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ITP Aero Madrid
Products installed
The ITP Aero is a multinational company from the Spanish capital with Headquarters in Zamudio, Vizcaya, with more than 25 years history in the design and manufacture of components and modules for aero and industry engines. Currently, it is the ninth company worldwide in this sector thanks to its exclusive technology, high quality products and respect towards the environment and the talent and commitment with which its employees address excellence and customer satisfaction.
ITP Aero is a partner of major civil aviation programs and is also from a consortia of European Defence (EUROJET, Europrop, MTRI) which have in turn, with benchmark partners such as Rolls-Royce, GE, P & W, Snecma and Honeywell.
ITP has 18 operational centres around the world: Spain, The UK, Malta, The USA, Mexico, China and India.
Actiu was selected to install five floors which make up the Headquarters in Alcobendas (Madrid), where ITP have centralised the Commercial Offices, the ITP management centre, the Civil and defence business units and the the Economic and Financial Development and Corporate Planning, Organisation and Media Counsel. One of the main reasons for the choice, as well as the quality, design, freshness and versatility of the Actiu product, was because of the commitment to meet its deadline: four weeks to complete the installation. The ability of the company was also crucial to manufacture, not only standard furnishings, but specific solutions tailored to the needs of the project.
The configuration of the operative positions were carried out using Vital Plus Spine, a new solution for ensuring more efficient work spaces. Sharing the four elements, (desk, lower and higher filing and screens). Spine is articulated as a 'backbone' in which the different compositions are attached to it fusing several daily work solutions in the same position.
The removable pedestal, with inner drawers and shelves, was one of the most valued resources for ITP Aero, since these allow one to keep the work surfaces clean and organised, facilitating the order in the office. The TNK 500 chair was used for all operating positions. The sum of functional, techniques and technological details make it a very comfortable, timeless and elegant chair. Furthermore, to define each workspace, soundproofed screens were placed, upholstered in corporate blue, the same as the seats of the TNK 500 chairs which gave the environment a unique effect.
The environment was designed with an original distribution, a futuristic style, which in turn is very functional.
The workshops are distributed under the open office concept around some boxes that make an enclosed space, of different dimensions, for meetings or for situations in which greater concentration or privacy is required.
The Vital Plus desks furthermore, allow the integration of cable management in the same cabinet leaving the floor and the work surface free from cables. For the meeting rooms the Vital Plus desks were also installed, in different sizes and where the electrification has been incorporated using the top Access system. The Urban Plus chair completes the composition. It is treated as a versatile seat with natural and ergonomic lines which add a discreet style and an elegant presence that complement its comfort.
The communal areas share the same aesthetics, although with slight variations in the selection of products. In this case, the Mit chair was installed, a universal chair with an ability to integrate with boldness in any current space.
The ITP Aero company wanted to differentiate itself, using decoration and office furniture, the work areas were aimed at those moments of leisure and creativity. In the operating spaces the same line of furniture and colours were kept (white and blue), the creative environments invite one to innovate with high desks and Mit stools that keep the user in a more elevated and active position. The result is a project in which the effectiveness and the business values have been combined to create a harmonious, pleasant and highly productive environment.
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Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers Information Vincent, Kentucky
Looking for Drug Rehab and treatment centers in Vincent, Kentucky?
There are lots of drug rehabilitation facilities possibilities open to people residing in the Vincent area. It is very important recognize each of the types of rehab options available in Vincent, AB., so that you can find the appropriate rehabilitation approach for yourself or a family member. Choosing the right drug and alcohol treatment facility in Vincent is the central element in the treatment of drug abuse, addiction and alcoholism. The following info will assist you to understand your numerous treatment possibilities allowing an individual to have the best probability of a successful final result.
Let's have a look at the many alcohol and drug treatment facilities in Vincent, Kentucky options that coincide with the condition of the individual looking for rehab.
Inpatient drug treatment in Vincent, AB. is really a rehabilitation possibility best in case you will need health-related treatment in the course of rehabilitation or individuals with substantial drug abuse histories. Men and women can develop mental and physical dependence to drugs even after a short time period, so inpatient drug rehab in Vincent is considered the most beneficial treatment choice in almost all scenarios. As a result of substance abuse and addiction, men and women will frequently not be able to make a full recovery with the minimal services offered by outpatient rehabilitation centers in Vincent, Kentucky where alcohol and drugs continue to be easily available when they depart the outpatient center. In addition, individuals in rehab who take part in outpatient treatment as opposed to inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Vincent are still prone to detrimental relationships and circumstances which might cut across their recovery process. If someone resides with an abusive companion or continues to maintain relationships which entail substance abuse, any rehabilitation activities in outpatient rehabilitation will be in vain. For this reason in-patient drug and alcohol rehab in Vincent, AB. will produce more tangible results which will prove long lasting as opposed to an outpatient drug rehab center where benefits are often very minimal and short-lived.
In Vincent there's both short-term and long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehab. Short-term is a 30-day program, while long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Vincent, Kentucky is significantly more intensive and rehabilitation can last 90-120 days on average. It is really an ideal setting for clients because it is a safe and secure drug-free setting where they're able to heal both physically and mentally without interruptions. Ideally, people will continue within a long-term in-patient alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Vincent for the maximum time period allowed, to enable them to handle anything that might jeopardize their sobriety when they depart rehab. Due to the fact detoxing and becoming physically stabilized can take a couple weeks by itself, the three to six months in long-term in-patient alcohol and drug treatment in Vincent is going to be time wisely spent and significantly more effective than short-term programs.
The main component of all if you or someone you love is struggling with a drug abuse or addiction issue is to do something about it, make calls and seek advice from trained addiction professionals and get an evaluation and rehab options to ensure the best potential for a full recovery.
There are no local drug rehab listings for Vincent, Kentucky so we have provided the 6 closest treatment facilities arranged by distance from Vincent:
Kentucky River Community Care Inc
(Beattyville is 11.5 from Vincent)
Beattyville, KY. 41311
Contact Kentucky River Community Care Inc, by calling 606-464-3212.
Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, State Financed Insurance, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers That Accept Military Insurance, Drug Rehabs With Sliding Scale Fees
WestCare Kentucky Community
(Irvine is 19.4 from Vincent)
Irvine, KY. 40336
Contact WestCare Kentucky Community, by calling 606-726-0385.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Halfway Houses, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance
Buckhorn Children and Family Services
(Buckhorn is 19.8 from Vincent)
116 Buckhorn Lane
Buckhorn, KY. 41721
Contact Buckhorn Children and Family Services, by calling 606-398-7000.
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, State Financed Insurance, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers That Accept Military Insurance
Kentucky River Community Care
(Campton is 24 from Vincent)
131 Kentucky Highway 15 North
Campton, KY. 41301
Contact Kentucky River Community Care, by calling 606-668-7420.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment Centers For Men, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders, Drug Rehab Programs For Criminal Justice Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, State Financed Insurance, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers With Payment Assistance Programs
Cumberland River Behavioral Health Ctr
(Mount Vernon is 29 from Vincent)
260 Valley View Lane
Mount Vernon, KY. 40456
Contact Cumberland River Behavioral Health Ctr, by calling 606-256-2129.
Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Liberty Place Recovery Ctr for Women
(Richmond is 32.4 from Vincent)
Richmond, KY. 40475
Contact Liberty Place Recovery Ctr for Women, by calling 859-625-0104 x5.
The level of alcohol use was associated with illicit drug use in 2008. Among the 17.3 million heavy drinkers aged 12 or older, 29.4 percent were current illicit drug users. Persons who were not current alcohol users were less likely to have used illicit drugs in the past month (3.3 percent) than those who reported (a) current use of alcohol but did not meet the criteria for binge or heavy use (6.1 percent), (b) binge use but did not meet the criteria for heavy use (16.4 percent), or (c) heavy use of alcohol (29.4 percent).
Among the 17.4 million people aged 12 or older who needed but did not receive treatment for an alcohol use problem in 2008, there were 651,000 (3.7 percent) who felt they needed treatment for their alcohol use problem. The number and the percentage were similar to those reported in 2007 (859,000 persons and 4.8 percent, respectively) and 2002 (761,000 persons and 4.5 percent, respectively). Of these, 512,000 (78.6 percent) did not make an effort to get treatment, and 139,000 (21.4 percent) made an effort but were unable to get treatment in 2008.
In 2009, the average age of marijuana initiates among persons aged 12 to 49 was 17.0 years, significantly lower than the average age of marijuana initiates in 2008 (17.8 years), but similar to that in 2002 (17.0 years).
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Published 1st January 2009
Vol 2 (AAC) No 3
Another new world order
Image courtesy of Panos Pictures
Beijing's trade and investment in Africa will continue to grow despite a few credit-crunch casualties
Like every other major economy, China is reassessing its priorities, and worrying about unemployment and falling market demand. Beijing's policymakers will therefore concentrate more on domestic economic growth and spend less time winning hearts and minds in Africa with shows of developmental largesse. However, this is a tactical twist rather than a strategic change.
Ghana's votes and China's dams
The Beijing-Accra axis, which dates back to the heady Independence days of President Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, is an important one for both sides. Beijing wants a strong economic re...
Delhi defies the downturn
India's ministers predict that trade with Africa will hit US$100 billion, but it will take many more deals and deeper import and export diversification
Over the next five years, New Delhi expects India's trade with Africa to reach US$100 billion - despite the global economic slowdown. In an upbeat analysis of relations with Af...
Africa tests rapprochement
Taipei's strategy enters a new era as it talks about cooperation with Beijing and ends dollar diplomacy in Africa
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou's new diplomatic strategy of rapprochement with China is making waves from the Taiwan Strait to distant African shores. Agreements have been signe...
Ploughing new fields
Asia's smaller states look to agricultural cooperation with Africa for mutually beneficial trade
Cambodia's diplomatic reach in Africa is extremely limited but its rice exports are expanding fast despite questions about their quality. With a record surplus of over 2.8 millio...
Good intentions meet reality
Private companies are sceptical about Tokyo's African enthusiasms as the slowdown hits their operations at home
Tokyo's promises to double aid to Africa by 2012 are being tested by international financial pressure on Japan's already feeble economy - and by domestic political troubles. Pr...
State agencies lead the way
Most of the impetus for Japanese companies in Africa will be coming from state agencies. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency wants to test its newly expanded powers and...
Muhyiddin Yassin
International Trade and Industries Minister, Malaysia
Muhyiddin Yassin is one of three vice-presidents of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading member of the Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition, and as...
Chen Deming
Minister of Commerce, China
Touring Africa in the wake of the global credit crunch has been a sobering experience for China's Commerce Minister, Chen Deming. His 12-19 January trip began in Kenya, where F...
Cho Hwan-eik
President, Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), South Korea
The President of KOTRA studied political science at Seoul National University, and has an MBA from New York University and a doctorate in business administration from Hanyang Uni...
Ibrahim Ali Hassan
Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs, Egypt
The Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs is a fixture at the major Asian development events, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the Tokyo International Conferenc...
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John Evans Atta Mills
Date of Birth: 21 July 1944
Place of Birth: Tarkwa, Western Region
Died: 24 July 2012
Displaying 1-10 out of 116 results.
Tax and spend dilemmas
The 'social democratic' NDC which adopts tax-and-spend policies – with the emphasis on 'spend' – opposed ending these measures introduced under Presidents John Atta Mills and Mahama...
Founded in 1997 by Kwabena Duffuor later Finance Minister under Presidents John Atta Mills and John Dramani Mahama uniBank had connections to the then ruling National Democratic Congress that made it too hot to touch...
Jobs and corruption dominate election agenda
Yet then the NDC candidate John Atta Mills put all his energy into smaller constituency meetings which won the day...
Unending flow of Cashgate
She is still on the international speakers' circuit and was last seen in Ghana delivering a commemorative lecture on the fourth anniversary of the death of President John Evans Atta Mills...
Red is the colour
The date had an added significance as it marks the second anniversary of the death in office of President John Evans Atta Mills...
The wizard of Accra
The last time that happened was under his predecessor John Evans Atta Mills in mid-2011 (AC Vol 42 No 10 All for the sake of the party)...
Row over exiles
In April 2011 Ghana's late President John Evans Atta Mills prevailed on Paul Yao N'Dré the fugitive President of Côte d'Ivoire's Constitutional Court and a key Gbagbo ally to go back to Abidjan where he met Ouattara just after Gbagbo's forces had been defeated (AC Vol 52 No 8 A resolution in Abidjan)...
The vote on trial
Some in the NDC see Mahama as an accidental President: he succeeded to the office from the vice-presidency on the death of President John Evans Atta Mills on 24 July last year...
How the parties judge the judges
• Nasiru Sulemana (‘Sulley') Gbadegbe from Volta was appointed by former President John Atta Mills but is non-partisan and particularly tough on procedural rules...
A tough one hundred days
The death of his predecessor John Evans Atta Mills on 24 July 2012 left Mahama obliged to fight December’s national elections with the same policies and more or less the same team from the National Democratic Congress (NDC AC Vol 53 No 16 Politicking after the mourning & Obsequies and summitry)...
Why are they waiting?
Kyerematen has the endorsement of the African Union and the enthusiastic support of Ghana’s NDC government first under President John Atta Mills and then under Mahama...
Penalty shoot-out
The founder's fury
It's Woyome time
Strong scent
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‘Look beyond black in asphalt specification’ urges Aggregate Industries
Aggregate Industries, the leading building materials supplier, is encouraging contractors and building specifiers to “look beyond black” and make better use of innovative asphalt materials amid a growing appetite for coloured asphalt across the UK
With the UK government, under its cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS), pledging over £1.2bn to expand the nation’s cycling facilities, asphalt materials that can offer colour demarcation have become increasingly recognised as one of the most appropriate surfacing choices for cycleways.
As such, Aggregate Industries is reminding contractors working on such road projects to look beyond the specification of standard asphalt and make use of the benefits of more specialist materials offering a wide variety of colours and applications.
Victoria Smith, General Manager of Express Asphalt at Aggregate Industries, comments: “Typically, when people think of asphalt, they think of the standard black variety. However, as modern construction practices and building design has evolved, so has the choice of asphalt with today’s market offering an explosion of colours and design to meet virtually every conceivable requirement.
“Indeed, recent years have seen a marked investment in public infrastructure such as parks and natural spaces, bus lanes and cycleways, where aesthetic appeal is now just as important as functionality and performance. And with black asphalt no longer always sufficient to meet the brief, there’s now a mounting onus on contractors to leverage the latest innovations in coloured asphalt to achieve the desired results.”
According to Aggregate Industries there is a rising appetite for its innovative SuperColour® range of high-performance distinctly coloured asphalts, particularly in large cities and urban landscapes, where it is increasingly used for private drives, bus lanes, cycle lanes, sports landscaping and parks and natural areas.
To keep up with soaring demand, the company has recently expanded supply of its coloured asphalt products beyond its Doncaster and Bristol plants, to its Hertford depot. In June, Aggregate Industries also opened a dedicated new sampling lab at its Doncaster Express Asphalt plant, which guarantees a quick turnaround of samples for customers looking to test the SuperColour range’s extensive colour capabilities.
Victoria adds: "Pushing the envelope has always been a key aspect of our industry and is what makes the UK surfacing market one of the most advanced in the world. That’s why, for building contractors, local authorities and developers, facing greater pressure to meet ever-challenging and unique specifications, it’s never been a more apt time to look beyond black when it comes to asphalt specification.
“With its unique colour capabilities, coloured asphalt offers clear safety benefits and aesthetic appeal for a wide range of applications that require colour differentiation. For those looking to make the most of this, our new sampling labs allow contractors to test a bespoke range of different asphalt materials and colours until they find the solution that meets their needs.”
Aggregate Industries issues final call to enter world’s most prestigious green build competition
Aggregate Industries provides tailored solution for North West Cambridge Development
Aggregate Industries provides the base for Aberdeen FC development
Aggregate Industries calls for greater adoption of SuDS as progressive Welsh policy begins to create waves
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Denver's locker program ends, but homeless storage is still an issue
Denver's pilot program to provide lockers for people who are homeless isn't working. The need is just as strong as when the program launched, but the city needs a new method.
Author: Noel Brennan
Published: 7:05 PM MDT September 27, 2018
Updated: 7:10 PM MDT September 27, 2018
DENVER — Those who carry all they own need a safe place to store it.
“When you’re homeless, you carry your house with you,” said Benjamin Dunning, an organizer with Denver Homeless Out Loud.
In May 2017, the city tried to address the problem by installing ten storage lockers in front of the Denver Rescue Mission near Park Avenue and Lawrence Street. The city paid $30,000 for the 90-day sidewalk storage pilot program.
“Some of our discussion was like, well, we can build stuff for cheaper than that,” Dunning said. “That seems like a lot for a place to lock up your stuff.”
Denver Public Works installed the lockers and kept watch over them during the program, which lasted about 14 months. Denver Human Services decided to pull the program after hearing concerns from the shelters and Denver Police.
“The biggest concern for us was really that someone was going to get inside of this unit, sleep and maybe pass away,” said Julie Smith, spokeswoman for Denver Human Services.
Smith said the city received unconfirmed reports of illegal activity involving the storage lockers. They also had a tough time keeping in touch with those using the lockers. She said one man using a locker moved out of state without telling anyone. Then there were the break-ins.
“The units were being burglarized, broken into, locks broken off,” Smith said. “Some folks were not keeping them locked which was a condition of the user agreement.”
Smith said the city was considering moving the storage lockers to a local non-profit that works with job placement. She also pointed out that the St. Francis Center offers 500 indoor storage lockers at its two city locations. Meanwhile, Denver Homeless Out Loud continues to work on different-sized, outdoor solutions.
“I think the greater need would be for gym-sized lockers,” Dunning said.
The lockers outside the Denver Rescue Mission were designed to hold bikes.
“Large enough that you can put a shopping cart into which maybe isn’t a bad idea, but that may not be the place to start if you want to help out a whole bunch of folks,” Dunning said.
Denver Rescue Mission partnered with Sexy Pizza to install four, gym-sized lockers outside the local pizza chain’s Cap Hill location.
“The city spent several thousand dollars on their locker solutions and ours cost 80 dollars,” said Kayvan Khalatbari, co-founder of Sexy Pizza.
Khalatbari talks politics as well as pizza. He’s running for mayor in 2019, but he understands the struggles facing the homeless population better than most.
“A little over ten years ago, for ninth months when I started my first business, I was actually homeless on the west side of Denver,” Khalatbari said. “Slept in a tent in the backyard of a house for three months, in my truck for another month and on a buddy’s floor in Cap Hill for another four or five months.”
Khalatbari hopes other business owners will be open to offering storage space on their property for the local homeless population. A $15,000 grant from the Hemera Foundation, Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries will allow Denver Homeless Out Loud to expand the locker program to other Denver businesses.
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“We were experiencing severe difficulties with a major shareholder who had become overly domineering and in so doing was threatening the stability and wellbeing of the company. Sandy provided an insightful analysis of the individual’s psychological motivations and identified clear narcissistic behaviour. He then gave detailed advice on how to negotiate with an individual with these character traits and laid out a number of scenarios which should be avoided and also helped us choreograph an optimal set of circumstances for negotiation.
Execution of Sandy’s strategy proved highly successful and it was remarkable how closely the individual followed the behaviour that Sandy had predicted.
I would highly recommend Sandy to other management teams experiencing difficulties with strong shareholder personalities and am now a great believer in utilising psychological analysis as a key part of building a strategy for complex negotiations.”
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“Thank you for the excellent training day you delivered for my team. I approached you with the aim that I wanted to help my team perform to a higher level, but didn’t want to take the traditional approach to training.
You put together, and delivered, a very interesting and effective day that introduced us to the concept of the “Corporate Athlete” which has given everyone a lot to think about and act upon.
Everyone really enjoyed it and they are keen to implement the ideas and tools you covered. I am extremely confident it will lead to improved individual and team performance.”
3 months later…
“You will be pleased to know that the training has made a lasting impression. A lot of the things you said have been taken on board by the team – getting the balance right between work-side and self-side, being a corporate athlete and looking after yourself accordingly. We now have a feature in our monthly team meetings where a couple of the team share their goals, both personal and professional. They really like this as it means they get to know each other better and see what drives their colleagues.
I am very pleased with the impact. We are making good progress toward our corporate objectives. Their resilience, drive, determination and good health are as crucial as ever.”
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“It has really made me think again about what I want to do with my life and the different ways in which I can achieve my long term goals. The only downside was that it did not go on for longer than a week.”
Next Generation Programme attendee
“I would like to thank AH Loder Advisers and in particular Sandy Loder for his mentoring and advice. Since we first met, he has helped me move from a rather difficult and frustrating period in my life, where I was struggling to identify and focus on a new career, to a position where I am now progressing up the ladder in a well known institution. I am happier in myself, the future looks clearer and my new career is steadily going in the right direction. Sandy’s support and guidance was essential in helping me rebuild my confidence, enthusiasm and passion for work and ultimately, life.”
Next Generation of a Family business
“The Loder programme of education involving training sessions, introductions and leadership has helped my grandsons to identify their strengths and play a more productive role within our family office. Equally I feel that Loder’s personal direct experience of the types of problem that confront them has enhanced their confidence in their working and social lives.”
The Patriarch and founder of the Family Office
“Having worked in the field of family business for over 17 years, the programme was exemplary in more ways than one. Firstly, it helps to foster entrepreneurial flair and spirit, something that was clearly in evidence in the pitches made to the dragons in the Dragons Den finale, and this is also something can be missing within a family firm where it has gone past the second generation. It can be too easy for the next generation to step into a role in the family business having neither the desire to be there nor the entrepreneurial ability to rise to the challlenge as a potential leader in the future. The programme helped to instil entrepreneurial spirit, make the younger family members on the programme consider the skills and attributes needed to succeed, and to question what they want to do going forward. I thought the programme was innovative, fun and above all, resoundly meets the needs of family business owners, the parents in the room, who get to see their own kids driving a project, participating and challenging their peers, something that rarely happens in practice. This programme should be celebrated, shared and run for many years to come as it clearly addresses a need in the family business space.”
Family Business owner
“I would like to thank Sandy Loder and his team at AH Loder Advisers for the help and support they have given to my son. It was a daunting task from the outset as here was a young man with so much potential and certainly the where with all at his disposal, had he chosen to open up his eyes and mind. It is very hard for the young today to make that first step if you have absolutely no idea in which direction or path you want to follow. So it was with thanks to Sandy and his team of merry men and women trained to support and guide. A man for all seasons seems very apt for the team – men and women for all angles and manifestations of life. They were able to get my son into an employment situation, getting structure back in his life, working with a young entrepreneur that finally he felt admiration for and was prepared too take advice from to go out to America and there see one of the world’s most successful motivational speakers.
Nothing is cut and dry in life and there is still a long road ahead
But to give hope, direction, advice and confidence is in my case, worth every penny spent. I think even greater achievements could have been had, as there was more I am sure to offer had my son chosen to accept it and work a little harder.
But to sum up, I have and will continue to recommend AH Loder Advisers to friends and acquaintances alike who have other lost souls and there seem to be plenty of them about.”
Divorced mother talking about her son who has a very successful father
“I started my journey with AH Loder Advisers hoping to gain some useful insight into how to develop my role within our family business. As any product of the modern school system would, I expected to be engaging with a teacher, what I got was a mentor, a role-model and a friend. Looking back over the initial period it seems as if I had a syllabus built directly around me, delivered by someone inspirational who took the time and attention required to apply every aspect to my specific situation and allowed the dialogue to change to address specific challenges that arose along the way. The process not only helped me in my position but changed my perspective entirely. In January the question was IF I could rise to a challenge, by June it was just HOW. Without a shadow of a doubt the most effective educational investment of my life so far.”
A next generation member of a Family Business
“It follows a process of progressive maturation as far as my son is concerned, much of which was as a result of the coaching provided by yourself and your team. A year ago we were dealing with a very different person and we have seen tremendous improvement both in and out of work. The family collective is a major USP for business and fundamental to a purposeful life. I believe my wife was clever to realise we needed help with this situation but thank you particularly for your part in getting all of us on the right track. We are now in a very different and much improved place.”
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Service fees: providing context and transparency
By Tim Fung
Updated: April 5th, 2018
We're sharing - what it is and what it covers...
Quite often at Airtasker we get asked why there’s a need to charge a service fee (or what the service fee actually covers).
So in the interest of transparency, we’d like to provide a little more context on what’s provided within the service fee and how these funds are re-invested back into the Airtasker Community and the creation of more Australian earning opportunities.
“… our long-term priority at Airtasker is to maximise the total amount of earnings for Taskers…”
Before we jump in, it’s worth noting that our long-term priority at Airtasker is to maximise the total amount of earnings for Taskers, not the amount of fees that we charge. In the long run, we believe that Airtasker’s revenue will be maximised if we relentlessly focus on “growing the pie” (maximising Tasker earnings) rather than “cutting a bigger slice” (charging lots of fees). So everything that we do is aligned to this goal: increasing earning opportunities for our community.
That said, in order to be able to achieve this long-term goal, we believe that service fees have a role to play – both in creating a positive user experience and building a sustainable company in the long run.
First up, let’s start with by taking a look at the “back office essentials” which need to be paid on every task transaction before even considering what arrives at Airtasker. Below is a high-level breakdown of these approximate costs:
Goods and services tax (GST) – Airtasker is required to pay to the Australian government GST of 10% of the service fee charged. As a result, about 9.1% of the total amount paid is not received by Airtasker.
Payment processing charges – up to 20% of the service fee is required to be paid to a payments processing technology provider to cover merchant fees, credit card chargebacks and fraud protection costs.
Insurance costs – up to 7% of the service fee paid is passed on to an insurance provider in the form of premiums, administrative costs and contributions to help cover a Tasker’s third party liability for property damage or personal injury to another person whilst completing common tasks – subject to insurance terms and conditions.
Based on this approximation: for every $100 in earning opportunities created for Taskers, about $7-8 arrives at Airtasker.
So, where do these funds actually go?
1. Marketing and Promotion
To bring more tasks onto the Airtasker platform, we reinvest service fees into a range of marketing activities to ensure more earning opportunities are being created for the community. For example, last year we invested more than $7 million into the “Like A Boss” television and outdoor advertising campaign which saw a 100% increase in tasks posted.
We also continue to invest into a range of other marketing channels including Google and Facebook advertising, coupons for Posters to trial Airtasker for the first time and Search Engine Optimisation.
Our “Like a Boss” campaign driven by Alexandra and Simon at Airtasker and created by Mark, Colin, Andrew and Kon at UDKU helped to double earnings for Taskers in 2017.
“Ernie” is a Search Engine Optimisation platform created by Sarah, Sam, Hari, Lorenzo and Alex at Airtasker which helps guide customers searching in Google towards relevant services on Airtasker.
These are the people working hard to take Airtasker to the world – Lucas, Tom, Damien and Kirstine are based in Shoreditch, London.
2. Software and Technology
In order to maintain, improve and build new features for our website, iPhone app and Android app we employ more than 90 full time staff in software engineering, design and product management roles. This headcount is approximately doubling each year so that we can ensure that Airtasker is a safe and reliable platform and we can deliver a constantly improving customer experience – which drives greater earning opportunities and an improved experience for our community. For example, in 2017 this team built the “increase price” feature to allow either Posters to pay or for Taskers to request an amount in addition to an initially agreed price. This feature allowed for additional earnings to be paid to Taskers on about 15% of all tasks on Airtasker.
These are the people who are designing, engineering and growing the Airtasker platform – 90 people led by Paul, Jen, Fra, Simon, Anne, CJ, Alfred and Mahesh.
Our product, design and engineering teams work hard on iterative improvements to the everyday experience as well as maintenance and building new features into our iPhone app, Android app and website.
3. Moderation and Support
Service fees are also reinvested into initiatives that protect the integrity of the Airtasker Community and help both Taskers and Job Posters if things don’t go to plan. Examples of these initiatives include the development of a new machine learning program called “Alan” which detects and deletes undesirable content and the doubling of our people-powered product and support team to more than 140 full-time staff.
We built a robot named “Alan” who works hard to protect the community from bad actors and dodgy behaviour by identifying and automatically deleting undesirable content. The Airtasker community helps teach Alan by flagging suspicious content – so Alan gets smarter everyday!
These are the people working hard to take support our community – 65 people led by Mark Ong and based in Bonifacio Global City, Manila.
Our team is now working around the clock to help reduce response time. Over the past year, our team has tripled in size and received extensive training which has reduced our average first response time down to less than 2 hours.
Overall, our service fee is purposefully designed to align Airtasker with the community – the more that Taskers earn, the more we earn. We’re also committed to re-investing earnings into building the Airtasker community and creating a sustainable, positive environment for Taskers. As always, we’re looking for ways to improve – so if you have feedback or questions, please feel free to drop us a note here: stayopen@airtasker.com
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How about sharing how the new fees are determined as well?”
According to Airtasker
From the 31st of March 2018 the service fee will change to a variable fee of 4-20% of the assigned task price. The fee charged will be based on several factors such as the offer price, profile information, task location and other factors which drive the Airtasker marketplace.
The range 4% – 20% is huge and it would be good if Airtasker be transparent how this fee is determined. For example:
I would image the charge should be lower for remoted tasks since Airtasker dont need to cover insurance premium. A %fee charged by different job categories should also be clearly displayed on you website. I dont like seeing fee randomly changed everytime I bid on tasks. Thanks
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Other U.S .Navy Communities and Specialties
Surface Warfare Officer (SWO)
Are stories of the SWO community valid?
Thread starter jameskalder
DoubleOswo7
swerd said:
It's sad that this thread has turned into a SWO bashing. And worse, it's discouraging others from the field.
For some reason that's why I want it so bad... because others say its hard. Many other reasons but the fact that I see all this negative talk wants me to stand up and get it done.
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LazersGoPEWPEW said:
This is huge. I definitely got on a ship with a good combo and am happy with where I'm at right now. But I also think the going into with a can do positive attitude has helped me adapt quickly. I think too many come on board with whiny bitch attitudes especially when someone expects them to do actual work. But I've definitely been fortunate since my transition. STRIKE! is where it's at.
How are you doing now? I'm waiting to enter SWO now. I feel strongly that your are right. I see the negative stuff however I have been through some tough times and am willing to tackle this challenge
Aquonox
Just rolling along
I've been on a couple of ships for a short period of time. SWO can be either really cool or really crappy. I went on a cruiser for a short while and the command atmosphere was horrible. Lazy officers, enlisted who disrespected the CoC, etc. It really turned me off to the community.
However, I also visited a different ship (happened to be a DDG), and it was the opposite. Very motivated enlisted, very knowledgeable and professional officers, etc.
So it is a hit or miss depending on the command (as is with many communities, units, squadrons). Quite a few of my friends who went SWO are enjoying it. YMMV.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Skyler Barger said:
Sorry about the threadjack but I believe that this just might be the best place to paste this link regarding the low SWO retention. I am an OC hopeful on the July board and have been doing some serious research. Just thought that I would share this great study done at the Naval Postgraduate School.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a476863.pdf
I wouldn't call it 'great' -- it repeated the same paragraphs like 4x.
It's an interesting study but I take issue with the 360 degree reviews being the solution. Throughout our history there have been military leaders who made history books, but who's subordinate Officers and SNCOs hated at the time.
You can be both, but a focus on making everyone feel loved at the expense of tactical expertise would not be good for our national defense.
Beyond that, the report makes no specific recommendations to address any retention issues outside of leadership. They just have a bullet point that essentially says it'd be great if we could fix the other stuff,which is not particularly insightful or useful,and anyone with a brain could have probably reasonably guessed that family strain contributes to retention. Considering the report found that the #1 cause for a JO to leave was family-related issues, I find it odd that the recommendations revolve solely around developing better leadership (a term that is undefined in the report).
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The Grass is Greener!
That thread was in the public current news thread.
Not that that really matters. Throwing stones at guys that just lost one of their own... Not cool.
Going to clean up some posts, not wading into it. Have a beer and watch some college football. Raise a glass and send well wishes to those that have lost one of their own.
enlUSMC
It's SWOtastic
Roger that, but some guy calls me a dumbass, I'm going to respond. That's it.
enlUSMC said:
I hear what your saying. Just giving some perspective that it was an initial sarcastic post and it all escalated. Perspective that you have a bunch of naval aviators that lost a friend. As a marine I am sure you can understand.
Not criticizing either of you. Just cleaning up and defusing.
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Recent correspondence with a separating SWO of 30 years:
"in some respects SWOs are the bastard step children. Aviators look cool get big bucks; Nukes are smart as hell, get big bucks. The perception for some inside and outside of the community is that a lot of SWOs settled. Also, it is hard work in difficult, unpredictable circumstances. You will have difficult bosses and folks who make things difficult for you........but at the end of the day, you will be working alongside the best young people in the world, and you will be doing something critical to keeping our Nation safe.
Become the best ship handler and navigator on the ship, be the best at damage control, get your quals done early no matter how much work it takes, but most of all be a great boss to your young Sailors - get them promoted, support them, hold them accountable - even in the little things, but don't be super critical......I have loved every minute of my time in the Navy, and you will to."
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Robot Pimp
It's not that being a Shoe is intrinsically hard. Running around carrying telephone poles at BUD/S is hard, for a reason. Academics in flight school or nuke school are hard, for a reason. Being a Shoe is not hard for a reason...it's a culture that makes things more difficult and painful than necessary, just for the sake of being difficult. Some of that is not the fault of the guys on the ships - the inspection/mx that has to be crammed into every in-port period is insane, but that's mandated by forces offboard. But some of the self-inflicted pain I've seen Shoes put on themselves boggles my mind no matter how many times I've seen it.
I said once when someone mentioned welcomed the "challenge" and "difficulty" of being a SWO: it's like running a marathon with your shoelaces tied to your dick. Just because it's difficult and painful doesn't mean it's worth it.
BigBadBoJenkins
In my experience, the SWO community focuses on administrative tasks to the point of losing sight of the overall picture. The ship can feel like a floating paperwork factory at times, and then you might do something like a relatively rare gun shoot and realize, "oh, yeah, this is why we are here."
pmasters
Its telling that roughly ~70% of SWOs quit at their first available opportunity. And that includes priors who have much less time to go until retirement. If I remember that study right I believe we had about 72% attrition for the last available FY. I would love to see the percentage of non-prior SWOs that hit the ole' dusty trail ASAP.
For the new guys, take the observations into account. I know I had a lot of similar thoughts before joining SWO. Here's a few things that I thought and that I see most new SWOs thinking as well. Allow me my best shot and shattering some illusions.
1. Join the Navy see the World
- Maybe at best. Some ships get some cool port calls, most do not. My experience turned into join the Navy see Bahrain a lot. Also, overnight liberty often doesn't happen, and when you're in a foreign port you should expect to spend at least every 3rd day on the ship and have plenty of restrictions. I did a lot of traveling prior to the Navy and Navy travel via port calls is terrible in comparison. However, some people do genuinely luck out and get some good deployments.
2. The challenge will make it more rewarding.
- Read UncleFester's analysis above. Then read it again. SWO often feels like the most complicated nothing you've ever done. It will be challenging to deal with grossly incompetent bosses. Juggling four seperate inspection groups composed of Senior Chiefs lumbering towards retirement all armed with a highly dubious level of knowledge and holding equally dubious checksheets in their noses is not easy. It is also not even remotely rewarding. On rare occassions you will do something cool - like track submarines or land marines or board a vessel. But that will be about .005% of the time and you likely will not be directly involved. Be prepared to spend most of your time accomplishing tasks whose worthwhileness you will find very difficult to justify.
3. It can't be that bad
- Oh yes it can. It might not be but it can. JO SWOs have a hugely, overwhelmingly negative opinion of the SWO community. Its implicit in almost every conversation you have on the subject. Most people who decided to stay in for DH do so thinking 'I can make it better,' and hopefully they do. There's hardly anyone that seriously maintains that the SWO community is an efficient, knowledgeable and well-run organization. All the stories of all the pointless yelling and maltreatment and confusion and poor organization are not untrue stories. 'SWOs eat their young' isn't just a joke people say for fun. That is actually a representative description of how SWO life ends up unfolding told by people who were there and saw it. When you listen to SWOs tell sea-stories almost all of them involve someone getting chewed out for something they didn't deserve. That says a lot... Sometimes you luck out and get a really good ship, most times you don't.
Like most departing SWOs I could write a nice manifesto on all the bull. Not that it was all bad. I got to play around with some really cool sensors, match wits with some submarine captains, seriously and positively influence the guys and gals who worked for me, etc. But for the new guys, when making a serious and hopefully rational decision about the next 4-5 years of your career, dismissing these negative descriptions of the SWO community with useless slogans like 'I want to do it BECAUSE its hard' or other such nonsense will not help you out.
It sounds like the SWO community is similar to the sub community in one regard: You should expect that your responsibilities as a JO are going to be very limited in scope and mostly revolve around maintaining paperwork programs.
The Chiefs manage the people in the division, and the CO/XO/DHs will be the A-team on watch during any evolution that one would consider remotely interesting while you stand in the corner with a clip board. There are some rare exceptions, but for the most part the Navy isn't going to let a person who can count his qualification time in months and has almost no formal schooling on shipdriving to conn a multi-billion dollar asset without close supervision from the CO, and certainly not during anything that one could call a tough situation. This can be very demoralizing for people who have an image of officers being given a lot of responsbility: you go through all sorts of trouble, lack of sleep, etc., and the second that something 'cool' comes up you're told to go stand in the corner with a checklist. All you have to show for your hard work is some pretty binders to show off for inspections.
Contrast this with the aviation community where the Navy puts JOs through ~2 years of school precisely because they're going to be flying multi-million dollar assets and potentially making safety decisions all by their lonesome.
Now, as for why SWO JOs report sleeping less than our DHs despite standing 1/2 the amount of watch? Can't answer that one.
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pmasters said:
I'm curious as to when SWO life started becoming miserable? I'm assuming it wasn't always this way. Also it seems like it all depends on what ship you go to. I've heard varying stories from different people that I know, from "this sucks" to "not as bad as it seems".
Duc'-guy25
Spekkio said:
The Chiefs manage the people in the division, and the CO/XO/DHs will be the A-team on watch during any evolution that one would consider remotely interesting while you stand in the corner with a clip board. There are some rare exceptions, but for the most part the Navy isn't going to let a person who can count his qualification time in months and has almost no formal schooling on shipdriving to conn a multi-billion dollar asset without close supervision from the CO, and certainly not during anything that one could call a tough situation. This can be very demoralizing for people who have an image of officers being given a lot of responsbility.
This is in no way meant to be SWO bashing my SWO amigos, as misguided as you are I still very much enjoy working with you dudes. Keep in mind this is just my view from where I'm sitting.
This is kind of one of the key things you have to remember about the SWO community....It's the only URL community that doesn't require any real training before you show up to your job... Essentially you have a kid fresh out of college that has pretty much never been on a ship and kind of thrusted into the situation. Not their fault, but at some point in time I would really like to see big navy decide to give brand new ensigns better training before they show up to the job. I honestly think a year long SWO school prior to reporting to an afloat command would dramatically improve shipboard operations in the surface fleet. I've seen the curriculum at Baby SWOS, and honestly, there is a lot of room for improvement. I've talked this over with a lot of JO's and a lot have agreed they wish they understood the basics of shipboard operations prior to reporting, because Baby SWOS barely skims the surface. (I had a 6 month ensign tell me about his 3 months of sea time once including his 2 months of MIDN cruise, wasted the beer in my mouth when I started laughing)
All in all, operating a ship isn't a particularly hard thing to do, however it does require a lot of knowledge and a lot of work to do it well. Given the tools, I really believe the JO's would be far more of an asset to their command (and less eating of the young would occur). There should be a point where if a DIVO is walking around during the day checking up on his guys he can actually understand what they are doing and be able to advise them on it. Granted a lot of this come with experience (thank god for CPO's), but the concept that the JO should be in his space doing paperwork, not being involved in evolutions, not understanding how an evolution works is absolutely ludicrous. If we saw the JO's leading more at the deck plate level I think there would be a lot better moral, and some ships do this and it's clearly evident.
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SEVAL/ECMO
Duc'-guy25 said:
....It's the only URL community that doesn't require any real training before you show up to your job... Essentially you have a kid fresh out of college that has pretty much never been on a ship and kind of thrusted into the situation...
I am hard pressed to think of any officer specialty in any branch of the US military that is given as little initial training as SWOs in the Navy, period. Especially a 'warfare' specialty. Makes me wonder, what training do Coast Guard 'SWOs' (Cuttermen?) go through before reporting to their ships?
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Surrey’s Su Zhen Luo, 85, has her stolen stroller back. It was taken from outside her front door in Whalley. (Photo: Tom Zytaruk)
Surrey woman, 85, gets her stolen stroller back
Seems whoever took 85-year-old Su Zhen Luo’s treasured ride grew a conscience and returned it
Surrey’s Su Zhen Luo, 85, depended on her wheelchair/walker combo before it was stolen from outside her front door.
Now, she’s got two of them. Seems whoever took her treasured ride grew a conscience and returned it, kind of.
The elderly Whalley woman’s $254.99 stroller was stolen from outside the front door of her daughter’s townhouse on Dec. 27, after a thief crept in through the garden gate. Luo suffers from a spinal injury from a fall and needed the stroller to get around, so her daughter Min Li had to buy her a new one right away.
Luo’s lamentable story appeared on the front page of the Now-Leader’s Jan. 3 issue under the headline “Senior’s stroller theft ‘disgusting.’” That story, Luo’s son-in-law Daniel Blanchette said, “seemed to have made an impact on whoever came in the night to take away mother’s stroller/wheelchair.”
He said the president of their strata council subsequently found the stroller abandoned behind their complex clubhouse on Saturday morning “and brought it back to our door.”
“Whoever took that chair brought it back.”
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Still, the theft stung.
“Mom was happy for its return despite our getting a new one for her,” Blanchette said of Luo, who speaks Cantonese. “She was so happy.
“So now we will have one for her to use at home to help her walk in front of our unit, and one in the car for whenever Min takes her to the swimming pool which relaxes her spine.”
Initially, the family did not bother to call police about the theft, thinking it wouldn’t have done them any good. But this has been a learning experience.
Before the stroller was returned, Blanchette told the Now-Leader, “Constable Cassidy Zayshley came to see us after she read your article online. She made a police report and gave us the file number and ways to contact her if need be. She mentioned the RCMP has an officer going to pawnshops looking at items to see if any would match descriptions of items that were stolen from our citizens.
Blanchette said a second Mountie, whose name he didn’t get, also called the family to tell them a “generous donor” in the community offered to give Luo one of the wheelchairs he had on hand.
“As we had already bought a replacement, we thanked her for his offer and to relay our thanks to that person.”
Constable Richard Wright said that despite the stolen stroller’s return – “anonymously, lo and behold” – police will nevertheless still “be trying to work out exactly what happened to the property that was stolen and that investigation is still ongoing.”
For Blanchette, his wife and mother-in-law, all’s well that ended well.
“We have some rotten individuals living amongst us, and thankfully, you, these RCMP officers, as well as the unnamed donor prove we still have amazing, caring, helpful townspeople in this City of Surrey,” he said.
He’s been reminded, he added, “of something I had forgotten or lost: That if we look after one another, help those who are in need, work together, we can make our city a better place to live.”
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The Best Sex Toys and Masturbation Tips for Your Zodiac Sign
Ahead, discover what the stars say about how you like to masturbate, as well as a vibrator recommendation for each sign.
By Aliza Kelly Faragher
Like the universe itself, the study of astrology is vast and complex, but all you need to know to deduce your sun sign — which represents your personality and quintessential character traits — is your date of birth. So, how can this knowledge help you get off, and which sex toy is best for you?
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Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)
Fiery Sagittarians are known for their fun-loving, thrill-seeking dispositions: These archers are tantalized by new and exciting experiences, both in and out of bed. As aroused as they are by adventure and risk, Sagittarians like to experiment with their sexuality in public spaces. If they live alone (or are sure to be alone for a while), they might try masturbating somewhere they never normally do — say, on the living room couch or the kitchen floor. Mixing up the timing of their self-stimulation (for example, with a quick morning masturbation session before work) can also provide Sagittarians the variety they crave.
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Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)
Capricorns are the bosses of the zodiac, and these hardworking earth signs do not mess around when it comes to pleasure. Despite their stoic demeanor, Capricorns are among the kinkiest signs. These ambitious goats approach sex with dedication, determination, and erotic intensity. After a long day’s work, masturbation is an excellent way for Capricorns to relax, unwind, and explore the depths of their hedonism. Indeed, Capricorns love to release — and then release again.
Capricorn's best sex toy: When it comes to multiple orgasms, there’s nothing like the Magic Wand to trigger recurring elation. This timeless vibrator has been generating pleasure for decades, and now with its cordless design, Capricorns can enjoy truly untethered euphoria. $125 (Shop Now)
Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)
Aquarians are the revolutionaries of the zodiac. Celebrated for their innovation and eccentricity, these distinctive air signs enjoy seeking out diverse sexual experiences. Rebellious Aquarians hate to be told what to do and tend to find rules extremely oppressive. Accordingly, Aquarians love experimenting with self-pleasure, as it gives them the freedom to explore their bodies and minds without external limitation. Aquarians also love technology, and so they delight in incorporate vibrators and other erotic gadgets into their masturbation sessions.
Aquarius's best sex toy: Creative Aquarians will appreciate the versatility of Fun Factory's Miss Bi. Its shaft, which can be used internally, ends in a curved tip that massages the G-spot, while its flexible extension targets the clit. It's also safe for anal play. Flip through six intensities and six rhythms to find a favorite channel, then sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. $150 (Shop Now)
Pisces (February 19 - March 20)
Pisces are the last sign of the zodiac, and these ethereal water signs are known for their intense psychic abilities and mystical powers. Represented by two fish, these sensitive creatures reflect the depth and breadth of the expansive ocean in their incredible ability to absorb emotions and experiences. Sexual pleasure is intense for empathetic Pisces, and many of these mermaids use orgasms as a tool to trigger spiritual awakenings. Masturbation for Pisces is transcendental, connecting body and soul. Pisces should experiment with aquatic pleasure, indulging their passions in the bathtub, shower, or even the ocean.
Pisces's best sex toy: The waterproof Blueberry Buzz is a waterproof designed to withstand all climates — even underwater ones. With a design that resembles a siren’s scepter, it's the perfect accessory for dreamy mermaids. $24 (Shop Now)
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This Is What You're Like in Bed, According to Your Zodiac Sign
What Your Zodiac Sign Says About Your Love Life and Approach to Dating
Zodiac Sign Love Compatibility: Which Signs to Date — and Which to (Maybe) Avoid
Astrologer Aliza Faragher has the scoop on which sign your sign should date:
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Boeing Receives Second Post-Certification Commercial Crew Mission
By Ben Evans, on December 19th, 2015
Boeing’s CST-100 “Starliner” spacecraft is depicted here climbing to orbit. The company will begin flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA as soon as 2017. Image Credit: Boeing
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Both of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program partners—Boeing and SpaceX—now have mission orders to deliver their first long-duration crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS) in the coming years, thereby restoring the […]
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Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft has successfully completed a pivotal integration test at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This image of NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik in front of the spacecraft was taken in July of this year during a fit check of the capsule. Photo Credit: NASA / Robert Markowitz
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Today, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that NASA has amended SNC’s Dream Chaser Space Act Agreement (SAA) to include two additional, optional milestones in the development of their Dream Chaser spacecraft. The company hopes to eventually provide NASA crew transport to the International Space Station and other low-Earth […]
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SpaceX has successfully conducted a test of the firm’s Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing test vehicle, the Grasshopper. Photo Credit: SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies, more commonly known as “SpaceX,” successfully completed another test flight of the company’s Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) “Grasshopper” vehicle today, Aug. 13. The Grasshopper—described as, essentially, a Falcon 9 […]
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By David Darling, on August 12th, 2013
Interior view of Boeing’s CST-100 crew capsule. Image Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
NASA and Boeing engineers have just started going through the painstaking and meticulous process of evaluating and tweaking the interior of the CST-100 to make sure the ergonomics and design will suit the real-world needs of the astronauts inside. The main purpose […]
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Join us this year at the Emily Dickinson Museum on July 20 for our Annual Children’s Circus, a family-friendly event that celebrates the role these important pollinators played in Dickinson’s poetry and in our lives today.
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EU Phone Shipments Fall In Q1, Samsung Hit Hardest Among Top 5
By Dominik Bosnjak
European smartphone sales declined by approximately 6.3-percent over the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period a year ago, data collected by insights firm Canalys reveals. Some 46 million devices ended up being shipped during the three-month period, with Samsung taking the hardest hit out of the top five phone vendors on the Old Continent, having witnessed its business shrink by 15.4-percent. The South Korean tech giant is still the undisputed leader in Europe, having shipped 15.2 million handsets in Q1, five million more than the second-placed Apple.
Backed by the strong performance of the P20 lineup that it already touted in recent weeks, Huawei ended the quarter as the third most successful smartphone vendor in Europe, with Canalys estimating its mobile product shipments hit 7.4 million, being five million units higher than the figure attached to Xiaomi's recently established business in the region. HMD was the fifth largest manufacturer by shipments over the observed period, sending around 1.6 million Nokia devices to retailers in Europe. While Xiaomi was the fastest-growing company in the mobile sector, its overall business still has a relatively small footprint and is behind the top three by millions of units. The overall industry decline recorded on the continent is largely attributed to smartphone upgrade fatigue among consumers in Western Europe where shipments dropped by nearly 14-percent annually, with the worst-performing market being the United Kingdom with a decline of almost 30-percent.
Central and Eastern Europe haven't stopped growing, with their phone shipments increasing by 12.3-percent year-on-year, but that rise wasn't nearly significant enough to offset the trend in western countries which still boast twice as much quarterly shipments, based on the latest figures. As is the case with other markets around the world, 18:9 displays, multi-camera setups, and handsets with over 4GB of RAM all became more popular over the last twelve months, with the research firm predicting that trend to continue over the coming quarters. The overall decline in shipments mimicks global figures and while a return to growth is expected in the near future, the onus is on the mobile industry to deliver innovations worth paying for, i.e. upgrading to, many analysts believe. According to recent predictions, those innovations will soon come in the form of foldable smartphones and 3D cameras capable of sensing depth like the one on Apple's iPhone X.
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Asus quietly reveals the ZenFone 4 Max in Russia, with dual cameras and a massive 5,000mAh battery
2017/07/10 5:26am PDT Jul 10, 2017
Those of you with a good memory may remember the ZenFone 4 name from a few years ago. In 2014, Asus was using screen sizes for its naming convention when it released the ZenFone 4, 5, and 6 with respective display sizes in inches. Here we are three years later, and Asus has long since switched to a more conventional chronological naming scheme for its ZenFone line. Following on from last year's ZenFone 3 series of phones, the first in the 2017 ZenFone 4 range has been revealed on Asus' Russian site.
Android Pay is official for Russia, with 15 banks supported at launch
2017/05/22 6:47pm PDT May 22, 2017
After some speculation, it's now official - Android Pay has just launched in Russia. 15 banks and thousands of organizations are supported at launch, and more will obviously be added as time goes on. This makes Russia the 11th country that Google's tap-and-pay solution has been set up in.
Brazil, Canada, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan will be getting Android Pay soon
Earlier this week, we wrote about some strong evidence hinting that Canada and Russia would be getting Android Pay support imminently. However, despite a ton of hints toward this, we had no official statements to support these claims. Today, though, The Keyword (Google's official blog) confirmed that those two countries, along with a few more, will have Android Pay availability soon.
[Update: Visa confirms, kinda] Android Pay launches seem imminent for Canada and Russia
2017/05/17 9:27am PDT May 17, 2017
Android Pay's been out for around two years now, but it still only supports eight countries other than the U.S. That's... not a large number of countries. But if the signs we're seeing are correct, that figure is about to jump into the double digits. Canadian and Russian Android Pay enthusiasts (okay, that's probably not a real thing), time to get excited.
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Samsung is starting off the new year with a bang, namely with several new phone releases. This time it's the mid-range Galaxy A 2017 series, with the A3, the A5, and the A7. All three phones seem reasonably similar, using aluminum construction and glass backs, with features such as fingerprint scanners, IP68 water resistance, Micro SD card slots, and Samsung Pay present.
Relive the nostalgic dread of the Cold War with board game Twilight Struggle, now in the Play Store
International spying! Demagogic leaders! Jingoistic nationalism! Everything old is new again as the United States and Russia seem to be squaring up for another decades-long pissing contest. So while you wait for the next big hack or diplomatic faux pas, why not relive those happy memories of the original Cold War? Twilight Struggle, a two-player strategy title based on the 20th century's biggest game of chicken, has landed in the Play Store. It's five dollars, only a third of the price of the PC version.
Samsung Pay to come to Malaysia, Russia, and Thailand before the end of 2016
Of the different mobile payment solutions, Samsung Pay may as well be one of the most successful so far at expanding to different countries and implementing new features. After launching in South Korea then quickly following up in the USA (and later Puerto Rico) in 2015, it has come to China, Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and Spain.
These 7 countries will be joined by 3 more before the end of 2016: Malaysia, Russia, and Thailand. Samsung says this will bring the total of countries to 10 in 2016, which leaves a question mark regarding the promised availability of the payment solution in Canada and the UK also by the end of 2016.
Russia issues measly $6.8 million fine against Google in antitrust case
Russia began investigating Google for antitrust violations last year after the largest search engine in the country, Yandex, complained to authorities. It alleged that Google's promotion of its own services over alternatives (like Yandex) on Android was anti-competitive. Now, the Russian Federation Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has issued a $6.8 million fine against Google. Surely, this will bankrupt the company.
Samsung Video Billboard Turns A Moscow Office Building Into A 260-Foot Galaxy S7 Edge
2016/05/22 12:34pm PDT May 22, 2016
These days advertising seems to be looking for an edge, a unique and original approach that will engage potential customers and hold their attention better than the bombastic and simple ads of days gone by. And then again, sometimes it doesn't... sometimes subtelty goes out the window, right before you apply a sign the size of a 25-story building to the other side of it. Such is the case with a Samsung advertisement in the Sokol district of Moscow, which uses a 262-foot tall building as a backdrop for the world's largest Galaxy S7 Edge.
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Tropical cyclone to exacerbate flooding in northern Queensland
Weather warnings issued as system strengthens in Gulf of Carpentaria.
31 Dec 2018 11:46 GMT
While many parts of Australia are sweltering in a heatwave, northern Queensland is suffering from flooding.
Relentless rain has fallen in northeast Australia recently, with Daintree Village reporting 827mm over the last week and Cairns Racecourse receiving 452mm. The average rainfall in the whole of December in Cairns is only 181mm.
Two people have been reported missing in the flooding, with Queensland police saying on Monday that a man's body had been found among the mangroves along Chinaman Creek.
New warnings have been issued across the region as a collection of thunderstorms in the Gulf of Carpentaria is expected to become a cyclone on Tuesday. When it forms, it will be named Penny.
Meanwhile in the RAINforest... I have never seen so much rain in my life as in the last couple of days... The ferry was closed due to the flooding so we were stuck for a day... 😳 Hopefully 2019 will start a bit sunnier! #rainforest #daintree #daintreerainforest #daintreeriver #flooding #flood #adventure #summerholiday #whereisthesun #undermyumbrella #croc #river #rainydays
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The system is currently tracking west, but in a track very similar to Owen, which struck the region in mid-December, it’s expected to do a U-turn and track back across Queensland.
Tropical Cyclone warnings have been issued for northwest Queensland from Cape Keerweer to Cape York, with landfall anticipated to be around the Aurunkun area.
While the system strengthens in the Gulf of Carpentaria, it continues to drag heavy rain behind it across Queensland.
Flood warnings have been issued in western Queensland and eastern Queensland, to the north of Cairns.
Storm Penny is expected to clear the east coast of Queensland on Wednesday, which will finally allow the flood waters to recede.
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Anorak News | Liverpool: Brendan Rodgers would make a great England manager
Liverpool: Brendan Rodgers would make a great England manager
by Anorak | 2nd, October 2015
Liverpool are looking limp under Brendan Rodgers. Jurgen Klopp is the media’s favourite to take over should Rodgers get the boot. In the Times Matt Dickinson asks readers to pause and remember that Rodgers is no fool. A talented manager, which Rodgers certainly is, does not become rubbish.
There may be fun to be had with @DeludedBrendan and the mocking tweets but, beyond the David Brent gags, the Rodgers who emerges from Gerrard’s book deserves to be taken seriously; a sharp tactician, a strong communicator, an astute improver of players.
Sometimes he can get a little carried away and, as Gerrard notes, he is ambitious perhaps to the point of ruthlessness. But there emerges a portrait of an upwardly mobile manager who, if unwanted by Liverpool at the end of this season, would be very welcome in an England tracksuit as the successor to Roy Hodgson.
Rodgers for England? You hear it and it makes sense.
…Rodgers is the one with top-level coaching and managerial experience, a record of improving young players, especially English ones. Or, as he once said in one of those quotes that seem to polarise opinion: “My life’s work has been trying to show that British players can play.”
Dickinson quotes from Gerrard’s book:
Read Gerrard recount in compelling detail about when he went to see Rodgers because he felt off-form and could not fathom the problem. The speed with which his manager came back with detailed analysis about a lack of head movement, and how it was affecting the tempo of the captain’s passing game, is striking. There are plenty of stories from Gerrard of Rodgers’ ability to motivate as well as innovate. The book is littered with lines like “the training sessions were among the best I had ever experienced while his man-management was excellent, generous and imaginative”; “it needed a bold appointment from the owners — and I think they got it right with Brendan”; “Brendan came across as a nice man, and a good person, from the start”; “a very human man-manager”.
Of course, there is some blunt criticism, too; a dubious signing or two and, most notably, a critique of that fateful, gung-ho approach against Chelsea with the title at stake fuelled by “an overconfidence in Brendan’s team talks” and not recognising the need to temper his boldness.
Jason Burt has also talked of Rodgers being the ideal England candidate:
The FA needs direction, maybe even an evangelical approach. It intends to keep Hodgson in place until the completion of the 2016 European Championship when his contract expires, when he will be close to celebrating his 69th birthday. He is likely to go then, so the clock is ticking as regards his successor. The answer seems clear: it should be Brendan Rodgers…
Here is a man who clearly has “ that vision thing”. Not just in an identifiable and entertaining modern style of play – you could put his Liverpool team in any colour shirt and they would be recognisably Liverpool – but in developing players as people. He has both a “holistic” approach, to borrow Manchester City’s phrase, and a much deeper sense of pastoral care and social responsibility.
It does not matter that Rodgers comes from Northern Ireland. The FA should read his words and call him, to discover if he would want to be involved in finding “that vision thing”. Hodgson should welcome his input. It would not undermine him.
And then there is Steven Gerrard, who says:
“The way he [Rodgers] plays would suit England. He would improve the possession football you need at international level. His man management is brilliant. At tournaments, in the heat, it is absolute torture and we need to keep the ball better. If you want someone who would get the team playing and the players would enjoy working with, it would be Brendan.”
Rodgers for England. It makes sense.
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Rakul faces trolls for her Big Thighs!
By SIBY JEYYA , 1months ago, 12/7/2019 10:00:00 AM SIBY JEYYA Rakul faces trolls for her Big Thighs!
Rising hero karthi is on a winning mode with back to back Blockbusters, the H Vinoth directorial cop flick Theeran Adhigaram Ondru pandiraj directed family entertainer Kadaikutty Singam had his latest release with the form of 'Kaithi'. The movie was a huge success. Earlier, he faced a huge flop in the form of 'Dev'.
Dev was directed by newbie rajath ravishankar and was produced by prince pictures. The music by birthday boy harris jayaraj was a hit with songs by hariharan and legendary SP Balasubramaniam being highlights. But the movie failed at the Box-Office so bad.
rakul Preet was unfazed by the failure. However, netizens have trolled the actress as she was seen little fleshy. In a particular song sequence, her thighs were too big and most of them labeled her as 'Thigh Beauty'. Reports claim that the actress is putting an extra weight for her new movie in tamil under Ravikumar's direction. rakul Preet is one of the topmost actresses who works predominantly in south indian and hindi movies. The actress who faced a failure with 'SPYder' is looking to bounce back with some notable projects. One such notable project is Siva Karthikeyan's 'SK14'.
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Why PM Modi not happy with Amazon and it's CEO? Accordingly Narendra Modi is all about getting global corporates' attention to India. So, when the Indian Prime Minister gave Jeff Bezos a wide berth on his recent visit to India, the cold reception was a bit too apparent. Currently speculations connected the cold shoulder to the editorial stance of Washington Post, which is owned by the Amazon CEO and has been critical of the Indian government. And now a BJP functionary has openly worded the party's displeasure with the influential US daily.
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1962 Coca-Cola for Everybody
2012 SOLD 57 M$ including premium
1962 is the wonderful year of Andy Warhol, when he suddenly deploys all his artistic and social language. The bottle of Coca-Cola has a key role which he clearly explained.
For Warhol, this bottle in a single model with no variant is the common point between all Americans without any social distinction. The US President, Liz Taylor and the observer of the art of Warhol see and use this object in the same way. It is a symbol of equality. At the same time, Warhol is also studying the soup cans which he stages in incredible positions with dimensions similar to those of humans.
Equality is socially too important for joking, and the bottle of Coca-Cola, even when oversized, remains standing with the utmost seriousness. For this reason, variations are not appropriate and this bottle is the rarest among the great iconic symbols of the first year of Warhol.
The early Coca-Colas by Warhol are made singly by hand in black, without recourse to the silkscreen. Coca-Cola (4), acrylic on canvas 208 x 144 cm, was sold for $ 35.3 million including premium by Sotheby's on November 9, 2010.
The idea of multiples is already another key of the world of Warhol. Coca-Cola (3), casein on cotton 176 x 137 cm, has exactly the same figure as (4). Coca-Cola (3) is estimated $ 40M, for sale by Christie's in New York on November 12. This artwork is illustrated in the article shared by Bloomberg.
POST SALE COMMENT
This specimen number 3 of the most iconic series of Pop Art was sold for $ 57M including premium.
1962 All the Dollars are for Warhol
2009 SOLD 43.7 M$ including premium
Sotheby's is announcing for their sale on November 11 in New York a very important artwork of Warhol, estimated $ 8 million. This painting on silkscreen is titled 200 One Dollar Bills.
The work dates from March - April 1962. That is important. 1962 is the year of the first exhibitions dedicated to the artist in Los Angeles and New York. Suddenly, from nowhere, appeared the Warholian founding themes of contemporary art: the Campbell's soup, Marilyn, the dollar.
Warhol's contribution is to introduce in art such popular images that are instantly recognizable by everyone, and yet are paintings. Doing it he actually created current art, or still better the art of the current world.
He operated at all scales the fruitful idea of multiples, for which he is helped by the silkscreen printing technique in two complementary ways: separate similar works with variations of colors, and juxtaposition of identical patterns on the same work.
We have here an example of the latter case: over a total area of 203 x 234 cm, the work shows banknotes in the amount and quantity indicated in the title, in twenty rows of ten units each, without interval. What's more repetitive in the life of every day than a banknote? At least, everyone wants it so. What could more easily attract the attention of an American middleman than his $ 1 ticket?
The following image, unspectacular on the web, is shared by AuctionPublicity.
This work is historical, the result confirms that fact: $ 43.7 million including premium.
Sotheby's had left running the much conservative estimate at $ 8 million. When viewing the smile of the star auctioneer of the company in the pre sale video presentation, it became obvious that something important was to happen.
The title I chose for my article was also prescient: the release of Sotheby's had convinced me.
Congratulation to Sotheby's.
1962 The Blurred Image of Liberty
For Warhol, in 1962, all experiences, all messages are possible. His artistic language is entirely new.
The use of silkscreen ink applied to the enlargement of a trivial photograph is the decisive creative invention of Warhol. It allows the endless repetition of the same image, with a speed of execution that quickly diversifies the catalog of the artist. It is not to be considered as a print due to the variants from a completed artwork to another and also because of the finish with spray enamel and graphite.
But what does exactly want this former designer of ads? Present to the world a publicity for America, or deride its consumer society? Exalt the hope of a sheltered life, or exacerbate the futility of politics?
If there were only stars and soup cans, Warhol's message is simple. Disasters, electric chairs, car crashes put everything into question. Executed in 1962, Warhol's Statue of Liberty anticipates all the social gnashing of his art. In our world, everything is false.
The symbol is present, as in reality, off Manhattan. Warhol well knows that the multiplicity of images kills emotion. Thanks to his screen printing technique, he kills the hope of Liberty by aligning 4 rows of 6 identical images.
Warhol knows that painting is an illusory representation of the three-dimensional reality of the world. Each of the 24 units of Miss Liberty is treated in green and red like an anaglyph, but the two views are from one single postcard. The viewer with his stereoscopic glasses marvels at a false illusion of 3D due to inequality of the finish.
This canvas 198 x 206 cm is for sale by Christie's on November 14 in New York. The logics would be that it is acknowledged as one of the key works of Warhol, in excess of $ 35M. The auction house has not published an estimate. Here is the link to the catalog.
I invite you to play the video featured by Christie's.
This surprising artwork provides a final denial to whoever thinks that the art, personality and ambition of Warhol are simple to decode. This Statue of Liberty is one of the masterpieces of the first great year of the artist, as well as the 200 One Dollar Bills, sold exactly for the same price at Sotheby's in 2009: $ 43.7 million including premium.
1962 Soup and Coke
In 1962, Warhol's art focuses on the American consumer society synthesized in four themes: the dollar, Marilyn, the soup cans and the bottles of Coca-Cola.
Coming from the advertising, he now stands out completely. The Campbell's soup cans have an extraordinary feature: the box is singled in the image, with no added text, nothing to embellish. The models differ only by their labels.
The artist turns advertising into derision. He painted the same year a Campbell can torn to be destroyed. This remarkable indicator of the artistic intention of Warhol has been sold for $ 11.7 million including premium at Christie's on May 9, 2006, despite its small size, 51 x 41 cm.
The Coca-Cola bottles did not have the anti-advertising purity of the soup cans: the logo of the brand lies next to the object. But it is the rarest of the four founding icons of Warhol's art.
The largest painting done on this subject at this time, 207 x 144 cm, is estimated $ 20M by Sotheby's, for sale in New York on November 9. It is illustrated in the article shared by The New York Times.
Soup and coke were linked in the mind of Warhol. A simple watercolored drawing, 60 x 45 cm, also made in 1962, shows the can upside down over the neck of the bottle. It was sold for $ 2.8 million including premium by Sotheby's on May 15, 2007.
The importance of this Warhol painting had been correctly identified. The result, $ 35.3 million including premium, is in line with what one could expect.
1962 Multitude of the Dollars
2015 SOLD for £ 21M including premium
There is no doubt that Andy Warhol loved dollars, not just to fill his pockets but mainly as an undeniable symbol of modern America. He was also busy to create his own legend. Stories about his inspiration on this theme are certainly apocryphal.
On July 1 in London, Sotheby's offers a wide selection of dollar paintings made by Warhol throughout his career, at first in the form of images of bills and later by more or less fanciful representations of the sign.
In early 1962 One Dollar Bill (silver certificate) is the gigantic cut down image of the front side of a one dollar bill. This casein and pencil on linen, 132 x 182 cm, was the first artwork made by Warhol on this theme and his only dollar painted entirely by hand. It is also contemporary with the series painted by hand of the variations on the soup cans. One Dollar Bill is estimated £ 13M, lot 24.
From March 1962 Warhol imagines the multiplication of identical images by using silk screening. The US banknote is a suitable candidate for the first works in the new technique. The monumental 200 One Dollar Bills, 203 x 234 cm, showing 200 front sides in twenty lines of ten notes each, was sold for $ 43.7M including premium by Sotheby's on 11 November 2009.
Coming back to the next sale.
The back of the 2 dollar bill is also the subject of one of the works of 1962 and the excuse for a trial of green silkscreen ink. This painting 211 x 48 cm showing twenty lines of two notes each is estimated £ 5M, lot 27.
Lot 26, estimated £ 12M, is a diptych dated 1962 and 1963 consisting of elements of same size and design as in lot 27. It is dedicated to the one dollar bill of which one of the elements of the diptych displays the front side and the other the back.
2015 RESULTS INCLUDING PREMIUM :
One dollar bill (silver certificate) : £ 21M.
Front and back dollar bills : unsold
Two dollar bills (back) unsold
LATER COMMENT
The Two dollar bills (back) was sold for $ 3M including premium by Sotheby's in New York on May 16, 2018, lot 49 here linked on Artvalue.
1962 The Passion Campbell's
2017 SOLD for $ 27.5M including premium
In 1961 a still unknown Andy Warhol desired to be represented by Leo Castelli but the assistant of the boss was not convinced. Andy accepted the suggestion from a friend to execute a series of paintings featuring the Campbell's soup because it is an artefact that everybody sees everyday.
That first series will ultimately include eleven paintings in casein on linen prepared over a line drawing in graphite. The success encouraged Andy to prepare other popular themes and change to his faster technique using the silkscreen.
Big Campbell's Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable) was sold for $ 24M including premium by Christie's in New York on November 10, 2010, lot 8. It comes back on May 17 in the same auction room, lot 58 B.
I discussed it as follows before the 2010 sale :
The Campbell's soup can, as seen by the user, plays a drama in three acts. First, it is a perfect cylinder adorned with an austere label defining its brand and its flavor selected among 32 varieties. At the end of the operation, it is a shapeless object emptied of its precious liquid, ready to be thrown without mercy into the garbage.
The intermediate act is the opening of the box. Warhol shows a can of vegetable soup with the can opener in place, ready to attack. Made in early 1962, this large size painting 183 x 132 cm is one of the most important in his prolific series of Campbell's soups.
Warhol is at that time one of the artists who want to express the real world, the real life, in the circle of Leo Castelli. Such an artwork confirms that he has already abandoned a previous intention to imitate advertising.
The first visitors to his exhibitions were amused to see a new naive. This view has proven wrong. The daily act of opening the can of soup has a complex meaning in its contradiction : it is both brutal, since it violates the integrity of the box, and ordinary and essential, because it is useless if the user cannot access the soup.
Please watch the video shared by Christie's before the 2017 sale.
1963 The Disaster of America
2013 SOLD 105 M$ including premium
The American dream is not enough to express the world. Very early, Andy Warhol wants to confront death. Death and Disaster is the generic name he gave to this new artistic theme. The news spread by the magazines are horrible. In 1963, Andy rescreened the images of their most terrible car accidents.
On November 13 in New York, Sotheby's sells Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), 267 x 416 cm. It is a diptych, estimated $ 60M. It is illustrated on the blog post shared by Sotheby's.
On the left, the image is repeated fifteen times in three columns and five rows, with some variations in the shades of gray. On the right, the area is empty, as if the horrific scene had an extension inviting for the destruction of other lives and other cars. Warhol made a similar use of the diptych in some pictures of Liz.
Another accident of the same year based on two different images became famous in the history of auctions when Christie's sold Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), 229 x 203 cm, for $ 72M including premium on 16 May 2007 from a lower estimate of $ 25M showing that the tragic dimension of Warhol's art had not yet been appreciated at its fair value .
The pale green of the Burning car and the apparent incompleteness of its sequence in the bottom right corner put this image in the direct continuity of the Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster).
I invite you to play the video shared by Sotheby's.
This highly important Warhol was sold for $ 105M including premium.
The low resolution image below is shared by Wikimedia for fair use :
1964 The Terrible Twentieth Century
The publication by Life magazine on May 17, 1963 of photos of the repression of race riots in Alabama shocked America and the world. The United States are seen as a country in civil war. The land of racial hatred.
This report possibly had the strongest political impact in the history of the press. Kennedy understood that the reforms of laws and behaviors are inevitable. The road will be long, but civil peace will eventually settle. These photos made by Charles Moore for Associated Press are the Guernica of America.
At the same time, Andy Warhol releases the real meaning of his own artistic message. Consumerism is an artifact, advertising is a technique which however has the merit of having shown the expressive power of the multiple image.
Andy chose his press photos around the theme of death in America. The gathering of the Death and Disaster series reveals the true reason of the post mortem portrait of Marilyn. Warhol's message did not receive the same immediate impact as Guernica's. It took almost half a century before the multiples of the Car Crash are pushed toward the top position in the art of the twentieth century.
Recuperating the photos published by Life, the Race Riot by Warhol is his most political image, using a historical event in progress. He hates violence and fears death. The running Black is the victim, the dog excited to bite is the symbol of horror.
After painting a few units of the Race Riot, Warhol made in 1964 a multiple 2 x 2. In the top register, white color is the truth and blue is chilling. On the down side the double red is blood.
This quadruple Race Riot, 152 x 168 cm overall, is for sale on May 13 at Christie's in New York. The estimate of $ 50M was released by Christie's in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
I invite you to play the video shared by Christie's to introduce this lot.
The quad of Race Riot is a major piece by Warhol, sold for $ 63M including premium.
1964 The Gang of Thirteen
2018 SOLD for $ 28.4M including premium
In 1964 the World's Fair of New York is dedicated to progress, like any other. Several artists are invited to decorate the exterior wall of the New York State pavilion. This will be the first and last public commission attributed to Andy Warhol, the rest of the story shows why.
Warhol's concerns run counter to the required optimism. He had started in the previous year his Death and Disaster series showing off the bad side of America. He cannot install his electric chairs or car crashes on this wall that will be seen by the public. He does not choose the empty chair but the portrait of the people who could go up on it.
A friend gave him a printed police booklet with pictures of the thirteen most wanted bandits and a short categorization of their crime. Most of the criminals have their two police photos, face and profile, with the Ben-day dots. Andy makes giant silkscreens 125 x 97 cm from these small images.
He assembles his mural in five rows of five columns that form a disturbing set with a total of 22 actual images. The viewer can play to find which figures are shown only once. Any couple of photos is either joined or scattered. The three positions at the bottom right are empty according to the style that he had previously applied in the Car Crashes.
After discussion with the organizers, Andy covers all of that with an opaque layer of silver paint. The wall picture so disappears just before the opening of the Fair. Several hypotheses have been proposed. I would say that the FBI could not let an artist do the police work.
A little later in the same year, Warhol prepares from his preserved silkscreens the portraits of the bandits both as a single image and as a diptych, using the same numbering as the police notebook. On May 17 in New York, Christie's sells as lot 15 B a diptych of the Most Wanted Men No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr.
In this sinister face book, the robber John Joseph is one of the most disturbing because he appears as an ordinary man, young and handsome. The author of a gang attack with armed hands in a liquor store, he offended the police by escaping before his trial. A gangster remains a man : if he is caught, should he be executed?
Please watch the video shared by Christie's.
1967-1968 The Ghostly Chair
2014 SOLD for $ 20.4M including premium by Sotheby's
2019 SOLD for $ 19M including premium
PRE 2019 SALE DISCUSSION
Andy Warhol becomes famous in 1962 with his multiple paintings of Marilyn Monroe, started just after the death of the actress from a single image transferred to silkscreen. Geldzahler suggests that the artist treats the theme of death more explicitly. His macabre series is identified as Death and Disaster.
Paradoxically the most shocking image does not display death but only its instrument. In 1964 Warhol prepares a screen from a photo of the Sing Sing electric chair, in the middle of its big empty room, without any human presence. He makes 32 monochrome paintings 56 x 71 cm, each one in another color, conceived to be exhibited together. The chilling blue version was sold for $ 11.6M including premium by Christie's on November 10, 2015.
In 1967 Warhol prepares for the next year a new exhibition that will focus on the two extreme themes, life and death, symbolized by the flowers and by the electric chair. He executes in 1967 and 1968 14 large paintings 137 x 188 cm of the electric chair based on an enlargement of the central part of the original image.
Most of these paintings are monochrome. One of them is an exception. The background consists of three oblique stripes that symbolize life : blue of the sky, green of the grass, pink of the flesh. The chair is printed twice, in army green and dark purple, more threatening by their very low contrast with the background.
This Big Electric Chair was sold for $ 20.4M including premium by Sotheby's on May 14, 2014. It is estimated $ 18M for sale by Christie's in New York on November 13, lot 20 B.
All the Warhol chairs were painted after the decommissioning of the Sing Sing instrument, decided in 1963. Indeed other similar chairs continued to function in the world, but it will never be clear whether Warhol had an activivist intent behind this morbid theme. In June 1968 the assassination attempt on Warhol by Valerie Solanas is a real encounter between the artist and death.
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Children of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants Have Heightened Risk of Behavior Problems
Children of undocumented Mexican immigrants have a significantly higher risk of behavior problems than their co-ethnic counterparts with documented or naturalized citizen mothers, according to a new study.
The difficulties come in two forms: sadness or social withdrawal — what the authors refer to as internalizing behavior problems — and issues such as aggressiveness towards others — which the authors call externalizing behavior problems.
Shift to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Identities in Early Adulthood Tied to Depressive Symptoms
People whose sexual identities changed toward same-sex attraction in early adulthood reported more symptoms of depression in a nationwide survey than those whose sexual orientations did not change or changed in the opposite direction, according to a new study by a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) sociologist.
Study Uses Internet and Social Media to Show How Fracking Documentary Influenced Public Perception and Political Change
Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change.
But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.
Building Child-Centered Social Movements
Subsidized campus childcare was hard-won and remains very effective, while budget cuts and the privatization of childcare threaten centers across the country.
"Both Sides of the Story": History Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Scholars have documented the emergence of apparently race-neutral discourses that serve to entrench racial stratification following the elimination of de jure segregation. These discourses deny the existence of both present-day racism and the contemporary effects of histories of racial oppression. Researchers posit that individuals are socialized into these views, but little empirical attention has been paid to the processes through which such socialization occurs.
