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March 23, 2017 by index in Cycle
The decision to cancel the fourth stage of the Dubai Tour in Hatta was taken after blustery conditions made racing impossible for the riders on Friday.
The cancellation decision was welcomed by top riders. On Thursday night, the route for the fourth stage was changed. This came on the heels of a vicious sandstorm which the riders had to deal with in the third stage.
The cancelled part of the fourth stage was supposed to start from the Hatta Club stadium and end with a steep climb to the splendid Hatta Dam.
Unfortunately, the winds kept blowing non-stop at a very terrifying speed. In lieu of this, the UCL’s extreme weather protocol was applied by the Race Management and Commissaries Panel which led to the cancelation of the stage.
This important decision was taken by the organizers, who were more concerned of the safety of the riders as a whole year of racing still remains ahead of them.
Marcel Kittel, one of the best sprinters in the world is set to benefit most from the stage race cancellation. This is because without the cancellation, he was looking at an uphill battle against John Degenkolb of Trek-Segafredo, the third stage winner in Fujairah on Thursday.
However, with the final stage of the Dubai Tour set to be raced on flatter roads, Kittel has been presented with a perfect opportunity to become the first rider to retain the Dubai Tour title.
Mark Cavendish – a Rio Olympics silver medallist – also commended the organizers for their thoughtfulness.
“They took the right decision taking into consideration the safety of the riders. To do a bunch race was possible in trying to find a solution to counter the windy conditions.
“Personally, I’d like to race but I think realistically it was impossible today,” he said.
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Seahawks visit Rams for rematch with playoff hopes on line
Thu Dec 5 6:14pm ET
By GREG BEACHAM
Players: Greg Zuerlein, Tyler Lockett, Todd Gurley, Rashaad Penny, Chris Carson, D.K. Metcalf
Los Angeles Rams running back Darrell Henderson (27) greets fans after an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, in Glendale, Ariz. The Rams won 34-7. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Seattle Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, right, reacts with cornerback Akeem King (36) after the Minnesota Vikings failed to convert on a fourth-down play during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in Seattle. The Seahawks won 37-30. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, left, talks with quarterback Russell Wilson during the first half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
LOS ANGELES (AP) Greg Zuerlein has made plenty of tougher field goals than the 44-yarder he pushed barely wide right through the Seattle night air two months ago.
The Rams' normally reliable kicker could have sent Los Angeles to a narrow win over the Seahawks. Instead, his miss with 11 seconds left in Seattle's 30-29 win might have changed the trajectories of two seasons that intersect again Sunday night at the Coliseum.
The Seahawks (10-2) have won eight of nine during a roll that began one week before that surprising reprieve from Zuerlein, and they've surged into first place in the NFC West with five straight victories. Seattle can already clinch a postseason berth with a win in LA.
That loss by the Rams (7-5) extended to the first three-game losing streak of Sean McVay's coaching career. After going 4-5 in their last nine, the defending NFC champions are one game out of the second wild card playoff spot, needing a big December surge to get in.
The stakes are huge when the Seahawks and Rams get together again in what's likely the final NFL night game in the history of the 96-year-old Coliseum. McVay knows there's only one likelihood in the latest chapter of this entertaining divisional rivalry.
''There's always been a good competitive balance between these two teams,'' McVay said. ''This will be the sixth time we've played them (with the Rams' current coaching staff), and the first five have been tough challenges every single time. The ones last year came down to one possession. The last three have been closely contested. That's a great football team.''
The Seahawks got a bit lucky in their last meeting with the Rams, but their tenacity has shown throughout the season. Seattle is an incredible 8-1 in games decided by seven points or fewer, and Carroll anticipates another test in his return to the Coliseum.
''As we go against them, we're just going to try to hold it together and play good football and take care of the ball,'' Carroll said. ''See if we can come out on top somehow at the end.''
Here are more things to know about the NFC West showdown:
LAST RIDE?
In all likelihood, this will be Carroll's last trip to the Coliseum as a head coach with the Rams set to move into their new palace in Inglewood next season.
There were a lot of memories for Carroll from his time at USC when the Seahawks made their first visit back to the Coliseum in 2016 - a forgettable 9-3 loss for Seattle. Since then, the nostalgia has worn off. Carroll said it was different anyway being the visiting team in that venue.
''It's really fun to go to the Coliseum. For me, honestly, it is, but it's not the same thing. You're not coaching the Trojans. That's a whole different experience. I can't even relate it to you,'' Carroll said.
GURLEY'S TURN
McVay's inexplicable season-long reluctance to use Todd Gurley could be ending, which could be bad news for opponents. The Rams' $60 million running back got 19 carries last week at Arizona, and he had 25 two weeks earlier against Chicago. McVay attributes the uptick in Gurley's workload to ''me not being an idiot.'' The coach continues to insist he wasn't resting Gurley for the stretch run, yet the star running back is rested and ready for a big finish.
No surprise, the Seahawks are really good at running the football. The difference the past two weeks is it's not being done by just one player. The duo of Chris Carson and Rashaad Penny has run through two of the better run defenses in the league in the past two weeks. They combined for 155 yards in the win over Philadelphia with Penny rushing for a career-best 129 yards. Last week against Minnesota, the Seahawks rushed for a season-high 218 yards as a team, which included 102 from Carson and 74 from Penny. It was the third time in Carroll's tenure the Seahawks had two running backs rush for at least 74 yards in the same game.
Seattle had 167 yards rushing in the first meeting with the Rams.
SECONDARY SHUFFLE
The Rams will present Wilson with a thoroughly revamped secondary. Starting cornerbacks Marcus Peters and Aqib Talib played nearly every snap of the early-season game in Seattle, but both veterans are gone and starting safety John Johnson is on injured reserve. Star cornerback Jalen Ramsey gets his first look at Tyler Lockett and Wilson since 2017, when he made an interception in a win for the Jaguars. Wilson might be more focused on the other side of the defense, where Troy Hill likely will try to hang in against rookie D.K. Metcalf.
Johnson has been replaced by a familiar face in Seattle: rookie Taylor Rapp, who grew up in Bellingham and starred at the University of Washington.
SOLID SECONDARY
Seattle's secondary also has gone through a facelift since the last time it played the Rams. Shaquill Griffin and Tre Flowers are still the starting cornerbacks, but the addition of Quandre Diggs at safety has changed some of the defenses Seattle has played. The addition of Diggs playing in concert with Bradley McDougald has allowed Griffin and Flowers to be more aggressive on the outside. It's part of the reason Seattle has forced 11 turnovers in the past three games, including four interceptions.
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Tyreek Hill Jan 18 5:00pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill had an incredible performance against the Tennessee Titans during their Week 10 matchup. He caught 11 of his 19 targets for 157 yards and two touchdowns in the loss to Tennessee. He'll get another chance to run over the same team in the AFC Championship matchup on Sunday. Hill hasn't been able to get over 100 yards receiving in a single game since that matchup. DFS players know that Hill has a chance to be a complete bust, but the fact he destroyed Tennessee the first time is hard to ignore. Hill has given DFS players a lot to think about before Sunday's kickoff.
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Travis Kelce Jan 18 4:50pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is coming off a three touchdown performance against the Houston Texans last week. He hauled in 10 receptions for 134 yards and three touchdowns in the Divisional Round victory. The Tennessee Titans main focus has to be slowing down Kelce. They allowed seven receptions for 75 yards and a touchdown to Kelce earlier in the season. Kelce isn't going to be cheap for DFS contests, but he's proven all season long that he's worth the risk.
Sammy Watkins Jan 18 4:50pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Sammy Watkins has been tough to watch all season long. He started off the year with a three touchdown performance, but it was downhill after that. Watkins was only targeted more than five times in a game once over the last five games. Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce have taken over the passing attack in Kansas City. Watkins was able to haul in five receptions for 39 yards during his regular season matchup against the Titans. DFS players shouldn't expect a better performance out of Watkins this time around.
Patrick Mahomes Jan 18 4:40pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is set to battle with the Tennessee Titans for the AFC Championship on Sunday. Mahomes is coming off a five touchdown performance against the Houston Texans last week. He's already faced off against the Titans once this season and Mahomes didn't disappoint. He threw for 446 yards and three touchdowns in that game. DFS players should be able to lean on Mahomes to at least be efficient on Sunday. He has a solid chance of being the best quarterback out of the bunch in the division title games.
Damien Williams Jan 18 4:40pm ET
Kansas City Chiefs running back Damien Williams is coming off a three touchdown performance against the Houston Texans last week. He rushed 12 times for 47 yards and caught two passes for 21 yards through the air. LeSean McCoy and Darwin Thompson have been absent from the backfield lately. The Chiefs have been leaning on Williams and it's been paying off. He's been able to find the end zone when he's called upon and piled up 109 yards against the Titans earlier in the season. Fantasy owners are aware that Williams has been up and down this season, but he's red-hot right now. He'll be used in both the rushing and passing attack, so DFS players should give Williams a long look for Sunday's slate.
Green Bay Packers Jan 17 5:20pm ET
The Green Bay Packers Defense faces a tough task this weekend in the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers. In their regular-season meeting, the Packers gave up 37 points and only dropped Jimmy Garoppolo only three times. They also failed to generate any turnovers. Green Bay's defense may need to lend their offense a helping hand by creating a turnover or two to swing the field position game. If Za-Darius and Preston Smith can ramp up the pressure, the Packers will have a good chance of generating a turnover or two and winning the game. It certainly won't be easy, considering how formidable the 49ers offense has been this season.
Jimmy Graham Jan 17 3:50pm ET
Green Bay Packers tight end Jimmy Graham gets a tough matchup against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game. Graham has back-to-back 49-year receiving performances, but those games came against teams that struggle to defend the tight end position. The 49ers are not one of those teams. They allowed the sixth-fewest fantasy points to tight ends all season and were the league's stingiest pass defense. Maybe Graham makes a play in the red zone. Still, he's a cheaper DFS play but by no means a comfortable one.
Geronimo Allison Jan 17 2:40pm ET
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Geronimo Allison (illness) is trending in the right direction to play in the NFC Championship game this weekend against the San Francisco 49ers. Even if available, Allison isn't an option in any fantasy format. The 25-year-old hasn't caught more than four passes in a game this season. It sure doesn't seem like he'll eclipse that mark against the league's best defense with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
Allen Lazard Jan 17 2:30pm ET
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Allen Lazard (ankle) is currently questionable for the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers. There's certainly a risk for injury, considering he re-aggravated the ankle in last week's playoff game. Still, it's hard to ignore the two-game stretch Lazard had to end the season, where he saw 17 targets. That alone makes him worth a gamble, particularly in a must-win game for a Packers team in desperate need of another threat at receiver. Just beware, the matchup isn't ideal. The 49ers allowed only 172 passing yards to the Vikings last week.
Davante Adams Jan 17 1:40pm ET
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams gets a tough matchup against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game this weekend. Adams produced only 43 receiving yards and a score against San Francisco in the regular season but still had 12 targets. The star receiver has seen double-digit targets in nine of 13 games played this year. There's not many receivers that you can virtually pencil in for double-digit targets- but Adams is one of them. If fellow receivers Geronimo Allison (illness) and Allen Lazard (ankle) suit up, they may be limited. Adams could be looking at more work than usual, even in a matchup this difficult.
San Francisco 49ers Jan 17 1:30pm ET
The San Francisco 49ers Defense enter Championship weekend as the highest-priced fantasy defense. The Niners face the Green Bay Packers, who they demolished 37-8 in Week 12. In that previous contest, the Niners relentlessly harassed future Hall of Famer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, dropping him five times and forcing a fumble. The Packers were a meager one for 15 on third down conversions. The 49ers will need to follow that blueprint again in the critical NFC Championship to emerge victorious. With a higher-intensity contest expected, it could be difficult to splurge on a defense in fantasy compared to other addressable positions.
Deebo Samuel Jan 17 1:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers wide receivers Deebo Samuel and Emmanuel Sanders both offer solid fantasy value in the NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers. Both players were limited to under 45 yards apiece in last weekends Divisional Round blowout but were featured early on when the game was still in question. The rookie Samuel has emerged as a consistent dual threat in the latter half of 2019 and is likelier the safer floor. Sanders, the savvy vet has proven himself as a reliable chain-mover with big-play potential. Against the Packers 10th-best pass defense by DVOA, either option seem primed to pop in Sundays winner-take-all battle.
Jamaal Williams Jan 17 1:00pm ET
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams will face off with the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game this weekend. Williams has been playing second fiddle to Aaron Jones quite a lot recently, as he hasn't seen double-digit carries since Week 13 against the Giants. It's worth noting that Williams played a large role in the regular-season game against the 49ers, which saw him rack up 18 touches. Green Bay very well could utilize Williams in spurts to keep San Francisco guessing, though his recent downtrend in usage makes him hard to trust.
Jimmy Garoppolo Jan 17 12:50pm ET
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is a reasonable DFS bet for Sundays NFC Championship matchup against the Green Bay Packers. Priced as the third-best quarterback, Jimmy G squares off against a strong Packers defensive line that ranked 12th-best in adjusted sack rate during the regular season. Garoppolo was not pressed into service in the Divisional Round blowout win, but will likely be tasked with a tougher test on Sunday. While the Niners have mostly ridden its dominant running game throughout the year, Garoppolo has answered the bell in multiple occasions with three four-touchdown games. With dangerous weapons surrounding him, Garoppolo shouldnt be ruled out in the biggest game of his career to-date.
Aaron Jones Jan 17 12:30pm ET
Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones will take on the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game this weekend. The 49ers Defense held Jones to just 38 rushing yards in their regular-season meeting. However, the star back has been playing some seriously good football in his last five games, with 501 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns. He's also had 20-plus carries in three straight contests. Expect Green Bay to utilize Jones early and often in screens and runs to combat the 49ers mighty pass rush. Even if Jones doesn't pile up over 100 yards, his propensity to find the end zone and role in the passing game make him a safer play this weekend.
Aaron Rodgers Jan 17 12:10pm ET
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will take on the San Francisco 49ers this weekend with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. The 49ers Defense held Rodgers to just 104 passing yards and one touchdown in their regular-season meeting. However, there are a couple things that are different ahead of this matchup. First, tackle Bryan Bulaga will play in this game after being injured in the first quarter against the 49ers previously. Rodgers should have better protection than he had when these teams met. Secondly, Rodgers himself is playing better football than he was during the regular season before this matchup. He has 566 passing yards and four touchdowns in his last two contests. There is also the added motivation of denying a Super Bowl berth to the team that could have drafted him. Play Rodgers on Sunday, despite the tough matchup.
Kendrick Bourne Jan 17 12:00pm ET
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne is worth a gamble for Sundays NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers. Bourne scored the only receiving touchdown for the Niners in the Divisional Round, adding to his 2019 resume as a legitimate red-zone threat. The third-year pro has just 33 catches this year, including the playoffs, but collected six scores. Despite his risks as a zero-floor fantasy option, Bourne has emerged as a trustworthy target in clutch situations.
Raheem Mostert Jan 17 11:40am ET
San Francisco 49ers running backs Tevin Coleman and Raheem Mostert are both bankable DFS options in Sundays NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers. The two backs combined for 163 rushing yards in the Divisional Round, with Coleman riding a hot hand to two touchdowns. Considered a backup for the latter half of the regular season, Coleman played 46 percent of snaps last Sunday compared to Mosterts 34 percent. While the touch forecast for either back is cloudy, the Niners draw one of the worst run defenses in the NFL. The Packers ranked 23rd in rushing DVOA during the regular season with the second-worst defensive line in the league, yielding 4.96 adjusted yards per carry. With a likely floor of 10 touches for each Coleman and Mostert, both runners have great opportunities to make a splash.
George Kittle Jan 17 11:30am ET
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle (ankle) was a full participant in Thursdays practice and should be fine for Sundays NFC Championship against the Green Bay Packers. Kittle scared Niner Nation with soreness on the left ankle he chipped earlier this year, but confirms he feels fabulous. Kittle factored more as a blocker in last Sundays Divisional Round blowout but the Niners passed just 19 times. The All-Pro is an integral piece in all facets of the offense so is worth his premium TE1 price in DFS on Sunday.
Danny Amendola Jan 17 1:13am ET
Detroit Lions WR Danny Amendola is set to become an unrestricted free agent, but he's a 'prime candidate' to be re-signed, in the opinion of The Detroit Free Press' Dave Birkett.
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Over Objection of Neighbors in Crestview Hills, Erlanger Adjusts Zoning for City Businesses
Several residents from Summit Drive in Crestview Hills attended the January meeting of Erlanger City Council, hoping that council would not approve two ordinances pertaining to zoning.
The first ordinance is a text amendment which allows outdoor storage in an IP-3 zone, or Industrial Park-3 zone, and in the IP-4 zone and changes the buffer zone for businesses in those zones from 40 feet to 50 feet. The second ordinance changes the zone of an 13.84 acre tract of land from IP-1 to IP-4. The land in question is currently occupied by the old Palm Beach building, Art's rental, and a printing company, as well as Kamps Pallets, which only occupies a part of their building, and the other businesses in that building are Corporate Storage, Rural Metro, and Stewart Ironworks.
"The biggest thing is the vehicular storage," said Eddie Kappes, who lives on Summit. "This is opening the door to a junkyard, and that would be an eyesore."
Terri Jameson gave council a few pictures of pods stacked to the height of a building, and other items stacked high outside, apparently in violation of the zone.
"The noise and lights from Airport Towing goes on all hours of the night," she said. "When we bought the property 28 years ago, the property value was higher. The problem will be magnified if you pass these ordinances. An 8-foot fence is not going to help this."
Crestview Hills Mayor Paul Meier came again this month to argue that the businesses aren't in compliance now, and that the IP-4 requires businesses to comply with the zoning codes. He explained that there has to be an 80-ft. wide landscaping, consisting of so many large trees, small trees and shrubs. He also pointed out that when outdoor storage is allowed, it does not specify how close to residential homes it can be, or how high. It was brought up that some of the businesses say they are a 9 to 5 business but there is nothing in the ordinance about changing hours in the future.
"You need to keep the current regulations in mind," Meier reminded council. "We would prefer not passing these ordinances."
Mark Stewart, Building and Zoning Administrator, said later that the city is already addressing the non-compliance issues and they will be resolved in the next few months. He also said the 80-ft. landscaping is necessary for new buildings in all IP zones if they don't put in a fence or a berm, in which case the 50-ft. buffer would apply to the business. He said that the problem with businesses changing their hours has to do with a noise ordinance, which is the same issue with Airport Towing, and Erlanger doesn't have a noise ordinance that pertains to this issue.
Matt Olliges, who owns the building where Kamp's pallets are located (and is a Bellevue city councilman), said that the property was a sizeable investment and he has always tried to be a good neighbor and will comply with the rules.
Joe Conley, from Kamps Pallets, said that they employ 20 people, and made $4.6 million last year, contributing to the tax base of the city, and asked council to support them.
Bruce Clemens, also from Kamps, told council they asked for the zone change, and asked council to help.
After listening to everyone, Linda Dietz, a resident of Erlanger, tried to offer a different solution, saying that putting the issue on hold and allowing the businesses to meet with the residents to try to work out a solution, similar to a few other situations in the past, seemed like a good temporary solution. However, Councilwoman Vicki Kyle said that she was going to vote for the ordinances because when she took office she promised to support Erlanger residents first, and to promote business in Erlanger.
No one tried to delay the ordinances and they were read, with nine of the ten council members present voting for it, and Councilman Gary Meyer voting against.
Councilwoman Patty Suedkamp presented City Council Attorney Frank Wichmann with an award pin for 50 years of service to the city, while his family proudly looked on. Wichmann came to the city in 1965 to preside over the police court and he became the city attorney in 1974. He is also the city attorney for Taylor Mill and Edgewood, from 1972 and 1977 respectively. He received his pin and a hug to a standing ovation.
"It is truly an honor to represent this city," Wichmann said after an emotional pause. "This is a great city and I have a great passion for it. Thank you."
Councilmen Kevin Burke and Bill Howard also received pins for 20 years of service to the city and so did Julie Harris, from the police department. Stephen Holstrom, also from the police department, received his five year pin.
In legislative business, council reappointed Mayor Tyson Hermes and Councilman Randy Blankenship to the Planning and Development Services board for the term of a year. They also reappointed Ruey Newsome to the Appeals Board for a three year term.
Story & photos by Patricia A. Scheyer, RCN contributor
Top photo: Crestview Hills Mayor Paul Meier speaks at Erlanger City Council this week
Greg Engelman, Chief Financial Officer for the city, introduced Shannon McCalley as the newest full time employee, and her title will be Assistant Financial Director.
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Assistant Chief Doug Eagler presents Stephen Holstrom with his five year pin.
Assistant Chief Eagler gives Julie Harris her 20 year pin while Patty Suedkamp looks on.
CFO Greg Engelman introduces Shannon McCalley as Assistant Financial Director.
Matt Olliges owns the building occupied partially by Kamps Pallets and said he tries to be a good neighbor.
Mayor Tyson Hermes presents a 20 year pin to councilmen Kevin Burke and Bill Howard.
Councilwoman Patty Suedkamp said it was an honor to present Attorney Frank Wichmann with a pin for 50 years of service to the city of Erlanger.
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Jail Bureau Commander Jason Viramontes began his career in 1999 with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He was assigned as a Deputy Sheriff to Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles before he lateraled to the Santa Ana Police Department in 2002. Three years later, he was selected to the newly formed Santa Ana Police Department Strike Force, the first full-time SWAT team in Orange County. During this assignment, he was involved in the 4-day manhunt for a suspect wanted for the attempted murder of two Long Beach Police Officers. Commander Viramontes was awarded the Santa Ana Police Department Medal of Valor for his actions taken when he and two teammates located and engaged the suspect to take him into custody.
After his promotion to Police Sergeant in 2010, Commander Viramontes was assigned to lead a district team in the Patrol Division, before his work in the Personnel and Training Divisions. In 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Police Commander, where he provided leadership as a Watch Commander, and in the Special Investigations and Crimes Against Persons Divisions.
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'SANTAandDEER' managing director of Santander Business helps spread joy to children this Christmas
Santander has launched a new type of bank to help spread joy to less fortunate children this Christmas: ‘Santa&deer’.
From 5th December, children and staff have been dropping off new or nearly new toys in collection boxes and red sacks located in the bank’s branches all over the UK in exchange for chocolate coins. All of the toys received will be donated to local charities around the country to help those less fortunate this Christmas.
Santander in Norwich set up a ‘Santa&deer’ toy collection box in both branches and saw around 70 toys donated by local children. Sue Douthwaite, Managing Director Santander Business and James Veevers, Branch Director for Norwich presented the toys to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), at the charity’s Quidenham hospice yesterday
Sue Douthwaite, Managing Director Santander Business commented: “Santander is committed to playing a key part in the community and it was great to take part in the Santa&deer initiative and see first-hand the amazing work done by EACH. We were overwhelmed by the local support and the volume of toys we received, and hope the donations make a real difference to the children at the hospice.”
Sophie Mayes, Norfolk Corporate Fundraiser at EACH commented: “We were over the moon with the toys we received from the Santa&deer Christmas campaign. The generous donations from local children will really help make Christmas that little bit more special for families at EACH this year.”
The campaign which ran throughout the Christmas period saw toys distributed to a range of charities across the UK including Oxfam, Family Action, British Red Cross and many more to help as many families as possible. A short film to promote the ‘new’ bank was launched on Santander’s social media channels with two recognisable ambassadors lending a hand.
Jessica Ennis-Hill said: “It was really fun to take part in Santander’s Christmas campaign again this year. Christmas is such a special time and it’s wonderful to be able to bring happiness and joy to children across the UK.”
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Ukraine Detains Member Of United Russia Party Member From Crimea
Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) on December 4 detained a member of Russia's governing United Russia party while he was crossing the administrative border with Crimea on suspicion of infringing on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The SBU said in a statement its counterintelligence unit learned that Ihor Kucheryaviy, who is a member of United Russia's regional department in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, had plans to visit mainland Ukraine and apply for a Ukrainian passport.
He allegedly was an avid supporter of Russia's annexation of the Crimea in 2014 and was involved in erecting roadblocks in Sevastopol during the Ukrainian pensinula's invasion.
Kucheryaviy allegedly was awarded a medal from the Russian Defense Ministry "for the return of the Crimea" and an anniversary badge of the Russian Federal Security Service that reads, "Veterans of the Russian special services to the defenders of the Crimea and Sevastopol."
Russia's Black Sea fleet is based in Sevastopol.
In April 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin renounced contracts that were in place with Ukraine to lease facilities for the fleet until 2042.
Kucheryaviy faces the charge of "encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine," which is punishable by up to three years in prison.
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Our Ever-Changing Backyard--Sailing with Scoots
16 December 2019 | Opua, New Zealand
Catching up - Arriving in Opua
25 November 2019 | On passage from Fiji to New Zealand
I Spy Something Blue...
Halfway there...maybe
Hello from the South Pacific - It's always about the weather
11 November 2019 | Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
Full Masti! Family -Part 3: Cloud Nine, Now We Are Four, The Wishlist, Saying Goodbye, Now We Are Two
22 October 2019 | Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
Full Masti! Family - Part 2: Wet dinghy rides and cruise bruises, looking for Wilson, chilling at Musket Cove, Now we are Seven
14 October 2019 | Savusavu, Fiji
Pumice Among Us
Full Masti! Family - Part 1: Get Ready, Get Set, GO!, Now we are Five
27 July 2019 | Tavoro Waterfalls, Taveuni Island, Fiji
Waterfalls with friends
15 July 2019 | Viani Bay
Stars and stripes and planets
03 July 2019 | Savusavu, Fiji
Settling into Savusavu, a trip to Labasa, and a "minor road" adventure
23 June 2019 | En route to Savusavu, Fiji, from N. Minerva Reef
A mechanical bull, scheming for arrival, lovely sailing weather
20 June 2019 | North Minerva Reef
On our way again
Passage to the Tropics - Day 5: Arrival in Minerva Reef
17 June 2019 | In the ocean, NE of New Zealand
Passage to the Tropics - Day 4: Happy Father's Day, the China Net
Passage to the Tropics - Day 3: Moderation, the magic latitude, my new electronic friend, butter, and earthquake
Passage to the Tropics - Day 2: Requiem for a sail, lots of wind
Passage to the Tropics - Day 1
12 June 2019 | Marsden Cove Marina, Ruakaka, NZ
Getting Ready to Leave for Fiji! :D
06 May 2019 | Paradise Taveuni Resort
Vandy Shrader
My friend, Alison, very gently alerted me to the fact that I had neglected to update our Sailblog after Nov. 25, leaving everyone hanging, with SCOOTS still more than 100 miles from her destination at Opua, NZ. Sorry about that!
We are, in fact in New Zealand now, having arrived in Opua on Nov. 27. We enjoyed a week there, before sailing SCOOTS south to the Town Basin Marina in Whangarei, where she spends her summers.
Since I posted to Yachts in Transit every day during our passage, I'll include those updates here, to catch everyone on up the last day or so of our passage, and our first few days back in NZ.
Making great time toward Opua in lovely conditions. Blue skies with no clouds except for a Long White Cloud over NZ.
We arrived at Opua today at 3:15pm...9 days, 3 hours after leaving Fiji. We motorsailed for our last night, cruising along over smooth seas at 8-9 knots, making great time. Our friends, Annie & Liam on the boat, Gone With the Wind, who had arrived from Fiji last week, pulled up their anchor at Urupukapuka Island to come sail into the marina with us.
Annie and Liam on Gone With the Wind
We cleared in with Customs, Immigration, and Biosecurity within a half hour, and then moved to our slip in the marina. Annie & Liam were there to catch our lines and welcome us back to NZ. After celebratory drinks and a good dinner at the Opua Yacht Club, we're ready for bed. Ah, the luxury of being able to sleep more than 3 hours at a stretch!
With SCOOTS tucked into a slip in the Bay of Islands Marina, Eric and I enjoyed the opportunity to sleep all night, though Eric woke up for a little while during his usual watch time, and I dreamed about sailing on passage all night. This morning, we've begun the process of cleaning up and settling in - doing some laundry, washing all the dried salt from SCOOTS (no we didn't have those tequila shots with hull salt), topping up our NZ phone all figuring highly - and taking care of some things we'd been planning to do, once arriving in New Zealand.
To begin these tasks, Roger from North Sails has already been by to measure SCOOTS for a new Code 0 sail (after being repaired by Roger a couple of years ago, and providing propulsion for the two years that he predicted it had left in it, the original Code 0 blew out spectacularly on our way to Fiji last June, and is now really, really done.)
We're both still swaying a bit - funny, we never noticed how much the land moved before - reacquainting our leg muscles with that thing called "walking," enjoying the sounds of gulls and tuis, happy to be back in the country that most feels like home to us.
I've included some photos that Eric took while I was feeding some of the “chocolate-colored shearwaters,” which allowed me to figure out that these weren't shearwaters after all, but were Black Petrels.
I'm sure that we did we did see some chocolate-colored shearwaters while we were farther out at sea, but these weren't them.
He also got photos of the Wandering Albatrosses that flew over.
Vandy
We�'re in the eighth day of what�'s usually a seven-day passage for us, and which will probably end up being a nine-day
passage. That�'s what happens, when you go a couple hundred miles west of the rhumb line: you have to tack back. We
knew that would happen, but decided when we left, that it was worth it to us, to have a nice nine-day passage, rather
than a sucky shorter passage. Or to wait around in Fiji to see whether that cyclone that was in the forecast would hit us
When we left, one of the models showed it making a direct hit on Fiji sometime this week. Since then, it has gone from
being an imaginary cyclone to a real cyclone �- Cyclone Rita, to be specific. It�'s taken aim at the island nation of
Vanuatu, about 600 miles west of Fiji, and is predicted to fizzle out in a couple of days. So our friends who chose to
stay behind in Fiji, hoping that the cyclone wouldn�'t come, and waiting for a better weather window, may just receive
that. Good on �'em. I hope they have a great passage. As for us, you may recall that our hurricane plan is RUN. So we
did. And it�'s been quite a nice passage, so far.
Out here, about 190 miles north of New Zealand, the sun is shining and we have blue skies above us. In fact, every day
of our passage so far has been sunny and blue, every night starry and clear �- except for yesterday, which was cloudy.
If we�'re going to be out here for a couple of extra days, it�'s good that the weather is nice. The seas have also settled
down, and are undulating slowly, like an expansive blue plain.
Every inch of SCOOTS�' exterior is covered in a thick layer of salt. Friends of ours, on arrival after a particularly
splashy passage, have a tradition of having a shot of tequila along with a dash of sea salt swiped from the hull. It�'s a fun
idea; we might do that when we get to Opua.
About a half dozen large, chocolate-brown shearwaters are flying zigzag patterns behind SCOOTS, scanning her wake
for tidbits. I may have thrown them some pieces of meat. I was going to tell you which species I think this is, but on
consulting my bird book I just discovered that there are four or five large, chocolate-brown shearwaters native to NZ,
so I�'m just going to leave it at that. An albatross also showed up for a slow, regal fly-by, the C5 to the shearwaters�'
C130. So I�'ve gotten to see my albatross.
We�'re in what I�'m calling Phase 3 of our passage: tacking back to NZ. You may recall that Phase 1 was: sailing SW to
stay ahead of the Low that was rolling in from the east, but not so far west that it would take forever to get back; a time
of some angst (on my part), partially relieved by obsessively studying the forecasts, trying to figure out where that point
was. Phase 2 was: squash zones; sailing in higher winds and seas; lots of heeling, pounding, seawater washing over the
deck. Each Phase is taking about three days. Phase 1 and Phase 3 have had comfortable sailing conditions; Phase 2,
When I last wrote, I described the conditions during our first day of squash zone sailing. The next two days were
similar. We did end up far enough west, when the Low made its closest point of approach, that we never saw more
than 22 knots of true wind, or more than 29 knots of apparent wind. The seas never rose above about 8 feet, were
about 8 seconds apart, and most were rolling rather than breaking. The meter-high wind waves, however, added some
chaos to the mix, coming at us at a higher frequency, bouncing SCOOTS around a bit.
Yesterday we entered Phase 3. The wind slowly eased down through the teens to the less than 5 knots that it is now,
where it will remain for the next couple days. The seas have also slowly abated, taking on that slow, low, rolling that I
mentioned. After days and days of sailing, we fired up Yanmar the Magnificent yesterday. He�'ll provide most of our
propulsion from now on, until we tie up at the Customs dock in Opua, hopefully tomorrow evening.
When we were scanning the horizon for traffic yesterday afternoon, we spotted a sail about a mile away. This would be
only the second boat we�'d seen on our passage, the other being a cargo ship several days earlier. Our call on VHF
was answered by the boat�'s skipper, who told us that it was s/v Taliesin, Lin and Larry Pardey�'s second boat, which
they had sold. He was tacking to NZ as well, having left Tonga two weeks earlier. In case you�'re not familiar with Lin
and Larry, they spent decades sailing all over the world in their first boat, s/v Seraffyn, and later, s/v Taliesin. They
shared their adventures in several interesting and entertaining books, books that have been instrumental in recruiting
many people into the cruising life, yours truly included. Though we had no intention of cruising �"their�" way, which was
quite minimalistic - Seraffyn had no head (yes, they did �"bucket and chuck it�" for years), nor engine, and I believe that
Taliesin has a head, but is also engineless �- we were drawn to the mobile, self-sufficient, out-in-nature, exploratory life
that they described.
I made a roast chicken yesterday, an early Thanksgiving dinner for us. We have a tradition of eating a Thanksgiving
meal on this passage, except for last year, when we had Thanksgiving in Fiji. Since we�'ll have to surrender all our meat
and produce to the Biosecurity officials in Opua, I decided that we�'d better eat it sooner rather than later. Along with
some peas and carrots, I also made something like a cranberry sauce, out of dried cranberries (try getting fresh ones in
Fiji!), that I soaked in orange juice, and then cooked for a little while, adding sugar and spices. We were happy with
the result! And, the conditions on this first day of Phase 3 were reasonable enough that we were able to enjoy our meal
at the cockpit table, rather than holding our plates (or bowls) in our laps, for the first time on this passage.
Eric just reminded me that our bodies are going to have to start making their own body heat again, something they
haven�'t had to do, during our last six months in the tropics. He�'s right, of course. It�'s 68 degrees in the cabin, and
we�'ve been sleeping under a comforter for the past three nights!
I�'ll leave you now, with today�'s Numbers at Noon:
31 57S/173 44E
Course: 172T
Speed: 6.7 kn motorsailing
Wind: 2.9 kn from the NE
Seas: <1m
Miles gone: 1104NM (the rhumb line distance from Denarau to the Opua Approach is 1040 NM)
Miles to go: 188.6NM
We are looking to arrive at the Customs dock in Opua at about 7pm tomorrow.
Cheers, Vandy
Hello again. We're just entering our fifth day of sailing from Fiji to New Zealand. I'm only posting to Sailblogs every other day because the motion of the
boat isn't particularly conducive to sitting inside staring at letters on a computer screen for very long. I am posting a short update to YIT every day , so if
you get a hankering to see where we are and what we're up to more often than every other day, you can pop over there. www.yit.co.nz
Since I last posted to the blog, we had one more day and night of absolutely lovely sailing, and then we entered the squash zone that I talked about.
We've been in the squash zone for about a day now, with perhaps another day of it to go. What it looks and feels like is...we have wind from 16-25
knots, from the SSE, and the waves have built to about 2.5 meters (about 8 feet), also from the SSE. We are going SSW so SCOOTS is still hard on the
wind. Every now and then, SCOOTS goes off the top of a wave, banging down hard into the trough behind it, or plows into a wave, instead of sliding
over it, bringing a cascade of water washing over the deck. Inside, as well as under our hard dodger in the forward part of the cockpit, we're cozy and
dry. Every once in awhile, though, it's as if some guy tosses a bucketful of water across the aft part of the cockpit, dousing everything aft of the dodger.
SCOOTS is well-equipped for these conditions, with two reefing points (places to shorten her mainsail) and a staysail (a headsail that's smaller than our
genoa jib), and a sturdy, streamlined construction. Yesterday, when the wind and seas rose, we swapped the staysail for the genoa, and pulled the main
down into the second reef. That kept the ride pretty comfortable for the rest of the day and night. This morning, hoping to make more headway to the
south, we pulled the mainsail up into the first reef. Less comfortable, more speed.
Given the conditions, we're pretty satisfied with our progress. We've made some headway to the south, and we've come far enough west to dodge the
most intense wind and waves of the Low. This is good, but in doing that, we've sailed by New Zealand. Yes, we're now west of New Zealand. While
this is a bit annoying, it's not a problem, really. We'll just have to tack at some point, and start sailing SE. According to the forecasts, it looks like a good
time to do that would be sometime on Sunday (today is Friday), as the wind is predicted to be coming straight out of the south by then, so sailing SE
would be another close reach. Hopefully not as close as our reaches have been for the past four days.
Two days ago, a tropicbird flew near SCOOTS for awhile. These are one of my favorite kinds of seabirds, and I almost never see them anymore, since
they're very rare in Fiji and not native to New Zealand. About once per passage, one does a fly-by, and it makes my day.
Course 218T
Speed 7.0 kn
Wind 16 knots SSE
Sea 1.5m SSE
Temp 81F
Weather Sunny
Bar 1014mb
Miles gone 462
Speed 6.5kn
Wind 16-21kn SSE
Sea 2.5m swell + 1m wind waves SSE
Hello from the South Pacific!
We�'re on our way from Fiji to New Zealand. We left Port Denarau noon local time on Monday, so we�'ve
been at sea for two days now. The weather is sunny and warm, very nice. If you�'d like to follow along,
look for SCOOTS at Yachts in Transit (www.yit.co.nz <http://www.yit.co.nz/>). I�'ll be sending daily
We took a weather window that I would describe as �"the best that we would get for awhile, considering
the circumstances.�" I like to wait for an optimum weather window, but this year, my hand has been forced
by the forecast of an early season tropical storm that may in fact become a cyclone and will either impact
Fiji or Vanuatu sometime next week.
Rather than hanging around in Fiji to see whether or not it was visited by a tropical storm next week, and
then wait another week or two (into December now), for another weather window to (hopefully) develop,
we took what we had and we�'re making it work. This fits nicely with our tried-and-true hurricane plan:
RUN, rather than hide.
So here�'s what we�'ve got: The players in our passage weather are a High pressure system between us and
NZ (this is good), and a big, nasty Low forming well to the east of us that�'s going to move a little bit
towards us on Friday or Saturday as we sail southwest toward NZ (this is bad), but is not going to come all
the way to where we are (this is good). What it is going to to do, as it moves in our direction, is press on
the isobars of our High to make them squish together, creating what is aptly called a �"squash zone,�" where
the wind is stronger than it would otherwise be. And also, in this case, it will cause these strong winds to
blow from the south, which is basically the direction that we want to be going.
But, we saw that if we left last Monday, the forecast for the first three days called for light to moderate
wind, and reasonable seas, which would give us time to get south, and then head more west away from the
big, nasty Low as it moved toward us.
So that�'s what we�'ve been doing for the past two days...heading as much south as we can. We�'re on a
tight reach, which means pointing SCOOTS close to the wind (in this case we�'ve been sailing between 35
and 45 degrees off the wind) while keeping her speed up. She�'s been doing great, and while we�'re heeled
over a bit, the ride�'s pretty comfortable at the moment. Almost no water over the bow at all.
We expect to enter the squash zone sometime tomorrow, which means 20-25 knot winds and probably
some higher seas for a day or so. This may slow our southern progress, but if it does that�'s okay. We�'ll put
in some more west and keep going. West is away from the Low.
