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Amazon Workers Strike on Black Friday in Italy and Germany
Post on: November 27, 2017
Diego Lotito
On Black Friday, workers from the distributions centers in Germany and northern Italy went on strike to demand better salaries.
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The strike began on Friday morning and ended the morning after, affecting Amazon’s ability to meet the demand of e-commerce sales on Black Friday. While Thanksgiving celebration remains a U.S. cultural holiday, Black Friday, which marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the U.S., has become a European tradition. For Amazon, a multinational, mass profits are generated during this time that begins on Black Friday and ends on what has been called “Cyber Monday” — a time of unbridled consumerism. This year, workers in Europe threw a wrench into this profit-generating machine.
In Germany, the spokesman of Ver.Di, a German trade union based in Berlin, told the press that around 2,500 employees went on strike in the distribution centers in Bad Hersfeld, Leipzig, Rheinberg, Werne, Graben and Coblenz.
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Amazon “wants to make record of sales on this day but workers have to make record performance every day for everything to work as Amazon wants” said Stefanie Nutzenberger, member of the board of Ver.Di.
Since 2013, Ver.Di has struggled for better salaries and working conditions for the approximately 12,000 employees in Germany. According to the union, Amazon’s workers receive lower salaries than those of similar companies. Amazon maintains that it is a “fair and responsible” employer and that it offers “attractive jobs”. Amazon has enjoyed enormous growth, but workers don’t see any of those profits. This is true around the world– not only in Germany and Italy, but in the United States as well (see chart below).
There were solidarity actions held by about 400 people in Berlin and in Leipzig, both organized by the “Make Amazon Pay” alliance. Amazon workers from Poland also attended the action to highlight that they too are struggling for better salaries and working conditions. In Germany, however, the labor movements were the most consequential. Strikers blocked the distribution centers and managed to prevent the dispatch of products for a brief period of time
In Italy, the strike was supported by the several unions ( CGIL, CISL, UIL, UGL etc), and affected a distribution center in the northern part of the country. There, Amazon workers have to literally run around the worksite to keep up with the work rhythm imposed by the company.
The SiCobas union, active in the logistics district of Piacenza, organized a picket to block the movement of the goods so that the company’s operations be really affected. Around 300 workers participated in the blockade. Despite union opposition, around 130 workers from other nearby warehouses joined the picket.
The simultaneous strikes organized by German and Italian Amazon workers interrupted Amazon’s global operations. While the outcomes of these protests are still difficult to foresee, the momentum of these local events may impact the conditions of workers around the world.
This article was originally published on La Izquierda Diario . It was translated by Nicolas Tesla.
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Looking through the STEAM
The Royal Society piloted a new science imagery competition this year, of course LEH students stepped up to the photographic plate. Sanjana (LIVL) and Catherine (UIVX) both submitted the photo’s below – and won book prizes! Catherine also made a submission to Surrey University’s picture competition: (see the last photo in the set.)
The first photograph highlights the explosive nature of the geysers in Iceland. This is an image of the geyser at its highest point. Geysers are a quite rare phenomenon on Earth due to the precise conditions that are required for them to form. They are mainly clustered near active volcanic areas. The image was achieved by waiting for 3-5 minutes and then waiting for the steam to reach its peak. It was taken on an iPhone 6s+ camera and small tonal edits were made using the adobe photoshop app.
The second image is of the glacier in Vatnajökull. It highlights the path which the glacier took. Vatnajökull is Europe’s largest glacier and formed 2,500 years ago but 300 years ago, it almost disappeared altogether. It is now considerably smaller than it was several years ago. There were no technical difficulties with this image and it was taken much like any other image. It was taken with an iPhone 6s+ camera. There were small tonal edits made in this image using the adobe photoshop app.
My final image of the icebergs in Jokulsarlon. These icebergs were made from an outlet in the glacier Vatnajökull. As the glacier melts, more ice and water flow down to create the Jokulsarlon icebergs. This image was achieved by standing on top of a hill and crouching down to click the image. It was taken by an iPhone 6s+ camera and crops and minor tonal adjustments were made using the adobe photoshop app.
My first photograph shows a bumble bee of the Bombus Hortorum species collecting nectar from a nectary deep in the flower of a Prunus Hillieri Spire species of shrub. As it feeds on the sugary liquid nectar at the base of the flower, the bumble bee’s body contacts the yellow pollen grains on the flower’s anther. The bee then flies to another flower of the same plant and by searching for nectar again, deposits this pollen onto the stigma of the adjacent flower, causing self-pollination to occur. Subsequently the male pollen grain grows a tubule which grows down to the flower’s ovary, delivering pollen into the ovule. Once the pollen and ovule have come together, fertilization occurs, and the ovules will develop into seeds.
The photograph was taken in Sunbury Walled Garden using an iPhone SE. The Bombus Hortorum Bee is recognised by the two distinct yellow bands on its thorax. It has a slimmer body and longer head than the Bombus Terrestris and Lucorum species and often keeps its long tongue extended whilst flying. The Prunus Hillieri Spire shrub flowers in May and is a species of Japanese Cherry Shrub.
Cosmonauts: The Birth of the Space Age
This photograph highlights the intellectual, scientific and engineering successes of the twentieth century Russian Space Program and the outstanding collection of Russian space artifacts from the London Science Museum ‘Cosmonaut’ Exhibition.
The photographic artifacts include the Vostok 6 capsule flown by Valentina Tereshkova; the first woman in space; the Voskhod 1 capsule used to carry more than one crew member; the LK-3 Lunar Lander, built to compete with Apollo and the gold phantom mannequin made in the image of Yuri Gagarin, flown around the Moon on Zond-7 (1969), to test effects of radiation.
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The Astounding Broccoli Boy
Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
Illustrated by Steven Lenton
The Astounding Broccoli Boy Synopsis
Find out why it's not easy being green in the hilarious story from Frank Cottrell Boyce: The Astounding Broccoli Boy! Illustrated throughout by Steven Lenton. Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for all eventualities. His favourite book is Don't Be Scared, Be Prepared, and he has memorized every page of it. He could even survive a hippo attack. He knows that just because something is unlikely doesn't mean it won't ever happen . . . But Rory isn't prepared when he suddenly and inexplicably turns green. Stuck in an isolation ward in a hospital far from home with two other remarkably green children, Rory's as confused by his new condition as the medics seem to be. But what if it's not in their genes, or a virus, or something they ate? What if turning green actually means you've turned into a superhero? Rory can't wait to make it past hospital security and discover exactly what his superpower might be . . . The Astounding Broccoli Boy is an irreverently funny adventure from the Carnegie Medal winning author of Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce.
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Family and friends, the power of the imagination, tackling bullies and learning that real heroes come in every shape and size are just some of the themes covered in this delightful, laugh-out-loud reading odyssey which has been brought to glorious life by Steven Lenton's quirky illustrations and is guaranteed to enchant both children and parents. * Lancashire Evening Post * This is classic Cottrell Boyce: brilliantly funny, believable and very human. * The Bookseller *
Publication date: 26th March 2015
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
Illustrator: Steven Lenton
Publisher: Campbell Books Ltd an imprint of Pan Macmillan
About Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Cosmic, Framed and The Astounding Broccoli Boy. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth was shortlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal and selected for the inaugural W H Smith Tom Fletcher Book Club. Frank is a judge for the ...
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Persons with Disability in the Philippines (Results from the 2010 Census)
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Philippines: An Analysis of Government Support and Disability-Related Costs in Eastern Samar and Rizal Provinces
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The responsibility to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in disasters and crises
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Research results of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response before, during and after disasters in Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines
This report contributes new evidence on why and how sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) risks increase during humanitarian disasters. It details how humanitarian actors can better prevent and respond to such escalation of SGBV, and better meet the needs of affected women, girls, men and boys. This research is based on community views of disaster-affected women, adolescent girls, men and adolescent boys in three South-East Asian countries: Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines.
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National Baseline Study on Violence against Children: Philippines. Executive Summary
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National Baseline Study on Violence against Children: Philippines. Recommendations
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Child Poverty in the Philllippines
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Breaking Bad supported internet Piracy?
The entertainment industry has been getting a little more comfortable with praising the benefits of online piracy, and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is the latest to speak to its brighter side. "[It] led to a lot of people watching the series who otherwise would not have," Gilligan tells the BBC. Gilligan has previously remarked that TV binge-watching was a large factor in getting viewers wrapped up in his show, noting in May that Netflix in particular brought about an "amazing nitrous-oxide boost of energy and public awareness" that the series was able to take advantage of.
But while Breaking Bad may have benefited from the added buzz generated by piracy as well, Gilligan isn't strictly thrilled that viewers didn't choose another avenue to watch his show through. "The downside is a lot of folks who worked on the show would have made more money, myself included, if all those downloads had been legal," he tells the BBC. The series' finale alone was downloaded over half a million times within just 12 hours of airing. While AMC did sell the series online, it chose not to offer a free, ad-supported stream of it as many other networks do with their own shows, removing a potential avenue to gain viewers who don't want to pay.
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On this episode of the OVERTIME, Mike and Nappier of WFOD, sit in with Matt and Mark and discuss the origins of the name for their podcast. Then the gentlemen get into some letters from the listeners where Mike is put on the spot of whether he would let good ole MOM in on some of his dads shenanigans or not. Plus Nappier brings the show to an end the only way he could possibly know how!
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Famed hitchhiker 'Kai' arrested in Philadelphia, charged in Clark lawyer's murder
They met, an unlikely pair, in Times Square last Saturday night.
One, a 73-year-old partner in a Rahway law firm and member of his hometown’s Chamber of Commerce, the other a 24-year-old itinerant with long hair and a penchant for upturning convention that had landed him a minor internet presence.
Their rendezvous, most of it later spent in and around Joseph Galfy Jr.’s ranch-style house on Starlite Drive in Clark, would last about 24 hours, until sometime Sunday evening when, authorities said, their encounter turned violent after a sexual tryst.
On Monday afternoon, Galfy, a partner at Kochanski, Baron and Galfy, was found dead in his bed, severely beaten, clothed only in underwear and socks, Union County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow said yesterday.
Detectives later determined Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, better known by his online persona, "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker," had killed the man who was more than three times his age.
At around 6:30 Thursday, McGillvary was arrested at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Philadelphia by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, and has been charged in Galfy’s death, Romankow said in a statement.
McGillvary will be processed in Philadelphia and returned to New Jersey in the coming days, Romankow said. Bail was previously set at $3 million and he will be lodged in the Union County Jail in Elizabeth, he said.
During the earlier news conference in Elizabeth, Romankow did not indicate how authorities came to suspect McGillvary, who he said should be considered "armed and dangerous." Romankow also said authorities don’t yet know how the two came to meet in Times Square.
They returned to Galfy’s home, detectives determined, where McGillvary spent the night. Romankow said Galfy, the attorney for the Green Brook land use board, drove McGillvary to the Rahway Train station Sunday morning, from where the younger man left for Asbury Park.
McGillvary returned to Rahway later in the day. After exchanging text messages, Galfy picked him up and brought him back to his house.
Romankow said the killing happened sometime that evening.
In a Facebook entry Tuesday, McGillvary, posting under the name Caleb Kai Lawrence Yodhehwawheh, intimates he was drugged and sexually assaulted, but does not say where or when the incident took place.
"what would you do if you woke up with a groggy head, metallic taste in your mouth, in a strangers house ... and started wretching, realizing that someone had drugged (and) raped ... you? what would you do?" the post reads.
Romankow called the post "pretty much self-serving."
An autopsy completed Tuesday determined Galfy died of blunt force trauma, the prosecutor said. He declined to comment on what was used to beat Galfy or say if anything was take from the house.
He did say the killing, "was thought out."
"He’s been known to use the back of a hatchet," Romankow said, a reference to McGillvary’s stopping a deadly attack earlier this year in California by pummeling a man with his hatchet, an event that gained McGillvary internet notoriety.
After killing Galfy, the prosecutor said, McGillvary called a woman, whom Romankow identified only identify as "Fan 1," asking her to pick him up. She couldn’t.
McGillvary later returned to the train station and again traveled to Asbury Park, where he and the woman met for lunch on Monday.
The woman, whom authorities have interviewed, told detectives McGillvary had cut his hair.
At about the same time, Clark police discovered Galfy’s body. Officers had gone to his home after he failed to show up for work or answer his phone.
McGillvary and the woman spent the rest of the day in Philadelphia, before making their way her hometown of Glassboro, Romankow said. Although she wanted McGillvary to stay at her house, her family resisted and she called another woman, identified by the prosecutor as "Fan 2," who let McGillvary stay at her house, also in Glassboro.
The other woman has also been interviewed, Romankow said. Neither is facing charges, he said.
On Tuesday, McGillvary left for Philadelphia, indicating he could be going to see friends in Georgia, the prosecutor said.
McGillvary, who is also known as Kai Lawrence, Caleb Kai Lawrence and Kai Nicodemus, lists Eureka, Calif., as his hometown on his Facebook page. But he is by all accounts without a known address, the prosecutor said. His freewheeling disposition earned him some fame and several television appearances in February after he was picked up while hitchhiking by a man who then nearly killed a utility worker. McGillvary used the hachet to thwart the attacker.
McGillvary later gave a rambling, profanity-laced interview to a Fresno, Calif., television station about the incident. The interview went viral, with one version viewed more than 3.9 million times on YouTube. He later appeared on ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
Kimmel asked him what people were saying to him since the Feb. 1 incident.
"Hey, you’re Kai, that dude with the hatchet," he responded.
Romankow said McGillvary, who said in his TV appearance he prefers to be called "home-free" instead of homeless, traded on his newfound celebrity to meet fans across the country. It is not known whether Galfy was aware of McGillvary’s fame.
News that Galfy’s suspected killer had been arrested brought little comfort for his longtime friend and neighbor, former Clark Mayor Robert Ellenport.
"There’s no closure in this type of grisly murder. You are never going to have closure (but) this is a step in the right direction," Ellenport said last night, hours after attending Galfy’s wake in Watchung.
"Knowing the kind of person Joe was and his generosity, it’s unfathomable," said Ellenport, who had known Galfy for more than 25 years, the last decade or so as next-door neighbors. "It’s just tragic."
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Modine Displays Electric Vehicle and Commercial Ve
Modine Displays Electric Vehicle and Commercial Vehicle Solutions at the 2018 IAA Event
Published by Stephen | On Oct-2018
Modine Manufacturing Company, an expanded global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, demonstrated traditional and EV solutions for Commercial Vehicle, Bus, and Specialty Vehicle sections at the 2018 IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hannover, Germany last month. Modine is well suited to serve this next generation of commercial vehicles by using existing EV and current product platforms, and applying those technological advancements to the Off-Highway and Commercial Vehicle segments.
Electrification is a growing trend for Commercial Vehicle, Off-Highway and Automotive segments, and encompasses both fully electric and hybrid power-trains. Electric vehicle was a popular topic highlighted throughout the IAA show as well as at the Modine display. Visitors to the Modine booth showed great interest in both Modine's heat exchanger components and its fully integrated thermal management solutions for both EV and the latest generation of Commercial Vehicles.
Modine is leveraging patented technology to become a market leader in the electrification of Specialty Vehicles. As Off-Highway vehicles continue to move towards electrification, there will be a need for more onboard power electronics to support vehicle functions, particularly to support autonomous movement. Existing Modine technology will continue to provide innovative thermal management solutions for these needs as well.
"Modine has been providing innovative thermal management solutions to Off-Highway customers for more than 100 years," said Joel Casterton, Vice President, Vehicular Thermal Solutions. "There have been many changes in technology during that time, but our relationships with the leading global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in this market remain as strong as ever. As these customers develop cutting-edge electric vehicles, we are pleased that they have again chosen Modine as their partner to develop and industrialize the thermal management technology that they need."
These product platforms can transcend EV Powertrains and Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) allowing Modine to enhance offerings to long-standing customers and new partners alike. Modine is actively working with several customers to provide the thermal management solutions needed for a number of EV applications across construction, mining and agriculture markets. Solutions are also in place for Battery Conditioning and Electric Motor Cooling.
"We are very excited about new technology focused on the electrification of Heavy Duty Vehicles and are well positioned to execute on this technical trend," said Scott Wollenberg, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer. "We are even more excited that it uses similar 'building blocks' as the technology used on ICE vehicles allowing us to be very competitive through reuse or redeployment of existing company assets."
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New website www.michigan.gov/mileadsafe launches to show drinking water testing results and inform Michiganders how to continue to protect themselves from lead exposure.
Lansing, Mich. -- Today Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a public awareness campaign surrounding new water sampling rules under the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) will work concurrently to implement new water sampling rules while increasing communication to Michigan residents about how and why these testing changes are occurring to their drinking water. Under the Governor’s leadership, state agencies are dedicating resources to communities where higher lead levels are found, including offering water filters for vulnerable populations; investigating lead sources in homes; and increasing support to local public health agencies.
“When state agencies and local communities work together to protect public health, we can ensure that every Michigander has access to safe, clean drinking water,” said Whitmer. “My administration continues to work towards real and permanent solutions that ensure every Michigander can bathe their kids and give them a glass of water at the dinner table safely. These changes to the Michigan Safe Drinking Act help build that confidence."
The testing changes now require that lead sampling must be taken from both the first liter and fifth liter water draw. By testing that fifth liter of water, it shows lead results that might be farther upstream in the water supply that is coming into homes.
“These improved requirements will likely produce results with increased lead levels, not because residents water quality has changed, but because we have tightened our testing standards. These changes will result in additional data allowing us to improve water quality for all Michiganders,” said EGLE Director Liesl Clark. “By implementing these changes, we can better protect Michiganders against lead exposure in drinking water.”
With the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act, our state now has some of the strongest protections in the United States against lead in drinking water, with the goal to steadily reduce, and ultimately eliminate, lead pipes used for drinking water.
Changes to the Michigan Safe Drinking Water Act were approved in 2018. The rule now requires:
The removal of all lead service lines in Michigan. Water supplies are required to replace an average of 5 percent of their lead services line every year for the next 20 years unless an alternative schedule is approved by EGLE.
Communities locate and prioritize lead service lines for removal.
The Action Level for lead in drinking water be lowered from the current level of 15 parts per billion (ppb) to 12 ppb on January 1, 2025.
The banning of partial lead service line replacements.
Complete service line material inventories be submitted to EGLE by January 1, 2025.
“Our highest priority is to protect public health and keep Michigan families safe,” said MDHHS Director Robert Gordon. "We’re committed to protecting the public from lead exposure by coordinating with other state departments and local communities to reduce or eliminate all sources of lead found in Michigan homes.”
The State will work closely with local water authorities to rapidly respond to any test results showing high lead levels, including enforcing steps to lower lead levels that are required by State regulation. The Governor has secured supplemental funding that will further bolster response efforts in communities where high lead levels are found by increasing support for local public health agencies, educating families, offering water filters to vulnerable populations, and investigating homes with high lead test results. These steps would help protect families while changes to improve water quality are made.
In an effort to increase transparency and communication, EGLE and MDHHS have launched a new website, www.michigan.gov/mileadsafe, which provide lead and copper data results for communities and up-to-date information on how Michiganders can protect themselves from lead exposure.
To allow for further education and conversation surrounding these changes to the Michigan Safe Drinking Water, EGLE and MDHHS will be hosting three virtual town halls on July 9, 10, and 11.
Michiganders can take part in these virtual townhalls by going to the www.michigan.gov/mileadsafe website on 6pm on July 9, 10, and 11th.
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Luton (UK) Mawlid Programme
Date: Saturday 15 May 2004
Venue: Jubilee Community Centre, Luton
Talawah: Rabiah Iqbal (aged 6)
Urdu speech: Alima Faiza Qadri
English Speech: Sister Khadijah Atkinson
Organizers: Respected Sisters: Tanveer, Kulsum, Sayida Bi Bi, Niaz, Mrs Shah, Nazir, Shahida, Fazal Noor,
Alhamdulillah by the blessings of Almighty Allah and His beloved Prophet (saw) approximately 200 women of both youth & older participants gathered to participate in this blessed programme
The programme commenced with talawah and the Qasida Burda Sharif (Poem of the Scarf). Sister Faiza addressed the gathering by highlighting the importance of sending Daroods on the Blessed Prophet (saw).
Sister Khadijah addressed the gathering on the topic of the struggles and life of the Holy Prophet (saw). She addressed the importance of looking at the situation of our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world, and relating it to our own. The English lecture also highlighted the importance of working for our Akhira (hereafter).
Sister Faiza addressed the gathering in Urdu and stressed the importance of love for our Beloved Prophet (saw). The gathering was urged to educate themselves and their children in Islamic Knowledge so they would have the foundation to protect themselves from the devil that waits at every corner. It was emphasised that Allah (swt) does not change the condition of a nation unless they change themselves.
Alhamdulillah, many sisters requested Minhaj ul Quran membership forms. Books by Shaykh-ul-Islam, Dr. Muhammad Tahir- ul- Qadri were sold. Free Minhaj-ul-Qur�an introductory packs were also distributed.
Food was distributed and melodious nasheeds were recited late into the evening.
We would like to thank all those who went to great efforts in preparing and organizing this special programme. We pray that Allah (swt) gives you the towfeeq (ability) to organise more blessed Mawlid programmes in the future Insha�Allah. Ameen.
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Modernizing Medicine’s modmed® Kiosk Receives the People’s Choice Award at the 2017 UX Awards
Physician efficiency and patient empowerment focus of easy-to-use, interactive application
Boca Raton, Fla. – November 16, 2017 – Specialty-specific health information technology leader, Modernizing Medicine, Inc., announced its modmed Kiosk solution has won the People’s Choice Award at The 6th UX Awards Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. The Overall People’s Choice Award is chosen by the UX Awards community as the overall favorite, based on highest average vote by popular vote.
A native iPad application, modmed Kiosk is designed for patients to perform self-service tasks, such as completing patient intake forms, at the doctor’s office. Kiosk is designed to empower providers to engage patients early on and directly involve them in their own care, reduce potential errors from illegible documentation while populating the patient’s electronic health record. Patients can tap through intuitive prompts on the iPad, allowing them to instantly access and update their personal, medical and pharmacy information rather than filling out cumbersome paperwork.
Nathan Cleaver, D.O., Cleaver Dermatology shared, “modmed Kiosk is simple to use and has saved us between 10 to 15 minutes per new patient. Our medical staff can now focus on the patients and not on the paperwork.”
The award was received by members of the UX team including, Mike Carter, Mobile Technical Lead; Busra Demirci, Senior User Experience Designer, Andrew Schall, User Experience Manager, and Mihai Fonoage, Associate Vice President of Mobile Strategy & UX.
“modmed Kiosk is another major step in our company’s efforts to achieve a paperless medical practice,” said Mihai Fonoage, associate vice president of mobile strategy and user experience at Modernizing Medicine. “With our development of Kiosk, we focused on the empathetic approach of the patient experience with a user design methodology. By doing this and offering Kiosk, we help to empower the patient to become part of the larger healthcare conversation.”
This technology comes at a good time for both patients and physicians. Patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the amount of time and effort they’re spending on recounting medical information and waiting in doctors’ offices or pharmacies, according to a recent study.*
The UX Awards Summit Conference celebrates and showcases the most innovative people, products and processes of next-generation digital product, customer experience, interaction, service, integrated industrial-digital and experience design. The conference aims to inspire technologists to create human-centered products that solve real problems. To learn more about the UX Awards, please visit the organization online at https://userexperienceawards.com/.
To learn more about Modernizing Medicine and Kiosk, please visit the company at www.modmed.com and www.modmed.com/kiosk. You can read and watch the complete video submission and case study here.
About Modernizing Medicine
Modernizing Medicine® and its affiliated companies are transforming how healthcare information is created, consumed and utilized in order to increase practice efficiency and improve patient outcomes. Our specialty-specific, data-driven and cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) and practice management (PM) systems, plus revenue cycle management (RCM) services, were built by a team including specialty physicians and practice management professionals. Our suite of products and services is designed to transform the clinical, financial and operational aspects of dermatology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pain management, plastic surgery and urology practices. We also offer products designed specifically for ambulatory surgery centers. For more information, please visit www.modmed.com. Connect with Modernizing Medicine on our Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Modernizing Medicine is a member of CommonWell Health Alliance.**
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Micky Dolenz And Michael Nesmith Set To Launch “An Evening With The Monkees” Tour And Release Their First Live Album On April 3, 2020
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Leleti Khumalo is a Actor Sud africaine born on 30 march 1970 at Durban (South africa)
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Leleti Khumalo (born 1970) is a Zulu South African actress known for her leading role in the movie and stage play Sarafina! and for her roles in other films such as Hotel Rwanda, Yesterday and Invictus.
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Elle a été mariée à l'acteur Mbongeni Ngema.
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Africa United (2010)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Association football films, Erotic thriller films, Enfant soldat
Actors Leleti Khumalo
Rating64%
The story begins in Rwanda where a football fanatic Dudu Kayenzi is teaching a group of children how to make an "organic football" using a UN condom, plastic bag and string. Meanwhile, his best friend and football prodigy Fabrice longs to pursue his ambition of becoming an association football legend and is seen breaking the local record for the most continuous football kick-ups. When Fabrice is offered the chance to audition for the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa, he fabricates a plan to sneak past his strict, wealthy parents with Dudu and Dudu's sister Beatrice. Beatrice wishes to become a doctor and find a cure for AIDS. Fabrice tries to express his love of football to his mother, but she simply replies "Africa doesn't need dreams, it needs to wake up".
Invictus (2009)
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Sports films, Rugby, Political films, Rugby à XV
Actors Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood, Adjoa Andoh, Leleti Khumalo, Julian Lewis Jones
Roles Mary
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in jail. Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. His presidency faces enormous challenges in the post-Apartheid era, including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particularly concerned about racial divisions between black and white South Africans, which could lead to violence. The ill will which both groups hold towards each other is seen even in his own security detail where relations between the established white officers, who had guarded Mandela's predecessors, and the black ANC additions to the security detail, are frosty and marked by mutual distrust.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Directed by Terry George
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Jean Reno, David O'Hara
Roles Fedens
Tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples lead to a war in Rwanda, where corruption and bribes between politicians are routine. Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle), the manager of the Sabena owned Hôtel des Mille Collines, is Hutu, but his wife Tatiana (Okonedo), is Tutsi. His marriage is a source of friction with Hutu extremists, most prominently Georges Rutaganda (Kae-Kazim), a friendly goods supplier to the hotel who is also the local leader of Interahamwe, a brutal Hutu militia.
Directed by Darrell Roodt
Origin South africa
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Roles Yesterday
Yesterday is a Zulu mother living with her seven-year-old daughter, Beauty, in their rural village of Rooihoek (English translation means literally "red corner"), in Zululand, South Africa. Every day of her life is spent in the hard work of tilling the field to plant enough food for them, fetching water, cutting firewood and hauling it home, all while also trying to keep her daughter stimulated and occupied. She strikes up a friendship with the new teacher who arrives in the village.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Charles S. Dutton, Vusi Kunene, Leleti Khumalo
Le jeune pasteur Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) se rend à Johannesburg pour y retrouver son fils disparu. Arrivé là-bas il rencontre la misère et apprend que son fils est devenu un criminel recherché pour meurtre, et que sa sœur a été contrainte de se prostituer.
Sarafina! (1992)
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba
Roles Sarafina
The plot centres on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools.
Voices of Sarafina! (1988)
Directed by Nigel Noble
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
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A woman on the run uncovers a series of deadly secrets
Jude found the rambling old bookshop when she visited last summer, the high point of a miserable vacation. Now, in the depths of winter, Lowell's store is a warm, safe place.
Jude needs a bolt-hole, Lowell needs an assistant, and when an affordable rental is thrown in, life begins to look up. The gravedigger's cottage isn't perfect for a woman alone, but at least she has quiet neighbors.
Quiet, but not silent. The long dead and the books they left behind have tales to tell, and the bookshop is not the haven it seems to be. Lowell's past and Jude's present are a dangerous blend of secrets and lies, and someone is coming to light the taper that could destroy everything.
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"McPherson is a master of slightly creepy narratives that are complex and character driven."--Library Journal (starred review)
Catriona McPherson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the author of several standalone novels for Midnight Ink. She is a four-time winner of the Lefty Award, three-time winner of the Macavity Award, two-time winner of the Agatha Award, and two-time winner of the Anthony Award. Additionally, she has been a finalist or shortlist honoree for more than a dozen major awards. Catriona also writes the Dandy Gilver historical mystery series (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books). She is the past president of Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Davis, California.
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Aerobic training causes changes in central factors such as the heart and blood volume, which result in a higher maximum oxygen uptake 57 . A significant number of peripheral adaptations also occur with this type of training 58 . The training leads to a proliferation of capillaries and an elevation of the content of mito-chondrial enzymes, as well as the activity of lactate dehydrogenase 1-2 isozymes (LDHj ). Furthermore, the mitochondrial volume and the capacity of one of the shuttle systems for NADH are elevated 59 . These changes cause marked alterations in muscle metabolism. The overall effects are an enhanced oxidation of lipids and sparing of glycogen, as well as a lowered lactate production, both at a given and at the same relative work-rate 58 . The recovery processes from intense exercise are related both to the oxidative potential and to the number of capillaries in the muscles 62 . Thus, aerobic training not only improves endurance performance of an athlete, but also appears...
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Exercise, while discouraged when the patient is acutely decompensated to ease cardiac workload, is recommended when patients are stable. The heart is a muscle that requires activity to prevent atrophy. In addition, exercise improves peripheral muscle conditioning and efficiency, which may contribute to better exercise tolerance despite the low CO state. Regular, low-intensity aerobic exercise that includes walking, swimming, or riding a bike is encouraged, while heavy weight training is discouraged. The prescribed exercise regimen needs to be tailored to the individual's functional ability, and thus it is suggested that patients participate in cardiac rehabilitation programs, at least initially. It is important that patients not overexert themselves to fatigue or exertional dyspnea.
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If surgery is performed, the athlete is transformed from an athletic person (with the healthy self-image associated with physical activity) to a bedridden, disabled patient. To counteract the negative aspects of this stage (from both a physical and psychological standpoint), it is necessary to initiate a program of rehabilitation goals. Providing an athlete with well-leg aerobic workouts following knee surgery encourages a goal-seeking attitude and helps the athlete maintain aerobic conditioning. In addition, setting appropriate goals for the injured area, for example, achieving a certain range of motion or level of exer-cise intensity, permits the patient to take an active part in treatment and assume a level of control over the postoperative environment.
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Cardiovascular deconditioning develops secondary to inactivity in patients with chronic low back pain. Aerobic training to improve cardiovascular endurance is an extremely important part of rehabilitation of the low back. Heart-rate limitations for patients with known or suspected cardiac disease are based on stress testing. Aerobic training (i.e. treadmill, bike, stepper, arm and leg ergometer, walking, jogging, swimming) has multiple beneficial effects
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The mainstay of physical therapy for this condition emphasizes flexion exercises, back strengthening, and aerobic conditioning. Aerobic conditioning can be somewhat problematic in this population, but exercises performed in flexion, such as stationary bicycle, enlarge the neural foramen and central canal, minimizing the symptoms of neurogenic claudication. Passive modalities such as ultrasound, massage, heat, and spinal manipulation are useful in that they may temporarily improve symptoms, but their efficacy has not been verified by prospective studies with long-term follow-up.10
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Working-out, aerobics and similar activities are excellent, and often essential, rehabilitation methods and useful alternatives during rehabilitation of many injuries. Gym training, with a variety of fixed stations for weight training, has become popular recreational exercise. It is also used for basic pre-season training in almost every sport. There is no better way to learn functional anatomy than to work-out the muscle groups step by step in a gym.
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The effects of exercise training on blood pressure show wide variation in different studies. A recent meta-analysis of 44 randomized controlled trials found that aerobic or endurance exercise on nor-motensive and hypertensive men and women resulted on average 3.4 2.4 mmHg net decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively, adjusted for control observations and for the number of trained participants 83 . The effect depends on the initial blood pressure being greater in hypertensive subjects. Another meta-analysis of 10 randomized controlled trials on the effect of aerobic exercise on blood pressure of normotensive and hypertensive women revealed a 2 1 mmHg decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively 84 . A comparable meta-analysis on the effect of progressive resistance exercise including 11 studies found an average 3 3 mmHg blood pressure decrease 85 . Hagberg et al. 86 reported in their updated review of all studies on the effect of exercise...
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Last Updated on Wed, 24 Oct 2018 | Sports Medicine
Cient magnitude (and this for older people requires more individual tailoring), then even in very late life, individuals are able to increase their aerobic power through training. For example Seals et al. 60 reported that 12 months of aerobic training in 60-70-year-old subjects resulted in a mean increase of 30 in Vo2max. In 70-79-year-old men and women 26 weeks of endurance training resulted in an increase in Vo2max of 22 27 . Two recent studies on the oldest old suggest that, as with positive adaptations to strength training, even very elderly people may adapt to aerobic-based physical training. Maltbut-Shannan et al. 61 reported a 15 increase in Vo2max in women aged 80-93 years of age following 24 weeks of progressive aerobic training however, no change was observed in the older men. In a second recent study on the oldest old, Puggaard et al. 62 reported a similar increase in Vo2 max of 18 in women, also over the age of 80 years, following 8 months of general training.
Ability or performance
Last Updated on Tue, 03 Apr 2018 | Back Pain
In an award-winning study, Mannion and her colleagues looked at the biomechanical effects of rehabilitation (Mannion et al 1999, 2001a, b, Kaser et al 2001). This was a randomized controlled trial of 148 patients with chronic low back pain. It compared active physiotherapy, muscle reconditioning on training devices, and low-impact aerobics. Pain intensity, frequency, and disability improved after all three treatments and these effects were maintained on 6-month follow-up. However, there was little difference between the three treatments.
The Cardiovascular Workout Challenge Your Heart and Lungs
Last Updated on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 | Total Nutrition
What are aerobics If you think that aerobics are just jumping around to bad disco music, dust off your sneaks you're way behind the times. The term aerobic literally means with air.' Therefore, the exercises in which your muscles require an increased supply of air (more specifically, the oxygen within air) are termed aerobic. Aerobic activity is also known as cardiovascular activity (or cardio) because it most definitely challenges your heart and lungs. Think about this When you jog, the large muscles of your lower body are continuously working over an extended period of time and therefore require more than their usual supply of oxygen. Because your heart and lungs are the key players in retrieving and circulating oxygen, they go into overdrive to increase oxygen delivery. Therefore, in addition to working out the large exterior muscles, aerobic activity also provides one heck of a workout for your heart and lungs. Normally, aerobic exercise should last 20-60 minutes, depending upon...
Last Updated on Wed, 06 Apr 2016 | Sports Medicine
Muscular dystrophies are today incurable inherited disorders characterized by progressive muscle degeneration. There is a great variability in the severity of symptoms and the rate of progression among the different disorders under this heading. Probably due to the diminished muscle mass and strength there is a restricted aerobic exercise capacity and lower power outputs in individuals with Duchenne dystrophy, the most severe type of muscular dystrophy.
Heart and vessel diseases and training
If I have a cardiovascular disease and want to participate in aerobic exercise, is it safe Might the training have any positive effects Does regular exercise increase the exercise ability and make it possible to increase the ability to handle daily life The term exercise below generally refers to aerobic exercise, such as walking, swimming, jogging and running.
Accelerated Muscular Development Programs
A Exercise in contraindicated as it may be harmful. b Moderate aerobic training is recommended. c Moderate aerobic training is recommended but only once a week. 5 Which (one or more) of the following statements is are correct about moderate aerobic exercise 6 weeks after uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction
Metabolic responses to infections and effects on performance
Last Updated on Mon, 03 Sep 2018 | Sports Medicine
Quired 'clinical bed rest' resulted in a decrease in the isometric strength of 5-15 35 , and in the isometric endurance of 13-18 36 in various major muscle groups tested shortly after the disappearance of clinical symptoms of disease, as compared to subsequent repeated individual baseline results when the patients were healthy. Furthermore, in both young male and young female adults, such infections caused a decrease in the aerobic exercise capacity, as determined from the heart rate response during submaximal exercise, by approximately 25 37 . The aerobic exercise capacity is dependent on central factors, such as the plasma volume, the total hemoglobin and the myocardial function, as well as on peripheral factors, i.e. the state of the skeletal muscles 38 . Potentially, all these factors may be negatively influenced by either the infection or the clinical bed rest that is part of the treatment, or both. In a group of healthy young adult males who served as controls in the studies...
Nonpharmacologic Therapy
Last Updated on Wed, 24 Jul 2019 | Pharmacotherapy
Lifestyle modification should be employed in all patients at risk for OA and in those with established disease. Aerobic exercise and strength-training programs improve functional capacity in older adults with OA. Stretching and strengthening exercises should target affected and vulnerable joints. Isometric exercises performed three to four times weekly improve physicalfunctioning and decrease disability, pain, and analgesic use. Some patients have the misconception that increased activity will exacerbate joint symptoms, but controlled clinical trials have invalidated this belief.10 The American Geriatrics Society issued guidelines on the implementation of exercise in OA patients.11 In general, it is advisable to recommend performing low-impact exercise routinely.
Last Updated on Tue, 29 Dec 2015 | Sports Medicine
The effect of exercise on body weight has been investigated in several studies. Wing systematically analysed investigations in which exercise without diet intervention had been studied in adults 17 . She found 10 randomized, controlled investigations which fulfilled the criteria set. Most of them included aerobic exercise (mostly walking). In six investigations statistically significant weight loss was observed, in four no change was seen. Thus, exercise without diet intervention seems to cause only minor weight loss, usually no more than 1-2 kg. The number of studies in children is too limited to evaluate the effect of exercise alone on weight reduction 18 . Weight reduction programs use a multidisciplinary approach. These include dietary counselling to decrease energy intake, exercise, and cognitive and behavioral therapy to promote permanent lifestyle changes. What are the effects of exercise in these programs In Wing's review 17 , 13 randomized, controlled trials addressing the...
A practical strategy for increasing physical activity in susceptible subjects
This implies that preconceptions involving fixed pulse rate, specific types of exercise and whether the exercise is aerobic or not are not criteria of significance in the counselling of an obese individual about exercise. A client should be encouraged to select a type of exercise in which he or she is interested. Many obese people are not interested in formalized exercise programs and for them lifestyle activities are a useful alternative. Lifestyle activity includes taking the stairs instead of taking elevators or escalators, walking journeys of moderate distances instead of taking the car, using manual means to complete domestic tasks instead of using household machines, etc. In a randomized, controlled trial lifestyle activity has been shown to be as effective as aerobic exercise in weight maintenance after weight loss 23 .
Physical Impairment and Disability
Last Updated on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 | Neurologic Rehabilitation
In addition to the spectrum of physical therapy approaches, many TBI patients need ongoing encouragement and a structured program to maintain general fitness. An individualized aerobic training program can improve motor skills, decrease fatiguability, and improve mood.140 A randomized trial compared the addition of 3 months of aerobic exercise or of relaxation training to an outpatient therapy program that 142 patients entered a mean of 24 weeks after TBI. The investigators found a significant increase in exercise capacity for the exercise group, but no differences betweeen the two augmented interventions in FIM scores, walking speed or balance, or in report of depression, anxiety, or fatigue.141
Rotational And Torsional Sports
Last Updated on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 | Sports Medicine
Because golf is not an aerobic sport, aerobic conditioning should be included in any effective lower back rehabilitation program. Fairbank et al1 showed that higher aerobic fitness shows a strong negative correlation with the incidence of both lower back pain and disk herniation. Exercise results in increased aerobic metabolism in the outer annulus and the central portion of the nucleus pulposus, bringing about reduction of lactate concentration.26 Also, aerobic conditioning plays a significant role in muscle coordination during periods of fatigue. Fatigue can produce abnormal muscle function and overcompensation and thus resultant injury. Fatigue obviously can affect performance Unfortunately, some patients cannot tolerate certain types of aerobic conditioning that have high levels of loading to the spine, such as jogging. However, several types of aerobic conditioning exercises are highly effective without loading the spine (e.g., water exercises12 and the stair climber).
Determinants of Energetic and Tense Arousal Including Cognitive Mood Interactions
Last Updated on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 | Mood and Arousal
The effects of energetic arousal on mood and cognition may be the basis for the positive benefits attributed to exercise that are widely reported in the popular media. There is now a large body of books and articles that describe a panoply of psychological changes that presumably occur from running, aerobics, swimming, walking, and other kinds of exercise. Generally, these books do not contain references to scientific research concerning the effects of exercise on mood, but they usually reflect informal reports of experiences by the writers and exercise enthusiasts involved. These positive claims are not surprising one can hardly speak to a person involved in regular exercise without hearing accounts of beneficial mood changes believed to derive from that exercise. Serious scientists may tend to dismiss these accounts because they are not based on controlled studies, but the consistency of the reports of positive benefits at least suggests that exercise has a powerful influence on...
Forearm Exercise Testing
Last Updated on Wed, 05 Sep 2018 | Clinical Neurology
As expected, the exact ratio of carbohydrate and lipid utilized for muscle energy metabolism, a topic recently summarized in an editorial by Layzer, 3 reflects many variables, including the intensity of exertion and its duration, the blood concentration of free fatty acids and oxygen, the amount of blood flow to the muscle, the muscle glycogen concentration, and the muscle's capacity for oxidative metabolism. At rest and during light exercise, skeletal muscle tissue metabolism is aerobic, and consequently it aerobically metabolizes free fatty acids for its energy. As the degree of intensity increases, the supply of lipid-derived energy becomes unable to keep pace with the energy requirement. For this reason, a greater proportion of energy must be contributed by carbohydrate. In general, enough glycogen is available to work intensively for 3 to 4 hours. 4 Should effort continue after the glycogen supply is depleted, the slower rate of lipid metabolism immediately diminishes the...
Functional Electrical Stimulation
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 | Neurologic Rehabilitation
Muscles that reduces cardiac preloading, and by impaired cardiovascular reflexes. Functional electrical stimulation-induced leg cycle er-gometry can improve both peripheral muscular and central cardiovascular fitness.173 Resistive voluntary arm activity has been combined with electrical stimulation of leg muscles to further enhance aerobic conditioning.174
Treatment Options Nonoperative Care
To stop the inflammation of the spine in an injured athlete often requires rest and immobilization. We try to limit the rest and immobilization to the minimum. Bed rest produces stiffness and weakness, which causes the pain to persist. Stiffness and weakness are the antithesis of the body functions necessary for athletic performance. Every day of rest and immobilization may result in weeks of rehabilitation before the athlete is able to return to performance. As in motion treatment of lower extremity injuries, such as fracture bracing and postoperative continuous motion machines, rapid rehabilitation of lumbar injuries in athletes requires effective means of mobilizing the patient. Bed rest longer than 3 to 5 days is not of any benefit in the natural history of the disease. Rapid mobilization requires strong anti-inflammatory medications, ranging from epidural steroids, oral Medrol Dosepak (methylprednisolone), Indocin SR (indomethacin) to other...
Medial tibial stress syndrome
Last Updated on Sat, 27 Jul 2019 | Sports Medicine
Treatment of medial tibial syndrome is primarily non-surgical. In addition to reduction in the amount of impact activity, massage, stretching and aerobic training with cycling or rowing can have a positive effect on early medial tibial syndrome 1 . Insoles with an antipronation effect may also reduce symptoms. If these conservative measures fail, surgical intervention with fasciotomy is probably the best treatment. Fas-ciotomy for medial tibial syndrome was first done in 1971. The results have been excellent or good in 70-90 9,10,12 . During fasciotomy, the common crural fascia covering the deep posterior compartment should be opened, as well as the separate fascia of the posterior tibial muscle. The distal medial soleus muscle insertion can be freed from the medial tibial border at the same time and the soleus fascia opened proximal-ly 11 . Recovery time to full training is approximately 6 weeks, but there seems to be a longer recovery time and somewhat poorer results in female...
What is the most important component of an exercise program for the treatment of low back pain due to lumbar DDD
Last Updated on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 | Spine Secrets
The most important component of a low back exercise program is to address fear-avoidance behavior of the patient by reassuring the patient that it is safe to exercise despite the chronic pain he or she may experience. The appropriate exercise program is a supervised active physical therapy program that uses progressive, non-pain contingent exercise (i.e. the patient is encouraged to exercise despite their pain) to increase strength and endurance. Successful outcomes may be achieved with a variety of exercise programs including core strengthening, McKenzie therapy, Pilates, and aerobic conditioning. It is counterproductive to tell patients, Let pain be your guide. Patients with lumbar DDD must be reassured that they will not do any damage to their spine, even if exercise is painful.
Weight Management Motorize Your Metabolism
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 | Acupuncture
It makes sense to get the numbers working in your favor. The New England Journal of Medicine studied 34 formerly obese women who lost an average of 25 pounds. Moderate to sedentary women in one year gained back from 14 to 20 pounds. They also found a surprising exercise level necessary to loose weight, long term. The women who kept the weight off averaged 80 minutes per day of moderate activity, such as brisk walking, or 35 minutes per day of vigorous activity, such as aerobics or fast cycling.
Treatment of type 2 diabetes
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 | Sports Medicine
Table 4.4.1 Effects of aerobic exercise training on glycemic control and other parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes. Table 4.4.1 Effects of aerobic exercise training on glycemic control and other parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes. 1.7 aerobics sessions week (Table 4.4.2). The mechanism underlying this change is, however, likely to be different from that of aerobic training. Data are limited regarding non-glycemic effects of physical training in type 2 diabetes. In many of the aerobic training studies, potentially beneficial effects in serum lipids (8 out of 14 studies, 57 ) and blood pressure (5 out of 7 studies, 71 ) were observed (Tables 4.4.1 & 4.4.2). Data are too sparse (no study with a control group) to allow conclusions to be made regarding the effects of resistive training on lipids and lipopro-teins in type 2 diabetic patients. In non-diabetic power athletes, serum triglycerides, HDL and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are comparable to those of...
Risk Factors For Overuse Injury
Until recently, sports medicine has been primarily focused on the treatment of acute injuries or those injuries that occur in a single episode or event. These injuries most often occur during full-contact sports like football, soccer, and hockey. However, the focus on acute injuries is not as relevant as it once was. The recreational athlete of today is typically involved in repetitive sports such as running, aerobics, swimming, and or overhead sports. Athletes involved in these sports are less likely to experience an acute injury, yet are more susceptible to injury secondary to repetitive microtrauma. Younger athletes continue to involve themselves in organized year-round sports and are predisposed to similar overuse injuries.
Late Postoperative Rehabilitation Stage
Last Updated on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 | Sports Medicine
Achieving rehabilitation goals requires several elements. First, the milestones should be challenging but realistic and should be designed by the physician, sports medicine therapist, and patient working together. Second, goals should stretch the limits of what the injured area can tolerate (without causing deformation or further injury) but should not extend beyond these limits. This requires a thorough understanding of the physiology and biomechanics of the injured area. Third, the patient should strengthen uninjured parts of the body in aerobic training, which helps prevent reinjury while providing more goal orientation. In the case of a leg injury, this training can include well-leg biking or swimming with or without a float. The positive psychological effects of aerobic training are an important aspect of treatment during this period.
Physical activity exercise and sport
There are important distinctions between the terms 'physical activity' and 'exercise'. Physical activity may be considered as any body movement produced by skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure, and as such includes dressing, walking to the shops and gardening as well as participating in sport or attending an aerobics class. Exercise on the other hand might be considered one subset of physical activity defined as planned, structured and repetitive movement aimed at improving or maintaining one or more components of fitness. Participation in exercise involving a competitive element might be considered as sporting activity and as such is a further subdivision of physical activity 6 . The terminology has particular relevance for older people, many of whom may benefit from increasing their overall levels of physical activity even though this may not necessarily be considered preplanned exercise or participation in sport (Table 3.3.1).
Muscle fatigue and metabolism
The cause of muscle fatigue (i.e. inability to maintain a defined exercise intensity) is considered to be multifactorial. The classic hypothesis is that muscle fatigue is caused by failure of the energetic processes to generate ATP at a sufficient rate. The evidence for this hypothesis is that interventions which increase the power (i.e. aerobic training, hyperoxia, blood doping) or capacity (i.e. CHO loading, creatine supplementation, glucose supplementation) of the energetic processes result in increased performance and delayed onset of fatigue. Similarly, factors that impair the energetic processes (i.e. depletion of muscle glycogen, intracellular acidosis, hypoxic conditions, reduced muscle blood flow) have a negative influence on performance. The evidence is, however, circumstantial and a direct cause and effect relationship remains to be established.
Legal substances or procedures
One of the most debated substances lately has been creatine (Cr), and its performance-enhancing effects. Research indicates that Cr supplementation (initially 20 g day followed by 3-4 g day) can increase muscle PCr content in some individuals. Exercise performance involving short periods of extremely powerful activity can be enhanced, especially during repeated bouts of activity 15 , whereas performance in aerobic exercise is not influenced. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that Cr results in increased improvement of muscle strength with strength training but the mechanism behind this has not been discovered 16 . So far there are no documented gastrointestinal, renal or muscle side-effects associated with Cr intake.
Effects of mechanical strain on bone turnover and bone remodeling
Last Updated on Sat, 08 Sep 2018 | Sports Medicine
Bone remodeling is also affected by mechanical strain. The general trend is decreased bone degradation, possibly caused by reduced osteoclast recruitment as mentioned above. Young recruits subjected to military training display increased bone mass at the heel of 3 , but at the same time bone formation and resorption markers go down by 10-12 37 . The impact of physical activity on bone turnover may, however, depend on the kind of exercise performed. In dogs immobilization increases bone resorption 34 . Aerobic training causes changes compatible with reduced bone resorption activity, while anaerobic training seems to result in an overall accelerated bone turnover 38 .
What initial treatment is advised for patients with a suspected acute lumbar disc herniation
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 | Spine Secrets
Initial treatment options include a short period of bedrest (not to exceed 3 days), oral medications (nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs NSAIDs , aspirin, mild opioids), progressive ambulation, return to activity, and patient reassurance. Epidural injections can be considered. As acute pain subsides, physical therapy and aerobic conditioning are advised. If a patient fails to improve with 4 to 6 weeks of nonsurgical care, further evaluation is indicated. The optimal time for nonsurgical treatment ranges from a minimum of 4 weeks to a maximum of 6 months.
How is spinal impairment evaluated
The practitioner can evaluate spinal impairment by quantifying spinal range of motion, assessing trunk strength and endurance, evaluating balance and motor control, and determining aerobic fitness. Techniques for measuring spinal range of motion include inclinometer, goniometer, modified Schober test, and finger-to-floor distance. There are three basic approaches for testing trunk extensor strength and lifting capacity isometric (velocity is zero), isokinetic (velocity is constant), and isoinertial (velocity is not constant, but the mass is held constant). Several high-tech machines can be used for testing and training patients (Med X, Cybex, Biodex, Isostation, LIDO, Kin-Com). One can also evaluate the
How to Set Up Preventive Treatment Active Tips
Last Updated on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 | Headache Therapy
Look at each patient individually to determine an appropriate preventive regimen. Set realistic expectations. Emphasize a healthy lifestyle with aerobic exercise daily, good sleep hygiene, and limiting caffeine intake the equivalent of two 8 oz cups of coffee a day or less. Use the most efficacious drugs.
Exercise after acute myocardial infarction
Aerobic exercise improves functional capacity and the higher the exercise intensity the higher the improvement in V . Patients with the lowest VO2 improve most with training programs but patients that at baseline have a preserved exercise capacity also improve with exercise. Patients with reduced LV function also improve their V02 with exercise 16 .
Last Updated on Mon, 30 May 2016 | Sports Medicine
Both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies involving pharmacologic autonomic blockade and analysis of HRV indicate that increases in cardiac parasympathetic (vagal) tone make an important contribution to resting bradycardia 41,43 . The chronic increase in parasympathetic tone occurs within a few weeks after beginning regular training and this occurs independently of a lower intrinsic heart rate. In cross-sectional studies, aerobic fitness and or long-term aerobic training have been suggested to be associated with increased HRV, especially with vagally mediated respiratory sinus arrhythmia, at rest 44,45 . Some studies, however, have failed to show such an association 46,47 . The results from most longitudinal studies reveal decreased resting heart rate and increased vagal activity at rest after aerobic training 48,49 .
Last Updated on Mon, 10 Sep 2018 | Autism
Physical therapy sessions are prescribed for children with ASDs to enhance their physical abilities. Impairments of movement can interfere with develop-mentally appropriate functioning. Some children with ASDs can have low muscle tone, as well as poor posture, balance, and coordination. Physical therapy sessions can treat these impairments by providing passive, active, resistive, or aerobic exercise as well as training in functional and developmental skills. Physical therapists implement procedures to increase endurance, motor control, and motor planning. They incorporate therapeutic exercises along with equipment such as weights, exercise balls, and BAPS boards (balance boards) to increase muscle strength and endurance and to facilitate body awareness and coordination. Aquatic, aerobic, and breathing exercises can also be part of your child's treatment. Physical therapy sessions are typically one-on-one and last 45 minutes. They can be administered in the therapist's office or in...
