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Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Are Making A Comeback
Nico Berrios
Kellogg's Headquarters In Battle Creek. (Credit: Google Street View)
The Kellogg Company has now announced that their popular Honey Smacks cereal would be returning to store shelves after they were pulled due to a salmonella outbreak.
The Battle Creek based corporation says Monday that Honey Smacks will return to market in "limited quantities" starting in November. They also say that the cereal will have a "simpler, updated recipe" with the same taste customers are used to.
Kellogg's says that production of Honey Smacks has now been moved to a "trusted and tested Kellogg-owned facility that has been reliably producing the cereal for decades", after they voluntarily recalled all of the cereal. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June announced an advisory, first for just select Honey Smacks products, and then all Honey Smacks, after several people reported getting sick with salmonella.
The CDC surveyed people who were sick, and 77% reported eating cold cereal, and more people saying that they ate Honey Smacks than any other food item.
Salmonella is a bacteria that can cause symptoms of diarrhea, fever, and cramping, and lasts for a few days. Most people should recover without treatment, but children, the elderly, and those with weak immune systems can face more severe illness.
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In the first part of our five-part Friday series on what affects high school athletes, two former athletes, Kari Lefebvre and Nico Steriti, explain why they participated.
Playing high school sports and with a group of classmates is something unique only to that level of education.
Why that's so has no true answer, it's just something in the air that those who've played or coached it can give the most accurate answer.
Maybe it's the cool weather on a Friday night in the fall where your crosstown rival comes in for a football game, a swimming meet where your aching and in pain but you fight beyond your strengths to the finish, a basketball game where everything rides on the shot at the buzzer, a track meet where your among the elite or something else.
To some it's playing with your friends or against the kids you grew up with but maybe it's something a little more.
Kari Lefebvre and Nico Steriti have two different stories but both experienced great success and honor at the high school level while playing at Toms River High School East from the fall of 2006 through graduation day 2010.
Lefebvre was a swimmer at East who was the team captain during the 2009-2010 season but even before that she collected some other honors and hardware including the Most Improved Swimmer Award in 2007-2008.
Steriti was a star as well and a team captain on the football team where he played Running-Back and Defensive-Back (Corner-back and Safety), where in his senior season he rushed for over 1,000-yards and scored an incredible 28-touchdowns including an interception from 102-yards out.
He was also part of a team in the 2009 season that went 10-1, with the loss coming in an NJSIAA State Sectional Semi-Final against Egg Harbor Township.
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(2009 interview by the Shore Sports Network following East game vs TR South)
Kari says one of the things she misses most about participating in high school sports is being in the pool with her teammates.
"I was pretty quiet in high school and it really brought me out of my shell," Lefebvre said. "Just the team aspect of it...the comradery and everything."
Steriti, says for him part of the reason he wanted to play was to continue the family tradition.
"Having two older brothers who were exceptional in the sport and as athletes, it created competitive walls in the home, but at the end of the day, we were always taught to just play as hard as we could and leave it all out there," Steriti said. "After the game, I'd give my mom a hug and a kiss and my father...and that was really the most special part of all of it."
Nico also had the opportunity to play with his younger brother Mario, another star running back and defensive back.
"It was amazing to be able to play with my younger brother first and foremost," Steriti said. "Then to excel on the field with him and for him to put his body on the line and block for his older brother...it's a cool thing."
No matter what sport it is, playing in front of the fans can play apart in the outcome of a game as well.
For Steriti, he says it's a great feeling for a player to hear the roaring support of the student section.
"You have the students in the stands rooting for the player but the common goal is the same, they're all just trying to have a good time," Steriti said. "They're all just trying to win and be happy and experience the moment."
Lefebvre, says she heard the fans...but once she was in the water competing...it was just her.
"I would hear people yelling, 'go-go-go', but once I'm in the water on a straight-away before a turn, it's kind of just me in my own head," Lefebvre said.
Fans are great and can inject some fuel into an athletes adrenaline rush but so does a good rivalry match, meet or game.
Lefebvre describes that rush of adrenaline she felt on the day of a rivalry meet in the pool.
"It's just the energy in that pool, especially if you felt it was going to be a close meet," Lefebvre said. "The energy was just there. You could feel it in the air. Those are the meets I think were the most fun."
Kari says she'd also be decked out in school gear throughout the day ahead of those meets.
There's no atmosphere quite as electric as Friday night under the lights watching a couple of high school football rivals battle between the hash-marks.
Steriti, says rivalry games are the ones you remember the most.
"You have ex-players and coaches who were in games and situations in other times that there's still an emotional connection from it," Steriti said.
Nico says in some cases you're playing against kids you grew up with who now attend other schools.
*** In Part-Two of our series next Friday, we find out what's legal and not legal about athletes who transfer.
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Shop Owner Navigates Social Media, Thrives During Prom Season
By Working Woman Report
• January 14, 2016
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By Diane Mastrull The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Long before prom queens became a focus of reality TV, Philadelphia's Zinni family was outfitting young women for the big dance.
What Jennie and Louis Zinni did not have to contend with when they opened for business in 1946 was social media.
In the retail business, it can be both a blessing and a curse, said Carolyn Zinni, the daughter who carries on Zinni's of Philadelphia, albeit in the suburbs.
Lousy reviews on Yelp or snarky remarks on Twitter can reach thousands in no time and ruin a business. But social media also are a customer-development tool impossible for merchants to ignore, especially if they want to reach millennials, Zinni said.
"I am exploring ways I can leverage that to scale our business while also maintaining our boutique charm," she said as the store celebrates 70 years.
In the meantime, defensive moves protect against online-assisted competition. Picture-taking is banned in the shop, and style numbers on dress tags are recoded to make it harder for customers to use the store for browsing and then purchasing elsewhere.
The beginning of the month marked the new season's debut of prom fashions at Zinni's of Philadelphia. Some dresses even sold during Christmas week, Carolyn Zinni said.
Proms make up 70 percent of the shop's sales. An in-house registry helps staff members, typically three or four, up to seven in peak seasons, execute a store policy that tries to ensure that the same dress is never sold to more than one student at a school.
"There's a lot of joy, but you also see girls here stomping their feet because they didn't get the dress they wanted," Zinni said of life in her boutique, from which 780 prom dresses were sold last season at an average $450 each. Dresses run as high as $2,000; 25 a year are donated to the needy.
Zinni, 58, never attended a prom, so hers might seem an unlikely career choice _ until you learn how dresses were the fabric of her upbringing.
"We grew up there," she said, the we also referring to her two sisters and a brother. There meant the shop her parents operated until the 1970s.
It started as a men's store. Zinni's was robbed of everything but the racks its first year, Carolyn said. Her mother took it as a sign, so they reopened as a dress shop, with Jennie doing the buying and selling, and Louis the books and alterations.
In the 1970s, the Zinnis moved the shop to bigger quarters.
Jennie Zinni, now 92 and trying to get discovered as a songwriter, "I do want to get famous", said she always had a knack for stylish dressing, so the dress business "came natural."
Even in retirement, she offers critiques of Carolyn's inventory and displays. And she's been known to demand mystical actions, such as salt at the store's doorstep, to ward off any bad vibes.
By the time Carolyn was a teenager, she wanted no part of her parents' store. In 1983, she moved away, her marriage to a doctor-in-training taking her to Mexico, Ohio, New York, and Florida. She returned to the Philadelphia area in 1993 and went to work at a shop specializing in sportswear and evening wear that is owned by her sister Angela Abruzzese. Sister Maria Bennett owns Mia's of Philadelphia, a women's clothing store, at their parents' former location.
In 2004, Louis Zinni's health was fading as Carolyn, a divorced mother of three boys, was harboring "a fantasy of my dresses hanging in the window" of a storefront near her home.
With a $100,000 loan from her father, she opened Zinni's of Philadelphia there as her parents closed the city store. With it came something in short supply in the area: parking, "25 spots in front, 75 in back," Zinni boasted.
More than doubling the number of schools her parents sold to, 306 today, from a 20-mile radius, Zinni paid off the loan in 24 months. While not disclosing financials, she said she has increased sales each year since opening.
"Despite the proliferation of online shopping, we believe there will continue to be a vibrant brick-and-mortar need as customers are still interested in the experience of shopping," said William J. Park, a partner and retail expert at Deloitte & Touche. "That experience includes store visualization, product display and personal service."
At Zinni's of Philadelphia, it includes mimosas for the adults and fashion shows on flat-screen TVs.
Carolyn Zinni quit high school in 10th grade, "I could not conform to a formal education; I was so distracted,", and found beauty school a better fit. She worked in the hair salon for five years, returning to school at 35 to get her general education diploma.
Her focus now is on business and personal growth, the latter a project since her engagement to former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo ended over the summer.
"I've learned to be so vulnerable, and I feel it's my greatest asset," Zinni said at her shop, where she sees plenty of vulnerability. She tries to boost confidence by getting girls in the right dress.
"Prom girls know what they like," she said, "but not what they look good in."
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How Burkina Faso Has Kept Thomas Sankara's Legacy Alive
Burkina Faso is immortalizing the legacy of Thomas Sankara. From revolutions to a statue, his legacy is surely alive not only in Burkina Faso alone, but the rest of the continent as well.
By Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza.
Thomas Sankara has been hailed as a revolutionary par excellence who was dearly devoted to creating a new Burkina Faso. He met a rather gruesome end to his short-lived presidency, but Burkinabes have immortalized his legacy.
His legacy in Burkina Faso is not dead. It is very much alive, and his ideas are finding resonance with the young population. From being the face of an uprising against tyranny, to having a statue erected in his honour, people in Burkina Faso have made it a point that Thomas Sankara's legacy is alive.
In 2014, Thomas Sankara was the face of the popular uprising against the regime of Blaise Compaore. Protesters rose in roaring unity to oppose the plans by Blaise Compaore to amend the constitution so that he could extend his 27-year rule beyond November 2015. Those uprisings marked a sharp resurgence of interest in Thomas Sankara. In the face of a ruthless, unforgiving and insensitive regime, Thomas Sankara made a lot of sense. He was an inspiration.
Youths mobilized their sense of defiance around Thomas Sankara, as a source of stoic inspiration. Fast-forward to 2019. A bronze statue in honour of Thomas Sankara is unveiled in Ouagadougou. This is an event that formally cements Sankara's contributions and influence in the Burkina Faso's political discourse. The statue shows Sankara "in his army fatigues, ready to take a step forward with his arm raised and his face to the horizon." This symbolizes the kind of leadership that Burkina Faso needs, as well as the rest of the continent.
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In 2016, the International Memorial Committee for Thomas Sankara was launched. It is deeply committed to restoring Sankara's legacy and keeping it alive. It wants to find answers that shed light on the assassination of Thomas Sankara as well as being engaged in projects that keep his legacy alive.
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There are concerted efforts to keep Sankara's legacy alive, and this is something the young generation of Burkina Faso is relating with. There is a great enthusiasm and admiration for Thomas Sankara and the ideas he propagated. But there are worries that the sanctification of Thomas Sankara will lead to a new generation "overlooking the realities of political leadership."
Thomas Sankara was assassinated in 1987, together with his 12 other comrades. Blaise Compaore was at the forefront of this horror, and he immediately took power after Sankara had been assassinated. Compaore was once a close ally of Thomas Sankara. The 1987 coup killed a leader who had vision, and who wanted to lead Burkina Faso on a path of economic self-reliance. He was vociferously against neo-colonialism, and always rejected aid from the West.
The good thing is that Burkina Faso is keeping his legacy alive, and Sankara is not only inspiring those in Burkina Faso alone, but people on the rest of the continent.
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Two Tried-and-True Tools for E/M Documentation
They don’t just help you code better. They also help make the documentation guidelines less annoying.
Leigh Ann Backer
Fam Pract Manag. 2003 Oct;10(9):51-55.
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The progress note form
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As you know only too well, the Medicare Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services are part of the fabric of practice today. It is a mark of how crazy the health care system is that you can choose between two sets of guidelines – one published in 1995 that was theoretically superseded and one published in 1997 that was never fully imposed. Still, this is where we are and where we’re likely to be for a while (see “An Update on the E/M Codes and Documentation Guidelines,” FPM, May 2003, page 14).
Most family physicians apparently choose to follow the 1997 guidelines despite their greater complexity, probably because of their reduced ambiguity. With that in mind, we have decided to republish the most popular coding tool ever to appear in FPM, the FPM Pocket Guide to the Documentation Guidelines, in the 1997 version (see “Three Documentation Tools That Work,” FPM, January 1998, page 29). Despite its having been distributed free of charge in over 100,000 copies of FPM, this version of the pocket guide has sold thousands and thousands of copies through the AAFP Order Department. If your copy is getting dog-eared, here’s a chance for a fresh one, and if you have somehow missed it, here’s your chance to try it out.
As a companion to the pocket guide, we’re also including a progress note form that’s designed to make it as easy as possible for you to document the way you need to for clinical purposes while still producing a note that’s easy to “score” using the documentation guidelines – and the pocket guide.
Most family physicians seem to prefer the 1997 E/M documentation guidelines despite their complexity.
A chart note form designed with the guidelines in mind can make documentation easier.
The FPM Pocket Guide is a convenient reminder of the major points involved in generating the proper E/M code for a visit.
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The salient feature of the progress note is a checklist designed to make it easier to count systems and body areas ( click here to download the progress note form). That stands to reason, since one of the major burdens imposed by the 1997 guidelines is the necessity of doing that counting. To count clinical elements for the exam (referred to as “bulleted elements” in the guidelines), you’ll still have to work through your note, but the checklist gives you a head start.
To use the checklist, put a check mark in the appropriate column for every system you cover in the ROS, every area of the PFSH you touch on and every system or body area you examine. In circumstances where you would normally write, for example, “GI normal” with no further elaboration, a check mark in the “WNL” column should suffice. Since the guidelines require that you note explicitly any negative responses on the ROS and negative findings on the exam that are relevant to the presenting problem, the other column of check boxes is headed “See note” rather than, say, “Abnormal.”
You should be able to quickly determine the number of systems covered in the ROS and the number of areas covered in the PFSH by counting the check marks in those sections of the form. Before you can determine the level of history, you’ll also need to count the elements of the HPI that appear in the note. The elements of the HPI are listed on the form to help you remember what to look for.
To determine the level of exam, you’ll be able to count the number of systems and body areas by counting check marks. Then you’ll need to compare your note with the appropriate list of bulleted elements from the 1997 guidelines. (The pocket guide discussed below includes a version of the list for the general multisystem exam, making it a good companion to the progress note form.)
The form provides no checklist for documenting medical decision making; to assess that, you’ll need to refer to your note. It does, however, provide a shortcut for documenting encounters dominated by counseling or coordination of care. Simply check the box labeled “Couns/coord > 50%” (i.e., “Counseling and/or coordination of care took more than 50 percent of the visit”), enter the total time (face-to-face or floor time, as appropriate) of the encounter and the time devoted to counseling and/or coordination of care, and describe in the note the counseling and/or activities to coordinate care that you provided.
The FPM Pocket Guide to the Documentation Guidelines is printed on heavy stock for durability. When the guide is properly cut out and folded, the headings Exam and Decision Making should be showing above the History table as in the illustration on the guide. The gray arrow in the History table indicates that the History table contributes information to the History column of the two code selection tables at the top. Open the first flap and on the right you should see an Exam table with a gray arrow indicating its relationship to the Exam column of the Code Selection tables. Lift up the small flap carrying the exam table and you should see a two-column table that lists the clinical content of the comprehensive general multisystem exam as it’s defined in the new documentation guidelines. (We chose to include the general multisystem exam because of its prevalence in family medicine.) Close the small flap, open the third flap, and you should see three tables that contribute information to the Decision Making table and a gray arrow indicating the relationship of decision making to the Code Selection tables.
Keep in mind that the pocket guide is designed to jog your memory, not to teach you everything you need to know about the guidelines. To consult the unabridged version of the tables or the requirements for single-system exams, you’ll need to refer to the guidelines themselves. If you don’t have them handy in a CPT manual, you can download them from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Web site at http://cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/master1.pdf.
While the checklist form described earlier is designed to help you as you write or dictate your note, the pocket guide is intended to help you determine the appropriate code, based on what you have documented in the note. You might want to consult the pocket guide before coding a visit, but you’ll probably find it more useful as a way of fine-tuning your seat-of-the-pants coding. If you use it to help you in a self-audit from time to time, checking the codes you’ve submitted for selected visits, you can identify areas where you may be coding too high or too low.
Let’s use the pocket guide to evaluate the following sample note, which represents a common type of Medicare visit – the routine follow-up visit for a patient with multiple chronic problems and no new complaints:
S: Mr. Doe returns today for a routine four-month F/U for evaluation and management of his NIDDM, hypertension and OA. No new complaints. He denies headache, visual changes, chest pain, SOB or extremity numbness. No increased joint pain. Dietary compliance good, and his BP and home glucose monitoring records indicate acceptable control of both.
O: CONST: BP 138/84, Wt 175, P 82 and regular.
HEENT: PERRLA, EOMI; EACs and TMs nl; oropharynx benign.
NECK: supple w/o JVD, bruits or thyromegaly.
RESP: bs clr to P and A w/o retractions or rubs.
HEART: WNL w/o gallop, murmur, rub, click or irregularity.
EXT: distal pulses intact w/o cyanosis, clubbing or edema.
NEURO: deep tendon reflexes WNL and symmetric; no decreased lower extremity sensation noted.
LABS: FBS 132, UA WNL.
Stable NIDDM.
Stable hypertension.
Stable osteoarthritis.
Glucotrol 5 mg daily q.a.m.
Procardia XL 30 mg daily.
Relafen 1,000 mg daily.
Continue home glucose monitoring.
SMA-7 and glycosylated hemoglobin today.
RTC for routine F/U in 4 months.
Before we go on, you might want to reread the note and decide how to code it without consulting the pocket guide or the guidelines, then read on to compare your analysis with ours.
History. The History table on the front of the pocket guide doesn’t include a column for chief complaint, since that is required for all levels of history and not likely to be missing from any progress note. Even though the patient in our example has no new complaints, there is a chief complaint in the first sentence of the note. The guidelines define chief complaint very broadly as a statement “describing the symptom, problem, condition, diagnosis, physician-recommended return or other factor that is the reason for the encounter” (emphasis added).
Because the patient is returning for a routine evaluation of three chronic diseases – diabetes, hypertension and osteoarthritis – the HPI is extended.
The ROS includes questions about at least six systems and body areas: eyes, cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, neurologic and endocrine. The History table of the pocket guide, then, tells us that the ROS is detailed.
Because the note doesn’t really touch on past, family or social history, there is no PFSH. As the History table indicates, expanded problem focused is the highest level possible without a PFSH. Note that simply reviewing the patient’s medication list and documenting that fact in the note would have counted as past history, therefore raising the PFSH to detailed and, therefore, the overall level of history to detailed.
Exam. Opening the first flap of the pocket guide exposes on the right the table devoted to the exam, and on the back of the small flap is the table that lists the clinical content of the comprehensive general multisystem exam. The sample note documents findings for eight systems and body areas, which, as the table indicates, meets the requirement for a detailed exam, provided that at least 12 bulleted elements are documented in the note – and, in fact, the note documents 15:
Constitutional (1 bullet): Any three of seven vital signs;
Eyes (1 bullet): Examination of pupils and irises;
ENT/mouth (2 bullets): Examination of oropharynx and otoscopic examination of external auditory canals and tympanic membranes;
Neck (2 bullets): Examination of neck and examination of thyroid;
Respiratory (3 bullets): Assessment of respiratory effort, auscultation of lungs and percussion of chest;
Cardiovascular (3 bullets): Auscultation of heart with notation of abnormal sounds and murmurs, examination of pedal pulses, and examination of extremities for edema and/or varicosities;
Musculoskeletal (1 bullet): Inspection and/or palpation of digits and nails;
Neurologic (2 bullets): Examination of deep tendon reflexes with notation of pathological reflexes and examination of sensation.
Medical decision making. Because this is an established-patient visit where the history and the exam differ in level, the level of medical decision making will determine the level of the visit. (As the Code Selection tables indicate, the level of an established-patient visit is determined by the highest two of the three components.) Open the pocket guide fully, and we’ll use the decision making tables to evaluate the note.
First, the score for number of diagnoses and management options involved works out to be 3: No new problems are reported, and each established, previously diagnosed problem (diabetes, hypertension and osteoarthritis) counts for one point because they’re all stable. Second, in evaluating the amount and complexity of data to be reviewed, we have only lab tests to consider. That gives a score of 1 (the guidelines say no matter how many tests of a given class are requested or reviewed, the note earns no more than one point per class). Finally, the level of risk seems to be moderate, both because the visit involves prescription drug therapy and because it concerns three stable chronic illnesses. Since the level of decision making is determined by the highest two of the three components, the level for this encounter is moderate complexity.
To review, then, we have an expanded problem-focused history, a detailed exam and moderately complex decision making to evaluate on the Code Selection table at the top of the pocket guide. Because two of the three are enough to determine the level for an established-patient visit, we end up with a code of 99214 on the strength of the exam and decision making.
Despite their complexity, the documentation guidelines can be a useful tool for evaluating your documentation. If you’re thinking, “Why bother?” keep in mind that you may have a tendency to undercode to avoid charges of fraud and abuse. The guidelines – and the tools in this article – can help keep you coding at the levels you deserve. The time you invest in learning better E/M coding can pay off in real money.
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Huawei has a use for touch-free gestures on smartphones: Eating crabs
Google, LG and Samsung all have new phones this year with gesture controls... but why?
Masha Borak
Published on 4 Oct, 2019 2:00am Coordinated Universal Time
Touchless gesture controls for smartphones has been tried before. But early iterations were buggy and people struggled to find a use for them. If you feel like you missed the boat, don’t worry: Gesture controls are back.
Huawei has been promoting gesture controls for its new flagship Mate 30. If you were having trouble figuring out just what exactly you’d use gesture controls for, Huawei is ready to tell you: It’s for eating crabs.
Well, not just crabs, obviously. But that’s one use case that’s gone viral since Huawei showed it off in an advertisement during the country’s Mid-Autumn festival -- coinciding with the season for hairy crabs, one of China’s favorite delicacies.
Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, is currently full of users testing out gesture controls on the Huawei Mate 30, but the ones featuring food are the most creative. (Picture: 31487492 via Doyin)
Since the ad came out, some Chinese netizens have been showing off how they use gesture controls to munch on shrimp, barbecued meat or anything else they fancy while air-swiping through videos on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Eating is just one use case that seems popular on social media, though. Huawei’s Gesture Sensor available on the Mate 30 phones enables users to capture screenshots, flip through photos and control their music. It also has an AI auto-rotate feature that will rotate the screen according to the direction of your face and a privacy feature that automatically hides details if someone else is looking at the screen.
But these are lofty promises for how the tech can be used. It’s an open question whether it works well enough to be widely adopted or whether anyone will use it for something other than keeping their phones clean (or using the phone in a shower, as some phone-addicted commenters noticed).
Huawei’s ad shows a woman gracefully chewing on her crab while swiping away without worries of getting crab sauce all over her phone. (Picture: Huawei via Weibo)
The somewhat forgotten technology made a splash when it appeared with the Samsung Galaxy S4 back in 2013. But critics since then have slammed gesture controls as pointless.
They’ve also been criticized as imprecise and clumsy to use, leaving users frantically waving in front of their smartphones. What’s the point of using gestures in front of a phone when the same gestures work more accurately just by touching the screen itself?
Nevertheless, companies are piling on the gesture control bandwagon. Google announced that its upcoming Pixel 4 -- to be fully unveiled this month -- will be equipped with a gesture control feature called MotionSense. The feature is a product of Google’s own Project Soli, and it’s supposed to be Google’s most advanced touchless gesture technology yet.
Other new phones this year have their own versions of touchless gesture control. LG’s G8 ThinQ includes it, and Samsung replaced hand gestures on its Galaxy Note 10 with gestures using the S Pen stylus.
The S Pen that comes with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 can be used as a remote, but its most attractive feature is probably acting as a remote shutter button for selfies. (Picture: Samsung)
“In some of the examples that we currently see from Samsung, LG, Huawei and others, they are mostly a novelty,” Canalys senior analyst Jason Low said.
User interfaces (UI) have evolved from button-based interfaces to more natural touch screens, and now things are moving toward voice control. The long term goal for hands as a key input method is more about creating new use cases and features, Low said.
While such use cases can be implemented in smartphones, they might be more useful in other devices. One promising area for gestures is augmented reality, according to Low. Another might be devices with smaller screens and thus smaller targets for fingers to hit, as with smartwatches.
Impressions about the new generation of gesture controls have been ambivalent so far. Some reviewers of LG’s G8 ThinQ said the reasons for using gesture controls haven’t been fully thought out. As for Huawei, one popular Chinese technology reviewer said that hand gestures can still lead to errors, like a swiping motion resulting in a screenshot instead of scrolling.
Getting crab sauce all over a US$1,200 phone doesn’t sound appetizing. (Picture: Reuters)
So the biggest issues facing gesture controls from the beginning still seem to be present. Even Google has stated that MotionSense on the Pixel 4 will continue to evolve.
But at least for the people who really want to use their phones while they eat or cook, the option is there. This has already been good business for at least one company.
Chinese smartphone maker Transsion created an oil-resistant fingerprint sensor, helping it become a top smartphone company in India. Since many people eat with their hands in the country, the option of being able to unlock a phone with curry-covered fingers proved great for business, the company told the South China Morning Post last year.
Notably, though, Transsion’s technology allows people to eat and still touch their phones. So what’s the big benefit of touch-free gestures?
Perhaps Huawei really has figured out the best reason for gesture controls: Swiping through 15-second videos on Douyin while you eat. The app is a favorite in the country and had about 300 million monthly active users in 2018, according to the company. And with TikTok exploding in popularity in the rest of the world, maybe this is the thing that makes gestures take off.
International users looking to test out gestures on TikTok will likely have to use something other than a Huawei phone. The company has delayed sales of the Mate 30 in Europe since it can’t ship the phone with Google Play Services as a result of a US trade ban.
But there’s no need to panic yet. Maybe gestures with chicken legs will also work on the Pixel 4.
That’s some life-altering technology right there. (Picture: Harden_666888 via Douyin)
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Scientology religious ship Freewinds features polygamist singer Tebogo Louw, who would marry both of his girlfriends.
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‘I am dating two girls and they know each other’ – former Idols contestant Tebogo Louw
HT: Neil Clark on Tony Ortega's blog.
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He says after realising he could no longer lie to both ladies, he decided to come clean. “I spoke to them individually and I asked if they would be comfortable with meeting each other and they were fine.”
Tebogo arranged to meet both his baes at a friend’s house for a get-together. “They both looked beautiful because one wanted to appear better than the other.”
He says when he informed them about the relationships they seemed alright until they met. “There was a lot of tension when they met and it became very uncomfortable for them,” he says.
The singer agrees to being a polygamist of some sorts but says he respects both his girlfriends and if he’d marry both of them. “I genuinely love them and if they are okay with both being married to me then I would be a happy guy.”
Tebogo’s baes both heard the song and were uncomfortable until they understood he’s an artist and it’s his responsibility to sing about things close to his heart, including his partners. “I know I’m not the only guy dating two women, but I’m honest about it.”
Listen to the song below:
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- Perplexity is a game about what happens when the //"shit hits the fan"// on a distant world. A world on which human colonists have encroached into the territory of an alien species like they have never scene. + Perplexity is a game about what happens when the //"shit hits the fan"// on a distant world. A world on which human colonists have encroached into the territory of an alien species like they have never seen.
The prime directive of these colonists: To coexist in harmony with the ecosystem of their new world. However, none of them expected to encounter this new alien life. The scout ships have a screening system to detect semi-intelligent and intelligent life on worlds and remove them from the database of targets for colonization. Who knows how or why this failed, and while you may ponder, it is simply too late now to pack up and leave. The resources aren't present to abandon colonization, it is adapt or die. You must try and deal with this new threat to peaceful development, in a clear state of **perplexity**. The prime directive of these colonists: To coexist in harmony with the ecosystem of their new world. However, none of them expected to encounter this new alien life. The scout ships have a screening system to detect semi-intelligent and intelligent life on worlds and remove them from the database of targets for colonization. Who knows how or why this failed, and while you may ponder, it is simply too late now to pack up and leave. The resources aren't present to abandon colonization, it is adapt or die. You must try and deal with this new threat to peaceful development, in a clear state of **perplexity**.
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Those who Traffic in Magic and Sorcery (Kitāb At-Tawhīd, Chapter 24) Plus: “The Bible of the Jews and Christians on Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery”
27th March 2019 Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid Aqeedah, Books, Kitāb at-Tawheed 0
Those who Traffic in Magic and Sorcery
In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.
Allah praise is for Allah, Lord of the words, and may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon His servant and final Messenger, Muhammad. To proceed:
Shaikh Al-Islam Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhāb (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
Allah, the Most High, stated: “And verily, they knew that whoever traffics in magic has no share in the Hereafter.” (Al-Baqarah 2:102) He also stated: “They believed in Jibt and Tāghoot.” (An-Nisā: 51)
‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “Jibt is magic and Tāghoot is the Shaytān (the Devil).” [1]
Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The tāghoots are the soothsayers upon who the devils descend [with false information]. And in every district, there is one [of these soothsayers].” [1A]
Abu Hurayrah said that Allah’s Messenger (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam) said: “Keep away from the seven destructive sins.” They asked him: “What are they, O Allah’s Messenger?” He replied: “Associating partners with Allah, magic, killing a person whom Allah has made impermissible to kill, consuming usury (interest), taking the wealth of the orphan, to turn away on the day of battle, to falsely accuse the chaste believing woman (or man) of fornication.” [2]
Jundub (radiyallāhu ‘anhu) narrated what is ascribed to the Messenger of Allah (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam): “The punishment of the magician is that [the judge rules] he struck with the sword.” Reported by Tirmidhi who said: “What is correct is that it is the saying of the Companion.” [3]
It is reported in Saheeh Al-Bukhāri from Bajālah Ibn ‘Abdah who said: “[The Caliph] Umar Ibn Al-Khattāb (radiyallāhu ‘anhu) wrote: “Execute every male and female magician.” So we executed [upon his command] three magicians.” [4]
It is reported authentically from the wife of the Prophet, Hafsah (radiyallāhu ‘anhumā) that she commanded that a female servant of her’s should be executed because she performed magic on Hafsah, so she was executed. [5] Similar has been reported from Jundub (radiyallāhu ‘anhu). [6]
Imām Ahmad stated: “This is reported from three Companions of the Prophet (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam).”
From Shaikh Ahmad Ibn Yahyā An-Najmi (rahimahullāh) with brief additional notes from Abu Khadeejah for further clarity:
Magic is real; meaning that the fact it exists in true. Shaikh Hāfidh Ibn Ahmad Al-Hakami (rahimhullāh) said in lines of poetry: “Magic is real and it has effects; however it only occurs by the will of the Most Able (Allah). Meaning: [it occurs] by the decree of what He (Allah) has already decreed through His universal will. And it is not that He willed it by His legislative pure will (which is what He loves and is pleased with).”
So magic is what Allah has decreed by His universal will and He forbade it by His legislative will. This is similar to the will of Allah wherein He has decreed unbelief to occur and He forbade it by His legislative will.
Magic is of two types:
1. Illusionary magic (Sihr at-Takhyeel).
2. The magic that has an actual effect (Sihr at-Ta’theer).
Illusionary magic: is that which Allah informed us in the Qur’an about the magicians of Pharaoh: “The magicians said: O Moses, either you throw first or else we shall throw first. Moses said: ‘Nay, you throw first.’ Then behold, their ropes and staffs appeared, by their magic, as [serpents] moving fast.” (Tāhā: 65-66)
The magic that has an actual effect: There are many examples and the types of this magic. From them is:
A. Keeping a man away from his wife. He is kept away from her [through magic] such that he does not desire her or no longer wishes to do anything with her. Allah, the Most High, said: “So, they went forth and learned the sorcery which causes separation between a man and his wife. But they cannot harm anyone with it except by Allāh’s leave, and the evil-doers only learn that that which harms them and does not benefit them.” (Al-Baqarah 2:102)
B. That which afflicts many people and even afflicted the Prophet (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam) when Labeed Ibn A’sam Al-Yahoodi (may Allah’s curse be upon him) performed magic on the Messenger. So, Angel Jibreel (‘alaihis-salām) made ruqyah (supplications and recitations of cure) upon him with the last two Soorahs of the Qur’an. And he told the Prophet (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam) where the articles of magic could be found. Bukhari (5766) and Muslim (2189) reported from ‘Ā’ishah (radiyallāhu ‘anhumā) that she said: “Magic was worked on the Prophet so that he began to think that he had done something though he had not. One day, while he was with me, he made a lengthy supplication to Allah and then said: ‘O Ā’ishah, do you know what Allah has instructed me about what I asked him?’ I said: ‘What is it, O Allah’s Messenger?’ He said: ‘Two men came to me, one of them sat at my head, and the other at my feet. Then one said to the other: ‘What is the illness of this man?’ The other said: ‘Magic.’ He then asked: ‘Who did the magic?’ The other replied: ‘Labeed Ibn Al-A’sam Al-Yahoodi from the tribe of Zuraiq.’ He asked: ‘Which what did he make magic?’ He replied: ‘With hair wrapped around a comb and a skin of pollen of a male date palm tree.’ He asked: ‘Where is it now?’ He answered: ‘In the well of Dhī Arwān.’ After that, Allah’s Messenger went with some of his Companions to the well. When he reached it, he saw that it was surrounded by date-palm trees.” Then he returned to Ā’ishah and said to her: “By Allah, its water was red like as if infused by henna leaves, and its date palms were like the heads of devils.” Ā’ishah asked: “O Allah’s Messenger, did you take it out?” He replied: “No. As for me, Allah has already cured me, healed me and given me well-being. And I feared that evil would come upon the Muslims from it.” Then he ordered that the well be filled up with earth, and so it was done.
The point is that magic in all its forms and types is unbelief. Allah, the Most High, said: “They (the Jews after the time of Moses) followed that which the devils recited during the reign of the [Prophet and King] Solomon. Solomon did not disbelieve but it was the devils who disbelieved by teaching the people magic that was revealed to the two angels called Hārūt and Mārūt, at Babylon. They did not teach it to anyone until they had said, “Indeed we are but a test, so do not disbelieve by learning it.” So, they went forth and learned from the angels the sorcery which causes separation between a man and his wife. But they cannot harm anyone with it except by Allāh’s leave, and the evil-doers only learn that which harms them and does not benefit them. And verily, they knew that whoever traffics in magic has no share in the Hereafter. Evil indeed is the price for which they sold their souls, if only they knew.” (Al-Baqarah 2:102)
From this verse, we ascertain the following:
1. Allah, the Most High, informs us that it was the devils who disbelieved due to their teaching the people magic; and their fabrication of a lie upon the Prophet Solomon (‘alaihis-salām) in claiming that he disbelieved.
2. Allah informs us that the two angels at Babylon did not teach anyone until they had said, “Indeed we are but a test, so do not disbelieve by learning it.”
3. Allah stated: “And verily, they knew that whoever traffics in magic has no share in the Hereafter.” Meaning that whoever exchanges his faith for magic, then he has no share in the Hereafter; no share of happiness and no Paradise.The Jinn
The Magicians, Devils and Jinn
Allah, the Most High, stated: “They believed in al-Jibt and at-Tāghoot.” (An-Nisā: 51) ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “Jibt is magic and Tāghoot is Shaytān.” Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The tāghoots are the soothsayers upon who the devils descend [with false information]. And in every district, there is one [of these soothsayers].”
Whoever studied the state of affairs in the times of pre-Islamic ignorance (al-Jāhiliyyah) and what the people were upon in their state of Jāhiliyyah, they know this very well. So [it is true] that the tāghoots are the fortune-tellers or soothsayers upon whom the devils descend. And in every district, there is one whom the people would fear. The devils come to the soothsayer with murmurings that may contain a word which they heard from the angels. But after the sending of the Prophet Muhammad (salallāhu ‘alaihi wassallam) the devils were prevented from listening in. Allah stated regarding the devils from the Jinn that they said: “And we have sought to reach the heaven but found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires (shooting stars and meteors). And we used to sit there in stations to listen in. But anyone who listens in now will find a flaming fire waiting on him in ambush. And we know not whether evil is intended for those on earth or whether their Lord intended for them a right path.” (Al-Jinn: 8-10)
From these verses in Soorah Al-Jinn, several matters become clear:
1. The devils from the jinn used to be seated in stations in the sky for the purpose of listening in to the speech of the angels and then to use that to deviate the people [by claiming knowledge of the Unseen].
2. Then they prevented from that after the sending of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). So, they were no longer able to listen in. And the skies are defended and guarded with shooting stars that are thrown at the devils (among the jinn) that set them ablaze.
3. This verse proves that the jinn know nothing of the Unseen and that is why they stated: “And we know not whether evil is intended for those on earth or whether their Lord intended for them a right path.”
4. The devils (shayāteen) believe in their Lord yet that does not enter them into Islam. And that is the same for the unbelievers from the humans who believe in their Lord (i.e. Allah) but that does not enter them into Islam – that is because they refuse to submit and worship Him alone.
As for the term Tāghoot, then it is derived from tughān which is to transgress and go beyond bounds in disobedience. And what is apparent is the tā (the t at the end) indicates an increase. Meaning that they are tāghoot because they fall in excessive and many transgressions. At-Tughyān is to increase in a matter that causes one to exceed and go beyond bounds.
Shaikhul-Islam Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhāb mentioned the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah where the Messenger (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam) stated: “Keep away from the seven destructive sins.” They asked him: “What are they, O Allah’s Messenger?” He replied: “Associating partners with Allah, magic, killing a person whom Allah has made impermissible to kill, consuming usury (interest), taking the wealth of the orphan, to turn away on the day of battle, to falsely accuse the chaste believing woman (or man) of fornication.”
Then the Shaikh (Ibn Abdul-Wahhāb) brought the hadeeth of Jundub with takes the ruling of ascription to the Messenger (salallāhu ‘alaihi wasallam): “The legislated punishment for the magician is that he is struck with the sword.” This Companion is Jundub Al-Khair who watched the activities of this magician who claimed to have cut off the head of a boy and then returned it back. So, then Jundub came with his sheathed sword and when the magician started his tricks [once more], Jundub removed the magician’s head and it fell to the ground. He then said: “If he was truthful, he’ll return his own head back.” Then he said, “The legislated punishment for the magician is a strike with a sword.” [The legislated punishments can only be carried out by those in authority, and Jundub had that authority].
The Caliph, Umar Ibn Al-Khattāb (radiyallāhu ‘anhu) wrote: “Execute every male and female magician.” So they executed [upon his command] three magicians. It is reported authentically from the wife of the Prophet, Hafsah (radiyallāhu ‘anhumā) that she commanded that a female servant of her’s should be executed because she performed magic on Hafsah, so she was executed.
So all of this proves that the magician/sorcerer is an unbeliever and magic itself is unbelief. And the one found guilty of magic is to be executed (male or female) by the strike of the sword through the Islamic Legislation sanctioned by those in authority, not through vigilante-type retribution (which is forbidden in Islam). It is understood from these narrations that the magician is asked to repent and then executed.
Concluding note: If magic and sorcery were being practised in the time of ‘Umar (radiyallāhu ‘anhu), then what about today?! Magic in the time of ‘Umar was the remnants from the days of Jāhiliyyah. In today’s world, magic is practised and revered, and given an elevated station in literature, film and art. It is important that Muslims and all right-minded people keep away from these irreligious and satanic practices, and especially important is to steer children well-away from these harmful matters. The practice of magic as described above nullifies Tawheed and exits a Muslim from the Islamic faith.
The Bible of the Jews and Christians on Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
1. “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers. Do not seek them out and so make yourselves unclean by them. I am the Lord, your God.” Leviticus 19:31. A person who practises necromancy is a wizard or magician, and a medium is a soothsayer or fortuneteller.
2. “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
3. “And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums (soothsayers) and with necromancers (sorcerers). He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.” 2 Kings 21:6
4. “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
5. “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds.” Ezekiel 13:20
6. “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.” Deuteronomy 18:9-14
7. “You shall not permit a sorceress to live.” Exodus 22:18
8. “A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.” Leviticus 20:27
9. “Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21
10. “And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes.” Micah 5:12
11. “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.” Leviticus 20:6
12. “And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.” 2 Chronicles 33:6
13. “Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.” Revelation 22:15
[1] Reported by Bukhāri 6/45 in disconnected form; Ibn Hajr cited that is also reported with a connected chain of narration that is strong. See Fathul-Bāri 8/252.
[1A] Bukhāri 6/45, in disconnected form; and declared hasan (authentic) by Muqbil Al-Wādi’i in his checking of the Tafseer of Ibn Katheer, 2/402. Plural of taghoot is, tawāgheet.
[2] Bukhari no. 2767; Muslim no. 89.
[3] Tirmidhi no. 1460; the narration was declared weak (da’eef) by Al-Albāni in Ad-Da’eefah no. 1446.
[4] Bukhāri no. 3156; this wording is with Abu Dāwood no. 3043.
[5] Mālik in Al-Muwatta no. 14; Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Kubrā 8/136 no. 16941.
[6] Bukhāri in At-Tāreekh Al-Kabeer 2/222 in his biography of Jundub entitle, “Jundub Ibn Ka’b, the executor of the magician.” Then he narrated with a connected chain of narration to Abu ‘Uthmān, “In the presence of Waleed there was a man (magician) who would behead a man and separate his head from his body, so we were amazed. Then he returned his head back to his body. So Jundub came along and killed the magician.” Reported by Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Kubrā, 8136.
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Contributors Fundamental Analysis ECB Promises Additional Easing If Needed
ECB Promises Additional Easing If Needed
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Jun 07, 06:11 GMT
ECB sees increased risks warranting a further delay to tightening
No major change in economic view in new projections but…
…Draghi says ECB determined to act if ‘adverse contingencies’ arise
Options for possible further easing being discussed
Slight hints at limited scope including a possible need to resort to fiscal policy
So, differing if modest FX and interest rate market reactions make sense
Market expectations ran quite high ahead of yesterday’s ECB governing council meeting and on several occasions in the past such expectations have been sorely disappointed. While the exchange rate of the Euro did rise somewhat in the aftermath of ECB pronouncements, market interest rates softened marginally, suggesting ECB president Mario Draghi provided some measure of comfort to investors that Euro area interest rates are likely to remain lower for even longer than had previously been envisaged and also raising the (still limited) possibility of a further policy easing.
The slightly divergent responses of FX and interest rate traders could be interpreted as suggesting that while the ECB didn’t announce as much as some might have hoped, it did a little more than some may have feared.
