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[2] Kilic, S., 2001. Lactic Acid Bacteria in Dairy Industry. Ege University Faculty of Agriculture Publications, Ege University Press, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.
[3] Gibson, G.R., Saavedra, J.M., MacFarlane, S., MacFarlane, G.T., 1997. Probiotics and Intestinal Infections. In Probiotics 2: Applications and Practical Aspects, Edited by R. Fuller, Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London, England, 212p.
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[4] Gursoy, O., Akdemir, O., Hepbasli, A., Kinik, O., 2004. Recent situation of energy consumption in dairy industry in Turkey. International Dairy Symposium: Recent Developments in Dairy Science and Technology, May 24-28, 2004, Isparta, Turkey, Book of Proceedings, 10-16p.
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The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called [http://wwww.MediaWiki.org MediaWiki]; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Debian] which in turn is running the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server Apache web server] (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php PHP], the scripting language, and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql MySQL] database.
The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called [http://wwww.MediaWiki.org MediaWiki]; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Debian] which in turn is running the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server Apache web server] (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), the scripting language [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php PHP], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysql MySQL] database.
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Free software foundation (FSF) website
Open Source Initiative (OSI) website
Documents and articles
FSF Free software definition
OSI Open source definition
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - an interesting essay on why the 'bazaar' model of open-source software development works well.
http://www.ubuntu.com Free and open-source linux-based operating system
http://www.OpenOffice.org Free and open-source office productivity software - word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, database etc.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Free and open-source web browser
http://www.gimp.org Free and open source 2D bitmap-graphics editor
SourceForge.net - world's largest Open Source software development web site
There are many more quality free and open-source software listed in examples of free and open-source software...
The content management software that manages this website is open source and is called MediaWiki; and the server computer that hosts it is running a version of the Linux operating system called Debian which in turn is running the Apache web server (which runs about 60% of websites worldwide), the scripting language PHP, and the MySQL database.
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Q. Where can I find a thesis or dissertation database?
Library Catalog: Keyword search for theses and dissertations written by UT Arlington students using the Library's catalog.
ResearchCommons: An institutional repository that provides open access to journal articles, working papers, theses and dissertations, and other creative works published by The University of Texas at Arlington faculty, staff, colleges, departments, and students.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: 1861 to present. The Dissertations Abstracts database contains citations for dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe. Titles published from 1997 forward have 24-page previews and are available as full text.
OpenDOAR.org: An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, many of which have dissertations and theses in them.
Older theses and dissertations are searchable in the library catalog but newer ones are only available in the Research Commons or ProQuest of requested.
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Bird Brain Records, 1987
An aptly-named concoction, full of unrelated tracks from other bootlegs. Bird Brain was better known as Starlight Records.
Side 1:
- That's All Right Mama
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
- Do You Want To Know A Secret
- And I Love Her
- Honey Don't
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
- Ticket To Ride
- I'm Looking Through You
- I Am The Walrus
- Act Naturally
- Birthday
- Dig It
- Her Majesty
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A Delaide Drummer
The Beatles spent the first week of their June 1964 Australasian tour a man short. Jimmy Nicol filled in admirably on drums while Ringo recuperated from inflamed tonsils back in London.
By the 13th, he was declared fit enough to travel and, accompanied by Brian Epstein, made the arse-numbing journey from London to Adelaide, via San Francisco and Honolulu. He chatted with an ITV reporter before setting off.
Other than a brief stopover in Los Angeles by John and George the previous month, this was the first Beatle visit to US soil since their history-changing February tour. Naturally, the San Francisco press descended upon Ringo, although this reporter seemed to bear a grudge for having to cover the event.
Meanwhile back in Adelaide that day, John, Paul and George killed time waiting for their bandmate by bantering with Bob Rogers and, uh... looking at kangaroo pelts.
Return To Abbey Road
no label, 1986
A nice Abbey Road-themed compilation, pairing the No. 3 Abbey Road NW8 tape with various "Get Back" session rehearsals.
- Something
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- Oh! Darling
- Octopus's Garden
- Because
- You Never Give Me Your Money
- Sun King
- Mean Mr. Mustard
- Polythene Pam
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
The Witty Beatle
Here is the second in the series of Beatle Pop Profiles done by Brian Matthew for BBC Radio. The Beatle under scrutiny this time is John, in a conversation recorded November 30th, 1965. Again, this is the complete uncut program from Transcription Disc.
John - Pop Profile
On September 14th, 1964, The Beatles flew to Pittsburgh for a concert at the Civic Arena, where fans had been lining up since the previous evening. When they arrived at the airport, a few mischievous kids lobbed tomatoes in their direction, but the performance went off without a hitch.
Here's a lengthy (and low-fi) recording of the pre-show press conference as aired on radio station KQV-AM.
Cinelogue III: A Hard Day's Night
Instant Analysis, 1974
Pretty straightforward - a copy of the complete soundtrack to the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night, obviously taped off a TV speaker during a broadcast of the film. In the days before home video, this was a fun way to revisit the dialogue and musical score.
- A Hard Day's Night
- I Should Have Known Better
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- Don't Bother Me
- All My Loving
- If I Fell
- Can't Buy Me Love
- I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
- Tell Me Why
- She Loves You
Ringalong Singalong
Each of the Beatles gave individual interviews to promote Abbey Road in the autumn of 1969. John's turn came in September when he spoke with Tony Macarthur of Radio Luxembourg. In addition to commenting on each track on the LP, John discussed his recent performance at the Toronto Rock And Roll Revival concert, the Moog synthesizer, and other current topics. The interview was aired September 27th.
Renaissance Minstrels Volume II
A mono copy of an earlier stereo bootleg, Homogenized Beatles.
- The Walk
- Teddy Boy
- Two Of Us
- I've Got A Feeling
- The Long And Winding Road
- For You Blue
- Dig A Pony
- Across The Universe
- The Inner Light
- Let It Be
- Don't Let Me Down
- Get Back
- I'm Down
- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
Egg And Spoon
Just a quickie recording of some TV interviews from the Munich press conference on June 23rd, 1966.
Renaissance Minstrels Volume I
A very frustrating release, with the first appearance of Ed Sullivan Show material, but in scrambled order and with nearly every song extended by 30 seconds to a minute by editing in repeated verses and choruses.
- From Me To You
- Twist And Shout
- This Boy
- I Want To Hold Your Hand
- Please Please Me
Sock It To 'Em, Johnny!
Apple Records was launched in America with a blaze of publicity from Lennon and McCartney. In May 1968, they flew to New York City to give interviews to local and national reporters, and to appear on public TV and NBC's Tonight Show. On the 14th, they held a press conference at the Americana Hotel, with Apple's new spokesman Derek Taylor fielding questions.
Here is a composite recording of the event, from newsreels and WABC radio's coverage.
Candlestick Park
Beatlive Records, 1984
The first appearance of Tony Barrow's cassette of the final Beatles concert - unfortunately missing the final song, "Long Tall Sally". Filling out the LP is the TV broadcast of the 1964 Melbourne show. An early effort from Yellow Dog.
- Rock And Roll Music
- She's A Woman
- If I Needed Someone
- Day Tripper
- Baby's In Black
- I Feel Fine
- Nowhere Man
- Paperback Writer
- You Can't Do That
- Long Tall Sally
Alps!
On March 13th, 1965, location shooting for Help! moved to Austria. The Beatles and co-star Eleanor Bron flew from London Airport to Salzburg, arriving at W. A. Mozart Airport. A press conference followed at the hotel Österreichischer Hof.
Both the arrival and conference were covered by WDR Radio for broadcast two days later across West Germany.
Bag Records, 1984
The second in NEMS Records' occasional Bag series of Lennon/Ono LPs (culminating in the Lost Lennon Tapes series). A nice collection of excellent-quality solo tracks.
- Serve Yourself
- Mucho Mungo
- Stand By Me
- Slippin' And Slidin'
- Yer Blues
- Whole Lotta Yoko
- Imagine
- Radio Peace
- Walking On Thin Ice
- Give Peace A Chance
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Crazy Little Women
"In the fall of 1964 Finley was in the doghouse in Kansas City because of his seemingly constanct efforts to move the team someplace else–it was Dallas one day, Seattle the next, Oakland every third Wednesday, etc.–and to gain fan approval he engineered a concert with the Beatles in Kansas City. Finley saw that the Beatles did not have a Kansas City stop on their first U.S. tour, and he tracked down manager Brian Epstein at the Cow Palace in San Francisco to try to bring the band to Municipal Stadium. He offered $50,000 for an appearance, but Epstein said that the going price was $100,000 so Finley countered with a $150,000 offer.
Epstein agreed to divert the band’s tour to Kansas City for an additional concert date at the Kansas City Municipal Stadium, and they played on September 17, 1964 for only 31 minutes to a crowd of about 20,208 fans. Drew Dimmel recalled that “When confirmation was announced on my local ‘rock’ station, WHB, that tickets were going on sale to see The Beatles, live, at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City I persuaded my dad to drive me down to the ticket booth. I bought two field-level tickets, paying $6.50 apiece; one for my little brother and one for me. I was 15 and he was 12.” In actuality, the standard ticket price for this concert was $8.50, making it the highest in the 1964 tour, except for one concert in New York City. But Finley also had a $2.00 ticket, which is one of the lowest admission prices of any Beatles concert. Never shy about publicity, the back of the $8.50 tickets featured Charlie Finley wearing a Beatles Wig as a joke.
Jim Schaaf, who ran the A’s promotions department in Kansas City, recalled the excitement surrounding that first Beatles tour through the U.S. The band “came in early in the morning, and there was all kind of people at the Muelbach Hotel. I mean, people lined up all over the place…young kids out there when the Beatles came in, and then…When these guys came in, they got in about 2:00am…and they were a bunch of fun guys. They didn’t go to sleep.” The next morning they held a press conference, inviting all of the high school journalists in the Kansas City area to meet the Beatles. Schaaf recalled trying to get them out of bed, “I felt a heck of a lot of pressure because they wouldn’t get up!” Schaaf knew this was something that Finley prized, and he eventually pushed the press conference back to noon and it turned out well. Finley was delighted. Schaaf concluded, “I thought we had a big crowd because we had people sitting on the infield.”
The Beatles began their set with the song “Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey,” and the crowd went wild. Some fans rushed the stage but stage manager Derek Taylor settled them down. The Beatles then continued their show. Because it did not sell out, Finley did not make back his promotion of the concert. Of course, some did make money on the deal, especially the two people who acquired the sheets on the beds of the Beatles rooms in their hotel. They cut them into small squares and sold them as souvenirs. They netted $159,000 for their efforts."
Source: http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/the-beatles-and-charles-o-finley-owner-of-the-kansas-city-as-in-the-1960s/
Here are a few recordings from The Beatles' only Kansas City visit:
Larry Kane interviews
KHB-AM interviews
Manto Records, 1982
An obscure Beatleg, with some true rarities on side 2; most of the solo material made its debut on this album. Side 1 includes a common BBC Radio session, but with a unique introduction from a later re-airing.
- From Us To You
- Till There Was You
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey!
- Hey Jude
- Shades Of Orange
- Loving Sacred Loving
- Waltzing Matilda/Yesterday
- Eleanor Rigby
- Simple Life ads
- Dark Horse
A Light At The Local
Paul and Linda took a delayed honeymoon to Corfu on May 16th, 1969. The day before they departed, Paul was visiting relatives in Liverpool and consented to an interview with former Liverpool Institute schoolmate Roy Corlett. An edited version of the conversation, taped at Jim McCartney's home in Heswall, was aired on BBC Radio's Light And Local.
Here is the raw tape of the complete interview.
Shea The Good Old Days
One of the earliest issues of the Hollywood Bowl acetate (not Shea).
- Things We Said Today
Where It's At
By request, here are more Kenny Everett-Beatle interviews for BBC Radio's Where It's At.
First, some Sgt. Pepper promotion from the May 20th, 1967 edition; the interviews may have been taped at the Pepper launch party the previous day, although that wouldn't explain George's absence.
Kenny also spoke with Paul the week following the Our World telecast, for the July 1st, 1967 edition of Where It's At. Paul reveals that he wrote a song for the occasion (possibly "Your Mother Should Know") which had yet to be recorded (thus it can't be "All Together Now").
More Get Back Session
Very early Beatleg taken from the soundtrack of the film Let It Be.
- Besame Mucho
- One After 909
- Rip It Up/Shake Rattle And Roll
- Jazz Piano Song
- Suzy Parker
- I Me Mine
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!
On February 19th, 1964, The Beatles were in the middle of a relaxing week of fun in the sun on Miami Beach. After performing live on The Ed Sullivan Show the previous Sunday, they had four free days to enjoy the warmer climes of Florida before flying back to London via New York on Friday the 21st.
One of the only interviews they granted during their precious days off was to Lee Alan, a disc jockey from Detroit's KNUZ-AM. The lads were in a happy and silly mood as they chatted about their impressions of the US and their love for Motown artists. Later that year, the interview was split across both sides of a limited-edition single, A Trip To Miami:
Lee Alan interview
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A mesmerizing show at South Puget Sound Community College
reviewed by Alec Clayton
left to right: Bitsy Bidwell, Christine Goode, Nicholas Main, Jamie Flynn Keenan-deVargas and Rebecca Rogers. Photo by Kuo-Hao Lo.
Under the direction of Lauren Love, the theater at South Puget Sound Community College has become one of the region’s premiere theaters, presenting challenging and professional-level shows one after another. Witness last year’s two-part Angels in America and earlier this year, Fun Home, both of which were the talk of Olympia’s theater realm. And now comes the quirky, innovative and emotionally captivating The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time based on the prize-winning novel by Mark Haddon, adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens and directed at SPSCC by Love.
Although not clearly stated in the script, 15-year-old Christopher (Nicholas Main) is clearly a young man on the autism spectrum. Haddon wrote, “Curious Incident is not a book about Asperger's... if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider.”
When upset, Christopher moans loudly and often lies down in a fetal position. He is a math whiz and loves science, but can have difficulty relating to other people. And he never lies. One of his personal rules is things happen in patterns, which is illustrated with his speech and with the light patterns that are beautifully projected on the screen at the back of the stage throughout to create an other-worldly atmosphere — projections by Joe Griffith and lighting design by Olivia Burlingame.
The story is narrated by Christopher, augmented by his mentor, Siobhan (Jesse Morrow) reading from Christopher’s personal journal, which he calls a murder mystery novel. At one point, she even wants to produce a play from it starring Christopher, an idea which he vehemently rejects.
The play opens two years after Christopher’s mother disappeared from his life. His father, Ed (Tom Sanders) explained that she was hospitalized and then died of a heart attack, which turns out to be not true. Christopher discovers that a neighbor’s dog has been killed with a garden fork, and he sets out to solve the mystery of who killed the dog. In the process of trying to solve the mystery, he interacts with neighbors, assaults a police officer and is arrested but let go, finds unexpected things out things about his mother and father and discovers much of importance about himself and his abilities.
The cast is a mixture of SPSCC theater majors and local actors. All but Sanders, Main, Morrow and Shannon Agostinelli as Christopher’s mother, Judy, play multiple roles — policemen, a street lady, a preacher, and others. Some of them even play animals and a machine.
Main does a remarkable job of portraying Christopher, and Sanders and Morrow are outstanding, as are Agostinelli and the entire ensemble cast.
Despite heavy personal and family drama, The Curious Incident is a fun show filled with a delicious mix of comedy and tragedy, and it is technically marvelous.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 24, $16, free to SPSCC students, faculty and staff, Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts Main Stage, main entrance to South Puget Sound Community College, 2011 Mottman Rd. SW. Olympia, 360.753.8586.
Jeff Olson Making His Mark
Abstracting the World with dashes and X’s and V’s
by Alec Clayton
Published in the Weekly Volcano, Nov. 14, 2019
painting by Jeff Olson, courtesy Tacoma Community College
After viewing Jeff Olson’s exhibition, Making my Mark at Tacoma Community College, I visited his Web site out of curiosity and discovered statements from the artist that seem at odds with what I observed in his exhibition. Olson stated, “My paintings offer a unique vision of the landscape and the inspirational forces of nature which shape it.” And “The canvases are boldly colored and the brushwork energetic, reflective of the physicality of the land and the processes of painting.” Bold colors and a reflection of landscape are in keeping with what I observed, but the claim of energetic brushwork is not. He went on to speak of his “direct and rapid technique.”
Olson’s paintings are all about the marks, thus the show title. But to my eye these marks are controlled and laid upon the canvas with a certain amount of deliberation — anything but rapid and energetic brushwork. To me, his brushstrokes look more like those of Robert and Sonya Delaunay and some of the early American abstractionists such Stuart Davis.