A 78-year-old woman with bilateral knee osteoarthritis and leg and back pain occurring only when walking and standing has been unable to tolerate land-based aerobic exercise. For this individual, her knee arthritis interferes with her ability to bear weight and train her spine on land. Evidence exists showing that aquatic exercises decrease pain from peripheral joint arthritis. The unloading effect that occurs in water allows for strength training and aerobic conditioning while in a supportive environment that protects from falls. Her history is suggestive of neuro-genic claudication from lumbar spinal stenosis, a condition where the patient often obtains relief while in positions of flexion. In water a flexion posture is achieved with less compressive force on the vertebral bodies, limiting the risk of an exercise-induced osteoporotic compression fracture or aggravation of mechanical low back pain. Eventually, this patient can try transitioning to a land-based program with the goal...
Exercise Counseling
Last Updated on Thu, 07 Apr 2016 | Substance Abuse
Before starting a moderate exercise program, clients should check with a physician. Most exercise programs appropriate for recovering addicts combine strength training with aerobics to increase metabolic rate, burn calories, and build muscle (Phillips, 1999). The National Standard recommends exercise at least four times a week for a minimum of 50 minutes. This should vary according to the client's age and fitness level. Among other benefits, exercise lowers blood pressure and increases the levels of mood-elevating neuro-chemicals such as endorphins, that enhance one's mental and physical well-being.
Last Updated on Tue, 29 Dec 2015 | Family Medicine
Routine aerobic exercise is recommended for all patients with PVD. The benefit of walking programs has been clearly established to increase time-to-claudication and maximal walking distance (Hiatt and Regensteiner, 1990 Hiatt et al., 1994). Regular exercise will have a strong impact on improving functional capacity and quality of life. A minimum of 30 to 60 minutes of exercise is recommended preferably daily, but at least three or four times a week. This should be supplemented by an increase in daily lifestyle activities, such as walking breaks at lunch, gardening, or household chores (Smith et al., 2001).
Pulse Therapy
Last Updated on Thu, 30 Aug 2018 | Neurologic Rehabilitation
Community mobility, cooking and cleaning skills, leisure activities, social isolation, and support for caregivers often continue to be problematic for 2-year stroke survivors.108 The clinician ought to ask about instrumental ADLs or use an assessment that asks patients to rate the difficulty they perceive in carrying out these tasks,109 so an appropriate rehabilitation prescription may be ordered. A pulse of therapy carried out beyond 6 months poststroke, especially if focused on training specific skills such as walking speed or using the affected arm, often improves the practiced ADLs.110,111 The physician should recommend conditioning exercises and task-oriented practice. Muscle strengthening and aerobic training counteract many of the potentially debilitating physiologic changes associated with aging and with a sedentary lifestyle. At every follow-up visit, patients should be encouraged to walk more at home over ground or on a treadmill,112 set up a circuit training course,113 or...
Dyslipidemia
Last Updated on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 | Family Medicine
Obesity is associated with elevated triglyceride (TG) levels, reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and an increase in the more atherogenic, small, dense LDL particles. Despite common belief, obesity causes only a small mean elevation in total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) values. There is strong evidence that weight loss through lifestyle measures will reduce TG and increase HDL-C levels. This weight loss is generally accompanied by a decrease in total cholesterol and LDL-C, in part because the same lifestyle changes in diet that decrease weight also decrease LDL-C. The favorable effect on lipids from aerobic exercise is most noticeable when accompanied by weight loss. NHLBI recommends weight loss to reduce elevated total cholesterol, LDL-C, and TG levels and to raise HDL-C in overweight obese persons.
Last Updated on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 | Back Pain
Many studies show that successful rehabilitation and improved physical function are strongly associated with improvement in pain. One of the best is by Mannion et al (1999, 2001a, b), which we have already looked at in Chapter 9. The strongest link they found over the course of treatment was between reduction in pain and improvement in disability. This was equally true for physiotherapy, aerobic training, or muscle reconditioning. Improvement in pain was by far the strongest factor they could identify in successful rehabilitation. Strand et al (2001) showed that rehabilitation could influence this relationship. In patients who had usual care, return to work depended only on improvement in pain. In those who had a multidisciplinary rehab program, it depended on improvement in both pain and in physical function.
Last Updated on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 | Neurologic Rehabilitation
Inactive persons with paraplegia gained car-diorespiratory fitness by using arm crank training at 50 of peak oxygen intake on a schedule of 3 times a week for 40 minutes by 8-24 weeks.167 In the able-bodied, workloads for the upper extremities should be approximately 50 of those used for leg training. The target heart rate should be 10 beats per minute lower than what is prescribed for leg training. At a given submaximal workload, exercise of the arms is done at a greater energy cost, but maximal physiological responses including cardiac output and stroke volume are lower.168 Using these guidelines, a central conditioning effect can be achieved by able-bodied and neurolog-ically impaired people, especially in those who are initially unfit. Freewheeling gamefield exercises that included propelling a wheelchair over a rising power ramp and a ramp of uneven platforms and by performing chin-ups from the chair produced heart rates and oxygen uptakes from arm exercise alone that were...
Resistance Exercise
Last Updated on Wed, 06 Apr 2016 | Neurologic Rehabilitation
Resistance exercise induces the gene expression that prevents atrophy and increases muscle fiber volume and force. Properly executed exercise also improves aerobic fitness and may reduce the common symptom of fatigability in patients with neuromuscular disorders. Small group and case studies have shown that selective muscle strengthening and general conditioning can be achieved by modest levels of exercise, almost regardless of the pathophysi-ology of the neurologic disease.8,9 The type, intensity, and duration of a muscle contraction and the frequency and duration of exercise sessions determine whether or not strength will increase. In healthy persons, strength improves significantly by isometric resistance against 60 of the person's maximum load for a single knee extension for example. Ten repetitions each done for 5 seconds must be performed 3 times a week for 6 weeks.10 Strengthening of atrophic muscles can be accomplished, however, by training with forces of only 20 -30 of the...
Aerobic training by arm-leg bicycle ergom-etry significantly decreased fatigue, depression, and anxiety and improved fitness in a controlled trial of ambulatory MS patients.129 Patients exercised for 30 minutes at 60 of their maximal aerobic capacity 4 times a week for 15 weeks. A fan helped cool them during exertion. Some neurologic symptoms worsened during and shortly after exercise, but no exacerbations
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In fact, a six-part preseason and in-season prevention program has been proposed by some and includes recognition of injury mechanics, flexibility and strengthening exercises, aerobic conditioning, plyometrics, and agility drills (Table 8-3).51 These exercises should be incorporated into normal sport conditioning programs. Programs using these strategies or even those merely Aerobic conditioning Athletic pseudoanemia is a result of heavy aerobic training causing an increase in red blood cell mass and plasma volume. This dilutional effect is a physiologic adaptation to training and is not true anemia. No treatment is necessary, and the abnormalities should correct with elimination of the aerobic training.
Last Updated on Mon, 03 Sep 2018 | Family Medicine
In response to recent epidemiologic and clinical trial data, JNC-7 made a series of new recommendations for addressing the HTN epidemic, which now includes more than 73.6 million patients in the U.S. alone. Patients with SBP of 120 to 139 mm Hg and DBP of 80 to 89 mm Hg are defined as prehypertensive and warrant aggressive lifestyle modification to prevent progression to HTN. It must be assumed that even in this BP range, changes in vessel wall histology and physiology are inducing elevations in BP. Weight reduction, moderation of alcohol intake (2 drinks per day for men, 1 for women), reducing daily sodium intake to 2.4 g day, increasing aerobic exercise, and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) regimen are all associated with significant reductions in BP (Chobanian et al., 2003). Thiazide diuretics such as hydrochlorothia-zide or chlorthalidone, alone or in combination with other antihypertensives, should be used to treat most patients with HTN. 4. Initiate lifestyle...
Tremendous extension forces occur at the hips and knees with the spine in a rigidly stable position. Success in this portion of the lift requires the body to generate tremendous rigid immobilization of the spine in the power position of slight flexion. To do a forward bent motion with the spine out of this position can be quite dangerous, resulting in tremendous shear forces across the spine. Lifting weights with the spine flexed at 90 degrees, whether they are lighter arm weights or weights across the upper back, generates tremendous lever arm effect forces. The weight times the distance to the spine result in tremendous shear forces across the lumbar spine, especially if weight is to be moved in this position. One cannot imagine muscles that must be strengthened in this dangerous and mechanically disadvantaged position. A dangerous time for weight lifters is the shift from spinal flexion to extension that occurs with lifting the weight over the head as in the...
Last Updated on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 | Thoracic Spine
Included stair-climbing, aerobics, skipping, jumping, dancing and jogging. More impact and loading is appropriate in primary prevention, but a less vigorous programme should be used in frailer groups. Programmes should be progressed in terms of intensity and impact, and maintained indefinitely, as the positive effects are reversed when regular exercise is stopped. Physiotherapy management and exercise guidelines have been reviewed in considerable detail (Bennell et a . 2000 Mitchell et al. 1999). Exercise therapy is complementary to but not a substitute for medical management, which includes hormone replacement therapy, calcium, vitamin D, calcitonin, biphosphonates and fluoride (Lane et al. 1996).
This condition is characterized by inflammation of the plantar fascia. The origin of the plantar fascia, the calcaneus, is the site most often affected. Activities such as running, prolonged standing or walking, dancing, and high-impact aerobics can cause repetitive microtrauma of the fascia leading to this condition. Other predisposing factors include a tight Achilles tendon, improper or new footwear, alterations in training intensity, pes planus, and pes cavus.
Anti-inflammatory medication. The athlete should possibly change activity from running to swimming or cycling. Group exercise (e.g. aerobics) is recommended in inactive patients to improve general flexibility, strength and endurance, and to reduce depressive symptoms. Analgesics (including opiates) may be indicated if sleep is disturbed by pain. The effectiveness of surgical treatment is uncertain in patients with back pain, but surgery is indicated in patients with progressive claudication and muscle weakness.
Subjects with mood disturbances have benefited by participating in physical activity programs 104,105 . Improvements in symptoms of anxiety 106 and depression 107 , and in patients with non-psychotic depression have been reported 108 . Most interventions have used aerobic exercise.
Lactate formation
Pyruvate precedes the aerobic combustion of CHO in the mitochondrion and is therefore named aerobic gly-colysis. Pyruvate can be transferred to lactate, which is a dead-end metabolite. Glycolysis to lactate is named anaerobic glycolysis, since the process does not require oxygen. However, formation of lactate may also occur in the presence of oxygen. The mechanism of lactate formation during submaximal exercise has been extensively discussed over a number of years and remains a controversial issue. However, it is accepted that lac-tate is formed by a mass action effect through the near-equilibrium reaction catalyzed by lactate dehy-drogenase (LDH) and that increases in pyruvate, NADH NAD+ ratio or H+ are metabolic changes in the cytosol that will promote lactate formation. Activation of glycolysis in excess of pyruvate oxidation and NADH influx to mitochondria will cause cytosolic increases in pyruvate and NADH and will therefore also lead to lactate formation. Factors such as oxygen...
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New technology can keep bananas from ripening for 70 days once they're picked. (Photo: Quang Ho/Shutterstock)
Many fruits contain a naturally occurring gas called ethylene. Ethylene causes fruits to ripen, which causes them to produce more ethylene. Once ethylene is released, it can induce ripening in other fruits it contacts. When damaged fruits begin to produce ethylene — and picking a fruit essentially damages it — the rate of ethylene production can increase.
When fruits are picked and have a long haul to get from harvest to market, it can be a race against the clock to get them there before they are too ripe to sell. That's why many fruits are picked before they've started to ripen and release ethylene. Once it's time for them to be sold, they're artificially ripened using ethylene gas. Bananas are one such fruit.
But, even under-ripe bananas begin to produce ethylene during their long haul, and if they are too ripe by the time they get to market, they are wasted. These unsellable bananas contribute to the vast amount of global food waste each year, a problem that many countries, including the U.S., are actively tackling.
An invention to fight food waste
A new invention could save more than 250 million bananas from being wasted because they've ripened too early for consumption, reports Huffington Post. The U.K. company It's Fresh! has developed a filter that keeps bananas greener longer. The filter works by absorbing the ethylene that the bananas produce.
The potential for wasting a lot less fruit is great, because It's Fresh! works for many types of fruits. But what happens to the fruit while it's exposed to one of these ethylene absorbing filters? According to the company's FAQ page, nothing occurs except an extended period of remaining unripe.
The filters are made from a special blend of minerals and clay sealed in a recyclable breathable waterproof jacket, that absorb the ethylene gas. They are food safe, complying with all EU and USA Food legislation.
It's Fresh! claims that nothing in the filters is harmful to food, including the food-grade ink used on the package. The filters that come inside food packaging can even be reused by placing them in a fruit bowl, although they will eventually become saturated with ethylene and stop absorbing more. They can even be thrown in a recycling bin in the U.K.
Although produce that is picked ripe and consumed shortly after harvest usually is the highest quality, it's not always possible to eat that way. If we want to eat fruit that's out of season, if we want to make the fresh produce in our kitchens last a little longer, and most importantly, if we want to get food to areas of the world where there is life-threatening hunger, produce needs to be picked underripe. If that underripe produce goes bad in transit, it's a problem.
As the world is actively tackling that problem, solutions are going to come in many forms. This filter, if it's as food safe as the company says, looks like it could be a possible answer.
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Mountie Women Water Polo Sweep West Valley Invite with Four Wins
Mt. SAC (,) 3 4 1 3 11
West Valley (,) 2 0 3 3 8
Foothill (,) 5 0 4 1 10
Sacramento City
Sacramento City (,) 0 0 0 0 0
Santa Rosa (,) 2 3 3 1 9
G: Alexandra Ruzsa - 4
Sv: Raquel de Pinho - 10
G: Erin DeAnda - 6
A: Miranda Silva - 3
Sv: Kristi Mertins - 12
G: Colleen Gamboa - 7
Sv: Kristi Mertins - 9
Sv: Lilly Stafford - 3
G: Reannon Urias - 6
A: Reannon Urias - 4
G: Makayla Jordan - 5
A: Colleen Gamboa - 4
(Saratoga, CA) The Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo Team ventured north for the West Valley College Invitational and came away with four wins, scoring 66 goals last Friday and Saturday (SEP 14 & 15).
Mt. SAC (5-1) has now scored 93 goals and is averaging 15.5 per game.
Leading the way for the Mounties in the West Valley Tournament was utility player Erin DeAnda with 16 goals, followed by Reannon Urias with 14 goals (5 steals) and 13 each from Miranda Silva and Colleen Gamboa.
DeAnda leads the team with 21 goals in six games.
On the defensive side, Silva lead the Mounties with 11 steals, followed by seven from driver Rebecca Garcia and six each from Gamboa and driver Kaitlin Howard.
"The girls played well all weekend," Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo coach Chris Jackson said. "We had big performances from Erin, Kaitlin and Colleen.
"Our biggest challenge was West Valley, who has a strong goalie and 2-meter player. The girls, for the most part executed our game plan."
Game 1 - Mt. SAC 18, Sacramento City 0
For the second game in a row the Mounties shut out their opponent. Leading the charge was Goalie Krist Mertins.
Urias led the team with six goals (4 assists, 3 steals), followed by three each from Gamboa (4 steels) and DeAnda.
Game 2 - Mt. SAC 16, Santa Rosa 9
For the second game in a row, Urias led the team in goals with five and three steals. Silva and DeAnda (3 steals) added four goals each.
The Mounties jumped out to a 3-0 lead and held a 7-5 lead at the half over Santa Rosa. DeAnda and Urias led the Mounties in the second half with four and three goals, respectively, while Mertins made eight saves in the game.
Game 3 - Mt. SAC 21, Foothill 10
The Mounties, in their largest goal output (21)of the early season schedule, were led by Gamboa and Silva with seven and six goals, respectively.
The Mounties trailed for the first time in the tournament, 5-4 after the opening period. After eight consecutive goals in the second period the Mounties took the lead at 12-5 and never looked back for the 11-point win.
They outscored the Bear Cubs 9-5 in the second half, led by Gamboa and Silva who eached scored three. Mertins had nine saves for Mt. SAC.
Game 4 - Mt. SAC 11, West Valley 8
DeAnda led the team with six goals and Howard had three. Urias had a game-high six steals for the Mounties.
Mt. SAC had a comfortable 7-2 lead at the half, but the Vikings closed the gap with three goals and trailed 8-5 after three periods.
"We made some mistakes in the game that allowed a few scoring runs for them," Jackson said.
Each team scored three goals in the fourth period, with DeAnda scoring all three for the Mounties.
Mertins made 12 saves for Mt. SAC in goal.
Mt. SAC will travel to El Camino College this Wednesday, September 19th, for a South Coast Conference Matchup. The will then return home to host the annual Mt SAC Women's Water Polo Classic beginning Friday, September 21st.
The Classic, co-hosted by Fullerton College will feature 15 teams, with the Mounties playing Saddleback College, on Friday (10:20 am) at the Marie T. Mills Aquatics Center.
Follow Mt. SAC Women's Water Polo on twitter @MTSAC_W_Aquatic
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Man accused of strangling his kids’ grandmother in the Bronx used video game cord: prosecutors
By Wes Parnell and Graham Rayman
Angel Montanez being arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday. (Pool)
A Bronx man accused of strangling the grandmother of his children used an HDMI chord to kill her, prosecutors said Thursday.
Angel Montanez, 39, allegedly wrapped the cord, used for cable TV and video game players, around Lidia Herrera’s neck and struck her in the head inside her second-floor apartment on Sheridan Ave. near E. 168th St. in Morrisania, prosecutors said.
Herrera’s 10-year-old grandson discovered her body about 8:50 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Montanez, 39, wore a white jumpsuit during his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday because his clothes had been collected as evidence the night before. He kept his head lowered during the brief appearance and showed no emotion. Judge Steven Hornstein ordered Montanez held without bail.
Prosecutor Adam Thomas said Montanez violated a June 4 order of protection barring him from contact with his three children when he showed up at their home and got into the fatal fight with Herrera.
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The grandmother had been granted temporary custody of the children, ages 10, 7 and 4. Their mother died of a heart attack in April and Herrera moved to the Bronx to care for them, neighbors said.
Neighbors said Wednesday Montanez had recently completed alcohol rehab but Herrera had gone to court to keep him away from his kids because of his drinking problem.
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Home Events 15 December The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
The evacuation of Suvla Bay by Geoffrey Allfree (Alexander Turnbull Library, A-176-003)
In a well-planned operation, which contrasted sharply with those mounted earlier in the Gallipoli campaign, Allied forces successfully withdrew from Anzac and Suvla between 15 and 20 December.
Following the failure of the August offensive, the British government began questioning the value of remaining at Gallipoli, especially given the need for troops on the Western Front and at Salonika in northern Greece, where Allied forces were supporting Serbia against the Central Powers. In October, the British replaced Hamilton as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF). His successor, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Munro, quickly proposed evacuation.
On 22 November, the British decided to cut their losses and evacuate Suvla and Anzac. Planning moved quickly and efficiently. The evacuation of Anzac began on 15 December, with 36,000 troops withdrawn over the following five nights. The last party left in the early hours of 20 December, the night of the last evacuation from Suvla. British and French forces remained at Helles until 8-9 January 1916.
Gallipoli had been a costly failure for the Allies: 44,000 soldiers died trying to take the peninsula from the Ottomans. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders – about a sixth of those who fought on the peninsula. Victory came at a high price for the Ottoman Empire, which lost 87,000 men during the campaign.
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Greece’s Fate in ECB’s Hands if Eurogroup Talks Fail
Posted on February 20, 2015 by Yves Smith
As most readers know well, Greece made concessions yesterday to the Eurogroup that, although contested as to how far they went, were seen as big enough concessions to win the support of Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem and Italy. But Germany’s Wolfgang Schauble almost immediately rejected them, setting the stage for a showdown today. As we’ve discussed from the outset, the biggest bone of contention continues to be “conditionality,” otherwise known as structural reforms. Greece wants to be able to revise some measures as long as it can still meet its primary surplus target. Germany insists a deal is a deal and Greece must reaffirm all the terms of its existing agreement.
The meeting is set to start in Brussels at 3 PM local time, so we’ll know soon enough how things turn out. Many observers think that German opposition alone is enough to scupper a deal, while others like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard view the outcome as less certain. Moreover, there is the possibility that Merkel will seek to moderate Schauble, although she runs the risk that Schauble could resign, having been overruled by her before on Greece in 2012 and on QE. If so, that would be a seismic event in Germany. So it isn’t clear that Merkel can or will do much to pressure Schauble.
The US was also trying to get things back on track, but this report from Bloomberg was not terribly encouraging:
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew talked Thursday with Varoufakis, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs meetings of the 19 euro-area finance ministers. Lew has also spoken to his German counterparts and officials at the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.
Notice who is not mentioned? The key actor, Schauble. However, the Guardian live blog shows Reuters snap updates showing the German government trying to look more reasonable, which either suggests that Merkel has had a talking to with Schauble or the spokesman is messaging out of line with Schauble’s plans (which would be very unusual but not impossible):
20-Feb-2015 10:36 – GERMAN GOV’T SPOX SAYS WILL WAIT TO SEE RESULT OF EUROGROUP MEETING ON GREECE TO DECIDE WHETHER FURTHER MEETINGS ARE NECESSARY
20-Feb-2015 10:45 GERMAN GOV’T SPOX SAYSLATEST VAROUFAKIS PROPOSAL MAKES CLEAR GREECE INTERESTED IN EU HELP, THIS IS GOOD BASIS FOR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS
20-Feb-2015 10:49 – GERMAN GOV’T SPOX SAYS CHANCELLOR HAS FULL CONFIDENCE IN FINANCE MINISTER
20-Feb-2015 10:57 – GERMAN FIN MIN SPOX SAYS WRONG TO SAY SCHAEUBLE DOES NOT WANT A SOLUTION FOR GREECE
In America, when the President says he has confidence in someone, that means his days are numbered. Is this also a sign of an inevitable breach in Germany?
Yesterday, the Greeks loudly signaled they have gone as far as they can. That is in no small measure due to the fact that they are boxed in domestically; Syriza’s leadership is already under fierce attack for giving as much ground as they did in the Thursday offer. Today, they are calling for a Plan B of sorts:
#Greece will request EU summit should Eurogroup talks fail, a top ranking SYRIZA official has told dpa.
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) February 20, 2015
Media sources have speculated that one possible source of short-term relief for the Greek government would be if the IMF payment due in March were suspended as long as debt talks are still under way. But if anything, the big reason to keep talks going, aside from the desire to reach a deal of some sort, is to keep the ECB from terminating or putting restrictions on the ELA.
We can’t stress enough how abominably the ECB has behaved so far, and the press and pundits have not called them out on it sufficiently. Der Spiegel is now reporting that the ECB is planning for a Grexit. Note that is consistent with a FAZ story we reported on yesterday. Note that the ECB issued a denial, but only of one rumor in the story, that they were considering recommending that Greece implement capital controls.* The central bank did not dispute the FAZ claim that the ECB was considering a Grexit.
Economist and former IMF staffer Peter Doyle has argued that the brinksmanship all parties have played is almost inherent, since (as the Eurozone’s designers anticipated) it will take a crisis to force the difficult political and economic integration to move forward. From Doyle, emphasis ours:
On the one hand, in an incredible reversal of practice during the global financial crisis—when central banks were at pains to conceal which institutions were receiving their emergency assistance for fear of compounding the adverse signals and therefore the crisis—the ECB has brazenly publicized exactly which Greek banks depend on its help and how much. And it has overtly warned it would withdraw that help. In this way, the central bank is overtly threatening to blow up the Greek banking system, in order to make the euro work. Walter Bagehot, the nineteenth-century father of lenders of last resorts, would be dumbfounded.
The wee problem with this strategy of putting the Greek banking system at risk is that financial time moves faster than political time. The ECB’s skimpy €3.3 billion increase in the ELA as the last board meeting looked intended to accelerate the ongoing bank run by almost guaranteeing that the Greek central bank will come close to bumping into the limits if the talks continue to be fractious, which was virtually guaranteed. Reader Jim Haygood estimatedt that the increase was likely to be used up by the end of the week. And as Fortune pointed out:
The ECB knows very well that money buys the Greek banks a week, two weeks tops. The Greek banks won’t need the money if the panic stops, but that won’t happen unless Germany relents and agrees to Greece’s demand for leniency. With Germany saying Nein today just to extend talks without granting any concessions, it is now clear that the whole situation may actually blow up this time.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was more pointed:
Greece is now prostrate. Tax arrears have reached €76bn and are rising by €1.1bn a month. “Greece is totally bankrupt. The ECB’s constant talk against us is causing a self-fulfilling deposit flight in the banks. It is so bad that anything could happen,” said one Greek official.
What is even more troubling is that the ECB’s thinking isn’t known and its actions are not predictable given that the composition of who gets to vote changes every two weeks (governing council members always do and the others rotate). France’s Noyer took a hardline position against Greece when the talks with Syriza began and yesterday, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann not surprisingly fell in with Schauble’s views. And when Doyle polled three banker experts who he thought would be representative of central banker thinking, one called on terminating the ELA if the current talks failed, a second said that if any talks were in progress to keep it going, and the third said to continue it no matter what. There is no way of knowing whether this thinking represents how board members would act, but this mother-in-law research suggests that the odds of the ELA being terminated are troublingly high.
FT Alphaville points out that this does not necessarily mean a disorderly Grexit, with the Greeks nationalizing the banks and scrambling to reintroduce the drachma. They quote a Nomura research note (emphasis theirs):
If ELA for Greek banks is halted, a bank holiday is almost certain to be needed, as the Greek banking system’s day-to-day liquidity management depends on such access with ECB liquidity currently close to 20% of the balance sheet size. Following such a bank holiday, there would be two basic paths.
1) Temporary and reversible stage: This path could be one similar to that of Cyprus in 2013. To prevent continuous deposit outflows bank holidays are temporarily declared and a new backstop arrangement is negotiated with official sector creditors (led by the Eurogroup). In the interim, to create further pressure to sign a bailout deal, the ECB could impose a deadline on the ELA provision. When banks are reopened, some limited capital controls may be needed to restrict capital outflows. But cross-border convertibility of the currency would largely be preserved, and a parallel currency would not develop in earnest. Furthermore, given the looming state financing constraints in March, a failure by the government to pay some of its liabilities is also possible although this could quickly be remedied after a bailout deal.
2) Full-blown EMU exit: – outright currency separation: If no political agreement can be reached during the bank holiday, banks would eventually open with liquidity provided directly by the Greek central bank. The Greek central bank would no longer be part of the ESCB (Euro System of Central Banks), and commercial banks in Greece would no longer have access to cross-border clearing of banking transactions within the TARGET2 system. In addition, severe capital controls would likely need to be put in place to avoid large-scale capital flight. This would be a scenario where the convertibility of the currency is fully broken, and an exchange rate between Greek deposit balances (and eventually cash) would develop relative to euro deposit balances. This scenario would likely involve the government defaulting on some of its upcoming liabilities as well. At some point, a new currency law would formalise the currency split and provide guidance on re-denomination of contracts.
The key point is that there are various degrees of currency separation, from temporary restrictions on bank transactions to full-blown breakdown in currency convertibility. Since there is no political desire in Greece currently to actively adopt an independent currency, euro exit would likely be a two-stage process. The risk of reaching stage 1 is fairly elevated. But the risk of reaching stage 2 is lower.
Readers need to bear in mind that the Cyprus solution was ugly, since Cyprus was made to revoke its deposit guarantee and imposed a “bail-in” that forced losses on depositors. As Ed Harrison summarized the deal in 2013:
Europe has hammered out a 10bn euro “bailout” of Cyprus. I put the term bailout in quotes because the key feature of this deal is the bail-in of Cypriot depositors to the tune of 5.8bn euros, about a third of Cyprus’ GDP. This means that depositors went to sleep on Friday night and woke up Saturday to find that their money, deposited safely in Cypriot banks, had been seized and used to “bail out” the country….I see this as an extreme measure which, if the European banking crisis continues elsewhere, will have very negative implications for bank depositor confidence in other European periphery countries.
The deal terms as reported by Reuters are as follows:
1. A 9.9% levy on deposits over 100,000 euros and the 6.75% tax on deposits under 100,000 euros.
2. The IMF will contribute to a bailout. The size, maturity length, and interest rate have not been determined. And it is not clear yet what, if any, guarantees are associated with this as opposed to loans.
3. Russia will re-finance a loan which is ostensibly to the sovereign for 2.5 billion euros. The 5-year loan will be extended to 8 years and the interest rate will drop.
4. Telecoms, ports and utilities privatization may be a pre-condition of loans/guarantees.
5. The banking sector, now 8 times the size of Cyprus’ GDP, will be downsized. The average banking sector size in the EU is 3.5 times GDP. Outliers in Europe of this type include Ireland and the UK. (see here for a 2009 calculation of outsized individual European institutions and here for the largest banks by assets as of 2010). Iceland was also an outlier in this regard.
Cyprus was widely seen as one-off, in part because the media paid little attention, it was widely depicted as a money-laundering venue (that charge was greatly exaggerated as we explained at the time), and the parties most badly hurt, aside from the Cypriots themselves, were Russian and British property owners and retirees who’d chosen Cyprus as a cheap and pleasant spot. But having depositors whacked by virtue of living in a country that was unable to meet predictably unrealistic austerity targets is another kettle of fish entirely. While depositors in other periphery countries are unlikely to wake up to the risks immediately, if they vote in an anti-austerity government, the message is meant to be that they would get the Cyprus/Greek money waterboarding. In other words, pulling the ELA would be consistent with the hardliner line of thought that Greece needs to be made a demonstration project pour decourager les autres. We’ll know in the next week or so whether they get their way.
*Before readers point out that having the ECB plan for a Grexit is rational, the issue is not the planning but the leaks. Central banks are hermetic, and thus the odds favor that these leaks were planted.
Update 8:10 AM: This does not look good at all for Greece. It is being muscled into pretty close to total capitulation. From Paul Mason:
Yesterday finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (former professor at the University of Texas) climbed down on his previous refusal to ask for an extension of the old deal – but he still wants leeway to set his own budget targets, and to implement new laws giving workers back their job contract rights..
Last night I was told that, in the working group that prepares the Eurogroup meetings, the Greek compromise was the draft basis of agreement. That keeps Greece around the table. But overnight it looks like Germany has got words into the draft the Greeks can’t accept, and the pre-meeting ended without result.
In the next few hours, something decisive has to happen. Either the Greeks cave in completely. Or they trip the crisis into a new phase.
The meeting start has been delayed to 4:30 PM Brussels time. There is now a pre-meeting set with Varoufakis, Schauble, Dijsselbloem, and Lagarde.
This entry was posted in Credit markets, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Politics, Regulations and regulators on February 20, 2015 by Yves Smith.
craazyman February 20, 2015 at 8:17 am
this is worse than spawts talk radio when the hometown football team is on a mid-season losing streak. my oh my the rumors fly. coach ain’t worth squat. QB’s arm is toast, running game is dead, wide receivers can’t catch a cold . . . oh the radio waves shimmer dialectically in increasing amplitudes . . . and then they win a game and it’s like PLAYOFFS . . . HERE . . . WE . . . COME!!!!!
This is worse than high school. High school euro-style. We all thought Europeans were smarter, better mannered and more sophisticated than we are in Amurrrica. Well, at least after WW2 ended. We thought that changed everything. We thought they got it out of their system. No more messing around for them. Then they went back to all their ancient cities and statues and paintings and erudite philosophies and manicured cultures and they said “See, we’re better than youze”.
We thought they were! We had an inferiorty complex. We tried to speak French with a French accent because we thought it was sophisticated, but when the French came over they didn’t try to speak with an American accent! Why is that?
Of course they’ll do a deal. It might even be today. Of course, it might be later. It’s all just words at this point, not numbers. The words make the numbers. The numbers are just words anyway. So it’s all words. People can think in their heads whatever they want about the words. It doesn’t count. No pun intended. They’ll come up with some words that keep it all slouching forward. There really is no alternative. People can relax and go back to Youtube! Wake us up when it’s over.
vidimi February 20, 2015 at 8:46 am
can greece issue any international arrest warrants for any banksters that led it into this mess?
the options seem to be default, and get kicked out of the euro have your economy sent back to the post-thira eruption dark ages for decades with tens of thousands dying and hundreds of thousands emigrating or forced into sex work, or comply with the terms and accepting decades of crushing austerity, ending greece as a sovereign entity with thousands dying and tens of thousands emigrating or forced into sex work and hope for things to eventually improve for it as a province.
i’m glad i’m not the one who has to make that choice but i think i know which one future greek history books would judge more favourably.
ErnstThalmann February 20, 2015 at 11:38 am
As I have long advocated, the first step toward Greek emancipation is the creation of a workers state – to be called the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Greece – and the confiscation of private assets. Only then would the arrest of these banksters make sense. After all, of necessity there would be a requirement for their public trial, perhaps in a large football stadium environment. There is an order to these things, you know.
hunkerdown February 21, 2015 at 12:33 am
I think Interpol has a dual criminality requirement, which would necessitate that the act in question be a felony in both the state seeking extradition and the state in which the arrest would occur.
And history is written by the victors anyway, so why would they be concerned?
Jim Haygood February 20, 2015 at 8:53 am
When you lack facts about Greece, just make sh*t up:
‘Nobody is claiming—as they might of a bankrupt company—that Greece doesn’t have the wherewithal to pay back all its €320 billion-plus ($365 billion) of foreign debt in full: The assets of the country dwarf that figure.’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-can-pay-its-debts-in-full-but-it-wont-1424384652
Excuse me, I will make that claim, and argue it by analogy. Let’s take the rich United States. Its 2013 annual report shows (Summary, page viii) assets of $3 trillion, liabilities of nearly $20 trillion, and negative net worth of minus $17 trillion — excluding social insurance (Soc Sec, Medicare, Medicaid).
https://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/13frusg/FR-Summary-2013.pdf
So in terms of assets, the US government could not pay down even one penny of its $18 trillion debt. But tiny Greece is such a financial titan, according to the WSJ, that its assets ‘dwarf’ $365 billion of foreign debt? Preposterous.
Good journalism starts with not paying for bad journalism. Googling the lede of a WSJ article usually produces a free Yahoo link to the full text. Don’t feed Murdoch’s trolls. And don’t believe a word they say either.
They’re probably thinking of TANs — Total Acropolis Notes. If you broke the Acropolis with a sledgehammer into 1 billion little chunks and sold them for $350 each you could pay back every euro.
You could also use bigger chunks and sell them at Sotheby’s. Somebody just paid $350 million for a Paul Gaugin painting! Imagine what they could get for chunks of the Acropolis.
They could also sell the top of Mount Olympus. That would be unimaginably lucrative, provided a knowledgable buyer realizes they get Apollo, Zeus, Dionysus and all the Gawds..
MyLessThanPrimeBeef February 20, 2015 at 1:35 pm
We need preserve our heritage sites.
Why not offer the Germans Acropolis next to their Pergamon Museum?
And the legal claim to the Elgin Marbles.
Yves Smith Post author February 20, 2015 at 9:02 am
Thank you. That article was vile.
As Randy Wray said via e-mail:
Of course households really could always repay the debts if they’d just sell the kids and spouses into slavery; firms could always pay if you put all owners and their kin into debt bondage forever.
With European sovereign debt approaching 90% of GDP, the de facto policy is simply to service the debt. No developed country is currently proposing to run large enough fiscal surpluses to pay off its debt.
Moreover, on a balance sheet basis, most sovereigns have relatively small and illiquid assets compared to the size of their economies. The US government’s assets (including land, buildings and such) are a skinny 18% of GDP.
Most of the value of a government (if you were looking at buying one) is in its revenue generating power (cash flow), not its assets. Liabilities are high, but are assumed to be serviced from cash flow, not paid off.
Not only is the premise of the WSJ article — that Greece’s debt could simply be paid off — wrong, but also the author has no inkling of what developed country balance sheets look like, nor any interest in researching the question. The WSJ should declare intellectual bankruptcy.
Ben Johannson February 20, 2015 at 11:24 am
The wording of the WSJ piece, despite its lack of specifics, seems to suggest the total assets of Greece and everything in it dwarf the public debt. It sounds like a call for the Greek people to be forced into selling their possessions at bargain-basement prices. Note there’s no discussion in the article regarding to whom the Greeks should sell to obtain the necessary liquidity. I would assume international speculators.
lolcar February 20, 2015 at 1:19 pm
A quick google search finds an acre of Greek land with sea views for around 130,000 euros. So by my calculations they only need to sell 2.5 million acres or 7.5% of the total land area of Greece to pay off the full 320 billion.
Ben Johannson February 20, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Those assets won’t be sold at anywhere near market prices.
Jim is right about the value of a government being revenue generation.
I would pass legislation to tax the wealthy of Greece and sell the collection rights to the highest biddders
craazyman February 20, 2015 at 11:31 am
they could try paying their taxes before selling their children. but somebody has to lead by example.
what if you’re a tax-paying obedient Northern European and you see this spectacle? some dude with a hairy chest, sunglasses and open shirt in an Athens café at 11 am drinking ouzo and espresso with his Porsche parked on the curb? Thank you Hans and Franz! You PUMPED . . ME . . UP! he says, raising his lemon rind and pointing at you.
Hans and Franz are not amused anymore. It was funny at first, but now it’s sweat-time in the gym.
Mr. Weidmann is Hans and Mr. Schaeuble is Frans. They want to Pump Greece Up on a crash diet. Oh man, that’s like kind of nutty, but the problem is the fat folks can dodge the workout and the thin folks have to pump the iron. Who is a Greek anyway? That’s a question nobody asks or answers. The ones who don’t pay taxes. Who are they in their own minds? Who are they in your mind? Is there a difference? Why is that? Deep thawts
It gets viler:
Welcome to Stephen Fidler & Co. Solicitors
Sometimes, we all need a little help.
Stephen Fidler & Co can help redress the balance.
The Eskimos woulda pushed this guy off the ice in minutes.
OIFVet February 20, 2015 at 9:06 am
Oh come on Jim, think of all the sunny Greek isles just begging to be sold to billionaires at firesale prices. Also too, “with enough pain and suffering, a determined debtor country can usually repay foreign creditors,” Reinhart and Rogoff say. After all Ceausescu did it… What good is keeping little people around if the elites can’t make them cry?
I know, brother. But seriously, here’s a quote from page 56 of the US government’s Notes to Financial Statements:
For financial reporting purposes, other than multi-use heritage assets, stewardship assets are not recorded as part of PP&E [Property, Plant and Equipment, valued at about $900 billion].
Stewardship Assets consist of public domain land (Stewardship Land) and Heritage Assets. Examples of stewardship land include national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and other lands of national and historical significance. Heritage assets include national monuments, and historical sites that among other characteristics are of historical, natural, cultural, educational or artistic significance.
Stewardship land and most heritage assets are considered priceless and irreplaceable, and as such they are measured in physical units with no financial value assigned to them.
Lambert Strether February 20, 2015 at 2:23 pm
That, Mr. Haygood, is an amazing quote.
OIFVet February 20, 2015 at 2:39 pm
It is, indeed. I am guessing though that the good folks at WSJ and the transnational financial, corporate, and political elites are not huge fans of Teddy Roosevelt and democracy:
“Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.” http://conservamerica.org/conservativequotes/
Glenn February 20, 2015 at 9:30 am
The comparison with Romania in the 1980s apt. That is actually what they want to do to Greece. Anyone knows what the primary surplus was during those years? There are a lot of picture and stories of the effects of that policy.
dnm February 20, 2015 at 9:52 am
According to World Bank data, between 1976 and 1981 Romania’s foreign debt went from 0.5 billion dollars (or 3 perent of GDP) to 10.4 billion dollars (or 28 percent of GDP and 30 percent of exports). In 1981 interest rate payments reached 3 billion dollars, up from barely 8 million six years before. Over the period 1980-1982 the country had to pay 6 billion dollars to foreign creditors, and by 1982 Romania needed 80 percent of its hard currency exports to finance foreign debt.
Cited here: https://europeaneconomics.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/what-brought-romania-into-default-in-1981/
The primary surplus was around 4-8% in the years 1985-1988. Source (p.51). I couldn’t quickly find information on the earlier years.
Thanks, a very useful comparison. So they want Greece to move to 4.5% in 2016
Rosario February 20, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Considering the WSJs firm commitment to current economic operating procedures I believe it would be best for everyone to stop reading it. Even their “truthful” stories have a clear agenda. They will say anything to maintain the rentier class.
davidgmills February 20, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Really? Do you believe those asset figures? Keep in mind the government owns about half of the western US and huge parts of Alaska and all of the National Parks and Monuments and etc., etc. . Priceless, unless of course you are a Republican.
Jim Haygood February 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Yes, I believe the asset figures. As always in financial reports, one has to read the footnotes. This one is on page 56:
For financial reporting purposes, other than multi-use heritage assets, stewardship assets are not recorded as part of PP&E.
Yes, the good old ‘they are too valuable so we assign no value’ technique.
So what is the monetary value of the Grand Canyon? What about Yellowstone?
As a conservative estimate, I would venture the value at no less than the sum of the combined wealth of all the billionaires of the world – that’s the lower bound number.
EmilianoZ February 20, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Easy! You just take the value of the nearest national park that was monetarily valued.
sleepy February 20, 2015 at 8:52 pm
Location, location, location. And comps.
generic February 20, 2015 at 9:00 am
Very much so. Merkel’s confidence is usually career ending.
We can add ‘confidence’ to our list of Janus words.
Cassiodorus February 20, 2015 at 9:04 am
So the Greeks capitulate, the Greek government collapses (presumably because a fair portion of SYRIZA resigns, or refuses to ratify), and new elections are scheduled. What then?
There are a lot of possible permutations, none of them with certain outcomes: A few, off the top of my head, are:
1) If the Europeans throw Greece out of the Euro, Tsipras could argue that he didn’t break any election commitments and institute TANs or similar Plan B.
2) Tsipras calls a referendum to release his party from his no Grexit policy.
3) above with a “Plan B”
4) A general election with or without 1&2.
Another general election would be very volatile. Presumably New Democracy would say put us “Grown Ups” back in charge. Golden Dawn would say, OK you tried New Democracy and austerity; the Syriza programme didn’t work; try us, it is the immigrants and coloured peoples fault. Truly frightening.
Cassiodorus February 20, 2015 at 10:08 am
Number two of your list sounds like the best option. Oh, who knows what they’ll do? SYRIZA appears to understand a few of the basics of resistance, but have yet to show that their plan is any good. Do they really want to be held responsible for continuing austerity after all they’ve promised so far?
Glenn February 20, 2015 at 10:53 am
It is not just continuing austerity but increased austerity over the next few years as per the 2012 agreements with the Troika
And was this particular outcome not expected? Were they greatly surprised to discover that Germany wanted to make an example of them?
Perhaps they were hoping for more support. Think of that scene in Jerry Maguire… “Who’s coming with me?”
Arthur Williams February 20, 2015 at 9:23 am
If I were the Greeks at this point, I’d just walk in to the nearest bank, tell the teller to step away from the terminal and record a deposit of 500 billion Euros to my account. Cut the Germans a certified cheque and send them on their way. All done!
If that makes the Germans unhappy, well they could always return the cheque.
NotTimothyGeithner February 20, 2015 at 9:40 am
Greece is responsible for printing 10€ notes, so I think there might be a solution.
I await this response from Yaris:
“Every Greek citizen must now mail (wink) 10 euros every (how much does Greece owe) to our new collection center across the street from the mint.”
Oregoncharles February 20, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Minus, of course, the 93 Billion (including interest) Germany still owes them from the war.
Ingenuity is certainly called for. Sometimes there’s such a thing as too serious.
kristiina February 20, 2015 at 9:42 am
I am already seeing more positive signs about Greece, Varoufakis and Syriza in my FB feed. People (as in the human beings) are starting to wake up. Not so the media, that keeps spouting the eurocrat hardline here in FInland. Strangely, the hardlining is really bringing up the absurdity of the situation: sovereign states being made serfs by the loan conditions. The question is starting to take form: if democratic elections cannot make a difference in policy, what is actually going on? Syriza would sorely need more time to get the message through.
If Syriza decides to resign, there will be new elections, and their support is now something like 80% so from that perspective they’d come back with even stronger mandate than they have now. What would Germany do with that? New elections would maybe buy more time, too.
It seems as if the ECB policy is to suck all money out of Greece and especially Greek banks with gaming the ELA and leaks. This is nasty. I still am not really getting why all seem to be so flippant about default. The only thing that would hit eurocrats where it hurts.
Santi February 20, 2015 at 10:14 am
A default not just hurts the eurocrats: the associated bank runs and capital controls hurts a lot the economy. For instance, importers have trouble to get and pay products, tourists are uncertain about money and thus cancel trips, etc. This relative to Greece. After a bank run and a capital controls, people will think twice about lending cheaply to Spain, which has a big primary deficit and just a nominal 0.7% GDP growth right now (real 1.4% due to big deflation). So, is Spain next? is it Portugal? (I doubt it) Is it Italy?… This is the financial damage for the rest of the Eurozone, reducing investment and increasing deflation and depression in the South… Nothing pretty. The “whatever it takes” of Mario Draghi with regards to the euro stability looks increasingly like “whatever it takes if you are not under Schauble fire”. This will make all risk assessment in the Eurozone be reevaluated.
So unless the default is very carefully organized, it is better to avoid going there to the maximum possible extent, while keeping Greek population dignity, of course. I understand that Varoufakis must walk a very thin line.
ex-PFC Chuck February 20, 2015 at 12:06 pm
“I am already seeing more positive signs about Greece, Varoufakis and Syriza in my FB feed. People (as in the human beings) are starting to wake up.”
Interesting especially if, as your screen name suggests to me, you’re from northern Europe. If you feel comfortable providing more information regarding what parts of the world you’re seeing these signs of awakening please do so.
kristiina February 20, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Of course this is anecdotal, but people who never post about politics on FB have been linking to Varoufakis articles. Even one Finnish economy professor is blogging with a header Greece is right (Pertti Haaparanta). All in finnish so I am not including a link. Some people are waking up.
The official line seems to be moving into slander towards the Greek elected officials, so some balloons must be feeling punched.
Jackrabbit February 20, 2015 at 9:43 am
Nail biting time.
Fitting that ‘craazyman’ was first in this thread. This is a craazy situation.
The wild and craazy man for our wild and craazy world.
Lambert Strether February 20, 2015 at 10:08 am
Greek PM ‘certain’ euro zone will accept loan deal, Germans soften Reuters
Krugman is also asking for a “stop the clock” solution, much in line with this post.
Jackrabbit February 20, 2015 at 10:47 am
…Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, an outspoken Marxist economist and blogger…
Can anyone imagine that neolibs hate anything/anyone more than a “marxist blogger”?
When will we see neolibs and neocons labeled in a similar fashion? Secretive, anti-humanist Mr. Bigshot, a staunch neolibcon, could not be reached for comment.
You won’t. Insiders don’t criticize other insiders.
We need to be the ones taking their context away from them, exactly as they seek to do to us. We need to be the ones casually referring to the executive class as long pigs, not executives. We need to be calling the entire British ruling class pederasts, not MPs.
Remember Hypatia!
William C February 20, 2015 at 10:59 am
I would happily bet some money that the ‘ECB leak’ is from a German official either at the ECB or the Bundesbank. Possibly the Finance Ministry, but less likely.
Think back to 1992 when the Buba sank sterling and wrecked the exchange rate mechanism.
Petey February 20, 2015 at 11:06 am
Fabrizio Goria:
German gov’t spox says would call Greek bailout extension request a letter not a ‘trojan horse’
Well, that’s a massive concession, no? Turns out the letter was actually “a letter”, perhaps made out of “paper”, and not “a huge wooden structure”. Who knew? Guess the Germans are turning reasonable after all.
Next up, maybe the Germans will declare the Greeks are less of a threat than the Russians. Or maybe they’ll declare the sky is blue, rather than the sky being a nefarious Greek plot…
EmilianoZ February 20, 2015 at 11:14 am
Le Monde says Varoufakis is part of the problem:
http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/02/20/yanis-varoufakis-l-intrus-chez-les-grands-argentiers-europeens_4580445_3234.html
« S’il avait eu une attitude plus conciliante, moins arrogante, il aurait peut-être déjà décroché, son feu vert à une extension du plan d’aide », glisse une source européenne haut placée…
Had he been less arrogant, an extension might have been granted already.
The list of his faults is endless:
His treatment of Dieselbloom:
Mais la conférence de presse finale fut calamiteuse. Devant les caméras grecques, M. Varoufakis avait annoncé, sans prévenir, « la fin de la troïka », l’instance qui représente les créanciers du pays (Banque centrale européenne, Commission européenne, Fonds monétaire international). Il avait même pris la liberté de moquer le Néerlandais, en direct. Un affront, très mal vécu à Bruxelles et aux Pays-Bas.
His European tour finishing in Germany instead of starting there:
Le fait que M. Varoufakis termine cette folle semaine par Berlin, au lieu d’avoir commencé par là, alors que l’Allemagne est de loin le premier créancier de la Grèce, a aussi fait grincer des dents.
His professorial manners as if he were teaching the Eurocrats a lesson:
Ses homologues européens, rompus à cet exercice très codifié des réunions ministérielles, ont du mal à accepter l’intrus et ses propos jugés trop « professoraux ». « Il fait la leçon à ses homologues au lieu de donner des chiffres, des choses concrètes », dénoncent plusieurs sources européennes.
Conclusion: if you are supplicant, you need to act like one.
OIFVet February 20, 2015 at 11:53 am
“Elites” are remarkably thin-skinned and insecure for some reason.
hemeantwell February 20, 2015 at 12:09 pm
They enact that thin-skinnedness, trying to induce regression. At a behavioral level they start to evoke recollections of increasingly irritated parents, frighteningly seething. The trick is to make it seem to be their due, a natural response to the impertinence of a child. The lackey press can then rush in to reinforce the move by taking it seriously, like Miss Manners cataloging universal courtesies and corresponding violation penalties.
pebird February 20, 2015 at 11:19 am
At some point Greece has to point out that forcing Greece to sell assets and adhere to an austere budget looks and smells a lot like bankruptcy, so why not do it the right way and write down the debt.
The EU, IMF and ECB created such a mess that a bad bank wasn’t big enough to contain the financial crisis, they needed a bad country to park the mess.
Despite was Yanis has said in the past, he is being forced to show which of his earlier commitments will stand and which will he will set aside.
I hope his commitment to the Greek people takes precedence over maintaining a relationship to an abstract monetary symbol.
Doug Terpstra February 20, 2015 at 11:28 am
Why not do bankruptcy the right way? Well, I might not get my nice Greek island then.
Mattsk February 21, 2015 at 8:06 am
Notably absent here is any sense of what’s happening on the street. That comes with the territory staked out by this site–and with the consolidation of capital in the advanced, sclerotic stage of spectacular banksterism (etcetera), but the massive vote for Syriza continues to mean something. And changes are pending in Spain and elsewhere that may shift power further. Podemos has been notably silent, frustratingly so, possibly because its leadership has too little financial wherewithal in this regard, possibly out of pragmatism. . .
Alex Pigman:
“Sources say Schauble and Varoufakis in separate rooms with shuttle diplomacy by Lagarde, Moscovici, Dijsselbloem btwn them”
Apparently, after intense deliberation with his Government, and having come to the conclusion that the Greek letter wasn’t a Trojan Horse, Schauble became terrified that Varoufakis himself was a Trojan Horse, and that being in the same room with him would enable hundreds of Greek soldiers to leap out of Varoufakis’ body and attack Schauble…
Does anyone know what role Wall Street banking firm Lazard is doing as Greece’s consultant? Why are they so silent, especially given the critical political PR gamesmanship involved? And isn’t it troubling that Syriza hired the same firm that advised Greece on the disastrous 2012 bailout?
blowncue February 20, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Based upon prior articles about Lazard one might see them as a go to advisor given they represent exclusively debtor countries. One of their team did go to Rothschild, but one article described Lazard’s strategy as uncovering which creditors are…amenable to compromise…and getting them to lean on the more aggressive creditors. If the shuttle diplomacy is true then we have only a weaker, partial achievement at a higher cost. The Fiscal Times had comments from Bill Rhodes, such that I wonder if he would have been good to have on the team. My wild assed guess is that Moscovici will turn out to have been a significant player whose advice to Creeks to get an extension was taken seriously. Using Lazard again doesn’t trouble me as much given what Greece is pursuing now rather than 2012 is anti austerity. What’s missing is that the other debtors aren’t also at the table now represented by Podemos, Five Star, etc. Also I wonder why not early on an international pass the hat junket to recap the Greek banks instead of limiting to euro zone.
clinical wasteman February 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Thanks Yves and others for all the above (or below, if that’s the word for earlier posts). Actual, serious commentary in a ‘comments’ section! — the contrast with the ignorant bile under more politely ignorant Guardian (etc.) articles is striking, and the fine detail beats the a-priori writeoff of Syriza by my ultraleft friends. (There will be plenty of time for an a-posteriori writeoff if the horrible probable happens.)