ECB strikes an easier note
At a technical level, the ECB provided details of the previously signalled new round of funding operations for the banking sector, the third instalment of Targeted Long Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO’s) that will begin in September 2019. However, this was not the most significant element of the ECB’s pronouncements
The most notable aspect was the acknowledgement of increased downside risks to the economic outlook and the impact this has had on ECB thinking. The most immediate impact was the decision to delay any increase in interest rates by six months‐until the second half of 2020 at the earliest from the previously indicated end of 2019.
At least as important was the increased signalling that the ECB was prepared to ease policy again if needed, a willingness underlined by the inclusion of the phrase’ Looking ahead, the Governing Council is determined to act in case of adverse contingencies..’ in Mr Draghi’s opening press statement. To emphasise the ECB’s capacity in this regard Mr Draghi indicated that there had been a detailed discussion regarding potential easing measures that the ECB might consider if needed in the future.
Alert to dangers
While the past few weeks have seen financial markets move into panic mode on fears of a notably poorer economic outlook, it should be emphasised that the increased risks acknowledged by the ECB have not in its view translated into a notably darker economic reality at least for now. Indeed, on a number of occasions, Mr Draghi referred to ‘the disconnect between what markets see and what people expect’. Compared to the previous estimates made three months ago, new ECB projections envisage fractionally stronger economic growth and inflation in 2019 and, as the diagram below illustrates only marginally weaker trajectories for 2020 and 2021
Circumstances in which the ECB sees the current outlook as still moderately positive but significantly threatened might suggest the ECB should keep its powder dry but to seek to impress upon markets that it had ample ammunition and was willing and able to use it. This is likely the driving force behind Mr Draghi’s indication that there was ‘a readiness to act in case of adverse contingencies’ and that this had led to a ‘discussion of granularity’ on the measures the ECB might use to ease policy further.
To emphasise the ECB’s scope to act was substantial, Mr Draghi indicated that ‘policy space is there’. He noted that that several members raised the possibility of further rate cuts, other members referred to restarting the Asset Purchase Programme or further extending forward guidance. However, he added that such discussions had just started and the governing council hadn’t discussed which contingency would call for which instrument. This addition is likely designed to emphasise the nature of these discussions is preliminary and tentative to prevent markets from concluding that the process of preparing a future ECB easing action has already begun.
Might fiscal policy action be needed?
The central message of Mr Draghi was that the ECB was aware of increased downside risks, that this meant any future rate increases would be further delayed and that should such risks increase further and translate into a notably poorer outlook, the ECB was both able and willing to act to ease policy further. However, some other comments made by Mr Draghi might also suggest that the ECB’s scope to act might be limited in some important respects.
One important constraint on further cuts to the deposit rate and possibly even on the extended maintenance of the deposit rate at current levels is the ongoing concern that prolonged negative interest rates might weaken the profitability of the banking sector and thereby diminish its lending capacity that is central to transmitting ECB policy to the broader economy.
While Mr Draghi argued that thus far ‘in the aggregate’, the ECB wasn’t seeing any adverse effects on lending, a significant insertion in yesterday’s opening press statement noted ‘we will continue to monitor carefully the bank‐based transmission channel of monetary policy and the case for mitigating measures.’ This wording might suggest the deposit rate is close, possibly very close, to the effective lower bound at present and the ability to sustain it at current levels cannot be taken for granted.
Arguably of major significance in the ECB pronouncements was Mr Draghi’s acknowledgement that ECB policy alone was unlikely to be able to fully offset a serious downturn in economic conditions. Mr Draghi noted ‘Certainly, fiscal policy will have to come into consideration…and play a fundamental role..’. This hints at a possibly fundamental change in ECB thinking. If the ECB were to countenance a more expansionary policy (even though Draghi only referred to it in circumstances of ‘adverse contingencies’), it would represent a major regime shift with potentially significant implications for the interest rate outlook in the medium term. It would also accord with some academic thinking for a more nuanced view of the role of fiscal policy such as that proposed in Olivier Blanchard’s address to the American Economic Association at the start of the year.
Market reaction modestly but differently
While Euro area market interest rates softened marginally, the exchange rate of the Euro rose slightly in the wake of Mr Draghi’s pronouncements. These outcomes that can often be no more than a reflection of different market capacities to absorb changes in positions, might also suggest different verdicts on the part of interest rate and FX traders.
To the extent that the date of any possible ECB tightening has been further delayed and the possibility of a further easing increased but in both instances in a direction the market had expected, the reaction of interest rate markets is not surprising. However, for FX traders, the expectation that the US Federal reserve can ease much more aggressively, that the details of Mr Draghi’s pronouncements may be hints at limits to what the ECB can do and perhaps even the prospect of a more supportive fiscal stance within the Euro area would all rationalise a slightly stronger Euro exchange rate.
In light of Mr Draghi’s pointers in regard to possible future policy actions, the ECB’s announcement of the details of the upcoming TLRTO got relatively little attention. Mr Draghi indicated that they were an important backstop and in circumstances where there are concerns about the impact of negative rates on the banking sector, the terms of the new TLTRO’s might seem to reflect an attempt to strike a balance between conflicting views on the governing council. On one hand, the base pricing at 10 basis points over the main ECB refinancing rate represents a penalty, albeit modest, for such funding. However, as was the case with the previous TLTRO, in an effort to stimulate credit creation, the rate charged by the ECB to banks that increase their lending can be reduced by as much as 40 basis points. While the TLTRO, will support Euro area lending capacity, it is unlikely to make any dramatic change to the current outlook for the broader Euro area economy or consequently for the future path of monetary policy.
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In New Manchester there's both short-term and long-term inpatient alcohol and drug rehab. Short-term is a 30-day program, while long-term inpatient drug rehab in New Manchester, West Virginia is more in depth and rehab can last 3 to 6 months generally speaking. This is an ideal setting for clients as it is a safe and secure drug-free setting where they're able to heal both physically and mentally without interruptions. Ideally, people proceed within a long-term in-patient alcohol and drug rehab program in New Manchester for the optimum period of time permitted, so that they can handle anything which may cut across their sobriety after they leave rehab. Because of the fact that detoxing and becoming physically stable can require two to three weeks by itself, the 3 to 6 months in long-term in-patient drug rehab in New Manchester is going to be time spent well and a lot more efficient than short-term programs.
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Two-year moving average rates from 2002-2003 to 2007-2008 indicate that current cigarette use among women aged 15 to 44 decreased from 30.7 to 27.3 percent for those who were not pregnant and from 18.0 to 16.4 percent for those who were pregnant, although the latter difference was not statistically significant.
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Senior Citizens are entitled to half fare upon presentation... 14/04/04 Indigo
After Amber Died 13/04/04 ArtemisKat
SequoiaView 12/04/04 Unforgiven
A ace in the jail(poem) 11/04/04 cauchy3
The Death Trap 11/04/04 Aqua
Revenge of the S.L.U.T. 31/03/04 The_Roach
Move Over, Fried and Hamburgers 29/03/04 Lilith
Fuck you, spam. 28/03/04 Unforgiven
Dr Daedalus Unravels 26/03/04 Mr_Fred_Smith
Contemplating Fruit 26/03/04 Lilith
A dix(ten) 22/03/04 cauchy3
Any one of us could have done this... 20/03/04 The_Roach
Changes 19/03/04 Lilith
A insular (poem) 17/03/04 cauchy3
A arm 17/03/04 cauchy3
Titles are for the reader to determine 16/03/04 cris
Title. 11/03/04 Arguile
Umbrellas 07/03/04 Alexander
The Devil and the Artist 28/02/04 Guest
The Artist's Perception of his Art 27/02/04 Alexander
Physical Ownership of Self 21/02/04 Alexander
This is my Land – Education: Part I of ?? 16/02/04 Green Mamba
SUICIDE JUNCTION 11/02/04 Green Mamba
So, where was I? 10/02/04 Green Mamba
The Thought 05/02/04 shaggy
Time for Farewells I 05/02/04 Lilith
Winter Sky 29/01/04 Lilith
Welcome to V3 24/01/04 Alexander
Server Move in Progress 18/01/04 Alexander
Night Watch 15/01/04 Villager
Kids! 30/12/03 Jake
’02:05:02 23/12/03 Dragonfly
Writing Needed 22/12/03 Alexander
Steamy notes, in a Wet mirror 19/12/03 Dragonfly
Dream a Reality 16/12/03 Boy_of_Embers
All in the past 13/12/03 Boy_of_Embers
I Will Not Hate You. 08/12/03 Villager
I'm Not a Freak 05/12/03 Shaggy
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall 05/12/03 Villager
Get your lyrics sung by the best 26/11/03 Alexander
That it is not it, that is not it at all 22/11/03 Shaggy
Where is the Love? 21/11/03 Green Mamba
Capacity: A Prelude 19/11/03 Villager
Revenge on Nigerian email scammers 18/11/03 Alexander
Sick and Flawless 17/11/03 Shaggy
Capacity: Are you full? 16/11/03 Villager
How I'd stop George W. Bush coming in... 16/11/03 eggmachine
Destroy All: Perspective Through Fire 13/11/03 Shaggy
This is only what I think. 30/10/03 Crucias
Valley of the Dead 28/10/03 Shaggy
lego treasure island 19/10/03 TonyChef
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - ONLINE? 14/10/03 firebrand
Nice guys and the back of the line. 12/10/03 Assassin13
Delusions of a proud mind 10/10/03 Assassin13
Third shift in the neon graveyard. 10/10/03 VanGogh
Yesterday, today and tomorrow 07/10/03 Green Mamba
I break the Masturbation World Record!! 01/10/03 Craig
Face Value, part 1/2 01/10/03 clank-o-tron
I Don't know... 29/09/03 Noctornus
Error 404 28/09/03 Craig
Send an E-Mail to the Future You!!! 26/09/03 Craig
Happy Tree Friends!! Funny Flash Cartoon!! 26/09/03 Craig
AOL3R TRANSLA2R!!!111!!!!!11 OMG WTF LOL 26/09/03 Craig
Death And Creation 24/09/03 Anton
Observations 24/09/03 Shaggy
Haha! 24/09/03 Acheron
Rise of the Objects 23/09/03 Shaggy
Life of Pi by Jann Martel 19/09/03 Acheron
Fool Britannia 16/09/03 Villager
Confessions of a Flesh Artist 12/09/03 clank-o-tron
Can you see The Man in the Moon? (another extract from The Symbiosis of Life & Death) 05/09/03 Green Mamba
Surviving Matt. 02/09/03 VanGogh
Are YOU worth it? 02/09/03 Jake
THESE CITY WALLS (PART II of II) 26/08/03 Green Mamba
THESE CITY WALLS (PART I of II) 22/08/03 Green Mamba
Confessions of an Ex-Phone Psychic (Part 2 of 2) 20/08/03 VanGogh
N/A 18/08/03 Villager
Round and Round 15/08/03 Green Mamba
Drive a Porche Carrera!! 10/08/03 Craig
Perfect Plastic People 09/08/03 The Green Mamba
channel 4 experiment. 06/08/03 TonyChef
laughed my ass off! 06/08/03 TonyChef
Seize the day. 05/08/03 Jake
Don't buy CDs 04/08/03 Alexander
Non-existent books in existent books 03/08/03 berly
Are you listening? 21/07/03 Jake
THE INEVITABILITY OF CHANGE (Conclusion – continued from Heaven & Hell) 18/07/03 The Green Mamba
Distance Healing 18/07/03 Dragonfly
Dave Brockie Experience - Songs For The Wrong 16/07/03 The_Roach
HEAVEN & HELL (Continued from PROPHETABILY) 14/07/03 The Green Mamba
To Any and All Who Read This 13/07/03 Arguile
PROPHETABILITY (CONTINUED FROM HIDDEN TRUTHS) 11/07/03 The Green Mamba
HIDDEN TRUTHS (Continued from AN ELABORATE LIGHT SHOW) 08/07/03 The Green Mamba
painfully oldschool 05/07/03 Acheron
AN ELABORATE LIGHTSHOW (Continued from 10000 YEARS AGO) 02/07/03 The Green Mamba
ROBO-K3WL 30/06/03 Jake
Scientology deaths 30/06/03 Alexander
How to be a hum0n 30/06/03 hoodedfreak
10 000 YEARS AGO 29/06/03 The Green Mamba
Introspective? Perhaps. 29/06/03 Arguile
Introduction 28/06/03 The Green Mamba
Heavenly Creatures 24/06/03 Acheron
Stupid titles don't belong on a smart website. 24/06/03 Crucias
Idols 22/06/03 Alexander
funny 'cause i married one, or perhaps it's just funny 22/06/03 ghoti
Happy Tree Friends! 17/06/03 unforgiven
Link Exchanges 14/06/03 Alexander
Control and the Effervescent Smile 07/06/03 Shaggy
No Sex, Please, I'm British 31/05/03 Villager
The Eyes of Jesus are Upon Your Bum 27/05/03 Jake
Hasselhoff reviews on Amazon 23/05/03 Alexander
Clouding Over 21/05/03 Kateifer
HAIL THE MIGHTY ESCALATOR 19/05/03 The Green Mamba
Sexy Love 18/05/03 Villager
"Happiness" 16/05/03 Aqua
THERE ARE SHEEP IN THE CITY 15/05/03 The Green Mamba
DINOSAURS STILL ROAM THE EARTH 13/05/03 firebrand
Black Cat on My Shoulder 09/05/03 Villager
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Shaggy 08/05/03 Shaggy
Ah...the random insanity of it... 08/05/03 Strawberry
Growing Up 04/05/03 The Green Mamba
The best day? 02/05/03 Jake
Dante's Inferno Test 02/05/03 marilee
Possibly Impossible 26/04/03 The Green Mamba
Parenting 25/04/03 ostensibletruth
Fact or Fiction 24/04/03 The Green Mamba
ATM Illiterates 22/04/03 The Green Mamba
An interesting interpretation of Star Wars 21/04/03 Alexander
THE RATIONALITY OF OBJECTIVE REASON 16/04/03 The Green Mamba
Your eyes, ears and mouth 14/04/03 Winter
The Ontario Medical Review Committee 12/04/03 hoodedfreak
Big Brother is Watching 11/04/03 marilee
Absolute vs. Subjective Morality 11/04/03 winter
A second rushed attempt at free will 10/04/03 Winter
A rushed attempt at 'Free Will' 09/04/03 Winter
Like a Hand In A Velvet Glove 08/04/03 The_Roach
The Family Dog 08/04/03 Alexa
Road to Perdition 03/04/03 Jake
And now for something Completely Different! 02/04/03 Assassin13
She's Come Undone 02/04/03 Alexa
Connection 01/04/03 Shaggy
Violet & Claire 26/03/03 Elyse
The Death of a Kind 25/03/03 Shaggy
Drone 25/03/03 Acheron
Spiral 23/03/03 Sickan
Passive (Angel) and Active (Devil): the controversy that both should be fed 21/03/03 Shaggy
Googlism 21/03/03 DemonAnton
Dream Story 18/03/03 Strawberry
AKpCEP two years on 18/03/03 Alexander
Has this guy gone crazy?! 17/03/03 Craig
Ghettoify yo'self! 15/03/03 Alexander
Last Shining Moment 13/03/03 Jake
When I was yer age . . . 10/03/03 Alexa
Dirty Fan Male 09/03/03 Craig
Aural/Spatial Interplay 08/03/03 Acheron
Ever wanted to be a Cam Whore? 07/03/03 DemonAnton
Killing Time 07/03/03 Aqua
All For One 05/03/03 The_Roach
Are you ready? 01/03/03 Acheron
Vat are you talkin' about? 28/02/03 Shaggy
hidden memories 28/02/03 Villager
Star Gazing 25/02/03 Strawberry
Adversary 22/02/03 Arguile
Walking 21/02/03 Shaggy
Strip It Down 21/02/03 Villager
1980s Commercials 19/02/03 Craig
Writings and such of Quinn 19/02/03 Unforgiven
Pain 18/02/03 Arguile
Download the Internet 18/02/03 Craig
A Virtual Paradise 18/02/03 firebrand
Prequel To BushStar Wars 2003 17/02/03 eggmachine
AKP interview online... 17/02/03 kidjuxta
Dream a Little Dream 17/02/03 The_Roach
665 15/02/03 firebrand
*masturbates excitedly* 15/02/03 Jake
Chapter One 11/02/03 Arguile
Magicians and BloodWhores 10/02/03 Shaggy
ThumbDrive 09/02/03 The_Roach
stop the insanity 08/02/03 firebrand
I Once Heard About Creation... 05/02/03 PixieMeat
Invasion 03/02/03 Sickan
PLIF 02/02/03 firebrand
Case Modding On A Budget 02/02/03 Unforgiven
Fat of the Land 02/02/03 firebrand
Singing In The Rain 02/02/03 Villager
Remember? 01/02/03 Jake
Just staring into the abyss gets boring after a time. 31/01/03 The_Roach
The creature Sickan... 28/01/03 Sickan
Alpha and Omega: Beginning and End 27/01/03 Shaggy
YEAAAHHHH!!! 26/01/03 Jake
The Blood In My Veins 24/01/03 shaggy
The Dream 23/01/03 arguile
Syrup 22/01/03 The_Roach
Covet Nothing 22/01/03 Shaggy
AKpCEP is back, and this time - it's personal... 22/01/03 Alexander
I am not really Here 13/01/03 Shaggy
Food Culture 13/01/03 Acheron
Ye Olde Funnie Shoppe 12/01/03 Acheron
Those nutty vegetarians 11/01/03 Acheron
Thievery Corporation: The Richest Man in Babylon 10/01/03 Acheron
Is there a skill to being alone? 08/01/03 ls42hq
Periodical Rantings 06/01/03 arguile
The Dream 05/01/03 Diva
Do you know your arse from your elbow? 03/01/03 ls42hq
Yule Time Spirit. 25/12/02 arguile
=) 21/12/02 Diva
Oy Vey 16/12/02 Diva
Monkey Lander! 14/12/02 Noctornus
Outlet 14/12/02 Sickan
building bridges 13/12/02 marilee
Lonely Woman 12/12/02 Kateifer
There is no such thing as 'bad' art 09/12/02 Alexander
Straight outta Hobbiton 07/12/02 Alexander
Smile, Damn It 04/12/02 Diva
so tired 30/11/02 Villager
I took it all and never looked back. 29/11/02 The_Roach
Read and become the monster! 27/11/02 Sickan
It's nothing personal. 27/11/02 The_Roach
Say what? 27/11/02 Kateifer
You just do those things. 25/11/02 Sickan
Interesting.... 25/11/02 Craig
Sure. 25/11/02 Jake
Evil Clown Generator! 24/11/02 Craig
A Continuing Monologue 21/11/02 Shaggy
Xylophone 20/11/02 Craig
A different look 18/11/02 Firebrand
Contempt Breeds Familiarity? 18/11/02 noctornus
Choices 18/11/02 Diva
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Something To Write 18/11/02 Arguile
Confessions 17/11/02 Firebrand
The Adventures of Hylic Man: Arthur Bremer, the Great Assassinator 17/11/02 Tagboard
"5 points EXP, -10 points originality" 17/11/02 Jake
Silent child 16/11/02 Kateifer
Tu Es Verbalissime! 14/11/02 Shaggy
Ook Ook 12/11/02 firebrand
All that is left; II 11/11/02 Acheron
all taht's left; I 08/11/02 Acheron
Reader Submission #87198528 07/11/02 Alexander
Old people = Shit 07/11/02 Sickan
Farts.com 06/11/02 Shaggy
The Future Is Now 05/11/02 Villager
The silent Child 03/11/02 Sickan
Addiction 02/11/02 Alexander
Filipino Box Spring Hog 02/11/02 Jake
Walking Spanish 01/11/02 Jake
The most Supreme man on Earth 31/10/02 Sickan
Thoughts on a Bad Day 30/10/02 Shaggy
Honey I'm Hooome!! 29/10/02 Sickan
Documents on the Beltway Sniper 27/10/02 Craig
Ultima Ratio Regum 27/10/02 Jake
To get you in a Hallowe'en mood... 27/10/02 Acheron
67 bourgeois die, who cares? 26/10/02 Acheron
Play Gameboy Online 26/10/02 Craig
A Job to Do, part 1 25/10/02 JamTorkberg
I Don't Know Why 25/10/02 Berly
Regret 24/10/02 Jake
The unbearable undecidability of Being 22/10/02 Shaggy
You Already Have Super Powers 22/10/02 JamTorkberg
Reader Submission 21/10/02 Shaggy
The Ring 21/10/02 The_Roach
I think they are as nuts as we.... 21/10/02 Berly
Persistence of Memory 20/10/02 The_Roach
Arkansas' Aerie 19/10/02 firebrand
Did you have a yesterday? 19/10/02 JamTorkberg
Name that beard! 18/10/02 Craig
A Different Character (or the Dislike of a Roommate) 17/10/02 Shaggy
I don't like this anymore... 17/10/02 Jake
I am (not) a Blood-whore 17/10/02 Shaggy
I am not an A... 13/10/02 Sickan
nigger 12/10/02 The_Roach
So cute! 12/10/02 Craig
Masturbakers 12/10/02 Craig
Proof! 12/10/02 Berly
Paradise lost 11/10/02 firebrand
Where Art Thou, Love? 11/10/02 Villager
Scary 10/10/02 Acheron
Validation 09/10/02 Jake
Halloween is coming: Time for RolePlaying 08/10/02 Shaggy
Forgive me, father, for I have sinned. 07/10/02 The_Roach
Dude, I can't feel the bong! 06/10/02 Jake
Baaaaaa 06/10/02 firebrand
Play with Letters 06/10/02 firebrand
Yeah, But I Didn't Mean To 05/10/02 Berly
Caught Up in the Moment 03/10/02 Jake
The Great Filing System that is my Brain 03/10/02 firebrand
Cybar-Lovah? more like Cyber-Loser 02/10/02 firebrand
Self-Taught 01/10/02 Alexander
Moving On 30/09/02 Shaggy
Would you like an apple pie with that?!?!?!? 30/09/02 Craig
Daft Punk: Discovery 30/09/02 Acheron
Uh....yeah? 28/09/02 Jake
Goodnight 28/09/02 Sickan
Artifice Versus Individuality 24/09/02 Shaggy
College 101 24/09/02 Acheron
What do you know about dope? 23/09/02 Craig
How long can you hold the button? 23/09/02 Craig
More bullshit poetry. Woo. 23/09/02 Jake
Lonely? 22/09/02 Berly
Waste time! Have fun! 21/09/02 Alexander
The reports of my Death were highly falsified 19/09/02 Shaggy
A Tribute To Small-Town Teen Angst (with a nod to e.e. cummings) 18/09/02 Jake
Now Testify 16/09/02 Sickan
Who's the Bitch? 15/09/02 Berly
Urban Myths debunked! 14/09/02 Alexander
Morcheeba: Charango 14/09/02 Sunny2Tall
DAS EXPERIMENT 14/09/02 Villager
Them damn grinders 12/09/02 Alexander
Thinking, yet again... 12/09/02 Jake
Reader Submission #18965 11/09/02 The_Roach
Synesthesia 10/09/02 Sickan
Self Righteous Mother Fucker 08/09/02 Villager
Grinder Submission 05/09/02 Villager
Intravenous Salvation 01/09/02 Jake
ODDLY ALONE… 28/08/02 Sickan
Downtime Explanation 27/08/02 Alexander
Jamming 24/08/02 Alexander
A storm is brewing.... 23/08/02 Jake
The Internet's First 21/08/02 Craig
Worm 20/08/02 Craig
Found out your IP 20/08/02 Craig
A Link for Roach 18/08/02 Berly
Finding Myself 16/08/02 Sunny2Tall
HAPPY? 14/08/02 Villager
What a place to be... 11/08/02 Jake
Bob the Builder Sex 10/08/02 Craig
Achilles Heel 09/08/02 Alexander
Drinking games! 08/08/02 Craig
Great Links 08/08/02 Craig
Brightness Falls 06/08/02 The_Roach
The Holy Bible 06/08/02 Villager
Idealistic 05/08/02 Villager
Taken for Granted 04/08/02 Berly
Which Sex are You?! 04/08/02 Craig
Fart Fart Fart!!!!! 04/08/02 Craig
Fat Culture 02/08/02 Jake
How gay are you... 30/07/02 Craig
BEWARE SMARTEY LINUX MEN 30/07/02 Villager
"Except for drinkin', but he knew that I would" 27/07/02 Jake
Wait..what? 27/07/02 Jake
Who are you? 27/07/02 Craig
Hot or Not 25/07/02 Craig
The Wrong way... 23/07/02 Craig
Death and Sickness... 18/07/02 Sickan
pr0n 16/07/02 marilee
Oasis of good in an evil desert 16/07/02 Alexander
Integrity 16/07/02 Alexander
South Park Studio 16/07/02 Craig
Create your own super hero! 13/07/02 Craig
Existence? 12/07/02 Villager
Guest Submission - AnemusRogo 09/07/02 Berly
Thanks Duckman! 08/07/02 Berly
House of Leaves 06/07/02 Jake
Flogging a Dead Horse 06/07/02 Berly
SMILING 06/07/02 Sickan
Stumbling 05/07/02 Villager
IQ Test! 04/07/02 Alexander
Freedom 04/07/02 The_Roach
Guest Submission - Author: AnemusRogo 02/07/02 Berly
Made Up Word Fun 02/07/02 Berly
Battery hens 01/07/02 Villager
Sea Monkey Worship 30/06/02 Craig
When the darkness comes 30/06/02 Sickan
Lunch With Mom 29/06/02 Berly
Roller Coaster 28/06/02 Villager
juSt thE fuTurE noThinG moRe 26/06/02 Sickan
Almost too wee 25/06/02 Alexander
What an interesting fetish 24/06/02 Craig
'Fat people' from the view of a chubby grinder 23/06/02 The_Roach
Where is Waldo? 23/06/02 Craig
Innocence. 23/06/02 Villager
Society's Willing Victims 22/06/02 Villager
Filthy PC Competition 20/06/02 Alexander
Saturday, June 15th 20/06/02 The_Roach
Is it About You? 19/06/02 Berly
An odd movie... 13/06/02 The_Roach
Moments 13/06/02 Sickan
Lego Death 12/06/02 Berly
exams exshmams! 09/06/02 Villager
Rumble in the.. retirement home? 09/06/02 Villager
I'm going to live to 87! Yay! 09/06/02 Villager
What is your porn star name? 08/06/02 Craig
How To Get Free Hosting For a Webcomic 06/06/02 The_Roach
If you were a dog.. 04/06/02 Villager
The Woodwork 04/06/02 The_Roach
Hurt the Bear!! 02/06/02 Craig
A Reader Submission 30/05/02 Alexander
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? 30/05/02 Craig
I Have Nothing to Say 29/05/02 Berly
The meaning of li.. your name. 28/05/02 Villager
First Aid 27/05/02 Jake
Star Wars - Gangsta Style 26/05/02 Alexander
happy happy happy 26/05/02 Villager
Rock, Paper, Scissors 26/05/02 Craig
It's Not a Test 25/05/02 Berly
Time For A Change... 23/05/02 The_Roach
Emotional Dilemma 22/05/02 Jake
Equivalence 21/05/02 Alexander
Kids can be so... weird. 20/05/02 Alexander
dare me. 18/05/02 Villager
Dispatch - Bang Bang 15/05/02 Acheron
Thoughts of Pain 14/05/02 Sickan
It's a Movie! 14/05/02 Berly
An oldie... 14/05/02 Jake
Feelings 12/05/02 Sickan
Create your own desktop icons!! 12/05/02 Craig
Bounce 08/05/02 Berly
"Happy" 07/05/02 Villager
I am not who I thought I was 07/05/02 Berly
Jason X or Why You Should Not Waste Cash 06/05/02 Jake
The Score 06/05/02 Villager
Tubular, man. 06/05/02 Berly
I Am Mass Media 06/05/02 The_Roach
The Others 05/05/02 Villager
referendum 05/05/02 marilee
What group were you in at school? 05/05/02 Craig
Am I the last person to see this? 03/05/02 Berly
Satanism - not as cool as the kids at school say. 01/05/02 James
Klez - not good. 30/04/02 Alexander
Communicate. 29/04/02 Waldo
The Technical Manual 26/04/02 The_Roach
Conflicts... 26/04/02 Jake
Make your own Virtual model! 25/04/02 Craig
stickdeath.com 24/04/02 Shaggy
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers 24/04/02 Shaggy
You think you cannot communicate? 24/04/02 Shaggy
My Entire Ass 24/04/02 Berly
“Obfuscation!” -- “Bless you.” 24/04/02 Berly
Leaving Here 22/04/02 Jake
Plan it Earth 22/04/02 Villager
puer natus est nobis 21/04/02 Shaggy
Donnie Darko 21/04/02 Berly
Tourette Syndrome Simulator 21/04/02 Craig
Infidelity 21/04/02 Villager
Ask Moses 21/04/02 Craig
Carney's Dental Updates!! 21/04/02 Craig
"They don't walk the way I do." 20/04/02 James
Narrow Minded 19/04/02 Sickan
Microwave Fun!! 17/04/02 Craig
Are you as Slacker? 16/04/02 Craig
Wow! A webmaster post! 14/04/02 Alexander
Educate thyself! 14/04/02 Alexander
Akpcep's Red Headded Step Child 14/04/02 Berly
Star Wars fanatics - and I why I want to run them through with my lightsaber. 12/04/02 James
The Selling of the American Dream 11/04/02 Jake
Liberty to believe, not just the others 11/04/02 Sickan
Gay or Straight 08/04/02 Craig
Evolution of reality.... 07/04/02 Jake
Surviving on contests! 06/04/02 Waldo
Too Much Freakin Time on my Hands 05/04/02 Berly
Pandemonium 04/04/02 Jake
What's Your Fetish 04/04/02 Craig
Blade 2 02/04/02 Alexander
What would Jesus Drive? 02/04/02 Craig
Pitch 02/04/02 Berly
An Analysis of All that Is Pt.1 02/04/02 Alexander
Female or Shemale 01/04/02 Craig
April Fools 01/04/02 Craig
Le Pacte des loups 31/03/02 Sickan
Mmmmm... Organized Crime!! 31/03/02 Craig
the boy with no name 30/03/02 Villager
XXX 30/03/02 Villager
Feeling Helpless 29/03/02 Alexander
The greatest game in the world?? 29/03/02 Jake
Impending.... 28/03/02 Jake
God Bless America 27/03/02 The_Roach
Forgetting Prehistory 26/03/02 Jake
ARTARTARTART 26/03/02 Berly
"I believe in America. America's made my fortune." 25/03/02 The_Roach
I believe that children are our future 25/03/02 Alexander
Perforation. 24/03/02 Acheron
Faith vs Hope 22/03/02 Alexander
Turmoil 21/03/02 Jake
Do we need them?? 21/03/02 Sickan
Membership Is Free 21/03/02 Berly
Life...is it for everyone? 19/03/02 Jake
the state of community 18/03/02 Villager
Dark Personalities 18/03/02 Alexander
Happy Birthday akpcep.com 17/03/02 Alexander
Your Metal Gear Solid name 17/03/02 Alexander
Conclave Obscurum 14/03/02 Berly
Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension 13/03/02 The_Roach
Wild Cards 13/03/02 The_Roach
Jack the Ripper 12/03/02 Craig
Jimmy Nail 12/03/02 Craig
McDonalds!! 12/03/02 Craig
What would it take to make you die? 12/03/02 Alexander
Theatre 11/03/02 marilee
Couples 08/03/02 Alexander
1891 06/03/02 Shaggy
Up close 06/03/02 Sickan
Savoring the moment 05/03/02 Alexander
IRC Quotes 04/03/02 Alexander
Create a Username and Password 04/03/02 Berly
Morbidity 03/03/02 Acheron
Selfish? And? 03/03/02 Villager
Thorns 01/03/02 Waldo
AKp live 01/03/02 Alexander
All you ever wanted to know about Trolls 01/03/02 Berly
No Explanations. 01/03/02 Waldo
Rain 28/02/02 Sickan
Liberty.. 26/02/02 Jake
Crime Watch 25/02/02 Craig
I'm not normally cruel... 23/02/02 The_Roach
Ha ha ha *cries* 23/02/02 Alexander
The family concept! 21/02/02 Sickan
Listen to your parents 21/02/02 Alexander
Sunday bloody Sunday 19/02/02 Sickan
Rome 19/02/02 Villager
Vampire: the Masquerade Redemption 19/02/02 Villager
rapid rifle's rattle 19/02/02 Villager
I love Tuesday 17/02/02 Craig
Hang a Coin Around Your Neck 17/02/02 Acheron
A Link For Dot 16/02/02 Berly
I wonder 15/02/02 Villager
Poe - Haunted 15/02/02 Villager
Nineteen Eighty-Four 15/02/02 Villager
My Ishmael-Daniel Quinn 14/02/02 Jake
The Sound of Freedom 13/02/02 The_Roach
Requiem For A Dream 13/02/02 The_Roach
GooGoo 12/02/02 Acheron
"Guaranteed delivery in 30 minutes or less, or we commit Seppuku!" 11/02/02 The_Roach
Maybe tomorrow 10/02/02 Andy
Justifiable Homocide 10/02/02 The_Roach
Leisure Town 10/02/02 Sunny2Tall
The Goal 09/02/02 Alexander
Big Hairy Pussy 09/02/02 Alexander
Girl In Landscape 07/02/02 The_Roach
Comfort Food 07/02/02 marilee
Captain Corelli's Mandolin 06/02/02 Villager
an unfortunate age? 06/02/02 Villager
Hey ASL 06/02/02 Craig
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 06/02/02 Sunny2Tall
Influential Handwriting? 06/02/02 Berly
Floundering 04/02/02 The_Roach
The Simpsons 04/02/02 Craig
I know you always wanted to know this!! 04/02/02 Craig
You are being watched 03/02/02 Alexander
night in 03/02/02 Acheron
What What? 03/02/02 Jake
Novels 02/02/02 Sickan
Political "correctness" part one 02/02/02 Andy
Peter Pan and various other goodies 01/02/02 Craig
I Only Write Crap. 01/02/02 The_Roach
NoVels... 01/02/02 Sickan
The Greatest HTML Editor Of Them All 01/02/02 The_Roach
F*R*I*E*N*D*S 31/01/02 Villager
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Trump’s greatest betrayal has dire consequences
by Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor
POLITICS - CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
Almost all America’s closest allies have cautioned US President Donald Trump against recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital warning of potentially grave...Read more
Trump’s dangerous policies imperil our world
Through his own actions, United States President Donald Trump has diminished his status as Leader of the Free World and eliminated himself as an honest...Read more
A window for Middle East peace has opened. Let’s grab it!
The human race has been gifted with an amazing capacity for problem-solving. With God’s will there is nothing we cannot achieve. Scientists have cured...Read more
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor's Life Journey
by Joanna Andrews
The exhibit opened to its first visitors, a group of 30 prominent Emiratis, who were taken on a private tour of the high-tech space. As soon as they...Read more
Inside the La Perle wardrobe
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Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor was the guest speaker at a motivational discussion organised by du. In an hour-long session held in the Astor Ballroom at The St....Read more
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Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor was one of the main panellists at the 4th Dubai International Project Management Forum in November. Read more
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Mount and Blade
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5 Reasons to Play World of Warcraft Again: World of Warcraft Expansion, Mounts at Earlier Levels, and More
Other WOW Articles / By Benjamin Sell / News and Opinion WOW Articles, PC
World of Warcraft is the number one MMORPG in the world by a wide margin. It’s difficult to find PC gamer who hasn’t tried it at least once. Many people are instantly hooked and just as many probably play a couple times and find it’s just not the game for them.
There’s a third set of WoW players, though, the ones who put many hours into the game in the past but became frustrated with waiting to find groups, changes to their class, or a combination of factors and decided to hang up their helmets. For these players, the myriad of changes WoW has undergone since its launch may have gone largely unnoticed.
Which is a shame, considering that so many of players’ complaints about the game over the years have been addressed and, in some cases, completely rectified. We’ve chosen to highlight four significant changes to the game, and one upcoming Cataclysm, that should give even the most jaded of former players a reason to delve back into the game they once loved.
Streamlined Leveling
As Blizzard released expansions to World of Warcraft, they realized that taking longer than ever to reach the level cap and get to many of the game’s most compelling features was not something that would appeal to most players. Accordingly, they’ve made some changes to the speed at which players level up.
Quest experience has been increased, and the amount of exp needed to reach each level has been reduced in most cases. The end result of this is a much-streamlined leveling process, allowing players to gain levels at a much faster pace without having to run from continent to continent to find appropriate-level quests.
0-60 has never been faster, and it’s entirely possible to get from 60-70 without seeing half of Outland, if it’s something you’d rather avoid.
For veteran players, coming back to the game right now also represents the last chance they’ll have to experience classic zones before they’re completely redesigned with the release of Cataclysm. If you’re hankering for a walk down memory lane, you have but a few months left to relive everything you loved about leveling in the Barrens.
Revised Mount System
Speaking of speeding things up, Blizzard has also made some massive changes to the mount system. Veteran players will remember the hell that was running back and forth across the Barrens or Stranglethorn Vale before you got your first mount at level 40.
Blizzard finally took pity on lower-level players and reduced the minimum required level for a standard mount to 20. Now, you’ll be moving quickly pretty much by the time you reach your third zone, and mounted speed greatly decreases the amount of time it takes to finish quests and ultimately gain levels.
All levels of mounts have been shifted downward. Players now get their epic land mounts at level 40 and have access to basic flying mounts the second they reach level 60. Having a flying mount for the entire time in Outland can basically halve the time it takes to get to level 70 and Northrend.
Quest Map Changes
Another factor greatly increasing leveling speeds these days is the integration of Quest Helper-like icons to the in-game map. No more scouring the countryside to find the exact location of a quest item (Mankrik’s Wife, anyone?), now you can simply open your in-game map and see exactly where you’re supposed to go.
Large areas where quest mobs are found are highlighted on the map, and exact locations of single mobs are easier than ever to find. It’s entirely possible (though not recommended) to quest without ever reading a quest description. Just grab the mission, head to where it’s located, kill the mobs that have the items you need (indicated in tooltips when you mouseover them now), and head back.
LFG System
One of the most annoying aspects of Vanilla and Burning Crusade WoW (and even the early days of WotLK) was waiting around for groups to form. Getting a group going for a specific instance in which you had a quest was a very frustrating process. If you didn’t have a guild full of willing adventurers, you had to sit in a major city, spamming requests until you filled up your group.
The old LFG tool helped a bit, but you were still limited to the players on your own server. Nowadays, even this limitation has been removed.
It’s like someone at Blizzard finally realized that in a virtual universe, you can pull people from pretty much wherever they are whenever you want. The new LFG tool allows you to queue for a specific dungeon and be instantly transported there when a full group is formed. This group pulls people not only from your own server, but from your entire battlegroup, making finding people much faster than before.
It’s entirely possible to enter the queue and forget about it, continuing about your business until the pop-up informs you your group is ready. You’re instantly transported to your dungeon and when you’re finished you simply leave the group and reappear in the same spot you were when you accepted the invite.
Finding groups has never been simpler, and even those players who avoided instancing because of the hassle associated with finding groups can now complete those high-value quests and earn their very nice blue rewards.
We’ve already discussed returning to the game to experience old content one more time before Cataclysm shakes everything up, but the expansion itself is another compelling reason for those who may be on the fence about reactivating their WoW account.
Players who’ve already got a level 80 character could probably just jump into the new Cataclysm content once it launches, but why not take advantage of the opportunity to prepare for it? Isn’t it time to grab items from the newer dungeons like ICC and get a chance to down Arthas before the new higher-level content turns the WotLK areas into ghost towns (like just about anywhere in BC)?
Blizzard is also known for their in-game events leading up to the release of a major expansion, and it can be assumed they’ll have something big in store for the weeks leading up to Cataclysm’s release, as well.
The world of an MMORPG like World of Warcaft is a fluid one, completely different from that of a console release. The Azeroth most players decided to leave because of frustrating leveling or grouping systems is a thing of the past, replaced by a new world where everything just seems to be a bit easier.
World of Warcraft is the game players keep coming back to, and it’s not hard to see why. With a team of developers dedicated to crafting the best possible in-game experience, even jaded former players can find new features to draw them back in.
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The CPP works closely with the departments of the Lutheran church to conduct workshops and trainings on capacity building in areas such as good governance, management, health, education and skills training.
Both Australian and Papua New Guinean governments recognise that working through the churches remains the most effective and transparent way of reaching those most in need in PNG.
The program is largely funded by AusAID and involves seven PNG mainline churches and their Australian faith based NGO partners.
The overall goal of CPP ELC-PNG is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Church so that it can support and challenge its people “to participate in God’s economy; to engage in the management of the household and to promote responsible stewardship and good governance that provides sustainable development.”
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Sullivan Creek Dam Removal Agreement Reached! (WA)
by Kevin Colburn
On Monday, March 29, 2010, American Whitewater joined a diverse group of stakeholders in signing and submitting two inter-related settlement agreements that call for the continued operation of Boundary Dam on the Pend Oreille River, enhanced operation of Sullivan Dam on the natural Sullivan Lake, and the removal of Mill Pond Dam on Sullivan Creek. The agreements are the culmination of over three years of consistent efforts to resolve issues related to the surrender of the Sullivan Project, located in northeastern Washington.
In submitting these agreements, the US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, WA Department of Ecology, WA Department of Fish & Wildlife, American Whitewater, Lands Council, Selkirk Conservation Alliance, Kalispel Tribe and several members of the public support the continuation of power generation at Boundary Dam, while agreeing to the removal of the Mill Pond Dam, a major fish barrier. In addition to addressing dam operations, these agreements provide for the protection and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat, native species protection, improved public recreation facilities and programs, and commit to maintaining the regional quality of life enjoyed by residents and visitors alike.
American Whitewater first got involved with Sullivan Creek in the mid-nineties when the project owner sought to revive the hundred year old hydropower project that fell into disrepair and out of use in the 1950's. We worked with the state of Washington to conduct a whitewater flow study, but the proposed revitalization of the project never panned out. Then, in 2007 the project owner asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to cease their regulation of the project. FERC agreed, but fearing project abandonment and a risky precedent American Whitewater and the US Forest Service challenged the FERC decision and won. This success triggered two years of monthly collaborative negotiation meetings in which diverse groups strived to reach an agreement that would protect Sullivan Creek and meet all the legal, recreational, and economic interests around the table.
It was not easy. It became readily apparent that Mill Pond Dam blocked passage of endangered bull trout, heated stream flows, and starved the downstream gorge of sediment. Dam removal was the only reasonable alternative that would address these impacts, but this option was controversial. Removal of Mill Pond Dam will provide potential access to more than 16 miles of spawning, rearing, overwintering and foraging habitat for native fish. It was determined that Sullivan Dam, which raises Sullivan Lake and offers a host of recreational and economic values, would be allowed to remain in place but would be operated differently to significantly enhance native and sport fish populations, economically important angling opportunities, summer lake levels and stream flows, stream temperatures, fall paddling opportunities, and potentially revenue. In a serendipitous arrangement the owner of a nearby large dam on the Pend Oreille River (Boundary Dam), into which Sullivan Creek flows, agreed to fund the removal of Mill Pond Dam and certain other enhancements to improve stream temperatures and habitat associated with their project.
