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Winner of the Prize for Indigenous Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar’s descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife’s dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.
But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.
We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.
by George Delaney
In the time since his last novel, Benang, Kim Scott has been working as a researcher and teacher, focusing on documenting and sharing Noongar language and culture. Scott has shown repeatedly how rejuvenating and teaching Aboriginal languages can connect and support communities that have been historically ignored and abused, and in Taboo he returns to fiction to explore these ideas, which are urgently and universally applicable.
Taboo tells the story of Tilly Coolman, an orphaned young Noongar woman who has suffered abuse and addiction and has now been taken in by her Indigenous family, called Wirlomin. The plot converges on this family’s return to their traditional country, which has been avoided for generations after a massacre took place on what remains a large farm property owned by Dan Harper and his brother, Malcolm. The catalyst for return is the opening of a memorial ‘Peace Park’, which represents efforts from the settler community to move towards reconciliation. Invigorated by a project of sharing Noongar language that began in the local prison, led by Tilly’s father and grandfather, the return to country offers a chance for ‘detox’ – as well as learning language and preparing for the opening of the park, which the Wirlomin people refer to with wry humour.
Though the backstory is dark, Scott’s treatment of his subject paints a picture of regeneration and resilience, with a group of people at the centre of the novel who resist and withstand the forces which are poised to destroy their community through history. Scott’s characters are endearing and tough. Although the ‘bad guy’ of this novel lacks a similar depth, the focus is clearly on survivors of violence rather than its perpetrators. I think this makes it a welcome change from novels about Australian history which read as tragedies from which no one can recover.
Taboo is a pressingly important novel, and it is engrossing to read, with a warmth and pace that reminded me of Scott’s excellent first novel, True Country. I highly recommend it.
George Delaney works as a bookseller at Readings Carlton.
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They accused producers of bullying them and said they regretted being on The Block, so did Tess and Luke really deserve to win this year’s competition? Fans are divided.
The Block 2019 episode 57 recap: after accusing producers of bullying, did Tess and Luke deserve to win?
Claire Sutherland
The team that complained they couldn’t even bear to watch The Block
because they’d been so bullied by producers ended up winning the competition, taking home $730,000 from the show they once said they wished they’d never gone on.
As Scott Cam said of Tess and Luke after last night’s grand finale “Tell you what, they love The Block now”.
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Tess and Luke’s explosive interview saying they wished they’d never auditioned for the show because they’d been unfairly portrayed as lazy wasn’t directly referenced on last night’s auction episode — a missed opportunity for some good TV — but it didn’t go unnoticed by fans.
And on cue the couple who hated The Block, and were so traumatised by it, now think it’s the best thing that ever happened to them #theblock
— KELLY BLACK (@KellypBlack) November 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/colonelkickhead/status/1193452796554575873
Well at least with Tess & Luke's place it's well built as 99% of it was completed by tradies.
They did so little themselves. #TheBlock
— Nez (@fraggle73) November 10, 2019
How is it fair that Tess and Luke end up winning after being the ones who didn’t do anything till they ran out of money and were assholes for the last 3 weeks #TheBlock pic.twitter.com/Zko5J2IAi5
— SezJay (@SJ25717754) November 10, 2019
#TheBlock The only place on earth where the people who do the least, the worst and are petulant to boot, get paid for it.
— Prue Miller (@PrueMiller) November 10, 2019
But others were ‘team dark horse’ all the way.
Criticism of Tess & Luke’s win because they supposedly did ‘nothing’ needs to stop. TV producers edit to manipulate the portrayal of contestants to spin a storyline. Don’t believe everything you hear/see just because it’s a “reality” tv show. They actually worked hard #TheBlock
— Lisa (@LisaN1502) November 10, 2019
So an entire season of editing that made Luke & Tess our to be lazy complainers. They now walk away $700k plus winners.
Up yours everyone ! 🖕😁🖕 #TheBlock #TheBlockAU
— Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla (@OfRolla) November 10, 2019
It was also clear that the judges’ warnings that Mark and Mitch’s “party house” would bring down the value of that of their neighbours’ Tess and Luke’s property were unfounded.
Mark and Mitch had been the favourites, but their flipping of the design to incorporate an upstairs entertainment area didn’t provoke the frenzied bidding that had been expected and they came last.
It seems Tess and Luke’s genius idea of incorporating a second mini-apartment with separate entrance, the show’s only spiral staircase providing extra access to the upstairs roof terrace and a formal separate dining room made all the difference.
But let’s face it, there were no losers this season.
The “losing” team — Mark and Mitch — volunteered to go first knowing it might cost them the win but would likely set a good tone for the following sales, and took home $384,000.
Tess and Luke suddenly seem unconcerned about being “bullied”.
The might be kicking themselves for their selfless decision, after spending the entire season showing a more ruthless side, but the tearful pair further won fans over when they vowed to use their winnings for family.
“We’ve got a very sick granddaughter and it’s going to take money to look after her,” Mitch said.
Matt and El’ise headed home with $460,000 in profit, plus the car they won in the final week, bringing their total winnings up to half a million.
Third placegetters were the most-popular team — the divine Deb and Andy — who admitted they were preoccupied by the fact their house and community in Wallabi Point, NSW were under threat from Saturday’s devastating NSW bushfires as the auctions were taking place.
Losers are grinners. They might have come last, but who wouldn’t be happy to come last with $384,000.
They headed home with $430,000.
“We can eat name brand two-minute noodles now,” Andy told his kids. “Name brand.”
Jesse and Mel came fourth with $388,000, their auction stopping and starting thanks to auction troll/Melbourne businessman Danny Wallis, who offered up tiny and confusing bids during his 15 minutes of fame, infuriating fans and breaking Scott Cam’s brain as he tried to keep up to date with how much money the pair were making.
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Charges laid in Pride crosswalk damage
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Published on: July 16, 2019 | Last Updated: July 17, 2019 1:12 PM EDT
Prescott's Pride Crosswalk on King Street near the fort has been marked by motorists burning rubber on the rainbow colours. (FILE PHOTO) jpg, BT
PRESCOTT – Provincial police have charged a Cardinal man in connection with the defacement of a Pride themed crosswalk in Prescott last month.
Robert Sugrue, 44, of Cardinal, has been charged with mischief (destroying or damaging property), the Ontario Provincial Police reported Tuesday.
On June 17, the Grenville County OPP began investigating damage to the new Pride crosswalk on King Street in Prescott. A truck had been seen “doing intentional burnouts on the painted area causing black marks and destroying some of the colour,” police reported.
The accused was released and is scheduled to appear in Brockville court on Aug. 16.
The vandalism sparked an angry reaction from many in Prescott, including Mayor Brett Todd, who only days later said: “While the black mark was left on the Rainbow Crosswalk, it did not leave a black mark on this community. The community came forward and was so strong in their message of acceptance and tolerance and support for Pride.”
OPP urge anyone with information on the incident to call Grenville County OPP at 613 258 3441 or 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477.
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The management of a company's workforce generally falls under the administration of the HR department, with the direct supervision of employees usually designated by a tiered management structure. "Workforce" can also generally refer to the totality of people that are employed and contributing to the economy.
The HR department is responsible for recruitment of personnel, development of staff competencies, administration of benefits and compensation, and the overall plan to increase the productivity of the workforce. Effective workforce management is the topic of an infinite number of business books and MBA papers. Overall, the trend in workforce optimization techniques has been moving towards increased quantification of performance and precise examination of total employee costs and output.
Determination of the concept and the size of the aggregate workforce is critical to accurately gauging unemployment and the health of the macro-economy. Not counting the disillusioned job-seeker who has given up looking for work, or the unemployed worker whose benefits have run out, as part of the workforce will artificially reduce the actual unemployment rate and make the state of the economy seem better than it is.
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The performance of a company depends almost entirely on its employee talent, which determines productivity, innovation, and overall growth. The better the workforce of a company, the productive it is. In the modern business climate, an efficient management process is essential to keep employees committed to the welfare of the company that they are working for.
Labor management, as a broad topic, may include anything from regulatory and compliance matters to employee wellness and job satisfaction. The two major types of workforce analysis are covered through organizational psychology and economic analysis. Organizational psychology contributes to management perspective and the development of HR programs to mediate the needs of employees and employers. Broadly, economists and policy makers consider the impact on the workforce of every social and governmental program, including educational reform and tax policy.
Why is it important to have a concept of workforce, in addition to the concept of a worker? Apart from the obvious importance of aggregated statistical worker data, "workforce" strongly draws attention to worker inter-relationships, collective needs, synergistic potential, equity, economies of scale, competing vested interests (among difference sectors of the workforce), political power and other aspects of labor not captured by the concept of a solitary worker.
Failure to see one's workforce as a group, e.g., with shared goals and sense of unity, instead seeing them as a mere unorganized aggregate can be a serious mistake, much as confusing a disciplined, integrated enemy army with a rag-tag mob of routed, disorganized infantry remnants would be. In more positive terms, it would be as mistaken as assuming that charity volunteers dotting a city street are not strongly motivated by each other's presence and by their common cause. Hence, it is a wise organization that determines whether or not its workforce is a mere aggregate or a unified group.
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RED BANK: BOND INTRO LEGIT, O’HERN SAYS
Borough Attorney Dan O’Hern, right, with Mayor Pasquale Menna earlier this year. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
A push by Red Bank’s Democrat-controlled council to pass a $2.2 million water-meter-replacement bond by the end of the year can move forward, according to borough Attorney Dan O’Hern.
O’Hern tells redbankgreen that Mayor Pasquale Menna’s belated “tiebreaker” vote to introduce the bond last week was permissible, even though the mayor is allowed under state law to vote only in the event of a council tie. The council vote was two in favor and one opposed, with one abstention.
But the abstention, by soon-to-depart Councilwoman Juanita Lewis, was tantamount to a “no,” O’Hern said Monday, citing recent cases involving Newark and Hoboken.
As redbankgreen reported last week, Democrats Kathy Horgan and Ed Zipprich voted in favor of introduction and lone Republican Cindy Burnham cast the no vote, with Democrats Art Murphy and Mike DuPont absent. At that point, it appeared the governing body had the simple majority that officials had said was necessary to introduce the bond.
But several minutes after the vote, after the council had moved on to other business, O’Hern leaned over and whispered to Menna, who announced that three votes were needed to introduce, and that he was casting the third vote in favor. He declared the measure introduced.
After the meeting, redbankgreen asked Menna and O’Hern why a third yes was necessary, and the legal basis for the mayor voting in the absence of a tie. O’Hern said he would do some legal research on the matter.
O’Hern said this week that in fact a simple majority of those voting was not sufficient: a majority of the councilmembers present was required for introduction of the ordinance. That meant three votes were needed.
And Menna was allowed to vote because, under both common law and case law, Lewis’s abstention can be regarded as a “no” vote, based on a comment she made before for the roll-call vote.
“There’s more discussion and information that’s needed,” Lewis said before she abstained.
O’Hern cited as legal precedent a 2013 ruling on a case in which Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer sought to have abstentions by two council members counted as no votes, supporting her decision to cast a tiebreaker. Zimmer won that case, which involved filling a council vacancy.
Another case, involving then-Newark mayor and now U.S. Senator Cory Booker, found that while “there is very little clarity or consistency in the judicial treatment of abstentions,” in cases requiring a fixed number of “yes” votes for a majority, “abstentions should be regarded as negative votes.”
The upshot is that Lewis’s abstention was “tantamount to a ‘no’ vote,” O’Hern said, “because she had pretty much explained her desire not to introduce.”
Had Lewis said nothing, or spoken in favor, the vote would effectively have been 3-1, sufficient for the ordinance to be introduced without the need for a tiebreaker.
Interpreting common law and case law on the issue, “is really not an easy issue” and involves a fair amount of subjectivity, O’Hern said.
The timing of the matter was key, because the meeting was the last of the year at which an ordinance could be introduced in time for possible passage this year; otherwise, the process would have to have to start anew in 2015, when it would likely face more opposition. On January 3, a second Republican, Linda Schwabenbauer, is slated to join the council, following her defeat of Lewis in the November election. Both Schwabenbauer and Burnham have been critical of water rates and fees, as well as debt issues.
Administrator Stanley Sickels said the administration’s sense of urgency is owing to the finance committee’s desire to have the meter-replacement project financed, bid out and completed by the end of by the end of budget year 2015. It involves more than 3,800 residential meters.
A hearing on the ordinance is scheduled for December 17. Menna has directed Sickels to have supporting documentation from the finance committee discussions with prospective vendors posted on the website by noon on Friday.
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64 percent polling in first phase of Jammu and Kashmir polls
Mukhtar Ahmad In Srinagar | November 17, 2008 08:34 IST
Last Updated: November 18, 2008 11:59 IST
The first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir [Images] Assembly elections recorded a 64 per cent voter turnout, according to an official spokesman late on Monday night.
The spokesman said Gurez constituency in the once terrorist-infested Bandipora district recorded the highest voting -- 74 per cent -- followed by Mendhar and Poonch (73), Surankote (68), Nobra (66) Leh, Kargil [Images] and Zanskar (all 60 per cent), Bandipora(57) and Sonawari (46).
Earlier, Chief Electoral Officer B R Sharma had told reporters in Srinagar [Images] that around 55 per cent polling was registered in the 10 constituencies but the figure was tentative and subject to revision once the final data comes in.
Sharma said Gurez constituency recorded 74 per cent vote followed by Mendhar (65), Poonch (64), Surankote (58), Kargil (57), Nobra (55), Leh (53), Zanskar(48) and Bandipora and Sonawari (42 each).
The huge turnout was despite freezing temperatures and separatists' boycott call. Voting passed off peacefully except for stray incidents of violence and protests amid threats of militants disrupting the polls which was held in a curfew-like situation in 10 constituencies spread over four districts of Bandipora, Poonch, Leh and Kargil.
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Srinagar, Bandipora and other towns were almost totally locked down, as thousands of troops were out in force to prevent anti-election rallies. An estimated six lakh voters were eligible to vote in the first phase.
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At least seven persons including a woman were injured as police fired a few teargas shells and used batons to disperse people protesting against holding of assembly elections in Bandipora district, official sources said.
The separatist co-ordination committee had given a call for 'Jehan election waha chalo' (march to where elections are). But the march to Bandipora, 65 km north of Srinagar town, was foiled by security forces.
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How to game your way to happiness
Gaming isn't just for kids, you know...
By Sarah Maber
Jane McGonigal, a world authority on the psychological benefits of gaming, created her app SuperBetter after a blow to the head left her with long-term pain and mental health problems. Playing it herself, she found it helped her to be happier and more resilient in all aspects of life.
Here’s everything you need to know about how you can use gaming to change your life, too…
Jane created the SuperBetter game - which can be played via an app, online or in book-form - to help people build resilience and the psychological strengths we naturally display when playing games, such as optimism, creativity, resilience, courage and determination.
It takes you through challenges like recruiting allies (friends and family to help you), collecting power-ups (small actions that make you feel happier and stronger), unlocking your skills, and batting your personal bad guys until you are ready to go for an epic win (gamer parlance for a big success).
For the method to really work its magic, start by identifying a single personal challenge. It doesn’t have to be negative; other players’ challenges have been many and varied, from getting debt-free, becoming a parent, giving up smoking, completing a first triathlon, not flying off the handle, raising a happy child with autism, embracing life with enthusiasm.
If you suffer from intrusive thoughts, for instance, maybe chocolate biscuits calling your name from the kitchen, try the SuperBetter quest Stop The Pink Elephant. Picture a giant P and a giant E, then think of as many words that contain both of them for 60 seconds. Bam! Intrusive thoughts of biscuits/chocolate/fags/wine conquered.
Don’t worry if you struggle to choose a challenge; there’s a SuperBetter quest for that. Just ask yourself one or more of these questions to figure it out.
- What would I do if anxiety and fear weren’t holding me back?
- What have been the most energising and inspiring moments in my life so far?
- What do I want to be remembered for after I’ve lived a long, full life?
“Questions like these can help you zero in on the kinds of positive challenges that eventually lead to growth,” says Jane.
The science behind the method is undeniably sound – study after study has shown that playing video games can increase resilience in everyday life. So what are you waiting for? It’s game on.
Superbetter: A Revolutionary Approach To Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver And More Resilient – Powered By The Science Of Games by Jane McGonigal is out now. (Thorsons, £12.99)
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With over 5 million apps available across iOS and Android, giving your app quality exposure is crucial to making it successful on a long-term basis.
App Store Optimisation (ASO)
For Q1 2018, there were 28.4 Billion downloads across the App Store and Google Play Store. Apps are integral to our lives now, and offer us utility, entertainment and convenience.
The natural problem for those who have made an app is how to stand out against the millions of competitor apps and gain quality installs. That’s where ASO comes in- see it like SEO but for the iOS and Android app stores.
RB studied this market for 18 months before offering any advice, so we know the nuances of app store optimisation. For example, we’re aware of the right day of the week to release an app in each category to ensure it gets as much organic exposure as possible. Nuggets of knowledge, such as knowing Apple gives new apps an artificial push also ensures we can get your app quality installs.
Around 60% of people download apps by just browsing the app store, so it’s vital your app is front and centre, with creative material that does it justice. RB specialises in getting you quality exposure for people searching the app store. We’ve successfully pushed apps to #1 positions on national app stores, and got them tens of thousands of high-quality downloads in the process.
We start ASO by analysing your ideal customer. Who are they, what kind of language do you they use, and why do they need your app? We use customer segmentation to collect natural language samples, ensuring we know exactly how to describe your app. We then compare this with your competitors using industry leading tools, and check their keywords to see if there’s anything we can improve upon.
Having fresh ratings and reviews are integral to optimising your app for page 1 of the App Store and Google Play Store. We collect genuine reviews and ensure there are simple ways people can rate your app, so that you can build social proof. We also use influencer marketing to galvanise downloads, to indicate to Apple or Google that your app is useful to users.
We analyse every aspect of your app and optimise it to succeed. The copy in the description is scrutinised and rewritten by our in-house copywriters, ensuring we use natural language to entice installs. We ensure the right keywords are used in your iTunes Connect profile, check the title of the app and also localise it to every territory you want to attract installs from.
Creative Autopsy
Your creative material is paramount to the success of your app. We review the effectiveness of your app screenshots, video and icon, recreating elements from the ground up if necessary. Our talented designers know what make people tick, meaning every single change, from colour variations to the length of the video, is made to optimise your app for organic installs.
THE RESULT? YOUR APP RECEIVES HIGH-QUALITY, ORGANIC DOWNLOADS AND CLAIMS THE SPOT IT DESERVES ON THE APP STORES
Micro Case Study: How We Got Dua Compass 20,000 Downloads in 5 Days
The Islamic app space is a competitive niche, with new apps coming out every day aiming to make life easier. Dua Compass was an app developed internally at Regent Branding, and when it came to releasing it, we were excited to implement RB’s own strategies to make the app a success.
We started by optimising the logo, app preview screenshots and keywords, to ensure once people found the app, they’d be inclined to download it. We went through 5 logo alterations, using blind user testing to find the one people liked the most.
We then wrote a detailed description, focusing on the ‘top 10 reasons you should download this app’- a curt nod to the viral infographics people are accustomed to consuming via the likes of Buzzfeed. We then launched the app, with an extensive influencer marketing campaign behind it, which used our Social Syndic8 service, spanning across facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube and snapchat.
A staggering 90% of people downloaded the app after viewing the app’s product page- true testament to a solid ASO strategy that focuses on a user-first approach. This led to over 13,000 downloads from iOS, with 7,000+ from Android in the same period.
Dua Compass claimed a top spot on the app search pages, meaning now it organically picks up hundreds of downloads a week, with zero marketing effort from our end. A robust ASO plan can work wonders for an app and instil a long-term growth trajectory, something that can prove to be invaluable as competition intensifies in the app space.
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2019-20 Salve Regina University Women's Ice Hockey News
Wildcats trip up Seahawks 4-1
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – Back on the ice for the first time in nearly a month, the Johnson & Wales University women’s ice hockey team started the second half of the 2019-20 season with a victory over Salve Regina University, 4-1, on Friday.
Power play key to Seahawks victory over Wildcats
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - The Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team scored twice on the power play, including a third period tally from Maddie Cox (Barrington, R.I.) that proved to be the difference in a 3-2 victory over visiting Johnson & Wales University in non-conference action Saturday evening.
CHC Goalie of the Week: Madison Jalbert
NEWPORT, R.I. - The Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) has named sophomore netminder Madison Jalbert (Beverly, Mass.) as its Goalie of the Week.
Schneiders' late goal lifts Seahawks past Pilgrims
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - Freshman forward Nicole Schneiders (Westwood, Mass.) broke a scoreless tie 17:30 into the third period in an eventual 2-0 victory for the Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team over visiting New England College in non-conference action.
Seahawks sink Pilgrims 5-1
HENNIKER, N.H. – The Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team defeated New England College 5-1 in non-conference action on Friday evening at Lee Clement Arena.
Nor'easters hold Seahawks scoreless
BIDDEFORD, Maine – The University of New England women's ice hockey team score twice within a span of 42 seconds in the second period as it shutout Salve Regina 2-0 in Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) action at the Harold Alfond Forum on Saturday afternoon.
Nor'easters blank Seahawks at home
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - Visiting University of New England defeated the Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team 7-0 in Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) action early Friday afternoon.
Second period surge helps Camels past Seahawks
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - Visiting Connecticut College scored four goals in four minutes of the second period and six unanswered goals total the remainder of the game to defeat the Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team 8-2 in non-conference action Tuesday night.
Cardinals fend off Seahawks
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – The Wesleyan women’s hockey team (1-2-0) edged Salve Regina 3-2 in its home opener on Tuesday evening. The Seahawks (1-6-0) scored twice in the third to cut the deficit to one, but Wesleyan was able to hang on to earn its first win of the season. It was the 14th meeting between the two teams, as the Cardinals extended their win streak to four-straight against the Seahawks to knot the series at seven victories apiece.
Gulls withstand Seahawks comeback; prevail 5-3
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - After surrendering 2-0 and 3-2 leads the Endicott College women's ice hockey team defeated Salve Regina University 5-3 Saturday afternoon in Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) action.
Seahawks play for Angela's Army
NEWPORT, R.I. - The Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team will be playing for Angela's Army this Saturday, November 23, when the team hosts Endicott College at 2 p.m.
Hawks blank Seahawks in Worcester
WORCESTER, Mass. - The Becker College women's ice hockey team defeated visiting Salve Regina University 2-0 on Saturday evening at the Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center in Worcester.
Dunn dishes out assists on every goal; Seahawks win 3-1
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - Sophomore defenseman Kimberly Dunn (Quincy, Mass.) assisted on every goal for the Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team as it defeated Becker College 3-1 in Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) play Friday evening.
Herons shake off Seahawks in OT
GENEVA, N.Y.- William Smith College first-year Mia LaPlante scored the game-winning goal 58 seconds into overtime to lift the Herons past Salve Regina 3-2 in a non-conference contest at The Cooler this evening.
Coaches pick Seahawks to finish fourth
MARSHFIELD, Mass. – Reigning Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) Champions, Endicott College were selected to repeat in the 2019-20 Preseason Coaches' Poll.
Seahawks to play for Angela's Army
NEWPORT, R.I. - The Salve Regina University field hockey team will be playing to raise money for Angela's Army this Saturday, October 19, when the team hosts Endicott College at 12 p.m.
CCC To administer women’s ice hockey starting in 2020-21
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (October 4, 2019) -- The Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the CCC will begin to oversee women’s ice hockey as a championship sport beginning in 2020-21. The CCC will assume operation of a renamed Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC).
Seahawks participate in Relay for Life to support Angela's Army
NEWPORT, R.I. - The Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team participated in this past weekends Relay for Life as "Angela's Army" in support Angela Augusta who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year after graduating from Salve Regina.
Senior trio named captains for 2019-20
NEWPORT, R.I. - Three seniors, Mikayla Anderson (University Place, Wash.), Amanda Fantasia (Billerica, Mass.), and Caroline Prezioso (Trumbull, Conn.) have been named captains for the Salve Regina University women's ice hockey team.
Fall pre-season check-in dates announced
NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina University director of athletics Jody Mooradian has announced arrival dates for eight Seahawk teams during August 2019.
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SL CoA | Sole testimony of prosecutrix found reliable enough for a trial judge to act; Court dismisses appeal against conviction
Published on January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020 By Devika
Court of Appeal of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: A Division Bench of K.K. Wickremasinghe and K. Priyantha Fernando, JJ., dismissed an appeal filed to set aside the judgment of the High Court.
The prosecutrix had testified that, the incidents had taken place about two years prior to testifying when she was in Grade 8 and the appellant had abused her for 5-6 times. The prosecutrix had narrated these incidents to her mother who took her to the police station and as per the prosecution evidence, the incident had taken place three months prior to making the police complaint. The JMO had testified that no injuries were found but the possibility of sexual abuse cannot be excluded as per the short history was given by the prosecutrix. The appellant had denied committing the offence and contended that he was being falsely implicated by his wife as he had caught her with her paramour. He further submitted that his wife lodged a complaint at the police station asking for the custody of the children and he had denied the same after which the wife had challenged him that she would send him to the prison and would take the custody of the children.
The counsel for the appellant AAL K. Kugaraja contended that the prosecution had failed to establish the date of offence to which the counsel for the respondent Sudarshana De Silva, submitted that the prosecutrix had clearly stated that the incident took place in the latter part of 2007. The accused-appellant had been indicted under three charges for committing Grave sexual abuse on his daughter, an offence punishable under Section 365B (2) (b) of the Penal Code, 1860 as amended. The Trial Court had convicted the accused-appellant and had sentenced him to 18 years of rigorous imprisonment along with fines aggrieved by which this appeal was filed.
The Court while dismissing the appeal explained that the Judgment of the High Court was well reasoned as when the victim is a small child and is abused by someone who is associated to him/her on a daily basis its nearly impossible to specify the exact same date of offence and also the evidence of the prosecution was corroborated by other witnesses as well and the High Court was satisfied with the trustworthiness of the evidence so there was no reason to disturb the findings of the trial court.[ Kurundukara Hakuruge Ariyadasa v. Attorney General, C.A. Case No: HCC-0384 of 2017, decided on 05-12-2019]
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Benedict College to host Second Step Presidential Justice Forum Oct. 25-27
September 10, 2019 By SC Independent Colleges & Universities
COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy benedict.edu) — Benedict College and the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center will present the 2019 Presidential Justice Forum on October 26-27, 2019 on the Benedict campus. Hosts will include Columbia Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin and the National Black Police Association.
The event will feature the only bipartisan forum of presidential candidates exclusively focused on criminal justice reform as it affects the Black community. The forum will feature the first-ever “HBCU Straw Poll.” In the weeks leading up to and then after the Forum, all students and alumni of the eight HBCUs in South Carolina will vote online for the presidential candidate that best addresses their concerns on all issues facing African-Americans, not solely limited to criminal justice reform. There will be a ballot for Democratic Candidates, and a ballot for Republican candidates.
Allen University hosted the first Presidential Justice Center Forum in 2015.
“Our mission is to empower local leaders to implement innovative and practical solutions to problems in the criminal justice system. We have invited all presidential candidates from both parties to Benedict College because we want them to speak directly to our emerging leaders on campus, and those living in the surrounding communities that are disproportionately affected by injustices and unfairness in our country,” said Tishaura Jones, Democratic Co-Chair of the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center. “We believe that HBCUs such as Benedict are cultivating and growing the next generation of civil rights leaders, and this is the preeminent civil rights issue of our time.”
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker have already announced as confirmed speakers for the forum. Additional announcements are expected in the weeks preceding the forum.
“It is is an honor to partner with the National Black Police Association, the African-American Mayors Association, the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and all of the other co-hosts, and welcome back the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center,” said Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin. “Criminal justice reform impacts the fabric of every community in America, and hosting this bipartisan engagement in Columbia sets the stage and tone for the upcoming primary.”
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Tickets for the forum are available on Eventbrite. South Carolina college students are invited to attend for free – registration with a school email is required. The Forum will also be live streamed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
About the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center
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Chemical Signals: Sexual Attraction, Pheromones And Being Ready At The Right Time
By News Staff | August 29th 2014 12:15 PM | Print | E-mail
The exchange of chemical signals between organisms is considered the oldest form of communication.
Acting as messenger molecules, pheromones regulate social interactions between conspecifics, for example, the sexual attraction between males and females. Fish rely on pheromones to trigger social responses and to coordinate reproductive behavior in males and females.
Scientists have now identified such a signal molecule in the urine of male Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus): this pheromone boosts hormone production and accelerates oocyte maturation in reproductive females. Hence, the Mozambique tilapia is one of the first fish species in which the chemical structure of a pheromone has been identified and the biological basis of its activity elucidated.
Mozambique tilapias (Oreochromis mossambicus): a dominant male (above) and a female (below). Credit: Olinda G. Almeida / Peter C. Hubbard, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal
The social behavior of Mozambique tilapias (Oreochromis mossambicus) native to southern Africa is very complex. The strict hierarchic ranking among males is fought out in so-called courtship arenas. With their mouths, male tilapias make excavations in the sand in the middle of an arena with the aim of attracting females to spawn in these nests. At the same time, they act aggressively to keep other males away.
Dominant males have been observed to urinate more often and squirt larger quantities of urine in the water during fights compared to their subordinate rivals. The urine contains pheromones that reduce aggressive behavior in other males. The compounds also lure females to the nest and modify their hormonal status by accelerating oocyte maturation. Thus the pheromones help to synchronize female spawning and external fertilization by the males and so to increase the odds of reproductive success.
Tilapias also show this behavior in captivity, which makes them an ideal model system for reproducible biological assays. Tina Keller-Costa and her colleagues at the Marine Science Center at the University of the Algarve in Faro, Portugal, as well as the Biosynthesis/NMR Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now identified the chemical structure of the signaling molecules in tilapia males and studied their function. She collected urine samples from dominant males and purified the samples in several steps, testing them for biological activity as pheromones after each step.
Rival male Mozambique tilapias (Oreochromis mossambicus) in an aquarium: The dominant male (right) defends the nest, an excavation in the sand he made with his mouth. Females are mouthbrooders, meaning they take up the eggs in their mouths, once they have been externally fertilized in the nest by the males. Oral incubation is a strategy for protecting offspring. Credit: Olinda G. Almeida / Peter C. Hubbard, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Two steroids as main components in the urine
This procedure resulted in two pure substances whose chemical structures were elucidated using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Their identity was confirmed by chemical synthesis: "The two structures are stereoisomers or mirror images of a pregnane-type steroid linked to glucuronic acid," Bernd Schneider, the head of the NMR lab in Jena, said, summarizing the results of the analysis.
Both males and females showed highly sensitive responses to the odor of these two steroids. Although the two pheromone components stimulate the hormonal system of the females and trigger spawning, they are not by themselves capable of reducing aggressive behavior in rival males. The researchers thus assume that the urine of dominant males must contain additional yet-to-be identified substances that contribute to this effect in a complex mixture.
Until now only very few fish pheromones have been chemically identified. "Our discovery will allow for further investigations, for example, of the mechanisms of perception and processing of these chemical signals by the brain in order to originate a response, in this case oocyte maturation and behavioral changes," says Tina Keller-Costa, who conducted the experiments for her PhD thesis.
Ways to control invasive fish species and benefits for the aquaculture of food fish
Apart from the carp family, tilapias belong to the most important edible fish raised commercially. However, their aquaculture in many tropical and subtropical waters has led to an uncontrolled population growth and spread of the species.
The use of pheromones could help optimize the aquaculture of tilapia species by increasing female fertility and reducing aggression between competing males. Pheromones could also help to control the invasive behavior of these fish, which threatens the ecological balance of many ecosystems.
Citation: Current Biology, August 21, 2014, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014. 07.049. Source: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
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From Ancient Temples to Modern Towers THAILAND CRUISES
Whether you're seeking paradise islands or contemplative temples, Thailand has it all.
Thailand is unique in Southeast Asia – it's the only country that never capitulated to a foreign power, so its culture and character remain distinctive and intact. You'll see it as you eat your way through varieties of spicy noodles at Bangkok's street food markets, take an hour for quiet contemplation in the temples of Chiang Mai or bask in the vibrant colors of Krabi and Phuket. Cruise to Thailand to explore stunning beaches like Kata Noi and Ya Nui near Phuket, glide down the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok in a traditional Thai boat or adventure through the country's historic spots and see the Buddhas at the Grand Palace and the Wat Pho Temple.
LEAVE THE LAND BEHIND
No matter where your Thailand cruise calls, a beautiful beach isn't far away. Sun yourself on the beaches of Krabi, or head out on a boating expedition in Bangkok or Phuket. Either way, you'll fall in love with the turquoise waters of Thailand.
THAI TAXI TRIPS
Long-tail boats are more than just pretty things to photograph, though you'll surely be called to snap a few photos of them. As far as southern Thailand's seafarers are concerned, they're the original taxi. If you're up for a getaway, hop on one of these water taxis for a day trip from Krabi or Phuket to quiet islands like Koh Poda or party spots like Koh Phi Phi.
BEACH-YA YOU WON'T WANT TO LEAVE
All of Thailand's beaches are amazing, but you're sure to notice some important differences. While the islands of the Andaman Sea (to the west and south of Phuket) feature dramatic cliffs and fluorescent waters, white sand and more muted shades of turquoise define the experience of swimming in the Gulf of Thailand south of Bangkok. No matter where you take a dip, though, you'll be in paradise.
Thailand's Koh Tao island is one of the world's most affordable and enjoyable places to SCUBA dive or get certified. Don't have time for a course? You can get amazing underwater views when you snorkel, so be sure to bring your underwater camera.
INLAND ADVENTURES
Thais are rightfully proud of their heritage, from the long-ruling Chakri dynasty to hundreds of years of Theravada Buddhism. From ancient culture to the pulse of modern Bangkok, you'll find a unique mix of the historic and the contemporary in Thailand with your cruise holiday.
Thailand's street food scene boasts quick, delicious meals to fuel you as you adventure through the cities. Don't be afraid to dive into local delicacies during your holiday, or pair familiar favourites like Pad Thai noodles and green curry chicken with tangy Som Tam papaya salad or crispy Khaaw Muu Grop pork belly with rice.
MONKEY AROUND IN THAILAND
Thailand offers a ton of opportunities to responsibly get wild. Ethical establishments like the Gibbon Rehabilitation Centre in Phuket allow visitors to honour nature as they observe it, and at Khao Yai National Park, a less-than-two-hour drive from Bangkok, you can see elephants roam the land before you raft below thundering waterfalls.
CITY AND COUNTRY
While Thailand's temples give you a peek into ancient history, its cities offer more modern adventures. Explore award-winning shopping malls like Bangkok's Siam Paragon, or enjoy a panorama from the viewing deck of Baiyoke Sky Tower. To glimpse local culture, visit rice fields outside Chiang Mai or the villages of Phuket.
Start Your Southeast Asian
While Krabi and Phuket have world-class beaches, you can find beautiful views all over Southeast Asia. Continue sailing southward toward Malaysia, where islands like Langkawi and Penang fuse amazing Andaman scenery with a mix of eclectic cultures. Southeast Asia is a wonderland for urban travellers, too. See the skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi, explore ancient cities like Hong Kong or take advantage of world-class shopping, from Singapore's upmarket Orchard Road to the rough-and-tumble markets of Ho Chi Minh City.
THE PHUKET PEARL
While Phuket is where many travellers arrive in Thailand, it is also the perfect start to a Southeast Asian journey. Take long-tail boat trips to Koh Phi Phi or Koh Khao Phing Kan (aka 'James Bond Island'), or explore the inland part of the island, where you can walk the streets of old-town Phuket or enjoy a panorama from atop the aptly named 'Big Buddha'.
STEP INTO SOUTHEAST ASIA
Thailand is both a cross-section of Southeast Asia and a gateway to the region. Cruise through the Andaman Sea to Malaysia, or sail into the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea to explore destinations like Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. By adventuring through Southeast Asia, you're sure to see the region come alive.
EN-GULF YOURSELF IN ADVENTURE
Serene temples, pristine beaches and spicy noodles await you on a cruise to Thailand.
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1 Basic English is broadly spoken in areas of Thailand where tourists often visit, but learning some basic Thai will earn you many smiles.
2 Service of alcohol in Thailand is prohibited before 11 a.m. and between 2-5 p.m., so be sure to head to the bar at the right times.
3 To show respect for local customs, remove your shoes whenever entering a temple or a local person's home.
HOW TO SAY "DELICIOUS" IN THAI
Thai can be a difficult language for non-natives, but you should definitely learn the word aroi, which means "delicious." It'll be the perfect way to describe the indulgent cuisine of the area, full of bright spices, pungent fish sauce and tangy vinegar.
WOK THIS WAY
Whether you eat it with shrimp, pork or chicken, few Thai dishes are more satisfying than stir-fried noodles, also known as pad thai. Stop by one of the food stalls on Charoen Krung Road or another of Bangkok's popular street food spots, where pad thai is traditionally cooked up with tangy-sweet paste of tamarind, a tropical fruit.
Spicy, creamy green curry is even more delicious in Thailand than it is at home. The creamy coconut milk base of this comforting Thai classic is made with fragrant green chilies, lemongrass, ginger and garlic. Make sure to order rice, since the dish is served a la carte here.
PAPAYA PRIDE
There's no better way to get a taste of Thailand's northeast Isaan cuisine than som tam, a salad made with shredded green papaya, fresh tomatoes, dried shrimp, a squeeze of lime juice and as much or as little chilli as you like.
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Explore the bustling streets of Bangkok, tasting your way through street-food vendors and side-stepping tuk tuk rickshaws. Swim in crystal clear blue waters surrounded by dramatic cliffs and rocks in Phuket. Or make your way to neighboring Malaysia to experience Penang and Kuala Lumpur.
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Annual Ruidoso water report shows multitude of projects and no violations
THe 2017 Consumer Confidence Water Report for Ruidoso is issued with good news all around
Annual Ruidoso water report shows multitude of projects and no violations THe 2017 Consumer Confidence Water Report for Ruidoso is issued with good news all around Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: http://www.ruidosonews.com/story/news/local/community/2018/06/28/multitude-projects-and-no-violations-listed-ruidosos-annual-water-report/743955002/
Dianne L Stallings, Ruidoso News Published 3:45 p.m. MT June 28, 2018 | Updated 4:58 p.m. MT June 28, 2018
The 2017 Village of Ruidoso Consumer Confidence Report reflects the hard work of the staff.(Photo: Courtesy Photo/Village of Ruidoso)
Seventy-five million gallons of water were saved this past year
Assembling the annual Village of Ruidoso Consumer Confidence Water Report has become more than a little challenge each year for Randy Koehn, water production manager for the village.
A photographer at heart, he searches for just the right images to include the report, the most interesting and essential data, and even poses the questions most likely to come from consumers.
Within the last month, the 2017 Village of Ruidoso Consumer Confidence Report was issued to customers detailing water management in the village. Highlights listed on the front page include that no violations occurred in 2017, and that 75 million gallons of water was saved through reduction of leakage, installation of automated water meters and a system to detect leaks quickly, along with replacement of old water lines and installation of a liner at Grindstone Dam.
Accomplishments listed took up more than half a page and included an assessment completed on the Alto Crest Treatment Plant; rehabilitation of the Green and High School wells, four wells at North Forth and a nested monitoring well; updating the water demand document and the water rights accounting and system evaluation; developing a water master plan, a Geographical Information Systems water model and developing a water conservation plan; as well as a multiple of other work on pumps, pipes and pressure reduction valves.