A bit more detail on the involvement of Lazard, with apologies to French or other European readers who have heard this countless times before. The French franchise (hired by Papandreou jr. — who also hired Varoufakis for five minutes — then kept on by Samaras) is not quite the same as the ex-Wasserstein Wall Street branch, though obviously no more to be trusted. Local CEO Matthieu Pigasse — part owner of Le Monde, whose reporting on this, among other things, has been predictably atrocious throughout — brazenly claims to be a ‘left-wing banker’, which seems to mean a former advisor to Strauss-Kahn and Fabius. (More brazenly still, he claims to be a ‘punk rocker’, something media in the country of Plastic Bertrand* lap up, but that’s another story.) He also went out of his way to ridicule Syriza ‘demagogy’ in his latest silly book, to the point of using superannuated ‘far left-far right’ analogies. Having said that, his sovereign restructuring (both senses) unit seems to have had a hand in Ecuador’s relatively successful pre-emptive default and in keeping Argentina’s settlement intact until the recent vulture flashmob struck. So if ‘brinksmanship’ really is the name of the ‘game’ (theorized or otherwise), it’s not wholly surprising that Lazard is kept on. Not good or politically appealing or even strategically wise, just unsurprising if Syriza politicians really imagine they can win on an institutional plane sown with supra-sovereign land mines.
[*Pigasse, his newspapers and those he doesn’t own yet in France seem to think ‘punk’ means The Clash. Conspicuously little mention of, say, the great Lizzie Mercier Descloux.]
You don’t step out on a 40-story beam as Syriza has done without some good intentions. But I don’t find Varoufakis’s Guardian piece on Marx offers much consolation. It’s a recipe for vaccilation, with capitulation telegraphed down the line. At what point do we say that international finance brings us nothing and saw it off like a rotten limb? Get down to the work of learning how to make what we really need? Far far from this site people like the Via Campesina are doing just that.
financial matters February 21, 2015 at 8:37 am
I’m not sure how erratic of a ‘Marxist’ Varoufakis is but Marx had the assumption of the primacy of economic class interests. I like Polanyi’s view better in that ‘But the social unit of the nation proved, in the long run, even more cohesive than the economic unit of class.’
Both are methods of protection from unbridled capitalism/exploitation of labor and land/use of unemployment as a weapon rather than a problem to be solved. And of course this ‘protection’ can take more destructive courses.
good point February 20, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Syriza is just another puppet of big finance. It’s like De Blasio putting in a Goldman guy in charge of housing, Obama putting a Citi guy into Treasury, and Athens hiring the same vulture firm that helped it get into this mess to begin with.
Remember, Obama had to scuttle his Treasury nomination because the guy was too connected and slavish to Wall Street. He was from Lazard too, so Syriza jumped into the warm embrace of Wall Street and sold out the people from the get go.
If they don’t redeem themselves, they won’t last long and will be discarded like the rest of the useless “moderates” that preceded them.
Doug Terpstra February 20, 2015 at 4:02 pm
That’s right, Obama’s nominee for UnderSec of Treasury, Antonio Weiss, was from Lazard, did tax evasion inversion deals. The man never fails to appoint foxes to public henhouses. It’s a cozy world at the commanding heights.
I want to believe Syriza is the real deal, (I do believe Yanis is), but a lot of the optics seem suspect, including upfront concessions, the election of president from the former ruling party and the hiring of Lazard and its eerie silence thriughout the process. I’d expect a more activist role, especially given the critical political PR involved in something inclined toward bankruptcy. Obviously over my head.
Kyle February 20, 2015 at 7:23 pm
@Doug Terpstra on Lazard
“Why are they so silent, especially given the critical political PR gamesmanship involved?”
Matthieu Pigasse is the head of Lazard and the Lazard Frères team advising Greece. He’s also a deal maker for the French government. That and, suprisingly, given the negative commentary, co-owner of Le Monde. See @Petey and @EmilianoZ below.
Other than this from http://business.financialpost.com/2015/02/10/greece-has-plan-b-if-it-fails-to-reach-debt-agreement-with-eurozone/ I’ve found little.
“Any impasse risks leaving Greece without funding as of the end of this month, when its current bailout expires, and puts Europe’s most-indebted state’s euro membership in danger.
Greece’s public debt currently stands at more than 320 billion euros, or about 175% of gross domestic product.
About 100 billion euros of that debt needs to be canceled for it to be manageable, Matthieu Pigasse, head of Lazard Financial Advisory, hired by the Greek government as adviser on issues related to public debt and fiscal management, said today in an interview on France Inter radio in Paris.
Such a reduction would bring the country’s ratio of debt to GDP to 120% in 2020 and would make Greece’s debt burden more “sustainable,” he said.
“Everyone knows, each European government knows, that the debt is today unsustainable or untenable,” he said.
Other wise I’d be very surprised at any ‘public relations’ leaks arising from an investment house. They play very close to the vest.
Lazard is not Big Finance, and Syriza is not a puppet. Lazard represents debtor nations exclusively.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-04-19/a-lazard-banker-is-the-greeks-financial-goddess#p1
Syriza hasn’t jumped into the lap of Wall Street simply because they hired a team who has experience with the players in this particular negotiation. Lazard isn’t defining Syriza’s bargaining position. They are likely providing intel on the players that Syriza would not have nor would have time to gather given their election literally into a crisis.
C February 20, 2015 at 11:33 am
If the ECB was a doctor and someone came to them with a weak heartbeat and thready pulse they would bleed them, bleed them some more, put the leeches on, and then beat them with a cane when they fainted.
Comparing the ECB to a doctor, what an interesting idea. Given the neoliberal move toward outcome-based payments for medical services, why not apply the same toward finance as well? If a financial firm or institution fails to perform for its client, then the client should owe no payment. In this case, the ECB shouldn’t be owed a single euro penny given their spectacular failure to “cure” Greece. Of course, one needs to be aware what metrics are used to determine outcome and also of funny accounting, but these details can be hammered out. Taking this further: if a university graduate fails to get employment over a certain compensation level within 2 years of graduating, the university must then pay off the graduate’s student loan debt.
Gee February 20, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Doctors sign the Hippocratic Oath (or the oath of Lasagna)
Bankers, and the Troika, sign the Hypocritic Oath (or the oath of Pildetogna)
“I hope (Varoufakis’) commitment to the Greek people takes precedence over maintaining a relationship to an abstract monetary symbol.”
I think Varoufakis has excellent reasons for not preferring a bankruptcy/Grexit. The bank runs and capital controls, being shut out of the international credit markets, being theoretically forced to get out of the EU as well, and on and on, would cause immense short (and probably medium) duration pain well beyond what Greece is currently experiencing.
All that said, I don’t think Varoufakis will sign onto an agreement that ties Greece’s hands past the current bridging loan, (however you want to call it). So I don’t think Varoufakis’ stance is about ‘Euro at any cost’. And I agree with him that very modest Euro reforms at first is best solution for Greece, not to mention the rest of the EZ.
However, if the Most Reasonable and Patient Man In Room strategy eventually fails, and Greece gets its hand irrevocable forced into choosing between abject permanent surrender and taking a different course than Varoufakis’ preferred one, I don’t think he’ll choose abject permanent surrender…
“Le Monde says Varoufakis is part of the problem”
All about style, not substance, no? Gets back to the recent Varoufakis interview where he said that discussing macroeconomics in any way among FinMin’s was considered bad manners.
Style…manners…
The opponent will always try to throw you off.
Sometimes, you are able to put a stop to that.
Sometimes, you end up fighting the fight they want you to fight.
Deloss February 20, 2015 at 11:49 am
Yves, meine Liebe, you are very well-informed about this horrible mess, and your reporting is amazing. Thank you.
Since you ARE so knowledgeable, do you have a solution to suggest? Is there anybody in sight who has a good solution? Does Varoufakis have no choice but to hold course for the rocks? You, Paul Krugman, and everybody else seems appalled by German stupidity, but if they are determined to be intransigent (and stupid), is there anything else anybody can do? Do you agree with Paul Krugman’s “stop the clock” suggestion? Would there be any way to get it implemented?
I was appalled to read that one of the measures being forced on the Greeks was to sell the Piraeus to the Chinese. Readers make jokes about breaking up the Parthenon, or selling Mount Olympus, but selling Piraeus is exactly in that line. No wonder the Greeks are finally getting tough.
The horrid details are here:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-to-proceed-with-piraeus-port-privatization-1423573999
Well, after Germany’s SPD spent the last 24 hours doing a full turnaround from their initial support of the Varoufakis letter, now we get this, via the Telegraph live-blog:
“Germany’s Council of Economic Experts, or ‘Five Wise Men’ as they are know, have said the eurozone would be better off without Greece.
“In a letter published in Germany’s FAZ, the Council say a Grexit could actually increase the institutional credibility of the euro area.
“They also accuse the Greek government of a “flawed analysis of economic policy alternatives and an incorrect assessment of the international negotiation situation.”
So, seems fair to say that the entire German consensus is ready to let loose the dogs of war. Hard to see how Merkel puts the brakes on that, even if she wants to. Over to the ECB battlezone…
‘How could ordinary German citizens not know, as they round up all these little peon debt-ridden vermin nations?’
The banality of greed.
‘No active resistance inside to the master plan of the super German bankers?’
Most Germans have bought into the Austerity Party line of the ‘kampf’ of the hard-working Germans. That’s how you unite a nation, I guess.
Petey February 20, 2015 at 12:12 pm
“You, Paul Krugman, and everybody else seems appalled by German stupidity, but if they are determined to be intransigent (and stupid), is there anything else anybody can do?”
Sure. The various European institutions can decide to stand up to Germany and say, “no”.
It’s not unprecedented, as we saw with the ECB on OMT and QE. This will be a much harder lift, and may well not succeed. But there are clear signs that there are strong doubts on the German position coming from various quarters. Whether the doubters are willing to do anything about it, and whether or not they have the numbers to do anything about it is something that seems more and more likely that we’ll get to find out.
Yves always likes to (correctly) remind us that Varoufakis in on record as being strongly opposed to Grexit. But Draghi is also on record as being strongly opposed to exit of any EZ nation.
Deloss February 20, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Other European institutions show no signs of resisting Germany. Le Monde isn’t France, but Hollande doesn’t seem to be resisting. I’m asking for a solution that could be applied by SOMEBODY with more brains than earwax. Varoufakis hasn’t figured one out–although his publicity is good (see Lambert’s post above, “Greek PM ‘certain’ euro zone will accept loan deal, Germans soften”). So I was asking the smart Ms. Smith, who has brains and can read, if she had any ideas.
I’m on the verge of actually quoting Winston Churchill’s egregious remark. You know which one. (“Which Hun?” “No, which one.“)
Yoko Sushida February 20, 2015 at 12:52 pm
Reading all those opinions and comments all seems clear: the Greek are the innocent victims of the Germans. But I do wonder why really. To accuse the lender that they were actually lending money (too much even) to the ‘innocent’ borrowers is somewhat ass-backward, is it not?
One could also see that as a very bad joke that essentially continues what the Greek government did for many many many of the last years/decades: milking the system endlessly. Politicians giving out ever more sugar cubes to get re-elected so they can milk it even more.
Now comes the ‘new government’ saying, hold on, those were the ‘old’ generations and that doesn’t count anymore, we’re different now. But is that good enough? In my mind it’s not. The recent opinion article in the NYT by the Greek finance minister, which I can only applaud for it’s brinkmanship, but to which I can only say, you gotta be kidding, respectively, stop the BS and wake up to reality.
John Jones February 21, 2015 at 9:12 am
Yeah Greek governments milked the system for 300 billion.
Greek governments over decades couldn’t possibly have any other reasons for getting loans other than milking the system could they.
Milking the system endlessly? Were did the money go? And show me proof.
What sugar cubes? Did Greeks get please tell me.
Provide concrete proof were this money went. Or take your own advice and stop the BS and wake up to reality.
susan the other February 20, 2015 at 1:03 pm
Yves’ phrase “Financial time runs faster than political time” is making me crazy. Just-in-time time. Pay-the-bills time. Real-time. Get-in-get-out time. IBGYBG-time. Why does politics play by the financial clock? When there is a sea change in the world economy, running on the old financial clock is so illogical it should be criminal. In case the Euroburo hasn’t noticed, nothing will ever be the same again. And not just in Europe. So why should old credit agreements be honored when they are based on an economy that no longer exists anywhere? And what chance is there that world growth will ever achieve debt-servicing lift off for all those old contracts? There isn’t enough time left in eternity for that.
Plus, how illogical can Wolfgang get? Schaeuble recently (last year) made the comment that “we are overbanked” meaning there are too many banks all chasing the same debt payments. As if closing down and consolidating the banks is the answer. The answer is renegotiating all the debt, but he didn’t get anywhere near that point. Then he said, maybe a month ago, that he didn’t understand why anybody needs to stimulate growth (aka demand), by which he meant that it would be just as good to use austerity and be patient. Now he is visibly freaked out by Varoufakis who has pointed out all the contradictions in his thinking and he won’t even be in the same room with him but must have shuttle diplomats delivering questions and answers from the hated Varoufakis. Schaeuble is a piece of living comedy.
Matt Pappalardo February 20, 2015 at 1:31 pm
Over in Athens, Mega TV on its flagship news programme is reporting the following, says Helena Smith:
-A four-month extension of Greece’s bailout programme is in the works
-The interim programme will not include [heard it’s ‘no further’] austerity measures
-Greece commits to not making any unilateral moves – such as raising the minimum wage or protecting primary homes from foreclosures
Thanks! (Though see below on the side letter… I wonder if the austerity stuff is supposed to go in there….)
Santi February 20, 2015 at 1:45 pm
I don’t think Syriza will refrain from protecting first housings from foreclosures, and it is a very cheap measure, so I don’t think this information can be trusted, probably a troika leak and negotiable. I think the first pillar of the Thesaloniki program is a red line if Syriza does not want to suicide themselves.
From The Guardian:
Up to €1bn withdrawn from Greek banks today – Greek TV
Mega TV is now reporting that up to €1bn has been withdrawn by worried investors from local banks in Greece today, says Helena Smith in Athens. It is citing central Bank officials as saying that if the outflows keep at this pace, local lenders will need emergency funding from the European Central Bank “within the next week” to avoid financial collapse.
The Greek government has apparently agreed to present “a list of reforms” to creditors by Monday, according to reporters outside the prime minister’s office. “The reforms will not include any measures that will worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis” Christos Tsigouris, Mega’s reporter, has been told by aides in the PM’s office.
There goes the €3 billion ELA increase, used up this week.
Even if a 4-month extension slows the bleeding, Greek banks appear to have lost about 10% of their deposit base so far in 2015, and part of it won’t be coming back.
Serious damage has been done, both to the banks and to recovery prospects. How can anyone get a loan, if Greek banks are hunkered down in Greek Treasuries and EFSF bonds, fighting for survival? Lending Club don’t go there …
The Eurogroup has a text:
Negotiations led by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chairs the eurogroup of 19 eurozone finance ministers, has produced a common communiqué on the extension of Greece’s €172bn bailout, according to a eurozone official.
~10 minutes ’til presser in Brussels:
23 Minutes til Presser in Brussels. http://t.co/diiOL2wf8z
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) February 20, 2015
Evans-Pritchard: Better than a slap in the belly with a wet fish, but note “if so”:
It appears that EMU has capitulated to Greece on austerity. If true, hats off to Tsipras
— A Evans-Pritchard (@AmbroseEP) February 20, 2015
First: If true, congratulations to the Greek people.
Then: Hats off to the Greek team.
Lest we get carried away…
Aides in Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras office are suggesting that while progress is being made a deal may well be some way off yet, says Helena Smith.
“Lets wait to see the final result because the devil is in the details,” one insider has just told the news portal newsit.gr.
Current word is a side letter from Greece by Monday. Guardian live blog:
News flash on Reuters: the draft agreement includes a requirement for Greece to submit a letter to the Eurogroup by Monday outlining all the measures it plans to take during the remainder of the bailout period, to ensure Athens complies with the conditions.
Petey February 20, 2015 at 2:26 pm
“Current word is a side letter from Greece by Monday.”
Clever! Greece capitulates! Germany capitulates! Cuz the details don’t come until Monday…
Here are the requirements for the letter. Guardian summarizes TV reports, mentioned above,
In Athens, SKAI TV’s flaghsip news programme has confirmed that Greece must produce a list of reforms by Monday – and that it will be a labour-intensive weekend for the government.
The reforms will include Greece detailing how:
* it will crack down on tax evasion and corruption – both endemic in Greek life
* it will reform the country’s dysfunctional public administration
* it will tackle Greece’s humanitarian crisis, the result of six years of recession and relentless EU-IMF-dictated austerity, the price of emergency rescue funds
Bullet three does not translate precisely into “no austerity”…. but it doesn’t translate into “austerity” either. Modified rapture?
NOTE Not sure if Mega TV is SKAI.
Livin’ for the weekend. Peter Spiegel:
Sounds like important issues still to be decided on Monday: what actual reform measures #Greece must implement. #eurogroup
— Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) February 20, 2015
Syriza Program 1st Pillar: Confronting the humanitarian crisis:
Total estimated cost €1,882 billion
Our program to immediately confront the humanitarian crisis, with an estimated cost around €2 billion, amounts to a comprehensive grid of emergency interventions, so as to raise a shield of protection for the most vulnerable social strata.
Free electricity to 300.000 households currently under the poverty line up to 300 kWh per month per family; that is, 3.600 kWh per year. Total cost: €59,4 million.
Programme of meal subsidies to 300.000 families without income. The implementation will take place via a public agency of coordination, in cooperation with the local authorities, the Church and solidarity organizations. Total cost: €756 million.
Programme of housing guarantee. The target is the provision of initially 30.000 apartments (30, 50, and 70 m²), by subsidizing rent at €3 per m². Total cost: €54 million.
Restitution of the Christmas bonus, as 13th pension, to 1.262.920 pensioners with a pension up to €700. Total cost: €543,06 million.
Free medical and pharmaceutical care for the uninsured unemployed. Total cost: €350 million.
Special public transport card for the long-term unemployed and those who are under the poverty line. Total cost: €120 million.
Repeal of the leveling of the special consumption tax on heating and automotive diesel. Bringing the starting price of heating fuel for households back to €0,90 per lt, instead of the current €1,20 per lt. Benefit is expected.
I think the stated cost is yearly, the 4 months proportion should be around 500M€. This would greatly increase confidence and “morale” of the nation, which is important. They will surely implement measures from this set…
Here’s the statement from the Telegraph, which summarizes the Q&A from the presser:
20.14 Although the statement says Greece must abide by the 2012 fiscal targets, it also states the surplus targets will have to take in to account the “economic circumstances” in 2015.
That could suggest the 3pc target is not as rigid as initially thought. The details are likely to be avaiable on Monday.
But this looks ugly, though I don’t know if the source is authoritative:
Ow. Zero on primary budget surplus. Text identical to rejected language on Mon via @paulmasonnews: The deal p2 pic.twitter.com/rvBzKxAfnK
— Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) February 20, 2015
dbk February 20, 2015 at 5:48 pm
Lambert – re: MEGA and SKAI, no, they are two (very) different tv stations. I watched SKAI’s coverage; the commenters were extraordinarily negative about the communique – one might as well have been in Germany.
Varoufakis’ Greek introduction was very compelling.
I’ll wait for Yves’ post-analysis of the “win-loss” on each side, but it doesn’t at first hearing sound like total defeat, viz. “capitulation”. Actually, many of the measures Syriza has proposed will not affect the country’s balance sheet, and will be of enormous value in building citizens’ morale. Some commenters in the financial twittersphere have already pronounced these measures “cosmetic”. Believe me, they’re not.
A couple of other observations from “on the ground”:
-the new government has not been idle during the past week. Syriza proposed a candidate for President of the Republic from New Democracy and he was elected, easily. The original candidate, who is Greece’s Commissioner to the EC, was withdrawn, apparently because Juncker likes him and they have a good rapport. That his candidacy was withdrawn by Tsipras was a clear show of good will to Juncker personally. Plus, this move co-opted the right in Greece.
-let’s not forget that the new Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, who is a top-ranked international human rights and international criminal (read: money-laundering/tax-evasion specialist) lawyer, has considerable control over what legislation is put before the Greek Parliament, and in what order. She’s determined to pursue through Parliamentary channels those with large deposits abroad, pronto.
-for commenters imagining the far right as coming to power in the near future: honestly, I doubt it. In the latest polls, this party has fallen behind the KKE, and we need to remember that their leaders are, um, in prison at the moment. It is anticipated that they will be tried on criminal charges pretty quickly.
-for commenters envisioning a military coup in the wake of this agreement, well, no. Syriza placed a “patriot” (a word with a special connotation in Greece) as Minister of Defense, and the military are pleased with him. He’s a rich man who is considered incorruptible – read, “no more kickbacks/bribes from foreign [read: German] military hardware providers”. Good news for Greece, not-so-good news for military hardware providers.
=In other news: the Chinese fleet arrived in Piraeus and were welcomed by Tsipras, who has been invited to visit China in early May. Commenters are invited to make of this what they will. [By the way, this privatization was already a done deal before the election, and the new government vowed to respect privatizations carried out before they came to power.]
Efthimia Efthimiou:
“Skai tv reports Spain and Portugal tried to block the deal btwn Greece-Eurozone and had strong objections”
Reasons should be obvious, if one has been following along.
Also, strongly implies Greece won something…
Judging by how stocks are reacting, the money people are celebrating…hopefully, prematurely.
More from our Athens correspondent Helena Smith:
Brussels-based Greek correspondents are reporting that the euro group is about to end. “They came here determined to have a political solution otherwise on Tuesday it would have been necessary to enforce capital controls [on Greek banks],” Eleni Varvitsiotis, SKAI’s reporter has just told the Athens-based TV station. Reports that a press conference will start in Brussels around 8pm GMT.
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras is “in constant contact” with finance ministry officials attending the euro group. Aides close to the Greek leader have let drop that both the Spanish and Portugese finance ministers attempted to disrupt the euro group meeting but were overuled.
“It is obvious that a very clear threat was levelled re [the possible closure] of Greek banks,” the leading political commentator Alexis Papahelas has just told SKAI news adding that a compromise appeared to be in the offing.
Precisely because Tsipras had made been forced to make concessions, he will face uproar on the domestic front, not least from militants in his radical left Syriza party and disappointed voters.
But here is the Telegraph’s take, quite different:
19.37 The Eurogroup is over. Greece has agreed a four-month extension of its bail-out. We’ll have a press conference at 8pm with the details of the deal.
Bruno Waterfield is calling it a “Greek surrender.”
The presser is supposed to start “soon” (for some definition of soon. Maybe everything will unravel at the last moment!)
UPDATE Feed for the presser (which IIRC was problematic).
Paul Tioxon February 20, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Bloomberg live TV, extensive coverage now!
BillC February 20, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Interesting revalation: the EU Council Webstream of the 20:50 CET Eurogroup meeting press conference requires proprietary Microsoft Silverlight software. And I thought the EU actively promoted open source. Should have been able to tell PR from substance …
Whoops, an alternative site to the one linked by the UK Telegraph uses Flash.
http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/live.cfm?page=2&sitelang=en
Read your comment too late. Now de-installing Silver..whatever its called!
Just in –
Greece, euro zone creditors reach accord on loan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/20/us-eurozone-greece-idUSKBN0LO0O620150220
craazyman February 20, 2015 at 3:49 pm
what a shocker!
I hope everybody is sitting down comfortably in their computer chairs and not hyperventilating with excitement.
The Acropolis is safe for now! Put the sledgehammers back in the shed. and no cutting the top off Mount Olympus and moving it to Dubai. It’ll be worth more next year!
Now comes Part II.
Part II is a new Eurozone Marshall Plan. All the acronyms who Greece owes money to put equity money in to something that isn’t a bailout facility because there’s no more bailouts, then they borrow more, the money gets invested in places like . . um. . . Greece. then the profits roll in, then the money goes back to the acronyms. its like the circulation of blood in a body, but when the blood gets back where it started nobody remembers where it came from. You can’t call that a bailout. You call it “groaf”.
El Guapo February 20, 2015 at 3:04 pm
An agreement has been reached but analysts in Athens are already describing the concessions made by the Greek government as “politically poisonous,” Helena Smith reports.
Prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ government will almost certainly face fierce reaction from militants in his radical left Syriza party and from the populist right-wing Anel, his junior partner in the governing coalition. “Very heavy concessions have been made, politically poisonous concessions for the government,” Pavlos Tzimas, the veteran political commentator, has just told SKAI news. “It’s going to be a crash test on the domestic front for the government,” the television channels says. “The big question now is what reforms the government is going to agree to,” Takis Hadzis, another commentator, has also told Skai news.
Sounds wonderful. Here comes Golden Dawn?
Maybe it’s already here.
Witness the following:
1. All the inmates currently at Camp Austere Fist.
2. the Final Financial Solution
3. The plan to impose orders on European nations
4. The Quislings of other Mediterranean lining up against resistance
5. The current attempt at non-aggression against Russia (actually good if it lasts)
voxhumana February 20, 2015 at 3:07 pm
One aspect of all this that I’d find hilarious if it weren’t so tragic is the hyper-ventilating about Greek ‘tax evasion and corruption.” Not that these issues do not exist, they do, or that they should be rectified, they should, but that any body politic, whether the EU, USA, Russia, China etc would have the gall to point their needle fingers at any group other then themselves first. It’s particularly underscored by the recent HSBC revelations, including Loretta Lynch’s prior knowledge of and refusal to “crack down” on the criminals. I guess only Greece should have to “fix” its tax collection problems, not the big boys. We know full well that US corporations dodge every tax they can get away with, to the tune of hundreds of billions (trillions?) of lost tax revenues over the decades. Do they secretly envy the clever tax-avoiding Greeks? Isn’t it the US tax code (through regulatory capture) that is perhaps most responsible for the obscene disparity between wealth and poverty… and hasn’t the IRS recently been on a tear in closing offices and firing staff to the point that they themselves acknowledge 50% of tax payer phone calls will go unanswered this year?
How is it that Greek tax evasion – which seems to be just a different word for the tax reductions to which the neo-liberal philosophy aspires – is regarded by the 1%’s as a dire crime when the 1% are the people who evade taxes the most? And what part of the IRS not going after wealthy tax evaders is essentially different than the Greek govt.’s failure to do so?
My comment is not terribly informed, as I do not know (nor care to know) the exact numbers, in Euro’s or percentage of population, which are used to define Greece’s failure/profligacy. And I’m pretty sure that Europeans do not evade taxes as easily as other populations. But the demands from the monied class (i.e. world leaders) for Greece to address “tax collection and corruption” sure looks like throwing stones in glass houses to me…
I don’t view that language as a negative. It gives the Greek gov’t an EU mandate to go after the oligarchs who have been fiddle their taxes for years. Remember the “Lagarde list” from a few years ago in which, if I remember correctly, others NC readers may remember better, prominent Greeks were stashing money in European banks and that the New Democracy/PASOK gov’t did nothing about and pretending they never knew.
hunkerdown February 20, 2015 at 4:51 pm
It’s a deliberate strategy, relying on the tendency of Weimarvolker to address a decoy false conclusion by providing a substitute, while accepting the false framing and leaving the false premises largely intact.
Too bad Moon of Alabama is borderline illegal in Germany, eh?
From the Eurogroup statement:
‘The Greek authorities have also committed to ensure the appropriate primary fiscal surpluses or financing proceeds required to guarantee debt sustainability in line with the November 2012 Eurogroup statement.
The institutions will, for the 2015 primary surplus target, take the economic circumstances in 2015 into account.’
Fudged!
To be successful in this world, you have to be very good with fudge words, weasel words and Janus words.
‘But one day, humans will be so smart (at fudging, among many other things), that all words become meaningless.’
So this is great because primary surpluses are now a bargaining chip. If the government makes the case that primary surpluses are killing the economy then this little clause in the agreement is up for grabs.
Into account. How?
This nebulous phrasing is the key to the wiggle room everyone needs.
From the get-go, it has always been about finding the right words, not unlike some Socratic dialogues.
MaroonBulldog February 20, 2015 at 3:42 pm
The outcome looks not so much like capitulation as an awakening to reality.
Syriza stood for an election on a promise it could not keep: Syriza promised to negotiate with creditors when they were only in a position to beg. A 36% plurality of active voters put them in office on the strength of such a promise.
Does it signify anything when 75% of Greeks now express support for Syriza to opinion pollsters? They’re not putting money where their mouths are when the tax payments come due. If any of them even have money to pay to tax collectors, that is.
A government so ineffectual that it can’t collect taxes is in no position to make credible promises to creditors.
What they’re taking is all they could have reasonably expected to get.
mpr February 20, 2015 at 4:50 pm
This is a big defeat for Germany. On Monday the list of reforms will be the “70%” Varoufakis said they can live with, and some substitutes for the other 30% as he wanted. One thing I haven’t seen remarked on is that the ‘institutions’ assessing the reforms will be the EC, IMF and ECB. Two of those have already come out explicitly in favor of the approach in Varoufakis letter (aka the Moscovici proposal), and the ECB is not going to get in the way.
Its going to be hard for Germany to object when the list of reforms has been ratified by their own enforcers. Varoufakis has again shown (as with his change on write downs) that he’s willing to sacrifice appearances, as long as he gets what he wants on substance.
The result seems to be that he gets lots of headlines about concessions, with no actual concessions on substance.
http://www.european-left.org/
Today, Friday February the 20th, the II Mediterranean Conference, organized by the Party of the European Left (EL), along with five other parties of the southern Mediterranean, has begun in Istanbul bringing together more than twenty political parties of the left from the countries bounded by this great sea. The purpose of this conference, as noted by the vice-president of the EL, Maite Mola, is not only to analyse and discuss the situation the region and the different countries are living in, but also to reach a statement containing specific objectives to fulfill on Sunday.
Greg T February 20, 2015 at 5:19 pm
I don’t know what they decided today. The Eurogroup statement is as nebulous as it’s possible to be. It’s a masterpiece of bankerspeak. Even Varoufakis’ statement says nothing clear. It appears that Germany is giving some ground while not appearing to give ground. They’ve agreed to continue funding for four months without new austerity ( a win for Syriza ), but Greece has to comply with the existing memoranda and come up with a plan of its own on Monday. Yves is right, this is contrary to Tsipras’ campaign promise, so the Government is going to have to explain this to Greek voters.
I think this has bought Syriza some time which it needs to formulate a variety of contingency plans.
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Flexible and stackable laser induced graphene supercapacitors
(Nanowerk News) Rice University scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing and testing stacked, three-dimensional supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that are important for portable, flexible electronics.
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour discovered last year that firing a laser at an inexpensive polymer burned off other elements and left a film of porous graphene, the much-studied atom-thick lattice of carbon. The researchers viewed the porous, conductive material as a perfect electrode for supercapacitors or electronic circuits.
To prove it, members of the Tour group have since extended their work to make vertically aligned supercapacitors with laser-induced graphene on both sides of a polymer sheet. The sections are then stacked with solid electrolytes in between for a multilayer sandwich with multiple microsupercapacitors.
A schematic shows the process developed by Rice University scientists to make vertical microsupercapacitors with laser-induced graphene. The flexible devices show potential for use in wearable and next-generation electronics. (Courtesy of the Tour Group)
The flexible stacks show excellent energy-storage capacity and power potential and can be scaled up for commercial applications. LIG can be made in air at ambient temperature, perhaps in industrial quantities through roll-to-roll processes, Tour said.
The research was reported this week in Applied Materials and Interfaces ("Flexible and Stackable Laser Induced Graphene Supercapacitors").
Capacitors use an electrostatic charge to store energy they can release quickly, to a camera’s flash, for example. Unlike chemical-based rechargeable batteries, capacitors charge fast and release all their energy at once when triggered. But chemical batteries hold far more energy. Supercapacitors combine useful qualities of both – the fast charge/discharge of capacitors and high-energy capacity of batteries – into one package.
LIG supercapacitors appear able to do all that with the added benefits of flexibility and scalability. The flexibility ensures they can easily conform to varied packages – they can be rolled within a cylinder, for instance – without giving up any of the device’s performance.
“What we’ve made are comparable to microsupercapacitors being commercialized now, but our ability to put devices into a 3-D configuration allows us to pack a lot of them into a very small area,” Tour said. “We simply stack them up.
“The other key is that we’re doing this very simply. Nothing about the process requires a clean room. It’s done on a commercial laser system, as found in routine machine shops, in the open air.”
An electron microscope image shows the cross section of laser-induced graphene burned into both sides of a polyimide substrate. The flexible material created at Rice University has the potential for use in electronics or for energy storage. (Courtesy of the Tour Group)
Ripples, wrinkles and sub-10-nanometer pores in the surface and atomic-level imperfections give LIG its ability to store a lot of energy. But the graphene retains its ability to move electrons quickly and gives it the quick charge-and-release characteristics of a supercapacitor. In testing, the researchers charged and discharged the devices for thousands of cycles with almost no loss of capacitance.
To show how well their supercapacitors scale up for applications, the researchers wired pairs of each variety of device in serial and parallel. As expected, they found the serial devices delivered double the working voltage, while the parallels doubled the discharge time at the same current density.
The vertical supercapacitors showed almost no change in electrical performance when flexed, even after 8,000 bending cycles.
Tour said that while thin-film lithium ion batteries are able to store more energy, LIG supercapacitors of the same size offer three times the performance in power (the speed at which energy flows). And the LIG devices can easily scale up for increased capacity.
“We’ve demonstrated that these are going to be excellent components of the flexible electronics that will soon be embedded in clothing and consumer goods,” he said.
Source: Rice University
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National Observer
U.S. tug firm to be sentenced for 2016 spill in B.C. First Nation's territory
By Camille Bains in News, Politics | July 16th 2019
The tug boat Nathan E. Stewart is seen in the waters of the Seaforth Channel near Bella Bella, B.C., in an October 23, 2016, handout photo. Handout photo by Heiltsuk First Nation, April Bencze
A Texas-based company is scheduled to be sentenced after pleading guilty to a diesel spill from a tug boat that ran aground and sank in a First Nation's fishing territory on British Columbia's central coast.
The Nathan E. Stewart spilled 110,000 litres of diesel and heavy oils in October 2016 and the Transportation Safety Board ruled last year a crew member missed a planned course change because he fell asleep while alone on watch.
Court documents on the provincial court website show Kirby Corp. has pleaded guilty to three of nine counts while a civil case for damages filed by the Heiltsuk Nation is ongoing.
The guilty pleas are related to separate counts under the Fisheries Act, the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Pilotage Act for the fuel spill that damaged both fish and birds, and for failing to have a pilot aboard the vessel.
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Chief Marilyn Slett of the Heiltsuk Nation said the hearing on Tuesday will include a sentencing circle of community members, chiefs, first responders and representatives for Kirby as part of the proceedings that will be held at a gym in Bella Bella to accommodate observers.
"It's more customary to our way to sit in a circle rather than a western courtroom appearance," she said.
Kirby spokesman Matt Woodruff was not available for comment.
Slett said her community has waited nearly three years to have a voice in connection with an incident that devastated the lives of so many people who fished in the area for sustenance and employment but have still not been able to return to that culturally significant harvesting practice.
"It's part of our bread basket," she said of Gale Creek, the site of the spill. "It's a place where the community would harvest, at a minimum, 25 food species and these included black cod, clams, crab, halibut, kelp, rock cod and various species of salmon.
"We have one grocery store in our community so we rely heavily on our marine resources to be healthy, to live."
Beaches were contaminated just when the community was preparing for a commercial clam fishery that would have supported 50 families and no traditional marine harvesting has since been done in the area, Slett said.
Kirby has yet to do an environmental impact assessment to determine the state of the spill site as the Heiltsuk continue to use their own resources to conduct research, she said, adding the village site used by five tribes that are part of the nation was previously "pristine."
Slett said she's concerned about the lack of an adequate oil spill response system nearly three years after the spill despite an Oceans Protection Plan announced by the federal government in 2016 in connection with the planned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
"The state of marine response today is still the same. Until we are able to come to agreements and partnerships around including Indigenous communities in marine response in the central coast the Heiltsuk community is still very much in a vulnerable position," she said.
The Heiltsuk Nation has been in discussions with Transport Canada and the coast guard to provide resources to First Nations first responders in case of another spill due to concerns that a contractor did not arrive on site until the evening, hours after the early-morning incident in 2016, Slett said.
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Transportation Safety Board launches investigation into west coast diesel spill
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Putin Opens a Second Front in Ukraine
By Tom Rogan
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We have to do what we should have done at first: Provide troops to guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty.
President Vladimir Putin’s forces have encircled Ukraine.
Many believe that these deployments are a feint, that what we’re actually seeing is one big scare tactic, designed to deter international sanctions. Perhaps.
Still, it’s a dangerous gamble to assume that Putin will stay within Crimea. In fact, two specific factors suggest that Russia’s president may be planning a new offensive.
#ad#First, consider the character of Russia’s military deployments.
Over the last few days, among the many units that have been sent on “exercise” near Ukraine, Russia has deployed 8,500 artillery troops to its southern military district (the Russian military command that borders Ukraine). Additionally, Putin has sent an airborne brigade into the Rostov Oblast, which runs along Ukraine’s southeastern border. The Russians have also accepted a “request” from Belarus to situate forces in their territory (in this case, fighter jets).
Again, Russia claims that these actions are simply about training and preparedness. But the combined arms encirclement is concerning. At a strategic level, whether this is preparation or posturing, Putin is establishing a superb position from which to launch a very serious attack and envelop Ukraine’s eastern territories.
Invading from the north, east, and southeast, the Russians could likely overwhelm the Ukrainian military in a classic pincer movement. By seizing the E105 highway, which runs from Kharkiv on the northern border of eastern Ukraine to the transport hub of Melitopol on the coast, Putin would be able to open a supply route to his forces in Crimea. In doing so, he could establish a contiguous front line against western Ukraine. Taking advantage of the Dnieper River, which runs from north to south, the Russians could effectively split Ukraine into two parts.
While Russia might not annex eastern Ukraine in its entirety, a push to the Dnieper would evidently destabilize the government in Kiev. Putin would regard the perception of a split Ukraine as a victory in and of itself.
In this context, Russia’s airborne deployment is especially concerning. These paratroopers are trained and prepared for aggressive seizure operations, which would be critical to any invasion.
All of this leads us to one unenviable question.
#page#How should the world respond to the growing threat of invasion? First, President Obama must recognize the urgent necessity of American leadership. Up until this point, America’s response to this crisis has been a grumbling mixture of equivocation and hyperbole. Facing this moment of consequence, the president must prove his critics wrong. He should deliver a plain message to Putin:
An invasion beyond Crimea will not see American acquiescence, and if Putin takes such action, America will return to Europe ready for a second Cold War, hardened, capable, and willing to use force to oppose Russian aggression.
#ad#Obama must also force EU leaders to get real: prepare for action and back away from narrow notions of economic interest. The U.S. and the EU must establish that an expanded invasion would result in Russia’s unprecedented diplomatic isolation: the expulsion of Russian ambassadors, Russian alienation from Western financial markets, and an end to dialogue, investment, and civic engagement. Moreover, Obama must speak plainly about the EU’s pathetic neglect of military spending. No longer should American taxpayers be expected to pay for the continent’s defense while EU leaders throw money at their bloated welfare states.
But that won’t be enough.
As I’ve argued previously, in the early days of this crisis, Obama had an opportunity to draw a real red line: He should have ordered a limited deployment of U.S. military forces to Kiev. In simple terms, this would have been an unambiguous symbol of American power and an undeniable signal of American resolve.
Time remains for Obama to find his courage. Indeed, Putin is likely still waiting to see how the international community responds to his latest intimidation. That means he can be deterred.
But if the worse happens, if Russia does invade, America must be ready to respond on principle. Whatever the risks of escalation might be, the risks of inaction are undeniably catastrophic. Were Russia to seize eastern Ukraine unchallenged, democracies in Eastern Europe would be increasingly Putin’s subjects behind a 21st-century Iron Curtain, forced to choose between submission and oppression.
Yes, it’s obvious that there are no good options here. But there are options. The right one is to draw a line and stick to it. Neglecting that choice, we’ll see a new “biggest thing” in our lifetimes — a new understanding of power and a rapid reversal of freedom’s fortunes.
— Tom Rogan is a blogger based in Washington, D.C., and a contributor to the Guardian.
Tom Rogan is a columnist for National Review Online, a contributor to the Washington Examiner, and a former panelist on The McLaughlin Group. Email him at TRogan@McLaughlin.com @tomrtweets
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McCollum, Scott making stops in SWFL
The road to Tallahassee goes through Southwest Florida this week as both leading Republican candidates for Governor make campaign stops in the area.
Monday, July 19th 2010, 5:03 PM EDT
FORT MYERS: The road to Tallahassee goes through Southwest Florida this week.
Both leading Republican candidates for Governor are making campaign stops in our area, starting with Attorney General Bill McCollum.
Dr. Gregory Leach believes strongly in the doctor-patient relationship.
Every nook and corner of his Naples clinic, Advance Medical Center, is designed to give patients as much power over their health care as possible.
Those principles led him to invite McCollum to introduce his health care plan there.
"Choice, access and afforability - those are the hallmarks of what I believe health care is all about," he said.
McCollum is a fierce opponent of President Obama's plan to reform health care.
As attorney general, McCollum is representing Florida along with 19 other states in a lawsuit to block Obama's plan from ever taking effect.
"It's wrong for the Federal Government to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions," he said.
"It's wrong for the Federal Government to deny choice to low income Floridian, and it's wrong for the Federal Government to create a system where people can no longer choose their own plan or doctor."
McCollum's opponent, Rick Scott, a millionaire hospital executive, is also opposed to the federal overhaul of health care.
His campaign website says he believes the health care system should focus on choice, competition, accountability and personal responsibility.
With his visit to Naples, McCollum may be trying to overcome his opponent's homefield advantage.
After all, Scott is from Southwest Florida, and McCollum already seems to have momentum in Fort Myers.
Just this weekend, the Lee County Republican Executive Committee chose him over Scott in a straw poll.
But even some of those at Leach's clinic are quick to point out that when it comes to health care, both candidates seem to be talking more about Obama than each other.
To that extent, either would fight "Obamacare."
"The lack of privatization in the new health care plan is risky to patients," Leach said.
The doctor has decided his prescription for reform in Florida.
GOP voters get their say on August 24.
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Power Restored at Bradley International Airport Following Multiple Outages
A crowd of people could be seen standing in the dark near the TSA checkpoint around 4 a.m.
By Cailyn Blonstein • Published at 4:16 am on November 5, 2018
The lights are back on at Bradley International Airport and TSA screening has resumed after a power problem caused multiple outages on Monday morning.
Authorities at the airport in Connecticut said it experienced a power loss from its main source of power.
Terminal A had been operating on backup power, the airport said. Some areas were operating with lights and others were not.
Airport officials are working with Eversource to determine the cause of the power loss.
The power problems impacted the airport's TSA screening area and no screening was taking place for hours. A crowd of people could be seen standing in the dark near the TSA checkpoint around 4 a.m.
Some lights flickered back on around 4:45 a.m. before fully returning around 5 a.m.
Around 5:20 a.m., the lights went out again. Power was restored around 6 a.m. before going out again around four minutes later.
Officials restored power again shortly after.
Hundreds at @Bradley_Airport stranded in terminals waiting to get tickets & go through TSA after this morning’s power outage. More on #NBCCT @NBCConnecticut pic.twitter.com/OSle5zNNWB
— Alessandra Martinez (@AlessandraNBC) November 5, 2018
Hundreds of people were stranded in the terminals waiting to get their tickets and go through TSA. Passengers were allowed to enter the TSA checkpoint around 7:30 a.m.
More than 20 flights are delayed because of the power problems.
DELAYS! Several flights are delayed because of power issues at @Bradley_Airport. The LIGHTS are OUT & passengers are not able to get through security or get to their gate. LIVE UPDATES @NBCConnecticut #NBCCT @AlessandraNBC #FlightDelays pic.twitter.com/VpyQHa0rpv
— Jennifer Joas NBC CT (@JenniferJoas) November 5, 2018
Inbound roadway access to the airport was temporarily closed, but has since reopened.
If you are scheduled to fly this morning, you're urged to contact your airline to find out the status of your flight.
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Stream On: Acorn TV has a big hit in Queens of Mystery streaming Monday
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Queens of Mystery is a masterpiece
On Monday (April 8th) Acorn TV will begin streaming a brand new original mystery series called the Queens of Mystery and after seeing the first two shows I can say without fear of contradiction that we are looking at a big hit. Simply put it is like no mystery show that you have ever seen on television and that is a good thing.
The storyline is very fun, the acting is brilliant, and it is the most original mystery series that I have seen in years. Acorn TV has a winner on their hands and I can’t wait to see how the fans react to this amazing new twist on the mystery genre.
The opening two-part mystery, Murder in the Dark, finds the newly promoted DS Matilda “Mattie” Stone dispatched to Hiddledean Hall where all three of her aunts are attending the 15th Wildermarsh Crime Writer’s Festival. In a crime as strange as the fiction on display, the prestigious Golden Pick Axe Award has been found buried in the head of a prize nominee, and pages from his latest manuscript have been stolen.
Queens of Mystery, is a cleverly crafted whodunit style murder mystery that follows newly promoted 28-year-old Detective Sargent Mattie Stone (Olivia Vinall), and her three highly successful crime writing aunts – the motherly Aunt Beth (Sarah Woodward), the rebellious Aunt Cat (Julie Graham), and the book smart Aunt Jane (Siobhan Redmond). The four Stone women are a tour de force in this mystery/dramedy.
The three aunts try to help their niece not only in her role as a professional crime solver but in her love life. Mattie has all she can handle in her day job where her aunts do their best to try help solve the crimes but add to that the series of blind dates they try to set her up with and it is more than a she can handle, but in their own way her aunts do actually prove to be more help than she wants to admit.
The driving force behind the Acorn original series is New Tricks and Doc Martin writer Julian Unthank who told me by phone recently “I think we crafed a mystery program with enough fun and quirky elements that makes the show the perfect fit for the Acorn TV audience.”
Listen to “We talk with Julie Graham, Olivia Vinall and Julian Unthank from the Queens of Mystery a hit for Acorn TV” on Spreaker.
One of the first actress’ to jump at the chance at joining the cast was Julie Graham who plays aunt Cat, a far cry from her role as the buttoned up Jean McBrian on the worldwide hit The Bletchley Circle and The Bletchley Circle San Francisco. “I welcomed the chance to show that I have a wild side and playing Cat is such fun,” Graham told me. “As a matter of fact I actually got a tattoo while filming the first episode I was so inspired by my character.”
The key role of Mattie had to be someone who could handle three powerful aunts as well as three outstanding actresses’ and enter Olivia Vinall who was quick to offer me an explanation on why she got involved. “From the first moment I read the script I loved it was such a unique and quirky take on this wonderful mystery genre. But I was very inspired by the fact that Mattie loves her aunts despite their intrusion in her life and this really is a true female centric show which drew me even more want to be Mattie.”
Acorn TV will start the Queens of Mystery out with six 45 minute episodes. I had a chance to talk with the cast and creator of the series on this week’s edition of the podcast Stream On with Jim Williams.
Jim Williams is s seven time Emmy Award winning producer, director, writer and broadcast executive. You can listen to his weekly media and entertainment podcast. Stream On with Jim Williams can be found free at Apple Podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, iHeart Radio YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Jim Williams is the Washington Bureau Chief, Digital Director as well as the Director of Special Projects for Genesis Communications. He is starting his third year as part of the team. This is Williams 40th year in the media business, and in that time he has served in a number of capacities. He is a seven time Emmy Award winning television producer, director, writer and executive. He has developed four regional sports networks, directed over 2,000 live sporting events including basketball, football, baseball hockey, soccer and even polo to name a few sports. Major events include three Olympic Games, two World Cups, two World Series, six NBA Playoffs, four Stanley Cup Playoffs, four NCAA Men’s National Basketball Championship Tournaments (March Madness), two Super Bowl and over a dozen college bowl games. On the entertainment side Williams was involved s and directed over 500 concerts for Showtime, Pay Per View and MTV Networks.
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Cal Poly reportedly investigating students for career fair protest
By Peter Johnson
Five Cal Poly students may face disciplinary action for staging a protest against U.S. defense contractor Raytheon at a recent on-campus career fair where the company had a booth, according to students involved.
At the April 19 event in the Cal Poly recreation center, a group of about eight walked in front of Raytheon's table at the fair, stood, and held a banner that read, "Divest from war. Stop the war machine." The demonstrators, who identified as the SLO Peace Coalition, then sang a protest song.
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NO PROTESTS ALLOWED Five Cal Poly students are reportedly under investigation for staging a protest against defense contractor Raytheon at a recent campus career fair.
"We see right through your lies," they sang. "You're killing all across the world for that war money and we proudly rise up until you put your weapons down."
The protest lasted 18 minutes without incident or interruptions, according to video footage of the event.
Since the protest, five participating students received emails from the Cal Poly Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities—which investigates and issues discipline for student misconduct—stating that the protest violated the school's code of conduct for free expression, according to two involved students.
Alleged violations include holding an "unauthorized sign" and "willfully disrupting and obstructing a university event," according to third-year student Kelsey Zazanis, who said she received an email from the university a few days ago.
"It's just strange," Zazanis said. "It was super casual. Not once during this were we asked to leave."
Students told New Times that Cal Poly has suggested barring the protestors from walking at graduation as punishment.
Cal Poly Spokesman Matt Lazier could not confirm any active misconduct investigation due to privacy laws. But in an email he said a student or employee who staged "a disruptive protest" could be subject to a "review to determine whether it violated a university policy" and could lead to "appropriate disciplinary action." He reported no arrests or criminal charges filed in connection to the protest.
"Cal Poly supports the free speech rights of all its campus community members and visitors," Lazier said. "To ensure that the exercise of the right of free expression does not interfere with university functions, imperil public safety, obstruct or damage university facilities, or cause individuals to become audiences against their will, the university maintains and enforces campus regulations regarding the time, place, and manner of the exercise of free expression by individuals and groups."
Protest participants said that the demonstration wasn't disruptive. They also said they feel the school is reacting to the fact that the protest targeted Raytheon, which has a close relationship with the university. Raytheon paid at least $2,000 to Cal Poly this year to be a "career partner." Retired CEO William Swanson is a member of Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong's leadership cabinet and is the chairman of the Cal Poly Foundation.
"We've been fighting to make a better campus for years, and we've never faced sanctions before," said protester and recent grad Matt Klepfer. "In some ways, this protest was going after something new ... challenging the role of the university as it relates to the university's donors and corporate sponsors."
Students also compared crackdowns on their protest to other recent free speech issues on campus, like the two incidents of students donning blackface.
"They make such a huge deal about protecting free speech and the fact they aren't protecting ours makes me wonder if that's sincere," Zazanis said. "It seems like retaliation and a specific manipulation of the rules."
The protesters launched a change.org petition asking Cal Poly to drop the case. It had 493 signatures as of press time. Δ
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“PAC seeks to create a cultural environment that facilitates the building of a stronger connection between Palestinians and arts and culture.”
In its 2014 annual report (latest available), PAC reports receiving funding for projects and festivals from the European Union, Sweden (SIDA), France (the French Consulate), Spain (Spanish Consulate General in Jerusalem), Korea (Korean Consulate), the United Nations (UNDP), and Unipal.
PAC was one of the recipients of a European Union “Cultural Diplomacy” grant of €200,000 (2015-2017). PAC was also one of the recipients of a €965,970 (2014-2016) EU grant for “Performing Arts: A Pathway Towards Self Expression and Democracy.”
PAC has partnered with and is funded by Solidarité Socialiste, a Belgian organization that receives funding from the Belgian government. Funding amounts are not provided.
Claims to “disseminate creative arts and culture to various sectors…to preserve and maintain cultural heritage, protect the national identity, and upgrade levels of creativity in form and content.”
PAC engages in political warfare against Israel, including through its highly troubling rhetoric.
On April 6-7, 2017, PAC was one of the organizers of a children’s festival on the topic of “the 30 year Palestinian uprising.” One dance routine publicized by PAC was titled “Songs of the Intifada.” Another was captioned “Brother, point the gun” (NGO Monitor translation).
