heard some concerns from interested groups. "We've been tweaking the paperwork you have to go through to get people licensed as bondsmen," said Rivera. "We've been discussing having the application fee waived for certain smaller organizations that aren't flush with cash, some folks have found it difficult to find someone at [Department of Financial Services] to answer questions. But the most important thing is that we've been working with DFS on this all along and they've been very helpful."</p> <p>Organizations wishing to start a bail fund have to complete four major steps: register as a non-profit under federal tax laws; register as a charity under New York State law through the AG's office; obtain a charitable bail license from the state DFS; and, finally, obtain an individual bail bond license from DFS.</p> <p>Mark-Viverito's office is now on to the third step.</p> <p>Obtaining a charitable bail organization license from DFS requires a detailed <a href="http://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/licensing/applications/cb_org.pdf" target="_blank">application</a>, a fee of $1,000, and the fingerprinting of all officers, directors, trustees, and executive personnel.</p> <p>Rivera said that while he intends to keep working with DFS on the application process, he does "hope to eventually introduce legislation that expands the legal parameters of bail funds." Rivera continued, "Right now the cap on bail is $2,000, we might want to move that. There is a small list of offenses currently covered and we may want to expand that list. We know we are helping people whose only crime is being poor, who can't afford bail, allowing them to be able to fight for their freedom, when they otherwise might be sitting in Rikers or somewhere else."</p> <p>In a statement to Gotham Gazette, Mark-Viverito said, "New York City is proud to lead the way in reforming a broken bail system that unjustly subjected our young people of color to senseless violence and abuse. By approaching this issue thoughtfully and deliberatively, we hope that our proposal for a citywide bail fund can serve as a model for other cities and municipalities seeking to change the way poverty and the criminal justice system intersect."</p> <p>Like Mark-Viverito, Sen. Rivera supports closing Rikers. Mayor Bill de Blasio called the idea "noble," but has said he doubts it is achievable. "My job is to level with the people of New York City," de Blasio recently told reporters. "This would cost billions and billions of dollars, be logistically very difficult, and we don't have the space right now."</p> <p>De Blasio has, however, also focused on bail reform, calling the current system unfair, with a burden that keeps the poor in jail for crimes they haven't been tried for, much less convicted of.</p> <p>De Blasio has a supervised release program scheduled to begin March 1. Funded by asset forfeiture funds from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the City Tax Levy, the program will provide judges with the option of sending those charged with misdemeanors or nonviolent felonies to supervised release programs overseen by agencies run in each of the five boroughs, rather than setting bail. The plan is expected to eventually serve 3,000 defendants.</p> <p>"There is a very real human cost to how our criminal justice system treats people while they wait for trial," de Blasio said <a href="http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/471-15/mayor-de-blasio-17-8-million-reduce-unnecessary-jail-time-people-waiting-trial" target="_blank">in a July statement</a> announcing the program. "Money bail is a problem because – as the system currently operates in New York – some people are being detained based on the size of their bank account, not the risk they pose. This is unacceptable. If people can be safely supervised in the community, they should be allowed to remain there regardless of their ability to pay."</p> <p>
by David King, Albany editor, Gotham Gazette
@DavidHowardKing @GothamGazette
</p> <p><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/24339210493_21fa58928c_z.jpg" alt="MMV SOTC bail fund story" height="393" width="600" /></p> <p>Mark-Viverito delivers her State of the City (photo: William Alatriste)</p> <hr /> <p>Last year, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito unveiled <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5588-bronx-program-serves-as-inspiration-for-mark-viveritos-city-wide-bail-fund-proposal" target="_blank">her plan</a> for a fund that would cover bail for poor individuals charged with low-level criminal offenses who would otherwise be forced to wait in a city jail for their court date. The Council dedicated $1.4 million of budget funds to back the project, which is nearing launch.</p> <p>The program, if successful, could not only keep hundreds of individuals from staying in jail because they can't afford bail, but also lead to the expansion of state law that oversees and licenses bail funds, allowing for more criminal charges to be covered and higher bails paid.</p> <p>The Council bail fund is going through a fairly lengthy process to get up and running, with no clear start date more than a year after the initiative was announced. Mark-Viverito recently said she expects it to be functional in the coming months, but that the bureaucratic process of getting licensed by state overseers takes time. The fund has just been approved as a not-for-profit charity by the state attorney general's office, the second in four key steps. A heightened sense of urgency around the bail plan has emerged after Mark-Viverito <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/6164-mark-viverito-doubles-down-on-criminal-justice-reform-in-state-of-the-city" target="_blank">announced this year</a> that she hopes it will be a key element of actualizing "the dream" of closing Rikers Island jails. </p> <p>About 10,000 people are currently held in Rikers Island and other city jails, most awaiting a court appearance after being arrested for a low-level, non-violent offense. Some have been in jail for weeks or months because they can't afford bail and the criminal justice system moves at a snail's pace. It is a situation that many, including Mark-Viverito, have decried with increasing intensity over the past two years.</p> <p>"We need to take a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that ensures a fairer system, improves police community relations, and addresses the fact that far too many of our young people – mostly low-income black and Latino males – are locked up at Rikers," Mark-Viverito said during her 2015 State of the City address.</p> <p>She continued: "For instance, if you are accused of jumping a turnstile or committing other minor offenses in New York City, you may be locked up. And if you can't afford bail you will spend on average 15 days in jail. The results are predictable: people lose their jobs, or their housing, and cannot take care of their children while they are in custody. These are people who are accused of minor offenses and are still considered innocent in the eyes of the law. This is not justice."</p> <p>During this year's State of the City address, on Feb. 11, the speaker said that she wants to see "the population of Rikers to be so small that the dream of shutting it down becomes a reality." She announced a new criminal justice commission, led by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, that will make recommendations for how to improve the criminal justice system.</p> <p>Last week while discussing her belief that Rikers Island should eventually be closed, Mark-Viverito cited her bail fund as something that will reduce the population over time. Asked when she expected the bail fund to start, Mark-Viverito said she is waiting to be licensed by the state.</p> <p>"We're waiting for the state, unfortunately, there's some state authorizations you need...some sort of licensure is needed," Mark-Viverito told reporters. "We needed, initially, a federal authorization, we've received that, we're waiting for the state, once that's done, we're ready to roll out. It's just we can't...without that authorization. So hopefully within the next months. It's just a normal process, obviously we are on top of it, but it's a normal process, it's bureaucratic."</p> <p>In follow-up conversation with Gotham Gazette, representatives of Mark-Viverito's office stressed the process is going well, is not an undue burden, and that the hope is to launch the program in a few months. The office said the process to incorporate the program began officially in July 2015. The first step involved registering as a non-profit on the federal level; the second, attorney general approval as a charity. With that second step complete, the application will go to the state Department of Financial Services, which licenses charitable bail funds.</p> <p>As approved by the AG, the fund shows "Initial directors" George McDonald, of The Doe Fund and David Howard, and Alphonso Wyatt, who were previously associated with the the fund. According to its bylaws, "The sole member of the Corporation shall be The Doe Fund, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation." McDonald is the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.doe.org/" target="_blank">The Doe Fund</a>, which has worked for decades to employ, house, and train homeless New Yorkers to help them stabilize their lives.</p> <p>According to the filing, "the purpose" of the new organization will be "to assist indigent defendents charged with low-level crimes avoid the experience, complications and related hardships of pretrial detention caused by their inability to afford bail." Once it becomes a bail fund, it will "provide bail assistance" and "research, analyze and document the effectiveness and social impact of" its activities.</p> <p>Before 2012 Mark-Viverito's bail fund wouldn't have needed state approval because charitable bail funds operated in a legal gray area. That year, Bronx state Senator Gustavo Rivera successfully advocated for a state law to oversee bail funds after a judge ordered an organization in his district to stop covering bail.</p> <p>Now, as bail funds grow in popularity, Rivera said he is working with the state Department of Financial Services to smooth the application process and guide smaller groups that are interested in opening funds. Rivera said that as the evidence of the efficacy of such programs grows he hopes to expand the law that now only covers misdemeanor offenses and has a cap of $2,000 bail.</p> <p>Rivera was approached by the Bronx Defenders (a nonprofit legal defense group) in 2010 shortly after he defeated disgraced then-Sen. Pedro Espada for his seat. When the bill passed in 2012, the Bronx Freedom Fund became the state's first licensed charitable bail fund.</p> <p>Since then the group has shown promising results, <a href="https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5588-bronx-program-serves-as-inspiration-for-mark-viveritos-city-wide-bail-fund-proposal" target="_blank">which Mark-Viverito and others have noticed</a>. It released a study last year showing that 97 percent of its clients returned to all their court appearances - some to more than 15 dates in a row. The group says that 27 times its bail money was returned even before the conclusion of a case. Out of 188 cases, 62 percent ended in a dismissal of all charges, 22 percent in a violation that carries no record, and 12 percent with a misdemeanor plea and no jail time.</p> <p>The fund has $100,000 to pay bail and it is periodically replenished when their clients fulfill their court obligations. Individuals are interviewed by the fund to determine their eligibility. Alyssa Work, former director of the Freedom Fund, told Gotham Gazette last year that the application process involved a defendant filling out a form, and her checking to see if they have family and community ties or steady employment. She also would evaluate their criminal record.</p> <p>Rivera has held a two roundtables on bail funds and has heard some concerns from interested groups. "We've been tweaking the paperwork you have to go through to get people licensed as bondsmen," said Rivera. "We've been discussing having the application fee waived for certain smaller organizations that aren't flush with cash, some folks have found it difficult to find someone at [Department of Financial Services] to answer questions. But the most important thing is that we've been working with DFS on this all along and they've been very helpful."</p> <p>Organizations wishing to start a bail fund have to complete four major steps: register as a non-profit under federal tax laws; register as a charity under New York State law through the AG's office; obtain a charitable bail license from the state DFS; and, finally, obtain an individual bail bond license from DFS.</p> <p>Mark-Viverito's office is now on to the third step.</p> <p>Obtaining a charitable bail organization license from DFS requires a detailed <a href="http://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/licensing/applications/cb_org.pdf" target="_blank">application</a>, a fee of $1,000, and the fingerprinting of all officers, directors, trustees, and executive personnel.</p> <p>Rivera said that while he intends to keep working with DFS on the application process, he does "hope to eventually introduce legislation that expands the legal parameters of bail funds." Rivera continued, "Right now the cap on bail is $2,000, we might want to move that. There is a small list of offenses currently covered and we may want to expand that list. We know we are helping people whose only crime is being poor, who can't afford bail, allowing them to be able to fight for their freedom, when they otherwise might be sitting in Rikers or somewhere else."</p> <p>In a statement to Gotham Gazette, Mark-Viverito said, "New York City is proud to lead the way in reforming a broken bail system that unjustly subjected our young people of color to senseless violence and abuse. By approaching this issue thoughtfully and deliberatively, we hope that our proposal for a citywide bail fund can serve as a model for other cities and municipalities seeking to change the way poverty and the criminal justice system intersect."</p> <p>Like Mark-Viverito, Sen. Rivera supports closing Rikers. Mayor Bill de Blasio called the idea "noble," but has said he doubts it is achievable. "My job is to level with the people of New York City," de Blasio recently told reporters. "This would cost billions and billions of dollars, be logistically very difficult, and we don't have the space right now."</p> <p>De Blasio has, however, also focused on bail reform, calling the current system unfair, with a burden that keeps the poor in jail for crimes they haven't been tried for, much less convicted of.</p> <p>De Blasio has a supervised release program scheduled to begin March 1. Funded by asset forfeiture funds from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the City Tax Levy, the program will provide judges with the option of sending those charged with misdemeanors or nonviolent felonies to supervised release programs overseen by agencies run in each of the five boroughs, rather than setting bail. The plan is expected to eventually serve 3,000 defendants.</p> <p>"There is a very real human cost to how our criminal justice system treats people while they wait for trial," de Blasio said <a href="http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/471-15/mayor-de-blasio-17-8-million-reduce-unnecessary-jail-time-people-waiting-trial" target="_blank">in a July statement</a> announcing the program. "Money bail is a problem because – as the system currently operates in New York – some people are being detained based on the size of their bank account, not the risk they pose. This is unacceptable. If people can be safely supervised in the community, they should be allowed to remain there regardless of their ability to pay."</p> <p>
</p> Housing Groups Defend Homelessness Report After Pushback from Cuomo Administration 2016-03-01T17:43:33+00:00 2016-03-01T17:43:33+00:00 https://www.gothamgazette.com/state/6201-housing-groups-defend-homelessness-report-after-pushback-from-cuomo-administration kfan <p><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/vocal_homelessness_protest_-_matt_curtis_vocal_ny.jpg" alt="vocal homelessness protest - matt curtis vocal ny" width="600" height="337" /></p> <p>A Vocal-NY protest (Matt Curtis/Vocal-NY)</p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p>Housing groups are coming to the defense of a report issued this week that critiques Gov. Andrew Cuomo's homelessness policies and questions his attempts to place the blame for a rising homeless population on Mayor Bill de Blasio.</p> <p>Kristi Berner, spokesperson for the State's Office of Temporary and Disability insurance, slammed <a href="http://www.vocal-ny.org/publications/amid-homelessness-crisis-major-advocacy-labor-groups-release-report-demanding-action-from-new-york-state/" target="_blank">the report</a> in a statement <a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-cuomo-bashed-nyc-homeless-advocacy-groups-article-1.2546821" target="_blank">to the Daily News</a> on Monday, calling it "an obvious political tactic to distract from the city's incompetence in managing the homeless problem."</p> <p>Now, The Alliance for Tenant Power Coalition and the Met Council on Housing are countering, saying that the Cuomo administration is politicizing legitimate policy issues to distract from the governor's own accountability. They say that the groups and the report are not tools of the mayor and point out that they have been critical of some of de Blasio's housing policies as well.</p> <p>"We have been, and will continue to be, critical of Mayor de Blasio's housing plan for what it will do to our communities. But he is not the only elected official who is responsible for our city's affordable housing and homeless crisis," reads the statement signed by The Alliance for Tenant Power and Met Council on Housing, which was sent to Gotham Gazette. "Governor Cuomo's actions, his refusal to fight for stronger rent laws, and his handling of the homeless crisis are all worsening a situation that is at a breaking point," the groups say.</p> <p>"We are fully supportive of the report entitled New York Needs a 21st Century Homeless and refute the claim by Cuomo's spokesperson that it is "trying to give cover to de Blasio." The only "political spin," is Cuomo's attempt to shirk his own responsibilities for exacerbating the affordable housing and homeless crisis," concludes the statement.</p> <p>The Cuomo administration declined to comment for this story. Doe Fund President George McDonald told <a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-cuomo-bashed-nyc-homeless-advocacy-groups-article-1.2546821" target="_blank">the Daily News</a> in a statement that the report "seems to be most critical of people who have demonstrated the longest and most intensive commitment to serving the homeless, like Governor Cuomo, and least critical of newcomers to the crisis."</p> <p>The introduction of <a href="http://www.vocal-ny.org/publications/amid-homelessness-crisis-major-advocacy-labor-groups-release-report-demanding-action-from-new-york-state/" target="_blank">the report</a> in question, authored by DC 37, VOCAL-NY and the Community Service Society, acknowledges that the state and city face a major homelessness crisis but posits, "As bad as the current crisis is, it can be reversed – but only if Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature adopt a genuinely progressive vision and abandon the failed policies of the Pataki era."</p> <p>It continues: "Indeed, even though Cuomo has been governor for five years, his administration has done little to change the broken policies and deeply inadequate funding levels of the Pataki years. Starting now, Albany must work with the City to expand funding for permanent housing assistance and to enhance prevention efforts. Equally important, State officials need to work collaboratively with the City to make improvements to the shelter system engaging in accusations and counter-productive media skirmishes."</p> <p>Last November advocates and legislators <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5996-pressure-shifts-to-cuomo-as-de-blasio-announces-supportive-housing-plan" target="_blank">joined with de Blasio</a> in pressuring Cuomo to match the city's commitment to fund thousands of units of supportive housing. Cuomo avoided the issue until his State of the State address when he announced a $10 billion plan to create 6,000 units of supportive housing and new emergency shelter beds. Cuomo linked these investments and others to renewed state oversight of shelters around New York, especially in New York City and Buffalo.</p> <p>Since then, the Cuomo and de Blasio administrations have exchanged a host of letters over the city's handling of homeless shelters, partly in response to a series of violent incidents at shelters. The New York Times reported last month that the de Blasio administration was particularly outraged when the state issued a letter concerning a gang rape at a homeless shelter that appears to have never taken place without any investigation. City officials called the letter, which was leaked to the Post, "a media hit."</p> <p>
</p> <p><img src="https://www.gothamgazette.com/images/graphics/2016/vocal_homelessness_protest_-_matt_curtis_vocal_ny.jpg" alt="vocal homelessness protest - matt curtis vocal ny" width="600" height="337" /></p> <p>A Vocal-NY protest (Matt Curtis/Vocal-NY)</p> <p> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p>Housing groups are coming to the defense of a report issued this week that critiques Gov. Andrew Cuomo's homelessness policies and questions his attempts to place the blame for a rising homeless population on Mayor Bill de Blasio.</p> <p>Kristi Berner, spokesperson for the State's Office of Temporary and Disability insurance, slammed <a href="http://www.vocal-ny.org/publications/amid-homelessness-crisis-major-advocacy-labor-groups-release-report-demanding-action-from-new-york-state/" target="_blank">the report</a> in a statement <a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-cuomo-bashed-nyc-homeless-advocacy-groups-article-1.2546821" target="_blank">to the Daily News</a> on Monday, calling it "an obvious political tactic to distract from the city's incompetence in managing the homeless problem."</p> <p>Now, The Alliance for Tenant Power Coalition and the Met Council on Housing are countering, saying that the Cuomo administration is politicizing legitimate policy issues to distract from the governor's own accountability. They say that the groups and the report are not tools of the mayor and point out that they have been critical of some of de Blasio's housing policies as well.</p> <p>"We have been, and will continue to be, critical of Mayor de Blasio's housing plan for what it will do to our communities. But he is not the only elected official who is responsible for our city's affordable housing and homeless crisis," reads the statement signed by The Alliance for Tenant Power and Met Council on Housing, which was sent to Gotham Gazette. "Governor Cuomo's actions, his refusal to fight for stronger rent laws, and his handling of the homeless crisis are all worsening a situation that is at a breaking point," the groups say.</p> <p>"We are fully supportive of the report entitled New York Needs a 21st Century Homeless and refute the claim by Cuomo's spokesperson that it is "trying to give cover to de Blasio." The only "political spin," is Cuomo's attempt to shirk his own responsibilities for exacerbating the affordable housing and homeless crisis," concludes the statement.</p> <p>The Cuomo administration declined to comment for this story. Doe Fund President George McDonald told <a href="http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/gov-cuomo-bashed-nyc-homeless-advocacy-groups-article-1.2546821" target="_blank">the Daily News</a> in a statement that the report "seems to be most critical of people who have demonstrated the longest and most intensive commitment to serving the homeless, like Governor Cuomo, and least critical of newcomers to the crisis."</p> <p>The introduction of <a href="http://www.vocal-ny.org/publications/amid-homelessness-crisis-major-advocacy-labor-groups-release-report-demanding-action-from-new-york-state/" target="_blank">the report</a> in question, authored by DC 37, VOCAL-NY and the Community Service Society, acknowledges that the state and city face a major homelessness crisis but posits, "As bad as the current crisis is, it can be reversed – but only if Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature adopt a genuinely progressive vision and abandon the failed policies of the Pataki era."</p> <p>It continues: "Indeed, even though Cuomo has been governor for five years, his administration has done little to change the broken policies and deeply inadequate funding levels of the Pataki years. Starting now, Albany must work with the City to expand funding for permanent housing assistance and to enhance prevention efforts. Equally important, State officials need to work collaboratively with the City to make improvements to the shelter system engaging in accusations and counter-productive media skirmishes."</p> <p>Last November advocates and legislators <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5996-pressure-shifts-to-cuomo-as-de-blasio-announces-supportive-housing-plan" target="_blank">joined with de Blasio</a> in pressuring Cuomo to match the city's commitment to fund thousands of units of supportive housing. Cuomo avoided the issue until his State of the State address when he announced a $10 billion plan to create 6,000 units of supportive housing and new emergency shelter beds. Cuomo linked these investments and others to renewed state oversight of shelters around New York, especially in New York City and Buffalo.</p> <p>Since then, the Cuomo and de Blasio administrations have exchanged a host of letters over the city's handling of homeless shelters, partly in response to a series of violent incidents at shelters. The New York Times reported last month that the de Blasio administration was particularly outraged when the state issued a letter concerning a gang rape at a homeless shelter that appears to have never taken place without any investigation. City officials called the letter, which was leaked to the Post, "a media hit."</p> <p>
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Probate in Western Australia
Probate in Western Australia is governed by the Administration Act 1903 (WA). To receive a grant of Probate in WA, there must be a Will made by a person (called a ‘testator’) that nominates another person to administer the Will (called an ‘executor’), which specifies which people are to benefit under the Will (called ‘beneficiaries’).
What is Probate in Western Australia?
Probate is a certificate granted by the Probate Office of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. It means that the deceased’s Will has been proved as valid and registered, and that the executor has been granted authority to administer the deceased estate.
Probate may be granted in solemn form or in common form. Solemn form is granted when the validity of the Will is disputed and contentious proceedings have or are to shortly commence. Common form is granted when there is no dispute and the Will can be proved without a hearing or witness evidence.
How do you apply for Probate in Western Australia?
To obtain Probate of a Will in WA, an application must be made to the Supreme Court of Western Australia at any time after 14 days from the death of the deceased. A solicitor, executor or a person entitled to the administration of the estate may make the application.
You or your lawyer can apply for a grant of Probate by preparing and filing an online application or by submitting an application in person at the Probate Office or by posting an application. As at 4 July 2016, the Probate filing fee is $338.00.
For straightforward applications, the Probate Office will issue grants of Probate in approximately two to three weeks from the receipt of the application. More complex matters may take longer for probate to be issued.
There is no requirement for publication of a legal notice in WA. However, you are required to submit to the Probate Office an inventory and valuation of assets and liabilities of the deceased at the time of death.
What are ‘Letters of Administration’ and ‘Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed’?
If a person has passed away without a valid Will, the court may grant Letters of Administration to a person who would be a beneficiary of the deceased’s estate. This person will usually be the deceased spouse, parents, siblings, children or grandchildren.
If a deceased person has a Will but the Will does not name an executor or the executor named is not able or willing to apply for Probate, then the court may grant Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed to a person who would be a beneficiary of the deceased’s estate.
As applications for Letters of Administration and Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed are complex and there are no standard forms, applicants should see a lawyer for assistance.
These applications can be made to the Supreme Court of Western Australia after 14 days from the deceased’s death.
What is the executor’s role?
The executor’s role is to manage, administer, direct and dispose of property under the Will.
The executor’s duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
Burying the deceased;
Proving the Will by applying to the court for a grant of Probate or Letters of Administration;
Administering the estate according to the law;
Paying the debts of the estate; and
Distributing the balance of the estate to the beneficiaries.
Additional obligations of the executor may include:
Taking care of business interests;
Safeguarding any income;
Investing money not currently required;
Collecting any valuables; and
Insuring all property.
Furthermore, the executor will need to value the estate and keep a list of all the valuations. The estate may consist of the following:
Cash;
Business interests;
Personal effects;
Securities;
Real estate;
Property sales;
Debts due; and
Debts owing.
The executor is required to notify all the beneficiaries named in the Will that the deceased has passed away and what benefits they are entitled to under the Will.
The executor may also need to complete and lodge income tax returns and obtain a clearance from the Australian Tax Office. The executor must pay the debts of the estate before the distribution of any assets. Paying the debts of the estate may involve the executor having to sell assets of the estate.
What is the priority of payment of expenses once Probate is obtained?
Once the executor obtains a grant of Probate, the assets must first be collected before any payment from the estate is made. Funeral, testamentary and administration expenses have priority over all other payments.
Once this has occurred, the executor may pay the debts of the estate.
If the Will disposes of any property that has a mortgage, charge, lien or other money owing on it and the testator has not specified in the Will, by deed or in any other document how this is to be paid, then all the beneficiaries are primarily liable for discharging the debts before any distribution of the property.
When all debts have been paid the executor may then distribute the remaining assets amongst the beneficiaries according to the testator’s intentions.
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A Police Stockade in Mafiya Work.
Mafiya Work is a multiplayer game in Grand Theft Auto IV consisting of two to sixteen players. Working under the direction of Russian Mob boss Kenny Petrovic via Cell Phone, the player will compete against other players in a series of mini-missions.
1 Objective
3 Reward
The objective is to complete all missions asigned to you by Kenny Petrovic. He will call your cellphone, and give you any objective to complete, which could range from killing rival mob members, destroying various objects, machines, or vehicles, picking up and dropping off family members, and many other mini-missions. Once one objective has been completed by any player(s), the next one will immeadiately begin, so all missions happen in real time. Each mission grants money, so players win by having the most amount money from mission by the end of the time limit, by reaching the money limit first, or being the last remaining person in the game.
The Host can change a number of factors including
A Time limit or a money limit
The area the players will play in (Will only be the 5 main boroughs, Alderney, Algonquin, Broker/Dukes or Bohan for choosing in lobby)
The type of weapons available to players
The Weather and Time of Day
Whether the map will show blips of all players, far players, near player, or no blips at all
The Respawn time
The money reward at the end of the match depends on the amount of missions completed by the players. Players - 2-8
Do not worry as much about killing enemy players as getting objectives completed. If you kill an enemy player, you get $100, compared to getting at least $250 per objective.
Having a vehicle is a must for playing this. In order to get around, try to stick with fast vehicles, such as the Infernus,Turismo, or Banshee.
Fourdoor vehicles are also useful, mainly in escort objectives, as you can carry the VIP and additional players for support fire.
Motorcycles aren't the best way to travel around: while being fast, you are very vulnearable while riding one. Use motorcycles only for improvisation.
If there are several objectives present, go for the nearest one. If there's a lot of crowd at the objective, go for those which are farther, it potentially pays off.
Try to keep an assault rifle while playing this to have more range than your opponent(s).
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HomeAdvocacy & ActionThe National Association of CHWs: Progress and Purpose
The National Association of CHWs: Progress and Purpose
Posted by: RoiAnn Phillips
HealthConnect One’s Associate Program Director, Wandy Hernandez, is known for her commitment to community health, both in her own community and in her strong support for community health workers across the country. If you’ve spoken with Wandy, you’ve undoubtedly felt her passion for this work and you’ve come away with new ideas.
Wandy’s experience and insights led her to serve from 2012-2014 as Chair of the American Public Health Association’s CHW Section, to co-found the Illinois Community Health Worker Association (formerly the Chicago CHW Local Network), and before that, to serve as President of the National Lay Health Workers/Promotores Network.
So it was a natural next step for her to co-chair the Interim Board of the National Association of CHWs, where she brings HC One’s vision and values to the table in support of unity in the CHW workforce. Wandy serves as co-chair with Sergio Matos, Executive Director of the CHW Network of NYC.
Sergio has been a community health worker for over 25 years, working to help communities organize around issues of environmental and social justice; working with families in crisis intervention for suicide, hunger, chronic disease management and housing issues, and helping transform health services to become more effective, efficient and patient-centered. For the past 11 years, Sergio has championed the field of community health workers throughout the US and several Caribbean Nations but with a special focus on the state of the practice in New York.
Energized by their planning meeting held in Atlanta this summer, Wandy and Sergio affirm that the National Association of CHWs is a powerful work-in-progress. Interim Board Members include Mae-Gilene Begay (AZ), Joelisa Castillo (WI), Naomi Cottoms (AR), Ramona Dillard (NM), Durrell Fox (MA), Catherine Haywood (LA), Gail Hirsch (MA), Lisa Renee Holderby-Fox (MA), Maria Lemus (CA), Susan Mayfield Johnson (MS), Floribella Redondo (AZ), Carl Rush (TX), Alise Sanchez (OR), Julie Smithwick (SC), Napualani Spock (HI), Ashley Wennerstrom (LA) and Geoff Wilkinson (MA). Katie Sutkowi is consulting, and Anita McDonnell is a non-voting member. All involved are excited, passionate, varied in their roles and perspectives, and their purpose for coming together is clear.
Following is what they shared during the 2017 Unity Conference:
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Small is e-Beautiful
Patrick Reynolds | December 13, 2018 | 56 Comments
The electric revolution on our city streets, already underway, looks much more like a scooter than a Tesla.
Physics. And geometry: Size really matters for both energy consumption and spatial efficiency. And both drive affordability and therefore the speed of uptake.
The conventional wisdom, especially as expressed in many official documents, is that electrifying the transport sector means waiting for the technology and cost of private cars to change enough, to organically, over time, change out the whole fleet to electric, like for like. This then, conveniently for the unimaginative, is the change you have without having to change.
And matches a similar one about urban form; the future is just greener buildings still spread out further and further into countryside at low densities; curiously almost exactly like past, but with a 21stC tinge.
Don’t get me wrong, the gradual replacement of current fossil fuelled road fleets; passenger, service, and freight, will be transformative for the energy sector, urban air quality, climate emissions, and our balance of payments. And in more ways than people know (check out the possibilities of nation’s e-fleet as a giant battery, vehicle to grid or V2G, for example). But it really is a failure of the imagination to expect these things to change in isolation. We know that big changes in energy and transport technologies always lead to land-use and lifestyle changes too. Anyway, if we look, we can see change already underway.
We are not just changing fuel source, but also vehicle size and how we use our urban areas. And these changes are happening real fast.
Smaller e-vehicles offer an answer to both the need for rapid transition from fossil fuel vehicles and the demand for more spatially efficient city movement systems. This is great news because urban car traffic quantity is inversely correlated to almost every measure of city success there is; for public health, safety, and growing the urban services economy.
In the 21stC city: Loitering is more valuable than motoring.
So where are we at?
Auckland has been adding density to its urban area all century, building up to out at a ratio of around 75:25. This has largely been through suburban infill, and metropolitan centre apartments. Since the Unitary Plan has been operative, reducing some restrictions on building up, this ratio has grown recently up to 90:10 in the data up to May 2018. In the city centre this is most obvious but is certainly not the only urban area to be getting more complex; with more residents and more employment, education, and entertainment options, within closer reach.
Happily too, we have at last been adding alternative movement infrastructure, cycleways, and finally more effective public transit so more and more people are getting to places without a car. Again this is especially evident in the city centre, but really that’s just the early adopter area of a city-wide trend (both PT and cycling ridership growth are consistently over 2x population growth) .
No wonder pedestrian counts are up, cycling is on the rise, but also that those little electric scooters that suddenly turned up in Auckland are proving so popular.
So what of the physics, here’s a good Wired article comparing scooters to Teslas, all in crazy US measurements of course:
So e-scooters use a fraction of the energy of a conventional car, like 1%, and still only ~5% of an electric car (not including embodied energy).
The electric battery and motor can so much more easily and cheaply perform a movement task when the vehicle size is smaller; less mass requires less energy. And our increasingly crowded city streets can’t fit 2 tonne tin boxes to move one human around anymore either, so there’s a perfect storm of technology and need meeting these little devices.
Of course you say, we all know that, but no one’s going to scoot for 20kms on the motorway to work, duh! For sure, but they absolutely will scoot 2 kms to work not on a motorway, or 500m from the transit station to work on city streets or home again from the station in the ‘burbs. So our changing urban form and our gradually improving and spreading Rapid Transit Network, turn out to be a perfect fit for exactly these machines.
But not only the machines themselves, but also the sharing system they operate under. Some prefer to own their own, but the boom has been led by the shared ones.
note they do seem cheaper in Brisbane than in Auckland.
And it’s not going to stop. As far as I can work out (and the data is proprietary so I don’t really know- more on that later) they are, shall we say, financially sustainable:
The economics of these scooters are nuts. They cost on average around $5-600 and they do approx 8-10 rides a day (data confirmed from offshore – word is AKL is at the high end). If you assume an average trip cost of $3 the scooter will pay itself off in 2-3 weeks of use from gross revenue. The business is profitable, even paying chargers $5-7 a night and having scooters turn over (ie. depreciate) in a 6-8 week period still keeps the overall business looking very attractive.
So much so that they’re eating into other paid ride platforms: Shared scooter/ebikes are eating Uber’s trips: In the cities where Lime and Bird are popular, Uber saw a 10% drop off in car trips. It’s why they bought Jump, their own Ebike play. Where they have Jump, it’s been a boost of 15% more trips overall, just pushed to scooters/bikes. Here
Uber isn’t alone in embracing e-bikes. Its biggest rival, Lyft, purchased bikeshare startup Motivate this month, and plans to introduce more bikes and scooters. And then there are all the scooter-sharing outfits popping up lately. Bird and Lime have raised money faster than Uber and Lyft did in their early days.
And we already know a huge proportion of trips currently driven are short:
“People are realizing vehicles can be much smaller and simpler and electric,” Klein told CNNMoney. “You don’t need a giant GMC Suburban for a trip under a mile.”
The market for micromobility is massive: even if you assume that we’re only talking about short trips (sub 6kms) on a passenger km travelled perspective, the total addressable market globally is estimated at ~5 trillion kms of easily convertible trips globally.
So its clear to see how converting even a fraction of these trips to not only electric power but also much lighter weight vehicles is a huge game changer for the energy transition: It means no need to substitute fossil energy with anywhere near the same amount of renewable energy, even if many more trips are generated.
This profitability opens up the possibility of taxing the sector to fund further ‘bike lanes’ for them to use. As is happen in Portland, where 25c per trip goes to the DOT. And that’s a potentially handy sum.
And the shared services like Lime/Bird are growing faster than even Uber and Lyft. It’s likely that they’ll catch and then overtake Uber on cumulative lifetime rides by 2021, according to this observer:
This is Massively disruptive for emissions reductions: these little devices have the emissions profile only 1-2% of a car for the same kms travelled. If we’re serious about reducing emissions in transport, we should be doing everything we can to support this. This is still the case, but less so, in comparison with e-cars, which produce ~10-20x more emissions per km than an e-bike or e-scooter because it has to lug around the weight of the whole car as well. It’s all about the mass (as much as the MaaS).
Also the tech is evolving super super fast: Because the scooters/ebikes are replaced so often, they’re getting iterated on every few months and will soon include cameras, speakers and in the not too distant future, we’ll start to see intelligence emerge like auto braking before curbs, speed limiting on footpaths, etc. Maybe because the regulations on deployment/safety concerns are less, we’ll see some form of autonomous bikes/scooters/lightweight electric vehicles that can drive themselves to the customer/back to the charging point before we see widespread autonomous cars.
So there are 10 conclusions from all this, add more in the comments below:
At the city policy level this just more evidence that we need to get on and add that ‘3rd space‘, bike lanes, between the footpath and the traffic lanes as quickly as possible so there are safe places to use these new smaller machines (and it must be legal for these devices).
And that this should be done by converting existing traffic lanes because this is where we want the new users to come from, and will come from. And this is the cheapest and quickest way.
Slower speeds on urban streets too are vital for shared use.
A programme of dedicated, and ideally separate, walking and bike/scoot paths focused on Transit Stations as a priority.
The same for Schools.
Manage but not restrict these new entrants into the market, and, and I think this is important, do so at the cost to the companies of sharing their data with the city. Our public agencies need this data to serve their people well. And there are ways to do this without compromising commercial viability.
If there is a case for public subsidies or stimulus in the e-vehicle market then it should be at the light weight end. Scooters don’t need this, but e-bikes are not nearly as accessible so could be a good place to consider this.
It is vitally important that or planning agencies, AT, NZTA, Ministries of Transport and Energy, the Productivity Commission all understand that bike and scooters etc, Micromobiliy, are transport, not just recreation. They need to include them in their analysis and guidance. They currently have a huge blind spot about this, and only have eyes for e-cars.
Ditto the urban form changes that partner the uptake of these devices; consistently downplayed in official studies I’ve seen.
The same is the case for our transport models, make sure mode-shift to these devices is actually a possibility in the model.
Here’s a really good podcast and blog with NZ contributor Oliver Bruce on this technology from a market perspective. And here’s an article on Santa Monica the birthplace of micromobility. And an interesting local perspective on Stuff too.
Disruption may well be an overused word, but all three of transport, energy, and urban form are being disrupted by new technologies, new economies, and the reality of climate change pressures. And that means real change, whole communities doing everyday things really differently to how we did them last week, last year, last century. It’s coming like an electric train.
So on a last note, below is the Council comms on transport and climate change. Note it says ‘reduce the number and length of trips’. If that really means the number and length of motorised vehicle trips well that’s dead right. Because as we know that every new transport technology to date has stimulated new journeys that previously weren’t taken, so we can expect there to be new micromobility e-trips as well as substituted ones… rev your small and relatively low powered e-engines, citizens….
The answer is not just better cars one day, but fewer cars now.
Nick R says:
It’s funny isn’t it. For all the talk of innovation and e revolutions coming out of tech valley… it all seems to be intended to maintain the status quo of auto dependent suburbia against the iterative pressures of urbanism. The revolution will not be suburbanized.
Buttwizard69420 says:
I can’t help but feel that if this wasn’t a trendy mobility revolution that some would be suggesting Lime et al are socialising their costs through public healthcare and ACC.
Wouldn’t be the first, eh, and to discuss it fairly, you’d have to look at the DSI and public health costs the car industry has socialised… You’d also have to look at the environmental costs socialised by the different modes.
jezza says:
No more so than Avanti, Harley Davidson and Kawasaki have been socialising their costs for years.
This could equally apply to Black Diamond, who manufacture ice axes.
If only motorbikes paid some sort of levy to help cover the costs of their accidents.
They do pay some sort of levy to help cover their costs, but even with the significant increases a few years ago they don’t go anywhere near covering their full costs, there is still a significant amount of socialization of costs going on.
Jezza, have you seen figures for how many motorcycle DSI and injury costs were for crashes with cars and trucks, and which were not? I’d be interested in knowing.
From memory about 40 % of motorcycle DSI accidents were just the motorbike, with the remainder having another vehicle involved. Of those about 60 % were caused by the driver of the other vehicle.
Hmmm… and I imagine there was more D in the 60% and more SI in the 40%…
Does suggest upwards of 60% of those costs have been socialised by drivers, not motorcyclists…
logarithmicbear says:
We should really question what barriers to entry are preventing wider adoption of motorcycles as a commuter mode. They use little road space, little fuel and are fast enough to be ridden on the motorway. That makes them a practical option for commuting from far-flung suburbs that are difficult to service with good PT. Electric motorcycles are currently very expensive compared to the petrol versions, but that hasn’t stopped Tesla selling cars.
And what sort of levy is Lime paying to cover the costs of their users? Because “none at all” is a lot less then “not really covering your full costs”.
I get what is being pushed here, but people here are forever bemoaning socialising the cost of the car as a transport option, but will openly advocate for tech with no personal injury protection at all and expect ACC to pick up the tab.
Regarding escooters, Buttwizard, it comes down to physics. And you’re flogging a dead horse here, because no light-weight human-scale mobility device is ever going to cause the level of injury and trauma that motor vehicles – with their weight – have been causing for decades.
If you’re so concerned, get with the campaign to stop NZTA and AT putting in shared paths. If they think escooters are dangerous, they shouldn’t be putting in shared paths, right? So there’s your first port of call.
Buttwizard – I suspect the burden e-scooters are placing on taxpayer funding of ACC is much smaller than motorbikes even with motorcyclists contributing proportion themselves.
I agree – ideally ACC would be entirely user funded, and it would probably make some sense to levy lime a small amount. However, it opens up another can of worms, private e-scooters, bikes etc and how to levy them.
The best approach is to accept that no ACC system will ever be perfect, but also understand that car and motorbike accidents are big users of ACC and it makes sense to levy them.
Heidi – the data have tended to show that motorcyclists are very aware of the risks posed by other road users but have a terrible awareness of the risk they pose to themselves.
ACC has always been a no fault system, but I agree safe motorcycling is something that should be encouraged as it is much more resource efficient than a car.
Russell Baillie says:
it costs me around 5 times the amount for my annual rego of my Vespa compared to my car. All of the difference is in ACC levies. All based on injuries received, not who causes the accident
Patrick Reynolds says:
Hey Butt. By all means let’s calculate the economic costs and benefits, I have a strong hunch however if we do that fully your motorcycle licence fee is going to go up a long way and we’ll be paying Lime and Bird and whoever to spread more scooters…
Also perhaps you missed the note about how these companies are paying local authorities… not in AKL yet, but this could be the case hear too.
Also but I hear other operators may be on their way here too, including Bird, whose model involves paying the Portland DOT, as mentioned above.
As well as creating that 3rd lane between footpath and traffic lane by converting traffic lanes, Patrick, the other cheap and easy quick fix we can do is change the speed limits to 30 everywhere (except motorways and where vulnerable users are otherwise protected). Yes, this won’t be enough for some users who will have to remain on the footpath. But it will make a lot of streets safe for a lot of users in one fell swoop. And reduce the volume of scooters and bikes on the footpath at the same time, minimising conflict opportunities with pedestrians.
It means our money for streetscape projects can then be directed to the places that have highest safety priority.
BTW I think of ‘3rd space’ as somewhere to be comfortable loitering, sitting… other than work or home.
John Mackay says:
A fraction of the socialised and subsidised costs of private vehicle use, thoug
Beat me to it, Heidi
Meanwhile in China they have tiny cars
Good lord. That’s an eye opener. A few issues there… I saw a similarly small one recently. And it was plastered with advertising for “Sky Bus”. Smallest sky bus I’ve ever seen. 🙂
goosoid says:
Would be excellent shared cars.
Also 1.75 million made in 2017. Tesla thinks its 7000 Tesla 3’s a week is big deal.
Of course there are 70 million cars made a year (1.4 Miilion a week) so its going to take a while to replace all the fossil fuel burning ones. Apparently there are 1 billion cars in the world so you can see the scale of the task ahead.