The winds should start to ease late Saturday or early Sunday, as the Low moves off toward the east and
the squash zone relaxes. Then, we�'ll figure out our best course to Opua.
Yesterday, while we were out doing some odd jobs on deck, a small private jet flew towards us from the
SW (nothing in that direction for like a thousand miles), and began to circle us. At first we thought it was
cool, and we waved. But on the third time around, it began to get a little creepy. We were relieved when
they finally headed toward Fiji.
Here are the numbers for yesterday and today, in case anyone�'s keeping track.
11/19/2019 �- 24 hours
20 02�'S/176 48�'E
Course: 194* True
Speed: 6.4 knots motorsailing
Wind: 5 knots SE
Waves: <1m SE
Water temp: 78F
Air temp: 85F
Sunny with a few cumulus clouds.
Miles gone: 146
Miles to Opua: 912
No fish or squid on deck.
Course 211* True
Speed: 7.4 knots mainsail and jib
Wind: 12 kn SE
Sunny with almost no clouds.
Miles gone last 24 hrs: 143; Miles total: 289
Cloud Nine is a floating bar, pizza restaurant, party spot and diving platform, anchored out by the reef near the Cloud Break surf spot, a few miles west of Musket Cove. We'd never been there, but we'd been looking for a reason to go. Now, with The Fam visiting, we had our reason!
A couple hours after leaving Saweni Bay, we threaded our way through the narrow entrance in the reef around Cloud Nine, and dropped SCOOTS' anchor in 40 feet of the clearest water I'd seen in months. I could watch the anchor drop all the way to the white sand! What a stunningly beautiful place!
With plans for a pizza dinner a few hours later on Cloud Nine, Tara, Eric, Kelly, Daniel, and I headed for a nearby reef to do some snorkeling. The water was calm and clear, there were lots of fish and colorful coral, even a giant clam!
Late in the afternoon, our friend Jose, who'd been hanging out on Cloud Nine, swam over to SCOOTS. During our chat, he mentioned that Cloud Nine closes at around sunset. Seeing as how it was already 4:30, we realized we'd better get a move-on!
Since Eric was net controller for the South Pacific Radio Net that evening at 5:30, and since dinghies aren't allowed to tie up to Cloud Nine, he dropped the rest of us off there at about 5:00, with a request to bring him back some pizza. With friendly shouts of "Bula!", three smiling Cloud Nine employees helped us from our dinghy to the floating platform, where loud electronic music was playing, and let us know that we had about 30 minutes to enjoy the place. Now, what would we like to drink?
After perusing the extensive cocktail menu, and the short pizza menu, we each chose a different, intriguing-sounding drink, ordered pizza, and settled into comfy seats to enjoy the ambiance and the scenery. Kelly, Daniel, and Peyton lounged on a large, cushy mattress at the edge of the platform while they enjoyed their drinks. "This is wonderful," Tara said. "The only thing that would make it better is Fijian music."
At 5:30 pm, closing time, the electronic music was switched off, and Fijian reggae took its place. Tara and I looked at each other and smiled. We enjoyed our drinks, our pizza, and a spectacular sunset. The employees went about their closing tasks while singing along to the music, unconcerned that we were still there. I'd told them that we'd be leaving a little late.
While we'd been enjoying our drinks and pizza, the wind had come up. What had been calm water when we'd arrived, was now choppy waves. It was going to be a very wet ride back, and I was a little worried about everyone getting safely onto SCOOTS' deck from the dinghy. I needn't have worried: everyone arrived back completely soaked, laughing uproariously at every dousing wave (what else can you do?), and managed to get safely onto SCOOTS' deck from the pitching dinghy.
The wind was now blowing more than 20 knots, in defiance of the forecast of calm, settled weather that had been pivotal to our decision to anchor here for the night. When Eric gave me a "WTF?" look, all I could do was shrug. With the prospect of a very windy night ahead, Eric and I, pros at taking down our large sunshade (AKA Bedouin tent) in high wind, because we always wait too long to do it, did so again, grabbing handfuls of the flapping fabric, pulling it down, and stuffing it into its canvas bag while the tie-down ropes slapped at our faces.
A couple of hours later, as inexplicably as it had come, the wind calmed down, and we were treated to a beautiful, calm, starry night, enjoyed especially by Kelly and Daniel, who slept on the dodger roof, with the Southern Cross and Milky Way as their night lights.
The next morning, we made the short trip back to Musket Cove, where, after a lovely morning and afternoon at the resort's beach, and a nice lunch, we said a sad farewell to Tara, Peyton, and Bob - who'd transmogrified during his time with us from Vanilla Chief, through Strawberry Chief, to become more of a Caramel Chief - as they boarded the Malolo Cat IV ferry to Denarau, and would catch their flight back to the States later that night.
During their time with us, Tara, Bob, and Peyton had completely relaxed into the cruising life: enjoying an unscheduled existence, a slow pace of life, and freedom from societal pressures such as feeling the need to wear a different outfit every day, to wear makeup, or to shave. Tara had taken off her watch when she'd boarded her flight to Fiji. and she'd left it off the whole time she was with us. She embraced every aspect of her time with us with full-on appreciation and gusto: she loved the colors of the water, the scents of the islands, the friendliness of the Fijians, the variety of the marine life; the songs of the birds on shore. She rose before dawn each morning, capturing the sunrise in a time-lapse video as she sat quietly on deck, and returned each dusk to capture the sunset. It was a beautiful thing to witness.
After saying goodbye to Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief, we grilled some sausages at the nightly cruisers' potluck at the Island Bar, and talked about what Kelly and Daniel would like to do for the remaining five days of their vacation. On their list: snorkeling; relaxing; a visit to Tom Hanks (Monuriki) Island; trying kava; seeing mantas, sharks, turtles, and fruit bats.
We were joined by Chuck and Lauri from s/v Free Spirit, who'd wanted to meet Kelly and Daniel, particularly since they knew that Kelly had come up with the term "ginner," to describe the heavy hors d'ouevres and drinks that we cruisers sometimes enjoy instead of more "traditional" dinner fare. Having shared many ginners with Chuck and Lauri, this was a fun and fitting introduction.
Keen to get started on Kelly and Daniel's wish list, we left the next morning and motored north to Monuriki Island.
This time, we arrived before the tourist boats, and had the island to ourselves for a couple of hours. We wandered its beaches, tidepools, and jungle trails; Kelly and Daniel posed for a picture reminiscent of a scene from Castaway;
and we spent awhile lounging in the warm, clear water that lapped on the beach. The breakers were much smaller than when we'd visited with Tara & Co., and our dinghy trip back to SCOOTS was much less exciting. Nobody arrived with cruise bruises.
With the sea state so calm, we decided to take a chance and head north to Navadra. One of our favorite places on the west side of Fiji, Navadra is a beautiful lagoon bordered by three curving islands. White sand beckons from shore, and coral from below. The water is a lovely shade of dark turquoise. A flock of goats roams the islands, and who doesn't like goats? The flip side of all this perfection is the tendency for the anchorage to be rolly. When we dropped the anchor, mid-afternoon, the water was calm, and the forecast was for the settled conditions to continue. We decided to stay.
Kelly, Daniel, and Eric answered the call of the coral and went for a snorkel. They were rewarded with lots of colorful fish and coral, and a sea turtle. Afterwards, back on SCOOTS, we played a rousing game of Oh Hell,
our usual evening entertainment. Every now and then, a small swell would lift SCOOTS up a little bit on one side and she would gently roll back and forth a couple of times. This late in the day, we were committed to staying the night in Navadra - no one travels Fiji's reef-filled waters after dark. We hoped that the swells, still pretty mellow, wouldn't get any more insistent.
But of course, they did. By bedtime, SCOOTS had a moderate roll going, which continued through the night. Kelly and Daniel, who by now had their sea legs, rolled with it like true seafarers.
In the morning, we wasted no time in pulling SCOOTS' anchor up, leaving the now-rolly Navadra anchorage for the calmer water of Mana Lagoon, happening to arrive at low tide, just as we had with Tara, Bob, and Vanilla Chief. The entrance to Mana Lagoon snakes through a shallow, narrow cut in the coral, marked here and there with sticks, buoys, and poles as guidance. At low tide, it can be quite a butt-puckering - and yet a really beautiful - experience. Jagged coral lines the edges of the reef cut, only a few feet away on either side. Swirls and eddies in the channel catch your boat in their meandering flow, slewing it first one way, then the other, with the current. If your engine dies, you're toast. Beneath the surface, colorful coral bommies loom up, in water so clear that it's hard to tell how deep they are. Maybe they're ten feet below, maybe only two. Like Tara and Vanilla Chief a week earlier, Kelly and Daniel took all this in from SCOOTS' deck. It's not something you see every day.
As soon as SCOOTS' anchor was set in the sandy bottom of the lagoon, I went kayaking on the flat-calm water, while Kelly, Daniel, and Eric went snorkeling near the pass. Later in the afternoon, Eric dropped Kelly, Daniel, and me off at the pier. We walked to the north side of the island, in search of the turtle sanctuary, fruit bats, a young dog that lives near the backpacker resort, and ice cream. We found three out of four.
We bought ice cream in one of the resort shops, saw the turtles in the sanctuary, and found the dog, but the fruit bats never made an appearance. Not even one! Just a few days before, when I'd been there with Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief, dozens of them had flown over, or landed in the trees near the pool. We'd watched them for an hour. Today, not a single one flapped across the sky. We couldn't check that one off Kelly and Daniel's list. Along with mantas. Oh well, something for next time.
The wind had come up while we'd been on the island, which meant that we all got soaked by the choppy waves on our way back to SCOOTS. Like Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief before them, Kelly and Daniel also took the dousing in stride, laughing as each wave drenched us with salt water. Because what else can you do?
The next morning, Kelly and Eric went snorkeling near the pass, where they saw a black-tipped reef shark. After they returned, we pulled up SCOOTS' anchor and made our way back to Musket Cove. It was Thursday, the day of the resort's weekly kava ceremony and Fijian feast; there'd be no better opportunity for Kelly and Daniel to try kava and taste some traditional Fijian food. To make things even better, our friends on Gone With the Wind and Rewa were now at Musket Cove!
During the kava ceremony, the four of us each had several cups of kava, while learning some of the culture and history of Fiji. It was fun to experience this Fijian tradition with Kelly and Daniel.
When the kava ceremony ended, we joined our friends, Annie and Liam from Gone With the Wind, and Dave, Tessa, Nick, and Heike from Rewa, at a long table in the restaurant. Smiles, hugs, and introductions were shared, and then we all enjoyed a lovely Fijian feast together. Eric and I were happy that Kelly and Daniel and our cruising family finally got to meet each other.
The next morning, Daniel untied us from the mooring and we left for Castaway Island, where Kelly and Daniel would spend their last night in Fiji. After dropping the anchor, we dinghied around to the beach - staying much drier this time, than we had with Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief - for a nice lunch
and a hike up the hill, oohing and ahhing at the spectacular vistas.
Kelly and Daniel really liked the vibe of Castaway Resort, with its winding paths and cute bures tucked among tropical foliage; it was their favorite of the three resorts that they visited in Fiji.
Our last night together - like all our nights with The Fam - was a delight of card games, stories, and laughing. Lots of laughing.
In the morning, Kelly, Daniel and Eric went snorkeling one last time, and then returned to SCOOTS to begin collecting their things, and packing. Mid-morning, we pulled up SCOOTS' anchor and began heading toward Denarau, where we were expecting to anchor outside the marina and dinghy in. SCOOTS had been on the waiting list for a slip in the marina for a couple of weeks, but none had come available. We decided to call the marina, and check one last time, while we were on our way there. A slip had come available, last minute, that we could take for the night! This would make things much more convenient!
After tying SCOOTS up in her slip, we walked around the shops at Denarau, where Kelly and Daniel shopped for souvenirs and Bula shirts, and took in the vibe of the busy tourist hub. Shopping accomplished, we enjoyed a very tasty lunch at Indigo Indian Restaurant, which never fails to please. While we were there, Kelly and Daniel said that they felt as if the ground were swaying, and asked us if we ever feel that way. Yes, we do, we said, but you get used to it. It just comes with the lifestyle.
The hour of their departure looming, Kelly and Daniel packed their new purchases, and were ready to go. Their ride, Joe, met us in the parking lot in his taxi. After lots of hugs all around, Kelly and Daniel loaded their bags into the trunk of Joe's taxi, got in, and waved goodbye as he drove away.
As I watched them go, I teared up. I missed Kelly and Daniel, Tara, Peyton, and Bob so much already. We'd been looking forward to their visit for so long, had such a good time with them, enjoyed their company so much...and now it was over. Eric, noticing my expression, and maybe feeling the same himself, put his arm around me. As we turned to begin walking back to SCOOTS, he leaned his head toward mine and said, "How about a shot of some good rum?"
PS. I explain the origin of "Full Masti!" and "Vanilla Chief" in Part 1.
We'd told Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief that if you're a cruiser, it's pretty much a given that anywhere you go in your dinghy, you'll arrive with a wet butt. The next day, when we took the dinghy around the corner to the beach at Castaway Resort, looking forward to a hike up the hill and lunch at the resort restaurant, wet butts would have been preferable to the complete soaking we received from slogging through the choppy waves. (Our dinghy doesn't plane with five people on board.)
“We would've been drier if we'd swum here!” Eric announced, as he guided our dinghy through the shallows toward the beach. Dripping from head to toe, as we all were, Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief were good sports, taking their dousing in stride, with good humor. And why not? The weather was warm and sunny, the company friendly, the scenery spectacular. We were together in Fiji!
The Flying Piantanida Sisters in Fiji
Walking the meandering paths through the resort's grounds and the bush walk up the hill behind the resort, was a scenic way to stretch our legs. The trail included not just one but two vista points, each offering spectacular views from a different side of the island.
By the time we'd hiked up to the top of the hill and back down, our clothes were dry, and we were ready to enjoy lunch on the deck of the resort's beachside restaurant.
Our friends, Chuck and Lauri, anchored their boat, Free Spirit, near SCOOTS, and invited all of us over for drinks and snacks (“ginner”), giving Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief their first opportunity to experience the fun and warmth of the cruising community.
Anchored off Castaway Island, Eric and I were happy to see Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief slipping the yoke of their fast-paced life back home and relaxing into the slow tempo of cruising life and Fiji time: enjoying a slow pace, an unscheduled existence, and freedom from such nuisances as wearing shoes or makeup, shaving, and wearing a different outfit every day.
When we were ready for a change of scenery, we moved to the lagoon at Mana Island, about four miles away, where we received several more soakings in the dinghy on our way to and from shore. The next day, having learned that the extensive coral near shore made getting our dinghy to the beach at any time other than high tide nearly impossible, Eric dropped the rest of us off at the floating dock at the pier. Tara, Peyton, Vanilla Chief, and I enjoyed a day at the resort, lounging by the pool, visiting the turtle sanctuary, exploring the tide pools at low tide, and being charmed by the fruit bats who swooped in, late in the afternoon.
Lounging at Mana Island Resort
The next day, we motorsailed eight miles to Monuriki (AKA Tom Hanks Island), crossing, in the process, a stretch of water that wasn't protected by a barrier reef. Here, the ocean waves rolled through unobstructed. About a meter high on this day, they caught SCOOTS on her stern quarter, rolling her first one way, and then the other, in a corkscrew motion. Though we hadn't known beforehand whether Tara, Peyton, or Vanilla Chief were prone to seasickness, I'm happy to report that apparently they're not.
A visit to Monuriki is a must for anyone in the Mamanucas. This is the island where the movie Castaway was filmed. It's a stunningly beautiful place, with white sand, green palms, and water in every imaginable shade of blue. Though uninhabited, it's inundated with several boatloads of tourists for a few hours each day beginning at about 11:30 am. We arrived from Mana Island just as the Jolly Bula sailboat disgorged a couple dozen of them. As we pulled our dinghy up the beach, a Fijian man came by and told us that his village – “Over there, at Yanuya Island”– now requires a $10FJ per person “landing fee.” This was a new development since our visit two years ago. We wondered if it was actually the tour vendors who were extracting the fee, rather than the villagers. Tara graciously paid for all of us, since Eric and I hadn't brought any money to shore.
We explored the island's beaches and took a short walk through the jungle, looking for places that we'd seen in the movie.
Peyton shouted,“Wilson!” On a sandy hillside, the words “Help Me” were spelled out in coconuts. We laughed at how, had Tom Hanks looked out from the island in any other direction than the one he always did in the movie, he would've seen lots of other islands, many of them inhabited. After an hour or so, we returned to our dinghy, and, with careful timing and speedy execution by all, successfully boarded the dinghy and got out past the breakers. Successfully, but not without incident: Tara picked up a trio of “cruise bruises” in the process. Ouch. The marks of a true cruiser!
We sailed SCOOTS to the other side of Mana Island this time, dropping her anchor a few hundred yards off the long white sand beach, and enjoyed a couple days of snorkeling, swimming, and relaxing at this beautiful island paradise.
Musket Cove, on Malolo Lailai Island, was our next stop. With its large resort and cruiser-friendly atmosphere, as well as being a gorgeous spot, Musket Cove was another place we wanted to share with our family. Tara, Peyton, and Vanilla Chief loved relaxing by the resort pool,
Chillin' by the pool at Musket Cove
and hanging out with some of our cruiser friends at the nightly cruisers' potluck at the Island Bar. While at Musket Cove, we attended a kava ceremony put on by the resort. It was really well done! The man who acted as MC had a good sense of humor and also shared a lot of Fijian culture and history with us. As well as plenty of yaqona (the Fijian word for kava). As the eldest man present (by virtue of being one month older than Eric) Vanilla Chief was chosen to preside over the ceremony.
Vanilla Chief drinking kava
Mrs. Vanilla Chief enjoying kava
Peyton trying kava
Afterwards, we enjoyed a Fijian feast (complete with spit-roasted pig) and a meke (Fijian singing and dance). A full masti Fiji experience!
Now we are Seven
A couple of days later, we said goodbye to Musket Cove and motorsailed across to the “mainland” (the big island of Viti Levu), anchoring at Saweni Bay, just south of Lautoka, to await Kelly and Daniel's arrival the next morning.
Our taxi driver friend Raj picked Kelly and Daniel up at the airport and brought them to the beach at Saweni Bay, where Eric and I were waiting. After hugging Kelly and Daniel, we arranged for Raj and a friend to come back with two cars later in the day to transport all of us to Lautoka. We loaded Kelly and Daniel's bags into our dinghy, got in, and zipped back to SCOOTS, where Tara, Bob, and Peyton were waiting with more greetings and hugs.
In the afternoon, we all dinghied to shore, glad for the flat-calm water, as this was the first time our dinghy had transported seven people; had there been any texture to the water at all, it would have been a very, very wet ride. Raj and his cousin were waiting for us in matching Priuses, and after we split up into the two cars, they whisked us off to Lautoka.
We had two reasons for visiting Lautoka: first, we needed to do some more provisioning. Second, we wanted to show Kelly and Daniel a Fijian town. We accomplished both, and more, as Raj and his cousin acted as tour guides during our ride into town, pointing out such attractions as the tracks for the narrow-gauge sugar cane train; the rum distillery, its parking lot jammed with dozens of flatbed trucks piled high with bundles of sugar cane; the sugar mill; and the huge pile of pine chips that gets sent to China on ships and sold back to Fiji as particle board.
Our first stop was the public market. Walking along the aisles, between tables piled high with different local fruits, vegetables, or kava, Kelly and Daniel got to see how we typically shop for our produce. After the public market, we walked down the crowded sidewalk, stopping into Naginda's to check out their selection of Bula shirts, eventually ending up at the shiny Tappoo City mall, where we had lunch at the food court and shopped for groceries at Extra, the clean, modern supermarket. Waiting outside with our full shopping cart, we called Raj who, along with his cousin, turned up five minutes later, to take us back to Saweni Beach.
Enjoying a swim in Saweni Bay
The next morning, Kelly, who gets plenty of experience with mud and anchors for her job at the USGS, helped me pull up SCOOTS' anchor. She sprayed the cylinder of thick, gooey mud off the anchor chain, while I ran the windlass. Anchor up, we were off to our next destination: Cloud Nine.
P.S. If you're wondering about the term Full Masti!, I explain it in Part 1
Vessel Name: SCOOTS
Vessel Make/Model: Able Apogee 50
Hailing Port: San Francisco, CA
Crew: Eric and Vandy Shrader
About: We've been living aboard full time since September 2014. We sailed to Mexico with the 2014 Baja Haha and had fun exploring Mexico until April 2016, when we turned SCOOTS west and headed to the South Pacific. As of late Nov. 2016, SCOOTS and her crew are exploring New Zealand.
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Review of Sabah Development Corridor Blueprint to Begin Soon
The review of the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) blueprint will soon commence, said Chief Minister, Tan Sri Musa Aman.
He recommended that SDC authorities publish a Regional Economic Corridor Scorecard which outlined strategies and programmes, as well as performance and its impact on the nation, a decade after the development corridor was established.
"To be able to collectively meet the target set for the remaining period of the 11th Malaysia Plan (11MP), and achieve the objectives of the economic corridors, there is a clear need for all corridor authorities to take stock of the milestones that have been met as well as the impact and outcome generated.
"This is to ensure they are on track towards meeting their respective objectives. The corridor authorities will then lay out their respective strategies and action plan going forward" he said in his speech read by Deputy Chief Minister and State Infrastructure Minister, Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, at the National Conference On Economic Corridors: Challenges and Prospect today (29 January).
Musa said Malaysia is expected to achieve steady economic growth, while poised to attain the aspiration of becoming an advanced economy and an inclusive nation by 2020.
"To achieve these goals, the nation must ensure its economic focus pivots towards high-value and knowledge-intensive activities. An economic focus under the National Strategic Thrust of the 11MP is to re-engineer economic growth for greater prosperity.
"Regional economic corridors will be further developed to ensure balanced development. There will be greater investments in selected cities to enhance their global competitiveness and gain from economies of agglomeration" he added.
He said small and medium enterprises will continue to be strengthened to promote innovation and create a conducive business environment to increase their share of the gross domestic product and exports as well as to attract higher value-added investments to rural areas.
According to Musa, the five regional economic corridors, namely the SDC, Iskandar Malaysia, Northern Corridor Economic Region, East Coast Economic Region and Sarawak Corridor of Renewal Energy, are expected to realise RM236 million worth of investments and create 470,000 job by 2020 under the 11MP.
The two-day conference, with coincides with the 10th anniversary of the SDC was jointly hosted by the Sabah Economic Development and Investment Authority, Institute For Development Studies Sabah and Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
It is aimed at providing a platform for discussions involving all stakeholders to objectively review the SDC's performance and progress, and provide input on the direction, strategies, projects and actions which could be considered by the respective authorities.
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by Amy Duncan, Goldfish Consulting, Inc. San Diego Startup week is an innovative weeklong conference that seeks to build an ecosystem of entrepreneurship in San Diego, provide resources for entrepreneurs, and amass a network of like-minded individuals to discuss common issues and share experiences. This year’s conference included a Bio/MedTech track with 15 events. I attended five of the Bio/MedTech sessions, held at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla. Three of the sessions reverberated themes that included teams, partnerships, and licensing that I’ll cover in this blog. Speakers and Panelists Participants in “Starting a Biotech Company - JUST DO IT!!” included founders/CEOs Julio de Unamuno from LabFellows, Thomas Hitchcock from Xycrobe Therapeutics, Inc., Paul Laikind from ViaCyte, Zachary Zimmerman from Forge Therapeutics, Inc., Curt Becker from Molecular Assemblies, and Tim Mullen from Qusp Labs. Participants in “Licensing IP from UCSD and other Research Institutions” included Scott Forrest from BlackThorn Therapeutics, Paul Roben from UCSD, and Zachary Zimmerman. Participants in “Biotech Partnerships and Joint Ventures” included Greg Mckee from CONNECT, Jay Lichter from Avalon Ventures, Damien McDevitt from GSK, and Elizabeth Schwarzbach from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Participants in “What Biotech Investors Look For When Funding Startups” included Julio de Unamuno, Kara Bartone from JLABS, Stephen Connelly from BioMed Ventures, and Ron Shigeta from Indie.bio. Building your Team When de Unamuno asked whether the panelists preferred having loyal or independent team members, the founders unanimously agreed that loyalty and trust are fundamental. The panelists advised working your network to get recommendations for first hires, and that while having a rock star team member was clearly beneficial, they are difficult to lure. Founding team members are either senior level and in a financially secure position to take a pay cut and try something new, or desperately in need of a job. Once you build the lab and foundational data, you can leverage these assets to attract higher quality employees and prune those that don’t fit. The panelists underscored the value of people first, referencing the adage, “It’s about the jockey, not the horse.” Bartone said one reason startups fail is when founders try to start a company part time, in off hours, or with no full-time employees. She said it’s hard to move a company forward this way. It was echoed throughout the track that few professors make it as a CEO straight out of the lab, and are typically unsuccessful at trying to be CEO and do the science at the same time. Panelists advise professors starting companies to find a business partner and maybe a post doc to run the science. Shigeta says his accelerator, Indie.bio, won’t invest in sole founders, citing that an entrepreneur needs to be able to talk at least one other person into joining them. Being Coachable and the Ability to Pivot In the early days of your startup, Shigeta says it’s common that no one knows anything about you, you have no track record, and you are your only asset. Investors look for “coachable” bright people who can take advice and step away from the science and be product focused. Shigeta encourages entrepreneurs to share their vulnerabilities and be open. Connelly underscored the importance for entrepreneurs to understand their technology as a product, where it fits, how it addresses an unmet need, and how it will move the needle. Bartone added that cheaper, me too, or slightly better won’t cut it. Shigeta said the product has to be spectacular. That being said, the final product probably won’t end up how it was initially envisioned. Being able to recognize when things aren’t going right and being able to pivot is critically important. All the panelists agreed that companies typically end up pivoting and pursuing different directions, further supporting the notion that you need a good, solid team to persevere. Partnering with VCs and Biotechs Typical VC firms are small with about four or five people. Getting time with a decision maker is hard to do. Lichter advises finding someone in the VC’s network and convince them to make the introduction. When you see a VC at a networking event, even if you’ve met before, Shigeta says the VC likely won’t remember who you are. Always be clear on who you are and be ready to deliver your quick pitch again. The best way to establish a biotech partnership, according to McDevitt, is to talk to the people in business development at the company. Forrest and Bartone both raised the notion that you need to do your research on what areas and types of companies VCs and biotechs are interested in partnering with and investing in. For biotechs, they advised that you do your homework to understand their therapeutic focus areas and make sure your technology applies. Reinforce how your technology plays in their picture; indicate if it’s a new direction for them, a supplement or add on to an existing area, or how it grows one of their current franchises. Position your company on the role it will play for them, and how it will contribute to their growth, so they can pitch it internally. For VCs, know how much they are looking to fund. Know how much funding you need, based on the size of your team and phase of development. Connelly says missing a good deal is what keeps VCs up at night. They don’t have a lot of time, so prepare a one-pager that describes your mission, the problem you are addressing, your proposed solution, how it’s different, how you plan to create value, the market size and non-obvious opportunities, and brief bios on the management team. Potential partners can look at the data later if they are interested. If there is interest, you’ll likely get invited to a follow on meeting covered by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), but don’t feel pressured to reveal proprietary data. Even the VCs don’t want to open themselves up to liability. If the investment community says “no” Connelly advises to be sure to understand why. Understand how each VC operates and what the motivations are. From a venture fund perspective, it’s all in the timing on how much money they raised and where they are in deploying the funding. If they just raised $100 million, they may want to fund an earlier/risky stage. If they’ve already deployed it and have some left over, they may not want to come in early and stay in the game long term. They may not have the money or buy in from their partners at that time. You may have to come back when the timing and funding is better, or when you have more data. But don’t stalk. Licensing IP When it comes to universities and research institutions out-licensing technology Forrest and Roben said their strategy was to ensure their technology can succeed. Institutions wanting to safeguard their technology is the focus of the licensors’ program, not a small part that can be shelved or thrown away. They want to license to the partner “who’s going to love their baby the most.” The universities and research institutions are looking to partner with a team that has a plan, commitment and passion, and can execute. Forrest says it takes about 30 seconds to determine if the person is serious, experienced, and has a plan to take the IP forward. Zimmerman noted that startups interested in licensing a technology typically want to test it out and see if it has legs, but can’t pay a lot of money for it, and investors aren’t interested in giving 5% to the university. To address this conundrum, he drafted up a letter of intent to obtain exclusive access to the university’s technology for 12 months. Zimmerman used the letter of intent as a tool to raise the seed round, which ultimately was used to pay the license fee, without giving away part of the company. Finally, identifying the IP you want to license is not an exercise in simply reviewing a catalog of what’s available. Forrest said entrepreneurs need to either already know the professor behind the patent or be familiar with the area and understand its impact. Words of Wisdom Lichter said to plan for things not to go right, and that 95% of things we start will fail in this industry. Shigeta says that while you most likely will lose all of the investment, lose it responsibly and not painfully. Hitchcock said there will be anxiety starting a company, there’s no other way around it. The best way to diffuse stress, Mullen advised, is through talking about issues with the team. Laikind suggested that if an entrepreneur needs a support group, maybe that entrepreneur is not up for the task. Fortunately, there are conferences like San Diego Startup Week, organizations (SDEE, CONNECT and Biocom) and incubators/accelerators (JLABs, Indie.bio and Lichter’s COI Pharmaceuticals) to help entrepreneurs network, meet advisors, and establish a network of support to tap into along the way.
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Monitronics Expects Reduced Response Time, Error & No. of Calls With Automated Dispatch Program
KEYWORDS Automated Secure Alarm Protocol / reduce response time
Monitronics International, Dallas, an alarm monitoring company that works through a network of nationwide, independent authorized dealers, began participating in a program aimed at reducing emergency response time and saving lives.
As part of the program, Monitronics now monitors emergency calls in Richmond, Va. The company also began on Aug. 8 monitoring calls to the Houston Emergency Center (HEC), which is the fourth-largest public security access point (PSAP) facility in the United States.
Monitronics was one of the first central stations chosen for the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) pilot program. The program has three important goals that could save lives: reduce the number of telephone calls in emergencies, eliminate miscommunication, and reduce processing and response time. By transmitting emergency data electronically, Monitronics can do just this.
The Central Station Alarm Association and Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International developed the protocol that reduces the two- to three-minute relay that currently exists, in part by allowing data to be processed by a computer at the dispatch center.
“This program replaces the telephone calls between the alarm company and the 911 PSAP call-takers,” said Mary Jensby, Monitronics central station director. “Central stations will gain an immediate communication from the PSAP, eliminating hold times sometimes experienced when making a dispatch. The program will not only reduce the amount of phone calls that are received by an agency on a daily basis, but will also eliminate the potential for human error.”
The ASAP pilot program took place over the last several months in Richmond. Now, the full implementation has the potential to benefit even more monitoring customers. In addition to being the fourth-largest PSAP in the U.S., HEC is also the largest public safety communications agency in the country and the first in Texas to implement ASAP. In addition to the safety benefits of the program, it is also expected to save the city of Houston $1 million to $2 million annually, according to HEC director David Cutler.
Only three monitoring companies nationwide currently participate in ASAP: Monitronics, Vector Security and United Central Controls.
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Home Press 63rd Annual Neal Awards to Celebrate B2B Journalism’s Best & Brightest – March 31 in NYC
63rd Annual Neal Awards to Celebrate B2B Journalism’s Best & Brightest – March 31 in NYC
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NEW YORK (Feb. 17, 2017) – Connectiv, the Business Information Association, today announced finalists for the 63rd Jesse H. Neal Awards – the premier awards program honoring B2B journalism. Winners will be announced during a special awards ceremony held March 31 at Pier Sixty in New York City.
Finalists for the Neal Awards include 128 nominations. Companies with the most finalists are Crain Communications, Hanley Wood, SourceMedia, ALM and Penton/Informa.
This year's awards recognize a range of traditional categories, including best news coverage, commentary, and technical content, as well as digital platforms, including best blog, social media and webcast, as well as best use of data, infographics and art direction. Neal Awards finalists represent the changing face of B2B media, recognizing new all-digital products and services, and companies ranging from revenues of more than $7 million to those under $3 million. A total of 42 winners will be announced, culminating in the Grand Neal Award, which honors the most outstanding entry from among the winners in all categories.
The Neal Awards will also honor the recipients of three special recognition Leadership Awards, including the prestigious Marianne Dekker Mattera Award for dedicated mentoring; the G.D. Crain Award for distinguished editorial career; and the McAllister Editorial Fellowship, which is given to an editor who will teach journalism at Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism.
Mike Marchesano, managing director of Connectiv, says of this year’s entries, “This year’s entries reflect the business issues and challenges of our domestic and global marketplaces. Among the 549 entries, journalists deconstructed the presidential campaign; reported on the Flint, MI water crisis; and investigated prescription drug scams, state political systems and investment fraud. From the frontline first defenders and emerging retail food trends to virtual reality and artificial intelligence, B2B journalists covered the major businesses and services that fuel the global economy.”
Marchesano further notes, "B2B content experts are critical voices in helping business leaders make effective decisions by providing analysis, insight and opinion. The size of the industry our finalists cover may vary from small-town business owners to leaders of multinationals, but the care and concern devoted to investigating and reporting on these businesses remains clear and constant. We congratulate all the finalists for their impressive work and as role models for the next generation of business editors and reporters.”
A panel of 14 judges reviewed the 128 finalists to select the winners in 17 editorial categories. Erika Taylor, chair of the Neal Awards and chief of content for Professional Remodeler, says, “As final judges, we had our work cut out for us! The content this year was a true testament to what’s possible in today’s journalistic landscape and selecting between these uniformly excellent entries was a near-impossible, yet extremely inspiring, task. On behalf of the committee, I’m honored to congratulate the finalists and thank my fellow judges, screeners and entrants.”
For more information on the awards and for a full list of the Neal Award finalists, please visit https://www.siia.net/neals/2017-Finalist-Gallery/2017-Finalists.
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David Sleight Conservation
Specialists in the conservation and repair of traditional and listed buildings
Lime plastering/rendering
Brick Repairs and Repointing
Stone repairs
Timber Repairs
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St Peter's and St Paul's Church Cranfield Bedfordshire
Some external church walls have been previously covered in a cement based render this has lead to water ingress into the church and damage to the surface finishes within the Chancel. The church has requested that the cement render be removed and remedial work to be carried out to stonework beneath.
The South wall of the Chancel showing the render which has cracked in areas allowing water into the fabric of the church.
The cement render is being removed.
As the render is taken off the damage to the stonework beneath is revealed.
Once the cement render is removed the church walls begin to look as they should!
Removing the render revealed a course of clunch limestone. Some original clunch was decayed so these stones were removed and replaced with new clunch.
The stonework under the copings and above the new clunch stone was in poor condition so to limit intervention this area was lime rendered to provide protection.
The project nearing completion. The new clunch blends in with the original and the wall has been repointed with a matching lime mortar. The wall is now able to breathe and damp patches on the inside of the wall will dry out now the cement render has been removed.
St Mary's, Studham Befordshire
Various mortar repairs, shelter coats and limewashing were carried out at St Mary's on the tower openings plinths, string courses and buttress weatherings. The original tracery was made from locally sourced clunch stone but had been rendered in the 19th c. The repairs involved removing the defective lime based render and applying a lime mortar repair with armatures to all defective areas. All sound areas of render were left in place.
Defective render removed and armatures fixed ready for mortar repairs.
A repaired section awaiting limewashing.
The tower of the church showing string courses, weatherings and plinths limewashed to match in with adjacent render and the window openings limewashed to blend in with the clunch stone within the openings.
St Peter's Church Ashby Parva, Leicestershire
Due to long term erosion the existing cross fell from the the roof of the North Aisle porch.
Using the fallen cross as a template a new cross made from Ketton stone and was fixed into place. The top section of the stone beneath was found to be cracked so a new section was also added.
Church of The Holy Trinity Normanton Le Heath
Work was completed on repairs to the North Aisle roof, internal plaster repairs and a new drainage system.
The internal wall of the North Aisle has been re-plastered with non hydraulic lime. The existing was a cement based render that was up to 40mm in thickness!
The sandstone memorial stone within the Aisle was suffering due to salts being deposited within its pores. This was caused by the presence of the cement render. The memorial was conserved.
The Aisle re-roofed. Limecrete was used to provide the correct falls and new lead gutters installed. As many original slates were re-used as possible.
Church of St James, Bulkington, Warwickshire
New mullions and transoms were installed on the church belfry windows.
The existing stonework within the windows was in a poor state of repair. The decay problems were made worse by the use of a cement mortar in earlier repairs. The windows were repaired using Hollington sandstone.
St Thomas Church Stourbridge
St Thomas's is a Grade 1 church. Began in 1726, it has a highly decorative barrel vaulted plaster ceiling with enrichments in the form cast in-situ mouldings.
The ceilings in the Aisles have been recently replastered. The main concerns are the cracks within the plaster ceiling of the Nave. These cracks have been surveyed and repair work based on the survey is taking place.
St Andrew's Church Ombersley Worcestershire
Work has started on repairs to the stonework on the tower of the church. This 19th century gothic revival church was built between 1825 and 1829 iby the renowned architect Thomas Rickman. The church is regarded as one of his better churches. It was built using sandstone but this is decaying at high level. The standard of workmanship is exceptional.
St James Church, Birlingham, Worcestershire
The quinquennial report for the The Church of St James in the village of Birlingham in Worcestershire had picked up the need for stone replacements on the tower.
A new mullion was fixed on the East elevation and several stones on the string course beneath the belfry windows were decayed and allowing water to run down the surface of the stonework. The new stone was Grinshill sandstone that was the nearest match to the original sandstone.
The old sandstone on the string course in the process of being removed.
The new stones have been installed back to the profile of the original stones.
The new mullion fixed prior to pointing.
The new completed stones on the string course on the South elevation. Due to the strong sun the stones were kept damp and covered in hessian to assist curing.
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Home > about saint francis hospice > News > Super Star Walkers raise £1,000s for end of life care
Super Star Walkers raise £1,000s for end of life care
More than 200 super stars donned their t-shirts, trainers, tiaras and huge smiles to take part in a 10k night walk for people in need of our specialist end of life care services.
Time FM presenter Mark Dover led the entertainment at our annual Star Walk around Romford which started and finished at the Liberty Shopping Centre on Saturday (September 22).
The Only Way is Essex star Georgia Kousoulou added a touch of glamour and together with her personal trainer Danny-Lee Finch, Director of VIP HQ Essex, helped our supporters warm up for the trek!
Havering Mayor Cllr Dilip Patel gave a special welcome and the Hospice's Medical Director Corinna Midgley thanked everyone for coming along and told them their efforts would help to make a difference to people affected by life-limiting illnesses.
There were some extra special touches on the night including a spectacular performance from Zoe and Sam Jeffery from Dazzle Dance Centre and Hanna Prue from Twinkle Stars Entertainment used her artistic skills to sprinkle a touch of sparkle to walkers.
Talented baker Toni Cordell from Natty Cakes donated a customised three tier cake to celebrate the Star Walk's 10th anniversary.
While there was a party atmosphere, it was also an emotional event as many people were taking part in memory of loved ones and a wall was set up inside the shopping centre so people could write special tributes and messages.
Finally, the moment everyone was waiting for arrived and Georgia cut the ribbon at the start line before walkers set off on the five-lap course.
As walkers passed each lap, firefighters from Romford Fire Station stamped their hands.
Two fabulous singers - teenage busking sensation Josh Gleaves and supporter Skip Atkins - were positioned along the route and they played a variety of well-known hits to keep everyone on their toes - including the volunteers and stewards who were dancing in the street.
And as they passed the finish line, everyone was greeted with a huge applause and a well-deserved medal!
