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Floral Mini Album
Ahhh, the joy of making a mini album. Making a mini album is so relaxing for me. I'm kind of new to the mini album game. It takes me about 10 hours to do what others can do in about 6 or 7 but it's a fun, relaxing 10 hours so I don't complain. When someone asks me to make a mini album for them, I jump to the task.
This mini album (though not very mini at all) has to be my favorite to date. It's about 8" X 7" with 6 1/2" X 6 1/2" pages. I added flowers, double bows and gemstones on the front cover.
The spine is a 3" spine with a flower, ribbon and a chain with some cute dangling jewels on it. The color scheme is pink, mint blue/mint green and gold.
I added a lot of journal spots and photo mats. There are 27 journal spots and 30 photo mats in all. You can add a ton of memories to this album.
The fun part of making mini albums is adding flips and flaps and folds. I added lots of those. I think it's fun to add hiding spots for pictures and places for writing.
I decided that this week's video would be a flip through of my floral album. In the video you can see all the places for memory recording. I hope you like it!
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As a consultant to foreign investors on business risks in Ukraine, the author is frequently asked about the best ways to start a business in that country. In this article, he highlights the key issues.
We shall start from the enterprise state registration in Ukraine. The main thing you should know is that there is no better or worse type of enterprise. All enterprise types are equal in conducting economic activity and taxation in Ukraine. The circle of legal entities which can conduct the specific type of activities, such as banking, securities activity and pawning are strictly limited by the Ukrainian legislation. The difference lies on the management type, or responsibility of the owners, and the charter capital.
The most popular and comfortable enterprise forms in Ukraine are Private Company and Limited Liability Company (LLC). It is important to highlight that the LLC can be founded with 100 per cent of foreign investments and can be owned either by the only one legal person (the owner) or several legal persons.
The most popular enterprise type for foreign investments is LLC. This type allows solving all typical assignments of the foreign owner such as: conducting the economic activity in Ukraine through the under controlled company or participation of Ukrainian partners, the possibility of receipt and repatriation of incomes, absence of foreign owner’s responsibility on the LLC debts, etc. We would like to point out that the Ukrainian legislation on foreign investments provides the defense of foreign investments no matter what kind of business it is.
All businesses shall be officially registered by the Registrar at the place of residence of a business entity.
The following documents, in particular, should be submitted for registration:
1. The statute (company charter);
2. Registration card, serving as an application for official registration;
3. A copy of an owner’s decision to create a legal entity;
4. Document attesting payments of the official registration fee.
If the owner is a foreign legal entity, an extract from the trade, bank or court register must be produced to certify registration of the investor in the country of origin. Also, a company charter and a power of attorney (proxy), specifying formation of business, for the individual who will represent the company in Ukraine are recommended. These documents must be duly approved according to legislation of the country of issue, translated into Ukrainian and legalized abroad. If the owner of the LLC is a foreign individual, such person has to obtain a Ukrainian identification code. This procedure can take about 10 days.
The LLC charter fund is equal to 100 minimal wages. As of April, 2007, the minimum LLC charter fund is equal to 42,000 hryvnas, but in September 2007, it will increase to 46,000 hryvnas. The LLC charter capital can be formed either with property or with cash. The Ukrainian legislation prescribes that the 50 per cent of the charter fund must be formed before the official registration process is started. The LLC owners who have 60 per cent of the charter fund have the formal management power under the company. Practically, even if you have less then 50 per cents of the charter capital, there are a lot of ways that allow control under the LLC. The charter capital must be fully formed during the first year after official registration. We should note that Private Company charter capital doesn’t have the proper legislative provisions. So, the Private Company charter capital can amount from 100 hryvnas. There are no legally binding obligations for the Private Company charter capital forming terms.
Labor relations in Ukraine are regulated by the Labor Agreement.
Employees have to perform the job stipulated by the agreement, adhere to internal organization order. Businesses have to pay salaries to employees, provide worthy working conditions.
The Labor agreement can be:
-Perpetual, termless agreement,
-On the certain term, set by the agreement,
-Executed for the job period.
The Labor agreement is written. But the written forms are not essential to bind a business. The Labor agreement is considered to be in force from the moment the employee starts performing his/her job.
Written Labor agreements are recommended since provides:
-Organized employee environment,
-Labor agreement conclusion under health harmful conditions,
-For contract execution,
-Labor agreement conclusion in case of minors,
-When employees insists on the written form of the Labor agreement.
Contract: is a version of a Labor agreement but with some differences.
According to the Cabinet Council Resolution (19.03.94, №170), the Contract is executed for a certain term and applicable for the certain termed employees. The difference between the Contract and the Labor agreement is that the first is always effective in the written form.
The Contract provides following obligations:
-Obligations and responsibilities,
-Financial responsibility,
-Conditions of material maintenance and work organization,
-Intellectual property issues,
-Cancellation provisions, etc.
Labor disputes resolutions are regulated by article 134 of the Labor Code. It is important to note that contractual obligations which worsen employees working conditions in comparison with legally binding legislation are invalid.
Properly executed Contracts will help establish excellent corporate relations. So, when drafting those documents it is important to turn to experienced lawyers.
*Right to work
According to Ukrainian law, foreigners can work in Ukraine only after obtaining the license to work. Foreigners can be employed only if there are no local experts, or it is an urgent reasonable need to obtain the foreign working resources. The Employment Service Body is cognizant in granting the license to work. Service Employment commission gathers twice a month (on Thursdays). It is important to know, that the license to work is valid for one year. Frequently, first time licenses are issued for the term of half a year. The license is expected to be issued within a week, after the Commission’s positive decision. In case of refusal, the individual has the right to reapply documents in a month.
For the Service Employment Commission enquiry, the following should be submitted:
-Receipt on state custom (for the Service Employment Commission enquiry), (the state custom is equal to 10 tax-exempt minimums),
-Employers Application,
-Substantiation,
-Foreigner’s data (name, second name, date and year of birth, specialization (Diploma on specialization), a copy of passport (all pages),
-Charter (copy),
-Certificate of incorporation (copy),
-Contract (draft copy),
-Power of attorney (copy).
-All copies must be duly certified.
*Choosing a business partner in Ukraine
If you want secure yourself and provide proper external economic contractual obligations performance, it is necessary to pay special attention to the planning stage of negotiations. It is necessary choose a partner. It is important to find out data about your possible Ukrainian partner. Such as, official registration, location, charter fund amount, basic and working assets, etc. The above mentioned information can be found at the Official Registrars Office. Let’s consider the list of the official information given by the official bodies and organizations.
1. Full name and registration address.
2. Ownership pattern and legal form. There are three types of the ownership’s pattern in Ukraine. They are state, mixed and private patterns. But, the overwhelming parts of medium seized companies are in private ownership. Ports and Harbors are exclusively in state ownership. Also, there are many mixed public-private capital companies in Ukraine.
3. The charter fund amount. It is possible to learn the real sum paid at the time of the official registration.
4. Incorporators, year of incorporation. Either physical or legal persons can act as company promoters. Incorporation structure and incorporation date will help to establish who governs the company, company’s age, reputation and traditions.
5. To establish the presence of the official registered moveable property and real estate. This information allows us to understand which kind of property can be recovered, in case the contractual obligations are broken.
6. The amount of employees. This information allows covering the relative information on company’s economical activity.
7. Working capital circulation for the one or two year’s period. It helps to indicate the real extend of company’s economical activity.
8. The governing authority, authorities who has powers to sign for the company. This information is essential for the contract execution. Because it allows to establish the authorities list.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anna Hodakovska
InJurConsulting, LLC is a young law firm, but inspite of that it is permanently developing union of solicitors and barristers admitted in Ukraine. Our firm set up the head-office in Nikolaev, in 2007.
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The Sinking City Delayed Until June Because “Too Many Games Came Out Now”
Tomas Franzese
March 8, 2019 10:36 AM EST
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The Sinking City has been pushed back until June 27 by Frogwares and Bigben Interactive because March is densely packed with other big releases.
Frogwares and Bigben Interactive have been chipping away at their Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City for a couple of years now. Last year, the pair said that the game would release for PC, PS4, and Xbox One on March 21; that being said, they’ve been very quiet about the game’s release lately and fans took notice. In response to several fan inquiries, Frogwares announced today that The Sinking City will now release on June 27.
The Sinking City Highlights its Chilling Lovecraftian Horror and Gameplay in New Trailer
As for the reasoning behind the delay, the press release put things very bluntly. “Too many games came out now so we prefer to get out [of] the way,” it said. To be fair, Q1 2019 has been densely packed with game releases. If The Sinking City had released on March 21, it would have gone up against American Ninja Warrior, Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, We. The Revolution, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which all release in the same week.
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Frogwares develed into its thought process leading to the delay in a new video, which you can watch below. In the video, Community Manager Sergey Oganesyan explains that “with so many great games coming out around the same time, I’m sure this will also give you some breathing space for your playing time.”
Still, June will be somewhat crowded as well. The Sinking City will now be releasing in the shadow of E3 alongside games like Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, Judgment, and Super Mario Maker 2. Hopefully, the extra polish Frogwares and Bigben Interactive promise to give The Sinking City in that time will improve the whole experience.
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The Sinking City is now set to launch for PC, PS4, and Xbox One on June 27, 2019. If interested, you can currently pre-order the game on Amazon.
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Matt Craft is a partner with the Dutton Law Firm. Matt’s practice involves agriculture, wills & estates, real estate, corporate & business law and litigation involving those matters. Matt is one of few business attorneys to also try cases to judges and juries, giving him a unique ability to advise clients from both perspectives. Matt chairs the Black Hawk County Bar Association’s real estate committee and also was elected by his fellow attorneys to serve on the nominating commission for district judges.
Matt is a frequent speaker to both community groups and Bar Association groups on these topics and has presented to both the Iowa Trial Lawyers and Iowa Estate Planning Associations on will contests and probate litigation. Matt also serves as a guest lecturer at Iowa State University where he received his undergraduate degree, serving as President of the Student Body his senior year.
During law school, Matt served as an editor on the Iowa Law Review, where his published work on Iowa’s local option sales tax helped lead to major changes in how rural Iowa schools received funding under the tax.
Matt’s recent trials include the successful defense of a multi-million dollar claim and a jury verdict awarding nearly one million dollars for Matt’s clients. Matt is admitted to practice in all of Iowa’s state and federal courts.
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Attorneys Matt Craft, Nathan Schroeder and Erich Priebe recently settled a will contest and tortious interference lawsuit in Chickasaw County. The six figure settlement ended nearly six years of litigation between the parties and settled all claims that the Defendants interfered with the Plaintiff's inheritance.
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Sberbank records 27% rise in Q1 net profit
May 31st 2018 | Multiple countries | Banking | Multiple companies
On May 30th Sberbank PJSC reported a 27% rise in profit to Rb212bn (US$3.4bn) for the three months ended March 31st. The bank, Russia's largest by assets, posted a 12% rise in net income to Rb471bn, helped by a 7% and 21% rise in net interest income, and fee and commission income, respectively.
Sberbank attributed the jump in fee and commission income to an increase in operations related to bank cards, while interest income rose owing to lower provisions against bad loans and lower interest expenses. Gross loan portfolio rose by 1% to Rb20trn, aided by higher demand for retail, mortgage and unsecured consumer loans.
The strong results come on the back of Sberbank's decision to sell its Turkish subsidiary, Denizbank AS, to Emirates NBD Bank PJSC, the largest lender in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for TL14.6bn (US$3.2bn). The Russian bank will sell off its entire 99.85% stake in the Turkish lender in a deal that is expected to close this year.
By selling the Turkish subsidiary and its largest overseas asset, Sberbank aims to focus on its more lucrative domestic operations. Meanwhile, Emirates NBD expects the acquisition of Denizbank to strengthen its position as the top lender in Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
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Princeton falls in OT to No. 4 UMass
Princeton (3-4-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) 0 2 0 0 2
Massachusetts (11-1-0, 6-0-0 HEA) 2 0 0 1 3
1st - 18:48 - Kaiser, Bobby (Massachusetts)
1st - 19:14 - Makar, Cale (Massachusetts)
2nd - 04:49 - Keenan, Luke (Princeton)
2nd - 17:53 - Veronneau, Max (Princeton)
OT - 03:04 - Chau, Oliver (Massachusetts)
A: 4 Players (#2, #10, #15, #21) - 1
Sh: Max Veronneau - 4
Sv: Ryan Ferland - 43
G: 3 Players (#11, #16, #20) - 1
A: 3 Players (#3, #5, #31) - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#8, #21) - 6
Sv: Murray, Matt - 23
Amherst, M.A. -- Princeton rallied from a two-goal first-period deficit scoring twice in the second period to push overtime with No 4 UMass. A cross-crease pass from Mario Ferraro to Oliver Chau kept the Tigers from coming out on top as Chau went back door for the game winner at 3:04.
UMass (11-1) scored 26 seconds apart in the final two minutes of the first period to gain a 2-0 lead.
Ty Farmer collected a puck in the left corner and pushed it up ice to Bobby Kaiser. Kaiser's defender took a spill at center ice leaving him alone in the high slot as he fired glove side on Ryan Ferland at 18:48.
Cale Makar net his sixth of the season when he converted on a breakaway. After he picked the pocket of a Princeton Tiger at the checkered red he skated in for the solo goal at 19:14.
Sophomore Luke Keenan net his first goal of the season with Max Véronneau and Mike Ufberg assisting. Ufberg jammed the puck off the board and circled around the Princeton zone, finding Veronneau in front of the Princeton bench. Véronneau centered for Keenan and he rifled a shot as he got across the blue line going over the glove of Matt Murray. At 4:49.
Véronneau, who ranks third nationally in assists, picked up his second goal of the season to knot the game at 2-2 at 17:53. This time it was Ryan Kuffner assisting as well as Jackson Cressey. After Cressey worked the puck in the left corner to Kuffner, Kuffner had the perfect flip pass to Veronneau. His defender battled trying to lift his stick but was no match as he put the puck five hole on Murray.
Veronneau's assist moves him into fifth place, along with Scott Bertoli, all-time at Princeton with 77 tallies. His two points gives him 118 – along tying him with Bertoli on the all-time scoring sheet at 8th. Kuffner is just ahead with 122 career points
The Tigers were able to withstand a UMass power play late in the third and then had a great chance to end the game when Kuffner had a breakaway with 5.9 seconds left in regulation but got tied up with his defenseman and wasn't able to get the shot off.
Princeton entered the weekend with the seventh best penalty kill unit in the nation at 88 percent, and after going 4 for 4 tonight now sits in first place at 89.7 percent (26/29).
The Tigers power play, working without two key components in seniors Josh Teves and Alex Riche, was 0 fo 2.
Sophomore netminder Ryan Ferland matched his career high of 43 saves, while Murray stopped 23 on the other end.
Princeton (3-4-1) returns to league action next weekend with a home-and-home series with No. 10 Quinnipiac.
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Scotland’s energy transition must be ‘fair’ and cannot ‘decimate jobs’, First Minister warns
First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.
The energy transition has to be “fair and just” and cannot “decimate jobs”, Scotland’s First Minister said during a leaders debate last night.
Nicola Sturgeon took part in Channel 4’s climate change debate alongside Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, Sian Berry of the Green Party and Adam Price of Plaid Cymru.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage of The Brexit Party chose not to take part and were represented by melting ice sculptures.
Ms Sturgeon said that Scotland’s transition away from industries such as North Sea oil and gas had to be done “justly” and shouldn’t “leave people behind”.
She added that the move away from fossil fuels shouldn’t leave people behind.
Ms Sturgeon said: “We have to transition away from fossil fuels and that transition has to accelerate.
“We’re one of the most renewable energy rich countries in the world.
“If we were to stop oil production tomorrow, we would make ourselves more reliant on imports – the carbon intensity would increase.
“The transition has got to be done in a way that cuts our emissions, but the one other thing that’s not been mentioned here – where we’ve taken action that other countries haven’t – Is the justice of the transition – not doing this in a way that leaves people behind and decimates people’s jobs.”
Ms Sturgeon also spoke about Scotland’s Climate Change Bill, which outlines plans to move to net-zero and commits to ending the country’s contribution to climate change by 2045
She said: “We have a Just Transition Commission that’s looking about how we do this fairly and justly and that is really important.
“I saw the effects of industrialisation in the 1980s and leaving people behind.
“The legacy of that is still there in too many of our communities and we can’t make that mistake again.”
Rebecca Newsom, head of politics at Greenpeace said there was “clear acknowledgement” from those leaders involved in the debate “that transformation is needed across every sector of our economy, with strong action plans to green our energy system and homes”.
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Dope shit: 10 European startups innovating in the marijuana market
Mary Loritz
Cannabis regulation in the EU remains a patchwork of local and national regulations. In some respects the marijuana market is already mature. In Austria, for example, it is legal to grow marijuana so long as the THC-containing buds are not sold, so the country has a relatively developed retail and wholesale cannabis nursery industry that supplies legal growers across the EU. In Germany, medical marijuana was only legalised in 2017, and the market is just starting to take off (with a few budding startups listed below), while the UK just received its first batch of medical cannabis last Thursday. In Spain, marijuana is basically decriminalised (though enforcement depends on the province, and smoking in public could land you a fine), and the country is also home to hundreds of cannabis clubs, though many are under threat of shutdown. And in Portugal, all drugs are decriminalised. We could go on, but it would be easier for you to check out this map for a very basic breakdown of world cannabis laws.
The EU still generally lags behind the US in terms of medical and retail cannabis deregulation, but as more and more countries trend toward legalisation, a plethora of startups are forming in niches specific to local regulations. Some startups are developing highly-engineered products for the pharmaceutical market, while other startups are focusing on products with little to no cannabidiol (CBD) or tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the medicinal and psychoactive components of cannabis, respectively.
Banks and financiers are often reluctant to back these startups for fear of getting caught up in a web of international drug-trafficking laws, so they often operate on low-budgets, around the edges of existing law – but this is changing as the laws do, and we are starting to see some cannabis startups receive some serious funding.
So without further ado, here are 10 dope startups innovating in the marijuana industry, that will help get you high, informed, or just plain healthy:
Based in Barcelona, Harmony is exploring the frontiers of cannabinoid science, with the objective of creating the most efficient, affordable hemp-powered products on the market to bring wellness and harmony to people’s lives. Harmony uses certified, legal hemp as a source of cannabidiol (CBD) and terpenes, two legal components of hemp that have a range of applications. CBD is said to be useful in treating epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, anxiety, depression, and even schizophrenia. Unlike THC, CBD has no psychotropic or hallucinogenic effects, making it legal in most countries. Founded in 2014, Harmony creates products including CBD vape pens and CBD e-liquids in a variety of flavors, which are distributed by more than 2,000 retailers worldwide.
If you want to know what’s going on in the world of cannabis, read Newsweed. Founded in 2016 in Paris, the online publication is France’s leading media source on global cannabis news, discussing topics including the state of legalisation and its evolution, research on medical cannabis, biology, business, trends, health, celebrities, art, movies on the subject, and more. Recent articles on the site include titles such as “Will hemp save bees?”, “UK receives first batch of medical cannabis”, “Edelgreen: first European farm to obtain a permaculture label for its cannabis”, and “Hawaii and New Hampshire set out to legalize cannabis”. Marijuana is going through exciting times, and Newsweed will keep you up to date about all things weed. Still working on your French? Don’t forget to use your Google translate extension.
MedPayRx is an insurtech and medtech startup aiming to take “the pain and the paperwork out of prescriptions”. With one simple app, MedPayRx connects medical cannabis patients, doctors, insurers, and pharmacies in Germany. MedPayRx not only serves cannabis patients, but anyone in need of a prescription, especially those that need special approvals. Through its platform, patients can find prescribing doctors and friendly pharmacies, as well as manage their prescriptions and insurance payments. Founded in 2017 and based in Frankfurt, MedPayRx also uses blockchain technology to create smart contracts for anonymous and secure transaction management.
Based in London and founded in 2017, Prohibition Partners aspires to be the world’s foremost source of independent data, intelligence and strategy for the cannabis industry, expecting that their data, insights and education efforts will unlock the societal and commercial potential of cannabis. Prohibition Partners’ consultancy team works with investors, operators and regulators to identify and execute opportunities across multiple jurisdictions. The startup advises private clients on licensing, regulatory and business opportunities, while its research and content teams routinely share the latest legislative developments and key trends in the industry – information that is regularly cited by political leaders, investment banks and Fortune 500 companies. Prohibition Partners publishes a weekly newsletter and longer-format regular reports on the industry, and claims and names some 30 partner corporations worldwide, including major pharmaceutical firms.
Looking for cannabis products? Look no further. Founded in 2015, Hanfgarten is an Austrian online retailer of CBD products, and one of the biggest distributors of hemp products in Europe. The online shop sells CBD oil, hemp seeds, plants, “grass”, cannabis-based wines and teas, and even lots of fun accessories to go with them, like growing kits, fertilizers, LED lights, vaporizers, soap, incense, and room sprays. The startup ships across Europe, as long as the product is legal in your country. The website also features its own magazine with cannabis-related articles including delicious recipes and tips and tricks. Based in Graz, Hanfgarten closed a seed round of funding of €300k in April 2016.
Cologne-based medical marijuana startup Cannamedical Pharma GmbH is one of Germany and the EU’s leading cannabis wholesalers. Its products include high quality cannabis varieties, cannabinoid oil, medical marijuana grinders, and patient ID cards to treat medical conditions including cancer and chronic pain. Currently around 60,000 patients in Germany have a license to use medical cannabis, and independent research shows that up to three percent of the population could benefit from treatment, equating to approximately 2.5 million people in Germany. For the EU as a whole, the patient population could eventually be around 15 million patients. Founded in 2016, Cannamedical just raised €15 million in a Series A round in January – the largest equity investment in a European cannabis startup to date.
Since the 1920s, research and development of cannabis-based products has been largely restricted or banned. Frankfurt-based pharmaceutical startup Farmako plans to catch up on this research backlog of almost 100 years. Medical cannabis has many therapeutic applications, including treating chronic pain and improving the lives of cancer and AIDS patients. Farmako is active in all European markets that have so far created a legal basis for cannabinoid therapies, conducting research and developing cannabis-based products. Just founded in 2018, the pharmaceutical startup received a seven-digit seed funding round in December 2018 from the German health tech platform Heartbeat Labs. The company plans to release information about its first patent in early 2019.
Based in Copenhagen, Growbud markets Bud, an iOS app that maintains a visual journal of growers’ crops. Incorporating photos allows the grower to monitor every phase of a crop’s growth cycle. Growers can also share their journals amongst other growers, botanists, or with corporate headquarters, to get feedback on their crop’s health. Recognising that privacy is important to growers, all images are stripped of metadata before being stored and shared.
Founded in London in 2017, Growth Mavericks bills itself “the world’s first cannabis growth hacking agency”, helping marijuana startups grow through digital marketing. It offers different “growth” packages, for instance its Facebook Growth Package, Instagram Growth Package, Twitter Growth Package, Digital Optimization Package, and the ultimate Dispensary Package. Packages start from $299 to $999, including services such as content creation, content strategy, conversion optimisation, customer acquisition optimisation, SEO optimisation, a brand ambassador program, and overall social media optimisation, to newsletter creation and website creation and optimisation.
As more and more governments legalise marijuana, the Duillier-based Swiss company Hempfy expects comestible cannabis to replace smoking and alcohol as the world’s preferred social drug. However cannabis is a plant not widely prized for its flavor. To address this problem, Hempfy has developed and is marketing cannabis infusions that “bring out the best flavours and aromas from the cannabis plant, by perfectly balancing the gentle herbal bitterness, a rich taste and light carbonation”. For the present, Hempfy products are made from low-CBD strains of cannabis that have no known psychoactive effects (though this could change as the law does). Hempfy also produces a Cannabis Essential Oil via steam distillation of natural hemp from Switzerland. According to its CEO Constantin Marakhov, Hempfy received Swiss government clearance to develop its THC-free beverages and essential oils in 2017, along with the blessing, if not the public participation, of Switzerland’s powerful pharmaceutical industry. Founded in 2016, Hempfy was the first project posted on the Swiss Beedoo crowdfunding platform in December of 2017.
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How Fastly Chooses POP Locations
By Chris Hendrie, Security Engineer, February 4, 2014 in Network
Build a network that can scale indefinitely, be managed by a small crew of skilled ops and network engineers, and handle current web traffic and the next generation of protocols. Sounds impossible, right?
When planning a major content delivery network, you’d think that it would make sense to put your equipment where the most people are, right?
Not always.
Around the world, Around the world
The world runs on fiber, and fiber is expensive. Running it from country to country, or under the ocean is difficult and takes time, manpower, and money. Plus, there are already some fixed locations—such as Singapore, Frankfurt, and San Jose—that contain the bulk of the incoming fiber links due to their geopolitical power, protected landings, or population density.
At Fastly, we certainly choose our locations based on where the fiber lives and how quickly we can get onto the major backbones that feed “eyeball networks” around the world (eyeball networks are providers such as Comcast, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and Telia that service the end users). But speed and fiber aren’t our only considerations.
When our first video-on-demand (VOD) and streaming customers came online, we realized that we needed to re-examine how we forecast future bandwidth needs. In particular, we realized that we need to factor in how our customers use our services, not just where their users are. For example, in Europe, watching computer gaming streams late at night is hugely popular, with hundreds of thousands of people viewing them on their phones and mobile devices. These traffic spikes, which are somewhat unpredictable, put an extra strain on our transit providers.
Use patterns forced us to look at how we could better serve such a large amount of traffic without expanding our footprint to the point of putting a POP in every town in Europe. To do this, we turned to larger, more robust POP designs that give us the ability to scale up with a minimal amount of buildout on our part.
Potential growth and capacity needs are just as vital. When projecting 3, 6, or even 12 months out, we look at both our current customers’ usage and how we expect our world to grow. We then plan how we can stay ahead of that projected growth by a comfortable margin.
Once the work of determining the appropriate city or general locale for a new POP is completed, we take a look at the overall capacity that transit providers can provide. Factors such as router diversity, multiple physical fiber paths and other network protections are worked through. This helps us decide on an specific physical location for our datacenter.
We then move on to planning the site, including our rack space, the power needs, any security concerns we have, and any local political considerations that might make it harder to get equipment in and out of a particular country.
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After deciding on a datacenter, the Fastly team negotiates for support services for power, rack and cage space, and out-of-band management internet connections. Anyone who has ever colocated even a single server knows this pain, and I won’t go into it in depth. But just for you stats geeks, our average buildout now involves a 2x 44u rack footprint, with 208v 3-phase power delivery for handling our current load and future needs. We also require two completely out-of-band internet links to these racks to provide us with an emergency access point for maintenance needs.
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Barnardo’s is the UK’s largest children’s charity, offering vital support services to children and young people regardless of their personal circumstances. In 2016, FCB Inferno worked with them to develop ‘Believe In Me’, a creative platform that recast young people as resilient individuals with the potential to overcome anything, if they have the right support.
Our latest campaign continues where the first one left off, by making Barnardo’s role in that healing process more explicit. Each campaign execution features a child affected by a different issue, and highlights how they have been able to start working through it with Barnardo’s support and belief. Two of them consciously focus on mental health, due to the rising number of mental health issues being reported in young people today.
The Insight
A child affected by trauma or stress can feel negative emotion so vividly that it becomes a near-physical presence, which invades and affects every aspect of their life.
Use wild animals as a metaphor for the very visceral, tangible way in which trauma or abuse manifests itself in the mind of a child, before Barnardo’s services are able to intervene and help them through it.
TV Launch
Our campaign launched with ‘Hyenas’ – a 40-second TV advert that tells the story of a young girl acutely affected by anxiety, due to school bullying. As proxy for her bullies we used CGI hyenas, who threaten and pursue her throughout the school day and even when she’s alone at home, via social media. It is only after speaking to a Barnardo’s counsellor that she starts learning how to manage her mental health and begins to feel stronger in herself. The film uses bespoke sound design to reflect her increasing anxiety: gradually layering discordant sounds till they reach an unsettling pitch.
We shot a series of powerful but naturalistic portraits of our hero child that allowed us to tell her story on the Barnardo’s website and across other digital sites. Unlike the TV advert, the portraits didn’t feature any hyenas, to keep our sole focus on the child’s narrative and the support that Barnardo’s gives to other children like her. We alternated between sombre and optimistic portraits with corresponding messaging, to convey the difference before and after a child comes into contact with Barnardo’s.
We used the brevity of social formats to our advantage, by condensing our TV narrative into short-form stories that a greater number of people could understand and empathise with – making more people than ever aware of the incredible work that Barnardo’s does.
It was a conscious decision to keep the hyenas in our TV ad as real and threatening as possible, to heighten the sense of jeopardy felt by our hero child. As part of the CGI process, each hyena was ‘cast’ based on characteristics and traits of a real-life hyena in the wild. The VFX team then got to work building the CGI hyena from the inside out, starting with the skeleton before adding muscles, fur and movement.
Since launching the campaign, Barnardo's has seen:
80% increase in donations
60% increase in Instagram engagement
37% increase in visits to Barnardo’s website
The campaign has also received overwhelmingly positive PR and has been picked up by numerous advertising and charity publications – including Campaign, The Drum, Little Black Book and Best Ads on TV. David Reviews rated it 5 stars, calling it ‘a timely look at the impact proper support can have on a young person’s life’.
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TV star Joelle and the growing business of beauty in the Middle East
This week Inspire Middle East goes beneath the surface of the region’s cosmetics industry. This edition reveals breaking news from one the region’s most famous beauty moguls Joelle and visits Beauty World Middle East, the world's third largest event of its kind. The show also travels to Tunisia, where one millennial is making good use of the country’s abundant harvest of olives to launch a skincare range.
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL WITH JOELLE
In an exclusive interview to Inspire Middle East, Joelle confirms the rumours of a ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashian’s’-style reality show.
“I’ve actually been filming this – not secretly – but I haven’t mentioned it to anyone,” she says, “It’s an exclusive, not a soul knows about this.”
The businesswoman says that she has been followed by cameras on a daily basis for the production of the show with promises an authentic view of her daily life:
“You’ll see me with my extensions poking out, in my pyjamas, with zero makeup – and some of the times I look awful, really awful, but that’s reality! You know, we don’t all look amazing 24/7.”
With more than 7 million followers on Instagram – Joelle is known for being outspoken on topics considered by some to be taboo, such as plastic surgery.
“I've never been afraid of my reality. I want to create awareness to being careful with which doctor you go to, the products you are injecting in your face, the implants you're using. I even talked about my tummy tuck! I want to show women it's not about vanity it's about being comfortable with yourself.”
Simply The Best @maisondejoelleofficial #dubai #abudhabi #alain #riyadh #jeddah #Qatar #Kurdistan #tunis #maisondejoelle
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Named as one of the Arab world’s 100 most influential business people, she shot to fame when her eponymous radical makeover TV show began airing in the region more than a decade ago.
Since then, the Lebanese-born, London-raised entrepreneur has launched a range of beauty salons from the UAE and Saudi to Kurdistan and Tunisia – in addition to cosmetics clinics and hair and skincare ranges.
However, the mother-of-two admits that such success was not ever part of her plan or a lifelong dream.
“Everything happened organically.” she says, “All I wanted at the beginning was to become a very famous makeup artist. My intention was never to be rich. My intention was to make a name.”
Joelle reveals that for years she didn’t examine her company’s finances, until she realised that her accountants were embezzling money. “[It was] my biggest mistake,” she recounts.
Love you ❤️ good night #joellemardinian #goodnight #sweetdreams @fskuwait @fourseasonsarabic
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Despite her success on social media, the entrepreneur sends a clear message to rising stars and so-called influencers’ looking to capitalize on fame.
“I don't call them influencers because they can't influence anyone, they haven't achieved anything in their life. I was influenced by Richard Branson, Manny Pacquiao… I’m influenced by people who have come a long way, who have shown that the dedication and passion and the will to succeed can get you anywhere you want,” she affirms.
Despite being a strong advocate for cosmetics and clinical treatments, Joelle stresses that true beauty doesn’t come from make-up, but from deep within: “It’s the sparkle in the eye. It’s that purity from the heart that shines out, it’s that honest smile.”
A WORLD OF BEAUTY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The 23rd edition of Beauty World, the largest event of its kind in the Middle East and third largest in the world, was held in this week in Dubai to reveal the latest trends in the region’s growing multi-billion-dollar beauty market.
Organic products dominated the exhibition floors this year – in line with global consumer trends which show an increased demand for chemical free, ethical and non-processed products.
Fragrance is also a key contributor to the industry’s growth in a region that is estimated to have spent more than US$ 5.5 billion on scents last year.
While mass-produced branded perfumes have long enjoyed the commercial limelight, the latest trend on display at the event allows consumers to match their scent to their mood and wear a fragrance that’s truly their own.
Here are some snapshots of the busy first day. Experience more spectacular show highlights, discover product launches and do business with industry professionals tomorrow from 10am until 6pm at the Dubai World Trade Centre. For more convenience, download our DAY 2 schedule at www.beautyworldME.com #beautyworldME
A post shared by Beautyworld Middle East (@beautyworldme) on May 8, 2018 at 7:32am PDT
One of the unique factors of the Middle East’s beauty industry is the high average spend by men on cosmetic products and regular grooming sessions in salons.
“I think men's grooming here is a lot more advanced than most places in the world. It's in this culture [for men] to really look after themselves. Not just hair, but like […] having regular pedicures, which is something the West is only really just starting to feel comfortable [with],” explained Trevor Studd, Managing Director of The British Barbers' Association.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU OLIVES…
Tourism was once a key economic driver of the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse. However, since a terror attack in 2015, the industry’s decline has prompted a new wave of entrepreneurs. Aspiring businessman Hassen Kaabachi decided to tap his nation’s fruitful resource of olives to launch his fledgling company.
“The idea came spontaneously, we didn't do any research market,” he said, “It just came as a feeling that something needed to be done in the natural cosmetics,” he tells.
For centuries, olives have been used as a remedy. Both hair and skin benefit from its vitamins which help protect against aging free and damaging sun exposure.
Tunisia is one of the top four exporters of olive oil worldwide, having sold about 70,000 metric tons from 2016 to 2017.
Which is why Hassen seized the opportunity to capitalize on the situation - taking out a loan to create Ecovillage – a business selling natural olive-based beauty products.
#stand#newproduct #promos #kram
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The process starts with the extraction of the olive’s oil, before it is mixed with other ingredients including the essence of crushed almonds, sesame seeds, argan oil and dried plants. These are infused together and molded to make organic soaps, face masks, and body butters.
Hassen hopes to, one day, be able to expand his business across the Middle East and North African region soon.
“We aim to open shops all around the country and we are looking forward to African markets,” he says, “We’re doing 300 % growth per year and recruiting at least 50% more people every year.”
SOCIAL EYES: INSPIRED TALENT TRENDING ONLINE
Moroccan make-up artist Sonia uploaded this video of the final makeup preparations of her blushing bride-to-be client.
La magnifique et gracieuse imane ? @soniangadi negaffa @negafa_dar_benjelloun l’incontournable @orchestre_tahour & @abderrahimsouiri caftan by notre grande styliste @aminaboussayri #soniangadi #morroco #weeding
A post shared by Sonia Ngadi (@soniangadi) on Apr 25, 2018 at 1:47pm PDT
Barcelona-based Vanessa tamed the tresses of a client in a throw-back shot from Beauty World Middle East.
Dubai ? @beautyworldme @trendyhair @spaandmore #greatdays #action #beautyworldme
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Make-up artist Nina posted a video from Oman as she highlighted the features of her client.
Makeup by me ? products I used below?? ✖️ @anastasiabeverlyhills @amrezy highlighter. #abhamrezy #amrezy ✖️ #AnastasiaBeverlyHills #dipbrow ‘Chocolate’ #anastasiabrows ✖️ Anastasia Beverly Hills #SoftGlam Palette using ‘Orange Soda’ + ‘Burnt Orange’ + ‘Rustic’ + ‘Cyprus Umber’ + ‘Glistening’ + ‘Noir’. ✖️ @hudabeauty Lip Contour in ‘Trendsetter’ + tiny amount of ‘Mamacita’ liquid matte mixed with ‘Sugar Mama’ liquid matte. @monakattan @alyakattan #hudabeauty ✖️ @coverfx Power Play Foundation #coverfx #coverfxpowerplay ✖️ @iconic.london Prep Set Glow Water Mist Original + Glow spray to set. #iconiclondon
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I love to watch a certain daily Soap Opera called Doctors on BBC 1. It first aired in 2000, while I was still at uni, meaning on afternoon “study leave” I could watch at lunchtime. In 2001 it moved to the 2.10 pm slot meaning my housemates and I would watch it after Neighbours (oh we used to love the Australian soaps!). In the days before digital TV we missed more episodes than we watched but the beauty of Doctors is that each episode (usually) can be watched as a standalone story in addition to the ongoing story-lines featuring the regular cast.
BBC Doctors
There was a brief hiatus in my viewing when I graduated and began to work but I made up for this while on maternity leave in 2003 (and 2006, 2008 and 2011!). It helped make the constantly breastfeeding years bearable! Conveniently for me, during this time old episodes of BBC Doctors were also aired so I more or less got to catch up with most of the episodes that I missed during my break. Now I work from home so I either watch the soap during my “lunch break” or I record it and watch later while doing mind numbing chores such as folding clothes/chopping veg (sometimes I even treat myself and sit down and watch it with a cup of tea, it’s all very rock and roll over here!).
After the transfer of Neighbours from BBC1 to Channel 5 (I haven’t watched it since) Doctors took the 1.45 pm slot and you can catch it there every week day (except during the dreaded Easter and Summer breaks). You can also very easily visit the BBC Doctors set in Selly Oak, Birmingham as I discovered last weekend:
The Mill Health Centre
Every year we go to the Little Hearts Matter Open Day in Birmingham. Recently I’ve seen fellow Doctors fans share snaps of themselves at the set and discovered this is based in Selly Oak. The place name rang a bell so I had a quick Google and discovered the film set is just 1 mile from the conference centre we visit each year. So I really hoped we’d have time to come and visit it after our conference- and we did!
Since 2004, BBC Doctors has been filmed at BBC Birmingham Drama Village in Selly Oak. (before that it was filmed at Pebble Mill Studios in Edgbaston). The Mill Health Centre is even marked on Google Maps. We followed Sat Nav: B29 6LB to get to The Mill (The Drama Village is B29 6LT) this got us close enough but on the opposite side of the road to where we wanted to be so we used our own navigational skills once we were near. As we visited on a Saturday evening all the car parks were empty but mainly permit spaces. If I visited during the week I would find off site parking and walk to the set.
First we explored The Mill Health Centre. I admit I was really excited to see it- it was just like on TV. I didn’t realise that the sets are actually inside the building. So many sets I’ve visited they film the indoors scenes elsewhere in a studio. It was great to peek through the windows and see reception, the doctor’s rooms and offices. I couldn’t take very clear photos through the glass sorry, but definitely take a look if you visit (not while they’re filming though!).
Can you spot Heston’s Bench?
Sadly, Heston’s memorial bench is only put outside while they are filming so we couldn’t see that in it’s place. I was surprised to see the doctor’s cars all parked up though. I suppose it does make sense to keep them there ready for filming. The car park seems a lot smaller in real life. There’s not a lot of parking left for the patients!
We walked all the way around the Mill Health Centre then moved on to look for The Campus Surgery. I hadn’t put a lot of planning into this visit so we basically just walked around the campus in the hope we’d find it…and we did!
From the back of The Mill there was a path which we followed, went down some steps and then walked along the buildings.
Along the way we found some parking spaces reserved for the cast. This is Bharti Patel (Ruhma’s) space.
Ali Bastian’s (Becky- the new practice manager) parking space.
I expect you could find more of the “cast cones” if you looked for them.
The Campus Surgery
After the cast car park spaces, on our left we came to The Campus Surgery. Originally the show was about “The Riverside Health Centre”. They then set up a secondary location, “The Best Practice”. After the big explosion (and in real life the set relocation to Selly Oak) they reopened as The Mill Health Centre (possibly named in honour of Pebble Mill?) and later on opened up The Campus Surgery for the students.
Letherbridge Police Station
I was really happy just to have seen both the surgeries. But we could still see more TV vans parked along the way so we continued our walk forwards and then to the left. This bought us to Letherbridge Police Station.
Down the steps you will find the staff’s favourite lunchtime haunt, “The Icon bar”. The hedge hides it well!”
Again (on days when they’re not filming!) you can go up to the windows and have a nose- be careful you don’t end up in the cells though!
The Icon Bar
There’s rarely an episide where “The Icon” doesn’t get a mention. It always makes me fancy eating out when they go there for a “bite to eat” or a “quick drink after work”.
I can’t remember if the exterior gets filmed much anymore- I’m going to look out for it in future episodes!
Again you can peak inside. I could only spot a cash machine and lots of piled chairs.
The University Grounds
We’d been lucky enough to visit The Mill Health Centre, The Campus Surgery, Letherbridge Police Station and The Icon so we decided to head back to the car and our hotel. The grounds were quite scenic and interesting to explore too. I love these archways.
Visiting the BBC Doctors Set
The BBC Doctors Set is located off the A38. As you can see Sat Nav B29 6LT will get you close enough then look out for it. We pulled in the turning closest to “The Mill” and parked in the big car park behind as it was the weekend and not in use. Pay and Display parking is available behind the George Cadbury Hall – charges apply Monday to Friday 08:00 and 18:00 year round (NB: charges are still applicable during non-term time). If you park here you will need to cross the A38 to get to the set.
We had a look around “The Mill” and followed the path behind the building (not shown on the map). This led us to the road shown by Westhill Trust. Along here look out for the cast car park spaces and The Campus Surgery.
Continue forwards and turn left to see Letherbridge Police Station.
Go down the spiral stairs to visit The Icon Bar.
More BBC Doctors Locations
I’m sure there are many more Doctors sets nearby and with the help of Google and fan Facebook pages you could find your favourite places to visit from Al’s pub to the park.
One place that you could walk to nearby is Mrs Tembe’s church. St Bernadette’s is actually St Mary’s Church, Selly Oak.
They reference their link to Doctors on their website so I assume that means they welcome visitors. Please remember that it is a real place of worship.
St Phil’s (Philomena) Hospital is filmed nearby at the ORLC, Orchard Learning Resource centre.
Apparently Weoley Castle Square and Harbonne High Street are where a lot of the shops are filmed, the parks used are Grove Park and Cannon Hill, the Churchill Estate is filmed at a housing state further up Bristol Road and The Bell Harborne Pub has been shown too. If you know of any more BBC Doctors filming locations please let me know. It would be nice to compile a walking route for fans of the show.
I’m so pleased that I got to see this setting in real life, perhaps one day I’ll visit when they’re filming too!
Are you a Doctor’s fan (if not any you’ve go to the end of this post anyway- well done and thank you!)? Have you ever visited the set? What other TV sets have you visited?
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Lucky you – its the one daytime programme I love to watch !
Glad you enjoy it too. I can’t believe the set is so open to visit! Interesting place xxx
I used to watch this when I lived with my mum 10+ years ago, I havent watched it in my own home, I’m not sure why I enjoyed watching it when I did, probably as my 2 year old daughter always watches Peppa pig all through the day lol (as soon as she plays with her toys I turn over but within 10 minutes if I’m lucky she nags for it back on xx
Oh yes, I remember the days of endless Peppa Pig too lol. With my son it was Thomas the Tank engine over and over. I love how you can just dip into an episode of Doctors now and again without having to “keep up” as with other soaps xxx
I’m near here today would love to see it is there any barriers or anything that could stop me kind regards mandy
Hi, when I visited there were no barriers but it was at the weekend so we could even park in there. I’ve heard that in the week there is no parking (except for uni and tv folks) and there may be security stopping you get to certain sets if they’re currently being used for filming. On the upside you’re more likely to see filming and to meet some cast members- enjoy! xxx
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Veganuary: How good are Aberdeen’s new Vegan fast food offerings?
High street food outlets are cashing in on the vegan pound by introducing a whole load of tasty treats – but are they any good?
To find out, the Evening Express hit a variety of city eateries and snapped up meat-free meals from six major brands.
The animal-friendly rush was sparked when Greggs launched a vegan sausage roll – to the delight of its customers and its investors. The firm’s profits in the first half of 2019 surged by 58% – an extra £25.7 million compared with the same period in 2018.
A year on, Greggs has doubled its vegan options by introducing a version of the iconic steak bake to mark Veganuary, which encourages people to try meat-free offerings.
But what have its rivals served up?
Reporters Jamie Hall – a meat eater – and Dale Haslam – a vegan – dish out the verdict on vegan offerings from Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC, McDonald’s and Costa, pitting them against Greggs’ vegan steak bake.
Pizza Hut’s jack ’n’ ch**se pizza: vegan ch**se, tomato sauce, BBQ jackfruit, sweetcorn, red onions and peppers with a BBQ drizzle
First to be scrutinised was Pizza Hut’s Jack ’N’ Ch**se pizza (£12.49 for a regular deep pan).
“It’s very tasty,” said Dale. “The usual problem with vegan pizza is the cheese but Pizza Hut have got it spot on.”
Jamie said: “I actually really like it. It doesn’t feel like a meat-free option – the jackfruit makes up for it.
“I think there are a lot of misconceptions, that going for a vegan option means a lack of quality, but this proves that isn’t the case.”
The Verdict: a meaty-feeling, flavourful pizza with good quality cheese
Subway’s meatless meatball marinara: plant based meatless meatballs smothered in a marinara sauce and topped with vegan cheese
Next up was Subway’s new meatless meatball marinara (£3.69).
Jamie said: “This is a top effort. A meatball marinara is my go-to at Subway and I can’t tell the difference. I’d happily buy it again… and again and again.”
Dale said: “Wow. I absolutely love it. I would definitely go out of my way to buy it.”
He added: “The meatballs themselves taste great and the sauce and veggies are a perfect addition – this is a game-changer.”
The Verdict: a delicious offering so close to the original that even a meat-eater would struggle to tell the difference
KFC’s original recipe vegan burger: a vegan Quorn fillet, coated with a blend of 11 herbs and spices and served with vegan mayonnaise, crisp iceberg lettuce in a soft-glazed bun
KFC is known for its chicken so how would its new original recipe vegan burger (£3.99) go down?
Dale said: “It’s a great idea but the taste is lacking a bit. It’s very dry. They need to tweak it a bit.”
Jamie said: “It is a bit dry – it definitely needs some more mayo. But it’s a good effort and I wouldn’t have any problem eating it again.”
The Verdict: a good idea in theory, and a solid offering, the texture leaves room for improvement
McDonald’s veggie dippers: a mixture of potatoes, chickpeas, onion, carrots and onion with red pepper and sundried tomato pesto, coated in crispy breadcrumbs
So what about KFC’s major rival, McDonald’s? It has introduced vegan nuggets containing potatoes, chickpeas, onion, carrots, and corn (£3.29).
Jamie said: “They are pretty much the veggie burger without the bun or salad – and they definitely work better as part of the burger.
“But I think with a bit of refinement – and some vegan sauce to go along with them – they could be a good option.”
Dale said: “These are drier than the Sahara and it’s not always clear which dips are vegan. A good effort, though – they would work as a quick snack.”