The pamphlet also detailed water protection and conservation tips, a water quality data table, information on what lead is a monitored contaminant and why some low levels of contaminants may be found in all water. One deficiency was noted, a citation for inadequate security at the Country Club Tank. A six-month extension was granted and installation of a new tank and fence are in progress.
Last year, Koehn and staff conducted tests for more than 80 contaminants and only detected 14, all within limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to the report.
He explained that the water supply for the village is derived from a combination of surface and ground water sources in the Rio Ruidoso and Eagle Creek watersheds.
“Consequently, the village’s ability to produce surface water from these sources is greatly affected by temperature and precipitation and can significantly change from year to year,” he wrote. “The village works diligently to deliver water in a systematic approach balancing all sources of water supply. Water delivered in 2017, was in compliance with safe drinking water standards.”
Anyone with concerns can call water production at 575-257-5526 or by mail at 313 Cree Meadows Drive Ruidoso, NM 88345. The website www.Ruidoso-nm.gov also provides information.
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Mitchel Candlin
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Teenage forward who was just 16 when he made his Walsall debut, in a 1-0 defeat at Bradford in April 2017.
Now 19, he played five first-team games in 2016/17 and also helped the Development Squad win the Walsall Senior Cup, scoring a brace in the 4-3 semi-final victory over Wolverhampton Casuals.
Rewarded with a professional contract in August 2017, the Stafford-born striker featured four times the following season and spent the first half of 2018/19 on loan at Blackburn.
Candlin extends Nuneaton loan
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Alemany, Joseph
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Joseph Alemañy is the Chief Financial Officer for South Florida ENT Associates, P.A. In this role, he oversees and directs all significant aspects of South Florida ENT’s financial, accounting, treasury and financial compliance operations. The Chief Financial Officer has the responsibility to uphold strong financial management and accountability while providing timely, accurate and reliable financial information. Joseph started as Controller of South Florida ENT Associates and soon after earned his position as Chief Financial Officer. The years at South Florida ENT Associates have been rewarding and challenging, both professionally and personally, and he has played an instrumental role in South Florida ENT Associates growth and success. Prior to joining the Executive Team at South Florida ENT Associates in 2002, Joseph Alemañy started his Public Accounting career as an Auditor with Ernst & Young, LLC working on a variety of clients across many industries, including Health Care. Joseph subsequently worked for a local Certified Public Accounting firm as an Audit Manager where he gained additional experience with audits, accounting and bookkeeping, reviews, compilations, due diligence, consulting and corporate, state, and individual taxes. His professional experience in audit, tax and consulting helped to develop his leadership, business operational, financial analysis and managerial skills.
Joseph attended Florida International University where he received recognition for academic achievement such as numerous placements on the Dean’s List and member of the Beta Alpha Psi Honors Society. Joseph earned his Master’s in Accounting and a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting with Honors where he graduated Cum Laude. Joseph is a licensed CPA who successfully earned his license having passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam with high marks on his first attempt. Joseph is a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] and Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants [FICPA].
Viteri, Isabel
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As a Human Resources Director Isabel is responsible to develop and implement human resources policies and procedures to insure effective management of the company’s human resources to include payroll, benefits, and employee relations matters in accordance with the overall goals and objectives of South Florida ENT Associates, P.A. (SFENTA). Prior to Joining SFENTA, Isabel served as Director of Human Resources for Comprehensive America Care, Inc (CAC- Ramsay, Inc.), a Florida-based health maintenance organization, where she was responsible for the full range of human resources functions, including recruitment, employee relations, and organizational/management development. Her prior experience concentrated on personnel-related roles in service industries: Human Resources Director for CHS Electronics, (Fortune 500); Human Resources Business Partner for Servisair USA, Inc; Payroll and Benefits Manager for CAC (Clinicas Associacion Cubana); Payroll Supervisor and Tax Accountant for Borg Warner Corporation. Ms. Viteri attended the University of Miami and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management.
Lorenzo, Juan
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Juan Lorenzo serves as the Information Technology Director for South Florida ENT Associates (2002-2010). He has been working in the computer and telecommunication field for over seventeen years. During this time, he has held a number of positions working as an architect/designer, an information systems manager, a network/system engineer, help desk coordinator and as a trainer. He earned his Associate Degree at Miami Dade College and holds certifications in Microsoft A+ and Microsoft Certified Professional. He brings his depth of experience, technical skills and management capabilities to his current position where he supports the day to day operations as well as the groups continued expansion.
Bartell, Alyson
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Alyson C. Bartell, Director of Contracts and Compliance, joined South Florida ENT Associates (SFENTA) in June of 2008. Ms. Bartell has played various roles in the day to day operations at SFENTA. Initially, as the Coordinator of Credentialing, then promoted to Manager of Contracting and Operations and most recently promoted to Director of Contracts and Compliance. She is responsible for contract negotiations, new insurance contracts, compliance, regulatory affairs, credentialing, marketing, web site design and various projects. Ms. Bartell was also is an integral part of the EMR setup, implementation team and is involved in all operational strategies.
Ms. Bartell has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University and a Masters of Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University.
Nair, Pratap
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Pratap Nair serves as Director of Accounting for South Florida ENT Associates, P.A. He joined the company in January 2005 and currently oversees the corporate accounting functions. Prior to joining South Florida ENT Associates, Pratap served as Team Leader – Accounts and Finance for UnitedHealthcare India, a division of UnitedHealth Group, USA, where he was responsible for accounting and finance functions for all the group companies.
Pratap has a Masters in Accounting and is a licensed CPA in the state of Florida.
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Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 20, 2018 2:00am-3:00am PDT
chuck schumer. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it's nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it's good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did it change? >> i have always been concerned with saudi arabia. i'm a new yorker who worked in the united states senate after 9/11. i don't trust them. they gave aid and comfort to people who bombed us. i don't understand how we look at what they did to khashoggi any differently than what al-qaeda did to daniel pearl. it's an act of terror and it should be dealt with that way. for trump's role, he has been -- >> tucker: hold on. wait, wait, wait. stop. before you get to trump and whatever. to answer the question. has to be dealt with how? pushing for another war? this one against the saudis? >> no. i'm not. >> tucker: okay. some think you are. >> we hav
chuck schumer. we are all anti-saudi now. as someone who has been anti-saudi for a long time it's nice to have company. where were all the chest-beaters last spring when the united states bombed syria in part at the direction of saudi arabia? and everybody on the left, including your former boss chuck schumer said it's good idea to do the bidding of saudi arabia? but now anyone who says anything about saudi arabia is immoral. how did it change? >> i have always been concerned with saudi...
Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 18, 2018 5:00pm-6:00pm PDT
cesar chavez and bill clinton and chuck schumer -- >> tucker: who worried -- >> they were making the case that borders should be closed because of adversity impacting minority communities. it undermined union wages and entry-level workers. and we got 20 million, all the sudden, wow, we flipped california, new mexico, colorado, nevada, this is a good thing they lets ignore federal immigration law appeared same with sanctuary cities. they are good now because it fulfills a useful agenda, but believe me, if alabama and montana and utah said, you know what, in our jurisdictions and our states, we do not want to adhere to the endangered species hand or federal handgun registration, that all of a sudden, that would be nullification and the confederate in the eyes of the left. it is the kavanaugh hearings all over again. we were going to throw out 238 years of american jurisprudence because it did not coincide with an agenda for the supreme court paired then afterwards, suddenly the good, blue wall, the electoral college that helped obama get elected, had to be jettisoned because it cru
cesar chavez and bill clinton and chuck schumer -- >> tucker: who worried -- >> they were making the case that borders should be closed because of adversity impacting minority communities. it undermined union wages and entry-level workers. and we got 20 million, all the sudden, wow, we flipped california, new mexico, colorado, nevada, this is a good thing they lets ignore federal immigration law appeared same with sanctuary cities. they are good now because it fulfills a useful...
and crying chuck schumer and the great maxine waters. that's a beauty. maxine waters, you get that one? you get that? she will be in charge of your finances. >> [booing]. >> low iq individual. low iq. how about this one? senator dianne feinstein. >> [booing]. >> the mayor who did one of the worst jobs of any mayor other than the guy running for governor in florida. he was a horrible mayor too. cory booker, he destroyed what he did. he was so bad. a sad thing happened last week. because elizabeth warren was exposed as being a total fraud. i can no longer call her pocahontas. because she has no indian blood. >> [crowd noise]. >> i can't call her pocahontas. she doesn't qualify. i have been saying for a long time. i have been saying it for a year and a half. i said i have more indian blood than she has and i have none. i can't use the name pocahontas anymore but i will anyway. we have to keep her down. in this election, the people of texas are going to make a giant and beautiful stand. >> [cheers and applause]. >> you are going to elect a republican house and they are getting a little
and crying chuck schumer and the great maxine waters. that's a beauty. maxine waters, you get that one? you get that? she will be in charge of your finances. >> [booing]. >> low iq individual. low iq. how about this one? senator dianne feinstein. >> [booing]. >> the mayor who did one of the worst jobs of any mayor other than the guy running for governor in florida. he was a horrible mayor too. cory booker, he destroyed what he did. he was so bad. a sad thing happened...
Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 5, 2018 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
not clear he had it but he wanted to smoke it out. he called the bluff of chuck schumer. he made a last ditch effort for president trump to get a new nominee. schumer said he would give him a fair shake. even though he had said minutes after the kavanaugh choice back in july, he would oppose him with everything he had long before any sexual assault allegations. as the roll was called, lisa murkowski voted no. susan collins and jeff flake voted yes. joe manchin voted yes. it's possible that collins and manchin could switch and vote no on final passage. but late today they seemed to seal it for kavanaugh saying they would vote yes on the nomination itself. collins delivered a blisters message to the left and how they used dr. ford and manchin is facing the wrath of the resistance. watch. >> watching her, mr. president, i could not help but feel that some people who wanted to engineer the defeat of this nomination cared little, if at all, for her well-being. it's >> you mentioned the mid terms. we've seen a surge for some republicans in key matchups. president trump said the fight is
not clear he had it but he wanted to smoke it out. he called the bluff of chuck schumer. he made a last ditch effort for president trump to get a new nominee. schumer said he would give him a fair shake. even though he had said minutes after the kavanaugh choice back in july, he would oppose him with everything he had long before any sexual assault allegations. as the roll was called, lisa murkowski voted no. susan collins and jeff flake voted yes. joe manchin voted yes. it's possible that...
Tucker Carlson Tonight : FOXNEWSW : October 25, 2018 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT
chuck schumer becomes the next leader of the united states senate. and so much is at stake, including, let's think about this, building the wall in our southern border. at this hour, the migrant care venice still headed straight for the southern border of the u.s.u as we speak, they are marching
for a democrat this november is a vote to surrender congress to nancy pelosi. crying chuck schumer. the great maxine waters. that's a beauty. maxine waters. you get that one? you got that? she's going to be in charge of your finances. [boos] good old maxine. low iq individual. low iq. how about this one? senator dianne feinstein. [boos] the mayor who did one of the worst trouble of any mayor, other than the guy running for governor in florida. he was a horrible mayor too. cory booker. he destroyed. he was so bad. and a sad thing happened last week. because elizabeth warren was exposed as being a total fraud, and i can no longer call her pocahontas because she has no indian blood. [cheers and applause] i can't call her pocahontas. she doesn't qualify. she has a -- i have been saying it for a long time. i've been saying it for a year and a half. i said i have more indian blood than she has, and i have none. i have none. but i can't use the name pocahontas anymore.'t but if you don't mind, i will anyway. is that okay? we've got to keep her down. but in the selection, the people of texas ar
for a democrat this november is a vote to surrender congress to nancy pelosi. crying chuck schumer. the great maxine waters. that's a beauty. maxine waters. you get that one? you got that? she's going to be in charge of your finances. [boos] good old maxine. low iq individual. low iq. how about this one? senator dianne feinstein. [boos] the mayor who did one of the worst trouble of any mayor, other than the guy running for governor in florida. he was a horrible mayor too. cory booker. he...
chuck schumer and perez and that group. the rest of these people -- joe biden is on the campaign trail, obama on the campaign trail, this doesn't look like their group of tomorrow's leaders. >> tucker: it really doesn't. if they lose, they are going to get a new set, i would say. >> the hopes in the senate have diminished, too, looks like it is not going to happen paired >> tucker: brit hume, thank you very much. senior political analyst. a former aide to hillary clinton, high-ranking, defending the new tactic of screaming at people they disagree with in restaurants. he joins us next, fresh from a restaurant. ♪ s. to take care of any messy situations. and put irritation in its place. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected... you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. i'm all about my bed. this mattress is dangerously comfortable. when i get in, i literally say ahh. meet the leesa mattress. a better place to sleep. the leesa mattress is designed to provide strong support, relieve pressure and optimize airflow
chuck schumer and perez and that group. the rest of these people -- joe biden is on the campaign trail, obama on the campaign trail, this doesn't look like their group of tomorrow's leaders. >> tucker: it really doesn't. if they lose, they are going to get a new set, i would say. >> the hopes in the senate have diminished, too, looks like it is not going to happen paired >> tucker: brit hume, thank you very much. senior political analyst. a former aide to hillary clinton,...
to believe and many questions need to be answered before it can be taken seriously. and yet chuck schumer hasn't asked those questions. he heard swetnick's claims and immediately called for brett kavanaugh to drop out of the running. they agreed with that, he called his allegations a gut punch, "if my republican colleagues have any sense of morality, they will refuse to move forwarl with judge kavanaugh's nomination."." democrats are demanding that the fbi investigate the story. so far that is not happening, why is it not happening? maybe here's part of the answer. this is nbc's megyn kelly. watch her explain. >> she faced allegations of her misconduct. 18 years ago. that company claims that she f told them she graduated from john hopkins but they learned this school had no record of her. she also falsely described her work experience at a prior employer. they said she engaged an unwelcomed sexual conduct herself. she made allegations against her coworkers and they had been inappropriate with her. they said she took medical leave and unemployment benefits. in d.c., there was a res
to believe and many questions need to be answered before it can be taken seriously. and yet chuck schumer hasn't asked those questions. he heard swetnick's claims and immediately called for brett kavanaugh to drop out of the running. they agreed with that, he called his allegations a gut punch, "if my republican colleagues have any sense of morality, they will refuse to move forwarl with judge kavanaugh's nomination."." democrats are demanding that the fbi investigate the story....
acts of political violence, but democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer said "president trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence." of course the g.o.p. has blamed democrats for inciting numerous acts of violence against republicans. the fbi by the way warns more packages could be out there. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks for that. the pipe bombs of course are one of many examples of attempted and actual political violence we'd seen. one of the most notable was a attempted massacre in the summer of 2017, so congressman steve scalise was grazed though my gravely wounded. in response to the pipe by mailing he tweeted "these attempted attacks that have been made or beyond criminal, they are acts of terror. it violence and terror have no place in our politics or anywhere else in our society. the congressman joins us tonight. thanks very much for coming on. what was your first reaction when you saw this news today? >> its anger. this isn't the way that we should expect america to be turning. you are seeing more and mo
acts of political violence, but democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer said "president trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence." of course the g.o.p. has blamed democrats for inciting numerous acts of violence against republicans. the fbi by the way warns more packages could be out there. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks for that. the pipe bombs of course are one of many examples of attempted and actual...
crazy democrats, yet she>> has voted with her 60% of the time and she has voted with senator chuck schumer 80% of the time entries only voted with president trump 45% of the time but guess what, she's trying to show that she is chummy with president trump because he won the state of missouri by 19 points. she told bret baier that she 100% supports president trump's policies on the caravan and on immigration response to that. she's trying to run to the center and josh hawley, a republican opponent, has really made this an issue by calling out claire mccaskill and saying you are not a moderate, you are too left-leaning for thi state, so that's what this is all in response to. >> tucker: i got to say as an editorial comment that i can't repress, if you won the state bt 19 points were public and should be doing a little better than they're doing in my opinion. what is that?oi is missouri. kyrsten sinema, of coursee running against martha mcsally, the congresswoman, u.s. military veteran. where is that race right now would you say? >> it still really tight and that is interesting. i wil
crazy democrats, yet she>> has voted with her 60% of the time and she has voted with senator chuck schumer 80% of the time entries only voted with president trump 45% of the time but guess what, she's trying to show that she is chummy with president trump because he won the state of missouri by 19 points. she told bret baier that she 100% supports president trump's policies on the caravan and on immigration response to that. she's trying to run to the center and josh hawley, a republican...
are hard to see now. what you see is pelosi and chuck schumer and perez and that group. the rest of these people -- joe biden is on the campaign trail, obama on the campaign trail, this doesn't look like the group of tomorrow's leaders. >> tucker: it really doesn't. if they lose, they are going to get a new set, i would say. >> the hopes in the senate have diminished, too, looks like it is not going to happen. >> tucker: brit hume, thank you very much. senior political analyst. a former aide to hillary clinton, high-ranking, defending the new tactic of screaming at people they disagree with in restaurants. he joins us next, fresh from a restaurant. as a pro athlete, i know great performance starts with great sleep. and the sleep number 360 smart bed is my competitive edge. it intelligently senses our movements and automatically adjusts our firmness and support on each side to keep us both incredibly comfortable. it can even warm our feet to help us fall asleep faster. it's great sleep i can feel and see. better sleep keeps me at the top of my game. for this team... and the home team
are hard to see now. what you see is pelosi and chuck schumer and perez and that group. the rest of these people -- joe biden is on the campaign trail, obama on the campaign trail, this doesn't look like the group of tomorrow's leaders. >> tucker: it really doesn't. if they lose, they are going to get a new set, i would say. >> the hopes in the senate have diminished, too, looks like it is not going to happen. >> tucker: brit hume, thank you very much. senior political...
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INVINCIBLE COMIC, MOVIE, ANIMATED SERIES, AND MORE
Mark Grayson is teenage superhero Invincible. He was a normal high school senior with a normal part-time job and otherwise normal life, except his father Nolan is the superhero Omni-Man, the most powerful superhero on the planet. At the age of 17, Mark begins to display superpowers, which come from his father being a member of the Viltrumite race, who, according to Nolan, pioneer the galaxy on a mission of benevolence and enlightenment.
At least, that’s how it starts. Over the course of 144 issues INVINCIBLE covers love, loss, family, roommates, college, intergalactic war, multiple dimensions, and way, way more. It does all this while flipping the conventions of the superhero epic on its head.
While the comic has finished it’s run, we’re still exploring the world of INVINCIBLE on the big screen, as Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg prep the movie adaptation, and as an animated series with Amazon. Look for both of these in the near future!
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Robert Kirkman is the award-winning creator of THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, SUPER DINOSAUR, OUTCAST, and more! As Chairman of Skybound Entertainment, Robert continues to develop and produce multiple personal projects and collaborates with an extensive list of creators in all divisions of Skybound—including comics, interactive games, film and television (traditional and digital platforms), licensing, and merchandising.
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Cory Walker is an American comic book artist who co-created and launched INVINCIBLE with writer Robert Kirkman. Throughout its run, Cory was a constant contributor to INVINCIBLE, from designs to full issues. Cory has worked with Robert on SCIENCE DOG, Marvel’s DESTROYER miniseries, the IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN, and various other projects.
Ryan Ottley is based in Utah and was the primary artist on well over 100 issues of INVINCIBLE. He was the Artist and co-creator of the webcomic strip TED NOODLEMAN: BICYCLE DELIERY BOY, and it was through this webstrip that Robert Kirkman first encountered Ryan’s work and then offered him the job of penciling Invincible. Ryan is also creator/writer/artist of his very own GRIZZLYSHARK, and is currently working on Marvel’s AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.
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SACRED MONSTER - Worship the Weird (Exclusive Album Stream)
My music-listening experience this winter has been haunted by an intriguing conundrum. At any given moment I have the option of subjecting myself to a bevy of new music from an impossibly wide range of genres--music that I will inevitably find enjoyable. But an alternative perpetually looms: listen to Sacred Monster’s stunning debut yet again. From a purely mathematical standpoint, the latter option ranks supreme. This album has flesh-rending hooks, and putting it down has been a genuine struggle. The year--despite still in an admittedly infantile stage--has been concretely defined by Worship The Weird, and I'm honored and excited to have the opportunity to share it with you today. For those of you lookin' to get directly to the good stuff, you can find Worship the Weird streaming in full below.
As described in our review/stream of lead single “High Confessor,” Sacred Monster’s aesthetic is a peculiar (and wholly singular) blend of Gloryhammer’s campy exultance, spliced through the riff-centric approach of Orange Goblin. Why Gloryhammer? Despite not wanking around the sonic confines of power metal heaven, Sacred Monster apply a palpable sense of nerdy excitement to everything they touch. When it comes to being fans of weird shit, Sacred Monster is an unabashedly jubilant outfit, and their energy is infectious beyond cure. Joe Abercrombie, Twilight Zone, Stephen King’s Gunslinger, Lovecraftian existentialism, and the general ambiance of prosthetic-laden horror are all on gratuitous display. Goofy it may be, but it’s most certainly not fluff. Despite cheesy subject matter, Sacred Monster are undeniably worldbuilders and storytellers--and, even when those fantastical elements technically belong to some other creative entity, these interpretations are never simple re-hashery. Take, for example, the explicit Twilight Zone worship of “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Despite maintaining a firm grasp on frankly ridiculous material, this hard-hitting track takes a turn as its narrator appears...sympathetic? It's all oddly endearing.
Sacred Monster's sound is honestly difficult to describe, due largely to an expansive palette of instrumental influences. While riffage is generally omnipresent and blocky in stature, it recalls a variety of genre, from the hefty footprints of stoner doom to the galloping drive of NWOBHM. Despite a fairly fuzz-free application, the aforementioned Orange Goblin’s aggressive bite-first-ask-questions-later approach is apparent. Meanwhile, the general heft recalls, at times, the carpet-bomb'd groove of Corrosion of Conformity, as well as the bluesy hard-rockin’ appeal of Danzig or Clutch. Because the guitar tone is so pleasantly modern, I almost hesitate to mention Pentagram, but a certain Griffen-esque willingness to gleefully cram riff after superb riff into a track remains a defining characteristic. No question: Robert Nubel, the appointed Riff Finder General, knows how to write 'em gnarly and mean. Nothing here feels derivative, overused, or otherwise tired...and for a band that falls, tangentially, into the stoner doom category, that’s a goddamn accomplishment. Melodic intros and occasion blazing solo reinforce the General as a formidable force. One-trick-pony he is not. Sacred Monster is relentlessly uptempo, and so, not to be outshone, Guillermo Moreno and Ted Nubel--Bishop of the Bottom End and Priest of Percussion, respectively--keep things consistently intriguing. Guitar-centric songs all-too-oft feel shallow, but here, a tangible weight is carried throughout. Sacred Monster contends with some obvious star power, and it is to their credit that the band so clearly operates as a unit. Worship the Weird is relentlessly solid. Stoic, even. There's not a track here that suffers from undercooked songwriting or unbalanced arrangements, and as a result, Side B fares just as well as Side A at delivering uniquely kooky material wrapped in brobdingnagian heft.
Speaking of star power: I give you Adam Szczygieł, The Minister of Screams Himself. This man has an unbelievable range, from the guttural roars of “Re-animator,” to the throat-wrenching chant of (standout track) “Face of My Father,” to the King Diamond-esque wails scattered, liberally, throughout. The vastly divergent vocal techniques employed only adds to the substantial interest, and it is to Szczygieł’s credit that one never really knows what to expect. Forget the thematic trappings: this man is a monster unto himself.
Sacred Monster is wondrously proficient, approaching the madness of the Frankenstein-ian protagonist of "Re-animator" in their uncanny ability to execute an appropriately weird vision. With Worship the Weird, they deliver what is easily the most straight-up entertaining album to lay siege to the Sleeping Village's walls in a very, very long time. In promo material, Sacred Monster invites listeners to “celebrate...the unexplainable and the inescapable; the shapes just outside the corner of your eye. Pay tribute to the beasts that haunt your dreams and their creators. Join with us in wicked ceremony to give praise to the things that lurk below, outside space, and just beyond your door.” For once, I actually believe the hyperbole, and in this way, Worship the Weird is as much of a mission statement as it is a ritualistic command. I, for one, am obliged to bow my head in supplication of the strange. Needless to say, this album comes at the highest order of recommendation.
Sacred Monster's Worship the Weird will be released March 1st. In the meantime, listen to the album in full here:
Worship the Weird by Sacred Monster
If you’re in Chicago, join me in welcoming this behemoth of a record into the world at Sacred Monster’s album release party, presented by Forever Deaf. This Friday, LiveWire lounge. Be there.
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Remote Tech Support: The Power Behind the Scenes
By Gerry Blackwell | Posted July 12, 2007
United Parcel Service Scores on Interception
Small Business Finds Real Success With Virtual IT
POS Gives Small Retailers Big Boost
If you’re a small business looking for computer technical support, your first thought is probably to find a company that offers on-site service. Think twice, though. If a technician has to come out, it means you’ll wait. And you’ll also pay for travel time. Remote support from a service provider – a good one – may be a better bet. Faster service, better technicians, lower fees. And most IT problems don’t require an on-site visit.
When vetting remote service providers, ask what kind of tools they use to manage their agents and the interaction between you and the agent. If the company uses market-leading GoToAssist from Citrix Corp., a hosted service that lets agents log on to your system remotely to trouble shoot, you’re probably on to a good thing. And if you’re a slightly bigger small business setting up its own internal remote help desk, GoToAssist should definitely be on your list of tools to consider using.
The fact that PlumChoice Online PC Services has used GoToAssist since launching five years ago is a good indicator of the product’s strength. PlumChoice is one of the premiere providers of remote technical support to consumers, home office users and small businesses. “The Citrix tool has been a cornerstone of our business,” said Ted Werth, the company's founder and CEO.
Silent Collaboration
The latest version of GoToAssist, 8.0, which PlumChoice began using in January as a beta tester (it was launched in April), adds crucial new functionality, including a silent collaboration feature. It allows an agent to call a more knowledgeable technician into a support session to help solve a problem. The two agents converse using instant messaging-style chat. The customer is unaware of this side conversation.
PlumChoice, a leading provider of remote technical support, relies on GoToAssist 8.0 to get the job done.
It reduces the need to escalate calls, which is time consuming and irritates customers, and increases the first-time fix rate – the percentage of first calls to a contact center that result in complete resolution of a customer’s problem. This is a key metric for technical support services and help desks because solving problems on the first call drives up customer satisfaction and reduces costly call-backs. The new GoToAssist contributed to PlumChoice increasing its first-time fix rate to 94 percent this year, up from 80 percent last year.
There is no question about PlumChoice’s success and its stature in the industry. It has 100,000 customers, served by a staff of 200 agents. Some of those customers come to PlumChoice on their own. The company’s Web site offers “retail” remote support products, such as monthly PC support, PC Tuneup, PC Optimization and Spyware and Virus Removal, as well as help setting up consumer technology products such as MP3 players and digital cameras.
Many of PlumChoice’s customers are customers of big software, Internet service and retail partners that co-market its services. Partners include CA (Computer Associates), a major software and IT services company, retailer Circuit City and ISPs Earthlink and Comcast.
SMB Support Services
PlumChoice also offers small business technical support – subscription remote support services, a security package, online backup – as well as remote training, including instruction on using new features and functions in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office. “The use of Citrix has been critical for us in building solutions for small businesses,” Werth says. Having an agent/trainer logged in to the customer’s system makes training, in particular, much more effective, said Rich Surace, PlumChoice vice president of operations.
GoToAssist, a software as a service (SaaS) offering, provides all the back-end functionality for managing technicians online, including adding new agents when call traffic dictates, monitoring activity levels, listening to agents’ sessions, capturing performance metrics and even correlating customer satisfaction survey results to individual agents and types of calls. GoToAssist initiates random customer survey sessions immediately after calls, with Citrix collating and reporting the results.
The product functions in many ways like a call center automatic call distributor (ACD), but offers some sophisticated routing and work scheduling options that no ACD can provide. Small business customers especially frequently ask PlumChoice to respond to a number of issues or to perform a number of services on one call. GoToAssist allows the company to split the work among multiple agents. The first agent might respond to a technical problem, while PlumChoice re-routes another task – running a virus scan on the customer’s system, for example – to a different agent to be worked on concurrently.
The customer isn’t aware of this task sharing. It just means the work gets done faster. The second (or third) task could even be routed to an agent outside the country. While some PlumChoice employees work in a central facility, many are virtual agents, working from home. GoToAssist makes it easy to manage this kind of work flow, Surace said.
Another key differentiator is that the Citrix product records every customer support session, both the audio portion and the “video” – the screens the agent and customer went through together. “That’s crucial,” said Surace. “We need to be able to go back and see what was done on each session.”
Remote but Secure
The product also lets agents log on to a customer’s computer remotely over the Internet to trouble shot and make changes. Remote connectivity is available with other products and services, including Windows operating systems, but GoToAssist makes it seamless and transparent – and more palatable – to customers, Werth said. For one thing, they don’t have to download and install software on their system as some other remote connectivity products require.
“One of the main concerns customers have before they let somebody log on to their system is obviously security,” Werth said. “The strong encryption that GoToAssist uses gives our customers peace of mind that nobody [on the Internet] can [intercept and] eavesdrop on their session. The customer also has the ability to boot our agent off the system at any time. That gives them additional peace of mind because they know they’re in control.”
The new silent collaboration feature in GoToAssist 8.0 is a huge benefit to a tech support operation as customer satisfaction-centered as his, Werth said. PlumChoice agents can call for assistance if they run into problems they can’t solve – if they encounter an unfamiliar virus or trojan on a customer’s system while helping them with a simple task such as setting up a new MP3 player, for example. But the company also uses the feature proactively. If a session goes beyond a certain time threshold, a possible indication the agent is having problems, a supervisor will come on the call – unknown to the customer – and provide mentoring.
“GoToAssist has really helped us both grow our business and manage the quality of the service we provide,” Werth said.
When PlumChoice went looking for a tool to build its business around five years ago, there weren’t many options available. There were products such as pcAnywhere, still available from Symantec, that allow a technician to log on to a customer’s system remotely, but they were all single-point-to-single-point solutions and provided only the remote connectivity. GoToAssist manages many simultaneous remote sessions for subscribers like PlumChoice and does it seamlessly, Surace said. Plus it provides all the back-end contact center management functions.
The fact that GoToAssist is a hosted service, that PlumChoice doesn’t have to manage software or install servers was another major plus. The company first implemented the solution when it was owned and marketed by Expertcity Inc., which Citrix acquired in 2003. Since then, PlumChoice and the Citrix product have evolved together. “They have always taken our feedback and often acted on it,” Surace said. “Version 8.0 is pretty much a [collaborative] effort [between PlumChoice and Citrix].”
The icing on the cake? The GoToAssist service is ultra-reliable – rock solid, in fact, Surace said. “I think it’s been down once in the four or five years we’ve been using it. And that was for ten minutes. When you can rely on a product 24 by seven, that’s huge.”
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No gas in Okanagan town as lone station closed for renovations
Falkland’s Petro Canada will remain closed for renovations until March 1
Parker Crook
As Falkland’s lone gas station is closed for renovations, some Falkland residents are upset with the perceived lack of communication.
Val Woida, owner of the Highland Motel that lies across from Falkland’s Petro Canada on Highway 97, said the hotel has seen several visitors who are low on gas.
“I get three to five people a day coming to the hotel saying, ‘I’ve run out of gas,’ and they’re distraught,” Woida said. “There’s no sign outside of town or a warning.”
Woida said the notice of the closure for renovations was circulated via social media and is posted on the side of the gas station, but said it isn’t likely that everyone saw the message.
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According to Rene Talbot, Columbia Shuswap Regional District director of electoral area D, the Petro Canada was originally intended to reopen Saturday, Feb. 23. However, that date has since been pushed back to March 1.
Nicole Fisher, Suncor Energy spokesperson, confirmed the extension.
“The site is currently closed due to renovations,” Fisher said. “The timeline on these renovations has been extended due to adverse weather conditions. However, we are working to re-open as quickly as possible.”
Woida said that the workers are doing a good job and that the renovations appear to be moving along, but said further notice and attention to the closure is needed.
“I really feel for them (drivers who run out of fuel),” Woida said. “Looking at that gas gauge and thinking you’ve run out of gas isn’t fun.”
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In an effort to further help those in need of fuel, Woida said some Falkland residents have filled up jerry cans with petrol. And, when people come to the hotel looking for gasoline, she directs them to these sources.
“You fill up with two litres or five litres and then just pray that you make it, which isn’t fun either,” Woida said. “They (Petro Canada) are working hard and trying to get it done. It will be a nice fixture for Falkland, but more communication would have been nice.”
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This trailer is giving us major "Maid in Manhattan" vibes!
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Augusta Statz · July 23, 2018
Jennifer Lopez may have gotten her start as a dancer and singer, but she’s certainly no stranger to the big screen. She has starred in movies such as “Maid in Manhattan,” “Jersey Girl,” “The Wedding Planner,” and she’s got another new flick coming out in November.
Judging by the trailer, “Second Act” will be just as lovable as all of the other movie greatness Lopez has ever brought us. She stars as Maya, a 40-year-old woman who works at a big box store and never got the chance to fully realize her dreams. But after there’s an identity mix-up thanks to her friends making her a fake Facebook account, Maya is given the chance to land an executive role at a fancy company and change the course of her life forever.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a J.Lo film without some great laughs, dance moments and probably even some tears.
As you can see in the trailer below, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry and then you’ll laugh some more:
Acting alongside Lopez is Milo Ventimiglia from “This Is Us” and “The King of Queens” star Leah Remini. Because it’s just not a Lopez film without a super-cute love interest and a hilarious best friend who tells it like it is!
What makes the BFF duo work so well in “Second Act” is their undeniable chemistry on-and off-screen, Lopez told People magazine.
“We have an ease and natural chemistry that I think is reflected on screen,” Lopez said of Remini. “During filming, we’d try different things in different takes to make each other laugh, or push each other further. I’d go, ‘Do that thing you do,’ and then we’d just start riffing. We’d be totally off script, and having a ball.”
Charlene Yi and Vanessa Hudgens also star in this hilarious flick.
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We Talked to a Psychic About Meghan Markle & Prince Harry’s Future
by Sasha Graham
May 06, 2018 at 12:00 pm EDT
Image: Getty Images/Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows
The royal wedding between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry is coming up on May 19, and while there’s been a flurry of excitement in the months since the couple announced their engagement in 2017, we know almost every detail you could possibly know, from the cake to who will be attending to who’s part of the bridal party. But there are still details about Harry and Markle’s future relationship that would typically be impossible to know — unless, say, you talk to a psychic.
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SheKnows called upon Sasha Graham, a metaphysical author and TV host who “delights in combining the wisdom of tarot with culinary arts and bringing magic home to you,” to answer some of those questions for us. What will their lives be like behind closed doors? Will Markle get along with her new in-laws? Will she ever be tempted to return to television? You want the answers, and we’ve got them now.
Using the Prisma Visions tarot deck, Graham aligned her energy with Harry and Markle’s. She shuffled the deck and drew cards to get a holistic vision of their future together. She also pulled individual cards for each royal, and while it may sound a little far-fetched, the answers Graham got from the cards are too intriguing not to read.
Here we go.
Question: Who is Meghan, and why are she and Harry so good together?
Card: 9 of Cups
Meaning: Meghan holds a shimmering, glittering magic inside of her.
Reading: We look to our own lives and can bring to mind people who always seemed somehow special or marked. Meghan is that “it” girl. She has an X factor. You can’t put your finger on it, but you know it when you see a girl like this. She’s different; she’s special. This is why she captures our attention.
Besides Meghan’s obvious physical beauty, she is a woman who has endured and persevered through many great challenges in her life, moving forward to greet each challenge head-on. She cultivates the good in any situation. Meghan knows that deep lessons spring from adversity, and she uses these challenges to evolve. Because she innately uses adversity and challenge to propel her forward, she tends to face each day with a clean slate and a fresh start. It is this exuberance and deep wisdom that she has used to connect the dots of her life and step into her destiny as a member of the royal family.
Meaning: Harry is also aspected by the suit of Cups. He is emotionally attuned to Meghan, and they share a similar interior life.
Reading: They understood each other from the moment they first met. Excitement, attraction and romance tethered them together, as it does for all new lovers. Underneath the whirlwind excitement and passion in the beginning of any new relationship, they had a deep emotional understanding and a recognition of each other.
Harry has dealt with the extraordinary circumstances of his birth, and Meghan shows Harry how to put his pressures and challenges to use. At the end of the day, she is like an emotional bandage for him. She helps him feel better about who he is when he’s feeling dark. She is like a ray of light. In return, he takes excellent care of her in every way that he can. Even when he is unsuccessful, he makes the effort. This effort and kindness mean the world to Meghan.
Question: What will their first year of marriage look like?
Card: Queen of Pentacles
Meaning: Creating their home.
Reading: Harry and Meghan understand that setting up a strong and powerful foundation is the key to success in their heavily scrutinized, super-public marriage. They recognize the importance of privacy and barriers and the difference between public life and private life. The single issue they will focus on the most in their first year is structure: how to make home feel like home, what role each of them will have, how each can best support the other and how will they set up their future with children. They also work hard at having fun!
Meghan takes wonderful care of Harry, especially when her needs are met. When she is indulged, feeling wonderful and made to feel like a princess, that’s when she’s there to support him 100 percent. He works hard to be thoughtful and to surprise her with things she loves, and she repays his thoughtfulness by showering him with love.
Question: What mundane things do they argue about behind closed doors?
Card: Queen of Wands
Meaning: Passions run high!
Reading: Meghan and Harry are both extremely territorial. Jealousy marks their passion. Typical fights and squabbles usually stem from the fact that Meghan feels slighted if she perceives that Harry did something without thinking of her. In reality, Harry’s slights are unintentional, and he always makes it up to her with gifts or kind actions once she makes her feelings clear. Each of them has unresolved issues surrounding previous relationships (who doesn’t?), and they continue to work through them together. Jealousy sparks fights, only to be resolved in juicy makeup sex.
Question: What larger life obstacles will they face and have to overcome?
Card: Knight of Pentacles
Meaning: Harry’s royal role.
Reading: The biggest obstacle will always be that Harry is part of the royal family as an institution and that there are ways in which his life is not his own.
Question: When will they start having kids?
Card: King of Swords
Meaning: They will begin immediately.
Reading: They are excited and ready to start a family. Fertility treatments may lead to the prospect of having twins. Two children, one boy and one girl, are certainly in their future. This aligns beautifully with the family Meghan imagined for herself.
Question: Will Meghan ever return to TV?
Card: Death
Meaning: No.
Reading: Meghan will not return to traditional career acting. This chapter of her life is closed as she assumes her royal role. She will continue to grace television, magazines and tabloids.
Meghan continues to be the actress inside the family, however. She is a performer at heart. At family gatherings, when the royal kiddies and cousins put on plays and shows for each other, Meghan is right in the center, directing them, offering theater exercises and joining in their fun helping to put on shows.
Question: What will Meghan’s life’s work become?
Card: 8 of Pentacles
Meaning: Princess Diana 2.0: A philanthropist and advocate for women and children.