Despite questioning his claims about the speed and exuberance with which he applies paint to canvas, I was impressed with his paintings. They are joyful and colorful. Seeing groups of them together with their slight variations on similar images is like walking through a desert landscape with here and there a change in light and shadow or a surprise outcropping of vegetation.
Olson’s show is a large exhibition with a striking consistency of style. All the paintings are abstract but evoking landscape.
Olson paints with short dashes and X’s and V’s of color laid side-by-side on the canvas with no blending or overlapping. Each brushstroke is self-contained; each color stands out clearly and reverberates against its adjacent stroke. These marks are, in most instances, lighter or darker values of the same color and are grouped together to form shapes that read as hills or cliffs or clumps of bushes, or in some instances forms that don’t so much look like anything in nature but which evoke the feeling of being out of doors. Most of them have flat backgrounds that are seen as sky or water and are of solid or almost solid colors that are loosely brushed.
Behind the counter as you enter the gallery are two large paintings of hills reflected in water, one in shades of blue and the other in shades of yellow and gray. Other paintings that look like hills, some with roads or rivers winding through them, are displayed in the front part of the gallery. In the middle area groups of paintings with brilliant, sun-lit forms are hung — one with a white shape like a funnel cloud or a drill digging into an orange ground. Another in this area looks like a torn curtain with yellow light shining through. The back section of the gallery is filled with paintings in more muted tones with X’s and V’s forming shapes like clumps of sticks — bales of spikey hay.
To me, it is a feel-good show.
Jeff Olson: Making my Mark, 10a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, through Aug. 9, Tacoma Community College, Building 5A, entrance off South 12th Street between Pearl and Mildred, Tacoma, visitor parking in Lot G.
Proo(ƒ) reviewed
Photos by Jason Ganwich
Proo(ƒ) at Dukesbay
Chevi Chung as Catherine and Amy Van Michelen as Claire
David Auburn’s drama Proof won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play. Dukesbay Productions’ treatment is proof positive that this play deserves all the awards it has earned, and after almost 20 years it is not at all dated.
Director and Dukesbay co-founder Randy Clark wrote what is probably the most succinct director’s note ever published in a playbill. He wrote, “Proof is one of my favorite plays. I think it is perfect. Fortunately, I have a talented ensemble to bring this gem to life. I hope you enjoy it.”
I should not have to say any more than that, plus listing the names of the cast members, to entice theater lovers from around Western Washington to flock to the little Dukesbay Theater. But I can’t resist the urge to say more.
Chevi Chung and Nick Fitzgerald as Hall
Chevi Chung and Erik Hill as Robert
Proof is intense, sad, angry and surprisingly funny. You will love and definitely root for its protagonist, Catherine (Chevi Chung), feel loads of admiration and empathy for her father, Robert (Erik Hill) and his student and her friend Hal (Nick Fitzgerald), and I’m afraid you might want to strangle Catherine’s sister Claire (Amy Van Mechelen), the epitome of a meddling, manipulative do-gooder family member. And you will be emotionally swept into the net of their tangled lives as you sit mere feet away from the actors in the tiny space of Dukesbay Theater.
Auburn’s script is a masterpiece of structure and insight, complex, multi-layered and easy to follow, and the acting by the entire cast is superb.
It opens the day of Robert’s funeral. He and Catherine are sharing a bottle of champagne. Whether it is her hallucination, a memory or a fantasy doesn’t matter. It establishes the complex relationship between father and daughter. He was a mathematical genius who suffered from mental illness and was unable to function during the final years of his life while Catherine was his sole caretaker. Catherine has inherited his math genius and, she is afraid, his mental illness.
Enter Hal, one of Robert’s former graduate students who has been given Catherine’s permission to examine the hundreds of notebooks Robert has left behind.
Catherine’s sister Claire flies in from New York and tries to take over Catherine’s life, and wants to take her home to New York with her and has made plans to have her examined for mental illness.
The relationships between these four characters are explosive. There are tears and laughter and incriminations, and the “F-word” is tossed about liberally.
Each of the cast members brings extensive experience to the stage, and together they are incredible. Chung is an accomplished actor, director and fight consultant. She was Assistant Director, dramaturg and fight choreographer for Dukesbay’s recent production of Agnes of God. Hill is a member of SAG/AFTRA and has appear in film and television. He was seen in Lakewood Playhouse’s recent two-part Angels in America. Fitzgerald is a recent Theater Arts graduate from Washington State University and has appeared in such shows as Twelfth Night, Newsies and The Glass Menagerie. Van Mechelen played Hiromi in Dukesbay’s Calligraphy and is an opera singer who has performed as a soloist in Seattle Opera’s Porgy and Bess. Clark called this foursome a “talented ensemble,” which is an understatement if there ever was one.
Performances are selling out quickly. Buying tickets quickly and online is recommended.
7:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 17
Dukesbay Theater, 508 6th Ave., Tacoma, above the Grand Cinema
Tickets $15, https://dukesbayproof.brownpapertickets.com/
(253) 350-7680, https://dukesbay.org/
Admission includes your choice of coffee, tea and an assortment of cookies.
Broadway Olympia’s Songs for a New World
From left - Loucas T. Curry, Steve Barnett, Elise Tarasova, Brynne Geiszler, photo by Kyle Murphy
Published in The News Tribune, Nov. 1, 2019
For two weekends only, Broadway Olympia is producing the musical Songs for a New World with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, directed and choreographed by Lexi Barnett.
Songs for a New World is unlike other musicals, although in spirit it us akin to the great tribal rock opera Hair. Many commentators have said it is a musical review rather than a play, because there is no real plot and the same characters do not appear throughout. The four actors — listed as Woman 1 (Elise Tarasova), Man 1 (Loucas T. Curry), Woman 2 (Brynne Geiszler) and Man 2 (Steve Barnett) — play various characters, from lovers to a prisoner, to Mrs. Santa Claus, each with their own story.
Instead of a traditional plot line, there is a consistent theme that carries throughout and is expressed in songs with styles that range from ballads to rock to gospel to show tunes. The spirit that carries throughout the play is epitomized by Curry in the song “King of the World” when he is shackled in prison and sings the defiant lyrics “Nothing can stop me from tomorrow, Keep me from my destiny.” These characters each face the hardships and challenges with hope and courage for a new world.
From left: Elise Tarasova, Steve Barnett, Loucas T. Curry, photo by Kyle Murphy
The set is a jumble of trunks and suitcases symbolizing travel, and they become vehicles, ships, beds mountains to ascend, and at least one of them hides a bottle of whiskey that one of the characters drinks. They are worn and beat-up trunks from an earlier era, and even though the setting is ostensibly contemporary, it works in a quirky sort of way.
At the back of the stage is a four-piece band consisting of popular local musicians who have been seen in many area shows, including most of the musical reviews at Harlequin. They are Jeff Bell, musical director and piano; David Lane, keyboard; Andy Garness, drums; and Rick Jarvela, bass — a first class band that melds rock and jazz with just a touch of whimsy.
Lexi Barnett sums up the entire experience in a program note: “I hope that you can rest well in the words of our final song (“Hear My Song”), “I know it’s dark right now, but just believe somehow that soon there will be light.”
The show is happening at the State Theater, home of Harlequin Productions.
WHAT Songs for a New World
WHEN 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1-2 and 7-9 and 2 p.m. Nov. 2-3 and 9-10
WHERE The State Theater, 202, Olympia
HOW MUCH $29, student night Nov. 7 half off
LEARN MORE https://www.broadwayolympia.com/
https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/34468
Review: “Evil Dead: The Musical”
Welcome to the splatter zone
The cast of Evil Dead. Photos courtesy Tacoma Little Theatre
There are things about “Evil Dead: The Musical” that people need to know before venturing to Tacoma Little Theatre to watch it. It is a parody of bad horror movies, specifically of one of the cheesiest of all time, the 1981 film of the same name written and directed by Sam Raimi. Called “Gross out collegiate humor” by Director Niclas Olson, “Evil Dead” is quickly becoming a cult musical. TLT Artistic Director Chris Serface said it has a “Rocky Horror level following.”
Opening night, the theater was filled with boisterous younger-than-usual patrons, some of whom wore bright yellow “Evil Dead” t-shirts. There are splash zones on either side of the stage complete with transparent plastic poncho-type rain gear and goggles. the splatter zone seats were sold out and are close to sold out for the run of the show.
In the splatter zone
The play is replete with exaggerated blood and gore on the level of the black knight fight scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
Typical of bad horror movies, the thin plot involves a group of five college students on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods which is protected by trees and a bridge that suddenly becomes impassable once the students cross it, and the cabin is invaded by zombies.
The students are Ash the hero (Zachary Edson), his girlfriend Linda (Ashley Roy), a drunken, loud and obnoxious friend named Scott (Guy Taylor Simpson III), his girlfriend Shelly (Annelise Martin, who doubles as Annie), and Ash’s meek little sister, Cheryl (Molly Quinn). Odd and comically frightening characters who show up later are a “bit-part demon” named Ed (Aleks Merilo) and Jake (Eric Strachan).
For the first 10 or 15 minutes, the play is as dumb as the movies it makes fun of; yet the opening night audience was howling at the sophomoric comic bits. And then it began to get funnier and funnier, beginning with Strachan, Martin and Merilo singing “Good Old Reliable Jake,” and from that point on it is insanely hilarious.
The set by the inimitable Blake York is terrific, from the blank off-white curtain to the interior of the cabin with its silly mounted moose head to the projected Star Wars-style fast rush through the woods to the many detached and animated body parts.
Most of the seven cast members are new to South Sound stages and have never performed at TLT. Let us hope they will soon become regulars at area theaters. There is a huge amount of talent here. Edson’s mock heroics are great, especially when he strikes poses with chain saws and other implements of destruction held high. Quinn shows great acting talent as she morphs from a whimpering misfit to an evil zombie. Simpson’s wide-ranging expressions and loose-limbed movements are outstanding. And the rocking music throughout is infectious.
Anyone who can take comical excesses of blood and gore and loud audience reaction should love TLT’s performance of “Evil Dead: The Musical.”
Evil Dead: The Musical
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, through Nov. 10
WHERE: Tacoma Little Theatre, 210 North I St., Tacoma,
TICKETS: $19-$39
INFORMATION: (253) 272-2281
A mesmerizing show at South Puget Sound Community ...
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Internal documents reveal extent of Paxil drug study chicanery
When I was a reporter for The Boston Globe in the 90s, an employee of Brown University's department of psychiatry handed me a raft of internal university documents. A number of these documents pertained to an ongoing clinical trial that compared the antidepressant Paxil to a placebo and older antidepresssant (imipramine) in the treatment of depression in adolescents. My book, Side Effects tells the story of how researchers at Brown University misrepresented data in this key clinical trial, known as study 329, so in the interest of transparency, I am posting these and other pertinent documents on my website.
The first document here is from the final GlaxoSmithKline report of study 329 (publicly available on its website), which shows that a 14-year-old boy who was in the Paxil arm of the study lost control, punching pictures, breaking glass and injuring himself in November 1994. He was hospitalized and seen as suicidal by the psychiatrists treating him. Yet this patient , known as #65 in the study, was not labeled as suicidal when the study was published in the July 2001 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (The following year, Paxil became the most widely prescribed antidepressant in the U.S.).
The second document here is a memo to Brown University's Institutional Review Board from Martin Keller, chief of psychiatry at Brown and principal investigator of study 329. In the memo, Keller reports that a teenager in the Paxil study was hospitalized in September 1995 due to becoming combative and suicidal. Yet in the memo, Keller says he has labeled this patient (#106) as noncompliant instead of suicidal as a result of taking Paxil. Likewise in the published 2001 study, this teenager is labeled noncomplaint and not included in the list of adolescents withdrawn from the study as the result of adverse side effects.
The third and perhaps most mysterious document is a memo from Keller to the IRBs at Brown and two of its affiliated hospitals, Butler and Bradley. In this January 30, 1995 memo, Keller reports that a teenage girl, patient #70 in study 329, ingested 82 Tylenol pills on January 19 and was hospitalized at St. Ann's Hospital. She was discontinued from the study at the end of January and coded as noncompliant according to another memo from Keller to Brown's IRB here. Yet according to the GlaxoSmithKline's final report, patient #70 in the same study was a 12-year-old boy enrolled in the trial on February, 22, 1995 and withdrawn on March 24 after suffering from chest pains. This patient had been randomized to the imipramine arm of study 329.
So the question remains: how did patient #70 go from being a teenage girl who overdosed on Tylenol to a 12-year-old boy with chest pains?
As I report in my book, Donna Howard, the former assistant administrator in Brown's department of psychiatry who gave me the internal Brown documents, said the data in study 329 was changed to satisfy the study's sponsor, SmithKline Beecham (which later merged with another company to become GlaxoSmithKline).
"Everybody knew we had to keep SmithKline happy and give them the results they wanted," Howard said. And she reiterated that comment last week when she was interviewed by Brown's own student newspaper, The Daily Herald.
In an editorial accompanying the news article, The Daily Herald editors raised the issue of why the university seemed to be judging faculty members by a different standard than it judges students who misrepresent or falsify data. Good question!
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Giorgos Seferis: The First Greek Poet to Be Awarded the Nobel Prize
by banksnews December 10, 2019
On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of Sweden. Seferis was the first Greek to receive the esteemed award.
Seferis’ poetry became known internationally in the 1950’s. He was nominated twice, in 1955 and 1961, before finally receiving the coveted prize.
The October 24, 1963 telegraph from the Swedish Academy announced that Seferis had won the prize “for his wonderful lyrical style, inspired by a deep feeling for the Greek cultural ideal”.
Seferis, who at the time was bedridden at home because of ill health, said that “By selecting a Greek poet for the Nobel Prize, I think the Swedish Academy wanted to express its solidarity with the living, spiritual Greece.”
He went on to add “the Greece for which so many generations have fought, trying to keep its long cultural tradition alive. I also think that the Swedish Academy wanted to show that today’s humanity also needs poetry – from all peoples – and the Greek spirit.”
Seferis was competing for that year’s Nobel in a field of stellar writer including literary giants such as Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, English-American poet W.H. Auden and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
However, the news of the great award was not received enthusiastically. The newspaper headlines concerned the upcoming elections on November 3 as well as the ongoing battles between the Centrists Union and the right-wing ERE.
The Left, for their part, would probably have preferred that leftist Pablo Neruda receive the great prize.
At the December 10th ceremony at Stockholm City Hall, Seferis spoke about the direct and unbroken continuity of the Greek language from antiquity to the present age.
He stated, “I belong to a small country. A stone cape in the Mediterranean, which has no other good than the struggle of its people, the sea, and the sunlight. Our country is small, but its tradition is enormous and … it was delivered to us without interruption.
“People never ceased to speak the Greek language. It had its alterations, like everything that is alive, bu there are no gaps in its existence…” he noted.
He also referred to the necessity and function of poetry in the modern world, saying “It is important that Sweden wished to honor this poetry, and all poetry in general, even when it addresses a limited number of people’”
Seferis concluded by saying that “I believe that this modern world we live in, full of fear and anxiety, is in need of poetry.”
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Jewell Strikes Back
By Steffan Heuer Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997
ATLANTA: The security guard who was suspected, then cleared, in the Olympic Park bombing continues to strike back at his pursuers. Richard Jewell is suing the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which broke the story that he had been identified as a possible suspect, as well as Georgia�s Piedmont College, his former employer. His lawyer did not disclose the amount sought in damages. In December, Jewell settled a suit against NBC for a reported $500,000. He claims the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and officials at Piedmont College made false and defamatory statements about him after a law enforcement source leaked his name to reporters. Television and print reporters besieged his apartment for days afterward, while federal agents carted off his possessions as possible evidence in the case. Jewell's attorney predicted a "long and hard-fought battle against a billion-dollar corporation that tried and convicted Richard Jewell for a crime he did not commit." Jewell was cleared last October after a three-month investigation. TIME's Adam Cohen, who covered the bombing and the Jewell case in Atlanta, thinks the lawsuit could have a chilling effect on future coverage of similar events: "Obviously, people's privacy has to be protected, but if somebody really is the target of an investigation, there is a public benefit in publicizing it. His name has already been cleared with broad public recognition." Meanwhile, the FBI pursued a new lead that might tie three Washington State men to the bombing. An architect in Atlanta says he ran into a man an hour before the bomb tore through Centennial Park whose description fits one of the suspects in a Spokane jail. The witness says the he called and even faxed a sketch of the man to the FBI but never heard from authorities until a Spokane paper broke the story this week.
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Today is Mardi gras ..!
Celebrate the Year of the Monkey ... !
Today is - National Pizza Day
and International Pancake Day
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Russia - San Marino - Scotland - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Turkey - Ukraine - Wales
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Australia - New Zealand - Papua New Guinea
Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.
The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies.
The House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams, sixth U.S. President.
Jefferson F. Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.
Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.
France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.
The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.