Here's what some of our super Star Walk-ers had to say:
Bob Ballantyne was able to raise £2,000 and was wheeled around the route by his daughters Scarlett Ballantyne and Bryony Smith, along with her husband George Smith.
Bob, who currently attends our day services at Pemberton Place to take part in social and exercise groups, even customised his wheelchair for the event by adding flashing lights.
"It was an amazing experience," said Bob.
"I feel very honoured to be able to give something back to the Hospice as it has looked after me for the past year."
Julie Tointon-Mahandru was the first to pass the finish line with her sister Jane Tointon.
"Taking part in the yearly Saint Francis Hospice Star Walk is invigorating and thoroughly enjoyable but the knowledge that we are giving back, through our kind sponsors, and making a difference, is what drives us to do it and we will continue to do so," said Julie, whose husband Dee was under our care before he died.
"Our gratitude to Saint Francis Hospice for everything it has done - and still do - will never fade. Thank you!"
Jodie Buckland, who was walking with her friends in memory of her Nan, said, "The walk was brilliant, we really enjoyed it.
"So many extra surprises we didn't know there would be.
"We spent most of the time chatting about our Nans and the memory wall where we could put a message up on was a brilliant idea.
"Thank you for an amazing night, I couldn't be prouder of the amount of money we have managed to raise for such an amazing charity."
Janet Abbott took part in her 10th Star Walk in memory of her mum Ivy Lyons who was cared for by our Hospice at Home team.
"It was a brilliant evening and I chatted all the way around with the nurses and staff from the Hospice's Specialist Community and Crisis Support team," said Janet, who works as a part-time Practice Nurse.
"There was a great atmosphere and it was over before you knew it."
Salli Hope Bennett spent the last weeks of her life at the Hospice and her loving husband Howard and her daughter Amanda Green took part in her memory.
Their team name was Walking with Hope and they were joined by her husband Stuart, son Matt and her friends Jo Baker and Chris Gentle and Chris' son Finlay.
"I loved being part of the Saint Francis Hospice Star Walk for the second time," said, Amanda.
"There was a great uplifting atmosphere even on a drizzly, chilly night.
"It was wonderful to be able to fundraise and give back for the amazing care my mum was given.
"Thanks to all the organisers, staff and volunteers there on the night.
"Excellent job! See you there next year!"
Here's a few more photos from the night!
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New poll reveals a climate ‘awareness – action gap’ – but big behaviour changes under way
A new poll of scientists reveals a gap between awareness of international climate goals and lifestyles, writes Andrew Simms, SGR, but there are signs of radical shifts.
Irresponsible Science?
Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, looks at how the fossil fuel and arms industries finance professional engineering and science organisations - and the many issues this raises - in this summary of the new report, Irresponsible Science?
The Climate Strike - why we should all stop work to start change
It can seem odd that a refusal to act is a good way to motivate action, writes Andrew Simms, SGR. But striking has been a tool of change for most of recorded history and for good reasons.
Will the demise of the INF Treaty take us back to dangerous times?
Dr Philip Webber, Scientists for Global Responsibility, considers the recent demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and recalls the dangerous decade before it was originally agreed.
The dark side of the Moon landings
As the world marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, argues that human space-flight is highly polluting, very expensive and has contributed to international arms races.
Welcome to the new home online for Scientists for Global Responsibility
Welcome to the new online home for Scientists for Global Responsibility, and announcing the 2019 Responsible Science conference asking: should scientists walk the talk on climate breakdown?
The return of British coal?
Just when it looked like UK coal might be phased out, a company in Cumbria is trying to give it a long-term future – undermining urgent efforts to tackle climate disruption. Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, argues for a halt to the proposed project.
Zero carbon global electricity supplies? There's evidence for optimism
There is no shortage of evidence that humanity is in a very serious place environmentally. But is there evidence for optimism? Paul Allen, Zero Carbon Britain, says yes.
Martin Ryle, war and peace
Dr Alan Cottey gives a brief account of Martin Ryle's intense and complex relations with war and peace. This article is part of the marking of the centenary of Sir Martin Ryle (1918 - 1984).
Mount Plutonium: the UK’s toxic, security risk left by an energy revolution that never happened
With nuclear issues leading the global political agenda, in an exclusive piece for the Responsible Science blog, based on his new book Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste, science writer Fred Pearce exposes the toxic and security risks of the UK's growing 'Mt Plutonium' - 130 tons and rising of plutonium dioxide left behind by an energy technology that never took-off and is no longer wanted.
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Jim and Barbara Partington
of Miranda
Following a bitterly cold and miserable winter in northern England in 1962/63, Jim and Barbara Partington decided to migrate to Australia. In September 1963 they and their two young daughters sailed from Southampton as ‘ten pound Poms’. Settling in Miranda where they raised their family, they have never looked back. They tell of their amazement that employees in Australia were treated as equals by their bosses, but also the initial wariness of Australians towards migrants who they felt were taking their jobs, and their eventual acceptance. They have enjoyed their time in Australia and never regretted their decision to migrate.
Oral history interview conducted:
Interviewer: Pauline Curby
for Telling It As It Was, a Sutherland Shire Council Oral History Project
This four-minute extract of a ninety-minute interview was compiled by Nicole Curby for Sutherland Shire Historical Society, April 2018
Erika Springstub of Miranda
As a young married couple, Erika Springstub and her husband Kurt migrated to Australia from Germany in 1957. Erika recalls her childhood wartime experiences in the ancient town of Buxtehude. After the war she was stunned to learn: ‘For one hour’s work you can buy a whole case of bananas in Australia’. This revelation was decisive in convincing her and Kurt to migrate. Kurt was from East Germany and had refugee status, so they were given a free passage to Australia on the Dutch vessel, the Groote Beer. After a spell at Cronulla Migrant Hostel, they later settled in Miranda.
11 August 2016
for Telling It As It Was, a Sutherland Shire Council Oral History Program
This four-minute extract of an hour-long interview was compiled by Nicole Curby for Sutherland Shire Historical Society
Christine Shaw of Woronora
Christine and Tony Shaw migrated from the UK in 1966, and charmed by the rural beauty of the Woronora Valley – and low cost of housing - chose to settle in Prince Edward Park Road, Woronora. Christine tells of her adjustment as a migrant from city life in England to the remote, undeveloped hamlet she grew to love.
Oral history interview conducted: Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Interviewer: Elizabeth Craig
Gordon and Lorraine Stone
(nee Quinlan) of Caringbah
Caringbah Precinct was the fashion hub of the Shire in the 1960s and McDowells Department store was its centrepiece, thanks largely to the energy and vision of Gordon and Lorraine Stone. Gordon moved to the Shire when he helped Brian McDowell set up McDowells, Caringbah in 1961. Here he met Lorraine, a singer, model and store assistant for McDowells. Romance and marriage followed. Together they turned McDowells into the place to be.
Oral history interview conducted: Friday, 27 August 2010
This four-minute extract of a sixty-minute interview was compiled by Nicole Curby for Sutherland Shire Historical Society, April 2018
The full interview can be accessed from Sutherland Library,
Local Studies Collection
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If you’ve ever had surgery or have broken a bone, chances are that you may have been prescribed Vicodin. Vicodin is the brand name of the generic drug, hydrocodone. It is a prescription opioid medication that doctors prescribe to patients to treat pain, but it has addictive properties and can be habit-forming. It can also have fatal consequences if a person overdoses.
Also sold under brand names such as Lortab and Norco, Vicodin (i.e., hydrocodone) combines a semi-synthetic opioid with a non-narcotic pain medication (e.g., acetaminophen) to reduce fever and pain. Typically, Vicodin is prescribed after a surgery or an injury, but it is also used as an antitussive, which helps to suppress a person’s cough.
How does Vicodin work?
Vicodin acts on the central nervous system (CNS) to reduce pain by binding to opioid receptors in the brain, spinal cord, and throughout the body. Opioid prescription medications such as Vicodin dampen the pain signals sent throughout the nervous system to reduce the perception of and emotional response to pain.
The ability of Vicodin to affect the brain’s reward system is one of the primary reasons why people repeatedly take the drug. The brain’s reward system also plays a major role in opioid addiction, including addiction to Vicodin, by increasing the release of a brain chemical called dopamine, which causes users to feel euphoric and pleasurable effects.
Vicodin abuse: Side effects
The most common side effects of Vicodin include dizziness, lightheadedness, nausea, vomiting, sedation, and constipation. Although these side effects may be unpleasant, they are rarely dangerous. Vicodin can also dangerously slow a person’s breathing. At high enough doses, Vicodin can lead to seizures, overdoses, respiratory failure, and even death.
Following are some of the other short-term effects of Vicodin abuse.
Mental clouding
Muscle spasms, pain or stiffness
Joint and abdominal pain
Faintness
Slowed respiration
Ringing in ears
Problems with sleep
Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
Kidney or adrenal gland problems
Rapid heart rate
Rash or hives
Effects of Vicodin abuse
Tolerance, or the need to take more of a drug to achieve the same effects, develops quickly in people who take narcotic drugs such as Vicodin. Tolerance is a major reason why people commonly develop physical dependence after taking the drug for only a couple days, even when the drug is taken as prescribed. The chronic abuse of opioids can eventually impair the body’s ability to naturally reduce pain.
Following are some of the long-term effects of Vicodin abuse.
Loss of coordination
Attention problems
Judgment lapses
Low testosterone levels
Increased sensitivity to pain
Collapsed veins
Physical dependence
Compromised immune system
Vicodin addiction: Signs and symptoms
In addition to a noticeable decrease in pain, Vicodin use results in relaxation and euphoria. Owing to its pain-relieving properties and its addictive nature, Vicodin users may develop a tolerance for the drug requiring more and more of it to achieve the same effects. Vicodin misuse occurs when a person takes the drug without a prescription, longer than intended, or takes higher doses than prescribed. Vicodin abuse increases the risk for one to develop an opioid use disorder, also referred to as Vicodin addiction.
The signs and symptoms of Vicodin addiction may become more noticeable as this disease worsens.
Following are some of the signs of Vicodin addiction.
Drug-seeking behavior
Compulsive drug use
Secretive behavior
Spending excessive time and energy to obtain and use drugs
Denial and/or stealing
Continued drug use despite negative consequences that result
Vicodin abuse: Withdrawal symptoms
Chronic Vicodin abuse can contribute to withdrawal symptoms when a person tries to reduce the dosage or stop taking the drug completely. Extremely uncomfortable, Vicodin withdrawal symptoms make it difficult for people to stop using the drug. Following are some of the withdrawal symptoms of Vicodin abuse.
Racing heart
Fast breathing
Hot flashes and chills
Goose bumps
Involuntary leg movements
Vicodin addiction treatment
Meant to treat moderate to severe pain over a short period of time, hydrocodone contained in Vicodin creates pleasurable reactions in the brain and the body and is susceptible to long-term abuse. When taken in larger quantities than prescribed, it can lead to overuse, abuse, and eventually physical and psychological addiction.
A comprehensive treatment for Vicodin addiction combines medically assisted detoxification treatment that is followed by intense behavioral therapies at a certified treatment center. Those suffering from a Vicodin addiction should seek out a professionally monitored Vicodin detox treatment at certified Vicodin detox centers.
While a supervised detox program helps in removing toxic drugs from the system, therapies or counseling sessions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and support groups help address any underlying psychological issues that may be causing the addiction. Additionally, behavioral therapies also teach patients the necessary life skills to cope with stress and help an individual identify trigger situations.
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Vicodin abuse and addiction are serious problems that can be alleviated with the proper treatment. Sovereign Health’s Vicodin addiction treatment program in Chandler, Arizona, provides comprehensive treatment programs to women with opioid use disorders. Sovereign Health of Chandler, Arizona, which specializes in the treatment of trauma, provides women suffering from Vicodin addiction evidence-based, complementary and experiential treatments.
Treatment at Sovereign Health’s state-of-the-art treatment centers combine evidence-based treatment options such as individual, group and family therapy along with latest and cutting-edge technologies such as neurofeedback, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), CBT, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) along with experiential therapies such as yoga, meditation and expressive arts therapy to help women overcome their Vicodin addiction.
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Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Crashes Into Moon During Landing Attempt
Israel's first moon lander came up just short in its historic touchdown bid this afternoon (April 11).
The robotic Beresheet spacecraft, built by SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), aimed to become the first Israeli craft, and the first privately funded mission, ever to land softly on the moon. But the little robot couldn't quite make it, crashing into the gray dirt around 3:25 p.m. EDT (1925 GMT). Mission control lost communications with the spacecraft when it was about 489 feet (149 meters) above the moon's surface.
"We had a failure in the spacecraft; we unfortunately have not managed to land successfully," Opher Doron, the general manager of IAI, said during a live broadcast from mission control. "It's a tremendous achievement up 'til now."
"If at first you don't succeed, you try again," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who watched Beresheet's landing attempt from SpaceIL's control center in Yehud, Israel.
So the list of moon-landing nations remains at three, all of them superpowers — the Soviet Union, the United States and China.
But Beresheet accomplished plenty during its short life, as we shall see.
Related: Israel's 1st Moon Lander Beresheet in Pictures
The Beresheet spacecraft captured this "selfie" during its landing maneuver on April 11, 2019. It was about 22 kilometers above the moon at the time. (Image credit: SpaceIL/IAI)
A long road to the moon
Beresheet's story begins in 2011, when the nonprofit organization SpaceIL formed to compete in the Google Lunar X Prize. The GLXP offered $20 million to the first privately funded team to put a robot down softly on the moon, move it at least 1,650 feet (500 meters) on the lunar surface and have it send high-resolution imagery home to Earth.
The runner-up would pocket $5 million. An additional $5 million was available for various special accomplishments, bringing the contest's total purse to $30 million.
The competition ended last year without a winner, but SpaceIL and IAI, the country's biggest aerospace and defense company, continued working on the 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet. (Some other former GLXP teams, such as Florida-based Moon Express, have kept going as well.)
Last month, the X Prize Foundation announced that SpaceIL could win a special $1 million Moonshot Award if Beresheet successfully landed on the lunar surface. Just minutes after the moon crash, X Prize founder and Executive Chairman Peter Diamandis and CEO Anousheh Ansari said SpaceIL and IAI will receive the award despite failing to land.
"I think they managed to touch the surface of the moon, and that's what we were looking for for our Moonshot Award," Ansari said.
"And also, besides touching the surface of the moon, they touched the lives and the hearts of an entire nation, an entire world, schoolkids around the world," Diamandis said.
XPRIZE to award $1 Million Moonshot Award to SpaceIL team for them to continue their work and pursue Beresheet 2.0. Space is hard!!! @xprize @TeamSpaceIL pic.twitter.com/J4Zo5eaYMTApril 11, 2019
The lander launched on the night of Feb. 21, soaring into Earth orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Beresheet continued looping around our planet for the next six weeks, performing engine burns now and again to push its elliptical orbit closer and closer to the moon.
Beresheet ended up covering about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) during this phase of the mission, team members said. No other lander has taken such a long road to the moon.
Beresheet's slow-and-steady strategy paid off on April 4, when the moon's gravity captured the lander. Beresheet then lowered its lunar orbit via a series of burns, the last of which occurred yesterday (April 10). That 32-second maneuver shifted the spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit with a closest lunar approach of just 9 to 10 miles (15 to 17 kilometers) and a most-distant point 125 miles (200 km) from the gray dirt, mission team members said.
Surface plans
Today's landing was scheduled to occur autonomously, on a patch of the lunar near side known as Mare Serenitatis ("Sea of Serenity"). (All lunar surface craft to date have explored the near side, with one exception: China's Chang'e 4 mission touched down on the far side this past January.)
Beresheet was designed to make some measurements of the local gravity field around its landing site during its two or three Earth days of work on the moon. The craft also toted a small laser retroreflector array built by NASA, a technology demonstration that could increase the precision of future touchdowns on the moon and other celestial bodies. But Beresheet was not a science mission at heart.
The main goals, SpaceIL and IAI representatives have said, involved advancing Israel's space program, increasing the nation's technological knowhow and getting young people more interested in science, technology, engineering and math.
And the lander has certainly done all of that. It managed to make it to lunar orbit, after all, send back a photograph from near the moon's surface, and almost nail the landing. And Beresheet did all of this for a total mission cost of just $100 million, including launch.
In addition, project team members have met with more than 1 million Israeli schoolkids over the past eight years, taking the space-exploration message to the young masses. Some of those children will eventually become scientists — and perhaps help design, build or operate spacecraft themselves someday.
"Well, we didn't make it but we definitely tried," Morris Kahn, an entrepreneur who helped found the Beresheet mission, said shortly after the spacecraft's failed landing attempt. "I think we can be proud."
Editor's note: The original version of this story stated that Beresheet took a longer route to the moon than any other spacecraft. That is incorrect; Europe's SMART-1 orbiter took 14 months to reach the moon after its September 2003 launch. The story has been corrected to state that Beresheet's path was longer than any other lander's.
Space.com senior writer Meghan Bartels contributed to this report.
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You know when you're really tired and you think you're taking a video of your kid doing his baseball homework to send to his coach as directed but then realize that you shot no video at all but instead took a single photo?
It's been a long day, folks.
hokgardner December 20, 2016 at 6:30 AM
Last week I bribed the kids to sit still for pictures by promising they could throw the tree off the roof of the car. I managed to take a picture instead of a video, so they loaded the tree back on the roof for a second take.
Lisa Page Rosenberg December 20, 2016 at 6:34 AM
High five. xo
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Argh. I feel you. Hang in there...
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Muwah. xo
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What is Pokémon to you?
Thread starter Martin
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I kinda did something similar in my 3K, but I don't think that the OP was left as an open enough discussion topic really (with it actaully being completely closed and centered around myself) and I am kinda interested to hear different people's takes on this.
To different people, this game means different things. So I'm going to ask: what is Pokémon to you? Do you simply play it to pass the time, are you an avid collector who sees Pokémon as another type of item to collect, do you play it to be the very best (like noone ever was)--or in Layman's terms, to prove yourself in a competitive setting--or is there a bigger reason as to why you still play the game despite no longer being a child by technicality? I am an advocate for the philosophy that games are a way to bring people together and that they have much more significance than the basic surface-level goals of the game (a platform for having fun), and clearly this game means enough to all of us to still give us a reason to play it into our mid/late teens and into adulthood--so I'm sure there will be varied responses to this.
To save you reading my overly-long thread on my take, I'll summarise my response to this thread in one sentence. Pokémon has acted as a way to introduce me to different mediums which have allowed me to overcome crippling irl social barriers, and to me the series has become a social platform more than a game. It means a lot to me, and as such I continue to love it.
Enough about me though; I made this to see what it is to other people lol.
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Even though I'm only 13, I have been playing Pokemon since I was 4 or 5. My older cousin randomly gave me a Game Boy Color and Pokemon Blue. It took me a while to learn the mechanics (including how to save xD) but once I did, it never stopped from there. Pokemon Yellow. Gold. Silver. Then Diamond. Sapphire. Platinum. White. Black. (Never actually played BW2) Y. Omega Ruby. And now Moon soon!
Although it seems very anti-climactic to say this, Pokemon is my hobby. (Or one of my main hobbies.) But it's not just a hobby. Like most people here, I could spew out facts, names, and other blabber for hours about the games. And the games are super fun to me! I had gotten into a little slump, but then started competitive battling. After getting 64th in the world and 8th in the US in the Junior Kanto Classic, I have been motivated to do more.
I guess it's just a sort of outlet and something to take my mind off of the rest of my life.
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Pokemon were my friends when I was little, and I loved to imagine stories about them, using Pokemon from my Pokemon Crystal.
As I aged, I found that discussing Pokemon helped make a lot of friends.
So now, Pokemon is a topic that I discuss with friends, and to make more friends.
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So imma bump this cos I'm actually really interested in reading about other people's thoughts and experiences with Pokemon! For me, Pokemon is now a combination of stress relief and what was meant to be a quick nostalgia trip which lasted way too long lmao. Pokemon was my first ever computer game, I guess I was about 8 or 9, I'd been saving up my 50p-a-week pocket money for over a year and with some birthday money too I finally had enough to buy myself a game boy pocket and Pokemon red. I was so excited the day I got it I played solid into the night until the batteries died... I hadn't saved once, 8 hours of play time down the drain - that frustration has stayed with me and even now I still obsessively save like every 10 minutes in any computer game lol. Man I played the hell out of that game, I probably played it through about 30 times.
Gold and silver came out a couple of years later but I was in high school by then, the day I took it to school I got the piss ripped out of me so mercilessly I never finished it and skipped gen 3 and 4 entirely. Fast forward a few years, a random conversation with an old friend sparked a nostalgia trip of good old times, final fantasy, command and conquer, and of course, Pokemon. I stumbled upon Showdown and Smogon while searching for an emulator and rom of Red and promptly ragequit after after getting my ass handed to me on low ladder, but the seeds were sown. My life was pretty hectic at that point with lots of moving around and travelling so I never really got into it but I'd think about Pokemon every now and again in a quiet moment.
Fast forward AGAIN another couple of years, life was still hectic but at least I was settled in one spot. X and Y were due to be released in a few months and the Internet was buzzing. I jumped on the hype train all the way til release date and all the childhood memories came flooding back. Pokemon became a bit of a casual escape on an evening after a stressful day at work, and after finishing the game I wanted more. I re-discovered smogon and this time read the viability rankings thread back to back, I was totally fascinated at how much more in-depth and strategic the game could be, it opened up a whole new side of things. I basically only followed the viability rankings thread and didn't venture into the rest of the site at all, but it was extremely cathartic and nostalgic, interesting and fun. That also then got me into competitive breeding on cartridge as it was so much easier than in any previous gen, I still love breeding and teambuilding more than battling itself. Even then though, I wasn't too heavily invested.... The final nail in the coffin came when my wife and I moved in together - we have a totally clashing taste in tv and I needed something to do while she was watching her trash soaps lol. So then I started playing every night, I ventured into the rest of the site, ORAS came out, and the rest is history!
So basically for me it's a combination of nostalgia and stress relief which just sort of snowballed in recent years, especially as I started making more connections on here. I always enjoy the teambuilding side of things more as I find laddering with a purpose kinda stressful sometimes which contradicts the reasons I play in the first place. Even though my laptop has now broken so I hardly ever battle at the min cos fuck playing showdown on mobile I still check the forums multiple times a day so yeah I'd say it's definitely a bit of an addiction now. Anyway probably no-one's gonna read this but it was fun to write so yeah :)
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My childhood.
Probably the reason why I can't let go ;_;
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Youth Soccer for Dummies: WHAT IS NATIONAL LEAGUE?
0 C Schumacher Nov 28, 2018 11:47 am
There are so many soccer leagues. A soccer parent’s head can easily start spinning when simply thinking about all of the different leagues. In Southern California, especially, there seem to be at least a dozen different soccer leagues for youth players. Off the top of my head, here is a list of SoCal soccer leagues:
AYSO | Presidio Soccer | SDDA (Presidio’s San Diego Development Academy) | SCDSL (Southern California Developmental Soccer League) | SCDSL Discovery League | Coast Soccer League (CSL) | National Premier League (NPL) | USSDA | USSDA DPL (Development Player League) | ECNL (Elite Clubs National League) | Regional League | National League
“That’s not confusing at all!” (said nobody, ever)
Some of these leagues overlap. An individual team could compete in two or even three leagues over the course of the year. When I was speaking to a mom of a 14-year-old player recently, I asked “What league does she play in?”
The mom replied, “I don’t even know. I just go wherever I’m told.” Turns out, the girl’s team was in three different leagues!
One of these leagues is “NATIONAL LEAGUE.” What is National League? If you already know the answer, you can stop reading. If you’re one of those soccer parents who hears about all of these leagues but doesn’t really understand, this is for you.
Let’s start with the big picture:
Competitive youth soccer in the USA is covered by a few different umbrellas. USSDA, US Club Soccer and USYS (US Youth Soccer).
The DA is run directly by US Soccer and is for elite-level players. It is not a recreational soccer program.
US Club Soccer fields competitive leagues only. NPL and ECNL, for example, play under the US Club Soccer umbrella.
USYS has a broader reach, fielding leagues ranging from recreational to highly competitive. Cal South and all of their leagues play under the USYS umbrella.
All three of these organizations have their own “National Champions,” which is another issue for another time. For now, let’s focus on US Youth Soccer.
National League is run by US Youth Soccer.
Because USYS covers such a broad range of soccer, National League is meant to bring together the top competitive teams nation-wide. National League is for U14-U19, and games are played twice a year. One weekend is played in the east in the Fall, usually North Carolina. One weekend is played in the west in the Spring, usually Las Vegas.
Teams can qualify or apply to be part of National League. The travel time and expense is significant, and the competition level is very high. College coaches are often seen in large numbers on the sidelines of National League games.
Usually teams have to get to the US Youth Soccer National Championships by winning their region’s “National Cup” then “Regionals.” The teams that win National League get direct tickets straight to the USYS National Championships (held every summer), even if they don’t win their National Cup or Regionals.
What’s “Regional League?”
Up until last year, there were also “Regional Leagues.” Southern California has the very popular “CRL” (California Regional League). Every other region in the country also ran their own Regional League. Teams that win these leagues get a direct ticket to their regional championships without having to win their National Cup tournament.
USYS decided to re-brand “Regional Leagues” as “National League CONFERENCES.” The foundation of these regional leagues remains the same: The top teams in the region come together a few weekends every year for high-level competition. The winner of each age division gets a direct ticket to the regional championship, where they’re joined by the winners of each region’s National Cup tournament. Instead of being called “Regional League,” each league is now called a “National League Conference.”
Cal South had done such a great job creating and branding their Regional League (CRL), National League decided to let them keep their name, which is why you see this:
calsouth.com
Everywhere else in the country, you see National League conferences like this:
usyouthsoccer.org
If you see a team playing in a “National League Conference,” they’re playing in a US Youth Soccer Regional League, trying to win a spot in the regional championships.
If you see a team playing in “National League,” (not a “conference”) they’re playing in the original NATIONAL LEAGUE, trying to win a ticket directly to the national championships.
There are so many other confusing and convoluted aspects of competitive youth soccer in America. That is, however, a basic view of “National League” for you, if you’ve ever found yourself asking “What on Earth is ‘National League?'”
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How Powerful Is The Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Atheists around the world are using the Flying Spaghetti Monster to express their beliefs. So how did the FSM become a symbol of satire?
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (venganza.org)
"With millions, if not thousands, of devout worshipers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents - mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs."
Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland (independent.co.uk)
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Matthew T. Mangino: The purpose and utility of punishment in the criminal justice system
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The grandfather of a toddler that fell through an open window on a cruise ship last summer has been charged with negligent homicide in the toddler’s death, according to the Puerto Rican Department of Justice.
Salvatore Anello was playing with his granddaughter on the ship’s 11th floor near a window while the ship was docked in Puerto Rico.
Anello apparently sat the girl on rails near the open window, thinking it was closed. Prosecutors allege that Anello "negligently exposed (his granddaughter) through one of the windows," according to a statement from Puerto Rican prosecutors.
Prosecutors have an enormous amount of power. They have the discretion to file charges, to determine what charges to file, to impose sentence enhancement, to offer plea bargains or drop charges altogether. Prosecutors have the power to investigate a matter and sometimes just do nothing.
The tragic, and unintentional, death of this child has had an unimaginable impact on the family. What sort of punishment could a Puerto Rican court impose on Anello that could have a greater impact on him than what he has already endured?
Anello’s arrest begs the question - what is the purpose and utility of punishment in the criminal justice system?
Most states and the federal government have relied on four theories - rehabilitation, deterrence, retribution and incapacitation - when establishing a sentencing scheme. Puerto Rican lawyer Dora Nevares-Muniz wrote in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Puerto Rico Penal Code's sentencing provisions are based on the aims of “prevention, rehabilitation, parity, retribution, and deterrence.”
How do those theories relate to Anello?
The goal of rehabilitation is to restore a convicted offender as a productive member of society. It seems counter-intuitive that housing a bunch of “criminals” together in a restricted environment will somehow reform offenders. However, research suggests that a combination of treatment, education and training can help straighten the crooked ways of an offender.
Does Anello need rehabilitation? There is nothing to indicate that Anello has led a life of crime or that he would receive any benefit from treatment. Anello was involved in a tragic accident; maybe he’s negligent - but criminally culpable?
Will the punishment Anello have a deterrent effect on crime? Deterrence is most effective when the conduct punished is a deliberate act carried out to achieve an illicit goal. What type of crimes will prosecuting Anello deter? Will other grandfathers be deterred from playing with their grandchildren?
One of the oldest and most basic justifications for punishment involves the theory of retribution. The victim, or the victim’s family, wants an offender punished for punishment’s sake. Retribution is concerned with neither preventing future crime or mending the ways of a deviant. Retribution is about revenge. In biblical times it was “an eye for an eye,” today it's “do the crime, do the time.”
The family of Salvatore Anello doesn’t want revenge. They have sued the cruise line for negligence. Anello is, and will continue to be, punished every day far more than any mere mortal can impose.
The principle of incapacitation focuses on the elimination of an individual’s opportunity for crime through a physical restraint on freedom.
In earlier times criminals were banished from society. France would send offenders off to Devil’s Island where they could do no more harm. Today, punishment in the form incarceration - or in extreme cases, the death party - prevents criminals from victimizing others.
Incapacitating Anello serves no purpose. Does anyone fear that he will harm another family member or another child?
Anello’s prosecution serves no legitimate criminogenic purpose. Dragging Anello and his family through the trauma of this tragic incident is a blatant disregard for the rights of crime victims.
Sometimes doing nothing is one of the most difficult decisions a prosecutor has to make. This case is crying out for a courageous prosecutor to say “this family has suffered enough and society gains nothing from prolonging their pain.”
Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly & George P.C. His book “The Executioner’s Toll, 2010” was released by McFarland Publishing. You can reach him at www.mattmangino.com and follow him on Twitter at @MatthewTMangino.
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The Census 1The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. 3You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army. 4One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you.
5These are the names of the men who are to assist you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
6from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
7from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
8from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
9from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
10from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
11from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
12from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
13from Asher, Pagiel son of Okran;
14from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
16These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel. 17Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,
19as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
20From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
21The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
23The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24From the descendants of Gad: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
25The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26From the descendants of Judah: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
27The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
28From the descendants of Issachar: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
29The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
30From the descendants of Zebulun: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
31The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
32From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
33The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
34From the descendants of Manasseh: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
35The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
36From the descendants of Benjamin: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
37The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
38From the descendants of Dan: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
39The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
40From the descendants of Asher: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
41The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
42From the descendants of Naphtali: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
43The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400. 44These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family. 45All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
46The total number was 603,550. 47The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others. 48The LORD had said to Moses: 49“You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites. 50Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it. 51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death. 52The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.
53The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.” 54The Israelites did all this just as the LORD commanded Moses.
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If you are using a satellite receiver, or other set-top box, your TV must be set to the base channel, which is Channel 3 or 4. After your TV displays a signal, use the remote control of the connected device to change the programs.
The connected device may be turned off or in standby mode. Turn the device on.
The selected channel may not be live or the media playing may be blank. Change the channel or try a different input device or movie.
The received signal may be weak.
If your TV uses an over-the-air antenna, you may need to adjust the antenna to improve the signal quality.
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Classic and grunge influenced hard rock mixed with a little blues, southern rock and psychedelia.
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Greetings, Welcome to "SOUL DUST". SD are a four piece rock band with diverse mucical influences and backgrounds. They have the common belief that music should be played from the depths of your soul and that sticking to any one style is depriving you of a wealth af musical knowledge, experience and enjoyment. They are of the opinion that music is therapy for the soul. As a band, they like to blend different genres and are heavily influenced by the 70's and 90's music eras. They are without a doubt guitar rock... blending rock, blues,grunge, jazz, psychedelic and southern styles to create music that projects who they are as a band. The main driving force is the dual attack on your senses from guitarist Andre (Dre) Bourget's raw, intense riffs and singer Myk Shaflik's passionate, firey and emotional vocal performances that light up every track and pull you into the song's lyrics. Hilton Hartwell and Ron Twemlow are a powerhouse rythym section that drive the music with authority and grace. The dynamics and massive energy they deliver will assail you and leave you wanting to jump out of your seat. We love what we do and it shows. Please sample our tunes found here on soundclick and let us know what you think on our message board! The versions od songs found here on "Soundclick" are not the final mixed and mastered versions reserved for our upcoming CD. They are pre-production examples. They are, however, of great demo quality! We welcome you and appreciate your input and support!
The band has been in existance for about 8 years now. The band consists of guitarist Andre "Dre" Bourget, Vocalist Myk Shaflik, Bassist Hilton Hartwell and Ron Twemlow on drums and percussion. The songs on this site are our gift of music to you..."Music for the soul!"
Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, S.T.P., Audioslave, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Allman Bro.s, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Robert Johnson, Muddy waters, Deep Purple, G n R, Stevie Ray Vauhan, Crosby Stills Nash & Young.... aaahh! There's so many! Much too many to start listing. Let's just say ...Just about anything that GROOVES and is well done, regardless of genre, will influence us.
Hilton - uses Ernie ball (Musicman), G&L and Fender basses, Eden amplification. Dre - uses Gibson, Fender, Godin, Larrivee and Taylor guitars. He uses Soldano, VVT and Wizard amps. Myk will sing through just about anything and make it sound good! Ron uses Ayotte drums on the recordings.
Whatever happened to bands like Led Zeppelin that used to explore all types of musical genres? Why do bands today seem to gravitate towards "formulas" and status quos? Because of $$$$, that's why. Because formulas are perfect for this fast-paced, ever-changing world of ours where no one has much time to relax. Formulas are quickly digested and they taste good. They also often have no nutritional value for the soul or the mind. They are designed to sell quickly and make $$$$. Lots of $$$$! Comparable to the fast-food industry in many ways, when you stop to look at it for what it is. It's time to let the many musical influences of this world back into modern rock music. Time to enrich our minds and expand our horizons. Time to brush off the dust that's collected and put the soul back into the music. 'Nuff said. Peace.
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TAKING BACKLINE TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL
by SST Drum Technician, John DeSalvo
IN THE YEAR 2006, I WAS A TOURING DRUMMER.
I’d been playing with various bands on North American and European tours since 1993. Chemlab, KMFDM, and 16Volt. Another guy I drummed for was a guitarist named Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets.
At some point, Daniel decided to do a reunion tour with Bauhaus to play the Coachella music festival at Palm Springs in the desert. He needed a drum tech and he asked me if I could help him with that. I said, “Of course I'll do it. I'd be honored.” So that’s how I fell into this career I have now as a drum technician.
By 2006, it was time to get off the road. My son was living with me in Jersey City, I’d moved here from Hollywood to be with him and I didn’t want to tour anymore. That's when I started calling around to various backline companies. I needed a job where I could tech drums without going on tour—a job that would allow me to go home every night. I called every backline company and music store in the New York area, including Mike McCann at SST. As it happened, SST had just lost their drum tech. My apartment was only a few minutes from SST in Weehawken, so it worked out perfectly.
I was looking at a big pay cut from my work on the road, but I was grateful for the opportunity. Working for SST would allow me to be with my son, to be a dad to him, yet still be involved in drums. Working in the business right outside New York would be great, too. So, I took the job and took over SST’s drum shop.
OCD: Obsessive-Compulsive Drummer
My boss, John Hanti, says I'm obsessive-compulsive about keeping track of our inventory, logging rentals in and out, keeping track of the numbers and so forth, and he’s right.
Yea, I’m a little OCD, but I think that’s a positive thing. I’m dealing with maybe twenty manufacturers with different types of hardware and drumheads and pedals and drums and electronic drums and everything’s gotta be in its place. It helps me to drum tech more efficiently. It helps me find what our clients need more quickly, and that saves them time. More importantly, it gives them peace-of-mind. I think that’s what we really offer our clients. All backline companies rent gear. But not all of them offer peace-of-mind with their rentals as we do.
I clean everything before it goes out. I tune every drum, depending on what the rider says and what type of music it is. I go on YouTube to look up every band I get a rider from. I check out what type of music they play. If they don't specify what they want. I’ll select the type of kit, the type of heads, and the type of tuning my experience tells me they need for their genre.
Fixing a Pedal
We've had everybody through SST, drumming-wise. It's been a dream for me. I'm teching for Marco Minnemann, one of my all-time favorites. Oh, my goodness! Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater. Tommy Clufetos with Black Sabbath. Mike Mangini of Dream Theater. Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree, Jay-Z’s drummer, Tony Royster, Jr. They are all jaw-dropping drummers.
I’ll sit back behind the drums in the rehearsal room while they’re working and pretend like I'm fixing a pedal just to watch these guys drum. It's unbelievable. And they are all totally sweet guys. It’s like a brotherhood of drummers. Every day I get to see God-given talent, to see the mechanics, to see what it really takes to get to that level.
I asked Tony Royster how he developed his technique and he told me, “I was just born this way. But I practice a lot. It takes hours and hours of practice— eight to ten hours a day.”
Jeff Beck sometimes rehearses at SST and I recently got to talk with him. That was a dream, too. He always has amazing drummers, like Jonathan Joseph.
On SST’s Backline Rental Process
SST has a stringent backline rental process, not only with our drum inventory but with every piece of gear we have. I can speak most directly about the drum shop, of course, but it applies to our whole operation.
Somebody will order a five-piece drum kit and there will be so many variables to consider. They might want specific hardware or specific drum manufacturers. They want these pedals, they want those heads. We're talking 40 to 50 different variations in brand names alone and countless configurations. This is where the OCD thing kicks in.
So, I gather those drums up. Whether the configuration has been completely specified or I have some say in the matter, it doesn’t matter. The process is the same. The whole kit has already been thoroughly checked out when we checked it back in from the last rental. But before I send it out, I check it out again. I make sure all the tension lugs are there, that there are no huge scratches or blemishes, that everything's functional. I check the heads and clean the whole thing. I polish all the hardware, all the lugs. If the client has asked for new heads, I put them on. If not, I still clean the used heads to make sure theirs no dent or dirt to make sure all the heads match--same brand, same type. I make them look like new again.
I do this because I care. I want that drummer to open those cases and go “Wow, this is an amazing kit.”
One of the biggest compliments I ever got came from Mike Portnoy. He was doing a gig with Winery Dogs at BB King’s. I spent all night measuring his kit, putting tape marks where his cymbals were, charting everything out. He got to the gig, sat down behind the kit, and started laughing. I'm like, “What? What, what do you need? What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” he said with the biggest smile. “Nothing’s wrong. This is perfect.”
I see drum kits from other backline companies when we have to sub-run something. I'll look at the kit and think, “They send stuff out like this?” I wouldn't do that. I can't do that.
Maybe that comes from me being a player myself. These artists have got so much other crap to deal with. The last thing they want is a kit that doesn’t work for them. This is their art. We provide the paint and paintbrushes for them to start painting with.
A few months ago, SST purchased a top-of-the-line Roland electronic kit for Jay-Z’s new drummer, Boots Greene, to play on a big gig in New York City. We want every musician to be completely happy, so John Hanti said, “Yes. Get it.” I called up Roland and ordered a kit with the specs the drummer wanted. And he was happy.
Color is important, too. Jay-Z’s band wanted everything to be black. Black drums, black heads, black bongos. We made it happen. You do what you gotta do to make the artist happy. That’s our job.
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The most challenging gigs we’ve done have been the iHeart Jingle Balls tours. It's a challenge every year. You have 30 of the top pop acts in the world going out on tour, playing the U.S. We have 30 different contract riders to work with— information sheets detailing what kind of gear each act wants.
You’ve gotta sift through them meticulously. I chart it all out. This drummer wants these drums in this color with these heads. He wants these cymbals in these sizes. He wants this hardware or that hardware. He wants these sticks.