In February 2016, PAC organized a ceremony in honor of “Palestinian martyrs” whose homes were demolished, featuring the “father of the martyr Baha Eleyan” as a speaker (NGO Monitor translation). Eleyan was one of two terrorists to board a bus in Jerusalem in October 2015 armed with a gun and a knife, murdering three and injuring seven. The same ceremony featured a musical performance captioned “no to laying down guns” (NGO Monitor translation).
Published numerous statements in support of hunger-striking prisoners, a group primarily comprised of murderers convicted of bombings of buses, malls, and cafes, and other atrocities.
Hosted a “Nakba Day” a Gazan school, where it taught students aged 7-13 about “the Nakba in general and the boycott of the Israeli state of occupation.”
Participated in a 2017 Israel Apartheid Week event, organized by “BDS Arabic.” Nai Barghouti, a singer who performed at PAC’s event, posted on Facebook after the event that “our journey of résistance is still alive and kicking. We will not stop until we gain our freedom and that is a fact.”
In July 2014, PAC invited its followers to a “Day of Palestinian Rage” (NGO Monitor translation).
Supports a Palestinian “right of return,” which, if implemented, would effectually mean the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.
Participates in discriminatory campaigns such as “Love in the Time of Apartheid Campaign: The Palestinian Campaign for Repealing Israel’s Racist Law Denying Family Reunification.”
BDS Activities
Supports BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns against Israel, encouraging its followers to boycott Israeli products.
PAC is a member of the Palestinian Performing Arts Network (PPAN), which issued a statement condemning “Israel’s deliberate and systematic policies of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” The groups call upon “fellow artists” to “Pressure your governments to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” and “Support and endorse the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
PPAN also called upon Oscar nominees in 2016 to reject a trip to Israel included in the Oscars gift bag. The statement accuses Israel of attempting “to use influential cultural figures to whitewash its persistent human rights abuses and denial of freedom to Palestinians.”
Signatory to a 2005 open letter to the Palestinian Environment NGO Network (PENGON), expressing support for its boycott of Bar-Ilan University and Haifa University and calling to “broaden the boycott until it is comprehensive of all Israeli academic institutions.”
Signatory to academic and cultural boycott initiatives from 2015 and 2014.
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Color of Hockey: Riley helps granddaughter get back on ice
Former Capitals forward convinced 26-year-old she wasn't too old to play at college
by William Douglas @WDouglasNHL / NHL.com Staff Writer
William Douglas has been writing The Color of Hockey blog for the past seven years. Douglas joined NHL.com in March and will be writing about people of color in the game. Today, he profiles Ryerson University hockey player Kryshanda Green and her grandfather, former NHL forward Bill Riley.
Kryshanda Green already made one comeback. Her grandfather persuaded her to make another.
Green, a forward for Ryerson University in Toronto, was considering not playing this season, thinking she was too old at 26 for Canadian college hockey.
"I was just a little concerned about whether I would be able to keep up, what my impact was going to be, the dynamic in the dressing room," she said. "My grandad spoke to me and made me see the light a little bit better."
"Grandad" is Bill Riley, who was the third black player in the NHL behind fellow Washington Capitals teammate Mike Marson in 1974 and Willie O'Ree, who debuted for the Boston Bruins in 1958.
Riley's message to his granddaughter: Get a grip.
"I said, 'Listen, Kryshanda, Pop-Pop was in his 30s when Steve Larmer, Steve Ludzik and all those guys came in as 19-year-olds, played for us in the American Hockey League [for the New Brunswick Hawks], and looked up to me in the highest kind of way because of the leadership skills I displayed for them,'" he said, "I said, 'These girls that are coming in, they will look up to you for eternity for all the things that you will help them with, so don't think you're too old to play.'"
Green took her grandad's advice, and she's glad she did. She's captain of the Ryerson team this season and she'll end her collegiate career as the university's all-time leader in goals and points.
She has 74 points (33 goals, 41 assists) in 85 games. Green will also finish among the university's leaders in assists, game-winning goals and power-play goals.
"Pretty proud, makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck," Riley said. "I'm over the moon with what's going on with her life right now and her career."
Green's success didn't come easy. She quit hockey after playing her freshman season in 2012-13 at Western University in London, Ontario, where she finished with 21 points (nine goals, 13 assists) in 26 games and earned Ontario Athletics All-Rookie Team honors. But her on-ice performance didn't carry over to the classroom. Hitting the books wasn't a priority, and Green left the university after that season, breaking her 69-year-old grandfather's heart.
"He was flabbergasted. He couldn't believe it," she said. "He wasn't too happy. "Every time we spoke to each other he said, 'You gotta get back to the game, you gotta get back to the game.'"
Green didn't play hockey for two years. She filled the void by collaborating with Toronto-area hip-hop artists and becoming the rapper known as Krash. She performed around town and even released a video and extended play recording titled "Bankrupt For Quality" four years ago. But as much as she tried to deny it, Green missed hockey and wanted to give college another try.
"I think it's the [most fun] game in the world, and I missed all the bonds, the connections I made and just playing the game," she said. "It was very hard for me to accept the way I left the game. What made my decision in wanting to go back to school is an opportunity to just try to finish the story in a different way."
Ryerson coach Lisa Haley remembered seeing Green play junior hockey and contacted her about a second chance. Green enrolled at Ryerson as a redshirt transfer in 2015. She didn't play a single game that season so she could focus on her studies.
"I think both Krash and I would agree that we were optimistic that this could be the outcome, but we were both realistic that this was a risk," said Haley, who was an assistant for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. "She's coming back to school much older than a lot of her teammates. It didn't go very well for her the first time with the student-athlete life. It was definitely a roll of the dice on both ends."
It was a roll Green wanted to take, especially when she learned that she could wear the No. 8, the number Riley wore with the Capitals from 1976-79, decades before Alex Ovechkin earned the nickname "The Great Eight."
"When I came back, I was thinking going back the number I had at Western [97] but I suddenly changed my mind because I was just looking at a picture of my grandfather one day at my mom's place and it struck a chord with me," she said. "My grandfather is like a huge influence on me, he's very inspiring. I know he dealt with a lot of adversity. His situation is something that I can be very proud of."
Riley, who had 61 points (31 goals, 30 assists) in 139 NHL games for the Capitals and Winnipeg Jets, jokes that he left a lot of goals in that Washington jersey for Ovechkin.
He said he was choked up about Green wearing his number but also issued a grandfatherly challenge to her.
"'He said, 'You better earn that number. You better do something with that number if you're going to wear it,'" Green said.
She responded by putting up 20 points (10 goals, 10 assists) in 2016-17 and finishing 10th in the OUA in scoring. She had six multipoint games and led Ryerson with three power-play goals that season.
Green was an OUA Second-Team All-Star last season after finishing with 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists) in 24 games. She was also a finalist for Ryerson's H.H. Kerr Female Athlete of the Year award.
"I've learned that I'm resilient and that I'm not a quitter, and that's important to me," Green said. "That no-quit attitude that's the biggest thing for me because there are a lot of challenges in life in every area and I want to make sure that I'm not going to quit in those moments."
Green hasn't figured out what she's going to do when she completes her studies at Ryerson. She has already earned her undergraduate degree in politics and governance from the university and is working toward a graduate certificate in criminal justice.
Whether she continues in hockey as a professional player or coach or puts her degrees to use, Haley is certain that Green will succeed in whatever she chooses.
"I think she's a tremendous success story of someone who needed a second chance, was given it and has made the most of it," Haley said. "If it's being a rapper or being the next prime minister of Canada, I think she's capable of either one of those things."
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https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/CHRIS-POWELL-Deposing-McMahon-If-not-porn-then-11547487.php
CHRIS POWELL: Deposing McMahon: If not porn, then what is it?
Published 12:00 am EDT, Saturday, June 2, 2012
Criticize U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon and you risk getting threatened with a libel lawsuit by the wrestling entertainment company she used to run, WWE Inc. of Stamford, now run by her husband -- threatened even when the criticism of McMahon doesn't mention WWE.
WWE says it doesn't produce pornography and its television programs have been rated "PG" -- "parental guidance" -- since 2008. The purpose of WWE's libel threats is to discourage complaints about the product of the candidate's business prior to 2008,before she began to think about using her fortune to acquire high public office and started cleaning up her act.
Such complaints, documented by videos of WWE programs produced before 2008, destroyed McMahon's Senate candidacy in 2010 and left her at the bottom of the Republican ticket, with more people holding a negative opinion of her than a positive one.
But what an entertainment such a libel lawsuit might be, starting with the depositions, the preliminary questioning of potential witnesses under oath.
"Mrs. McMahon, in the video playing now, who is the man in the wrestling ring with the microphone instructing that shapely young woman to undress and get down on her hands and knees and bark like a dog? Your husband? What do you think of that?"
"In this video who are the young women undressing, kissing, and touching each other sexually in the ring? What is conveyed by the big man jumping on top of them as they lie naked on the mat?"
"Mrs. McMahon, this video shows your husband and son pouring paint over the head of a wrestler who seems meant to appear mentally retarded. They beat him up and push his head into a toilet. Did you approve this scene?"
"In this video a bed has been placed in the ring. A man undresses a woman down to her bra and panties, simulates sex with her as they stand next to the bed, places her under the covers, follows her there, and emerges to toss her bra and panties on the mat. Your daughter is now WWE's creative director. Was this scene her idea?
"The scene in the next video appears to take place in a funeral parlor, where a male wrestler undresses himself and then undresses the corpse of a woman in a casket before climbing on top of her. Is this meant to depict necrophilia?
"This video shows your husband and daughter in the ring with the shapely young woman who barked like a dog in the first video. Your husband and daughter force her face into a slop bucket and your husband taunts her for having been 'daddy's little toy.' Then your husband pours the slop bucket on her head. In your campaign's television and radio commercials you describe yourself as a 'job creator.' What are the job descriptions of the women who undress in the ring, behave lasciviously, and are pushed into a slop bucket? If this stuff is not pornography, what is it exactly?
"Mrs. McMahon, in your campaign commercials you say, 'I worry that our grandchildren will have a worse quality of life than we did.' Has WWE's product elevated or coarsened the quality of life for our grandchildren?
"Mrs. McMahon, you cite your success in business as a qualification for U.S. senator. Is there any sort of business success that you might not consider a qualification for public office?"
Enjoying once again the extravagantly catered largesse of the McMahon campaign, many leading Republicans in Connecticut are not inclined to spoil it with such questions. They may figure that the party can never win in this state anyway so they might as well have another good time losing.
Republicans who think otherwise, people McMahon can't buy, she tries to bully. And while the latter may be good guys, good guys seldom bring bad guys down. Usually it's just that bad guys go too far. The big political question facing Connecticut may be whether there will ever again be any "too far" here.
Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester.
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Varsity girls’ lacrosse goes 3-0 in opening week
Kaylen Ayres, staff writer|March 10, 2019
The varsity girls' lacrosse team stands victorious at Page High School after their third win of the week. They defeated the Pirates 15-6 on Thursday.
A combination of young talent and senior leadership led the varsity girls’ lacrosse team to three wins on the road to open their season.
On Tuesday, the girls traveled to Northern Guilford High School for their first game under new head coach Kristen Herndon.
“There was a lot of excitement in the air,” freshman Carlie Saums said. “During the bus ride and warm-ups, we listened to music, which definitely helped me relax, along with all the encouragement from other players.”
The team won 16 to 3, starting the week with a bang. Freshman captain Devyn Martinez led the team with six goals, followed by sophomore Katie Keller with three goals, sophomore Kaylen Ayres and freshman captain Izzy Parrett with two goals and a goal each from senior Ashley Calhoun, senior Megan Learn and Saums. Senior captain Meredith Sinkler, Martinez, Parrett and Saums each had an assist. Senior captain Savannah Ranson had six saves for the night.
The girls then went to East Forsyth on Wednesday. After being down 4 to 1 at halftime, the girls rallied, making the score 8 to 5 at the end of the game.
“I think at halftime, it dawned on us that there was a chance we could lose,” Ranson said. “We all flipped a switch and started playing better.”
Saums had two goals, followed by freshman Olivia Toland, Ayres, Keller, Learn, Martinez and Parrett each with a goal. Martinez also had two assists, and Keller, Parrett and Saums contributed with an assist each. Ranson had eight saves on goal.
On Thursday, the team faced off against Page High School. They won 15 to 6, ending the week strong.
Martinez led the group with six goals, Parrett with three goals, Toland with two goals and a goal from Ayres, Learn, Saums and Sinkler. Keller and Martinez each had two assists, with Saums and Sinkler assisting a goal as well. Ranson totaled seven saves that night.
The team is scheduled to have two home games this week. On March 13, they will face R.J. Reynolds High School, and on March 14, they will play High Point Central High School. According to Saums, she encourages people to come out and support the team.
“In our upcoming home games this week, a crowd would add to the energy even more and help us pull through with more wins.”
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Causes include trauma cheap cilostazol 50 mg on-line muscle relaxant side effects, physical defects in the labyrinthine system order cilostazol 50mg amex muscle relaxant magnesium, and pathologic syndromes such as Ménière disease cheap cilostazol 100 mg mastercard muscle relaxant blood pressure. As in the cochlea, aging produces considerable hair cell loss in the cristae and maculae of the vestibular system. Rotational or caloric stimulation can be used as an indicator of the degree of vestibular function. They are usually brought on by assuming a particular position of the head such as one might do when painting a ceiling. The offending particles are usually clumps of otoconia (otoliths) that have been shed from the maculae of the saccule and utricle, whose passages are connected to the semicircular canals. These clumps act as gravity-driven pistons in the canals, and their movement causes the endolymph to flow, producing the sensation of rotary motion. Because they are in the lowest position, the posterior canals are the most frequently affected. In addition to the rotating sensation, this input gives rise, via the vestibular system, to a pattern of nystagmus (eye movements) appropriate to the spurious input. The specific site of the problem can be determined by using the Dix–Hallpike maneuver, which is a series of physical maneuvers (changes in head and body position). By observing the resulting pattern of nystagmus and reported symptoms, the location of the defect can be deduced. Another set of maneuvers known as the canalith repositioning procedure of Epley can cause gravity to collect the loose canaliths and deposit them away from the lumen of the semicircular canal. Patients can be taught to perform the procedure on themselves if the problem returns. Ménière disease is a syndrome of uncertain (but peripheral) origin associated with vertigo. Typical associated findings include fluctuating hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Episodes involve increased fluid pressure in the labyrinthine system, and symptoms may decrease in response to salt restriction and diuretics. Other cases of peripheral vertigo may be caused by trauma (usually unilateral) or by toxins or drugs (such as some antibiotics); this type is often bilateral. Central and peripheral vertigo often may be differentiated on the basis of their specific symptoms. Peripheral vertigo is more severe, and its nystagmus shows a delay (latency) in appearing after a position change. Position-sensitive and of finite duration, the condition usually involves a horizontal orientation. Central vertigo, usually less severe, shows a vertically oriented nystagmus without latency and fatigability; it is not suppressed by visual fixation and may be of long duration. Treatment of vertigo, beyond that mentioned above, can involve bed rest and vestibular inhibiting drugs (such as some antihistamines). However, these treatments are not always effective and may delay the natural compensation that can be aided by physical motion such as walking (unpleasant as that may be). In severe cases that require surgical intervention (labyrinthectomy), patients can often achieve a workable position sense via the other sensory inputs involved in maintaining equilibrium. Some activities, such as underwater swimming, must be avoided by those with an impaired sense of orientation, because false cues may lead to moving in inappropriate directions and increase the risk of drowning. The sensation of taste and smell are two other sensory mechanisms that provide specific information about the external environment. In lower animals, the mechanisms of taste (gustation) and smell (olfaction) play a major role in finding food, seeking prey, finding directions, bonding with offspring and mates, and avoiding danger/predators. In the case of humans, most of these neural signals are associated with food, fragrance, and odors of our surrounding environment. Although our taste and smell are less sensitive than those of other species, millions of dollars are spent on additives to make our food taste better and on deodorants and perfumes to make us more desirable/attractive and sociable. Chemoreceptors are also found in areas of the body not normally associated with taste or smell. For example, cells expressing bitter taste receptors are found in the nose, airway, and digestive tract. When receptors in the nose are stimulated by irritants, protective reflexes like apnea, coughing, and sneezing are elicited to keep the irritant from entering the lungs. Taste is important for determining whether food in the mouth is a dangerous substance or safe to consume. The receptors for taste are packaged primarily in taste buds that are distributed across the upper alimentary canal with the majority of human taste buds located in the oral cavity (~5,000). The largest numbers are located on the dorsal portion of the tongue with smaller populations found in the epithelium of the soft palate, upper esophagus, epiglottis, and upper larynx. Taste receptor cells are modified epithelial cells that extend from the basal lamina to the epithelial surface where their apical microvilli extend into an opening in the epithelium, the taste pore, to sample chemical compounds that are dissolved in saliva (Fig. Only food that is dissolved in saliva can attach to taste receptor cells and evoke a neural sensation of taste. Type I cells act like glial cells providing support and maintaining the extracellular environment within the taste bud. Although this cell type is in close apposition with numerous afferent fibers, they do not make traditional synaptic contacts with these fibers. This cell type releases several transmitters that interact with sensory nerve endings and other cells in the taste bud. The fourth cell type, the basal cell, acts as a precursor cell able to differentiate into new taste cells. They are continually replenished by new sensory cells formed from the basal cells. When a sensory cell is replaced by a maturing basal cell, the old synaptic connections are broken, and new ones must be formed. Taste buds consist of taste cells surrounded by supporting epithelial cells and basal cells. Stimulating the taste cells alters the cell’s ion channels producing a depolarizing potential. Similar to other sensory receptors, a depolarizing potential leads to neurotransmitter release. The neurotransmitter, in turn, triggers action potentials in the afferent nerve fibers that are sent to the solitary nucleus in the brainstem via the seventh, ninth, and tenth cranial nerves. From the solitary nucleus, information is distributed to cell groups that are involved in feeding and digestive-related functions like salivary and gastrointestinal secretions, and swallowing. Taste information is also relayed, via the thalamus, to cortical structures responsible for the appreciation of taste quality and intensity as well as to cortical areas where multisensory integration of taste, smell, tactile, and temperature cues occurs to produce the experience we call flavor. Among thousands of different taste sensations, humans can discriminate between five specific tastes received by the gustatory receptors. These are salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami, which means “savory” or “meaty” in Japanese.
Initial treatment comprises They are often painless but those that form because resting the foot in a boot purchase cilostazol cheap muscle relaxant safe in breastfeeding, hard-soled shoe or a cast cilostazol 100 mg with visa spasms colon symptoms. Corns often form as a result of irritation An open debridement of the joint and a simple from tight shoes order cilostazol master card muscle relaxant herbal supplement. Hard corns may form on the top realignment osteotomy of the metatarsal head can of structural problems and at the sides of toes, soft be performed if these measures fail to relieve the corns form between the toes. This shortens and decompresses the joint and rotates the good cartilage upwards can treat the Management pain successfully. Treatment starts by removing the cause, initially by advising shoe wear adjustments. A similar condition occurs on the palms Redistributing foot pressure away from the area of the hands (Dupuytren’s contracture) and on the of callus by a custom insole may also help. Thickened second and third metatarsals, may be treated surgi- nodules develop along the course of the plantar fascia cally by a shortening osteotomy of the metatarsals which may invade the overlying dermis and some- to redistribute load around the foot more evenly. It is commoner in men and 25 per cent of If conservative measures fail to remove the pain cases are bilateral. This is Typically, patients present more out of con- not a straightforward procedure. Recurrence is high cern about the lump than pain, but the lumps can as, unlike in the hand, all the diseased tissue cannot become painful. Also as the incision usually has to be on the Management bottom of the foot the patient may exchange the If the nodules are not painful the treatment of fibroma for a painful scar that hurts just as much to choice is to leave them alone. Infections of the spine usually affect either the ver- As the endplate infection progresses it eventu- tebral body or the intervertebral disc, but infections ally involves the disc space itself and subsequently in the epidural space, paraspinal soft tissues and causes the typical ‘spondylo-discitis’ that is seen in occasionally the posterior elements of the spinal adults, i. This may Spinal infections may be pyogenic (bacterial) be accompanied by the presence of an epidural or non-pyogenic (often referred to as atypical and abscess (spread of infective material into the spinal which include tuberculosis and fungal infections). Pyogenic infections Non-pyogenic infections: tuberculosis Most arise following the haematogenous spread Tuberculosis is increasing in many areas because (a bacteraemia) of a urological, respiratory or skin of the increased incidence of immunosuppression infection but contiguous (direct) spread can also (e. The commonest infecting organism in more than (1) It is an acid-fast bacillus and is able to resist 50 per cent of cases is Staphylococcus aureus but decolorization with strong acids. Half of all spinal infections occur in the lumbar The mycobacteria family include M. The primary infection is usually caused to develop an infection within the disc space itself by inhalation of aerosolized organisms, which (a discitis) via haematogenous spread. The patient usu- less vascular disc is less amenable to the spread ally quickly recovers from what is often a relatively of infection via the blood stream and therefore minor respiratory infection but years later a reac- infection typically starts as a vertebral endplate tivation may occur with presentation of secondary 212 The spine extrapulmonary metastases, which are most com- T1 as it is mainly made up of fat) becomes replaced monly seen in the vertebral bodies. The granulomatous identifying the presence of epidural abscess (results response involves the accumulation of monocytes, in ring enhancement of the abscess). With gadolinium there may result in a kyphotic deformity and neurologi- is an absence of rim enhancement as the infecting cal sequelae. It con- Investigation firms the diagnosis in both pyogenic infections and Clinical diagnostic indicators tuberculosis. Children usually present with either non-specific back pain or difficulty or refusal to walk. Management of pyogenic infections Adults typically present with non-specific back The mainstay of treatment is the intravenous pain and may also have constitutional symptoms administration of an appropriate antibiotic. Adults require longer treatment with antibiotics as The presence of neurological abnormalities is their discs are avascular. Progressive the failure of medical management, progressive kyphosis can result in neurological sequelae (Pott’s spinal deformity, neurological compromise or sig- paraplegia). Management of non-pyogenic Imaging infections Plain radiographs are often unhelpful as visible The pharmacotherapeutic treatment of tuber- change can take up to 12 weeks to develop. There is an increased signal include isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and intensity on T2 weighted images caused by the pres- streptomycin. Early-onset scoliosis differs from late-onset scoliosis in that it is more common in boys, and Spinal deformity can occur in the coronal plane (sco- left thoracic curves predominate. Some of these liosis – a lateral curvature of the spine) and the sagit- children have associated abnormalities, such as tal plane (kyphosis, lordosis and spondylolisthesis). Rarer causes include The prevalence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis infection, tumour, degeneration and trauma. It is four times more common in girls (and for those Congenital scoliosis requiring intervention the ratio is 9:1). Congenital scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine caused by developmental vertebral anomalies Management that result in an imbalance in the lateral longitudi- The management of early and late onset scoliosis nal growth of the spine. These osteogenic anomalies differ as the early onset group are too young to can be classified as failures of formation (hemiver- undergo definitive fusion (as this would restrict tebrae, see Figure 10. This disorders of the homeobox genes during the first is achieved by the use of serial plaster jackets, spinal trimester of pregnancy and is associated with a high braces and in the cases that are progressive the use incidence (up to 60 per cent) of other abnormalities of growing rod constructs that can be lengthened as within or outside the spine, particularly in those the child grows. Plaster jackets are used for progressive cures in the genitourinary system and the heart. Older children can have thermo- per cent also have intraspinal anomalies, including plastic braces to try and control curve progression. The objectives of surgery in these children is The failure of formation most commonly seen to maintain growth and control the curve. Several is the hemivertebra (unilateral complete failure of techniques have been described but none is perfect. The hemivertebra may be Many advocate the use of a posterior growth rod described as fully segmented (with a disc above and technique, which allows for longitudinal growth below), semi-segmented (a single disc either above while maintaining distraction across the curvature or below) or unsegmented (fused above and below). Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis A failure of segmentation results in the forma- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is much more com- tion of a bony bar that tethers the growth of a mon in girls, and typically results in the formation vertebral segment, resulting in differential growth of a right thoracic curvature. There is occasionally a family history, and most severe risk of curve progression. These children are essentially normal, but during periods of sig- Idiopathic scoliosis is classified as early onset (less nificant spinal growth the vertebrae rotate resulting than 5 years old) or late onset (more than 5 years in the typical thoracic rib hump deformity. Factors associated with a high risk of curve progression are a young age at diagnosis, female sex, double major curves, left-sided curves and the curve magnitude at diagnosis. Imaging When viewing a plain radiograph, the curves are described as if one is looking at them from behind in the same way as one views the child clinically. On reaching skeletal maturity, a curve of less than 40 degrees is unlikely to progress further. Such curves are unlikely to be cosmetically troublesome and therefore can be managed conservatively. Curves that are greater than 50 degrees on attainment of skeletal maturity have the poten- tial to continue to progress at an expected rate of 1–2 degrees per year. These curves must be managed on an individual basis and the degree of cosmetic deformity also taken into account. If conservatively managed, it is imperative that these curves are monitored for evidence of late progression.
All of the following are true of familial cancers except (b) Number of mitosis (a) Early age of onset (c) Basement membrane invasion (b) Arises in 2 or more relatives of index case (d) Pleomorphism (c) Sometimes multiple tumors are present (d) Present with specifc marker phenotype 20 order 50 mg cilostazol spasms in 7 month old. A 58 year old smoker Babu Bhai presents with long (a) Mitoses standing epigastric pain buy generic cilostazol 100mg on line muscle relaxant drug test, occasional vomiting and (b) Polychromasia signifcant weight loss purchase cilostazol 50 mg on line muscle relaxant knots. A biopsy and other studies (d) Metastasis confrmed that he has gastric cancer at a stage that is 20. Bimodality of incidence occurs in all, except associated with a very poor prognosis. Which of the following criteria can be used to determine if a pheochromocytoma lesion is benign or malignant? Ionizing radiation affects which stage of cell cycle (a) Blood vessel invasion (a) G2 S (b) Cannot be determined by microscopic examination (b) G1 G2 (c) Hemorrhage and necrosis (c) G2 M (d) Nuclear pleomorphism (d) G0 G1 Most Recent Questions 22. Which of the following is most reliable feature of (b) G0-G1-G2-S-M malignant transformation of pheochromocytoma? Overgrowth of a skin structure at a localised region is: (b) G1 phase (a) Hamartoma (c) G2 phase (b) Malignant tumor (d) S phase (c) Choristoma 24. Which of the following mutations in a tumor suppressor (a) Promotion of cell cycle progression agent causes breast carcinoma? Which of the following is known as the “guardian of (b) Base excision repair the genome”? Proto-oncogene erb-B is not related to: (Kolkata 2003) (b) Repair by connective tissues (a) Breast carcinoma (c) Formation of the blood clot (b) Small cell lung carcinoma (d) All of the above (c) Non-small cell lung carcinoma 57. Which of the following genes is most likely marked in (c) Receptor tyrosine kinase the fowchart depiction as ‘X’? A patient Madhu undergoes total thyroidectomy for (b) K-ras a mass lesion of the thyroid. During the surgery it is (c) Cyclin D found that the parathyroid glands appeared enlarged. This boy may have a (d) p53 propensity to develop tumors in which of the following structures? Aisha, a 51 year old woman discovers a lump in her left (a) Bladder (b) Colon breast on a weekly self-examination. Mammography is performed which confrms the presence of a suspicious (c) Peripheral nerve (d) Skin “mass”, and needle core biopsy is performed to determine whether the mass is malignant. Devesh, Most Recent Questions the pathologist confrmed the mass to be malignant and 66. Endometrial carcinoma is associated with which of the (a) Medulloblastoma following tumor suppression gene mutation? Which of the following statements about carcinogenesis (a) Beta-2 macroglobulin is false? An example of a tumor suppressor gene is: (c) Exposure to aniline dyes predisposes to cancer of the (a) Myc urinary bladder (b) Fos (c) Ras (d) Hepatitis B virus has been implicated in hepatocel- (d) Rb lular carcinoma 66. Radiation exposure during infancy has been linked to which one of the following carcinoma? Which among the following is not a neoplastic virus: (a) Cytomegalovirus (Bihar 2006) (c) Clonorchiasis (b) Hepatitis B virus (d) Schistosomiasis (c) Human papilloma virus 82. Physical examination reveals a large mass involving (a) Prevents formation of pyrimidine dimers the right side of his liver, and a biopsy specimen (b) Stimulates formation of pyrimidine dimers from this mass confrms the diagnosis of liver cancer (c) Prevents formation of purine dimers (hepatocellular carcinoma). Which of the following (d) All of the above substances is most closely associated with the pathogenesis of this tumor? The most radiosensitive cells are: (a) Afaxotin B1 (a) Neutrophils (b) Lymphocytes (b) Direct-acting alkylating agents (c) Erythrocytes (d) Megakaryocytes (c) Vinyl chloride 82. One of the following leukemia almost never develops smoker Akki demonstrates glands containing cells with after radiation? With (b) Chronic myeloid leukemia which of the following infectious agents has this type (c) Acute lumphoblastic leukemia of lesion been most strongly associated? Which of the following bio markers he develops generalized lymphadenopathy with would be most useful for follow-up of patient? Which of the following tumors have an increased (d) Chondroblastoma elevation of placental alkaline phosphatase in the serum as well as a positive immunohistochemical staining for 86. An undifferentiated malignant tumor on (d) Pelvic immunohistochemical stain shows cytoplasmic (e) Vertebrae positivity of most of the tumor cells for cytokeratin. A 65 years old male diagnosed by biopsy a case of lung carcinoma, with paraneoplastic syndrome and 115. Which one of the following is a frequent cause of serum (c) Calcitonin alpha- fetoprotein level greater than 10 times the normal (d) Calcitonin related peptide upper limit? Workup reveals that no bone (c) Submucosa metastases are present, but laboratory examination (d) Appendix reveals that the man’s serum calcium levels are 11. Marker for ovarian carcinoma in serum is: woman Nusheen is noted to have a ruddy complexion. Which of the following is a marker for carcinoma of (a) Breast (b) Colon lung and breast? Secondaries of all the following cause osteolytic lesions and alternating diarrhea and constipation. Physical examination demonstrates hyperpigmentation of except: skin, even in areas protected from the sun. Tumor (a) Prostate (b) Kidney involvement of which endocrine organ is most strongly (c) Bronchus (d) Thyroid suggested by this patient’s presentation? Which of the following mutation is seen in malignant abdominal and back pain, malaise, nausea, 8 kg weight melanoma? Which of the following is a special stain for emergency room with a pathologic fracture of the shaft rhabdomyosarcoma? X-ray studies demonstrate multiple (a) Cytokeratin (b) Synaptophysin lytic and blastic bone lesions. Biopsy of one of these (c) Desmin (d) Myeloperoxidase lesions shows adenocarcinoma. The most common cause of malignant adrenal mass is (a) Breast (b) Colon (a) Adrenocortical carcinoma (c) Kidney (d) Lung (b) Malignant Phaeochromocytoma (c) Lymphoma Most Recent Questions (d) Metastasis from another solid tissue tumor 123. Tumor that follows rule of 10 is: brain in (a) Pheochromocytoma (a) Breast (b) Lung (b) Oncocytoma (c) Kidney (d) Intestines (c) Lymphoma (d) Renal cell carcinoma 123. The latter are sharply demarcated lesions that may be impossible to distinguish from follicular adenomas on gross examination. This distinction requires extensive histologic sampling of the tumor-capsule-thyroid interface, to exclude capsular and/or vascular invasion. Extensive invasion of adjacent thyroid parenchyma makes the diagnosis of carcinoma obvious in some cases’. Follicular Carcinoma: brushing up key points • It is the 2nd most common form of thyroid cancer • Seen in women of older age (40-50 yrs. Uncommonly, cells have abundant, eosinophilic cytoplasm called as Hurthle cellsQ • Differentiation from follicular adenoma is based on the presence of capsular invasion preferably and not on vascular invasionQ.
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Star Wars Battlefront open beta test kicks off today
By Christopher Dupres Neowin @blaktron · Oct 8, 2015 17:34 EDT · Hot! with 56 comments
As of 1pm EST today, the Star Wars Battlefront Open Beta has kicked off for the next 4 days on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC via Origin. The highly anticipated reboot of the acclaimed shooter series from 11 years ago has been available for pre-order for some time, and this is the first time fans will be able to play from the comfort of their own homes. PC players can sign up here.
The beta is comprised of two pieces, the Multiplayer portion and a Missions component, which is either single play or co-op scenario play. The multiplayer portion of the beta has two parts, a land based map and an AT walker map where players can duke it out in giant robots.
The original games were hugely popular due to the variety of gameplay, from first person shooter to vehicle combat to aerial flyby's and even space combat. The new version is significantly smaller in scope in terms of the different missions styles, as well as having seemingly tighter maps if not actually smaller in size.
The beta runs until the end of the weekend, so take a moment to see if the game will be worth the purchase price come release time on November 17th, 2015 with the first DLC already scheduled for three weeks later, on December 8th. Players who pre-order will get DLC access one week sooner, which seems like a strange benefit for content coming out so soon after release.
Source: Electronic Arts
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5 Good Reasons to Try Netmath
The People Behind Netmath: Guillaume
By Nora in Behind the scenes 2017-06-09
Recruiting the driving forces of the team and ensuring the proper functioning of Scolab
Guillaume is the human resources and finance manager at Scolab. He is responsible for finding new talent whose skills will have a direct impact on improving the education of thousands of students. He is also responsible for ensuring the company’s finances are in good shape. Let’s find out more!
Me at Scolab
I am an anomaly, both a professional accountant and a specialist in human resources management. My versatility is such that at Scolab, I am a manager of human resources and also of finance. Before, I have, by chance, almost always worked in education with the exception of a brief stint in the insurance industry.
However, I’ve in a certain way always been close to Scolab. I have known two of the four founders since high school and was present in 2004 when the company was founded. Before joining the team two years ago, I acted as a consultant.
What I like most is knowing that through our work we have a positive and direct impact on the educational paths of hundreds of thousands of students, and that we help teachers on a daily basis. Having 600 000 users is extremely challenging and makes it important that you get it right!
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'Not an Easy Decision': OYO to Lay off over 1,000 People in India as Part of Restructuring Exercise
In an email to employees, the company's founder and Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal said that one of the implications of the new strategic objectives for 2020, is that OYO will reorganise more teams across businesses and functions.
A woman walks pasts a sign against Oyo, placed outside a hotel in New Delhi, August 7, 2019. (Reuters)
New Delhi: Hospitality firm OYO is planning to let go over 1,000 people in India as part of its restructuring and reorganisation of teams across businesses and functions to trim redundancy.
In an internal mail to the employees of OYO in India and South Asia, the company's founder and Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal said that asking some of the colleagues to move to a new career outside of OYO has not been an 'easy decision'.
Though the mail to the employees did not provide the numbers of people that are being laid off, sources in the know of the matter put the number at more than 1,000 and said the reason was 'right-sizing'. One of the implications of the new strategic objectives for 2020, is that, like the leadership team, OYO will reorganise more teams across businesses and functions, Agarwal said.
The strategic objectives of the company are: sustainable growth, operational and customer excellence, profitability, and training and governance, he added.
And this means that, unfortunately, some roles at OYO will become redundant as the company further drives tech-enabled synergy, enhanced efficiency and removes duplication of effort across businesses or geographies, Agarwal said.
"As a result, we are asking some of our impacted colleagues to move to a new career outside of OYO. This has not been an easy decision for us," he added. OYO is doing everything it can to ensure that the outgoing colleagues receive as much assistance and support as possible through this transition, Agarwal said.
"Every OYOpreneur is important to OYO and ensuring their well-being both during and after their tenure is our number one priority. I want to thank them for their efforts and apologize for the impact this is causing," he added.
Over the past few months, OYO has "also successfully transitioned many of our colleagues into more meaningful roles within OYO by providing mentorship, training and tools to be successful," he added. OYO has also streamlined the organization by driving synergies across business lines and removing duplication of efforts in some of everyday manual processes, he added.
As an organisation, OYO stands strong with its people - not just with those who are impacted, but also with those who will remain an integral part of OYO beyond today, Agarwal said.
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Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction (Tommy John Surgery)
You may not know who Tommy John is, but if you’re involved in the world of sports medicine, odds are you’ve heard the name before. Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction is performed on athletes, most commonly baseball pitchers, when they tear this important stabilizing ligament in their throwing elbow and the nonsurgical treatment options have failed.
Named Tommy John surgery outside of the medical field, this procedure was first performed in 1974 by Dr. Frank Jobe on Major League Baseball pitcher Tommy John. At the time of the original Tommy John surgery, Dr. Jobe put his chances of recovering from the ligament injury at one in 100. Today, literature says that number is closer to the 90 percent mark thanks to advances in technology and modern medicine.
“When the ulnar collateral ligament sustains a tear, the throwing athlete often complains of pain on the inside, or medial, part of the elbow as well as a loss of velocity and control on their pitch,” says Randy S. Schwartzberg, M.D., a board certified sports medicine specialist at Orlando Orthopaedic Center. “If non-surgical treatment fails for the UCL tear, the surgical treatment involves replacing the ligament with a tendon graft.”
To ensure that the UCL can return to functioning as the stabilizing structure of the elbow, a complete replacement is necessary. Although it can heal, it often heals in a lengthened position, resulting in a loose condition that can hinder the throwing athlete from ever returning to the type of play they were accustomed to prior to ligament injury. “Damage to the ulnar collateral ligament can occur suddenly or gradually after continued stress on the throwing athlete’s elbow,” says Dr. Schwartzberg. Before discussing Tommy John surgery in-depth, the following is background on ulnar collateral ligament tears.
Risk Factors for Tommy John
Risk factors for tearing the UCL involve excessive use or repeated stress being placed on the ligament. In day-to-day activities, it’s very rare to injure the ligament. Most injuries occur in baseball because of the intense overhead motion and force used when winding up and releasing hundreds of pitches. Ultimately, the ligament becomes compromised and tears.
“Other risk factors may include contact sports where one may fall on an outstretched hand, ultimately dislocating their elbow,” says Bradd G. Burkhart, M.D., a board certified sports medicine specialist and colleague of Dr. Schwartzberg’s at Orlando Orthopaedic Center. “We also see UCL ligament tears in other overhead athletes, such as volleyball and tennis players as well. Throwing mechanics and form also contribute to risk factors of the injury.”
Symptoms of Tommy John
Symptoms of the ligament injury that may ultimately lead to Tommy John surgery and a complete ligament reconstruction include pain on the inner side of the elbow. Many athletes also note a “pop” or “tearing” sensation at the site of the injury, according to Dr. Schwartzberg. “Then swelling and bruising may be noticeable after roughly 24 hours post injury,” he says. “Athletes will also notice newfound elbow stiffness and they may feel a slight numbness or tingling in the small and ring fingers of the injured arm.”
Non-Surgical Treatment of Tommy John
A mild tear to the ulnar collateral ligament may heal on its own. Non-surgical treatment for the ligament tear consists of medications, ice and rest to relieve pain and swelling. Functional rehabilitation supervised by a skilled sports medicine athletic trainer or physical therapist is the most important component of non-surgical management.
Surgical Treatment (Tommy John Surgery)
Tommy John surgery is recommended to those that have sustained an acute rupture or partial tear of the UCL ligament and have failed non-surgical treatment. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia by a trained orthopaedic surgeon.
Ligament reconstruction begins with an incision on the inner part of the elbow where the damaged ligament is removed. From there, holes are drilled to accommodate the new tendon grafts, often taken from the palmaris longus tendon found in the forearm or the gracilis tendon in the leg, according to Dr. Schwartzberg. These holes are drilled in the ulna and humerus bones of the elbow precisely where the ulnar collateral ligament attaches.
“Then we place the new tendon into the sockets created in the ulna and humerus. The graft is then secured with fixation devices to allow an accelerated rehabilitation approach,” says Dr. Schwartzberg. “After one week in a splint, the throwing athlete is placed into a hinged elbow brace with no range of motion restrictions. Rehabilitation commences with progressive functional activities leading up to an interval throwing program at the four month postoperative mark.”
Potential complications of the surgery include infection, elbow range of motion loss and ulnar nerve issues. However, the rate of these complications is very small following the procedure.
Recovery of Tommy John
“Typically we see a return to the sport of choice following surgery within 6-9 months,” says Dr. Burkhart. “Rehab can be carried out at home, but at Orlando Orthopaedic Center we recommend patients see our physical therapists to help guide their road to recovery.”
Because the graft is very strong and fixation is so secure, early range of motion and rehabilitation is safe. Physical therapy is necessary to regain strength and range of motion in the elbow following Tommy John surgery and may begin following the first several weeks of recovery.
“Although range of motion and strength about the elbow returns within a couple of months of the surgery, the throwing athlete still has a large amount of work to ready the elbow for throwing,” says Dr. Schwartzberg.
“Emphasis on the entire kinetic chain during rehabilitation is critical. The throwing motion begins with the legs, involves the trunk and then the shoulder, elbow and wrist. Core strengthening is very important and a hard working and patient athlete can end up becoming a stronger, healthier throwing athlete.”
Most patients make a complete recovery and return to normal activities with little to no change in their routine once fully healed.
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Career firsts for Deleplace and de Langen in La Molina 11 Mar 2019
By Lena Smirnova | For World Para Alpine Skiing
The World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup in La Molina, Spain kicked off with two surprise winners in the giant slalom races of the men’s sitting and vision impaired classes. France’s Hyacinthe Deleplace and guide Maxime Jourdan trumped world champions Marek Kubacka and guide Maria Zatovicova in the vision impaired race, while Japan’s Taiki Morii took top spot ahead of world and Paralympic champions Jeroen Kampschreur and Jesper Pedersen in the sitting showdown.
French flourish
It was a career-first World Cup victory for Deleplace and Jourdan, who made their season debut a month ago in Veysonnaz, Switzerland.
The French pair missed the 2019 World Championships and came to La Molina with modest expectations only to surprise themselves with a golden result in the first race.
“We couldn’t imagine that we could win this race,” Jourdan said after the pair clocked in two winning runs. “We wanted the podium, but to win this race is really something special.”
“I’m feeling happy,” Deleplace said. “It’s a very good day with sun, good snow and a good sensation. I can’t imagine better.”
Slovakia’s Kubacka and Zatovicova finished second while another French pair Thomas Civade and Kerwan Larmet came third.
Although no stranger to gold medals, it was still a sweet victory for veteran Taiki Mori in La Molina. The 38-year-old Japanese skier was in peak form in 2013 when he won three golds at the World Championships but has since dropped out of the medal favourites.
His victory in Spain over three speedy youngsters, including world champion Kampschreur and Paralympic champion Pedersen, was a reminder that it is too early to consign his glory days to the past.
“I feel so very good,” Morii said. “This course was very soft and fast, and it was good. I’m very happy.”
Morii was 3.07 seconds faster than runner-up Niels de Langen, who celebrated his first World Cup medal. The Dutch skier has won medals at the World Championships but had a fruitless streak on the World Cup circuit, just missing the podium in multiple races.
“I was getting everything out of it,” de Langen said about his second run, which moved him up from third to second place. “I wanted to move up at least one spot and that was my mentality in the second run and I did so.”
An additional bonus was beating Kampschreur and Pedersen who have been locked in a two-man fight for top spot for most of the season.
“That feels surreal,” de Langen said. “I have only dreamt about it.”
A slip in the first run left Kampschreur in fifth place at the start of the day, but a winning second run allowed him to climb up to third place, with Pedersen finishing just off the podium.
Short race, long road
France’s Marie Bochet remains undefeated in all her races this season, starting off the six-race women’s standing campaign in La Molina with another gold.
“It’s not easy because it was a very long break,” Bochet said of returning to the snow since her last World Cup victories three weeks ago. “I made run one with less energy and not my best skiing, but after I was able to express my skiing in the second run so I’m very happy.”
Canada’s Frederique Turgeon was second while Germany’s Anna-Maria Rieder was third.
The event also saw the return of Alana Ramsay. The Canadian finished sixth in her first race since crashing during training at the World Championships.
“I was just happy that I was able to push out of the gate this morning,” said Ramsay, who ultimately finished sixth. “I froze at the gate. I burst into tears so just to get down, it was a really big thing.”
Mad about Muraoka
Japan’s Momoka Muraoka reconfirmed her status as the best in women’s sitting giant slalom when the world champion took her fourth straight victory in the discipline, making for a clean sweep in this season’s World Cup.
“This course is very good,” Muraoka said. “I imagined here to have more very wet snow, but today the course was very hard, good snow, so I got the gold medal.”
World bronze medalist Anna-Lena Forster was second while Laurie Stephens of the United States finished third.
The world and Paralympic champions butted heads in the men’s standing race once again, with world champion Arthur Bochet of France emerging as the winner on the first day of competition. His chief rival, Switzerland’s Theo Gmur, finished 13.19 seconds behind after falling in the second run.
“Theo has the weapons to do this battle, but I know I have them too. It’s war, but I won one battle today,” Bochet said. “At the start, in my head I said, ‘You have to go straight, do it like speed and keep the speed’, so I did that in the top part of the slope and it worked.”
The USA’s Thomas Walsh picked up the bronze.
From sports cars to red alpine runs, speed was on the minds of Great Britain’s Menna Fitzpatrick and Jennifer Kehoe. The pair got a ride in a sports car when they stumbled on a film crew of a US car show the day before competition started and tried to channel this speed into their giant slalom race.
Although they won the first run in the women’s vision impaired, the time was not enough to beat Australians Melissa Perrine and Bobbi Kelly who took the gold by shaving 2.97 seconds off their second try.
“It was really tricky conditions out there for me. The shadows meant that I couldn’t see anything at all. It was just black about halfway down,” Fitzpatrick said. “But we skied pretty well. We were happy with our time.”
The World Cup in La Molina continues with more giant slalom racing on Tuesday (12 March). You can watch the La Molina World Cup on the World Para Alpine Skiing website and Facebook page.
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Dodgy but what the heck. The anti carbon tax TV ads:
I'd feel ashamed. They feel proud.
Senior government ministers have blasted new anti carbon tax television advertisements as “factually incorrect” and an attempt talk down the economy.
The multi-million dollar industry-funded campaign claims that in just over six years Europe’s carbon pricing scheme has raised $4.9 billion. Over six or so years Australia’s will raise $71 billion.
Labelling the claim “deceitful” climate change minister Greg Combet said the ads excluded free permits from the European calculation but included them in the Australian calculation.
“It's completely misrepresentative. These are fundamentally Liberal Party ads. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry which is the leading organisation behind these ads has historically had a close association with the Liberal Party,” he said.
The ACCI is one of six industry groups behind the campaign. A strategy document seen by the Herald says its key objective is to ''build public opposition to the carbon tax so that it is either substantially modified or fails to pass the Parliament''...
ACCI policy director Greg Evans said he had “no response” to accusation of a close historical association with the Liberal Party. “On this issue we are representing the unambiguous views of our membership. They are not the large polluters, they are small and medium sized enterprises, it’s nothing to do with politics.”
Until the election of the Rudd government the chamber was headed by former senior Coalition staffer Peter Hendy who rejoined the Coalition on leaving the chamber.
Mr Evans referred questions about the claims made in the advertisements to Minerals Council deputy director Brendan Pearson who confirmed the Australian calculation included the cost of free permits whereas the European calculation did not.
“We are using the government’s own figures for revenue,” he told the Herald. “It’s the right figure to use. But the Europeans simply don’t publish this data, so we have had to use the money raised at auctions of permits.”
Because free permits are not auctioned the European figure excludes revenue included in the Australian calculation.
“But even if you value Australia’s free permits you still come up with an Australian figure of around $50 billion compared to $5 billion in Europe. I hope the government will be pleased to admit that on their reading of the world their scheme is ten times as expensive as Europe’s.”
When asked whether it was valid to compare income over the past six years in one region with income over the next six years in another Mr Pearson said it was.
Speaking from North Queensland where he was inspecting coal export facilities set to double their traffic in five years Treasurer Wayne Swan attacked “well-funded vested interests trying to talk down the future of our economy”.
“A town like Gladstone really is a reality check for the scare campaign. Far from being at risk of being wiped off the map, businesses are expanding and jobs are being created. A staggering $70 billion in coal-related projects was either underway or on the drawing boards as of April.”
An Access Economics report released this morning said the impact of the carbon tax “may well be rather smaller than the huge headlines would have it”.
“Indeed if the government succeeds in generating greater certainty, that could even unlock investment potential in a range of industries, particularly utilities,” Access director Chris Richardson said.
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Moses Ulloa, Glendale's Own, Arrested Yet Again
Moses Ulloa -- the man voted by our readers as having the third-dumbest hometown pride face tattoos in the Valley -- was arrested yet again yesterday.
Ulloa and his moronic tattoos -- which include the City of Glendale logo on the top of his head, "Murdercopa County" on his neck, horns on his forehead, and a bullet hole between the words "bullet proof" on the side of his head -- lined up for Ulloa's third mugshot at the Maricopa County Jail in four months.
Ulloa was popped this time around for allegedly possessing burglary tools, which is part of the reason he was in jail the last two times.
Based on the cops' description of Ulloa's arrest in March, Ulloa was practically begging for police to pull him over while he was allegedly driving around with 10 grams of meth in his car.
According to court documents previously obtained by New Times, the officer said he was driving the opposite direction of a car on 59th Avenue being driven by Ulloa, 31, when Ulloa turned his headlights off, then back on.
The officer decided to check out what was going on and pulled him over.
Ulloa stopped his car, hung out the window, and yelled to the officer that he was sorry for flashing his headlights at him -- then drove away.
Nice gesture, but that's not really the protocol for traffic stops.
The cop followed Ulloa until he stopped again, and the officer discovered the license plate was reported stolen. As was the vehicle itself.
That's when cops found the 10 grams of meth, an unidentified amount of weed, a scale, and burglary tools inside the car, according to court documents.
Ulloa was booked back into jail earlier this month in the same case, as he was locked up with fellow hometown hero Vicente Valles, who has the City of Tempe logo tattooed on his chin, and an Arizona State University logo on his cheek.
New Times readers voted Valles' tattoos the dumbest hometown pride face tattoos in the Valley.
As for Ulloa, he was released from prison in October after serving nearly 2.5 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections for misconduct involving weapons.
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Exploring the Great Beyond
JUSTINE MURPHY, SENIOR EDITOR, justine.murphy@photonics.com
Decades of space exploration have expanded our view past Earth’s exosphere and even beyond our solar system. Photonics technology plays a significant role in this expansion of knowledge. And in the process, it improves what we know about life here on Earth and the ways we communicate.
The remote sensing satellites that enable space exploration are advancing to keep up with ever-demanding wireless, data and broadband communication needs. The new satellite from U.S.-based spacecraft developer and manufacturer SpaceX, for example, supports wireless communications and television broadcasting, as well as transatlantic data relays. The company sent the Falcon 9 Intelsat 35e into space earlier this year.
The National Space Organization of Taiwan is planning to launch its own remote sensing satellite this year. The FormoSat-5 is a high-resolution optical remote sensing instrument that captures images on a panchromatic spectral band. This satellite will collect images for land use surveying, environmental monitoring, data collection and other security measures.
In “Space Photonics: A Platform Technology for Satellite Systems” (read article), Efstratios Kehayas, vice president of research and development at Gooch & Housego, examines how photonics technology should help advance space-based communications, as the need grows for faster, higher-capacity systems.
This next generation of remote sensing satellites technology is being called upon to deliver larger volumes of data faster and more efficiently. Kehayas says these needs, as well as for high-speed and low-latency downlinking of terrestrial- or space-generated data using low-mass and power-efficient systems, are paving the way for photonics to play a major role in space exploration.
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, a program that brings several working writers to campus every academic year. Co-founders Rick Barot and Jason Skipper, the poetry and fiction professors respectively, were hired by the English Department partly for their experience in creating and running successful writers series at other universities. “We started on it the summer before we came to Tacoma. One of our first conversations actually was over the phone,” Skipper recalls, “We talked about the Visiting Writer Series.”
Over its ten years, the Series has brought in poets, fiction and non-fiction authors, young adult novelists, and even a children’s book illustrator. They range from writers who have just published their first book to very well-known and established authors, including National Book Award winners, New York Times bestsellers, and recipients of the MacArthur Genius Grant. Perhaps the most well-known guest was Mary Oliver, who visited in April 2008. She penned a phrase that has become the rallying cry for PLU’s Wild Hope Center for Vocation: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Barot recounts that her visit attracted an audience that filled the entirety of Lagerquist Hall, as well as a separate overflow space.
The Visiting Writer Series is thoughtfully designed with a number of components that create a unique learning experience for Lutes, one that truly connects to PLU’s mission of preparing students for lives of thoughtful inquiry. First and foremost, The Writer’s Story is an informal hour-long session before the reading where students, faculty, and staff get the chance to sit down with the visiting writer and engage in conversation. Skipper says that in these conversations, “we focus on vocation and think about what it’s like to live the life of a writer,” providing valuable insight to students who are interested in becoming writers themselves.