Prayers, Protest, and Police: How Religion Influences Police Presence at Collective Action Events in the United States, 1960 to 1995
Do police treat religious-based protest events differently than secular ones? Drawing on data from more than 15,000 protest events in the United States (1960 to 1995) and using quantitative methods, we find that law enforcement agents were less likely to show up at protests when general religious actors, actions, or organizations were present. Rather than reflecting privileged legitimacy, we find that this protective effect is explained by religious protesters’ use of less threatening tactics at events.
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Economic Weekly: RBNZ - Call back in February
The RBNZ are expected to hold the OCR at record lows this week and defer any decisions until further details arrive. The RBA is expected to hold the cash rate at 1.50% and it is in no hurry to raise interest rates.
No imminent changes to US monetary policy direction, with the nomination of Jerome Powell for next Fed chair. The proposed USD 1.5 trillion US tax package has a few hurdles to jump through.
Prices are expected to nudge higher at this week’s dairy auction. We are sticking with our $6.75 milk price forecast for 2017/18.
Date 06-Nov-2017
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JAPAN: Legend has it that Kublai Khan’s grand fleet, dispatched to conquer Japan, was destroyed by “kamikaze,” or divinely sent typhoons, in A.D. 1274 and 1281. The story has long been believed to involve some level of exaggeration, but a recent study of sediments in Lake Daija, near the invasion site, suggests that the Mongol era certainly saw some devastating storms. The results show that marine floods (caused by storm surges or tsunamis) were more severe between A.D. 250 and 1600 than they are today, and that there were at least two major such events in the late 13th century.—Samir S. Patel
TAIWAN: A fisherman recently pulled up a surprise catch: a prehistoric hominin jawbone. The robust bone could have belonged to Homo erectus or to the Denisovan people known from a cave site in Russia, but its particularly thick dentition suggests it could be different from both. That, and its surprisingly young age (around 190,000 years old), hint at an unexpected diversity of ancient human lineages around the periphery of Asia, even as attributes of modern humans began to emerge elsewhere.—Samir S. Patel
CHINA: Climate is a complex system, and sometimes a switch can just flip, changing things forever. Climatologists recently studied an arid area called the Hunshandake Sandy Lands of Inner Mongolia and found that the region suddenly changed around 4,000 years ago, when shifts in the monsoon and the flow of groundwater dried the area out in a matter of decades. What had been a land of lakes, grasslands, and forest—home to the Hongshan culture, which may have been China’s first kingdom—rapidly became desert, devastating the Hongshan.—Samir S. Patel
EGYPT: The Spanish mission to Luxor has discovered an intact coffin dating to the end of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) and the beginning of the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070–712 B.C.). Hieroglyphs identify the occupant as a “Singer of Amun, King of the Gods,” a member of a class of women who played instruments, danced, and sang at religious ceremonies. The wooden coffin is unusual in its transitional style, and it is expected that cleaning and examination will reveal more about the identity of the mummy inside.—Samir S. Patel
RUSSIA: Death during childbirth was a common occurrence in the ancient world, but for a variety of reasons—cultural practices, lack of preservation—it is rarely observed directly in the archaeological record. Remains of a young woman from the Cis-Baikal site of Lokomotiv, dating to around 8,000 years ago, include fetal bones both within the abdominal region and just outside of it, evidence for two archaeological rarities: death during childbirth and twins. The remains suggest that the first child was in the dangerous breech position, and was partially born but unable to be removed.—Samir S. Patel
UKRAINE: Excavation and geophysical tests have allowed archaeologists to get a better sense of what may be one of the largest structures in prehistoric Europe, at the site of Nebelivka, but many mysteries remain. Belonging to the Trypillia culture, dating to 5300 to 2700 B.C., the site includes 1,500 structures, including massive assembly houses, one nearly an acre in size. Interestingly, the artifacts found in the large houses closely resemble what was found in typical households, as if the mega-structures were treated like houses with extra-large dimensions.—Samir S. Patel
ENGLAND: Excavations at the new National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at King Charles II Palace in Suffolk have revealed the remains of an unknown horse in a location that suggests it had been a prized animal. Researchers initially suspected that the bones belong to racing legend Doctor Syntax, who won 36 races between 1814 and 1823 and was put down in 1838. The teeth suggest the horse died at a younger age than Doctor Syntax had, but the hope is that genetic testing will provide more details.—Samir S. Patel
FRANCE: Using a novel method—radiocarbon dating of trapped iron carbide flakes—metallographers and archaeologists have confirmed that metal reinforcements used in Gothic cathedrals were not later additions, but rather were part of the initial construction process. Samples taken from cathedrals in Bourges and Beauvais reveal that metal tie-rods and chains were incorporated either during the initial design phase or as builders were working, the latter suggesting that cathedral building sites were like laboratories for new building techniques.—Samir S. Patel
SPAIN: In a deep deposit at El Mirador Cave—spanning the Early Neolithic to the Bronze Age (7,200 to 3,100 years ago)—archaeologists have found evidence of human consumption of dogs, wild cats, badgers, and foxes. The carnivore bones appear to have been butchered, broken, cooked, and gnawed by humans. Consumption of dog meat appears sporadically but repeatedly, while bones of the other carnivore species are less frequent. Researchers suspect they might have been accidentally hunted, but also may have provided extra protein in times of scarcity.—Samir S. Patel
BELIZE: The Great Blue Hole, a limestone sinkhole 40 miles offshore, is widely recognized as one of the world’s great scuba destinations. The sediment in and around it also provides information about past climate. The concentration of titanium and the ratio of titanium to aluminum rise and fall with rainfall, so by analyzing sediment cores, earth scientists have determined that there were severe droughts between A.D. 800 and 900, and again between 1000 and 1100. The two periods correspond with the declines of the Terminal Classic Maya cities and Chichén Itzá, respectively.—Samir S. Patel
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The Cult of Amun
The Minoans of Crete
Letter From Hawaii
The Charred Scrolls of Herculaneum
Viking Trading or Raiding?
Telecom History Deep Beneath the Pacific
How Grass Became Maize
Medicine on the High Seas
A Western Wiki-pedia
Catching Fire and Keeping It
Oysters for the Earth Goddess
Ant Explorers
A Soul of a City
A Slice of Parasitic Life
The Price of a Warship
Medieval Leather, Vellum, and Fur
A Shipwreck in Drydock
Mongol Fashion Statement
Badgers for dinner in Neolithic Spain, the search for Doctor Syntax, a rare coffin emerges in Egypt, Ukraine’s prehistoric McMansions, and fishing for Homo erectus
A pagan palindrome in a Christian capital shows how old beliefs die hard
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Aston Rowant Church of England Primary School
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Idyllic village school
We are tucked away in the beautiful village of Aston Rowant, lucky enough to have the Chiltern Hills on our doorstep and the wonderful, rolling countryside of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire nearby. There are horses in the lane, cows in the field, frogs in our pond and squirrels on the playground.
So what is it really like to go to a small rural school?
Well, the school is like an extended family, the children have a tremendous sense of belonging. We have acres of space for the pupils to play and learn in, parent volunteers help in sorts of ways and the community links are strong, long lasting and intergenerational. Our links with St Peter and St Paul's church are rooted firmly in our distinctively Christian ethos.
What do Aston Rowant children say about our school?
It's easy to work hard here because it is so peaceful
You get much more attention because the class sizes are small
It's quiet and we have calm places where we can just 'be'.
There's enough space to play football every day.
In our Xmas play and at the end of the year, everyone gets at least one part in the show.
You are noticed more.
We all know each other really well.
We learn outdoors all the time - even in the snow!
We came here because we wanted to.
You know everyone and everyone knows you, so it feels safe.
The lessons are really good because you have a say about what you learn.
We have lots of responsibilities. I am a school councillor, I organise the music for our collective worship and I am an eco warrior. So we get to have more opportunities to take a lead role.
Everyone is kind because nobody spoils it for others.
We all have someone to talk to.
I am really good at maths and my teacher noticed really quickly so it just got harder!
We have time to enjoy school - it's not rushed and busy.
Nobody shouts here. We talk things through.
It is idyllic and working in a small tight-knit team means all the staff feel a sense of belonging and job satisfaction. We all work towards a shared goal and it really feels like we are making a difference together.
There are challenges though, as bubbling beneath this rural paradise are the pressures of per pupil funding. The main determinant of school funding is the number of pupils. At Aston Rowant and other rural schools there may be as few as 4 children in a year group or as many as 15. This brings chaos to school budgets. Each year we have to ask ourselves if we can afford a teacher? Can we afford new resources? Can we afford repairs to our Victorian school building? Can we afford to send our teachers on new training courses?
With such supportive parents and a strong PTA we are able to raise significant funds for additional projects in school such as the upgrading of our soft play area which is a focus for fundraising this year. We are lucky in that respect.
Maintaining our pupil numbers is so important to keeping afloat. We all consider ourselves so lucky to work in such a wonderful place. Our school community, as small as it is, makes up an important part of our children's primary years that they will remember for a lifetime. Often when I see past pupils they always reflect on the fun times and great foundations that were built at Aston Rowant. We develop a nurtured bespoke learning environment second to none.
If you would like to come and visit our school, we are still holding open mornings on a Friday mornings from 9am -10am. Alternatively, if you would prefer a 1:1 tour of the school with myself, please make an appointment via the school office.
We welcome visits and tours of our lovely school! Come and see our bespoke creative curriculum in action.
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Lawless Saga, Book 1
Autor: Tarah Benner
Sprecher: Jennifer O'Donnell
When Lark was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn't like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law. She didn't realize she'd be fighting for survival on a daily basis - battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy's iron fist. Lark's only friend is Bernie - an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson - and a mysterious stranger who's been sending her illicit messages from the men's colony.
Serie: Lawless Saga, Titel 1
Lark is on the run again, pursued by the same agents who betrayed her. She broke the rules. She has blood on her hands. And she has something they want desperately. When the gang’s helicopter crashes while landing in the Rio Grande, all their troubles come to a head. Soren is haunted by his discovery at Cheyenne Mountain. His grief is making him bitter and distant, and Lark fears the chasm growing between them. Homeland Security is closing in, and they will stop at nothing to bring Lark into custody.
When Lark, Soren, and Axel disappear from Kingsville, Bernie learns that her friends have been captured by Homeland Security. They're being detained at Cheyenne Mountain Complex, an impenetrable government fortress where prisoners have been known to disappear. Homeland Security wants information on GreenSeed, but Soren is still reeling from his discovery in Kingsville. He's combative and inconsolable, while Axel is determined to block the government at every turn.
When Lark and Soren escaped from San Judas, all they wanted was their freedom. Soren was desperate to rescue his younger brother from an abusive guardian, and Lark ached for a fresh start in life. What they found instead was a world destroyed - a country ravaged by drought, famine, and violent storms. And when the gang is taken hostage by an ex-Marine and his family of misfits, they learn a disturbing truth about San Judas and the broken world that remains.
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Mick McCarthy relishing 'interesting' potential clash between Northern Ireland and Republic for Euro 2020 spot
Mick McCarthy knows his Republic of Ireland side will only go into Group E at the Euro 2020 finals if they win their play-off path in March
By Steven Beacom
December 2 2019 10:10 AM
Republic of Ireland boss Mick McCarthy has likened the draw for the group stages of the Euro 2020 finals to the old ITV quiz show Bullseye - and anyone connected with Northern Ireland will know exactly what he means.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/mick-mccarthy-relishing-interesting-potential-clash-between-northern-ireland-and-republic-for-euro-2020-spot-38743708.html
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On Saturday in Bucharest, Northern Ireland were placed in the same group as Spain, Poland and Sweden but they will only play those nations in June if Michael O'Neill's men come through the play-offs in March.
It's the same for McCarthy's Republic who could end up facing O'Neill's Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in an eagerly anticipated play-off final on March 31.
To make that happen Northern Ireland must win their semi-final away to Bosnia & Herzegovina on March 26 and the Republic have to do likewise in Slovakia.
Euro 2020 draw: All you need to know as Northern Ireland to face Spain, Sweden and Poland if play-off success secured in March
While the Republic are amongst many hosts for the tournament, Northern Ireland fans would have the shortest trip possible for two of the group games because the matches against Poland and Sweden would be in Dublin.
Steven Davis and co would start with the Poles, who beat them 1-0 in the Euro 2016 group stages, at the Aviva stadium on Monday, June 15 and then Sweden would be the opponents at the same ground on Friday, June 19. The final group game would see the Green and White Army travel to Bilbao on Wednesday, June 24 for a contest with Spain.
The Republic, or Bosnia and Slovakia come to that, would face the same schedule.
So many ifs, buts and maybes led McCarthy to make the humorous comparison with the popular darts based show Bullseye when contestants would be shown what the top prize was even if they didn't win it.
"I was looking at the draw and it was like this is what you could have won or what you could be guaranteed doing but we are not there yet," said McCarthy.
On a more serious tone, McCarthy added that he would take a derby final in Belfast right now.
"We have the hardest route. We have Slovakia away and if we win that we then play the winners of Northern Ireland and Bosnia which should be interesting," McCarthy said.
"I'm sure a lot of people want it to be Northern Ireland versus the Republic.
"That would be an interesting game if it turns out that way.
"I'll settle for that because I would love to get to the second game."
McCarthy leaves the Republic manager's job when their Euro 2020 campaign is over be that at the play-off stage or the finals. The ex-Wolves, Ipswich, Sunderland and Millwall boss would be keen to return to club football.
Michael O'Neill is already there with Stoke City but will take charge of his country in March and the players want him to be the boss at the finals should Northern Ireland get there.
The 50-year-old will have taken note of the Euro 2020 draw but right now is focused on struggling Stoke, who on Saturday lost their second league game in a row under O'Neill going down 2-1 at home to Blackburn Rovers.
Of much more importance Stoke striker Benik Afobe, on a season long loan deal with Bristol City, announced yesterday that his family is "devastated and heartbroken" after his two-year-old daughter Amora died on Friday.
"Amora was taken to hospital for treatment after unexpectedly developing a severe infection," a statement said.
"Unfortunately she then suffered a number of serious complications and, despite doctors doing absolutely everything that they could, Amora passed away peacefully with the love of her family by her side."
The draw pitted England against their World Cup semi-final conquerors Croatia, plus the Czech Republic and the winner of the play-off series featuring Scotland.
England will play all their three group games at Wembley, and if they top Group D they would play the runner-up from Group F - far and away the toughest-looking pool - in Dublin.
Second place would put England up against the runner-up from Group E, which contains Spain, Poland, Sweden and a play-off winner, possibly Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland.
Wales face Switzerland, Turkey and group favourites Italy.
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After Kyle Lafferty's arrival at Sunderland, another two Northern Ireland forwards could be making their way through the club's revolving door.
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Michael O'Neill is poised to make his first signing as Stoke City manager by bringing in one of his international midfielders.
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Northern Ireland winger Matty Kennedy will join Aberdeen this summer after penning a pre-contract deal with the club.
Northern Ireland international Ciara Watling joins Charlton Athletic
Northern Ireland international Ciara Watling has signed for Charlton Athletic in the Championship after leaving Crystal Palace.
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Another legal challenge in Brexit saga
By AAP Newswire
Anti-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament - AAP
Campaigners have launched a fresh legal challenge to force Boris Johnson to write to the European Union asking for a Brexit extension if he refuses.
And they believe that if he fails to comply with the law passed by parliament aimed at preventing a no-deal, then the court could have the power to send the letter in his absence.
The challenge has been lodged at the same Edinburgh court that ruled the prime minister's suspension of parliament was unlawful, and is being led by the same campaigners.
With the PM saying he would rather be "dead in a ditch" than ask Brussels for a delay to Brexit past the Halloween deadline, there have been fears Johnson may refuse to do so.
But he is compelled to ask for an extension to the end of January if he fails to convince MPs to back a Withdrawal Agreement or support a no-deal by October 19, after parliament passed the so-called Benn Act.
SNP MP Joanna Cherry and barrister Jolyon Maugham said they issued proceedings at Scotland's highest court, the Inner House of the Court of Session, on Thursday.
Maugham said they have selected Scotland for the case because judges there have the "nobile officium" power that could allow the court to sign the letter if the PM refuses.
"The rule of law is not a thing to be grifted - not even by the prime minister," he said.
"We expect that the Inner House will be mindful of the deadline set out in the Benn Act, and will deal with the matter speedily."
They won a case that sent political shockwaves through the UK and prompted calls for the government to bring back parliament, when three senior judges ruled that the PM had acted unlawfully.
Johnson went on to deny lying to the Queen to secure the five-week prorogation of parliament.
He insisted he sought the suspension for the government to set out a new legislative agenda in a Queen's Speech when MPs return on October 14.
The judges concluded on Wednesday that Johnson had acted with the "purpose of stymying parliament".
But the government is appealing and the case is scheduled to go to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The same court will also hear an appeal in a case brought by campaigner Gina Miller over the suspension.
The High Court in London rejected her case, saying the decision to prorogue is "purely political" and cannot be capable of challenge in the courts.
A Number 10 source said Downing Street had been notified of the latest legal proceedings and that a response would be issued in due course.
Fears ‘huge’ part of Blue Mountains burnt
This season’s bushfires have “rewritten the rule book” as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains have been lost.
AAP Newswire
Vic emergency fire warnings downgraded
Residents in Victoria’s bushfire-ravaged alpine region had an anxious night after being told to evacuate.
Hero’s treatment for remote NT graduates
Young Aboriginal people in remote communities must overcome great obstacles to complete secondary school, but more are succeeding than ever before.
Six dead as sinkhole opens in China street
At least six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured when part of a road and footpath collapsed suddenly into the ground in Xining, China.
Protests erupt across Iran for second day
Riot police have stepped up their presence in Tehran after protests following the Iranian military’s admission it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner.
UK royals to hold talks over Harry, Meghan
The British royals and the Duke of Sussex will meet on Monday to find a solution to Meghan and Harry’s future roles.
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UC Berkeley Web Feature
Computer rendering of architecture award winner Jess Field's project for Romeo Pier.
Snapshots of the artists: 27 students win Eisner Awards celebrating campus creative talent
By Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter | 20 April 2006
BERKELEY – UC Berkeley is often described proudly as one of the nation's top research universities, but some forget that there are plenty of "right brains" to balance out the left ones on this campus. As evidence, look no further than the 27 students below, recipients of an Eisner Award bestowed for the "highest achievement in the creative arts."
Sometimes talents for the humanities and science even coexist peacefully in the same head. Ian Cheng, for example, who won an Eisner for Film and Video, is an art practice and cognitive science double major whose projects employ software and art in harmonious — and hilarious — combinations. And Mark Massoud, a Boalt Hall graduate who is now a graduate student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, won an Eisner for his prose — a collection of short stories written while in Sudan on a legal internship.
The Eisner Awards got their start in 1963 with a $250,000 grant from Samuel Marks to promote the arts at Berkeley. Marks named the prize for his stepdaughter, Roselyn Schneider Eisner, an artist and sculptor who graduated in 1933. Although the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Arts flirted with the idea of using the money to commission a monumental sculpture by Picasso for the campus, it decided instead to recommend that prizes be given in each of the creative arts. Eisner Awards range in size from $2,000 to $6,000; $62,000 was awarded total this year. Departments determine their prize criteria individually, except for Literature, Film and Video, and Photo Imaging, which are handled by a central Committee on Prizes. There will be an award ceremony for the winners on May 7 at 4 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Faculty Club.
Read about the students who won Eisner Awards in:
This page: Architecture | Art | City and Regional Planning | Film and Video | Landscape Architecture | Literature
Page two: Music | Performing Arts (Dance and Theater) | Photo Imaging
Gary T. Ku, fourth-year architecture major
Hometown: Anaheim, CA
Past projects: "My fall 2005 studio project was an East Asian Library for UC Berkeley" [interior perspective rendering, right]
Now working on: "My studio project for a winery in Napa Valley. The
project's focus is the integration of the landscape with the built
intervention, by designing both according to an underlying site-wide
formal logic."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "A one-way ticket to some far-off place for some crazy post-graduation exploration … or a new MacBook Pro."
Jess Field, graduate student, architecture (May 2006)
Hometown: Half Moon Bay, CA
Past projects: "Working in Los Angeles and Vienna with Tom Wycombe for the past year, as project designer on the micro multiple tower project exhibited at the School of Architecture at UCLA, and on the international ideas competition for the Seoul Performing Arts Center, which won second place."
Now working on: "My graduate thesis in architecture, focusing on Romeo Pier, a deteriorating pier sitting in the Pillar Point Harbor in San Mateo County, to be redesigned as a marine rescue station. My design proposes preservation of a central axis of existing piles which reveal the structure of the new program as they decompose over time."
"The Arboreal Goatbarn," from Smith's Eisner portfolio.
Erik Karstan Smith, fourth-year architecture major
Hometown: Santa Clara, CA
Past projects: "At nine years old I was on the job site picking up scrap lumber. I spent my evenings after school and summers framing houses from 9 to 16 years old. I love the smell of moist fresh sawdust in the morning."
Now working on: "A project about the Del Monte Cannery #3 in San Jose, CA. The building is significant and historical, yet the city of San Jose is allowing a developer to demolish it. My project deals with the reuse of the building as a landscape preserve, while simultaneously reaching out into the community with walls of water and images."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "To purchase a new camera and take a road trip to the Southwest to document indigenous sites."
Jonn Herschend, MFA candidate, Art Practice (May 2006)
Hometown: San Francisco, CA ("for the last 13 years; I was raised in a Midwestern amusement park")
Past projects: A video PowerPoint presentation called "What a Man Really Is, and What He Is Not" from 2005 [still at left] is currently showing at the Lab in San Francisco until May 6. "That's me in the wolf/rat suit; the photo was taken by Shane King."
Now working on: "An infomercial about the importance of ambiguity in life, called 'Everything is Better Now.'"
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "Production of 'Everything,' mainly paying actors and my cinematographer. Which is so much better than asking everyone to do it for free."
Joe McKay (Mike Kenny photo)
Joe McKay, first-year MFA candidate, Art Practice
Hometown: London, Ontario, Canada
Past projects: One of Joe's websites, Prereview [reviews of movies that haven't been made yet], was simultaneously named both "cool site of the day" by Coolsiteoftheday.com and "unfortunate site of the week" by Time Out New York. And in the New Yorker's What's On section, McKay's installation piece "Color Game" was described as "a low-tech, hands-on cross between Nintendo and Josef Albers' color squares."
Now working on: "Photographing UFOs that are cleverly disguising themselves as streetlights [image at right]. I am also creating a new computer input device with small trampolines."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "It will most likely go to the fine folks at Fry's electronics — either a whole bunch of little things or one really fancy big thing, but rest assured it'll be money well spent."
More work samples: McKay's website
Alicia McCarthy, graduate student
Past projects: McCarthy's artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been a codirecter for the "In the Street" street theatre festival for the past six years and has taught numerous free art courses to elementary and high school students in San Francisco and Oakland since 1997.
Work samples: Jack Hanley Gallery
Will Rogan, MFA candidate, art practice
Hometown: Highland Park, IL
Past projects: He has been an artist in residence in London, Taiwan, and Maine. He has spent most of the last two years thinking about Anne Hodges, a woman who was hit by a meteorite in 1954. Last year he held this meteorite, which is heavy, almost too heavy for its size. He thinks of himself as a sculptor and is often thought of by others as a photographer.
Future plans: Filming a movie he is encouraging his daughters — ages 4 and 6, "the only things that make him truly happy" — to write. "It's about magic, or animals, or magic animals."
Jacob Licht, graduate student in city planning
Hometown: Encino, CA
Now working on: "I was just selected (as part of a multidisciplinary Berkeley team) as one of four finalists in the Urban Land Institute Gerald Hines Urban Design competition. The project [pictured below] was an urban infill site near downtown St. Louis involving complex transportation, brownfields, and community integration issues. We placed second place, winning $10,000."
Previous life: "My passion for the physical environment stems from my youthful days following my father, an architectural photographer, on photo shoots throughout Los Angeles. I am also a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and have professional hopes of using my skills as an attorney to create stronger connections between policy-makers and designers."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "My fiancée and I are getting married this summer and traveling around the world for a year to Asia, Africa, and Europe. The money will definitely help insure that we make it back home."
Eric Martin, fourth-year film major
Hometown: Auburn, CA
Past projects: Has been involved in various capacities in more than 25 major productions. Directed "Unknown," a short film that won Martin the Eisner prize (still, left).
Now working on: "A film about narcissism and sexual deviancy."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "What's a more appropriate accoutrement for an aspiring filmmaker than a car?"
See his work: The Pacific Film Archive will screen the Eisner winners' work May 7.
Ian Cheng, fourth-year art practice and cognitive science double major
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Now working on: "Several interactive art installations that explore human physical limitations, augmented space, and augmented reality. I just finished a piece called "Harmony Club" [still, right] in which a participant speaks into a microphone, and that audio data is analyzed for pitch, duration, and volume. Depending on these variables, the spoken input gets mapped to one of four barbershop character heads projected on screen — a bass, a tenor, an alto, and a soprano. The corresponding head repeats that audio indefinitely and sporadically until some other participant (whose vocal range activates that same barbershop head) overrides the sound. Together, the four heads on loop create a humorous musical composition that doubles as an evolving archive of participant input."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "It has given me a more comfortable resource pool from which I was able to recently purchase more video and audio equipment for personal experimentation. A lot of times I think resource limitations can lead to highly creative solutions, but just as well, this new spending freedom has afforded me an opportunity to think and create with more sophisticated tools.
Jordan Zlotoff, third-year graduate student, landscape architecture
Hometown: Dillsburg, PA
Past projects: Zlotoff worked as a field ecologist, a plant nurseryman, and in various other trades before beginning graduate school at Berkeley.
Now working on: "A proposal for new levee design alternatives for certain islands within the California delta to address seismic risk of flooding, create new wildlife habitat, and provide new recreation opportunities."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "A trip to Europe this summer. I will bicycle along the Rhine River from its headwaters in the French Alps to the delta in the Netherlands."
More info: "Reclaiming Urban Wasteland For Urban Ecology" in Philadelphia [PDF of Eisner submission]
LITERATURE: POETRY
Hillary Gravendyk Burrill, third-year Ph.D. candidate, English
Hometown: Carnation, WA
Past projects: Co-curates the campus reading series "Poems against War." Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in "The Colorado Review," "1913: A journal of forms," "The Eleventh Muse," "Fourteen Hills," "The Bellingham Review," and other publications.
Now working on: "A poetry manuscript called "The Sensible Horizon." Using experimental poetic forms, the work is concerned with the intersection of nature, sentiment, and perception in the body of the lyric. Many of the poems thematize the limits or breakdown of language at the moment of poetic articulation. I'm also translating the German-language poems of my great aunt, Erna Hummel, who lived and published in Russia."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "Taking the summer off from working/teaching in order to finish writing and revising my poetry. My goal is to have the book-length work complete by September. Of course, the money will also allow me to buy lots of other poets' books, which is a treat!"
LITERATURE: PROSE
Elaine Castillo, third-year comparative literature major
Hometown: San Francisco, CA (currently)
Past projects: This is Castillo's third Eisner Award.
Now working on: A collection of stories and novellas, tentatively titled "Postcard from the Volcano." (Read a poem from Castillo's work in progress)
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "Paying for the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, where I will work on my collection with the author Jim Shepard."
Massoud with a shepherd in Sudan last summer.
Mark Massoud, Boalt Hall '05, fourth-year graduate student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
Recent projects: "The collection of short stories that received the Eisner Prize was written primarily in summer 2005, when I was in Sudan on a legal internship with the Rule of Law Unit of the United Nations Development Programme."
Now working on: "Researching and writing my Ph.D. dissertation on how grassroots nongovernmental legal organizations build the rule of law in failed states. Most research on the topic comes from political science and focuses on advanced and emerging democracies. My goal is to apply that work to the case of a failed state. I will use Sudan as a primary source, and existing literature on advanced and emerging democracies as secondary sources. The project is also exciting because it builds on existing — primarily American — literature in critical race theory and political theory around law; two areas of scholarship rarely seen in tandem. My focus for this project is Sudan, where I plan to return next year for further research."
Plans for the Eisner prize money: "I spent it on the war in Iraq, social security, Medicare, highways, and — some would cynically argue — torture. In other words, I paid federal taxes. I donated the remainder to my parish in San Jose, the St. Elias Melkite Greek Catholic Church, which is about as strapped for cash as Berkeley graduate students are."
Website: www.markmassoud.com
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HALLE TANZBÜHNE BERLIN
The Halle Tanzbühne Berlin is the production house and venue of the dance ensemble toula limanaios. The space in the historically listed 19th century sports hall opened in 2000 and it has subsequently been the workplace of many other artists as well.
Photo: (c) Marcus Lieberenz
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents contemporary artistic perspectives at the cutting edge of theatre, dance and performance. In addition the programme regularly also features music, visual art and discourse.
Photo: © Frank Paul / Haus der Kulturen der Welt
HKW creates a forum for the contemporary arts and critical debates. In the midst of global and planetary transformation processes, HKW re-explores artistic positions, scientific concepts, and spheres of political activity.
Photo: Verena Eidel
The Heimathafen Neukölln presents a varied programme of plays, musicals, concerts, readings and new theatre forms with the motto "WE ARE THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE".
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James Chapman
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Emerging from the Shadows: Market-Based Financing in Canada
Financial System Review - June 2011 James Chapman, Lawrence L. Schembri, Stéphane Lavoie
Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review Article
Payment Networks: A Review of Recent Research
Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2010-2011 James Chapman, Lana Embree, Tom Roberts, Nellie Zhang
In this article, the authors review work done at the Bank of Canada and at other central banks with the relatively new application of network analysis to the study of payments systems.
Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review Article Topic(s): Central bank research, Payment clearing and settlement systems
Central Bank Haircut Policy
Staff Working Paper 2010-23 James Chapman, Jonathan Chiu, Miguel Molico
We present a model of central bank collateralized lending to study the optimal choice of the haircut policy. We show that a lending facility provides a bundle of two types of insurance: insurance against liquidity risk as well as insurance against downside risk of the collateral.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Financial services, Financial system regulation and policies, Monetary policy implementation, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E40, E5, E50
Estimating the Structure of the Payment Network in the LVTS: An Application of Estimating Communities in Network Data
Staff Working Paper 2010-13 James Chapman, Nellie Zhang
In the Canadian large value payment system an important goal is to understand how liquidity is transferred through the system and hence how efficient the system is in settling payments. Understanding the structure of the underlying network of relationships between participants in the payment system is a crucial step in achieving the goal.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Financial stability, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C1, C11, D, D8, D85, G, G2, G20
Which Bank is the "Central" Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System
Staff Working Paper 2008-42 Morten Bech, James Chapman, Rod Garratt
We use a method similar to Google's PageRank procedure to rank banks in the Canadian Large Value Transfer System (LVTS). Along the way we obtain estimates of the payment processing speeds for the individual banks.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C1, C11, E, E5, E50, G, G2, G20
Liquidity Efficiency and Distribution in the LVTS: Non-Neutrality of System Changes under Network Asymmetry
Staff Discussion Paper 2008-11 Sean O'Connor, James Chapman, Kirby Millar
The authors consider the liquidity efficiency of Tranche 2 of the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS T2) by examining, through an empirical analysis, some plausible strategic reactions of individual participants to a systemwide shock to available liquidity in the system.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Financial Institutions, Financial services, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, L, L1, L13, L14
A Model of Tiered Settlement Networks
Financial System Review - June 2008 James Chapman, Jonathan Chiu, Miguel Molico
Policy Coordination in an International Payment System
Staff Working Paper 2008-17 James Chapman
Given the increasing interdependence of both financial systems and attendant payment and settlement systems a vital question is what form should optimal policy take when there are two connected payment systems with separate regulators.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Exchange rate regimes, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, E5, E58, F, F3, F31, F33
This paper develops a model of settlement system to study the endogenous structure of settlement networks, and the welfare consequences of clearing agent failure. The equilibrium degree of tiering is endogenously determined by the cost structure and the information structure.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, E5, E58, G, G2, G21
Rediscounting Under Aggregate Risk with Moral Hazard
Staff Working Paper 2007-51 James Chapman, Antoine Martin
Freeman (1999) proposes a model in which discount window lending and open market operations have different effects. This is important because in most of the literature, these policies are indistinguishable.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Financial markets, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, G, G2, G20
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Simon Parkes: Bone fragments found in missing Royal Navy man hunt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-50684643
Image copyright Hampshire Constabulary
Image caption Police began to search Trafalgar Cemetery on Monday
Bone fragments have been found during a police search for the body of a Royal Navy sailor who is thought to have been murdered in Gibraltar in 1986.
Naval rating Simon Parkes, 18, from Kingswood near Bristol, disappeared while on shore leave with crewmates.
Police began searches of Gibraltar's Trafalgar Cemetery on Monday after receiving new information.
Detectives said the bones "may or may not be human" and they were treating the discovery with caution.
They said their appeal for information had generated "promising leads" which would be followed up in the UK and Gibraltar.
Image copyright Family handout
Image caption Simon Parkes disappeared after spending the evening in bars in Gibraltar
Mr Parkes vanished when his ship, HMS Illustrious, docked in Gibraltar on 12 December 1986 on its return to Portsmouth from a deployment to Asia and Australasia.
He spent the evening in bars with crewmates but never rejoined the ship.
The case was reopened in 2001 after a shipmate, petty officer Allan Grimson, was convicted of two murders.
Grimson has denied involvement in Mr Parkes' death.
Image caption Police said the bone material "may or may not be human"
In 2003, a number of Gibraltar cemeteries were searched after a police review concluded Mr Parkes was likely to have been murdered.
Police said the latest search, which had now been completed, was sparked by "credible" new information from a member of the ship's crew.
Officers said they had found bone material which would undergo forensic tests.
Image caption Mr Parkes' parents said they were "optimistic" about the latest police inquiries
Det Insp Roger Wood said: "While this is a positive discovery, we are cautious not to put too much significance on it at this time.
"On top of this, our activity has also generated new lines of inquiry from the public."
The sailor's parents, Margaret and David Parkes, said: "It is a very difficult time but we are optimistic that the search is not over and we will never give up hope of finding him."
Simon Parkes: Cemetery search for missing Royal Navy sailor
Sailor search returns to Gibraltar
Missing sailor: police dig for clues
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Предишен проект
Tympani Time
Kingston, ON проект от Orchestra Kingston
Tympani Time is an initiative of Orchestra Kingston to procure four used typmani. In addition to being used for the non-profit orchestra, they could also be made available to other Kingston community groups as well, and will also feature in a new composition by conductor John Palmer, which will premiere in a celebratory public performance.
It all started six years ago when a small chamber group that met every two weeks to read through classical works observed that Kingston needed a good community orchestra to open up more playing opportunities. Now, six years later, Orchestra Kingston has grown to a 40+ piece orchestra that provides local musicians with the opportunity to play Canadian and international orchestral repertoire. We also provide an accessible, affordable music experience for our community.
Orchestra Kingston's goals include:
preparing three concerts per year with a mixture of Classical, Canadian, and shorter repertoire, currently playing at the Salvation Army Citadel.
providing opportunities to community groups and musicians to perform with an orchestra
supporting one another in our efforts to provide quality music to the community
The tympani will be valuable assets to Orchestra Kingston as well as to the local musical community!
Подкрепен от Kingston, ON (November 2011)
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11 August 2018 | Simon Wiener
2019 James Halliday Wine Companion
Balgownie Estate is thrilled to once again achieve a five-star rating in the newly released 2019 James Halliday Wine Companion. we are especially delighted that seven of our wines scored more than 90 points.
Here are all our ratings:
2007 Estate Shiraz - 96 points
2015 Old Vine Shiraz - 95 points
2015 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon - 93 points
2016 Estate Chardonnay Yarra Valley - 93 points
2016 Estate Pinot Noir - 93 points
2016 Black Label Chardonnay - 90 points
Some of these wines are yet to released. Why not join the Platinum Wine Club and be the first to know about our new release wines, while saving 25% on you wine purchases.
21 July 2018 | Simon Wiener
Single Vineyard Shiraz Reviews
Read some of the exceptional reviews for the new release Single Vineyard Shiraz from Balgownie Estate's Bendigo Vineyard.
2015 Centre Block Shiraz
James Halliday's Review:
"This is a looser knit single-site Bendigo shiraz than its brethren. The result is a choir of violet, iodine and blue fruits, lifted by a skein of white pepper melded to transparent acidity and moderate tannins. Slightly reduced, echoes of Northern Rhone in its potential, floral aromatics. Will age beautifully. 96/100"
Jeremy Oliver's Review:
“Assertive and sumptuous, this powerfully flavoured shiraz tempers its intensity with elegance and savoury qualities. Scented with musky spices, cracked pepper and deep dark plum, blackberry and cassis-like scents, it’s supported by fresh, smoky cedar/chocolatey oak. Its intense core of black, blue and red fruit extends long and assertive down a firmish, powdery spine, culminating in a long, faintly mineral finish." 94/100.
Qwines Review:
"Dark fruit gets in deep. Really deep. Whiffs of sandalwood plays its hand but sits alongside the fruit. Still tight through the mouth, aging beyond a decade is not out of the question. Soft baking spices curl around the mouth with dark chocolate dotted amongst the landscape delivering a wine oozing charisma. Oh, I could kick back by the fire with a glass or three of this.
Drink now but it will be better with more time in bottle for a decade." 93/100
Cellar Door Price $65 per bottle
Platinum Wine Club $48.75 per bottle
2015 Railway Block Shiraz
“The most concentrated of the single block Shiraz pillars, this leaves the lifted, floral aromatics behind in a journey to shiraz’s world of spice: clove, anise, turmeric and black pepper. There are generous fruit flavours from the blue to black spectrum, yet the overall experience is one of energy, herb and power." 94/100.
"Hold in two hands and embrace. What a beauty this is! The first release of the Railway Block and what a debut!
As with the Centre Block and Rock Block, this is dense, generous but carries a luscious factor all to its own. Milk chocolate, dark plums, sandalwood and baking spice aromas - so much going on. Things just mesh in a relaxed and effortless manner. The mouth is filled joyously tinged with delicate spices on exit which hang long. An absolute beauty.
Drink now to a decade." 94/100.
Huon Hooke's Review:
“Deep red colour with a good tint of purple. The bouquet is fragrantly spicy and ripe, rich and plummy, with some undergrowth accents. The wine is medium to full-bodied and soft, fleshy and savoury, the palate finishing with some peppery graphite notes and a trace of pleasant bitterness. It's really nicely balanced and approachable now." 91/100 Drink 2018 to 2030.
2015 Rock Block Shiraz
“This site is a tough position in which the vines struggle to embed their root system. The wine is a highly savoury blend of black olive and anise, impeccably balanced and sinuous, spiralling across the mouth as it tries to shed its firm carapace of moreish tannins and marked acidity." 94/100.
"Cedar, black olive, cola, plums, dark berry fruit. Some cured meat too. There's a tension in the mouth which time should release. Chalky and dusty tannins to finish." 91/100.
Currently these wines are only available online as an exclusive pre-release offer to members of the Platinum Wine Club for a limited time (August 31st).
If you are a member, please login to purchase. Or why not join the Platinum Wine Club and recieve a 25% discount on you wine purchases, plus other great benefits.
Balloons Over Balgownie Estate Yarra Valley
Beautiful morning for a balloon ride over Balgownie Estate Resort in the Yarra Valley
23 June 2018 | Simon Wiener
Why Winemakers Love Chardonnay
Despite being grown in Australian vineyards since the arrival of the First Fleet, chardonnay really only became popular in the 1970s and subsequently sales boomed through the 1980s. Today chardonnay is the second most widely planted variety in Australia (behind shiraz), with almost 32 000 hectares currently under vine.
Chardonnay is not only loved by wine drinkers, but it is also a favourite of winemakers and grape growers alike, and there are two major reason for this. The first reason is its ease of cultivation. Chardonnay is able to adapt to many conditions and hence is found in vineyards with very diverse climates – from the cold of Tasmania to the warmth of the Riverland. Many grape varieties are not capable of this, with varieties like pinot noir performing best in a cooler climate.
The different climates where chardonnay is grown are also reflected in the finished wine. Chardonnay from cooler climates taste more of gooseberry, grapefruit and lime, while warmer climates produce chardonnay with flavours of tropical fruit and rockmelon.
The second reason that winemakers love producing chardonnay is due to its malleability. There are a range of different winemaking practices that can be utilised in its production. This gives winemakers the opportunity to endlessly experiment with these different techniques. Some of the major winemaking techniques used in the production of chardonnay are:
Oak Contact. Oak barrels can be produced from trees grown in many different countries such as America, France, Slovenia, Germany or Russia. Most winemakers in Australia prefer the more delicate flavours that French oak imparts to their chardonnay, but even with French oak there are options and differences depending on where the oak is grown. The oak barrels can be used during fermentation or for storage post-fermentation. There are many further nuances about the topic of oak use in winemaking, which will be explored in a later post.
Wild Yeast. Most wine is produced using cultured yeasts that have predictable behaviour, produce known characters and aromas in finished wine, and will tolerate a high alcoholic-strength environment. But wine can also be produced using the natural yeast strains that occur in the vineyard and winery. These wild or indigenous yeasts often produce some unusual flavours (often termed funky) that can add extra complexity to the finished wine.
Time on Lees. Called sur lie in French, this involves leaving the dead yeast cells, skin, pulp and grape seeds (collectively known as lees) that collects at the bottom of a vessel after fermentation in contact with the wine for two to twelve months (in some styles, even longer). The presence of the lees improves mouthfeel, by creating a creamy texture in the wine, as well as adding cream and yeast flavours. Often times lees-stirring (or bâtonnage), where the lees are regularly mixed in the barrel or tank, is also cemployed: this prevents the formation of off-putting hydrogen sulphide characters in the wine. Leaving a wine on lees also encourages malolactic fermentation to commence (see below).
Malolactic Fermentation. This is a secondary fermentation that usually occurs after the primary (alcoholic) fermentation is completed. During malolactic fermentation (MLF or malo in Australia), specific strains of bacteria convert the stronger, harsher malic acid to the softer lactic acid. The fermentation is carried out by lactic acid bacteria which are usually naturally present in the winery, however MLF can be induced using cultured bacterial strains. As well as reducing the acidity in the wine, a by-product called diacetyl is produced - which is the distinctive buttery character often seen in chardonnay.
These are a variety of these techniques that the winemakers at Balgownie use in the production of out two Estate chardonnays. As these two wines originated from two very different climates – the Yarra Valley and Bendigo – they employ slightly different winemaking techniques.
2016 Estate Chardonnay – Yarra Valley
Grown in the cooler Yarra Valley, this chardonnay was fermented with wild yeast to add complexity to the finished wine. It spent 11 months on less while maturing in French oak barrels – a combination of 30% new barrels and 70% old barrels. To maintain the freshness of the wine and its crisp acidity, the Yarra Valley Chardonnay did not go through malolactic fermentation.
2016 Estate Chardonnay – Bendigo
The warmer climate in Bendigo tends to produce riper and richer fruit that results in a heavier wine. The Bendigo Chardonnay was partially fermented with wild yeast and partially with cultured yeast before spending 11 months on lees. The wine was matured in a combination of new and old French oak barrels. This wine also did not go through malolactic fermentation to preserve the natural grape acidity and freshness.
12 May 2018 | Simon Wiener
A Brief History of the Yarra Valley
The singular landscape of the Yarra Valley has an extensive history of providing a unique environment for agricultural and leisure activities. Long before the European settlement of the country, the Wurundjeri people occupied the lands around the Yarra Valley, centred on the Yarra River. Their dreamtime stories tell how the river was etched into the landscape by the ancestral creator spirit Bunjil - the wedge tailed eagle (https://visityarravalley.com.au/history).
Pastoralists came quickly to the Yarra Valley and vineyards often formed part of the farming that was established in the area. In 1838 the Ryrie brothers planted the first vineyards in the area at their property known today as Chateau Yering. The property was purchased by the swiss-born Paul de Castella in 1850 and he dramatically expanded the vineyard plantings, importing vines from Chateau Lafite in France.
Other famous Yarra Valley vineyards were also established at this time, with Paul’s brother Hubert de Castella planting St Huberts in 1863 and Guillame de Pury establishing Yeringburg in 1864. The ensuring reputation for the quality of Yarra Valley wine rested heavily on these producers and “despite their disappearance in the 1920s, their fond memory would linger… and would lead in no small part to the restoration of the vine to its rightful place in the Valley in the 1970s.” (Beeston, 1995).
Despite there being almost 1000 acres under vine, the turn of the century brought difficult times to the Yarra Valley as a multitude of factors combined to effectively spell the end of wine production in the area. In the late 1890s the vine louse phylloxera was detected at Geelong and with no cure other than prevention it quickly laid waste to vineyards of Victoria and New South Wales. This coupled with onset of the depression and a change of fashion to favour the heavily alcoholic wines from the warm areas in Rutherglen and South Australia, effectively spelt the end of the Yarra Valley as a wine producing area. The final vineyards were removed in the 1920s as pasture for milk production proved to be more financially viable.
The Yarra Valley would need to wait till the 1960s for the re-emergence of vineyards and wine production. Reg Egan, a Melbourne lawyer formed the vanguard, planting his vineyards at Wantirna in the outer eastern suburbs of the city in 1963. 1968 saw the reestablishment of St Huberts, as the Cester family replanted the vineyards and in 1969 the de Pury family replanted vines at Yeringburg. The year also saw botanist Dr. Bailey Carrodus establish Yarra Yering and Jack and June Church plant the nearby Warramate.
The rush to plant in the Yarra Valley continued with Dr. John Middleton selecting land at Coldstream and planting Mount Mary in 1971. Dr. Peter McMahon preferred the slopes of the hills at Seville and established Seville Estate in 1972. Graeme Miller a diary farmer, planted vines at Dixon’s Creek in 1971 and established Chateau Yarrinya (now Debortoli Yarra Valley).
The rush of planting continued into the 1980 with the establishment of famous names such as Diamond Valley, Yarra Burn, Tarrawarra and Coldstream Hills. The establishment of new properties continued through the 1990s and 2000s with more than 40 new wineries being opened, confirming the Yarra Valley as the nations premier cool climate wine producing area.
21 April 2018 | Simon Wiener
ANZAC Day 2018 Opening Hours
Balgownie Estate Yarra Valley
On ANZAC Day Cellar Door will be open from 12 midday to 5pm
Indulge Mum this Mother's Day
Spoil Mum this Mother’s Day with a delicious 3 course lunch and glass of Cuvee at Rae’s Restaurant. Enjoy the warm and stylish atmosphere overlooking the vineyards of the Yarra Valley. All mother's will receive a small complimentary gift.
Call Rae's Restaurant on 03 9730 0774
9 April 2018 | Simon Wiener
2018 Vintage Summary
As the leaves on the vines change colour and the cooler temperatures make for more relaxing days, the winemaking staff are cleaning up and putting the wines away to mature in tank or in barrel. The long days and the hard work of vintage are nearly complete and the winemaking staff are delighted with the quality of the wines and happy to return to a regular week once again.
The warm and dry Summer and Autumn – warm sunny days, cool nights and no rain - have given ideal ripening conditions and low disease pressure. Conditions in Bendigo have been particularly good where the quality of the fruit delivered to the winery has been fantastic. Balgownie’s winemaker Tony Winspear is very happy with the depth of flavour and the balance in the fruit, although he admits that the quantity produced may be a little down this year.
The warm and dry vintage conditions proved ideal for the production of Estate Chardonnay in both the Yarra Valley and Bendigo. The warm weather resulted in an early harvest in order to preserve the crisp acidity that forms the backbone of these thrilling wines and to maintain the perfect balance of the finished wine.
The other wines to keep an eye out for when they are released are the Estate Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. The vines for the production of these wines are approaching 50 years of age, and grape vines at this age tend to be stable and reliability produce quality fruit, especially when the climatic conditions are favourable, and crop levels are kept low. These wines are currently finishing fermentation and will then move on to mature in French oak barrels for 18 months before they are released.
Finally, we are proud to be able to secure fruit for our popular Pinot Gris from a vineyard just outside of Macedon. Although technically the vineyard falls into the Bendigo Geographical Indication (or wine production area), it is a lovely cool climate area that suits the production of high quality Pinot Gris and will allow to build on the successful 2017 vintage.
21 March 2018 | Simon Wiener
Cellar Door opening hours for the Easter Weekend
Visit Balgownie Estate Yarra Valley at Easter
Balgownie Estate Yarra Valley Cellar Door is open every day over the Easter Weekend
Good Friday 30th March - 12 midday to 6pm
Saturday 31st March - 10am to 6pm
Easter Sunday 1st April - 10am to 5pm
Easter Monday 2nd April - 10am to 5pm
Easter at Balgownie Estate
Sunday 1st April 2018
Join us at Balgownie Estate on Easter Sunday for a decadent 3 course lunch in Rae’s Restaurant, overlooking the beautiful Yarra Valley and Balgownie's vineyards.
Bring the children and enjoy an Easter egg hunt!
Please book directly through Raes's Restaurant on 03 9730 0774
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The best primary schools in Solihull, according to the Real Schools Guide 2020
We've compiled a guide to all the primary schools across Solihull to help parents ensure they're making the best choices for their child.
The best primary schools in Birmingham, according to the Real Schools Guide 2020
The best primary schools in the Black Country, according to the Real Schools Guide 2020
St Anne’s Catholic Primary School in Chelmsley Wood comes up top of the list, closely followed by Oak Cottage Primary School in Solihull and Monkspath Junior and Infant School in Shirley.
The Top 10 primary schools in Solihull
St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Bosworth Drive, Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham, B37 5DP
Oak Cottage Primary School, Greswolde Road, Solihull, B91 1DY
Monkspath Junior and Infant School, Farmhouse Way, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4EH
St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School, Fordbridge Road, Kingshurst, B37 6LW
Greswold Primary School, Buryfield Road, Solihull, B91 2AZ
Tidbury Green School, Dickens Heath Road, Tidbury Green, Solihull, B90 1QW
Peterbrook Primary School, High Street, Solihull Lodge, Shirley, Solihull, B90 1HR
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Church Lane, Berkswell, Coventry, CV7 7BJ
Hockley Heath Academy, School Road, Hockley Heath, Solihull, B94 6RA
Kingshurst And Fordbridge
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Mum Natalie Queiroz who suffered Sutton Coldfield knife attack while pregnant finds New Year love
“We instantly fell for each other, he is my absolute soul mate!”
Nick Horner
A mum from Sutton Coldfield who nearly died after being stabbed by her then partner while heavily pregnant with his baby has found new love this New Year.
Natalie Queiroz was attacked in March 2016 in Trinity Hill by Babur Raja while eight-months pregnant. She was airlifted by the Midlands Air Ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and gave birth to her daughter by Caesarean section that same night. Both had been close to dying on March 4.
Now Natalie has found new love after receiving a marriage proposal on New Year’s Eve on the beach by the Hard Rock Hotel in Adeje, Tenerife from her new love, Simon Lyttle, who she described as her ‘soul mate’.
Natalie Queiroz, who was attacked in March 2016 when she was eight months pregnant, has found new love with fiancé Simon Lyttle (Image: Natalie Queiroz)
The couple met through their fundraising missions. Natalie was raising money for the air ambulance, which helped save her and her baby’s life. While Simon had been supporting his niece, Isabella Lyttle, who was suffering from neuroblastoma.
Natalie started the 2018 Great Midlands Fun Run and gave a shout out to Isabella Lyttle on what was her 11th, and sadly last, birthday as she took part with her huge fundraising team. Isabella’s dad thanked her and the two became friends.
Then on New Year’s Eve 2018, Natalie visited Mark’s home and was introduced to Simon. The pair hit it off straight away and a year to the day they became engaged!
Incredible survival of Natalie Queiroz stabbed by partner in Sutton Coldfield told in new book Still Standing
Natalie said: “Simon proposed in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve to coincide with pretty much the exact time we would have met on his brother, Mark’s, doorstep exactly one year before.
“Indirectly BirminghamLive and the Great Midlands Run started this whole love story off!
“It was your coverage of Team Isabella who were running the fun run with the incredible Isabella Lyttle that I first read about what she had battled through.
“I was blown away by her spirit and the support from her family. So then I looked up more about the team and found friends I knew who were part of it. They filled me in that it was going to be Isabella’s 11th birthday the actual day of the fun run.
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One prominent proponent of ‘biblical patriarchy’ destroyed his ministry with his transgressions. His downfall offers lessons to other leaders
by Jamie Dean
Post Date: March 21, 2014 - Issue Date: April 05, 2014
Doug Phillips speaks at the 2012 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. (Rowan Gillson)
GONE: The former headquarters of VFM in San Antonio.
GONE: VFI catalog covers.
INFLUENTIAL: Phillips speaking on the Texas Faith and Freedom Tour in 2010.
Morecraft (left) and Bradrick
RESTORATION AND REPENTANCE: Boerne Christian Academy.
RESTORATION AND REPENTANCE: Phillips speaks with an attendee of the 2012 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—For years, the sinking of the Titanic fascinated former Vision Forum Ministries (VFM) president Doug Phillips. He founded the Christian Boys’ and Men’s Titanic Society in 1997 to promote lessons from the disaster, including “women and children first.” (Many men yielded seats on lifeboats to save others.)
The following year, Phillips wrote in WORLD: “Simply stated, that principle is this—the groom dies for the bride, the strong suffer for the weak, and the highest expression of love is to give your life for another.”
April 15 is the 102nd anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. It’s also more than five months since the closing of VFM, a once-prominent Christian organization that also met a tragic demise. In the end, losing sight of “women and children first” helped sink Phillips’ own ship.
On Oct. 30, Phillips resigned from VFM, confessing to a “lengthy, inappropriate relationship with a woman.” He also wrote the sin was serious and “absolutely does merit my resignation.” Two weeks later, the board of VFM announced the ministry would close immediately.
But the travail is not over: On March 13 Phillips’ attorney sent a letter to three of Phillips’ former friends and associates charging that “the three of you have conspired together, and with others, in an attempt to destroy Doug Phillips, his family and Vision Forum Inc.”
Many stunned Christians have wondered: How did this ship sink? Phillips—a husband and father of eight children—had become an icon of the homeschooling movement and a well-known proponent of “biblical patriarchy.”
To learn more, I spent a week in San Antonio—the site of VFM’s former headquarters—and I also spoke with more than a dozen people who had been associated with Phillips or his ministry. WORLD gave Phillips a two-week window to grant an interview or respond to written questions about this story, but Phillips’ attorney sent a statement saying he advised his client against speaking to the press due to the threat of civil litigation against him.
Still, a wave of other recent ministry scandals adds urgency to a core question when someone like Phillips falls and his ministry closes: How can other Christians guard against similar tragedies on the sea of Christ’s kingdom?
ON A BUSY ROAD in San Antonio, the former headquarters of VFM sits empty behind a chain link fence. On a recent afternoon, trash littered the back alley, and a pair of young men rummaged through a dumpster. Wooden pallets nearby bore the stamp: “Vision Forum Ministries.”
The VFM building on Blanco Road was never opulent, but it once was busy. It housed the nonprofit ministry and the for-profit company Phillips founded 15 years ago. The for-profit Vision Forum Inc. (VFI) sold books, toys, and teaching materials aimed at Christian families.
Phillips launched Vision Forum, with its emphasis on the leadership of fathers in families and societies, after working as an attorney in Virginia for the Home School Legal Defense Association. He helped start a church, and became one of the first elders at Boerne Christian Assembly—an independent, Baptist congregation outside San Antonio. He served in a pastor-like role, eventually preaching hundreds of sermons.
As the ministry grew, so did Phillips’ influence. He spoke at homeschool conferences across the country, held national conferences, launched a Christian film festival, and helped start the National Center for Family Integrated Churches (NCFIC)—a network that now includes hundreds of congregations. Bob Renaud, a former Vision Forum staff member and former personal assistant to Phillips, remembers that eventually “every time we went into an airport somebody knew who he was. … I watched him go from being an unknown to being a big player in the conservative homeschool movement.”
Phillips’ prominence made his October resignation even more stunning to ministry supporters who had lionized him. One homeschooling association grieved Phillips’ fall, but also encouraged supporters to send cards and thank-you notes to Phillips and his family, and noted, “He was our hero—the man who could lead us to victory through this horrific war.” One blogger similarly wrote, “He was our Hero. We thought he was unsinkable. …”
His Oct. 30 resignation announcement on the VFM website revealed Phillips wasn’t unsinkable. Phillips confessed to an inappropriate relationship with a woman, though he said the pair “did not ‘know’ each other in a Biblical sense.” Nearly two weeks later, he clarified the relationship with an unmarried woman had “an inappropriate physical component” and was “intermittent over a period of years.” (Phillips hasn’t identified the woman publicly, but several on-the-record and off-the-record sources confirmed her identity to WORLD.)
Phillips wrote on the VFM website, “I have acted grievously before the Lord, in a destructive manner hypocritical of life messages I hold dear, inappropriate for a leader, abusive of the trust that I was given, and hurtful to family and friends.” (His full statements are still available online.)
The confession, though, didn’t include at least two significant details: The unmarried woman had been a member of his church, and Phillips had continued in his public ministry at VFM for at least eight months after he confessed to church leadership.
PHILLIPS' OCTOBER RESIGNATION came the day after five men arrived at his San Antonio home to ask him about reports they heard concerning his indiscretions.
The five were all former ministry colleagues or friends: Joe Morecraft, a respected Atlanta-area pastor; Peter Bradrick, a former Vision Forum staffer who worked closely with Phillips; Mark Weaver, a close college friend; Jordan Muela, another former Vision Forum staffer; and Bob Renaud, the former assistant to Phillips.
Morecraft, the Atlanta pastor, didn’t give me a formal interview, but he did confirm that he asked Phillips two questions at the meeting: (1) Did you have an inappropriate relationship with an unmarried woman? (Morecraft confirmed he identified her by name.) (2) Was it sexual?
Morecraft confirmed Phillips answered yes to both questions.
Bradrick and Renaud confirmed the language of Morecraft’s questions, and said Phillips emphasized the encounters did not include sexual intercourse. The two other men—Weaver and Muela—remembered Morecraft asking about an inappropriate relationship as well, and confirming the woman’s identity.
Her identity is significant for at least one reason: Phillips had been an authority figure in her life for more than a decade. The woman and her family were members of the church where Phillips served as an elder until January of last year.
In 2003, Phillips wrote in a web post that he and his wife, Beall, had sponsored her high school graduation: “We consider her to be a member of the family, and her parents to be the dearest of friends. She has assisted my wife on more occasions than any of us could count and even traveled with us on adventures with Vision Forum.” It’s important to note that multiple sources say the woman, now 29, was over 21 when inappropriate encounters began.
IRS documents also show VFI paid her $4830 in 2008. VFM paid her an additional $1750 in 2009.
In on-the-record interviews, three of the men at the October meeting—Renaud, Weaver, and Muela—said they were particularly dismayed about the dynamic of authority in the relationship, and said church leaders have a weighty obligation regarding the power they hold over congregants in their care.
Another dynamic also troubled the men: Phillips had continued in his public ministry without revealing his sin for more than eight months.
In January 2013, Phillips stepped down from his position as an elder at Boerne Christian Assembly (BCA), saying he wanted to devote more time to his family. By February, he had confessed his inappropriate relationship to the church leadership. At the time, the church had only one other elder.
The church and ministry communities are tight-knit, and it’s unclear how many others knew about the relationship and when they knew it. But the church didn’t publicly announce Phillips’ sin until November.
During the eight months before he resigned, Phillips continued with public ministry at VFM. At a “History of America Mega-Conference” sponsored by VFM in July, Phillips spoke about crafting a new culture for Christ and declared: “We are legacy-builders.”
In August, VFM encouraged early bird entries to its San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, then slated for February 2014. In September, Phillips spoke at the FORGE conference in Kerrville, Texas. (FORGE is an acronym for Families Obediently Restoring Godly Education.) Phillips’ teaching sessions included “The Secret of Happiness in the Home” and “Successful Habits of Multigenerational Visionaries.” (The group’s website still offers the sessions for sale.)
VFM continued to accept donations: $2.6 million in contributions and grants in 2011, and $1.3 million in 2012, according to IRS filings. But the waters were troubled: Scott Brown, a VFM board member and head of the NCFIC, said in a year-end letter to NCFIC supporters that he learned in September 2013 “of the infidelities of Doug Phillips spanning many years.”
Brown and other board members didn’t return calls seeking comment on how they learned about Phillips’ indiscretions or how they responded. But by Oct. 21 of last year, VFM announced it was postponing the 2014 film festival: “Due in part to financial concerns and for other reasons, the Board of Vision Forum Ministries is looking to bring greater accountability to our practices and events. …”
By Oct. 29, the five men were confronting Phillips in his home in San Antonio. They say the meeting didn’t go well. Though Phillips admitted his sin, Muela says Phillips argued about the process the men used to approach him. They say the meeting grew contentious, and Morecraft walked out.
In a Facebook post a few weeks later, Bradrick—the former staffer who considered Phillips a mentor and spiritual father—said the meeting was like “experiencing the scene from Braveheart where William Wallace finds out he’s been betrayed by Robert the Bruce. …”
Weaver, Phillips’ friend from college, said he was disappointed too: “The goal was to be a Nathan [the Old Testament prophet who confronted King David over sin]. I thought if we could say: ‘You are the man,’ he would break. But it didn’t work out that way.’”
By the next night, Phillips had posted his resignation. (Phillips’ attorney said he resigned voluntarily after much prayer and counsel.) In his letter, Phillips didn’t mention that he had concealed his indiscretions from the public for eight months. He indicated he would leave public life and said his family had forgiven him. He said his church leadership “came alongside me with love and admonition, providing counsel, strong direction and accountability.”
BOB SARRATT—the lone elder when Phillips privately confessed last February—didn’t return requests for comment, but in January 2014 Sarratt and a provisional elder, Jeff Horn, posted a statement on the church website. They said that following Phillips’ confession in February 2013, the church leadership had worked with the involved parties to bring restoration and repentance.
They noted Phillips had professed repentance for his sin before the church body, and that the elders had publicly rebuked him. The statement didn’t indicate when they rebuked him or why they waited for months. Jeff Horn—the church’s provisional elder—did respond to written questions in an email. Horn said he became a provisional elder in March 2013, but didn’t learn about Phillips’ sin “with and against a woman in the BCA congregation” until late August 2013.
Horn said Phillips was rebuked before the church in November 2013 for “marital unfaithfulness, hypocritical deceit, and dishonesty as grievous sins against God, his church, against his family, and against those who invested their trust in Doug as a leader.” He said Phillips’ sin “should have been shared with the members of BCA sooner than it was”: Goals of healing and reconciliation “should not have trumped the responsibility to address the sin before the congregation and hold Doug accountable on a congregational level in a more timely fashion.”
Holding Christian leaders accountable isn’t always easy. Concerns to follow a biblical process for confronting sin are crucial. But when a public figure privately confesses serious sin, it’s still critical to ask whether his leadership position makes public disclosure necessary.
Some connected to the VFM and church community said a heavy emphasis on avoiding gossip could lead to suppressing issues that should be discussed more openly. Some had earlier concerns about Phillips and the woman, but said they didn’t have evidence to press it.
It’s also worth noting that accountability starts long before the disclosure of serious sin. Evangelist Billy Graham traveled the world, but said he would never go into a room with a woman who wasn’t his wife. Plenty of other Christian ministries have prominent leaders who avoid scandal, and strong ministry boards can help set and enforce good standards.
Phillips appeared to have some safeguards in place as well, including traveling with assistants and family. It isn’t clear where the safeguards broke down, but that offers another valuable lesson: Even systems that encourage protecting women and children can only work if the people who teach them follow them.
Indeed, ministries and churches sometimes coalesce around worthy, biblical ideals like building strong families and promoting certain kinds of education. Personal sin doesn’t invalidate those ideals, but it does offer a reminder that the most fundamental safety comes as Christ and the gospel remain the center of Christian churches, ministries, and lives.
In Phillips’ case, it’s at least clear that some wish they had known about the problems earlier rather than later. Horn—the provisional elder who also worked at Vision Forum for over eight years—acknowledged as a former employee, “I would have preferred to learn about Doug Phillips’ grievous sin sooner than I did.”
James Leininger said he also would have preferred to know earlier. The Texas conservative and billionaire businessman supported VFM for years: He said his donations included the building on Blanco Road and the home that Phillips and his family lived in while they worked for the ministry.
Leininger said he was particularly drawn to Phillips’ love of history and his work in the independent Christian film festival. Leininger funded and produced the film Alone Yet Not Alone, which drew national attention when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences suddenly rescinded the Christian film’s nomination for best original song in March. Both Phillips and the woman Phillips was involved with appeared in the film.
Leininger said parts of those short scenes will likely remain, and that he hopes they won’t detract from the film, slated for a June release. He hasn’t spoken with Phillips since the resignation, but called the developments sad: “It’s just very disappointing for what a long time looked to be a very promising witness for Christ.” He’s glad Phillips acknowledged his sin and stepped down, and hopes his repentance is genuine: “Time will tell.”
Jason Dohm, an elder at Sovereign Redeemer Community Church—the same church VFM board member Scott Brown serves in North Carolina—wrote about Phillips earlier this year, “pray for him, but don’t mistakenly hope for his return to Christian leadership.” Dohm wrote that when “a shepherd has cultivated a life of deception and manipulation for many years,” it rightly takes a long time to regain trust.
HOW WILL LITIGATION affect repentance? Phillips’ attorney sent a letter on March 13 to Peter Bradrick, Jordan Muela, and Bob Renaud—three of the men who confronted Phillips last October. The letter accused the men of orchestrating a campaign of slander against Phillips, and conspiring to “destroy Doug Phillips, his family, and Vision Forum Inc.” (VFI stopped selling products from its website at the end of last year, but it appears Phillips retains ownership of the company.)
The letter threatened a lawsuit but also discussed Christian conciliation. The letter noted Phillips plans to advance claims against “Vision Forum Ministries and its board members,” though the nature of those claims is unclear. Meanwhile, the woman may sue Phillips. She declined comment through her attorney, citing possible litigation, and Phillips’ attorney said her legal claims (still undefined publicly) are “false, defamatory, and made with malicious intent. …”
Despite the litigation fog, some lessons do remain clear, including the need for early disclosure, robust accountability, and serious care with positions of authority. Other scandals reveal that fame brings danger, and pride can infect anyone. Phillips hinted at that reality himself by noting, in his resignation letter, “I thought too highly of myself. …”
Cults of celebrity
Doug Phillips is not the only Christian ministry leader who has hurt his organization and the cause of Christ over the past year. In recent weeks the World News Group’s website, wng.org, has had the sad task of running stories on Bill Gothard leaving his ministry following charges of sexual misconduct, Seattle’s Mark Driscoll buffeted by charges of plagiarism and possible misuse of ministry resources, and Charlotte’s Steven Furtick building a mansion and using crowd dynamics to increase baptism statistics.
While these stories and WORLD’s reports on leadership problems at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities are all different, they are “not a new phenomenon,” according to church historian Mark Noll, who notes that “the burden of celebrity is greater than ever before. The publicity machine operates with more energy.” Noll’s advice: “Wise leaders will build structures around them to prevent or diminish temptation.”
Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, said he often sees scandals occur when organizations lack “sound board governance” and a “focus on the basics.” Scandal-prone organizations also have a concentration of power at the top of the organization and a lack of transparency. If ministry leaders are secretive and attempt to squash criticism, that’s a bad sign: WORLD’s website has also examined the nondisclosure agreements that some megachurches now require staff members to sign.
When scandals erupt, Noll said, our reaction “should not be to gloat or point to the problems of others. This is not an evangelical problem or a Catholic problem or a Pentecostal problem. It’s a human problem.” —Warren Cole Smith
Jamie Dean
Jamie is WORLD’s national editor based in Charlotte, N.C. Follow Jamie on Twitter @deanworldmag.
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After 20 years of counseling Christian leaders I have seen a real pattern that seems repeated here. Rigid, black or white approach to Christianity. An idealism leaning toward perfectionism in the person and the group. Putting humans on a pedal. One theological theme that is reinforced. Out of touch with the inner life of tenderness and the Spirit that tends to draw men to confuse a woman with the Holy Spirit. I can usually tell when I am going in that direction because a female will take on an image in me that is bigger than life. No one is bigger than life.
WomanComeHome
Here's my take FWIW. http://womancomehome.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-still-thank-god-for-doug-phillips.html
I appreciate World's reporting on this scandal. I know we evangelicals have an allergy to the Federal Government, but we need new warniness of Corporate America as well. Is it possible that evangelical leaders are acting less and like holy men and more and more like CEOs. Maybe with that kind of power and celebrity worship, corruption is inevitable. We may be guilty of adding the problem. We put these celebrities on pedestals, we flock to their conferences, buy their books and make these guys rich powerful men. We need leaders who shun the limelight and embrace humility and poverty.
Sawgunner
I wonder if the "woman in question" will have any opportunity to tell what transpired?In the meantime we must continue to pray for a hurting family. Let it be His will for them to be restored in marital fellowship.
ApologyLanguages
Good reporting on a regrettable situation. Gary Chapman and I have written a book on apologies. My latest blog post is about an apology from my pastor who fell in a similar, sad way. http://http//www.drjenniferthomas.com/2014/03/12/memorable-apology-ive-ever-heard/
bsfmama
Our pride leads to so many different sins. God keep us humble.
Gus Nelson
I am impressed by the comments here - it would be nice if when I see comments posted at secular sources that the "Christians" would comment in the same spirit shown both by the reporter and those who read this article. Obviously, none of us is beyond temptation and we must all guard ourselves. Yes, the danger for leaders is even greater and the repercussions more pronounced, but we can all learn from this that we must safeguard our hearts. Hopefully, the threats of litigation will be withdrawn and a proper resolution will result without resort to the secular court system. As an attorney of many years practice, I can assure these folks that litigation often brings only more and greater bitterness and disappointment.
TheLanMan
"Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die:Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the Lord?'Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God."Proverbs 30:7-9, Sayings of Agur (ESV)
While I was never a fan of Doug Phillips or Vision Forum, this article was still very sobering. We are all idolators of one sort or another. Some idolized Mr. Phillips, some idolized his way of living. He apparently idolized himself, and we are in danger of doing the same thing if we think we are not capable of behaving like Mr. Phillips did. "Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (Rom. 7:24-25) It is ONLY Christ who keep any of us walking on the straight and narrow. It is ONLY Christ who deserves our worship and affections.
Who should carry the higher credibility, a king or Christian leader? I find it easier to understand the failings of a king than a Christian leader. Our true King is also a Christian leader and role model that never fails. Thank God for his saving grace for we who have failed him. The stronger relationship we have with him the greater power we have to overcome temptation.
I pray my life will never be a stumbling block but rather a stepping stone to others for the cause of Christ.
Sandra E
I thought the most important phrase in this whole article was this:" the most fundamental safety comes as Christ and the gospel remain the center of Christian churches, ministries, and lives." I think it is easy for movements like those of the Vision Forum to stumble into being legalistic movements where leaders and followers do not focus on their relationship with Christ as being their primary source of identity and their own need to preach the gospel to themselves everyday.
This is the perfect example of why a personal testimony is irrelevant. It is only His testament that matters.The bigger we are, the harder we fall, and I think maybe the more temptations we face. I am not surprised when a leader falls, rather I am disappointed in the fact the man never escapes sin until death.What bothers me more are those who gloat over another's fall as if we are not all in this together.
determineddeborah
I am grateful for World's careful handling of the above mentioned scandals. It serves as an important warning and requires accountability where it is lacking.
Tracymom
Excellent reporting.
Thomas Peck
This is a sad story, but an important reminder that we all are subject to falling at any time. Our flesh still pulls us towards sin even while our soul is soaring to God. When we stop humbling ourselves before God because we start thinking so highly of our self, there comes a tipping point when sin wins a battle even though it has lost the war.Brothers and Sisters in Christ, God will allow us to follow our sin until it reaches its deadly conclusion and lives are destroyed, relationships broken, loved ones saddened. Be on guard most of all from your self.
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How could a state without a military defense exist?
I've just started out with worldbuilding and got this idea of a state/country that has no need for any armed forces as they don't want to go to war because of religious reasons, and no other state would want to attack them. But during what circumstances could such a state exist?
I'm guessing that the state shouldn't have or produce any unique or better resources that no other state already has. But then I'm posed with the problem as to why people should want to stay within this state and not move to another. Geographical accessibility perhaps?
I've read that there are countries like Iceland and Andorra without their own military forces, but receiving protection from other countries. That's not what I'm looking to create. I want to create a state without any military defense at all, simply because there is no need for it. The state should neither participate in any military alliance.
The state isn't going to be a large one. In relative measures based on europe I'd say the area would be something like Switzerland and the population a bit less than Norway.
There is some magic within this world, but none so great that it could protect an entire city from a military attack for example. The same for religion and gods.
borkbork
$\begingroup$ In what time period? Standing armies weren't always a thing outside wartime. $\endgroup$ – Separatrix Jun 27 '18 at 16:51
$\begingroup$ reality checked this, and confirmed viability: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Staaten_ohne_Milit%C3%A4r $\endgroup$ – bukwyrm Jun 28 '18 at 8:48
$\begingroup$ bulkwyrm's link in English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_armed_forces $\endgroup$ – SilverWolf - Reinstate Monica Jun 28 '18 at 16:10
$\begingroup$ What difference is there between this question and worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/27582/… ? $\endgroup$ – Andrew Grimm Jun 28 '18 at 22:53
$\begingroup$ Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. $\endgroup$ – Monica Cellio Jul 2 '18 at 0:54
they don't want to go to war because of religious reasons
I think this is where your answer might lie. This is a country that, if attacked, cannot and will not fight back, because their religion forbids it. Attacking them would be the military equivalent of drop-kicking a puppy off a cliff. Yes, you will win easily, and nobody will intervene to stop you. But every other country in the world is going to treat you like a pariah for it.
There will be international condemnation. Possibly even sanctions. There will definitely be protests, from silent marches of solidarity to people burning your country's flag in the streets. You will forever be known, metaphorically-speaking, as "the country that drop-kicked a puppy off a cliff". And so, no sane country would ever, ever attack your state-without-a-military, because the damage it would cause to their international reputation is simply not worth it.
As for why nobody would intervene in this scenario, I can only think that this would be at the country's own request. A war being fought in their territory on their behalf, is still a war being fought in their territory, and that's still against their religion.
F1KrazyF1Krazy
$\begingroup$ It reminds me of Tibet for some reasons. $\endgroup$ – Hawker65 Jun 28 '18 at 9:38
$\begingroup$ This only works if the nation is landlocked and the adjacent countries are all vehemently opposed to allowing anyone through their territory. Relying upon every leader of every country in the world to always throughout time forever be morally upstanding is... well if that were true then war would be practically nonexistent anyway. $\endgroup$ – pluckedkiwi Jun 28 '18 at 13:27
$\begingroup$ That reasoning really strains suspension of disbelief. It might hold true for the modern world, at least in places with Western sensibilities. However the the overwhelming majority of human civilizations saw conquest of other countries as legitimate. In a typical fantasy setting this justification would seem completely absurd. Perhaps if the pacifist nation was of supreme religious significance this could work (but that's really an entirely different justification). $\endgroup$ – EldritchWarlord Jun 28 '18 at 13:49
$\begingroup$ @AmiralPatate History is full of examples of this. People invade and conquer for many reasons - to enslave the population, to plunder resources, to subjugate for the purpose of subjugation (be it for forced religious conversion or just bragging rights as owning that territory). Sometimes they just do it because they can. History is not an endless string of pacifist tolerant pluralistic democracies - rape and plunder and enslavement is more prevalent than not. $\endgroup$ – pluckedkiwi Jun 28 '18 at 13:58
$\begingroup$ Take the religion aspect up a notch. The country is the holy land for the local dominate religion. The surrounding countries may have their differences, but the holy land is religiously enforced neutral territory. Outsiders are kept away by the neighbors, in neighboring territory. $\endgroup$ – jaxad0127 Jun 28 '18 at 16:17
It's a leper colony
The pacifistic country is in fact a leper colony where all the ill from the surrounding countries are sent. The land is not worth much and nobody wants to be close to the ill - so no one wants to conquer it. The country is run by monks and/or nuns, who care about the ill, but will never do something like fighting or even defending themselves, let alone doing military service.
DLosc
Julian EgnerJulian Egner
$\begingroup$ Firebomb the country. Then send in soldiers with hazmat suits to clean up the stragglers. No one wants to be close to the ill, so best to kill them all $\endgroup$ – Aethenosity Jun 28 '18 at 15:08
$\begingroup$ @Aethenosity why should you invade if the is nothing to win? And do not forget: if the leper country gets the ill from the surrounding countries, "your" country is probably one of them, so part of the monks and the ill as well came from your country. You should not tell your soldiers to kill monks and ill, especially not if some of them could be their own relatives. Never give a command if you cannot be sure it will be obeyed. $\endgroup$ – Julian Egner Jun 29 '18 at 6:51
$\begingroup$ 1. You would gain the land, and security from the illness. Having a country like that as a bordering country is a HUGE direct threat. 2. You can convince soldiers to do anything, as all of human history has shown us. If you say that the illness is already spreading to other countries, they would want to protect their families. I would purposely, and secretly, infect some of the soldiers families to really drive that home. $\endgroup$ – Aethenosity Jun 29 '18 at 14:02
$\begingroup$ Although really thinking about it, leprosy can be treated with a mdt, so shy would there even be a leper colony? It would have to be a magical form of leprosy that can't be treated like normal. $\endgroup$ – Aethenosity Jun 29 '18 at 14:12
$\begingroup$ it still relies on a magnanimous spirit of neighboring countries. You just have more faith in people than I do. And that is perfectly fine. If it can't be cured, it's a bigger reason to slaughter them. Natural borders are nice to control, so more reasons to slaughter. Not being a military threat is not the same as not being a threat at all. Not being worth much hasn't prevented countries from taking land in the past. Differing opinions though, i'm not gonna keep responding, as we've both made our points I believe. $\endgroup$ – Aethenosity Jul 2 '18 at 14:34
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an entire series, Foundation, on a very similar premise - that a small state with no military strength must find other means to survive against more powerful kingdoms. These ideas come from that series.