On top of that, you’ve got to keep in mind that this is for television. It all has to look great, too. I've seen other backline companies stick their logo where it will be seen by the cameras, so the artist will tape right over the sticker because they don't want that on TV. We don’t t do that. You have to think of this stuff.
Like the music stands. You’ve gotta paint them flat black, not shiny black. because the light bounces off shiny paint and creates flares on the camera.
Sometimes I question myself--am I an idiot for being so anal? But then, an artist will tell us. “Thank you so much. These drums look and sound amazing. I didn’t even have to tune them. The amps were amazing, the guitars were amazing, It was all just perfect,”
Then, well…I don’t question myself anymore. I know that all our work was worth the effort.
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Home | News Saturday 2 July 2011
Bashir orders Sudan army to sustain South Kordofan offensive
July 1, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir has instructed his army to continue military operations in the North-South border state of South Kordofan until it is “purged” and the “rebel” Abdel Aziz Adam Al-Hilu - leader of main opposition group in the state - is under arrest.
Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir (Getty)
Al-Bashir made his inflammatory statement less than a week since his government inked an AU-moderated agreement with the northern sector of the opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) as a precursor to reaching a ceasefire deal in South Kordofan which has been ravaged by weeks of localised violence between North Sudan army and SPLM forces.
Following Friday prayers at a mosque in the capital Khartoum, Al-Bashir said he had commanded the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) not to cease its military offensive in South Kordofan until it “purges” the area and “arrests and brings to trial the rebel” Abdul Aziz Adam Al-Hilu for the “crimes of terrorizing civilians and killing of innocent people.”
Al-Hilu is the leader of the SPLM in South Kordofan and the former deputy governor who refused to concede his defeat in the state’s gubernatorial elections to the incumbent governor Ahmad Harun of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
The veteran SPLM leader and the state’s deputy governor alleged the vote was rigged in favor of Ahmad Harun and thus declared the SPLM’s non-recognition of the result. Independent election observers endorsed the result despite controversial voter registration and constituency demarcation in the run-up to the poll.
Following the contentious elections, fighting erupted in early June between SAF and SPLM forces. It is not clear what ignited the confrontation but the SPLA claimed it was because SAF had attempted to disarm its fighters while SAF alleged that it responded to a raid by SPLA members on a local police station.
The fighting escalated alarmingly as SAF applied the use of heavy artillery and aerial bombardment to put out what the Khartoum government now characterises as an all-out rebellion.
More than 70,000 people have been displaced by the violence, the UN said, amid reports of widespread abuses committed by SAF specifically against the ethnic Nuba population of South Kordofan.
The framework agreement on South Kordofan and the Blue Nile stipulates that the NCP would recognise the right of the SPLM to continue "as a legal political party” in north Sudan.
Also, the NCP and SPLM-North agreed to form a joint political committee to ensure that "the issue of governance in South Kordofan shall be discussed and resolved amicably ... within thirty days".
The agreement further states that the two sides should begin working on a cease-fire and allow humanitarian access into Southern Kordofan.
The accord also stipulates that SPLA fighters in the North “shall be integrated, over a time period and with modalities to be agreed, into the Sudan Armed Forces” and that “any disarmament shall be done in accordance with agreed-upon plans and without resorting to force.”
Meanwhile, the state’s governor Ahmad Harun said that the government was fighting “a legitimate battle of self-defense” in South Kordofan. Addressing supporters on Friday in Kadugli, he said that government forces would not hesitate to use “any kind of weapon to defend the security of citizens.”
Some rights groups accused SAF of using weapons banned under international laws. On 25 June, Amnesty International said it had received reports of “freshly laid” landmines around Kadugli. The organisation warned that these mines pose a threat to civilians returning to the area.
2 July 2011 07:40, by LongTweng
He can never learns anything, he just want the killing to go on and on anywhere in Sudan.
2 July 2011 07:46, by DeltaBravo
I said this all the time that with BASHIR in power nothing will bring freedom to NUBIAN,FUR,FUNJ,BIJA and the rest of Marginalize people of Northern Sudan.
2 July 2011 11:08, by Kon Ajith Deng
Nubians,Fuj,fur and Beja must to struggle like Southern for 21 years for their independence,we have been struggle since 1955 years,we have openned their eyes for their rights,what do they want from us to do again?,they have their weapons and every things they need for the war,let them struggle for their freedom,freedom is not easy to get,it will take long years,Al Bashir has right to say that,because they are cancer for the sustainable peace in the North Sudan and also we have our cancer in the South Sudan,for instance;Athor,Gatdet and Johnson Olony.Independence of all those area is not our issues,we have Southern rebels to deal with,our problems is that,how to rein our rebels from the bush,through guns or by negotiations,this is our concern,not to help northern rebels,let Al Bashir deal with them,by any means he sees is good.
2 July 2011 08:30, by Bush
@LongTweng
Is this because he has got more support from the Chines government that is why he is becoming more and more stubborn?
That will never respect any peace, he is a wounded lioness.
2 July 2011 12:14, by Waucity
Selfish and Empty Bashir...Always demanding things of others, you took two children from Southern Sudan and Now you wouldn’t just leave people of nuba mountains to live in peace...I want to ask you arabs, is it our full time job to fill your empty life for you?...Did we invite you to Sudan? We are here discussing oil to be shared and you are selfishly killing and looting. Just kill them but remember, we will capture you one day..I Swear, we will.
3 July 2011 10:18, by Machine
Stop being a burger Bashir.I can’t just comprehend what kind of a human you are.Every living creature grows wiser as it becomes old but yours is ironical,you are becoming stupider every any additional second of your damn bullshit,stupid,malicious life.Man be thoughtful,Alqaedas are dying,Osama is dead and the next prioritize by God after Fazul is you.So think about it and leave War.
2 July 2011 08:02, by George Bol
Omer Bashier should be aware for his rhetoric. Cammander Hilu can never faced that arest in the face of SPLM. This time for Darfur to understand why the South , Nuba mountains/south kordufan,and Blue Nile fight the North. The kahrtoum is in tough situation now and that is why Khartoum are dancing up and down like lizard whose tail has been cutoff.
To George
If you been to Jabal Nuba you can tell BASHIR lie. SPLA HQ is located on top of the Mountain like Jabal Boma there are around 60 SPLA Soldeirs outpost within JABAL NUBA. I don’t think they will manage to catch all 40,000 SPLA Fighters from Nuba Mountain.
2 July 2011 08:07, by Thondet Manyang
I wounder how this Bashir term Adam Abdhala Haziz as criminal. What about him????? I am predicting another genocide in South Kordofan. Killing the people in their soil is the real objective for Bashir’s plannings. Wherr is the trust of the agreement signed????? God help Nubians!!!
2 July 2011 10:35, by Kuith Dak
Warmonger the icc should take him soon,
Bashir insensitivity is all out in play in Darfur and Nuba mountains, this man has fought wars in South and has not won, what makes him things he will win this one. getting out of a mosque and announcing presents Islam as violent religion, why de peace loving muslims silent or they are the mujahiideen??.
What we should do:
SPLM should never foresake the Nuba people, help them logistically and any other means possible.
encourage darfur to take thier war to al bashir
provide sanctuary, trainin and sponsor thier travels and peace missions.
South Sudan should apprehend al bashir after the independence celebration and hand him over to the icc.
2 July 2011 09:59, by Akech
I think Ummer is crazy instead calling him president better to look for other way of name him.Otherwise is just on his way to ICC.
2 July 2011 11:15, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
It looks like Bashir has secured military and monetary aid from the his backers Chinese. He seems to be ready to confront international community on his programme of exterminating black race in Sudan. South Sudan should continue to be ready for any eventuality from Mundukurat.
2 July 2011 11:58, by Sam.Eto
Why dont you idiots mind your own business. What happens in South Kordufan is NON of you buisness. I would worry about upper nile and unity states which are about to be taken over by the rebels.
Bashir is coming to Juba - Kiir will personally salute and escort him off the plane, play the Sudan national anthem and sit next to him. I hope you hateful idiots dont get a heart attack or get too drunk from the depression. Ha Ha Ha Ha
Oh P.s Obama isnt coming - he never was - you’ll be lucky if the special evoy makes it !
Sam Eto, in your legendary homeland arabia..Nobody care about who and who..YOU see for thousand of years, we Sudanese people went to arabia to assit the weakest..Since you came to our country..YOU are nothing but little people, we feed you, with our oil money, yet no appreciationg or reward to anybody...We intented people of Nuba moutains to live in peace...And as people who have given you billions of dollars, you should there fore leave them alone...But don’t want to leave them alone...I regret slavery, it took our wonderful people away and so that vampires like YOU and BASHIRE can come and eat the rest of us.KILL THEM BUT YOU WILL PAY.
@Waucity
Don’t waste your valuable time responding to this idiot, son of a slaved woman called Sam.Eto, this guy and those of Khartoum93 and Mohamed Ali aren’t true Arabs, they are children of Slaved women.
They took Beshir as their god, but he will soon go.
2 July 2011 12:42, by Dani
Dear Fake Sam.
You are bustard and soon you will learn what South Mean we shall never be a fail State like you do you think those rebels are there because they were angered by South Sudan Gov’t? it was this evil Bashir who incited them to rebelled against GOSS because he thought we gonna fail. Here we reached the end.
Where you expecting Obama to attends oh damn you senseless North, which independent celebration ve ever been attended by US President? don’t be creative. It was wrong report from the journalist. Obama if he wants to visit South Sudan it will be after independence. South Sudan will never be put in terrorists blacklist like you and will never be a fail state as Sudan ranges second in the world failing states. But do you know what? all failing states are Arabs dominant e.g. Somali, Sudan and Chad. South Sudan will never support rebels like you did. Do you remember Kony was in the South during the war in Sudan but immediately after peace we threaten him to leave. furthermore you are the one supporting rebels to fight in the South. why do you like accommodate them?ooh failing nation North Sudan you will never be forgiven. you have to seeks alternatives to the problems you ve in hands.do not be discriminative you ve to everyone rights
ALL of Sudan in now a failed state because of the figures from South Sudan. Once you separate we will no longer be a failed state. Read all the information now - South Sudan is a failed state before it is even born - even the American admit to it.
I dont know what you people are drinking but for you to think the South is suddenly going to be heaven or a great country in Africa you are MAD or drunk - not even in the next 50 years. 90% of your population can not read or write, produce anything or build an economy, The $10 Billion in oil money and the billions more donated to you was all swallowed by your greedy officials. The total of 4 Billion you will get from oil ( because you have nothing else) is not going to make South Sudan into the Saudi Arabia of Africa. The tribalism in the South will distroy it - Riek Machar is already making his own deals. So i Can say with confidence - YOU ARE A FAILURE.
To Sam
Sudan has been fail State since. That is why we took up arm to confront the Khartoum Government. mark my word BASHIR will go soon. I hate to see him supporting Gadet, Ayii,Athor meanwhile our Government didnot do payback to him. We should support Abdel Aziz. and i dnt think we will allow China to be our partner in Business.
(AP) JUBA, Sudan (AP) — Only six years ago the Sudan People’s Liberation Army was a ragtag group of guerrilla fighters battling a bloody civil war with Sudan’s north. Next weekend, when the south breaks away and becomes the world’s newest country, the SPLA becomes a national army.
The U.S. is investing tens of millions of dollars into this fledgling military, one that is massing troops on the internal north-south border as tensions — and violence — with the north rise. SPLA troops are battling rebel militias in hotspots around the south, and fears of renewed war with the north remain high.
But international rights groups say those soldiers have been responsible for human rights abuses, including killings.
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who sponsored a law that prohibits the U.S. from giving assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights, says he is concerned about reports of abuses.
The State Department is giving nearly $100 million in yearly assistance to train and support the SPLA, and it says it is monitoring the behavior of the former guerrilla fighters.
But monitoring the 140,000-plus-member army of a developing nation the size of Texas is a nearly impossible task, opening the way for abuses.
In April, a 700-member battalion of SPLA Commandos — the most highly trained of the SPLA’s fighters — fired indiscriminately on unarmed men, women and children during an attack on a rival ethnic group at a remote Nile River village in Jonglei state, killing or wounding hundreds of civilians, according to witness accounts in a confidential U.N. report.
After an inquiry from Congress, the State Department investigated and found that no U.S. assistance is being given to the two commanders named in the U.N. report or to the commando unit as a whole. The State Department said it would exclude those involved from receiving future assistance until an investigation proves they were not involved in violations.
"The Leahy Law serves a vital purpose in seeking to ensure that U.S. aid does not go to foreign military and police forces who commit heinous crimes," Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, told The Associated Press. "I am concerned with the reports of abuses by Southern Sudanese troops and expect the law to be applied vigorously and consistently."
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Thursday released a report that urged the new southern government to prosecute and prevent abuses by southern security forces.
The report noted that since the south’s independence vote in January, "soldiers have been responsible for grave human rights abuses, including unlawful killings of civilians and looting and destruction of civilian property."
"The government needs to demonstrate its commitment to combat a growing culture of impunity for abuses by its security forces," Daniel Bekele, director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch said. "It should make sure that rank-and-file soldiers and their officers, as well as the police service, know and understand their obligations, and are held accountable for violations."
Since Sudan’s decades-long civil war ended in 2005 — a war in which some 2 million people died — the U.S. government has given more money than any other to programs aimed at professionalizing the SPLA. According to research by the Open Society Foundations, the Obama administration is requesting nearly $160 million in assistance to the armed forces in Southern Sudan for fiscal year 2012.
Southern Sudan becomes a new country on July 9.
Sudan experts say a responsible and professional southern army will be essential to improving security in the vast and underdeveloped south, where basic principles of rule of law and justice have yet to be upheld and enforced by southern security forces.
Violence is high in the south already. According to the U.N.’s latest statistics, local conflicts such as cattle-raiding and battles between rebel militias and the SPLA have claimed more than 1,800 lives this year.
The U.S. assistance is to help the SPLA develop logistics, engineering abilities, medical, and command and control abilities. A State Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told AP by email that the support is intended to "transform" the SPLA "from a guerrilla force into a standing army under civilian control and respectful of international humanitarian law."
The official, who was not allowed to be quoted according to State Department rules, said that U.S.-funded training "includes a component on respect for human rights and respect for rule of law."
The official confirmed that a current State Department contract to PAE, an American military contractor, provides provisions, salaries, and limited logistical support for Ethiopian forces who are training southern forces in a remote army training camp called New Kush, nestled in the Imatong Mountains on Southern Sudan’s border with Uganda.
New Kush has proven to be a problem for U.N. human rights investigators, who have sought access to the camp for more than two years to follow up on allegations by community members living near the training camp that southern troops had taken young women from the nearby village as "wives" and that rape and other abuses were occurring inside the site.
Although U.N. staff from the mission’s child protection unit were allowed to visit New Kush in February 2010 as part of a delegation led by the southern army’s own child protection division, no independent investigations of the human rights conditions inside the camp have been conducted since the U.N. mission was established after the civil war ended in 2005.
Since 2006, the New Kush camp has been used for training the SPLA’s special forces — or Commando units, the same forces involved in the Jonglei civilian deaths. Both international trainers, Western contractors and consultants, and Ethiopian troops — all funded through State Department programs — have worked at New Kush.
The State Department official told the AP on Thursday that the "commando training conducted by the Ethiopians focuses on professional military tactics and specialized skills."
But the SPLA has a lot of growing up to do as the world’s youngest national military. In a report last November by the Small Arms Survey and authored by Richard Rands, whose own British company Burton Rands previously was subcontracted through U.S.-funded PAE contracts, the author concluded that an "overarching strategy" for the long-term transformation of the SPLA from a guerrilla movement to a conventional army "has not yet emerged."
Rands wrote that "diplomatic pressure and international support and advice" will be needed to urge the army to conduct its own strategic review after independence and then to develop a "coherent defense strategy."
Stop genocide campaigners at the Enough Project, the New Republic, the New York Times and other institutions have been calling for U.S. intervention or at least for providing aerial bombing capability to the government of the new country of Southern Sudan to counter what they describe as aggression from the northern government of President Omar Al-Bashir.
The Palestine Telegraph reported, however, that the South’s army triggered the North’s occupation of the Abyei region by attacking northern troops. The U.S. introduced a United Nations resolution to deploy U.N. troops to the disputed, oil rich Abyei region to legitimize the dispatch of 4,200 Ethiopian soldiers already on their way.
The interventionists argue that the U.S. can’t be bystanders to what could become another Rwanda and must become instead “upstanders” preventing genocide. Many scholars of the Rwandan Genocide, however, have published evidence that the U.S. was no bystander to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
Those who argue that the U.S. was no bystander to the Rwanda Genocide offer evidence that the U.S., to the contrary, backed Gen. Paul Kagame’s invasion of Rwanda from Uganda and that hundreds of thousands of Hutus as well as Tutsis died in the genocidal massacres that ensued. The United States didn’t stand by. It supported Kagame all the way and prevented intervention – actively prevented intervention by the U.N. So the establishment narrative here is completely off the wall. The United States did not stand by.
the evidence from the files of the U.S. government and from the United Nations would suggest otherwise. These are files that have been hidden for the last 15 years. And they show that the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front), the government and military that are now in place, went from being a military force of about 2,500 to 3,000 troops to being a military of between 25,000 and 30,000 well-trained, well-armed troops in a period of two years. And that could only happen through the support that came from the U.S. and U.K. through Uganda, which is where the invasion and the military takeover of Rwanda was organized and supported. Then of course there was the ongoing cover-up of the RPF crimes and the RPF initiation of the military assault to take power, all of which is outlined in U.S. government files that are on the website www.RwandaDocumentsProject.net. That evidence is all in the public record.
Professors Erlinder and Herman both said that the U.S. should NOT intervene in Sudan, and Professor Herman said that the U.S. has no moral authority to intervene anywhere for any reason.
Ed Herman: I think this is a complete outrage. We have no business intervening anywhere. We have such dirty hands. We’re intervening all over the world now. We’re the great aggressor nation of the world, and we’re using NATO as our agent. Why can’t we just leave people alone? The Sudanese can settle their own affairs. They don’t need us. And, if we take Rwanda and the Congo as an illustration, the United States intervention there has involved the death of millions of people. And now, with Rwanda, we have a minority dictatorship again. So the whole effect of the U.S. intervention there, not just standing by, but interventions, has been the death of millions.
Ed Herman is professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-author, with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent,” and with independent researcher and writer David Peterson of “The Politics of Genocide. Peter Erlinder is a William Mitchell Law School professor, former National Lawyers Guild president and international criminal defense attorney
Shut up your mandibles Eto! We Southerners will never rest if rape, murder and injustice continue to prevail in what used to called Sudan. It just a matter of time when you get kicks on your butts.
Stop nonsense .SPLA is well train army they are not like SAF who is terrorising Civilian in by killing,Rapping the women and young girls. so please if you are fought by BASHIR to discredit SPLA Soldeirs here on the web. After Independent please pack your laggages and go to your Criminal Husband Bashir.
I dont know why im arguing with you illiterate fools. Im giving you facts and UN statements, with professional opinions. All you can do is call me names, but guess all going to get from these, alcoholic wasted uneducated lowest life refugees.
4 July 2011 07:45, by Atem
To Sam,
Your comments are not civil either,it’s difficult to convince us that you’re different from those whom you called fools and illiterates. Laucnhing a vitriolic attack on the internet is not the way forward. I believed that Al Basher is going too far and he should be calm down by his inner circles. This guy is frustrated because i have never seen a president who just shout and declare war on civilians publicly, it’s unusual. Is he really a president?
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Frank Lewis Emanuel - Early 20th Century Graphite Drawing
Frank Lewis Emanuel - Original Early 20th Century Graphite Drawing. Signed verso In fine condition.
Size: 15.9 x 20.5cm (6.3" x 8.1")
Frank Emanuel was born in London. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Alphonse Legros, then at the Academie Julian, Paris under Bouguereau. From the early 1880's he began to show at the RA and Paris Salon, NEAC, ROI, RI and many other galleries. Exhibited at the Royal Academy nearly every year for over 40 years. The Tate Gallery holds his work.
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Summit County Rescue Group, ski patrol rescue lost snowboarder outside of Arapahoe Basin
Man lost in backcountry for almost 5 hours
Snowboarders John Moser, in back, hugs his friend Patrick Powers after being rescued from out-of-bounds following an avalanche incident Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarder John Moser looks at his hands next to Summit County Rescue Group member Devon Haire after being rescued from out-of-bounds following an avalanche incident Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and his friend Patrick Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Summit County Rescue Group members Devon Haire, left, and Tyler McGuire set out to search for lost snowboarder John Moser Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.
Snowboarder John Moser looks at his fingers after being rescued from out-of-bounds following an avalanche incident Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and his friend Patrick Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarder John Moser, left, catches his breath next to his friend Patrick Powers after being rescued Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarder John Moser takes off his helmet after being rescued from out-of-bounds following an avalanche incident Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and his friend Patrick Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarder John Moser, right, breaths sign of relief next to his friend Patrick Powers after being rescued Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarders John Moser, left, and Patrick Powers interact after Moser was rescued Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarder John Moser warms his fingers, covered in dirt from his gloves, on a rubber hot water bottle after being rescued Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
Snowboarders John Moser, left, reach out to hug his friend Patrick Powers after being rescued from out-of-bounds following an avalanche incident Tuesday evening, May 21, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area. Moser, who was found by Summit County Rescue Group, was swept by an avalanche as he and Powers were attempting to hike back inbounds.
John Moser sat bundled in a blanket inside the Kid’s Center at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area on Tuesday evening trying to warm himself up after almost five hours lost in the backcountry behind the resort.
He held on tightly to a hot water bottle in his hands — dyed black from the sweat-leeched material inside his gloves — intermittently reaching down into a pile of snacks as representatives from the Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol and Summit County Rescue Group peppered him with questions.
For Moser, his face still red from cold winds and exhaustion, there was a sense of relief. Not only did he survive his brief brush with the Colorado wilderness, but he escaped unscathed, aside from some numb fingers and likely plenty of sore muscles in the coming days.
“I’m just kind of proud of our determination to get back,” said Moser. “We didn’t give up. Even if it took us four-and-a-half hours, we made it back.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Moser and his friends from Avon — Patrick Powers, Henry Badham and Isaiah Mitchell — were enjoying the storm and taking advantage of one of the season’s last snowboarding days. Moser and Powers decided to try something a little more challenging. The two hiked up to the top of the mountain near the Montezuma Bowl with hopes of dropping into some of the chutes on the south face of Lenawee Mountain. But things soon went awry.
“It got really whiteout, and we couldn’t see where we were going and accidently dropped into the valley with no lifts or anything,” said Moser. “There were not ropes or anything to tell us not to go there.”
The two snowboarders accidentally went too far east and ended up out of bounds in the backcountry.
“The more we kept going down the more we realized we weren’t seeing anything,” said Powers. “So we stopped and we sat there thinking about what we could do. We decided to hike back up and try to get there before dark, because there’s no cell service or anything.”
Moser and Powers decided to make the hike back up to the top, using their snowboards to chop into the snow for leverage. Moser said that as they neared the upper lip, the snow gave way and dragged him about 50 yards down the mountain. Powers wasn’t caught in the slide.
“We checked out the avalanche,” said Devon Haire, a ski patroller at the resort. “It was long, but it wasn’t particularly deep or big, so it was survivable.”
Powers continued up the mountain, and was eventually able to make his way down to the lodge where he contacted ski patrol and called 911. At this point the other members of their group — Mitchell and Badham — were also making efforts to contact ski patrol after Powers and Moser never showed up to leave. As emergency teams mobilized, Moser was still trying to make his way up on the other side of the mountain.
“I waited for about an hour, maybe more, hoping somebody would come,” said Moser. “When I looked around and noticed the conditions were extremely windy and it was a whiteout, I knew there was no way a helicopter was coming in. So I found a less steep slope to climb back up. … I made sure to stay as warm as I could just to keep my body moving, using all the little tricks I’ve picked up from other snowboarders and survival shows.”
Moser eventually made his way to the top where Haire — along with a group of rescue workers that included Search and Rescue team leader Tyler McGuire, and ski patrollers Will Bruce and Paul Schmidt — spotted him on the ridge.
“Once we found the tracks leaving the slide, our team was able to follow those,” said Haire. “I was up on the ridge when John found us. He waved me down and we got him off the hill.”
Jim Koegel, mission coordinator for the Summit County Rescue Group, said that the Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol was invaluable in the rescue efforts.
“This was really the ski patrol’s operation,” said Koegel “They came in off duty to help us, and this could not have done this well without them.”
After what was undoubtedly a long afternoon and evening, Moser and the rest left for Avon, happy that everyone made it out safely.
“Now they’re safe and everything is great,” said Badham. “That’s the important thing. Everybody is OK, and that’s all that matters.”
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Laser Safety Requirements
The following summarizes laser safety requirements and their impact on integrators and users of Synrad CO2 lasers, and it provides sources for obtaining additional information and assistance.
The first section describes the legal requirements on product manufacturers (OEMs and system integrators) who purchase Synrad CO2 lasers and include them in a product for resale. These regulations, published by the U.S. government, are mandatory for laser products. The second section discusses standards for laser users in the U.S. who purchase Synrad CO2 lasers or products that contain Synrad lasers for use in their facilities. These requirements are adopted by the individual states, and at this time only a few have such regulations. User laser safety standards from ANSI and the guidelines published for OSHA inspectors are also described. The third section includes references and sources for documents and assistance. Information on international laser safety requirements that apply outside of the United States is also available upon request.
Laser Safety Standards for OEMs/System Integrators
The U.S. Federal Government has requirements that impact the manufacture or import of any products containing lasers that are sold in the United States. These mandatory regulations are published and enforced by the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). They specify product classification procedures, and they require a protective housing as well as engineering features and labels for each product class. The CDRH regulations also require manuals, test procedures, test and distribution records, and a certification report.
The regulations exempt lasers shipped to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for resale (requirements described herein for OEMs apply equally to System Integrators). However, to help reduce the effort required by OEMs and System Integrators in certifying their end products, the Synrad line includes “keyswitch” versions of CO2 lasers that have been certified to the CDRH regulations. Please note that end-use products sold to users must still be certified, even if they include a certified Synrad laser.
Product Classification - Products are classified in accordance with the laser energy that is accessible during normal operation. Energy that is accessible only during routine maintenance or during service will determine the need for interlocks, labels, shields, and protective eyewear, but it would not affect the product class. The CDRH classification categories are Class I, IIa, II, IIIa, IIIb, and IV, in accordance with increasing hazard levels. In general, fully enclosed laser systems are Class I, while systems that allow access to the CO2 laser energy are Class IV (the other classes would not apply for these products since the output of Synrad lasers is Class IV). CO2 laser energy is considered “accessible” by the safety standards if a finger or a very thin, straight probe can contact a beam.
Product Housing - During normal operation, the housing of the end product that contains a Synrad laser must prevent access to laser energy, unless access to that energy is necessary for the product function. That is, systems should be Class I unless it is unreasonable to fully enclose the beams (e.g., due to loading and unloading procedures or the need to process different material configurations). Even if it is not feasible to prevent access to laser energy at the beam focus, the beam paths at other locations usually must be enclosed during operation.
On systems with marking heads, for example, the beam tube supplied must be installed to seal the beam path between the laser head and the marking head. Also, if part handling precludes full enclosure of the marking area, blockage of laser energy beyond the part and other shields should be used to the extent feasible.
In addition to sheet metals, polycarbonate and acrylic (eg., Lexan and Plexiglas) and most other plastic materials are typically acceptable for a product enclosure. The material thickness must be selected to provide mechanical stability as well as the ability to withstand diffuse reflections of the CO2 laser energy. Metals should be used for portions of the enclosure on which a collimated beam is likely to be incident, as well as for exposures of a focused beam within several feet of the beam focus. Redirected beams should be treated the same as the incident beam, since at the CO2 laser wavelength most of the laser energy can be reflected from bare aluminum or other metals even though they do not have polished surfaces. Plastic curtains can be used if the mechanical characteristics are adequate and if a hazard evaluation shows that the incident energy under the worst case conditions would not cause the material to degrade.
If a product housing has panels or doors that are openable during operation or routine maintenance by an operator and thus allow access to laser energy, interlocks are normally required. Such interlocks must be redundant or fail-safe, and they may be defeatable if specified requirements are met. If a panel or cover is to be removed only for service (e.g., repair by trained personnel), a warning label may be used for protection in lieu of an interlock - while it is not stated in the CDRH regulations, the need for a tool to remove a non-interlocked cover is recommended. The manual should clearly indicate if a procedure is considered “service” to be performed only by trained personnel.
Product Features - Once a system has been classified as Class I or Class IV by the OEM or system integrator, the required features can be determined. Other than the protective housing, labels, and (possibly) interlocks, no features are needed for Class I systems.
Class IV lasers and systems must include the following accessible features: a keyswitch to prevent unauthorized access (a computer password would be acceptable); an indicator (typically a light) to provide a warning of laser emission in advance of and during the emission time; a beam shutter to block the beam; a connector to facilitate the remote interlocking of room/cabinet doors by the customer; and the requirement for the operator to manually restart the product after a line voltage interruption. Most Synrad lasers can be ordered with these features (“keyswitch” models); however, the system housing may require additional interlocks and labels.
Viewing windows, microscopes, and protective eyewear must prevent access above Class I. That is not normally a problem for CO2 laser energy since the 10.6 μm energy is absorbed by polycarbonate, acrylic, and most other plastic and glass window materials.
Other CDRH Requirements - A certification report must be led by the OEM or system integrator with the CDRH before a product is delivered to customers or imported into the U.S. The report must provide a description of the product that discusses how it complies with the regulations. Copies of the test procedure, manuals, labels, and sales literature should be part of that report. A reference to the report that Synrad has provided to the CDRH on a certified laser may reduce the documentation that is needed.
The test procedure must verify operation of each required laser safety feature, verify that there is no unnecessary access to laser energy, and verify the specified labels are affixed at the proper locations. Measurements of output power/energy levels are not normally required. The system manuals must include warnings and precautions for operation, maintenance, and service procedures.
Warning logotypes and aperture labels are required for Class IV systems. All products need warning labels for removable portions of the housings that are not interlocked, and an identification/certification label is specified. Wording for these labels is provided in the regulations. If a warning logotype is required on the product, it must also appear in the sales literature.
Laser Safety Standards for End Users
The above materials describe the requirements for OEMs and system integrators. This section discusses the requirements that apply to companies who purchase a Synrad Class IV laser or a Class I or Class IV system that contains a Synrad laser for use in their facility. Recommendations for users are provided in the ANSI laser safety standard as discussed below, but in most states, there are no legal regulations on laser safety installations. Please note, however, that OSHA inspectors can be called in and can cite facilities as part of their overall regulations to provide a safe workplace.
Class I installations - Facilities with Class I systems are exempt from most of the laser safety control measures unless there is access to Class IV energy during maintenance or service.
Class IV installations - Control measures for Class IV include enclosing beam paths where feasible, establishing controlled access areas for trained personnel only, posting of warning signs, training and medical testing of operators, use of standard operating procedures (SOPs), protective eyewear and clothing, and protective barriers. These and other items are described in the ANSI laser safety standard that is discussed below.
Class IV installations - require a trained Laser Safety Officer (LSO) be appointed to evaluate potential hazards and to ensure that appropriate control measures are implemented.
Laser Hazards - There are two main concerns when evaluating the hazard from a CO2 laser. The collimated beam direct from the laser head or a mirror (without any focusing optics) contains sufficient heat energy to damage eyes, skin, or flammable materials for a considerable distance (100s of feet or more) from the source. The focused beam contains much higher power density for marking, cutting, or welding, but it is present only in a very localized area near the beam focus. Past the focus, the beam pattern expands significantly, and there is a distance beyond which the power spreads over an area that is so large that the laser beam is no longer hazardous.
ANSI Standard - Most user laser safety documents are based on the ANSI Z136 series of standards, particularly ANSI Z136.1 Standard for the Safe Use of Lasers. That document includes a discussion of laser hazard evaluation with limits for Maximum Permissible Exposures (MPEs); administrative, engineering, and procedural control measures; requirements for laser safety officers (LSOs); a discussion of non-beam hazards; and outlines for training and medical surveillance programs.
U.S. State Requirements - In the U.S., user safety regulations are up to the individual states, and they are primarily based on the ANSI ZI36.1 safety standard. Those states with active laser safety control programs (and the telephone numbers for contact) are Arizona (602) 255-4845, Florida (904) 487-1004, Illinois (217) 785-9975, Massachusetts (617) 727-6214, New York State (718) 797-7641, and Texas (512) 834-6688. Most of those state user regulations exempt facilities with Class I systems, but they place registration and control requirements on facilities with Class IV systems or with Class I systems that allow access to Class IV energy during maintenance or service. States that require registration usually charge annual registration fees.
OSHA - The Occupational Safety & Health Administration does not have specific laser safety requirements. However, if they are called into a facility, the inspectors follow published guidelines (OSHA Instruction PUB 8-1.7 Guidelines for Laser Safety and Hazard Assessment) that are based on an earlier (1986) ANSI Z136.1 standard.
References and Sources
CDRH - Center for Devices and Radiological Health - An agency within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which publishes and enforces legal requirements on laser product manufacturers. For copies of the CDRH regulations, contact CDRH (HFZ-312), 2098 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, Telephone (301) 594-4654.
ANSI/OSHA - ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is a U.S. organization that publishes standards for laser users. Their laser safety standards are not laws, but they form the basis for state and OSHA requirements for the use of lasers. For copies contact ANSI in New York at (212) 642-4900 or the Laser Institute of America, at Telephone (407) 380-1553, Fax (407) 380-5588.
Assistance with Requirements
For assistance with the CDRH and international laser safety requirements, OEMs and system integrators can contact Bill Janssen, Certified Laser Safety Officer, LaseResources, Minneapolis, MN USA, bjanssen@att.net, P (612) 325.5673, LaseResources.com.
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AHO-2018
@ Home in Transition
Encouraging asylum seekers towards more self-driven approaches to navigate the unknown they are surrounded with.
Niloufar Gharavi
Melina Hozhabri
Main Supervisors: Linda Blaasvær, Birger Sevaldson
External Supervisors: Adrian Paulsen, Anna Kirah
External Advisor: Jørn-Casper Øwre
Scroll down to see the full report.
Welcome and feel yourself @ Home in transition.
This project is the story of tackling a common affliction today which brought 2 migrant girls from Iran to each other. They shared their backgrounds, hopes, pains and skills together, forming the project which was not only a master diploma, but a real life concern for them both.
This diploma project is meant to be the first pilot of a co-development concept in transition (elaborated inside report) which happened in Norway at the Refstad Transit reception center in Oslo, during winter-spring, 2018.
Despite the differences among reception centers around the world, they carry some similarities (Mouzourakis & Taylor, 2016) which enabled the project to extend its horizons beyond a contextualized student diploma. Consequently, the outcomes of this first pilot in Norway are both specifically designed for Refstad and also for the general context of transition around the world. The designed actions and tools are generalizable and carry general values which can be extracted as core materials to adapt to any other asylum and refugee centers around the world.
The project is following the concept of Co-designing Actions and Facilitating Discussions In Transition (Peter Checkland & John Poulter, 2006) which affords the possibility to learn through changing the system with its own foot print. It is not about a singular or multiple problem-solving project, but about working with a situation rather than defining problems to solve. (Denis Loveridge, 2008)
The project aims to create a different state of mind within the context of transition and influencing the social system with participatory approaches as a fundamental element of dignified reception. By capacity building and raising self-awareness (NORCAP, 2016), the project is meant to motivate the asylum seekers to recall their competences and wishes towards self-efficacy which affect every area of human endeavor by determining the beliefs a person holds regarding his or her power to affect situations.
Consequently, the process of recalling, planning and taking collective actions based on available resources inside the reception center, builds dignity, self-esteem and self-reliance among people. Such approaches could lift mitigating tensions and conflict in the reception facility and build bridges between different groups.
In addition, the inhabitants of each center would co-develop towards a self-initiated future based on their abilities and hopes. This achievement will also remove the false hope of necessarily ending up in the host country and enrich their abilities to bring them broader horizons regardless of the answer they will get from the authorities.
FIELDs OF THE PROJECT
With a cross-disciplinary approach, this design diploma project is being held within different design disciplines simultaneously to bring a combination of their values to the humanitarian context. Among the involved design fields:
Systems Oriented Design: The emergence and development of a designerly approach to address complexity. (Sevaldson 2013 - www.systemsorienteddesign.net, 2009)
Participatory Design and Co-design: as an approach attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable (Simonsen & Robertson, 2013).
Service Design: as a design approach to improve the quality of different actors’ interaction and involvement by planning and organizing people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service. (Brown & Wyatt, 2010)
Transition Design: an area of design research, practice and study which looks toward design-led societal transition toward more sustainable futures. (“Transition Design 2015,” n.d.)
Therefore, in this project, tools of Systems oriented design will provide a holistic view over the complexity of the field. “Service Design” tools and approaches help the designer to go in details and design actions based on the target groups’ needs. Co-design tools will facilitate discussions and collaborations among the designers and target groups. Together, these components benefit from the ideations within transition design field.
THEME OF THE PROJECT
Today, 80 million people are displaced and yet 28,300 people a day are forced to flee their home due to conflict and persecution. On the other hand, the world population is growing and this growth will not be among white and rich people. Therefore, the pressure on the borders will raise and continue over the next years. (“UNHCR - Figures at a Glance,” n.d.)
However, 2018 is considered as the down period with less arrival for most of the countries including Norway. Consequently, less resource dedication to emergency responses could lead to saving time and prioritizing development approaches/programs, enabling proper preparation for upcoming challenges. Projects with engaging development capacity management in this period could bring up different scaled local solutions which would empower self-driven approaches towards the problematics. Among them, frustration due to long waiting periods, pacification of the asylum seekers, self-loss and psychosocial health issues could be mentioned.
Followed by the context specific local solutions in countries with less emergency status, approaches and extracted materials/outcomes could be patterned and implemented as several ensuring pilots in other countries as well.
For humanitarian authorities who are engaged with providing services and resources for vulnerable people, there is the priority of encouraging solutions towards promoting self-efficacy within the reception centers to enable courses of action required to deal with prospective situations. Consequently, an individual will be empowered to exhibit coping behavior and sustained efforts in the face of obstacles. This also leads to better integration and active engagement towards the living specifications of the context of resettlement.
CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT
In particular, this project is focusing on the context of Transition, such as reception centers where it is even more important for refugees and asylum seekers to consider integration measures intertwined with reception, even in the early stages and with (despite of) the notion that not everybody will be granted asylum. (Bergtora Sandvik, Fladvad Nielsen, Brita Fladvad Nielsen, & Gabrielsen Jumbert, 2016)
Due to the constrains in the transit reception centers and their “military protection atmosphere”, (Balasubramaniam Venkatasamy - Refstad camp manager), as well as asylum regulations, inhabitants’ life style is limited to daily basic needs and long frustrating waiting period which provides lots of issues with psychosocial health and tension. (Based on our field studies & resources)
With a cross-disciplinary approach, this project is being held within different design disciplines simultaneously to bring a combination of their values to the humanitarian context.
Within the complex field that the project was dealing with, Action Component became the main aspect of the project. Therefore, neither the process nor the strategy was about a traditional design sequence where inquiry and research is done in the first period and then the design/intervention comes after with the results, followed by several tests and iterations.
In fact, the design process or systems change starts from the moment designers engaged in the situation and stepped into the field as well as the reception center. This refers to second order cybernetics where the observer is instantly a part of the system.
Therefore, as an action design research with user oriented approaches which carries the Soft Systems Methodologies, the strategies are not really planned from the start but was emerging and crystallizing during the project.