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Ryan Van Meter reads from If You Knew Then What I Know Now; Nov. 20, 2014
At each reading, the audience can expect to see two more components that are characteristic of PLU’s Series. In the early years of the Series, Barot and Skipper would both welcome the audience and introduce the evening’s writer; however, they came to see this as an opportunity to instead allow PLU students to introduce the writers. “It makes for a unique experience and opportunity for the student who is introducing the author,” Skipper says, “and the authors have really appreciated it too, they enjoy having the students introduce them.” Following the readings, audience members typically have the chance to pick up a free, hand-printed letterpress broadside of a selection of the writer’s work, designed and created by students minoring in PLU’s Publishing and Printing Arts program. “We’ve had some amazing broadsides over the years,” says Barot, “the authors are always very pleased. It’s like getting to leave with an honorarium and a parting gift.”
When asked to recollect their most memorable moment from the decade-long Series, both Skipper and Barot laugh. “Every year we have amazing writers who come, and there’s always a wonderful moment that happens with each one,” Barot says. At each and every reading, Skipper points out,
there is always one moment where the room is just quiet except for the author reading, and there is this stillness… It’s a moment where here we are gathered for a poem or for a story, and we’re just all in this together. It’s amazing.
One very beneficial change the Series has seen in the past decade is the procurement of annual funding. At its inception, the Series had no consistent financing. “Jason and I would literally have to go around to different parts of campus asking for contributions to our budget,” Barot explains. This changed in May 2012 when the Provost provided an annual budget to fully fund the Series. This institutional commitment ensured that the Series had a stable foundation, allowing Barot and Skipper to focus their energies on bringing writers to campus.
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Jason Skipper, Co-Director of the Visiting Writer Series
Each spring, Barot and Skipper meet to discuss what writers they want to invite to PLU. One main criterion is matching writers’ work with the campus community. “We think about how this work could connect to the students at PLU,” says Skipper, “and how could the students here learn something from this work.” Additionally, they are sure to bring writers who they also consider good teachers, who can teach PLU students through their writing and also through conversation during The Writer’s Story event. Once they arrive at a list of candidates, they issue invitations, confirm dates, and get excited for the next year’s guests.
With the first decade under their belt, Barot and Skipper now look forward to another successful ten years of the Visiting Writer Series. “I don’t really know what it will look like,” Skipper says, but “we will continue bringing great authors to campus and people will keep coming out for it.” Barot agrees, stressing a commitment to maintaining the quality of the Series and its guests. He adds one additional tongue-in-cheek objective for the next decade: the Series will strive for “world domination.” Considering its success and consistently amazing guest writers, that may well be on the table; if there is anything to learn from the past ten years of PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, it is that it is well worth keeping a watchful eye on.
— Jakob Meier (PLU ’15)
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Upcoming Google Chrome for Android release to feature autofill text and saved passwords
Jake Smith · 6 March 2013
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Google has updated the beta version of Chrome for Android with two much-loved features available on the desktop version. Now the Android app includes the ability to autofill forms and save passwords, potentially saving a lot of time whenusing a small mobile screen to complete tasks.
The new features have rolled out into the Chrome Beta for Android available on Google Play. It's not clear when it will hit the stable, consumer version available for the masses - all signs point to next month.
Like the desktop version, once you begin typing in a web form on an Android phone or tablet, it will try to autofill the information for you, including name, city, state, street address and more.
The same goes for passwords: if you're continuously signing in and out of a website, it will ask if you want to save the password for later use.
Google Chrome 26 desktop users will find that the Android version will keep forms and passwords synced as long as it is turned on in the browser settings.
Lastly, the beta adds a new feature dubbed SPDY that hopes to “reduce data consumption by loading optimi.ed web pages via Google proxy servers”.
If you're interested, you'll have to visit Google Play through a direct link, because betas aren't listed through Google Play search.
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Life In A Run
Oprah Winfrey's remark that "Running is the greatest metaphor for life" was so spot on this morning when running became a metaphor for India.
Christine Pemberton 24 May 2016
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Christine Pemberton May 24, 2016 00:00 IST Life In A Run
Well, who'd a thunk it. Imagine quoting Oprah Winfrey.
But her remark that "Running is the greatest metaphor for life" was so spot on this morning, that I can think of no better place to start.
After the mother of all storms last night, (which sadly brought way too many trees and branches crashing down), Delhi woke up to a cool, damp morning. And everyone was out bright and early, enjoying this respite from the searing heat.
This morning, running became a metaphor for India.
A little before 6am, Safdarjung Road: a group of soldiers in full camouflage gear was slowly jogging along. Two outliers, trotting a distance behind, called out to me. "Hey, hey" and when I looked up they both waved and smiled rather goofily, a bit like silly school kids.
About 6.30, running down Raj Path, there was a group of about six or seven male, middle-aged cyclists, who had stopped. They were all looking down at the tiniest, filthiest wee muppet you ever did see, who was standing all alone on the edge of the road. They had clearly been trying to elicit information from the little chap, but he just stared silently at everyone with big calm, brown eyes. The cyclists called out to a man some distance away, standing by a little mosque, who seemed to recognise the child, and shouted back that his mother was somewhere, probably having a bath, waving his hand towards one of the ornamental pools that nice Mr. Lutyens put there for public bathing.
Such vague information didn't satisfy the cyclists ("Could be bloody child traffickers, for all we know" muttered one man) nor yours truly who had joined in. So (as the only female present) I stretched out my hand, Wee Muppet took it, and I said to myself "And that's how it's done, taking a child". He was quite happy to be picked up, and smiled as I tickled him and talked to him, and we all headed off to the ornamental pool to see if the mother was there. She wasn't. A gaggle of women was doing that amazing Indian thing of bathing, fully dressed in saris, showing not an inch of flesh. They did, however, all cover their faces when we questioned them about Wee Muppet, who was happily eating the sultanas I always carry when I run.
Eventually a young man with an expression of total unconcern was produced, and said he was the father. We all looked at Wee Muppet, who didn't react. By now the whole child trafficking scenario was firmly fixed in our minds, and the young man was grilled, along with all the other people who joined him. His name, baby's name, did he have ID (no), how old was the child, where was the mother (cooking, it turned out, not having a bath in Mr. Lutyens' pool) and we all took photos of everyone, just in case. Wee Muppet kept eating my sultanas, the father laconically assured us that yes he was the father, and everyone else around him did, so eventually we handed over Wee Muppet, who gave me one last slow smile, and that was that. The cyclists went their way, and I went on mine.
On the lawn at the foot of Raisina Hill, there was a man sitting on a plastic chair enjoying the cool air, who leaped up as I ran past, shouting out "Aunty! Aunty!"
Ah ha, my old friend, the vagabond with good English. Haven't seen him for a few weeks, and had been wondering about him. When I started to speak in Hindi, he politely stopped me and said "Aunty, please, 5 minutes English" and we went through the same conversation that we have every time we meet. The name of the Prime Minister of England, the name of the President of the US, and what do I think of India. Today, though, we had a slight variation in what is otherwise pretty much the same conversation. Had I been to Australia and what did I think of it? Then, we chatted about the weather as we always do, and he said, with his wide toothy smile "Today is…is…summer high…no Aunty, that's not correct…summer height…" so I gently corrected him "The height of summer".
"Yes, thank you Aunty, height of summer, and now let's take a selfie.”" (Our last selfie was in the winter, I remember). So I get out my phone, he adjusts the angle to make sure we're both in the frame, and that's another selfie with the amazing vagabond who lives on Raj Path.
All of life in one run. Literally and metaphorically.
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With the Facebook Ads Manager, you can access important reports to better understand how your campaigns are performing. Reports are essential. They'll provide the details you need to refine your advertisements and identify whether you're achieving your goals. To access your reports, you'll go the Manage Your Ads section from the drop-down in the upper right-hand corner, as we did before. Then chose Reports from the menu on the left.
You might notice there are a lot more campaigns here than the ones we've created in this course. That's because I've gone ahead and logged in under my account, so you can see what it looks like once you have a lot of data associated with your ads. Now, once you enter the Reports section, you'll be brought to a list of general metrics, listed by campaign and sorted by their start date. Let's look at how to navigate this section, starting at the top. Here we have the heading, General Metrics. But to the left of that, we have a drop-down menu which contains some other reports we can select. It's here that you can select some pre-defined reports, perhaps on website conversions, demographics, or Facebook page actions.
Selecting one of these reports will change the view of this page to reflect that category. As we move along the top, you'll have the option to schedule, save, share, and export a report. I'll be talking more about the scheduling feature in a later video, so let's instead focus on this Export button. If you work with your data in Excel, Numbers, or another desktop application, it can be helpful to get your reports off Facebook. You might want to do this, say, to create your own charts. When you click Export, you can choose to download an Excel-formatted file, or a CSV.
You can modify the dates on the right-hand side by using this drop-down. It's defaulted to the last seven days, but if I select that, Facebook will give us some different options. We can choose to review data from today, or all the way up to the last three months.
We can also choose Custom to enter some custom dates. You could look at a time period, say the first quarter, and then group it by seven days, or 30 days if that option is available to you.
Now let's take a look at the columns below. As you scroll to the right in this field, you'll notice that Facebook has several columns that they've selected for you. If you want to change the columns that are displaying data, you can do so by Customize Columns, in the upper left-hand corner.
I recommend getting in the habit of checking your advertisements daily. By being aware of how your ads are performing, you'll make informed decisions that will increase the longevity of your campaigns. This will only take a minute. Make it part of your morning routine. Check your messages, respond to some emails, and check your ads.
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Joseph Chiu: Sarawakian Business Young Entrepreneur
In Business, Construction, Featured, General, Interior Design, Malaysia, millennials
By Kuscera Youngblood
Not many Sarawakians can say they know the real movers and shakers of change and progress within their state. So, recently PrimaBuzz interviewed Joseph Chiu. Someone who, is particularly influential locally but you may not know about.
Here is what we got to know about him. Everything from his early life, career beginnings, successes and secrets to it.
Who is Joseph Chiu?
Joseph Chiu is a Sarawakian young entrepreneur who’s made it big in property/ real estate. He initially started in his family business of restaurant franchising. Then, ventured into his own passion for real estate.
Property magnate Joseph Chiu is from small-town Sibu. Both his parents are of Foochow descent.
Growing up, his parents were always busy. Both are highly ambitious and enterprising so they spent their majority time working. You can say his parents planted a hardworking drive in him from a tender age.
His father is a businessman/ franchisee. Who, also happened to be the first ever franchisee in Malaysia. His mother, on the other hand, is an accountant and a board member of a publicly listed company.
Joseph Chiu started primary education SJK Methodist Sibu. After, he moved onto Secondary at SMK Methodist Sibu. Then, pursued his tertiary education at Sunway College. There, he flunked all his first classes. That taught him freedom should be paired with responsibility.
Eventually, he finished off tertiary education at the University of Wales, UK. Joseph Chiu graduated a Bachelor of Civil Engineering major in 2007. So, is an engineer by profession.
Initial Career
Fresh out of university Joseph Chiu started working as a project engineer for Balfour Beatty plc in London. Which, was the main contractor for the London Stadium. He worked there for 1 ½ year then returned to Malaysia after his visa ended.
In KL, he continued as a project engineer at his uncle’s company for a year. Then, ventured to Singapore with the drive to chase different experiences and cultures. His passion for real estate kept him in project engineering. And, left him wanting to venture across South East Asia.
Business With His Father
Photos of Joseph Chiu in work action
Not long after Singapore, his dad beckoned for his return home to help expand the family’s McD business. Joseph Chiu packed up and left his Singapore life without question.
He knew his dad lacked the commitment needed to expand. This point in time Joseph Chiu knew little about McD’s model of business. So, he sought to learn.
It wasn’t easy. He realized soon, he had left the comforts of project engineering to embark on his McD journey. He started as a trainee floor manager making a meager RM1700. Stationed none other than at the fry station. This was a stark change for Joseph Chiu.
Only later did he realize his father’s reason for starting him at the bottom. It was the best way to traverse this business. And, learn slowly while prevailing eventually as a changed person.
“You needed to get dirty/ rough and tough regardless of rank. McD was an all hands on deck business. A true leader is one who will get his hands dirty with the team”.
This business taught him :
Learning from the bottom up was crucial for character building
The art of business (during this time he got an MBA from Hamburger University)
True leadership through working on the floor
Leaving His Father’s Business to Pursue Real Estate/ Property
Image via iDeas Makeover
He left in 2015 to pursue his lifelong passion for real estate. He thought it was finally time before too late.
This passion he gained from his parents. Who has always profited well off real estate and property investment. Growing up he also looked up to Donald Trump “the real estate guy”. He always had the ambition to be a real estate developer.
How did it feel venturing out into unchartered territory? To Joseph Chiu, it was great to be pursuing what he loves and expanding a business.
Initial dabbling in property during his student years taught him many lessons. The main one being that interior design was crucial make-up and added cash flow value. However, middlemen could always overcharge or delay your project. So, after getting comfortable in life, he made a goal to take matters into his own hands.
So, he launched ELJO Development Sdn Bhd and iDeas Makeover. A great amalgam of engineering, real estate, and interior design.
iDeas Makeover is a one-stop solution and platform for fellow property investors. Which, served also to aid and grow his own real estate ventures. 3 ½ years after launching, he is doing very well despite heated competition.
Joseph Chiu hopes for a positive business year in 2020. Besides that, he wants to grow his staff force. He hopes to continue exploring the real estate market. And, venture into more property development and possibly hospitality.
Making it Big For Himself
Some shots of Joseph Chiu’s completed property/ real estate projects
He has an impeccable track record in real estate. Most of his projects have sold or rented within months on market.
What is Joseph Chiu’s biggest success in his real estate venture so far? Being able to secure multiple renowned public listed companies as clientele.
Society wise, he’s actively involved in the Rotary Club’s We Love Kids Project. This platform helps positively influence neglected children. Their initiatives involve actively bonding and helping them develop life skills. In April, he along with the club will launch a new center.
His Drive and Motivation
Joseph Chiu and an iDeas Makeover event goer (Image via Facebook)
Joseph Chiu’s main drive in business is the people. He says it’s his real passion. Seeing his people do well for themselves gives him so much satisfaction. “It was the people who really drove me to stay with McD and open 3 more stores.
What really sets his business apart from others is its people-centric nature. “The soul behind any brand is essentially the people. If you treat them well, they’ll treat your business well”.
His Secret to Success
Joseph Chiu had a few factors/ secrets he attributes his success to. Of which are:
Great leadership/ Knowing how to bring people together to perform in unison
Taking great care of your people (the movers and shakers of your business)
Drive to satisfy others (no greater satisfaction than to see his employees do well)
Trusting your subordinate leaders (avoid micromanaging)
Who Does he Attribute His Success to?
Joseph Chiu’s parents. Both have very different styles yet are very successful leaders. His father is money-centric, while his mother is people-centric. He believes himself to be an amalgam of both.
He attributes his deep knowledge of the business art to his mother and her business partner. From a young age, they taught him to always look at business as a battlefield.
Advice or Tips From Joseph Chiu
Joseph Chiu giving a speech (Image via Facebook)
In business, make sure you’re passionate about your business. Then try first to understand your business’s weather. Next, understand giving up is not an option. Lastly, be vigilant. Be able to endure pain and expect many sleepless nights.
Joseph Chiu is so well rounded and balanced between his career and outside life. He says for this, no matter how busy, always make a point to exercise. For the last 2 years, his team has taken 40 minutes out of lunch to hit the gym.
Honestly, knowing a fellow Sarawakian making such waves locally brings so much respect for him. Well wishes for Joseph Chiu in any future endeavors. We hope to continue hearing about the great influence he is spreading locally.
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Derek Piggott, powered pilot, glider pilot and instructor has died aged 96. During his career Piggott flew well over 300 different types of aircraft and was also an occasional stunt pilot
Getting the flying bug aged four after a flight in an Avro 504, he went on to fly 154 powered aircraft types – from the Bristol Boxkite to four-engined bombers and jets - and 170 types of glider.
He was also known for his occasional work as a stunt pilot for films such as Darling Lilli, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and The Blue Max, for which he repeatedly flew two replica Fokker Dr.I triplanes under the narrow span of a bridge with only four feet of clearance either side.
Derek volunteered for the RAF as aircrew in 1942, trained in Canada and was commissioned in 1943. After months waiting on a Lancaster bomber station, he volunteered for glider operations which promised immediate action, did his conversion training on to troop-carrying gliders and was posted to India to No.668 Glider Squadron where he was detached to No.267 Squadron for four weeks as second pilot on Dakotas flying supply operations over the front lines in Burma.
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After a spell instructing Indian pilots at Jodpur, he flew patrols in Austers during the unrest caused by Partition, returned to England in 1947 and was posted to the Central Flying School as an instructor of instructors, becoming an A1 CFS instructor, the RAF’s highest instructor qualification, flying and teaching on many types of aircraft including multi-engined and early Meteor jets.
He then went to the RAF Gliding School in Detling as chief instructor, where his systematic sequence of exercises in dual-controlled gliders greatly improved the safety of gliding, and in 1953 he received the Queen’s Commendation for work on developing and introducing new instructional techniques for gliding in the Air Training Corps.
He left the RAF in 1953 and became the CFI at Lasham Airfield until 1989. Derek took immense trouble with his pupils and had huge patience in diagnosing faults and explaining techniques. He wrote eight books on gliding, including his autobiography ‘Delta Papa’, and was a guest speaker at many events throughout the world.
Derek Piggott flying a Fokker Dr.I triplane through the narrower span of the bridge at Carrigabrick in Co Cork for the Blue Max in 1965.
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The eight ingredients of a celebrity referee: Pride, authority, banter…
In December 2017, Mark Clattenburg claimed he allowed Tottenham to “self-destruct” in the infamous Battle of the Bridge – instantly enhancing the brand of celebrity referees.
Needing a win to have any chance of catching Leicester City in the 2015-16 title race, Tottenham slipped to a 2-2 draw in a fiery encounter at Stamford Bridge.
Clattenburg could have sent off a number of Spurs players, but the former Premier League referee insists it was all part of his “gameplan”.
He told NBC’s Men in Blazers: “I allowed them [Spurs] to self-destruct so all the media, all the people in the world went, ‘Tottenham lost the title.’
Clattenburg added: “I helped the game. I certainly benefited the game by my style of refereeing.
“Some referees would have played by the book; Tottenham would have been down to seven or eight players and probably lost and they would’ve been looking for an excuse.
“But I didn’t give them an excuse, because my gameplan was: let them lose the title.”
Clattenburg is a prime example of an increasingly common facet of modern football: the celebrity referee. We’ve taken a look at the eight main ingredients which make up one of the most bizarre breeds of humanity.
The common consensus that the less you noticed a referee, the better he officiated does not apply to the celebrity referee. Their achievements are just as noteworthy as those of the players who we pay to watch.
And that is why Clattenburg can be found sporting tattoos commemorating the fact he was The Chosen One for the finals of the Champions League and European Championships in 2016.
No, he didn’t score a goal. No, he didn’t make a save. No, he wasn’t the brains behind a tactical masterplan. But he was the man in the middle.
Good grief, there's more #ClattsTattz
We have reached peak #CelebrityRefs pic.twitter.com/eMwy5nRlkT
— Celebrity Refs (@CelebrityRefs) August 3, 2016
Football is a game defined by its banter. It’s essentially the Facebook newsfeed for the whole world. Players, managers, commentators, pundits, fans, mascots – whether you care to admit it or not, you love the banter, the lot of you.
Celebrity referees – and it is worth remembering that they are only human; weird, strange humans, but humans nonetheless – are no different. They love the banter.
Just look at the timing of Mike Dean’s banter, here. The Manchester derby. Old Trafford. Guardiola vs Mourinho. It’s peak banter time.
Wait for the cameras, wait for the cameras, wait for the cameras… nailed it.
Classic Mike Dean. pic.twitter.com/ovHguW1BEQ
— Planet Football (@planetfutebol) October 27, 2016
Andre Marriner is also more than happy to get in on the act, absolutely crushing Sadio Mane for a second back in 2016.
Marriner!#CelebrityRefs
(via @SouthamptonFC)https://t.co/mfTqLYlCqE
— Celebrity Refs (@CelebrityRefs) May 1, 2016
The banter is all well and good, but the celebrity ref is not going to fall into the trap of the supply teacher who just wants to look cool but ultimately ends the lesson crying and locked out of his own classroom after telling his students how much he loves The Rolling Stone Roses.
You Do Not F*ck With A Celebrity Ref.
"You DO NOT touch the man in charge. My authority will NOT be abused"#CelebrityRefshttp://t.co/vfgdzuzX5t
— Celebrity Refs (@CelebrityRefs) January 22, 2015
Lee Mason literally looks like he's taken Mesut Özil out for a walk here.#CelebrityRefs
(via @NorthWestgooner)
pic.twitter.com/9AQuD6gFth
— Celebrity Refs (@CelebrityRefs) February 3, 2016
Celebrity refs could have been professional footballers. But footballers are morally corrupt, constantly trying to bend the rules, looking to gain an advantage, solely concerned with winning.
Such traits are anathema to the celebrity ref. They’re there to adhere to the rules and enforce them – at least, in Clattenburg’s case, when they feel like it.
But that doesn’t stop them reminding us that they’ve still got it.
Mike Dean was in incredible form last night. First a no-look booking and then an outrageous dummy. #EFC #LFC pic.twitter.com/KUM5egzcnR
— Planet Football (@planetfutebol) December 20, 2016
As Clattenburg has proved this week, the celebrity ref is not afraid of scandal. This is far from the first time he has made headlines, however.
It is worth remembering his finest hour, when he was dropped from officiating in the Premier League in 2014 after breaking two key regulations of the referee protocol – to get to an Ed Sheeran concert on time.
Despite rules requiring officials to travel to and from games together, Clatts quickly scarpered on his own after taking charge of West Brom vs Crystal Palace. He was also found to have spoken on the phone to Palace boss Neil Warnock about the match’s key incidents.
We’re not sure what sounds worse: going to see Ed Sheeran or chatting with Neil Warnock?
#ClattenburgFacts
13. Mark Clattenburg has been to see Ed Sheeran in concert 74 times. Ed has no idea that Mark exists.
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) January 30, 2016
The celebrity ref is, of course, the star of the show, but football is a team game, and the celebrity ref needs the help of his Z-list officials.
While they could just wish each other luck in the changing rooms, often they feel the need to make a public show of solidarity.
Celebrity Squad!#EuroCelebrityRefs
(via @nemeh86) pic.twitter.com/lOGQ5pbISv
— Celebrity Refs (@CelebrityRefs) June 11, 2016
The celebrity ref, just like us all, will make mistakes. Even their gaffes, however, will be glorious, and will only make them stronger.
Graham Poll managed to book a player three times in a televised World Cup match before sending him off, and yet still manages to have a column in a national newspaper in which he lectures about the laws of the game.
"Every single Premier League referee would send him off"
"I disagree"
Graham Poll vs the World 😳 pic.twitter.com/9bejrqjnng
— BT Sport Score (@btsportscore) December 2, 2017
Ah, of course.
Jeff Winter wrote in his autobiography Who’s The B*stard In The Black? – answer: you, Jeff – that he refused to blow for full-time in his final match as a Premier League referee until the ball was near the Kop at Anfield.
“The fans behind the goal burst into spontaneous applause. It was longer and louder than normal, even for a home win,” Winter wrote. “Did they know it was my final visit? Was it applause for me? They are such knowledgeable football people it would not surprise me.”
It would not surprise you, Jeff, for you are a celebrity referee.
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An Italian Holiday of Contrasts: Rome & Sorrento by First Class Rail
Italy by rail
There’s no place quite like Italy…
It is Europe’s hub of art, history and culture.
The Land of Love, and our affectionately named ‘Boot’.
Discover Italy by Rail
Italy by rail – sitting snug in the heart of Southern Europe, nestled beneath France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, its peninsula kicks out into the Mediterranean Sea. Though long, its land mass comes up short against its Western neighbours. However, with a population of almost 60 million and as the fourth largest economy in the continent, it is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Italy’s cultural heritage is unmatched by any other. Its long history boasts plenty of pivotal moments, making for a European centre of excitement, knowledge and influence, along with being the true birthplace of Western civilisation. Stories of religion, art and romance are punctuated by conquest, war and rebellion, and each of these features can be readily observed in the landmarks that litter the country (very few preserve their heritage like Italy!) Its architectural repertoire includes the Colosseum, Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica, Doges’ Palace, Duomo in Florence and the leaning tower of Pisa, while artistic offerings include Michelangelo’s David and the Trevi Fountain, not to mention the wealth of world famous masterpieces that adorn its gallery walls.
While this extensive portfolio of art and architecture makes Italy ideal for culture vultures, a Mediterranean climate and an extensive 4,722 mile coastline also encourage sun-lovers and outdoor enthusiasts to frequent its shores. Italy’s natural sites are just as impressive as its man-made phenomena; lush rolling hills, rugged volcanoes and snow capped mountains exist in harmony with beautiful balmy beaches and picturesque lakes. This diverse and delightful environment is perfect for holidaymakers who wish to walk, climb, cycle and swim… as well as lying back and enjoying a glass of wine!
Italy’s land and cityscapes are certainly food for thought, offering visitors a multitude of beautiful sights to marvel over, explore and indulge in. Of course, nothing is as tasty as Italy’s incredible cuisine.
In Italy, food is not just a means of fuelling the body. Cooking is not a chore, and feasting with family is not just an occasional treat. For Italians, food defines them, and the country’s pride – coupled with its fresh produce and traditional recipes – means you’re unlikely to face a disappointing meal.
However, aside from the garlic, pesto and pancetta, the main ingredient of any Italian dish is the company in which you enjoy it. Dining with close friends and family members is key, along with taking your time and savouring every last bite, from your very first olive to your final sip of limoncello (Italian lunches can last until dinner time!)
At Planet Rail, we’re strong believers that the best way to explore Italy and indulge in its delights is by visiting Italy by rail. That’s why we offer a selection of Italian getaways, providing our travellers with a unique, First Class experience upon the rails. Today, we want to take a closer look at our Rome and Sorrento package, a 10 day holiday that includes travel across Italy via daytime trains and private taxi transfers, plus overnight stays in a range of gorgeous hotels.
When visiting Italy by rail, your journey begins in London, where you climb aboard the Eurostar to be whisked to Paris. From here, our holiday-makers head towards the Swiss Alps, and after a day in Zurich, the journey continues south along the stunning Gotthard route past Milan and into Rome. Your 72 hours in the Eternal City are sure to fly by, so make the most of your time by planning ahead carefully.
Rome is a truly special place, awash with artistic masterpieces, ancient architecture and some of the greatest stories that our world has to offer. Of course, your time here shouldn’t just be dedicated to art and history. Live the life of an Italian by discovering Rome’s maze of streets away from the popular landmarks, visiting market stalls and popping into independent shops. When it’s time to chill out, order a glass of wine and sit outside for a spot of people-watching. And when dinner time rolls around, enjoy a long, late meal before partaking in La Passeggiata, aka. an evening stroll to finish off the day.
After two full days in Rome, you’ll board another First Class train and head to Naples for your private transfer to Sorrento. Your stay on the Amalfi Coast extends over four nights, which means there’s plenty of time to lap up the sun, sea, sights and sounds of Italy’s glorious Sorrentine Peninsula. This region is easily one of the most stunning parts of Europe. Its unrivalled beauty consists of spectacular coastlines, enchanting bays and charming seaside villages, offering a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Of course, Sorrento remains a busy spot, its beauty and sophistication drawing crowds from across the globe. But despite its popularity, Sorrento maintains a calmness and elegance that other seaside resorts simply can’t offer. It is also an ideal base for exploring the rest of the area, such as the lush green countryside in the south, the archaeological gems of the north, and the magical island of Capri offshore.
This Planet Rail Italian adventure is suitable for all, whether you favour a bright and buzzing town or a blissful, balmy beach. It is the perfect opportunity to explore Italy’s best bits, complete with pleasant, stress-free connections aboard First Class daytime trains. To find out more about this holiday and the other holidays on offer at Planet Rail, please get in touch with one of our friendly experts on 01347 825292.
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Emily Ratajkowski Ties the Knot in a Surprise Courthouse Wedding
Emily Ratajkowski Married to Sebastian Bear-McClard
February 23, 2018 by Kelsie Gibson
A post shared by Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) on Feb 23, 2018 at 1:32pm PST
Emily Ratajkowski is a officially a married woman! On Friday, the 26-year-old model revealed that she got married to Sebastian Bear-McClard. "Sooo, I have a surprise," she wrote on her Instagram story. "I got married today." The couple reportedly tied the knot at City Hall in NYC in front of a few close friends, including social media star The Fat Jewish. Aside from showing off her low-key bridal outfit, she also gave a glimpse of the couple's matching wedding bands.
The model previously dated Jeff Magid for three years, before striking up a relationship with Sebastian a few weeks ago. Though Emily and Sebastian never confirmed their romance, they were spotted kissing on Valentine's Day. Congrats to the couple!
Image Source: Instagram user emrata
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GovStart France
GovStart Germany
GovStart UK
PUBLIC Denmark
GovTech Summit
Towards a Common European Digital Identity
By Lichelle Wolmarans| 2019-11-12T20:11:44+00:00 November 12th, 2019|Tags: CIR, citizens, Data, database, digital identity, e-commerce, eGovernment, europe, governments, GovTech, Innovation, public services|
Shifts in both the demand and supply of digital identity solutions are pushing governments to consider their role in the management of digital identities. With a greater need for frictionless digital public services, what role can European governments play in supporting innovative and universal digital identity solutions?
The Tech Opportunity for Londoners – Interview with Sadiq Khan
By Public| 2019-11-05T15:16:06+00:00 November 5th, 2019|Tags: AI, air quality, Alan Turing Institute, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Boris Johnson, CDO, Chief digital officer, City Hall, civic innovation challenge, crime, digital ID, digital identity, Facial Recognition, GovTech Summit, govtech summit 2018, govtech summit 2019, Local Digital Declaration, London, London City Hall, london council, london office for technology and innovation, londoners, loti, met police, metropolitan police, National Data Strategy, NO2, Paris, pollution, roadlab initiative, Sadiq Khan, Startups, tfl, theo blackwell, Tony Blair, transport for london, UK, ulez, ultra low emission zone, Whitehall|
PUBLIC interviews Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan about the impact of new technologies and innovation on London’s public services - from facial recognition technology to digital-ID schemes.
Interview with 2018 Pitch GovTech Winner – AID:Tech
By Imogen Granger| 2019-10-15T13:20:47+00:00 October 15th, 2019|Tags: aid:tech, Charities, digital identity, donations, europe, government, healthcare, interview, pitch competition, Startups, Summit, welfare, winner|
At last year's GovTech Summit, Niall Dennehy from AID:Tech pitched in front of investors, public servants and ministers and was crowned 2018 PitchGovTech winner. One year later, we spoke to Niall about his experience last year and the progress that his startup AID:Tech has made since.
Government for the 21st century – Interview with Tony Blair
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PUBLIC interviews Former PM Tony Blair about the opportunity for Europe to transform public services through technology and the upcoming GovTech Summit. Last month, you published a report on how to build a government fit for the 21st century. In the report, you laid out an ambitious and detailed plan for how the UK government [...]
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List of UK volunteer libraries
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Abolishing fines: UK status
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Pros: reasons for volunteer “community libraries”
Successful community-run libraries – Croxteth and Minchinhampton
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Volunteers and data protection
“The reality is very different”: A volunteer library manager speaks
Are volunteer libraries statutory or non-statutory?
Four views on volunteer libraries: Sue Charteris, AnneMarie Naylor, Marylyn Haines-Evans of the WI and Ian Anstice
The Risk Exposures of Volunteer Libraries
A crude strategy but here to stay: Biddy Casselden on volunteer public libraries in the United Kingdom
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Privatized Libraries / Outsourcing library services
Privatisation of public libraries: reasons in favour
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CILIP Update 9/11/11 “Monster or Saviour” article on privatised libraries
The pros and cons of commercial involvement in libraries
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Case Study: Fresh Horizons, Huddersfield.
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32 examples of UK public libraries working together
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Why we need the Back Office: a library assistant speaks
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Library security gates: why you should save money by not using them
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Libraries with music practice rooms
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Co-located library downside: a trip to a Birmingham combined clinic/library
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Fines recovery
Crowdfunding and public libraries: the record so far
Why libraries?
A vision for public libraries
Reasons for libraries: Educational
Reasons for libraries: Equality
Reasons for libraries: Value for money
Reasons for libraries: Internet, E-books and IT
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Society of Chief Librarians meeting with stakeholders 3rd July 2014
Campaigner meeting with Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group 20/11/13
Meeting between library campaigners and the Society of Chief Librarians, 20th November 2013
Minutes of the Library Campaign Conference 22/10/11
Speak Up For Libraries Conference November 14th 2015
Speech by Nick Poole of CILIP at Speak Up For Libraries conference, November 2015
Old-fashioned libraries are what we need? Thoughts on the Battle of Ideas public libraries debate, 19th October 2014
Speak Up For Libraries Conference 23rd November 2013
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What are the current issues in libraries? Speak Up For Libraries Workshop: 23rd November
Steve Davies opening speech to Speak Up For Libraries – full presentation notes
Notes from all workshop sessions
Speak Up For Libraries Conference, 22 November 2014
A to Z of Campaigning tactics
How to make an official complaint to the DCMS
Legal: Current UK Situation
Legal: Funding
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Public Lending Right (PLR) and Volunteer Libraries
“Suicides, literacy and Space Hoppers”, Politics article 13/6/11
Old lists arranged by UK library service
List of withdrawn libraries (no longer updated)
Public Library Petitions noted
New and refurbished libraries by authority (no longer updated)
What do public library staff do?
Transcripts of library related programmes
Trends in libraries: BBC “The Library Returns” May 2012
Transcript of Michael Rosen’s “Our Libraries: The Next Chapter” on Radio Four
Practitioners: What senior managers think 27/3/12
Indigenous Knowledge Centres: Queensland Public Libraries finding a niche
3D Printers & Maker Spaces
A Library is not just for Christmas
The CCC/Tsutaya library miracle in Japan: combined bookshop libraries
Maker Spaces in Libraries – The state of the art December 2013
A glimpse of Tokyo library life, by Sue Charteris
Relative Poverty: A display designed especially for libraries
Nick Poole on what can we learn from the past to inform the future of public libraries
A home for the homeless: Rachael Rivera and the Auckland Library Streeties
Dancing Darth Vaders And Talking To Astronauts: Liam Cookson talks MozFest 2017
A little less conversation: Nick Poole from CILIP writes about the problems with public libraries and action needed
The Amazing Grace of Public Libraries (or aromatherapy for local living)
Angry about cuts to Newport Libraries
Libraries Taskforce Kathy Settle sets the records straight
Thema: Graham Bell describes Thema, the new subject classification for the global book industry
Glossary of common library terms
LS&S (formally known as LSSI).
General Election 2015 and Public Libraries: statements from Conservatives, Greens, Labour and Lib Dems on libraries
Ed Vaizey’s statements on public libraries (historical webpage)
Carillion and libraries
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Oldham Library
Big New Libraries – Liverpool
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North West libraries – claims to fame
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Speed dating and public libraries: Warrington Livewire case study
“The social aspect of reading”: Fife’s success with food, wizards and comic-cons
Geocaching and public libraries
Stock management – A complete beginners guide
Minecraft in public libraries
Lego in libraries
Public libraries and social media: as local and as useful as your fingers
Ten tips for embedding social media good practice in your everyday public library work…
Customer service: welcome the complaints and damn well enjoy yourself
Fun Palaces in Public Libraries: What, How and Why … the case study of Lambeth
Dogs in public libraries
3D Printers and Maker Spaces in Libraries
Repair Cafes – Case Study (Warminster Library, Wiltshire)
Ideas and innovations in public libraries
Public Library Standards in England
Websites on UK public libraries
Knowing me, knowing you: do we really know our existing and potential library users? Marge Ainsley on evaluation
Songs about public libraries
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Librarians We Love interview
Library-affirming
Posted by Ian Anstice in Uncategorized
It’s National Library Week in the USA and there’s some wonderful pro library stuff coming out of it. I especially like the one, naturally, that gives ten reasons why librarians are awesome. I think we knew that all along but it’s good to see it on screen. The nice thing about these American articles is that, although cuts are mentioned, they are all very positive in tone. There is hope there. Library usage is increasing and new ideas are being embraced. They are, in other words, library-affirming.
Kirklees – Review of library spending under way.
Stories from the Web
My last item, probably, on children’s library webpages. John Dolan has kindly pointed out to me that Stories from the Web has been doing much of the work for those authorities who buy into it for years. I hadn’t really come across it before and there lies the problem – only 17 authorities in the UK buy into it. How many more will continue to do so as the cuts further bite can only be guessed at. It strikes me that this is something that could usefully be done nationally and avoid the vagaries of individual authorities. It would also mean that the website could forget about its cumbersome need at the moment for the prospective user to go to a physical library for a username and password. Like so many other things, this is something that Sieghart could perhaps be looking at in his review. There are other areas too – like the much discussed libraries development agency, marketing, etc – that could be better done nationally but are so often not at the moment which could usefully be the subject of some research. Here’s hoping.
Buckinghamshire – £1m cut since 2009/10: Further £595k cut expected by 2018 inc. Self-service , organisational change and additional volunteering £450,000 cut; volunteers £65k: increased income £40k; bookstock efficiencies £30k, Home Library cuts £10k. Bourne End, Burnham, Castlefield and Micklefield to be run by volunteers by end of 2014.
Dumfries and Galloway – Proposed cuts to Wigtown and Whithorn libraries opening hours stopped due to opposition.
Greenwich – Claude Ramsay and Eltham libraries opening hours extended.
Hampshire – 27 full time equivalent posts to be lost. £1m cut inc. other measures.
Leicestershire – Harborough Library/Museum refurbished.
Lincolnshire campaigning masterclass, children’s webpages and e-readers
The coachload of Lincolnshire campaigners who visited Parliament and Downing Street have shown great ingenuity and determination in trying to save libraries. Seven MPs, including two shadow ministers, met them in parliament – with others offering support – and a specially produced book “The Tip of the Iceberg” was presented to 10 Downing Street. The whole thing showed a great deal of commitment and an example of best practice for any other library campaigners out there. I’ve added it the A to Z of library campaigning tactics page.
I asked a couple of days ago about whether there were specific library webpages for children. A few of you have got in touch with examples, with the major one being from Devon and called “The Zone”. I’m told that “the site won an award from CILIP PPRG in 2005 but has been redeveloped since. It still proves very popular and we use it as a vehicle not only to promote services but also reward their work.”. I especially like the “Spin” banner for highlighting parts of the site, its colour and general fun-ness. Downsides are that it’s quite small (but, then, a whole lot bigger than a pile of authorities who don’t have anything at all) and it’s still advertising World Book Day. Otherwise, children’s library websites tend to be of a simple listing type like Hampshire or Cambridgeshire.
So why this paucity? Well, I think it’s a mixture of things – council IT policies saying no, it being neither the children’s librarian job or the IT specialist’s job, lack of financing, imagination or, possibly, a suspicion that children will not use the service. Whatever the reasons, Devon shows that it can be successful so let’s hope more come to light or are created.
I recently asked another question about libraries providing e-readers. It appears that Aberdeenshire and Suffolk are both piloting e-reader lending. Sadly, I would say this puts the UK a comfortable two or three years behind the USA in this matter: although I hope more evidence comes to light. Now it may be that this country has gained by being slow about this as e-readers are probably a transitional technology, with tablet PCs replacing them. Being e-readers are now as cheap as £25, though, the risks (and, crucially, costs) of lending them out – and providing advice on how to use them – is becoming less. We’ll see if UK authorities, fighting as they are with major cuts, get a grasp on this issue or leave it to go the way of children’s library webpages.
Please send news, comments and thoughts to ianlibrarian@live.co.uk
Brent – Visits up 8.4% on 2012/13, visits up 3.5%.
Nottingham – Hyson Green Library to close, with service moving into co-location with Mary Potter Centre.
Leicestershire have 36 in danger; Ceredigion; and awards.
Every UK public library authority now has at least a webpage or two advertising its services but how many have a webpage just for what libraries provide for children? I don’t know of any. For such a key part of the library clientele, this seems to be a bit odd … so I hope you’re all going to impress with me with tons of great examples now: please send them in (along with any news or thoughts) to me at ianlibrarian@live.co.uk, thank you.
Ceredigion – Tregaron Library to reduce from 15.5 hours open per week to 7.5 hours (was under threat of closure): volunteers to be invited. One mobile (out of five) to be withdrawn. Two jobs lost. £146k cut. New Quay Library to be taken over by volunteers (25 volunteers) for minimum of one year.
Leicestershire – 36 out of 52 libraries to become volunteer or close.
Good luck to the Lincolnshire campaigners tomorrow
The figures below are similar to the ones from yesterday but just for England. They show the cut in overall budgets is 30% since 2009/10. Perhaps the wonderfully determined Lincolnshire campaigners can mention that to Number Ten when they’re there tomorrow over the little matter of the council giving away 32 out of its 45 libraries. Perhaps also the Culture Secretary Maria Miller may be willing to give a donation the cause as I understand she may have some extra money hanging around at the moment that is causing her some embarrassment.
Total annual expenditure in England, inflation adjusted as percentage of 2012 spending
Liverpool – 25% cut in budget (of £2.5m from current budget of £10m). Consultation until 16 May.
Wandsworth (GLL) –Putney Library opening hours increased by three hours.
UK libraries spending reduced by up to 29% in just three years
Tim Coates put in the comments section a few days ago the total expenditure on libraries in the UK over the last ten years. He is, amongst other things, a key holder of library statistics, with the ones cited coming from Cipfa. I had a play with them and came up with the following graphs that may be useful (and added them on the statistics page too).
The figures below show a drop in spending of 29% from its peak in 2009/10 if one takes in to account inflation. This is likely to be an exaggeration, however, as spending on staff salaries has been frozen (or nearly so: it was 1% last year) for the last three years and staffing represents a large percentage of overall library costs. If one ignores inflation completely, the decline from peak is more than halved at 13.8%. The true answer will likely be somewhere between the two figures.
Source: Cipfa figures. Percentage calculated using Bank of England calculator at http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/Pages/inflation/calculator/flash/default.aspx
If we accept the inflation adjustments, we can see that spending is fallen by around a fifth compared to the average of the good times before. We can also see that the drop has been 10% per year since the coalition government took over, which is really quite something to think about. If one is being optimistic and completely ignores inflation, libraries are back to same level as the decade before. Aren’t statistics fun?
Total annual expenditure inflation adjusted as percentage of 2012 spending
Well, no, they’re not. These statistics are a tragedy, marking the sorrowful ripping apart of the false dawn of public libraries whose final glories have only just finished in the opening of Manchester Central Library (admittedly, though, some of the money could have been better spend – for example at the Library of Birmingham). Just look at that precipitous drop, which even the non-inflation adjusted chart below is showing. Bear in mind also that some authorities, notably in England, are doing markedly worse than others. The figures are improved by showing that of the other constituent parts of the UK.
Bexley – Citizen’s Advice Bureaux co-located in Central and Sidcup libraries.
Cheshire East – £700k cut has taken place (“restructuring”). Further £300k cut through “reorganisation of contracts and central supply services”.
Dumfries and Galloway – £1.3m to be cut over three years. Library hours to be cut.
Community group website – Manchester.
DCMS, Powys, Northern Ireland and a whole ton of maps
Apr 3rd
A parliamentary question by Helen Goodman has revealed that libraries will received £93 million in grant in aid from the DCMS in 2015/16. This appears to compares to £111 million in 2012/13. Another day and another news items suggesting deep cuts in a council’s library service: this time in Powys where two-thirds of their libraries are now considered under threat. Gone are the days when Wales was seen as being more protected than England when it came to cuts. Over in Northern Ireland, though, well done to a nice animated feature tooting the fact all libraries there have WiFi. To round off this survey of one news item from each part of the UK, I was delighted to see that the Scottish are providing free online access to many thousands of old English and Welsh maps. That’s going to be really useful for a whole load of people. Thank you kindly.
Northern Ireland – Free WiFi in all libraries.
Powys – 11 out of 17 under threat. £350k cut 2015/16. May look to volunteers and replacement by mobile libraries.
Swindon – Old Town Library opening hours to be maintained.
Devon shows how hard things are … and more on the Unnecessary PIN.
Apr 2nd
The news from Devon is not good. After a 30% cut over the last five years, the service is undergoing a further 20%+ cut in the next three years. That would be difficult to sustain for any organisation and I do not envy them the task: the blame for such a move must primarily be borne by central government who have mandated such a huge cut in Devon’s budget and by the libraries minister who has oh so carefully made it clear that there’s no way he’s going to intervene in library cuts under any circumstances.
The service, under Ciara Eastell, the President-Elect of the Society of Chief Librarians, is looking for ideas and offers on how to cope. The options listed are what I am getting to see as the increasingly normal ones: retrenchment into fewer big libraries, co-location with other services and an appeal for volunteers/community groups to take over the smaller ones. However, the three month consultation is looking for ideas so other options may come forward. This is, as far as I can tell, an information seeking exercise. Expect harsher and tougher decisions if no good answers come back.
Another thing to bear in mind in this is that Devon is widely seen as a very forward thinking library service. It’s won awards and, soon, will have one of the first (the first?) dedicated public library Maker Space in the country. The bosses there (from what I can tell from this distance – and I know others may argue differently) are very keyed into what works. In the US or in South Korea, they’d be doing exciting things and looking forward to an expanding situation. They’re just facing a very much darker and difficult situation here and, I suspect, are really trying to do their best.
How the cuts are written about, incidentally, could be used as the very model an academic exercise in how people with different agendas report the same story. The council press release is the epitome of rosy-tinted wonderfulness. It’s the sort of thing that pleases councillors and infuriates those who actually understand what’s going on, not least of which any library supporter who will see right through it into the cuts beyond. The piece by Ciara Eastell, intended for a library practitioner audience, is far more moderate and, while obviously not pessimistic, is more realistic in tone. There’s some real hope there. Then we have the BBC which, naturally, concentrates on the headline that 28 out of 50 may close. The truth is, I suspect, some will close but some will be taken over by volunteers and some will survive in a council-run state. Time will tell. Best of luck to all involved, not least of which the many staff in the affected branches who have got to be feeling very bad right now, awards or no.
On another matter, my piece expressing bewilderment at the need to require PINs as well as library cards on self-service machines for taking out books in some authorities has caused some feedback. It seems some library authorities do, some don’t. Those that do argue it’s for security reasons. Those who don’t, well, haven’t noticed much difference either way. There’s been, of course, no actual research done on whether PINs do improve security. It’s just guessing. For me, I can see the need for it, perhaps (and I remain to be entirely convinced) for adult films/games and some need of security for online subscriptions in order to stop someone in France accessing a subscription bought in Manchester.
But for books? Please. The unspoken truth in library circles is that, actually, it’s really easy to steal a library book. I’m not going to go into details here for fear people will think a bunch of criminals read Public Libraries News and will seize on it to go on an orgy of theft. I will instead content myself with giving difficult clues for just two of the multitude of methods that every library assistant knows every library thief is aware of. Ready? Thinking caps on, folks, here it comes. Method 1 – books have tags in. Now this impossibly hard hint for Method 2 – libraries have windows. If you’ve managed to solve those two riddles, congratulations. I hope you’ll join with me in thinking that PINs for books just prevent legitimate usage and do nothing to prevent theft.
No, the only reason for PINs for book stock is over caution and lack of actual research, with perhaps some group think thrown in. Please don’t see technology as an opportunity for putting in new blocks to usage, folks. We need to encourage people into our libraries, not give them reasons to be frustrated with them.
Devon – £3 million cut over last five years. Further £1.5m cut over next three years from surviving budget of £7.2 million. 3 month consultation. Ideas include colocations, volunteers. 28 out of 50 opened for volunteers (and therefore counted as under threat but may not close without such support: Appledore, Ashburton, Axminster. Bampton, Bovey Tracey, Braunton, Buckfastleigh, Budleigh Salterton, Chagford, Chudleigh, Chumleigh, Clyst Vale, Colyton,, Combe Martin, Dartmouth, Kingskerswell, Kingsteignton, Lynton, Moretonhampstead, Northam, Ottery St Mary, Pinhoe, Princetown, Salcombe, St Thomas, Stoke Fleming, Topsham, Uffculme. (Sources: BBC, Devon County Council, SCL).
Windsor and Maidenhead – Windsor, Maidenhead library and Cox Green libraries pilot extended hours due to volunteers including 3 hours each on Sunday.
Book for Summer – Multiple copies of book promoted over Summer, in partnership with publishers (Devon)
Free Fridays – Free computer usage and assistance for unemployed (Devon).
Really? A library card AND a PIN to take out a book?
Apr 1st
Two things that have drawn my attention. The first is that a library service is asking people for a PIN as well as a library card in order to issue items on self service machines. This surprised me so much I had to check (Thanks Mick) I’d read it right because my own authority has had self-service for three years and we don’t ask for PIN and – you know what? – it simply has not been a problem. Think about why for a moment. Like in every non-self service library in the world, the library card is enough. We don’t know everyone personally. Anyone can come in with a library card, issue an item with a member of staff and go. Why should the self-service machines be any different? Besides, I bet if I found a card in the street I could go up to a counter in that authority’s branches and ask for “my” PIN and they’d give it to me. Yeah, you’re going to put off one or two especially unintelligent and lazy thieves but you’re also going to put off a hundred times that number of honest people who can’t remember their number and are too shy/busy/why-should-I to ask. We should be removing barriers, not adding to them. Putting an extra step in the way ain’t going to help your usage, folks.
Secondly, some good people from Spain have sent me a summary of what is going on in public libraries in that country. It’s very like the UK in that there are deep cuts, less staff and less bookstock. On the other hand, it’s quite different. There’s no mention of large scale library closures or volunteers. Spain has also seen a 20% increase in visits whereas English libraries have seen a decline. This mirrors an increase in foreign countries I’ve noted elsewhere, notably in the US. Why the difference in the trend? I don’t know because no-one as far as I can see has done any meaningful research on the subject. I’m just guessing, though, that it has something to do with long-term funding shortages (notable in the buildings themselves) exacerbated by short-term sharp cuts. Or perhaps it’s because they don’t ask for PINs.
Neath Port Talbot – Cwmllynfell, Gwaun-cae-Gurwen, Ystalyfera, Seven Sisters (cost paid for by community council) and Blaengwynfi libraries now run by volunteers (with book an staffing support from council). Briton Ferry, Resolven, Cymmer Afan and Taibach to be run by volunteers shortly (aim is May 1st). Taibach may be run by volunteers shortly.
Sunderland – £500k refurbishment of Sunderland Central Library inc. wifi, iPads as part of new strategy after closure of 9 branches.
Mar 31st
On this April Fool’s Day, we have the government still keen on preventing prisoners receiving books despite the benefits that literacy gives. We also have a council closing down a school library service thus ensuring more people will presumably, eventually, end up in prison. Finally, we have another council which appears to want to move a town library somewhere out of town to save expense. What an appropriate date.
Conwy – Conwy Library may move, along with Deganwy and Llandudno Junction, into joint library.
North Yorkshire – School library service to close.
Somerset – Wellington Library refurbished with self-service installed (tenth Somerset library with this) but PIN number required as well as a library card in order to use.
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Rights Report: Week of July 13, 2015
Whitney Ross at Tor has bought author Cora Carmack's first YA fantasy series, featuring a world shaped by violent, magical storms and ruled by those who can control them. The first volume, Roar, follows a teenage girl who is the sole heir to her family's kingdom, but has yet to show any trace of storm magic; she dons a disguise and runs away with a group of storm chasers to face a tempest, steal a piece of its soul, and return home with enough magic to control her own future. The first book is planned for winter 2017; Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary and Media negotiated the six-figure, three-book deal for North American rights.
Anna Bloom at Scholastic has acquired four books in Sarah Aronson's chapter-book series, The Worst Fairy Godmother Ever. The first story is about a girl who longs to be the perfect fairy godmother, but is matched with the most un-princess-like girl of all. The first two books are slated for summer 2017; Sarah Davies at the Greenhouse Literary Agency did the deal for world rights.
Elizabeth Bewley at HMH pre-empted world rights to Lost Stars, a YA novel by Lisa Selin Davis. Based on the author's Modern Love column in the New York Times, the story centers on a teenage girl grappling with her sister's death and her own place in the universe over the course of a fateful summer. Publication is set for fall 2016; Faye Bender at the Book Group brokered the deal.