The Verdict: these dippers work as a quick snack but need sauce to balance the overwhelming dryness
Costa’s smoky ham and cheeZe toastie: vegan cheeZe and ham-free Quorn slices on white bread
Meanwhile, Costa Coffee has introduced a vegan Quorn smoky ham and CheeZe toastie (£2.95).
“A poor effort. I could have made this at home in a couple of minutes. Starbucks does a breakfast burrito that is superb and, in comparison, this is bland,” said Dale.
Jamie added: “It’s just very bland. It’s not particularly bad but it’s not great, by any means. Anyone could make this at home.
“It feels like they are just doing the bare minimum.”
The Verdict: bland and boring, this toastie is average and easy to make yourself at home
Greggs’ vegan steak bake: puff pastry with a diced onion gravy and Quorn wrapped around savoury flavour mycoprotein pieces
Finally up for tasting was Greggs’ vegan steak bake (£1.55). “Gorgeous – but a bit too salty,” said Dale. He added: “Very much worth the money, though – quite tasty.”
Jamie said: “A steak bake is my go-to and this is a good effort. It’s really tasty.
“It was going to be really difficult for Greggs to follow up on the success of the sausage roll but I think they’ve managed it.”
The Verdict: this vegan steak bake is a tasty and successful follow up to the delicious vegan sausage roll
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Heavey Gets Schooled in Long-Range Shooting at Gunsite Academy
Gunsite is the best-known of a growing number of shooting schools around the country, where anyone can become a better rifle shot. To prove it, we sent Heavey
By Bill Heavy
Ringing a gong at 1,000 yards is a wildly satisfying accomplishment for shooters.Kevin Britland/Alamy
The single best trigger-control training device ever is a ballpoint pen, says Gary Smith, my precision-rifle instructor at Gunsite Academy. He holds one loosely between his middle finger and thumb, his trigger finger slowly cycling the top button over and again. “You want steady, gentle contact and to control the motion throughout,” he says. If you do it right, the point of the pen doesn’t wobble. He practices this two or three times a week for 15 minutes at a time, usually while watching TV. “Drives my wife crazy,” he says.
I’m near Paulden, Arizona, trying to cram Gunsite’s seven-day precision-rifle course into three. Before we start, Smith asks what my goal is. Avoiding abject humiliation jumps to mind, but I tell him I wouldn’t mind hitting a target the size of a deer’s vitals at 400 yards—an unfathomable distance to an Eastern bowhunter. He asks how much long-range shooting I’ve done.
“None,” I say, and he nods approvingly. I think he figures at least I’m not bs-ing him.
Of Gunsite’s 52 instructors, Smith is one of just five qualified to teach the art and science of long-range shooting. After learning theory with him for two hours in a classroom, I have a much better understanding of how little I know. “This course is fun to teach because it’s the most mentally demanding one we offer,” he says. “We get to watch smoke roll off everybody’s heads.” There must be clouds of it billowing off mine.
"When we go to inspect my target, it’s not good. The bullet holes are evenly but widely spaced, like the dots on the face of a die."
100 Yards: On Paper
At the range, I get prone behind a precision rifle built by Mike Moore of TAC Drivers, LLC. It’s a .308 with a custom Surgeon action, a Krieger barrel, and a McMillan stock, and it’s topped with a Leupold Mark 4 4.5–14x50mm scope with M5 turrets and a tactical milling reticle (TMR). I have 300 rounds of Hornady Match ammo, but for now I just need to put five shots on paper at 100 yards while Smith watches. I do my best. When we go to inspect my target, it’s not good. The bullet holes are evenly but widely spaced, like the dots on the face of a die.
“I saw you jerking the trigger as the reticle crossed the target,” Smith says. People do that because they’re trying to overcome a wobbly sight picture. “And your finger is flying off the trigger after the shot like you’ve got a booger on it.” Also, I’m lifting my head. “Ideally, you want to regain your sight picture and see the animal fall after your shot,” he says. “I love to see them fall.”
Apart from these quibbles, I assume I’m doing great. Oh, and I also need to “accept the wobble.” Smith says wobble in the sight picture is unavoidable. Instead of correcting it, you need to trust it—because your aim will always return to the target. We walk back 20 yards so he can demonstrate with his .45. He exaggerates, the 1911’s barrel weaving drunkenly. He shoots four rounds in quick succession, all hitting inside a circle the size of a sea scallop. I ask if this is some kind of trick. No, it’s just what happens when you trust the wobble rather than slap the trigger when the sight picture looks good. OK, I’m convinced. I ask about his pistol. It’s a model he’s evaluating for Ruger, and it’s too early to say. He has only put 3,000 rounds through it.
On the short ride back to the main facility, I ask about his view on long-range hunting. He tells me he started hunting seriously at age 7 and won’t take any shot that requires him to hold off the vitals. “Otherwise you’re guessing,” he says. “Your rule of thumb that your gun has an 8-inch drop at 300 or 400 yards? That’s a guess.” How far above the vitals is 8 inches? Another guess. “Your ethical range,” he says, “is the distance at which you can make the shot 10 times out of 10.” Otherwise, you’re too far away. Hunt better. Get closer.
Prone to Error: With Gunsite instructor Gary Smith spotting, the author does his best to hit a faraway target.Courtesy Gunsite Academy
400 Yards: Mission Accomplished
The next morning is more classroom time. I learn that the trigger hand is comprised of three parts. The last three fingers are a unit whose job is to snug the butt into your shoulder. The thumb lies lightly alongside your trigger finger (not around the rifle’s grip), barely touching the gun, and its job is to do nothing, so as not to introduce torque. Last is your trigger finger, and its only job is to press straight back at a 90-degree angle, applying slow and steady pressure until—and after—the trigger breaks.
Next, Smith says, “Don’t get suckered into focusing on the target.” (Who, me? I think. Why would I ever do that?) Your eye can only focus in one plane at a time. If the target is crystal clear, the reticle is probably not on the absolute middle of it. Focus on the reticle instead, and it will find the center as the target blurs slightly. “Look, if I’m trying to bring you a cup of coffee across the room, I focus on the coffee, not you,” Smith says. “The coffee is where the problem is. Focus on the problem.” Damn, no wonder I spill so much coffee.
I also learn that good shooting is all about doing the exact same thing the exact same way every time. This includes sucking oxygen. I know the old saw about taking a breath and letting it halfway out. “But what’s a full breath?” he asks rhetorically. “What’s half a breath? There’s no way to measure, right?” Better, he says, to find your “natural pause” point. He tells me to take a breath and let out as much as feels right. That’s a place your body likes and can find again. That’s where you want to shoot from. Fun fact: Your eye muscles are the smallest and weakest in your body, and start to lose focus in as little as eight seconds without oxygen. If you go that long without shooting, breathe again.
Back on the range, we drive to the top of a sandy ridge, and Smith directs me to a matte-brown silhouette 350 yards away. There’s not much breeze, but there’s some. “Wind is the most critical factor at distance,” Smith says. “And the only way to learn about wind is to put a bullet through it.” There are two places where the wind has almost no effect: at the muzzle and at the target. Two-thirds of the way to the target is where the bullet has traveled far enough that small forces have big effects. That’s where you want to know what the wind is doing.
He tells me to look for the heat mirage, rising here and there from the desert landscape. Then to defocus the scope slightly and say out loud which way it’s “flowing.” Huh? I’d never thought of mirage waves having direction. But sure enough, a closer look reveals a pattern to the watery refracted waves. It looks like they’re flowing left to right, so that’s a left wind. “Very good,” he says. I find the target and fire twice. Smith calls one correction, then another. On the third shot, I hear the faint metallic ping. “Good shot!” he calls. “You’re listening to what I’m telling you to do,” he says approvingly. Apparently, this isn’t as common as you’d think.
"I find the target and fire twice. Smith calls one correction, then another. On the third shot, I hear the faint metallic ping. “Good shot!” he calls."
Finally, he directs me to an old Toyota Celica parked 400 yards out, specifically the driver. I see the head-size round plate in the driver’s side window. “Shoot it,” he says. On the third shot, I ring the plate. “Congratulations. You just took out a hostage-taker at 400 yards with a head shot.” Now I do feel proud. And determined. Any whitetail that takes a hostage within 400 yards of my stand is going to regret it.
1,000 Yards: Surprise Success
Smith says that I’m making progress, but I still have some things to work on. For one, my body is angled rather than straight behind the rifle, which affects accuracy because recoil starts before the bullet leaves the muzzle. By positioning my body directly behind the gun, I’ll be more accurate.
I’m beginning to understand that my rifle shoots much better than I do, and that my job is to line up the sights and get out of the way. An important part of this, Smith tells me, is finding my “natural point of aim,” where you point the weapon instinctively once you relax into a position. Smith tells me to get set up behind the scope and get on target. Then to shut my eyes, take a couple of breaths and relax, and open my eyes to see where the crosshairs are. If they’re still on target, good. If not, squirm around until they are. That’s your natural point of aim. That’s the position from which you’ll have the best accuracy.
After lunch and a bit more classroom time, we’re back on the ridge, and I’m hitting 18-inch-wide silhouettes at 600 yards. It’s work after a few shots to focus at this distance, like lifting 10-pound dumbbells with my eyes. It’s even harder work to both focus so intently and relax at the same time—not to mention practice good trigger control, snug the rifle straight back, concentrate on the reticle rather than the target, and make myself accept the wobble. It helps to remember to breathe too. But I’m doing it. “I was a little worried after seeing your first shots at 100,” Smith says. “But you followed instructions, and now you’re making shots.” One of the great benefits of being so unacquainted with success is that when it shows up for a visit, it’s a genuinely pleasant surprise. I’m having fun.
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On my last morning, we head back up to the ridge, and with Smith calling corrections, I hit targets at 725, then 766, then 804 yards. I can’t see my shots or hear a ping, but when I notice my instructor grinning, I know things are going well. He loves seeing students succeed, he says. And he just likes being out here. “Every day, I get more time under my belt studying wind. I get up every day happy to be going to work.”
He calls my attention to a human silhouette in the shade of a tree 1,000 yards out. It’s a long poke, but the method doesn’t change. Adjust the turrets for elevation, hold so many mils left or right for the wind, press the trigger. It takes four shots to walk my way onto the target, and then I hit it.
“Nice shooting!” Smith calls from behind the spotting scope. He tells me that I’ve come a long way in three days and asks me how it feels. I have to think about it. On the one hand, I’m no wannabe sniper, and shooting an animal at even half this distance would, to me at least, be something other than hunting. On the other hand, I just hit a target at 1,000 yards—and it feels great.
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The Assistance Fund Opens New Program for Inherited Retinal Diseases
The Assistance Fund, an independent charitable patient assistance foundation that helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs, today launched a new program that offers financial support for individuals with inherited retinal diseases.
The Assistance Fund, an independent charitable patient assistance foundation that helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs, today launched a new program that offers financial support for individuals with inherited retinal diseases. The fund will assist patients in paying out-of-pocket medical costs incurred as a result of their condition, including health insurance premiums, copayments and incidental medical expenses.
“On behalf of everyone at The Assistance Fund, I am excited to announce the opening of a new program that offers support to individuals who are living with inherited retinal diseases,” said Mark P. McGreevy, President, The Assistance Fund. “People with many forms of inherited retinal disease often face high medical expenses related to their treatment, putting their families under financial strain. This fund will relieve some of that pressure, allowing these families to focus on their health and well-being.”
Inherited retinal disease is a category of eye disorders caused by a gene mutation that affects the retina, or the light-sensing cells in the back of the eye. These conditions can affect a patient’s vision in different ways, including total blindness, night-blindness, tunnel vision, seeing dark areas in the center of vision, or seeing distortions of lines and shapes. Some inherited retinal diseases cause symptoms unrelated to vision as well, including hearing loss and neurological problems.(1) Inherited retinal diseases affect approximately 200,000 Americans, with the largest percentile (40 percent) being diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. Other common inherited retinal diseases include Usher syndrome and cone-rod dystrophy.(2)
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The Assistance Fund is an independent charitable patient assistance foundation that helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs by providing financial assistance for their copayments, coinsurance, deductibles and other health-related expenses. The Assistance Fund currently manages more than 30 funds – each of which covers the FDA-approved medications that treat a specific disease. Since its founding in 2009, The Assistance Fund has helped more than 43,000 adults and children access the medicines they need to stay healthy or manage a chronic condition. To learn more about The Assistance Fund, or for information on how to donate, please visit tafcares.org.
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Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting! Every Friday, we release a list of some of our favorite people, things, and ideas dominating the industry. From awesome tech tools and cool companies to great books and powerful trends, no stone in the recruiting space will be left unturned.
This Week: Top 10 Communication Tools for Recruiters
When it comes to recruiting, staying in touch with candidates is half the battle. This week, we've compiled a list of ten great communication tools for recruiters with a little help from the pros. Check it out below:
1. Slack
You're likely familiar with Slack already, but if your recruiting team isn't using it to stay connected, you should change that immediately. There's a reason it's so popular – in fact, many reasons, including ease of use, customizability, mobility, and, of course, the ability to spam a channel with gifs when it all gets to be too much.
2. Rapportive
While many bemoaned the changes Rapportive underwent after LinkedIn acquired it – and for good reason, to be honest – the tool is still immensely useful when it comes to remembering who's who in your inbox. This Gmail plugin displays your contacts' LinkedIn profiles right in your inbox, which means you won't confuse Nic the developer with Nick the content marketer anymore.
Aside from the administrative use, the addition of LinkedIn profiles to Gmail allows for richer, more informed conversations with candidates, which go a long way in establishing trust and winning top talent over to your side.
3. Followup.cc
Recommended to us by Nick Chubb, a former recruiter and current business developer with Marine Society, Followup.cc is what Chubb describes as a "beautifully simple way of following up on email."
Recruiters are often talking to what feels like a million people at once – candidates, hiring managers, teammates, etc. – and that makes it easy for important conversations to slip through the cracks. With Followup.cc, you can set reminders, program automatic followups, schedule sends in advance, and more.
4. Calendly
Take the back-and-forth out of scheduling with Calendly. You set up a calendar, you send people a link, and they can select times to meet with you according to the availability in your schedule. No mess, no fuss – and it sure beats the will-we-won't-we of conventional scheduling.
5. Yello
Recommended by Rita VanderWaal, senior manager in the talent attraction team at Talent Collective, Yello is a talent relationship management tool "that segments talent pools and engages with them with automated email campaigns containing personalized, customized messaging," VanderWaal says.
She continues: "We can track candidates and communicate with them all through the recruitment process, from the first touchpoint through the final offer letter. That helps us stay engaged with candidates, and it shows us how and where we've converted them along the journey."
6. Crystal
"As recruiters, we always try to communicate with candidates and clients in their preferred form of communication," says Taylor Dumouchel of Peak Sales Recruiting. "However, it's more about how you communicate that helps you get the most of your conversation."
That's why Peak Sales and plenty of other recruiters use Crystal, which offers advice on the most effective ways to communicate with people. Crystal uses information about your social media contacts to compile "personality reports" on them, outlining the ways in which they like to be communicated with. It also offers real-time suggestions as you compose messages to people. If one contact prefers short, direct messages, Crystal will guide you in that direction. If another contact likes casual, chatty conversation, Crystal has your back there, too.
7. FlashRecruit
FlashRecruit is a live-chat recruiting platform that allows recruiters to add chat links to all of their job posts, making it that much easier for candidates to reach out when they have questions or want to learn more about an open role. Top talent is always just a click away from connecting with you. Talk about putting the human touch back in recruiting!
8. Mya
Mya is an AI chatbot that can handle the brunt of candidate communication for you. It answers questions, gathers information about candidates, screens them against set criteria, and grows smarter and smarter with each candidate to whom it speaks. Though Mya is still in private beta, we're really excited about what we've seen – and we think chatbots are going to become recruiting necessities in the near future. Get ahead of the trend now.
9. Gorgias
When communicating with candidates, you don't want to rely too much on email templates. That will make you seem distant and impersonal. However, you don't have to abandon templates altogether. They can be incredibly convenient and helpful, if deployed properly.
Gorgias is a Chrome extension that allows you to create, save, and use custom email templates right inside your email client, whatever it may be. You can also program keyboard shortcuts so that simply typing a word or two will automatically trigger a full template.
Just make sure to personalize your message a bit before you hit send, okay?
10. Gender Decoder
Gender Decoder is a simple but much-needed tool built by developer Kat Matfield. You input a job description, and Gender Decoder tells you whether or not your post is subtly coded "masculine." We don't often realize it, but much of the language we use is targeted toward men. This can have the unfortunate effect of turning talented women candidates off of your job openings, needlessly limiting your company's reach. Thanks to Gender Decoder, you can catch these linguistic mistakes before they go live.
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Watchmen TP New Edition
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The best-selling graphic novel is back in a new edition with a new price! In a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon is still president and the Cold War is in effect. WATCHMEN begins as a murder mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, an unlikely group of reunited heroesRorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandiasmust test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves where the true line between good and evil lies.
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Welcome to Nagel Middle School, a National School to Watch!
Middle school years are a time for growth, challenge and discovery and, at Nagel, we encourage and prepare students to be engaged in their learning and we empower them to be self-advocates. We also believe that a challenging curriculum and strong relationships among students, parents and staff are vital to helping students excel.
At Nagel, students are encouraged to take advantage of the many resources and opportunities available to them including the learning commons (media center), spirit days, volunteer and extracurricular activities, peer mentors, team building activities and counseling services. We recognize that social and emotional development is as essential to student success as academics. As such, we provide time for students to build connections with teachers and peers and to build a strong sense of community and ownership at Nagel. Teachers provide a nurturing environment in which students can learn, explore and thrive. Their work, in partnership with our parent and community, supports work to develop young people who are collaborative, creative, compassionate and successful in a diverse world.
We look forward to working with you and your children during the school year!
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THE ROOKIE: Hartley ready to press reset button after 'disappointing' run
Brendon Hartley went into the triple header with high hopes - and came out of it stung by unreliability and another heavy crash. In the latest edition of his vlog, the Toro Rosso driver reflects on tough races in France, Austria and Britain and looks forward to a change in luck...
This season we're following Toro Rosso's Brendon Hartley, on track and off, as he negotiates his first full year in F1. The series is produced in association with The Players' Tribune.
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LONG READ: Can Red Bull be genuine title contenders in 2020?
Renault set date for 2020 season launch event
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Perfect for fans of the Famous Five looking for their next adventure, The Adventure series has eight books in the series, starting with book 1, The Island of Adventure.
All eight adventures are now available as audiobooks – click on the cover above to listen to a sample of book 1.
The Secret Island was Enid Blyton’s first ever full-length adventure novel, and the fore-runner of the Famous Five. In the Secret Stories series, mystery always leads to adventure … and now you can listen to all four books in the series on audio.
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Motorola Razr Pre-release date indefinitely postponed
Achuuth Karthick - Dec 21, 2019 0
The upcoming foldable Moto Razr in appearance is the perfect rebirth of Motorola’s most iconic mobile phone, which was released in the mid-2000s. However, with less than a week to go for pre-orders to...
Flipkart’s Year-End Sale: Great discount on Motorola and Lenovo smartphones
Flipkart’s Year-End Sale event starts on December 21 and will go on till December 23. Thanks to this sale, users can upgrade or gift a new smartphone to their loved ones. Motorola and Lenovo have...
Motorola releases the Moto One Hyper
Achuuth Karthick - Dec 5, 2019 0
Motorola phones are an all-time fan favourite. Users have stayed loyal to the brand since the beginning. Even now, when the brand is not as affordable as before, and updates are not coming out...
Motorola to unveil a new phone on December 3
Motorola is going to be launching a smartphone on December 3, 2019. It is speculated to be Motorola’s One Hyper, which will be the company’s first smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera. The details...
Moto E6 with 3,000mAh battery and 13MP primary camera launched: Price and specifications
Lenovo-owned Motorola has announced the successor of Motorola E5 smartphone that was launched in 2018. Dubbed Moto E6, the newly-launched handset comes with a number of upgraded features over its predecessor. Initially, the device...
Motorola One Vision is now available in a Bronze Gradient colour variant
Lenovo-owned Motorola has launched the Bronze Gradient colour option of its One Vision smartphone in India. Motorola One Vision is now available in two colour options – Bronze Gradient and Sapphire Gradient. However, it should...
Motorola P50 to launch in China this week: Key details
Komila Singh - Jul 4, 2019 0
Motorola One Vision was launched in India last month and is the first smartphone from the company that houses a hole-punch camera setup in the front and has a 21:9 aspect ratio display. But...
Motorola One Vision review: The comeback phone?
Motorola recently launched its One Vision smartphone in India that is priced at Rs 19,999. The Motorola One Vision comes with a 48MP primary camera and is a part of Google’s Android One program....
Android Q will be the last update for Moto Z4
Lenovo-owned technology company Motorola launched its flagship smartphone Moto Z4 last month. However, today a report has surfaced online that claims that the handset will not be getting the Android R update. We should...
Motorola One Vision with 48MP primary sensor, Android Pie launched in India: Price and...
Gadget Bridge Bureau - Jun 20, 2019 0
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola has today launched its One Vision handset in India. The device is the first ever by the company to come with a hole-punch display cutout that houses the selfie camera...
Motorola One Action renders leak: Here’s everything that’s been revealed
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola will be seen launching a number of its new offerings in India in the next few weeks or so. Two handsets that are expected to be unveiled by the company...
Moto E6 Plus’ Geekbench listing shows MediaTek Helio P22 SoC and Android 9.0 Pie
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola has plans of launching a new premium smartphone in India this month. From what it looks like, the company is getting ready to launch more smartphone models in different markets....
Moto Z4 with Snapdragon 675 SoC, 48MP camera launched: Price and specifications
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola has today launched its Moto Z4 smartphone. As of now, the company has only spoken about the details of the handset's ability in the United States and Canada. However, since...
Moto G7 review: A budget smartphone that has the looks and brilliant gesture controls
Motorola launched its Moto G7 lineup in Brazil in February this year. The range comes with four smartphones including Moto G7, Moto G7 Plus, Moto G7 Power and Moto G7 Play. However, till now,...
Moto G7 and Motorola One lines begin receiving Google’s call screening feature
Avani Bagga - Apr 4, 2019 0
Google's call screening technology is undoubtedly among the best features for Android that the technology giant has come up with so far. However, as of now, the feature is only available on Google's Pixel...
Moto G7 set to launch in India today: Expected price and specifications
Aadvika - Mar 25, 2019 0
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola is all set to launch its Moto G7 handset in India today. However, as of now, the exact time of launch is not known, but then, we do know that...
Motorola One Vision to come with 48MP primary camera, Exynos 9610 SoC: Report
Gadget Bridge Bureau - Mar 20, 2019 0
Ahead of even being officially confirmed, specifications of the Motorola One Vision smartphone have surfaced online. According to the leaked specifications of the smartphone, Motorola One Vision will come with a 48-megapixel primary sensor...
Motorola’s foldable Moto Razr smartphone to let users access select apps on the second...
Lenovo-owned Motorola has been reported to be working on a revamped version of its iconic Razr smartphone. The foldable smartphone by Motorola will be launched later this year. As of now, we have only...
Moto G6, Moto G6 Play, Moto Z3 Play begin receiving Android Pie update: Report
Avani Bagga - Feb 16, 2019 0
We have some news for those who own Moto G6, Moto G6 Play or Moto Z3 Play smartphones. Lenovo-owned Motorola has started rolling out the latest Android update for the three smartphones. According to...
Moto G7 Power vs Samsung Galaxy M20 vs Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2: Comparison
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Motorola finally took wraps off its Moto G7 line-up this week. And one among the newly launched devices – Moto G7 Power – is now available for purchase in India. The Moto G7 Power...
Moto G7 Power with 5,000mAh battery, Android Pie launched in India: Price and specifications
A few days back, Lenovo-owned Motorola launched its Moto G7 smartphone lineup at an event in Brazil. Considering that India is a very important market for the company, it has launched one of the...
Moto G7 Power price, availability date in India revealed
Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola recently launched its mid-range Moto G7 handset lineup at an event that was held on February 7 in Brazil. The latest smartphones from Motorola started making headlines months before they...
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First look at Naomi Watts as Princess Diana
By George Wales 2012-07-03T14:00:00.184Z
On set for Caught In Flight
Caught In Flight has revealed its first glimpse of star Naomi Watts in costume as Princess Diana, and with the help if a prosthetic nose, there's not a bad likeness between the actress and her royal subject.
The film, directed by Downfall 's Oliver Hirschbiegel, will chart the two years prior to the Princess's untimely death, focusing upon her real-life affair with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. As well as homing in on her personal life, the film will also explore her humanitarian work as an international campaigner.
Watts certainly seems to have captured Diana's general look and bearing, although there's something about that prosthetic nose that pitches her somewhere between the Princess and Nicole Kidman. Or maybe that's just us.
The last time Diana was the subject of a major motion picture was in Stephen Frears' The Queen , when her death loomed large over the remaining members of the royal family. This film is unlikely to dwell on quite such morbid subject material, although the inevitable conclusion is still likely to cast a melancholy pall over proceedings.
Lost star Naveen Andrews will be playing Diana's lover Dr. Khan, while The Libertine 's Stephen Jeffreys has written the script. Caught In Flight will open in France on 20 February 2013, with a UK release date to be confirmed.
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Written by Sean Colleli on 12/2/2016 for PC
More On: Clockwork Empires
The simulation genre is overflowing with empire building games. From established critically-acclaimed series like Sid Meier’s Civilization, to smaller casual-friendly titles like A Kingdom of Keflings, there is no shortage of sims that challenges players to eke out a new community in a hostile landscape. Naturally the Victorian era dovetails nicely with these themes, but surprisingly many of the Victorian empire building sims are fairly historically accurate.
Gaslamp Games’ Clockwork Empires has been in Steam early access for years now and has promised something a bit more…fantastical. As you can glean from the title, the game purports to have a steampunk aesthetic—that is, high technology by way of Victorian steam and cog-powered machinery. This also allows for other fantasy elements, specifically gothic horror, with a distinct Lovecraftian influence. After slogging through a number of classic sims that were too serious for their own good, I jumped at the chance to try out Clockwork Empires. Unfortunately, the game doesn’t exactly deliver on its lofty promises, and brings a bundle of technical problems along for the ride.
Clockwork Empires starts out like dozens of other exploration sims. It presents you with a procedurally generated map and allows you to pick where to make landfall, but many of the locations are initially disallowed due to harsh weather conditions. The beginner spots are balmy and relatively rich in resources, and once you’ve made your selection a gaggle of settlers and their supplies will parachute in to start work. So far, so good; time to roll up your sleeves and tame the wilderness, right?
Well, that’s easier said than done. The game offers some basic tutorial messages but they’re off to the side and kind of assume that you’ll figure complex tasks out for yourself. The first order of business is to assign laborers to the handful of supervisors and then give the laborers jobs. Pretty simple at first, because your first job is to clear the land and set up buildings, but then you realize that you cannot prioritize which jobs the laborers do. This means that the only way to get one task done first is to delete any other task you’ve assigned a specific supervisors and his/her laborers.
Then you’ll run head-first into what could have been one of the game’s standout features. Each colonist, be they a supervisor, mayor or lowly wood-chopper, has their own unique moods, likes and dislikes. This is pretty cool from a basic micromanage perspective but in practice it means that you will have a bunch of pissed-off, hungry and generally unmotivated colonists in short order. The game has this hidden hierarchy of things you need to get done, so if you do anything out of order morale drops like a rock and you find yourself mired in mismanagement.
This wouldn’t be so bad if the user interface wasn’t so obtuse. As I said before there are vague tutorials, but all of the vital options and functions you need are buried under obscure menus, pop-ups and drop-downs. This problem is confounded by the fact that everything in the game, and I mean everything, needs to be blueprinted and built individually. Beds, dressers, stoves, bookshelves, every last item for furnishing a new building must be manufactured, and there is very little automation to get it started.
Suffice to say, Clockwork Empires needs constant, obsessive compulsive micromanagement to play smoothly. You need to pay attention to every little detail, from colonists’ moods to whether that stonecutter finished his job to the cooks making meals in the kitchen. And if you don’t put in this kind of neurotic hyper-focus on every little thing, bad stuff starts happening. Your colonists will get hungry, or you’ll go to make that awesome factory and realize your woodcutters got annoyed and stopped working so you don’t have any lumber.
And that’s not even the worst of it. The Lovecraftian elements rear their head at this point. Disgruntled colonists will break off to form an Old Ones-worshiping cult, and lead even more of your strained workforce astray. Or maybe some fishmen will just rise from the deep and start carrying your colonists off into the ocean. These things would be thrilling and dynamic in a competent simulation game where making initial headway was intuitive, but here it’s just one disaster after another while you’re trying to establish a basic resource pipeline.
In addition to the gameplay issues, Clockwork Empires has a number of bugs and technical problems that bring the minute-to-minute gameplay down. Disappearing resources, inability to place items and colonists getting stuck in floors and walls until they drop dead from starvation are only a few of the glitches people are encountering, myself included. Sometimes your colonists won’t even follow explicit directions. Figuring out the cluttered interface is bad enough, but fighting with bugs along the way is pretty discouraging.
All of this is wrapped up in the fact that Clockwork Empires just doesn’t feel much like a steampunk game. There are general concessions to that genre in the game’s art direction, but nothing that really screams steampunk aside from the Lovecraft elements. I’m sorry, but if a game is called Clockwork Empires I expect to conquer vast swathes of untamed frontier with my fleet of custom-engraved airships. Instead this game makes concessions to the steampunk genre without really capitalizing on its strongest themes and trappings.
Clockwork Empires is disappointing not because of what it is but what it could have been. A steampunk-horror civilization sim is instantly compelling, and with further development this game could be the kind of experience the developers promised. That said, the game spent years in early access and the end result is riddled with bugs, lacks defining features and comes saddled with an incomprehensible user interface. Given more time, I’m not sure what more Gaslamp Games could accomplish with Clockwork Empires without a major overhaul.
Clockwork Empires has a lot of promise but numerous technical issues and a baffling UI, not to mention disappointing use of the steampunk aesthetic, make the game a frustrating and tedious experience.
Rating: 6.5 Below Average
I've been gaming off and on since I was about three, starting with Star Raiders on the Atari 800 computer. As a kid I played mostly on PC--Doom, Duke Nukem, Dark Forces--but enjoyed the 16-bit console wars vicariously during sleepovers and hangouts with my school friends. In 1997 GoldenEye 007 and the N64 brought me back into the console scene and I've played and owned a wide variety of platforms since, although I still have an affection for Nintendo and Sega.
I started writing for Gaming Nexus back in mid-2005, right before the 7th console generation hit. Since then I've focused mostly on the PC and Nintendo scenes but I also play regularly on Sony and Microsoft consoles. My favorite series include Metroid, Deus Ex, Zelda, Metal Gear and Far Cry. I'm also something of an amateur retro collector. I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my fiancee and our cat, who sits so close to the TV I'd swear she loves Zelda more than we do.
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Geoff Fox: My Permanent Record
Back when I was in school teachers would always scare me with stories of how my exploits would end up in my permanent record. I believe this is it! – Geoff Fox
Tag: Steve Mariucci
Football Season Ends
The Eagles lost another one last night, falling to the Washington Redskins. The Eagles are now dead last in their division.
One of the Eagles’ problems was the missing Terrell Owens. Owens has been the team’s biggest star and biggest problem child, all at once.
He has criticized his fellow players and coaches and, it seems, taken a swing at a former player who is considered the team’s “ambassador.” Now he has been suspended.
Good going Terrell.
From The Associated Press: This was the second time Owens has been suspended during his controversial 10-year career. In 2000, he was suspended one game by San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci following his infamous touchdown celebrations on the Dallas Cowboys’ famed star logo at the center of Texas Stadium.
Owens clashed with management this summer and earned a one-week exile from training camp after a heated dispute with Reid that followed a shouting match with offensive coordinator Brad Childress.
As a kid I thought my sports heroes were heroes in real life as well. It’s not so. I was innocent. Players like Terrell Owens just go to reinforce that realization.
Owens is now suspended and it’s doubtful he’ll ever play for the Eagles again. He’ll probably find another team sometime soon.
The real shame is, I’m not sure he’s capable of being happy. I’ve known people like that… worked with people like that. It’s no fun. They become their own worst enemy. There’s no doubt that description applies to Owens.
Meanwhile. as an Eagles fan, the season seems to have ended early.
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Rez, a true modern classic
Do you remember the time you saw your first video game? For me it was at a shopping center and I must have been around 8 or nine. Walking out (or was that being dragged?) I very clearly remember passing a brand spanking new Space Invaders machine. After a brief glance I was pulled away but it was too late, even without playing it I was hooked.
Fast forward several years and I am living in Australia’s premium holiday destination. Other than the miles of endless beach, there was not a lot going on… except for the ever expanding ‘arcades’. For a boy in his early teens this was nirvana, beach all day and then hang out playing video games at the arcade, or catch a few games on the walk back from school. Looking at it, this had to have an impact on me and where I ended up (that and a lust for science fiction). 20 cents was all you needed to escape into a whole different place – Moon Patrol, Galaxian, Asteroids, Battle Zone, Galaga and on the list went. The variety was relentless.
I continued to play into my late teens, when the games started to change; remember the first dollar coin game? At this point it seemed the video games industry lost the plot as games were increasingly geared towards motion based platforms, impossible levels (that cost lost of money to master) and game play that was pretty damn average. The death of the game cabinet saw the end of the great video game in my mind as substance, no matter how basic, was replaced with flash and physical motion.
When the PS2 hit the market things were already in a state of flux; in the mid 90s everyone was guessing that home based systems would take over but it was not until the release of the PS2 that the future being spoken about finally arrived.
My favourite games were always the ones where you could loose yourself, they would not only immerse but drag me in and transport me off to somewhere else. The old arcade games were brilliant at doing this, the strange mix of the physical environment and games that, while graphically simple, had demanding game play. While the PS2 and similar platforms at the time, and since, certainly provided all the graphic punch one could ever want, there always has been something lacking, maybe it’s the whole sitting in your living room and playing games on your TV?
Enter Rez.
Created by a Japanese Sega team back in 2001, Rez is a bit of a black collectors piece; maybe even a classic. Certainly in Australia it’s hard to come by. Yes, it is a very basic shoot ’em up in it’s most fundamental essence – there is nothing more challenging than trying to get to the next level, but what Tetsuya Mizuguchi did in creating his game is to design something that pulls you in by the eyes, ears and hands. It is easily the most mystifying and beautiful game I had seen and played in a long time.
The Kandinsky inspired game uses seemingly basic but ultimately very rich and complex graphics, then mixes them with a strong dance/trance inspired beat. Turn off the lights, crank the volume (especially if you have it ported through a sound system) and you find yourself becoming entranced with dancing images and thumping baselines. But what makes the game all the more interesting and ultimately immersive, is as you shoot and ‘blow things up’ you interact with the game, not only on a visual level but also on an audial one. Each shot and resulting explosion alters the base beat and aspects of the visuals – you literally interact with every aspect of Rez.
The overall look of the game reminds me of the late 70’s film Tron – faceted, blocky forms melded with whispy wireframes (which is somewhat funny as in the game you are a character that is hacking into a CPU). It has been referred to as being reminiscent of the cyberpunk world dreamt up by William Gibson in his cult book Neuromancer. With the whole environment set on a black background, like most of the early arcade games, Rez has the ability to drown out what’s around it and suck you in as you focus on the screen and the dancing objects within it, not get lost in some overly complex backdrop. Close the blinds, switch off the lights and crank the sound and you literally end up in a very different head space. Add alcoholic beverage of your choice and it gets even better!
But there is more! As you advance through each level the beat intensifies and so does the throb coming from the DualShock controller. We now have all three senses working, sight, sound and touch. It’s mad. In Japan the game came packaged with a thing called a ‘Trance Vibrator’. We’ll be damned but the only real use for this gadget seems to have been discovered here (though not pornographic, the content has adult themes and ‘risqué’ images): www.gamegirladvance.com. Damn! It seems just too forthright to be unintentional!!!
Rez on the PS2. For a game done in 2001, it’s still damn cool.
That Mizuguchi said he came up with the idea whilst being dazzled by light and sound at a night club is not at all surprising. Unfortunately though, it seems that Rez has fallen by the wayside, pushed aside by games that offer glossy, cheap and instant thrills that for the most part leave you feeling drained at the end of them. Like most things with a higher than normal level of sophistication, Rez was too complex in thought and concept for many out there, preventing it from becoming a big seller.
But there is an upside to the Rez story…
With the release of the PS4, and its VR headset, Rez was remade to become ‘Rez Ultimate’. With richer visuals Ultimate is said to be even more captivating than the original release. Perhaps though the most powerful impressions come from those that play it with the VR headset. While Rez has always been captivating, Rex in 360 degrees VR has been described as almost mind altering! It’s something on my list of must haves in the very near future.
So if you never have, try and check Rez out. You might not click with it right away but when you do, and you will, it will all make sense.
Rez Ultimate – Rez at another level… quite literally!
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Wi-fi will revolutionise patient care in hospital
The death of a teenager in intensive care will help thousands of patients after a revolutionary computer system was donated to Royal Berkshire Hospital in his memory.
Updated 22:17, 7 JUN 2013
Consultant anaesthetist Atul Kapila
When Aman Kapila, 16, died of a brain haemorrhage in January this year his family and friends were desperate to ensure his memory lived on.
Many have raised money for Royal Berkshire Hospital where he died and where his father Atul works as a consultant anaesthetist in the same department.
But when family friend Karen Bonnett approached her bosses at BT Mobile Services Mobility Solutions she managed to secure a pioneering wireless network that should revolutionise patient care at the hospital.
Yesterday Mr Kapila and his family helped launch the hand-held computers in the ICU, which allow doctors and nurses to access and input patient’s notes, x-rays and condition checks.
Mrs Bonnet said: “Aman died very unexpectedly and it was a tragic loss to his family.
“It felt right to do something in his memory that would benefit others and, as BT is very much a caring for the community company, when I approached the senior management they were happy to help out.
“We are happy to be able to launch this new wireless system and we hope it will benefit both the staff and the patients.”
Doctors and nurses in the Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Decisions Unit and Hopkins Ward will be piloting the system before it is installed across the whole of the hospital.
Mr Kapila, of Pangbourne, said: “With these new PDAs, nurses are able to put a patient’s vital signs, like temperature and pulse, through the network system, the information is distributed to the outreach nurses who look after patients on the ward immediately so there is no delay with paper work.
“If the patient reaches a level which is dangerous, if they reach a certain score and become more ill or nearer death, staff are alerted by the system and can get the appropriate member of staff to the patient quicker.
“The newer system that is being piloted enables doctors to pick up emails and patient’s notes on the ward.
“Doctors doing a round can now access a patient’s x-rays at their bedside, it just makes the whole process more efficient and the staff have all reacted very positively to this.”
Professor Ann Sheen OBE, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, said: “This is a unique and groundbreaking system that we are delighted to be using here at the hospital.
“The trust is leading the way in terms of this advanced technology and we feel confident that it will be a huge benefit to the hospital and that patients in Reading will get really good care and treatment as a result.”
To donate money to the cause for Aman Kapila visit the website at www.amankapila.com
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Sonnen Enters the Solar Roof Market in Australia Via Partnership
Tesla won’t be the only company offering storage paired with solar roofs.
Julian Spector June 07, 2017
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Julian is a staff writer at Greentech Media, where he reports on energy storage, solar power and other clean energy sectors. He also has experience covering clean transportation, state and federal energy policy, and climate adaptation. Previously, Julian reported for CityLab at The Atlantic and conducted grant-funded climate change reporting in Bangladesh. He graduated from Duke University.
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Sonnen has stepped up to challenge Tesla in the Australian market for energy storage paired with solar roofs.
The German residential storage company's Australian branch has teamed up with Bristile Roofing to deliver storage systems alongside the latter's solar roof product, One Step Off the Grid reports. The tile-maker plans to release its solar product in September and start targeting the 102,000 new-build homes expected in Australia through 2018.
Tesla conspicuously advertises the Powerwall in conjunction with its solar roof, which the company says it will start installing in California in June, before "rolling out to additional markets over time." They are expected to commence in Australia in 2018. If the fledgling solar-tile market takes off, appealing to homeowners who want solar power but don't like the aesthetics of standard PV modules, it could become a profitable vehicle for pushing battery sales.
Sonnen doesn't make solar products of its own, so a partnership was the way to tap this potential market.
"The new-home market is going to be one of the biggest channels for solar and storage, as it will be a prominent feature for homebuilders in their designs,” Sonnen Australia Managing Director Chris Parratt told OSOG.
The deal offers Sonnen several advantages for competing with Tesla. If the timeline pans out, Bristile will have the jump on the market by several months. Being based in Australia, it should be able deliver products more rapidly than Tesla, which will have to ship them around the world. Bristile's website says it produces up to 250,000 conventional tile units per day from three plants.
Both companies' solar tile offerings will be new and untested, but Bristile at least boasts three-quarters of a century of roofing experience. One of the major open questions in Tesla's push for roof tiles is how it will compete with established roofing distribution channels -- and whether homeowners will trust a Silicon Valley upstart with keeping their homes dry.
As Eric Wesoff put it last fall, "Reaching through to the end customer for an integrated PV roof in the new homes market is not a semiconductor, mechanical or financial engineering problem. You're looking to drive a completely new type of product through the very conservative roofing channel -- and that's a daunting marketing challenge."
Sonnen found a partner that knows this territory. It's also choosing to pursue this market in Australia, which has much more favorable residential storage economics than the U.S.
Australian solar penetration soared in recent years, but now customers get minimal reimbursement for excess generation.
"Demand for behind-the-meter storage is rapidly increasing, particularly as new solar customers can't access the formerly lucrative feed-in tariff programs," said Brett Simon, a BTM storage analyst at GTM Research. "Now, there's a greater trend toward self-consumption in order to maximize value from solar-generated electricity, particularly as Australia boasts high retail electricity prices."
In the U.S., most Sonnen customers use the system for clean backup power in the event of an outage. The payoff there is more psychological than financial. Residential storage generally remains an early-adopter item, rather than a mass consumer good.
It's not surprising, then, that we haven't seen a similar announcement of an alliance with one of the many U.S. companies seeking success in the solar tile market.
The Australia strategy does synchronize with Sonnen's push to enter the new-build home market. As we have reported previously, the company is finalizing contracts to install batteries in American new-build housing developments, which would make it easier for customers and utilities to get on board.
For a customer, the cost of the system would appear as a marginal bump in the mortgage, removing the barriers of cost and financing that often stymie a storage purchase. That's particularly helpful for Sonnen, which sells a higher-cost product than Tesla, banking on a longer battery life and more valuable operations to pay off over time.
Meanwhile, a large housing development could offer a substantial aggregated storage resource to perform utility services, under the right market conditions.
"One of the best ways to ensure higher deployment levels is for storage-system vendors to make these sorts of deals and ensure their products become standard in new construction," Simon noted.
The solar roof tile industry hasn't achieved widespread commercial success to prove the concept. There's no guarantee it will soon. Even without that, a closer relationship with the homebuilding industry could serve Sonnen well.
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5 things I learned talking clubs, testing and tinkering with Tiger Woods
By Jonathan Wall
Jonathan Wall, GOLF.com’s equipment editor, had the opportunity to sit down and talk gear with 14-time major winner Tiger Woods during the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Here are five things Wall learned from the conversation.
1. He’s Uber-sensitive when it comes to equipment
Back in 2017, I had the opportunity to observe Woods go through his first official fitting with TaylorMade Tour reps in Florida. Needless to say, it was an eye-opening experience that left me floored at how particular Woods is with his gear. His sensitivity to even the slightest club change can take a driver from the test pile to the trash heap in a matter of seconds.
For example, it only took Woods one swing with a new prototype iron to realize something was amiss with the center of gravity location. And he passed on hitting a driver during testing because he felt a small bubble in the grip.
Few players are able to discern the subtle nuances Woods picks up on, like the head material or grooves being part of the issue — he admitted the ball was going too far — during iron testing. Woods’ hypersensitivity when it comes to gear is on another level.
2. But in other ways, Tiger’s just like us
Before switching to TaylorMade, Tiger Woods had no idea how adjustable drivers worked. Weekend golfers can relate. Many golfers have a driver with some form of adjustability — be it the ability to alter face angle, launch, spin or all three at the same time — but when it comes to understanding the benefits of a weight shift or twist of the wrench, a large majority are still in the dark.
Woods was one of the last to switch from steel to graphite in his driver and still had a thing for glued, non-adjustable metalwoods up until Nike’s exit from the hard-goods industry.
When you’ve spent your entire career using a non-adjustable head, you reach out for help. In Woods’ case, he had Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day on speed dial to fully comprehend the benefits of an adjustable driver. Must be nice.
“I had to learn a lot [about adjustable drivers],” Woods said. “I either talked to the players that we have – like DJ, Rory. They were instrumental in helping me understand that. And then, working with Keith, trying to understand the time that I had a glued hosel to what we have now. So that was a bit of an adjustment, but I was able to make it.”
Even the greatest golfer of the modern era can use an assist from time to time.
And for someone who’s trying to maintain his back and play a full tournament load, adjustable metalwoods have made things oh-so-much easier for Woods during the testing process. Back when he was still using glued hosels, Woods said it was common to go through 50 drivers, hitting each one “three times or so” before paring down the potential suitors.
“Then we re-test them again,” Woods said. “That takes two days and I’m so friggin’ tired.”
Since going to an adjustable head, Woods noted the process to find a new driver takes about 20 minutes.
“Now it’s like click, back in and hit again,” Woods said. “‘Let’s go this way, let’s go that way.’ And all the sudden I have a new driver.”
Woods’ body has to be ecstatic with the new testing process.
Tiger Woods is meticulous when it comes to dialing in his clubs.
3. Tiger used to blow through wedges
Woods’ short game creativity is a highly underrated aspect of his game. Some of the shots he’s been able to execute have come as a result of hundreds of hours on the chipping green. When you’re using raw, forged wedges, it’s a heck of a lot easier to wear out the grooves in a matter of months due to the softer head material.
It’s not uncommon for a tour player to go through a set of wedges every three to six months, but in Woods’ case, he wouldn’t pull the worn wedges out of the rotation as most pros tend to do. Instead, he got them “re-blasted” to renew the spin characteristics, before placing them in the back of the order to use one more time.
“Then I had the fresh ones, and I’d wear that one out,” Woods said. “Then that would get re-blasted, and eventually they’d come around and I used all eight sets twice.
“Then once those were done — so 16 go-arounds — now we have to start it all over again, because they can’t get anymore spin on them.”
4. Tiger has two different lob wedges available
Woods is using two different TaylorMade Milled Grind lob wedges this season, which surprised me somewhat given how little he changes equipment over the course of a season.
“One I used last year, and one I’ve been testing around a little this year a little bit because of the rough, and I’m trying to get a little more bounce out of the bunkers,” Woods said. “I have two different 60-degree wedges that I can play with.”
Given how meticulous Woods is with his wedge grinds, I didn’t think it was possible for him to have a secondary option based on the rough and bunker conditions. You learn something new every day.
5. Once he’s on site, don’t expect Tiger to tinker
Equipment testing during the early week is a common sight at every tour event. Just don’t expect Tiger Woods to be the one doing extensive work on the range with a bevy of shaft options. We’ve seen Woods test putters over the last year, but for the most part, the setup he brings to the course is what he plans to use for the tournament.
Similar to the way Brooks Koepka operates, Woods does almost all of his testing at home, out of the public eye.