The process, like an ongoing narrative, moves both inside and outside the reception center simultaneously tracking and gathering the resources, stakeholders, needs, activities, etc and bringing them together to co-design the possible interventions.
On the other hand, our presence along the project is an intervention by itself creating a different state of mind and changing the social system all around the context.
It refers to the discussion of dancing with the system (Meadows, 2002) by making use of different tools and approaches, such as playing drum to encourage gatherings, having traditional Syrian tea and talking via Google Translate, responding with other moves when one fails, etc.
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Sound Bites: Poultry Manure-Burning Power Plant on the Eastern Shore | 1 in 3 Restaurant Workers Food Insecure
August 5, 2014 – Segment 4
We begin our newest episode of Sound Bites with an update on the status of the proposed poultry manure-burning power plant on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Baltimore Sun reported last week that the state of the plant is now in limbo, with Maryland state officials considering whether to give Green Planet Power Solutions, the company chosen to build the 13.4-megawatt plant, a nearly $35 million subsidy. Our guests are: Patrick Thompson, President and CEO of EnergyWorks Group based in Annapolis, Maryland; Ann Swanson, Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission; Tim Wheeler, reporter for The Baltimore Sun; and Michele Merkel, co-director of the Food and Water Justice Project at Food and Water Watch.
Last week the Nation magazine reported that nearly one in every three restaurant workers suffers from food insecurity. With us to discuss this statistic is Michelle Chen, writer for the Nation, contributing editor at In These Times, associate editor at CultureStrike, and co-producer of “Asia Pacific Forum” on Pacifica’s WBAI and Dissent Magazine’s “Belabored” podcast.
A series on the history and challenges of the current food system, and how to envision transforming it into one that is healthier for all people and the environment. Sound Bites segments feature interviews with farmers, students, community members, town hall participants and panelists, activists, writers and historians.
Just Words: The Stories of Working People in Our Community
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The Wire: Series Wrap-up
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Music provides joy and solace on demand, whether we are composing, playing or listening.
Singing is free and almost a human necessity
It creates a universe of our own and gives us confidence in our ability to express, communicate and learn.
The study of music helps us understand why we experience certain emotional responses and why music holds such meaning for us as humans.
It also:
Brings with it many skills for life and supports other learning
Supports life longer learners of music
Encourages kindness and promotes a feeling of belonging
Can provide an immediate sense of accomplishment
Exercises both right and left brain skills
Satisfies an innate human desire to make music with others
Provides a vehicle across which we can communicate and experience togetherness, emotions and what it is to be human
The Music Department aims to encourage students to make and appreciate music of a high standard, enjoying both the process and the product. In this way, we hope that students develop a life-long love for music as listeners and perhaps performers, too, and feel that they can access music as they wish throughout their lives.
The music programme aims to ensure that all pupils:
make music with others on a regular basis
understand practice techniques that produce optimum results
compose music
understand and write, basic musical notation
use appropriate language to describe the music they hear
are exposed to, and respect a rich variety of music
are aware of the musical offerings in and outside of school
know how to use music to enrich their lives as children and adults
Music in Years 7 and 8 involves sound and instrument exploration through popular song, World Music and film and game music. The geography of the keyboard is used as the platform for a solid understanding of melody and harmony, whilst other instruments, such as guitar, ukulele and drums enable students to begin to play in a band set up and even write their own music.
Relevant theory makes up an important part of our studies, enabling our students to maximise their access to music.
Guitar for Voice
Playing and Composing in a Blues Band
Keyboard for Voice
Keyboard for Film and Game Music
Composing for Film and Game Music
Composing in a Band
Homework for Music usually consists of learning a few salient facts about a particular piece studied.
Memorising the geography of the piano keyboard using reference points
Recalling facts about a certain song or genre of song
Writing lyrics to a Blues Song or jingle
Understanding facts about song context
Making connections with music from other parts of the world
Writing lyrics and music for ourselves
Music at KS4 is based around the preparation for OCR GCSE Music. This is broken up into three main areas: Playing, Composing and Listening, making up 30%, 30% and 40% of the final grade, respectively.
A basic review of theory, harmony and instrument fundamentals is found to be essential at the beginning of this course in Year 9, making Composing, Playing and Listening more accessible for the student throughout the course. Pop Music is subsequently used as a vehicle to extend understanding in these areas.
During Year 10, the first official composition of two, should be completed and a strong knowledge developed of the GCSE Listening Areas of Study.
Year 11 is reserved for the final solo and ensemble recordings, as well as the second and final composition to a set brief. Time is then available for revision in readiness for the listening exam in June.
Music students at KS4 have lessons twice weekly.
Playing material from Area of Study 5: Conventions of Pop
The associated theory
Student performance on their instrument
Knowledge Organiser tests
Playing material from Area of Study 4: Film and Game Music
Solo and Ensemble Playing
Two compositions
Listening and Appraising
Internal assessment, externally moderated
External Exam
Students should be ready to complete one listening or theory based homework per week as well as practicing their instrument on a daily basis.
Music Five-year Subject Map
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Tony Gallagher
Head Head Coach/Swim Team Coordinator
Tony Gallagher has been the Head Coach/Swim Team Coordinator for the Tiger Sharks since 2013, after being the Head Developmental Coach and Head Age Group Coach from 2009-2013. After making stops as an assistant coach at Western Illinois University , The University of Georgia Swim Camps, and in his home town with the Munster Swim Club, Coach Tony has enjoyed being a part of the team's continued growth and success. He possesses an in depth plan in stroke mechanics, seasonal progressions, and dry land training throughout the program's levels. Before PPD, Tony swam primarily with Munster Swim Club and made stops with BR Ryall and PPD during summers in college. Coach Tony was team captain at WIU during his Junior and Senior seasons as well as the 2010 13-14 Girls Illinois Zones Coach, 2011 11-12 Illinois Zones Coach, and 2012 Head Illinois Zones Coach . Tony has a Bachelors of Science Degree in Kinesiology with a K-12 Teaching Certificate from Western Illinois University. Additionally, Tony has previously served as a member of the Illinois Swimming Age Group Committee from 2010-2017.
Dustin Thompson
Originally from Munster, Indiana, Head Age Group Coach, Dustin Thompson, began his swimming career at the age of eight with the Munster Swim Club. He has accumulated numerous age group and high school swimming state championships in the freestyle, butterfly, and IM events. After high school, Dustin attended Penn State University, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. At PSU, he competed in the butterfly and IM events, in addition to being team captain his Senior year and National Qualifier. Thompson was named a Coach for the 2012, 2013, 2014 10 & Under Illinois Zones Team, and 2015 and 2016 Head Coach of Illinois Zones Team. Coach Dustin looks forward to leading PPD's age group program, focusing on stroke technique, swimming smart, and having fun interactions in and out of the pool.
Lucas Osterbur
Senior Coach
A 2009 graduate of Hope College, Lucas Osterbur joins the PPD Tiger Sharks as a Senior Coach. Coach Lucas comes to Palatine after receiving his Masters Degree from the University of Illinois. While in Champaign, Coach Lucas also coached with the Champaign County YMCA Heat. While with the HEAT, Osterbur worked with a variety of different age groups, as well as some of the fastest swimmers in the state. Coach Lucas is very excited to continue his coaching career with the Tiger Sharks.
Adam Longo
Coach Adam graduated from Conant High in 2007, where he was part of both swimming and water polo teams. After graduation, he attended Harper College and Northern Illinois University, graduating with a degree in Rehabilitation Services. Coach Adam has been coaching since 2008 with a variety of ages and ability levels. He enjoys working with all swimmers and encourages learning and fun! Longo has been with PPD since 2016 and has been an invaluable piece to the team’s success.
Coach Adam also serves as the assistant Boys’ Water Polo coach for Hoffman Estates High School and Harper College.
Branon Renick
Branon Renick started coaching in 2011 and came to PPD in 2016. Before PPD, Branon was the Head Age Group Coach of Maverick Aquatics (MVA) in Lafayette, IN. In this role, he guided athletes to state and zone cuts as well as multiple new team records! In addition, he served Catch the Sprit and Age Group Memorial camp staffs. Before MVA, he served two long course seasons as an assistant coach for Sugar Creek Swim Club and spent three summers with the Frankfort Swim Club in a variety of roles including Head Coach. Branon is a recent graduate of Purdue University and currently works at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Rolling Meadows.
Agnes Wojtas
Coach Agnes started her swimming career with the PPD Tiger Sharks as an age group swimmer and was a member of the Palatine High School swimming and water polo teams. Agnes joined the Tiger Sharks coaching staff in 2012, while finishing up her Bachelor's degree from Carthage College. While at Carthage, she was a standout water polo player, and team captain. With such a wide variety of experience in the water from a leadership and athletic standpoint, Agnes has been an outstanding addition to PPD's age group program. Coach Agnes has been able to help foster an environment of learning and fun, while helping develop PPD's youngest athletes.
Jon Michael Burgess
Developmental Coach
Coach Jon-Michael Burgess joined the Palatine Tiger Sharks in the fall of 2017. JM arrives to Palatine after four successful years at Michigan State University. While at MSU, he played water polo for the Spartans and was a member of the 2014 Big Ten Champions. Coach JM started his swimming career in high school and has been teaching swim lessons for the past eight years. The addition of JM’s enthusiasm and knowledge is a welcomed addition to the Tiger Shark program.
Coach Beth joined the Palatine Tiger Sharks in the fall of 2018. She has over 20 years of experience as a competitive swimmer and several years of experience as a swim coach and a swim lesson instructor. Coach Beth swam with her local age group team, Peoria Area Water Wizards (PAWW), for many years and competed at the national level. She moved to Boca Raton, Fl her junior year of high school to swim at the prestigious Mission Bay Aquatic Training Center to train with Olympic coaches and swimmers in pursuit of qualifying for the Olympic Trials in the 100 fly and 200 IM. There she achieved many personal best times and helped the Mission Bay Makos win national titles and assisted her high school team with a state championship. Coach Beth was awarded a swimming scholarship with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration. She has two amazing teenage sons and is an elementary teacher with the Crystal Lake School District where she has worked for over 14 years. Coach Beth is excited to dive right in to help the age group swimmers achieve their goals while having fun during the process.
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Samsung Series 7 Chronos review
15.6-inch portable that packs power - at a price
By James Stables 2013-05-20T13:50:00.139Z
Samsung Series 7 Chronos
Great screen
Lovely build
Slim and eye catching
Decent battery life
Touchscreen is an afterthought
Full form factor laptops have died a death in the last few months as the new focus of Windows 8 has put the emphasis on portability and hybrids. If it doesn't turn into a tablet, manufacturers don't really want to know, but that's not much use for people who want power, performance and comfort - and that's where the Series 7 Chronos. You may also see it branded as the Samsung Ativ Book 8.
This model is an update to Samsung's premium 15.6-inch performance laptop, which adds a touchscreen to the existing sleek, brushed metal body. It's for anyone who needs true computing power, for running multiple programs and being creative, but who still wants to take advantage of all Windows 8's super new touchscreen features.
It's truly a laptop first, unlike other touchscreen alternatives such as the HP Envy x2 or Samsung Ativ Smart PC, which have the innards of a laptop but the form of a tablet. If you're looking for a full-sized QWERTY keyboard and a large screen, the Samsung Ativ Book 8 (model number NP780Z5E) is for you.
The expansive display is great for Windows 8, offering a generous portion of your apps at the Start screen, with any press of the Windows key. Having such a big screen means you're able to use more of Windows 8's features, such as the window snapping, so you can use two apps side-by-side.
However, the setup highlights the interesting decision made by Acer to switch the trackpad and keyboard on its Aspire R7. The result is that the Samsung asks you to use its keyboard and mouse by placing the device in front of you, and it's awkward to raise your hands across the screen 'zombie-style' to use the touchscreen. The traditional clamshell design of the laptop means it's hard to use in a touchscreen format, and the immobility of the screen is a drawback of the Samsung Series 7 Chronos.
A top-of-the-range machine with stunning performance and a super-thin chassis isn't likely to come cheap, and you'll need fairly deep pockets to afford the Samsung Series 7 Chronos. At £1,199/US$1,299 this is a serious outlay, and you're paying for the blistering performance.
The irony is that you actually pay twice - firstly with the price tag and then with the added weight, and this means you need to ask yourself a serious question - do you need this power, or would you rather have something to slip into your bag more easily?
To help you make this decision, let's review the Samsung Series 7 Chronos in depth.
So what's under the hood of this Korean-made beast? Well, the specs are impressive indeed. Firstly, there's an Intel Core i7 3635QM processor chip, which is one of the fastest you'll find out there, clocked at an impressive 2.4GHz. This will handle pretty much anything you throw at it, and is perfect for power-hungry users who want to edit video, images and run rich websites all at the same time.
Back that up with the 8GB of RAM that comes as standard and you have one nifty laptop.
Intel Core processors are so powerful they can take care of most tasks all on their own, but Samsung has added an AMD Radeon HD 8800M dedicated graphics chip inside too, which does its fair share of work.
With dedicated graphics - something you'd never find on a laptop-tablet hybrid - you can run games and HD movies much faster, but the chip can take some of the load off the processor too. You'll find the whole system more responsive, and that's immediately evident on the Samsung Series 7 Chronos.
Samsung has added a Full HD 1920 x 1080 panel to the Chronos, which on full brightness is eye-searingly bright. It's got a glossy coating that aids swiping with your finger, but it's incredibly shiny, which could be problematic in bright conditions when working outside or near big office windows.
Overall, the Samsung Series 7 Chronos's build quality is superb, especially considering there's so much power harnessed into such a sleek design. The brushed metal oozes class and the laptop opens to reveal an equally metallic chassis, complete with a spacious keyboard and expansive colour-coded trackpad. It's an Aston Martin that's vintage in its design yet fearsome in its execution.
Like a classic sports car, it's also heavy, and at 2.5kg (5.4lbs), it's not that portable. You wouldn't want it in your bag all day, and its weight harks back to laptops of old, which were bulky and cumbersome. The sleek lines and thin design makes the weight surprising, and this will be the main turn-off for prospective buyers.
By combining great multi-touch features and brilliant accuracy, the trackpad is a triumph, and while we often criticise laptops for low travel keys, the sheer spaciousness of the keyboard makes typing a pleasure.
Because this machine evidently isn't designed to be mobile, the connections on offer are more generous than its tablet companions. You get Ethernet, which is music to the ears of regular hotel room hoppers, plus HDMI and four USB ports. There's also VGA and an SD card slot to finish off a sublime port performance.
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The last thing we need is more anonymity on the internet
By Gary Cutlack 2014-12-21T12:00:00.354Z
Let's be adults, yeah?
Wasn't the coolest thing about using the internet for the first time thinking up your first anonymous username?
In the early days of the internet, everyone had a clever pseudonym based around something they liked, a favourite song, character off the telly or a talking animal from a PlayStation game.
But the internet was different back then. The hate mobs hadn't formed. Women didn't get word-lynched for saying they liked the wrong thing. There weren't so many channels in which people could post their rape jokes unchallenged.
Anonymity in the early days of the internet was because the rules hadn't been set and it seemed like fun to call yourself Captain Shoes when talking to strangers, not because anyone had anything to hide, but because it didn't really matter and you owned some shoes.
Now, though, the internet is part of life. It's not just a thing you do sometimes, it's the only thing we do all the time. It's very important to everyone. All of the time.
And it's splintered in half. Only maniacs use pretend names now, with the opposing normals happy to post their mundane/racist comments under their actual identities, linked to Facebook profiles that give away every secret about their lives, families and homes.
So who's doing the internet right in 2014?
Rude boy's outta jail
The emergence of anonymous messaging apps like Yik Yak and the relaunched Secret suggest there's a healthy desire for anonymity on the internet, presumably because there's always a continuous flood of people coming of age (about 13 years old) who are being allowed to run riot on their own online for the first time. And you need a pretend name to be really nasty.
It seems that a lot of the new wave of anonymous apps are used for little more than bullying by these newly anonymised and therefore empowered internet users, and the last thing the hate-filled internet of 2014 needs is more ways in which people can slag off others for a laugh.
The location-aware anonymous chat services make it even easier to be aggressive without consequence. Newcomer Yik Yak appears custom built to let schoolkids bully each other and workers pick on the office weaklings until they crack and massacre everyone at the Christmas party, with its blend of anonymity and hyper-locality perfect for spreading rumours, lies and bad feeling in the immediate proximity.
Building apps that allow anonymous comments with the hope of one day generating money through ad revenue or selling yourself to Facebook for $1bn is quite the poor taste business model.
Luckily, though, people tend to tire of negativity pretty quickly. It's funny for a bit to have an anonymous ding-dong with someone who doesn't know you are in fact you, but having an endless stream of nastiness in your life is actually quite unsustainable.
You can quite quickly go mad from spending your nights awake and mentally composing angry replies to anonymous threats. Users of these anonymous messengers are all involved in one massive, hate-fuelled race to the bottom of the internet, where comments alternate between Hitler and your mum's genital health for all eternity, and no one's having any fun.
These apps are going to burn out, as people realise there's no need to be quite so nasty all the time and how draining it can be. Secret has already shown this. It was fun for a few weeks, and some tech sites sourced a few useful stories from angry users with chips on their shoulders, but it soon fizzled out.
Momentum was lost because you can't trust or believe anything that anonymous people say, funnily enough. Hence the hasty relaunch of Secret as more of a chat tool than an aggressive whistle-blowing app.
Being yourself is an asset nowadays. A nice, unbroken history of nice comments and an old Twitter account you haven't had to hastily close out of shame shows you're a nice person. An internet black hole between 2009 and 2015 when you were anonymously raging under a name with lots of Xs in it shows you're perhaps prone to being a bit of an idiot.
Growing up a bit, using your real name, and moderating your behaviour so you only think bad things instead of saying them is the only sensible choice.
After all, one slip and your anonymous hating could be discovered.
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Most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world engineered at Sandia National Laboratories
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re ever unlucky enough to have a car with metal tires, you might consider a set made from a new alloy engineered at Sandia National Laboratories. You could skid — not drive, skid — around the Earth’s equator 500 times before wearing out the tread.
Sandia’s materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world. It’s 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first alloy, or combination of metals, in the same class as diamond and sapphire, nature’s most wear-resistant materials. Sandia’s team recently reported their findings in Advanced Materials. “We showed there’s a fundamental change you can make to some alloys that will impart this tremendous increase in performance over a broad range of real, practical metals,” said materials scientist Nic Argibay, an author on the paper.
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Michael Chandross, left, and Nic Argibay show a computer simulation used to predict the unprecedented wear resistance of their platinum-gold alloy, and an environmental tribometer used to demonstrate it. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.
Although metals are typically thought of as strong, when they repeatedly rub against other metals, like in an engine, they wear down, deform and corrode unless they have a protective barrier, like additives in motor oil.
In electronics, moving metal-to-metal contacts receive similar protections with outer layers of gold or other precious metal alloys. But these coatings are expensive. And eventually they wear out, too, as connections press and slide across each other day after day, year after year, sometimes millions, even billions of times. These effects are exacerbated the smaller the connections are, because the less material you start with, the less wear and tear a connection can endure before it no longer works.
With Sandia’s platinum-gold coating, only a single layer of atoms would be lost after a mile of skidding on the hypothetical tires. The ultradurable coating could save the electronics industry more than $100 million a year in materials alone, Argibay says, and make electronics of all sizes and across many industries more cost-effective, long-lasting and dependable — from aerospace systems and wind turbines to microelectronics for cell phones and radar systems.
“These wear-resistant materials could potentially provide reliability benefits for a range of devices we have explored,” said Chris Nordquist, a Sandia engineer not involved in the study. “The opportunities for integration and improvement would be device-specific, but this material would provide another tool for addressing current reliability limitations of metal microelectronic components.”
New metal puts an old theory to rest
You might be wondering how metallurgists for thousands of years somehow missed this. In truth, the combination of 90 percent platinum with 10 percent gold isn’t new at all.
But the engineering is new. Argibay and coauthor Michael Chandross masterminded the design and the new 21st century wisdom behind it. Conventional wisdom says a metal’s ability to withstand friction is based on how hard it is. The Sandia team proposed a new theory that says wear is related to how metals react to heat, not their hardness, and they handpicked metals, proportions and a fabrication process that could prove their theory.
“Many traditional alloys were developed to increase the strength of a material by reducing grain size,” said John Curry, a postdoctoral appointee at Sandia and first author on the paper. “Even still, in the presence of extreme stresses and temperatures many alloys will coarsen or soften, especially under fatigue. We saw that with our platinum-gold alloy the mechanical and thermal stability is excellent, and we did not see much change to the microstructure over immensely long periods of cyclic stress during sliding.”
Now they have proof they can hold in their hands. It looks and feels like ordinary platinum, silver-white and a little heavier than pure gold. Most important, it’s no harder than other platinum-gold alloys, but it’s much better at resisting heat and a hundred times more wear resistant.
The team’s approach is a modern one that depended on computational tools. Argibay and Chandross’ theory arose from simulations that calculated how individual atoms were affecting the large-scale properties of a material, a connection that’s rarely obvious from observations alone. Researchers in many scientific fields use computational tools to take much of the guesswork out of research and development.
“We’re getting down to fundamental atomic mechanisms and microstructure and tying all these things together to understand why you get good performance or why you get bad performance, and then engineering an alloy that gives you good performance,” Chandross said.
A slick surprise
Still, there will always be surprises in science. In a separate paper published in Carbon, the Sandia team describes the results of a remarkable accident. One day, while measuring wear on their platinum-gold, an unexpected black film started forming on top. They recognized it: diamond-like carbon, one of the world’s best man-made coatings, slick as graphite and hard as diamond. Their creation was making its own lubricant, and a good one at that.
Diamond-like carbon usually requires special conditions to manufacture, and yet the alloy synthesized it spontaneously.
“We believe the stability and inherent resistance to wear allows carbon-containing molecules from the environment to stick and degrade during sliding to ultimately form diamond-like carbon,” Curry said. “Industry has other methods of doing this, but they typically involve vacuum chambers with high temperature plasmas of carbon species. It can get very expensive.”
The phenomenon could be harnessed to further enhance the already impressive performance of the metal, and it could also potentially lead to a simpler, more cost-effective way to mass-produce premium lubricant.
Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia Labs has major research and development responsibilities in nuclear deterrence, global security, defense, energy technologies and economic competitiveness, with main facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore, California.
Sandia news media contact: Troy Rummler, trummle@sandia.gov, 505-284-1056
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The next Metro Nashville Council will have a redistricting fight on its hands | Opinion
The next group of Metro Council members will undertake a redistricting process after the 2020 census. There could be several consequences.
The next Metro Nashville Council will have a redistricting fight on its hands | Opinion The next group of Metro Council members will undertake a redistricting process after the 2020 census. There could be several consequences. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/08/02/nashville-council-redistricting-nashville-mayors-race-census/1880542001/
Sekou Franklin, Guest columnist Published 6:00 a.m. CT Aug. 2, 2019
Although legislative redistricting is among the many issues that will confront the mayor and Metro Council members who were victorious on Aug. 1 or will compete in the September runoff, it has received no mention in candidate forums.
Since 1970, legislative districts at the federal, state and local levels are constitutionally mandated to be redrawn every 10 years to adjust for population shifts and changes.
In Nashville, the redistricting process has been determined by the Metro Planning Department, Metro Council, and at times, community and legal advocates.
After the 2020 census, the Planning Department can propose boundaries for the 35 single-member council districts based on new population data. The council will then vote on these district boundaries.
The last time redistricting occurred in 2011, these negotiations produced a plan that placed approximately 17,900 people in each council district.
Shifting the balance of power
S. Prescott Harris II cheers as results come in for mayoral candidate John Cooper at the Cooper election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 (Photo: Shelley Mays / The Tennessean )
Some political observers call redistricting the “rigged election” because political or administrative bodies can draw district seats favoring a bloc of voters. The political party or interest group that is in power can pack like-minded voters in districts or exclude prospective voters in others in order to shift the balance of power in an election.
The predictability of voters is easy to figure out based on race, social class, gender, partisanship and technology. There is a cottage industry of redistricting software, microtargeting experts, political consultants, election lawyers and demographers that have the capacity to draw districts and forecast the likelihood that voters in a target district will select a Democrat or Republican or mobilize into an interest-based electoral bloc.
Within this framework, the redistricting plan must comply with a “one-person, one-vote” principle that places roughly the same amount of people in each district. Voting rights laws also attempt to counter redistricting plans that dilute the vote of racial minorities, yet they have been weakened by the Federal courts in recent decades.
The census-apportionment-redistricting process could lead to major changes in political representation in Nashville due to its high growth since the last census.
When the new census numbers are released, at minimum, Nashville will have experienced a 70,000-person surge. This amounts to a 2,000-person increase for each council district.
For rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the urban core, the census could produce a sobering reality — the diminishing political influence of blacks living in North, East and South Nashville, as well as working-class voters within a two or three-mile radius of downtown.
The new census numbers may also reveal the growing influence of new Americans and Latinx voters in Southeast Davidson County. These groups will have legitimate reasons to pressure the council to adjust the districts to enhance their representation.
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Nashville mayoral election: Watch parties
Mayoral candidate John Cooper gets a kiss from his wife Laura Fitzgerald Cooper during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayor David Briley speaks at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper is hugged by his wife Laura Fitzgerald Cooper at an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayor David Briley heads off the stage after speaking at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Carol Swain concedes at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
John Ray Clemmons hugs his wife Tamara after his concession speech at his election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper greets supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper interacts with supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Aug. 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayor David Briley greets supporters at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Mayor David Briley speaks to supporters at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper takes a photo of supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper speaks to supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper waves to supporters with his wife Laura Fitzgerald Cooper during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 . Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper greets supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Supporters cheer at Mayor David Briley's election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper speaks to the media during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayor David Briley speaks to the media at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennesssean
A volunteer hugs Carol Swain after she gave her concession speech at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Surrounded by his family, mayoral candidate John Ray Clemmons speaks to supporters at his watch party at Fort Houston on Aug. 1, 2019. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Amanda Rowley wipes a tear after Carol Swain's concession speech at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Supporters cheer after Carol Swain concedes at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
John Ray Clemmons waves to supporters with his family at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper speaks as his family cheers during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper greets a supporter during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Supporters cheer as results come in for John Cooper at his election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
John Ray Clemmons speaks to supporters with his family at his election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Supporters cheer at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Supporters Sue Zhang and Sam Horner check results at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Kara Turrentine, left, deputy campaign manager for John Ray Clemmons, greets Dr. Judy Cummings at the Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Mayoral candidate John Cooper interacts with supporters during an election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
S. Prescott Harris II cheers as results come in for mayoral candidate John Cooper at the Cooper election night party at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Supporters watch results come in at Mayor David Briley's election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Supporters arrive for Mayor David Briley's election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Carol Swain hugs a supporter as she arrives for her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Mariachi Los Potrillos performs at the election night event for mayoral candidate John Cooper at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Supporters wait for Mayor David Briley to give a statement at his election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Davidson County Clerk Brenda Wynn speaks at the beginning of Mayor David Briley's election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Cheryl Woodard dances at the election night party for John Cooper at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Cassaundra Lockridge dances at the election night party for John Cooper at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Austin Edwards reacts at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Anna Butler, left, and Sue Zhang hang signs before the start of the John Ray Clemmons election party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Carol Swain checks in with her mother, Dorothy Henderson, and Gwen Starkey at her election night watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Carol Swain and supporters say the Pledge of Allegiance before results arrive at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Kara Turrentine, left, deputy campaign manager for John Ray Clemmons, reacts at the Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Ed Smith introduces Carol Swain to some of her supporters at her watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Carol Swain addresses her supporters at her election night watch party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
The Jimmy Church Band performs at the election night party for John Cooper at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019 Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Supporters arrive at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Supporters watch results come in at the John Ray Clemmons election results watch party at Fort Houston Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
People begin to arrive for Mayor David Briley's election night event at Woolworth on 5th in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Mariachi Los Potrillos warms up before the election night event for mayoral candidate John Cooper at the Elks Lodge on Jefferson Street in Nashville on Thursday, August 1, 2019. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
The last time the council voted on a redistricting plan was in 2011. Unfortunately, the process was poorly managed due to a shortened calendar. The council and the Planning Department were put in a dilemma.
The census was released shortly before the qualification deadline for mayoral and council elections. At the time, now deceased attorney George Barrett lobbied planning to produce a new district map based on the 2010 Census so that the council could vote on it before the next election. This allowed the electorate to vote on candidates from new districts. Had Council waited, the redistricting plan would have been delayed until the middle of the decade and could have injected chaos in the council elections.
Despite Barrett’s good intentions, the process was rushed and lacked real community input. In just one month, from the release of the census to a decision by the Metro Council, a new map for 35 council districts was approved.
Metro Council and the Planning Commission can do things differently this time around. Since the early 1990s, civil rights organizations and community groups have used community redistricting plans to produce legislative districts that are fair and representative. This maximizes community input in redistricting.
Community redistricting is backed by national civil rights group such as the NAACP and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. It was initially modeled by Southern Echo, whose work in the Mississippi Delta gave rural blacks a critical voice in legislative redistricting.
In Nashville, community redistricting can be a variation of the NashvilleNext plan that was undertaken several years ago, yet with considerations of voting rights protections and political representation.
Concerns remain
What is certain is that voters who participated in the Aug. 1 election and those who will vote in the September runoff election are voting on more than a mayor and council members.
They are voting for leaders who also have the responsibility of drawing new council districts at a time when changing demographics present unprecedented challenges to Nashville’s infrastructure and gentrified neighborhoods.
This is a concern since many top-tier candidates have little understanding of the redistricting process and its application to voting rights.
Sekou Franklin, Ph.D. is associate professor of political science at Middle Tennessee State University.
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About Bangalore
Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, is often referred to as the ‘Garden City’ because of the numerous parks and gardens that dot the localities of the city. It is also considered as a major information technology (IT) hub of the country and thus called the ‘Silicon Valley of India’. Kempe Gowda, a feudal ruler affiliated to the Vijayanagara kingdom, first established a mud fort, which turned out to be the foundation of the present day city. The city passed through a myriad of rulers ranging from the Marathas, Mughals and Mysore rulers before becoming a part of independent India.
Budget Hotels in Bangalore
There are a couple of good budget hotels in the city. Some of the options which are worth a try are Suntrupthi Residency (Tariff – Rs. 950), Citizen Lodge (Tariff – Rs. 850), The Royal Nest (Tariff – Rs. 900), Vijaya Residency (Tariff – Rs. 900) and others.
The official language of Bangalore is Kannada. Hindi, English, Telugu and Tamil are also understood and widely spoken.
The important festivals of the area are Pongal in January, Karaga in April, Ganesh Chathurthi in August-September, Diwali in October-November, the fasting month of Ramadan, the two Eid(s), Easter and Christmas.
Places to See in Bangalore
Some of the places worth trying out in Bangalore are Bangalore Palace, Lal Bagh, Cubbon Park, Bannerghatta National Park,Vidhana Soudha, Seshadari Iyer Memorial, Tipu Sultan’s Palace, Bull Temple, ISKCON Hare Krishna Temple, Meenakshi Sundaram Temple, Holy Trinity Church and St. Mary’s Basilica. Wonderla Amusement Park at a distance of 28 km is popular with youngsters and children looking for a break on weekends.
The nearest airport is the Kempegowda International Airport at a distance of 36 km.
Bangalore City Junction Railway Station is the major railway station in the city.
There is bus service running from almost everywhere in south India to Bangalore city. State transport buses as well as private operators ply their buses to and fro the city. SRS Travels, Kallada Travels and SRM, Travels are some of the major operators in the city as well as the region. Do away with standing in ticket counters and opt for online bus reservation facility instead.
About Koyilandy
Koyilandy
Koyilandy, also spelt as Quilandy or Quilandi, is a municipality and a city in the Kozhikode district of Kerala state. It is well connected by NH 66 and falls between Kozhikode and Vatakara towns. The economy of Koyilandy thrives on fishing. The famous freedom fighter K. Kelappan was born in Muchukunnu which happens to be a nearby village to Koyilandy. Famous for its beaches, temples, dams, Koyilandy has good number of schools, colleges and hospitals. It is also well connected by rail, road and air.
Being a small town, Koyilandy does not have many hotels nearby. However, local home stays are available. Alakapuri Hotels Pvt. Ltd. (Tariff – Rs. 1001 onwards) and Park Residency (Tariff – Rs. 1001 onwards) are excellent 2 star hotels in Calicut.
The official language of Koyilandy is Malayalam. The alternate language spoken is English.
Some of the popular local festivals of Koyilandy are Sivarathri (February), Navrathri (October), Deepavali (November).
Sree Ramakrishna Mutt, Payattuvalappil Sree Devi Temple, Oravingal Bhagavathy Temple, Kakkayam Dam, Thoovappara Beach, Palakkulam Beach are some famous tourist spots in and near Koyilandy.
The nearest airport in Koyilandy is Calicut International Airport which is approximately 50 km away.
Koyilandy has a railway station by the name Quilandi that was set up in the year 1901.
Koyilandy is well connected to most of the places in South India such as Ernakulam, Chennai, Kazhakkoottam, Trivandrum, Palani. KTC Tours, PK Travels Bangalore, Cauvery Travels and AR Travels Calicut are the top bus operators connecting to Koyilandy at affordable bus tariffs. Ticketgoose.com’s bus ticket booking facility is the best way to book your online tickets.
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William McCarthy is sworn in as the 4th Ward Councilman in Cohoes.
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Don Russell is sworn in as the 2nd Ward Councilman in Cohoes.
Common Council elects new leadership
Cohoes Common Council elects new leadership
By Record staff
COHOES, N.Y. — During a reorganization meeting held last week, Cohoes Common Council members voted to elect a new president and vice president to serve over the next year.
Councilman William McCarthy of the 4th Ward was voted in unanimously to his new role as council president and Councilman Donald Russell of the 2nd Ward received a 4-2 vote as council vice president.
“I am humbled to have the support and trust of my colleagues on the Common Council. I look forward to working together with my fellow members, Mayor [Bill] Keeler and the community as we lead into a new century,” McCarthy said in a news release.
Common Council meetings are held every fourth Tuesday of the month in the Council Chambers located on the second floor of Cohoes City Hall.
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True Impact Ministries has raised money for and helped construct multiple school buildings, orphan homes, kitchens, rainwater collection systems and latrines in Uganda. Our first school project was phase 1 of a primary school in Nkonya, Uganda, built by our 2005 team. Nkonya is a remote fishing village and the Maranatha Primary School that was built there was the only brick building in the whole village when it was constructed! That is, until True Impact built a teacher dorm right next door to it in 2010. Phase 2 of the school building was built by our 2008 team. And then in 2015 and 2016 we returned to build children's dormitories.
Our second school project was Phases 1 & 2 of a Maranatha Primary School in Kigalama, Uganda. Kigalama is a poor, small village full of subsistence farmers. Our 2009 and 2012 teams built this school.
In 2006 and 2011, we completed several projects at the Salem Children's Centre in Naama, Uganda. Naama is located about 40 miles west of Kampala, Uganda’s capitol, just west of the city of Mityana. We built a children's home, latrine, rainwater collection system and a commercial kitchen.
True Impact's projects in 2013 and 2014 centered around the Immanuel Children’s Home located in Wandawa, Uganda. Wandawa is a small village about 60 miles east of Kampala, just north of Lake Victoria. We built a children's home and an education centre.
In 2017 True Impact purchased what is now Truth Christian School near Masaka, Uganda. Our first building project there was in 2018 where we built a girl's dormitory.
Phases 1 & 2 of Maranatha Integrated Schools Project in Nkonya, Uganda
Teacher Dormitory in Nkonya, Uganda
Phases 1 & 2 of Maranatha Integrated Schools Project in Kigalama, Uganda
Immanuel Children's Education Centre in Wandawa, Uganda
Immanuel Children's Home in Wandawa, Uganda
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How to watch and stream Halloween
George Storr Contact via Twitter | October 31, 2019 12:43 pm GMT
How to watch Halloween: Which version of Halloween is better?
Halloween is one of the horror genre’s go-to classics. The 1978 original is critically applauded and the 2018 re-make was roundly enjoyed by audiences, though not to quite the same extent. Here’s how you can stream both versions.
Director, John Carpenter masterminded the original film, which birthed several sequels and spin-offs all the way back in 1978.
Masked murderer Michael Myers is the villain of the piece, dishing out gory deaths and frightening encounters left right and centre. He remains almost anonymised throughout the film, with no real character traits other than his signature mask.
The original is a classic and the 2018 remake is worth watching for fans of the series, though it doesn’t reach the same dizzying heights or classical horror.
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Where to stream Halloween online and on TV – Is Halloween on Netflix?
NowTV has the original 1978 Halloween, via Sky Cinema. They sell a Sky Cinema month pass for £11.99. You can also get the film on your Sky box, if your a Sky customer and have Sky Cinema.
Sky are even providing a dedicated channel, Sky Halloween, which will screen the original film at 9PM on Halloween night itself, October 31.
Amazon Prime Video also has the 1978 original, which you can rent for £3.49 or buy for £4.49 and Halloween (2018) which users can buy for £7.99.
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Hulu has the 2018 remake available for subscribers.
Neither film is currently available on Netflix.
Who is in the cast of Halloween? What is Halloween about?
The original Halloween set the tone for so many future additions to the horror genre. It’s appealingly simple, with brutal villain Michael Myers evading any sort of real character development and appearing as a sort of clean slate, onto which the viewer’s imagination paints its worst fears.
The film is often praised for being so self aware. Jamie Lee Curtis takes her role in the film as a nod to the past of the horror genre as, her mother, Leigh Curtis, starred in Psycho.
John Carpenter became renowned for his unusual, stylised film making. Known for lingering shots, eerie scores and brutal violence, Halloween was his breakthrough film and is well worth a watch for this year’s celebrations.
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Porcelain tile was also a key component in the design of a master bath in an urban residence, which is located on the corner of 11th and W Streets in the Shaw neighborhood of Northwest Washington, DC. The 12-by-24-inch floor tile and 4-by-24-inch wall tile are from Caesar.
With hectic work schedules and busy personal lives, homeowners are seeking refuge in their living spaces at the end of the day. For many, spacious rooms and a soothing materials palette are at the top of the list when it comes to residential interiors. And the wide range of tile products available today definitely contributes to beautiful and refreshing home designs - no matter what style.
The tile was a good choice for the design of the master bath because it prevents moisture, according to architect Ali Honarkar. Additionally, the Caesar tile replicates the horizontal lines that are found on the exterior of the dwelling.
Architect: Division1 Architects, Silver Spring, MD;
Tile Manufacturer: Caesar
A home is no longer just a place to eat and sleep. It has evolved to become a center of family activity and entertainment. While function is often a necessity, homeowners also consider aesthetics a priority. They are taking pride in choosing materials for their living spaces - particularly for kitchens and bathrooms - that reflect their personality and spark conversation.
In recent years, homeowners have become more savvy and educated on design. This can be partly attributed to the numerous home design shows that are now on television as well as the abundance of tile lines that have flooded the market.
Larger formats, unique textures and shimmering glass mosaics are just to name a few of the plethora of options that inspire today's residential designs. Whether used on their own or in combination with each other, these types of materials provide endless design possibilities. Contemporary or traditional, country or rustic; there is a tile product to satisfy all styles.
And while it has been noted that new construction is slowing down across the country, remodels are bigger than ever. Homeowners are seeing the value in investing in their private residences. They are ripping out carpet, tearing down walls and replacing linoleum with tile floors.
The abundant selection of tile products on the market today inspires unique and elegant residential designs. For the remodel of this master bath in a private residence in Oregon, a combination of porcelain and glass tile was used to create a warm inviting feel.