Paddlers will notice some big changes in the Sullivan Creek watershed over the next few years. Beneath the Mill Pond and a layer of silt is a short gorge that contains whitewater rapids last seen over a century ago. These rapids will be uncovered by the dam removal efforts. The new stream channel in the lower gradient reach upstream of this gorge will be restored, and recreational paddling will be considered in the design of any stabilization structures (ie rock and wood). The two months of fall drawdown releases from Sullivan Lake that paddlers have enjoyed for years will soon begin in early September instead of early October, and will target optimal paddling levels. They will also last fewer days because more water will be retained in the reservoir over winter and naturally flow in the spring and early summer. For those fond of low flow experiences, summer flows in Sullivan Creek will be moderately increased.
The complexity and creativity of this settlement can not be overstated. Each member of the settlement group brought invaluable experience and ideas to the table. With the filing of these agreements, FERC will conduct its own environmental review of the proposal before making a final decision in 2012. Upon that decision, environmental enhancements will begin.
AW would like to extend a special thank you to Chris Lambiotte and Becky Brown who provided AW stewardship director Kevin Colburn with engineering and ecological assistance (respectively), a tour of Sullivan Creek, and lodging and other support during the meetings which spanned 2 years.
Watch a video of Lower Sullivan Creek in High Quality Here by clicking on the "watch in high quality" link below the video, or just click on the video below for the low quality version.
E-mail: kevin@americanwhitewater.org
Sullivan Creek (WA)
Two dams in the Sullivan Creek watershed no longer generate power. One was removed in 2017 as the result of a 2010 Settlement Agreement.
Associated Rivers
Sullivan WA
1. Mill Pond to N. Fork Sullivan (Upper) II
2. N. Fork Sullivan to Hwy 31 (Gorge) V
Sullivan Creek Settlement Agreement
2010 Settlement Agreement calling for the removal of Mill Pond Dam, and enhanced operations of Sullivan Dam and Boundary Dam.
Sullivan Creek Protection, MItigation, and Enhancement Measures
The heart of the Sullivan Creek Settlement Agreement, this document describes the protection, mitigation, and enhancement measures that were agreed to for the Sullivan Project, including dam removal and the construction of a cold water siphon.
AW Files For Sullivan Creek Protection (WA)
Great News For Sullivan Creek! (WA)
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Home Senators and Members Hon John Howard MP
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Elected to the House of Representatives for Bennelong, New South Wales, 1974. Re-elected 1975, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004. Defeated at general elections 2007.
Ministerial appointments
Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs from 22.12.1975 to 17.7.1977.
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister from 24.5.1977 to 20.12.1977.
Minister for Special Trade Negotiations from 17.7.1977 to 20.12.1977.
Treasurer from 19.11.1977 to 11.3.1983.
Cabinet Minister from 20.12.1977 to 11.3.1983.
Minister for Finance from 23.2.1979 to 27.2.1979.
Prime Minister from 11.3.1996 to 3.12.2007.
Cabinet Minister from 11.3.1996 to 3.12.2007.
Joint Standing: Australian Capital Territory from 25.7.1974 to 11.11.1974; Prices from 25.7.1974 to 11.11.1975.
House of Representatives Standing: Privileges from 11.5.1983 to 5.9.1985; Standing Orders from 11.5.1983 to 26.10.1984.
Conferences, delegations and visits
Official visits to USA, Canada and UK, June-July 1977
Official visit to Europe for discussions with the Commission of European Communities and with individual EEC member governments, September-October 1977
IMF Interim Committee, Washington, March 1979
Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Meeting, Europe, September-October 1979
Annual meeting of the IMF, Europe, October 1979
IMF and Asian Development Bank, West Germany, April 1980
The Asian Development Bank, Manila, April-May 1980
IMF, Washington 1981
Asian Development Bank, Manila, April 1982
Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Meeting, London, August 1982
Annual meeting of the IMF, Toronto, August 1982
Official visits to New Zealand, January 1984
Official visits to USA and Japan, January 1985
Official visits to Indonesia, China and Thailand, June 1985
Official visits to USA, July 1986
Official visits to Israel, Italy and UK, July 1988
Official visits to Japan and Philippines, March 1988
Visited New York to address the McIntosh Hoare Govett Australian Investment Conference, October 1988
77th International Labour Conference, Geneva, June 1990
Visited Hong Kong to address the County NatWest Australian Investment Conference, April 1992
South Pacific Forum, Marshall Islands, September 1996
Official visit to Indonesia and Japan, September 1996
APEC, the Philippines, November 1996
Official visit to New Zealand, February 1997
Official visit to Singapore and China, March-April 1997
Official visit to UK and USA, June-July 1997
Official visit to South Pacific Forum, Cook Islands, September 1997
CHOGM, UK, October 1997
Official visit to Indonesia, October 1997
APEC, Canada, November 1997
Official visit to Thailand, April 1998
APEC, Malaysia, November 1998
Parliamentary Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention, Canberra, February 1998
Official visit to Bali, April 1999
Official visit to Japan and USA, July 1999
Official visit to New Zealand, September 1999
Official visit to Papua-New Guinea, October 1999
CHOGM, South Africa, November 1999
Official visit to East Timor, November 1999
Official visit to Turkey, France and Israel, April-May 2000
Official visit to Republic of Korea, May 2000
Official visit to Japan, June 2000
Official visit to UK and India, July 2000
Official visit to USA, September 2000
Pacific Islands Forum, Kiribati, October 2000
Official visit to APEC, Brunei, November 2000
Official visit to Japan, August 2001
Official visit to Indonesia, August 2001
Official visit to China, October 2001
Official visit to USA, Singapore and Indonesia, January-February 2002
Official visit to UK, March 2002
Official visit to UK, April 2002
Official visit to East Timor and China, May 2002
Official visit to USA, June 2002
Official visit to Germany, Greece, Italy, The Vatican and Belgium, July 2002
Official visit to Papua New Guinea, August 2002
Pacific Islands Forum, Fiji, August 2002
Official visit to Nigeria and UK, September 2002
Official visit to Bali and Mexico, October 2002
Official visit to USA, UK and Indonesia, February 2003
Official visit to New Zealand, March 2003
Official visit to USA, UK and Qatar, May 2003
Official visit to Philippines, Japan and Republic of Korea, July 2003
Pacific Islands Forum, New Zealand, August 2003
Official visit to China, August 2003
Official visit to Solomon Islands, August 2003
Official visit to Bali, October 2003
Official visit to Thailand, October 2003
Official visit to UK, November 2003
CHOGM, Nigeria, December 2003
Official visit to Solomon Islands, December 2003
Pacific Islands Forum Special Retreat, New Zealand, April 2004
Official visit to Iraq, April 2004
Official visit to USA, UK and France, June 2004
Pacific Islands Forum, Samoa, August 2004
Official visit to Chile, November 2004
Official visit to Laos, November 2004
Official visit to Indonesia, January 2005
Official visit to Switzerland, Indonesia, January-February 2005
Official visit to China, Japan, Turkey and Greece, April 2005
Official visit to USA, UK, Iraq and United Arab Emirates, July 2005
Pacific Islands Forum, Papua New Guinea, October 2005
APEC, Korea, Pakistan and CHOGM, Malta, November 2005
Official visit to India, March 2006
Official visit to USA, Canada and Ireland, May 2006
Official visit to Indonesia and China, June 2006
Official visit to East Timor, July 2006
Pacific Islands Forum, Fiji, October 2006
APEC, Vietnam, November 2006
Official visit to Malaysia, November-December 2006
Official visit to Philippines, January 2007
Official visit to Japan, Iraq and Afghanistan, March 2007
Official visit to East Timor and Bali, July 2007
Parliamentary party positions
Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs and Commerce from 26.3.1975 to 11.11.1975.
Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party from 8.4.1982 to 5.9.1985.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 16.3.1983 to 5.9.1985.
Shadow Treasurer from 16.3.1983 to 5.9.1985.
Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party from 5.9.1985 to 9.5.1989.
Leader of the Opposition from 5.9.1985 to 9.5.1989.
Shadow Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce from 28.10.1989 to 11.4.1990.
Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, Employment and Training from 11.4.1990 to 7.4.1993.
Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader of the Opposition on the Public Service from 11.4.1990 to 7.4.1993.
Manager of Opposition Business in the House from 7.4.1993 to 31.1.1995.
Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations from 7.4.1993 to 31.1.1995.
Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party from 30.1.1995 to 29.11.2007.
Leader of the Opposition from 30.1.1995 to 11.3.1996.
State Representative of the Young Liberals (NSW) from 1962 to 1964.
Member of the Liberal Party State Executive (NSW) from 1963 to 1974.
Vice-President of the Liberal Party State Branch (NSW) from 1972 to 1974.
Delegate for New South Wales to the Liberal Party Federal Council from 1973 to 1974.
Born 26.7.1939, Earlwood, Australia
Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament
LLB (University of Sydney)
Description: Bennelong
Location: northern Sydney; it includes the suburbs of Carlingford (part), Denistone, Epping, Gladesville (part), Macquarie Park, Meadowbank, Melrose Park, Putney, North Ryde and Ryde.
Electors enrolled: 105,962 (at 2.7.2016)
Industries: light manufacturing, commercial and retail businesses.
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Howell cops seek biker bar brawl suspect
They found his helmet, but he got away by riding in excess of 100 mph, police said.
Howell cops seek biker bar brawl suspect They found his helmet, but he got away by riding in excess of 100 mph, police said. Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/2x3hPU3
Alex N. Gecan, @GeeksterTweets Published 9:15 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017 | Updated 12:48 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017
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HOWELL - Police are asking for leads in identifying a a motorcyclist they said eluded capture but left behind his helmet after a fight at Tom's Tavern on Asbury Road Sunday evening.
Police said they had gotten a call for a fight in progress at Tom's Tavern around 8 p.m. Sunday and saw one rider leaving the parking lot as they arrived. The fight began when one woman took issue with the motorcyclist going out drinking – rather than being at home with his child – and another woman interceded, police said.
HOWELL: DWI suspect downed utility police
The motorcyclist, whom they said was a heavyset bald white man with neck tattoos riding a Harley Davidson, ignored an officer who tried to stop him, headed south on Route 547 and then got on Interstate 195 where he rode west into Jackson at triple-digit speeds.
Township police called off their pursuit out of concern for safety, police said.
Police posted pictures of the black half-helmet style lid on Facebook. The helmet features stickers that read "banshee cartel," "who pissed in your gene pool," "white trash," "FTW," "Irish" and the anarchy symbol. They said they had submitted the helmet to test for DNA evidence.
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Police said they believed the motorcyclist might live in or near Plumsted or New Egypt and hangs out at the Cassville Tavern in Jackson.
Police asked anyone with information to call them at 732-938-4111 or to leave an anonymous tip on their tip line, or to message them on Facebook.
"To the offender, just be a man and turn yourself in. You most likely avoided a DWI," a post on the department's Facebook page read. "Deal with the criminal and motor vehicle charges. You will be caught if you don't."
Alex N. Gecan: 732-643-4043; agecan@gannettnj.com
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SW Hack Idea: Mac OS X-Style MDD Fan Control Under OS 9
April 4, 2014 - 10:34pm
CC_333
Joined: Jul 26 2012 - 00:44
I have observed (both first hand and anecdotally) that this is a very common problem with MDD G4s under OS 9, and that people have come up with solutions like replacing the fans with quieter versions (probably not a terrible idea *anyway*), downgrading from a dual to a single CPU card, and, the most obvious, running Mac OS X exclusively (and using Classic if running Mac OS X =< 10.4.11) and using the CHUD tools.
With all these workarounds, I've noticed that nobody has even considered an attempt at duplicating OS X's control mechanism in an OS 9 environment.
It seems like, at the very least, an OpenFirmware hack could be devised that would at least allow the fans to run more slowly, but a more flexible approach would be to somehow write an extension and/or control panel that would exert the same kind of control over the fans as OS X's AppleFan.kext, which would probably be ideal. I've wondered why Apple itself wouldn't have done something similar, but it was probably due to the fact that the MDD was released when OS X was taking over (and OS 9 was on its way out), so it's quite understandable. Likewise, it's understandable that nobody else would've cared as much since the Quicksilver, the MDD's immediate predecessor, was perfectly adequate under OS 9, so there was little reason to bother trying to run it flawlessly on an MDD, despite the fact that the MDD was an OS 9 bootable machine (except the FW800, of course).
So, is anyone willing to take on this project? I'd like to do it myself, but I don't know enough yet
bushnrvn
Joined: Jan 15 2012 - 10:08
Re: SW Hack Idea: Mac OS X-Style MDD Fan Control Under OS 9
I've been thinking about this post throughout the day and I just wanted to throw in my two cents.
I don't know enough about the hardware to make a firm statement, but my assumption would be the fans operate at a specific speed for a reason. Noise reduction would almost certainly, in my opinion, be most safely be achieved by replacing the fans with newer, quieter counterparts rather than try and throttle the current fans and end up with an overheating machine.
That said, I like the idea of working on a new MacOS 9 app. I've done some reading and it looks like a common workflow from the time would have been something like MPW (C) + ResEdit?
I am actually very interested in working on something like a hardware monitor (CPU temp, RAM usage, network activity, etc.) Just something static that would be a neat widget.
I am going to look into getting a copy of MPW and ResEdit working on my Sawtooth. If anyone has a better workflow or can speak from experience with MacOS 9 software development, I'd be glad to hear their thoughts.
April 8, 2014 - 10:15am
Joined: Apr 4 2009 - 18:20
I don't know anything about doing this at the OS level, but thinking about the hardware level gives me a couple of ideas, the most interesting of which would broaden the project to include USB capable, rather than just the MDD.
I've been watching these Digital Thermal Probe or Sensors as an alternative to thermal imaging for quantifying Compact Mac convection cooling nod results. I think they might work out well for this application.
Place the sensors in critical airflow paths. Examples off the top of my head:
_____outflow side of the heat sink airstream
_____inflow side of PSU
_____inside the PSU
Using a modern CPU widget(Pi, Arduino/whatever, I was looking at using my NuBus DIO card for my project) to report sampled temps to the Mac via USB and control the DC->DC Power supply widgets voltage powering the fans using output data from the Mac over same seems like the way to go to me.
_____place the sensors
_____jumper wire the fan's power from the DIO processor thingamajig.
_____digital (or analog) controlled rheostats(?)
The controller app would be a background app. As a safety feature, the microcontroller widget supplies full voltage until the app is up and running or if the app fails to respond over USB when polled in the case of a bombed system.
Dunno, haven't had enough coffe to really think it out, just thought I'd offer up this notion for a general purpose multi-Mac hack.
IIRC, this approach would put the hack methodology squarely within your knowledge/experience, CC.
eeun
Joined: Dec 19 2003 - 17:34
Looking at my 2003 1.25GHz MDD, there's no sensor lines on any of the fans. I suspect then that PSU fan speed is controlled by thermistors on the PSU itself. On the 120mm case fan there's a third pin on the motherboard connector, but only two wires go to the fan.
If OS X runs quieter on the MDD, it could be that it's more efficient and places less demand on the PSU than OS 9.
jt, I like your microcontroller suggestion.
An arduino with a temperature sensor or two could control fans and report information via serial->usb, and possibly receive commands as well to control several fans.
Initial uploading and updating of code on the Arduino would have to be done in OS X, but once running it would be OS independent.
I'm kind of full on projects at the moment, but I might try to at least get OS 9 talking to an arduino just for giggles.
volvo242gt
Joined: Nov 8 2004 - 19:56
OS X has the ability to put a PowerPC processor into nap mode, using CHUD Tools 3.5.2 as an example. Under OS 9. there is no CHUD Tools, so no nap mode for the processor. Therefore, a G4 MDD will run full-throttle, fan-wise, whereas, under OS X, it will spin down a bit when the processor(s) is(are) put into nap mode.
I don't know too much about the cooling systems for relatively current computers, graphics cards and such, but it seems like they only need full throttle fans when the system is under heavy load.
A G4 like my QS'02 idling the hours away while I work in Illustrator and GraphicConverter under OS9 puts out some heat, but it's not the blast furnace it might be running some resource intensive game or other at stupid frame rates/resolutions.
Am I right in assuming that the fans run at the same speed in either mode?
If so, the DIO sampled temps at critical airflow points ought to be able to be used to tweak the fan speeds, keeping the temperature ranges at the sampled points at optimal levels while reducing airflow/sound appropriately for CPU loading under any load scenario.
I like the idea of going all the way back to the first PCI(USB) architecture machines in hardware, but that's me. I usually take crap like this all the way over the top.
I can't program micro-controllers, so I'd probably just take a whack at doing it like I would have in college . . .
. . . hack a combination analog (read mechanical) thermostat/rheostat kluge and be done with it. :ebc:
supernova777
Joined: Mar 21 2014 - 01:37
is there anyway i can stop the fans from powering up + down on my mdd 1.25ghz? its driving me freaking crazy i hate hearing the fans speed up + slow down again..
as long as the fans stay at the same speed i get used to it and it doesnt bother me, but its the audible change that i hate..
theres no CHUD tools for mac os 9.. what can i do about this? the only thing i can think of is to replace the power to the fans with a steady voltage, drawing from a 4pin molex straight to the fans inside the power supply.. rather then having them connected via the original power source that gets its voltages changed......
worst ever design by apple!!!!!!!
im at the pt of just turning it off and never using it again, favoring my quicksilver 933mhz which doesnt have any noise at all by comparison
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‘La Danza de Realidad’ screening @ Forum des Images reviewed
Dikappa, 13 June 2013
During the reprisal of the La Quinzaine des réalisateurs (Director’s Fortnight) segment of this year’s Cannes Festival, Forum des Images in Paris presented a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s La danza de la realidad (The Dance of Reality) with an opportunity to hear the artist himself speak after the film.
Based on the director’s own memoirs, the film has been 23 years in the making and explores his tumultuous relationship with his father in a visually inventive and very Freudian way. The story focuses on Jodorowsky’s childhood in the small town of Tocopilla in Chile, where his family owned a shop called the ‘House of Ukraine’. It’s a childhood haunted by the harsh and sometimes even cruel treatment by his father and the political and social changes of the 1940s affecting Tocopilla and rest of the country. Now in his eighties, Jodorowsky manages to lend his lens to his younger self and present the events of his and his father’s lives through those eyes. Not so surprising, seeing he has “no age, no nationality and no language”.
The film may be called the The Dance of Reality but the reality presented is enhanced with bright colors, dream-like sequences and strange creatures that inhabit the artist’s world. It is a play on the subconscious and the conscious, the battle between the id and the super ego. And even if it strays from the science fiction world that Jodorowsky inhabits so well, it manages to stay visually impressive and speak to the universal theme of identity crisis, acceptance and reconciliation in the family and within society.
Jodorowsky is an artist that has inspired many through the years. The most recent example being Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive, dedicated to him and credited as Refn’s primary inspiration for his visual style. Yet, considering that Jodorowsky is a pioneer in the use of visual techniques in his films this statement may surprise you: “3D is not honest! The cinematography used for my film is a moral choice, a choice to be honest,” while in the same sentence adding, “cinema must preserve the illusion of art. You should always be aware that you are watching film, that this is art and not reality. There should be a distance, like Brecht did in the theatre”. Jodorowsky’s motto is the uniqueness of each artist’s voice, which is why he thinks that television, while great, the fact that several directors are commissioned to do the same thing for uniformity means it is not art.
Jodorowsky is all for capturing the collective psyche through personal stories, while at the same time preserving the illusion and the magic of the moving image, which he accomplishes without a doubt with his latest film. Describing with great pride the way he used new technologies in order to achieve an enhanced reality in his latest project he goes beyond that by utilising the latest trend of Internet crowd funding to produce it. And while it would be a mistake to think that the auteur director is a relic of another era, the existential nature of his work persists:
“I am not a man. I am a being. We are many things. When you don’t work on your soul, you destroy the planet. When you open your mind, you can save it.” **
La Quinzaine des réalisateurs is showing at the Forum des Images from May 30 to to June 9, 2013.
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Damien Hirst, Preserved In Amber, Comes Back to Gagosian
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Robin Pogrebin has the news that Damien Hirst and Gagosian Gallery are working together again after a four year hiatus.
According to Pogrebin’s item, Gagosian feels there’s plenty of demand but he hints at the issue bedeviling Hirst’s market:
“He’s a great artist, and it’s exciting to reboot the relationship,” Mr. Gagosian said. “It feels very fresh to me. I know a lot of collectors remain very, very interested in Damien and are extremely curious to see what he’s doing.”
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“It will be a classical presentation — an early shark piece, instrument cabinet, medicine cabinet, butterfly painting,” said Millicent Wilner, a director at Gagosian in London, who is the gallery’s Hirst liaison. “We wanted to present him in the way most people think of Damien.”
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Home Automotive Tata Harrier Dark Edition Launched, Priced At Rs 16.76 Lakh
Tata Harrier Dark Edition Launched, Priced At Rs 16.76 Lakh
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Tata Motors has launched a new special edition model of its flagship SUV, Tata Harrier for the upcoming festive season, priced at Rs 16.76 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). Christened Tata Harrier Dark Edition, the new special edition model, as the name suggests, comes with a complete black theme inside out features black exterior elements and all-black interior. In fact, we first told you about this special edition model in July itself. Tata will be offering the Harrier Dark Edition only in the top-end XZ variant of the SUV, and in terms of pricing, it's just a tad more expensive than the dual-tone version that was launched in July this year.
Visually, the company says that it is offering a total of 14 design enhancements with the new Tata Harrier Dark Edition making it all the more premium. Some of these design updated mainly include the new Atlas Black body colour and 17-inch Blackstone alloy wheels on the exterior, and matching Blackstone theme for the interior. The cabin features premium Benecke Kaliko Blackstone leather upholstery, Blackstone Matrix dashboard and a new gunmetal grey chrome pack which further accentuates the interiors. Apart from the new dark theme, most of the features will largely remain identical to the top-end XZ variant.
Commenting on the launch of this limited edition, Vivek Srivatsa, Head Marketing, Passenger Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors said, "In line with our endeavour to take the style quotient of the Harrier even higher, we wanted to offer a product that would make heads turn. The colour Black has always been desired amongst car buyers across the SUV segment. To meet these aspirations and to mark the onset of the festive season, we have launched the Harrier Dark Edition today in a completely new avatar with a compelling package of striking exteriors and inviting interiors with 14 design enhancements. We are confident our customers will appreciate the Harrier in this look as much as they have appreciated the Harrier since its launch."
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+ More Issues
By Ben Geman
Happy Friday, happy holidays and a sincere thanks to all the readers of this newsletter. Generate is taking a break but we'll return on Jan. 2.
I'll get back to rock trivia and anniversaries next year too. But for now let's start 2018's final edition with this beautiful song...
1 big thing: why energy independence is elusive
Data: EIA; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios
Axios Expert Voices contributor Daniel Raimi offers some perspective on the U.S. role in global oil markets...
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released preliminary data showing that, during the week of Nov. 30, the U.S. exported more oil and oil products than it imported for the first time in decades.
But, but, but: The net exporter status lasted only one week, and doesn’t represent annual averages. While many celebrate the America's new status as a net oil exporter, the reality is that the U.S. will never be energy independent as long as it is tied into global markets.
The big picture: The export growth owes primarily to the “shale revolution,” the combination of technologies including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that has led U.S. oil production to more than double in the past 10 years.
As a result, domestic thirst for foreign oil has waned, while companies have increasingly shipped U.S.–produced oil overseas.
At the same time, refineries along the Gulf Coast and elsewhere are buying crude from domestic and foreign sources, then churning out products like gasoline and diesel to increasingly sell abroad.
Reality check: This doesn't mean the U.S. has gained control of the global oil market.
In recent weeks, President Trump has taken to Twitter to encourage OPEC and Saudi Arabia to keep production high and oil prices low. If the U.S. were independent of these oil producers, why ask for help?
Market watchers also had their eyes fixed on the most recent “OPEC+” meeting, when ministers converged to decide how they would respond to the latest slump in global oil prices.
Although exports have increased and imports have fallen, the U.S. is still the world's largest oil consumer, at about 20 million barrels per day — far more than it produces. And while more efficient engines and, to a lesser extent, electric vehicles have helped moderate domestic demand, consumption has actually grown each year since 2012.
The bottom line: Even if the country produced more than it consumed on a long-term basis, global oil prices — which drive pump prices, the main thing drivers care about — would still be affected by OPEC's decisions, not to mention the health of the Chinese economy, political unrest in Venezuela, and myriad other factors that shape global supply and demand.
Raimi is a senior research associate at Resources for the Future and author of "The Fracking Debate."
2. Oil slides into the end of a wild autumn
Oil prices lost more ground Friday morning, the latest declines in a remarkable 10-week slide that's greased by concerns about softening demand and, thus far, largely resistant to OPEC's pledge to tighten the market.
The latest, Per Reuters: "Oil prices fell to their lowest since the third quarter of 2017 on Friday, heading for losses of more than 10 percent in a week, as global oversupply kept buyers away from the market ahead of the long festive break."
Brent crude is trading at $53 around the time went this newsletter, while the U.S. benchmark WTI is in the mid-$45 range.
Threat level: The Houston Chronicle has a good look at the stakes for companies and workers in Texas, where shale production is surging, if WTI stays below $50 per barrel for an extended period.
The bottom line: "At $50 a barrel, growth flattens, energy economists said, and below $50, companies begin to scale back spending and hiring. If prices fall below $40, then another prolonged downturn could take hold."
What's next: Via MarketWatch, a price rebound could be in the offing.
"Oil's on track to suffer its worst quarterly loss in four years, but analysts expect prices for the commodity to give way to higher prices in 2019 as investment in the market and crude production slows," writes Myra Saefong.
The intrigue: The steep slide in prices since early October, back when Brent reached $86 per barrel, means that what seemed impossible just weeks ago now looks very possible.
My Axios colleague Steve LeVine could win the "oil price bet" among energy journalists and analysts.
It works like this: at the beginning of the year, everyone entered their estimate for where Brent crude prices would settle Dec. 31. Whoever is closest wins.
Steve estimated $50.01 per barrel, so if the bet ended right now, he'd win.
At stake: drinks on the tab of the other entrants. We'll know the winner when this newsletter publishes again Jan. 2.
Go deeper:
See the oil price bet competitors and their entries here.
Read about the history of the bet here.
3. EV batteries that could aid the grid and AVs
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Axios Expert Voices contributor Sudha Jamthe takes stock of collaboration between automakers and utilities to develop bi-directional battery capability in electric vehicles, which enables EVs to receive and return power to the grid.
The big picture: Many AVs will likely be electric, and if they can operate as off-grid batteries, they could let owners make better use of the energy they buy from utilities and even be used as backup energy sources in blackouts.
Where it stands:
In a recent demonstration, Nissan used batteries in its Leaf EV to power its U.S. headquarters in Tennessee. Nissan previously experimented with bidirectional charging capability in Germany, finding that it could bring in $1,530 per year for vehicle owners.
Emotorwerks, owned by Italian utility Enel, has partnered with U.K. charging company EO to pilot V2G services to consumers.
The U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Calif., is piloting autonomous vans with V2G capability, to test V2G as a possible backup power source for the Air Station.
Mitsubishi has tested a V2G pilot in Amsterdam and is building V2G infrastructure in Japan in partnership with Hitachi and Japanese energy company TEPCO. Its tests are focused on creating earning opportunities for EV drivers.
But, but, but: Research has shown that bi-directional batteries will see high wear and tear if they are constantly charging and sharing electricity. J.B. Straubel, the CTO of Tesla, has criticized the technology for this "degradation cost." Meanwhile, the current price of standard EV batteries keeps the vehicles outside an affordable range for most consumers.
What to watch: If a business model develops around bi-directional charging, the cost of battery wear and tear could be factored into companies' bottom lines.
But if consumers are expected to bear the expense, they may need to be incentivized to participate in V2G systems through tax credits or lower utility rates, in addition to earning back money when their vehicles give power to the grid.
Jamthe is CEO of IoTDisruptions and teaches AV Business at Stanford Continuing Studies.
4. When Mattis reality-checked Trump on Iraqi oil
Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation reminded me of the remarkable White House vignette about President Trump pushing to take Iraq's oil as payment for U.S. military costs — and Mattis pushing back.
Flashback: Axios' Jonathan Swan and Alayna Treene recently wrote about the response when Trump raised it multiple times last year (though he's since abandoned the idea). Here's some of their reporting...
Two sources described being in the Situation Room in 2017 with Trump, Defense Secretary Mattis and national security officials discussing Iraq. Both said Trump brought up the prospect of seizing Iraq's oil, and Mattis pushed back.
"Trump was like, 'We're idiots,'" recalled one of the sources who was in the Situation Room for the conversation. "[Trump] was like, 'What are we doing there, what do we get out of this, why don't we take the oil?'... And then Mattis spoke up. Made the same point that [former national security adviser] H.R. [McMaster] made. There's no physical way to do it. It would be a violation of international law, it would be demoralizing for allies in the region, it would give our enemies propaganda — they'd be able to accuse us of theft."
Why it matters: It reveals a great deal about Trump's approach to the Middle East. Trump remains hellbent on extracting payments from Middle Eastern countries, in the form of natural resources, for the trillions of dollars America has spent since the early 2000s.
Go deeper: Trump to Iraqi PM: How about that oil?
5. A new phase in the Arctic drilling battle
The Interior Department took a step toward allowing oil-and-gas exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) Thursday by releasing a draft environmental analysis.
Why it matters: The study from Interior's Bureau of Land Management is a precursor to auctioning drilling leases as soon as 2019 in the ecologically sensitive area that's believed to hold billions of barrels of recoverable oil.
The big picture: Drilling advocates gained the upper hand in the decades-long battle over ANWR when Republicans enacted legislation last year to allow development.
But, but, but: Any actual oil exploration and production would happen well into the future, and the intensity of industry interest is not certain.
A Barclays research note last year predicted that after the first lease sale, it would be 2–6 years before the first well is drilled.
That's enough time for Democratic drilling opponents to try and put up hurdles if they regain power in Washington.
A New York Times piece yesterday said potential drilling could actually be a decade or more away.
What's next: A 45-day public comment period on the study will open late this month and, per the NYT, the selection of a final leasing and environmental restriction proposal by early next summer.
"If the process survives expected court challenges by environmental and conservation groups, as well as efforts by the incoming Democratic majority in the House of Representatives to slow it down, lease sales for rights to drill for oil and gas could be held before the end of 2019," the paper reports.
What they're saying: "An energy-dominant America starts with an energy-dominant Alaska," outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a statement.
He called opening ANWR's coastal plain a step "toward bolstering America's economic strength and security."
Green groups attacked the move. “The process laid out in the plan is rushed and reckless, defying good science and meaningful dialogue with stakeholders," said Wilderness Society president Jamie Williams.
Go deeper: The next battles over ANWR
6. House Dems tap climate panel leader
E&E News and the Tampa Bay Times report that House Democratic leaders have tentatively selected Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to head the select committee on climate change they're reviving next year.
Why it matters: It's a tangible sign of the committee's makeup and direction. Castor represents a state and a region on the front lines of the effects of climate change, which is causing sea-level rise and more intense storms.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's office declined comment.
"We need to raise the profile of the climate crisis. People are demanding action and don't understand why we're not leading the world on climate change innovation."
— Rep. Kathy Castor in the Tampa Bay Times
The intrigue: Castor, first elected in 2006, has a 93% rating from the League of Conservation Voters.
But her remarks to E&E News rankled activists pushing Democrats to adopt Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal. They envision the panel writing a sweeping climate, energy and economic legislative proposal that's ready for launch in 2020.
Castor told E&E News that Green New Deal advocates have some "terrific ideas," but added, "that's not going to be our sole focus."
Castor also signaled that she did not believe members who have taken money from fossil fuel interests should be barred from the committee, a goal of activists.
However, she later told HuffPost, "Maybe that’s a discussion we need to have in the caucus."
What they're saying: "Without a mandate to create a plan and a requirement that its members don’t take fossil fuel money, we are deeply concerned that this committee will be just another of the many committees we’ve seen failing our generation our entire lives," said Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement that's pushing Ocasio-Cortez's plan.
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Laser-Assisted Process to Develop Hard Carbon-Based Anode Material
Written by AZoOpticsJul 31 2018
The lithium-ion batteries used at present can be replaced by sodium-ion batteries since they use the low-cost (less than 1/30th of the cost of lithium) and more abundant sodium resource. This has specific potential in Saudi Arabia, where sodium is easily available and can be easily derived as a byproduct of water desalination, an important source of potable water in the country.
(Image credit: ©2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. Image created by Xavier Pita.)
However, normal graphite, the anode material mostly used in lithium-ion batteries, finds it hard to store or interject sodium ions since sodium ions are larger compared to lithium ions. Hard carbon is a kind of disordered graphite with the ability to store more number of sodium ions, thereby increasing battery capacity. The challenge is that synthesizing hard carbon mandates temperatures of nearly 1000 °C.
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The KAUST group headed by Husam Alshareef has devised a method with the help of a simple bench-top laser to synthesize three-dimensional hard carbon directly on copper collectors without the need for excessive temperatures or additional coating steps.
The researchers formed a polymer (urea-containing polyimide) sheet on copper and subsequently exposed this sheet to strong laser light. They introduced nitrogen gas at the time of the process and were able to replace some of the carbon atoms with nitrogen atoms, achieving an exceptionally high nitrogen level (13 atomic %), which cannot be achieved by other methods. Consequently, the three-dimensional graphene was highly conductive, had increased atomic spacing, and was directly attached to the copper current collectors, thereby avoiding the need for additional processing steps.
We wanted to find a way to make three dimensional hard carbons without having to excessively heat our samples. This way we could form the hard carbon directly on copper collectors.
Fan Zhang, a PhD student in Alshareef’s team
The KAUST scientists fabricated sodium-ion batteries with the help of their laser-formed anode material. Their device had a coulombic efficiency that surpassed most reported carbonaceous anodes, such as soft and hard carbon, and a sodium-ion capacity more than majority of the previous carbon anodes in sodium-ion batteries.
“I enjoyed learning from every member of Prof. Alshareef’s group, especially Fan Zhang, who was my closest mentor,” stated Eman Alhajji, a KAUST Gifted Student Program (KGSP) intern and current undergraduate student at North Carolina State University, USA. Eman will join the group as a PhD student next fall.
Zhang and Alhajji set an admirable example of productive collaboration between KAUST graduate students and visiting KGSP interns. Their work opens a new direction in battery research, which can be extended to other energy-storage technologies.
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Greyton Transition Town
Transition is a movement that has been growing since 2005. It is about communities stepping up to address the big challenges they face by starting local. By coming together, they are able to crowd-source solutions.
They seek to nurture a caring culture, one focused on supporting each other, both as groups or as wider communities. In practice, they are reclaiming the economy, sparking entrepreneurship, reimagining work, re-skilling themselves and weaving webs of connection and support. It’s an approach that has spread now to over 50 countries, in thousands of groups: in towns, villages, cities, Universities, schools.
The Greyton Transition Town initiative is a community-based organisation that seeks to unlock and cultivate the resourcefulness of the people of Genadendal, Greyton, Voorstekraal and Bereaville to better work together to build a resilient, sustainable and united community, redressing the past and walking into the future together, in the face of climate change and economic crisis.
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The Attic Gallery is located in downtown Camas at 421 NE Cedar Street. There is a brand new exhibition room featuring a free standing wood beam structure with hanging walls that Tommer Gonser designed and built especially for fine art paintings in acrylics, oils, pastels, and mixed media. We also feature bronze, metal, clay, and wood sculpture all by contemporary artists. There is also a design center with an extensive collection of frame samples from which to choose custom framing, a full service frame shop and a full time expert framer to fill any frame order.
The Attic Gallery has colorful, finely executed paintings in acrylics, oils, pastels, and mixed media as well as bronze, metal, clay, and wood sculpture all by contemporary artists. There is also a design center with an extensive collection of frame samples from which to choose custom framing, a full-service frame shop on and a full-time expert framer to fill any frame order.
In l973, when Diana Faville saw her friend, Sidonie Caron’s art exhibit at another gallery, she thought she could do a better job of presenting the paintings. Wanting to have a show at her house, her husband suggested the attic and proceeded to panel, paint and create lighting. You could enter the Faville house, go down the hall and up the stairs with all the doors to the rest of the house closed. Once in the attic, it was a different world of art. One guest even asked, “Are you sure there is a house under this gallery?” The gallery thrived at home as more artist friends exhibited their work. Some of the old timers were Le Roy Setziol, John Hamburg, Joe Floren, Elizabeth Brewster Rocchia, Liza Jones, Christine Tarpey and Joe Police who would even come and give demonstrations of his metal firing in the attic.
The gallery in the attic, allowed Diana to be home in the afternoon for her children (one of whom, David, is now represented at her gallery, another, Maria, works at the gallery, and another, Jeff, is a graphic artist in New York City, while Christopher is an actor in Los Angeles) while in the morning, she would approach corporations to purchase art.
After 5 years, an unknown neighbor complained to the city about the traffic, so Diana moved to l3l3 NW Kearney opening with an exhibit of paintings by Patty Dodd. In l984, since the gallery space was her husband’s warehouse, she was evicted and moved to 206 SW First Ave. in downtown Portland, OR. When she started the gallery, there were only two other galleries in town, now there must be close to l00. The artist and gallery scene has really grown and prospered beginning in September of l986 when the first ” First Thursday Gallery” walk was held. Since then, every first Thursday of every month each gallery in town remains open to the public until 9 pm. These walks have brought many people to the galleries who have become collectors. The more they see, the more they want to see.
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Responding to Christopher McDougle
Trigger warning: Ableism, discussion of curing autism, functioning labels.
The Boston Globe interviewed the Director of the Lurie Center for Autism, Dr. Christopher McDougle, who was instrumental in producing the recent film Sounding the Alarm in conjunction with Autism Speaks.
The reporter asked, "There are adults on the autism spectrum who argue that they are just different — not disabled — and who object to efforts to eradicate autism by groups, like Autism Speaks, whose founders Bob and Suzanne Wright helped fund the new film."
Dr. McDougle responded, "Naturally if you’re someone with very high functioning autism, you don’t want to hear things about being eradicated as a person. Lumping everyone under the same umbrella leads to this confusion."
Last week, Autism Speaks and Mass General Hospital co-hosted the first screening of the film.
I led a protest outside the building.
Photo: Lydia Brown. This is a picture of the first ten protesters who arrived. At leftmost, John Robinson's sign says, "Disability Rights are Human Rights." Patrick W.'s sign says, "Autism $peaks Hurts Autistics." Ryan Tilton's sign says, "I am Autistic; My Life is Not a Crisis!" Allegra Stout's sign says, "Civil Rights, Education, Jobs, Healthcare, Not A Cure." Erin Flaherty's sign says, "Autism Speaks Does Not Speak For Autistic People." Don S.'s sign says, "0 Autistic Leaders. ...Autism Speaks for whom?" Dermott M.'s sign notes that only 4.5% of money raised from Massachusetts returns to programs and services for autistics and families in Massachusetts. Beside Dermott is Andrew Coate and Meghan Schrader, who are both holding a sign that says, "Lurie Center: Supporting Autism Speaks = Supporting Eugenics." At rightmost is Daniel Berman, whose sign isn't visible in the photo.
It was cold, and my fingers eventually turned numb from the several hours we spent standing on the sidewalk, displaying our posters to anyone who walked by and engaging several passerby in conversation about the damage that Autism Speaks and its agenda of cure has done to the autistic community.
Close to thirty protesters turned out over the course of the demonstration, and we represented a diverse cross-section of the disability community. Emily Titon, co-chapter leader of ASAN Rhode Island, and Yosef Treitman, chapter leader of ASAN Rensselaer Polytechnic University, traveled from out of state. Autistic folks from throughout Massachusetts turned out in large numbers, along with protesters from the blind, quadreplegic, little people, and psychiatric survivor communities. I counted at least two adorable service dogs.
Some folks brought their own signs. Others, like Meghan Schrader, in this picture (photo: Lydia Brown), made signs while there.
We were there because we believe in the power of disability pride and autistic community.
There is the derisive presumption that the words disability and pride do not belong in the same sentence, because disability is wrapped up in so many layers of baggage and stigma and shame. But those of us disabled out there, we are disabled and proud.
This presumption is also embedded into the dismissal of autistic activists who stand against hateful organizations like Autism Speaks. It is commonly believed that we think of ourselves as merely different, a bit quirky, a bit eccentric, but not really disabled. Again, because disability is nearly universally assumed to be undesirable, the status that no one would want to have or own.
We were protesting because we are disabled and proud.
Disability is embedded into the human experience. To be autistic is to be disabled. There is no shame in that. I am proud to be autistic and I am proud to be disabled.
Organizations like Autism Speaks use fear-mongering and hateful rhetoric that relies on stereotypes of autistic people as burdens on our families, public health crises, tragedies in human form worthy of pity and charity, and terrifying specters for the rest of society to contemplate.
People like Dr. McDougle routinely invalidate autistic activists who stand against Autism Speaks by relying on a certain toolbox of de-legitimization tactics.
Tactic 1: Those people represent a very small proportion of people on the spectrum.
Tactic 2: Those people are really very high-functioning, and don't experience the severe levels of disability that most people on the spectrum do.
Tactic 3: Those people don't really have the same disability as people who REALLY have autism.
They're not old, but they're still hurtful and still dangerous.
Dr. McDougle, some of the protesters from last week have personal care attendants (PCAs) to assist with activities of daily living. At least one usually communicates using AAC text-to-speech. Some are unemployed. Many have multiple disabilities.
High-functioning and low-functioning are arbitrary labels with no scientific validity or consistent criteria for differentiation. Is speaking the criteria for being high-functioning? Plenty of speaking autistics are unemployed, unable to complete formal education, and unable to live without the support of personal assistants. Is working the criteria for being high-functioning? Plenty of working autistics don't speak, have intellectual disabilities or psychiatric disabilities as well, haven't completed formal education, or live with support people. Is living alone the criteria for being high-functioning? Plenty of autistics who have their own housing are unemployed, have multiple disabilities...
No one has the same skills and knowledge at one age as they did at another. No one skill or ability is necessary constant or consistent, or consistently increasing in ability. Skills are not static. And the presence of one skill or ability certainly doesn't indicate the presence of another.
This shouldn't matter though.
But it does, and you and people like you are the reason that it does. Were it not for your, shall we say, perseverative insistence on functioning labels as a means of categorizing, segregating, and invalidating autistic lives and experiences, this conversation would never have to happen.