The Red Army takes back Kursk 15 months after it fell to the Germans.
Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.
Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.
The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.
The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.
Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.
Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
"My Log Cabin 1985"
Behold paradise on Earth.
Flickr member andolent shares the story of this retreat that he built by himself and lived in for 8 years:
I lived here for about eight years, and owned it for about fifteen years after I built it in 1976 with local fieldstone and oak logs I cut, peeled and notched on the site, working alone with hand tools. It had no plumbing, I carried water from a nearby spring, and I heated it in winter with about half a cord of wood a week which I cut and burned in the open fireplace. Eventually I moved into Asheville and had to sell it, but it was a large part of my life, and I miss it more with each passing year.
I don't blame him.
Man Builds a Bit of Narnia in the Woods for His Girlfriend to Discover
In The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie steps through the magic wardrobe to discover the secret world of Narnia. She finds a single lamp-post standing in the snow-covered forest, lighting the way for travelers.
Redditor Gen4200 and his girlfriend own a nice slice of forest that reminds them of Narnia, which is among her favorite stories. So at night, he secretly hauled a lamp-post out into the woods, fixed it into the ground, and provided electrical power with discreetly hidden solar cells. When she discovers it, she'll be ready to go on many adventures.
You can see more photos of the project here.
The Annual Gathering of Twins in Twinsburg, Ohio
What's it like to be a twin? The New Yorker went to Twin Days, an annual convention of twins in the appropriately named Ohio town of Twinsburg. There, one half of a twin set described how their mother tended to group them together, no matter what:
You know, if I want mustard on my sandwich, my mom assumed she did, or vice versa . . . but if she got in trouble at school, then I always got in trouble.
These 11-year old brothers are best friends. But that doesn't mean they want to be together all of the time:
My mom is like, "Why do you want to go to someone else's house, you have a brother." I'm like, "Once you get to know everything about someone . . . ."
". . . it's still fun to play with them, but sometimes you just need someone else."
You can hear more twin stories in the video embedded below, as well as watch these young men flirt with a matching pair of ladies.
The History of Japan
Bill Wurtz compressed the history of Japan into nine minutes. Those nine minutes fly by as momentous changes happen. He saves time by dispensing with things like names and dates, because you wouldn’t remember them anyway. By the time you’re through, you’ll remember just enough to want more.
Wurtz simplifies huge events into humorous, rapid-fire exchanges, but there are a couple of times when the narrative just screeches to a halt, because the subject at hand calls for just that. And it works. This is an overall masterpiece.
15 Facts about Coffee
Coffee is the nectar of life. Or at least, the nectar of the morning. And it’s not too bad after dinner, either. You already drink it; now learn some facts about your coffee. Like how people used to eat the beans instead of drinking an infusion. Yuck. Nick Greene (see the extra “e,” no relation to John Green) guest hosts the mental_floss List Show.
The Origins Of Fifteen Strange Southern Dish Names
Southern food is known for being extremely filling, utterly delicious and often strangely named, with some of the names making a delicious dish actually sound disgusting.
Take chit'lins for example- sounds gross, tastes great, but who would think to draw a connection between this dish and Medieval England?
Chitterlings (deep fried pork intestines) date back to at least the 1400s, and while the dish comes from England it's rarely eaten there today.
Livermush is a surprisingly good mélange made of pork liver, head meat and cornmeal that's fried up and served in a sandwich or with some eggs and potatoes.
It sounds a bit like something you'd wipe off your shoe after a trip to the slaughter house, but in this case the transparency is like meatloaf- a description of what goes into the dish.
And before you get too creeped out to read on please note- there are no puppies used in the making of hush puppies.
See The Origins Of 15 Crazy Southern Food Names at mental_floss
The World's Longest-Running Experiment
We thought the Pitch Drop experiments took a long time, but a botany experiment at Michigan State University started in 1879, and is scheduled to continue until the year 2100! Dr. William James Beal wanted to find out how long weed seeds can lay dormant and still germinate. So he buried 20 bottles of seeds in a secret location. Each bottle contains 50 seeds each of 23 different plant species. The original idea was to dig up a bottle every five years and plant the seeds to see how many would germinate. But along the way, the time between each bottle was extended -twice- so now a bottle is dug up only every 20 years. Dr. Frank Telewski and Dr. Jan Zeevaart last dug one up in 2000.
Fifteen bottles in, the clear winner is Verbascum blattaria, or moth mullein, a splay-flowered weed common throughout the United States. Verbascum has popped up consistently in every bottle, and “of the 50 seeds of that particular plant, 23 of them germinated” in 2000, says Telewski, a “phenomenal” result. Distant second place goes to Malva rotundifolia, a round-leafed mallow nicknamed “cheeses” after its wedgelike seeds. Only one of those seeds sprouted in 2000.
Dr. Telewski was a graduate student when the 1980 bottle was retrieved. He is now looking forward to being there in 2020 for the next one. Read the story of the continuing seed experiment at Atlas Obscura.
Two Men Catch on Video the Moment They Are Nearly Struck by Lightning
Meanwhile in Australia, where people with charming accents are about to be killed by All of The Things, a storm is blowing in. In this NSFW-clip-due-to-profanities-shouted-by-two-nearly-lighting-struck dudes, Nick and Daniel are at Sydney's Oyster Bay. They've just spent the majority of ten minutes deciding not to take their boat out because they could "feel the static" of the impending electrical storm. Just then, they get confirmation of their decision by one Mother Nature. Learn more and see additional video at Yahoo 7 News Australia.
Passenger Catches Fire and Is Sucked From Plane at 14,000 Feet
by Billie Cohen
An explosion ripped a hole through the fuselage of Daallo Airlines Flight D3159 just minutes after takeoff.
It’s like something out of a horror movie: A passenger caught fire and was sucked out of a hole in the side of an airplane at 14,000 feet.
Hassan Mohamed Nur, a survivor on that Daallo Airlines Flight D3159 from Mogadishu to Djibouti, told the Daily Mail: “I saw the passenger, a man in his early 60s, get sucked out of the plane. There was a huge bang. A big hole appeared in the side of the jet and the elderly passenger disappeared through it. One minute he was sat in his seat; the next he was gone. He’d been sucked out of the plane. People were screaming. We all thought we were going to die.”
Nur also reported that the man caught fire before he was sucked from his seat, and eerily, the burned body of an elderly man was found in Balad, 18 miles from Mogadishu. It’s uncertain whether this was the same man.
The Airbus 321 took off from Mogadishu airport on its way to Djibouti, and within five minutes, a blast ripped a hole in the fuselage measuring 6 feet by 3 feet. Officials do not yet know the cause of the explosion, though the aircraft’s pilot was quoted as saying, “I think it was a bomb. Luckily, the flight controls were not damaged so I could return and land at the airport.”
A passenger reported that an elderly man was torn from his seat and sucked out the hole in the side of the aircraft.
Apart from the elderly man who fell from the plane, only one other passenger was injured — a Finnish man who is reported to be in stable condition.
Seventy-four passengers we on board, including Awale Kullane, Somalia’s deputy ambassador to the U.N. He said on Facebook that he “heard a loud noise and couldn’t see anything but smoke for a few seconds.” He also posted a video — taken minutes after the explosion, as passengers sat terrified, some with oxygen masks on — but it has since been removed from his page.
Somalia is dealing with an insurgency by the Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, which has been responsible for many deadly attacks over the years.
Cult tells 84-year-old woman she can’t be buried next to husband because she missed brainwashing sessions
"Since you have ignored our efforts to reach you, and have failed to return to your lord jesus in the Demonic Rite to receive from him the curse of his lies ... you have self-excluded."
Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop arrested for assaulting a police officer
A man with an unusual name has been accused of assaulting an Evergreen State College police officer and a Thurston County deputy. Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop, 34, appeared in Thurston County Superior Court in Washington State on Monday on charges of first-degree assault (two counts), third-degree assault, third-degree malicious mischief and malicious harassment. Bail was set at $50,000 with an arraignment set for Feb. 16. Prosecutor Mark Thompson said he was unable to verify the suspect’s legal name and deferred to his original name, Jeffrey Drew Wilschke.
The suspect said in court that he had legally changed his name to Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop in 2011. Court documents said that an officer at The Evergreen State College responded to a report on Sunday afternoon that someone had torn down several fliers from the library entrance. The officer chased the suspect and eventually took him down to the ground, but the suspect thrashed around and tried to grab the officer’s gun. During the struggle, the suspect bit the officer’s ring finger several times and also tried to stab the officer with an ink pen. The officer was unable to control the suspect, who kept grabbing for his gun, and ended up stepping away.
The suspect retrieved a handcuff case, then swung it like a hammer, causing a laceration on the officer’s head. The officer punched the suspect in the jaw, but the strike didn’t faze him. The officer then used a taser twice, causing the suspect to fall to the ground on the second taser deployment. However, the suspect got up and fled on foot. A Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputy saw the suspect running along Evergreen Parkway and chased him into a wooded area. At one point, the suspect threw a rock at the deputy. The deputy used his taser on the suspect, who broke the electrical lines and kept running. The suspect again threw rocks at the officer, striking him at least once. The deputy caught up to the suspect and struck him several times with a metal baton.
The deputy noted that the baton strikes didn’t have much of an effect on the suspect, who was able to grab a brick and throw it at the deputy before running off into the woods again. At this point, another deputy joined the pursuit and deployed a taser on the suspect. The suspect was eventually tackled, handcuffed and arrested. The Evergreen officer was transported to Providence St. Peter Hospital where he received a tetanus shot and four staples to close the laceration on his head. Zoppitybop-bop-bop also was transported to the hospital for a medical evaluation. It is unknown whether Zopittybop-bop-bop was under the influence of drugs at the time of his arrest Sunday. He has been listed as homeless, although the sheriff’s office confirmed he has a post office box registered in Olympia. In 2012, Zopittybop-bop-bop was arrested on marijuana and weapon charges in Wisconsin. He was also arrested in 2013 on drug charges in Iowa.
Woman used soiled pants as excuse for stealing groceries
Police say a Florida woman used reusable grocery bags to steal $199 worth of groceries from a Hernando Publix grocery store and then claimed she walked out of the store without paying because she had defected in her pants.
On Jan. 29, Publix workers saw Paula Jay Ernst, 51, from Land O’ Lakes, selecting items and putting them in her shopping cart at the Public. She then took the groceries from her shopping cart and put them into reusable Publix shopping bags, which she had brought with her, authorities said.
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office detectives say Wolf walked out of the store without paying for the groceries. The incident was recorded by surveillance cameras. Publix employees wrote down Wolf’s license plate number. She was then contacted at her home by telephone and agreed to return to the store.
After she was arrested, Wolf told deputies she did not mean to steal the items and walked out of the store because she had defecated in her pants, according to an arrest affidavit. Ernst was charged with shoplifting and booked into the Hernando County Jail.
Police found woman reportedly held against her will hiding under cannabis plant at friend's house
A search for a missing woman by police in Manjimup, Western Australia, on Sunday had an unexpected ending when she was found hiding under a thriving cannabis plant. The drama began when police were told by an ex-partner of the woman in her mid-40s that she was being "held against her will" at a nominated address. With concerns for her welfare, police arrived at the home and sought her whereabouts. "The male homeowner at first denied any knowledge of the woman's whereabouts other than she was 'in town', a Manjimup policeman said. The attending officers asked the homeowner whether they could look around and eventually took their search outside.
"The first I saw was a pair of socks sticking out from the bush and they don't usually go with a marijuana plant. It wasn't really well-thought through," said one of the officers who found her. "The woman was really worried we were going to take her back to her ex-partner, but we assured her we were only concerned for her welfare."
A second bush was growing alongside her hiding place and four others were allegedly found drying out. The Manjimup officers tweeted the good news of finding the woman safe and sound: "Police looking for a female after concerns for her welfare located her curled up under a cannabis plant hiding." The homeowner, who has known the woman for 17 years, was charged with several drug-related offenses. The woman is understood to have remained at the house, but has now moved indoors.
Man who tried to buy 12-year-old boy's fish with fake marijuana charged with assault
A man from Chatham-Kent in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, has been charged with assault after allegedly trying to trade fake pot to a 12-year-old boy in exchange for a pet fish and hitting him when the deal fell through.
29-year-old James DeWolfe allegedly struck the boy in the head after trying to pass a bag of oregano off as a bag of marijuana. The boy did not require medical attention.
The boy went to DeWolfe's house on Saturday for a planned meeting where the boy was going to sell him a fish as well as collect money for a fish tank that DeWolfe had yet to pay for.
DeWolfe tried to pay with a bag of what he claimed to be weed, but the boy realised it was actually a bag of dried spices. The boy confronted DeWolfe and was struck in the head, according to a news release from Chatham-Kent police. DeWolfe will appear in court on Feb. 16.
Policeman Answers Routine Call, Falls in Love With Puppy
Marcus Montgomery is a police officer with the Fort Walton Beach, Florida police department. When a situation regarding a prior employee arose at the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Montgomery went to the facility to make sure everything was in order. Montgomery told BuzzFeed,
“We spoke for about 20 minutes and I was wrapping up my investigation. One of the supervisors left, and while I was still speaking to the director of PAWS, the supervisor came back in with this little puppy in her hands. You could tell he’d been sleeping because his eyes were heavy and he was yawning constantly.”
Montgomery said he “immediately” asked to hold the puppy. He soon found out that the pup had just been plucked from a box on the other side of the building, and due to being all alone in the box, he had been crying.
When Montgomery heard that information it was, as they say, "all she wrote." The cop decided right then and there to take the pup home that night where he lives with his girlfriend and a pitbull rescue named Vader, who was long desirous of canine companionship.
Now? We have Vader and Kylo, as seen below. Living, loving and napping. Navigating the dark side together, as a pair of close pals are wont to do.
Learn about Vader's history and how his being a pitbull affected the early part of his life as a shelter animal, and see more criminally cute pictures of Vader and Kylo by visiting this link.
Baby Swordfish Fits on the Tip of a Finger
He's perhaps only an inch long. But in a year, he could be over 3 feet long! Juan C. Levesque, a graduate student and fisheries professional, says that the broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is called the "gladiator of the sea." In a 2014 article for the magazine Florida Sportsman, Levesque describes the life cycle of this fighting fish prized by fishermen:
On average, swordfish grow about 14 inches per year, but there are differences between the sexes. Female swordfish grow faster, live longer, and reach a larger size than male swordfish; almost every swordfish I weighed that was heavier than 200 pounds was a female. It has been reported that swordfish can top 14 feet and 1,400 pounds in weight, but these large fish are rare these days. In my 7 years collecting data on commercial fishing vessels, the largest swordfish I ever saw captured was around 500 pounds; it was caught near West Palm Beach, Florida.
The Weird Thing About Cat Legs
Who knew that a “crouching tiger” is not supposed to crouch? Huge tigers walk, crouch, and leap the same way house cats do, and pretty much all other cats of different sizes do. But that is a mystery to scientists, because it’s unique in the animal kingdom. It’s a matter of physics.
Today, cats span a huge range of sizes. The rusty-spotted cat of India and Sri Lanka weighs just one kilogram, while the mighty Siberian tiger is 300 times heavier. And yet, these animals are surprisingly similar. “It's famously said that a lion is just a scaled-up house cat,” says Anjali Goswami from University College London, who works with Hutchinson. “That's very weird.”
Their legs are especially odd. When animals get bigger, their posture changes. Their legs tend to straighten, becoming stiffer and more pillar-like to better support their weight. Not so with cats. When a lion strides across the savannah, it has essentially the same posture as the domesticated tabby that slinks over your lap. Lions, tigers, and leopards—oh my—are, as Hutchinson writes, the only large, crouching mammals.
How do those large cats do it? They don’t have larger muscles to compensate. Scientists have designed experiments to learn more about the physics of big cat legs, but they don’t have any results yet. Oh, it’s not for lack of trying, but another way big cats are like small cats is that they don’t want to cooperate with scientists or anyone. Read about the so-far futile efforts involved in getting cats to measure leg force at the Atlantic.
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Title International Development and Assistance: Where Politics Meets Economy
Andrzej Bolesta
City Warsaw
Country/State Poland
URL http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=895947#page=49
Wolfgang Sachs in The Development Dictionary states that, 'development is much more than just a socio-economic endeavour; it is a perception which models reality, a myth which comforts societies, and a fantasy which unleashes passions'. For over five decades, the term 'development' has been seen as the embodiment of the ideals of freedom, progress and equality, a banner under which all of humanity could unite, with the promise of a brighter future.
Increasingly, however, the viability of development, whether one chooses to characterise it as concept, ideal or myth, is being questioned. We live in a world of excessive deprivation, destitution and marginalisation. And the presence of millions of refugees and displaced persons globally is but one manifestation of the problems that prevail in spite of, or some would say because of, development.