Reading: Meghan extends her natural talents to embark on charity work and causes that heal the world. She understands the royal role and the opportunity that comes with it. She recognizes that she has an image, a public perception that has little to do with who she is as an individual. She knows her symbolic role allows her to become an advocate for change, hope and love in the world.
Her life’s work and desire to break down racial barriers evolves into empowering women and children. This focus also leads to environmental work.
Meghan has great empathy, like Princess Diana. This similarity is one of the reasons Harry loves her and is attracted to her. Princess Diana’s legacy will live on through Meghan’s advocacy.
Question: What kind of marriage will they have?
Card: The Hierophant
Meaning: Always appropriate.
Reading: The marriage is strong. The couple is resourceful. They are both ready to meet all challenges that arise. Interestingly, what could be considered a great stress — marriage for all the world to see — becomes their solace. Even during tough times (and we’ve all faced these times in a relationship), it is the institution of the royal family, their sense of obligation and duty, that keeps them together and solid when other couples might fall apart.
Meghan is a dreamer, an intuitive, an inquisitive and fanciful woman who will continue to make Harry laugh until they are old and gray. Harry has a wicked and hilarious streak and is so full of life that he will remain funny and interesting to Meghan long after the stardust of their initial romance has blown away.
Question: What kind of relationship will Meghan and Kate Middleton have?
Card: 10 of Pentacles and Page of Pentacles
Meaning: Blood sisters.
Reading: Meghan and Kate are sealed with a bond. They both have married princes of England. Kate is Meghan’s teacher and advisor in all ways: how to conduct oneself publicly, how to balance public and private life.
Meghan is like Kate’s student. Kate fills her in on all the details, from what it’s like to have a royal baby to how to keep up a good face at a royal appearance when you’d rather be home watching Netflix.
They operate as support for each other. Kate also becomes very influential as a sounding board when it comes to the life’s work Meghan will embark on. Meghan will enjoy more freedom than Kate ever will, and Kate will always be Meghan’s advisor, ultimately in a more official capacity when Kate becomes queen.
Question: What kind of relationship will Meghan and the queen have?
Card: The Hermit
Meaning: Distant.
Reading: Meghan and the queen have a symbolic yet distant relationship because of the queen’s age and lifestyle. When the two of them are together in private, the queen will offer Meghan peals of wisdom on royal life and duty.
Meghan, emotionally, has a greater relationship with Princess Diana. Meghan is aware of Diana’s legacy and presence, even though Diana is not there physically.
Question: How close will Harry and William’s children be?
Card: King of Pentacles
Meaning: Thick as thieves.
Reading: Every effort will be made for the family to be close. The ties that bind them are strong, and both sets of parents understand the importance of deep familial bonds. These bonds are important interpersonally but also for keeping the monarchy rock-solid and strong.
Question: What will become of the royal family when the queen dies?
Card: Wheel of Fortune and King of Cups
Meaning: The monarchy continues.
Reading: Queen Elizabeth isn’t going anywhere soon. But when she does depart, Prince Charles will become king, reigning only for a short period of time. Prince William will assume the throne, making a glorious monarch for England with Kate as his queen. Harry and Meghan sparkle in their unique roles, enjoying the most freedom to work and play in the world and with their family.
More: 11 Royal Traditions Meghan Markle’s Broken Already
And there you have it: an in-depth, psychic reading of what the road ahead looks like for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. We recommend keeping this page bookmarked for future reference since you may want to double-check whether the things Graham predicted actually come to pass.
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T.A.N.K. buses serve Florence and most areas of Boone County at about 20-minute intervals. The main streets, Dixie Highway and U.S. 42, lead to Interstate 75. Driving time to downtown Cincinnati is about 15 minutes. It is a 10-minute drive to the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport.
St. Elizabeth Hospital is located at I-75 at the Florence exit and staffs a 24-hour emergency room. Other nearby hospitals include St. Elizabeth South in Edgewood (10 minutes) and St. Elizabeth North in Covington (15 minutes). St. Elizabeth Florence Children’s Pavilion is located on Turfway Road.
Florence Mall features 130 speciality stores. Centrally located in Florence, close to all Boone County residents Crestview Hills Town Center at I-275 and Dixie Highway is a lifestyle center featuring Dillards as an anchor along with a wide assortment of speciality stores and restaurants offering clothing, cosmetics, home furnishings and sporting equipment. This shopping center is close to St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Thomas More College in neighboring Kenton County.
There are seven parks in Florence. "Florence Nature Park" has 15 acres with paved walking trails. People also enjoy the brick patio with a grill, granite animals, and a gazebo. "Orleans Park" is an 11-acre park that is near the Orleans North subdivision. This park has a shelter, playground area, sled hill, open space field, volleyball court, stocked lake and a paved walking trail. "South Fork Park" features 42 acres and has a nautical theme. Enjoy a sheltered area, playground, volleyball and basketball courts, pedestrian bridge, bike path log dam habitats, natural meadow areas as well as mounded earthen sculpture of topsoil for play. "Springtown Park" has a Camelot theme on its eight acres. Enjoy a playground area, basketball court, four fitness stations, paved trail and a shelter. This park also features sand volleyball, corn-hole sets and a seat wall. "Niblack Memorial Park" is 4.5 aces and home to the Florence Senior Activity Center. The "Walnut Creek Park" is 2.5 acres and is located in the Walnut Creek subdivision. There is a ball field and open play area. "Lincoln Woods Park" features a tennis court, basketball court, playground, dirt trails and ball fields.
Florence is home to the "Florence Family Aquatic Center." This four-acre facility opened is located on the campus of the Florence Government Center in the heart of Boone County. The Aquatic Center features a lazy river, 25-meter competition pool, two sprayground areas, spiral and speed slides and a zero-depth pool. There is a membership charge for this center.
The "Florence/Boone County Skate Park" with 22,000 square feet of concrete is a park for skateboarders, bikers, rollerblades and in-line skaters of course. Located on the campus of the Florence Government Center, this facility is designed for the novice as well as the experts.
"Florence Freedom", a Frontier League Baseball team was the 2005 Frontier League Organization of the Year. Florence Freedom plays at Champion Field in the heart of Boone County, and offers a hometown, professional baseball experience and is an outing for young and old alike.
"R.C. Durr YMCA" is a state-of-the-art YMCA centrally located in Boone County on Route 18. The YMCA features a heated indoor pool and an outdoor pool, both with 25 lanes. A fitness center with cardio, strength training and free weights, the YMCA has personal fitness programs, a full gymnasium other programs for members.
There are several public golf courses near Florence: "Boone Links" has been named “Best Bang for the Buck” by Golf Digest. This 27-hole facility is open year round, weather permitting. Just off of Route 18 between Florence, Hebron and Burlington, "Lassing Point" is an 18-hole course with a driving range and short-game center on the premises. "World of Golf" is a great place to play, practice and learn.
"Dinsmore Homestead" is a unique historical site where visitors can learn what rural life was like in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Home tours and seasonal events are a highlight to Boone County history. Nature enthusiasts enjoy the hiking trails developed in cooperation with the Kentucky Nature Conservancy and the Boone County Parks Program.
The city of Florence hosts community events throughout the year. A Pooch Fest is held in September. Halloween Night Out brings out kids in costumes at the government center. The city also has an annual Veteran’s Day event and a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.
Boone County naturally attracts horse lovers, but is also popular with those looking for sports such as swimming, soccer, baseball, tennis, and pee wee football. The arts are represented with dance and art classes available locally and in neighboring Cincinnati. Most any activity is within reach for Boone County residents.
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The Next Ring at Seattle Opera
Seattle Opera has a long history of performing Wagner's Ring Cycle starting in 1975, with the most recent performances in August 2013.
Building a new production of the Ring is a significant financial commitment for any opera company and will require a substantial fundraising campaign to create and present an entire cycle. Given the costs and the planning timeline required, the decision to mount a new Ring will be between the new General Director and the Board of Directors and should not be expected before the company’s 60th anniversary in 2023.
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Millions of Websites Affected by IIS 6.0 Zero-Day
By Ionut Arghire on March 29, 2017
More than 8 million websites could be exposed to a buffer overflow vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 that has been exploited in the wild since July 2016, researchers warn.
The bug was found in the ScStoragePathFromUrl function of the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) service in Windows Server 2003 R2’s IIS 6.0. The issue, tracked as CVE-2017-7269, resides in the improper validation of an ‘IF’ header in a PROPFIND request and could allow an attacker to cause denial of service or to run arbitrary code.
Discovered by two researchers with the Information Security Lab & School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China, the vulnerability was exploited in the wild in July or August 2016. This week, the researchers published a proof-of-concept on GitHub and revealed that Microsoft has already acknowledged the bug.
The WebDAV extension of the HTTP protocol allows clients to perform remote Web content authoring operations, offering support for new HTTP methods, including COPY, LOCK, MKCOL, PROPFIND, and UNLOCK.
The exploit abuses the PROPFIND method and IF header. The former, Trend Micro’s Virendra Bisht explains, “retrieves properties defined on the resource identified by the Request-URI” and is supported by all WebDAV-Compliant resources, while the latter “handles the state token as well as the ETags.”
According to Bisht, “the vulnerability could be exploited with an overly large ‘IF’ header in the ‘PROPFIND’ request with at least two http resource in the IF header.” The researcher also explains that, while successful attacks could lead to remote code execution, unsuccessful attacks could sometimes lead to denial of service conditions.
Data from W3Techs reveals that Microsoft’s IIS is currently the third most popular web server technology out there, powering 11.4% of all websites. While newer versions of Microsoft’s technology are more popular, IIS 6.0 still accounts for 11.3% of the IIS-powered websites, which results in 1.3% of all websites out there being powered by this version.
According to BuiltWith, however, IIS powers 13.8% of all live websites, while the IIS 6.0 version is used by 2.3% of the entire Internet. This means that over 8.3 million live websites are using IIS 6.0, including tens of thousands of the most popular sites out there. However, the number is constantly dropping.
Disabling the WebDAV service on the vulnerable IIS 6.0 installations can mitigate the risk posed by this vulnerability, Trend Micro’s researcher says. The flaw does not affect newer versions of IIS.
Because IIS 6.0 was included with Windows Server 2003, an old operating system version that is no longer supported by Microsoft, it’s unlikely that a patch will be released for this zero-day.
“Nobody should be running IIS 6 in 2017. This is unsupported and unsafe software and must be upgraded ASAP," Craig Young, Prinicpal Security Researcher for Tripwire, told SecurityWeek. "All vulnerabilities in this software are going to be zero-day forever and while there may be mitigations for this attack, it is incredibly risky to run obsolete software on the Internet.”
"This issue does not affect currently supported versions. We continue to recommend that customers upgrade to our latest operating systems and benefit from robust, modern protection,” a Microsoft spokesperson told SecurityWeek in an emailed statement.
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Members of the Cloverdale Clovers band that won the 2018 CBC Music Challenge for the elementary instrumental category for their rendition of Serena Ryder’s “What I wouldn’t do.” (Submitted)
Cloverdale Clovers win national music challenge
$5,000 in music gear for Cloverdale Traditional music program
Travis Paterson
Dec. 19, 2018 12:30 p.m.
For the second year in a row, an elementary school in Saanich has won the CBC Music Challenge.
This week the halls of Cloverdale Traditional School are buzzing as their band, the Cloverdale Clovers, are winners of the national contest with their arrangement of Serena Ryder’s 2012 hit What I Wouldn’t Do.
“The buzz around the school this week is something, I tell you, the kids are pumped,” said Cloverdale Traditional elementary school music teacher Fiona Jones. “It was the first time we entered in the [challenge] and we didn’t know what to expect, we just focused on having fun with the end goal of making the video.”
The Clovers won the elementary instrumental category and earn a $5,000 prize towards new music gear.
More than 15,000 students from about 1,000 music classes across Canada each submitted a rendition from one of the 22 songs the contest made available. Cloverdale picked Ryder’s song with hopes that it might stand out against what Jones thought might be the more popular songs.
In the end, Ryder’s song was one of the top-four most used songs, as fellow top-10 finalist Campus View elementary, a 2017 winner, also submitted a rendition. Campus View was a top-10 finalist in the same elementary instrumental category as Cloverdale.
READ ALSO: Campus View elementary’s Orffestra wins CBC Music Challenge
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“We liked that this song had a real strong base drum beat through the whole thing and thought that would be fun, so that stood out,” Jones said. “We also liked the challenge as the kids play on an off-beat, a fun challenge for the keyboard players.”
The Clovers have dedicated lunch hours, recesses and time at home to learning and rehearsing their arrangement since September, she added. During those sessions students would share ideas and encourage each other.
“The students made suggestions, to me, and to each other, like, ‘Oh, I like that part, let’s repeat it,’ and other things like, ‘Oh, your part sounds so good, I won’t play at that part, you just play it,’” Jones said. “There was a lot of encouraging each other.”
Jones also credited volunteer parent Fraser Campbell for suggesting adding electric instruments to the composition’s traditional instruments, and Jones credits that as pushing the song to the next level.
“I loved the Cloverdale Clovers’ creative interpretation of the song, and especially their use of both traditional instruments and electronic elements in the mix,” said contest judge and CBC music producer Andrea Gin. “They have truly put their own stamp on the song — a remarkable feat for such a young group.”
The Cloverdale Clovers are Tharuli Abeysirigunawardena, Elizabeth Aquino, Lorraine Autojay, Serenity Bishop, Owen, Campbell, Cadence Campbell, Makaira Figueroa, Kurumi Hilton, Emmanuel Jaque, Lucy Jones, Eva Kelly, Brooklynn Nelson, Joshua Nyirijambo, Kamila Paulo, Noah Sexton, Gordon Vanderham, Connor Unger, River Whitecross.
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Bonus features for the disk feature an audio commentary with C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke, an interview with actor Roberto Dell'Aqua (who played one of the Piggot brothers) and an excellent selection of high quality scans of posters and lobby cards for the film. As with all Arrow Video releases there is reversible artwork for the box. The only small negative is that there are no trailers for the film included, but to be honest, it's of little concern considering the bounty we have.
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=== Light the Fuse... Sartana is Coming ===
The final film of the official series and everyone is on top form. Garko is super suave as usual, Nicolai's score is catchy and fit's the mood of the film perfectly, Carnimeo's direction is stylish and visually interesting while the writing team push the envelope of exaggeration just a little further so that we get to enjoy all the nonsense a cannon loaded church organ can offer.
Is this the perfect Sartana film? I must be honest and say that the previous outing is my own personal favourite but this one does come pretty close. The plot is the usual "who is the real villain?" mystery peppered with lots of opportunities for our man in black to outsmart an array of adversaries before predictably winding up holding the cash but this is just as it should be in a Sartana flick. It's James Bond meets Mandrake meets Sherlock Holmes meets Ringo and a good level of over the topness fits perfectly and keeps the viewer smiling. And smiling is what these films are about after all. If you want grim realism you are in the wrong shop. What Sartana offers is tongue in cheek fun played out with style and no slapstick; the perfect balance of fantasy played straight yet without taking itself in any way seriously. Light the Fuse brings the series to an end in style and this boxset to a great conclusion.
The BluRay is a brand new 2K restoration and offers the film in excellent picture quality. Both Italian and English audio are included as well as
=== The Booklet ===
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This is a review of Arrow Video's Complete Sartana box consisting of five BluRay discs containing all Sartana movies. This impressive release has hit shelves in the UK June 25, and in the US and Canada July 2 2018 and already gained some raving reviews and first reactions, including from our community in the forums. With a box like this it usually takes a while to get a detailed review, especially since in this case we didn't have access to a pre-release edition, and it takes some time of course to review five movies including all the bonus features.
El moreno: You look just like a scarecrow.
Sartana: I am your pallbearer.
The cardboard box contains all five movies (click here to learn a bit more about the character of Sartana and this movie series) in a cardboard box, plus a small collectible booklet. All discs come in a slim-case with a reversible sleeve. One side is the Arrow-commissioned artwork, the other is the original poster motif (there is little debate among fans which one prevails).
The 55-page booklet is replete with nice color images from the film series, an in-depth essay on the films by Robert Curti, another by Howard Hughes chronicling the genre's rise and fall, and lastly a few words about the restoration of these films for the present release, offering some technical insight about the origin of the audiovisual sources and processes used.
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So let's dive in, shall we? What follows are short reviews of the movies with a particular look at their presentation on these discs....
If You Meet Sartana... Pray for Your Death
Lasky (William Berger) and another band of thugs, among them Morton (Klaus Kinski) knowingly or unknowingly, find themselves on competing ends of an insurance scheme to screw over the stage coach gold transport, hatched by the local bank, his associate and a gang of bandits led by General Tampico (Fernando Sancho). What they didn't reckon with was Sartana (Gianni Garko), a mysterious stranger killing them all off one after another, playing them against each other and making sure that whoever swapped the cache of gold with rocks would eventually pay for it.... (click here to read a full review of the film)
This original vision of Sartana kicked off the whole series with a blend of sassy humor and cold blooded violence. Garko and Berger try to outdo each other with gimmickry and smarts, but both Sartana as well as Lasky take almost until way through half the movie to grasp what's going on and properly position themselves against each other. They are very unlike, Sartana being more like the snake like Morton, who exits the scene rather unglamorously quite early on. The overburdened script has its problems with logic in some spots, but ultimately, Sartana is a timeless classic in how it managed to pull off the sinister, dust and tumbleweed kind of stranger-kills-all spaghetti western with a good dose of humor right out of Clint Eastwood's playbook, spinning off an entire sub genre and probably earning director Gianfranco Parolini and Gianni Garko a coffin full of dollars. Having them all ride in and out of the same Roman sand pit from different angles must have saved them an extra nickel, but still, the director didn't return to the franchise and went on to produce a Sabata movie instead. Overall, a cult classic that still manages to entertain today.
The disc offers Italian and English audio options, both DTS mono tracks. I decided to watch the movie in Italian with English subtitles (always a good trick to get a full grasp of the movie since usually no version is like the other and you'll notice the dub isn't a precise translation of the original, which goes for most spaghetti westerns). The track is not entirely complete, there are a few tiny bits where the audio is English. Overall, its a decent sounding track with some noticeable crackling that creates a nice retro atmosphere. The English track sounds very similar, but has probably a tad more of a warmer tone and is a bit easier on the ears, the difference is minimal however. It is an excellent track. The image transfer on this disc is the "worst" of the box, objectively. Its a scan as good as the others but the material on hand was obviously in worse shape comparatively, so you see plenty of scratches, lines, speckles. The rest of the movie it is way better than during the opening credits, so tolerate those grindhousey looking bits, and then rejoyce how nice the rest of the picture looks. DNR and compression struggle a bit in the brighter, dustier exteriors but look great with closeups and most of the interiors. It's a marvellous transfer with just a few drawbacks. Rich colors (blacks almost too black), good contract and little edge enhancement. Sartana never looked this good.
The bonus features are plenty. Peckinpah-expert Mike Siegel, who also provided a German-language commentary on the German BluRay for The Great Silence, lends his expertise here (in English) for this full-length commentary. As always he's very knowledgeable, the commentary is full of trivia, technical information about filmmaking and historical facts. It makes for a great time also because Mike goes into the entire series, not just this one, starting with Blood at Sundown. But there is more: There's a rather funny new 22minute Interview with Gianfranco Parolini who is in great spirits reminiscing. Then there's a 16min visual essay to the many faces of the Sartana series by Jonathan Bygraves (a nice addition to our Sartana intro article by Simon). The finishing touches on this disc are a gallery of promotional article from Mike Siegel's archive. Pardon my french but that's a shitload of pictures.
I am Sartana, Your Angel of Death
This time, Sartana gets framed for a bank robbery by a group of murderous thugs, whose elusive and incognito leader donned our hero's cape and gadgets. Sartana sets out to play off various thugs against teach other, including the rowdy Bill Cochram (Federico Boido), but he's only slowly closing in on whoever was pulling the strings of the heist. It could even be the Sheriff (Sal Borgese), the local casino owner (Ettore Manni), one of the bounty hunters who are after him, including Holden (Klaus Kinski) and the evil Degueyo (Gordon Mitchell), or even his long time friend Buddy Ben (Frank Wolff).... (click here to read a full review of the film).
The film takes the Sartana character to the next level. Once again we know nothing about him but his trademarks. He's both a mystery gunslinger and a down to earth guy who like a poker game, at the same time. We're not sure of his motives, as he's just as ruthless a killing machine as the rest of them, but being framed for a daring bank robbery that he didn't command, doesn't sit well with him. Getting to the bottom of it turns out to be tricky with all these bounty hunters after him so he has got to get dirty. All tricks are being employed, corpses fall left and right, ladies swoon and the undertaker's business is booming. Carnimeo though, unlike his predecessor, isn't held back by either logic or budget (well maybe budget a little bit, but the movie looks considerably more opulent). Italian filmmakers are notorious plot twisters, so if at some point you're losing track of what's going on you're duly forgiven. Same here, as Sartana shoots himself through the thick of this story, you better pay close attention to all the twists, turns, motives and intrigues, because this might be a cheap 'sghetti but it's no simple script. We're treated to a fine second instalment of the saga, with lots of fun, tricks, action, interesting stylistic devices (copying left and right, from Leone to Corbucci) and a decent enough soundtrack.
The disc presents the movie in a gorgeous looking transfer once again. This first sequel switches to a broader scope format, which does the movie justice. It looks impeccable, aside from some moments of faded colors and a few scenes where inferior material was used. Colors are clear, contrasts good (again, almost too good) and the print free of blemishes. Edge enhancement and DNR are only slightly visible. The audio is again pretty solid, with the English track sounding a bit brighter and more high-pitched, which is great for dialogue but overall the Italian track sounds a tad more realistic with some minor depths.
For special features, we're treated to an audio commentary by C. Courtney Joyner (screenwriter and novelist) and Henry Peake (editor for True West magazine), both Sartana enthusiasts and zealots. They did their homework and take you through the movie with wit and humor. Then there's "From the life of a stuntman", an interesting brand-new interview with fit, happy and healthy actor and stuntman Sal Borgese (24min), "Violent tales for kids", a brand-new interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (19min), who has some great insights and laughs left from that time, and lastly a gallery produced from the archival materials provided by Mike Siegel (once again tons of pictures, tons...).
Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin
Is it Hallelujah or Tressette? No, it's Sartana but not as we know it.
That is to say, this is an official Sartana film released in the middle of the cycle but without the iconic presence of Gianni Garko. This seems odd and apparently George Hilton didn't think it was right either but Garko was busy and the producers were determined to keep cashing in on the popularity of the Sartana brand. So, with Carnimeo back on board as director the film was made and, perhaps surprisingly, turned out to be a pretty good entry in the series.
Hilton looks sufficiently Sartana-esque to be familiar but his man in black is noticeably different in character and tone. We still have the gadgets and cape but we also have an increased comedic element with guns in loaves of bread. We also have our man dressed as a Mexican peasant, not something you could imagine Garko doing. But this all suited Hilton's image and he makes a pretty decent Sartana in general and "Trade your Pistols" is a fun film which has plenty to enjoy. Not least of which is the great supporting cast which includes the lovely and apparently very pregnant Erika Blanc, perennial bad guys Piero Lulli, Rick Boyd and Luciano Rossi as well as the always welcome Nello Pazzafini and newcomer Charles Southwood as, ironically, Sabata.
The plot involves the usual twisty-turny shenanigans surrounding gold shipments and how each character tries to get their hands on them but, in truth, that is all, as usual, secondary to the general fun of the Sartana show. And Garko or not, this is a pretty good example.
This Bluray offers the film in it's best possible light and if you have only seen the fullscreen version put out on various cheap box sets this release will transform the film to a new level for you. The picture quality is excellent with only a slight difference in quality during one brief scene but this is short and hardly noticeable. English and Italian audio are available and the special features include excellent new interviews with Erika Blanc, George Hilton and Tony Askin as well as a picture gallery from the collection of Mike Spiegel.
Have a Good Funeral My Friend... Sartana Will Pay
Our fearless black caped hero finds himself among the aftermath of a massacre while looking for his friend Joe Benson. Dispatching the villains who killed his friend, he finds that they were after a comically large gold nugget, and while further investigating the incident, finds that old Benson's mine was in a bidding war between two powerful men in the town of Indian Creek, Chinese casino owner Lee Tse Tung, and banker Ronald Hoffman. As Sartana digs deeper into the mystery he finds himself the new target of these two powerful men who have both the town and a plethora of dangerous killers in their pockets.
While Carnimeo's earlier films are bit more grounded in reality, his fifth film as a director shows his steady ascent into the wacky atmosphere of his later films. We're treated to Sartana getting into a fantastic Kung Fu fight, a 32 caliber financial manifest, a lead pocket watch, the most stereotypical depiction of a Chinese man ever to grace Spaghetti Land, and a comically large body count. It all fit's perfectly into the film's comic book like aesthetic, with the viewer constantly being engaged with multiple creative gunfights and eccentric baddies, all while dramatic camera angles frame the brilliant choreography and zip us along the action. Bruno Nicolai's score features a wonderful galloping theme laden with the I Cantori Moderni, electric guitar's and trumpets, which helps the flow of the film moving along. It's certainly a feast for the eyes and ears, and while it may suffer from some pacing issues at points, it's imperfections are far outweighed by the lighthearted fun it provides.
As with the previous two films, the fourth Sartana installment is of the same high quality in both visuals and audio, this is greatly appreciated as my first exposure of this film was through the awful Video Asia release, which to say in the least amount of naughty words was horrendous and a blight upon us all. Arrow is definitely to be commended by taking the time to scan and release the original camera negative, which according to the booklet was restored at R3Store Studios where there was apparently a great deal of repair work done. Honestly it hardly shows to be honest, while the print is very clean and sharp, it lacks that ugly plasticy appearance that happens when there's too much photo restoration and DNR, but thankfully the remaining grain doesn't interfere with the black levels of the film, which are absolutely wonderful and sometimes even downright impressive. Most notably during the mine scene and a moment where Sartana's silhouette looms in the frame of a door with his shadow stretching across the floor. Something else of note was the color balance, previous releases gave Sartana this ugly orange skin tan and bluish green hue along the screen, but here the colors are bright and vibrant, allowing me to fully enjoy the fireworks being launched over Villa Mussolini and the ostentatious Lee Tse Tung Casino set. There are only a few instances of noticeable damage on the screen that I noticed, including what appeared to be chemical lines stretching across the screen for a few seconds, and some small hairs that are present along the upper and lower black bars of the screen, though these issues were very mild and hardly affected the viewing experience.
Audio quality, being 1.0 mono track's and scanned from an optical negative, is understandably not to modern day standards, and may turn off those who are accustomed to large 5.1 surround sound mixes. For those of us who come from a time where releases were washed out under a sea of hiss, static and pops, your ears will be pleasantly surprised here, as the audio quality features some nice frequency range with music and vocal dubbing being distinguishable and clear. However during the beginning of the film there's some instances of warbling on the English track, and some moments of choppy hissing in the background, switching between the Italian and English audio tracks it seems the Italian version has barely more frequency range and less age related issues, but otherwise are mostly the same. There's really nothing to complain about here though, it's of much higher quality than most releases I've been exposed to.
Light the Fuse... Sartana is Coming
The Booklet
Included in the box set along with the five Bluray discs is an impressive 56 page full colour booklet containing 2 extended essays along with full cast and credits for each of the films and a host of photographs and poster art.
The first of the essays, “If You Meet Sartana...” by Italian film author Roberto Curti, charts the story of the Sartana series and central protagonist from the origins of the name in Alberto Cardone’s $1000 on the Black to the development of the character by Parolini and Garko using elements from the Bond franchise as well as influences from the comic strip crime fighter magician Mandrake. Curti gives interesting background info on each production, their budgets, personnel changes and places them in the context of their timing in the genre and in so doing provides a useful understanding of how the series came about, why it was so popular and why it has remained so enduring over time for fans of Italian westerns.
The second essay "Westerns Italian Style: Once Upon a Timeline" is from British author Howard Hughes and gives a more general history of the genre in year by year chronological order; highlighting the major releases, how they influenced ensuing productions, the boom years, and their eventual decline in popularity. This is an essay as much for the newcomer as the long term fan but still offers some interesting insights. In particular it illustrates the ever-present comedic element in the history of Italian westerns from the earliest pre Leone days to the post Trinity parody boom and the inevitable spoof of spoofs. The essay ends with a brief look at the melancholy end to the genre in the form of the Twilight Spaghettis.
The booklet is rounded off by a full description of each of the restorations which make up the disc contents of the box set, detailing the source prints used, the level of resolution attained and the restoration house which produced the finished articles.
Overall this booklet is an impressive addition to the films and makes for a nice little read that will inform the novice but still please the longer term fan of this fabulous genre.
Conclusion: //// TO DO /////
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In defence of Tasmania
James Allan
It feels a bit odd that someone like me, a native-born Canadian who has lived in Queensland for the last 13 years and before that lived for 11 in New Zealand, should be the one to write in defence of Tasmania when those like Charles Wooley and Graham Richardson writing in The Australian accuse it of being a mendicant state that brazenly lives off big money transfers from taxpayers in the mainland States (South Australia excepted). The charge sheet against Tasmania runs from its being dysfunctional, through a third of the State being on government assistance, over to its having the country’s lowest wages, with plenty more besides.
Well, I happen to think that a good deal can be said in Tasmania’s defence. And let me make clear that I say that not as some egalitarian pseudo-socialist but as a right of centre, small government, Hobbesian sort of guy. Sure, much of the ills that Wooley painted about his home State are perfectly true. Indeed his defence of Tasmania having 12 Senators just like NSW and all the other States is also true. In fact, if anything he undersells the point. You see Australia’s Constitution is the world’s biggest copy of the US Constitution going. Just like the Yanks we cut a deal for each State to get the same representation in the Upper House as every other – and as out of whack as it is here to have your Senate vote in Tasmania be worth about 15 times what it’s worth in NSW, that is dwarfed in the US by the value of Wyoming’s voters’ Senate votes being worth about 76 times what Californians’ votes are worth. As Wooley says, that was the deal to get federation through, here as there.
Of course, what was not part of the original deal is our idiotic STV voting system used for the Senate, which is all parliament’s doing. That could be changed back any time to what we had for the first half-century of federation.
At any rate, and conceding all of the above, here are a few things that those who attack Tasmania’s mendicant status virtually never go on also to point out.
Number one, Tasmania has been done over big time by awful High Court of Australia decisions driven by the national government in Canberra. (And indeed pushed by inner-city Graham Richardson types.) For instance, what happens if Tasmania decides it wants to build a big hydroelectric dam to make for cheap energy, entice in businesses and provide jobs? (And remember, decisions like these are made all the time by those who happen to control their own destiny, the way New Zealand does.) I’ll tell you what in fact did happen. A Labor government in Canberra passed legislation to stop Tasmania’s dam and then took the matter to the High Court arguing that its green/environmental legislation trumped Tasmania’s. And where in our written constitution, you might ask, does the national government have anything like the power to stop Tasmania? Well, I’d say the feds didn’t have this power, that it most certainly does not lie with the centre. Pure and simple it’s a State matter.
But back in the 1980s the feds go to the High Court and argue they can do this and over-rule Tasmania – wait for it – under the External Affairs power. You see Australia had entered into a treaty with environmental implications. And so this should trump Tasmania. But this is a nonsense, would be laughed out of any federalist dispute in Canada’s or the US’s top court, and at least in theory potentially eradicates federalism in this country and opens up any matter at all to being a federal matter to be decided by Canberra not the States as long as a suitable treaty can be engineered to be part of.
But here my point is just that when Tasmania tries to make decisions for itself that would expand its economy it is blocked by a NSW and Victoria dominated national government and by seven unelected ex-lawyer top judges, none of whom hailed from Tasmania. (Note to readers: Indeed, it is true that to this day there has never once been a single High Court of Australia judge appointed from Tasmania. Not a one! In my native Canada that would be grounds for insurrection. Of course, you might believe that in 117 odd years there has never been a single Tasmanian qualified for top judicial office, but I think a quick look at the quality of some recent High Court cases would disabuse of that view mightily quickly.)
The same sort of thing goes for when Tasmanians want to process their timber. A mainland funded Greens campaign blocks this at near on every turn. If Tasmania had stayed out of federation, as the Kiwis did, and so had to earn its own living, I can tell you that things would be very different there. Without the big welfare payments coming in they would be doing what the Kiwis do, namely developing their comparative advantage resources and working for their daily bread. The fact they’re not is hardly their fault, or certainly not just their fault.
Take another High Court case from late last year. The government of Tasmania wants to strengthen the law against protesters on timber land. Bob Brown and his like-minded environmentalists throughout Australia take a case to the High Court attacking these anti-protester laws that were signalled before the last Tasmanian election. What does the High Court do? 5-2 it strikes the key parts of the law down on the basis of an ‘implied freedom of political communication’ that is nowhere mentioned anywhere in our visible written constitution.
In fact here’s a nifty sidenote for you. In the entirety of this hugely long High Court decision with near on 600 footnotes do you know how many times there is a mention of any actual provision in the Constitution itself? If your guess rhymes with the fifth Roman Emperor, the pyromaniac, you’re basically correct. Judges citing judges citing judges without a mention of anything in the actual written constitution.
Again, it’s not Tasmania’s fault it is near on impossible to be anything other than some sort of outdoors museum for upmarket tourists. After all, this has been driven by the mainland – voters, activists, politicians and judges from the mainland.
So I have a fair bit of sympathy for Tasmania. Fact is, if you want to slag off a State for being a mendicant because of decisions it’s freely made, well, there’s a much better case for pointing to South Australia.
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Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones Are Covering an Everly Brothers Album
Stream "Long Time Gone" from Green Day dude and jazz-pop gal's 'Foreverly' LP
Kyle McGovern // October 23, 2013
Billie Joe Armstrong is taking a breather from Green Day after last year’s ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! album trilogy to team with jazz-pop starlet Norah Jones. The two are releasing their very own version of the Everly Brothers’ 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, which they’re calling Foreverly (get it?). Due November 25 via Reprise Records, the upcoming LP was recorded in New York City over a span of nine days, spread across two studio sessions. Armstrong and Jones spoke with Stereogum about the project, explaining how the collaborative effort first came together.
Armstrong said he originally met Jones 10 years ago at the Grammys. “We sang together with Stevie Wonder and his band and a whole bunch of people. [Then] I got into the Everly Brothers’ record a couple years ago and I thought it was just beautiful. I was listening to it every morning for a while off and on. I thought it would be cool to remake the record because I thought it was sort of an obscure thing and more people should know about it, but I really wanted to do it with a woman singing because I thought it would take on a different meaning — maybe broaden the meaning a little bit.”
His wife suggested he contact Jones about doing a duets album and, clearly, she took the pop-punk vet up on the offer. “It was just fun being open and working with someone who was so up for trying out different things,” Jones said of working with the Green Day frontman. “These songs are pretty straightforward and it’s a lot of the same tempos but, you know, we’re doing our own thing … We wanted to play around with the arrangements a little and that was really fun.”
The original Songs Our Daddy Taught Us is actually a covers record itself, collecting 12 traditional country tunes that were already well known at the time, ranging from “songs about a kid dying from consumption and a guy killing his wife and throwing her in a river,” said Armstrong, to “a song about the loss of love and blah blah blah.” We’re particularly looking forward to hearing that last one.
Right now, the duo can’t make any promises about a forthcoming tour (“I don’t know if there’s going to be time,” Jones says), but they have shared the first track from Foreverly. Read the entire interview at Stereogum, stream Armstrong and Jones’ country-dwelling “Long Time Gone” below, and head over to iTunes to pre-order the entire album.
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The SUP Film Festival is a fundraising program for Paddle4Good, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit (taxid # 81-4321731).
© Copyright 2018 Paddle4Good. All rights reserved.
SUP Film Fest judges
We're grateful to our diverse team of judges who reviewed & voted on each submission in determining our 2019 official selections and festival winners.
Evelyn O'Doherty
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Owener, writer, & publisher of Standup Journal, Evelyn is also a SUP athlete, APP commentator, and stand up paddle (SUP), surf, and yoga instructor. She's a National Ambassador & Team Rider for top brands including: Kialoa Paddles, Starboard SUP, lulumon athletica, Indo Board Balance Trainer, Cobian Sandals, and Clif Bar.
Kristin has been avid member of the SUP community since 2010. A few weeks after getting her first first board, she entered a race and was immediately hooked on the community, health & competition that SUP offered. Besides having raced in 100’s of races all over the USA and beyond, Kristin is the founding Director of the Stand Up Paddle Industry Association, a trade group for all types of Stand Up Paddle businesses.
In addition to being a SUP Film Fest Judge, Seychelle is a world-record speed paddler, badass podium-finishing professional SUP athlete, strength coach, SUPyogi, & brand ambassador. She also holds a Master boat captain's license, is an adventurer & an optimist!
You've likely seen Chris in the water creating award-winning paddling films like Destination 3 Degrees, or XOXO, filming for the likes of Molokai2Oahu, QuickBlade Paddles, BARK Paddleboards, Surftech USA, & many others -- or on the water prone paddling in SoCal & beyond.
Sean is a well known photographer and videographer in the Stand Up Paddle industry. His worked has been published in several different media outlets. When Sean is not out taking photos he is helping run a kids SUP team in the Sacramento area. Sean Has helped influence the next generation of paddlers including his 9 year old daughter.
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SUP Film Fest judge - Kristin Thomas
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Kings International Business School to be shut down due to illegal practices
Apr 20, 2015, 3:30 pm SGT
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Feng Zengkun
Environment Correspondent
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SINGAPORE - The Council for Private Education will cancel the registration of the Kings International Business School from May 5.
The council said in a statement on Monday that its investigation had found that the private school had offered and awarded some students with diplomas in maritime studies without requiring class attendance or assessment.
The school will not be allowed to offer and conduct private education courses, with immediate effect.
In addition, the council has told Kings to arrange for its students to continue their course at another suitable school, or refund them their full course fees by May 5.
Based on available records, there were 10 students taking diploma courses at the Bukit Merah school as of February 11.
It is the first time that a private education institution here will have its registration cancelled for issuing diplomas without ensuring the students had received proper instruction and assessment since the council was set up in December 2009.
The council advised people to be cautious of, and not take up, offers for a certification without having to attend classes or take examinations.
It also asked people who knew of such offers, to report them to the council at 6592 2108 or CPE_CONTACT@cpe.gov.sg
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"For all you jaded NHL and NBA fans who complain that the regular season seems meaningless, welcome to the Eagle League, a new bargain-basement box lacrosse outfit in which the regular season is meaningless: All four franchises made the playoffs, and in the title game on Saturday at the Capital Centre near Washington, neither opponent had a winning record. In fact, the team that won the championship had tied for last in the standings.
Eagle League lacrosse differs from the field variety in that the goals are smaller, the sticks are shorter and each squad has 6 players instead of 10. It's played in a hockey rink on artificial turf and paced by a 45-second shot clock. But while field lacrosse is a comparatively genteel sport played by alleged gentlemen, pro box offers a brand of play that's often downright vicious."
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Thanks to Avengers, Battleship might bomb harder than John Carter
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The year's first big box office bomb has already dropped in Disney's John Carter, and prognosticators think the board-game-inspired alien invasion flick Battleship could be the next to crash and burn—mostly because of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Battleship, which opened today in the U.S., has already been playing for several weeks internationally, netting a respectable $220 million up to this point. But buzz shows the North American opening could be "soft," to put it nicely. Midnight showings for Battleship were bad—like, really bad—which may not bode well for its weekend haul.