“I’m one of the guys that don’t really change anything while I’m at a Tour site,” he said. “I do all my testing at home. Now, if you come to my house you’ll see that I’ve got clubs everywhere, and [I’m] testing, and I’ve got all different data. That’s different.”
You can read the entire interview here.
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Who Needs Magic?
(Magic #2)
Kathy McCullough (Goodreads Author)
The sequel to DON'TEXPECT MAGIC!
Now that Delaney Collins knows she’s a fairy godmother, she’s ready to make magic happen. But first, she has to find her next client. And it’s not as easy as she thought it would be.
Delaney’s spending the summer working at Treasures, a secondhand store at the mall, surrounded by cool vintage boots—and potential clients. But when she finally The sequel to DON'T EXPECT MAGIC!
Delaney’s spending the summer working at Treasures, a secondhand store at the mall, surrounded by cool vintage boots—and potential clients. But when she finally feels a connection with Jeni, a girl who needs a life-changing, happily-ever-after wish . . . Jeni doesn’t want her help. And to make matters worse, Delaney finds herself competing with another f.g. Glittery, sparkly Ariella is an uber-f.g., granting wishes with a flick of her lemon candy stick, while Delaney can’t seem to make anything happen. Not even a summer romance with her boyfriend, Flynn.
It takes more than waving a chopstick to make big wishes come true. But what good is being an f.g. if you can’t make the boy you like want to be with you as much as you want to be with him?
Praise for Don't Expect Magic:
“A supernaturally touched rom-com, this is a bright, whimsical romp featuring a suitably sassy heroine with a killer pair of black leather boots . . . excellent comfort reading.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Brilliantly timed moments of situational comedy . . . plenty to like in this debut.” —Kirkus Reviews
“An enjoyable read with sprinklings of magic.” — VOYA
Published July 9th 2013 by Delacorte Press
038574014X (ISBN13: 9780385740142)
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Apr 01, 2014 Tom Rogers rated it it was amazing
I read "Don't Expect Magic," Kathy McCullough's first book about Delaney Collins, with trepidation; being neither young nor a girl, I'm not exactly the target demographic. Silly me: great stories are universal, and I was hooked. But at least I'm a fast learner. So when "Who Needs Magic" came out, I snapped it up and was not disappointed. The book transported me right back into confused adolescence, when absolutely nothing makes sense, least of all romance. Again, the magic is both fun and then I read "Don't Expect Magic," Kathy McCullough's first book about Delaney Collins, with trepidation; being neither young nor a girl, I'm not exactly the target demographic. Silly me: great stories are universal, and I was hooked. But at least I'm a fast learner. So when "Who Needs Magic" came out, I snapped it up and was not disappointed. The book transported me right back into confused adolescence, when absolutely nothing makes sense, least of all romance. Again, the magic is both fun and then unexpectedly deep, and the book makes for a rewarding and delightful read. ...more
Jun 23, 2013 Alice Liu rated it it was amazing
This is a fun book for the younger teen reader. Discovering another fairy godmother, Ariella, Delaney finds herself in a socially competitive situation where she is being judged by the amount of wishes granted. This is a problem since she's only granted one big wish. When the opportunity arises to prove her wish-giving prowess, Delaney begins to confuse her "role" as fairy godmother with her own personal identity. Ultimately the lesson is not so much what we think we want (or wish) but what it This is a fun book for the younger teen reader. Discovering another fairy godmother, Ariella, Delaney finds herself in a socially competitive situation where she is being judged by the amount of wishes granted. This is a problem since she's only granted one big wish. When the opportunity arises to prove her wish-giving prowess, Delaney begins to confuse her "role" as fairy godmother with her own personal identity. Ultimately the lesson is not so much what we think we want (or wish) but what it is we really want when we truly know ourselves. ...more
Apr 26, 2014 ♥Jessica, ♥Lady of the Library♥ rated it liked it
Recommends it for: People who love fairy tales
((3.5 stars))
So, it was a last Sunday I was really dreading going back to school the next day, so I basically forced my mother to drive me to the used book store. I needed new books, and my sister also needed study guides for her AP exams. Mom wanted some Steven King novels, too, so it was a win situation for everyone.
I pulled out basically every single book in the tiny young adult section and I couldn't find anything that I wasn't too embarrassed to buy with my sister there (people kissing on ((3.5 stars))
I pulled out basically every single book in the tiny young adult section and I couldn't find anything that I wasn't too embarrassed to buy with my sister there (people kissing on the cover) or anything that looked decent. At the last second, I pulled this little gem off the shelf, and ran to my mom who was already on the way to the cash register.
☐ Totally fell IN LOVE with this book.
☐ Really, really, really liked this book.
☑ Was in a strange relationship with this book, because at some points I was totally hooked, but others? Not so much.
☐Didn't like this book.
☐Hated this book.
Now, here is my evaluation of basically every part of this book.
The Beginning: I started this book for the first time RIGHT AFTER I finished another book with a pretty devastating ending. I was almost sobbing at the end of that one, so I don't know why I thought it was appropriate to start a new book! But besides that, I genuinely think the beginning of this novel was particularly slow. Nothing unusual for a book, but it was progressing so little that I only read about 10 pages a day for the first two days reading it. I usually read 100+.
The Middle: The climax of this novel didn't exactly have me on the edge of my seat, but I was definitely interested in the characters and their problems! I was reading constantly, and it might have been because I had nothing else to do, but it was mostly because I wanted to know what would happen next.
The Ending: I was touched. I'm not gonna say it brought tears to my eyes or anything, but I'm really content with the way this book ended. Everything rounded up nicely. There weren't any loose ends. My heart was warm. After that last book I read, I needed this.
The Vibes: I totally loved the way I felt everytime I read/looked at/picked up this book. I just felt so comfortable and relaxed reading this. I could snuggle up in some blankets with some hot tea and classical music playing in the background and be very happy. This is a fairy tale, sure, but it didn't put too much stress on me and my brain. It was relaxing. A rainy-day read.
The characters: Ahh yeah, here's where .5 of a star comes off. I was completely satisfied with the characters, even the antagonist. (I actually loved her.) And my favorite was Jeni. But, honestly? The main girl didn't do much for me. I could read her POV without getting upset. I could think about her without any negative thoughts. But there were times, like when she was on dates with her boyfriend, where I thought: "Wow, that's a really bratty thing to think/say." -.5
The Writing: And this is where the rest of the damage, 1 star, comes off from my rating. I understand this is a young adult novel, I really do, but I feel like the writing was over simplified even for that. Delaney Collins is a unique girl, and her voice fits the character she's portraying. That really rocked. It was just..so simple...and it kind of reminded me of Russell's DORK DIARIES series. But obviously, I still liked it. Just not as much as I'd hoped. ☻
The Cover: I'm pretty alright with the cover of this book, it's extremely pretty. The stars are artistic, and the girl is totally gorgeous. My only complaint is the forest. She was never in the forest. But whatever, you should probably just ignore that last thing because I was just looking for things to complain about.
But, yeah. Overall, I'd give this book 3.5 stars. It was good, and it made me feel content and at ease. I recommend it. (KATHY MCCULLOUGH: Are you in the process of writing more books? I need more!!)
Jul 15, 2013 Chelsey Wolford rated it really liked it
Delaney Collins is an f.g. That stands for “Fairy Godmother.” She hasn’t quite embraced the job yet, and she doesn’t quite know if she ever will. She is only fifteen years old herself, and is still trying to figure out a way to fit in, or should I say blend in, in high school. Not only is Delaney an f.g., but her father is one too. Delaney has already had her first client, Flynn, who ended up being her boyfriend after all was said and done. She is working on developing her line of boots and Delaney Collins is an f.g. That stands for “Fairy Godmother.” She hasn’t quite embraced the job yet, and she doesn’t quite know if she ever will. She is only fifteen years old herself, and is still trying to figure out a way to fit in, or should I say blend in, in high school. Not only is Delaney an f.g., but her father is one too. Delaney has already had her first client, Flynn, who ended up being her boyfriend after all was said and done. She is working on developing her line of boots and holding down a summer job at Treasures, a local secondhand boutique, when she meets another f.g. The only problem with this is, Delaney thought she and her dad were the only ones. Now Delaney has to deal with “Tinker Bell”, as she calls her, whose real name is Ariella. Ariella proves to be a problem for Delaney because she can grant wishes at the drop of a hat, something that Delaney seems to be having trouble with. Delaney is starting to think that she may not be cut out for this whole f.g. lifestyle, and she may be right!
Delaney is still finding out who is right and what she wants from life. This is one reason that I love her character so much. It really feels like I am talking to a fifteen-year-old hormonal teenager. Delaney is quirky and has her own sense of style. I love reading about her boots and her ventures at the secondhand store where she works. In this book more so than the first one in this series, Delaney is trying to separate her life from the f.g. side and the normal teenager side. She is having trouble distinguishing between the two, and this is a battle that readers will enjoy witnessing firsthand.
Ariella sometimes got on my nerves, just as she did Delaney’s, but I think she was a nice change or addition to Delaney’s story. We have Delaney, who I have described a little bit above, and then we have Ariella, who is the absolute opposite of Delaney. She is motivated, enthusiastic, and completely compelled by her call to be an f.g. Delaney often refers to her as “Tinker Bell” and I think this genuinely reflects her personality. She is an interesting secondary character who is meant to be overly cheerful. I commend McCullough on another f.g. I think the concept is just to die for!
***A copy of this book was provided to me by the publishers at Delacorte Press in exchange for my honest review***
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Jun 27, 2014 Ariella rated it really liked it
I love that Kathy McCullough writes magical clean teen fiction!
Fairy godmother (f.g.) Delaney Collins returns in this sequel to Don't Expect Magic. Delaney tries to stay one step ahead of Ariella Patterson, a pink and glitter adorned super f.g., while navigating the untested waters of a new romantic relationship.
As both girls make one bad decision after the other, it becomes difficult to like either of them. But then McCullough reminds the reader of why Delaney is so insecure, and evidence I love that Kathy McCullough writes magical clean teen fiction!
As both girls make one bad decision after the other, it becomes difficult to like either of them. But then McCullough reminds the reader of why Delaney is so insecure, and evidence abounds throughout the book as to Ariella's motivation. The surprise entrance of a new character in Act 3 as well as a poignant reminder of Delaney's motherless status won me over in the end. ...more
Mar 18, 2015 Jenn rated it liked it
A cute and quick read.
I didn't read the first book in the series, maybe I would have liked this book better if I did, but it was something different. The idea of having a fairy godmother is a fun one and there were some interesting aspects to the plot. I would have liked to see more of the relationship between father and daughter, though. I found it intriguing that it was the main character's father that handed down the "powers" and not her mother, that was quite unique...
Overall, it was an A cute and quick read.
Overall, it was an okay read.
Dec 29, 2012 Tabatha marked it as sequels-to-read
This comes out the day before my birthday ! Yay (:
Over & Out, T xx
Feb 25, 2013 Stefanie rated it it was amazing
Shelves: young-adult
This was great. I enjoyed it so much more than the first one. It was perfect.
Sep 19, 2018 Jaime K rated it did not like it · review of another edition
[scratch this line and read the end] 2 stars only because I finished it.
I remembered nothing from the first book. After reading my review, I realize that a lot of people mentioned in the first are barely mentioned here, aside from Delaney’s family and boyfriend Flynn.
The book is pretty much about using people for your own ends, and to “win” against “competition.” It’s about weaving lies and egotism in order to get your way.
Oh, and it’s about changing people and forcing them to do what you want [scratch this line and read the end] 2 stars only because I finished it.
Oh, and it’s about changing people and forcing them to do what you want them to do, despite their desires/protests.
Frankly, the book pissed me off, and I wanted to punch Delaney.
McCullough has some major issues with New Jersey, because any time the state was brought it, it was to slander it. Oh the summers are TOO HUMID (even though it’s not typically that awful around Independence Day)...any nice day is likely TO BE RUINED by bad weather, so why even enjoy the good?
As with the first book, these kids act older than 15/16, and have responsibilities that make no sense. For example, Flynn has an internship at a paper that pays for him to go to such-and-such a place to photograph a story. At 15 or 16?
I’m all for binary genders, but McCullough is nauseating to me. “...BFFS (male and female)...” Why does the gender matter? Was that necessary?
And that wasn’t the only time a M/F issue was brought up.
What is up with Delaney’s derogatory thoughts towards locals?
Why is she forcing her new client (Jeni) to admit a love for a person, when the fairy godmother stuff is about love in general and not towards only humans.
Why does f.g. have to even be about love? I guess deep wishes are “I would love to have…” but it’s just again too boxed in.
Is it really necessary for Delaney to mentally look down on Jeni’s clothes if they are HER?
WHY DOES “HELP GET IN THE WAY” ALL THE TIME?!
Then Delaney forces Jeni to do karaoke then balks when Jeni drags her up on stage for a duet. It’s a crap feeling, isn’t it *itch?
Delaney meets another f.g.--a 14-year-old named Ariella with an attitude problem that she seems to get from her mother, because even mom scoffs at some of what Delaney says.
Overall, the book shows what is wrong for teenagers. And now I’m just angry after writing this so to spite the book, I’m making it 1 star. ...more
Jan 21, 2019 Russell Ricard rated it really liked it
Charming follow up read to McCullough’s first novel Don't Expect Magic. I'll echo as I said of the first novel: This is a witty voice carried forth by a quirky and badass narrator, fifteen-year old Delaney. The continued fascinating magical elements, comedy of errors/identity, and the exploration of growing pains as they relate to romance and life decisions are fun to follow. So, too, particularly interesting is the further development of the father-daughter relationship dynamic and the Charming follow up read to McCullough’s first novel Don't Expect Magic. I'll echo as I said of the first novel: This is a witty voice carried forth by a quirky and badass narrator, fifteen-year old Delaney. The continued fascinating magical elements, comedy of errors/identity, and the exploration of growing pains as they relate to romance and life decisions are fun to follow. So, too, particularly interesting is the further development of the father-daughter relationship dynamic and the underlying role that grief plays in everything—teenager Delaney having to also deal with her mother’s death. As well, McCullough introduces a rival/antagonist in this second book that is fun to read. As well, the romance development/complications for Delaney (the protagonist) and character introduced in the first novel is fun to read. Finally, I appreciate the universal, pointed issue: In life and love is what happens to us, including what we deem “fairytale” magical, the result of outside forces? Or is what’s in our heart the real magic? ...more
May 14, 2017 Ayra Chang rated it it was ok
More of a 2.5 star.
The concept wasn't really innovative,and the background story wasn't exactly intriguing. I would give a 2 star for that.
The main character was realistic in some aspects I suppose, but was so dumb in her actions that I couldn't stand her. At first she was tolerable, but then she seemed like a total bitch, which totally pissed me off. I mean, how self-centered and stupid could a person get? As for the other characters, they were all right. So I give this book 1.5 stars More of a 2.5 star.
The main character was realistic in some aspects I suppose, but was so dumb in her actions that I couldn't stand her. At first she was tolerable, but then she seemed like a total bitch, which totally pissed me off. I mean, how self-centered and stupid could a person get? As for the other characters, they were all right. So I give this book 1.5 stars character-wise.
The thing that this book had me was the authors metaphors. She's great at weaving beautiful sentences in an effortless manner and her way of description was quirky and fun(though sometimes a little bit over the top), so I give this book 3.5 stars regarding its writing.
Overall, it wasn't a HORRIBLE book, but it wasn't one of my fav reads either. I give it a 2.5 stars in general.
Feb 05, 2013 Richa rated it liked it
Shelves: for-review, own-physical-copy
Originally posted at City of Books
I really loved the first book in this series, Don't Expect Magic. That being said, I enjoyed reading this one too, but unfortunately not as much as its predecessor. It's definitely got the same tone to it, though - fun and light. Delaney is still as awesome as always, and this book definitely has more of a focus on her and the development of her powers.
Who Needs Magic? is set during the summer after Delaney discovers she's a fairy godmother. She's going out with Originally posted at City of Books
Who Needs Magic? is set during the summer after Delaney discovers she's a fairy godmother. She's going out with Flynn, and she's all excited about her next prospective client. But things don't go as planned. Flynn is drifting away, and Delaney finds a rival f.g. - Ariella. Delaney does eventually get a new client, but her job as an f.g. seems to be taking over her life. Flynn is pushed further away, and Delaney is left wondering whether she really is an inferior f.g. like Ariella says.
Delaney's really taking the boot-making thing seriously, and she works on her designs while at her summer job in Treasures. But inspiration is lacking and meeting Ariella complicates things. Soon, it's a competition between the two, since - whadaya know - Ariella's client, Fawn, is after the same guy Delaney's is. I didn't like how Delaney didn't confide in anyone about her new client. She could have told Flynn or her dad instead of letting her pride get in the way. But she's independent, and I admired her determination to get what she wants. It's what I like most about Delaney, in fact. Apart from her awesome sense of style.
One thing I was disappointed about is that we don't get to see much of Flynn. I loved him in the first book, and I thought we'd get to find out more about him in this. Sadly, he's absent most of the time, and his relationship with Delaney is quite rocky sometimes. Nevertheless, whatever we do see of him is great. He's still the same - goofy and adorable. He's been hiding stuff from Delaney too, and if only they'd both trusted each other more, they could have avoided a lot of problems.
There are a few new characters in this book - the primary one being Ariella, whom I of course hated. She's the total opposite of Delaney, and therefore the total opposite of me. Since I'm a lot like Delaney. Ariella is the princess type, pink and glittery and bubbly. But very devious too. She really got on my nerves, and I was astonished at Delaney's self-control. I would have punched this chick in the face pretty soon after meeting her!
I really liked Jeni, though - Delaney's new client. She's really shy at first, but she gains confidence thanks to her f.g., and she has a hidden talent too. Another new character I loved is Lourdes, whom Delaney meets at the mall and befriends because they have the same snarky attitude. She's straightforward and blunt, and definitely makes things fun. She also seems like a really loyal friend to have, so I'm glad Delaney found her.
The entire novel is mostly set in the mall where Delaney works, since that's where she meets Jeni every day. I preferred the high school setting of Don't Expect Magic, since it was unique and definitely interesting, while the setting of this one got a little monotonous after a while.
Overall, I loved reading more about Delaney and her powers, because it's certainly a unique concept. There are more relationships formed, like Delaney's friendship with Jeni and even her dad's relationship with his girlfriend Gina, whom we met in the first book. The pacing is great, and there weren't any dull bits for me. Although I also missed Posh, Delaney's friend form back home. We don't get much of her in this book either. So even though this wasn't an awesome read for me like the previous book was, I think if you like lower YA and fantasy, you should check out this series.
*Thank you to Kathy McCullough for sending a copy for review* ...more
Jul 16, 2016 Emma rated it liked it
Delaney Collins is ready to embrace her inner fairy godmother (f. g.) and grant some big wishes. But three months after granting her first big wish, Delaney is no closer to finding her next client.
Aside from the f. g. confusion, Delaney has high hopes for her summer. She'll get to spend more quality (read: alone) time with her boyfriend, Flynn. She's working at a fantastic vintage store with tons of boots she can re-make and re-style. She's even getting along better with her father despite his Delaney Collins is ready to embrace her inner fairy godmother (f. g.) and grant some big wishes. But three months after granting her first big wish, Delaney is no closer to finding her next client.
Aside from the f. g. confusion, Delaney has high hopes for her summer. She'll get to spend more quality (read: alone) time with her boyfriend, Flynn. She's working at a fantastic vintage store with tons of boots she can re-make and re-style. She's even getting along better with her father despite his tendency to shift into self-help speak and his total lack of help in sharing his f. g. magic-wish-granting ways.
Unfortunately, while Delaney knows that wishes do come true, her dreams of a great summer do not. Flynn is distant, her father is distracted, and Delaney's powers remain frustratingly mysterious.
When Delaney meets Ariella--an f. g. with a lot more experience (and power)--Delaney starts to feel even more uncertain about her own magic abilities. Delaney will have to work hard to harness her powers and make sense of her life if she wants to get her summer back on track in Who Needs Magic? (2013) by Kathy McCullough.
Who Needs Magic? is the sequel to McCullough's debut novel Don't Expect Magic.
Delaney is a tough-talking, no-nonsense girl. She is sarcastic and she wears all black. This contrast between Delaney's exterior and her fairy-godmother background continues to provide a lot of humor (and some snark) in this second installment.
Delaney's mother has been dead for longer in this novel, but her grief is sometimes still fresh. McCullough handles Delaney's mixed feelings about her new life thoughtfully and honestly to create an authentic portrayal of a girl who is still trying to find her way.
Who Needs Magic? is introspective as Delaney tries to balance her personal life with her wish-granting. Moments where she tries to figure out what comes next now that she and Flynn are actually dating add another dimension to this story.
While Who Needs Magic? is a lot of fun, it's sadly not quite as endearing as Don't Expect Magic. Delaney loses some of her focus and forward momentum in the face of self-doubt and insecurity forcing her to relearn some important lessons about trusting herself.
Who Needs Magic? is a fun addition to a previously self-contained story. Recommended for fans of the first book. Check out this series if you are fan of fractured and remixed fairy tale tropes.
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Dec 27, 2012 Kristina (Gone Pecan) rated it really liked it
Shelves: arc, reviewed
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Overall Thoughts:
I reviewed book one Don’t Expect Magic and loved it so I was grateful that I was able to receive an ARC for book two. While you definitely see more of Delaney that’s pretty much the only person you see for the entire book. I would definitely have liked more interaction, whether it was with her family, Flynn (EEP), or her new friends. With that being said I still loved the story and it was super cute with Full review can be found at:
I reviewed book one Don’t Expect Magic and loved it so I was grateful that I was able to receive an ARC for book two. While you definitely see more of Delaney that’s pretty much the only person you see for the entire book. I would definitely have liked more interaction, whether it was with her family, Flynn (EEP), or her new friends. With that being said I still loved the story and it was super cute with several LOL moments. I’d recommend this to anyone who has read the first book, or someone who likes a more light-hearted, fun, PG story line.
Oct 08, 2013 Tess Budig rated it really liked it
Shelves: english-1
The characters Delaney, Ariella, Jeni and Flynn make the book really good. Her hometown seems fun and wild. I thought that when Ariella, the uber f.g (fairy godmother) came and took all Delaney's patients (the people that Delaney does wishes for.) But when Ariella comes and wants to take all Delaney's friends and tries to be her friend, I thought that Ariella was basically being two-faced. What really made me mad was when Ariella stabbed Delaney and harmed Delaney's life. She made Delaney and The characters Delaney, Ariella, Jeni and Flynn make the book really good. Her hometown seems fun and wild. I thought that when Ariella, the uber f.g (fairy godmother) came and took all Delaney's patients (the people that Delaney does wishes for.) But when Ariella comes and wants to take all Delaney's friends and tries to be her friend, I thought that Ariella was basically being two-faced. What really made me mad was when Ariella stabbed Delaney and harmed Delaney's life. She made Delaney and her boyfriend separate, made her friends hate her and her mom mad at her. I thought this book was good and had good details but as I was reading there was some confusing parts. I had to read a lot more to fully understand what was happening. ...more
Dec 27, 2013 A. rated it liked it
First of all, it was incredibly irritating to realize that this was a sequel. There was no indication anywhere on the cover or introductory pages that this was a sequel (I know, because I always carefully check)... but when I was a few pages in it began to be obvious. It didn't detract from the story at all, but it would have been nice to know. I think, based on what I picked up about the first novel, that I would not have liked it much. This one was mostly "meh" for me, amusing at times, silly First of all, it was incredibly irritating to realize that this was a sequel. There was no indication anywhere on the cover or introductory pages that this was a sequel (I know, because I always carefully check)... but when I was a few pages in it began to be obvious. It didn't detract from the story at all, but it would have been nice to know. I think, based on what I picked up about the first novel, that I would not have liked it much. This one was mostly "meh" for me, amusing at times, silly at others, and occasionally kind of sweet. Nothing deep or meaningful, but I am pregnant and sick, so... you read what you have. ...more
Jan 17, 2016 Anelise rated it liked it
Shelves: reviewed
Who Needs Magic? is a good read. This book, like the first book, was fluffy. It was less fluffy than the first, but I still think it’s fluffy. In my opinion, Who Needs Magic? is written better than Don’t Expect Magic. The plot however, in my opinion was not that great.
The basic plot is that two people with the f.g battle in seeing who could grant their client’s wish. I mean, really? I just didn’t like the plot that much. What can I say? This book was interesting enough for me to not abandon it, Who Needs Magic? is a good read. This book, like the first book, was fluffy. It was less fluffy than the first, but I still think it’s fluffy. In my opinion, Who Needs Magic? is written better than Don’t Expect Magic. The plot however, in my opinion was not that great.
The basic plot is that two people with the f.g battle in seeing who could grant their client’s wish. I mean, really? I just didn’t like the plot that much. What can I say? This book was interesting enough for me to not abandon it, but still.
Besides the plot, I really liked the story. The characters were interesting enough, and I liked everything else about the book. ...more
Dec 30, 2014 Eleanork2 rated it did not like it
Who Needs Magic? is a horribly written novel that lacked important morals and themes. It is about a teenage fairy godmother that has a TERRIBLE problem, because she doesn’t have anyone for her to grant a wish for! Oh no! The HORROR!!! This book has absolutely no point to it, and it has a really weird ending. I honestly think the main character was really unintelligent, selfish, and spoiled. Often times, I find that it is really hard to like a book if you don’t respect the protagonist. Why I Who Needs Magic? is a horribly written novel that lacked important morals and themes. It is about a teenage fairy godmother that has a TERRIBLE problem, because she doesn’t have anyone for her to grant a wish for! Oh no! The HORROR!!! This book has absolutely no point to it, and it has a really weird ending. I honestly think the main character was really unintelligent, selfish, and spoiled. Often times, I find that it is really hard to like a book if you don’t respect the protagonist. Why I actually finished this book is still a mystery to me.
Oct 06, 2013 Brianna rated it liked it
Shelves: reviewed, young-adult
Starting off I thought many of the characters were extremely self-centered and annoying, but as you get into the story I started seeing more to who they were. I think some chapters were a little drawn out, but others were just right. The story itself was different and fun. The book very good enough to keep my interest, but it also could have used a little more... something to drag me in. Not so amazing you are speechless, but good.
Aug 02, 2013 Diana rated it liked it
Shelves: magic, fairy-tales, paranormal, teen
Delaney is eager to find her next big client, but is disappointed when no one appears. Meanwhile, she meets an over-zealous f.g. her own age who is far more proficient at wish-granting than she is.
Delaney's quest to become a great f.g. continues, and has many twists. A lot of the plot was perhaps easy to foresee, but it was fairly realistic (magic aside), and gave a good look into Delaney's thoughts. I also was happy to see her finally coming to terms with her mother's death as well.
Aug 26, 2013 Jen rated it it was ok
Shelves: young-adult, fantasy
Two fairy godmothers get into a battle while trying to grant their "beneficiaries" their wishes. However, is it really magic that is going to help these people?
The book couldn't hold my attention and the ending was so picture perfect.........too good to be true.
Sep 16, 2014 Jessica rated it liked it
Cute book. Something different.
Jan 16, 2013 Brandee Terry rated it liked it
Another quick and easy read. I liked the story and the characters.
Jan 16, 2016 Reader Girl rated it liked it
It wasn't as good as the first, but it was still fun because the concept of a real-life fairy godmother is so unique.
Oct 05, 2013 Colette rated it it was amazing
Even better than the first book!
Jul 12, 2013 Heather rated it really liked it
I really like this series. It's light-hearted, but smart. While addressing heavy issues, a strong sense of humor is evident throughout.
Aug 30, 2013 Chloe rated it liked it
Shelves: to-be-reviewed, books-i-own, 2013-releases, 3-stars, finished-copy
****Review to Come****
Jun 13, 2016 Rebecca rated it liked it
Shelves: owned-and-gotten-rid-of, 2016-wrap-up
Not as good as the first. Reads a little slower, and I got frustrated with a lot of the characters. It did have a good ending, and a good meaning to the story.
Aug 24, 2013 Katie Rogers rated it liked it
Fun read but Delaney is not one of my fav teen heroines.
Fantasy > Magic
Fantasy > Fairy Tales
About Kathy McCullough
Kathy McCullough
I'm a novelist and screenwriter living in L.A., author of Don't Expect Magic and its sequel Who Needs Magic?
Magic (2 books)
Books by Kathy McCullough
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Quotes from Who Needs Magic?
“I’m not alone now either. The world is all around me. People leave, but there are always more coming. The catch is that you have to open the door to let them in.” — 1 likes
“Although the facts are technically fiction. But they're only called fiction by the people who don't know the facts.” — 0 likes
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Hulu's Working On A Show Of Their Own: Die, Cable Providers, Die
Adrian Covert
Hulu just put out a casting call in search of hosts for a new clip show they have in the works. While seemingly innocuous, could this be the birth of the internet's first major TV studio/broadcaster?
According to All Things D, Hulu's new show will reportedly run five minutes per episode and appear daily on the site, aiming to capture the day's events in internet and TV culture. Basically, it wants to be a bite-sized version The Soup/Web Soup/Tosh.0.
Like Fast Company says, this isn't the most original idea for a show in any medium, but no other internet-centric company/studio doing stuff this has Hulu's reach or resources. And should Hulu find that they have an audience for original content, it's not so unfeasible to see them dive headfirst into the content production world, especially with the networks and cable providers getting increasingly hostile about internet TV. [All Things D via Fast Company]
Elon Musk: A New Life Awaits You On The Off-World Colonies -- For A Price
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by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute
One year later, MTV follows up with fired gay Christian student
Last year's VMA's inspired Stephen Lovegrove to go public about being a gay Christian, a decision which cost him his job at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina. For this year's VMA's, MTV did a follow up with Stephen, diving further into how his life has changed, and some of the causes that are important to him.
by Alexandra Bolles, Associate Director, Campaigns & External Engagement
Reporting erases bi presence, community members at executive order signing
Though GLAAD reported on the role of bi community leaders on the historic day, bi advocates noted that most coverage from other outlets, including the Washington Post and the LA Times, referred to the executive order as an act for gay and transgender Americans, which is great, but unfortunately failed to recognize the "b" folks as well.
Obama historically joined by trans and gay faith leaders, bi advocates in signing executive order
The legislation itself was not the only part of the day to make history; the guest list broke ground, too.
by Jay Pulitano, Faith Issues Intern
Faith leaders urge President Obama to minimize religious exemption for protection against LGBT discrimination
On July 8, over a hundred high-level faith leaders from diverse religious traditions signed and sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to minimize religious exemptions in his upcoming executive order protecting LGBT people from discrimination.
SC police chief reinstated, investigation launched into town hall after mayor tried to oust her for being a lesbian
Despite an anti-gay mayor's best effort to grasp at straw, a lesbian police chief of more than twenty years has been reinstated to her rightful position with the support of her community and town council.
by Brian Teets, Legal Intern
The Hobby Lobby ruling and what it means for you
The Supreme Court delivered a historic opinion yesterday, and it very well could affect you.
South Carolina cop fired, re-hired, then fired again for being a lesbian
Celebrations were cut short yesterday as Mayor Bullard hired a new police chief to replace fired police chief Crystal Moore just before he was stripped of his political powers, and just after a council-imposed 60-day waiting period to hire a replacement.
Obama to sign executive action for workplace LGBT equality
President Obama is expected to sign the order, but it is unknown when he will do so.
LGBT Catholics & allies are being unjustly fired and have asked the Pope to talk to them about it
Signed by nine teachers who have been forced from jobs at Catholic schools for identifying as LGBT or being an ally to the community, an open letter has been delivered to the Vatican by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Worthy speculation: Will Joe Biden prompt LGBT employment non-discrimination?
Joe Biden has told Huffington Post reporter, Jennifer Bendery, that he sees "no downside" to an executive order on LGBT employment protections. What does that mean for an executive order?
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IT Firm Uses 'Reverse Outsourcing' to Boost Employment in Iowa
Ames, IA - One Iowa Internet technology firm is taking advantage of a type of "reverse outsourcing" to grow its company and the number of professionals it employs within this state.
Global Reach, with headquarters in Ames and an office in Des Moines, opened offices in Cyprus and South Korea nearly two years ago. The goal was to fuel the technology/design workload carried in Iowa with new clients overseas.
"It's an idea that is working," noted Iacovos Zachariades, President and CEO. "In opening those international offices, we created new positions for each. Those employees engage new customers and nurture relationships, old and new. They represent us internationally in order to bring in additional clients and projects. This project expansion has increased our need here in Iowa for higher-end professionals. We are bucking the trend of losing jobs to outsourcing."
Global Reach employs 15 programmers, graphic designers, and systems engineers, as well as support personnel in its Ames and Des Moines offices. Three years ago, before showing an international face, it was a company of 5 professionals.
"We're competitive in new markets because we can leverage the programs we create to give us an advantage," said Zachariades.
Zachariades said future plans include opening additional offices in several Iowa cities and in other countries plus, the subsequent increase in professional jobs at the Ames site. The company has major clients in such Iowa cities as Mason City, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Manchester, Carroll, and Knoxville.
New offices and new clients are only part of the international activity that's proven to be a mainstay of Global Reach's growth. The firm develops innovative website, intranet, extranet, and e-commerce technologies. SiteViz, for example, is a powerful, affordable content management solution package with which businesses can create, manage, and update their website content. SiteViz, created by Global Reach, is available in seven different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. The program was developed and tested in Ames and is sold out of company offices around the world.
"The Global Reach strategy lies in creating web-based applications that meet business needs," said Dale Bentlage, Vice President of Business Development in Des Moines. In the last two years, Global Reach introduced such applications as Property Fusion, a website content management solution specifically for the real estate industry, Inviewsion, an online survey analysis tool, and eGlobal Stores, for businesses to manage sales.
The company also shores up international capabilities through internships, employing two to four Iowa State University graduate or undergraduate students at a time. "These students get to actually work on IT projects and learn how to apply what they are learning. Our staff members also serve as mentors for them," said Zachariades.
Bentlage added that some of the students are multi-lingual, adding new knowledge to ongoing projects; and some are international students "who open our minds to how we might expand in other countries." Several of the students have returned to their home countries and continued to work for Global Reach.
"Our main goal in international expansion is to grow our company and expand job potential in Iowa," said Zachariades. "We began here; we like it here, and we'll succeed here."
Iacovos Zachariades
Global Reach Internet Productions
Email: iacovos@globalreach.com
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Kohala hires longtime assistant Kihei Kapeliela as boys hoops coach
By Paul Honda on October 22, 2019 | Boys basketball, Featured
Former player and longtime assistant coach Kihei Kapeliela is the new boys basketball head coach at Kohala. Paul Honda/Star-Advertiser
The time is right, and Kihei Kapeliela is ready.
The former Kohala Cowboy player is the new varsity boys basketball head coach, taking over the reins from longtime coach Donn Fernandez, who retired recently. Kapeliela was a junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant for 11 years under Fernandez.
Expectations for a small school with a strong basketball tradition are high. All but two of last year’s varsity players will return from a team that was 13-5 and reached the state tourney despite having seven players who were freshmen and sophomores. The Cowboys defeated D-I programs Hilo and Konawaena, lost to Waiakea and eventual BIIF D-II champion Hawaii Prep.
The roster also includes some second-generation hoopsters whose fathers were part of the 1990s run of success. Back then, there was no Division II, but the running Cowboys gave the bigger schools — Hilo, Waiakea, Konawaena — more than enough competition.
Kapeliela played for Roland Perez and Earl Viloria. Joe Mattos coached before Kapeliela was on the varsity, and returned later.
“Coach Donn and Coach James (Marquez) pretty much taught me everything. When I first started coaching, I thought I knew a lot, but I didn’t. The only way I know is their style, helping the kids become better people instead of just better basketball players,” said Kapeliela, who was in Honolulu on Monday.
He accompanied his father, Boonda, who was here to undergo a medical procedure.
Oshen Cazimero, a BIIF D-II co-player of the year as a freshman last season, is among the long list of returnees. Koby Agbayani is another potential four-year letterman, as is La‘akea Kauka, a 6-foot-1 wing. He is the son of Lawrence Kauka, one of the most athletic and productive scorers in school history. Cazimero, Agbayani and Kauka are sophomores.
The junior returnees are cousinsMolonai Emeliano and Moses Emeliano, and Jeffrey Francisco. Molonai is a son of Kalei Emeliano and Moses is a son of Keone Emeliano. Brothers Kalei and Keone Emeliano, an all-BIIF forward and player of the year, respectively, were part of the early ‘90s Cowboys run-and-gun squads that scored often scored in the 80s against the BIIF’s best.
The lone senior returnee is Elijah Antonio.
The generational ties are along the lines of coaching ties. Cazimero’s father, Reeve, was a blur-quick point guard for the Cowboys who now coaches boys and girls basketball at the youth level. Lawrence Kauka also coaches with Cazimero and Kapeliela for NSP, the longtime club team from Kohala district.
“We’ve got a lot of young talent for the next few years, even the JV program. We’ve got about nine freshmen coming up,” Kapeliela said. “All the way down to Lawrence’s kids, they’re sixth to eighth grade, coming up the feeder program.
The Cowboys, via NSP, have accumulated plenty of offseason experience. They teamed up with a Kailua-Kona club Shut-D — coached by former Kohala point guard and current Kealakehe varsity head coach Benny Alcoran — in off-island and mainland tournaments.
“We’ve always been small. Coach Donn always had this saying. You’ve got two choices. Grow or get faster. So we had to get faster. It’s the only way I know how to coach. Defense is first. Defense is everything. I’m excited. Lot of pressure. Big shoes to fill, but I’m ready.
With the school gym renovated and finally open again, the Cowboys are rejuvenated.
“Our fans always expect a lot. The fans at Kohala are the best. When we have a good team, we have a big (Hisaoka) gym, the gym is packed. When we go to states, it’s like we’re playing at home. A lot of black and gold in the crowd. Real supportive. That’s why being the coach of Kohala basketball is a lot of pressure, but I’m ready. I’m ready to compete for the championship.”
The cream of the crop in BIIF D-I was surprised by Kohala last season.
“Last year we caught a lot of people by surprise having a lot of freshmen and sophomores. There’s a lot of senior-heavy teams this year. Kamehameha-Hawaii. Hilo’s pretty young, but they’ve got a good team,” Kapeliela said. “Shesley Martinez, Wes’ son, transferred back to Hilo. Waiakea is good, too. I know we’re competing in Division II, but we want to win.”
The round-robin schedule allows all teams, D-I and D-II to meet each other at least once in the regular season. Kapeliela expects Hawaii Prep to make a strong defense of its BIIF D-II title.
“They’re bringing in a few kids from overseas. I’m not sure. I think one graduated and I heard the other tall kid left. They’re tough. They’ve got a couple of local kids who are tough,” he said.
Among them is an NSP player, Javan Perez.
“(Hawaii Prep) has Javan, the Walker boys (Kelsen-Jaye and Tre). They’ve got athletes over there and great coaching,” Kapeliela said.
Honokaa lost a strong senior class to graduation, but will compete hard.
“Honokaa’s young. You never know. Jayme (Carvalho) is a great coach. He brings out the best in them,” Kapeliela said. “Pahoa has one really good player, Damon Romero. About 6-2 with an outside game. He could be playing at the next level.”
Ka‘u, long dormant, is starting to benefit from the year-round training of a feeder club, Hokulele.
“What Ravel (Kaupu) is doing down there with the club, I give them a lot of credit,” Kapeliela said.
He also expects a major battle with Konawaena.
“Konawaena’s got a big team. Donny (Awa) is a great coach. If they have a weakness, he can hide it. They’ve got at least three kids, 6-3 to 6-4. They’re going to be right there,” Kapeliela said.
“Kealakehe, Benny has a lot of good athletes. He’s doing good with that program,” he added. “You never know. The calls, anything can happen, foul trouble. It’s wide open, I think.”
Robert Kauka October 23, 2019 6:45 am
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Wargaming Forum and Wargamer Forums > Fiction, Art and Roleplay Game Discussion > Black Library Book Reviews > BLACK LIBRARY REVIEW - Dante by Guy Haley
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BLACK LIBRARY REVIEW - Dante by Guy Haley
Lord of the Night reviews the captivating origin story of one of the Imperium’s greatest heroes, Dante by Guy Haley.
“A captivating and true origin story that not only explores the humble beginnings of one of 40k’s most recognizable heroes, but also gives his Chapter a much needed injection of background. One of Haley’s best works yet!” – Lord of the Night
Dante is a novel that I was interested in from the instant it was revealed, a little because the Blood Angels are my favourites of the Imperium, but mainly it was because Dante has never been the focus of a novel before. True he’s had plenty of cameos here and there, some short story appearances, and he was a side-character in the novel Red Tide by James Swallow, but we’ve never seen inside his head before now. I expected a novel that would tell Dante's story through flashbacks, showing some pivotal moments while the focus would be a battle set in the present day. So I was completely surprised by instead getting an epic journey that took me from Dante's humble beginnings to the legend of 40k, it felt as if I walked through Dante's life with him. This combined with some revealing lore additions and explanations about the Blood Angels and Dante becomes one of the best novel releases from Black Library so far this year.
Dante, Lord Commander of the Blood Angels. A name that is known across the galaxy as a paragon of virtue, a byword for heroism and valour that brings hope to the beleaguered in an age of darkness and insanity. But even this legend was once a young mortal boy who looked into the sky of his broken home-world and dreamed of being an angel in service to the God-Emperor. As Dante reminisces on his earliest days, those days when he trekked across the desolate surface of Baal Secundus and faced the Trial of Angels, when he rose to become an angel and came face to face with the darker nature of the ascended, and the battles that made him who he is one-thousand and four hundred years later, he wonders how much longer both he and the Imperium can endure as the end of days approach.
Dante is I think a first for Black Library as it is a true origin story. We’ve had flashbacks to a character’s beginnings in previous novels and excerpts from their past in short stories and the like, but we’ve never had a novel that was solely devoted to showing how the hero became the hero, and not just how they rose in whichever Chapter/regiment/etc that they belong to, but how they got there as well. Dante is a truly character driven story and it works because it’s never been done before, the whole point of the novel is to tell Dante’s story, and one of the best parts of this is that Haley sticks to it throughout. There’s no battle to provide the main story with Dante’s past as the secondary offering, the book is his and everything that happens is secondary to the overall story of his life. Haley chooses just the right moments to focus on though, Dante’s life as a young boy receives the most exploration as it is fundamental to who he is, and we also see his early days as a Space Marine and how they further shaped him. But this isn’t just an origin story, it also shows Dante in the current time and gives the reader a long-awaited look into just how Dante views everything around him and how he deals with the myth that has been created around him. With this kind of novel it’s critical that the character be interesting, and Haley has definitely achieved that, but it’s not just Dante that makes this an interesting book. We learn a lot more about the Blood Angels as a Chapter, get the first real look at their home-worlds that we’ve ever had, and a glimpse into their future that will have readers on edge to see where the Blood Angels are going, and it’s these things in addition to Dante that really captivated me throughout the book.
With the character cast Haley keeps true to the focus of this novel, Dante is the only main character and he’s also the only POV, which I think was necessary as any others would have detracted from the whole point of the story, which is exploring Dante as a man and his past. Dante himself is a fascinating character, like others in the 41st millennium he is a hero to billions, an ideal to strive to, a name that reminds you there are still good guys in the grim darkness. But where Dante differs is not just the fact that even among these heroes he stands out due to his venerable age of one-thousand four-hundred years old, but the fact that he is aware of it and doesn’t deny it. Not from vainglory, but the knowledge that people need heroes to give them hope, and he takes that on as a duty as sacred as battle, to inspire those around him and keep them fighting even in the face of death. But that kind of weight takes its toll and it produces a really complex character, Dante has doubts that he can never show, he struggles with the feelings of hopelessness but must bring hope to others, he feels his age every day but must appear ageless, and he wonders at the point of it all but must convince others exactly what that point is. After some thought I find that where Dante’s outlook truly differs from other characters is that his can resonate with the fans, he has seen more than any human (except for a certain Dreadnought) still alive and un-daemonic and he wonders if there is any hope left, any reason to keep going when it just seems to be so unrelentingly grim, and fans can wonder the same thing. For that reason it really feels meaningful when Dante thinks these things, but still puts on the mask and goes on, despite wishing he could stop. Haley takes the myth of Dante and reveals him as the man he really is, and while for some that may make him less interesting, for me it only makes him more so and I would definitely pick up anything that features Dante as a protagonist again.
The action scenes in the book are few in number, as I have said above Dante is a character-driven story and doesn’t rely on battle sequences to provide breaks from story and character development. But it’s a 40k novel and having no fighting at all would be weird. Haley pits the Blood Angels against a few foes in Dante’s recollections and he does capture the assault-focused doctrines of the Chapter in the scenes where such a strategy would work, but the best part for me was that Haley managed to get the right balance of Space Marine indomitability and casualties, the Marines feel like powerhouses that can take on waves of enemies, but enough fall to remind us that they are not immortal. It’s a tough balance to strike, too few marines die and they seem unbeatable, too many die and you wonder how a company of one-hundred of these guys is meant to be enough to take on armies, but Haley does it well here. Really the most striking part was that even the battle sequences serve as character building for Dante, his leaping into every fray and making sure to be seen by friend and foe alike is another part of the myth he has built, it’s not often that battle serves as character exposition, so it’s quite enjoyable here.
It’s a surprising fact to realize but despite the fact that they currently have their own separate Codex, have had multiple Black Library books written about them in the past, and are without doubt one of the five most popular Space Marine Chapters in 40k, the Blood Angels have a strange lack of background information beyond what we’d expect. We know their battles, special units, characters and history, but unlike the Ultramarines and Dark Angels we didn’t know what their homeworlds are like, what their Fortress-Monastery’s name is, what they do day to day, and even the tidbits we did know we never really saw, like their supposed passion for artistic endeavours. But Haley doesn’t just explore Dante here, he gives the Blood Angels all these things and more. We finally find out what the wastelands of Baal are like, see the beautiful halls of Arx Angelicum, learn about the Angel’s Graces and Warrior’s Virtues, and much more. It’s this and the superb character story that makes Dante such a compelling novel to read and substitutes for the lack of focus paid to battle scenes, really all of this just makes this novel more of a mandatory reading requirement for anyone who calls themselves a Blood Angels fan. Anyone can enjoy this book, but a true 40k and Blood Angels fan will enjoy it all the more.
Dante is quite a sedately paced read for a Black Library book, since it relies so much on being a character story rather than a battle focused one, the story keeps to mostly the same pace throughout, moving along through Dante’s life at the same pace he does. Because of this the book is quite an easy read, one that had me turning the page eagerly to know what came next. At around 300 pages Dante is about the average size for a Black Library book, but this is a novel where I dearly wanted more pages just so we could see more of Dante’s long life and travails through one-thousand four-hundred years of unending warfare against the alien, mutant and heretic, but what we got is enough and I finished Dante in a good amount of time for my own reading speed (around two days I believe).
My favourite quote is one that I find nicely sums up what Dante believes and why he keeps striving to be what everyone perceives him to be,
“Hope is not always enough, Corbulo, but while there is blood, there is strength.”