This volume outlines the need for an integrated analysis of the links between development, social transformation, displacement, migration and humanitarianism. It addresses globalisation (championed by the development paradigm) as a transformational phenomenon, which has led to an unprecedented level of interconnectedness on a global scale but which, paradoxically, has also resulted in an increasing emphasis on the local, specifically in relation to perceived encroachments on national sovereignty.
In this context, the chapters that follow trace connections between the process of the generation of refugees, the ability or inability of particular populations to move, and the concomitant tightening of national borders. Conversely, they also demonstrate the weakening of the primacy of sovereignty in the context of current norms
of humanitarian intervention and analyse the efficacy of the delivery of humanitarian assistance given the extreme complexity of contemporary emergencies, the limits of aid agency co-ordination and questions relating to the political neutrality of humanitarianism. Significantly, several case-specific studies, ranging from Burma to the Sudan, thereby encompassing a range of geo-political regions, are incorporated in an effort to discourage perceptual bias.
The work contained herein is especially pertinent in the aftermath of September 11th 2001 and governments' intensifying concerns about domestic security, which have resulted in a decrease in focus on the safety considerations of migrants. It is all the more relevant in view of the subsequent declaration of a 'war on terrorism' which has raised serious questions about state sovereignty, the global role of the United Nations and the shape of future humanitarian operations.
International Development and Assistance: Where Politics Meets Economy brings together authors from across a range of disciplines, each contributing unique perspectives on the consequences of development and globalisation on the humanitarian system and provides a foundation for more informed debate about the disparities between the myth and the reality of the development process.
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Good faith exception applied to evidence seized as the result of a warrant with extraterritorial application in violation of a then existing rule
United States of America v. Gabriel Werdene, No 10-3588 (3d Cir., 2/21/2018)
In an opinion dealing with a search warrant from the Eastern District of Virginia that eventually resulted in a change to a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure, the Court ruled that the Defendant's right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated when under a pre-12/1/2016 version of Fed.R.CrimPro. 41(b), a magistrate approved a warrant authorizing searches of and seizure of data from computers located outside of the magistrate's district. It then ruled that despite the request for and authorization of a search and seizure not allowed any Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure, the evidence should be admitted anyway because the FBI agents who procured the warrant acted in good faith.
Investigating dark web distribution of child pornography, the FBI seized a server for an online forum called Playpen in North Carolina, arrested its Florida owner, and moved the server to a location in the Eastern District of Virginia. It obtained a warrant from a magistrate in that district to monitor communications on the server and then continued to operate the Playpen forum, using NIT, ("government created malware") to gather IP addresses and other information from computers logging in. (See note 1, infra.) Mr. Werdene was one of the Playpen users who logged in, commenting on the pornography, and sharing links using the username "thepervert." A separate search warrant for his home was obtained as a result of the investigation, where the FBI seized a USB drive and a DVD containing child pornography. He was charged with a single count of possessing child pornography. He sought suppression of the evidence seized from him because Fed.R.Crim.Pro. 51(b) did not authorize searches of computers outside of the issuing magistrate's district. He pled guilty and was sentenced, reserving the right to appeal the denial of his suppression motion.
Magistrates cannot authorize searches outside of their districts unless specifically authorized by law. 28 U.S.C. §636(a). Rule 41(b), which sets forth the territorial limits of warrants for various searches, did not, at the time of the issuance of the search warrant, authorize searches of computers outside of the issuing magistrate's district. (That was changed with an amendment to Rule 41 on December 1, 2016, following the numerous motions to dismiss filed all over the country as a result of the Playpen investigation.) The Court, like many, if not all courts that have considered this issue, concluded that the warrant should not have issued for any search outside of the Eastern District of Virginia. The Court considered, and rejected, arguments that the government has raised in other districts, such as the search was analogous to one using a tracking device (for which Rule 42(b) does authorize extra-territorial application) (see Note 2, infra), and that the violation of Rule 41(b) was not a violation of the 4th Amendment. ("[T]he Rule 41(b) violation was of constitutional magnitude because 'at the time of the framing . . . a warrant issued for a search or seizure beyond the territorial jurisdiction of a magistrate's powers under positive law was treated as no warrant at all.'") The warrant was void ab initio.
However, like many, though not all, other courts that have considered this issue, the Court concluded that the good faith exception prevented suppression of the evidence obtained from the computers ensnared in the investigation. It rejected Mr. Werdene's argument that the exception cannot apply to warrants that are void ab initio because such warrants do not have the force of law. The Court ruled that the deterrence effect of the exclusionary rule is not advanced by a blanket rule excluding such warrants form the goof faith exception.
In this Circuit, there are four circumstances on which reliance on a faulty warrant is unreasonable:
the magistrate issued the warrant in reliance on a deliberately or recklessly false affidavit;
the magistrate abandoned his judicial role and failed to perform his neutral and detached function;
the warrant was based on an affidavit so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable; or
the warrant was so facially deficient that it failed to particularize the place to be searched or the things to be seized.
The Court found that none of these criteria applied to the E.D.Va. warrant. The Court also found that the FBI's reliance on the warrant was not unreasonable even though it violated an advisory in the U.S. Attorney's manual that suggested that '[a]gents should obtain multiple warrants if they have reason to believe that a network search will retrieve data stored in multiple locations." The advice in the manual was for attorneys, and not FBI agents, who are not expected to understand legal nuances the way that an attorney would.
Note 1. A district court, in a prosecution in another district arising from the same investigation and search warrant, considering a motion to dismiss due to outrageous government conduct, said of the entire investigation, "[T]he government's investigation had disturbing consequences: while investigating child pornography, the government facilitated the distribution of child pornography and did so in way that did not allow the pornography it distributed to be retrieved or cabined. Thus, the child pornography distributed by the government might live on and be redistributed in the internet ether for an indeterminate period. Furthermore, the Court is concerned by [the defendant's] allegations that traffic to Playpen increased after the government took over operation of the site." United States v. Allain. 1:15-cr-10251-ADB (D.Mass. 9/29/2016), https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-mad-1_15-cr-10251/pdf/USCOURTS-mad-1_15-cr-10251-0.pdf
Note 2. In his concurring opinion, Judge Nygaard wrote that he would not have considered the tracking device argument because in the district court the government conceded that none of Rule 41's exceptions to the bar on extraterritorial scope of a search warrant applied. The Government argued that it could raise the issue on appeal because as the prevailing party, it could advance any reason in support of affirmance. Judge Nygaard would have held the Government bound to concessions it made in the district court.
Image from PC Magazine, "Inside the Dark Web," 2/4/2015, https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476003,00.asp
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The history of Grant’s in Australia began with the colonisation of the continent and arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. In total it’s believed that there were 126 Grant’s were deported to Botany Bay or Van Dieman’s land during that period. To track down your potential ancestry to the Grant convicts by following this link https://convictrecords.com.au/
The convict history of Australia is a harsh story with many transported from the UK for minor crimes due to the burgeoning prison population in England. Harsh conditions on board the lengthy ocean journey and even poorer treatment on their arrival, where whipping with a cat of nine tails was common.
Many convicts were granted their freedom and went on to establish prosperous new lives in Australia the majority of Grant’s who emigrated to Australia did so as paid passengers, and have done so for the entirety of this countries history.
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10:00:10 A.M. The House convened, starting a new legislative day.
10:00:14 A.M. The Speaker designated the Honorable Henry Cuellar to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
10:00:39 A.M. MORNING-HOUR DEBATE - The House proceeded with Morning-Hour Debate. At the conclusion of Morning-Hour, the House will recess until 12:00 p.m. for the start of legislative business.
10:23:48 A.M. The Speaker announced that the House do now recess. The next meeting is scheduled for 12:00 P.M. today.
12:00:55 P.M. The House convened, returning from a recess continuing the legislative day of January 14.
12:01:55 P.M. Today's prayer was offered by the House Chaplain, Rev. Patrick J. Conroy.
12:04:27 P.M. The Speaker announced approval of the Journal. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Journal stands approved.
12:04:29 P.M. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - The Chair designated Mr. Budd to lead the Members in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
12:04:52 P.M. ADJUSTED WHOLE NUMBER OF THE HOUSE - Under clause 5(d) of rule 20, the Chair announced to the House that, in light of the resignation of the gentleman from California, Mr. Hunter, the whole number of the House is 430.
12:05:30 P.M. ONE MINUTE SPEECHES - The House proceeded with one minute speeches which by direction of the Chair, would be limited to 15 per side of the aisle.
12:18:31 P.M. The House received a message from the Clerk. Pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Clerk notified the House that she had received the following message from the Secretary of the Senate on January 14, 2020, at 11:16 a.m.: that the Senate passed H.R. 434 and the Senate agreed to S. Res. 468.
12:19:13 P.M. H. Res. 790 Considered as privileged matter. H. Res. 790 — "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1230) to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and other laws to clarify appropriate standards for Federal employment discrimination and retaliation claims, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 76) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Borrower Defense Institutional Accountability"; and providing for proceedings during the period from January 17, 2020, through January 24, 2020."
12:23:23 P.M. H. Res. 790 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 790.
1:45:40 P.M. H. Res. 790 On ordering the previous question Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 191 (Roll no. 16).
1:54:43 P.M. H. Res. 790 On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 200 (Roll no. 17).
1:54:45 P.M. H. Res. 790 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
1:54:57 P.M. H. Res. 793 Considered as privileged matter. H. Res. 793 — "Electing a certain Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives."
1:55:18 P.M. H. Res. 793 On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.
1:56:23 P.M. Board of the Federal Judicial Center Foundation - Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 629(b), and the order of the House of January 3, 2019, the Speaker appointed Ms. Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Sebastopol, California, and Mr. Peter A. Kraus, Dallas, Texas.
1:57:28 P.M. ONE MINUTE SPEECHES - The House proceeded with further one minute speeches.
2:12:24 P.M. SPECIAL ORDER SPEECHES - The House has concluded all anticipated legislative business and has proceeded to Special Order speeches.
4:13:03 P.M. Mr. Davis, Danny K. moved that the House do now adjourn.
4:13:05 P.M. On motion to adjourn Agreed to by voice vote.
4:13:07 P.M. The House adjourned. The next meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on January 15, 2020.
1:54:45 P.M. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
1:54:43 P.M. On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 200 (Roll no. 17).
1:45:40 P.M. On ordering the previous question Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 226 - 191 (Roll no. 16).
12:23:23 P.M. DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 790.
12:19:13 P.M. Considered as privileged matter. H. Res. 790 — "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1230) to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and other laws to clarify appropriate standards for Federal employment discrimination and retaliation claims, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 76) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Borrower Defense Institutional Accountability"; and providing for proceedings during the period from January 17, 2020, through January 24, 2020."
1:55:18 P.M. On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.
1:54:57 P.M. Considered as privileged matter. H. Res. 793 — "Electing a certain Member to a certain standing committee of the House of Representatives."
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Download this ICI as Excel file
Name of initiative
LPAA initiative
NAZCA Initiative
http://re100.org/
The Climate Group Europe office, 2nd Floor, Riverside Building, County Hall, Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 7PB, United Kingdom, +44 (0)20 7960 2970,Marie Reynolds e-mail: MReynolds@theclimategroup.org
RE100 is led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, as part of the We Mean Business coalition.
Name of lead organisation
Led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, as part of the We Mean Business coalition
Type of lead organisation
Location/Nationality of lead organisation
RE100 is a collaborative initiative of influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity, working to massively increase corporate demand for - and delivery of - renewable energy.
RE100 shares the compelling business case for renewables and showcases business action, while working with others to address barriers and develop transparent reporting mechanisms.
One or two success stories achieved
Apple, Bank of America, and General Motors were among the leading companies that joined RE100 during Climate Week NYC 2016 – http://there100.org/news/14231034.
RE100 won the 'Pioneer' award at the British Renewable Energy Awards 2016 - recognized for its efforts to accelerate the corporate take up of renewable energy through commitments to renewable power and creating a pathway that others can follow. http://there100.org/news/14221867
Monitoring and Impacts
Sustainable Development Impact:
Function of initiative
Implementation, Capacity building, Political dialogue
Activity of initiative
Goal setting (ex-ante), Training and education, Advocacy
Goal setting (ex-ante) — Total Mitigation
Value (MtCO2e/yr) 1700
By 2020 it will be the ‘norm’ for all businesses to set a 100% renewable power goal.
In 2017 we are increasing the breadth and depth of the RE100 campaign. There will be a greater focus of work in India and China and we will be looking at influencing supply chains. We continue to work with a number of partner organizations (e.g. ShareAction) to accelerate recruitment and help members to reach their 100% renewable electricity goals (e.g. WBCSD Lctpi, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center).
Comments on indicators and goals
tCO2e estimate from the report: "Individual actors, collective initiatives and their impact on global greenhouse gas emissions", New Climate, PBL, and Yale 2018.
Assuming that 2000 companies commit to source 100% of their electricity from renewable resources in 2030."tCO2e estimate from the report: "Individual actors, collective initiatives and their impact on global greenhouse gas emissions", New Climate, PBL, and Yale 2018. Assuming that 2000 companies commit to source 100% of their electricity from renewable resources in 2030." cannot be used as a page name in this wiki.
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals
RE100 has grown from 13 companies in 2014 to 87 members as of January 2017. Together they are creating demand for over 107 TWh of renewable electricity. There are now several members based in India and China, and a number of companies from heavy industry such as automobile and cement manufacturing. RE100 is providing a series of knowledge-sharing and profiling opportunities for members. RE100 is demonstrating the business case for renewable power and has worked to influence EU policy to help companies access renewable energy in Europe.
How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Members are encouraged to report their electricity and renewable electricity use on an annual basis to CDP. Progress towards RE100 goals is tracked and reported in the RE100 Annual Report: http://there100.org/reports-briefings.
RE100 does not track the carbon savings of companies as they work towards their 100% renewable power targets, rather data on electricity consumption and use of renewables (including different options deployed and where). Stakeholders committed: Number of companies committed increased from 13 in 2014 to 129 in 2018. Mitigation, renewable energy: The 129 members consumed 159 TWh of renewable energy in 2017.
We highlight how much money our members invest in renewable power and climate change initiatives – for example Goldman Sachs http://there100.org/goldman-sachs set a 10-year target to deploy $40 billion of capital in financing and investment to scale-up clean energy globally. We also showcase savings being made by businesses through renewable energy - for example General Motors is saving $5 million annually http://there100.org/news/14230419.
Available reporting
Company data is made available in the RE100 Annual Report, http://there100.org/reports-briefings, including progress towards achieving 100% renewable power and the different approaches towards renewables that companies are taking.
Company achievements are published as news stories on both the RE100 website and The Climate Group website, and included in the monthly RE100 e-newsletter that is sent to both campaign participants as well as prospect companies and partner organizations. Stories are shared on both the RE100 and The Climate Group Twitter handles, with more than 3,000 and 100,000 followers respectively.