This picture (photo: Lydia Brown) shows three protesters, Ruth Ricker, Reuben B., and John Kelly. Ruth's sign (John later made a matching one) says, "Nothing About Us Without Us." Reuben's sign says, "0 Autistic Leaders... Autism Speaks for Whom?"
Nothing About Us Without Us is a longtime slogan of the disability civil rights movement. Autism Speaks, which lacks even a single autistic person among its entire Board of Directors or executive leadership, somehow purports to represent the interests of autistic people.
You, Dr. McDougle, and the Lurie Center, have become complicit in this profoundly disturbing and dangerous misrepresentation.
Autistic people have been organizing for decades to work toward more inclusive, accepting, and equitable futures.
For the vast majority of us, the rhetoric of cure is deeply rooted in a pathology paradigm of disability that ultimately contends that people like us should not exist. We share so many experiences, sensory, movement, communicative, emotional, relational, and social with one another. Our community, for all its fractures, is still a community.
And you have no right to attempt artificial divisions along the propagandistic lines of high and low functioning.
We do not need the medical-industrial complex to serve as the gateway for autistic identity.
Our futures must be our own, not dictated within the agenda of eugenicist organizations like Autism Speaks. It is time for your complicity to end. Do you want better futures for autistic adults? Then include us in the conversation, in the decision-making process, in all aspects of the research from development to analysis and implementation. Reject the harmful rhetoric and hateful mission of Autism Speaks. Respect the voices of autistics because we can, have been, are, and will continue to be speaking for ourselves.
Photo: John Kelly. A line of protesters holding colorfully printed signs, such as "Autism Speaks for Whom?", "Nothing about Us without Us (my favorite), "We Are People Not Puzzles," and "Civil Rights, Education, Healthcare – Not a Cure." Protesters are on the sidewalk, greeting viewers after the film promoted by Autism Speaks.
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Schumacher and Vettel sign up for Race of Champions 2012
Schumacher will partner with reigning F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel in a bid to extend Team Germanyâs five-year winning streak in the ROC Nations Cup
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Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher will be in the line-up as the Race Of Champions celebrates its 25th year of competition in 2012. The German race car driver – who has more F1 titles, wins and poles than anyone in history – will travel to Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium, which will host the prestigious event on the weekend of December 15-16.
Schumacher said: “I have never raced in Thailand before so this will be an interesting addition to my motor sport travels. Of course it means Team Germany won’t have the home advantage of the past two years but Seb and I managed okay in London and Beijing so we hope it won’t stop us from keeping up our run!
Held every year since 1988, the end-of-season contest brings together the world’s greatest drivers from motor sport’s main disciplines – including Formula 1, world rally, touring cars, Le Mans and the X-Games – and sets them free to battle head-to-head in identical machinery. Drivers pair up for the ROC Nations Cup, this year scheduled for Saturday 15 December, before the individual Race Of Champions takes place on Sunday 16 December.
For the past five years Schumacher has joined up with Sebastian Vettel to take Team Germany to victory in the ROC Nations Cup. Reigning F1 world champion Vettel has already announced he will be back for more – and now Schumacher has confirmed that the winning duo will be reunited again. The pair will aim to add yet more Race Of Champions glory to their incredible haul of Formula 1 world championships.
After recent visits to London’s Wembley Stadium (2007-2008), Beijing’s ‘Bird’s Nest’ Olympic Stadium (2009) and Dusseldorf’s ESPRIT arena (2010-2011), ROC 2012 will take place on a specially constructed tarmac track with two parallel lanes winding their way round Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium.
The Race Of Champions brings together stars from all over the world. The 2011 field featured a total of 10 Formula 1 world championships courtesy of Schumacher, Vettel and Jenson Button. The line-up also included greats from Le Mans (Tom Kristensen), touring cars (Andy Priaulx) and the X-Games (Travis Pastrana) plus a host of other motor sport legends.
Tickets for the race will go on sale starting September 28, 2012.
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Museum CEO Sean Preston parks the last C7 Corvette Stingray next to the C6 model on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
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Dr. Ivan Schrodt rides through the museum with CEO Sean Preston in the C7 Corvette Stingray that Schrodt donated to the museum on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
Eric Farmer, human resources/ labor relations director of General Motors, signs the engine compartment of the C7 Corvette Stingray on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
Dr. Ivan Schrodt speaks on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
A small plate in the center console of the C7 Corvette Stingray that Schrodt donated to the museum on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
Signatures on the engine compartment of the last C7 Corvette Stingray on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
Dr. Ivan Schrodt walks next to the C7 Corvette Stingray parked in its exhibit on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at the Corvette Museum. (Austin Anthony/photo@bgdailynews.com)
Last C7 Corvette Stingray takes its home in museum
By DON SERGENT dsergent@bgdailynews.com
Don Sergent
The C7 Corvette Stingray is dead. Long live the C7 Corvette Stingray.
Ivan Schrodt, a longtime benefactor of Bowling Green’s National Corvette Museum, saw to it Wednesday that the next-to-last C7 (or seventh-generation) Corvette and the very last Stingray model to roll off the assembly line at the General Motors Bowling Green Assembly Plant will live on at the museum just a couple of gear shifts from the plant.
Schrodt, who served on the museum’s board of directors from 2008 through 2012 and had previously donated six other Corvettes, handed over the sports car’s keys to museum CEO Sean Preston, who drove it into its spot in the museum’s Skydome.
“The event today started when I got a call from Preston telling me that General Motors had offered the museum the opportunity to buy the last Stingray,” said Schrodt, a Wisconsin native who holds a doctorate in chemical engineering and is retired from his position as chairman of Integrated Paper Services.
Schrodt said he and his wife, Mary, “didn’t hesitate” to purchase the Stingray with the Z51 performance package and ensure that the historic vehicle would have a home in the museum.
“We purchased the car, which is the last front-engine Stingray that will ever be made,” Schrodt said. “Now we have handed that car over to the safekeeping of the museum.”
The white Stingray with what’s called an “adrenaline red” interior has taken a place in the Skydome’s generational display that features a number of Corvettes.
Few of those cars are more significant than the Stingray that came off the assembly line Nov. 14 and signaled the end of a run of producing front-engine models that started in 1953 and the beginning of the eighth-generation models with a mid-engine design.
“It’s very important for the museum to have this car,” said Derek Moore, National Corvette Museum curator. “It’s the last front-engine Stingray and really ends a 66-year era. We appreciate Dr. Schrodt for allowing us to have this car.”
Corvette Assembly Plant Manager Kai Spande was also happy to see the last C7 Stingray find a home in the museum that showcases and honors the history of the sports car that has been produced in Bowling Green since 1981.
“To have the second-to-last Corvette and the last Stingray here is very special,” Spande said. “The C7 has been wildly successful. To see the last one come down the line with nothing behind it was kind of bittersweet.”
The C7 was introduced in 2014 and earned the “Automobile of the Year” award from Automobile Magazine and other honors for its styling and performance.
Schrodt, who owns a 2016 C7 model, calls it “absolutely the most incredible car I’ve ever owned.”
But now Schrodt, who has also played a key role in providing cars and scholarships to Warren County Area Technology Center students, has been captured by the buzz over the mid-engine C8 Corvette.
He has already placed his order for a C8 Stingray, which recently won the 2020 MotorTrend Car of the Year award even before full-scale production of the mid-engine model has begun.
The Bowling Green GM plant is “undergolng launch-related downtime” until Dec. 6, according to Corvette Assembly Plant Communications Manager Rachel Bagshaw. She said production of the C8 Corvettes should start in February.
GM announced in April plans to add 400 hourly workers and a second shift at the Corvette plant as it ramps up production of the C8. Most of those workers have already transferred from other GM locations and will bring total employment at the plant to about 1,400.
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Ancient Gilboa - Map of New Testament Israel GIL-BO`A (wheel of inquiry), The mountain range on the south east of Esdraelon overlooking Jezreel, 1 Sam. 28:4. Scene of the defeat of Saul and Jonathan, 1 Sam. 31:1 ; 2 Sam. 1:6.
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Gilboa in Easton's Bible Dictionary boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable as the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chr. 10:1, 8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidings of this defeat were conveyed to David, he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the "Song of the Bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27).
https://www.bible-history.com/eastons/G/Gilboa/
Gilboa in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("bubbling fountain"), namely, of Jezreel; see below. The mountain range N.E. of the plain, and over the city, of Jezreel, extending ten miles from W. to E. (1 Samuel 28:4; 1 Samuel 29:1.) The scene of the death of Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 31:1; 2 Samuel 1:6,21: "ye mountains (for there is not merely one mountain) of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither rain upon you, nor fields of firstfruit offerings," i.e. producing fruit from which firstfruits are offered; 1 Samuel 21:12; 1 Chronicles 10:1; 1 Chronicles 10:8). The Philistines encamped on the N. side of the plain at Shunem; Saul on the S. side, round the fount of Jezreel (Harod, Judges 7:1) at the foot of Gilboa. The fountain is still to be seen half a mile from Jezreel's ruins. The village Jelbou is on the mountain top. The height of the hill is about 500 ft. above the plain; the sides are as bore and barren as David's poetical elegy desired them to be (excepting one green table land where perhaps the last struggle took place), and contrast strongly with the fertile plain beneath.
https://www.bible-history.com/faussets/G/Gilboa/
Gilboa in Hitchcock's Bible Names revolution of inquiry
https://www.bible-history.com/hitchcock/G/Gilboa/
Gilboa in Naves Topical Bible A hill south of Jezreel, where Saul was defeated by the Philistines, and died 1Sa 28:4; 31:1-8; 1Ch 10:1-8
https://www.bible-history.com/naves/G/GILBOA/
Gilboa in Smiths Bible Dictionary (a bubbling spring) a mountain range on the eastern side of the plain of Esdraelon, rising over the city of Jezreel. Comp. 1Sa 28:4 with 1Sam 29:1 It is mentioned in Scripture only in connection with one event in Israelitish history, the defeat and death of Saul and Jonathan by the Philistines. 1Sa 31:11; 2Sa 1:6; 21:12; 1Ch 10:1,8 Of the identity of Gilboa with the ridge which stretches eastward from the ruins of Jezreel no doubt can be entertained. The village is now called Jelbou.
https://www.bible-history.com/smiths/G/Gilboa/
Gilboa in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE gil-bo'-a (~har hagilboa], "Mount of the Gilboa"): Unless we should read "Gilboa" for "Gilead" in Jdg 7:3 (see GILEAD, 2) this mountain is mentioned in Scripture only in connection with the last conflict of Saul with the Philistines, and his disastrous defeat (1 Sam 28:4; 31:1,8; 2 Sam 1:6,21; 21:12; 1 Ch 10:1,8). If Zer`in be identical with Jezreel--a point upon which Professor R.A.S. Macalister has recently cast some doubt--Saul must have occupied the slopes on the Northwest side of the mountain, near "the fountain which is in Jezreel" (1 Sam 29:1). The Philistines attacked from the plain, and the battle went sore against the men of Israel, who broke and fled; and in the flight Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchi- shua, sons of Saul, were slain. Rather than be taken by his lifelong foes, Saul fell upon his sword and died (1 Sam 31:1 ff). The modern name of the mountain is Jebel Faqu`a. It rises on the eastern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, and, running from Zer`in to the Southeast, it then sweeps southward to join the Samarian uplands. It presents an imposing appearance from the plain, but the highest point, Sheikh Burqan, is not more than 1,696 ft. above sea level. In the higher reaches the range is rugged and barren; but vegetation is plentiful on the lower slopes, especially to the West. The Kishon takes its rise on the mountain. Under the northern cliffs rises `Ain Jalud, possibly identical with HAROD, WELL OF, which see. In Jelbun, a village on the western declivity, there is perhaps an echo of the old name.
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/G/GILBOA,+MOUNT/
Gilboa Scripture - 1 Chronicles 10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
https://www.bible-history.com/studybible/1+Chronicles/10/
Gilboa Scripture - 1 Chronicles 10:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
Gilboa Scripture - 1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
https://www.bible-history.com/studybible/1+Samuel/28/
Gilboa Scripture - 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
Gilboa Scripture - 1 Samuel 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
Gilboa Scripture - 2 Samuel 1:21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither [let there be] rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he had] not [been] anointed with oil.
https://www.bible-history.com/studybible/2+Samuel/1/
Gilboa Scripture - 2 Samuel 1:6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
Gilboa Scripture - 2 Samuel 21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
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Drago’s case study: Hard working your way to €60.000
When you want to get in a Coaching for Profits deal here in our site, you have several formats you can choose, NL 6-max, NLHU, Zoom, Spin & Go, PLO 6-max, PLO HU and MTT. However, when you make a choice, it might not be the best one for you, it is completely normal.
We have 2 very successful cases in the NLHU Soldier program, Scott “Fred” and Lauri “hugocabret”. Both started their Coaching for Profits program in the NL 6-max course. With time they saw that it wasn’t a fit for them and they switched, finishing their contracts with some nice €10.000+ scores.
Dragomir “dlecheff”‘s story will be very similar to Scott’s and Lauri’s.
When Drago decided to join the Coaching for Program, he started in the NL 6-max Micro and grinded micro stakes for a very long time never moving up higher than NL5. Several months later, at the beginning of 2017, he decided to take the game seriously and switched to the NLHU Soldier program.
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When I said seriously, what comes into your mind? Play 120hs per month? 160?
For Drago, playing 150 to 160 hours per month is absolutely nothing, especially if you want to achieve big things in poker:
“Sometimes I think, how stupid are we to say that we want to play poker and we want to reach €10.000+ months if we are playing only 150 to 160 hours? I was doing this one year ago and I was thinking I was playing a lot. To reach those hours I was playing 6 hours per day, which is very funny to me now. Since the beginning of this year, I’m constantly playing 10-13 hours per day, which makes a big difference in my game and I can see that I improve a lot.”
Poker is a game when you put in the hours and you also study outside the tables, the results start showing up. Three months after switching to the HU program, Drago hit his record month playing poker and received the green light to start taking shots at NL100.
Drago riding the quad bike in Marrakech
But a journey to finish a €60.000 it is almost never a steady journey to the top, there will always be some bumps in the road. Sometimes you get overconfident in your skills, stop studying and start playing badly, and sometimes variance just hits you hard and there is absolutely nothing you can do besides keep grinding to minimize its effects.
In Drago’s case, the bump in the road was 2 losing months in a row. When you hit these bumps it is very important that you take a deep look in to figure out what you’re doing wrong and what you should do to go back to the winning track.
” When I look back, I think May was my best month so far. I’ve lost money, but I’ve learned a lot, improved my game and became mentally stronger. While I was winning, I did not put much time into improving my game, I was just playing like crazy and didn’t think at all about my game. When I started losing, I started looking at my mistakes and see where I was messing up. With the help of my coaches and the other students, we found a lot of mistakes which I was not aware I was making. Now I learned my lesson, even when I am winning I should take care of my game and look for mistakes. I know, that in the near future, I will start climbing up the limits again.”
Learning about this mistake he was making was very important for his progress. In the next four months, he had good results and was moved to the advanced group.
Advanced group
The advanced group in the HU program was “created” after the Poker Camp in Cannes in 2017. I put it between quotations marks because we already had something similar in the past. Before, we had belts in several colours and you’d get a belt once you hit a determined profit in that month. It was just too many groups and too many rules, so when we implemented the Starter, Intermediate and Advanced groups, everything was clearer for the students in a sense of what they need to do to upgrade to the next level.
In Drago’s case, to reach this group he needed to reach €5.000 in a month and play 160hs. The hours were definitely not a problem, but it was a struggle to reach the €5.000 mark.
“I had a sick session yesterday. Started the day pretty bad. I was 2 buy-ins down and then lost 2 more against a big fish on my highest limit, NL200. By the rules, I had to stop, but I could not let this guy with 3 buy-ins at the table when I was confident that I could take it back. I decided to stay and risk my goal to reach €5.000 in the month. It paid off! After 100 more hands, I took all his money on the table. Funny thing was that I was with a 300+bb’s stack at the table but the profit was only 25bbs. However, I kept playing and managed to recover the day and even made 1 buy-in profit after 11 hours playing without a break. I really lost control vs this guy and tilted hard, but I knew I could recover without taking breaks. Today I started again pretty bad, around 2 buy-ins down, but I finally to reach the €5.000.”
Several CFP finishers in one table. From the left to the right: Nubson, Scott, Lauri, Rutger, Jan, and Drago.
In this advanced group, there were 2 guys that now have already finished their Coaching for Profits contract. Scott “Fred” and Jernej “Myst”.
Scott is an important factor in Drago’s success.
Four months after joining the advanced group, Drago decided to travel from Bulgaria to Scotland to spend 2 weeks grinding with Scott and another Coaching for Profits student.
All the time spent between changing busses and airplanes to get to Scotland completly paid off. In the same month, he hit his first €10.000 month and in the following one, he earned €14.082 at the tables.
That put him very close to finish his contract. But the bumps on the road are always there to make things a little more difficult…
Two months after these great scores Drago broke another record, but one no one wishes to achieve, he broke his record month in the opposite way losing €6.661.
But that didn’t put him down, he kept grinding his normal hours, got everything back in the following month, and two months later he finished the program just in time to receive his trophy in Marrakech.
When asked about how was the Coaching for Profits experience for him he replied:
“It was eye-opening. It showed me how to approach new goals in life. It is super important to have someone to guide you when you want to get better not only in poker but in every aspect of your life. It also helped me to realize that it doesn’t matter how good coaches/mentors you have if you are lazy **** and don’t put in the work, you will not succeed.”
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Drago after receiving the trophy from Gordon
After Coaching for Profits
Not too long after participating in the Poker Camp in Marrakech, Drago and also Scott decided to move to Thailand to live in a house with 2 other Coaching for Profits finishers, Jan “Somebody” and Piotr “Goodfake”.
Drago enjoying the poll in the villa he is sharing with other players
He is learning a lot in his new house and one of the players living in this grindhouse is coaching him in the same Coaching for Profits format he had in BPC. And it looks like it is working for him! When he finished the program he was playing up to NL600 and now he is playing up to NL1000.
Here is one of his most recent graphs:
Drago’s recent graph (untracked sites are missing)
Not too long after finishing the program he started coaching for BPC to teach the students that are currently in the program how to be as successful as he was.
Watch one of Drago’s coaching sessions below:
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Defense for Johns Hopkins football itching to collect turnovers
By Edward Lee
There comes a time in games when the Johns Hopkins defense begins to get antsy about creating turnovers that lead to scoring opportunities.
"We just like to force turnovers and create opportunities for our offense," junior defensive back Dan Johnson said after Saturday's 45-24 victory over Centennial Conference foe Franklin & Marshall. "We don't like to keep teams in the game, and when they're in the game, it kind of [ticks] us off. So we get after it, and that ball is ours. Whenever we have the opportunity to, we try to take it away."
That formula has worked well for the No. 8 Blue Jays (9-0 overall, 8-0 in the league), who are tied for sixth in Division III in interceptions (18) and tied for 14th in total takeaways (26). The defense has been especially productive in its past four contests, intercepting 10 passes and pouncing on four fumbles.
"We're aggressive," coach Jim Margraff said. "We're aggressive in the pass rush, and we're aggressive to the ball defensively. We take some chances, but we're not reckless. We take some smart chances."
The unit forced three turnovers against the Diplomats (6-3, 5-3), including a 23-yard interception return for a touchdown by Johnson that gave Johns Hopkins a 42-17 advantage late in the third quarter.
Johnson said the defense's penchant for goading opponents into turning over the ball has been aided by the offense's ability to build a significant lead that entices teams into throwing the ball.
"When our offense puts up points, we put them in situations where they have to throw the ball and make something happen," he said. "… Once our offense goes up and gets into that situation, it gives us an opportunity to make some plays on defense and make some turnovers."
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B&G releases new WS700 Vertical Wind Sensors
B&G, global leader in the design and manufacture of sailing electronics, has released a new vertical wind sensor designed for race yachts and larger cruising yachts. The instrument is mounted on a spar that elevates it above sail-plan disturbances and thus provides highly accurate wind data.
Almost 35 years after launching the first version of the popular 213 Masthead Unit, B&G has designed the WS700 to be the most accurate and reliable sensor of its kind on the market.
Highly accurate wind speed and angle data is strategically important when racing in a regatta, but equally so for solo offshore sailors who depend on precise wind input for the autopilot to get the best steer-to-wind performance.
At the core of the WS700 sensor are new electronics that enable accurate measurements of wind angle and speed. The measurement error is under ±0.5° for wind direction and ±0.2 for wind speed.
The aerodynamic design of the WS700 allows for smooth airflow and reduces the effect of turbulence around the body, to maintain data accuracy. The design was optimized following more than 500 hours of wind tunnel testing and more than 200,000 hours on the water, under various conditions.
The shape of the vane has dramatically changed from previous models to make it more stable. The new vane isn’t attached to the wind sensor with a screw, instead, it is molded into its top. This new one-piece vane design provides improvements in balance, aerodynamics and shock loads. A new smooth balance weight with recessed mounting keeps the flow turbulence-free, and steady.
The WS700 comes mounted on a carbon spar of four different lengths, between 0.8 – 1.8 m, which elevates the sensor above sail-plan disturbance. Positioning the sensor in undisturbed airflow dramatically reduces uncertainties that come from turbulence and adds precision to the wind angle and speed measurements.
The WS700 comes wired and is compatible with NMEA 2000® networks via an interface (optional), H5000 and WTP systems, and has a starting price of USD 2290.
Matt Eeles, project lead for the WS700 at B&G said “the WS700 is the result of continual product improvement and strenuous testing to produce the most accurate and reliable wind sensor for our performance customers.”
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St. Ann's Fort
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The St Ann's Fort which is located in the area of the famous Garrison Savannah in the parish of St. Michael, Barbados is part of a rich military history, highly concentrated in the Garrison area. Providing background to this, the Barbados Garrison is purported to be the largest in all of the British colonies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was at its zenith and fully set up for the benefit, safety and security of the British Royal Armed Forces, who were based on the island right through to 1906.
The relevance of St Ann's Fort is that it all started with the construction of this fort which was built in 1705 and named after Her Majesty, Queen Ann. In years gone by, this location played a pivotal role as the central command point for the island's six signal stations which were a major communication at the time. Through the use of flags and other coding systems, these stations were able to raise the alarm or simply get information quickly to other parts of the island. The flag poles and other items reminiscent of that time are still visible on the premises.
In 2004, a National Armoury display, with a large and distinguished collection from times past, was opened at St Ann's. They have been structured alongside the walls of the Fort in unique fashion, and include an Elizabethan cannon from the early seventeenth century. The island of Barbados is graced with its continued presence here as it is the only one known to be in existence.
With the physical structure largely maintained today, it is worthy to note that the military connection has continued through to the twenty-first century as today, it is the official base and headquarters of the Barbados Defence Force.
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Midcentury Highlight: Styling with the Noguchi Table
The Noguchi table replica is Barcelona Design’s premier coffee table, inspired from the great Isaamu Noguchi, an artist and landscape architect who wielded a major influence over furniture design in the midcentury. The Noguchi Table is considered Isaamu Noguchi’s greatest piece and it continues to be manufactured today. With so many Noguchi table replicas on the market, it may be hard to distinguish the best replica. The Barcelona Designs Noguchi table replica follows all the specifications of Noguchi’s table, so it is built the way it had intended to be. It comes in 7 color options for the wooden legs. Before buying the Noguchi table replica, gather some interior design ideas on how to style your indoor space with the Noguchi table.
A Modern Living Room
Perfectly situated in the middle of a small living room setup, the Noguchi table completes the configuration. All this modern living room uses in terms of main furniture pieces is a sectional sofa and two modern chairs. The hanging light provides another focal point to the room and its aim at the Noguchi table replica accentuates it all the more. The rug serves as a kind of gravitational force, so to speak, for the other furniture, in that they all face towards it, bringing together a configured living space. The two side tables at each end of the sectional sofa and the three side by side art frames zest up the look in this living area.
A Corned Den
The Noguchi table replica is in the front and center of yet another area o relaxation. This den is set up in the left corner of a larger indoor space, enclosed with the sole border of the rug. This sectional is rather larger, eliminating the need for another major seating option, except for the small midcentury black chair on the right. Regardless, the majority of occupants in this space will be seated on the sectional sofa. Geometry plays an integral role in the design of this space, with linear accents on the rug, side table and legs of the black chair. The Noguchi table replica, in this sense, is a kind of disruptive force in this setup, breaking the mold of pure geometry with its outlandish shape. Its dark legs beautifully match the wood of the side tables (including a smaller own in the back). The arching lamp is the marble strobe floor lamp, leaning down towards what appears to be the Noguchi table, the star of the show. The flowers and bowl are great accessories that help emphasize the Noguchi table even more.
Hybrid Living and Dining Spaces
Not all living rooms and dining rooms are separated by clearly defined walls or barriers. For hybrid spaces, such as this setupwhich features a full-furnished living room and small dining area, coffee table still play a major role. Standing between two couches, the Noguchi table fulfills its function as a decorative storage piece between two main furniture pieces. It’s also necessary in this scenario since the presence of dining table is for major meals. The Noguchi coffee table is an alternate table that should be used for family get-togethers or for TV viewing. The dark legs of the Noguchi table match the wooden TV stand with its mahogany grandeur. The ghost chairs beside the dining table create a translucent visual effect, directing more light at the dining table. This area makes good use of the rug, which is present in only the living room area, visibly marketing the divide of the living and dining areas.
It’s not always the center wall of a living room that should demand the most attention. In this setup, the right wall, which has a protruding window sill, mimics a kind of alcove area and thus commands much notice. Besides two windows, including a large, decorated one, the right side also hosts the Rise Floor lamp. What is most noticeable about this area is the chaise lounge, embellished with its own marble side table. The Noguchi table balances out this living room, by shifting its body and our eyes slightly to the left, creating a well-defined center between the leather sofa and chaise lounge. This Noguchi table replica has black legs, which are very apt in style, matching the sleek body and hood of the Rise Floor lamp, black sofa and black and white wall art. This area looks furnished to the maximum, with major furniture, wall art, accessories, painted walls and contrasting borders. The lofty distance between the couch and the chaise lounge would be all the more noticeable without the Noguchi, leaving the space to feel bare and in want of another piece of furniture.
With Office Furniture
Flora and leather abound in this chic living space that’s filled with… office furniture. You’re seeing correctly, office furniture contributes to a large portion to the makeup of this room. The leather sofa provides the classic piece to modern living rooms and it contains a visible steel frame, seen in the legs and supporting arm chair. The seating that matches this aesthetic the closest comes from that of our Eames office chair replicas. Surprisingly enough, no “traditional” chair matches this leather and thin steel aesthetic as can these office chairs. Two softpad management chairs line the upper left corner, while a single softpad executive chair fills the closer, right area. Besides the plump cushioning and gorgeous leather upholstery, these Eames office chairs are useful in that they have full mobility and swivel. You can feel free the twist and move in them, or position them easily to your liking. The Noguchi table’s black legs effortlessly matches the rest of the setup. This room also makes great use of side tables, as the Noguchi table is not enough, given the stretched out proximity of the management and executive softpad chairs. Plants decorate the room while adding more color infusion.
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/jpmorgan-retained-epstein-as-client-despite-internal-warnings-report-51565633143
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JPMorgan Retained Epstein as Client Despite Internal Warnings: Report
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JPMorgan Chase kept financier Jeffrey E. Epstein as a client despite a recommendation from compliance officers that the bank sever ties with him.
That’s according to a report in The New York Times that cites six anonymous former senior executives at the bank as well as other employees.
Epstein, who last month pleaded not guilty to federal sex-trafficking charges, was found dead Saturday morning in his jail cell after committing suicide, according to officials.
Under orders from regulators, the bank in late 2008 began scrutinizing customers to flag those who might create legal risks or damage JPMorgan’s reputation, the Times reported. That effort, which lasted for a number of years, identified Epstein’s accounts as potentially problematic, the newspaper added.
In 2008, federal prosecutors had reached a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in which he pleaded guilty to Florida state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor. The financier, who had connections to wealthy and famous people, spent 13 months in a work-release program and had to register as a sex offender.
The bank retained Epstein in spite of the compliance recommendations primarily because of intervention by Mary C. Erdoes, the Times said.
Erdoes, who helms JPMorgan Chase’s asset-management unit and is viewed as a potential successor to CEO Jamie Dimon, pushed to keep Epstein partly because of the role he played in recruiting new clients to JPMorgan’s private-banking unit, the newspaper reported, citing the six anonymous former executives at the bank. JPMorgan ultimately cut ties to Epstein in 2013.
Joseph Evangelisti, a JPMorgan spokesman, disputed The New York Times’ reporting, the newspaper said. “Mary would never overrule our compliance team or other controls functions to retain a customer,” he was quoted saying. “She has only one recollection of formally meeting with the customer, which was the day she fired him as a client.”
--Ross Snel
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and EarthCheck today announced an agreement that will res
Partnering with EarthCheck - the largest environmental management system in the world, which is used by more than 1000 organisations in over 70 countries – PATA unveiled a free carbon calculator that holds great appeal to small to medium sized operators.
Designed by EarthCheck, the online calculator (www.pata.org/Footprints) helps to estimate the operator’s carbon impact. It serves as a guide based on scientific averages, that helps and organisation to determine its environmental footprint. Throughout the process, the system provides tips on how emissions may be easily reduced. It’s a great little educational tool that’s easy to use, interactive and free of charge.
EarthCheck has also provided PATA with a suite of sustainability fact sheets, case studies and sustainability reports for Member use. These explain such things as the ins- and-outs of voluntary carbon offsetting, he most cost effective ways to decrease water and energy consumption, and the environmental benefits of reducing waste output.
“Using a science-based system such as EarthCheck to monitor, measure and manage the environmental impact of PATA Members helps them gain competitive edge and enhances triple bottom line results,” explained Greg Duffy, CEO of PATA. “Going beyond green and taking sustainability to a level of internationally accepted standards of compliance, while benchmarking operations against more than a decade of industry data puts PATA Members in an enviable position.”
Among those committed to EarthCheck are market leaders such as Carlson Asia Pacific, ACCOR, InterContinental Hotels Group, Langham Hotels International, Banyan Tree and Alila. They have long recognised the financial benefits of tight control over operational efficiencies and a strong commitment to Corporate Social responsibility (CSR). What’s more, they open their books (and doors) to third party, independent audits on a regular basis in order to have verified the credibility of their claims.
“In a world that’s increasingly awash with eco claims, it’s good to see such leadership from industry bodies such as PATA,” said EarthCheck CEO Stewart Moore.
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Fred Dews Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Whatever you call it, “longform” online content “takes you on a journey in the way that maybe a short blog post or a tweet is not going to,” said New York Times Senior Graphic Editor Hannah Fairfield at a Brookings event last night on the future of longform publishing. John Dickerson, Slate’s chief political correspondent, moderated a panel discussion with leaders in longform publishing to discuss their experiences and plans for longform in the future.
Dickerson ( @jdickerson) led off the questions with the “elephant” in the room: “What are we talking about when we’re talking about ‘longform'”? he asked.
Chad Millman ( @chadmillman), editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine, called the term “just precious.” Longform, he said, “has existed for years, and it’s called storytelling, and magazines and newspapers have been doing it for decades.” But today, Millman, continued, when people consume media in much shorter bites, “longform sounds like it’s elevated” and so there are more of this type of content coming out. “I find the term unbelievably irritating,” he said.
“The most successful stories for us hit every platform.” Chad Millman
Fairfield ( @hfairfield) added that “Whatever you want to call it, I think what we’re talking about today is the kind of animal that takes a story that may be in length a little bit longer but certainly the kind of story that removes you from where you are sitting in your chair and it takes you on a journey in the way that maybe a short blog post or a tweet is not going to.” It’s about telling an immersive story, she said, and “we didn’t have those tools a couple of years ago.”
“Not every long story needs to or wants to or makes sense to have a design that’s built out with a lot of different elements.” Hannah Fairfield
Sarah Sampsel ( @sarahsampsel), director of digital strategy for The Washington Post, placed the emergence of longform in the context of competition for attention: “We’re competing against everybody now, because we’re competing for people’s attention and for people’s time because there is so much to look at.” Longform, she said, “is a different way of consuming something” and in an environment in which people have so much content coming at them, there is “something really therapeutic about having some time [to do] a really deep dive onto any subject.”
“The Internet looks bad. So when you see something that doesn’t look bad I think a lot of people [think] this might be something good.” Sarah Sampsel
Millman emphasized that “just doing something long doesn’t make it good.” Rather, using new tools—graphics, video, data—to push stories forward takes resources, commitment, and ingenuity, he said. Fairfield noted that deploying these elements in a story—the “best kind of collaboration” a newsroom can do in Sampsel’s words—is not decorating the story, but “pushing the storytelling forward.”
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David Nassar ( @dfnssr), vice president for Communications at Brookings, described the similarities between the longform product at Brookings (The Brookings Essay), a think tank, and the media companies on the panel. “The kind of opportunities that you look for are the kind of opportunities that we look for,” he said. And “the challenges that we face are some of the same challenges that the traditional media faces in terms of pushing these article out.” No matter what the form is called, Nassar explained that “it’s given us an opportunity to tell stories in a way that without the platform we might not have been able to do” and to reach new audiences. Plus, he said, the Brookings Essay has “opened up people’s eyes to what’s possible to do with the kind of public policy content that we create in a way that people hadn’t maybe thought about before.”
“The pieces are built to take advantage of the social world and we work very hard to … make sure that they get spread around in a social way as much as possible.” David Nassar
After the panelists briefly discussed the process of creating longform content and also their views on audience-building, Dickerson turned the discussion to “the blue sky” of what the future will look like, what would make the longform experience better. He described using a Kindle for a more interactive experience with text, including highlighting and making comments, and having a “seamless relationship with the text across all your devices.” He asked,
Is there a game element to this kind of story telling that could be used, where there is actual participation in the narrative in some fashion? Is there a way that the author participates … in some incredibly interesting way that nobody’s thought about it yet?
Sampsel answered that “if a story merits something like that, it’s really important to really think outside the box about the ways to better connect with somebody.” Beyond even the longform format, Sampsel said that she is thinking of how content is synched across users’ devices, making the user experience easy, and giving content creators easy templates in which to build their stories. She described the paper’s “enterprise template” that is allowing more stories with visual elements. “The more we do them,” she said, “the better we get at them.”
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Fairfield answered that in a conversation with her publisher, he said that Snowfall 2.0 wouldn’t “look anything like Snowfall. … The whole structure of it will be completely different.” We don’t know what that will look like, she said, but now “We’re in that interesting experimental phase.”
Millman said that the blue sky future is where ESPN’s writers are, in asking them, “Where is the next idea, where is the exploration taking you? And it’s taking the writers out of their comfort zone.” The next questions, he added, are, “What is the technology we have available, what is the platform we have available” to present those stories?
Dickerson asked Nassar if Brookings scholars are starting to think about whether they can do their work “in a longform way.” Nassar answered yes, and that having external and internal Essay authors “helped to widen the scope of what the piece can be” and that “we absolutely have authors coming to us with ideas now or coming to us earlier with reports and saying ‘can we do anything like what you do with the Essay for this piece’? And that’s a great place to be in.”
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Introduction to modern analytical chemistry involving aqueous equilibrium chemistry, UV-vis and atomic spectroscopy, electrochemistry and chromatography. Lecture and laboratory. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 116 and CHM 117.
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Preparation, properties, reactions and uses of the main group and transition elements and their compounds. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 256 and CHM 326.
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Survey of the structural and functional properties of the major classes of biological macromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids) and their roles in biological systems. Topics include enzyme kinetics and mechanisms, selected metabolic pathways, and the role of nucleic acids in the flow of genetic information. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 256; BIO 151 or BIO 111
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Theoretical and descriptive inorganic chemistry, including atomic structure, molecular structure, coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and catalysis. Cross listed with CHM 536. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 114 or concurrent enrollment; C or better in CHM 256.
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An introduction to computational chemistry with an emphasis on the structures and energies of organic systems. Cross listed with CHM 412. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 256.
Application of symmetry and group theory to chemical systems. Topics include point groups, character tables, spectroscopic selection rules, and molecular orbital theory. Cross listed with CHM 414. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 256.
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Study of unit cells, band theory, and the structure, function, and characterization (diffraction, microscopy, and spectroscopy) of metals, polymers, glasses, concrete, ceramics, and biomaterials. Cross listed with CHM 440. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 256 and CHM 257 or consent of instructor.
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Investigation of the structure-function relationships of proteins, with emphasis on thermodynamics and kinetics. Topics include ligand binding, enzymatic catalysis, and the use of molecular visualization software. Cross listed with CHM 465. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 360 or equivalent.
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Study of the processes by which carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids are synthesized, stored, or oxidized to generate biochemical energy and building blocks. Regulation of these processes will be examined. Cross listed with CHM 466. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 360 or equivalent.
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Experimental and computational studies of the physical properties of matter. Cross listed with CHM 471. For cross-listed undergraduate/graduate courses, the graduate-level course will have additional academic requirements beyond those of the undergraduate course. Prerequisite: C or better in CHM 470 or concurrent enrollment in CHM 570.
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Each student presents a literature-based seminar under the supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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Discover 700 years of Dutch History with a ferry round-trip to the medieval Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot
Forming part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot (incl. ferry) was build in the 13th century by Count Floris V. From the enchanting castle and beautiful gardens to Golden Age-era rooms, Knight's Hall, Armoury and more, there's so much to discover with a visit to Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot (incl. ferry) making it a firm favourite with locals and tourists alike.
Please note: You can reach the Amsterdam Castle Muiderslot by taking the free ferry from Amsterdam or travel to the Castle yourself. The address from where the ferry is leaving is Krijn Taconiskade 124 a, Amsterdam.The Ferry sails from March until October 27th, 2019. Departure is once per day at 11 am, every Tuesday until Sunday (closed on Monday). Return will be around 2.30 pm from the Castle but you will be informed about the exact departure time on the way to the Castle.
Roundtrip boat excursion to the Castle
Free entry to Castle Muiderslot
Guided tour of Golden Age rooms
Falconry and live demonstrations (during summer months)
Armoury, dungeon and medieval Towers
While out hunting with falcons in 1296, Floris V was captured by his nobles and imprisoned in his own castle. After attempting an escape he was stabbed 20 times and died.
The Muiderslot was the official residence of P.C. Hooft in the 17th century, because he was appointed as sheriff (drost) of Muiden and bailiff (baljuw) of Gooiland in 1609
Towards the end of the 18th century, the castle began to be used as a prison before being abandoned and derelict
Towers and Knights
Scale the Castle's impressive towers and learn about its carefully constructed defences from its narrow staircases to dead-end corridors. Climb 83 steps and enjoy amazing views from the rafters of the castle's highest tower, the West Tower. Discover an incredible collection of genuine suits of armour, chain mail, swords, and halberds in the Armoury, and learn about the life and times of medieval knights and their importance to the Castle's history.
Journey back in time and tour the beautifully-restored Golden Age rooms of the Castle including the living room, bedroom, the Bishop's Room, Castle kitchen, Knight's Hall and Prince's Room. Learn about the castle's occupants during the Dutch Golden Age, including its most famous resident, writer and poet P.C. Hooft. For almost 40 years, Hooft spent summers in the castle and invited friends and intellectuals such as Vondel, Huygens, Bredero and Maria Tesselschade Visscher to stay.
From April to October, guests can visit the falconer and learn all about these beautiful birds of prey and the ancient art of falconry. Enjoy live demonstrations from May to September.
To the Ferry - Address: Krijn Taconiskade 124 a, Amsterdam - Departure is once per day at 11 am
Tram: 26 IJburg
Directly to the Castle - Address: Herengracht 1, Muiden
Bus: from Amsterdam Amstelstation 320, 322, 327 or
Train: 110 from Amsterdam CS to Weesp
Apr 4 - Nov 1
Departure from 10:45 AM
Please see official attraction page for up-to-date opening times and closure dates.
Krijn Taconiskade 124 a, Amsterdam
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Essential USB-C Earphones HD review: Earbuds that ditch the dongle, but add cost and compromise
Ryne Hager
Mobile Accessory Reviews
1 Specs
2 The Good
3 The Not So Good
5.1 Calls
The headphone jack is dead, or so we're told by OEMs, but the selection of wired USB Type-C headphones is still woefully inadequate. If you aren't interested in all the problems associated with Bluetooth audio, you're pretty much forced into the donglelife. But Essential just launched two new pairs of USB Type-C powered headphones, including the Earphones HD. Although the HDs aren't bad, for $100 it's tough to recommend them unless you absolutely can't use a dongle.
Initially, we planned on reviewing both of Essential's new headphones: the Earphones Mini and Earphones HD. But, in my own testing, I couldn't find anything good to say about the smaller Earphones Mini. So they've been cut, though I do still make a few comparisons for interested parties. The TL;DR for the Earphones Mini is that they are hollow, tinny, and a poor value even at $50.
Essential's Earphones HD are a different story, though. I wanted to like them, and they have a lot of good features, but there's a constant background hiss that I just can't ignore, and for $100 that's not really OK.
Input USB Type-C (requires USB Audio Class 2 support)
Driver 9.2mm titanium coated dual-layer diaphragm
Bit depth 16 & 24
Sampling rate 44.1 kHz to 96 kHz
Frequency response 10Hz~50kHz
Impedance 16Ω±15%
Sensitivity 112±3dB
THD+N (harmonic distortion) < 0.005% (1 kHz)
SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) < -97dB
Volume More than loud. Deafening.
Strong bass They thump for a pair of earbuds, though it may be just a bit exaggerated.
No noise canceling Might not appeal to everyone, but I consider it a plus.
Build Aluminum is nice.
Background hiss Constant low-volume static hiss during playback can interfere with quieter content like dialog, gets annoying fast.
Limited in-line controls Only a single button.
Build, again No jacketed cables, just thin bare rubber wires.
Price $100 is too steep for the quality.
Essential's Earphones HD are a minimally designed set of earbuds. The housing for the drivers appears to be aluminum, with matching material surrounding the USB Type-C jack, the in-line mic/button assembly, and the Y split, the latter featuring a second sliding aluminum ring for an individualized fit. Personally, I've never used those, but it's there if you want it.
The cables are sleeved in slightly sticky rubber. They accumulate lint and dust pretty quickly, and the rubber itself seems thin. For the price, I'd really rather have seen them jacketed in a braided fabric like nylon. I might be a bit concerned about longevity given the materials, but the grommets at all the bend-prone areas are beefy.
The in-line mic/button assembly only features a single button, so if you were hoping for hardware volume up or down adjustment, you're out of luck. The button also can't be double-pressed to skip music. All it does is answer calls, pause music, and pull up the Google Assistant. So you can use voice commands to adjust volume or skip tracks, but that's a bit awkward on a crowded train. Personally, I've gotten pretty used to being able to skip tracks and adjust volume silently and without pulling out my phone while I'm out and about, so that's a bit disappointing, especially for $100.