Jennifer Klonsky for HarperTeen has bought Sarah Mlynowski's I See London, I See France, in which 19-year-old Sydney decides at the last minute to have the summer she's longed for: traveling through Europe with her best friend. But while they dodge (and chase) boys, drama, and their own personal demons, Sydney falls head over heels for a guy she can't have. The first book is scheduled for publication in summer 2017; the second book is untitled and not yet scheduled. Laura Dail at Laura Dail Literary Agency negotiated the two-book deal for North American and audio rights.
Kate Sullivan at Delacorte preempted Katherine Webber's Wing Jones, in which the title character is a biracial teen growing up in 1990s Atlanta, and is reeling from her older brother's drunk-driving accident. When she discovers running, her speed might contain the answers she and her family need. Claire Wilson of Rogers, Coleridge & White sold North American rights in a two-book deal, with simultaneous U.S. and U.K. publication set for winter 2017.
Catherine Wallace at HarperTeen has acquired Kasie West's By Your Side, about a girl who is accidentally locked in a library with the boy nobody knows but everyone talks about, and must find a way to escape. Publication is slated for winter 2017; Michelle Wolfson at Wolfson Literary Agency did the deal for North American rights.
Susan Dobinick at Farrar, Straus and Giroux has preempted Planaria Price (l.) and Helen West's nonfiction YA memoir Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust. This eyewitness account tells the story of Barbara Reichman, West's mother, who took on a different identity and hid in plain sight to make it through the war. The book is planned for winter 2017; Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency brokered the deal for world rights.
Meredith Mundy at Sterling has acquired a picture book by folksingers Justin Lansing (l.) and Joe Mailander, also known as the Okee Dokee Brothers, calledCan You Canoe? And Other Adventure Songs, to be illustrated by Brandon Reese. The title is scheduled for spring 2016, to coincide with the release of the next Okee Dokee Brothers album. Jennifer Mattson at Andrea Brown Literary represented Mailander and Lansing, and Danielle Smith at Red Fox Literary represented Reese in the two-book deal for world rights.
Marlo Scrimizzi at Running Press Kids has boughtWhat a Beautiful Morning by Arthur A. Levine, to be illustrated by Katie Kath, in which Grandma's support helps a boy accept his grandfather's gradual memory loss, and to enjoy the moments they still have together. Publication is slated for fall 2016; Susan Cohen at Writers House represented the author and Justin Rucker at Shannon Associates represented the illustrator in the deal for world rights.
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NYRF 2018: Streaming Services Widen the Media Landscape
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At the New York Rights Fair, “The Rise of the Streaming Giants” panel discussion drew audience questions for 15 minutes as authors and publishing professionals sought to learn more about a book-to-film marketplace that’s been disrupted by a proliferation of streaming services. Throughout the conversation, panelists highlighted how backlist authors and diverse voices benefit from a bidding environment that now includes such streaming services as Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu alongside technology companies or platforms including YouTube, Facebook, and Apple.
“Yes, the streamers are still looking for traditional big blockbuster books,” said John Delaney, founder of John Delaney Literary Consulting who scouts material for HBO. “They are also looking for stuff deemed less conventional. It’s a widening, not an exclusion.”
Panelist Sean Daily, a film rights associate at Hotchkiss & Associates, summed up the promise of adapting content in this landscape. Daily spent years trying to get Josh Karp’s history of National Lampoon magazine, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, adapted. The script had been written nine years ago and the film almost got made four times. But it wasn’t until Netflix had a series of hits with director David Wain’s episodic follow-ups to Wet Hot American Summer that the streaming service came knocking for Wain’s other pet project, A Futile and Stupid Gesture.
Netflix picked up the project based on its internal audience data, and the service also leveraged data to market the final product. “When they put the film on Netflix, they can send an email to everyone who watched Wet, Hot American Summer and say, ‘Look, we’ve got this movie now!’” Daily said. “And they put it at the top of that person’s banner when they log on to Netflix.”
Panelist Mac Hawkins, a literary consultant at Pragmatic, sees the new streaming landscape as a boon for backlist books like Karp’s. “There are only so many books published every year, so eventually you have to look at the backlist,” he said.
All the panelists agreed that these new buyers have started telling more diverse stories. “Diversity is huge,” said Delaney. “Both for characters and geography as well—not just telling stories about New York or Los Angeles. Also, there’s been a huge push for women at the center of movies.”
Despite the success of dark stories like A Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu or 13 Reasons Why on Netflix, Conner Literary founder Emily Conner saw huge potential for family-oriented stories as well. “There have been so many very serious, sobering and wonderful pieces of content,” she said. “There is a sincere interest in not just sincere, poppy material, but also warm, affecting, affirming content.”
“There are so many places for things to go now,” said consultant Hawkins. “It opens up the field to all sorts of books that publishers, book buyers authors and editors are thinking, ‘This could never be a movie. This could never be a TV show.’ But we are living in a place where it might be a movie or TV show. And that’s exciting.”
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[[Category:Places from Rayman 2|Top of the World, The]]
The Top of the World is the strangely named penultimate level before the Sanctuary of Rock and Lava in Rayman 2: The Great Escape and its remake Rayman DS. The Top of the World was taken out of the PlayStation version and Rayman 2: Revolution, although in the latter its two segments still appear, in the form of the Chair Ride minigame and the second half of the Echoing Caves.
The globe's peak is a high-tech Robo-Pirate fortress located far from civilization. The only way to reach the hidden fort is via a speeding chair. The fortress itself is intensely patrolled solely by Barrel Pirates, though Ape Pirates and small outposts guard the entrance. The fortress is characterized by its many red carpet-filled hallways.
The Top of the World
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A hologram of the rollercoaster signifies the Top of the World in the Hall of Doors
Rayman must kill the Ape Pirate and steal his flying chair to enter the pirate base.... avoiding all obstacles in the way.
As Rayman arrives in the Top of the World's Robo-Pirate installation, an alarm begins to sound. The Barrel Pirates patrolling the corridors are on the alert, and soon Rayman must defeat several of them. After passing through many crate-filled storage areas, he discovers that the level's Teensie cage is nowhere near the exit. He must backtrack to search out the Teensie, which is hidden in a secret passageway; after freeing the Teensie, Rayman must escort him to the end of the level. The Teensie is not found in a cage, instead relaxing on a chair and only getting up when Rayman unblocks the door.
Dreamcast version
The level is identical to that of the original version.
PlayStation version
The level is not present in this version.
PlayStation 2 version
The level is not present in this version. The first segment on the level exists as a mini-game, titled Roller Coaster Challenge. It contains 20 Red Lums instead of the 33 Yellow Lums. The Green Lum checkpoint is also absent. The second segment of this level exists as Phase 3 of The Echoing Caves.
The Top of the World playthrough at YouTube (PC version)
The Top of the World playthrough at YouTube (Sega Dreamcast version)
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The Woods of Light • The Fairy Glade • The Marshes of Awakening • The Bayou • The Walk of Life • The Sanctuary of Water and Ice • The Menhir Hills • The Cave of Bad Dreams • The Canopy • Whale Bay • The Sanctuary of Stone and Fire • The Echoing Caves • The Precipice • The Top of the World • The Sanctuary of Rock and Lava • The Walk of Power • Beneath the Sanctuary of Rock and Lava • Tomb of the Ancients • The Iron Mountains • The Prison Ship • The Crow's Nest
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The legalization of cannabis for recreational use will change the way that some drug charges are levied. How will Bill C-45 impact Canadians with existing criminal records relating to cannabis? The answer may not be as straightforward as some had hoped it would be.
Over the last 15 years, police agencies across Canada have reported in excess of 800,000 cannabis possession incidents to Statistics Canada. In 2016, 55,000 cannabis charges were laid under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, with 76 per cent of them being related to simple possession.
Under Canada's Controlled Drug and Substances Act, there are eight offences related to cannabis whereas the Cannabis Act will have 45. The new law will permit individuals to possess up to 30 grams and grow plants for personal use but will also introduce the concept of illicit cannabis, an umbrella term for all cannabis products obtained outside of a provincially-regulated retailer. The penalties for committing an illicit cannabis offence are aggressive and include the potential for heavy fines and lengthy prison sentences.
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In Canada, a criminal record has the potential to wreak havoc on a person's life. From limiting the freedom to travel to impacting the search for meaningful employment, the implications are serious. For individuals who have criminal records for possession, the consequences can seem especially stiff in comparison to the offence. Additionally, evidence suggests that the prohibition laws associated with cannabis have disproportionately targeted marginalized and racialized Canadians.
In California, a state that legalized cannabis, possession as a crime was removed from the books and individuals with prior marijuana convictions could apply to the courts to have their charges reduced or dismissed. In Canada, the concept of returning to a state of tabula rasa might not be as simple.
In May of 2018, a petition was launched in an effort to persuade the federal government to grant amnesty to individuals convicted of simple possession. The goal is to add an amendment to the Cannabis Act that would grant a full pardon, something that the Prime Minister previously said would not be considered until legalization had taken place.
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Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below
(Stories of the Raksura, #2)
by Martha Wells
Genres: fantasy > high fantasy, short stories
Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells.
Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical.
"The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force. In "The Dark Earth Below," Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet; their first clutch. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree's roots go missing, and searching for them only leads to more mysteries as the court is stalked by an unknown enemy.
Stories of Moon and the shape changers of Raksura have delighted readers for years. This world is a dangerous place full of strange mysteries, where the future can never be taken for granted and must always be fought for with wits and ingenuity, and often tooth and claw. With these two new novellas, Martha Wells shows that the world of the Raksura has many more stories to tell...
About the Author :: Martha Wells
Martha Wells (born 1965) is the author of The Death of the Necromancer (1998), which was nominated for the Nebula Award. She lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband.
An interview with Martha Wells - Risingshadow.net
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R. J. Corman Receives Prestigious ASLRRA Awards for Safety
Photo from left to right: R. J. Corman Central Kentucky Lines Trainmaster Todd Abney, R. J. Corman Director of Safety and Operations Jordan Sparr, and ASLRRA President Chuck Baker
R. J. Corman’s Central Kentucky Lines and Memphis Line are the recipients of ASLRRA President’s Awards! The Central Kentucky Lines won 2 awards for the Southern Region: 1) Most Hours of Injury-Free Operation and 2) Best Safety Rate for 150,000 to 250,000 Man-Hours Worked. The Memphis Line won Best Safety Rate for 50,000 to 150,000 Man-Hours Worked.
The awards were presented today at the ASLRRA Southern Regional Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jordan Sparr, Director of Safety and Operations, and Todd Abney, Central Kentucky Lines Trainmaster, represented R. J. Corman on stage to receive the awards.
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) was founded in 1913 and represents the entrepreneurial owners and operators of short line and regional railroads throughout North America. ASLRRA serves its membership through representation in Washington, D.C., and delivers a wide range of industry services and professional development opportunities. Safety is critically important to the short line and regional railroad industry and ASLRRA’s Annual Safety Awards Program recognizes the contributions and achievements of short line railroads by awarding President’s Safety Awards. ASLRRA's prestigious President’s Safety Awards recognize the outstanding safety records of railroads that have achieved either a 0.0 accident frequency rate, or the best safety rate as measured by the lowest accident frequency rate per man-hour of operation below the industry average. The President’s Safety Award winners in each region are selected based on the previous year’s performance, according to FRA accident/incident reporting data. This year’s award winners were determined based on 2018 data.¹
“The recipients of our President’s Award lead our industry in safety, striving each and every day to value safety above all competing priorities,” said Chuck Baker, President of ASLRRA. “Their impressive performance, with either zero reportable accidents, or the best safety rate below the industry average per man-hour of operations has led the way to record levels of safety performance for the short line industry.”
Ray Goss, President of the R. J. Corman Railroad Company, was also present at today’s regional meeting. Upon receiving the awards, Goss shared the following commendations, “Winning the President’s Awards is such a humbling honor. There are so many great operations out there putting significant safety efforts forth, so being the absolute best in two separate categories shows the tremendous commitment from all those involved, including both our employees in the field and our management teams, [GB1] to adhere to safe operating practices. We are truly committed to making sure that safety is a priority every day. It is great to win these awards. We want to celebrate this recognition and further remind ourselves to be aware of safety during every task, every day.”
¹Information about the ASLRRA and the President’s Safety Awards taken from: https://www.aslrra.org
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Kanak rally over New Caledonia roll
12:40 pm on 26 October 2016
A rally has been called by some of New Caledonia's indigenous Kanaks today to denounce what they call electoral fraud committed by the French state.
The rally is to demand that all Kanaks be automatically inscribed on the electoral roll of those eligible to vote in the 2018 referendum on possible independence from France.
New Caledonia's USTKE union has called a rally to demand Kanaks be added to the electoral roll to vote in the 2017 referendum on independence. Photo: AFP
The authorities said Kanaks must be on the general roll but the Kanaks said that being Kanak is sufficient to be eligible to vote.
An estimated 25,000 Kanaks are not registered, prompting concern that about a quarter of the indigenous voters could miss out on the poll which is restricted to long-term residents.
In a statement, the USTKE union said this push is part of the indigenous Kanaks' struggle to attain full sovereignty while a fraudulent process was being used to sideline the Kanaks in their own country.
The protest is planned territory-wide with the main event being a march to the French High Commission in Noumea.
The make-up of the roll has been a contentious issue for years.
France has promised to hold a referendum by 2018 to complete the terms of the 1998 Noumea Accord which provides for a phased and irreversible transfer of power from France to New Caledonia.
The Accord signatories are due to meet in Paris in less than two weeks.
The anti-independence Rassemblement said it is opposed to a referendum as a vote would be destructive.
Kanak rally planned over New Caledonia roll
New Caledonia's USTKE union has called for a rally next week to denounce what it calls electoral fraud committed by the French state.
Discord over New Caledonia referendum roll
Reports from New Caledonia say there have been sharp disagreements within the special commissions vetting the electoral roll to be used for the territory's independence referendum.
Kanaks a majority on New Caledonia roll - projection
A projection of the make-up of New Caledonia's electorate for the 2018 independence referendum indicates that a majority of voters is likely to be indigenous Kanaks.
Rassemblement opposes New Caledonia referendum
New Caledonia's anti-independence Rassemblement says it is opposed to a referendum to be held as outlined in the 1998 Noumea Accord.
New Caledonia referendum inevitable, says Yanno
New Caledonia's former Congress president says the independence referendum due in 2018 is inevitable.
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Funding boost to raise WOW's profile
7:56 pm on 5 November 2013
The Government has announced the World of Wearable Arts event will receive almost $1 million to help raise its international profile.
The Exchange won the supreme award this year. Photo: SUPPLIED
Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says WOW will get $900,000 from the Government's $10 million Major Events Fund to help it grow to the next level.
Mr Joyce says the show is a world-class experience that enhances New Zealand's creative image.
The money, over a three-year period, includes support for three international touring exhibitions, hosting international representatives at them and an international education programme.
World of Wearable Arts founder Dame Suzie Moncrieff says it is exciting to be able to share the creativity and inspiration of the event around the world.
Christchurch sisters Tatyanna and Natasha Meharry's entry The Exchange won the supreme award at this year's event in September.
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House Passes Legislation to Enhance Consumer Data Protection
Representative Mike Connolly joined his Cambridge and Somerville colleagues in the House to pass legislation providing added protections and resources for consumers in the event of a data security breach that impacts a credit agency or other business.
Under this legislation, credit freezes, lifts or removals must be provided to consumers without a charge. Credit agencies or businesses must provide one year of free credit monitoring after any breach.
“This bill includes powerful consumer protection tools that help protect our constituents,” Rep. Connolly said. “Thank you to Chairman Chan, Chairwoman Benson, and Speaker DeLeo for their commitment to protecting Massachusetts residents from data security breaches.”
“I am proud to see the House of Representatives vote today to protect Massachusetts residents from data breaches and modernize our current laws,” said Representative Tackey Chan (D-Quincy), House Chair of the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. “Particularly following numerous high profile breaches over the last year, this legislation is urgently needed to ensure that consumers have more control over their credit protections. This is an issue that impacts every individual, organization and business in the Commonwealth, and I am grateful for the valuable input from so many stakeholders, committee members, and colleagues throughout this process to ensure that we produced the best possible policy for our residents.”
“As an advocate for consumer protection, I filed legislation to make it easier for consumers to freeze their credit reports so that victims of identity theft and fraud could more quickly regain control of their credit,” said Representative Jennifer Benson (D-Lunenburg). “In the wake of the Equifax hack last year, I worked with the Attorney General and advocates to strengthen the bill with additional language offering further protections. I’m proud of my colleagues in the House for coming together to pass this important legislation to protect and empower Massachusetts consumers.”
The legislation updates the framework for the implementation of a freeze and related communication including:
Modernizes the current law by allowing consumers to request credit freezes electronically or by telephone.
Requires clear and accurate disclosure to consumers of basic information about credit freezes.
In the event of a security breach, mandates credit agencies place a security freeze on a consumer report within one day of an electronic or telephone request, and within three days of receipt of a written request.
Credit agencies must send confirmation of the security freeze within three days.
Credit agencies must lift a security freeze within three days of a written request and 15 minutes of an electronic/ phone request.
When a consumer requests a freeze, national credit reporting agencies must inform consumers of other reporting agencies that may have files on the consumer. They must also inform consumers of appropriate websites, toll-free numbers and mailing addresses that would permit the consumer to place additional freezes.
For the first time in Massachusetts, this legislation establishes specific guidelines for parents and guardians to freeze accounts of children under the age of 16 and incapacitated individuals.
The legislation also updates notification guidelines for breached entities and third party affiliates.
Breached entities must provide consumers with immediate notice and timely updates.
Upon receiving notice of a breach, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation must post notice online within 24 hours.
Additionally, the Attorney General must provide information online to consumers regarding the breach.This bill also updates current law to require companies and organizations to obtain consent before running a credit report.
The Bill now goes to the Senate.
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Russian Cops Still Can't Vacation In The West, But Turkmenistan Is Fair Game
By Carl Schreck
If the reports are true, Russian Interior Ministry employees might have to travel to old Soviet-era resorts, such as the Cheleken Peninsula in Turkmenistan, rather than flocking to the beaches of Egypt. (file photo)
Russian police officers who'd dreamed of vacationing in the West or hitting the beaches of Turkey and Egypt in 2018 may have to wait another year.
But they still have Turkmenistan.
A Russian tourism association has published what it says is a list of approved vacation destinations for Interior Ministry employees, a move that comes amid broad restrictions on foreign travel for Russian security officers since Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in early 2014.
The Interior Ministry has yet to comment on the list published by the Association of Russian Tour Operators (ATOR) that was originally released just before the new year but only grabbed headlines in Russia on January 12.
But the 13 destinations on the list are consistent with images of a purported decree on the matter signed by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev in late December that have been circulating on Russian social-media sites in recent weeks. The authenticity of these images could not be immediately confirmed.
The ministry and other Russian security agencies in recent years have reportedly issued similar lists for their respective employees since Russia's takeover of Crimea in March 2014, which was followed by the outbreak of a war between Kyiv's forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
The United States and the European Union remain off limits for Russian Interior Ministry employees in 2018, according to the list published by ATOR. But it says eight former Soviet republics -- Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- are fair game.
'Safe' Destinations
More Westward-looking former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia are excluded, as is Moldova, which has a pro-Western government, but a president who seeks closer ties with Moscow. The list also includes the breakaway Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are recognized only by Russia and a handful of other states.
Outside the former Soviet Union, Interior Ministry employees are only allowed to travel to Vietnam, Cuba, and China, according to the ATOR report.
Other popular destinations for Russian tourists like Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Thailand reportedly didn't make the cut, though they had been approved in 2015-16, the Russian news agency RBC noted.
According to images of Kolokoltsev's purported directive posted on social media, the list of 13 approved destinations are considered safe in terms of military, politics, crime, ecology, climate, and health.
One commenter on a police-themed social-media profile posted a purported image of an analogous directive from the federal National Guard showing the same approved destinations as the reported Interior Ministry list, but adds the Maldives as well.
The authenticity of that document also could not be immediately confirmed.
RBC reported on January 12 that Palestinian areas were approved as a travel destination for Russian Interior Ministry employees last year, but that they were excluded from this year's list.
President Off-Piste: Bronze Putin Statue Goes Up Outside Urals City
By Tom Balmforth
In a Facebook post, the Adzhigardak resort said the statue was a “sign of gratitude for [Putin's] contribution to popularizing ski sports and a healthy lifestyle."
MOSCOW -- Vladimir Putin is not only very much alive, he is also likely to remain Russia’s president until at least 2024 if, as is widely expected, he wins reelection next year to a fourth term.
But that hasn’t stopped the occasional statue popping up to immortalize the 65-year-old Russian leader and ex-KGB officer.
The latest likeness appeared this week in the form of a bronze, 180-centimeter-tall Putin holding skis at a winter resort in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk.
The statue appeared on November 9 as Putin traveled to the region to attend a Russian-Kazakh cooperation forum where he met Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev.
The Adzhigardak resort where the statue was raised posted photographs of it on Facebook, adding that the official unveiling ceremony will be held on November 25.
The Kremlin has carefully cultivated an image of Putin as an athletic tough guy, with photo ops famously showing the president throwing opponents in the judo ring, tranquilizing a charging tiger, posing shirtless outdoors, and swimming the butterfly stroke in a mountain river, among other things. Beefcakey Putin T-shirts and calendars are sold across the country.
However, the sculpture of Putin appeared to be a local initiative -- and a possible attempt to curry favor with the Kremlin. In the Facebook post, the resort said the statue was a “sign of gratitude for [Putin's] contribution to popularizing ski sports and a healthy lifestyle."
The sculptor was identified as Dmitry Kostylev from Chelyabinsk, who spoke to the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper: “The proposal to make a sculpture of the leader of the country was unexpected," Kostylev said. "It is a real responsibility to depict historic figures. The schedule for the work was tight. There was only 1 1/2 months.”
The statue appeared to get a mixed reception online. While many shared the news on Russia's VK social network, with apparent Putin fan groups writing "respect," one user drolly wrote: "Did Putin die?"
The sculpture is not the first of Vladimir Putin.
In December 2011, Zurab Tsereteli, a sculptor close to former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and whose works dot the Russian capital, unveiled a sculpture of Putin in a judo kimono with his arms akimbo.
In 2015, a group of Cossacks unveiled a bust of Putin depicting him as a Roman emperor. The bust was located about 20 kilometers from St. Petersburg on territory belonging to the Cossacks.
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Directions to Bibliothek
Continue walking past Animal Crackers Wall for a few hundred feet until you reach a steep ravine near a large ampitheater. Walk down the sandy ravine and cross a small stream near the bottom. Hike a short distance up and around the corner you'll reach an overhanging wall with several bolted lines. The routes Tea at the Palaz of Hoon through 100 Years of Solitude are located on this main wall from left to right. To reach American Psycho through A Confederacy of Dunces continue walking past the main wall about 100 feet.
Wall Sun: Morning to early afternoon
-1 A Prayer for Owen Meany Trad 6 5.6
-1 100 Years of Solitude Sport 24 5.11a
-1 Who Pooped in the Park? Sport 27 5.11c
-1 The Giver Trad 6 5.6
-1 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Sport 18 5.10b
-1 The Stranger Sport 28 5.11d
-1 Everything That Rises Must Converge Sport 28 5.11d
-1 Resuscitation of a Hanged Man Sport 25 5.11b
-1 All The Pretty Horses Sport 27 5.11c
-1 No Country for Old Men Sport 25 5.11b
-1 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sport 27 5.11c
-1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Sport 25 5.11b
-1 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Sport 27 5.11c
-1 Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Sport 25 5.11b
-1 A Confederacy of Dunces Sport 27 5.11c
-1 The Fury Sport 27 5.11c
-1 The Sound Sport 27 5.11c
-1 East of Eden Sport 28 5.11d
-1 Lolita Sport 31 5.12a
-1 American Psycho Sport 24 5.11a
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pkananen said on September 6th, 2007
I seem to remember the far left climb labeled as the 11b, and the far right 12a. Am I wrong about that?
I seem to remember the far left climb labeled as the 11b, and the far right 12a. Am I wrong about that? I think this wall is going to be classic.
redpointron said on September 6th, 2007
some miscommunication between rick weber and i resulted in the ratings being inverted. the online guide has the names and grades correct now. of those routes that are open, "the unbearable..." is just to the right of the large tree (the leftmost open route as of today). "100 years" is the rounded arete on the far right. josh and i will be trying to get the other climbs up and open a.s.a.p.
pawilkes said on April 24th, 2008
what are the sun/shade conditions like? none of the maps are up to date enough for me to make a good guess
pigsteak said on April 24th, 2008
right now, sun until about 1 pm....
JR said on May 20th, 2008
This area reminds me of the Torrent Falls 11 wall. Every single route feels 11b/c regardless of length or designated grade. Let the rhetoric begin. "This route should be 11d because of that move. No, this one should be 11b because it is ten feet shorter. No, this one should be 11c because the start is slippery."
pigsteak said on May 20th, 2008
no doubt JR..I couldn't agree more.....The Sound, The Fury, Confederacy of Dunces..I bolted them all, and every one of them felt identical in difficulty.....I was thinkning of the Bib challenge. Starting on the left or right, send every route in order down the wall in a day....once the final 5-6 lines get put in, then would be a good training day no doubt.
btw, Lolita is to the left of East of Eden. the far left route is Batemana's, and is a project.
Meadows said on August 18th, 2008
did you guys actually read all those books?
goodguy said on August 18th, 2008
At least one of us did!
redpointron said on August 19th, 2008
all of them EXCEPT "the sound & the fury" which kipp so elegantly divided in half. a couple are short stories and one is a poem. i majored in english and managed a bookstore. when i first saw the area i thought of the 11s at torrent (which are all one-word route names) and wanted to go the other direction (longer titles). the last two on the right side will likely be "tea at the palace of hoon" and "trout fishing in america".
pigsteak said on August 19th, 2008
I can't read higher than an 8th grade ;level, so that "One" person was not I.
yeah...if piggie had insisted on his reading list it would have included "how to wear a kilt in kentucky (and not get killed)", "h & r block: the devil in the strip mall", and "ryan & trista's wedding album"
And the Devil wears PraNa.
mpittdawg said on October 19th, 2008
going to be a great wall once people climb it more. Rock is still a little loose.
SCIN said on April 24th, 2009
Every 5.11 on this wall feels the same grade. Kind of like the 5.11 wall at Torrent.
I've heard this wall stays dry in downpour? is that accurate?
Anonymous said on September 2nd, 2009
Is this 300 yds from Animal Crackers towards Nellie Falls?
jdstic2 said on October 25th, 2009
start on the first bolt of 100 years then clip the second of who pooped in the park to climb 100 years of pooping in the park. solid 11
Start on the first bolt of the Stranger and then clip the second Everything Rises, and continue diagonally up and left to climb Strange Old Hung Horses Rise and Converge in the Lightness of Being. Still 11c.
dnietosi said on March 30th, 2010
Are the routes in order? I cant figure it out. which one is the labeled 12a? I am confused
pawilkes said on March 31st, 2010
yes they are in order from right to left. The first route listed is on the hike in and then things are pretty straight forward. I think The Unbearalbe LIghtness of Being is marked with a silver tag at the base as a 12a but it has long since been downgraded.
Anonymous said on October 28th, 2015
Really cool wall! Does it usually seep? the starts to several routes on the right were all wet and it hadn't rained for a week+, would like to visit again wondered about the wetness
Chiyram said on March 7th, 2016
Great sustained overhang 5.11 climbing. Reminds you that not all of Muir is soft.
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MISS KEY - New on Music Lights Berlin and debut album in February 2018!
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Music Lights Berlin is pleased to welcome an extraordinary newcomer; the wonderful pianist and composer Katarina Gubanova aka MISS KEY from Berlin. MISS KEY mixes different musical directions and genres, making each song a complex and unique piece of music. Through her passionate dedication to piano music, she forms a palette of colourful emotions, fantasies and stories on the keyboard, which is both relaxing and melancholic. No matter if it is her piano interpretation of an alternative or Grunge classic or one of her own compositions - Katarina understands how to visualize the subtle dreams and fantasies of her audience through her music.
In October 2017, Miss Key released her first EP, ‘Replays by Miss Key # 1’. It includes five beautifully interpreted rock and metal cover versions of songs by AMON AMARTH, ARCH ENEMY, SATYRICON, SLIPKNOT and VOLBEAT. It is hard to imagine that you can wrap the power of the originals in a soulful piano style, but MISS KEY did it more than successfully. The listener will alternate between Goosebumps and intense emotion.
In February 2018, MISS KEY will release her debut album of original compositions. This will definitely be a great listening experience for home listening, although hopefully MISS KEY will go on tour with her album. One to watch!
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Hudson Yards announces the inaugural ticket release for New York’s climbable staircase, the centerpiece of The Public Square and Gardens
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The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards to open March 15 at noon
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New York’s next great fashion and foodie destination brings more than a mile of shopping and dining experiences to Manhattan’s West Side. Grand opening weekend filled with diverse offering of experiences and special programming to welcome New Yorkers and visitors. The Shops & Restaurants at…
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Public-private partnership already responsible for hundreds of job placements with hundreds more expected in the coming months Hudson Yards today announced details about the creation of the Hudson Yards Hiring Network, an innovative public-private collaboration designed to identify and recruit…
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Related Companies and Hudson Yards partner with NYC Pride and The NAMES Project Foundation for WorldPride
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Hudson Yards will display panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt as part of an initiative with NYC Pride and The NAMES Project Foundation as part of WorldPride events. The Shops and Restaurants will show their support for the community through special initiatives, events and limited edition products…
35 Hudson Yards unveils residential amenities designed by Tony Ingrao dedicated to wellness, leisure and entertainment
New York, New York City Jul 15, 2019 News, City Centers, Residential
Hudson Yards unveils 22,000 square feet of private residential amenities at 35 Hudson Yards, along with new model residences on the 55th and 65th floors. The building features architecture by David Childs and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; interiors by designer Tony Ingrao; and an array of…
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Related announces purchase of WarnerMedia office space at 30 Hudson Yards
New York, New York City Apr 23, 2019 Office
Affiliate of Related Companies purchases 1.5 million square feet of office space in iconic tower WarnerMedia to enter into long-term lease through 2034. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, today announced that one of its affiliates has entered into a contract to purchase WarnerMedia’s…
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Author: Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta, RP Photonics Consulting GmbH
Abstract: This article discusses how one can effectively couple light from the fundamental mode of a multimode fiber into a certain higher-order mode. This is surprisingly simple: one only requires a fiber Bragg grating with a properly chosen grating period. The physics behind that mode coupling effect are discussed, and the situation is illustrated with some numerical simulations.
Imagine that you have multimode fiber where light propagates in the fundamental guided mode, and you wanted to efficiently transfer that light into some higher-order mode, having a more complicated transverse intensity profile. At a first glance, one may think that this is a really difficult task, requiring a rather complicated kind of optical element which can transform the simple transverse profile of the fundamental mode into some complicated transverse profile.
Interestingly, it turns out that the task can be accomplished quite simply with a fiber Bragg grating. Essentially, you only need to make sure that the grating period d is correctly chosen – such that the magnitude of the grating vector (2π / d) equals the difference of the phase constants of the two involved modes. That will create some coupling between the two modes, such that after a certain propagation distance essentially all light (in the ideal case) will be coupled into the wanted mode. The optical power will sinusoidally oscillate between the two modes; so it will come back to the original mode if you make the Bragg grating too long.
Well, the success also depends on the coupling constant. Essentially, that coupling constant depends on a transverse overlap integral involving the two mode amplitude functions and the phase disturbance introduced by the Bragg grating. In principle, the coupling could be zero e.g. if the involved LP modes had different values of the l index and the phase disturbance were radially symmetric. However, you can easily couple from the fundamental (LP01) mode to any higher-order mode with l = 0, and even to modes with l ≠ 0 if the fiber Bragg grating is somehow asymmetric (e.g. due to writing it with UV light from one side).
It is remarkable that you don't have to care much about the transverse intensity profiles, except that these influence the magnitude of the coupling constant. Essentially, the fiber produces the wanted intensity profile itself. Here are a few more thoughts on how that can work:
Initially, the fiber Bragg grating couples light into many other modes (including even cladding modes). However, for most modes, the above-mentioned Bragg condition is not met; therefore, the contributions to the light in a certain mode, which are generated at different positions along the fiber, are not in phase. As a result, you will never obtain any significant optical power in those modes – only in the one for which the Bragg condition is met quite precisely.
Actually, the situation is similar to resonantly exciting vibrations mode of a mechanical oscillator with a sound wave. That sound wave also does not tell the resonator exactly how to vibrate; the spatial pattern of the vibration is determined by the resonator property, not by the incident sound wave.
For an illustration, I have quickly set up a numerical simulation with our software RP Fiber Power:
First, I defined the refractive index profile of the fiber, using a supergaussian function for the increase of the refractive index in the region of the fiber core.
Then I used that as the input for the mode solver, which told me that the highest m value of the guided modes is 5.
I then decided to couple to the LP04 mode (just as an example) and calculated the difference δβ of the phase constants (β values) of the two modes. That was then used for defining the refractive index profile of the fiber Bragg grating, where the refractive index increase in the core region was modulated with a factor 1 + 0.1 · sin δβ z. (The obtained grating period is 808 μm; we have a long period fiber Bragg grating, having a period much longer than that of a reflecting grating.)
Finally, I did a numerical beam propagation simulation in that structure, starting with the LP01 mode as the input field. Here is the resulting intensity distribution in the device, seen from the side (i.e., in the y–z plane):
Figure 1: Intensity distribution inside the fiber Bragg grating. The fast intensity modulation in z direction is not fully resolved in the figure. The red and blue curve shows the evolution of optical power in the LP04 mode and LP01 mode, respectively.
The coupling is not perfect in this case; only ≈90% of the power gets into the LP04 mode. (The above mentioned complete coupling is based on some simplifying assumptions, we which do not need to make for a numerical study.) When trying to obtain the coupling within a shorter length by using a stronger index modulation, this effect becomes substantially more pronounced. Note that the considered fiber has a rather small numerical aperture of 0.076, and in such a case one should apply only a small additional refractive index modulation.
Here I also show the resulting intensity profile at the fiber end:
Figure 2: Intensity profile at the fiber end – essentially that of the wanted LP04 mode.
I also did a test with coupling to the LP02 mode, using a longer grating period of 3.47 mm. Here, the coupling is stronger, such that nearly complete mode conversion is achieved already after a propagation distance of 148 mm:
Figure 3: Same as Figure 1, but with the grating period chosen for coupling to the LP02 mode.
Of course, it would be quite simple to modify details of the model in order to study some more influences. For example, one could try out asymmetric grating profiles, cases with a stronger index modulation, or check situations in more strongly multimode fibers where nearly degenerate higher-order modes (i.e., with quite similar propagation constants) can occur. Another idea is to introduce some bending of the fiber, which can also modify the propagation constants of the modes. By playing with such a model, one can easily test whether certain original expectations were correct and thus develop a detailed understanding. Besides, such activities give a good chance to create new ideas.
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NHTSA Progress Slow as Safety Crises Keep Coming
Posted on Monday, Feb 29th, 2016
On Friday, the Office of the Inspector General threw another report on the stack of official criticisms of the way the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation operates.
As its title suggests, Additional Efforts are Needed to Ensure NHTSA’s Full Implementation of OIG’s 2011 Recommendations was a look at the progress the agency didn’t make in the last five years on 10 recommendations to implement process improvements that would track consumer complaints, thoroughly document Defect Assessment Panels decisions on which risks to investigate, achieve its timeliness goals for completing investigations, create a systematic process for determining when to involve a third-party or Vehicle Research and Test Center for assistance, train its staff, and keep identifying information out of public files, among others.
Five years later, the OIG found that NHTSA had satisfactorily completed three of the action items: it conducted a workforce assessment, it boosted its communication and coordination with foreign countries on safety defects and it reviewed and tracked consumer complaints associated with specific investigations. But it also noted that the agency was lagging in some of most important process improvements. Sure, NHTSA created a bunch of systems to address these deficiencies, but it did little to ensure that those systems were used with consistency:
Although NHTSA took actions to address all 10 of our 2011 recommendations, our review determined that ODI lacks sufficient quality control mechanisms to ensure compliance with the new policies and procedures, and lacks an adequate training program to ensure that its staff have the skills and expertise to investigate vehicle safety defects. Earlier this year, NHTSA stated that it will “aggressively implement” the 17 recommendations from our June 2015 report. The results of this review of NHTSA’s implementation of OIG’s 2011 recommendations can provide lessons learned as NHTSA makes important decisions regarding future process improvements.
In the aftermath of the first big safety crisis of the modern era – Firestone Tire tread separation failures the caused the tippy Ford Explorer to rollover – the General Accounting Office, in response to Congressional inquiries, and mostly the DOT Office of the Inspector General, began to pump out reports. But, with the successive waves of high-profile safety problems –Toyota unintended acceleration; the General Motors ignition switch failures and exploding Takata airbag inflators – the pace has accelerated.
There have been seven censorious assessments since 2002 – with critiques on NHTSA’s data collection and analysis, its recall management practices, its lack of investigative and decision-making processes, and its enforcement and transparency. (We have been covering these reports, as well as documenting these problems:
Inspector Agrees with SRS: NHTSA Ain’t Right
Elective Warning Reports: When Manufacturers Don’t Report Claims
Elective Warning Reports Redux
How NHTSA and NASA Gamed the Toyota Data
What NHTSA Doesn’t Want You to Know about Auto Safety
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The most recent take-down, Inadequate Data and Analysis Undermine NHTSA’s Efforts to Identify and Investigate Vehicle Safety Concerns, was released by the OIG a mere seven months ago. This report rapped the agency for ODI’s lack of process, for prioritizing probes by chances of recall success rather than threat to safety; lack of transparency; failure to audit manufacturer’s EWR reports; and the lack of enforcement.
To determine NHTSA’ s progress on the ten action items it cited in 2011, OIG investigators pored through agency records, looking for evidence that agency staff was documenting its reasons for not meeting its deadlines to complete investigations, or its decisions to move forward with defect investigations, and found pretty spotty performance.
For example, NHTSA had agreed to start putting its defect screening meeting minutes and other pre-investigation information, such as data from insurance companies, in its Advanced Retrieval Tire, Equipment, Motor Vehicle Information System (ARTEMIS), the system originally implemented in July 2004 to analyze and identify trends in the early warning reporting data. But the OIG found that NHTSA managers hadn’t developed any processes to ensure that staff was actually putting the stuff in. Out of a sample of 42 issue evaluations opened in 2013, 42 percent had no documentation of any pre-investigative work.
The documentation for failing to meet a timeliness goal was worse: more than 70 percent of delayed investigations the OIG reviewed did not include justifications for why ODI’s goals for timely completion of investigations were not met.
Under policies ODI established in 2013, managers developed a checklist to ensure that all evidence associated with an investigation “such as consumer complaints and information exchanged with manufacturers was documented.” The OIG reviewed documentation for 36 preliminary evaluations and six engineering analyses opened between March 2013 and December 2013 and found that ODI used the checklist for 4 preliminary evaluations and zero engineering analyses. (This may explain why FOIAs to the agency regarding its investigatory activities often turn up next to nothing.) The OIG concluded: “As a result, ODI may not be capturing all evidence associated with an investigation, potentially hampering its ability to assess or support the adequacy of its investigations.”
Less egregious but still inconsistent was how well NHTSA’s contractor redacted files for public consumption (the OIG found nine out of 62 investigation documents were not fully redacted, containing birth dates, driver’s license numbers and e-mail addresses.) and filing meeting minute notes of defect screening meetings (out of 21 panel meetings held in 2013 and 2014, 17 percent were not appropriately documented).
One of the most troubling observations was the lack of training for ODI staff. Back in 2011, NHTSA argued that a formal training program wasn’t necessary, but agreed to offer basic training in automotive technology, ODI policies and processes, computer skills for data analysis, and ARTEMIS. But, when ODI investigators paid a visit, they found this:
During our audit, ODI’s pre-investigative staff told us that they received little or no training in their areas of concentration, some of which can be quite complex. For example, ODI staff charged with interpreting statistical test results for early warning reporting data told us they have no training or background in statistics.
Since data are at the root of all NHTSA activities, allowing the people to make the first cut with no training and no understanding of statistics seems counterproductive, to say the least. (Although given NHTSA’s many numerically dubious claims, The Safety Record cannot say that it is surprised.)
In the last year, we have seen a lot of positive changes at NHTSA, and we know that jack-hammering a better agency out of decades of calcified practice will take time. But, if this 5-year progress report is any indication, it’s going to be a long time before we see the OIG’s 17 recommendations from June come to fruition.
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OA and Venture Crews
Eagle_23 replied to ssullivansr's topic in Southern Region
I think the biggest argument coming from national is that the Boy Scout Division is from 11 through 18, while the Venturing Division is 14 through 21. While this would be a good enough reason to drop the issue, The OA allows members to be youth until 21. doesn't make a lot of sense to not allow venturing into the OA when they age out at the same age. specially when by the time the venturing meets the requirements ( whatever they may be) they could easily be 16 or 17 years old. Another big argument is that youth protection dosnt cover females in the OA, But I am pretty sure that there is a venturing specific YP manual that would cover it. What about requirements, Ventuers cant earn 1st Class. True, but they do have the bronze awards, or whatever they become anyways. And sea scouts have the Able rank. who's to say that ventuers cant meet that certain rank requirement along with the necessary campouts. What about campout requirement? Some crews don't camp, Sea scouts go sailing. Sea scouts could meet that requirement with overnight voyages and a long term cruise. What it would really come down to is, the youth in the crews and ships would need to make the changes to their program to meet the requirements set forth for membership. Some crews are art crews, they don't camp. So if they want to be eligible for membership. the youth would need to plan what would need to happen to be eligible for membership. What would need to happen would be movements on both the venturing front, and the OA front, starting at the section conclaves, and likewise venturing events, as simple as a poster. Pushing for youth members to start making waves to the higher-ups pushing the issue. is the Region chiefs start brining the subject up as the ventuers do the same. Maybe it will become an issue the national committee will look at.
Exec Board cuts summer camp - Camp Black Mt, WA
Eagle_23 replied to RememberSchiff's topic in Camping & High Adventure
As a CBM Camp staff alumni. I have been givin the oppertunity to see some of the inner politics being kept from the public. 1) First and formost, what is happening is less of matter of finacial stability, and more of an issue of inner politics. Our current council president has been quietly working to get the camp to this point since he took office. By systimaticly guiding the executive board to different dicisions to hurt the camp numbers. Over the last few months he has been quietly lobbying for the Council Board to make the desicion to close. 2) The Friends of Black Mountain, the group that is working to find a stable plan for the camp future raised the 64K to meet the financial goal. By the end of year deadline, we had 251 kids signed up. in that very next week an additnal 20 kids were registered. A number of units where waiting to see what the future of the camp would be before regiestering there kids. Because it took 5 days after the deadline for the council to annouce any desicion and then another week or finalize it. a number of units showed interest in registering. We also had a donor offering up 50 scholorships for campers. and provisinals had yet to start registering. 3) A large issue facing the camp is a council mindset that the summer camp season needs to pay every bill of the camp for the entire year. to everyone else in the council it seems very stupid to budget this way. when you account for ranger salaries and untilities bills, while factoring in that the council only offers 3 weeks of camp each summer, no way they camp can break even on that schedual with just the summer season. To make up that difference, you look to off season rentals. Filling up the weekends in the off season raises another issue because: 4) There are members of the office staff who will turn away possible renters of the facility. Groups will call to reserve portions of the camp only to be told that the camp is booked through the end of whatever month they are calling. Yet when the weekend or month comes, the camp sits empty. 5) There have been multipul instances where units would register for the summer at CBM, then in the months or weeks before camp starts, they would be called by the council office asking if they would like to change there reservation to fire mtn in stead. From september through Decemeber of last year there were a number of town hall meeting hosted by the council and the head of the study committee presented around the council. I had the opertunity attend a number of them. when the issues of the council turning away potential rentals and trying to move units from one camp to another, any professinal in the room would throw a particualy large temper tantrum and claim that office staff would never do that. But when you have different people at different meetings, who have never met, saying the exact same thing. you would think the council would see there is somthing going on. The closure of CBM is somthing that has been pushed for a while. especialy in this adminastration. there is a deadline for spring for a final disposition of the camp to be decided. this coincised with the rumored retirement of the Scout Executive and Council President. They are tyring to push this all through before they retire to make sure their succsesors dont go back and bring the camp back.
Camp Black Mountain
Eagle_23 posted a topic in Summer Camp
I voulenteer at Camp Black Mountain in the pacific northwest. There was talk to shutting down and selling the camp, but sainer minds prevailed and the council decided to look into other ways to unitlize the property. If supporters of the camp meet certain requierments, the council will even let us have summer camp for the 2013 year. Voulenteers of the camp formed a booster club, adamant on keeping the camp open. Who has ever been to CBM? I am sure there people here who live in the area who have been to the camp at one point or another. What did you like, what would you change?
Regalia and the Image of the Order
Eagle_23 posted a topic in Order of the Arrow
The last thread brought up a pretty heated discussion about the use of native american modeling in their ceremonies. I know it wasnt always like that. I have heard that before that, there was the use of black robes as ceremonial regalia. There isnt much about that out there that I have found. If anyone has any information on what went into making that regalia and what that regalia consisted of i would love to hear about it. But the big question of this thread is this: Does the Order of the Arrow need to find some new form of regalia in our ceremonies, anf if so, what would you recomend. Should we go back to what was used in the past, should we try somthing totally different or should things stay the same?
Odd Ceremonies
I was thinking today about the ceremonies in the OA. Beyond the Induction sequence there are other ceremonies used. I'm wondering if anyone has seen ceremonies used for anything outside of the norm. Not nesessarily inappropriate uses, just outside the norm?
Summer Camp/ High adventure base suggestions
I work at a summer camp with a lot to offer. It has plenty of area with a lot of potential. Good facilitys. It always has a good staff. plenty of space to offer a variaty of merit badges. as well as a number of other programs, including cope and mountain biking. the staff that works the camp, is highly motivated and very skilled. It is in a location with a lot to offer in the direction of high adventure as well, being next to rivers to rafting. in the mountains for some great hiking. close to the water for boating. It dosnt have a high adventure program, but the potental is there. But despite its location and everything it can offer, the attendance numbers arnt there. of course this is from a lack of quality program. there isnt an argument about that. So i bring the question to the internet. what features would make for a quality program at a summer camp. everything from variaty of program offered to merit badges.
Everybody is a winner
Eagle_23 replied to Eagle_23's topic in Working with Kids
KC9DDI: The ASM spoke to the Chapter Advisor. Turns out the CA has first hand knowlege of this scout being a bully. to in short everything worked out and the election is valid.
Eagle_23 posted a topic in Working with Kids
I was doing an OA unit election this evening and everything went well till i got a call on thw way honme from an ASM (not the SM or the parent) asking about the results. after sharing that the election was solid he told me of his concerns about that a scout wasnt elected. he called is "heart breaking" that the scout has been passed over multipule times. He then asked if there was somthing we could do to change the election, weather it was do another election or somthing else. I'm at a loss. i know how this is going to be handeled and thsi isnt a thread about OA or OA elections. What really bothers me now is the attitude from the troop the everyone is a winner. Personaly i belive its not the way to look at scouting because its simply not true. What are some other opinions or storys facing the idea the "everyone is a winner".
Eagle_23 replied to Eagle_23's topic in Council Relations
I dissagree. We are contributing our time and skills/recources to the program to benifet the scouts. There might not be a tangible result but it is there. What would the value of the contribution of time and everything be?
Eagle_23 posted a topic in Council Relations
After reading some of the responses to the thread this is spun from, lets ask this question. Not counting money given in FOS, not counting items purchased for events not reimbursed by the unit or council or somthing. What is a value of the time givin by voulenteers. If one was able to put a price tag on their services. What would that amount be?
Eagle_23 replied to Scoutfish's topic in Open Discussion - Program
A couple friends and I are thinking about getting tatoos (well one just got one, but still) Basicly we all met at the scout camp we work at. And all three of us just about live and work there, so we are thinking about all getting the camp logo.
National chief
Eagle_23 replied to Eagle_23's topic in Order of the Arrow
Awesome, thanks, that is exactly what i'm looking for. is there any information anywhere about what lodge's they belonged to?
I am looking for some help on a project i'm working on, I am looking for information on the history aroung the OA national chiefs, like when the first one was stuff like that. If there is a place on the internet that has a list of all the national chief and the lodges they belonged to it would be awesome. also if they have information on when lodges started making patches for lodge chiefs. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance
Lodges Merging
Eagle_23 replied to CubsRgr8's topic in Order of the Arrow
Be prepared, because things are going to change. BDPT00 is right, the best thing to do is to make a new lodge with totally new symbols. Definetly have the youth lead the discussions. Lay out each lodge's customs and program at the beginning and maybe they can keep somthing from each. The lodge i'm in is the result of a merger between two lodges about 15 years ago (admittedly around the time i joined cub scouts, but i have heard alot of horror stories about it) . there were alot of hurt feelings going into the merger anyways but there were alot more after. alot of the oa presence in what was one of the lodges completely dissapeared. from what i heard it was a messy process and they lost alot of good scouts and scouters. So every be sensitive and play nice.
OA and Venturing
Eagle_23 replied to CNYScouter's topic in Order of the Arrow
Seems to me that if a venture decided it wanted elections, it would be up to the crew to make themselvs elgible for them. The example i'm going to use is the hs band crews. Say out there, there is a crew based around a high school marching band (i do hope i'm interpreting that right). Obviosly thats what they do, out doors isnt really part of their program. why would it, their focus is music and marching. but say you have a venturer or two who decides they want to be in the OA. Its up to them to find the requierments and change their program. In this case they would have to sell the crew and then add the camping element to their program. Not every member of the crew nesessarlly has to to the bronze. but they would have to buy into the camping. If the crew takes it upon its self to make the changes they need to do elections, why not. If they dont want to make the changes to do it, then its their call.
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35 minutes ago, qwazse said:
I disagree with @Eagledad on the certainty of an "every troop will be co-ed" prognostication. Given what I've seen among venturers, I think we are more likely to have a Czech model where couple of troops in a district will be co-ed, and a couple will be of one sex or the other. They'll get together occasionally to compare notes and have fun, but when they go home, they'll reflect and be very happy with their configuration. This will be because, well, it's a big country, and sex integration will garner the most smiles in one part, and sex segregation will garner the most smiles in another part.
I did not say every troop, but I do believe 90%. First off, adult resources is always a challenge and the "easy" solution is coed. Second, the mindset will start with the coed Cub Scout program. Third, National will tend toward coed because one general style is easier to train and deliver at the professional level.
My ,prognostication, is based from a lifetime of watching humans follow the natural instinct of taking the path of least resistance. However, I like your Czech, prognostication, because it "feels" good (I guess there is some liberalism in all of us).
I hope you are right.
Edited February 4, 2019 by Eagledad
I find it ironic that a thread about the need to stop the grousing about the BSA choice to add girls has yet again descended into grousing about the BSA choice.
1 minute ago, malraux said:
One man's lemons is another man's business opportunity. I see positive suggestions being presented.
31 minutes ago, malraux said:
I would encourage us all to look for ways to make this work. The first troop for girls in our district is off to a fantastic start. In fact, I've see a number of very experienced Scouters from around our community jumping in to help them get off to a great start. I envision a strong patrol method troop that will be growing rapidly.
It's really easy to look at anything in Scouting and just see the obstacles. I think that's just human nature. We focus on the obstacles because they are painful and no fun. I just figure that the challenge to me is to figure out how to address them and move on.
That's what I'd propose here too. If your a parent and find that your son is now going to be in a co-ed unit of some form (even though they are not supposed to exist), instead of fearing that girls are going to ruin what you have, find a way to make sure they girls have the same experience as the boys and that a great culture continues.
1 hour ago, Eagledad said:
I think this is the challenge of our time - adult participation. I've noticed that some units are good at this and some not so good.
I recently was talking with a Cubmaster who told me that recent 2 deep rule changes were good because it challenged them to get more adults registered. It was a challenge for a few months, but they got there and today have a lot more registered leaders.
I've seen that in our troop and in our district too. Many adults are just not comfortable in how to ask people to help. I know one group who will spend months discussing that they don't have enough adults. When I talked with them about it they say "well, we send email after email and no one shows up." Then, I go talk to another group and their adding new volunteers right and left. I asked what they did and the leader said - I just asked people to help and they said yes. I'm not suggesting it's that easy - but I've certainly seen example after example in Scouting where adult recruiting amounts to making an announcement or sending an email. I think there are skills and traits that adults can learn here. I think this would be a fantastic area for the BSA to focus on developing skills for leaders.
Treflienne 229
2 hours ago, Eagledad said:
blending is inevitable for the majority of COs. It's simple matter of math.