Companies 124 The IKEA Group (Sweden),3M (USA),Anheuser-Busch InBev (Belgium),Adobe (USA),AEON (Japan),AkzoNobel (Netherlands),alstria (Germany),Allianz (Germany),Anthem (USA),Apple (USA),ASKUL Corporation (Japan),AstraZeneca (United Kingdom),Atlassian (Australia),Aurora (USA),Autodesk (USA),Aviva,Bestseller (Denmark),Biogen (USA),Bloomberg LP (USA),BMW Group (Germany),BOZZUTO (USA),British Land (United Kingdom),BROAD Group (China),BT (United Kingdom),Burberry (United Kingdom),Califia Farms (USA),Canary Wharf Group (United Kingdom),The Carlsberg Group (Denmark),City of London (United Kingdom),Clif Bar & Company (USA),Coca-Cola European Partners (USA),Colruyt Group (Belgium),Coop Sapporo (Japan),Corbion (Netherlands),Daito Trust Construction Co. (Japan),Daiwa House Group (Japan),Dalmia Cement (India),Danone (France),Decathlon (France),Dentsu Aegis Network (United Kingdom),Derwent London (United Kingdom),Diageo (United Kingdom),eBay (USA),Elion (China),Elopak (Norway),Envipro (Japan),Equinix (USA),Estée Lauder Companies (France),Etsy (USA),Facebook (USA),FIA Formula E (United Kingdom),Firmenich (Switzerland),Fujifilm (Japan),Fujitsu(Japan),Fuyo General Lease Co. (Japan),Gatwick Airport (United Kingdom),General Motors (USA),Givaudan (Switzerland),Goldman Sachs Group (USA),Google (USA),Grupo Bimbo (Mexico),Gurmen Group (Turkey),H&M (United Kingdom),Hatsun Agro Products (India),Heathrow Airport (United Kingdom),Helvetia Group (Switzerland),Hewlett Packard Enterprise (USA),HP Hewlett Packard (USA),International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (USA),IHS Markit (United Kingdom),Infosys (India),Interface (USA),Iron Mountain Incorporated (USA),JD Sports Fashion Plc (United Kingdom),Johnson & Johnson (USA),Kellogg (USA),Kingspan (Ireland),Konica Minolta (Japan),KPN (Netherlands),L’OCCITANE Group (France),La Poste (France),Landsec (United Kingdom),LEGO (Denmark),Lyft (USA),Mace (United Kingdom),Mahindra Holidays & Resorts (India),Marks and Spencer (United Kingdom),Mars (United Kingdom),Marui Group (Japan),McKinsey & Company (USA),Microsoft (USA),Nestle (Switzerland),NIKE (USA),Novo Nordisk (Denmark),Nomura Research Institute -NRI (Japan),Hair O'right (China),Organic Valley (USA),Pearson (USA),Philips Lighting (Netherlands),P&G (USA),Proximus (Belgium),PVH (USA),QTS (United Kingdom),Rackspace (USA),RB (United Kingdom),RELX Group (United Kingdom),Royal DSM (Netherlands),Royal Philips (Netherlands),RICOH Company (Japan),Salesforce (USA),SAP (Germany),SAVE S.p.A (Italy),Schneider Electric (France),Sekisui House (Japan),SGS (Switzerland),Signify (Netherlands),Sky plc (United Kingdom),Slaughter and May (United Kingdom),Sony Corporation (USA),Starbucks (USA),Steelcase (USA),Swisscom (Switzerland),Swiss Post (Switzerland),Tata Motors (India),TCI Co. (China),Telefonica S.A. (Spain),Tesco (United Kingdom),Tetra Pak (Sweden),T-Mobile US (USA),Toda Corporation (Japan),Tokyu Land Corporation (Japan),TRIDL (Japan),Unilever (United Kingdom),Vail Resorts (USA),Vaisala (Finland),Vestas (Denmark),VF Corporation (USA),Visa (USA),VMware (USA),WalMart Stores (USA),Wells Fargo & Co. (USA),WeWork (USA),The Wonderful Company (USA),Workday (USA),YOOX NET A PORTER GROUP (United Kingdom).
For more information about the members goals see http://re100.org/companies.
Business organisations 0
Research and educational organisations 0
Non-governmental organisations 0
National states 0
Governmental actors 0
Regional / state / county actors 0
City / municipal actors 0
Intergovernmental organisations 0
Financial Institutions 40 The Swiss Re Group (Switzerland), Amalgamated Bank (USA), Asset Management One (Japan), Aviva (United Kingdom), AXA (France), Bank of America (USA), Bank Australia (Australia), Bankia (Spain), Barclay (United Kingdom), BBWA (Spain), CaixaBank (Spain), Capital One (USA), Citi (USA), Commerzbank (Germany), Commonwealth Bank (Australia), Crédit Agricole Group (France), Crown Estate (United Kingdom), Danske Bank Group (Denmark), DBS Bank (Singapore), DNB (Norway), Fifth Third Bancorp (USA), HSBC (United Kingdom), ING (Netherlands), Johnan Shinkin Bank (Japan), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (USA), Jupiter Asset Management (United Kingdom), Lloyds Banking Group (United Kingdom), Morgan Stanley (USA), Nordea (Denmark), PNC (USA), Prudential (USA), QBE (Australia), Royal Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom), Schroders (United Kingdom), TD Bank Group (Canada), UBS (Switzerland), Voya Financial (USA), Westpac (Australia), Zurich (Switzerland).
Supporting partners 0 We Mean Business (United Kingdom), IKEA Foundation (Denmark), and RE100 (United Kingdom) members
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Marga & Bea Valdes: A Myriad Stories in their Bags is a cover story in the February 2008 issue of Forbes in Touch.
This is a repost of an article for Forbes in Touch about the Valdes sisters, which I wrote many years back.
Yeah, at some point, I miss writing again.
“The business doesn’t work without them. There’s so much emphasis on design,” exclaims Bea Valdes, together with her sister Marga, on a bright, sunny morning in their comfy Forbes home.
The name Bea Valdes does ring a bell all right. She’s a celebrated Filipino designer whose creations have been graciously featured in local and international magazines such as Bazaar, Glamour, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Preview, Philippine Tatler, Town&Country, Vogue, W and O magazines; snapped up in trendy stores like Barneys and Saks Fifth Avenue; and worn by high-profile celebrities like Sharon Stone, Kate Hudson, and Rachel Roy. Her collections are getting innumerable while her client base is mounting and growing diverse, too. There’s no doubt that she’s behind all these works. Yet without a great tandem found in the family (a trio, actually), the designer brand beavaldes won’t appear much in full gloss.
Bea Valdes’ tinsel town of beads and semi-precious stones is comprised of 40 workers managed by her mom Pamela and an equally hardworking and enthusiastic sister, Marga, who has been very significant in bringing beavaldes to the high fashion limelight as well as to topnotch foreign clienteles.
Marga in Focus
As Bea puts it, Marga has a more fascinating life. Marga’s been away for eight years, living independently in London and Paris. “What people don’t realize is that Marga’s life is more interesting. She lived in Paris and worked there in UNESCO. Then she went to London, took a master’s degree in Gender Studies in Economics, and worked in the House of Lords. She just came back for business,” Bea elaborates.
“Apart from being very lucrative to come and join my family, I thought I really can contribute. I also want to be home again and be with my folks and Bea. And she was pregnant when I came home! I was also trying to help a bit when I was away, and so is my brother in New York. So it’s a logical conclusion,” Marga explains.
Marga shares snippets of her life abroad, “I was a student in Paris in a class of eight students from different countries. Our background is very different, very diverse, a great experience all around.” Her most memorable experiences include the Olympics bid and the London bombing. “My boss is part of the British Olympics Association. When London got the bid for 2012, everyone gathered together, rejoicing. Another one was the bombing. I got earlier in the office, and it happened at the same lane (where the bombing was). So I have to walk home for two hours in heels. Because of that, I got to start wearing trainer shoes! My life there is really quite different, more independent.”
Indeed, Marga is very keen on her role in their business. She has handled numerous markets from different countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She also coordinates sales orders and design requests and ensures that shipments are delivered on what’s been agreed upon. “We work in different areas. Bea creates the piece. I send them off and track their movement around the world,” Marga giggly says. It may seem daunting to sell her sister’s creations and to accommodate, as Bea dubs it, “international” e-mail, but it didn’t turn out that way in Marga’s case. Luckily, they’ve got loyal customers who approach them more. “In the beginning, I was a little bit nervous because you’re not sure where to find them, but the market found us. They recognize her creation as a work of art. I came in to nurture the relationship while Bea is in control of her designing work.”
Bea in Transition
Bea’s life began to change when she gave birth to Bella five months ago. Her daily work is almost allotted to designing, with lesser rest in between to spend more time with her daughter. She summarizes, “I keep the ground running. Check on everybody and create multiple designs.”
Apart from having her bundle of joy, which enabled Bea to work more efficiently, Marga also amusingly shares how the baby impacted Bea’s creativity, “Her collections started to take on different colors. She used to choose dark, bold colors and then she began taking pastel, light colors. It’s hormonal imbalance!”
So how does Bea start her artistic work? “Every time I start working on a new bag, I’d say ‘This will be my most favorite piece.’ And then, the next time I start another, I say it again. That’s my motivation.”
Marga claims that Bea got her artistic leaning from their dad while Bea confirms that she draws inspiration outside the fashion realm. “My influences are a little bit outside of fashion. My international one was from Edward Gorey (a children’s book author). The last collection I also had with Inno Sotto, we’ve drawn from Alhambra (of Spain). Presently, this one from another French poet Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. I like pieces that tell a story. The references are mostly from the literature that has a rich texture, and I can draw from there and find different perspectives.” Marga also adds, “She designs everything for herself; something I would wear, something she would wear. It’s just something she would like.”
Bea pursues to diversify her works by exploring different materials and increasing the level of craftsmanship. “It will take much time to gather what’s needed and nurture the designs before we fully launch them. Marga’s been doing really well of getting new markets abroad (particularly Mauritius and Kazakhstan), nurturing and establishing relationships. We are at the point of growing organically. We are not in a rush,” Bea explains.
Best Siblings Forever
Their relationship is described as having a unique sense of humor and being considerate and accepting despite their differences. “We know it’s a good day when we’re going home, we’re laughing,” Bea recalls. Marga even adds, “There is this time when I didn’t go to work, and she called me eight times. We really get along well. We’re very comfortable with each other. It’s a good thing, especially when you have one goal.”
Bea further explains, “We’ve actually got different points of view. I think the pretty thing about liking each other that you learn how to listen well, and you’re kinder. We never make decisions without consulting each other.”
It is quite understandable for an artist like Bea to be erratics at times but Marga, for being highly organized, keeps Bea focused. Marga, on the other hand, is well complemented with Bea’s humor.
“Continue what she likes doing,” Marga tells her sister while Bea candidly says, “I’d like to give my message to her in a novel instead. But give me back my trainer shoes!”
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Sissy Hits
This EP is named after a line from the song 1993: ‘we turn your hissy fits into sissy hits’ and basically, that is Dananan’s mission.
Their sound is a little bit complex, the band themselves call it ‘fight pop’ if you felt like being more descriptive than the band, you’d say they were twee hardcore. Imagine Los Campesinos! covering Black Flag and you’re most of the way there. Live, they sound and act more like a hardcore band than they do recorded.
On Sissy Hits, the breakdowns and hoarse screamed vocals take a backseat and although the songs remain the same structurally, there’s greater emphasis on the handclaps and sung vocals. That’s not to say that they’re the type of band who can’t recapture their live sound in the studio, they just play differently.
The last two tracks of this EP are actually the Pink Sabbath single, added at a later date. They’re faster and slightly heavier songs than the others on the EP, but even their beefed up production doesn’t change the fact that Dananan concentrate on the ‘pop’ in the studio and leave the ‘fight’ until they’re on stage.
Listen: www.myspace.com/dananananaykroyd
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Economy & Finance January 23, 2014
Pest or Cholera? Crash or Hyper-Inflation?
EU Economic & Currency Affairs Commissioner Rehn
by Ralph T. Niemeyer
The Eurogroup finance ministers are evidently completely in the hands of private banks and their owners. Without making the latter pay, by writing off debts they have artificially created and imposed on the Greek taxpayer, there won’t be any solution. Nevertheless, an uncontrolled crash is being pursued that will cause ordinary people to lose their savings, and leave the consumer and citizen to be confronted with the shutting down of public life and the taxpayer to foot the bill.
In that sense, owners of big capital and banks chose the option of an uncontrolled crash as the alternative would be hyper-inflation which would also affect all of their wealth whereas the crash that is to come might let them rescue most of their assets.
In 1970, the entire wealth bubble accounted for $12 trillion, but by 2005 it has grown 12 times to more than $144 trillion. The world GDP was totally decoupled from the wealth explosion, and while developing countries in the so called “third world” had to starve their populations to death in order to make room for yet another bubble that followed each and every privatisation and opening of the various markets, the workers, employees and SMEs in the industrialized countries were given credit cards instead of wage increases and over-priced mortgages and expensive loans in order to finance consumption and production.
Although some of the accumulated wealth vanished when one of the smaller or even bigger bubbles burst, there has been no such crash (yet) that interrupted the constant growth of financial wealth.
On the contrary; financial wealth grew ever faster and now amounts to a ridiculous four times more than the World’s GDP, meaning that if all these owners of the virtual funds all of a sudden wanted to withdraw their money and buy goods, such as designer clothes, furniture, high tech or other valuables, it would not be there in sufficient volume. A dramatic devaluation would kick in. In other words: the worldwide financial wealth market is kept alive by dodgy cheques, this time those handed to Greece.
A study on capital wealth in the US concludes that 80% of the total American financial wealth results from inheritances .
This is probably no different in Europe. The fact is that big capital creates big income, and by this poses as a self-enhancing model is the reason why financial wealth is even less equally distributed than income.
Data from the Bureau of Economic Affairs in Washington proves that the bursting of the dotcom bubble not only didn’t harm the wealthy, but even benefited them while small and medium investors who had been led into the market too late lost most of their assets in the Clinton-Gore internet-hype.
This is what will happen when Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and, eventually, Italy crash.
In OECD countries wealth, generally, is concentrated in a few hands. More than 50% of families in industrialized countries do not account for any wealth at all while the richest 1% own and control more than half of all financial wealth.
These are the people the broker house Merrill Lynch in his World Wealth Report refers to as ‘High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) and who own more than $1 million in cash. In Germany, for instance, there were just 800,000 persons who had €1 million in cash deposits. According to Merrill Lynch there were 10 million HNWIs worldwide in 2007 who owned all together some $40.7 billion, half of all privately held cash deposits.
In industrialized countries, typically the HNWIs are the top 1% of society. By this, one can say, wealth today is much more concentrated than in 1929, which for a long time has been referred to as the most perverse wealth concentration. 80 years ago, 1 % of the richest in the US had owned 40% of the total cash deposits.
These millionaires and multi-millionaires, for whom every bank rolls out the red carpet are also the main beneficiaries of any hype, be it driven by stocks and shares or obligations. In Germany 70% of all privately held stocks are owned by the top 1% of society.
Only 8% of the German population own stocks, so, in a way, it is a funny thought that the rest of us, the 92%, have to listen to the news reporting from the DAX, Nikkei, Dow Jones and NASDAQ ‘Casinos’ every day.
In the US the stocks held in private hands are about 20%, but the concentration is equally insane. Within the HNWI group there is another even more exclusive club: the so called Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWIs) who by definition account for more than $30 million in cash deposits.
At present there are 100,000 UHNWIs globally and they can be seen as the global monetary aristocracy and main beneficiaries of today’s financial capitalism. They were able to let their income and wealth explode over the past 30 years as they profited more than anybody else from the privatizations, profit maximizations and bubble building. The head of the global wealth management of JP Morgan Private Bank said that these UHNWIs account for 30-40% of all financial assets.
The wealth of the richest 400 Americans had grown by 95% from $379 billion to $740 billion, clear of inflation within those three years. But, even that was peanuts in comparison to the wealth explosion of the richest 10 multi-billionaires who could multiply their wealth by 270%.
The hunger of the ultra rich to maximize their profit requires an ever more ruthless re-distribution of wealth. The so called Gini coefficient which reflects the income distribution and by this indicates the disparity between lower and higher incomes has risen since the early 1980ies dramatically, especially in the Western industrialized nations .
It is, of course, totally irrelevant for the standard of living of an UHNWI whether his wealth grows by 2, 5 or 20% per annum or whether it stagnates. He or she will always be able to shop at Richemont and only use a marginal amount of his money for purchasing goods of the real economy. Nevertheless, an Ultra High Net Worth Individual always make sure that his money will be multiplied by the best possible investment, which his bankers, hedge fund managers and brokers may find.
The sword of Damocles of a capital withdrawal is hanging over each and every management decision.
The result of this wealth and income distribution are slowing down productivity and growth figures, a declining standard of living for billions of people, destroyed economic capacity, social injustices and growing poverty.
The present system is a methodological insanity that results from the logic of an economic system in which its only driving force is the creation of private profit. During certain periods and under specific conditions this driving force has contributed to making the economy more productive and society in its entirety richer, even though said richness has always been distributed unequally.
Today’s financial capitalism in its end-phase, instead has replaced the creative and productive destruction in Schumpeter’s understanding by the destruction of creativity, productivity and wealth.
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Penelope Kokkinides And Rick Shinto Lead InnovaCare Health Through Managed Healthcare
The genesis of managed health care is traced to the 1929s when an a physician by the name Michael Shadid from Oklahoma established a healthcare union for rural farmers. Notably, the farmers did not have a medical specialist or access to a general hospital. Until now, managed healthcare has become the most prevalent health insurance in America. As such, many healthcare providers were established but one leading health care provider for managed insurance plans is InnovaCare Health.
Describing InnovaCare Health
InnovaCare Health is the world’s leading provider of incorporated healthcare services coupled with value-based solutions. infrastructure that are not only sustainable but also cost-effective. Primarily, this organizations capitalizes on healthcare governmental programs with the aim of providing progressive population health
The Services Provided
InnovaCare was established by a group of general practitioners who realized that most Americans needed managed healthcare services as they could barely afford normal healthcare rates. As such, the company has existed for a while and it is located in New Jersey. Serving about 467,000 members within a city, InnovaCare Health has through its affiliates contributed to improved healthcare systems.
Besides, the works with some of the best healthcare practitioners. These people are not just healthcare practitioners but leaders who have previously worked in managed healthcare companies. One such leader is Rick Shinto, the chief executive officer of the company. Recently awarded by the famous modern healthcare system for his excellent input in the healthcare system as an executive , he landed the award based on his leadership skills. Here is more on Rick Shinto;
Rick Shinto is admired for his input in the healthcare system. His appointment is solely attributed to the fact that he has vast experience in managed health care especially. But before he joined the company, he worked in several companies and held senior positions as well. For starters , he worked at MMM Healthcare Inc then joined PMC Medicare Choice Inc. for over twenty years, Shinto dedicated his life to finding viable healthcare plans throughout his service years. That explains why the top healthcare corporations trusted his leadership ability. See This Page for more information.