Did you see the solar panel array China is not mucking around.
As well as more lane space for e-scooters to travel, we also need more space for them to park. The proliferation of Lime e-scooters has really highlighted the lack of space on footpaths to park scooters, bikes, mobility scooters etc. Many Lime users park inconsiderately but they’re not entirely to blame; our footpath infrastructure is inadequate nearly everywhere.
In places where footpaths are narrow they need to be widened. In places where footpaths are wide enough already they need to be designed with visual cues for what is ‘travel’ space (where people can walk, run or scoot free from obstructions) and what is ‘static’ space (where trees and street furniture are located, where scooters or bikes can be parked, where people can stand or sit). The difference between these two can be easily achieved by putting street furniture in a line (the gaps between become static space) or can be reinforced by using different surface treatments (different colours, textures etc for each area).
I do think schemes like Boris Bikes with docking stations work better but of coyrse the cost is an issue.
Why not just have Geo IP located designated areas where they can be left. If they are not in that area then they can’t be returned and the clock will keep running.
That would be a good compromise between docked and dockless.
Good idea but the problem is the difference between an appropriate and inappropriate place to park a Lime is often only a meter or two. This is too little for a consumer device GPS receiver (+/- 10m in good conditions) to tell the difference.
TLD says:
Lime attempts to address this problem by making users take a photo of how they’ve parked the scooter at the end of the ride. This is to show that you’ve parked sensibly. The app has a crowd-source QA function, where you can swipe through anonymous ‘end-of-trip’ photos and report any dodgy parking.
It doesn’t work though – people take really crappy photos which don’t show how the scooter is parked, and I don’t think there’s any enforcement from Lime.
And the scooters turn their siren on while I’m moving them somewhere better, which would be offputting for most people.
At least they don’t say “UNLOCK ME OR I’LL CALL THE POLICE”, like earlier versions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Ly1aArYjU
Kelvin says:
+1, with rain proof shelter as well.
JimboJones says:
Can you imagine how many scooters would be going up and down queen street if they closed it off to cars! I imagine there would be at least as many scooters using it as their currently are cars, so surely closing it to cars is the most sensible and efficient thing to do.
And skateboards. What a wonderful thing to see those lads on skateboards taking Queen St over in groups…
Agreed. Queen st has too many pedestrians so the sidewalks are not ideal.
We need a cycleway/scooter lane on queen st
I seem to remember reading somewhere that AC plans to make helmets compulsory on scooters. Anyone know anything about this?
Do they actually have that power? I would have thought it was a central government matter (like cycle helmets)
They wouldn’t have the power to enforce helmet wearing, but they could presumably add a rule in Lime’s operating license that the scooters must be provided with a helmet
Goff announced today that council would be starting a safety campaign around appropriate use of e-scooters, as well as making a submission to Government around enforcing stricter safety measures.
01James says:
I really hope that is not true
not supported.
Ah here it is: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12160214
Auckland Council is looking to crack down on e-scooter safety with the hopes of introducing a speed limit, helmets and police enforcement.
Addressing media today, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said council did not want to be “the fun police” but wanted to keep people safe.
I can’t see this government agreeing to make helmets mandatory. I think it’s likely they will remove the requirement to wear helmets on bikes before they leave office.
If they make helmets compulsory with harsh speed limit and too many restrictions. People simply don’t bother and don’t use it.
The unintended consequences is bureaucrats kills it off.
It would be very bad for the society.
This will be nothing to do with beauracrats and everything to do with reactionary busybody politicians.
Jon_K says:
Only pedantic gripe – “…and in the not too distant future, we’ll start to see intelligence emerge like auto braking before curbs, speed limiting on footpaths, etc” – Yeah, nah.
The capital cost of developing that tech vs the margins in selling the scooters makes it a very hard sell. Speed limits based upon complexity of the environment (lots of objects = lower limit) isn’t hard, don’t even need so-called AI for that, but detecting a curb is hard. Detecting a curb at speed even more so. Detecting a curb reliably, where the outcome of a false negative could result in severe injury/death and potentially massive lawsuits (civil and other) – Well, it’s just not worth the effort.
The technology you suggest is an attempt to work around the moral obligation for people to take responsibility for their actions, which in itself isn’t an issue. The issue is that shifting responsibility to manufacturers who are risk averse and have teams of lawyers will pretty much doom the tech. Ignoring for now the fallibility of the tech and how humans take perverse delight in gaming technology (driverless cars, security/concierge robots, etc).
Also, whilst the new electric tech is pretty cool and very disruptive, we really need to look at what happens to the tech 18-24 months after entry into a given market. I’m not suggesting that we’ll have a plague of unwanted vehicles being dumped into the harbour, a la China with rivers and pushbikes, but with any new tech it goes through a honeymoon period. I’m genuinely curious about what will happen after the honeymoon – Will it still be a major player, or relegated to history like rollerblades, walkmans and leg warmers.
Jeremy Smith says:
Good piece: the 3rd space- bike lanes- is the key.
Unfortunately this is the area – taking away space from cars in city streets -which provokes an emotional and sometimes vituperative backlash.
One Hamilton city councillor’s reported comments about people actually riding to work seemed almost as if he held them in contempt.
I think these attitudes reflect a minority but expect some screaming matches at meetings.
Fortunately many of those most opposed could also be in the mobility scooter cohort within ten years. They might then be very happy to use these lanes!
The Gold card converted plenty of older people to being PT users and, to some extent, advocates. Enabling entry seems to be a wise move to progressing the discussion in a healthy way.
Matt G says:
Great article thanks Patrick, please try and do more of these big picture perspectives
Ari says:
Great post. Really interesting information. I really wasn’t aware of how profitable they were, but it makes plenty of sense. It is a great business strategy for the first mover.
I prefer my e-bike but I can see the appeal of e-scooters. I prefer to just chuck them over the sea wall when they block my path on Tamaki Drive. Part of my civic duty and what not. Just wait till the Onzo Lemons arrive. What fun.
I can see how they can quickly change things because of the development turn around for such a simple device. But with the glacial pace AT moves at, it will be years before we see anything from them.
kiwi_overseas says:
Dave B (Wellington) says:
The bleating of the unimaginative who hanker for a future still dominated by cars (e- instead of ff-) will I am sure, grow steadily weaker. A new generation is coming on stream which sees things very differently from their car-obsessed seniors.
But in Wellington a group of them are mounting a rearguard offensive. A couple of erstwhile prominent businessmen – one a former city councilor, have formed a pro-car lobby hoping to topple the current ‘cycle-friendly’ mayor and get Wellington back to being a ‘city for motorists’. According to them, “bicycles are a 150-year-old technology that cars have virtually eliminated”.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/109165464/cyclists-in-the-firing-line-for-new-wellington-political-party
While these gentlemen have every democratic right to do this, with all due respect they are both fairly well on in years and are not the generation that will have to suffer the long-term consequences of what they are wishing for. And yet they seek to override the wishes of younger generations who have seen the mess that their elders have created, and by all accounts do not want to be steered continually back into it.
Hopefully when the time comes, young voters will arouse from their unfortunate apathy and show this dying breed that the world needs to change.
Perhaps what the young ‘uns need most is for responsible elders to take this fight on. The young have enough to do. If there’s one thing we can do for them it’s to clean up our own mess as best we can – politically, as much as environmentally and socially.
I’ve been trying for 45 years in my own little way, most of that time with seemingly zero effect.
All the young’uns have to do is vote a couple of times every 3 years, and try to remain interested or informed enough to do so meaningfully.
Oh, and learn to distinguish truth from the propaganda of deep-pocketed lobbyists who may even manipulate that fount of all news, Facebook!
Maybe too big an ask.
Good on you, Dave. Me too. I see the young ones either:
– managing to get political – like Gen Zero and the politically charged groups at my local high school,
– accepting as normal their parents’ avoidance of issues after having teachers’ initiatives ridiculed at home, or
– descending into depression. Far too many are depressed by the state of things.
I use those escooters almost everyday for commuting inside the city, they are very good except:
-Our sidewalks are mostly poor conditions with uneven bumps making them hard to handle and become unsafe when there is a hard bump. Cars can also come out from/to driveway fast which can be potentially dangerous.
-roads has too many cars and they may not see you. I wouldn’t risk my life.
-cycle way is the best choice but our law seem to be a grey area for scooters to use them. Also there are not enough of those in useful route such as queen st and Victoria st.
-The traffic light phasing in some of the city intersection is ricidious, sometimes the wait is so long that takes the majority of the journey time.
-There is a lack of sheltered bike/scooter parking. Escooters will get wet if it rains, which may become an issue since many models are not waterproof.
Maybe it’s time to build more escooters friendly cycleway and shared path near city, town centre and transit interchanges, and tweak the traffic lights along those routes.
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Hooked on dodging - study traces history of multinationals’ tax evasion
A new guide that looks into the historical causes of rampant tax fraud and tax evasion is being launched today by the GUE/NGL.
Written by MEP Miguel Viegas (PCP, Portugal), the 16-page study, ‘How We Got Here – A historical perspective on tax fraud and tax evasion’ argues that financial liberalisation that began in the 1980s allowed multinationals to develop and evolve their business models by separating the finance from the production side.
This decoupling gave rise to the crucial role played by tax havens in these multinationals’ aggressive tax planning – many of which like Apple and Amazon have gained notoriety for their tax tricks, just as citizens grapple with austerity and the fight for tax justice.
Commenting on the study and citing the malign neoliberal crusade by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Viegas said:
“I strongly believe that in order to combat tax evasion and fraud, we must understand the framework of economic and financial liberalisation that began in the 1980s with the emergence of the Washington Consensus.”
This study marks the latest in a series of GUE/NGL-commissioned reports looking into tax evasion and tax justice encompassing the role of the Big Four accountancy firms, Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), the EU’s Tax Treaties with Developing Countries, the troubling EU-Mercosur trade deal, Apple’s tax dodging and the Panama Papers. All of our studies can be found online here.
You can read more of the coverage here and by visiting our special website on tax justice.
Ben Leung
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You are here: Home / Archives / Volume 21 (2017) / Issue 2 / Acute pancreatitis and rhabdomyolysis: a rare association
Acute pancreatitis and rhabdomyolysis: a rare association
Hippokratia 2017, 21(2):112
Oikonomou T1, Doumtsis P1, Cholongitas E1,2
14th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2First Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School of National & Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
Key words: Acute pancreatitis, rhabdomyolysis, complications
Corresponding author: Evangelos Cholongitas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Medicine, First Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17 Agiou Thoma street, 11527 Athens, Greece, tel: +306936378903, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A 45-year-old patient presented to our department with acute, consistent abdominal pain, centered in the epigastrium and reflecting to the back for two days. The patient had a history of smoking, but he denied any alcohol or drug consumption. Palpation revealed muscle tension and tenderness on the epigastrium. Chest x-ray and electrocardiogram were normal. Laboratory findings were indicative of acute pancreatitis, with elevated levels of pancreatic enzymes [serum amylase: 1444 U/L, with upper limit of normal (ULN): 90 U/L and urine amylase: 2595 U/L (ULN: 321 U/L). Though, abdominal ultrasound and laboratory findings showed neither lithiasis in the biliary tree nor hypertriglyceridemia or hypercalcemia. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed swelling of the pancreas and necrotic lesions with pancreatic effusions. Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRI/MRCP) confirmed the diagnosis of severe necrotic pancreatitis, while there was no image of obstruction or distention of the biliary or pancreatic duct.
On the third hospitalization day, laboratory tests also revealed the presence of severe, asymptomatic rhabdomyolysis; serum creatine phosphokinase (CPK): 21,161 U/L (admission CPK: 194 U/L; ULN: 170 U/L), while myoglobin levels were 195.5 μg/L (ULN: <155). Heart examination was conducted; cardiac ultrasound showed normal ejection fraction (EF >60 %), without pericardial effusion, while serum troponin levels ruled out a heart condition. The co-existence of acute pancreatitis with rhabdomyolysis led us to investigate our patient for miscellaneous causes including infections by parasites, bacteria, and viruses. All tests came negative, even for neoplasia or IgG4related pancreatitis.
After ten hospitalization days, the patient was discharged with hematological and biochemical parameters almost normalized. On the last follow-up, MRI/MRCP showed significant improvement. Apart from these, clinical examination and laboratory data returned to normal, including levels of serum CPK.
The presence of acute pancreatitis with rhabdomyolysis is very rare, and it has been referred in the context of bacterial or viral infections, alcohol or drug abuse. The development of rhabdomyolysis as a result of acute pancreatitis has been reported in patients with severe form of the disease1. Interestingly, it has been suggested that when rhabdomyolysis presents later in the course of the disease, could as well be attributed to pancreatitis per se2. The exact pathogenesis has not been clarified, but it seems that pancreatitis supplies the body with a noxious combination of digestive enzymes, inflammatory mediators, and cellular debris probably responsible for the rhabdomyolysis3. In conclusion, acute pancreatitis can rarely be implicated with rhabdomyolysis, even when excluding any other common underlying etiologies.
1. Pezzilli R, Billi P, Cappelletti O, Barakat B, Miglio F. Rhabdomyolysis and pancreatitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1999; 14: 168-171.
2. Lellouche N, Bruneel F, Troche G, Ayoub N, Brouzes S, Sangana G, et al. [A rare cause of rhabdomyolysis: acute pancreatitis]. Gastroenterol Clin Biol. 2003; 27: 1172.
3. Nankivell BJ, Gillies AH. Acute pancreatitis and rhabdomyolysis: a new association. Aust N Z J Med. 1991; 21: 414-417.
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“You are by far the best park we have been to”
We have just arrived back in the UK after our two week rollercoaster tour of the USA taking in Cedar Point, SF Great Adventure, Dorney Park and Kings Island.
We would just like to say a big thank you and well done to each and every single person at Holiday World. Our two days were simply amazing. You may not be the biggest park or have the most rides of the parks that we have been to but you are by far the best park we have been to.
From amazing friendly staff, to sensational woodies, to a lovely clean park, to great value food and free drinks!! Even to seeing the park owner cutting pizza at dinner time. Also a huge well done for catering for vegetarians and vegans, not something that USA parks tend to do at all other than just fries.
In the Voyage you have the most stunning rollercoaster we have ever been on. I thought El Toro was great but The Voyage blows it away and pretty much any other ride. For sure our number 1 coaster now.
Whatever you are doing now, please don’t ever stop or what you are as you are the most perfect park I can imagine.
It was a long drive down to you from Sandusky but it was worth every single minute, we can’t wait to come and see you all again in the not too distant future.
Graham & Caroline W.
The Holiday World ‘cure
There's the manicure.
There's the pedicure.
And then there's Kim's…
Holiday World 'cure.
Greetings to the Military
This “American Adventure” segment was shot at Holiday World during the 2008 season for the Armed Forces Network; it is expected to air for four years.
Mrs. Koch’s description of The Voyage … sounds like she’s ridden it! (Or at least listened very carefully to a lot of comments from coaster enthusiasts).
Meanwhile, if you’re in the military (or know someone who is), check out our discounts. They’re available for Police, Fire, Corrections, and EMS as well!
SpokesSkipper
Oops. Meant to post these photos weeks ago.
This is part of the shoot for one of this season's TV spots.
Starring … who else?
Somehow I pictured her in a pilgrim's hat.
You know … with the big buckle?
But apparently the props department was fresh out.
John says at first Mrs. Koch wasn't all the crazy about donning a skipper's hat. Squished hair and all.
He told me she later changed her mind…
…and kept it.
(Oh, and I don't know why she's standing on her tippy-toes in this photo. I'm guessing something needed adjusting and she tried to compensate by growing an inch.)
“Fantastic! Exceptional! and WOW!”
WOW! What else can one write to describe the wonderful inaugural experience the S. Family found at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari Sunday, May 24, 2009?
Pros: Free parking, free drinks, free sunscreen, good food, great rides, genuinely pleasant and helpful staff and pristine grounds. Everything about our visit was spot-on including value for dollar. It was so refreshing to visit an amusement park where “self-respect” (for want of a better description) has not been traded for profit margins. Truly exceeded our expectations.
Cons: None! The only regret is that we had not visited HW/SS prior to this trip. We very much look forward to another satisfying visit later this season.
See y’all then.
Twenty-eight years and counting
I just wanted to say that you guys at Holiday World do a great job.
My parents always took me there at least once a year. My mamaw and papaw always took me once a year as well. I have been coming there for the last 28 years, back when it was still called Santa Claus Land. We still call it that sometimes.
My family and I have had season passes now for the third year. It takes us a little over an hour to get to your park. We will just decide to come on a whims notice, even if it’s just for a couple hours of fun. Both my wife and I work only part-time so we come a lot.
The free soft drinks really make the world of difference, especially for the kids. On a hot day it could even be a matter of health.
Both of our children were always taller than most and where able to ride Frightful Falls (lovingly referred to as the “Log Ride”) and Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride (referred to as the “Octopus”), and then they would want to be swung like the “birds” even before they were 2 years old. They still love all of them.
For the last two seasons we have had a travel trailer camper making it even nicer to camp at Lake Rudolph. The kids can go back to the camper mid-day and take a nap and then go back to Holiday World for more fun. They talk about your park all fall and winter long awaiting the opening.
I can remember a lot of changes to your park, but a lot of the rides are still the same. Please keep it this way. Most of the changes were great, though I would like to see another wax museum like you had where the Liberty Launch is now. Although, that is a very fun ride.
Please, and I am sure that you will, keep up the good work.
Eric M.
Depauw, IN
What a difference 2 weeks makes
Two weeks ago, the lifeguards were training in 72-degree water.
Did you know we post Splashin' Safari's average water temperature on our website? Here's the link straight to it on our Rules & Services page.
We also post it on our Twitter page.
And yes, the water is considerably warmer after this week of lovely weather and temps in the 80s.
Crazy like a Fox
Do you think Mrs. Koch is crazy to ride Pilgrims Plunge again–twice?
After all, she'd just gotten her hair done this morning.
Well, Keith and Eric from Fox 41 in Louisville were here. It would have been sort of rude to refuse.
Keith had special permission to ride with a video camera taped to his hand.
He and Eric were taking a look at the footage afterwards. Tiny Mrs. Koch nearly had to leap in the air to see, too.
A cake like none other
When I was a kid and my mom asked, "What kind of birthday cake do you want?" it meant chocolate or vanilla.
When Spencer was asked that question recently, just before he turned 8, he had a very different request.
His mom, Melissa, emailed this today:
Our family enjoyed opening day at the park this year. My oldest son was kind enough to ride Pilgrims Plunge twice (once with each parent). He then decided that is what he wanted for his birthday cake.
I have attached the pictures.
How cool is this cake? (How cool is Spencer’s mom?!)
Here’s a close-up of the frosting splashdown:
Still have to wonder, though … chocolate or vanilla?
Closer to a Cure
In the four years we've hosted the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, we've seen a lot of walkers.
About 1,430 today.
Raised about $275,000 today. Thanks to all who helped make this possible.
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Report: Kohl’s Interested In Acquiring At Home
By Greg Sleter on May 17, 2019 Retail, Web Briefs
A month after reports surfaced that At Home was exploring options that included a possible sale, the home specialty retailer now appears to have a suitor.
Kohl’s.
Reuters reported that Kohl’s has approached At Home expressing interest in a possible acquisition. The report indicated that At Home is in “advanced deal negotiations” with private equity firms.
When reached about initial reports in April that the retailer was for sale by HomeWorld Business, At Home officials declined to comment.
Recently, At Home, which operates 188 stores in 38 states and has been steadily expanding its store footprint, reported that its fiscal year sales were more than $1 billion.
Kohl’s reported interest in At Home follows a year in which the department store retailer has tested several unique concepts in store. Among them is a program that allows consumers to drop off returns to Amazon at select stores and an initiative with WW (formerly Weight Watchers) that includes an in-store WW Studio and the launch of the WW line of housewares products.
Also, Kohl’s has teamed with discount grocer Aldi to develop a store concept that includes having both retailers under one roof.
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'HELLRAISER' WILL TEAR YOUR DVD PLAYER APART!
4-DISC BLU-RAY box-set of the seminal horror SAGA - 26th OCTOBER 2015
Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the release of Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box, a limited edition run of 5,000 deluxe box-sets featuring Clive Barker’s iconic and seminal horror classic Hellraiser. Arriving in time for Halloween on 26th October 2015, this exclusive box set will include the first three films in the Hellraiser saga alongside an abundance of bonus materials and never-before-seen footage.
These terrifying and original films will boast brand new 2k restorations along with hours of archival content and newly produced extras including audio commentaries and interviews with Clive Barker, Doug Bradley and Sean Chapman in his first interview on the Hellraiser films in decades.
The 4-disc set will also include the newly edited version of Leviathan, the definitive documentary on Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser 2. A new documentary, Hellraiser: Evolutions, will also be included and will look at the evolution of the hit horror franchise and its enduring legacy.
These features will sit amongst a host of rarities and never-before-seen footage from the movies including the legendary ‘Surgeon’ scene from Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, the subject of fierce debate amongst fans for many years, now finally unearthed for its home video debut.
This limited edition Blu-ray comes with an illustrated 200-page hardback book featuring new writing from Clive Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes and a 20-page booklet featuring never-before-seen original Hellraiser concept art. The limited edition packaging is adorned with incredible new artwork from Gilles Vranckx alongside a set of 5 exclusive art cards and a fold-out reversible poster.
Stephen King was once quoted as saying: “I have seen the future of horror… his name is Clive Barker.” That future became reality when, in 1987, Barker unleashed his directorial debut Hellraiser – launching a hit franchise and creating an instant horror icon in the formidable figure of Pinhead.
Barker’s original Hellraiser, based on his novella The Hellbound Heart, follows Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) as she comes head-to-head with the Cenobites – demonic beings from another realm who are intent on reclaiming the soul of her deviant Uncle Frank.
Picking up immediately after the events of the original Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II finds Kirsty detained at a psychiatric institute and under the care of Phillip Channard, a doctor who abuses his position to realise his own dark aims. In Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, a reporter investigating a mysterious death at a nightclub finds herself in the way of Pinhead and the Cenobites, who plan to bring their horrifying world into our own.
Coming at a time when the genre was degenerating into self-parody, Hellraiser offered a fiercely unique vision that approached its horrors with a far greater degree of seriousness than many of its contemporaries. Along with its sequels, the Barker-produced Hellbound and Hell on Earth, Arrow Video is proud to present some of the most terrifyingly original films in the history of horror in brand new 2K transfers.
4-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
· Brand new 2K restorations of Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
· Uncompressed PCM Stereo 2.0 and Lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 sound for Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
· DTS-HD MA 2.0 sound for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
· English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for all three films
· Limited Edition bonus disc
· Exclusive 200-page hardback book with new writing from Clive Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes
· 20-page booklet featuring never-before-seen original Hellraiser concept art
· Limited Edition packaging with new artwork from Gilles Vranckx
· Set of 5 exclusive art cards
· Fold-out reversible poster
DISC 1 – HELLRAISER
· Brand new 2K restoration approved by director of photography Robin Vidgeon
· Audio commentary with writer/director Clive Barker
· Audio commentary with Barker and actress Ashley Laurence
· Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser – brand new version of the definitive documentary on the making of Hellraiser, featuring interviews with key cast and crew members
· Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellraiser – actor Sean Chapman talks candidly about playing the character of Frank Cotton in Barker’s original
· Soundtrack Hell: The Story of the Abandoned Coil Score – Coil member Stephen Thrower on the Hellraiser score that almost was
· Hellraiser: Resurrection – vintage featurette including interviews with Clive Barker, actors Doug Bradley and Ashley Laurence, special make-up effects artist Bob Keen and others
· Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser
· Original EPK featuring on-set interviews with cast and crew
· Draft Screenplays [BD-ROM content]
· Trailers and TV Spots
· Image Gallery
DISC 2 – HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II
· Audio Commentary with director Tony Randel and writer Peter Atkins
· Audio Commentary with Randel, Atkins and actress Ashley Laurence
· Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II – brand new version of the definitive documentary on the making of Hellbound, featuring interviews with key cast and crew members
· Being Frank: Sean Chapman on Hellbound – actor Sean Chapman talks about reprising the role of Frank Cotton in the first Hellraiser sequel
· Surgeon Scene – the home video world premiere of this legendary, never before-seen excised sequence from Hellbound, sourced from a VHS workprint
· Lost in the Labyrinth – vintage featurette including interviews with Barker, Randel, Keen, Atkins and others
· Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellbound: Hellraiser II
· On-set interview with Clive Barker
· On-set interviews with cast and crew
· Behind-the-Scenes Footage
· Rare and unseen storyboards
· Draft Screenplay [BD-ROM content]
DISC 3 – HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH
· Brand new 2K restoration of the Original Theatrical Version [93 mins]
· Alternate Unrated Version [97 mins]
· Brand new audio commentary with writer Peter Atkins
· Audio commentary with director Anthony Hickox and Doug Bradley
· Hell on Earth: The Story of Hellraiser III – making-of documentary featuring interviews with Atkins, Keen and actor Ken Carpenter
· Time with Terri – brand new interview with actress Paula Marshall
· Under the Skin: Doug Bradley on Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
· Raising Hell on Earth – archival interview with Hickox
· On-set interviews with Barker and Bradley
· Never-before-seen Hellraiser III SFX dailies
· Theatrical Trailer
· Hellraiser III comic book adaptation [Disc gallery]
DISC 4 – THE CLIVE BARKER LEGACY – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
· Clive Barker short films Salomé and The Forbidden
· Books of Blood & Beyond: The Literary Works of Clive Barker – horror author David Gatward provides a tour through Barker’s written work, from the first Books of Blood to the recent The Scarlet Gospels
· Hellraiser: Evolutions – a brand new documentary looking at the evolution of the hit horror franchise and its enduring legacy, featuring interviews with Scott Derrickson (director, Hellraiser: Inferno), Rick Bota (director, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Deader and Hellworld), Stuart Gordon (director, Re-Animator, From Beyond) and others
· The Hellraiser Chronicles: A Question of Faith – short film
200-PAGE BOOK – ‘DAMNATION GAMES’ – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
· Exclusive 200-page hardback book with new writing on Hellraiser and the Barker universe from Barker archivists Phil and Sarah Stokes – including chapters looking at Barker’s early work, the genesis and production of the first 3 films in the Hellraiser series and much more, all illustrated with stills and rare material from the Barker archive
Release Date Monday 26th October 2015
Formats Blu-ray
Running Time 93/99/93 mins
Number of Discs B
B B (Blu-ray) 2 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Blu-ray Cat Number FCD1171
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Arran 14 Year Old Island Single Malt Whisky
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10/06/2018 03:55 pm ET Updated Oct 06, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed To Supreme Court As Senate Rejects Me Too Movement
The vote was about something much bigger than judicial philosophy. It was about whether women can be believed.
By Jennifer Bendery and Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday, ending an ugly, painful, weekslong Senate fight over whether women’s sexual misconduct allegations against him were credible and mattered.
Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed, 50-48. Every Republican but one, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), voted for him. Every Democrat but one, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), voted against him.
The vote would have been 51-49, but Murkowski, whose vote will be recorded as “no,” agreed to vote “present” during the actual vote as a favor to Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), who supports Kavanaugh but was away at his daughter’s wedding. By voting “present,” and with Daines out, the final tally was 50-48. Their paired vote, as it’s called, maintains the same two-vote margin and does not change the outcome.
Kavanaugh’s fate ultimately came down to four senators who were undecided on how they would vote until the very end: Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Murkowski and Manchin. Murkowski was the only one of the four who did not support him.
Anti-Kavanaugh demonstrators in the Senate balcony shouted protests throughout the vote.
“You are a coward! You’re a total coward!” one protester yelled at Flake as he voted for Kavanaugh.
“Shame on you,” two female protesters shouted at Manchin as he voted yes. “How dare you prioritize him over us.”
Capitol Police on Saturday arrested 164 demonstrators, including 13 people who screamed at lawmakers inside the Senate gallery.
“This is a stain on American history,” one woman shouted.
BREAKING: Protests erupt in the Senate as VP Pence presides over the vote on Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation. https://t.co/f32ecMfRed pic.twitter.com/QdbjWrN6JE
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 6, 2018
Democrats had never been particularly happy with Kavanaugh, who was a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. They raised concerns about his judicial philosophy and how he would rule on abortion and health care issues. But his nomination blew up completely last month when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor, publicly came forward with allegations that Kavanaugh tried to rape her in high school.
Millions of people watched as Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing a 1982 party where a drunk Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, allegedly pushed her into a room, pinned her down, groped her and covered her mouth when she tried to scream. Her testimony took place as two more women came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Kavanaugh denied all of the allegations, alternating between crying, yelling and interrupting Senate committee members as they pressed him on Ford’s story. His unhinged behavior raised a fresh round of questions about whether he had the temperament to be a Supreme Court justice. He blamed his rocky confirmation process on politics. He sneered at female senators on the committee. He repeatedly lied under oath about little and big things.
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Brett Kavanaugh is on his way to the Supreme Court, despite public allegations of sexual assault or misconduct by three women.
Yet none of that was enough to sway Republicans to oppose Kavanaugh. Some argued that Ford’s contemporaries couldn’t corroborate her story, despite Ford securing affidavits from four people who said she previously told them about Kavanaugh’s alleged attack. Others said they believed Ford was sexually assaulted by someone, but that it couldn’t have been Kavanaugh.
None of them could answer the question at the heart of their decision to support Kavanaugh: whether they believe Ford is lying, or whether they believe she is telling the truth but that her allegations don’t matter for judging the character of a nominee to a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Republicans raged against the other women’s accusations. One woman said that in high school, Kavanaugh attended parties where groups of boys would rape girls (though she didn’t say she’d witnessed Kavanaugh himself committing rape). To Republicans ― especially Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) ― this was a straightforward “gang rape” accusation, one so obviously ridiculous that it became a rallying cry.
Ahead of a procedural vote on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) framed the confirmation fight not only as a battle over the Supreme Court, but as a test of whether the Senate should believe allegations against a nominee that don’t come with firm corroboration.
That, McConnell said, is the statement the Senate will make with its Kavanaugh vote.
“We will either state that partisan politics can override the presumption of innocence, or we will reaffirm that, in the United States of America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty,” he said.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation flies in the face of the cultural and political Me Too movement, which has empowered women in all walks of life to speak out about sexual assault and harassment, especially by men in positions of power. The movement began partly in response to the election of President Donald Trump, who has bragged on tape about sexual assault and been publicly accused of assault or misconduct by more than 20 women.
Collins said Friday that she was confident that Kavanaugh will not overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. She also said that she believes Ford, but thinks somebody else besides Kavanaugh must have been the perpetrator. This is despite Ford testifying, under oath, that she is “100 percent” sure that Kavanaugh was her attacker.
“We must listen to survivors,” Collins declared Friday in a sweeping Senate floor speech about doing the right thing, moments before pledging to vote for Kavanaugh. “The Me Too movement is real, it matters, it is needed, and it is long overdue.”
Need help? Visit RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.
Jennifer Bendery
Senior Politics Reporter, HuffPost
Arthur Delaney
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Nico Buris joins Rabagast as Managing Director/EP for South America
We are pleased to announce that Nico Buris is joining production service company Rabagast as Managing Director/EP for Rabagast’s offices in South America.
“Production service at the highest levels require the best of the best and Nico is one of those. He was our top pick to head our operations in Chile, Uruguay and Argentina and we are thrilled that he has joined the Rabagast family,” says Rabagast’s founder Magnus Thulin.
“Trust, accountability, and experience are everything when choosing a production partner. For me, it’s all about the Rabagast team and our ability to create an authentic partnership with our clients at the highest level of service,” notes Buris. “It is very attractive to be a part of a company that has been around for nearly two decades and has clients that have been with them from the start.”
“This is an exciting time for production service in South America – with an increase in the level of work that clients trust to bring to the region,” Nico continues. “My job is to make sure that most of this work is done with Rabagast.”
Buris knows better than most what the region has to offer. For the last 20 years he has been producing in his native Argentina as well as in Chile and Uruguay. Previously a producer at Landia, one of the top Spanish speaking production houses in the world, Buris has worked closely with directors on large-scale projects in the US, Europe and South America. Among them are collaborations with American ad agencies on projects for Coca Cola, SC Johnson and Procter & Gamble.
He was also a line producer at Tronco, a commercial and creative content production company where in collaboration with the US based production company 1st Avenue Machine his credits include Benjamin Moore for The Martin Agency, Sonos for 72 & Sunny, Pure Leaf for DDB, and Motorola for Droga 5.
“’Where can we best shoot this?’ is my favorite question I get from our US clients,” says Jeanette Rahill, EP North America based in LA. “With Rabagast having offices in five countries the answer may not always be an obvious one. Nico and I work closely to find the best solutions for South America – when we bid, we examine cost effectiveness without sacrificing the creative vision that the project demands.”
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Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Add a New Member to Their Family
By Katrina Nattress
Congratulations are in order! Over the weekend, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin welcomed their first son to the family. Dogson, that is.
On Saturday (December 22), the pop star posted an adorable picture of the couple's tiny new puppy, Oscar. "Meet our dogson his name is #Oscar," he captioned a photo of the dog perched on his shoulder.
The newly weds also overloaded their Instagram stories with adorable photos and videos of the new family member, including lots of cuddles, naps, Merry Christmas messages, and the pup licking Baldwin's face and Bieber's chest. It may be a little overkill, but who doesn't love puppy pics?
Check out Bieber's announcement post below.
Meet our dogson his name is #Oscar
A post shared by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on Dec 22, 2018 at 4:34pm PST
Although this is the young couple's first foray into parenthood, don't expect any human children from the Biebers in the near future. During a recent interview with Vogue Arabia, the 22-year-old modeled expressed her dream to start a family, but confessed it won't be happening "any time soon."
The couple had a secret courthouse wedding in the fall, which they finally confirmed just last month. At the end of November, the Biebers moved to Canada full time, and their fur baby proves they're settling into their new home just fine.
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TV-14 | 46min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2005–2012)
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson runs the Priority Homicide Division of the LAPD with an unorthodox style. Her innate ability to read people and obtain confessions helps her and her team solve the city's toughest, most sensitive cases.
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Brenda puts her career on the line to prove that Philip Stroh is guilty of murder, even though she has no hard evidence or smoking gun.
To Protect & to Serve
When Flynn and Provenza put sky box tickets over duty, the repercussions could bring the unit down.
Blindsided
A reporter dies while Brenda helps him profile the LAPD, but Pope bars her from participating in the case until the department psychiatrist clears her for duty. At home, she and Fritz await her ...
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Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 72 nominations. See more awards »
Major Crimes (2012–2018)
The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison
Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles team up to solve crimes in Boston.
Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges
Cold Case (2003–2010)
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases", older crimes that have never been solved.
Stars: Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn
Body of Proof (2011–2013)
Medical examiner Megan Hunt's unique approach to solving crimes puts her at odds with her superiors.
Stars: Dana Delany, Jeri Ryan, Geoffrey Arend
Without a Trace (2002–2009)
The cases of an FBI unit specializing in missing persons investigations.
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Enrique Murciano
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
This third Law and Order series involves the criminal justice system from the criminal's point of view.
Stars: Kathryn Erbe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamey Sheridan
Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Working for the F.B.I., a mathematician uses equations to help solve various crimes.
Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch
Unforgettable (2011–2016)
Carrie Wells, a former police detective, has a rare ability to remember virtually everything she experiences including detailed visual recall. She returns to police work and uses her ability to solve crimes.
Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh, James Hiroyuki Liao
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads
Law & Order (1990–2010)
Follows a crime (usually a murder), usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.
Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina
Medium (2005–2011)
Suburban mom Allison DuBois attempts to balance family life with solving mysteries using her special gift. The dead send her visions of their deaths or other crimes while she sleeps.
Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
CSI head Detective Mac Taylor and his team solve crimes in New York City.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper
Kyra Sedgwick ... Brenda Leigh Johnson 109 episodes, 2005-2012
J.K. Simmons ... Will Pope 109 episodes, 2005-2012
Corey Reynolds ... David Gabriel 109 episodes, 2005-2012
Robert Gossett ... Russell Taylor 109 episodes, 2005-2012
G.W. Bailey ... Louie Provenza 109 episodes, 2005-2012
Jon Tenney ... Fritz Howard 109 episodes, 2005-2012
Phillip P. Keene ... Buzz Watson / ... 109 episodes, 2005-2012
Tony Denison ... Andy Flynn 108 episodes, 2005-2012
Michael Paul Chan ... Mike Tao 107 episodes, 2005-2012
Raymond Cruz ... Julio Sanchez 105 episodes, 2005-2012
Gina Ravera ... Irene Daniels 44 episodes, 2005-2009
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, formerly Atlanta police officer and CIA-trained interrogator, is given the opportunity to run her own division of elite officers of the Los Angeles Police Department. Her unusual procedure for obtaining confessions, blatant disregard for politics, and southern accent make her a marked woman. However, with all the bluster and bravado, she still maintains her title, The Closer. Written by Willie Nelson Crane Jr
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Sgt. David Gabriel: You brought your cat to a crime scene?
Brenda Leigh Johnson: It's not my cat, it just lives with me and eats at my house.
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Q: How is it that each individual show over seven seasons is rated 8.0+ on IMDB (except one, episode 11 in Season 4E, rated at 7.9) but the whole show is cumulatively rated at 7.9 ?
Q: Why is the show ending?
21 September 2005 | by danadavis67867 – See all my reviews
I didn't see the first episode of this series, but from the first time I watched it I could tell it would be one of my favorite shows. And I wasn't disappointed. There are so many things I love about this show, but most of all it is hilarious to watch the characters interact with each other. Kyra Sedgwick excellently portrays a tough woman who won't let people walk all over her. People complain that Brenda is a b****, but maybe that's the point. What fun would it be to watch a show with nothing but sweetness and joy between the main characters, no conflict whatsoever? The tension she endures and often causes just makes the show all the more entertaining.
What is most irritating, however, is to hear people complain about how the perpetrators in each show is obvious. Anybody who had listened what TNT had been saying about the show before it premiered would know that they said from the beginning that this show would be unlike other crime dramas in that the crime would not be the main focus. This show is ABOUT Brenda Johnson.
So, in conclusion, this is an excellent, intelligent, amusing show, and I am sad to see the season end.
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59 new genetic variants associated with blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels have been identified
The study will be published in the online journal Nature on 5 August
Three of the genetic variants discovered, which are associated with HDL cholesterol, could be clear therapy targets for reducing the risk of myocardial infarction.
The majority of the variants associated with LDL cholesterol that have been discovered are associated with a high risk of suffering a myocardial infarction
The association between the genetic variants and the level of cholesterol and triglycerides does not show significant differences between European, Asian or Afro-American poopulations.
An international study which will be published in the next issue of the prestigious journal Nature, in which researchers from the IMIM have participated, has identified 95 genetic variants related to LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Of these 95 associated genetic variants, 59 had not been previously identified. This discovery provides the biological basis needed to develop a wider understanding of how the lipoprotein metabolism works and new therapy possibilities for preventing cardiovascular diseases are being identified.
This project, in which researchers from 117 different institutions took part, carried out a whole genome association study on 100,184 people of European origin and on a further 35,000 people of non-European origin. In each participant 2,500,000 genetic variants were studied as well as the LDL colesterol, HDL colesterol and triglyceride levels. Later, the association between the genetic variants studied and the lipid parameters was analysed, identifying 95 genetic variants associated with one of the parameters analysed. According to Gavin Lucas, IMIM researcher and co-author of this work: “The genetic variants identified explain between 10% and 12% of the variability of the different lipid parameters assessed. Furthermore, by working with such a broad sample, this study has enabled us to also study this association in relation to gender and geographical descent".
One of the most important contributions of this project is the analysis carried out on the association of these genetic variants with myocardial infarction as, despite the wide acceptance of the causal relationship between LDL cholesterol and infarction, the causal relationship between HDL cholesterol, triglycerides and myocardial infarction is very much debated. This debate was opened following the results of clinical tests using a drug which increases HDL cholesterol levels, but which does not reduce the risk of suffering a myocardial infarction. Nevertheless, this project has determined that, even though most of the genetic variants associated with HDL cholesterol that were studied did not support a causal relationship between HDL cholesterol levels and myocardial infarction, of the 27 genetic variants associated with HDL cholesterol only, two variants located in the KLF14 and C6orf106 genes were also associated with a higher risk of infarction; 1 variant, in the NAT2 gene, of the 14 associated with triglyceride only, was associated with infarction; and 1 variant associated with HDL cholesterol and triglycerides, in the IRS1 gene, was also associated with myocardial infarction. This discovery is of great importance as it turns these genetic variants into key therapy targets for reducing the risk of suffering a myocardial infarction.
The study has also established that the presence of these genetic variants is associated with a higher risk of having extreme (very high) LDL cholesterol and triglyceride values and very low HDL cholesterol values. We should bear in mind that LDL cholesterol is the one we commonly refer to as “bad cholesterol” since it is the one deposited onto the artery wall and which causes atherosclerosis. In contrast, HDL cholesterol, or “good cholesterol”, transports this deposited cholesterol to the liver where it is eliminated.
“Whole genome association studies have opened up new research paths which enable us to learn about the genetic bases of different biological processes. Thanks to this study we now know more about the genetic bases which determine population-wide lipid levels and genetic variants are being identified which suggest new therapy targets for modifying triglyceride and HDL cholesterol levels, and thus reduce the risk of acute myocardial infarction, a disease affecting around 80,000 people per year in Spain and which is the main cause of death in developed countries" concludes Gavin Lucas.
Reference Article
(*) “Biological, Clinical, and Population Relevance of 95 Loci for Blood Lipids”. DOI: 10.1038/nature09270
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The Kylie Shop Opens Successfully, But Shoppers Do Not Find The Shipping Fees Thrilling
Eunice Alcala
The Kylie Shop is finally open and like its Kylie Lip Kit sister, the Jenner member’s newest project broke serious buying records. Due to the hype that surrounded Kylie Jenner’s latest project, the actress even introduced a shopping restriction to accommodate as many shoppers as possible.