2 hours ago, qwazse said:
I disagree with @Eagledad on the certainty of an "every troop will be co-ed" prognostication. Given what I've seen among venturers, I think we are more likely to have a Czech model where couple of troops in a district will be co-ed, and a couple will be of one sex or the other. They'll get together occasionally to compare notes and have fun, but when they go home, they'll reflect and be very happy with their configuration. This will be because, well, it's a big country, and sex integration will garner the most smiles in one part, and sex segregation will garner the most smiles in another part.
However, I like your Czech, prognostication, because it "feels" good (I guess there is some liberalism in all of us).
I hope you are right.
I do believe that the current approach allows for local areas to find what works for them. And in my area, its looking like it may go the way of @qwazse's Czech model.
In my single-high-school single-middle-school school district the N Boy Scout troops concluded that, due to numbers, it made sense only to have one Scouts BSA girls troop. This troop is now linked to one of the Boy Scout troops, leaving N-1 strictly-boy-only troops.
As far as the linked pair of troops: the boy troop and the girl troop have different troop numbers. They meet at the same time in the same building, but the girls have a separate classroom reserved for them. The plan starting out is joint opening ceremonies, some joint meetings, some separate meetings. Likely more separation as the girls troop gains in experience and size.
Who has what they want?
Boys who want an all-boy troop and all-boy environment and the BSA program have several troops to choose from.
Boys and/or families who want the BSA program and the convenience of simultaneous meetings and don't mind some coed mixing.
Girls who want the BSA program and don't mind some coed mixing.
Girls who want a strictly all-girl troop and don't mind the GSUSA program. (There is one of these troops in the school district, also.)
Who in my school district doesn't have what they want?
Girls who want a strictly all-girl never-boys-around troop and want the BSA program (but I have not met any locally)
Boys who want the GSUSA program (who might hypothetically exist, but I have never met one)
I hope it will work out as happily in other areas.
Edited February 4, 2019 by Treflienne
11 minutes ago, ParkMan said:
Why wait for National? Start at the Council or district level. Change comes from training. The higher the level, the better.
I taught adult leader recruiting to pack leaders just before cub recruiting season.
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I've been seeing the same. Emails are too easy to just not respond to. I hate to use the term "put someone on the spot" but if we're being realistic about it, sometimes that's what it takes to fill a job.
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2 hours ago, ShutterbugMom said:
Many aspects of the world in general nowadays seem to think that white males, including boys, are the enemy. And I tell you I did have to report it to the school when these little middle school girls who think they are high and mighty (again just a select few) told my son they wanted to cut line (while playing a game) and he said "No, I was in line in front of you." The girl and her friends replied "You have to let her, because you know about "Ladies First." He said "No, I don't. We are playing a game and we are equal." and he held his hands out to keep them from going around him and some of the little girls said "You can't do that!! You are HARASSSING her!" Yep. Had to contact the teacher about that. But there is a certain subset of people in this world that blame boys for everything now and I am very tired of it. It has gotten to the point where boys are allowed to have NOTHING for themselves. No organizations. Nothing. That's just my feeling. And I truly know not all girls and women are like that. Actually most are not. But that small minority are loud and have to have their own way.
I should have been more clear. Who in Scouting?
11 minutes ago, Eagledad said:
100% agree - very good point.
Just curious - when you taught adult leader recruiting how did you do it? A class, roundtable, visit the units, something else?
Our district invites all the pack leaders for cookies and coffee one evening a few weeks before school starts for a prep course in getting them up to speed for cub recruiting. We discuss best proven methods for recruiting the boys, recruiting the adult leaders and follow through after cub recruitment night. It's presented as easier paths to recruiting.
For Pack leaders, there are two opportunities for recruiting leaders. Locally our elementary schools have a schedule pickup day where all the families come to the school to get their kids teacher and room assignments. Experience has shown that packs set up a display and get names and phone numbers of possible new scouts can get 90% of their new scouts committed before recruiting night. From that list the adults use the numbers to call the parents and discuss leadership possibilities. If they do it right, they will know 90% of the roster of the pack even before sign up night.
The other opportunity is the one you are thinking about, approach the parent personally and explain the pack's need. In my experience, 80% of parents approached personally will agree in way or another to it a try. The pack may need to compromise to the parents concerns, but they usually settle into the position within a few weeks. As you probably know, many parents want to do something, but just too shy or afraid to ask.
It's a lot more detailed of meeting with other guidelines for running a smoother program, but that is the quick answer to your question.
Nice - I like that idea.
One of the challenges I'm realizing now as I think about how to tackle these kind of problems at a district level is to find the best way to engage with the packs. I'd love to visit each pack personally - but realize that with 15-20 packs in the district that it will take time to get to them all.
I fear that the packs will interpret it as the district preaching and tune out - but I'm not sure how else to do this in a timely way.
Edited February 4, 2019 by ParkMan
1 minute ago, ParkMan said:
One of the challenges I'm realizing now as I think about how to tackle these kind of problems at a district level is to find the best way to engage with the packs. I'd love to visit each on personally - but realize that with 15-20 packs in the district that it will take time to get to them all.
We marketed it as giving adds to make their job easier. Just an hour to pass along a few hints. The packs learned after the first year the information was in their best interest, not ours. If you do it, bring in someone that actually has some good ideas based from experience.
Just now, Eagledad said:
Thanks. Good to hear. Hopefully as we assemble something this will come through.
My belief is that the packs ultimately want to be successful. They don't enjoy dens of one or two scouts. They don't enjoy scraping to find leaders. They don't enjoy overloaded Cubmasters. As a result, if we are successful in helping them they will ultimately have stronger packs and more scouts and more leaders. Net result is stronger programs.
There's a lot of wishful thinking here - but I figure we've got to start somewhere.
As I've said many times here, training is the place to start change. But, someone has to justify and make the change, and someone has to train it.
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Michelle Obama's Mannequin Challenge Is The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
FLOTUS, we love you.
By Neha Prakash
The Cleveland Cavaliers visited the White House Thursday (November 10) to celebrate being 2016's NBA champions, and took a moment with the coolest First Lady that ever was and ever will be to create a still video for the latest craze sweeping the Internet. Needless to say, the Mannequin Challenge has never been more baller, pun fully intended.
In the video that was posted to Twitter, First Lady Michelle Obama and LeBron James pose as if they were taking a selfie, while other team members look on or chat. Even the White House staff got involved, posing with their phones. And it's paired with an elegant tune befitting of the highest office in America. If you look closely, you'll catch LeBron blinking, but we're still giving this win to the entire crew.
(Barack Obama and Joe Biden are notably absent from the video—we can only hope that means the two are planning a Mannequin Challenge of their own that will be the mic drop that ends their presidency and vice presidency. Their bromance, however, will never end.)
It's exactly what the country needed this week.
https://twitter.com/cavs/status/796875152780763136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Despite being frozen, James made sure to actually snap a selfie with the First Lady. President-elect Trump, mind hanging this one in the Oval Office?
Related: Zendaya and Michelle Obama Deliver a VERY Important Message About Worldwide Education for Girls
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Opera inspiration from the bold and beautiful Brett Whiteley
MAKING MUSIC: Whiteley opera composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Prudence Upton
by Tracey Johnstone
ELENA Kats-Chernin AO is bringing to the Opera Australia stage in Sydney this month the bold life of an iconic Australian artist in the opera Whiteley.
Seniors News spoke to Kats-Chernin on the eve of the world premiere of Whiteley.
It's late in the evening. She has been home from rehearsal for about an hour and already 40 pages of the 800-page orchestral score has been edited. There is another two scenes to be reviewed before the end of the night.
The kitchen table is strewn with hand-written sketches and drafts. She has to push them away to find a corner to eat.
Once the Whiteley opera work is complete Kats-Chernin will put all the paper in boxes. But, then there is another opera waiting to be written.
Brett Whiteley's 1975 painting, The Balcony 2. SUPPLIED
She's in bed by 2am then back at work from 5.30am before heading to the rehearsal well before it starts at 10.30am. There's always a lot for her to do before and after each rehearsal.
"I am like a machine; I need to work. I make sure I do exercise," the 61-year-old said.
She uses weights at home each morning and does something, even simple exercises, for about 10 minutes which forces her to engage her muscles.
Kats-Chernin is also mindful of what she eats which includes lots of healthy food and no sugar.
"Says she who has just had a chocolate," Kats-Chernin jokingly said.
"But that's OK because somebody gave it to me and it's dark chocolate which I like."
As to using her gym memberships, she admitted "at the moment I don't have time because of rehearsals".
Born in Russia, the child prodigy started playing the piano when she was four and composing from five.
"I just sat down and played," she said.
"I could play anything I saw. I couldn't read the words, but I could read the music."
Her music-loving parents didn't know what hit them.
"They did everything for me to have good lessons," she added.
"They got me special teachers because I was very far advanced immediately, so I was bored at normal music school."
The family moved to Australia in 1975 and Kats-Chernin started at Sydney's Conservatorium of Music.
Her resume is simply outstanding. She has created a huge range of pieces for symphony orchestras across in Australia and overseas and composed pieces for television and film. How many?
"If only I knew," she said.
"Sometimes I don't even remember what I wrote. Sometimes people will say 'you know you wrote that piece and it went like this' and I will have I completely forgotten how it went," Kats-Chernin said.
"I will recover it immediately I hear it, but I forget as every year I write about five hours of music, sometimes more."
And that is after she has written several versions to find just the right score.
The overture to the opera, Whiteley. : The overture to the opera, Whiteley.
"This year alone I have written a piano concerto for Tamara-Anna Cislowska, called Lebewohl, a piano quartet, a piece for the ACO called A Knock One Night, and many more things.
"It sounds crazy but when working on something so big I need another outlet, something else to write."
Does she ever think about anything else? "No" was the emphatic answer.
"I am thinking about it all the time because there is always a project. I am always thinking about it because it's in my blood until something has premiered, and even afterwards I still think I could have done this differently."
If she's not composing, Kats-Chernin said she has to clean the house.
"And I don't want to do that."
The only time she really takes off is when she visits her grandchildren.
"But, don't do that very often. For that I wish I had more time because that is very enjoyable," she added.
There is no date when Kats-Chernin will stop composing.
"There are composers who compose when they are 100. As long as my brain works," she said.
"I think I will compose as long as I can. It's another reason why I work every single day.
"I just think, well I don't know what tomorrow is; 'who knows what will hit me tomorrow', so I need to finish what I am doing and I try every day to send something away to my copyist in case something happens and I don't wake up."
"I would like to clean the house before I go, so that no one else has to do it," she added.
The prolific and highly acclaimed composer partnered with librettist Justin Fleming to honour and share the tumultuous story of Brett Whiteley.
"It's a great subject and inspiring in many ways and very multi-layered," she said.
"He was an iconic artist, Australian, interesting, quirky, genius, flawed; lots and lots of extreme character features which are inspiring to compose.
"I don't want to write about somebody who is a goody two-shoes who does beautiful pastels or something."
It's been an 18-month project for the 61-year-old Sydney resident. Once Fleming's libretto was in her hands in December 2017 Kats-Chernin worked on the Whiteley score.
She has crafted the score to deal with several themes and changes in pace from conversations to aria to the singer or singers talking to the audience and when they talk to each other.
Woven in among her work is dealing with the complexity of fitting the librettist's work and the voices along with the orchestra and digital backgrounds that make up the whole show.
"For me it's like putting buttons on a coat and putting in the detail. It's like which silk do you use; is it going to be silky cotton, is it going to be different colours, is going to be silver or gold with lots and lots of buttons or just big one."
Whiteley is on at the Sydney Opera House until July 30. For bookings, go to opera.org.au.
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Have a Scary Halloween!
Happy Halloween! It's time to hand out candy, dine on Irish stew as a celebration to Halloween's roots, drink a pumpkin beer (or three), and stay up late watching scary movies. On the docket is Trick 'r Treat, Halloween: Season of the Witch, Cabin in the Woods, possibly Magik Mike, which I'm told is about a coven of warlocks trying to possess a group of women (someone better not be lying).
I hope you have a scary Halloween! Here are some pictures of my haunted house.
Halloween Eve
Designed by Dark Hall Mansion
The parties are done. The decorations are hung. The haunts are attended. As the march towards the big day winds down, we still have Halloween Eve. It's the last day to really stop, catch your breath, and enjoy the last moments of the season. I use this day to reflect on my own scary Halloween, carve pumpkins, and catch up with old favorites like Charlie Brown.
Every season starts with such anticipation then quickly zooms by. So many things didn't get done, seen, experienced, or bought... but, there's always next year. I always say I'm going to start earlier, get done sooner, and enjoy every moment in-between – and I think I'm almost successful.
I am looking forward to scaring the kids tomorrow night and going out with a bang – if the weather cooperates (although I have absolutely nothing to complain about).
Our thoughts go out to our friends on the East Coast who are getting pummeled by the Frankenstorm. I feel terrible for the kids (of all ages) who will miss this Halloween, but more importantly, I hope that everyone remains safe and sound.
How scary is too scary for kids?
Last week, Entertainment Weekly published the article "Making the case for scary movies for kids" in their Family Room blog. The writer believes some parents are over-sheltering their kids, asserting that this "can only lead to kids growing up to fear their own shadows. Generation X is raising Generation Ahh!" This comes on the heels of Frankenweenie's disappointing run which some believed to be too creepy for kids (but it was a beautiful movie!), while Hotel Transylvania (which was admittedly cutesy) holds on as the #3 movie in America. And in the latest episode of Modern Family, Claire was boycotted by the neighborhood for being too scary.
This is the age-old debate: How scary is too scary for kids? Halloween continues to be viewed as a kid's holiday (as the costume and candy sales will attest), yet aren't kids more resilient (desensitized) given today's accessibility to the internet/cable? Or do we get more frightened as we grow up? We live in an age of bloody crime procedurals, survival video games, and Snooki hot tub monsters.
When I was growing up, my parents were cautious but I was never denied access to scary stuff. And while Halloween was a spooky time, it was a decidedly fun time. Being afraid was like riding a roller coaster that couldn't derail and lop off your head. The second the lights came on, everything was better. It was just make-believe (with haunted sounds, eerie lighting, creepy fog in the dark of night).
A couple parents think my site, MyScaryHalloween.com is too ghastly for kids. (Seriously. Who doesn't like a bloody logo?) There's nothing un-family-friendly, although kids are not my intended audience. Some neighbors think my little porch haunt is too scary for trick 'r treaters. Granted every year a couple of youngsters don't get any closer than the other side of the street. Last year, I heard a dad tell his crying son, "This is what you wanted. To be scared on Halloween!" Most kids seem to relish in the spirit of Halloween and one declared, "I'm not afraid. I know it's fake." I replied calmly, "You are going to make him angry and he's going to follow you home." For a split second, the kid looks back at my zombie and places that image in the darkest corner of his room. "Nah. He's made of rubber, " he says only half-smiling now.
I question every (public) choice I make for Halloween and realize that some parents will not like it. But I guess they'll be staying home on Halloween night. Any parents out there? What do you think?
The American Scream
From the same director/producer of the critically-acclaimed hit documentary Best Worst Movie (2009), The American Scream is an unconventional look at the Halloween cultural phenomenon of homemade haunted houses and the enthusiasts behind the scenes. Filmed in the sleepy enclave of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, The American Scream follows the creative minds behind three local homemade haunts and their passionate - and sometimes harrowing - efforts in igniting their town’s Halloween spirit each year. It airs tonight on the Chiller channel.
eHow Spark’s Spooktacular Spark Contest
Creating a DIY costume? Hosting a Halloween party? Transforming your home into a haunted house? Upload your Halloween projects to eHow Spark and enter for your chance to win an American Express gift card up to $200. eHow Spark is a social sharing tool, where you can get inspired, manage your projects, and share your accomplishments.Contest details here: http://www.ehow.com/blog/spooktacular-spark-contest/. Deadline is November 1, 2012. Happy Halloween!
Halloween Cocktails
This is Halloween weekend 2012 which means that all the parties will be happening tonight! Celebrate with one of these ghoulish cocktails.
The Cider Spider Martini
The inspiration for this came from a swanky cocktail bar in Vegas. However, I switched the bourbon and added fresh cider to cut down the strength a touch. The recipe calls for real maple syrup, and because of it's intense sweetness, a little goes a long way!
1 oz Knob Creek bourbon
2 oz unfiltered fresh apple cider
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice (must be fresh)
splash of maple syrup to taste
two shakes of lemon bitters
Place all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake violently and strain into a prepared glass (rub a lemon along the edge of the glass, then dip in maple or raw sugar). Garnished it with chunk of black-colored ice.
The Bloody Rita
I love the bloody margaritas you see this time of year, but typically the blood is made with corn syrup - yuck. I make a fresh cranberry sauce tinted with a touch of red food coloring. The red color is incredibly realistic, consistency is perfect, and the sweet cranberry taste adds a richness to the margarita.
Jose Cuervo Golden Margarita with Gran Marnier, chilled
1/2 bag (6oz) fresh cranberries, rinsed
4 drops red gel food coloring
In a small saucepan, bring water, sugar and cranberries to boil. Cook until the cranberries pop and release their juices, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and carefully strain through a sieve to remove skins (discard skins). Return the cranberry liquid to the saucepan and continue to cook on low heat for another 5-10 minutes longer to reduce the sauce to a thicker consistency. Remove from heat and add the red gel coloring and stir to thoroughly incorporate. Let cool completely and transfer to a squeeze bottle. Refrigerate at least 2 hours to thicken the sauce. To serve, fill a glass with jagged ice cubes then pour the margarita in. Using the squeeze bottle, rim the inside edge with the cranberry blood, then drizzle some over the ice.
Zombie Pumpkins!
With less than a week to go before the big night, now is a good time to get started on your pumpkin carving. Hopefully you've selected your perfect pumpkin(s) and are ready for inspiration. Head over to ZombiePumpkins.com for the best and most unique pumpkin patterns. A low-cost membership gets you access to 294+ patterns that you can instantly download, print, and carve (and, no, your email will not end up on some horrible spam list). This year's frightful theme is Age of the Zombie Pumpkins and it features a terrifying winged jack-o-lantern mascot. (Also make sure to check out their shop for an assortment of shirts, stickers, and pumpkin carving tools.)
www.ZombiePumpkins.com
To keep your pumpkin fresh for the next five days, give it a dunk in a bleach solution! Mix 1 tsp bleach to 1 gallon cold water, dunk the carved pumpkin for at least an hour, turn upside down to drain until dry. Pour some of the solution into a spray bottle and mist the inside daily but do not let the water collect. (You can also try commercial preservatives like Pumpkin Fresh.) For more info visit the peculiar site My Science Project.
Halloween Light Shows
I love the trend to "decorate" a house for Halloween with light shows! Here are some of my favorites.
This first video features a perfect background and a series of "RIP" tombstones in the foreground. LOVE IT (although the song is terrible):
This video features a simple yet INCREDIBLE projection - created with just one very powerful projector, careful placement, and lots of creativity:
Even if you don't have a house to decorate, how about a series of pumpkins?
Freshening up the Halloween Playlist
With Halloween party weekend quickly approaching, it's time to take another look at that playlist you dust off each year. You know the one that begins with the Monster Mash and ends with Thriller. It's true that the heyday of novelty Halloween songs has long past us, but the last few years have seen a trickling of fun releases. Below are some suggestions for freshening up that Terror Tunes collection (almost all are available on iTunes).
If you like Monster Mash (Bobby Pickett),
try... The Ghoulie Hop by Counting Crow
If you like Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.),
try... It's a Haunted House by Brian Asselin & Eric Disero
If you like Something in My House (Dead or Alive),
try... Zydrate Anatomy by the cast of Repo! The Genetic Opera
If you like Pet Semetary (The Ramones),
try... Buried Alive by Creature Feature
If you like Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival),
try... Dr. Demon and the Robot Girl by Captain Clegg & the Night Creatures,
or Return of the Living Dead by Ghoultown
If you like Bela' Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus),
try... No One Believes Me by Kid Cudi
If you like Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo),
try... Monster (In My Pants) by Fred Schneider
If you like I Put a Spell on You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins),
try... It's Your Voodoo Working by Janiva Magness
If you like Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper),
try... Buried Alive by Burning Retna
If you like anything from Midnight Syndicate,
try... Halloween by Two Steps from Hell
(FYI, Midnight Syndicate's Carnival Arcane is an absolute must-own!)
If you like Devil In My Car (The B-52's),
try... Dead Walker Texas Ranger by Sleeping With Sirens
If you like Thriller (Michael Jackson),
try... Thriller (The DiscoTech Remix) by Michael Jackson
Note: This fun remix is NOT available for purchase, so you'll have to search the internet if you really want it!
And finally just because the entire album is about zombies, check out Zombie Girl's Blood, Brains and Rock 'n' Roll. Go Zombie!
So the guys behind Pushing Daisies have rebooted The Munsters as a new series called Mockingbird Lane. They toned down the stylized makeup but not the overall feel based on the teaser below. After spending a reported $10 million on the pilot (which is 43 minutes long) and the brass at NBC has decided not to pick up the series after all, but as treat, they are airing the pilot as a Halloween special this Friday, October 26th. This is probably the one and only chance you'll get to see this so set your DVRs now.
Treehouse of Horror, Collection III
The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, Collection III is available to download now on iTunes (six episodes for $9.99)! Unfortunately this is a strictly digital release so no DVD (unless you purchase each of the individual seasons on DVD). This was spotted on the terrifyingly terrific blog HalloweenAddict.com ~ THANK YOU for the heads up. (Note: if you are buying only specific episodes, please be aware that iTunes mislabeled episodes 3 and 6).
The Witch's House
Beware the Witch's House in Beverly Hills, CA! The Spadena House was built in 1921 to house dressing rooms and offices for a Culvert City studio. It was moved to its present location in 1934 and converted to a private home. With its pointy, lopsided roof, tiny windows and stucco with a distressed paint job this landmark building even features an intentionally overgrown garden and a moat-like pond.
Photo by Keri Kilgo
Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights
The Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights is the San Francisco Bay Area's BEST haunted attraction – yes, even better than the Pirates of Emerson!
First off, the attraction is located on the grounds of the legendary Winchester Mystery House, a real mansion in the heart of San Jose where much paranormal activity has been documented. This sprawling house has been the subject of several documentaries, a Ghost Adventures special, and even an upcoming movie. Its bizarre history and that of Sarah Winchester is mind-boggling. (I can personally attest to its being haunted. When I last visited the house, a door in the ballroom opened in front of my eyes. The docent confirmed that the door in question is kept locked. Creepy!)
The haunted maze, called Curse of Sarah Winchester: Resurrection, features over 100 live actors and is built around the periphery of the house. Every imaginable detail is thoughtfully produced. Scene after scene introduce us to fully realized visions of mayhem or beautifully detailed Halloween landscapes, and of course, everything is blanketed by eerie fog. I won't give away any of the frights inside, but they are highly effective and always unexpected. Even a seasoned veteran like myself was left rattled and awe-struck.
The ticket price ($45!) is likely to scare away many patrons but rest in peace that you are getting your money's worth. You can even re-enter the maze if you like, which I'm told "changes"several times a night. Beyond the haunted maze, you also get the rare chance to take a self-guided tour through the mansion itself... in the dark... with only a tiny souvenir flashlight to aid you. (Typically strict docents lead tour groups through the house.) As I walked through, I found myself straying from my friends. It was positively dreadful to be in that mansion all alone even for a few minutes.
This is the MUST-ATTEND haunt of the season! For more information, visit the Winchester Mystery House site.
Paranormal Activity 4: Review
Paranormal Activity 4 is such a waste of time, and you should avoid at all costs – but you probably already knew that. Same tired formula, with a bland tween cast and almost zero scares. The freshness, tension, and crazy ending that Paranormal Activity 3 delivered is completely undermined by this underdeveloped "story" (can it even be called a story?), and characters that have no development or personality. The story goes absolutely nowhere, is incredibly dull (literally someone left the camera running and called it a movie), and then there's the completely implausible twist with the kid. OMG WHATEVER. This is a paycheck-filmmaking at its worst and clearly meant to be a money-grab. The biggest disappointment in horror films in years and certainly the last nail on the coffin for this franchise. Never again.
American Horror Story: Asylum
American Horror Story: Asylum premiered tonight and already, this is a very different show. The pace was absolutely chaotic and shook the viewers into letting go of season one and jumping right into this new chapter. And it is incredibly ambitious: how will they tie the zealous nun, evil scientist, lunatics, monsters in the woods, and probably most surprising of all – aliens – into a coherent story is anyone's guess. This show continues to be a horror movie fan's dream come true (but clearly not for everyone else as early reviews have indicated). And as we guessed back in February when the very first teaser poster came out, Asylum's location is inspired by the infamous and very real Waverly Hills Sanatorium (complete with the tuberculosis and death tunnel).
AtmosFearFX & Eerie Elegance
For you techies out there that want to take your decorating to the next level, check out AtmosFEARfx's DVDs. These feature dreadful animated scenes that are meant to be projected on to walls or windows with an impressive selection that features zombies, classic movie monsters, and my favorite, blood-dripping walls. You simply pop the DVD into a player, connected to a projector and let the terror ensue. You will need all the tech hardware (like the projector which your IT department may let you borrow if you ask nicely), but you can also just play it on a large screen TV. They even have a couple of options that you can run through your iPhone.
Eerie Elegance also features a cool spectral video called Ghost in Chains which you can download for $5. The effect can be enhanced with fog which really furthers the misty, wispy feel of the moaning ghost! (While you are at it, pick up a copy of the excellent Enhanced Eerie Elegance, a must-have book featuring recipes, entertaining ideas, and decor.)
Target Halloween Bins
Dedicated enthusiasts know you MUST store your Halloween treasures in orange bins which are only available for very limited time (strangely a week or two before Halloween). This is the week to run to Target and load up on storage bins at only $7. The clear ones make it easy to see through, but they tend to crack easily (especially after baking in an attic all summer long). I have the opaques shown below and they have survived a 12 foot drop!
Stolloween's Wrought Iron Fence
The incredibly talented folks over at Stolloween have been posting tutorials for making great Halloween decor, including this Faux Wrought Iron Fence. The best part is the clever and safe trick to make the pointed ends, which inevitably some sugar-crazed trick 'r treater will try to climb.
Faux Wrought Iron Fence Tutorial
While their Etsy shop is closed for this season, check back next year (around June-July - add it to your calendar NOW) for their incredible selection of papier mache pumpkins.
Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2012
Universal Studio's Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood, CA is one of the best produced horror attractions. This year they are featuring a Walking Dead Terror Tram, a Texas Chainsaw maze, a Silent Hill maze, the creepy La Llorona Maze, plus scare zones, shows and modified rides. Take a look at these fun walk-through videos.
Sinister: Review
Sinister is trying to follow in the footsteps of last year's incredibly divisive Insidious (which I found scary, and appreciated the old-school vibe and practical effects). Sinister is going for the same feel, but the tone is pitch black, full of muted dread, and very grim images (like a family dangling from nooses). Sinister works on a subconscious level, has an incredible score, and Ethan Hawke as a scream queen was an audacious choice. Yet it's not an enjoyable film and never quite reaches critical mass to be scary.
Ultimately, the plot stalls and the writers don't really know how fully develop the interesting mythology they created. And even though this is a horror film, the characters do implausible things or over/under react unrealistically. The director approaches this as a family drama (but doesn't develop the characters) and relies on the trappings of a horror film (but doesn't develop the plot). The camera annoyingly lingers far too long on elements that should be just a momentary scare. And then there's the plot hole from hell that sets up the ending. Again, the writers set up "the rules" for the antagonist and then break them with no clear explanation.
Autumn Hard Ciders
Autumn apples are the best, and there's no better way to enjoy the apple than in a wonderful crisp hard cider. And it seems cider is taking off as an alternative to beer or wine as more manufacturers are getting in the game:
Ace Cider, based in the Sonoma (wine) County has been making cider for 15 years and most commonly served on tap around Northern California. Their unique blends include a pumpkin cider that's very pumpkin-y but has a slight aftertaste.
Woodchuck Cider is made in Vermont and this cider house rules! Their incredibly nuanced and rich flavors are hard to beat and for a limited time they have an incredible Private Reserve Pumpkin Cider that is incredible difficult to find outside of the Eastern states. If you are willing to buy it online and pay the hefty shipping fee, you can find it at Lueken Big Town Liquors.
New on the national market is Angry Orchard. Their apple ginger cider is easily their best tasting offering with spicy notes and a smooth finish. The wicked tree illustration is just an added perk. Also look for their Iceman and Strawman special editions.
2012 Costume Shopping Guide
For those of you who will continue hitting the snooze button on costume shopping until the absolute last minute, HalloweenCostumes.com has got you covered. In fact, standing out this Halloween doesn’t have to be a labor of love. It’s quicker and easier than you’d think, especially when you consider doing your Halloween shopping from the comfort of your home. To help you out, here's an overview of the star-studded, funny, scary and trendy lineup of top 2012 Halloween costumes!
Top Costumes for the Kiddos
1. Superhero Costumes - Last year, superhero blockbusters popped up more times than Robin could say, “Holy [insert topical word] Batman!” in the Adam West days. That’s right; once again Hollywood has blazed a trail for a host of winning superhero costumes.
2. Girly vs Creepy and Everything Between - An interesting new trend in popular girl’s costumes is the melding of “creepy/cute” and everything in between. All across the spectrum, from ultra-creepy looks like gothic ragdolls and zombies to the “ultra-feminine” world of colorful cupcakes, frilly monsters and animals, these costumes are sure to be seen this year.
3. Angry Birds - Last year’s surprise success of angry birds had retailers scrambling to replenish the shelves. This year, with Angry Birds Space and two new characters hitting the scene, flocks of these tunic-style costumes are sure to be flying off the shelves.
4. Star Wars - With the release of the Star Wars saga in 3D, this storied franchise will be popular again in 2012, especially among children. These costumes make a smart addition for homes with several growing children, because they never lose their relevance and make great hand-me-downs year after year.
Top Costumes for Adults
1. Zombies - From pub crawls to the continued popularity of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” zombie popularity continues to spread in 2012. Another twist to consider is going as a zombie politician or celebrity! Whether gory, or “sexy-scary,” there are options for every kind of look.
2. Monsters - With the growing popularity of club culture and electronic music continuing to gain momentum, club fashion continues to influence Halloween costume preferences this year. For women, 2012 is the prime year for neon monsters, wild colors, whacky tights, fur leg warmers and candy-colored wigs.
3. Superheroes - Like parent, like child. The rising “comic culture” will translate into adult costumes as well, as the avengers make appearances at Halloween parties across the nation. Women catsuits, with their flattering sillhoettes, will also be a major go-to costume this year.
4. Costume T-Shirts - These make great costumes for last-minute shoppers who want to do something for Halloween, but don’t necessarily want to strain themselves. With reasonable pricing and complete versatility, these costumes (such as a pirate) are sure to find a place in the night scene this year.
Twisted Cakes
Debbie Goard is a macabre artist as her book Twisted Cakes illustrates. I have never seen such a wicked collection of confectionary in my life and DEFINITELY not for the faint of heart. Through full color pictures she shows you step-by-step how to recreate these fiendish cakes, the recipes for success, a rundown of the necessary tools and even full-sized templates stuffed in an envelope in the back. This is a must-own for Halloween enthusiasts. (Even if you are not a baker, at least you can show your baker friend how to make you a twisted cake for your Halloween party.)
Digital Dudz: Interactive Costumes
Many guys really hate wearing costumes, so here's a perfect solution for tech geeks who hold their iPhones close to their heart. You can order a specially designed shirt from Digital Dudz, download an app, tape your phone to said shirt, and create an interactive element on that shirt. In the sample below, this poor soul's eyeball twitches around with a tap or a squeeze of the earphone remote.
Gooseberry Patch: A Ghastly-Good Halloween
This year's Gooseberry Patch Halloween book offers more than 200 family-friendly recipes with a healthy dose of country charm. I love the small-town traditions that this series evokes – simple recipes, decor ideas and costumes without the slightest hint of pretentiousness. Every page captures yummy edibles that truly make you want to dive right in.
Halloween Books
There's been quite a few Halloween books published this year, and I'll be adding some reviews of the notable releases.
Artful Halloween by Susan Wasinger
Ms. Wasinger is crafter who believes in handmade projects and has put together a good-looking book. It does seem to lack some overall cohesiveness, as the projects seem somewhat scattershot (kitschy stitchery, dimestore costumes, elegant decor and table settings, pumpkin non-carving). I'm not certain what audience this is ultimately aimed at since most crafters choose a particular medium to work with. Nonetheless many of the 31 projects are appealing, and like most successful crafts books, it will inspire the reader to explore.
Halloween Treats by Annie Rigg
This is cute, pint-size book offers a "greatest hits" collection of recipes for now ubiquitous treats like severed finger cookies, meringue bones, cobweb & mummy cupcakes. The photography is beautiful, however, the recipes have only been minimally adapted for American audiences so some of the directions are somewhat perplexing on first read. Caster sugar? Preheat the oven to Gas 4? Fruit pasties? Come on publisher. Halloween is a quintessential American holiday. You couldn't give this lovely styled book a quick rewrite?
Chicagoween's Franken Plaza
Daley Plaza is at the heart of downtown Chicago and during October it transforms into Franken Plaza for Chicagoween, a citywide celebration of Halloween featuring aerial entertainers, fire dancers, pumpkin arts, and more. They even dye their fountain orange! I love the way the natural light gives the wading pool all kinds of colors from crimson to purplish depending on the time of day. If only more cities put this kind of effort into Halloween!
Thank you Heather for this great pic!
© Russell Bassman via Flickr
A Haunting
After being cancelled four years ago, Discovery is bringing the series "A Haunting" back to life! The new 5th season premieres next Friday, October 12 on their Destination America channel (formerly the Plant Green channel). The Discovery network also owns Animal Plant which cancelled "The Haunted" series. That series painfully and absurdly worked animals into the main story. I suspect that the production team behind both shows was the same, and Discovery finally came to their senses.
V/H/S: Review
While the found footage horror movie genre has been relatively exhausted, V/H/S is an example of how to do it right – and a perfect film for a dark October evening. This anthology film offers five short stories, blending many sub-genres that will appeal a broad spectrum of dedicated genre fans. The project was conceived and produced by Brad Miska, the editor-in-chief of horror website Bloody-Disgusting.com, and directed by a six up-and-coming horror directors. There is a definite retro vibe running through the movie (most obvious in the title) and some of the segments give the impression that these directors grew up on the same kind of horror that I did (influences of David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Dario Argento, and Stephen King are clearly present). Unfortunately, the efficiency of storytelling leaves a little too much to the imagination, and the acting is less than spectacular, but nonetheless, it's entertaining and satisfying. The film has been available via VOD for a few weeks and opens in a limited theatrical release this weekend.
(The official poster is the one with the skull but there's several alternative posters floating around the internet. The haunted house poster is my absolute favorite – probably because that was my favorite segment.)
P.S. Horror anthology films tend to draw the ire of genre audiences so very few have been produced. Other notable films include Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, Trick 'r Treat, 3 Extremes, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and Tales from the Darkside. For a full list of other titles, visit IMDB.
Frankenweenie: Review
I absolutely loved Tim Burton's Frankenweenie - his best film in years and an all-around great time at the movies. It was beautifully designed in the way that only Tim Burton can do, unexpectedly touching, and loaded with references to classic horror movies. Definitely won't give anything away, but will say the third act had the kid in me jumping with delight. It's an instant classic!
Halloween on TV
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIII
Program your DVRs now and don't miss this 23rd installment featuring "The Greatest Story Ever Holed", "UNnormal Activity", and "Bart & Homer's Excellent Adventure".
Sunday 10/7 on FOX
Halloween Wars
Elaborate Halloween displays are created by five teams consisting of pumpkin carvers, candy makers and cake designers, who are competing for a $50,000 grand prize.
Sunday 10/7 on the Food Network
Halloween Crazier
Unique Halloween activities around the country are spotlighted. Included: an abandoned mental hospital that became a haunted attraction in Spring City, Pa.; a zombie-infested 5K race in Darlington, Md.; an underwater pumpkin-carving contest in Damariscotta, Maine.
Sunday 10/07 on the Travel Channel
Halloween Tricked Out
Halloween displays from across the country are visited. Among the highlights: a West Virginia man who carves 3000 pumpkins; a New Jersey dairy farm that boasts a terrifying hayride; a Florida couple who bring the spooky decor inside; and a North Carolina corn maze.
Friday, October 12 on HGTV
Ray Villafane's Pumpkins
Ray Villafane's Pumpkins book is the must-have inspiration for pumpkin carvers everywhere. His creations have been featured on the Food Network Challenge, Halloween Wars, and even the Martha Stewart Show (who called him the "Michelangelo of pumpkin carving"). The softcover photo book is full-color and features incredible pictures of his creations with the occasional close-up of spectacular details. This is a fantastic addition to any Haunted Library. See more of his work (and products) at villafanestudios.com.
SyFy's Face Off & Hot Set
As I unpack the Halloween storage bins, I've been watching SyFy's Face Off which is a reality competition in which aspiring make-up artists compete to have "the top look". For the Halloween enthusiast, it's fun to see how masks are made and the various techniques for layering colors, materials, and working with costumes as a whole. And there's always plenty of inspiration for costumes. I think this would work better as documentary series, but I don't think SyFy would find that edgy enough.
Now those same producers are taking the competition factor further with the wonderfully odd Hot Set in which aspiring set designers compete for the top look. For the yard haunters, it's interesting to note how scenery is constructed, how to transform cheap trash into beautifully horrific focal points, and how critical lighting can be. (Nothing decorates faster and more intensely than colorful flood lights!) It's definitely given me some ideas to perk up my display. Again, this would have been so much better as a documentary where they visit actual movie sets under construction, but SyFy wants a broad appeal.
Making Monsters
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Never Tried Tomato Pie? Then Get Yourself to Utica Right Now
It's not pizza and it's not pie. But this delicious object of hyper-regional obsession reaches its apotheosis at an upstate New York sausage shop
By Hawk Krall
Hawk Krall
Welcome to Hawk’s Illustrated America, a monthly series following illustrator Hawk Krall’s journeys through the back roads of the U.S. in search of our country’s most obscure and delicious regional specialties.
A lot of people don’t get tomato pie, the hyper-regional, served-cold, thick-spongy-crust-pizza-bread more commonly sold out of bakeries than pizzerias. But for those of us who grew up with it, it’s a magical thing: a masterful balance of pillowy dough, slightly sweet sauce, and a savory dusting of parm or romano cheese, best eaten cold out of the box, maybe even on the hood of your car.
Growing up in the Philadelphia area, tomato pie was one of those things that was just always around, and everyone had a strong opinion about who made the best. Later in life, I was shocked to learn that what I called tomato pie was virtually unknown across the country, save for a few scattered regions like central New York and parts of New England. Tomato pie is seemingly everywhere and nowhere; I've tried it in Delaware, New Jersey, and 90-year-old bakeries in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania. I've had "pizza strips" in Rhode Island (virtually the same thing, but cut into strips), and oddball variations like Florida's Cuban-influenced scachatta, a specialty of Tampa.
Save for a few scattered regions like central New York and parts of New England, tomato pie is virtually known across the country. It's seemingly everywhere and nowhere.
After a lifetime of eating it, I can honestly say the tomato pie at Roma’s, an out-of-the-way sausage shop on an industrial strip of Utica, New York, is the best I’ve ever had.
For such a simple product, tomato pie is made in wildly different ways across the country. Some doughs are thick and almost undercooked. Others are charred and blistered, which is delicious, but takes away a bit of the definitive sponginess that differentiates tomato pie from a Brooklyn grandma slice or Sicilian pizza. Sauces vary from savory and herb-centric to some so sweet they’re rumored to contain grape jelly.
Roma’s crust is nice and thick, with a nice crispness, but not charred or oily. It’s still light and airy in the middle, with just enough sponginess, but not raw or doughy in the least. And the sauce is incredible, layered on thick—half an inch in some spots—where lesser bakeries slap on a layer so thin you can see the dough underneath. Roma isn’t shy with the “shake cheese” either; the mix of Romano and Parmesan liberally covers every slice.
Like a lot of the best spots down my way, Roma Sausage & Deli looks more like a warehouse than a pizzeria, on a semi-industrial strip of rust-belt Utica. It’s half retail store, half commercial sausage purveyor, with a line of delivery trucks outside. They sell a standard variety of Italian-American products, with the bakery counter on one side, where boxes of the magical tomato pie are stacked 25 high, ready to be instantly passed into the hands of waiting customers.
This is not a pizzeria; there are no tables or chairs. The only dining option is al fresco, on the hood of your car (not an uncommon sight in front of Roma), because if you open that box before you get home, there is no way you are not eating a slice of that beautiful tomato pie.
Maria Broccoli, who runs Roma with her husband Steven, gave me a rundown of the shop’s history. Steven grew up in a meat packing family and spent most of his life in the food service business before branching out on his own with Roma in 1999. It started as a sausage maker and distributor for the Utica region, but two years later branched out into bread and baking as well, and decided to add tomato pie to the repertoire. As Maria puts it, tomato pie has “been around [the Utica area] forever,” and the business took off like crazy.
Maria also filled me in on what makes Roma’s pie so special. Rather than relying on a standard recipe, Steven did his homework; experimenting with different doughs, sauces, and techniques for about a year before settling on what he thought made the best tomato pie. Lesser pies can feel sort of haphazardly thrown together—not a shocker for a product that was likely originally just a use for scraps of dough and extra sauce. But Steven perfected a fairly complicated process for the dough that involves specific proofing times and several separate trips into the oven. The sauce is also tweaked to shine at room temperature and stand on its own as the main flavor of this simple product. Roma doesn’t distribute their tomato pie to other shops or retailers like a lot of bakeries do. They don’t deliver or ship. The only way you’re getting it is by walking in the door.
Roma doesn’t distribute their tomato pie to other shops or retailers like a lot of bakeries do. They don’t deliver or ship. The only way you’re getting it is by walking in the door.
Even in tomato pie hot spots, people don’t know much about its history or where it first appeared in the U.S. I asked Maria if she knew who made the first in Utica, and she laughed. “I have no idea” she said, but she did point me toward Oscungizzi’s, which started making five-cent slices of tomato pie in their basement in 1910, but now is more of a pizzeria that serves hot “upside down pizza” (square, with cheese under the sauce, a related but very different product that we also have here in Philadelphia).
My theory has always been that tomato pie is an American version of Sicilian sfincione, a similar flatbread sold on the streets of Palermo at room temperature, dusted with breadcrumbs and anchovy. Swap a few ingredients but keep the general sense of thrift and you have a simple, cheap street food staple of the Italian-American communities of the early 20th century.
Regardless of exactly how tomato pie got to Utica, Roma cranks out their stellar version like there's no tomorrow. The shop often runs out before closing time at 4:30, and long lines form during holidays and sporting events such as the Super Bowl.
Maria says they are looking into a way to ship their tomato pie all over the country. “We get TONS of requests for this on Facebook,” she says. “But we would only do it in a way that would maintain the integrity of the product. Keeping the quality is the most important thing.” They are also looking into some T-shirts for fans, much easier to ship than food. Maria also stresses that anyone coming in for tomato pie should try their sausage. They do standard hot and sweet italian, as well as a Sicilian sausage made with provolone cheese and red wine. I tried both when I was there, and they are indeed delicious. One more reason to head back.
Roma Sausage & Deli
2029 Bleecker Street, Utica, NY 13501
Hawk Krall is an artist, illustrator, and former line cook with a lifelong obsession for unique regional cuisine, whose work can be seen in magazines, newspapers, galleries, and restaurants all over the world. He focuses on editorial illustration, streetscapes, and pop-art style food paintings.
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Ipsidy, Skypatrol Seek to Establish Mobile Payments Ecosystem for Truckers
A big new partnership is poised to lock truck drivers in Latin America into a mobile payments network secured with biometric authentication.
Photo by Robson Hatsukami Morgan on Unsplash
Ipsidy, the provider of a recently launched mobile facial recognition app, has teamed up with Skypatrol, the provider of a GPS-based truck fleet management solution that supports over a million vehicles across Latin America and the Caribbean. The companies have announced a joint solution called SkyGuru, a mobile wallet platform for truck drivers that will also enroll the cooperation of Skypatrol’s gas station and merchant partners.
Truck drivers will be able to make payments using virtual cards, to which employers can add value remotely, while merchants can use Ipsidy’s mobile POS solution; and the drivers’ identities can be authenticated using facial recognition technology. Skypatrol’s GPS technology, meanwhile, can direct drivers to participating merchants while they’re on the road.
As the companies explained in a statement announcing their solution, “The system is designed to reduce fraud and paperwork, simplify cash management and allow the fleet operator to track and control the use of their resources.”
The system could also effectively create a closed loop economy dominated by SkyGuru’s architecture, with a strong incentive for merchants and particularly gas stations to get onboard. That would position the platform as a key component of the Latin American transport market, and may set an example for other such payment platforms to come.
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Always Atlantic Starr
Watch the exact moment that convinced Queen to recruit Adam Lambert
1 November 2019, 16:50 | Updated: 4 November 2019, 00:07
By Giorgina Ramazzotti
Queen's Roger Taylor has confirmed the exact video the band saw of Adam Lambert that convinced them the singer could pay tribute to their legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury.
The drummer confirmed it was a performance when Adam Lambert was a contestant on season eight of American Idol that spurred him to contact his bandmates saying he may have found a new lead singer for Queen.
Speaking on Good Morning America, Roger Taylor said of the 2009 incident: “A friend of mine called me up and said, ‘I’ve just seen the most amazing singer on American Idol.’
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“I checked it out and [Lambert] was singing 'Whole Lotta Love' by Led Zeppelin and just blowing it away. Fantastic.”
Watch the full performance above.
Adam Lambert appeared on season eight of American Idol. Picture: Fox/YouTube
Roger and the rest of Queen were so impressed with the performance that they contacted American Idol directly regarding Adam Lambert.
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The band asked to be on the show to perform with him, seeing it as a unique opportunity to see if the young singer would gel with the rest of Queen.
Roger continued: “We got in touch, and we were then asked to do the finale of Idol, which we flew over to do with the two finalists and we just got on magically with Adam.”
Watch the heartbreaking final video footage of Freddie Mercury
Brian May also spoke of the time he first encountered Adam Lambert: the guitarist was in the process of drawing up a list of singers who could replace Paul Rogers, who had performed with the band from 2004 to 2009.
Adam Lambert and Brian May perform onstage during the 2019 Global Citizen Festival: Power The Movement in Central Park on September 28, 2019. Picture: Getty
Speaking during a Queen press conference in 2014 he reflected: "That [audition recording] rippled around the world," the guitarist said.
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"I had thousands of people send me the video, saying, 'You have to see this guy!' So it immediately put [him] in there. And then we came to see [Adam perform]. That's where it began."
Following on from the American Idol performance, Queen reconnected with Adam and he joined them onstage for an eight-minute medley at the 2011 MTV European Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland.
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"There was an immediate [chemistry]," May said.
Freddie Mercury performs on stage at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium on 13th July 1985 in London. Picture: Getty
"We get on personally and that counts for a lot. And we were awestruck by his instrument and the way he used it. And then when we went onstage it felt natural.
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"It didn't feel like we were trying to be anything that we weren’t."
The following summer in 2012, Adam Lambert joined Queen as a more permanent member touring Europe and playing dates in Russia and the rest - as they say - is music history.
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Donald Trump Called President Obama a ‘Lying N****r’?
While Trump has made no shortage of controversial comments, he did not publicly call the president the "N-word."
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Republican nominee Donald Trump called President Barack Obama a "lying n*****r" during a confrontation.
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Trump called Obama a lying n****r.
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It is hardly a secret that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made some racially-charged comments since he announced his White House bid. In fact, he infamously launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by calling Mexican people (among other things) criminals.
Trump has also made a virtual avalanche of negative comments about President Barack Obama, some of which have no doubt been racially derogatory — including questioning his American citizenship. In one instance in July 2016, Trump implied Russian president Vladimir Putin had used the slur against Obama — a claim for which there is no proof.
Regardless, on 8 August 2016, a web site that appears to be dedicated to nothing but generating fake news stories published a piece saying that Trump called Obama the racial slur after a strange back-and-forth, for which there is no record. HotGlobalNews.com claimed that Trump called Obama a Muslim and then the two had a confrontation, during which the racial slur was flung.
HotGlobalNews also claimed that this exchange resulted in a lawsuit over whether Trump is qualified to be president due to his racism. (Needless to say, the site didn’t provide any source citations or video for this alleged exchange.) The web site also has headlines claiming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will star in an upcoming “Star Wars” film, and that Trump has already started on the promised wall between the U.S. and Mexico — even though the 2016 election has yet to be decided.
There are no other publications that documented what by all measures would be explosive news that would, if true, dominate the news cycle. While there has been much discussion over Trump’s views on ethnicity, including the fact that he has the support of known white supremacist David Duke, there is no proof that Trump called the first African-American president such an incendiary word.
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Catch A Port Of Wipeout Pulse On PS2
By Siliconera Staff February 2, 2009
This news originally came out as a rumor, but the PlayStation 2 port of Wipeout Pulse is almost palpable. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has yet to announce it, but the USK (Germany’s ESRB equivalent) knows a thing or two about it. Recently, they rated it confirming that a Wipeout Pulse port is in development and perhaps on deck for a release soon.
Wipeout Pulse was originally released as a PSP game with online play as one of the main highlights. Downloadable expansion packs for Wipeout Pulse were also sold over the PlayStation Store. Since the PlayStation 2 version hasn’t been given a formal unveiling we don’t know if either of these features will carry over on the PS2.
If Sony is going to continue porting PSP games to the PlayStation 2 they mind as well shoot for some of the creative ones like Patapon. More people should have a chance to play Patapon.
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HOOQ Join Hands with Amazon Pay to Provide Exclusive Cashback Offers to Subscribers
By siliconindia | Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 06:48 Hrs
Amazon Pay, an online payment processing service joins hands with HOOQ, one of the largest video-on-demand services in Southeast Asia. With this association, HOOQ subscribers can get a hassle-free one-click subscription to their favourite international content using Amazon Pay. Along with this, the subscribers will also get an exclusive cashback of up to 40 percent on both the monthly and annual subscription packs.
Zulfiqar Khan, Managing Director, HOOQ India, comments, “Amazon Pay is known to be one of the most popular and trusted payment gateways amongst the Indian netizens. With our partnership with Amazon Pay, we aim to expand our reach and simultaneously provide ease of access to a vast portfolio of international and Hollywood content to our subscriber base. Amazon Pay users will now also have an option to explore an ever-refreshing library of exclusive content at an unparallel price point”.
HOOQ’s platform consists of over 10,000 hours of world-class international and Hollywood content, featuring shows like Killing Eve, Originals, The Big Bang Theory, The Flash, Gotham, Supergirl and movies like Hangover, The Intern, The Batman series, The Pursuit of Happyness to name a few. It has contents across various genres such as action, comedy, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy and more.
Manesh Mahatme, Director – Experience & Merchant Acceptance, Amazon Pay India, comments, “This partnership with HOOQ gives customers an added option of digital payments and reduces friction. With Amazon Pay, users can now pay securely for their subscription and enjoy a vast variety of video content”.
The partnership will help at reducing hassle in payments, ensuring smooth process and providing added benefits to the users. Users will receive the benefit of ‘one-click’ payment with a swifter check out process. Additionally, customers will receive the refunds faster than bank transfers or credit cards and also will have the facility to view the details of their transactions in an online statement.
Headquartered in Singapore, HOOQ is one of Asia’s largest and leading premium video OTT services. It delivers over 10,000 hours of best local, Hollywood and HOOQ Originals to customers anytime, anywhere and aims to make premium entertainment accessible to every Asian viewer through ample subscription options.
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Poisoning The Well - A Response To Privacy Concerns...
Facebook is paving the way for lax privacy controls and where Facebook leads others are bound to follow.
Trying to control how much others know about you is going to become increasingly difficult. Yes, you can adjust your privacy settings, but this process is becoming increasingly complex.
The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking - NYTimes.com
Users must decide if they want only friends, friends of friends, everyone on Facebook, or a customized list of people to see things like their birthdays or their most recent photos. To keep information as private as possible, users must select “only friends” or “only me” from the pull-down options for all the choices in the privacy settings, and must uncheck boxes that say information will be shared across the Web.
Even if you do all that, Facebook has introduced a backdoor:
...some information will no longer remain private because Facebook has also added a feature, called community pages, which automatically links personal data, like hometown or university, to topic pages for that town or university.
Foremski's Take: Every time Facebook makes a change in its privacy provisions, you have to go through it all again. It's a never ending battle, with Facebook eventually winning because its users will get fed up or forget that another privacy change has happened and that they need to review their privacy settings.
Other sites will be doing the same because they have to, in order to be able to offer their commercial partners access to precise demographic and behavioral data.