The Overview
Aside from Shinto, Penelope Kokkinides is another instrumental leader at InnovaCare Health. Now the chief administrative officer of the company, she made a come back recently. However , initially, she was a senior executive in different companies including AmeriChoice, Centerlight Healthcare and Touchstone Health just to mention a few. The alumnus of the New York University , Binghamton University and the Columbia University holds degrees in social work, substance abuse and public health.
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovacare-health/
The Driving Force Behind InnovaCare Health’s Booming Success
March 25, 2018 – 7:33 am
InnovaCare Health is a health and wellness company. It excels in managed healthcare services. The firm operates from New Jersey, and it is the leading provider in North America. It offers healthcare plans supported by Medicare Advantage and physician practices. InnovaCare is at the forefront of reinventing healthcare management practices that address complex and evolving challenges in the industry. Driving this innovation is the CEO, Rick Shinto.
His chief administrative officer counterpart is Penelope Kokkinides. Together, the two are providing unmatched leadership in InnovaCare Health and the medical industry. Rick Shinto also serves as the president. He is an award-winning business leader. He was recognized by Ernst & Young with the Entrepreneur of the Year while working at Aveta Inc. In addition, he was honored with the Access To Caring Award given by Western University.
This was a recognition of his efforts to provide quality healthcare to low-income families. He led Aveta to great success for over four years before it was sold and restructured to InnovaCare Health in 2012. Rick has also held key positions in numerous managed healthcare providers. Some of these include NAMM California, Medical Pathways, MedPartners, and Cal Optima. He is on the board of various industry and physician associations.
Rick is a practicing physician. He has an in-depth understanding of the operational dynamics between physician teams in a highly competitive market. He excels in guiding the company to improve efficiencies in providing quality care. Rick has published numerous articles in the field of healthcare and clinical research.
In the same fashion, Penelope Kokkinides has over twenty years in the managed care industry.
She is adept at optimizing organizational infrastructure and enhancing operational efficiencies. Kokkinides has previously worked for Aveta, Centerlight, Touchstone Health, and United Health among others. Find Related Information Here.
She is highly qualified. She has a biological sciences degree and a master’s degree in public health among other certifications. She brings a wealth of healthcare management expertise to InnovaCare. She is at home handling government plans, clinical programs, strategic direction and managing healthcare processes between multiple players.
InnovaCare Health is committed to offering pioneering healthcare by leveraging sustainable provider networks and cutting-edge technology. The provider models encourage close collaboration and are cost-effective.
The privately-held company has a large customer base in North America and Puerto Rico. It employs a patient-focused approach that ensures the delivery of quality medical care. Through the focused leadership of the highly experienced teams of professionals, InnovaCare helps millions achieve healthier outcomes and improve their quality of life.
The Top Leadership of InnovaCare Health
Richard Shinto
Currently, Richard Shinto serves as InnovaCare’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Between 2008 and 2012 he was the President as well as Chief Executive Officer of Aveta Incorporation. Initially, Shinto served on the board of the management team. Today, Shinto heads InnovaCare’s Health Plan in Puerto Rico.
Richard Shinto has over 20 years of experience in managed care and clinical healthcare. Before his way up as Aveta’s CEO, Shinto was the Chief Medical Officer of NAMM California. Initially, he served as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Medical Pathways. Between 1996 and 1997, Richard Shinto was MedPartners’ Corporate Vice President of Medical Management. In 1997, he left for Cal Optima Health Plan as the Chief Medical Officer.
Upon graduating with a Medical degree from the State University, New York and an MBA from Redlands University, Dr. Shinto began his career as a pulmonologist and internist in Southern California. Besides, Shinto has authored several articles related to health care and clinical operations.
See This Article for additional information.
Dr. Shinto’s awards
Dr. Shinto was the winner of the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year award. The award goes to exceptional leaders who demonstrate excellence in areas of innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to the society and business.
Penelope Kokkinides
Penelope Kokkinides serves as InnovaCare’s Chief Administration Officer. Having specialized in government programs, Medicare and Medicaid, Penelope brings an added layer of expertise in healthcare and managed care industry. For decades, Penelope Kokkinides has an extensive experience in managing healthcare processes and developing clinical programs. As such, Penelope is known for his excellence in improving efficiencies and infrastructure in the healthcare industry.
Before joining InnoVacare, Penelope served in various managerial positions. He was once the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Centlight Healthcare. Here, Penelope would provide strategic direction in the managed care division. He also worked as Touchstone Health’s Chief Operating Officer as well as the Corporate Vice President of AmeriChoice, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group. At AmeriChoice, Penelope Kokkinides was instrumental in the development and execution of the company’s health model.
About InnovaCare Health
It is the leading provider of Medicare Advantage plans, PMC Medicare Choice and MMM Healthcare in Puerto Rico. Today, InnovaCare Health has a membership of close to 200,000 individuals served by more than 7,500 service providers. Additionally, InnovaCare administers Puerto Rico’s government health plan that provides a broad benefit coverage through a coordinated care model. InnovaCare commits to providing quality healthcare by creating sustainable and affordable care models that integrate with the latest technology.
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CHARLES WARD SMITH
Pastor Chuck had been the pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa for almost 50 years and in Christian ministry for some 65 years. He was 86 years old when he entered Glory. His impact on the Christian Church in the 20th century was like few others. Directly and indirectly:
Thousands and thousands of churches have been planted all over the world as the fruit of his work
Tens of thousands of pastors – both in the Calvary Chapel movement and far, far beyond – have been influenced and trained by him
Millions of people came to a saving trust in and relationship with Jesus Christ, and millions more were led to Christian maturity through his Bible teaching and broader ministry
The worship environment of the contemporary Christianity was essentially birthed through his ministry.
His emphasis on the verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible as the center of the teaching and preaching ministry of the church has had a vast influence.
Chuck Smith was born and raised in Ventura, in a Christian home, under the strong influence of his godly, praying mother and his easy-going, evangelist father.
It was in 1942, when Chuck Smith was 15, that he made a commitment to Christian service with his life. That year he was the only teen from his church at that camp; the following year he was leading the youth group and brought a large group of kids with him to the same camp.
He grew up in the Foursquare Church (in Ventura), and went to Bible College at the Foursquare “Life Bible College” in Los Angeles. Upon graduation, he launched out into ministry with his young wife Kay. Being a smart, gifted leader it was easy for him to think that the world was waiting for him and that success in ministry would come rather easily, but it did not.
Chuck’s first pastorate began in June 1948 at Prescott, Arizona. He made $15 a week, and their apartment cost $45 a month – but they never went without. God taught Chuck His faithfulness in providing every day.
Then there was a pastorate in Tucson, then Corona – where the church shrunk over his two years there. When he came there were 57 people, and on his last Sunday there were 27 – and 7 of those were from his own family.
Next was Huntington Beach. Chuck loved living there, and wanted to break the pattern of changing churches every two years because he ran out of sermons. That was when he started teaching verse-by-verse through the book of 1 John. Chuck learned expository teaching and the church doubled in a year. Next he taught Romans and it revolutionized his life by showing him the grace of God, after growing up in a works-oriented relationship with God. When speaking about this, Chuck said,
“I don’t remember my conversion experience, but I do remember my grace experience.”
After many pastorates and many years of ministry, Chuck faced a crossroads. In Corona he worked as a produce manager at an Alpha Beta supermarket. He was eventually confronted with the decision to either choose ministry or the job at the supermarket. After a sleepless night, he added up the outstanding bills (which came to $416) and figured that since he had no income, the right thing to do was to forget about ministry. That next morning a caller promised him $426, to be sent by check. Chuck was elated; but God spoke to his heart about the elation he felt at the promise of a man, and the sleepless night he suffered because he wouldn’t trust God’s promise.
“Trust cannot be partial. It is an all or nothing at all proposition. Christ’s lessons on faith were identical. There is no room for half-hearted commitment when we are called to walk on water.”
Eventually, a new Bible Study group in Corona started flourishing, and people started financially supporting Chuck and his work, so much so that the cassette tapes from the Bible studies could be produced into a radio program, that only served to increase the interest, and people overflowed at this group in Corona. It looked like finally the kind of church situation that Chuck and Kay had waited for their whole lives in ministry.
Yet, unexpectedly and by faith, trusting the leading of the Holy Spirit, he left that growing congregation in Corona to come to a little, troubled church in Costa Mesa named Calvary Chapel.
Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa was an independent church with Foursquare roots, started in the community room of a trailer park in 1961 by Pastor Floyd Nelson. In 1965, the church board and Pastor Floyd Nelson decided that the pastor would take a six-month leave of absence from his duties.
At the board meetings of these early years, Chuck would sit at his desk in the very small office of the little church that could fit 90 people at the most. He wouldn’t use an agenda for meetings; board members would bring up different items of business for the church, and he would listen carefully. They would ask for his opinion and Chuck would say something like,
“Well, I’ve discovered that where God guides He provides. We should make our priority seeking Him first and He will take care of these other things.”
The Impact of Calvary Chapel
In one sense the impact of Calvary Chapel is evident – some 1,500 churches planted all over the world, and among them several of the largest churches in the United States. There are thousands more – tens of thousands – that are Calvary Chapel churches, yet not in name.
It is also worth saying that even in the early days there were sharp criticisms against Calvary Chapel. Others said that Calvary Chapel appealed to young people by having communion with potato chips and coke. More seriously, in the early days Calvary Chapel was criticized as being “Production line religion,” or that it “Caters only to what people want to hear by diluting the message for mass appeal.”
Nevertheless, the fruit over the years – in the depth of discipleship and the number of leaders trained and serving God – has thoroughly disproved this accusation. Instead, impartial observers have come away impressed as they look at Chuck Smith and the Calvary Chapel movement.
Dr. Donald Miller in his book, Reinventing American Protestantism, boldly said, “Calvary Chapel can be viewed as the pioneer of new paradigm churches.” Calvary Chapel was setting the pattern for the way that whole generation “does church.”
Additionally, almost single-handedly, Chuck Smith started a resurgence of expository Bible teaching in church pulpits with his emphasis on the verse-by-verse exposition of Books of the Bible. Of course, he was not the only expository teacher of that time – men like Ray Stedman and later John MacArthur also stand out – but he was certainly one of the few and most influential.
Hughes Oliphant Old, a noted scholar of preaching, observed that Chuck Smith was “reviving the systematic exposition of Scripture… In our day, he is one of the purest examples of a preacher who follows in the footsteps of Chrysostom, Augustine, Zwingli, and Calvin.”
The last word belongs to Chuck Smith:
“Calvary Chapel is not an ambition fulfilled. It is not the result of an egotistical desire to pastor a gigantic church. I became too tired to imagine pastoring a congregation of more than 250 people. The results you now see happened through the power of the Holy Spirit; ‘not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord’ (Zechariah 4:6).”
We never want to worship a man – so we don’t. Yet it’s great to remember what God did through him. In some ways Chuck was exceptional, in other ways he was not exceptional. God used a man exceptional enough to bear the load, yet normal enough so that God would get the glory.
Pastor Chuck went home to be with the Lord on October 3, 2013. Yet, the work that the Holy Spirit started with Pastor Chuck did not end that day; but, continues forth in this generation and the next as people continue to seek Christ, teach His Word and avail themselves to the direction and leading of the Holy Spirit.
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U.N. Security Council Approves No-Fly Zone over Libya
By Merle Kellerhals Jr.
Washington ― The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution March 17 authorizing international action to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and take “all measures necessary” to protect civilians from attacks by the Libyan military forces.
The resolution ― drafted by France and Britain and introduced by Lebanon ― passed 10�C0 with five abstentions. The United States added its sponsorship of the resolution before the vote.
“Today, the Security Council has responded to the Libyan people's cry for help,” U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice said shortly after the council’s vote. “This council’s purpose is clear: to protect innocent civilians.”
“Colonel Qadhafi and those who still stand by him continue to grossly and systematically abuse the most fundamental of the human rights of Libya’s people,” Rice added.
The Security Council resolution demands the immediate and complete end to all violence and abuse against all Libyans. It imposes “a ban on all flights in the airspace of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in order to help protect civilians.”
The resolution also authorizes U.N.-member states to take “all necessary measures ... to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”
In addition, the resolution authorizes U.N. members to act nationally or through regional organizations.
“The resolution also strengthens enforcement of the arms embargo and bans all international flights by Libyan-owned or operated aircraft,” Rice said. The resolution also empowers a newly established Libyan Sanctions Committee to impose sanctions against those who violate the arms embargo, she said.
On March 12, the Arab League called on the Security Council to establish a no-fly zone and take other measures to protect civilians. “Today’s resolution is a powerful response to that call ― and to the urgent needs on the ground,” she said.
The Arab League called for the Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya as soon as possible in an effort to curb violence against those who have actively opposed the Qadhafi regime, according to a league statement. The league called on “the United Nations to shoulder its responsibility … to impose a no-fly zone over the movement of Libyan military planes and to create safe zones in the places vulnerable to airstrikes.”
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told reporters in Cairo after the league conference that the measures being urged were intended to be humanitarian to protect Libyan civilians and others.
The Security Council decision came as Qadhafi’s military forces were closing in on opposition forces holding out in Benghazi, the country’s second-largest city and the headquarters of opposition forces.
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Foreign criticism of Al-Jazeera verdict is politically motivated: Egypt's foreign ministry
The Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs lambasts international criticism over the recent Al-Jazeera staff court ruling
Ahram Online , Sunday 30 Aug 2015
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Egypt's ministry of foreign affairs said on Sunday that it completely rejects the statements issued by foreign entities criticising the Al-Jazeera staff prison sentences on Saturday.
In a statement issued on Sunday on its official Facebook page, the Egyptian foreign ministry labeled this criticism "politically motivated”, considering it an "unacceptable interference" in the Egyptian judiciary.
On Saturday, a Cairo court sentenced six defendants, including three Al-Jazeera journalists and three students, to three years in prison in the Al-Jazeera retrial case known in the media as "The Marriott Case.”
The court ruling has already garnered international criticism from some governments and international human rights organisations.
The defendants were found guilty of operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
The sentences can be appealed.
The spokesperson of the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid also slammed those criticisms in the statement saying that Egypt is a state that upholds the law and whose constitution protects rights and freedoms.
"There is a deliberate mix up between the freedoms the Egyptian constitution protects and direct legal violations according to the law," said the statement.
"There are ongoing attempts to falsely claim that those court rulings target press freedom when there are thousands of Egyptian and Non-Egyptian journalists working in Egypt in complete freedom," said Abu Zeid.
The court has determined that the defendants committed specific legal violations, added the foreign minister.
Abu Zeid charged that those leveling the criticism against Egypt have "a lot to be criticised for.”
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Structure and spectroscopy of CuH prepared via borohydride reduction
Bennett, E.L. and Wilson, T. and Murphy, P.J. and Refson, K. and Hannon, A.C. and Imberti, S. and Callear, S.K. and Chass, G.A. and Parker, S.F. (2015) Structure and spectroscopy of CuH prepared via borohydride reduction. Acta Crystallographica Section B, 7 (6). pp. 608-612. DOI: 10.1107/S2052520615015176
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Copper(I) hydride (cuprous hydride, CuH) was the first binary metal hydride to be discovered (in 1844) and is singular in that it is synthesized in solution, at ambient temperature. There are several synthetic paths to CuH, one of which involves reduction of an aqueous solution of CuSO4·5H2O by borohydride ions. The product from this procedure has not been extensively characterized. Using a combination of diffraction methods (X-ray and neutron) and inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy, we show that the CuH from the borohydride route has the same bulk structure as CuH produced by other routes. Our work shows that the product consists of a core of CuH with a shell of water and that this may be largely replaced by ethanol. This offers the possibility of modifying the properties of CuH produced by aqueous routes.
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Channel 4 HD
Title: Channel 4 HD
Subject: Television in the United Kingdom, Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, Free-to-view, List of digital television deployments by country, Freesat, Digital subchannel, DVB-T2, YouView, Inside Nature's Giants
This article is about the British television station. For other uses, see Channel 4 (disambiguation).
It has been suggested that this article be merged with Channel 4 programming. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2012.
Channel 4's logo is now cut out from a white background, and is shown in moving distortions that reveal programme-specific graphics underneath
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Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.
The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence-funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.