On her website, the fashion mogul said that buyers can only purchase five items at once. Prior to opening The Kylie Shop, the 19-year-old had been teasing fans on Instagram with photos of her exclusive items including iPhone cases, accessories, and bomber jackets. Almost everything from the website sold out in less than 24 hours since the website opened.
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While the shopping ban might appear burdensome, Kylie maintains that she wants to make many shoppers happy by giving them more chances to score her merchandise. As opposed to the previous launches of the Kylie Cosmetics, The Kylie Shop opened for business on the weekend. She also paired the launch with the opening of a Kylie Cosmetics Pop-Up Shop at the Topanga Mall in Los Angeles.
The cheapest items are the iPhone cases priced at around $15 while the bomber jackets are the priciest ones at $200. Those who want to plan their year ahead may also purchase calendars with Kylie’s face on them.
However, even if many items from The Kylie Shop are easy on the pocket, some have asked about the high shipping costs. The website asks for $9.95 for items to be shipped anywhere in the United States. International shipping, on the other hand, costs $20. This means that purchasing one of Kylie’s quirky tees will cost shoppers a total of $45 including the shipping fee.
Many noticed that The Kylie Shop’s shipping rates are higher than the published costs at Kylie Cosmetics. For the beauty products, the domestic shipping fee is $8.95, while $14.95 for international.
Kylie arrived at the opening of her pop-up shop and shared a glimpse of the chaotic scene on her Snapchat account. According to fans, queues for her shop started to form on Thursday evening. Fans stayed overnight for they wanted to get their hands first on the items.
The shop was reportedly decorated with a sparkling white Christmas tree that has Kylie lip kit-themed holiday gifts underneath. Many of the fans also channeled their inner Kylie by wearing outfits reminiscent of the reality star’s previous fashion choices.
Kylie claims that she built the empire for the people who continue to stand by her. Throughout the years, she endured criticisms targeting her appearance and talent. Scream Queens star Keke Palmer recently called out the people who kept on “bullying” Kylie because of their skewed standards of beauty.
Despite all the vile comments being thrown at Kylie, she managed to become one of the savviest members of the family by launching various passion projects. In a previous interview with Adweek, Kylie acknowledged that being a “young socialite on the Internet” made her prone to being bullied. Nonetheless, instead of dwelling on hatred, she would rather embrace positivity.
“Honestly, I feel like at this point I’ve gotten so numb to it. I still do my thing and people still love me and my lip kits are still selling out and 10,000 people still come to my appearances, so I don’t think it’s about the negative comments, it’s about turning it around and being able to come out on top. I feel like the more people who love you, there’s going to be more people who hate you. It doesn’t really affect me.”
Her 2016 earnings speak a lot about her fans’ support for her items. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kylie “earned $18 million making more than than mom Kris ($11.5 million) and sisters Kendall ($17 million), Khloe ($15 million) and Kourtney ($10 million).”
Kylie’s pop-up shop is open until December 23.
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Pond Stocking
Years of experimentation have shown three fish species are best suited for Iowa ponds. Largemouth Bass and Bluegill are the primary species stocked in ponds, and must be stocked in combination to provide a good fishery. Bluegills are an excellent panfish and serve as prey for largemouth bass. Channel Catfish are also recommended for pond stocking due to their popularity with Iowa anglers and opportunity they provide for excellent fishing. All three species are available from many private hatcheries in Iowa.
Stocking and Managing Iowa Ponds
+ Pond Stocking | Bluegills
Bluegills provide most of the "take home" catch and most of the forage for largemouth bass. A bluegill rarely exceeds one pound in weight, but pound for pound it is the sportiest fish around. The average size caught is 6 to 7 inches and 1/4 to 1/3 pounds. Bluegills live about five years, but 13-year-olds have been recorded. Bluegills reach sexual maturity at age one with a 4-inch female producing about 4,000 eggs.
Spawning takes place from May through late August. Male bluegills build nests (shallow depressions) in shallow water and lure a female to the nest to lay eggs. The male guards the eggs and nest during incubation which takes 2 to 5 days. He continues to guard the newly hatched fry until the yolk sac is absorbed and the fry swim off. These young bluegill provide most of the food needed to have a healthy population of bass.
Hybrid sunfish should not be used as a substitute for a forage species such as bluegill, especially in new ponds. Bluegill reproduction provides the necessary forage (small bluegill) for predator species such as bass. Reproduction by hybrid sunfish is very limited and not enough to maintain reasonable growth and condition for larger predators.
+ Pond Stocking | Largemouth Bass
Largemouth bass, the trophy fish in ponds, is the major predator of young bluegill. A past state record largemouth bass, caught from an Iowa pond, measured more than 24 inches long and weighed over 10 pounds. Under ideal conditions largemouth bass spawn in their second year of life, but most spawn in their third year. Male largemouth bass also build nests similar to bluegill, but the nests are larger. Spawning occurs in May and early June in shallow water. A female largemouth bass 10 inches long will produce about 2,000 eggs, but an older, bigger largemouth bass can produce 15,000 eggs. Bass eggs usually take 3 to 10 days to hatch. Male bass care for the fry until they are about 10 days old.
+ Pond Stocking | Channel Catfish
Channel catfish, considered as bonus fish in Iowa ponds, provide quality angling. Channel catfish grow large in ponds with some over 15 pounds. Channel catfish become sexually mature at two years old, but most reproduction comes from older fish. A female produces about 4,000 eggs per pound of body weight. Spawning occurs in June when the male builds a nest similar to largemouth bass and bluegill, except it is usually more protected. Male channel catfish also guard the nest and care for the young.
+ Pond Stocking | Other Species
Although the largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish combination typically does well on its own, Fathead Minnows are sometimes stocked to provide initial prey for largemouth bass but they will not sustainable.
Walleye and Northern Pike can be stocked into ponds without harm, but they rarely reproduce in ponds and must be stocked periodically to maintain their populations. Walleye seldom grow large in ponds, but northern pike often do.
Black Crappie may be suitable in ponds larger than 5 acres, but should not be stocked until largemouth bass and bluegill populations are well established.
White Crappie and Yellow Bass are not well suited for ponds because they usually produce little fishing, seldom grow to acceptable size in ponds due to excessive reproduction and compete directly with fish. Hybrid Striped Bass should also be avoided due to their direct competition with other species.
+ Correct Stocking is a MUST for Good Fishing
Correct Stocking is a MUST for Good Fishing
Some of Iowa's best fishing for Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Channel Catfish is provided by properly stocked ponds. Private hatcheries in Iowa have provided great success with the following rate in new or renovated ponds:
100/acre 3- to 6-inch Largemouth Bass
300/acre 3- to 5-inch Bluegill
100/acre 4- to 6- inch Channel Catfish
Hybrid sunfish should not be used as a substitute for a forage species such as Bluegill, especially in new ponds. Bluegill reproduction provides the necessary forage (small bluegill) for predator species such as bass. Reproduction by hybrid sunfish is very limited and insufficient to maintain reasonable growth and condition for larger predators.
Fish Parasites
Occasionally, anglers catch a fish infested with parasites. A healthy fish can tolerate some parasites with little ill effects. Black spot and yellow grub are the most common parasites found in Iowa pond fish. Fish infested with yellow grub are often called "wormy" or "grubby". This parasite is found in largemouth bass and bluegill. The yellow grub is enclosed in a cyst which often lies just beneath the skin. A bulge is often seen at the base of the fins or tail. The living worm, when squeezed from this bulge, is light yellow and about 1/4 inch long and 1/20 inch wide.
Black spot is small, black grains embedded in the skin and flesh. These black spots are the home to a small fluke. Found on several species of fish, they are very common on bluegill.
Black spot in fish fillets
Yellow grubs in fish fillets
Since humans cannot be infected with these parasites, it is safe to eat fish that have them. The parasites are killed when the fish are thoroughly cooked. It is not practical to try to remove these parasites from a pond.
A fungus called Saprolegnia can sometimes be found on fish in ponds. This grayish, cotton-like growth is usually a secondary infection caused by an adverse environmental condition such as disease, low oxygen levels or spawning stress. Many times it is seen on the tails, sides or bellies of fish which have rubbed these areas raw while spawning. Fish not too badly affected will recover, but some will die.
How to Fish For...
Iowa’s fishing opportunities are as diverse as the fish you can catch. Choose one of Iowa's most popular species for tips and techniques from the experts.
Common pond fish:
Fishing for Bluegill
Fishing for Largemouth Bass
Fishing for Channel Catfish
Key to Pond Management:
Harvest Bluegills,
Release Most Largemouth Bass
Iowa ponds contain about 250 pounds of bluegill per surface acre of water; therefore, this species will provide most of the fishing in a pond. Bluegill harvest can begin the second year after stocking. No limits are necessary for bluegill in private ponds because they are plentiful.
Largemouth bass populations in a balanced Iowa pond will reach 50-75 lbs/acre. Largemouth bass should not be removed until the third year after stocking. No more than 15 largemouth bass/acre over 14 inches in length should be removed each year. Greater harvest rates will reduce the quality of largemouth bass and bluegill fishing. Removing too many largemouth bass may result in small bluegills due to their prolific reproduction.
Channel catfish harvest can typically begin within three years after initial stocking. Harvest should not exceed 15 fish/acre and can be restocked once half the original population has been harvested. Large fingerlings (at least 8-inch) should be stocked when introducing channel catfish in established ponds to escape predation by largemouth bass.
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A curious vessel, silver-guilt ostrich egg cup (Cobbe Collection, Newbridge House) McGregor A. Vol 30 no 2 (2013) p144
A gift between sisters, Louis XV corner cupboards (Castletown House Collection) Laffan W. Vol 31 no 4 (2014) p152
Angel with a trumpet, medieval stained-glass panel (Hunt Museum, Limerick) Maguire H. Vol 29 no 4 (2012) p160
Barbier, George (1882-1932) Costumes Parisiens, Journal des Dames et des Modes (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin) Unkel J. Vol 30 no 3 (2013) p144
Bening, Simon (1483/4-1561) Illuminating Prayer, 'Nativity of Christ & Birth of the Virgin' (Chester Beatty Library) Horton C. Vol 24 no 4 (2007) p168 View PDF
Blackshaw, Basil, On Mature Reflection, Fallon B. Vol 21 no 1 (2004) p62 View PDF
Brian Fallon's Favourite Few, Collins P. Blackshaw B. et al, Fallon B. Vol 19 no 3 (2002) p76 View PDF
Buck, Adam Portrait of Maria Burke (Private collection) Whiteley, J. Vol 32 no 3 (2015) p440
A Loving Embrace: The Carrickfergus Madonna (The Ulster Museum) Northern Ireland edition, Black E. Vol 22 no 4 (2005) p79 View PDF
Crozier, William (1930-2011) A Crozier for the National Gallery of Ireland, 'Flander’s Fields' (National Gallery of Ireland) Rainbird S. Vol 30 no 1 (2013) p144
Cranach the Elder, Lucas (1472-1553) studio of, Judith with the Head of Holofernes (National Gallery of Ireland) Mancini S. & Le Harivel A. Vol 31 no 1 (2014) p144
Cuyp, Alebert (1620-1691) Guilded Youth, 'Landscape with a portrait of a youth and his tutor on Horseback' (National Gallery of Ireland) Waiboer A. Vol 23 no 1 (2006) p144 View PDF
Do, Juan (c. 1604-1656) attributed to, Christ disputing with the doctors, 'The Master of the Annuciation to the Shepards & Christ disputing with the doctors' (National Gallery of Ireland) Croke F. Vol 27 no 2 (2010) p144
Doherty, Willie, The past remains (Irish Museum of Modern Art) Glennie S. Vol 32 no 1 (2015) p144
Dublin's Cultural Registrar (Joseph Holloway Collection, National Library of Ireland) Finegan J. Vol 25 no 2 (2008) p152 View PDF
Edward Smyth’s plasterwork design for the Four Courts (Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin) Griffin D. Vol 27 no 4 (2010) p144
Elvery, Beatrice (1881-1970) Warriors and Scholars, 'Iosagán' (The Pearse Museum, Dublin), Crowley B. Vol 23 no 4 (2006) p168 View PDF
Farrell, Micheal (1940-2000) The Art of Exile, Ballagh R. Vol 21 no 2 (2004) p72 View PDF
Flemish Book of Psalms (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin), Horton C. Vol 21 no 4 (2004) p64 View PDF
Gibson, William (1840-1913) & Hart Robert, Sterling Service, Victorian Silverware (Queen's University, Belfast) McAnena S. Vol 25 no 3 (2008) p152 View PDF
Gormley, Antony, Together and Apart (University of Limerick) Lawless C. Vol 26 no 1 (2009) p144 View PDF
Heron, Hilary Clonfinloch (Fáilte Ireland) Shortall, W. Vol 33 no 3 (2016) p440
Hippocrates revived (Marsh’s Library, Dublin), McCarthy M. Vol 27 no 3 (2010) p144
Irish Steeplechase trophy romps home (Newbridge House Collection) Cobbe A. Vol 30 no 4 (2013) p144
Johnson, Thomas (c.1754) The Dragon Mirrors, (The Bishop’s Palace Collection, Waterford) McEneaney E. Vol 31 no 3 (2014) p144
Jordan Eithne (Mansion I) Cappock, M. Vol 32 no 4 (2015) p592
Keating, Seán, Wagon Train at Ardnacrusha (ESB collection) O’Connor É. Vol 32 no 2 (2015) p 296
Kingerlee, John, Hopkin A. Vol 21 no 4 (2004) p86 View PDF
le Nain, Louis (c. 1603-1648) An Act of Devotion, 'Adoration of the Shepherds' (National Gallery of Ireland) Benedetti S. Vol 20 no 4 (2003) p58 View PDF
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Lundberg, Gustaf (1695-1786) Art of the Enlightenment, portrait of George 1st Earl Macartney (The Ulster Museum) Stewart A. Vol 28 no 1 (2011) p144
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Maclise, Daniel (1806-1870) Grace and Favour, 'Francois I and Diane of Poitiers' (Crawford Gallery, Cork) Murray P. Vol 24 no 3 (2007) p144 View PDF
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Parreno, Philippe, The boy from Mars (Irish Museum of Modern Art) Kennedy C. Vol 27 no 1 (2010) p128
Primaticcio, Francesco (1502-1570) Drapery Studies, 16th century drawing (National Gallery of Ireland) Hodge A. Vol 26 no 3 (2009) p128
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ISA Ireland Section
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ISA Ireland Medallion
Awardees down the years!
Previous ISA Ireland Section Award Recipients
We are proud or our long standing tradition of acknowledging and encouraging excellence for those training for careers in automation, and also to express our thanks and recognition to those who have led the way in the pursuit of their careers in those fields. Irish industry is the bedrock sponsor of the ISA Ireland Section activities throughout the past thirty years of our existence. Browse through previous years of ISA award recipients by clicking on the links below the medallion (right).
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To be awarded, on the nomination of any third-level institution, to the best Post Graduate student studying Instrumentation / Applied Physics in Ireland.
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To be awarded to any person or group in recognition of a new invention or application, significant achievement in, or contributing to, instrumentation, automation, measurement and/ or control technology within Ireland.
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To be awarded, on the nomination of two or more Society members, in recognition of a lifetime devoted to instrumentation in Ireland.
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To recognise a project which has made a significant contributing to the advancement of Industry in Ireland through the use of Automation Technology.
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Welcome to the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) ! The ISE department offers both undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S., M.E.A., Ph.D.) programs. A broad range of industrial engineering topics are covered, particularly in the areas of Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics, Management Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Operations Research. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs are regularly included in U.S. News & World Report's annual listing of the Top 10 Industrial and Systems Engineering Departments in the nation. The undergraduate program is ranked #6, and the graduate program is #4 for 2020.
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The Dustman Family of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, Ohio
By Roy C. Ritter III
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Johan Martin Dostmann was born in 1730 in Nassig, Germany, and today his descendants can be found throughout the United States of America. One of them is Roy C. Ritter III, and he traces his family’s origins in this detailed history. Dostmann immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1752 with his sister and several friends and cousins, and so began the story of an enduring German-American family. After some time in Frederick County, Maryland, and Washington County, Pennsylvania, the family, which became known as Dustman, took advantage of the settlement opportunities in the newly formed Connecticut Western Reserve of Ohio, joining the state’s earliest pioneers. Johan Martin Dostmann died before that journey, but his surviving children and grandchildren made their mark in Ohio, particularly in Trumbull and Mahoning counties, where they prospered. Covering the first four generations of the Dustman family, this book will be a valuable resource for the descendants of Johan Martin Dostmann.
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Miss Decatur County advocates for Type 1, opens up about flying
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton uses her Miss Tennessee platform to advocate for Type 1 Diabetes and to be a role model for young girls.
Miss Decatur County advocates for Type 1, opens up about flying Miss Decatur County Callie Compton uses her Miss Tennessee platform to advocate for Type 1 Diabetes and to be a role model for young girls. Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/life/2018/06/22/miss-tennessee-scholarship-pageant/642915002/
Brittney L. Jackson, Jackson Sun Published 12:35 p.m. CT June 22, 2018
GALLERY: Wed. night at the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant
The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss UTM Morgan Martin - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss TN Valley Kristen Perry - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Tipton County DeLaney Timberman - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Parsons Tally Bevis - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Music City Chloe Hubbard - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Germantown Cassidy Sheppard - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Williamson County Brittany Davis - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Murfreesboro Marybeth Arnett - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss TN Soybean Festival Katie Hodges - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Mid South Amber Reed - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Queen City Alley Morgan - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Scenic City Meredith Maroney - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Lexington Madison Snipes - The first night preliminaries of the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant was held Wednesday, June 20. KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton competes in the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant talent preliminary, Wednesday, June 20.(Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)Buy Photo
When Miss Decatur County Callie Compton started competing in the Miss America Organization she did not like to wear her insulin pump on stage because she did not want to draw attention to it.
Thinking back, that’s hard for her to believe because now she is never ashamed of it and proudly wears it during every aspect of the competition. Even during swimsuit.
“The first couple of times I took it off, I ended up actually getting really high blood sugars and getting sick after the competition,” Compton said. “That’s just not worth it.”
Life-threatening disease
Compton was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a genetic disorder where the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin or produces very low amounts, at 2 years old.
By the time she was 3 years old, she and her family were involved in JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). Her parents were on the board and she has been part of several programs through the organization.
JDRF is the largest global nonprofit advocating for Type 1 and raising money for research, Senior Development Manager for JDRF West Tennessee Katie Pickler said.
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton introduces herself at the conclusion of a luncheon hosted by the Old Hickory Rotary and Downtown Jackson's Lion's Club, Monday, June 18, at the DoubleTree Hotel. (Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)
As someone who has Type 1, has an older sister with Type 1 and has worked so closely with JDRF for most of her life, choosing it as her platform for Miss Tennessee was only right.
“It’s something that’s really close to my heart,” Compton said.
Type 1 is a life-threatening disease that people don’t always take as seriously as they should. When Compton lost her first friend at the age of 15 to Type 1, it was very much a wake-up call for her.
Last August, she lost one of her best friends, who was a passionate advocate for Type 1, suddenly. He was healthy and seemed fine so it was a shock when she got the call that he had been found in Diabetic Ketoacidosis, a complication that occurs when the body produces high levels of ketones.
Miss Decatur County 2018 Callie Compton
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton poses at the JDRF walk 2017. Submitted
Callie Compton poses with an insulin pump at a JDRF event as Miss Memphis 2017. Submitted
Miss Decatur County 2018 Callie Compton. Victoria Clayton/J&B Photography
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton poses with a young Type 1 Diabetic while volunteering at a JDRF event. Submitted
Miss Decatur County 2018 Callie Compton. Kimberly Hill/KimbaWayne Photography
Callie Compton poses at the JDRF Promise Ball 2017 with a young JDRF volunteer. Darrell Greene/Fox News
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton poses with support network of diabetic friends in 2013. Submitted
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton, friend Blac and the Development Coordinator for JDRF, Katie Pickler at the 2013 Promise Ball. Submitted
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton poses with her late friend Blac at the 2017 JDRF Promise Ball. Submitted
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton waits to crown the Princess of Sparkling Nights at the 2017 Sparking Nights gala for SRVS Memphis. Submitted
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton poses at JDRF's Brew For A Cure with David and Beth Pickler. Submitted
It’s not something that she’ll ever get over, but she puts those feelings and that energy into advocating for more research that will hopefully lead to a cure.
“None of us want it to happen again,” Compton said. “We don’t want anyone else to lose their best friend to Type 1 diabetes.”
Living with Type 1
High blood sugar is the most frequent problem people with Type 1 diabetes, and it can cause a range of symptoms — from feeling sick and lethargic to blindness to ketoacidosis and death, Compton noted.
“There’s 42 factors that affect blood sugar,” Compton said. “So anytime we encounter one of those factors, such as exercise or eating anything at all, drinking anything with calories or carbs in it, we have to count all of that and manage it.”
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton (Photo: Submitted)
Type 1 can be managed with multiple daily injections or with an insulin needle pump.
For most of Compton’s life she managed hers with daily injections. She was taking up to 10 shots a day and checking her blood sugar anywhere from seven to 20 times a day.
Now she uses a needle pump, which is a device that has to be connected to the body at all times. It pumps insulin into the body without the use of needles, she said.
Miss Tennessee 2018 contestant Miss Decatur County Callie Compton introduces herself. KENNETH CUMMINGS, The Jackson Sun
Other than the fact that it’s bulky and has to be worn at all times, the pump is an example of how technology can make Type 1 a little easier to deal with.
“I’m a huge advocate for research and for the technology that’s in the works,” Compton said. “The artificial pancreas is here, the Medtronic 670G exists; it’s just a matter of getting it affordable and getting it in the patient’s hands.”
For those who have been able to get an artificial pancreas, it is life changing, Compton said. Some of her friends have gone from being in the proper blood sugar range 10-15 percent of the time to 80 percent of the time.
“I haven’t had a day without a high blood sugar since I was diagnosed,” Compton said. “I’m in range about 15 percent of the time. Imagine feeling like yourself and feeling normal 15 percent of your day.”
David Watlington and Miss Decatur County Callie Compton - The Jackson Exchange Club hosted Miss Tennessee 2017 Caty Davis and the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant contestants, Tuesday, June 19 at the DoubleTree Hotel. (Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)
Even though she doesn’t let it stop her, dealing with Type 1 diabetes is a constant battle. But sharing stories about her experiences are what helps bring awareness and sparks research and change.
In high school Compton was part of a Special Diabetes Program, supported by the government and JDRF, and was able to be part of Children’s Congress.
Through the program, she was selected to be a Tennessee representative at 16 years old.
“I got to speak to congressmen and senators about the need for funding (the artificial pancreas) and it got approved that year and renewed,” she said, adding that it makes her feel like she has a personal stake in the fruition of the artificial pancreas.
Sharing her story helped make a difference, and that is why she will never go back to not talking about her Type 1 diabetes.
Miss Decatur County Callie Compton competes in the 2018 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant talent preliminary, Wednesday, June 20. (Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)
“Miss Tennessee gives these young women this voice and this platform to talk about issues that are important to us, and should be important to the whole state,” Compton said. “One of my main goals is to continue advocating for (JDRF).”
Compton’s overall mission is to be the role model she wished she had growing up. Back in the late '90s, people weren’t talking about Type 1 diabetes as much as they are now.
However, there was Miss America Nicole Johnson in 1999. Johnson has Type 1 and was very outspoken about it during her Miss America term. Compton says she is who inspired her to get involved in the Miss America Organization.
While Compton has done so much work with JDRF and has really become her own advocate, Pickler said, where she has shined the most is in JDRF’s mentorship program.
When a girl is having a hard time with her Type 1 diagnosis or with her everyday life, Pickler always calls Compton to step in and talk to them as a big sister.
“When they’re first diagnosed, they instantly think ‘what can I not do now’ and now I’m able to say ‘look at Callie,’” Pickler said. “She is competing in Miss Tennessee, she’s doing the bathing suit competition, proudly wearing her pump.”
She can fly
Growing up, Compton dreamed of flying. She wanted to be a commercial pilot or enlist in the U.S. Air Force.
Unfortunately, Type 1 diabetics are not permitted to do either, due to safety concerns. She was devastated.
In high school she participated in an aerial silks workshop with the Aerial Angels and fell in love within hours. They called it flying, and even though it’s a different type, Compton was finally able to fly.
“Being able to fly, after being told that I couldn’t, and doing it on volition and my own strength was just a really neat feeling,” Compton said.
Compton has been doing it ever since. She created an LLC in college so she could teach and perform professionally, and now she travels all over the country to teach.
During Miss Tennessee last year, Compton did aerial silks for her talent but this year it is not permitted. So this year she is going to perform on the Cyr wheel.
“It combines dance and gymnastics and circus art,” Compton said. “It’s definitely unique, and I’m really excited to bring something completely different (and) new to Jackson this year.”
The wheels range from 35-50 pounds so it has been a challenge to learn how to move gracefully while handling it, Compton admitted. But she’s excited to bring something new to the Miss Tennessee stage.
But not as excited as she is to share her platform again and continue being a role model.
“It’s never been about me,” Compton said. “I really did want to use it to advocate for my platform and to show young Type 1 diabetics, especially young women, that you don’t have to be ashamed of your illness or of your pump or whatever disability you might have.”
Countdown to the crown
Prelims: Contestants take the stage for talent, evening wear and swimsuit at 8 p.m. Friday
Final competition: 7:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday
Crowning: The new Miss Tennessee will be crowned following final competition, around 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Carl Perkins Civic Center in downtown Jackson
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Bird’s View of River Fergus in Ireland’s County Clare
Bird’s View of River Fergus in Ireland’s County Clare.
A bird surveys the Fergus River Valley downriver from Ennis from its perch in a leafless tree in the hills above Lissycasey, County Clare, Ireland.
The River Fergus originates in the Burren Region of County Clare and flows through about seven lakes as well as the towns of Corofin, Ennis, Clarecastle and Newmarket-on-Fergus before emptying into the Shannon Estuary near Shannon Airport.
A rather colorful description of the River Fergus comes from the 1780 publication, “Lloyd’s Tour of Clare”:
“The River FERGUS, takes it’s Source from LOUGH FERGUS in the Barony of INCHIQUIN, and from it’s Junction and Communication with other Rivers issuing from the two Romantic Lakes of INCHIQUIN and BALLY-ANLY, it appears a large Navigable River saluting the Town of ENNIS, the thrice noble situation and elegant, old, Improvements of CLONROAD, from thence to CLARE, and four Leagues below it, exhibits a most delightful Appearance of various Meandring Courses, beautifully variegated with a Diversity of naturally improv’d Islands, until it falls into the SHANNON.”
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“The Last Empress” Final Episode Shocks Fans- A Bittersweet Ending
Jazmine K2019-02-22T00:41:53+03:00February 22nd, 2019|Categories: Kdramas Recap|Tags: The Last Empress|
“The Last Empress” final episode has aired today on February 21st.
The popular drama aired its first episode on November 21st, due to its popularity was extended to 26 episodes instead of 24, this is why the last episodes aired this week instead.
[WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD]
As it was previously reported, lead actor Choi Jin Hyuk was not present for the final episodes due to his extremely busy schedule and prior commitments and as a result his character was killed off.
His character’s absence was noticed in the final episode.
Let’s go through the final episode recap:
Oh Sunny wakes up a week after the accident, at first her husband, the emperor lies to her and tells her that Na Wang Sik was the perpetrator behind and says,
“We have put an APB across the Korean empire.”
He promised her he would submit the letter to the investigation and will go through it.
Empress Dowager Kang holds a press conference and puts the blame on her son; she places all the blame on him. She tells him he needs to sacrifice for the imperial family and must take on the punishment.
She promises him she’ll hire the best lawyer so he can serve minimum time in jail.
Emperor Hyuk hid Na Wang Sik’s body away, so his mother was still under the impression that he could possibly still be alive and onto her.
Due to his sense of guilt, Emperor Hyuk takes on the identity of Na Wang Sik. He covers himself in bandage and goes to the island to expose his mother’s wrongdoings.
After Emperor Hyuk visits the island to witness the horrors some prisoners were put through among other things, he is chased away by guards. He sustains some injuries.
Empress Dowager Kang is told Na Wang Sik is still alive and has visited the island. She leaves to the island to set a trap and take care of him herself.
Empress Sunny goes to the secret garden to retrieve evidence and set a trap for Empress Dowager Kang right-hand man Mr. Pyo, there Min Yura awaits and injects him with poison.
They tell him he has 10 minutes to confess to Empress Dowager Kang crimes and what he assisted her with, he eventually caves in and admits to many crimes which were recorded on a device.
The antidote he was promised is destroyed by Min Yura, he starts choking and while the girls escape he swings a brick at Sunny and hits Min Yura instead. The brick gravely injures her head.
Min Yura tells Sunny to go on and hand the evidence in, she also tells her that she is not upset, she only defended her and did all of this because she wanted to take her revenge and payback for her crimes.
When Empress Sunny calls Teacher Byun to share more details, he tells her that Na Wang Sik’s body was buried next to his mothers’. Empress Sunny cries after finding out Emperor Hyuk hid the truth from her, she goes to his room to confront him but when she barges into his room she finds towels soaked in blood, she goes to the island to look for him.
She believes he is trying to do something on his own despite his injuries.
Empress Dowager Kang is told by her assistant that Mr. Pyo can’t be reached; she believes he has been hunt down by Na Wang Sik, she asks the assistant to shut down the lab and take care of everything.
They try not to leave a trace behind and set it on fire; they also set the cages holding prisoners on fire. Emperor Hyuk barges in; he breaks the sells open to save them.
He is combated by his own mother’s men; he tries to escape but reaches a place he can’t find an exit from. His mother and her men surround him, she tells them to shoot him, but then retract her words and takes the gun from one of the men. She shoots her own son under the belief he’s Na Wang Sik.
Empress Sunny arrives just in time to see Emperor Hyuk getting shot; she tries to call out for the mother but is held captive by the men. After she shot him she goes there to see his face, when she finds out he’s her son, she screams on the top of her lungs.
She refuses to accept the fact that she shot her own son and instead blames him for disguising as Na Wang Sik. Sunny yells at her, “do you still call yourself a mother?”
Empress Dowager Kang then points the gun at her and attempts to shoot her before she is dragged away by the guards and her assistant after they find out the police have arrived.
Emperor Hyuk delivers one final emotional message to Sunny while dying, he tells her,
“I wasn’t a good emperor or husband. I am sorry.
I lived in your mother’s place but this is all I amounted to. I am sorry for that as well.
If we had met under different circumstances… it would have been nice. had we met as regular people…. I wouldn’t have hurt you as much as I did.
But thank you, for marrying someone like me, and for helping me love. I love you, Sunny.”
Sunny begs him to survive; she tells him to live and beg for forgiveness and says,
“If you die I won’t forgive you.”
Unfortunately, he dies in her hands before the ambulance arrives.
Empress Dowager Kang heads back to the castle, she takes out her possessions and tells her daughter to take them with her and hide them well. However, Seo Kang Hee escapes the prison and confronts her.
Their confrontation doesn’t end well, they fight each other and get into a blaming game, they blame each other for everything wrong they’ve done. Unfortunately for them, the police and press were eavesdropping and as soon as they left the room, they were arrested.
Princess Sojin hands the police her mother’s belongings and yells at her, she tells her mother to snap back to reality and pay for her crimes. She collapses after finding out that her brother has died as well.
After Empress Dowager Kang, Seo Kang Hee and the empress other assistant are arrested the public is outraged by her crimes. Some of them oppose the continuation of the imperial family while others vote in favor of it because of Empress Sunny.
Empress Sunny holds a press conference in which she explains Grand Empress Dowager Jo death was a suicide, she shows them the suicide letter and explains why.
She promises (in the power invested in her) to punish everyone who has committed crimes within the imperial family, she also states that they’ll follow the imperial auditors’ decision to abolish the imperial family.
During the trial, Empress Dowager Kang and Seo Kang Hee are both sentenced to death while Choi Yoon Mi (the other assistant) is sentenced to life in prison. Empress Dowager promises to fight till the end for her innocence while Seo Kang Hee accepts her punishment, she asks Sunny to let her see Ari one last time.
Sunny takes Ari to see her mother; however, Ari doesn’t remember her mother because she had collapsed following the news. Due to high fever and mental stress, the little girl forgot all about her mother and refused to talk to her, she is escorted outside the room.
Seo Kang Hee assures Sunny she’ll accept her punishment and asks her to take care of her daughter, Ari.
The drama jumps to one year later, Sunny is back at her father’s restaurant sporting a bob cut. Ari is a normal girl living a normal life struggling with normal kids issues. She visits the place that once was the imperial family home.
After taking a tour around the palace, she sees her mother’s figure telling her,
“Are you happy now? That is all I need.”
In one year span, the imperial system was abolished and a new democratic country was set, a new president has also been appointed.
It also turns out Min Yura did not die; in fact, she survived the major hit to her head. However, she has lost her memory. She now lives with her son and takes care of him, but she doesn’t know he’s her son.
Netizens reactions to the ending are mostly negative. A lot of netizens were unimpressed with the ending, many comments says that Yura’s memory loss was unnecessary while others say they wished the Hyuk and Sunny ended up together.
There are some netizens who also found the ending to be justified.
What did you think of the ending? Did you like it? Would you recommend “The Last Empress”?
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justspreadlove February 22, 2019 5:22 pm at 5:22 pm - Reply
i cannot accept the ending…
its too sad .i hope they can make more episodes
of it and i think they leave a cliphanger to the viewers so we are dying to know more about this story …but im well satisfied.
Shing February 22, 2019 6:52 pm at 6:52 pm - Reply
Heist, i can’t sleep, it hurts me seeing the ending.. it could be any of the two great actors could have live a happy ending with the empress.. but congrats everyone, they are all the best!
Lortfa February 22, 2019 7:18 pm at 7:18 pm - Reply
Still, I need to see na wang shik 🙁
Samantha February 25, 2019 5:25 pm at 5:25 pm - Reply
I enjoyed the ending but I did feel like it was rushed. I didn’t like how Na Wang Sik’s story ended, but I understand that the actor had other obligations. I also liked how the Emperor got a chance to redeem himself in Sunny’s eyes, his character was a well-written villain that you feel sympathy for. I did not understand the point of Yura’s memory loss…but at least Na Wang Sik’s brother has a new family to take care of him. Oh, and my favorite little Princess, she stole every scene that she was in! Overall, no show is perfect, but I really enjoyed this show, and I’m such a fan of Nara!
Jean H. February 26, 2019 5:55 am at 5:55 am - Reply
Very disappointed, I would have recommended this drama on my blog, however I honestly can’t. After building up a connection with Wan Shik then he is left out from the last episodes (not 1 but 3 episodes!) – that totally bummed, they should have at least done some flashback, show her mourn for him or something… totally disappointed with this ending.
Sk22 February 26, 2019 1:31 pm at 1:31 pm - Reply
At first i rooted for this drama because of cjh. I did not expect nws will end up with sunny, but very disappointed by how an intelligent and strong guy character like nws end up to die just like that. While the other characters still have happy ending, very unfair for nws. At least he should lead a new life with his little brother.
fati March 4, 2019 1:36 pm at 1:36 pm - Reply
the most hurt thing is how that the empress doesn’t have any impression when she knows that Na Wang Shik has dead! it’s really confusing ! how they could end all his struggling and his outstanding role with such bullshit rush! he just dead with no sound or respect or account! and what happened to all the imperial family victims he helped with money, it seems in most of times that he is the one who guides the drama with his revenge plan! at least they must have showed some respect and account to his big role at the end! no body even remembered at the end, even dong Shik or Oh Sunny, although he was saving her life all the drama.How we could imagine Sunny succeed at the end without him?! It’s totally a miss managed END!
musa March 24, 2019 11:27 am at 11:27 am - Reply
ya,betul akhir na wang shik sangat mengecewakan,tidak masuk akal krna tidk ada seorangpun yg menangisinya.. sngt mengecewakan
Aishwarya May 20, 2019 7:47 pm at 7:47 pm - Reply
I was very disappointed at the end.. I felt bad for the emperor. Finally he realized all his mistakes and his love for sunny but could not make up to her.. I really loved sunny and hyuk.. I wished it would have a happy ending if hyuk and sunny ended up together.. But to my disappointment he died. I would like to see them together either in season 2 if they are planning to take or to see them in any other new project in lead.
Karleen McKitty May 23, 2019 11:16 pm at 11:16 pm - Reply
I enjoyed The Last Empress I watched it via YouTube with English subtitles I was obsessed .
I found enjoyed how the storyline entwined it’s characters thus making it interesting & kept my interest.
Following his mother shooting Hyuk maybe Sunny could to bring him back to life with blood group AB so they end up together & bring up Ari & go onto have other children to make up for the poor abusive childhood Hyuk had & name a child Na Wang.
Pehlumi May 31, 2019 12:41 am at 12:41 am - Reply
I don’t like it…. But it’s a good movie though… She should have ended up with hyuk after everything ….the two main male actors can’t die
Avigayil June 2, 2019 4:07 am at 4:07 am - Reply
I wish the emperor had not died.. He should be together with sunny happily
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Gene Kerrigan: 'Brave new Ireland just as cruel as the old'
The scandals of the past upset us, but we have to take responsibility for the horrors of our own era, writes Gene Kerrigan
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It sometimes seems our parents and their parents in turn - back to the creation of the Irish State - must have been cruel people.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/gene-kerrigan-brave-new-ireland-just-as-cruel-as-the-old-38244438.html
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/article38244437.ece/ccd89/AUTOCROP/h342/2019-06-23_opi_51322630_I1.JPG
How else do we explain the roll-call of horrors we've grown used to?
Last week, the roll call continued. We heard about the garda who was victimised, her life turned upside down in 1984, for becoming pregnant "out of wedlock".
And we heard about the other garda victimised, his life torn asunder in 1982, for being gay.
They join a long list of cruelties - pick your own favourite horrors. The litany of lives casually squandered is wearying.
Institutions that presided over astonishing death rates among "illegitimate" babies.
"Laundries" where nuns punished "fallen women".
"Industrial schools" where kids were jailed and abused.
Politicians careful to ensure their legislation had the imprimatur of the Catholic bishops.
Children preyed on by those who claimed to protect them, the predators protected in turn by the very people who laid down the strict moral laws that relentlessly governed our lives.
In September 1982, three months after "Matthew", the garda interviewed on Liveline, was sacked for being gay, Declan Flynn was chased through Fairview Park, caught and beaten to death, for being gay.
Five young people, who claimed they were cleansing Fairview Park of "queers", were charged. Judge Sean Gannon directed that this "could never be regarded as murder". The jury convicted them of manslaughter, the judge gave them a token sentence, which he then suspended.
Famously, the young lined up in droves in May 2015 to vote away that old Ireland. Famously, they even came back from abroad, taking time out from their busy, exciting lives, to put the kibosh on Ireland's dark old times.
But everything - everything - that happened back then was for decades either explicitly sanctioned or placidly tolerated by the majority.
And there was nothing uniquely cruel about our immediate ancestors. There are shelves of books written about the dear and darling Dubliners, about the characters who enriched the city, about the kindness and ingenuity of the women of the tenements.
There are more books about the rural treasures who went to school through the fields, only taking time away from their sodalities to help a neighbour at calving time.
All of these were decent people who went to extraordinary lengths in their efforts to help those worse off, often in the midst of a terrible poverty of their own.
Those heartwarming stories of the old Ireland are true.
They are as true as the wonderful stories of the #hometovote people, enduring exhausting journeys to ensure the stake of common humanity was hammered firmly into the heart of that horrible old Ireland.
The old Ireland was capable of great kindness, while tolerating great cruelty.
And the new Ireland, with its great tolerance and deep sense of care, is as casually accepting of great cruelties as was any smug politician or arrogant bishop.
What are today's routine cruelties that we - including those wonderful young hashtag people - casually accept?
You may have your own list.
I believe that foremost among today's savage cruelties, accepted by a majority amongst us, is the psychological torture of thousands of people forced out of the housing market.
And foremost among the homeless are the children on whom we deliberately inflict severe psychological damage.
What's been happening is not a mistake, it's not a failure of particular initiatives - it's been going on too long for that. It exists because a substantial majority accept it should be that way, and many of them benefit from this.
Throughout human history, societies have always adopted sets of ideas - political, philosophical and moral ideas. Around these ideas, laws are framed by governments.
In framing these laws, the politicians are influenced by public opinion, and by whoever gets to whisper in their ears - be they bishops or corporate lobbyists.
The fact that unlicensed pregnancy or unapproved sexual feelings could cost gardai their jobs didn't exist in isolation. Gays were denounced from the pulpit as sinful; and from the legislature as criminal.
Such branding declared gay people to be odd, unnatural, dangerous. One of the Fairview Park killers justified his violence by saying he "heard" that "queers" "interfered" with kids.
Given the widespread acceptance of such prejudice, it wasn't a big leap for a judge to decide that some young men merely went a bit far in their public service of policing Fairview Park from the odd people.
Just as widespread beliefs justified terrible cruelties back then, so do other beliefs justify terrible cruelties today.
Let's first accept that long-term living in emergency accommodation causes lasting psychological damage. Children in particular are acutely aware of what sets them apart from their peers. The professionals say lasting damage is being done, and we know this is true.
Perhaps it's inevitable, unavoidable?
No, in housing emergencies of the past we reacted radically, we choose now not to do that.
The housing policy of Fine Gael is supported in its entirety by Fianna Fail. Every now and then, for the sake of appearances, FG and FF quibble about detail, but they're partners in government.
Almost two-thirds of voters consistently support these two parties, giving them a mandate for their cruelties.