Designer: Eco Echo Interior Design, Eugene, OR;
Tile Manufacturers: Laufen, Miami, FL (floor and wall tile); Cucini (brick pattern border); Walker Zanger, Sylmar, CA (glass tile)
Expanding bathrooms
One area of the home that has definitely seen a transformation is the bathroom. Today’s designs are including Jacuzzi tubs and steam showers. They are having a more spa-like feel - becoming a place where homeowners can retreat and relax.
“For years and years, I am seeing bathrooms just expanding,” said John Carlile, principal/president of Eco Echo Interior Design in Eugene, OR. It’s official, bathrooms are now bigger than bedrooms.”
The designer explained that his clients are often looking to create a master spa rather than just a bathroom. Warmers in drawers have grown in popularity as well as floor heating systems. “The drawers are nice for heating towels and oils,” he said.
For one recent project, Carlile renovated the master bath in a residence out in the country. “It was a 14-year-old home,” said the designer. “We redid everything.”
He explained that his clients liked an organic feel, and as a result, he used all recyclable glass and porcelain tile in the master bath. “[Also], we reused the existing sink and toilet and retrofitted it,” he said.
According to Carlile, the existing master bath was designed in the 1970s, and it wasn’t functional. “It was never used,” he said. The new design not only restored the practical aspect of the space, but also transformed the bath into an elegant room.
While a skylight allows natural sunlight to shine through, the overall design is enhanced with floor and wall tile as well as tile on the shower ceiling. The 12-by-12-inch floor and wall tile is from Laufen’s Cairo series. The copper shade of the tile warms up the space and provides a neutral background for the mosaic band that accents the wall - consisting of Cucini Borque Old World glass brick pattern in the color of Avalan Tiber. The top and bottom of the border is lined with 3/8-by-8-inch bars from Walker Zanger’s Spa Glass series.
Further details that add to the luxurious feel of the space are a bench and built-in shelf in the shower. The inside of the shelf is lined with mosaic tile, which in addition to serving a practical purpose also creates a point of interest on the shower wall.
The copper shade of the wall and floor tile, which is from Laufen’s Cairo series, provides a neutral background for the mosaic band that accents the wall - consisting of Cucini Borque Old World glass brick pattern in the color of Avalan Tiber. The top and bottom of the border is lined with 3/8-by-8-inch bars from Walker Zanger’s Spa Glass series.
Complementing a lifestyle
In addition to choosing materials that are visually stimulating, Carlile is also finding that his clients are drawn to products that meet the demands of their lifestyle. “Almost everyone that I deal with have a lot of ideas,” he said. “They see something that they like, and they want me to emulate it. A lot are also open to suggestions, but give me some criteria - depending on how they live their life. Whether you have pets or children - those things really apply.”
The designer explained that for another recent remodel, his client needed something that was practical for her kitchen. “Her goal was to make it function,” he said. “She has three small kids.”
Time had taken its toll on the kitchen, and it was in dire need of a facelift. “The cabinets were MDF and falling apart,” explained Carlile. “What prompted it was that my client was getting ready to cook Easter dinner and the cabinet came off in her hand.”
The floor features 12-by-12-inch porcelain tile, which provides the durability needed for an active family. The countertop is fabricated from Cambria natural quartz surface, while the backsplash is comprised of 1-by1-inch mosaic tile from Oceanside Glasstile’s Copper blend series.
The combination of materials not only satisfied the homeowner’s request for a functional kitchen, but it also demonstrated that function does not necessarily mean that aesthetics is sacrificed.
For another recent kitchen remodel, Carlile’s client needed something that was practical for her kitchen. “Her goal was to make it function,” he said. “She has three small kids.” As a result 12-by-12-inch porcelain tile was employed for the floor.
Inspiring a modern design
Porcelain tile was also a key component in the design of a master bath in an urban residence, which is located on the corner of 11th and W Streets in the Shaw neighborhood of Northwest Washington, DC. The single-family home is built on three levels and features up to three bedrooms, three contemporary baths, a one-of-a-kind custom-built kitchen and an open plan living area designed with a double height-ceiling in the sitting room, according to the design team at Division1 Architects in Silver Spring, MD.
“It’s a model house on the edge of an historic district,” explained Ali Reza Honarkar of Dvision1 Architects. “We wanted to do a project where we could choose the materials that we like.”
The architect explained that his firm uses the residence as a showcase to illustrate its work to its clients. The ground floor provides the flexibility to serve as a bedroom, home office or studio apartment, and it features wall-size windows, a kitchenette and a separate entry. There are outdoor spaces on every level, including a spacious patio on the ground floor, a front elevation balcony and a roof deck with an outdoor kitchen. A covered carport provides off-street parking underneath the building.
According to Honarkar, Caesar porcelain tile was chosen for the walls and floors in the master bath - creating a luxurious yet clean feel. “We love Caesar tile,” he said. “We used two colors - a light colored tile on the floor and a darker one on the walls.”
The floor tiles measure 12-by-24 inches, while the wall tiles are 4-by-24 inches. The tile was all cut onsite, said Honarkar.
The architect explained that it was intended that the master bath appear as an extension of the bedroom rather than just a bathroom. “The shower is very large with a dual system,” said Honarkar. “The idea was that the master bath has no doors. We wanted to get away from thinking of it as a bathroom. It’s more of an extension of the bedroom.”
Honarkar went on to say that the tile was a good choice for the design of the master bath because it prevents moisture. Additionally, the Caesar tile replicates the horizontal lines that are found on the exterior of the dwelling.
When it comes to the selection process for its residential designs, the architect explained that his firm draws from its experience with the commercial and hospitality sectors. “We love residential, but when we started in 1994, the contemporary look was not so popular,” said Honarkar. “We ended up doing a lot of hospitality work - restaurants where they welcome contemporary a little more.”
After establishing itself, Division1 Architects began doing more residential projects, and today it often turns to materials that it uses in its commercial projects. “That’s the nice thing about us,” said the architect. “We do offices and hospitality, so we have a larger palette of materials than people doing just residential.”
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. The VLCC Grace 1 is reported to have signalled a new destination. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence
Could detained Grace 1 be poised to sail from Gibraltar?
VLCC’s release could be an attempt to reduce UK’s foreign policy issues in run up to Brexit, says UK security firm
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Could the VLCC at the centre of the stand-off between Iran and the UK be about to leave Gibraltar
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Small stocks, big gains
Maulik Madhu | Updated on January 20, 2018 Published on April 23, 2016
Rajeev Jawahar,
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How do people with a passion for investing in small and micro-cap stocks go about choosing their stocks? Maulik Madhu sounds out some investors
If investing in the stock market requires an appetite for risk, then one must have a voracious appetite when it comes to investing in small and micro-cap stocks. Putting money into stocks with market cap of a few hundred crore and under is not for the faint-hearted. These stocks come attached with high risks. A wrong bet here could burn your fingers badly.
But, these stocks also hold the potential for high returns. Take 2015, for instance — even as the Sensex lost 5 per cent, the BSE Small Cap Index went up 6 per cent. And in 2014, while the Sensex gained 30 per cent, the BSE Small Cap Index surged 67 per cent.
We spoke with some people who have a passion for investing in small and micro-caps. Here’s what they said about their stock-picking strategies.
While you may marvel at and envy the handsome gains made by many on the stock markets, what you’re probably missing out on is the hard work that went into it. Going through a company’s annual report, quarterly results and its website are an obvious starting point. But there’s more to it.
“I look at a company’s last five-year annual report, what the management said versus what they actually achieved and who are the company’s competitors in the market,” says Jiten Parmar, a businessman who has been investing in the Indian stock market since 2000.
Keeping a close tab on every company announcement, too, is very important. “You can’t buy a small-cap stock and go to sleep,” says Rajeev Jawahar, a full-time investor since 2010.
For him, as for many other investors, the fundamental reason for investing in a small-cap company is its potential for high growth. “I look for companies with at least 20-25 per cent top-line growth. This, along with operating leverage, should result in 30-35 per cent growth in profits, which ultimately gets reflected in the share price,” says Rajeev.
Ravi Padmanabhan, an ex-Citibank employee and now a full-time investor, looks for 20 per cent (CAGR) revenue growth over a three-year period, given that small-cap companies may not show consistent growth.
Another factor that these investors closely follow is change in promoter shareholding. An increase in the promoter’s stake and share buy-backs are big positives, says Rajeev.
The transparency with which the company management communicates with shareholders, the dividend payout ratio, brand value and the ROCE are the other criteria these investors take into account.
While the stock valuation is important, it may not always drive stock purchase decisions. “I bought Eicher Motors, about seven years back. The company has done well and should continue to do so as it is considering export options. The stock is expensive but I still hold it,” says Jiten.
Beyond numbers
Investors such as Jiten also make enquiries with dealers to get a sense on how well the product is selling. Anand Mohan, another stock market buff, who largely invests in stocks with market capitalisation of up to ₹50 crore, too, follows a similar approach. Anand first bought the stock of Butterfly Gandhimathi Appliances at ₹7 in 2007-08 and then continued to accumulate it. At one point in time he was holding 1 per cent stake in the company. He then sold a few shares in 2011 and 2012 and the remaining in 2013, after the stock hit ₹380.
But, it was not sheer chance but solid research that fetched him handsome returns.
His investment in the stock was preceded by a drive around the company’s factory in Chennai, enquiries at appliance stores and feedback from friends’ mothers.
“The company was improving and was launching new products. But, the stock was still available at throwaway prices, so I pumped in all my savings into it,” recalls Anand.
Similar was the case with Q-Flex Cables (now Cybele Industries). “Based on a casual ride around the Q-Flex Cables’ factory site, I learnt that the company had sold off the factory. Since real estate was booming then, I felt that the company would consider selling off its land. The land was worth ₹70-75 crore, but the company’s market cap was only ₹3-4 crore. So, I bought the stock at about ₹6 each.
The company announced a joint venture with Vijay Shanthi Builders and in a year’s time, the stock went up to ₹40, and I sold off the stocks,” says Anand.
But if collecting information requires effort, taking a call on a stock requires firm conviction.
Conviction matters
“Most people are unwilling to take a call and are happy to follow others. There will always be negatives to a story, but you must have the self-belief to take a call with the knowledge that you may still go wrong. Take a calculated call and then if it goes wrong, so be it,” says Rajeev.
Many calls will go wrong but what matters is, the gains should outweigh the losses. For Rajeev, 80 per cent of gains have come from 20 per cent of his stocks. He lost money on textile and commodity stocks. Among the stocks that didn’t work for Ravi was MIC Electronics; for Jiten it was Assam Company. They sold these stocks at a loss. But, as Rajeev says, “Cutting losses is important; how else will you get liquidity?”
Patience is another virtue by which all of these investors swear. Jiten takes the case of SRF, which he bought in 2010 at ₹360 a share, to drive home the point.
“Nothing happened to the stock for a few years. When it fell, I bought more shares. Finally, the market turned around and I sold off some shares in 2015 at ₹1,400,” recounts Jiten. He also holds Consolidated Finvest & Holdings, which hasn’t given any return in five years. But he still has the stock, he feels it has a lot of value yet to be unlocked.
So, do your homework, stay alert, and swoop in at the right time. That’s how market killings are made.
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NASA’s Spacecraft Dawn Launched
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NASA‘s spacecraft Dawn was launched , beginning its eight-year journey across 6.4 billion kilometres in space.The spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 7:34 ET.
NASA said the mission will study two asteroids, Vesta and Ceres, which formed 4.5 billion years ago in the same environment as the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Dawn is the first spacecraft to be able to orbit around more than one target, thanks to innovative ion-propulsion engines that can be stopped and restarted during flight using a fraction of the fuel of conventional chemical thrusters, reports Reuters.
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New York Police scrap 36,000 Windows smartphones
Bonkers buy-up by bungling billionairess
By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco 28 Aug 2017 at 18:48
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The New York Police Department will scrap 36,000 smartphones, thanks to a monumental purchasing cock-up by a billionaire's daughter.
The city spent millions on the phones back in October 2016 as part of its drive to bring the police force into the 21st century. And the woman behind the purchase – Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology, Jessica Tisch – praised them for their ability to quickly send 911 alerts to officers close to an incident.
There was only one problem: Tisch chose Windows-based Lumia 830 and Lumia 640 XL phones, and Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 8.1 in July.
Even though those two models are eligible to be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile, the NYPD will need to redesign more than a dozen custom apps it created to run on Windows 8.1. And every phone will need to be manually updated to the new operating system. In addition, Microsoft is only promising to support upgraded Windows 10 phones through to June 2019.
In other words, the phones are effectively obsolete and so, according to the New York Post, the police department has decided to scrap them altogether and go with iPhones instead.
That decision has not come as a huge surprise: even when the purchasing decision was made, Windows-based phones held just three percent of the market. In fact, back in 2016 when the program was launched, pretty much everyone applauded the idea of giving cops smartphones but were baffled as to why anyone would go with Windows phones over Android or iOS.
Tsk, tsk, Tisch
Well, according to department sources quoted by the New York Post, the procurement disaster was all down to Ms Tisch – who, it turns out, is the daughter of former Loews CEO and billionaire James S Tisch.
"She drove the whole process," one unhappy cop told the paper, name-checking Jessica. "Nobody purchases 36,000 phones based on the judgment of one person," he complained. "I don't care if you're Jesus fucking Christ, you get a panel of experts."
Which is a fair point, since we have no hesitation in saying that even an expert panel of one would have concluded that Windows phones were a turn in the wrong direction for a huge police department.
According to other sources, the reason Tisch plumbed for the Lumia was because the NYPD was using Microsoft software on its video surveillance system – a system that Tisch has closely associated herself with and, back in 2012, demonstrated and boasted about to the press, raising eyebrows.
You can see how an inexperienced IT manager might think that it made sense to go with Microsoft all the way. But then that is also why anyone who carries out IT procurement into an area they are not expert on gets a team of people to review all the possibilities before they spend huge sums of money.
"She was in charge. It was her project, no question about that," another department source told the Post.
So why has the notoriously tight-lipped NYPD decided to dump on one of its own? It may be that Ms Tisch put a few noses out of joint with her smartphone plan, first announced in 2014.
At the time, then-police commissioner Bill Bratton specifically identified Tisch as being the driving force for the plan and joked: "She's a terror if she doesn't get her way, so I usually let her get her way. So she's certainly getting her way with this technology."
We have asked the NYPD for confirmation and comment on the decision to scrap the phones. We'll get back if and when they respond. ®
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Review of Nightmare Manor NY Haunted Attraction
Nightmare Manor NY
Nightmare Manor NY is a Haunted Attraction located in Rochester, NY.
3333 West Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623
Free Parking, Handicap Accessible, Food/Concessions, Gift Shop/Souvenirs, Special Events, “Hi-Tech” Attraction, You will NOT be touched, Original Characters, Indoor Waiting Line, All-Indoor Attraction
Team Jefferson Starship reviewed this attraction on October 8, 2016.
Nightmare Manor in Rochester New York is a ¾-mile, indoor haunt with an inventive storyline and a wickedly-clever set of twists and turns. It offers haunt lovers a very safe and energetic experience while pushing their boundaries with a wide variety of scares. Nightmare Manor boasts fifteen years of terrifying patrons and building onto the frightening foundation of Dr. Jack Limon’s Manor. You’ll be delighted and petrified at the twisted creations laid out by the monsters found inside.
Right out of the gate, we were impressed by the cast of Nightmare Manor. The Butler was a delightful introduction to the haunt and a wonderful character. Another standout from the typical growl and scream type of monster was the dark shape in the Crypt that was hovering over us and adding a sense of tension and terror that no special effect could’ve ever achieved. The lumberjack’s greatest nightmare deserves a round of applause for authenticity and surprise, as well as the lady doctor, who managed to go toe to toe with our wittiest reviewer. Some of the cast lacked the level of interactivity that we’d hoped for with one-note scares or a conversational loop. Some rooms were empty, but we did arrive shortly before closing. Keep an eye out for the werewolf’s towering form and don’t lose sight of the little girl that’ll be offering you up to her friends.
The costuming in Nightmare Manor is truly on point. Masks are sparse and perfectly applied and the makeup and outfits are all appropriate for their scenes and effectively used. There’s nothing here that’s not authentic and eye catching. Monsters were unique and concisely constructed. We give extra commendations to the plague mask (as it’s not often used in modern haunts), the werewolf, and the gilly monster.
The customer service at Nightmare Manor was excellent. We were welcomed instantly by the chilling hostess and all of the prices and options were clearly explained to us. The door greeter was cheery, chilling, and helped us with any questions we had before we plunged into the darkness. Since we came so late, we were unable to interact with the crew that was handling merchandise, but we were very pleased with the staff members that we did meet. The only people that seemed less than enthusiastic to be there were the security staff, but the large number of them was heartening to see and underlined the care that the haunt owners have for their patrons.
Inside: 7.33 / Outside: 6.33
The outside of this haunt is unable to advertise itself much due to the nature of the space. Nightmare Manor is very well marked, though, and is easy to find. The façade at the entrance of the actual haunt is intricate and quite spooky… setting the tone for the journey that is to come. There’s a definite party-like atmosphere inside, as the walkways and monsters photo op section are both lit with disco balls and laser lights. There is some noise bleed inside and outside of the haunt, but Nightmare Manor has decorated in order to ramp up their victims before bringing them inside.
Special Effects: 8.22
Nightmare Manor has a number of excellent special effects. The owners let us know that many of the rooms are designed by their more-senior monsters. The love and care in these rooms shows. The entrance room that’s run by the Butler is an uplifting experience. Extra space is created by brilliantly-designed, infinite hallways. The Crypt is bone-chilling and the grotesqueries in the stable are disturbing and believable. The victim in the Doctor’s room is also quite impressive. There were a few animatronics or effects that missed the mark: a spider with an off-putting and accidentally-hilarious sound effect, for instance; but, they were far outweighed by the other well-placed effects.
Nightmare Manor has a strong thematic foundation that is introduced by the bloodcurdling Butler. It is underlined by well-placed props and subtle nods throughout the haunt as you travel the dangerous depths of Dr. Jack Limon’s world. There are some issues where one room doesn’t easily meld into the next and, instead, gives the impression of being disjointed. At one point, we traveled from a wood-lined scene to an empty, biomechanical chamber before returning to a hillbilly hollow. We imagine that this is a side effect of giving the monsters free reign over their domains and, considering how well it benefits some of the other areas, we wouldn’t suggest that their autonomy be changed.
This haunt uses a variety of tactics. There isn’t a predominance of jump scares, which was greatly appreciated by our entire group. The monsters relied more on creeping terror and dialogue than screams and drop panels. The hillbillies did manage to cut off a majority of our group to give them quite a bit of threatening conversation; but, by doing so, they turned their backs on one of our members entirely. For the most part, scares were spread throughout the party and the monsters managed to weed out the weakest of each of the groups before us. One poor soul was so terrified; we watched her run past us from several rooms ahead. Nightmare Manor also has a strong finale.
The ticket prices at Nightmare Manor are very reasonable. A regular ticket is $20, $30 for a fast pass, and $16 for a student with ID. Discounts are also offered to Police, Firefighters, and Military personnel. It took about twenty minutes to walk through, making Nightmare Manor about a $1 per minute attraction.
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Download Festival: downpours can't dampen spirits at metal bonanza
Def Leppard, Slipknot, Tool and Slayer keep the riffs coming at the carnival of heavy rock
by TheartsdeskWednesday, 19 June 2019
A headlining Slipknot draw a huge crowd as dusk falls on Saturday© Matthew Higgs
Download is Britain’s premier metal festival, attended by all ages. Theartsdesk’s three person team offer up their reviews of one day each, as they navigated their way between Eighties hair metal, contemporary Viking metal and any other metal you might care to imagine…
By Ellie Porter
Pictured above: Rob Zombie headlining the Zippo Encore Stage © Matt Eachus
Well, last year’s uncharacteristically glorious sunshine seemed too good to be true – and it was: normal service resumes this year at Download. Heavy rain in the week before the festival has resulted in glutinous ground and wails of #drownload on Twitter, which makes us slightly apprehensive about the mudbath to come. Still, armed with wellies and some alluring waterproof trousers we forge ahead and prepare to ROCK.
As we arrive there’s a palpable sense of grim determination in the air as hordes of muddy metallers trudge through Donington Park. My partners in rock head off to the Avalanche Stage to see LA ska-punk outfit The Interrupters, returning with glowing reports of a rowdy, mood-lifting performance driven by frontwoman Aimee Interrupter’s connection to a delighted crowd. In contrast I decide to see what Whitesnake are up to on the Main Stage, and during my hour-long wait at the bar (an attempt to combine seeing the band with the epic quest for an overpriced Carlsberg) watch a lithe, walnut-visaged David Coverdale (Pictured below © James Brindle) arrive with a holler of “ARE YOU READAYYGHHH???!?!?”.
While Coverdale’s voice sounds strong to start with it seems to flag later on, but he powers through a crowd-pleasing set (with surprisingly sweary interludes to request we make some noise) featuring “Still of the Night”, “Slide It In” and, of course, “Here I Go Again”. Pleasingly, Coverdale’s sporting a shirt emblazoned with “WHITESNAKE” no fewer than six times, handy should we forget who we’re seeing.
Next up it’s Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators (pictured below right © Matt Eachus), returning to the Main Stage after playing it in 2015 (Slash was up there last year, though, with Guns N’ Roses). Kennedy is on great form, and looks utterly delighted to be here. “You Downloaders have such heart,” he tells us, one of many shout outs from bands over the weekend acknowledging the challenge of rocking under tricky conditions. The set is noticeably light on GN’R songs – only “Nightrain” makes the cut, possibly due to the fact that GN’R are touring again – instead filled with a combination of Conspirators songs and tracks from Slash’s solo albums.
Back on the Zippo Encore Stage, the second largest stage of the festival, Rob Zombie is headlining. He topped the bill here two years ago, and this time has cranked up the lurid, spectacular visuals. Looking predictably splendid in his trademark evil space hillbilly outfits, the gleefully capering Zombie is magnetic to watch and hilarious in his interactions with the crowd. “I know you live for this shit if you’re here under these conditions”, he tells us. He exhorts us to keep partying, including the people milling about at the stalls up top. “If you came here to buy socks and hats, you’ve come to the wrong place!” Aside from a misjudged plug for his new film, the set is brilliant, with standouts including “Dead Radio”, “Living Dead Girl” and a harrowing “Helter Skelter” – complete with disturbing videos of Charles Manson overlaid with spatters of blood.
Taking our lives into our own hands, we then make the hazardous trek to the Main Stage to catch the rest of headliners Def Leppard. We arrive at the tail end of their run through the Hysteria album (meaning we’ve missed its best songs, alas), which they’ve been touring for a few months. They’re the complete opposite to Rob Zombie, of course, but entertaining nonetheless, with singer Joe Elliott on pretty good form and habitually shirtless guitarist Phil Collen forced to admit defeat by donning a jacket in the face of plummeting temperatures. The post-Hysteria set is a mixed bag – it does drag on, but the very silly “Let’s Get Rocked” is a lot of fun, as is “Rock of Ages”. Def Leppard headlined here in 2009, which was an emotional anniversary for the band, the first time they’d played Donington since 1986, which was drummer Rick Allen’s comeback gig after losing his arm in a car accident.
Having managed to reach the end of day one without any mud-based mishaps, it’s time to turn in and conserve energy for the rest of the weekend – highlights of which include a blazing set from Halestorm, a ferocious Slipknot, an irresistibly entertaining Skindred, a thrash double from Anthrax and Slayer, and the world’s premier Viking metal combo, Amon Amarth. And, on Sunday, one of the most unexpected guest stars: the sun, who’ll hopefully be headlining next year…
Saturday 15th June
By Guy Oddy
Pictured above: Slipknot headlining © Matthew Higgs
While the first day of Download was one for the older crowd, it did also manage to throw up some gems: worthy of particular mention were the rootsy Clutch, the Viking raiding party of At The Gates and the ever-green Eagles of Death Metal. By the second day, while the East Midlands might not have been basking in sunshine, the "Drownload" tag is something of an exaggeration: a couple of short showers and a muddy arena area was never going to stop the show. As Download doesn’t really have much going on in the early hours, after the bands have finished, Day Two began with a relatively clear head, a lunchtime sausage sandwich in one hand, a cider in the other and the highly entertaining rock pantomime of Elvana.
Elvana (pictured right © Matt Eachus) are basically a Nirvana tribute band fronted by a shockingly bad Elvis impersonator. While this isn’t a particularly inspiring concept, the band soon have the crowd totally on-side, stitching together tunes like “Breed” with “Viva Las Vegas”; “Rape Me” with “Love Me Tender” and a barnstorming “A Little Less Conversation” with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. It's a show that includes Grunge Elvis splitting his pants, a crowd singalong to “Heartbreak Hotel” and most certainly has everyone set up for the rest of the day.
From Elvana though, it’s onto more serious fare. Power Trip bring their high-speed, political punk/metal over from Texas to the lunchtime slot on the Main Stage and are clearly somewhat excited to be playing Download. Tearing into “Hornets’ Nest”, a song about “not getting squashed like a bug”, the band have plenty moshing furiously (some even doing so on each other’s shoulders) as they lay down speedy riffs, apoplectic guitar solos and a sneering indignation towards those who own power. It is fiery stuff indeed.
Skindred are a new experience for me but their tasty stew of Funkadelic grooves, Bad Brains’ righteous reggae/hardcore punk amalgam, and an instinctive command of the audience soon has everyone shaking a leg. “Pressure” is followed by the lively “Kill the Power”, the funky “That’s My Jam” (which includes plenty of audience participation) and the rabble-rousing “Rat Race”. Singer Benji Webbe (pictured above left © Abbie Shipperley) even manages to have the crowd join in with a few lines of “If You’re Happy And You Know It” and indulge him when he called out to “Let me see you wave like the Queen”, before launching into the monstrous reggae-rock “Machine” and finally getting the audience to practice the Newport Helicopter with removed t-shirts whirled over-head. Skindred seriously know how to work the crowd and had all-comers joining in.
Mongolia’s The Hu are set to play at the small Dogtooth Tent in the mid-afternoon but by the time we arrive, it’s packed out. So, unfortunately, we have to make do with the sound of their droning Central Asian metal from outside – until the rain sends us off in search of something to drink. This was a disappointment, as their decidedly non-Anglo Saxon take on metal is something unusual that begged to be checked out further.
Techno-pranksters, Die Antwoord are also a strange and unexpected act to come across at Download. Stuck on the Main stage in the early evening with a grotesquely masked DJ and a few dancers, Ninja and Yolandi Visser in their Zef gear are an unlikely sight. Still, “Baby’s on Fire” and “I Fink U Freaky” are also a wild experience, surrounded by raving metalheads. That’s not to say that there isn’t a bit of audience heckling and, unsurprisingly, Die Antwoord’s electro-thump is not heard elsewhere on site all weekend. Playing at the same time as the South African duo, Stone Temple Pilots’ set of heavy grunge nostalgia on the Zippo Stage is the more usual way Download embraced less metal-centric sounds in 2019.
Noise veterans Carcass had been the subject of some anticipation for Download 2019 but in the event they’re a disappointment. All they have to offer is frontman Jeff Walker in a Crass t-shirt with a wind machine teasing his thinning locks and a grouchy “I know you’ve only come to see us because it’s raining outside and the band on the Main Stage are crap” attitude. It isn’t a great start and, as the expected relentless Grindcore fest doesn’t seem to be on offer either, we don’t stay around for too long.
Saturday’s Main Stage headliners Slipknot on the other hand are well versed in delivering menace and chaos, and so it proves in their ferocious set. Back in the ring after a couple of years break from each other, the band come on stage still channelling all the US horror film tropes you might care to imagine. In particular, frontman Corey Taylor (pictured above right © Matthew Higgs) seems to be reimagining Danny Devito’s take on Batman’s The Penguin. Wearing a big black coat, a mask of the type that might be given to a burns victim and thinning, greasy hair, he spits and barks his way through a set that burns rubber from the first notes of “People=Shit”, a ferocious “Heretic Anthem”, new tune “We Are Not Your Kind” and a vicious “Spit It Out”. Raging pyrotechnics, theatrics and a big bombastic sound make it clear that Slipknot are here to do the business and they don’t disappoint anyone in the people-sea that seems to stretch in front of them, from the stage front to the back fence of the arena. In fact, Slipknot prove to be the highlight of the festival and while both Slayer and Amon Amarth play suitably storming sets on Sunday, they are both firmly in the shade of Iowa’s revitalised nihilists.
Sunday 16th June
By Thomas H Green
Pictured above: Slayer headlining the Zippo Encore Stage © Matthew Higgs
One of the funny things at Download is seeing the size of the bands’ hanging backdrops. It tells you something about the venues they’re used to playing. The big acts have ones that cover the whole stage-back, from the floor to the heavens, often several that peel away to reveal new scenes (inevitably of skulls!). Thus it’s endearing when Dinosaur Pile-Up hit the Zippo Stage at midday backed by one the size of a large beach towel.
The dressed-down Leeds three-piece are enthused but initially lacklustre, offering a Nirvana-lite sound. Happily their excitement is contagious. Frontman Matt Bigland (pictured left © Matt Eachus) tells us he’s been drinking since 9.00 AM – “It’s Sunday morning, you feel like shit, I feel like shit, let’s have a fucking good time!” – then kicks into the stonking title track from their 2015 album Eleven Eleven, all down-tuned menace in the verses but punk shouting in the chorus.
They revel in genre-jumping. “Arizona Waiting” is pure US-style FM radio power pop, but it’s this year’s “Back Foot”, played as the closer, that’s the killer, a bounce-around classic-in-waiting and one of the most contagious songs all weekend. It sounds somewhat as I recall Reef sounding, and I used to loathe Reef… so I find myself doubting my entire aesthetic sense, and daren’t listen to Reef again since I hid all my partner’s Reef albums: imagine the trouble it would cause if they were any good!
This being Download, with most peaking early and in their tents by 1.00 AM, it’s time to load up on cider brandy back at the site, thus a suitably moshpit-friendly wobble can be achieved by mid-afternoon. Once loosened, we squeeze past the overzealous gate security to catch Swedish Viking metallers Amon Amarth whose stage set-up alone, featuring the drum kit ensconced in a gigantic horned helmet (pictured below right © Sarah Koury), is preposterous.
Yes, they are pure Spinal Tap, but they carry it off with aplomb. Heavily bearded lead singer Johann Hegg looks the part, with a drinking horn in his belt. This will later be pulled out, filled and drunk from as he encourages us all to make a toast for the song “Raise Your Horns” (“Raise your horns, raise them up to the sky /We will drink to glory tonight”!). Their set is filled with lots of choruses that feature fist-pumping “Hey! Hey! Hey!” sections, and song titles such as “The First Kill” and “Guardians of Asgaard”. There’s also plenty of showbiz, large burning insignia and, for the final “Twilight of the Thunder God”, an enormous inflatable purple dragon.
Best of all, though, is their incongruous politeness between songs, leavened with a self-aware twinkle, prior to Hegg roaring stuff like, “Are you ready to do battle with us? Are you ready to fight to the last man? Then raise the shield wall!”. It says something that during a lull in their set a section of the audience could be heard singing The Muppets’ “Mahna Mahna”. In short, while full of growl and attack, the whole thing emanated fun.
From there, a race to the Zippo takes us to Anthrax (pictured left © Matthew Higgs) who, once renowned as a quarter of thrash metal’s “Big Four”, back in the Eighties, are now, perhaps, the least celebrated of them. Their most recognizable member, guitarist Scott Ian, in shorts, his goatee now a large white tuft, plays an outsized guitar that makes him looks small, but gives the set punk energy as they race about the stage and pummel the assembled audience, enjoying a burst of sunshine, with decades old batterers such as “Got the Time”, “Madhouse” and “I Am the Law”. They are fronted by Joey Belladonna, whose screeching style is more New Wave of British Heavy Metal than thrash, but they nevertheless create a ferocious racket in front of a backdrop featuring yet more skulls.
We spend the weekend’s heaviest and longest bout of rain under our broken gazebo, guzzling most of our remaining booze’n’barbecue supplies. A gust of wind then destroys the gazebo but the squall has passed. We hold a brief wake. By late afternoon, as we head for the Main Stage, there’s much excitement at Smashing Pumpkins’ forthcoming set. Two of our party speak of them reverentially, citing the 1993 album Siamese Dream as an all-time classic. The band arrive onstage to Handel’s “Sarabande”, leading to even greater anticipation, but they are, eventually, a vast disappointment.
They wander around their career but focus mainly on recent and/or less well-known material, never a wise move for a big festival sense of occasion. Their leader, Billy Corgan (pictured right © Abbie Shipperley), is famously difficult, but his sour-faced taciturnity is just a downer. In black eye make-up, he’s wearing a kind of goth cassock with red piping that does him no favours. Uncle Fester from The Addams Family is mentioned, somewhat unkindly, by someone nearby. He tries to get guitarist James Iha to vibe the crowd but he fails entirely, mumbling nothing much about how pleasant it is to be here.
Special guest, Danish singer Myrkur (Amalie Bruun), heavily pregnant, comes on for what Corgan indicates will be a Download treat. This turns out to be a tepid version of Black Sabbath’s 1972 cut “Snowblind”, its skanky, coke-addled riffage replaced with a woozy dark ambient vibe. The fact they play newish stuff (“Solara”, “Knights of Malta”) and lesser known fare such as the hip hop-flavoured “Ava Adore” wouldn’t matter a jot if they just looked like any of them were enjoying any of it. But they do not, and they finish with long, moping slowie “The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)” a bonus cut, no less, from the 2012 reissue of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Rubbish! The only good thing about them is the giant Studio Ghibli-looking effigies that make up their stageset.
This leaves us feeling less than bubbly for thrash legends Slayer (pictured left © Matthew Higgs), whose final UK gig this is tonight. They’re just nuts, though. With a combined age of 223 they play with impossible propulsion, like something possessed, a relentless assault from opener “Repentless” to the closing, annihilating “Angel of Death”, a song that once caused so much controversy. It’s hard to keep up with them, Tom Araya’s barking vocals lead an overwhelming rhythmic warzone. From the classic riff of “Raining Blood” to the righteous crowd-bawled venom of “Payback” (“You've got a fucking catheter in your brain/Pissing your common sense away… payback’s a bitch, motherfucker”), Slayer are a uniquely hardcore proposition.
At the end Araya prowls the stage edge after it’s all over. He has a fascinating face, granite and zen calm, all mixed up. He doesn’t speak, his eyes look emotional, taking it all in, then he’s gone. They will be missed. After them, Tool’s punk-meets-prog art-metal, their first gig here in over a decade, washes over us. The visuals look good, the sound has a moody pomp, but we’re not fans. Suffice to say the field is less than half as full as it had been for the mighty Slipknot the previous night. If Tool are really just for their devotees, Download as a whole is not. It entertainingly combines the preposterous with the visceral, then adds beer. The whole place may be managed more like a sporting event than a festival, but once you accept that and enjoy the music and the company, it’s a blast.
AND IN SHORT
Worst Thing About Download 2019: Lack of programme availability is a problem, as rifling through, checking what bands to see on the app is nowhere near as fun or user-friendly but, no, the worst thing is the security going into the arena. They’re polite and pleasant and all that, but their searches are often ridiculous: going through a 50 year old man’s wallet, checking his bank cards because “there are these credit cards that have been sharpened to be used as knives” seems a little over-the-top.
Best Thing About Download 2019: They dress better than the rest of Britain – no pastel Primark leisurewear here – but the real treat of Download is the welcoming and genuine friendliness everyone exudes, from the moshpit to the campsite. That and the endless riff assault.
Worst billboard: In 2019, having a huge billboard onsite, near an entrance, featuring four tanned, skinny women in skimpy black bikinis, sexing it up like they were in the late, unlamented Nuts magazine, is not cool. During the course of the weekend forces of righteousness, not unknown to our crew, plastered it in mud and, eventually, tore most of it down.
Best mud preventative: When most were asleep Download’s night demons covered the main arena in straw so effectively that, despite repeated brief showers there were still places it was possible to sit down on the ground, and generally a whole lot less mud than there might have been. Impressive.
Best chorus: “Trouble is Your Middle name” by Whitesnake. Whitesnake’s bombast proves entertainingly ridiculous, and frontman David Coverdale comes on like your Great Aunt Shirley who “looks after herself” and often mentions how she “went backstage” with The Hollies in 1965. But could we stop singing the ever-repeating “Trouble is your middle name” chorus at each other all weekend? No, we could not.
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With a combined age of 223, Slayer play with impossible propulsion, like something possessed, a relentless assault
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SC Verdict Clips Finance Minister’s Wings
By TBP
ISLAMABAD: The wings of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar have been clipped in the wake of a Supreme Court (SC) ruling which implies that decisions of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) should not be implemented without ratification from the cabinet.
To comply with the court order, the ECC – the economic decision-making body with Dar as chairman – agreed in its meeting held on August 29 to place all its fresh decisions before the cabinet for approval, officials say. It would now place eight decisions taken in the meeting for the cabinet’s nod.
The ECC agreed on giving permission to Pak Arab Fertilizer for the export of calcium ammonium nitrate, extension in the deadline for export of wheat and wheat flour, increasing the regulatory duty on wheat import and getting released a Pakistan National Shipping Corporation ship seized by South Africa due to alleged delay in clearing dues by Pakistan Steel Mills.
The ECC also approved an extension in the application of reduced withholding tax to non-filers of tax returns, initiation of negotiations between Bank Markazi Jamhouri Islamic Iran and the State Bank of Pakistan, re-lending policy for foreign loans and the import of gram.
In its directive, the Supreme Court had stopped the prime minister from unilaterally taking decisions on fiscal matters, which was also believed to be applicable to the powers of the ECC.
The ECC, despite being a panel of the cabinet, has been performing the roles of both the executive and the legislature.
After the current government came to power in mid-2013, Dar had sought from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a free hand, which the premier approved. This move restored the charter and mandate of the ECC, making it the final decision-making body for the country’s economic policy.
Following approval of the prime minister, the cabinet in its meeting on July 25, 2013 allowed Dar to implement the ECC decisions without cabinet’s ratification.
In the cabinet meeting, it was said that the restriction imposed by the then prime minister on March 13, 2009 requiring approval of ECC decisions by the cabinet did not serve the purpose of good governance and efficient decision-making.
The removal of bureaucratic red tape and speedy action to resolve vital economic issues were not possible if the ECC kept on operating in such a restricted environment, the meeting participants said.
The requirement of ratification of decisions of other committees of the cabinet would, however, remain intact.
Published in The Banker Pakistan, September 6th, 2016.
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KARACHI: Five former senior officials of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and two corporate chiefs are in the crosshairs of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for allegedly engaging in a fraud to the tune of Rs10.4 billion. The accused include Azgard Nine Ltd CEO Abid Humayun Shaikh and CFO Abid Amin. The company is a […]
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Ethical Considerations in Writing a Dissertation
Trudy Brunot
The graduate student writing a dissertation needs to consider ethical issues related to both content and research protocol. Once published, this detailed academic study earns the writer a coveted doctoral degree.
Ethical Writing
Using another's words or ideas without giving credit--plagarism--ranks as the number-one sin throughout the academic community. Honesty, notes Dr. Sharon McNade of George Washington University, includes not altering quotations or data for a desired message.
Failure to get written permission for copyrighted works used in the dissertation could lead to infringement or even piracy charges. Scholar Carol M. Roberts writes that copyrighted material of up to 150 words usually falls under the "fair use" category and needs only to be cited as a reference.
How to Write a Good Research Proposal
How to Improve a Research Paper
Evaluation Argument Topics
Ethical Concerns of Doctoral Students
The US Office for Human Research Protections requires colleges to have Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to approve research projects using its guidelines. IRBs review dissertation proposals to ensure that the problem studied benefits the participants. IRB approvals require specific consent forms, confidentiality protection and procedures that consider the needs of and risks to all participants.