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"It opened with only $420K midnights from 1,074 theaters: that's weaker than Warner Bros' underperforming Dark Shadows last weekend and even Disney's notorious 2012 bomb John Carter," Deadline's Nikki Finke wrote. "Universal cautions that 'both of those films have a bigger geek base' whereas the strength of Peter Berg's military vs. aliens actioner is 'that it's the anti-geek, anti-midnight movie of all time.'"
That basically means they hope it will appeal to Average Joe Moviegoer to make up the shortfall.
The biggest problem of all? Marvel's juggernaut The Avengers is still doing gangbusters in the U.S., and a lot of folks might prefer to watch it a second (or third, or fourth) time instead of taking a chance to check out Battleship. The Avengers has already made $1 billion worldwide, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
So, more than anything, Battleship could be the victim of a heaping dose of really bad timing. If so, you've got to feel bad for John Carter and Battleship star Taylor Kitsch—that dude just can't catch a break.
Sound off: Will you be checking out Battleship this weekend?
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County approves tweak to mobility fee study
The Leon County Commission approved a tweak to a potential mobility fee study later that would allow the county and c approved the evaluation of alternative transportation fees when the city of Tallahassee and the county evaluate a mobility fee study
County approves tweak to mobility fee study The Leon County Commission approved a tweak to a potential mobility fee study later that would allow the county and c approved the evaluation of alternative transportation fees when the city of Tallahassee and the county evaluate a mobility fee study Check out this story on tallahassee.com: http://on.tdo.com/1tpA1or
Sean Rossman, Democrat staff writer Published 7:53 p.m. ET June 14, 2016 | Updated 8:02 p.m. ET June 14, 2016
Leon County commissioners on Tuesday endorsed exploring other transportation fees, not just a mobility fee, when the city of Tallahassee and the county study how they'll charge developers for road impacts.
The city and county are considering a study on whether a mobility fee would be a better fit for the area, where developers have long complained of unfair fees under the existing concurrency model.
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Mobility fee study may include other options for Tallahassee and Leon
The tweak to the mobility fee study, which will be completed by a consultant, was suggested by the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. Prior to the mobility fee study, the Chamber wants to work with the city and county to "analyze the benefits and challenges of the existing system" compared to alternatives.
The commission's action also allows County Administrator Vince Long and City Manager Rick Fernandez to assemble a stakeholder group to share feedback during the study. Once the consultant's report and stakeholder input is finished, the commissions will provide guidance on developing of a new fee.
Long said he doesn't expect the change to delay the process or add costs. The consultant for the study, which won't start until at least Oct. 1, will be put out for bid.
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W-09 / Anatomy of Touch (Waiting list)
Sabine Parzer
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2019/20
Touch is our most essential experience as a human being. We need it like food, to know that we exist and to encounter others on intimate levels. Touch is the first of our senses to be developed, directly linked to our nervous system and the most effective mechanism for communication. The skin, our main sensory organ, carries an abundance of information about our state of being, our movements, touch, boundaries and personal needs. Touch can be deeply satisfying and deeply terrifying and we will look at the joy and the pain behind the issue. We will explore by focusing on solo dances, writing and Authentic Movement, working in duets with bodywork, applied anatomy and contact improvisa- tion as well as group explorations with improvisational scores and content based sharings. As dan- cers most of us have a natural relationship to touch, it being an innate component in the relationship between body and movement. Many people in the western world have lost touch with their sense of touch, and therefore it becomes a political and socioeconomic issue as well.
Sabine Parzer (AT) is head and founder of the Institute for Holistic Dance and Movement Pedagogy as well as the artistic director and founder of Contact Festival Austria. Her professional experience spans over 25 years of teaching, performing, choreographing and researching in the USA, Europe, Israel and Brazil. Sabine has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College Chicago in modern dance, and an education in Systemische und Integrative Bewegungslehre® (an extended Feldenkrais® Training). Her choreographies and improvisational scores have been performed since 1990 in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, amongst other cities. She teaches regularly at international dance festivals such as Impulstanz, Israeli Contact Festival, Moscow Contact Festival, Kontakt Budapest, Osterimprofestival Göttingen, Potsdamer Tanztage and at Tanzquartier Wien.
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In the Palace
© Daria Martin
Daria Martin born 1973
Film, 16 mm, projection, colour and sound
In the Palace is the first film in a trilogy followed by Birds 2001 (T12743) and Closeup Gallery 2003 (T12175). It constituted Daria Martin’s MFA thesis at University of California, Los Angeles and was shot with a 16mm camera and released in an edition of four. Tate’s copy is the fourth in the edition. The film is set in a scaled up twenty-five foot (7620 mm) high version of the sculpture The Palace at 4 A.M. 1932 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901–66), from which it takes its title. Giacometti’s sculpture is a fragile structure made of wood, glass, wire and string, and is open and accessible on all sides. When seen from the front it appears to be divided into three cages, inhabited by isolated forms and figures. Martin first saw Giacometti’s sculpture in her visits to the Museum of Modern Art in New York during her student years, and became attracted to the work’s ‘particularly evocative feeling, as if the figures within it have each been caught within their own dreams, simultaneously sleepwalking through the same house’ (quoted in Daria Martin, p.76). The artist measured the sculpture in MoMA’s archive for the correct proportions, and built the stage herself with the assistance of her art school friends. ‘The idea that sparked In the Palace’ Martin has explained, ‘was a desire to literally realise my own fantasy to inhabit this small sculpture, to blow it up to human dimensions and to populate it with performers’ (quoted in Daria Martin, p.76).
In the film, the camera ceaselessly circles around a group of four performers standing inside this cage-like space, a white painted wooden construction that resembles a scaffold structure. Spotlit against a darkened background, the performers hold sequences of Classical poses that resemble the forms of early twentieth century dance productions, in particular the choreographies of the Ballet Russes from the 1910s and 1920s, the dramatic atmosphere of Lamentation 1930 by American dancer Martha Graham (1894–1991), and most notably, the Slat Dance 1927 conceived by German artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943). Accompanied by a soundtrack of rainfall, thunder and birds singing, each shot shows the transformation of the performers by the introduction of a new set of handmade costumes constructed from diverse materials including cardboard, aluminium paper foil and elastic fabrics, and the addition of props, such as hoops or canes. These sequences of extended shots are edited together and seem to comprise a single relentless circular motion around the performers, only occasionally punctured when they break their poses before the end of each shot.
The trilogy of films beginning with In the Palace arose from the context of Martin’s graduate school training in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, when her peers were turning to mid-twentieth century modernism, examining issues concerned with material specificity and abstract form. ‘I was also attracted to the sense of freedom that this return to “modernism” seemed to promise,’ Martin recalls, ‘but I worried that what many artists were doing wilfully shut out the whole arena of the body and its vulnerability’ (quoted in Daria Martin, p.75). Intrigued by Schlemmer’s direction of the Bauhaus theatre programme from 1923 to 1929, Martin turned for inspiration to ‘some of the stumbling first moments of twentieth century modern culture, when the modernist project hadn’t yet worked out its parameters ... and was open to the contamination of humour, exaggeration, pathos, play, and awkwardness’ (quoted in Daria Martin, p.75). The trilogy pays homage to the Triadic Ballet 1927, Schlemmer’s most impressive attempt to articulate the dancers’ relationship to the space around them, that aimed to re-establish the broken links between the human figure and the industrial environment and to illustrate social harmony. Martin’s trilogy fantasises a relationship between early twentieth century painting, sculpture, fashion and stage and dance production, recalling the modernist idea of total art work or gesamtkunstwerk, while at the same time portraying moments of friction between all the disciplines involved. As the artist has observed, the films dwell ‘on the contradiction of depicting sculpture on film; the camera, circling round constructed sets and static actors, emphasised their materiality and substance, though, paradoxically, the medium’s transparency subtracted that heft’ (quoted in The Uncertain States of America, p.78).
Martin’s films combine sculptural form and painterly colour with the performing body, and are characterised by a lack of dialogue that leaves the body, articulated by pose, as the main means of expression. Martin has always emphasised the artifice, illusion and naturalness involved in the medium of film. Through the deliberate editing and the inclusion of takes filmed after the director’s command to ‘cut’, she draws the viewer’s attention to the handmade nature of the sets, costumes and props, and to the slippage between performance and interaction by the actors who drop their poses, showing a natural smile or looking directly at the camera. Martin has referred to these qualities as ‘low tech-magic’, an approach to creating visual effects that reveals the process of trickery and the intentional artifice that informs her imagined worlds. She has explained:
Film, like art, is artificial, its codes of language invented. In my films, the fakery of their making is foregrounded; shadows appear on backdrops; the actors drop their poses; camerawork is sometimes shaky; narrative is subjugated to a more musical structure. I want to seduce viewers into an imagined space but to allow them ways out of it, seams through which to breathe.
(Quoted in The Uncertain States of America, p.78.)
Daria Martin, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2005.
The Uncertain States of America, exhibition catalogue, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo 2005, p.78.
Rob Bowman, ‘Daria Martin’, Beck’s Futures, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2005, pp.65–7.
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Ryobi RY142300 Review
If you want a pressure washer that offers above average performance but without the gas, oil, and fumes, the RY142300 is the one
Price: $330 List
Pros: Very powerful for electric, large wheels, huge soap tank
Cons: Heavy, constantly runs
While the Ryobi couldn't quite keep up with the gas-powered versions in our review as far as performance goes, it wrecked shop when put side-by-side with the other electric models. Although it's noisy and hard to transport, the fact that the Ryobi brushless motor is chomping at the heels of 4 stroke engines earned it an Editors' Choice award. We definitely recommend this pressure washer to anyone who's tired of gas cans, pull cords, and oil leaks but still want a machine with some raw power.
$330 List $405 List
Check Price at Amazon $149 List
Very powerful for electric, large wheels, huge soap tank Incredible cleaning power, large all-terrain tires Tons of cleaning power, easy to roll across rough ground Great hose connections, portable, affordable Highly portable, inexpensive, quiet
Heavy, constantly runs Loud, heavy, bulky Difficult to maintain, expensive, loud Requires tools to set up, doesn’t work well with generic fittings Disappointing cord and hose storage, limited cleaning power
If you want a pressure washer that offers above average performance but without the gas, oil, and fumes, the RY142300 is the one This pressure washer is a beast of a machine that will tackle heavy-duty projects with ease This gas-powered pressure washer packs a punch but costs more and can’t match the top-tier models The SPX 3000 offers adequate performance at a price that is hard to beat The compact RY141612 is great for light work but can’t compare to the cleaning power of top models for heavy-duty applications
Ryobi RY142300 Simpson MSH3125... Generac 7132 SunJoe SPX3000 Ryobi RY141612
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25' 4" 25' 3" 25' 35' 3" 20' 5"
34' 6" N/A N/A 20' 3" 34' 1"
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3.75 ft 7 ft 6 ft 3.5 ft 3.6 ft
The RY142300 may not display the most amount of cleaning power that we've ever seen from a pressure washer, but as far as electric models go, it is top-notch. It is loud when compared to most electric washers, but it's quieter than all of the gas models that we've tested. The Ryobi isn't the easiest to transport in a vehicle due to its size and weight but its extra-large wheels and beefy handle help the user roll it around on the ground with ease.
The RY142300 doesn't have the largest footprint but takes quite a bit more space than the smallest models.
The first thing we did when we got our hands on these tools was go to town washing things. Cleaning is the primary task for these machines, so we chose to let this metric account for 45% of the total score. For this assessment, we observed how well each model can clean gutters, sidewalks, and fences to get a feel for its spraying power. We then conducted a set of measurements and experiments in order to attach a numeric value to each machine's cleaning power and performance. To gain a better qualitative feel for how well each unit worked we dumped a given amount of activated carbon on a clean carpet to see how quickly and efficiently the machines could remove it. The Ryobi RY142300 did well, especially considering that it is an electric model.
We measured PSI as well as gallons per minute of flow — the multiplication of these two figures produces "cleaning units" (CU). With a maximum measured PSI of 1975 and a flow of 1.1 GPM, the RY142300 produced 2172.5 CU. This puts it well above the average for the group, and at the top for electric versions.
To get a more visible representation of the pressure and volume of water each machine produced we built a wooden trough that we adjusted to an angle of 24 degrees to see how high each model could sustainably hold a standard bocce ball. The RY142300 was, again, one of the best for electric models — it was able to hold the ball 3.75 feet up the incline.
The RY142300 delivered one of the best performances out of any electric models at our testing trough.
To score portability we broke the metric down to three different parts — weight, maneuverability, and size. We know that being able to load or unload the machine into a vehicle is important to some people, but having a model that is simple to cart around a property is what matters more to others, so we paid close attention to both. We allotted 30% of the total score to this metric.
The Ryobi ended up right about in the middle of the pack for our portability tests. At 51 pounds, it's closer to the heavy end of the field. This makes it a bit of a pain to lift in and out of a truck or up and down stairs, especially on your own. For this reason, we deducted a few points from its score.
Despite its weight, once you get the RY142300 to your property or job site, it's very easy to move around thanks to its large wheels. It's very well balanced on its axle, and the large metal handlebar is at a comfortable height. This machine is easy to both push and pull, which gives it a great degree of maneuverability.
While this product is quite heavy, its large wheels and padded handle make it easy to roll around.
The Ryobi is a bit on the bulkier side — It's 31.5" x 21.5" x 17.5" without the wand. The handle disconnects fairly easily, but it's still going to take up a bit of real estate in your shop or garage.
This model has more than enough power to blast away leaves and dirt when cleaning your gutters.
The next 15% of our total score is dedicated to the perception of loudness and intensity of the sound produced by each pressure washer. To score this metric we used a sound meter to measure decibel levels right next to each machine while running at full power, and again at a distance of 25 feet. Because decibels levels do not describe pitch, we used a panel of judges to determine if there were any especially bothersome sounds emitted from any of the washers.
At 25 feet the RY142300 registered 65.1 decibels, which is totally bearable. Next to the machine was a different story — we measured 82.5 decibels, which isn't bad but isn't great either.
Regrettably, our panel of judges concluded that the sounds produced by the Ryobi were whiny and annoying.
The hoses and cords can get a little tangled when using this Ryobi washer if you aren't careful.
We committed the remaining 10% of the total score to how easy each pressure washer is to use. For this assessment, we used a combination of quantitative measurements and qualitative judgment. We looked at the hose connections and hose storage, the length of the high-pressure hose and the length of the cord, potential maintenance issues, stability, nozzle storage, and the location and volume of the soap tank.
The RY142300 scored well for this metric, but it did lose some points for a few small details here and there. The garden hose and high-pressure hose connections are right next to each other and there is not much room between them — there's barely enough room for your hand which makes it difficult to get the connections tight.
It can be a little cramped to attach the garden hose to this machine.
With a hose length of 25' 4" and a cord length of 34' 6" the Ryobi affords plenty of distance from the power source and a decent amount of play for the user to move about without having to move the machine too often. There's a velcro strap and a plastic hook with a bungee to store the hose and cord — the user can decide which one they'd rather use for which purpose. We found that it was nice to have the hose looped up with the velcro strap on the back of the body and then use the plastic hook for the cord.
The RY142300 has plenty of holders to keep your cords and hoses as organized as possible.
As far as maintenance goes, with an electric model, there shouldn't be any, which we consider to be a huge benefit to going electric. The RY143200 is very wide and stout — it would be difficult to pull or knock the machine over. This model has great nozzle storage just below the top of the handle. The included nozzles are a 15 degree, a turbo, and a special nozzle for soap, there is also an extra holder for any aftermarket nozzles you may want to buy.
The included nozzles fit in a handy storage area at the top of the RY142300.
This model comes with a massive 1-gallon soap tank with an oversized cap to help you fill it with ease, and not very often.
The integrated soap tank on the Ryobi RY142300 is very easy to refill.
While the Ryobi RY143200 offers great performance, especially considering that it's electric, it comes with a hefty price tag. There are models for much cheaper that can handle a lot of household jobs.
If you want a heavy-duty pressure washer, but don't want to add another fumy engine to your garage, the RY143200 is an awesome choice. This brushless electric motor blasted the rest of the electric field away and performs just short of gas-powered versions.
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End near for Fort Negley homeless
As soon as the weather warms, police plan to remove shelters.
End near for Fort Negley homeless As soon as the weather warms, police plan to remove shelters. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: http://tnne.ws/1DjDGYg
Jordan Buie, jbuie@tennessean.com Published 7:15 p.m. CT Dec. 11, 2014 | Updated 10:04 a.m. CT Dec. 12, 2014
Homeless camp
Homeless man Steve Reiter keeps warm on a cold night at the homeless camp in Nashville. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless camp leader Chris Scott makes sure life goes smoothly for the homeless people at the camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Kevin Hicks put up a small Christmas tree in his tent and started a fire at the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless advocate Lindsay Krinks talks with camp leader Chris Scott. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
James Powell, who says he got off heroin while he has been in this camp, grabs a snack and dries his clothes. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless man Steve Reiter and others keep warm on a cold night at the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Camp leader Chris Scott gets his tent ready in the evening at the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
The homeless camp has an outdoor shower and bathroom on the property. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Christine Gilmore, who is pregnant, plays with a dog in the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless people try to stay warm with blankets before the fire is built at a homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
An emotional Chris Scott, nicknamed "Captain" because he is the leader of the homeless camp, said, "I am already afraid for some of these young ones. I've been out here for 5 years. I know what to do but some of these people could freeze to death." John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless advocate Lindsay Krinks, center, talks with a group of people living in the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Jasmine Walls, right, Kevin Hicks and wife, Katelynn, keep warm with blankets during the day at a homeless camp in Nashville. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Frpm left, Omar Truss, Chris Scott, James Powell and others keep warm at a fire in the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Jimmy Reynolds and girlfriend Dana Jowers keep each other warm at the homeless camp. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Homeless advocate Lindsay Krinks talks with camp leader Chris Scott. Nashville police have said they will remove people from this site but said they will wait for warmer weather.(Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)
Bearded, with long hair flowing under his cap, Chris "Captain" Scott scampered through the "Eagles Nest camping community," encouraging new members in tents along the meandering trails of his "neighborhood" south of downtown, at wooded Fort Negley.
Tent walls nearly as thin as paper separated some of Scott's band of homeless from temperatures that dipped into the 20s last month. A few days earlier, the Metro Park Police had warned the campers they had 72 hours to leave.
"I'm already afraid for some of these young ones," Scott said as young homeless men and women huddled together in what was, as of 2 p.m. that day, a fire-less camp. "I've been out here for five years. I know what to do, but some of these people out here could freeze."
Scott considers himself a dreamer, who has found a way to rehabilitate homeless with nowhere else to go, but park officials say the dream is not happening on park property because the law prohibits it.
The end could be coming soon.
The eviction notice came about a month ago, but the homeless are still at Fort Negley. Park police have said that as soon as the first warmer temperatures come, the homeless have to go. The eviction could happen as soon as next week.
A trail from Fort Negley Boulevard meanders tightly into the woods through thick bushes and sometimes slick, muddy woodland. So far up the incline one first hears the muddle of voices along with the sound of the highway. Then, out of the thick brush, emerge tents lifted off the ground by wooden pallets.
This advanced camping, but shoddy housing, including a makeshift outhouse, is Scott's dream.
"Most important is that people move up, and they move out, that's the goal of this place," Scott said. "Twenty people have left here. They are getting jobs. They're getting out of here."
A highly unlikely dream, it is better than the streets, Scott says.
The campers have taken ownership, dividing the hillside into sections such as "Far Point Station," Eagle's Landing," "Emo Hollow" and "Omar's Heights," and they all have their stories.
Kevin Hicks puts up a small Christmas tree in his tent and starts a fire at the homeless camp at Fort Negley. (Photo: John Partipilo / File / The Tennessean)
But park police said that unless laws that demand the removal of the long-term campers change, the encampment will be removed.
Tommy Lynch, director of the Metro Parks and Recreation, said that he is aware that homelessness, especially during the holidays, "is a very sensitive situation with the weather and the time of year."
Lynch said homeless campers appealed to the park board to allow the camps at Fort Negley.
"We are cognizant of both our responsibility to run parks and our human, humane obligations to deal with people in our city who are homeless," he said Thursday. "From everything that govern us and park operations, what they were asking us to do is outside what we can do."
Lynch said Metro code is very clear in the rules and operating hours that the parks do not allow camping.
"We can't ignore Metro codes, and we can't ignore the complaints we get from people who use our parks," he said. "We are working with the homeless on an ongoing basis. Our obligations are almost contradictory."
Lynch said there have been complaints about homeless camping at Fort Negley, as well as several other Metro parks across the city.
James Powell, who says he got off heroin after moving to the Fort Negley camp, grabs a snack and dries his clothes in the “Eagles Nest camping community.” (Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)
Park Police Captain Chris Taylor, said
that the eviction notice that came for the second week of November came after someone in the community complained about the homeless being there.
"A lot of what we do is try to educate the public," he said. "Some people want them out of there right away. We try to give them a three-day warning and then more time. We won't evict them when it's this cold."
An open table
Open Table Nashville, a homeless outreach nonprofit, has represented the homeless of Fort Negley at park board meetings.
Samuel Lester, an Open Table volunteer, said
there are too many homeless in Nashville and not enough places to stay. Destroying the camp, he said, will not get rid of it, only push the campers further into poverty.
Before the city evicts homeless campers from across the city, Lester said, the city should first develop cheaper and more affordable housing for them to live in.
Homeless man Steve Reiter keeps warm on a cold night at the homeless camp on Wednesday Dec. 3, 2014, in Nashville in Tenn. (Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)
Scott said he still maintains his dream.
"They're just now starting to acknowledge our existence, but if they tear us down, where are we going to go? We're trying the best we can. We're doing the best we can."
Contact reporter Jordan Buie at 615-726-5970 or on Twitter @jordanbuie
Nashville homeless, by the numbers
•The number of homeless families and homeless individuals increased by 5 percent.
•Nineteen percent of homeless adults are employed, 18 percent are victims of domestic violence, 14 percent are severely mentally ill, 14 percent are veterans, 8 percent are physically disabled and 1 percent are HIV positive.
•Shelters had to increase the number of accommodations.
•City officials estimate that 25 percent of the demand for shelter went unmet over the past year.
Source: U.S. Conference of Mayor's Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness report released Thursday.
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Have you ever been to a restaurant where you said, ‘Do you want to kidnap me?’ when you got the food?
“Luca, it’s better not to eat the caterpillar.”
A year ago, some friends and I were eating in a burger restaurant.
The atmosphere was exuberant, no one had to work or do anything for the university.
We hadn’t seen each other for a long time.
When the burgers came, everyone bit their burgers heartily.Some had chosen a vegetarian option, some a classic variant.
Shortly before Luca wanted to bite into his burger, a friend said:
Everyone looked at Luca in amazement and then his burger.
A caterpillar snaked its side and enjoyed the lettuce leaf.
We all had to laugh and shouted at a waitress.
“Actually, we kill all the animals while washing the vegetables.”
Not necessarily the best formulation.Especially the vegetarian and vegan friends shook their heads even more vehemently.
Of course, it can happen that a caterpillar finds its way into the kitchen of a restaurant.This actually speaks for the freshness of the vegetables. And of course, animals are often killed either while cooking or long beforehand to make us humans a nice meal.
But the statement of the waiter was far from conducive and did not lift the mood.
The restaurant did not take the incident seriously, as if there were caterpillars on customers’ plates every day in the restaurant.
No one was afraid that this would cause harm.And that was the thing that surprised and disturbed me the most.
There were 5 Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat affinity young men at the table, all of them could have taken instant videos, linked the location and then kicked off a shitstorm.
One of the friends has now opened his own caf茅 and has a long history of good contacts in the gastronomy.
Another is a member of many vegan Facebook groups for which a headline such as:
“In Restaurant X, caterpillars are served for vegan burgers”
A found food would have been.
Each of us had the opportunity to reach hundreds of people instantly via social media.
The restaurant acted as if this possibility did not exist.The waiters were more cheeky than apologetic and it took a few minutes for it to be decided that Luca was getting a new burger.
When the waiters noticed that we were still talking about the caterpillar, Luca was allowed to choose a dessert at the expense of the house.
Neither Luca nor the rest of us enjoyed the food.
With each bite, everyone checked that a sibling of the caterpillar ate through the salad on his burger.
We all didn’t feel taken seriously and in a way messed up.
And we were all never to eat in this burger shop again.
Caterpillars on burgers don’t fit a vegetarian menu.
In my opinion, every restaurant visitor should train his or her staff for such situations.Because in this day and age, everyone can reach thousands of people at lightning speed.
The reputation of a restaurant is often the only reason why you go to a restaurant, besides the price.
Anything can happen, but the fact that the caterpillar situation was handled so badly and no one took us and our reach seriously, instead giving us the feeling of being bad customers, left the restaurant with a single thought:
We were messed up!
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Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Pricing Announced
2018 Jeep® Grand Cherokee Trackhawk [Photo: Jeep]
Jeep have announced pricing and options for the much-anticipated Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. The 707-horsepower, 645 lb-ft of torque SUV will have a base price of $85,900. From the factory, Jeep says this vehicle will be able to hit 60 MPH in a mere 3.5 seconds and do a 1/4 mile run in 11.6 seconds. Power is sent from the 6.2L Supercharged Hemi V8 to all four wheels through a re-tuned 8-speed automatic transmission. Jeep has also announced an official towing capacity of 7,200 lbs. Chrysler dealers are taking orders starting Thursday, August 10. Currently, FCA hasn’t formally released info. as to whether the Trackhawk will be a limited production vehicle like the Dodge Demon or whether they’ll build as many Trackhawks as dealers want.
Available options on the Trackhawk include dual-pane panoramic sunroof, three-season tires, lightweight 20 x 10-inch forged aluminum Low Gloss Black wheels, fully wrapped Leather Interior Package in Black or Black/Dark Ruby Red, 19-speaker Harman Kardon high-performance audio system, dual-screen rear-seat entertainment center with Blu-ray, trailer tow package and Dark Ruby Red seatbelts. Finally, Jeep have revealed the color options for 2018: Billet Silver, Granite Crystal, Diamond Black, Ivory Tri-coat, Bright White, Velvet Red, Rhino (exclusive), Redline 2 (exclusive) and True Blue. Pricing on these options, however, is still to be determined.
Hellcat Cross Country MPG
Roman recently drove TFL’s Dodge Challenger Hellcat a total of nearly 3,000 miles across the western U.S. Roman drove the car to San Fransisco from Denver, and then headed south to Los Angeles for a bit before he came back to Colorado. Over the course of his journey, Roman did a mix of city and highway driving. You would be smart to assume that a car with 707 horsepower would chug gas like a frat star chugs beer.
However, the MPG results from Roman’s trip were actually quite good! To be sure he got an accurate number, Roman reset the trip computer before he left Colorado. The car says that he was able to average 24.4 MPG on a 2,771 mile loop. Not too shabby for a car that can throw down 11 second quarter miles from the factory. Note: Roman did the trip in “Eco Mode” with the engine tuned to make 500 horsepower rather than the full 707. Still, we were blown away.
Ford Figo Spied Testing in Colorado
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Today, Mazda announced a plan called “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030”. This plan is described by Mazda as a “new long-term vision for technology development that looks ahead to the year 2030”. Part of this plan includes the announcement of a new engine coming out in 2019 called Skyactiv-X. The big news about Skyactiv-X is the fact that it will use compression ignition in a gasoline engine. Compression ignition, for those who don’t know, is the type of combustion used in a diesel engine. In this method, the fuel air method is ignited by the compression caused by the piston, rather than a traditional spark plug. What this means is that Mazda will have an engine that burns cleaner, makes more power, and runs more efficiently than any gasoline engine on the market. In short, it is the efficiency of a diesel with the power and cleanliness of a gasoline engine.
According to Mazda, this new engine will produce 10-30 percent more torque and run as efficiently or better than Mazda’s current diesel power plant.
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Methanol-based fuel cell recharger for portable devices coming in 2009
Albany (NY) – Mechanical Technology (MTI) has developed a portable methanol-based fuel cell that can be used for general purpose recharging of mobile devices. Providing up to 25 Watt-hours of power, a removable cartridge design allows continuous uninterrupted power that’s off-the-grid. MTI claims products will be shipping by the end of 2009.
The device is called the Mobion charger and is about the size of a small flashlight. It includes a USB interface to allow any compliant device to receive power through its USB cable for normal operations or recharging. According to MTI, average cell phones should be recharge 10 times per refillable cartridge.
The device has at its core the third generation of a proprietary “Mobion Chip” which operates the charger. In lab tests, the chip demonstrated “power of over 62 mW/cm2 while producing more than 1800 Watt Hours Per Kilogram (Wh/kg) of energy from the direct methanol fuel feed.” An LED indicates if the device is operating, and the fuel level in reserve.
Methanol is a naturally occurring byproduct found in nature. Called methyl alcohol or (more commonly) wood alcohol, it is a colorless liquid with the chemical formula CH3OH.
Methanol is sought after as a fuel cell source due to its low odor and high hydrogen content. Fuel cells operate by converting the fuel source into hydrogen, which is then passed along one side of a catalyzing plate where it interacts with oxygen on the other side. A chemical reaction occurs across the plate whereby electricity is produced.
Fuel cells are typically very expensive to manufacture, they break easily and have short lifespans due to internal microscopic fracturing which renders the devices useless. These traits have hindered their mass adoption on the market even though they’ve been around for decades.
3.4 portable devices
According to Peng Lim, CEO of MTI, “Our Mobion product strategy is in line with what consumers on-the-go need. On average, U.S. mobile professionals carry 3.4 portable electronic devices with them, and are now buying a universal charger to conveniently recharge all their device batteries.
“However, these conventional chargers still need to plug into an electrical outlet to recharge once the energy is used. Our Mobion charger allows consumers to charge their devices anytime, anywhere by eliminating the need to plug their devices or Mobion charger into a wall outlet and wait for a recharge, generating electric power on the go and providing true mobility,” according to Lim.
Mobion will go on sale by the end of 2009, according to MTI. No word was given on price or how its power generation abilities will connect with existing products outside of the USB connection.
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Bird flu: a weapon on Hawaii Five-O
Terry O'Quinn returns as Joe White
Bird flu: a weapon on Hawaii Five-O Terry O'Quinn returns as Joe White Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/1CFVQku
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TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: "Hawaii Five-0," 9 p.m., CBS. Now that the "sweeps" ratings month has started, reruns have virtually vanished. CBS is back to new episodes of its crime stories, including this one with heightened stakes. A patient, infected with bird flu, has been kidnapped by people who plan to turn the disease into a weapon. Also, Terry O'Quinn returns as Joe White.
TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE II: "12 Monkeys," 9 p.m., Syfy. Here are some more virus-epidemic worries, this time alongside the twists of time-travel. After going from 2043 to 2015, Cole learns that a key person died a year earlier. He must zoom to disease-ravaged Haiti in 2014, extract information ... and depart without confronting Dr. Railly and upsetting the time line. It's complicated and – with another plot unfolding in 2043 — compelling.
TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: "Shakespeare Uncovered" season-opener, 9 and 10 p.m., PBS. Few writers have attempted the dizzying range of William Shakespeare. Tonight's first hour eyes "A Midsummer Night's Dream," complete with fairies, potions, donkey heads and young love; the second has "King Lear," with blindness, madness, deceit and despair. Hugh Bonneville ("Downton Abbey") hosts the first hour; he started his career understudying Ralph Fiennes (whom he chats with here) in "Dream." Christopher Plummer hosts the second, meeting other Lears, including Ian McKellan. Filled with movie and TV clips, both hours are beautifully crafted.
Other choices include:
"Constantine," 8 p.m., NBC. Students find a way into an alternate universe — then wish they hadn't.
"Last Man Standing," 8 p.m., ABC. The subject is romantic break-ups. Eve takes hers hard and also argues with Kristin about how Kristin broke up with Kyle.
"Cristela," 8:31 p.m., ABC. Cristela's sister is nudging her about her overcrowded life and her weight. They go to a clinic for a blood-pressure test and find a surprise.
"Glee," 9 p.m., Fox. As the invitational nears, Rachel gets some help. Kitty, the Cheerios member, helps her prepare the ideal set list; Sam, the former football player, helps recruit current player Spencer. Meanwhile, Sue tries some matchmaking.
"Grimm," 9 p.m., NBC. Monroe and Rosalee have finally started their honeymoon, leaving problems behind them — including a haunted-house murder. Garcelle Beauvais plays a mystical woman.
"Blue Bloods," 10 p.m., CBS. After killing an intruder, a man learns his troubles continue: He shot a hit man who was apparently hired to kill him. Also, a young lawyer wants justice for his mother, whom Erin helped convict 12 years ago.
"Banshee," 10 p.m., Cinemax. This powerhouse hour starts with a crisis: Siobhan — the sheriff's deputy and lover — has learned that he's a robber, using a false identity; she's ready to report him or shoot him. It ends — after some fierce violence – with an even bigger crisis, sprawling over to next week.
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If you like Marco Bailey(on TM Radio for over 2.4 years), please, consider telling your friends.
Marco Bailey is somewhat considered an icon when it comes to techno and the dance music industry as a whole. It starts with a beat, and for Marco that as in the late 80’s. In 2014 he celebrated 25 years of Marco Bailey, a true achievement for someone who is an ambassador for the scene as well as an amazing DJ and producer.
He grew up in Belgium, and it all started out when he went to a small local club in his nearby city. At this point, he knew little and didn't have any musical heroes, but soon released that he would rather be behind the decks than on the dance floor.
His break came in 2000 with his first EP on Carl Cox’s Intec imprint with “Play It Back”. Over the next couple of years he worked on his own imprint, launching MB Elektronics, with the first release in 2002 with “Caprioska”. The releases came flowing over the next few years, which saw the release of his critically acclaimed “Rube Boy” album back in 2004, soon followed by “Dragon Man” LP on John Digweed’s Bedrock in 2011.
His most recent album was with 12 track “High Volume” released back in 2013 on MB Elektronics, dubbed by some techno aficionados as a masterpiece. It was at this time, he also released an up close and personal documentary “Marco Bailey”.
His Electronic Force radio show has been a huge success from the get-go, with almost 300 episodes to date, he has had every artist on board from Carl Cox, Alan Fitzpatrick, Umek, Joseph Capriati, Sam Paganini and Carlo Lio. It’s heard by millions of listeners in more than 50 countries.
Marco has been touring relentlessly throughout his career, he’s an artist who can say he has probably played at almost every club in the world, and been listed at the top of major festivals. He hasn't stopped, and this summer was no exception his MATERIA brand taking a new home at Vista Club, Ibiza. Every Sunday, he offered artists including Sam Paganini, Carlo Lio, Julian Jewell, and Paul Ritch for the closing on the 28th August all came out to party with Marco and the crowd.
You can expect to see the MATERIA brand reach far and wide this year, with parties in London, Vienna, Amsterdam and Tokyo planned this winter. Mid October will see the release of the MATERIA compilation mix, a collection of tracks selected personally by Marco, of both his own releases and all the artists which played at MATERIA in Ibiza this summer.
2017 continues to be another landmark year for Marco, with his first MATERIA residency considered a huge success, the brand looks to move worldwide, becoming a high-profile label and radio show as well and continuing to grow. He is a true pioneer of Techno, and has no plans to put on the brakes anytime soon.
What is MATERIA?
A party where the want, need & desire to feel the love and vibrations on the dance floor is understood. Where music lovers can digest the passion in the percussion, the energy of the crowd coming together, experience the sensation of letting go - elements that constitute the foundation for what some may never get to fully experience... a pure musical journey. Embark on a global movement, as Belgium's Marco Bailey sets the mood for one unforgettable evening. Welcome MATERIA - where techno is valued as a religion, the dance floor has no limits, the crowd is united and melted together by sound - where the rules require two things: listen and live.
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A Russian pilot who went missing after his jet was shot down by Turkey while participating in air raid over Syria was rescued in a 12-hour procedure involving Special Forces, Russia claims. The pilot is “alive and well” at a Russian air base in Syria, it states. His co-pilot was killed. Turkey claimed the jet had actually wandered off right into its airspace but Russian President Vladimir Putin says the plane was flying over Syrian region.
It is not clear exactly what has taken place to the physical body of the other pilot, who was eliminated by gunfire as he parachuted from his burning aircraft. Tensions have actually intensified between Russia and Turkey over the occurrence, but the US, the EU and the UN have all appealed for calmness. President Putin has described the downing of the plane as a “stab in the back”, and also cautioned of significant effects.
Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has actually protected the action, claiming “everybody should respect the right of Turkey to protect its boundaries”, yet he worried he did not intend to rise tensions further. After Turkey became the first Nato participant to shoot down a Russian fighter plane in over half a century, the tension currently is how will Moscow react?
President Putin called Turkey an “associate of terrorists” as well as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov terminated a planned travel to Ankara on Wednesday. However the UN as well as Nato have actually prompted both sides to de-escalate the situation. According to Ankara, the Russian Su-24 was advised 10 times concerning entering Turkish airspace, though Moscow says there was no such interaction.
Yet Turkey likewise claimed the violation lasted simply 17 secs. And offered indicators that a joined front was starting to form versus Islamic State, there will certainly be diplomatic pressure on both sides to concentrate rather on the typical danger from the militants. The difficult talk from Ankara and also Moscow will certainly no doubt proceed – yet whether there will certainly be severe revenge is less clear.
Russian defence authorities state the plane never ever entered Turkish region, which Turkish pilot made no effort to connect with the Russians prior to they had been terminated.
Turkey states it cautioned them repetitively prior to shooting the aircraft down. Turkey is a member of Nato. However, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg claimed “diplomacy and also de-escalation are essential to settle this circumstance”.
Breaking off army contacts with Turkey, Russia has revealed fighter jets will now companion its bombing planes throughout air campaign over Syria, and also Moscow is sending its most anti-aircraft missile system, the S-400.
Russia and also Turkey have discovered themselves on resisting sides in Syria’s conflict, with Russia assisting President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey is a strong doubter. The two pilots came under ground fire after they parachuted from their burning airplane, Russian defence official Lt-Gen Sergey Rudskoy said.
There had actually been various reports about the fate of the enduring airman, but Mr Shoygu said Russian and Syrian Special Forces had actually handled to save him from rebel forces. Previously, Lt-Gen Rudskoy also stated a rescue group using 2 Mi-8 choppers had come under fire and also were required to make an “unexpected emergency landing on middle ground”.
“One marine infantryman in this mission was killed,” he stated, adding that the rest of the group were safely left to Russia’s Humaymim air base near Latakia in Syria. Syrian rebels state they exploded the chopper quickly after it landed with an anti-tank rocket, releasing video footage of the attack. Russians have been recommended not to visit Turkey – a preferred tourist destination for.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursrday cautioned the leadership of the House of Representatives to desist from actions that violate the provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and could trigger a constitutional crisis in Edo State and the country at large.
The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiuan, said that the order by the House of Representatives asking the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to shut down the Edo State House of Assembly is completely unconstitutional, provocative and has no place in a democratic dispensation.
The PDP stated that no section of the 1999 Constitution confers the House of Representatives with the powers to issue orders to a state governor or direct the shutdown of a sitting State House of Assembly, adding that whether in language or action, such is only obtainable in a military system.