The only visual difference between the Earphones HD and the smaller Earphones Mini is the size and length of the driver housing, with the HD being substantially bigger. That's to be expected, given the larger driver in the HD. Other features between the two appear to be identical.
The headphones come with a round pocketed case and three tip sizes for a more customizable fit. The case is a bit slick—it fell out of my coat pockets on more than one occasion—but it is well-made. So long as you select and install the right size rubber tips on the headphones, fit for Essential's earbuds is fine.
The Earphones HD have their benefits, but there are some major drawbacks as well. Bass is quite strong, probably a bit too much for some people. Treble borders on a tiny bit shrill sometimes, but that's forgivable and to be expected in a pair of earbuds. Fit and seal are absolutely required for decent performance, and once you've got them in the right spot, they actually sound pretty great. They have a wide enough sound-stage and get ridiculously loud, pushing quite deeply into ear-damage territory much past 60%.
I do have one significant criticism, though. During audio playback, there's a constant low-level hiss. I spoke to an Essential representative about it and was told that the noise is an unfortunate side-effect of the headphones' extremely low impedance (audiophiles take note). Essential claims its engineers made a choice to include lower-impedance drivers in exchange for louder volumes and a wider sound-stage, and that the hiss is a result of that choice. I'm not entirely sure I buy that explanation, though, since I have other low-impedance headphones that aren't anywhere near as noisy.
It might not bother everyone, but I found the constant hissing quite noticeable in day-to-day use, especially when listening to quieter content like the dialogue in a film or show. For $100, that's not great, especially considering it wasn't a problem I experienced using much cheaper headphones.
Overall, the Earphones HD sound good. I won't be swapping them for my desk-bound Sennheiser HD 600s anytime soon, and I think I still prefer my Xiaomi earbuds when I'm out and about, but Essential's earbuds are OK, especially if you prefer louder volumes and mostly listen to music. However, for $100 I'm still disappointed. You can pair much cheaper earbuds with a USB Type-C to 3.5mm dongle and get far better quality.
A few people asked me specifically about how the mic performed, so I made sure to place a few HD calls using it. I'm told by callers that the quality is ok, though it was described as "muffled" by some. Most earbuds mics have somewhat mediocre call quality compared to the multi-mic assemblies on modern phones, so that's to be expected. Good enough is good enough, in this case.
They worked with almost every USB Type-C equipped phone I've got, including the Pixel 2 XL, OG Pixel XL, Essential Phone, and OnePlus 5T, among others. Notably, they didn't play nice with my Nextbit Robin, but since that phone's USB Type-C implementation was incomplete, that's not surprising. But for the most part, whether the device has a headphone jack or not, plug it in and it just works. The only requirement Essential claims the earbuds impose is USB Audio Class 2 support, which pretty much every recent USB Type-C equipped phone, tablet, or computer should have.
I was also able to plug them into my MacBook and get audio, too, after I remembered to change the output device in settings. They even worked almost exactly as you'd expect, though I do have one small warning for those that try it. For whatever reason, if you turn the volume up much past 10% or so, you'll probably burst an eardrum. Volume is a bit inconsistent across devices, so err on the side of caution when plugging them in: take them out of your ears.
The selection of USB Type-C headphones sucks. Hard. If you have absolutely no interest in battery-powered Bluetooth headphones, like me, then you're up a creek. OEMs are taking away our headphone jacks, and we're not really getting much in the way of wired solutions back.
Libratone has a pair of USB Type-C headphones that our own Richard reviewed just a few days back, JBL has the Reflect Aware C (that you can't actually seem to buy anywhere), and Xiaomi has a set as well, but they all have active noise canceling. I live in the city, and I very much prefer that my headphones not cancel out the sounds of traffic, as I live in constant fear of Boston drivers. And apart from some no-name brands on Amazon, Essential's USB Type-C headphones are the only non-noise-canceling game in town.
Other than the constant background static (which probably won't bother most people) the Essential Earphones HD's sound quality is good. At $99, though, they are a poor value for their performance when compared to many cheaper 3.5mm headphone offerings. But, they do have a USB Type-C plug. Since there isn't any other real competition in that specific space, they're probably going to be my personal recommendation for dongle-free Type-C earbuds for a while. At least, until something better comes along. If you're hoping to ditch the dongle, you can pick up a pair at Essential's Shop.
Unfortunately, there are a ton of less expensive 3.5mm earbuds that beat them soundly, so I'm still going to recommend that most people stick to the donglelife, at least for a bit longer.
Earphones HD
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Samsung Pay Adds Membership Cards, A Featured Area For Promotions And News, And 38 New Supported Banks And Credit Unions
2016/05/18 4:21am PDT May 18, 2016
There are a handful of incentives for using a smartphone to pay for things in the checkout lane. Most of the companies are trying to pitch increased security and arguably faster checkout experience, the big selling point for most people is the option to leave membership and loyalty cards at home. The latest update to Samsung Pay added full support for membership cards and also introduces a new area for promotions and other information. On top of that, 38 new banks and credit unions are now supported by Samsung Pay.
The two new features come as part of an update to version 2.0, which is immediately available to all supported devices.
Android Pay v1.3 To Allow Use Of Loyalty And Gift Cards Without Unlocking [APK Teardown]
2016/05/05 5:40am PDT May 5, 2016
The idea of contactless payments has turned out to be an unusually divisive topic. Some people are certain that we're only a couple of years away from abandoning physical credit cards in favor of using smartphones at the checkout line, while others see it as an obnoxious novelty that slows down everything and should be ignored. Whatever the case, it's interesting to watch the progress of mobile payment methods as they grow and evolve in an effort to capture consumer interest. The latest update to Android Pay v1.3 doesn't appear to bring any immediately available new features, but a teardown reveals that we will soon have the option to use certain types of cards without unlocking our phones.
Android Pay v1.1 Begins Rolling Out To Fix Some Of Those Pesky Bugs [APK Download]
2015/11/03 2:40pm PST Nov 3, 2015
Android Pay has been kicking around for a little while and it's time for an update. Version 1.1 just started rolling out and it seems to be focused on fixing bugs. There are a lot of little adjustments to text, but no major new features to be seen. Nevertheless, if you use Android Pay regularly, or if you've had issues in the past, you'll probably want to grab the update. As usual, we've got the download link below.
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[New App] Amazon Releases A Beta Version Of Amazon Wallet On The Play Store And Appstore
2014/07/21 6:02pm PDT Jul 21, 2014
Last week Google released a sizeable update to Google Wallet that finally let you carry loyalty cards in digital form. Now Amazon has released its own version of... pretty much the same thing, minus all the other stuff that Google Wallet does. Amazon Wallet is currently in beta on both the Google Play Store and Amazon's own Appstore in a rare simultaneous release. Compatibility seems to be limited to phones at the moment, and since it's labeled as "for Fire Phone" on this promo page, it may be pre-loaded on that device.
The app does pretty much the same thing that a lot of other apps do: scans the barcode on the back of retail loyalty cards and gift cards (at least the ones without a magnetic strip) and saves serial and pin numbers with a quick photo.
Google Wallet App Update With Automated Loyalty Card Info And Location Alerts Coming Later This Week [Update: APK Download]
Heads up, Google Wallet fans: better support for loyalty cards is coming to a Play Store update near you. According to a Google+ update from the Wallet team earlier today, the app will soon be able to auto-populate information when scanning in loyalty cards, presumably including the name and merchant. The update should be coming later this week, at least for the first batch of users. There are also some user interface changes, including a modified slide-out menu.
For those brick-and-mortar stores that also support Google Wallet's deals and offers, the Wallet app will also alert you when you're physically near the store in question.
Google Is Once Again Cutting Wallet Functionality, Will End Support For Gift And Loyalty Cards On August 21st
2013/08/09 8:06am PDT Aug 9, 2013
Since its inception, things have been tough for Google Wallet. Adoption hasn't been great, many carriers have blocked its use, and the rollout of new features hasn't gone as smoothly as one would hope. In short, it's been a long, hard road for such an initially promising product.
While we've already seen Google cut support for the prepaid Wallet card, the company has now decided to ax NFC redemption of gift and loyalty cards as of August 21st. If you currently have available funds on a gift card that's attached to your Wallet account (and you no longer have the physical card), it's time to spend it, lest it be lost forever.
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Between Fish
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Silver Obsession
Former world-class skier Andy Mill chases tarpon with as much fire as he once did Olympic gold
William Sisson
Pat Ford
Spring has settled over the Florida Keys. It’s hot and sticky and still. You know how it gets — you don’t need a calendar to tell you the tarpon are back and the fishing is about to explode.
“The key ingredient is when you start to feel the sweat from your back drip down into the crack of the top of your ass. That’s tarpon weather,” says tarpon nut Andy Mill, who spends six weeks each year living right in the thick of it in the Keys, fishing every day with his son Nicky, who at 21 is also an accomplished fly tosser.
The non-fishing world might remember Mill as the handsome former two-time U.S. Olympic downhill skier, TV commentator and onetime husband of tennis star Chris Evert. When he was tearing up the slopes, European downhillers nicknamed Mill the “Wilde Hund” (wild dog) for his go-for-broke style, long hair and beard. “I skied wild, and I looked wild,” Mill recalls.
The angling world knows Andy Mill as one of the best, most intense tarpon fishermen on the planet. He won a dozen top tarpon fly tournaments, including a record-tying five Gold Cups, before retiring six years ago from competitive fishing, which threatened to consume him.
Andy Mill is a study in focus on the flats.
With the spring fishery now in full throat, I recently had a conversation with Mill about everything tarpon, from his obsession with the fish to what it takes to become a great ’poon fisherman.
“A good fisherman can catch a lot of fish, and big fish, too,” says Mill, 63, who remains athletic, colorful and competitive. “Great fishermen can catch the tarpon that doesn’t want to be caught.”
A lot of people cast to a tarpon and just start stripping, Mill says, but they’re not reacting to the body language of the fish. They don’t understand exactly what it’s going to take to make that big fish eat the fly.
“It’s a chess game of small movements,” says Mill, author of A Passion for Tarpon (Wild River Press). “How much do I strip the fly? Do I bump the fly? Do I slide it? When I bump it, do I shake it? Am I too short in the cast? Am I too long in the cast?”
And there’s lots of moving parts: wind, current, perhaps a pitching boat and a fish on the move. “You have to understand the dynamics of movement and what the animal wants,” says Mill, who is as exacting as they come. “That’s what makes a great tarpon fisherman.”
Mill says the attraction of stalking tarpon in the shallows on fly is as old as our Pleistocene ancestors. “Fly-fishing for tarpon is that ultimate combination of hunting and fishing,” says Mill, who loves bow hunting for elk as much as he does waving a fly rod at giant tarpon. “In our DNA, in our blood, man is a hunter. You never throw the fly until you see the fish. And the fish is the most perfect gamefish to be caught on the fly. It swims in very shallow water. It eats flies voraciously. It’s the best bite in the game. And then they jump, putting holes in the ocean the size of trucks. When it all comes together, it’s like getting hit by a bolt of lightning.”
Mill was first struck by the bolt out of the blue about 30 years ago, when he was in Belize as a celebrity guest on the television show Fly Fishing The World with host John Barrett.
“I remember all of a sudden having this animal come flying out of the water to eat my fly and then go flopping through the air,” Mills says. “It literally changed my life. I didn’t catch a fish that trip, but I came back to Florida and started tarpon fishing. And for the next 30 years I dedicated my life more seriously to being one of the top tarpon fishermen in the world than I did when I was trying to win Olympic gold medals.”
When he was a young hotshot skier on the U.S. Olympic team, Mill says he didn’t have the foresight or the understanding of what it took to win at the highest level. “I didn’t have a really good mentor, and I wasn’t smart enough to win on my own,” says Mill, who lives part of the year in Boca Raton, Florida, and part in Aspen, Colorado.
He saw tournament tarpon fishing as a second chance, one that he now had the competitive makeup, experience and maturity to excel at.
Nick Mill, who often fishes with his father, releases a nice fish.
He credits his success to mentors such as tarpon great Harry Spear, a former guide, tournament champion and skiff builder. Mill used to fish with Spear 40 to 50 days a season. “He groomed me for tournament fishing for about seven years before I ever fished a tournament,” Mill recalls. “I had a great mentor, and I had a great understanding of the dynamics of winning from my ski-racing days. And internally I was really recommitted to doing something that meant a lot to me. I had a second chance, and I was going to do everything I could to win.”
And win he did, including five Gold Cup Invitational Tarpon Fly Tournaments, fishing with guide Tim Hoover. Before he won his first Gold Cup, however, Mill lost a big tarpon right beside the boat, which cost him what would have been his first win in the prestigious five-day tournament. He lost by a mere 8 ounces.
“I swear I did not sleep for two years,” says Mill, repeating the sentence for emphasis. “I tied flies. I fished. I tossed and turned at night, trying to figure out this passionate drive I had. My guts, my spine, my core was on fire, and it stayed that way for probably a solid 10 years.”
Has he mellowed some? “No,” he says. “I still love it. The reason I stopped tournament fishing is because it became unbalanced with what I think the relationship should be with these fish. After I won a bunch, if I got second, I was tormented. If I was winning and leading the tournament midweek, I was tormented. It was only about winning. And after I’d win, I was tormented to win the following year.”
Mill realized he was spending a lot of time and money and not having very much fun to prove something he’d already proved. So he quit tournament fishing — with one small caveat.
He did come off the beach last year to win the three-day Golden Fly Invitational Tarpon Tournament with friend and longtime competitor Capt. Rob Fordyce, an excellent tournament fisherman in his own right.
“It was a chance to see, do I still have it? We fished that one tournament last year. I won, and I’m back in retirement,” Mill says laughing.
I asked Mill to compare the Gold Cup tarpon wins with an Olympic Gold medal. “It’s comparing apples to oranges,” Mill says. “In the world of tarpon fishing it is the gold medal. But to win a gold medal in the Olympics is so much harder. The competition is so much more vast, such a bigger stage.”
Andy Mill wrestles a monster tarpon aboard.
What he enjoys most these days is fishing with his son Nicky, who caught his first tarpon on a fly when he was 12 or 13 and, like his father, bow-hunts elk and is a scratch golfer. “I love fishing with my son. He’s really gotten good,” says Mill, who fishes a Hell’s Bay Biscayne Bay skiff. “And to watch him stand in the bow — he’s just a phenomenal caster, both forehand and backhand. He understands the dynamics of hooking fish, and he can catch a fish as fast as anyone I know. He’s just the real deal.”
Nicky is a product of his father’s intensity. Mill recalls a conversation he had with his son during their tarpon mentorship.
“Dad, why are you so mean to me?” asked Nicky.
“I’m not mean. I’m trying to teach you something,” Mill answered.
“You can do it in a nicer way,” Nicky replied.
“Well, if I’m nicer, you’re not going to learn as fast.”
Mill chuckles now. “It wasn’t like beating him up,” he says. “It was like, OK, I’m your dad, but putting that aside, I’m now your mentor. I’m your coach. If you want to do it, you’ve got to do it this way.”
And now the son is developing his “own style and own feel,” and taking his fishing to the next level. “I’ll put him up with anybody in the world, bar none,” Mill says. “There may be a few who are more refined, but he’s right there with anybody, including me.”
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Swimming Through Air
Fishing photographer Pat Ford has been chasing tarpon for more than 25 years
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The author was ‘a goner’ after his first big tarpon shook its head and took to the sky
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Greg Myerson caught a big fish four years ago that literally changed his life. The fish was an 81.88-pound striped bass, which broke by 3 pounds the International Game Fish Association record that had stood for 29 years.
Season of the Surf
The fall migration lures legions of diehards into the suds, where they cast night and day for one last fish
Tom and the Fat Boys
D’Artagnan would be proud of these musketeers — artists and writers who fished, hunted, drank and cooked from one end of the country to the other, with Key West as a beacon.
Cuba Caught
A fly guide from Idaho discovers more than just bonefish, tarpon and permit on his first visit to Cuba.
Catch ’em Up, Boys
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Artist Nick Mayer reflects on a memorable largemouth he caught as a boy and kept alive in a sink for an afternoon.
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Stan Lee, Pow! unveil new comic series
ANI | Updated: Jul 17, 2018 18:53 IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 17 (ANI): Famous comic book writer, Stan Lee, is back in business with a new online comic series titled 'Work Force'.
The series will depict the adventurous lives of Stan Lee, as 'boss lee', and his team of superheroes.
Pow! Entertainment will release the episodic novel on Lee's website, www.therealstanlee.com twice a week starting from July 17, and a new chapter will be released every Tuesday and Thursday, Deadline reported.
'Work Force' will follow the everyday zany lives of Lee and his heroes within a conventional office setting, where everything ranging from interdimensional monsters to sentient copy machines will contribute to comic tales.
The news comes a week after Stan Lee dropped a $1 billion lawsuit against Pow! Entertainment.
In his lawsuit, Lee claimed that the company and its officers allegedly conspired to steal his identity, name and likeness and sell it to a Chinese company. (ANI)
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Schloss Linderhof was the only palace that “Mad” King Ludwig II lived to see to be completed and had the chance to live in for eight years! Again, this palace was inspired by the Palace of Versailles in Paris and you can see the stunning artwork in honor of the French monarchy. While it might lack in size, as it is the smallest palace built by King Ludwig II, it packs a punch and it well worth the visit!
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There are many stunning castles and palaces throughout Bavaria, with the most popular all built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. You might know his most romantic and popular castle, Schloss Neuschwanstein perched high up on a hill in Schwangau or the palace he built on Chiemsee which is dedicated to his idol, King Louis XV of France, a smaller replica of the Palace of Versailles called Schloss Herrenchiemsee. If you have visited either of these castles, you might have left feeling a bit unsatisfied as both castles were not completed by the time of King Ludwig II’s untimely death in 1886. But fear not!
Visiting Linderhof Palace
Located not far from the small town of Oberammergau down in the Bavarian Alps and an easy day trip from Munich, the castle is only accessible with a guided tour for €8.50 per adult. The guided tours are offered in both English and in German. Other languages are handed a folder with a language guide to follow along. As the castle is the smallest of all King Ludwig II’s castles, it takes a minimum of 25 minutes or less for an entire tour through the castle. The funny thing about the tour was that the guide kept referring to King Ludwig II as “Our King” as if he was still alive and as if there was still a King of Bavaria. You are ushered through each room as quickly as possible and hardly have a chance to really enjoy the beauty of the castle.
Unfortunately, there is no photography allowed inside the castle, like all his other castles.
Inside the Castle
King Ludwig II had a very extravagant taste in style and loved gold artwork throughout his castles. Schloss Linderhof is no different and every room is designed in beautiful French style with golden Rococo artwork. He ascended to the Bavarian throne when he was only 18 and had no experience of life or politics but was adored by women. Eventually over time, he became more and more recluse and lived more like a hermit. From 1875 onward he only slept during the day and lived at night. Otherwise, he surrounded himself with beauty and therefore created a fantasy world around him in which he could escape. Now, people like myself, flock to his mystical fairy tale castles and step back in time to try to understand this very eccentric King’s life.
Every room was stunning from the entrance of the palace which has a large golden ceiling fresco dedicated to the Sun King of France to the Throne Room, the King’s Bedroom as well as his dining room which had a mechanical dinner table that could be lowered to the kitchens below and raised again so that they King could eat in solitude without being disturbed. It is said that perhaps the King was insane as he used to talk to imaginary people such as King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette while eating dinner.
The King’s Bedroom resembled the bedroom of the King in the Palace of Versailles with a banister in front of the bed. In France, it is custom to receive nobility in the morning and in the evening in the bedroom rather than in the Throne Room so this was one of the biggest rooms in the castle. Above the doors to the left and right are paintings depicting daily life at the Palace of Versailles.
Schloss Linderhof also has a room which has Hall of Mirrors which when standing between two mirrors opposite each other, make the room seem endless with the chandelier reflecting in the middle.
Linderhof Palace Grounds
Every morning the King woke up to this beautiful view of the Neptune fountain and the Music Pavilion at the top of the hill. (The picture on the left is the view from the bedroom and the picture on the right is from the top, at the Music Pavilion looking down.)
After doing a tour of the castle we wandered the palace gardens and climbed the staircase just opposite the castle for a view over the palace as well as the large basin in the center with a golden statue in the center which shoots water into the air periodically. At the top there is a round temple with a statue of Venus.
You can see in the background that the palace is surrounded by endless mountains. King Ludwig II began to spend more and more time in the mountains and less time in Munich. He enjoyed sleigh rides in one of his many elaborate sleighs which had been designed with the newest technology which can be seen at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich, where he was born.
Before walking towards the romantic Venus Grotto we walked down to the Hundinghütte which was a good 15 minute walk. King Ludwig II deeply admired Richard Wagner‘s writings and plays. Therefore he built a small cabin which inside resembled one of his plays. Be prepared to do a lot of up and downhill walking!
Venus Grotto
The King would also commission the Venus Grotto to be built which also honored the stories from Richard Wagner. The Grotto was strictly built to row the King around in a small golden swan boat to the first act of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Not only did he want to be able to do this, but he wanted to feel like he was rowing his boat in the Blue Grotto of Capri, so for the first time ever, the lights were able to change colors.
The only way to see the inside the Grotto is with a guided tour, purchased with your ticket which allows you to see everything on the palace grounds. The tour is in German and then at the end, a recorded loudspeaker translates the history into English. It takes only about 10 minutes to see the entire grotto, which is partially under refurbishment. Inside, there is also a rock dedicated to the Loreley below the blue light, so I was excited about this!
The Moorish Kiosk & Peacock Throne
Also not to be missed is the Moorish Kiosk which the King bought from the International Exhibit in Paris in 1867. Unfortunately, you can’t actually go inside to look at the beautiful Peacock Throne, but instead must look through a large glass panel just inside the front door. Unfortunately with the glass, its hard to get a great picture and the Peacock Throne was actually missing and currently undergoing restoration and will be returned in 2016.
The Love Tunnel
As you walk back down to the castle and to head to the car, you will walk down to the left or right of the castle through a romantic Love Tunnel covered in ivory leaves. I wish it had been fall when we went as I have always wanted to talk through one during the changing of the seasons. But I’ll settle for summer!
Before you visit Schloss Linderhof:
Linderhof Palace is open from 9:00 – 6:00 pm April – October 15th. Important Travel tip: This is the best time to visit the palace as in the winter the palace is open from 10:00-4:00pm everything else is closed – the Grotto, Moroccan House, and Moorish Kiosk and the fountains won’t be turned on. Lastly, there won’t be much to see in the gardens as everything will be dead for winter.
Entrance to Linderhof Palace costs €8.50 and this gives you access to everything.
I recommend bringing a picnic as the park is gorgeous and there are plenty of tress which provide shade! If a picnic isn’t your thing then there is a restaurant at the entrance to the grounds.
Linderhof Palace can be reached by taking a train from Munich, to the nearby village of Ettal. Then hop on a bus which takes you directly to the palace.
Don’t wear high heels of any kind unless you can handle small pebbles getting in your shoes and can handle doing a lot of walking up and down hills with unsteady, unpaved walkways.
For more information check out the Schloss Linderhof webpage.
Further ahead: Ettal Abbey
The village of Ettal has a beautiful Benedictine monastery home to about 50 monks which was founded by Emperor Ludwig IV of Bavaria in 1330. The inside is stunningly designed in Rococo stucco work with a massive dome with pale yellow frescoes. The monastery also produces its own fruit liqueurs, flavored brandies and beer! I bought the best bottle of Almond Schanpps just across the street at one of the souvenir gift shops!
If you want to learn more about “Mad” King Ludwig II of Bavaria, then I highly suggest reading one of the Royal Novels to read before coming to Europe, Not So Happily Ever After: The Life of King Ludwig II!
Movies & TV Shows About King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Ludwig II.(2012), Ludwig II (1972)
If you’re interested in visiting Germany and are looking for more information, I highly recommend using the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide! Without these guides, I would be lost! This is my travel Bible!
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AMAZING PHOTOS! We were in this area during Easter, but it was foggy and snowing. Anyway…we did not not have time to make it to Linderhof……….your pics are truly beautiful….you have inspired me to make another trip there ASAP!
California Globetrotter says:
Definitely worth the visit!! It was stunning!!
Mary @ Over 40 and a Mum to One says:
What a stunning setting. We’d have to leave until my son is older and able to listen to a guided tour properly, but I have Bavaria on my ‘to do’ list #MondayEscapes
Yaaaaay you made it!! And it seems to me that you loved it <3
This castle is small but it's stunning, I loved it!! The Grotto is awesome 😀
Beautiful photos!!!
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I would have loved to have visited here when we were in Munich in April but we just didn’t have the time. Went to Neuschwanstein though and had a great day out there. Funnily enough the hotel we stayed at, the Platzl, had a replica of King Ludwig’s Moorish Kiosk in their fitness spa centre – it was designed to look the same as the one in the Linderhof! Have enjoyed seeing your beautiful photos! 🙂
The Paris ItineraryKimberly says:
Enjoyed your post. I’ve been to Neuschwanstein but didn’t know about this one. Funny how Ludwig II had such a facination with Versailles. #MondayEscapes
galanda23 says:
What an interesting read! I only visited Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau of Ludwig’s castles. I would have liked to see Schloss Linderhof when I visited Bavaria two years ago, but I didn’t make it. Ludwig was quite an interesting character and he surely had a taste for castles.
Yes, his castles are absolutely stunning! He has another castle called Schloss Herrnchiemsee which is also beautiful – https://caliglobetrotter.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/the-romantic-castles-of-king-ludwig-ii-of-bavaria/
Michelle | michwanderlust says:
The interior of the palace is jaw-dropping! I’ve been to Neuschwanstein and the other castle near it, but this looks far more lavish. Although, it seems a bit lacking in privacy to receive guests in your bedroom – unless they’re very close of friends, of course. It’s also a pity that you are whisked through it on the guided tour and aren’t allowed to properly appreciate the interior.
It’s a very French thing to receive people in your room. It was a privilege to get to dress the King/Queen. Here are more of his castles and some history about him – https://caliglobetrotter.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/the-romantic-castles-of-king-ludwig-ii-of-bavaria/
Thanks, your posts about German castles and palaces are very informative!
I try to encourage people to want to come to Germany haha it’s so beautiful here
The gardens and the grotto are lovely. Thanks for sharing this at #TheWeeklyPostcard
InsideJourneys says:
Germany really has some stunning castles! Thanks for the tour.
Huh, that’s strange, I was sure I’ve commented on your post before :-/ Your photos are gorgeous and as cool as the castle is, the Grotto makes it even more amazing, would love to go 😀
Thank you!! Yes the grotto was amazing!
Upeksha says:
Wow, the castle and the grotto looks amazing. This is going on my Germany pinterest board! #citytripping
You’ll love it if you go!
Notmyyearoff says:
Wow I absolutely love castles and this one looks amazing. They really have preserved them so well haven’t they?
They are quite special! And breathtaking!
Wandermust mummy says:
This looks beautiful – thanks for sharing #citytripping
Cultural Wednesday says:
The grotto looks amazing
#citytripping
cute dress!:) wow what a castle! and it has a grotto:) #city tripping
Mandy 'n' Justin says:
Your tips are super useful. I can’t even imagine exploring a castle in heels. I would definitely end up with a sprained ankle, at least!
I loved getting to read about this castle. Since I have friends that live in south Germany, I may have to make a point of visiting them and this castle in one go. Sounds like a fun travel/visit friends excuse! Thanks for sharing!
You definitely should! It’d be a shame to miss it!
MummyTravels says:
How beautiful- I’ve been to Neuschwanstein but hadn’t come across this. A shame you were slightly rushed around- although I bet people would spend hours gazing at the detail otherwise! Thanks for linking up with #citytripping
Probably another tourist tactic to prevent people from having the time to sneak some pictures
Bumble Bee Mum says:
The castle tour is pretty reasonably priced. But no photography?! That’s so SAD!! How I wish I could be a King, waking up to the sights Neptune fountain and the Music Pavilion every morning. Haha!
I thought the grotto was huge from the photos, but you say it only takes 10min to tour and I was ‘Oh, anti-climax’… But the lightings are pretty cool.
Ya but even though it takes 10 minutes it’s totally worth going in! All of King Ludwig’s Castles (Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrnchiemsee) don’t allow photography 🙁
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Enthronement of the 42nd Sakya Trizin, His Holiness Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
By Anne Wisman
The 41st Sakya Trizin, foreground, and 42nd Sakya Trizin. From The 42nd Sakya Trizin Enthronement Ceremony Facebook
On the 9 March, the 42nd Sakya Trizin was enthroned at Sakya Institute Thubten Namgyal Ling in India. His Holiness Ratna Vajra Rinpoche is the oldest son of the 41st Sakya Trizin, His Holiness Sakya Trichen Rinpoche, and the first Sakya Trizin to be enthroned under the new succession system announced in May 2014. The enthronement ceremony was streamed live via Facebook.
The Sakya Trizin is the head of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism, which was founded in 1073 by Khön Konchok Gyalpo, a member of the Tibetan noble family Khön, who established a monastery in the region of Sakya (present-day Shigatse Prefecture), Tibet. Leadership of the school has always remained in the Khön family, who are said to descend from Gods of the Realm of Clear Light that entered the human realm. Today, the Sakya School is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Presentation of the official seal to His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin. Photo by the Dawa Dolma Organizing Committee. From The 42nd Sakya Trizin Enthronement Ceremony Facebook
Traditionally, the office of Sakya Trizin or “Sakya Throne-holder” is held for life. Succession usually occurs after the death of the previous Sakya Trizin, and candidates for succession are drawn from the Khön family line. In 2014, however, a new system, proposed by the former Sakya Trizin and agreed upon by both the Phodrangs—the two palaces of the Sakya school; Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang—was adopted, with the agreement of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In its revised form, the tenure of the Sakya Trizin lasts only three years, with the possibility that an office holder may take office more than once in his lifetime. Qualifications for the position include: “the complete fulfillment of studies of all the basic courses of Rites and Rituals of the Sakya; studies in all the major philosophies; having received empowerments, reading transmissions, and pith instructions; having studies the teachings of the ancestral Dharma teachings of Lamdre Ts’ogshey and Lamdre Lobshey, along with other important teachings and empowerments; and having accomplished the basic recitation retreat on Hevajra and other important tutelary deities.” (Official website of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin)
Candidates for the position continue to be drawn from Khön family descendants, and future office holders are already in training. “The new system is based on the one used by the abbots of Ngor Monastery, which is a part of the Sakya school. The great master Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö [1893–1959] once suggested that the Sakya Trizins should follow Ngor’s approach, and now they will do that.” said Lama Migmar Tseten, Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University and founder of the Sakya Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a 2015 interview. (Lion’s Roar)
His Holiness Sakya Trizin Rinpoche.
His Holiness Sakya Trizin Rinpoche is the first to be enthroned under this new system, having met all the aforementioned requirements. Born on 19 November 1974, the 42-year-old Sakya Trizin is the 42nd in an unbroken lineage dating back to 1073. His Holiness has been educated in the Sakya school since birth by His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin, and many other lineage masters. In 1998, he completed a kachupa degree (equivalent to a bachelor's degree in Buddhist philosophy), which he studied under Khenpo Ngawang Lekshey Kunga (also known as Khenpo Migmar Tsering, 1955–99). In addition, he has studied various esoteric and exoteric traditions and is, at present, considered one of most qualified masters in the Sakya school. In 2002, His Holiness Sakya Trizin Rinpoche married Her Eminence Dagmo Kalden Dunkyi, selected via the age-old Sakya tradition of holy divination. They have two daughters and a son.
HH Sakya Trichen Rinpoche, Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar Trinley Samphel Wangyi Gyalpo, born in 1945 in Tsedong, near Shigatse Prefecture, will continue to provide guidance to HH Sakya Trizin Rinpoche in the years to come.
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A Private Discussion between the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsock Phodrang about a Resolution and a New Directive Concerning the Future Role of the Sakya Trizin, the Head of The Sakya Order of Tibettan Buddhism (Official website of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin)
The Sakya Tradition: Biography of His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin (Official website of His Holiness the Sakya Trizin)
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The Burnley Express' Burnley FC app is to close as we improve how you get the very latest on our mobile-friendly website
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10 American companies with the worst reputations
Marissa Perino
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Many US brands have poor reputations, ranging from struggling retail companies like Sears to the Trump Organization.
We teamed up with Reputation Institute to see what companies scored lowest in their respective industries.
Reasons for poor rankings include innovation challenges, public distrust, and leadership issues.
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Whether you're deciding which fast food joint to grab a burger from, which bank to open a savings account with, or which airline to use for your next family vacation...you typically have options. And when it comes time to make a decision, there's a good chance you'll take each brand's reputation into consideration.
That's right: just like people, all companies have a reputation. To find out which big brands are struggling with a weak reputation, we teamed up with Reputation Institute.
Read more: Here's what happened to all of the brands Sears used to own, from a car-insurance company to a hardware store
Reputation Institute evaluates companies across seven "dimensions": products and services, innovation, workplace, governance, citizenship, leadership, and performance. The categories serve as drivers of reputation, some more than others in certain industries. Reputation scores can fall anywhere between 0 and 100: 0-39 is considered poor, 40-59 is considered weak, 60-69 is considered average, 70-79 is considered strong, and 80 and above is considered excellent.
These 10 companies all performed poorly in Reputation Institute's 2019 US RepTrak 100 study, where Netflix, Whirlpool, and Hershey ranked as the top three; additionally, they all ranked lowest in their respective industries. The study considered more than 167,000 individual ratings and more than 680 nominated companies.
A study conducted by Axios and Harris Poll also cited many of the same low-scoring companies, including Sears, the Trump Organization, and Philip Morris tobacco company. Business Insider's retail team has covered Sears' downfall, along with improvements other brands — such as McDonald's — are making in an attempt to boost their reputations.
Keep reading for a look at ten of Reputation Institute's lowest-scoring companies:
Fast food: McDonald's average score represents the public's concern with fast food companies in the food and beverage industry.
A McDonald's restaurant.
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Reputation score: 60.1 (average)
"Although it is ahead of its main competitor Burger King in areas of products and especially innovation, McDonald's doesn't get the emotional capital that Burger King does," Reputation Institute told Business Insider in a report.
"At a time of environmental and social changes, the food and beverage industry is under a lot of pressure to innovate and deliver high quality, ethically sourced and health products," added Reputation Institute.
Reputation Institute acknowledged this expectation is hard to meet as a fast-food company; while McDonald's has added fresh beef burgers to its menu, progressive steps are "yet to translate into the perception of the general public."
Reputation Institute also noted that in 2019, the idea of fast food now includes companies such as Sweetgreen or BonMe, which offer much healthier options.
Automotive: Volkswagen is actually an average-scoring company overall, but ranked lowest in the automotive industry.
People pass in front of a Volkswagen logo ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show.
Reputation Institute highlighted that innovation is Volkswagen's weakest area — a category that also happens to be "a top 3 key driver for the automotive industry." Reputation Institute also acknowledged that while the company is making advancements with electric cars, it still is miles behind competitors such as Tesla and Toyota.
Retail: In the retail industry, Sears continues to earn low scores after narrowly avoiding bankruptcy.
A dismantled sign sits leaning outside a Sears department store in Nanuet.
Reputation score: 58.6 (weak)
"The retail industry is going through a transformation between the battle of brick and mortar versus online, but reputationally they have been recovering and holding strong, with financial performance being one of its strongest areas," Reputation Institute told Business Insider. "Sears, on the other hand, is not following the trend and falls on the lower end of reputation."
Business Insider's Hayley Peterson previously covered Sears chair Eddie Lampert winning court approval to buy Sears out of bankruptcy, only to have its "store of the future" close just six months after its opening.
Energy: BP received a weak score due to environmental concerns.
Logo of BP is seen at a petrol station in Kloten.
"Corporate responsibility remains a challenge for BP and it is yet to regain the trust of the public and be perceived as an ethical and environmentally compliant company," Reputation Institute told Business Insider.
Business Insider's Richard Feloni previously reported BP chairman Helge Lund pledged the company will become more transparent in response to pressure from shareholders.
Airline: Spirit Airlines ranked last as they fail to compete with other airlines' products and services.
A Spirit Airlines plane.
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Like Volkswagen, Spirit Airlines' lacks in its industry's biggest driver: for the airline industry, products and services remain the most pertinent category.
"While the rest of the airline companies in the US find their strengths in their products and innovation and struggle with perceptions of workplace and corporate responsibility, Spirit Airlines goes against the trend," Reputation Institute reported to Business Insider, "That being said across all seven dimensions their scores are weak, so there is an opportunity for improvement on all fronts."
Business Insider's Kim Renfro previously reported what it's like to fly on the budget airline, which is notorious for its uncomfortable arrangements, booking issues, and additional charges.
Finance: Goldman Sachs trails behind other finance and investment companies.
Goldman Sachs.
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"Goldman Sachs is seen as being profitable (strongest score in this business area) while not ethical," Reputation Institute reported to Business Insider.
"Post the financial crisis, the industry has been recovering and stabilizing with an average reputation," added Reputation Institute. "Goldman Sachs has not been able to shake this off and its reputation is trailing behind the industry average by about 16 pts."
Media: Best known as a cable provider, media conglomerate Comcast is ranked poorly in its ever-changing industry.
The Comcast NBC logo is shown on a building in Los Angeles, California.
Reputation Institute reported to Business Insider that, like Goldman Sachs, Comcast is seen as profitable. However, Reputation Institute noted, "Comcast's challenge is in innovation and workplace — with weak scores in areas such as 'first to market,' 'concern for well-being of employees' and 'excellent managers.' "
"In the age of Netflix, there is no time for falling behind in innovation in a transformative industry," added Reputation Institute.
Tobacco: Philip Morris — best known for Marlboro cigarettes — received a weak score.
Packs of Marlboro cigarettes are displayed for sale at a convenience store in Somerville.
"Not surprisingly, the tobacco industry has a reputational challenge and is judged for its perceived negative contribution to society," Reputation Institute told Business Insider. "On the other hand, it is an industry that is seen as focused on profits; this is even true for Philip Morris — its highest score is in financial performance."
Technology: In Silicon Valley, Facebook continues to struggle with its reputation.
Reputation Institute reported to Business Insider that Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant returned weak to poor score across all seven business areas of reputation.
"Mea culpa won't cut it for Facebook," Reputation Institute told Business Insider, "The company is turning into the ugly duckling of the industry and has failed to keep its promises over and over — actions need to speak for them. Other technology companies such as Apple are reacting to the privacy challenge with technological solutions."
Real Estate: Finally, the Trump Organization received the lowest score out of all 10 bottom-ranked companies.
Associated Press/Evan Vucci
Reputation score: 33.8 (poor)
"At the end of the reputation spectrum in 2019 is the Trump Organization with poor scores across all seven dimensions — especially when it comes to governance, citizenship, and workplace," Reputation Institute concluded.
Get the latest Goldman Sachs stock price here.
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The rudest thing ever said about the US economy was just said about Twitter
Myles Udland
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo
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On Tuesday afternoon, Twitter's earnings leaked early and the results were a disaster.
Revenue missed expectations, as did the company's outlook for the second quarter and the full-year, and these numbers sent the stock down 18%.
Analysts were not kind to the company.
But perhaps nothing was more brutal than the question posed by Citi analyst Mark May, who asked of Twitter's quarter: "Growing Pains or the New Normal?"
The "new normal," for those of you more familiar with economic themes of the past several years, is the idea popularized by Bill Gross, who has said that the US and world economy is now stuck in a low-growth mode. This idea that the economy will basically perform more poorly than it has in past decades is also broadly captured by the term "secular stagnation."
Currently, Twitter is still viewed by the market as a growth company, meaning that investors aren't expecting earnings and revenue growth to start slowing down but continue accelerating going forward.
Were Twitter to be stuck in a period of "new normal" or just so-so growth, this would spell trouble for the company.
In the first quarter, Twitter reported revenue growth of 74% on user growth of 18%. In the fourth quarter, revenue grew 97% on user growth of 20%.
In his note, May writes:
While [management] is actively pursuing initiatives to improve user growth, the effectiveness of its ad products, and overall monetization, we continue to believe that many of the bull case assumptions are priced in even at after-market levels. We need to gain more confidence in these user and monetization growth initiatives before getting constructive.
May has a Neutral rating and a $44 price target on the stock.
In pre-market trade on Wednesday, Twitter shares were down about 2.8%.
SEE ALSO: These analysts quotes about Twitter's earnings are just brutal
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HomeMembersMembers BlogCrunch Time for Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship?
Crunch Time for Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship?
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A trend has developed over the last few months that will be of concern to many Tier 2 sponsors: the number of restricted Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) made available under the government's cap on Tier 2 (General) is close to being reached.
Restrictions on the number of CoS which are available to Tier 2 sponsors were first introduced in July 2010 after the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government came to power.
Since April 2011, these restrictions have applied to Tier 2 Certificates of Sponsorship which are to be assigned to all new hires in the Tier 2 (General) category, except: ]
those assigned to workers already in the UK
those who will be paid a salary in excess of a high earner threshold (currently £159,600)
more recently, those who are being sponsored in connection with the relocation of a high value business to the UK or a significant new inward investment project
A maximum of 20,700 Tier 2 (General) CoS where those criteria are not satisfied are available each year, with a proportion released each month in order to spread demand and any unused CoS carried over to the following month. Apart from a five-month period in 2015, the cap has never been reached, but analysis of recent demand suggests it could be reached again soon.
Recent Demand
The 20,700 annual limit equates to an average of 1,725 CoS per month.
Because demand is often higher earlier on in the yearly cycle (which starts in April), more CoS are made available in those early months, with 2,200 made available in April and 2,000 each month after that until October, when the number released drops to 1,500. In previous years, a surplus has built up in the early months, but so far this year, the number of CoS issued in the monthly allocation round has averaged 2,030, with a record 2,440 allocated in July. If this level of demand continues, it will only be a matter of time before the limit is reached.
It might even be the case that the August allocation will be oversubscribed. More will be known after 11 August when the Home Office contact sponsors to let them know whether their requests have been successful and when full details of the number of CoS issued in the August allocation round are published towards the end of the month.
Figures published by the Home Office on 20 July showed that 2,151 CoS were available for sponsors in August, so if demand in August is the same as for July then the cap will be reached. Although one might (quite reasonably) assume that demand for restricted CoS would fall over the summer, in recent years demand in August has been higher than the average for that year. September demand has historically been lower though.
What If the Monthly Cap Is Reached?
If the monthly cap is reached then CoS are allocated on the basis of a points-scoring matrix (this is the Points-Based System, after all!) with more points awarded for: •
jobs on the Shortage Occupation List
jobs in occupation codes which are at PhD level
jobs which meet the provisions in the Immigration Rules for 'new graduate jobs or internships;
jobs which are one of a small number of defined key "public service occupations"
and finally on the basis of salary.