The state must have something unique and of great value.
If not natural resources, then perhaps a source or a form of magic unheard of in the rest of the world. The magic/technology doesn't need to overly powerful, nor militaristic, but it should be incredibly useful:
A source of cheap/free energy
Medicine capable of curing the worst diseases and healing the most deadly wounds
Transmutation of common materials into valuable ones (could impact the economy as well)
The asset must be marketable, but not easily replicable.
Perhaps the magic can only be used by highly trained individuals - and only those few individuals trusted by the state can administer it.
Perhaps the religion itself can be used to spread influence. Missionaries and prophets can spread the "good news" of their religion, demonstrating "impossible" magical feats only made possible through the "divine power" of the "holy land". Naturally, other states will want this power as well.
Religion, trade, and politics will prevent attacks
Through religious pressure, trade of magical secrets, and careful diplomacy, the state could ward off attacks.
The state could threaten to cut off access to its magical asset if attacked.
The state could claim that its unique knowledge and secrets would be lost forever if attacked.
The state could threaten to align itself with the enemies of its attackers, bolstering their military power to the state's advantage.
MindS1MindS1
$\begingroup$ Came here to post this in essence, I like this concept a lot. Be so valuable that nobody else will let you get conquered. $\endgroup$ – Cain Jun 28 '18 at 16:02
$\begingroup$ Quibble: That was not the premise of the entire series. It was the premise of the early parts of the first book, before the kingdoms were effectively absorbed into the Foundation. $\endgroup$ – Monty Harder Jun 28 '18 at 21:51
Army implies central authority which is interested in organized offense / defense. A country with no central authority capable of assembling, supplying and deploying and army will not have an army.
This country has no central authority because it is sparsely populated with nomadic herders and family groups who interact with each other and outsiders via ad hoc and temporary mechanisms. There is not a central government because there is no need and no use. Perhaps there is periodically a Jirga where tribal representatives assemble and discuss matters of common interest. If needed, a meeting like this could conclude with the assembly of an army if the participants concluded that would be necessary.
Why do the people stay there? Because that is where they are from, and they like it. The things they need are there. They can continue with their way of life. They are not hankering after something which exists in some other country. No central government bosses them around or taxes them.
Why does some country with an army not conquer the country? Because the things this country and its people have are not things other countries want - certainly not to the point of fighting for them. The country in question is big. Its people can be fierce when provoked. Trade routes that pass through are controlled and defended by persons interested in maintaining them. Mineral resources are mined and defended by persons interested in those operations. The sparse population of natives are content to continue their own way of life.
Consider also that historically, countries did not have armies except when needed. Armies are expensive and dangerous. The founding fathers of the US feared a standing army and this was a big debate at the time. Back up 500 years or more and I think you would find armies were put together by various states on an as needed basis.
WillkWillk
$\begingroup$ Adding to 3: None of the neighboring countries want the headache of trying to govern these people, and find benefit in them acting as a buffer against someone else trying to expand through them. $\endgroup$ – Monty Harder Jun 28 '18 at 21:47
Have another kind of power
If they are very rich the threat of trade disruptions might be enough to limit the belligerence of neighbors.
Be regionally important
If the religion has a diaspora with non-trivial power in the surrounding countries rulers might not be willing to alienate them.
If they are between several mutually hostile powers but in such a strategically bad place that any attempt to fortify would be a disaster it may be the powerful nations know better than to try.
Reserve readiness
If they have the means to create a military overnight they may not need a dedicated permanent force. Like historical English archery or US militias or Eastern mass martial arts practice. "Our form of meditation happens to include techniques for punching kidneys out through the spine."
Being very rich could also apply to paying mercenaries at need.
Be one step ahead
With an outstandingly good espionage organization they might not need to kill more than one person at a time. See to it that no leaders intent on bothering the country ever gather enough follower to be a problem.
$\begingroup$ So, be rich enough to have fingers in everyone else's pies so that attacking them ruins your own interests. Like Switzerland's banking market share. $\endgroup$ – brichins Jun 28 '18 at 19:03
$\begingroup$ Even Switzerland still has an army, though. $\endgroup$ – cHao Jun 29 '18 at 12:15
$\begingroup$ If you're rich and unarmed I'll bring my army and very shortly afterwards I'll be both rich and armed. $\endgroup$ – Tim B♦ Jun 30 '18 at 7:02
$\begingroup$ @TimB: Not necessarily. If your wealth is in some form of production or infrastructure that would be significantly damaged or completely destroyed in the process of invasion, you probably won't be. You can probably make realistic contemporary examples in terms of markets that trade intangible things (stocks, digital currency, etc.) $\endgroup$ – R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE Jul 2 '18 at 2:01
Take a look at Costa Rica. Their former president got rid of the military in 1948, though they do still have border patrol and a police force, which aren't quite defensive forces. So not only can a state without a military defense exist, it actually does. link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Forces_of_Costa_Rica
ironduke97ironduke97
$\begingroup$ They had to rely on external help once though... $\endgroup$ – user45032 Jun 28 '18 at 12:05
One possibility is that the country is, e.g., sacred for religious reasons, and attacking it is anathema.
Which means that if CountryA attacks, all treaties and commercial liaisons are rendered void, any debts owned to CountryA by anyone can go unpaid, any properties of CountryA's citizens are forfeit everywhere, and attacking, looting and conquering CountryA (a much more juicy target than the 'helpless country') is not only legitimate, but grants you Heaven.
Attempting to conquer the Holy Country would be a national suicide unless CountryA is prepared to take on the whole world, or at least the neighbouring nations.
You can compare it with the way Aloria defended the Isle of the Winds in Eddings' Malloreon:
it was stopped by a succinct note from the Cherek ambassador to Tol Honeth.
Your Majesty:
Know that Aloria will permit no attack upon Riva.
The fleets of Cherek, whose masts rise as thick as the trees of the forest, will fall upon your flotilla, and the legions of Tolnedra will feed the fish from the hook of Arendia to the farthest reaches of the Sea of the Winds.
The battalions of Drasnia will march south, crushing all in their paths and lay siege to your cities.
The horsemen of Algaria shall sweep across the mountains and shall lay waste you empire from end to end with fire and sword.
Know that in the day you attack Riva, will the Alorns make war upon you, and you shall surely perish, and your Empire will be no more.
A different possibility is that the "undefended" country, during the centuries, grew to be arbiter and banker of most other nations. Attacking it would guarantee instant economic chaos, and would mean utter ruin for the attacker.
Finally (I remember some short novel to that effect), there might be biological reasons. The country's people might have slowly mutated during the centuries, and are now immune to a disease that can be carried by flies and mosquitoes. Ordinarily this is no great threat because the mountains around the country prevent any outbreak, and commerce employs quarantine protocols that allow the goods to flow. But no sane army would ever think of invading the country, especially in some way that leaves unburied corpses around. (Something vaguely similar happens in Bob Shaw's Wooden Spaceships series, where the people abandoned on one of two twin planets and believed to have succumbed to the ptertha infection actually survived and became immune - and are now highly contagious, to the point that talking to one means death within minutes for a non-immune).
LSerniLSerni
Your country could be surrounded entirely by another country's territory, as Vatican City is completely surrounded by Italy. Then you basically only have to explain why one country wouldn't invade. Possible explanations are that the interior country is a seat of the surrounding country's religion (as in the Vatican/Italy example), or that the surrounding country is generally peaceable, or that the interior country's independence provides a benefit to the surrounding country, such as a tax haven, or a place where gambling is legal (like Indian nations within the USA).
If this is to last for centuries or millennia, your country would require a strong sense of its own identity, to avoid being absorbed into the culture of the surrounding nations. Perhaps its sense of identity is so strong that even if it is conquered, its people never really assimilate, and it re-establishes its independence in later eras when the surrounding country is more peaceable.
workerjoeworkerjoe
$\begingroup$ Gambling is neither a benefit nor the reason the US left the Indian reservations alone; the Vatican has a very famous defensive force, albeit one that now exists at the level of very heavily armed police. $\endgroup$ – lly Jun 30 '18 at 0:19
$\begingroup$ I'm sure Italy could "conquer" the Vatican if it wanted to, but why would it want to. If any other nation wanted to conquer the Vatican, it would have to go through Italy... that's the point. $\endgroup$ – workerjoe Jul 2 '18 at 12:58
Iceland has only very limited armed forces, which is most probably due to geographical accessiblity. Only during WW 2 and the Cold War the geographical location of Iceland made it important for the Allies.
Dohn JoeDohn Joe
$\begingroup$ Iceland had significant internal violence, and ended up being protected by Norway and Denmark for centuries. After both were taken over by the Nazis, the British invaded. $\endgroup$ – user71659 Jun 30 '18 at 5:53
You mentioned early in your post a point nobody seems to be covering: geography. Looking through world history, you don't ever have a society that isn't violent, but you do have societies that don't get easily conquered. Ancient Egypt was surrounded by vast swaths of desert, and the only time "invasion" was ever successful was during great political instability. Russia, with its extreme winters, hasn't been successful conquered since 1480. Many of the islands of the South Pacific (Easter Island and Pitcairn for example) are so inaccessible they either hadn't had any inhabitants for hundreds of years, or hadn't had any inhabitants period.
What you really need to make a demilitarized people is isolation. If you're not crazy about the idea of an remote island, consider a small cropping of mountains surrounding the peaceful valley, the only oasis in a thousand miles of sand, or in a temperate microclimate in an otherwise polar desert. If you're feeling particularly sci-fi/fantasy, make it a nation that developed underground or in a cave system.
Next, you'll want there to be strong defenses. After all, just because they can't kill or attack doesn't mean they can't build walls and gates. Build gates into mountain passes, giant walls, a dome if it's sci-fi enough. There's plenty on non-violent protections you can use.
Finally, you'll probably want to scale back the size of your country... or at least what's inhabited. Military and police force didn't use to be differentiated. If a nation has absolutely no military for its entire history, that means the people need to be culturally homogeneous so as not to cause uprisings. Most of the nations today are actually conquered tribes that have, over time, been amalgamated into one country, and the failure to suppress them leads to ruins. That was why the Aztec empire fell to the Spanish, the Roman to the Germanics, why the Mongolians couldn't conquer Japan, why Pakistan is the current mess it is.
Even today, countries are too large and too different to keep people with different cultures pleased. There's separatist movements all over. Just in Europe, there's over 100 separatist, succession, and autonomy movements. That's more than double the actual number of nations in Europe. Artsakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Kosovo, and Crimea are all technically broken away... and three of those are in the Caucus states, an area smaller than Spain. South Ossetia is only 1500 square miles. Rhode Island is 1200.
To have a culture that doesn't suppress one group over another (and, thus, require a military), you need to have a very small area and a small population so that ethnic homogeneity can take over and people treats everyone the same. The same idea of isolationism should come into play here, too. Multiculturalism is great for adding to society's knowledge, but friction between traditions, religions, and immigrant/native classes cause violence. You can see this in England's immigrant population, in Iran 1999, the Tamil/Sri Lankan civil war. I would imagine that this nation would have entirely closed borders to immigration, or at least a very highly selective process.
TessareeaTessareea
$\begingroup$ That is absolutely not why the Mongolians couldn't conquer Japan. $\endgroup$ – lly Jun 30 '18 at 0:48
$\begingroup$ Should "separatist, succession, and autonomy movements" say "separatist, secession, and autonomy movements"? Both are plausible, but in context the latter seems more likely to be your intent. $\endgroup$ – Peter Taylor Jul 1 '18 at 7:39
If its religion is THE world religion by a large margin or the only one that is possible.
Every other country's population would worship the "holy see" or "land"; thus leaders and believers would refrain from entering with "impure intentions" out of respect or even religious / societal fear, especially if it were a taboo ("forbidden city" or "land").
A minority religion probably wouldn't have such strong "defenses" and would need other avenues (see previous answers for examples).
DigitalBlade969DigitalBlade969
There are real examples of countries without military forces, apart from the states already mentioned. The Vatican has no military as they don't want to go to war because of religious reasons.
MissMonicaE
Raul GrigorașcuRaul Grigorașcu
$\begingroup$ The Vatican is actually a terrible example as they had huge armies in the past, as well as many many wars and conflicts. Only as they became smaller "territorially" did they loose the armies and use the whole "we are a religion" reason. $\endgroup$ – EveryBitHelps Jun 27 '18 at 17:42
$\begingroup$ The Vatican do have a defensive military force, even if their actions are primarily either ceremonial or bodyguard duty (much like the British Yeomen of the Guard and Queen's Guard). $\endgroup$ – Chronocidal Jun 28 '18 at 11:02
$\begingroup$ @EveryBitHelps You are thinking of the armies of The Papal States, a country that ceased to exist in 1870 when the Kingdom of Sardinia conquered them to form the Kingdom of Italy. The Vatican City State did not come into being until about 60 years after that, so it's not even like the Russia Federation coming from the USSR. It's like comparing the State of Israel to the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. $\endgroup$ – Chronocidal Jun 28 '18 at 11:07
$\begingroup$ @Chronocidal yes, I was thinking of papal states and the loss of their armies. I just summarised all of that into "as they became smaller territorially" :) Technically the vatican city state we know today is only 90ish years old, and only really have the swiss guards as protection (that could be considered more a mercenary force than a national army). The OP also appears to want a much larger area of land. Still don't think it is a good example for the OP who appears to want a peaceful non military country. $\endgroup$ – EveryBitHelps Jun 28 '18 at 11:21
$\begingroup$ @EveryBitHelps Agreed - there are reasons why the Vatican have a defensive military force, and current forces who would love to attack them. Unless you have a single world-religion that everyone agrees with then "religious reasons" won't really work as a defense. $\endgroup$ – Chronocidal Jun 28 '18 at 11:27
How about Germany and Japan after WW2? No military because they had just lost. They were under control of other states. To this day Japan has never had political will to go to war.
Germany did take part in NATO... But not for some years and not until the Russian forces had to leave.
Huw EvansHuw Evans
You ask very broadly
during what circumstances could such a state exist ?
As opposed to other answers, I will not try to elaborate conditions on this particular pacifist state, but rather on the rest of the world.
My reasoning start by observing that we live in a world where conquering for its own sake considered good (past conquerors are even frequently still admired). For example when the Romans invaded Gaul, it is arguable that they did not need to conquer it for any reason except the glory of Caesar (Gaul had ressources to offer, but they could be obtained by trading, conquest was not necessary). Conquest was the reason for conquest.
In the world you build, this conqueror's mindset is not an obligation. If the population of your world does not have it, launching an invasion require a solid reason, as opposed to needing one not to invade.
But this raises another question: how to avoid this mindset to appear ? After all the winners write history, and the winners did probably fight in the first place.
So here are two possible explanations:
1. Social norms are radically different to what we are experiencing
In western culture personal wealth is seen as desirable and generally implies high social status. However social norms in other culture may differ, for example in traditional Native Americans culture. There high social status is determined by how useful one is to the community. In this context assembling an army to conquer its neighbors may be seen as costing more to the community than it could potentially gives and people may simple refuse to join such project. And to what I know there were no "Native American Kingdoms" or anything of that sort in North America before the European colonisation (raiding on the other side was a thing, probably that the cost/benefit of it was considered better).
2. Imperial projects resulted in historical trauma
If we look back at the history of mankind it looks like (at first glance) that the empire had great achievements, lasting for decades or even century, sometimes bringing stability, fostering the development of art and culture and so on. Look at the Roman Empire, Ancient Egypt, Chinese Empire and other, look great isn't it ? (This may help explain why the figure of conqueror is held in high esteem.)
However, we can imagine a world were all attempts to build empires catastrophically failed and only brought disasters to both conquerors and conquered, resulting in a massive trauma. Due to it, everybody may be rather skeptical about the idea of "trying again".
Note that these examples do not preclude the appearance of states, they may simply be based on either cooperation or soft power rather than on pure military domination.
KolaruKolaru
The geopolitical situation values their independence more than their resources
Consider a country between two other larger countries that dislike each other. If one were to invade, the other would be forced to take action, resulting in a costly (for both sides) all out war. A fictional example would be Djelibeybi, in the Terry Pratchett novel 'Pyramids' (Although it is not stated they have no military, certainly either neighbour could crush them easily)
Or consider a cold-war era where USA was on the same continent as the USSR. Any state buffering the two would be valued more for being a buffer and preventing war, than for any (relatively minor) territorial gains for the two giant nations surrounding.
DavidDavid
$\begingroup$ To add to this, if either nation decided to invade the buffer country they could actually be at a disadvantage, since the other country could move in as "liberator" - gaining the support of the local populace and the moral high ground to gain international support. $\endgroup$ – user42528 Jun 29 '18 at 8:04
Being a former member of the Air Staff, I have LOTS of ideas. First, would be to make killing "Not an option" either morally or physically. Perhaps body shape? How would two pure energy beings kill each other?
Second, other things are more important. Such as a geologically unstable world where rescue is more important than conquest. Third, memory. As the Organians (SP?) in Star Trek forbid the Federation and Klingons to war, another society could simply not let it happen. Eventually, the memory of HOW to fight would go away and there would be no need to exercise such control.
Just some ideas...
Gray EagleGray Eagle
$\begingroup$ 'How would two energy beings kill each other?' I don't know why the Air Staff is researching this problem, but an EMP should work. $\endgroup$ – lly Jun 30 '18 at 0:26
$\begingroup$ I think they were looking for a longer-term solution than '...a geologically unstable world'. I mean, yes, you wouldn't need much of an army if everyone were fleeing the planet or an enormous erupting supervolcano. On th'other hand, you wouldn't really have much of a 'country' at that point either. $\endgroup$ – lly Jun 30 '18 at 0:28
$\begingroup$ '...the memory of HOW to fight would go away'. Pretty sure most beings able to establish a civilization got there by becoming the apex predator and (like humanity) would be able to recreate warfare on the fly. It is a fun idea that the Death Star destroyed Alderaan so that the Federation and Klingons could restart their war, though. $\endgroup$ – lly Jun 30 '18 at 0:44
Just to add to other great answers:
A country strategic position is minimum to none
If there are no natural resources, location isn't of much help to anyone and the country isn't too large nor too wealthy the benefits of attacking such country do not outweigh the cost of loosing your position internationally so there are high chances that no-one will attack.
Natural defense exists (can be artificially strengthened)
There might be a ring of mountains, rivers, jungle, desert etc that make the country hardly accessible. The cost of attacking such country can be high compared to the benefits of conquering it. The defenses can be enhanced artificially, e.g. there might be some defensive walls in the mountain area that could be otherwise accessed or there is a dam creating an artificial lake to increase the river defensive capabilities. Note, that destroying a dam can be used as a last defense line and does not require military service to use it (this is used twice by Tolkien in Lord of the Rings).
Passive defense systems
It is an extension of the previous point. It is not operated by military but by civilian engineers. It might not be a solution to kill but to scare off and eventually make it more difficult to get to that country. Think of a Chinese Great Wall as a real world example.
Strong allies
A country can have ally treaties with other countries. They can offer some services (religious?) in return for not contributing to the military power of the ally.
God(s) can counterattack/curse any attacker
It does not prevent a possibility to attack the country but it can scare off any potential attacker. Would you nuke an enemy if you know they will nuke you back? If it's god's intervention then the rules of the religion are not broken.
IsterIster
A country like that would probably be a paradise for organized crime.
Suppressing big cartels and gangs while strictly avoiding killing seems just not possible unless you got ideal preconditions.
As such, it wouldn't be surprising at all if the state would be more or less controlled by these cartels. How strictly the control they impede upon the country is, is up to you (be it from the shadows, or by blatantly placing themselves as head of the country).
Therefore, as long as the cartels are powerful enough and play their cards well, other countries probably wouldn't meddle.
Of cause, this situation is a cluster of problems:
If the cartels grow overconfident, they might inspire an alliance and an invasion of the country
Or if the cartels diminish in power (e.g. due to losses due to infighting), the country would be left in a vulnerable position as well.
Not to forget the dichotomy of the appearance of the country (peace loving, friendly inhabitants) and it's shadow-workings, which adds a lot of interesting dynamic.
SudixSudix
Willk is going down the right road I think. Because to have a military (or conduct warfare) you must be sentient. Animals do attack other animals, but do not conduct organized warfare, which is a prerequisite for the creation of a military in the first place. In our case that originates when there is competition for a resource. Central authorities and the need for "something to protect what we have" comes from a civilization attempting to protect something or someone unable to fight such as children, rice fields, elderly, warehouses, etc. Military organizations are unique to one species on one planet. This species has a lousy track record for accepting the "not us" group. If you can make a thing or person that can't fight unable to be harmed (perhaps temporarily incorporeal) nothing could be harmed so no military is necessary. Or you can remove the idea of an enemy with hive mentality that eliminates any concept of enemies or competition there would also not be a need for a military.
They don't want to go to war for religious reasons, but are they allowed to defend themselves if attacked? Consider Switzerland. (I'm probably going to be saying that a lot....) They do not engage in offensive warfare, but pretty much the entire adult population is trained in defense, and they have extensive fortifications. As the legend goes, if a invading force shows up that outnumbers the Swiss 2-to-1, the Swiss will "shoot twice and go home". This does not require a formal military. But if that sort of pseudo-military is also off the table....
I'm guessing that the state shouldn't have or produce any unique or better resources that no other state already has.
That may not be the best guess. If they really have no violent offensive capability at all, you probably want to look at making attacking them a case of mutually assured destruction for whoever does the attacking. That means giving this state something that is sufficiently valuable that no other state could afford to permit a third party from gaining control over it. Maybe the pacifist state is, in fact, the sole or primary source of an extremely valuable natural resource; everyone's cool with letting them sit on it, precisely because they are known pacifists, and if anyone else got control of it, they'd take a dominating position in the region. Or maybe the pacifist state (like Switzerland!) occupies a strategically valuable and highly defensible geographic position; again, if anyone else got control of it, other states would be screwed, so they'll fight to keep that from happening. Or maybe (like Switzerland!), the pacifist state is economically powerful, providing secure and impartial banking services, or housing important trading routes / trading centers, etc.
Or perhaps (unlike Switzerland!), the pacifist country is not merely religious itself, but represents a "Holy Land" for all of the surrounding countries as well, such that, while other countries are perfectly willing to go to war in general, all of them (or at least enough of them to deter the remainder) are religiously prohibited from fighting in that land, just as the pacifist state itself is forbidden from fighting.
Logan R. KearsleyLogan R. Kearsley
I'm going to get into some Shepard Book level of thinking. The Bible has a few words about not killing. Quite Specific... It is, however, a might bit fuzzier on the subject of selling the weapons?
Or to put it a better way, you rob banks because that's where the money is. But you don't rob guns stores cause that's where the guns are.
Every army that is going to march will need two things. The first and most obvious is weapons. Guns. Ammo. Swords. Things that make other things stop being other things. Now, say your sandwiched between the evil empire and the good empire. And the evil Empire is marching for war with the good empire and you're in the way. If you're the guy who is supplying the evil empire with their weapons, they would not dare go through you... that would not only cut them off from your weapons, but also cause the good empire to come to your own aide, because of the kicking the puppy dog aspect.
But, you say, what if the good empire decides you need to be stopped from arming the evil empire... well, if you're arming the good empire as well, they won't have a problem with you because stopping you from selling to both sides cuts them out of their own weapons and gives the edge to the evil empire.
This need not be weapons. Intelligence (your priests are very good at infiltration) or resources (an army marches on its stomach) could be so good and so neutral that either side attacking you would invoke defense from their enemies, who are also getting the same benefits.
This is how both the U.S. and Switzerland managed to be neutral for much of their history (The U.S. until the cold war had basically stopped caring about old war politics and said they wouldn't get involved so long as the Europeans kept their wars over there). The U.S. has historically enforced neutrality by being oceans away and has never been successfully invaded and occupied. In modern times, they are also the largest exporter of military hardware and give their stuff to some rather nasty places because now they are dependent on our spare parts and if that's not enough to keep them in line, the U.S. has all the receipts. It's nice to know how many of your fighter jets the enemy owns.
The Swiss is notoriously surrounded by mountains, making invasions difficult due to the historical need to march. In addition they have carved a niche in both their neutrality making them a great place for hostiles to meet and negotiate safely AND liberal banking laws that have a good deal of accounts from all over the world. You cannot go to war with a bank when they hold your money.
Additionally, although you discounted that option, both nations have a fairly liberal and permissive gun culture. The Swiss Militia drafts all males who are in service from age 18-30 at least and are allowed to take their service weapons home and must keep them in working order and at the ready for recall to active duty.
The United States is far and away the biggest owner of firearms, with private gun ownership in the States representing just under half of all guns owned world wide! There are 105,000 private guns per 100,000 people in the United States, and many gun owners keep their arms ready for rebellion against their own government, so they have no qualms shooting an invasion force.
Both of these attitudes were feared by belligerents. A common joke among the Germans was of a Nazi General meeting a Swiss general and asked him what would happen if I invaded Switzerland with a million men? "Then, I would call all of the Swiss Militia and order them to shoot every single one of your troops." replies the Swiss General.
"And what if I bring two million men?" asks the Nazi.
"Then I will order them to shoot twice," responds the Swiss.
In Japan, Admiral Yamamoto was quite vocal in his opposition to war with the United States and once described an invasion as impossible because the Americans would not sign terms unless he took the White House and "there is a gun behind every blade of grass."
hszmvhszmv
$\begingroup$ If you are supplying both sides, that only makes invading you first on the way to attacking the other side exponentially more important. Not only will they be securing their own munitions supply, but the same action would be denying supply to the enemy as well. $\endgroup$ – pluckedkiwi Jun 28 '18 at 13:46
Make their religion one that is only practiced there. That will motivate most people to stay there.
Make absolute pacifism a core tenet.
Make another core tenet that submission to anyone not of that religion a mortal sin.
If someone invades, everyone just starts killing themselves and burning their stuff to save their own souls.
Then probably make them isolated by geography. Anyone who wanted to invade would be faced with an distant land where all you would get would be scorched earth with no one to work it. Plus, probably pretty demoralizing for your soldiers.
BrizzyBrizzy
No natural resources, The only value of this land is the people, who will not work for a foreign oppressor. What little farm land and mines there are, are difficult to mine for the skilled natives but near impossible for outsiders. The location of the treasury is a well kept secret which will be lost if they kill king.
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University State
The country could have a high concentration of the most prestigious universities in the world.
They offer free, high quality education to the children of political, religious, and economic leaders from around the world. (But everyone else has to pay)
Giving free education to the children of world leaders offers them two advantages; prestige and security.
The security comes in a soft form and a hard form. The soft security comes from the emotional connection leaders have with the country from their time as students there. The hard form is that the children of the world leaders could go from free beneficiaries of the system to hostages at the drop of a hat.
To strengthen this hold, the nation has very strict laws controlling weapons - for the "safety and security" of it's citizens, and guests within the country. They also do not allow any students to have their own security, but supply VIP students with neutral bodyguards. So long as the weapons control in the nation is good, these need not be heavily armed, but could carry "ceremonial" weapons (ceremonial weapons can still be deadly!).
Why do nations send their children to be voluntary hostages of this state?
The quality of education really is beyond compare (they can after all afford to attract and retain the best academics from around the world by offering great salaries, and great status).
The nation really is politically neutral; they would never dream of harming the students (unless first attacked).
The nation is effective at keeping students safe; combining effective control of weapons, and high levels of surveillance.
This need not be a Utopian vision. The people of the nation might not have political freedom, and the lives of workers and poorer students could be very different from the experience of the rich celebrities and the glossy brochures.
Even though an answer has been accepted, no one mentioned an interesting one:
Evolution / Eugenics
The country itself may not be terribly valuable, but the people are. These people, isolated from other societies, have been lucky enough to strike on certain genes that allow them to be absolute savants in a particular area (such as technology.)
Attacking them means killing off the smarts that are probably currently developing your nation for you. Annexing them means possibly turning them hostile (and the last thing you want is a bunch of p.o.'d smarties you just assimilated that are capable of controlling your economy/technological/etc future.)
So, due to the mutual [x] benefits you gain by their mere existence as savants and the fact that the people are worth far more than the land, it only makes sense to let them do their thing and reap the benefits.
blurryblurry
You made a mistake in your assumptions, and that is blocking you from the simple answer. When considering that the area has nothing of interest to anyone that would cause others to invade, you ask "why people should want to stay within this state and not move to another" and essentially dismiss that idea.
People living in that area is more common than you think
In fact I know some of them personally.
People leave areas that have lots of resources and move to areas with less all the time, and there are various reasons. Usually the reasons involve people who dislike the current social construct: they dislike or disagree with the religion, or dislike the oppression, or hate the "rat-race" (that's a common modern one), or they just don't like the big city.
Often these people leave civilization in small groups, or even alone. I just read an article yesterday about a Japanese man who hated the rat-race so he just abandoned the Japanese mainland and went to a small island in the Pacific where he lived for more than 30 years. Others have done the same in the past.
But you want a nation, not just a hermit or a few families...
You need more people so you can call it a country. Well, some entire families leave civilization and move out into the middle of nowhere to get away from it all; it's actually fairly common. Sometimes groups of families do this, and sometimes groups of people come together to be "independent together," especially if they share ideals.
All you need is for lots of groups of families to leave an area, and there are 101 reasons they could be leaving, and if there is a controversial political thing going on that generation then they might all be leaving for the same reason (ie: unified ideals). These groups of people could be 10 to 100 each and could coalesce into a larger unified group out in the boonies, so now you have 1000s of people out there with a unified cause. Fast forward a few generations, assuming a reasonable growth rate and that some people leave to go back to "normal" society, and now you could have your small nation of tens of thousands of individuals all having a like-minded reason for being in a less pleasant area.
Now if only we knew what that "like-minded reason" was... oh wait, what if they had a pacifist religion that insisted on zero violence of any kind? That might work. Oh yeah, that's what you said you wanted. ;)
Because of how these people came to be, they are likely to enjoy their privacy, peace, and quiet. They are likely to avoid dense cities, so their nation might not have any. These people are likely spread out in a way that means there are no actual cities to conquer - yet another reason there is no point in invading them.
These people are likely to mostly fend for themselves. They probably do a bit of bartering, but they likely grow a lot of their own food with very primitive methods. They might not be very well nourished, and if they have no large, strong, strapping young lads, combined with their independent spirit, they may make awful slaves, so nobody bothers to abduct them despite them being an easy target.
At least not usually. Perhaps they do get attacked sometimes. Maybe some of them are killed from time to time, and maybe a few slaves are taken from among them occasionally. Aside from being easy targets, there is not really any other reason to attack them, so these attacks or slave abductions aren't stopped (because pacifist) and would be an infrequent thing that these people hate. This would not ruin the country because of its infrequency.
Now there is a lot of flavor to go with it.
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“Alien” superintelligence learning human languages
A quote from Story of Your Life (the short novel that Arrival movie is based on)
Colonel Weber frowned. “You seem to be implying that no alien could have learned human languages by monitoring our broadcasts.”
“I doubt it. They'd need instructional material specifically designed to teach human languages to non-humans.”
Superintelligence (from Wikipedia):
is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. "Superintelligence" may also refer to a property of problem-solving systems (e.g., superintelligent language translators
Let's say that there's an alien probe orbiting the Earth. The alien probe is an artificial superintelligence and it is monitoring all broadcasts leaving the Earth since the very start.
To talk/write to us, an alien artificial superintelligence really need a dedicated "Grammar practice for Elementary Artificial Alien Superintelligence Students"? It can't learn at least one language from our broadcasts? How can it do that?
aliens language artificial-intelligence
LupettoLupetto
$\begingroup$ I remember seeing that sentence in the story. I had my doubts about it. I wonder if there's recorded evidence of human babies learning a second language solely by watching television? Edit I found multiple articles in a quick Google search, including this TED talk: ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies Summary of the TED talk is here: web.archive.org/web/20170121171945/http://vancouversun.com/g00/… $\endgroup$ – SRM Jan 21 '17 at 17:18
$\begingroup$ Could you clarify the last paragraph? I'm not sure if you're asking why it needs to be taught or why it doesn't or how it does or how it doesn't. $\endgroup$ – Zxyrra Jan 21 '17 at 17:57
$\begingroup$ @Zxyrra: If the alien superintelligence doesn't need a "grammar practice", how could theoretically learn a human language by monitoring our broadcasts? Sorry for poor english :) $\endgroup$ – Lupetto Jan 21 '17 at 18:02
$\begingroup$ we have been broadcasting instructional material to teach language for decades, It's called children's programing. $\endgroup$ – John Jan 21 '17 at 20:29
The superintelligence is super intelligent
There is no real need to explain how it works. By definition, the probe is smarter than a human, so there's no reason why it couldn't be "smart enough" to recognize what constitutes a language and figure out what it's communicating.
All languages share similarities. Our friends at Linguistics SE have discussed this a bit, and while completely foreign languages may be difficult to interpret, patterns can be identified, and meanings can be guess-and-checked based on the actions of those speaking.
Humans are already capable, so a meta-human would have no problem. There are thousands of languages around the world, and yet nearly all of them have been translated through self-practice and observation. Europeans were able to decipher Asian languages along the silk road, and vice-versa; the same is true for their arrival in the Americas. I'm no expert on the process, but if we can do it just fine, and this probe is significantly smarter for us, the question becomes why wouldn't the probe learn?
ZxyrraZxyrra
$\begingroup$ I don't know, maybe because it's not human. As you said, we, as human, we share similarities. From languages to brain. $\endgroup$ – Lupetto Jan 21 '17 at 19:11
$\begingroup$ Humans have successfully deciphered foreign written languages, but without conversational feedback from fluent speakers nobody has ever learned to speak another language. The alien probe would neither. It would make some mistakes like babies do, but would probably quickly learn to correct them. $\endgroup$ – Crissov Jan 21 '17 at 19:51
$\begingroup$ @Crissov While it would struggle without direct conversation there are a couple workarounds - it could observe conversation and match predicted outcomes with what happens; it could learn like a baby, as you said; it could compare to similar alien languages; it could talk to other human AI or practice with them. $\endgroup$ – Zxyrra Jan 21 '17 at 20:19
$\begingroup$ @Lupetto See my above comment ^ $\endgroup$ – Zxyrra Jan 21 '17 at 22:43
$\begingroup$ @Crissov: You can't learn to speak a foreign language without hearing it, so I don't think that is a fair criticism. $\endgroup$ – TheBlackCat Jan 23 '17 at 20:50
Thing is, language could likely be learned without being taught through recognition of patterns. Different phonemes being used very often together could be used to learn a word.
The problem then becomes associating words with meaning. With nothing but audio, you really don't have a mental image to connect the words to, nor can you observe the words in relation to various objects, emotions, etc., which makes finding patterns among words far more difficult. You could potentially recognize tone, and try associating tone with various words, but this could end up being more confusing in some cases.
With the example of children watching tv in another language, they have visual reference in that case. They could potentially, eventually, associate words with objects and ideas. In the case of super-intelligence, this likely wouldn't take long. But with only audio, it would seem to me to be very difficult to associate various words with meaning. I would think the super-intelligence could therefore learn a blank dictionary, if you will. It could construct the language's words, and maybe even letters (without symbols, mind you) based on patterns, but there wouldn't be definitions for the words.
To add complications, different dialects or accents could make the phonemes harder to recognize with patterns. If the super-intelligence had visual surveillance, or way of determining what various words referred to, it would likely be possible to learn without being explicitly taught. However, I would think that having only the sound of the words to go by would make it nearly impossible to learn the meaning.
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$\begingroup$ We send television signals too (Carl Sagan's Contact). This could change the scenario? $\endgroup$ – Lupetto Jan 21 '17 at 18:55
$\begingroup$ @Lupetto, Good point. But, if I'm correct, the television signals require a device to interpret what the resultant image will be. The aliens would have to make a device that correctly interprets the image. If they could do so, without accidentally getting a result that is incorrect, and then thinking it is correct (because who's to say they know what the signal should translate to?), then that would increase their chances of being able to decipher a language. Especially if they have access to Dora. Learning Spanish from outer space. $\endgroup$ – Iter Jan 21 '17 at 18:59
There are two main questions you will have to ask here: How intelligent and how alien?
Humans have been able to figure out the languages of ancient people from text alone without the benefit of native speakers, but this analysis hardly exists in a vacuum. First off, languages evolve and it is possible to find clues based on similarities with existing languages. Second, human languages have a lot of similarities due to the fact that, being human, we have a degree of understanding of other human cultures. Aliens might not be similar enough to understand human civilization on even a basic level.
If we're talking about aliens that are as far above us as we are above non-human animals, we can probably assume that they are as capable of understanding us as we are of understanding non-human animals - difficult, but not impossible. The problem is that the reason we can understand non-humans is often because we evolved alongside them and instinctively know, more or less, what we need to know (example: most mammals understand that "growling, making noise, and baring teeth" means "angry"). We can also empathize with animals reasonably closely related to us; we share emotions like fear, anger, and contentment, and needs like food, sleep, and shelter with many animals. Aliens, particularly the very alien aliens will not necessarily have this benefit.
The problem is that languages exist to convey information, but they only need to convey information that the listener does not already know. In other words, no human language intrinsically contains information about what an emotion is, how human social structure works, and so on. All human listeners know this already, but eavesdropping aliens might not, so they might not have the context that will allow them to start analyzing.
A good example of a complex "language" of a species that is very alien to us and also much less intelligent would be the "dance" of bees. Human scientists have figured it out, but only through intense study and with the benefit of context clues. We needed to know that bees get food from flowers, that they are eusocial animals that can be expected to help each other instead of keeping food for themselves, that they can see the sun and use it to calculate angles and distances, and that the dance triggers bees to go to a particular flower that the "dancer" had previously visited. If we had simply been focused on videos of bees dancing in their hives, with no understanding of bee social structure, goals, and their behavior before and after the dance, no amount of study would allow us to crack the code. There simply isn't enough information contained in the dance to tell us what we need to know.
So if the aliens are as high above us and as different from us as we are from bees, I would guess that they could figure out our language with enough study, but they would probably have to observe us directly to get the necessary context. Broadcasts alone, especially audio broadcasts, would not be enough.
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The Google translate AI recently created its own "meanings map", essentially its own internal language, to allow it to translate word pairs it had never seen before.
Given thousands of years more time and greater computing power, there is no reason to think that your probe could not do likewise. The only issue would be ensuring an accurate match between its tokens and real world phenomena. Concrete objects are obvious enough, but something like "love" might be harder to validate.
Jnani Jenny HaleJnani Jenny Hale
I don't think that language will be the easy way. If we want AlIEN aliens, then let's make them communicate with ideas, thoughts. Then, the aliens could simply communicate with pictures, or with thought.
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There are no Friedmans today, except maybe Friedman himself
How come no economist on the right is asking "Where are the Galbraiths of yesteryear?"? It's because Milton Friedman won the debate, and John Kenneth Galbraith lost. Both Friedman (on the right) and Galbraith (on the left) were once leading public intellectuals and economists. I used to read them both. I wonder how many young economists have even heard of Galbraith?
[I wrote this a couple of days back, but wasn't sure whether to post it. Today I asked a colleague in Political Science/Political Economy about Galbraith's reputation as an academic, and he said it was high - in the same ballpark as Friedman's academic reputation in economics. Then, by sheer chance, I found a Brad DeLong post, recently hoisted from his archives, saying something similar. In an alternate universe, Galbraith won and Friedman lost, and economics would be very different today. So I decided to post this, FWIW.]
I can't think of any economist living today who has had as much influence on economics and economic policy as Milton Friedman had, and still has. Neither on the right, nor on the left.
If you had a time machine, went back to (say) 1985, picked up Milton Friedman, brought him forward to 2015, and showed him the current debate over macroeconomic policy, he could immediately join right in. Is there anything important that would be really new to him?
We are all Friedman's children and grandchildren. The way that New Keynesians approach macroeconomics owes more to Friedman than to Keynes: the permanent income hypothesis; the expectations-augmented Phillips Curve; the idea that the central bank is responsible for inflation and should follow a transparent rule. The first two Friedman invented; the third pre-dates Friedman, but he persuaded us it was right. Using the nominal interest rate as the monetary policy instrument is non-Friedmanite, but the new-fangled "Quantitative Easing" is just a silly new name for Friedmanite base-control.
We easily forget how daft the 1970's really were, and some ideas were much worse than pet rocks. (Marxism was by far the worst, of course, and had a lot of support amongst university intellectuals, though not much in economics departments.) When inflation was too high, and we wanted to bring inflation down, many (most?) macroeconomists advocated direct controls on prices and wages. And governments in Canada, the US, the UK (there must have been more) actually implemented direct controls on prices and wages to bring inflation down. Milton Friedman actually had to argue against price and wage controls and against the prevailing wisdom that inflation was caused by monopoly power, monopoly unions, a grab-bag of sociological factors, and had nothing to do with monetary policy.
Imagine if I argued today: "Inflation is dangerously low. In order to increase inflation, governments should pass a law saying that all firms must raise all prices and wages by a minimum of 2% a year, unless they apply for and get special permission from the Prices and Incomes Board to raise them by less." What are the chances my policy proposal would be accepted?
Friedman had a mountain to move, and he moved it. And because he already moved it, we simply cannot have a Friedman today.
Great men like Friedman require a great job to do, or else they can't become great men. They also require an aristocracy, oligarchy, or monarchy, where only a few voices can get heard, or else they can't become one of the few voices. The internet actually makes it harder to create great public intellectuals, which is probably a good thing, simply because it's harder to stand out as great, when there's lots of competition.
The right won the economics debate; left and right are just haggling over details. The big debate is no longer about economics (sadly for me); and it won't be held on the pages of the New York Times or in the economics journals.
Posted by Nick Rowe on January 16, 2015 in Macro, Media, Nick Rowe | Permalink
There is a difference between achieving power and winning a debate. Also, if the right really won the economic debate where is Piketty coming from?
"I wonder how many young economists have even heard of Galbraith?"
Being reasonably young and having read (and enjoyed) two of Galbraith's books but none of Friedman's I'd have to argue with you there. Until recently I didn't even know Friedman had written any books. Add to this the fact that I'm moderately right-wing (at least in the Swedish political context). I will also note that the policy proposal that is (to me) most clearly associated with Friedman is the k-percent rule and it doesn't appear to be very popular today.
That said, I read Brad DeLong's post a few days ago and also thought it was far too categorical.
Posted by: Hugo André | January 16, 2015 at 06:17 PM
> "The big debate is no longer about economics (sadly for me)"
Nick, there is a very important debate going on about monetary policy. I don't know if it's "the" big debate, but it's one of the big ones, and it is most definitely about economics. I believe we need to switch our CB from inflation targeting to NGDP level targeting or similar (e.g. aggregate nominal labor income targeting). Surely this is a debate that a great person or two could influence.
As I know you know, I'm supporting Scott Sumner's efforts in this area at the new Mercatus Program on Monetary Policy. If you have any interest in this area, please let me know, kjd@duda.org or 956-433-3339.
Posted by: Kenneth Duda | January 16, 2015 at 06:59 PM
Nick, Excellent post, you convinced me.
Jim, Income and wealth inequality were not major issues when Friedman and Galbraith debated. Friedman won the issues they debated, he would do much less well in this environment.
Hugo, Back when Friedman was alive he was most closely associated with policies like ending the military draft, school vouchers (which I gather are very popular in Sweden) and legalizing drugs. And as Nick noted, many of his views on monetary economics became a part of New Keynesianism.
Posted by: Scott Sumner | January 16, 2015 at 07:05 PM
Jim: "There is a difference between achieving power and winning a debate."
True. But they are not unrelated. (Though we might want to distinguish between "winning the debate" and "being right".) Within economics, the Friedmanite perspective achieved power, because economists thought it was right. Outside of economics, it's different.
"Also, if the right really won the economic debate where is Piketty coming from?"
I haven't read Piketty, except for snippets, and reviews, so I don't know. But is his economic analysis any different from the Friedman's in any important respect?
Hugo Andre: "I will also note that the policy proposal that is (to me) most clearly associated with Friedman is the k-percent rule and it doesn't appear to be very popular today."
That's because you are young. Fish don't notice the Friedmanite water they swim in. They only associate Friedman with the one policy he advised that was rejected, because it sticks out.
Posted by: Nick Rowe | January 16, 2015 at 07:11 PM
Hugo Andre,
"I will also note that the policy proposal that is (to me) most clearly associated with Friedman is the k-percent rule and it doesn't appear to be very popular today."
I think that's largely a matter of the forgettability of the banal. One of the things about Friedman's macroeconomics that was different from standard middle-of-the-road New Keynesianism today was the k-percent rule, and so it stands out.
Jim Roothman,
That's an important distinction, in that very often the right won the debate but didn't win power, i.e. left-wing parties won office but had been persuaded by many of the ideas that were once fringe right-wing ideas. Indeed, in Australia in the 1980s it was the Australian Labor Party that was the dynamic force in favour of floating exchange rates, deregulation, and lower taxes. And Bill Clinton or Tony Blair certainly didn't propose a national wage & prices policy, currency controls, or fiscal stimulus in response to 1990s unemployment.
Now you can still think that Friedman was wrong on a lot of these issues, but it's a fact of intellectual history that there was a widespread change of opinion on them, and so at least in a loose sense a "winning of the debate".
Posted by: W. Peden | January 16, 2015 at 07:16 PM
Actually the National Security Council won the debate in 1950 but had to keep it secret. Friedman was just some guy with a broom sweeping up the droppings after the parade.
Posted by: Sandwichman | January 16, 2015 at 07:20 PM
Ken: monetary policy is important, and the switch from IT to NGDPLT is important, for human well-being. And I think it's great what you are doing to support what Scott is doing. But it isn't really much of a left/right issue. (The small-c conservative in me actually leans towards sticking with IT, because it doesn't like changing the rules, and IT is the devil we know, and it wasn't until the Canadian data hit me between the eyes that I gave up on IT.) NGDPLT has support from lefties too, as it should. The left/right debate has moved on from economics.
Scott: thanks! (I was a bit uncertain about this post myself.) You are very nearly my age, so probably remember the debates over price/wage controls, and what caused inflation? I think the "sociological"/anti-monetarist perspective on inflation was more influential in the UK though, which is where I spent my early years. Remember the "competing claims" theory? When British monetarists crossed the Atlantic, it was said they looked like Keynesians.
And by the way, what is Piketty's actual policy proposal? A wealth tax? Big deal. For someone who as an undergraduate expected the eventual victory of communism (I got that one dead wrong), the eventual full nationalisation of the means of production, who listened to the Beatles singing Taxman Mr Wilson (Labour), taxman Mr Heath (Conservative) about 95% marginal tax rates on income (one for you 19 for me), direct controls on prices and wages, etc., etc., Piketty's proposed wealth tax is peanuts. Lloyd George destroyed a whole social class, with inheritance taxes.
> But it isn't really much of a left/right issue.
Thanks for the response. Yes, I see what you mean; agreed, the left-versus-right wars are mostly not about economics. I'm actually glad that NGDPLT is neither red nor blue, because I think that improves its odds of happening. Agreed also that the Fed is very small-c conservative so NGDPLT won't happen unless/until it is an accepted among mainstream monetary economists.
Ike, September 23, 1952 (cancelled campaign speech):
"The inflation we suffer is not an accident; it is a policy. It is not, as the Administration would have us believe some queer and deadly kind of economic bacteria breathed into the atmosphere by Soviet communism...
"Now the weakness of the Democratic Party for 'cheap' or 'soft' money is well known. For the last 20 years, it has practiced this policy faithfully. Of late, it has given it a new twist: it is now called 'controlled inflation.' But this name does not mean what it says.
"It really means inflation plus controls.
"The way this policy has worked out is easy to describe. With one hand the Administration has been turning up the water pressure at the hydrant, while with the other hand it has been trying to check the water's flow. The Administration's controls over prices are nothing but weak stop-gaps...
"There is in certain quarters the view that national prosperity depends on the production of armaments and that any reduction in arms output might bring on another recession. Does this mean, then that the continued failure of our foreign policy is the only way to pay for the failure of our fiscal policy? According to this way of thinking, the success of our foreign policy would mean a depression."
Richard Nixon brought in wage and price controls in 1971. By the way, it was Nixon's "Checkers speech" that caused Eisenhower to cancel his scheduled Sept. 23 speech.
See Fred L. Block, "The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present" (1977).
Turns out there was a lot more going on in those days than a "debate" between Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith.
@Nick Rowe and W. Peden
Of course you have a point. I am a fish.
@Scott Sumner
Thanks for the examples! Yes, the school vouchers work quite well here. On the other hand we are considering switching back to military draft because of the Russian aggression.
Jim Rooghan also has a point though. Yes there was some daft left-wing economics during the post-war years (I didn't live back then but I do read) but today it seems to have been replaced by some daft right-wing economics. For example I had a course in public economics last term where the teacher apparently saw it as her purpose to convince us that the state is bad. period. I am open to the idea that the state can be inefficient and that many regulations are bad but that course made me wonder if I am wrong about this. Surely this teacher is also a part of Friedman's legacy.
Another thing: while Friedman certainly did many different kinds of economics his home field was monetary theory. While he got some important things right he also seems to have gotten some big things wrong. Didn't he for example repeatedly warn that the rapid growth in monetary aggregates during the late 80's would lead to high inflation?
W Peden: I had forgotten about currency controls. When my parents took us on holiday to France, mid/late 1960's, we were allowed to take 50 pounds each. There was also a Selective Employment Tax, on every worker not in the export sector, to encourage exports.
Not about economics among economists, but as much bad economics beyond economists as ever, though it doesn't really qualify as economics or debate and doesn't even rise above politics.
Posted by: Lord | January 16, 2015 at 09:44 PM
The permanent income hypo was collaterally invented by Modigliania, although under a different name, but is empirically false. Duesenberry's relative income hypo is the one that is correct, which Galbraith supported. Friedman was crucial in developing the expectations-augmented Phillips Curve, although others were involved as well such as Phelps (ahead of Friedman to be precise). As you note, Nick, that central banks play an important role in controlling inflation predated Uncle Miltie, but he deserves credit for reminding everybody vigorously of this important fact.
Probably the public policy that he was most responsible for advocating against all forces and odds to achieve, for better or worse, was the flexible exchange rate system.
Posted by: Barkley Rosser | January 17, 2015 at 03:56 AM
Barkley: I think there's a general law in the history of economic thought: any idea that any economist has ever invented was always previously invented by someone else, if you look hard enough for that someone else.
The expectations-augmented Phillips Curve is there, in the Phelps volume, and in more than just Phelps' chapter in that volume IIRC, but unless you had read that volume after having read Friedman you wouldn't see the implications of that idea, and you wouldn't see it as a general property of any reasonable model of a monetary economy, as opposed to a specific model of firms or labour markets.
Modigliani's version of PIH fits more naturally in OLG models with finite-lived agents. The standard NK model has an infinitely-lived agent. And it was Friedman's little book that provided the mass of persuasive empirical evidence that made the PIH the standard assumption.
Duesenberry's RIH has two components, IIRC: 1. C(t) is a function of C(t-1). That idea has survived, in attenuated form, as habit-persistence (though I wonder how many macroeconomists who build NK models with habit-persistence have ever heard of Duesenberry?). 2. My C(t) is a function of average C(t). I still don't see how that doesn't violate the long run budget constraint, and how it is empirically compatible with a world in which the distribution of wealth sometimes gets more unequal and sometimes less unequal.
I had forgotten about flexible exchange rates. Again, it is an idea that seems utterly normal now, and we forget that when Canada floated it was seen as breaking the rules of civilised behaviour, and that Friedman was the rebel who supported Canada's break with Bretton Woods, and said it didn't mean we were an irresponsible basket case.
Posted by: Nick Rowe | January 17, 2015 at 05:28 AM
I wrote that second comment a bit too late at night. Since there is no delete or edit button, please disregard it.
I do have one (hopefully useful) piece of information. Professor Rowe asks about Piketty's policy proposals. Since I just finished a thesis work on one of Piketty's formulas I have been able to ask questions to a few teachers who work with inequality. The consensus is that Piketty's sugesstion of a wealth tax is less a serious proposal, more a way to get people to discuss what can actually be done about inequality. Basically he and others who worry about inequality want governments to do as much as it takes to halt and reverse the trend. Whatever means are used to achieve this, it would almost certainly mean a pretty radical transformation of economic society.
Posted by: Hugo André | January 17, 2015 at 07:24 AM
Hugo: I could delete it if you really want me to, but I thought it was a good comment, except for typos (spelling Jim's name wrong)! It's OK to disagree with your teacher's perspective, or even think it's daft. She would probably agree it's OK too, if she's as libertarian as she sounds.
On Milton Friedman's mistaken forecasts using monetary aggregates in the 1980s, I recommend looking at some of Edward Nelson's work, especially his article on Friedman and US monetary policy from 1960-2007.
On consumption, the key question again is who won the debate, and thus who were the contestants. There are now very few economists who would say that the absolute income effect is more important to understanding consumption than consumption smoothing and the permanent/transistory income distinction, whereas if you read a Cambridge University Library copy of "The Theory of the Consumption", as I did, you can find plenty of increasingly faint pencil comments in the margins on how ridiculous Friedman's ideas were and how Keynes was clearly right on the consumption function.
Nick Rowe,
To be fair to economists in the 1960s, plenty of those economists not called Nicholas Kaldor thought that SET was a bad idea. And it was predictably farcical: my father was classified as a manufacturing worker for the only time in his life, because he was a sub-editor, and journalists were classified as manufacturing workers rather than service workers, and thus didn't pay SET. What a peculiar decision by the government! Almost as strange as the notion that hotel workers should pay SET, unless they were in the Scottish Highlands, which coincidentally had a large number of very marginal Labour-Liberal and Labour-Tory seats during that period.
As for Kaldor, I really commend Alec Cairncross's books on what it was like to work alongside Kaldor in a serious policy environment.
Posted by: W. Peden | January 17, 2015 at 08:52 AM
To be precise: SET was paid by most service-sector workers, not export-workers. The idea was that encouraging the development of manufacturing rather than services would increase productivity.
I remember (or at least I think I do) newspaper articles of 30-odd years ago claiming that Bobby Fischer won the Cold War. This post reminded me of that. In reality Friedman had as much to do with the rise of conservatism as Fischer had to do with the collapse of the USSR. The real protagonists were people like Thatcher and Reagan, who triumphed over Callaghan and Carter because they exploited weaknesses in the Labour and Democratic bases. I can't see that the elections would have gone any differently if Galbraith and Friedman had never been born. Arthur Scargill, Ayatollah Khomeini and General Galtieri, on the other hand, made a difference.
Galbraith and Friedman each produced a fairly popular TV series: respectively, The Age Of Uncertainty and Free To Choose. Neither of them came anywhere close to the sort of viewing numbers David Attenborough regularly achieves.
Of course, this has no bearing on the validity of their arguments. Some of those stand up pretty well and some don't.
Posted by: Kevin Donoghue | January 17, 2015 at 09:37 AM
I continue to have trouble seperating Friedman's economics and his politics in my evaluation. The most extreme was his support of the Pinochet regime. Then there was his idea that anti-discrimination legislation is unnecessary because discrimination against equally qualified workers was inefficient, and firms which practiced it would be competed out of existance. Somehow, I can't recall any forecast as to how long that might take. (They say it'll kill me, but they don't say when.) After all, the slaves were only freed when? Give it time.
He didn't like unions. He's gotten his wish; unions are much diminished. He thought inequality would continue to decrease (back in the 70s). Anyone happy with the results? Anyone think they're not related?
Paul Samuelson is on record as saying that the way he stayed friends with Friedman was to make a point of never mentioning how crazy his libertarian politics were. He also commented that he often had the feeling, debating with Friedman, that he had won all the points and lost the debate.
IMHO a large part (I do not undertake to say how large) of Friedman's policy influence is the result of the fit those policies have with the interests of the wealthy and powerful.
I'm staying away from technical issues; I'm not entitled to an opinion. (Although I take my actual opinions from Robert Waldmann.) But a fair amount of his policy prescription were driven by his politics, which were not nice.
Posted by: Jonathan | January 17, 2015 at 09:38 AM
"I continue to have trouble seperating Friedman's economics and his politics in my evaluation."
And perhaps understanding either. However, this is a distraction from the actual question, which was why there isn't a Friedman-type figure in economics today.
Kevin Donoghue,
As I noted above, the triumph (or defeat?) of conservativism is a separate question from Friedman's impact on economics. Nick's point that New Keynesianism has a lot more to do with Friedman than Keynes is a separate question from what happened with the Reagan administration or the rise of the religious right in the US etc. New Keynesianism is not about the Moral Majority or Victorian Values or Pinochet or whatever else people would rather talk about than a New Keynesian Phillips Curve.
Jonathan, Friedman "supported" the Pinochet regime in exactly the same sense that he "supported" the communist government in China. (I.e. he gave economic policy advice to both governments and opposed the human rights policies of both governments.) His politics were libertarian, not right-wing. Unlike like President Obama, he opposed imprisoning 100,000s of drug users (disproportionately minorities.)
Nick, Yes I do recall that era, and I also recall being confused every time I heard a British reporter talk about "monetarism," as it was clearly something very different from American monetarism.
Posted by: Scott Sumner | January 17, 2015 at 11:24 AM
I can agree that what Piketty is asking for is not such a big deal, but then the question begs: why is there such feverish opposition to him then?
I'm not naming names though if you insist I can.
In any case, even if Piketty's answer is not so earth shattering, his claim as to the problem is: if the golden age of productivity and growth are behind us-the golden age according to him was 1700-2000-then it's earth-shattering indeed. I'm not saying he's right-obviously one would certainly wish he was wrong if wishes were worth anything.
Posted by: Mike Sax | January 17, 2015 at 11:26 AM
Mike: "I can agree that what Piketty is asking for is not such a big deal, but then the question begs: why is there such feverish opposition to him then?"
I want to ask the exact opposite question: why do so many lefties treat him like such a big deal, like....a rock star? Nothing I have read about his book, from supporters or detractors, tells me it's any big deal. Fairly standard economics, by an economist who's more concerned about inequality than many. (But Sen is also concerned about equality, IIRC, and does more exciting stuff.) And the bit I did read for myself (on the theory of interest rates and capital productivity) suggests he doesn't understand it very well. But he's treated like...the Great White Hope of the left?
Justin Bieber isn't himself particularly annoying. He's OK. It's his drooling fans that make people want to take him down.
Hugo Andre said this above, and felt I couldn't be silent about it either: "The consensus is that Piketty's sugesstion of a wealth tax is less a serious proposal, more a way to get people to discuss what can actually be done about inequality. Basically he and others who worry about inequality want governments to do as much as it takes to halt and reverse the trend. Whatever means are used to achieve this, it would almost certainly mean a pretty radical transformation of economic society."
Radical transformation of economic society is the fearful claim here. I don't know what is meant by 'economic society'. Like Mike Sax above, why is there such feverish opposition to Piketty's recommendation? Do you think Milton Friedman justifies a fear of radical transformation?
Every day a person who has net worth has the ability to use this net worth to their advantage. The value of their wealth and their advantage comes from govt providing civil and market order. Govt taxation policies can and should consider net worth - as a matter of economics and as a matter of common sense - people should expect to contribute in some way proportionate to the benefit they receive, even those of high net worth believe in use-taxes or benefit-taxes don't they.
Does this thing called 'economic society' expect people to ignore net worth as a matter of economics? Does entry into this society mean that the accepted, dominating burden of taxation is to be placed on income and consumption in a 12-month period and NOT on net worth? And even though net worth is now, by far, the largest definable tax base in the UK, US, Japan and Europe, it should not be considered in taxation policy? Ouch.
Does Milton Friedman's writing justify this type thinking and 'society'? Does monetarism justify this?
Posted by: JF | January 17, 2015 at 12:08 PM
W Peden: Ah yes, I misremembered the SET. I remember my father complaining that farm workers originally came under SET, but UK farmers complained that agriculture was import-competing, and I think got an exclusion, IIRC.
Jonathan: I tried (and failed, except perhaps very indirectly) to give economic policy advice to the Castro regime in the 1990's. Their human rights record is no better than Pinochet's. Does that make me beyond the pale too?
W. Peden: "the triumph (or defeat?) of conservativism is a separate question from Friedman's impact on economics."
Is it? Try to imagine a world in which McGovern and Dukakis were US presidents and Neil Kinnock was a UK prime minister. Can you see Friedman being remembered, in that world, as an important contributor to the development of economics? That seems implausible to me.
Conversely, I can't see how Lorie Tarshis's ill-fated textbook could have fared well during the great Red Scare no matter how gifted he might have been. Theory isn't developed in a sterile environment free of political contamination.
I grant you New Keynesianism has more to do with Friedman than Keynes. But then it has more to do with Louis Bachelier and Frank Ramsey than with either of them. Once economists started farting around with stochastic processes they were bound to produce some stuff of that sort. Which prompts another banal observation about theory: there's a kind of momentum inherent in it, leading from the likes of Walras to the likes of Debreu.
But it takes a political transformation to make it possible for someone to lift a purely theoretical idea from Ramsey and pass it off as a serious attempt to describe a real-world economy. Nobody could hope get away with that in the 1930s.
Posted by: Kevin Donoghue | January 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM
I find this essay shockingly bitter, shockingly close-minded. I can understand arguing in favor of Friedman's ideas but to insult other scholars who might disagree is simply being bitterly close-minded.
Posted by: ltr | January 17, 2015 at 01:02 PM
Kevin: interesting. But what about Lange and Lerner and the socialist planning debate? Those guys were taking what is basically the same sort of GE theory and applying it (or wanting to apply it) in a very different political system?
"Try to imagine a world in which McGovern and Dukakis were US presidents and Neil Kinnock was a UK prime minister. Can you see Friedman being remembered, in that world, as an important contributor to the development of economics?"
Yes, not least because something similar happened in Australia in the 1980s, and as far as I know Friedman's reputation as an economist in Australia is not significantly different from elsewhere.
One has to distinguish parties from policies, and economic policies from other policies. After all, in the strict sense of the term, Friedman was not a conservative.
Or strict senses of the term, as 'conservative' is a highly ambigious term.
ltr: huh? I thought I was giving Galbraith his due, as a serious academic who might have won the debate, and who is still influential, only not (much) in economics. I didn't feel 'bitter" writing it. More...nostalgic (old guys get like that).
Incidentally, on the success of right-wing politics in the UK and North America (?) in the 1980s, I remember reading a paper that looked at a lot of opinion polling evidence that suggested that in the US and UK public opinion tended to move to the right on taxation and the size of government BEFORE 1979. During the 1980s, on average American and British opinion moved slightly to the left. This was used as evidence for the claim that the rhetorical powers of Reagan and Thatcher were much less important than people think, and that they were the result of changing public opinion, not the cause.
An alternative explanation could be done in terms of the tax effects and unemployment of inflation/disinflation: during the 1970s there was bracket-creep of income tax, whereas through most of the 1980s there was disinflation and indexation. Moving up tax-brackets quickly will naturally annoy voters, whereas during the 1980s the fall in inflation resulted in a rise in cyclical unemployment (due to the early 1980s recession) and structural unemployment (due to the rise in the real value of benefits) and so people's concerns were focused more on the social safety net.
I always think that if Galbraith and Buckley could be good friends, the rest of us can at least be fairly civil with each other!
W. Peden: "as far as I know Friedman's reputation as an economist in Australia is not significantly different from elsewhere."
Two points: (1) I think Australian lecturers use American textbooks (I know Irish ones do). If American politics had taken a different course then the textbooks would be different and, in consequence, Friedman's reputation also. (2) To the extent that Australia does have a tradition of its own, I'd say neoclassical thinking holds less sway there than it does in the US. If I'm right about that, then Friedman probably suffers. Like Irving Fisher, he wasn't truly neoclassical but he tried to be, more than was wise. (In general, for reasons Krugman has often discussed, economists in smaller, more open economies are less likely to be receptive to Chicago ideas; it's hard to take the neutrality of money seriously if exchange rates impact your daily life.)
Nick: "But what about Lange and Lerner and the socialist planning debate?"
I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'd have thought that ties in quite well with what I'm saying. To the extent that that stuff was ever taken seriously, it was during the period when Hungary, for example, seemed to be doing reasonably well. This was an illusion which both the commies and the CIA fostered, for different reasons. So the politics led people to take GE theory more seriously than they should have done.
But as I say, you've lost me. Still, it's a good excuse to link to the best-ever title for a blog post:
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/
That's because Joe Stalin won the debate, and Leon Trotsky lost.
"If American politics had taken a different course then the textbooks would be different and, in consequence, Friedman's reputation also."
That's a bold counterfactual.
A bunch of points.
I was too terse in my response. By referencing Piketty I was not so much referring to his work but to the wealth disparities underlying it.
Inequality not being a major issue at that time was a mistake. In about 1970 Leo Johnson at Waterloo calculated that the bottom 10% of income earners in Canada reached a maximum share of total income in 1948. Downhill ever since. Inequality increased throughout the period, reaching higher into the distribution over time. This did not show up in mainstream stats (Statscan) because they used quintiles (minor effect) and household income (major effect). People responded to impoverishment by having more people (women) in the household go to work.
Friedman's error on inequality is sufficiently large to pretty much invalidate his entire work.
In the model building world Friedman does well, outside, not so much. There was a joke in Chile that the most elite unit in the military was 12 Chicago school economists. They could destroy ANYTHING.
Cuba's human rights record is not good. Pinochet's is much worse. Cuba never had desaparecidos.
Yes, Friedman won the ideology battle and millions of unemployed and underemployed are paying the price. Sidelining fiscal policy in favor of monetary policy to manage an economy has been a disaster for millions of unemployed. The Great Recession has proved that Friedman and Schwartz were wrong about the cause of the Great Depression. Friedman was wrong about the ability of monetary policy in the absence of fiscal stimulus and large enough automatic stabilizers to manage economic recovery from large downturns. Greenspan tried monetary policy without appropriate fiscal policy and blew up a housing bubble that eventually tanked the economy. If fiscal policy would have been used instead, the economy would be healthy. Thanks, Milton. Friedman ideology has paralyzed fiscal policy response to economic downturn ruining the lives of millions of long term unemployed. Adequate fiscal stimulus and job creation could have saved millions from misery and poverty.
Monetary policy alone is great for making the rich richer but it is grossly inadequate to manage an economy. Elitist economists can gloat over a win for their ideological side. The masses suffer the consequences.
Posted by: bakho | January 17, 2015 at 06:12 PM
I think I understand Nick. Advocates probably can get annoying for others who can't see it. I for one don't consider myself some big advocate for Piketty in any case.
Saying that I think that if advocates of Piketty get annoying so do some of his most determined opponents. I tend to agree with his policy proposal you mentioned above and I probably follow him in having more concern about inequality than average.
For me really it's less about even inequality than stagnation of the average guy's wages. I think there certainly has been a problem of wage stagnation where the average or median person has seen their standard of living flat line. I've tried to write about this myself.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/01/jared-bernstein-on-wage-stagnation.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-jared-bernstein-on-technology.html
Just so I'm clear it's less wage inequality than simply a lot aren't seeing their wages rise at all.
As for Piketty, he argues that the age of productivity may be over and that we're going to see much lower GDP in the future. I have certainly seen more than one economist make your complaint: that he doesn't understand productivity growth and interest rates well.
As I find his theory kind of depressing it may not be a bad thing if that's true. Do you disagree with his conclusions about slowing growth?
Posted by: Mike Sax | January 17, 2015 at 06:16 PM
Humble I/O guy joining late and hoping to be not that irrelevant...
Marxism influential? Maybe among those without influence. Being influential among sociologist or litterature majors is about as funny as those Joan Collins mini-series where she fought nazi war criminals by opening a haute couture shop.
Passing a law where prices must rise by 2% a year? If one of my most astute students ask me what's the difference with BoC having a 2% inflation target, what is humble I/O guy supposed to answer?
My recollections from the time (PhD in 1970) was that the arguments for wage and price controls, fixed exchange rates, and airline/trucking price regulation were pushed by non-economist politicians and resisted by economists (granted, often with less than Friedmanite vigor). And I was sort of surprised to learn that Galbraith (whom I had read in the '60's) was an economist.
Posted by: ThomasH | January 17, 2015 at 06:29 PM
bakho,
There is nothing in Friedman's views or those of his descendants, the NGDPLTers that implies that "fiscal policy" -- rising fiscal deficits during a recession -- should not occur. As the monetary authority pursues returning NGDP to its trend level, interest rates on long-term government bonds will fall. With lowering borrowing rates, standard microeconomic investment theory says governments should start investing more in projects with present costs and future benefits. That this common sense outcome is opposed by VSP (and once they hear about it and understand what it means, VSP won't like NGDPLT either) is not the fault of Milton Friedman.
Blindly adducing that the right won the argument and obliquely insulting Krugman is childish and not an argument.
The right have made arguments about inflation for the past 5 years and been proved wrong. Austerity has been proved disastrous.
If you're going to make an argument, make one. Show charts, graphs.
You sound like an amateur.
Oh, and Galbraith's son has WAY more influence than a nobody like you.
Posted by: David Blum | January 17, 2015 at 08:27 PM
I would add one more political point - Friedman had a side industry of hawking books that if you had some form of capitalism DemocrY as inevitable. Ask China how that worked out. Or Vietnam, or half the Middle East. Or Hungary.
About 10 years ago I picked-up JKG last "The Economics of Innocent Fraud" in an airport bookstore. I wish more lefties would read it. Especially the part where he disabuses the reader of the notion that shareholders matter to (large) corporations. If more lefties understood that labor and capital have a common enemy in the form of a management class who are extracting rents on a massive scale - money that rightly belongs to labour and owners (e.g. Grannies pension fund) - we might make some headway with that thing Piketty is so concerned about.
Patrick: not the first time the mayor of the palace usurped the throne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iznogoud
W. Peden: "I always think that if Galbraith and Buckley could be good friends, the rest of us can at least be fairly civil with each other!"
Yes, just imagine! Two white successful males from OPPOSITE sides of the Ivy Curtain! Such comity! I suppose they found common ground when they noticed that each other held his fork in the same hand when cutting his lamb chop.
David: "Oh, and Galbraith's son has WAY more influence than a nobody like you."
Which, whether true or false, (and it's more true than false) adds nothing to the conversation here.
Go away.
In the Delong link he says this: "Nearly all economists today are Paul Samuelson's children. Many are Keynes' children. Friedman, Robert Lucas, Robert Solow, and James Tobin all have plenty of descendants. But there are few Galbraithians on the ground."
Do you agree that Friedman comes from the Samuelson line? If so he's more primary than Friedman
[edited to add link to good post/paper on Friedman by Thomas Palley. Good find. NR]
Posted by: rk | January 18, 2015 at 05:14 AM
Kevin: what I meant about GE theory and socialist planning: if I wanted a model to help a central planner decide how to allocate resources, I would start with something that looked very much like GE theory. How useful it would be in practice is one question, but it would give me a useful conceptual framework. And I thought that Lange and Lerner were saying the same thing. The "market socialism" (was that what they called it?) thing was more of a side detour.
I vaguely remember a story told by, I think it was Samuelson. Russian engineers were trying to decide how thick to make the wires for transmitting electricity. The thicker the wires, the less the resistance, and the lower the power losses, but the bigger the one-time cost of the copper. So they needed some sort of rate of interest to compare the one-time costs of copper to the flow of benefits from reduced power losses that might continue forever. They called head office in Moscow, and the reply came back that interest was capitalist exploitation, and they should use 0%. The engineers realised that this would mean the wires should be infinitely thick. So they thought about it, and reinvented GE theory on the spot, to figure out what rate of interest they should use.
Jacques Rene: "If one of my most astute students ask me what's the difference with BoC having a 2% inflation target, what is humble I/O guy supposed to answer?"
We hear that question quite a lot, in various forms. People who aren't clear on the difference between using price controls to fix some price (or exchange rate, or interest rate) and using monetary policy to target that price. I usually answer it by drawing a simple supply and demand diagram. Then I draw a horizontal line across it, and say that's a price control, like rent control or minimum wage. Then I rub out the line, and say the central bank prints or burns money to shift the demand and supply curves vertically up or down until they intersect where the horizontal line was. And that's monetary targeting.
One example I use is the two different ways to fix an exchange rate: pass a law to make it illegal to buy or sell USD at any price above or below C$1 (The Venezualan method); have the BoC print or burn C$ (maybe by buying and selling USD) to make the S&D equilibrium be C$1 per USD (the Canadian method, in olden days).
Mike: "As for Piketty, he argues that the age of productivity may be over and that we're going to see much lower GDP [you mean lower GDP *growth*] in the future."
Tyler Cowen argues the same thing. I don't think that's a left/right thing. I don't know. There are two effects, going in opposite directions: all the easy discoveries (the low hanging fruit) have already been discovered; our past discoveries act like a ladder to make it easier to discover new things. Plus, GDP growth doesn't really work that well as a measure of what we want to measure here. Too much stuff gets either left out or added in that shouldn't be. I always tell my students that for me, personally the cost of living (the price level) has actually gone down over the last 100 years. That I am richer now than I would be in 1915 with my 2015 dollar income. Because: my little Mazda MX6 is a much better car in every respect than even the very best cars of 100 years ago; I had my appendix out a few years back, and I might well have been dead if I had needed that operation 100 years ago.
"In the Delong link he says this: "Nearly all economists today are Paul Samuelson's children. Many are Keynes' children. Friedman, Robert Lucas, Robert Solow, and James Tobin all have plenty of descendants. But there are few Galbraithians on the ground.""
I agree with Brad (but he's better at this sort of thing than me, and IIRC somewhere he already made the point I make above about NK models being more Friedman than keynes.)
Friedman is in some respects, a Samuelsonian, as we (nearly) all are (see my next post based on Samuelson's 1958 model). It's hard to say who was most influential, because they were influential in different ways.
It's sort of funny, with *some* lefties like dreadful David above getting so irate about this post, I'm not saying anything so very different from what lefty Brad DeLong is saying. (And Brad actually put my post on his yesterday's "Must Read" list, which at least suggests he thought it wasn't total rubbish.)
Nick: "Lloyd George destroyed a whole social class, with inheritance taxes."
Fortunately they seem to have bounced back quite nicely.
Nick; "Plus, GDP growth doesn't really work that well as a measure of what we want to measure here. Too much stuff gets either left out or added in that shouldn't be."
Like the quality of the ice on the canal this morning - see you out there shortly?
Nick: There is a parallel between what you call 'lefties' and their excitement for Piketty, and the Sumnerites and their excitement for NGDPLT. It's actually astounding that you missed that, given that the latter appeared right here in this very same thread.
The only difference is that the reaction to the Sumnerites is quiet, slightly annoyed inattention, while the reaction to the Pikettyites is of a much more fire-breathing nature.
Posted by: Jonas Feit | January 18, 2015 at 08:41 AM
Frances: yes, but with a different group of members in that set? (And the new ones aren't quite the same, at least not yet.)
Yes! It's all blue, this morning.
Jonas: I think what I missed was the fire-breathing reaction to Piketty. My own reaction is of the "slightly annoyed inattention" variety. I think Scott deserves more attention than Piketty, but has gotten less. (Though maybe, just maybe, if I start seeing Scott's upcoming book on airport shelves, I might go into a slight "Bah humbug!" mode there too. There's a lot to be said for knee-jerk reactionaries of all stripes, to offset the human tendency for fads and bubbles!)
Thanks Nick. I think that as for GDP a big reason it's supposed to drop is population growth. What you say about being richer than a 100 years ago makes a lot of sense to me. I think Morgan Warstler gets a little carried away with his technophilia but I do think that for example things like the PC and the Internent have enriched us in ways that are scarcely quantifiable.
Think of the economic blogs and how much we've all learnt in the last 6 years-none of this would have been possible prior to the tech revolution. Which makes me think that maybe Cowen and Piketty are wrong about falling productivity. The trouble is it also seems to me that tech has kind of hurt the workers. I don't know if it's cut down the number of jobs but it does seem to have hurt the number of good paying jobs.
As for David-he probably doesn't realize how he sounds. Probably a lot of us need to learn how to disagree without being disagreeable. In all honesty, Nick, you're better at that than most.
If you weren't all the way in Canada I actually would like to have gotten a chance to take your class-I don't know how much longer you will be in teaching.
@Sax:
> The trouble is it also seems to me that tech has kind of hurt the workers. I don't know if it's cut down the number of jobs but it does seem to have hurt the number of good paying jobs.
I like to think of it as an increase in the period of dependency.
Automation has acted more to supplant low-skill jobs than high-skill jobs. This is sensible, but it means that a person must have more and longer training to be qualified for the "average" job.
Think of it historically: a century ago the barest literacy was nice but ultimately optional for farm-labourers. A few generations ago any amount of secondary education left one qualified for factory work. One generation ago a high school diploma sufficed for clerical work. Now, a student isn't qualified for the mainstream job market until their early or mid 20s, after either postsecondary education or an apprenticeship.