The ending to Dante is not really an ending since Dante’s own story is far from over, as the man himself often thinks, but Haley closes the novel off on a nice note that I think can apply to the real world as much as it does 40k. Much more is to come in the future for both Dante and the Sons of Sanguinius and Haley teases some of it, and judging by information floating around on the internet is also writing it in a future Space Marines Battles novel, The Devastation of Baal. But with Dante the point, as I have said above, is to explore Dante and Haley more than achieves that by the end, we understand a lot more about Dante than we ever have and the Blood Angels have gained a great deal of background information that only make them more compelling. Now all we can do is wait for the aforementioned sequel and imagine what comes next.
On the whole I would give Dante by Guy Haley a score of 9.5/10. As I said above, if you consider yourself a fan of the Sons of Sanguinius, this is a novel that you must read. It expands on the world of the Angels wonderfully and contains an incredibly compelling character story that will pull you in and keep you there until the end, and even then you’ll want to know what comes next. It’s quite a different sort of book than what usually comes from Black Library and it’s a great sign that they can release a book like Dante, we can hope that more such stories that focus on making the characters more than just extracts of lore and minor side-stories rather than flashy battles and are on their way. So in summation I would give Dante a rank of Excellent.
Well that’s it for this review. Thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far, until next time,
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Rocker Dudes vs. Designing Moms
Rocker dudes, Dave and Ryan are throwing down against designing moms Charlotte and Jill in a battle for Total Flea Market Domination. The verbal jabs start flying between these two competitive teams while shopping at the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Here, they'll have only one hour, and $500 to purchase 3 projects, including unexpected seating, creating a "funk-tional" piece, and a reimagine project. Next the teams head into the workshop, where the sparks continue to fly as they makeover their pieces in the hopes of raking in big profits at New York City's Antiques Garage. The team that comes out on top takes home $5000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market expert and Good Morning America Co-Anchor Lara Spencer.
Bustin' Up and Bustin' Out
Brooklyn buddies Anthony and Jack go up against cute and crafty lovebirds Cole and Kelly. Both teams get one hour and a $500 budget to race through the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts to shop for design projects that feature chic storage, busted design, and a dining project. The teams then head into the workshop to bust out their pieces, while busting each other's chops. In the end, they'll take their reimagined finds to New York City's Antiques Garage, where the team that makes the biggest profit wins $5000. Hosted by Designer and Good Morning America Co-Anchor Lara Spencer.
It's About Flipping Time!
Style Hunters Mar and Paul go up against the competitive husband and wife team of Ian and Amanda. Each team is given a $500 budget to find, fix-up and flip items purchased at the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. They'll have only one hour to hunt and haggle for bargains, as they shop for projects featuring industrial design, color theory, and transforming an "ugly duckling" piece. Both teams then get to work fixing up their finds in the workshop, in the hopes of raking in the dough at NYC's Antiques Garage. One team transforms an antique carriage wheel into a massive wall clock, but will it turn a tidy profit? The team that makes the most off their pieces wins $5000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market maven and Good Morning America Co-Anchor Lara Spencer.
Bringing the Bling!
Flashy upcyclers Darren and Stephan go to battle with stylish siblings Rose and Sophie. Each pair gets $500 to find, fix-up and flip items purchased at the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Given only one hour to hunt and haggle for some bargains, the teams shop for design projects featuring Lighting, Inspired by Nature, and a "Twisted Traditional" assignment. Darren and Stephan bring their own brand of bling into the workshop, where things don't go exactly as planned, but will that help or hurt them when the teams head to New York City's Green Flea to sell their refurb'd pieces? In the end, the team that makes the biggest profit... Wins $5000! Hosted by Designer/Flea Market fanatic and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Flippin' Feathers
Engaged couple Solomon and Amanda, aren't afraid of bold colors. They'll take on friends Minetta & Rob who have some outside-the-box ideas of their own. Both teams will race through the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut with $500 to spend on Flip List projects that feature Mid-century design, Dining, and a Funk-tional piece. But one team's feathers get a little ruffled in the workshop, when one of their projects doesn't come out as expected, but will buyers at New York City's Green Flea make it fly out of the booth? Hopefully, because the team that makes the biggest profit flies off with $5000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market maven and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
'Til Death Do Us Flip
The husband and wife team Al and Merry, duke it out with best friends Erika and Evey. With $500 in hand and an hour to hunt down bargains at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut, the teams must find pieces that they'll fix-up and flip. Their Flip List features Chic Storage, as well as Mirror and Salvage projects. In the workshop, Merry does her best to keep Al on track and hopefully their makeover mishaps won't cost them when it comes time to selling at New York City's Green Flea. Because the team that rakes in the biggest profits... wins $5000. Hosted by Interior Designer/Flea Market guru and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Heads or Tails?
Fashionable friends with similar tastes, who even share their first name, Laura, go up against fun-loving friends Dianne and Clyde. Each team is handed $500 and given only an hour to find pieces at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut, that they'll fix-up and flip. Their Flip List includes Hollywood Regency, as well as Upholstery and Mash-up projects. After hustling through the flea market, both teams hit the workshop to transform their pieces. Relying on chance, team Laura often flips a coin to decide their next move. The teams will then take their transformed pieces to sell at New York City's Green Flea, and the team that makes the biggest profit takes home $5,000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market enthusiast and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Are Horseshoes Really Lucky?
Upcycling husband and wife team, Jeff and Ilana take on flipping friends Jeannine and Robin. The fun begins when each team gets $500 and only one hour to find pieces that need a little TLC at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut. The teams waste no time, searching the flea for their projects: Good Bones, Global Design, and Fabric. Once the shopping's done, the teams get busy transforming their finds, which include a one-of-a-kind table made of recycled horseshoes, in the hopes of scoring big profits at New York's Long Island City Flea. But will these horseshoes be lucky enough to turn a big profit? In the end, the team that makes the most profit takes home $5,000. Hosted by Interior Designer/Flea Market expert and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Ready For Take-Off!
Eclectic artists Chandi and Kim spar with former Wall Streeters Katie and Pels. With visions of winning $5,000, the teams hustle through the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut searching for items they can use for creating Lighting, a Double Duty piece, and a Retro-Futuristic Steampunk project. One team hopes their idea of transforming parts of an airplane into a design piece will take flight, but will they crash and burn on sale day at New York's Long Island City Flea? Hosted by Designer/Flea Market aficionado and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Junkologists Scoop and Moose take on flea market-obsessed besties Sarah and Regina, as each team is given $500 to find, fix-up and flip items purchased at the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. The teams shop for design projects that feature Double Duty, as well as Mirrored and Retro pieces. Then both teams get busy at the workshop transforming their finds, while unexpectedly becoming fast friends. Next stop is New York City's Antiques Garage, where the teams must look past their newfound friendship as they try to sell their reimagined pieces, because the team that makes the biggest profit wins $5000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market maven and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Hooked on Flipping
Fashion bloggers Helene and Amy hope their stylish eyes can translate into big bucks, as they test their skills against experienced flippers Nicole and Luke. Both teams are given $500 and one hour to race down the aisles of the Brimfield Antique Show in Brimfield, Massachusetts. The teams are tackling 3 design projects that feature creating pieces involving Paper, as well as Inspired By and Rustic to Refined projects. One team attempts to create a lighting fixture out of antique roofing hooks, but will it hook them up with big profits? The team that makes the most net profit at the Antiques Garage in New York City walks away $5,000 richer. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market authority and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Seeing Orange
Style savvy Chris and JJ battle it out with fashionable besties Jessica and Melissa. Both teams will hustle through the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut with $500 to spend on design projects that feature Industrial design, Art Deco, and Fabric. But controversy arises in the workshop when both teams choose the same color orange to paint their projects, but will the color orange create some green at New York's Long Island City Flea? The team that makes the biggest profit wins $5000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market fanatic and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
Full-Contact Flipping
Kim, a professional female football player and her best friend Leslie share a love for flea markets. They'll take on designing dudes Ron and Peter. Each team is given $500 and only an hour to shop at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut for worn-out pieces to fix-up and flip. Their projects include Unexpected Seating, Vintage Modern, and a Paper project. After scoring some great deals at the flea market, both teams get their hands dirty the workshop, in the hopes of bringing their big ideas to life. Then the teams will hit the field once again, as they head to sell at New York's Long Island City Flea. When the clock expires the team that makes the biggest profit wins $5,000. Hosted by Designer/Flea Market aficionado and Good Morning America Anchor Lara Spencer.
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Cell-mediated immune response of gilts vaccinated with a PRRS vaccine (UNISTRAIN® PRRS)
主页 知识 Cell-mediated immune response of gilts vaccinated with a PRRS vaccine (UNISTRAIN® PRRS)
In an environment poor in neutralising antibodies, cell-mediated response could be used to evaluate immune response after using a PRRS vaccine and more or less effectively predict protection against the virus.
The objective of the following study was to evaluate the cell-mediated response generated in gilts vaccinated with a PRRRS vaccine (UNISTRAIN® PRRS, HIPRA) against different PRRSV strains isolated from clinical outbreaks in the field.
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN:
The study was conducted in six-months-old gilts, negative for PRRSV, coming from an historically disease-free farm. The animals were distributed between two groups: 75% were intramuscularly vaccinated with UNISTRAIN®PRRS (attenuated live PRRS vaccine, European genotype; strain VP-046 BIS) and the remaining 25% were administered 2 ml of intramuscular PBS (control group).
Blood samples were collected from the animals to obtain peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) on days 0, 7, 14, 28, 42 and 56 post-vaccination. The samples were sent to CReSA (Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal) to evaluate cell-mediated immune response by measuring IFN-γ-SC from the PBMCs (ELISPOT assay) (figure 1).Heterologous cell-mediated response was evaluated using five genotype 1 PRRSV strains (table 1) recovered from clinical outbreaks (DIAGNOS, HIPRA), which represent a wide range of strains that were isolated in different European countries in different years. Table 1. Year and country of isolation of five field strains used to evaluateheterologous cell-mediated immune respons.
PRRSV-specific IFN-γ-SC were first detected against all the strains 14 days post-vaccination (figure 2). In the strains isolated in Spain and the United Kingdom, the response peak was found on day 14 post-vaccination; in the Spanish strain, the level found on day 14 was maintained until the end of the study (D56). In the strains isolated in Hungary, the Slovak Republic and Italy, the response peak was found on day 28, after which it declined.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:
The genetic and antigen variability of PRRSV is considered to be the most important factor in explaining the lack of cross reaction between strains, as heterologous protection is usually inconsistent and incomplete (Lager et al., 1999; Mengeling et al., 1999). On the other hand, the percentage of similarity in the ORF5, or even the complete sequence of the strains, is not a useful parameter for predicting the extent of protection provided by a vaccine against a given strain (Díaz et al., 2006; Prieto et al, 2008).
Although the immunity generated by PRRS vaccine is not fully known, evaluation of neutralising antibodies and cell-mediated response is important and has to be taken into consideration if we want to know how a PRRS vaccine works. The role of cell-mediated immunity for viral elimination or for protecting against a challenge has been discussed and shown in several studies (Díaz et al., 2012; Zuckerman et al., 2007; Lowe et al., 2005; Martelli et al., 2009).
Therefore, in the absence of neutralising antibody production, which is common after the administration of a single dose of any attenuated commercial PRRS vaccine (Díaz et al., 2006; Kim et al., 2008; Zuckerman et al., 2007), the cell-mediated immunity generated by a PRRS vaccine could play an important role in protection against the challenge.
The immunisation of all breeders, and especially gilts, is a key point in the control of PRRS. The main objective in this phase is to obtain good immunisation of gilts, which is why this study was designed using six-month-old gilts.
In this study, despite the wide range of strains used, not only regarding ORF5 variability (88-98% similarity) but also the year of isolation and origin, the results show that vaccination with UNISTRAIN® PRRS induces significant cell-mediated immune response against a wide range of PRRSV strains.
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
After more than 25 years confronting PRRS, control of the disease remains a constant challenge for porcine production. The approach to PRRS must be multi-strategic in order to be successful. One of the key aspects of control of this disease is the adaptation programmes for gilts, and their vaccination with UNISTRAIN® PRRS has been shown to be a useful and effective tool.
Díaz I., Darwich L., Pappaterra G., Pujols J., Mateu E., 2006. Different European-type vaccines against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus have different immunological properties and confer different protection to pigs. Virology 351, 249-59.
Díaz I., Gimeno M., Darwich L., Navarro N., Kuzemtseva L., López S., Galindo I., Segalés J., Martín M., Pujols J., Mateu E., 2012. Characterization of homologous and heterologous adaptive immune responses in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection. Veterinary Research 43, 30.
Kim W.I., Yoon K.J., 2008. Molecular assessment of the role of envelope-associated structural proteins in cross neutralization among different PRRS viruses. Virus Genes 37, 380-391.
Lager K.M., Mengeling W.L., Brockmeier S.L., 1999. Evaluation of protective immunity in gilts inoculated with the NADC-8 isolate of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and challenge-exposed with an antigenically distinct PRRSV isolate. American Journal of Veterinary Research 60, 1022-1027.
Lowe J.E., Husmann R., Firkins L.D., Zuckermann F.A., Goldberg T.L., 2005. Correlation of cell-mediated immunity against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus with protection against reproductive failure in sows during outbreaks of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in commercial herds. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 226, 1707-1711.
Martelli P., Gozio S., Ferrari L., Rosina S., De Angelis E., Quintavalla C., Bottarelli E., Borghetti P., 2009. Efficacy of a modified live porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccine in pigs naturally exposed to a heterologous European (Italian Cluster) field strain: clinical protection and cell-mediated immunity. Vaccine 27, 3788-3799.
Mengeling W.L., Lager K.M., Wesley R.D., Clouser D.F., Vorwald A.C., Roof M.B., 1999. Diagnostic implications of concurrent inoculation with attenuated and virulent strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. American Journal of Veterinary Research 60, 119-22.
Prieto C., Álvarez E., Martínez-Lobo F.J., Simarro I., Castro J.M., 2008. Similarity of European porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus strains to vaccine strain is not necessary predictive of the degree of protective immunity. Veterinary Journal 175, 356-63.
Zuckermann F.A., García E.A., Luque I.D., Christopher- Hennings J., Doster A., Brito M., Osorio F., 2007. Assessment of the efficacy of commercial porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) vaccines based on measurement of serologic response, frequency of c-IFN-producing cells and virological parameters of protection upon challenge. Veterinary Microbiology 123, 69-85.
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Reedsville High School senior Eleni Hein plans to study art and design | Stellar Students
Her advice for incoming students: 'If you try your best from the beginning, it will help you in the long run.'
Reedsville High School senior Eleni Hein plans to study art and design | Stellar Students Her advice for incoming students: 'If you try your best from the beginning, it will help you in the long run.' Check out this story on htrnews.com: https://www.htrnews.com/story/news/education/2018/12/26/reedsville-high-school-senior-eleni-hein-plans-study-art-and-design-wisconsin-stout/2388960002/
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Manitowoc Lutheran's Madison Gorte goes up for a shot against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Emily Behnke (23) edges out Reedsville's Emily Cohan for a rebound during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Claire Bubolz, left, greets Whitney Wasmuth during team introductions before a Big East Conference game against Manitowoc Lutheran at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Rachel Peterson puts up a shot over Manitowoc Lutheran's Madison Gorte during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Elizabeth Bubolz shoots against Manitowoc Lutheran during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Grace Melso shoots against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Emily Behnke takes it to the hoop against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's MonRaye Ermis looks to shoot against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Emily Cohan grabs a rebound from Manitowoc Lutheran during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Kylee Cook shoots against Manitowoc Lutheran's Katelyn Fels during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Madison Gorte puts up a shot against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
A Reedsville fan holds up a sign for Claire Bubolz during a Big East Conference game against Manitowoc Lutheran at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
The Junior All-Star dance team performs at halftime during a Big East Conference game between Reedsville and Manitowoc Lutheran at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Allison Menges shoots against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Rachel Peterson battles Manitowoc Lutheran's Madison Gorte for a rebound during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Emily Behnke drives to the basket against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Reedsville's Emma Schneider rebounds against Manitowoc Lutheran during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Katelyn Fels rebounds against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Mikayla Riemer shoots against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Emily Behnke takes it down the center for a layup against Reedsville during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Manitowoc Lutheran's Emily Marohn battles Reedsville's Claire Bubolz for a rebound during a Big East Conference game at Reedsville Middle School Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Reedsville, Wis. Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Joshua Clark, Joshua Clark/USA TODAY NETWORK-W
Eleni Hein(Photo: Provided)
Name: Eleni Hein
Parents: Amy Hein and Richard Hein
School: Reedsville High School
GPA: 3.8277
What extracurricular activities have you been involved with during high school? Future Farmers of America, National Honor Society, Reedsville Go, Reedsville Leadership Group, Leadership Conference, Big East Honors Choir, Big East Art Show, Solo and Ensemble, a class officer, a member of the Reedsville volleyball team, a varsity captain of the Reedsville cross country team, a varsity runner of the Reedsville track and field team, two mission trips to Michigan to help those in need, in February will be going on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic
What is one academic accomplishment about which you feel particularly good? I feel quite honored to have one of my art pieces be chosen and displayed at the Rahr-West Conference Art Show in Manitowoc. It showed my dedication to art and how hard I had worked on my piece.
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Which class or extracurricular activity influenced your decision regarding the career you plan to pursue? My many art classes that I have taken over the course of my high school career have helped me find my career path for the future. I never knew that there were so many different forms of art and that there were so many different fields of art I could go into until I took a wide variety of art classes at Reedsville.
What advice do you have for those just starting their high school career? They should do their best to get the best grades they can from the beginning. I have watched many people over the years trying to play catch-up with their grades, and I have watched those same exact people become very stressed when it comes to their senior year when they start applying for colleges and scholarships. If you try your best from the beginning, it will help you in the long run.
What are your plans after high school? I plan to attend University of Wisconsin-Stout after I graduate to study art and design. I am also planning to start volunteering at the nearest children’s hospital once I turn 18. I am nervous, but also very excited to see what the future holds for me.
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What would you like to be doing 10 years from now? I would like to have my own studio apartment and have a job that I love designing for whatever company I work for. I also plan to be participating in many other mission trips in the future and doing many other forms of volunteer work.
Teacher recommendation: "Eleni has proven to me that she is a studious, creative and involved individual who deserves consideration to be classified as a stellar student. Eleni devotes large portions of her free time to her studies, thinks of new ways to create and accomplish her work, and always is sure to give back to her community through volunteering and staying involved. Eleni has displayed these skills to me numerous times through my contact with her as an educator and as her track and field coach." — Ben Krull, social studies teacher and track and field coach
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Trachoma Elimination in Africa: Lessons from two multi-country initiatives
In 2014, The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust and the UK Department of International Development (DFID) initiated two ambitious five-year programmes to tackle trachoma across ten countries in Africa. As these two programmes come to an end in 2019, an end-of-programme evaluative learning exercise was commissioned.
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The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust was established in 2012 to mark and celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s 60 years as Head of the Commonwealth. Trustees decided to dedicate 20% of the available funds to the Queen’s Young Leaders Programme, seeking to empower a new generation of Commonwealth leaders. The balance (nearly £80 million) was…
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Piloting the Treatment of Retinopathy in India: Diabetic Retinopathy and Retinopathy of Prematurity
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Investing in Vision – Making a Difference across the Commonwealth
Avoidable blindness is a growing problem – without urgent action the number of people who are blind or visually impaired is set to triple by 2050. A new report by PwC has highlighted the value of investing in eye health in the Commonwealth. PwC’s economic analysis has shown that for every £1 invested in tackling avoidable…
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Integrated Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy within the Health System of Pakistan
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Integrated Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy within the Health System of Bangladesh
The Integrated Model of Care for Diabetic Retinopathy Within the Health System of Bangladesh — a project implemented by The Fred Hollows Foundation, seeks to support the development and assessment of an integrated and comprehensive model of care for people at risk of vision loss due to diabetes-related eye disease in 4 districts in Bangladesh.…
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Worldwide there are 285 million visually impaired people, of whom 39 million are blind. Most of this blindness is either curable or preventable, however, the large majority live in low-income settings, where access to services is limited. In 2014, to address these challenges The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust supported the establishment of The Commonwealth…
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ICE executes federal criminal search warrant in North Texas
More than 280 aliens administratively arrested on immigration violations while executing a criminal search warrant
ALLEN, Texas — As part of an ongoing criminal investigation, special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed criminal search warrants at CVE Technology Group Inc. (CVE), and four of CVE’s staffing companies.
HSI arrested on administrative immigration violations more than 280 CVE company employees who were unlawfully working in the United States at this telecommunications equipment-repair business.
This ongoing investigation began after HSI received multiple tips that the company may have knowingly hired illegal aliens, and that many of the individuals employed at CVE were using fraudulent identification documents. In January 2019, HSI began an audit of CVE’s I-9 Forms, which confirmed numerous hiring irregularities.
“Businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens create an unfair advantage over their competing businesses,” said Special Agent in Charge Katrina W. Berger, HSI Dallas. “In addition, they take jobs away from U.S. citizens and legal residents, and they create an atmosphere poised for exploiting their illegal workforce.”
All of the immigration status violators arrested April 3 will be interviewed by ICE staff to record any medical, sole-caregiver or other humanitarian situations. Based on these interviews, ICE will determine if those arrested remain in custody or are considered for humanitarian release. In all cases, all illegal aliens encountered will be fingerprinted and processed for removal from the United States.
A 24-hour toll-free detainee locator hotline is available for family members of those arrested in this operation to address questions about their detention location and status, and the removal process. This hotline operates in English and Spanish; the phone number is 1-888-351-4024.
This HSI-led enforcement action was coordinated with federal, state and local counterparts including the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.
HSI is the federal law enforcement agency responsible for upholding the laws established by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which requires employers to verify the identity and work eligibility of individuals they hire.
These laws help protect jobs for U.S. citizens and lawful U.S. residents, eliminate unfair competitive advantages for companies that unlawfully hire an illegal workforce, and strengthen public safety and national security.
Unauthorized workers often use stolen identities of legal U.S. workers, which can profoundly damage for years the identity-theft victim’s credit, medical records and other aspects of their everyday life.
HSI’s worksite enforcement investigators help combat worker exploitation, illegal wages, child labor and other illegal practices. Worksite enforcement investigations often involve additional criminal activity, such as alien smuggling, human trafficking, money laundering, document fraud, worker exploitation and/or substandard wage and working conditions.
In addition to worksite enforcement operations like this one, HSI also uses I-9 audits to create a culture of compliance among employers. In July, ICE announced a two-phase operation under this effort.
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HSI executed criminal search warrants at CVE Technology Group Inc., and 4 of CVE’s staffing companies.
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ICE delivers more than 5,200 I-9 audit notices to businesses across the US in 2-phase nationwide operation
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Oskar Hansen’s Linear Continuous System: ‘A plan to rethink the entire concept of the city’
Written by Debika Ray
The Team 10 architect’s plan to reinvent the city may sound far-fetched, but his human-centred approach to design still holds lessons for us, says Debika Ray
Those unfamiliar with his ideas would be forgiven for seeing Oskar Hansen’s Linear Continuous System [LCS] simply as a gargantuan socialist megaproject. Developed in the 1960s and 70s, the Polish architect’s plan was an attempt not just to rethink but to overhaul the entire concept of the city, replacing traditional, concentric development with vast, parallel belts that would snake across the length of his country, from the Tatra mountains in the south to the Baltic sea in the north. Distributed along these would be housing, services, industry, public space and high-speed transportation.
This was not a theoretical exercise, but a genuine proposal for Poland’s future, responding to a growing urban population and the associated sprawl of cities. Hansen estimated that 12 million residents could be housed across a 400km stretch of the LCS. The ambition was to level out inequalities between urban and rural areas, centre and periphery, challenging social segregation entrenched by unequal access to services, jobs, welfare, cultural amenities and public spaces.
Oskar Hansen in Wroclaw (1975)
It’s true that a socialist state – with its control over land use, planning, funding and construction – was crucial to the realisation of such an ambitious plan, but Hansen had a more nuanced view of the state-citizen relationship than many of his contemporaries. A member of Team 10 – a group formed in 1960 in opposition to the modernist orthodoxy represented by Le Corbusier – his most significant contribution to architectural thinking was the theory of ‘open form’, which argued that design should be derived from and flexible to human activity, rather than imposed by architects.
With the LCS, he translated this to an urban scale. While the basic plan – ‘shelves’ for dwellings, transport and infrastructure – would be standardised, many individual homes and clusters would be created, designed or customised by residents. User participation and social engagement were paramount: the freedom to form their living space would mean residents felt engaged and in control, while public space for relaxation, play and social interaction would result in a ‘new type of feeling … different from that of capitalism’.
Hansen’s attention to individual agency in shaping the environment eschewed the traditional split between individualistic and collectivist conceptions of society. He believed the state would flourish by harnessing human creative potential – and that the LCS would be a physical manifestation of the egalitarian principles of socialism.
Model of Masovia Belt, near Warsaw (1968)
The Polish authorities were receptive, giving Hansen financial support and considering the LCS proposals as part of its infrastructure plans. You could speculate that there were strategic reasons for its appeal: the flexible, decentralised structure would make it relatively resilient to attack, while its geographic span would enable the spread of a unified Polish identity. Ultimately, economic and social realities meant it was never realised. Hansen and his wife Zofia tested some of its ideas on housing projects, building linear blocks with equal access to public space and lifts. These received mixed reviews, owing both to poor construction and failure to implement its basic principles (in one scheme, flats were assigned randomly, with no regard to the couple’s consultations with residents).
Hansen died in 2005. Although he remains little known outside architecture circles, in recent years his profile has grown, thanks to a series of exhibitions organised by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw – most recently at the Yale School of Architecture. Meanwhile, the idea that a liveable urban realm relies on a combination of active planning policy and in-depth community participation has become mainstream, championed by such high-profile architects as Pritzker-winner Alejandro Aravena.
Much further east, the pressures of urbanisation and population growth have given rise to a new era of large-scale linear conurbations: China, India and Pakistan have all striven to formalise haphazard settlements into urban corridors up to 1,500km long. But in these plans, it is commerce and industry that are the priorities, and there is scant mention of social values. Perhaps it’s time to look again at Hansen’s vision.
This article first appeared in Icon 163
Debika Ray
Above: Model of residential terraces, Western Belt, near Lublin (1976)
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Maria Merian’s Butterflies Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Tina Engstrom
The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace will host a new exhibition titled: Maria Merian’s Butterflies starting on Friday, 15 April 2016.
Maria Sibylla Merian was a German artist and entomologist who in 1699 set sail for Suriname, in South America. There she would spend two years studying the animals and plants which she encountered, aiming to explore the lifecycle of insects (then only partially understood). Those studies led to the publication of the Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (the Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname), a luxury volume which brought the wonders of Suriname to Europe.
Maria Merian’s Butterflies tells Merian’s story through her works in the Royal Collection, acquired by George III. Many are luxury versions of the plates of the Metamorphosis, partially printed and partially hand painted onto vellum by the artist herself. Over three hundred years after they were made, these meticulous, brilliant works celebrate a woman whose art and whose story are enduringly popular. The Maria Merian’s Butterflies exhibition is on at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace from 15 April 2016 – 9 October 2016.
Branch of West Indian cherry with Achilles Morpho butterfly, 1701-05. Photo Credit: ©Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015.
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Bullets vs Taipans - Brisbane, 11 October 6:30 pm
Should be very interesting with Bullets being guard heavy and fast.
Looking forward to seeing the new stadium.
Could be a close game. Hard to pick a winner.
I like Cairns for an upset tonight. Hoping for a close one in any case because I expect Hawks-Perth will be a double-digits loss type of game.
NBL Fan
Looking like it will be pretty empty for game 1
It would be a pity if it's empty. Hopefully not another Library!
Nobody cares about this game
Any news on Oliver's knee?
FSTOS
He is on the box score but starting on the bench. Not sure what to make of that.
TV picture hasn't improved.
Stream working great for me on SBS on Demand.
If Cairns fans raved about Jawai being in good shape this season they actually would've been legit, best shape I've ever seen him in.
Yinka Dare
Why is newbill not getting court time? Injured?
SBS crapped out on me. It looked terrible anyway. I have two days of KAYO subscription left from World Cup - looks like I might be resubscribing because it works and looks alright.
I also notice the on-screen clock continues to be out of sync with the court clock.
No Vukona either.
My sbs feed is excellent.
Will Cairns hold tough or fold
Brisbane defence been average.
Matt Leabeater
I reckon newbill might have food poisoning or a vomiting bug or something like that hes gone to the change room twice during the first half and no one knows whats going on.
nothing from the nbl or taipans on why newbill isnt playing...
he is warming up at half time, so must be feeling under the weather
Kayo stream seems a bit off. Like a voice over the top of the broadcast instead of integrated. A technical issue perhaps.
Well they are commentating from an-off site bunker.
I know that, but it's different sound to espn or sbs stream.
Jawai is so overrated. Negatives outweigh the positives....no pun intended.
Bullets Fan
Broadcast has no atmosphere from either the commentators or the venue sounds. Please bring back the venue commentators.
Lemanis telling team in time out to go Djeric, it makes sense, could not defend Humpty Dumpty.
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"Nobody cares about this game" great post? What game does everyone care about?
Cairns lack of depth catching up with them. At least 4 guys on this team aren't close to being NBL standard.
UseTaHoop
Does anyone care about Tommy's diet?
Unless Cairns can find a wealthy owner, I can't see to much future, you still need some players of starter quality on the bench. Some of their starters leave a bit to be desired as well.
Very impressed by the Bullets ball movement ... pretty good team they are building into for this season .
"Hard to pick a winner." Are you serious?
Machado probably thinking what the hell have I gotten myself into
I must say how bad is Deng. Weak, under strength and getting handled like a bitch.
More importantanly I thought Deng was on for about 5 mins too long before kelly benched him.
Machado part of the problem with some of his casual dribbling and passing. Cairns 3 rotation guys short, really. No Newbill compounds it, too
The audio mix on this broadcast is so off.
Surely Simon conn is a better option than some of these cairns players?
I get he is old but guy has more game
Noi is definitely no rookie ingles
Would you bother sacking Mike Kelly or just accept that Cairns are a crap team?
It has to be Larry's son who likes homicide commentating?
Otherwise I am out of reasons as to how the hell he has a job. So bad.
Kelly hasn't got much to work with. You can’t turn shit into wine
How were Cairns not given a Next Star?
Yeah, Noi is no Ingles, but I think he's quality, just doesn't really seem to have much of an offensive game developed at the moment and is trying to do too much.
WTF. "You can't turn shit into wine". Select shit and there is the problem. Either they have no budget or the Coach is selecting shit.
Embarassing. Mind you Brisbane aren't that much better.
No Newbill, no bench.
Gliddon has must be nba ready the ways he's made Noi look like a useless. I’m making this assumption on every one telling me Noi is the next nba big thing.
First opportunity I've had to watch a broadcast. The bunker commentating is a losing prospect. Like someone said in a previous thread, it's exactly the same feel as watching the listless Euroleague games on ESPN.
And yep, plenty of empty seats. Partly because Cairns holds least appeal in the league. Mostly because it's a 6:30pm start at a location with wretched traffic woes that not everybody has the appetite to fight.
JvG every bit the courtside commentator that he was GM.
I like his commentary and always thought JVG was more suited to that than being a GM.
Admittedly that throw to the Perth game wasn't his best work.
AFAIK Cairns were offered La Melo.
Machado definitely part of Cairns's problem, offensively.
Homocide his typical, terrible self in the commentary box.
... but they didn't have the money to pay him? I assume.
League pays for next stars.
Offered yet declined? Doesn't add up?
Why?. They declined. It adds up.
Why would they decline if the Next Star is a paid for by the league player?
Cellar Dwellars
Trust me they declined. Maybe he's not that good?
Maybe Cairns haven't realised what talent is since they got rid of their previous coach. Some of there guys are horrible, ok in the qbl but not even good enjoyable for nbl1. Ball can play.
Maybe Cairns don't want the distraction of a high profile player who has no investment in the club's success and no intention of sticking around longer than one season. I think it is a more than valid position to take.
The venue looks shit
So small and empty seats
Venue looked good IMO.
It looks like a suburban rec center, not a major professional stadium.
Not too many 5000 seat rec centres around.
1400 seats more than the Convention Centre. Venue is a massive upgrade in almost every way.
Yes it looked good, it's there home now, Cadee said in the interview that they train there and their gym is there.
Are Cairns regretting getting rid of Fearne now? He was the only thing keeping that club competitive on their budget.
^^^ the million dollar question. Fearne last season wasn't that great either but it’s not looking great up there which is a shame. They picked some absolute qbl players on the bench, they were never going to be good enough. At least Cairns teams under Fearne played defence. Some of there bigs are no where near as tall as written on the write ups as well. No point saying your 208 when you’re actually 199. It maybe the Cairns shrink.
Brisbane trying to call the venue "The Armoury" is as lame and forced as the #thisiswhoweare hashtag they push out.
Disregarding location, venue itself is very good but.
You've actually been tricked by the low scoring totals Fearne lead teams held other teams to. Analytics has squashed that, and the low scores had as much to do with the snail pace of play Fearne teams played at. He forced his own team to make a bunch of passes before a shot, with long winded possessions for the Taipans. This schrunk the amount of total possessions in the game. Fearne did not have a great record and had some very talented teams at different stages.
Low scores does not equal good defence necessarily. Fearne cracked the code and now has the Mantra of being some defensive guru. This is not the case, and his style of play is the last thing a team needs in this era of basketball.
At least better than getting beaten every week and by some big scores. You play to your strengths, I don't see what plan or strength Cairns are playing to.
"Analytics has squashed that, and the low scores had as much to do with the snail pace of play Fearne teams played at."
Firstly, being able to slow more talented teams who are looking to play fast is not easy, and it takes good offensive and defensive discipline to do so.
Secondly, and most importantly, Fearne's Taipans were in the top half of the league for defensive rating in 5 of his last 7 years (I don't have stats for his two seasons before that).
So we have a team that was good enough to slow teams down and also good enough to keep them to reasonably low points-per-possession totals, despite having less talent than their opponents more often than not.
Sounds like a pretty decent tick to Fearne.
1400 seats more than the Convention Centre. Venue is a massive upgrade in almost every way
The seating layout and the way it's lit make it look really cheap on TV though.
I dont mind the look of the venue. The capacity suits the Brisbane fanbase and its not too small either so theres room for growth. For me the atmosphere looked decent on TV and the stadium itself was fine. Certainly didnt have a rec centre feel for me.
Sure its not an elite state of the art arena, but it seems that Brisbane isnt ready for one anyway.
I'd be more concerned with the crowd number. 2000 is dreadful especially for a season opener and moreso for a new venue. Was there no curiosity factor?
Their new owners have a lot of work to do yet.
I also notice the same excuses being made about poor crowds being that traffic is really bad and the time slot isnt great. If you cant get more than 3000 on a Friday night then you may as well play at noon on a Wednesday.
Traffic problems and issues getting there? I can sympathise, but this is not unique to Brisbane only. A car breakdown on the mitchell or kwinanna freeway and all of a sudden it can take over an hour to get to Perth Arena if driving from either end of the city.
"The seating layout and the way it's lit make it look really cheap on TV though."
Looked good to me.
"If you cant get more than 3000 on a Friday night then you may as well play at noon on a Wednesday. Traffic problems and issues getting there? I can sympathise, but this is not unique to Brisbane only."
I'm not sure any other capital city NBL teams play games at 6.30pm on a Friday out in the suburbs. Would be good to give them a chance by allowing them some 7.30pm or even 7pm Friday games. That said they do have a lot of work to do to build their fan base.
Would be good to give them a chance by allowing them some 7.30pm or even 7pm Friday games.
You would if you abided by daylight saving like the rest of the country.
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Rest of the country doesn't have daylight saving.
In Australia, Daylight saving is observed in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island. Daylight saving is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
Fades the cows and puts the curtains off their milk, everyone knows that :)
We aren't allowed to have daylight saving in WA since it stands for Wait Awhile.
The DST states ought to abolish it. That's the real solution here.
No daylight savings in Eucla region either (Australian Central Western Time).
Other time zone anomalies are Broken Hill area (uses ACDT), "train time" on The Indian Pacific and Lord Howe Island Time (30 min ahead of NSW/ AEST in standard time, same time during Daylight Saving). I'd love to know what what time zone is used for the Australian Antarctic Territory (or Australian Antarctic Penguin Time).
Won't happen, because DST makes sense in redistributing daylight hours to the end of the day. It allows people to engage in outdoor recreation after day shift working hours.
On the Qld/NSW border it helps to spread the traffic a bit more in peak hour on the M1/Pacific Hwy. I’m loving being able to sleep in for early morning trips to Brisbane. People who work in NSW time and live in Qld also get the same benefit of more daylight hours after returning home from work.
If legal papers need to be lodged with a Federal Court, eastern states law firms can gain an extra 2/3 hours (depending on Daylight Savings status) by lodging them in Perth, supposedly. Don’t think I’d trust lawyers who need that to finish their work on time though.
We can catch tv shows we’ve missed, by watching Gold Coast channels an hour after NSW start times.
In Tweed/Coolangatta mobile phones switch between towers, and therefore time changes by an hour each way, at this time of year. You can be in 3 different time zones at once if you’re inside Time Zone Coolangatta.
Typical backward Perth mentality on display right here. We need DST.
You can be in 3 different time zones at once if you're inside Time Zone Coolangatta.
Haha, who can forget this. Classic.
Why do we need DST?
In WA?
Anywhere, really. Screwing with your sleep schedule like that is incredibly bad for you.
I actually googled Antarctic time zones. According to timeanddate.com there is no actual Australian Antarctic Penguin Time. I am most disappointed.
"What is the Time Zone at the South Pole?
The Earth's longitudes meet on the geographical South Pole in Antarctica. This means that, in theory, any of the world's time zones could be used there. However, since it is usually accessed via New Zealand, the Amundsen-Scott station located on the South Pole observes New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) during standard time and New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) during the DST.
Arctic Stations on Their Own Time
Since Antarctica is largely uninhabited, the continent is not officially divided up into time zones. However, there are a number of research stations, each of which observes its own local time. Some stations use the time zone of the country that operates or supplies them, others observe the local time of countries nearby.
For example, Palmer Station is a United States research station, but it keeps Chile Summer Time (CLST) as Chile is the closest country.
McMurdo Station, however, follows New Zealand Standard Time (NZST) during standard time and New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) during the Daylight Saving Time (DST) period in New Zealand.
Troll Station changes between Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and Central European Summer Time (CEST), which are 2 hours apart."
There is a Mawson Station time also, which is the Australian base there. It's GMT (or UTC or Zulu Time) Plus 5 hours. That puts it in line with Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Karachi, Lahore and Southern France zone, amongst others.
Personally I prefer extra sunshine while awake.
Sleep issues are fixed with it too - even with DST the sun would set at 8-8:30PM so it's a non-issue. What actually screws with sleep is intense sunlight at 5:30AM without the adjustment.
What screws with sleep is going to work at 9am for six months and then suddenly having to wake up an hour earlier to get to work at 8am.
I don't think Daylight Saving could be observed in Antarctica.
Funnily enough I had a client who worked on Penguin Island and then Mawson station. I recall checking e-mail headers to see what time zone he was in on base.
Is Penguin Island on the Mawson time zone?
Mawson Station Coordinates: 67.6033° S, 62.8742° E
Penguin Island coordinates: 32.3057° S, 115.6906° E
So it's about 1/6 of 360 deg difference in longitude, or 1/6 of a world away longitudinally (not that the distance would be much that close to the pole).
These things are important.
I got the name of the island wrong. It was Macquarie Island - home of the royal penguins.
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It wasn't "slowing opposition teams" it was slowing themselves! Literally suicide for the current game. The successful style of play is completely different in 2019 than it was in 2015! I think you misunderstood slowing the pace. I meant it was self imposed. The idea is to slow the other team but to play fast yourself. Slow the other team and run out.
Definitely not a tick at all.
The idea is to slow the other team but to play fast yourself.
[citation needed]
When you lack talent, you shorten the game to decrease the chances the other team has to build a lead. That means slowing both teams down.
Madness basketball. There is no world in 2019 where ANY team is trying to slow the game down at the offensive end! That is prehistoric! That is literally the ultimate goal of any defence is to slow a team down to get them under control. To willingly slow yourself down is suicide! Because when teams get a stop they dictate brute own offensive pace! Do you literally think that because one team is slowing down and playing slow that another team will? Absolutely crazy! That's a really dated game plan
"It wasn't "slowing opposition teams" it was slowing themselves!"
Incorrect. You have to do both, and the Taipans were close to the best in the league at slowing opposition teams. Fearne's initial strategy was around not contesting offensive boards and having a highly-structured d-trans.
Then, after a few years of getting close he decided they needed extra possessions if they were going to win big games against the best teams. That's where they created the "tagging up" principle of o-boards/d-trans to enable them to do both.
This concept is now used by teams around the globe, but it was never as successful at slowing opponents as Fearne's original d-trans concept. In those earlier years the Taipans' defence was a very tough nut to crack.
"Madness basketball. There is no world in 2019 where ANY team is trying to slow the game down at the offensive end! That is prehistoric!"
Out of interest, the top four teams in the NBL last season played at the slowest pace. It's about getting the ball into offence quickly, but not necessarily taking the quickest shot unless it's a good one.
Still one of the most effective methods in basketball is making opponents play defence for long periods throughout the game, through good execution and ball movement, and through offensive rebounding.
That's false. The offence's job is to find an action/situation that statistically benefits the offensive player. There is no offence that turns down the match up heyre looking for "slowing the pace down". They attack the second they have that no matter how long it takes. Will Weaver is the definatition of this! The old days of "don't attack cause we haven't taken enough time off the clock" are dead. Extremely dated.
Weaver let's his side attack fast but there ball movement when there is no early shot is fantastic, Kickett looked like KD today he was so open. They were not first option shots. Obviously if you rebound and it’s coast to coast or a one pass lay up you don’t worry about the clock but to say Weaver just goes first pass shoot is BS.
"That's false. The offence's job is to find an action/situation that statistically benefits the offensive player."
Exactly. And that's why I wrote:
"It's about getting the ball into offence quickly, but not necessarily taking the quickest shot unless it's a good one."
Don't understand how Cairns put their side together, Kelly had first hand knowledge of Melbourne's bench players, surely Smith-Milner, Adnam, Moller and even Jurlina who played in Cairns are better than Krislovic, Djeric and Deng. Cairns should get their Australian contingent right and get two good imports around them. Jawai was a good start but the rest looks poor. Kelly was such a good defensive player and he picks these blokes and others.
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Home Research Govt should consider 100 pc FDI in multi-brand retail trade: CII
Govt should consider 100 pc FDI in multi-brand retail trade: CII
By Indiaretailing Bureau
The Government should consider permitting 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail trade and further improve ease of doing business for the sector to promote growth in the segment, industry body CII said in a report Tuesday.
The Government should consider permitting 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail trade and further improve ease of doing business for the sector to promote growth in the segment
These suggestions are part of a national retail policy released by CII. It was jointly prepared by the industry chamber and AT Kearney.
The report said that to overcome the barriers and enable a smooth growth and harmonious coexistence of traditional and modern retail, the Government needs to adopt a single cohesive national retail policy, which adequately addresses all the concern areas.
The policy has suggested several steps, including strengthening labour laws by regularising policies around part-time labour to ensure greater participation of women in the workforce; and review of food safety policies to update archaic laws governing stocking limits, weights and measures, labeling, and taxes on expired food items.
It also asked for decreasing real estate constraints for retail expansion by creating dedicated retail special economic zones as well as simplify regulations and real estate approvals for kiranas to expand their stores.
The Government should encourage modernisation of traditional retail by subsidising these retailers to adopt technology, the report said.
Improved access to capital will help retail business especially the traditional retailers, it added.
“The Government should also consider 100 percent FDI in multi-brand retail trade,” the report said.
It said that with a simplified, cohesive policy and a focused effort on modernising traditional retail sector, Government can create multiple wins such as higher growth of the sector, larger traditional retail stores under regulatory compliance, and improved back-end efficiency with a lower overall cost to serve.
Although, the current foreign direct investment policy permits overseas players to hold 51 percent stake in an Indian retail company, the BJP in its election manifesto had opposed overseas investment in the retail segment.
So far, only one foreign player, Tesco, had received approval for opening stores under the multi-brand retail policy. The previous UPA government had cleared the proposal.
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10 Things You Need To Know About The Legendary LGBT Activist & Rainbow Flag Designer Gilbert Baker
Priyanka Bhatt
Updated: Apr 01, 2017, 15:24 IST
The world mourns the death of another era-defining soul as San Francisco-based LGBT activist and the maker of the iconic Rainbow Flag passed away in his sleep on March 31. Considered to be a significant contributor to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) movement in the United States of America, Baker, created banners for various marches for the community that were held across the country.
Here are some facts about the man who made the Rainbow Flag, and its purpose his own calling in life:
1. Baker was a vexillographer (creator of flags and banners) for as many as 30 years and his flags have been embraced by millions across the world.
2. Baker came to San Francisco around 1970 because he was conscripted for military service. However, after being discharged, he chose to begin designing and sewing clothes.
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3. Harvey Milk, the first openly-gay person to be elected to public office in California played a life changing role in Baker’s life. After Milk was elected to the office, he requested Baker to come up with a positive and hopeful symbol for the LGBT community and rid themselves of the symbol of Pink Triangle.
"OUR LIBERATION IS AN ONGOING STRUGGLE. IT WAS BEFORE US AND WILL BE GENERATIONS AFTER US. IT IS MORE THAN THE COLOURS WE SEE - IT IS THE COLOURS WE CAN'T SEE. THE THINGS THAT GO PAST OUR OWN LIVES" - Gilbert Baker, Creator of the Rainbow Flag.
4. The symbol of Pink Triangle was imposed by the Nazis to oppress and victimise the homosexuals. While the symbol is still used a remembrance, Baker’s Rainbow Flag has now become a global sign of support for the homosexual community.
5. The Rainbow Flag was created in 1978 after Harvey Milk was elected to the office of San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
6. The 8 colours on Baker’s Rainbow Flag represent various qualities, and symbolise the diverse features of the LGBT community. The meanings of the colours are as follows: Violet – Spirit, Green – Nature, Blue – Harmony, Turquoise – Magic, Yellow – Light and Brightness, Orange – healing, Red – life, and Pink – sexuality.
7. Baker had designed display banners for leaders all over the world like the Presidents of of France, King of Spain, Venezuela and the Philippines.
8. In 2003, Baker did something very unusual and created a flag one-of-its-kind. He created a Rainbow Flag that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in Key West, Florida which stretched a good 1.25 miles long. This was at the event of commemorating 25 years of the Rainbow Flag. He later sent sections of the mega sized flag to more than 100 cities world over.
9. Baker moved to New York in 1994, but returned to San Francisco in 2008 to recreate the flags for the award winning film ‘Milk’.
10. According to Gilbert Baker’s Official website, gilbertbaker.com he has written an unpublished memoir about his life as the creator of the flag - a story he said was still unfinished, and unfortunately will remain so.
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Tech Trends No Longer Linear
By Jim Ericson
January 27, 2011, 10:22 p.m. EST
Not that you haven't noticed yourself, but a lot of big overlapping changes are wafting through technology, and I don't mean the iPhone on Verizon.
Amid the pitches in my inbox this week is an IDC prediction that total data volume will reach 35,000 exabytes in 2020 compared to 1,200 exabytes in 2010.