This means that for the vast majority of jobs the availability of a CoS in months where demand exceeds supply will be based purely on how much the sponsor is prepared to pay the sponsored worker. For instance, when the cap was reached in June 2015, where the type of job did not qualify for an award of additional points, the minimum salary required to meet the points threshold was £46,000. Reaching the cap is therefore likely to disproportionately affect sponsored workers in lower paid jobs such as some IT roles and teaching, particularly teachers at primary schools or at secondary schools where the role is not on the Shortage Occupation List. Nurses are unlikely to be affected as all nursing roles are on the Shortage Occupation List.
What Steps Can Sponsors Take?
It seems unlikely that sponsors looking to recruit a worker who requires a restricted CoS and will be filling a role that is either on the Shortage Occupation List or will be working at PhD level, will be affected by the cap. However, the additional points awarded for 'new graduate jobs or internships' and key 'public service occupations' only put those jobs on a par with those which do not meet those requirements and are paying £31,000.
Given that most roles now require a minimum salary of £30,000 anyway, this means that sponsors of those types of roles - many of which benefit from exemptions allowing them to pay less than £30,000 - might still be in a position where they want to increase the salaries anyway in order to reduce the chances of being caught by the monthly cap. Sponsors who regularly recruit graduates may want to consider whether they are able to comply with the rules for 'new graduate jobs or internships' so that CoS requested to fill those positions are granted more points.
Otherwise, sponsors should look at the points their restricted CoS application will be awarded and consider whether an increase in salary might be justified in order to score more points. Do note though that the salary specified on the restricted CoS request must be in line with the rates specified or indicated in adverts placed as part of the Resident Labour Market Test exercise. Additionally, sponsors should take extra care to ensure that the relevant Tier 2 requirements have been complied with prior to submitting the request for a restricted CoS.
The Home Office can ask for documents relating to the Resident Labour Market Test and other requirements and will reject restricted CoS requests if those requirements have not been satisfied. It would be very frustrating to have a request rejected for those reasons in a month when the points threshold would have been satisfied, only to then to have the request rejected again once the relevant requirements had been satisfied, this time because the points threshold had increased.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan rehearses for a track for ‘Veere Di Wedding’
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Bollywood diva Kareena Kapoor Khan will soon be seen in upcoming film ‘Veere Di Wedding’. Kareena is back to action after the birth of her son Taimur Ali Khan and her weight loss is worth applause. Kareena’s royal photo shoots during her pregnancy grabbed attentions.
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The actress enjoys a huge fan following and she will be seen entertaining the audience in her film ‘Veere Di Wedding’. Kareena was recently seen in the films like ‘Udta Punjab’ and ‘Ki And Ka’ and now, she will offer something delightful in her upcoming flick.
Kareena Kapoor Khan was freshly spotted rehearsing for a song for the movie ‘Veere Di Wedding’. She was learning some dance moves with her co-star Sonam Kapoor and Sumeet Vyas. The film will mark Bollywood debut of Sumeet Vyas and is said to essay the role of Kareena’s boyfriend in the film.
The first look poster of ‘Veere Di Wedding’ was recently unveiled and it showed the girl gang, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar and Shikha Talsania doing some naach-gaana. There are sherwanis, pagadis in the poster and this rom-com hints at the film to be a wedding tale. The chick flick promises to offer a great fun ride. It’s about four friends attending a wedding. Kareena and Sonam will be sharing the screen for the first time and have a great behind-the-scene camaraderie. The shooting of this flick will take place in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangkok. A large portion will be filmed in Delhi and post this, the cast and crew will head to Bangkok, reportedly.
Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, Rhea Kapoor and Nikhil Dwivedi, the film ‘Veere Di Wedding’ is directed by Shashanka Ghosh and it also features Vivek Mushran. The movie is slated to hit the screens on May 18, 2018.
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Suspected insurgents kill 18 firewood sellers in Borno
February 20, 2019 Sadiq Abubakar Security, Top Stories 0
Eighteen people believed to be firewood and charcoal scavengers were killed by suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect in Koshebe general area of Jere local government area of Borno state, Blueprint has gathered Tuesday.
The incident, sources said, took place Monday when the victims went to the village to scavenge for firewood and charcoal for the purpose of selling same to residents of Maiduguri, the state capital.
Jere is one of the unsafe communities around Maiduguri metropolis.
A security source who pleaded for anonymity said 10 bodies were evacuated from the scene of the attacks to Maiduguri, leaving 8 other corpses at the scene due to inaccessibility.
Another source said he saw security vehicles conveying the dead bodies along Kadamari- Maiduguri road at about 2pm Tuesday.
“There was an attack and ambush on firewood sellers (who had gone to the bush to fetch their products) by suspected members of Boko Haram terrorists in Koshebe general area of Jere local government area of Borno state.
“18 dead bodies were seen at the scene of the attacks, but as it is, only 10 dead bodies were recovered and evacuated so far by our security forces in conjunction with members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF).
“The remaining 8 dead bodies were yet to be evacuated due to inaccessibility of the area,” the source further said.
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Spring Swims on the Horizon for Urunga
August 1, 2019 Caravan Industry News
It’s full steam ahead with the construction of a new and improved Urunga Sea Lido now underway with the naming of Queensland-based EnviroStruct Services Pty Ltd as the successful contractor of the half a million-dollar project.
Reflections Holiday Parks CEO Steve Edmonds said the Urunga community could celebrate with some early Spring swimming with the 40-metre jetty, two floating pontoons and two beach access ramps expected to be completed by mid-August.
“The original Lido was removed in 1999 and we are pleased to have secured $535,000 in funding from the NSW Government’s Restart NSW Regional Growth – Environment and Tourism Fund to provide a better facility for the residents and visitors to the area,” Mr. Edmonds said.
Fencing and signage have been erected signalling the commencement of Stage One of the project which includes construction by EnviroStruct Services from this week.
Works include:
A 40-metre long, 1800-wide jetty boardwalk with access directly from the grassed area adjacent to a newly-constructed beach retaining wall.
An attached floating pontoon with an aluminium ramp access located adjacent to the boardwalk together with stainless steel ladder access.
A separate floating pontoon located approximately 25 metres from the jetty boardwalk
Viewing platform at the end of the jetty boardwalk
Two beach access ramps to the beach and swimming area.
Member for Oxley Melinda Pavey said the Lido was a project eagerly anticipated by locals and tourists alike and the benefits to the region were substantial.
“I’d like to thank all the community members involved over the years in the campaign to bring our beautiful waterside town to its full potential,” Ms. Pavey said.
“The NSW Government’s more than half a million-dollar contribution to this local project was a commitment I made to Urunga and I’m very excited to see it all come to fruition.
“Attractions like the Lido are often the pride of our regions and this investment will make sure our towns shine when they are visited by hundreds of people each year.”
Mr. Edmonds said dredging work of the popular swimming area had been undertaken and he was looking forward to officially opening the new and improved Urunga Lido Pool in August.
“It has been twenty years since the original infrastructure had to be removed and we are proud to be able to bring new life to this swimming area opposite our Urunga Holiday Park,” Mr. Edmonds said.
“Working with Bellingen Shire Council to transform this facility has been instrumental to the project. Council has provided invaluable support at all stages of this project and we are looking forward to continuing our strong working relationship to further benefit the Urunga community.”
Mr. Edmonds also reminded people that the area was now a construction site and to keep clear for safety reasons.
To book an inspiring stay at the Reflections Holiday Park at Urunga, visit www.reflectionsholidayparks.com.au.
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Mémorial de la bataille de France. Volume 3
du 5 au 16 juin 1940
Jean-Yves Mary
Dimensions : 11.7 X 8.3 inches
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On the 5th of June 1940, the Germans launched their second great offensive of the western campaign against a much-enfeebled French army. Despite intense fighting around the Somme and the Aisne the numerical superiority of the enemy began to tell forcing the French troupes to gradually retreat. On June 13th Weygand sent out the order to retreat and save itself at which point it would appear that the campaign was over. However, fierce fighting continued around the areas of the Loire, Verdun, the Sarre and the Rhine. Over twelve days a struggle raged between those who wanted to continue the fight lead by Reynaud and de Gaulle and those who favored and armistice led by Weygand and Petain. The fall of the Reynaud government on the 16th June sealed the end of the French campaign.
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The Hilarious Wedding Vows Amy Schumer Made To Her New Husband
Feb. 28. 2018 3:49 PM
Nobody expected Amy Schumer to have conventional wedding vows. The raunchy comedienne likes keeping people on their toes, and that was certainly the case for those in attendance for her surprise nuptials a couple weeks ago. As the Inside Amy Schumer figurehead admitted in a recent interview, it didn't take long for her professions of love to turn R-rated. Be prepared for some pretty coarse utterances of love from this point.
As Amy Schumer discussed with fellow comedian Nikki Glaser on her Sirius XM series, You Up with Nikki Glaser (via E!), the Trainwreck actress/writer opted not to go the traditional route when reading her vows to her new husband, chef Chris Fischer. Instead, Schumer kept it real all the way through. And apparently so did her new husband. Maybe a little too real, according to the comedian, as she claims there was even a little bit of "heckling" by her boo. But Schumer says she was ultimately moved by what her new husband had to say about his famous wife, and she was left stunned by his own words.
Mine sucked! I thought mine were good, I wrote mine in like, 20 minutes. I was crying when I wrote them, but his blew me out of the water so hard... In my vows I go, 'But I promise I'll keep going down on you, even though everyone tells me I won't.' And his were like, heckling me too. He was like, 'The other day I lost a tennis match and you called me a fucking loser.' It was all like, awful shit.
Some of that "awful shit" in question might've even crossed the line a little bit for the unreserved comedian. But Amy Schumer is happy to report them back to the public -- no matter how weird and bizarre they might make her seem. After all, she's a married lady now. All bets are finally off.
All his stories about me that were supposed to be endearing were about me screaming at him... I just annoy him all day. I'll be like, 'Do you want to play a game?' and he's like, 'What?' And I'm like, 'Guess how many times I sneezed today?' And like, that'll be the game. And he'll be like, 'Three.' And I'll be like, 'Don't remember!' And he's like, 'I'm spending my life with this worthless monster?'
Nikki Glaser was quick to point out, however, that Amy Schumer did have some nice, PG-friendly jokes in her speech as well. It wasn't all crass talk.
I remember a joke from yours... You go, 'You make me laugh , you make me smile, you make me feel loved, you make me food.'
So, at least there was a joke or two that everyone could appreciate in the crowd. Of course, the wedding wasn't actually about the attendees. It was for Amy Schumer and Chris Fisher, and the funny lady is feeling pretty great about her recent marriage. Schumer and Fischer married close to Valentine's Day after only recently making their relationship public a day or two before. The comedian and the chef were only dating for a few months when they decided to tie the knot, and Schumer believes that only adds to their love. While being single was a big part of her stand-up comedy, she is still in a fine state of bliss.
It feels fucking good! ... I'm a wife as hell. But it's still, like, a novelty. Somebody went to sit next to [Chris] and he's like, 'My wife is sitting here,' and then I got back and he was excited to tell me that he said that. I just have been really overusing it to a degree that's insane. Like, when it's completely uncalled for.
We're happy that Amy Schumer is still feeling so confident in her love, and we're glad that -- even with her status changed from single to taken -- she still knows how to be herself. Here's to the happy (and unconventional) couple! Mazel tov!
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Top 10 Best Jobs In America’s Richest Cities
Nina September 1, 2017
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Bloomberg Businessweek Journal Archive is the world’s only full digital model of the Businessweek backfile. ANJALI KAMAT: It’s been a 12 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated as the primary African American president of this nation. Social-political resistance actions, mobilized through the...<br /><a class="read-more-button" href="https://www.circoloculturale.org/top-10-best-jobs-in-americas-richest-cities.html">Read more</a>
Bloomberg Businessweek Journal Archive is the world’s only full digital model of the Businessweek backfile. ANJALI KAMAT: It’s been a 12 months since Barack Obama was inaugurated as the primary African American president of this nation. Social-political resistance actions, mobilized through the internet, can all of the sudden present up in local public areas to display for their joint calls for. With the advent of the Internet, digital know-how changed basically from computing to communications.
The examine found that, “These white Democratic defectors categorical a profound distaste for blacks, a sentiment that pervades virtually every thing they think about authorities and politics. In the realm of the ‘war of ideas’ or up to date prevailing ideas throughout the US the American individuals have all the time come very late to the issues that plague the nation.
The colonization of the Third World by European and north American powers is often handled as a “natural” phenomenon, involving “improvement” and “dependency” and “specialization” of markets. The same 12 months, in 2005, Jack Ma was named by Fortune, as one of the 25 Most Highly effective Business Individuals in Asia”. Now the American medical neighborhood which has lengthy-voiced its issues about the nation’s epidemic of violence, TV addiction and the passive, sedentary nature of TV-watching, is taking on a more activist stance, demonstrated by its endorsement of National TV-Turnoff Week.
The twenty first century urban disaster has five predominant features: the devastating influence of what for many blacks is a nonetheless-deepening recession; the unfolding effects of the fiscal crisis meshed with the decline of the blue social model; competitors for jobs, assets and power between African Americans and mostly spanish-speaking immigrants; the elevated fragmentation and disintegration of black political management; and the contrast between the high hopes of 2008 and the grim realities that have come clear since.
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Asheville Babies R Us store on closure list
The store is located within a shopping center at 801 Fairview Road. in Asheville. It is one of three stores in North Carolina scheduled to close along with two others in Durham.
Asheville Babies R Us store on closure list The store is located within a shopping center at 801 Fairview Road. in Asheville. It is one of three stores in North Carolina scheduled to close along with two others in Durham. Check out this story on citizen-times.com: http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/01/24/asheville-babies-r-us-store-fairview-road-among-182-company-closures/1061114001/
Dillon Davis, dwdavis@citizen-times.com Published 10:03 a.m. ET Jan. 24, 2018
The Treasure Coast's only Babies R Us is included on a list of 182 Toys R Us stores expected to close.(Photo: KELLY TYKO/TCPALM)
ASHEVILLE — An Asheville-based Babies R Us store is among 182 closures announced Wednesday as part of its parent company Toys R Us' Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan.
The store is located within a shopping center at 801 Fairview Road. in Asheville. It is one of three stores in North Carolina scheduled to close along with two others in Durham. The company's other Asheville store — a Toys R Us — at 877 Brevard Road is not listed among the potential closures.
Toys R Us filed court documents Tuesday outlining its plan to close stores as part of its bankruptcy reorganization. The company notes that some closings may be avoided if the chain is able to negotiate more favorable lease terms.
However, most of the stores are likely to close as part of a "reinvention" of its brand, the company said this week.
If all 182 stores, it shrinks the company's total footprint by about 20 percent.
The full list of closures is available here.
USA Today contributed to this report.
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Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial: 'Jimmy Dimora is not Frank Russo,' lawyer says
Updated Jan 12, 2019; Posted Feb 29, 2012
Ted Crow, The Plain DealerA sketch of former Cuyahoga County commissioner Jimmy Dimora and one of his attorneys, William Whitaker, in the federal courthouse in Akron, Ohio.
AKRON, Ohio – The defense team for Jimmy Dimora continued to try to distance the former Cuyahoga County commissioner from his longtime political associate, former county Auditor Frank Russo.
"Carousing does not equal corruption," said attorney Andrea Whitaker, part of the father-daughter team representing Dimora in the federal racketeering trial. "Jimmy Dimora is not Frank Russo."
Earlier, her father, William Whitaker, had attacked the credibility of government witnesses, including
Frank Russo
Steven Pumper
and former county employee
J. Kevin Kelley,
saying they only testified against Dimora because they want reduced prison sentences in exchange for their cooperation.
All three testified in the trial and have pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges.
Andrea Whitaker also took a shot at the witnesses, saying
Pumper, Russo, Kelley and
contractor Ferris Kleem
are not people the jury would "buy a used car or a cup of coffee from."
Earlier, prosecutors asserted
that Dimora broke the public trust
touched on various schemes
in which prosecutors say Dimora was involved.
charges against Dimora
are found in a 36-count, 148-page
federal indictment
, alleging that he used his county commissioner's office as the base to run a criminal enterprise. Dimora is on trial along with a
co-defendant, Michael Gabor, 52,
of Parma, a former office assistant in the auditor's office. Gabor is accused of bribery and conspiracy, including a charge that he tried to pay a judge $10,000 to fix his divorce case.
Both have denied the allegations.
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It’s All Connected – Systems Thinking, Climate, Mike Brown and Ferguson
November 25, 2014 By Elizabeth Sawin
The struggle to protect a livable climate is a struggle to see, understand and act on our fundamental interconnections. This is familiar to the climate activist who knows her trips by car connect to the Earth’s atmosphere, which connect to patterns of rainfall decades from now on the other side of the planet. Seeing those interconnections, taking them seriously, and acting as though they are real, meaningful and significant is at the heart of our work, whether it is writing better policy, making different investments, or challenging deeply held mindsets.
But the struggle to see interconnections and live and act as though they are real and significant is, of course, not limited the climate struggle.
For those of us in the United States this week, the verdict of the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri is making another set of interconnections real for us in our newspapers or, for some of us, in the streets of our cities.
An open letter from the protesters in Ferguson speaks to this interconnection, in systems language that may sound similar to how we here at Climate Interactive talk about climate change:
“We are, altogether, bound up in a system that continues to treat some men better than others. A system that preserves some and disregards others. A system that protects the rights of some and does not guard the rights of all.”
The decision to live and act as though interconnections matter can’t be done halfway, if we are sincere about it. If we believe we are connected to the atmosphere and future generations then we are also connected to the young black men of Ferguson. True recognition of interconnection leaves no room to prioritize some connections as of more value than others. The Earth matters, future generations matter, and Mike Brown matters. Any viable solutions to climate change will start with this recognition.
At Climate Interactive we are challenging ourselves to think differently about climate solutions. We are pushing ourselves to imagine solutions that arise out of this fundamental sense of interconnection, where success is measured not only in tons of emissions reduced but also in levels of equity reached. We are looking for solutions that will not only allow the mothers of 2050 and 2100 to rest easier but will also ease the burdens of all mothers in all of our communities today.
Protecting the climate will always require some attention to counting and reducing tons of carbon, but it also is now asking us also to see our fate linked to the fates of others, and to stand in solidarity with them as best we can. That solidarity will take different forms for each of us, but to take ourselves seriously when we propose drastic measures to protect a river or mountaintop or our great-grandchildren, we need also to be wiling to call for and contribute to drastic measures to protect everyone in our society today.
Visionary leaders are working on the struggle for racial justice in America. To learn from and support the great work of a few of them check out these links:
Or for a compilation of groups working in Ferguson and beyond click here.
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CCH Health Connect 2019 July Thanks for working here Thursday: Candy Nelson, CNA, Short Term Rehabilitation at The Legacy
Thanks for working here Thursday: Candy Nelson, CNA, Short Term Rehabilitation at The Legacy
Jul 24, 2019 By Felicia Messimer
Allow us to introduce Candy Nelson, a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) who works in Short Term Rehabilitation at The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center in Gillette, Wyoming. Candy has been with Campbell County Health for nearly five years, but has been in healthcare for nearly 20 years total—spending nearly 13 years in home health care in Elko, Nevada, and in Gillette.
As a CNA in Short Term Rehab, Candy's overall duties include assisting patients with getting ready for their day-to-day activities. For example, Candy will help patients get out of bed, go to the bathroom, get dressed, and walk around the facility to get to rehab or other tasks they may need to do. She'll also check their vital signs, test their blood sugar levels, help keep their room tidy and make their beds. She often works with the Short Term Rehab Occupational and Physical Therapists in assisting the patients with their exercises to help them get better and go home faster.
Candy was inspired to work in health care because she enjoys helping people. “Rehab is amazing. Watching patients’ transition back home and being a part of that journey is incredible,” she says.
Candy says the entire short term rehabilitation team at The Legacy inspires her. “The way we all work together to provide great care of our patients and residents makes me proud to be a part of it. I have worked very close with our Occupational and Physical Therapists. They have definitely made me a better and stronger CNA,” she says.
Outside of work, Candy says that she’s all about her family. “My days off are spent with my husband, our grown daughters and our grandkids. We love to be outside to camp, fish and hunt. We have decided to move to Pine Haven and live forever in our happy place,” Candy says.
We asked Candy what she likes most about working for CCH, and what excellence every day means to her. Check out her response:
“I take a lot of pride in watching the rehab residents improve and succeed. I love the team work at The Legacy and throughout the organization. I love that most of our residents are here for the short-term and go home. I love the relationships I see formed here daily, whether between staff, residents or resident with staff.
For me, excellence every day means that I’m happy to be here. I feel like we really make a difference. I take pride in everything I do.”
Candy says that the best part of being a CNA is that she gets to spend more time than nurses or doctors chatting and getting to know the patient. "Sure, it's hard work; but it's worth it to be able to help someone recover and go home. Plus, I love to talk, so it's really a natural fit for me," she says with a smile.
Thank you, Candy, for clearly loving what you do. We appreciate you!
Learn more about the services available at Campbell County Health Short Term Rehabilitation at www.cchwyo.org/str.
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Reproductive Health: Teen Pregnancy
About Teen Pregnancy
In 2017, a total of 194,377 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 18.8 per 1,000 women in this age group. This is another record low for U.S. teens and a drop of 7% from 2016.1 Birth rates fell 10% for women aged 15–17 years and 6% for women aged 18–19 years.2
Although reasons for the declines are not totally clear, evidence suggests these declines are due to more teens abstaining from sexual activity, and more teens who are sexually active using birth control than in previous years.3, 4
Still, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations5, and racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in teen birth rates persist.6
Disparities in Teen Birth Rates
Teen birth rates declined from 2016 to 2017 for most racial groups and for Hispanics.2 Among 15- to 19-year-olds, teen birth rates decreased:
15% for non-Hispanic Asians
9% for Hispanics
8% for non-Hispanic whites
6% for non-Hispanic blacks
6% for American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN)1
In 2017, the birth rates of Hispanic teens (28.9) and non-Hispanic black teens (27.5) were more than two times higher than the rate for non-Hispanic white teens (13.2). The birth rate of American Indian/Alaska Native teens (32.9) was highest among all race/ethnicities.1 Geographic differences in teen birth rates persist, both within and across states. Among some states with low overall teen birth rates, some counties have high teen birth rates.6
Birth rates for females aged 15-19, by race and Hispanic origin of mother: United States, 2016 and 2017
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Less favorable socioeconomic conditions, such as low education and low income levels of a teen’s family, may contribute to high teen birth rates.7 Teens in child welfare systems are at higher risk of teen pregnancy and birth than other groups. For example, young women living in foster care are more than twice as likely to become pregnant than those not in foster care.8
To improve the life opportunities of adolescents facing significant health disparities and to have the greatest impact on overall U.S. teen birth rates, CDC uses data to inform and direct interventions and resources to areas with the greatest need.
The Importance of Prevention
Teen pregnancy and childbearing bring substantial social and economic costs through immediate and long-term impacts on teen parents and their children.
Pregnancy and birth are significant contributors to high school dropout rates among girls. Only about 50% of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by 22 years of age, whereas approximately 90% of women who do not give birth during adolescence graduate from high school.10
The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and to drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.11
On a positive note, between 1991 and 2015, the teen birth rate dropped 64%, which resulted in $4.4 billion in public savings in 2015 alone.12
Evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs have been identified by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) TPP Evidence ReviewExternal, which used a systematic process for reviewing evaluation studies against a rigorous standard. Currently, the Evidence Review covers a variety of diverse programs, including sexuality education programs, youth development programs, abstinence education programs, clinic-based programs, and programs specifically designed for diverse populations and settings. In addition to evidence-based prevention programs, teens need access to youth-friendly contraceptive and reproductive health services and support from parents and other trusted adults, who can play an important role in helping teens make healthy choices about relationships, sex, and birth control. Efforts at the community level that address social and economic factors associated with teen pregnancy also play a critical role in addressing racial/ethnic and geographical disparities observed in teen births in the US.
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Penman-Aguilar A, Carter M, Snead MC, Kourtis AP. Socioeconomic disadvantage as a social determinant of teen childbearing in the U.S. Public Health Rep. 2013;128(suppl 1):5-22.
Boonstra HD. Teen pregnancy among women in foster care: a primer. Guttmacher Policy Review. 2011; 14(2).
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Counting It Up: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing 2013External. Accessed March 31, 2016.
Perper K, Peterson K, Manlove J. Diploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers. Child Trends, Fact Sheet Publication #2010-01: Washington, DC: Child Trends; 2010.
Hoffman SD. Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press; 2008.
Power to Decide, Progress Pays OffCdc-pdfExternal. Accessed January 10, 2019.
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Thematic country reviews on apprenticeship provision – steering, expanding, learning
On 25 and 26 May, members of the country reviews steering groups from Malta, Lithuania, Greece, Italy and Slovenia met in Thessaloniki for a policy-learning exercise. They discussed apprenticeship schemes in their countries, bringing in different experiences and perspectives, and learned more on how the reviews work.
Malta - revamping apprenticeship
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The Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST) has taken over responsibility for apprenticeship and is aiming to bring it to the centre of local industry. The reform is rooted in cooperation between MCAST and local industry which provides apprentices with high-quality skills indispensable for local industry and economic growth.
Malta - NCFHE launches consultation on VET and HE policy
In July 2014, the national commission for further and higher education (NCFHE) launched a consultation on vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE) policy in Malta.
Malta - focus on apprenticeships
The Maltese Ministry of Education and Employment has volunteered to participate as a case study in a Cedefop country review on apprenticeships. The review focuses on policies to improve apprenticeship schemes in Malta, identifies strengths and challenges of these policies, and presents recommendations to ensure quality apprenticeships. The other country participating in the initial phase of this review is Lithuania.
Malta - reform of national apprenticeship schemes
Current national apprenticeship schemes in Malta, namely the technician apprenticeship scheme (TAS) and the extended skill training scheme (ESTS) are to be reformed.
More country apprenticeship reviews to be conducted by Cedefop in 2015
‘With our limited resources we will try to come closer to the Member States and work with them to push vocational education and training (VET) reform further,’ Cedefop Director James Calleja told the first validation workshop of the agency’s review of Lithuania’s and Malta’s apprenticeship systems.
Quality assurance challenges synergies between European tools
Cedefop Director James Calleja praised Malta’s efforts to draft a national quality assurance framework for further and higher education based on the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European higher education area (ESG) and a European quality assurance in VET (EQAVET) perspective.
Malta targets quality apprenticeships through Cedefop review
Minister of Education and Employment Evarist Bartolo and Cedefop Director James Calleja launched the thematic country review on apprenticeships for Malta at the Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry in Valetta on 30 May.
New Director for Cedefop
James Calleja was selected by the European Commission as new Director of Cedefop. Mr Calleja has been involved in vocational training since 2001 and is currently Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Employment in his native Malta. He has also served as Chief Executive of the Malta Qualifications Council (2005-10) and the National Commission for Higher Education (2009-10).
Malta: vocational education: learning that works
Why are countries like Germany and Switzerland more successful economically than France and the UK? The reason could lie in the different approach that these countries give to vocational education. The French educational system ‘looks down on vocational training perpetuating the notion that intellectual jobs are more worthy than manual work,’ says Jerome Frantz, chairman of the Federation des Industries Mechaniques.
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Towing companies can now increase towing fees
by: Treasure Roberts, Brittni Clemons
PEORIA, Ill.– After almost a decade, area tow companies are able to increase fees.
City Council Tuesday voted to allow local companies to increase their fees. Various companies made complaints about fees staying stagnant from 2011.
The standard fee is $155. Now companies are authorized to raise the tow fee $5 a year, but it can exceed a total of $175.
The towing code is now reflective of and in compliance with current state law.
[We’re] making sure that the tow companies are required to respond to all tows that they’re dispatched out on, so no picking and choosing of the calls that they want to go on.
Chrissie Peterson, Interim Corporation Council
The updated code also requires tow truck companies to respond within 30 minutes, making sure that they respond to at least 85 percent of the calls that they are dispatched on.
Tow company storage fees and location fees are also subject to increase. Lot storage fees will increase from $25 to $35 and location fees from $30 to $40.
Also, council leaders discussed providing more money for future projects. Community Developers say they need more funding to revitalize the roofs of 24 houses on Peoria’s South Side.
The Peoria Community Committee of Economic Opportunity (PCCEO) and Busey Bank are taking on this project.
They received $360,000 from the affordable housing committee, but are requesting another $120,000 from the South Village TIF Fund.
Peoria Community Development Director, Ross Black, said he applauds the Community Action Agency and Busey Bank for securing the first grant.
“The community action agency will actually manage the grants so city staff our role in this would be to coordinate and administer the $120,000,” Black said.
Black said fixing the roofs allows low-income households to stay in their properties as opposed to potentially becoming homeless.
In addition, council members are considering a plan that will require fewer people to make animal control decisions in 2020.
The Animal Review Board is responsible for reviewing cases of unruly animals.
This includes animals that are dangerous, make excessive noise or a reckless.
City leaders are looking to consolidate that power. A county hearing officer would take on that workload. Council members said this transition has been long-awaited.
“It’s a very good idea,” Peoria City Councilwoman Beth Jensen said. “I actually wrote this ordinance developing the animal review board. It was set up to take those cases out of the circuit court and bring them here because they caused a lot of headaches for the judges and were very time-consuming.”
Jensen said she is surprised that they didn’t transition power to the hearing officer sooner.
Tuesday, the council voted to approve the South Village funding and animal control as a first reading. They will make a final decision at the next meeting.
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Home » » » Northern Ireland Golf Ultimate Links Vacation
Northern Ireland Golf Ultimate Links Vacation
Ardglass Golf Club
Slieve Donard Hotel in Newcastle
Castlerock Golf Club
The Bushmills Inn
Europa Hotel Belfast
Malone Golf Club Belfast
Portstewart Golf Club
Royal Portrush Golf Club
3 nights at Bushmills Inn
2 nights Europa Hotel
2 nights at Slieve Donard Hotel
6 rounds of golf
Luxury coach and driver throughout
Representative on call throughout
Full Irish Breakfast daily
Northern Ireland Golf Vacation, play 6 rounds of golf on 6 courses. Luxury coach and driver included.
Northern Ireland for a golf holiday has always had world class golf courses including Royal County Down regularly rated in the top 3 courses in the world and Royal Portrush due to host The Open Championship in 2019. Since 2010 their golfers have matched this quality winning 6 Majors and the whole country is on a golfing high making a Northern Ireland golf vacation a fun filled affair. Belfast is a vibrant, fun city with plenty to see and do including the Titanic Museum and Newcastle and Portrush are great villages close to the links courses.
Northern Ireland Ultimate Links Vacation
7 nights + 6 rounds
Royal County Down Golf Club
Malone Golf Club
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Europa Hotel
The world famous Europa Hotel in Belfast is located in the heart of Belfast City Centre. The hotel is an excellent location for golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
Due to its prime location, the Europa Hotel is a short distance from many of Belfast’s top visitor attractions including the Ulster Museum, Grand Opera House, City Hall, Titanic Belfast, Waterfront Hall and SSE Arena.
Experience the outstanding Royal County Down golf course, regularly rated in the top 3 courses in the world. The course is located in one of the world’s most naturally beautiful links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve. The course has always remained a supreme challenge which attracts the best players in the world; Tiger Woods, Tom Watson and many others have played it either as part of their preparation for the Open Championship or just for sheer enjoyment, and Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland’s current world star, is a frequent visitor.
The Europa Hotel has an international reputation for hosting prestigious events and looking after many of the celebrities and VIPs who visit Belfast. At the Europa Hotel every guest is a VIP and will experience the finest in Irish hospitality and the highest level of customer service.
Hotel Experience Award (Northern Ireland)
Set against the backdrop of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, The Bushmills Inn is the perfect retreat for those who expect exceptional golf holidays in Northern Ireland. The welcome is warm and the fire always lit.
Originally a Coaching Inn in the 1600s, this 4 star boutique Hotel and Restaurant is steeped in Irish history with a myriad of places to hide from the world. Step back to a time steeped in charm. From inglenook turf fires to hayloft snugs, there’s something to find behind every door.
Discover the Royal Portrush. The ‘jewel in the crown’ is regularly ranked in the world’s top 20 courses and host to international events such as the British Seniors Open, British Open and the Irish Open. With the return of the Irish Open to Portstewart this year and the British Open to Royal Portrush in 2019, Northern Ireland is the perfect base for the golf enthusiast.
The 4 star Bushmills Inn blends stunning architecture, beautiful grounds, unique rooms and modern facilities and has been lovingly restored to pay homage to its rich Irish history.
Slieve Donard Hotel
Nestling at the foot of the Mountains of Mourne, the Slieve Donard Resort and Spa, winner of the 'Irish Hotel of the Year' at the Irish Hotel Awards 2017, is an outstanding choice for golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
A golden strand of beach borders one side while the mighty Royal County Down Golf Links frames the other. This lovingly maintained Victorian hotel is now home to one of Europe’s finest resort Spas and is well suited to golf breaks in Northern Ireland.
Play at the Royal County Down Golf Club, located in one of the world’s most naturally beautiful links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve. Against the magnificent backdrop of the Mountains of Mourne, the links stretches along the shores of Dundrum Bay, zigzagging back and forth to provide a different vista from virtually every hole.
Just 30 miles south of Belfast and 90 miles north of Dublin, the Slieve Donard Resort and Spa is definitely the perfect location to fully enjoy golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
Portstewart Golf Club – Strand
Royal County Down is located in one of the world’s most naturally beautiful links settings in the Murlough Nature Reserve, amazing location for golf holidays in Ireland. Against the magnificent backdrop of the Mountains of Mourne, the links stretches along the shores of Dundrum Bay, zigzagging back and forth to provide a different vista from virtually every hole.
The narrowest ribbons of fairways thread their way through as impressive a set of sand dunes as could be imagined. The fairways are surrounded by purple heather and golden gorse, so beautiful to look at but so punishing for any who may stray from the prescribed path.
The ninth hole is one of the most photographed holes in world golf. A 486 yard par 4, it is played from one side of a huge mound down to a fairway some 60 ft below and 260 yards from the tee. From the bottom of the slope the second shot is played over two bunkers to a raised green.
Situated on Northern Ireland’s magnificent Causeway Coast, Portstewart Golf Club presents a difficult but fair game. The Strand Course is indisputably the jewel in Portstewart’s crown for golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
The course is set in classic links country amid towering sand dunes with views at every turn of the Donegal hills, the Atlantic and the River Bann. The opening hole with its elevated tee, dogleg right to the green and sandy strip on the right, was always a particularly memorable opening hole.
For something a little less challenging, the Riverside Course stretches from the clubhouse down to the River Bann. And if you like a little heritage in your game, the original Old Course situated at the eastern end of Portstewart along the rocky shore, has tested players since 1889. Without doubt championship pedigree, Portstewart has hosted the Irish Amateur Championship in 1992 and held a qualifying round of The Open in 1951.
Royal Portrush Golf Club is home to one of the best and most challenging links golf courses in the world, the Dunluce Links, and the hidden gem, the Valley Links. The only club in Ireland to have hosted The Open Championship, Royal Portrush is a members club which welcomes visitors all year round to face the challenges of its courses and to enjoy golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
The Dunluce Links at Royal Portrush Golf Club ranks amongst the world’s greatest courses. Voted Number 12 in the world by Golf Magazine, it is a masterpiece of golf course architecture. Unimaginable rough and testing greens, combined with the unpredictable weather of the roaring North Atlantic make this course an admirable test for even the most seasoned golf aficionado.
The Valley lies between the East Strand and the Dunluce golf course in Portrush. As its name suggests, the course is situated between the huge sand hills immediately along the Atlantic shore and the higher ground on which the Championship course is laid out. That is not to say the holes of the course are routed over anything like plain, level lying land, far from it, as the Valley has more than its fair share of the humps, hollows and undulations to be found on any links worthy of the name.
Golf Experience Award (Northern Ireland)
Ardglass, located in Northern Ireland, is a dramatic links golf course set on a rugged coastline, with cliff tops and an ancient town as a backdrop. With water playing a prominent part in this courses, there are no fewer than 8 holes where the Irish Sea coastline comes into play.
Just 30 south of Belfast and 25 miles from Royal County Down, Ardglass is perfectly situated to start your golf holiday in Northern Ireland.
“The course is just incredible. Parts of it remind me of Pebble Beach in California: the par-5 11th skirts a bay where any sliced shot is wet; then you climb a hill to an elevated tee at the par-3 12th, where the green juts out into the water.. – Chris Jones, Deputy Editor “Today’s Golfer”.
Castlerock Golf Club is situated in the seaside village of Castlerock, which lies approximately 5 miles due West of the town of Coleraine on the North Coast of Northern Ireland.
Castlerock is a fabulous links course set among rolling sand dunes. Its scenic qualities embrace the river Bann flowing out to the Atlantic, and also eye-catching views of Donegal and on a clear day towards Scotland and the Isle of Islay. An ideal retreat for golf holidays in Northern Ireland.
The Championship Mussenden Course is a par 73 with five par-5’s, four par-3’s, and nine par-4’s. The best-known hole is the fourth, called the Leg o’Mutton, a 200 yard par-3 with a railway line to the right, a burn to the left and a raised green. Additionally the 9 hole Bann course has widened the appeal of the Club and contains a par-5 which has been described as one of the most scenic holes in Irish golf.
Malone Golf Club has been a part of the sporting and social life of Belfast for more than one hundred years.
From its first location at Stranmillis to the current site at Ballydrain the club has welcomed golfers of all levels and those that simply want to enjoy the surroundings and bar banter or, as it is called in Ulster ‘craic’. Since those early days Malone has become famous across Ireland and well around the golfing world with many excellent amateur golfers and successful teams that have won multiple All Ireland pennants in various competitions.
The members are always delighted for others to enjoy their course and the club facilities. Malone Golf Club have twenty seven holes made up of Ballydrain, Drumbridge and Edenderry nines. The first two usually make up the main course but the Edenderry is a great venue for younger and newer golfers to enjoy the game. In addition to the splendid holes of golf, they have a bowling green set in a walled garden and a well stocked lake where members of the fishing section may be seen enjoying tranquility that often eludes the golfer.
The Golfhouse offers a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere in which to relax after a game of golf. The Ballydrain Bar, opened in June 2003, affords breathtaking views over the eighteenth green, Ballydrain Lake and the surrounding countryside. The in house bar and catering staff provide friendly and courteous service with excellent food and drink at very affordable prices. Bar snacks and high teas are available in the Ballydrain Bar.
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History of the Château
A Wedding Present
A gift of love, of passion, with some eccentricity thrown in for good measure is why the Château La Thuilière is here today.
In 1889 the prosperous Mr Michel Petit bought, from the Marquis de Foucault, some land belonging to the nearby Chateau de Bridoire, land comprising woods and fields bordering the river Isle, meandering through the district of St Front de Pradoux.
He chose the most appealing spot on this newly purchased land to build a charming chateau, which he intended as a fabulous summer residence for his fiancée, Madame Claire Angeline Beguerie.
Saintly Associations
The legend of St Front was the inspiration for the Tudor style of architecture used in the Château's construction.
St Front was the apostle sent by Peter to preach the Gospel in France. He lived in Perigueux, capital of the Dordogne, where the cathedral is named after him, and spent some time in the village of St Front de Pradoux, where a rectory was built in the 18th century to honour him..
According to legend, St Front killed a dragon that was menacing the village, thus becoming a symbol of the triumph of courage over adversity.
Château Today
Château La Thuilière is a 19th-century Tudor style manor house located in the Aquitaine countryside. It offers spacious rooms, a garden and restaurant available upon prior reservation. Free private parking is available.
The rooms at Château La Thuilière are equipped with a king-size bed. Each room has a private bathroom with Hermes toiletries. Some feature an original 19th-century fireplace and overlook the chateau’s park.
Open for dinner with prior reservation, La Thuilière’s restaurant serves regional cuisine with a modern twist. Local organic ingredients are used when possible. Breakfast is served in the old chateau’s kitchen, at an antique monastery table.
Guests are invited to explore Thuilière’s garden and surrounding woods or relax with a book in the lounge. There is also a drawing room with a fireplace and honesty bar.
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Why Cherrydale
Midwest Band Raises Thousands
As we consider this year’s results of our big PTO fundraiser with a new fundraising partner, I am very pleased to hear that we nearly doubled our sales from last year. Wow!! The profits raised will allow us to do great things for our students and our teachers. We are excited and we are glad to have partnered with yourself and Cherrydale fundraising this year!
I know our supporters will enjoy the Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. We knew that offering such a well-known top-quality product would be very well received by our community. Our school community offers great support, especially when they can also get value for their money. Furthermore, the Cherrydale online platform was very effective and easy to navigate for everyone. This year’s fundraiser proved to be a huge hit with our parents!
The program was effectively designed to have the teachers, staff, and students working together to achieve a goal. Our goal was to increase total sales to $30,000, and we were able to achieve over $40,000 in total sales this fall!!
Thank you again for the great results. We look forward to an awesome celebration party with our students, to the limo lunch for our qualifying students, and, of course, to the “Human Sundae” fun event for everyone. I’ll be ready and I’m glad to do it for the students at SMS!!
M. Lane Byrd
Principal, Spotsylvania Middle School
More than Doubled Sales and Profits!
I am very pleased to share that we more than doubled our fundraiser sales and profits over what we did last year. These proceeds are instrumental in supporting many of our key school initiatives.
Bringing the brand name products as well as the Otis Spunkmeyer along with the overall dynamic fundraiser program, online platform, tools and resources was a HUGE hit to the parents. You really know how to motivate the students and structure the fundraiser in a manner to maximize results.
Thank you again for the great results. We are looking forward to the next fundraiser!
Nate Bopp
Principal, Floyd T. Binns Middle School
Fulton High School and Middle School Bands
We couldn't operate without Cherrydale fundraisers," says Kelly Neudecker, the director of Fulton High School and Middle School bands, located in the Midwest. The musical groups recently raised thousands of dollars through Cherrydale's popular Krista's Gourmet Favorites catalog, with the help of longtime sales rep Keith Dreier.
"Keith is very easy to work with, and he goes out of his way to make sure we have what we need," Neudecker says. "We've been loyal to Mr. Dreier for at least 20 years. Cherrydale has provided our program with a superior sales representative and makes the program easy to run and distribute."
The money the bands raise goes toward purchasing music, entry fees for competitions, food and, most notably, an annual trip. "Last year we went to Chicago," she says. "The trip was great, and the fundraiser helped the kids a lot." Neudecker and the band are pictured here in Chicago.