However, our societal standards have not kept pace with this change. We generally expect children to be more or less self-sufficient by their early twenties, even if they're still in schooling or training, yet they'll most likely lack self-generated income to that effect.
Consumption smoothing makes this problem worse, in that it encourages the youth to take on substantial debt to finance their living and training expenses. This can ultimately work out just fine (just ask the average doctor), but it puts a segment of society in a highly-leveraged position.
So don't think of the economy as cutting "the number of good-paying jobs" in the abstract, since "good-paying job" is not an independent category. Think instead of the supply and demand for labour: we still expect youth to earn independent incomes, but we have little need for unskilled labour. Of course those wages will in turn be low.
Posted by: Majromax | January 18, 2015 at 11:09 AM
Nick: I was unclear on my astute student question: one mechanism is efficient another isn't (which I knew, after all not for nothing Brad De Long follow me on Twitter...). Her point is : is 2% objective different? (And I think she knows anything done in Venezuela will be a comedy, that is tragedy plus time.)
Nick. Nice post, and I agree with you on Friedman over Phelps on the expectations-augmented Phillips curve. But I beliece Friedman got the idea on a London park bench from Phillips himself.
Posted by: Seamus Hogan | January 19, 2015 at 05:02 AM
Thanks Seamus. I hadn't heard that, but it sounds plausible.
Sam Peltzman made some similar points in his contribution to the "Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?" symposium in Econ Journal Watch.
Posted by: JBriggeman | January 19, 2015 at 09:59 AM
Re: that Pinochet connection I think the responses here are a bit insouciant. This is not so much about Friedman's economiv legacy but his political convictions - but then, I am not sure if they can always be clearly distinguished (it's also notable today how adherence or hostility to "Keynesianism" or "market monetarism" tends to follow political fault lines, so there).
There is an offshot of libertarian thinking advocating primacy of economic freedom above democracy, explicitly this can be found by Hayek, who openly endorsed Pinochet. Now, Hayek and Friedman obviously do not belong to the same economic school, but there libertarian convictions were enough common ground to find them both in the Mont Pelerin Society. And the sins of the latter regarding a nonchalant approach to Pinochet are far from trivial, see e.g. here:
http://coreyrobin.com/?s=Mont+Pelerin&submit=Search
Yes, I know, it's Corey Robin - but what he recounts there seems indeed problematic. And inasfar as Friedman thought anything about all of this wrong, he didn't exactly feel to vent his misgivings. This, too, wouldn't be a problem, hadn't Freedman been such an outspoken person. You (Rowe) mentioned you consulting Castro's regime: well, I'd be very disturbed by this if at the same time you'd have loudly and incessantly denounced, say, Mobutu's (then-dying) regime and would not have considered conulting them besides telling them to do away with their whole regime altogether - while also being member of an organisation that praises Cuba's health care system and sense of community.
What I mean by all this is that as a libertarian, Friedman wasn't free of the specific traps this ideological underpinning posed to his thinking. Another example: last year, much has been made about a comment by Friedman indicating that he would have judged CO2 emissions to be a negative externality which should therefore be taxed or something the like. On the other hand, there is this blurb by Friedman:
http://books.google.at/books?id=3pvCAmsjbO8C&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=milton+friedman+climate+of+fear&source=bl&ots=D0xvsyVz-d&sig=Smpmw_8xtWKtScKGxEIGgaER6d8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IXs2VKzMHtGHyASd44LoAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=milton%20friedman%20climate%20of%20fear&f=false
(1998, when this book appeard, Nordhaus, among others, had already gathered enough evidence to show that marginal costs of CO2 emissions and thus the externality are very likely negative, so it was already very clear at the time, even among economists, that global warming was not going to be a "global benefit", net or otherwise, even less so "conclusively". Also note the sad "raging hysteria" nonsense).
I do not think that people on the left do themselves a favor by looking to find bad stuff about Friedman at the expense of learning from his far greater achievements, or by conflating his political stance with his economic achievements. But if such issues are brought up, I also do not think that simpy brushing them aside is a good idea. Put differently: I guess anybody would agree that Friedman was not a perfect human being without any faults at all. Perhaps one should consider that this simple statment does not only exist in the purely abstract, but has actual manifestations, lest this shall be anything other from hagiography.
Posted by: Martin | January 19, 2015 at 12:39 PM
Some of the "details" that Friedman got wrong are at the very core of economic science and are massive enough to generate enormous pathological business cycles of the sort Friedman fails to anticipate in 2006, see the work of Roger Garrison on this topic ie Garrison on Friedman's failure to get the valuation of production goods right. See also Hayek's work on Friedman's failure to get the relationship between asset prices, interest rates and money right.
These are massive failures in the heart of economics which lead to contemporary pathologies in he economy and contemporary pathologies in economic science.
Posted by: Greg Ransom | January 19, 2015 at 01:49 PM
JBriggeman: good find. It is very similar to what I am arguing here.
Martin: I knew very little about Cuba when I went over there to teach economics in the 1990's. I knew it was communist, and I was an anti-communist (I certainly wasn't one of the Birkenstock Bolshie Brigade). I was puzzled (I'm still puzzled) as to why they let someone like me in to teach their best and brightest about the joys of capitalism and capitalist economics. I wondered if maybe it signified a possible big policy regime change? (No, though there were small policy changes at the time, and slightly bigger ones 15-20 years later.) I worried about it a bit, but I didn't think about it much. I think my attitude was: we take the world as it is, and if a bit of it is communist then it is communist, and I can't do anything about that, but if I can improve their teaching of economics, and maybe their economic policy a bit, and get some time in the sun and see an interesting place, I will do it.
I talked to people who were desperate to leave, including one Balsero who was ready to risk a high probability of death trying. And to those who knew people who had either disappeared, or been disappeared. Who only knows what will finally come to light, in future? How much has Pierre Trudeau's legacy been tarnished by his hobnobbing with the Castros (little, I think)? One still sees moral idiots wearing Che T-shirts (how many executions did he order?). Pinochet isn't as cute (no equivalent of Motorcycle Diaries for him). There's a double standard.
Greg: Fair enough; I don't remember Friedman writing much if anything about the theory of capital and interest. Probably not his strong suit.
Great post and some wonderful responses. Here are some reactions.
Friedman’s and Modigliani’s consumption functions were much richer than that of Duesenberry. They provided an explanation for consumption over a life-time that could be used for explaining cross-section data across individuals.
It is not appreciated that Friedman’s theory had more to it than the concept of permanent income. His definition of consumption consisted of expenditure of non-durables plus the service flow from durables. Thus, my consumption includes the services of my house (>$30,000), my car ($3000), my TV (10 years old), furniture, appliances, and all my economics books among other things. This idea was quite subversive to Keynesian economics. It explained something other than consumption expenditure, the focus of Keynesians.
His definition also helps explain the ideas behind Frances’s nice post on stuff. Much of stuff yields us consumption services – though perhaps not the three cast iron fry pans. The elderly, like me, do maintain their consumption but it just does n’t show up as expenditure.
Among his other contributions was a proposal for a negative income tax for dealing with inequality. His plan was very similar to that of James Tobin, an advisor to Kennedy.
He also appears to be the grandfather of ideas for which others got the credit. The Lucas critique is implicit his own 1960s critique of a paper in which Modigliani compared the outcomes of different policies.Friedman pointed out that the model Modigliani used was derived on the policies that has occurred and could change in response to other policies. Lucas, of course, was a student of Friedman. The expectations-adjusted Phillips curve was in the air by the early 1960s. I learned about from a new colleague who just arrived from Chicago. The 1969 article was no surprise.
Finally, Friedman was not an out- and-out libertarian in all respects. He argued for 100% reserve banking, a policy far more draconian than the Volker plan or any other policies enacted in the wake of the financial crisis.
He is with us in more ways than we think.
John Chant
Posted by: John Chant | January 19, 2015 at 03:50 PM
just if I wasn't clear enough: I didn't criticize you for this consulting gig, not per se, or not for the consulting. I think it is perfectly OK to take an apolitical approach and separate economic and political sphere (though, I also guess that this is also to undermine what economics is actually good for). Greg Mankiw took this line defending Friedman:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.co.at/2007/09/on-ethics-of-advising.html
I also don't have a problem with the suggestion that you simply didn't know much about Cuba - though I think there is at least a smidgeon of an inconsistency here: either you didn't know much about Cuba, which implies, I think, that something would have been different had you known more; or it's "just" consulting and perfectly OK anyway, so there is nothing to talk about.
Anyway, I think all this is besides the point concerning Friedman; He was anything but apolitical - neither ignorant nor uninterested. The blind spot and tendentious approval by libertarians of Mont Pelerin Society flavor with regard to right-wing despotes - combined with a downright hysterical rejection of anything "progressive" or "socialist" governments of the Allende-type - is neither new, nor something unheard of, see e.g. this here a whole journal issue about the topic:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showAxaArticles?journalCode=crpe20#.U8_2L_l_tHV
IMO, the point here is that this is not a coincidence, but that there is a clear connection between this libertarian brand and the position on Pinochet. As there is one to the knee-jerk denial of global warming and/or its negative marginal effects, which by now has basically become a litmus test of libertariaism having gone insane.
Yes, the Che T-shirts are awful; yes also, of course, not all libertarians are the same; and yes, there are plenty of instances where other political philosophies lead people astray on a variety of issues, not doubt. But all this doesn't make the issue with Friedman showing ill judgment in some instances go away. Besides, again you can't have it both ways: either there is a double standard and, by implications, Friedman's stance was indeed problematic, and it's just about those on the left not acknowledging their own failings - or there is nothing to see here, as your earlier comment seems to suggest. (Also, I have a longstanding crush on Gael García Bernal, which is why the Motorcycle Diaries are retroactively and forever awesome!).
Martin: yes, my reflections about Cuba were really just reflections, and wondering about my own motivation, and wondering if I was being inconsistent, and wondering if I should have thought about it more at the time, and wondering if other economists who went on foreign jaunts to questionable regimes thought about it the same way as I did.
Your criticisms of Friedman are reasonable, and are much more reasonable than many -- who do seem to be struck by "Friedman Derangement Syndrome", who can see only his warts and can't see past them, but ignore the warts of their heroes (for example, Keynes being a big supporter of eugenics, at least until 1944). Neither gives us a reason not to be a Friedmanite, or a Keynesian. (I'm actually sort of both, and would defend Keynes on that charge as much as I would defend Friedman, even though one could similarly argue that Keynes' support of eugenics is hard to separate from his political philosophy.) Was it Daniel Dennett who was shocked to discover that Frege was a raving anti-semite, but kept on thinking highly of him as a logician? (maybe I'm muddled.)
John: Thanks! And good comment.
Friedman apparently thought, and I agree, that his little book on the consumption function is the best thing he did. Such a lovely mix of theory and empirical evidence. And the "empirical evidence" was not just one regression, but a whole slew of apparently unrelated observations that could all be made sense of in terms of the same theory.
Yes too on Friedman thinking in terms of policy rules, rather than actions, which Lucas formalised. That was a massive change, because it didn't just change the answers, but changed the questions we asked.
Actually, now I think of it, suppose I wrote a post on how influential Keynes had been in macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy. I think it is unlikely that anyone would mention, even though it's right there on Wiki for all to see: "Keynes was a proponent of eugenics. He served as Director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944. As late as 1946, shortly before his death, Keynes declared eugenics to be "the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.""
As I said w/r/t Friedman above: I do not think concentrating on Keynes' bad ideas (also his antisemitism that he had never fully gotten over, according to the late Paul Samuelson) at the expense of his lasting contributions is not a very good idea - but if it is brought up, wiggling out and trying to find excuses isn't either. And actually, you will find this issue brought up a lot, but from the other side of the political spectrum, as some googling will show.
Similarly: I really thing reading Voltaire can be very enlightening (literally), but I also don't think that this justifies brushing is horrible antisemitism aside. Or, I think Immanuel Kant is very much worth reading, but trying to defend his blatant racism is not such a good idea.
These last two exemples are rather clear-cut, at least in hindsight. It might well be possible that there is a much more complicated case w/r/t Friedman. But I think, given the context of his political affiliations, that there actually is a there there and this is not just an obvious nonsene-accusation by some left-wingers. And while it might be reasonable to mount a defence (full context, times, etc.) it's at least worth considering if Friedman got a couple of things wrong here, too - e.g. that he was, after all, a human being.
Bertrand Russell is most famous for his astonishment at Frege's antisemitism and extreme nationalistic politics, although Frege was more pleasant to Jews in his personal life than many people not known for being antisemitic-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege#1924_diary
As for Keynes, there is absolutely a double-standard. Consider the counterfactual further: people have been bringing up Hayek's (not exactly zealous, but still badly mistaken) approval of Pinochet's regime. Imagine if there was a post on Keynes's legacy in economics, and people started bringing up the politics of people connected in some way to Keynes, e.g. other members of the Galton Institute. How often do people bring up Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy when discussing Keynes's economics? Never, as far as I know, because it's irrelevant. Yet some people have seen fit to bring up Hayek's views on Chilean politics when discussing Friedman's economics.
(Yes, in certain company people will make the most outrageous accusations about Keynes and the Nazis, for example, just like in certain company people will claim that Friedman was a supporter of Pinochet. However, it's common in even well-informed and reasonable company, like on here, for people to try to associate Friedman as closely as possible with Pinochet.)
It's important to be analytic in these things. I can think that Keynes's contribution to economics was mostly negative, while still thinking that his work in probability theory has been hugely positive and beneficial.
No doubt Friedman was brilliant. Reagan/Friedman definitely won the political debate. Free market = good. Government = bad. Friedman probably won the economic debate, too. Depression a failure of monetary policy => Friedman Monetary policy => no Depression. Fiscal policy = bad.
Too bad they didn't live to see their crowning glory => Great Recession.
Posted by: Brad Kitson | January 20, 2015 at 05:56 AM
One influential economist/public intellectual writing about another:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/feb/15/who-was-milton-friedman/
What bugs or puzzles me is that this rather unoriginal and not very great post, which I nearly didn't bother publishing at all, is getting all the attention in the econoblogosphere, while my following post, on red money, which (I think) is far more original, and far more interesting, and a far better post, is getting almost none.
I really shouldn't complain of course. A no-name economist like me should feel lucky to get any attention at all, even if it's for something that is not my comparative advantage (except I'm old, so can sort of remember the 1970's). But that does tell us something about the econoblogosphere. Politics trumps economics, and Friedman Derangement Syndrome is real.
"We are all Friedman's children and grandchildren."
For I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation.
Posted by: Steve Roth | January 20, 2015 at 12:07 PM
One aspect I have not seen with the debates about inflation of 1970s vs. 2010s and opposing economist is how much is a product of the 1950s Baby Boom vs. the modern Baby Bust. Why was there so much inflation in the 1970s? In all reality the number of jobs in the 1970s looks very good to point that Jimmy Carter one term had more jobs created than either Reagan term alone. (I am guessing the average unemployment rate during Obama will be less than the average unemployment of Reagan. Consider the US unemployment if 5.6% while Reagan Jan 1987 unemployment was 6.6%.) Now, we are stuck in low inflation despite all kinds of monetary policy? Well, Japan had a huge Baby Bust in the 1970s and have not generated an sustainable inflation for 25 years. Germany had a Baby Bust in the 1990 range and Europe is following Japan.
Posted by: collin | January 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Collin said: "Why was there so much [price, my add] inflation in the 1970s?"
I'd say a negative real AS shock from oil along with the labor market being tight enough.
I'd say the late 1990's and on had a positive real AS shock.
Posted by: Too Much Fed | January 20, 2015 at 01:04 PM
"What bugs or puzzles me is that this rather unoriginal and not very great post, which I nearly didn't bother publishing at all, is getting all the attention in the econoblogosphere, while my following post, on red money, which (I think) is far more original, and far more interesting, and a far better post, is getting almost none."
Ha! Gossip always trumps thinking, Nick.
I found your post through Economist's View. I go there because I'm interested. I'm just a no-name winemaker and former no-name electrical engineer/computer scientist, not even a no-name economist. I don't feel qualified to comment on his research. One thing that bugged me in my former career was when I did something very cool, people would just roll their eyes when I tried to tell them about it. Wine is a little easier to share!
It's the topic, not the quality of the post. It isn't that politics trumps economics, it's that politics is intertwined with economics. Friedman loudly and proudly espoused an economic philosophy and proposed policy as an public intellectual ECONOMIST. As you argued, he was most influential in that role. Are you really puzzled about why people would respond to what you referenced in your post?
I've gotten videos of Friedman espousing the free market/laissez faire from right wingers that have taken it as gospel. At my limited knowledge level, it isn't gospel. It's BS. Free market philosophy appears to me to ignore the role of Democracy. Free markets can and do fail. Some regulations work and some don't.
It sure looks to me like we had a massive bank run where deregulation, publicly espoused by Friedman, played a major role. Wasn't Friedman's essential argument let's effectively go back to the deregulation of the 1920's because it's more efficient and monetary policy can be used to prevent another depression? I may be ignorant, but I don't think that's politics and I don't think it's gossip either. I think it's an economic argument and Friedman was proven terribly wrong in 2008.
By the way, I think Paul Krugman has the economist/public intellectual role now and nobody else is close.
Posted by: Brad Kitson | January 20, 2015 at 07:25 PM
"I would add one more political point - Friedman had a side industry of hawking books that if you had some form of capitalism DemocrY as inevitable. Ask China how that worked out. Or Vietnam, or half the Middle East. Or Hungary."
Or Chile, or South Korea or Taiwan... wait.
Well now, it seems to me that Friedman was all for monetary policy being the key tool, and fiscal policy not having much importance. That is not what many policymakers think today
Friedman specifically opposed price level/inflation targeting, yet what do we have?
Friedman specifically opposed central bank independence, yet what do we have?
Friedman was very much opposed to "fine tuning', yet we have great policy arguments about 0.25% changes in interest rates.
Friedman was all in favour of *steady* growth of the money supply, yet we have vast QE changes in it, and no hint of steady growth in it being a target.
As to the expectations augmented Phillips curve, I wrote a paper in European J History of Economic Thought 2010 with about a dozen earlier examples of statements of the point that continuous inflation would come to be expected, and therefore effects, such as on the level of employment, which it had in the short run would dissipate as this adjustment occurred. In my book 'Macroeconomics and the Phillips curve myth' (OUP 2014) I gave yet more such examples, (and some other arguments to the effect that everyone knew the "Friedman/Phelps" argument long before 1967 or 1968). If anything, I argued, it was Friedman and Phelps' presentations of the argument that caused it to be *doubted* - before their presentations it was frequently stated, and as far as I can see, never questioned.
So, all in all, the case for Friedman having such a great influence looks a bit fragile to me ....
Posted by: James Forder | January 22, 2015 at 12:55 PM
James: "Well now, it seems to me that Friedman was all for monetary policy being the key tool, and fiscal policy not having much importance. That is not what many policymakers think today"
Many macroeconomists argue that the ZLB is a special case, where fiscal policy is needed. But the only country I know of where fiscal policy was correctly used at the ZLB is Canada. (the cuts came *after* the Bank of Canada lifted off the ZLB.)
"Friedman specifically opposed price level/inflation targeting, yet what do we have?"
Yep, he wanted k% M2 growth, and he lost on that one, because we have IT instead.
"Friedman specifically opposed central bank independence, yet what do we have?"
No. He was specifically opposed to central banks having independence to do whatever they wanted in a discretionary manner. He wanted a rule, and IT is a rule.
"Friedman was very much opposed to "fine tuning', yet we have great policy arguments about 0.25% changes in interest rates."
There's an important distinction between instrument fine-tuning and target fine tuning. See my next point:
"Friedman was all in favour of *steady* growth of the money supply, yet we have vast QE changes in it, and no hint of steady growth in it being a target."
Friedman wanted *base* money control as an instrument to target steady k% *M2* growth. QE is just a silly new name for base money control.
Regarding the EAPC, as I said above, there is a general rule in the History of Thought: every economic idea was always invented by someone else earlier, and a determined historian of thought can always find an antecedent for everything, if he looks hard enough, and interprets it loosely enough. For example, you could argue it's all in Hayek, but only if you read Hayek after reading Friedman would you figure out that maybe that's what Hayek was trying to say. "First they laugh at you,....then they say they knew it all along".
But then I haven't read your book, and maybe it's a very good book, so maybe you really do make the case that Friedman was saying nothing new in 68. But as a student in the 70's, it (the approx vertical LRPC) sure looked new and controversial to me. And I wish I could remember the name of the Keynesian economist I was reading back then saying that Friedman was wrong. And man, if you hang around the econoblogosphere long enough, you know that mentioning "the natural rate of unemployment" still ignites a firestorm, 45 years later! (And not always a sensible substantive criticism, like Roger Farmer's.)
> Friedman wanted *base* money control as an instrument to target steady k% *M2* growth. QE is just a silly new name for base money control.
Interestingly, I think this rule would have run into difficulties in just the same way that the Fed and ECB have had problems. Looking at US data, MBase does not seem to be a great predictor of M2, with to-eye vanishingly small correlations over the QE periods.
Posted by: Majromax | January 22, 2015 at 02:43 PM
I hope I can avoid getting too deeply into arguing minutiae, but let me respond to some of those.
I think the idea that Friedman would have been happy with independent central banks with inflation targets comes from a very thin reading. Support for independence is so nearly universal that I suppose it is difficult to believe that such a presumptively-great-prophet took a different view. But to take one of his arguments – he saw, as most economists today, I fear, do not, a problem about executive agencies which were unaccountable. Now, the positions of central banks varies, but in many cases, although they have inflation targets, nothing much happens when they miss them (which is frequent). Why would someone who has seen the problem about executive agencies be happy if they have a target the missing of which has no consequences?
I find it hard to know what to make of the point about M2 and QE. Supposing that QE is merely a new name for base control, it does not seem to be aimed at achieving a steady growth of M2, does it? I can’t see where the ECB say their latest move is aimed at stabilizing the growth of M2, for example. But the ECB is surely the major central bank most likely to be strongly Friedman-influenced.
Thank you for contemplating the possibility that I wrote a good book ☺. Of course it is right that most of the time one can find earlier hints at the ideas. But I didn’t say I could do that. Precisely the point of the Euro J Hist Econs 2010 piece is to argue that the expectations argument was well known and routine. It is not to argue that I have found some shadow of it in an unread source from a few years earlier. It was consistently and clearly advanced by prominent people in prominent places. (And, before 1968, pretty well undisputed). In “Macroeconomics and the Phillips curve myth”, I have some other types of argument to the same conclusion. In the book I also trace the appearance of the idea that the argument was original to Friedman and Phelps. That fills in the story a bit. I hope it does so in a way that makes the unoriginality of Friedman and Phelps seem more plausible. Indeed, it appears during the 1970s. That can be seen in the textbooks too. One minute it is not there, the next it is (That argument is in a paper forthcoming in History of Political Economy 2015). So it is no surprise if it seemed new to a student reading textbooks that said it was new. But so what? And the fact that there might be some people who still deny it is certainly not a way of showing it was invented in 1968, is it?
Majromax said: "Looking at US data, MBase does not seem to be a great predictor of M2, with to-eye vanishingly small correlations over the QE periods."
My guess is that is true.
What if MBase is zero? Any reason it could not be zero?
Majro: incidentally, what happened to M2 during the Great Recession? If the Friedman of (say) 1970 saw recent M2 data, would he be saying: "I told you to keep M2 growing at k%, and look what happens when you don't!" ?
If the correlation between MB and M@ were very high, it wouldn't matter whether you had a k% MB target or a k% M2 target. But IIRC Friedman said that the great Depression was caused by bank failures causing M2 to fall, because the Fed did not respond appropriately.
James: you would very probably beat me hands down on the minutae!
"Why would someone who has seen the problem about executive agencies be happy if they have a target the missing of which has no consequences?"
Whether you have an independent central bank, or it's under the direct control of the government of the day, and whether you have a 2% inflation target, or a k% M2 target, this would seem to be a general problem. Having a transparent observable target at least gives the possibility of holding the central bank accountable for missing that target. What, in your view, was Friedman's position on this? How did he propose to resolve the problem?
Do you have a link to a working paper version of your forthcoming paper? It would be an interesting read for me. (Though I admire historians of thought, I also think they suffer from a terrible vice, that's almost an occupational hazard, in paying too much attention to the trees!)
M2 and a Divisia M2 series going back to 1968-
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=Y2Z
(Unfortunately, the US doesn't publish sectorial analyses of broad money, so we don't know the extent to which M2/MSI M2 numbers have been affected by the financial crisis (intermediation of the interbank lending market into deposits) as we do with the EU and UK for their broad money series.)
Friedman was interested in what we now call Divisia monetary aggregates back in the early '70s, but didn't know how to compile them. A k%-targeting central bank would have presumably done worse during the earlier part of the crisis, better in the latter part and poorly after 9/11, with either M2 or MSI ALL as the monetary aggregate being used.
Sorry, that should be-
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=Y31
W. Peden, what exactly is MSI ALL?
I'm glad to see James Forder here. The Phillips curve myth has always annoyed me, but of course I've never gone to the trouble of tracking down its origins. More generally, I think economics has suffered because of the way Old Keynesians came to be regarded as sloppy thinkers who could safely be ignored. I suppose a less sympathetic observer would say: poetic justice innit? -- the Old Keynesians had no qualms about treating Pigou & Co. with similar disdain. Maybe so, but two wrongs don't make a right.
Too Much Fed,
A very wide Divisia-type index.
The lesson one should take from the 1970s inflation, I think, is that serial output-gap misestimation can be hugely problematic, especially if cost-push views of inflation are influential. That's not just a point against Keynesian demand management (and not just Old Keynesian demand management) but also inflation-targeting that uses estimates of the output gap. Once we see that the Phillips Curve was not the problem, the recent problems with targeting the output gap are part of a long sordid history of the concept.
Incidentally, occasionally Keynesians try to defend a sloping long-run Phillips Curve, under the misapprehension that they are obliged as Keynesians to do so.
Kevin: James Forder emailed me his paper, and it was a very interesting read. He does indeed give loads of pre-Friedman/Phelps examples, to back his claim. But it makes me wonder: why for example did Richard Lipsey, who wrote a paper on the theory of the Phillips Curve in the mid-60's, say in the late 70's that his big mistake in that paper was assuming it was money wages rather than (expected) real wages that adjusted to excess demand or supply for labour? (And Lipsey's paper was a really good paper otherwise, and Lipsey is a very good economist, who knows his stuff.)
"the Old Keynesians had no qualms about treating Pigou & Co. with similar disdain.."
On that vein, the Old Keynesian young turks used to try to shut down "classical" economists with the one-liner "You're just assuming full employment!", and the New Classical young turks used to do the same with "keynesian" economists with "You're just assuming sticky prices!"
W Peden: relatedly, we went from the policymakers trying to make the AD curve vertical at the right spot (target Y*), to trying to make the AD curve horizontal at the right spot (IT). Both have failed, for symmetrically opposite reasons. A downward-sloping compromise (NGDPT) seems reasonable.
Y* targeting, with a vertical AD curve, makes no sense at all after you've read Friedman. If every economist already knew what Friedman said in 68, why did they try to target Y*?
When I eyeball the data, ISTM that the LRPC maybe slopes the "wrong" way. Though that could easily be spurious.
Nick: "[Lipsey's mistake] was assuming it was money wages rather than (expected) real wages that adjusted to excess demand or supply for labour?"
That seems a very strange way of expressing it. Let x = W/E(P) be expected real wages. If I say x adjusts to excess demand, I am surely saying that W increases as demand rises. An unworldly mathematician might say I could just as easily be saying that E(P) falls, but an economist can hardly say that. The bargain is expressed in money terms. I'd need a bit more context to make sense of the above remark.
I think the following is a fair summary of where Old Keynesians, in England especially, went wrong in the 1960s and 70s. They observed high unemployment and they assumed it to be involuntary in Keynes's sense, i.e.:
Men are involuntarily unemployed if, in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage, both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment.
As men like Joe Gormley and Arthur Scargill came to dominate the union movement, it was increasingly clear that their followers were not at all willing to accept price increases without a fight. In Keynes's terms, unemployment was voluntary. Attempts to stimulate demand followed the pattern described by James Callaghan:
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.
That's the background to what Hicks called The Crisis in Keynesian Economics. I don't deny Milton Friedman his role in the story, but I don't think it was the starring role he gets in your account.
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The original Land Rover was developed in 1948 on the island of Anglesey in Wales by Maurice Wilks on his farm in Newborough, he was the chief designer of Rover. It is thought Wilks was inspired one summer by the American World War II Jeep that which he used at his holiday home located in Wales. The first Land Rover with 'centre steer' used a Jeep chassis. The main distinctive feature was their bodies which were constructed of a lightweight rustproof proprietary alloy of aluminium and magnesium called Birmabright. This unique material was used after the war as there was steel shortages but there was ample supply aircraft aluminium. The resistance to corrosion was one of the key factors that established the Land Rover to build up a reputation for longevity in the most toughest conditions put in front of it. Land Rover has then advertised that upto 75% of all vehicles ever built are still in use toady.
An initial colour choice was set by military surplus supplies of aircraft cockpit paint, so the early vehicles were limited to certain shades of light green. All Land Rover models until recently had featured a sturdy box section ladder-frame chassis. The original launch price in the UK was £450. In the first year of production 3048 vehicles were produced. This continued to rise and by 1950 production had risen to 16,000.
The first Land Rover Series I, where field-tested at Long Bennington. The Series II in was produced in 1958 and Series III in 1971 with the near identical design were these was rarely challenged in the offroad field. Land Rover introduced a second model which was added to the range: Range Rover. This was the world's first luxury 4x4. It was powered by a Rover V8, drove through by 4WD system and rode on its unique all-independent suspensions. It retained the strong off-road ability of traditional Land Rover while offering superior driving comfort and a luxury interior. It changed the traditional perception of 4x4s.
The British Army maintains the use of 2.5-litre four-cylinder 300TDi-engine versions are preferred to the electronically controlled 2.5-litre five-cylinder TD5 to retain some servicing simplicity. This engine has continued in use on some export markets using units built at a Ford plant in Brazil, where Land Rovers were built under license. This engine was also used in Ford pick-up trucks built locally. Production of the TDi engine ended in the UK in 2006. During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again linked with Jaguar, where these two companies had been under the same umbrella in the British Leyland era. In many countries they shared a sales and distribution network, and some models shared components and production facilities also. By 1989, the large gap between Range Rover and Defender (now the new name of the original Land Rover) had been filled with the Discovery, which was less luxurious but more affordable than Range Rover.
As a brand Rover, Land Rover became a separate division when it went under the management of BMW during 1994-2000. It was then sold to Ford. In 2008, Ford was hit by financial trouble and sold both companies to Tata group.
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Hong Kong protesters apologise after airport chaos
Anti-government protesters at Hong Kong's international airport have sought to limit potential damage to their pro-democracy cause after a peaceful sit-in devolved into chaos and massively disrupted air travel.
On Wednesday, after the airport was granted a court injunction to clear the terminals, only a few demonstrators remained in designated areas, greeting travellers with signs apologising for the events of the previous evening when clashes erupted between riot police and demonstrators.
"Sorry about what happened yesterday," one of the banners read, as calm returned to the airport.
"We were desperate. Please accept our apology."
The massive sit-in brought the first round of flight cancellations on Monday, around 180, as thousands of black-clad demonstrators packed the terminals.
When they returned en masse on Tuesday, they forced airport authorities to cancel some 400 flights.
By nightfall, the airport was mayhem, with police firing pepper spray at protesters who had seized two men and five demonstrators were arrested.
The most shocking event occurred on Tuesday when protesters surrounded, beat, and tied up two men from mainland China.
One was suspected of being a security officer, while another turned out to be a journalist for the Communist Party-backed Global Times. The journalist, Fu Guohao, was tied up to an airport trolley with plastic zip-ties and was found with a blue t-shirt reading "I love police", the same t-shirts worn by participants in a recent pro-police rally.
Tensions are running high. After 10 consecutive weeks of protests, the government has refused to make any more concessions to the protesters, whose demands include the total retraction of a controversial extradition bill which would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial, an amnesty for all those arrested and also universal suffrage.
Samson Yuen, an assistant professor of political science at Lingnan University, gives two reasons for Tuesday's mayhem.
Firstly, protesters are "very paranoid about having police among them", Yuen told Al Jazeera, referring to an incident on Sunday where undercover police attacked and arrested demonstrators.
"I think that explains why they suddenly lost control."
Secondly, the pro-democracy movement is a leaderless one.
"It's very easy for a leaderless movement to make a mistake," Yuen said. "The nature of it is to always push the boundaries and be more transgressive, to overstep the line."
Not good, especially from the Chinese government and state media, both of which have pilloried the protesters.
China's top body in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, condemned the "horrific incident", called the culprits "thugs", and said "Hong Kong's radical violent elements have completely broken through the bottom line of the law, the bottom line of morality, and the bottom line of human nature."
Until recently, China had largely taken a backseat, censoring coverage of the protests in domestic media and not commenting publicly.
But in recent weeks, Beijing has begun openly condemning the protests and allowing state media to circulate information about them.
"Last night's violence really plays into Beijing's strategy," Adam Ni, a researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney, told Al Jazeera.
"Beijing is looking for protesters to slip up, and this provides the perfect opportunity."
"Using the sword of the law to stop violence and restore order is overwhelmingly the most important and urgent task for Hong Kong!" read the front page of the Communist Party-backed People's Daily on Wednesday.
On Chinese social media, a video of Fu, with his hands tied behind his head and yelling, "I support Hong Kong police, you can hit me now," has gone viral.
"The CCP likes to make heroes because heroes are really useful for public anger purposes," Ni said, referring to the Chinese Communisty Party.
"We're already seeing state media using the incident to undermine the protesters."
Anti-government demonstrators sit in the arrival hall of the airport, after police and protesters clashed the previous night [Thomas Peter/Reuters]
While a group went to the airport to apologise, most protesters used Wednesday to regroup.
In a poll on messenger app Telegram, 76 percent of Hong Kong protesters voted to rest on Wednesday, with around the same percentage of respondents voting to apologise.
Protesters also flooded Telegram and social media with apologetic graphics, circulating images saying, "We apologise for our behaviour but we are just too scared."
Another expressed "sincerest apologies to affected travellers ... We ask for your understanding and forgiveness as young people in Hong Kong continue to fight for freedom and democracy."
Some even began discussing new ground rules, including not obstructing a journalist's work and how to deal with a suspected spy.
"I think there was definitely an escalation on the part of protesters," Yuen said. "But I think they realise ... tying up two people ... has tarnished the entire protest."
The aim of the airport protest was to win international support. But the events of Tuesday backfired and ended up "alienating the international community," Yuen said.
That being said, the protesters appear to have realised their mistake, and the nature of a leaderless movement also means "they will pull back, there will be correction," Yuen said.
A protester displays a placard to stranded travelers during a demonstration at the airport on August 13 [Kin Cheung/The Associated Press]
Pro-democracy politician Claudia Mo told Al Jazeera the chaos was the result of protesters' mounting frustration and anger with government inaction.
"I'm quite confident ... there won't be a repeat of what happened last night," Mo said.
"Some members of the public will be quite put off last night."
Despite the public outcry over the incident, she does not think the democracy movement will lose public support.
"The protesters might have lost a bit of public support, but it can't be too much."
Protesters have "pan-society support," she said. Even if people disapproved of what the protesters did, "it wouldn't mean, 'Let's forget about this campaign, about this pro-democracy movement'".
"Things won't quiet down because there's no dialogue."
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Killer couches, kamikaze ceiling fans and 3 other freaky accidents involving NYC apartments
By Julie Inzanti
In a city of over 8 million people living on top of each other, the potential for disaster is skyscraping. We’ve fished around for a few of the more insane freak accidents apartment-dwellers in New York have experienced.....
1. Crushed by a Murphy bed. Yes, this really happened folks.
You've probably looked around your tiny apartment and considered the Murphy bed solution at one point or another.
After this you might reconsider. Or at least you will understand the value of licensed professionals and work permits.
Annie Grossman lives in a railroad style apartment near Union Square. She is a dog trainer who does most of her work at her apartment and occasionally fosters dogs. Her space constraints made it difficult to work with the dogs so she figured a foldaway (or up) bed would be the perfect solution.
Annie discovered an assortment of Murphy bed kits available, but they required a lot of time and effort. She found a queen-size bed for sale on Craigslist already assembled. Score!
Annie got the bed safely to her apartment and paid the guys at the local hardware store to affix the nearly 1,000-pound Murphy bed to her wall, her artist father even painted a mural on the bottom side so that when the bed was upright it was a work of art.
She noticed late on a Friday evening that the screws holding the massive structure to the wall "looked a little sketchy,” but it didn’t seem like an urgent matter. She started to pull it down from the front (at the foot of the bed) and it got stuck. So she circled around to the side of the bed to give it a good shove to the ground when the entire frame of the bed snapped off the wall, knocked her to the ground and sandwiched her arm between the mattress and the frame.
Annie was lucky to be on the side of the bed when this happened. Had she been in the front the force of the fall could have killed her. But being trapped in the urban version of “127 Hours” seemed life threatening.
She tried yelling and shouting to cause enough of a commotion as to rouse her neighbors. No luck. She had visions of spending the weekend trapped in the bedroom trying to signal S.O.S. with the bedside lamp.
After what seemed like hours but in reality was more like ten minutes, Annie was able to wrestle herself free. She slapped some frozen mangoes on her injured head and frantically made her way to the nearest hospital. She was in a state of shock but other than a huge knot on her forehead from the fall and a severely bruised arm, she was physically intact.
The only tangible loss was the $1,000 she spent on the bed and delivery, a $50 co-pay for the hospital visit and the $60 or so she gave the handymen for installing the bed. She didn’t think of taking action against the bed manufacturers or claiming a loss on renters insurance because the crash seemed like her own fault.
(FYI, renters insurance typically does not cover damage/repairs to your property because of faulty workmanship, so replacing the bed and/or damage the falling bed may do to you or your property is not covered. However, says Jeff Schneider of Gotham Brokerage, "if another person or another apartment suffers damage as a result, and you are sued for your alleged negligence, you would be covered.”)
The bed sat in Annie's room “like a beached whale” for a while until the guys from the local hardware store helped dismantle it. They saved the mural Annie’s father painted on the bottom and it now hangs in the spot where the Murphy bed was…
Annie now has a safer and easier to maneuver, pullout sleeper-sofa.
2. Home gardening business floods building
As a NYC apartment insurance broker, Jeff Schneider has heard his share of freak accidents…like the case when a metal ceiling blade repaired with super glue torpedoed off and destroyed the contents of an apartment.
But flooding is probably the most common apartment accident, Schneider says. The oddest involved a set of clients who "decided to become florists and work from home…and a hose burst.”
Massive flooding from an improvised hosing mechanism for their secret home-gardening business. The renters' decision to ignore building code and probably the parameters of their lease to launch a full-scale floristry without installing proper irrigation caused over $50,000 in damage. Luckily, most of it was covered by their insurance.
3. A pull-out couch claims a pet's life
A Brooklyn resident named Kristen told us a story about friends (who shall remain nameless) who lost their pet rabbit to a sleeper sofa.
The couple in question here were part of an artsy bohemian set who often housed their traveling friends and fellow artists.
They were hosting out of town guests in their one-bedroom apartment on their pullout. Of course imbibing ensued…not to say that they were negligent, just not paying attention. (It certainly wasn’t a Sopranos situation where Christopher passed out on his girlfriend’s Maltese and killed it.)
In the case of our Brooklyn friends, the cuddly rabbit must have secretly crawled up into the gutter space the mattress folds back into. When their guests departed they stripped the mattress and hastily folded the bed in, never thinking their little rabbit would be playing hide and seek in their sofa.
When Fluffy failed to appear around dinner time the next night and several nights, they grew concerned. Had Fluffy escaped? Was Fluffy roaming the streets getting bullied by rats? When the pullout sofa finally occurred to them, they discovered their pet rabbit pancaked in the folds.
4. A facade falls off
Superstorm Sandy caused plenty of freak accidents and construction defects…and one of the early architectural victims of the storm was a solid brick building in Storm Zone C (a non-evacuation zone) at 92 Eighth Avenue. The façade of the upper floors was ripped off during the early evening high winds and rain on Oct 29—even before Sandy approached landfall in New York City.
All of the apartments of this 92 Eighth Avenue building were rented at the time of the incident. They all featured three bedrooms and two bathrooms and the average rental price in the building was $4,400.
Luckily, no one was hurt in this freak accident. The building was left looking more like an art installation with perfectly organized contents on display like a dollhouse.
5. Faulty window becomes makeshift guillotine
Back in the early 90s, Steven Sladkus, now a co-op/condo lawyer and partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman and Herz, was subletting a 2-bedroom co-op in Brooklyn Heights with a fellow Brooklyn Law School student.
He came home one evening after class to find blood spatter all over his apartment.
"There was blood in the living room...everywhere," recalls Sladkus, who followed the trail of blood down the hallway to his roommate's bedroom.
As anyone who has lived in a shared space knows, this scenario is something that has probably played out in your worst nightmares...a bloody trail leading to the hacked-up remains of your roommate. Or worse, in Sladkus's situation, was that his roommate was nowhere to be found.
Fortunately, this story doesn’t include a fatality.
Sladkus’s roommate eventually materialized and explained the grizzly scene he left behind. It was as simple as opening a window…
The co-op apartment Sladkus and his roommate shared had an interesting window feature. The windows essentially had “ridges at the bottom so when you closed the window it would seal shut to prevent a draft.” The ridges were essentially sharp little teeth that locked in together…or in this case, took a bite.
His roommate had tried to open the window and pulled up incorrectly, got his fingers stuck…and then the window broke and came crashing down on his fingers—shopping the tips of four fingers clean off.
After screaming his head off, probably, he had the presence of mind to grab his fingertips and rush to the hospital. Hence the dramatic state of the apartment upon Sladkus’s arrival.
At the hospital a neurosurgeon was able ot re-attach the fingertips, although, says Sladkus, “for a long time he has pins sticking out of his fingertips with little balls on the end to keep the tips in place.”
Eventually the fingertips healed and most of the feeling returned to them.
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The following programs are closed and no longer available at BHSN as of June 2, 2017:
Nursing Diploma
Bridgeport Hospital is committed to supporting healthcare trends in education. One trend is a shift toward a baccalaureate-level degree as the expected entry-level for nursing graduates and an associate-level degree for the surgical technologists.
Traditionally a three year diploma school, the program later transitioned to a two year curriculum. Today, BHSN has transitioned their nursing program to a baccalaureate degree program (BSN) at the University of Bridgeport (UB). Also, UB has begun an articulation program for RN nursing graduates with a diploma or associate degree desiring to advance their education to a BSN.
Traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) (UB)
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The nursing diploma program was originally accredited by the National League for Nursing (NLN) in 1952 and has maintained its accreditation with ACEN, the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, (formerly NLNAC) up to its closure. Also, BHSN has maintained state licensure with CT Department of Public Health. The National College Credit Recommendation Services (NCCRS) has evaluated all the BHSN nursing courses for equivalent college credit and can be contacted for the course exhibits through nccrs@nysed.gov.
Accreditation - Nursing
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. (formerly NLNAC)
3343 Peachtree Rd NE Suite 850
www.nlnac.org
Licensure Approval - Nursing
State of Connecticut Department of Public Health, Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing
410 Capitol Avenue, MS #13PHO
www.ct.gov/dph
College Credit Approval - Nursing
National College Credit Recommendation Service
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89 Washington Avenue, Room 971 EBA
www.nationalccrs.org
In the 2016 rankings of U.S. nursing schools, Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing (BHSN) has been named the #2 school in the United States among vocational, career, and community colleges (two-year schools). BHSN has also been ranked as the #31 Nursing school in the New England region (out of 150 schools considered). Assessments and rankings were conducted by Nursing Schools Almanac.
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Class of Dec 2014 32/32 100%
Class of May 2015 49/51 96%
Class of Dec 2015 33/34 97%
Class of May 2017 TBD
Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing continued to achieve high pass rates up to its last graduating class in May 2017.
The Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Program of Surgical Technology began in 1996 and has graduated its last Surgical Technology class in June 2016.
Bridgeport Hospital has made the decision to transfer the current Surgical Technology (ST) curriculum to Housatonic Community College (HCC) where an associate degree can be granted.
Refer to HCC website for future ST program.
The Association of Surgical Technologists (AST) has declared the associate degree in surgical technology to be the preferred educational model for entry-level practice. AST recommends the change to take place by 2021. In support of this recommendation, BHSN desires to align the ST program with the changes in healthcare today.
BHSN has applied for inactive status with Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) and Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA) at which time approval for transfer of sponsorship to Housatonic Community College is being submitted.
Accreditation- Surgical Technology
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
www.caahep.org
Approval-Surgical Technology & Sterile Processing
Connecticut Office of Higher Education
450 Columbus Boulevard, Suite 510
www.ctohe.org
Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing- Surgical Technology Program has received the annual merit award from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) for achieving a 100% pass rate on the Certified Surgical Technology (CST) examination for the last graduating class of 2016.
Assessment Exam Pass Rate (benchmark is = 70%):
Class of 2015-2016: 100%
Job Placement Rate-12 months post-graduation (benchmark is = 80%):
Class of 2014-2015: 93.7%
Retention Rate- (benchmark is = 60%):
Class of 2015-2016: 80%
The Bridgeport Hospital School of Nursing Program of Sterile Processing has graduated its last class in February 2017. Upon completion of the program, the student receives a Certificate of completion providing eligibility to sit for the Sterile Processing Technician certification examination.
The Sterile Processing program will be transitioning to Housatonic Community College. Please continue to check HCC website for announcements about the Sterile Processing Technician, a non-credit Allied Health program.
Certification Approval
Certification Board of Sterile Processing & Distribution
148 Main Street, Suite C-1 Lebanon, NJ 08833
www.sterileprocessing.org
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Former Bristol Post Print Hall opens up opportunities for local apprentices
The major construction project by Midas has paved the way for dozens of local apprentices to learn vital trades
Holly Thatcher
The Print Hall, Temple Way Bristol
In the heart of Bristol, a new £25 million construction project to turn the former Bristol Post Print building into student accommodation is nearing its final stages.
The project has provided dozens of local apprentices with an opportunity to learn their trade on the 120,000-square-foot development – including budding bricklayers, engineers – both mechanical and electrical – painters, decorators and landscapers.
At 11 storeys high, The Print Hall will feature 267 new student bedrooms across three blocks - “from sumptuous studios to cosy flat shares.”
A CGI impression of the accommodation at The Print Hall (Image: CRM Students)
Prices start from £149 per week inclusive of utilities, and residents benefit from internet in every room. Facilities include open plan communal areas as well as a private gym and secure cycle parking.
Steve Welch, project manager for construction firm, Midas, said: "What's great about being involved in a construction project is that you can see the results. You have a sense of pride in your work and of being part of a bigger collective which produces a building to stand for years to come."
A CGI Image of the communal area at The Print Hall (Image: CRM Students)
Current figures from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) show that total employment in the construction sector across the south west is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 2.1 per cent ahead of the UK average of 1.1 per cent.
The UK construction industry will need an additional 230,000 workers over the next five years. These future workers are the young people now choosing their GCSE subjects within the county's schools and colleges.
Midas works closely with schools and colleges to attract new talent into construction, and Steve has made presentations to pupils to encourage young people into the industry.
The company also invite school groups to its sites to meet the team and explore careers as diverse as architecture and carpentry.
Steve said: "Midas has a commitment to invest in the communities that it works in to create a lasting legacy, as a local company that is very important to us.
"We are developing a plan to target apprenticeships for this project and we will be reaching out to the industry to actively encourage the most committed young people here in the Bristol area to earn as they learn."
A CGI Image of the reception area at The Print Hall (Image: CRM Students)
A show flat at The Print Hall will be available to view from 15 May. For more information, click here or call 0844 371 5602.
The 2017 Bristol Post and Bath Chronicle Apprenticeship Awards
The 2017 Bristol Post and Bath Chronicle Apprenticeship Awards give the community the chance to celebrate outstanding apprentices and their companies across all local business sectors in our part of the world – ranging from engineering, hairdressing, construction and finance to hotels.
The awards are not just open to apprentices, but to the companies which employ them as well. They can be firms employing just a handful of people to those with hundreds of staff on their books.
Bristol Post and Bath Chronicle’s managing director, Sarah Pullen said:
“These awards are really important to us. They celebrate the achievements of apprentices across such a wide range of businesses, trades and professions.
“They highlight the depth of talent and skill in our cities.”
The awards will take place on Thursday 18th May and will be presented by the BBC’s Laura Rawlings.
Each year, we receive entries from some of the best and brightest young talent in the region, and 2017 has been no exception.
Now, with the deadline for entries closed, our judging panel have some tough choices to make in deciding who will make the grade.
Hunter Selection – Engineering Your Future
Head-quartered in North Somerset since 2005 Hunter Selection has grown to become one of the country’s leading specialist Recruitment Consultancies employing 60 staff in 4 locations. Focused on Engineering, Manufacturing and Technical roles we have forged a reputation for results and customer satisfaction in a highly competitive sector. Bringing a level of service normally associated with executive selection, we offer a ‘fee on success only’ approach to the recruitment of skilled professionals with the assurance of a 100% guarantee for every placement.
Our teams of experienced Consultants strive to make the recruitment process a transparent and efficient one with the aim of becoming and valued and trusted extension of your own organisation.
We care passionately about the manufacturing and engineering sector and are active supporters of a range of national and local STEM and Apprenticeship initiatives.
The Bristol Post and Bath Chronicle have always been great advocates for the region’s Engineering and Manufacturing businesses and we are pleased to continue our support of the Apprenticeship Awards in 2017.
If you would like to discuss current or future requirements for permanent or contract staff in confidence please contact our Regional Manager, Scott Bird at scott@hunterselection.co.uk / 01275 371981
Or visit hunterselection.co.uk
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The Archive houses authentic historical records by many of the major car manufacturers, including a range of original factory ledgers which record the details of individual vehicles as they came off the production line. You can purchase an official 'Certified Copy of a Factory Record' more commonly known as a Heritage Certificate. This can be useful when applying for tax exemption or to obtain an age-related Registration Mark.
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All Hands On Deck
Admin at 3:29 pm April 15, 2016
Golden Discs
Sinead writes:
Golden Discs, the biggest and longest running record store chain in Ireland, celebrates Record Store Day TOMORROW, with live performances in ten stores nationwide.
Record Store Day celebrates the unique culture of independently owned record shops and has become one of the biggest annual events on the music calendar.
Vinyl sales are bucking the trend, and at Golden Discs sales are up over 300% year on year. 11 of the 13 Golden Discs stores now stock vinyl with an ever increasing choice on offer for vinyl fans.
With a Golden Discs Vinyl Club Loyalty Card every €10 spent earns a sticker, with 10 stickers earning a €20 discount on the next vinyl purchase. Unique in Ireland, this incentive is very popular with vinyl fans…
…To celebrate, we are giving away a Red Steepltone Discgo turntable (as above) to a Broadsheet reader.
The winner will also receive FIVE of Golden Discs’ bestselling vinyl [Hozier/Hozier; Amy Winehouse/Back To Black; Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol 1; Bob Marley/Legend and Walking on Cars/Everything This Way] to start/restart or enhance your collection.
To enter, just complete this sentence:
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was___________________________’
Lines MUST close at 4.50pm MIDNIGHT
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Posted in Misc and tagged Golden Discs, Record Store Day at 3:29 pm on April 15, 2016 by Admin.
224 thoughts on “All Hands On Deck”
dedeluded April 15, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Madness – One Step Beyond.
(a long, long time ago)
Spaghetti Hoop April 15, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Yes, I still remember all of the lyrics…..
James Chimney April 15, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Paddington Bears Gold Record. Coloured vinyl as well!.
Carlos Strange April 15, 2016 at 12:45 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits, a 2-album collection, the one where’s he’s in Black & White on the cover. Not cheap for a 13-year old but well worth it.
Previously I had won a copy of “Hunting High and Low” by A-ha at a school carnival.
Swag April 15, 2016 at 12:46 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli – Jealousy – Hits Of The Thirties (1973)
Gary April 15, 2016 at 12:46 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Rolf Harris – Can You Tell what It Is Yet
Seemed like a great idea at the time but now I’m not too sure….
Shayna April 15, 2016 at 7:13 pm
Went to the B&S Ball in Battersea Park in ’94 – Rolf Harris was top of the bill. He’d just released his version of “Stairway to Heaven”, complete with his wobble-board and didgeridoo . The crowd, it has to be said, went mad for him.
Everyone can have an Einstein moment, “If I’d known then, etc…”
Dubh Linn April 20, 2016 at 7:26 pm
That is not an Einstein moment, that is a Leister Piggot moment ….. the horse has bolted….. and you are staring at its hindquarters…. :)
Mickey Twopints April 15, 2016 at 12:46 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” on 7″ single from Todds department store (now Brown Thomas) in O’Connell St.Limerick.
It cost 10p (2/-) :-P
Bertie Blenkinsop April 15, 2016 at 12:49 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was “Party Fears Two” by The Associates.
Probably as close as I got to being any way cool in my whole life….
Old Bawn April 15, 2016 at 12:52 pm
And….so this party fears two;
The alcohol loves you, while turning you blue…
Bertie Blenkinsop April 15, 2016 at 1:05 pm
Can you hit the high note though? :)
Old Bawn April 15, 2016 at 1:53 pm
Yes, but only passing bats would be able to tell…
Bertie Blenkinsop April 16, 2016 at 9:11 am
Haven’t heard it in an age and it’s playing on TXFM right now weirdly enough…..
I’d no idea we were all so old….
Maria April 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm
was thinking the same thing myself Bertie ……. :)
Frilly Keane April 15, 2016 at 1:05 pm
We’re ya afraid to tell us yours was a Count John McCormack 78 Bert?
I’ve matured like a fine wine Frilly….
rotide April 15, 2016 at 1:16 pm
I knew the bs demographic was old, didn’t realise how old though!
I’m waiting for the gen y and millenials to reveal themselves with purchases of Ocean Color Scene and Blue
Even some Pre-Decimalisation kids coming out of the woodwork.
sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq April 15, 2016 at 1:19 pm
We could have a competition.
I’m the oldest one on this website because _______________________________
I have some old walking-sticks and reading-glasses lying around here that I don’t use anymore. I’d gladly donate them as prizes.
You’d most likely win them yourself Old Man.
So you’ve been healed?
Physically anyway.
rory April 16, 2016 at 9:25 am
BS should do a survey of visitors to this site.
And have a section dedicated to regular commenters.
Don’t know much about surveying. I know people who have used this site in the past:
https://www.surveymonkey.com
Janet, I ate my avatar April 15, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Mine was Popcorn. ..I don’t know what git into me I had to have it. Played it in manic loop
Mickey Twopints April 15, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for the earworm, Janet. :sigh: :-)
Fergal April 15, 2016 at 12:49 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Born in The USA, Springsteen, a Golden Discs in or around the Moore Street area, 1987
Jade April 15, 2016 at 12:50 pm
I was probably 5 and it was The Muppet Show Album. Of course it had the classic “Mahna Mahna” but I think my favourite song was “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”
“She once swept an Admiral clear off his feet.
The ships on her hips made his heart skip a beat.”
Maybe that explains my love of tattoos.
A classic.
What about ‘Halfway up the Stairs’ by Kermit’s nephew? Great one for the slow set.
A Winnie the Pooh song originally
Don’t forget Kermie’s Rainbow Connection lads
Kieran NYC April 15, 2016 at 5:58 pm
‘Just One Person’ is my favourite Muppets song.
If anyone ever wants a sweet, weepy moment, check out the performance from Jim Henson’s memorial on YouTube.
Joan Bruton April 15, 2016 at 12:50 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was the single John Wayne is Big Leggy by Haysi Fantayzee from Golden Dics in Stillorgan Shopping centre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXu8hd49ZZM
Randy Ewing April 15, 2016 at 2:27 pm
Interesting choice:
The song was a combination of political satire and sexual humour wrapped in nursery rhyme style lyrics. The protagonist, John Wayne, is having sexual intercourse with a Native American female. When Wayne’s bandolier restricts their intimacy, she suggests he removes it. He refuses and suggests he sodomises her instead.
rory April 15, 2016 at 11:33 pm
http://youtu.be/4OZP-EB3pcU
http://youtu.be/ax1piWZbRm4
Toto Coelo – I Eat Cannibals.
OK,so I was 16 and impressionable…
http://youtu.be/YqCTGoWMZcQ
David April 15, 2016 at 12:52 pm
Most people remember 1976 for the cracking summer but I remember it for a totally different reason. My first ever vinyl record purchase was Tommy Peoples and Paul Brady, “The High Part of the Road” in that glorious year.
I still have that record. I still occasionally listen to it. And listening (through headphones, no other way) to those two playing at the height of their powers still sends multiple shivers down my spine.
Harry Molloy April 15, 2016 at 12:54 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase only a few weeks ago when I purchased My Bloody Valentine – Loveless. I now realise I need better speakers to appreciate it but am looking forward to expanding my collection.
Stop now Harry.
You have all the records you need.
Nothing but disappointment lies ahead if you continue.
Harry Molloy April 15, 2016 at 1:36 pm
surely you can recommend something?
Clampers Outside! April 15, 2016 at 2:02 pm
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless [Remastered]
(That you never play and keep in a controlled temperature standing upwards)
3stella April 15, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Invisible Sun, 7″, The Police, at Golden Discs….
‘I hear you knocking’ by Dave Edmunds …… played the base line over and over again …… I still love that song :)
Disasta April 15, 2016 at 12:57 pm
Why are vinyls coming back?
Are floppy disks next?
TheDude April 15, 2016 at 1:10 pm
Yes they are but with most hipsters playing their fuzzy warbles on pitiful portable picnic players they might as well be listening to 32k MP3
Makes me laugh when you see idiots shelling out 300+ for headphones to listen to awful quality mp3s from iTunes.
dav April 15, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Never had a turntable, had to rely on tapes, which was grand until the tape player decided to chew em up, then it was trying to get it back into the cassette with a bic biro…
321gillian April 15, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Whitney Houston self-titled
Her voice on vinyl – incredible. My voice singing along – like a cat got caught up in the turntable.
Moira Cardiff April 15, 2016 at 1:00 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was ‘Sugar, Sugar’ by The Archies. They weren’t even a band! Although, it is still my party piece after all those years……..sigh
My first ever vinyl purchase was Althea and Donna “Uptown Top Rankin'”
From Pat Egan
And I still have it
Friscondo April 15, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Brilliant. Saw them on a TOTP’s repeat on BBC 4 recently.
Bill Walsh April 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was the Gary Numan: Living Ornaments ’79 & ’80 box set’
Daddy Wilson April 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Nirvana – Live From The Muddy Banks of The Wishkah, the first vinyl I owned/inherited from a collection in my parents’ attic was a Beach Boys live album. The next vinyl purchase was Radiohead: In Rainbows. Each of these albums holds pride of place on a shelf in my bedroom in my parent’s house. None have ever been played. Not even the old Beach Boys record!
The worst part of this? My daughter was born a few weeks ago and the first music she’s ever heard was Beach Boys, but she’s only heard it through online streaming!
The only thing that calms her now is listening to the Beach Boys and dancing with her Dad in the kitchen!
It’d be great to be able to have our Beach Boys record spinning for her to look at while dancing!
My first ever vinyl record purchase was…1977 The Muppet Show. Not very cool but man did that get listened too! My collection is a little more advanced these days though :)
Eoin April 15, 2016 at 1:05 pm
First vinyl purchase was ‘Ride The Lightning’ by Metallica which I purchased from Tommy Tighe in the Sound cellar, Dublin. He’s still there selling music and the record is still on a shelf at home. It’s 30 years old now. Wow. That’s what’s great about vinyl. I can’t picture a CD or tape lasting 30 years and still be playable.
Frunobulax April 15, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Yeeeeeearrrgh. Burning in my brain, I can feel the flame. Mine was Vinnie Moore, Mind’s Eye…£20. ‘Import’ said Tommy. Bollocks sez I, yet buy I did. Along with a Babes in Toyland cassette.
My first ever vinyl purchase was “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash from dolphin discs for about 50p.
Nothing I’ve bought since was as cool as that first purchase and I still have it.
Mahna Mahna by The Muppets, when I could hardly reach the counter to hand over the pocket money – yiz know how it looked – a tattered sweaty note wrapping a load of coins.
Both the song and I continue to age well.
Do doo do do doo!
Murtles April 15, 2016 at 1:09 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Now That’s What I Call Music (the first one that was released in 1983).
Awww the memories, Kajagoogoo, where are they now?
Gordon Sumner April 15, 2016 at 1:10 pm
My first vinyl purchase was The Police – Outlandos d’Amour and I’m still listening to it.
Royal M April 15, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Do they make you buy your own copy? Record company leeches!!!!!
BobbyJ April 15, 2016 at 1:11 pm
Hi Scores EP by Boards of Canada on SKAM records. Boards of Canada is printed in braille. Vinyl art offers so much more than CD, etc
http://youtu.be/EuvMNQ7IjNY
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Caress of Steel by Rush in Eason’s in 1984. Rather untrendy at the time, but back then any kid in Finglas who didn’t listen to ska was cruising for a bruising.
See also : Bob Marley and UB40.
Tarfton Clax April 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Nice one. I bought that album around the same time. Happy memories…
“Living one long sunrise
For to me all things are new
I’ve never watched the sky grow pale
Or strolled through fields of dew
I do not know of dust to dust
I live from breath to breath
I live to climb that mountain to
garthicus April 15, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Here goes (I’d really like that prize!)
My first ever vinyl record purchase was… The Dirty Dancing sountrack… I was around 8 years old…
CRINGE.
Glad you moved on to much more discerning tastes like Garth Brooks…
Dirmius April 15, 2016 at 1:14 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Dire Straits first two albums, ‘Dire Straits’ and ‘Communique’. I still listen to both albums fairly often.
Papa P April 15, 2016 at 1:17 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase of Guns N’ Roses ‘Appetite for Destruction’
I was twelve and thought I was beyond cool. I strolled into our local music store and confidently picked it out and went up to the cashier to hard over my (dads) hard earned punts.
“Nice hat and t-shirt!” the shop assistant said, commenting on my Michael Jackson ‘Bad’ t-shirt and peaked hat that were about two sizes too big for me.
Unfazed I still thought I was a legend.
I have learned nothing since then.
Unlucky in locks April 15, 2016 at 1:24 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada. I listened to an mp3 of it loads during my final year exams in college which kind of ruined it for me afterwards. I bought the vinyl to see if listening to it on fancy vinyl would help me like it again. It didn’t work and it turns out finals are really good at ruining stuff
Joe cool April 15, 2016 at 1:25 pm
I’m going to be crucified for this. My first was Olivia Newton John’s Xanadu. I was 5, I am ashamed
Mikeyfex April 15, 2016 at 1:29 pm
I love finding out where people got their usernames.
Ruraidh April 15, 2016 at 1:25 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was On Your Own by Blur on white 7″ from the Virgin Megastore in The Square in Tallaght, believe it or not. Glory days…
kingo April 15, 2016 at 1:26 pm
my first ever vinyl purchase was Thin Lizzy’s greatest hits in 1982 in Golden Discs in Stillorgan.
Shockabilly April 15, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Rhinestone Cowboy – Glen Campbell 1976 – 7 years old upstairs in the Easons in Cork.
That’s easy – Cause I’m gonna be where the lights are shinin’ on me…
Míchéal Jackson- Bad…. Still have it…plays and sounds great 28 years later…
My first ever vinyl purchase was Two Little Boys by Harry Lauder*. I didn’t pay for it but I demanded it and it was mine once bought so that counts.
*It may have been Rolf Harris.
chris April 15, 2016 at 1:38 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was ‘Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds’
Absolutely epic album.
Cobweb April 15, 2016 at 1:39 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was a black disc with a hole in the middle………is this a record?
My first ever vinyl record purchase was …
… today from a colleague at work who is promoting his group.
I’ve been listening to music since 1980 Joe Dolce “Aw Shaddup-a your face” and even remember 1978 when Ian Drury “Hit me with your Rhythm Stick” was charting. But never succumbed.
I don’t own a record player so I will have to give my first ever purchase away as a gift if I don’t win. So, now that I have succumbed, why not encourage me to buy more by gifting me a player. Could I burn my tape cassette collection onto vinyl?
Lidija April 15, 2016 at 1:41 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights single. I bought for my boyfriend as part of his birthday present few years back. Other part of that present was really cool retro 50s style turntable. We broke up 2 months later and he took turntable with him when he moved out. And the vinyl. FML
I would absolutely love this cool turntable. Thank you!
Ailish April 15, 2016 at 1:45 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Michael Jackson’s Thriller. This was only in the 2000s because I wanted to mix the Billie Jean riff with EVeRYTHING. Still get slagged for that one!
Jasper April 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm
The first record I bought was the seven inch of Rock me Amadeus by Falco which I used to practice what I thought was break dancing in the garden on top of old cardboard. My mum wouldn’t let do it inside after I nearly broke her favourite lamp . So I had to open the window, put on the record and dash through the house to get out to the garden.
I was ten and that song blew my little head away.
Seamus Keane April 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Nick Lowe, Cruel to be Kind, back in them days Golden Discs on Talbot Street and Sounds Around on O’Connell were my musical meccas
Eimear Spain April 15, 2016 at 1:47 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Pearl Jam’s 2013 “Lightning Bolt”.
Pretty much all of my vinyl is inhereted from either my parents, or my late sister. The rest was given to me as presents. Lightning Bolt was the first vinyl I ever bought myself and it was bought on record store day 2 years ago!
2BiT April 15, 2016 at 1:49 pm
My first ever vinyl were 2 x 7″ singles… the Cure ‘Never Enough’ and rather less cool… 2 In A Room ‘Wiggle It’ (just a little bit!)
Colm April 15, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Mine was Closing Time by Tom Waits when I was 15. I was consciously buying it so that one day I could say how cool I was. I’m not proud of ‘eye on posterity’ but the plus side to slightly (only slightly? says you) self-awareness is that it’s a wonderful album. I don’t have a record player any more and would like to play all of these records again.
linkwell April 15, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Back in Black, AC/DC 1980 Pat Egan’s Sound Cellar. Bought from Tommy. I still go there to buy my tickets to gigs and my Vinyl. Older, Greyer, Bloody but Unbowed….
coco April 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Bosco’s album. complete with a pop up scene when the sleeve was folded out. You don’t get that with CDs or mp3!
bob April 15, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Haha… I had this one:
http://www.adverts.ie/vinyl/bosco-sings-this-is-where-i-live-vinyl-record-and-poster/7240642
Probably in my folks house somewhere. I should really flog it by the looks of it!
First owned was Style Council, Long Hot Summer 7″… I think I may have collected tokens and sent away. I was only around 5 so I’m a bit vague. I don’t think I even liked it at the time.
First that I remember buying myself was Prince New Power Generation 12″. I’m probably forgetting some though.
Daniel April 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm
My first vinyl purchased was Daft Punk Discovery. One of my all time favourite albums. Possibly the best purchase I’ve ever made.
Bren April 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Oh Jesus.
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Now! That’s What I Call Music.
qwerty April 15, 2016 at 1:57 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was supposed to be Showaddywaddy – “Under the moon of love” but my older brother who was tasked with buying it returned with Bonnie Tyler’s “Lost In France” . To say I was less than happy is an understatement.
Did ya everything you’d every have to repeat that tale qwerty?
Btw, Any post that has Shawaddywaddy and Bonnie Tyler mentioned has to make the shortlist
Ffs. Did ya ever think!!!!!!
Eod100 April 15, 2016 at 1:59 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Bon Iver’s Blood Bank
Kolmo April 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was ‘A Tree Falling’ by The Forest
.. you’ve probably never heard it?
Stevemanning April 15, 2016 at 2:03 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was BBC Sound Effects Volume 4. I had a very strange upbringing and longed to become a priest on a remote island off the West Coast. I also had an addiction to roller blading at one point.
Ah the ‘4’. Mine’s from ’76 with a dark blue / purple starry cover. Is yours the ’70 mono original with the chequered two-tone sleeve? Ooh but no. 26 is the best! Sci-fi heavennn. I have others. Nicked them outta DLIADT. Don’t tell them. *giggles*.
Brian Ahern April 15, 2016 at 2:05 pm
Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight 12″ single while on the hop from school during transition year. I guess you could say it was a musical education.
Always Wright April 15, 2016 at 2:06 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was “Automatic for the People” by REM. I played it on Dad’s turntable, which was downstairs. To enjoy it fully I felt I needed to retreat to my own lair, which was upstairs. I turned the volume up and listened to that record for a solid year, muffled and magical, through my bedroom floor. It doesn’t sound as good any other way.
scottser April 15, 2016 at 3:00 pm
My little ones going to bed album for most of last year, now replaced by elbow’s the take off and landing of everything.
James April 15, 2016 at 2:08 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was made in Golden Discs using gift vouchers that I won by collecting the most money in my class for charity one time. Sally Cinnamon by The Stone Roses.
Mary V April 15, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Pink Floyd The Wall
Smashmouth April 15, 2016 at 2:12 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Tom Petty “Into The Great Wide Open”
I was 9 years old
I also need a new record player as my current one is bust!
Seán Ó Tuathail April 15, 2016 at 2:14 pm
The Bangles, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, 7inch Vinyl #… in Golden Discs Dún Laoghaire
I was about 10 and in rang a 4. I learned all the lyrics and thought I was F%$£@NG cúl!
I’d love to have it off
I’d love to have it off with Susanna Hoffs
Aidan Buckley April 15, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Adam and the ants “Kings of the wild frontier” still have it but lacking a turntable.
pillboxhat April 15, 2016 at 2:17 pm
“Endtroducing” by DJ Shadow. Is hip hop dead, or suffering from the similar ailment that beset it in ’96?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VG53RIJ50
that’s so good, I’m gonna buy it
Psydeshow April 15, 2016 at 2:17 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was ‘In rainbows’ by radiohead. Went into PlugD in Cork to pick up the vinyl when I felt guilty for slightly abusing the ‘pay what you want’ model on the website. All CDs and MP3 before that, vinyl since!
Barry the Hatchet April 15, 2016 at 2:18 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
This was when I was a small child in the 80s, living in London with my parents and my paternal grandmother. My parents were broke 20-somethings who hadn’t really expected to be parents when I came along (hence living with my Nan). They were too poor and too busy saving money to move out on their own to afford any newfangled contraptions like cassette players. But we did have my father’s record player, which was his pride and joy. He had bought it with the money he earned from a summer job when he was sixteen, just after his own father had passed away. And he had survived through his grief, and through my Nan’s remarriage to an extremely unpleasant man, by listening to records and losing himself in the music.
My father particularly loved to listen to Bob Dylan and I liked to sit on the floor of my Nan’s back room and listen with him, though I didn’t really understand any of the songs. Once we were listening to “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and I asked him.. “who’s Kevin and why is he never at home?” This prompted something of a crisis for my father, given that both my parents were staunch atheists, my Nan was a staunch Catholic, and nobody had yet worked out how to explain the complexities of this situation to a four year old.
Every weekend my Nan would creep up to my bedroom after I’d gone to bed and empty out her purse. She’d give me all her small change and I would marvel at this shiny treasure, stockpiling it in a little leather purse she had given me and feeling like the richest kid on earth. My parents didn’t know. This was our secret, and it made me feel so special and important to share something with her that nobody else knew about.
One Sunday afternoon, my parents and I were wandering down the Broadway when we popped into a charity shop because my mother liked the look of a hideous fuzzy jumper with oversized shoulder-pads and a floral pattern. My father went to look through the LPs, drawn to them as he always was (although he hadn’t bought one since I was born and he had developed Responsibilities with a capital ‘R’). I went with him and copied him, flipping though the records like I knew what I was doing. And that’s when I found the Snow White soundtrack. A record just for me. And I had to have it.
“Absolutely not”, said my father “that record player is for music – real Music!” (with a capital ‘M’ – he was and still reamins a purist about these things) And so he refused to buy it for me and we argued and my mother was summoned to intervene. And just when it looked as though he had won, I pulled out my ace-in-the-hole. My leather purse. My Nan’s secret treasure. Just enough to buy the record. And my father was beaten.
I listened to that record every day until we moved out and moved to Dublin and the record player had to be left behind because it was too big to bring along. My father stored it in the attic of my Nan’s house, whispering sweet nothings to it as he did, telling it he would come back for it. I think the only thing he was glad of was not having to listen to that damn Snow White record again.
And then, suddenly and sadly, my Nan passed away. Her horrible husband wasted no time in throwing out all my her things and all my father’s things and putting the house up for sale. And the pain of losing my wonderful Nan was, for my father, all the worse because the one symbol of what had kept him going through his father’s death – that record player – was gone now too. He had lost both his parents and his pride and joy.
He still has the records though. Inexplicably he brought them with us when we moved to Dublin. Like he wanted them close to him. If I win this turntable, I’ll give it to my father. And we can sit on the ground together and listen to “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”.
I nominate Barry for the prize. Even if I won it myself, I’d send it on to him for his dad after reading that story.
Ah, that’s very nice of you to say Mickey! I’ve been enjoying everyone’s contributions though. Lots of great (some not so great) songs.
My Meaty Member April 15, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Brilliant story thanks Barry
MayJay April 15, 2016 at 7:24 pm
That’s such a lovely, heartfelt post Barry. I humbly second Mickey’s nomination.
Winner winner chicken dinner here.
That was wonderful, Barry.
Jim Doherty April 15, 2016 at 2:19 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was…….. ” I Could Be So Good For You ” by Denis Waterman, the fantastic theme tune from the equally fantastic 80’s TV show Minder.
megrevs April 15, 2016 at 2:24 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was ‘Suicidal Tendencies’ ‘Join The Army’, bought with my confirmation money. The aul pair were delighted
Katie O'Sullivan April 15, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Elliott Smith from a basement on a hill when I was like 15
And stuff….
Father Filth April 15, 2016 at 2:27 pm
Flash Aahhhhhh-Ahhh… Saviour of the Universe! He’ll save everyone one of us..
Queen’s – ‘Flash’ single, in the then supremely plastic-y orange branch of Golden Discs in Dún Laoghaire. South County Dublin.
Barely able to view the top of the counter, I was a nipper, my Dad had to lift me up.
Played until it was scraped clean of any audio grooves, on a Bush turntable from the 60s, with a stylus like a cat’s tooth..
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Queen’s – ‘Flash’ single, in the then supremely plastic-y orange branch of Golden Discs in Dún Laoghaire. South County Dublin.
zackersetu April 15, 2016 at 2:31 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was… A pair of blue teeny tiny hotpants … they were so teeny tiny and well made from vinyl, that when it comes to crazy items of clothing, they were certainly a record for me!
wait….. I may have gotten the question wrong!
(also … I really wish that this was a joke for joke sake … but sadly … it’s not …. and I wore them in public …. TWICE!!! Part of a costume for a show … but still!! )
First ever purchase was The Pogues Feat Kirsty McaColl.
I admire the effort you put into that entry Chris. Made me laugh.
-Not a proper sentence.
-No song mentioned.
-Singer’s name spelt wrong.
-What do you reckon your chances of winning are?
essexhian April 15, 2016 at 2:34 pm
“My first ever vinyl record purchase was an LP. David Cassidy (swoon) and I played it over and over again on my little wooden boxed record player. Every evening after school and all weekend, really loud……….. much to the annoyance of my brothers. If I won the snazzy red turntable I would still listen to it !!!”
Fintan April 15, 2016 at 2:37 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was “Butterfly” by The Pale!
sheelagh puryer April 15, 2016 at 2:40 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Bowie’s ‘ The Jean Genie ‘ – still have it but record player long since gone :/
The Downes Side April 15, 2016 at 2:50 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was In the court of the Crimson king, by King Crimson. I bought it because of a mixture of liking King Crimson and also for how cool the album art was. Before anyone asks, yes I’m aware that I’m a hipster.
When it comes to music, every hipster is a liar, every liar is a hipster.
-Don’t fret, it’s just a phase. You’ll be grand.
Chrispy April 15, 2016 at 2:53 pm
My first and sadly last vinyl purchase was Bad by Micheal Jackson. Was probably 7 or 8 years old and harassed my parents for it. After that is was a cassette tapes for the next decade, just not that same.
Would love this record player just to show my kids how good music used to sound.
Marco Perrozzi April 15, 2016 at 3:00 pm
My 1st Vinyl was dancing around to Elton John as a child then another classic was Elvis Blue Havvii record that i used to play with my mother :(.
I would like to mention that golden did a 25th anniversary promotion for sgt peppers lonely hearts club band. If you brought in the old money they’d sell you a copy for 2&6 or whatever it was. So in I went with my grandads old penny jar, it weighed a fukn ton. Dude in the shop didn’t know what the hell to do with 2kg of copper and hands me the record anyway and goes ‘you may take that shite with you’.
Martin April 15, 2016 at 3:16 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was “Let’s Go All The Way” by Sly Foxx.
Altogether now – zhum zhum, zinny zinny
James Maguire April 15, 2016 at 3:18 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Michael Jackson – Bad
I was only a small child but it changed my life forever by introducing me to great music, and I have been buying Vinyl records ever since. I love the record so much and would sing Bad everywhere I went. The difference between Vinyl and other formats is immense and I would love to win the record player to continue to enjoy my favourite music
I think Michael Jackson changed manys a small child’s life forever.