The FG housing policy is based on class conflict and a religiously-strong belief that the level of shelter available, and the price of that shelter, must be decided by the free market, with minimum interference from government.
The class conflict is deliberately stoked up. FG leader Leo Varadkar divided us into two factions: "those who pay for everything" versus "those who want to pay for nothing".
Varadkar used class conflict in making his pitch to be FG leader. He created a "benefit cheats" campaign, even though he knew successful social welfare fraud is minuscule, and that the welfare system is effectively policed.
Modern capitalism couldn't function without a social welfare system to underwrite the fluidity of the workforce. But, Varadkar and his enablers cast social welfare as charity, abused by the poor.
This allows the branding of "those who want to pay for nothing", and who "game the system".
And this helps us accept that those forced out of the housing market are lesser people, who are hostile to our interests.
The housing crisis has been caused by corporate cornering of the market, state protection for "vulture" and "cuckoo" funds, failure to stop profiteering and to police landlord lawbreakers, concern for banking and the markets before concern for people.
FG/FF insists there's no crisis, the market will do the job if we incentivise builders and landlords.
Those who can't afford the market linger in unsuitable "hotel" rooms, from which they can be temporarily kicked out if there's more profit to be made from renting to concertgoers.
There, children know they've been marked out by the State as lesser humans, and, without perspective, they draw terribly damaging conclusions.
We look back 30 or 80 years and ask, "My God, how did they let that happen?"
No need to look back. Look around, and ask the same question.
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Meet The 'First Ever' Woman Chosen As President Of Bangladesh's World Famous Garment Industry
In first female president of the garment makers’ association in its 36 years history, Rubana Huq has created history and now social media has been buzzing with congratulatory messages for Huq who now sits on 10th floor of the Lotus Kamal Tower in Dhaka.
“I’ll risk saying this. When we come into a new position, the experience should be a humbling one, not one of being overwhelmed by felicitations and congratulatory messages,” Huq told The Hindu.
Now for two years, Huq will lead Bangladesh Garmet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). In 1983, the BGMEA had started as men exclusive club and remained so until now despite being the lobby group with 4500 garment making factories in which most workers are women.
Huq is also aware that she won’t have a smooth journey and there is challenges ahead for her. “Being a woman is tough because everybody thinks he has the authority to tell me how the organisation should be run. And it’s sad,” she said. “They’re all trying to tell me that this is how it is done.”
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Roughly 80 percent of the total exports of Bangladesh accounts for garments and the country is the second largest clothing exporter after China and she thinks that her responsibility would be to tell world the better story of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh garment industry accounts for 80 percent of country's export. Picture courtesy: AFP
“What is mostly happening in our industry is that we are busy fire-fighting and we don’t often look at the vision. While we are fighting the immediate, the important stage is often ignored. I think we should concentrate both on the immediate and the important.”
Huq also mulls to bring some changes in how BGMEA is being run, “I don’t believe one president can solve everything. The whole board must be involved. I will have to activate all my board members...”
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19 Dec 2018 in Digital Marketing
2018 has seen copious amounts of highs and lows. We’ve seen micro-marketing scandals with Cambridge Analytica, successes with Easterseals Southern California’s (ESSC) ingenious “Change the Way You See Disability” campaign, and the GDPR black cloud which has invited marketers to re-think their uses of big data and targeted marketing campaigns.
This year we’ve reached out to bright sparks of the marketing industry to give us an exclusive inside scoop on their year of marketing, and what lies ahead for them.
What’s their view of the year? Is there anything you’ve missed whilst you’ve been creating marketing and content magic? Well, fear not because we have you covered.
Without further ado, here’s Infinity’s roundup on marketing in 2018.
Attribution At Its Finest
Buyers’ habits are affected by multiple circumstances and preferences throughout the year. As mentioned previously, 2018 has seen a turbulent rollercoaster ride of events, political nuances, and economic changes that are dictating the way our customers are spending their money.
But when habits change inexplicably fast throughout the year, how do you get a grip on your attribution model to ensure it’s capable of adapting to the changes in your customers’ consumption habits?
“Every year as a marketer you learn a new lesson from the consumer - as buying and browsing habits change, sitting on the analytics at a top level supports thinking on consumer approach and engagement. Attribution is everything, but also create a contribution model for everything that can’t be isolated.”
Mark Bloxham | Chief Marketing Officer, WendyWuTours.co.uk
Print Isn’t Dead, It’s Vital
We’ve been hearing this same buzz phrase of “print is dead” for over 10 years now, but clearly not as print publications are still around, and still have millions of loyal readers subscribing to their content. In today’s society of digital this and digital that, we as marketers need to think outside the box and sometimes delve into the past for inspiration. Print is a unique form of communication, and also has a benefit of being a physical object for its readers to interact with, it becomes stand-alone marketing collateral.
Kelly O'Flaherty, Digital Partnerships Manager, of New Market Holidays summarizes this perfectly when asked: “What surprised you most in 2018?”
“Despite the sheer volume of people online and as a result on social media – print still plays a vital role in the marketing toolkit. Influencer & social media marketing might be the hot buzzwords at the moment but traditional channels should not be forgotten."
"We need only look to the two major trust building campaigns this year and realise the importance of print. Oxfam and KFC both took to print this year to apologise (granted for two very different reasons...) and to attempt to claw back some trust.”
Mirroring his view of print and disruption of marketing is Jos Dewing , managing director of Voyages to Antiquity
“Digital is ubiquitous and continues to disrupt in its own wonderful way but traditional marketing, direct mail and print, is definitely not dead.”
Print will always hold a special place in consumers’ hearts. Consumers enjoy the physicality of a publication and, as seen above, taking this away from your strategy could be the difference between being seen as innovative or irrelevant.
Invest In Your Platforms
Partner platforms can provide a strong foundation of technology, processes, and people. Companies in 2018 have started to shift more focus, and investment, to this digital platform landscape as a way to enhance their product offering. When asked about platforms in 2018, Sasha Bogojevic, the Founder of RP2 USA (an agency and Infinity client) , states that
“we've significantly focused on building partnerships with platforms that allow us to prove and execute our activity."
In agreeance is James Boyle, head of digital marketing at Flight Centre Travel Group . James states that his biggest marketing lesson of 2018 is to
“Invest in platforms that have utility and scale across the business. The value of Infinity has been educating other stakeholders, how can we use across other areas (operations etc.) This is how I look at all platforms, not just Infinity. How can it benefit other areas, as a digital marketer, what can we get out of it?”
The GDPR Storm
GDPR is evidently here and is here to stay. Some have treated it like the annual trip to the accountant, delay as long as possible and hope it all works out for the best. On the other side of the coin, others have embraced it with a warm marketing hug. Scarily, the maximum fine of non-compliant companies results in a whopping 17.5 million[1]. Clearly, GDPR is not to be ignored.
GDPR has made marketers rethink how their messaging can resonate better with the people who’ve opted to stay in their books.
Here’s what Louise Newton, Travel Marketer , has to say on the topic
“Brands’ preparedness for the GDPR change in May really surprised me. How many data managers had their heads in the sand? Anecdotally, only 10% of those asked to opt-in via email did so before the deadline. How much data is now not usable? After years of build-up, I do think this is a sad indictment on the marketing sector.”
Similarly, Kelly O'Flaherty, Digital Partnerships Manager, of New Market Holidays says
“You can’t really talk about learning in 2018 and not touch on GDPR. Preparing for the arrival of GDPR was something everyone had to do (though I feel not everyone may have enjoyed) and something we all learned from. Following the implementation of GDPR, we need to make sure that we continue to take our data collection & storage very seriously. From a marketing perspective, changing the way we permission our data doesn’t necessarily need to be a bad thing.”
So, was GDPR really an annoyance or has it taught us that we, as marketers, need to really focus on how we target our audience with the data we’re able to retain?
More importantly, can this limited use of data influence more creative marketing campaigns in 2019?
2018 has provided us with a wide variety of considerations for the marketing industry. One of the overarching themes of 2018 has been the need for marketers to really consider how they're going to be using data to create customer-centric campaigns, ones that not only resonate with their following but also provides a sufficient ROI to their bottom line.
Stay tuned, as soon we’ll have Infinity’s 2019 projection blog, featuring marketers throughout the industry, and what they feel the future has in store for them.
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Matthew M. Speare
Deven McGraw
Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights
Ruchir Kumar
BYOD: Building an Effective Strategy
AirWatch's Evans on Going Beyond the Device Information Security Media Group • May 6, 2014 10 Minutes
Ian Evans
Too many organizations have a device-centric BYOD policy that fails to look at big picture issues, including building a comprehensive strategy for protecting corporate information no matter how it's accessed, says Ian Evans of AirWatch.
And it's important that a C-level executive signs off on that strategy, Evans stresses. In an interview at the Infosecurity Europe 2014 conference in London, Evans discusses:
The difference between BYOD policies in the U.S. and other countries;
Where companies are going wrong, or right, in addressing BYOD;
How creating an encrypted folder on a device can help protect business data.
Evans is senior vice president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at AirWatch, an enterprise mobility management company. Previously, he worked at a number of global companies, including Astea and O4 Corp.
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Hear from more industry influencers, earn CPE credits, and network with leaders of technology at our global events. Learn more at our Fraud & Breach Prevention Events site.
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Overcoming Vulnerability Overload
https://www.inforisktoday.com/interviews/byod-building-effective-strategy-i-2274
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Class Distinctions
By Rick R. Reed
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GENRE: Gay Romance
Kyle and Jonathan were perfect for each other, the two halves that, once together, made a whole. And then one snowy night just before Parents’ Weekend on the campus of Hamilton University, Kyle drops a bomb: he’s breaking up with Jonathan.
Follow the couple through the stormy (in more ways than one) night that ensues. Why has Kyle suddenly decided to throw away something so precious and good?
The answers lie in their backgrounds, and will gradually come to light as a winter blizzard rages around the young couple.
Their tortured paths bring them to the covered bridge where their love had sprung to life on a hot summer day. But will the warmth of that memory and the heat of the love they once shared be enough to outclass the storm, and more importantly, bring them back together?
Jonathan got up, grinning, and crossed the room, ready to fling open his door and his arms to Kyle. He could picture his boyfriend in his mind’s eye: the short muscular build, the hazel eyes, the mop of curly sandy hair that blended so perfectly with the constellation of freckles across his nose. He thought of the little tragus piercing in Kyle’s ear that for some inexplicable reason, Jonathan adored and could always be counted upon to play with his tongue, which drove Kyle nuts. The knock sounded again, and Jonathan took exactly three seconds to check his image in the mirror above his dresser. His blond hair had been cut that morning and, with a little dab of gel, looked stylish and alluring, the classic combo to his pale blue eyes and dark lashes. He wore only a plain white T-shirt and a pair of plaid boxer shorts. He figured they’d be naked soon enough, so why bother with a complicated ensemble that would only slow them from getting to the main course?
Jonathan would swear his heart began to beat faster and he got a little breathless as he approached the door. He couldn’t stop the beaming smile that spread across his face as he reached for the knob.
But that smile vanished when he saw Kyle standing out in the hallway, staring down at the floor and radiating dejection. His shoulders slumped and there was about him an overall lack of energy. When he managed to tear his gaze away from the tile floor, he looked at Jonathan with sadness. Jonathan frowned too when he could discern no excitement, no joy to see him, in those hazel eyes.
This was not the picture he had been anticipating when he swung open the door.
“Good God, Kyle, what’s the matter? Is everything okay?”
Kyle’s gaze returned to the floor and Jonathan shook his head, reached out and forcibly pulled his boyfriend inside the room, closing the door behind him. Jonathan cocked his head, “What’s wrong, sweetheart?” He smelled cooking grease on Kyle, the after-effect of toiling in the Hamilton University student cafeteria. Normally, he would suggest the two of them slip down the hall and into a shower together -- a nice, sudsy, both clean and dirty beginning to their three-day weekend.
But the game plan seemed to have changed. Kyle’s bad mood, so rare and unexpected, cast a pall on the anticipation Jonathan had felt only moments ago.
Kyle didn’t answer.
Jonathan turned down the music, which was Moby’s “We Are All Made of Stars” and said, “Sit down, Kyle. Let’s talk. It’s obvious from your face, hell, from even the way you’re standing there that something is very wrong. What is it? Trouble in one of your classes? Is that Psych bitch giving you problems again?”
Kyle slumped down in one of the desk chairs, his long legs extended before him, the rest of his body sort of curled into itself. Jonathan wondered why Kyle didn’t take a seat on the bed, so they could at least sit side-by-side, but he let the move pass without comment.
“No. Everything is cool in my classes. In fact, I’m on track to make the dean’s list this quarter.” Not even a glimmer of a smile heralded this happy news. Kyle simply continued to appear distant and, yes, forlorn.
“So what then? Work? Trouble at home?”
Kyle snickered when Jonathan mentioned home -- and Jonathan had no idea why. One of the mysteries with Kyle was that he had never been too forthcoming about his home life, only that he was from a small town in eastern Ohio, on the Ohio River, and that he was an only child. Jonathan still had no idea what his parents did for a living or how he even felt about his old hometown. Kyle shook his head. “No. And no.”
Jonathan didn’t want to entertain what the other possibility could be. He sank down onto his bed, nausea rising in his gut as he pondered being told Kyle had cheated on him (he was, at least in Jonathan’s mind, about the most handsome hunk on the campus of Hamilton University), or that he “wanted to see other people” or that he “needed a break” or that “it’s not you, it’s me” and he needed to end things between them.
But none of those scenarios could possibly be true, could they?
Fuck the Foreplay
A Hippie Independence Day
Beau and the Beast
Through the Closet Door
The Elevator Murders
Sluggo Snares a Vampire
Stronger Where It Counts
Light the Fire
A Ghoul Like You
Back at the Altar
Copy Me, Unrequited
The Glass-House Murder
Greater Love Hath No Man
Seduced by a Legend
Of Love and Feather Boas
Sawdust and Berries
Darling James
Hot Dogs and Kisses
Free Willy
To Lift My Sole
Tortoise Interruptus
The Cookie Said Red
The Libertine
Love Is Snowblind
Never Let Go of Hope
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MORNING GLORIES ALBUM.
Finely illustrated sketchbook album, a collection of hundreds of highly detailed & beautifully painted brush and color wash drawings of morning glories.
62 pages (all of the drawings are pasted onto the blank leaves of the album). 8vo (275 x 207 mm.), orig. patterned boards (rubbed), stitched as issued. [Japan: late Edo].
Morning glories, first brought into Japan by the Chinese, were originally used for medicinal purposes as a laxative. But soon the Japanese cultivated them as ornamental flowers. During the Edo period, morning glories became very popular and the subject of aesthetic admiration. Much like “tulip mania” in 17th-century Holland, Japan experienced several morning glory booms in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Japanese horticulturalists have been the leaders in cross-breeding the flowers to develop new varieties.
The anonymous artist who executed the highly accomplished drawings in this album has depicted many varieties of the morning glory flower in great detail. There are some black-and-white outline brush sketches of the flowers, but the vast majority are painted in rich colors. The artist has labelled each flower with its name and has drawn the flowers in every stage, from the unopened bud to the full blossom to the withering end of the bloom. He has also depicted the plant’s stems, seeds, germinating seeds, and leaves. Many of the blossoms and leaves are also very vividly colored.
The final painting is that of a yugao, a gourd that resembles the morning glory.
While there is some mostly marginal worming, we do not find it bothersome. Preserved in a chitsu.
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Avoid summer traffic headaches and watch out for these seven major construction projects in the Milwaukee area
Summer in Wisconsin means road construction. These are some of the major projects that will snarl traffic and spark detours in the Milwaukee area.
Avoid summer traffic headaches and watch out for these seven major construction projects in the Milwaukee area Summer in Wisconsin means road construction. These are some of the major projects that will snarl traffic and spark detours in the Milwaukee area. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/06/18/milwaukee-traffic-current-construction-projects-road-closures-repairs/1463401001/
Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 10:33 a.m. CT June 18, 2019 | Updated 2:59 p.m. CT June 19, 2019
It’s a common refrain in Wisconsin. There are two seasons: winter and road construction.
As the summer begins, the orange cones seem to multiply. Our list below details some of the major construction projects scheduled for the Milwaukee area in the next few months — so you can forget your traffic worries and keep your cool in the summer heat.
I-94 in Racine County
Travelers headed south to Racine, Kenosha or Illinois have likely already experienced the narrow lanes and miles of construction along Interstate 94. That project will continue this summer.
The goal of the project is to expand I-94 to four lanes in each direction. Some parts of the 35-mile section of interstate will be opened by year’s end, while the northernmost seven miles of the project — from about Rawson Road to 7 Mile Road — will open in June 2020.
The plan is to replace all existing bridges as well as multiple ramps and interchanges, so check before planning to enter the interstate or travel down nearby frontage roads between College Avenue in Milwaukee and Highway 50 near Pleasant Prairie. Most ramps are closed.
If you want to avoid I-94 entirely, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) has mapped alternative routes, available here.
Port Washington Road, running diagonal from upper left to lower right, and Silver Spring Drive in Glendale looking northeast with Bayshore Town Center. May 22, 2018. - Photo by Mike De Sisti and Jim Nelson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Photo: Mike De Sisti and Jim Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Silver Spring Drive
Bayshore Town Center shoppers, beware: Construction is occurring on the West Silver Spring Drive bridge over the Milwaukee River in Glendale.
The far left lane of Silver Spring Drive in each direction will be closed over the river until July 1. Then traffic will be reduced to a single lane in each direction until mid-August.
If you want to avoid traffic, steer clear of Silver Spring between the Milwaukee River Parkway and Port Washington Road.
Those looking to enter or exit I-43 at Silver Spring should also mind the construction. Drivers exiting I-43 northbound cannot take the loop ramp to westbound Silver Spring Drive. It’s closed until early August.
And the entrance and exit ramps from I-43 southbound at Silver Spring are closed early July until mid-August.
I-894 in Milwaukee County
A series of projects on or near I-894 began in May and are expected to stretch into early fall.
Specific for closures vary for each of the six projects, and some are only expected to be closed at night. Check projects.511wi.gov for all the details on the following projects:
76th Street bridges; Forest Home Avenue bridges; Beloit Road bridges; Loomis Road resurfacing; noise wall installation from 84th to National Avenue; I-894 pavement treatments and markings.
Look out for signs as you head into that area; the DOT says it will have signs alerting drivers to the future closures. For instance, depending on the night, the interstate may have one or two lanes closed near 76th Street and Forest Home -- or the exit might be closed entirely.
Traffic flows past That's Amore Italian Cafe at South 108th St. and West Edgerton Ave. in Hales Corners on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Construction issues on the northbound lanes (at right) have delayed the project. (Photo: Scott Ash/Now News Group)
Highway 100 in Hales Corners
The dump trucks, dust and piles of rubble that have plagued 108th Street in Hales Corners for months aren’t going anywhere this summer.
Construction on the Forest Home roundabout completed in late 2018, and half of Highway 100 has fresh pavement and sewer systems. The latest stages of the project focus on replacing the southbound side of the road and finishing turn lanes and medians.
The good news: if all goes according to plan, the road will be smooth and clear of orange cones by the end of September.
RELATED: Here are the biggest road construction projects coming this summer to Hales Corners, Greenfield and West Allis
RELATED: Highway 100 reconstruction in Hales Corners is a month behind schedule
Pilgrim Road bridge over Capitol Drive
Anyone who uses Capitol Drive or Pilgrim Road as their major thoroughfares in Brookfield will need to rethink their routes this summer.
The Pilgrim Road bridge over Capitol is scheduled be entirely closed from early June until Aug. 24 to replace the bridge deck and paint the steel girders.
Capitol Drive under the bridge will go from three to two lanes during peak hours, and overnight crews will reduce it to a single lane in each direction.
Detour around the closure by taking the ramps onto Capitol: Northbound drivers should head east on Capitol, north on Lilly Road and west on Lisbon Road. Southbound drivers head west on Capitol, south on Calhoun Road and east on North Avenue.
Greenfield Avenue
Visitors to Wisconsin State Fair Park or the Milwaukee Mile Speedway should be aware of construction this June along Greenfield Avenue in West Allis.
Greenfield Avenue will be reduced to one lane in each direction from 92nd Street to 84th Street as crews resurface the road and repair storm sewers in some locations.
Intersecting streets might see temporary closures as the project necessitates it.
If there's a silver lining to a construction project, here it is: Construction started June 10 and will continue until July 8. The roads are scheduled to be cleared before the Wisconsin State Fair in August.
Traffic crosses Summit Avenue and heads into the construction zone of the West Waukesha Bypass in August 2017. The stretch of road from Summit to Northview Road will be completed this year, and work south of Summit to Highway 59 may also begin, pending a final decision on a railroad crossing. (Photo: Jim Riccioli/Now News Group)
West Waukesha bypass
A portion of Sunset Drive in western Waukesha County will remain closed for construction until the end of June.
It’s part of the two-year, $50 million effort to build a bypass to connect I-94 with Highway 59 on the city’s west side.
While the all-lane Sunset Drive closure from Merrill Hills Road to Pebble Creek Park will be cleared by June’s end, construction will continue on Highway 59 near Waukesha West High School until late November.
The left lanes are closed in either direction where Genessee Road intersects with Saylesville Road. With this final stage of construction, the new four-lane bypass should be complete.
RELATED: The $50 million West Waukesha Bypass project will (finally) be complete this fall
This map shoes the full West Waukesha Bypass project since 2017. The project began north of Northview Road that year by the city of Waukesha. Work by Waukesha County and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation continued southward in 2018 to Highway 18. The current project south of Highway 18 is under the jurisdiction of WisDOT alone. (Photo: Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
For more information about all current construction projects in the Milwaukee area, visit projects.511wi.gov/region/southeast. And go to 511wi.gov, checking the “Roadwork” box in the legend, to see a map detailing all closures in the area.
Contact Sophie Carson at (414) 223-5512 or scarson@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @SCarson_News.
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Gender Studies IV. Gender in a Historical and Contemporary Perspective
7.5 ECTS
The module covers in-depth concepts and methodologies of gender studies from a historical and contemporary perspective. It has a particular focus on transgender studies, masculinity studies, intimacies and new feminist materialism. The course will provide you with concrete insights into these fields and their ongoing debates in academic as well as activist contexts. The course language is English and the course is a semi-distance course that means it can be taken either as face-to-face/on-campus course or as an online course with virtual classroom participation. Knowledge of Swedish language is not required.
Progressive specialisation: A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level: Master's level
Admission requirements: Upper secondary level Swedish 3 or B/Swedish as a second language 3 or B and English 6 or A, or equivalent. Gender Studies 1-90 ECTS cr, or equivalent.
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
Study and Career Counsellor
Emilia Westberg
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David Regin Öborn
Course code: GVAD15
Gender Studies I
The course comprises four modules:
Module I Gender study theory (7.5 ECTS cr)
Basic concepts and theories in the feminist and gender studies field are presented with an emphasis on power relations between the sexes. The interplay sex/gender and other power dimensions such as class, ethnicity, sexuality, age and religion are introduced and discussed. Theory of science is discussed primarily from a feminist perspective.
Module II (In)Equality, welfare and globalisation (7.5 ECTS cr)
The module deals with different ways of organising welfare in various countries and the consequences for women's and men's circumstances and lives over time. Gender issues related to violence and war, for instance, are discussed from a global and postcolonial perspective and based on current cases.
Module III Organisation, resistance and change (7.5 ECTS cr)
The importance of gender in relation to the structure, culture, leadership and processes of change in the organisation is problematised. The organisation of work is particularly emphasised. Critical perspectives on equality and resistance are introduced and discussed. The module exemplifies how basic gender theory can be used for the purpose of change.
Module IV Body, culture and ideology (7.5 ECTS cr)
The course deals with cultural constructions and doing gender, body and sexuality in contemporary and historical perspectives. Feminist perspectives on materiality, biology and biological research are discussed. The module problematises the way gender is expressed in and influences language and other forms of expression in everyday practices as well as ideological currents.
Progressive specialisation: G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)
Education level: Undergraduate level
Admission requirements: General admission requirements
Olga Nadeina
This course is included in the following programme
Human Resource Management and Working Life (studied during year 3)
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Gender Studies II
The course centres on the conceptual and theoretical foundation of feminist and gender studies. Different theoretical approaches and their place in a wider social science context are treated as are feminist theory, methodology and practical research methods. The first three modules prepare for a concluding individual project.
Module I: Gender theories 2, (7.5 ECTS cr)
Central texts in the field of gender studies are treated and insights into explanatory models in feminist theory and gender studies are provided. Differences and common denominators in various theoretical traditions are treated in lectures and seminars.
Module II: Knowledge production and power analysis (7.5 ECTS cr)
The production of knowledge and issues of power and influence are discussed and problematised. Individual responsibility for knowledge production is emphasised. Critical and reflective approaches to different methods and theories are introduced. The importance of power-relations in research knowledge production and its application are discussed.
Module III: Research processes in gender studies and change practices (7.5 ECTS cr)
The module provides basic hands-on knowledge of the research process as a whole. Empirical studies based on quantitative and qualitative research methods are treated and students apply their methodological knowledge. Content is continuously related to gender studies as a field of study and research, and it is organised around different methods of data selection and analysis of data, and the academic essay and writing process. Students are responsible for defining, processing and solving reality-based problems with gender study relevance.
Module IV: Essay project (7.5 ECTS cr)
Students apply their previously acquired knowledge to an independent, academic essay project on the basis of practical placement or a chosen area of study. A gender theoretical perspective is a required starting-point. There are also seminars for essay presentation and discussion.
Progressive specialisation: G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Admission requirements: Gender Studies 1-30 ECTS cr or equivalent
Gender Studies III
The course comprises three modules.
Module 1. Advanced Gender Studies Theory 3, 7.5 credits
The module addresses central concepts and problems pertaining to the theory development in field of Gender Studies . Students work independently with the support of lectures and seminar discussions.
Module 2. Advanced Gender Studies Analysis, 7.5 credits
The module addresses methodological problems in the field, based on a theory of science perspective. The module introduces concrete research methods and the students work independently on practical exercises in preparation for the degree project.
Module 3. Degree Project, 15 credits
In this module, students conduct a gender-theoretical research project. Students may choose to write about a topic within the scope of another discipline, an interdisciplinary topic, or a topic purely within the field of Gender Studies.
Progressive specialisation: G2E (has at least 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science)
Admission requirements: Gender Studies 1-60 ECTS cr
Gender Studies IV
Emerging Fields in Gender Studies (Master level course) (30 ECTS)
Do you want to know more about how gender is understood beyond the binary? Or, how the formation of masculinities are an important area in Gender Studies? This course takes up two important fields in Gender Studies: Transgender Studies and Critical Masculinity Studies. You will learn foundational theories in Trans Studies as well as Critical Masculinity Studies, how they interlink with feminist activism and what their relationship are to the overall field of Gender Studies. This course will help you to improve your ability to critically examine and analyse these field?s most important theoretical perspectives and trajectories. You will be able to evaluate connections between theories and activism concerning gender and sexuality in the context of intersectional connections to large social categories such as race, class, and/or ability. The medium of instruction is English. This means that lectures and seminars will be given in English and that examinations (including the master's thesis) will be in English.
The two theoretical modules will be
Module 1: Transgender Studies and Trans Activism (7,5 ECTS)
Module 2: Critical Masculinity Studies (7,5 ECTS)
The third module is the essay course (15 ECTS)
The MA course can be used either individually or as a contribution to your MA or MSc courses in Gender Studies or another subject.
This course is available as a full-time course and part-time course. Each module can be taken individually without the other modules. The course language is English and the course is a "semi-distance" course that means it can be taken either as face-to-face/on-campus course or as an online course with virtual classroom participation. Knowledge of Swedish language is not required.
Please note that it's possible to take each module individually. If you only want to take one module, please apply for the whole course nevertheless. In case that module is to be included in your MA exam at another university, contact your director of studies at that university for validation of the course.
Progressive specialisation: A1E (contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits))
Admission requirements: Gender Studies, 1-90 ECTS credits or equivalent, and upper secondary school level Swedish 3 or B/Swedish as a second language 3 or B and English 6 or A, or equivalent.
Gender and Equality in Theory and Practice
The course provides knowledge of the different conditions and daily existences of women and men in the workplace, home, and family. The course also introduces instruments for analyzing such gender related problems and the strategies needed to manage them on an individual, organizational, and societal level.
Gender and Society
The aim of the course is to analyse the role of gender in society in interdisciplinary and intersectional gender studies perspectives. Students develop an independent ability to discuss, theorise, and analyse the role of gender in societal development. The course covers different empirical and theoretical perspectives in gender studies in relation to how gender, ethnicity, class, religion, ability, and sexuality interplay with societal institutions and the development of society, with a focus on how this interplay creates and shapes gendered bodies, subjects, identifications, gender relations, and power structures. The course also outlines the development of different gender studies theories and concepts which relate to these issues, including the theories and concepts of feminist, postcolonial, and critical race studies, transgender studies, queer studies, critical men's and masculinity studies, and feminist studies of health, medicine, and technology. The course is intended for students at the Master level who want to engage in in-depth study of gender studies theories of gender and society and conduct their own independent analyses of society and its institutions on the basis of gender studies theories, methods, and criticism.
Admission requirements: A Bachelor degree
Gender, education, and pedagogy
Course code: GVGE10
Gender, health, and technology
The aim of the course is to introduce theories of and research on health, medicine, and technology in gender studies. On the basis of knowledge about health, medicine, and technology developed in gender studies, students acquire an understanding of the role of gender, class, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality, and other social categories in health-related and healthcare contexts. Students also develop analytical skills in relation to gender, class, ethnicity, religion, disability, and sexuality in practical healthcare situations, including the use of healthcare technology.
The course is intended for current and future professionals in different health-related and healthcare areas as well as for technology developers, who want to expand their understanding of the interactions between gender, health, and technology. Students gain insights into the relationships between health, technology, care, and gender. The course also examines how gender intersects with other social categories such as class, ethnicity, religion, disability, and sexuality, and what difference that interplay makes in various health-related and healthcare technology contexts, such as for instance care services and care practices, or encounters between healthcare workers, patients, and technology. Analytical tools relevant for the area of health and healthcare technology are introduced in terms of feminist, queer, and other gender theory aspects. While the course focuses on gender studies' perspectives on health, medicine, and technology, it also provides grounds for critical reflections about the practical development and use of healthcare technology from a gender studies perspective.
Gender, sexuality, and psychology
The aim of the course is to introduce theories of and research on gender, sexuality, and psychology in gender studies, and to give an introduction to feminist and queer psychology. On the basis of knowledge about gender, sexuality, and psychology developed in gender studies, students acquire an understanding of the interplay between gender, sexuality, and psychological development. Students also develop skills required to reflect upon and analyse psychological research and practice based on an awareness of gender, class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and disability.
The course is intended for current and future professionals in different areas of psychology who want to expand their understanding of the interplay between gender, sexuality, and psychology. Students gain insights into gender studies perspectives on the relationships between psychological development, sexuality, and gender. The course also covers the development of feminist and queer psychology and recent research in gender studies which focuses on gender, sexuality, and psychology. In addition, the course examines how gender and sexuality intersect with other social categories such as class, ethnicity, religion, and disability, and the significance of such intersectionality in different psychological contexts. While the course focuses on perspectives on gender, sexuality, and psychology relevant for gender studies, it also outlines a foundation for critical reflection upon practical issues in psychological treatment contexts, with a focus on gender and sexuality.
Leadership, Organization and Gender
The course gives an introduction to how leadership, leadership theory, and the development and theories of organisational studies affect the construction of social gender in the working life.
Men, Masculinities and Change
The course includes a general introduction to the subject field of research on masculinity. The course treats central concepts and theories in the the research on masculinity, the history of masculinities, and contemporary ideals of masculinity. The course presents instruments to problematize and analyze the processes of change as regards men and masculinities in the present-day society.
The 21st Century Family: Gender, parenting and institutions
The course is designed for future professionals who would like to learn more about family and how it works in a Nordic context. Lecturers from psychology, social work, gender studies and sociology give their perspectives on the phenomenon of family and a historical background to its present forms in the Nordic countries. Students acquire tools to understand how a family works and study current research and theories in the disciplinary field. Special attention is paid to four areas: parenthood, gender, legislation and working with families. The focus on history, research and theories constitute a useful foundation for future work with families in schools, social services and social welfare work.
Transgender Studies and Activism
The course Transgender Studies and Activism provides an introduction to the emerging field of transgender studies, its embeddedness in social justice activism andits relation to the field of Gender Studies. Trans Studies is a complex field and the course will discuss feminist and queer approaches to transgender embodiment, contextualise it in the context of globalisation and local practices of gender non-conformity outside the Western world, as well as explore key figures who have contributed to the formation of this field. The language of instruction is English. The course is taught as a distance course online.
Admission requirements: Undergraduate degree
Course code: GVATS1
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Alyssa Milano: Trump’s claim of a “scary time for young men” because of #MeToo is a “fear tactic”
ABC/Paula Lobo(NEW YORK) -- Actress and activist Alyssa Milano, one of the first users of the #MeToo hashtag when the movement launched one year ago Monday, called President Donald Trump's recent comments that it is "a very scary time for young men in America" a fear tactic.
Referring to critics of #MeToo who say the movement encourages unproven sexual misconduct allegations against men, Milano told Good Morning America on Monday, "I don't know why their concern isn't that boys can also be hurt, molested and sexually assaulted."
Milano, who has a daughter and a son, added, "I'm of course concerned for boys, but I'm not concerned for them in the way the president is concerned for men."
She said comments like Trump's are "fear tactics" in response to "white men" being in danger of losing some of their power in society.
Milano also acknowledged, "Women have had it hard for generations and there are going to be false claims," but says there must be a process in place to make sure everyone gets a "fair shot."
The former Who's the Boss star, 45, tweeted exactly one year ago Monday, "If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet." Within hours, the movement caught fire, racking up more than a million #MeToo tweets in less than a day.
Saying she never expected that her simple tweet would result in millions of powerful stories, Milano said, "I think we've come a long way ... But, I think we still have a long way to go."
Milano's early adoption of #MeToo -- a hashtag first created by Tarana Burke over a decade ago -- came right after the first sexual assault allegations involving disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein were revealed in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
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The Russians are coming!
28 January 2018, 01:23 | Updated: 28 January 2018, 01:27
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson, has warned that a Russian cyber-attack on Britain's electricity supply could cause 'thousands and thousands' of deaths.
The Defence Secretary brought his considerable military experience, forged from his exemplary career in the armed forces to come to that conclusion.
Just kidding, he just made it up and blurted it out.
As far as I can tell, from conducting extensive research over the course of at least five minutes, Gavin Williamson has no military background of any kind whatsoever.
He used to work in a pottery firm that made plates and he keeps a tarantula in his office, so he was the obvious choice to be selected head of the Ministry of Defence.
If the enemy were to come after us with a ceramic dinner service, he'd be our man.
The Defence Secretary alerted us that Moscow has been photographing power stations and may be planning to damage the British economy and infrastructure.
This hot news must have come from a briefing note that had been sent in 1947. He's only just received it.
He said that Russian President, Vlad the Insaner, could target interconnectors, which link power between countries, potentially leaving millions of homes without electricity.
He could have said that the Russians might also target our train lines, leaving countless commuters stranded at home but Southern Rail already has that covered.
Or he could have alerted us to a Russian plan to blow up the Moon or send a woman with daggers in her shoes to kick James Bond to death.
Literally anything could happen and he wants to make sure we know that.
Mr Williamson said: 'The plan for the Russians won't be for landing craft to appear in the South Bay in Scarborough and on Brighton Beach… they are going to be thinking, 'How can we just cause so much pain to Britain?'
'Damage its economy, rip its infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths, but actually have an element of creating total chaos within the country.'
I would say that it is job done on that score.
Fomenting chaos is why they co-opted a bunch of oily charlatans and plied them with dodgy Russian money and used armies of internet trolls to seed discord with Brexit.
The pound tanked, we're all fighting with each other and our leaders are desperate to make trade deals with anyone that will sign one – and as you know, all the best deals are made from a position of weakness.
If that was the Russian's plan, it was executed with German efficiency.
As though it was a coordinated attack by the British establishment on the British public, on Monday the head of the Army said Britain needed to 'keep up' with Putin's growing military strength or see our ability to take action 'massively constrained'.
So, at a time when the council is turning off the street lights and letting the roads go to pot and the NHS is refusing anyone that's not an emergency and the police won't come to your house for a burglary and has given up on shoplifters, all for a lack of cash, the thing on which we need to be spending more of the money we don't have is ever more exciting ways to kill people?
It couldn't possibly be that the military budget review is being written and everyone concerned is trying to ensure that no one gets a slice of their pie?
If the military’s income is cut, and the Russians do invade, maybe Gavin could sick his spider on them.
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Leasehold is a feudal, wasting asset with opportunities for exploitation, says the Financial Times in a devastating article
Leasehold properties make up 43 per cent of all new-build registrations with the Land Registry for England and Wales, and 3,000 of those were for leasehold houses.
That is one of the findings in the Financial Times’s three-page cover story in its FTMoney section, published this weekend.
The article, written by personal finance veteran Lindsay Cook – formerly of the Telegraph – is a brilliant overview of all the current issues facing leaseholders.
She even had a section on the Court of Appeal challenge to the methodology used to value short-term leases in the incredibly lucrative lease extension racket.
The current method was commissioned by the Grovesnor estate in 1996 – that is the Duke of Westminster, the country’s richest single freehold owner whose aristocratic ancestor had the good sense to marry Mary Davies, the daughter of a scrivener (scribe) but also heiress to a 500-acre farm on which today stands Mayfair and Belgravia. (See historical footnote below)
Chartered surveyor James Wyatt, of Parthenia Limited, is challenging this cosy, insiders’ carve-up with a more robust mathematical methodology. It was reported on LKP here
The FT, which is widely read abroad and by foreign nationals working in the City, adds up to a devastating criticism of the leasehold flat ownership in England and Wales.
It is headed: “Leasehold homes – what an estate agent won’t tell you”.
Proclaiming in its first line that leasehold is “a feudal form of tenure unique to England and Wales [that is] growing at unprecedented levels”, the article points out that 95 per cent of new build in London is leasehold.
“Leaseholders have a declining asset; they will never own the land on which their properties stand, they are liable to pay an annual ground rent and service charge for the management of their property, and generally have to ask permission before making substantial alterations.”
Leasehold became widespread after the war with modern housing, it said:
“As leasehold has expanded, so has the opportunity for exploitation.
“Leaseholders complain that managing agents can abuse their authority, making unfair charges knowing that leaseholders have little means of legal redress.
“Yet there is effectively no regulation. In some cases, who challenge their bills can end up paying punitive costs.”
The article mentions the appalling issues facing Oxford City Council leaseholders who are having to pay £50,000 each for repairs to their block.
It mentions a flat for sale at One Hyde Park, the most expensive apartment block in the country, which has service charges of £161,000 a year.
Average service charges are £1,863, according to insurers Direct Line for Business, the article says. At new-build properties the figure is £2,777 a year.
Around 4,000 leaseholders a year seek redress through the property tribunal, says the FT, where application costs rise from £65 to £500.
The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership is referenced several times.
Sebastian O’Kelly, a trustee of LKP, is reported to say that around 50 leasehold properties are forfeited every year. This is an estimate, as the Ministry of Justice claims obtaining an accurate figure would be “too expensive” (!).
Emma Reynolds, the then Labour shadow communities secretary, raised this issue in the Commons in March last year, but was brushed off
The Financial Times points out that ARMA, in spite of having a decent code of practice and a new regulator in the form of ex-Labour minister Sally Keeble, thinks the leasehold sector is so dirty that it requires statutory regulation (the wording here is LKP’s).
This would be similar to Scotland, where flat ownership is run on the same lines as the rest of the world.
England and Wales are the odd ones out here.
Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia? The two Mary Davies’s of Restoration England
Moll [Mary] Davis held out the promise of a good night out, but was only a short-term tenant in the affections of Charles II and, sadly, she did not have a freehold to her name
In Restoration England there were two women in London called Mary Davies.
One was an actress and what today would probably be described as a sex worker. She caught the eye of Charles II and had an expensive portrait painted, before being given the push in favour of Nell Gwynne.
The other was the frumpish and pious new money daughter of a successful scrivener, or scribe.
Her astonishing dowry was the manor of Ebury, 500 acres of land north of the Thames to the west of Westminster.
For Cheshire baronet Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 500 acres of freehold property, even if a lot of it was a marshy rubbish tip, were far more attractive.
In 1677 he married Mary, which would later establish his family as one of the richest in the country – subsequently, the richest – and they were repeatedly promoted through the aristocratic ranks until eventually given a dukedom at the end of the Victorian age.
It was a slow and steady progression, rather than Vincent Tchenguiz’s brief rise and fall, and Mary’s acres remained largely untouched by the Grosvenors until the 1720s, when they developed the northern part – now known as Mayfair – around Grosvenor Square.
A few generations later, in the 1820s, their focus moved south – to what is now Belgravia – developing Eaton Square, Chester Square and other famous addresses. Later in the 19th century, the area of Pimlico was developed; this was sold in 1953.
Mary Davies, the modestly born founder of the Grosvenor family fortune, was lucky enough to inherit 500 acres on the edge of a city poised to become the capital of a global empire. England’s feudal leasehold laws mean that home owners there still don’t get a look in when it comes to the freeholds
Would you choose a good night out, or 500 freehold acres of Mayfair and Belgravia? Leasehold is a feudal legacy past its time Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times Housebuilders ‘pimp their profits’ by selling freeholds, says Financial Times columnist Guardian says: It’s time to send the feudal leasehold system crashing. Amen, to that
Filed Under: Latest News, News, Press, Slider2 Tagged With: Financial Times, Grosvenor Estate, James Wyatt, Mary Davies, One Hyde Park, Parthenia
Perhaps now someone will start paying attention. Once big financial interests are at stake people usually do. Not only leasehold is a wasting asset but there are so many confusing rules about the (largely unregulated ) management debacle. Great article by the way.