Thanks to Cherrydale Farms' profitable fundraising programs, 45 children enjoyed a trip to Disneyland recently — many of whom came from underprivileged families and had never been there. Mark Wadleigh, the band director at Washington Middle School, spearheaded the successful fundraiser for the musical group.
"Our goals were to fund a Disneyland trip and to repair and replace instruments," Wadleigh recalls. "Our experience working with Cherrydale Farms was very positive." He adds that his sales rep, Scott Bonhivert, is a pleasure to work with as well.
Thanks to the money raised, some of the students were able to pay for their entire Disneyland trip themselves. For all, the cost of tickets decreased, and the group raised enough to cover the bus rides completely.
Missouri Choir Profits from Selling Cherrydale
For Tambra Lee, a choir teacher in Springfield Public Schools, Cherrydale Farms' fundraisers are unbeatable. She says that working with Cherrydale is a "great experience."
Lee especially enjoys working with Ron Brammer, her sales rep. "He goes above and beyond what he needs to do," she says.
Lee's choir group raised 1,500 from this fundraiser and used the money for much-needed bus rides, sound equipment, and other music-related supplies. She reflects: "I could not run the program without the money earned from this fundraiser."
The Most Positive Fundraiser We Ever Had!
My name is Teri Hudson. This is the tenth year I have been the bookkeeper at Cheatham Middle School. We just finished a fundraiser with Cherrydale. It was a big hit! This has been the most positive fundraiser we have had. Cherrydale has never been sold in our community and the people went crazy over it. I look forward to doing business with this company in the near future.
Teri Hudson
Bookkeeper, Cheatham Middle School
Bowie Elementary raises over $30,000 in one year!
It has been a pleasure working with Cherrydale for the past several years. The service and commitment they have provided our school has been outstanding. We have made in one year, alone, over $30,000. This has helped us with the funds for our Student Incentive Program. Our school is a National Title 1 and Distinguished High Performance School.
Ácido un placer trabajar con Cherrydale y la representante Dora Rivera por muchos anos. El compromiso y servicio que han proveído ha nuestra escuela acido excelente. La ganancia mas alta que hemos recaudado en un ano acido mas que $30,000. Esto nos ha ayudado mucho con los fundos del programa de incentivos para nuestros estudiantes. Atravesé de varios reconocimientos, Nuestra escuela acido reconocida en lo siguiente: “National Title 1 and Distinguished High Performance School”.
Ms. Maria Del Rosario Coplea
Bowie Elementary Principal
Wow! I Can't Believe How Easy It Is To Make So Much Money!
“Wow! I can’t believe how easy it is to make so much money with Cherrydale. We’ve used Cherrydale for the past 2 years and it has definitely helped our student fund account!”
No puedo creer lo fácil que es hacer tanto dinero con las compañas Cherrydale. Hemos usado a Cherrydale por los últimos 2 anos y definitivamente nos ha ayudado con la cuenta de fundos de nuestros estudiantes.
Joe Montelongo
Assistant Principal, Reed-Mock Elementary
Miller Heights Elementary has been a Cherrydale Fundraising customer for 20 years...
Located in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, Miller Heights Elementary is a community made up of wonderful staff, students and families. Miller Heights has worked with Cherrydale Fundraising since the early 90's. The profit from each fall fundraiser makes up half of the annual school budget. This money has been able to provide assemblies, field trips, classroom parties, author visits, educational items for each classroom and even a new playground for the students and community to enjoy.
We continue to work with Cherrydale because of the quality items in the brochures, not to mention the chocolate which is locally made! Our company representative, Karen Strong, works hand in hand starting with the planning of each sale to the actual delivery of the merchandise. That's an important part of the whole fundraising process.
Marie Chismar
President, Miller Heights PTO
One of the Easiest Ways to Raise Quick Cash for Our Projects!
Knightsen Elementary School has worked with Cherrydale for the past 7 years. All of our fundraisers have been very successful! We consider Cherrydale to be one of the easiest ways to raise quick cash for our projects. Our sales are successful in part due to the our fabulous Cherrydale Reps who always work with us to provide the school and the KPTC with whatever we need to make the fundraiser work for us. Andy and Carla make the process super easy and our community is always glad to purchase the products. The students also look forward to the incentive parties and limo ride for the top sellers.
Theresa Estrada
Superintendent/Principal, Knightsen Elementary School District
Loyalty Because of Product Variety & the People Who Make It Happen!
My experience with Cherrydale has a long history of about 18 years. Why would I continue with a fundraising company if it wasn’t for the product? More importantly, I believe it is two elements that compels me to continue every year... the product varieties and the people who make it happen for my program. I have experienced a consistency of presentation, reliability, and trust by the sales people that brings this opportunity to our school. I know of no other fundraising company that does this better!
Jerry Lees
Director, Rim of the World High School Bands
A Partnership in Profits Over and Over Again!
Cherrydale Farms has been an integral part of Mims Elementary fundraising efforts. We have continuously received immediate and personalized attention over and over again. We work with them because their program is very successful and our students benefit from the profit that we make. We stay with them because they are with us every step of the way. They provide quality items accompanied by excellent customer service.
Cherrydale Farms ha sido una parte integral en los esfuerzos para recaudar fondos para Mims Elementary. Hemos recibido atención inmediata y personalizada una y otra vez. Trabajamos con ellos porque su programa ha resultado exitoso y nuestros estudiantes se benefician de las ganancias que se recaudan. Los elegimos porque nos guían a través de todo el proceso. Nos proveen artículos de calidad acompañado de un excelente servicio al cliente.
Yvonne R. Zamora
Principal, Mims Elementary
Rohoic Elementary raises in excess of $76,000...
Rohoic Elementary PTO President, Tracy Martin, and her son Matthew are pictured here along with the Cherrydale Regional Program Director Trevor White.
With a 6 year fundraising partnership between Cherrydale Fundraising and Rohoic Elementary School in Petersburg, VA, the PTO has raised in excess of $76,000! The most recent fundraiser brought an increase of 25% from the year before. Successful PTO fundraisers with Cherrydale Fundraising has allowed the school to purchase a computer for every classroom as well as make playground improvements. This new circular slide (pictured right) has been a big hit with the children. A new wave slide will be delivered soon!
We at Cherrydale Fundraising want to congratulate the accomplishments of Rohoic Elementary School and their Parent Teacher Organization.
Cherrydale always has the children's best interest in mind.
I know my students and their parents will be pleased and will give their total support to the schools’ fundraiser if I'm using Cherrydale Fundraising...
As principal, I've had the privilege of working with Cherrydale Fundraising for more than twenty years. I contacted Cherrydale in the early 80's when they were a mail order company. After seeing their brochures and the prize program they had to offer, I knew they had what my school needed. I could see that Cherrydale had the quality products that schools could use to help raise funds to support those special needs that our regular budget didn't address.
Soon Cherrydale started hiring a work force to present their program to schools across the nation. They have great products and the finest professional representatives I know. I have found them to be honest, open to suggestions, and to have children's best interest in mind. I never worry with Cherrydale. I know my students and their parents will be pleased and will give their total support to the school's fundraiser if I'm using Cherrydale Fundraising.
Knowing and working with Cherrydale Fundraising for more than twenty years has had a tremendous impact on the schools where I've been the principal. I've purchased fans for the cafeteria, air conditioners for classrooms, playground equipment, copy paper, fax machines, computers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and paid for field trips. I have even purchased clothes for needy kids. Cherrydale had made my job a lot easier and I am indeed thankful to have worked with them and consider it an honor to have them in my school.
Truett McCurry
Principal Oak Grove Elementary
Learn more about the Cherrydale difference and get started on your fundraiser today!
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Foreign Body Aspiration
Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders
Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care
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What is foreign body aspiration?
Left: Inspiratory view of chest X-ray showing normal expansion. Right: Expiratory view of hyperinflated left lung due to obstructive foreign body in left mainstem bronchus Foreign body aspiration is when an object is inhaled and becomes lodged in a child’s airway or lungs.
It's natural for children to explore their environment by seeing, touching and tasting objects around them. Unfortunately, their tendency to put non-food objects in their mouth can be dangerous or even life threatening.
Children can also choke on foods given to them too early in their development, before they have the molars and coordinated chewing motions to safely break those foods down.
The position of a child's larynx, or voice box, also makes small children susceptible to aspiration of foreign bodies into the airway. The most commonly aspirated foreign bodies in children include vegetable matter, nuts and round foods such as hot dogs and grapes.
Less common, but more difficult to manage foreign bodies include beads, pins and small plastic toys, among an infinite number of other small objects.
Often, diagnosing and treating this problem requires special expertise and equipment.
The diagnosis of an aspirated foreign body is based on a combination of the history of the child's illness, the child's presenting symptoms, and chest X-rays. If a foreign body in the airway is strongly suspected, a child needs to go to the operating room and have an airway examination performed under anesthesia. This examination is called a microlaryngoscopy and bronchoscopy (a look at the voice box and windpipe, or airway).
Various size bronchoscopes used to remove a foreign body A child may be diagnosed with foreign body in the airway when a family member has seen the child swallow food or a small object then noticed signs of airway distress, like coughing or difficulty breathing. Children with a persistent segmental pneumonia, especially right lower lobe, should also be considered for foreign body aspiration.
There are three primary ways to see if a child has inhaled something into the airway or lungs:
Chest X-ray. Some non-food items can be seen in the airway or lungs using a traditional X-ray. However, most food, vegetable matter and plastic toys won't appear on chest X-ray films.
Inspiratory and expiratory phase X-ray. These are X-rays taken when the child has inhaled and then exhaled the air out of their lungs. If a foreign body cannot be seen with a traditional X-ray, then inspiratory and expiratory phase films may show hyperinflation or air-trapping which suggests an aspirated foreign body.
Bronchoscopy. When suspicion of aspiration is high enough but the physical exam and X-rays are not definitive for a diagnosis, an instrument called a bronchoscope is inserted through the mouth and used to look at the inside of the airways under anesthesia. Bronchoscopy can be used both to locate the foreign body and to remove it.
Bronchoscopy is the standard method for removal of an aspirated foreign body. An anesthesiologist puts the child into a deep sleep and then topical lidocaine spray is used to further anesthetize the child's larynx. An instrument called a laryngoscope is inserted into the airway to view the larynx; then a rigid, ventilating bronchoscope is passed beyond it, into the airway, and used to examine the trachea and right and left bronchi to locate the foreign body.
Removing a foreign body from the airway with a bronchoscope When the object is found, specially designed forceps are inserted into the airway through the bronchoscope to retrieve the object. This procedure requires training, delicacy and skill.
There are three kinds of forceps that may be used to remove airway foreign bodies:
Optical forceps with an attached telescope to view the retrieval of the object
Non-optical forceps used to remove beads, nails, screws, tacks and other objects that are in a distant tiny space
Biopsy forceps used to remove new or granulating tissue or tissue masses, which can form as the body attempts to enclose a foreign body that has been present for an extended period
Very rarely, the doctor may make a tracheotomy incision (an incision that opens the child's airway) to extract a foreign body that is difficult to remove due to its size or shape.
The child will typically stay in the hospital overnight after the procedure for observation. There may be airway swelling, increased secretions, infection or difficulty breathing after the foreign body is removed. Occasionally, if a foreign body has been left in a child for a long period of time, the child may require additional bronchoscopies to make sure that all of the foreign body has been removed and that there is no residual scarring or granulation tissue. Sometimes the child requires antibiotics, steroids or inhaled bronchodilators for a brief period of time after a foreign body is removed from the airway.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia runs an airway foreign body course for surgeons to perfect techniques for removing foreign bodies aspirated into airways.
Providers Who Treat Foreign Body Aspiration
Brian P. Dunham, MD
Lisa M. Elden, MD, MSc, FRCS(C), FAAP
Katherine A. Hanlon, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-P, CORLN
Ian N. Jacobs, MD
Luv R. Javia, MD
Ken Kazahaya, MD, MBA, FACS
Rosemary Patel, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-AC
Mark D. Rizzi, MD
Steven E. Sobol, MD, MSc, FRCS(C)
Joanne Stow, MSN, CRNP, CORLN
Ralph F. Wetmore, MD
Karen B. Zur, MD
Airway Disorders and Reconstruction Surgeries for Children
Airway surgeons describe three surgeries used to reconstruct the pediatric airway.
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I made a change to my daily commute that could save me over $1,000 a year
Published Fri, May 18 20182:52 PM EDT Updated Fri, May 18 20185:04 PM EDT
Yoni Blumberg@YoniBlum
To get to work every day, I have to trek from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Midtown Manhattan. That entails squeezing into a pocket of space aboard the crammed L train, often after a few too-packed trains have come and gone, and then transferring to the uptown F or M. Though I've mastered the art of reading a book while my body is contorted like a Tetris piece, it's not the most pleasant way to start the day.
Recently I considered mixing it up and trying to bike to the office. If I did that every day, the savings would add up more than I had realized: The 30-day unlimited subway passes I buy now add up to $1,452 a year.
But, though I'm an active person, I'm generally pretty lazy. The idea of all that extra effort and burning in the thigh region in the morning and afternoon did not enthuse me. Plus, I'd never biked in Manhattan and the city's congested streets are intimidating.
So could I do it, and would it be worth it? In honor of National Bike-to-Work Week, I tried it. Here's how the considerations break down.
CNBC Make It reporter Jonathan Blumberg in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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The savings are significant
No matter where you live, biking to work instead of driving or taking public transit will save you hundreds or thousands of dollars every year. A monthly metro pass in D.C. comes out to at least $972 per year. In Chicago it's $1,260 and in Los Angeles it's $1,464. If you drive, the costs of gas, maintenance, insurance and car payments add up, too. Across the U.S., the average commute costs $2,600 per year, according to the Citi ThankYou Commuter Index.
My bike, in contrast, was free. It belonged to my mother before I took it from the garage without her noticing when I moved to New York. If you don't have a mother who hasn't touched her bike since the '80s, you could buy a Citibike membership for just $169 a year or use a comparable bike sharing service.
For close to that price, you could just buy a used bike that's probably of higher quality than mine. As I discovered squeaking through the city, my chain is rusted, the gears need grease and the seat is threadbare.
In any case, even after buying a bike as well as a helmet, pump and occasional tube replacement, you could still save over $1,000 per year.
The time spent isn't that much worse
The main reason people offer for why they don't bike to work is that it would take too long but, according to a recent study highlighted by The New York Times, odds are they're overestimating. So if time is what's holding you back, try a test run.
Although Google Maps promised I'd make it in 40 minutes, it was my first time biking in Manhattan, so I got turned around once or twice. In all, it took 50.
My typical commute on the subway usually takes half an hour but that isn't a guarantee. In the event of something holding up service on the notoriously unreliable New York transit system — such as a fire on the tracks, a man crawling around underneath a subway car or, as was the case 10,000 times in January, "who knows" — the ride can also take much longer.
Williamsburg Bridge
The ride was easier than I expected
Overall, the seven mile-trip was surprisingly manageable. There were bike lanes almost the whole way, and traffic didn't really become and issue until I was north of 34th street, where lanes and lights seem to serve no purpose.
The Williamsburg Bridge was the biggest challenge. It was there, as I hyperventilated to the bridge's peak, where the M train seemed to taunt me as it passed overhead and, at the same moment, an elderly woman zoomed by on my right. Fortunately I was too focused on the burn in my quadriceps to feel it in my ego.
It's good for you and the environment
Billionaire Richard Branson has raved about the benefits of exercising in the morning and after my trip his excitement finally made sense to me. I felt awesome the rest of the day and even passed on coffee.
And, though many people do, in most places you shouldn't worry too much about air quality. Unless you're in a highly polluted city like Delhi, research has found that the health benefits of biking outweigh the risks of inhaling pollution in cities like New York, Barcelona and London. And besides, if you bike to work you spend less time in the subways, where apparently it's not particularly healthy to breathe either.
Biking benefits the environment, too, by reducing your carbon footprint. Transportation, made up largely of passenger vehicles and public transit, contributed to 28 percent of green house gas emissions in the U.S. in 2016, according to the EPA.
In cities that have large biking populations, residents see improved health and extended life as a result of less smog, reports The Guardian.
Just be safe
If you do want to save some money on your commute and decide biking to work is the way to go, take the necessary precautions. Wear a helmet, watch out for drivers and passengers opening their doors and make sure you have lights and reflective gear if you're riding in the dark.
I'd also recommend packing a change of clothes and some deodorant for when you get to the office, something I realized I needed around the time that older rider, who I now am telling myself was on performance-enhancers, dusted me on the bridge. You should also drink plenty of water.
And finally: Choose a scenic route through some bustling neighborhoods. Experiencing New York in a new way was the best part of the trip.
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Please Enjoy the Following Dying Light Trailer
News 1/8/2016 at 5:13 AM by Sam Tyler 0
Or is that the Dying Light: The Following trailer?
Some games arrive and disappear like a mist on a cold morning, but some others hang around like that strange stain you have never quite managed to get out of the carpet. Dying Light is just like that stubborn stain, in that it refuses to go. Dying Light: The Following is the biggest expansion for the game yet and is out in February, a new trailer has been released to hype the train.
The Following is due out on 9th Feb across PC, PS4 and One. You can purchase the expansion itself via the interwebs, or buy the upcoming Enhanced Version of the game that includes all the DLC for the game so far, including The Following.
The new story trailer introduces players to some of the new characters and mysterious goings on that surround the DLC:
Do you believe in prophecies? Are some of us meant for great deeds? Even if you don’t want to believe, you might enjoy the new mystery vibe of Dying Light: The Following. Watch our story trailer and meet some of the new characters you will meet in this brand-new world. Who are they? What role does fate want them to play? The prophecy will be fulfilled on February 9th, 2016. Be ready.
Dying Light is a 4 player online co-op game that is still giving a year after its release. Co-Optimus gave the game an impressive 4 out of 5, but the added content since has just added even more to the value.
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"Quasi-State of War" on Korean Peninsula as Threats Escalate Tensions
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un mobilizes military forces as tensions rise along border
Jon Queally, staff writer
South Korean activists burn an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a rally in Seoul on Aug. 21. (Photo: Jung Yeon-je / AFP/Getty Images)
Military tensions and international worries are growing as North Korea and South Korea exchanged new threats on Friday just a day after a shots were fired across the demilitarized zone along the border that separates the two countries.
Tweets about North Korea South Korea
State media reported on Friday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared his frontline troops were now in a "quasi-state of war" with South Korea as he ordered them to prepare for battle if leaders in Seoul refused to remove large loudspeakers set up along the border which blast pro-South Korean messages.
"The Korean People's Army (KPA) front-line large combined units entered into a wartime state all at once, fully armed to launch surprise operations, and wound up their preparedness for action," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in an English-language dispatch.
The young North Korean leader, while speaking to his Central Military Commission (CMC), also said his troops would be in a "fully armed state of war” beginning at 5 pm on Friday, according to the KCNA.
In response to the report of those comments, South Korea’s defense minister, Han Minkoo warned North Korea it would face "searing" consequences if it instigated further military actions.
"This time, we’ll cut off a vicious circle of North Korean provocation,” Minkoo warned, according to the Associated Press.
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On Thursday, North Korea fired a projectile at a South Korean loudspeaker that was broadcasting anti-Pyongyang messages over the border, a no-man’s land that has divided the two countries since 1953. South Korea retaliated by firing “dozens” of 155-millimeter artillery shells at the source of the attack, according to a statement from the South Korean Defense Ministry. Neither side has reported injuries or damage.
North Korea also warned Seoul on Friday that it would take “military action” if the South did not halt the broadcasts by 5 p.m. Saturday, according to South Korean media.
South Korea has ordered evacuations in villages close to the border. The Associated Press reported that the nation has put its military on top alert and vowed to sternly deal with any North Korean provocations.
In a message sent to the North, the Ministry of National Defense said: “South Korea will strongly retaliate against any kind of North Korean attacks and the North will have to take all the responsibility for such ... actions.”
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Japanese researchers create humanoid bot that installs drywall independently
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (Japan)
Laurie Cowin @lauriethewriter
Researchers at Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute have built HRP-5P, a humanoid bot prototype, reported Engadget.
The bot combines environmental detection, object recognition and careful movement planning to install drywall independently, including hoisting boards and fastening them with screwdrivers. To make up for its lack of movement compared to a human, HRP-5P has numerous joints that flex to degrees people are unable to. It also can correct for slips and is capable of fields of view beyond that of a human worker's.
The team hopes to collaborate with private companies that will treat the bot as a development platform and lead to further breakthroughs. The robot is meant to tackle the “manual shortages” Japan is facing, AIST also posits, and will allow the limited pool of human workers to focus on lighter, less dangerous work.
AIST is just one company in Japan looking to robots to help solve the country’s labor shortage. Between an aging population and decreasing birth rates, Japan expects its construction labor pool to fall to 2.2 million by 2025, compared to 3.4 million in 2014. Earlier this year, Shimizu Corp. announced it was in the final stages of developing autonomous robots it hopes to deploy on a high-rise construction site in Osaka. Those robots are intended to carry material, work on floors and ceilings, and weld steel columns.
Domestically, Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute is working with automation software and robotics to improve and advance the construction process. Assistant professor Jiansong Zhang is focusing on algorithms that can support future automation on the jobsite so that robotics technology can continue the machine learning process.
Autodesk also is hoping to advance construction robotics through its BrickBot, a robot that uses artificial intelligence to autonomously complete complex assembly tasks. It’s still in the testing stage and is erecting Lego structures, but researchers hope it can be scaled up to eventually be used for factory and construction applications.
Already impacting construction processes are the rebar-tying Tybot, the brick-laying semi-automated mason and various robotic devices aimed at supplementing human labor.
The industry is ripe for opportunity in automation. A January report from the Midwest Economic Policy Institute estimated 49% of all construction jobs could be automated, which could displace or replace up to 2.7 million construction workers by 2057. Although that automation could help with the labor shortage, as well as with increasing the industry’s productivity, it still has the potential to put many out of work. As such, the report’s authors made several recommendations, including re-skilling the workforce to work in tandem with automation.
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Kevin Rennie: Session Ends, All We Got Was A Casino
By Kevin Rennie
Jun 08, 2017 | 12:55 PM
State Sen. Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, left, holds a GOP budget during a news conference on the final day of session at the State Capitol. (Jessica Hill / AP)
What a curious regular session of the legislature, which ended Wednesday at midnight. The change in the partisan divide that voters wrought in November meant this session would require adjustments, especially by the Democrats who have enjoyed many years of significant majorities. Nevertheless, it's a surprise that the Democrats adopted an angry aversion to voting on legislation as their governing strategy.
In the House, the Democrats have a 79-72 majority. Skillful leadership ought to be able to cope with that and address issues efficiently: propose, deliberate, debate and vote. Instead, the Democrats permitted some debate but on important issues declined to call the roll.
It's not easy to tell if the legislative Democrats are paralyzed by the state's debilitating financial problems or have decided to bolster each other's stubborn delusions that they are doing a fine job in the face of deteriorating conditions. So on their primary responsibility, adopting a budget for state government for the next two years, the Democrats did nothing.
Worse than doing nothing, the Democrats want to deny the Republicans the opportunity to force meaningful action. The Republicans have spent weeks proposing and adjusting serious budget proposals of the sort the Democrats have called on them for years to produce. Now they have, the Democrats are furious.
Wednesday saw the Senate Democrats and their critical tie-breaking vote, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, end debate on the Republican budget proposal. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Bob Duff of Norwalk was very upset that the legislature would consider a state budget. "This surely is an outrage," the frequently huffy Democrat declared.
What an odd notion of outrage fills Duff's head. These are disorienting times when the state's majority party becomes furious at the prospect of considering a serious budget proposal in difficult times. And yet, they continue to insist what a fine job they are doing.
It is a dispiriting age in Connecticut when the legislature's signature achievement is the expansion of gambling. Both parties diminished themselves with their support of a third casino in East Windsor, far from the reservations of the state's two casino-operating Indian tribes. The legislature's bazaar was open for business to get the third casino passed. We will probably never know all the promises that were made and the price tags attached to them to get the bill passed. What we do know is revealing enough to cause the close observer to despair at our politics.
The Republicans were particularly disappointing. For years they've complained about the crony capitalism that uses the government to bestow valuable favors and advantages on the connected. On the casino, they immersed themselves in it and appear to be lacking the self-awareness to be embarrassed.
I've written often about this misbegotten proposal because it is a chilling reminder of how leaders can threaten the rule of law when they become enamored of a terrible idea. The casino supporters abandoned all notions of fairness and due process, picked their winner, and enshrined it in law. It makes one wonder if there is much difference between Republicans and Democrats in the legislature once they start exercising power in the pursuit of misbegotten public policy.
The most shocking moment in a saga full of them came overnight on Tuesday when the House overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to allow the people of East Windsor to vote on the casino proposal. That's a condition other states have included in the expansion of gaming. Connecticut tribes are familiar with that requirement. They had some trouble when they sought voter approval in Massachusetts. The Mohegans suffered a particularly embarrassing defeat in Palmer, thwarting the tribe's plan to cost Connecticut jobs.
Most of the House supporters of the East Windsor slot shack did not want to give East Windsor's voters a chance to have their say in a referendum. It was jarring to see so many House Republicans joining in the miasma of the moment and voting against a local referendum. That's a roll call to keep and remember.
The maximum hour of danger approaches. The legislature will convene in a special session to try to adopt a budget. The constrained rules and sense of urgency mean the high season for more terrible ideas is upon us. Leaders will stuff them into a few pieces of legislation and dare their members to vote against them. No one is safe.
Kevin Rennie is a lawyer and a former Republican state legislator. He can be reached at kfrennie@yahoo.com.
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Phils fall in 10, but Asche a hit at plate
Grand slam, 4-for-4 are career firsts for second-year third baseman
Phils fall in 10, but Asche a hit at plate Grand slam, 4-for-4 are career firsts for second-year third baseman Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: http://on.cpsj.com/1qcDfbA
Kevin Tresolini, CHL Published 11:42 p.m. ET May 6, 2014
Phillies third baseman Cody Asche connects for a grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning against the Blue Jays Tuesday, tying the game at 5-5. The Phillies fell in 10 innings 6-5. (Photo: Eric Hartline/USA TODAY Sports)
PHILADELPHIA – A few eyebrows were raised when Cody Asche appeared No. 8 in the batting order Tuesday night, just behind Freddy Galvis and his .056 average.
Asche, the second-year third baseman, arrived at Citizens Bank Park hitting just .214 himself, which was 23 points higher than two weeks ago.
As it turned out, Asche was slotted perfectly.
His first career grand slam tied the game in the sixth inning and was the highlight of his first career four-hit game.
It wasn’t enough to carry the Phillies to victory, as a 10th-inning run made the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 winners. But Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg hoped the big night might be a springboard for Asche.
“I look at this as a possible breakout game for Cody,” Sandberg said. “He played some defense out there, he swung the bat well. He can build on that, feel good about that.”
Sandberg hinted it may even encourage him to start the left-handed-hitting Asche in Wednesday’s game at Toronto against tough Blue Jays southpaw Mark Buehrle.
“I’ll give that a lot of consideration,” Sandberg said.
Asche was batting .191 after the April 23 game at Dodger Stadium, but Tuesday’s 4-for-4 hiked his average to .257. His four RBI were also the most in his 77 big league games.
“I’m just trying to see the ball up in the zone, where I can attack it, try not to chase too much,” Asche said. “... You want to build on all the positives and keep moving forward. You don’t want to take one step forward and two back, so you’ve just got to keep working.”
He gave the Phillies a chance to win it in the ninth when he singled with one out. Asche then went to second on a wild pitch and third on pinch-hitter Jimmy Rollins’ groundout. But Ben Revere couldn’t beat out a bouncer to second baseman Chris Getz, and the rally was foiled.
Melky Cabrera then singled to open the Toronto 10th off Antonio Bastardo (3-2). After going to third on Jose Bautista’s single away from the defensive shift, he scored on Juan Francisco’s sacrifice fly.
The Phillies went down 1-2-3 in the ninth.
“That was a tough game to lose after battling back the way we did,” said Sandberg, who bemoaned several fundamental flaws that plagued the Phillies.
They included Galvis and second baseman Chase Utley, while in a defensive shift that had Utley stationed in the traditional shortstop position, not communicating on a grounder that both let pass, Galvis running into a rundown that resulted in a double play and Galvis also failing to cover second base after a throw home from right field.
The Phillies (15-16) remained in last place in the jumbled National League East but just 2½ games behind first-place Atlanta. They and the Blue Jays now head to Toronto (16-17) for two more games at Rogers Centre tonight and Thursday.
Phillies starter Cole Hamels struggled through the six innings that comprised the third start of his delayed season before being rescued by some timely offense.
Relievers Jeff Manship, Jake Diekman and Jonathan Papelbon followed with a no-hit inning apiece.
The Phillies trailed 5-0 before ending a 22-inning drought by scoring a run in the sixth inning on Carlos Ruiz’ double, Utley’s single and Howard’s RBI single that scored Ruiz, all with no outs.
Jays starter Drew Hutchison then got two outs before walking John Mayberry, pinch hitting for Galvis, who started in place of Rollins (sore groin).
Asche then lined a Hutchison pitch into the right-field seats for his first big league grand slam, with an announced crowd of 26,057 inviting him out of the dugout for a quick acknowledgment afterward. He obliged.
“That was pretty cool,” Asche said.
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Triple jumpers grab records
TRIPLE jumpers Gary White and Linsi Robinson soared to a recordbreaking trophy double at the Warwickshire Schools championships....
Coventry Live
TRIPLE jumpers Gary White and Linsi Robinson soared to a recordbreaking trophy double at the Warwickshire Schools championships.
White, who turns 16 on Saturday, won the Cecil Wilkins Trophy for the best male performance at Leamington with a personal best of 14.05 metres to take the intermediate title - adding 16 cms to the championship record which had stood to his Rugby and District clubmate Steve Phillips since 1988.
And Nuneaton Harrier Robinson shattered the six-year-old senior girls record by over one and a half metres as she took the girls award with a leap of 11.49 metres, marginally down on her title-winning effort at the recent Midland counties age-group championships.
The performances were among five national standards recorded on the day in the build up to the English Schools championships at Exeter next month when White (Bilton High) - winner of the junior title two years ago - and Robinson (King Edward Coll) will be among the top challengers as the County attempt to beat last year's outstanding haul of four gold medals and the overall Group C team title.
Edward Dunford (Alcester High), silver medallist at the English Schools last year, won the intermediate boys 100 metres hurdles in
13.7 seconds, Ryan James (Strat-ford High) touched down at 6.74 metres in the intermediate long jump, and Emma Strachan (Kings Hgh) made sure of her first All-England appearance with an impressive 12.6 clocking in the junior girls 100 metres.
Eight athletes also achieved additional qualifying standards for Exeter - the team to be announced after this Saturday's inter-counties match at Cudworth against hosts South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Northants.
James (11.3) qualified in the inter-mediate 100 metres, while Dunford (6.46) beat the entry standard in second place in the long jump.
Third double qualifier in the age group was Rugby School thrower James Bergl with a shot (13.59) and discus (41.69) double, breaking both championship bests.
Jeffrey Christie (Myton), who will be defending his All-England senior boys 400 hurdles title, opted to run on the flat and recorded a personal best, and qualifying standard, 49.1 in the 400 metres.
The Great Britain junior passed over an international meeting in France to compete at Edmondscote Stadium.
"It's my last time and it's where I began," said Christie, whose main target for the season is the European junior championships in Italy next month.
"I was tired after running in Belfast last week so I decided to miss France and race here.
"I wanted to get a run in on the flat for a possible relay place in Italy - I've done a 47.3 split, but I wanted a solo time."
Christie's sister Jenny clocked a championship record and qualifying mark of 41.4 in the intermediate girls 300 metres, Paul Nash (Myton) threw 45.35 metres in the senior boys hammer, and William Dunford (Alcester High) qualified in the junior pole vault with a championship record 2.85 metres.
Martin Vincent (Harris) also set new championship figures for the intermediate boys pole vault with a 3.50 clearance.
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The environmental conditions during pre-treatment and application of a coating system are major factors affecting the long-term performance of coatings on steel structures. Meters can be used to monitor environmental conditions before, during and after painting. Ideal for surface preparation as required by ISO 8502-4, an electronic Dew Point Meter determines the likelihood of dew forming on structures which are being painted.
DeFelsko offers three types of meters to measure environmental conditions: dew point meters, wind speed sensors, and infrared thermometers.
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PosiTector DPM Td Accuracy Statement
Stated accuracy of Td is ±3C for Td from -40 to 80C.
The following charts illustrate the maximum error of Td with respect to Ta and RH.
View PDF of Accuracy Statement here.
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The innovative PosiPatch uses a magnetic ring to hold it against the surface, so no adhesive is required. This means that the PosiPatch isn’t destroyed when removed from the surface, unlike conventional patches. After rinsing with deionized water, the PosiPatch can be used again.
The PosiPatch can be reused multiple times until water begins to leak through the air-permeable membrane or the seal against the substrate.
In our tests on freshly blasted steel with a typical 50-100 micron (2-4 mil) profile, PosiPatches were reused dozens of times with no noticeable wear or leakage. Patch life will vary depending on use- if dragged along the substrate, lifespan will be reduced.
We believe that 10 uses is a very conservative estimate of lifespan and still yields the lowest per-test cost of any commercially available Bresle Method Patch. The below tables compare the per-test costs of various options, using competitive prices found online.
If performing 10 tests, and reusing the PosiPatch:
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Sample Certificate of Accuracy
The PosiTest AT Verifier and included documents allow the user to certify the accuracy of adhesion testers in-house
What are zero plates used for?
Coated metal Standards for magnetic and eddy current gages usually include a zero plate. The first gage measurement is on the zero plate to verify that the gage measures zero correctly. If not, electronic gages can usually be adjusted to “0” on the zero plate. Alternatively, some specifications allow the measured difference from zero to be subtracted from future coating measurements.
A zero plate is also a convenient base onto which a certified or non-certified plastic shim can be placed for measurement.
For best accuracy it is important to ensure a coating thickness gage meaures "0" on the uncoated substrate and adjusted to "0" if necessary. This is especially true when the substrate is rough, shaped, extremely thin, or is an alloy. When an uncoated piece of the material is not available for a zero check, some procedures call for the gage to be adjusted to "0" on an uncoated zero plate. A compensation value is then subtracted from future coating measurements.
Zero plates are also used to provide a substrate where none exists. Large sheets of material such as paper, plastic, fabric and rubber can be measured with a coating thickness gage by placing the material over the zero plate. This is useful when the measured item is too large to access with a micrometer or other device. The screen printing industry uses zero plates to measure the thickness of the "substrate" being printed.
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For best accuracy it is important to ensure a coating thickness gage measures "0" on the uncoated substrate and adjusted to "0" if necessary. This is especially true when the substrate is rough, shaped, extremely thin, or is an alloy. When an uncoated piece of the material is not available for a zero check, some procedures call for the gage to be adjusted to "0" on an uncoated zero plate. A compensation value is then subtracted from future coating measurements.
Testex Press-O-Film™ replica tape
Replica Tape
Replica Tape provides a simple way to obtain an impression of a surface for analysis. It consists of a layer of crushable plastic micro foam affixed to a 50.8 μm (2 mil) incompressible polyester film.
When compressed against a roughened surface, the foam collapses and acquires an impression, or reverse replica, of the surface. It is available in a number of grades to accommodate measurements in different profile ranges.
Placing the compressed tape (replica) into the PosiTector RTR gives a measure of the average maximum peak-to-valley height of the surface roughness profile.
The gage automatically subtracts the thickness of the polyester substrate from all measurements.
Annotate images
Annotate images using drawing tools—ideal for identifying a specific location or area within an image
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Pre-programmed Velocities
Pre-programmed Material Velocities
*Range may change depending on surface roughness, temperature or material properties.
Self-aligning
Self-Alignment Feature
Unequal pulling force during testing caused by uneven adhesive bond lines and coating surfaces can result in random, unexplainable readings. To obtain more repeatable and meaningful adhesion measurements, it is imperative that the pulling force applied to the test dolly is uniformly distributed over the surface being tested.
Both the PosiTest AT-M manual and PosiTest AT-A automatic models compensate for misalignment. The self-aligning, quick-coupling actuator and spherical articulating dolly head enable uniform distribution of the pulling force over the surface being tested, preventing a one-sided pull-off.
Easy 1-2-3 gage interface
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Two grades of Testex™ Press-O-Film™ replica tape, “Coarse” and "X-Coarse", are available to span the primary range of surface profiles for the coatings and linings industry –– 20 to 115 µm / 0.8 to 4.5 mils.
An unfortunate characteristic of replica tape is that conventional spring micrometer measurements are most accurate near the middle of each grade's range and least accurate at the outer ends of each grade's range. That is why two other grades, Coarse Minus (< 20 µm / 0.8 mils) and X-Coarse Plus (> 115 µm / 4.5 mils), are used to check and, if necessary, adjust measurements at the upper and lower ends of the primary range.
Inside the primary range, Coarse and X-Coarse tape share a 38 - 64 μm (1.5 - 2.5 mils) "overlap" region. Measurements with conventional micrometers require a complicated and time consuming procedure of averaging one reading using Coarse grade and one reading using X-Coarse grade to achieve reasonable accuracy.
With a single measurement, the PosiTector RTR produces a more accurate peak-to-valley height measurement HL from Coarse or X-Coarse tapes that has been adjusted for their non-linearity. There is no need to average two or more replicas from different grades of tape AND there is no need to subtract the 50.8 μm / 2 mils of incompressible polyester film. The advantages are a reduction in measurement uncertainty, inspector workload, likelihood of error, and the number of replicas needed by inspectors to assure accuracy.
The PosiTector RTR can also display a height value (H) that is comparable to what conventional analog spring micrometers would display after the 50.8 μm / 2 mils of incompressible polyester film has been subtracted.
Replica Tape: Linearization of Roughness Measurements
All PosiTector SPG probes feature a Alumina wear face and tungsten carbide tip for long life and continuous accuracy - field replaceable.
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magnetic pull-off
Magnetic pull-off gages use a permanent magnet, a calibrated spring, and a graduated scale. The attraction between the magnet and magnetic steel pulls the two together. As the coating thickness separating the two increases, it becomes easier to pull the magnet away. Coating thickness is determined by measuring this pull-off force. Thinner coatings will have stronger magnetic attraction while thicker films will have comparatively less magnetic attraction. Testing with magnetic gages is sensitive to surface roughness, curvature, substrate thickness, and the make up of the metal alloy.
Magnetic pull-off gages are rugged, simple, inexpensive, portable, and usually do not require any calibration adjustment. They are a good, low-cost alternative in situations where quality goals require only a few readings during production.
Pull-off gages are typically pencil-type or rollback dial models. Pencil-type models (PosiPen shown in Fig 1) use a magnet that is mounted to a helical spring that works perpendicularly to the coated surface. Most pencil-type pull-off gages have large magnets and are designed to work in only one or two positions, which partially compensate for gravity. A more accurate version is available, which has a tiny, precise magnet to measure on small, hot, or hard-to-reach surfaces. A triple indicator ensures accurate measurements when the gage is pointed down, up, or horizontally with a tolerance of ±10%.
Fig. 1. Pencil-type magnetic pull-off thickness gauge.
Rollback dial models (PosiTest shown in Fig 2) are the most common form of magnetic pull-off gage. A magnet is attached to one end of a pivoting balanced arm and connected to a calibrated hairspring. By rotating the dial with a finger, the spring increases the force on the magnet and pulls it from the surface. These gages are easy to use and have a balanced arm that allows them to work in any position, independent of gravity. They are safe in explosive environments and are commonly used by painting contractors and small powder coating operations. Typical tolerance is ±5%.
Fig. 2. Roll-back dial magnetic pull-off thickness gauge
Eddy current techniques are used to nondestructively measure the thickness of nonconductive coatings on nonferrous metal substrates. A coil of fine wire conducting a high-frequency alternating current (above 1 MHz) is used to set up an alternating magnetic field at the surface of the instrument's probe. When the probe is brought near a conductive surface, the alternating magnetic field will set up eddy currents on the surface. The substrate characteristics and the distance of the probe from the substrate (the coating thickness) affect the magnitude of the eddy currents. The eddy currents create their own opposing electromagnetic field that can be sensed by the exciting coil or by a second, adjacent coil.
Magnetic Film Thickness Gages
Magnetic film gages are used to non-destructively measure the thickness of a nonmagnetic coating on ferrous substrates. Most coatings on steel and iron are measured this way. Magnetic gages use one of two principles of operation: magnetic pull-off or magnetic/electromagnetic induction.
Magnetic and Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic induction instruments use a permanent magnet as the source of the magnetic field. A Hall-effect generator or magneto-resistor is used to sense the magnetic flux density at a pole of the magnet. Electromagnetic induction instruments use an alternating magnetic field. A soft, ferromagnetic rod wound with a coil of fine wire is used to produce a magnetic field. A second coil of wire is used to detect changes in magnetic flux.
These electronic instruments measure the change in magnetic flux density at the surface of a magnetic probe as it nears a steel surface. The magnitude of the flux density at the probe surface is directly related to the distance from the steel substrate. By measuring flux density the coating thickness can be determined.
Flip display
Flip display enables right-side-up viewing.
PosiTector 6000 shown.
SmartTrend™ Indicators
PosiTector users can capture and save an image copy of the current gage display by simultaneously pressing both the (-) and (+) buttons. The last 10 screen captures are stored in memory and can be accessed within the PosiSoft USB Drive.
USB port for fast, simple connection to a PC and to supply continuous power. USB cable included.
Statistics mode
PosiTector 6000 pictured here
Statistics mode continually displays/updates average, standard deviation, min/max thickness and number of readings while measuring.
display languages
Display Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Czech, Polish and Korean.
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PosiTector 6000 Built-in Probe Shown
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underwater or remote measuring
PosiTector 6000 Probes
Underwater & Remote Measurement
All PosiTector 6000 regular separate probes are suitable for underwater measurement and are available with extended cable lengths up to 250 feet / 75 meters.
Ideal for measuring coating thickness on underwater pipes, ships, bulkheads, offshore oil rigs or anywhere extended reach is required.
Maximum cable lengths vary depending on probe type...
F (ferrous) (FS, FRS, FTS) – up to 250 ft (75 m)
N (non-ferrous) (NS, NAS, NRS) - up to 50 ft (15 m)
FN (ferrous/non-ferrous) (FNS, FNRS) - up to 50 ft (15 m)
Extended cable lengths are also available for ferrous micro probes (F0S, F45S, F90S) and FKS probes (thick coatings) – up to 50 ft (15 m).
Note: Micro probes and FKS probes do not support underwater usage
Contact us for additional information including lead time.