There is a note from Gartner saying that, within two years, one-third of all BI functionality will be consumed through handheld devices.
A news story says cursive handwriting will soon disappear as a skill of most schoolchildren. If this one strikes you as obvious, I can understand, but a lot of us would call it a watershed much bigger than the move from CDs to flash drives.
A corporate friend is pinging me with his obsession over corporate tweeting, and wants us to get on the ball with the topic.
That's just this week and it goes on and on.
Macro change is in the air and as many have noted, change can be difficult. One kind of change is the type we make to our own behavior. Another kind calls for accepting that something around us but out of sight has changed, despite an urge to say it could not have. This type of change is the range that runs from curiosity to skepticism to disbelief.
It happens a lot in IT commentary, because so many developments can technically be called recycled. Web services are just another kind of CORBA, big ERP is dead and then it is back, virtualization is integration and so on.
Enterprise IT as we know it is itself becoming an unreliable specialization. In some ways too few have covered the industry for too long. For a relatively small group, everyone in the business seems to have been around forever (and most seem to have had their first job at Digital Equipment Corp. 30 or 40 years ago).
For all of us, it is getting tough to keep context on which angles are changing our behaviors quickly and dramatically in real life. By far, most of our regular readers and visitors hang right in there with us but change is now so rampant in overlapping areas I think I can even understand why it is leading to some unease.
There is an unkind note in my inbox today claiming our story on the IBM Watson computer is just a rewrite of the Deep Blue chess exercise. Another insists it's just another Bayesian manipulation.
No it‘s not. But for the people on both the supply and demand side of technology news, it is getting tougher to fall back on linear experiences and make our experience apply to every case. Fortunately we have a lot of smart contributors and resources to turn to and that's why we are here.
Big data, cloud computing, social media, mobility, search, no one knows all the end games so the best we can do is follow the developments with an open mind. It’s good to question an idea with a decent argument and maybe it is a defense mechanism, but at some point, stubbornness is becomes inadequate as a reactionary fallback position.
One of my Facebook friends sagely pointed out to me yesterday that, “People who say, ‘At the end of the day,’ say ‘At the end of the day’ a lot. And they usually don’t mean, ‘At the end of the day,’ when they say it.”
My friend should get a medal for that observation, but I know somebody will write to say somebody else said it first.
Jim Ericson
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Soyinka Is One Of A Kind, Conscience Of Our Nation, Says Tinubu
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka as the conscience of the nation.
In a statement yesterday in Lagos by his Media Office to congratulate Soyinka as he joined the elite club of octogenarians, Tinubu said: “No word can describe what you have achieved as a professional and a patriot. You are one of a kind. You have become the conscience of our nation, pricking us and alerting us to the dangers ahead. You have not stopped there; you have gone further to proffer solutions in a timely and comprehensive manner on how to move things forward. Your words and interventions continue to resonate here at home and globally.
“You remain one of the few truly celebrated Nigerian icons and a solid and powerful voice. Indeed, one of the very few powerful voices who continue to speak up against injustice, inequality and creeping fascism. The more they try to diminish you, the more your status rise in distinction to their incoherence and verbiage. Each time they try to silence you, your voice rings out louder and clearer. You have always said: ‘The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism’. And you are being proved right with our experience. We take instruction in these words of yours.
“Nigeria’s search for true democracy remains on course because of your unrelenting and lucid interventions. Through the years, you have demonstrated a fierce commitment to the Nigerian project and worked assiduously with different groups and organisations in the singular effort to ensure that Nigeria’s democracy survives and we achieve an egalitarian society.
“I identify with you in this struggle for a better and greater Nigeria and stand side by side with you in your condemnation of the impunity of the present administration and the demand you have made that the current Nigerian government has a case to answer for all the unconstitutional acts it is perpetrating.
“I celebrate with you today. May you grow in wisdom and knowledge. May you find peace and remain in good health. Happy birthday”!
Bola Ahmed tinubu
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“I was very stupid, Please forgive me” — Paul Okoye apologizes to fans
By Young
Paul Okoye is sorry, and now regrets bringing his family issues on social media, and now asking his fans to forgive him.
Paul while in a chat with Olisa Adibua on BeatFM, was asked about his sad family drama with his brothers, Peter and Jude.
Recall, the brothers almost came to blows in their lawyer, Festus Keyamo’s office…. Paul said he wasn’t himself at that time, and now, he no longer wishes to stoke more flames.
Despite being persistently probed by the hosts of the show, Paul refused to be drawn into issues bordering on Psquare.
The interviewer also asked if he’d ever collaborate with his brother, Peter for PSquare again, and he simply said; “I don’t know”.
He however, apologized to his fans, saying, “My fans, take heart. As e dey break my heart, na so e dey break una heart.”
He continued, “I think I was very stupid, in that aspect. Something got into me. I couldn’t stand him. But what I did, I regretted it. Please forgive me for that and let me move on.”
Though he believes every family faces its own issues. “Everybody has problems in their families, everyone has issues,” he said.
Source – Gistreel
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Red Hat CEO: We're the cloud leader -- with Linux
Jim Whitehurst says it's not just Red Hat's products, but its philosophy that place it at the forefront of cloud computing
By John Gallant
Chief Content Officer, InfoWorld |
When you think about the leading cloud computing companies, does the name Red Hat spring to mind? Jim Whitehurst hopes it does. In fact, the CEO of the rapidly growing, Raleigh, NC-based, open source company, is doing everything in his power to ensure that Red Hat has the widest possible portfolio of tools for your private and hybrid cloud -- a collection of technologies that Whitehurst says is only rivaled by Microsoft (without the "walled garden" strategy, of course). In addition to Enterprise Linux -- the flagship product -- Red Hat's growing cloud stack includes tools for server and storage virtualization, management, security, and an "enterprise-ready" version of OpenStack.
In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Whitehurst talked with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the changing competitive landscape in enterprise software and explained why VMware is now Red Hat's closest rival. He also talked about how Microsoft's transitions to the cloud and a new-generation operating system will benefit Red Hat. Whitehurst also explored why many IT leaders have a fundamentally flawed view of Red Hat's strategy and how his time as an executive with Delta Airlines made him a better tech company CEO.
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IDGE: I think if you asked most people to describe Red Hat, they would probably say, "That's the Linux company." But how do you want CIOs or other technology leaders to describe Red Hat?
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Second visit
It was New Year's day, and I went up on the tower. Ole spoke of the toasts that were drunk on the transition from the Old Year into the New—from one grave into the other, as he said. And he told me a story about the glasses, and this story had a very deep meaning. It was this:
"When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year. They begin the year with the glass in their hands; that is a good beginning for drunkards. They begin the New Year by going to bed, and that's a good beginning for drones. Sleep is sure to play a great part in the New Year, and the glass likewise. Do you know what dwells in the glass?" asked Ole. "I will tell you. There dwell in the glass, first, health, and then pleasure, then the most complete sensual delight; and misfortune and the bitterest woe dwell in the glass also. Now, suppose we count the glasses—of course I count the different degrees in the glasses for different people.
"You see, the first glass, that's the glass of health, and in that the herb of health is found growing. Put it up on the beam in the ceiling, and at the end of the year you may be sitting in the arbor of health.
"If you take the second glass—from this a little bird soars upward, twittering in guileless cheerfulness, so that a man may listen to his song, and perhaps join in 'Fair is life! no downcast looks! Take courage, and march onward!'
"Out of the third glass rises a little winged urchin, who cannot certainly be called an angel child, for there is goblin blood in his veins, and he has the spirit of a goblin—not wishing to hurt or harm you, indeed, but very ready to play off tricks upon you. He'll sit at your ear and whisper merry thoughts to you; he'll creep into your heart and warm you, so that you grow very merry, and become a wit, so far as the wits of the others can judge.
"In the fourth glass is neither herb, bird, nor urchin. In that glass is the pause drawn by reason, and one may never go beyond that sign.
"Take the fifth glass, and you will weep at yourself, you will feel such a deep emotion; or it will affect you in a different way. Out of the glass there will spring with a bang Prince Carnival, nine times and extravagantly merry. He'll draw you away with him; you'll forget your dignity, if you have any, and you'll forget more than you should or ought to forget. All is dance, song and sound: the masks will carry you away with them, and the daughters of vanity, clad in silk and satin, will come with loose hair and alluring charms; but tear yourself away if you can!
"The sixth glass! Yes, in that glass sits a demon, in the form of a little, well dressed, attractive and very fascinating man, who thoroughly understands you, agrees with you in everything, and becomes quite a second self to you. He has a lantern with him, to give you light as he accompanies you home. There is an old legend about a saint who was allowed to choose one of the seven deadly sins, and who accordingly chose drunkenness, which appeared to him the least, but which led him to commit all the other six. The man's blood is mingled with that of the demon. It is the sixth glass, and with that the germ of all evil shoots up within us; and each one grows up with a strength like that of the grains of mustard-seed, and shoots up into a tree, and spreads over the whole world: and most people have no choice but to go into the oven, to be re-cast in a new form.
"That's the history of the glasses," said the tower-keeper Ole, "and it can be told with lacquer or only with grease; but I give it you with both!"
186. Second visit
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Energy supply systems for 3D- waterjet cutting plants
Cutting in XXL format
At a travel distance of 32 meters (x-axis) by 5 meters (y-axis), the dual-head 3D waterjet cutting plant, which H.G. Ridder Automatisierungs-GmbH developed and fabricated for the new Anssems Group facility, has noteworthy dimensions. The same also applies to the energy supply systems. These create an important condition for the accurate travel of the two 3D cutting heads on the gantry axes.
Ridder has been known as a specialist for waterjet cutting for thirty years: A waterjet cuts through metals and plastics with the unimaginable pressure of 3,800 bar. The "cold" process has the advantages that the cutting process does not result in harmful emissions and that the cutting surface has an outstanding finish even without post-processing. The cutting process also avoids warping.
Impressive scale: An exterior view of the waterjet cutting plant at Anssems.
Concept drawing of a Waricut raised gantry plant. On Anssems' plant, the 3D cutting heads cover an area of 32 x 5 meters (x/y axis).
From 2D to 3D
Ridder originally developed plants with cutting tables for 2D processing. For 13 years now, the machinery builder has also been building 3D raised gantry plants under the Waricut series. Ridder has now commissioned the to-date largest plant of this kind.
The five axis plant features a cutting volume of 32,050 x 5,050 x 1,900 mm (x/y/z axis). Two gantries, each with one 3D cutting head, travel along the 32 meter long gantry axes. The plant is sectioned into four cabins, so that the two cutting heads can each work on one component while the other two cabins are changed over. This ensures that the plant is continuously in operation. The fact that each cutting head can travel to all four cabins ensures maximum flexibility and availability. All plant components are designed to be corrosion-free.
3D cutting of FGC (fiber-glass composite) superstructures for horse trailers
The customer for this XXL plant is the Dutch Anssems Group, which has developed a well deserved reputation throughout Europe as a manufacturer of passenger vehicle and utility vehicle trailers. Soon, Anssems will also be producing horse trailers in a new 14,000 m² factory that was also built in Bad Bentheim.
This is also where the Ridder made waterjet cutting plant is located. Its job will consist of machining the FGC superstructures that were laminated and molded in a prior processing step, for instance by cutting the door openings. This is done at very high accuracy. Dipl.-Eng. (FH) Dominik Ridder: "Our plants typically work at accuracies of ≤ ± 20 µm per meter - because of the large travels, it is 50 µm for this plant." “
Filled well: The energy supply system
Ridder's engineers needed a solution for supplying the cutting heads with energy, signals, compressed air and - above all - water. The high maximum travel speeds of 20 m/min of the linear axis needed to be taken into account. They decided in favor of a solution that had already proven itself in other Ridder plants: an energy chain from the series E 4.1, made by igus® GmbH, Cologne.
A fair amount of engineering work needed to be done before the energy supply task could be solved optimally. According to the principle of gliding energy chains, the upper run normally simply comes to rest on the lower run. For this plant, this was not possible for two reasons, as explained by igus® sales consultant, Stephan Adamik: "The heavy filling and long travel distance would result in excessive friction. In addition, the high-pressure hose for the water supply called for a larger bending radius, therefore eliminating the ‘chain on chain’ principle."
e-chain® with guidelok-system
In this case, the igus® construction kit provides a suitable solution that was originally developed for machine tool building. Stephan Adamik: "The principle of a gliding chain must be disregarded whenever chips can collect on the upper surface of the lower run because the chips can damage the two chain sections that glide on each other. We developed the guidelok system for these cases, which provides an independent guide for the upper run." “
Rolling travel with ideal guidance
Using simple means and only a few components, the guidelok system provides a very stable guide for the upper run, while also significantly extending the unsupported lengths of energy chains. Because the guidelok system guides the chain by means of rollers, chain travel is accomplished at very low pull/push forces, therefore ensuring energy efficient and quiet operation.
Ridder decided on an e-chain of the igus® series E 4.1 with 100 mm width and 56 mm height. In addition to the ¼ inch high-pressure hose, the chain also guides the chainflex® energy cables for the 3D cutting head and the CANBus communication cables. These were also supplied by igus® and are specially suited for continuous operation. A center crossbar ensures that the high-pressure hose is separated from the electrical cables. In order to keep the two chains as short as possible - given 32 meters of travel - the feed-in is located at the center of the travel distance.
Good experience with FGC machining – and with igus® energy chains
When the plant begins operation, several pallets with trailer superstructures are accurately positioned in each cabin, and a 3D-CAD/CAM program then executes the fully automatic machining of the FGC superstructures.
The feed-in is located at the center of the travel distance.
The guidelok system also ensures that the bending radius does not drop below the specified limit. The 3,800 bar high-pressure hose can be seen in the left part of the chain.
Successful teamwork: Dipl.-Eng. (FH) Dominik Ridder, Ridder Automatisierungs GmbH, Anssems' Factory Manager, Alfons Schlattmann and igus® consultant, Stephan Adamik (from left). One of the two 3D cutting heads shown on the left side of the image.
The guidelok system was also favored because of the considerable filling of the chain.
The movable cutting head, which can pivot by ± 95° and rotate by ± 540°, permits cutting even in difficult to access areas. And while the plant executes its programs in two cabins, the other two can already be loaded with new components.
The waterjet exits the cutting head at 3,800 bar and a velocity of 800 m/s, cleanly cutting the very durable material. As exciting as this is from a technical point of view - this is mundane routine for Ridder: The company has already developed and supplied a host of FGC cutting plants, including to the aircraft building industry. Here as well, igus® energy chains were used that have proven themselves under difficult continuous operating conditions.
Interior and exterior of the guidelok: The roller retainers only pivot when a chain is located in the guide.
E4.1 - przegląd
Guidelock pionowy, oszczędność przestrzenii
System poziomy Guidelock
Application examples:
Ulepszanie technologii i obniżanie kosztów
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Russian authorities bet on new equipment to enforce ban on Telegram
By EWDN in Moscow September 20, 2019
In the Siberian region of Tyumen, mobile operators are about to test special equipment to enforce the authorities’ ban on Telegram. As reported by Reuters, cited by the Russian media, this equipment has been provided by Roskomnadzor, the state telecom and Internet regulator, reports East-West Digital News (EWDN).
The tests are to be conducted this month in real conditions, the news agency reported from sources in the telecom industry.
This past spring, the Russian media revealed certain details about the equipment used for these tests. Relying on a traffic filtration technology named Deep Packet Inspection, the equipment was provided by RDP.RU. This Moscow-based company offers networking solutions for telecom and Internet providers. It is owned partially (15%) by Rostelecom, the national telecom operator.
Telegram was banned in Russia on April 13, 2018, following its refusal to let the Russian secret service FSB to decipher user messengers as required by law. However, more than one year later, the instant messenger continues to be widely accessible from Russia.
Why Telegram was blocked
Adopted in 2016, a new Russian legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) requires messenger apps and other “organizers of information distribution” to add additional coding to transmitted electronic messages so that the the FSB can decipher them.
Telegram agreed to register its service in Russia, but refused to cooperate with the secret service under “laws incompatible with Telegram’s privacy policy.”
As a consequence, a Moscow court ruled to block access to Telegram in a trial, which the messenger’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov called “an open farce.”
The authorities’ failed attempts to block access to the service in the spring of last year caused substantial damages to a number of online services, which saw their IP address blocked even though they had no relation to Telegram.
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Russia's Yandex internet major could start virtual mobile operator
Russian messenger service Telegram warns consumers not to be scammed by offers to buy the Gram token now
Capacity of SK Innovation's second Hungary factory to be raised to 16 Gwh equivalent to meet soaring demand from European carmakers.
Russia's most valuable digital company Yandex is considering launching its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Kommersant daily reported on January 9 citing unnamed market sources.
Fake websites have been offering "presale" of the Gram cryptocurrency that will run on the highly anticipated TON blockchain platform Telegram is in the middle of building.
Turnover of Czech e-shops increased to a record CZK161bn in 2019
The Czechs spent a record CZK161bn (€6.3bn) for goods bought in e-shops in 2019, up by 15% year-on-year, based on data published by Shoptet company which runs almost half of Czech e-market
Romanian telecom group RCS&RDS reportedly plans €1bn bond issues in 2020
The company has financed its sharp expansion over the last few years by aggressive borrowing. It is now eyeing the mobile telecommunication operations of Deutsche Telekom in Romania.
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The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms
What do African rhythms, spallation neutron source accelerators in nuclear physics, string theory in computer science, and an ancient algorithm described by Euclid have in common? Godfried Toussaint, Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi, reveals the answer.
Godfried Toussaint
The Euclidean algorithm (which comes down to us from Euclid’s Elements) computes the greatest common divisor of two given integers. It is shown here that the structure of the Euclidean algorithm may be used to generate, very efficiently, a large family of rhythms used as timelines (ostinatos), in sub-Saharan African music in particular, and world music in general. These rhythms, here dubbed Euclidean rhythms, have the property that their onset patterns are distributed as evenly as possible. Euclidean rhythms also find application in nuclear physics accelerators and in computer science, and are closely related to several families of words and sequences of interest in the study of the combinatorics of words, such as Euclidean strings, to which the Euclidean rhythms are compared.
What do African rhythms, spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators in nuclear physics, string theory (stringology) in computer science, and an ancient algorithm described by Euclid have in common? The short answer is: patterns distributed as evenly as possible. For the long answer please read on.
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About Godfried Toussaint
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HMRC letters to GSK contractors add to IR35 confusion
Alasdair Hutchison
Towards the end of last week, nearly 1,500 contractors working at the pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) started to receive identical letters from HMRC about their IR35 status.
The letters begin by saying HMRC is “writing to you because you told us you were self-employed when you worked for, and received payments through, your own company”. It goes on to state that “our [HMRC’s] view is that the contract between your PSC (Personal Service Company) and GSK comes under the off-payroll working rules ‘IR35’”, and that if you do not agree with this assessment “you must write to us to tell us why and give us evidence” or otherwise contractors will need to work out their appropriate PAYE tax and Class 1 NICs for the work they have undertaken for GSK in the 2018/19 tax year.
Although the letters are only an informal request for information and do not have a legal underpinning (for more on this see here), their accusatory tone and the broad-brush nature of HMRC’s compliance activity have understandably caused a lot of confusion and concern. They also raised a number of initial questions, from how HMRC have got these individuals’ details to why GSK’s contractors have been singled out. It is also inconceivable that HMRC has done enough due diligence on each of these 1,500 cases to so strongly imply they fall inside IR35.
Inevitably, this action has raised fears in some quarters that HMRC is conducting a ‘fishing exercise’ and setting out its stall ahead of the 2020 IR35 changes in the private sector. As soon as it became aware of the letters, IPSE asked HMRC for an explanation. A spokesperson said only that the agency’s “compliance activity spans a variety of industries and is focused on specific areas based on our analysis of where current risks to the tax system lie.”
IPSE has criticised HMRC on its IR35 activity in the press, including the FT and The Times. We also raised our concerns that this activity is very unhelpful directly with HMRC officials at yesterday’s IR35 Forum, where the message was repeated to us that this was not a new approach. HMRC agreed to further engagement on compliance activity at future Forum meetings, so we can better understand their approach. IPSE will continue to challenge HMRC on these tactics.
In the short term, IPSE members who have received this letter should not ignore it. You can access our advice on how to respond and the contact details for our expert advisors here. If you are not currently a member you can join IPSE now and we will be able to offer comprehensive assistance on this.
Longer term, this latest move simply adds to the confusion and chaos in our tax system. The fundamental problem with such blanket approaches is this: at a time when HMRC is about to roll out the IR35 changes to the private sector, these tactics send out exactly the wrong message.
With only a few months to go until end-clients will become responsible for assessing their contractors’ employment status for tax, HMRC should be engaging positively with businesses and contractors to inform them about, and support them with, the upcoming changes. It should not be undertaking activity targeting thousands of people with a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ approach.
Ultimately, confusion over IR35 has deeper roots than these letters. With so many contractors raising the alarm – and with strong evidence of the damage it has caused in the public sector – it’s time for an urgent rethink. IPSE will keep pressing for this.
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Iranian Warships Repel Pirates’ Attacks on Chinese Cargo Ship in High Seas
The timely presence and action of the Iranian Navy’s 31st Flotilla thwarted an attack by eight pirate speed boats, equipped with various light and semi-heavy weapons, on a Chinese container-carrier ship in the waters of the Gulf of Aden, and forced the pirates to flee the scene.
The Chinese ship was traveling en route from Singapore to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before it came under pirates’ attack.
The Chinese ship continued its voyage after it was rescued by the Iranian Navy.
In late July, the Iranian Navy dispatched its 31st flotilla to the Gulf of Aden and the high seas to protect the country’s cargo ships and oil tankers against pirates.
On August 24, the 31st Fleet of the Iranian Navy, comprised of Bayandor destroyer and Bandar Abbas logistic warship, docked at Djibouti port with the message of peace and friendship after sailing 2,200 nautical miles in free waters.
The fleet of warships had escorted 670 military and cargo ships and identified and traced trans-regional vessels and aircraft by then.
Iran’s 30th flotilla of warships ended its mission in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and returned home in July.
The Iranian Navy has been conducting anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden since November 2008, when Somali raiders hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.
According to UN Security Council resolutions, different countries can send their warships to the Gulf of Aden and coastal waters of Somalia against the pirates and even with prior notice to Somali government enter the territorial waters of that country in pursuit of Somali sea pirates.
The Gulf of Aden – which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea – is an important energy corridor, particularly because Persian Gulf oil is shipped to the West via the Suez Canal.
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The VQ Retro Mini - Review and Competition
Like most people, I enjoy listening to music, whether that be whilst I am getting ready in the morning or for a night out, washing the dishes in the kitchen or even when I am doing the ironing, there is always an occasion where I want to just listen to some music, and play some of my favourite songs.
Unfortunately my phone isn't very loud, so I started using a small bluetooth speaker, but I found that the battery would never last very long, and it just wasn't suitable for my needs. I also like to keep up to date with the news and the latest new song releases, and so it was frustrating to also not be able to listen to the radio through the device.
I had a search online for a digital radio, and whilst there seems to be plenty on the market, the majority didn't really stand out to me, as I also wanted something that was funky and would look great in my home, and definitely not something that I felt I would have to put away all the time, or one that would look bulky and boring.
I then spotted an advert for a VQ Retro Mini, and although the one pictured was white, it definitely didn't look boring, and I loved the design. I had a read through the description on the MyVQ website and was delighted to find that it came in a whole host of colours and patterns suitable for all tastes. There are even some exclusive Emma Bridgwater designs available, and I could imagine these looking great in a kitchen, conservatory or summer house.
The product looked great to me, but I needed to ensure that it offered me the sound quality I was after, aswel as being able to run on mains power so that I didn't need to worry about the battery going flat. I was therefore delighted to be offered the opportunity to review this product and discover more about it.
The box it arrived in was also stylish and had a sticker over the edges claiming "Quality Assured". It is great when brands are confident in their product, and it instantly makes you feel more reassured in the item. It also features the Which? great value logo, which means it has also been recognised by unbiased reviews that it is a product that consistently provides quality and great value to consumers. I thought that the colour coding at the bottom of the box was great, as rather than it being an image of the product colour inside, or a simple tick box like some companies do, it featured a soft leatherette sample of the actual casing so you could even feel it too.
On opening the box, there was an envelope placed at the top which contained the warranty details and underneath this, was the quick start guide. Placed at the top of the inner packaging was the plug and on removing the inner packaging it revealed a white dust bag underneath. I pulled this out to then reveal my fabulous new digital radio & bluetooth speaker. The wonderful VQ Retro Mini.
I had chosen the light blue design, as although I am a big fan of monochrome, I wanted something that would inject a bit of colour into my home. I immediately set it up in the kitchen and connected the mains power to the power port. I pressed the circular VQ button in the middle to turn it on, and it began to scan for radio stations. The LCD Screen was lovely and bright, and easy to read. It visually looked fantastic, and I waited for it to complete the DAB scan before exploring the range of buttons.
The VQ Retro Mini, boasts a whole host of features including DAB radio tuner with 30 presets, bluetooth connectivity for smart devices and MyEQ equaliser for personalised sound. The quick start guide easily explains how to use the product, and which buttons to press for each function. I was really pleased to find that not only was I getting a digital radio, but that I could stream my music via bluetooth, use it as a clock, and even set it as an alarm. I was also really pleased with the size of it (224mm height, 147mm width, 105mm depth), and the fact that it was really light, weighing in at less than a kilo. As we are a family that travel regularly this was a big bonus for me as it means that we will be able to take it with us on our adventures, and have music wherever we may go. The handle also means that this can be easily carried, and the dust bag which is included will also help to protect it from dirt whilst we are out and about, so it had already ticked so many boxes for us.
You can easily save your favourite channels by simply pressing the star button when tuned into the station or if you want to play your own music, you can connect your device to the speaker using the "Bluetooth mode" which will allow you to pair your phone/tablet. The alarm can also be set using the clock icon, and again it is a really simple process, you can even use the arrow keys to select your desired alarm volume.
The price of the product is £59.99 if choosing one of the 11 block colours, and is available for a slightly higher price of £79.99 if you would prefer one of the Emma Bridgwater designs. I was surprised at how fantastic it was, and it really does offer excellent value for money with so many functions and features. My initial instinct was that this was a product for adults, however since receiving the product my teenage stepson has commented on how much he likes this, and my daughter who is 10 has been consistently dropping hints that she would love a pink one in her room for Christmas.
There are so many people that I would love to buy one of these for as a Christmas gift as I could just imagine my dad working out in the shed listening to his, or my mum cooking and singing along to some ballads in the kitchen, so I would definitely recommend this product as a great gift idea, and if my daughter is very lucky, then Santa may just bring her a pink one too!
MyVQ.com have kindly offered the chance for one of my readers to win one of these fantastic VQ Retro Mini's and if you would like a chance to win, then simply enter using the gleam form below:
Win a Retro Mini Dab+ Radio from VQ
Entry is open to UK residents aged 18 or over. Any bulk/third party entries will be disqualified. The winner shall be drawn at random from all eligible entries. The winner shall be notified via email and will have 14 days to confirm that they wish to accept the prize. Should the winner fail to respond, then a new winner shall be selected at random from the remaining entries. The winner's details will be shared with the promoter for the purpose of prize fulfillment, which shall be sent directly from the promoter. Please allow up to 28 days for delivery, though every effort shall be made to try and get this to the winner before Christmas. There is 1 (one) prize available of a VQ Retro Mini.
*Disclaimer - I was provided with this product free of charge for the purpose of this review and to give my honest opinion and experience of using the product. All opinions are my own.
Posted by It's A Family Adventure at 18:06
Labels: Blog Review, Competition, Digital Radio, Electrical Products, Giveaways, Review, VQ, VQ Retro Mini
maci234 5 December 2016 at 22:46
if I can dream by elvis presley
kaytee 5 December 2016 at 23:07
Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi - that sums up my life!
Kevin000 6 December 2016 at 00:02
Nigsdylan 6 December 2016 at 00:40
ark side of the moon - Pink Floyd
s edwards 6 December 2016 at 06:21
tiny dancer elton john
Isabel 6 December 2016 at 08:59
My favourite song ever is probably Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine.
I've always loved Twinkle Twinkle little star, I know childish, but I love piano versions of it :)
Graham 6 December 2016 at 10:25
I get no satisfaction -rolling stones
Sue McCarthy 6 December 2016 at 12:13
Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Buble
Probably All My Life by the Foo Fighters!
Lucy Locket 6 December 2016 at 12:27
Probably I bet you look good on the dancefloor, arctic monkeys
I love so many! My favourite right now has got to be Justin Timberlakes - Can't stop this feelin!
linkin park in the end
treboreuk 6 December 2016 at 16:14
dont let me down, The Beatles
All My Life by the Foo Fighters
Abigail Cullen 6 December 2016 at 17:02
I love loads of songs, ELO, Mr Blue Sky, has got to be a favourite, of mine.
Mad World by Gary Jules
Andrea Fletcher 6 December 2016 at 18:45
Happy by Pharrell Williams.
Helen Humphries 6 December 2016 at 18:59
Donna Summer - I feel Love
MANDY DOHERTY 6 December 2016 at 19:09
True Love by Pink
The smiths charmming man x
Big Bird 6 December 2016 at 21:50
Souvenir by OMD
Parentingachildwithautism 7 December 2016 at 07:32
Lola by the Kinks :)
Pam Gregory 7 December 2016 at 14:01
Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams
Allan 7 December 2016 at 17:33
Bette Davis Eyes
Rebecca Nisbet 7 December 2016 at 21:25
Californication red hot chillis
Carole Nott 7 December 2016 at 21:55
wishing well - free
Ariana grande- Dangerous
Love it x
i love listening to the radio whilst cooking and would love to upgrade my current DAB radio.
JKENN 9 December 2016 at 21:35
Hard to choose but I think emotional carl thomas
buchanl 10 December 2016 at 06:12
Mr Brightside by the Killers
Lynsey Buchanan
Jenny Toal 11 December 2016 at 13:56
90s old skool
lorraine606 11 December 2016 at 14:54
Orleans - Dance With Me
I saw her standing there, by The Beatles!
Mr Jones - Counting Crowes
Midnight in Chelsea Bon Jovi
Jayne 12 December 2016 at 18:48
Mine is Last Christmas by Wham. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
sheridarby 12 December 2016 at 21:39
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Ann S 13 December 2016 at 04:58
donna l jones 13 December 2016 at 09:24
Breeze81 13 December 2016 at 11:42
Hajnal - Venetian Snares
Hayley8 13 December 2016 at 12:31
Lionel Richie - Dancing on the ceiling - brings back lots of happy memories
I love Sound and Vision by David Bowie.
AnnaH 13 December 2016 at 13:01
West Life's Flying Without Wings
My first my last my everything....Barry White
downingarms 13 December 2016 at 13:37
Dreams by The Cranberries
Lauren O 13 December 2016 at 17:22
Panic at the Disco - Emperor's New Clothes
Alison x 13 December 2016 at 18:14
i love my life- robbie williams
dragonfly63 13 December 2016 at 18:28
Penny Lane - The Beatles.
Allan Fullarton 13 December 2016 at 18:43
KIM1957UK 13 December 2016 at 19:50
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
Such a hard question i love bonjovi always
Jittie82 13 December 2016 at 20:53
Champagne Supernova by Oasis
Tee simpson 13 December 2016 at 21:33
Chris brown-take u down
sandy lynn ralph 13 December 2016 at 21:34
mine is the lady in red by Chris De Burgh
Pam Lawrence 13 December 2016 at 23:07
Mrs Potter's Lullaby by Counting Crows
Amanda Norwood 13 December 2016 at 23:45
Don't stop me now by Queen
Natasha R-M 14 December 2016 at 06:55
love swing so many great covers
Get into the groove by Madonna...more because of the memories it holds
Anna W 14 December 2016 at 10:07
Heroes - David Bowie
Enter Sandman - Metallica
teresa1963 14 December 2016 at 12:29
Don't stop me now by Queen and my fav Christmas song is little drummer boy by Bing and David Bowie
Miss Naylor 14 December 2016 at 12:58
Massive attack teardrop be awesome for my class :)
Hard question as it varies today it's Song for the Lovers - Richard Ashcroft.
J Savage 14 December 2016 at 13:55
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
Harmony in my head - buzzcocks
You to me are Everything - Real Thing
Snowsong by Underabanner
Kim Neville 14 December 2016 at 15:23
Rockabye by Cleanbandit
carol boffey 14 December 2016 at 15:42
flying without wings - westlife
Angie McDonald 14 December 2016 at 16:08
Piano Man by Billy Joel
twinlay06 14 December 2016 at 16:52
Born to run. Bruce Springsteen
Uptown Funk......Bruno Mars
Bring him home for les miserables
love oasis wonderwall
sharon martin 14 December 2016 at 19:37
i love to boogie
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20 October 2016 at 10:46pm
Aberfan survivor: My childhood ended that day
Video report by ITV News Correspondent Juliet Bremner
The last survivor to be pulled from rubble of the Aberfan disaster said his childhood ended that day.
Jeff Edwards, who was just eight years old, lost most of his classmates when a coal slip buried his school in the tiny welsh village on October 21 1966.
Speaking on the 50th anniversary of the tragedy in which 116 children and 28 adults died, he told ITV News: "Most of my friends in my class died, so our childhood was over that day at 9.15am.
"Basically we were happy-go-lucky children, looking forward to the half-term holidays, and at 9.15 our childhood stopped".
Aberfan disaster: What happened 50 years ago today?
Mr Edwards said the anniversary of the tragedy is always a 'difficult time'. Credit: ITV News
Mr Edwards said he woke to find one of his classmates dead on his shoulder.
"There was this rumbling sound, which got louder and louder as time went by, and the next thing I remember was waking up.
"When I woke, I found myself covered in this material, with a dead girl on my shoulder.
"I couldn't move and there were screams and shouts which obviously got less and less as time went by."
Mr Edwards said his childhood ended when the disaster happened. Credit: PA
Despite the heroic efforts of rescuers who dug for hours and formed human chains to remove the waste, Mr Edwards was the last survivor to be pulled out of Pantglas junior school.
He said it is difficult for him to face the anniversary of the disaster every year because he still remembers his former classmates.
The official inquiry blamed the National Coal Board for extreme negligence and it led to new leglislation being passed about public safety for mines and quarries.
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Jak Boulton
My overall direction in life is to create unique and engrossing experiences for others to engage in and enjoy. This means bringing my skillset in software development together with the sculpting of art, creative vision and narrative design to formulate interactive experiences. I've been building games for over 13 years and have built a reputation as not only a reliable independant programmer, but also one who is consistently pushing to improve workflows, tools and codebases. When working as part of a team; I thrive in an atmosphere of collaboration where all members are collectively working toward a common goal. I'm here to build, consume and grow in the video game industry.
Besides my love for games and the games industry; my other personal interests include music, film, content creation and learning new skills.
Based in Brighton, England
me@jakboulton.net
I am an Experienced Developer with origins in C++, 6 years of experience using C# and the Unity game engine and a demonstrated ability to rapidly assimilate new technologies, programming languages and paradigms. I also have a Masters Degree in Software Engineering and a passion for building solutions to complex problems.
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Faint Embers is a project built as a University submission for a friend. We started with large plans based around a boss-battle heavy platformer, I created a basic prototype movement system which ended up being mostly scrapped as we slowly massaged the game into the interactive experience it is now. The game was built in three weeks, that's everything from design, artwork, music composition and code.
Language: C#,
Engine: Unity
The game was based on the life of an unfortunate boy who, after a series of horrific events, finds himself stuck in his own mind attempting to deal with a plethora of mental health issues. Overall, the project was a joy to work on and the team we gathered was very talented.
Writing: Ethan Bailey
Programming and Game Design: Jak Boulton,
Art: Rebecca Deakin,
Music: Stephen Sims
Voice Acting: Chris Goodwin
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HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW – WHY YOUR HAIRSTYLE COULD LAND YOU IN TROUBLE!
Posted on 19 March 2013.
From Bob Marley to Mungiki to the modern day – dreadlocks are in fashion in Kenya
Hairstyles are a fashion statement not functional. There was a time when the Afro was the ‘in thing’, and then came the braids, weaves and wigs for the ladies, dreadlocks, and then the mo-hawk, which looks like it’s here to stay.
Celebrities have often been the inspiration for hairstyling and clothes designs, with women mostly aping styles from female musicians and actors while for men it’s mostly from footballers it seems.
One hairstyle in particular has been growing in popularity in Kenya.
Unlike in the past years in Kenya where dreadlocks were associated with members of the outlawed Mungiki sect, people have come to embrace braided Bob Marley-style locks as a social acceptable mop for the top, especially since they appear neat in the way they are styled today.
DREADLOCK THIEVES IN SOUTH AFRICA
But here’s a warning… In South Africa ‘dreadlock thieves’ have been the cause of a new wave of crime.
It is reported that that the love of dreadlocks combined with the lack of the patience and time it takes to sport lengthy ones has resulted in people opting to take the shortcut and buy dreads instead, a demand which in turn that has led to a crime wave targeting dreadlocked people where they are robbed and their long treasured locks cut off for sale.
Shoulder length dreadlocks are said to be sold between 200 rand (Sh 1,878) and 700 rand (Sh 4,574) while longer ones cost as much as 2000 rand (Sh 18,783). Stylists are said to use a new styling method known as crocheting to infuse the stolen hair to a client’s hair and give them long-locked hair instantly.
What would the main man Bob Marley have said?! So beware would-be Rastafari style seekers. Watch out for the dreadlock thieves and keep your hair on.
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Monster Monday: the Wookalar
Back in the mists of time, when I was a high schooler, I remember that the same goof-off stoner in marching band who got me into Mr. Bungle (he just gave me their self-titled first album on cassette saying "Here, you like weird shit, take this") used to use the word "wookalar" as if it were a thing that everybody should know about. From Wade's use of the word in conversation, it became clear that wookalars were humanoid-ish sentient beings and that this other guy named Luke knew how to speak their language, which sounded like a throaty warbling not unlike that of Wookiees. Was the wookalar just a knock-off stoner wookiee? Maybe. If anything, that made them more interesting in my mind. Wade saying "Oh shit, did you see that wookalar over there?" to distract me while standing at attention during marching band practice cemented the imaginary guys in my brain and many years later made me figure out what I thought a wookalar is. And while it's clear that Wade's use of the term was either intended to confuse or to bait the listener into asking "what's a wookalar?" (a question which I never heard asked, but to which I'm sure that Wade had a carefully-crafted answer at the ready), the fruits of my own imaginings have showed up in the Metal Gods campaign.
The Wookalar
A race of giant humanoids that stand 11-12' tall, the majestic wookalars of the forests and swamps of northern Ore blur whatever lines are drawn between men, animals and plants. Though roughly shaped like men, wookalars are covered in a deep shag of wavy hair that's less like a human's and more like that of a really fluffy dog. This coat of fur is almost always a series of dark earth tones -- with a few lighter-tinted highlights -- that mirrors the wookalars' environment and often contains elements of that locale. For example, many swamp wookalars will sport epaulets and even beards of moss while forest wookalars may have the tender leaves of small saplings adorning their coats.
Each wookalar -- male and female alike -- sports a rack of antlers not unlike those of a great elk except for one important detail: rather than being made of horn, these antlers actually made of wood, sprouting from the head as if the wookalar were some shaggy tree. These antler-branches grow from year to year and support leaves when in season (usually April through September), though often the wookalars' high level of activity causes many of these leaves to fall prematurely. There are tales of ancient sedentary wookalars who spend their life in mystic contemplation whose branchlers (the technical term) are unimpeded in growth by their (in)action and thus grow to nearly comical proportions. Further, some unsubstantiated rumors suggest that in the extreme northern climes of Ore, beyond even Hyperbarbaria and nearly to the polar Thunderlands, exist a breed of hardy arctic wookalars whose branchlers are evergreen rather than deciduous.
One final defining physical characteristic of the wookalars is the fluid number of joints their skeletons appear to have. One wookalar may only have one elbow per each arm, whereas another may have two or three. Knees are likewise in various supply and distribution. This variance maintains lateral symmetry, however, and no wookalar has more knees or elbows on one side -- left or right -- than the other, but are rarely more than three per appendage. Similarly, the fingers and toes appear to possess "extra" joints as well, often resulting in oddly curved digits.
As a people, the wookalars are famously peaceful and seem to take a live and let live approach to life, which is great and all, but there are some concepts common to other species that wookalars seem to have no understand of. Such as personal property. Or nations. Or borders. Or value and trade. Thus, wookalars go wherever they like, take whatever strikes their fancy and eat anything that think might taste good. In general, their natural lifestyle seems to be that of incredibly laid back (and often remarkably lucky) hunter-gatherers (more like "happen upon-picker uppers") and are often treated as a nuisance by neighboring peoples. In particular, the wookalars of the Filthwallow Swamp between Karel and Kuth face a high degree of persecution: the Karelites have built a large wall around the Swamp and a bridge over it to keep the wookalars out of Karel's fields, farms and pastures and Kuth situated itself on the opposite side of a range of mountains to segregate itself from Filthwallow's wookalars (many of which were displaced refugees from the forests of Kuth).Further, the Filthwallow wookalars share their lands with the mad marshmen, the Losels (see next week!), a hulking race of swamp-dwelling proto-men who are fiercely territorial, sparking a series of border skirmishes between the two races that the wookalars can't quite understand.
Many of the more contemplative-minded wookalars develop shamanly or wizardly talents, but have never been observed to practice any form of violent magic (such as Magic missle or Flaming hands), preferring more peaceful or constructive spells as well as those that impart knowledge or improve understanding.
While as a species the wookalars prefer peace, when backed into a corner they can fight ferociously. Beneath their shaggy coats, wookalars boast long, sharp claws -- which are actually more like thorns, much as their branchlers are quite treelike, these thorns aren't unlike huge, strong briarthorns. Further, all wookalars boast some form of tusks, whether in the lower jaw or the upper jaw or even both. A wookalar enraged enough to gore an enemy with its tusks is a fearsome sight to behold. Thankfully, few ever see it.
Wookalar
Init +1; Atk thornclaw +7 melee (1d7) or tusk gore +5 (1d12); AC 14; HD 6d10; MV 40'; Act 2d20; SV Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +6; AL N.
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The Inevitable Post U-Con Post
I didn't update the blog or G+ as awesome as I'd planned while U-Con was going on, which is a shame, because it was a really good con! U-Con has the distinction of being the biggest con in Michigan (which isn't saying much these days), but the U-Con organizers have hooked up with Ypsilanti's quite nice Eagle Crest convention center, which I wouldn't call swanky, but it's definitely a nice place. The rooms didn't feel terribly expansive (like those of the hotels that participate in GenCon), but weren't quite cramped, giving the whole thing overall a friendly "just the right size" feeling. One of the things that +R.J. Thompson & I noticed was just how many old school games were on the schedule for 2013: quite a few! I think there was only one time slot that didn't have an old school option, but that was 9a-1p on Sunday, which I'd be surprised if you could find players for.
Friday I got to the con later than I had planned on Friday, a…
Another Kickass Milestone: 200th Post and Announcements!
This is the 200th post here on Dispatches From Kickassistan. For some blogs (and bloggers), that's not very much, but considering that, on average, my post tend to run on the longer side, it means something to me. This weekend was a pretty busy one, with last minute prep for a game that didn't happen on Sunday, my Saturday night Swords & Wizardry game and work on the top secret Kickassistan project (see below, Announcement #2), so I wasn't left with much time for blogging. In fact, as I sat down to write this, I almost missed the milestone significance of Post #200 and to go straight into talking about some other gaming nonsense (don't worry, that gaming nonsense will still get written about) when it hit me and here I am, and here you are, now writing and reading about how I've somehow managed to post 200 times on this blog in the past year two-and-a-half months. And so, here's some announcements:
Announcement #1: The Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad Turns One! The M…
An Experiment In Thuggery
At GaryCon IX this past March, I had the pleasure of meeting +Paolo Greco. Paolo and I hadn't really interacted before this, other than a passing admission of admiration for each other's work. I was hoping to meet him last year at GC VIII, but our paths never crossed. This past year, though, I was headed back to our room and when I crossed paths with him (I didn't recognize him at all, since in real life he looks nothing like a My Little Pony -- Geeplussers will get that -- but he was wearing a Lost Pages shirt) it turns out that he was in the room next to us along with a bunch of other great folks! (I'm not sure who all stayed in that room, but I know that +Jason Sholtis, +Jeremy Duncan & +Richard G were a big part of the crowd hanging out there.)
Kate and I had the opportunity to play in Paolo's Gangs & Bullshit game, and it was here that we realized that he and I share a particular proclivity for the "thieves' guild" or gang-style game. Paol…
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IPF 2014: No new machines, but look what we can do with our existing ones!
As with many other Japanese OEMs at the recent IPF Show near Tokyo, injection machine builder Nissei Plastic Industrial (Ueda, Japan) chose to focus on the processing capabilities of its existing machine line-up rather than debut an extensive array of new machines. Company president Hozumi Yoda explained the rationale behind this decision to PlasticsToday during the show.
"During organization committee meetings I attended, the consensus was that we should make this year's IPF different from other shows in Asia where stand-alone machines are typically exhibited. We wanted to display the automation, system and energy-saving capabilities of Japanese machinery," said Yoda. "While no one implicitly said 'no new machines at IPF,' in the end that was happened. In effect we were raising the bar of existing technology and translating this to higher profitability for our customers." One example of Nissei modifying an existing machine was its NEX180III-5ELMN multi-shot liquid silicone rubber (LSR) system based on an existing thermoplastic injection press.
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6-Day Itineraries
Wild & Remote West Nepal - 6 Days
Situated more than 300 miles (500 km) from Kathmandu, Bardia National Park is as remote and wild as it gets. For wildlife enthusiasts seeking an off the beaten path experience, it is a must. With only a fraction of the number of visitors compared to the more famous Chitwan National Park, you'll have a truly wild experience, one that is not overrun by crowds.
Explore the vibrant bustle of Kathmandu, the Nepali capital
Head into the wilds of the jungle, then enjoy luxe comforts at Karnali Lodge
Embark on a jeep safari at dusk in search of leopards
Spot a Bengal Tiger on a jeep wildlife safari or the rare Gangetic dolphin on a river safari
Day 1 Welcome to Kathmandu! Kathmandu
Day 2 Fly from Kathmandu to Nepalgunj, Overnight at Karnali Lodge Bardia National Park
Day 3 Explore Bardia: In Search of the Royal Bengal Tiger Bardia National Park
Day 4 Explore Bardia: Jungle & River Safari Bardia National Park
Day 5 Fly from Bardia to Kathmandu Kathmandu
Day 6 Depart Kathmandu
Day 1: Welcome to Kathmandu!
The cityscape of Kathmandu and Boudhanath Stupa
Flying into Kathmandu, you'll have views over the valley, the Himalaya, and the terraced fields below. After completing customs, a representative will be waiting to greet you outside the airport and to guide you through the initial culture shock of Kathmandu’s narrow, winding streets to your hotel.
Once you've settled in, head out and explore the city. Kathmandu Durbar Square is a great place to start your exploration, where you'll walk through narrow alleyways teeming with small shops, ancient temples, and local restaurants. If you want to stretch your legs, Swayambhunath, the white stupa rising above the valley, is the perfect spot to catch the sunset over the valley.