Billy’s jeans were never the same again
rory April 16, 2016 at 10:00 am
http://youtu.be/I2LowbjCUio
Beanosan April 15, 2016 at 3:22 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Kick by INXS
Spagnolia von Hoop April 15, 2016 at 3:24 pm
Yiz have made me nostalgic for your collective teenhoods….
Richie April 15, 2016 at 3:25 pm
Bosco was my first record, possibly the only record that it didn’t matter if you got the speed wrong, they just all sounded like Bosco then. Classics such as the wheels on the bus and upside down town, “it’s upside downtown, downtown is upside down” a masterpiece.
realPolithicks April 15, 2016 at 3:25 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Rubber Bullets by 10CC…….
“Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets”
Ricardo April 15, 2016 at 3:25 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was Chris de burgh’s lady in red single. I got it for my first true love the day before she returned to London after spending her summer holidays in Ireland. Ahhhh….1986, the summer of love.
Scooperman April 15, 2016 at 3:27 pm
“Hey, Matthew” by Karel Fialka. “Hey Matthew what do you see, hey hey Matthew when you’re watching TV”
Funeral Home For Family Only April 15, 2016 at 3:29 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was: “The Anfield Rap”.So bad is was, well, just bad.
Mark April 15, 2016 at 3:32 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Dreamland by Italian One Hit Wonder Madchester scene Hacienda mainstays Black Box, purely for Ride On Time. Crap band, but still an AMAZING CHUUUUUNE!
Karl McCarthy April 15, 2016 at 3:32 pm
Was the 12″ version of Adamskis Killer which I treasure
What a toon
My first ever vinyl record purchase was ‘My Boy Lollipop’ by Millie Small.
I was only a little kid at the time and one of my aunties gave me a record token for my birthday. I didn’t know what a record was.
I got my Mammy to get this for me.
I thought it was about lollipops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUcbRTB6Rs
Zohar Lee April 15, 2016 at 3:32 pm
A second hand copy of The Eagles – Hotel California that was imprinted on a translucent green vinyl that somehow got lost in “the move” that I wish i could find
Most embarrassing item in my vinyl collection? Pope’s Mass, Phoenix Park, ’79 – picked it up in V de P shop in the 90s with a grand plan to mix it with a rave track.
I was working in a record shop at that time. You wouldn’t believe how many copies of those albums were sold. It was crazy for a while…four out of five customers wanted a Pope album. (There were two or three of them released.)
Mad times!!!!!
Gráinne Ní Mheadhra April 15, 2016 at 3:40 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was “Alf” (1984) by Alison Moyet.
I also bought the “Electric Dreams” OST on vinyl the same day. Even as a child my priority was music. Unearthed these albums on a recent clear out at my folks house. ♡ ‘
Nicole Mulvaney April 15, 2016 at 3:47 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was In Utro by Nirvana
I've Got the Power April 15, 2016 at 3:48 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was actually two records… ‘Louder Than Bombs’ by the Smiths, and ‘Grace’ by Jeff Buckley, in Tower Records on Dawson Street (I came of age during the CD era, so this is since the vinyl resurgence- although the ‘Do the Bartman’ single was bought for me in the early 1990s).
Tower Records is a deadly shop.
They’ve always supported vinyl strongly and their staff are brilliant.
Shut up ye eejit!!!!!
-This is a Golden Discs promotion. Are you trying to scupper your chances of winning? It sure looks like it!!!!!
Owensie April 15, 2016 at 3:58 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was The Gloaming last month. I could either buy a CD that I have no way of playing, or a vinyl that I have no way of playing. I went with the bigger one, I still haven’t bought a turntable to listen to it on
I like it Owensie…going for the sympathy vote….
Why don’t you post us a photo of your crying chair while you’re at it?
-What’s that? You haven’t got a camera?
BS, just give it to him. I can’t read any more of his comments. Just give it to him.
notahipster April 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm
“Release Me” by Englebert Humperdinck as a birthday present for my mum in 1967. The first just for me was “Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part” by Horslips in, I think, 1973. I still have it in its glorious octagonal sleeve.
Liam Daly April 15, 2016 at 4:20 pm
Appetite For Destruction, With the original now banned cover
Dermot April 15, 2016 at 4:20 pm
The Lamb lies Down on Broadway. Carried underarm with pride from Golden Discs Grafton Street I believe
LiamZero April 15, 2016 at 4:25 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Full Circle by The Doors. At the time, I was bitterly disappointed with the album because Jim Morrison wasn’t on it… ironically, I would now consider not having Jim Morrison on an album to be a major plus point.
Doesn’t make Full Circle any less rubbish of an album though. God it stinks. And I still own it.
Niallo April 15, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Brendan Grace – his grace at harvest, signed by the big man himself, and he gave me a copy of a bottler single.
Gent.
Anna Nicamhlaigh April 15, 2016 at 4:41 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was Shaky in 1981′ when I was 9…….lol
euro88 April 15, 2016 at 4:43 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was miles davis kind of blue. blue was then and is now my favourite colour.
David Dougan April 15, 2016 at 4:46 pm
My first vinyl purchase was Michael jacksons Bad a great album some cracking tunes on there
Custo April 15, 2016 at 5:35 pm
My first ever vinyl purchase was ‘Tarzan Boy’ by Baltimora.
I only found out last week that the singer was from Derry, and his life after being a one hit wonder was a bit tragic :(
DaithiG April 15, 2016 at 5:37 pm
Can’t remember my first vinyl but I do remember getting Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme in a 7″ single version when I was about 8 or 9. Quite prophetic since I now live in Miami.
My first ever vinyl record purchase was a 12″ single of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” which appeared randomly at the nadir of vinyl (1994) in Golden Discs Ennis nestled among the 3 for €20 cassette deals. Played it on an ancient dangerously humming turntable at home… b-side was “Marigold” Dave Grohl’s first released song! Still got it 22 yrs later…those 3 cassettes are long gone to the great sports walkman in the sky!!
Give this man the prize.
Otis Blue April 15, 2016 at 6:17 pm
This Charming Man 7 inch single in a picture sleeve. Woolworths on Grafton St. 1983.
For some reason my 6 month old Golden Retriever ate the sleeve a few years ago. Vinyl unscathed though.
Sandra Newman April 15, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Madonna – True Blue Vinyl Lp in 1986
Nathan Ketharinath April 15, 2016 at 7:07 pm
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Lana del Rey’s Ultraviolence. I still don’t have a record player to properly make use of my few vinyls but I’d love the chance to do that someday!
Pierce Parker April 15, 2016 at 7:28 pm
The Village People
Don Bosco April 15, 2016 at 7:31 pm
My is ee inyl ecod puchase was Da Punk – andom Access Memoies’ bu i’s had o coney because his keyboad is banjaxed!
Ahh feck April 15, 2016 at 7:41 pm
Feargal Sharkey, by Feargal Sharkey, bought in Freebird Records when they were on Grafton St!
Michael Moore April 15, 2016 at 7:45 pm
‘My first ever vinyl record purchase was : The Bee Gees Greatest Hits in 1979 in Golden Discs in The Crumlin Shopping Center, I thought I was so cool buying an album. Yes I still have it.
I’ve never purchased vinyl before.
http://youtu.be/hHsSkI81Sgk
I came across that on a free tape from VOX magazine, which my brother bought in the 90’s.
I’d get ‘In a Silent Way’ on vinyl though, if I had a vinyl player.
Here’s the cassette.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Abattoir-Dogs/release/813597
This tape had a pretty decent version of ‘Forever’ by Orbital. Recorded live at Glastonbury.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Radio-1FM-Sessions-Vol-3/release/779819?ev=rr
Don’t think it’s available anywhere else.
The best free CD I have is ‘Instant Garage’ which I got with Mojo Magazine:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Music-Guide-Vol-1-Instant-Garage/release/520015
It’s got some interesting songs. Songs that stuck out include:
MC5’s Kick out the Jams (I hadn’t heard the original version before.)
An interesting version of ‘Psycho’ by The Sonic’s (pretty much the same as their album version, but they kept the wild ending.)
Shortnin’ Bread by The Ready Men (interesting novelty record.)
And ‘Black Winds’ by Little John & The Monks
Mojo haven’t lived up to this quality of free C.D. since.
http://youtu.be/Bo-zXYEV8nw
http://youtu.be/wuiimwef-RI
This is a good song. Give it a full listen and it will stick in your brain.
http://youtu.be/W3IfRX3NwbA
Thomas o leary April 15, 2016 at 11:36 pm
The first record that I bought was “sexcrime 1984” by the eurythmics a great song!!!! By a great band.
sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq April 16, 2016 at 1:18 am
Today is Record Shop Day.
I hope you all support it.
If any of you can help me to find this song on vinyl please forward the details to me.
I want to give it to Catherine McEntee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc4xD6nzIoY
She loves it.
She just told me a minute ago.
You can’t blame her. It ‘s a banging tune.
Perfect for this time of the morning.
Nadira Jauregui April 16, 2016 at 4:36 am
My first ever vinyl record purchase was Julian Casablancas’ “Phrazes For The Young” & I was about 13 or 14 at the time it was released.
Janet, I ate my avatar April 16, 2016 at 10:24 am
Just noticed not ONE of the regular trolls bought vinyl. So there you go
Sean April 16, 2016 at 3:12 pm
so long ago I don’t remember… remember though there great excitement in our house when I won a walkman and my brother a record in a local colouring competition.. i was more interested in the record.. have no idea what it called but the song I am in the mood for dancing was on it … great song… stilll enjoy it
Mary Malone April 19, 2016 at 7:18 am
Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
bisted on Sunday’s Papers
GiggidyGoo on Sunday’s Papers
Gabby on Sunday’s Papers
Charger Salmons on Sunday’s Papers
Verbatim on Sunday’s Papers
V on Sunday’s Papers
Saturday's Papers - 43 comments
Seeking 'Financial Independence' - 43 comments
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Sunday's Papers
Self-Rising
Saturday's Papers
Where He Fell
Root Less
Eoghan And Ted's Excellent Adventure
Fill Your Boat Race
Five Years After
Avoid The Tailback
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Pat Steir (American, born 1940). Framed Waterfall, 1991. Soapground, sugarlift, spit bite, aquatint etching, a la poupee on paper, sheet: 24 5/8 x 19 in. (62.5 x 48.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Community Committee of the Brooklyn Museum, 1992.116.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.116.2.jpg)
Framed Waterfall
ARTIST Pat Steir, American, born 1940
PRINTERS Brian Shure; Crown Point Press
MEDIUM Soapground, sugarlift, spit bite, aquatint etching, a la poupee on paper
DIMENSIONS sheet: 24 5/8 x 19 in. (62.5 x 48.3 cm) image: 11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (28.3 x 21.6 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS Blindstamped lower right: "Crown Point Press/Brian Shure"
SIGNATURE Signed lower right in pencil: "25/25 Pat Steir"
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 1992.116.2
EDITION Edition: 25/25
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Community Committee of the Brooklyn Museum
RIGHTS STATEMENT © Pat Steir
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CAPTION Pat Steir (American, born 1940). Framed Waterfall, 1991. Soapground, sugarlift, spit bite, aquatint etching, a la poupee on paper, sheet: 24 5/8 x 19 in. (62.5 x 48.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Community Committee of the Brooklyn Museum, 1992.116.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.116.2.jpg)
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Pol Forn Diaz
Position: VISITOR EX-BSC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación CASE - Quantic
email: pol [dot] forndiaz [at] bsc [dot] es
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Pol leads the experimental team at QUANTIC (quantic.bsc.es). He has a background on superconducting quantum devices for quantum information applications and quantum optics. He obtained his PhD from TU Delft in 2010, with a study of superconducting flux qubits and the limits of the interaction strength to a superconducting resonator. He was then a postdoctoral researcher in the Kimble group at the California Institute of Technology working on interfacing cold atoms and photonic waveguides. In a second postdoctoral stage, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing in the University of Waterloo, working with Dr. C. M. Wilson and A. Lupascu on superconducting qubits interacting with propagating microwave fields. He is a partner at Entanglement Partners SL. In 2017 Pol was appointed a researcher at BSC to lead the experimental efforts to build a quantum processor using superconducting circuits. He is currently a Beatriu de Pinós fellow.
Pol develops the quantum processor that will be operational at BSC. He uses superconducting quantum circuits, which are one of the most promising platforms on which to perform quantum computation and quantum simulation. By engineering circuits with multiple qubits, quantum algorithms can be implemented to perform computation, simulation and optimizing problems. Together with the theory team at QUANTIC, Pol studies new applications for small-sized quantum processors.
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http://quantic.bsc.es
QUANTIC group official website
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=GB13CTIAAAAJ&hl=ca
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Cigna's CEO told us how his company's $67 billion deal for Express Scripts represents an 'evolution in the marketplace' in healthcare
Lydia Ramsey
Cigna CEO David Cordani speaking at CNBC’s Healthy Returns conference on Wednesday.
David Grogan / CNBC
Cigna in March said it planned to acquire Express Scripts in a deal that ends the days of a standalone pharmacy benefit manager, a company that negotiates drug costs.
In an interview later that month, Cigna CEO David Cordani described the move as part of an "evolution in the marketplace."
Cordani said the acquisition would help the company better work with healthcare providers and patients.
Health insurers are starting to own doctors offices. Hospitals are getting into the drug business. An insurer is buying one of the largest standalone pharma middlemen, and the retail giant Walmart may be buying the health insurer Humana.
The new combinations are starting to blur the lines of what constitutes a healthcare company at a time when the companies responsible for paying for healthcare expenses — like insurers — are feeling the effects of new procedures and innovative medications coming into the market with high price tags. To counter that, they've been consolidating, in part hoping that it will give them more of that leverage.
Cigna is one of the companies taking part in this blurring of company lines, with its $67 billion bid for Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager, or company that negotiates drug costs.
To Cigna CEO David Cordani, some things are coming into focus as the healthcare system keeps evolving into new companies. Here's how he put it in an interview with Business Insider:
"You start with the individual, people find themselves in a variety of categories at any given point in time. You're either healthy, you're healthy at risk, you're confronting a chronic condition or an acute condition, and how you're able to have the products, programs, and services to help an individual as we like to say along their life and health journey. That's what we believe the evolution of the marketplace is: PBM, health insurers, health service companies, or otherwise."
In other words, people think of themselves based on their health status and interact with the healthcare system as such. They're not thinking about a pharmacy benefit manager in a different way than they do their health insurer and potentially the person providing them with care. They just want to feel better.
Ideally, combining a PBM with an insurer will help make that experience simpler and lead to better care in the end.
"One of the things we're most excited about with our combination with Express Scripts is the ability to further integrate the capabilities between the two organizations and work more closely with the physician or healthcare professional and the pharmaceutical manufacturer to align incentives and align access around the clinical outcomes as opposed to just the volume of services that are consumed," Cordani said.
So instead of simply paying for care on a prescription-by-prescription basis, the combined companies may be able to instead think of alternatives that could lead to better health in the long run — something known as value-based care.
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Elon Musk's first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire
Madeline Stone
Elon Musk.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Justine Musk, the first wife of billionaire Elon Musk, knows a thing or two about wealth and hard work — her ex-husband is a founder of PayPal and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and has an estimated net worth of $12.1 billion.
She recently posted a response to a Quora thread asking: "Will I become a billionaire if I am determined to be one and put in all the necessary work required?"
Her answer is "no," though she says the Quora reader is asking the wrong question.
"You're determined. So what? You haven't been racing naked through shark-infested waters yet," she writes. "Will you be just as determined when you wash up on some deserted island, disoriented and bloody and ragged and beaten and staring into the horizon with no sign of rescue?"
She then offers some advice:
"Shift your focus away from what you want (a billion dollars) and get deeply, intensely curious about what the world wants and needs. Ask yourself what you have the potential to offer that is so unique and compelling and helpful that no computer could replace you, no one could outsource you, no one could steal your product and make it better and then club you into oblivion (not literally). Then develop that potential. Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.
The world doesn't throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it. (The world does not care what you want or deserve.) The world gives you money in exchange for something it perceives to be of equal or greater value: something that transforms an aspect of the culture, reworks a familiar story or introduces a new one, alters the way people think about the category and make use of it in daily life. There is no roadmap, no blueprint for this; a lot of people will give you a lot of advice, and most of it will be bad, and a lot of it will be good and sound but you'll have to figure out how it doesn't apply to you because you're coming from an unexpected angle. And you'll be doing it alone, until you develop the charisma and credibility to attract the talent you need to come with you.
Have courage. (You will need it.)
And good luck. (You'll need that too.)"
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No need to worry: Anurag Thakur on reports of govt withdrawing Rs 2000 note
The notes in circulation had grown at an average growth rate of 14.51 per cent year on year wise since October 2014 till October 2016
PTI Last Updated: December 11, 2019 | 09:09 IST
Notes in circulation (NIC) as on November 4, 2016 were Rs 17,741.87 billion which have now increased to Rs 22,356.48 billion as on December 2, 2019
Dismissing reports that the government is set to withdraw Rs 2000 denomination note, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur on Tuesday said there was no need to worry about it.
"This is the real worry (about demonetisation) which has surfaced now. I think that you should not worry about it," Thakur told Rajya Sabha replying to a question on government's plan to withdraw Rs 2000 note in the future.
SP member Vishambhar Prasad Nishad said, "Blackmoney has increased by introduction of Rs 2000 denomination note. There is misconception among people that you are going to introduce Rs 1000 denomination note again to replace Rs 2000 denomination note."
The government had in November 2016 demonetised Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denominations notes.
Thakur told the House that objectives of demonetisation were flushing out black money, eliminating Fake Indian Currency, to strike at the root of financing of terrorism and Left-wing extremism, to convert non-formal economy to a formal economy to expand tax base and employment and to give a big boost to digitalisation of payments to make India a less cash economy.
According to the reply, notes in circulation (NIC) as on November 4, 2016 were Rs 17,741.87 billion which have now increased to Rs 22,356.48 billion as on December 2, 2019.
The NIC had grown at an average growth rate of 14.51 per cent year on year wise since October 2014 till October 2016.
At this rate, NIC would have increased to Rs 25,402.53 billion as on December 2, 2019.
As actual NIC on November 25, 2019 is only Rs 22,356.48 billion, demonetisation followed by digitalisation and reduction of cash use in informal economy has succeeded in reducing NIC by as much as Rs 3046.05 billion, it added.
As reported by the RBI, 762,072 pieces of counterfeit bank notes were detected in the banking system during 2016-17, 522,783 pieces in 2017-18 and 317,389 pieces in 2018-19. Hence, demonetisation resulted in curbing of counterfeit currency, the minister said in the reply tabled in the House.
Digital payment transactions have been steadily increasing since last few years. The total transaction volume increased from 2071 crore in 2017-18 to 3134 crore for 2018- 19, which corresponds to a growth rate of 51 per cent.
The overall economic growth of a country is dependent on several factors including structural, external, fiscal and monetary and thus it is difficult to pinpoint the impact of any one particular factor on the growth rate of GDP, said the minister about impact of demonetisation on economic growth.
Moodys has not downgraded rating of India after 2016, he added in the tabled reply.
Also read: Currency in circulation rises to Rs 21 lakh crore as on March 2019, says Anurag Singh Thakur
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Tags: Rs 2000 bank note | Rs 2000 denomination | Rs 2000 currency notes | Rs 2000 note | Rs 2000 notes hoarding | Rs 2000 notes printing stopped | Anurag Thakur
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21 Tips And Tricks To Make The Most Out Of Going To A Concert
From someone who spends wayyy too much time going to concerts.
Hey! I'm Sam, and I'm a concert addict. If I'm not spending my free time at a concert, then I'm usually spending it planning for the next one I want to go to.
As someone who goes to a lot of concerts, I've learned many tricks to enhance my experience at them: whether it's finding ways to make carrying all my things inside easier, or to cut down on spending money at the show, from one concert-goer to another, I'm here to share some of my favorite hacks.
^Me throwing all my advice your way.
1. Bring a sealed water bottle with you. Most venues allow guests to bring one, so do it! Once you get inside, a bottle of water will probably cost $5+, and while you may need to buy another one inside, you'll be so glad you brought your first water of the night from home.
Akiyoko / Getty Images
Stock up on cases of sealed water bottles from Amazon, Jet, or Walmart.
2. Explore all of your transit options! You may think driving and paying for parking is your best bet, but other travel methods such as by train, bus, or ride-sharing services like Uber or Lyft may be more efficient and cheaper.
Also, be sure to look into other great options like off-site parking with cheaper rates and special discounts, free shuttle service from nearby parking lots and transit centers, even modes of transport like ferries and monorails! Every venue/city has different offerings, so really take the time to find the travel choice that works for you. Plus, leave lots of extra time for travel! Traffic, crowded public transport, and higher ride-share rates will only get worse the closer it gets to show time. So if you can get there on the earlier side, take advantage of it!
Pretty please do yourself a favor, and sign up for Uber or Lyft, or BOTH ASAP. They'll become your saviors, trust me.
Pssst... sometimes you can buy parking passes for your event in advance from Ticketmaster, Live Nation, or StubHub!
3. Invest in a good cooler for tailgating. If you're planning on driving or meeting up with friends who brought a car, (and you're of legal drinking age), tailgating in the lot is super fun when done responsibly.
Some venues charge as much as $18 for a small, watered down cocktail, which is SO not worth it. This cooler can hold up to 16 cans, is easy to carry, and easy to clean!
Promising review: "I'm very impressed with the build quality, extra pockets, and overall size of this cooler. It's a great cooler when you need something quick to go to a tailgate, or concert, or picnic, etc., and don't want to lug and pack a really big one." —Tom V
Check out more awesome coolers to up your tailgating experience.
4. Take a photo or keep a note on your phone of where you parked your car!
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This is especially useful at big arenas and stadiums where tens of thousands of people are driving. You're gonna be excited for the show, and may not remember where the heck your car is. Then it'll take you that much longer to find it and leave the lot. YOU'LL THANK YOURSELF!
5. Look into upgrading your seats before the show. At the time you bought tickets, getting those cheap nosebleed seats seemed GREAT, but the show is getting closer and you're starting to feel FOMO when it comes to not being as close to the stage as possible.
@taylornation / Kevin Winter / Getty Images / Via instagram.com
If you bought your tickets from Ticketmaster, you can call them to pay the difference to upgrade to the new seats you want!
6. Or upgrade your tickets to an amphitheater show through Live Nation's text message upgrade system. Once you sign up, you'll receive texts closer to/on your show date with a link to upgrade your seats, upgrade to VIP clubs and boxes, upgrade to preferred parking, and SO much more!
Live Nation / Jones Beach, Samantha Wieder / BuzzFeed
Thanks to this amazing system, I've upgraded my seats quite a few times. But my favorite was upgrading my literal nosebleed seats at a OneRepublic concert last summer to the FIFTH row on the floor for just $20 a ticket. Best.deal.ever.
Check out more info on how to upgrade your entire concert experience through Live Nation.
7. Pack snacks and easy meals like a sandwich, chips, a banana, and string cheese to avoid paying $10+ for just a hot dog or other expensive food. Most venues allow people to bring their own sealed food because of food-related allergies and dietary restrictions. Your best bet is to bring it in clear ziplock bags!
But if you decide to go with the chicken tenders and French fry basket, I'm not judging you, because sometimes it's just so needed.
Stock up on food storage bags from Amazon.
8. Rock a fanny pack, especially if your concert plans include an all-day or weekend festival. They make some really trendy fanny packs these days that'll make your life SO much easier.
Maitland Quitmeyer / BuzzFeed, bit.ly, bit.ly
Get the quilted fanny pack (left) from Amazon for $19.99 (available in four colors), Herschel Supply Co. polyester fanny pack (right top) from Urban Outfitters for $25 (available in three colors), or the leather fanny pack (right bottom) from Free People for $48 (available in three colors).
To learn more about the super trendy and v helpful quilted fanny pack, check out a BuzzFeeder's review (#5).
9. Buy a clear bag ahead of time, just in case. Many venues, like NFL stadiums, have clear bag policies for anything bigger than a small purse (for safety precautions).
amazon.com, Yi Yang / BuzzFeed
Promising review (of the tote bag): "I purchased this bag to use at an outdoor music concert. I was able to fit my water bottle, rain jacket, sunscreen, bug spray, coin purse, rain poncho, small towel, pullover shirt, and a few extra little things into this bag and had plenty of room. I had no problem getting through security and the crossover shoulder strap came in very handy so I could carry in my lawn chair too. As luck would have it, there was rain during this event — at times it was coming down quite heavy. This bag kept everything dry. I was happy to also find out it has dual zippers across the top for getting into it. It is sturdy and I would recommend this to anyone who needs a clear bag for events where these are required." —Bonnie C.
To find out more about just how amazing the stylish clear purse on the right is, check out a BuzzFeeder's review (#1).
Get them from Amazon: tote bag for $6.99 and the clear purse for $35.99 (available in four lining colors)
10. Get a portable charger or a solar-powered portable charger!
Chances are, your phone's battery won't last the whole show, and even if it does, there's an even better chance the battery life will be holding on by a thread when you're leaving to go home.
Get them from Amazon: portable charger for $17.99+ (available in five colors) or the solar-powered portable charger for $20.89+ (available in two colors)
11. Choose off times to go to the merch shops at the show, otherwise you'll be facing hella long lines.
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Some of the best times to go are when the doors to the venue first open, during the opening acts (depends on who the opening act is), and right after the last opening act (if there are multiple), before the main act comes on stage. This is just my personal experience. If you decide to go during these times and see a ginormous line, that is out of my control, don't @ me after and blame me.
BTW, BTW, BTW, sometimes, artists can be found very early on autographing merch at these stands. Usually at music festivals, but sometimes at their very own concerts, too. So, if you see that happening, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE TOWARD THE MERCH TABLE AND LIVE OUT YOU DREAMS.
12. Although, waiting until after the show ends to buy merch online is really your best bet because you can look at the crowd and see what items look like in person. Plus, some artists offer special limited-time discount codes after the show.
Samantha Wieder / BuzzFeed / Via store.taylorswift.com
For example, Taylor Nation (aka Taylor Swift's team) emails out a 20% off code after each tour stop to fans who attended the show and the code's good for 48 hours! So you have two whole days to think through what you wanna buy!
BTW, some currently touring artist merch shops I'm currently loving and wanna buy everything from include Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé, Niall Horan, and Maroon 5, just to name a few!
13. Snap a photo of the set times and look up the setlists in advance. That way, you can pick the best times to step away to buy merch, get a refreshment, or use the bathroom.
Samantha Wieder / BuzzFeed
The venue box office can usually hook you up with artist set times, and this site is usually a good reference when it comes to figuring out song setlists. Just be aware that things at a concert rarely ever run exactly on time, and set lists of course have the ability to change.
14. Keep a poncho on you in case the forecast calls for rain at an outdoor show. Most venues have a policy that the show will go on, rain or shine. In fact, some of the best concert memories I have include singing and dancing with my friends in the pouring rain.
Sure, you can bring a rain jacket, but think of how much easier it'll be to just throw the damn poncho out once the show is over. Also, don't even think of bringing an umbrella. That is a major no no. Also, it wouldn't hurt to bring a trash bag to sit on so you don't get your bootay all muddy and wet. :(
Promising review: "Great to have in pocket or bag! I bought them because I had some outdoor concerts and I was glad I did. It began to rain. The hood with drawstrings is great for wind, as well. The quality is excellent. Doesn't rip easily like some I have paid a lot more money for." —JERRY
Get an eight-pack from Amazon for $14.99.
15. WEAR COMFY SHOES! Chances are you'll be doing a TON of walking, dancing, and maybe even jumping. Not only that, but you'll be around a LOT of people. Avoid wearing sandals and heels, or using the night to break in new shoes. BTW, slip-ons are a great option.
Get them from Amazon: women's slip-on shoes for $12.97+ (available in seven colors, and sizes 5.5—11) and the men's slip-on shoesfor $28.57+ (available in seven colors, and sizes 4.5–13)
16. Have a pair of water-resistant boots ready so your feetsies stay protected, comfy, and warm. Trust me, you'll be a much happier camper if they're shielded from puddles and mud.
Promising review: "These men's boots look rugged AF in a grungy street-style way — which is a way I like very much! The rubber tongue and waterproof sole make stomping through all kinds of murky puddles almost fun. I'm sure these are also excellent for things like actual hiking or muddy music festivals (which I've avoided for the past few years in my old age). For now, these look pretty great and keep my feet dry and safe from putrid city puddles, which, tbh, are more terrifying than the huge rats." —Elizabeth Lilly
Check out more of this BuzzFeeder's review (#3) of these amazing boots.
Get them from Amazon for $43.38+ (available in sizes 3.5–12).
Check out even MORE rain boots to keep your feet protected at your next rainy concert or music festival.
17. Protect yourself from loud sounds by tossing some ear plugs in your bag before heading to the show. And if you're bringing the kiddos, these earmuff protectors are a great choice.
If you're someone who loves concerts and goes to them often, it's an especially good idea to give your eardrums some extra coverage.
Get them from Amazon: 50-pairs of earplugs for $12.62 and the kid's earmuffs for $12.95+ (available in eight colors)
18. Throw some pain relief medication in your bag! Loud noises and lots of people is the perfect recipe for a headache, and you wouldn't wanna ruin your experience because you didn't have some pain reliever handy.
These individual packets of Advil Liqui-Gels are a great choice, because they're pre-measured for you and super easy to throw in your bag and go! You can also get these in tablet form, but TBH, the Liqui-Gels are far superior.
Promising review: "Great deal for the price. My husband and I both get headaches out of nowhere, so these packets are perfect for when we aren't home. I just toss a few packs in my purse and I don't have to worry." —shopaholic
Get a 50-pack (50 packets, two capsules per packet) from Amazon for $8.55.
19. Be aware that, depending on the layout at the show, a mosh pit might form or people may crowd surf. If you're in general admission at a rock concert, get ready, be careful, and have fun with it!
If you'd like to avoid such interactions at all costs, opt for a seat or stand in the back or the side of the crowd. That stuff tends to happen in the front and middle of the floor.
20. PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN! For real. Take a few photos and videos here and there, but don't watch the concert through your phone, PLEASE.
Fgorgun / Getty Images
More often than not, you'll be able to find videos other concertgoers took on YouTube or social media. There really is nothing like having the experience of the show ingrained in your head, rather than just trying to record every second.
21. Last, but most certainly not least — HAVE FUN! You are at a concert that probably doesn't come around very often. Not to mention, you may have spent quite a bit of money on this special night, so enjoy it. Don't let anything get in the way of your dancing like no one is watching and rocking your heart out.
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HAPPY CONCERT-GOING!!!
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18 Of The Coolest Concert Venues In The United States
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2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE
Shocking performance, shocking price.
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Chevrolet must have one hell of an overtime budget for its performance-vehicles department. In just the past few years, there have been SSs, Stingrays, 1LEs, Z51s, Z06s, ZR1s, ZL1s, and even V-6 models that have consistently rewritten the bang-for-buck equation. (To say nothing of fellow General Motors brand Cadillac and its immensely talented V models.) Now comes this particular Camaro, one that combines two of those acronyms but wears an invoice price that doesn’t seem adequate to cover the sum of its parts.
The 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE stretches the performance envelope like a cruise missile wearing a forty-nine-cent stamp. There’s the Corvette Z06–derived LT4 supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 good for 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, the genuine carbon-fiber wing (a first for GM) designed in a Formula 1 wind tunnel that turns into the equivalent of 300 pounds of lead at 150 mph, the gaping front end that swallows 106 cubic feet of air per minute more than a regular ZL1, and the splitter and dive planes. Also, check out the rubber. GM tapped Goodyear and the tiremaker brought its Eagle F1 Supercar 3R to the table: 305/30ZR-19s in the front and 325/30ZR-19 steamrollers at the rear, which is the widest tire ever fitted to a Camaro. Goodyear says they are good for 1.10 g’s of lateral acceleration, but if our well-attuned necks are any gauge, we’re thinking it’s even higher than that. The rubber is wrapped around forged-aluminum wheels one inch smaller in diameter than the regular ZL1’s; along with the tires and compared with the non-1LE car, those rollers save 13 pounds in precious rotating inertia and unsprung mass.
Damper Dan
The other half of the chassis performance comes from Canadian supplier Multimatic in the form of aluminum-bodied spool-valve dampers. Not only do they provide an elegant and passive way to vary damping force, the inverted struts provide a means to achieve race-car-like negative camber at the front end. Via a trick method to switch back and forth between street and track settings, the ball-jointed and forged-aluminum top mounts of the front struts are adjustable to increase negative camber by 1.7 degrees. To set the car to track camber, jack one corner, remove an alignment pin in the wheel well and the three bolts at the top of the strut tower under the matte-black hood, twist the top mount 180 degrees (it has a dual bolt pattern), reattach, and—voilà—instant camber. Combined with fairly common eccentric alignment bolts, the ZL1 1LE can have as much as 3.7 degrees of negative front camber, although Chevy recommends negative 2.7 on the track.
The four dampers together are about 23 pounds lighter than the 2014–2015 Z/28’s steel-bodied dampers. The rear subframe and its multilink suspension are insulated, if you want to call it that, by aluminum pucks, and the rear anti-roll bar is adjustable to three positions. Locking down the rear end and firming up the front communicates every crack in the road and even the slightest variation in lateral thrust with a sniper’s precision.
All of this variability was engineered into the car to allow owners to fine-tune their Camaros to their home tracks. At the Jacques Villeneuve–designed Area 27 in British Columbia, we ran 40-plus laps of the 3.0-mile circuit. It was the brakes—the iron-rotor units carry over from the regular ZL1 except for the ABS calibration—rather than spent tires that prevented us from turning more than five hot laps at a time; the pedal gets a little long on the fifth lap. While we’d like to have seen the 1LE adopt the carbon-ceramic brakes of the Z/28, they’d be costly, and few cars feel as stable while braking in corners as the 1LE. Even when you throw in a downshift, the car never unsettles. The tires claw for grip in corners like a cat scurrying up a tree. Where you expect understeer, you get a neutral balance, and squeezing extra throttle on exit causes the rear end to step out gently—or aggressively if you simply put the hammer down too quickly. We’re quite sure there isn’t a tire made that could contain the LT4’s 650 lb-ft of torque.
When one feels the desire, the car will accelerate in a straight line, too. GM claims the 1LE transformation saves 60 pounds, so we don’t expect the manual-only 1LE to be all that much quicker than the manual-transmission ZL1 coupe we tested. Call it 3.7 seconds to 60 mph and 11.9 in the quarter-mile. The ZL1 automatic will remain the quickest Camaro, despite being roughly 100 pounds heavier than this car.
All That and a Bag of Creature Comforts
While the chassis mods make it a fantastic track weapon, this car is somewhat compromised on the street. Not overly so, but you’ll want to avoid every pothole due to springs that are three times stiffer than those of the regular ZL1. Matt Scrase, the engineering manager for the Camaro 1LEs and ZL1s, admits that he wanted to make the car a bit more extreme by ditching some creature comforts—the trunk lining, for example. He was thwarted by GM historians who wanted to keep the 1LE true to its roots as an additive option, not a give-and-then-take one, a philosophy that dates to the third-generation Camaro. Unlike the last-generation Z/28, this 1LE has all the features of the ZL1, including heated and cooled seats, a heated steering wheel, a head-up display, and an 8.0-inch infotainment system. Options are limited, with Chevy’s Performance Data Recorder ($1300, it’s a forward-looking camera and data logger), a navigation system ($495), and carbon-fiber interior trim ($500) being the only factory extras besides a few $395 premium paint colors.
One thing you won’t see in a ZL1 1LE is an automatic transmission. Its manual ’box is identical to the ZL1’s six-speed except for a shorter sixth gear (0.68:1 versus 0.54:1). The shifter is crisp and lacks any noticeable wiggle in the gates. Activating the automatic rev-matching downshifts turns heel-and-toe amateurs into professional throttle blippers, at least by appearances.
The shorter ratio in top gear equates to an engine turning 1000 rpm faster at racing pace. There are only a few tracks this side of Bonneville that need sixth, and one of those is the Nürburgring Nordschleife. At that hallowed German track, a ZL1 1LE turned a lap in seven minutes and 16 seconds, which is more than 21 seconds quicker than the last Z/28 and 13 quicker than the current ZL1.
That ’Ring time puts the ZL1 1LE in the company of near-vaporware from carmakers such as Gumpert, Radical, and Donkervoort. The best part of this package is its asking price: $71,295. Very nearly anything else operating in this performance stratum is easily two or three times costlier; the next closest performer is a Corvette Z06 with the Z07 package, and even that performance value costs about $20,000 more. Just don’t tell Chevy’s accounting department it could charge a lot more for this track animal, okay?
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 4-passenger, 2-door coupe
BASE PRICE: $71,295
ENGINE TYPE: supercharged and intercooled pushrod 16-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, direct fuel injection
Trunk volume: 9 cu ft
Curb weight (C/D est): 3850 lb
PERFORMANCE (C/D EST):
Standing ¼-mile: 11.9 sec
Top speed: 190 mph
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The admission to LL.B. Course will be done strictly on the basis of the performance of the candidate in the Entrance Test. However, Every Candidate must secure a minimum of 33% Marks in the Entrance Test in order to get admission in LL.B. course.
The Entrance Test will be based on objective type questions with Multiple Choices, comprising of 100 questions, of which 50 questions shall be drawn from General Knowledge and 25 each from Current Affairs and Legal Aptitude.
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The fees structure is not given on the college website so I would suggest you to contact the college official to go through with the given below link.
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Cerence Introduces New Features in Cerence Drive, the World’s Leading Technology and Solutions Portfolio for Automakers and Connected Cars
New capabilities such as enhanced voice recognition and synthetic speech serve as the foundation for a safer, more enjoyable journey for everyone
BURLINGTON, Mass., December 11, 2019 – Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC), AI for a world in motion, today introduced new innovations in Cerence Drive, its technology and solutions portfolio for automakers and IoT providers to build high-quality, intelligent voice assistant experiences and speech-enabled applications. Cerence Drive today powers AI-based, voice-enabled assistants in approximately 300 million cars from nearly every major automaker in the world, including Audi, BMW, Daimler, Ford, Geely, GM, SAIC, Toyota, and many more.
The Cerence Drive portfolio offers a distinct, hybrid approach with both on-board and cloud-based technologies that include voice recognition, natural language understanding (NLU), text-to-speech (TTS), speech signal enhancement (SSE), and more. These technologies can be deployed and tightly integrated with the wide variety of systems, sensors and interfaces found in today’s connected cars. The latest version of Cerence Drive includes a variety of new features to elevate the in-car experience:
Enhanced, active voice recognition and assistant activation that goes beyond the standard push-to-talk buttons and wake-up words. The voice assistant is always listening for a relevant utterance, question or command, much like a personal assistant would, creating a more natural experience. In addition, Cerence’s voice recognition can run throughout the car, both embedded and in the cloud, distributing the technical load and delivering a faster user experience for drivers.
New, deep neural net (DNN)-based NLU engine built on one central technology stack with 23 languages available both embedded and in the cloud. This streamlined approach creates new standards for scalability and flexibility between embedded and cloud applications and domains for simpler integration, faster innovation, and a more seamless in-car experience, regardless of connectivity.
TTS and synthetic voice advancements that deliver new customizations, including a non-gender-specific voice for the voice assistant, and emotional output, which enables automakers to adjust an assistant’s speaking style based on the information delivered or tailored to a specific situation. In addition, the introduction of deep learning delivers a more natural and human-like voice with an affordable computational footprint.
Improved, more intelligent speech signal enhancement that includes multi-zone processing with quick and simple speaker identification; passenger interference cancelation that blocks out background noise as well as voices from others in the car; and a deep neural net-based approach for greater noise suppression and better communication.
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Prof. Md. Nizami, Commissioner of Bangladesh Securities & Exchange Commission receives CGIA Fellowship
January 2, 2020 by Paul Frimpong
Prof. Md. Helal Uddin Nizami, Commissioner of the Bangladesh Securities & Exchange Commission (BSEC) has been awarded a Fellowship by the CGIA Institute.
He now joins distinguished professionals within the Asia-Pacific region to have received Fellowship from the Institute as a result of his outstanding contributions to the Finance & Investment profession.
The CGIA Institute is a global professional body of Finance and Investment professionals setting global standards for ethical investment practices for the finance and investment management industry.
The Institute provides the Chartered Global Investment Analyst (CGIA®) designation and it’s headquartered in New York, USA.
Prof. Nizami has since May 2011 been a Commissioner of the Bangladesh Securities & Exchange Commission (BSEC), the regulator of the country’s capital market.
He currently represents the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) as a Member of the Advisory Group of the Asia Pacific Economic Corporation – Financial Regulators Training Initiative (APEC – FRTI), as well as serving as a Member of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Bangladesh constituted under the Financial Reporting Act, 2015.
He is also a Director with the Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) since October, 2018.
Prior to joining the BSEC, he was a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Chittagong in Bangladesh.
Commenting on the award, MD. Nizami stated;” I am overwhelmed and grateful to the CGIA Institute, especially to its Council Members for considering my candidacy and awarding me as a distinguished Fellow and Member of the Institute.”
“Receiving this fellowship award from an internationally reputable Institution like CGIA, is incredibly a distinction & honor for me.”
In further showing his excitement as a Fellow of the Institute, the Commissioner said ;“…in discharging my responsibilities as a Fellow of the Institute I will be more sympathetic to the role of the importance of Finance and Investment regulation & decision of the capital market of Bangladesh in particular & the financial sector in general.”
“I want to work with the Institute in pragmatic strategy. I would always be devoted to the professionalism & discipline of the Institute. As a Member & Fellow of the Institute I shall always be supportive in promoting the Institute’s aims & objectives towards the development of best industry practices & networking among the members’ jurisdictions” he continued.
Prof. Md. Helal Uddin Nizami, Commissioner of BSEC will be playing a pivotal role in the Institute’s activities in Bangladesh’ Finance & Investment management industry through the CGIA Network Bangladesh – www.cgianetworkbd.org
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Rabbi Brings Supplies and Hope to Devastated Bahamas Island
Chabad of Bahamas is supervising shipments of aid from U.S. Jewish communities
By Faygie Levy HoltSeptember 10, 2019 2:20 PM
Rabbi Sholom Bluming is coordinating shipments of food, water, toys and more from Jewish communities around the world to those in the Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian.
The need is tremendous on Grand Bahama island. In addition to potable water, food, personal-hygiene supplies, shelter and clothing, local residents crave the knowledge that someone cares.
That is the lesson that Rabbi Sholom Bluming, co-director of Chabad of the Bahamas with his wife, Sheera, is taking away as he shares supplies and support in Freeport, meeting with people and overseeing Chabad’s relief efforts on the ground. Bluming flew into the island, which was decimated by Hurricane Dorian more than a week ago. Tens of thousands of people are homeless and hundreds are feared dead, though the official death count stands at 45, according to local authorities.
Since the storm subsided, Chabad has sent five containers of supplies by airplane and boat to those in need in the impacted areas. Among the items in the most recent shipments were 46,000 meals and 46,800 water bottles; 3,900 rolls of toilet paper and 22,700 bars of soap; 2,000 tubes of toothpaste and 3,440 toothbrushes. Plus, thousands of baby diapers, granola bars and more.
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The rabbi recruited a team of local young adults and teens, who are staffing 17 distribution points, where people receive necessities donated by Jewish communities and individuals.
He and his team also walk down dirt roads, often climbing over debris, to reach people, notably seniors, who are unable to make it to the distribution centers. “I met an elderly woman sitting on a stoop in front of a dilapidated and broken home,” he recalled. “Upon seeing the case of water and food items we had for her, she told me, ‘I haven't had a drop of water in 24 hours!’ ”
“I saw tremendous destruction. I was talking to people who lost everything in their life, yet they had a sense of resilience. They promised not to give up,” Bluming told Chabad.org. “Besides giving food and aid, my focus right now is to bring strength and comfort—to give a toy to a little boy so he has something to play with while he sits in the shelter all day. To give a hug to a man who, when I tried to move away, wouldn’t let me go for several minutes. He needed that hug, he needed love, he needed to feel that people care for him.”
The rabbi recounted the moment when he gave a little girl a teddy bear. She held it tight and started to cry, saying, “Mom, this reminds me of the doll I left on my bed before our house fell down!”
Bluming handed out cards written by children from a Jewish school in Baltimore, toys and other items that Chabad purchased with generous donations from people all over the world.
“My message to them was that the Jewish world cares, and that people around the world are with them. I told them that we are here now and in the long term,” he said. “The Jewish people are ingrained with the message of kindness, chesed and generosity, and they certainly have showed it in the aftermath of this storm and devastation.”
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“I saw tremendous destruction, yet I talked to people who had lost everything and still had a sense of resilience. They promised not to give up.”
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BRAVO Chabad, for all you do. G-d bless you.! Reply
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True Blood actor Stephen Moyer steps into role as ruthless Vietnam-era CIA agent
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In CBC's Fortunate Son, Moyer plays a CIA agent tasked with taking down anti-war activists
CBC Radio · Posted: Jan 08, 2020 11:16 AM ET | Last Updated: January 8
In the new CBC series Fortunate Son, Stephen Moyer plays a ruthless CIA agent tasked with taking down Vietnam War protesters. (Michelle Faye Fraser)
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The year 1968 marked a turning point in the Vietnam war. The number of U.S. troops peaked at nearly 550,000; it was also the deadliest year for American soldiers. At the same time, the anti-war movement reached a fever pitch, and by early 1968, two thirds of Americans were opposed to the conflict, with protestors marching constantly outside the White House. The tension between an increasingly unpopular war and those committed to opposing it is at the heart of a new CBC TV series called Fortunate Son. It premieres tonight, and q's Tom Power catches up with actor Stephen Moyer — best known for his role in True Blood — to talk about the roots of the show, and Moyer's role as a ruthless CIA agent tasked with taking down anti-war activists.
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WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS ITINERARY
21 Days FROM USD 5,525
Choose this Tailor-Made itinerary or customise to create your own unique journey. Departs daily to suit your travel plans. Price based on Standard accommodation. Superior or Deluxe also available.
Start your 21-day journey around South America in Lima to experience the 'Land of the Incas'. Have a day at Puno’s Lake Titcaca before heading to Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca Empire, from which you will travel to Machu Picchu. From there, travel through Cusco to the jungle of the Amazon. Continue your journey to Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. Then explore the Argentinian side of Iguazu Falls before crossing into Brazil and making your way to the lively city of Rio de Janeiro.
Trip Code: MCTSBSA
Location: Peru, Machu Picchu, Amazon, Brazil, Argentina
Flights: Internal flights included in itinerary. Ask us to help book your flights to/from South America.
In just 3 weeks, you will gain an excellent insight into South America, experiencing some of the highlights of Peru, Argentina and Brazil, finishing in beautiful Rio de Janeiro.
This itinerary is packed with incredible cities and sights but is well paced, allowing time to explore and at leisure.
You will experience the vibrant cities of Lima, Buenos Aires and Rio and in complete contrast, ancient cities such as Cusco and Machu Picchu.
You will take in the highlights of stunning Rio de Janeiro and cosmopolitan Buenos Aires including a Tango Show and visit to a traditional ranch.
You will delve into the fascinating history and colourful culture of Peru as you travel to Puno from Lima, and through the beautiful Sacred Valley from Cusco to Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu.
The itinerary also includes a visit to the Iguazu Falls, one of the world’s most spectacular waterfalls, Lake Titicaca and the mighty Amazon Rainforest.
ITINERARY INSPIRATION
DAY 1: Arrival transfer in Lima
On arrival, please make your way through to the Arrivals Hall where our representative will be waiting for you to transfer you to your hotel. This service includes a driver and local English speaking guide, who will provide you with any useful information needed for your stay. He/she will be holding a sign with your name on it.
Should you not be able to locate them, please refer to the front of your itinerary for emergency contact details of our representative office.
DAY 1: Lima
Lima, the capital of Peru, sits on the country's arid Pacific coast. Founded in 1535, its colonial centre is well preserved, but today Lima is a bustling metropolis and one of South America’s largest cities. The city is home to the various museums including the Museo Larco that houses a collection of pre-Columbian art and the Museo de la Nación, tracing the history of Peru’s ancient civilizations. Lima is known as the “gastronomical capital of the Americas”, encompassing specialties from ceviche and traditional coastal cooking to refined global fare. It even boasts several of the top restaurants in the world.
DAY 2: Lima - City Tour
Today you will be collected from your hotel for your tour of Lima, the Colonial ‘City of Kings’. On the city tour you will visit a number of well-known sites including the Cathedral, the Presidential Palace, Santo Domingo Convent and the Plaza de Armas.This is a chance to appreciate Lima's magnificent Colonial architecture as well as vignettes of its pre-Colombian past. On completion of this tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is a small group tour.
DAY 3: Transfer to the airport for onward destination
You will be collected from your hotel at the appropriate time and transferred to the airport for your onward flight.
DAY 3: Transfer Juliaca Airport to Puno via Sillustani Ro
On arrival, please make your way through to the Arrivals Hall where our representative will be waiting for you to transfer you to your hotel.
He/she will be holding a sign with your name on it. Please note this service is with a driver only.
Enroute to your hotel, visit the pre-Inca burial ground of Sillustani. You will have time to wander through the remarkable tombs built from volcanic stone. Known as Chullpas, these funerary towers reach heights of up to 12 metres. Overlooking the beautiful Lake Umayo, Sillustani is considered to be one of the most important necropolises in the world. On completion of the tour you will be taken to your hotel.
DAY 3: Puno
Puno lies on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. It is the largest city in the Southern Altiplano and an important agricultural and livestock (llamas and alpaca) region. It sits at an altitude of over 3,800 metres and is a picturesque hillside city and a melting pot of the Aymara and Quechua culture.
DAY 4: Titicaca Uncover by Speed Boat
Early this morning you will be collected from your hotel and transferred to the port to board a fully equipped speedboat with on board service to visit various islands on Lake Titicaca. First stop is Taquile Island where you will explore a scenic and less touristy area. Enjoy time on a pristine sandy beach to relax and feel the serenity of Lake Titicaca. We then hike along a pre-Inca trail with spectacular landscapes of the island, visiting families of weavers to learn about their textile art and symbolism. In 2005, "Taquile and its Textile Art" were proclaimed "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO. After three hours on Taquile, board the speedboat for a short journey to the community of Santa Maria-Llachon, on the tip of the Capachica Peninsula. This is a picturesque off the beaten track destination. We are welcomed by the small Quechua speaking community and introduced to an intensive cultural experience, observing the traditions of the community and participating in an ancient ceremony to learn about their magical world. Experience the preparation of "Pachamanca", a traditional way of cooking meat, fish and potatoes using underground ovens, and one of the main dishes of Peruvian cuisine. Enjoy these delicacies in a small, but scenic restaurant (included in tour price). For the more adventurous there is an optional kayak along the coast of Llachon. After lunch we leave Santa Maria and arrive at a remote area of the National Reserve of Lake Titicaca to explore Uros Ccapi. These are considered to be the last authentic floating islands, less commercial and little visited. The Uros are descendants of one of the oldest cultures in South America. There are optional tours in reed boats before we depart back to Puno. On arrival at the port, you will be transferred to your hotel. Please note this is small group tour.
Please note there is a minimum number of passengers requested to operate this tour from December to March, if the required number of passengers is not reached we will offer you a similar alternative. Please also note that between the months of January and March the ceremony of "Pachamama" will be subject to weather conditions.
DAY 5: Transfer from Puno hotel to bus or train station
This morning, you will be collected from your hotel and transferred to either the bus or train station for your journey from Puno to Cusco.
DAY 5: Puno to Cusco
The spectacular journey from Puno to Cusco takes you across the Altiplano and you will travel accompanied by an English-speaking guide. The drive takes you through sleepy Andean villages and past spectacular snowcapped mountains, sheer cliffs and rampaging rivers. Stops along the way include the atmospheric towns of Pucara and Andahuaylillas and the pre-Inca ruin of Raqchi. Lunch is included and you will arrive in the famous city of Cusco in the early evening. The journey will take approximately 10 hours.
DAY 5: Arrival transfer in Cusco
On arrival at Cusco bus or train station, you will be met by a representative who will be holding a sign with your name on it, to transfer you to your hotel.
DAY 5: Cusco
Cusco, set at an altitude of 3,400 metres in the Peruvian Andes, was once the capital of the Inca Empire. It is known for its Spanish colonial architecture and Incan remains. Narrow, cobble-stoned streets lined by Inca walls stretch out from the main plaza in every direction. Many of the colonial buildings were built on top of Incan foundations and the stonework is unparalleled in its precision and beauty.
DAY 6: Sacred Valley Tour
This morning you will be collected from your hotel for full day of exploring the Sacred Valley of the Incas. This fertile river valley was home to many important sites for the Incas, both strategic and religious. The first stop is the village of Pisac, with its famous market. The colonial village of Pisac sits at the base of the spectacular Pisac Ruins – a hilltop Inca citadel and fortress with impressive agricultural terracing. On market days Pisac comes alive with locals from nearby hillside villages in traditional dress selling local fruit and vegetables as well as handicrafts. There is free time to wander the colourful market stalls before a typical Andean lunch at a local restaurant.
Continue your journey along the River Urubamba, to Ollantaytambo. The town, which is dominated by a giant Inca fortress, is perhaps the best surviving example of Inca town planning and was the scene of a rare Inca victory over the invading Spanish. At the end of the tour you will be transferred to the train station in Ollantaytambo to take the train to Aguas Calientes. Lunch is included.
DAY 6: Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes
Travel from Ollantaytambo to Machu Picchu in this comfortable train, and let your feet have rest. Enjoy an authentic Andean experience, while relaxing in modern and comfortable interior design illuminated by Latin American music. Comfortable seats with tables in front to share the journey with friends and partake of a refreshing beverage. On-board services includes a fun and refreshing selection of drinks prepared using Andean herbs and fruits, all of which boast revitalising properties to fill you with energy and keep you ready for the next adventure waiting ahead of you.
*Due to limited space for luggage storage on trains, luggage restrictions apply: one bag or backpack (carry-on luggage) with a maximum weight of 5.0 kg/11 lb, measuring no more than 62 linear inches/157 linear cm (height + length + width)
DAY 7: Machu Picchu Guided Tour
Machu Picchu is a 15th century Inca site, located 2,430 metres above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley. It is the most famous of all Inca sites, but it was not until 1911 that it was brought to the world’s attention by the American historian Hiram Bingham. The Incas abandoned the city just prior to Spanish colonisation, the city was never pillaged and as a result the ruins are still in fantastic condition. With its location on a dramatic ridgeline surrounded by sheer cliffs and the Urubamba River on three sides, the city of Machu Picchu is a remarkable place to visit. Machu Picchu was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 and in 2007 it was voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.
The tour starts with a bus ride from Aguas Calientes to Machu Picchu. You will be astonished at your first view of Machu Picchu, a stunning display of ancient architecture with incredible surroundings. Enjoy a guided shared tour of the ruins and monuments such as the Main Square, the Circular Tower, the Sacred Solar Clock, the Royal Quarters, the Temple of the Three Windows and the Cemeteries. Return by bus to Aguas Calientes village.
Please be aware that your tour of Machu Picchu does not include an entry permit to Huayna Picchu (the iconic hill behind the Machu Picchu ruins). If you want to climb Huayna Picchu then you need to pre-book your permit with at least 3 months in advance. Please contact your travel specialist if you would like to do this.
DAY 7: 360 Machu Picchu Train: Mapi - Ollanta PM
This afternoon travel by train from Aguas Calientes to Ollantaytambo.
DAY 7: Private Transfer Ollantaytambo - Cusco
Transfer from Ollantaytambo train station in the Sacred Valley to Cusco.
DAY 8: Cusco - City Tour
You will be collected from your hotel for a sightseeing tour through Cusco, the heart of the Inca Empire. Visit the fascinating Qorikancha Temple of the Sun, the 12-Angled Rock and the Cathedral, built on the ruins of an Inca Palace. From here head to the archaeological remains located around the city, including the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, Qenqo (giant rock), the ancient site of Puca Pucara and finally the Water Temple of Tambomachay. On completion of your tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Included in your tour price is the BTG (Tourist Ticket of Cusco). Please note this is a small group tour.
DAY 9: Puerto Maldonado - Refugio Amazonas
On arrival at Puerto Maldonado Airport, you will be met by a representative of Refugio Amazonas to begin the journey to Refugio. Enroute we will stop at the local office so that you can repack your luggage and only take what is required for the next four days. The rest will be stored securely in the office. Continue by road and a two and a half hour boat journey to Refugio Amazonas, located in a 200-hectare private reserve. The boat ride from the Tambopata River Port to Refugio Amazonas takes us past the Infierno Community and the Tambopata National Reserve checkpoint and into the buffer zone of this 1.3 million hectare conservation unit. A boxed lunch is provided to eat along the way.
On arrival to the lodge, you will be welcomed and given a brief orientation. After dinner at the lodge there is the option to join a night walk when most of the animals are active but sometimes difficult to see. The frogs are easier to see with their fascinating shapes and colours and fascinating sounds.
Note: Please ensure your arrival flight is no later than 13:05
DAY 10: Refugio Amazonas
Refugio Amazonas have a set of activities where you can choose from onsite, allowing you to create your own personalised experience deep in the Amazon. Below are suggested options you may like to choose from through-out your stay.
After breakfast venture out onto the lake by canoe or catamaran, looking for wildlife such as hoatzin, caiman, horned screamers, macaws and otters that are sometimes seen in the area. Back on land, a 30 minute walk from the lodge takes you to the 25 metre scaffolding canopy tower, complete with staircase running through the middle and providing safe access to the platforms above. The tower has been built on high ground to give views of the primary rainforest extending out towards the Tambopata National Reserve. Enjoy excellent views across the canopy and look for toucans, macaws and raptors.
After lunch you will visit a farm to learn about local agriculture and Amazonian crops before an ethnobotanical tour to learn about the medicinal uses of the various plants and trees of the region. In the evening, Refugio Amazonas staff offer lectures covering topics such as conservation threats, opportunities and projects in the Tambopata National Reserve.
Witness the audio and visual spectacle of a clay lick, watching vibrant coloured macaws, parrots and parakeets feast on clay. Species such as dusky-headed and cobalt-winged parakeets are often seen and with luck we may also see mealy and yellow-crowned Amazons, blue-headed pionus, severe macaw and orange-cheeked (Barraband`s) parrots.
After lunch, take a short hike from the lodge brings us to a beautiful Brazil nut forest that has been harvested for decades. Here you can learn about the whole process of the rainforest’s only sustainably harvested product, from collection through transportation to drying.
In the afternoon, there will be a visit to a peccary clay lick, this time to see mammals. Wild rain forest pigs show up in herds of up to twenty to eat clay, alongside deer, guan and parakeets.
DAY 12: Refugio Amazonas – Puerto Maldonado
After breakfast, return to Puerto Maldonado for your departure flight. Depending on airline schedules, this may require a dawn departure.
Please note: Depending on airline schedules, this may require a dawn departure. We recommend flight LA2074 departing at 13:35
*Schedule of activities are subject to change without notice
DAY 12: Arrival transfer in Lima
DAY 13: Transfer to the airport for onward destination
DAY 13: Arrival transfer in Buenos Aires
On arrival, please make your way through to the Arrivals Hall where our representative will be waiting for you to transfer you to your hotel. He/she will be holding a sign with your name on it. Please note this service is with a driver only.
DAY 13: Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina’s elegant, historic and cosmopolitan capital, is known as the “Paris of the South” due to its European atmosphere with glamorous avenues lined with fashionable shops and Parisian-style restaurants and cafes. Located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires has many fascinating neighbourhoods to explore including the colourful and lively La Boca, home to art galleries and tango shows; San Telmo with its restored mansions and antique stores and Recoleta, the city’s most exclusive area.
DAY 14: Highlights of Buenos Aires City Tour
You will be collected from your hotel for your three-hour tour visiting the most important highlights of the city of Buenos Aires. Discover the history of the Plaza de Mayo Square, the site of Argentina’s most important historical events - see its surroundings and the most emblematic buildings and learn all about them. Then enjoy Mayo Avenue and wonder in awe at the oldest residential neighbourhood in Buenos Aires: San Telmo. Live and feel the original Tango in the neighbourhood of La Boca: walk along Caminito Street and enjoy the Dancers and souvenir shops. See the mythical Boca Juniors soccer stadium. Contemplate the modernization of the city whilst traveling along Puerto Madero and its exclusive docks, full of excellent restaurants and large offices. Pass through the Retiro neighbourhood and move on to see Palermo and its most exclusive residential area before finally arriving at Recoleta. Here, discover the final resting place of Eva Peron, “Evita” and wander through Recoleta Cemetery where she is to be found. On completion of your tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is a small group tour.
DAY 14: El Querandi Tango Show & Dinner
This evening you will be collected from your hotel to experience a Tango Show with dinner. This is an intimate & passionate tango show, housed in a cozy wood-panelled 19th century building with a colourful history as a meeting point for poets and students in the heart of Buenos Aires's historic centre. After being abandoned in the late 1970s, the bar was restored and reopened in 1992 as El Querandí Tango Hall. The show is directed by Claudio Campos, with musical arrangements by Ado Falasca, and it smoothly charts the history of Argentina's most authentic artistic expression from its origins to the modern day. The dinner is better than many, and at just over an hour long, the show is the perfect length. The three house singers, six dancers and four musicians put on a great show. Dinner will be served from 8.30pm followed by the show commencing at 10.00pm. Please note timings are subject to change and will be confirmed directly to you. On completion of the show, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is a small group tour.
DAY 15: Ranch & Countryside Tour
This morning you will be collected from your hotel for an authentic day in the countryside at an exclusive estancia in San Antonio de Areco. Travel by road from Buenos Aires to San Antonio de Areco across the endless pampas. This journey will take approximately an hour and half. On arrival at San Antonio de Areco you can take a short walking tour of this charming gaucho town, which includes a walk around the historical plaza. Continue to the exclusive ‘El Ombu de Areco’ Estancia. Once at the estancia, choose to either have a short horse ride, or ride in a sulky carriage perhaps! There is a typical welcome/starter of cold cuts, cheeses and beverages, and for lunch you will enjoy a typical Argentine country style asado prepared using only the finest quality meats. Dessert is accompanied by a folklore show, which is followed by a demonstration of gaucho skills. On completion of the tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is small group tour.
You will be collected from your hotel at the appropriate time and transferred to the airport for your onward flight. This service includes a driver only.
DAY 16: Arrival transfer in Iguazu
He/she will be holding a sign with your name on it. Should you not be able to locate them, please refer to the front of your itinerary for emergency contact details of our representative office. Please note this service is with a driver only.
*Please note the Iguazu Tourist Tax will now be charged on check out at all Iguazu hotels. The amount is currently ARS50 (USD3.40) per person per stay. Please note this tax is subject to change without prior notice.
DAY 16: Iguazu Falls
The spectacular Iguazu Falls that straddle the Argentine-Brazil border, are made up of 275 individual waterfalls lining a 2.7km wide horseshoe-shaped gorge. The Falls are located where the Iguazu River cascades over the edge of the Paraná Plateau. The Falls can be viewed from both the Argentinian and the Brazilian sides, the Brazilian side offering a broader, panoramic view, with the Argentinian side offering a series of catwalks that allow you to experience the Falls from close range.
DAY 17: Iguazu Argentinian Falls
Early morning pick up from your hotel for your full day of exploring the Argentine side of the falls. This tour always starts early in order to beat the crowds and get the first train to the Devil’s Throat. There are walkways over the islands which take you to a balcony over the falls and the most spectacular view of the entire Devil’s Gorge. You will then have plenty of time to walk the 800 metres of paths on the upper circuit. These new suspended walkways are detached from the jungle surface so as to protect the fauna by preventing disruption of the natural trails. From this circuit you have a higher sight of the falls, providing you with a magnificent panoramic view. It takes around one hour to cover the upper circuit. The lower circuit contains 600 metres of walkways, also detached from the jungle floor, and has great views from below and around the falls. Once you have finished all the circuits, return to the visitor centre where your vehicles will be waiting to transfer you back to your hotel. Please note there is some degree of difficulty as the path includes many stairs, particularly on the lower circuit. National Park fee is included. On completion of the tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is small group tour.
DAY 18: Half Day Iguazu Brazilian Falls
You will be collected from your hotel for your tour of the Brazilian side of the falls. After arriving at the visitor centre, we board buses for a tour of the park. Equipped with panoramic windows, the buses are designed to maximize your views of the falls, while the walkways and steps allow you to get up close to the spray. Views of the Floriana Falls, the Devil’s Gorge Canyon and the Iguazu River are spectacular and are guaranteed to impress. National Park fees included. On completion of the tour, you will be taken to your hotel. Please note this is small group tour.
DAY 18: Arrival transfer in Rio de Janeiro
He/she will be holding a sign with your name on it.
Please note this service is with a driver only. Please note, once you arrival at your hotel you will receive a welcome pack, which will provide you with all the useful information you will need about your trip in Brazil.
DAY 18: Rio de Janeiro
Known as the ''Cidade Maravilhosa'', or Marvellous City, Rio never fails to amaze with its sandy beaches, carefree lifestyle and unparalleled natural beauty. As the capital of Brazil until 1960, Rio is today one of the most culturally and economically prominent cities in the country, receiving more tourists than any other part of Brazil.
DAY 19: Corcovado & Sugarloaf with Lunch
After an early pick up from your hotel, this tour makes its way to the bottom of Corcovado Hill, where we ascend the mountain by vehicle. Climbing 4km through the Tijuca Forest, the world’s largest urban National Park, we will arrive at the statue of Christ the Redeemer. After taking in the panoramic views, continue to the Maracana Stadium. We also pass the Sambadrome and the Metropolitan Cathedral, before passing through the bohemian neighbourhood of Lapa and its famous arches en-route to Copacabana. Enjoy a traditional Brazilian BBQ lunch (beverages not included) before visiting the famous Sugarloaf Mountain with views across the entire city. After descending the mountain, you will be dropped off at your hotel. Please note this is a small group tour.
DAY 20: Rio Free day
Today is free to enjoy the rhythm of this vibrant, bustling city. From spotting the “beautiful people” on the legendary beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, to exploring the famous favelas on a tour there is always something to do in Rio.
DAY 21: Departure transfer from Rio de Janeiro
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Oracle Wins Partial Victory in School's Software Project Lawsuit
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Problems with the PeopleSoft system should be fixed next week, according to a Washington State University official
The first week of class at Washington State University has been a tumultuous one for students and parents who depend on financial aid, due to a software glitch in a recently installed Oracle PeopleSoft system.
Hundreds of students and parents, angry and frustrated over delayed financial aid disbursements, have been assailing school administrators this week in search of answers, according to published reports this week.
The problems stem from communication issues between the software's student financials and financial aid modules, said Casey Hanson, director of new media and communications for WSU Information Services, in an interview Thursday.
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Technicians are still working on the problem, Hanson said. The issues can also be attributed to the learning curve students and parents are facing while learning to use the system and its new processes, Hanson added.
Other factors played a role as well, such as the onrush of activity that accompanies the beginning of a semester, and "severe" budget cuts suffered of late by the school, according to Hanson. The latter has meant fewer staffers are available to help students and parents work with the system. "We're doing more with less," Hanson said. "It's kind of a perfect storm with all these items."
The system, which cost roughly US$15 million, is called Zzusis. The student financials module was the last phase of the project and went live recently. It and other parts of Zzusis replace a series of legacy student-information software systems at the school, which has more than 26,000 students and is located in Pullman.
While the system was tested before the final go-live, "probably more would have been better," Hanson said.
There haven't been any issues with system hardware or stability, according to Hanson. "It's very stable as far as being up and operational."
Oracle, which issued a press release in 2010 concerning its deal with WSU, served as the project's systems integrator, according to Hanson. Oracle spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger declined comment.
WSU is making progress with Zzusis' issues, and more than half of the financial aid due students has been disbursed, Hanson said. The problems could be resolved by next week, she added. "That's our expectation and our hope."
The school's issues "probably have little to do with budget," said Michael Krigsman, CEO of IT consulting firm Asuret and an expert on software project problems. "These project characteristics suggest an organization that was ill-prepared to handle the scope and depth of this project. In simple terms, it sounds like the university got in over its head."
Overall, WSU's problems don't appear as severe as the ones allegedly afflicting a PeopleSoft system being implemented at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Alleged problems with that project led the school to sue Oracle, prompting an ugly, public dispute.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com
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Anthropomimetic Machines
john February 7, 2011 1 Comment
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NASA ROBOTS
The Robotics technology has become highly advanced to such a level that even people who have routine jobs [in industries] are replaced by robots. Though the initial cost of such robots may be high, the overall gain will be huge when compared to manual labour. To us, robots are just machines with two arms and two legs which are connected together by nuts and bolts.
Just when we were thinking that the robots were restricted to a routine job, came the invention of a new class which could even respond mentally. Today, we are going to discuss about such a class, usually referred to as Anthropomimetic Machines.
What is an Anthropomimetic Machine?
An anthropomimetic robot is a machine that can exhibit almost all kinds of human behaviour. By human behaviour, we do not mean only the external behaviour, but also internal. That is, the robot can react and act accordingly to different stimuli like human beings. Thus, this technology is sure to reduce the gap between humans and robots.
Working of Anthropomimetic Machines
External Behaviour
For a robot to have an efficient movement and flexibility, it is necessary that the make of it should be of high standards. Thus, an Anthropomimetic Machine is made up of a material called thermoplastic polymer as it is the best material for making artificial skeletons. This material is special as it turns to liquid in a hot state and will return to a glassy state when it is cooled. Such a material is used as they mould into a desired shape after they melt and later freeze. With this method, the robot can easily attain all the degrees of freedom [DOF] easily.
The human body has tendons which are used to connect between the bones and the muscles. In a similar fashion the thermoplastic polymer acts as the robot’s tendons and corresponds to the muscles and kitelines of the robot’s body. Thus, the thermoplastic polymer can be defined as an actuator which helps in attaining all the degrees of freedom [DOF] for the robot.
The above explanation clearly defines the external appearance and movement of the robot. Now, let us discuss the internal characteristics.
Internal Characteristics
By internal behaviour, we mean that the robot will be able to respond to different stimuli like a human being. This can be done only by creating some basic cognitive characteristics.
For instance, if the robot has stepped on something that is not stable for it, the robot has to do the necessary corrections. This can be done only with the help of some rudimentary sensory-motor controls. Through this control, the motor will start developing ways to develop some form of intelligence. The memory will be developed in its course that after a while when the robot faces a similar obstacle, it will remember the previous incident and do the necessary steps for its survival.
About CRONOS
CRONOS is an advanced version of an anthropomimetic machine which was developed to create an illusion of interacting with humans. It was developed by Rob Knight and Owen Holland for the Machine Consciousness Lab run by the universities of Bristol and Sussex. For the full scale version of this robot, the anthropomimetic machine had to be upgraded with many computers and other sensors.
The researchers at the Essex Campus of Bristol University explained that CRONOS was a prototype actually used for the design study used for investigating materials, actuators, joints, and morphology. After developing the prototype successfully, they built a second version with a much more stable skeletal structure ad high power motors, called CRONOS 2. This robot can not only imitate the motions and stimulations of a human but can also imitate the actual external appearance of a human.
Cronos Robot
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The structure of such a system is perfect that it can easily attain 42 degrees of freedom [DOF] with the help of elastically driven actuators.
CRONOS was made from nothing else but common elements like nuts, bolts, screws, actuators and so on. But CRONOS 2 was a little more advanced as the skeletal structure had to be made stronger. Thus, they made it out of thermoplastic polymorph, tendons of kiteline and so on. The muscles were designed and powered with the help of actuated screwdriver motors. The flexible joints of the muscle and bones were made out of bungee cord. These changes from the prototype to CRONOS 2 made it more identical to an actual human being, when referred to the shape and size.
Future of Anthropomimetic Robots
All these efforts were done to somehow integrating robots into human society. Anthropomimetic Robots and its versions may have succeeded in imitating and responding to human beings with the help of multiple computers and other devices. But, with major funding and research, this idea can be taken to the next level, where all the works that a human does can be done by a robot as well.
When a certain technology is innovated, they will be used for only two basic purposes. They are – good or evil. The good thing about such machines is that they can be replaced for existing technologies like ATM’s, advanced computing processes, and so on. They can also be used for bomb removal purposes. But, the bad thing is that they can replace human jobs like library assistants, grocery checkout clerks and so on. Though the researchers developed such a robot to integrate with a society, only time can tell how bad the technology can get.
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I thought the article was interesting. I am now sitting in Starbucks and was thinking how full it would be if all the robots working – sorry I mean human beings working – were on the other side of the counter. I think we have to keep the humans working. A full Starbucks would be no good as there would be no seats.
I still think there is a possible place for robots. I need someone to pass the remote control…
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We are increasing the size of our Secondary faculty, while maintaining the size of our student body, thus creating a one-off opportunity for qualified teachers to join CIS in 2018-19, 2019-20 or 2020-21. The goal is to increase the teacher-to-student ratio and create greater opportunity for vibrant student-teacher interaction and learning, both in and out of the classroom.
There will be a net gain of fifteen Secondary teacher positions over a three-year period. Teachers in virtually all subject areas will be hired, with some flexibility in the timing of when positions will be filled. Teachers interested in joining our dynamic Secondary learning community in 2018-19, 2019-20 or 2020-21 are therefore encouraged to apply or inquire at their earliest convenience.
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CIS staff members represent twenty nationalities, and about one-quarter have served at the school for more than ten years. All teachers and administrators are professionally qualified, with many holding postgraduate degrees.
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CIS seeks dynamic and collaborative teachers who have the ability and desire to work in a dual-language environment. CIS offers competitive compensation and comprehensive professional development.
CIS faculty are sought not only for their subject-specific expertise, but also for their dedication to teaching, their diverse talents and interests and their ability to support co-curricular activities.
Previous experience at institutions offering dual-language or International Baccalaureate programs is generally considered advantageous.
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In Hong Kong, teachers and staff enjoy an extremely exciting, convenient and safe urban lifestyle that is rich in its array of culinary, cultural, sporting and travel options.
Hong Kong is unsurpassed as a major metropolis when it comes to personal safety and ease of transportation. Also of note are Hong Kong's extensive and spectacular green areas, which include the Braemar Hill country park area immediately adjacent to the school, as well as the city's easy air access to travel destinations throughout the region.
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We are looking for an experienced, passionate and creative Programme Manager, committed to championing diversity & inclusion, to join our small and ambitious team to lead the delivery of our Inclusive Pillar programmes. This is a key role within our growing organisation, reporting into the Senior Programme Manager, and will play an instrumental role in the on-going success of our Programme work.
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Our current two-year strategy for our Inclusive Pillar aims to raise awareness and inspire action on Social Mobility in the City. The two-year strategy was developed in conjunction with our Senior Leadership Forum, which is made up of senior business leaders within the City of London and will run from 2019 – 2021.
The strategy aims to raise awareness of social mobility and the challenges faced by those from lower-socio economic backgrounds in the City, and inspire businesses to act to support the recruitment, retention and growth of those individuals within their organisations.
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Location: Guildhall, London
Closing date: Monday 27th January at 9.00am
Interviews: First round interviews will be held during the week of 3rd February in London
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Tags: Project Management
Head of Humanitarian Technical and Partner Support
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Starting Salary: £48,229 - £50,158 p.a.
The Head of Humanitarian Technical and Partner Support (HHTPS) is a dynamic role which is central to the effective development, coordination and delivery of CAFOD’s humanitarian work. The post holder is a member of the International Programmes Leadership Group (IPLG) and the Emergency Response Group Management Team (ERGMT), working with these colleagues on the vision, direction and delivery of our humanitarian mandate, strategy and corporate strategy. A primary part of the role will be to ensure close and integrated working with the International Development Group (IDG) and Advocacy and Education Group (AEG).
The Head of Humanitarian Technical Response and Partner Support (HHTPS) will hold responsibility, along with other technical support functions within the International Programme, for the oversight and management of five key areas of integrated work: (a) Emergency Response Team; (b) Thematic Support (WASH, Protection, DRR) and humanitarian learning; (c) Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening (d) Programme Quality (e) Safe Accessible Dignified and Inclusive Programming (Protection).
The post holder along with other members of ERGMT will be expected to deputise for the Head of Emergency Response Group as needed. The HHTPS will prioritise relationships with the following functions within CAFOD:
The Emergency Response Group (ERG) - particularly with the Humanitarian Programmes and Global Support Team, Humanitarian Policy Team, Humanitarian Funding and Cooperation Team and the Emergency Response Group Management Team (ERGMT).
Members of the International Programme Leadership Group (IPLG)
The International Development Group (IDG) and Advocacy and Education Group (AEG) - work closely with the relevant post holders to ensure humanitarian strategy is integrated across all programmes and to facilitate effective responses, support recovery and enable long-term sustainability. This includes the Heads of Region, and programme staff across regions.
Organisational Performance and Governance Team, working on the implementation and measures for Our Common Home
Safeguarding advisors.
Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Management
Manage the ERT global response capacity, ensuring capacities are effectively utilised and deployed across global programmes (this involves shared management during deployments of staff).
Working closely with the Humanitarian Programmes and Global Support Team (HGT), to ensure: support to the Head of Regions and regional teams is provided; CAFOD has the necessary capacity to meet the management, logistical and technical requirements of any humanitarian programme undertaken; effective coordination of CAFOD's response in the immediate term. This will involve ensuring there are diverse skills within the team, a robust training programme is in place and possibly drawing on ad hoc external support if needed.
Develop CAFOD’s corporate/cross organisation surge capacity, drawing on skills and capacities from across the organisation during times of major emergency.