The party called on Nigerians to note that section 11 of the 1999 Constitution, upon which the House of Representatives anchored its decision, does not in any way empower the House of Representatives to shut down a functioning state legislature
“Our party cautions the federal legislature to note that such imperial stance against a legislative house; a symbol of the sovereignty of the people, is self-destruct and opens the fundamentals of our nation’s democracy to unwarranted attacks.
“This is particularly as there are already apprehensions across the country that this shutdown order is a prelude to an autocratic journey that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its dictatorial leadership intend to embark on to complete their round of total state capture.
“The PDP therefore counsels against any arm of government overreaching itself to take actions that undermine our constitution and encourage dictatorial tendencies against our institutions of democracy and the essentials of personal freedom and rights of citizens in our nation.
“Nevertheless, the PDP berates the APC leadership for its inability to manage its avarice and internal strife, which are playing out in Edo state to the extent that it is now dragging our nation into a constitutional crisis,” the party said.
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An Introduction to Punctuation
Humanities › English
by Richard Nordquist
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
Reported speech is the report of one speaker or writer on the words spoken, written, or thought by someone else. Also called reported discourse.
Traditionally, two broad categories of reported speech have been recognized: direct speech (in which the original speaker's words are quoted word for word) and indirect speech (in which the original speaker's thoughts are conveyed without using the speaker's exact words). However, a number of linguists have challenged this distinction, noting (among other things) that there's significant overlap between the two categories. Deborah Tannen, for instance, has argued that "[w] hat is commonly referred to as reported speech or direct quotation in conversation is constructed dialogue."
"Reported speech is not just a particular grammatical form or transformation, as some grammar books might suggest. We have to realize that reported speech represents, in fact, a kind of translation, a transposition that necessarily takes into account two different cognitive perspectives: the point of view of the person whose utterance is being reported, and that of a speaker who is actually reporting that utterance."
(Teresa Dobrzyńska, "Rendering Metaphor in Reported Speech," in Relative Points of View: Linguistic Representation of Culture, ed. by Magda Stroińska. Berghahn Books, 2001)
Tannen on the Creation of Dialogue
"I wish to question the conventional American literal conception of 'reported speech' and claim instead that uttering dialogue in conversation is as much a creative act as is the creation of dialogue in fiction and drama.
"The casting of thoughts and speech in dialogue creates particular scenes and characters--and . . . it is the particular that moves readers by establishing and building on a sense of identification between speaker or writer and hearer or reader. As teachers of creative writing exhort neophyte writers, the accurate representation of the particular communicates universality, whereas direct attempts to represent universality often communicate nothing." (Deborah Tannen, Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Goffman on Reported Speech
"[Erving] Goffman's work has proven foundational in the investigation of reported speech itself. While Goffman is not in his own work concerned with the analysis of actual instances of interaction (for a critique, see Schlegoff, 1988), it provides a framework for researchers concerned with investigating reported speech in its most basic environment of occurrence: ordinary conversation. . . .
"Goffman . . . proposed that reported speech is a natural upshot of a more general phenomenon in interaction: shifts of 'footing,' defined as 'the alignment of an individual to a particular utterance . . .' ([Forms of Talk,] 1981: 227). Goffman is concerned to break down the roles of speaker and hearer into their constituent parts. . . . [O]ur ability to use reported speech stems from the fact that we can adopt different roles within the 'production format,' and it is one of the many ways in which we constantly change footing as we interact . . .."(Rebecca Clift and Elizabeth Holt, Introduction. Reporting Talk: Reported Speech in Interaction. Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Reported Speech in Legal Contexts
"[R]eported speech occupies a prominent position in our use of language in the context of the law. Much of what is said in this context has to do with rendering people's sayings: we report the words that accompany other people's doings in order to put the latter in the correct perspective. As a consequence, much of our judiciary system, both in the theory and in the practice of law, turns around the ability to prove or disprove the correctness of a verbal account of a situation. The problem is how to summarize that account, from the initial police report to the final imposed sentence, in legally binding terms, so that it can go 'on the record,' that is to say, be reported in its definitive, forever immutable form as part of a 'case' in the books." (Jacob Mey, When Voices Clash: A Study in Literary Pragmatics. Walter de Gruyter, 1998)
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Features Fertility and Nutrients
Flax fertility: Optimal N and P management for flax
By Donna Fleury
Higher nitrogen and phosphorus rates help achieve optimal yields for flax.
A project is underway in Western Canada to re-evaluate fertility requirements for flax under multiple environments and conditions. Photos courtesy of Chris Holzapfel.
Optimizing fertility can be a bit more challenging for such crops as flax, as responses can be variable depending on environmental conditions, moisture and other factors. Although not as consistently responsive as a crop like canola, optimizing nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertility requirements are important for maximizing yields and net returns. Researchers in Western Canada designed a project to re-evaluate fertility requirements for flax under a broad range of Western Canadian environments and using modern varieties and seeding equipment.
An extensive three-year study launched in 2016 included field trials at six locations in Saskatchewan (Indian Head, Melfort, Redvers, Scott, Swift Current and Yorkton), one in Alberta (Vegreville) and one in Manitoba (Brandon). At each location, various fertilizer treatments were compared, including four N rates of 13, 50, 100 and 150 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare (kg N/ha) of urea (46-0-0) and four P rates of 0, 20, 40 and 60 kg P2O5/ha of monoammonium phosphate (11-52-0). All of the plots were direct-seeded into cereal stubble and all fertilizer was sidebanded during seeding, except at the Vegreville site, which included mid-row banded fertilizer.
“The project field work finished with the fall 2018 harvest, however the final data analysis is still underway,” explains Chris Holzapfel, research manager at Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation. “Growing conditions were variable across the three years of the project, with 2016 seeing above-average precipitation amounts and growing season temperatures at all sites. For 2017, conditions were much drier across most locations, although residual soil moisture from the previous year helped. Again in 2018, conditions were quite dry with some early season precipitation but little the rest of the growing season, resulting in variable responses and yields across the locations.”
Flax is sensitive to environmental conditions, but optimal N rates and P fertilizer can increase flax yields.
Preliminary results from the first two years of the study indicate that in most cases the optimum N rates are approximately 80 to 100 kg N/acre. Holzapfel notes these results generally support previous research work with flax, although this study did find some responses to slightly higher rates of N than previously documented. “We don’t always see a consistent response and some of the results can be fairly year specific. However, if growers are in an area where average flax yields of 30 to 40 bu/acre are achievable, then N rates of 80 to 100 lbs/acre of total N would in most cases be close to optimum yields. Across all sites, yields did not increase with N rates beyond 100 kg N/ha. Soil testing is recommended.”
Phosphorus responses were less frequent and generally smaller, however yields were approximately 10 per cent higher on average with P fertilization. There were no negative impacts on emergence detected at any of the locations at the higher rates of side-banded P.
Some sites were more responsive than others. The lack of response to P fertilization at many sites may be explained by contributions of residual inorganic P and organic P mineralization in addition to the strong arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi relationships that flax can develop to assist with P uptake. Applying P at rates as part of a longer-term fertility strategy for maintaining or building P in cropping systems so it is not limiting is recommended.
“Flax is known to be fairy sensitive to seed placed fertilizer, so you don’t want to compromise establishment with higher P rates and never seedplace N,” Holzapfel adds.
“Flax is also quite susceptible to injury from high rates of N, so ensuring the best seed/fertilizer separation possible when sidebanding is important. In the study, as sidebanded N rates increased, plant populations significantly declined. However, making sure that seeding rates are sufficiently high can offset the bit of a loss at higher N rates. Flax is also reasonably flexible and can compensate for some emergence loss. Seeding rates of 45 to 50 pounds per acre are typically recommended, with a minimum plant population threshold of 300 plants per square metre or 30 plants per square foot, which keeps the crop competitive with weeds, won’t limit yield or impact maturity.”
Although flax is sensitive to environmental conditions, and responses can be variable from year to year, the study shows that optimal N rates and P fertilizer can increase yields for flax. “Sidebanded N rates of approximately 80 to 100 kg N/acre will help get close to optimal yields,” Holzapfel says. “It is important to plot out the economics as well to determine if the increase in yield is worth the higher N costs. Also using sufficiently high seeding rates to offset any emergence losses due to higher N rates is important, along with ensuring the best seed and fertilizer separation possible during seeding.” The final study results will be available in the spring of 2019.
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let's makeup Mar. 16, 2018
L’Oréal to Buy Virtual-Reality App ModiFace
By Sarah Spellings@sarahjanespellings
L’Oréal. Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for L’Oreal Paris
Welcome to the future, where L’Oréal (the cosmetics company) is buying augmented-reality apps, so you can virtually experiment with makeup on your face. The company announced today that it will acquire ModiFace, a Canadian tech company specializing in augmented reality in the beauty industry.
The chief digital officer of L’Oréal said the acquisition would “support the reinvention of the beauty experience around innovative services to help our customers discover, try and chose products and brands.” ModiFace has developed technology that allows customers to “try on” makeup virtually. In ten years, it has created over 30 patents and is used by many major beauty brands.
ModiFace will be folded into L’Oréal’s Digital Services Factory and will work closely with its Advanced Research. The future is here, and it allows you to safely test out bangs.
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Boeing Will Halt 737 Max Production in January: Report
MOUNTING PRESSURE
Matt McKnight/Reuters
Boeing decided on Monday to temporarily halt production of its 737 MAX jetliner in January amid intense scrutiny over the corporation’s practices following two fatal crashes of the plane, The Wall Street Journal reports. Boeing grounded 800 jets globally after two MAX planes crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia in a five-month period, which left a total of 346 people dead. The corporation implemented production cuts to the model in April by 20 percent and continued to manufacture roughly 40 planes a month at its plant near Seattle, Wash. Airlines and government officials told the Journal that they don’t expect approval for the MAX to return to service until at least February. The move by the country’s largest manufacturing exporter is likely to inflate Boeing’s costs, spur layoffs, and impact the U.S. economy.
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Kalaheo Dental Group has a new dentist
By The Garden Island | Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 12:05 a.m.
Dr. Robert Stebbins, DDS.
KALAHEO — Kalaheo Dental Group recently welcomed its new dentist, Dr. Robert Stebbins, DDS.
“I enjoy creating positive dental experiences for my patients and I strive to establish trust and respect with each patient in a calm, comfortable environment. I’m excited to be part of the Kalaheo Dental ‘ohana to serve our patients,” Stebbins said.
A University of the Pacific School of Dentistry graduate, Stebbins owned a private dental practice for 11 years in Oregon.
Prior to that, he practiced as an orthopedic surgery physician assistant in San Francisco and spent two years in Bulgaria as a missionary.
Dr. Stebbins has served as the president of the Southern Oregon Dental Society and on the Kauai County Dental Society.
He has lived on Kauai for the past two years and loves spending time with his wife and four sons at the beach.
Kalaheo Dental Group offers family dental care, tooth replacement, and cosmetic dentistry in a comfortable atmosphere. It is in the Rainbow Plaza along Kaumualii Highway
Each year, Kalaheo Dental Group hosts an Art Contest and Halloween Buy Back Event for Kauai keiki, and provides dental health presentations to schools and community groups.
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First Nations divided by growth in illegal marijuana sellers
By Dale Carruthers
ONEIDA — Recreational cannabis is being legalized in just two week, but illegal pot shops keep popping up in Ontario Indigenous communities, including one shop near London linked to a former band chief.
The explosion of illegal marijuana dispensaries is a divisive issue in aboriginal communities. Operators say the outlets, whose customers drive in from nearby cities and towns, bring needed jobs to their communities.
But critics, including the chief of the same Southwestern Ontario community where the former chief works at a pot shop, say the businesses shouldn’t be allowed to operate unregulated.
And with Ontario warning any illegal operators won’t get a crack at becoming legal retailers, the growth in outlets defying the law still looms large even with recreational marijuana use becoming legal in Canada on Oct. 17.
A 30-minute drive southwest of London, four dispensaries have set up shop in recent months on the Oneida of the Thames First Nation, a small community of little more than 2,100 people.
Police have fought similar illegal operators in cities across Ontario in whack-a-mole style raids, shutting them down only to see them return, but the crackdowns has trailed off as legal cannabis use nears.
In aboriginal communities, however, authorities have largely turned a blind eye to the unsanctioned shops.
Oneida Chief Jessica Hill denounces the outlets for opening without consulting band officials and promoting the use of an illegal drug.
At least four cannabis dispensaries, including one with a drive-through service, have opened on the Oneida of the Thames First Nations in the past year. DALE CARRUTHERS / THE LONDON FREE PRESS
“There is no accountability to the community at all for what they’re doing, and the community is against drugs,” Hill said. “Also, it brings in all types of people that have never come here before. Now (they) come here looking for drugs.”
Located beside a Canada Post office, Oneida 420, the newest dispensary, is staffed by former three-term Oneida band chief Randall Phillips.
Phillips, whose latest two-year term ended in June, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Grand Chief Joel Abram of the London-based Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI), an umbrella group that fights for member bands’ treaty rights, compares the dispensary-opening frenzy to smoke shacks selling black market cigarettes.
Since the 1990s, Ontario’s more than 130 First Nations communities have been havens for selling contraband tobacco in the province, where more than one-third of all smokes are now bought illegally.
“People look at it as a source of income,” said Abram, whose organization represents seven First Nations, including Oneida and two others in Southwestern Ontario.
But support for the marijuana retailers isn’t consistent, he added.
“It varies from community to community. Some communities don’t want it at all, some are interested in the economic aspect of it,” Abram said.
“But everybody, we’re all concerned about the mental health aspect, especially when it comes to youth, and that’s where we’re pressing for resources.”
Cracking down on dispensaries is a complicated issue, Abram said, noting Indigenous police are underfunded.
The Ontario Provincial Police, who work with Indigenous police, say they’ll take a consistent enforcement approach to manage the issues relating to illegal cannabis storefronts.
“Once the new provincial laws and regulations are finalized and reviewed, the OPP will adjust our enforcement strategies accordingly,” Staff Sgt. Carolle Dionne said in an email.
The uptick of dispensaries isn’t unique to Oneida. On the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, east of Belleville, more than 30 marijuana retailers operate in defiance of the law.
Tyendinaga dispensary owner Jamie Kunkel, whose Smoke Signals franchise now operates in three provinces, says the businesses have been a boon for the community.
“At this point, it’s beneficial to every part of the territory now,” said Kunkel, adding that pot shop owners use proceeds to sponsor sports teams, fund local improvement projects and make community donations.
Kunkel organized the Indigenous Cannabis Cup, an event that drew 60 vendors and thousands of attendees to Tyendinaga over the Victoria Day long weekend. The event’s success – and the spread of dispensaries – shows the Indigenous appetite to get involved in Canada’s cannabis industry, Kunkel said.
“At the end of the day, we have a right to an economy and to operate within the economy,” he said.
But under Ontario law, recreational marijuana will be legally sold to residents over the age of 19 only through a government-run delivery service when the drug is legalized.
The province hasn’t started the application process for bricks-and-mortar dispensaries, which won’t open until April 1, 2019.
Any illegal operators still selling pot after Oct. 17 won’t be eligible to apply for a retail licence under new Ontario legislation, its Tory government says.
Some Indigenous pot shop operators, like Kunkel, say they’re not interested in applying to be an approved retailer.
“Right now for us, I don’t see it being an option,” he said, adding he doesn’t anticipate police cracking down on Indigenous-run dispensaries after legalization.
“We’re here. We’re not going anywhere.”
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Ramadass faults GGI methodology
Puducherry, January 11, 2020 03:42 IST
An aerial view of Mettupalayam in Puducherry. | Photo Credit: T_Singaravelou
‘Report has not focused on major components of what constitutes governance’
M. Ramadass, former MP, has flagged “glaring shortcomings, methodological flaws and serious calculation errors” in the recently released Good Governance Index (GGI) report, which incidentally had placed Puducherry at the top among Union Territories.
In a memorandum to Jitendra Singh, Union Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, he said the net result of these failings “tended to diminish the utility of the report, mar its credibility and also mislead the public” and sought withdrawal of the report from public domain.
According to Mr. Ramadass, the GGI is chiefly constructed as the composite score (ranging from 2.97 for Lakshadweep to 5.62 for Tamil Nadu) aggregated from the normative values of ten broad sectors and 50 related indicators. Strangely enough, most of these indicators do not exactly and directly fall in the realm of Good Governance thereby making the official GGI less relevant and inappropriate, he pointed out.
Good Governance encompasses sound citizen-centric public administration characterised by responsiveness, accountability, rule of law, transparency, equity and inclusiveness, an efficient and effective public sector, people’s participation and decentralised power sharing , democratisation and democracy, political empowerment of people, human rights, equity, sustainability and values of fairness. In fact, governance of a State may be good or bad depending on the presence or absence of these attributes.
Unfortunately, the GGI has not used these relevant indicators for measuring Good Governance of States. In other words, the report has not focussed on major components of what constitutes governance — what Government does and how it does and how it safeguards the interests of stakeholders.
Contrarily, development performance in sectors such as agriculture, industry, human resource, health, infrastructure, social welfare, environment etc, have been used which have partial and indirect bearing on governance.
These sectors and indicators identified from them may be directly relevant in the construction of Development Index for the State but not good governance index, was his argument.
While it is true that good governance may result in good development of the State, good governance is not fully and always determined by achievements in the development spectrum alone, as sometimes, good development occurs even without proper governance at the State level.
Lack of proper weightage to citizen-centric governance as one of the three qualitative variables, the other two being economic governance and judicial governance, has distorted the results, he said.
He felt it was inappropriate that all States and Union Territories (36) have been assessed for governance by grouping them into three categories — Big States (18), North East and Hill States (11) and Union Territories (7). Structurally, all seven UTs do not have same status and instruments of governance.
The Union Territory of Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi have elected Legislature while the remaining UTs are without legislature and are almost directly governed by the Central Government through the Lt. Governors.
Governance in UTs with legislature will have to be citizen-centric and responsive to the needs of the people as they are elected by the people with a committed pre poll manifesto while UTs without legislature have no such compulsion.
Alternatively, since Puducherry and Delhi have matured into States and exhibit all the characteristics of a State, they should have been grouped with States — North East and Hill States just as Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) or with other States just as Goa. When the Union Territory of J&K without legislature is included in the category of North East and Hill States, why not Puducherry and Delhi?
“The best course of action would have been clubbing of 36 States and UTs together without categorising them as is done by the present GGI study itself for the purpose of applying Dimensionless Index Method,” he said.
Equal weightage
Mr. Ramadass pointed out that sectors included for the analysis are incorrectly assigned equal weightage of 1 implying that all 9 sectors are of equal importance. Agriculture, for instance, is not of same significance to Delhi and Tamil Nadu.
The fact is that all nine indicators are of varying importance to all States and UTs and assigning equal weightage to the sectors would only distort the overall picture of ranking.
All UTs except Chandigarh suffer from inaccuracies in final score. In sum, among the 36 States and UTs considered for GGI, composite scores calculated by the government are inaccurate in the case of 35 States and UTs and also disrupt the ranking scale.
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Sir George Hubert Wilkins: Over the Top of the World
from 'The Aviators' by William Joy (Shakespeare Head Press, 1965)
GEORGE HUBERT WILKINS of Adelaide notched another "first" for Australia when, in 1928, with American Ben Eielson as pilot, he flew over the top of the world from Point Barrow in Alaska to Spitzbergen in the Norwegian isles north of Finland. Born in 1888 at Mount Bryan East, South Australia, and educated in engineering at the Adelaide School of Mines, Wilkins led a life of constant adventure. As far back as 1916, when he ended three years as photographer and second-in-command of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition to join the Australian Flying Corps, he had dreamt of exploring the icy Arctic wilderness in aeroplanes, chancy and unreliable though they then were. With Stefansson, Wilkins learned to live like an Eskimo. He tramped more than 5000 miles with the expedition and became as much at home on ice as an Arctic seal.
From the Flying Corps Wilkins was seconded as official photographer to the Military History Department, in which capacity he was wounded several times taking photographs in battle. Having won the M.C. and bar, he flew with Val Rendle, Reg Williams and Gar Potts in the first England-Australia race in 1919, navigating the Blackburn Kangaroo aircraft which crashed in Crete. In 1920, Wilkins was second-in-command of a not-too successful British Imperial Expedition in which he helped survey part of the Antarctic coastline, then joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic Expedition as naturalist and photographer. Switching back to the sun, he roamed tropical Australia for two adventurous years collecting natural history specimens for the British Museum.
Now (1926) aged 38, he returned again to his earlier dreams of exploring the Arctic from the air and of being the first to fly from America to Europe by the polar route. With his own savings and financial help from Australian friends, Wilkins sailed for America to seek backing there for his polar plans. The City of Detroit voted him a substantial sum. With this and 25,000 dollars from a North American newspaper Alliance for exclusive news coverage of the flight, Wilkins had enough to buy two Fokker aircraft-one tri-motor, the other single-engined. His old Arctic commander, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, put him in contact with Dakota-born 28-year-old Carl Ben Eielson, a crack young "bush pilot", thus forming a partnership that ranks high in Arctic exploration and aviation history.
At the beginning, it looked as though their plans were hoodooed. Both aircraft crashed during tests. Before they could be repaired the Arctic fogs set in and forced them to postpone the big attempt for a year. To make things worse, their press agent, Palmer Hutchinson, walked into a spinning propeller and was killed, and Wilkins himself broke an arm man-handling an aircraft out of a snowdrift. All they could hope to do that first year was to ferry stores and fuel to their base at Point Barrow, by dog team, snow tractors and by air, in which they flew over rugged snow-bound mountains, never before seen by man.
In March 1927, Wilkins and Eielson, with two new planes were ready for another aerial attack on the Arctic. Admiral Richard Byrd, the American, had forestalled them to some extent by flying from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back in 1926, but the whole of the Arctic north of Alaska was still unexplored, and no one as yet had flown from one Continent to another over the North Pole. Most experts declared it just could not be done.
Wilkins decided to start his 1927 programme with a 600-mile flight towards the pole to see if there were any substantial stretches of land or islands still waiting to be found in the vast wastes of ice and snow. They took off from Point Barrow with a blizzard on their tail and were going well 550 miles out when the engine faltered. Rough ice lay beneath them. There was nothing much they could do. They just had to risk a landing. Eielson eased the plane down. The ice held. She skidded along on her skis and came gently to rest in the first landing ever made on Arctic ice.
While Eielson fixed the engine, Wilkins cut a hole in the ice and made a sounding with a listening device and dynamite. He found the ocean mote than three miles deep at that point. They took off and again were forced down. They worked on the engine for some hours in sub-zero temperatures in which four fingers on Eielson's left hand froze. Black clouds blocked the light when at last they were airborne again. Now they were battling, a gale-force headwind without a chance of getting back to base before their fuel ran out. They were not surprised therefore when the engine cut out. Eielson felt his way down to a landing. The wing tip struck an obstruction and spun the plane into a snowdrift.
Neither Wilkins nor Eielson was hurt. For five days they sat out the blizzard in the cabin of their plane, resting snugly in their sleeping bags and living comfortably on their emergency rations of pemmican, biscuits, chocolate, nuts, raisins and malted milk tablets. Then, with a pocket compass and two watches, they set out to walk nearly 100 miles across the ice, back to civilisation. Carrying rifles and with 30 lb. of food bundled with their instruments into sleeping bags, they trudged, stumbled and, in some places, crawled southwards over the ice. Eielson, in constant pain from frostbite, plodded doggedly along with Wilkins. Tragedy was near when the ice gave way under Wilkins while he was skirting a lead of open water. He managed to scramble, soaked to the skin, on to firm ice. Only his knowledge of Arctic lore prevented him from freezing to death. After 13 days of privations, the two men reached a trader's house on Beechey Point, a few miles from Port Barrow. Eielson was taken at once to hospital where surgeons amputated a finger from his frost-bitten hand.
Again Wilkins was forced to postpone his main objective, a flight over the Pole from Alaska to Northern Europe. During the winter he went to San Francisco where, as previously recorded, he met Charles Kingsford Smith and C. T. P. Ulm and sold them the sturdy plane he had built from the Fokkers he smashed up in the Arctic. In San Francisco, Wilkins saw and fell in love with a trim little Lockheed Vega monoplane, whose sleek, bullet-like body offered a minimum of wind resistance and was just the plane for Arctic exploration. The money he got from Smithy and Ulm helped him to buy a Vega. In April 1928, he and pilot Ben Eielson were poised at Point Barrow for the great adventure.
As usual, nothing went smoothly. They had to marshal scores of Eskimos to clear a runway through the snow. Twice, the Vega, greatly overloaded, refused to rise. They had to wait for a head wind before, on April 15, the Vega rose smoothly from the snowy runway and headed for Spitzbergen, 2500 miles away. Weather was mixed. After seven hundred miles they ran into black clouds and were lucky to be able to check their position by glimpses of Greenland mountains. Next they encountered a blizzard which cut visibility to 100 yards. Nearing the end of their journey, they narrowly escaped crashing into the sea. Fuel, now, was dangerously low. Wilkins guided Eielson down to a small strip of ice, confident they had succeeded in their mission and were somewhere in the Spitzbergen group of islands. The 2500-mile flight across the top of the world had taken 20 hours, 20 minutes.
For five days, however, they were stormbound in the cabin of the Vega. Then they took off and, a few minutes later, saw the masts of the wireless station at Green Harbour, where the Norwegian operator and his crew found it difficult to believe they had crossed the Arctic from Alaska.
Honours poured on Hubert Wilkins. King George V knighted him. Scientific bodies and ordinary folk all over the world hailed him as a great explorer and aviator. The newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst advanced 25,000 dollars towards the cost of an aerial exploration of the Antarctic. With Ben Eielson as first pilot and another famous airman, Joe Crosson, as second, Wilkins arrived with two Vegas at Deception Island and, in November 1928, made the first flight over Antarctic snows. In December he was off again flying 600 miles out over the high plateau of Graham Land where the foot of man had never trod. On a spot left blank on the map he plotted plateaus, bays, channels and chains of islands none knew existed, returning safely through a fierce storm to base at Deception Island. Not for nothing were Wilkins and Eielson known as "The men who always came back".
Romance came to Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1929 when he married the beautiful Australian actress Suzanne Bennett in America.
Wilkins now took two years off from flying to embark on another adventurous project, the possibility of exploring beneath the Arctic ice cap in a submarine. For the token price of one dollar, the United States Navy let him- have an out-of-date submarine, about to be scrapped. Lady Wilkins christened it Nautilus. Wilkins fitted the submarine with runners and shock absorbers on top of the hull and with a hollow drill in the conning tower to enable them to cut through the ice for air. In Nautilus, Wilkins hoped to sail from Spitzbergen under the North Pole to Alaska in 42 days.
The Nautilus project was dogged by misfortune. She made one or two trial dives under the ice to prove it could be done before the experiment was abandoned. Wilkins' faith in submarine voyages under ice was vindicated when American nuclear-powered submarines made such trips after World War II.
For the next six years Sir Hubert Wilkins was manager of the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition. In 1937 he was called back to active flying to search for Russian airman Sigismund Levanevsky, the Soviet Lindbergh, who vanished with five comrades on a flight over the North Pole. Before the search was called off, Wilkins had flown 44,000 miles and searched 170,000 square miles, 150,000 of which had never been surveyed before. Altogether Hubert Wilkins made more than 30 polar expeditions. He died at Framingham, Mass., in 1958. His ashes were taken aboard the American nuclear-submarine Skate which dived under the Arctic floes and surfaced through the ice to scatter them in the vicinity of the North Pole.
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The Top Four Bucket List Destinations for 2019
Sammy Gibson
The new year always brings change and adventure. At Travelzoo, this comes with an updated list of places we just have to see before the next year is up. The hottest destinations fight for the top spot and in 2019 the must-see list is the best we've come across for a while. From cruising Cuba's cobblestone streets in a vintage Chevrolet and luxury resorts on idyllic Fijian islands to sunrise hikes in the African desert and Japan's fusion of the ancient and modern, here is 2019's definitive holiday bucket list.
Africa: Cradle of Humanity and Home to the Big Five
Far from the usual safari holiday, Namibia is a kingdom of its own. Home to some of the most captivating landscapes on earth; sunburnt-orange sand dunes, vast canyons, and the shipwreck-lined Skeleton Coast as well as a diverse culture.
Within the one country, there are 12 ethnic groups and over 30 languages spoken. Among the melting pot of tribes who represent humankind's past - and also its present - is the Himba Tribe. Semi-nomadic and true to their traditions, Himba people roam the remote Northwest corner of Namibia where women smear their skin in a flawless mixture of ochre, butter, and ash. Visits to the Himba tribe and some of the other indigenous groups in the area provide a rare opportunity to interact with other cultures. Namibia is also a great place to see wildlife and in Etosha National Park you can spot the Big Five while also visiting an other-worldly salt pan that can be seen from space.
Landlocked and rich in vibrant jade jungle, Botswana is a stark contrast to its vast desert neighbour. Home to the largest population of elephants in the world and the mighty Okavango Delta, the country is a haven for wildlife viewing. Board a boat on the Chobe River and watch a herd of elephants playfully splash around, see hippos semi-submerged among lily pads and watch crocodiles lazily laying on the river’s edge. We recommend staying inside the Chobe National Park - there are a number of resorts to choose from - where you can head down to a watering hole lit with a floodlight at night and watch the dynamics of the animal kingdom unfold.
In partnership with Gate 1 Travel who also specialise in African trips to South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Morocco.
Cuba: Visit Now Before the Rest of the World Does
There is much more to Cuba than its dreamy, ivory-white sandy beaches, forest-covered mountains, and sun-kissed Caribbean shores. This is the land of salsa, vintage 1950’s Chevrolets, pastel-coloured architecture and a history of a complicated affair with the USA.
Untouched by travellers for decades, Cuba’s tourism has boomed in the past couple of years as word of this incredible destination has spread. The country embraces tourists; you can now dive deep into the local culture and the vibrant pulse of the people with authentic, locally-run experiences such as dining with a Cuban family in their living room, learning the rumba or salsa in home-based studios and driving around Old Havana in a vintage Chevrolet with its owner.
Old Havana is where you’ll find cigar-smoking locals asking for a street-side dance in narrow alleyways, Che Guevara posters plastered on weathered walls and UNESCO World Heritage sites. Head to a paladares for a local meal of ropa vieja and cerviche or meander the colourful streets that resemble a backdrop of a Cuban film.
Trinidad is a colonial treasure on the edge of sparkling seas. It is Cuba's best-preserved city with extravagant palaces and home to cobblestone streets and horse-and-carriage transport. Nearby you'll find the picture-perfect beach Playa Ancon. Cycle or taxi there for a refreshing rum cocktail. Further north, Cienfuegos is a colonial-era town with gold leaf mosaics and ceiling frescoes and beyond the cities, the road signs become less frequent and the sense of adventure sets in. Visit the emerald hills of Valle de los Ingenios, tobacco plantations, the idyllic Bay of Pigs with a dark history and the culturally-rich village of Viñales.
In partnership with Cuban Adventures Cuba Tours, an Australian travel company who specialises in small-group, eco-friendly tours of Cuba.
Fiji: Five-Star Luxury & Authentic Fijian Island Vibes
With over 300 Fijian islands to choose from, it is hard to know which one deserves your bucket list tick of approval. The entire island nation tops plenty of travel lists but there is one boutique island that deserves bucket list attention. Located in the Mamanuca Group of islands, Tokoriki Island is a jewel in the Fijian crown. The Sheraton Resort & Spa, Tokoriki Island is our top pick as the luxurious beachfront oasis encompasses indulgence and traditional Fijian culture. Including all the five-star trimmings and an adults-only area, the resort allows you to experience kava tasting ceremonies, and dance and music performances at the Cultural Centre.
Choose to stay in one of the 101 guestrooms and suites, which have a fusion of traditional and vogue-like Fijian furnishings - some have private balconies overlooking the sparkling seas of the Pacific Ocean. Slip into laid-back, island-vibes and spend your days snorkelling among clownfish, sipping cocktails in the infinity pool overlooking emerald isles and cobalt oceans or indulging in luxury spa treatments. If you're after some adventure, the island has its own reef with plenty of diving and fishing spots, while on land you can break a sweat at sunrise and go hiking. Treat yourself and indulge in a Fijian holiday that is synonymous with happy locals, escapism and luxury.
In partnership with My Fiji -- the Fijian specialists who have spent years researching, exploring and falling in love with the beautiful South Pacific island nation.
Japan: An Unforgettable Experience at any Time of Year
Japan is a visual phenomenon at any time of year. Spring brings the ever-changing colours of pink-hued cherry blossoms, autumn blankets cities and parks in vibrant crimson and orange leaves, the north is cloaked in ghost-white snow during winter and summer brings sun-soaked forests; it's always a good time to visit Japan.
Along with the seasonal contrasts within the country, there are also vast differences in futuristic, neon-lit Tokyo which is well-known for its ultramodern skyscrapers blended in among historic temples. Harajuku is an area of town which doubles as an outdoor catwalk as fashion-forward individuals walk the streets showing off colourful Japanese fashion, while Kamakura - just south of the city - is where you'll experience medieval Japan full of Shinto shrines and Buddhist Zen temples.
Kyoto, the former imperial capital of Japan, is a cultural and historical hub with more than 1600 temples and shrines. You can spend your days walking around ancient sites, including Heian Shinto Shrine, and Nijo Castle, while a visit to Hiroshima will take you back to the dark history of World War 2 and the infamous atomic bomb.
Natural delights in Japan include Miyajima, a small island with emerald forests and ancient temples, proud Mt Fuji standing well above the clouds (3,776 meters above sea level) and the blooming Kenrokuen Garden.
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Branson To Invest $3 Billion to Fight Global Warming
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Sir Richard Branson, who has graced these pages before (for aviation ethanol -- twice -- and for his idea that MG should make hybrids), has lots of big ideas, but we think this one is right on. He's decided to invest $3 billion dollars over the next decade to fight global warming. He will invest all profits from his travel-related companies (like airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains) in initiatives to develop new renewable energy technologies, both run by Virgin companies and external businesses. "We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels," said Sir Richard. We agree, and $3 billion is definitely a step or two in the right direction. via ::BBC
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Trevor Huxham
A travel and lifestyle blog about Arizona, Spain, and everywhere in between.
Thoughts from a Road Trip Across Spain’s Northern Coast
This past weekend, my American housemates and I all happened to have the same four days off of school due to a fortunate overlapping of three-day workweeks and school breaks for the All Saints’ holiday. Taking advantage of some of the last non-rainy days in northern Spain of the season, we hopped in a rental car and drove from Santiago de Compostela out to San Vicente de la Barquera, a small fishing village on the Cantabrian coast about halfway between Galicia and the Basque Country.
Lastres, merely "one of" the most beautiful villages in Spain 😌 // #ocean #pueblosconencanto #lastres #colunga #asturias #spain #travel #vsco #vscocam
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We crashed at our housemate Rachel’s boyfriend’s apartment and used San Vicente as a home base to explore the northern coast of Spain, Asturias and Cantabria. On Friday, we spent our time in Cantabria, hitting up Comillas (for architect Antoni Gaudí’s El Capricho de Gaudí house), Santillana del Mar (which did not live up to its slogan as “the most beautiful village in Spain”), two sunny beaches, and the Cueva de El Castillo, an impressive cave in its own right that also housed stunning prehistoric art.
Saturday we dedicated to the Picos de Europa National Park. Coffee, sweets, and strolling were the highlights of Cangas de Onís, the gateway to the park; fancy churches and Spanish tourists were those of Covadonga. We tried to visit the Lagos de Covadonga within the park, but the fog was so thick that we could only see the lake shore and hear cowbells jingling playfully, mysteriously in the distance. Thankfully, the rain held off long enough that we got to hike for an hour or two in the Garganta del Cares, a breathtaking river gorge that is understandably packed in summertime.
Picos de Europa Series: Gold
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Sunday we shifted west to Asturias, going to Ribadesella for the Cueva de Tito Bustillo for more prehistoric cave art, Lastres for the pretty views, Luanco for the seaside cuisine, and Llanes, which was the most beautiful fishing village we visited the entire weekend. On our way back home to Santiago, the housemates and I spent half a day in Oviedo, the capital of Asturias. With our rental car we stuck it to the relentless rain and drove up hillsides to feel the weight of history inside three pre-Romanesque churches that date back to the 800s CE. Back in town, we checked off one of Spain’s most enduring cathedrals, ate decadent carbayón sweets, and had the best fabada stews of our lives.
Playa de Tagle
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The four days we spent along the north-central coast of Spain really brought home how similar Galicia really is to the rest of the north: both are home to endless rain (and glorious green landscapes), cheese and dairy cows are everywhere, both have traditional corncribs (hórreos vs. horrus), the Moors show up in their history barely, if at all, and many of the formative battles and legends in the Spanish mythos happened here.
🌅 puesta del sol 🌄
I enjoyed the brief contact I had with the Asturian language, a Romance language that is extremely closely related to Castilian Spanish but different enough that outsiders can’t quite crack it. Like Galician, there are lots of Xs thrown around; e.g., the industrial city of Gijón is called Xixón in Asturian (think “shee-SHONE”). Where Spanish has an L at the beginning of a word, Asturian palatalizes into two: Lastres vs. Llastres. And instead of ending words in Os, there are Us: “castle” is castillu and river is ríu. Plus, the written form can get a little Frenchy with the apostrophes: “Picos d’Europa.”
The Church of San Miguel de Lillo sits near the top of Mt. Naranco outside of Oviedo, the capital of the Spanish region of Asturias. Designed in the pre-Romanesque style, it was built in the year 848 alongside the Church of Santa María del Naranco down the hill, which was once a palace. This church was originally larger but parts of it have collapsed. It still preserves some intricate lace-looking carved windows and sculpted door jambs. // #church #preromanesque #romanesque #rain #architecture #oviedo #asturias #spain #rain #vsco #vscocam #bw
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I was struck at how industrial the region really is. As you drive through the developed triangle of Avilés-Gijón-Oviedo, you see tons of factories spewing steam, smoke, and fire into the air; train tracks carry heavy freight trains and light little Feve passenger trains around the region; and aging, yet still functioning, mines tell of the importance that the industry has had in the fortunes of this far-flung part of the country. Cantabria was no different—factories, smokestacks, and industrial parks abounded between Santander the capital and Torrelavega. Very different from natural Galicia, which historically was one of the poorest parts of Spain.
Hands down the BEST fabada asturiana I've ever eaten, a stew made from white beans, chorizo, morcilla (blood sausage), and tocino (bacon). Eaten in the capital of Asturias, Oviedo, at the Restaurante Punto y Comas. // #food #fabada #oviedo #asturias #travel #spain #vsco #vscocam
And I can’t think of a single city we stopped in that wasn’t along some branch of the Camino de Santiago, that medieval pilgrimage route connecting Christian Europe with the supposed burial place of the Apostle James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela (i.e., my home!). I now understand the attraction of the Camino del Norte route that hugs the Bay of Biscay before turning south in Galicia toward Santiago: it passes through beautiful village after village and some of the most gorgeous scenery in the country—but it’s that mountainous terrain and steep cliffs that make this one of the most difficult and strenuous routes. The Camino Primitivo goes through Oviedo, the starting point for King Alfonso II’s pilgrimage to Santiago, the journey that started it all so many centuries ago.
Have you ever spent time along Spain’s northern coast? What do Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, and the Basque Country all share in common—and what do you think makes each unique? Tell me your thoughts below in the comments.