You can poison the well — list a bunch of false data.
You could change your occupation to "whale gynecologist." You can list unicorns as your favorite food. You could claim to be seven foot tall and your home town is Timbuktu. Fingers on a chalkboard is your favorite music. Or even better, change your age to 10 years old — there are strict rules about gathering data on children.
You can poison your data in such a way that your friends know it's a joke but Facebook, and others that don't know you, won't know.
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Environmental friendliness and long-term affordability are the main reasons for Vietnamese consumers who consider buying an electric car. According to the survey conducted by Rakuten Insight, about 92.74 percent of the Vietnamese respondents stated to prefer an electric car over a conventional one because it is environmentally-friendly.
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Rakuten Insight. (July 4, 2019). Main reasons to choose an electric car over a conventional car among Vietnamese in 2019 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 18, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027529/vietnam-main-reasons-for-favoring-an-electric-car/
Rakuten Insight. "Main reasons to choose an electric car over a conventional car among Vietnamese in 2019." Chart. July 4, 2019. Statista. Accessed January 18, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027529/vietnam-main-reasons-for-favoring-an-electric-car/
Rakuten Insight. (2019). Main reasons to choose an electric car over a conventional car among Vietnamese in 2019. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: January 18, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027529/vietnam-main-reasons-for-favoring-an-electric-car/
Rakuten Insight. "Main Reasons to Choose An Electric Car over a Conventional Car among Vietnamese in 2019." Statista, Statista Inc., 4 Jul 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027529/vietnam-main-reasons-for-favoring-an-electric-car/
Rakuten Insight, Main reasons to choose an electric car over a conventional car among Vietnamese in 2019 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027529/vietnam-main-reasons-for-favoring-an-electric-car/ (last visited January 18, 2020)
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Street closures on Commerce Street and N. 1st Street; multiple traffic impacts along the route during the week of March 18
Sections of North 1st Street and Commerce Street are closed for stormwater work. The contractor will begin sewer work on 11th Street east of Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Crews will continue sewer work along Division Avenue and expect to move to North I Street to North J Street. Underground work continues in front of Tacoma General Hospital along Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The contractor will start electrical trenching for signals on South 4th St. in between Broadway and Stadium Way. Crews continue to create pole foundations along Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
Construction and traffic closures on Commerce Street, North 1st Street, South 11th Street, Division Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. Way, South 4th Street, and Stadium Way.
Commerce Street: 7th St. to I-705 on-ramp – street closure. Commerce Street in between 7th Street and the I-705 onramp will be closed in both directions. To access I-705, follow the detour to South 9th Street and A Street. The contractor is installing a new stormwater system and bypass. The bypass will be placed on Broadway and go down the Spanish Steps. Beginning on March 25, work can occur day and night (24-hour construction).
North 1st Street from Tacoma Avenue to G Street – street closure. North 1st Street will be closed in both directions from Tacoma Avenue to G. St. to begin the stormwater work. North 1st Street will be open to one-way traffic from G. Street to Yakima. Access businesses on Division Avenue and G Street.
South 11th Street east of Martin Luther King Jr. Way – eastbound lane closure. The eastbound traffic lane from Martin Luther King Jr. Way to I Street will be temporarily closed. Please follow detours. One-way traffic westbound on 11th Street will be maintained. The contractor is installing a sewer line.
Division Avenue from Yakima Avenue to I Street – southbound lane closure. The southbound lane on Division is closed in between Yakima Avenue and I Street. The contractor expects to complete this work and then move to the next block, digging a trench across I Street and then continuing the sewer work from I Street to J Street. Two-way traffic is maintained. Crews are working on a sewer line.
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Stadium Way: southbound lane closure; use detours. Southbound on Stadium Way continues to be closed to traffic from Broadway to South 4th Street. Please follow the detours on St. Helens Avenue, Broadway and Tacoma Avenue one-way traffic going north on Stadium Way is open. The contractor is working on both water and storm drainage systems. Tacoma Public Utilities will start connecting customers on North E Street to the new water service.
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Christmas telethon longstanding holiday tradition in Eskasoni
Erin Pottie (erin.pottie@cbpost.com)
Destiny Sylliboy and Alexander Denny are shown performing as children with the help of the organizer of the Eskasoni Christmas Telethon organizer, Robert Stevens. - Contributed
ESKASONI, N.S. —
A Cape Breton tradition of gathering around the television to watch local performers sing songs of the holiday is upheld in the island’s largest Mi’kmaw community.
Eskasoni First Nation residents are not solely glued to a Maritimes’ broadcast, but instead their own community station where for more than 20 years a Christmas telethon has been staged.
Robert Stevens said back in 1997, he and fellow band members of The Relatives decided it was time for a telethon similar to others that were happening on the island.
The bass player and singer said their first broadcast was held on a community station known as Goly Vision and included pre-recorded entertainment, a live auction and televised numbers for phone-in donations.
What began as a one-time event has become an annual tradition that helps deliver toys, gifts and other items through Eskasoni’s welfare services leading up to Christmas.
Last year alone, the telethon raised nearly $19,600.
“The five of us actually decided that we should try because we have all the equipment that we need, the sound system and everything,” Stevens said.
“We all went around, me and the boys in the band, to places in Sydney to get some stuff for the auction — anything at all we were getting, really. We were stopping at any stores in town, not just in Sydney but in Eskasoni too and other reserves.”
Former host of the Eskasoni Christmas Telethon and storyteller and linguist Bernie Francis is shown singing and playing guitar.
Eskasoni Christmas Telethon
When: Sunday, starting at 1 p.m.
Where: Events happening at the Sarah Denny Cultural Denny; broadcast available on Eskasoni Television (ETV), Eskasoni’s Community Channel 14 and on the web
Program: Performances from various musical acts, live auction and phone-in donations
Benefactor: Supporting the community’s children and families in need
Among the early telethon performers were renowned Mi’kmaw fiddlers, the late Lee Cremo and the late Wilfred Prosper Sr.
The inaugural telethon also featured The Relatives which includes Stevens and his brother Darren (the group’s lead vocalist) and their cousin Tom Sylliboy, along with siblings Tom and Stan Johnson. The Johnsons’ cousin Derek Johnson joined the group a little while later.
Multiple award-winning fiddler Lee Cremo is shown during a performance at the Eskasoni Christmas Telethon in the late 1990s.
“We recorded bands and we had some fiddlers and karaoke too,” said Stevens. “We did about four or five years of recordings and then we stopped, and we’ve done it live ever since.”
Stevens said it was purely the success of the program led to its continuance.
“That’s how it started, and it’s been growing ever since,” he said.
“After that we had more people, more community members joining us and we had chiefs too. Our current chief, Leroy Denny, he was one who really started helping us out with more volunteers and all that stuff.”
This year’s telethon will be taking place the Sarah Denny Cultural Centre and will see the return of some pre-recorded performances along with an auction.
The programming begins Sunday at 1 p.m. and usually runs into the evening.
Stevens’ band has also inspired another musical group that performs in the telethon known as 2nd Generation. The band features Steven’s son, Allan, and two of Tom Sylliboy’s children. Liberal MP for Sydney-Victoria Jaime Battiste lends guitar and vocals to the group.
“They enjoy it,” said Stevens. “Everybody is looking forward to it. Everybody is glued to the TV. We have people calling in from like New Brunswick, Quebec and all parts of Nova Scotia.
“People come from other communities to show their support and do a little singing and all that stuff. Not just the native communities, but communities outside Eskasoni in general."
This year’s telethon begins Sunday at 1 p.m. with members of the public invited to stop by to see the broadcast in person. Chief Leroy Denny, along with his brothers, Dion and Walter, and Eskasoni community councillors will help host the program.
The fundraiser will air on ETV — Eskasoni’s television station (Channel 14) and is expected to be broadcast live through YouTube with a link available on the community’s Facebook page.
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by kingsjester June 29, 2018, 7:00 AM 3.9k Views 0 Votes 52 Comments
We are sick and tired of the DOJ giving Congress the runaround. As a separate branch of government, we have a right to get information. – Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
CNSNews.com reports that
In response to two specific questions–did the Department of Justice or the FBI spy on the Trump campaign, and did anyone in the Obama administration direct confidential informants to make contact with the campaign–Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday he was “not permitted to discuss any classified information.”
“Let me ask you this,” Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) asked Rosenstein.
“What did the DOJ or FBI do in terms of collecting information, spying or surveillance on the Trump campaign, be it via (FBI informant) Stefan Halper, or anybody else working on behalf of the agencies?” DeSantis asked Rosenstein.
“As you know, Congressman, I’m not permitted to discuss any classified information in an open setting, but I can assure you, we’re working with oversight committees and we’re producing all relevant evidence to allow them to answer this question,” Rosenstein replied.
DeSantis again: “Let me ask you this then: Did the Obama administration, anybody in the administration, direct anybody — Halper or anybody else — to make contact with anyone associated with the Trump campaign?
“As I said Congressman, I appreciate, obviously, the — I understand your interest, but I’m not permitted to discuss classified information,” Rosenstein said again.
“Well, we want the documents, and I know we’re in a back and forth on that,” DeSantis said. “But the American people need to know, were the counterintelligence powers of the Obama administration unleashed against Trump’s campaign — if that was done, was it done inappropriate?”
Strzok text message: ‘We’ll stop it’
One of the most incriminating text messages sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his lover Lisa Page was not made public until the Justice Department’s inspector general released his report on June 14.
But Rosenstein told the committee, “I want to assure you and the American people, we’re not withholding anything embarrassing.”
The FBI did not find the message, but the inspector general did, Rep. DeSantis noted.
“And so we’re asking you to produce stuff, and obviously we’re expecting a good faith effort,” DeSantis told Rosenstein. “You guys didn’t find it, and maybe someone else deleted it or something happened before you guys, but he was able to find it, you didn’t. So it was very disappointing to see that text message there.”
The text message was a response to FBI attorney Lisa Page, who wanted reassurance that Trump would never become president. Strzok replied, “No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
What “classified information”?
Classified because of what?
That it incriminates and illuminates the Deep State Democratic Operatives in the DOJ and FBI even further as regards their sanctioned operation to keep Donald J. Trump from becoming president?
At this point we can only speculate, because, as I have previously written, the DOJ and the FBI are purposefully dragging their feet in releasing the documents which the House of Representatives has requested.
Call me paranoid, but Dep. Director Rosenstein’s smugness in answering the tough questions thrown at him yesterday seemed to be the reaction of a professional bureaucrat, not someone interested in “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” to borrow a phrase from the opening of the “Superman” Television Series which I used to watch with my Daddy at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday mornings.
But, I digress…
I wonder what sort of incriminating revelations are hiding in the documents which they have not handed over, yet?
Evidence about Hillary Clinton’s E-mailGate and FoundationGate?
Hillary’s BFF Huma Abedin passing classified information to her relatives in the Muslim Brotherhood?
Information about the whole FISA Dossier Fiasco?
Conversations between the DOJ and FBI Hierarchy and the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, about the surveillance activities involving the Trump Campaign?
Smoochy-smoochy e-mails between Strzok and Page?
A picture of J. Edgar Hoover in a dress?
Just kidding. (Try to un-see that.)
As Trey Gowdy boldly said yesterday, it is time for the DOJ and FBI to produce the documents and time for Mueller to end his dog and pony show designed for no other purpose than to bring down the President of the United States of American and to overturn the will of the American People.
Think about this: A Deputy Director of the FBI basically told members of the House of Representatives that he did not know diddly-squat about the activities of those under him.
If you believe that, you might be interested in attending the new Maxine Waters School of Grace and Charm.
This country is indeed being purposefully divided by those behind all of these distractions designed to disrupt the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
It is time to call a halt to them and to get on with the business of Making America Great Again.
Until He Comes,
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1 February 1992 Laser intensity noise in a fiber optic gyroscope system due to signal feedback
Wei Jin; Brian Culshaw
Wei Jin,1 Brian Culshaw1
1Univ. of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)
Proceedings Volume 1585, Fiber Optic Gyros: 15th Anniversary Conf; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.135065
Event: OE Fiber, 1991, Boston, MA, United States
A theoretical and experimental treatment is presented for the feedback-dependent intensity-noise characteristics of a laser diode used in a FOG. The feedback induces an additional, time-varying noise signal in the laser output which has the same waveform as the Sagnac signal, and is amplified by as much as 13 dB. The effect of this intensity noise in the output of a 2D frequency-division multiplexed gyro is to introduce two additional terms.
Wei Jin and Brian Culshaw "Laser intensity noise in a fiber optic gyroscope system due to signal feedback", Proc. SPIE 1585, Fiber Optic Gyros: 15th Anniversary Conf, (1 February 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.135065
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Wei Jin, Brian Culshaw, "Laser intensity noise in a fiber optic gyroscope system due to signal feedback," Proc. SPIE 1585, Fiber Optic Gyros: 15th Anniversary Conf, (1 February 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.135065
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Research Catalogue 1884-2011
A COMPLETE summary of the the SPR Journals and Proceedings archive, containing research reports, analysis, book reviews and debate.
Contents are chronological by category. Keywords may be used to refine searches.
See below for brief content descriptions and right for a list of chapters. Click on links to explore categories.
Part One: Paranormal Abilities of the Living
1. Spontaneous Phenomena
In this section are to be found descriptions of personal experiences of naturally occurring psi or other anomalous phenomena, mainly as reported by members of the public. The most frequently reported seem to be precognitions, usually in the form of dreams interpreted as precognitive, and telepathic communications. Precognition became a major topic with the publication in the 1930s of books by JW Dunne and others, recording coincidences between dreams and actual events they seemed to precognise, which may have stimulated public interest in recording and reporting such events.
A number of reports deal with significant coincidences, apparitions (see also Section 08), psychokinesis, retrocognition and animal psi.
This section includes material dealing with such phenomena as stigmata, auras, religious visions and miracles, fairies and crop circles. Methodological papers relating to the investigation of spontaneous cases can also be found here.
keywords: spontaneous psi, precognition, dreams, telepathy, apparitions, psychokinesis, retrocognition, animal psi, stigmata, aura, crop circles
2. Volitional Psi
Reports of psi happening as a result of deliberate action and/or conscious intervention of the experients. Includes clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis, whether obtained by professional psychics or others (e.g., reports of metal-bending by ordinary people or apports and other feats credited to spiritual teachers), stage performances, magic, healing and pain control, dowsing, fire-walking or thoughtography.
keywords: volitional psi, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, magic, dowsing, fire-walking, photography
3. Experimental Psi
The largest category, reflecting the SPR’s interest in studying telepathic and other psychical phenomena under controlled conditions. Papers are concerned with experiments in telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, DMILS (direct mental interactions between living systems), and with methodological and theoretical issues.
keywords: experiments, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, DMILS, personality, methodology, theory
4. States Of Consciousness, Personality, Belief Systems
Papers relating to the study of consciousness and personality. Topics include anomalous states of consciousness: hallucinations, multiple personality, healing, memory, hypnagogia, the effects of drugs, dreams and dreaming, prodigies and out-of-body experiences.
keywords: psi, consciousness, altered states, personality, multiple personality, healing, hypnosis, dreams, out of body experiences, beliefs, witchcraft, magic, experiments, methodology, theory, xenoglossy
5. Theories and Speculations
Philosophical and theoretical issues raised by psi research, such as problems of investigative methodology. Papers range from notes on aspects of psi to philosophical essays on its implications and attempts to construct appropriate scientific models. Topics include the mind-body relationship and where psi fits with developments in physics. Papers devoted to sceptical debates, educational initiatives and terminology can also be found here.
keywords: theory, methodology, psi, consciousness, physics
Part Two: Evidence Suggestive of Survival of Bodily Death
6. Mental Mediumship and Cross Correspondences
Mental mediums occupied much of the Society's attention in the first three decades of the twentieth century. The principal subjects of investigation were Leonora Piper and Gladys Osborne Leonard. Papers relating to these and others are grouped under single sub-headings.
This work sometimes produced scripts that cross-referenced with each other in significant ways, the so-called Cross Correspondences. Papers that analyse this phenomenon are grouped separately.
keywords: mental mediumship, cross correspondences, automatic writing, telepathy, survival, altered states, personality
7. Physical Mediumship
The Society arrived too late to investigate Daniel Home, the most famous séance medium of the nineteenth century, but did publish some of the work done with him by the scientist William Crookes, also reminiscences by frequent sitters. Material can be found here on later séance mediums (those associated with physical phenomena such as rappings, table levitations, ‘ectoplasm’ and other psychokinetic anomalies). These include Eusapia Palladino, William Eglinton, Marthe Beraud (Eva C), Kate Goligher, Willi and Rudi Schneider, Mina ‘Margery’ Crandon, George Valiantine, Helen Duncan, Florence Cook, Carlos Mirabelli and Franek Kluski.
keywords: physical mediumship, psychokinesis, magic, cheating, slate writing, photography
8. Spontaneous Apparitions and NDEs
This extensive section includes reports of ghosts and apparitions, notably those that are identifiable or that appear to communicate at the time of death or a crisis. It includes the landmark Census of Hallucinations, whose findings were published in the Society's Proceedings in 1894, and papers on theories and investigative methodology.
The Society's publications contain a few early examples of near-death experiences and ‘death-bed visions’ described by the terminally ill. These are grouped together at the end of the section. Other reports describe a sense of presences, dreams and hallucinations that appear to carry veridical information or provide hints of survival of death. Limited material on Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) is found here.
keywords: apparitions, hauntings, near death experiences, EVP
9. Hauntings and Poltergeists
Poltergeists are included under ‘evidence suggestive of survival’, although in many cases the phenomenon can be considered an effect of living minds. Reports on hauntings (repeated sightings of the same apparition in a single location) can be found here. Discussions relating to the famous Borley Rectory case are grouped together.
keywords: hauntings, poltergeist
10. Reincarnation
In modern times, some SPR investigators have published case reports on individuals who claimed to remember a previous life. The phenomenon overlaps with reports of possession, which is covered in Section 4 (above, States of Consciousness, keyword multiple personality).
11. Survival Theories and Speculations
Papers in this section discuss aspects of the philosophical and methodological problems involved in survival research and the possibility of proving survival scientifically. Discussions cover: the possible nature of afterlife and the surviving consciousness; the quality of the evidence from psychical phenomena; survival in the context of religious and other belief systems.
keywords: survival, theory
Part Three: Reviews and Overviews
12. Book Reviews
Book reviews are divided by topic and listed in chronological order under topic headings. Some book reviews, particularly of the essay-review type, may be included in the main topic sections and can be identified by the keyword book review.
Book Reviews: Spontaneous and Volitional Psi
Book Reviews: Experimental Psi
Book Reviews: States Of Consciousness, Beliefs
Book Reviews: Theories and Speculations
Book Reviews: Mental Mediumship
Book Reviews: Physical Mediums
Book Reviews: Apparitions, Hauntings and Poltergeists
Book Reviews: Near-Death Experiences
Book Reviews: Reincarnation
Book Reviews: Survival Theories and Speculations
Book Reviews: Biographies and Tributes
13 : Periodicals, Conference Reports, Excerpta
Some journal articles summarise subjects being discussed by researchers in other countries. There are also a number of conference reports and extracts from publications of interest to psychical researchers, ranging from full summaries to brief mentions.
keywords: periodicals, conferences, excerpta
14 Biographies and Tributes
This section consists mainly of obituaries, but includes also a small number of reminiscences and tributes to researchers and supporters of psychical research living at the time of publication.
keywords: tribute, biography
SPR Administrative and Other Issues
This section lists such items as notices of SPR events, forthcoming books, available grants and scholarships, administrative and personnel changes, appeals, reports of international contacts and other matters of relevance to the membership.
keyword: SPR matters
I. Paranormal Abilities of the Living
1 Spontaneous Phenomena
2 Volitional Psi
3 Experimental Psi
4 States Of Consciousness, Personality, Belief Systems
5 Theories and Speculations
II. Evidence Suggestive of Survival of Bodily Death
6 Mental Mediumship and Cross Correspondences
7 Physical Mediumship
8 Spontaneous Apparitions and NDEs
9 Hauntings and Poltergeists
10 Reincarnation
11 Survival Theories and Speculations
III. Reviews and Overviews
12.1 Book Reviews: Spontaneous and Volitional Psi
12.2 Book Reviews: Experimental Psi
12.3 Book Reviews: States Of Consciousness, Beliefs
12.4 Book Reviews: Theories and Speculations
12.5 Book Reviews: Mental Mediumship
12.6 Book Reviews: Physical Mediums
12.7 Book Reviews: Apparitions, Hauntings and Poltergeists
12.8 Book Reviews: Near-Death Experiences
12.9 Book Reviews: Reincarnation
12.10 Book Reviews: Survival Theories and Speculations
121.11 Book Reviews: Biographies and Tributes
13 Periodicals, Conference Reports, Excerpta
15 SPR Administrative and Other Issues
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America and healthcare: A complicated affair
Pretty much everyone on ‘the Hill’ in D.C. agrees that reform of the American health system is badly needed, but that’s where the consensus ends. Healthcare has become the most partisan wedge issue in 21st century American politics, having already left an indelible mark on President Trump’s first 100 days in office.
Seven years and dozens of abolition votes, all predestined to be vetoed by the then President, stoked Republican opposition to Obama’s Affordable Care Act. ‘Replace and repeal’ became a rallying cry on the GOP presidential campaign trail but there was no agreement whether it would be undertaken in one fell swoop or as two separate actions.
The American Health Care Act’s failure to reach a vote was due to an unholy alliance of conservative Republicans (who objected to what they called ‘Obamacare Lite’) and Democrats, who decried the 24 million Americans estimated to lose their health insurance coverage under the new legislation.
Amendments to the AHCA are in the news daily but seem as far away from ‘majority support’ as ever. It’s a situation aptly summed up by a tweet from Michigan GOP congressman Justin Amash, “’Binary choice’ fallacy is a tool partisans on both sides use to quash policy debate and avoid (the) difficult job of persuading and legislating.” When healthcare reform is predicated largely upon winning over voting bloc intentions, bad legislation will likely follow.
It’s clear the data demonstrates that despite the United States having the most expensive healthcare in the world, it does not result in the best health outcomes, so something is clearly amiss.
Under the ACA fee-for-service payments are beginning to give way to pay-for-value, which rewards care providers for improving patient health outcomes. Many advocate for these payment changes to be accelerated, necessitating a dramatic change in operational and management systems.
The danger is that whatever legislation emerges in the weeks and months ahead will, in time, itself be undone by a future administration. The benefits of disruption must always exceed the cost of change, which, in the healthcare sector, falls upon providers, payers and, ultimately, the consumer. Only time will tell if the ‘binary choice’ currently in front of legislators will provide the healthcare the American public deserves or whether a truly bipartisan option will emerge.
Tim Exton is a healthcare aficionado and a freelance journalist based in Seattle. He has reported on a wide variety of topics for international news agencies and organizations including Reuters, Agence France Presse, Seattle Times, The Guardian, and NBCNews.com. Tim is a personable Englishman who loves hearing from his readers, so feel free to contact him at healthcare@sutherlandglobal.com.
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Stories & Tea February and March - Ottawa Storytellers
Stories & Tea is off to a stellar start for 2016 with packed houses of storytelling fans basking in warm and inspiring stories.
Tuesday, February 23, and Tuesday, March 8
St John’s Storytelling Festival Call for Submissions
Storytellers are invited to submit applications for the 13th Annual St John’s Storytelling Festival taking place St John’s, NL from October 11-16, 2016.
The King's Singers, February 10th, Yellowknife
A partnership with the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre and the Yellowknife Choral Society
The King's Singers are in global demand. Synonymous with the very best in vocal ensemble performance, their work appeals to a vast international audience. Every year they sing over 120 concerts, touring regularly to Europe, the United States, Asia and Australasia. Instantly recognizable for their immaculate intonation, impeccable vocal blend, flawless diction and incisive timing, The King's Singers are also consummate entertainers a class act with a delightfully British wit.
Literary Arts Promotion Grants
A reminder from the Canada Council for the Arts that there is an upcoming deadline for Literary Arts Promotion Grants.
The Grants for Literary Arts Promotion program provides support to Canadian non-profit arts organizations that increase public awareness of and access to Canadian literature.
The Project Grants component is open to Canadian incorporated non-profit organizations and collectives, with a primary mandate in literary arts promotion.
Canada Council: The Burt Award
Canada Council Announces the Burt Award call for submissions
The Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Literature
In partnership with CODE the Burt Award is given annually to English-language literary works for Young Adults written by First Nations, Inuit or Métis authors.
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Upcoming Canada Council Prize Deadlines
Did you know that, in addition to our regular grants, we administer more than 20 arts awards and prizes from private trusts and bequeaths? Below are some upcoming deadlines.
Apply or nominate someone outstanding from your networks!
The Canada 150 Fund
The goal of the Canada 150 Fund is to create opportunities for Canadians to participate in local, regional, and national celebrations that contribute to building a sense of pride and attachment to Canada.
A limited number of high impact, large-scale projects that are national in scope will also be supported through the Canada 150 Fund as Signature Initiatives.
Eligible funding recipients under the Canada 150 Fund include the following types:
Canadian not-for-profit organizations, including corporations, trusts, cooperatives and unincorporated associations;
Canadian business corporations, including partnerships, trusts and joint ventures where projects are non-commercial in nature;
Canadian schools; and,
Canadian municipal governments and their institutions.
Federal departments, agencies and institutions, Provincial and Territorial governments and their institutions, private individuals and political parties are noteligible under the Canada 150 Fund.
Storytelling Toronto Awards
Storytelling Toronto Awards: The Alice Kane Award and The Anne Smythe Travel Award
DEADLINE February 29th, 2016
The Alice Kane Award
The Alice Kane Award is a $1,000 award presented by Storytelling Toronto in memory of Alice Kane (1908 – 2003). One of the co-founders of The Storytellers School of Toronto, Alice was a much beloved storyteller whose mastery of the art of storytelling made her an inspiration to many.
The Anne Smythe Travel Award
The $500 Anne Smythe Travel Grant was established to honour the memory of Anne Smythe, an active and well-loved member of the storytelling community. As a teller and author, she believed strongly in the value of travel and adventure in the development of a storyteller’s art.
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Historic sexual offences are typically cases involving claims of rape and sexual assault from the past. The offences could be from early as the 60s or 70s.
These offences are also known as indecent assault charges. The allegations may involve one incident or multiple occasions or victims. They may be in a familial or professional capacity.
1 Have you been ACCUSED OF Historic Sexual Offences?
2 HAVE you BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED OF Historic Sexual Offences?
3 What type of actions are considered Historic Sexual Offences?
4 What happens in a Historic Sexual Offences investigation?
5 How to handle FALSE ACCUSATIONS of Historic Sexual Offences
6 Without a lawyer, you cannot find out more until the interview
7 Instruct a legal professional as soon as possible
8 What should you do if you get accused, arrested or charged with Historic Sexual Offences?
9 Can the police search my home?
10 Could you go to prison for Historic Sexual Offences?
11 What type of sentence could you get for Historic Sexual Offences?
12 What mitigating factors may be considered in sentencing?
13 Does a conviction for Historic Sexual Offences go on your criminal record?
14 How Can Stuart Miller Solicitors Help?
15 What will happen when I instruct a historic sexual offence lawyer?
16 Would you like to discuss your case before instructing us?
Those being accused and prosecuted for historic sexual offences are under immense pressure. If you or somebody you love is on either end of these circumstances, you’ll know how stressful and upsetting it can be.
Although there is a principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’, there will be times when you feel that everybody assumes you to be guilty. You may feel that your reputation is tarnished until you have proven your innocence.
It’s totally understandable to be feeling under pressure by this type of situation. Therefore, it’s vital that the services of experienced sexual offences solicitors are sought and engaged as soon as it is understood that an investigation is underway or charges are made.
You’re likely to be concerned about how rumours or speculation on a case of this nature may quickly and irreparably damage your reputation. Being treated differently by suspicious friends, colleagues and family members is challenging to handle.
More recently, historic sexual offences have had a lot of media coverage. High profile cases such as Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, the Catholic Church and several children’s homes have been in the news and on television. This development has prompted more people to come forward and feel more comfortable sharing and addressing their own sexual offence experiences.
The best course of action is to seek competent legal advice immediately. Doing so will not only help with the technical aspects of resolving a matter of this nature, but will also give some peace of mind. Experienced sexual offence lawyers know that this is a sensitive situation and will support you every step of your journey to achieve justice.
Consequently, in some cases, there will be a court case to attend. It’s critical that you actively seek support and legal assistance to prepare for such a possibility.
Have you been ACCUSED OF Historic Sexual Offences?
If you or a loved one has been accused, arrested or charged with a historic sexual offence, you’ll no doubt be feeling under pressure. You’ll be wondering how this could have happened and what can be done to reverse it.
In some cases, there may have been a mistake made, or it might that be that somebody is seeking financial gain from making an accusation. If the allegations are not genuine and need to be defeated, it’s essential that you address the situation as quickly as possible. By seeking sound professional legal advice as early as possible, there’s a chance that the case could be dismissed before it reaches court.
In this article, we aim to answer some of your questions and provide you with the support and guidance that you need.
HAVE you BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED OF Historic Sexual Offences?
If you’re living with the impact of having been at the receiving end of historic sexual offences, it’s important that you talk to somebody who is sensitive and understanding to help with your case. It’s critical that you engage a solicitor with experience of building a strong case and able to achieve a positive outcome.
What type of actions are considered Historic Sexual Offences?
Here are some examples of historic sexual offences and their outcomes:
A stepdaughter who accused her stepfather of touching her – the stepdaughter reported that the stepfather would touch her when they were home alone. Despite there being other parties who backed up the stepdaughter in her allegations, the case resulted in the stepfather being acquitted.
A wife who accused her partner of historic sexual offences – behind the accusation was child contact issues. The partner was acquitted.
Historic sexual offences that take place at work – an employee was asked to stay behind late at the office and consequently sexually assaulted. The employee won financial damages against her manager when it was revealed that other situations had occurred with other employees.
Regardless of these allegations, it’s essential that you engage an experienced legal professional who has expertise in historical sexual offences and assault. It’s critical that a robust defence is crafted to weaken any accusatory case and achieve justice.
What happens in a Historic Sexual Offences investigation?
When a historic sexual offence is reported to the police, they will take it very seriously. The matter will be thoroughly investigated by law enforcement offices.
There may be lines of enquiry in medical and social services records and an investigation into any other reports and interviews with witnesses. Although in some cases, the passage of time may mean a loss of evidence.
Because every case being is different it can be challenging to predict the outcome. Taking competent professional legal advice will help you to handle the investigation process better.
You’ll most likely discover that you’re being investigated for historic sexual offences when you hear that the police would like to interview you. You may be contacted by letter, telephone or even receive a visit from a police officer. You’ll be issued with a date, a time and a place where your police interview will take place.
It’s your right to consult a solicitor and attend the interview accompanied by your solicitor.
How to handle FALSE ACCUSATIONS of Historic Sexual Offences
In some cases, an accusation of historic sexual offences is not genuine but based on someone trying to gain financial payment. This situation can have an overwhelmingly detrimental effect on the accused. If not handled promptly and correctly, it can detrimentally affect lives. Employment, family, friends, neighbours and acquaintances can all change their perception of a person, even when the accusations are not based on reality.
Therefore, it’s essential to take expert legal advice as quickly as possible.
Without a lawyer, you cannot find out more until the interview
When you first hear that you’re under investigation for historic sexual offences, you may not have much information about the details. You could be in the dark about what you are being accused of, who by and what is meant to have happened.
You’re unlikely to find out these details until you’re at the interview itself. In this situation, it’s vital that you find yourself an experienced sexual offence solicitor to support you with their legal experience and expertise. Once you have instructed a solicitor, they will be able to attain this information from the police. You and the legal professional will then have the information that you’ll need to put together a strong defence.
If you don’t instruct a solicitor to take on your case, it’s likely that you won’t find out any details about the situation until you’re at the interview and questioned under pressure.
Another thing you should know is that the police may have requested a warrant to investigate all areas of your life. They will be looking for evidence that the accusations about you are genuine. They may examine your social media accounts, search your home and ask people you know for more information about you.
Typically, you’ll then need to attend a police interview. This police interview will be undertaken using the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), will be recorded and may be used as evidence in court against you.
Instruct a legal professional as soon as possible
We recommend that you take a sexual offences solicitor with you to your interview with the police. At least two investigation officers will be present in a room as you are formally interviewed.
Hiring a competent sexual offences solicitor before the police interview will give you an advantage in that they will gain disclosure about your case before the meeting. They can then use this information to either get the case dismissed and prepare a strong defence.
The questions asked at the interview could be very probing. You may be shown evidence that the inspectors have gathered to prove the case of the accuser. The interview will be intense, high pressure and at times stressful and upsetting.
As the interview draws to a closure, you may or may not be informed about what will happen next. You may be told that you are being charged. Depending on the seriousness of the matter, you may be told that you will need to attend a court case.
What should you do if you get accused, arrested or charged with Historic Sexual Offences?
Being accused of historic sexual offences can be very stressful. Although it’s up to you whether you take legal representation, we advise you to do so. There are some relatively new laws that have been passed which you may not be aware of and need to be considered.
Our team stay current with all laws and review any changes in sexual offence laws. By hiring one of our specialist team, you can position yourself in the most advantageous legal position with regards to defence.
Enduring anxiety, lack of sleep, depression and mood swings are typical during this time due to the pressure that you’re under as you battle the sexual offence charges. The immense stress will impact your well-being, that of your loved ones and your business may not be fully operational. Your income could be negatively affected.
It’s important that the legal professional that you hire to support you can do so with sensitivity and care. It would help if you had somebody who can understand and be empathetic about your fears, how your family members and spouse may react and what an ordeal this is to go through.
Can the police search my home?
The police can search your home as they will be seeking evidence. A judge or magistrate is likely to have granted access to your property, vehicle, workplace and personal information and the police as law enforcement offices will carry through the search.
Could you go to prison for Historic Sexual Offences?
The law has recently changed with regards to historic sexual offences. This is partly to reflect the attitudes of the public. Whereas sentences used to be minor for offences such as indecent assault, they may now be as much as 15 months imprisonment or more for each offence.
The judge issuing the sentence will consider whether a special position or role was held by you that you took advantage of in order to sexually assault the accuser.
We handle historic sexual offence crimes on a regular basis and have deep expertise in this field. We can help you by recommending the best course of action to take to mitigate the outcome. No matter what size your case is, get in touch.
What type of sentence could you get for Historic Sexual Offences?
If you are convicted, and depending on the charge, you may be imprisoned for a significant period of time. You could be deemed ‘dangerous to the public’ and be issued with a further sentence to protect the public from you.
In instances of a rape convictions for example, it is not uncommon to receive a custodial sentence of around 6 years. If the victim was a child or you were in a position of trust or responsibility, this sentence maybe increased to 10 years or even more. Read more information about sentencing for Historic Sexual Offences
What mitigating factors may be considered in sentencing?
When sentencing for historic sexual offences, your case will be looked at for whether you were abusing your position with regards to the accuser. Any aggravating features will be balanced off with the passage of time and whether or not you have had further offences recorded against you since.
Your achievements, businesses, familial duties will all be taken into consideration too.
Does a conviction for Historic Sexual Offences go on your criminal record?
If you are convicted of historic sexual offences, your conviction will be noted on your CRB / police record. The period of the endorsement will depend on the type and the length of the sentence.
Furthermore, your name will be added to the sex offenders register and you will be required to report routinely to a probation officer who will have significant involvement in your day-to-day life.
How Can Stuart Miller Solicitors Help?
Every historic sexual offence case we take on is handled in a very private and sensitive way. This type of case can be complex and challenging to unravel. Evidence is hard to secure due to the years that have passed.
Whatever your situation, our team are experienced and have specialist expertise in this area. Every piece of evidence will be checked for unreliability, irrelevance and whether it’s admissible.
It’s important that you take legal representation that can support your case with whatever is required to give you the best possible guidance. The impact of a historical sexual offence conviction can be horrendous, and we do our best to ensure that you have an effective and bullet-proof defence strategy.
What will happen when I instruct a historic sexual offence lawyer?
When you contact us to instruct us to be your lawyer in your historic sexual offence case, we help you to understand exactly what you’re being accused of. We will listen to your side of the story and will guide you through the process. We will then put together a strong defence that will lead to the best possible outcome. You will also be informed of what the potential consequences are of being convicted.
You will feel a lot more at ease about the situation as you’ll know that our team are experienced in historic offences and that we have the expertise to handle your case for you. We have a specialist team who are very up to date on the current law in this area.
Would you like to discuss your case before instructing us?
If you’d like to have a no obligation chat with us before you instruct us to take your case, then call us today.
In addition to giving you a free consultation, we can also represent you at the police station if you’ve been arrested. We can also look at securing you legal aid.
Please contact us for a face to face meeting or a telephone call. There is a WhatsApp link on this page if that is your preference.
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Mac OS X Lion v10.7.3 update released with Safari 5.1.3, promises to fix your Wi-Fi woes
After several weeks of testing, Apple has finally released a software update for systems running Mac OS X Lion, bumping up the version to 10.7.3. The update includes a number of essential fixes and security patches. We particularly note that the update promises to fix Wi-Fi connection issues when waking from sleep, which is something that our MacBook Air (complete review here) has been suffering from. The software also includes a new version of Safari, 5.1.3 and adds additional language support.
To check for the update on your Mac OS X Lion computer, click on the ‘Apple’ logo at the top-left, then ‘Software Update’. Be sure to have a recent back up of your system before you install the update (e.g. through Time Machine). It’s a quite weighty download, ours measures 730.6MB. We’ll try to update you once we have a chance to test it out on our devices and if this finally fixes Wi-Fi issues on the MacBook Air.
iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 now available for download
We’ve been expecting this day to come and you can now finally update your iOS devices — iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, all iPads, 3rd and 4th generation iPod Touch — to iOS 5. This is a major update to iOS with over 200 new features, including Notifications (at last), iMessage, Newsstand, Reminder and of course iCloud integration.
As we warned you yesterday, you will need to be running iTunes 10.5 to update your devices. So if you haven’t done already, check out our coverage.
Apple MacBook Air review (mid-2011 11-inch and 13-inch)
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This is a review of the mid-2011 Sandy Bridge MacBook Air (MBA). I’ve been using the 11-inch model, but most of what I will say also applies to the 13-inch version — a comparison of the two is at the bottom of this review. The review will concentrate on the hardware, rather than the software, aspects of the laptop. After all, loading Windows on the MBA is straightforward and we ours loaded with both operating systems — of course you can also load your favorite Linux distro as well. We’re certainly not discounting that the new MBA comes pre-loaded with the new Mac OS X Lion, but, that is a totally independent review in its own. Enough, however, with the introduction and lets move on to our experience with the new MBA.
We like to front-load our reviews, so, lets just say that there is very little that I don’t like with the new MacBook Air. What I mean is that there are only pleasant surprises, such as the performance, with most nags from last years’ model already worked out. But the MBA is certainly not the only laptop to offer performance in a small package, especially now that Intel is pushing the concept of the ‘ultrabook’.
A wise man once said that god is in the details, and that’s where the MBA wins over other offerings, in the details. We don’t have any preference with regards to manufacturer or operating system. But as said, it’s the little things that count. Apple has, over time, accumulated a list of extra features and little nuances that make its notebook products stand out. The MagSafe connector with a truly portable power brick, the oversized clickable multi-touch glass trackpad, a strong unibody construction that leaves zero room for flex, an excellent backlit island keyboard. The MBA is a culmination of all of these. It’s also the culmination of true portability and finally power.
The MBA is a svelte performer, never boggling down even with a dozen of browser windows, Mail, Photoshop and Spotify running all at the same time.
That’s not to say there are no faults, but it would have been unfair to mention these first; we found the poor vertical viewing angles somewhat restrictive, particularly for the form factor, while, the lack of ports could be a deal-breaker for some. Battery life is also on the lower side, not to say it’s bad or anything, but could be disappointing to some road warriors wanting a whole day charge. But please, read on while we delve deeper on Apple’s latest ultra-mobile notebook.
Google updates Chrome, promises to finally play well with Mac OS X Lion, adds full-screen mode
We’ve had our own personal issues with Google Chrome on OS X Lion. In fact, at times, Chrome was behaving so badly on the new Mac OS that I had more or less switched to Firefox. Well, finally, Google has updated Chrome promising better stability and compatibility with Lion.
In addition, Google has added support for Lion’s full screen mode. When enabled, each Chrome window takes up the whole screen (i.e. the menu bar is hidden) and its own desktop Space. Note that you can have different Chrome windows maximised or not in different spaces.
To enable full-screen mode, either click on the two opposing arrows at the top right or press command + shift + F — Google’s blog incorrectly states Ctrl+Shift+F.
Apple releases MacBook Air (mid-2011) EFI firmware update 2.1
If you own a mid-2011 MacBook Air you might want to hit the update button. Apple has just released an EFI firmware update which solves a couple of issues mainly dealing with Thunderbolt compatibility. The other issue deals with Lion Recovery from an internet connection.
The fixes should:
Enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection.
Resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility.
Resolve issues with Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance.
To update, connect your mid-2011 MBA to a power source, click on the Apple logo in the top left corner and then “Software Update…”, then follow the dialogue boxes.
Essential Mac OS X Lion keyboard shortcuts
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Mac OS X Lion brought a number of enhancements in terms of usability and ease of access, the new Mission Control and Launchpad, a number of multitouch gestures and the ability to run applications in full screen mode. There are also a number of new keyboard shortcuts that hopefully will allow you to perform tasks and access information faster. Below we’ve compiled a list of these new shortcuts and how they work.
Apple releases iTunes 10.4.1 update now designed for OS X Lion with a host of fixes
Apple has just issued an updated version of iTunes, 10.4.1 for Mac OS. The latest iTunes now works as a full-screen app in OS X Lion and you can swipe between it and your other desktops and apps. The update also brings a number of bug fixes including:
OS X Lion v10.7.1 update now here with many-a-bug fix
We can’t say this has come soon enough, Apple has just made available its first update to Mac OS X Lion, version 10.7.1. The update brings a number of bug fixes that should at least ease some of the frustration Lion users have been facing.
Some of fixes included in the update are to:
Official: Mac Os X Lion available tomorrow
During today’s earnings call, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, has announced that the latest Mac OS X Lion will be available tomorrow exclusively from the Mac App Store.
Lion will be available to Mac users as a 4GB downloadable update for a $29.99 price tag. The latest Mac OS X version is bringing 250 new features including additional multi-touch gestures, full-screen apps and the new Mission Control and Launchpad — allowing better control of your desktop and applications.
Apple to unveil Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud on June 6
We are used to Apple being very secretive about new products and services, keeping everything in the shadows until a big media event. So the first surprise to come in anticipation of this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, being held on June 6-10, is Apple formally putting out a press release announcing iCloud prior to the event’s keynote speech.
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Fordham University Increases Its Customer GPA with Sugar
Industry Education
Location New York, NY
Website http://www.fordham.edu
Implement a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform that easily integrates with academic and business software and drives a business transformation toward the customer journey.
Sugar Professional, with cloud and on-premise options; integrated with about 30 other software solutions, including Banner, an Enterprise Resource Planning tool widely used by the education community. Sugar is re-labeled as “Fordham Connect.
360-degree view of students
Improved response time to constituent needs
Empowered university users to be proactive in working with constituents
Enhanced relationships and increased loyalty among students and alumni
Creating the User Experience with ‘Constituent’ Care
Shaya Phillips’ business on-boards about 3,800 new customers each year – and most start within the same few days. That’s in addition to serving a base of about 11,000 customers who carryover annually.
The new customers are freshmen and first-year graduate school students at Fordham University, a private New York City Liberal Arts school where competition for admission is fierce, academic excellence is a given, and personal attention is expected.
The challenge for Shaya and his IT team is to make sure these customers have what they need when they need it, and to track their journey through college life and beyond.
Fordham, which also operates graduate schools and a law school, depends on Sugar and its integrations to ensure it has a complete view of its students.
“We call them constituents – our students, parents, alumni and others who interact with us – and we use CRM to manage those constituent relationships,” says Shaya, associate vice president for Information Technology.
Modern CRM Focuses on Customers
By using a modern approach to CRM – one that has evolved beyond sales tracking and marketing and instead focuses on customers – Shaya and his team have put constituent experience at the heart of the university’s efforts.
“We track students throughout the whole system. We recruit them, maintain them, give them the best customer service possible through graduation and keep them informed as alumni,” says Shaya.
“We build a relationship from beginning to end and establish that relationship not just with the student but with the extended family; a relationship that fosters giving and helps build a reputation as one of the nation’s best universities,” he adds.
Because of some easily written application program interfaces (APIs), Fordham officials can see a complete picture of a student or graduate without leaving the Sugar platform: transcripts, completed courses, required courses, academic standing, advisor notes, expected graduation date – even passport status.
“A lot of what we learn and collect with Sugar helps us to target students at different stages in their education. We can see what courses they take, when did they pay, if they are at risk: actionable information that helps us serve our constituents,” Shaya says.
“Sugar has made a great different in the ways our users work with our constituents,” he says. “It has empowered our users in ways we never thought about because we can make constituent lives better and easier with the way they interact with the university.”
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ReviewerCard: A Card For (Unethical) Reviewers
By Meg Stivison January 23, 2013
Want a free drink? Want to be seated first? Use ReviewerCard to have a random dude on the internet accredit you as a reviewer, and start demanding perks!
The business model behind Brad Newman’s ReviewerCard startup is quite simple. For a hundred dollars, shoppers can receive a wallet-size card titling them a reviewer, and can present that card to hint heavily for upgrades, free extra and discounts in exchange for more favorable reviews. It’s a win-win for anyone with a Yelp account who likes dining or travelling and for Newman, who makes $100 to accredit each carded reviewer. Of course, it’s a lose-lose for local establishments shaken down by the threat of negative press and for folks trusting the information from user-generated reviews.
MySpace is Back… With Justin Timberlake
So, MySpace is back… again. The troubled social networker has re-reinvented itself as a, um, social networking platform with new site design, and a continued focus on music promotion. After a couple rounds of closed beta tests, the new site is live now. While I usually believe that solid QA is one of the most important parts of the design and launch process, I have to wonder what new features MySpace could possibly be testing.
Wireless Bamboo Keyboard Launching at CES
By Meg Stivison January 5, 2013
Impecca’s new eco-friendly bamboo wireless keyboard is launching at CES. This wireless keyboard is compatible with Bluetooth devices on many different operating systems, including Android, Surface, Kindle, Nexus, iPad, and smartphones, or can be used as a cordless keyboard with a PC. The keyboard is lightweight and portable, thanks to the bamboo construction. Impecca already offers a bamboo USB mouse and a bamboo USB keyboard with the same simple bamboo style and environmental goals.
BlockAvenue: Block-by-Block Neighborhood Reviews
By Meg Stivison December 26, 2012
BlockAvenue is a new social startup, a mashup of Pinterest pins and Yelp reviews, for a block-by-block user-generated city guide laid over a Google map. So far, BlockAvenue is in New York, Boston, and Washington DC, with plans to expand to more cities.
THRED from BitMonster and Coca-Cola
BitMonster’s first game, Lili, a sweet story-based indie adventure, was quite a departure from the developers’ previous work, since the dev team are Epic Games alums, with credits on the AAA Gears of War franchise. And now BitMonster’s second title, THRED, is a departure again. After an all-indie project with Lili, THRED is a collaboration with Coke and (RED), a complete reversal from an independent game.
Bitmonster’s new game, THRED, is a fundraising and awareness game. The game is tied to The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, although the gameplay is not tied to health or disease. Instead, THRED is an abstract and artistic game, creatively inspired by games like Rez, Osmos, and Flow. The game is free to download and play, with optional in-app purchases. Any money players spend in this game is donated to charity, providing essential anti-viral medications for HIV patients, and continuing The Global Fund’s goal of fighting infectious diseases. Each in-app purchase can also be shared on thesocial networks Twitter and Facebook, to spread awareness of the issue and the game.
Game Review: Doomsday Preppers
Price: Free (with optional paid upgrades) Score: 9/10 Category: Games
In G5and National Geographic’s new iOS game Doomsday Preppers, players take on the role of a prepper, ready to build an underground bunker that’s surprisingly adorable. Players can’t directly customize their avatar besides gender, but after randomizing a few times, I got a purple-haired avatar in a demin skirt and surgical mask for contaminated air, probably close enough to what I would have made anyway.
Players then begin building their adorable underground bunker, beginning with housing for five prepper friends. Arriving preppers are then assigned work preparing for the apocalypse in different capacities. My first preppers grew algae in a hydroponic garden and produced duct tape in a workshop, making my doomsday bunker kind of, well, cute. The basic mechanics of Doomsday Preppers are resource management, as your preppers work in assigned stations to make products, prepare for doom, and earn gold, which is then spend on expanding your bunker deeper into the earth, providing more housing and more production for more preppers.
Steam Distribution Agreement and New Narrative Category for This Year’s Independent Games Festival
This March will be the 15th annual Independent Games Festival, which will take place in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. These winners, along with the rise of successful Humble Indie Bundles andIndieGameStand, bring excellent indie games from a niche interest to a wide audience.
IGF continues to put winning games in front of a wider audience with their announcement of the Independent Games Festival’s new agreement with Valve. The winners and finalists of IGF 2013 will receive distribution agreements for Steam, which will make it easier for players to find and download these games. (Actual Steam, not Steam Greenlight) Popular games like MineCraft, Portal, World of Goo, and Super Meat Boy are indie titles and previous IGF honorees that hardy seem underground at all. More recently, games like Fez, Dear Esther, Spelunky, and Botanicula show indie titles becoming popular with a wider audience.
PopUp, An Upcoming Location-based Social App
By Meg Stivison December 5, 2012
PopUp is an upcoming location-based social app for iOs, presented at last week’s Triangle Start-up Factory’s pitch day. PopUp promises to deliver users relevant social information based on their location, and allow connections to existing social and checkin apps.
Users will connect to PopUp to share a note, checkin or photo tied to their physical location, and follow friends to see their notes. The dream usage of PopUp is walking into a new restaurant, and getting a recommendation from my foodie friend on a special dish to try ordering. Or maybe being the foodie friend, sharing a culinary find and leaving clever suggestions for future visitors to that eatery!
Facebook’s New Relationship Pages
By Meg Stivison November 12, 2012
Facebook’s new “feature” creates relationship pages for coupled-up Facebook users. This relationship page features common interests, tagged updates and photos, and shared events, and reminds anyone who’s forgotten about it of Facebook’s origins as a college hookup site. While it doesn’t seem like much of an improvement for Facebook users, it might be a benefit for advertisers. If you’re publicly in a relationship, you can check out your adorable — or awkward — couple’s page,…
Can an Election Game Predict The American Election?
By Meg Stivison November 5, 2012
Campaign Story is a casual, election game from new studio 519 Games. In this campaign sim for Facebook, players decide to run as a Liberal, Conservative, or Moderate, and start hiring a staff and running a political campaign. Starting out by running for mayor, players win elections and earn money to be spent on staff, upgrades, strategy, and finally winning the whole country. As the game progresses, player-candidates are presented with choices along the campaign trail, deciding whether to run a clean campaign or pursue victory at all costs.
Looking for a Halloween game? Try ‘Where Vampires Dwell’
By Meg Stivison October 24, 2012
Looking for a Halloween game? To celebrate Halloween, the indie developer Difference Games is releasing a new hidden-object adventure game ‘Where Vampires Dwell’, for Droid OS, available from the Google Play store. This new Halloween-themed game follows Difference Games’ successful previous hidden-object titles ‘Where Fairies Dwell’ and ‘Where Ghosts Dwell’.
‘Where Vampires Dwell’ promises the attractive and engaging artwork of Stephanie Herrera, with a horror and Halloween theme. The launch day release of ‘Where Vampires Dwell’ includes 15 levels of hidden object puzzles, and plans are in the works for future updates, providing free, additional content to players.
Got an eReader? Get the Humble eBook Bundle!
Most gamers are familiar with Humble Indie Bundles (and if you’re not, check it out for accessible, unusual titles at pay-what-you-want prices), and there was also a Humble Bundle of music, with songs from They Might Be Giants, OK GO, and Jonathan Coulton, among others. Humble Bundles have been really successful in giving fans discounted media, introducing new works to possible fans, and raising money for charity. The newest addition is the Humble eBook Bundle.
HeroClix TabApp Combines Mini Figs and Digital Gameplay
By Meg Stivison October 2, 2012
The launch of WizKids Games’ HeroClixTabApp, a half-digital, half-physical iPad game using the collectible HeroClix mini figurines, sounds like futuristic science fiction. The game will use the physical Marvel Universe HeroClix figurines as game pieces, interacting with virtual game arenas in an iPad game. Back in my day, we had to mash our action figures against each other and argue about which superhero would win.
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