Martin Paine & Blythe Court
Martin Paine sells on Blythe Court, where ground rents reach £8,000 a year
February 21, 2018 By Admin2
Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond have spent years as landlord causing distress to the leaseholds at Blythe Court and many other sites. LKP first broke the story of the Panie’s ground rent exploits in January 2016 despite warning letters from solicitors Taylor Emmet LLP. https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/martin-paine Since this story, we have covered the activities […]
Martin Paine resigns from IRPM after leaseholder complaint
June 19, 2017 By Admin2
Following a complaint to the Institute of Residential Property Management (IRPM) Martin Paine has chosen to resign his position as a member rather than face investigation. On several occasions in the last 18 months this site has reported on the exploits of Martin Paine, his FCA regulated wife, Ann Kirmond (Ref no MAK01110), and their […]
Commons leasehold debate. December 20 2016
The Commons debate on leasehold reform took place after the intervention of LKP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley. The debate can be seen here: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/fc53bd87-8abf-4986-b7ce-6a7a488b8cfc The debate can be read here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-12-20/debates/4F15110B-F6D5-4FA1-9154-536BD848130E/LeaseholdAndCommonholdReform The catalyst was the scandal of Taylor Wimpey selling homes between 2007-2011 with doubling ground rents and then selling the freeholds […]
Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative, Worthing West) named the leasehold-gameplayer Martin Paine as a “crook” in the Commons yesterday. “We should not have to rely on the chance action of a campaigning charity such as LKP [the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership] or the Campaign Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation—or a passing Member of Parliament, to get things put […]
Spreading Paine: the freeholds owned by Martin Paine and his wife (Margaret) Anne Kirmond
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Martin Paine demanded ground rents of thousands from two London leaseholders
[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”11520″ popup=”1″ delay=”7″ exit_popup=”1″ popup_opacity=”0.3″]It is not just Blythe Court … two London leasehold owners also faced demands of thousands of pounds in unexpected ground rents after purchasing flats in different parts of the capital. The leaseholders came forward following the publication last month by the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership of the issues at […]
Hogan Lovells property solicitors report Blythe Court scandal on website
The issue of Blythe Court flats being sold with exorbitant ground rents is the subject of a website article by international property law giant Hogan Lovells. The article can be read in full here It reports how Sir Peter Bottomley intervened to stop the sale of 1 Blythe Court, which was to have been auctioned […]
BBC R4’s You & Yours feature Blythe Court … and now the freeholder wants ‘more ethical approach to charges’
The scandalous ground rent charges at Blythe Court featured on BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours programme just before 1pm today. It can be heard here at 31.43 Leaseholders at the site were interviewed, including Kadian Kennelly, 32, and Patrick Majszyk, 32. Sir Peter Bottomley said he was still seeking explanation from the site’s […]
Barnard Marcus withdraws Blythe Court flat from auction
Barnard Marcus Auctioneers, part of the Sequence Auctions group, has suspended the sale of 1 Blythe Court. It has a ground rent of £8,000 a year, and the deed of variation outlining this condition does not appear to be in the legal documentation accompanying the sale. The flat belongs to Margaret Anne Kirmond, wife of […]
Stop auction of ‘worthless’ flat at Blythe Court and alert authorities, Commons asked
Sir Peter Bottomley has urged the Commons to intervene in the auction sale of Flat 1 Blythe Court, where the freeholders and managers are Martin Paine and his wife Anne Kirmond. Flat 1 Blythe Court is up for auction with Barnard Marcus on February 2 in central London with a guide price of £65,000. Sir […]
Affluent freehold-owning couple’s lease terms bring ruin to families who bought flats that are virtually worthless
An affluent couple living in the idyllic Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter are funding their lives through leasehold property cleverness that is costing poorer property buyers thousands of pounds. Martin Paine and his wife Margaret Anne Kirmond are benefiting from the sale of flats at Blythe Court in Coleshill, Birmingham, which have a trap […]
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Scene in a New Hampshire court.--General Pierce examining a witness. Scene in a New Hampshire village.--Pierce the good Samaritan
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Title: Scene in a New Hampshire court.--General Pierce examining a witness. Scene in a New Hampshire village.--Pierce the good Samaritan
Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896.
Strong, Thomas W.
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Pub. at the Office of Yankee Notions, 1852.
Medium: 1 print : lithograph on wovepaper ; 24.5 x 40.8 cm. (image)
Summary: Two humorous incidents supposedly from the life of Franklin Pierce. On the left, a repartee wherein Pierce, the distinguished trial lawyer, is embarrassed by an ignorant witness. Armed with pages of notes, Pierce addresses the witness accusingly, "You are sworn to tell the truth, Sir, and how dare you say you carried that bureau out of the house, without assistance, when you know it takes three men to lift it?" Behind Pierce is a chair, several books on the floor beside it, and a table with several more volumes. The witness is on a small stand at left, with a spittoon on the floor before him. The witness replies, "Wal, General, I "did" carry that bureau without help, and I did'nt faint either, as you did, before that battle in Mexico." He refers to the Battle of Churubusco in the Mexican War when Pierce, weak from a wound suffered in a previous encounter, fainted and was carried from the field. According to the text below, the witness's response is followed by "Laughter in the court," and "Pierce sits down in confusion." Behind Pierce is a row of amused spectators or jurors. Above them, on the far wall, is a large statue of Justice. At right is a high bench with two men, probably the judge and recorder. The second scene takes place on a cobblestoned street. On a pile of rocks at left sits a wailing urchin, behind whom stand three other ragged boys with candy sticks. On the right stands Franklin Pierce, reaching into his pocket with a look of concern on his face. Pierce: "Hallo, boy what are you crying about?" Boy: "them three boys is a eating sticks of candy, and I've no money to buy any. Hoo! Hoo!" Pierce: "I swow that's a hard case. See, boy, you're a stranger to me but I've a benevolent heart and cannot bear to see any one in distress without helping them. So, here's a cent for you, buy a stick of candy and remember to vote for Pierce, if ever he is nominated for President."
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-90000 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: PC/US - 1852.S924, no. 7 (B size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Pub. at the Office of Yankee Notions 98 Nassau St. N.Y.
Signed with monogram of lower half of man on one foot (August Hoppin).
Thomas W. Strong Lith. 98 Nassau St. N.Y.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Reilly, p. 158.
Weitenkampf, p. 106.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1852-23.
Pierce, Franklin,--1804-1869.
Presidential elections--United States--1850-1860.
New Hampshire--1850-1860.
Lithographs--1850-1860.
Political cartoons--1850-1860.
Cartoon Prints, American
Part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12
All Themes Racism Land as Independence Family and Community Injustice and Dignity Storytelling and Language
All Characters Cassie Logan Stacey Logan Mama Papa L.T. Morrison Uncle Hammer T.J. Avery The Wallaces Charlie Simms
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From the blatant racism throughout the novel, it’s clear that the Logans are confronting the challenges of living in a society dominated by whites. At school, for example, the black children only have books that have been deemed unfit for use by white children. At home, the family is constantly defending their land from the former white owners’ attempts to take it back form them.
Although the Logans are victims of racial injustice, they also…
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In a culture where the memory of slavery is still strong, land is a symbol of independence and autonomy. Big Mama, Mama, and Papa repeat the same refrain throughout the book: "We won't lose the land." The land represents the Logans’ independence from the power structure around them, since by working their own plot of land the Logans are free, in both the sense that they have no master, can earn based on…
The black community forms a group that allows black individuals to prop each other up in order to face the racism and injustice of the South. They form this community through storytelling and going to Church, and by organizing in specific instances to stand up for the community—like in the instance of Papa’s boycott, for example.
For Cassie, there is nothing more important than family. For example, Cassie is shocked when Jeremy says that…
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Because they live in a wildly unjust society that’s biased against black people, the Logans must create their own forms of justice while maintaining their self-respect, dignity, and protecting their own safety. This can be an extremely difficult balancing act, even when the slights are smaller ones, like being ignored in the grocery store—which causes Cassie to yell at the store manager and get her family kicked out—or larger injustices, like being tossed around and…
In the author’s note to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor writes that her father was a master storyteller. She says that from his storytelling, she “learned to respect the past, to respect my own heritage and myself.” Storytelling plays a similar role for Cassie in the book. During Christmas, for example, several of the adults in the black community tell stories about their families. The stories are a way for Cassie to…
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Rajasthan HC Issues Directions To Improve Conditions Of Courts After Inspection By CJ Revealed Pathetic State Of Affairs [Read Order]
By: Akanksha Jain14 July 2019 3:59 AM GMT
Remarking that ground reality was much worse than statistics on infrastructure in court complexes across the State where a majority of court complexes lacked drinking water, toilets, chambers and even the crucial lock-up facility, the Rajasthan High Court has asked the District Judges to conduct periodic inspection of court complexes to ensure basic minimum cleanliness, hygiene leading to increased productivity besides directing the State to immediately take steps to provide security to all judicial officers.
A bench of Chief Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati passed a series of directions while expressing worry over the State turning deaf ears to repeat requests for providing security to judicial offices and severe crunch of the most basic amenities in court complexes as it heard a petition moved by Bar Association, Rajgarh on poor infrastructure and security on court complexes.
The bench made the following notes and passed the following directions:
(i) In the commitment made before Supreme Court only court buildings and residences are included. However, no provision for other facilities like Advocates' Chambers, provision for adequate water supply (drinking and other use) Public Toilets (men and women separately), Litigants' Sheds/resting areas, canteens etc. have not been included. These facilities are essential for smooth functioning of courts.
(ii) A road map has to prepared in relation to all court complexes to provide all required facilities in a time bound manner. The State shall indicate this within a month, after obtaining inputs from local officials- who shall also secure inputs from members of the bar, and the judge in charge or senior most judge of the concerned district or outlying court. Each facility shall be inspected, from the angle of adequacy, cleanliness and proper maintenance.
(iii) Every District Judge should carry out periodic inspections- at least twice a month, to ensure minimum cleanliness and hygiene in the court complexes and its environs, to ensure productivity. In this regard, each district judge shall obtain inputs from members of the bar and wherever intervention is needed urgently, get in touch with the local authorities and the state government who shall ensure that the necessary rectification is carried out, within 3 months of receipt of the intimation of deficiencies.
(iv) The State Government is directed to immediately take steps to deploy police guards at the residences of the Principal District Judges and to make appropriate security arrangements for Judicial Officers. Suitable security arrangements for safety in Court complexes shall be made; also arrangements shall be made for posting of security guards within earliest possible time, in residence of Judicial Officers, as per assessment of the State. This is an urgent step having regard to State's own assessment of security needs of the Judicial Officers.
(v) The High Court Administration shall provide details of all required infrastructure within a month.
The court said so as it has been hearing a Petition moved by Bar Association, Rajgarh in the wake of firing incident in Rajgarh (Churu) court in January, 2018 wherein a gangster had shot dead a history-sheeter.
CJ Bhat had recently inspected several court complexes in the districts of Alwar (including outlying courts in Kishangarh Bas and Tijara), Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh, Chittorgarh (including the outlying court in Nimbahera), the outlying court in Gangapur (District Bhilwara), the District Court complex at Rajsamand, District Court complex Bharatpur and District Court complex at Ajmer (and the outlying court at Pushkar).
The inspection revealed serious infrastructural shortcomings.
"Although in some of these places (i.e Alwar, Chittorgarh, Ajmer) new court buildings are under construction, the existing infrastructure needs much to be desired. Almost without exception, public facilities such as toilets and drinking water (for litigants and counsel) was woefully inadequate- in some places, virtually non existent. The toilets in Rajsamand and Ajmer court complexes were unusable; in almost all places there were no, or extremely limited number of ladies' toilets; those which existed, were unclean and unhygienic," noted the bench.
The court noted that in most court complexes, adequate security was not available and despite repeat requests, the State government, though exclusively responsible, has failed to take any steps to provide safety and security to judicial officers.
The court also looked at the grim picture painted by the statistics presented before it by the High Court establishment on infrastructural facilities' position.
Leave aside the lacking toilet, drinking water and parking facilities, even the crucial lock-up facility was lacking in 171 court complexes as against 115 complexes where they are available.
The figures showed that in the 330 court complexes, 217 had no advocates' chambers. Bar rooms are available in 216 complexes, there is no canteen in 218 court complexes; litigant's space or waiting area called sheds are available in 204 complexes, as against 126 complexes where they are unavailable.
"While statistics and figures paint a grim story, the actual ground reality, it appears is worse. What statistics do not point to is the condition of facilities such as toilets, water supply, their cleanliness and most importantly, their adequacy- having regard to the footfalls (i.e. the number of people who visit courts on an average, daily). Although no census of the number of visitors in these court complexes has been carried out, for any day, on a rough conservative estimate, litigants and lawyers might account for about 150,000. If these figures are taken annually, the total number of people who visit the courts, would add up to over 4.5 crores, which is a substantial number – more than half the population of the State.
"The State has, in the opinion of this court, the primary responsibility of ensuring minimum hygiene and cleanliness in these public buildings, and also ensuring adequate water supply. Furthermore, the State should also ensure general cleanliness, in an appropriate manner, given that these courts fall within jurisdiction of different local bodies (municipalities, panchayats and gram sabhas, development authorities, etc," the bench said.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – MALDEF, together with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), today released a report that assesses the unprecedented deportation rate of the last six-years, the devastating impact these deportations have had on vulnerable Latino families, and seeks to outline actions toward a more fair and just immigration policy in the United States.
“Pundits widely recognize that national political forces have, through inaction, failed to respond to the November 2012 mandate by Latino voters to repair our immigration system, but in fact, those same political forces are daily visiting significant affirmative harm on the Latino community across the country through continued discriminatory enforcement in the deportation and removal of so many peaceful Latino migrants,” stated Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel of MALDEF. “This paper highlights the ongoing political failures of commission and of omission, by all political forces, in this election year.”
According to the report, the confluence of legislative inaction with aggressive enforcement in deportations has had a particularly pronounced impact on the Latino community. The Obama Administration has carried out nearly two million deportations, almost entirely Latinos. In 2013, Latinos represented 96.7 percent (356, 303) of all deportations, and the top nine countries with the highest rates of deported nationals were Latin American countries.
Immigration enforcement choices have carved swaths of devastation across Latino communities, leaving a humanitarian and moral crisis in its wake. The overrepresentation of Latinos in deportations is not simply a byproduct of the large undocumented Latino population, but also a direct result of discriminatory policies at the federal, state, and local level. The report lays bare how federal targeting of Latinos was sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court forty years ago when it held in U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol may target individuals near the border based on the individual’s race or ethnicity. The Supreme Court reinforced that holding in 2012, when, in Arizona v. United States, it permitted the implementation of a law requiring police officers to inquire about an individual’s immigration status during a routine stop, under the authority of state law. Additionally, it has become commonplace to target Latinos in the workplace too, where federal I-9 audits target industries and businesses with high concentrations of Latino workers.
Since then, several states have attempted to criminalize the presence of undocumented immigrants by empowering state and local police officers to attempt to enforce immigration laws. And, just yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed a local Nebraska ordinance to stand that uses a tenant licensing scheme to drive Latino families out of the city. States and cities have also developed strategies and practices by which laws unrelated to immigration are used as proxies to conduct immigration enforcement.
“The widespread consensus to repair our dysfunctional immigration system is matched only by the deep reticence of our elected officials to reform that same system. The failure to reform and humanely implement our immigration laws represents a betrayal of the principles of inclusion and integration that our country was founded upon,” stated Jose Magana-Salgado, MALDEF Staff Attorney and principal author of the report. “This report demonstrates that there are tangible consequences for failing to act in the form of racial profiling, excessive detention, and broken families.”
Still, MALDEF believes there is a path forward, if the Administration and Congress will take steps to address the impact of immigration enforcement on the Latino community. The best solution is swift and permanent congressional action to reform the immigration system. At the same time, President Obama can and should use prosecutorial discretion and administrative relief to stop deportations and to stem the disproportionate suffering Latinos face as a result of country’s broken immigration policies. You can read a copy of the report here.
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Monday arvo's clash was between the Master Batters and the Bush Choox. The Choox batted first and used a different opening combination with Sebby out for 21 from 14 balls and Muzza notching up his 9th retirement in 12 innings with 26 runs from 15 balls. With 0/48 on the board at 1/4 time Cody Rodgers came in and had 2 off his first 9 balls and then hit 4,4,9 before being caught for 23 from 16 balls. Cody's bro' Jake then came in and hit two 6s and two 4s to retire with 26 from 12. The total was mounting up with 1/94 at half time and C.J steadily building a retired 25 in 19 balls. The 3/4 time total after 15 overs was 3/149 and the Master Batters needed to do something. They only allowed 15 runs to be scored in the final 5 overs to hold the total down to 5/164. MB Skipper Joel the Blind Guy took 2/12, NickMac 1/9 and Joycey tidy behind the stumps with 0 byes and 3 catches. Master Batters need to score at 8.21 runs per over and with 2 wickets falling to the bowling of young Cody in the 2nd over it was not a good start. Joycey stopped the rot with a retired 25 from 14 balls and the score was 2/39 after the power play 5 overs. MB only managed 23 runs in the 2nd quarter and with 5/62 on the board were in all sorts of trouble. Radice had 5 runs on the board from 12 balls before hitting 4 boundaries and retiring with 25 runs from 19. At ¾ time the total was 8/96 and with 69 needed from 30 balls and only 2 wickets in hand. The game was over on the 4th ball of the 19th over with Cody picking up back to back wickets to end with the figures of 4 wickets for 4 runs and a man of the match chicken from Chicken Treat. Bevo was also handy with the ball taking 2/4 and the big man Morgs chipped in with 2/14 from his 2 overs. The Choox move back to the top of the table and are hoping to go into the finals to break the run of 4 grand final losses in a row. Tuesday's clash saw the Bashers bat first against the Son of Pitches. Blake Anderson has been the leagues find of the season and tonight he started the innings with three 4s from the first 3 balls of the match, he went on to make 24 from 16 to give the Bashers a running start. With 1/39 at 1/4 time and after a mini collapse the total limped to 4/67 at half time. The 3rd term saw S.O.C (Jacob Son of Col) help himself to a retired 28 runs in 16 balls and Callen also retired with 25 albeit a bit slower taking 31 balls. At 3/4 time the Bashers were building a total worth defending with 4/115 as big Danny came to the crease. Danny belted 25 not out retiring with a 6 on his 14th ball and the Bashers had set a total of 7/158 for the S.O.P out fit to chase. Alan Seymour returned a season best bowling figures with 1/5 in two overs, Balls was tidy keeping the run rate down with 0/8 and Alex, Brenno and Will taking a wicket each. The Sons of Pitches will need to score at 7.91 runs per over if they are to post win number two for the season. The innings stated with Jordy skying a catch off his first ball (free hit) back to the bowler Jacob who then threw down the stumps to run him out. Then Kurt the Kid smashed two sixes on his way to a retired 25 from 17 balls. The SOP boys were off to a great start with 1/41 in the power play to be just ahead of the run rate required. The 2nd term was even better with 45 runs added as Jacob 25 retired in 21 balls and Alan 23 in 19. SOP had 1/86 at half time with two of their most experienced players Balls 20 from 19 and Brenno 16 from 9 came and went as another 40 was added in the 3rd term. Needing 33 from the final 5 overs, season regular newbies Nicholas 24 not out in 11 balls and Ado 18 not out in 17 balls saw the Sons of Pitches post a 17 run victory. S.O.C was good for the Bashers with 2/14 and that run out. Leigh 0/10 was also tidy with the ball. Wednesday night's game didn't mean anything to the final 4 positions with the Big Show out of contention and Madness locked into 2nd position. But both teams are in good form and it's now about pride. Big Show batted first and made 1/30 in the power play. Sachi retired with 30 from 27 which ended with a 6 on his last ball. At half time things were slowish with 2/63 and 1 retiree. The 3rd term as a lot better as Brock retired with 25 from 20 and a rarely seen Colin Baker 6 helped the total reach 3/107 at 3/4 time. The final quarter was the most productive with 45 runs added. Goddard contributed with a couple of 6s in his total of 20 not out from 12 balls. The Big Show put together an OK total of 6/152 after a slow first half. Benno 1/5 and Callum 1/4 only bowled 1 over each but together very handy. The Mad Men's youngest member 18 year old Kyle Young Gribbo completed a hat-trick with his first ball taking the wicket of Schultzy. He took the last two wickets with the last 2 balls of the innings last week. Madness went into bat needing 7.61 runs per over and with God's hitting a 6 from the first ball and then being bowled by the second they were off to a different start. Big Show's God, Matt, took a wicket in the 3rd over and 2/34 from the power play was way off. The 2nd quarter was also a disaster to be 5/72 at the half way mark. The 3rd quarter was a steadier with Pete making a solid 28 retired from 16 balls and Bezza on his way to a 22 caught from 17. With a quarter to go 6/111 was still 43 runs away from victory. Gribbo Snr' was flying with 17 from 13 balls when he did a hammy and needed a runner. The runner was run out and they fell 7 runs short. The Big Show performed well aided by Mitch's 3 for 11 and Sachi's 2/10 Brooksy took two wickets and 3 catches in a great final over win. Game 52 of the Margaret River Big Bash meant whoever won would play finals and the losers would have to hope for a win in the final round next week to make finals. The Warriors batted first against the Finbats. Garsty opened up with an innings that included three 6s and it was over in 12 balls with 25 retired. 2/51 at quarter time and then a collapse in the second quarter to have 4/79 at half time. A third quarter lead by Oscar 25 from 24 balls help the score along to 5/117. Hazza dominated the last quarter with 25 in 12 balls and the Warriors had posted a score of 6/167. Bobcat hit a 9 run net and then was out 3 balls later for 11. Nobbsy 2/12 and Gareth only conceding 10 runs in 2 overs the best for the Finnies. Needing 7.86 runs per over the going was not rapid at 6.20 runs per over after the power play. The second term was more productive with Nobbsy retiring on 25 from 26 balls. Gibbo made 21 from 20 balls and Holmsey helped with 24 from 18 to see the total at ¾ time be 5/114. Needing 54 from the final 30 balls the tale-enders had a swing but fell 13 runs short of the target. Hep 1/7 and Garsty's 1/10 bowled the last two overs that won the game. The Warriors are set for a premiership defence and locked into the first semi. Finbats face the Bashers on Tuesday to see if they can get back into 4th position and play finals...
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February 19 2019 - 12:13PM
Margaret River's Twenty20 finals on next week
Mike Newman
Monday arvo's clash was between the Master Batters and the Bush Choox. The Choox batted first and used a different opening combination with Sebby out for 21 from 14 balls and Muzza notching up his 9th retirement in 12 innings with 26 runs from 15 balls.
With 0/48 on the board at 1/4 time Cody Rodgers came in and had 2 off his first 9 balls and then hit 4,4,9 before being caught for 23 from 16 balls. Cody's bro' Jake then came in and hit two 6s and two 4s to retire with 26 from 12.
The total was mounting up with 1/94 at half time and C.J steadily building a retired 25 in 19 balls. The 3/4 time total after 15 overs was 3/149 and the Master Batters needed to do something.
They only allowed 15 runs to be scored in the final 5 overs to hold the total down to 5/164.
MB Skipper Joel the Blind Guy took 2/12, NickMac 1/9 and Joycey tidy behind the stumps with 0 byes and 3 catches.
Master Batters need to score at 8.21 runs per over and with 2 wickets falling to the bowling of young Cody in the 2nd over it was not a good start. Joycey stopped the rot with a retired 25 from 14 balls and the score was 2/39 after the power play 5 overs.
MB only managed 23 runs in the 2nd quarter and with 5/62 on the board were in all sorts of trouble. Radice had 5 runs on the board from 12 balls before hitting 4 boundaries and retiring with 25 runs from 19.
At ¾ time the total was 8/96 and with 69 needed from 30 balls and only 2 wickets in hand.
The game was over on the 4th ball of the 19th over with Cody picking up back to back wickets to end with the figures of 4 wickets for 4 runs and a man of the match chicken from Chicken Treat.
Bevo was also handy with the ball taking 2/4 and the big man Morgs chipped in with 2/14 from his 2 overs.
The Choox move back to the top of the table and are hoping to go into the finals to break the run of 4 grand final losses in a row.
Tuesday's clash saw the Bashers bat first against the Son of Pitches.
Blake Anderson has been the leagues find of the season and tonight he started the innings with three 4s from the first 3 balls of the match, he went on to make 24 from 16 to give the Bashers a running start. With 1/39 at 1/4 time and after a mini collapse the total limped to 4/67 at half time.
The 3rd term saw S.O.C (Jacob Son of Col) help himself to a retired 28 runs in 16 balls and Callen also retired with 25 albeit a bit slower taking 31 balls.
At 3/4 time the Bashers were building a total worth defending with 4/115 as big Danny came to the crease. Danny belted 25 not out retiring with a 6 on his 14th ball and the Bashers had set a total of 7/158 for the S.O.P out fit to chase.
Alan Seymour returned a season best bowling figures with 1/5 in two overs, Balls was tidy keeping the run rate down with 0/8 and Alex, Brenno and Will taking a wicket each.
The Sons of Pitches will need to score at 7.91 runs per over if they are to post win number two for the season.
The innings stated with Jordy skying a catch off his first ball (free hit) back to the bowler Jacob who then threw down the stumps to run him out. Then Kurt the Kid smashed two sixes on his way to a retired 25 from 17 balls.
The SOP boys were off to a great start with 1/41 in the power play to be just ahead of the run rate required. The 2nd term was even better with 45 runs added as Jacob 25 retired in 21 balls and Alan 23 in 19.
SOP had 1/86 at half time with two of their most experienced players Balls 20 from 19 and Brenno 16 from 9 came and went as another 40 was added in the 3rd term.
Needing 33 from the final 5 overs, season regular newbies Nicholas 24 not out in 11 balls and Ado 18 not out in 17 balls saw the Sons of Pitches post a 17 run victory. S.O.C was good for the Bashers with 2/14 and that run out. Leigh 0/10 was also tidy with the ball.
Wednesday night's game didn't mean anything to the final 4 positions with the Big Show out of contention and Madness locked into 2nd position.
But both teams are in good form and it's now about pride.
Big Show batted first and made 1/30 in the power play.
Sachi retired with 30 from 27 which ended with a 6 on his last ball. At half time things were slowish with 2/63 and 1 retiree.
The 3rd term as a lot better as Brock retired with 25 from 20 and a rarely seen Colin Baker 6 helped the total reach 3/107 at 3/4 time.
The final quarter was the most productive with 45 runs added.
Goddard contributed with a couple of 6s in his total of 20 not out from 12 balls.
The Big Show put together an OK total of 6/152 after a slow first half. Benno 1/5 and Callum 1/4 only bowled 1 over each but together very handy.
The Mad Men's youngest member 18 year old Kyle Young Gribbo completed a hat-trick with his first ball taking the wicket of Schultzy.
He took the last two wickets with the last 2 balls of the innings last week.
Madness went into bat needing 7.61 runs per over and with God's hitting a 6 from the first ball and then being bowled by the second they were off to a different start.
Big Show's God, Matt, took a wicket in the 3rd over and 2/34 from the power play was way off.
The 2nd quarter was also a disaster to be 5/72 at the half way mark.
The 3rd quarter was a steadier with Pete making a solid 28 retired from 16 balls and Bezza on his way to a 22 caught from 17.
With a quarter to go 6/111 was still 43 runs away from victory. Gribbo Snr' was flying with 17 from 13 balls when he did a hammy and needed a runner.
The runner was run out and they fell 7 runs short.
The Big Show performed well aided by Mitch's 3 for 11 and Sachi's 2/10 Brooksy took two wickets and 3 catches in a great final over win.
Game 52 of the Margaret River Big Bash meant whoever won would play finals and the losers would have to hope for a win in the final round next week to make finals.
The Warriors batted first against the Finbats.
Garsty opened up with an innings that included three 6s and it was over in 12 balls with 25 retired. 2/51 at quarter time and then a collapse in the second quarter to have 4/79 at half time.
A third quarter lead by Oscar 25 from 24 balls help the score along to 5/117.
Hazza dominated the last quarter with 25 in 12 balls and the Warriors had posted a score of 6/167.
Bobcat hit a 9 run net and then was out 3 balls later for 11.
Nobbsy 2/12 and Gareth only conceding 10 runs in 2 overs the best for the Finnies.
Needing 7.86 runs per over the going was not rapid at 6.20 runs per over after the power play.
The second term was more productive with Nobbsy retiring on 25 from 26 balls.
Gibbo made 21 from 20 balls and Holmsey helped with 24 from 18 to see the total at ¾ time be 5/114.
Needing 54 from the final 30 balls the tale-enders had a swing but fell 13 runs short of the target.
Hep 1/7 and Garsty's 1/10 bowled the last two overs that won the game.
The Warriors are set for a premiership defence and locked into the first semi. Finbats face the Bashers on Tuesday to see if they can get back into 4th position and play finals...
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Eye-Fi's X2 Cards Won't Be Entirely Useless After All
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Could the OnePlus 5 Have 8 GB of RAM?
Michael Kwan
Remember when the original OnePlus One was dubbed a flagship killer, totally coming out of left field and winning over the hearts of so many tech enthusiasts? We’re on the eve of the company’s next generation device and it looks like it could be even better than initially anticipated, because the OnePlus 5 could be rocking a full 8GB of RAM.
Considering that OnePlus is rumored to be making important business decisions based on the importance of lucky numbers, this really shouldn’t come as all that much of a surprise. The number 8 is so much luckier than the number 6, so why not upgrade from 6GB to 8GB of RAM to reap as much of that prosperity as possible?
This latest rumor comes by way of a screenshot posted on Slashleaks, which seems to show a phone with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Presumably, though, there will still be a slightly cheaper model with 64GB of storage and 6GB of RAM. But you’ll want the bigger one to skip the unlucky “4” in 64 and maximize with as many 8s as you can, including the Snapdragon 835.
The rest of the spec sheet, as you might recall, positions the OnePlus 5 as a legitimate contemporary to the Galaxy S8 from Samsung. In addition to the rumored 8GB of RAM, you’ll also get a 5.5+ QHD+ display, 13MP dual lens rear camera, 3600mAh battery and Android 7.1.1 Nougat.
Just don’t believe some of the “product pages” that have been making their way around the Internet lately, claiming that you can pre-order the OnePlus 5 now. It’s not available yet. We do expect to see a formal announcement and subsequent launch toward of the end of next month. Seeing how the OnePlus 3T is priced at $439, the OnePlus 5 should hopefully stay below the $500 threshold to start too.
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Michael Kwan is a freelance writer, button masher, published author, and professional gadget geek. Fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi, he personifies the digital lifestyle. Follow Michael on Instagram (@beyondtherhetoric).
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Merlian News Podcasts with Dr. John Lerma
JOHN LERMA, MD, author of Learning from the Light is widely known for his compassionate and loving care of hundreds of terminally-ill patients as well as his tenure as the inpatient medical director for the internationally renowned Medical Center Hospice of Houston, Texas. He currently serves as a consultant for several hospices and palliative units in Houston and San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Lerma is creating a non-profit company titled Hearts without Borders, which will take the hospice concept to under served areas in South America. His organization’s current project is to organize a hospice team and travel to several Mexican and South American cities, and aid governments and physicians in giving birth to the wonderful gift of hospice.
In Part 1 of this 2 part podcast, Dr. John Lerma discusses with Merryn Jose:
Near Death Experiences End of life care Dr. Lerma’s experience with patients nearing the end of their life The difference between hallucinations and near death experiences (NDE’s) Pre- Death Experiences (PDE’s) Religion’s role in NDE’s and PDE’s The afterlife and religion
To download and listen to Part 1 of the podcast, click here. Please give it a moment to load.
In Part 2 of this podcast, Dr. John Lerma discusses with Merryn Jose:
Research into DMT The mind, body and spirit connection The latest research on the brain’s pineal gland (the “third eye”) The newest high tech machines for looking at the brain that can prove an afterlife
Learning from the Light: Pre-death Experiences, Prophecies, and Angelic Messages of Hope by Dr. John Lerma
Dr. John Lerma Answers Questions from Readers
For more information, please visit Dr. John Lerma’s website at www.drjohnlerma.com
Merlian News Podcast with Annamaria Hemingway
May 2, 2013 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Annamaria Hemingway speaks with Merryn Jose about her book, the different views of death, what we can learn from it, Near Death Experiences (NDE’s), after death communications, conscious living and dying, and more! Annamaria Hemingway MA (ABD)is the author of Practicing Conscious Living and Dying, published by O Books. The book is an inspiring collection of real-life stories that illustrate how coming to terms with the enormity and profoundness of death can enable us to live richer, more meaningful lives. Annamaria is also a spiritual counselor and member of The International Association for Near-Death Studies.
Merlian News Podcasts With Heather Cumming: Part 2
January 24, 2013 | by Merlian News
In this interview, Heather Cumming speaks with Merryn Jose and elaborates more on the Entities: their names, stories, personalities, such as the patron saint of the Casa, St. Ignatious of Loyola. You will hear how to synchronize your meditations with John of God’s healing sessions, while the mediums are holding the energy of the ‘current’ at the Casa in Abadiania, Brazil…Heather Cumming is a Shamanic Practitioner, Reiki Master/teacher, and certified Qi Gong practitioner. Heather works with John of God, also known as Medium Joao, as his translator and acts as his liaison for healing trips to the United States. She is an official Casa Tour Guide in Brazil. Heather is also multi-lingual and translator for visitors who come to the Casa. She is author of the book, John of God.
Merlian News Podcast with Helen Escoffier
May 31, 2012 | by Merlian News
In this interview from 2007, Helen Escoffier talks with Merryn Jose about how Star Visions began and its expansion over the last 17 years. Helen Celestine Escoffier , Founder and Director of Star Visions, has been immersed in the study of different spiritual traditions and practices for over 30 years. Experiences and teachings, continuing into the present, are from Wisdom Keepers, Shamans and Healers, of the indigenous peoples of the planet, as well as, contemporary Metaphysicians, Intuitives, Scientists and Healers.
Merlian News Podcasts with Heather Cumming on the John of God film, “Healing”
September 19, 2011 February 20, 2017 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Heather Cumming discusses with Merryn Jose, the new film called ‘Healing’, directed and produced by David Unterberg, which is a documentary on the work of John of God. Heather explains how David Unterberg’s spiritual experience led to the making of the film. The film has won 3 awards at the 2008 Angel Film Awards Monaco International Film Festival. Heather tells us how John of God performs surgeries in the film and the spiritual aspect of the healings. She talks about how to link to meditations at the Casa and discusses our part of the work in the healing.
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Merlian News Podcasts with Dr. Jude Currivan on The Bigger Picture: Part 3
April 21, 2009 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Dr. Jude Currivan discusses with Merryn Jose how understanding the bigger picture helps us in the day to day experiences of our own lives, practices she suggests to help us, empowerment, and how we can best make a difference. Dr. Jude Currivan PhD is a sensitive, scientist, healer and cosmic geomancer, who has directly experienced multidimensional realities and guidance from an early age. She holds a PhD in Archaeology, researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics, studying quantum physics and cosmology. Jude is the author of The Wave, The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step, and co-author with Dr. Ervin Laszlo of CosMos (A Co-creator’s Guide To The Whole World), published by Hay House.
March 12, 2009 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Dr. Jude Currivan discusses with Merryn Jose how the bigger picture helps our understanding of conflicts and the ongoing issues around the world. Dr Jude Currivan PhD is a sensitive, scientist, healer and cosmic geomancer, who has directly experienced multidimensional realities and guidance from an early age. She holds a PhD in Archaeology, researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics, studying quantum physics and cosmology. Jude is the author THE WAVE, THE 8TH CHAKRA, THE 13TH STEP, and co-author with Dr. Ervin Laszlo of COSMOS (A Co-creator’s Guide To The Whole World), published by Hay House.
Merlian News Podcast with Dr. Jude Currivan On Her Latest Book,CosMos (A Co-creator’s Guide To The Whole World): Part 2
September 24, 2008 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Dr. Jude Currivan discusses with Merryn Jose the importance of 2012, discarnate beings such as Thoth, 8 cosmic principles, Dr. Currivan’s understanding of our ‘cosmic destiny’, what the signs of the Shift are, how we can become more conscious co-creators, and much more! Dr. Currivan is a scientist, healer, sensitive and cosmic geomancer with a lifetime’s study of consciousness and metaphysics. She holds a PhD in Archaeology, researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics, studying quantum physics and cosmology. Dr. Currivan has also worked with and learned from the elders and shamans of many wisdom traditions and is the author of three books The Wave, The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step, and co-author with Dr. Ervin Laszlo of CosMos (A Co-creator’s Guide To The Whole World), published by Hay House August 2008.
August 7, 2008 | by Merlian News
In this podcast, Dr. Jude Currivan talks about Merryn Jose, discarnate beings such as Thoth, 8 cosmic principles, Dr. Currivan’s understanding of our ‘cosmic destiny’, what the signs of the Shift are, how we can become more conscious co-creators, and much more! Dr. Currivan is a scientist, healer, sensitive and cosmic geomancer with a lifetime’s study of consciousness and metaphysics. She holds a PhD in Archaeology, researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics, studying quantum physics and cosmology. Dr. Currivan has also worked with and learned from the elders and shamans of many wisdom traditions and is the author of three books The Wave, The 8th Chakra, The 13th Step, and co-author with Dr. Ervin Laszlo of CosMos (A Co-creator’s Guide To The Whole World), published by Hay House and due out in August of 2008.
Merlian News Podcast with Sri Swami Vishwananda
In this podcast interview, Sri Swami Vishwananda speaks with Merryn Jose about Om Healing, Bhakti Kriya, the definition of a guru, the importance of unity, vibrations and water, and much more. Sri Swami Vishwananda was born on the Island of Mauritius. At the age of 14, Sri Swami Vishwananda experienced the state of Samadhi, literally meaning: experiencing intense union and direct communion with God. Many were led to him for healing and spiritual counseling. He left school to devote himself totally to his spiritual vocation. Sri Swami Vishwananda embraces all religious paths, all cultures and all races. He is here to uplift, inspire, and help people realize the Divine Light that resides within themselves.
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Shai Hulud launches third single from “Reach Beyond the Sun”
- February 11th, 2013 – East coast US shows scheduled for this week; Australian and European tours to follow Shai Hulud has...
SIX FEET UNDER announce new album, “Unborn”; to be released March 19th
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Awesome Limited Edition Metal Gear Solid 3 3DS Systems
March 6, 2012 | News | 1 Comment
To celebrate the release of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D (which comes out March 8th in Japan) Konami Style is holding a lottery in which you can win these amazing one of a kind 3DS systems. They feature a drawing by Shinkawa (Big Boss or EVA) and Hideo Kojima’s autograph.
Also on the photo are two paper glasses with the eyes of both characters on them, probably referring to the 3D aspect of the game. Other prizes that can be won include signed posters of the game, accessory sets and stickers. To participate in the lottery, you’ll have to buy the game and bring a proof of purchase to the Konami Style Store in Tokyo Midtown. More information can be found here.
The entrance to the Konami Style Store features lifesized posters of both characters:
Below are some more photos of the accessory set, the guide, the 3DS bundle and the glasses.
Source: Hideo Kojima’s Twitter, Kojima Productions’ Twitter, Tsubuyaki Jiroo’s Twitter, Konami Style Twitter
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Adell, Madrigal duel in doubleheader split
Top Angels, White Sox prospects shine in Southern League
Jo Adell is 8-for-16 (.500) with a homer, three doubles and five RBIs during a four-game hitting streak. (Brian McLeod/MiLB.com)
By Duane Cross / MiLB.com | June 9, 2019 10:35 PM
Sunday's doubleheader at Hank Aaron Stadium showcased more than a dozen top prospects, including Jo Adell -- MLB.com's No. 11 overall -- and Nick Madrigal, the fourth-ranked White Sox farmhand.
They did not disappoint.
Adell collected four hits, including a homer and a double, knocked in four runs and scored five times, while Madrigal was 3-for-8 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored as Double-A Mobile and Birmingham split the twinbill. The BayBears won the opener, 10-2, and the Barons salvaged the nightcap, 7-4.
Video: Mobile's Adell posts a two-run dinger
In the first game, Madrigal singled in the first inning and grounded back to right-hander and Angels No. 24 prospect Jeremy Beasley in the third. He singled to center in the fifth and finished the three-hit effort with an RBI double to center in the seventh that chased Beasley.
For the Angels' top prospect, the opener was his fifth game since being promoted from Class A Advanced Inland Empire on June 2 and featured a season-high three hits, including a double, and two stolen bases. He suffered a right ankle sprain and a left hamstring strain in a Spring Training game on March 9 and did not make his season debut until May 24.
The 2017 first-round pick flied out in the first against right-hander and No. 25 White Sox prospect Lincoln Henzman, who retired the first six batters he faced. In the third, Adell laced a two-run double to left field to plate Bo Way and Erick Salcedo for a 2-0 lead.
Gameday box score: Game 1 | Game 2
The 20-year-old outfielder led off the fifth with a single to center and moved to third on a base hit by Jahmai Jones, the Angels' No. 4 prospect. Following a flyout by 23rd-ranked Jack Kruger and Brendon Sanger's infield popup, Adell stole home to push Mobile's advantage to 5-1.
Adell had a one-out single to center in the sixth off right-handed reliever Wyatt Burns, then stole second and came home on Sanger's three-run blast that capped the BayBears' scoring.
Beasley (3-3) went 6 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on 11 hits and a walk with five strikeouts for the win.
Henzman (0-1) lost his second start since being promoted from Class A Advanced Winston-Salem. He yielded six runs -- five earned -- on eight hits and two walks while striking out two.