Deliver on a model of sharing joint capacities with Trocaire, Catholic Relief Services, Caritas Australia, Caritas Norway and other Caritas agencies as appropriate.
Provide support to Caritas Internationalis and CI coordination mechanisms.
Thematic Support (WASH, Protection, DRR/Resilience, Cash) and humanitarian learning
Working with International Development Group (IDG), provide leadership in further developing an integrated model of working in the areas of WASH, Protection and DRR.
Oversee the development of the strategic lead in the area of WASH and linkage with Caritas Internationalis. Continue to help lead Caritas Working Group on WASH.
Oversee the Caritas Interagency shared working model the areas of DRR and Protection.
The post holder will provide support to the HHPS and across ERG to ensure that learning, knowledge of innovative models of programming and ways of working are captured and disseminated within CAFOD.
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening
Work with the Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Manager and team to ensure the effective development and delivery of CAFOD’s capacity strengthening programme
Work across groups and with Caritas sister agencies to develop and provide integrated support for strengthening partner capacity
Oversee the strategic direction and long-term funding models for humanitarian capacity strengthening
Ensure linkages with and liaise with core capacity strengthening networks and joint programmes
Work with colleagues in further developing localisation models and representing southern capacity.
Programme Quality
Work closely with International Programmes managers, the International Programme Accompanier and programme staff to develop and disseminate guidance and resources for programme quality
Contribute to the development and adaptation of CAFOD systems and processes to support programme quality
Collaboratively develop and disseminate MEAL guidance and to provide training and practical support to programmes to improve their MEAL
Provide leadership in the delivery of and compliance with CHS, IATI and Caritas Internationalis Management Standards CIMS.
Work with Organisational Performance and Governance in the delivery and evidencing of Our Common Home
Safe Accessible Dignified and Inclusive (SADI) Programming
Promote and support the implementation of the SADI framework in CAFOD programmes
Provide leadership and support to the Protection Mainstreaming Working Group Coordinator and ensure a streamlined approach for the PMWG and SADI
Engage in protection mainstreaming, accountability and inclusion discussions and sector-wide initiatives and to disseminate within CAFOD
Manage staff in the UK and various international locations, in accordance with CAFOD’s people framework, and support their continual learning to ensure CAFOD can respond effectively to emergencies.
Provide leadership and support to those within direct line of responsibility; acting as a sounding board and holding them to account in areas under their responsibility, including their own line management responsibilities.
Enable and empower managers and staff within the region to achieve the maximum possible with the available resources, ensuring CAFOD’s organisational outcomes and management standards are achieved.
Work with Head of Emergency Response Group (HERG) and where necessary deputise on areas of external strategic engagement.
Ensure that CAFOD’s distinctive approach, rooted in the Catholic Community in England and Wales, is represented externally. In particular, the post holder will pro-actively engage where appropriate with UK and European networks and manage key areas of engagement (e.g. Caritas, ALNAP, Start Network).
Engage with counterparts in civil society organisations (particularly sister agencies), to promote humanitarian aid effectiveness, challenge models of working were appropriate, encourage consortia and multi-country approaches and prompt and support country/sub-regional-level initiatives.
To prioritise working with strategic and new networks.
All posts in this department will be involved in providing emergency response capacity, usually in the form of short-term leadership, management, coordination or support to a wide range of new and ongoing humanitarian crises. These posts are likely to have contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults in communities in a humanitarian aid setting.
This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, and has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Understanding Catholic identity: Demonstrates a sympathetic understanding of the beliefs and practices of the Catholic church.
Understanding CAFOD: Actively supports CAFOD’s vision, mission and values and what we aim to achieve. Maintaining a commitment to CAFOD’s partnership approach; understands the complexities of delivering programmes through partnership.
Understanding international development: Commitment to and significant experience of working with humanitarian standards and best practice (e.g. Humanitarian Charter, SPHERE, Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, HAP); Considers diversity issues in humanitarian work; Experience of working and liaising with international bodies and consortium (Caritas, DFID, EU and UK NGOs).
Managing ourselves: Sets an example in what can be achieved. Self-supporting IT skills.
Working with others: Able to engage with and influence colleagues including cross departmentally.
Communicating: Fluent in written and spoken English; can communicate complex ideas simply; seeks to motivate and inspire others; encourages team reflection and discussion; confronts conflict and disagreement to reach a satisfactory outcome.
Looking outwards: Experience of working and liaising with international bodies and consortium (Donor organisations, Partner Organisations and NGO networks).
Managing resources: Demonstrates good management practice; Proven financial management skills (financial controls, budgets, forecasts, audits etc).
Achieving results: provides a clear sense of purpose and priorities to ensure focus on results; creates contingency plans in case problems are encountered.
Managing our performance: Ensures downward accountability in humanitarian work; able to collate, analyse and disseminate programme results for learning.
Taking the lead: Works collaboratively with other leaders in CAFOD; Able to motivate others to get things done.
Job-specific competencies
Educated to degree level in a relevant area or equivalent thematic understanding through experience. Particular working knowledge of accountability, protection and capacity development would be an asset.
Experience in strategy development, planning processes, implementation, reporting and contingency planning.
Demonstrated experience of humanitarian response management in a range of contexts and knowledge of development practice.
Able to travel for up to 2 weeks at a time several times a year sometimes at short notice.
Experience of working in and developing networks, consortia and international teams/alliances.
Desirable Criteria
Knowledge of other major language(s) such as French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic would be desirable.
Please click here for a full list of CAFOD’s Staff Benefits
Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.
CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
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Impact Programme and Regional Manager - Healthwatch
Grade B - £37,321 (National) per annum
Home Based: Choice of North East and Yorkshire; North West or Central England (East of England, West and East Midlands)
Closing Date Sunday 9th February 2020 - 11.59pm
*Proposed Interview date week commencing 24th February 2020 in Leeds
We are the independent champion for people who use health and social care services. We aim to help improve the quality of services by letting the government and those running services know what people want from care.
We also support a network of 150 local Healthwatch services to reach out to every section of the community and encourage more people to speak up.
Together, our work is resulting in big and small changes that are helping to make care better.
This is an exciting time to be part of Healthwatch England as we reshape our support offer to the 150 local Healthwatch across England.
Let us tell you a little bit about the role....
We are looking for an Impact and Regional Manager to lead a national programme helping local Healthwatch to demonstrate their impact and the importance of Healthwatch to a range of audiences. In addition, you will coordinate and deliver support to about 30 local Healthwatch within a designated region - one of a) North East and Yorkshire and Humber, b) North West or c) Central (West and East Midlands and East England).
You’ll work alongside other regional managers in the Network Development Team, supporting them to implement new national programmes including volunteering, campaigns, quality assurance, sustainability and collaboration in your designated region.
You’ll also be responsible for assisting Healthwatch in your region to be as effective as possible by acting as a critical friend and facilitating action plans against a new quality assurance framework.
What we're looking for from you....
We’re looking for someone who has good analytical skills with a thorough understanding of impact within the context of small voluntary organisations with an influencing role.
You’ll have an ability to lead a change programme that will support every Healthwatch to demonstrate how they make a difference and ensure the learning informs Healthwatch and Healthwatch England’s work.
Whilst working remotely, you’ll be good at collaborative working, as well as managing a range of stakeholder relationships, including local authority commissioners who fund local Healthwatch. You will be able to operate at senior level, advising on organisational effectiveness, have strong negotiation skills and manage competing priorities.
Closing date: 09 February 2020
Tags: Management,Volunteer Management
Head of Community & Challenge Events Fundraising
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Looking for an exciting opportunity to lead a successful fundraising team to achieve ambitious growth targets
Experienced in developing fundraising strategies to generate income using audience insight, innovation and supporter stewardship to maximise fundraising opportunities
Skilled at providing leadership within a team and across an organisation, working in collaboration to influence others to continually improve performance
Dementia UK has seen significant income growth over the last five years, with income more than trebling to a forecast of £10m by year-end 2020. The organisation is about to enter an ambitious new five year strategy with a focus on increasing dementia specialist Admiral Nursing support for families and strengthening our influencing role in dementia care.
The Community & Challenge Events team is a vital part of delivering the income needed to meet these strategic aims as well as contributing to the communications and marketing necessary to raise awareness of Dementia UK and Admiral Nursing.
A Head of Community & Challenge Event Fundraising is needed to lead a team of 16 (9 office based and 7 home based across the UK) with three direct reports, providing experienced leadership and focused on the challenge of achieving financial income targets whilst maintaining the values and culture of a services-led organisation. This role will require management skills to provide motivation to bring out the best performances at individual and team level.
The Head of Community & Challenge Events Fundraising will be a key contributor to achieving the 2020 - 2025 Fundraising strategy: focusing on using audience insight to develop an organisational supporter engagement programme, increasing brand awareness and effectiveness of messaging for fundraising and becoming a £15m charity by end 2025/26 to meet the organisational strategic aim of providing access to an Admiral Nurse to every family who needs one.
To apply, please complete the candidate questions and send these alongside your CV and cover letter.
Interview dates: 10th and 11th of February
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Tags: Fundraising,Management
Quality Assurance Programme and Regional Manager - Healthwatch
We are looking for a Quality Assurance and Regional Manager to lead a national programme helping local Healthwatch to demonstrate their effectiveness. In addition, you will coordinate and deliver support to about 30 local Healthwatch within a designated region - one of a) North East and Yorkshire and Humber, b) North West or c) Central (West and East Midlands and East England).
You’ll ensure our new team of Regional Managers consistently support implementation of the Framework across England for all 150 Healthwatch and that the evidence and learning is used to improve how Healthwatch work as well as inform Healthwatch England’s work and support offer to Healthwatch.
You’ll support your team members implement new programmes including volunteering, campaigns, impact, sustainability and collaboration in your designated region. You’ll act as a critical friend to senior leaders and help Healthwatch draw up improvement plans.
We’re looking for someone with a solid understanding of small voluntary organisations with experience of implementing a quality assurance scheme and helping organisations learn and improve.
You’ll have an ability to lead a change programme that will support every Healthwatch to demonstrate their effectiveness and ensure the learning informs Healthwatch and Healthwatch England’s work.
Whilst working remotely, you’ll be good at collaborative working, as well as managing a range of stakeholder relationships, including local authority commissioners who fund local Healthwatch.
You will be able to operate at senior level, advising on organisational effectiveness, have strong analytical and negotiation skills and manage competing priorities.
Tags: Business Development,Volunteer Management
Campaign Programme and Regional Manager - Healthwatch
*Proposed Interview date week commencing 24th February 2020 in London
We are looking for a Campaigns and Regional Manager to support participation by Healthwatch in national campaigns. You will also coordinate and deliver support to local Healthwatch within a designated region - one of a) North East and Yorkshire and Humber, b) North West or c) Central (West and East Midlands and East England).
You’ll be working closely with colleagues to design and implement national campaigns which seek to reach and involve Healthwatch, local people and community organisations as well as enable 150 Healthwatch to act collectively to achieve positive change in health and care.
You’ll work alongside other regional managers in the Network Development Team, supporting them to implement new national programmes including volunteering, impact, quality assurance, sustainability and collaboration in your designated region.
We’re looking for someone with a solid understanding of small voluntary organisations and who is comfortable with the mix that supports effective campaigns: communication and media; digital; partnerships and stakeholder relationships.
You’ll have an ability to lead a change programme that will support every Healthwatch to participate in national campaigns and ensure the learning informs Healthwatch and Healthwatch England’s work.
Tags: Campaigning
Head of People and Culture
This recruiter is scheduling interviews as the applications come in. So apply now!
Muslim Hands is a UK based international relief organisation working in over 40 countries worldwide. The Head Office in Nottingham and a fundraising team in Whitechapel London; occasional travel between the two locations. Muslim Hands UK is seeking an enthusiastic and passionate individual to join our team during an exciting period of growth and change as we have ambitious plans to grow our activities by 2020.
About the Role: [Role Overview]
Reporting directly to the Deputy CEO, this pivotal new role will drive culture change across the charity, ensuring our change programme is underpinned by a coherent, long-term and practical commitment to building all aspects of a modern, diverse, capable workforce. In this exciting and wide-ranging role, you will deliver our strategies.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a high calibre, big picture thinker with considerable experience of advising Chief Executives and Boards and whose experience combines both strategic and operational leadership ability. You will be skilled in driving and embedding organisational effectiveness and cultural change in line with organisational strategies. With a demonstrable track record of delivering strategic impact, your approach to leadership will embody five core leadership traits: academic, learning, adaptable, inclusive and trustworthy.
To act as the authoritative People Strategy adviser to Muslim Hands and, where necessary, supporting the CEO in engaging with Trustees and governance Committees on key People issues, risks and priorities.
To be a powerful advocate for Muslim Hands ambitions for workforce development and capability (paid and unpaid) by creating a visible personal leadership presence in all aspects of workforce development and culture change.
To devise and deliver a transformative and innovative people and cultural change strategy that aligns fully with our values and Muslim Hands Strategy and sets us apart as a great place to work.
Be an active, effective and accountable member of the organisation, exhibiting strong leadership, leading by example.
To establish the development of our organisational learning and development agenda.
To formulate credible proposals on all strategic considerations for our people and organisational culture – with a particular focus on increasing our equality, diversity and inclusion at all levels across the charity.
To coach the senior leadership team as necessary, ensuring expert support is put in place that drives high standards of leadership, talent development and employee engagement.
To create and lead a People and Culture function that is recognised and valued as a centre of excellence in delivering our strategic goals and organisational development priorities, offering relevant expertise and, proactively sharing insights that add value.
To ensure all contributions from the People and Culture team fully meets expectations including quality of People Policies, Talent acquisition, Compensation and Benefits. Specifically, Employee Relations and support to Senior Leadership roles.
To exhibit Muslim Hands core values.
To deliver and lead a People Strategy focused on culture change and organisational development intervention which creates a progressive, agile, dynamic workplace experience and environment for the future which enhances employee engagement and wellbeing.
To work with colleagues to identify the skills, knowledge, and capability and culture of Muslim Hands needs to deliver future plans.
To implement new talent management and wider learning programmes at all levels which align with our ambition to be a ‘learning organisation’, engaging our people to fulfil their potential, perform better and want to stay longer.
To keep under constant review the charity’s approach to pay, reward/recognition and benefits to ensure we attract, recognise and retain talented paid and unpaid colleagues who are committed to Muslim Hands mission.
To lead a department that provides an effective business-focused employee relations approach.
To lead the charity’s approach to performance management, focusing on inspiring, equipping, empowering and rewarding colleagues to meet and exceed expectations.
To ensure that paid and unpaid colleagues have access to appropriate support to maintain their personal wellbeing and maximise their contribution.
To ensure that all other people and volunteering policies and procedures are as robust and efficient as possible; are legally compliant, fit for purpose and take account of emerging external risk factors and support delivery of the Strategy.
To use data proactively to improve our organisational performance and encourage business-focused decisions.
To ensure meaningful people insight (including through regular Employee Opinion Surveys) is provided in order to assist the Chief Executive and SMT in decision making and planning.
To keep up to date with relevant Government policy proposals and legislation, and the best practice of relevant organisations, ensuring that the charity complies with legislation and adopts prevailing best practice wherever feasible.
To act as a professional role model that inspires, motivates and enthuses staff within the team and more widely across the charity, promoting a culture of learning, professionalism, collaboration and innovation, celebrating successes and encouraging ambition and achievement.
To demonstrate Muslim Hands’ values and ethics in own working practices, approach and conduct
To support with Fundraising activities from time-to-time, committing to partake in approximately 5-Live-TV-Appeals during our peak periods.
To undertake any reasonable responsibilities as required by Line Manager
To promote and adhere to all Muslim Hands Policies, Procedures and Professional Practices
Note: This job description will change from time to time due to changes within the Organisation as well as the updating procedures within your department. If there is a major change to your role then a new job description will be produced.
About the Successful Candidate:
Essential:
Ability to demonstrate current eligibility to work within the United Kingdom
Must be able to either:
(A) Provide a valid Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate (issued within the last year) when requested by Muslim Hands;
(B) Undertake to provide full cooperation for Muslim Hands to perform a DBS Check at the required level appropriate for this / similar role.
Uphold Muslim Hands’ Organisational Values
Hold a relevant Postgraduate or Master’s degree in Human Resources Management or equivalent (Level 7) with proof of Suitable HR related experience
7+ years' experience in HR, with a minimum of 3 years' experience in team management / in a senior leadership role
Expertise in Employee Relations, Employment Legislation, Policy and Procedure and the ability to recruit and train new staff and instil highest standards amongst new employees
Thorough knowledge and understanding of current UK Employment Law
Extremely confident communicator with the ability to easily build relationships, rapport and trust with all types of people at all levels of the organisation.
Experience in leading a People Operations or Human Resources functions.
Previous experience of leading operational change programmes within a HR environment
Ability to work collaboratively with senior stakeholders and programme leads to deliver results on time, on budget and to high standards.
Able to make connections across the organisation and provide support and challenge, working collaboratively across functions.
Associate member (or higher) of the CIPD with evidence of continuous personal development
Track record in developing and delivering HR/ People and Culture strategy and of advising HR managers and senior staff
Previous experience of working closely with an Exec Board member, delivering clear communications on their behalf.
Working knowledge and experience within a similar Role
Working knowledge and experience of working within an International NGO
This role would suit someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment and who enjoys facing challenges; often working to tight deadlines.
This is a very rewarding position for the right person. If you feel this is you please send your CV with a cover letter explaining why you feel you are suitable quoting the above reference number!!
Deadline for applications is Friday, 14th February 2020, however, we reserve the right to end the application procedure early should the right candidate be found.
NB: Unfortunately, we will only be able to contact successful candidates so if you have not heard from us by the closure date unfortunately your application will have been unsuccessful.
Vacancy Reference Number:
HPC/PC/UK-R1
Position title:
Reports to:
Deputy CEO
Muslim Hands, 148 – 164 Gregory Boulevard, Gregory House, Nottingham, NG7 5JE
Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary guideline:
(Up to) £44,000.00 per annum (commensurate with experience)
Terms of Employment:
18-Months’ Fixed-Term Contract (with a 6-Month Probationary Period)
Application Process & Closing Date:
Send an up to date CV and supporting Covering Letter by Email by no later than Friday, 14th February 2020
Approx. Interview & Role Commencement Date(s):
Interviews: W/C 24th February 2020
Start: ASAP thereafter
Note: Strong Applicants may be contacted sooner, ahead of the closing date, to hold a Skype Interview with Muslim Hands; therefore, please include your Skype ID in your application.
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Tags: Human Resources,Senior Management
Head of Grants Programme
The British Science Association’s vision is for science to be seen as a fundamental part of culture and society. We work with the public, educational and stakeholder audiences to change their relationship to science.
Full time (Requests for flexible or part-time working will be considered)
£36,934 to £47,022 p.a
We are looking to appoint a Head of Grants Programme to design, launch and lead a brand new programme to support engagement with health research. You would develop a vision and strategy for the new programme, driving buy-in from stakeholders, developing the team and designing the processes to deliver the programme.
You need to be a self-starter with experience of leading and delivering user-centred social change programmes, and engaging with disadvantaged, or under-represented groups. Experience of health engagement, science engagement or grant making is essential. You must have strong project management experience and a proven ability to manage and motivate a team.
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 10th February 2020
Interviews due to take place 18th / 19th February 2020
To Apply and for More Information:
If you would like to apply and find out more about this position, please click the apply button to be directed to our website.
No agencies please.
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Tags: Senior Management,Business Development
Head of Workplace & Community Programmes
Are you a hands-on, strategic and engaging leader with expert knowledge of issues relating to money management and personal finance gained from significant experience working in the financial capability sector? If so, we want to work with you.
Reporting to the CEO, you will have strategic and operational responsibility for The Money Charity’s work with adults in a range of community and workplace settings, developing and delivering a portfolio of programmes, products and initiatives that impact on financial capability for this group, including financial educational workshops and producing our Money Manual.
Additionally, the post holder be a member of the Senior Management Team, working collaboratively with the CEO, trustees and other senior leaders to develop and implement The Money Charity’s mission, vision and values, as well as leading on consultancy work across the organisation.
To succeed in this role, you will need strong leadership and programme management skills, commercial acumen and experience of managing a budget, along with a flexible, organised approach to your work. This is an exciting, varied role which provides a unique opportunity to impact on the financial wellbeing of individuals.
Please note a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check is required for this post.
For over 25 years, the Money Charity has been the UK’s financial capability charity. We proactively provide education, information, advice and guidance to people of all ages, helping them to manage their money well and increase their financial wellbeing. We believe that being on top of your money as a part of everyday life reduces stress and hardship, helps you achieve your goals and live a happier life as a result, so we empower people across the UK to build the skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours to make the most of their money throughout their lives. We aim to change the culture around financial wellbeing by working with the financial services industry to improve practices and outcomes for their consumers, and influencing policy-makers, media, industry and public attitudes.
We’re a small, passionate team with a big reach and an open mind, committed to quality, accessibility and inclusiveness. We offer a flexible work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration. As well as competitive salary, we provide 25 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank and Public holidays and any closure days that may or may not take place between Christmas and the New Year; a flexible annual leave scheme; 10% pension contribution; a healthcare cash plan and enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay. Out-of-pocket expenses will be reimbursed when incurred in accordance with our expenses policy.
To apply, please email your CV and a supporting statement of no more than two sides of A4 to with “Head of Workplace & Community Programmes” in the subject line.
When writing your supporting statement, you should focus on providing evidence and specific examples that demonstrate how you meet the person specification and your suitability for the role. We value transferable skills and encourage applicants who do not have direct experience to provide examples from other areas that meet the requirements.
Please ensure that you provide a phone number and email address so that we can contact you easily, and in confidence.
Closing date: 10.00 on Friday 31 January 2020.
Interviews: Week commencing 3 February 2020, exact dates and times to be arranged.
Unfortunately, we are unable to respond individually to applications so if you have not heard from us by the advertised shortlisting and/or interview date(s), this means your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. Feedback will be given upon request to candidates who attend interview.
For further information, or if you have any questions about the role or our recruitment process please contact us via the jobs section of our website.
Please note we do not accept agencies or recruitment sites.
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Head of Philanthropic and Partnership Development
Salary: circa £48,000
Base: Edinburgh
Hours: Permanent. The working week will be 35 hours with core working hours between 10am and 3pm, Monday to Friday with a one-hour lunch break. A flexible working policy is offered. The office will be open from 7am – 7pm daily.
Benefits: Pension scheme with a 10% employer contribution. 33 days paid holiday annually plus four public holidays as paid leave days each year over Christmas and New Year. A cycle to work scheme is available.
Are you looking to progress your career and step up into a similar, but bigger role? Do you have the ambition to take on a new challenge with the opportunity to mould your team and in time progress to director level? If the answer is yes, then we want to hear from you.
Who are we? Worldwide Cancer Research is a small charity with immense ambition - to see a day where no life is cut short by cancer. To bring that day closer the charity is growing.
What do we do? We find and fund bold ideas at the start of the cancer research journey all over the world. Kick-starting the life-saving advances of the future by sowing the seeds of new discoveries today. Funding brand new ideas and supporting researchers who ask big, challenging, new questions about how cancer works and how we can control it.
Being a small charity with currently 40 employees allows us to be open, honest and personal with our supporters. Everyone who works for this charity plays a significant role – without them we wouldn’t exist. If you want to speak to the CEO, you can. If you want to speak to the research team, you can. If you want to share your story, there will always be someone to listen.
If you have significant experience leading a partnership fundraising or business development team and are looking to step up into a bigger role with scope to progress to director level, this could be your next career move. If you have the ambition to take on a new challenge with the opportunity to mould your team and grow an entirely new income stream, then we want to hear from you.
Reporting to the Director of Supporter Experience, you will take a creative, bold and focused approach to leading on all aspects of Corporate, Trusts and Foundations and High Value fundraising activity. Partnerships & Philanthropy forms an essential pillar of our new fundraising strategy and the charity has committed to investment in this area towards our goal of ’20 by 30’ - £20 million of research grants annually by 2030.
As you build the team, you’ll be working hands-on, forming relationships to raise awareness of Worldwide Cancer Research, secure mutually beneficial partnerships, and ultimately realise substantial growth in research funding. Through development and implementation of the Philanthropic and Partnership strategy you will help us find and fund even more bold ideas that could conquer cancer. So, if you’re up for the challenge we can’t wait to see your C.V.
Please email your tailored CV (no more than two pages) and covering letter outlining your suitability for this role.
Closing date is Monday 27 January 2020.
Interviews will be held in Edinburgh 12 and 14 February 2020.
Please note your covering letter will be key to the success of your application.
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Tags: Fundraising,Senior Management
Head of Income
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About The House of St Barnabas
The House of St Barnabas (HoSB) is a charity pledging to break the cycle of homelessness. We run our members’ club in our Grade I listed home on Soho Square to help people prosper through paid employment, allowing them to break their cycle of homelessness. We are seeking to re-define the notion of a private members’ club, challenging stereotypes around ideas of exclusivity and creating a community united by a passion for social change.
We are looking for a proven fundraiser to develop and implement our income strategy and strengthen our income forecasting systems. You will be joining us at an exciting time, with a new CEO in place and an ambitious five-year strategy. To underpin our goals, we aim to grow our income from £2.1m to £3m by 2025. You will work closely with senior staff and colleagues across the organisation to build on our current fundraising track record and maximise and manage this income growth. You will lead a team of four and have the opportunity to shape and develop their skills.
How to apply: Please click on apply and follow the application instructions
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Head of Programmes and Development
Are you a Communications professional with a passion to bring out the best in today's youth and their communities?
Prospectus is thrilled to be working exclusively with Youth Business International, who have already supported over 95,000 young people across the globe to start or grow a business. They do this by delivering a range of practical entrepreneurship support services such as guiding a young person to register a new business and improve their bookkeeping skills to helping them write a business plan or grow their fledgling business through facilitating access to finance. They are now looking for a Head of Programmes and Development to manage an exciting portfolio of international programmes with a range of donors as well as seek funding from potential new partners.
The overall purpose of the role is to develop and implement a programme strategy which includes managing a high-performing team, ensuring consistency across current programmes and rolling out new offerings. You will maintain an oversight of programme quality with ultimate responsibility for ensuring consistent programme delivery to time, budget and to drive high quality delivery and continuous programme improvements. This role also requires you to lead and support the development of new proposals to secure new relationships, manage stakeholders and identify new opportunities for growth.
To be successful as a Head of Programmes and Development, you will have extensive experience managing programmes, teams and budgets. You will have knowledge of business planning processes, experience with donor management and driving collaboration to deliver regional and national impact. Having worked previously in an international setting, you will be able to work with diverse and geographically distributed stakeholders. Experience managing youth/entrepreneurship support programmes is considered a bonus.
A full job description will be provided to candidates shortlisted by Prospectus.
Please apply with a Word Document copy of your CV. Cover letters are not required at this stage.
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Programme Manager - (Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Fragile Contexts)
Contract, Temporary, Full-time
Our head office in Birmingham, UK is currently recruiting for the exciting position of ‘Programme Manager - Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding in Fragile Contexts’. The purpose of the role is to lead and manage a programme funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) on conflict prevention and peacebuilding in Kenya, Pakistan and , Philippines. The PM-CPPFC will be responsible for managing the project implementation over the course of 15 months till the end of the project duration, ensuring that project deliverables and results are being achieved effectively and efficiently. The incumbent will be responsible for assuring that the project is implemented within the agreed scope of work and in compliance with SIDA’s regulations and within IRW’s policies and processes. He/she will work with a range of stakeholders namely conflict advisors, academia, IRW country offices and MEL specialists.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced project manager who would like to be part of an exciting humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus programme.
Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organisation, serving humanity for over 35 years. With an active presence in over 40 countries, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those effected by poverty, conflicts or natural disasters
Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy, and seeks individuals who are sympathetic to the IR values of; Sincerity, Excellence, Compassion, Social Justice and Custodianship together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct. If you would like to be a part of an organisation striving to make a difference in the world and are looking for a meaningful career, we will be glad to hear from you.
Please Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Interviews are expected to take place mid-late February.
Pre-employment checks:
Any employment with Islamic Relief will be subject to the following checks:
screening clearance
proof of eligibility to live and work within the UK
receipt of satisfactory references
For UK based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.
Islamic Relief is an equal opportunities employer
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Academic Programmes Coordinator
The Programme Management team works to ensure a first class participant experience of, and interaction with, the administrative elements of the Frontline programme. The team supports the teaching team and participants to maximise their learning experience, and works closely with a range of other teams across the organisation to champion and provide excellent support to participants.
The Academic Programmes Coordinator will work as part of this team and will be required to be flexible and adaptable to respond to diverse requirements throughout the academic year. The post holder will be required to maintain a high standard of customer service throughout, particularly at peak periods, in order to help facilitate the exceptional Participant experience the team contributes to. They will be required to develop effective working relationships with a variety of teams and departments across the organisation and partner providers.
We are looking for someone who is active and committed to the values of Frontline, has a ‘can do’ attitude; is highly numerate and organised, with excellent attention to detail. Experience of working within a higher education environment is desirable.
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Deputy Director and Head of Programmes
Position: Deputy Director and Head of Programmes
Contract type: Full time, one-year contract with potential extension
Reporting to: Executive Director
Salary range: £35,000-42,000 (depending upon experience)
Refugee Rights Europe (RRE) is an advocacy organisation defending the human rights and dignity of refugees and asylum seekers in Europe. We work collaboratively with grassroots organisations and national level civil society in the UK, France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and the Balkans, in order to hold decision-makers to account. We call on the EU institutions and national governments to ensure universal human rights are secured for individuals seeking protection in Europe.
RRE is recruiting for a Deputy Director and Head of Programmes to join our team in London, UK (with the possibility of discussing flexible working arrangements). The Deputy Director and Head of Programmes leads on organisational advocacy, including the delivery of projects and activities at EU, UN and national levels. The role works with the Executive Director to develop and maintain the organisation’s position and its issues across Europe, and deputises for the Executive Director as needed. S/he recommends modifications to, and ensures compliance with, existing organisational policy and strategy.
The Deputy Director and Head of Programmes oversees the organisation’s projects and programmes carried out by regional staff in various European locations, including staff management and budgeting. S/he inspires the development of innovative and creative and collaborative advocacy campaigns, driving core elements of our external positioning in support of the organisation’s strategic objectives. S/he represents the organisation in both formal and ad hoc advocacy contexts, with parliamentarians, policy makers and other key stakeholders, if/as required.
Programme and Staff Management
Line-manages regional staff and oversees European programme activities aimed at fostering collaborative work with partner organisations, which includes the coordination of joint advocacy activities, the creation of advocacy tools, and the production of ground update reports.
Line-manages and acts as a resource and sounding board for the EU and UN Advocacy and Policy Manager, ensuring that advocacy work at the EU and UN levels is aligned with RRE’s yearly strategy and any external policy developments.
Ensures that planned programme activities are compliant with finance policies and funder commitments.
Strategic Development and Representation
Alongside the Executive Director, develops and maintains the organisation’s position and its issues across Europe, updating RRE’s advocacy strategy in accordance with European policy developments.
Represents RRE at UN, EU and national level policy events in RRE’s focus countries, as well as at conferences, workshops and meetings, if/as required.
Advocacy, Policy and Research
Oversees the monitoring of the policy landscape at EU and UN levels, as well as the national levels in RRE’s focus countries.
Leads on organisational advocacy, including the delivery of advocacy projects and activities at EU, UN and national levels.
Coordinates and oversees the drafting of evidence submissions to national, EU and UN level mechanisms.
Ensures quality control of external facing communications and products, including research reports, website, blogs, etc.
Oversees staff and volunteers who operate RRE’s social media channels and blog platform, and regularly reviews RRE’s approach to social media to ensure effective social media engagement.
Leads RRE’s monthly review process, aimed at documenting achievements and impact.
Acts as point of contact for RRE’s group of Advisors and pool of researchers, ensuring regular updates and effective ongoing communications.
Contributes towards regular submissions to the Board of Directors on progress of RRE’s advocacy and programmatic work.
Supports the Executive Director in the recruitment of staff, if and as required.
Oversees the maintenance and development of the Salesforce contacts database, Dropbox filing system and other internal systems and processes.
Carries out any other tasks, as required and reasonably requested.
A resilient leader, who embraces complexity and uncertainty, and with substantive staff management experience.
Demonstrable experience managing complex grant budgets for a non-profit organisation.
A strategic, innovative and creative thinker with the ability to deliver tangible results.
A keen policy 'savviness' and a solid understanding of how to achieve ambitious policy change, preferably with a demonstrable track-record.
A track record of leading campaigning and advocacy initiatives, through parliamentary advocacy, private diplomacy, mobilising constituencies, working with diverse partners and/or using the media, at international, EU and/or and national level.
Excellent levels of personal organisation, ability to manage a varied workload, and strong attention to detail.
A strong ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across functions and levels of seniority.
Excellent writing and communication skills in English, and the ability to translate complex material into coherent and effective narratives.
Excellent interpersonal skills and strengths in dealing with varied stakeholders ranging from grass-roots groups to policy-makers.
Knowledge of major trends and current issues relating to asylum and migration in policy and human rights contexts across Europe.
A thorough and demonstrable understanding of multilateral political institutions and processes (UN, EU, Council of Europe).
Experience of working in networks and building strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
Experience of monitoring and evaluating advocacy activities for impact.
Good understanding of social media for outreach.
Knowledge of French / Greek / Italian or other European languages.
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'The Bachelor' week six: The night nearly half the cast went home
By Lisa Bonos, Garrett Schlichte and Maura Judkis
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Colton Underwood, second from left, searches for love on "The Bachelor." (Rick Rowell/ABC)
Finally, Kirpa gets her moment. Rejoice.
After weeks of virtually no screen time, the 26-year-old dental hygienist from Whittier, California, gets a one-on-one with Colton in Vietnam. They hunt for urchins and then sample fresh uni on the boat. Kirpa spears that urchin with the precision of someone who's been patiently waiting for this for weeks. Because she has.
Not one time did she stoop to begging for a one-on-one, as often happens when someone feels they deserve more time. Begging gets you kicked off; it doesn't get you that precious time.
Kirpa has been this season's sleeper fan favorite. Last week, for example, the internet really wanted to know what had happened to her chin. (She appeared with a mysterious bandage but no footage of how she was injured. The day after the episode aired, ABC followed up by releasing a deleted scene that explained she slipped on a rock while taking a selfie.)
On this one-on-one, we learn that Kirpa can rock a jumpsuit and that she was engaged as part of an eight-year-long relationship. She divulges that her fiance had something in common with Colton: He was also a virgin. Eight years! So she understands why Colton wants to wait, and she's been that one patiently waiting.
Although Kirpa and Colton don't seem to have much chemistry, it was heartening to see her finally get some time. She gets her rose and will move on.
The rest of the episode was remarkable for how many contestants departed. Let's break down each one.
The instigators
Every season of "The Bachelor" reaches a point where the hometown dates begin to approach, and the field of contestants needs to be narrowed. A point where the Bachelor and his ladies realize: If we haven't had a one-on-one date, it doesn't make sense to get parents involved.
This season, this was the episode.
We open in Thailand, where Colton is forlornly pacing the beach in dress shoes and a dark blue suit, mulling the remnants of last week's drama - Onyeka telling Colton that Nicole was only on the show because she needed to leave Miami, and Nicole firing back that Onyeka was bullying her. Neither accusation seems to have much weight behind it and so, unsurprisingly, Colton resolves the conflict by sending both women home. What follows is a rose ceremony that reinforced a "Bachelor" truism: Telling the lead that someone is on the show for the "wrong reasons" usually backfires on the messenger and her target.
Finally, some of the remaining contestants start to realize that not only are they attempting to find love amid dozens of other women - they are doing so on reality television. They are also realizing they might have already reached influencer status and can start making some Instagram money rather than remain on this show. Elyse left of her own volition last week, and this episode, it was Sydney, a 27-year-old NBA dancer from New York.
Watching Sydney awaken to this newfound awareness is reminiscent of another woman waking up in a game and attempting to plot her eventual escape. If "The Bachelor" were to cosplay "Westworld," Sydney would be Dolores. "Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Did you ever stop to wonder about your actions? The price you'd have to pay if there was a reckoning? That reckoning is here." That quote is from Season 2, episode 1 of "Westworld," but might as well serve as a stand-in for the speech Sydney gives Colton before escaping the maze that is this season of "The Bachelor."
If Sydney is Dolores, that would mean that Chris Harrison is Ford, the designer and controller of the game. If he doesn't act fast, he's going to have a much bigger problem on his hands than one wayward contestant. Just before her departure, Sydney informs Colton that - gasp! - some of the women left might not be ready for marriage but are ready to up their Instagram followers. In the same way that Dolores convinces Teddy to join her cause, Sydney tries to get Colton on her side, even as she's leaving. "There are some really wonderful people in that group," she tells him. "Find out who they are. Don't get distracted by shiny things."
It looks like Colton actually understands what she is saying and takes it to heart. Unlike previous seasons, where the women turn on each other in an effort to make the Bachelor understand that their competitors aren't there for the right reasons, this bunch may have just cracked the code by not naming names and leaving Colton to find out the truth for himself.
It was tough to watch Sydney walk away from Colton, if only because we had just started to root for her. The only solace in her departure is that she will join the strong and mighty ranks of previous "Bachelor" contestants who have decided to take their fate out of the producers' hands and write the end of the story themselves.
The manipulator
Demi is a "Bachelor" supervillain, combining elements of many of that role's previous titleholders: She has the helpless sexy baby shtick of Corinne Olympios, the feigned sweetness of Krystal Nielson, the take-no-prisoners assertiveness of Courtney Robertson. Demi knows how to play the game in a way that should guarantee herself a ticket to "Paradise": We stan a not-here-to-make-friends queen.
So, after weeks of picking random petty fights; being the first to koala-jump Colton on group dates (you know - the move all the women do when they run up to him and wrap their legs around his waist like a koala on a tree); blithely ignoring last week's foraging challenge to go get a hamburger; and calling women over the age of 27 "old"; we knew that Demi's failure to get a group date would send her mischief-making into overdrive.
But Demi's motto is: Be the one-on-one date you wish to see in the world. If she wasn't going to be handed a chance for some solo time with Colton, she would create it herself. Her first play was a brilliant one: On a group date, she told Mr. Open-and-Honest that she wanted to call her mom with him, now that her mom was finally out of prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Even though she was bewilderingly allowed to break a cardinal "Bachelor" rule of no contact with your family until hometowns, it was really sweet, and it showed the audience a new side of her. "I'm happy you're working on yourself," she told her mother on the brief call. Colton told Demi's mom that she had raised a wonderful daughter, and he seemed warm throughout the conversation.
But then, after Kirpa came home with a rose, we saw Demi putting on her special Machiavellian lip gloss and we knew: Girl was about to start some trouble. She marched over to Colton's room with the stated intention of taking his virginity. When she got there, she told him she was falling in love with him.
Readers, we must apologize for underestimating Colton. Our sweet football goon, it turns out, saw through Demi's nonsense all along. He sent her home! He knew she was not There for the Right Reasons. Her departure was swift and actually kind of shocking. We will miss you, our pigtailed jorts villainess.
The also-ran
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Katie who? She didn't get any screen time until this episode. A member of our recap team inexplicably thought her name was Laura until now. Some did not actually realize she was a cast member on this television show until this very week.
Katie lurked in the background - which, in the context of this show, probably means she is a generally sane and nice and well-meaning person, and exactly the kind of Marriage Material our dear Colton is looking for. But that doesn't get you screen time, nor a ticket to "Bachelor in Paradise," nor a hair gummies #sponcon contract, so Katie found herself desperately trying to grab Colton's attention for a rose in Vietnam. And she did, briefly, during the group date, when she pummeled Demi in the face at the boxing match. It was awesome and also kind of depressing.
The problem is that she wasn't able to open up as much as Colton liked. She admitted it was hard for her. Being "open and honest" is Colton's mantra, and if the women can't give him the producer-engineered emotionally manipulative backstory openness and honesty, they're not what he's looking for, and off they go. But as the third and final person to warn Colton this week about the other women's intentions, she may have been the most influential departure.
Originally appeared in the Washington Post
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Own property on Chicago’s North Side or central core? Expect a big tax hike
By Juan Perez Jr.
The office of now-Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, shown in 2015, issued property tax calculations on Thursday, June 20. (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)
Homeowners and commercial property owners on Chicago’s North Side and the city’s central core could be hit with much steeper property taxes this year, according to calculations issued by the Cook County clerk’s office Thursday.
A northward shift in the city’s tax burden, though, means many South Side property owners will be spared significant hikes.
That fact may offer minimal comfort to owners of property in segments of the city that are booming.
A North Sider who owns a single-family home with an average market value of $298,250 will pay an average of $5,213 in property taxes this year, according to Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough’s office. That’s an increase of about $536, or nearly 11.5% from last year.
A commercial property owner in the central portion of the city will see an average property tax bill bump of $11,616, if their site has the average estimated market value of roughy $2.7 million.
The annual figures released by Yarbrough’s office are averages. That means property owners could see much higher tax bills than the clerk’s calculations, or potentially much lower.
The 2018 #PropertyTax rates, calculated by the my office for over 1,400 taxing agencies, were released today.
For the second time, the total property taxes billed for districts in #CookCounty exceeds $14 billion – a 3.7% increase.
The full report: https://t.co/YYm7m3sKTz #twill pic.twitter.com/uTxECkPVwI
— Karen A. Yarbrough (@cookcountyclerk) June 20, 2019
Total property tax collections for Cook County will approach $15 billion, Yarbrough’s office said, up from roughly $14.4 billion last year.
So, why is this happening?
Recent years have seen city property tax hikes in large part from former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s efforts to shore up pension funds. Emanuel-era tax increases are a factor this year too.
But Chicago taxpayers are also seeing the fruit of a property value reassessment that occurs every three years.
The new assessments ended up shifting some of the tax burden from homeowners in less affluent areas to those in wealthier neighborhoods, based on a new formula used to address inequities in the system documented in “The Tax Divide” series published by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois.
As a result, in some neighborhoods on the North and Near West sides, median assessments rose by as much as 50 percent, with some homes being hit with even more dramatic increases — while less affluent areas on the South and West sides actually saw their assessments decrease.
South Side single-family homeowners who have an estimated average market value of $156,500 will pay an average of $2,413 in property taxes this year. That’s an increase of about $24, or a less than 1% bump from last year.
Suburban residents won’t see significant changes in their tax bills this year, on average.
Residential taxpayers in Cook County’s north and northwest suburbs have bills that will increase by an average of roughly $16. South and southwest suburban residents will see an average increase of a little more than $2.
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Suburban commercial property tax bills are up by 1.4% to the north and 1.7% to the south.
Again, the clerk’s annual calculations are not a final verdict. Tax bills will be lower for less expensive homes and higher for homes with bigger price tags. Some neighborhoods have added property taxes for local improvements, security, mosquito abatement, home equity assurance or mental health treatment programs.
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Tax bills can vary even more in suburban Cook than they do in Chicago, based largely on what individual school districts collect in property taxes. Tax rates — or the percentage of a home’s market value paid in taxes each year — also tend to be much higher in economically struggling south suburbs.
Cook County property tax bills are due Aug. 1, 2019. They’ve also been posted to cookcountytreasurer.com, where homeowners can see how much they owe more than a week before the bills are to be mailed, Treasurer Maria Pappas said this week.
Chicago Tribune’s Hal Dardick contributed
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More powers for traffic wardens
Headline issues that have appeared in any newspaper
Post by falkor » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:23 pm
Parking wardens across Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley will be handed more ticketing powers to penalise drivers.
They will soon be able to book motorists leaving their cars within zig-zags outside schools and beside pedestrian crossings. Previously this has always been enforced only by police officers.
Under the Traffic Management Act 2004, council parking attendants will also be giving fines to people parking by dropped walkways and in cycleways.
In October, Wyre Forest District Council took over responsibility from the police for issuing tickets for on-street parking offences following in the footsteps of many local authorities across the country.
Since then a team of 14 wardens has been patrolling the streets booking people for parking in yellow lines, waiting restrictions, loading bays and disabled bays.
They also enforce the council-owned car parks across the district and work seven days a week, including evenings.
The new legislation requires parking attendants to alter their title to civil enforcement officers but there will be no visible change to the uniforms, only the epaulettes on their shoulders will change to clearly state their role.
The council says the chan-ges, which come into effect on March 31, are intended to make traffic enforcement clearer for drivers.
Officials say it will also help to align it with the road safety role of local authorities rather than the criminal powers of the police.
Councillor Marcus Hart, the council cabinet member for property and operational services said: “The council has adopted new enforcement powers that focus on safety. Specifically these are parking within zig-zags outside schools and adjacent to crossings, parking in front of dropped walkways and those provided for disabled people indicated by tactile paving, and parking of vehicles in cycleways.”
Re: More powers for traffic wardens
Post by Guest » Fri May 23, 2008 12:17 am
I'm uneasy with the concept of Parking Attendants issuing tickets to people who've parked within the zig-zags at pedestrian
crossings as these are normally endorsable offences which carry 3 points on a driving licences.
Post by nighthawk » Mon May 26, 2008 8:50 am
Guest wrote: I'm uneasy with the concept of Parking Attendants issuing tickets to people who've parked within the zig-zags at pedestrian
I agree with FP (sorry mate, you forgot to log in again..)..
It's an endorsable offence and one that local authorities cannot deal with. Mind you, there have been rumours going round for a few years that one day it may be de-criminalised.
Post by falkor » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:30 am
what do you think of these Eastleigh listed powers that show where CEOs can apply discretion?
http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/meetings/Pu ... ocA.ps.pdf
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She went from homeless to the best server in metro Jackson
Stacey Spiehler, voted best server in metro Jackson by Clarion Ledger readers, has learned not to take anything for granted.
She went from homeless to the best server in metro Jackson Stacey Spiehler, voted best server in metro Jackson by Clarion Ledger readers, has learned not to take anything for granted. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/taste/2018/01/11/restaurants-near-me-best-servers/1004972001/
Billy Watkins, Clarion Ledger Published 11:30 a.m. CT Jan. 11, 2018 | Updated 11:38 p.m. CT Jan. 11, 2018
Server Stacey Spiehler delivers a slice of cake to a table on Jan. 4 at Fine & Dandy in Jackson.(Photo: Justin Sellers/Clarion Ledger)
Waiting tables helped save Stacey Spiehler’s life.
She had been homeless, sleeping on friends’ couches for a while and later staying at a shelter for three months in 2015.
“When I desperately needed a job, the restaurant industry welcomed me with open arms,” Spiehler says.
This past week, Spiehler, 37, who works at Fine & Dandy in Jackson, received a surprise she still can’t wrap her mind around: She was voted the Jackson metro area’s best server in the Clarion Ledger’s recent online poll.
“When I got the call from work saying that I had won, I was really excited … kinda stomping around,” she says, laughing. “I’m still processing it.
“The whole part of being a server is representing a restaurant well. To your guests, you are the face of the place. I’m happy for myself, happy for Fine & Dandy and I can’t wait to tell the world.”
"For us to have the best server in Jackson is quite the accolade for us, and we're happy for Stacey," says Marisa Marino, Fine & Dandy's director of hospitality. "We're a fresh company here in Jackson, and we are trying to take service to a new level. Stacey winning only helps people understand the kind of servers we have here.
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"Stacey builds relationships with her customers. You feel like you know her after she's served you. And that's not an easy job from a server's standpoint, but it's very important to us. We want people to feel like they are guests in our home. Stacey makes sure we do that."
'I learned humility'
Spiehler (pronounced SPEE-ler) grew up in Newburgh, Indiana, and first waited tables at age 16.
“I worked at the (American Legion Hut) as a way to make some spending money,” she says. “That’s where I had my biggest nightmare as a server. I had this big tub of ranch salad dressing and was filling up the container at the buffet. It slipped out of my hand, and my heart dropped just as fast as that tub did.
“Ranch went everywhere … down the back of a woman’s dress. I was in tears. Thank goodness the woman was nice about it. My dad was the assistant commander at the Legion, and I was able to pay for her dry cleaning. I can still see that tub of ranch heading toward the floor.”
Related: Fine & Dandy is just that
Spiehler eventually married, moved to New Orleans and worked as a server at Steamboat Natchez, which includes a two-hour cruise with a meal.
“I remember telling the man who hired me that I could handle the job, no problem,” Spiehler says. “But I really struggled. I had trouble talking to people, getting the orders correct. It was a lot different than my job as a teenager.”
She and her family moved to Jackson in 2004. She was a stay-at-home mom for nine years. The couple had a son, Ace, now 11. He suffers from cerebral palsy and is autistic.
“I went through a really big personal life change (in 2015),” Spiehler says. “I became addicted to drugs and alcohol. My husband and I separated in a pretty dramatic way, and I was forced to leave my home and my son.
“Being homeless will make you take nothing for granted again.”
After months of struggling, Spiehler was hired as a server at Mellow Mushroom in Flowood.
“Everybody there who trained me and guided me (was) so patient," she says. “I was able to learn and grow.”
But she was still battling her demons.
“I felt for a long while like nobody loved me, but they did,” Spiehler says. “The problem was I didn’t love myself. I was killing myself with every drug and every drop of alcohol I was putting into my body.”
She went to rehab in January 2016 and returned to Mellow Mushroom eight months later — clean.
“On Jan. 22, it’ll be two years since I’ve touched a drop of alcohol or a single drug,” she says. “While I was away, I learned humility — and I think that’s one of the things that allows me to be a good server.”
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"We related a lot as far as difficulties go," Marino says. "I've been through some tough times, too. So it's been great being able to train Stacey, watch her work with such passion. She's on a journey, and I feel like I get to go on it with her."
Spiehler and her husband are divorced. Ace lives with him in the Jackson area.
“My ex-husband is my best friend, and we do everything we can to co-parent and make Ace’s life as easy as possible,” Spiehler says. “Ace has a huge support system, and my ex-husband is one of the biggest parts of that.”
Stacey Spiehler, a server at Fine & Dandy in Jackson, said her "biggest nightmare" in the industry was when she lost her grip on a tub of ranch dressing - and it spilled right down the back of a customer's dress. (Photo: Justin Sellers/Clarion Ledger)
Spiehler wound up at Fine & Dandy with the help of what she calls “a God moment.”
She was working the afternoon shift at Mellow Mushroom. “It was a slow day, just a few customers,” she says. “I was actually serving and bartending.”
She struck up a conversation with two visitors. They turned out to be Marino and her bar manager.
“They asked me about all the beers on the wall,” Spiehler recalls. “I told them about them, and then I asked what they did for a living. Marisa said they were opening a new restaurant. They weren’t head-hunting for servers, it just sort of worked out that way.
“I prayed about it, talked to a friend and my mom about it and decided to apply. Sure enough … ”
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Says Marino: "She greeted us, seated us, was our server. She was also handling the bar. It really impressed me that she could handle all that with such ease. And she was really easy to talk to."
Spiehler was hired before Fine & Dandy opened Dec. 11 in The District at Eastover development. The restaurant offers various burgers, catfish, snacks and cocktails in a fine dining atmosphere. The head chef is Jesse Houston, formerly of Parlor Market and Saltine in Jackson.
“It was really fun having the opportunity to get on board before the restaurant opened,” Spiehler says. “I got this from the owner, Ray-Scott Miller, who said that most memorable experiences in a person’s life happen at a table — a kitchen table, dining room table. People celebrate birthdays there, holidays. They eat at tables at their favorite restaurants. And that really hit home with me.
“It really made me focus on being exceptionally gracious to our customers, which doesn’t cost me anything. Most people are incredibly gracious. And even if someone isn’t, I find it too exhausting to change my behavior by getting angry.
“The one thing I know is, God did me so right by bringing me to this restaurant.”
Contact Billy Watkins at 769-257-3079 or bwatkins@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
Published: August 22, 2019, 11:17 am
Tags: Events, Eats, All About Ann Arbor
New Desserts by Decade series to start Tuesday at Ann Arbor District Library
Local baker Keegan Rodgers, historian Patti Smith to lead classes
Upside down cakes were a trendy dessert in the '20s. (Credit: Pixabay)
ANN ARBOR – Every decade has its opulent, rich and sometimes bizarre desserts, but what are the stories behind them?
Owner of The Lakehouse Bakery Keegan Rodgers and local historian and writer Patti Smith are launching a Desserts by Decade series at the Ann Arbor District Library this month.
First up? The Roaring '20s.
On Tuesday night, head over to the library's Multi-Purpose Room from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to learn about the history of one of the wildest decades in U.S. history and how it impacted its desserts.
From women getting the vote and a stock market crash, to the first radio broadcast of the World Series and the trial of John Scopes and Mae West, take a deep dive into the stories that defined the '20s and learn some of the time's most popular dessert recipes.
In true townie fashion, Smith will cover some local Ann Arbor history of the time, as well.
The event is co-sponsored by Rodgers' The Lakehouse Bakery in Chelsea.
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Gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter
What are the key principles of preventing gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter?
Acinetobacter baumannii is not part of the normal human skin or gut flora and is usually not carried by a previously healthy individual. Rather than being imported from the community, A. baumannii is introduced into the hospital setting by a patient transferred from a healthcare facility where A. baumannii is endemic or epidemic. Resistance to fluoroquinolones and in particular to carbapenems is a surrogate marker for epidemic potential of A. baumannii.
The key principles for infection control of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii in the intensive care unit (ICU) are:
(i) Active surveillance for the detection of A. baumannii in patients who have been in contact with a known A. baumannii positive patient (i.e. contact tracing among patients in the same unit or patients who have been cared for by the same health-care personnel).
(ii) Active surveillance in ICU patients newly admitted from other hospitals with known or suspected endemic A. baumannii to prevent the spread of this organism.
(iii) Contact precautions for patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant A. baumannii.
(iv) Proper disinfection of near-patient surfaces and equipment.
(v) Reinforcement of hand hygiene.
(vi) Education of staff.
What are the consequences of ignoring control of gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter?
Ignoring the key infection control concepts listed above may lead to high endemicity of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii, a high incidence of nosocomial transmission, and high rates of ventilator-associated A. baumannii pneumonia and A. baumannii bloodstream infection. Once endemic in an ICU, multidrug-resistant A. baumannii is very difficult to eradicate.
What other information supports the conclusions of research on gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter, e.g., case-control studies and case series?
There is conclusive evidence that outbreaks of A. baumannii colonization and infection are linked to lack of compliance with infection control practices. In fact, contact precautions have been recommended by the CDC and by the Dutch Working Party on Infection Prevention to prevent the spread of nosocomial A. baumannii. In the absence of clinical trials and case-control studies, the key infection control concepts are based on case series and the information provided by outbreak investigations.
Summary of current controversies.
The clinical impact of nosocomial A. baumannii infection has been a matter of continuing debate. Many studies report high overall mortality rates in patients that have A. baumannii bloodstream infection or pneumonia. However, since A. baumannii mainly affects patients with severe underlying disease, it has been argued that the mortality observed in patients with A. baumannii infections is caused by their underlying disease, rather than as a consequence of A. baumannii infection. Recent evidence, however, indicates that A. baumannii bloodstream infection does have an attributable mortality rate ranging from 8-36%. The impact of airborne transmission of A. baumannii is also not clear and controversy exists if droplet isolation as recommended by the Dutch Working Party on Infection Prevention plays an integral role in controlling outbreaks of A. baumannii in the ICU setting.
What is the impact of gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter and the need for control relative to infections at other sites or from other specific pathogens?
Acinetobacter spp. have emerged in the past three decades as important nosocomial pathogens associated with a wide range of infections including nosocomial pneumonia and other respiratory tract infections, bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, meningitis following neurosurgical procedures, burn wound and surgical site infections. There are three different Acinetobacter spp. that make up the vast majority of nosocomial Acinetobacter infections, A. baumannii, A. pittii (previously Acinetobacter genomic species 3), and A. nosocomialis (previously Acinetobacter gen. sp. 13TU). These three species are difficult to differentiate from each other unless molecular methods are applied.
In particular, semiautomated methods for species identification such as VITEK and BD Phoenix are not able to correctly identify these species and usually misidentify A. pittii and A. nosocomialis as A. baumannii. These three species together have been designated the A. baumannii group. A. baumannii accounts for about 60-70% of nosocomial Acinetobacter bloodstream infection, while A. pittii and A. nosocomialis account for 10-20% each. Comparable data regarding species distribution among Acinetobacter spp. involved in ventilator-associated pneumonia and other nosocomial infections are not available. There is now promising data that the wider use of mass spectrometry such as MALDI-ToF for species identification will greatly improve the ability of routine microbiology laboratories to correctly identify acinetobacters to species level.
Members of the genus Acinetobacter, of which more than 30 different species have been described, are generally considered ubiquitous organisms. While this holds true for the majority of Acinetobacter species which can be found regularly in soil and water, on food products such as vegetables, meat and fish, and also as commensals on human skin, A. baumannii does not appear to be an environmental organism. In fact, A. baumannii has evolved into an organism that is perfectly adapted to the hospital environment and the colonized hospital patients as well as contaminated patient-near surfaces serve as the reservoir for nosocomial transmission while the natural habitat of A. baumannii still remains to be defined.
The current situation is characterized by the rapid global emergence of A. baumannii strains resistant to all betalactams including the carbapenems which have until recently been regarded as the drugs of choice for the treatment of A. baumannii infections. Many of these strains are in fact now resistant to all classes of antimicrobials including the aminoglycosides and the fluoroquinolones leaving the polymyxins as the only remaining treatment option. Carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii is mediated most often by oxacillinases (OXAs) and less frequently by metallo-betalactamases (MBLs).
Recent studies have shown that the vast majority of Acinetobacter isolates resistant to the carbapenems are A. baumannii whereas carbapenem resistance in other Acinetobacter spp. including the other members of the A. baumannii group is exceedingly rare. This is one of the reasons why species identification of isolates belonging to the A. baumannii group should be attempted. There are four main OXA subgroups associated with A. baumannii, the chromosomally located intrinsic OXA-51-like and the acquired OXA-23-like, OXA-40-like and OXA-58-like.
Compelling evidence suggests that A. baumannii is clonal in nature. Molecular typing of isolates obtained from various hospitals in Europe has shown the existence of three distinct clusters that have been termed pan-European clonal lineages I, II and III (EU I, II and III, respectively). Isolates belonging to these clonal lineages have been found in nearly all European countries but also outside Europe. More recently it has been shown that these three clonal A. baumannii lineages and further five clonal lineages have spread worldwide and have therefore been designated worldwide or international clonal lineages. In particular, almost 50% of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii isolates worldwide was shown to belong to the worldwide clonal lineage II (WW2) (corresponding to EU II) indicating global spread of a very successful pathogen.
A. baumannii is notorious for causing hospital outbreaks of infection in particular in severely debilitated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. Among the factors that contribute to the organisms’ success as nosocomial pathogens are (i) their long-term survival on dry surfaces, (ii) their remarkable ability to up-regulate or acquire resistance mechanisms and making it one of the most difficult-to-treat microorganisms that are often resistant to all available antimicrobials, and (iii) their propensity for epidemic spread. Prolonged skin and pharyngeal carriage of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii among individuals with previous A. baumannii colonization and infection may also contribute to nosocomial spread of this organism.
Other members of the A. baumannii group, A. pittii and in particular A. nosocomialis have also been involved in nosocomial outbreaks but far less frequently than A. baumannii. However owing to the fact that correct species identification has only very rarely been performed in the course of outbreak investigations, the precise role and impact of the latter species still remains to be elucidated. In light of the difficulty to distinguish A. baumannii from A. pittii and A. nosocomialis in clinical microbiology these species will in the following sections be referred to as A. baumannii (in a broader sense) unless stated otherwise.
Numerous potential sources for nosocomial spread of A. baumannii have been identified in the past, including contaminated respiratory therapy equipment, humidifiers, arterial pressure transducers, multi-dose medication vials, mattresses, pillows, bed rails, and more recently computer keyboards and cell phones. Transmission was also found related to specific procedures such as pulsatile lavage wound treatment and hydrotherapy in burn patients. Even airborne transmission has been suggested. Point sources of transmission, however, have not been identified in many recent outbreaks despite an extensive epidemiological work-up (see Table I below).
Table I.
Source/Risk factors
Number of patients involved
Infection control measure instituted
Ray A, 2010 Wounds 13 Reemphasis of standard precautions Contact precautions Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP)
Jung JY, 2010 Mechanical ventilation, invasive devices 200 Active surveillance
La Forgia C, 2010 Sinks, water drainage system 16 Contact isolationEducation of staffEnvironmental screeningDisinfection of entire ICU drainage system with bleach
Jamal W, 2009 No source identified 24 Active surveillanceContact isolationEnvironmental decontamination
Monterrubio-Villar J, 2009 Higher Apache II score 21 Reemphasis of standard precautionsContact isolation/cohortingDisinfection of surfaces with 0.1% hypochlorite
Simmonds A, 2009 No source identified 7 Active surveillanceContact precautionsIsolation/cohortingEducation of staffEnhanced environmental cleaning
Kohlenberg A, 2009 No source identified 32 Active surveillanceContact precautionsIsolation/cohortingEducation of staff
Enoch DA, 2008 No source identified 19 Active surveillanceContact precautionsIsolation/cohortingEducation of staffEnhanced cleaning of environment and equipment with hypochlorite-based agent
Zarilli R, 2007 No source identified 74 Contact precautionsEducation of staffReemphasis of standard precautionsEnhanced cleaning of near-patient objects and surfaces with chlorine
Wybo I, 2007 Patient-to-patient-transmission 28 Active SurveillanceContact precautionsReemphasis of standard precautionsEnhanced cleaning of near-patient objects and surfaces
Lee HC, 2007 Contaminated morphine solution 3 Elimination of contaminated medication
Zanetti G, 2007 Contamination of surfaces in patients’ rooms and the hydrotherapy room 10 Active SurveillanceContact precautions/isolationReemphasis of standard precautionsTemporary closure of wardEnhanced cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of surfaces and equipment before reopening
Young LS, 2007 Therapy with fluconazole and levofloxacin, higher Apache II Score, prolonged mechanical ventilation, chronic pulmonary disease 67 Active SurveillanceContact isolationLimitations of pulsatile lavage wound debridementRemoval of items with upholstered surfacesTerminal cleaning of rooms
De Vegas EZ, 2006 Contaminated parenteral nutrition solution 16 Use of aseptic technique for preparation of nutrition solutionReemphasis of standard precautionsRestriction of antimicrobial
Naas T, 2006 Patient-to-patient-transmission 275 Active surveillanceReemphasis of standard precautionsContact precautionsAppropriate antimicrobial usage
Wilks M, 2006 Widespread environmental contamination including curtains, equipment, cleaned reusable laryngo-scope blades, mops, buckets, door handles, and computer keyboards 136 Education of staffClosed tracheal suctionThorough environmental cleaning and disinfection Reemphasis of standard precautions
An epidemic strain is most commonly introduced by an undetected carrier patient. Once introduced into a ward, the strain can then spread to other patients and their environment. Transmission via the hands of healthcare personnel is likely the most important means of cross-transmission of multi-drug resistant A. baumannii with the colonized patient and contaminated near-patient surfaces serving as the reservoir. Outbreaks involving a single ICU but also multiple ICUs in a single hospital have been described as well as outbreaks involving numerous hospitals in a city or region or even in neighboring countries, most probably via transfer of colonized patients.
Epidemiological typing, mostly by genotypic methods such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) or PCR-based techniques including rep-PCR and VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) is an important tool to identify the outbreak strain, to distinguish it from other, concurrent strains and to assess the sources and mode of transmission of this strain. Most recently, two multi locus sequence typing (MLST) schemes have been developed, however while this method is well-suited for the study of the population structure of A. baumannii it is less useful for outbreak delineation.
As with other nosocomial pathogens, various risk factors have been found associated with A. baumannii colonization and infection such as extended hospital stay, severity of illness markers, organ failure, mechanical ventilation, the presence of intravascular access devices, prior antibiotic therapy, and male gender. Since A. baumannii is very rarely introduced into the hospital by a previously healthy carrier, endogenous infection is the exception, and nosocomial exposure is a prerequisite for A. baumannii colonization and infection for most patients. In addition, patient transfer between hospitals or from endemic settings (such as ICUs of high prevalence hospitals) is a major factor contributing to the spread of highly resistant A. baumannii.
There is a striking association between increased rates of nosocomial A. baumannii infections with natural disasters such as the Marmara earthquake that occurred 1999 in Turkey, the 2002 terrorist attack in Bali, the Tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia in 2004, and military operations. A common feature appears to be the sudden incidence of mass casualties that overstress the infection control capacities of local healthcare systems. A high number of deep wound infections, burn wound infections and osteomyelitis has been reported to be associated with repatriated combat casualties of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Isolates were often multi-drug resistant.
Based on the common misconception that A. baumannii is a ubiquitous organism it has been argued that the organism might have been inoculated at the time of injury either from previously colonized skin or from contaminated soil. However, it is more likely that the soldiers acquired A. baumannii during emergency care and hospitalization in field hospitals. To date, no source has been clearly identified.
Overview of important clinical trials, meta-analyses, case control studies, case series, and individual case reports related to infection control and gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter.
Table I summarizes the 2005-2010 publications on infection control procedures for the successful control of outbreaks of infections caused by multidrug-resistant A. baumannii.
As with other multidrug-resistant organisms, the mainstay of A. baumannii outbreak containment is education of staff and reinforcement of standard infection control precautions. Given the organisms’ prolonged survival on inanimate surfaces, particular attention should be focused on effective cleaning and disinfection of the environment including equipment used for patient care as well as door handles and computer keyboards.
Active surveillance cultures (respiratory tract samples and rectal or perirectal swabs) of patients with epidemiological links to a patient colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant A. baumannii are required for outbreak control whereas point-prevalence surveys might suffice in the case of endemic A. baumannii occurrence. Patients found colonized or infected with the outbreak strain should be isolated or cohorted and contact precautions should be instituted. Environmental cultures might identify a point source of transmission responsible for the outbreak. Judicious use of effective antimicrobials is advocated although its role among other efforts aimed at outbreak control has not been clearly defined. Vaporized hydrogen peroxide is a newly developed promising tool that has been used effectively for decontamination during an outbreak of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii infection at a long-term acute care hospital. If all these efforts fail to control an ongoing outbreak temporary closure of hospital units or wards may be required.
Controversies in detail.
No studies have directly compared the efficacy of standard precautions alone versus standard precautions and contact precautions, with or without active surveillance cultures (ASC), for controlling multidrug-resistant A. baumannii. Some researchers have used one or both sets of precautions as part of their successful outbreak control efforts (see table above); however, the precautions were not the primary focus of the study intervention.
What national and international guidelines exist related to gram negative bacteria – Acinetobacter?
The Dutch Working Party on Infection Prevention has issued guidelines for preventing nosocomial transmission of highly resistant microorganisms (HRMO) that include Acinetobacter spp. Highly resistant Acinetobacter spp. was defined as isolates resistant against carbapenems or against antibacterial agents from at least two of the groups’ ceftazidime, fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides.
The CDC has published strategies outlined in the 2006 HICPAC guidelines for the management of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in healthcare settings without specifically addressing multidrug-resistant A. baumannii defined herein as A. baumannii resistant to all antimicrobials or to all antimicrobials except imipenem. More recently, the CDC and HICPAC published guidance for control of infections with carbapenem-resistant or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae that may also be applied to the control of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii but have never specifically addressed infection control in Acinetobacter spp.
No other national or international guidelines have been published that address this issue.
Management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings, 2006. 2007.
Kluytmans-Vandenbergh, MF, Kluytmans, JA, Voss, A. “Dutch guideline for preventing nosocomial transmission of highly resistant microorganisms (HRMO)”. Infection. vol. 33. 2005. pp. 309-13.
Peleg, AY, Seifert, H, Paterson, DL. “Acinetobacter baumannii: emergence of a successful pathogen”. Clin Microbiol Rev. vol. 21. 2008. pp. 538-82.
Dijkshoorn, L, Nemec, A, Seifert, H. “An increasing threat in hospitals: multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii”. Nat Rev Microbiol. vol. 5. 2007. pp. 939-51.
Nemec, A, Krízová, L, Maixnerová, M, Diancourt, L, van der Reijden, TJ, Brisse, S, van den Broek, P, Dijkshoorn, L. “Emergence of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii in the Czech Republic is associated with the spread of multidrug-resistant strains of European clone II”. J Antimicrob Chemother. vol. 62. 2008. pp. 484-9.
Higgins, PG, Dammhayn, C, Hackel, M, Seifert, H. “Global spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii”. J Antimicrob Chemother. vol. 65. 2010. pp. 233-8.
Karageorgopoulos, DE, Falagas, ME. “Current control and treatment of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections”. Lancet Infect Dis. vol. 8. 2008. pp. 751-62.
Jawad, A, Seifert, H, Snelling, AM, Heritage, J, Hawkey, PM. “Survival of Acinetobacter baumannii on dry surfaces: comparison of outbreak and sporadic isolates”. J Clin Microbiol. vol. 36. 1998. pp. 1938-41.
Marchaim, D, Navon-Venezia, S, Schwartz, D, Tarabeia, J, Fefer, I, Schwaber, MJ, Carmeli, Y. “Surveillance cultures and duration of carriage of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii”. J Clin Microbiol. vol. 45. 2007. pp. 1551-5.
Naas, T, Coignard, B, Carbonne, A, Blanckaert, K, Bajolet, O, Bernet, C, Verdeil, X, Astagneau, P, Desenclos, JC, Nordmann, P. “French Nosocomial Infection Early Warning Investigation and Surveillance Network. VEB-1 Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Acinetobacter baumannii, France”. Emerg Infect Dis. vol. 12. 2006. pp. 1214-22.
Bartual, SG, Seifert, H, Hippler, C, Luzon, MA, Wisplinghoff, H, Rodríguez-Valera, F. “Development of a multilocus sequence typing scheme for characterization of clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii”. J Clin Microbiol. vol. 43. 2005. pp. 4382-90.
Diancourt, L, Passet, V, Nemec, A, Dijkshoorn, L, Brisse, S. “The population structure of Acinetobacter baumannii: expanding multiresistant clones from an ancestral susceptible genetic pool”. PLoS One. vol. 5. 2010 . pp. e10034
Davis, KA, Moran, KA, McAllister, CK, Gray, PJ. “Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter extremity infections in soldiers”. Emerg Infect Dis. vol. 11. 2005. pp. 1218-24.
Falagas, ME, Thomaidis, PC, Kotsantis, IK, Sgouros, K, Samonis, G, Karageorgopoulos, DE. “Airborne hydrogen peroxide for disinfection of the hospital environment and infection control: a systematic review”. J Hosp Infect. vol. 78. 2011. pp. 171-7.
Ray, A, Perez, F, Beltramini, AM, Jakubowycz, M, Dimick, P, Jacobs, MR, Roman, K, Bonomo, RA, Salata, RA. “Use of vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination during an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection at a long-term acute care hospital”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 31. 2010. pp. 1236-41.
Jung, JY, Park, MS, Kim, SE, Park, BH, Son, JY, Kim, EY, Lim, JE, Lee, SK, Lee, SH, Lee, KJ, Kang, YA, Kim, SK, Chang, J, Kim, YS. “Risk factors for multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia in patients with colonization in the intensive care unit”. BMC Infect Dis. vol. 10. 2010. pp. 228
La Forgia, C, Franke, J, Hacek, DM, Thomson, RB, Robicsek, A, Peterson, LR. “Management of a multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in an intensive care unit using novel environmental disinfection: a 38-month report”. Am J Infect Control. vol. 38. 2010. pp. 259-63.
Jamal, W, Salama, M, Dehrab, N, Al Hashem, G, Shahin, M, Rotimi, VO. “Role of tigecycline in the control of a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in an intensive care unit”. J Hosp Infect. vol. 72. 2009. pp. 234-42.
Monterrubio-Villar, J, González-Velasco, C, Valdezate-Ramos, S, Córdoba-López, A, Villalón-Panzano, P, Saéz-Nieto, JA. “Outbreak of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a polyvalent intensive care unit: clinical, epidemiological analysis and PFGE-printing evolution”. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. vol. 28. 2009. pp. 1281-4.
Simmonds, A, Munoz, J, Aguero-Rosenfeld, M, Carbonaro, C, Montecalvo, M, Clones, B, LaGamma, EF. “Outbreak of Acinetobacter infection in extremely low birth weight neonates”. Pediatr Infect Dis J. vol. 28. 2009. pp. 210-4.
Kohlenberg, A, Brümmer, S, Higgins, PG, Sohr, D, Piening, BC, de Grahl, C, Halle, E, Rüden, H, Seifert, H. “Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the carbapenemase OXA-23 in a German university medical centre”. J Med Microbiol. vol. 58. 2009. pp. 1499-507.
Enoch, DA, Summers, C, Brown, NM, Moore, L, Gillham, MI, Burnstein, RM, Thaxter, R, Enoch, LM, Matta, B, Sule, O. “Investigation and management of an outbreak of multidrug-carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Cambridge, UK”. J Hosp Infect. vol. 70. 2008. pp. 109-18.
Zarrilli, R, Casillo, R, Di Popolo, A, Tripodi, MF, Bagattini, M, Cuccurullo, S, Crivaro, V, Ragone, E, Mattei, A, Galdieri, N, Triassi, M, Utili, R. “Molecular epidemiology of a clonal outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a university hospital in Italy”. Clin Microbiol Infect. vol. 13. 2007. pp. 481-9.
Wybo, I, Blommaert, L, De Beer, T, Soetens, O, De Regt, J, Lacor, P, Piérard, D, Lauwers, S. “Outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Belgian university hospital after transfer of patients from Greece”. J Hosp Infect. vol. 67. 2007. pp. 374-80.
Lee, HC, Lee, NY, Chang, CM, Chou, CY, Wu, YH, Wang, LR, Ko, NY, Liu, CC, Ko, WC. “Outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia related to contaminated morphine used for patient-controlled analgesia”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 28. 2007. pp. 1213-7.
Zanetti, G, Blanc, DS, Federli, I, Raffoul, W, Petignat, C, Maravic, P, Francioli, P, Berger, MM. “Importation of Acinetobacter baumannii into a burn unit: a recurrent outbreak of infection associated with widespread environmental contamination”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 28. 2007. pp. 723-5.
Young, LS, Sabel, AL, Price, CS. “Epidemiologic, clinical, and economic evaluation of an outbreak of clonal multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection in a surgical intensive care unit”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 28. 2007. pp. 1247-54.
De Vegas, EZ, Nieves, B, Araque, M, Velasco, E, Ruiz, J, Vila, J. “Outbreak of infection with Acinetobacter strain RUH 1139 in an intensive care unit”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 27. 2006. pp. 397-403.
Wilks, M, Wilson, A, Warwick, S, Price, E, Kennedy, D, Ely, A, Millar, MR. “Control of an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus colonization and infection in an intensive care unit (ICU) without closing the ICU or placing patients in isolation”. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. vol. 27. 2006. pp. 654-8.
“Guidance for control of infections with carbapenem-resistant or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in acute care facilities”. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. vol. 58. 2009. pp. 256-60.
What are the key principles of preventing gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter?
What are the consequences of ignoring control of gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter?
What other information supports the conclusions of research on gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter, e.g., case-control studies and case series?
What is the impact of gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter and the need for control relative to infections at other sites or from other specific pathogens?
Overview of important clinical trials, meta-analyses, case control studies, case series, and individual case reports related to infection control and gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter.
What national and international guidelines exist related to gram negative bacteria - Acinetobacter?
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Governor Wike had called for peace among political gladiators in the oil-rich state.Source; NAN
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eze Chukwuemeka Eze revealed that the three senators from Rivers State disappointed Governor Nyesom Wike after he allegedly paid them N2 billion to disqualify the immediate past Governor of the State, Chibuike Amaechi.
Concise News learned that Eze made this known in a statement where he lauded the Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan for acknowledging Amaechi as a former two-time Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and Chairman of Nigerian Conference of Speakers’ Forum.
The three Senators from the state are: Senator George Thompson Sekibo representing the Eastern Senatorial District; Senator Betty Apiafi representing the Rivers West senatorial district; and Senator Barinada Mpigi of Rivers South-East Senatorial district
Eze, who was the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), commended the Senators for distancing themselves from the N2 billion plot by functionaries of the Rivers state government, led by Governor Nyesom Wike and Senator Magnus Abe, to stand against the nomination of Amaechi and embarrass him during the screening process.
He said: “Distinguished senators have shown character by their comportment on the floor of the senate and reported pre-meeting with the former minister ahead of the screening exercise.
”From what I gathered, the senators had a meeting with him before the screening started, which indicates that they are not part of the conspiracy being plotted by Chief Wike and former Senator Abe to embarrass their benefactor on the floor of the Senate and ultimately nullify his nomination.
“I believe that Senator Abaribe, who spoke on behalf of the Rivers Caucus, suing for peace in the politics of our dear state, also deserves commendation for the role of a peacemaker he played. He showed that politics is about development, which will not come without a peaceful atmosphere.”
Eze further said: ”Therefore, I commend the three senators for showing solidarity to Amaechi who, by every means, is the authentic leader of politics in Rivers state and I urge Wike and Abe to emulate the three senators in order to move the State forward peacefully.
“I also urge Wike and Abe to sheath their swords and cease all instruments of media war and propaganda and allow peace to prevail in the politics of Rivers state so that collectively we can rebuild and recover the State from its present sad, parlous and pitiable condition. Like they say peace if priceless, terror is senseless.”