1.1 Conception
1.2 Wales
1.3 Launch and IBA control
1.4 Channel Four Television Corporation
1.5 Future
2 Public service remit
3 Carriage
4 Funding
5 Programming
5.1 Most watched programmes
6 Regions
6.1 Future possibility of regional news
7 Channel 4 HD
8 4oD
9 Teletext services
9.1 4-Tel/FourText
9.2 Teletext on 4
Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982. After some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982.
The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955; the idea of an 'ITV2' was long expected and pushed for. Indeed television sets sold throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called 'ITV/IBA 2'. Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take. It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the second commercial channel became a reality.[1] With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.
One clear benefit of the 'late arrival' of the channel was that its frequency allocations at each transmitter had already been arranged in the early 1960s, when the launch of an ITV2 was highly anticipated.[1] This led to very good coverage across most of the country and few problems of interference with other UK-based transmissions; a stark contrast to the problems associated with Channel 5's launch fourteen and a half years later.
Main article: S4C
At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at 'off peak' times on BBC Wales and HTV. The campaign was taken so seriously by Gwynfor Evans, former president of Plaid Cymru, that he threatened the government with a hunger strike were it not to honour the plans.[2]
The result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C) (English: Channel Four Wales). Operated by a specially created authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh made by HTV, the BBC, or independent companies. Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.
Since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.
Launch and IBA control
The first voice heard on Channel 4's opening day of Tuesday 2 November 1982 was that of continuity announcer Paul Coia, who intoned, "Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, "Fourscore", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade. The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16:45 produced by Yorkshire Television; it is still running as of 2013. The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second. The first female on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary. Whiteley opened the show with the words "As the countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new countdown begins." On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.
On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.
In step with its remit, the channel became well received both by minority groups and the arts and cultural worlds during this period, especially under Isaacs, where the channel gained a reputation for programmes on the contemporary arts. Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashley's ground-breaking television opera Perfect Lives,[3] which it premiered over several episodes in 1984. The channel often did not receive mass audiences for much of this period, however, as might be expected for a station focusing on minority interest. Channel 4 for many years had a poorer quality signal compared to other channels.[where?]
Channel 4 also began the funding of independent films, such as the Merchant-Ivory docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay, during this time.
In 1992, Channel 4 also faced its first libel case by Jani Allan, a South African journalist, who objected to her representation in the documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife.[4]
Main article: Channel Four Television Corporation
After control of the station passed from the Channel Four Television Company to the Channel Four Television Corporation in 1993, a shift in broadcasting style took place. Instead of aiming for the fringes of society, it began to focus on the edges of the mainstream, and the centre of the mass market itself. It began to show many US programmes in peak viewing time, far more than it had previously done. It premièred such shows as Friends and ER.
In the early 2000s, Channel 4 began broadcasting reality formats such as Big Brother and obtained the rights to broadcast mass appeal sporting events like cricket and horse racing. This new direction increased ratings and revenues.
In addition, the corporation launched a number of new television channels through its new 4Ventures off-shoot, including Film4, At the Races, E4 and More4.
Partially in reaction to its new 'populist' direction, the Communications Act 2003 directed the channel to demonstrate innovation, experimentation and creativity, appeal to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society and to include programmes of an educational nature which exhibit a distinctive character.[5]
In 31 December 2004, Channel 4 launched a new look and new idents in which the logo is disguised as different objects and the 4 can be seen in an angle.
Under the leadership of Freeview founder Andy Duncan, 2005 saw a change of direction for Channel 4's digital channels. Channel 4 made E4 free-to-air on digital terrestrial television, and launched a new free-to-air digital channel called More4. By October, Channel 4 had joined the Freeview consortium.[6] By July 2006, Film4 had also become a 'free to air' and restarted broadcasting on digital terrestrial.[7]
Venturing into radio broadcasting, 2005 saw Channel 4 purchase 51 per cent of shares in the now defunct Oneword radio station with UBC Media holding on to the remaining shares. New programmes such as the weekly, half-hour The Morning Report news programme were among some of the new content Channel 4 provided for the station, with the name 4Radio being used. As of early 2009, however, Channel 4's future involvement in radio remained uncertain.
On 2 November 2007, the station celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday. It showed the first episode of Countdown, an anniversary Countdown special, as well as a special edition of The Big Fat Quiz and using the original multicoloured 1982–1996 blocks logo on presentation and idents using the Fourscore jingle throughout the day.
In November 2009, Channel 4 launched a week of 3D television, broadcasting selected programmes each night using stereoscopic ColorCode technology. The accompanying 3D glasses were distributed through Sainsbury's supermarkets.[8]
Channel 4 has raised concerns over how it might finance its public service obligations after digital switch-over. However, some certainty lies in the announcement in April 2006 that Channel 4's digital switch-over costs would be paid for by licence fee revenues.[9]
On 28 March 2007, Channel 4 announced plans to launch a music channel "4Music" as a joint venture with British media company EMAP which would include carriage on the Freeview platform. On 15 August 2008, 4Music was launched across the UK.[10] Recently, Channel 4 have announced interest in launching a high-definition version of Film4 on Freeview, to coincide with the launch of Channel 4 HD,[11][12] however the fourth HD slot was given to Channel 5 instead.[13] Channel 4 has since acquired a 50% stake in EMAP's TV business for a reported £28 million.[14]
Public service remit
Channel 4 was established with, and continues to hold, a remit of public service obligations which it must fulfil. The remit changes periodically, as dictated by various broadcasting and communications acts, and is regulated by the various authorities Channel 4 has been answerable to; originally the IBA, then the ITC and now Ofcom.
The preamble of the remit as per the Communications Act 2003 states that:
"The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:
demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes;
appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
makes a significant contribution to meeting the need for the licensed public service channels to include programmes of an educational nature and other programmes of educative value; and
exhibits a distinctive character."[5][15]
The remit also involves an obligation to provide programming for schools,[16] and a substantial amount of programming produced outside of Greater London.[17]
Channel 4 was carried from its beginning on analogue terrestrial, which was practically the only means of television broadcast in the United Kingdom at the time. It continued to be broadcast through these means until the changeover to digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom was complete. Since 1998, it has been universally available on digital terrestrial, and the Sky platform (encrypted, though free of charge) as well as having been available from various times in various areas, on analogue and digital cable networks.
Due to its special status as a public service broadcaster with a specific remit, it is afforded free carriage on the terrestrial platforms,[18] in contrast with other broadcasters such as ITV.[19]
Channel 4 is also available outside the United Kingdom where it is widely available in Ireland, Switzerland,[20] Belgium and the Netherlands. Here viewers receive the channel either on basic cable subscription services or premium services.
Channel 4 Ulster has been available in large parts of Ireland, especially border counties which have been able to receive terrestrial transmissions from Northern Ireland. Channel 4 Ulster has been carried on Irish cable networks since the station went on the air in 1982. S4C has been available as a terrestrial transmission from Wales in southern counties such as Cork, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow.
From 4 December 2006 Channel 4 was officially available to Sky viewers in Ireland; some programmes, mainly imports, are not aired on this channel variant, due to Channel 4 not owning the relevant broadcast rights within the country.
Channel 4 allowed Internet users in the United Kingdom to watch Channel 4 live on the Internet. However some programmes (mostly international imports) were not shown and this service no longer exists. Channel 4 is also provided by Virgin Mobile's DAB mobile TV service which has the same restrictions as the Internet live stream had.
Channel 4 also makes some of its programming available "on demand" via cable and the Internet through 4oD.
During the station's formative years, funding came from the ITV companies in return for their right to sell advertisements in their region on the fourth channel.
Nowadays it pays for itself in much the same way as most privately run commercial stations, i.e. through the sale of on-air advertising, programme sponsorship, and the sale of any programme content and merchandising rights it owns, such as overseas sales and video sales. For example, as of 2012 its total revenues were £925 million with 91 % derived from sale of advertising.[21] It also has the ability to subsidise the main network through any profits made on the corporation's other endeavours, which have in the past included subscription fees from stations such as E4 and Film4 (now no longer subscription services) and its 'video-on-demand' sales. In practice, however, these other activities are loss-making, and are subsidised by the main network. According to Channel 4's last published accounts, for 2005, the extent of this cross-subsidy was some £30 million.[22]
The change in funding came about under the Broadcasting Act 1990 when the new corporation was afforded the ability to fund itself. Originally this arrangement left a 'safety net' guaranteed minimum income should the revenue fall too low, funded by large insurance payments made to the ITV companies. Such a subsidy was never required, however, and these premiums were phased out by government in 1998. After the link with ITV was cut, the cross-promotion which had existed between ITV and Channel 4 also ended.
In 2007 due to severe funding difficulties, the channel sought government help and was granted a payment of £14 million over a six-year period. The money would have come from the television licence fee and would have been the first time that money from the licence fee had been given to any broadcaster other than the BBC.[23] The plan was scrapped by The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy Burnham, ahead of "broader decisions about the future framework of public service broadcasting".[24] The broadcasting regulator Ofcom released their review in January 2009 in which they suggested that Channel 4 would preferably be funded by "partnerships, joint ventures or mergers".[25]
Main article: Channel 4 programming
Channel 4 is a "publisher-broadcaster", meaning that it commissions or "buys" all of its programming from companies independent of itself, and was the first broadcaster in the United Kingdom to do so on any significant scale. This had the consequence of starting an industry of production companies that did not have to rely on owning an ITV licence in order to see their programmes air, though since Channel 4, external commissioning has become regular practise on the numerous stations that have launched since, as well as on the BBC and in ITV (where a quota of 25% minimum of total output has been imposed since the 1990 Broadcasting Act came into force). Ironically, having been the first British broadcaster to completely commission its programmes from third parties, Channel 4 was the last terrestrial broadcaster to outsource its transmission and playout operations (to Red Bee Media), after 25 years in-house.[26]
The requirement to obtain all content externally is stipulated in its licence.[15] Additionally, Channel 4 also began a trend of owning the copyright and distribution rights of the programmes it aired, in a manner that is similar to the major Hollywood studios' ownership of television programs that they did not directly produce. Thus, although Channel 4 does not produce programmes, many are seen as belonging to it.
Channel 4 also pioneered the concept of stranded programming, where seasons of programmes following a common theme would be aired and promoted together. Some would be very specific, and run for a fixed period of time; the 4 Mation season, for example, showed innovative animation. Other, less specific strands, were (and still are) run regularly, such as T4, a strand of programming aimed at teenagers, on weekend mornings (and weekdays during school/college holidays); Friday Night Comedy, a slot where the channel would pioneer its style of comedy commissions, 4Music (now a separate channel) and 4Later, an eclectic collection of offbeat programmes transmitted to a cult audience in the early hours of the morning.
In its earlier years, Red Triangle was the name given to the airing of certain risqué art-house films due to the use of a red triangle DOG in the upper right of the screen, dubbed as being pornographic by many of Channel 4's critics, while general broadcasting of films on the station for many years came under the banner of Film on Four prior to the launch of the FilmFour brand and station in the late 1990s.
Its critically acclaimed news service, Channel 4 News, is supplied by ITN while its long-standing investigative documentary, Dispatches, causes perennial media attention.
Most watched programmes
The following is a list of the ten most watched shows on Channel 4 since 2002, based on Live +7 data supplied by BARB.[27]
No. of Viewers
1 Big Brother 10,010,000 26 July 2002
2 Big Brother 8,980,000 6 August 2004
2 The Grand National 2013 8,980,000 6 April 2013
3 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 8,804,000 8 February 2011
4 Celebrity Big Brother 8,781,000 19 January 2007
5 Big Brother 8,540,000 26 July 2002
6 Big Brother 8,199,000 18 August 2006
7 Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 8,048,000 15 February 2011
9 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony 7,783,000 29 August 2012
10 Big Brother 7,700,000 4 August 2004
Channel 4 has, since its inception, broadcast identical programmes and continuity throughout the United Kingdom (excluding Wales where it did not operate on analogue transmitters). At launch this made it unique, as both the BBC and ITV had long established traditions of providing regional variations in their programming and announcements between transmitters in different areas of the country (although in the case of BBC2, variations have by and large tended to be limited to national idents as opposed to regional ones). In ITV's case, this was a consequence of its inherent federal structure (see ITV companies). Since the launch of subsequent British television channels, Channel 4 has become typical in its lack of variations of this nature.
A few exceptions exist to this rule for programming and continuity: Ireland has a dedicated variant broadcast on Sky Ireland which omits programmes for which broadcast rights are not held in Ireland. For example, the series Glee is not available on Channel 4 on Sky in Ireland.
Some of Channel 4's schools' programming (1980s/early '90s) were regionalised due to differences in curricula between different regions.[28]
Part of Channel 4's remit covers the commissioning of programmes from outside London. Channel 4 has a dedicated director of nations and regions, Stuart Cosgrove, who is based in a regional office in Glasgow. As his job title suggests, it is his responsibility to foster relations with independent producers based in areas of the United Kingdom (including Wales) outside of London.
Advertising on Channel 4 does contain regular variation: prior to 1993, when ITV was responsible for selling Channel 4's advertising, each regional ITV company would provide the content of advertising breaks, covering the same transmitter area as themselves, and these breaks were often unique to that area. After Channel 4 became responsible for its own advertising, it continued to offer advertisers the ability to target particular audiences and divided its coverage area into six parts coining the term 'LEMNUS' standing for "London, The East [and South] of England, The Midlands, The North of England, Ulster and Scotland.[29]
At present, Wales does not have its own advertising region, instead its viewers receive the southern region on digital platforms intentionally broadcast to the area, or the neighbouring region where analogue transmissions spill over into Wales. The Republic of Ireland shares its advertising region with Northern Ireland (referred to by Channel 4 as the 'Ulster Macro') with many advertisers selling products for Ireland here.[30] E4 has an advertising variant for Ireland, although Northern Ireland receives the UK version of E4.[30] The six regions are also carried on satellite, cable and Digital Terrestrial.
Channel 5 and ITV Breakfast use a similar model to Channel 4 for providing their own advertising regions, despite also having a single national output of programming.
Future possibility of regional news
With ITV plc pushing for much looser requirements on the amount of regional news and other programming it is obliged to broadcast in its ITV regions, the idea of Channel 4 taking on a regional news commitment has been considered, with the corporation in talks with Ofcom and ITV over the matter.[31] Channel 4 believe that a scaling-back of such operations on ITV's part would be detrimental to Channel 4's national news operation, which shares much of its resources with ITV through their shared news contractor ITN. At the same time, Channel 4 also believe that such an additional public service commitment would bode well in on-going negotiations with Ofcom in securing additional funding for its other public service commitments.[31]
On 10 December 2007, Channel 4 launched a high definition television simulcast of Channel 4 on Sky+ HD, after British Sky Broadcasting agreed to contribute toward the channel’s satellite distribution costs.[32] On 31 July 2009, Virgin Media added Channel 4 HD on channel 146 as a part of the M pack.[33] On 25 March 2010 Channel 4 HD appeared on Freeview channel 52 with a placeholding caption, ahead of a commercial launch on 30 March 2010, coinciding with the commercial launch of Freeview HD.[34][35] On 19 April 2011, Channel 4 HD was added to Freesat on channel 126.[36] As a consequence, the channel moved from being free-to-view to free-to-air on satellite during March 2011. With the closure of S4C Clirlun in Wales on 1 December 2012, on Freeview, Channel 4 HD launched in Wales on 2 December 2012.[37]
The channel carries the same schedule as Channel 4, broadcasting programmes in HD when available. Initially this has been mostly American imports (such as Ugly Betty for example) and movies, however, original programming such as Hollyoaks and Skins have been broadcast in HD. Although the intention is to increase the amount of "home grown" material being broadcast in HD. It has been announced as the UK's first full-time high definition channel from a terrestrial broadcaster.
Previously, in the summer of 2006, Channel 4 ran a six-month closed trial of HDTV, as part of the wider Freeview HD experiment via the Crystal Palace transmitter to London and parts of the home counties,[38] including the use of Lost and Desperate Housewives as part of the experiment, as US broadcasters such as ABC already have an HDTV back catalogue.
Main article: 4oD
4oD is a video on demand service from Channel 4. Launched in November 2006, 4oD stands for "4 on Demand". The service offers a variety of programmes recently shown on Channel 4, E4, More4 or from their archives, though some programmes and movies are not available due to rights issues.
Teletext services
4-Tel/FourText
Main article: FourText
Channel 4 originally licensed an ancillary teletext service to provide schedules, programme information and features. The original service was called 4-Tel and was provided in collaboration with Oracle.[39] In 1993, with Oracle losing its franchise to Teletext Ltd, the running of 4-Tel was taken over by Intelfax,[39] and in 2002 it was renamed FourText.
Teletext on 4
Main article: Teletext on 4
In 2003, Channel 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten-year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.[40] This has now ceased and Teletext is no longer available on Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5.