Game 2 was more of the same.
Birmingham jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opening frame as No. 15 overall prospect Luis Robert led off with a homer off right-handedr Tyler Carpenter before Madrigal singled to left, stole second and scored on 17th-ranked prospect Gavin Sheets' one-out grounder up the middle.
Video: Birmingham's Robert with a lead-off homer
Madrigal flied to left in the third but singled home Alfredo Gonzalez in the fifth to tie it at 4-4. Ninth-ranked White Sox prospect Luis Gonzalez followed with a two-run double to right.
The 22-year-old second baseman lined out to end the sixth against right-handed reliever Adam Hofacket to cap a 2-for-4 showing with and RBI and two runs.
Adell drew a five-pitch pass to begin the first against Birmingham's Mauricio Cabrera, who walked the first four batters and recorded one out while allowing two runs. He struck out against Kodi Medeiros (1-8) in the second before getting the best of the left-hander in the fourth, hammering a 1-0 pitch over the left-field wall for a two-run homer to give the BayBears a 4-3 lead.
Leading off the seventh, Adell struck out against White Sox No. 15 prospect Zack Burdi to complete a 1-for-3 showing that extended his hit streak to four games.
Medeiros, who had taken a loss in eight of nine appearances, picked up the win after giving up two runs on two hits and a pair of walks with four punchouts in 3 2/3 innings.
Birmingham's Blake Rutherford, the eighth-ranked White Sox prospect, finished the doubleheader 5-for-7 with an RBI. He has a six-game hitting streak, including three straight with multiple knocks, and is batting .459 over his last 10 contests.
Duane Cross is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DuaneCrossMiLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.
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Lecture note 25/2005
Lectures on Quantum Mechanics (nonlinear PDEs point of view)
Alexander Komech
Submission date: 11. Apr. 2005 (revised version: May 2005)
Komech, A.: Quantum mechanics : genesis and achievements
Dordrecht : Springer, 2013. - xvii, 285 p.
ISBN 978-94-007-5541-3 - ISBN 978-94-007-5542-0
MSC-Numbers: 81, 78, 37K, 35L, 35Q, 35B41, 35P25, 82B03
PACS-Numbers: 02., 02.30.Jr, 03., 11.10.-z, 11.30.-j, 11.30.Cp, 30., 40.
Keywords and phrases: wave function, quantum stationary state, spectrum, hydrogen atom, lie algebra, rotation group, spin, representation, symmetry group, lagrangian theory, hamiltonian theory, conservation laws,, schroedinger, pauli, dirac equations, scattering, magnetic moment
We expose the Schrödinger quantum mechanics with traditional applications to Hydrogen atom: the calculation of the Hydrogen atom spectrum via Schrödinger, Pauli and Dirac equations, the Heisenberg representation, the selection rules, the calculation of quantum and classical scattering of light (Thomson cross section), photoeffect (Sommerfeld cross section), quantum and classical scattering of electrons (Rutherford cross section), normal and anomalous Zeemann effect (Landé factor), polarization and dispersion (Kramers-Kronig formula), diamagnetic susceptibility (Langevin formula).
We discuss carefully the experimental and theoretical background for the introduction of the Schrödinger, Pauli and Dirac equations, as well as for the Maxwell equations. We explain in detail all basic theoretical concepts: the introduction of the quantum stationary states, charge density and electric current density, quantum magnetic moment, electron spin and spin-orbital coupling in ``vector model'' and in the Russel-Saunders approximation, differential cross section of scattering, the Lorentz theory of polarization and magnetization, the Einstein special relativity and covariance of the Maxwell Electrodynamics.
We explain all details of the calculations and mathematical tools: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for the systems with finite degree of freedom and for fields, Geometric Optics, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and WKB approximation, Noether theory of invariants including the theorem on currents, four conservation laws (energy, momentum, angular momentum and charge), Lie algebra of angular momentum and spherical functions, scattering theory (limiting amplitude principle and limiting absorption principle), the Lienard-Wiechert formulas, Lorentz group and Lorentz formulas, Pauli theorem and relativistic covariance of the Dirac equation, etc.
We give a detailed oveview of the conceptual development of the quantum mechanics, and expose main achievements of the ``old quantum mechanics'' in the form of exercises.
One of our basic aim in writing this book, is an open and concrete discussion of the problem of a mathematical description of the following two fundamental quantum phenomena: i) Bohr's quantum transitions and ii) de Broglie's wave-particle duality. Both phenomena cannot be described by autonomous linear dynamical equations, and we give them a new mathematical treatment related with recent progress in the theory of global attractors of nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs. Namely, we suggest that i) the quantum stationary states form a global attractor of the coupled Maxwell-Schrödinger or Maxwell-Dirac equations, in the presence of an external confining potential, and ii) the wave-particle duality corresponds to the soliton-like asymptotics for the solutions of the translation-invariant coupled equations without an external potential.
We emphasize, in the whole of our exposition, that the coupled equations are nonlinear, and just this nonlinearity lies behind all traditional perturbative calculations that is known as the Born approximation. We suggest that both fundamental quantum phenomena could be described by this nonlinear coupling. The suggestion is confirmed by recent results on the global attractors and soliton asymptotics for model nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs.
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Lisa Dudley, and her partner, Guthrie McKay, were shot in their Mission home in September 2008. (File photo)
UPDATED: RCMP officer says he was skeptical about shots fired call in Lisa Dudley case
Coroner’s inquest begins into Mission woman’s 2008 death
An RCMP officer laughed with a police dispatcher about a call reporting six gunshot sounds in a quiet Mission neighbourhood in 2008, a coroner’s inquest has heard.
Cpl. Mike White, then a constable with seven years of experience, and another officer drove around the neighbourhood but the inquest heard they did not get out of their vehicles to investigate or contact the neighbour who had made the call.
Lisa Dudley, 37, lay dying inside her home and was not found until four days later.
A coroner’s inquest heard an audio recording Monday of the conversation White had with the police dispatcher before he drove out to the neighbourhood. He laughs at hearing that a neighbour heard “six gunshots, and then a crash,” and the dispatcher replies, “Yeah, exactly.”
Monique Pongracic-Speier, a lawyer for Dudley’s family, asked whether a shots-fired call was funny to him.
“No, it’s not funny,” he told the inquest. “What it was is that I was skeptical.”
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Dudley and her boyfriend, Guthrie McKay, were shot in an attack over a marijuana grow-op in their home. Guthrie died immediately but Dudley was paralyzed and lay in the home for four days until a neighbour checked in and called for help.
She died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.
Four people were eventually convicted of a variety of charges for the deaths, including first-degree murder, manslaughter or conspiracy to commit murder.
White told the five-member jury that he was skeptical about the initial call because it was an unusually high number of gunshots and it had only been reported by one neighbour.
Because the dispatcher told him the caller had heard a “crash,” White assumed there had been a car accident, which possibly could have been caused by shots fired at a vehicle, he testified.
When he couldn’t see any evidence of a car crash or shell casings on the road, he parked his car, filed his report and closed the case.
Pongracic-Speier said if the officer had contacted the neighbour who called police he would have learned that the man was standing outside with another neighbour and his son when they all heard what they believed were gunshots.
Erwin Adam, who made the call, choked back tears as he told the inquest how he felt when Dudley was found dying in her home days later.
The inquest heard an audio recording of Adam’s conversation with a police dispatcher in which he said he’d heard six gunshots and “someone yelling out.” He also told the dispatcher about a “crashing sound” his neighbour had heard.
He initially called a non-emergency number because he wasn’t sure if an animal or a human had been hurt, but he was transferred to a different police dispatcher. He believed someone was in pain and police should investigate, he recalled.
Neither call-taker seemed “terribly interested” in his report, Adam said.
He told the inquest that it was only after Dudley was found that he realized police had not adequately followed up on his call.
Mark Surakka, Dudley’s stepfather, said outside the inquest that he found White’s attitude during his testimony to be “almost cavalier.”
He said he doesn’t expect to get a sense of justice from the inquest but he is hoping to get answers.
Laura Kane, The Canadian Press
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UPDATED: Two family members killed in overnight North Vancouver apartment fire
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Kent County school districts see another revenue source fizzle as Coca-Cola contracts expire
By Darin Estep
Rex Larsen | The Grand Rapids Press
Students take a break Monday morning during a summer class at Grand Rapids' Creston High School on Plainfield NE.
Field trips. School band uniforms. Books. Teachers.
For 10 years, most Kent County public schools have used money from a once-controversial exclusivity contract with Coca-Cola Bottling Co. to plug budget holes, support extracurricular activities and fund student projects. The contract, which expires at the end of this month, had been expected to generate $28.6 million.
But as they negotiate a new contract, school administrators are preparing to lose more than half the revenue from a deal that brought at least $22.6 million to their districts.
REVENUES GOING FLAT
Kent County schools have used revenue from a 10-year contract with Coca-Cola to support their general fund and extracurricular activities and for discretionary spending. As the expiring contract is re-negotiated, administrators expect to lose much of the revenue. Here's what districts received from 1999 through the end of the 2007-08 school year:
Grand Rapids: $5,383,295
Kentwood: $2,157,328
Forest Hills: $1,671,685
Rockford: $1,545,342
Grandville: $1,402,432
Wyoming: $1,304,233
**GRCC: $1,136,883
Northview: $812,455
Lowell: $808,571
Cedar Springs: $759,927
Sparta: $746,933
Kenowa Hills: $734,198
Caledonia: $712,341
T. Kellogg: $663,009
East Grand Rapids: $657,386
Kelloggsville:: $567,137
Godwin Heights: $460,850
Comstock Park: $453,948,
Kent ISD: $398,057
**GR Christian: $161,065
*Godfrey Lee: $28,551
* Joined mid-year 2006-07
** Joined 2005-06
SOURCE: Kent Intermediate School District Beverage Consortium
"We'll be looking to replace the revenue, but I'm not sure there's another source out there as good as this one has been," said Deb Reese, Grandville Public Schools' assistant superintendent for business, who is helping negotiate the new contract for the consortium of districts.
The consortium includes all Kent County public school districts except Byron Center and Kent City. Godfrey Lee, Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Rapids Christian Schools joined the consortium after its inception.
Reese declined to give specifics on how much districts can expect to lose, saying it will be "significant."
The old contract, which expires June 30, guaranteed districts $30 per student per year. The new contract likely will be based more on consumption than enrollment.
Consumption of soft drinks over the past five years has gone down by about 6 percent, Reese was told by company representatives, and bottlers no longer can afford such costly contracts.
Messages left with Coca-Cola representatives were not returned.
The contract, signed in 1999, was criticized by consumer groups and public health organizations that argued pop machines in schools promote unhealthy eating habits, increase the risk of obesity among children and lead to tooth decay.
But industry data shows that since tough new guidelines for sales in schools were instituted in 2006, beverages sales have fizzled.
The guidelines by the American Beverage Association, which represents non-alcoholic beverage producers, prohibited selling pop to elementary school students during school hours and from serving pop in cafeteria fountains. They were an attempt to improve kids' health and pre-empt government regulations in response to growing concerns about childhood obesity.
Milk-based drinks, teas, sports drinks and bottled water must be offered alongside pop in school vending machines.
According to a report by the beverage association, total volume dropped 43 percent from 2004 to 2007-08. Bottled water sales were up 18 percent, the only segment to show a gain. Sales of juices, sports drinks, teas, regular pop and diet pop all saw double-digit drops.
While a new contract with Coke has not been finalized, school business officials already have factored in the reduced revenue as they prepare to make deep budget cuts.
At Kentwood, which has received about $200,000 a year, administrators estimate the funds will go down to $70,000.
"We're very disappointed, but we'll have to make do," said Kentwood Superintendent Scott Palzcewski.
Kentwood used the money to buy band uniforms and instruments, beef up the middle school athletic budget and pay for teacher-requested innovative programs.
"When I found out there were some funds set aside for us to purchase, we were very grateful," said James Sawyer, Kentwood Public Schools band director. Each year, Coke funds went toward the purchase of big-ticket items for the band such as French horns, percussion instruments, tubas, xylophones and saxophones.
Some districts, such as Grand Rapids and Forest Hills, used the money to shore up their general fund.
Others, such as Grandville, Thornapple Kellogg and Wyoming, divided the funds between general fund and school buildings, which would in turn use the money for discretionary spending such as field trips. or other needs.
"We wish we were getting the same money, and I'm sure Coke wishes they were selling the same," Wyoming Superintendent Jon Felske said. "We're all going to make reductions and changes in the way we do our business. We'll have a little less discretionary things for the future."
Rockford, which dedicates its Coke money to materials for school libraries, expects future Coke revenues to be about $48,000 -- about two-thirds of what it was.
"It never fully paid for what we needed for libraries, but it did provide a very significant amount," said Mike Cuneo, assistant superintendent for business.
Byron Center, which had contracted with Pepsi, has inquired about joining the consortium. Chief Financial Officer Marc Faber said they are awaiting details of the new contract to decide whether to join.
At Kent City, the board's decision not to join the consortium has not been revisited, said financial director Steve Lampe.
The consortium considered proposals from other bottling companies, Reese said, but Coke still offers the best deals.
"There are changes overall in what people drink," Reese said. "People are more aware of health and nutrition. The new generation is just a healthier generation."
Most sales of carbonated beverages in schools tend to be in teachers lounges, Reese said with a chuckle.
E-mail the author of this story: localnews@grpress.com
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Buddy’s Pizza coming to Kentwood
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Buddy's Pizza held a press tour of their space currently under construction in the Pittsfield Place development on Ann Arbor-Saline Road on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Buddy's, home of Detroit-style pizza, plans to open their Pittsfield location in early fall. Melanie Maxwell | The Ann Arbor News ANN ARBOR NEWS
By Brian McVicar | bmcvicar@mlive.com
KENTWOOD, MI — Buddy’s Pizza, an iconic metro-Detroit pizzeria known for its rectangular, deep dish pies, is coming to Kentwood.
It plans to open at 4061 28th St. SE, the former site of Carrabba’s Italian Grill, which closed in February 2017. It’s expected to open this spring, said Rene Cizio, a spokesperson for Buddy’s.
Buddy’s, which has 12 locations in southeast Michigan, first teased its plans Sunday, tweeting, “We knew our next location needed to be in a city with great local breweries - after all, beer and pizza belong together.”
And on Monday, it posted another tweet, this time highlighting a 2017 story by MLive about the closure of Carrabba's Italian Grill. Above the story, Buddy’s wrote: “Aww man, that's disappointing. Wonder what's going there next?”
Buddy’s was founded in 1946 in Detroit. It has locations in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Livonia, Novi, Royal Oak, Shelby Township, Warren and Auburn Hills and Farmington Hills.
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Missing Mondays; The Disappearance Of Katelin Michelle Akens
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF KATELIN MICHELLE AKENS
Katelin Akens 19 years old
Race: White Female
Hair: Strawberry Blonde (short)
Eyes: Blue - Dark Frame Glasses
Ht: 5'4" Wt 122
Piercings: nose, lower right lip, ears (guage style)
Tattoos: Butterflies on left forearm covering slash marks/scars, 3 red
Stars on left foot
Katelin was last seen wearing a black "Bass Pro" brand fleece jacket and black pants. She was wearing Black and Pink Vann's brand shoes. She wears dark frame glasses and her strawberry hair is short, lower than her ears but not at her neck.
Katelin Akens had lived with her mother Lisa Sullivan in Caroline County, Virginia until September 2014 when she moved in with her girlfriend in Havasu County, Arizona. Shortly after the birth of her nephew Katelin returned to Fredericksburg, Virginia for a visit. She flew in on December 1 for what was suppose to be a 4 night visit.
On the morning Katelin was scheduled to fly back home to Arizona, she made sure to grab her high school diploma. Katelin had graduated at the age of 16 and was very proud of herself for accomplishing this. She also needed this to enroll into cosmetology school in Arizona.
Katelin and her mother left her mom's house at 8:30am. They were en route to Katelin's ex step father's house in Partlow, James Branton. James Branton and Katelin's mother Lisa had disappeared a few years before. They had remained friendly up until this time. James had agreed to take his step daughter to the airport that morning because Lisa had to work. Lisa said everything had appeared normal that morning. Katelin had been holding her diploma as she spoke to her ex step father about her plans for cosmetology school. Lisa had to be at work by 10am so she asked Katelin to call her when she arrived at Reagan National Airport, then again when she boarded the plane. Katelin agreed that she would call.
Several hours later Lisa received a text from James Branton saying he had dropped her off at the airport. Lisa asked him how the traffic was on the way there. He had answered her that it wasn't bad. Eight minutes after the text from James, Lisa received another text from Katelin's phone saying "I'm at the airport, battery dying, so won't be able to text for a bit"
Growing up Katelin wanted to be a headstart teacher. She had attended the federal program for low income preschoolers when she was four years old. Lisa, her mom, said that Katelin really loved babies and that kids always liked being with her. Katelin had frizzy blonde hair that she would tame with a straightner. "If she went to bed with wet hair she would wake up looking like a troll doll". her mom said with a laugh. If Lisa joked with Katelin about her hair Katelin would say "I slept good" In elementary and Middle School Katelin would spend hours braiding her hair or styling it with small rubber bands. Katelin and her sister Gabi now 17 loved when their mother would fix their hair. Lisa affectionately describes her daughter as a "very natural blonde" who could be clumsy at times. Katelin loved Hello Kitty products (was allergic to real cats) tattoos and piercings.
Katelin never made that flight back to Arizona. No one has seen her since as far as police know. 48 hours after her disappearance her suitcase was discovered, because of a missing wheel and scuff marks investigators conclude the suitcase was just tossed from a moving vehicle. It was discovered not far from James Branton's home in a drainage ditch off River Road near Mott's Run Reservoir in Spotsylvania. Inside the luggage was Katelin's ID, Cell phone charger, wallet, plane ticket, pair of glasses and credit card. Not among these items were her clothes cell phone or her high school diploma. Many family members would try calling her cell phone it would go straight to voice mail.
James Branton claimed he had dropped Katelin off near the JC Penney at around 1pm. So initially the Sheriff's office reported that Katelyn had been dropped off at the Springfield Town Center and was suppose to take the metro to the airport, this information they attributed to James Branton. Capt Liz Scott has came out and said that investigators now believe Katelin never left the Fredericksburg area. They have gone over footage from JC Penney's security cameras and did not see Katelin Akens, James Branton or his vehicle near JC Penney's that day.
Also strange that when investigators found out where Katelin's cell pinged it was no where near the airport. Remember I said Katelin's step father texted Lisa. When his pings were checked it was like he had never left his home. James Branton declined to turn over the password for his encrypted cell phone and has refused to take a polygraph test. Detectives say they have not spoke to James in two years. Investigators searched his home, taking a variety of guns, electronics, and Branton's DNA but there was nothing that led to Katelin.
As the days and months pass since Katelin's disappearance Lisa and her family mark special occassions by letting balloons go up in the air with messages on them, hoping someone somewhere will find one and remember they might have seen something small that may lead investigators to piece this together and bring Katelin home to her family, where she belongs.
Our prayers go out to Katelin, her family and her friends.
Remember everyone this is my first post for Missing Monday, if it wasn't perfect I promise to keep working at perfecting them so that this vital information is clear and possibly gets to where it needs to be.
If you have any information about this case please call 1-800-928-5822 or 1-540-582-5822 and reference case number 15-109739.
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Barrie Mac April 30, 2018 at 7:06 AM
How sad. I don't understand why the police can't just consfigate the step father's phone as it seems like he's lying!
Adriana Lately April 30, 2018 at 7:48 PM
Wow, so sad. Sending prayers to the family
Miljana Miladinovic May 1, 2018 at 3:44 AM
I think this is really good idea to help...
Czjai Reyes-Ocampo May 1, 2018 at 3:50 AM
Oh no, I hope she will be found soon and that she's safe and sound wherever she is. This story is simply heartbreaking. :(
Taylor O'Halloran May 1, 2018 at 5:46 AM
This is heartbreaking, I'm sure she'll be found soon. Sending love
Preet May 1, 2018 at 6:30 AM
Oh, I am sorry to hear this news, Hope she will find as soon as possible. Posting this and share would be a great thing to do,
Geraline Batarra May 1, 2018 at 6:52 AM
This is really a sad moment for the family. I hope for Katelin's safety and I hope she will be found soon.
kristy b May 1, 2018 at 9:12 AM
This is so sad! I actually saw this on an episode of “Disappeared” on the ID channel. I hope they find her! This is breaking my heart and I can only imagine what the family is going through.
Elizabeth O May 1, 2018 at 11:28 AM
This is so heartbreaking for the family. I hope this post brings much more awareness and they get answers soon.
Alexi R May 1, 2018 at 2:43 PM
That's really sad to know, I hope she's okay. Let's hope for the positive result. Let's pray for her and for her family as well. Take care Katelin
Alison Rost May 1, 2018 at 8:28 PM
It's possible that the step father had something to do with it especially since her luggage was found near his home. I just hope nothing bad has happened to this lovely young lady. We can only hope for the best at this point.
Twinspirational Parties May 1, 2018 at 10:33 PM
Oh no. We hope they find her soon. Wishing her a safe return back to her family asap.
ShomaPat May 2, 2018 at 6:11 AM
This is so sad. They really need to try and so something more.
Meghan Karaan May 2, 2018 at 8:13 AM
This is so terrible to think that there is someone missing that loved ones are trying to find. My heart breaks whenever I read anything like this because I could not even imagine what the family is going through. I hope that she is found soon!
Jennifer Prince May 3, 2018 at 5:19 AM
Oh goodness! I hate seeing things like this. It's so hard on the family and community. I hope she is found soon, and thanks for raising awareness. <3
Nicole Lindsay May 8, 2018 at 11:48 AM
It's so hard hearing about things such as this. It is great that you are speading awareness for her and her family. I hope she is foound soon!
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Mental health royal commission a welcome one
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The Age, a staunch campaigner for better treatment for people with mental illness, has backed the royal commission – with the caveat it must not be allowed to delay any further the changes that experts, lawmakers and users of the system already know are needed.
As much as 90 per cent of the public health budget goes to physical ailments, yet a survey last year found two out of three GPs cited psychological issues as the most common complaint they dealt with. GPs are struggling to find sufficient mental health services to which they can refer people in need.
It can be a crushing need, as the royal commission, chaired by former Justice Department chief Penny Armytage, heard yesterday from former AFL premiership player Wayne Schwass, who experienced deep depression. He felt prevented by stigma from seeking help until he’d been unwell, self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, for many years. His account of the insidious nature of expectations and stigma was backed by former federal minister Andrew Robb, who 10 years ago publicly declared he was taking leave to treat the depression he had been experiencing for decades.
Thanks to the courage of these people and so many others in recent years, the stigma is lifting and people are coming to understand that mental ill-health is simply another form of treatable illness. In any one year, about 1 million Australian adults have depression, and more than 2 million have anxiety.
Commissioner Armytage rightly stressed rising rates of mental illness in young people, and the risk of these people self-harming and/or dying by suicide. LGBTQ young people are particularly at risk, as they experience more bullying and far less support and acceptance than other students, although that appears to be finally starting to change as community awareness of the normalcy of mental illness grows. In her opening remarks, Ms Armytage made a statement that can help further awareness and change: “Mental health conditions are more prevalent in our community than all cancers combined.”
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Marcus Jordan: Potential 1st rounder?
Posted on: Tue, 12/07/2010 at 9:54am
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I sit here and think about the potential players coming in the next couple seasons and one sticks out: Marcus Jordan from UCF
What do we make of him? Remember, he was the one with better schools offering him over his brother. He's havin a solid season so far as a Soph (16ppg, 2rpg, 2apg with 48% 3 shooting). I suggest the 6-3 Jordan move over to point guard so he can be a combo guard similar to current Dukie Nolan Smith. Another aspect of his game I like, defense. I feel if he came into the NBA, I think his defense would be good and can keep him in the NBA for 7-10 seasons.
What do you think? I could see him being a more defensive verison of Eric Gordon a little bit. What do you think?
Note: I'm not talking this years draft but his senior draft in 2 years.
Posted on: Tue, 12/07/2010 - 11:19am
hiphopismylife
It's going to take more than
It's going to take more than upsetting Flroida to put this kid on the radar. People need to stop tripping. He's looking better though.
I didn't even know they
I didn't even know they upsetted Florida lol
Be real the only reason he
Be real the only reason he gets drafted if that or a tryout is because of his name same with Ewing Jr
The only reason we even know
The only reason we even know him is because he's Jordan's kid. Highly doubt he gets drafted unless some team does it as a favour to Jordan (Chicago) ala Knicks picking Ewing's kid.
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He lacks elite athleticism to
He lacks elite athleticism to make up for the fact that he is 6'2 and a combo gaurd, but if he can work on his ball handeling and playmaking I do think he can be a solid PG off the bench and a good defensive player. I was at the USF v UCF game and he is a good player who can play defense and should be drafted if he continues his progress the next two years as he has so far in his career. He would get a shot if his name was Marcus Jones.
Posted on: Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:00pm
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HAHAHAHA THIS THREAD IS TOO
HAHAHAHA THIS THREAD IS TOO FUNNY AS OF NOW
I'm not saying: If he came
I'm not saying: If he came out today, would he be a 1st rounder
I'm saying: if he played PG more and get the position down in college, I think he could be a low 1st, high 2nd type guy. Wiz, he has talent. He's balling well from the stats I saw. I plan on viewing a couple games down the line but the fact that when I saw him last year he looked like a good defender and he's shooting 48 from 3.
We can name tons of guys in the 28-45 range. I think he could be in that range IMHO
Damion James, Dominique
Damion James, Dominique Jones, Greivis Vasquez, Terrico White are some names from late 1st early 2nd from this past draft he isnt on their level he isnt even better than Clemente who I thought should have been drafted
Those guys were 2 juniors a
Those guys were 2 juniors a senior and a sophomore who came out early and fell. He is suggesting if he stays in school.
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Well we will see what he looks like in 2 years
Thos number are pretty good and one would assume they get better.
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Kinda reminds me of Willie
Kinda reminds me of Willie Warren only with a little more D and a little less outside shooting. He'll have every opportunity to be an NBA player, and I think he'll get picked up in the late 2nd when he comes out. He's a 6'3'' combo guard playing for a small school, and nothing about that says 1st rounder to me.
Class really doesn't have to
Class really doesn't have to do with talent all of those players put up numbers immediately except Damion James who played behind Durant, Greivis behind DJ
Really small school combo
Really small school combo gaurd doesn't sound good, you just described Stuckey, Steph Curry, Elliot Williams Dominque Jones, and Jordan Crawford.
StF616
I agree People hate on him
People hate on him because he is jordan's kid. But i do think, if he gets Better in 2 years as a senior he could be drafted late first round and down 25-60 range if and only if he gets better. He is pretty good, i'm tired of people underrating him. But thats what happens when youre the son of a Hall of Famer
How did Elliot WIlliams go to
How did Elliot WIlliams go to a very small school?
Posted on: Tue, 12/07/2010 - 1:12pm
No one said very anywhere
Ok, how did Elliot Williams
Ok, how did Elliot Williams go to a really small school?
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marcus jordan
if he gets drafted in the first round I will quit watching basketball.....
ilike.panochas
Marcus Jordan reminds me of
Marcus Jordan reminds me of Keith Bogans, I think he will have an NBA career, but I just dont see him being a 1st round prospect. Marcus has a strong body for a guard just like Bogans.
Isnt his brother (Jeff Jordan) the more athletic and quicker Jordan? I thought he was the better player in high school, but it looks like Marcus has improved alot more since.
@robertfreeman
Rodney Stucky is 6'5'', Dominique Jones is 6'4'' as is Jordan Crawford, Elliot Williams played for Memphis which is currently ranked #15 and played in a National Championship 2 years ago, and Steph Curry is a point guard.
There are dozens of the same kind of players that are in the NBDL and overseas right now, I just don't have time to list all of them. I'm sorry a 6'3'' combo guard, without a great outside shot who plays against mid level competition doesn't scream first rounder to me. Jordan's son or not, you can throw it in my face if he gets chosen in the 1st round. I think he's a mid-late 2nd rounder.
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i guess the apple fell pretty
i guess the apple fell pretty far from the tree
6'3 and 6'4 isn't much
6'3 and 6'4 isn't much different and he is shooting around 50% from behind the arc so far this year but he doesn't rely on his outside shooting because he can take it to the rim and has a decent floater similar to D.Jones. Also Memphis plays the same competition. And I don't think he is a first rounder, maybe one day I don't know, I'm only arguing the small school and combo gaurd can't be a first rounder part of it.
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No Ewing Jr didn't get
No Ewing Jr didn't get invites and tryouts because of his name he got it because he was dominating at the pre draft camps and workouts. Jordan will not be able to work on his PG skills while in the game because He's such a good scorer they are gonna need him at the 2. He should get a tryout if not drafted in the second round if he continues to get better every year ( 8ppg as a freshman 16 as a soph). He has ALL the resources you can ask for at his disposal ( I'm sure if MJ called Chris paul and said work with my son on his point guard skills Paul would do it that same day)
You're right Quincey, it was
You're right Quincey, it was even evident in the opportunity Steph Curry had working out with Chris Paul before the 09 Draft. A guy like Damien Wilkins comes to mind as a guy who switched schools in college and really wasn't an NBA player coming out, but worked hard using the resources and connections that his father and uncle had to become a legit NBA player. Patrick Ewing Jr. is on the same track, he was drafted because he is 6'8'' can jump out of the gym and has Patrick Ewing for a father, but he has used those resources to become a more complete player and if he's not in an NBA uniform at the end of the season, he will be next year.
Jordan will have those opportunities too, if he has 1/5th of the work ethic ( I think he does) of his dad he will be an NBA player. Nepitism gets you an it, but its up to the player to make it happen. I'm a huge Jordan fan so I've followed him and his brother Jeff ( who I think is not an NBA player ) since they've been in the college ranks, so I'm familiar with Marcus. If he were a couple inches taller, he'd be a late 1st round prospect, but he's not. Teams aren't going to gamble on him because of his name, but he's made an impact to his team this year and I expect him to improve.
sheltwon3
There is also the idea that
There is also the idea that he could possibly grow and inch which even if he works on his point guard skills. With his athleticism and defensive ability, he could get some attention. I remembered people said that Damien Wilkins got and NBA job because of his Uncle and dad yet Damien has been solid in the league for a while and is back once again after falling through the cracks mainly because of the Minny situation where they don't know what they are trying to do and take 4 swingman. Marcus has to know the game really well because most coach's son or ex NBA's player's sons know the game real well. Some just don't have to talent. Marcus could possible be a late 1st early second.
Possible but very unlikely.
Possible but very unlikely. Its rare that a player grows some more after there soph year. I dont think anyone is counting on that happening( At least i hope he's not banking on that). And he probably isn't even 6'3 (we all know most players get shorter once they are measured at the combine)
Damien Wilkins always had the talent even back when he was a All American on the Number one Hs team int he country
Yeah, Shelton, Damien got the
Yeah, Shelton, Damien got the opportunities because of his lineage, but he worked hard and deserved it and that's why he's had a long career. He may have gotten a 2nd or 3rd look because of his name, but having the last name Wilkins didn't give him a 10 year career as a solid player.
I think his best bet is working on his point guard skills, take a look at the guy (dude has had a beard since high school) and you'll see he isn't going to grow an inch, but he is a hell of an athlete and is having a very good soph year so far.
jaysmith1987
mj jr. lol
No he;s not his father and he might not ever be a great player but he will be playing pro ball somewhere wether thats overseas or in the nba. For him to get in first round discussion he has to have a tournament run like Stephen Curry had for Davidson. Also his school has to schedule more tough opponents to help get him the noteworthy competition that will make him stand out as a player. Also I wouldn't dought this guy he lea UCF in an upset of Florida who has Kenny Boyton who was considered a feature first round talent and he outplayed him. The difference between him and Patrick Ewing jr. is that Ewing jr. was never the best player on his team I believe Marcus Jordan is.
raybeas
His dads an owner
of course he's a "potential" first round pick
This guy is a lock down
This guy is a lock down defender he kind of reminds me of Marcus Banks...dont know about the first round.
make this clear
I like Marcus Jordan he is a good kid but he is not an NBA prospect....he was the fifth best prospect on his HS team....
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Falling Behind the Curve: A Positive Analysis of Stop-Start Monetary Policies and the Great Inflation
Andrew Levin, John B. Taylor
Issued in January 2010
NBER Program(s):Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Monetary Economics
This paper documents the evolution of long-run inflation expectations and models the stance of monetary policy from 1965 to 1980. A host of survey-based measures and financial market data indicate that long-run inflation expectations rose markedly from 1965 to 1969, leveled off in the mid-1970s, and then rose at an alarming pace from 1977 to 1980. While previous studies have shown that the trajectory of the federal funds rate over that period is not well-represented by a Taylor rule with a constant inflation goal, our analysis indicates that the path of policy can be characterized by a reaction function with two breaks in the intercept--in 1970 and 1976--that correspond to discrete shifts in an implicit inflation goal. This reaction function implies that a series of stop-start episodes occurred in 1968-70, 1974-76, and 1979-80. In each episode, policy fell behind the curve by allowing a pickup in inflation before tightening belatedly, and then the subsequent contraction in economic activity led to policy easing before inflation had been brought back down to its previous level. The evidence presented in this paper raises serious doubts about several prominent theories of the Great Inflation and suggests that a simple rule with an explicit inflation goal could serve as a useful benchmark for avoiding its recurrence.
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Published: Falling Behind the Curve: A Positive Analysis of Stop-Start Monetary Policies and the Great Inflation, Andrew Levin, John B. Taylor. in The Great Inflation: The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking, Bordo and Orphanides. 2013
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…a radical form of sprung lyric—a wild, sound-wracked syntactic syncretism that verges on the abstract and the rhapsodic…
Samuel Greenberg
by Samuel Greenberg
Poems from the Greenberg Manuscript
Samuel Bernard Greenberg (1893-1917) was born in the Jewish ghetto in Vienna and settled with his family in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at age seven. He contracted Tuberculosis and died at twenty-three.
Poetry by Samuel Greenberg
Edited by James Laughlin
With a contribution by Garrett Caples
“Who was Samuel Greenberg?” editor Garrett Caples asks: “The short answer is ‘the dead, unknown poet Hart Crane plagiarized.’” In the winter of 1923, Crane was given some of Greenberg’s notebooks and called him “a Rimbaud in embryo.” Crane included many of Greenberg’s lines, uncredited and slightly changed, in his own poetry. Poems from the Greenberg Manuscript was edited by James Laughlin, who first published it in 1939. As well as Laughlin’s original essay, Caples includes a new selection of poems from Greenberg’s notebooks, along with some of his prose.…
Rimbaud in utero.
—Hart Crane
A strange but remarkable talent.
—James Laughlin
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Google Confirms Two More Smartwatch Launches, Android Wear 2.0
Smartwatches have come and gone within just a few years of existence. It might appear to be illogical statement as a number of tech firms are continuously building up their Smartwatch portfolio with each year but on the sales front it has gone down drastically. The last major launch was that of Apple Watch which didn’t much change over the last year’s version. However Google is all set to reimaging the market with launch not one but two different swatches in the first quarter of 2017 and these devices will feature the support for upcoming Android Wear 2.0 OS.
Google to take competitors head-on
Google has confirmed that it will be launching its two new flagship Smartwatches next quarter which will be first of devices to feature next generation Android Wear 2.0 software. At the moment Google is riding at the successful launch and adoption of its Pixel series Smartphones which were loved both by the consumers and critics alike. Pixel devices are giving stiff competition to the Apple iPhone 7 which failed to attract the interest of the consumers due to minor changes in terms of design and features and subsequently failed to get thumbs up from major tech critics and fan forums.
Pixel devices are also reigning supreme in the Android market by bringing challenge right to the Samsung which is reeling from the backlash of its earlier device failure. Moving into the Smartwatch segment is a calculate move by the Google to establish itself as a major player and bring back the public interest the in the wrist based computing devices. Google isn’t developing the Smartwatch on its own rather it has a silent third party at that job.
Bringing consumer attention back to Smartwatch
The launch of Smartwatch was confirmed by none other than Jeff Chang, product manager at Google in an interview with The Verge. Chang has also stated that the new range of Smartwatches from Google is being manufactured by a particular company which has also developed a number of Android Wear devices in the past. This gives a direct wink at the OEMs such as Sony, Motorola and Huawei. Google over the years has been able to forge great relations with a number of hardware partners which has given it insight into the types of consumers and preferences. Jeff further states that Google is stay long in the products category whichever it forays into like a marathon.
Support for Android 2.0 is an added advantage
None of other Android Wear device is set to feature the support for the Android Wear 2.0 when it will be launch next year. Furthermore it is worth noting that Google has not brought any new software iteration for the Android Wear devices since March 2014. Google upcoming ‘Smartwatches’ will feature the latest software, thereby enhancing the features and potential of the devices. The best thing about Android wear 2.0 software is that it will bring support for the new Google Assistant voice controlled service which was first seen in the Pixel and Pixel XL devices.
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Labels: Google, Google SmartWatch, smartwatch, technology
Virtual Reality will have Same Mind Bending Effects as LSD: Microsoft
Virtual Reality or commonly referred as VR is just a few years old technology which made its way into the consumer products. But the level of advancement brought by different tech firms has taken it to a whole new level where people are actively adopting with a hope of getting better upgrades in short while. Microsoft has predicted that in near future VR technology will be able to cause drug-like hallucination as it gets more powerful in rendering articulated reality. One of the top researchers at Microsoft stated that VR technology has become capable of warping reality along with catapulting users into a new and enhanced world.
Virtual Reality will be the new LSD
In the 1960 the use of LSD was widely prevalent in the society to embark on the psychedelic adventures. In such LSD infused reality people use to get naked and enjoy some unabashed sex soundtracked and it also led to the creation of the greatest music we have enjoyed so far. Currently virtual reality offering the first level of virtual wherein people are gradually adjusting to the thought of embarking on virtual reality trips by getting alone in the room, wearing the helmet and feeling the new environment without being touched by any other mortal.
Microsoft believed that by 2027 we will be able develop ubiquitous virtual reality system which will bring a much richer multisensorial experiences to the users. Such an advanced virtual reality system will possess the capability to induce hallucination thereby altering the perceived reality for the users. Furthermore this technology will be redefined to incorporate innovative haptic system which will stimulate touching and being touched feeling to bring a complete realistic trip. Therefore continuous trips to this kind of virtual reality will certainly become addictive for the users in the future.
Virtual reality in future will be a ‘need’
A senior researcher at New England research lab named Nicole Immorlica has elaborated that by the year 2027 the automation technology will reach new heights which will redefine our society and economy. In that time our society will be actively generating a huge amount of data from the use of various technologies which will be generated as they live by. In other words our lives will become dull and people will have less work to do on their won as automation will take care of all their needs.
Automation will help in increasing the efficiency along with decreasing the time required for variety which will ultimately lead to a lonely living cycle. That will be the time when people will actively hook themselves up with the virtual reality to get the thrill and excitement of the next level. In that phase virtual reality will become a new addiction for the society and its base has been developed today which will be enhanced with its each iteration loaded with more feature thereby diminishing the thin line between the reality and virtual reality.
Labels: Microssoft, technology news, virtual reality
Mono-Live Gadget Review: Huawei Mate 9
Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd is a Chinese company who is an well know multinational networking company and telecommunication equipments and services. This company is the largest telecommunication equipment manufacturer in the world; this company has overtaken Ericsson in 2012. Huawei has been quite famous in making smart phones with high tech features. Now in this list joins the new Huawei Mate 9 with an massive 5.9 inch screen and an powerful processor. Before taking about this smart phone we need to understand that every smart phone differs from one other and has different features so while reviewing about a Smartphone we need to check for the quality, display, ram and battery life.
Design of Huawei Mate 9
This phone consists of a big display which would be quite difficult to hold in our hands. The design isn’t quite interesting as this phone is making up of an fully metal body and many people won’t prefer it. The fingerprint scanner has been fitted in the back of the phone which is quite fast and reliable and will rarely mistake your finger prints. The phone has an USB-C connector at the bottom of the phone surrounded both sides with speakers and the head phone jack 3.5 mm is fitted on the top of the phone. Though this phone designs doesn’t attract much but we can be sure that its specs will have an upper hand.
Huawei Mate 9 Display
This large display is very large that is 5.9 inch in size though it may be large but the display quality is quite convincing. This display features an full HD resolution but many Smartphones in market has more resolution and quality than this phone but still the display is not that bad. This Huawei Mate 9 has a pixel density of 373 pixels per inch which will make the pictures or the display look good in our eyes.
Huawei Mate 9 Camera
The Huawei Mate 9 features an Lecia co developed dual lens camera with a sensor. This makes our expectations high on this phone. The software on a phone must be developed in such a way that it can use the phones camera to its potential limit. In the Huawei Mate 9 camera quality is really good and this camera has two lens the top lens has an 12 Megapixel which captures color brilliantly and the second lens which is an monochrome lens which is boosted to an 20 Megapixels. The optical image stabilization will do its job perfectly. This also has a laser autofocus which is quite quick in auto focusing on objects.
Huawei Mate 9 Processor
The new Huawei Mate 9 runs on a Huawei made latest octa Core Kirin 960 processor which has an 4Gb ram. The processor is quite powerful and scores well in the benchmark tests the software change or updating of the phone made is to make the phone or optimize the phone to run on the processor and show its full potential. This Huawei Mate 9 phone manages the background activity and data very efficiently. This Huawei Mate 9 phone is quite easy and really user friendly. The phones loaded apps perform well in the background and doesn’t crash. To be simple the phone looks good for using but only the looks might disappoint a few.
Labels: Gadget Review, gadgets, Huawei, smartphone
Why Windows 10 Users Have Better Anti Virus Protection?