Eze also lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for his love and solidarity to the APC leader in the South-South region of Nigeria, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi by renominating him as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and urged him to post him back to the Ministry of Transportation to enable him to accomplish the revolution he has started.
He reassured Nigerians that the second coming of Amaechi as a Minister will enable him to showcase in another level what leadership is all about.
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Johor Bahru–Singapore RTS Link Project to be suspended till Sept 30
CtoI News Desk Wednesday, May 22nd 2019
Singapore has agreed to suspend the construction of the Johor Bahru – Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link Project for a period up to September 30, 2019.
This move is at Malaysia’s request and in the spirit of bilateral cooperation, according to a joint press release by Singapore and Malaysia governments.
Malaysia will bear the agreed costs in suspending the RTS Link Project.
By September 30, if Malaysia does not proceed with the RTS Link Project, it will also bear the agreed costs incurred by Singapore in fulfilling the RTS Link Bilateral Agreement.
Minister of Transport, Malaysia, Mr Loke Siew Fook; with Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Transport, Singapore, Mr Khaw Boon Wan. Photo courtesy: Mr Khaw Boon Wan Facebook
On Tuesday, May 21, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Transport, Singapore, Mr Khaw Boon Wan and Minister of Transport, Malaysia, Mr Loke Siew Fook exchanged legal documents in Singapore to vary the RTS Link Bilateral Agreement based on the new understanding.
Both ministers recognised the urgent need to alleviate traffic congestion at the Johor Bahru-Singapore Causeway which facilitates about 300,000 crossings daily.
The two countries will also continue to discuss other affordable and sustainable solutions to address traffic congestion at the border. Further initiatives will be explored, including the use of new technology for enhanced security and checkpoint efficiency.
The two ministers also noted the importance for both countries to establish cost-effective, efficient and sustainable transport interconnectivity. This is in the hopes of fostering greater people-to-people ties and generate shared economic and social benefits.
"This is a temporary setback for the RTS project," said Minister Khaw. "But I remain optimistic that the project could resume in due course. The cross-border congestion is real and only a decisive project like the RTS can make a material difference to the current situation."
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Eight Eagles earn spots on All-SAC football teams
ROCK HILL, S.C. – No. 18 Carson-Newman has earned nine spots on the South Atlantic All-Conference teams. Five Eagles earned first team all-conference honors while four made the second team.
First team selections are Brandon Baker (Miami, Fla.) at running back, Alex Taylor (Bristol, Tenn.) at right tackle, Curt Duncan (Morristown, Tenn.) as placekicker, Jaycob Coleman (Norton, Va.) at linebacker and Javaris Neal (Columbia, Tenn.) at defensive end.
Running back Tyron Douglas (Clover, S.C.), left guard Lucas Mathis (Greenwood, S.C.) and cornerback Eien Jacob (Jeanerette, La.) made the second team. Taylor also made the second team as a long snapper.
Brandon Baker:
Baker has rushed for 872 yards in his senior season to go along with eight touchdowns. His ability to score from miles away has vastly improved in his final go-around at Mossy Creek. A year ago, Baker had three touchdowns longer than 20 yards. This season, Baker has that many scores from longer than 50 yards.
"He has been a guy that's just continued to improve," Carson-Newman head coach Ken Sparks said. "When he's well, he makes things happen for us. He's developed into our go-to guy."
Baker is peaking at the right time, four of his last six games have seen him rush for more than 140 yards and three of his last six have found him in the end zone twice. He ranks third in the league in rushing yards per game and his 7.7 yards per carry are the best mark in the league.
His 3,324 rushing yards are fifth all-time at Carson-Newman and his 35 career touchdowns are tied for seventh all-time at C-N.
A four-year starter who, barring any short of the apocalypse, will make his 47th consecutive start for Carson-Newman along the offensive line, Taylor has cleared the way for a rushing attack that has ranked in the top five nationally in all four of his season's at Carson-Newman.
"A four-year starter who's been a leader and somebody that we can always count on to make something happen on the offensive line," Sparks said. "He's never been overmatched since he's been at Carson-Newman."
This year he ranks third on the offensive line with 21 knockdowns. He has the second highest grade among the Eagles' offensive line and has the second most grade outs for offensive coordinator Mike Turner's stringent system. With him as longsnapper, the Eagles have not had a kick blocked.
Curt Duncan
What hasn't the kicker from Morristown, Tenn. done? For the second straight year, Duncan has connected on a school record 14 field goals; one more and he breaks a tie with himself, Louis Reveiz and Rick Whetsel.
"He hasn't had as good a year as he wanted, but some of us have contributed to that for not blocking good," Sparks said. "He's a tremendous talent who's made some big kicks. He's not your typical kicker because of the athlete he is. He's a tennis player and could play soccer if he wanted to."
He leads the SAC in scoring among kickers and is second in the league in scoring only to Carson-Newman quarterback De'Andre Thomas (Milledgeville, Ga.). Duncan's 94 points are the second highest scoring total for a single season for a kicker in C-N history. He's eight points away from the mark he set last season.
Jaycob Coleman
Jaycob Coleman has had as good a season defensively for Carson-Newman as any player in the last 15 years. Coleman needs four more tackles to become the first Eagle with 120 tackles in a single season since the turn of the century. He needs eight more to start working is way in to the top 10 for the most tackles in a single season.
"He's been a great story of mission accomplished," Sparks said. "He's made a lot of progress personally and athletically. The foundation is laid for him to do great things."
The senior has put together five consecutive games with 10 tackles or more. His 17 tackles against Tusculum are the second highest total since 1996 and tied for 11th all-time at C-N.
He is the first player with multiple 15-tackle performances in a single season since current Carson-Newman defensive coordinator and consensus All-American Mike Clowney was playing for C-N in his senior season back in 1996. Coleman is fourth in the league and 22nd in the nation in tackles per game. He's also recovered a fumble for a touchdown and picked off two passes this year.
Javaris Neal
Javaris Neal improved upon SAC defensive freshman of the year honors a year ago to jump to the all-conference first team in his sophomore campaign. The Columbia, Tenn.-native rumbled for a 41-yard interception return against Newberry and also picked off a pass against Mars Hill.
"A guy that just keeps improving," Sparks said. "He's got great athletic ability who has a knack for making big plays. When he's not held, he's probably going to make a play. He's held more than anyone on our team."
Neal is fifth in the league in tackles among defensive linemen. He's sixth in the league overall in sacks. He had a career best nine tackles against Brevard. Neal turned in season best 2.5 tackle for loss-performances against Brevard and Wingate. He also took down the opposing quarterback 1.5 times in both those games.
Tyron Douglas
Douglas makes his second consecutive appearance on the all-conference second team. Douglas leads Carson-Newman with five, 100-yard games this year. He's second on the team for rushing touchdowns with nine.
"He's one of those guys who will hurt you when he runs," Sparks said. "He runs with great determination and we're fortunate to have him as a four-year starter."
Douglas reeled off a career long 69-yard run against Brevard. He needs 166 more yards to become the ninth player in C-N football history with more than 3,000 yards for his career. His 40 career touchdowns rank him fourth all-time in C-N football history.
Lucas Mathis
A stalwart on the offensive line who has started 35 consecutive games for Carson-Newman, Mathis leads Carson-Newman in overall grade this season among the offensive linemen and is second in knockdowns with 23. He has graded out five times this year, and has the highest individual grade of the year for C-N, a 78 out of 80 against Brevard.
"This has probably been his finest year," Sparks said. "He's just made so many things happen for us offensively."
He, along with Taylor have been the pillars for the Eagles' hard-driving offensive line that has piled up 45 rushing touchdowns this season.
Eien Jacob
For the fourth consecutive year, Carson-Newman has an all-conference cornerback. Eien Jacob is 24th in the nation and second in the SAC with his five picks. With his two interceptions against Newberry, Jacob became the first Eagle with a multi-pick game since Oliver Davis had a pair against Tusculum in 2010.
"A great newcomer who has filled a hole for us and filled it very spectacularly," Sparks said. "His five picks and the big plays he's made have been a major contribution to our team. He's just fun to be around."
He finished the year with a career best seven-tackle day against Wingate. Jacob needs a pair of picks to break into the top 10 for most interceptions in a single season at C-N.
SAC Offensive Player of the Year – Bo Cordell, Tusculum
SAC Defensive Player of the Year – Michael Green, Lenoir-Rhyne
SAC Offensive Freshman of the Year – Trent Miller, Mars Hill
SAC Defensive Freshman of the Year – Rodney Singleton, Lenoir-Rhyne
Jacobs Blocking Trophy – Joe Ray, Lenoir-Rhyne
SAC Coach of the Year – Mike Houston, Lenoir-Rhyne
All-SAC First Team Offense
QB – Bo Cordell, Tusculum
RB – Shaikel Davis, Mars Hill
RB – Brandon Baker, Carson-Newman
RB – Jarrod Spears, Lenoir-Rhyne
WR – Dimitri Holmes, Mars Hill
WR – Corey Washington, Newberry
WR – Justin Houston, Tusculum
OL – Denzell Goode, Mars Hill
OL – Alex Taylor, Carson-Newman
OL – Joe Ray, Lenoir-Rhyne
OL – Jamal Ellis, Newberry
OL – Zack Bunn, Lenoir-Rhyne
TE – Wesley Powell, Tusculum
LS – Austin Crook, Newberry
P – Kyle Clark, Newberry
PK – Curt Duncan, Carson-Newman/Zach Neumann, Lenoir-Rhyne
All-SAC First Team Defense
DL – Blake Baker, Lenoir-Rhyne
DL – Troy Harris, Mars Hill
DL – Letavious Williams, Newberry
DL – Javaris Neal, Carson-Newman
LB – Sammy Siasia, Mars Hill
LB – Tanner Botts, Lenoir-Rhyne
LB – Jaycob Coleman, Carson-Newman
LB – Edmond Robinson, Newberry
DB – Michael Green, Lenoir-Rhyne
DB – L.J. McCray, Catawba
DB – Myer Nolan, Lenoir-Rhyne
DB – David Davis, Newberry
RS – L.J. McCray, Catawba
All-SAC Second Team Offense
QB – Robbie Nallenweg, Wingate/W.T. Murden, Newberry
RB – Isaiah Whitaker, Lenoir-Rhyne
RB – Kelvin Jeter, Brevard
RB – Tyron Douglas, Carson-Newman
WR – Nate Charest, Catawba
WR – Jordan Berry, Wingate
WR – Deon Hicks, Tusculum
OL – Lucas Mathis, Carson-Newman
OL – Will Poteat, Wingate
OL – David Davis, Tusculum
OL – Nick Allison, Mars Hill
OL – Landon Martin, Newberry/Taylor Fender, Catawba
TE – Brandon Ellington, Wingate
LS – Alex Taylor, Carson-Newman
P – Austin Anthony, Wingate
All-SAC Second Team Defense
DL – Jimmy Long, Lenoir-Rhyne
DL – Nick Napolitano, Wingate
DL – Jonathan Jean, Catawba
DL – Josh Davis, Tusculum
LB – Brian Alexander, Tusculum
LB – Michael Gruber, Brevard
LB – Jason Taylor, Catawba
LB – B.J. Mazyck, Newberry
DB – Eien Jacob, Carson-Newman
DB – O'Neil Blake, Lenoir-Rhyne
DB – Jacob McCleery, Brevard
DB – Jon Jimenez, Wingate
RS – Jason Livingston, Newberry
SAC Statistical Champions
Rushing Yards per Game – Shaikel Davis, Mars Hill (125.4)
Passing Yards per Game – Bo Cordell, Tusculum (356.4)
Total Offense per Game – Bo Cordell, Tusculum (365.1)
Receptions per Game – Justin Houston, Tusculum (11.0)
Receiving Yards per Game – Dimitri Holmes, Mars Hill (144.6)
All-Purpose Yards per Game – Justin Houston, Tusculum (191.4)
Pass Efficiency Rating – W.T. Murden, Newberry (151.8)
Punt Return Average – Jason Livingston, Newberry (12.2)
Kick Return Average – Tim Nalesnik, Wingate (27.3)
Punting Average – Kyle Clark, Newberry (39.0)
Scoring Average (TDs) – De'Andre Thomas, Carson-Newman (8.73)
Scoring Average (Kicking) – Curt Duncan, Carson-Newman (8.55)
Field Goals per Game – Curt Duncan, Carson-Newman (1.27)
Field Goal Percentage – Patrick Smith, Wingate/Victor Yurco, Mars Hill (.860)
Tackles per Game – Sammy Siasia, Mars Hill (14.1)
Sacks per Game – Blake Baker, Lenoir-Rhyne (0.95) Tackles for Loss per Game – Troy Harris, Mars Hill (1.86)
Interceptions per Game – Michael Green, Lenoir-Rhyne (0.64)
Scoring Offense – Carson-Newman (39.3)
Scoring Defense – Lenoir-Rhyne (13.8)
Passing Offense – Tusculum (365.3)
Passing Defense – Newberry (200.9)
Rushing Offense – Lenoir-Rhyne (376.9)
Rushing Defense – Lenoir-Rhyne (85.9)
Total Offense – Carson-Newman (487.2)
Total Defense – Lenoir-Rhyne (307.6)
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A controversial novel set in an isolated, run-down community in the Andes. Part detective story and part political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, of the country's recent political violence, and of its cultural heritage.
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Spanish-peruvian writer Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, is regarded as one of the creators (along with such writers as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Carlos Fuentes) of the new Latin American novel. He is a brilliant writer, seeming to understand human weakness to the core. In this novel he manages to build a pace of development which resembles a literary version of Bolero which simply explodes in the last 25 pages.
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Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, literally The City and the Dogs), The Green House (La casa verde), and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral (Conversación en la catedral). He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, have been adapted as feature films.
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Meek Mill Gives Philly Kid a Second Xbox After the First One Was Stolen
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Meek Mill wasn't about to let some Grinches ruin Christmas.
On Tuesday, the 31-year-old rapper hosted a toy giveaway in his hometown of Philadelphia—delivering action figures, sneakers, board games, electronics, bikes, and more. The event was deemed a huge success, as it benefited about 3,000 local children; however, a case of greed nearly ruined the day for one participating kid.
As pointed out by The Blast, a young boy had left the giveaway with a brand new Xbox in hand. Shortly after he left the Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center, the child returned empty-handed with a disappointed look on his face. He told Meek that three other kids had stolen the console while he was making his way home.
"They robbed you for you Xbox?" Meek asked the kid in an Instagram story, captioned "The hood is nasty smh."
Meek had to make it right. After the little boy explained what had happened, the Dreamchasers rapper instructed the kid to "go get another one."
Meek Mill gives child another Xbox after getting his first one stolen 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/OhJZXaHW72
— Rap Spotlights (@RSpotlights) December 24, 2018
Speaking to CBS Philly, Meek explained the purpose behind the giveaway and why he chose to support the city that raised him.
"I got the platform to help out my community so why not do it, it’s really an easy thing to do," Meek explained. "I didn’t forget about where I came from [...] I actually come around here a lot. I can’t hang on the corner no more or nothing but you know I know the people around here. I know these faces."
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Electronic Service of Process
Electronic service of process has been seeing a significant uptick in approval over the last few years. While electronic service of process used to just mean service via email, it has grown to include Facebook and Twitter – and more recently, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Personal service continues to remain the golden standard for service, but in cases where service has been attempted and adequate due diligence conducted, e-service is a viable option. This can be extremely helpful in cases where it can be extremely difficult to locate a new address for an individual but there exists a known social media account.
Approval for alternate service
Getting approval for alternate service via email or social media will require information to be submitted to the judge providing proof that the social media account belongs to the defendant. The judge will also require significant due diligence in attempting to personally serve the subject. As an initial attempt, electronic service of process is not an option.
For more information on what may be necessary in order to gain approval for electronic service of process, our office is happy to share what we’ve seen needed in other cases. Please feel free to contact us as service@dgrlegal.com.
Service via Social Media
With worldwide social media users totaling near 2.3 BILLION, there are increasing odds of an individual being notified of the service than traditional alternate methods of service such as publication.
This type of service requires capture of specific information along with executing the service. Just like with other methods of alternate service, like publication, it can sometimes be difficult to know if the subject actually received the notice. There are instances where this can be determined, but having having substantiated proof of delivery will prove to the court the obligations of this type of service were fulfilled.
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Sound of Metal (TIFF review)
burnsting Editor-in-chief ‘Sound of Metal’ is Riz Ahmed’s subtle take on a drummer losing his hearing and joining the deaf community.
When we first meet Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is drumming as if his life depends on it. With his girlfriend he has a two-man band touring in an old bus they live and sleep in as well.
But soon something unexpected starts to happen. All of the sudden, without any reason, Ruben’s hearing starts to go.
He goes to see a doctor, but he's in denial. This is just temporary and he can just get a simple implant like the doctors tell him and he will be fine.
But as time passes he realizes, being a former addict, he can't do this alone. Through some people he meets Joe, and Ruben joins Joe’s deaf community.
Slowly he starts to adjust to his new life, but having always done something with sound it's hard for him to fit into this different, silent world.
Undeniably, Riz Ahmed is the person who brings this story to life. His emotions, though sometimes difficult, always seem authentic, and when the story drifts off Ahmed makes sure everyone keeps paying attention.
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We are fully transported into the world of the deaf with him. A community where many don't see being deaf as a disability. In that aspect it's a rare film that doesn't treat its subject with simplicity.
'Sound of Metal' takes a gripping look into the deaf community, and Riz Ahmed delivers his most stunning yet subtle performance yet.
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Sikorsky to Build Black Hawk Helicopters for US Army
04.07.2017 North America
The U.S. government and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, signed a five-year contract for 257 H-60 Black Hawk helicopters to be delivered to the U.S. Army and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers.
The multi-year contract will yield significant savings for the U.S. government compared with purchasing the same quantity across five separate annual agreements.
The “Multi-Year IX” contract for UH-60M Black Hawk and HH-60M MEDEVAC aircraft marks the ninth multiple-year contract for Sikorsky and the U.S. government for H-60 helicopters.
The contract value for expected deliveries is approximately $3.8 billion and includes options for an additional 103 aircraft, with the total contract value potentially reaching $5.2 billion.
Actual production quantities will be determined year-by-year over the life of the program based on funding allocations set by Congress and Pentagon acquisition priorities. The deliveries are scheduled to begin in October of this year and continue through 2022.
The UH-60M/HH-60M helicopters are the latest and most modern in a series of Black Hawk variants that Sikorsky has been delivering to the Army since 1978. They provide additional payload and range, advanced digital avionics, better handling qualities and situational awareness, active vibration control, improved survivability, and improved producibility.
“Four decades of production, strong program execution and delivery on behalf of the warfighter, coupled with great affordability for the taxpayer, have been the cornerstones of this program,” said Sam Mehta, President, Defense Systems and Services, Sikorsky.
“This contract allows us to continue supporting the important missions the Black Hawk performs as the workhorse utility and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) helicopter in the U.S. Army inventory,” he added.
Colonel Billy Jackson, the Utility Helicopters Project Manager stated that “this contract will provide the US Army, sister services and allies with state-of-the-art modernized helicopters to complete crucial missions and save lives. Moreover, this effort will stabilize our manufacturing base and control long-term costs, and ultimately provide significant savings to the taxpayer.”
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 97,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
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The mission of DeKalb County’s comprehensive school counseling and guidance program strive to prepare every student socially, academically, and emotionally for present and future challenges. Students are provided with opportunities to gain an understanding of self and others, to participate in educational and occupational exploration, and to pursue career planning opportunities in an environment that is safe, caring, and encouraging. Counselors work in collaborative partnerships with students, educators, parents, and community members to empower students to reach their highest level as productive members of society.
The comprehensive school counseling and guidance program is an essential integrated component of the total instructional program through which students have opportunities for academic, career, and personal/social development. In this regard, the school counseling and guidance program involves a planned, purposeful, and sequential program of activities that begins in kindergarten and continues through the twelfth grade. Comprehensive school counseling and guidance programs are data-driven by student needs and provide outcome-based accountability measures that align the school counseling and guidance program with the school’s overall academic mission.
Program and Benefits
All stakeholders in DeKalb County share the benefits of this plan. School counseling and guidance programs have a positive impact on students, parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, boards of education, school counselors, counselor educators, communities, postsecondary institutions, and student services personnel.
Benefits for Students
Ensures every student access to the school counseling and guidance program
Monitors and interprets data to facilitate student improvement and school success
Provides strategies for closing the achievement gap
Promotes the most challenging and appropriate academic curriculum for each student
Advocates for students and promotes equitable access to educational opportunities
Benefits for Parents/Guardians
Supports active partnerships for student learning and career planning
Invites and coordinates access to school and community resources
Advocates for student academic, career, and personal development
Provides training and informational workshops
Provides data for information on student progress
Benefits for Teachers
Promotes an interdisciplinary team approach to address student needs and educational goals
Increases collaboration with school counselors and teachers
Supports development of classroom management skills
Analyzes data to improve school climate and student achievement
Benefits for Administrators
Develops and implements a school counseling and guidance plan to promote student success
Utilizes data for school improvement
Uses data for implementation of the Alabama PEPE Program for Counselors
Provides a proactive school guidance curriculum that addresses student needs and enhances school climate
Benefits for Boards of Education
Provides data that support the implementation of a standards-based school counseling and guidance program
Ensures equity and access to a quality school counseling and guidance program for every student
Articulates appropriate credentials and staffing ratios
Informs the community about school counseling and guidance program success
Provides data about improved student achievement
Benefits for School Counselors
Defines responsibilities within the context of a school counseling and guidance program
Supports access to every student
Provides a tool for program management, implementation, and accountability
Recognizes school counselors as leaders, advocates, and agents of change
Ensures the school counseling and guidance program contributes to the school’s mission
Provides evidence of ongoing activities for the implementation of the Alabama PEPE Program for Counselors
Benefits for Counselor Educators
Builds collaboration between counselor education programs and schools
Provides a framework for school counseling and guidance programs
Provides a model for site-based school counseling fieldwork and internships
Increases data collection for collaborative research on school counseling and guidance programs
Establishes a framework for professional development to benefit practicing school counselors
Benefits for Communities
Builds collaboration with businesses and industries and enhances the potential for every student’s postsecondary success
Provides a workforce with a stronger academic foundation
Promotes equity and access to the workforce
Benefits for Postsecondary Education
Enhances articulation and transition of the student to postsecondary institutions
Encourages and supports rigorous academic preparation that prepares every student for the most appropriate postsecondary educational opportunities
Attempts to seek a wide range of substantial postsecondary options, including college
Promotes equity and access to postsecondary education for every student
Benefits for Student Services Personnel
Defines the school counseling and guidance program
Maximizes collaborative teaming to ensure individual student success
Uses school counseling and guidance program data to maximize benefits for individual student growth
Increases collaboration for utilizing school and community resources
Program Delivery Compoments
DeKalb County’s comprehensive school counseling and guidance program will ensure that every student has multiple opportunities to acquire competencies in the three domains of Academic Development, Career Development, and Personal/Social Development. A combination of the four program delivery components (School Guidance Curriculum, Individual Student Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support) should be utilized in assisting students to achieve these competencies. (See Figure 1, page 10.)
DeKalb County School Guidance Curriculum
DeKalb County guidance curriculum will include structured experiences presented systematically through classroom and group activities from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The curriculum emphasizes decision making; self-understanding; study skills; and career exploration, preparation, and planning. Examples of school guidance curriculum delivery options within this component may include, but are not restricted to:
Classroom Guidance Activities
Counselors facilitate, co-lead, or assist in the delivery of guidance curriculum activities. These activities may be conducted in the classroom, in the guidance center, or in other school facilities.
Counselors conduct small-group counseling sessions outside the classroom to respond to students’ identified interests or needs. Small-group counseling may be either immediate-response or long-term counseling.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development
Counselors participate on interdisciplinary teams to develop and refine curriculum in content areas. These teams develop classroom units that integrate subject matter with the school guidance curriculum. Counselors assist teachers in the delivery of classroom units that lead to acquisition of competencies in the domains of affective, social, and employability skills for every student in developmentally appropriate ways.
Parent Workshops and Instruction
Counselors conduct workshops or information sessions for parents or guardians to address the needs of the school community and to reflect the school counseling and guidance curriculum.
Topics for school guidance curriculum activities within this component may include, but are not limited to:
Career Awareness and Exploration
Choice-Making Skills
Substance Abuse Programs
Post-High School Planning
Pre-Employment Skills
Individual Student Planning
Individual student planning includes counseling activities that provide every student with an opportunity to plan, monitor, and manage their academic, career, and personal/social development. Individual student planning emphasizes test interpretation, while academic counseling includes postsecondary education, career/technical education, and career planning. Examples of individual student planning delivery options within this component may include, but are not restricted to:
Individual or Small-Group Appraisal
Counselors help students assess and interpret individual abilities, interests, skills, and achievements. The utilization of appropriate assessment information becomes an important aspect of individual development of immediate and long-range plans.
Individual or Small-Group Advisement
Counselors help students acquire self-appraisal skills; personal and social development skills; and educational, career, and labor market information. This information assists students in planning for personal, academic, and career aspirations. Counselors recognize the critical need to enlist teachers and parents or guardians in helping students make academic and career choices.
Placement and Follow-Up
Counselors advise students in making transitions by providing information and by assisting in the access of resources.
Topics for individual student planning activities may include, but are not limited to:
Four-Year Educational Plan
Career/Technical Education Programs
Honors and Awards Program
Teacher Advisor Programs
Financial Aid/Scholarship Advising
Career Shadowing
Postsecondary Application Process
Student Portfolios
Responsive Services
DeKalb County has services that include counseling or referral activities that meet the immediate needs and concerns of students. Responsive services include personal counseling, crisis counseling, problem solving, agency referral, and consultation. Examples of responsive services delivery options within this component may include, but are not restricted to:
School counselors serve as student advocates by consulting with students, parents or guardians, educators, and community agencies regarding strategies to help students and families. Advocacy may include participation in student study teams and student management teams.
Counseling is provided in small-group or individual settings for students experiencing difficulties dealing with relationships, personal concerns, or developmentally appropriate tasks. Personal counseling assists students in identifying problems, causes, alternatives, and consequences leading to informed decision making.
Crisis Counseling
Counseling and support services are provided to students and families facing emotional crises as outlined in the school crisis management plan. Crisis counseling is normally short-term and temporary, using appropriate referral sources if necessary.
Peer Facilitation
Counselors may train students as peer mediators, conflict managers, tutors, and mentors. Programs should adhere to the ethics standards and practices established by the National Peer Helpers Association.
Counselors use referral sources to enhance the services provided through the school counseling and guidance program. These referral sources may include, but are not restricted to:
DeKalb County Heath Department
DeKalb County Summer School Program
DeKalb County School Extended Day Program
DeKalb County Schools Senior Work Program
Dekalb County Mental Health
Children’s Advocacy Center
DeKalb County Human Resources
Immigration Naturalization Services
Family Initiative
Reading Academy
Christian Community Outreach
21st Century Grant
Safe and Drug Free Schools
Upper Sand Mountain Parrish
Community Action Agency
Mental Retardation Board
Amelia Center
Mentor DeKalb
Kids One Transportation
BHM Amonche
DeKalb County’s system support includes indirect guidance management activities that maintain and enhance the total counseling and guidance program. Responsibilities in this area include staff relations, community relations, task forces, professional development, support teams, test interpretation, data analysis, and curriculum development. This component provides appropriate support to academic programs. Examples of system support delivery options within this component may include, but are not restricted to:
Counselors are regularly involved in updating professional knowledge and skills. This may involve participating in regular school in-service training, attending professional meetings, completing postgraduate course work, and contributing to professional journals.
In-Service
Counselors attend system and school in-service training to ensure counseling skills are updated in the areas of curriculum development, technology, and data analysis. Counselors may provide in-service instruction in school guidance curriculum and areas of special concern to the school and community.
Consultation, Collaboration, and Teaming
Counselors provide important contributions to the school system by consulting, partnering, collaborating, and teaming.
Counselors design activities to orient the staff and community about the comprehensive school counseling and guidance program.
Counselors forge partnerships with local businesses, industries, and social service agencies. Community outreach requires counselors to be knowledgeable about community resources, employment opportunities, and local labor market information.
Consultation with Staff
Counselors consult regularly with teachers and professional staff members in order to receive feedback on emerging needs of students and to provide information and support to staff.
Curriculum Development Support
Counselors participate in the ongoing review and revision of academic curriculum materials as related to data analysis, student advocacy, postsecondary education, and career/technical education planning.
Counselors form counseling and guidance advisory committees at both the system and the individual school level. Counselors actively serve on community committees or advisory councils that influence other programs to generate support for system and individual school counseling and guidance programs.
Program Management and Operations
Planning and management tasks include the support of activities conducted in the school counseling and guidance program and responsibilities expected of a member of the school staff. Budget, facilities, policies and procedures, and research and resource development are elements of management activities.
Some examples of counselor research and evaluation include PEPE or other personnel guidance evaluations, program evaluations, data analysis, follow-up studies, professional development, and updating of resources.
Fair-Share Responsibilities
Fair-share responsibilities may include such tasks as bus duty, playground duty, class/club sponsorship, and taking tickets at sports events. Nonguidance responsibilities assigned to counselors should not be above and beyond those of other certified staff members, and should not interfere with the delivery of guidance services.
Program Structural Components
DeKalb County’s Local Education Agency (LEA) Counseling and Guidance Advisory Committee
In order to ensure that the system’s comprehensive counseling and guidance program is an integral part of the total school system and community, the DeKalb County’s LEA counseling and guidance advisory committee must be in place. The DeKalb County’s LEA counseling and guidance advisory committee is a representative group of persons appointed to provide advice and assistance for the school counseling and guidance program within a school system. The committee should consist of representative stakeholders of the school counseling and guidance program, including students, parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, administrators, school board members, as well as business and community representatives. Ideally, advisory committee membership reflects the community’s diversity. The advisory committee serves as a communication liaison between the comprehensive counseling and guidance program and the community. The DeKalb County’s LEA counseling and guidance advisory committee reviews program goals, competencies, and results, and participates in making recommendations to the school counseling and guidance department, principal, and superintendent. It is recommended that the committee meet at least twice a year.
Individual School Counseling and Guidance Advisory Committee
In addition to the Dekalb County’s LEA counseling and guidance advisory committee, each local school must establish a counseling and guidance advisory committee to advise and assist with the development and implementation of the comprehensive counseling and guidance program as reflected in the DeKalb County’s LEA advisory committee guidelines. The committee helps identify student needs and provides program support. The individual school counseling and guidance committee assists with the development and implementation of the comprehensive counseling and guidance program. Committee members represent all interested parties of the comprehensive counseling and guidance program: students, parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and community resource persons. It is recommended that the committee meet at least twice a year.
Coordinators’ Role
Coordination and direction of the DeKalb County’s LEA’s comprehensive counseling and guidance program is critical. Counseling and guidance coordinators provide necessary support for comprehensive school guidance program development, implementation, and evaluation of procedures that enhance the effectiveness of the school system’s comprehensive counseling and guidance program. Counseling and guidance coordinators serve as facilitators, leaders, supporters, and advisors. Counseling and guidance coordinators provide leadership to ensure the credibility of the comprehensive counseling and guidance program for faculty, staff, and the community.
Principals’ Role
Administrative support is critical to full implementation of the comprehensive counseling and guidance program. Principals, as chief administrators in DeKalb County schools, are ultimately responsible for the success of all instructional programs, including the school counseling and guidance program. Principals understand the role of school counselors and provide the necessary support for counselors to fulfill that role. Such support includes the provision of adequate facilities, materials, and clerical staff to allow counselors to use their specialized training in an effective manner. Principals provide input into program development and encourage and support participation of all school personnel in the implementation of the counseling and guidance program.
Counselors’ Role
Counselors assume the leadership role for managing and implementing the comprehensive counseling and guidance program in their school. Counselors are responsible for the systematic delivery and evaluation of structured developmental counseling and guidance services to all students. Counselors work directly with students, individually and in small groups, to deal with unique or problem-centered concerns that require more privacy or attention than can be accommodated in structured guidance activities. Counselors serve students indirectly by acting as consultants to administrators, teachers, parents, and others to help them understand and respond to the developmental, emotional, and social needs of students. Counselors coordinate various activities within the school that are related to student welfare. Appropriate referrals, placements, and follow-ups are activities that are particularly pertinent to counseling.
Elementary School Counselors
At the elementary level, counselors assist students in their efforts to learn the skills and attitudes required for school success. Elementary school counselors emphasize decision-making skills and early exploration of career and educational goals. These counselors also place strong emphasis on helping students develop self-awareness, self-esteem, and good interpersonal relationships.
Middle School Counselors
During the middle school grades, counselors’ concerns shift to the changing needs of the young adolescent. Middle school counselors focus on helping students to establish, identify, and balance academic, career, and personal/social goals. Efforts begun in elementary schools are continued and expanded, although an emphasis is placed on the transition into high school. In addition, middle school counselors help students integrate knowledge of their interests, aptitude, and academic skills into the formation of a high school four-year educational plan and educational/career planning portfolio for high school and beyond.
The high school counseling and guidance program builds on goals from the elementary and middle school. The high school program assists students in applying and enhancing acquired knowledge and understanding as they strive to become responsible adults. Counseling and guidance activities help students develop realistic and fulfilling life plans. Competency in decision making is stressed, career planning is refined, and personal responsibility is emphasized. The high school four-year educational plan and the educational/career planning portfolio, developed in the middle school, move with the student to the high school and are reviewed and updated annually.
Teachers’ Role
Teachers play a vital role in DeKalb County’s planning and implementation of a comprehensive school counseling and guidance program. As professionals who have the greatest contact with students, teachers are in the best position to recognize and help provide for the developmental and individual needs of students. Through appropriate communication and referral, teachers facilitate the interaction between students and counselors. Teachers demonstrate support for the program by providing adequate opportunities for student-counselor contact. Teachers contribute directly to the school counseling and guidance program by helping counselors deliver programs that facilitate the academic, career, and personal/social development of students. Teachers strengthen and follow through on concepts presented to help students retain the knowledge, skills, and understanding established through the program. Teacher support, input, and expertise make it possible for the school counseling and guidance program to become an integral part of the total educational program.
Appropriate guidance resources are required for each of the four program delivery components: School Guidance Curriculum, Individual Student Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support. These resources include equipment and materials, staff expertise, and community resources. Resource materials must be relevant to the program, appropriate for the diversity of the school and community, and of sufficient quantity to be useful. All counselors should be provided the necessary equipment and materials to implement the comprehensive counseling and guidance program.
DeKalb County Board of Education
P.O. Box 1668, 306 Main Street West
Rainsville, AL 35986
(256) 638-6921
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Biomin F: slow release for deep remineralisation
Moira Crawford
15th Mar 2019 08:09 2451 views
Biomin F toothpaste, delivering fluoride, calcium and phosphate in low but effective concentrations, is proving to be a game changer in the treatment of sensitivity and other problems caused by demineralisation of tooth enamel, says Moira Crawford.
Dentine hypersensitivity is thought to affect up to a third of the population at some stage. For most people, it is a relatively minor and transient discomfort, but for about 10% it can be severe and have a major impact on their quality of life. Many patients try a range of treatments, often without success.
The condition is caused when the enamel surface of the teeth is worn away or damaged, exposing the dentine layer below. The dentine contains microscopic tubules and, as hot or cold fluids trigger flow through these tubules (hydraulic conductance) they stimulate the exposed nerve endings in the pulp chamber, causing sensitivity.
Sensitivity is most common at the margin where the tooth meets the gums, either gum recession exposes the tubules or can be due to erosion where the thin enamel has been dissolved by acid attack.
A wide variety of toothpastes and other dental products are available to combat the pain and discomfort of dentine hypersensitivity, but due to the varied causes of the condition, no single solution works in all cases. Now, however, an innovative toothpaste, Biomin F, is available that takes a different approach to the management of dentine sensitivity through the use of bioactive glass technology. Biomin F works with the saliva in the mouth to neutralise acids and remineralise tooth enamel, occluding the dentinal tubules with acid-resistant fluorapatite and effectively preventing fluid flow to relieve sensitivity.
How Biomin F works
Biomin F is based on a new generation of bioactive glasses, developed in the laboratories of Queen Mary University, London. An optimum combination of fluoride, phosphate and calcium ions is incorporated within the structure of the glass itself and, as the glass gradually dissolves over up to 12 hours, these are released to neutralise acids in the mouth and deposit fluorapatite, the fluoride analogue of natural tooth enamel. This slow release action means that low but effective concentrations of fluoride are delivered to achieve a continuous effect compared with conventional toothpastes that contain soluble fluoride, which is rinsed away in under two hours. To ensure the toothpaste remains effective where it’s needed, Biomin F contains a polymer that adheres the fine glass particles to the tooth surface for many hours allowing, them to dissolve slowly, releasing the mineral ions.
The new generation of bioactive glass in Biomin F has a high phosphate content, which aids both the effectiveness and speed of the remineralisation. As the calcium, fluoride and phosphate ions are released, they work in concert with the saliva in the mouth to deposit fluorapatite, which is more stable and resistant to acid than standard apatite tooth surfaces.
Laboratory tests show that the fluoride in Biomin F is converted to fluorapatite as quickly as within 45 minutes in mineral rich artificial saliva. This remineralisation process continues for around 12 hours, with residual activity for up to 24 hours. A ‘smart’ effect has also been noted: at a lower pH in the mouth, for example following consumption of an acidic drink, Biomin F dissolves faster to restore the equilibrium and start the remineralisation process more rapidly.
Importantly for the treatment and prevention of dentine hypersensitivity, Biomin F works by occluding the dentinal tubules. Because of their very small size, the particles are able to enter the tubules, where they deposit fluorapatite preferentially on the apatite rich walls, occluding the tubules to prevent fluid flow (Figure 1), an effect still visible after acid challenge (Figures 2a-2c). Owing to the increased stability and resistance of fluorapatite, the tubules remain occluded more completely, and hydraulic conductance tests show a greater percentage reduction and faster remineralisation rates than other toothpastes tested.
Deep remineralisation
New research has also proven that the remineralising effects of Biomin F penetrate deep into the tooth, not just the surface layer. Researchers artificially prepared demineralised lesions (white spot lesions) around orthodontic brackets, and compared the remineralising performance of Biomin F with fluoride gel and a control group. They measured the sub-surface enamel lesions’ depth and mineral density, and their response to treatment, and found that the Biomin group showed significantly better remineralisation values. They hypothesise that this was due to the low fluoride content of the Biomin, released slowly over several hours, which allowed the penetration of the calcium and phosphate ions through the porous enamel sub-surface, effecting the successful remineralisation of the demineralised enamel lesion, rather than simply remineralising the surface layer.
This remineralising effect can be seen by eye. US hygienist Theresa McCarter noticed a visible improvement in the density of patients’ tooth enamel after a few months of using Biomin. ‘One lady’s teeth were so translucent they were almost blue, and after using Biomin they were noticeably improved, especially in the terminal third where the tooth tapers,’ she said.
UK dentists are also finding that Biomin works. Dr Don Gibson in Yeovil commented: ‘90% of the patients that I have recommended it to are passionate about it and have come back for more. Some of the patients with the most significant sensitivity problems, who haven’t been able to find anything that works, have noticed great improvement.’
Dr Nigel Slattery from Little Lever, Bolton, Lancs, agreed. ‘Biomin F delivers the optimum amount of fluoride for benefit – you don’t need any more than that – and I like that it adheres to the tooth to be slowly taken on, looking after the teeth for 24 hours. That seems ideal,’ he said.
The fact that Biomin is a regular toothpaste, not an extra step in the oral care routine, will improve compliance, argues hygienist Theresa McCarter. ‘I see Biomin as becoming an everyday toothpaste benefiting 80-90% of our patients,’ she said. ‘It will be a game changer.’
Biomin F has gained approval from the Oral Health Foundation for its effectiveness at both sensitivity reduction and remineralisation. The Foundation has confirmed that brushing regularly twice daily with Biomin F ‘provides relief from dentine hypersensitivity and long-lasting protection against acid attack’.
For people who prefer not to use a fluoride-containing paste, Biomin C is also available.
For further information about Biomin, call 01274 881044 or visit www.biomin.co.uk.
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There's no escape
LAW dodgers in Halton have been getting their comeuppance in a police crackdown targeting suspects who have skipped court, bail or appointments at the police station.
During September, officers tracked down 31 of the 100 people wanted on warrant in Runcorn and Widnes, with police warning the rest to expect a knock on the door soon.
Inspector David Price, of the Halton Division, said: 'To clear up almost a third of outstanding warrants in just one month has been a considerable success for the Division. But we will be continuing our efforts to execute the remaining warrants in the coming weeks. Anyone who would like to hand themselves in, to save being called upon by police, should come to Widnes police station on any week day before 9am.'
The 31 arrests were made after police carried out extensive checks and paid visits to homes in the borough to target the suspects, wanted for a range of offences from serious assault to shoplifting.
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Canadian Sport School Victoria Graduate Nominated for Rio Olympics
VICTORIA, BC – The Canadian Sport School Victoria (CSS) is proud to recognize alumnus Charity Williams, who became the first program graduate to be nominated to an Olympic team. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Williams was among the 12 athletes nominated on July 8 by the Canadian Olympic Committee and Rugby Canada to represent Team…
First Ever Canadian Para-triathlon Squad Nominated for Rio 2016
VICTORIA, B.C. – Four international medal-winning Canadian triathletes are not only ready to make history, but are determined to step onto the podium when the sport makes its Paralympic debut at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The Canadian Paralympic Committee and Triathlon Canada announced today an experienced group consisting of one man and three women…
Athletics Canada team nominated for Rio 2016
TORONTO – On Monday, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Athletics Canada named the 65 athletes nominated to represent Team Canada in athletics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games from August 5 to 21. Some of the athletes selected include: Shawn Barber (pole vault, 2015 World Champion) and Derek Drouin (high jump, 2015 World Champion…
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Actors Who Got Paid Way Too Low For These Iconic Roles
As innocent moviegoers, our job is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the film playing in front of us (whilst munching on our way-too-buttered popcorn). We’re...
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Who Is The Highest Paid Superhero And Supervillain, Ranked?
Every other month there’s a new superhero movie, and a new box-office record to break. But while the studios are making billions of dollars, how much...
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The Highest Paid Actors in Hollywood Show Us How It’s Done
We all know that Hollywood heavyweights make some serious money, but if there are some small screen stars out there making a million dollars an episode,...
Five Fascinating Facts About Gal Gadot’s Husband, Yaron Varsano
So, who is Gal Gadot married to? Since 2008, Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has been happily married to Yaron Varsano. While everyone knows about the box...
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Should you be driving?
Aussie drink-driving laws have similar penalties, but our BAC level is still at .05. This will be moved to .02 in the coming years.
Be safe for you, your family and the person you may injure because, you thought you were ‘ok to drive!’
SHOULD YOU BE DRIVING? DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE....EVER!
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CBD may pose unknown health risks and cannot be marketed as a dietary supplement, food or therapeutic cure-all.
CBD products may be trendy, but health officials are worried that these products — which are often marketed illegally — may not be safe.
Yesterday (Nov. 26), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to 15 companies that sell CBD products because the products violate federal law. The agency also issued an update to consumers about the popular products, and stressed that there is limited evidence for their safety.
"This overarching approach regarding CBD is the same as the FDA would take for any other substance that we regulate," Abernethy said. The agency encouraged consumers to speak with health care professionals about how to treat diseases and conditions with existing drugs, and to be wary of "unsubstantiated claims" associated with CBD products.
The FDA requested that the companies issued letters respond within 15 working days and report how they plan to correct the violations.
For full story (28/11/19)
The Dutch Are Waking Up to Discover They Live in a ‘Narco State’
The Dutch government and Dutch society failed to realize the country had moved from consuming drugs to producing them, and on a global scale.
“I have grave concerns about the disruption that addictive drugs are causing. The drug economy undermines every aspect of society and threatens the legitimate economy. But it also threatens our standards, our values and our security.”
Dutch minister of Justice and Security, Ferdinand Grapperhaus
For complete story
The FDA is working to answer questions about the science, safety, and quality of products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds, particularly CBD.
The FDA has approved only one CBD product, a prescription drug product to treat two rare, severe forms of epilepsy.
It is currently illegal to market CBD by adding it to a food or labeling it as a dietary supplement.
The FDA has seen only limited data about CBD safety and these data point to real risks that need to be considered before taking CBD for any reason.
Some CBD products are being marketed with unproven medical claims and are of unknown quality.
The FDA will continue to update the public as it learns more about CBD.
CBD has the potential to harm you, and harm can happen even before you become aware of it.
CBD can cause liver injury.
CBD can affect the metabolism of other drugs, causing serious side effects.
Use of CBD with alcohol or other Central Nervous System depressants increases the risk of sedation and drowsiness, which can lead to injuries.
CBD can cause side effects that you might notice. These side effects should improve when CBD is stopped or when the amount ingested is reduced.
Changes in alertness, most commonly experienced as somnolence (drowsiness or sleepiness).
Gastrointestinal distress, most commonly experienced as diarrhea and/or decreased appetite.
Changes in mood, most commonly experienced as irritability and agitation.
There are many important aspects about CBD that we just don’t know, such as:
What happens if you take CBD daily for sustained periods of time?
What is the effect of CBD on the developing brain (such as children who take CBD)?
What are the effects of CBD on the developing fetus or breastfed newborn?
How does CBD interact with herbs and botanicals?
Does CBD cause male reproductive toxicity in humans, as has been reported in studies of animals?
For more go to FDA Consumer Updates: Cannabis
Male Marijuana Use Might Double the Risk of Partner’s Miscarriage
BU researcher finds that miscarriages are more likely when the father uses marijuana weekly - If a man habitually uses marijuana even as little as once a week, could that increase the risk of his partner experiencing a miscarriage in early pregnancy? A first-of-its-kind study suggests so.
By analyzing more than six years of lifestyle and behavioral data from 1,535 heterosexual couples actively trying to conceive, Boston University School of Public Health researcher Alyssa Harlow discovered that for men who use marijuana one or more times a week, their partner is twice as likely to miscarry than the partners of men who use marijuana less than once a week or not at all. The link persisted even after Harlow accounted for whether or not the men’s partners used marijuana themselves.
For complete article
Marijuana Effects on the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
Big Marijuana NZ - FFBriefing Booklet 2019
Dalgarno Submission On Legalising Cannabis Bill
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The Importance of Eating Together
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Family dinners build relationships, and help kids do better in school. Eating together was a small act, and it required very little of us—45 minutes away from our usual, quotidian distractions—and yet it was invariably one of the happiest parts of my day Using data from nearly three-quarters of the world’s countries, a new analysis from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that students who do not regularly eat with their parents are significantly more likely...
What we have learned from Stress & Addiction Research
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Research also shows that “Effective modulation of the stress response is an essential component of resilience and is dependent on a complex interplay of neurobiological and behavioral factors.” 11 We may come to find that reducing significant stress among vulnerable groups is one of the most important behavioral, prevention, and public health goals. Stress is certainly a major cause of drug and alcohol craving. 12 It also causes a drive for relief, which is often seen as the proximal event in...
The New Cannabis: What You Aren’t Being Told!
What You Aren’t Being Told!
First long-term health study on vaping confirms it’s bad for our lungs
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Jeff Parsons 19 Dec 2019 The first conclusive study over the health effects of vaping has been published over in the US and it’s not good news. According to the study, carried out by researchers from the University of San Francisco, vaping does contribute to lung disease in adults regardless of whether or not they also smoke tobacco. They state that vapers are 1.3 times more likely than non-vapers to develop diseases like chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or asthma. ‘I think it’s a critically...
Christmas warnings as study shows even a 'sip' of alcohol can lead to toxic drinking habits in kids
BY KEVIN NGUYEN UPDATED WED AT 5:41AM Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Parents are being asked to reconsider allowing their kids to drink alcohol these holidays. PIXABAY Thinking about giving a child wine or beer during Christmas dinner? Researchers say even a "sip" could lead to toxic drinking habits as they become older. Key points: Drinking even once as a child was associated with binge drinking in later years A researcher said Australia had an unhealthy approach to alcohol compared to other...
Independent report reveals pill testing increases intentions to use ecstasy!
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Dr Rob Waterman (Rural Health Tasmania) Source: PODCAST © Tasmania Talks
Drug Free Australia - MEDIA RELEASE:
FACTS WRONG ON UK PILL TESTING, USE AND DEATHS 15 December 2019 An article published in Tasmania’s Mercury is an example of misinformation being peddled by pill testing supporters to the media, with the island’s peak ATOD body misquoting UK statistics to push a bogus rationale for pill testing. In the article Tasmania ATDC CEO Alison Lai asserts that UK ecstasy deaths have been increasing while ecstasy use has been decreasing, leading her to support the notion spread by the UK’s Dr Fiona...
Open Letter on Pill Testing from Drug Free Australia to;
Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Rural Doctors Association of Australia Australian Medical Association Australian Nursing Midwifery Association National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Forensic and Clinical Toxicology Association Public Health Association of Australia Dear Board Chair/President, I am writing as the Secretary for Drug Free...
Vaping: The Hit Your Brain Takes
Everyone at Risk, Teenagers more so!
Pill Testing Deception- Push for Pill Testing and Absolute Farce!
Coroners Report Does Not Recomment Pill Testing in Tasmania Chief Executive Officer, of Rural Health Tasmania, Robert Waterman, came out today with further evidence that the push to trial pill testing in Tasmania is based on a deliberate deception. For more download PDF
Marijuana vape users are getting incurable "cobalt lung"
This is just the beginning, pulmonary researchers caution. By Alexandra Pattillo on December 4, 2019 After using a marijuana vape pen for just six months, a 49-year-old retired dog trainer went to the doctor coughing and wheezing, reporting shortness of breath upon exertion. The woman had smoked off and on through her teens and twenties, but was healthy — other than her worrying throat symptoms. Her doctors gave her a rare and surprising diagnosis: hard-metal pneumoconiosis — a lung disease...
Associations of Parental Marijuana Use With Offspring Marijuana, Tobacco, and Alcohol Use and Opioid Misuse
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CONCLUSIONS & RELEVANCE : In this cross-sectional study, parental marijuana use was associated with increased risk of substance use among adolescent and young adult offspring living in the same household. Screening household members for substance use and counseling parents on risks posed by current and past marijuana use are warranted. For Article
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The Dutch government and Dutch society failed to realize the country had moved from consuming drugs to producing them, and on a global scale. “I have grave concerns about the disruption that addictive drugs are causing. The drug economy undermines every aspect of society and threatens the legitimate economy. But it also threatens our standards, our values and our security.” Dutch minister of Justice and Security, Ferdinand Grapperhaus For complete story
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BU researcher finds that miscarriages are more likely when the father uses marijuana weekly - If a man habitually uses marijuana even as little as once a week, could that increase the risk of his partner experiencing a miscarriage in early pregnancy? A first-of-its-kind study suggests so. By analyzing more than six years of lifestyle and behavioral data from 1,535 heterosexual couples actively trying to conceive, Boston University School of Public Health researcher Alyssa Harlow discovered...
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Pill Testing Deception
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E-cigarettes take serious toll on heart health, not safer than traditional cigarettes
E-cigarette use takes a serious toll on heart health—a big concern given the high prevalence of e-cigarettes and perception of e-cigarettes as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, according to new research that will be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2019—November 16-18 in Philadelphia. Read More
Cannabis may be linked to strokes and heart rhythm disturbances in young people
Medical Xpress: Frequent cannabis (marijuana) use among young people was linked to an increased risk of stroke and people diagnosed with cannabis use disorder were more likely to be hospitalized for heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias), according to two new preliminary studies to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2019 "The effects of using cannabis are seen within 15 minutes and last for around three hours. At lower doses, it is linked to a rapid...
How Marijuana Use Can Increase Your Risk for an Alcohol Overdose
A new study found that when people use alcohol and drugs together, their risk for an alcohol overdose increases. The study looked at 660 patients who had experienced alcohol poisoning, passing out, or blacking out events, and found only 20 percent had been using alcohol alone. The most common drug used in combination with alcohol users who experienced an alcohol overdose was marijuana. When used in combination with alcohol, several drugs have the power to increase alcohol intake beyond what a...
Evidence on the Development TOXICITY of Cannabis Smoke & THC
The growing and disturbing evidence of harms done invitro and lifetime impacts Download PDF
Ripple Effect: Family's Suffer from OTHERS Drug Use!
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Marijuana Related Suicided of Young People in Colorado
Marijuana is the Number 1 substance now found in suicides of young people in Colorado who are 15-19 years old. Go to the below Colorado website and click on the box that lists “methods, circumstances and toxicology” and then click on the box for 15-19 years olds. The marijuana data found here Marijuana and Suicide – The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol 6 In suicides in the age range 10 – 19 the most significant drug involved was Marijuana (Pages 41-46)
Portugal Mayor Supports Recriminalizing Public Drug Use
But what’s been a beacon of hope for North American drug policy reformers could be regressing towards punitive approaches that Americans are all too familiar with. On September 30, Rui Moreira, the mayor of Porto, contradicted his past pro-harm reduction positions, like the ones made at the 2019 Harm Reduction International conference in his own city, when he endorsed reintroducing criminal penalties for drug use in public spaces during a municipal assembly meeting. Drug decriminalization “is...
So, Doing Drugs for Fun? (What it Really Costs to Ignore Justice!)
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So, Doing Drugs for Fun? (What it Really Costs to Ignore Justice!) Is, simply, good. Very good, in fact. It is a deep-dive through the superficial fun of a party drug that 1 million Britons take into the brutality beneath. It manages to be compelling, honest and unpreachy, and treats its subject with robust respect. They visit the slums and the tenants they control, meet the children who have an 80% chance of being recruited into the industry, and go out on patrol with the navy to understand...
VAPING CRISIS Info Sheet
Pill Testing: The Claims Vs The Science!
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Marijuana may be bad for your junk: Weed may affect the testicles and hijack sperm production, study suggests
Studies on marijuana's effects on sex and reproduction have yielded mixed results Some have suggested heavy pot users have poorer quality sperm A new Danish study is the first to find the central nervous system's cannabis receptors are in the testicles, too This system plays a role in how sperm is produced and matures Researchers say marijuana may effect these receptors and therefore sperm For complete article
E-cigarettes may damage the heart! Scientists ask Public Health England to stop recommending vaping
E-cigarettes may damage the heart! Scientists ask Public Health England to stop recommending vaping - 90 per cent of studies which had no conflict of interest showed impact on the heart! Asked whether PHE should now change its advice, Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health…who co-authored the new analysis said: “The simple answer is yes.” For complete story
Drug dealers 'moving from street corners to social media'
Social media platforms are increasingly being used as a market place for illicit drugs, according to the first definitive study of the practice. The Volteface study found that almost half of under-18s questioned were unconcerned by the appearance of illegal drug adverts on their social media sites. Lizzie McCulloch from Volteface said the relatively recent phenomenon of drug dealers selling their product through social media had almost become normalised. "The fact that we've only recently...
Vaping’s Plausible Deniability Is Going Up in Smoke
Ongoing FDA investigations and a spate of hospitalizations show that “safer than cigarettes” does not mean safe. the question of vaping’s relative danger has recently taken on a much more desperate tone. While vaping is still so new that broad, long-term data on inhaling the often mysterious chemicals found in both nicotine and cannabis “vape juice” won’t be available for years, Americans are beginning to see the effects that heavy or extended use of the vaping market’s vast array of products...
International FASD Awareness Day – 9th, 9th – 2019
“Let’s all make a noise to raise awareness of the incurable, but completely preventable, Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder!” “The greatest tragedy of this dangerous scenario, is that way too many people, even though they are aware of the risks, seem to believe they won’t be the ones who will have a child impacted – permanently – by this preventable condition,” said Shane Varcoe. Exective Director Dalgarno Institute Download Media Release
Why People Turn to Exercise to Stay Sober
There are real physical, psychological, and social benefits for people in recovery Exercise reduces the production of the stress hormone cortisol, which has been linked to mental health issues like depression and anxiety, while increasing endorphins and adrenaline. Early animal studies have shown that physical activity can curb dependencies on substances including opioids and cocaine; tests on people addicted to drugs in Denmark found that regular exercise improved energy, body image, and...
US Surgeon General to teens and pregnant women:
Weed is way too risky for developing brains We do know that marijuana is a dangerous drug!
Gene linked to autism undergoes changes in men's sperm after pot use
A specific gene associated with autism appears to undergo changes in the sperm of men who use marijuana, according to new research from Duke Health. The gene change occurs through a process called DNA methylation, and it could potentially be passed along to offspring. Publishing online Aug. 27 in the journal Epigenetics , the researchers said…possible connection warrants further, urgent study, given efforts throughout the country to legalize marijuana for recreational and/or medicinal uses....
Study finds that teens are using a highly potent form of marijuana
Nearly one in four Arizona teens have used a highly potent form of marijuana known as marijuana concentrate, according to a new study by Arizona State University researchers. Among nearly 50,000 eighth, 10th, and 12th graders from the 2018 Arizona Youth Survey, a biennial survey of Arizona secondary school students, one-third (33%) had tried some form of marijuana, and nearly a quarter (24%) had tried marijuana concentrate. Marijuana concentrates have about three times more THC, the...
Prizes for sobriety: As Washington meth use rises, this treatment is one of few that works
Contingency management, researchers like McDonell say, is that thing: It works, patients like it, and it’s cost-effective. Literature reviews and analyses often agree: A review of 69 reports released from 2009 to 2014 found “high levels of treatment efficacy” in contingency-management treatment. On average, it increased a patient’s odds of reaching abstinence by 117%. Here’s how the treatment works: You come in a few times a week, complete a urine test, and if it’s negative, you draw for a...
Opioid-related deaths increase nearly 300% in kids, teens
Nearly 9,000 children and adolescents died as a result of prescription and illicit opioid poisonings between 1999 and 2016 in the United States, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open . Most of these deaths occurred in teenagers, who saw an increase in heroin-related mortality of more than 400% during that time. For complete article
Teens more likely to jump to heroin after misusing prescription opioids
Teenagers who reported nonmedical prescription opioid use during high school were significantly more likely to later use heroin, according to findings from a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Pediatrics. “The opioid epidemic has overwhelmed many communities in the United States, and teenagers are a particularly vulnerable group who also are at risk,” lead author Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, assistant professor in the division of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles,...
Mystery lung illness linked to vaping reported in nearly 100 people
Medical authorities say it is unclear whether patients will fully recover – US health officials are investigating around 100 cases of mysterious lung illnesses believed to be linked to vaping and e-cigarette use in 14 states. Many of those who have fallen ill are teenagers and young adults. A large number have been hospitalised, with some in intensive care and on ventilators. For complete story
New tests uncover killer cannabinoids
Macquarie University researcher Shivani Sachdev has developed new tests to analyse synthetic cannabinoids and found some are up to 300 times more powerful than the cannabis plant…a group of drugs causing hundreds of deaths and hundreds of hospitalisations around the world. “Synthetic drugs are cheap, potent and widely available – and they have become a dangerous epidemic, literally poisoning people all over the world,” says Sachdev. “People have died from just a small dose of some of these...
Examining Brain Health Could Help Fight Methamphetamine Use Disorder
In prior work, it’s been noted how psychosis can follow methamphetamine use and last into abstinence. Varying levels of methamphetamine use can induce psychosis, depending in part on an individual’s background, and it can develop quickly or after 20 years of use. This psychosis can be quite similar to Schizophrenia - in some cases, violent behaviors have been connected to methamphetamine psychosis as well. A study of Japanese prisoners found that a subgroup of methamphetamine users experienced...
The Key Role of Epigenetics in Human Disease Prevention and Mitigation
The absurdity of legalising drugs – Campaigners who say they want to legalise ‘all drugs’ and also regulate them are contradicting themselves
“The war on drugs”: what a bombastic, vainglorious phrase that is. ‘Look at me’ says the politician or pundit who uses it approvingly, ‘look how tough I am’ . But for the politician or pundit who uses it disapprovingly, there are equal and opposite pretences: ‘look at me – see how reasonable I am, how realistic!’ But the war on drugs isn’t a war at all. It is an ongoing and complex process of law enforcement. It has different components which are handled in different ways by different...
Agony of the ecstasy pushers
Music festival pill-testers continue to skirt the truth in their campaign to expand their services beyond Canberra. At last weekend’s Splendour in the Grass music festival at Byron Bay in northern NSW, the equipment was again on show, with claims that lives are saved with testing. Testing is about identifying deadly contaminants, but the inconvenient truth out of the NSW coronial inquest into the series of drug deaths at music festivals is all deaths were due to an ecstasy (MDMA) overdose...
Parents who use marijuana and alcohol are at a higher risk of ‘physical abuse’ at home
Over 90% of parents who have used marijuana over the past year also reported using alcohol, according to a new study Parents who used marijuana and drank alcohol over the past year had some of the biggest risks for carrying out physical abuse…Parents who have used marijuana in the past year are more likely than non-users on average to discipline their kids through corporal punishment (like a slap or spank), physical abuse (like a hit on the head or a kick) and also nonviolent tactics (like...
Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being, health-related quality of life
Quitting alcohol may improve health-related quality of life for women, especially their mental well-being, according to a study from Hong Kong published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) . Dr. Ni. "Our findings suggest caution in recommendations that moderate drinking could improve health-related quality of life. Instead, quitting drinking may be associated with a more favourable change in mental well-being, approaching the level of lifetime abstainers." For complete story
No Such Thing as ‘Safe’ Teen Drinking!
No Such Thing as ‘Safe’ Teen Drinking! Download PDF
Cannabis smokers are 'FIVE times more likely to develop an alcohol addiction', experts warn
Cannabis users found to be 5 times more likely to develop alcohol problem Marijuana use also increases likelihood of drug dependency, experts say They warn pot smokers will also be more likely to develop a smoking habit Experts say 'adverse psychiatric outcomes' should be considered by doctors when considering the best treatment for patients Alcoholics, who did not use the drug, were significantly more likely to be seeking treatment in rehab, within three years, according to scientists at...
Warning! Warning! NHS is forced to open Britain’s first clinic for cannabis psychosis
Cannabis-induced psychosis has reached crisis levels, forcing the NHS [National Health Service] to open the first clinic specifically treating addicts of the mind-altering drug, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The clinic has been launched by a leading psychiatrist who warns that psychosis among users of skunk – a very strong strain of cannabis flooding the streets – has become ‘a crisis that we can simply no longer ignore’, with tens of thousands of people affected. Dr Di Forti, a consultant...
Queensland women treated for alcoholism at soaring rate
MIDDLE-AGED Queensland women are being treated for alcoholism at alarming rates with experts reporting the state is now seeing the devastating effects of the “super mum complex”. The admission rate to Queensland Health’s Hospital Alcohol and Drug Service (HADS) has almost doubled in the last 10 years for women aged 46 to 55, while the trend is down for women under 25 and steady for those between 26 and 45. For more
What's to know about popcorn lung?
Popcorn lung is a rare condition that causes airway scarring due to inflammation and eventually lung damage. Popcorn lung is characterized by the lung tissue scarring and becoming narrow. This can lead to breathing problems. Popcorn lung is a rare medical condition that damages the bronchioles, the lung's smallest airways. Breathing in harmful chemicals, particles, or toxins can lead to popcorn lung. Food-flavoring fumes produced during the manufacture of candies, potato chips, popcorn, and...
Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction Among Adults
Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction Among Adults: The use of e-cigarettes is associated with an increased risk of having had an MI. Dual use of e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes is riskier than the sole use of either product. Myocardial Infarction
Blood on their hands: The decadent drug users who don't care about dark origins
At a smart dinner party, where cocaine is passed around like canapes, the wealthy guests likely do not think about the class A drug’s dark origins. Behind these decadent suburban scenes are the end result of a supply chain that involves environmental devastation, violence, high-level corruption and crimes including gang warfare, sex trafficking and terrorism. And it is why Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told middle-class drug users that they had “blood on their hands”. Police...
I am Lyla P,
I am Lyla P, Optimistic, courageous, influential, and understanding Admirer of those who communicate effectively and express their views calmly Who fears for one who doesn’t assess their circumstances properly and responds in a way that causes dangerous consequences Who needs positive peer pressure, so I can clearly evaluate the right decisions to make that will maintain a stellar reputation Who tries to avoid situations when my “ friends ” pressure me to make immature decisions and harm my...
Mum put fatal dose of fentanyl in baby's sippy cup so she could 'relax and smoke marijuana': prosecutor
(The Monster that is Marijuana A-Motivation; and people want governments to endorse this psychotropic toxin through law??!!) A woman found guilty of spiking her baby's sippy cup with a fatal dose of fentanyl committed the crime in order to quiet the child so she could "sit back, relax and smoke marijuana," a prosecutor said Monday. Assistant district attorney Diana Page told a Pennsylvania jury that Jhenea Pratt, 23, drugged her 17-month-old daughter, Charlette Napper-Talley, in April 2018...
Addiction – Disease or Decision?
The message that addiction is a disease makes substance users less likely to seek help! Research finds that people with substance-use problems who read a message describing addiction as a disease are less likely to report wanting to engage in effective therapies, compared to those who read a message that addiction behaviors are subject to change. The finding could inform future public and interpersonal communication efforts regarding addiction. "Overall, our findings support moving away from...
Cannabis can affect teenagers so severely that they end up three years behind their classmates, study finds
Results concluded from an investigation of 4,000 Canadian school children Researchers found cannabis more toxic for youngsters’ brains than alcohol Persistent use of the drug seriously affected basic reasoning skills Regularly smoking cannabis can affect teenagers so severely that they end up three years behind their classmates in terms of brain development, a landmark study has found. The results of the investigation, which involved almost 4,000 secondary school children in Canada , led...
Association Between Incident Exposure to Benzodiazepines in Early Pregnancy and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion
An increased risk of SA was observed among early pregnancies with incident exposure to short and long-acting benzodiazepines and all specific benzodiazepine agents during early pregnancy. Insomnia, anxiety, and mood disorders are prevalent during pregnancy; clinicians should carefully evaluate the risk/benefit ratio of prescribing benzodiazepines in early pregnancy since alternative nonpharmacologic treatments exist. For complete article
Alarm over 'staggering' spike in hospitalised underage drinkers
Dangerous underage binge drinking is taking an increasing toll on Queensland's young people, with an average of almost 20 a week ending up in the state's hospitals. Queensland Health data shows in 2018, 975 underage drinkers ended up in Queensland emergency departments (EDs), up from 762 in 2014. "More than 200 intoxicated teens presented to Brisbane EDs, more than 280 to Gold Coast EDs and almost 90 to Sunshine Coast EDs.The number of 12- to 17-year-olds showing up in Queensland emergency...
The Rise of the Sober Bar!
But there is a crucial difference between Getaway and other Brooklyn bars: Getaway is totally alcohol-free. “It’s 0% as much as humanly possible, so if you’re sober and it’s an issue for you, or you don’t even want the smell of alcohol around you, you’ll be safe,” Thonis says. But it still looks and feels like a bar - it only opens in the evenings, the lights are low and no one appears to be working on their screenplay. For complete story
Longitudinal changes of amygdala functional connectivity in adolescents prenatally exposed to cocaine
Highlights • Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) is associated with long-term arousal dysregulation. • PCEs and controls were scanned with rfMRI at the mean ages of 14.3 and 16.6 years. • Amygdala connectivity changed oppositely with age in the PCE and control groups. • Amygdala connectivity in rest predicted emotional interference in task state. • PCE may contribute to increased emotional arousal in adolescent development. Abstract Background: Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) is associated with...
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How Big Tobacco Got a New Generation Hooked
It’s using the slick, high-tech disguise of vaping. Twenty years ago, as a creative director , I helped create a commercial for the Truth campaign to introduce its effort to prevent cigarette smoking by young people. The spot was simply footage of tobacco executives all testifying, “I believe nicotine is not addictive.” All we did was add a laugh track. The effect of my campaign and others was to help a generation of young people see the tobacco companies as they really were. Companies that...
The middle-class drug users who 'demand Fairtrade coffee but ignore misery of cocaine supply lines'
A police and crime commissioner (PCC) has said that middle class drug users are "more concerned about their fair trade coffee" than knowing where their cocaine is coming from. Mr Lloyd’s remarks echo comments by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, who has hit out at middle-class cocaine users who worry about issues like the environment and fair trade but believe there is “no harm” in taking the class A drug. “They may never set foot in a deprived area. They may never see an act of...
Major study debunks myth that moderate drinking can be healthy
Blood pressure and stroke risk rise steadily the more alcohol people drink, and previous claims that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke are not true, according to the results of a major genetic study. The research, which used data from a 160,000-strong cohort of Chinese adults, many of whom are unable to drink alcohol due to genetic intolerance, found that people who drink moderately - consuming 10 to 20 grams of alcohol a day - raise their risk of stroke by 10 to 15 percent....
'Safe' teen drinking? Here's why parents shouldn't facilitate it
(US are following Australian Research lead) Referred to by social scientists as "harm reduction," this strategy is more than just ineffective, say experts. It's actually helping to fuel an epidemic of teenage binge drinking. Elizabeth Heubeck April 2019 "Well, we did it when we were their age." This common refrain, popular among parents with a permissive attitude toward underage drinking, is often coupled with well-intentioned efforts to keep adolescents safe while consuming alcohol: Think...
'Ask for Angela' safety campaign launched to combat sexual violence in Sydney
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People who feel threatened or unsafe during a date or social situation can now ask Sydney bartenders for 'Angela', in a new initiative to combat violence and sexual assault
Prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring mental health: A systematic review
Conclusions: Our review suggests that maternal alcohol use during pregnancy is associated with offspring mental health problems, even at low to moderate levels of alcohol use. Future investigation using methods that allow stronger causal inference is needed to further investigate if these associations shown are causal. read more
Doctors reveal hidden toll of babies left with mental, behavioural and developmental issues due to mother’s drinking in pregnancy
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The 172,000 Scots born damaged by their mothers’ drinking can be revealed today as a nationwide drive is launched to help the innocent victims of Scotland’s alcohol problem. The number of those affected by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy, has escalated calls for earlier diagnosis and better support for victims. The disorder is now four times more common than autism but, experts fear, awareness of the condition among the public and health...
Smoking cannabis in your teens IS linked to depression in later life: Major study reveals drug 'damages children's brains' and half a MILLION adults could avoid mental-health disorder if they had...
Largest study of its kind found that 7% of adult depression could be prevented Drug has also been linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts Researchers say tackling the use of millions of under 18s should be a priority PUBLISHED: 14 February 2019 Smoking cannabis in your teenage years raises the risk of depression and suicide in later life, a landmark new study has found. Researchers from the US and UK have revealed the drug could impair a child's brain to the extent it triggers mental health...
Smoking cannabis in your teens IS linked to depression in later life:
Major study reveals drug 'damages children's brains' and half a MILLION adults could avoid mental-health disorder if they had turned down marijuana Largest study of its kind found that 7% of adult depression could be prevented Drug has also been linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts Researchers say tackling the use of millions of under 18s should be a priority PUBLISHED: 14 February 2019 Smoking cannabis in your teenage years raises the risk of depression and suicide in later life, a...
Heavy drinking in teens causes lasting changes in emotional center of brain
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Date: February 2019 Source: University of Illinois at Chicago Summary: Lasting changes in the brain caused by drinking that starts in adolescence are the result of epigenetic changes that alter the expression of a protein crucial for the formation and maintenance of neural connections in the amygdala -- the part of the brain involved in emotion, fear and anxiety. Read More
Study ties heart disease, diabetes to cannabis exposure in utero
February 2019 by Adela Talbot, University of Western Ontario Daniel Hardy, a Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor, led a recent study that found “alarming” damage to important organs in newborns who were exposed to cannabis – and, specifically, to THC – while in utero. This damage could lead to heart disease and diabetes later in life. Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's safe. Exposure to cannabis – and, specifically, to THC – while in utero leads to heart defects and...
Youth Vaping & Associated Risk Behaviours (Colorado Study)
The students who were current vape users were more likely to use other substances or to engage in sexual activity than were nonusers ( Table 1 ). These data corroborate a recent study that showed an association between vaping and risky sexual, substance-use, and violence behaviors. 5 These associations are not causal but suggest that certain students are inclined toward a variety of risky behaviors. For complete paper
Cheers to a Change in Australia’s Culture
Christina DeLay is co-founder of Altina Drinks, a social enterprise hoping to tip Australia’s drinking culture on its head with a range of alcohol-free cocktails. She’s this week’s changemaker. What first inspired you to start a company that makes alcohol-free cocktails? It was because of my own personal experience with drinking. I was working as a consultant in Canberra, and got quite caught up in the drinking culture of that industry – after-work drinks with your colleagues, business...
Parents who regularly take three or more drinks a day may be abusing children
Addiction specialist warns parents on impact of their drinking on family Thu, Jan 17, 2019 BBC journalist Fergal Keane spoke of the devastating impact his father’s alcoholism had on him as a child, and into adulthood. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Parents who regularly drink three or more drinks a day could be “unwittingly” abusing their children, a HSE addiction specialist has warned. Marion Rackard , who experienced parental alcohol abuse as a child, was speaking at the...
Key Findings: Opioids Prescribed Just Before Pregnancy Associated with Autism
A study from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that mothers who were prescribed opioids just before becoming pregnant were more likely to have a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or a child with other developmental disabilities (DDs) and some autism symptoms. This study is among the first to look at associations between prescription of opioids in pregnancy and ASD and other DDs....
Genetic Risks Play Part In Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
January 17, 2019 A study of 84 twin/sibling pairs exposed to alcohol in utero shows that two fetuses exposed to identical levels of alcohol can experience strikingly different levels of neurological damage. Risk of damage does not depend solely on the pregnant woman’s alcohol consumption; rather, fetal genetics plays a vital role, according to findings published today in the journal Advances in Pediatric Research. “The evidence is conclusive,” said lead author Susan Astley Hemingway, professor...
Exposure to cannabis and stress in adolescence can lead to anxiety disorders in adulthood
The work carried out by the Neuropharmacology Laboratory highlight the influence of environmental factors such as stress on the harmful effects of the exposure to cannabis during early ages A new study conducted on laboratory animals shows that exposure to cannabis and stress during adolescence may lead to long-term anxiety disorders characterized by the presence of pathological fear. Numerous preclinical and epidemiological data suggest that exposure to cannabinoids in adolescents may...
E-Cigarettes Fueling a Dangerous Turn in Tobacco Use
For many, smoking continues to be seen as a common bond for members of an exclusive group, part of an entrenched social norm. Supporting that mindset are tobacco companies that invest mightily to keep that smoking culture alive today. A recent campaign by the Truth Initiative, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to smoking cessation among youth and young adults," revealed "tobacco industry documents made public as evidence in litigation," according to HowStuffWorks.com . Within the documents,...
New study finds that marijuana can reprogram sperm genes
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December 20, 2018 We already know that cannabis lowers sperm count, but new research suggests that the drug actually causes genetic changes to the sperm itself — which might have implications for the health of a potential baby. For a study published today in the journal Epigenetics, scientists at Duke University Think of your DNA as a list of instructions for making proteins, and genes as small subsets of that list. Our body has little chemical tags (called methyl groups) that get added to the...
Scientists Study How Alcohol and Cannabis Affect Adolescent Brain Responses
Executive attention and response control are critical for impulse control. Both rely on regions at the front of the brain like dorsolateral and dorsomedial frontal cortex regions. A recent Boys Town study has indicated that adolescents reporting more abuse symptoms, particularly those associated with alcohol, show problems using these brain areas during response control. Scientists note that if these regions aren't working well, an individual is less likely to control his/her impulses and may...
International Narcotics Control Board concludes its 123 rd session with treaty compliance and health and well-being at the core of deliberations
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INCD Press Release UNIS/NAR/1367 16 November 2018 VIENNA, 16 November 2018 (UN Information Service) - The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) concluded today its 123rd session in Vienna. In closing the session, theINCB President, Dr. Viroj Sumyai, recognized once again the importance of compliance by countries with the three international drug control treaties to ensure the health and well-being of their people, and emphasized the importance of cooperation at all levels. Over the past...
Drinking During Breastfeeding Linked to Later Cognitive Inhibitions in ChildrenBottom of Form
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Breast milk is a live substance with unmatched immunological and anti-inflammatory characteristics that protect an infant against a variety of illnesses, infections, and diseases. It provides all the necessary nutrients a baby needs for its first six months. Breastfeeding is deemed extremely beneficial and essential for both the mother and the child. However, it is essential to understand that nicotine and alcohol affect breastfeeding and harmful substances can be transferred to the baby...
How marijuana harms a developing baby’s brain
Three studies in rodents suggest prenatal exposure to the drug may pose risks for infants DANA G. SMITH NOVEMBER 18, 2018 This article was originally published by Scientific American . One recent study revealed that in 2016 7 percent of pregnant women in California used marijuana, with rates as high as 22 percent among teenage mothers. In Colorado 69 percent of dispensaries recommended the drug to pregnant women to help with morning sickness. … prenatal drug exposure can be harmful to unborn...
Could medical cannabis be the new THALIDOMIDE? Fears of a crisis as doctors consider doling marijuana-based medicines out to pregnant mothers despite evidence the drug can damage foetuses
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Pressure to loosen NHS guidelines on medical cannabis use is growing in the UK The British Medical Journal warned that widespread use could lead to disaster The potential crisis was compared to the thalidomide scandal of the 50s and 60s By GUY ADAMS FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 24 November 2018 Each of the 400 phone calls to the cannabis dispensaries followed a script. ‘Hi,’ said a female voice. ‘I’m eight weeks pregnant and feeling really nauseated. Are there any products recommended for...