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Wotton (place)
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Wotton /ˈwʊtən/ is a well-wooded parish with one main settlement, a small village mostly south of the A25 between Guildford in the west and Dorking in the east. The nearest village with a small number of shops is Westcott. Wotton lies in a narrow valley, collecting the headwaters of the Tilling Bourne which then has its first combined flow in the Vale of Holmesdale.
The parish is long north to south, reaching to the North Downs escarpment (and the North Downs Way) in the north to the escarpment of the Greensand Ridge at Leith Hill in the south.
Wotton house and grounds in Surrey. Etching by J. Evelyn, 1653. (Wikipedia)
From Austin Dobson 1906 version
“Wotton House—an irregular brick building—has been added to at various times, but largely in 1864, when a muniment room1, which also serves as a library, was built (after the design of Mr. H. Woodyer) on the site of the west wing, destroyed by fire about 1800. Sketches by Evelyn, still preserved, show its aspect in 1640, 1646, 1653, and 1704. The present owner is William John Evelyn, Esq., J.P., D.L., b. 1822.”
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Merriam-Webster definition: a storage room for preservation of family or sometimes official or parochial records, papers, notebooks, old manuscript treasures accumulated during the centuries in the muniment rooms of most of the noble and ancient families of Britain. ↩
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Fandomestic: Theme Song Fan Covers
Celeste Monsour
So far on Fandomestic we’ve featured everything from clothing to baked goods to home decor. Suddenly, it occurred to me that we’ve never featured music, which of course is a huge medium for fan creations. Here we’ll look at some of the best and most unique fan-made covers of themes from TV shows, movies, and video games.
Firefly Theme (“Ballad of Serenity”) Acoustic Guitar Version
If you’re not familiar with Paulina Logan, you should be. I may be biased as she’s a good friend of mine, but she’s also an extremely talented singer/songwriter.. and a geek to boot!
Pirates of the Caribbean Medley on Roland Atelier Organ
Unlike the typical synthesizer, this organ doesn’t store prerecorded tracks or come with any of its own. Everything on this recording is done live. Think about that while you’re listening and marvel as I did at the depth of the music played here by Britt Cawthon.
Star Wars Accordion Medley
I know, it sounds like something Weird Al would perform in concert, right? But somehow, it fits. My favorite part is the “Cantina Band” bit.
Doctor Who on Gypsy Jazz Guitar
Covers that are close to the source material are great, of course. But I kinda have a weakness for those, like this one, that use some instrument or arrangement that you’d never connect with the theme in question and still make it work. Ron Grainer would be proud.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Theme on Keyboard
A simple yet strong and rousing tribute to the theme of my personal favorite series of the Star Trek franchise.
Super Mario Bros. Medley on Marimba
The marimba, a percussion instrument similar to the xylophone, is the instrument of choice for Mario and Luigi here, as performed at their school’s variety show.
Battlestar Galactica: “Gaeta’s Lament” Guitar Adaptation
The guitar adds a nice effect to this folksy song, originally sung a cappella by Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) in the episode “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?”.
Harry Potter: “Hedwig’s Theme” on Piano
A beautiful rendition of the famous theme song from the movie series, arranged and performed by classical pianist David Pasqualini.
Monkey Island Medley by Press Play on Tape
Bit of background: my brother and I used to go around singing the Monkey Island theme when I was growing up, and currently the MI2 theme is my ringtone. So it’s clear this music is dear to my heart. It takes on a whole new life when performed by a full band, as it is here by Press Play on Tape, a Copenhagen-based “Commodore 64 revival band.” The mere fact that there is a Commodore 64 revival band warms my heart.
The Office Theme Heavy Guitar Version
There are a ton of The Office theme song covers on YouTube, mostly on piano or keyboard. They’re great, but my personal favorite is this “heavy guitar version” (with drum machine).
Zelda Piano Medley
This video has over 2 million views on YouTube, with over 25,000 people rating it at an average of 5 stars. Watch the video and you’ll instantly understand why.
Joss Whedon Violin Medley
A combination of songs from Joss Whedon’s original three cult hit TV shows, this medley was arranged and recorded as a birthday present for the musician’s friend. I love the Buffy theme, but I kinda love that he included a song from “Once More, With Feeling” instead. (Also digging his decor!)
Star Wars Metal Guitar Medley
The arrangement of this is fantastic — it retains the musical integrity of the original pieces while adding some serious personality. I only wish it were longer.
King’s Quest V: “Weeping Willow” on Harp
I remember playing King’s Quest V when I was about 11 and thinking the melody of this piece sounded an awful lot like “Castle on a Cloud” from Les Misérables. Really, it’s almost a complete rip-off, but it’s a fitting rip-off in the context of the game, and beautiful both in the game and in this cover version.
The Lord of the Rings Piano Medley
You’ve probably noticed I adore medleys. This one’s no exception, as it includes many of the most recognizable themes from the LOTR trilogy in classical piano style.
Doctor Who Theme Faux-Band Version
Four instruments, separately recorded, were layered together to create this cohesive finished product that feels like a full band performance. Brilliant!
Super Mario Bros. Theme Beatboxing Flute Version
This starts out as a simple but great flute version of the Mario theme, then turns into something else entirely. It’s hard to believe he’s playing the flute as well as he is while beatboxing.
About Celeste Monsour
Celeste Monsour is Fandomania's Creative Editor and former co-host of the Fandomania Podcast. Among their many interests are photography, '80s/'90s nostalgia, social justice, time travel, and adorable animals.
angel, battlestar galactica, buffy the vampire slayer, doctor who, firefly, king's quest, legend of zelda, lord of the rings, monkey island, pirates of the caribbean, star trek, star wars, super mario bros, the office, theme songs
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Alex Chilton was 16 years old when it happened. Plucked from a high school talent show in Memphis, he was scooped up by a local band and weeks later found himself the voice of an international, number one hit.
If you’re a little older than me, you’ll know the band. They were called The Box Tops, and Chilton’s first hit, “The Letter” got me thinking about the way notes can change the course of a day, a life or a relationship. “The Letter” reminded me of another note, this one written in ink rather than song, and penned to an independent tackle store this week. Here’s a copy of it:
If you’ve read the latest print issue of Fishing Tackle Retailer, you probably seen the fantastic guest column from Gary Simpson of Gary’s Tackle Box in Gainesville, Florida. If not, the name should be familiar—the store was featured on this website last year.
Gary is a guy like many of you: a local legend in the fishing world around his store. He’s got fish tales for days, and a loyal customer base that’s stuck with him as his family and his customers’ families evolved around the sport over the past few decades. And, Gary, you see, is in a bind that many of you have faced and the rest may fear—the big box giant finally moving in to his city.
It’s a fear that I believe to be very real. I, myself, have been accused of being a spy for a big box chain by a frazzled tackle store owner in the past. The guy nearly pulled a gun on me. But Gary’s column makes a good point, one that is as much a product of his positive attitude towards life as it is the years of experience behind his sales counter. He hopes that the new Bass Pro Shops in Gainesville will renew interest in the outdoors in his area. And that, he says, can only benefit his shop.
It’s a refreshing way to look at a frightening situation.
Gary isn’t alone either. Across the country, from Gainesville to the Florida Keys and the Puget Sound, independent stores are still thriving, some just blocks away from a national big box chain. Why? Because of the owners and employees of independent stores, because of people like you whose intimate knowledge of the area is almost impossible to replicate.
Manufacturers know that you are important, industry strategists say the same, and apparently, at least one man at the top of a big box empire agrees.
“The envelope came across the desk, and I said, ‘There’s my response from Johnny.’ I’ll be darned if it wasn’t,” Simpson says. “I was impressed of course, but I can’t really say that I was surprised that he would take the time to scratch out a little hand note. I have always heard that he’s a great gentleman from people that have spent time with him. I think in many ways he is the same man he was when he founded his Bass Pro Shops. Now, it’s taken on a life of its own and grown insanely, but I’ve always felt like he was a great guy.”
Simpson adds that in the weeks since Gainesville’s Bass Pro Shops opened, his store has noticed a slight dip in customer count. “With all of the excitement around the opening, that was to be expected, but it’s by no means devastating. We had a great Black Friday event. Everyone had a good time.”
“The Letter,” by the way, wasn’t Chilton’s only hit. After The Box Tops broke up in 1970, Chilton went on to found power-pop trailblazer Big Star, a group cited as a major influence by R.E.M., The Replacements and KISS. All three of their records are listed in Rolling Stone‘s Greatest 500 Albums of All Time.
You never know how far a letter might go.
© Fishing Tackle Retailer 2017
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Paula jersey shore net worth. Which ‘Jersey Shore’ Star Has the Higher Net Worth: Snooki or Pauly D? 2019-07-28
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Eight strangers, all crazy about their tans, their hair, their boobs, and their muscles. Mike and Marc Sorrentino were indicted on tax fraud charges in 2014. Biography Details Paula Pickard is a reality star from New Jersey. He also admitted to concealing his income in 2011 by making cash deposits in amounts that wouldn't trigger federal reporting requirements. In 2011 he opened for Britney Spears in her Femme Fatale Tour. He describes himself like a natural entertainer and he has a passionate interest in acting while focusing more on the comedy end.
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He has stated that his being chosen for Jersey Shore had nothing to do with his music, but that they instead sent him a message after liking his look. At 17 Pauly debuted at the Alley Cat Bistro. Sorrentino worked in a gym and then modeled underwear before he was cast on the show. Reportedly, Pauly D has three cars. Each member earned per episode during the final season.
He mostly uses the Cadillac for his daily activities. Ronnie Magro Net Worth, Salary Per Episode. Mike Sorrentino makes commercials for Devocion, but actually uses: Calvin Klein. In August 2011, he announced a pending three-album deal with 's and. Pauly D was also seen on E! He lost himself for a little while when he developed an addiction to prescription drugs, for which he went to rehab for a month in 2012.
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He came to visit her in Miami during the second season of Jersey Shore with a lot of dramatic repercussions: he believed that she might have cheated on him, and after some loud arguments and tickle fights, the two licked their wounds and said tearful farewells. Samantha actually went on a couple of dates with Mike and hung out with and on multiple occasions. He was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion. . All in all, it could be said that Vinny Guadagnino is a young and perspective personality.
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The two were quite enamored with each other, even if it was a brief stint. He tried co-authoring a book with Samantha Rose Control the Crazy: My Plan to Stop Stressing, Avoid Drama, and Maintain Inner Cool , but that also didn't sell well. This has definitely helped her career earnings as well as her friends list , and the pair even got their own spin-off show as a result of Jersey Shore. You can see what people are saying to you and about you. In addition, Guadagnino has a clothing line and wrote the book Control the Crazy.
Pauly Shore Net Worth
His music career also didn't do well, since his rap lyrics didn't take well in anti-violence and anti-rape communities. She's got her own original line of fragrances 'Dangerous,' 'Dangerous for Men,' and 'Dangerous Desires,' inspired by 's original fragrances. He launched a rap career, releasing one single. His primary source of income was the Jersey Shore series which he joined in 2009. Wagner High School, and later continued his studies at the College of Staten Island. Here she attends The Blonds fashion show during New York Fashion Week in New York City on Sept.
DJ Pauly D Net Worth 2019
The show ran for six successful seasons before ending in December 2012. He drives luxurious cars, and his house is just amazing. Jersey Shore was by far his most successful endeavor. Born on January 12, 1987, she featured in the third season of the Jersey Shore reality shore to fill in the space of Angelina Pivarnic who quit the show after a serious disagreement with her co-star, Snooki. But because of the short seasons, the episode was edited to look like it all happened in a very short period of time. She also makes money through sponsored Instagram ads. He also released his own personal clothing line called Jersey Laundry.
His most memorable chick, though fans argue over whether or not she was deserving of his attention, was Ramona, the Romanian dancer from Miami that often stood him up and made him wait for her. The house also has a game room which features a basketball hoop and an air hockey. The reality show is about the lives of housemates who spend their summer in New Jersey at the Jersey Shore. Unfortunately, due to some legal troubles, Sorrentino's net worth is not as high as his fellow cast mates. Though she arrived on Jersey Shore a sloppy, slutty, drunken mess, she's done a lot of growing in the last seven years and she's practically unrecognizable. Even when the housemates got along, they would find things to argue about. Everyone can get a sense of it.
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Crook O'Lune viaducts
The North Western Railway opened its line from Lancaster to Wennington in 1849, from where it was extended to Clapham a year later, forming a junction with its branch from Settle to Ingleton.
Between Halton and Caton, the line encountered a crook-shaped loop in the River Lune, crossing it on two viaducts. In both cases, the piers have a rectangular section with rounded cutwaters. Like the abutments, they comprise rock-faced sandstone blocks. Timber beams support the deck, above segmental iron arches - six on the west viaduct and five on the east. The parapets are formed of iron latticework.
This section of line closed in 1967 and today the structures host a footpath which is used by an estimated 250,000 people annually. But this had to be diverted in March 2004 after a hole appeared in the deck of the west viaduct. Reopening came in August 2005 after a £880,000 repair and refurbishment project, undertaken by contractors A E Yates of Bolton.
Both the structures have been protected by a Grade II listing since November 1983.
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AfricaassemblylitigationnotificationSouthern AfricaWOZAZimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Kiai intervenes in African Commission case alleging suppression of WOZA’s assembly rights
BANJUL/NAIROBI – Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai has filed an amicus curiae brief before the African Commission’s top human rights body, in a case concerning peaceful assembly rights in Zimbabwe.
The case, Jenifer Williams, Magodonga Mahlangu and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) v. The Republic of Zimbabwe, was originally filed before the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights in 2013. The applicants allege that Zimbabwean authorities have systematically suppressed their ability to engage in peaceful protest and public demonstrations through a pattern of threats, harassment, physical abuse and torture, disproportionate and excessive use of force, illegal dispersals as well as arbitrary arrests and detentions.
The State argues that it only took actions in response to failures to respect laws of general application such as the failure to comply with prior notification requirements.
The Special Rapporteur’s brief – which was filed on April 28 – does not take a position on the facts of the case, but instead outlines relevant regional and international law, norms and standards on the right to peaceful assembly. Specifically, it examines (1) notification and authorization requirements; (2) sanctioning non-notification or peaceful participation in an assembly – clarifying that there is no legitimate aim to protect in democratic societies that justify such sanctions; (3) disorder, disturbances and peaceful assemblies; and (4) the persecution of people with dissenting opinions.
The full brief will be made available on this web page at a later date. A decision in the case is expected sometime in 2017.
WOZA is a civic movement with a membership of over 75,000 women and men that was formed in 2003 to encourage women to stand up for their rights and freedoms, among other things. Its partner organization, Men of Zimbabwe Arise (MOZA), was formed in 2006.
More information on the case is available on WOZA’s website.
The Special Rapporteur’s brief was filed as part of his litigation project, which was started in 2014 to advance the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association through the use of litigation in national and regional courts. For more on the project, see here.
The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Issue 27) – April-May 2017
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The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Issue 26) – February-March 2017
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Jon Robison
Ph.D., MS, MA, CIC*
Co-Founder , Salveo Partners, LLC
My Sessions: Rethinking the Role of Wellbeing for Humanized, High-Performing Organizations
Jon holds a doctorate in health education/human performance and master’s degrees in exercise physiology and human nutrition. He has spent his career working to shift health promotion away from its traditional, biomedical, control-oriented focus, with a particular interest in why people do what they do and don’t do what they don’t do.
Jon has authored numerous articles and book chapters and has been a sought-after presenter at conferences throughout North America. He is co-author of The Spirit & Science of Holistic Health – More than Broccoli, Jogging and Bottled Water, More than Yoga, Herbs and Meditation,” a college textbook for practitioners who wish to incorporate holistic principles and practices into their work. This book provided the foundation for Kailo, one of the first truly holistic employee wellness programs. Kailo won prestigious awards in both Canada and the United States, and the creators lovingly claim Jon as its father.
Jon has been a national leader in the Health At Every Size Movement for more than 2 decades. He has implemented Health for Every Body® — a unique alternative to weight loss programs at the worksite in some 25 cities across the United States in the past 5 years. His 2015-released book, How to Build a Thriving Culture at Work: Featuring The 7 Points of Transformation co-written with Dr. Rosie Ward gives organizations a realistic, step-by-step blueprint to accomplish the difficult task of transforming their cultures to be healthier and more productive — “from the inside out.” The book was selected by Employee Benefit News as one of the top must-reads for 2016.
As a Certified Intrinsic Coach, Jon understands that behavior is the outward manifestation of thinking and feeling – and that behavior modification approaches that focus on extrinsic motivation rarely result in sustained change and, in fact, often inhibit intrinsic motivation.
Aside from his work Jon’s passions include his wife Jerilyn, their son Joshua, music, humor, and an 11-pound “living teddy bear,” a dog named Ginger.
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Read Jon's blog on LinkedIn, FUSION 2.0 What You Will See, Hear, and Experience - And What You Will Not!
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