In the evening, the tourist hub of Thamel is a good place to grab your first meal, with a variety of restaurants to chose from offering both Western and local Nepali dishes.
Day 2: Fly from Kathmandu to Nepalgunj, Overnight at Karnali Lodge
Enjoy the comforts of Karnali Lodge after a day out in the jungle
Upon arrival in Nepalgunj Airport, you will be met by a Tiger Tops representative, served refreshments and transferred to Tiger Tops Karnali Lodge, approximately a two-hour drive away.
En route, get a feel for life in the Terai as you pass through towns, fields, and forests. Close to the lodge, you will cross the Babai River, where Marsh Mugger Crocodiles may be warming in the midday sun.
Once at Karnali Lodge, a hot Nepali lunch will be served. Many of the ingredients are organic and picked on a daily basis from the lodge's own farm.
In the afternoon, head out on a dusk jeep safari to the National Park in search of elusive tigers and leopards. Tigers hunt in the cool of the day so dusk is a perfect time to catch a glimpse of the great cats patrolling their territories. The safari will last for two and a half hours. You will be accompanied by an experienced naturalist who will provide in-depth knowledge of the local fauna and flora of Bardia National Park.
Spend your evening with cocktails around an outdoor fireplace before moving into the Ghol Ghar (Nepalese dining room) for dinner. A good setting for late-night chats, the stocked bar remains open until the last person goes to bed.
Day 3: Explore Bardia: In Search of the Royal Bengal Tiger
Keep an eye out for Bengal tigers
Wake up early to the sounds of the abundant birdlife and grab an early breakfast before embarking on a full-day jeep safari in the jungle in search of the Tiger. An experienced naturalist will guide you to various hides, lookouts, and areas of amazing vistas whilst showing you a plethora of wildlife found in Bardia National Park. Enjoy a packed lunch, whilst you wait for a glimpse of the elusive orange and black stripes. Return via the National Park Headquarters, where you can visit both the elephant and Gharial (world's rarest crocodile) breeding centers.
Return to the lodge in the early evening to a well earned cold beer or hot shower, followed by delicious dinner.
Day 4: Explore Bardia: Jungle & River Safari
Royal Bengal Tiger crossing the Karnali river in Bardia National Park
Today, you'll have time to relax or to choose from a variety of activities to explore the jungle of Bardia.
Elephant or Jeep Wildlife Safari
Explore the jungle by elephant ride or jeep safari, where it's best to go early when the morning mist rises over the river and grasslands and the wildlife goes to the water to drink. Monkeys chatter and birds call from the trees. If you're lucky, you'll spot an elusive Royal Bengal Tiger. After lunch, you can take a jungle walk for another opportunity to see wild animals and take some great photos.
Chisapani Bridge & Karnali River Safari
Embark on a one-hour drive to the Chisapani Bridge (the largest in Nepal) and the starting point of your river safari. You'll float down the Karnali river, spotting an abundance of aquatic birdlife, crocodiles and, if you are lucky, the extremely rare Gangetic dolphin. Drift slowly past small islands as the river splits watching the deer and monkeys foraging on the river bank. Following your safari, you will be picked up and driven to the lodge for a late lunch.
Explore the Local Villages
In the afternoon, it's a good time to go for a gentle stroll through the neighboring villages and paddy fields, meeting the local farmers and learn about the Tharu way of life.
Day 5: Fly from Bardia to Kathmandu
Dawn in Bardia National Park
After a leisurely breakfast, you'll drive back to Nepalgunj (2 hours) for your return journey to Kathmandu. In the afternoon, there will be some free time to visit other points of interest in the capital or do some last-minute shopping.
Day 6: Depart Kathmandu
The all-seeing eyes of Buddha at Swayambhunath
It's time to say farewell to Nepal. Enjoy your last moments in Kathmandu with breakfast in a café, a final stroll through the narrow alleys and temples, and some final souvenir shopping. A driver will be waiting for you at your hotel to take you to the airport for your return flight home. It's best to be at the airport at least two hours prior to departure.
Map of Wild & Remote West Nepal - 6 Days
Written by Alex Buri, updated Oct 14, 2019
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The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens
First Line: The courtroom had fallen quiet, the judge's words lost behind a low hum that droned in Max Rupert's ears.
Minneapolis Detective Max Rupert is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband Ben. His longtime friend, attorney Boady Sanders, is convinced that Ben is innocent-- so much so that he is now Ben's lawyer. As both the case and the trial unfold, Max and Boady find themselves being put through a wringer.
For Max, this case is stirring up memories of the death of his beloved wife. For Boady, it's the first time he's taken on a defense case since the death of an innocent client. With student Lila Nash's help, Boady is determined to redeem himself for his past failure.
Told from two differing points of view, author Allen Eskens takes characters from his previous two novels (The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another) and weaves some literary magic. The title is from a Latin phrase: Fiat justitia ruat caelum-- Do justice though the heavens may fall. Max and Boady are both men who are committed to justice. When Boady explains the phrase ("If a person is ever presented with the choice, that person must always do what is right even though it may bring on great personal loss"), I got chills. Both men are capable of putting it all on the line to do the right thing, and they're on opposite sides in this case. What is going to happen?
I like Eskens' approach to writing a series. It's not exactly linear. Instead, he takes characters from previous books and puts them in different pairings and different scenarios in each successive book. It works. The writing is elegant, tightly woven, and swift moving. Moreover, if you're a character-driven reader, you're going to love him. Eskens' characters are flawed yet strong, and their emotional turmoil can be as visceral as a punch in the gut. It's altogether too easy for me to put myself in Max and Boady's shoes and feel everything that they do. I become lost in the world the author has created.
The story is brilliantly told. The two points of view do double duty: letting readers know what Max and Boady are doing while keeping us off-balance. And the ending? You're just not quite sure how things are going to turn out until they actually do. Allen Eskens is a lawyer who knows how to write, and he has the awards to prove it. (With more to come if I'm not mistaken!) Do yourself a favor and read him!
Seventh Street Books © 2016
Legal Thriller, #3 Max Rupert
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by Cathy at Thursday, October 06, 2016
Labels: Allen Eskens, Book Reviews, Legal Thriller, Max Rupert, Minnesota
This does sound like an interesting look at a court case and the people involved, Cathy. And it sounds as though the backstories are as interesting as the case itself is.
Cathy October 6, 2016 at 12:12 PM
They are. The whole thing keeps your attention from beginning to end-- just like his previous two novels.
Tana French takes the same approach with her series of Dublin Murder Squad mysteries, which are excellent. So your review has me curious about this one...
Cathy October 8, 2016 at 1:03 AM
It's always interesting to me to discover the little details in a review or synopsis that encourages readers to pick up a certain book. :-)
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State environmental teams investigating oil sheen
Posted: 10:15 AM, Jun 21, 2018
By: Site Administrator
State environmental crews are looking into a substance that has ended up in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.
Around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, a Flint Hills employee saw what appeared to be an oil sheen in a city storm water ditch. So, that employee contacted authorities. Some of that sheen made its way to the Ship Channel.
Crews with the Refinery Terminal Fire Company, the Texas Commission on Environmental Equality and the Texas General Land Office have arrived on the scene. According to Flint Hills Public Affairs Regional Manager Andy Saenz, the sheen has been contained but crews are trying to determine where the oil is coming from.
"We’ve checked our outfalls but it’s not coming from us" Saenz said.
Outfalls are areas where refineries discharge clean fluid into the bay. Meanwhile, crews are looking for oil on other refinery companies docks so that they can determine where the oil is coming from.
"There is a sheen on the water. Environmental is looking into it." said Rosie Collin, the Port of Corpus Christi’s Director of Community Relations.
Meanwhile, KRIS 6 News has contacted the RTFC and was told the chief would call us later with an update.
This is a developing story, and more information will be reported as it becomes available.
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'Impasse': McConnell blasts impeachment, notes issues with House speaker, minority leader
MARY CLARE JALONICK, LAURIE KELLMAN and ZEKE MILLER
The top Senate Republican is denouncing the "unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send “their shoddy work product to the Senate” after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial.McConnell described Trump's impeachment as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.”The House impeached Trump on two charges—abusing his power and obstructing Congress—stemming from his pressure on Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rival as he withheld U.S. aid.McConnell said Thursday night in the speech that there's an "impasse" in terms of logistics related to a Senate trial. He said there were issues with Pelosi not sending over the impeachment articles for the Senate to hold its trial and also with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, where the two sides have disagreed over which witnesses would be called.McConnell met Thursday with Schumer to begin negotiations on how to conduct next year's Senate trial. The two leaders have a poor relationship, and McConnell holds a tactical edge if he can keep his 53-member Senate majority united.“The framers built the Senate to provide stability," McConnell said in his Thursday Senate floor remarks, according to excerpts released by his office. "To keep partisan passions from boiling over. Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”"Sen. Schumer asked Sen. McConnell to consider Sen. Schumer's proposal over the holidays because Sen. Schumer and his caucus believe the witnesses and documents are essential to a fair Senate trial," Justin Goodman, Schumer's spokesman, said in a statement, CNN reported.In a news conference late Wednesday, Pelosi declined to say when she would send the articles to the Republican-led Senate. Until the articles are submitted, the Senate cannot hold the trial that is nearly certain to acquit the Republican president. Trump was quick Thursday morning to lash out at Pelosi.“Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning. He claimed the timing of the trial was up to the Senate, and that if Democrats didn't transmit the articles of impeachment “they would lose by Default!”But there is no Constitutional requirement on Pelosi to send them swiftly — or at all.Pelosi said House Democrats could not name impeachment managers — House prosecutors who make the case for Trump's conviction and removal from office — until they know more about how the Senate will conduct a trial.“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” Pelosi said. “And I would hope that that will be soon. ... So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers."McConnell rejected a proposal earlier this week from Schumer, D-N.Y., to call several witnesses. McConnell also said that he is coordinating with the White House and declared, “I am not an impartial juror.”Pelosi said that McConnell “says it's OK for the foreman of the jury to be in cahoots with the lawyers of the accused. That doesn't sound right to us."White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham blasted Pelosi's move that would potentially delay the Senate trial, where she said Trump was sure to get a “fair shake” compared to the House.In an interview with ABC's “Good Morning America,” Grisham said Pelosi's announcement was “just another gimmick and more changing of the rules.”Asked again if she could guarantee that she would send the articles to the Senate, Pelosi said at the news conference: “That would have been our intention." But they will see what the Senate decides, she said. “We are not having that discussion. We have done what we set out to do," Pelosi said. Complicating any decision to delay are House Democrats' arguments in recent weeks that Trump's impeachment was needed “urgently," arguing his actions were a threat to Democracy and the fairness of the 2020 election.Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a member of Pelosi's leadership team, said after her remarks that Democrats want impeachment proceedings that are “judicious and responsible and deliberative.” He said that while Senate will decide its own procedures, "the speaker’s only point is before she sends it over she needs to understand what that is” because it will influence who the impeachment managers are.Asked about never sending the articles over, Cicilline said, “I would not speculate that anyone’s even contemplating that."___Associated Press writer Alan Fram in Washington and Hearst TV contributed to this report.
The top Senate Republican is denouncing the "unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send “their shoddy work product to the Senate” after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial.
McConnell described Trump's impeachment as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.”
The House impeached Trump on two charges—abusing his power and obstructing Congress—stemming from his pressure on Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rival as he withheld U.S. aid.
McConnell said Thursday night in the speech that there's an "impasse" in terms of logistics related to a Senate trial. He said there were issues with Pelosi not sending over the impeachment articles for the Senate to hold its trial and also with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, where the two sides have disagreed over which witnesses would be called.
McConnell met Thursday with Schumer to begin negotiations on how to conduct next year's Senate trial. The two leaders have a poor relationship, and McConnell holds a tactical edge if he can keep his 53-member Senate majority united.
“The framers built the Senate to provide stability," McConnell said in his Thursday Senate floor remarks, according to excerpts released by his office. "To keep partisan passions from boiling over. Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”
"Sen. Schumer asked Sen. McConnell to consider Sen. Schumer's proposal over the holidays because Sen. Schumer and his caucus believe the witnesses and documents are essential to a fair Senate trial," Justin Goodman, Schumer's spokesman, said in a statement, CNN reported.
In a news conference late Wednesday, Pelosi declined to say when she would send the articles to the Republican-led Senate. Until the articles are submitted, the Senate cannot hold the trial that is nearly certain to acquit the Republican president.
Trump was quick Thursday morning to lash out at Pelosi.
“Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning. He claimed the timing of the trial was up to the Senate, and that if Democrats didn't transmit the articles of impeachment “they would lose by Default!”
But there is no Constitutional requirement on Pelosi to send them swiftly — or at all.
Pelosi said House Democrats could not name impeachment managers — House prosecutors who make the case for Trump's conviction and removal from office — until they know more about how the Senate will conduct a trial.
“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” Pelosi said. “And I would hope that that will be soon. ... So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers."
Trial-ready: Pelosi faces choice on impeachment prosecutors
McConnell rejected a proposal earlier this week from Schumer, D-N.Y., to call several witnesses. McConnell also said that he is coordinating with the White House and declared, “I am not an impartial juror.”
Pelosi said that McConnell “says it's OK for the foreman of the jury to be in cahoots with the lawyers of the accused. That doesn't sound right to us."
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham blasted Pelosi's move that would potentially delay the Senate trial, where she said Trump was sure to get a “fair shake” compared to the House.
In an interview with ABC's “Good Morning America,” Grisham said Pelosi's announcement was “just another gimmick and more changing of the rules.”
Asked again if she could guarantee that she would send the articles to the Senate, Pelosi said at the news conference: “That would have been our intention." But they will see what the Senate decides, she said.
“We are not having that discussion. We have done what we set out to do," Pelosi said.
Complicating any decision to delay are House Democrats' arguments in recent weeks that Trump's impeachment was needed “urgently," arguing his actions were a threat to Democracy and the fairness of the 2020 election.
Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a member of Pelosi's leadership team, said after her remarks that Democrats want impeachment proceedings that are “judicious and responsible and deliberative.”
House votes, Senate trial: What's next in impeachment
He said that while Senate will decide its own procedures, "the speaker’s only point is before she sends it over she needs to understand what that is” because it will influence who the impeachment managers are.
Asked about never sending the articles over, Cicilline said, “I would not speculate that anyone’s even contemplating that."
Associated Press writer Alan Fram in Washington and Hearst TV contributed to this report.
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After vandalism, Missouri United Daughters of the Confederacy requests removal of monument
Crews began boxing up that memorial Sunday morning
Updated: 10:35 AM CDT Aug 20, 2017
KMBC SOURCE: KMBC
The Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has requested the removal of a Kansas City confederate memorial after it was vandalized over the weekend.The United Daughters of the Confederacy monument sits at 55th Street and Ward Parkway. Early Saturday someone spray painted a hammer and sickle along with "KC" on the memorial.City crews had the memorial cleaned by mid-morning, but the Missouri Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is concerned over future vandalism attempts. The group has requested that the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department move that memorial to a safe location. The monument has been sitting along Ward Parkway for nearly 60 years.KC Parks and Rec says that removal will happen soon. Crews were beginning to box up that memorial Sunday morning.
The Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has requested the removal of a Kansas City confederate memorial after it was vandalized over the weekend.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy monument sits at 55th Street and Ward Parkway. Early Saturday someone spray painted a hammer and sickle along with "KC" on the memorial.
City crews had the memorial cleaned by mid-morning, but the Missouri Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is concerned over future vandalism attempts.
The group has requested that the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department move that memorial to a safe location.
The monument has been sitting along Ward Parkway for nearly 60 years.
KC Parks and Rec says that removal will happen soon. Crews were beginning to box up that memorial Sunday morning.
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Posts tagged Data Breach.
Last week, the D.C. Circuit joined an increasing number of federal courts applying a broad interpretation of the degree of harm required to satisfy Article III standing and expanding the holding of last summer’s Spokeo, Inc. v. Robbins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016).
Tags: Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Data Breach
Last week, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the district court’s approval of the class action settlement in the Target data breach litigation. See In re Target Corp. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., 2017 U.S. App. Lexis 1767 (8th Cir. Feb. 1 2017).
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CyberSecurity News: Spokeo, Galaria and Braitberg
By Joseph M. Callow, Jr., Drew M. Hicks, Jacob D. Rhode on 09.13.2016
Two Courts of Appeals have issued decisions during the past week related to cybersecurity and data retention which anyone who maintains electronic data and personal information should read.
Tags: Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Cybersecurity Regulation, Data Breach
Seventh Circuit Sides with Plaintiffs and Reinstates Consumer Data Breach Class Action Previously Dismissed for Lack of Standing
By Jacob D. Rhode on 07.28.2015
Last week the Seventh Circuit reinstated the Neiman Marcus data breach class action, holding that plaintiffs had satisfied Article III’s standing requirements based on at least some of the injuries they alleged. In doing so, the Seventh Circuit became the first federal court of appeals to rule on a challenge to the standing of purported data breach victims in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), and diverged from the growing majority of federal district courts that have held similar allegations are insufficient to confer standing.
Tags: Class Action Litigation, Data Breach, Seventh Circuit
The Value of Cyber Insurance in Managing the Risk of a Data Breach
By Pamela Morgan Hodge on 04.09.2015
The risk of a data breach now tops the list of concerns of many in-house counsel and C-suite executives. Cyber insurance is an important component in managing this risk and mitigating the damages and loss that follow a data breach.
Tags: Cyber Insurance, Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Data Breach
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Scrambled Jake's: Built by family to serve your family
Scrambled Jake's, a new breakfast and brunch eatery in the Rocky Hill community, offers fresh items, including gluten-free options
Scrambled Jake's: Built by family to serve your family Scrambled Jake's, a new breakfast and brunch eatery in the Rocky Hill community, offers fresh items, including gluten-free options Check out this story on knoxnews.com: http://knoxne.ws/2zfQpex
Mary Constantine, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 8:00 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017
French toast topped with blueberries and whipped cream.(Photo: Submitted)
The restaurant business is fickle. One day you're hot, and the next you're not.
It's a risky business that Jake Ogle fully understands. That's why he and brother Taylor Ogle, both partners in Five Oaks Development Group, joined forces with cousin Kirby Smith of KBS Inc. in opening Scrambled Jake's, 7428 S. Northshore Drive. Smith has developed a number of Sevier County eateries. Scrambled Jake's is the second breakfast location that's been a collaboration between him and the Ogle brothers. The first was Crockett's Breakfast Camp in Gatlinburg.
"We started working on this idea about two years ago. At that time the only breakfast competitors were the Plaid Apron in Sequoyah Hills and Holly's Gourmet Market. Part of me was worried about the rise in competition (between concept and opening) but the other part of me was like, 'Hey, we must be on to something,'" Jake Ogle said.
Deciding on a breakfast concept was not something that came easily. The Rocky Hill building has had a bad run of sorts. It was originally built as a Hardee's. When that closed, it became Roux BBQ and after that the Tin Roof.
Scrambled Jake's a new spot for breakfast and brunch
A selection of egg dishes with biscuits, pancakes and a cinnamon roll from Scrambled Jakes Restaurant Submitted
The new eatery Scrambled Jake's is seen from Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Patrons enjoy the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
A sign hangs above the bar at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Patrons enjoy the bar at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Deep fried deviled eggs are served at Scrambled Jake's restaurant in Rocky Hill. Submitted
Rustic decorations adorn the walls at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
French toast topped with blueberries and whipped cream. Submitted
A sign for Scrambled Jake's stands in front of the new eatery, visible from Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community in Knoxville, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
A patron enjoys the bloody Mary bar at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
Scrambled Jake's co-owner Jake Ogle said the restaurant's cinnamon roll with cream cheese topping is a customer favorite. Submitted
A server walks in front of a mural of downtown Knoxville at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL
"Tin Roof had just moved out when we started looking at the property and examining why the last few tenants hadn't been successful," Jake Ogle said. "We did research and found that there were a lot of variables in play. Parking has always been a problem, and we thought that whatever we selected, it needed to be in harmony with other businesses in the area. Breakfast seemed to be a good idea because that option was underserved in the area, the building is on the side of the street that people pass on their way to work and we thought it would mesh well with surrounding businesses because Scrambled Jake's would be open when many of them are still closed and vice versa," he said.
Scrambled Jake's is not a chain restaurant, and Ogle said it will never become one.
"One of the things we are excited about with his breakfast concept is that we have 100 percent control over the menu. That will not change. Scrambled Jake's will never be a chain."
Ogle also acknowledged that the business is named after him.
"My brother and Kirby give me a hard time, saying that everything from my thought process to my golf game is scrambled. That's kind of how it got its name. I did tell them if it ends up underperforming, then it will also be scrambled Taylor and scrambled Kirby," he said jokingly.
Patrons enjoy the bar at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (Photo: CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL)
The building is approximately 3,500 square feet with a seating capacity of 115. Jake Ogle said a patio will open in the coming year.
The restaurant's menu includes a variety of Eggs Benedict options, egg and omelet plates, pancakes and French toast, and items such as biscuits, gravy, grits, deep-fried deviled eggs, a "sin-O-man" roll and French press coffee. There's also a pasta carbonara dish as well as a dish that includes wild Scottish salmon.
A selection of egg dishes with biscuits, pancakes and a cinnamon roll from Scrambled Jakes Restaurant (Photo: Submitted)
The eatery offers fresh squeezed orange juice from a machine that presses whole oranges in view of the customer. Gluten-free customers have a separate menu from which to choose.
The business has a liquor license, so cocktails are available with breakfast/brunch. A bloody Mary bar is set up on the weekends.
"The brunch business is growing, and with that people are enjoying cocktails with their meal. Not many of the breakfast locations offer that. We thought that would help differentiate ourselves a bit," Jake Ogle said.
A patron enjoys the bloody Mary bar at the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (Photo: CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL)
The Ogle brothers live within two miles of the restaurant and are excited to bring a freshness to the building both in an exterior upgrade and with the menu.
"We live in Knoxville, and so this restaurant means a lot to us. The whole Rocky Hill business community has been so good to us ,and I think they are excited that we are here. We plan to do things the right way with good quality food and a wholesome atmosphere. That is our mission," Jake Ogle said.
Patrons enjoy the new eatery Scrambled Jake's on Northshore Drive in the Rocky Hill community Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (Photo: CAITIE MCMEKIN/NEWS SENTINEL)
Hours are 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday and 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Follow the restaurant on Facebook or at http://www.scrambledjakes.com.
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‘Go Chiefs!’ This 1965 Chiefs cheerleader is still just as spunky as she was 54 years ago
by: Shannon O'Brien
Posted: Jan 14, 2020 / 08:04 AM PST / Updated: Jan 14, 2020 / 08:04 AM PST
KANSAS CITY, Mo (WDAF) — While looking forward to big Chiefs wins, FOX4 is also looking back on Kansas City Chiefs history. As the players have evolved, so has the group on the field who cheers for them.
“I got these earrings many, many years ago when I was a Chiefs cheerleader,” Lorraine Guastella Vaughan said, showing off her big, round earrings with a Chiefs helmet in the center. “Fifty-four years ago I was a Chiefs cheerleader.”
From 1965-1969, Vaughn was a fixture on the sideline of Municipal Stadium. Her squad was much smaller than the ones today, focused on athleticism instead of dancing.
“There were six of us that were regulars, and then we had two subs, and we cheered with guys, which was really neat,” Vaughan said. “We did all the lifts. We did pyramids, round-offs, aerials and it was wonderful.”
She shared the field with famous Chiefs like Hank Stram, Len Dawson, Fred Arbanas and Jim Lynch, as well as Kansas City jazz legend Marilyn Maye who sang at halftime.
“I remember having to hold her mink stole, and it was so cute because she would always say, ‘Now young lady, don’t you dare get that in the mud,'” Vaughan recalled.
Back then, Chiefs cheerleaders didn’t get paid and had to cover their own expenses when traveling to away games.
So when they found out that Lamar Hunt was scheduled to be a guest on the Night Beat radio show with Walt Bodine, her squad elected Vaughn to call in. Pretending to be a fan, she told the Chiefs owner how hard they work — for no money.
“And he says, ‘Young lady, is that true?'” Vaughan said of Hunt’s reaction. “I said, well I said, ‘Sir, I’m sorry but I am a Kansas City Chiefs cheerleader, and I had to do this. I drew the short straw.’ But we needed to get the point across to him how hard we worked for him, how much we care and do you ever think about that?”
Shortly after that, Chiefs cheerleaders began getting paid.
Cherishing her past, Vaughan is now looking forward to the Chiefs future and her favorite player she calls, “Our little Patrick Mahomes, our saving grace.”
“I know they are going to fight to the finish,” Vaughan said of the Chiefs quest to win the Super Bowl.
To get to the Super Bowl, the Chiefs need to get past the Tennessee Titans first. Lorraine predicts the Chiefs will beat the Titans but said they’re a tough team, so she thinks it will be a close game.
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by Tristi Rodriguez and Philippe Djegal / Jan 17, 2020
SANTA CLARA (KRON) -- Everyone was all in during the 49ers practice on Friday just two days before the big game.
"These Friday groups are getting bigger. No injuries to report," Head Coach Kyle Shanahan said. "So, everyone's full-go, good to go."
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UPDATE: GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) -- The prank wars continue to escalate for Tommy and Jyll Everman.
Friday morning, Jyll surprised Tommy by switching out his car for a small vehicle decked out in green and gold.
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Pro Picks is surprised.
Consider that the NFC title game is a matchup of the conference’s top two seeds. The spread favors host San Francisco (14-3) over Green Bay (also 14-3) by 7 1-2 points.
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Norway looking up
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When was the last time you read an article about Norway in the label trade press? Could be some time ago, so here is a quick briefing on one of Europe’s most discreet – and most successful – countries. A mere thousand years ago this long narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and the mountains was so poor the inhabitants had no choice but to invade Northern England and colonize Iceland and Greenland (and maybe even Newfoundland). They also sailed up the Seine and besieged Paris. After that everything went fairly quiet on the Norse front, apart from the odd wars, invasions and plagues.
Things really started looking up for Norway in the 1960s with the discovery of lots of offshore oil and gas in the country’s offshore waters. Prudent investments and social spending over the rest of the 20th century and into the present have made the Kingdom of Norway into a quiet success story among European states. Although it has an extensive free trade agreement with the European Union, it is not a member, and other Europeans find prices in Norway range from high to outrageous. If you don’t believe that, try buying a round of drinks in a Norwegian bar.
Trondheim is about halfway up the long Norwegian coast and is the home of Skipnes Etikett, a family-run converter who has been producing pressure sensitive labels since 1969. With 24 employees and annual sales of 70 million Krone ($8 million), Skipnes rates as a medium-sized converter on the small Norwegian market and has just invested in another press from Netherlands-based MPS. Skipnes bought their first MPS flexo press in 2004, a second in 2007. The recently installed MPS EF 430 press comes with APC (Automatic Print Control).
According to manager Roald Skipnes, it is the first flexo press in Norway with over eight printing stations. Skipnes adds, “This opens a world of new possibilities for us and our customers, with the capability of printing more creative and challenging labels.”
To print more complicated label designs, Skipnes’ new EF 430 press is equipped with units for reverse printing, adhesive printing, making multi-layer labels and finishing units, including cold foil, lamination, and a sheeter. The company claims to be the world’s most northerly label converter (Trondheim is on the latitude of Fairbanks, AK, USA, so this could be right).
MPS’ success in providing presses to this converter is to be commended, since it was certainly won in the teeth of competition from a certain Famous Danish press manufacturer (no prizes for guessing the name) who quite reasonably considers the whole of Scandinavia as its home market, thanks to close cultural and language ties.
Skipnes is certainly a go-ahead converter, but it is a minnow compared with another, better known Norwegian name: the Stavanger Blikktrykkeri og Maskinverksted, a century-old company, which in the 1960s wisely changed its name to Skanem. Originally in the metal can business, the group has for the past two decades been a major international label converter. Following a centuries-old atavistic instinct, the Norwegians also headed first for England, where they acquired a plant in Liverpool, followed by another in Cardiff. Continuing to grow mainly by acquisition, the group today has 15 label production sites and 1,200 employees. Its most recent investments have seen Skanem move into East African, Indian and Thai markets.
The present CEO is Ole Rugland, who joined Skanem as managing director in 1985 and in August 1986 acquired ownership of the company via an MBO. And in case you’re wondering, yes, the Skanem Group does use lots of presses from that Famous Danish press manufacturer.
M&A in the low countries
There is a flat, triangular-shaped bit of Northern Europe, which has at various times been ruled over by the French, the Austrians, the Spanish and the Germans. Never, curiously, by the English but at a guess this was only because they were always busy elsewhere. Today, this smallish piece of real estate is shared by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg. Between them they have four official languages, plus a host of dialects. The 29 million inhabitants of Benelux seem to disagree with each other on just about everything but always with battles of words, not brickbats or other offensive weapons.
This encourages business people who just want to go about their lawful activities, which in the label sector often involves M&As. A few months ago, Belgian label converter ASQ was acquired by the Dutch group Optimum, which now boasts seven label plants and annual sales just short of $100 million. Meanwhile Belgium’s Saint Luc Label acquired the Netherlands-based Pharmalabel. The newly merged group will have sales of over $60 million. Guido van der Schueren is a name long familiar to many older members of the global label community. His involvement dates back to a partnership with the Denoo brothers, whose company Barco Graphics was a pioneer in developing prepress software for narrow web printing.
Out of Barco grew Artwork Systems, founded in 1992 with van der Schueren at the helm. The rival Danish software specialist Esko acquired Artwork and van der Schueren stayed on as manager of EskoArtwork until 2011. His center of interest then shifted at least partly to the US, and he now runs PMC Corp., a private equity vehicle that invests mainly in graphic arts software. As such, he has a controlling interest in Hybrid Software and Packz Software. He now plans to gain a majority interest in Global Graphics, a quoted company that develops and markets, among other products, Harlequin RIP software. By this latest acquisition, van der Schueren “intends to create a global company that can actively contribute to the productivity and profitability of printing and printing businesses.”
It would seem that even at age 68, this Belgian is a match for any Flying Dutchman.
Good news from Italy
When the Italian label association GIPEA held its annual meeting in Milan, delegates heard the findings of a study by the Centro Studi Assografici, which estimated the growth of the Italian label industry at 6%, putting it in fourth place in Europe, behind Germany, Britain and France. This news was received with more than a little satisfaction by the assembled delegates. Not surprising when you think that Italy, despite being one of the most civilized countries in the world, generally ranks pretty low down the European rankings for anything economic. The conference also heard a preview presentation by Italo Vailati of a GIPEA document giving important guidelines for ensuring regulatory conformity in food labels. The definitive document will be available later in 2019, according to Vailati.
The Judgment of Paris
Your correspondent recently had the honor to be a member of an international judging panel that met in the French capital. The jury spent a day poring over 70 digitally-printed labels trying to decide fairly which ones deserved the prizes. Several interesting points came to light. Firstly, the actual print quality is more and more difficult to fault, even under the magnifying glass. Gone are the days when minute register errors and other mistakes ruled out many entries. Only a very few of our 70 labels could in any way be queried on print quality.
Secondly, the (mostly French) contestants used much ingenuity in working with curious and unusual substrates. Grass-based papers featured in several wine labels, while other labels were printed on a cotton face material. While one or two used paper printed to look like wood, others preferred wood made to look like paper. Some got extra marks from us for achieving effects difficult or impossible to realize in conventional label printing. A few got marked down because the handwritten accompanying notes were so illegible, they could almost have been written by a pharmacist.
Want to know who the winners were? Sorry, the jury’s still out.
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Column: Trump just set Boeing on a collision course with China
A United Airlines Boeing 747 prepares to land in 2007.
(Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images)
By David Fickling
If there’s a poster child for the tonic the current U.S. government has delivered to the country’s corporate sector, it’s Boeing Co.
Fueled by Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg’s cozy relationship with President Trump, orders for Super Hornet fighter jets and corporate tax cuts, its 146% share-price increase since election day in 2016 has outpaced every other company in the Dow Jones industrial average. Thursday’s 3.5% fall after Trump tweeted his plans to impose tariffs on metal imports should be a warning sign that, beyond the current clear skies, a storm is building.
One obvious risk is increased costs. About 80% of an aircraft’s weight is aluminum, and Trump’s promise to slap levies of 10% on imports of that metal represents a pricing handicap in Muilenburg’s endless battle for market share with Airbus SE.
Trump announces plans for heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, inviting a trade war with China »
At the same time, that blow is likely to be cushioned by the fact that managing raw-materials costs is part and parcel of being a manufacturer. Aluminum prices have risen or fallen 10% or more in all but eight of the last 30 years. Boeing, moreover, isn’t a major buyer of aluminum straight from the pot: Most of its supply comes from Arconic Inc., the specialty-products half of the old Alcoa Corp. business. Shares of Arconic slipped 1.5% on Thursday, an indication that the company expected to take part of the hit.
The bigger risk depends on how the coming days and months are handled.
There’s probably no U.S. firm more at risk of trade retaliation from China than Boeing. Of the 10 American businesses that declare more than $5 billion of sales in the country, three — Apple Inc., Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. — are dependent on consumer spending, so probably somewhat immune to government diktats. Six others are in the semiconductor and tech businesses that China wants to encourage domestically, so they should also enjoy a degree of protection. Against that backdrop, Boeing stands out like a sore thumb.
Most of its biggest customers in China are state-owned airlines and lessors affiliated with government-controlled banks. The few independent players could easily be leaned on by authorities to defer existing orders.
Get ready for the era of hypersonic flight — at five times the speed of sound »
China Inc. has a sound, self-interested rationale for pursuing an aggressive path. Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., or Comac, is hoping to pitch its C919 jet as a homegrown competitor to Boeing’s 737 and Airbus’ A320, and it announced last month that it would make its first delivery in 2021.
Using a trade war to put one of the C919’s rivals on the back foot seems the perfect way to crack open the Boeing-Airbus duopoly and advance the interests of China’s own manufacturers. Should the current tit-for-tat over steel and aluminum spiral toward a trade war, few firms will find themselves in a more precarious position than Boeing.
Fickling writes for Bloomberg.
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Supreme Court clarifies that it will only examine the triple talaq case, and keep the remaining issues open. Photo: Mint
Triple Talaq a matter of faith for last 1,400 years, Supreme Court told
1 min read . Updated: 16 May 2017, 08:35 PM IST Apurva Vishwanath
All India Muslim Personal Law Board says triple talaq is a 1,400-year-old practice, and constitutional morality and equity cannot arise when a matter of faith is concerned
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New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday defended the practice of triple talaq before the Supreme Court.
“Triple talaq is a 1,400-year-old practice. (Questions of) constitutional morality and equity cannot arise when a matter of faith is concerned," senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the AIMPLB, argued in court.
Sibal said the Muslim community itself does not agree with the practice of instant triple talaq (as opposed to pronouncing talaq in three separate events within a 99-day period).
“The reform has to come from within the community, (it) cannot be forced by the courts," he said.
ALSO READ: The case against triple talaq
A five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, and justices Kurian Joseph, Rohinton F. Nariman, U.U. Lalit and Abdul Nazeer, is hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Muslim practices of triple talaq, nikah halala and polygamy under Muslim personal law. Nikah halala requires a female divorcee to marry someone else, consummate the marriage and then get a divorce to remarry her previous husband.
The apex court on Monday clarified that it will only examine the triple talaq practice, under which a Muslim man can divorce his wife by uttering the word “talaq" thrice, and keep the remaining issues open.
The government had asked the court to examine all the issues and said it would bring in a new law to regulate marriage divorce among Muslims if all forms of triple talaq are declared unconstitutional.
Constitutionally, Muslims and other minority religions are allowed to regulate matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance through their own civil codes.
The case will be heard next on Wednesday.
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Amidst the ongoing turmoil, Fifa has reiterated that it maintains regular contact with the 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar. Photo: AP
Qatar’s unifying World Cup vision erodes as nations cut ties
4 min read . Updated: 07 Jun 2017, 12:13 PM IST AP
Qatar's bid for the 2022 World Cup was based on a powerful vision that soccer could unite the Middle East but the current diplomatic rift with its gulf neighbours has cast a shadow
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Qatar’s bid for the 2022 World Cup was based on a powerful vision that soccer could unite the Middle East.
“Just think together of what we can achieve together," Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, the wife of the Qatar’s then-ruler, told Fifa voters in 2010. She ambitiously forecast a “culture of peace across our region through football,"
With five years until kickoff, that optimism is rapidly disintegrating after Arab neighbours severed ties on Monday with the tiny nation that turned to sports to buttress its global status.
Soccer’s world governing body, Fifa, is hoping the regional rifts are healed long before there’s any need to contemplate any change of host, a move that would deal a heavy blow to Qatar’s reputation and economy as it is investing more than $150 billion on infrastructure to handle the World Cup.
For now, Fifa is predictably sidestepping detailed questions about the impact of the decision by Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to cast Qatar adrift diplomatically. Qatar’s Gulf neighbours have accused Qatar of supporting terror groups, interfering in the sovereign affairs of Arab countries and backing groups that undermine political stability.
Fifa has reiterated that it maintains regular contact with Qatar.
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“One thing is certain, the world’s football community should agree that large tournaments cannot be played in countries that actively support terror," said Reinhard Grindel, president of the German football federation and a member of Fifa’s ruling council.
Qatar denies funding extremists, but that hasn’t stopped its neighbours from implementing punitive measures that impact people and businesses across the region, including soccer fans.
Fifa was dragged into the backlash against the 2022 World Cup host nation on Tuesday when Qatar’s state-funded broadcaster beIN Sports appeared to be blocked in the UAE. With beIN holding the broadcasting rights to Fifa events across the Middle East and North Africa, the ongoing Under-20 World Cup in South Korea will now be unavailable for viewers in the UAE.
Fifa said it was in contact with the broadcaster and was monitoring the situation.
Fifa is also in partnership with Qatar’s flagship carrier. Qatar Airways, which signed up as a World Cup sponsor last month , has been forced to re-route journeys over Iranian and Turkish airspace after Saudi Arabia and Egypt blocked Qatari flights from using their airspace. A soccer sponsorship has already been affected, with Saudi club Al-Ahli terminating its deal with the airline.
The escalation of the crisis in the Persian Gulf will have underscored to Fifa just how precarious the region is, and the geographical weakness of oil-and-gas rich Qatar.
The desert nation is heavily reliant on food imports , predominantly through its border with Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of trucks transporting food and construction materials have now been stopped from entering.
A sustained blockade could hit the construction boom required to transform the sparse nation. An entire city is being built to stage the final. Not a single stadium was ready at the time of bidding, and only one venue has so far been completed as Qatar prepares to welcome the 32 teams.
Qatar has long been heavily reliant on a massive workforce of migrant labourers from Asia to expand its infrastructure. The Philippines has temporarily suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to Doha, but said there is no plan yet to repatriate the more than 200,000 existing members of the labour force.
Being handed the World Cup made working, living conditions and employment rights in Qatar a global concern. Practices such as the “kafala" sponsorship system that binds workers to their employer are in place across the region, but activists have largely only shone the spotlight on Qatar and the human cost of hosting the World Cup.
Qatar has responded to the pressure by compelling companies to adopt labour reforms . It’s one of the consequences of hosting a major sporting event that Qatar did not seem to anticipate amid the joy of beating the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea in the 2010 vote.
Qatar has the global attention, but it’s largely been unwelcome.
From the moment then-Fifa President Sepp Blatter pulled Qatar’s name out of the envelope in Zurich, the whiff of corruption has hung over Qatar’s bid, coupled with concerns about heat that forced the tournament to be shifted into the heart of the European season in November-December 2022.
Despite being exonerated by Fifa’s ethics investigators, speculation about Qatar being stripped of the hosting rights or being boycotted by some countries has persisted, without the call coming from any authoritative soccer body or government.
Significantly, the federation of World Cup holder Germany is not endorsing such an extreme move.
“There are still five years before the World Cup kicks off," Grindel said. “Political solutions must take precedence over threats of boycott in this time."
Not all the countries currently embroiled in the dispute with Qatar are World Cup regulars, so there is slim chance of the entire bloc qualifying for the 2022 tournament. But Qatar will be hosting athletes from across the region when it stages the world track and field championships in 2019.
“We are talking to our teams in the region to properly understand the implications for both the short term and long term," the IAAF said.
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The Best Vitamins and Supplements That Won't Upset a Sensitive Stomach
By Amy Capetta Updated September 10, 2019
Amy Capetta
For two decades, Amy Capetta has been writing for numerous lifestyle publications, both print and digital, where she focuses on all things that fall under the health and wellness umbrella. She has been published in Weight Watchers, Parents, Prevention and Family Circle, as well as online at AOL Health, Everyday Health, Reader’s Digest, WebMD, TODAY, Dr. Oz The Good Life, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Sharecare and Yahoo. When she's not on deadline, Amy can be found power walking, cooking or trying to keep up with TV shows.
Many of us experience an uncomfortable side effect when popping vitamins or supplements — you know, that unsettling feeling in our stomach. Yet more than four out of five Americans currently take these diet boosters. So should you give up your daily supp to help spare your stomach?
Vitamins or supplements that are food-based can be safe for people with a sensitive stomach.
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Why Can Supplements Cause an Upset Stomach?
People with a sensitive stomach may be more prone to abdominal discomfort when taking dietary supplements. After all, between 60 to 70 million Americans are affected by all types of digestive diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), states the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
"The severity of an upset stomach can vary from mild nausea to severe cramping, and this can occur within minutes of ingesting the supplement," Nicole Avena, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and visiting professor of health psychology at Princeton University, tells LIVESTRONG.com. She adds that in many instances, the difficult-to-digest vitamins and minerals include iron, vitamin C and vitamin D.
Avena further explains that people living with gastrointestinal (GI) issues or people who simply cannot tolerate taking vitamins and minerals in supplement form face an ongoing dilemma. Their sensitive GI system might be preventing them from properly absorbing dietary supplements, yet not taking supplements (such as a multivitamin) could lead to possible long-term nutrient deficiencies.
To counteract this reaction, first, make sure you're taking the supplement as directed on the label since most vitamins should not be taken on an empty stomach. Also, consult with your physician to figure out if nausea is your body's way of signaling that your system is overloaded with one (or more) of the three common culprits (iron, vitamin C and/or vitamin D).
Yet if you're searching for a new brand or formula, there are other supplements on the market that are likely to be more stomach-soothing.
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Best Vitamins and Supplements for a Sensitive Stomach
"Taste can contribute to nausea, so opt for a gummy, like Vitafusion MultiVites, which comes in different fruit flavors and is easy to take," suggests Avena. This daily supplement does not contain the other troublesome tummy ingredients, including artificial sweeteners, high-fructose corn syrup, gluten, dairy, soy and synthetic dyes."
Melt-in-Your Mouth Tablets
Avena advises finding a vitamin or mineral supplement that dissolves on the tongue, which is also referred to as a sublingual supplement. EZ Melts Multivitamins are designed to melt in your mouth (no water necessary) as the active ingredients are absorbed into the system right away — even before making their way to the digestive tract. These supplements are GMO-free, as well as free of dyes, gluten and sugar.
Food-Based Tablets
While this tablet needs to be swallowed, the makers of Rainbow Light Women's One Multivitamin state that their food-based supplement is formulated to be gentle on the stomach and digestive system. One reason: It contains 25 million CFU (colony-forming units), which are live gut-beneficial probiotics that can decrease the number of "bad" bacteria in the intestines while replacing it with "good" bacteria. Also, this supplement is free of dairy, sugar, soy, nuts, yeast and fish, along with the fact that it can be taken with or between meals.
Drinking your daily dose of essential vitamins and minerals instead of gagging on a pill might put nausea to rest. Garden of Life Vitamin Code Liquid Multivitamin is made from vitamins and minerals derived from 46 nutrient-dense foods like quinoa and chia seed sprouts. It's also free of dairy, gluten, artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors and preservatives.
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American Osteopathic Association: "Poll Finds 86% of Americans Take Vitamins or Supplements Yet Only 21% Have a Confirmed Nutritional Deficiency"
NIH: "Digestive Diseases Statistics for the United States"
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© 2018 W. Lee Vinson
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Percussionist, Educator, Historian
The drums pictured below fall into several different categories. The instruments listed at the very top of the page are the ones I use most frequently for orchestral playing. Some of these instruments are antiques and some of these are modern instruments.
Towards the middle of the page are a handful of drums which are very much playable but are in my collection more as pieces representative of the era in which they were constructed. These drums were built in the 1950s and 1960s and are more at home in jazz and rock idioms.
Nearer to the bottom of the page are drums which I collect almost purely for their historical significance. Drums such as these make up the majority of my personal collection. While many of these instruments are still playable, others have outlived their usefulness as practical musical instruments and now live to serve purely as historical examples of the companies which built them. Most of the antiques I seek out and preserve were made in Boston, Massachusetts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and represent a lost chapter in the history of American drum building.
5" x 14" Brass Snare Drum
This has become my go to drum for general orchestral playing. Built from a black nickel plated brass shell, it is an all metal drum with individually adjustable cable and wire snare units.
This is a crisp, powerful instrument with a sound that only brass can provide - not too dark and 'woofy' but not too bright or thin. It is sensitive at soft dynamics but still articulate at loud dynamics making it the closest thing I have found to an ideal general drum.
Eames Master Model Snare Drum
This drum was built for me by Joe MacSweeney at Eames Drum Shells in the Fall of 2008. Joe builds great drums in the tradition of the George B. Stone & Son Drum Company going all the way back to 1890.
Of the three Eames drums I own, this is by far my favorite. With an 18 ply, 3/4" thick Birch shell there is no lack of projection. A second air vent gives this drum a bit more 'bark' than usual. And with a depth of 5.75" it walks the line beautifully between bright and crisp, and deep and powerful.
4" x 14" Late 1920s Ludwig Professional
Built in the late 1920s, this drum has a two-piece nickel plated brass shell which overlaps at the bead and is soldered together. Where the shell flanges inward to form the bearing edges, it is flanged a second time back towards the shell and is soldered onto itself again. The resulting heavy brass shell is extremely sturdy and exceptionally sensitive.
Simply equipped with thin plastic heads and Puresound 12 strand concert snare wires, this drum is my favorite for soft playing.
Eames Master-Model
This Eames Master-Model is built around a 15 ply, 5/8" thick birch shell. It was ordered in 2005 by Boston Pops drummer Jim Gwin, but Jim liked my drum better, and I prefered his. So the trade was made. But this one still has Jim's name stamped inside!
For my taste, this drum is an exceptional all around drum along with the brass 5" x 14" pictured above.
This is another late 1920s Ludwig, again with a heavy two-piece brass shell. An inch deeper than the above 4" x 14" model, this drum has a bit more power and a slightly lower fundamental pitch.
Set up with thin plastic heads and natural gut snares, this drum has a fantastically rich and cutting character.
Eames Mastertone Snare Drum
This Eames Mastertone snare drum was built for me by Joe MacSweeney in 2003. The 5.5" x 14" shell is 12 ply birch with an overall thickness of 1/2 inch.
With a slightly more open sound than the 15 ply Master-Model, this drum is a nice combination of crisp and 'woody'. It works well for me at a higher tunings and sees regular use in multi-percussion setups.
Black Swamp Brass SoundArt Snare Drum
This was my general snare drum for concert playing for many years after buying it new in 1999. I used this drum for the majority of the snare drum repertoire on both my Navy Band and BSO auditions. The shell is 1/8" thick solid brass and the drum weighs 20 pounds.