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5 Ways to Speak Spanish Like a Spaniard
If you’re like me, you’ve probably learned Spanish as it’s spoken throughout Latin America. Now, I know there is no one single standard Latin American accent, but there are a few things I’ve noticed when listening to Spaniards speak that distinguish them from Spanish speakers in, for example, Nicaragua or Argentina. Since living here for the greater part of a year, I’ve both consciously resisted and unconsciously picked up on many features of the typical Spanish accent. After thinking about it for a while, I’ve decided there are around five characteristics that most distinguish the Spanish of Spain from the Spanish of the Americas. These five sounds, when spoken in the Castilian way, will bring you much closer to sounding native.
1) Pronounce C before E & I and Z like TH In the Americas you’ll hear the words ciudad (“city”), cereza (“cherry”), and zorro (“fox”) pronounced as “see-oo-DAHD” [sjuˈðað], “say-RAY-sah” [seˈɾe.sa], and “SOE-rroe” [ˈso.ro]. However, in Spain, you’ll pick …
22 Fun Facts About the Galician Language
Read my Galician crash course here to get up to speed in the language.
Galician is a Romance language (i.e., from Latin) spoken by about 3 million people in Spain’s northwestern region of Galicia. Although it’s most closely related to Portuguese—which is spoken south of the border—it shares many similarities with Castilian Spanish, including sounds and spelling.
If you’re planning on spending any time traveling or living in this unique corner of Spain, or walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route that ends here, even a tiny knowledge of Galician will help you get around and navigate menus, maps, etc. If you happen to speak Spanish, you’re already 80% of the way to understanding Galician, and I’m serious! Getting a grasp on the grammatical and phonological differences will turbo boost you up to 90%.
To whet your appetite (both literally and linguistically), here’s a little selection from the Galician Wikipedia’s article on empanada, or meat pie:
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This week I’ll be going into my third week in Spanish classrooms, but even in that short amount of time I’ve picked up on the words the kiddos use to get the attention of me or the teacher I’m helping.
1) profe Pronounced “PROE-fay” [ˈpɾo.fe], this is a shortening of the Spanish word profesor or profesora, which looks like our word “professor” but means both university professor and teacher in any grade.
2) seño Pronounced “SAY-nyoe” [ˈse.ɲo], this is a shortening of the Spanish words señorita (“Miss”) or señora (“Mrs.”). Two syllables are always easier to say than three or four!
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Handling Cubs Is Detrimental To Their Health and Hurts Conservation Efforts
Lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!), some of the most popular animals to pay and take a picture holding or feeding a bottle. Their symbolism of strength, power, wildness, and beauty is mesmerizing and irresistible. It is hard to believe there is anything cuter than a tiny baby lion or tiger in this world, and it is hard to pass up an opportunity to get as close as possible. “Tiger selfies” are in high demand and one of the most popular exotic tourist attraction in the United States. Pictures and videos show off a few minutes interaction with an adorable baby or depict celebrities notoriously posting pictures of their “wild” encounters. What animal loving patrons do not understand is that this industry is not as cute and cuddly as it seems. There is so much more behind the scenes than posing for a picture with exotic animals.
Exotic animal cubs are heavily overexploited and overbred due to the extreme desire to view their cuteness. There are no “behind the scene” episodes of where the animals come from, or what happens when they grow into powerful apex predators. If the public knew that “liking” these videos, following baby animal posts, or actually visiting a place to play with cubs was actually harming them, would they still be so popular? This is the information that every big cat lover needs to know.
There is a deep dark side of what happens to cubs after a quick interaction that the exploiters do not want to expose due to their high money making scheme. Most patrons are not aware of the underlying problems, abuse, and neglect these animals endure for a lifetime. They believe that they are truly helping to conserve the species and expressing their love for tigers and lions through interaction. This trend is causing thousands of big cats and exotic animals to suffer throughout the country.
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge has provided an in-depth educational piece about cub petting and pay to play schemes.
Brief Overlook Of Cub Petting Practices:
Cub petting and pay to play schemes are some of the most popular interactive tourist attractions in the United States where animals are exploited.
Animal-loving patrons are fooled into thinking they are helping with conservation or feeding an abandoned cub, and tricked into supporting cruel practices.
Cubs are stripped away from their mothers at birth, malnourished, sleep deprived, and lack proper veterinary care.
They are starved in order for them to be hungry for the next picture.
Babies are only allowed to be held from 8-12 weeks old legally.
Mothers are constantly bred to keep up with this window when in the wild they would only have cubs every 2-3 years.
Breeding generic tigers and other exotic animals in captivity does not help with their conservation or save them from going extinct.
Breeding actually causes a surplus of adult dangerous exotic animals, who are euthanized once grown and unprofitable or sold to roadside zoos and circuses to live a life full of exploitation and abuse.
Very few big cats are fortunate enough to be rescued at a true sanctuary.
Are a few minutes of play and a photo worth a lifetime of suffering for a big cat?
The Reality of Cub Petting
Cubs are stripped away from their mothers at birth, when they are usually weaned at 6 months of age in the wild, depending on the calcium-rich milk to develop properly. Cubs spend 2-3 years with their mothers learning how to be a tiger and survive on their own in the wild. Instead, cub petting facilities take away babies prematurely so the mother can go into heat right away and produce more babies. Young cubs are easily susceptible to calcium deficiencies because of this and develop lifelong health defects such as metabolic bone disease. This causes brittle bones, development issues, and may become so severe to take the cub’s life. To ensure the cub will be hungry for the photo shoot, they have food withheld from them and are starved until someone comes to pay and bottle feed them. Young babies are deprived of sleep so tourists can repeatedly take their picture.
Handlers spank, yell, scruff, and manipulate babies to get them to behave a certain way. They are constantly disciplined for performing natural behaviors for a baby big cat. They are born into a lifetime of stress with no relief, being exploited for financial gain. There are over 33 facilities within the United States, as well as many more international cub petting facilities. Exhibitors can make roughly $30,000 a week for cub photo opportunities, treating the animals as props rather than living beings. Money, as well as breeding, drives the industry to meet the high demand of cub holding at the expense of the animals’ welfare. For each facility to sustain their business, they would need to provide 200 cubs each year for petting. This very small window of breeding opportunity creates rampant breeding of females, just as a dog in a puppy mill. For this industry to thrive, there needs to be a constant flow of cubs within a 4-week age bracket.
Click here to watch an Undercover Investigations Reveal Abuse of Tiger Cubs at Roadside Zoos (The Humane Society of the United States).
Click here to watch “The Deadly Side of Tiger Cub Photo-Ops” (Peta)
Per USDA regulations young exotic cubs such as tigers and lions are only allowed to be handled by the public from 8-12 weeks of age, providing a legal 4-week window to exploit the babies. They are hungry, tired, and forced to constantly be handled by the public for photo shoots. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) states that they cannot be handled by the public before 8 weeks because they have not developed a healthy immune system, and at 12 weeks they become too dangerous for the public.
What happens when the cub gets too big? There is no tracking of these animals if not given a census to the USDA. It is required for exhibitors to keep a census of animal, but is not submitted to the USDA until they are able to visit the facility. Due to the limited number of inspectors, it is easy for exhibitors to forge paperwork or simply not put a cub on a census that has died or been sold. One of the most notorious cub petting facilities produced dozens of cubs for their cub petting scheme. However, his census over a 5-year span only increased by 10 tigers. What happened to the rest of them?
After this age window, what happens to the cubs that at 12 weeks old, are considered too dangerous? The USDA regulates these cub petting facilities, but age distinction is difficult and they do not have big cat experts regulating attractions. Rachel Hartigan Shea of National Geographic stated in her article “Are Wildlife Sanctuaries Good for Animals?” that “… private sanctuaries that don’t exhibit animals aren’t regulated by the federal government”(2014). Cats are easily used passed their age restrictions, sedated so they do not bite the public, or stored away in cages when no longer useful. Many are euthanized because they are not profitable, sold to roadside zoos, circuses, and hunting ranches to be further exploited. The overpopulation of these big cats results in inhumane treatment, unsuitable living conditions, and abuse at all stages of the animal’s life. A small amount of abused and neglected big cats are fortunate to end up in an accredited sanctuary with a forever home.
The overabundance of Big Cats in Captivity
There are not enough accredited facilities that can accommodate the extreme amount of tigers as well as other cubs that have outgrown their 12-week window. True sanctuaries are already overrun with neglected and abandoned animals, and it is extremely expensive to continually rescue them and provide them with forever care. Most are non-profits, depending on public donations to fund the sanctuary and rescue more animals. Big cats can live to be 20 years old in captivity, and bears can live to be 35-40 years old, and true sanctuaries become a forever home for each animal. This is many years past this 8-12-week window in which animals can be held for photography and playing opportunities. True sanctuaries accredited and verified by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) work together to find permanent homes for animals that can be rescued.
Unfortunately for many animals, the surplus animals are euthanized by their exploiter, sold for their body parts on the illegal market, or circulated within the unregulated exotic pet trade and canned hunting enterprises, as mentioned by Carson Barylak, Campaign Officer for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). In her article ACTION NEEDED: USDA again considering ban on big cat handling. Barylak’s plea is to ban public contact to reduce the incentive for excess breeding, and problems associated with pay to play schemes (2016).
In a single case, 90 tigers were found dead and more clinging to life, abandoned by their cub petting handler and exhibitor in California, stated in The Big Cat Handling Crisis provided by Big Cat Rescue, Born Free USA, The Humane Society of the United States, Ian Somerhalder Foundation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, and World Wildlife Fund. This fact sheet dives into the emotional pain and physical stress when cubs are stripped away from their mothers, confined in small cages, transported from location to location, and constantly handled by strangers. Their need for sleep as babies is disrupted and causes them stress, induces diarrhea, and they are physically abused if they do not act a certain way.
Click here To watch “What Baby Tigers are Forced to Do Might Shock You” (EXPLICIT), Humane Society of the United States Video
Lack of Safety
There are numerous safety risks involved for cub petting for not only the animals being handled, but also the general public who comes into contact with cubs. It is possible to pass on zoonotic diseases from sickly cubs to humans. Cubs are given vaccinations just as our animals at home from 8-16 weeks of age. There are no vaccines for exotic animals such as big cats for rabies, and if they are to bite someone they are decapitated to test for rabies.
With intense handling, they are exposed to more germs, diseases, and do not have a sufficient immune system until 16 weeks. During this time frame, they are highly susceptible to disease, but are still allowed to be held from 8-12 weeks per USDA regulation. Visit Handling and Husbandry of Neonatal Nondomestic Cats (March 2016) from the USDA APHIS Department for husbandry requirement and standards. Ringworm is also easily developed in small cages and carriers in which cubs are kept, and can easily be passed on to patrons. View: Neonatal Cub Rules Updated
The general public being untrained in how to feed young cubs, there is a huge risk of the baby aspirating, developing pneumonia, and dying if not fed properly. Feeding should always be taken seriously and performed by a trained professional. Cubs are always practicing how to use their teeth and claws as a predator. Many facilities choose to defang or declaw their animals for “safety” reasons, causing the cub a lifetime of pain. See Declawing and Defanging: The Painful Lives of “Safe” Big Cats
**Banning cub petting would eliminate all safety risks involved**
No Conservation Value
Breeding endangered species in captivity and allowing them to be handled for photos and played with for entertainment is NOT helping their conservation. It is deferring from the reality of the diminishing wild populations, and encourages the rampant breeding of inbred animals in captivity. Breeding generic tigers in captive situations is not preventing them from going extinct in the wild. It misleads patrons into thinking they are helping with conservation, and takes away valuable education and funds away from endangered species.
It would be a death sentence to walk up to a tiger mother and try and pet or handle her cubs. Petting and handling a cub has no benefit for that animal, and if not bred and exploited for profit, would never be touched by human hands. It solely benefits the human who is participating in the petting and satisfying personal desires to touch a wild animal. Conservation should be viewed as how an action is benefiting the animal and its future populations. Cub petting does the exact opposite when they habituate an animal who does not naturally have human interaction. Extremely deceitful tactics are used to make money off hopeful citizens, wanting to interact with the animals and also help save them. Choosing to admire big cats from a distance and support true sanctuaries and conservation entities is what is truly making a difference for captive and wild exotic animals.
Having a close encounter with an endangered species, such as cub petting, does not strengthen the willingness to take action and support conservation. It decreases concern for the overall wellbeing of the species, and desensitizes the true problems they are facing in the wild. Treating wild animals as props or pets is the taking away their value as a wild, apex predator, and the reason why there are so many tigers and lions suffering in captivity.
Generic exotic animals also do not help with conservation, as they are captive the rest of their lives and have no generic purity. Breeding them does not save them from extinction. You cannot release an animal bred in captivity back into the wild because they cannot fend for themselves, their mothers did not teach them how to survive. They have also been so carelessly bred, that due to inbreeding and health issues, would devastate wild populations even more.
Pseudo (fake) sanctuaries, breeding facilities as well as cub petting rings claim to be helping with conservation and rescuing animals as a sanctuary. They will also say that the animal enjoys being handled, performing, and interaction with humans. THEY DO NOT! It is not true that breeding big cats or any other species in captivity is helping with conservation, because they are NOT released into the wild. These animals will remain in captivity and in cages for the rest of their lives, which is not promoting protection, animal welfare, or conservation of these animals. It is just the easiest way for these businesses to trick the public into spending their money, and believing that they are helping these amazing animals.
Actions Against Cub Petting
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in coalition with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), The Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS), Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Born Free USA (BFUSA), The Fund for Animals (“The Fund”) and Big Cat Rescue (BCR, “Petitioners”) submitted a petition to the USDA Department of Agriculture March 31, 2015 to prohibit public contact with big cats, bears and non-human primates. In summary, the petition declares that handling of these species is unsafe, inhumane, and should be prohibited regardless of licensing status and age of the animal. The petition also states that allowing handling of these animals is undermining efforts to conserve endangered species.
To view: Petition to Prohibit Public Contact with Big Cats, Bears, and Nonhuman Primates (Docket No. APHIS-2012-0107)
The Big Cat Public Safety Act is a federal bill that if enacted, will prohibit private ownership of exotic big cats throughout the United States, and stop the problems with unregulated breeding. Advocating for this law to pass by calling or emailing local congressional bodies is the best way to gain support. To learn more about this law, and how to ask your local congressman to support it please visit: Turpentine Creek’s Advocacy Page
Tell Congress to Protect Big Cats! A quick note to them can help protect big cats throughout the country.
The Solution to Ending Abuse and Neglect of Big Cats and Exotic Animals
There should be no acceptable age limit for cubs to be in contact with humans, and the USDA should ban the cub petting industry and disallow breeding of generic tigers in captivity. Closing the age loophole would be a huge breakthrough in ending the cub petting epidemic. The USDA rule is interpretive, and can be easily reversed by requiring cubs to be a safe distance from the public.
As an individual, do not participate, support, or have your photo taken with a baby exotic animal. Resist the temptation! Do not attend attractions that include big cats or other exotic animals in their shows and performances. Do not purchase or consume exotic animal items such as purses, wine, etc. Only visit sanctuaries that are true sanctuaries. Visit the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s interactive map to find pseudo-sanctuaries here: https://www.ifaw.org/united-states/big-cat-advocates-map
Be their voice and share with others what you have learned to protect more animals in the future. Please do not participate in pay to play schemes, and educate others to not support the abuse and exploitation of exotic animals. Together, we can make a difference!
Speak up against cub petting! Do not follow pages that endorse their exploitation, breeding, and handling. Advocate for the passing of the Big Cat Public Safety Act by contacting your local congressman here: https://www.turpentinecreek.org/advocacy
For big cat lovers, there is a safe and beneficial alternative to help victims of the exotic animal trade and cub petting industry. Visit true sanctuaries that do not buy, sell, breed, or trade animals and provide them with a forever home. It is much more satisfying to know that the admission fees are going to help protect the animals from further exploitation and neglect. To see the big cats running around in large grassy habitats and playing with enrichment toys, to have a life they deserve.
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge has rescued abused, abandoned, neglected, and unwanted big cats and other exotic animals for 25 years. Not only will TCWR continue to provide Refuge for these animals, but continue to strive to educate every visitor to become an animal advocate and fight against the problem. Make a difference by supporting true sanctuaries and not visiting pseudo sanctuaries or contributing to pay to play schemes. Together we can make a difference! Thank you for your continued support and “Helping Us, Help Them!”.
Please Visit Supporting Organizations and Articles:
ACTION NEEDED: USDA Again Considering Ban on big Cat Cub Handling Carson Barylak, International Fund for Animal Welfare (2016)
ACTION: Renewed Push for USDA Direct Big Cat Cub Handling Ban Carson Barylak, International Fund for Animal Welfare (2015)
Are Wildlife Sanctuaries Good for Animals? Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting: Wildlife in Need
Resist the Temptation: There Is No Need Whatsoever to Play with Big Cat Cubs Kelly Donithan, International Fund for Animal Welfare (2015)
The Dark, Deadly Side of Tiger Cub Photo Ops, PETA
Tiger Selfies Aren’t Just Stupid, They’re Cruel. Here’s Why, Christina Russo; The Dodo (2015)
This Celebrity-Studded Instagram Petting Zoo Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen, Kate Knibbs; Gizmodo (2016)
VICTORY: Federal Agencies Announce Long-awaited Protections for Captive Big Cats Carson Barylak, International Fund for Animal Welfare
Handling and Husbandry of Neonatal Nondomestic Cats, USDA APHIS
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The program is aimed at preventing and treating disease, including certain types of cancer, heart problems, and genetic disorders. In collaboration with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, UAB Medicine will provide genomic testing, interpretation, and counseling free of charge to residents in each of Alabama’s 67 counties. The AGHI also includes a major focus on research, through which data from test results will be used to advance scientific understanding of the role that genes play in health and disease.
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Domino’s App For Xbox One Released
By Adnan Farooqui on 11/19/2014 09:26 PST
Looks like pizza chain Domino’s wants to be on every available platform out there. It has already launched apps for various mobile platforms which allow customers to not only place their orders but even track their pizzas as well. Just recently Domino’s released a pizza tracker app for Pebble allowing customers to keep an eye on their pie from the get go. Today an official Domino’s app has been released for the Xbox One.
The app obviously has something to do with pizza. Xbox One owners can use the 32MB app to purchase and customize any pizza of their choice, and track its preparation as well as delivery through the console.
There are multiple ways of interacting with the app. The controller works, and so does Kinect. Simply saying out “Domino’s, feed me” loud is enough to launch the app and get straight into the order process.
What this means is that for gamers rocking an Xbox One it is now easier than ever to order Domino’s while they’re playing a game. One can easily fire up this app alongside a game in Snap mode, order and then proceed to track the pizza without ever having to take their eyes off the game.
There is just one caveat, currently the app is only available for Xbox One owners in the United Kingdom.
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Ulster University Business School Triggers Brexit Toolkit
Pictured is Professor Mark Durkin, Executive Dean, Ulster University Business School
Ulster University has launched a three-stage programme of activity which aims to create practical solutions and support for businesses in Northern Ireland as they navigate Brexit.
The programme, which is led by Ulster University Business School, begun with the launch of an online Brexit Business Survey to be co-ordinated over the next four weeks in conjunction with FSB. This will aim to identify businesses’ perceptions of Brexit taking into account the significance of business size, sector and geographical location with particular reference to border proximity. It will also seek to identify key risks and perceived opportunities associated with Brexit.
Results of the survey will be analysed at the end of May 2017 leading to a Roundtable Event in June 2017 to discuss the published findings. Collaborative discussion with invited businesses at the event will aim to identify practical outcomes from the survey to form a Business Toolkit for Brexit which will be used externally to shape policy and positively influence practice.
The third stage of the programme will be a spin-off from the Roundtable Event when a series of workshops will be held focusing on key areas involving the Business School and other appropriate parties. In essence, the Business School will create a Toolkit of support to businesses which will provide academic and practical perspectives on issues potentially effected by Brexit. Broadly, these categories will embrace management/leadership issues; entrepreneurship; legalities such as changes to recruitment/employment law, customs procedures, product standards required; and finance matters including access to, cashflow implications, exchange rate risk, changes to VAT, crowdfunding, changes to EU Funding available.
Professor Mark Durkin, Executive Dean, Ulster University Business School, explains:
“With Article 50 now triggered, the journey into the relative unknown has begun. Much has been speculated about the impact of Brexit on businesses but it is now time to fully explore all the options, prepare for whatever might emerge and indeed to help shape opportunities and create possibility within that uncertain environment. As a Business School focused on entrepreneurial education and impactful research we work with over a thousand businesses each year, over 10% of these overseas. It is incumbent on us to take the lead and seek to provide informed support wherever possible to the business community and for that support to enable appropriate action. The activity initiated this week aims to capture local business owners’ sentiment on Brexit and using that knowledge and the expertise within the Business School seeks to co-create practical assistance to help build a ‘Brexit ready’ business economy.”
To undertake the survey businesses are invited to log on to http://sgiz.mobi/s3/a59dbdcb4a90
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The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s: Richard Lawson’s List
Our chief critic makes choices that span the globe and the decade, from a tiny English romance to the literal end of the world.
By Richard Lawson
Photo Illustration by Lauren Margit Jones; Images from left, © Magnolia Pictures, © Universal Pictures, by Jasin Boland/© Warner Bros. Pictures, © Neon, all from the Everett Collection.
Doing a “10 best movies of the decade” list and getting it exactly right is impossible. Put one movie on the list, and you leave off some other modern classic. There has been an abundance of remarkable filmmaking from all over the world in the past 10 years, which means many movies I cherish could not be included here. In the 2010s, I loved Moonlight and Shoplifters and Leave No Trace and several Mission: Impossible movies. But the 10 films listed below are the ones that, for a variety of reasons, really stuck with me throughout this turbulent decade. They’ve been continuing sources of amusement, enlightenment, comfort, and shock. These films speak to our past, our present, or our future with unique vision. That there could be a whole different list of 10 movies that I’d probably be just as happy with speaks to what a wonderful glut of cinema we’ve been served since the decade began.
10. Princess Cyd (2017)
Princess Cyd© Wolfe Releasing/Everett Collection.
At a time when kindness can feel in such short supply—not smarmy niceness, but genuine warmth, compassion, and at least an effort to understand another person—writer-director Stephen Cone’s small wonder of a movie is a welcome balm. It’s a movie about a teenager and her aunt, two different people with their own worries and needs, getting to know one another over a hazy summer in Chicago. Princess Cyd is achingly humane, giving thoughtful voice to our little lives, and in the process making them feel big, important, even profound. Cone writes with a wistful tenderness; his characters are smart and engaging people, but they never feel too witty or too sharp for the real world. Jessie Pinnick is terrific as teenage Cyd, a soccer jock with a tragic past who uses her time away from home to explore her sexuality. Rebecca Spence, as Cyd’s aunt, Miranda, an author with an active spiritual life, gives what is maybe my single favorite performance of the 2010s—she’s wise and consoling and challenging, all without ever standing as some totem of pure ideology. When Pinnick and Spence are together, Princess Cyd takes on a humble but radiant glow. It’s a movie about connection that joins its characters together with breathtaking care and restraint.
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9. Weekend (2011)
Weekend© Sundance Selects/Everett Collection.
Andrew Haigh’s talky gay romance seized on the burgeoning trend of European realism, exemplified by, among others, the filmmakers of the Romanian New Wave, while also taking cues from “slow cinema” filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt. Spare and intimate, Weekend helped mainstream a style of zeroed-in, naturalistic filmmaking that has deeply influenced many younger filmmakers working today. To see all that synthesized in a gay movie, discursive plainness in the place of archness, was a jolt to the system in 2011. Weekend is a touchstone film for many fans, a frank and well-spoken treatise on contemporary gayness that, sure, has aged a little in the nearly nine years since it was released, but whose popularity and insight vitally encouraged the existence of many other latter-day works of queer cinema. Its influence aside, Weekend is a sexy heartbreaker, a movie about a brief encounter that hums with a mournful timelessness. When the movie came out, its candor and specificity felt like a small revolution. It’s earned that status since, a melancholy gem that still casts off an imperative light.
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8. Force Majeure (2014)
Force Majeure© Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection.
Few movies look so good while being so hard to watch. Ruben Östlund’s stunning comedy of manners has a beguiling finish. Its beautifully composed images—its Alpine vistas, its tony, matte-luxe hotel spaces—stand in wonderfully jarring juxtaposition to the story it’s telling. Force Majeure concerns a Swedish married couple (played by Johannes Kuhnke and the searingly good Lisa Loven Kongsli) whose entire conception of their bond is forever changed by an avalanche. In case you haven’t yet seen the movie, I won’t spoil any further. But I can safely say that Östlund brutally—and at times wrenchingly—picks at liberal understandings of conventional gender roles and marriage, essentially making a hash of the way many people of particular privilege all over the world view the stability of their sense of self, and of their surroundings. Force Majeure is squirmingly, astonishingly funny, and yet also kind of devastating. At the center of its anarchic riot is something bitterly sad, a plaint about our helplessness and inadequacy in the face of a world governed by chance and, in times of sudden crisis, basic animal instinct.
7. Eden (2015)
EdenBy Carole Bethuel/© Broad Green Pictures/Everett Collection.
There’s something about electronic dance music—EDM for short—that offers a neat little metaphor for this decade. It’s a phenomenon born of computers and is often alienating to older people. It’s modern, it’s loud, it rollicks with the particular tempos of the here and now—or of the just a few years ago. But EDM has been around for longer than the 2010s, a fact that director Mia Hansen-Løve gorgeously delineates in her EDM epic, Eden. Loosely based on the experiences of her brother, an electronic DJ, Eden follows a young man across 20 years, as his career fortunes rise and fall with the undulations of time. A rambling French movie very much in the vein of a lot of recent rambling French movies, Eden could been seen as plotless, aimless. But as Hansen-Løve proves in her film’s ecstatic, poignant finale, Eden has been about all of life all along. Among other things, it’s a rich paean to the pursuit of art, to the often vexing faith of creativity. Eden offers a vivid sensory feast, teeming with triumph and sorrow as it bounces and dips along the squiggly line of the new millennium. Now, in the waning days of 2019, there is something deeply—but not cloyingly—nostalgic about the movie, how its beat drops plunge us back into the laser-lit fog of our own lost youths. Eden, in its generous and artful way, urges us to remember, and to party on.
6. Get Out (2017)
Get Out© Universal Pictures/Everett Collection.
An Important Movie that still knows how to have fun, and how to terrify, Jordan Peele’s horror-comedy is thrilling in so many ways. It’s inventive, urgent, shocking. It prods at—or, more accurately, stabs at? Thrashes at? Tears at?—social realities that have until recently been very rarely articulated onscreen, particularly in films released by major studios. Get Out is a movie that both speaks to the discourse of its era and advances it, helping to give specific—if often satirical—language to an unease, and worse, experienced by millions of people in this country every day. In that way Get Out crucially roots itself in two places: There’s the kicky daring of its conceit—imagining (and not having to stretch very far to do so) a rapacious group of white people who prey on the minds and bodies of black people—and there’s the howling sorrow of what it’s really getting at. Just as you begin to settle into how richly entertaining the movie is, Get Out reminds you that it is furious, too, that its joke is not really a joke at all. A movie that will be cited for decades to come—for its ideas and its seamless execution—Get Out is a rare movie of true purpose that doesn’t preen about its relevance. It’s too busy getting its mordant job done.
5. Parasite (2019)
Parasite© Neon/Everett Collection.
Coming in just under the wire, Bong Joon-ho’s boggling mix of suspense and social comedy has so much to say about the current state of economic inequality in the supposedly developed world. Sending two families—one rich and oblivious, the other poor and scheming—crashing into one another, Bong manages a roundness, a grace, out of what could easily be just a haves-and-have-nots brawl. Through all its cleverness—Bong stages a con game with a giddy, sideways humor; he ratchets up tension masterfully too—Parasite smuggles in a lament that reaches an unignorable crescendo in the film’s devastating final moments. What have we actually been laughing at this whole time? What has all this slipperiness, this subterfuge, been necessitated by? Parasite has a striking moral clarity; it is not stingy with its sympathy, and yet it pretty firmly comes down on one side of things. Leave it to a wondrous talent like Bong to patiently listen to a decade’s conversation and then encapsulate it so brilliantly right at the very end.
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4. Melancholia (2011)
Melancholia© Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection.
A movie that just won’t leave my head. Lars von Trier’s strange and captivating dream-poem about apocalyptic thinking is somehow both shattering and comforting. Von Trier has maybe never worked so earnestly, eschewing his usual cruelty to instead make his depression manifest onscreen as an act of communion, of understanding. The world very much ends in Melancholia—our benighted globe pulverized by another planet whose trajectory we’re powerless to change—and there’s something freeing about that, the way Melancholia allows the worst to happen onscreen but then, wouldn’t you know it, there we in the audience still are afterwards, mostly intact. But it’s also horrifying, to dwell in this beautifully rendered reality in which annihilation looms so plainly, so factually. Von Trier adeptly balances that dread with a kind of metaphysical transcendence, an accepting of inevitability that dares us to face our own mortality with braveness and, maybe, some amount of wonder.
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Dawson City: Frozen Time© Kino International/Everett Collection.
As haunting a film as there was this decade, Bill Morrison’s painstakingly stitched-together collage of old movie footage pulls us into a semi-distant past full of forgotten life. Dawson City: Frozen Time is, most literally, a documentary about the discovery of over 500 silent-film reels buried in a former gold rush town in the Yukon. In showing us clips of these lost movies, all about 100 years old, Morrison also tells the story of Dawson City, a boom town alive with want and opportunity, the locus of a human surge that was at once prodigious and ruinous. Zooming even further out, Dawson City: Frozen Time talks keenly—if not directly—about what it is to be people among one another, to strive for success in collaboration and competition, to seek out shared entertainment and diversion from the lonely harshness of life in the world. Basically, Morrison’s film captures the human experience through images of humans captured on film a century ago. It’s a lyrical movie, a mesmerizing glimpse into the past. There’s also something scary about Dawson City: Frozen Time, in all its reminding that the scramble and noise of our times—as advanced and busy as any have ever been—will one day disappear into their own kind of silence. Overlooked upon its release (by myself included), Dawson City: Frozen Time deserves an unearthing.
2. Phantom Thread (2017)
Phantom Thread© Focus Features/Everett Collection.
A just about perfectly tailored (heh) film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s lush period romance is the last movie about straight people I ever need to see. I’m joking, I think, but Phantom Thread does do a wonderful job of sending up and oddly sentimentalizing the wars of heterosexual coupling, imagining the relationship between a controlling fashion designer (Daniel Day-Lewis, getting off one last good one before retirement) and his unlikely match, a muse turned lover played with elegant steel by Vicky Krieps. Phantom Thread is peculiarly funny and unexpectedly moving, a movie about the individual quirks of a courtship and of the more curious thing that follows after. The film’s aesthetics are rich but understated, Anderson showing a grown-up reserve that is in interesting dialogue with the exuberance of his more youthful filmmaking. Phantom Thread is a tricky kind of movie, at times deliberately aloof or otherwise off-putting, but then warm again, accommodating. Maybe that’s a toxic push-pull dynamic, but maybe, also, that’s on purpose. Whatever Anderson is doing, it’s wholly beguiling. Phantom Thread woos, amuses, and seduces.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road© Warner Bros/Everett Collection.
After 30 years away from the franchise, director George Miller returned to the Mad Max universe and in so doing made the best action movie perhaps of all time. A symphony of fire and metal, Fury Road is the most exhilarating thing I’ve seen in, well, at least 10 years. Max and a coterie of women resisting their subjugation—including Charlize Theron’s action hero for the ages, Imperator Furiosa—embark on a relentless flight from a hellish patriarchy, pursued by young men high on the totalizing, vulgar power of their leader. Furiosa and Max lead the charge as the band of rebels races across a hostile desert toward freedom. And then they turn around. While ever thrilling, a balletic spree of explosions and acrobatic combat, Fury Road also manages a more serious stirring. It’s rousing to watch Furiosa and her comrades in arms fight back against their oppressors, charging through them on a mission of liberation. There’s a gnarly triumph in their assertions against a harmful institution; Fury Road swells with revolutionary spirit as it hurtles toward its moving conclusion. Though it is the fourth film in a series, Fury Road feels like a brand-new thing. It’s a startling and enveloping vision, one that should stand as a sterling example of what tentpole filmmaking can be as we zip so recklessly toward our own dystopia.
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High School Chemistry : Help with Periodic Theories
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Example Question #1 : Help With Periodic Theories
The periodic table of elements is structured in order of increasing __________.
atomic size
ionization energy
The periodic table of elements is structured in increasing atomic number. Atomic number of an element refers to the number of protons in an atom of that element. Each element is followed by the next element with one more proton than itself.
Increasing numbers of protons often correspond to atomic mass, but this trend does not hold true in all cases due to variation in isotope variation and neutron addition. For example, the atomic mass of nickel is slightly less than that of cobalt and the atomic mass of hassium is slightly less than that of bohrium.
Example Question #51 : The Periodic Table
Why does the periodic table of elements end with (ununoctium)?
There are no known cases of atoms which weigh more than
The periodic table of elements contains hand-picked elements by the Society of Chemistry Scholars (SCS)
None of these answer choices are true
Elements heavier than are unstable and decay too rapidly to be properly categorized
is the last element that is completely stable
The periodic table of elements contains the elements that have been deemed as elements by scientists as a collective whole. Although there are atoms with higher masses than , none of them have been stable enough to be considered elements. , however, is not completely stable, and complete stability is not a requirement to be considered an element.
Why does atomic radius decrease as we move from left to right along a row in the periodic table?
There are more protons in the nucleus to pull in the electrons, reducing the size of the valence shell
The electrons are less stable closer to the nucleus
There are fewer atomic orbitals for the electrons to occupy
There are more neutrons in the nucleus, which makes the protons pull harder on the electrons tor educe the size of the valence shell
There are more atomic orbitals for the electrons to occupy
The atomic radius decreases as we move from left to right across a period (row) in the periodic table for a couple reasons. Each time we move from one element to the right, we add a proton and an electron (and a certain number of neutrons depending on the isotope). Because there are no new electron shells present, this extra electron must be added to the same valence shell of this atom. The added positive charge from the proton in the nucleus and the added negative charge from the added electron are opposites, and are thus attracted to each other. The greater the number of each, the greater their pull on one another, and thus the smaller the radius of the atom.
The group in the periodic table that is the least chemically reactive is __________.
the transition metals
the halogens
the alkaline earth metals
the noble gases
the alkali metals
The noble gases have a stable octet of electrons in their outer shell and tend to neither lose nor gain electons. They tend to not react with other chemicals.
Alkali metals and halogens are highly reactive; alikali metals need to lose a single electron to reacha a stable octet, while halogens need to gain a single electron. Alkaline earth metals are reactive as well, needing to lose two electrons. Transition metals vary in their valence electron numbers and organizations, but are still considered more reactive than the noble gases.
As the atomic number in a period increases, the atomic radii in that period will __________.
The pattern varies with each period
increase initially, then stay the same
stay the same
As the atomic number increases in a period, the number of protons increases and creates a stronger electrostatic pull on the electrons. The positive protons in the nucleus attract the negative electrons in the electron cloud. As electrons are added across a pariod, they are added into the same orbital shell (as determined by the principle quantum number of the atom). Since the shell does not change, the radius of the atom does not increase. Rather, the attractive force of the protons acts to decrease the radius of the electron cloud.
The use of a periodic table is expected with this question.
In what order would the following elements be if you were to list them from the least amount of protons to the most amount of protons?
Nitrogen, hydrogen, iron, magnesium
Iron, magnesium, nitrogen, hydrogen
Hydrogen, nitrogen, magnesium, iron
Hydrogen, nitrogen, iron, magnesium
Iron, magnesium, hydrogen, nitrogen
The amount of protons in an element is represented by its atomic number. The periodic table is listed in order of atomic number. A smaller atomic number equates to a fewer amount of protons in an element. It is possible to identify the amount of protons for all of the elements listed with the use of a periodic table.
Which of the elements listed below has the same number of electrons in the outer shell as calcium?
Calcium has a total of two electrons in the outer electron shell. It is possible to determine this by looking at the column on the periodic table in which calcium is located. Calcium is in group two, and all elements located in group two have two electrons in the outer electron shell. Of the elements listed as answers, only barium shares the same group. All elements in the same group have the same amount of electrons in the outer shell.
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Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are caused when an external force causes injury to the brain, according to research. Studies show that traumatic brain injury is one of the major causes of accidental death in Florida. A Florida TBI can result from a severe car accident, a slip and fall, accidental gunshot wound, or other negligence, and can include a coma from an accident in Florida.
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A Florida traumatic brain injury case should be handled by experienced legal representation. A South Florida traumatic brain injury lawyer can help assist accident victims and their families recover financial damages from all parties who may be liable for their injury.
Causes of traumatic brain injuries
Sometimes, traumatic brain injuries occur from internal wounds. Internal wounds can include:
-Skull fracture, where the bony skull is broken
-Nerve damage, where there is a cutting or tear of nerve cells that connect nerve fibers in the brain
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Traumatic brain injury can also occur from anoxia, where the brain is deprived of oxygen for an extended period of time. This can occur from near-drowning in a swimming pool or bathtub, a birth injury to infants and newborns, a medical error in failing to have adequate oxygen flowing to a patient, and during heart attacks. Anoxia causing traumatic brain injury can result in severe brain damage and lifelong medical care.
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What types of problems can someone have from a traumatic brain injury (TBI)?
A traumatic brain injury can cause significant, catastrophic problems for an accident victim or negligence victim. Some common side effects or symptoms of a traumatic brain injury include physical problems, communication problems, and cognitive problems. Physical problems from a TBI may include hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in the ears), seizures, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, headaches, decreased smell or taste, and reduced strength and coordination in the body, arms, and legs. Communication problems may include difficulty with speaking, spelling, writing, and reading. Cognition (thinking skills) which could be affected by a TBI may include awareness of one's surroundings, attention to tasks, memory, reasoning, solving problems, and executive functioning.
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Another Channel 4 Grand Design gets the V4 Woodflooring treatment
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Grand Designs features some of Britain’s most ambitious self-build projects, as Kevin McCloud follows people attempting to design and build the home of their dreams.
V4 is no stranger to the Channel 4 series and a recent episode, following an ambitious project in Kentish Town, was another to include a V4 wood floor.
The story featured former Eastenders actress and interior designer, Deborah Sheridan-Taylor, and her entrepreneur partner Jonathan Broom, as they took a turbulent three year journey, putting everything on hold to pursue Jonathan’s dream of building a miniature Hollywood Hills-style mansion in North London.
Having stumbled across an unusual plot of land in north London, the reclaimed brown field site was surrounded by a tight circle of neighbouring properties. The only way they could complete the £1million build was by sinking half of it six metres below ground, and being surrounded on all sides by their neighbours’ back gardens, they undertook some 16 party wall agreements as the project progressed.
The finished 3,700 sq ft five bedroom, five bathroom new build home is now virtually unnoticeable from the street. The house has no outfacing first floor windows, while the ground floor is made up almost entirely of glass which opens up to embrace the surrounding environment. A house of contradiction, it manages to bring the outside inside, yet seek solace at the same time.
Having to utilise significant underground space to complete the project, the house boasts a vast concealed basement which is the size of two double decker buses, and double the size of the other two floors. Complete with swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna and a separate self-contained flat, this property is now one of wonder and indulgence.