Ever wondered why PC users using various versions of windows never trust its operating system with anti-virus issues? Well, the reason dates back a long way and is really insignificant in this case. The significant fact is that as per reports of the Microsoft Security Intelligence, the use of anti-virus software has increased manifold with the introduction of Microsoft Defender. It also goes to show that Windows 10 has improved a lot on the security advancements and can now be trusted wholeheartedly for anti-virus protection.
A bit of History
The scenario now shows rapid development in the security department for Windows 10. In fact, almost all its users are having anti-virus software thanks to the in-built Windows Defender which turns on automatically in the absence of any alternative program. Among all the PCs that Microsoft updates only a meager volume of 3 percent PCs are termed “unprotected” with all of them having up-to-date Windows 10 versions. But such was not the case a few years ago.
As per the history books Microsoft has a reluctance to protect its users partly owing to the anti-trust threats that various anti-virus software providers have issued. Companies like McAfee and Symantec threatened anti-trust lawsuits in 2006 on Microsoft over their impeccable plan which included Kernel PatchGuard in Windows Vista. Its aftermath is quite visible in most of today’s PCs where about 20 percent users of Windows 7 and 28 percent of that of Vista have an unprotected PC.
Why are they unprotected?
Firstly, above 60 percent users do not have any anti-virus installed in their PCs. Secondly, an added 20 percent have it installed but are reluctant to turn it on. Thirdly, in few cases the anti-virus is turned on yet the signatures and definitions are not updated due to expired subscriptions. In case of Windows 10 most users fail to update the PCs and many turnoff their anti-virus.
What has improved in Windows 10?
With the huge burden of protecting PCs falling on its shoulders Microsoft has been trying to increase the capability of Microsoft Defender. Better scores in all the group anti-virus tests confirm the positive outcome. Apart from Defender, many other approaches have been used by Microsoft such as Windows 10 SmartScreen which is the filter for “safe browsing” blocks much of the malware.
Added features included from Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit or EMET brings in the following standard features:-
Data Execution Prevention or DEP
Address Space Layout Randomization or ASLR
Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection or SEHOP
Enterprise users have the additional access to Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) providing them feedback after any breach.
Moreover, cloud-based protection included in Windows 10 is automatically turned on in the Anniversary updated version and it works in a fascinating manner. If a unrecognized file carrying suspicion is noticed by the Defender it is referred to the cloud service which takes a decision on whether or not to block it based on automated file analysis, heuristics and machine learning. This process is reported to save the response time to a great extent.
All these improvements have resulted in lesser infection rates in case of Windows 10 users.
Labels: microsoft, windows, Windows 10
Movable Micro Platform Floats on a Sea of Droplets
The popularity of small consumer electronics and ever growing rise of their shipments has brought the need of bringing ever-evolving advancement in the technologies. The production of electronic chips and other devices rely on the microelectronic mechanical systems or commonly referred as MEMs which are essentially are tiny machines which help in enhancing the abilities of those electronic devices.
A team of researchers at MIT had come up with an innovative way of ensuring that the movable part of the machine doesn’t get in touch with each other. This will ensure the major source of wear, tear and eventually failing of the electronic device. In this new invention a layer of liquid droplets were used to support a tiny yet movable platform which helps floating the droplets at top of it.
The movement of the platform can easily be controlled effectively and it can also be utilized to alter the dimensions of the droplets by raising, lowering as well as tilting the platform. Their finding has been published in Applied Physics Letters and it has been coauthored by MIT team which includes Daniel Preston along with six others.
How this new system works?
In this system the droplets way of interacting with the below them is altered as per the need of the hour and it is governed by a scientific a characteristic which is called contact angle. The contact angle specifically helps in measuring how steep the edge of the droplet when it meets with the surface. The usage of droplets will help in tuning across a whole range of the device by applying variable voltage to the surface.
The research team behind this invention is filled with graduate students from MIT namely Ariel Anders and Yangying Zhu and an undergraduate student by the name DingRan Dai. Their work was extensively supported by the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation.
How this droplet platform was created?
Researchers came with a smart solution to maintain the position of droplets by allowing them to slide around through the treating the underside of the floating platform. Researchers have created the floating surface with small circles of hydrophilic material. But researchers have been able to get the droplets in their place by securely pinning it to the water attracting surface. This ultimately helps in keeping the platform securely.
During the initial testing of this device researchers found that they were able to keep the droplets in the vertical positioning up to the level of 10 microns.
The future application of the droplets
In practical this approach will help in offering simple and cost effective solution to the manufacturers which is great benefit over the existing techniques present in the industry. One of the assistant professors at Centre for Nano Science and Engineering present the Indian Institute of Science named Prosenjit Sen has further elaborated the best thing offered by the droplets is that it offers a degree of vibration isolation which is sorely missed in the solid stages.
Labels: MIT, technology
Hackers Could Take Control of a Plane Using In-Flight Entertainment System
A major vulnerability has been found in the in-flight entertainment system which can be worked upon by the hackers to take control over the aircraft. The vulnerable in-flight entertainment systems were mainly found in some of the major airlines which include Virgin, Emirates and Qatar. The security hole has been effectively found in the Panasonics branded Avionics which is a in-flight system used in planes across 13 major airlines in the world. This would result in not just taking cover the flight but it will result in leaking passengers’ information. However Panasonic has simply denied any possibility of inflicting damage or causing safety alerts with its in-flight systems.
A reputed researcher sheds light on the vulnerability
A researcher named Ruben Santamarta stated that the vulnerability found in the in-flight entertainment system is a grave concern for the safety of craft and the passengers alike. He further elaborated that hijacking the in-flight system which lends the ability to the hackers to make changes in the critical information related to the altitude and location.
They can even control the cabin lightening and along with possibility of hacking into the announcement system. When all these factors are taken into the question then it will result in a paranoid and hugely unsettling experience for the passenger. In short whether the hackers indulge in driving the aircraft haywire or not but it will certainly end in a traumatic journey for the passengers.
A possible loss of financial details is also under play if a hacker gets into the flight system. They will be able to do away with the credit card details of the frequent fliers which are stored in the automatic payment system. Depending on the security level imposed on the aircraft system hackers might get access to the aircraft’s controls which are an area of huge concern.
How much damage can be inflicted on the plane?
The real extent of damage which can be inflicted on the plane by making use of this vulnerability to dependent on the security designed for the craft. The more the internal systems are isolated from one another the lesser will be the damage. If passenger entertainment system isn’t connected with aircraft control or passenger device then the damage will be limited but it isn’t the case always.
Rube therefore offers a piece of advice as well as warning to the airlines to remain vigilant with the behavior of their in-flight systems and ensure that it remains aloof from the critical aircraft’s control. Panasonic was alerted in 2015 about the vulnerabilities in its in-flight aircraft system in Mach 2015 by IOActive.
This means Panasonics had enough time to fix all the problems associated with its in-flight but Panasonic failed to do so which allowed IOActive to public with the information about vulnerability. Panasonics has defended itself by releasing a statement where it maintained that the information offered by IOActive is inaccurate and misleading and based on ‘theoretical’ assumption.
Labels: hackers, hacking
Nintendo Switch VR headset Shows Up in Patent
Nintendo is known for guarding its secrets when it comes to building new gaming devices. However in recent past the leaks of patents, images and commercial launch documents or slides have become a common place. This trend has finally touched Nintendo when a patent illustration made its way into the website where it showcased that the console handheld screen will come with a slot to insert VR headset. This means that users will be able to use the detachable hand controller for playing at the same time. Nintendo Switch is one of the most awaited gaming console which is expected to launch in March next year. The effort by Nintendo to introduce support for VR comes right after PlayStation released VR console with support for a wide range of titles.
Details on leaked patents
Nintendo filed for the VR and other patents for Switch console in June this year but it was made public just a week ago on the NeoGAF forum. VR capability is a major reveal from the patents but it also offers insight into the handheld portion and possibility of touch screen on Switch console. Patent explicitly states that the touch panel will enable the device to sense the position, pressure and other characteristics of the user’s touch during gaming. It should be understood all the features being listed in the patent documents doesn’t always makes its way into the final product but a large number of it does come into the play literally in March.
Features of Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch can easily connect to a TV when it is mounted on its special dock. When removed from the dock Nintendo Switch acts as a portable gaming device which allows users to play on the go. Switch Controller doesn’t get much improvement from its predecessors. But when users remove the side components from it then it acts as two independent Joy-Con controllers.
Nintendo set to make Switch a major hit
Nintendo is trying to enhance the appeal and popularity for Switch consoles by planning to offer great opportunities to pubic to try their hand on it before its launch. Nintendo has already released a commercial video in October which offered the first look of the device.
This video showcased the shape-shifting ability of the console which offers players the ability to switch from indulging in hardcore gaming at home to portable gaming. The transition from being connected with the TV and becoming a portable handheld gaming device is extremely swift and easy. Thirdly the removable ‘Joy-Con’ controllers bundled with Switch are a great addition which allows users to play both single and multiplayer gaming.
Nintendo is hopeful of making big leaps in the console by launching its much awaited Switch in March. Switch system will pave way for enhanced multiplayer gaming wherein a large number of users can set up face-to-face competition by simply their Switch devices. In short Nintendo Switch is expected a heightened level of playing freedom to the users than ever before.
Labels: Nintendo, Patent
Mono-Live Gadget Review: Powerbeats3 Wireless Headphones
The consumer electronics manufacturers as well as tech firms are working aggressively to build such device which better capabilities and fewer cables when it comes to putting music in the ear. So we got a slew of wireless or Bluetooth headphones coming up each week from variety of labels in amazing range of colors, size and dynamics. All of them share some characteristic feature which includes better sound quality, compact design and smaller batteries which can last longer. But it is Beats which takes all the competition head on with its most authentic and enhanced Powerbeats3 Wireless earphones.
Designed to impress
Powerbeats3 comes with a unique giant adjustable hooks present at both sides which effectively wraps over the ear. This helps in giving a table and comfortable feel to the users. In short users can wear Powerbeats3 wireless headphone for a longer period of time without feeling pain or heaviness on the ears. Secondly Beats has worked efficiently non the inline remote and microphones present in both the buds which are able to pick up calls and can communicate with smartphone’s AI with ease and grace.
Most of the users find it difficult to pair their wireless headphones with Apple devices. In order to overcome this issue Beats has include the W1 chip which allows users to pair with Apple devices in an instant without much hassle. It has a huge battery backup of 12 hours which means users will have to charge just once or twice a week. Beats products are known for bigs and lows and so is true for Powerbeats3 and it doesn’t mean that the sound output is awful rather it has the Beats touch in it.
Ease of use and simple design coupled with amazing sound quality
The best thing about Powerbeats3 is that it can be paired fairly easily than any other available wireless device. Users are simply required to press the button on earphone and keep it closer to the device they wish to pair it with. Powerbeats3 was paired with a huge a number of devices where it acted like an instinct and connected within a relatively short time without any hassles. The play/ pause button works amazingly fine with this wireless earphone as it is able to pick up input without fail.
Sound quality output is the best part of the Powerbeat3 as it offers a refreshingly awesome and sublime experience. It brings the one-of a kind true sound isolation feature which drown all the sound you in a remarkable fashion. The only downside found in this Powerbeats3 wireless gadget is that it charges with MicroUSB when whole the world has moved onto USB-C and Lightning ports.
Powerbeats3 comes at a huge price tag of $199 which is the case with all the offerings from Beats. If you are willing to shell such an amount then you will be greeted with amazingly sound quality, sublime design or else you can go with other offerings available in the market.
Labels: beats, Gadget, Gadget Review, hot headphones, wireless headphones
Lucid Air a Private Jet on Wheels
Lucid Motors showcases its latest offering in a remote warehouse which takes away the breath of all at once. It brings a new force in the luxury car segment of high-tech automobiles which is bound to turn heads and give a stiff competition to the market leaders. Lucid Motors has aptly named their latest invention as the Lucid Air which an all-electric vehicle with a price tag of $160,000. Lucid Motors has stated that their new technology loaded sedan is aimed towards becoming a private jet on four wheels which it is when you look at it.
Lucid Motors has launched and began the deposits for the Lucid Air at just $2,500 for the standard edition which will be priced at something around $100,000. While $160,000 model will have a deposit of $ 25,000 and it will feature independent dual rear seats which can be fully reclined right to the back just like airline seating. Lucid Motors also has plans to introduce an edition at just $65,000 in near future.
Lucid Motors takes inspiration from other high end models
Lucid Motors has taken inspiration from three of Mercedes Benz models in order to design and model its Lucid Air. The exteriors can effectively be seen inspired by Mercedes E Class, interior space by S Class and emotion appeal of the vehicle originates from CLS. Quite recently Lucid has announced that it will build its own vehicles from a $700 million facility in Casa Grande in Ariz. Lucid Motors has just 300 employees who work from its office based in Menlo Park. It has future plans of rolling out its vehicles from its own dedicated stores which might sound like Tesla stores.
Lucid Air performance is awesome
During the test runs of the Air prototypes it has been able to achieve the 60 mile per hour speed in 2.5 seconds. This speed is same as it is seen on $1.4 million Ferrari LaFerrari hypercar. Among the features which defines Lucid Air as high-end car includes twin electric motors front and rear which results in 1,000 horsepower. It has a number of Lidar, radar and camera for autonomous driving and it has a range of 300 miles which can be boosted up to 400.
Lucid Motors aiming too big in too short time
We have seen a number of super car manufacturer shutting shops within a short time in recent past. Lucid Motors has plans of bumping up its manufacturing capabilities along with opening stores which will become function from 2017. Fisker Karma started doing the same thing but lost its steam within a year due to lower demand, costs and stiff competition from market leaders. Currently it has the initial production target of 10,000 vehicles and it will be boosted by 60,000 in upcoming years. Lucid Motors prides on its super technology and integration of it in super cars but the major issue would be to get break-even sales in order to move into expansion phase.
Labels: automobile technology
Instagram Gets Rid of the Singapore Viral Bug
Sometimes social media users explore new ways to get into ‘viral’ spree which doesn’t do justice to the platform. In a similar bid to go viral a number of users started geo-tagging themselves as being present in Singapore when actually they weren’t there. This led to the rise of so called Singapore bug on Instagram which didn’t go well with this social media platform and they decided to take action.
Singapore tagging helped users in getting more likes and attract more followers. Instagram has stated that the Singapore bug has seriously impacted the engagement of the users on global level and it is undermined the experience of the platform as a whole. Instagram has fixed this issue by carefully launching patches over the day. Instagram algorithm is designed to showcase content as per user preference and when user indulge in this kind of activity then their experience is hampered in an unwanted fashion which doesn’t do any justice to the user.
The boost for ‘Singapore Tagging’
The Singapore tagging trend didn’t emerge just like that rather it was a calculated effort of a number of users from across the globe. This began when a wide number of prominent ‘influencers’ starting tagging themselves in the photos with location set as ‘Singapore, Singapore’ despite that they were never there. A number of users make use of trending hashtags and tagging in order to fetch more audience for their content which helps in gaining likes and followers as a whole. Tech Mic has published a report a week before wherein it stated that Singapore tagging was infectiously caught up by the prominent internet stars which includes Christian Collins and King Bach. Without looking any further they started geo-tagging their posts in order to gain wider audience and reach for their content.
The dynamics of Singapore Boost
The steps were too simple and easy to follow for the Instagram users to create the Singapore boost.
Create a post on Instagram and make sure you set location as ‘Singapore, Singapore’.
Publish the post and it will go on attracting likes and comments from random users from across the globe.
Once you have generated enough engagement then remove the incorrect location.
The basic reason why Instagram users started making use of the Singapore boost is that it feels good to get higher number of likes and comments on the post. It any user content is too trendy then it will get featured in the Explore which ultimately helps in finding new followers. Though only question which has baffled most of the social media analysts is that why people started geo tagging themselves to Singapore which is a relatively tiny city-state.
Later on it was adjudged as an infectious fancy of the users which came upon them and passed out just like that. However users should keep in mind that the best way of engaging others users and create huge following on Instagram is to generate interesting content on daily basis.
Labels: Bug
Free Trial of EaseUs Data Recovery Wizard
The enhancement in technology is bringing ease to our life. There was a time when people used to use large computers, which use to occupy a lot of space and now it’s the time we use our phones as a computer. The size of computer is just 5.5 inch. The same achievement is governed by our software engineers. They have successfully made such software’s which can easily recover our lost data. Yes I am talking about recovery software. Whenever we lost our data from computer file recovery software helps us to recover all the data.
We always try to format our computers when it is running or working slow. Mostly the cause of slowness of computer is virus impact or file congestion. This led to, slow our computers and make our work more difficult. When we reformat our system the perception is deleting of files and programs. Basically the files and programs are not deleted rather they are lost. Now the question here is how the recovery software brings back our lost data?
FILE RECOVERY SOFTWARE
People mostly save their files and programs on a drive which by reformatting is not affected. And in the end when reformatting is done they use to reinstall all their files and programs. Like all others I am rest assure that you also find this way the easiest one. As you are able to see all your essential documents in a drive and can reinstall them easily.
Do you want more easy way?
The software engineers are successful in making of an amazing software tool which can make all this easier and less time consuming. You can without any issue reformat your computer without the loss of your important documents.
Software that can protect your files, programs and data is EaseUS recovery Wizard. It helps you even when you reformat your computer and laptops.
It is an amazing file recovery software and protects your files. When you have no other way except for formatting your PC than EaseUS data recovery software helps you in protecting your files and assist you to recover all the lost data. It protects your PCs from viruses and malware.
It is one of the tested and justified recovery software and is used by thousands of users. It also gives you 30 days risk free trial program.
If you want this amazing software all it requires is:
Set up the tool in your computer
Learn how to operate
EaseUS recovery Wizard is one of the highly rated software and is used by number of people around the globe. According to the users they had a great experience with it and this software has saved their files as well as time. You can easily download the software from Cnet. Try it today to make your computer safe and easy to use.
Labels: data recovery
How to Choose the Right Project Management Tools for Your Online Business
Operating an online business has become an increasingly viable way to build an income, and many people begin as personal bloggers and then find that their site grows, as does their income.
If you’ve already moved beyond the initial stages of creating a blog that generates income, and you’re now working on expanding and growing, you may be in the process of hiring people to work with you.
When you hire employees, freelancers or contractors for your online business, it’s important to maintain strong communication, clear expectations and to collaborate as you would in a traditional work environment.
While these may seem like challenges in a virtual business setting, there are project management and collaboration tools that simplify this.
The following are some tips for online business owners to choose the right tools and technology for their needs.
You may know in general that your goals are to increase collaboration between your content creators and your blogging team, but what are your specific goals?
You should look at technology and PM tools as a way to achieve very specific business goals.
For example, do you want to improve the efficiency of your content creation and editorial team? Do you want more standardization and consistency in your content creation? Do you want more visibility between team members?
Simple or Complex?
If you’re just starting to really build your income-generating blog and your content team, you might want something simple. If that's the case, a free plugin might be sufficient for your needs. WordPress offers free plugins that can help users manage the workflow of their content creation, and it’s a good starting place for scheduling posts, monitoring progress and publishing.
On the other hand, if you have a larger blog and more team members, you might want a more sophisticated tool, and those options are going to come with a cost. In this instance, your budget is going to be a significant part of the selection process.
If you are going with a more complex project management or content creation management tool, scalability is a key concern.
Your hope is, of course, that your online business continues to grow, so look for cloud-based options that allow you add new users and capabilities as your blog expands and the need arises.
You don’t want to be locked into a product that’s limited and isn’t going to scale up along with your needs.
When you’re assembling a team of content creators and managers, it can be important to include the ability to all come together in a digital workspace for brainstorming.
Brainstorm sessions are essential for new content ideas, and managing the overall creative direction of your blog, so try to find collaboration tools that offer the option for everyone to come together virtually and share their ideas.
Something like a virtual “whiteboard” can be a great option, and you want features that store these brainstorming sessions so you can refer back to them later.
Choosing collaborative and project management technology and software is a critical component of building any online business, including a blog. Making the right choice can improve your productivity, teamwork, and the overall success of your site.
Labels: project management
Mono-Live Gadget Review:Skybuds Wireless Earbuds
Skybuds is the new wireless earbuds and is made by and marketed by the Alpha Audiotronics Company. The new Skybuds is very unique in design and the music quality is awesome compared with its competitors. The Skybuds earbuds is shipped with a carrying case which is quite big and very bulky to carry it everywhere.
This carrying case can be fitted at the back of your phone and it doesn’t fall of and this case is used for charging the Skybuds earbuds. This carrying case comes as the first disadvantage of the earbuds as this is fitted in the back of the phone and thus making the phone too bulky to be carried and this puts a question mark on whether Skybud is a pocket friendly earbud.
The pricing of the products is fixed at $250 which is really an high price, whereas you can get some more featured or an premium earbuds like Apple or Bragi under $200. Now let’s talk about the sound quality, if you are wearing a wireless earbud what would you feel and what are the features it has! This skybuds is very comfortable when wearing it at first but it feels very uncomfortable while wearing in a long stretch.
The sound quality is quite good compared to its competitors products in the same price range they have a good bass and has a smooth way inside our ears and this earphones does not sound flat. This skybud creates clear and awesome songs and the bass in songs is quite good. The skybud does digital processing which is done by the small sized earbuds which is responsible for giving high quality song and gives us a good feel when hearing an song if you do not want this feature you can turn it off in the Skybuds app and turning this feature off can increase its charge by one hour more.
When the wireless earbuds were introduced the main was to make an active connection between the device and the earbuds and thus pushing the sound quality to the last. Well now we have come a long way of connecting two or more devices and keeping the connection active thus now the sound quality is very important for us now.
The Skybuds is made up entirely plastic type material but it still looks quite simple shiny and smooth in hands and it does not fall of easily. The slim and sleek design is an plus point for this earbuds which is comfortable while wearing and its design prevents it from falling of quickly.
This Skybuds earphone has excellent sound
Though the charging case is big still its quite good for the earbuds.
This Skybuds earphone is very light because of its built quality.
Overall the earbud is good and still it has to improve its battery life.
The Bluetooth drops out quite often and disconnects and interrupts your audio.
The Skybuds earbuds is very uncomfortable while wearing for a long stretch of time.
The built quality is cheap although it looks like a premium earbud.
Price of the earbud is very expensive compared to its competitors.
Labels: Ear Phones, gadgets, wireless headphones
Deep Spacecraft Will Be Guided by X Ray Pulses from Distant Stars
China’s First Satellite Guided by X-ray Pulses
China has launched the first satellite in the world which will not be guided from Earth but instead will be guided by the powerful x-ray pulses of distant stars.In order to support the big strategies for deep space exploration, comprising of a manned Lunar mission together with Martian lander, China has launched its first x-ray navigation system in the world.
The X-ray Pulsar Navigations 1 - XPNAV1 satellite, launched on November 10 aboard a solid-fuelled Long March 11 rocket from the Jiuquan Space Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert, is said to be the first x-ray navigation system in the world that will go in orbit, that will defeat NASA;s Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology –SEXTANT, scheduled to be installed on the ISS somewhere next year.
The navigation system is said to be dependent on x-ray pulsars set up in systems with two stars. Basically a dense neutron star’s strong magnetic field tends to pull in gas from the other star and when the gas influences the neutron star, it generates a strong X-ray hotspot.
Millisecond Pulsars Generate X-ray Pulses at Short Intervals
If the spin axis and the magnetic axis of the neutron star are not aligned, while the neutron star tends to rotate, pulses will be generated as the X-ray hotspots move in and out of the view of the observer. This is a beneficial tool for navigation.
Millisecond pulsars have a tendency to generate x-ray pulses at short intervals which by measuring the time differential from multiple known pulsars, such as GPS utilising pulsars rather than satellites, a spacecraft has the tendency of determining its location in the solar system within 5 km, which is good for deep space. The purpose is to find pulsars which tend to offer pulses at a reliable pace. X-ray pulsars frequently speed up or slow down the regularity of their bursts.
If it goes as intended, the XPNAV1 would accumulate data to build the pulsar x-ray database and would then be capable of using the data to verify its location independently. The 529-pound satellite is said to have two detectors for measuring x-rays generated by pulsars. XPNAV1, over the next five to ten years would build a database of x-rays from 26 pulsars which would measure their frequencies against other electromagnetic action in space.
X-ray Navigation – Superior Precision/Reliability
Moreover it would also measure the accuracy as well as its consistency of pulsar x-rays against the background noise in space without the need to worry about atmospheric interference. It would verify the usability of the data by checking the data to see if the same can predict the location of the satellite without depending on other navigation aids.
The benefit of x-ray navigation comprise of superior precision and reliability and the spacecraft would not need to depend on radio signals which tend to take longer in travelling into deep space and miss signal fidelity. X-ray navigation tends to be much cheaper and the spacecraft would not need large expensive ground based radio antennae for navigations signals.
Besides this the spacecraft would also be more autonomous wherein it would save bandwidth for the transmission of scientific data back to earth. The achievement of XPNAV1 would mean that China has not only been successful in achieving a most important milestone in space technology but has also enabled Chinese talkonauts as well as robotic probes to travel more easily further than orbit.
Labels: space technology, technology
Waymo, Google's Self Driving Car Company
Google has been researching and developing a whole new level of driverless car technology for the past 7 years. Now Google has made their project into a new company named WAYMO. This company is under the Google’s parent company Alphabet. WAYMO is a technology based company which is made with an intention to make the self driving car to be safe to transport people and things and to be put a wide range of use and availability.
The company’s main focus is not to develop the self driving cars but to develop that technology in a effective and efficient way so that it can be widely put to use and easily available for other car developers. Now the testing of the project is made under all different scenario and this technology which is developed must be very useful and very simple to use and shouldn’t be complicated. Thus it can benefit everyone including public transport system. This technology can save time and distance and will be of much benefit. The WAYMO Company won’t be making cars whereas it will be fitting these technology advancement in that car.
The “Koala Cars” is a small car which is currently used by Google for testing and development of its self driving technology. The Fiat Chrysler seems to be the first car to come out with the Google’s software equipped who signed a deal with Google for its self driving technology in the company’s Pacifica mini vans this deal was made between the companies on May.
The development of this technology was started 7 years before in Google lab and now is being made ready to be put into production after a test made for 2.3 million miles in its fully robot controlled vehicle. There will a giant leap made by the company to put its developing technology in an finished car and to make it available to the public. They are in the process of developing more map routes, to make the user enjoy a smoother ride and make navigations very accurate. There must be a proper system to navigate and drive the vehicle in heavy snow covered road and in heavy rain in simple this technology must be able to adaptable in all weather.
On October 2015 it turned out to be a remarkable event for Google when the company gave the first full automatic car ride to a blind man in Texas and no one accompanied him on his journey. He was travelled in one of the Koala cars in Texas travelling through the public roads of Austin.
Google has developed and tested many project and everything is very special and unique whereas compared to this feature Google has been doing a good job and developing us to the future. Many people may ask “is it possible for us to physically not drive a car but to reach our destination safely?” well Google might and will give answers to these types of questions in the upcoming future.
Labels: google car, Self Driving Car, WAYMO
Top 5 Tablets of 2016
The reign of tablet has taken a hit in past couple of years as the popularity and interest in these devices dwindled among the consumers. This trend is directly related to availability of high performing Smartphone with bigger screen which gave direct competition to the tablets. But tablet maker swiftly came up with an innovative idea of turning tablets into computer on a whole new different level within affordable price point. Here are some of the best laptops which you can buy during the holiday sale of 2016.
Apple supremacy in the tablet segment is still here. Apple has launched a slew of updated version of iPad range a while back to keep pressure on the competitors and upholds it supremacy. iPad Pro comes with a beautiful display and it is fast as a laptop and comes in two different screen choices of 9.7 inches and 13.9 inches. iPad Pro has a top-notch quality, high-end specification for faster performance, brighter display for enhanced viewing experience, incredible sound output with great speakers and the support for Apple Pencil & Smart Keyword is added benefit.
Google is gradually taking the Android segment with a storm by the launch of its own range of smartphone and tablets. Google Pixel C comes loaded with top-end specification which offers incredible performance. It has a high resolution 10.2 inch display along with a long lasting battery couple with an adonised aluminum frame for elegant look. It also has support for keyword but it has to be bought separately like Apple’s iPad.
Microsoft Surface Pro is the best when it comes to detachable devices. It might not have garnered praise or recognition like Google and Apple offering but in terms of design and performance it is way better than their offering. Surface Pro 4 come with 12.3 inch high resolution display, 6th generation of Core Intel processor and an optional keyword with an awesome tackpad. It is the most expensive tablet at the moment with a commanding price of over $1000 and it runs the latest version of Windows 10 OS.
If you are looking for a small, light and sturdy tablet then iPad Mini 4 is the right choice. It comes with 7.9 inch Retina display, impressive camera, faster processor and multi-screen functionality. It is best suited for those who love to grab-and-go and it is powerful enough to run multiple apps at once and users can use two apps at the same time with the built in multitasking functionality.
Samsung Galaxy S Tab 2
Samsung device offers the best display screen with its homegrown vivid AMOLED display. Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is one of the lightest and thinnest high end tablet available in the market. It has a an 8inch screen and a high performing speedy octa core processor which runs the latest version of Android. It has a fairly low boot time compared to other tablets and has the cheapest price point.
Labels: galaxy tab, Google Pixel, ipad, Surface Pro 2, Tablet
Windows Update Knocks Out Internet Connections
Just a few years back, users used to eagerly wait for the updates which will help them in unlocking the new features on their existing devices or software or programs. However things have changed drastically in the past year because a number of updates and upgrades have resulted in driving people nuts with making some serious affects on the devices as a whole. This has resulted in poor user experience and this ugly trend creeps into Microsoft’s popular operating system called Windows with the latest update.
ISP reports internet connectivity difficulties in European region
A recent update to the Windows OS has brought painful and unwanted internet connectivity issues on a number of devices. This has been widely reported by innumerable internet service providers in European region who has stated that they customers were unable to connect to the internet. This isn’t affecting any particular kind of router box rather its is rampant. On other hand Virgin Media has come with a detailed solution which allows users to connect with the internet and it has been provided to the customers. Microsoft also came into action after this and it issued a guidance to the users in effectively connecting to the internet.
Microsoft comes into action
Microsoft has well noted this development and brought some crucial guidance at dealing with it though it has only affected a certain number of users with Windows 10 OS. At first users are required to restart their system and if it doesn’t help then they can get more detailed alternatives by visiting Microsoft’s website from other device. Microsoft has zeroed out the problem in the system’s inability to connect with the network by automatically picking up addressing system in the broadband routers.
Steps compiled by Virgin Media to get connected with Internet
Here is complete set of guidelines issued by the Virgin Media which will help all the affected users in connecting with the internet in a swift fashion. At first users are requested to restart their system by going to the Start followed by Power and Restart. Once the system is booted up again then try to connect to the internet, if it doesn’t work then you will be required to reset the IP address and here are the necessary steps.
Click on Start button.
Click on Run or press Windows Key along with letter ‘R’
Type ‘CMD’ and press enter
A command prompt will appear on the screen. Now type in ‘ipconfig/release’ and press enter.
Now users can try to connect with the internet and hopefully this set get them connected.
In case this trick doesn’t work for you then the below mentioned steps which will help in clearing up the DNS settings.
Click on the Start button
Click on the Run or press Windows key along with letter ‘R’
Once again command prompt on the screen. Now type in ‘ipconfig/flushdns’ and press enter.
Now hopefully your connection will start working and you will be able to connect with the internet.
Later KB3206632 update was released to fix the fault.
Labels: microsoft, technology, windows, Windows update
Popcorn Time Ransomware Offers to Restore Your Files for Free — If You Infect Two Friends
Instead of luring users into clicking on the link and then asking for money hackers has come up with an innovative approach. Ransomware has been in vogue for almost a decade where modus operandi has become standardized. This has helped hackers in doing way with billions of dollars in last decade by taking way the control over the files or networks and devices leaving user’s at hacker’s wisdom. Most of the time user decides to pay upfront and get back the critical data or simply lose it by wiping up the machine. With constant campaign against such malpractices and attacks people have vigilant and the ransomware cases started to die down but didn’t went way at all.
Hackers have come up with an innovative alternative wherein the ransomware offers an opportunity to recover the files by simply making your two friends victim of the same.
New Ransomware ‘Popcorn Time’
This new ransomware has been named ‘Popcorn Time’ which offers a lucrative deal to the victims by asking them to infect two other friends in order to safeguard their own data. This ransomware is designed to find all the files present on the desktop along with the files present in My Documents folder and encrypt them using the AES-256 encryption.
Like every other ransomware this one also asks users to pay up in Bitcoin in order to salvage their files and the price is set at just 1 Bitcoin which amounts to $780. Secondly the warning screen also lays down the instruction for paying in the Bitcoins in case a user is not so familiar with this popular cyrpto currency. Even after paying the money users should understand that entering the decryption key wrongly for more than four time will result in losing all the data.
Apart from it this malware also offers an opportunity to get back the files by simply infecting any two of your friend’s system. Victims are simply required to click on the link containing the unique ID which will help in downloading the malware. Simply forward it to your friends and save your files is the modus operandi here.
Hackers living up to their bargain
Most of the promises made by the hackers are not kept but this ransomware originators are showing never seen before honor among the hackers attitude. When a user pays the ransom then he gets a decryption key which helps in restoring the files and it is old school. If ransom is unpaid then that data is lost forever. In a number of cases affected users even after paying up the ransom users were unable to get their data back.
Security analysts and firms are actively working towards finding decryption keys for some of the popular ransomware infections which will offer a free way of getting back the files to the victims. But such initiatives will become obsolete if hackers start using Popcorn Time or its enhanced variants in future which encourage towards making other infected in order to save their skins.
Labels: internet security, Ransomware
5 Gifts Tech Fans Will Love This Holiday Season
Since it seems the whole world's gone high-tech, it's no surprise that Christmas lists are full of the latest gadgets designed to make life easier and more efficient. From tech jewelry to the latest smart technology, there are scores of gifts that get the adults just as excited as the kids because, in addition to making life run a bit more smoothly, tech toys and gadgets are entertaining regardless of age. Consider all the good girls and boys on your list this year, and if you're at a loss for what to buy, consider going high-tech this holiday season.
Lose the Forgetfulness With a Bluetooth Tracking Tag
Bluetooth technology is extraordinarily helpful, especially for folks who either get lost easily or lose their possessions in the blink of an eye. With a Bluetooth-enabled tracking tag, nothing will ever get lost again. You can attach the tag to your keys, the TV remote, your luggage, your phone, a purse, or a person. There are dozens of brands available that are compatible with every type of phone and operating system. Using the app associated with the tag is arguably one of the best parts, as typically it's like playing Pokémon Go, except you find your own stuff.
Live in the Future With the Amazon Echo Dot
Amazon is serious about allowing people to finally live in a Jetsons-style future. The Echo Dot basically controls the entire house, and it's voice-controlled, which is perhaps even cooler. Imagine telling the lights to go on, and they do it. Picture queuing up your favorite song and having it play through your headset like magic. The Echo Dot can wake you up, remind you to take your biscuits out of the oven, or play the perfect mood music with but a word. Who wouldn't love to live in a home where they never had to flick a light switch again?
Get Smart With the iPhone 6s
There's almost always a new iPhone on the market, but you can give the gift that keeps on giving without a second thought. For example, gifting the iPhone 6s from T-Mobile gives the recipient the opportunity to trade and upgrade whenever they like, as well as the ability to save on accessories and additions, such as extra space, exclusive apps, and compatible gadgets. Mind you, this is the gift you give to someone with whom you don't mind being in a group chat. You're welcome.
Any Type of Wearable Tech
It all seemingly started with the Apple iWatch, but wearable tech is its own niche now. Sleek smart watches still top wish lists, and they're especially popular gifts for guys, but for the most stylish and discerning tech lover, the jewelry choices are endless. Instead of a watch, why not present someone with a sleek unisex bracelet, such as the Misfit Ray? A quick peek at any gadget or tech shop reveals a surprising selection of chic, fashionable jewelry that can count steps, pay for purchases, sync with your phone, receive calls and texts, and surf the web.
Try a 3D Printing Pen
The person who receives this gift will adore you forever. It's ideal for both tech lovers and artists, as well as anyone with an inventive mind and a creative imagination. 3D pens work by putting out a warm thermoplastic material in a stunning range of colors, so whatever you dry basically comes to life. The best part is that, unlike 3D printers, these are easily affordable — you can generally find them for $100 or less. This is one tech treasure that's perfect for kids as well as adults. Anyone who enjoys drawing or creating will love this present.
Tech gifts make it easy to buy something even for the impossible-to-please recipients on your list because there's literally something for everyone, depending on their needs, wants, and hobbies. Keep in mind that there are also accessories and add-ons galore, including Bluetooth-enabled showerheads and app-driven security systems. Have you thought about going the gadget route for your loved ones this year?
Labels: tech
5 Common Internet Marketing Mistakes and How to Fix Each One
Internet marketing can be a tricky endeavor. There is no official strategy or guidebook that guarantees automatic success. This means it’s entirely up to you to take chances and hope your efforts are rewarded.
That being said, there is one way you can at least guarantee the odds of your success in internet marketing will be higher than they would be otherwise, and that is to avoid simple mistakes that other website owners commonly make. By avoiding these mistakes, your website will be in a much better position to rank higher on search engines and receive more daily traffic.
Here are the five of the most common internet marketing mistakes to avoid:
1. Believing That SEO Strategies Will Have An Immediate Effect
Many internet marketers perfectly understand the importance of SEO and even how to apply it correctly, but the mistake they make is they believe the SEO strategies they utilize will immediately have a positive effect on their website.
The reality is that you need to be patient. If you use proper SEO techniques, you will see positive results, but not overnight. Instead, you will witness those results slowly but steadily as you create more content and continue to use good SEO practices over the next few weeks and months.
2. Researching SEO Keywords Only Once
Many internet marketers also understand the importance of integrating popular SEO keywords and phrases into their content and researching what those keywords are. The problem is they conduct this research only one time and consider themselves good.
Researching SEO keywords needs to be an ongoing process because the specific keywords that are popular today are the not the ones that were popular yesterday. Make it routine to research keywords at least once per week.
3. Not Using an SEO Checker to Analyze Your Marketing Campaign
The old saying goes that there’s always room for improvement, and that could not be more true with internet marketing. Every once in a while, you would be wise to use an SEO page analysis checker, which will provide you with reports telling you each of the errors in your website’s SEO to fix, as well as marketing checklists of what you need to do to improve your site’s rankings.
4. Ignoring Social Media
Hopefully your website has a page on each of the social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram already. You’ll want to be updating these pages on a daily basis so you can reach out to users you otherwise couldn’t have. Social media provides you with an excellent opportunity to share your articles, gain followers, hold contests, and spread the word about your site in general, so it’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.
5. Having Low Quality Content
Low quality content isn’t just content that’s poorly written. It’s also content that doesn’t help or provide value to the reader.
When someone visits your website, they’re doing so for one primary reason: they need solutions to their problems. Not only does your website need to be visually appealing and well written, it also needs to be packed with content that your visitors will find value from.
Get Ahead Of The Game
By simply avoiding the mistakes that we have outlined and discussed in this article, you will make it easier for everyday internet users to find your website. Since it’s possible that many of your competitors are using at least one of these mistakes right now, the fact that you’re avoiding them gives you a significant advantage.
Quick Draw: Interactive Drawing Game Guess What You're Doodling in 20 Seconds
Google’s Pictionary Style Experiment – Quick Draw’
A terrifying game developed by Google tends to utilise artificial intelligence to guess what one could be drawing from sketches. The Pictionary style experiment known as `Quick Draw’ tends to prompt users in drawing a famous object or phrase in around 20 seconds by using a mouse cursor on a desktop or by utilising their finger on a mobile device.
Google’s new AI tools are impressive and the game is built with machine learning according to a tutorial site. It informs that one can draw and a neural network tries to guess what one is drawing though at times it does not seem to work. However the more one plays with it the better understanding they gain from it. It is just an example of how one could use machine learning in an amusing way wherein the computer game adopts artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to assist the user and shows the user how good they can be at it.
The software tends to guess what the player intends drawing depending on machine learning which can be tried by the user. Developed by using neural networks, the software tends to improve as it progresses, functioning in the same way to handwriting recognition software. Performers are invited to draw a series of six sketches and are provided with 20 seconds for each of it.
Impressive Image Recognition Software
The software tends to begin with words or phrases which it presumes the user would be utilising in illustrating till it obtains the appropriate one. These suggestions are portrayed towards the bottom of the screen and it also tends to call them out. Jonas Jongejan, creative technologist at the Google Creative Lab had mentioned in a video accompanying the game that it does not always work which is because it’s only seen a few thousand sketches.
The more one tends to play with it, the more it will learn and improve at guessing.The impressive image recognition software tends to identify also the reduced quality sketches offering a clue at what AI could be capable of.
The game achieved to guess six out of six Mail Online’s sketches that had been of blueberry, scissors, church, squirrel, swan and Eiffel Tower. Jonas Jongejan, Henry Rowley, Takashi Kawashima, Jongmin Kim together with friends at Google Creative Lab and Data Arts Team were responsible for its construction and the challenge has been a part of the newly released AI Experiment site of Google.
Thing Translator
The site comprises of several machine learning experiments which also includes one that permits users to take a picture of something in order to identify how it is said in another language. The intention is that anybody could attempt the experiment though the site also tends to inspire coders to give in their own contribution. Google’s AI Experiments – Quick Draw had been designed to show the amusing side of artificial intelligence and machine learning to users. Besides this other experiments comprise of the Thing Translator that informs you what the image of the object taken is called in another language together with the AI Duet that enables you to collaborate with the playing melodies on the computer.
Labels: artificial intelligence, Quick Draw
A Camera without a Lens? Hitachi is on It
Hitachi Camera – Without Lenes
Hitachi has been working on developing cameras which does not seen to have lenses and the company claims that the images taken with the camera would be refocused after they are captured. They have announced the progress of a technology for digital camera which has the potential of capturing images without the use of a lens.