Teens are trying marijuana before alcohol and tobacco
It’s not because teens are consuming weed more, it’s because they’re using tobacco and alcohol less Teens used to try alcohol first, then tobacco, and then marijuana. Now, marijuana is increasingly the first “gateway” substance for adolescents, according to new research. This trend is not because teens are smoking cannabis more than ever. Rather, the change is because teens are smoking cigarettes and drinking less while the numbers for marijuana have held steady, according to Katherine M....
60 Minutes: Study revealing there is no 'safe level of drinking' could destroy an Aussie tradition
Professor Sonia Saxena, one of the authors of the controversial study, tells 60 Minutes that most people are not actually aware of the serious health effects that just one drink can have. “Especially in older generations, alcohol's responsible for about 25 percent of deaths in women. One in five men will die as a result of alcohol,” Professor Saxena says. Last year, the average Australian aged over 15 drank the equivalent of 9.4 litres of pure alcohol –that’s about 224 stubbies or 38 bottles...
Marijuana in babies? Colo. researchers find new evidence
After a nursing woman smokes marijuana once, her baby through her breast milk will consume traces of the drug's chief psychoactive element for at least six weeks and possibly longer, according to a soon-to-be-released study out of Colorado. For physicians who see cannabis-associated birth complications and long-term brain development concerns with children, the research is another step to try to square growing public nonchalance about marijuana with medical guidelines about use. Researchers...
Marijuana worse for teen brains than alcohol, study finds
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October 2018 Marijuana use causes more long-term damage to teen brains than alcohol use, according to a new study entitled “ A Population-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Cognitive Development .” The study – completed by researchers at the University of Montreal – followed 3,800 Montreal teens over the course of four years. As part of the study, teen participants were questioned about their marijuana and alcohol use, and took computer-based cognitive...
For Your Health, No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe
Alcohol use is a leading health risk factor. Its impact is complex and includes purported benefits at low levels for certain health conditions. Using data from 694 individual and population-level studies in 195 countries and territories, researchers evaluated the global impact of alcohol use and estimated the levels of consumption that minimize an individual’s total attributable risk on health. In 2016, alcohol was the seventh leading risk factor for death and disability worldwide. Among those...
What You Should Know About Marijuana Concentrates/ Honey Butane Oil
What are Marijuana Concentrates or THC Concentrates? A marijuana concentrate is a highly potent THC concentrated mass that is most similar in appearance to either honey or butter, which is why it is referred to or known on the street as “honey oil” or “budder.” What Does it Look Like? Marijuana concentrates are similar in appearance to honey or butter and are either brown or gold in color. The different forms include : hash or honey oil (a goey substance), wax or butter (soft, lip balm-like...
Police launch operation to help curb impact of ice on kids
CHILDREN as young as 14 are becoming addicted to ice, some at the hands of their own parents, and police south of Brisbane are desperate to break the cycle. The Logan Child Protection Investigation Unit has seen a 10 per cent increase in methamphetamine-related cases this year and have launched an operation to reduce the devastating impact of ice on children. Det Fletcher has seen some children so high they have not slept for three days and even parents supplying their own kids with drugs. He...
I’m Not Crazy! Mental Health Week and Protective Choices!
“Hold on! Feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown and I don't know why? But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell, I know right now you can't tell…” Well, so wrote the band, Matchbox 20, nearly a decade ago. The song kind of rings true, in more ways than one, for a growing number of our community struggling with the complexities of 21st century living and some of the attending dysfunctions that our ever burgeoning ‘technocracy’ leads us into. There are reasons why stress, anxiety and...
Maternal Cannabis Use During a Child's Lifetime Associated With Earlier Initiation...
Conclusions : As cannabis legalization expands across the U.S., adult use may become increasingly normative. This study indicates that maternal cannabis use may be a risk factor for early initiation among their offspring. Preventive interventions should consider strategies to delay initiation among children of cannabis users! Download Article
Superb New Book: Chemical Slavery – Dr Robert L Dupont MD.
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Slavery-Understanding-Addiction-Stopping/dp/1985750325 This extremely ambitious book by Dr. Robert DuPont is the first book that I know of by a leader in the drug abuse prevention and treatment field that has highlighted the message of Pope Francis: that engaging in drug taking for experiential purposes is tantamount to allowing oneself to become enslaved. No one would ever willingly accept such a fate. When one gives up one’s will power, the theosophists say...
SHOCK REPORT: Large Numbers Of Child Slaves May Be Working On Cannabis Farms In London
"Potentially thousands of children and young people are being trafficked from Vietnam and exploited by ruthless criminal gangs." August 21, 2018 Experts warned Monday that large numbers of child slaves may be working on cannabis farms in London. Since 2016, authorities have found 314 illegal cannabis farms in London, according to police data. The most alarming figures, however, come via human trafficking experts, who warn that the number of children used as slave labor on these farms is likely...
USA: Pot use among college students at 30-year high
Breana Noble , The Detroit News Sept. 5, 2018 Marijuana use among college-age people is at the highest level in three decades and fewer think using it is harmful, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Months before Michigan voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use, the annual study found marijuana use among the nation's 19-to-22-year-olds has increased gradually over the past decade as marijuana becomes more easily accessible and young people view...
'Utterly wrong': What happens when the alcohol industry makes pregnancy warning posters
Esther Han 28 August 2018 Thousands of posters warning pregnant women about the dangers of alcohol have had to be removed from the walls of hospitals and GP clinics around the country. Fairfax Media can reveal DrinkWise, a "safe drinking" group almost entirely funded by alcohol companies, recently withdrew 2400 pregnancy warning posters after doctors and health groups told it the message was "utterly wrong". While the headline "It's safest not to drink while pregnant" reflected government...
International Overdose Day 2018 – Prevent Don’t Promote
This day of acknowledgement and focus around illicit drug overdose issues, should be – must be – about the prevention, repair and/or cessation of all that leads to an overdose episode, not merely the survival of it!.... Read Complete Article
A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol.
New scientific study: No safe level of alcohol! Published on Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( http://www.healthdata.org ) August 23, 2018. 3 million deaths in 2016 attributed to alcohol; ‘Massive health risks’ The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the ages of 15 and 49. “The health risks associated with alcohol...
Regular teen drinking leads to alcohol problems in adulthood
July 2018 Adolescents who drink every week before the age of 17 are two to three times more likely to binge drink, drink drive, and be dependent on alcohol as adults compared with peers who don’t drink. A new study looking at the drinking patterns of 9,000 adolescents in Australia and New Zealand has been published in the latest issue of the international journal Addiction. It was led by researchers from the University of New South Wales and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and...
The interdependence of cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use in the context of school-based social networks
Cheng Wang1 *, John R. Hipp2,3, Carter T. Butts3,4, Cynthia M. Lakon5 1 Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States of America, 2 Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, 3 Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, 4 Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, 5 Program in...
Hi, sobriety: Our changing relationship with alcohol
“Grey-area drinkers” aren’t falling-over drunks, but nor is their relationship with booze healthy. In recent times, many have been giving up or cutting back – being sober is the new black. Few would fit the cliched profile of an alcoholic. Most are closer to what American nutritionist and TEDx talker Jolene Park has dubbed "grey-area drinkers", people who have come to live somewhere between "an end-stage, lose-everything drunk" and someone who, as she says, drinks "a glass of champagne at a...
Thinking About Dropping Marijuana From Your Drug Test?
Some employers may be thinking about dropping marijuana from their drug testing panel as a way to address legalization. Learn about what to consider before making any changes to your drug-free workplace program in a short video produced by our friends at Drug Free Business . https://youtu.be/ExvaVePrKYs
With cannabis coming to the workplace, what constitutes ‘impairment’?
Just as digital transformation has disrupted legacy business models, cannabis legalization will fundamentally challenge workplace policies. On Oct. 17, recreational marijuana will officially become legal in Canada. According to a recent study conducted by Deloitte, 22 per cent of the Canadian adult population consumes recreational cannabis at least occasionally, and a further 17 per cent show some willingness to try it. When we look at the single largest generation in the work force –...
Vaping 'can damage vital immune system cells'
August 2018 Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation. The researchers "caution against the widely held opinion that e-cigarettes are safe". However, Public Health England advises they are much less harmful than smoking and people should not hesitate to use them as an aid to giving up cigarettes. The small experimental...
I Tried 'Mindful Drinking' to See If I Can Have Fun Sober: Alcohol-free drinks are catching on in a big way, so I thought I'd give them a go
"I do feel a sense of freedom from not drinking anymore, because it took up so much brain space," said Laura Willoughby at London's Mindful Drinking Festival, an event founded to suggest that you don't need to be paralytic to have a good time. "It's been the best decision of my life." Check every alcohol statistic from the last couple of years and you'll see I'm not alone: lots of people seem to believe that regularly poisoning yourself for fun isn't such a good idea. In a survey by Drink...
Life or Death After a Non-Fatal Drug Overdose
Research studies (see Stoové et al, 2009 ) have long associated surviving a drug overdose with the increased likelihood of a future non-fatal or fatal drug overdose. In a 2017 Massachusetts study of opioid overdoses, 10% of those who survived died within the next year from a drug overdose or other causes. In one of the most rigorous U.S. follow-up studies, Dr. Mark Olfson and colleagues compared the mortality rates of people who had survived a non-fatal opioid overdose to demographically...
Three new born babies A DAY are treated for drug addiction in shocking NHS figures
EXCLUSIVE: NAS - neonatal abstinence syndrome - affects babies whose mothers have abused drugs during pregnancy, leaving their babies to go cold turkey after birth. 22:26, 28 JUL 2018 Three babies a day are having treatment for drug addiction after being born hooked on heroin or cocaine. Shock figures from NHS Digital show hospitals dealt with 5,000 cases of addicted tots over the last four years. NAS – neonatal abstinence syndrome – affects babies whose mums have abused drugs during...
THC exposure of human iPSC neurons impacts genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders
Translational Psychiatry volume 8, Article number: 89 (2018) Abstract There is a strong association between cannabis use and schizophrenia but the underlying cellular links are poorly understood. Neurons derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) offer a platform for investigating both baseline and dynamic changes in human neural cells. Here, we exposed neurons derived from hiPSCs to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and identified diagnosis-specific differences not detectable in...
Rise of the middle-aged pothead: Huge rise in over-40s becoming addicted to super-strength 'skunk'
Camilla Turner , education editor 15 JUNE 2018 There has been a 114 per cent rise in those aged over 40 seeking help from drug clinics, citing cannabis as their primary health concern It used to be thought of as the drug of choice among the younger generations. But now researchers have found a huge increase in cannabis use among those aged over 40 who have become addicted to super-strength skunk. Using data from Public Health England, researchers from York University examined trends in the...
REAAAALLLY important article!
All Young Cannabis Users Face Psychosis Risk (Medscape and JAMA Psychiatry) June 15, 2018 Cannabis use directly increases the risk for psychosis in teens, new research shows. A large prospective study of teens shows that "in adolescents, cannabis use is harmful" with respect to psychosis risk, study author Patricia J. Conrod, PhD, professor of psychiatry, University of Montreal, Canada, told Medscape Medical News. The study included 3720 adolescents from the Co-Venture cohort, which represents...
Toddlers and THC: The Number of Young Children Exposed to Marijuana is on the Rise
RATES OF CHILDHOOD EXPOSURES ARE ON THE RISE In our latest report, Childhood Poisoning: Safeguarding Young Children from Addictive Substances , we evaluated data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), among other sources, and found the number of babies and preschoolers exposed to marijuana is on the rise. In fact, between 2006 and 2013, the rate of marijuana exposures among children aged five and younger increased by 148 percent. Moreover, the number of young children...
Why marijuana remains a highly risky habit that can ravage young people's lives
Kathy Donaghy June 10 2018 Any debate around the legalisation of cannabis must take into account the harm it causes, one of the country's leading psychiatrists has warned. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Matthew Sadlier is calling for a public health campaign to educate people about the dangers of cannabis use. As attitudes to cannabis use become more relaxed and tolerance increases in society in general, Dr Sadlier says many young people's lives are being wrecked by habitual use of the drug - and...
More employers dropping marijuana from drug tests
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press May 2, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs. Those employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They're dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees. Marijuana testing — a fixture at large American employers for at...
Pot Smoking Linked to Higher Stroke, Heart Risks: Study
By Lynn Allison - 16 Mar 2018 A major new study claims that smoking marijuana dramatically increases a person’s risk of suffering a heart attack and other cardiovascular events. The study authors, along with top cardiologists across the country, are calling for more research into the use of medicinal and recreational cannabis in light of the startling new evidence. Researchers found that over a 5-year period, regular users as young as in their early 30s were 4.6 times more likely to have a...
Alcohol – the ‘poor woman’s’ anti-depressant? Self-medicating Melbourne Mums in trouble!
Modern mums were supposed to have it all, but the reality is far from the dream. Today the Sunday Herald Sun launches a three-part series highlighting what life is really like for too many hard-working mothers. This week we look at the increasing role of alcohol in their lives STRESSED middle-aged women now rank as one of the most at-risk groups of drinkers amid warnings of a looming health crisis. Alcohol-related hospital admissions for women increased 55 per cent state-wide in the decade to...
Pueblo, Colorado Physicians Code Red: Emergency Medicine Dr. Karen Randall – Cannabis Chaos
Think it's harmless? Now nine in ten teens at drug clinics are being treated for marijuana use
22 April 2018 Cannabis is responsible for 91% of drug addiction cases involving teenagers Skunk - high-potency herbal cannabis - causing more people to seek treatment Backs up research that skunk is having detrimental impact on mental health The findings also back up academic research, revealed in The Mail on Sunday over the past three years, that skunk is having a serious detrimental impact on the mental health of the young. At least two studies have shown repeated use triples the risk of...
Cannabis use linked to increased initiation of cigarette smoking among non-smokers
Download PDF Copy March 27, 2018 While cigarette smoking has long been on the decline, marijuana use is on the rise and, disproportionately, marijuana users also smoke cigarettes. A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York reports that cannabis use was associated with an increased initiation of cigarette smoking among non-cigarette smokers. They also found adults who smoke cigarettes and use cannabis are less likely...
Why total bans on workplace pot won’t be easy under Cannabis Act
March 23, 2018 by David Gambrill Employers may be hard-pressed to ban marijuana outright from the workplace once The Cannabis Act is implemented in Canada, a lawyer told delegates attending the Ontario Mutual Insurance Association ( OMIA ) Thursday. “Both bills [related to The Cannabis Act, Bills C-45 and C-46] are actually silent when it comes to employment and occupational safety,” said Sandra Gogal, practice leader at Miller Thomson LLP . “At present, there is no Canadian law that regulates...
Nutrition in Addiction Recovery
This document has been prepared to educate people about how drugs and alcohol can disrupt the normal functioning of the body and how better nutrition can help diminish some of these biochemical and digestive problems. This document only focuses on one specific component of a comprehensive recovery treatment program—better nutrition. It is not intended to be used as a substitute for a doctor’s advice or as a recovery treatment program. View PDF
United Nations Report Scolds Countries for Cannabis Legalization
SARA BRITTANY SOMERSET March 12, 2018 The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recently issued its 2017 annual report , and the takeaway with regard to cannabis is clear: The INCB is deeply concerned with the spread of adult-use legalization. Countries pursuing legalization are acting in 'clear violation' of the UN's 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, says the International Narcotics Control Board. The report contains stern warnings, accusing countries like...
E-cigarettes: Teens 'should not be using them at all'
However, while many adult users opt for e-cigarettes to ease themselves out of their smoking habit, some researchers have raised concerns that teenagers may be using them as a gateway into this very habit. E-cigarette usage seems to be popular among many teenagers, despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have banned the sale of such devices to people under 18. Carcinogens threaten teenagers' health In order to reach their conclusions, Dr. Rubinstein and team collected and...
Scientists show cannabis TRIPLES psychosis risk: Ground-breaking research blames 'skunk' for 1 in 4 of all new serious mental disorders
Researchers highlighted the dangers of a super-strength strain of cannabis A study found 'skunk' was responsible for a quarter of psychosis cases But weaker forms such as hash don't carry the same risk of mental illness By Stephen Adams for The Mail on Sunday PUBLISHED: 15 February 2015 Super-strength strains of cannabis are responsible for up to a quarter of new cases of psychotic mental illness, scientists will warn this week. The potent form of the drug, known as 'skunk', is so powerful...
Mental illness risk as ‘skunk’ drives out milder cannabis
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Chris Smyth, Health Editor - February 28 2018, The Times Cannabis has become stronger since 2008, researchers have found KING'S COLLEGE LONDON/PA Almost all cannabis sold on British streets can cause psychosis after weaker forms were driven from the market. The most potent “skunk” accounts for 94 per cent of all cannabis seized by police, up from half in 2005, according to the first study for almost a decade. Dealers are thought to be pushing higher-strength products to get recreational users...
Melbourne hospital staff take a stand against 'violent, aggressive' patients Emergency department staff deal with violent, aggressive patients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital so often they've...
charge for change. Last year there was almost 7500 incidents and nurse unit manager Susan Harding says it's only gotten worse. "We'd have at least one incident of violence or aggression each shift every day," Ms Harding said. A video containing CCTV footage of situations of violence towards hospital staff has been released by the Royal Melbourne Hospital. To fight back, Emergency Department staff has produced a shocking video Help Us, Help You which will play in the waiting area to raise...
Pot Kills: What's on your pot? What's in your water?
FEBRUARY 11, 2018 EDITOR The Marijuana Environment is Hazardous to Human Health All creatures great and small are being poisoned by the pesticides and rodenticides in the water they drink, and in the food they eat. This polluted water from the northern California marijuana environment eventually flows to much of the State. The lawless pot industry is nothing less than purveyors of poison. The recent scientific study “Cultivating Disaster: The Effect of Cannabis Cultivation on the Environment...
Prosecutors: Man stabs mother after smoking pot, believing someone was going to rape him
KATIE DELONG AND BEN HANDELMAN, Feb 7th 2018 RACINE ( WITI ) -- A Racine man is accused of stabbing his own mother multiple times in their home, and prosecutors say he admitted he did it after smoking marijuana and becoming paranoid, believing someone was about to rape him. Terrell Banks, 23, of Racine faces one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, domestic abuse assessments, and one count of mayhem, domestic abuse assessments. Mayhem in Wisconsin courts refers to when a...
‘Wine o’clock’ health warning: Doctor says trend can produce problems
The middle-class trend of “wine o’clock” is increasing the rate of heart problems, liver disease and even alcohol-induced dementia. And doctors warn people who enjoy a “few glasses” of wine at home each evening could be suffering from a form of chronic alcoholism. While most responsible drinking advertising targets young people, there is also a growing concern about people in their 50s and 60s binge drinking. A glass or two... or several more. NSW Health data reveals 27.3 per cent of people...
Aussie kids drinking, smoking less
Australian youth are drinking and smoking less than before. AAP School-aged Aussie kids are drinking less alcohol and smoking less tobacco and cannabis, The study is the work of researchers at Deakin University, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, and has been published in the Drug and Alcohol Review journal. Better parental attitudes about the dangers have been linked to the trend, identified by an analysis of more than 40,000 student surveys...
FASD: Family finally gets answers in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis
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By Katherine Gregory 14/1/18 VIDEO: Sharon Wallace shows the damage to her home (ABC News) Sharon Wallace shows the damage to her home (ABC News) RELATED STORY: Magistrate calls for screening for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Magistrate calls for screening for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder RELATED STORY: New tool for diagnosing Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia New tool for diagnosing Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia RELATED STORY: Major project underway to prevent...
The Influence of Cannabis on the Adolescent Brain
These data and subsequent analysis suggest that different trajectories of adolescent cannabis use are associated with distinct patterns of neural reward circuit function in early adulthood. Escalating marijuana use presents a higher risk for impaired motivation, including elevated depressive symptoms, anhedonia and poor educational attainment. It follows that alterations, perhaps the degradations of the reward circuitry, represent the mechanism by which cannabis users fail to attain their...
Alcohol & Female Brain
SF report weighs health risks raised by legal pot
By Erin Allday : November 26, 2017 Just weeks before recreational pot becomes legal in California, San Francisco public health officials have published a report on their best guesses for problems that could arise from widespread marijuana use, including abuse of the drug by young people and unforeseen health risks among adults. The challenge, authors of the report noted, will be warning new users about the hazards of cannabis consumption — like the possibility of overdosing or driving under...
Research finds link between marijuana use and testicular cancer
November 8, 2017 “At this time, surprisingly little is known about the impacts of cannabis on the development of cancer in humans,” said Dr. Callaghan, the study’s lead author. “With Canada and other countries currently experimenting with the decriminalization or legalization of recreational cannabis use, it is critically important to understand the potential harms of this type of substance use.” The results from the recent study, as well as three prior case-control studies in this area,...
Drinking every day cripples your brain - especially if you're a woman: Any more than one glass of wine a night crushes cells in an essential brain region, study warns
Chronic alcohol drinking kills stem cells in key regions of the brain and reduces the development of new nerve cells in adults For the first time, research showed that female brains showed more severe deficits than males Researchers said this discovery provides a new way of approaching the problem of alcohol-related changes in the brain By Kayla Brantley For Dailymail.com PUBLISHED: 14 November 2017 Read more
Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening!
Download PDF Today, Iceland tops the European table for the cleanest-living teens. The percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who had been drunk in the previous month plummeted from 42 per cent in 1998 to 5 per cent in 2016. The percentage who have ever used cannabis is down from 17 per cent to 7 per cent. Those smoking cigarettes every day fell from 23 per cent to just 3 per cent. The way the country has achieved this turnaround has been both radical and evidence-based, but it has relied a lot on...
WA govt wants alcohol pregnancy warning
The WA government is calling for nationwide support for mandatory pregnancy health warnings on alcoholic beverages. 20/11/17 Alcohol sold in Australia should be labelled with mandatory health warnings for pregnant and breastfeeding women, the West Australian government says. WA Health Minister Roger Cook is calling for state, territory and federal governments to support compulsory health warnings on alcohol, ahead of the Australian and New Zealand ministerial forum on food regulation on...
UConn Study: Teenage Pot, Alcohol Use Can Reduce Success Later In Life
Teens who use a lot of marijuana and alcohol are less likely to have a full-time job when they grow up, or to get a college education or get married, according to a new study by University of Connecticut researchers. The study of 1,165 young adults from across the U.S. also found that dependence on pot and booze may also have a “more severe effect on young men” than on young women. This study found that chronic marijuana use in adolescence was negatively associated with achieving important...
New insights into marijuana's effect on the developing brain
Published 17 October 2017 THC restricts synaptic recovery In their experiments, the researchers injected THC into the young mice, focusing on its effect on the GABA cells in the VTA. The team noted that just one THC injection did not have a significant impact on the functioning of GABA cells. But administering multiple injections — one injection of THC per day for 7 to 10 consecutive days — blocked a function called "synaptic recovery" in the GABA cells of the mice's brains. Dr. Edwards...
Global Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Children and Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Review article Lange S, et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2017. Conclusions and Relevance: Globally, FASD is a prevalent alcohol-related developmental disability that is largely preventable. The findings highlight the need to establish a universal public health message about the potential harm of prenatal alcohol exposure and a routine screening protocol. Brief interventions should be provided, where appropriate. For more
Rethinking ‘safe’ alcohol consumption (or cannabis) in pregnancy!
It's not just about tobacco either. Look at this recent line from the BMJ Open just published " Low alcohol consumption and pregnancy and childhood outcomes: time to change guidelines indicating apparently ‘safe’ levels of alcohol during pregnancy?" It concludes that despite thin evidence all women should be warned about the use of alcohol in pregnancy. With cannabis many systematic reviews and meta-analyses have shown retardation of foetal growth rate, small for dates infants, increased rates...
The Truth of Deaths Caused by Marijuana Overdose
OCTOBER 18, 2017 EDITOR Dean Whitlock refutes a claim that no one dies of marijuana overdose, in a section of his article , published by Vermont Digger, October 16, 2017. “No One Has Died of an Overdose” This remains the most outrageous claim of the pro-legalization movement. It is not only dangerously misleading, it is a slap in the face to the families who have lost children, spouses and parents. Everyone admits that people are dying in traffic crashes because of stoned drivers , and that...
Why I finally admitted I was powerless over alcohol
By Shanna Whan 10/10/17 Three years ago I had hit my personal rock bottom, and was at a point where I was ready to take my own life. And yet here I stand, today, blessed to be three years into a life fully-recovered, healthy, and completely free from any desire to even touch alcohol. There are countless women who think there is no hope left…It wasn't like falling off a cliff and having a tragic accident. It wasn't sudden. This thing took hold of my life when I was 18, and manifested over a...
Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area: Cannabis Report
From Executive Summary Section 4 – Emergency Department and Hospital Marijuana-Related Admissions: The yearly rate of emergency department visits related to marijuana increased 35 percent after the legalization of recreational marijuana (2011-2012 vs. 2013-2015). Number of hospitalizations related to marijuana: 2011 – 6,305 2012 – 6,715 2013 – 8,272 2014 – 11,439 Jan-Sept 2015 – 10,901 The yearly number of marijuana-related hospitalizations increased 72 percent after the legalization of...
Global Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Children and Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Lange S, et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2017.
Abstract Importance : Prevalence estimates are essential to effectively prioritize, plan, and deliver health care to high-needs populations such as children and youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). However, most countries do not have population-level prevalence data for FASD. Objective : To obtain prevalence estimates of FASD among children and youth in the general population by country, by World Health Organization (WHO) region, and globally. Data Sources : MEDLINE, MEDLINE in...
Persistency of cannabis Use Predicts Violence following acute Psychiatric Discharge
To conclude, our findings are relevant as they aid to shed light on the cannabis–violence association that has been less extensively studied amid psychiatric patients, in whom cannabis use is twice as prevalent in contrast to the general population. Compared to prior studies, we employed a prospective design to precisely examine the association between the continuation of cannabis use and violence. Our results are particularly relevant and may have clinical and violence risk management...
Mounting evidence indicates that the endocannabinoid (EC) system (ECS) plays an important role in various liver
Mounting evidence indicates that the endocannabinoid (EC) system (ECS) plays an important role in various liver diseases including viral hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), alcoholic liver disease, hepatic encephalopathy, and autoimmune hepatitis. The ECS also impacts on involved processes such as hepatic hemodynamics, nutrient intake and turnover, and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) after liver transplantation. Although this involvement is undisputed, therapeutic implications...
Drowsiness and uncommon fever in a child after cannabis ingestion.
Abstract Trivialization of cannabis consumption goes hand in hand with a growing exposure of children and the number of cannabis poisoning cases is steadily increasing. As clinical presentation can be different from what is currently seen in adults, added to the fact that it is not always suspected, diagnosis of cannabis intoxication in children is often delayed or missed. A 16-month-old girl was admitted to the pediatric emergency unit for an important drowsiness combined to moderate fever....
Drug-testing new welfare recipients is a good idea
Tensions Rise Over Proposed Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients WITH ice addiction declared a public health crisis, the Government’s proposed drug-testing trial of welfare recipients couldn’t come at a better time. Methamphetamine-related deaths have doubled in Australia in just six years, according to new findings by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Back in May, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defended the controversial trial by saying: “If you love somebody who is addicted to...
Alcohol, drugs and family violence: A question of framing and boundary markers
Controversy: Alcohol, drugs and family violence Alcohol and other drugs (AOD) is an interesting topic to analyse, because the relationship between AOD and family violence is extremely controversial. I argued in my paper that much of the controversy boils down to whether it’s acceptable to say that AOD causes violence. I interviewed several of the nine expert witnesses from the Commission’s AOD topic, and one of them explained to me that the way people treat AOD and causation is a ‘boundary...
These college students lost access to legal pot — and started getting better grades
The research on more than 4,000 students, published in the Review of Economic Studies , found that those who lost access to legal marijuana showed substantial improvement in their grades. Specifically, those banned from cannabis cafes had a more than 5 percent increase in their odds of passing their courses. Low performing students benefited even more, which the researchers noted is particularly important because these students are at high-risk of dropping out. The researchers attribute their...
Drinking alcohol while pregnant could have transgenerational effects
Published 11 July 2017 The new study by Kelly Huffman, psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside, titled "Prenatal Ethanol Exposure and Neocortical Development: A Transgenerational Model of FASD," was published in the journal Cerebral Cortex. "Traditionally, prenatal ethanol exposure (PrEE) from maternal consumption of alcohol, was thought to solely impact directly exposed offspring, the embryo or fetus in the womb. However, we now have evidence that the effects of...
Psychosis relapse, medication non-adherence, and cannabis
Published: 10 July 2017 In The Lancet Psychiatry, Schoeler and colleagues present a study describing the mediating effect of medication adherence on the association between continued cannabis use and relapse risk in patients with first-episode psychosis. They have previously reported a relapse rate of 36% in this patient group over a 2-year period. Acknowledging the potential risk of psychosis relapse related to the high proportion of patients continuing cannabis use after the onset of...
Research: Foetus absorbs mother's alcohol, nicotine intake in just two hours
Toxic substances such as nicotine and alcohol from alcoholic drinks can travel quickly through an expectant mother's placenta to her unborn baby, says a researcher from the University of Eastern Finland. The research showed that the placenta does not shield the foetus, but revealed that alcohol and nicotine can travel from mother to child in less than two hours. For more
What do police in weed-friendly places say?
Cannabis harm prevention messages are essential, according to police in places where the drug has been decriminalised. Government, police and health agencies need clear guidelines for public campaigns on preventing harm from cannabis use, according to new research from Massey University. Front line police officers she interviewed in the Netherlands and states of Colorado and Oregon in the United States, where recreational cannabis use is not an offence, provided insights on how their...
WHO’s NEXT? Jihadi Potheads: DR MAX PEMBERTON asks if marijuana is a factor in jihadi murders?
What was going through Salman Abedi’s mind when he made that journey to Manchester Arena on Monday night? How does someone do something so unspeakably evil as to slaughter and grievously injure innocent young children in this way? Was he a psychopath? Was he evil? I do not know the answer but I do know, as the Mail reports today, that according to his friends Abedi was a frequent and heavy cannabis smoker. Studies into the personality type of would-be jihadi terrorists have found some...
Just one small glass of wine per day increases breast cancer risk
Written by Ana Sandoiu Published: Tuesday 23 May 2017 Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women across the globe. New research suggests that as little as one alcoholic drink per day can increase breast cancer risk, while exercise and a healthful diet lowers the risk. In 2012, 1.7 million cases of breast cancer were diagnosed across the globe, which makes up 25 percent of all cancer diagnoses in women. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related...
US workers testing positive for illegal drugs hits 12yr high –
Report - 16 May, 2017 Marijuana positivity has increased "dramatically" in the last three years, Quest said, due in part to recreational legalization in some US states. Marijuana positivity through oral fluid testing has gone up by 75 percent since 2013 among the general US workforce and has also risen in both urine and hair testing. Among the federally-mandated workforce, marijuana positivity increased by ten percent from 2015. Both Colorado and Washington state, the first two states to...
White wine, liquor may raise women's risk of rosacea
Written by Honor Whiteman Published: 21 April 2017 Researchers found that consumption of white wine and liquor posed the greatest rosacea risk for women. Researchers have found that women who consume alcohol may be more likely to develop rosacea than non-drinking women, with white wine and liquor being the biggest offenders. Furthermore, the study revealed that the more alcohol women consume, the higher their risk of developing the skin condition. Study co-author Dr. Abrar A. Qureshi, chair of...
Warning labels about drinking while pregnant are working
April 2017 A random encounter with a warning sign at a north Eugene grocery store put Gulcan Cil on the trail of research toward her UO doctoral degree and, now, a newly published paper. The paper , published in the Journal of Health Economics, took a deep dive into extensive federal data to probe behavioral changes that likely resulted from point-of-sale warning signs urging women who are pregnant to avoid alcohol. In states requiring the signage, drinking by pregnant women is down 11...
The importance of dads – on foetal health
April 2017 The father’s role in producing a healthy baby doesn’t begin and end with conception. Evidence is now pointing to an important link between the father’s health pre-conception and the health of their child over their lifetime. “There’s this phenomenon called the developmental origins of health and disease where influences during early life, during pregnancy, during the early post-natal period change your metabolic set up for the rest of your life,” Dr Scott White, WA spokesman for the...
Medical marijuana laws linked to greater increase in illicit use, disorders (Permission, NOT prohibition is putting our kids at risk)
Written by Honor Whiteman Published: Wednesday 26 April 2017 Increased legalization of marijuana for medical purposes may be fueling illicit use of the drug, as well as increasing the number marijuana use disorders, according to the results of a new study. Researchers have identified a greater increase in illicit marijuana use and disorders in states that have legalized medical marijuana. An analysis of data from three national surveys in the United States revealed a higher increase in illicit...
Moderate alcohol intake could increase risk of breast cancer relapse, research suggests May 2017
Researchers have found less than one standard drink of alcohol per day could lead to a relapse in breast cancer in survivors. The research from the Cancer Council Victoria shows approximately half a bottle of wine a week could be enough to increase the risk of breast cancer reoccurring. The disease, which alcohol is a risk factor for, currently affects one in eight Australian women. Read more
PROENKEPHALIN MEDIATES THE ENDURING EFFECTS OF ADOLESCENT CANNABIS EXPOSURE ASSOCIATED WITH ADULT OPIATE VULNERABILITY
In conclusion, our findings indicate that marijuana exposure in and of itself can serve as a risk factor that acts `above the genome' and can imprint upon the existing epigenetic landscape of adolescent neurodevelopment. Thus, the epigenetic effects of adolescent THC exposure may act in concert to augment future behavioral responses to drugs of abuse via stable and long-term regulation of genes at the transcriptional level. The results also support a novel role for the Penk gene as an emergent...
Study shows link between maternal marijuana use and low birth weight
Women who used marijuana while pregnant were almost three times more likely to have an infant with low birth weight LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE - LONDON, ON - In a new study, researchers in London, Ontario found that women who used marijuana while pregnant were almost three times more likely to have an infant with low birth weight than women who did not use marijuana. The study analyzed data from perinatal and neonatal databases at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and is the first...
The grass isn't always greener: The effects of cannabis on embryological development.
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Abstract With the increasing publicity of marijuana due to recent legislation, it is pertinent that the effects of fetal exposure to the drug are assessed. While in utero cannabis exposure has been associated with early pregnancy failure, birth defects and developmental delay, the mechanisms of such outcomes are largely unexplained. Furthermore, the use of cannabinoids in cancer treatment via growth inhibition and apoptosis may indicate how cannabis exposure likely harms a growing fetus....
Binge drinking BEFORE you get pregnant ‘can have life-long effects on future children’
April 2017 An American study suggests it raises the risk of having children born with high blood sugar. WOMEN who binge drink before they become pregnant risk harming their babies, a study suggests . They are more likely to have children with high blood sugar, increasing their chances of developing diabetes as adults… "These findings suggest that the effects of a mother's alcohol misuse before conception may be passed on to her offspring. "These changes could have lifelong effects on the...
Proliferation of marijuana ads alarms addiction researchers
More than half of young marijuana users encounter online ads, survey finds by Jim Dryden • March 28, 2017 As more states have legalized marijuana, advertising for the drug has become more common. In a new study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that more than half of young pot users they surveyed have seen marijuana ads — either online or in more traditional forms of advertising such as billboards and print media. “Advertising can be powerful,” said...
Our Growing Problem of Traumatized Children
A long-term study from Denmark, explored a number psychological factors that may or may not have adverse outcomes on the children. The Danish study determined that parental factors most likely to create either violent or suicidal tendencies in adulthood are 1) parents who used marijuana; 2) having parents who are sociopaths or 3) having parents who attempt suicide . In other words, marijuana abuse is far more serious in predicting adverse behavioral outcomes than other parental mental health...
What Will Legal Marijuana Cost Employers - 2016
New Report by National Families in Action Rips the Veil off the Medical Marijuana Industry
Please read the latest publication from Sue Rusche and National Families in Action. It is one of the best resources you can have in exposing the lies and motives of the pro-pot movement. Download Article
SAM's Toolkit
Download our latest Marijuana Education Toolkit to inform yourself and others! Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM's) Toolkit includes information about the health risks of marijuana, data showing links between marijuana use and other drugs…. You can use these educational briefs to inform not just lawmakers, but also community leaders, friends, and anyone else interested in this important subject.
Under the Influence: Jamaicans Driving High
CARIBBEAN360 - JANUARY 18, 2017 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday January 18, 2017 – Jamaica’s recent decriminalization of possession of up to two ounces of ganja is contributing to a dangerous practice that officials warn needs urgent attention. Disturbing findings in the 2016 National Drug Prevalence Survey show that one in six males and 17 females drive under the influence, with most admitting to using ganja since it has been decriminalized. Executive director of the National Council on Drug...
Nearly 100 Conclusions on the Health Effects of Marijuana and Cannabis-Derived Products Presented in New Report; One of the Most Comprehensive Studies of Recent Research on Health Effects of...
Jan. 12, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON – A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a rigorous review of scientific research published since 1999 about what is known about the health impacts of cannabis and cannabis-derived products – such as marijuana and active chemical compounds known as cannabinoids – ranging from their therapeutic effects to their risks for causing certain cancers, diseases, mental health disorders, and injuries. The...
There goes the "Nobody ever died from cannabis myth"
5477 Males and 1534 Females, Death from Cannabis, 7011 Deaths, USA, 1999-2015 - There goes the "Nobody ever died from cannabis myth" View Graph Read More
Pot may restrict blood flow to brain: study
Brain scans of nearly 1,000 past and present marijuana users revealed abnormally low blood flow throughout their brains, compared with a smaller control group of 92 people who'd never used pot. "The differences were astonishing," said lead researcher Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist and founder of the U.S.-based Amen Clinics. "Virtually every area of the brain we measured was lower in blood flow and activity in the marijuana smokers than in the healthy group." Blood flow was lowest in the...
Regular cannabis use could damage eyesight, study suggests
Ian Johnston, Science Correspondent, Friday 9 December Research could ‘highlight the neurotoxic effects of cannabis use on the central nervous system as a result of how it affects retinal processing’ Marijuana may have neurotoxic effects, researchers have found. Regularly smoking cannabis may damage users’ eyesight by triggering an abnormality in the retina, a new study has found. Researchers in France tested 28 cannabis smokers and 24 people who did not use the drug to see how well their...
Parsing the Contradictions: Marijuana and the Brain
by Kayt Sukel December 6, 2016 California’s Proposition 64, or the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, passed on Nov. 8, 2016, making it legal for people 21 and older in that state to use marijuana recreationally. California is just the latest—more than 20 states have now legalized some manner of Cannabis sativa use and it is expected that more will follow. At Neuroscience 2016, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, said...
Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife
1. Madeline H. Meiera,b,1, 2. Avshalom Caspia,b,c,d,e, 3. Antony Amblere,f, 4. HonaLee Harringtonb,c,d, 5. Renate Houtsb,c,d, 6. Richard S. E. Keefed, 7. Kay McDonaldf, 8. Aimee Wardf, 9. Richie Poultonf, and 10. Terrie E. Moffitta,b,c,d,e 1. aDuke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, Center for Child and Family Policy, 2. bDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, and 3. cInstitute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708; 4. dDepartment of Psychiatry and...
Why Some Pot Smokers Face a Higher Risk of Drinking Problems
By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | November 1, 2016 DENVER — People who use alcohol and marijuana together may be at greater risk for alcohol-related problems, such as drunken driving and poorer health, than those who use only alcohol, a new study finds. Of the more than 2,400 people who said they drank alcohol in the past year, 70 percent said they used alcohol only, 18 percent said they tended to use alcohol and marijuana simultaneously, and 13 percent said they used both drugs, but...
With worrisome animal research, more focus needed on effects of cannabis on human development
Adapted Media Release Published: Monday 3 October 2016 In this new era of legalized marijuana, far too little research has been conducted on the effect of cannabis on the development of human embryos, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who scoured medical literature on the topic and found what they say is worrisome animal research. Their study, in the journal BioMed Central (BMC) Pharmacology and Toxicology, suggests an urgent need for human epidemiological and basic...
National Estimates of Marijuana Use and Related Indicators — National Survey on Drug Use and Health, United States, 2002–2014
Surveillance Summaries / September 2, 2016 / 65(11);1–25 Alejandro Azofeifa, DDS1; Margaret E. Mattson, PhD1; Gillian Schauer, PhD2; Tim McAfee, MD3; Althea Grant, PhD4; Rob Lyerla, PhD1 ( Abstract Problem/Condition : In the United States, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2013, 7.5% (19.8 million) of the U.S. population aged ≥12 years reported using marijuana during the preceding month. Because of certain state-level policies that have legalized marijuana for medical or...
Mixing cannabis with tobacco increases dependence risk, suggests study
July 5, 2016 Tobacco and cannabis are two of the world's most popular drugs, used respectively by 1 billion and 182 million people worldwide (World Health Organization; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). The adverse health effects of tobacco are well known. Short-term effects of cannabis are transient impairments in motor function and working memory, planning, and decision-making, while possible long-term health effects of heavy cannabis use include physical and psychological...
Pot-related psychosis linked to early ‘dangerous’ use
Researchers trying to understand what triggers psychotic episodes in some users say it’s a myth marijuana is risk-free. Dr. Romina Mizrahi, a psychiatrist and director of the Focus on Youth Psychosis Prevention Clinic, says young people who use marijuana before the age of 16 have a higher risk of having a psychotic experience. (KEITH BEATY / TORONTO STAR) By MARINA JIMENEZ Foreign Affairs Writer - Mon., June 6, 2016 At first, the voices he heard in his head were pleasant. But then, they turned...
ANNA’S STORY Author Dies: Angela Wood: A tribute to a wonderful and very effective anti-drug campaigner.
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It is with deep sadness that we confirm to our subscribers the passing of Mrs Angela Wood in late June 2016. She finally lost her long battle with various cancers. Angela, with her remarkable husband Tony, lost their daughter Anna to the first highly publicized Ecstasy death over 20 years ago. One of the most appalling and predator-esque outcomes of this tragedy was the immediate approach of the family by Australians most prominent pro-drug activist Dr Alex Wodak, who (using St Vincent...
One in six children hospitalized for lung inflammation positive for marijuana exposure - April 2016
A new study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting found that one in six infants and toddlers admitted to a Colorado hospital with coughing, wheezing and other symptoms of bronchiolitis tested positive for marijuana exposure… Of the children who were identified as having been exposed to marijuana smokers, urine samples showed traces of a metabolite of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of marijuana, in 16 percent of them. The results also showed...
University of Florida study finds teens’ likelihood of trying marijuana peaks at ages 16, 18
The likelihood adolescents will try marijuana rises steadily from age 11 to age 16, then decreases before hitting another peak at age 18, according to a new University of Florida study. The study findings, which appear in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, may help experts develop new marijuana prevention strategies, says lead author Xinguang (Jim) Chen, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the department of epidemiology in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions and the UF...
Schizophrenic who started smoking cannabis aged nine is jailed for life after killing both his sister and mother
Schizophrenic who started smoking cannabis aged nine is jailed for life after killing both his sister and mother Peter Fox, 27, killed mother Bernadette, 57, and sister Sarah, 27 Liverpool Crown Court heard he was a drug user with history of violence Sister's neighbours said they heard screams of 'help me' as he stabbed her Fox had previously claimed to have been a spy 'ordered to kill people' He was discharged by mental health service weeks before the killings due to a 'breakdown in...
Prenatal marijuana exposure, age of marijuana initiation, and the development of psychotic symptoms in young adults.
Day NL1, Goldschmidt L2, Day R3, Larkby C1, Richardson GA1. Abstract BACKGROUND : Studies have demonstrated that an early age of onset of marijuana use (EAOM) is associated with a higher risk of developing psychotic symptoms (PS) compared to initiating marijuana use at a later age or not at all. Research has also found that prenatal marijuana exposure (PME) predicts EAOM. This report evaluates the relationships among PME, EAOM, and PS. CONCLUSIONS : In addition to EAOM, PME may also play a...
Researches Say Cannabis Use Can Lead to Risk of Inherritable Mutations
Scientists from The University of Western Australia have identified how using cannabis can alter a person’s DNA structure, causing mutations which can expose them to serious illnesses, and be passed on to their children and several future generations. Although the association between cannabis use and severe illnesses such as cancer has previously been documented, providing an understanding how this occurs and implications for future generations was not previously understood. Associate...
University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person's DNA structure
Subject : University of WA scientists found cannabis alters a person's DNA structure Cancer risk to kids from cannabis use: University of Western Australia found that cannabis alters a person’s DNA, potentially exposing future generations to serious illnesses such as cancer. “In my 20 years of research on human cells, I have never found any other drug, including heroin, which comes close to the DNA damage caused by marijuana” – Dr Akira Miroshima. WA researchers have warned that cannabis use...
More Black and Hispanic youth arrested for marijuana after Colorado legalization
Pot-related arrests of Black youth jump 58%; arrests of Hispanic kids rise 29% May 20, 2016 Contact: Jeffrey Zinsmeister jeff@learnaboutsam.org [WASHINGTON, DC] - A recent report from the Colorado Department of Public Safety reveals that marijuana-related arrests of Black and Hispanic youth increased sharply in the two years following legalization, belying claims by legalization advocates that such policies would promote racial justice. Overall arrests of minors for marijuana jumped 5 percent...
Yes, Marijuana Kills and this time it was a 16 Year!
There are echoes of Levy Thamba’s death in the story of a 16-year-old student in Seattle who jumped to his death after trying marijuana for the first time. The Seattle Police Department ruled that the death of Hamza Warsame was an accident. He had gone to the 6th floor apartment of an older classmate to work on a project. After having marijuana, he became “frantic,” went out on the balcony and fell off the building. Hamza Warsame’s death follows that of Levy Thamba,Luke Goodman and Justin...
Safe pot? Tell that to the 62 kids who died
Sheila Polk, AZ I See It2:29 p.m. MST June 15, 2015 Marijuana is an addictive and hazardous drug. But lately, some have taken to proclaiming that "marijuana is safer than alcohol," a message that is not only wrong but dangerous. According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, in a study that examines all deaths in Arizona of children under the age of 18, a disturbing number of child deaths resulted from substance use. It was linked to the deaths of 128 of Arizona's children in 2013....
Alcohol, Methamphetamine, and Marijuana Exposure Have Distinct Effects on the Human Placenta
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Carter RC1, Wainwright H2, Molteno CD3, Georgieff MK4, Dodge NC5, Warton F6, Meintjes EM6, Jacobson JL3,6,5, Jacobson SW3,6,5. Abstract BACKGROUND : Animal studies have demonstrated adverse effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on placental development, but few studies have examined these effects in humans. Little is known about effects of prenatal exposure to methamphetamine, marijuana, and cigarette smoking on placental development. METHODS : Placentas were collected from 103 Cape Coloured...
Alcohol-free: why temperance drinks are making a comeback
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 1142
Compared with more modern soft drinks, traditional botanical brews may be old-fashioned, but they are packed with flavour and anything but boring Rebecca Hardy Friday 12 February 2016 Booze. We’re so over it now. Not only is the government trying to wean us off our swift halves with its new alcohol guidelines (so good luck with that, then), but there’s been shocking exposure of “Britain on the Booze”, and a “dramatic rise” in the number of young teetotallers shunning their alcopops and Bacardi...
This mother drank while pregnant. Here’s what her daughter’s like at 43.
Tuesday, February 02, 2016 1051
Kathy Mitchell wants to share something with you. She's not proud of it, and it's not a behavior she hopes you'll emulate. It's just the truth: As a teen, Kathy drank alcohol while pregnant with her daughter, Karli. It was a perilous if unwitting mistake that has defined both of their lives….To Kathy, Karli's is simply a life snuffed of promise. "I adore my very sweet daughter," Kathy says. "She's a forever innocent child. But not a day goes by that I don't ask myself, 'What if? What if...
Over 400 conditions co-occur with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), study finds
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January 5, 2016 Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have identified 428 distinct disease conditions that co-occur in people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), in the most comprehensive review of its kind. The results were published today in The Lancet. "We've systematically identified numerous disease conditions co-occurring with FASD, which underscores the fact that it isn't safe to drink any amount or type of alcohol at any stage of pregnancy, despite...
New Dutch healthy diet guidelines...
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New Dutch healthy diet guidelines say don’t drink alcohol at all. (Health November 5, 2015) The Dutch health council is recommending that people abstain from alcohol altogether or drink no more than one glass per day. Previously women are advised to drink no more than one glass and men two on a daily basis. The council has published new recommendations on ensuring a healthy diet and says more than one alcoholic drink raises the risk of strokes and various forms of cancer. The health benefits...
Mothers Drinking Alcohol in Pregnancy
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(Hidden Harm) They both have brain damage, caused by their mothers drinking alcohol in pregnancy. " I'm sure there's lots of mothers out there that know that they drank. They're too scared to come forward because it's a shameful thing. " Claire H, mother who drank alcohol while pregnant In this confronting story, we take you into the lives of three everyday Australian families grappling with the consequences of drinking in pregnancy. The children face a devastating range of problems, from...
UW research leads to new recommendation against drinking while pregnant
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SEATTLE – Research from the University of Washington's Fetal Alcohol Syndrome program helped lead to a new recommendation that no amount of alcohol should be considered safe during pregnancy. That recommendation came last week from the American Academy of Pediatrics. "It just sounds ultra-conservative. But when it comes to alcohol I cannot stress enough if you have the ability to not drink at all during pregnancy, don't drink at all. It's just not worth the risk," said Dr. Susan Astley, a UW...
Pinkwashed alcohol products & promotions exposed in new study
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study in the October issue of Addiction documents alcohol products promoted with pink ribbons, partnerships with breast cancer charities, and general terms such as "breast cancer research" or "cure." Hundreds of brands promote products with breast cancer awareness ribbons, and when companies that make products that contribute to cancer do so, it is called pinkwashing. Ironically, pinkwashed alcohol brands contribute to cancer risk...
Drug Information Sheets Listing of PDF Files
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DRUG INFORMATION RESOURCES - INTERNATIONAL Pill Testing Increases Festival Goers Intention to Use Ecstasy. Conclusion – Based on the evaluation, pill testing represents a real and present danger to the community, especially considering that generally, those who reported moderate levels of intention to use a drug before entering the pill testing service, increased their intention to use a drug after using the pill testing service. This is the exact opposite to what our Members of Parliament,...
Under the Influence:
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Key messages Young people are more likely to experience alcohol-related violence One in five Australians aged 18 to 19 years have been a victim of physical abuse by someone under the influence of alcohol. 79% of 18 to 25 year old males charged with assault on a Friday or Saturday night consumed alcohol in the 48 hours prior to their arrest. Young people are more likely to report being verbally abused, physically abused or put in fear by someone under the influence of alcohol than any other age...
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The alcohol industry should be devastated by the report that less than 5 per cent of Australian women can recall pregnancy health warnings on alcohol. Read More Lack of support for alcohol-dependent pregnant women Almost 4% of Australian women meet the criteria for an alcohol use disorder in any given year. According to research, less than one in 10 of them receive any treatment and the coverage is even worse for women who are pregnant. Read More Have the Drug Talk The following online...
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View Clip “Children under alcohol – stolen potential – stolen childhood – stolen lives!” Unfortunately there is a small but incredibly vocal minority who are backed by some lobbyists that want to unwisely foster further damage on our children by promoting illicit drugs as relatively harmless or at least ‘manageable’. This propaganda is not only patently false, it is seeking to tear down the protective fences on the edge of society’s cliff of dysfunction and thus exposing our most vulnerable –...
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What You Need to Know About Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders View Clip One View Clip two View Clip Three FASD, ADHD or both with Dr. Gabor Maté View Clip Up to 7% of entire student popluation in the USA are under the burden of FASD View Clip For information regarding F.A.S.D contact The National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Related Disorders (NOFASARD) on 1300 30 238 or email admin@nofasard.org.au
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David Reynolds – Darwin Wrap Up
June 20, 2018 /0 Comments/in News /by daffidreynolds
Well… I certainly feel like I’ve redeemed myself after the last round in Winton. I am absolutely stoked with our weekend in Darwin!
While I didn’t quite win the ‘Triple Crown’, I gave it a fair crack….
Friday proved a good starting point, claiming fourth and seventh in each session. The car felt great heading into Saturday’s practice and I managed to cross the line in P3.
Come qualifying Saturday, I couldn’t fault the car. The track was amazing and everything just fell in to place and I was able to grab pole position, my first ever with Erebus Motorsport. It was amazing. To make it even more special my teammate, Anton De Pasquale claimed third place; so it was just a magical moment for everybody!
Race 15 on Saturday afternoon didn’t quite go to plan. Although I scored a podium and finished up in third place, I obviously would have loved to have won the race – but we were just missing a little bit here and there. In hindsight, we probably could have gone a lot longer and jumped that pack we came out in, and then had fresh tyres to try and pass Scott (McLaughlin). Otherwise, it was a great day and it was interesting to see that although we ran a very different style of car compared to Anton, both cars were fast which was great!
I then qualified tenth on Sunday – which wasn’t too great, however managed to pick up some spots in the Top Ten Shootout and started Race 16 in fourth. I got an amazing start, I just hung my balls out at Turn 1 and went a bit deeper than everyone and it paid off – scoring the lead early in the race, which essentially set up the remaining 69-laps. Our strategy and pitstops were amazing, after I pitted I managed to hold the lead by six seconds to McLaughlin – however, a late Safety Car closed the gap with 16 laps to go. I knew when the lights went green, that I had to put my foot down and I managed to pull away from McLaughlin with a 1.7-second gap and take the win!
Darwin was an incredible weekend; a dual podium and Erebus’ best ever team result.
A huge thanks to the team and sponsors for making this all possible!
I’m currently sitting third in the Championship points, -327 behind first place.
Next stop, Watpac Townsville 400, July 6-8.
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Home » Energy » Energy Commission Shields Big Political Donor
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Energy Commission Shields Big Political Donor
FERC Says It Won’t Force Huge Utility to Disclose Politicians Who Received Campaign Money
By Sarah Okeson
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A federal commission stacked with Trump appointees said the organization that runs our nation’s largest wholesale electricity market may keep secret how it spends millions of Americans’ utility-bill dollars on lobbying and political contributions.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ostensibly independent, slapped down a complaint by a watchdog group known as Public Citizen. The watchdog wanted PJM Interconnection to disclose spending.
“We will not require PJM to itemize and disclose all political-related spending and deny the complaint on this issue,” commissioners wrote.
PJM gave at least $456,500 to the Democratic Governors Association and the Republican Governors Association from October 2007 to August 2017, according to Public Citizen’s complaint.
Such donations, said Public Citizen, are “the wild, wild West of campaign finance” because they aren’t limited by state or federal rules and can be used to funnel large amounts of money to candidates for office.
The Trump-dominated commission dubbed the money “membership fees” that let PJM maintain “access to these organizations to keep informed on policy initiatives impacting the wholesale markets and to help educate state policymakers.”
Call the members of FERC at 202-502-6088 to tell them your thoughts about disclosing spending on politics or write them at 888 First St., NE, Washington, D.C. 20426.
Public Citizen can be reached at 202-588-1000.
Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen said FERC has signaled with this decision that it thinks the commission has no jurisdiction over many internal actions of organizations like PJM that are formed with the commission’s approval to monitor our nation’s electrical system.
FERC has legally signaled the organizations are Frankensteins, monsters they created but no longer control, Slocum said.
PJM is funded by payments tens of millions of Americans make through monthly utility bills in the District of Columbia and 13 states where PJM operates, including Illinois, Virginia, New Jersey and Ohio. People who pay electricity bills have no control over how PJM or other utilities that make pay-to-play contributions are spending the money.
“If this was a county official or the mayor of a town, there would be outrage,” Slocum said.
The case was decided by Chairman Neil Chatterjee, a Republican, and commissioners Richard Glick, a Democrat, and Bernard McNamee, a Republican. All three are Trump appointees. The commission has two vacancies. Trump recently nominated James Danly, another Republican, who is the general counsel for the commission.
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EV charge points now at London Rail Stations
July 10, 2013 • 0 Comment
Eight charging points for electric vehicles have been installed at Network Rail’s public car parks at Euston and Victoria railway stations in central London.
ChargePoint Services has installed five dual-socket GE DuraStation pedestal AC units at Euston and three at Victoria station car parks, providing 32amp type two, mode three, fast charging for electric vehicles.
All units are GPRS networked, and RFID compliant with the Source London and PiP schemes, and are monitored and managed via ChargePoint’s back office system, CPMS.
The installation is part of Network Rail’s on-going sustainability strategy, which aims to make commuting via the rail network the greenest way to travel.
There are more than half a million rail users travelling through the London terminals every morning and evening, and many of them will have begun their journey with a car trip to their local station.
Network Rail’s aim is to reduce the overall carbon footprint of that journey and to encourage this it is offering a reduced price parking season ticket of £100 per month, for drivers of electric vehicles leaving their vehicles at Network Rail car parks.
Liz Ratcliffe, account manager – car parking at Network Rail, said: “Providing charge points for electric vehicles at our car parks will be a boost for rail users who have already chosen to use environmentally cleaner vehicles for their journey to and from the station.
“Recharging their vehicle at the station is the obvious choice for drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles and we’re very pleased at Network Rail to provide this facility to our customers as a part of our drive to reduce door-to-door carbon emission sustainable strategy.”
Alex Bamberg, managing director, ChargePoint Services Ltd, said. “We’re very pleased to be the first charge point supplier to install public charge points at railway stations in the UK. Network Rail obviously has a great understanding of joining up the journey to provide a totally green solution for its customers.
“We are looking forward to continuing to work alongside them rolling out the next round of sites offering public EV charging.”
If you would be interested in having a charging point installed at your business premises, please speak to our team at Fleetdrive Electric to find out what options are available and would best suit your requirements. We have various charging facilities available to lease.
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Weird Tales #360 is a special Elder Gods issue, featuring creepy new stories by many horror & dark fantasy luminaries, including: Brian Lumley - "The Long Last Night" Michael Shea - "Momma Durtt" Michael Reyes - "The Darkness at Table Rock Road" Darrell Schweitzer - "The Runners Beyond the Wall" Matthew Jackson - "Drain" William Blake-Smith... [click here for more] Wildside Press $6.99 $2.99
New Tales of the Yellow Sign
In the dying years of the 19th century, a book changed the world—or worlds. A slim, sinister text called The King in Yellow drove those who read it to madness. Despite suppression by anxious authorities, it spread through global culture, and history itself, like a virus. Now the contagion bears hideous fruit. Disturbing, dissonant and riddled with negative capability. -... [click here for more] Robin D. Laws $3.99
Predation: The Age of Crest and Bone
A little sci-fi. A little post-apocalypse. A whole lot of dinosaurs. Welcome to the Cretaceous. Our ancestors won’t climb down from the trees for another 66 million years, but here we are now. Time travel seemed like a good idea. Exploring the ancient world. Building. Creating an entire society here in the jungles of our primordial Earth. Until those SATI guys messed it all up. We’ve... [click here for more] Monte Cook Games $1.99
The A. Merritt Megapack: 19 Classic Novels and Stories
The A. Merritt Megapack collects all of Abraham Merritt's classic fantasy novels and short stories, omitting only posthumous collaborations and poetry. Included are: THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS (1917) THE PEOPLE OF THE PIT (1918) THE MOON POOL (1919) THE METAL MONSTER (1920) THE SHIP OF ISHTAR (1924) THE POOL OF THE STONE GOD (1925) THE WOMEN OF THE WOOD (1926) SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN (1927) THE... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
Hell Has No Fury
Lawyer Solomon Burr has a new client . . . and it's an old friend of his from law school. Can Sol save his old pal from a murder rap? This tale is ripped from the April 1953 issue of Dime Detective Magazine. A classic! Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
The Belkamp Apparatus
It was Lucius Belkamp’s wretched misfortune to be everywhere mistaken for a spy, although this was hardly surprising. Anyone with a cover story so unimpeachable as Lucius Belkamp’s simply had to be a spy, in the considered view of quite a number of exceedingly astute chiefs in those shadowy departments whose business is espionage and its prevention. Note: This digital edition... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
The Ghost Story Megapack: 25 Classic Tales by Masters
Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup: AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. Jerome THE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick Bangs THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke THE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. Benson THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton THE... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
Brains for Sale
“Brains for Sale” was originally published in Star Detective Magazine, August 1935. Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
Jealousy and suspicion leads to murder, when a private detective steers a husband to his wife's secret lover. But there's more to the wife's plan than meets the eye… Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
The Atom Bomb Clue
When an atomic researcher steals uranium, will the cops get their man? A classic tale from the pulps, originally published in 10-Story Detective magazine, November 1946. Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
Tale from Tangier
A classic crime tale by best-selling science fiction author Mack Reynolds, ripped from the pages of the March, 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine! Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
The Doctor Satan MEGAPACK®: The Complete Series from Weird Tales
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The Edmond Hamilton Megapack: 16 Classic Science Fiction Tales
Edmond Hamilton. For most people, this name conjures visions of two-fisted space opera -- pure pulp science fiction. And Hamilton -- known as the author of the "Captain Future" series -- was indeed one of the foremost writers of pulp space opera. Over the years, as his work became more polished and sophisticated, he evolved into far more than that: a visionary of the future whose imagination... [click here for more] Wildside Press $0.99
Dead & Breakfast and Other Stories
Not all detectives are heroes. And when the dead can't defend themselves, help comes from the most unlikely sources. It might be from P.I.s with offices in unusually high places (“Heaven Knows”). It might come from shapeshifters in love (“Stakes & Adders”). Hell, it could even come from...you’ve guessed it, Hell. (“667, Evil and Then Some”).... [click here for more] Untreed Reads Publishing $4.99
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Zoo lake brims after 3 years, thanks to restoration
Published: Dec 08,201903:38 AM
The year-long restoration efforts undertaken at the Otteri lake seems to have finally paid off, with the lake located in Arignar Anna Zoological Park on the city’s outskirts now brimming. Officials said that the lake has filled up after nearly three years.
“Owing to poor inflow, the lake remained dry for years, resulting in the arrival of migratory birds coming to a nought. We worked hard to revive and rejuvenate the lake, and finally, the waterbody is restored. We have deepened the lake up to 15 feet depth from last year. The last time the lake was filled was during the flood in 2015,” said Sudha Ramen, Deputy Director of Vandalur zoo.
Elaborating on the efforts put in restoring the lake, Sudha said, “It took almost a year to clear drainage channels, desilt the waterbodies, and plant native trees near the banks. But apart from these, thanks are due to the northeast monsoon, which has enabled the lake’s restoration.”
Also, due to lack of water in the lake, there were no migrating birds spotted for the past three years. But now, there are many migratory species, with almost five species spotted camping at the lake, the Deputy Director said. “It is happy to see them back,” she added.
With the lake’s restoration being widely commended on social media, the official said that earlier, the surplus quantity from the Otteri lake flowed to different lakes that were utilised for agricultural purposes. With the lake going dry, farmers were unable to cultivate.
However, with the channels now having been cleared, the problem wouldn’t surface again in the coming years, the official hoped.
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Gwen Hinze
EFF Special Counsel
Gwen Hinze is Special Counsel for EFF working with the international team on international intellectual property and Internet policy issues, and International Copyright Fellow at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley Law School. From 2002-2012 she served variously as EFF’s International Director, International IP Director, and Staff Attorney, where she focused on educating global policy-makers about the need for balanced intellectual property regimes that protect creators, promote access to knowledge, foster technological innovation, and empower digital consumers. She has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office for consumer exemptions to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and been involved in litigating various cases involving the impact of copyright law on innovation, privacy and freedom of expression online. Before EFF, she practiced at international law firm Allens, and worked for the Australian government in public policy and litigation. Gwen is a member of the State Bar of California and holds honors degrees in law and philosophy from Monash University, Australia.
Scenario Planning on the Future of Intellectual Property: Literature Review and Implications for Human Development, Michael Gollin, Gwen Hinze and Tzen Wong; contributor to Knowledge and Education: Pro-access Implications of New Technologies, Dalindyebo Shabalala, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS, eds Tzen Wong and Graham Dutfield, (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
The Impact of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on the Knowledge Economy: The Accountability of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for the Creation of IP Enforcement Norms Through Executive Trade Agreements, Eddan Katz and Gwen Hinze, [Fall 2009] Vol. 35 Yale Journal of International Law Online.
http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/o-35-katz-hinze-ACTA-onknowledge-economy.pdf
The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Why Granting Intellectual Property Rights to Information Distributors Will Harm Innovation and the Free Flow of Information on the Internet, [2009] 8 Computer and Telecommunications Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell) 171
Making Knowledge Accessible Across Borders: The Case for Mandatory Minimum International Copyright Exceptions for Education, Third World Network Briefing Paper No. 49, (July 2008).
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/briefing_papers/No49.pdf
Brave New World, Ten Years Later: Reviewing the Impact of Policy Choices in the Implementation of the WIPO Internet Treaties’ Technological Protection Measure Provisions, [2007] 57 Case Western Reserve Law Review 779.
Seven Lessons from a Comparison of the Technological Protection Measure Provisions of the FTAA, the DMCA, and Recent Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (2003-4)
http://www.eff.org/files/tpm_implementation.pdf
The EUCD and the DMCA in 2003: How Legal Protection for Technological Measures is shaping Consumers’ and Copyright Owners’ Digital Rights, CEPIS/ Upgrade - European Journal for Informatics Professionals, Vol. IV, No.3, June 2003, Joint Issue with Novatica, Special Issue on Open Knowledge, eds Philippe Aigrain and Jesus M. Gonzales-Barahona. http://www.cepis.org/files/cepisupgrade/monograph-2003-III.pdf
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze, Maira Sutton | May 23, 2012
Senator Wyden Demands Access to Text of Secret International Agreements Regulating the Internet
Senator Ron Wyden yesterday introduced a bill on the floor of the U.S. Senate demanding access to draft texts of international trade agreements under negotiation by the Office of the United States Trade Representative such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) that carry provisions that could severely choke off users...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | May 16, 2012
U.S. Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality - State Department Confirms No ACTA Pre-Review
Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee today. (Press Release). At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had authority to enter into the controversial...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | April 30, 2012
ACTA in the EU: We Can't Call it Dead Yet
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was dealt a major blow on April 12 when MEP David Martin, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for the agreement and member of the Committee responsible for delivering the recommendation [doc] to European Parliament to adopt or reject the agreement, announced that he would be recommending...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze, Maira Sutton | April 11, 2012
TPP: Continuing to Nudge Toward Agreement
Informal negotiations are underway in Chile this week on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Up for negotiation are provisions dealing with intellectual property – including online copyright enforcement, DMCA-style digital locks, and Internet intermediary liability. TPP countries are holding informal inter-sessional discussions this week to nudge countries closer to...
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ACTA: The State of Play in the US
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen surprising and significant developments with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in both the US and the EU. This is the first in a series of posts detailing the current state of play. Today, we’re reviewing recent U.S. developments and what we and others...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | February 17, 2012
EU Court of Justice: Social Networks Can’t Be Forced to Monitor and Filter to Prevent Copyright Infringement
In another important victory for Internet users’ fundamental rights and the open Internet, the highest court in Europe ruled yesterday that social networks cannot be required to monitor and filter their users’ communications to prevent copyright infringement of music and movies. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze, Maira Sutton | February 10, 2012
Canada’s C-11 Bill and the Hazards of Digital Locks Provisions
While copyright owners claim that they need anti-circumvention laws to address copyright infringement, twelve years’ experience with the U.S. DMCA provisions demonstrates that overbroad digital locks laws can wreak havoc on lawful, non copyright-infringing activities, stifle free speech and scientific research, and harm innovation and competition. The issue is that...
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Don’t Let the U.S. Pressure Canada into Repeating The Same Mistakes
In countries across the world, content copyright industries have been lobbying for laws that would break the Internet in the name of copyright enforcement. Such regulations could terminate user access to the Internet on an allegation of copyright infringement, enact website blocking powers that would make parts of the global...
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Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Gwen Hinze, Jillian C. York, Katitza Rodriguez, Maira Sutton | December 20, 2011
Defend the Global Network
Threats to freedom are global, and EFF works internationally to defend your digital rights. Here are some things EFF achieved this year with the help of our global partners and supporters like you: Protecting Freedom of Expression Worldwide EFF supported activists around the world as they used...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gwen Hinze | August 5, 2011
Website Blocking - Off The Table in the UK (For Now)
In countries across the world, IP rightholders are pushing website blocking as the latest weapon against online copyright infringement. United Nations’ Human Rights experts, security engineers, law professors and others are pushing back, noting both the enormous collateral damage such blocking can cause and the likelihood that...
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Sky Bet League 1: Matchday 39 review
Wigan Athletic pulled six points clear of the chasing pack in the automatic promotion places after beating Rochdale 1-0 at the DW Stadium.
Conor McAleny scored the only goal of the game to ensure they extended the gap to Walsall in third place. The Latics also closed in on leaders Burton Albion with their triumph, after the Brewers were toppled 2-0 away at Millwall in the evening kick-off.
Bradford City remained in the Play-Off places after a hard-fought 1-0 win at Crewe Alexandra, while Gillingham also kept pace in the top six, beating Bury 1-0.
At the foot of the table, there were two huge wins for Blackpool and Oldham Athletic, against Doncaster Rovers and Chesterfield respectively - teams in and around them in the drop zone.
While six of the seven afternoon games ended 1-0, Scunthorpe United broke the trend in style to beat Swindon Town 6-0, for Graham Alexander’s first victory as manager.
Here are all the results from Matchday 39 in Sky Bet League 1:
Bury 0-1 Gillingham
Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Bradford City
Doncaster Rovers 0-1 Blackpool
Millwall 2-0 Burton Albion
Oldham Athletic 1-0 Chesterfield
Port Vale 0-1 Barnsley
Scunthorpe United 6-0 Swindon Town
Wigan Athletic 1-0 Rochdale
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European ministers to decide on sea bass bag limit this week
Author: EFTTA
Category: Lobby,News,EFTTA
YOU ARE HERE: EFTTA Media Centre European ministers to decide on sea bass bag limit this week
It's decision time this week on how many bass anglers across Europe will be able to keep in 2019. The European Council of Ministers and the European Commission will be discussing its strategy for the species at a meeting scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday (17th and 18th December). And the region's top representative body for recreational fishing have called on a three fish bag limit in northern waters.
EFTTA - led by Jan Kappel, its Public Affairs Officer – and the European Anglers Alliance (EAA) have published a position paper for sea bass in 2019 in which it appeals for a restoration of the rights of the public for a fair share of sea bass.
"The recreational sector has been loyal and supportive to the cuts made in its bass fishing opportunities in recent years due to concerns over the depleted stock," it says.
"The recreational sector has been consistently hit much harder by management measures than the commercial sector. What always was a hard sell has now become a reason for distrust of Europe's institutions for millions of anglers all over the region."
In calling for a three bass bag limit for Northern bass, instead of the proposed one fish, it points out that catches by anglers have remained relatively stable over the years, while commercial catches have increased dramatically.
It is also recommending a seven-month open season for bass fishing and a minimum size limit of 42cm for both northern and southern bass.
Jan Kappel said: "The steady decrease in anglers' share of the total catches is unacceptable. In recent years anglers and recreational fishing-dependent businesses have suffered a lot because of severe bass catch restrictions. This year anglers could take home only one fish during three low months of the season.
"It is very difficult to climb up from this dark hole as the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has made commercial fishing king and recreational fishing a subordinated nuisance to the king. We are working hard on achieving a better status for angling in the CFP, not only with regard to bass, but all species of angling interest."
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Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise
December 7, 2019 Kurucz JuditLeave a Comment on Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise
Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.
That’s the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.
While nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.
Around 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.
Researchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.
The threat to oceans from nutrient run-off of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and industry has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the sea waters and still remains the primary factor, especially closer to coasts.
However, in recent years the threat from climate change has increased.
As more carbon dioxide is released enhancing the greenhouse effect, much of the heat is absorbed by the oceans. In turn, this warmer water can hold less oxygen. The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%.
That may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.
Even small changes can impact marine life in a significant way. So waters with less oxygen favour species such as jellyfish, but not so good for bigger, fast-swimming species like tuna.
“We have known about de-oxygenation but we haven’t known the linkages to climate change and this is really worrying,” said Minna Epps from IUCN.
“Not only has the decline of oxygen quadrupled in the past 50 years but even in the best case emissions scenario, oxygen is still going to decline in the oceans.”
For species like tuna, marlin and some sharks that are particularly sensitive to lack of oxygen – this is bad news.
Bigger fish like these have greater energy needs. According to the authors, these animals are starting to move to the shallow surface layers of the seas where there is more of the gas dissolved. However, this make the species much more vulnerable to over-fishing.
If countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world’s oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.
This is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.
Low levels of oxygen are also bad for basic processes like the cycling of elements crucial for life on Earth, including nitrogen and phosphorous.
“If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish,” said Minna Epps.
“It will also change the energy and the biochemical cycling in the oceans and we don’t know what these biological and chemical shifts in the oceans can actually do.”
Changing the outcomes for the oceans is down to the world’s political leaders which is why the report has been launched here at COP25.
“Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification,” said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report’s co-editor.
“To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources.”
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Personal Historian Business Launches Unique Services to Couples Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
Legacy Vine launches engagement service
Legacy Vine by Unassuming Collective launches engagement service
Legacy Vine + Love Curates Audio Recordings Allow Couples to Pour Their Hearts Out
Legacy Vine + Love’s uses audio - the most intimate form of documentation - allowing couples to pour their hearts out to each other capturing their love stories.”
— Mariah Padilla
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA , UNITED STATES, January 9, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- For one of the most important moments in a couple’s relationship, how do they choose to record their experience?
Legacy Vine + Love is a Personal Historian business founded in Long Beach, California and based in Sacramento which is offering couples a unique way of remembering the details of their big day and capturing the emotions and thoughts happening beneath the surface. “Audio is the most intimate form of documenting a story while recording vows or a love story is like taking a snapshot of a couple’s feelings at the point in their relationship where they feel most in love,” said Mariah Padilla, Creator and Owner of Legacy Vine + Love.
Padilla has been a Personal Historian for three years beginning with her podcast, Unassuming Collective, a show that provided deeper insight into people’s lives by asking them intimate questions on the mic. In early 2019, Padilla decided to create Legacy Vine as a branch of Unassuming Collective so that she could create more in depth, more personalized and more private versions of what she was doing on the podcast.
“Unassuming Collective was gaining a lot of traction in Long Beach, and I had a great time hosting storytelling open mics, but I still found myself wanting to get on a deeper level with people by giving them the space to reveal more of themselves for their loved ones,” Padilla said. Legacy Vine + Love’s offer to couples does just that, allowing couples to pour their hearts out to each other in a safe space, through a timeless medium with a personalized finished product.
“There is so much to look forward to and so much going on behind the scenes before and during the wedding, but none of that translates through wedding photos or a video. Photos and video capture how a couple looks, but we want to capture how they feel,” said Padilla. “Expressing feelings at the altar or before the wedding can be special, but imagine being able to listen back to those exact thoughts and feelings ten, twenty, thirty years later,” Padilla continued. Legacy Vine + Love is capturing a moment in the present and creating a product that allows couples to experience that moment all over again in the future.
Legacy Vine’s wedding services, Legacy Vine + Love, are now available to all couples in and around the Sacramento Area. Couples or individuals can learn more about Legacy Vine + Love at UnassmingCollective.com/Love.
About Legacy Vine: Legacy Vine by Unassuming Collective is a Personal Historian service that allows clients to document their ethical will - their life lessons, wisdom, guidance and their truth - for those they love to cherish forever. We sit with clients as they share some of the most important moments of their life and we capture it all on audio, creating an audible time capsule of their life. Legacy Vine + Love is now offering specialized services for couples. Learn more about Legacy Vine + Love at UnassumingCollective.com/Love or @UnassumingCollective.
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A visit to the endocrinologist
After being release from the hospital, I was told to schedule a follow up with the endocrinologist for about 4 weeks post surgery. It was scheduled for September 7.
One of the things I really like about this endocrinologist is the way he explains things. After some small talk and finding out how I had been doing since the hospital stay, he proceeded to tell me his plan for me. I love that he got a notepad and started drawing out the plan. Once again, he explained we were tackling three things: calcium levels, thyroid medication, and cancer.
In column 1, he wrote calcium and then below it wrote 1. kidney, 2. calcium, and 3 vitamin D. I would have a blood test to see where my levels were and we adjust meds as appropriate. Pretty straight forward. By this time, my calcium levels were getting better so nothing much changed on the meds.
In column 2, he wrote thyroid med. Under that he wrote 1. replace and 2. suppress TSH. This basically meant that since I no longer had a thyroid, we would need to replace its function with medication. Since I had been taking thyroid medication for almost 20 years, and since he had prescribed 75 mg of levothyroxine while I was in the hospital, that made sense. The blood test would show if I need more which I did. He increased to 100 mg of levothyroxine. Now on to the suppress TSH part. This could be done in two ways. Either by withholding thyroid hormone replacement meds or by getting 2 shots of Thyrogen. Since I was already take thyroid meds to keep me from being so very tired, we would go the Thyrogen shot route. More on that in the next couple of blogs.
In column 3, he wrote cancer. Under that, he put three lines with surgery, thyroid and RAI next to the lines. The first step in my cancer treatment was the surgery. Okay, done. The second step was in preparing any thyroid bits that were left and the third step was the RAI treatment.
After leaving his office, I met with his nurse who gave me a folder with information about Thyrogen and RAI. We then scheduled my treatment. I would have the Thyrogen shots on September 13 and 14 and would receive the Radioactive Iodine on September 15. Next up, how to prepare for RAI.
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