University at Albany State University of New York: Writing a Dissertation Proposal; S. A. McDade; p. 71
The Dissertation Journey: A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Planning; Carol M. Roberts; Sage Publications; 2004
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Office for Human Research Protections
Scribd: Writing Strategies and Ethical Considerations; Repko; 2008
Trudy Brunot began writing in 1992. Her work has appeared in "Quarterly," "Pennsylvania Health & You," "Constructor" and the "Tribune-Review" newspaper. Her domestic and international experience includes human resources, advertising, marketing, product and retail management positions. She holds a master's degree in international business administration from the University of South Carolina.
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Lost Book Gem: "Around The World In Eighty Days" - Jules Verne (1873)
"I am
the backwards traveller.
Ancient wool unraveller."
-- Wings --
Phileas Fogg, the phlegmatic "nothing worries me" guy, must travel around the world and only has eighty days to do it. A feat believed nigh on impossible...or his entire fortune is burnt toast.
And all because of a spur of the moment wager he strikes up with a swell bunch of snooty fellas down at the Gentleman's Reform Club. Talk about your no-nonsense itinerary!
French novelist
Fogg, along with his new servant, Passepartout, (I pronounce it 'Pass-the-potatoes" for fun) encounter one frustrating obstacle after another. Bad guys, bad drugs, bad weather, bad fish, and a bad tribe named Sioux.
Along with all that, Fogg squeezes in time to rescue a young lady in harms way. Actually his servant's the hero, but Fogg has all the dough, so he gets to bake the cinnamon rolls...(if you get my drift.) And putting the spoiled cherry on top, some misinformed dick keeps slowing him down trying to arrest him.
Just to set the record straight, there's NO hot-air balloon within a hundred miles of Jules Verne's adventure...regardless what many book-covers show.
Not Verne's best, but still a good adventure.
There's danger. There's humor. There's eighty days.
"Backwards Traveler" - Wings / London Town (1978)
Hey, did you know that I'm
Always going back in time
Rhyming slang, auld lang syne my dears
I am the backwards traveller
Ancient wool unraveller
Sailing songs, wailing on the moon
And we were sailing song, wailing on the moon
Wailing on the moon.
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Lost Album Gem: "Vagabonds of the Western World" - Thin Lizzy (1973)
"The madman climbed
The steeple spire.
"Go higher" said the crowd
From down below."
St. Patrick’s Day, I opted to review an album from a band of Irish descent. So after filling my plate with corn beef and cabbage and refilling my tall glass with green beer, I put in the CD "Vagabonds of the Western World", an offering by Thin Lizzy released in 1973.
At this time Thin Lizzy was just a three piece band led by the legendary Phil Lynott, an underrated bass player and singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland and was backed by Eric Bell/guitar and Brian Downey/percussion. Lizzy had a much more soulful psycha-blues-rock burn going on...on this one...with plenty of meat on the bone.
The band kicks off this overlooked treat with a message of environmental neglect in the powerful "Mama Nature Said," a driving song that rocks without being preachy. It is interesting that forty years later the message is still a topic of discussion.
"Mama Nature Said"
Phil Lynott adds some delicious bass work while doing his best Zappa impersonation..."The madman climbed the steeple spire and let a crystal ball tear fall on the crowd from down below," in the awesome and epic "The Hero and the Madman." And just listen to Eric Bell’s choice guitar line that plays the song out. He unfortunately left the band shortly after "Vagabonds" for health reasons, but his thumbprint is all over this album.
On the forgotten classic title track, Lynott recalls the mythological tale of the fatherless child who is blessed in the art of love but cursed to always walk alone. This could have been their breakout song with a little push from their record company, but was unjustly ignored.
"Vagabonds of the Western World"
"I am your main man if you’re looking for trouble/ I’ll take no lip cause no one’s tougher than me" mugs Lynott in his firmly tongue in cheek signature jam "The Rocker," a 5 minute exercise in machismo that was always a crowd favorite in concert.
"The Rocker"
But as anyone who is familiar with Thin Lizzy knows, Phil Lynott has never been shy in showing his romantic side. "And far away hills look greener still / But soon they’ll all slip away," is from the beautiful "A Song For While I’m Away", clearly written while traveling with his band.
"She carries a secret / the child she carries in her womb / she feels something sacred." from the achingly beautiful "Little Girl In Bloom," a gentle song about a young girl excited but nervous about telling her father she’s going to have a baby.
"Little Girl In Bloom"
The CD issue includes four bonus tracks including the Irish drinking song "Whiskey In the Jar" which was remade successfully by Metallica. Thin Lizzy’s version, to my ears, is the better of the two. The other bonus tracks are average, at best, with "Randolph’s Tango" being the strongest of the bunch.
"The Hero and the Madman"
The Hero, rode a white horse
Across the desert
To where his woman was
He'd been riding
For four days
When he saw the tower
Where she was locked
In the moonlight, he left his old steed
Near the drawbridge, that he crossed
And by way of a rope ladder
He tippie-toed to where, his woman was.
If I recall, you're the actor who followed the stars
Searching for the lost city of Mars
Hoping time, could heal the scars
Knowing Fate held no bars
Those that knew ya
Always said you'd go far
Are you the one, I think you are?
Oh are you the hero?
Oh are you the madman?
Oh are you the hero
Oh are you the madman
The madman, climbed the steeple spire
"Go higher, go higher!", said the crowd from down below
"But the world's on fire!", said the madman from the steeple
"You're a liar, you're a liar!" said the crowd from down below
So the madman climbed the steeple spire
And let a crystal ball tear fall
On the crowd down down below
If I recall, you're the actor who took to the stage
Set the world ablaze, with your anger and your rage
And with every new leaf, you turned and wrote a new page
Cleverly concealing, your real age
Were always quite amazed
Are you the one, that can take this praise?
Oh, are you the hero?
Oh, are you the madman?
Oh, are you the hero
Oh, are you the madman
"You're the only one that can save us", cried the wizard
"Or all is lost."
[Furious solo and end]
Sadly, Phil Lynott died January 4, 1986 from a merciless drug overdose.
The Hero and the Madman, indeed.
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Madrid Fusión: Endless Variety at This Annual Celebration of World Gastronomy
George Semler
Young Spanish chefs, a Japanese send-up of KFC, creative tapas, and much more
Joan Roca and his mother, Montserrat Fontané, at Madrid Fusión 2018.
Madrid Fusión, the annual world culinary summit, now in its sixteenth edition, comes to a close in the Spanish capital today. With over a hundred chefs, 150 wine and food exhibitors, and Japan as this year's honored guest, this celebration of the latest cooking trends from Spain and throughout the world shows no signs of slowing down — though next year's congress will be branded "Reale Seguros Madrid Fusión," in honor of the event's new sponsorship by the Italian insurance giant of that name.
For three days, many of the most famous and influential chefs from around the globe participated in a whirlwind of activities at the Feria de Madrid installation 10 miles east of the city center, including cooking exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and tapas and sandwich competitions. This year's theme was "Fourth Generation: Those Who Own the Future" honoring the rising cohort of young chefs such as Mario Sandoval, Paco Morales, and Eduard Xatruch, among dozens of other exciting new culinary visionaries born in the 1980s who have quickly filled the shoes and the daises formerly occupied by the likes of Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià, or the late Santi Santamaria.
With 15 competitions, auctions, and awards events; 24 workshops; and 60 cooking demonstrations taking place in overlapping schedules in the main auditorium, the mixed-use space upstairs, the workshop area on the first floor, and the dozens of rooms and spaces distributed around the convention palace, Madrid Fusión may resemble nothing so much as the Hieronymus Bosch triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights," which in fact now resides a few miles away in the Prado Museum. The slender 150-foot escalator leading up to the third-floor exhibitors' area, the elevators swooping up and down the flanks of the building, and the myriad balconies, alcoves, and meeting rooms scattered throughout the well-lit glass structure all contribute to the sense of euphoria here — undoubtedly heightened by the wine-tasting and general hilarity running wild among the more than 2,000 attendees swarming from one event to another.
The delegation from Japan was led by Zaiyu Hasegawa, chef and owner of the Tokyo restaurant Den, famed as the enfant terrible of the Japanese restaurant world. Hasegawa demonstrated his DFC (Den Fried Chicken) — a take-off on / send up of KFC — with an explanation of the appeal of chicken-in-a-box: "You get to open it up and you find a surprise inside!" He encourages his customers to forget about chopsticks and eat with their fingers, he said. Describing his early days as a restaurateur ("Nobody came"), Hasegawa emphasized his belief in traditional products and techniques, with novelty only as an extra added attraction. "A restaurant should be like a mother cooking for her children," he declared
Roca of the Michelin-three-star El Celler de Can Roca in Girona and his mother, Montserrat Fontané, who runs the original family restaurant, Can Roca, gave one of Madrid Fusión 2018's most moving presentations, an homage to memory and the importance of origins, starring the maternal (and eternal) canelons — the Catalan take on cannelloni, traditional in the region since Italian tavern owners introduced it in the nineteenth century — and the importance and legitimacy of repetition, of eating the same cherished comfort food from the same loving hands. The presentation ended with a video of the Roca brothers' 85-year-old father in the family kitchen playing a food prank on a family member (think very hot pepper in a piece of chocolate) and helplessly cracking up with laughter; not a dry eye in the house.
The summit played host to exhibitions on countless other topics: sake; Zen cooking; the 1,000 faces of cod; creative tapas; creative sandwiches; new Ribera de Duero wines; modern fish cookery in Lisbon; sustainable energy efficiency; sea bass (wild or farmed?); Asian knife masters; all about frijoles; seaweed; Sevilla (a jam session of tapas and rice); fiber (the hidden ingredient); wild flavors from the Philippines; a truffle auction; Austrian-born chef Sebastian Frank of Horváth in Berlin (named Best Chef in Europe this year at Madrid Fusión); herbs and fragrances of Andalusian cooking; "chef of the tides" Alexandre Couillon (whose two-star restaurant, La Marine, on the French island of Noirmoutier, is accessible only when the tide is out); line-caught red tuna; cooking wild game; Asturian cider; eating crustaceans shells and all; the new Russian cuisine; the aroma management of black truffles; the fourth International Championship of the Best Ham Croquette in the World…The offerings were endless and irresistible.
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The villa from “Call Me By Your Name” is up for sale
No word on whether or not a peach orchard is included.
By Salvatore Maicki
The breathtaking Italian villa where Elio and Oliver spent their summer together in Luca Guadagnino's devastating film Call Me By Your Name has been listed for sale, Buzzfeed reports. The property spans nearly five acres, so there's plenty of space to grow peaches and/or dance to the Psychedelic Furs.
Standout architectural features of the storied villa include a frescoed ceiling courtesy of Aurelio Busso (a pupil of Raphael), and, uhh, that fireplace. There's also a staggering fourteen bedrooms, which means you'll certainly be able to find somewhere where Mafalda won't hear what you're up to. Intrigued? The Vendita Villa Lombardia can be yours for a cool €1.7M (that's roughly $2.1M USD).
Peep the full listing, as well as some gorgeous property photos, on House & Loft.
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Red Line Subway Trains Rerouted to Elevated Tracks Between Fullerton & Cermak-Chinatown Over Weekend
Service on the Red Line between Fullerton station and Cermak-Chinatown station will be rerouted in both directions from the subway to the elevated tracks from 9 p.m. Friday, May 30 until 3 a.m. Monday, June 2. Elevated stations are located within a block of Red Line subway stations in the Loop. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time.
Red Line trains will operate normally between the Howard and Fullerton stations and between the 95th Street and Cermak-Chinatown stations. Rerouted Red Line trains will stop at the following elevated stations: Roosevelt/Wabash, Adams/Wabash, Madison/Wabash, Randolph/Wabash, State/Lake, Clark/Lake, Merchandise Mart, Chicago/Franklin, Sedgwick and Armitage. The Merchandise Mart station is available as an exit only (via stairway) on Saturday morning from 12:50 a.m. to 5:10 a.m. and on Sunday morning from 12:50 a.m. to 7:10 a.m.
Red Line trains will resume normal service through the subway at 3 a.m. Monday. In addition to running Red Line trains on the elevated tracks, CTA will operate three bus shuttles to help customers make their normal connections.
Bus shuttle service will operate between the Clark/Division station and North/Clybourn station, stopping at the Sedgwick Brown Line station where customers may board Red Line trains.
Bus shuttle service also will operate from the Grand/State and Chicago/State stations to the Chicago/Franklin Brown Line station where customers may board Red Line trains.
Additional bus shuttle service will operate between Jackson/State, Harrison/State, Jackson/Wabash and Roosevelt/Wabash where customers may board Red Line trains.
Temporarily suspending Red Line service from Fullerton to Cermak-Chinatown will allow construction and maintenance crews to work without train traffic or live rail.
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Paramedic kicked unconscious in attempted burglary at Warkworth St John station
A female paramedic was kicked unconscious in an attempted burglary last night at a St John ambulance station in Warkworth, north of Auckland.
The incident happened after 11pm on the night of January 12, during a suspected burglary. Source: 1 NEWS
The woman was injured and taken to North Shore Hospital following the assault. She was discharged this morning.
Inspector Mark Fergus said police were notified about the incident on Brown Road about 11.30pm.
"Initial inquiries are underway and at this stage it’s believed the woman was assaulted by an offender who had broken into the premises to commit a burglary," Mr Fergus said.
Police said the offender fled the scene and was still on the run.
St John director of operations Norma Lane described the incident as "despicable" and "unacceptable".
"She has endured an horrific ordeal while on duty to help others. We are supporting our officer and her colleagues while working with police," Ms Lane said, adding she was grateful for the quick response and action of police.
The woman sustained moderate injuries in the attack, but she was able to signal for help before passing out.
"St John takes very seriously the safety of its officers and has systems, alerts and supportive measures in place to ensure their security and well-being. Any abuse or assault against ambulance officers is unacceptable and will not be tolerated," Ms Lane said.
A scene guard was put in place overnight at the ambulance station and police remain at the property this morning conducting a scene examination.
Emergency ambulances responding out of the Warkworth station have been temporarily relocated while the police investigation is taking place. Police said they will be conducting area inquiries and speaking with nearby residents.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Waitemata Police on 09 839 0697 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Qualifying round (Group 5) - 03/09/2010 - 18:30CET (18:30 local time) - Mestský - Mlada Boleslav
Mareček 38
Kirchhoff 71
Czech Republic - Germany 1-1 - 03/09/2010 - Match page - Under-21 2011
38: Mareček
37: Jung
46: Dočkal
57: M. Černý
65: Kozák
61: Rudy
67: Herrmann
71: Kirchhoff
82: Moritz
89: Mlapa
Czech RepublicGermany
Iceland 7 16
Germany 7 9
Northern Ireland 7 7
San Marino 8 0
P: Played
Full standingsAll groups
Last updated: 30/11/2017 14:57 CET
10 Belarus
6 Sweden
4 Finland
5 Northern Ireland
9 FYROM
10 Azerbaijan
2 Georgia
1 Latvia
10 Scotland
7 Cyprus
The final whistle is blown.
Vaclík (Czech Republic) makes a save.
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) has an effort on goal.
Vácha (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Rausch (Germany).
Funk (in) - Mlapa (out) (Germany)
Mehmet Ekici (Germany) misses the target.
Hořava (in) - Mareček (out) (Czech Republic)
Götze (Germany) is adjudged to be in an offside position.
Vácha (Czech Republic) misses the target.
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) is adjudged to be in an offside position.
Vácha (Czech Republic) takes the corner.
Moritz (Germany) is cautioned by the referee.
Moritz (Germany) is penalised for a foul on Chramosta (Czech Republic).
Fabián (Czech Republic) is penalised for a foul on Mlapa (Germany).
Mlapa (Germany) has an effort on goal.
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) is penalised for a foul on Řezník (Czech Republic).
Holtby (Germany) takes the corner.
Rausch (Germany) misses the target.
Götze (Germany) has an effort on goal.
Kirchhoff (Germany) scores!
Baumann (Germany) makes a save.
Čelůstka (Czech Republic) has an effort on goal.
M. Černý (Czech Republic) misses the target.
Mehmet Ekici (Germany) takes the corner.
Mehmet Ekici (in) - Herrmann (out) (Germany)
Chramosta (in) - Kozák (out) (Czech Republic)
Kirchhoff (Germany) is penalised for a foul on Kozák (Czech Republic).
Götze (Germany) is penalised for a foul on Vácha (Czech Republic).
Götze (in) - Rudy (out) (Germany)
Herrmann (Germany) is flagged for offside.
M. Černý (Czech Republic) is cautioned by the referee.
M. Černý (Czech Republic) is penalised for a foul on Holtby (Germany).
Rudy (Germany) takes the corner.
Vácha (in) - Dočkal (out) (Czech Republic)
The second half begins.
The referee blows for half-time.
Kozák (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Herrmann (Germany).
Mareček (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Herrmann (Germany).
Mlapa (Germany) is adjudged to be in an offside position.
Holtby (Germany) is adjudged to be in an offside position.
Mareček (Czech Republic) scores!
Jung (Germany) is booked.
Jung (Germany) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on M. Černý (Czech Republic).
Rudy (Germany) delivers the corner.
Herrmann (Germany) misses the target.
Holtby (Germany) misses the target.
Pekhart (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Moritz (Germany).
Kozák (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Baumann (Germany).
M. Černý (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Jung (Germany).
Gecov (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Rudy (Germany).
Řezník (Czech Republic) fouls.
Dočkal (Czech Republic) delivers the corner.
Kozák (Czech Republic) misses the target.
Pekhart (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Mlapa (Germany).
Rudy (Germany) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on M. Černý (Czech Republic).
Hošek (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Sukuta-Pasu (Germany).
Gecov (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Moritz (Germany).
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) misses the target.
Herrmann (Germany) has an effort on goal.
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Čelůstka (Czech Republic).
Pekhart (Czech Republic) is adjudged to be in an offside position.
Mareček (Czech Republic) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Rudy (Germany).
Mlapa (Germany) gives away a free-kick for a challenge on Řezník (Czech Republic).
Sukuta-Pasu (Germany) has a shot blocked.
Holtby (Germany) has an effort on goal.
The match is under way.
Converted penalty
Missed penalty
Second yellow card
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McGill University | Agroalimentaire et agriculture
Agroalimentaire et agriculture
Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Ile-des-Soeurs
The McGill University Phythotron has a wide variety of controlled environment equipment. Research: molecular biology, role of plant transposons in gene diversification.
Macdonald Campus Farm in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, is an experimental and demonstration farm dedicated to teaching and research. It strives to be an innovative leader at the cutting edge of agricultural technology.
Parasitology Core Facilities (PCF), a centralized shared research resource that provides access to instruments, technologies, services (maintenance) and expert consultation in histology, microscopy and real-time PCR.
Large and Small Research Units: LARU for large-animal surgery and experiments; SARU for the understanding of basic scientific issues and/or as preliminary models for large-animal/human research studies.
Building capacity for sustainable livelihoods and health through public-private linkages in agriculture and health systems proposes to implement an integrated intervention through government, civil, and private institutions to improve household economic well-being, gender equity, health and social wellbeing of vulnerable females, and young child physical and cognitive development.
Accelerating innovations to adapt agro-environments to climate change: The Eastern Canadian Plant Phenotyping Platform (ECP3) a collaborative initiative between McGill University and the University of Sherbrooke. The ECP3 research program will develop new crop cultivars and precision agricultural tools and management practices adapted to climate change in Eastern Canada.
Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, Associate Prof. and Associate Director of CINE. Research: public health nutrition of Indigenous population; health inequities by addressing the social determinants of health.
Anja Geitmann, Prof. and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Biomechanics of Plant Development. Research: Biomechanical principles underlying plant development and reproduction.
Elsa Vasseur, Assistant Prof. and NSERC/ Novalait/ Dairy Farmers of Canada/Valacta Industrial Research Chair in Sustainable Life of Dairy Cattle. Research program: Cow Comfort and Management; Cow Longevity and Environment and Society.
Jianguo (Jeff) Xia, Assistant Prof. and Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Bioinformatics and Big data Analytics. Research: Understanding important biological, environmental and nutritional factors on health and disease.
–The Consortium for Research, Innovation and Transformation in Agri-Food (R.I.T.A.) led by Dr Salwa Karboune is a national initiative federating all the industry and academia members of the Quebec food processing ecosystem around precompetitive projects and open innovation training.
–The Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE) led by Dr Murray Humphries was created in response to a need expressed by Aboriginal Peoples for participatory research and education to address their concerns about the integrity of their traditional food systems.
–Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program allowing students to develop entrepreneurial skills for designing and managing food, agribusiness and environmental ventures.
Dairy Farmers of Canada
Novalait
Valacta
Agropur
Auger Bakery
Lassonde
Micreos Food Safety
Eggs farmers of Canada
Olymel
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Faculty of Theology and Religion
Programme: BSc Mathematical Statistics
02133274 Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Minimum duration of study: 3 years Total credits: 420
Curriculum: Year 1
Curriculum: Final year
The following persons will be considered for admission: a candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement, a candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution, and a candidate who is a graduate of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.
Life Orientation is excluded in the calculation of the Admission Point Score (APS).
Grade 11 results are used for the conditional admission of prospective students. Final admission is based on the Grade 12 results.
Achievement level
English Home Language or English First Additional Language
NSC/IEB
AS Level
* Cambridge A level candidates who obtained at least a D in the required subjects, will be considered for admission. International Baccalaureate (IB) HL candidates who obtained at least a 4 in the required subjects, will be considered for admission.
Candidates who do not comply with the minimum admission requirements for BSc (Mathematical Statistics), may be considered for admission to the BSc – Extended programme for the Mathematical Sciences. The BSc – Extended programme takes place over a period of four years instead of the normal three years.
BSc – Extended programme for the Mathematical Sciences
Other programme-specific information
A student must pass all the minimum prescribed and elective module credits as set out at the end of each year within a programme as well as the total required credits to comply with the particular degree programme. Please refer to the curricula of the respective programmes. At least 144 credits must be obtained at 300-/400-level, or otherwise as indicated by curriculum. The minimum module credits needed to comply with degree requirements is set out at the end of each study programme. Subject to the programmes as indicated a maximum of 150 credits will be recognised at 100-level. A student may, in consultation with the relevant head of department and subject to the permission by the Dean, select or replace prescribed module credits not indicated in BSc three-year study programmes to the equivalent of a maximum of 36 module credits.
It is important that the total number of prescribed module credits is completed during the course of the study programme. The Dean may, on the recommendation of the relevant head of department, approve deviations in this regard. Subject to the programmes as indicated in the respective curricula, a student may not register for more than 75 module credits per semester at first-year level subject to permission by the Dean. A student may be permitted to register for up to 80 module credits in a the first semester during the first year provided that he or she obtained a final mark of no less than 70% for grade 12 Mathematics and achieved an APS of 34 or more in the NSC.
Students who are already in possession of a bachelor’s degree, will not receive credit for modules of which the content overlap with modules from the degree that was already conferred. Credits will not be considered for more than half the credits passed previously for an uncompleted degree. No credits at the final-year or 300- and 400-level will be granted.
The Dean may, on the recommendation of the programme manager, approve deviations with regard to the composition of the study programme.
Please note: Where elective modules are not specified, these may be chosen from any modules appearing in the list of modules.
It remains the student’s responsibility to acertain, prior to registration, whether they comply with the prerequisites of the modules they want to register for.
The prerequisites are listed in the Alphabetical list of modules.
Promotion to next study year
A student will be promoted to the following year of study if he or she passed 100 credits of the prescribed credits for a year of study, unless the Dean on the recommendation of the relevant head of department decides otherwise. A student who does not comply with the requirements for promotion to the following year of study, retains the credit for the modules already passed and may be admitted by the Dean, on recommendation of the relevant head of department, to modules of the following year of study to a maximum of 48 credits, provided that it will fit in with both the lecture and examination timetable.
General promotion requirements in the faculty
All students whose academic progress is not acceptable can be suspended from further studies.
A student who is excluded from further studies in terms of the stipulations of the abovementioned regulations, will be notified in writing by the Dean or Admissions Committee at the end of the relevant semester.
A student who has been excluded from further studies may apply in writing to the Admissions Committee of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for re-admission.
Should the student be re-admitted by the Admissions Committee, strict conditions will be set which the student must comply with in order to proceed with his/her studies.
Should the student not be re-admitted to further studies by the Admissions Committee, he/she will be informed in writing.
Students who are not re-admitted by the Admissions Committee have the right to appeal to the Senior Appeals Committee.
Any decision taken by the Senior Appeals Committee is final.
Pass with distinction
A student obtains his or her degree with distinction if all prescribed modules at 300-level (or higher) are passed in one academic year with a weighted average of at least 75%, and obtain at least a subminimum of 65% in each of the relevant modules.
Minimum credits: 140
Fundamental = 12
Core = 64
Elective = 64
Electives should be chosen as follows:
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Mathematics industry should choose from WTW 123 (8), 115 (8), 152 (8), 162 (8), COS 132 (16) and COS 122 (16) or 151 (8).
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Insurance industry and/or Econometrics, should choose: WTW 152 (8), WTW 123 (8), IAS 111 (6), 121 (6), EKN 110 (10), 120 (10), and either FBS 110 (10), 120 (10) or FBS 112 (10), 122 (10).
Students in Mathematical Statistics with other career requirements, choose modules from any other subject/faculty to meet their specific needs.
Fundamental modules
Academic information management 102
Module content:
Find, evaluate, process, manage and present information resources for academic purposes using appropriate technology. Apply effective search strategies in different technological environments. Demonstrate the ethical and fair use of information resources. Integrate 21st-century communications into the management of academic information.
Find, evaluate, process, manage and present information resources for academic purposes using appropriate technology.
Apply effective search strategies in different technological environments. Demonstrate the ethical and fair use of information resources. Integrate 21st-century communications into the management of academic information.
LST 110
Language and study skills 110
The module aims to equip students with the ability to cope with the reading and writing demands of scientific disciplines.
UPO 102
Academic orientation 102
WST 111
Mathematical statistics 111
Credits: 16.00
Characterisation of a set of measurements: Graphical and numerical methods. Random sampling. Probability theory. Discrete and continuous random variables. Probability distributions. Generating functions and moments.
Sampling distributions and the central limit theorem. Statistical inference: Point and interval estimation. Hypothesis testing with applications in one and two-sample cases. Introductory methods for: Linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis and non-parametric statistics. Identification, use, evaluation and interpretation of statistical computer packages and statistical techniques.
WTW 114
Calculus 114
*This module serves as preparation for students majoring in Mathematics (including all students who intend to enrol for WTW 218 and WTW 220). Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree: WTW 114, WTW 158, WTW 134, WTW 165.
Functions, limits and continuity. Differential calculus of single variable functions, rate of change, graph sketching, applications. The mean value theorem, the rule of L'Hospital. Definite and indefinite integrals, evaluating definite integrals using anti-derivatives, the substitution rule.
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree:
WTW 124, WTW 146, WTW 148 and WTW 164. This module serves as preparation for students majoring in Mathematics (including all students who intend to enrol for WTW 218, WTW 211 and WTW 220).
The vector space Rn, vector algebra with applications to lines and planes, matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, determinants. Complex numbers and factorisation of polynomials. Integration techniques and applications of integration. The formal definition of a limit. The fundamental theorem of Calculus and applications. Vector functions, polar curves and quadratic curves.
COS 122
Operating systems 122
Fundamental concepts of modern operating systems in terms of their structure and the mechanisms they use are studied in this module. After completing this module, students will have gained, as outcomes, knowledge of real time, multimedia and multiple processor systems, as these will be defined and analysed. In addition, students will have gained knowledge on modern design issues of process management, deadlock and concurrency control, memory management, input/output management, file systems and operating system security. In order to experience a hands-on approach to the knowledge students would have gained from studying the abovementioned concepts, students will have produced a number of practical implementations of these concepts using the Windows and Linux operating systems.
Imperative programming 132
This module introduces imperative computer programming, which is a fundamental building block of computer science. The process of constructing a program for solving a given problem, of editing it, compiling (both manually and automatically), running and debugging it, is covered from the beginning. The aim is to master the elements of a programming language and be able to put them together in order to construct programs using types, control structures, arrays, functions and libraries. An introduction to object orientation will be given. After completing this module, the student should understand the fundamental elements of a program, the importance of good program design and user-friendly interfaces. Students should be able to conduct basic program analysis and write complete elementary programs.
Introduction to computer science 151
This module introduces concepts and terminology related to the computer science discipline. General topics covered include the history of computing, machine level representation of data, Boolean logic and gates, basic computer systems organisation, algorithms and complexity and automata theory. The module also introduces some of the subdisciplines of computer science, such as computer networks, database systems, compilers, information security and intelligent systems. The module also focues on modelling of algorithms.
This module deals with the core principles of economics. A distinction between macroeconomics and microeconomics is made. A discussion of the market system and circular flow of goods, services and money is followed by a section dealing with microeconomic principles, including demand and supply analysis, consumer behaviour and utility maximisation, production and the costs thereof, and the different market models and firm behaviour. Labour market institutions and issues, wage determination, as well as income inequality and poverty are also addressed. A section of money, banking, interest rates and monetary policy concludes the course.
This module deals with the core principles of economics, especially macroeconomic measurement the private and public sectors of the South African economy receive attention, while basic macroeconomic relationships and the measurement of domestic output and national income are discussed. Aggregate demand and supply analysis stands core to this course which is also used to introduce students to the analysis of economic growth, unemployment and inflation. The microeconomics of government is addressed in a separate section, followed by a section on international economics, focusing on international trade, exchange rates and the balance of payments. The economics of developing countries and South Africa in the global economy conclude the course.
FBS 110
Financial management 110
*Only for BSc (Mathematical Statistics. Construction Management, Real Estate and Quantity Surveying) and BEng (Industrial Engineering) students.
Purpose and functioning of financial management. Basic financial management concepts. Accounting concepts and the use of the basic accounting equation to describe the financial position of a business. Recording of financial transactions. Relationship between cash and accounting profit. Internal control and the management of cash. Debtors and short-term investments. Stock valuation models. Depreciation. Financial statements of a business. Distinguishing characteristics of the different forms of businesses. Overview of financial markets and the role of financial institutions. Risk and return characteristics of various financial instruments. Issuing ordinary shares and debt instruments.
*Only for students in BSc (Actuarial and Financial Mathematics), BSc (Mathematics), BSc (Applied Mathematics), BSc (Mathematical Statistics), BSc Extended programme – Mathematical Sciences and BCom (Statistics) who comply with the set prerequisites.
Key principles of financial management. Company ownership. Taxation. Introduction to financial statements. Structure of financial statements. Depreciation and reserves. Preparing financial statements. Group financial statements and insurance company financial statements. Interpretation of financial statements. Limitation of financial statements. Issue of share capital.
*Only for BSc (Mathematical Statistics, Construction Management, Real Estate and Quantity Surveying) students.
Analysis of financial statements. Budgeting and budgetary control. Tax principles and normal income tax for individuals. Time value of money and its use for financial and investment decisions. Calculating the cost of capital and the financing of a business to maintain the optimal capital structure. Capital investment decisions and a study of the financial selection criteria in the evaluation of capital investment projects. The dividend decision and an overview of financial risk management.
Financial instruments. Use of financial derivatives. Financial institutions. Time value of money. Component cost of capital. Weighted average cost of capital. Capital structure and dividend policy. Capital project appraisal. Evaluating risky investments.
IAS 111
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics in practice 111
Professionalism, working in multicultural environments, self-development, propositional logic, financial needs.
Financial service providers, investment examples including an introduction to mathematics of finance, life insurance examples including an introduction to contingencies, general insurance examples including an introduction to reserving using run-off triangles, personal self-development.
Discrete structures 115
Propositional logic: truth tables, logical equivalence, implication, arguments. Mathematical induction and well-ordering principle. Introduction to set theory. Counting techniques: elementary probability, multiplication and addition rules, permutations and combinations, binomial theorem, inclusion-exclusion rule.
Numerical analysis 123
Non-linear equations, numerical integration, initial value problems for differential equations, systems of linear equations. Algorithms for elementary numerical techniques are derived and implemented in computer programmes. Error estimates and convergence results are treated.
Mathematical modelling 152
The module serves as an introduction to computer programming as used in science. Modelling of dynamical processes using difference equations; curve fitting and linear programming are studied. Applications are drawn from real-life situations in, among others, finance, economics and ecology.
Dynamical processes 162
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree: WTW 162 and WTW 264.
Introduction to the modelling of dynamical processes using elementary differential equations. Solution methods for first order differential equations and analysis of properties of solutions (graphs). Applications to real life situations.
Elective Modules (Credits = 44)
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Mathematics industry should choose WTW 264 (12), WTW 286 (12), 285 (12) and 248 (12).
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Insurance Industry should choose IAS 211 (6) IAS 221 (6), IAS 282 (12) and WST 212 (12).
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Econometrics industry should choose: EKN 214(16), 224 (16) and WST 212 (12).
Students in Mathematical Statistics with other career requirements, may choose modules from any other subject/faculty to meet their specific needs but should consult with the Department of Statistics in this regard.
Set theory. Probability measure functions. Random variables. Distribution functions. Probability mass functions. Density functions. Expected values. Moments. Moment generating functions. Special probability distributions: Bernoulli, binomial, hypergeometric, geometric, negative binomial, Poisson, Poisson process, discrete uniform, uniform, gamma,exponential, Weibull, Pareto, normal. Joint distributions: Multinomial, extended hypergeometric, joint continuous distributions. Marginal distributions. Independent random variables. Conditional distributions. Covariance, correlation. Conditional expected values. Transformation of random variables: Convolution formula. Order statistics. Stochastic convergence: Convergence in distribution. Central limit theorem. Practical applications. Practical statistical modelling and analysis using statistical computer packages and the interpretation of the output.
Stochastic convergence: Asymptotic normal distributions, convergence in probability. Statistics and sampling distributions: Chi-squared distribution. Distribution of the sample mean and sample variance for random samples from a normal population. T-distribution. F-distribution. Beta distribution. Point estimation: Method of moments. Maximum likelihood estimation. Unbiased estimators. Uniform minimum variance unbiased estimators. Cramer-Rao inequality. Efficiency. Consistency. Asymptotic relative efficiency.
Bayes estimators. Sufficient statistics. Completeness. The exponential class. Confidence intervals. Test of statistical hypotheses. Reliability and survival distributions. Practical applications. Practical statistical modelling and analysis using statistical computer packages and the interpretation of the output.
Linear algebra 211
This is an introduction to linear algebra on Rn. Matrices and linear equations, linear combinations and spans, linear independence, subspaces, basis and dimension, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, similarity and diagonalisation of matrices, linear transformations.
Calculus of multivariable functions, directional derivatives. Extrema and Lagrange multipliers. Multiple integrals, polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
Analysis 220
Properties of real numbers. Analysis of sequences and series of real numbers. Power series and theorems of convergence. The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem. The intermediate value theorem and analysis of real-valued functions on an interval. The Riemann integral: Existence and properties of the interval.
Abstract vector spaces, change of basis, matrix representation of linear transformations, orthogonality, diagonalisability of symmetric matrices, some applications.
From Wall and Bay Street to Diagonal Street: a thorough understanding of the mechanisms and theories explaining the workings of the economy is essential. Macroeconomic insight is provided on the real market, the money market, two market equilibrium, monetarism, growth theory, cyclical analysis, inflation, Keynesian general equilibrium analysis and fiscal and monetary policy issues.
Microeconomic insight is provided into: consumer and producer theory, general microeconomic equilibrium, Pareto-optimality and optimality of the price mechanism, welfare economics, market forms and the production structure of South Africa. Statistic and econometric analysis of microeconomic issues.
Financial mathematics 211
Principles of actuarial modelling, cash-flow models, the time value of money, interest rates, discounting and accumulating, level annuities, deferred and increasing annuities, equations of value.
Contingencies 221
Fundamentals of survival models, select and ultimate life tables, Assurance and annuity functions, basic calculation of premiums and reserves, principles of pricing and reserving.
Principles of actuarial modelling, cash-flow models, the time value of money, interest rates, discounting and accumulating, level annuities, deferred and increasing annuities, equations of value, loan schedules, project appraisal, elementary compound interest problems, term structure of interest rates.
Applications in data science 212
Introduction to database design, extracting data from databases using different software packages. Introduction to machine learning. Commonly used machine learning techniques
Vector analysis 248
Vectors and geometry. Calculus of vector functions with applications to differential geometry, kinematics and dynamics. Vector analysis, including vector fields, line integrals of scalar and vector fields, conservative vector fields, surfaces and surface integrals, the Theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes with applications.
Differential equations 264
*Students will not be credited for both WTW 162 and WTW 264 or both WTW 264 and WTW 286 for their degree.
Theory and solution methods for ordinary differential equations and initial value problems: separable and linear first order equations, linear equations of higher order, systems of linear equations. Laplace transform.
Setting up and solving recurrence relations. Equivalence and partial order relations. Graphs: paths, cycles, trees, isomorphism. Graph algorithms: Kruskal, Prim, Fleury. Finite state automata.
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the modules for their degree: WTW 264, WTW 286
Theory and solution methods for ordinary differential equations and initial value problems: separable and linear first-order equations, linear equations of higher order, systems of linear equations. Application to mathematical models. Numerical methods applied to nonlinear systems.Qualitative analysis of linear systems.
Students in Mathematical Statistics who also want to be trained for the Mathematics industry should choose two of the following: WTW 310 (18), 320 (18), 354 (18), 364 (18), 381 (18), 382 (18), 383 (18), 386 (18), 387 (18), 389 (18).
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With McCain’s replacement likely to leave, GOP is split over appointing this year’s loser in Senate race
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) lost her race to Kyrsten Sinema, who will become the state’s first Democratic senator in three decades. (Matt York/AP)
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November 27, 2018 at 9:41 PM EST
Days after the midterm election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spoke privately about a sensitive topic with far-reaching implications — the Senate seat that John McCain held for three decades before his death in August.
Jon Kyl, the former senator Ducey appointed to replace McCain, made no promises about serving beyond this year. Most of his fellow Republicans are convinced he will not return in 2019 and Ducey will once again have to appoint a senator.
In a telephone call confirmed by two people familiar with the conversation, McConnell (R-Ky.) told Ducey: If there is an opening, consider appointing Martha McSally, the Republican congresswoman who came up short in her bid for Arizona’s other Senate seat this year.
But some Republicans in Arizona, including those in Ducey’s inner circle, have reservations about appointing McSally. They have questioned her campaign’s strategic decisions and wondered why she was not able to win in a state that President Trump carried in 2016 and where Ducey coasted to reelection this year.
Dan Eberhart, an Arizona-based GOP donor who raised money for McSally, said Ducey should take a “hard look” at other possibilities after her defeat. “McSally’s recent but narrow loss is not a strong reason to choose her,” Eberhart said.
The dueling pressures have injected uncertainty into one of the most pivotal decisions Ducey could face as governor. Arizona is an emerging battleground in the presidential and Senate elections in 2020, loading his potential choice with ramifications throughout the ballot.
On the call with Ducey, McConnell said McSally would make a great senator and noted there was a lot of support for her in the party. Ducey listened but made no commitments, according to the people familiar with the conversation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a discussion that was not publicized.
Facing a more challenging Senate map in 2020 than they did this year, Republican leaders are eager to lock down a strong Arizona contender who can represent the state and effectively use the power of incumbency to run a winning campaign in 2020. Many say McSally is the best choice.
“I hate to lose Senator Kyl, but if we have to, I think that’d be a pretty good idea,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), McConnell’s top deputy. “But there’s one guy who’s going to make that decision, and his name is Governor Ducey. And I haven’t heard anything about that.”