The intention is to make cameras much thinner as well as lighter, suitable for cars and mobile devices which could take minimum space. Another aspect is that of the robots – technology and Hitachi would be providing fewer limitations in placing of the cameras. As to Apple’s claim that eliminating the headphone jack permits bigger batteries as well as other parts to be placed in it. Hitachi states that the camera which utilises lensless tech would be much slimmer and lighter.
The lensless cameras are possible due to a pattern development technique known as `Moiré fringes’. Hitachi intends to utilise these cameras that tend to use this technology by 2018. The company also expects to use lensless photography in automated driving, vehicles as well as robotics.
With the help of investigation tech like CCTV, the images of individuals often tend to be blurred owing to low focal ranges. For instance, with Hitachi’s lensless camera tech, the still images would theoretically get adjusted on the fly from a range of depths in identifying individuals clearly.
The sensor has a film placed before it comprising of a pattern of concentric and when an image of the pattern is taken, it tends to cast a shadow due to the light which strikes it, on the sensor. Thereafter the shadow is captured by the sensor and overlaid on another pattern concentric just like the one place before the sensor at the time of the image process.
This tends to develop a moiré effect which is a kind of interference resulted by the two patterns touched. There is a possibility of using these data to reconstruct the concluding image by using the Fourier transform.
Capture Angle/Pattern of Light
Hitachi technology also tends to provide other benefits. In fact when the shutter tends to capture all the information connected to depth, it is capable of changing the point of focus after one has captured an image. The design of the Hitachi camera is unique since it tends to do double duty wherein it not only captures the images without the use of the lens but also captures depth information and focus that image after the fact.
Basically it tends to capture the angle and the pattern of the light which comes in the sensor that enables to change what is in focus after the detail by overlaying a another pattern over the captured shadow during processing.
We already other products which tend to provide the same function, for instance, the Lytro Illum and the difference in this case is the size which is more compact. The small range Xperia tends to have a bigger space. Sony Xperia Z5 Compact on offer from Amazon Marketplace to 369 euro or from Amazon at 419 euro.
Labels: gadgets, technology, technology news
Samsung Set To Remove Headphone Jack on Galaxy S8
It was a big surprise, as well as, made some hue and cry when iPhone have decided to take away the facility of the headphone jack of the iPhone and replacing the same with the headphones, which is connected to the charging port of the handset. While this has created lots of controversies, among the users; it has ridiculously described this awful act or move as a very courageous act. Now it appears that Samsung, the well-known competitor of the Apple, is trying to toeing almost the same line of action and might be removing the 3.5 mm audio port from their flagship set, the very rich Galaxy S8, which has already created some sorts of speculations.
According to industry insider; the most eminent set Galaxy S8 will be made public at the trade show of Mobile World Congress on February in 2017. Most importantly this specific Galaxy S8 phone will come with the unique provision of audio port, using the charging port of the same phone, which will be the exact replica of the action of iPhone 7. This means that users have to listen to the audio impact, either using an adaptor or by using the wireless headphones or with the help of specialized headphone that is connected to the charging port.
Important Issues
This aforementioned facility in Galaxy S8 will not allow the user to do the dual work of charging and listening to songs at a time, as the port of is same, therefore; it can only be done, if there is another external type separate adapter, which is having at least two ports. But it could be a little bit easier for the user of Galaxy S8, compared to iPhone 7 users, as the former will be having the facility of wireless charging, which will replenish the exhausted battery if that placed on the pad.
While the iPhone 7 is lacking a headphone jack, which had raised lots of eyebrows at the time of introduction, but after several weeks of use of this phone has become almost a non-issue for its potential users.
It can be noted that the absence of the extra port in Galaxy S8 allows the company, i.e., Apple to increase the size of the battery; it has improved the vibration feedback of the phone and make the set water resistant, which is considered as great advantages for any phone. It is quite evident that the Samsung will be following the footstep of the iPhone and get rids of the audio jack, which may make the phone a bit thinner than its predecessor.
SamMobile has also reported that Samsung will be having stereo speakers in the Galaxy S8, which will improve the external quality of the audio output. It is also claimed that Samsung will remove the home button from the upcoming Galaxy S8 and replaced with a fingerprint sensor implanted in the unique display.
These unique provisions, in association with the curved screen of the device, will be covering the entire façade of the device; a design concept that may be considered by Apple in their upcoming iPhone 8.
Labels: gadgets, Galaxy S8, samsung
NASA’s Double Bubble D8
NASA has long been longing at ways to revolutionize the air travel which has not seen any great technological advancement in the recent past. NASA has come up with a new design which can be fitted right into the aircraft’s wings. This new radical design is related to the segment of Double Bubble D8 which focuses on fitting the plane with extra equipment to increase its agility, speed and performance. NASA study has shown that this new design will help in boosting the fuel efficiency of the air crafts by eight percent through dramatically reducing the drag as well as weight of the future planes.
NASA working on a super project
NASA is actively engaged in testing new fan and inlet design at its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Currently the design of jet aircraft ensures that the engines are located quite away from the aircraft body in order to avoid the slow flowing air which usually develops along the plane’s surface. This is also known as boundary layer.
NASA engineers have devised a new way of reducing the fuel burn through embedding the aircraft engine into these surfaces. Doing away with the boundary layer aircraft will generate the propel ability right through its mission with less fuel usage. NASA engineers are currently in testing phase but they are hopeful that the new design and required enabling technologies will help in revolutionizing the air transportation in near future.
How the testing is carried out?
Testing is an integral part of development of new design and its enabling technologies in order to make it safer for wide usage in future. NASA is conducting highly experimental test which will certainly require years of preparation but it will help in removing all the doubts about it in the right fashion. Research team will be testing out the new technology and hardware by pushing it against varying wind speeds and boundary layer thickness as well as the fan operation. This research will also help a number of aircraft design being pursued by the NASA along with other private and academic industry partners.
NASA has plan to get this ‘double bubble or D8’ into a twin hull plane for better fuel efficiency and lesser load and unload time factor. The design for Double Bubble D8 craft was developed in 2008 by Aurora Flight Sciences and MIT. NASA has given a contract worth $2.9 million to a company for developing a scale model of the aircraft. So far in terms of innovation only X planes has made distinct name for itself by breaking the sound barrier.
Benefits of the D8
In a nutshell this new design forwarded with the D8 will bring about a number of benefits which includes increased fuel efficiency, less community noise, improved air quality, heightened passenger experience, greater airport compatibility and faster boarding and deplaning. However the best thing worth noting about the D8 is that it will help in enhancing the efficiency of the planes at transonic cruise speeds.
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Google Lets Developers Build “Conversation Actions” for Google Home
Google - A household name for the millions of internet users and recognized as one of the most important and useful search engine, which allows people to explore the world with ease and comfort. The massive growth in the science and the technology division have paved the way for the computer and the internet, which have changed the entire social structure and the idea, lifestyle and livelihood of people.
Today, it is quite tough to identify a single item or issue that is not having the touches of digital technology, therefore, the importance of the regular developments of the search engines are considered as a mandatory issue, which helps in obtaining smooth and powerful search results. With an intention to provide useful supports for its users, Google tries their best to develop their service, with new options and access, which are of high quality and relevance.
It can be noted that Google has recently announced that all types of developers, apart from its members of the private preview line up, can start the bringing of their respective services and applications to the very prominent Google Assistant, which will be starting with the all-important “conversation actions” of the Google Home.
This particularly allows the developer in creating backward and forward conversations with users all the way through the Assistant and the individual user can simply initiate these useful conversations just by using the phrase, such as; “Ok Google, Speak to Martha.”
This particular Assistant runs inside the app, like Allo Chat, it is also available on various pixel phones. Google has already made the commitment that it is planning to bring unique actions to these other important “Assistant surfaces” in the near future, although when exactly this will happen, it is still quite unclear.
To provide excellent support for those developers, who intend to build the newly formed Conversation Actions be getting started; Google has been teaming up with some partners, such as; APIAP, DashBot, GupShup, Voice Lab, Notify IO, Assist, Spoken Layer and Witlingo etc. for better assistance.
Google also allowed a very small number of associates / partners in enabling their respective app on the very popular Google Home. It may also be noted that these integrations will have to roll out within a short while, as early as, by next couple of days.
This is worth mentioning that Google made their platform more accessible and of low friction means for the user that helps in getting their voice-enabled services, with a very simple command so that the user can invoke these novel actions and that is also, without any enabling of a specific skill, such as; required on Alexa.
Google will take the final call or control over facilitating of actions on the Google Home. Google also said that they will make possible of deeper integrations across the verticals in their upcoming releases and also provide required support for the booking and purchase, but the time of availability of these assistances is still remaining a very big question.
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AMD Sets Countdown for December Public Hands-On of Zen Processor
The desktop CPU market is about to be embroiled in a contest between master crafters, Intel and AMD. After almost a decade of ruling the market with dependable reputation, Intel is about to face a challenge from AMD in the form of their latest “Summit Ridge” series that will utilize high performance Zen architecture.
Aimed to tease the public with the potential of its performance, AMD has initiated a countdown that would ultimately reveal some live demos with the Zen architecture by engaging in intensive gaming sessions. This big reveal is supposed to be a web show called “New Horizon”; it will be hosted by George Keeley, a big name in video game journalism and the eminent pro gamer Peter Dager, better known as PPD, of Evil Geniuses fame.
Estimated to be aired on 13th December at 1pm PST or 4pm ET, this reveal is going to be a treat as AMD have themselves confirmed that there will be multiple guests on the show taking their turn to test the Zen extensively and give their take on the newbie. AMD is luring the nerds stating, “If you’re serious about gaming, this is an event you do not want to miss.”
Intel is slated to showcase their latest Kaby Lake desktop processors sometime in January; AMD therefore is preparing their ground to pit their super economical Zen processors against the comparatively higher range of Intel whose last Core i7 6950x processor costs a whopping $1723. “Summit Ridge” is expected to have a highest price of $500 for an ultra fast octa-core processor.
Aside from being economical, it manipulates the use of Simultaneous Multi Threading in the high end octa-cores which is a leap of modification from its previous Bulldozer series which had single threading and low processing capacities. Also there is expected to be a high cache hierarchy. Both these couplings are aimed to correct the drawbacks of older AMD models.
The New Horizon will inaugurate with a modest level quad core to test the gaming potential, which is expected to keep the curiosity burning till the next big reveal on “Summit Ridge” later on in the beginning quarter of 2017, with other technologies hidden up their sleeve.
A lot of curiosity and interest is abuzz about this AMD Zen as this project has been entirely under wraps; the idea had been planted in a small Developer Forum convention event in August. It has been worked on meticulously by AMD to improve the design of Excavator architecture and improve its processing speed by adding more clocks; each clock is supposed to be fed with 40% more instruction than Excavator.
Assuring promises of giveaways, AMD is encouraging viewers to book a spot for the prime show and catch all the action live. An adrenaline fuelled performance on the 13th will probably be a premonition of how the processor industry of the future will turn out, commanding the best from both Intel and AMD.
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Federal Court Finds Texas Political Map Discriminated Against Minorities, Again
It’s the fourth finding of discrimination in nine days.
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Texas state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa looks at maps on display prior to a Senate redistricting committee hearing in 2013. Eric Gay/AP
The state of Texas is on an impressive losing streak in court. On Thursday evening, a three-judge panel of a federal district court in San Antonio found that the state House district map purposefully undercut the voting power of African American and Latino voters—the ninth racial discrimination case the state has lost since 2011 and the fourth in just over a week.
The ruling comes nine days after the same court found that another Texas district map, for its representatives in Congress, discriminated against minorities and ordered the state to redraw two districts. But rather than redraw the congressional and state House maps, Texas is appealing to the US Supreme Court to preserve them.
The ruling Thursday evening was the latest episode in a six-year battle over political maps drawn in 2011. In 2013, with the maps tied up in court, the state Legislature adopted new congressional and state House maps based on the 2011 maps; those maps have been in place ever since. The San Antonio court struck down both the 2011 maps and the 2013 congressional map this year as intentionally discriminatory. On Thursday, the court found that the Republican-dominated Legislature “purposefully maintained the intentional discrimination” from the 2011 map in drawing four state House districts.
While Texas appeals the rulings, the parties are due back in court in early September to begin to redraw the maps ahead of the 2018 elections. New maps would likely reduce the size of the Republican majority in the state Legislature and Texas’ congressional delegation.
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Lachiel rated it
Modern world -programmer who likes mecha's gets transported into another world. He finds out that mecha's are a real thing in this world and then goes on his goals of.. Owning his own mecha.. :D
While the MC is a bit weird it gives him his own uniqueness. The side character's are great they all have their own roles and it seems they are growing along with the MC as he moves on in the world creating his own path.
Its a blend of slice of life - Mecha and action.... more>> I recommend this to anyone who likes these kinds of things~ <<less
Hisshou Dungeon Unei Houhou
I'll just review it for now since I've read up to chapter 30.. :P.
The story is another one of those dungeon management types. The story is pretty good and doesn't feel too rushed.
Setting wise it's unique but not original. Plot wise it's pretty interesting and I would love to see more of it translated.
I -WILL NOT- recommend this to anyone at this point due to the fact that the translation has stalled.
World Teacher – Other World Style Education & Agent (WN)
An interesting story about a old man who gets reincarnated and proceeds to teach things to people in a new world...
There's action and romance to a extent.. :o
This novel was pretty good... until the author died and now its a forever incomplete novel.. : (
I would recommend this novel to anyone who wants to never have closure like me.. The writing and the plot is great, the main female Lead is a typical muscle headed dumb girl. the MC is cool n sh*t yeaaa.
Anyways I don't recommend reading this persay.. only that its a good read.
This series creates great anime.. what else can I say other then this novel has Waifus, a Chosen Waifu, and supernatural fights.. (The Chosen Waifu is territorial btw..). Araragi our poor MC just happens to stick his head into other peoples supernatural problems, and helps them try and solve it... and the rest is for you to read.. :)
I recommend both the anime series and the novel series as both are good in their own rights. :D
Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan
Ah here we go.. The useless MC who was kicked out of his house and disowned.. And a princess female lead. Sounds.. Mix'd and matched right? Well for as mix'd as it sounds the author manages to bring these two together somehow and it doesn't feel off. The action scenes are well written as are the little slice of life scenes. I do recommend this to anyone who would want a romance novel with some action :3
Sendai Yuusha wa Inkyou Shitai
This novel is okay not great and not the best.. Old hero gets summoned back by accident because a different country summoned the new hero.. (He got transported with his friend whose the hero).
Anyways we got our typical slightly perverted MC and his adventure.. And how he ends up saving lives.. Again..
Anyways the story its self feels subpar you don't really feel any attachment to any of the characters and feel slightly disgusted by the first female character whose whole purpose is to be a loli.. Ugh. Anyways It's... more>> not a bad read if you can get over that and that he MC is trying to hide his hero-ness~ <<less
Magi Craft Meister
This novel is slice of life.. Material.. All I can say, there's not many fights and it's almost all about the interactions between characters. We can see the few times the MC decides to invent something but other then that he gives his idea to someone else and then goes on his way most of the time. The MC is like-able and the side characters seem pretty dynamic instead of static. So I do recommend this to anyone who likes slice of life in a fantasy world.
Godly Hunter
MC is a first a assassin.. then he decides he can't play that class.. and restarts as a hunter.. and proceeds to learn new things to solo monsters. Alright there we go.... Just kidding Our MC is a hacker, and there has been hints that he has a family that is looking forward to meet him again and all dat jazz. We get to see our MC not motivated by money but by a job request and personal interest... And a little bit of a side characters view sometimes.
I do... more>> recommend this if you like VRMMO novels like ARK, LMS, SAO, and all the others.. :/ <<less
Konjiki no Moji Tsukai (WN)
While this novel is extremely popular, we once again have a transported person into a different world, except he doesn't become a hero for the humans and instead does whatever he wants to do.. With his OP magic..
I recommend this for anyone who likes OP main characters, and lolis.. Buttloads of lolis.
A Slave Career Planner Can Be A Successful Profession (Legacy)
This novel has a great premise and has a solid foundation to build upon. I would say that given some time and this novel will rate pretty high and be a great read. Currently it lacks more chapters, but it seems like it's going in a great direction and we don't have to worry about over powered.. Powers only business management :D
One of the biggest "light" novels in JP, It's extremely hard to get into just due to the fact that the size of chapters and books is kind of daunting.. But I do recommend to give this a read, as the plot is pretty solid, the writing is amazing, and the world building the author has done is just 10/10. The novel does jump perspectives a bit so be prepared to see a ton of things from different view points. :)
I recommend this highly to anyone who wants... more>> something to read and isn't scared away by the size. <<less
The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village
Spirits, demons and Youki galore! Whoohoo! We follow 2-3 people throughout the novel as they interact with different kinds of Youki and "contracts". Poor MC gets dragged into a problem with dem spirit youki thingys every time he goes somewhere.. Poor guy. But its entertainment for us!.. And the Zashiki Warashi in the MC's house is known to be lazy.. Go figure right? :D
Status: v1c3
While this novel has a ton of information being dumped on you at points, it is a well written novel. The premise is unique, you don't really see the common "I'm in a different world, and here comes my harem flocking in" at all during the chapters. All you see is a man doing as he was told and trying his best to survive.
Overall the updates are slow, but it's a good read that you should at least give a try.
The Story of Living as I Please After Being Reincarnated in Another World with a Ridiculously Cheat Power
I can't give this a horrible rating or a great rating. It's a man's fantasy's he's written down. -Shrug- Hes OP in another world and wanted a bigger dong. Oh well. If it's not your cup of tea so be it, the story is pretty piss poor but what would you expect from a fantasy -fetish- novel from a author. I don't really enjoy the novel for its story but I find the premise funny enough to enjoy reading it for the ridiculousness. -shrug- I recommend if you... more>> need something to read and want a laugh at someones fantasies. <<less
This novel is pretty dark and gloomy even the translator refers to it as "darkness"...
The story has a nice flow, and has one of those dense main characters, but the focus of this novel isn't the romance or the "harem" It's about the world and how events affect this little platoon.
Highly recommended for people who like to watch characters grow and don't want something so fluffy and pure...
This novel had potential to be something great.. Needless to say the ball was dropped at the end, but don't let that deter you away from reading this. The MC is what I like to call "The last of a good thing" for a while. Reason I say this is because our MC here is OP, and.. Not so weak-willed when fights break out.. He only has a guilt problem to his home.. Not so bad..
I do recommend this novel for people who like post-apocalyptic worlds in the future,... more>> and alien monsters.. And.. Waifus.. And badass fights. <<less
Maou na Ore to Fushihime no Yubiwa
This novel got cut short, just a fair warning. There's 5 volumes fully translated.
We get a boy who's apparently going to be a monster tamer.. And just so happens to only get female monsters whooo. Anyways, the story is pretty good it has a few twists and turns the pacing is quite horrible tho its fast but its hard to tell if it was because it was axed or the way the author wrote it.
I do recommend this if one wants a harem novel with some action scenes.
Only I Am Not Attacked In A World Overflowing With Zombies
What the person below me said, extremely interesting premise, but instead of a horrible horrible protagonist, I would have to say horrible execution.. While it's true people would be cruel during a time like a Zombie apocalypse... It goes a little bit over with some scenes.. with zombies.
I recommend this to anyone who likes these zombie apocalypses, just don't expect a High school of the dead type story.
Overlord (LN)
Ah overlord, the current grim and dark novel. Guy gets transported while playing a game as it's ending and ends up as his character in another world. The minion and guild hall he made are all transported with him, and we get to see him adventure and set out to "conquer" the new world. It's not really slice of life as a adventure action novel. Be warned there are some pretty dark stuff in this novel as they view humans as live stock and trash. I recommend this to anyone... more>> who wants something to read and can handle some dark and grim stuff. <<less
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Can March For Our Lives rally avoid the fate of the Million Mom March?
The Million Mom March of 2000 shows the NeverAgain movement the rewards and pitfalls of marching on Washington — and what to do after the march.
Can March For Our Lives rally avoid the fate of the Million Mom March? The Million Mom March of 2000 shows the NeverAgain movement the rewards and pitfalls of marching on Washington — and what to do after the march. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://usat.ly/2FTbH9D
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY Published 2:44 p.m. ET March 22, 2018 | Updated 1:48 p.m. ET March 23, 2018
More than 1 million people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. hoping for changes to gun regulations and school safety. Just the FAQs
About three-quarters of a million people crowded the National Mall in Washington for the Million Mom March on Mother's Day, 2000. Some said it looked like a movement.(Photo: KAMENKO PAJIC, AP)
The #NeverAgain movement’s “March for Our Lives’’ on Saturday is both inspired and haunted by the legacy of another march on Washington 18 years ago.
The Million Mom March, which brought about 750,000 people to the National Mall on Mothers’ Day 2000, was the biggest gun control rally in history. On stage, Rosie O’Donnell spoke for many when she proclaimed it “the birth of a movement.’’
In the wings, one of the march’s organizers winced. Donna Dees-Thomases says she knew even then that one march was not a movement.
She was right. Today, the year 2000 is remembered not for the birth of a gun control movement, but for the start of the National Rifle Association’s two-decade domination of gun politics.
Support for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at a #NeverAgain rally last month. The movement hopes to advance its gun control cause with the "March for Our Lives'' in Washington this Saturday. (Photo: Brian Miller.)
Unrealized promise is just one pitfall of marching on Washington, an American tradition that dates to the depression year of 1894, when an Ohio rabble-rouser named Jacob Coxey led an army of unemployed men on the capital.
Coxey was arrested and the marchers dispersed. But the 1963 civil rights march, at which Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream’’ speech, established the power of such an event. And the women’s protest march on Washington last year easily outdrew Donald Trump’s inauguration the day before.
Those were what Vassar College historian Rebecca Edwards calls “world historical events.’’ But marches on Washington have become so frequent that most attract little attention and have little effect.
They seem to run together: the Million Mom, Million Man, Million Family, Million Worker, Millions More and Million Puppet marches; marches for public broadcasting, colon cancer screening and science; marches against genetically engineered food, Scientology and the African warlord Joseph Kony.
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Results have been mixed. Marching on Washington has not liberalized immigration policy or changed abortion policy or gotten Trump to release his tax returns. Marching did not end the Vietnam War for many years, if it ended it at all, and it definitely did not end the war in Iraq. President Bush said being influenced by street protests would have been like making policy by focus group.
Even the 1963 civil rights march required so much effort, created so many internal divisions and produced so few immediate results (the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed only after and because of President Kennedy’s assassination) that its leaders vowed never to attempt another.
President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton look on from the South Lawn of the White House during the Million Mom March in 2000. (Photo: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, AP)
So what does a march on Washington do for a political movement? Jerome Grossman, the late Massachusetts businessman who helped organize the huge Vietnam War Moratorium March in 1969, answered the question in one word: “Courage’’
He meant the courage of numbers. Pressed together, often for long hours and in bad weather, activists realize they're not alone. Marchers are energized and unified, even if marches rarely change federal policy and often pass unnoticed. They don’t so much convert the skeptical as confirm the faithful.
That’s how it was in 2000 for Amy Harris, a 41-year-old nurse whose experience in a District of Columbia hospital trauma unit had inclined her toward gun control. With her two small children in a stroller, she joined the Million Mom March.
The marchers called for the licensing of handgun owners, the registration of handguns, child safety locks on guns and background checks for sales at gun shows, including a three-day waiting period.
“It was uplifting,’’ Harris recalls. “There was a feeling like you were all together as a group working on the same goal to help society.’’ In a few months, the Million Mom March established more than 200 local chapters.
Through the lean years, Harris says she never lost hope. And she and many other veterans of that march say they paved the way for Saturday’s. “These are our kids,’’ Dees-Thomases of the NeverAgainers says. Another Million Mom organizer, Debra Wachspress, agrees: “I feel like, ‘Here’s the baton, go!' "
A YEAR LATER, 'TOO SEDATE'
The marchers of 2000 acknowledge, however, that #NeverAgain’s rise is a reminder that their own march was not the turning point they envisioned.
Instead, that year’s pivotal event in the gun debate was the election of NRA ally George W. Bush.
Gun control advocates did help to defeat several unfriendly U.S. senators and pass referendums in Oregon and Colorado to close gun law loopholes. But many Democrats blamed the gun issue for costing their nominee, Al Gore, in three crucial states. And President Clinton said it stopped the party from winning the House of Representatives.
By the first anniversary of the march, gun control had lost momentum. The Million Mom March organization laid off most of its staff and merged with other groups. Its decision to hold state rallies on Mother’s Day 2001, spun as a return to the grassroots, seemed like making a virtue of necessity. There was no energy for another mass march.
Many state marches were poorly attended. Amy Blum, 20, was not impressed by the one in New Orleans. "This is too sedate," she told The Associated Press. “Where's the anger? I think there was some serious momentum from last year's march."
In contrast, the mood at the NRA annual convention a week later in Kansas City was triumphant. "We have a whole lot to celebrate!’’ CEO Wayne LaPierre crowed.
In 2004, when the assault weapons ban signed by Clinton in 1994 was scheduled to expire, the Million Moms scheduled a Mother’s Day rally at the Capitol. It drew only a few thousand people. “A million ain't what it used to be," a Wall Street Journal editorial jeered. ‘’Quite a comedown from Mother's Day four years ago.’’
The following year, President Bush signed a bill protecting gun makers from liability for the use of their products in the commission of crimes.
When the Democrats finally did retake the House in 2006, they’d said little in the campaign about guns.
Funding dried up, says Josh Horwitz, director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, “because nobody believed anything could happen. … Donors asked, ‘Why are we funding this movement?' "
For the moms who marched in 2000, these were wilderness years. Each mass shooting revived memories of that great day on the Mall and regrets about what might have been. The massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007 — the worst since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School that helped prompt the Million Mom March — did little to promote gun control. It only reinforced the moms’ frustration.
'THEY HAVE A MOVEMENT'
Now, the Million Moms’ hopes have been revived by #NeverAgain, which emerged following the shooting deaths of 17 people Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Which raises a question: How can kids — innocent, inexperienced — succeed where mothers failed? “They have a movement,’’ Wachspress says. “We didn’t have that.’’
One difference is social media, which makes organizing easier and faster.
Take housing out-of-town marchers. Liberal activist David Mixner, who staged Washington marches for nuclear disarmament and gay rights, recalls having to form committees to find places for them to stay — a task now handled online via Facebook.
Working exclusively with email and phones, Dees-Thomases and her allies began organizing around Labor Day 1999, almost nine months before the march. The March for Our Lives, which was announced four days after the Parkland shooting, will take place less than six weeks after the fact.
Another difference is that, despite (or maybe because of) the NRA’s dominance, the gun control lobby is better organized and funded than 18 years ago. New groups, such as former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and one founded by former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after her 2011 shooting, have given the #NeverAgain activists guidance and support.
And #NeverAgain trades on the cumulative impact of years of mass shootings. In 2000, Columbine could still be viewed as an aberration. Today, it’s not even among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
On Saturday, many of the Million Moms will again be marching. That includes Harris and her kids, now in their 20s, and Wachspress, the New Jersey state coordinator in 2000.
This year, she says, it’s clear when and how the march’s legacy will be determined: Election Day.
“It’s all about the ballot box,’’ she says.
In retrospect, she says, it always was.
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» Samsung Cheil Industries acquires Novaled for €260 million
Samsung Cheil Industries acquires Novaled for €260 million
Samsung acquired Novaled for €260 million (almost $350 million). The deal is actually rather complicated - Samsung Electronics will acquire 40% of the company, Samsung's Cheil Industries will acquire 50% while the remaining 10% is held by Samsung Venture Investment. The €260 million includes a €30 million contingent payment, which is conditional to reaching certain milestones.
This puts an end to a long saga which began in early 2012 when Novaled filed for an IPO. This didn't go through and then in March 2013 Novaled was almost bought by Korea's Doosan. Later on it was reported that Cheil Industries are interested in the company and today the deal was signed.
Novaled now reveals that it generated €26 (almost $35 million) in revenues in 2012. Novaled has a strong IP position (over 500 patents, granted or pending) and supplies materials and technologies to major OLED players.
Disclosure: Novaled is a long-time OLED-Info sponsor. Congratulations my friends!
Cheil Industries
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Samsung's Cheil Industries is also considering a bid for Novaled
Cheil Industries completes Novaled's acquisition
Doosan decided not to acquire Novaled
Reports suggest Samsung is close to acquiring Novaled for $200 million
Reports say Doosan to acquire Novaled for $270-360 million
Novaled breaks ground on a new €20 million facility
Samsung's Cheil Industries plans to spend $1.7 billion on OLEDs in the next 3 years
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One News Page > Sports News > FIFA Women's World Cup 2019: Hosts France kick off tournament in style with thumping victory over South Korea
FIFA Women's World Cup 2019: Hosts France kick off tournament in style with thumping victory over South Korea
Hosts France laid down a marker in the opening game of the women's World Cup as towering defender Wendie Renard scored twice in a convincing 4-0 win over South Korea to kick off the tournament in style in Paris on Friday
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2016-09-17 12:00 Age: 3 Years
From IRQ latency to preemption aka total latency
In contrast to earlier days when real-time work often was executed within the interrupt service routine, today's real-time programmers prefer to do the real-time work in user space. This makes development much easier, as the code can be debugged better, a crash does not automatically lead to a system crash, there is less stack limitation and the hardware independence allows to easily reuse the code on another platform. This change of paradigm of real-time software development required new methods to determine the response latency of a real-time system: The goal no longer was to document the deterministic execution start of the interrupt service routine (the "IRQ latency"), but to provide evidence that both the scheduler and the context switch guarantee that a waiting user-space real-time application will start not later than the maximum acceptable latency. This made it necessary to determine the "preemption latency" sometimes also referred to as "total latency" (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: The pathway from input trigger to user space application – the preemption latency is considerably longer than the IRQ latency, since it includes running through the entire interrupt service routine as well as scheduling and context switching.
How to determine the preemption latency?
Measurement of stimulated latency
The standard method to determine the preemption latency of a system is to trigger preemption and to measure how long it takes until the stimulated preemption is completed and the user-space program under consideration continues execution after returning from the waiting system call. The tool that was created for this purpose is called cyclictest; it is part of the rt-tests suite. It does not use interrupts from an I/O controller but from an internal timer; anything else, however, is the same. When cyclictest is invoked it creates a defined number of real-time threads of given priority and affinity. Every thread starts a loop during which a timed alarm is installed and waited for. Whenever the alarm wakes up the thread, the difference between the expected and the effective time is calculated and entered into a histogram with a granularity of one microsecond. One of the options to stop execution of cyclictest is to preset the number of loops, for example, to 100 million. Such preset and an interval of 200 µs between consecutive alarms result in a total execution time of 5 hours and 33 minutes.
Internal long-term latency recording
In addition to the named recording of externally stimulated preemption actions, kernel built-in histograms can be used. The three distinct phases of the preemption, timer expiration, scheduling and context switch can be measured individually. In addition, the sum of the first two and the sum of all three latency components of a particular preemption action can be stored in two more histograms (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: The three consecutive phases of latency recording
The histogram data can be accessed via the debug file system, usually mounted as /sys/kernel/debug, in the subdirectory /sys/kernel/debug/latency_hist. In addition to the histogram, characteristic data of the preemption action with the longest latency since the most recent reset are stored. This includes access to process ID, command name, scheduling priority and CPU core of the previous and the next task, and – only after context switch – the name of the system call from which the real-time task is returning. The goal of providing this extra information is to assist with latency hunting should a system exhibit unexpected high latency values. If the histograms are reset and the data of the longest preemption are stored every five minutes as it is, for example, the case in OSADL's QA Farm, latency peaks can be assigned to other events with this temporal resolution.
General difference between measurement of externally stimulated preemption and internal long-term latency recording
The main difference between the measurement of externally stimulated preemption and the internal long-term recording is that the latter can be used in addition to whatever software is running on a system and determine the effective latency of the task that has real-time properties at a given time. The cyclictest program, however, is intended as a placeholder of a real-time user-space program and cannot run in addition to it. In consequence, cyclictest is primarily used by kernel developers and hardware manufacturers who need to simulate a running real-time application. Internal long-term latency recording, in contrast, primarily is used by system integrators and application engineers who want to know the apparent latency of their system while the final software is running. Should a latency problem occur, internal long-term latency recording often provides the information that is crucial to fixing it (see example below).
An example from everyday's routine of a real-time system integrator
A newly setup dual-core embedded system (Intel Atom E3825 @1.33 GHz, formerly Bay Trail) suffered from heavy latency problems of more than 300 µs while latency values of less than about 60 µs were expected.
Figure 3 displays the latency histogram that was obtained after running cyclictest with 100 million cycles of 200 µs interval resulting in a total recording time of 5 hours and 33 minutes. In addition to sharp peaks with a maximum of about 45 and 70 µs, a number of unexpected sporadic latency values of up to more than 300 µs were observed.
Figure 3: Latency histogram with a large number of unwanted latency peaks; the three highest latency values (marked with grey arrows) will be used as an example how to investigate the origin of a latency (see Table 1).
As a disadvantage of a histogram, the timing information of the latency events is lost, and there is no way to retrospectively gain information which task was preempted by which task and which phase of the preemption was responsible for the elevated latency.
In order to further debug the situation, the data of the internal long-term latency recording were analyzed. The cyclictest run was from 7.10 pm to 12.43 am and from 7.10 am to 12.43 pm in the two latency recordings over time in Figure 4a and 4b (marked with red lines at the top of the plot).
Figure 4a: Timer-related latency goes up to more than 300 µs during cyclictest run (from 7.10 pm to 12.43 am and from 7.10 am to 12.43 pm, marked with red lines) but it was expected not to exceed about 60 µs. This indicates that disabling interrupt processing is responsible for the observed elevation of latency values. The higher latency values outside cyclictest measurement are normal, since they result from allowing CPU sleeping and clock frequency throttling.
Figure 4b: The wakeup latency is not affected, as there are no latency outliers during cyclictest run (from 7.10 pm to 12.43 am and from 7.10 am to 12.43 pm, marked with red lines). The higher latency values outside cyclictest measurement are normal, since they result from allowing CPU sleeping and clock frequency throttling.
The task data of the three longest latency values are given in Table 1.
Delayed (victim)
Switcher (culprit)
(µs)
T*(,W**)
cyclictest
meminfo
Table 1: Example of the recorded preemption actions with the longest overall latency (timer + wakeup + switch) of consecutive 5-min intervals. They correspond to the three highest latency values in the histogram in Figure 3; the CPU cores in the table are marked with the same colors as in the histogram. The latency is most probably caused by disabled interrupt processing, since the large part of the latency occurs during timer expiration T, while the wakeup latency W and the switchtime latency (difference between T + W and total latency) are relatively short.
Apparently, the three highest (and all other not shown high) latency values (similar values and same cores as in Figure 3) occurred when cyclictest needed to preempt the non-real-time application meminfo but could not do so in time. As a side effect, these data reveal an excellent correlation between cyclictest data and built-in kernel histograms. Further analysis of the meminfo tool showed that real-time processes were delayed whenever the tool was reading the content of /proc/slabinfo. The problem was solved immediately when the related call was removed. But as a more general solution the /proc/slabinfo directory better should not be available at all. This was achieved by unsetting the kernel configuration item from
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set
After the kernel was recompiled and installed, the /proc/slabinfo directory was gone and, as could be expected, the latency problem was solved. Even massive calls of the original version of the meminfo tool did no longer lead to any latency. Apparently, the kernel configuration CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG was a leftover from the distro's default setting. Analysis of the kernel code that is connected with this configuration item showed that interrupts are, in fact, disabled while a large amount of debug information is collected and made available through the /proc/slabinfo directory.
To mainline, or not to mainline, that is the question
The above example is only one example of the many situations when internal latency recording has helped a lot to discover the source of a system's latency. Two of the three histograms, timer and wakeup latency are part of the PREEMPT_RT real-time patches and not in mainline kernel, the switchtime histogram even is not part of the real-time patches but still maintained separately in an off-tree repository.
With the currently increased activities to gradually merge the PREEMPT_RT real-time patches to mainline Linux, a first step was also taken to prepare the timer latency histogram for merging. However, kernel maintainers did not understand why this histogram would need to be integrated into mainline Linux in the first place – let alone implementation details, for example, why the data of the wakeup task are stored. They were, of course, absolutely correct to ask such questions, since the latency recording requires the histograms of all three – or at least the first two – components. The timer latency histogram alone does not make sense at all. Unfortunately, the wakeup and the switchtime histogram are more difficult to fit for inclusion to mainline Linux and may need much more thoughts. In addition, a way must be found to report the particular culprit's and victim's task data which probably is more important than just creating histograms. The recommendation, thus, would be to stop the activity of mainlining the timer histogram and wait until a solution is found to provide equivalent latency histogram and reporting functions in mainline as currently only available in the patches. Since these functions primarily are needed during system development and debugging and since they are less important for production kernels, it may even be acceptable to continue maintaining them in an off-tree repository.
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Davis Cup tie tied after opening singles
14 Sep, 2018 6:52pm 3 minutes to read
Perez, Bonifacio go back-to-back; Royals beat Twins 6-4
SPORT | Rugby
Rugby: Kieran Read and All Blacks determined to wrap up another Rugby Championship title on home soil
14 Sep, 2018 7:12pm
All Blacks captain, Kieran Read talks Rugby Championship test with South Africa. / Radio Sport
By: Patrick McKendry
patrick.mckendry@nzherald.co.nz @patmck6
A bonus point win for the All Blacks against the Springboks in Wellington will guarantee them another Rugby Championship victory, and few would be game enough to bet against it.
The All Blacks have already laid waste to Australia in Sydney and at Eden Park and finished well over the top of Argentina in Nelson last weekend for three bonus point victories.
Another dominant performance will hand them a third consecutive championship with tests against the Pumas in Buenos Aires and South Africa in Pretoria to come, and skipper Kieran Read wants to have it wrapped up before they head overseas.
"It's significant for a number of reasons," Read said after leading his side in a captain's run completed in brilliant sunshine at Westpac Stadium.
"Obviously there's something big at the end of the day if we get it right on Saturday around the Rugby Championship, so that's in our sights … we're looking forward to doing it in front of our own people.
"We can't get ahead of ourselves. We know the challenge [South Africa] present but we've got the opportunity and hopefully we can perform."
All Blacks' captain Kieran Read seen during the All Blacks Captain's Run. Photo / Photosport
If there were questions over how good this All Blacks side is after the first two tests against Australia, and, similarly, how good the Wallabies are, they were probably answered last weekend at Trafalgar Park against a vastly improved Pumas who will fancy their chances of beating the Aussies on the Gold Coast.
It was a virtual second-string side in black but their fitness, skill level and ambition were all far too much for a side who had beaten the Boks in Mendoza and who could be a proper challenge for the All Blacks in their return match in Buenos Aires on September 29.
Australia, meanwhile, last week laboured to a 23-18 victory over the Boks in Brisbane. The All Blacks are leading the way in attack and skill execution but it must be said that their opposition are offering little in return. Steve Hansen's men are the only side with a positive points differential (75). Second placed South Africa have a -5 points difference, with Argentina -22 and Australia -48.
The Springboks appear to still be finding their feet under new coach Rassie Erasmus, who has signed on for six years and is taking a long-term view to their development, but Read said he believed they could be "wounded" after defeats to the Wallabies and Pumas and will react accordingly.
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Which team is the All Blacks' biggest rival?
"They will come at us physically up front. They've picked a pack that will take us on there but over the last probably six months in the tests they've played they've shown a willingness to use their exciting backs as well. I'm sure if it's a nice night like this it will be an awesome game.
"I see within their group a confident team. Obviously they haven't got all the results to go their way but every time they put that jersey on they have so much pride and they keep bouncing back."
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Andrew Berry faces two charges of second degree murder in the deaths of his children, 6-year-old Chloe Berry (right) and 4-year-old Aubrey Berry (left). (Submitted photo)
VIDEO: Father charged in Oak Bay Christmas Day killings
Andrew Berry was taken to hospital with injuries Christmas Day, and arrested once released from hospital
Jan. 3, 2018 3:45 a.m.
The father of two young girls found dead on Christmas Day is charged with their deaths.
Andrew Robert Douglas Berry, 43, faces two counts of second degree murder.
On Christmas Day, Chloe, 6, and Aubrey, 4, were in the care of their father at his apartment on the corner of Beach Drive and Goodwin Street. The children were supposed to go home to their mother’s house on Christmas afternoon but didn’t arrive. Their mother Sarah Cotton contacted the Oak Bay police, who responded to Berry’s apartment where the bodies of the two girls were found.
BREAKING: Andrew Robert Douglas Berry has been charged with two counts of 2nd degree murder in the deaths of his daughters, Chloe and Aubrey Berry, found in his home in #OakBay Christmas Day
— Victoria News (@VictoriaNews) January 4, 2018
Berry was taken to hospital with injuries Christmas Day, and arrested once released from hospital.
The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit continues to investigate the double homicide and aren’t releasing any other information as the matter is before the courts.
“From the moment the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit arrived, they have been compassionate, professional, and diligent,” said Ray Bernoties, deputy chief of the Oak Bay Police Department. “We’ve been engaged with them throughout this investigation and we’re very grateful for their tireless effort.”
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The sisters’ mother Sarah Cotton has requested privacy asking close friend Trisha Lees to act as spokesperson for the family.
Cotton is well-known in the community, having worked in communications at Tartan Group, BC Pension Corporation and BC Ferries – where she met Andrew Berry, the father of the two girls.
“She is very social and well-liked. Her girls were very much like her,” said Lees. “They were lively, energetic, and silly girls.”
Cotton and Berry separated in in September 2013 and shared custody of the two girls. In a May 2017 judgment, the judge decided that the two parents would share custody, although it was decided that Cotton would be allotted more time with the girls.
keri.coles@oakbaynews.com
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