Though it can sound box-like in some rooms, it is impossible to overplay this instrument. It has a surprisingly warm sound and is amazingly sensitive for a 6 inch deep drum.
Ludwig & Ludwig "Super-Ludwig" Snare Drum
This drum dates from the early 1930s during which time Conn owned the Ludwig company. The earlier two piece shells gave way to a very similar one piece shell as is the case on this example. The original wire snares are intact on this drum and can be tensioned individually with a screw driver.
This is a powerful brass drum with a brighter than usual sound due to the wire snares. Equipped with a thin plastic heads, this is a tasteful concert sound for certain occasions.
Grover G3 Symphonic Snare Drum
A gift from my friend Neil Grover for my clinic at PASIC 2009, this was one of the very first Grover G3s built. The drum features three individually adjuastbale snare units, one each of coated cable, uncoated cable, and wire snares.
Ludwig & Ludwig Black Beauty Snare Drum
This drum dates from 1932 - 1934 and has a one piece heavy brass shell. The hardware is plated in what Ludwig called "Art Gold", an imitation gold plating. The engraving pattern here is more understated than the earlier Black Beauties and is typical of the engraved Ludwigs of the early to mid 1930s.
Slingerland "Hollywood Ace Model"
This drum has a special place in my collection because it belongs to my Dad who was a drummer and percussionist before going on to a long career as a college band director. He purchased it new at a local music store in 1959 or 1960.
This snare drum has the typical Slingerland three ply mahogany / poplar/ mahogany shell with maple reinforcing rings and is covered in black diamond pearl wrap.
Gretsch "Chrome Plated Metal Snare Drum"
It was commonplace for drum companies to include a metal snare drum with new drumsets sold in the 1960s. Gretsch was no stranger to this practice and the drum pictured here in fact came to me with a silver sparkle round badge kit.
Purchased from the family of the original owner, the drum is in good condition with a proprely functioning 'microsensitive' throw-off and original 42 strand snare wires which are a bit overkill for my taste.
Gretsch "Dixieland Separate Tension Snare Drum"
Dating from the 1960s, this was one of Gretsch's student model drums and was distinguished by the use of only 6 lugs and the 'renown' throw-off. It is also equipped with diecast hoops which were a feature unique to Gretsch at the time. Gretsch's top of the line models during the same era utilized 8 lugs and the microsensitive strainer.
I originally bought this drum because it was green but it quickly became my favorite for jazz drumset.
George B. Stone & Son "Separate Tension Orchestra Drum"
First produced in the early 1910s, the Stone Separate Tension Orchestra Drum predated the Master-Model as the company's top of the line snare drum. The two models were produced concurrently during the 1920s and are both catalogued in Stone's Catalog "K" published in 1925.
This example dates roughly from the late 1920s and features a 5/8" thick three ply maple shell with no reinforcing rings, and one ply maple counterhoops. (Earlier examples utilize a thin one ply shell with three solid reinforcing rings.) Where the Separate Tension Orchestra Drum differs from the Master-Model is in its smaller snare throw-off which is attached to the bottom hoop, and in its hoop-side tensioning as opposed to the Master-Model's method of adjusting each rod from the side of the drum.
For more on George B. Stone & Son and the Stone Separate Tension Drums visit BostonDrumBuilders.com.
George B. Stone & Son Black Beauty Separate Tension Drum
Boston's George B. Stone & Son produced a great of drums in black lacquer finishes during the 1920s and into the 1930s. Most were either Master-Model snare drums or bass drums from matching drumsets. Much less common are black lacquered examples of the Separate Tension Orchestra Drum.
Read more about the Stone Black Beauty Separate Tension Drum at: http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2016/01/the-stone-black-beauty-separate-tension.html
George B. Stone Separate Tension Band Drum
Dating roughly from the late 1910s or early 1920s, this model represents the Stone Company's top of the line offering for field drums. This particular example measures 8" x 15" and has fourteen separate tension tube lugs. The slotted tension rods connect to the hoops using die cast metal hooks.
This drum predates the two Separate Tension Drums pictured above and is different in a few subtle ways from later examples. Note the rosewood grommet and the omission of the word "INC." on the badge. Also, the drum employs double post tube lugs and has a one-ply maple shell with four maple reinforcing rings.
Upon arrival this drum was in rough shape. It had a nasty crack running halfway around the shell and was missing the strainer, one tension rod, and a claw. Worse, the whole thing had been crudely repainted. Normally a purest, I decided to have this drum refinished due to its poor condition and relative scarcity. The end result is striking in appearance and is as true to the original as could be achieved. It is also a great sounding drum when a deep, warm field drum is called for.
George B. Stone & Son "Master-Model Drum"
This drum dates from December of 1923 and is the earliest of my eleven complete Stone Master-Models. It differs in several ways from the later examples including the use of round tensioning nuts instead of hexagonal shaped ones, and a rosewood grommet rather than the threaded plastic version which would become standard on Stone drums by the end of 1924. The badge on this drum is also rather unique in that it is made from a silver colored metal and makes no mention of the Master-Model name.
A comprehensive overview of the Master-Model drums is available at blog.BostonDrumBuilders.com in three parts:
Historical Overview, Dating Guide Part I, and Dating Guide Part II.
Do you have a drum built by George B. Stone & Son? I want to hear from you! Send Lee and email at lee@vinson.net.
First introduced in 1922, the Master-Model Drum was Stone's premier snare drum offering and remains the most recognizable and iconic instrument produced by the company. Originally marketed as the "All-Weather Drum", the name "Master-Model" was adopted by late 1922. More than 700 Master-Model Drums were ultimately produced.
The most commonly applied finish is what Stone cataloged as "Black De Luxe", as seen above. Second most common is the natural maple finish seen here. This particular example was in very poor condition upon arrival underwent a full restoration with the help of Adrian Kirchler and Will Tillman.
For more on George B. Stone and Son, please visit: BostonDrumBuilders.com/stone.html
George B. Stone & Son "All-Metal Master-Model Drum"
George B. Stone & Son All-Metal Master-Model Drums are quite uncommon. No such instrument is included in Stone's catalogs of the 1920s, though it was announced in trade publications in July of 1925.
The shell is made of solid aluminum and is painted silver. The hoops are also formed from aluminum but are polished to a shine and are not painted. The remaining hardware is nickel plated and is all typical of mid - late 1920s Stone Master-Models.
For more on this rare drum, see: http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2013/03/george-b-stone-son-all-metal-master.html
Nokes & Nicolai Separate Tension Orchestra Drum
Nokes & Nicolai was a Boston-based drum builder from 1912 through 1926. The Separate Tension Orchestra Drum was their premier wooden shell snare drum offering. Bird's-eye maple, seen here, was an available option at an added cost.
This particular model employs a unique tensioning method allowing each head to be tuned separately by adjusting the tension rods with a wrench near the center posts. The posts are formed from milled brass and allow the rods to turn freely.
Stamped metal hooks attach over the wooden rims and house swivel nuts into which the tension rods feed. Tight fitting stamped metal caps cover the posts giving a more complete appearance while keeping the tension rods in place when not under tension.
For more information about Nokes & Nicolai please visit: BostonDrumBuilders.com/nokes&nicolai.html.
Nokes & Nicolai All Metal Drum
Nokes & Nicolai appears to have had more success than any of the other Boston Drum Builders at manufacturing metal shell drums. As metal drums gained in popularity through the 1910s and into the 1920s, virtually every American drum company had their own rendition, the most common shell choice being nickel plated brass. Nokes & Nicolai constructed theirs around a thick, polished aluminum shell riveted together at the seam.
Nokes & Nicolai All Metal Drums are easily recognizable by the star shaped vent hole configuration and logo stamped shell and hoops. Of the four in my personal collection, this early example with polished aluminum counter hoops is the cleanest and least altered from its original condition. Later production models utilize an updated snare strainer and diecast hoops eliminating the need for rim clips.
For more on this drum, please visit:
http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2016/08/ca-late-1910s-no-nic-all-metal-drum.html
Nokes & Nicolai Double Tension Rod Orchestra Drum
This remarkably well preserved Nokes & Nicolai Double Tension Rod Orchestra Drum features a shallow 3" x 14" one ply maple shell and would have been at home in a vaudeville orchestra pit with its matching 26" single headed bass drum. In trtuh, so called 'double tension' drums are in fact single tension seeing as the heads cannot be tuned independantly of one another, only simultaneously.
Upon arrival from a retired musical instrument dealer south of Boston, the original heads were missing so new oversized flesh hoops were required. New calfskins were then tucked and the heads left to drum on the shell allowing for a perfect fit. The end result is a drum that is literally just as it would have left the factory circa 1920.
Do you have an instrument made by Nokes & Nicolai? I want to hear from you! Send Lee and email at lee@vinson.net.
Stromberg Invincible Orchestra Drum
Charles A. Stromberg, originally a cabinet maker by trade, immigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1887. He worked for Boston's Thompson & Odell for eighteen years as foreman in their banjo, mandolin and guitar factory before going into business on his own about 1905.
The drum seen here dates from March of 1906 and is a splendid example of Stromberg's early drum patents, both granted in 1904. The fully functioning snare throw-off and separate tension lugs were revolutionary at the time this drum was produced. It is a finely crafted, wonderfully well-preserved antique snare drum.
For more on this beautiful instrument, please see: http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2015/04/the-celebrated-stromberg-invincible.html
ca. 1905 Stromberg Artist Drum
In addition to producing custom-made guitars, banjos, and professional level snare and bass drums, Stromberg also built instruments aimed at amateur players. Such was the case with this "Artist Drum" dating from about 1905.
Note that while this drum was produced at roughly the same time as the one pictured above, this is a single tension drum which does not allow for the heads to be tuned independently.
A puzzling wooden brace sits loosely inside of the drum, but why? See the pictures and decide for yourself at:
http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2015/11/ca-1905-stromberg-artist-drum.html
Charles A. Stromberg Orchestra Drum
Likely dating from the 1910s, this drum bears a label stating that it was produced for a musical instrument retailer in Rhode Island. The Stromberg snare strainer and butt are both stamped with a patent date of March 8th, 1904.
Upon arrival this drum was in abysmal condition so a full restoration was undertaken. The missing hardware was fabricated by Italian master craftsman Adrian Kirchler who then replated all of the parts in nickel as they were originally. The shell and hoops were faithfully restored in using period correct materials and techniques by Will Tillman.
For more information about Charles A. Stromberg, please visit BostonDrumBuilders.com.
Stromberg Supertone Orchestra Drum, ca. late 1920s
This drum by Charles A. Stromberg and Son dates roughly from the late 1920s and in many ways represents the pinnacle of drum building in Boston during the early 20th Century. With its separate tension lugs, aluminum hoops, securely functioning snare throw-off, and peerless crafsmanship, this instrument rivaled those offered by the drum building titans of the age - Leedy, Ludwig, and Slingerland.
Stromberg would ultimately move away from building drums and along with his youngest son Elmer become best known for their big-body archtop guitars of the 1940s and 1950s.
Do you have a drum by Charls A. Stromberg? I would love to see it! Email Lee anytime at lee@vinson.net.
Harry A. Bower Snare Drum, 1917-1918
Harry A. Bower was a prolific inventor, author, and performer and was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1904 to 1907. He is perhaps best known as having authored the Imperial Method for the Drum (1898) and the Harry A. Bower System (in three parts) for the Drums, Bells, Xylophone, Timpani (1911) to of the earliest percussion method books to treat the drum as something other than a miliary instrument, and to include timpani and mallet percussio nalongside the snare drum.
Bower's drums range unusual to the excentric. This particular drum is not uncommn with its oversized flesh hops doubling a counterhoops, and a compressed fiber shell wrapped in a sheet of thin nickel. Bower's patented snare mechanism was one of the earliest to maintain tension on the snares as they were disengauged from the drum. This design also allowed the wires to be tensioned across the head, or against the bottom of the drum.
For more on Harry A. Bower and the instruments he made, please visit BostonDrumBuilders.com.
Harry A. Bower Field Drum, 1924
The majority of Bower drums were produced in sizes most applicable for band and orchestra work. Field drum sizes and bass drums were much less common. The drum is built around a one ply birds-eye maple shell with two pairs of reinforcing rings - one pair inside the shell and one on the outside.
This particular drum, number 1022, was produced in 1924 making it the lateset of the five Bower drums in my collection. Serial numbers on Bower drums are useful to a point. A collection of known Bower drums with serial numbers can be seen at: http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2012/09/harry-bower-serial-numbers.html
Do you have an instrument made by Harry Bower? I would love to hear from you! Send Lee and email at lee@vinson.net.
F. E. Dodge Snare Drum, ca. 1902 - 1903
This is a very early F. E. Dodge Orchestra Drum predating the Company's incorporation in 1903. The heads are tensioned by way of 18 single tension rods which adjust both heads simultaneously. The label inside reads as follows:
F. E. DODGE,
MANUFACTURING DRUMMER
DRUMS TRAPS AND DRUM
FINDINGS.
PROFESSIONAL XYLOPHONE AND ORCHES-
TRA BELLS A SPECIALTY.
12 & 14 Winter St., Boston, Mass.
F. E. Dodge Orchestra Drum, ca. 1908 - 1909
The 1907 Dodge Drum catalog lists the Orchestra Drum in two sizes including the 4" x 15" model represented here. The shell is one ply maple with maple reinforcement rings and has a beautiful rosewood grommet. The strainer is stamped "PAT APL'D FOR" though no known patent was ever granted for this design.
Nokes & Nicolai succeeded F. E. Dodge in 1912 taking over the firm in every capacity. Note the strong resemblance between this drum and the Nokes & Nicolai drums above.
For more information about the F. E. Dodge Company visit BostonDrumBuilders.com/dodge.html.
Oliver Ditson Orchestra Drum, ca. 1910s
Boston's Oliver Ditson had a hand in founding both Cincinnati's John C. Church and Chicago's Lyon & Healy. And it may well be that Lyon & Healy was responsible for this drum as identical instruments exist with conflicting makers marks.
This drum matches well with the 1910 Ditson Wonderbook No. 4 and bears a label reading "made expressly for Oliver Ditson Co. Boston - New York. Labels which list all three Ditson outposts - Boston, New York, and Philadelphia - likely date from between 1904 and 1910 as the Philadelphia branch was closed in 1910.
J. C. Haynes & Co. Drum, ca. 1880s
John C. Haynes became involved with Oliver Ditson as early as 1852 and by 1861 was manager of J. C. Haynes & Company, Oliver Ditson & Company's Boston based musical merchandise department. It is a common misunderstanding that the Haynes company only produced drums during the Civil War. Haynes continued to operate for Ditson under the J. C. Haynes & Co name at the 33 Court Street address until 1889 when the retail business moved to Washington Street. The building at 33 Court was razed in 1898 and the Haynes department was finally absorbed under the Ditson name in 1903.
This drum likely dates from the mid-late 19th century prior to the death of Oliver Ditson in 1888 and the retail department's relocation in 1889.
Measuring 16" across by 8.25" deep, this shell and hoops constructed from a dark colored hardwood, possibly walnut. The shell is secured at the seam by a series of eleven brass tacks.
This drum is especially significant to me because I acquired from John H. Beck, retired professor of percussion at the Eastman School of Music. The drum had previously belonged to William G. Street, professor of percussion at the Eastman School of Music from 1927 to 1967.
J. B. Treat Artist Drum for Thompson & Odell, ca. 1890
Billed as "The Celebrated Artist Drum", Treat's drums for Thompson & Odell were large, rope tension drums intended for military and semi-military purposes. Shells were typically single ply maple, tacked at the seem, with single ply maple reinforcing rings. Hoops were commonly painted black around the outside with the rope connecting to the hoops via cast iron hooks for ease of use. Generally, these were straight ahead, well built, common looking rope drums of the late 19th century.
For more on the life of Jospeh B. Treat, please visit: http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2015/02/joseph-b-treat-drummer.html
Thompson & Odell Prussian Style Drum, ca. 1880-1886
The Thompson & Odell firm is listed at 177 Washington Street from 1880 - 1886 during which time this drum was made. This instrument is what was commonly refered to by drum manufacturers and retailers during the late 19th century as "Prussian" Drums.
This example retains its original hardware used for attaching it to a belt or a sling worn over the shoulder which would be used while playing this drum in a standing position or while marching. Also of interest are the hoops which are in fact maple painted in a faux rosewood pattern.
This particular drum is probably another example of this Thompson & Odell distributing instruments built for them by an outside source. Many drums similar to this one have surfaced bearing a makers label from the Lyon & Healy Company of Chicago who likely produced this one as well.
For more information on Thompson & Odell and the other early Boston Drum Builders, please visit BostonDrumBuilders.com
A. W. White Field Drum, ca. 1863 - 1871
The White Brothers, Ira Johnson and Asa Warren, were known as "the first Boston master makers of violins". Both Whites are reported to have been fine woodworkers who taught themselves the craft of violin making by studying instruments from the European masters. Drum making evidently made up a comparatively small part of the brothers' operation who were known primarily for their string instruments.
This drum was manufactured by Asa Warren White after his brother Ira left for Malden around 1863, but before Asa partnered with Louis P. Goullaud around 1871.
For more about Asa Warren White, please visit:
http://blog.bostondrumbuilders.com/2014/09/who-was-w-white.html
1960s Gretsch Drum Label
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Key bus service will keep going for another 12 months after £50k cash injection
Residents said they'd be cut off without the service
The 747 will continue
A £50,000 cash injection means a key bus service will continue for another 12 months.
The 747 between Leicester and Uppingham will be subsidised for a further year by Leicestershire County Council and neighbouring Rutland County Council.
The contract has been extended until January 4 2021 after the two councils agreed a joint funding agreement with Centrebus.
Leicestershire’s contribution will be £35,156, and Rutland’s £17,578.
The councils say the move follows the careful assessment of current bus passenger numbers.
Cabinet member for environment and transport at Leicestershire County Council, councillor Blake Pain, said: “We have been carefully reviewing all the bus services which we support, in line with our passenger transport policy and strategy to ensure that we are providing fit for purpose and cost effective services.
"I am pleased that we have worked alongside Rutland County Council to continue to support the service to these communities for the foreseeable future.”
Cabinet member for transport at Rutland County Council Councillor Lucy Stephenson said: “We recognise that the 747 is essential for many people who travel between Uppingham and Leicester so we have agreed to extra funding to support this valuable service.
"We will continue to work closely with local communities, Leicestershire County Council and Centrebus to try and encourage greater use of the service and ensure its future sustainability.”
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Thurnby
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Houghton-on-the-Hill
Billesdon
Skeffington
Tugby
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Uppingham.
The two councils originally agreed to continue the service in January 2017, after Centrebus announced the 747 was no longer cost-effective to run on a commercial basis.
There was a campaign to save it by residents, particularly the elderly and those without cars, who said they would be cut off without the option of taking the bus.
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It had been under threat because the bus company said it was not making enough money for it to be viably run.
Thurnby Liberal Democrat county councillor Simon Galton said: "I'm really pleased the councils have committed to this for another year because we know they are reviewing other services still and there may be more cuts coming.
"Here though the villages have worked hard to promote the service on a 'use it or lose it' basis and we have got passenger numbers up.
"They are not where they need it to be to make but they are better."
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Police ‘marks men’ drop in
On your marks: PCS Lee Reed with Toby and Nicole McKenzie and Charlie Garner 'PHOTO: NEIL CROSS
Published: 09:47 Friday 06 January 2017
A VILLAGE library was the scene for a welcome police operation this week.
Euxton Library in Chorley was chosen for a special free bike security coding session.
Kath Deakin, of Euxton Library, said: “It was really, really busy. We had over 25 bikes in the course of the afternoon.”
The event, held between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday, was organised by Kath and is a joint venture between the library and the Euxton Neighbourhood Policing Team.
PCSOs Ray Chadwick and Lee Reed carried out the markings and also in attendance was Tammy Finlayson, intervention and prevention officer with Chorley Council.
The offer was not only open to bike owners - but those with scooters and skateboards, too.
Kath added: “Both adults and children attended. We advertised it and said it’s like a drop-in session. We’ll probably do another in summer. We had really good feedback from people saying how much they enjoyed it.
“We’ve done it before in partnership with the library and the Euxton Neighbourhood Policing Team.”
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Will Virginia Follow California’s Lead on Consumer Privacy Legislation?
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On January 8, 2020, the Virginia General Assembly will begin its 60 calendar day legislative session. Legislation relating to privacy will be on the agenda, including HB 473, titled the “Virginia Privacy Act,” that proposes to strengthen the data privacy rights of Virginians.
Scope of the Proposed Legislation
The provisions of the legislation apply to “any legal entity (i) that conducts business in the Commonwealth or produces products or services that are intentionally targeted to residents of the Commonwealth and (ii) that (1) controls or processes personal data of not fewer than 100,000 consumers; or (2) derives over 50 percent of gross revenue from the sale of personal data and processes or controls personal data of not fewer than 25,000 customers.” The bill has exceptions to its scope applicable to, among others, local and state governments, credit reporting agencies and financial institutions governed by other privacy laws, and also exempts certain health care related information governed by federal law and employment records.
The legislation focuses on the responsibilities of data controllers, who are primarily responsible for complying with the provisions of the legislation, and data processors, who must adhere to the instructions of the controller and assist a controller in meeting the requirements of the proposed act.
Main Consumer Protection Elements of the Legislation
The proposed legislation requires a “controller,” defined as a “person that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data” to facilitate requests by consumers to exercise newly created rights, including:
Confirmation whether personal data of the consumer is being processed by the controller or sold to data brokers;
Providing access to the consumer’s data (in cases where data is being processed by the controller) and a copy of the data concerning the consumer;
Correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data of the consumer;
Deletion of the consumer’s personal data in certain circumstances;
Restricting the processing of the consumer’s personal data when the processing of such data is not consistent with the purposes for which it was collected, not consistent with the purpose disclosed at the time of collection or authorization, or when such processing is otherwise unlawful; and
Objecting at any time to the processing of the consumer’s personal data, with provisions related to the controller’s obligations to notify certain third-parties of the objection when the objection relates to targeted advertising.
The measure requires controllers to process such requests “without undue delay” and no later than 30 days from a verified request with an option to extend that period an additional 60 days depending on the number and complexity of requests.
The legislation also requires a controller to perform a risk assessment of each of its data processing activities that involves personal data and to refresh such assessments whenever there is a change in processing of data that will materially increase the risk to consumers.
A violation of the provisions of the legislation is considered a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
The Legislature’s Consideration of the Legislation
This past November, Virginia’s state elections produced a historic change in control of both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate. The Democratic Party now controls both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly as well as the Governorship. Any time there is a change in control of the legislature uncertainty is created. Legislation that historically did not receive much consideration may now find new life with a new political majority.
Businesses that possibly fall within the scope of the proposed Virginia Privacy Act should analyze the effect of the bill on operations and actively follow the General Assembly’s consideration of the legislation.
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Our MP voted against helping child refugees – and I’m angry
By Peter Jeffries | Mon 13th January 2020 - 12:27 pm
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Our MP’s work on behalf of their constituents – or at least they are supposed to. That’s supposed to be an important principle of our democracy. But in recent days Cheltenham’s MP, Alex Chalk has voted and supported the government in NOT providing help to unaccompanied refugee children. I’m saddened, disappointed and upset, let me explain why.
Cheltenham has bucket-loads of kindness, empathy and compassion. This I’m sure is replicated across the country, and throughout our history this has been highlighted time and again in how we all have responded to natural disasters or humanitarian crisis.
Whenever and wherever a crisis unfolds around the world Great Britain has responded, equally the people of Cheltenham have responded. Given all the global crisis that have taken place over decades added to the ongoing civil conflicts and wars globally, is it any wonder that there is the largest recorded number of refugees in the world since the second world war. Over 70 million according to a variety of organisations.
Before I’m shouted down by some that advocate “looking after our own” or “charity begins at home” yes it should and yes it does, but we as a county that plays its part in the world we do have a responsibility to help those that are in dire need, and it is the responsibility of our government to show leadership reflecting our compassion and empathy for people.
In recent times I’m proud to have led Cheltenham’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis and is playing its part in supporting asylum seekers as well. Whilst working within the boundaries of the (sadly unambitious) government schemes that have been set up, Liberal Democrats in charge of Cheltenham Borough Council have supported residents and organisations in helping those people coming to our town.
Being small in number (fewer than 50) all of these people have been welcomed, supported and are flourishing whilst settling into their new lives in our town. I’m constantly amazed by how quickly they have adapted and how hard they have worked to become productive residents, giving back to our communities in a variety of ways whilst dealing with the very personal traumatic situation they have been through. To show our refugee families how much we welcome them, and our local charities how much we value them, we adopted a ‘Town of Sanctuary’ status last year.
I have seen first-hand how many Cheltenham and Gloucestershire residents have helped and offered support for refugee’s and asylum seekers. The work of Cheltenham Welcomes Refugees and Gloucestershire Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers is invaluable to our town. That’s why I’m so saddened and disappointed with the recent decision by our government, backed by Cheltenham’s MP, not to continue with the 2016 amendment to the immigration act (the Dubs amendment) a commitment offering safe passage to 3000 unaccompanied children safe passage to our country as part of the EU withdrawal act.
Unaccompanied refugee children need help. They are the most vulnerable people on the planet. Whilst our government says it is still committed to helping, its actions speaks volumes as to its intentions. Which is why I’m not surprised by the level of upset this has caused residents in Cheltenham who like me are somewhat perplexed by the lack of empathy and compassion being shown by our MP and his Conservative colleagues.
Cheltenham’s MP Alex Chalk is a trustee of Gloucestershire Action For Refugees and Asylum Seekers. The charity’s trustees have publicly asked him for an explanation for his actions.
Whilst I’m sure there will be a plausible political explanation couched in jargon and legalese, this issue does shine a light on how our town’s compassion and empathy may or not be reflected when our towns MP casts his vote. Is it for his party, himself or his residents?
On this issue, Alex Chalk has not only let us down as his constituents but he has let himself down, his vote is not that of a compassionate human being. More importantly, he has let down some of the world’s most vulnerable citizens. I urge him to reflect and reconsider whether the values he demonstrates in parliament reflect those of the residents he represents.
* Cllr Peter Jeffries is the Liberal Democrat Cabinet Member for Housing on Cheltenham Borough Council
Read more by Peter Jeffries or more about child refugees or conservatives.
David Becket 13th Jan '20 - 1:13pm
Unfortunately over 28,000 of compassionate Cheltenham voters supported Chalk.
They might have thought they were getting a compassionate conservative, but under Johnson and Patel there is no such animal.
More importantly the party needs to understand why we did not win Cheltenham, I hope that the contribution you and your colleagues will input to our review body will explain this.
n hunter 13th Jan '20 - 2:18pm
I figure those 28 thou voted Tory cos did not want Corbyn and to get Brexit over with.The refugees may not have been considered. Door knocking might find the answer for we must now win over voters for the next election
Sopwith Morley 13th Jan '20 - 5:55pm
What are you angry for?
You are Cheltenham councillor, you now run the council, whilst your party has been central to local government in Cheltenham for years. Perhaps you can then explain from your elevated position on your self appointed moral high ground why in 2016 Cheltenham took in 0 that is zero asylum seekers, whilst poorer towns like Middlesbrough were swamped with nearly 1000, with similar numbers being dumped across other northern working class towns, whilst similar zeros were prevalent across middle class LibDem run councils, and the latest figures are little better. You have 50 in total, and that is after how many years. MIddlesbrough get 50 dumped on them in one bus load.
https://fullfact.org/immigration/where-uk-refugees-councils/
You have nothing to be angry about because as a council, you have failed miserably to do even a tiny percentage of what poorer communities are doing up and down the country. You are simply (complaining – expletive deleted – Editor) against your MP for political effect whilst allowing others with less resources to do the dirty work for your conscience.
As a matter of interest do you or have you taken in a asylum seeker or refugee into your own home. I have asked this question on here before of middle class LibDems, and the silence has been deafening.
frankie 13th Jan '20 - 6:10pm
He will do as he is told in my opinion. Tis the Tory way. I’d sugguest anyone who thinks different should read the story of the scorpion and the frog
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
As the scorpion said “Tis in their nature”
greig 13th Jan '20 - 6:29pm
“Tory acts precisely as expected of Tory”
“Tory votes to support Tory government”
You can’t really be surprised can you?
Frank West 14th Jan '20 - 8:21am
The Conservatives won the election, partly by restricting access to welfare for the first five years of residence, and generally being tough on immigration (extreme right wing in this case) whilst Labour and LibDems are keen on opening up the borders yet further. It’s called democracy, the vast majority of people do not want more immigration and the Left will not get elected on that manifesto. Unfortunately, whilst there is some compassion for lone children when those children turn out to be young men who look nearer to twenty than twelve the public just gives up on it. Will get much tougher once out of the EU, I’d guess.
So you are ‘angry’, Mr Jeffries. As ‘Sopwith Morley’ quite rightly says, you are actually in a position to do something about it. Or don’t you like being in charge (albeit of not a lot) and having to make difficult decisions? You can blame your MP if it makes you feel better; but, as the old song goes; “Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself”. Or, if you require a more religious response, why not look up Matthew 7.5?
The mention of ‘child’ refugees makes me wonder at which point, especially in the Middle East and Africa, a ‘child’ becomes an adult. Some of the ‘children’ featured in reports look a bit beyond childhood to me. I doubt whether many of them would have made it on to the ‘Kindertransport’ before WW2.
Ian Sanderson (RM3) 14th Jan '20 - 9:27am
Commentors above have criticised local councils. However, this raises the whole question of how dispersal of refugees has been organised over recent decades. Historically, left to themselves, refugees tend to head for big cities; there they can find established contemporaries and bodies who can help them in their own language, shops they can use, suitable places of worship and places to learn the English language they will need – and more job opportunities.
What London and the like lack is housing, so central Government saw distant cities and towns with empty houses as a solution. Because central Government distrusts local government, they do the dispersal themselves, using commercial companies. The local knowledge and facilities of the council and local charities are ignored. Often the council first hears of the arrivals is when they see housing that locals regard as deeply undesirable and run-down has been occupied. The commercial companies don’t want to liaise with the council because they see them as a competitor, and a source of unwanted regulation and (justified) criticism. A really bad start to integrating these new residents into the community.
@John Marriott
‘Some of the ‘children’ featured in reports look a bit beyond childhood to me.’
Appearances can be deceptive. When I was a twenty year old student, I lived in a hostel with other students, young people in business and recent dischargees from TB hospitals. One of the fellow residents was a sculpture student, much mature looking than me – tall, broad, well-muscled and with a full bushy beard; he was 17. (No doubt about it – other residents had been at the same school and known him for years.)
The sub-text of this article is that while there are Tory MPs who make the right noises and may well have the right instincts, when push comes to shove the culture of ‘loyalty’ to the party leadership often wins out. This is more so following the purge of independant minded Tory MPs that took place in 2019, mirroring what had happened in the Labour party.
suzanne fletcher 14th Jan '20 - 11:24am
@sopwith morley. there needs to be better understanding of the dispersal process for asylum seekers in the UK. When asylum seekers arrive here ( and note this is asylum seekers, not refugees), they are sent to what is called “Initial accommodation” in different areas of the the country by the Home Office. After about a month they are dispersed to accommodation.
This is mainly in areas where the accommodation can be sourced that is both available and not expensive, hence many towns in the north. In towns in such as the SE, like Cheltenham, there is not much spare accommodation, and it would cost at least double I should think. the decision is made by the Home Office, not local councils.
I live in Stockton on Tees, next door to Middlesbrough, and we have the highest number of asylum seekers in England in our town. Most people have no idea how many are here. They don’t cause trouble, have a separate health centre so no impact on such as GP waiting times, and costs are met centrally by the Home Office not the local council.
Not only to they not cause problems, they actually enrich our area. places that would be empty and derelict are brought back to life. Local shops in the streets are kept going, no out of town shopping centres and online shopping for them. they do a lot of voluntary work ( not allowed by law to work), they are filling our churches, and most important of all I have made very good friends with some lovely people who have fled here from appalling places.
It is not good that they would be scattered around, a few here and there, as facilities needed, and generally provided by the voluntary sector, would not be able to be provided, you need a certain number to make such as teaching English, Drop Ins, and so on available. Also as some are on something called Section 4 where they have no cash, it is important they do not have to rely on public transport and can walk to where they need to go.
So it is not up to an individual council to decide to take asylum seekers, and our northern town is not being “dumped on”.
@John Marriott. the point about “child refugees” looking more adult. I don’t think you have any idea of the toll that is taken on a young person making dangerous and extremely difficult journeys across the globe. How many of us that know young people under 18 would think they could travel like that and live without contact with family and friends? how long would those we know, children, grandchildren, friends children, could last long?
as to how they look. A twin from Syria arrived here via Calais. he was lucky, he got here more or less straight away, got a decision on being able to stay quite quickly, and got a job. His twin did not make it here for several years, and was detained when he got here. He was finally dispersed to Wales. He came up here to visit his brother, and I was so shocked when I saw them side by side. the late arrival here looked at least 10 years older, i will never forget that.
Re the vote on child refugees. I applaud Peter Jeffries on what he says, and well done on Cheltenham becoming a town of sanctuary. The City of Sanctuary movement is an excellent on, and I commend working with them for any place of any size that wishes to work on that.
On what is happening in Parliament. our parliamentarians are not giving up on this, and I am proud that all eleven were present and voting for the amendment.
Liberal Democrats for Seekers of Sanctuary will be doing what they can as part of the campaigns.
Also it does not stop there, Sally Hamwee has tabled a Bill in the House of Lords on family reunion.
you can read here all the detail, and whilst you are there sign the petition too.
http://libdemfocus.co.uk/ld4sos/archives/1766
Ian Sanderson (RM3) 14th Jan '20 - 1:11pm
Thanks, Suzanne, for those contributions, embodying much more knowledge and experience than I could hope to offer.
suzanne fletcher 14th Jan '20 - 3:32pm
@Ian Sanderson – what you said was sound which matters !
John Hall 14th Jan '20 - 4:52pm
I do wish people would stop using expressions like “it’s called democracy” or “that’s democracy” without explaining what “it” and “that” is. To this naive 65 year-old, “democracy” is where the majority decision carries the day. I’ve seen very little of that in my 65 years, but plenty of cases where the largest minority gets power or as in the referendum, lies and prejudice seem to tip the balance in favour of the largest minority who are determined to get their own way while the confused stand aside or take a lucky/unlucky dip.
I don’t accept that non-voters should be ignored. We supposedly live in a representative democracy. Despite the fact that MPs are not generally representative of their constituent’s views, (first-past-the-post often demands tactical voting between “the two parties” ie Labour and Tory), they are supposed to represent everybody: lunatics, the under-aged, homeless, the bewildered and those who choose to and are able to vote. This is why we live in a “representative” democracy where MPs take decisions on behalf of everybody. The EU Referendum was the antithesis of representative democracy, and as an exercise in direct democracy, a failure because so many of us were conned. Furthermore, the potential wrecking of the economy and the Union should have required more than a simple majority of those who actually voted.
Innocent Bystander 14th Jan '20 - 5:08pm
Just asking, were you “conned” into voting Leave?
Ian Sanderson (RM3) 14th Jan '20 - 10:05pm
I’ve met at least one remainer who was conned into not voting, as she was convinced the Remain was going to win handsomely without her.
Innocent Bystander 14th Jan '20 - 10:22pm
Ian, that’s not quite the same.
It is a certain poisonous attitude which I am trying to expose because that is the root cause of lost referenda and elections.
Any number of remainers have told me that ‘people’ have been conned into voting leave by the Russians, Cambridge Analytica, a number on a bus, the Daily Mail, various lies, etc.
I always reply ” Gosh, so you were tricked into voting leave?”
“Oh no I wasn’t. Other people were”, they reply.
Wow, do not they understand that if you tell someone ” You were fooled, but I wasn’t” the recipient can only possibly hear “This person is calling me a fool”.
If you say that, because you think that, then please don’t express disappointment when they vote in the opposite way to the one you want.
If you do not respect, and genuinely respect, the considered opinions of your fellow citizens you can not hope to convince them of anything.
@Innocent Bystander
Good points on not treating people as fools and then hoping to convert them. I wonder whether ‘frankie’ is listening?
Martin 15th Jan '20 - 9:19am
John Marriott:
In defence of Frankie, he is addressing his audience on this site. In large measure he is asserting that he is not fooled by Brexiters’ incoherent claims. When someone habitually advocates right wing responses, even quoting right wing sources, yet dresses up his arguments in a left-wing posture, Frankie’s responses would seem to be fairly rational.
In general Liberal Democrats spend for too much time conceding ground to hostile opponents and failing to stand up for their beliefs.
Peter Martin 15th Jan '20 - 10:59am
@ Martin,
This thread is supposed to be about child migrants and refugees. Yes we can all agree that the Tories policy is inhumane and we should do what we can to make it more humane. But somehow you and others have brought Brexit into the argument. We haven’t left the EU yet so I’m not clear just how this is relevant.
I know you have a mental picture of the EU somehow being a centre left progressive organisation. But is it really? We’ve all criticised Donald Trump for talking about putting up walls and fences on the Mexican border. Usually the EU PTB are good at talking but not actually doing. But when it comes to walls and fences it’s the other way around. They get built without any real public discussion
These are the walls and fences that are built to keep out all refugees. Child and adult alike.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-border-wall-berlin-migration-human-rights-immigration-borders-a8624706.html
frankie 17th Jan '20 - 12:07am
You are assuming I want to convert them, well even if I did most are beyond help. Only harsh reality will change their views and even then for many far to much self worth and delusion is invested in their desire for Brexit or Lexit for them ever to back down. Tis not the died hard Brexi’s and Lexi’s we should try to change, you really can’t change stupid, tis those that tagged along without much thought, those that havn’t nailed their colours to the mast. So going forward when things go wrong you need to tar Brexi’s and Lexi’s with the responsiblity, just as they used the EU as a convient excuse for all ills so must they become the default for all blame. Tis hard on them you say, tis not nice their lives will be hard, true but they made their bed let them lie in it. I’ve warned Peter Sunderland will be devestated and when it happens, well lets see what excuse he can come up with while pretending to be a nice Labour voter. Other Brexi’s and Lexi’s face similar conversations and all face the unfortunate fact ” that poor countries cannot and do not feather bed the economically inactice” how unfortunate they voted to make us poor.
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Bronxville house tour set for May 12; it's free
Architect will lead walking tour of Lawernce Park Hilltop; 2 homes are included
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The Journal News Published 12:44 p.m. ET May 8, 2018
7 Valley Road in Bronxville(Photo: Houlihan Lawrence)
Fans of local history and fans of house tours will get a two-fer when the Bronxville Historical Conservancy launches a mini-house tour May 12.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by Houlihan Lawrence.
Local architect Anderson Kenny will lead a walking tour of Bronxville's historic Lawrence Park Hilltop to discuss the unique features of the homes designed by William Augustus Bates between 1890 and 1910.
At the turn of the 20th century, Bates was the “right-hand man” of William Van Duzer Lawrence, founder of Houlihan Lawrence and the visionary creator of Bronxville’s historic artist colony known as Lawrence Park, now affectionately known as “the Hilltop.”
16 Park Avenue in Bronxville (Photo: Houlihan Lawrence)
The two homes featured on the tour are 7 Valley Road and 16 Park Ave. Guests will have the opportunity to see the first floor of both homes. At 7 Valley Road, there is an amazing two-story great room and dramatic, sweeping staircase and original stained glass windows.
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7 Valley Road in Bronxville (Photo: Houlihan Lawrence)
The home on Park Avenue, built in 1908, has a family room featuring a wall of custom arched windows with sliders to an expansive deck with spectacular village views.
Details: The walking tour is free and open to the public. Park by 9:45 a.m. at the free lot behind Houlihan Lawrence at 4 Valley Road. Agents will escort visitors up the hill to 7 Valley Road. The tour starts promptly at 10 a.m. For additional information call Susan Kelty Law; 914-659-5856; Rita Steinkamp, 914-646-5196; or Megan McSherry, 917-446-2221.
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Is there anything super about the cycle superhighways?
Andreas · Jul 7, 2010 · 46 Comments
Cycling over to meet Nigel Hardy, the project manager for the cycle superhighways, I had one question running through my mind. “Why didn’t they just call it blue lanes and avoid all the hassle and criticism they’ve drawn?” Soon this question along with another barrage of questions from London Cyclist readers would be answered.
My test ride with TfL would finally put to rest which of the two visions would become a daily reality for 1000s of London Cyclists. Would it truly be continuous lanes that provide a safe and direct route into the capital. Or would it be more of a marketing gimmick, a glorified cycle lane that is a missed opportunity for real progress.
The first two of the cycle superhighways are on track for their completion date of the 19th of July. After this we will see an incremental increase in cycle lanes with two more superhighways being added every year. These two cycle superhighway routes are pilot routes and while a lot of criticism has been coming in it’s important to note that up until the 19th of July they are still not officially finished. In fact the final thing we will see is the signage being added and the last road markings going in on busy junctions.
Smurf lanes
The main criticism of the cycle superhighways is also the most obvious: “It’s just a lick of blue paint”. This is justified as large parts of the first two routes already existed as the more traditional green cycle lanes. However, TfL were keen to stress that a lot has gone into it that we don’t see. For example, the road surface has been re-done in many areas that were suffering from potholes. There’s also been a lot of behind the scenes engineering work, planning and testing. The blue paint has been running through light box tests where they run a tyre over it many times to test it doesn’t fade. A couple of previous revisions of the paint used have been scrapped as they were found to fade far too easily.
There are three types of road surface in use for the superhighways. The surface you will see near the junctions is high-friction to prevent accidents. I raised the reports that have been coming in of slippery road surfaces. TfL told me that they’ve run extensive tests and not found the paint used to be slippery.
Talking to Nigel Hardy I was also very keen to raise the point of “why the blue?” and “why call it a superhighway?”
Branding was the short answer. Perhaps fears of a “marketing gimmick” were coming true. The hope with the branding is to make drivers aware that high volumes of cyclists will be travelling along this route. It also makes it easier for cyclists to follow the route and know where it is leading them.
Why not segregate?
Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rio De Janeiro, Barcelona. All places I’ve seen segregated cycling infrastructure work well. It’s one of the main things cyclists request to feel safer. A small barrier between drivers and cyclists would surely make this more of a cycle “super” highway.
Segregation however, is not something that is being considered for the cycle superhighways. TfL said the routes are simply not being used frequently enough to warrant separation of traffic. It is only during peak hours that you will see many cyclists in the lanes. TfL claim that segregating the lanes would create many problems for loading vehicles. They also claim that cyclists don’t want to be treated differently to other vehicles.
TfL are more keen to address the problem of motorists in cycle lanes through police enforcement, branding and working with companies to ensure their drivers are not blocking the lanes during peak hours. The experience of cyclists will tell if this approach will have the desired effect.
Direct and continuous cycle superhighways
Cyclists have also been raising concern about how continuous the cycle lanes are. Around 80% of the route is covered by the blue lanes. The other 20% involves blue boxes with CS markings in them and crossings at junctions. The break in the continuity is meant to inform cyclists that they need to pay extra attention. It is used when a continues blue lane was deemed inappropriate.
A super experience
Riding the superhighway side-by-side with Nigel Hardy, which is barely possible along much of the route as the lanes are often just 1.5 metres wide, I wondered what he thought beginner cyclists would think of the experience.
As we stood at the final junction of our tour with Nigel pointing in various directions and explaining to me what cyclists need to do to pass this complicated junction I thought it was the right time to ask the question.
His response is perhaps the ultimate conclusion to the cycle superhighways. Without training he wouldn’t expect them to feel very happy riding along this busy A-road even with the superhighways in place.
A cycle superhighway should surely be designed to give beginners that confidence they need to tackle London’s roads. It should be a pleasure to ride along without any fear. This was my experience of the equivalent of superhighways in other countries and unfortunately it was not the same in London.
In the end the superhighways are a compromise. On one side you have organisations such as the LCC and bicycle activists calling for more to be done. On the other you have motorists. TfL and the Mayor have to try to decide how the two sides can work together. There has been a lot of obstacles to overcome in order to complete the first two routes. Whilst it remains hard to discover the “super” in the cycle superhighways they are a positive step forward in the vision to make London a cyclist friendly city.
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Others have reported that under street lights the lanes don’t show up, so not sure what sort of light box they were using, just daylight I expect, not sodium lights.
I cycle the CS7 and have done for 3 years now. The lane can be seen as a welcome addition but where it isn’t in effect it seems to give drivers of other vehicles the mindset that they don’t have to look where they are going, and frequently don’t give enough space.
What is wrong with a continuous line? Why not make other vehicles look out and aware that the cycle lane crosses a busy junction, not to mention pedestrians deep in conversations on mobile phones or listening to ipods.
Of course without segregation you will not get the masses using these. People still think I’m crazy cycling to work even though I can count hundreds of people doing the same any day of the week. Some days I think they are right when I run up against a lunatic white van man – often in the scaffolding trade for some reason.
Osaka, Japan allows cycling on paths and pedestrians have to look out for them as much as cyclists need to look out for pedestrians. In many places this should be allowed, it will encourage people to cycle.
Andreas says
Agreed that segregation is a necessity for getting that very scared cyclists to make the first step. It is something I think would be good at least along these main arteries. Though segregation is definitely not always the answer.
nununoolio says
Andreas.
Very scared cyclists don’t need segregation. They need proper training.
Aside from that, the last thing they need is to be sharing a ‘superhighway’ with so many other road users (including more experienced cyclists speeding past them at close quarters!).
They would be a lot better off working out a route using the TFL cycle maps that will take them through parks and along quiet roads.
Bassjunkieuk says
On the subject of segregated lanes one issue that has come up amongst some friends when we discuss it is that they effectively force riders using the lane to cycle at the same pace as the slowest rider, this might not be a problem further out from the centre of town but by the time you reach Clapham the density of cyclists really increases.
Having said that if they did segregate the lanes I’d most likely just not use them. As it stands at the moment CS7 runs along a small part of my commute (used to be a big part but now I’ve taken to diverting round Clapham Common and up Queenstown Road to avoid roadworks on Clapham-Stockwell) and IMO all they really amount to is brightly painted cycle lanes, motorised vehicles pay about as much attention to them as they do the standard green lanes.
100Climbs says
I am not looking forward to riding on slick blue paint in the wet, not at all. Why not put a grippy surface an it all? saving money maybe? Lets wait and see…
Adam S says
I’ve heard lots of people saying the blue paint looks slippy, but not heard of anyone who has come a cropper yet.
My advice is that if you’re worried about it then you should observe the golden rule of going in a straight line and not trying to brake or turn – and hope that you don’t have to avoid any pedestrians, white-vans, or mobile-using drivers! So in other words, you’d better invest in some body armour.
Yep, if anyone does hear of anyone falling off then I would be interested in this and happy to chase it up with TfL
Richard Masoner says
I’ve never traveled on these blue cycle lanes (obviously, since I’m in California), but I’ve been on similarly colored surfaces with no problems when wet. It’s not quite the same as the striping used on road surfaces — for large surfaces like these “Superhighways”, a skid proofing binder is added to the thermoplastic resin so the surface is not slippery when wet.