Deborah and Jonathan had opted for a polished concrete floor in some parts of the property and wanted to find a softer feel, real wood floor for other floors, including the bedrooms. Having looked online they discovered Source Wood Floors, a V4 Approved Retailer based in Suffolk, and saw a particular floor they loved the look of so got in touch with the retailer.
The couple chose V4’s Eiger Phoenix Oak Rustic Brushed and Grey oiled floor. The rustic grade floor exudes character and charm with natural markings, colour variations and a mix of closed and open knots.
The 6mm oak surface of this FSC® 100% certified rustic oak plank is smooth sanded and then sealed with air cured coats of translucent grey oil. The finished effect is a muted natural shade which highlights the natural grain and variation of the hardwood surface.
The chosen wood floor also creates a striking, yet complementary contrast against the polished concrete, giving a lovely mixture of textures within the contemporary property.
Peter Lazar, Managing Director of Source Wood Floors, said:
“We are all big fans of Grand Designs and everyone was delighted when Jonathan and Deborah contacted us to supply and install their wood floors. From start to finish, Deborah, Jonathan and the team at Grand Designs were an absolute pleasure to work with. There are many elements that come together to make this a beautiful and sustainable house, one of which is definitely the wood floor.”
Jonathan Broom said: “Grand Designs is very much about the human journey and as with most episodes this was no walk in the park. However, my wife and I are over the moon with how the house turned out, and that’s thanks, in no small part, to the team at Source Wood Floors who supported us throughout the project and installed an amazing wooden floor.”
“After spending a couple of days in our new property, my wife woke one morning and said the floors were her favourite part of the whole house. I couldn’t agree more; they’re wonderful, we enjoy the feel underfoot in the bedrooms, and the sustainable and environmentally friendly floors completely fitted in with our design ethos.”
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Mexico border wall: Trump defends emergency
By Captain Risky, February 15, 2019 in US Politics
1 hour ago, Gromdor said:
Sounds like the CBP needs more border patrol agents, more judges, more housing, heck more everything. Pity we can't send money that way for fear Trump will divert it to his vanity wall.
Talk radio was saying that the CBP plans to release a large number of them into places like El Paso, Yuma, and San Diego.
Time for the FEMA camps?
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12 minutes ago, DieChecker said:
Think that money was already spent too. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647021316/trump-administration-transferred-9-8-million-from-fema-to-ice
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This is crazy
6 hours ago, Gromdor said:
I think that was last fiscal year. Federal budgets renew in October I believe.
Still seemed pretty funny to me...
5 hours ago, acidhead said:
Why are they running? It's not like they're going to be made into fog food. They'll still likely get to claim asylum, or whatever, and be released back into the general population.
Probably they believe the stories that ICE and the police want to kill them all. After all, this country is run by "racists" right?
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11 hours ago, DieChecker said:
Probably because their experience is with corrupt countries where that is the case.
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Probably they hoped to run to a Democrat controlled county, where they would get Amnesty and protection from prosecution ?
8 minutes ago, RoofGardener said:
Ah, they succeeded then. Sheriff Urbino “Benny” Martinez of Brooks County TX is a Democrat.
Edit to add. Not that he had competition. Brooks County is a Democrat County since 1911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_County,_Texas
While the state of Texas has become a stronghold of the Republican Party in the 21st century, Brooks County rests in the oldest extant Democratic stronghold in the state. It has never voted for a Republican presidential candidate since its creation in 1911.
No Republican has received more than 35% of the vote in the county since Richard Nixon in his 1972 landslide, and no Democrat since George McGovern that same year has received less than 65%. McGovern is one of only two Democrats, the other being Adlai Stevenson in 1956, to have received less than 60% of the vote in Brooks County since it first participated in presidential elections in 1912.
The only instance of Brooks County having ever cast its votes for a Republican was in 2010, when Comptroller Susan Combs won it during her reelection, as no Democrat filed to run.
Edited March 28, 2019 by Gromdor
25 minutes ago, Gromdor said:
Well then, there you go ! They spawned out of the truck hoping to find the County office !
Edited March 28, 2019 by RoofGardener
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On 3/28/2019 at 3:54 PM, Gromdor said:
and no Democrat since George McGovern that same year has received less than 65%. McGovern is one of only two Democrats, the other being Adlai Stevenson in 1956, to have received less than 60% of the vote in Brooks County since it first partic
Yes, Grom and all. And would you like to know why the democrat George McGovern did so relatively poorly that year?
It's the same reason why McGovern only took ONE state in that entire election against Nixon, and it is NOT because of Nixon. It's because of a man who ran for president and split the democrat vote. He was a wonderful life long Democrat,, from Alabama actually. Ya.. He had a favorite saying of his own back then, I'll share it with you: " Segregation now, Segregation forever". Seemed to have had disputes with school buses loaded up with darkies being driven to the white schools in Selma, too. Ya. But he's a fighter!
Yup, Democrat George Wallace whooped McGovern's ass everywhere in the country. He was such a wonderful Democrat and the Dems couldn't get .enough of him.
Hi Grom <grin>. How are ya.
28 minutes ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:
So, Dem's couldn't get enough of him is why he did so poorly? I would have to say Dems and the rest of America rejecting him is why he did poorly.
Let's put it this way... he sucked LOL - but,, he was the best democrats had. I think he took seven states in that election.
McGovern took one. Just ONE! Now, a little trivia for ya.. what was the ONE state that McGovern took in that election?
After the election, people in that state got bumper stickers that read - " DON'T BLAME ME. I'M FROM **STATE**"
What!? The only state he took is my dearly beloved state? I don't believe it. Just because my state rep- Steve King (R) has a confederate flag and regularly makes racist comments doesn't mean the guys that repeatedly voted him in hold those beliefs! Iowa voted for Trump even! That should prove that we don't have biased people, right? <sarcasm>
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I reckon so.
Some releated news...
"Military funds being used for border wall in Arizona, New Mexico."
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/04/24/military-funds-being-used-for-border-wall-in-arizona-new-mexico/
Further info...
"...the Pentagon’s list of construction projects that could be cut to fund a border wall."
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/03/18/border-wall-milcon-cuts-list-is-in-is-your-base-on-it/
that wall is getting build no matter what liberals try
7 minutes ago, aztek said:
And Mexico will pay for it! lol
3 minutes ago, Eldorado said:
they already do. indirect cost will be huge
On 4/11/2019 at 4:40 AM, Gromdor said:
Wow. You live in King's state. RIP.
20 hours ago, ExpandMyMind said:
Yup, in his district. He is my representative. My city got gerrymandered in a while back due to Iowa's declining population. Career politician, authored no worth while law, and kicked from every committee.
I've been reading about him over the past year. He's probably the worst elected person in your country, fighting for the spot with that Republican that the Guardian recently revealed was inciting violence against 'ANTIFA'.
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Somewhat related.
A Massachusetts judge and court officer accused of helping an illegal immigrant flee an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting to take him into custody were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for obstruction of justice and three other counts, officials said.
Newton District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and the court officer, identified in court documents as Wesley MacGregor, face several charges stemming from an April 2, 2018 incident in which the pair allegedly helped Jose Medina-Perez get out of the courthouse via a back door in order to elude the ICE agent who sought Medina-Perez.
“This case is about the rule of law. The allegations in today’s indictment involve obstruction by a sitting judge, that is intentional interference with the enforcement of federal law, and that is a crime," U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said Thursday. Joseph and MacGregor were both charged with obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting; obstruction of a federal proceeding, aiding and abetting and conspiracy to obstruct justice, Lelling said. MacGregor was also charged with perjury before a federal grand jury.
"As public servants, all of the officers in the court make a promise — a promise to serve the people’s interest above all else. Today we know this promise has been broken,” said Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, who led the investigation.
Medina-Perez, a twice-deported illegal immigrant with a fugitive warrant for drunken driving in Pennsylvania, had been in Joseph's courtroom in order to be arraigned on drug charges, the Boston Globe previously reported.
Medina-Perez was the subject of an ICE detainer -- a written request to hold an individual wanted for deportation for up to 48 hours -- and an ICE agent was waiting in the lobby of the courthouse to detain Medina-Perez after the arraignment, officials said. But during the hearing, Joseph asked Medina-Perez’s attorney “ICE is going to get him?,” according to courtroom recordings obtained by the Boston Globe in December and released in court documents Thursday.
Medina-Perez's lawyer was also heard telling Joseph “ICE will pick him up if he walks out the front door. But I think the best thing for us to do is clear the fugitive issue and release him on a personal, and hope that he can avoid ICE...That's the best I can do.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-judge-who-helped-illegal-immigrant-escape-ice-arrest-indicted-federal-authorities-say
38 minutes ago, Myles said:
Quite a precident if they are found guilty. Possibly opening a door to indictment of mayors of sanctuary cities for obstructing justice.
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Vera Wang Is Honored at the Annual BCRF Luncheon
By Danielle Naer
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for BCRF
Yesterday afternoon, supporters (both local and far-flung) rallied together to back the research-focused efforts of the world’s largest private breast cancer initiative, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Conceived by Evelyn Lauder of Estée Lauder in 1993, the organization has awarded nearly $70 million in grants worldwide to advance the prevention and treatment of the illness—from diagnosis to survivorship. And since Lauder’s passing, the company, along with her family, has continued their hefty support of the BCRF.
For the fundraising luncheon, the New York Hilton Midtown was doused in shades of pink; from floral centerpieces (donated by Winston Flowers year after year) to the pink carpet itself, salmon, fuchsia, and magenta were on constant repeat. And if guests weren’t wearing pink, there were looped ribbon pins in the hue (an emblem of support created by Evelyn Lauder) on offer.
VIPs from the worlds of fashion, theater, beauty, and philanthropy filled the space, exchanging facts, stories, and positive affirmations regarding the illness. “Every two minutes, a woman in the United States hears the words ‘you have breast cancer,’” shared Kinga Lampert, cochair of the BCRF and a former New York–based lawyer. “Still, there is a huge message of hope that I always try to put out there—death rates have dropped by 40 percent in the past 25 years. That means nearly half the women who are survivors today would not have made it 25 years ago. All of that is through the advances that have come out of research.”
As the luncheon kicked off, guests enjoyed a crisp Chardonnay donated by the Wine Sisterhood in support of the Tough Enough to Wear Pink initiative, paired with a seasonal salad dressed in an apple cider vinaigrette. The meal finished with a trio of chocolate desserts. The program began with a touching anecdote from Nina Garcia, who possesses the BRCA gene and had to take preventative measures, followed by the presentation of the Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award, passed from Donna Karan to Vera Wang in honor of Wang’s irrepressible dedication to moving the needle in breast cancer research, both through BCRF and her eponymous brand.
For Karan and Wang, the motive to rally behind research is shared: “Women have to support other women, and health is a women’s issue,” said Wang. “We’re all in an industry that dresses women, that strives to make women more beautiful, healthier, well—and to be able to fight the most dreaded of all diseases for women? I can’t stress the importance enough.” Karan agreed: “It’s not only dressing, as designers do, but addressing the issues at hand. What you’re wearing on the outside [matters as much as] what you’re wearing on the inside.”
Vera Wang and Donna Karan
Anne Thompson, Kinga Lampert, and William P. Lauder
Arlene Taub and Myra Biblowit
Larry Norton, MD, Wendi Rose, and Eric P. Winer, MD
Laura and Gary Lauder
Alina Cho
Elizabeth Comen and Gretta Monahan
Myra Biblowit, William P. Lauder, Nina Garcia, Donna Karan, and Kinga Lampert
Raffle items on offer.
The Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton Midtown.
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Updated: Jul 30, 2018 11:31 AM
Be sure to sign up for the Reliable Sources newsletter! Here's what happened on Sunday, July 30, 2018.
CBS board will meet on Monday
In the 48+ hours since Ronan Farrow's story about Les Moonves came out, there have been no new allegations against the CBS chief, so far as I can tell. But the accusations in the story are serious. And there's been a rising chorus of voices wondering if the company will take action.
WHAT'S NEXT: The CBS board of directors was already scheduled to meet via teleconference on Monday. Now the meeting takes on more significance...
HERE'S THE LATEST: Via Jackie Wattles, Dylan Byers and Jill Disis's story: "The board plans to form a special committee that will oversee an investigation into both Moonves and the overall culture at the network, according to two sources familiar with the matter... It will be carried out by a third-party law firm, the sources said..."
WSJ: "CBS to Weigh CEO's Fate"
- That's the headline on the front page of Monday's WSJ. "Some CBS Corp. directors discussed over the weekend whether" Moonves "should step aside from the company pending its investigation into allegations he sexually harassed women," Keach Hagey and Joe Flint report, citing people familiar with the matter.
Key quote from the story: "I think the board realizes as a whole that this is a very, very, very serious situation. While there is an important Les piece to this, really, more important to the company as a whole is that this raises serious issues with regard to culture and harassment throughout the company..."
"As many questions as answers..."
Per Deadline, CBS Films president Terry Press shared a comment on FB about Moonves. "As a fan of The New Yorker it is difficult to reconcile the portrait put forth in that piece with the man who I know today as honorable, compassionate, and a big booster of women inside CBS," Press wrote. "As is often the case, this kind of story generates as many questions as answers. I do not believe that it is my place to question the accounts put forth by the women but I do find myself asking that if we are examining the industry as it existed decades before through the lens of 2018 should we also discuss a path to learning, reconciliation, and forgiveness?"
Chen back on "The Talk" on Monday
Julie Chen, who is married to Moonves, is "scheduled to resume as a co-host on 'The Talk' on Monday," per Variety...
What Ronan Farrow told me
Ronan Farrow's incredible run of reporting proves that good work is its own calling card. Case in point: He says some of the sources for his CBS bombshell "began coming to me immediately after the Harvey Weinstein story." One of the Moonves accusers, Illeana Douglas, "called me, in fact, the day after that first Harvey Weinstein story I wrote and told me her story, and we've been carefully investigating since," Farrow said on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday morning.
We led Sunday's "Reliable" with Farrow... Here's part one of the interview, about Moonves, and part two, about the allegations against Jeff Fager and "60 Minutes." Farrow pointed out that Moonves expressed contrition while Fager "flatly denied" the charges...
Remnick: "Good journalism leads to more good journalism"
For this CNNMoney feature about Farrow, I spoke with The New Yorker editor David Remnick, as well as the man who brought Farrow to the mag, Ken Auletta.
"That NBC allowed Ronan to get away is akin to the Red Sox trading Ruth," Auletta said. "I still can't believe Ronan is only 30 and hitting home run after home run."
Remnick said the success hasn't gone to Farrow's head: "The work is the work is the work." Read the rest here...
When is Farrow's next book coming out?
Remember, it was announced back in May... "Catch and Kill" will include Farrow's account of what went wrong at NBC... So far, it doesn't have a publication date, and Farrow says only, "I'm working on it..."
What about "60 Minutes?"
On "Reliable," Farrow generously credited Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain with uncovering "substantial evidence of misconduct by Jeff Fager amongst other things." He described how Carmon and Brittain's story "was the subject of a heated battle, where The Post was subject to a lot of pressure from Fager's personal legal team." This led to one of the standout quotes in Farrow's piece: "The hypocrisy of an investigative news program shutting down an investigative print story is incredible," an anonymous CBS employee told him.
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So what's going to happen at "60?" It's too soon to know. As I mentioned on Sunday's program, Fager is on vacation and the program is in summer repeats right now. But the clock is ticking for the fall season premiere of the program.
On Friday, the CBS chief corporate compliance officer said this: "CBS previously retained attorney Betsy Plevan of Proskauer Rose to conduct an independent investigation of alleged misconduct at CBS News. Ms. Plevan's work is ongoing, and includes investigating allegations in this story. CBS has taken the allegations reported in the press seriously, and respects the role of the press in pursuing the truth, which is a role that is central to the mission of CBS News."
-- On Sunday's "Meet the Press," NBC celebrated Andrea Mitchell's four decades of reporting with the network. There was cake! (NBC)
-- I missed this from Jack Shafer: "Bill Shine thinks of the White House as his show and of himself as its top booker..." (Politico)
Media week ahead calendar
Monday: The aforementioned CBS board meeting...
Monday afternoon: POTUS will have a joint presser after meeting with the Italian prime minister...
Tuesday after the bell: Earnings from Apple... and from Tronc...
Wednesday: First day of August!
Thursday: CBS reports quarterly earnings...
Manafort trial begins this week
The jury trial is set to start on Tuesday, to be exact. The WaPo just released an ambitious new documentary about Manafort -- a deep dive titled "The Foreign Consultant" -- featuring interviews with former foreign officials and biz associates. Here's the 18-minute-long feature...
>> BTW: I mentioned in Friday's newsletter that Oliver and I were debating the best abbreviation for the Post, WashPost or WashPo. The consensus: WaPo! Which was Oliver's first choice all along...
Sulzberger v. Trump
NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger met with President Trump on July 20. Sulzberger intended for it to be off-the-record. But Trump tweeted about the meeting on Sunday morning... So the NYT issued a detailed account of what happened...
-- It was the White House that had requested the meeting in the first place, according to the paper...
-- Sulzberger and editorial page editor James Bennet attended...
-- Sulzberger said he accepted the meeting to raise concerns about "the president's deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric," particularly his "enemy of the people" talk. "I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence," Sulzberger said...
Here's Hadas Gold's full story...
This NYT story has more details...
Sulzberger got on the phone with Mark Landler and discussed the Oval Office meeting in more detail. Key grafs:
-- "Mr. Sulzberger recalled telling Mr. Trump at one point that newspapers had begun posting armed guards outside their offices because of a rise in threats against journalists. The president, he said, expressed surprise that they did not already have armed guards."
-- "Mr. Trump expressed pride in popularizing the phrase 'fake news,' and said other countries had begun banning it. Mr. Sulzberger responded that those countries were dictatorships and that they were not banning 'fake news' but rather independent scrutiny of their actions. Still, Mr. Sulzberger said, by the end of the session, he felt that Mr. Trump had listened to his arguments. The president, Mr. Sulzberger recalled, told him he was glad that he had raised those issues and would think about them."
To meet or not to meet?
I think it's a no-brainer: If the president is seeking to meet with you, and you represent a major news organization, you head to DC. Even if he's going to disregard everything you say, it's still better to try than to snub the opportunity. But some of the twitterati mocked Sulzberger for taking the meeting. What do you think?
-- Important: "MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica..." (The Guardian)
-- Casey Newton says "Facebook and YouTube never anticipated a site like Infowars..." He says "conspiracy sites keep outsmarting big tech companies..." (The Verge)
Trump v. Cohen is TV's newest drama...
...And this show has definitely been renewed for another week. On Sunday's "Reliable," I spoke with Carl Bernstein about his recent scoop and his sense that "there IS a cover-up" going on, but the details have yet to be determined.
Bernstein's main message: "We have a lot to learn, and need to keep doing our reporting." Watch the segment here...
>> Bernstein is also the subject of Margaret Sullivan's Monday WaPo column...
Let's spend more time on the facts and less time on the desperate spin ABOUT the facts. I was provoked to say this on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" when I saw Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani spinning like a top re: Michael Cohen. As this CNN story notes, he once praised Cohen as "honest," but now says Cohen has "lied all his life." Cohen, of course, has contradicted himself, too. So let's try to tune out the noise...
More "Reliable" headlines
-- WHCA prez Olivier Knox on the group's strong defense of Kaitlan Collins when she was barred from a W.H. event: "This wasn't just a defense of CNN," because "it could be someone else tomorrow..."
-- Later in the hour, FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel reiterated the agency's independence and discussed the uncertain future of Sinclair's deal-making...
-- HLN host/NY Daily News columnist S.E. Cupp on the layoffs at the paper: "I felt like it was a sucker punch..."
-- Daily News-er Reuven Blau shared this photo, while watching the segment "inside a nearly empty newsroom Sunday AM."
Catch up on "Reliable" here
Listen to the podcast via Apple Podcasts or other apps... Watch the video clips via CNN.com... Or watch the full program via CNNgo or VOD...
A front page reminder...
USA Today's centerpiece on Monday: "FENCED-IN KIDS. INFANTS SEPARATED FROM THEIR MOTHERS. DISTRAUGHT PARENTS. WAILING CHILDREN."
The story describes how the Trump admin's border separation policy has come at a "human, and political, cost..."
"City of Gold" tribute
New LATimes publisher Patrick Soon-Shiong shared this photo on Saturday night... One of many golden tributes to Jonathan Gold that were seen across the city... One week after Gold's death at age 57. Here's the "city of gold" recap by Andrea Chang...
For the record, part three
-- "Nanette," in "finding articulate expression for a pessimistic critique of stand-up," also "provides the best case for optimism for the future of the form," Jason Zinoman wrote in Sunday's paper... (NYT)
"Mission" Accomplished
Frank Pallotta writes: Mission accomplished for Paramount and Tom Cruise. "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," the sixth film in the spy series starring Cruise, opened to an estimated $61.5 million at the domestic box office this weekend. That makes "Fallout" the biggest opening in the history of the 22-year-old franchise...
An important moment for Paramount
The film exceeded industry expectations for a $50 million opening... And marked an important moment for Paramount. With the studio trying to sell a turnaround story, "Fallout" helped a lot.
"Following the surprise $332.4M success of 'A Quiet Place,' Fallout reps another big win for the Jim Gianopulos-led Paramount," Deadline's Anthony D'Alessandro said.
And the NYT's Brooks Barnes wrote: "Paramount now has undeniable momentum - something the historic studio, which is owned by Viacom, has not mustered in years..."
A reminder!
Gianopulos told Barnes: "You're always just a few good movies from turning things around..."
Also at the box office...
Brian Lowry emails: It's noteworthy to see three animated titles ("Hotel Transylvania 3," "Teen Titans Go! To the Movies" and "Incredibles 2") in the top 7 at the weekend box office. A reminder that animation is one of those genres that can buck the watch-it-at-home trend, and that kids like familiarity, given that two are sequels and the third's based on a TV show...
Amazon's big splash
Brian Lowry emails: That was a pretty dizzying volley of programming announcements from Amazon over the weekend. The new team of execs are seemingly determined to up their cred as a competitor to Netflix. As THR noted last month, that's good news for talent and their reps, if a little daunting for critics struggling to keep up...
Some of Amazon's announcements
-- The Russo Brothers are making a "groundbreaking global television franchise..." We'll see what that means...
-- JD Payne and Patrick McKay are tasked with developing the "Lord of the Rings" series...
-- Lena Waithe is exec producing "Them," an anthology series that is getting a two-season order... Season one, written by Little Marvin, "will speak to how frightening it was to be black in 1953. It will also remind us that being black in 2018 is just as horrifying," Waithe says...
-- Greg Daniels is making "Upload," a "half-hour sci-fi romantic satire..."
Reliable Sources: Moonves remains atop CBS. For now...
CBS board meets; Stock markets dip; Caterpillar earnings
Reliable Sources: POTUS rallies show hostility toward press, others
Reliable Sources: A simple question about 'enemies of the people'
Reliable Sources: Trump's story; WaPo's next book; Newseum's apology
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Strongest winds to peak in next two hours across the Midlands
Storm Brendan
'Storm Brendan' is making its way across the country with violent gusts of up to 130km/hr.
Here in the Midlands, the strongest of the winds will be experienced between now (10am) and 2pm this afternoon.
According to Ireland's Weather Channel, the Midlands will experience gusts between 120 - 130km/hr.
"Wind speeds such as 120-130km/hr for the centre of the country makes this a considerably dangerous event and I would urge people to take precautions - travel as little as possible and wait for the strongest of the winds to pass," Cathal Nolan told the Westmeath Examiner.
Cathal is also warning of a "second swathe" of high winds which will be making its way across the country, passing over the north Midlands.
"We could see second swathe from 3pm onwards, which will see winds of between 100-110km/hr."
According to his data, Cathal says a strong squall line is developing which will bring intense rainfall accompanying the high winds, bringing with it a risk of thunderstorms to the Midlands.
Currently Met Éireann has a Red marine warning in place off the West coast, and a national Orange warning for the rest of the country.
However, independent forecaster Cathal Nolan has issued a Red level warning for counties along the West coast, including Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Kerry and Cork.
He has also issued an Orange weather warning for the rest of Ireland.
The worst of the winds should have made their way through the Midlands by 6-7pm this evening.
It will however remain rather windy, between 80-90km/hr, for the rest of the evening and night, with heavy showers pushing in from the Atlantic.
The rest of the week is to remain "unstable", with a another storm system pushing its way up from the south on Tuesday (tomorrow).
While it won't be as windy as today, heavy rain meeting with a colder airmass across the country, will fall briefly as snow on high ground across the Midlands.
"We are entering an extremely unstable weather pattern over the coming days," says Cathal of Ireland's Weather Channel.
"It will bring heavy rain, strong winds, and very unsettled conditions in general."
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Man Tased by Pearl police dies of suspected drug overdose, authorities say
Autopsy ordered to determine 32-year-old man's exact cause of death
Pearl police
A 32-year-old man died Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose after a struggle with officers that ended with him being shot with a stun gun, Pearl officials said.Pearl police officers were called about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to 105 River Ridge Court after someone complained of unauthorized use of a vehicle, authorities said. When officers arrived, they spoke to the owner of the vehicle and Aloysius Mabry, city spokesman Greg Flynn said.Mabry went into a back bedroom, despite being told by officers not to, and resisted being detained, Flynn said. “Mabry struggled with officers and a gun fell out of his shorts. He was Tased and brought under control,” Flynn said. “Illegal narcotics were found in Mabry’s possession. The Pearl Fire Department and Pafford Ambulance were called and paramedics administered aid, where additional narcotics were found that he ingested.”An ambulance took Mabry, of Belzoni, to a hospital where he died Wednesday, Flynn said. An autopsy has been ordered to determine Mabry’s exact cause of death.
PEARL, Miss. —
A 32-year-old man died Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose after a struggle with officers that ended with him being shot with a stun gun, Pearl officials said.
Pearl police officers were called about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday to 105 River Ridge Court after someone complained of unauthorized use of a vehicle, authorities said. When officers arrived, they spoke to the owner of the vehicle and Aloysius Mabry, city spokesman Greg Flynn said.
Mabry went into a back bedroom, despite being told by officers not to, and resisted being detained, Flynn said.
“Mabry struggled with officers and a gun fell out of his shorts. He was Tased and brought under control,” Flynn said. “Illegal narcotics were found in Mabry’s possession. The Pearl Fire Department and Pafford Ambulance were called and paramedics administered aid, where additional narcotics were found that he ingested.”
An ambulance took Mabry, of Belzoni, to a hospital where he died Wednesday, Flynn said. An autopsy has been ordered to determine Mabry’s exact cause of death.
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Nationals/MLB
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Bryce Harper and the Nationals take the high road. Both will benefit.
The Nationals made what’s been described as a 10-year $300 million offer to Harper in September. (Nick Wass/AP)
Thomas Boswell
Sports columnist
November 7, 2018 at 3:25 PM EST
The dullest sports column is one that says: In a highly charged and controversial situation involving the largest contract in the history of American professional sports, everyone involved is acting courteously and wisely. Carry on.
In the case of Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals, we’re stuck with just such sensible, classy behavior on both sides. And both sides are benefiting.
According to The Washington Post’s Chelsea Janes, the Nats made a significant long-term contract offer to Harper on Sept. 26. He didn’t take it, but the Nats discussed terms for a new deal with Harper and his agent, Scott Boras, throughout September. Thus, groundwork has been laid and goodwill maintained.
Also, of huge importance to both, all public relations fences and private feelings remain in good order. Boras, his clients (such as Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg) and the Lerner family are always entwined. Next megadeal to consider: Anthony Rendon, who will be a free agent after 2019. Who is the Nats’ first significant offseason signing for $7 million, plus an option? Reliever Trevor Rosenthal, a Boras client. These folks flat out can’t afford a nasty fight.
My take — and hope — throughout this process has been that the Nats and Harper stay on good terms. The most likely case, just because so many scenarios are in play, is that some deal or sequence of deals gets done — the Nats sign a major free agent, or Harper gets a blow-away offer — that catalyzes a Harper departure in which no one is at fault. If so, that’s life. But don’t make Harper leave.
Because cheerful scenarios exist, too. If his best offers turn out to be from the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies, as some now suspect, with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs or New York Yankees not top bidders, then the Nats want to be in that tussle. Does brash, flashy Bryce really want to spend his life playing before old-school Cardinals fans? Or with the total-rebuild Giants? The Phillies have cash, but after Harper has truly enjoyed seven years in D.C., is Philadelphia going to win that beauty pageant showdown?
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The size of the Harper jackpot is still a mystery. While people close to the situation told Janes that the Nats’ offer was “aggressive” and one person termed it “historic,” it was less than the daydream number of $400 million that has floated around Harper for years. If you want to guess $300 million for 10 years, go ahead, but be aware that both the Nats and Boras want the highest possible number to be in circulation. That helps Boras drive up his client’s price; the Nats look fair no matter what happens and, come Rendon time, everybody’s happy.
The most candid words came from Mike Rizzo at the general managers’ meeting this week. “I’m comfortable with the alternative [to Harper re-signing],” Rizzo said, referring to the Nats’ ability to field an inexpensive but potentially very good outfield of Juan Soto, Victor Robles, Adam Eaton and Michael A. Taylor without Harper. “But I’m uncomfortable with the statement that we’re a better team without him.”
That’s true. But the Nats have an even more desperate need than Harper. They must add starting pitching if they are going to play in October while Scherzer is still excellent and signed through 2021. The Nats also need a quality reliever and, if they could afford it, upgrades at catcher and perhaps second base.
That’s why Rizzo also said, “It behooves us to have an expiration date” on waiting for Harper. The Nats will be negotiating on “parallel tracks” with free agents such as top southpaw starters Patrick Corbin and Dallas Keuchel.
This auction class is so ridiculously deep at some positions of need, especially relievers of all types, solid back-end starters and second basemen, that the Nats’ free agent cash pile may be dished out on a first-grab, first-get basis. For example, D.J. LeMahieu, a three-time Gold Glove winner at second base who won the batting title in 2016 (at .348) and is still only 30, isn’t even listed among the top 25 free agents by MLB.com.
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Without a doubt, the Nats’ big contract offer and the September talks improve their chances of retaining Harper. Harper and Boras now have a stake to put in the ground, establishing a minimum Harper value. Does that gift to Harper — because no deal offered Sept. 26 is likely to get done — come with an unspoken quid pro quo? Do the Nats now get the final phone call before any deal gets done?
The Nats have given Harper another negotiating gift with other teams. Their big offer is an endorsement of his character — on the field and off. The Nats know him best, vastly better than any other team possibly could, and they want him.
Now we enter baseball arcana. The Nats have done more than merely stay on friendly terms. In my view, based on last winter’s free agent market, the Nats now have an inherent advantage over any other team in signing Harper.
Because the Nats made a one-year qualifying offer to Harper last week, which he naturally rejected, any team that signs Harper as a free agent will be penalized — fairly severely. Only the Nats avoid such a penalty. How big is this “draft-pick forfeiture” for signing a free agent who has rejected a qualifying offer? Fortunately for our sanity, all the teams likely to go after Harper are in the same “forfeiture tier.” They would lose their second-highest pick in the 2019 draft and give up $500,000 in international bonus pool money.
That’s a lot of forfeiting.
How much is such a penalty worth in future lost wins above replacement (WAR) for those players you will never get to draft or sign? Every team’s analytics department would have a different number. But my estimate is that some teams put the career value of those lost players at $25 million to $50 million.
Since 1996, the Nats/Expos’ second-highest picks, who would have been forfeited in such a scenario, include future all-stars Milton Bradley and Brandon Phillips, as well as Drew Storen, Sammy Solis and Andrew Stephenson.
With international money, the Nats signed Victor Robles for $225,000, while Wilmer Difo, Reynaldo Lopez and Pedro Severino signed for about $100,000 combined. Juan Soto, their second-priciest international signing ever, got $1.5 million.
When the final Harper deal gets done, Team X would have to pay more than $250 million in salary while also losing a valuable draft pick and future international players, some of them possible standouts. The Nats would “only” have to fork over the cash. That’s called having an edge.
Who says that civility and mutual respect can’t be newsworthy? Harper and Boras just got their stake in the ground. And the Nats have shown Rendon and future homegrown players that they can play free agency in any of several ways. Like Ryan Zimmerman, they can sign two years early and be set for life with a $100 million extension. Like Jordan Zimmermann and Ian Desmond, they can turn down deals worth more than $100 million a year or two early and take their chances on the direction of their careers. Like Strasburg, they can sign six months early, at a team discount, and have peace of mind in what would otherwise have been their walk year. Or they can go free agent, like Harper, and still get an honorable offer before they leave, which puts a floor under their value.
It says here that this is the way you do business if you want long-term success with smooth, respectful long-term relationships within your industry.
Harper may or may not play for the Nats again. But other than simply outbidding the universe, this is the way you maximize the chances that he will.
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Trump tweet, NFL response escalate drama of Sunday games
Fans walk up Wembley Way as they arrive for an NFL football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Baltimore Ravens at Wembley Stadium in London, Sunday Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) more >
By DAVE CAMPBELL - Associated Press - Sunday, September 24, 2017
The owners of the Baltimore Ravens, the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots and other teams on Sunday joined a chorus of NFL executives criticizing President Donald Trump’s suggestion that they fire players who kneel for the national anthem.
The statements, including those from Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, contrasted a morning tweet from Trump and further escalated the political drama of the league’s game day, which was expected to be one of the most-watched for non-sporting reasons in years.
Bisciotti said he “100 percent” supports his players’ decision to kneel during the national anthem. At least seven of them did, joined by more than a dozen Jacksonville Jaguars, before the teams played at Wembley Stadium in London.
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Other players linked arms - and Jaguars owner Shad Khan joined them, standing between tight end Marcedes Lewis and linebacker Telvin Smith. He called it a privilege to do so.
Kraft, who has been a strong backer of the president, expressed “deep disappointment” with Trump and said politicians could learn much from the unifying spirit of a competitive, team-oriented enterprise like football.
“Our players are intelligent, thoughtful, and care deeply about our community and I support their right to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful,” Kraft said in a statement.
Cleveland Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam wrote that they didn’t want to let “misguided, uninformed and divisive comments from the President or anyone else deter us from our efforts to unify,” and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin told CBS his team wouldn’t be on the field when the anthem plays before the Steelers game in Chicago. He doesn’t want his players to be divided between those who kneel and those who stand, he said.
“We’re not going to be divided by anything said by anyone,” Tomlin said. “We’re not going to let divisive times or divisive individuals affect our agenda.”
Haslam’s brother, Bill, is the Republican governor of Tennessee.
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the kneeling movement last year when he played for the San Francisco 49ers, refusing to stand during “The Star-Spangled Banner” to protest the treatment of black people by police. Kaepernick became a free agent and has not been signed by a new team for this season.
Without identifying Kaepernick, Trump aimed a Friday talk at a Huntsville, Alabama, rally at those players who have knelt for the anthem.
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, you’d say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired,’” he said to loud applause.
Again in a Sunday morning tweet, Trump urged his supporters to take action: “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!”
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin followed up Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” defending Trump, saying the NFL has many rules governing what players can and cannot do.
“I think what the president is saying is that the owners should have a rule that players should have to stand in respect for the national anthem,” Mnuchin said. “They can do free speech on their own time.”
Trump’s remarks provoked team owners and the NFL to stridently defend the sport and its players. Commissioner Roger Goodell, who has taken heat for Kaepernick’s struggle to find a team, quickly condemned Trump’s comments.
“The NFL and our players are at our best when we help create a sense of unity in our country and our culture. There is no better example than the amazing response from our clubs and players to the terrible natural disasters we’ve experienced over the last month,” Goodell said.
“Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities.”
At least seven team owners donated $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural committee. But Los Angeles Chargers owner Dean Spanos , Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank , New York Giants owners John Mara and Steve Tisch, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, Tennessee Titans’ controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk, Detroit Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford and San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York were among the league power brokers who issued condemning statements through their clubs.
“The callous and offensive comments made by the president are contradictory to what this great country stands for,” York said.
“Our players have exercised their rights as United States citizens in order to spark conversation and action to address social injustice. We will continue to support them in their peaceful pursuit of positive change in our country and around the world.”
Added Green Bay Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy: “We believe it is important to support any of our players who choose to peacefully express themselves with the hope of change for good. As Americans, we are fortunate to be able to speak openly and freely.”
This weekend’s games were sure to bring more protests, with Tampa Bay receiver DeSean Jackson promising to make “a statement.”
“I know our players who kneeled for the anthem, and these are smart young men of character who want to make our world a better place for everyone,” Ross said.
“They wanted to start a conversation and are making a difference in our community, including working with law enforcement to bring people together. We all can benefit from learning, listening and respecting each other.”
AP Sports Writer John Wawrow in Buffalo, New York, contributed to this report.
For more NFL coverage: https://www.pro32.ap.org and https://www.twitter.com/AP_NFL
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Harrison Bergeron
By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Central to the American creed is the principle of equality, beginning with the notion that all human beings possess certain fundamental rights and equal standing before the law. Our concern for equality has expanded over the past half century to focus also on inequalities in opportunities, wealth, achievement, and social condition. What good is an equal right to pursue happiness if one lacks the native gifts or the social means to exercise it successfully? In this satirical story (1961), set in a future time in which “everybody was finally equal . . . every which way,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007) challenges our devotion to equality and invites us to consider the costs of pursuing it too zealously. Although the story is not explicitly about racial, ethnic, or gender equality, the questions it provokes about the kind of equality we should want, and the costs of pursuing it, are relevant also to campaigns to eliminate inequalities among racial and ethnic groups or between the sexes.
Does the society portrayed here represent a fulfillment of the ideal of equality in the Declaration of Independence, or rather a perversion of the principle? Does opposing invidious distinctions, envy, and feelings of inferiority require reducing all to the lowest common denominator, and is this the true path to “social justice”? Would homogeneity attained by artificially raising up the low, producing a nation of Harrisons rather than a nation of Hazels—a prospect offered by biotechnological “enhancement”—be any more attractive?
Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about.
On the television screen were ballerinas.
A buzzer sounded in George’s head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.
“That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did,” said Hazel.
“Huh?” said George.
“That dance—it was nice,” said Hazel.
“Yup,” said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash-weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. But he didn’t get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.
George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas.
Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been.
“Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer,” said George.
“I’d think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds,” said Hazel, a little envious. “All the things they think up.”
“Um,” said George.
“Only, if I was Handicapper General, you know what I would do?” said Hazel. Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers. “If I was Diana Moon Glampers,” said Hazel, “I’d have chimes on Sunday—just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion.”
“I could think, if it was just chimes,” said George.
“Well—maybe make ’em real loud,” said Hazel. “I think I’d make a good Handicapper General.”
“Good as anybody else,” said George.
“Who knows better’n I do what normal is?” said Hazel.
“Right,” said George. He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.
“Boy!” said Hazel, “that was a doozy, wasn’t it?”
It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes. Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples.
“All of a sudden you look so tired,” said Hazel. “Why don’t you stretch out on the sofa, so’s you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch.” She was referring to the forty-seven pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George’s neck. “Go on and rest the bag for a little while,” she said. “I don’t care if you’re not equal to me for a while.”
George weighed the bag with his hands. “I don’t mind it,” he said. “I don’t notice it any more. It’s just a part of me.”
“You been so tired lately—kind of wore out,” said Hazel. “If there was just some way we could make a little hole in the bottom of the bag, and just take out a few of them lead balls. Just a few.”
“Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I took out,” said George. “I don’t call that a bargain.”
“If you could just take a few out when you came home from work,” said Hazel. “I mean—you don’t compete with anybody around here. You just set around.”
“If I tried to get away with it,” said George, “then other people’d get away with it—and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. You wouldn’t like that, would you?”
“I’d hate it,” said Hazel.
“There you are,” said George. “The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you think happens to society?”
If Hazel hadn’t been able to come up with an answer to this question, George couldn’t have supplied one. A siren was going off in his head.
“Reckon it’d fall all apart,” said Hazel.
“What would?” said George blankly.
“Society,” said Hazel uncertainly. “Wasn’t that what you just said?”
“Who knows?” said George.
The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn’t clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, “Ladies and gentlemen—”
He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read.
“That’s all right—” Hazel said of the announcer, “he tried. That’s the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.”
“Ladies and gentlemen—” said the ballerina, reading the bulletin. She must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men.
And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. “Excuse me—” she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
“Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,” she said in a grackle squawk, “has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.”
A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen— upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up. The picture showed the full length of Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches. He was exactly seven feet tall.
The rest of Harrison’s appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever borne heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.
Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard. In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds.
And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random.
“If you see this boy,” said the ballerina, “do not—I repeat, do not—try to reason with him.”
There was the shriek of a door being torn from its hinges.
Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set. The photograph of Harrison Bergeron on the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake.
George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have—for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune. “My God—” said George, “that must be Harrison!”
The realization was blasted from his mind instantly by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.
When George could open his eyes again, the photograph of Harrison was gone. A living, breathing Harrison filled the screen.
Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand. Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die.
“I am the Emperor!” cried Harrison. “Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!” He stamped his foot and the studio shook.
“Even as I stand here—” he bellowed, “crippled, hobbled, sickened—I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!”
Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds.
Harrison’s scrap-iron handicaps crashed to the floor.
Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall.
He flung away his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder.
“I shall now select my Empress!” he said, looking down on the cowering people. “Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne!”
A moment passed, and then a ballerina arose, swaying like a willow.
Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped off her physical handicaps with marvelous delicacy. Last of all, he removed her mask.
She was blindingly beautiful. “Now—” said Harrison, taking her hand, “shall we show the people the meaning of the word dance? Music!” he commanded.
The musicians scrambled back into their chairs, and Harrison stripped them of their handicaps, too. “Play your best,” he told them, “and I’ll make you barons and dukes and earls.”
The music began. It was normal at first—cheap, silly, false. But Harrison snatched two musicians from their chairs, waved them like batons as he sang the music as he wanted it played. He slammed them back into their chairs.
The music began again and was much improved.
Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while—listened gravely, as though synchronizing their heartbeats with it.
They shifted their weights to their toes.
Harrison placed his big hands on the girl’s tiny waist, letting her sense the weightlessness that would soon be hers.
And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang!
Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well.
They reeled, whirled, swiveled, flounced, capered, gamboled, and spun.
They leaped like deer on the moon.
The studio ceiling was thirty feet high, but each leap brought the dancers nearer to it.
It became their obvious intention to kiss the ceiling.
They kissed it.
And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling, and they kissed each other for a long, long time.
It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor.
Diana Moon Glampers loaded the gun again. She aimed it at the musicians and told them they had ten seconds to get their handicaps back on.
It was then that the Bergerons’ television tube burned out.
Hazel turned to comment about the blackout to George.
But George had gone out into the kitchen for a can of beer.
George came back in with the beer, paused while a handicap signal shook him up. And then he sat down again. “You been crying?” he said to Hazel.
“Yup,” she said.
“What about?” he said.
“I forget,” she said. “Something real sad on television.”
“What was it?” he said.
“It’s all kind of mixed up in my mind,” said Hazel.
“Forget sad things,” said George.
“I always do,” said Hazel.
“That’s my girl,” said George. He winced. There was the sound of a riveting gun in his head.
“Gee—I could tell that one was a doozy,” said Hazel.
“You can say that again,” said George.
“Gee—” said Hazel, “I could tell that one was a doozy.”
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. “Harrison Bergeron.” From Welcome to the Monkey House. Copyright © 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House, Inc. for permission.
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4 Discussions Posted
Natalie on April 10, 2015 at 5:26 pm | Reply
This was a very interesting futuristic story I was a bit perplexed by the fact that the handicap people with hearing aids could still hear the music they were playing but overall it was great it really grabbed my attention and made me want to read more I’m sure adults would like and understand it more
OKeilia Phinn on December 17, 2015 at 3:04 pm | Reply
This story was very intresting .It says Dystopia all over it. It really grabbed my attention when Harrison tried to stand out .It really is good to stand out and not to follow.
Eli Daniel Martin on March 10, 2017 at 3:26 pm | Reply
I really enjoyed the story. It shows that in today’s world we are slowly moving towards this problem. Of course we are FAR from the story, but the world today loves to weed out competition when possible.
Gracie Shafter on August 18, 2017 at 7:51 pm | Reply
Wow this was a very interesting story! The whole time while reading this I was wondering if more than once something very similar to what happens in the story has occurred but everyone had forgotten it because of the handicapped that make them forget what had occurred. This story is really thought out and I do feel like something close to it might happen in the future if we don’t exspress our differences in a good way.
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Med Khedi - Village
Madhya Pradesh Sheopur Sheopur Med Khedi
State - Madhya Pradesh District - Sheopur Block - Sheopur Local Language - Hindi, Hadoti
About Med Khedi village
Med Khedi is a village positioned in Sheopur Block of Sheopur district in Madhya Pradesh. Positioned in rural area of Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, it is one of the 241 villages of Sheopur Block of Sheopur district. As per the administration records, the village number of Med Khedi is 451805. The village has 152 houses.
Population of Med Khedi village
According to Census 2011, Med Khedi's population is 695. Out of this, 374 are males while the females count 321 here. This village has 100 kids in the age group of 0-6 years. Out of this 55 are boys and 45 are girls.
Literacy rate of Med Khedi village
Literacy ratio in Med Khedi village is 41%. 288 out of total 695 population is educated here. In males the literacy rate is 50% as 189 males out of total 374 are educated whereas female literacy rate is 30% as 99 out of total 321 females are literate in this Village.
The Negative portion is that illiteracy ratio of Med Khedi village is shockingly high -- 58%. Here 407 out of total 695 people are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 49% as 185 males out of total 374 are uneducated. In females the illiteracy ratio is 69% and 222 out of total 321 females are illiterate in this village.
Agricultural status of Med Khedi village
The number of working individual of Med Khedi village is 362 yet 333 are un-employed. And out of 362 occupied person 65 peoples are entirely dependent on farming.
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John Muir Trust urges Scottish Government to protect wild areas
Posted By National Wind Watch On March 17, 2014 @ 10:02 am In Scotland | Comments Disabled
A leading conservation charity is urging politicians to put wild areas before money.
With the Scottish Government due to debate new National Planning Framework on Tuesday, the John Muir Trust has warned MSPs not to bow to commercial pressure from energy firms.
Four of the “Big Six” – Scottish Power, SSE, EDF and E.ON – hit out at proposed safeguards for unspoiled beauty spots earlier this year.
They have already advised First Minister Alex Salmond to abandon changes which would make it harder for them to build windfarms on wild land and warned it would seriously damage his chances of meeting his green energy targets.
The John Muir Trust fears this lobbying could “sabotage” the wild land map developed by Scottish Natural Heritage.
A commitment to strong protection for wildest landscapes was removed from the latest draft of the National Planning Framework and the trust has contacted every MSP in advance of the debate, calling for this to be reinstated.
John Muir Trust head of policy Helen McDade said: “We are urging MSPs from across all parties to stand up for Scotland’s wild land against powerful financial interests who see it as a commodity to be exploited for money, rather than a national treasure to be protected.
“Over the past year, the Scottish Government and Scottish Natural Heritage have come under pressure from energy companies and some private landowners to scrap or diminish the core areas of the wild land map.
“They demanded that the wild land map be put out to public consultation. That consultation has now been completed and the results underline the fact that the energy companies are in a small minority in their opposition to a wild land map of Scotland.”
Article printed from National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News: https://www.wind-watch.org/news
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It can be hard to predict, especially in the tech industry, the jobs and skills of tomorrow. Still, it’s possible to build a solid foundation in the meantime—especially for those honing widely applicable skills as front-line support agents. Take it from Leah Guest, whose training ground in Tier 1 support became a jumping-off point for her current position as a Voice of the Customer Platform Coordinator at Zendesk.
Before her first day on the job, Leah had her sights set on becoming a user experience designer. Though the role she was looking for wasn’t available at that moment, she worked hard to position herself as the logical choice when the timing was right. Starting as a Tier 1 customer advocate at Zendesk’s San Francisco office, Leah rose the support ranks to become a Tier 2 technical support engineer, and now holds a role that didn’t even exist when she started—one that combines her support expertise and UX aspirations in a completely unexpected way.
Figuring a role on the support team would allow her to master the product and become known across teams for her expertise, Leah made the right call. She now helps collect customer feedback in order to align Zendesk’s product roadmap with the needs and pain points of customers. Looking back on her career journey, Leah shares four tips for anyone looking to grow in their support role—or perhaps spread their wings into new territory.
1. Meet, greet, and maintain connections with anyone you find interesting, regardless of their team or title
Seeking out unofficial mentors is a great way to apply a growth mindset while also learning important business context. That’s why Leah was quick to grab coffee with anyone on the design or product teams who were willing to discuss how they could better work with the Advocacy team.
“I was doing this to create a connection with designers or project managers who I wanted to help me down the line, but I started getting very invested in my own support department,” Leah says. “I wanted to learn how we could work together to improve our product.”
The unexpected spark Leah experienced as a liaison between the Zendesk product and customers left her wondering if, perhaps, remaining in a support role was the best move. The uncertainty, though a bit scary, motivated her to explore more areas of the Zendesk business and product.
Before long, everyone was getting a coffee invite—anyone involved in an interesting project was fair game. These meetings served as Leah’s unofficial education into the Advocacy team, where she learned new things and networked with folks in other roles. For example, she was able to assist with a Voice of the Customer project before even applying for the team, and with an early access program with the product team. Even if people don’t need help at that moment, they’ll remember your name when the time is right, Leah advises.
“I started to realize that there were so many directions I could grow within support,” Leah says. “The experience that I had gained as a Tier 1 advocate, where I knew about every part of the product and saw hundreds of different customer use cases a week, made it super easy to market myself for new positions.”
2. Even if you don’t think you’re ready, go for the role
Don’t be afraid to apply for open roles in higher levels, especially if you’ve already started networking and doing the legwork to learn more about the business.
“I didn’t apply for a Tier 2 support role the first time it became available because I didn’t think I was qualified, and I regretted it,” Leah says. “Even if you don’t get a role, you’ll learn and grow from the experience.”
3. That said, put in some extra work—but try not to think of it as work
Excelling at your current role while exploring new growth opportunities is one of the biggest challenges, Leah says.
“When I was working on side projects for the Voice of the Customer program, I was still expected to maintain the same high metrics for my support role,” Leah recalls. “I’ve internally transferred twice now, and both times, I had already put in work that was required of the job before I got the promotion.”
But putting in the effort is well worth it in the end. When Leah was a Tier 1 agent with aspirations for Tier 2, for example, she took the initiative to reach out and ask those agents about the tools and skills they used to solve the tickets. She took a similar approach before her current role opened on the Voice of the Customer team. Leah met with her current manager to present a problem statement, a write-up of a customer’s real-life issue, to Zendesk product team leaders. In the end, that presentation served as a roadmap for features that addressed the issues.
“I was able to point to the success of projects I had already done to position myself as a desirable candidate, and it worked!” she says.
4. Don’t be set on a title
“What really intrigued me about a support job was the fact that I was going to have the opportunity to really become an expert at a product, and I knew companies would find that valuable,” Leah says. “Voice of the Customer wasn’t even a job when I started at Zendesk. Be open to new opportunities and other roles and paths. You might surprise yourself with where your career will take you.”
More first-hand career tips from Zendesk advocates:
Carl McDowell approaches every support ticket like a puzzle—learn what drives him to solve them.
Esperanza “Zsa” Trias, on how to grow in your support role
Teresa Rosado-Sanna, takes an international approach to customer support—and real life.
Abel Martin, on building great internal partnerships
Arthur Mori, on what everyone should know about Tier 1 support
Benjamin Towne, on mentoring and offering constructive criticism
Rodney Lewis, on setting up an internal shadowing program
Sarah Kay, on her move from advocate to data analyst
Ramona Lopez, on rolling out an advocate recognition program
Aurash Pourmand, on practicing customer empathy
Anna Lee Ledesma, on the skill every great chat agent needs to have
Mark Fado, on providing dedicated 1:1 client support
Justin Helley, on advocacy training and development
Guillaume Deleeuw, on problem-solving in Tier 2 technical support
DeShawn Witter, on providing support in your community
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YA that will definitely bring the boys out.
Okay, you say that there's not enough YA for boys? Here, gentlemen, is a title that should tide you over.
At least for a little while.
Carver Young is an orphan. He has no idea about who his parents are, or what happened to them, but he does know one thing: he is meant to be a detective. Of course, that's a bit of a dream when you're living in an orphanage and reading dime novels to make use of your time. However, everything changes for him when he's adopted by retired (cantankerous, eccentric - well, let's just say he's crazy) Pinkerton detective Albert Hawkings - you know, of the Pinkerton Detectives?
...Anyone?
Okay, let's just say that there were awesome. But look them up later.
Hawkings offers Carver a chance at a leg-up into the world of intrigue that he wants to be part of, with his own unique mission: find his biological father. Sounds like wading through phone books and old genealogical charts, right? But Carver finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a different web of circumstance than he thought: a serial killer, right on the streets of New York City, and he seems to be the only one to hold the clues to solving it all.
But, as the author says on the back cover, "You'll never guess how. Or why..."
Well, maybe you might.
Let me tell you: if you're looking for lots of historical truths that are way weirder than fiction (an old-lady cat killer! A hidden subway! An asylum hidden on an island!), chase scenes, street fights and gruesomely murdered bodies, this is the read for you. But, I'd steer clear of it if you're the type of person who gets frustrated with easy clues, almost-to-the-letter predicable twists and...well, some major writing gaffs.
And I quote, "Carver swooned."
...Swooned? Do boys swoon? And doesn't swooning involve a lot of hand-to-the-forehead, delicate sighs of distress, rolling eyes and buckling knees?
Carver lightly falls into a kneeling position on the floor. There is no hyperventilating involved.
Also, boys don't swoon.
They manfully stumble under pressure. They bend, not break.
But, to be fair, that's pretty much the only part of the book that really rubbed me the wrong way. I couldn't put it down, and I even mentioned to my sister that this is definitely something teenage boys will probably enjoy.
And the historical figures - Theodore Roosevelt and Alice and there's a mention of Nellie Bly! Have I ever told you how much I admire Nellie Bly?
Kaye M. Top 500 Reviewer 14 reviews
"Reader reviewed by librariane Another book to schlep to kids who like Lemony Snicket. The Darling children have known..."
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Impyrium
Nexus (The Androma Saga #2)
Wicked (A Wicked Saga #1)
Awake at Dawn (Shadow Falls #2)
Skylark (Skylark #1)
The Initiation (Lock and Key)
Love and Other Perishable Items
Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief #5)
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Deadmau5 Did A Legendary Coffee Run With Dillon Francis & Skrillex 5 Years Ago
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A lot has changed in the past five years for Deadmau5: he’s gotten married, debuted a new cube, and now he’s bros with Martin Garrix. But way back when, he had an amazing concept called Coffee Run which saw him driving around with his DJ friends and just talking to them.
Five years ago, the most legendary episode of the series aired, when Deadmau5 drove the streets of Toronto with not only Dillon Francis, but also Skrillex. The 90-minute long video tackles everything from Motörhead to Godzilla to cars, production, touring, and, of course, coffee.
Each of these artists’ lives has drastically changed in the past five years. Put your feet up, and watch this legendary blast from the past below.
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Grado Tweaks Its New Headphone Line for a Big Sonic Boost
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From the outside, you won’t notice much different about Grado's new e Series headphone lineup. The whole gang, from the bargain-priced SR60e headphones ($80) to the top-of-the-line PS1000e professional headphones ($1,700), look pretty much the same as their predecessors. They’ve all got the same classic look, and they’re still all open-backed, made more for listening at home than in public.
But on the inside, it's a different story. Grado has tinkered with all the materials and components in order to squeeze every last drop of sonic fidelity out of its new line. They’ve redesigned the housings, changing the way the wood in each headphone is cut and cured in order to make the sound quality more consistent.
Grado says the new woodwork helps keep resonance from interfering with each driver. The interplay between the neodymium magnets and the voice coils in each headphone has also been tweaked, and the company is using stronger, lighter glue in its new cans.
These alterations have been applied to every set of Grado on-ear and over-ear headphones; the only models that haven’t undergone the changes are the company’s in-ear variations. Like previous generations, the e Series will come with 3.5mm connectors (and 6.5mm adapters) standard, except for the the higher-end GS100e and PS1000e; those come with 6.5mm connectors and 3.5mm adapters.
Oh, and those connectors? They’re coated in crazy-expensive rhodium so they won’t corrode.
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Giving back feels good.
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi. These words rang true when Haval Motor Southern Africa commenced their second leg of the 2019 Haval Outreach expedition. The first week was about the cars and the scenery that is the Panorama Route in Mpumalanga but the second leg will forever be remembered as the time Haval Motors SA sought to be the change they wanted to see in the world.
The team of Haval staffers and their trusted fleet of Haval SUVs and the GWM Steed 5E Double Cab met the group of Lifestyle Magazine scribes and social media influencers for the second leg at the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport for what promised to be a week filled with sights, sounds and great memories in the making. After a stop in Hazyview to refresh and replenish, the convoy headed towards the other end of the Blyde River Canyon for their stop over at the Swadini Resort. The evening was the opportunity for Rhino conservationists to brief the group on what was going to happen the following day. Haval Motors SA made a contribution in the form of monetary support to Rhino conservation in the Klaserie Game Reserve. These funds went directly towards assistance in the dehorning program that is currently ongoing in the area in and around South Africa’s primary game reserve, The Kruger National Park.
The current rhino poaching crisis began in 2008, with increasing numbers of rhino killed for their horn throughout Africa until 2015. For the past couple of years, the total number of rhinos poached has thankfully decreased, yet there is still a lot to do to ensure all rhinos thrive. South Africa holds nearly 80% of the world’s rhinos and has been the country hit hardest by poaching criminals, with more than 1,000 rhinos killed each year between 2013 and 2017. For this reason, Haval Motors made the contribution to help assist in the process of conserving this amazing species in the area. Rhino dehorning is not a pleasant thing to witness. Just the mention of it evokes a sense of brutality. It is a sad reality that in order to help save rhino species from the threat of poaching, the pre-emptive removal of their horns in a safe, controlled manner has become one of the necessary and highly effective management tools for conservationists to deter poachers.
It is important to note that the rhino horn is essentially an overgrown fingernail – made mostly of a tightly-packed protein called keratin. Even though rhino dehorning requires a chainsaw and even an angle grinder, the process is carried out by an experienced veterinarian and is a painless experience for the animal under sedation.
So with all this information in mind and with a tentative level of excitement and a large measure of seriousness the group made its way to Klaserie Game Reserve to meet the skilled crew that had gathered for the dehorning mission. Upon arrival the Haval Outreach Expedition members were met by a team some 20 people strong with various vehicles including a grounded helicopter at the entrance to the reserve. After being welcomed by a member of the National Parks Board, the team was briefed by the lead veterinarian who would be responsible for the animal during its procedure. We were told that a spotter plane had localized a group of Rhino that had three dehorned and two with their horns intact and these would be the animals today’s activity would help. The wildlife vet, a “veteran” of successful rhino dehornings, delivered an important safety briefing to all those present and who would be involved in the rhino dehorning operation. In these operations the vet always calls the shots for the safety of both the rhino and the people working with it. All involved are warned not to get anywhere near the dart’s entry point, as contact with the drug can have serious effects on a human. The vet does carry an emergency antidote at all times in case of accidental human contact.
When everyone was briefed, the game viewer vehicles were embarked while the helicopter, now in the air, circled above an area visible from our starting point. We set off towards the area with careful haste in cold 3 degree weather. With continuous radio contact, the helicopter radioed that the animal had been successfully darted and the team made the approach. Every precaution is taken to ensure that rhino dehorning is as stress-free for the animal as possible. This begins with sedation by a dart administered from the helicopter, containing a powerful opioid drug. Once the animal is under sedation, the sedative is partially reversed. This is so that the animal can continue to breathe unassisted. Its eyes are covered with a large blindfold; its ears are plugged to drown out sound. The immobilisation drugs have no lasting effects on the animals. Upon arrival at the majestic beast perched peacefully as if asleep, a silence befell the group as the work began. As if trained in mercenary like fashion, the team went about their business with members of the expedition fulfilling key roles under the watchful eye of the three veterinarians present. Once the operation was completed, the ground crew moved off to a safe distance and the veterinarian administered the antidote to wake the animal. The veterinarian positioned himself strategically to observe the animal coming around and ensured that the individual made a full recovery before leaving it. The adult male Rhino got up, looked around and proceeded to gallop off into the African savannah as if he had had his nails clipped. It was a moving experience and all present were in awe. “We saved that creatures life!” said one of the influencers with a lump in his throat.
The day ended with a trip through Bushbuck Ridge back towards Hazyview to the next stop over for the evening at the Protea Hotel Hazyview. That night’s dinner table was a rumble of reminiscing and talks about the once in a lifetime experience everyone present had witnessed with thoughts and sentiments resounding with the good deed completed that day.
After a good night’s rest, it was off to Graskop Gorge for excitement in the form of the Gorge Swing or Zip lining as well as a lift trip to the bottom of the Gorge for a hike in the rainforest. The Lifestyle press and influencers got the opportunity to drive the vehicles during the trip to Graskop and from Graskop towards the tourist attractions like God’s Window, Berlin falls and the back to Hazyview.
On the final day the group travelled towards White River just outside Nelspruit for the next stop at the White River Child Welfare Camp site. A camp site set up for foster children and their foster parents. Upon arrival the Havals were met by the melodic sounds of children singing a song of welcome to the group of weary travellers. Child Welfare SA White River is situated in the scenic Lowveld of Mpumalanga. The town of White River is surrounded by mountains, forests, waterfalls and other beautiful attractions which nature has to offer. Despite the beauty and serenity of this tourist hub, White River is not excluded from the social ills which plague communities all over our country. Social problems include the HIV/AIDS pandemic, child abuse, exploitation and neglect, unemployment, poverty, domestic violence, child trafficking and children made orphaned and vulnerable by HIV and AIDS and other diseases. In response to the above-mentioned social problems, Child Welfare SA White River was established in 1991 as an affiliated member organisation of Child Welfare South Africa. Child Welfare South Africa is an umbrella body with 263 affiliates, outreach projects and developing organisations across the country. Established in 1924, Child Welfare SA is the oldest and largest non-governmental child protection organisation in South Africa. What with the fact that Child Welfare is in such dire need of funding, a small handover ceremony was held where Haval Motors South Africa handed over a donation cheque. Greeted with smiles and waves and more singing, the convoy set off to Kruger Mpumalanga International to drop off guests followed by the last leg, the trip back to the head office in Johannesburg.
Simone Nortmann Pretorius Actor/Influencer had this to say after the event: “Adventuring with Haval SA on their Outreach Expedition might have been the most enriching experience I’ve had this year. I get excited when big global companies invest their time, resources and energy in making the world a better place, and Haval exceeded my expectations in every way - from the courteous team behind the organization, the intentional and thoughtful activities, as well as the impressive and smooth ride of the H6C - I feel incredibly honoured for the opportunity to have accompanied and witnessed the work Haval SA does behind the scenes, and I’m excited to see them making big waves in the South African motor industry.”
Louw Lemmer Photographer/Influencer left the experience with this sentiment; “Your life can be changed at any given moment. But if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that you cannot predict when it will happen. This is exactly how I felt about the Haval Outreach Expedition. Pure, life-changing enthrallment on a scale I could only dream of.”
Mbali Mkhize Public Figure/Influencer made this statement on her platform; “Day 2: Today was one of the most fulfilling days of my life, I was filled with so much emotion and pride because I was a part of saving a Rhino’s life.
It’s no secret that poaching is a serious problem all over the world, increasingly in South Africa; rhinos are an endangered species because of Poachers who will do anything for their Horns! Poachers are ruthless and have no mercy when hunting down rhinos for their Horns, leaving a lot of rhinos to die.
In order to conserve and protect these precious animals, extreme measures have to be taken, increased security, sniffer dogs, armed security guards 24/7 and to remove the horns off the Rhinos (Term: dehorning) by Vets and trained professionals safely, just like a finger nail the rhino horn grows back fully and done by doctors and trained professionals, it’s painless and it doesn’t affect the Rhino’s health in anyway.
I was a bit hesitant to post because I wanted to really share the true essence of today with you guys and most importantly bring awareness to Rhino Conservation, I wasn’t sure how I would do that but I knew I had to speak from the heart. I’m very emotional as I type this because It’s so sad that our Animals can’t even roam freely without being in danger in their own natural habitants with that being said, I would like to thank @havalsouthafrica for taking me on such an emotional journey and donating not only money but resources to this wonderful cause, the Specially trained Vets and every single person who took part in saving a rhinos life today and every day.”
Haval Motor South Africa has shown a huge growth spurt since their entry into the South African motor Industry landscape going from three dealers in 2017 to an astronomical 53 in just two years of operation without losing their levels of service due to the awards recently obtained from NADA. Great Wall Motor Corporation the holding company of Haval SA launched a global strategy earlier in 2019 to endeavour to make Haval a global brand, naming the strategy “one Haval one world”. In doing so the market leader in the Chinese Automobile market has set a keen emphasis on the South African market, their biggest sales arena outside of China. This shows their commitment to Chinese South Africa business relations in creating jobs through not only the subsidiary but also the many dealerships that are now open as well as foreign investment into South Africa. Philanthropy exercises like the Outreach Expedition are near and dear to Haval Motors South Africa and have been and will be in the future, an annual exercise to assist in social upliftment in terms of causes that are in dire need of corporate intervention through donations and support. The 2019 Haval Outreach Expedition came and went however the lasting impressions left were that of gratitude, humility and the fact that doing good for others feels so good and Haval Motors SA is proud to commit to continue to be the change they want to see in the world.
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Katy Perry and Lena Dunham Had A Girls’ Night in Los Angeles
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Cindy Ord
As gala season kicks into full gear in New York City in the coming weeks, this week's set of parties spanned the globe, ranging from intimate movie screenings to a glamorous cocktail party that drew out top Insta-girls, including Jasmine Sanders, in Switzerland. The party set started off in Los Angeles, for the Human Rights Campaign 2017 Gala Dinner, which brought out the likes of Lena Dunham, Katy Perry, and America Ferreira, while in Paris, Scarlett Johansson premiered her latest film, Ghost In The Shell. Here, all of the parties you missed.
Lena Dunham speaks onstage at The Human Rights Campaign 2017 Los Angeles Gala Dinner in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
Lena Dunham blows a kiss as she exists the stage at The Human Rights Campaign 2017 gala dinner, held in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Troye Sivan and Katy Perry at The Human Rights Campaign 2017 Los Angeles Gala Dinner.
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At the same event, Katy Perry posed with Troye Sivan, showing off her new blond crop.
Kiernan Shipka attends A24 and DirecTV with The Cinema Society Host a Screening of The Blackcoat's Daughter (Getty Images)
In New York City, Kiernan Shipka attended a screening of her new, very spooky film The Blackcoat's Daughter, dressing for spring in a floral Rosie Assoulin dress.
Emma Roberts attends a screening of The Blackcoat's Daughter hosted by A24 and DirecTV with The Cinema Society at Landmark Sunshine Cinema.
Shipka was joined by her co-star, Emma Roberts, who made her own play for best dressed in a frilly purple frock straight off the Chloé Fall 2017 runway.
Scarlett Johansson attends the Paris Premiere of Ghost In The Shell at Le Grand Rex. (Getty Images)
Scarlett Johansson hit the City of Lights for the Paris premiere of her new film Ghost In The Shell.
Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern attend the Wilson New York premiere at the Whitby Hotel.
Laura Dern proved she's much more affable than her Big Little Lies character, sharing a laugh with Woody Harrelson at a New York screening of their film Wilson.
Janelle Monae performs as Lord & Taylor celebrates The Dress Address at Lord & Taylor 5th Avenue. (Getty Images)
Still fresh off her Best Picture win at the Academy Awards, Moonlight star Janelle Monae busted a move, performing at Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue outpost.
Laura Harrier attends Bvlgari Cocktail At Baselworld 2017 in Basel, Switzerland. (Getty Images)
In Switzerland, Laura Harrier--star of the upcoming Spiderman reboot—blended in with her surroundings wearing Sies Marjan at a cocktail party for Bulgari.
Caroline Vreeland and Jasmine Sanders attend Bvlgari Cocktail At Baselworld 2017 in Basel, Switzerland. (Getty Images)
At the same event, It-girls Jasmine Sanders and Caroline Vreeland cozied up while previewing the latest in watch innovation.
Sam Rollinson and Christopher Kane attend the launch of Christopher Kane and Disney's Beauty And The Beast capsule in London, England. (Getty Images)
The promo train for Beauty and the Beast keeps on rolling. Christopher Kane, along with model Sam Rollinson, feted his capsule collection for the film with a cocktail party in London.
Edie Campbell, Mary Charteris and Christabel MacGreevy attend the Kurt Geiger Flash dinner at Loulou's in London, England. (Getty Images)
It-Brit Edie Campbell hosted a dinner for shoe brand Kurt Geiger, bringing out equally cool friends Mary Charteris and Christabel MacGreevy.
Fran Cutler and Sienna Miller attend the Another Man Spring/Summer Issue launch dinner, in association with Kronaby, in London, England. (Getty Images)
And Sienna Miller, along with pal Fran Cutler, came out to support the latest issue of Another Man at an intimate dinner in London.
Related: Keira Knightley Explains Why the Katy Perry Film Moved Her to Tears
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Minnesota's Moore, Chicago's Delle Donne Named WNBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week
NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2013 -- Elena Delle Donne of the Chicago Sky and Maya Moore of the Minnesota Lynx were named the WNBAs Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Aug. 19 through Sunday, Aug. 25.
Delle Donne averaged 20.0 points and 6.3 rebounds last week, helping Chicago to a 3-0 record and its first playoff berth in the franchises eight-year history. This is Delle Donnes fourth Player of the Week award.
After missing two games due to injury, Delle Donne returned to action on Aug. 20 and scored a game-high 24 points to lead the Sky past Washington on the road 79-73. Delle Donne also pulled down eight rebounds, tallied three assists, shot 7-for-8 from the free-throw line and hit three three-pointers. On Aug. 23 against New York, Delle Donne scored 11 points as Chicago defeated the Liberty 82-64 to clinch a playoff berth. The leagues leader in free-throw percentage thus far, she went 3-for-3 from the free-throw line and tied a season-high with two steals. One day later in a 67-56 win at Atlanta, Delle Donne poured in a game-high 25 points while grabbing eight rebounds and hitting two threes. The performance marked her 12th 20-plus-point game of the season.
Moores 25.0 ppg last week were a league-high as Minnesota went 2-1 to remain atop the Western Conference. This marks her fourth career Player of the Week award, and second this season.
In an 88-75 loss in Atlanta on Aug. 20, Moore tied a game-high with 23 points, including 12 in the third quarter. She also grabbed nine rebounds and hit four three-pointers, the fifth time this season she has made four or more. To help defeat Connecticut on Aug. 22, Moore scored 17 points while dishing out five assists. She also pulled down five rebounds in the Lynxs 91-77 victory. Finally, in an 84-77 win over Indiana on Aug. 24, Moore scored a career-high 35 points on 15-for-21 from the field, including 3-for-4 from downtown. She also added eight rebounds, tied a season-high with four steals and dished out three assists. Her scoring performance marked her 12th 20-plus-point game of the season.
Other candidates for WNBA Players of the Week were Atlantas Erika de Souza, Chicagos Sylvia Fowles, Indianas Tamika Catchings and New Yorks Plenette Pierson in the East, as well as Los Angeles Candace Parker and Nneka Ogwumike, Phoenixs Diana Taurasi, San Antonios Shenise Johnson and Tulsas Elizabeth Cambage in the West
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Anna Bastek, the Director of Wolfestone Translation, the market-leading language translation company offering translation and voiceover services across all languages, has become a mentor for Project Dynamo.
The Welsh Assembly’s Dynamo Project encourages young people to set their sights high, and offers mentoring in entrepreneurship and all round business skills from some of the nation’s leading commercial figures. The project is a key element of the Assembly’s flagship Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy, designed not only to encourage individuals but to offer long term benefits to the Welsh economy.
When Anna was invited to become a mentor, she was delighted to accept. In 2009 Anna was named Swansea Bay Woman of the Year, and now the skills that helped put Wolfestone on the map will be available to the next generation of Welsh business leaders.
Anna sees this as a natural extension of Wolfestone’s existing work in the community, commenting:
“It’s never too late to learn new skills and it’s never too early either. A recent report by the CIPD revealed that only 12% of employers would consider hiring 16 year olds direct from school. That’s a disappointing statistic, and as part of Wolfestone’s social programme our HR Manager holds regular interview coaching days at local schools to give students the skills to shine with employers. Now with the Dynamo Project I can work with young people who want to go one step further and create their own jobs. Why shouldn’t talented, hard-working young people approach the business world with confidence? They have plenty to offer, and I’m happy to remind them of that.
“The Dynamo Project promotes a “can-do” mentality in young people, and that’s an attitude I’ve seen all around me since the day I came to this country. Wales has been good to me. It’s given me the opportunity to aspire and to achieve. It’s my privilege to offer that same opportunity to the next generation of Welsh business leaders.”
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On a cold night in San Francisco, the inside of Bottom of the Hill looked anything but. People were clearly already preparing for Coachella with short shorts and high boots. The lines were long to get in and it was a packed club. Little did I know, the crowd was not there for headliner Blossoms but showed up in droves for Canadians Arkells, who clearly stole the show.
Blossoms, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, brought back the baggy Madchester scene. Unabashed ’60s pop songs mixed in with psychedelic undertones and in some cases a bit of Abba-esque ’70s sounds. The band played most of the songs off their debut self-titled album. While the band has a lot of hype and is being touted as the next Arctic Monkeys, unfortunately, lead singer Tom Ogden appeared wanting to be anywhere but there. Songs sounded lackluster and there was no energy. But, he did at times sound reminiscent of Alex Turner and even had his same hip gyrations down.
Myles Kellock brought some recognizable dance riffs on his keyboards to the catchy “Honey Sweet“. It sounded like they came out of a New Order song. Towards the end of the set, Tom performed an acoustic number that just didn’t work. As the band stood onstage not doing a thing, it just felt awkward. Thankfully, it was only one song and then they would play the guitar driven “Cut Me And I’ll Bleed“. A simple hook that is destined to get stuck in your head. It stood out.
Blossoms ended the set with the utmost of pop songs, single, “Charlemagne“. The song which is pure catchy, sunshine pop, woke up the crowd which gladly danced along. And with that, the band was gone as quickly as they seemed to come to the stage.
The openers stole the show from the onset. It was going to be a daunting task for anyone to come after Arkells. The boys from Hamilton, ONT. clearly should have been the headliners. The band, who has been playing for 10 years, had just played here a few months before and they did not disappoint.
From the moment Max Kerman, lead singer and guitarist, hit the stage you knew what you were in for. He had a frenetic energy that was contagious. As he said the moment he walked onto the stage, he wanted everyone singing and dancing. He jumped into the crowd during the first song, “A Little Rain (A Song For Pete)“, and immediately got the crowd jumping and dancing and as promised he even called out the lyrics for the crowd to sing along.
Arkells – Max Kerman
The band played a really great set with plenty of songs off their new album, Morning Report. Each song told a story and the band just pulled you in. While it would be near impossible to put a label on them, aside from calling them alternative rock, their sound was never static. On “Savannah” the band had some really tight melodies and even had Anthony Carone, keyboards, break out a trumpet. “And Then Some” proved to be a perfect love song with gorgeous guitar riffs coming from the multiple guitars. It was really impressive to hear how all these guitars could melt into the background. Their newest song which was just released a couple of weeks ago, “Knocking At The Door“, was powerful. With a gritty bluesy sound, and Max singing out to “rise up”, it felt like something changed in the crowd. There was a pulse and an energy to the crowd.
While everyone always mentions the UK when it comes to the next newest, hottest band, we really can’t forget about our friends up North. Arkells clearly stole the show tonight. Perhaps touring with Canada’s greatest band The Tragically Hip taught them a thing or two.
LA band by way of Texas and Oklahoma, Wilderado, was the first opener. You could hear their music while waiting outside and they brought some energetic rock-n-roll to the club. The band had a catchy Americana/twangy sound filled with lots of guitars. They were able to uniquely blend how the South meets California sunshine/psychedelia. The band is definitely one to watch.
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Tingle Bottle
The Wind Waker HD
Sends messages to other players via Miiverse
The Tingle Bottle is an item exclusive to The Wind Waker HD.
The Tingle Bottle replaces the Tingle Tuner from the original The Wind Waker.[1] It is a green bottle shaped like Tingle's head, with the cork resembling the Tingle Balloon. Like the Tingle Tuner, it is given to Link by Tingle for releasing him from the Windfall Island jail.
The Bottle is used to send messages to other players of The Wind Waker HD. Messages and screenshots are inserted into the bottle and it is thrown until it disappears. A random player then receives the message in a bottle via Miiverse.[2]
If used on land, the Tingle Bottle will simply bounce around before disappearing. When thrown on water, the Tingle Bottle will float momentarily before disappearing and if a Tingle Bottle is thrown into lava, the Tingle Bottle will disappear immediately. Tingle Bottles typically appear in bodies of water, but they may also appear in select places on land, such as underneath a Tree. When a Tingle Bottle is obtained, a small icon appears below Link's Heart gauge with a number signifying how many messages that the young hero has on Miiverse. These messages can be checked from the inventory's "Bottles" screen. The maximum amount of Tingle Bottles that can be displayed is 11, though Link may still find and collect Tingle Bottles regardless.
As of November 7, 2017, with the discontinuation of all Miiverse features, the Tingle Bottle is no longer useable, making it completely useless as an item.
Link obtaining the Tingle Bottle
A Tingle Bottle underneath a Tree on Dragon Roost Island
↑ "As it turns out, [the Tingle Bottle] will be replacing the old Tingle Tuner." — Reece, The Wind Waker HD will not use the 3DS for the Tingle Tuner, Zelda Universe, published 2013-06-12, retrieved 2013-06-12.
↑ "The one new feature that Nintendo was willing to tout is a new Tingle focused item called the "Tingle Bottle". The gamepad can be used to create Miiverse posts. Put the post in the bottle, throw it in the ocean, and it will show up randomly in another person's game. Bottle's [sic] will show up in your game as well. You can stuff in-game screenshots in bottles too." — Wind Waker HD is 1080p, has new 'Tingle Bottle' features, Destructoid, published 2013-06-11, retrieved 2013-06-12.
Retrieved from "https://zelda.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Tingle_Bottle&oldid=615196"
Items in The Wind Waker HD
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