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Press Release Jul 12, 2015
Delphix Announces $75 Million in New Funding Led by Fidelity Investments
Company Plans to Use Capital to Meet Accelerating Demand for Data as a Service Software
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 13, 2015 - Delphix, the market leader in Data as a Service, today announced a $75 million oversubscribed round of funding led by Fidelity Management and Research Company. Additional investors include Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, LLC, a fund managed within Credit Suisse Asset Management, The Kraft Group, and existing investors, including Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Icon Ventures.
The additional capital will enable Delphix to quickly scale sales, marketing, and operations across global geographies and maintain its leadership in Data as a Service (DaaS), a disruptive and transformative market that accelerates application releases and cloud migrations, while reducing IT costs.
"Applications have become a highly contested battleground for businesses across all industries," said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix Founder and CEO. "Data as a Service helps our customers complete application releases and cloud migrations in half the time, by making data fast, light, and unbreakable--a huge competitive advantage."
In addition, the investment will allow the company to aggressively invest in cloud, analytics, and data security technologies to drive more value for customers of its Data as a Service platform.
"At Delphix, our mission is to help companies unlock the value of data trapped in heavyweight legacy infrastructure and databases," said Yueh. "With our virtualization, masking, and self-service delivery technologies, we can deliver data 100x faster than traditional methods, while consuming 10x less infrastructure."
Delphix Accelerates Business Growth and Momentum
Delphix was founded in 2008 and emerged from stealth mode two years later in September 2010. The company has come of age as an IT industry leader, demonstrating tremendous business growth and momentum since its last financing round over three years ago, including:
Enterprise customers and global footprint: Delphix now has more than 15 percent of the Global 500 and 25 percent of the Global 100 as customers, and supports customers in more than 20 countries around the world.
Vertical industry leadership: Delphix customers include No. 1 industry leaders across all major verticals, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, government, high technology, retail, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals.
Technology leadership: Delphix has added broad support for virtualizing and delivering data across the major databases and data warehouses in the market, including Oracle, Oracle RAC, Oracle Exadata, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, SAP ASE, PostgreSQL, and others. In 2015, Delphix acquired its first company, data-masking leader Axis Technology Software.
Industry analyst recognition: Delphix was placed in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement.1
Strategic partnerships: Delphix formed new partnerships with industry leaders including Amazon Web Services, Dell, SAP, and VMware.
Industry awards and listings: Numerous publications and analyst firms recognized Delphix and its customers, including CRN 2015 Virtualization 50, Computer Weekly Best Datacentre Project of the Year, Computing Vendor Excellence Awards, DBTA 100, Forbes Top 25 of America's Most Promising Companies, Frost & Sullivan CIO IMPACT Awards, Gartner Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, Red Herring Top 100, and San Francisco Business Times Tech and Innovation Awards.
"We've grown revenue at a 220 percent CAGR over the last five years while primarily funding operations from cash flow," said Stewart Grierson, Delphix CFO. "We have a proven business model and the market has validated our technology. This financing will give us the flexibility to invest for further scale and cement our leadership position in the DaaS market."
About Delphix
Delphix is the market leader in Data as a Service, which helps enterprises accelerate application projects by 50 percent, including cloud migrations, custom development, and ERP rollouts. Delphix provides its DaaS Platform as on-premises or cloud software that automatically delivers the right data to the right team at the right time, instead of relying on complex processes and multiple IT teams to manually move unsecured data across systems. More than 25 percent of the Global 100 use Delphix to deliver data 99 percent faster across development, testing, and reporting environments, driving dramatic increases in productivity while improving data security. Delphix is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with offices around the world.
Delphix is a trademark of Delphix Corp. in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other marks and names may be trademarks of their respective organizations. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between Delphix and any other organization.
1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement, Garth Landers, Alan Dayley, Sheila Childs, 16 June 2015
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Global Campaigns Manager Rita Rosenberg pulls back the curtain on what makes Delphix special, the best piece of career advice she's ever received, and her passion for lifelong learning.
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Boston Area Catholic Sisters Host Ninth Annual Prayer Vigil for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Sisters of St. Joseph of BostonPress ReleasesBoston Area Catholic Sisters Host Ninth Annual Prayer Vigil for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Sisters Mary Jane Cavallo, SNDdN, Betsy Goodwin, OSF, and Anna Edge, CSJ, process outside for the silent prayer vigil on Cambridge Street.
Boston, MA: In 2007 the U.S. Senate designated January 11th as a National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness in an effort to raise consciousness about this global, national and local issue. For the ninth consecutive year, local Catholic Sisters representing congregations in the Greater Boston Area gathered with over 100 sisters, associates, and friends on January 8, the Sunday closest to January 11, to mark this national day and pray for an end to human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery.
During the introduction to prayer, Sister Betsy Goodwin, OSF, reminded participants that, “In prayer and silent vigil we stand with and for those children, women and men exploited for labor and for sex—through the evil of modern day slavery— HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Through our prayer and our silence today we hope to give voice to the voiceless, those who are silenced by the cruelty of others.” She went on to say, “Our anti-trafficking coalition, which is a collaboration of congregations of women religious in the Boston area, and now includes you, believes that, in addition to words and actions, prayer and silent vigil are powerful tools to change, to eradicate human trafficking.”
A powerful part of the prayer included the witness of two survivors of human trafficking who have lived with sisters at Bakhita House. Located in the Boston area, the mission of the Bakhita Community is to respond to the needs of survivors of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. The prayer vigil offered these young women, whose voices had long been silenced, the opportunity to give voice to their experience. Their witness deeply moved all who listened.
One survivor remarked, “The reason I’m here right now is that the sisters came to Bakhita House and tutored me. But the important thing I got from them was love and courage.” A second survivor reflected on her experience saying, “When I came to Bakhita House I was hurt, scarred and scared, not sure what to expect. These ladies nurtured my soul, gave me structure and showed me that love, real love, can guide, heal and motivate me past any obstacle.” You can learn more about Bakhita House at https://thebakhitahouse.com/.
At the conclusion of the gathering participants were offered concrete actions to end human trafficking:
LEARN about human trafficking – globally and locally
PRAY for victims of trafficking and for an end to this slavery
DEMAND slave-free products. Buy fair trade when possible
ADVOCATE for state and federal legislation that protects victims.
As Pope France’s 2015 World Day of Peace Message reminds us, all peoples are our family, and together, we need to cry out and act to end the human trafficking of our brothers and sisters.
The Boston Unit of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious includes several religious congregations representing over 800 women religious in the greater Boston area.
According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, as of October 2016, more than 138,000 signals of human trafficking have been reported since 2007 and close to 30,000 cases have been reported. Human trafficking forces men, women, and children into pornography, prostitution, and other sexual exploitation, as well as labor exploitation. In 1998, the realization that trafficking was a growing problem around the world—and that it was being largely unaddressed—led to the formation of a broad-based coalition of women’s organizations, faith-based groups, children’s groups, labor groups, and health groups. Together this bi-partisan coalition drafted and helped pass the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The law provides a comprehensive approach to elimination of trafficking in persons through a three-pronged strategy—prevention, prosecution, and protection. In 2003 the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services began educating segments of the public about the horrors of human trafficking. Their efforts began with members of women’s religious communities who have the potential to educate and influence others on behalf of victims of trafficking.
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From the days of Rosie the Riveter, women have been closing the ranks in the disparity in gender in the workplace. Why, then, do women in the tech sector lag woefully behind?
Ann Sung Ruckstahl, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Unisys, recently discussed the challenges "We're still in the middle of an information revolution, so this is where the wave of growth is, and this is where the challenges are," she says. "And therefore, it's just a very smart decision for businesses to tap into the female population."
Check out the complete transcript of Ruckstahl's recent interview with ISMG's Mathew Schwartz in this latest edition of CyberEd Magazine.
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Harper’s Magazine trolls with ‘F**k the Internet’ softball jerseys
Right back at ya, nerds.
Miles Klee— 2014-08-04 06:07 pm | Last updated 2017-02-25 12:12 am
You know that thing where a 160-year-old magazine, struggling for relevance in the digital age, solicits support by selling $40 softball T-shirts that say “F**k the Internet”… on the Internet?
Well, you do now—because Harper’s, in a bid for five milliseconds of attention, is doing just that.
Harper’s had T-shirts made that say “Fuck the Internet” on the back.
— Paul Ford (@ftrain) June 27, 2014
#Fucktheinternet http://t.co/eIjwIa6NCF
— Harper’s Magazine (@Harpers) August 4, 2014
The Internet, although resolutely self-loathing, fired back.
Fuck this magazine: http://t.co/KslsHTWnzT
— Nicholas Jackson (@nbj914) August 4, 2014
There were snide remarks about Harper’s paywall:
@CLINT @ftrain @harper But you had to pay to see it.
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) June 27, 2014
Their hopelessly archaic attitudes:
@ftrain and on the front, “Gutenberg’s Army”?
— Edd Dumbill (@edd) June 27, 2014
Also, it’s “Fuck the internet” not “Fuck the Internet” what is this 1997 http://t.co/Ay4tGyOMhP
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) August 4, 2014
And the poor guy—likely an unpaid intern—who was made to model the garment:
Please turn this Harper’s magazine intern (?) into a meme. http://t.co/hINMq7Md5n
— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) August 4, 2014
Even funnier than the idea of shelling out $65 total to have the cheap-looking shirt shipped express is the awkward copy advertising it. (Try not to cringe at that parenthetical.)
The official Harper’s Magazine softball team jersey is now available to one and all. These 100% pre-shrunk cotton shirts are white with black sleeves and red lettering with the “Harper’s Magazine” logo on front and “F**k the Internet” (minus the asterisks, the four-letter word is spelled out) on back. Wear it if you dare!
Of course, we’ve yet to see the back of the jersey, so who knows if it says anything at all! You’ll have to attend tomorrow’s softball game between Harper’s and the New Yorker’s staff to corroborate these claims. Fortunately, it’s bound to be a graceless affair in need of hecklers.
@sarahdc We’re playing @NewYorker tomorrow. Get on a plane now!
Despite any sneering, the trollish campaign is going well, the Harper’s social media team reported when asked about sales. Hey, maybe print isn’t dead—as long as it’s on clothes.
@MilesKlee We’re quite pleased.
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Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions, and the Village Voice. He's the author of two odd books of fiction, 'Ivyland' and 'True False.'
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Harvey Weinstein hired to follow Rose McGowan, etc.
Erik Prince-Academi/Blackwater/Frontier Services Group/Xe
The Wagner Group–PMC Wagner, ChVK Wagner, or CHVK Vagner-Russian Military Defense
The Night Wolves– Alexander Torshin
Project Veritas-Disinformation operatives using false identities entrap journalists using supplied lies, etc.
SCL Elections/Emerdata-parent co. of Cambridge Analytica Global campaigns and black ops using
Black Cube- Israeli private security/intelligence
Cambridge Analytica\-British– Trump Campaign & Brexit
PSY Group-Joel Zamel-Israeli
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Data Trust
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2004 Gadi Aviran started Terrogence, Vincent Tchenguiz, an Iranian-born English real-estate tycoon invested in Terrogence, Meir Dagan (d. 2016), Former Director of Mossad, offered personal Mossad services.
Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran The Guardian Mark Townsend and Julian Borger May 5, 2018 “
People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama’s top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.
The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump’s 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme.
Sources said that officials linked to Trump’s team contacted investigators days after Trump visited Tel Aviv a year ago, his first foreign tour as US president. Trump promised Netanyahu that Iran would never have nuclear weapons and suggested that the Iranians thought they could “do what they want” since negotiating the nuclear deal in 2015. A source with details of the “dirty tricks campaign” said: “The idea was that people acting for Trump would discredit those who were pivotal in selling the deal, making it easier to pull out of it.”
Investigators contracted by the private intelligence agency were told to dig into the personal lives and political careers of Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, and Kahl, a national security adviser to the former vice-president Joe Biden. Among other things they were looking at personal relationships, any involvement with Iran-friendly lobbyists, and if they had benefited personally or politically from the peace deal.
Investigators were also apparently told to contact prominent Iranian Americans as well as pro-deal journalists – from the New York Times, MSNBC television, the Atlantic, Vox website and Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper among others – who had frequent contact with Rhodes and Kahl in an attempt to establish whether they had violated any protocols by sharing sensitive intelligence. They are believed to have looked at comments made by Rhodes in a 2016 New York Times profile in which he admitted relying on inexperienced reporters to create an “echo chamber” that helped sway public opinion to secure the deal. It is also understood that the smear campaign wanted to establish if Rhodes was among those who backed a request by Susan Rice, Obama’s final national security adviser, to unmask the identities of Trump transition officials caught up in the surveillance of foreign targets.
Although sources have confirmed that contact and an initial plan of attack was provided to private investigators by representatives of Trump, it is not clear how much work was actually undertaken, for how long or what became of any material unearthed.
Trump has repeatedly signalled his intention to scrap the Iran deal, denouncing it as “the worst deal ever.” In a January speech the US president accused his predecessor of having “curried favour with the Iranian regime in order to push through the disastrously flawed Iran nuclear deal.”
Last Monday, Netanyahu, accused Iran of continuing to hide and expand its nuclear weapons know-how after the 2015 deal, presenting what he claimed was “new and conclusive proof” of violations.”
Black Cube worked for Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Uhuru’s Election – David Murathe Explains Kenyans By VINCENT KEJITAN on August 21, 2018 “In an undercover report, Cambridge Analytica MD Mark Turnbull was filmed admitting to running the 2013 and 2017 campaigns for President Uhuru Kenyatta. “We have rebranded the entire party twice, written the manifesto, done research, analysis, messaging. I think we wrote all the speeches and we staged the whole thing – so just about every element of this candidate,” he states in the secretly recorded video. Turnbull is further captured stating: “It is no good running an election campaign based on facts, it is all about emotions.” The news report indicated that the controversial firm was behind a spate of propaganda driven reports against NASA leader Raila Odinga during the 2017 polls. Cambridge Analytica has, however, released a statement denying all allegations made by Channel 4 News adding that it was only gauging the reporters’ motives. Dennis Itumbi, Director of Digital Innovations and Diaspora Communications at the Office of the President, also refuted the claims noting that no one influenced the campaign. Itumbi further maintained that President Kenyatta’s campaign with his Deputy William Ruto was launched and run by young Kenyans.”
Police Implicated in Murder of Cambridge Analytica Analyst Dan Muresan Kenyans By MUMBI MUTUKO August 21, 2018 “On Tuesday, Christopher Wylie claimed that his predecessor, Dan Muresan, was poisoned in a hotel in Kenya after “a deal went sour.” Wylie stated: “People suspected he was poisoned in his bedroom and Kenyan police had been bribed not to enter his hotel room for 24 hours.” He noted that the allegations were “speculation” he had heard from others inside the company and he had no proof of the claims.The whistleblower stated: “What I heard was that he was working on some kind of deal, I’m not sure what kind of deal it is.” He further added: “But when you work for senior politicians in a lot of these countries you don’t actually make money in the electoral work, you make money in the influence brokering after the fact – and that a deal went sour.” Wylie narrated of a lawless organisation that had dealt with the hacked material, illegal data and the use of intimidation techniques to win elections.He maintained that Cambridge Analytica had little concern for the law in countries they were contracted adding “they don’t care whether or not it’s legal as long as it gets the job done.” h/t @kelly2277
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Copro Nason just opened two shows this weekend, “Manimal” by Joe Vaux and “Slow Collision” by Dan May. All the works are online to view and both shows look amazing. I really like the new works on Dan May, the colors in these paintings are so bright and vibrant. Nathan Spoor also interviewed Dan for this show over on Hi-Fructose.com.
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There are also purely technical elements to consider. For example, technological advancement in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin result in high up-front costs to miners in the form of specialized hardware and software.[87] Cryptocurrency transactions are normally irreversible after a number of blocks confirm the transaction. Additionally, cryptocurrency private keys can be permanently lost from local storage due to malware, data loss or the destruction of the physical media. This prevents the cryptocurrency from being spent, resulting in its effective removal from the markets.[88]
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Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous in that the cryptocurrency within a wallet is not tied to people, but rather to one or more specific keys (or "addresses").[41] Thereby, bitcoin owners are not identifiable, but all transactions are publicly available in the blockchain. Still, cryptocurrency exchanges are often required by law to collect the personal information of their users.[citation needed]
On February 16, 2018, Coinbase admitted that some customers were overcharged in error for credit and debit purchases of cryptocurrencies. The problem was initiated when banks and card issuers changed the merchant category code (MCC) for cryptocurrency purchases earlier this month. This meant that cryptocurrency payments would now be processed as "cash advances", meaning that banks and credit card issuers could begin charging customers cash-advance fees for cryptocurrency purchases. Any customers who purchased cryptocurrency on their exchange between January 22 and February 11, 2018 could have been affected. At first, Visa blamed Coinbase, telling the Financial Times on February 16 that it had "not made any systems changes that would result in the duplicate transactions cardholders are reporting." However, the latest statement from Visa and Worldpay on the Coinbase blog clarifies: "This issue was not caused by Coinbase."[45]
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For miners and enthusiasts though, litecoin holds a much more important difference to bitcoin, and that is its different proof of work algorithm. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm, which involves calculations that can be greatly accelerated in parallel processing. It is this characteristic that has given rise to the intense race in ASIC technology, and has caused an exponential increase in bitcoin’s difficulty level.
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Wie kaufe ich Bitcoins auf Zebpay
Der Bitcoin gab 2009 den Startschuss für die neue Ära des digitalen Zahlungsverkehrs. Seitdem wurden viele weitere Kryptowährungen implementiert. Diese nennt man auch Altcoins. Sie bezeichnen sich als eine verbesserte Version der Bitcoin, die allerdings auch die Blockchain Technologie nutzen. Über 800 Währungen sind mittlerweile in Verwendung. Laut Coinmarketcap.com beläuft sich die Marktkapitalisierung aller Kryptowährungen auf etwas mehr als 176 Milliarden USD. Davon entfallen mit 79,5 Milliarden USD der größte Anteil auf Bitcoin (Stand September 2017). Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Litecoin, NEM, Dash, IOTA, Monero und Ethereum Classic folgen auf der Rangliste der Kryptowährungen.
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In May 2018, Bitcoin Gold (and two other cryptocurrencies) were hit by a successful 51% hashing attack by an unknown actor, in which exchanges lost estimated $18m.[citation needed] In June 2018, Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, losing US$37 million worth of altcoin. Fear surrounding the hack was blamed for a $42 billion cryptocurrency market selloff.[72] On 9 July 2018 the exchange Bancor had $23.5 million in cryptocurrency stolen.[73]
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Was ist Crypto Lage
On May 7, 2019, Binance revealed that it had been the victim of a “large scale security breach” in which hackers had stolen 7,000 Bitcoin worth around U.S.$40 million at the time.[11] Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the hackers “used a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks” and structured their transaction “in a way that passed our existing security checks.”[12] Binance halted further withdrawals and deposits but allowed trading to continue. The site pledged to reimburse customers through its secure asset fund.
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Two members of the Silk Road Task Force—a multi-agency federal task force that carried out the U.S. investigation of Silk Road—seized bitcoins for their own use in the course of the investigation.[68] DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV, who attempted to extort Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht ("Dread Pirate Roberts"), pleaded guilty to money laundering, obstruction of justice, and extortion under color of official right, and was sentenced to 6.5 years in federal prison.[68] U.S. Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges pleaded guilty to crimes relating to his diversion of $800,000 worth of bitcoins to his personal account during the investigation, and also separately pleaded guilty to money laundering in connection with another cryptocurrency theft; he was sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison.[69]
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Decentralized cryptocurrency is produced by the entire cryptocurrency system collectively, at a rate which is defined when the system is created and which is publicly known. In centralized banking and economic systems such as the Federal Reserve System, corporate boards or governments control the supply of currency by printing units of fiat money or demanding additions to digital banking ledgers. In case of decentralized cryptocurrency, companies or governments cannot produce new units, and have not so far provided backing for other firms, banks or corporate entities which hold asset value measured in it. The underlying technical system upon which decentralized cryptocurrencies are based was created by the group or individual known as Satoshi Nakamoto.[23]
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, four of the 10 biggest proposed initial coin offerings have used Switzerland as a base, where they are frequently registered as non-profit foundations. The Swiss regulatory agency FINMA stated that it would take a "balanced approach" to ICO projects and would allow "legitimate innovators to navigate the regulatory landscape and so launch their projects in a way consistent with national laws protecting investors and the integrity of the financial system." In response to numerous requests by industry representatives, a legislative ICO working group began to issue legal guidelines in 2018, which are intended to remove uncertainty from cryptocurrency offerings and to establish sustainable business practices.[50]
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Giant Knife Angel sculpture coming to Derby
Derby murder victim's mother hopes it will prevent knife crime
Zena HawleyAgenda editor
The name of a man who was stabbed and killed in Derby is included on a 27ft high sculpture which will be displayed in the city this autumn.
Derby has been chosen as one of a number of cities across the UK to host The Knife Angel, which is also known as the National Monument Against Violence and Aggression.
The spectacular artwork is made from up to 100,000 bladed weapons collected in knife banks during police amnesties across the country, including Derbyshire.
Relatives of those killed by knife crime were invited to engrave the blades with names and messages for their loved ones as part of the sculpture.
And this included local mum Rachel Webb, whose son Tom was 22-years-old when he was stabbed in St Peter’s Street, Derby by a 16-year-old boy in January 2016.
The Knife Angel is a symbol against knife crime (Image: Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)
Later in 2016, Rachel bravely supported an amnesty held across Derbyshire. Knives from this amnesty were donated towards the creation of the sculpture.
The death of her son is still very raw but she took part in a media briefing about the sculpture and said: “I am thrilled to learn that the Knife Angel is coming to Derby.
"It’s an emotive thought-provoking monument, which is helping to educate and raise awareness of the increasing knife crime epidemic on Britain’s streets.
Mum Rachel Webb takes part in a press briefing for The Knife Angel at Derby Cathedral (Image: Derby Telegraph)
"As a mother who has personally been devastated by the murder of my beautiful son Tom, I am deeply grateful to the many organisations and individuals involved in bringing the Knife Angel to our community.
"It’s my hope that the Knife Angel will encourage open conversations in homes, differing community groups and schools, helping our young people to understand the horrific consequences of carrying and using a knife.
"I, like so many other murder victims’ families living daily with such unmeasurable pain, have inscribed my son’s name on a blade on the Angel. Tom’s name is surrounded my many names, lives also taken due to unnecessary acts of violence.
"I feel that the Knife Angel stands tall in honour of all our dearly loved and missed, it is also a beacon of hope lighting the way forward for much needed urgent change through education ."
When it arrives in Derby on its nationwide tour, the sculpture will be based next to the Cathedral in Iron Gate, for a month.
It was created by the British Ironwork Centre, by sculptor Alfie Bradley to highlight the impact knife crime has on people, families and communities and involved all 43 police forces, the Home Office, anti-violence groups and hundreds of families who have been affected by knife criime.
The Knife Angel is being brought to Derby by a group of agencies and organisations across the city, including: Derby Cathedral, Derbyshire Police, Derby City Council, Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa and the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
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Project manager Jack Atwal said: “We are very pleased that the Knife Angel is coming to Derby.
“The sculpture is very much a symbol for the pain and feelings that friends and family have for those involved in any violent crime and we hope it can be used as a beacon to shine a light on the futility of such actions.
“For the 28 days that the sculpture is in the city we hope it will be used as a catalyst for a range of activities, particularly aimed at young people, to divert them away from knife crime and violence.
“We are encouraging any local groups working to reduce knife and violent crime who would like to be involved to make contact with us.
“We are also keen for as many people as possible to come and view the sculpture, particularly to learn about its aims and to show solidarity against violence and aggression.”
The Knife Angel (Image: HullLive)
The exact date for the arrival of the Knife Angel is being finalised but it will be on or around October 1.
The organising group are grateful to a small group of local business who have offered their help and expertise, including: Bowmer and Kirkland, Mercia Image Ltd, Greendog, Work Wallet, QSC Signs and Graphics, Total Hire and Sales, G Wathall and Son Ltd and Silver X Logistics.
They are also keen for other volunteers to be involved in the project, particularly in being able to act as information marshals at the sculpture. Full training will be provided and anyone interested is urged to make contact.
Anyone interested in volunteering, or representing a group that would like to be interested in the programme of activities, can contact the organising group on knifeangel@derbycathedral.org
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Home Arizona Tombstone History What Happened in June in Tombstone
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June 4, 1880 – John Clum was appointed postmaster of Tombstone.
June 22, 1880 – Mike Killeen attempted to ambush “Buckskin” Frank Leslie in the Cosmopolitan Hotel for having an affair with his wife, when George Perine walked in. A gunfight ensued and Mike was killed. Frank and George were arrested for murder, but the initial determination was that Frank had shot Mike in self-defense.
June 22, 1881 – While the bartender checked a bad barrel of liquor slated for return, an open flame from a match caused the fumes to ignite and fire to break out at the Arcade Saloon, located on the north side of Allen Street, between Fifth and Sixth. The resulting explosion and subsequent fire destroyed 66 stores, saloons, restaurants and other businesses in a four-block area.
June 28, 1881 – After the continued absence of Chief of Police Ben Sippy following a two-week leave, the city council appointed Virgil Earp as Tombstone’s new police chief.
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DFW Musicians Services, founded in 2000, serves the community of Dallas-Fort Worth and beyond with quality music in all genres and has enjoyed steady growth at the local, regional, and national levels.
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DFW Musicians Services specializes in large ensembles. but also contracts brass and woodwind quintets, string quartets, trios, and solo musicians for many events in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and beyond. No event is too big or too small, and there is no limitation on the type of group or style of music. The customization of each ensemble for the distinct characteristics of each event is the DFW Musicians Services trademark, as well as demonstrating versatility with all styles of music.
DFW Musicians Services contracts musicians for national Broadway tours, major stars on tour, major events at local arenas and stadiums, large-scale galas, anniversaries, as well as churches, recording projects, weddings, and other important family events.
National Broadway Tours in Dallas at the AT&T Performing Arts Center:
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Something Rotten
Dallas Theater Center in the Arts District of Dallas:
DreamGirls (June-July 2016)
Bella (Sept-Oct 2016)
DFWMS has contracted orchestras & ensembles for:
The Music Paradigm
Final Fantasy: A New World
Hans Zimmer Live
The Irish Tenors
At such major venues as . . .
American Airlines Center, Dallas
AT&T Stadium, Arlington
Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth
Levitt Pavillion, Arlington
Majestic Theater, Dallas
Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth
Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving
Grand Prairie Theatre (formerly Verizon Theatre), Grand Prairie
Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth
Winspear Opera House (ATTPAC), Dallas
Winstar World Casino, Thackerville, OK
DFWMS has participated in the galas
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Texas Ballet Theater
DFWMS is the home of North Texas Symphonic Brass.
DFWMS provided the talent for the opening video for the NFL Draft Day
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Dierks Bentley at the 50th-Anniversary Academy of Country Music Awards:
Superstar Duets was broadcast on CBS from AT&T Stadium on April 19, 2015.
In July 2014, DFWMS was the Music Coordinator for Prism Theatrics LLC’s inaugural production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the historic Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, TX.
In 2014, DFWMS became the home of the Dallas Festival Orchestra. In 2015, DFWMS became the home of the Metro Chamber Players.
DFWMS has contracted for grand-opening ceremonies for the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, TX, featured one of her orchestras and the spectacular debut of the “Gala Girls,” which have performed from Florida to Las Vegas to AT&T (Cowboy) Stadium
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Tower Hamlets launches new training scheme for social workers
by Zoe Ettinger/ December 11, 2018/ Education, Local News, Tower Hamlets/ No Comments/
Sir Alan Wood. Pic: @towerhamletsnow
A new academy to train social workers as part of a borough-wide effort to improve children’s services has been launched by Tower Hamlets Council
The Tower Hamlets Social Work Academy (THSWA) will train prospective social workers in essential skills for child and family care.
The council has invested £250,000 in the new academy and will be working with universities to offer a range of recogniused qualifications, including a Masters degree.
The academy will partner with universities including Royal Holloway University of London, University of East London and London Metropolitan University, as well as offering learning online.
A list of the recognised training programmes and the qualifications offered. Pic: Tower Hamlets Council
Sir Alan Wood, 64, the former director for Children and Young People’s Services in Hackney, was the keynote speaker at the launch event and inaugurated the academy.
In his speech Wood said: “We need to develop a discourse about practice teaching and innovation in social work. Remember the central role we can play in people’s lives.”
The THSWA will use new research to deliver a style of practice tailored to individual needs. On their webpage, they explain their model focuses on “doing things with people, rather than for or to them, showing high levels of support and challenge”.
Students will be supported by individual experienced care workers who will serve as mentors and support for difficult cases.
At the end of their program students are provided with work experience through programs such as Step Up and Frontline , and are offered guaranteed interviews with potential employers.
Students will also engage in practice visits to local authorities where they can meet experienced care workers in the field.
Our Principal social worker Sam Nair is at #cclive18 meeting practitioners and new recruits to social work telling them how Tower Hamlets can offer support and a well paid career https://t.co/EkdLvLaGDV pic.twitter.com/inM1GM1XXv
— Tower Hamlets Council (@TowerHamletsNow) September 25, 2018
At the THSWA launch, Kane Smith, 23, a care-leaver who achieved a MSc in regenerative medicine and a research assistant at Bart’s Cancer Institute in Clerkenwell spoke about his experience growing up in Tower Hamlets and how social services helped his social mobility.
Smith said in Tower Hamlets there is a “great disparity between the rich and the poor.” Tower Hamlets has the highest rates of child poverty in England, meaning that many children are in need of care.
Smith said that care needs to be individualised to be successful. He said: “Don’t just manage, but look after children to facilitate their future prospects.”
Through social care services like Tower Hamlets WorkPath, Smith was able to gain the work experience he needed for his career in regenerative medicine. He said services like these are invaluable to children in care.
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Drapers Next Generation: I'd always wanted M&S job, says Kate Bostock
10 April 2014By Ana Santi
Coast chief executive Kate Bostock described being offered the top womenswear position at Marks & Spencer in 2004 as “the job I always wanted”.
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Speaking at the Drapers Next Generation Academy on the same day that M&S unveiled a slight improvement in its fourth-quarter clothing sales, Bostock recalled working under then chief executive Sir Stuart Rose as a great time in her career. “It was a difficult decision to leave George at Asda, but M&S and that womenswear job…”, she told delegates, saying it was too good an opportunity to miss. “I then took on kidswear too, as it wasn’t performing well, but it’s an important sector as it drives a lot of footfall. I also took over lingerie and then Stuart said I might as well take on menswear so it’s neat and tidy.”
Bostock went on to become the first woman in full-time employment to join the M&S executive board.
When asked her opinion on what the high street will look like in 10 years, Bostock said that the shopping experience will become important once again. “We need a new concept of fun, of interaction,” she said. “We’re ready for new experiences to get us all excited again, so I think interesting things will come back into the frame around experience.”
But Bostock insisted that investment in multichannel retailing will continue to be a priority for Coast. “I’d be lying if I didn’t say we were focusing on online. We’re not going to open lots more shops. Girls still love shopping but they don’t carry as many shopping bags as they used to.”
Bostock told delegates that there are “lots more opportunities now to get into buying” compared with when she started out 37 years ago. “There’s a plethora of choice of retailers. Get experience during your holidays. Get your CV out there. Get networking.”
Kate Bostock’s favourite anecdotes from her time at M&S
“I met lots of celebrities and even got the opportunity to snog Ryan Reynolds [who has fronted previous M&S campaigns]. I met all of the royal family and the Queen is the most amazing person to meet. I remember taking Camilla [Parker-Bowles] around M&S in Westfield and I can’t tell you how difficult it was to get her up to Per Una when she saw the wine section…. Kate Middleton was quite keen to do a job in fashion, so she came in a few times.”
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DOUGLAS HOOD10 April 2014 4:28 pm
A wonderfull lady full of passion and relevance when it comes to the Clothing Industry.
I am refering to Queen Bostock of course!!!
Mark Daynes11 April 2014 2:52 am
Having had the pleasure of working alongside Kate for many years at George, I agree that she is a true retailer full of passion and common sense, I would advise todays next generation to study Kates career and look at the drive, commitment and customer understanding she has. One of the best role models you could wish for.
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Audi to spend $60 billion on electric cars
German brand to accelerate e-tron development
Audi has hit the fast forward button on its development of future electric cars.
The German car maker announced this week it has pulled forward $20 billion in expenditure to create a wider range of e-tron-badged electric vehicles, as well as invest in factories and technologies that will help accelerate their development and production
Audi's new interim Bram Schot said the company will now spend more than $62 billion over the next five years, which will result in 20 electrified variants by 2025, half of which will be fully-electric e-tron models.
“This planning round bears a clear signature: We are taking a very systematic approach to electric mobility and will be much more focused in future," said Schot, who took over from Rupert Stadler after he was arrested by German police as part of an investigation into the diesel emissions scandal within teh Volkswagen Group.
"We are consistently prioritizing our resources for future-oriented products and services that are highly attractive and relevant to the market. With models such as the recently presented Audi e-tron GT concept, we want to electrify people again for Audi and at the same time be an agile and very efficient company.”
Audi e-tron GT concept revealed
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The e-tron GT Concept was revealed at the Los Angeles motor show last as a pre-production prototype, with confirmation it will be arrive in showrooms in 2020 alongside the e-tron Quattro SUV that lands next year.
Audi has also shown an e-tron supercar concept in the PB18 showcar at the Pebble Beach Concours in August, which could point to a battery-powered replacement for today's flagship R8.
Beyond the cars, Audi is pushing forward with the digitalization of its plants, and is expanding into new digital services such as “functions on demand”. It has also stated that its Transformation Plan will identify and discontinue "activities that are no longer relevant to customers".
This is great news from Audi, putting their money where their mouth is. And it follows on from their parent company's (VW) announcement that they are killin ... VIEW ALL
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The History of Rhinoplasty By Peter Brownrigg on October 14, 2016
Today, many people who are unhappy with the appearance of their nose turn to rhinoplasty to achieve their desired look. With rhinoplasty, subtle changes to the nose can help enhance facial balance and improve the profile. While modern rhinoplasty is both a science and nuanced art form, this wasn't always the case as you will find in this overview of the history of rhinoplasty from Ottawa, ON plastic surgeon Peter Brownrigg.
The Beginnings of Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty dates back to 3000 BCE in ancient Egypt, when a common punishment for criminals was cutting off the nose. As a result, Ancient Egyptian doctors developed procedures to rebuild the nose.
In 500 BCE, India followed a similar practice of cutting off the noses of criminals. Using a technique from the Egyptians, Sushruta, an Indian doctor, began reconstructing the noses. Sushruta is also credited with pioneering a new technique for rhinoplasty, called the forehead flap rhinoplasty, which laid the foundation for modern methods.
Rhinoplasty was also performed in the Roman Empire but with an emphasis on correcting congenital defects.
Rhinoplasty as Purely Reconstructive
Rhinoplasty continued to be used for reconstructive purposes as evidenced by the Italian surgeon Gasparo Tagliacozzi's medical text called The Surgery of Defects by Implantations, written in 1597. Tagliacozzi described in detail rhinoplasty procedures he performed on soldiers who suffered facial wounds in battle.
One technique in the text describes a case in which the patient's nose was reconstructed using a flap of skin from the bicep. The arm was attached to the patient's head for three weeks to allow the tissue to attach itself to the nose. After the tissue sufficiently attached, the arm was released and two additional weeks were needed to more finely shape the skin around the nose.
By the 1800s, rhinoplasty continued to be performed for reconstructive purposes. Most rhinoplasty procedures were performed on soldiers whose noses were destroyed during war.
Around 1815, German surgeon Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe pushed plastic surgery techniques forward, create the most advanced technique at the time, called free-graft nasal reconstruction.
In 1887, American surgeon John Orlando Roe performed the first closed rhinoplasty. He is also credited as the first surgeon to use rhinoplasty as a truly cosmetic treatment when he performed the procedure on a man who suffered from agoraphobia due to the appearance of his nose.
Rhinoplasty in the 20th Century and Beyond
Rhinoplasty continued to be performed to reconstruct damaged noses throughout the 20th century but, thanks to advances in surgical techniques, more surgeons began using rhinoplasty to address cosmetic issues. By the 1950s, rhinoplasty began to resemble the surgery as we know it today and was performed as a means to enhance the appearance, making it popular among those in Hollywood and the fashionable elite.
Today, rhinoplasty is still used to reconstruct damaged noses and deformities, as well as to improve breathing or enhance the overall appearance. Techniques have advanced, allowing for less invasive methods, reduced scarring, and faster recovery.
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GUEST POST Feminism: Still a taboo?
This post comes from Azita Jabbari-Arabzadeh.
Azita is originally from Iran and has lived in the UK for over 20 years. Her recent background is in human rights and she has worked in various sectors including education, charities and telecoms. Writing is one of her passions, where she feels she can reach out and connect.
In this post, she explores the links between religion and patriarchy, and reflects on her own experiences as a BAME woman in Scotland.
A few years ago I went back to university to study human rights and as a part of it I prepared my dissertation in the dynamics between women’s rights, globalisation and some religious beliefs about gender. Being a woman who considers herself a feminist, and originally coming from a religious country, this was an important topic to me.
Although I had never studied humanities previously, that research paper did very well, which made me proud. Because of the constraints of my study, I chose to research Christianity and Islam; as these are the two largest religions in Scotland, and ones where the role of women is often discussed, this gave me a lot to consider.
It seems to me that feminism is still a taboo among BAME communities, even in the West. I have noticed that when a woman stands up for her rights, especially if she complains that a man has shown misogynistic behaviour towards her, she is branded with the ‘man-hater’ title.
That is why I decided to share parts of my dissertation and my personal experiences, in order to challenge this misconception. I stand up for women’s rights often, but I certainly don’t hate men. I adored my father, perhaps even more than I did my mother. Growing up, I got on well with my brothers, definitely better than I did with my sister, and in workplaces, I have generally (not intentionally) collaborated better with male colleagues. So, I find the accusation of being a ‘man-hater’ at best a childish and otherwise an offensive remark.
I would like to start by pointing out the views of a few feminist and theological writers, who explored the intersection between some religions and women’s rights.
Mary John Mananzan claims that the misogynistic attitude of the fathers of the early Church, in spite of the respectful and humane way Jesus treated women, became the basis of how women would be thought of and treated for centuries. She brings several examples including one from St Augustine: 'We are men, you are women, we are the head, you are the members, we are masters, you are slaves'. She suggests this type of attitude towards women in the late and early Church has contributed to the stereotyped ideas about women including their 'susceptibility to victimization'.
This is also documented as acts of violence against women during the inquisition, Mananzan highlights. Inquisition (as defined by dictionary.com) is ‘The court established by the Roman Catholic Church in the thirteenth century to try cases of heresy and other offenses against the church. Those convicted could be handed over to the civil authorities for punishment, including execution’.
Mananzan reports that women who did not fit the roles allocated to them by the Church were hunted and even burned by the inquisition. The most modest estimate was that about 2 million women were killed, after being tortured between the 12th and 17th century, including Joan of Arc.
On Islam’s effect on women’s rights, Anna King states that in early Islam until right after the death of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), women enjoyed participation in all community affairs, but later on Islam moved away from the Quranic teachings about women and started to seclude and silence women.
Ann Mayer analyses the varied approach to women's rights taken by different Muslim-majority countries and concludes that in all of these approaches, women are not acknowledged or treated like 'fully equal human beings' who deserve the same rights as men. The reader is reminded that this treatment of women is contrary to the way Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) treated women, including his wife Khadija and his daughter Fatima, as it is well-documented in Islamic literature.
Jane Bayes and Nayereh Tohidi argue that it is because of so-called feminine functions namely 'motherhood, domesticity and nurturing' that women are seen as less logical and weak, and hence unable to participate in public or political activities in their own right; they can only act in a 'complementary' role to men, not as equal to them.
I believe that the nurturing and motherhood roles, which are associated with women across the centuries and cultures, have indirectly given rise to the belief about feminists being man-haters. This is because when a woman is not nurturing or ‘mother-like’ and instead she is assertive, asking for her rights and perhaps looking annoyed or angry, she seems like a ‘mad-feminist’ or ‘man-hater’ to some of the believers of above mentioned religious beliefs.
In my opinion, women who are afraid of feminism and have accepted their role as only complementary to men’s, criticise themselves and other women for not having the characteristics that misogynistic men like them to possess. Some examples of this attitude would be: women calling each other ‘fat’, if not model-like thin; ‘aggressive’ for being assertive; and ‘not good wives or mothers’ for concentrating on careers.
I have found that when I raised issues regarding male colleagues, mostly from the Middle-East or Asia to my male managers, where colleagues were acting in a misogynistic manner, not only the issue didn’t get resolved properly but it caused my male managers, who previously had good working relationships with me, to start suspecting me of being a man-hater!
I was expected to act like a forgiving mother. It seemed like as a BAME woman, I was expected to be even more ‘understanding’ and submissive, which represents the intersectionality of racism and sexism. I was to just smile and ignore the misogynistic comments and basically treat them like men with ‘boyish’ attitudes, even though the comments had made me lose my self-confidence, at least temporarily, and left longer-lasting marks subconsciously. That is what these kind of negative comments, that are usually about looks, age, size, or level of intelligence, do to women.
Among BAME women and men, the intersectionality of religion or culture and sexism have caused further prejudicial behaviour like this. As explored above, misinterpretations of most religions also has caused further hatred towards feminists.
Additionally, it should be stated that women’s rights have been impacted negatively regarding their equality within the society, by the way religion has told women to behave. It is worth mentioning that women in Glasgow recently had to protest against pay inequality after decades of unfair treatment while performing the sorts of caring, nurturing roles that we are expected to perform.
I would like to leave you with a thought-provoking quote by Anna King presenting the intersectionality of politics and women’s rights, as:
“Islam is no more and often less oppressive to women than most world religions, and that religions like ideologies are used to justify and maintain control in a particular social structure, whether that of capitalism, feudalism or patriarchy”.
Bayes, J.H. & N. Tohidi (2001) 'Women Redefining Modernity And Religion In The Globalized Context ‘, in Bayes, J.H. & N. Tohidi eds. Globalization, Gender And Religion: The Politics Of Women's Rights In Catholic And Muslim Contexts, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan.
King, A. (2009) 'Islam, Women and Violence', Feminist Theology, 17, no. 3, 292-328.
Mananzan, Sr. M. J. (2002) 'Women in the Catholic Church ‘, in Ahmed, D. ed. Gendering the Spirit: Women and Religion, London: Zed Books Ltd, Ch. 3
Mananzan, Sr. M. J. (2002) 'Theological Reflections on Violence Against Women: A Catholic Perspective ‘, in Ahmed, D. ed. Gardening the Spirit: Women and Religion, London: Zed Books Ltd, Ch. 11
Mayer, A. E (1998) Islam And Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, Boulder: Westview Press Inc. (first published 1990), Ch. 6.
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