See http://www.highwaysmaintenance.com/colsurf.htm
I commute to battersea everyday. I came off yesterday coming off the A24 onto Rookery Road. The blue is not the issue its the white either side. Small bit of rain and I was down very hard. This needs to be addressed I won’t be the only one ….
botogol says
it seems to me the blue paint is there where it’s least needed (long straight stretches of bus lane, half-covered in blue… shrug) but at junctions, bus-stops, crossings .. ie all the places where you actually have collisions and near misses…. the paint is absent.
still, I take your point about CS7 notr being finished to 19th july… I will be cycling much of it on the 20th and look forward to it.
your second picture nicely illustrates another problem with the construction of cycle lanes (not just CS7) :
If I am not mistaken it shows a section where they have done that deeply irriating thing: painted the blue around the existing red lines.
this means that the two red lines form two parallel depressions in the road surface, which is not at all good for bikes – most people have had experience of the front whell getting caught on some kind of ridge ruinning in the direction of travel.
When making a superhighway they need to apply the blue paint / blue surface evenly all over, and then repaint the red lines on top.
Darren says
I find myself indifferent to these lanes. Maybe that will change when I actually cycle on one. Generally my opinion is that I’ll be using the route most useful to my destination as I’ve always done and if a blue lane is naturally a part of that then so be it. I can’t see me searching one out especially for any reason whatsoever.
There appears to be some circular logic going on here
“…segregation however, is not something that is being considered for the cycle superhighways. TfL said the routes are simply not being used frequently enough to warrant separation of traffic.”
Could it be that less confident cyclists won’t start cycling until there is segregation, but until they do in numbers they won’t segregate?
A very valid point. Think for TfL they are in a tough position to start taking road away from cars. If they segregate then the lane will definitely be too slow for those fast commuters.
There are places in London where the pavements are beautifully wide but cyclists have to share dual carriageway-style roads with cars, buses and all the rest of the motorised populace, or find a much longer, less direct, far hillier route (anyone else loathe Holland Park – Notting Hill Gate?).
I’ve seriously never seen pavements as wide anywhere else, and this stretch would make brilliant shared pedestrian/cycle use.
Instead you have to cycle up what would be an okay but long slope with taxis, loading vans, buses pulling in and out and a lot of less-than courteous cars, and hold up large amounts of traffic. I’m all for being a bit bolshy and making the odd car slow down every now and then, but I can’t bring myself to cause that much disruption, and hop off the bike to walk up the lovely wide pavement which has more than enough space for me, the lady with the pram and a Chelsea tractor!
When I got back on my bike, I took the approach that I had to just throw myself at the more difficult bits, or I’d be limited to riding up and down my street like an oversized five-year-old forever. But most people would be much more cautious, and they won’t get on their bikes unless they know they don’t have to face their own version of Holland Park – Notting Hill Gate, or CS7 without the finishing touches.
A bit of *sensible* segregation would bring so many more people out on their bikes, and then there’d be a better argument for more (or less) as needed in future.
I share your frustration about Holland Park – Notting Hill Gate since I cycle this route everyday. I too have thought that the pavements could easily accommodate the kind of segregated cycle lanes you see in Holland. In fact, I would even propose that the trees are cut down to make way for an even bigger segregated highway (although that would be deeply unpopular with the well-to-do locals). Those trees are massive and old and I’m sure they are starting to release more CO2 than they absorb.
But even assuming the trees are kept, a properly segregated cycle lane on that all the way from Shepherd’s Bush to Marble Arch with proper right of way at the T-junctions would be something the city could be proud of!
Cooper says
i feel that there needs to be someone who knows more about the plans of these super cycle highways introduced to a forum like this, however i am not this person. what i would like to tell you however is that;
as much as you may feel segregation is the answer, it will never happen. councils are being forced to look at street clutter, this is any type of apparatus on any road within the borough to make sure it is at its minimum.
this means that and kind of fence, barrier or anything else would never be put in, the new scheme’s being put into place are called shared access. meaning that both pedestrians and cars have both go to be more aware of whats around them, barriers bollards and any other device used to prevent pedestrians from being run over are being removed.
so im sorry to burst your bubble but any indication that TFL are giving you about segregation being brought in. i dont see it happening.
wulfhound says
Which is all very well, if they had the gumption to implement and more importantly ENFORCE 20mph speed limits across London other than red routes & urban motorways…
20mph is rather optimistic in Central London tbf! During the rush hour as you get closer to the centre of town traffic speed gets a lot slower and people only get past 30 if they really stamp on the accelerator between each traffic jam 🙂
One day they’ll see the light and get a bike!
To-jo says
“For example, the road surface has been re-done in many areas that were suffering from potholes. ”
Yeah that’s true. The road was horrendous up to Clapham North and its much better now. Light wheels, heavy rider and seeing a pothole late were threatening to ruin a good set of wheels.
Ok the name is a bit of a joke, what’s super about them apart from the colour ? But this is a step in the right direction. And about as much as we can expect right now. It shows some clear demarcation between road and cycle lane and therefore encourages vehicles to stay out. In my experience buses are the ones that drift into it the most, probably due to the width of the bus and road and the quite common rubbish driving.
If they encourage more cyclists then you never know one day we’ll get dedicated cycle lanes with no traffic lights please…..I can dream !
That does sound like a dream! Always imagined what it would be like if they closed Oxford Circus to all traffic apart from bikes. So much more room for pedestrians!
My route to work takes me on a couple of Cycle Superhighways. Personally I think the bright blue is a little harsh on the eye and I preferred the more discreet green cycle lanes… but then again, if the job of the new Cycle Superhighways is to make other road users more aware of cyclists, then I guess it works.
With regards to the surface, I tend to prefer cycling on the actual road – but I’m lucky and go against the flow of traffic during my commute (out from the City, over the river and down South) so I have the luxury of having enough room to be able to do that.
Before I read this article there didn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason behind why some parts of the Cycle Superhighways were more gritted than others – I simply thought some workmen had been lazy, and some slightly over zealous!
Overall as a daily commuter I’m not fussed, but in conjunction with the cycle hire scheme this should give new cyclists more of an incentive/confidence to ride about as certain routes are clearly marked out for them.
“They also claim that cyclists don’t want to be treated differently to other vehicles.”
I wonder how many cyclists would really complain if you gave them a route that was just as direct and ‘continuous’ but safer as a result of being segregated. TfL are just covering up for the fact that they are scared of taking any road-space away from motorists.
Accepting that limitation, I’d like to see the superhighways incorporate a cyclist-only traffic light phase at the more dangerous junctions. There appear to be no plans for this at the moment, but it’s something we could push for in the routes to come.
Gaz says
Beat me to it. I’m riding the route with Nigel tomorrow. Not sure my write up will be as good as yours.
Denis says
About the pavement being resurfaced, I’d like to point that most of the carriageway around Oval and Brixton have been resurfaced at the benefits of all road users at the “expenses of the “cycling ” budget…
I find this a bit unfair as pavement resurfarcing should be funded by the general “maintenance” budget and not really in the cycling budget. I even find it even more unfair as this resurfacing happened at night and I wouldn’t be surprise if it take more than half of the “superhighway” budget…
Unfiortunatly in London, the highjacking of the already small “cycling” budgets for junction redesign, traffic signal upgrade, etc is very common.
Actually I belive, as it is the case in the Netherlands, that the cycling budgets are used exclusively for cycle parking facilities and that cycle highway improvements be funded from the general road improvement budget. As redesigning a road involves all the actors of mobility.
I absolutely agree: why the hell should cycling money pay for the damage to the roads done exclusively by trucks/cars/buses? If the roads were kept up to a decent standard out of general maintenance then the cycling cash could be spent on better facilities.
I also don’t get Nigel Hardy’s argument that the routes isn’t being used heavily enough to warrant segregation. As others have said, good quality (a major caveat there) segregation would definitely get more people cycling; narrow blue lanes and no change to speeds of cars won’t make much difference.
And anyway, cycle volumes are pretty high down some of these routes. According to TfL there are around 13,000 cyclists a day on Clapham Road. That’s a big chunk of traffic.
Good review, Andreas.
A cycle a large portion of CS7 on my commute, and I was a bit sceptical when the blue paint first appeared. But I drove the same route recently, and I have to say, when behind the wheel, it did make me more aware of cycle space. So my verdict is: good but not great.
Anyone using the CS7 around the elephant and castle?… that needs a lot of work. The junction priority needs to be changed at Keyworth Street and Gaunt street to give priority to bikes and the stupid dogleg coming south at the end of Southwark Bridge Road going back into Keyworth Street should have been removed altogether.
And then there’s simple little things like the buttons for the cycle crossing at Churchyard Row and Newington Butts being in the wrong place.
Kath says
Agree the CS7 around elephant could be better but the resurfaced roads there are a big improvement.
I (somewhat naively it seems) hoped that the superhighway would mean an end to taxis parked in the cycle lane on Southwark Bridge Road. But no, on average going north from Borough Rd there are 4 taxis parked on the CS7 (and the double yellow lines), then there’s a break in the continuous lane for parked cars and then a couple of delivery vans/trucks stopped in the lane, all within a few hundred meters. If they aren’t going to do anything to keep vehicles off the superhighway, what was the point?
Also – is it me or do the blue lanes crossing St George’s Rd and London Rd give a potentially dangerous false sense of priority? Of course, there are the traffic lights but as far as I could see there was no clear STOP line or indicator of the traffic signals on the blue itself? You have this great dominant blue stripe going horizontally across the road akin to a Zebra crossing, but the traffic is under signal control.
.. oh, my other big bugbear about the layout at Elephant – coming in from the SW, the bus stop /immediately/ in front of the left turn in to the bypass route (Churchyard Row). So having battled the buses all the way up the A3, we now have to pull out to pass stopped buses and then immediately swing in to the left? Could easily be remedied by moving the bus stop 50 yards in either direction.
Gary says
In short no, there is nothing super about the super highways.
As far as I can see they are just green cycle lanes painted blue.
Peridot says
Can anyone explain to me why the cycle superhighway through Poplar and Limehouse is less of a superhighway and more a series of blue rugs, scattered indescriminately at random intervals? I genuinely don’t understand what this is supposed to signify.
Phil Russell says
I’m just wondering how long before bikies will be Legally Required to Stay on the Magic Blue Carpet at all times, and be penalised for not doing so…..however, I do expect lurching pedestrian sleep-walkers to be more aware of the blue bayou than they are at present….at least for a while. (Watch this space).
Tom Leeks says
A few days ago I answered a phone survey about the ‘Cycle Super Highway’. At that time I had had only seen it but not used it. Although I do cycle frequently, I had not done very much recently, particularly since some of our local roads were painted blue (with no explanation that I had seen at that time and very little since). I was therefore only able to answer questions about my life and cycling style. Since then I have taken more trouble to look at what has been painted and it seems that very little has changed but the colour. Just what is one supposed to do when suddenly confronted with the message,’end of cycle lane’ or worse still the blue paint just stops with no information. Get off and walk perhaps, I don’t think so.just struggle across the barren area at the mercy of all the other traffic. Taking particular care to avoid buses and taxis.
Although some perhaps even most bus drivers are competent even expert although in the main somewhat arrogant (When I learnt to drive many years ago I was told that a right indicator meant ,’I intend to pull out as soon as it is clear’, most bus drivers use it to say,’I’m pulling out, get out of my way!’), the vehicles they have to drive are in many cases totally unsuitable for many of the roads they use making even a safe driver very dangerous for cyclists. The longer the bus, the worse the danger (bendies of course most dangerous of all, equal to articulated trucks). Buses seem to be getting longer and many of them cannot safely negotiate many of our streets without crossing far over the central line. Taxis!! well that is different. Again many Taxi. drivers are safe and courteous but far from all of them. How many cyclists have been nearly taken out by a taxi just passing then immediately pulling left as they are hailed. It has certainly happened to me many times. So, although as I said many taxi drivers are safe and courteous my experience is that on balance they are amongst the worst drivers on our streets.
Although these days I do not cycle as often as I used to since I have now retired, a few years ago I used to cycle every weekday (during term time) from Marble Arch to Haverstock Hill (Chalk Farm). I was cycling at the time the first congestion charge was introduced and my observation was that the streets immediately became more dangerous due to there being more Taxis (and many of them empty of passengers for nearly half of the time).
I said earlier that I had found very little publicity about Super Highway before I found this site so I am not yet sure if buses and taxis are allowed to use the blue painted section. If they are then I can see very little improvement over the system we have now had for several years with the green paint.
There is a similarity to the story of ‘The Emporer’s New Clothes’. If enough people say often enough that they are good, then they ‘will’ be good.
Ever since I started regularly cycling in London (9 or 10 years ago) I have thought that many cyclists are their own worst enemies and even a danger to themselves. I consider that I cycle safely and sensibly. I do NOT ride on the pavement, I do NOT ignore pedestrian crossings, I do NOT cross against a red traffic light (although I will admit to the occasional left turn there). The large numbers of cyclists who do ALL of these things can never do anything to improve the general public’s opinion of all cyclists. I am strongly in favour of enforcement and serious fines for ALL of these offences. This would probably do more to reduce cycle accidents than any number of Blue Safety Mats.
David Arditti says
“TfL said the routes are simply not being used frequently enough to warrant separation of traffic”
This is interesting, because it is not what I have heard them say. Boris, when asked why the Superhighways are not segregated, always says “There is just not room on London’s roads”.
This is a different “explanation” to Boris’s, if this is really what Nigel Hardy said to Andreas. It clearly makes no sense at all. Is he saying that if the Superhighways, by some miracle of divine intervention, really succeeded in getting thousands of new cyclists on to the roads, that they would segregate them? BUT, if that happened, the Superhighways would have succeeded in their object without segregation, and segregation would not be necessary!! Carts and horses flying around here – does anyone understand this?
It seems that TfL does not really, deep down, believe in the “Cycling Revolution” it proclaims. It seems this cycling revolution is desired only if it does not produce too many cyclists. It hasn’t been thought through.
The big thing that tends not to be understood in the UK about segregated cycle lanes, Dutch-style, is that their main purpose is not safety, per se, as cycling is inherently quite safe anyway, it is the prioritisation of space for cycle traffic. It is, in other words, to give the bike a competitive advantage in the struggle for space on the roads, which makes bike journeys quicker and more efficient, as well as more pleasant. There is no other effective method of preventing parking, loading, queuing, bus and taxi stopping in cycle space, and general obstruction by motor vehicles, other than physical segregation. This is why it is used so extensively on the continent. It is not that the continentals have some malign control agenda to push cyclists off the general roads. Arguments that segregation slows down fast commuter cyclists are incorrect. It only has this effect if badly done, with insufficient capacity or other design faults. Fast commuter cyclists benefit equally with slower cyclists from the advantages that proper continental-style cycle tracks create.
My prediction is that either these new blue highways will be allowed to fade away in time, and be forgotten, and we will have no “cycling revolution,” or a new set of politicians and officials in the future will decide they really want a cycling revolution, with that vital ingredient, lots of cyclists, and will turn them into proper segregated cycle tracks, which would involve cutting back the space for motor traffic a lot, particularly at junctions, and removing all the parking. I don’t see any other possibilities. Judging by recent history, the former is the more likely possibility.
The reason the ‘superhighways’ are blue is because Barclays are sponsoring them. No need to pretend it’s for visibility or any other spurious reason – it’s so that Barclays gets some value for its investment.
people might be interested in this statement from TFL regardng the slipperiness of the surface.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/safety_of_the_surface_being_used
The three surfaces
– High Friction
– Standard Use (Carriageway)
– Light Use (Footway)
Note that Light Use (footway) is just paint – no chippings. I have this funny feeling that I have seen stretches of Light Use on the carriageway on CS7 – Anyone else think that? I will have my camera ready.
Anyway, comforting to know that tests have been done, as you would expect.
rossthboss says
Hmmm didn’t embed. Try this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/transportforlondoncycling/4796316080/sizes/l/
Johann says
My gripe with these is the way they named the routes. CS3 or CS7 etc. At first I had no idea what the CS stood for – and I’m a cyclist! Ah it is Cycle Super something… there is no H to help people. But they go to the effort of painting a bicycle pictogram above this. So it reads from top to bottom Cycle Cycle Super 3. Erm?! Why on earth did they not call it SH3 and SH7, etc since then it will read Cycle Super Highway. Doh!!!
But whoever is supplying that white paint for these must be in cahoots with someone at TfL since they are painting an awful lot of these and most within visible distance from each other. What is the point? Ah yes someone is making money from supplying white paint to TfL…
After my last outburst I have scrolled back through all the earlier comments and I am pleased to see several others agree with at least some of my points and some have persuaded me to modify my views. e.g. having previuosly been outspoken about cycling on the pavement (translate for American readers), I will now agree with Karl (07 Jul) and Sam (09 Jul) that there are several places where wide pavements are safer than narrow road lanes and will not always inconvenience pedestrians although more use of the obligatory warning bell would be advisable. ( I frequently both walk and cycle on the Thames Path between Putney & Hammersmith and note that most cyclists seldom give any warning.) Botogol and others reoeat my point about sudden ending of cycle lanes at junctions, just the place where they are most needed.(e.g. CS7 at Colliers Wood–long straight section before it then as approaching the lane split at the junction to Tandem Centre, Sainsbury’s etc., no blue path through the junction nor one to help the lane split if travelling straight. In situations like this the suggestion from Jim (07 Jul) is worth considering, Cycle only phase of the traffic lights would certainly help a lot at normal junctions but would still not do much for the split and ‘peel off’ lane situation.
Final comment on the reply to To-jo (07 Jul) by Andreas —” So much more room for pedestrians!” and I would say, “so much more dangerous for pedestrians”.
Iain says
Took a trip along CS7 yesterday, I don’t think we need to worry about them being bright blue for long, as there’s already varying shades on there, and quite a lot of dirt…For someone who’s new to cycling in London (every ride’s a new adventure!) the blue ribbon is handy as you can easily follow it knowing where it goes so can concentrate on traffic etc, rather than worrying about roadsigns and working out where you’re trying to go. I did nearly miss a set of lights, but that was more down to the number of people arguing nearby (at 0700!) [I did consider rolling on to stay clear of them] 1.5 metres sounds a lot, until that is you’re riding in one, I found myself generally hugging the outside of the lane to keep a normal gap to the kerb. There were a few points where I did get a bit confused – I didn’t notice anything indicating the jump from the left of the traffic to the right at one point, it was easy enough to do on a Sunday morning, I wouldn’t like to try the same move today though. Similarly, when the lane ends and you move to a pavement stretch caught me out, but I guess that’s something I’ll remember next time (hopefully!) The traffic lighted sections (the special ones for bikes) were impressive, at first I thought “what twit put the button over there where you can’t reach it?” but then the lights changed having picked me up approaching. It is a bit unnerving though to be stopped so far back from the road, in some places out of view of traffic, if they see no one using the crossing, will they just ignore the lights, leading to a collission? My only other issue was that I didn’t pay enough attenton to the buildings etc, so on my way back trying to work out where I had to leave CS7 was tricky, but second time lucky on that one! It’ll be nice when there’s more lanes, hopefully a nice network to cross the city, maybe even encourage some pedestrian/cycle only streets – we can dream!
smiffffy says
The CS3 through the eastend toward City basically follows the route taken by myself prior to it becoming a “superhighway”, that is backstreets, across pedestrian walkways (carefully!), down singleway roads, and is broken up in many places. Oh and it’s now blue.
waste of time and paint.
tomk says
I rode from the City to Tooting on the Superhighway last night – my debut! Some bits of it were great. Other bits, a joke. Numerous missed opportunities, that I suspect are a function of cost. I would like to see TfL commit to upgrade the route as funding becomes available. I also think Andreas should invite Boris to cycle the length of CS7, and see first hand what it is like…
Cory says
I live in a flat overlooking the CS3 that flows past the T-junction at Branch Road & Horseferry Road in Limehouse. At least once per day, a cyclist runs into a car turning right off of Branch Road onto Horseferry Road one way system (the cycle route runs opposite in the opposite direction to the one-way system).
IT IS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE IS KILLED OR SERIOUSLY INJURED AT THIS INTERSECTION.
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Marlboro plans merger with Emerson College
Dear Marlboro Community,
We are writing to share important news about Marlboro’s search for a strategic partner. Since early 2019, the Board of Trustees has sought a partnership that would preserve Marlboro’s mission and our commitment to providing students with a rigorous education outside the boundaries of traditional majors and core requirements. Today we are announcing that Marlboro College has taken the first step to becoming the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies on the Emerson College campus in Boston. Given our severe financial challenges, coupled with difficult trends in higher education, the Marlboro trustees believe that an alliance with Emerson is the best opportunity to secure and sustain Marlboro’s legacy far into the future.
Emerson has a demonstrated commitment to interdisciplinary studies and progressive education, as evidenced by current programs housed in their Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. The Institute will be renamed for Marlboro and will welcome existing Marlboro students and tenure-line and tenured Marlboro faculty who wish to continue their work at Emerson. Faculty will be tenure track or tenured as they are at Marlboro, which is a significant commitment by Emerson, and will ensure that Marlboro’s pedagogy and practices will shape Emerson’s programs and curriculum. Moreover, Marlboro College’s long-standing mission to develop critical thinkers, clear writers, and active citizens aligns with Emerson’s commitment to “core liberal arts values that seek to promote civic engagement, encourage ethical practices, foster respect for human diversity, and inspire students to create and communicate with clarity, integrity, and conviction.”
Marlboro students, who have been our priority throughout this process, will benefit from Emerson’s academic strengths in the liberal arts, arts and communications, in particular, as well as the numerous opportunities offered by the city of Boston. The Emerson campus offers a robust portfolio of student services and engagement opportunities in a creative and collaborative environment, as well as a strong and tangible commitment to equity and inclusion. Students will retain current tuition unless they transfer into another major or study on another campus outside of Boston. Students, including juniors, currently on Plan will be able to complete their work at Emerson with Marlboro faculty and in addition will have access to Emerson’s own faculty and extensive interdisciplinary course offerings. Students who would prefer to continue their studies elsewhere will receive Marlboro’s full support in their transfer process.
The decision to partner with Emerson and move to their campus was not easy for anyone, and it comes after years of seeking ways for Marlboro to remain independent on Potash Hill. The challenges facing small liberal arts colleges are acute and will only intensify in the coming years. Unfortunately, Marlboro’s ongoing budget deficits are only a preview of the difficulties ahead, as the number of students in the region declines precipitously over the next decade. It has been sobering to watch a number of our neighboring schools make excruciating decisions to close in the face of these insurmountable challenges, something that our accreditors have watched with alarm. The accreditors have shown concern with Marlboro’s own sustainability since 2015, and their oversight has increased dramatically as our neighbors have closed. The Board’s willingness to address all of these challenges now has meant that Marlboro, unlike our neighbors, has the resources to forge a partnership that ensures the continuation of our mission.
We recognize that our community will have a range of responses to this news and that change is hard for all of us. We hope everyone will come to share our genuine optimism for the real future that the Marlboro Institute at Emerson offers and continue to support our mission. We also recognize that this transition will be especially difficult for College staff, many of whom have served Marlboro for much of their working lives. Trustees will be collaborating with the administration to develop severance packages that demonstrate the College’s gratitude. With regard to sustaining Marlboro’s legacy and the memories of 73 years we have spent on Potash Hill, we have invested in developing Marlboro’s archives and will work with the newly relaunched Alumni Council to steward our continuing relationship to our past and place. Finally, we are committed to working with Emerson to discuss the future of the Marlboro campus, including the role of the Marlboro Music Festival, which we hope will continue to provide substantial benefits for the town of Marlboro and southern Vermont more broadly.
While this announcement is bittersweet, we do look forward to the many opportunities that the alliance with Emerson will provide for our students. We are grateful for Emerson’s commitment to our faculty and our pedagogy, as it will ensure continuity for Marlboro’s identity and the continuing engagement with students for generations to come. Although still in the early stages of our discussions with Emerson, we are highly optimistic that a final agreement will be reached. The next stage in the process will rely on working groups from both institutions to develop the details of the final agreement. We look forward to harnessing the ingenuity and creativity of Marlboro’s faculty, students, and staff as we make a thoughtful and intentional transition. Please check Marlboro’s website (www.marlboro.edu) often for future updates, milestones, and next steps.
Kevin F. F. Quigley
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Chair of the Board of Trustees
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The A to Z of Planning a Wedding: A Glossary to Help You Master the Lingo
The table service for a single diner: a napkin, salad fork, dinner fork, dessert fork, service plate or charger, soup bowl, bread-and-butter plate, butter spreader, dinner knife, teaspoon, soup spoon, water goblet, red wine glass, and white wine glass.
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Printed cards that are placed at each seat at the reception to let guests know which chair they will be sitting at.
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The most traditional form of invitation printing. Text is etched onto a copper plate, which is then coated with ink and wiped clean, leaving ink only in the indentations. When paper is pressed against the plate, it produces raised text. On this stationery, a drawing of a ranunculus bloom is engraved in deep pink.
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A traditional veil that reaches the bride's fingertips when her hands are at her sides.
Bouffant Veil
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Flyaway Veil
A multilayered veil that brushes the shoulders and is perfect for dresses with open or intricate backs.
Three-Piece Veil
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Revolution Studios: pop history for sale
Recording studios in Greater Manchester which have hosted high-profile rock and pop artists including Eric Clapton, Iggy Pop, Snow Patrol and The Who have been put on the market. The Manchester office of Jones Lang Lasalle has been instructed to sell the Revolution Recording Studios in Cheadle Hulme.
Recording studios in Greater Manchester which have hosted high-profile rock and pop artists including Eric Clapton, Iggy Pop, Snow Patrol and The Who have been put on the market.
The Manchester office of Jones Lang Lasalle has been instructed to sell the Revolution Recording Studios in Cheadle Hulme.
Local bands including New Order, 808 State and Take That have also previously used the studios since they were set up 35 years ago.
Jones Lang Lasalle is selling the building, in Church Road, on behalf of a private pension fund. The studios comprise a reception area, two Eastlake-designed control rooms and five recording areas, although recording equipment is being sold separately.
Tom Cunningham, from Jones Lang LaSalle’s licensed leisure team, advising on the sale, said: “This is a rare investor opportunity to acquire an established studio which has been at the forefront of music recording in the UK and host to a long list of successful artists, many of which are synonymous with the Manchester music scene.”
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Study: Many Dolphins Sick A Year After Gulf Oil Spill
Fourteen of the 29 dolphins examined in 2011 were in guarded, poor or grave condition. That compared to one out of 15 caught for comparison in Sarasota Bay, Fla., which was not involved in the spill, according to the study published Wednesday in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dolphins living in one of the areas worst hit by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were in bad shape a year later, with lung problems consistent with exposure to oil, according to a study assessing damage from the spill.
Government, academic and other researchers made comprehensive check-ups on 29 dolphins in Barataria Bay in August 2011 as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment — a federal process to determine the extent of damage and how to repair it. Barataria Bay was one of the areas where pelicans struggled in heavy slicks and thick globs of oil washed onto marshy islands between April and July 2010.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Lori Schwacke said she has made similar assessments in other groups of dolphins, sometimes in response to large numbers of deaths.
"There's disease in any wild population. But I just haven't seen animals in such bad shape as in Barataria Bay," the wildlife epidemiologist for NOAA's Hollings Research Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., said during a teleconference Wednesday.
The study indicates a possible link to the oil spill but does not prove one, said Mobi Solangi, director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss.
"I think it's an important study. It's an important first step," said Solangi, who was not involved in the study.
He said shortcomings include lack of pre-spill data on dolphins in the bay, which has a history of pollution from industry, sewage and agricultural runoff carried by the Mississippi River. It also lacks comparison with the Florida dolphins, which probably spend more time in deep water than the pods found in Barataria Bay.
A statement from BP PLC said the company, "has been funding NOAA's work on this subject for over three years and requesting data throughout this period. The agency still has not provided BP with any data demonstrating that the alleged poor health of any dolphins was caused by oil exposure. Indeed, NOAA has not even provided BP an injury assessment on dolphins or any other species or habitat."
Schwacke said BP was given all of the data used in the paper. A BP representative was with the group that captured and released the dolphins, said Teri Rowles, coordinator of the NOAA Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program and a co-author of the study.
The scientists said moderate to severe lung disease was five times more likely in the Louisiana dolphins than the Florida group.
NOAA said dolphins were checked again this year in Barataria and Sarasota bays, and in Mississippi and Alabama waters of the Mississippi Sound. Data from those four groups is still being analyzed.
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Why My Relationship With Camo Print Is Messy
Novelist Claire Gibson, who grew up at West Point, has watched camo print take over the fashion world—and has had to grapple with her own mixed feelings about the pattern.
By Claire Gibson
Courtesy Claire Gibson
I was never afraid of camouflage until I saw my sister put it on. The pants were baggy around her slender frame. Her jacket had our last name emblazoned above the right pocket.
It was August 2002, and though my father had been in the Army for nearly 27 years, this was different. He’d served in a mostly peace time military. Now, our nation was fighting a shadowy organization in the Middle East—one with the resources and hatred to kill 3,000 innocent men and women without a second thought. It was one thing to see my dad put on a uniform: I’d spent my childhood as an Army brat witnessing adults go about their day in fatigues. But somehow, that one camouflage uniform—the one on my sister wore—made it all real.
Today, camo is everywhere, functioning almost as a neutral, like leopard print or pinstripes.
In the mid-2000s, the classic woodland U.S. Army Battle Dress Uniform was phased out in favor of sand-colored fatigues. In response, nearly half a million Army service members packed their uniforms in boxes to be disposed of, donated, or stored somewhere gathering dust.
I bet they’re kicking themselves now. Today, camo is everywhere, functioning almost as a neutral, like leopard print or pinstripes. And if the spring and fall 2019 runways were any indication, camo isn’t disappearing from our wardrobes anytime soon. Designers Jeremy Scott, Philipp Plein, Nicole Miller, and Valentino all tapped the pattern for inspiration. The designs are beautiful, expensive, and—for me—fraught.
Clockwise from top left: Jeremy Scott, Nicole Miller, Valentino, and Philipp Plein
From 1997 to 2003, my family lived at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a prestigious four-year college where everyone wears a uniform. Though I was only 10 when we arrived, I was old enough to recognize that all that camouflage meant our family was a part of something important. Something bigger than just my dad’s job.
At most colleges, professors wear business attire to class. At West Point, my father taught in uniform. After work, he’d walk in, place his cap on the dining room table, and rifle through the mail. Though he’d never deployed to combat, his camouflage uniform still held the grassy, sweaty, gunpowder scent of field training. Like Pavlov’s dogs salivating at a bell, I knew as soon as he walked in from work and gave me a peaty-smelling hug, dinner was soon to follow.
In our new neighborhood, it was normal to see a weaponized Army green tank driving behind a minivan. On football Saturdays, all four thousand cadets wore camouflage uniforms, jumping up and down in the student section, dressed for figurative battle. Throughout my middle school years, I watched all this from the sidelines, dressed in my favorite Limited Too peacoat, enamored with the magic and grandeur, but without a uniform of my own.
The author’s father (center) being promoted to Colonel in 1998.
Courtesy of Claire Gibson
During those years, dozens of young men and women came to our house to escape the pressures of life in the barracks. Back then, cadets weren’t allowed to have televisions or personal cellphones. They had access to both at our house, with the added bonus of a home-cooked meal. A cadet we sponsored named Tim Cunningham led my high school Sunday School class. A crew of female basketball players gathered at our house each week for a bible study. I looked up to them all, amazed by their physical fitness, touched by their kindness.
September 11, 2001 shocked the nation, sending communities everywhere into a tailspin. At West Point, the air turned tense with the knowledge that everyone we loved—every student my father taught and my mother fed—was going to war. A year later, my sister, who’d attended a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, surprised us all when she decided to enlist in the Army. It was one thing to see my dad put on a uniform, another to watch my sister wear camouflage. It made it all real.
The author’s sister Leigh, then 23, in a Bradley Tank in Fort Bliss, Texas, 2003.
Though my sister returned from deployment unharmed, many of the cadets we knew returned with injuries: some internal, some external. Tim Cunningham didn’t come home at all. Neither did Laura Walker or Ryan Dennison or Emily Perez, or countless other West Point graduates whose names reverberated among our extended Army family.
A few years ago, I spotted a rack of embellished camo jackets for sale at the Brooklyn Flea in New York City. I was with a friend, a woman who’d graduated from West Point in 2004. Together we gawked at one jacket with a beautiful design painted on the back. Then we gawked at the price tag. My friend shook her head.
“Don’t buy that,” she said. “I have three of those in my closet at home. So does your dad. I can make you one.”
At the time, I wasn’t sure I wanted her to. Staring at the thrifted Army jackets at the Brooklyn Flea, I thought of those young men and women I’d known at West Point whose lives were cut short, who’d worn desert fatigues into battle. I wasn’t sure I could ever wear one of those jackets solely for style’s sake. I wondered if wearing a thrifted Army jacket might amount to “stolen valor.” After all, I didn’t serve. I never deployed. Who was I to wear this temporal fashion trend when it had cost my friends so much?
My admiration for strong women started when I was 10 years old and moved to @westpoint_usma. For seven years, I had the privilege of watching countless young women choose a path of challenge and difficulty - despite the odds. I'm grateful for their example and love and friendship in my life, both then and now. And I can't wait to share some of their stories with the world. 🙌🏽 #beyondthepointbook #internationalwomensday #neverthelessshepersisted #armygirl #author #muse #militarymuse #iloveagirlinuniform #armystrong #westpoint #usma #cadetlife
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Soon after that encounter at the Brooklyn Flea, I began writing a novel based on true stories of women graduates of West Point. From my home in Nashville, Tennessee, I conducted interviews and conjured up memories from my time within the Army community. Meanwhile, more and more social media influencers were peddling skinny camouflage pants on liketoknow.it. I saw camouflage jackets in Madewell catalogues, styled with bauble jewels. One day, I spotted a wool-and-silk-blend camo print scarf at J.Crew, embellished with a blush pink stripe. Feeling the pull toward my childhood, I bought it.
As I worked on the manuscript, my husband and I began trying to have a baby. Our unexplained infertility ran emotionally parallel to my work on the book—difficult, disappointing, and seemingly endless. I wasn’t at war, but I wasn’t at peace, either. For Christmas that year, my sister, now out of the Army and settled as a mother of five, sent me a pair of Nickel and Suede camo earrings. I wore them with pride.
Who was I to wear this temporal fashion trend when it had cost my friends so much?
I often drove past Friedman’s Army Navy Surplus in Nashville, where I currently live. The store’s red and white sign featured a soldier in a green uniform, wearing a helmet and carrying a weapon. American flags hung in the windows. The drab exterior had cracked concrete sidewalks and a mostly empty parking lot. Finally, one day, I pulled up. Inside, my senses were overwhelmed with a scent I’d never forgotten: shoe-black, grass, and gunmetal—the smell of my father coming home from work. I meandered through racks of Carhart pants, flannel shirts, bandanas, tents, and a host of other kitsch to the back of the store, where the owners kept their stock of used Army uniforms.
Unlike the jackets I’d seen at the Brooklyn Flea, these uniforms were worn out, over-sized, and covered in dust. Many featured the desert-beige fabric and pattern that the Army had used for its most recent conflicts. Though the nameplates, badges, and regalia had all been removed, the sense remained: These uniforms had been to war. What I saw in fashion catalogues and running through my Instagram feed felt thin. These uniforms were real.
I moved to the section that featured woodland colors. The pattern reminded me of a time in my childhood that I’d never get back. A time when America’s armed forces were at peace. A time when my father would come home from work, and pull me to his side and kiss my head. A time before September 11th, and two international conflicts, and the death of so many friends. The jacket cost twenty dollars. I would have paid much more.
When I returned home from Friedman’s, I ordered a customized nameplate from Etsy with my maiden name, “CARLTON”, in honor of my father and my sister’s military service. I sewed it above the right pocket. Then I took a white paint pen and wrote several names on the inside.
Since the draft ended 1973, our nation has relied on a wholly volunteer military force. And as wonderful as that is, it’s also created a deep divide between military and civilian communities. Perhaps the camouflage trend can serve as a way to bridge that gap.
Though veterans wear camouflage in battle, they shouldn’t be invisible when they return home. Whenever I see the pattern, it reminds me of my friends; I remember their service and their sacrifice. I realize now that wearing the pattern as a civilian doesn't have to be stolen valor. It can be an act of remembrance.
Claire Gibson is the author of Beyond the Point (William Morrow), her debut novel available now.
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Diplo and K•Swiss Announce "For The Block" Social Responsibility Campaign
Earlier this year K•Swiss announced it's partnership with Diplo on The Board campaign and later the title sponsorship on his now infamous Mad Decent Block Party tour.
Now we are seeing the launch of a social responsibility awareness campaign K•Swiss For The Block. Providing an opportunity for tour attendees to give back within host communities, the K•Swiss For The Block campaign encourages fans to pledge a commitment to local volunteer causes through a dedicated platform built in partnership with All For Good, a fast-growing hub for volunteerism and community service. The K•Swiss For The Block campaign kicks-off today and will continue through September 30, 2015. Interested volunteers will be able to make their commitments through a dedicated online portal at www.kswiss.com/kswissfortheblock.
The cause-driven social initiative was a concept brought to life through K•Swiss’ buzzed about campaign, ‘The Board’. Led by entrepreneur and Mad Decent founder Diplo, ‘The Board’ is built to inspire, and to be led by, the next generation of young entrepreneurs. Serving as the Director of a 100-person board comprised of creative and connected individuals, Diplo led ‘The Board’ through a six-course curriculum where he introduced the group to Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie, co-founders of Fair Trade Certified™ beverage company Runa, to learn the foundations of creating a brand with a socially responsible mission. ‘The Board’ was tasked with developing a cost-effective awareness campaign to activate during the Mad Decent Block Party 2015 tour.
‘Board’ member Tiayrra Bradley from Philadelphia, PA submitted the winning K•Swiss For The Block concept. To enter a pledge, tour goers will register an account with All For Good, a division of Points of Light, via the K•Swiss For The Block portal hosted on www.kswiss.com. Registered users will be given a list of local volunteer opportunities within their city. As fans perform services, each will be encouraged to post a selfie of themselves in action being “mad decent” and volunteering in their communities. Participants can share their acts through Instagram following @maddecent and @kswissofficial alongside hashtag #kswissfortheblock. Each person who pledges and shares their volunteer act will receive a promotional code valid for purchases on www.kswiss.com. Additionally, 200 individuals who participate will be chosen at random to receive a pair of K•Swiss’ premium Belmont sneakers— Diplo’s K•Swiss style of choice— and a Mad Decent gear package. The winners will be announced on the K•Swiss Instagram channel (@kswissofficial).
The online registration link is now also live HERE
Mad Decent Block Party / Enter Magnetic's Contest To Win 2 Tickets to the LA Show
In 2008, Mad Decent label founder Diplo went door to door in Philadelphia asking small businesses to sign a petition to host a street-wide party, now known as the Mad Decent Block Party (MDBP). Eight years and 18 cities later, MDBP is now one of the largest parties in America. This year, Mad Decent will take on 18 cities with 21 shows in the U.S. and Canada making it the largest tour yet. MDBP is known for combing the hottest names in hip-hop and electronic music with up-and-coming artists creating rare lineups you won't find elsewhere. Mad Decent takes festival season to the next level by bringing the party to you. For one day in each city (two in Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Los Angeles), Mad Decent will shut down streets to fill with vendors, activities and your favorite artists. Each stop on the tour has a different lineup with possible surprise guests creating an unpredictable experience every time. For more info on this year's block party check out www.maddecentblockparty.com.
About All For Good
All For Good is a hub for volunteerism and community service on the Internet and is the world’s largest online database of volunteer opportunities. All For Good is the official project search engine for Serve.gov, AARP’s Create the Good, American Towns and many more. In 2014, there were over 58 million searches on the All For Good feed, with a total of 300,000 volunteer opportunities. For additional information, visit www.allforgood.org.
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Martinez, Cards score 10 runs in 6th, rally past Reds 12-11
CINCINNATI (AP) — Even from the training room, Adam Wainwright could sense something brewing. "You just had that feeling," he said. "Every one of those guys said, 'We've got you.' Jose Martinez homered and singled and Paul DeJong added a two-run double during a 10-run rally in the sixth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals overcame a seven-run deficit Friday night for a wild 12-11 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
St. Louis Cardinals' Jose Martinez follows through on a three-run home run off Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Jared Hughes during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 19, 2019, in Cincinnati.
St. Louis Cardinals' Jose Martinez, right, and Harrison Bader (48) celebrate Martinez's three-run home run off Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Jared Hughes during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 19, 2019, in Cincinnati.
Down 7-0, the Cardinals put together their biggest inning of the season on the way to their sixth win in seven games. Wainwright was rocked for nine hits and seven runs in 3 1/3 innings but ran out in shorts and a T-shirt to pass out high fives after the big inning.
"There wouldn't have been a comeback if I hadn't pitched terrible," he added, jokingly. Jesse Winker hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth off Cardinals closer Carlos Martinez. But Joey Votto grounded out with runners at the corners to give Martinez his seventh save.
Journeyman catcher Ryan Lavarnway hit two homers, doubled and drove in a career-high six runs for Cincinnati in his first game in the majors this season. Released by the Yankees this week after hitting .213 in a Triple-A backup role, Lavarnway was signed by the Reds after a series of injuries left them thin behind the plate.
The 31-year-old Lavarnway, who had played a total of 12 games in the big leagues in the last four seasons, went 3 for 4 with a walk. Wainwright's career ERA against the Reds jumped from 5.01 to 5.31, his worst against major league team.
Michael Wacha (6-4) wound up with the win, allowing three hits in 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Jose Martinez had an infield single that loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth against Tyler Mahle. After DeJong's two-run double off Matt Bowman made it 7-5, a two-out error by Votto at first base let the Cardinals tie it.
Martinez capped the comeback with a three-run homer off Jared Hughes (3-3). DeJong added a long two-run homer in the seventh, his second in two nights off Robert Stephenson. "We can get the homers late to bury teams, but passing the baton is huge," DeJong said. "Getting base hits and infield singles is a way we can score runs."
Lavarnway hit a three-run homer in the fourth that finished Wainwright for his first home run in the big leagues since Aug. 23, 2015, for Atlanta. Lavarnway added a two-run shot in the eighth for his first multihomer game since hitting two for Boston on Sept. 27, 2011.
"I was just enjoying it," he said. "I've been up and down so many times. You never know when it's going to be your last one. Earlier in my career, I didn't let myself enjoy the highs. I tried to be stoic. I tried to be Jason Varitek. I'm like a cat with nine lives right now. I'm grateful for the opportunity."
MAGIC SIXTH The Cardinals rode a big sixth to a win for the second straight night. They scored five in the sixth on Thursday to grab a 7-3 lead on the way to a 7-4 win. MONEY'S WORTH Cincinnati 3B Eugenio Suarez and manager David Bell were ejected between the first and second innings by plate umpire Carlos Torres for arguing balls and strikes. Bell's ejection was a club-record seventh of the season, breaking a tie with Clark Griffith, who had six each in 1909 and 1910. The Reds lead the majors with 15 ejections.
NEW GROUND Jose Peraza made his first career appearance at third base after Suarez's ejection, pushing to five the number of positions he's played this season. Peraza has appeared at shortstop, second base, left field and center field.
BIG DEBUT Lavarnway became the first player with six RBIs in his Reds debut since RBIs became an official statistic in 1920, according to the Reds. BIG INNINGS Cincinnati allowed as many as 10 runs in an inning for the first time since July 26, 2015, in the third inning at Coors Field.
TRAINER'S ROOM Cardinals: OF Marcell Ozuna can resume baseball activities after the swelling in his injured right hand decreased and he went through an encouraging workout on Thursday at Busch Stadium. He's been out since June 29 with hand and finger fractures. . The Cardinals hope INF Matt Carpenter can start a minor league rehab assignment sometime in the next week. Carpenter went on the 10-day IL on June 16 with a right foot contusion.
Reds: LHP Alex Wood, out all season with lower back problems, is scheduled to throw a bullpen in Cincinnati on Saturday to get ready for his fourth rehab start on Monday for Double-A Chattanooga at Birmingham.
UP NEXT Cardinals: The Reds roughed up RHP Miles Mikolas (6-9) for six hits, including three home runs, and four runs in five innings of a 12-1 St. Louis loss on April 26. Reds: RHP Luis Castillo (9-3) pitching six innings of two-hit, one-run ball in a 4-1 Cincinnati win at St. Louis on June 4.
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Round Robin into Best Practices for the Determination of Indentation Size Effects
Anil, I.
Gunday, S. Tugba
Bozkurt, A.
Alagha, O.
by Ismail Anil 1,*, Seyda Tugba Gunday 2, Ayhan Bozkurt 2 and Omar Alagha 1
Environmental Engineering Department, College of Engineering A13, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Main Campus, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 34212, Saudi Arabia
Department of Biophysics, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations (IRMC), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Main Campus, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 34212, Saudi Arabia
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(1), 131; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10010131 (registering DOI)
The development of adsorbents with high adsorption capacity and fast separation is of utmost importance for the environmental management of dye-bearing wastewaters. Within this scope, crosslinked hydrogels including poly(vinylphosphonic acid) (PVPA) and bis[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl] phosphate (BMEP) were designed with varying mole ratios of BMEP (5–40%). The Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) results revealed that the fabrication of crosslinked PVPA-BMEP hydrogels enhanced: (i) functionalities of PA groups in the structure of hydrogels, (ii) thermal stabilities up to 250 °C, and (iii) interaction between methylene blue (MB) molecules and hydrogels. The pseudo second-order kinetic model best described the experimental adsorption data. The behaviors of the isotherms were more appropriate for Langmuir than Freundlich isotherm for the experimental data. PVPA-BMEP (40%) hydrogel indicated a fast and an outstanding MB adsorption capacity of 2841 mg g−1, which has not been reported yet for polymer hydrogels, to the best of our knowledge. The thermodynamic studies concluded that MB adsorption process was spontaneous and exothermic in nature. The overall results suggest that the designed and fabricated PVPA-BMEP hydrogels have great potential for the efficient removal of coloring materials from wastewaters. View Full-Text
Keywords: poly(vinylphosphonic acid); methylene blue adsorption; wastewater dye removal; adsorption kinetic; adsorption isotherm poly(vinylphosphonic acid); methylene blue adsorption; wastewater dye removal; adsorption kinetic; adsorption isotherm
Anil, I.; Gunday, S.T.; Bozkurt, A.; Alagha, O. Design of Crosslinked Hydrogels Comprising Poly(Vinylphosphonic Acid) and Bis[2-(Methacryloyloxy)Ethyl] Phosphate as an Efficient Adsorbent for Wastewater Dye Removal. Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 131.
Anil I, Gunday ST, Bozkurt A, Alagha O. Design of Crosslinked Hydrogels Comprising Poly(Vinylphosphonic Acid) and Bis[2-(Methacryloyloxy)Ethyl] Phosphate as an Efficient Adsorbent for Wastewater Dye Removal. Nanomaterials. 2020; 10(1):131.
Anil, Ismail; Gunday, Seyda T.; Bozkurt, Ayhan; Alagha, Omar. 2020. "Design of Crosslinked Hydrogels Comprising Poly(Vinylphosphonic Acid) and Bis[2-(Methacryloyloxy)Ethyl] Phosphate as an Efficient Adsorbent for Wastewater Dye Removal." Nanomaterials 10, no. 1: 131.
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