Arizona governor appoints ex-senator Jon Kyl to fill McCain’s seat
Ducey has kept his thoughts private and limited his discussions to a small clutch of advisers. In public, he and his team are not even entertaining the idea of an appointment.
“The governor is hopeful that Senator Kyl will continue to serve in the Senate seat through 2020,” said his spokesman Daniel Ruiz. “We will not speculate on a vacancy that does not exist.”
Nevertheless, the possible vacancy has captured the interest of Republicans in Arizona and Washington, who have traded flurries of text messages and other communications about it in recent weeks.
One name that has surfaced as a potential appointee in private conversations is Kirk Adams, a former state House speaker who announced Monday that he was stepping down as Ducey’s chief of staff. Adams said he was looking forward to returning to the private sector. Some Republicans said they still believed he could be appointed to the Senate.
Anyone appointed to the seat this year would face a grueling next few years. Under state law, the seat will go before voters again in 2022.
Kyl said this week that he has thought about his future in the Senate but has not decided what he will do. “I’m not going to discuss it with anybody except the governor,” Kyl said Monday. “After that, I’ll talk about it publicly.” He called McSally “an obvious potential choice” to succeed him but declined to elaborate.
McSally lost to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema by fewer than 60,000 votes out of more than 2.3 million cast, or about two percentage points. Ducey defeated his Democratic challenger by about 14 percentage points.
Sinema wins in Arizona as Democrats capture a longtime GOP Senate seat
A former Trump critic, McSally aligned herself more closely with the president during a long primary battle in which she fended off challengers running to her right. Sinema, a former Green Party activist, ran as a centrist Democrat.
Since the contest ended, Republicans in Washington and Arizona have expressed considerable disappointment in the outcome. They have voiced a range of complaints, including that McSally’s team did not more aggressively seize on opposition research about Sinema’s past to brand her an extremist and that she distanced herself too much from McCain in a state where many revere him.
In a post-election memo McSally’s campaign strategists provided to The Washington Post on Tuesday, they wrote that McSally “was continuously running at a disadvantage going into the general election” and cited factors such as robust Democratic spending and a bruising GOP primary.
“While true that Ducey outperformed McSally, Governor Ducey was an incumbent with two successful statewide races under his belt. Ducey ‘s opponent ran as a progressive and the opponent was essentially abandoned by national Democrats,” the memo says.
Sinema’s win will make her Arizona’s first Democratic senator in three decades. Her victory has generated excitement in the party. Already, there is talk about who might run for the Senate in 2020.
Democrats pointed to several possibilities, including Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords; Rep. Ruben Gallego; and Grant Woods, a former chief of staff to McCain who served as state attorney general.
Woods, a Trump critic, said he recently became a Democrat and has moved closer to a run. “We’ve got an exploratory plan in place, and we’re executing it,” he said.
Woods has also started thinking about which Republican he might be trying to unseat and previewed a possible line of attack against McSally.
“The governor’s unusual in that he used to run an ice cream company and yet he always chooses vanilla,” said Woods, referring to Ducey’s time as the head of Cold Stone Creamery. “This would be your typical Washington, D.C.-influenced cynical pick, in my view. I think it would be a very poor pick, and I hope he doesn’t do it. And the reason is, the voters have spoken. She had her chance, and she lost.”
Some Republicans have noted that Kyl’s appointment was somewhat surprising and that another unexpected twist might be coming up — including the possibility of Kyl staying on longer than many are anticipating.
Asked if he has set a deadline for his decision, Kyl replied: “No.”
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VR videos helping agents close sales
Posted on January 19, 2019 by Virtual Honeymoon
A growing number of travel advisers are reporting that virtual reality (VR) is helping them close sales more often and faster, and several said they’re considering ways to put the technology in their clients’ hands with branded headsets to make it more accessible.
“You know, you can talk up a resort, you can talk up a destination, but letting them experience it for themselves like they’re really there gets them very excited about trips,” said Michele Botnick, owner of Lucky N Love Travel in Roswell, N.M.
Botnick is among the agents using a product developed by Virtual Honeymoon, a company owned by former agent Robin Hawkey, who created a set of interactive, online quizzes to help clients narrow their preferred destinations.
The service now offers quizzes for honeymoons, vacations, anniversary trips and weddings (including venue matching). Agents who sign up for the service also get access to VR content for which Hawkey partners with a Canadian company, Explor VR.
A number of Hawkey’s agent clients, including Botnick, have begun bringing VR headsets powered by smartphones to bridal shows. They have prospective clients take Virtual Honeymoon’s quiz, which takes into account personal preferences and budgets to determine two recommended destinations. They then showcase one or both destinations on the VR headset.
“It literally is doubling their sales,” Hawkey said. “They are closing sales quicker, and it gets the clients really excited.”
Hawkey has seen agents’ use of VR increase in the past year or so, a trend she attributed to the increasing quality and affordability of headsets.
VR has existed in some form for decades, but the market for headsets designed for consumer use has exploded in recent years. At first, headsets required expensive computers to run, but versions that utilize a smartphone have become very common.
Some cost less than $20, among them the Google Cardboard, a smartphone-powered headset. Sets that run off smartphones range in price and quality.
Newer entrants even run as standalone systems, not requiring a smartphone. Among those is the Oculus Go (starting at $200). Higher-end headsets requiring the use of a computer cost hundreds of dollars for the headset alone.
Companies in the retail travel space have been experimenting with VR in recent years. For example, Virtuoso several years ago beta-tested the use of high-end headsets in member agencies. The consortium found that interest varied greatly among members, and VR efforts are now member-driven.
One of those interested members is Direct Travel. Vicky DiMichele, digital marketing manager of leisure at the agency is Willoughby, Ohio, said it plans to introduce VR this year using Oculus Go headsets.
Guests viewing content from Virtual Honeymoon at a bridal show.
The idea is to place headsets in offices with walk-in leisure business. She would showcase videos from suppliers but is also considering creating her own VR content, especially from familiarization or adviser-incentive trips. That could also be useful for agents, DiMichele said.
Largay Travel of Waterbury, Conn., another Virtuoso agency, was an early tester of using high-end headsets in agencies, but Scott Largay, director of marketing, said the agency ran into issues with content development.
The agency was attempting to create its own content and app, but Largay said he found that limits to the amount and quality of content “was very restrictive to what we were looking to do.”
Companies producing VR content weren’t able to produce the caliber of content Largay wanted, he said, and those that could were “astronomically priced.”
“Virtual reality will be a big part of the travel industry moving forward, and I will be there with my headset on when it happens,” he said. “But it’s just not right now.”
While some have taken a step back from VR, Virtual Honeymoon’s Hawkey is doubling down on the technology and encouraging resorts to start filming weddings with it.
She works with several VR companies, and each has agreed to record at least one complimentary mock wedding as long as the resort hosts the production (and, of course, arranges the event). Hawkey said she has several resorts interested and that she believes they will see a direct impact on bookings if agents showcase weddings virtually.
She said other resorts would likely follow suit and pay to have their own mock weddings recorded in VR.
“The reason that we’re doing that is to prove how powerful viewing VR weddings really is and to show how that venue is going to double, if not triple, their weddings by doing something as powerful as a virtual wedding,” she said. “Because then you can literally drop the couple into the wedding without being there.”
It’s not a cheap prospect. In addition to the mock wedding, VR videos feature other aspects of the property to give viewers a better feel for what they will experience. Hawkey estimated that recording one property costs between $7,500 and $10,000, a price driven not only by the effort to videotape at a resort but also the costs of expensive professional equipment and the editing process.
The expense involved in VR is what led Camille Sanders, owner of Chic Romance Travel in Fresno, Calif., to partner with Virtual Honeymoon to offer VR to her clients instead of trying to create her own program and content.
“It’s very expensive to produce,” she said. “It definitely is better to partner with somebody.”
Like Lucky N Love’s Botnick, Sanders brings headsets to bridal shows.
“I feel it really sets me aside differently than anything out there, especially with other local agencies,” Sanders said. “It’s something different to offer.”
Miki Taylor, founder and CEO of Taylor & Co. Travel in Auburn, Ala., lives in a college town and brings the headsets to many local events. She said VR has gone over very well with clients, especially students, for whom Taylor plans many spring break trips.
“If I had a storefront, I’d have [headsets] on every station,” Taylor said. “Every agent would have them, and they would use them to sell. It sells itself.”
Both Sanders and Botnick are also considering purchasing branded headsets that are inexpensive, foldable and easily mailable to clients around the country, who can use their smartphones to view VR content.
Hawkey said VR is a powerful technology for agents to have in their arsenal.
“I just feel it in my gut,” she said. “If agents don’t get on with the technology, they’re going to be the next ones out of business.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Frontier Airlines is returning to Oklahoma City after a two-and-a-half-year absence with daily flights to its Denver headquarters hub.
Airports Director Mark Kranenburg said Tuesday that Frontier has also committed to flights out of Will Rogers World Airport to Orlando, Florida, and San Diego, California. The details of Frontier’s investment in Oklahoma City are still being worked out, he said, but the company appears to be interested in staying at Will Rogers well into 2018.
The Denver route is scheduled to begin Nov. 1, as is the Orlando route, although the latter will operate only Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The San Diego route will begin in the spring.
“San Diego is an airport destination that we’ve been pitching to carriers for some time,” he said. “I’m really delighted that they’ll start next spring. The data we’ve collected suggests a lot of Oklahoma passengers are interested in going to San Diego.
“That’s what we try to do: find service holes throughout the United States to fill. But you’ve also got to make sure there’s enough of a market demand to justify the use,” he said. “We are always working with our consultant to find recruitment opportunities as well as enhancement.”
The announcement is part of a larger campaign in which Frontier is entering 21 cities and adding 85 new routes with promises of lower fares.
Frontier was one of the first airlines to operate out of Oklahoma City, Kranenburg said. Its cancellation of service in early 2015 was due to other changes in the carrier’s routes that included major job cuts in Denver as well as a $1 billion contract for new Airbus jets.
The reintroduction will not require any construction or realignments at the airport, he said. Will Rogers has one vacant gate remaining. An inspection tour of the facility was planned with executives Tuesday afternoon.
Will Rogers’ total enplanements for the year to date are up 3 percent compared with 2016. June’s passenger traffic increased by 7 percent; March increased by 8 percent.
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The concept of the “seat of arbitration” is a well established one that is recognized by many countries, and which has a critical impact on the conduct of international arbitrations and enforcement of arbitral awards.
The seat of an arbitration refers to the legal place of the arbitration or the legal jurisdiction to which the arbitration is anchored. It determines that the arbitration law of the seat will be the lex arbitri applicable to the arbitral proceedings, and the scope and extent of the support, supervision or intervention the court in the seat of arbitration has over the arbitration. While in many cases the seat is also the place in which the hearing is conducted, the concept of the “seat of arbitration” is nowadays seen as more of a legal than geographical concept.
The choice of arbitration seat is often seen by parties as a choice between legal frameworks and arbitration laws. In a 2015 survey on international arbitration conducted by Queen Mary University of London, respondents stated that their preference for certain seats over others is premised upon certain factors, including the seat’s established formal legal structure, the neutrality and impartiality of its legal system, the national arbitration law and its track record for enforcing agreements to arbitrate and arbitral awards.
In most major arbitration jurisdictions, the seat of an arbitration is determinative of the eventual award’s nationality. For example, when parties choose to arbitrate in England, the arbitral award made in this arbitration will be an English arbitral award, regardless of the nationality of the arbitral institution, the parties, or the law governing the substantive dispute.
The principal significance of the nationality of an arbitral award is that it ultimately determines how it will be recognized and enforced. Most major arbitration jurisdictions maintain a distinction between domestic awards and foreign awards, and set out a separate statutory regime governs the recognition and enforcement of each category. For example, section 3 of the UK Arbitration Act 1996 defines the “seat of arbitration”, and both the Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609) and Singapore International Arbitration Act (Cap. 143A) refer to the term “place of arbitration”.
This dichotomy of regimes for domestic and foreign awards likewise exists in the People’s Republic of China, but the means by which a foreign award is distinguished from a domestic award is very different. The current Arbitration Law does not have a concept of the “seat of arbitration”. Instead, it creates a concept called “place of arbitration commission”
(仲裁委员会所在地). This term has caused a degree of uncertainty and ambiguity in determining the nationality of an arbitral award. For example, there has been uncertainty regarding the determination of the nationality of an award arising out of an arbitration conducted in the PRC by a foreign arbitral institution.
Taking the example of an award arising from arbitral proceedings administered in China by the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), such an award would ordinarily be recognized as a Chinese award in accordance with the prevalent approach in international arbitration practice. However, due to the ambiguity referred to above under the current PRC framework, there were instances where such an award were treated as a foreign award in the PRC by virtue of the fact that the ICC is a foreign arbitral institution. In this regard, there were cases where the PRC courts have recognized ICC awards as French awards, despite the fact that the proceedings were not conducted in France.
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC), in its Reply Regarding Not Enforcing ICC Final Award, was of the view at the time that an ICC award arising out of proceedings conducted in Hong Kong ought to be recognized and enforced under the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention), instead of the Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the arrangement) because ICC was an arbitral institution established in France.
In the case of Duferco v Ningbo Arts & Crafts Import & Export, the award in question arose out of an ICC arbitration conducted in Beijing. The Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court ruled that the award was considered a French (and therefore non-domestic) award within the context of article I of the New York Convention because the arbitral institution, the ICC, was headquartered in France.
This approach is also exemplified in the case of TH&T International v Chengdu Hualong Automobile Parts, where the arbitration agreement between the parties provided for arbitration “under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles”. In recognition and enforcement proceedings, the Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court held that the award in question was a French award again by virtue of the French origin of the ICC, as opposed to an American award by virtue of the fact that proceedings were seated in Los Angeles, for the same reason that the ICC was headquartered in France.
Conceptual difficulties arise when the nationality of an award is determined with regard to the nationality of the arbitral institution rather than the seat of arbitration. This approach ignores the fact of the lex arbitri and the role that supervisory courts play in arbitral proceedings.
It is inspiring to see that recent developments hint at PRC jurisprudence warming to the concept of a seat or place of arbitration. For example, the PRC Law on Choice of Law for Foreign-related Civil Relationships makes express reference to the term “place of arbitration” (仲裁地). Further, the SPC has issued a notification stating that awards rendered in ad hoc arbitrations, or ICC awards made in Hong Kong, should be enforced in accordance with the arrangement, which in a way confirms that the “nationality” of such awards is Hong Kong.
Recently, in its Reply Regarding Non-Enforcement of ICC Arbitral Award, the SPC again confirmed the standard of determining the nationality of an award arising out of Hong Kong arbitral proceedings. In that case, an application was made to the Taizhou Intermediate People’s Court for the enforcement of an award made by an ICC-appointed sole arbitrator in Hong Kong. The SPC confirmed that the Intermediate People’s Court should review the enforcement application in accordance with the arrangement.
Similarly, where the parties opt for overseas arbitral proceedings to be administered by Chinese arbitral institutions, it would also involve the question of determining the nationality of the award. In December 2016, in the case of Ennead Architects International LLP v R & F Nanjing Real Estate Development, which involved enforcement proceedings in respect of an award arising out of proceedings conducted by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) Hong Kong Arbitration Centre, the Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court confirmed that it would consider enforcement of the award in accordance with the provisions of the arrangement.
Recent developments in PRC judicial practices have gradually brought the PRC arbitration framework more in line with prevalent international arbitration practices. Due to historical factors, there remain to be some disparities between the PRC and international arbitration spheres. In this regard, the introduction of the concept of the “seat of arbitration” would provide greater clarity as to the determination of the nationality of arbitral awards, which would be of considerable assistance in the enforcement of arbitral awards made in a foreign country, or by a tribunal appointed by a foreign arbitral institution.
Ing Loong Yang is a partner at Latham & Watkins in Hong Kong. Desmond Gan and Tina Wang are associates at the firm in Hong Kong
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Miracle Mile Shops™ Announces Special Offerings to Ring in 2020
Miracle Mile Shops™ at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will celebrate the new year with select offerings at various bars and restaurants inside the shopping center on Tuesday, Dec. 31 for New Year’s Eve.
Guests can choose from the property’s numerous promotions including discounted food, beverages and party packages to celebrate the new year.
Promotions include:
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill
Open until 2 a.m.
Unlimited domestic draft and well drinks all day ($50)
Buy-one-get-one traditional wings all day until midnight
2 – 6 p.m.: $2/$3/$4/$5 happy hour
9 p.m. – 6 a.m.: $2/$3/$4/$5 happy hour
Cabo Wabo Cantina
Patio party starts at 9 p.m.
All-you-can-drink open bar ($200 per person)
VIP Patio access including front-and-center seating, all-you-can-drink beverage options and a three-course meal, including choice of one appetizer, entrée and dessert from the cantina’s regular menu ($500 per person)
The LOFT is available for reservation for groups seeking a private party with the same Strip view (starting at $125 per person)
Chosun Hwaro and Nara Teppan
Gala party from 9 p.m. – 3 a.m. including unlimited food, well drinks and champagne ($150 per person)
Doughp
Free round of milk shots with every Doughp purchase
Three-course multiple option prix fixe menu with champagne toast ($75 per person)
Seating times are 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Garrett Popcorn Shops
Receive a $6 petite tin with any purchase
Ketchup Premium Burger Bar
La Salsa Cantina
48-ounce frozen yards and 70-ounce beer bottles ($12)
Nacho Daddy
Complimentary champagne toast at midnight for all guests 21+
Pampas Las Vegas (formerly named Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille)
Surf & turf rodizio, one lobster tail, market station, one-hour open bar, champagne toast and dessert ($119 per person)
Guests may RSVP for $69 per person if booked by Friday, Dec. 27
PBR Rock Bar & Grill
National live TV broadcast from the patio
Premium open bar from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. including appetizer buffet, champagne toast at midnight and party favors ($150 per person)
Patio bottle service (starting at $500)
Sin City Brewing Co.
Tipsy Robot
Miracle Mile Shops’ hours of operation on New Year’s Eve are from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; however, the above highlights special holiday hours for select tenants around the property for one day only.
About Miracle Mile Shops™:
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; Sephora; the only Las Vegas location of NYX Professional Makeup; premier blow out salon, Drybar; H&M; GUESS; Tipsy Robot, the first land-based cocktail bar operated by robots; PBR American Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; Buffalo Wild Wings; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; Nacho Daddy, home of the world-famous Scorpion Shot; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is an affiliate of Institutional Mall Investors LLC, a co-investment venture owned by Miller Capital Advisory, Inc. and CalPERS.
Miracle Mile Shops is open 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 a.m. – midnight Friday – Saturday.
For more information, call (888) 800-8284 or visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com. Keep up with the latest Miracle Mile Shops news via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Where to Watch Football this Season at Miracle Mile Shops
Football season is here, and tourists and locals alike can catch their favorite professional football games on the Strip at Miracle Mile Shops’ many bars and restaurants inside the shopping center:
Score big at the ultimate sports bar inside Miracle Mile Shops which features a full bar menu, cheerleaders, and 35 plasma and big-screen TVs broadcasting the biggest games. Happy hour is available Monday to Friday from 3 – 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. – 1 a.m. Guests can enjoy $20 all-you-can-drink domestic draft and well drinks.
Blue Moon Bar
Located next to the Zappos Theater, Blue Moon Bar offers seasonal and limited-release craft beers only available at Blue Moon’s River North brewery in Denver. Enjoy buy-one-get-one drinks every night during happy hour from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Buffalo Wild Wings offers its Boneless Thursday deal every week with wings priced at 70 cents each, and happy hour from 2 – 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. – 6 a.m. Happy hour menus feature the $2/$3/$4/$5 options which include: $2 domestic drafts and shareables; $3 tall domestic drafts, select liquor, shots and shareables; $4 craft and import drafts, select liquor, wine and shareables; and $5 tall craft and import drafts, select house cocktails, shareables, tenders and burgers. Catch the game on one of the several TV screens at any seat in the house.
Sammy Hagar’s Strip-side cantina offers the perfect mix of coastal Mexican and Tex Mex cuisine. Happy hour is available Monday through Friday from 3 – 5 p.m. featuring $3 street tacos and daily beer and shot specials starting at just $5. Additional happy hour offerings include 50-percent-off margaritas, sangria, draft beers and select appetizers. Games will be shown throughout the cantina on flat-panel big-screen TVs, including a 200-inch video grid, a 200-inch projection screen, a 110-inch high-definition TV, two 80-inch high-definition TVs, and 25 high-definition TVs, visible from any seat in the restaurant.
The newly opened, aviation-themed eatery inside Miracle Mile Shops features one-of-a-kind cocktail experiences and tapas-style comfort food such as ahi tuna, skewers, salads, sliders, and more. Catch your favorite professional football games on any one of the space’s multiple TVs.
Enjoy gourmet nachos and Nacho Daddy’s happy hour featuring discounted food and drinks from 3 – 6 p.m. every Monday through Friday. Guests can dive into the $5 happy hour menu including street tacos, signature margaritas, well drinks, light bites and mini nachos plates while watching the game on one of the eatery’s several TV screens.
PBR Rock Bar & Grill’s mega-venue features a mechanical bull, expansive Strip-side patio, DJ booths, four full-service bars and more. Happy hour is available from 2 – 6 p.m. every Monday through Thursday. Enjoy half-priced drafts, two-for-one cocktails and $5-$7 small plates. Sports fans can stop in to enjoy $5 Jack Daniels shots, $5 Miller Lite drafts, $20 Miller Lite buckets every Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday during football season.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Miracle Mile Shops
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is serving up specials from drinks to dessert to celebrate the holiday.
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill, the ultimate sports bar inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, is offering $5 Estrella Micheladas for the entire month of May to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Cabo Wabo Cantina, located on the Strip-side patio of Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, is offering a special shrimp cocktail appetizer in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. The dish, available from May 3 – 5, is made with fresh poached shrimp, spicy house-made cocktail sauce and garnished with fresh tomato, red onion, cilantro, and avocado. The cantina will also host patio parties all weekend long from noon – 3 a.m.
Doughp, raw edible cookie dough bar inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, is offering a Mexican twist on their signature cookie dough flavors – Nacho Mamma’s Cookie Dough. This sweet and savory delight is made with cheddar cheese powder, cayenne, white chocolate sauce, freeze dried corn, pureed avocados, and marshmallow cream. Nacho Mamma’s Cookie Dough is only available from April 30 through May 30.
Hot N juicy Crawfish
Hot N Juicy Crawfish at Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is offering seafood lovers $5 Michelada specials all day long on Sunday, May 5 in celebration of Cinco de Mayo.
The California fresh-Mex favorite located inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is offering $5 Mexican beers and 1800 Silver Tequila shots all day on Sunday, May 5 in celebration of Cinco de Mayo.
Miracle Mile Shops™ Offer Winning Deals for March Mania
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood introduce special offerings for visitors to enjoy during the 2019 College Basketball Tournament including food, beverage and game-viewing perks.
Offers from restaurants and bars include:
Open daily from 7 a.m. – 2 a.m.
Featuring 35 plasma TVs broadcasting every game, Blondies Sports Bar & Grill will offer beer bucket specials, $5 Jägermeister shots and $6 Cazadores Blanco shots during the college basketball tournament.
Open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. – midnight, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Located next to the Zappos Theater, Blue Moon Bar offers seasonal and limited-release craft beers only available at Blue Moon’s River North brewery in Denver. Guests are invited to watch every game on one of 12 80-inch TVs for a premiere viewing experience while enjoying exclusive draft beer offerings. Prizes and giveaways will be awarded during the games on Thursday, March 21 through Saturday, March 23. Those interested must purchase a minimum of $50 in beverages. For more information, contact 702-523-4977 or heartbartables@planethollywood.com.
Buffalo Wild Wings will offer a variety of options off the full menu including its Boneless Thursday deal with wings priced at 70 cents each, and happy hour from 2 – 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. – 6 a.m. New menus for happy hour will feature the $2/$3/$4/$5 options which include: $2 domestic drafts and shareables; $3 tall domestic drafts, select liquor, shots and shareables; $4 craft and import drafts, select liquor, wine and shareables; and $5 tall craft and import drafts, select house cocktails, shareables, tenders and burgers.
Seafood lovers can enjoy a variety of crawfish, lobster, king crab, shrimp and more during Hot N Juicy Crawfish’s happy hour from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. every Monday and Thursday. Offerings include: $13 “Quickie Lunch Deal” with choice of any Po’ Boy with a side of Cajun fries and soda; $4 house shot with choice of tequila, vodka, gin, whiskey and rum; $5 domestic and imported beer; and $6 premium beer and house special cocktails.
Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille
Open Sunday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
The Brazilian-style steakhouse and bar will offer 50 percent off drink packages throughout the month of March with purchase of a full-priced Rodizio – an unlimited serving of featured meats, hand-carved tableside in true Brazilian fashion, served for lunch or dinner.
Open Sunday through Thursday from 8 a.m. – 1 a.m., Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Join PBR Rock Bar & Grill for its March Mayhem Viewing Party beginning Thursday, March 21 through Sunday, March 24. Guests can watch every game on one of 80 high-definition TVs in the restaurant. Half and full day packages are available starting at $150. All packages include access to PBR’s premium open bar. Personal booth TVs are also available. Table reservations can be made online.
For additional information, please visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com.
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; Sephora; the only Las Vegas location of NYX Professional Makeup; premier blow out salon, Drybar; H&M; GUESS; Flight 23 at Footaction, one of only three in the country; Tipsy Robot, the first land-based cocktail bar operated by robots; PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; Buffalo Wild Wings; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; Nacho Daddy, home of the world-famous Scorpion Shot; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is an affiliate of Institutional Mall Investors LLC, a co-investment venture owned by Miller Capital Advisory, Inc. and CalPERS.
Miracle Mile Shops is open 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 a.m. – midnight Friday – Saturday. For more information, call (888) 800-8284 or visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com. Keep up with the latest Miracle Mile Shops news via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Watch the Big Game at Miracle Mile Shops
WACH THE BIG GAME AT MIRACLE MILE SHOPS
Reserve a table for Super Bowl LI viewing parties on the Las Vegas Strip
Make reservations for the best seat on the Las Vegas Strip at one of four Super Bowl LI watch parties inside Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood.
Offers from restaurants and bars hosting parties for the Big Game include:
Annual Super Sunday Party
For $200 per person, guests may enjoy an unlimited premium buffet featuring an open bar, prime rib, shrimp and more. Additionally, Blondies Sports Bar & Grill will be giving away prizes during the game. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
Annual Big Game Party
To reserve a seat for the game, each guest must purchase a $125 Buffalo Wild Wings gift card, which can be used to purchase food and drinks during the game or another visit to the restaurant. Seats can be purchased in person starting Thursday, Feb. 2. Guests attending the Annual Big Game Party must be inside the restaurant by 1:30 p.m. on game day to hold their reservations. The Buffalo Wild Wings Party Menu is available for large takeout orders for guests planning to celebrate in a suite or hotel room.
Big Game Viewing Party
The Strip-side cantina will offer a variety of tailgate favorites with its all-you-can-eat-and-drink buffet, priced at $200 per person. The buffet will include hot dogs, sliders and a build-your-own tacos and nachos station. Thirsty fans may enjoy buckets of beer including Dos Equis with their meal. No football party would be complete without high-definition TVs, which are visible throughout the cantina, including 80-inch screens at the bar and 75-inch screens throughout the cantina. Game day viewing will also be shown in Cabo Wabo’s private upstairs lounge, The LOFT, on numerous flat-panel big-screen TVs, including a 201-inch projector, a 192-inch flat screen and two 80-inch high-definition TVs. To inquire about pricing or reservations, please contact Kristen.maurer@cabowabovegas.com.
Big Game Watch Party
For $125, guests are provided with all-access to one of the best sports bars in Las Vegas and a premium liquor and beer open bar from 2 p.m. until the end of the game. Guests can reserve a seat at the bar for $125, or choose from tables of two for $250, four for $500, six for $750 or eight for $1,000. All tables include premium open bar and can be reserved online.
About Miracle Mile Shops:
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; Buffalo Wild Wings; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; BCBGMAXAZRIA; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; Flight 23 at Footaction, one of only three in the country; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is an affiliate of Institutional Mall Investors LLC, a co-investment venture owned by Miller Capital Advisory, Inc. and CalPERS.
Ring in 2017 With Miracle Mile Shops
Miracle Mile Shops
To celebrate the New Year, Miracle Mile Shops will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve (Saturday, Dec. 31) with several merchants offering food and beverage specials and extended hours. On New Year’s Day (Sunday, Jan. 1), Miracle Mile Shops will be open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill hosts an end-of-the-year $50 open bar special from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with a free champagne toast at midnight. 702-737-0444
Buffalo Wild Wings will broadcast college football playoff games during the day. The full menu will be available all day and night. 702-734-0096
The patio party starts at $200 per person and includes an all-you-can-drink open bar. VIP patio access, $500 per person, includes front-and-center seating, all-you-can-drink beverage option and 3-course meal including the choice of one appetizer, entree and dessert from the cantina’s regular menu. The LOFT is available for reservation for groups seeking a private party with the same incredible Las Vegas Strip view. 702-385-2226
All day on New Year’s Eve, guests can enjoy $5 shots of 1800 Silver Tequila and El Jimador Silver Tequila. Guest may also enjoy two-for-one yard margaritas from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 702-892-0645
Guests may enjoy patio seating for up to five people when spending a minimum of $200 per table. Patio tables include a complementary bottle of champagne. 702-462-5000
Ocean One Grille & Bar
Open until midnight
All day on New Year’s Eve, guests may enjoy three-for-one cocktails, $3 beers and $3 frozen drinks.
Oyster Bay Seafood & Wine Bar
Oyster Bay Seafood & Wine Bar will feature a special New Year’s Eve menu. 702-794-2929
Open until 12:30 a.m.
Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille will offer a New Year’s Eve Surf & Turf dinner with a lobster tail and one-hour bar service for $110 per person and a traditional Rodizio dinner for $69 per person.
General admission tickets start at $30 and seated VIP is $75. VIP table packages start at $300 and include VIP line entrance and bottle service. VIP table packages start at $400 and offer incredible views of the fireworks and Las Vegas Strip on the heated patio. During the day PBR will broadcast the college football playoff games, and for $75 guests can guarantee a seat and premium open bar for both games. 702-750-1685
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Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; Buffalo Wild Wings; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; Nacho Daddy, home of the world-famous Scorpion Shot; BCBGMAXAZRIA; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; Flight 23 at Footaction, one of only three in the country; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is an affiliate of Institutional Mall Investors LLC, a co-investment venture owned by Miller Capital Advisory, Inc. and CalPERS.
Miracle Mile Shops is open 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 a.m. – midnight Friday – Saturday. Miracle Mile Shops is open 365 days a year. Restaurant hours may vary.
‘Shop & Eat – It’s Our Treat’ Returns to Miracle Mile Shops this Summer
‘SHOP & EAT – IT’S OUR TREAT’ RETURNS TO
MIRACLE MILE SHOPS THIS SUMMER
Spend $200 or more at the center & receive a $20 dining certificate
All summer long, Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is giving shoppers dining credits during ‘Shop & Eat’ – It’s Our Treat.’
Starting Sunday, May 1, customers who spend $200 or more at any Miracle Mile Shops store will receive a $20 dining certificate valid at one of the center’s participating restaurants. To receive the certificate, guests must present same-day receipts totaling $200 or more at the Miracle Mile Shops’ Customer Service Desk located near the parking garage.
Participating restaurants include:
Lombardi’s Romagna Mia
The promotion excludes restaurant purchases. Original receipts are required. Customers may receive one certificate per person per day. Please visit Miracle Mile Shops’ Customer Service Desk or www.miraclemileshopslv.com for complete details.
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; Buffalo Wild Wings; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; BCBGMAXAZRIA; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; Flight 23 at Footaction, one of only three in the country; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by Tristar Capital and RFR Holding LLC, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Miracle Mile Shops April Events & Promotions
APRIL EVENTS & PROMOTIONS
Caring, Giving, Changing at Miracle Mile Shops
Miracle Mile Shops is collecting fountain donations for Easter Seals Nevada in honor of National Autism Awareness Month. As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the blue fountain and the indoor rainstorm will advance the organization’s mission of providing exceptional services for people with disabilities and special needs and their families.
All month, Alex and Ani features its Infinite Mom Wrap ($48) and Mom Color Infusion Swarovski Set ($78) to celebrate Mother’s Day. Additionally, the store offers a Crystal Infusion Custom Pendant Expandable Necklace ($98) and Big Dipper and Little Dipper Set of Two ($48). 702-823-5555
April 7 – 10
Guests may take 40 percent off select festival styles.
To prepare shoppers for spring, BCBGeneration features 40 percent off all dresses. 702-732-4489
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
April 12; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream thanks guests with complimentary ice cream cones on its annual Free Cone Day. Donations collected on that day will benefit Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada. 702-732-2942
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill will host a March Mayhem semifinals viewing party. Guests may make reservations online at www.blondieslasvegas.com.
To celebrate the end of March Mayhem, Blondies Sports Bar & Grill will host a viewing party for the National Championship game. Reservations are available online at www.blondieslasvegas.com.
April 23; 7 p.m.
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill hosts a viewing party for UFC 197: Cormier vs. Jones. Guests may make reservations online at www.blondieslasvegas.com. 702-737-0444
Throughout the month, Brighton features the Anju Beaded Soft Bucket purse ($430), Britta Saddle bag ($310), Farafalla Double Frame Locket necklace ($56), and Mother necklace ($42).
With a single same-day Brighton purchase of $100 or more, guests will receive a complimentary Brighton umbrella. 702-313-2220
With the purchase of a $50 gift card, guests may reserve one seat during the sports bar’s UFC 197: Cormier vs. Jones viewing party. The gift cards may be used during the fight. 702-734-0096
Cabo Wabo Cantina celebrates National Beer Day with a buy one, get one special on the cantina’s signature Red Head draft beer, priced at $8. Additionally, guests may enjoy an extensive selection of draft, domestic and imported beer available on Cabo Wabo’s Strip-side patio. 702-385-2226
Cheeseburger Las Vegas
To celebrate Spring Break, guests may enjoy buckets of domestic beer for $20 and an exclusive beer on tap, 808 Pale Ale. Parties of 25 or more may enjoy the large party room free-of-charge.
April 2 – 4
Cheeseburger Las Vegas hosts March Mayhem viewing parties on its 12 flat-screen and three large-screen TVs with no cover charge. 702-735-8600
David Saxe Productions
Throughout the month, guests may book a Stripper 101 morning private class for $100.
To celebrate April Fool’s Day, guests may take $10 off any general admission ticket to VEGAS! The Show.
Guests may receive $20 off any general admission ticket to VEGAS! The Show, V – The Ultimate Variety Show or Zombie Burlesque.
To celebrate Earth Day, guests may take $10 off any general admission ticket to VEGAS! The Show, V – The Ultimate Variety Show or Zombie Burlesque.
Shoppers may enjoy up 80 percent off select items. 702-733-6420
H&M launches its Coachella line, featuring festival-inspired men’s and women’s merchandise. 702-369-1195
Guests may enjoy $4 bottles of Corona and Corona Light. Additionally, the cantina features Exotico Tequila as its tequila of the month. 702-892-0645
Oh My Godard Gallery
April 1 – 2; 2 to 6 p.m.
The gallery hosts an art show featuring work by bronze artist and sculptor Nano Lopez. 702-699-9099
All month, Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille features $20 to $30 one-hour all-you-can-drink packages with a variety of cocktails and well drinks. During lunch, guests may enjoy unlimited draft beer for $15 as well as unlimited bloody marys and mimosas for $10. Lunch is from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. 702-737-4748
Pandora features a variety of jewelry including Poetic Droplet ring ($425), Shimmering Bouquet ring ($65), Our Special Day charms ($50), Shimmering Droplets Charms ($70), Floral Daisy Lace necklace ($80) and the Smooth .925 Sterling Silver Clasp bracelet ($65). 702-836-9591
Guests will receive a sparkling Chanton with any purchase of $150 or more from its Crystal Living collection. 702-732-7302
Guests may take 15 percent off any drinkware purchase. 702-477-6725
April 9; 3 to 7 p.m.
Urban Outfitters celebrates Earth Day with live music from Echo Stains and Cherreys, complimentary non-alcoholic beverages from Whole Foods Market and an art sale hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ students with proceeds benefiting Aid for AIDS of Nevada’s Annual AIDS Walk. 702-733-0058
Miracle Mile Shops Hosts Shoptoberfest Beer Festival Every Weekend in October
Guests enjoy food, beer and retail offers throughout the center
Every Friday and Saturday in October, Miracle Mile Shops will host Shoptoberfest, a unique indoor beer festival combining food, drink and shopping specials.
Starting at 10 a.m. each day, guests may purchase a $5 souvenir beer mug and wristband from Blondies Sports Bar & Grill. Patrons may then fill up their mug at participating restaurants throughout Miracle Mile Shops for $2 while enjoying $5 food specials. Additionally, Shoptoberfest guests will receive 20 percent off specials at participating retail stores.
As an added bonus, those who spend at least $250 or more at the shopping center in a single day may take their receipts to Miracle Mile Shops’ customer service desk and redeem a $25 gift card towards a future purchase. Customers must redeem this offer on the same-day as their purchases, and each guest may only redeem one $25 gift card per day.
FRESH Grill & Bar
Participating stores include:
Cashman Photo Magic
Club Tattoo
Hattitude
Las Vegas Fight Shop
Guests looking to enjoy Shoptoberfest for more than one day may bring their beer mug back to Blondies Sports Bar & Grill on additional days to receive a new wristband at no extra cost. For more information and complete details, please visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com/shoptoberfest.
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; BCBGMAXAZRIA; Desigual; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; the first House of Hoops by Foot Locker in the city; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by RFR Holding LLC and Tristar Capital, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Miracle Mile Shops September Events & Promotions
SEPTEMBER EVENTS & PROMOTIONS
Miracle Mile Shops is collecting donations in its fountain for Human Rights Campaign. As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the fountain and the indoor rainstorm will help advance the organization’s mission to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
Sept. 1 – 7
Customers receive a $25 savings card with an in-store purchase of $75 or more or a $40 savings card with in-store purchase of $100 or more. Savings cards must be redeemed Sept. 12 – 27. See store for details. 702-369-1311
Throughout Labor Day weekend, shoppers may enjoy 40 percent off regular-priced and reduced items.
Sept. 24 – 27
BCBGeneration hosts a fall style event featuring a 40 percent discount off regular-priced items. See store for details. 702-732-4489
Sept. 10; 6 – 9 p.m.
bebe partners with Destination Runway for its iconic autumn collection event featuring exclusive clubbebe offers, complimentary sweets and DJ beats. 702-892-0406
Blondies Sports Bar & Grill invites guests to stop by as they host the college football games all day long. Additionally, for $40 per person, guests can watch UFC 191: Johnson versus Dodson 2 while enjoying unlimited Rolling Rock draft beers. 702-737-0444
Starting Sept. 13
Guests are invited to watch all professional football games scheduled for the month and can make reservations online at www.blondieslasvegas.com.
Cabo Wabo Cantina celebrates Labor Day weekend with live music, drink specials and hangover breakfast selections. Drink specials include $21 Dos Equis beer buckets, signature cocktails starting at $13 and daily shot specials starting at $5. Breakfast dishes such as the croissant french toast ($10.95) and breakfast quesadilla ($11.95) are available daily from 8 to 11 a.m.
The cantina hosts an action-packed viewing party for the UFC 191: Johnson versus Dodson 2 in its private upstairs lounge, The LOFT. Admission is $30 per guest. Beer bucket specials, signature cocktails and a full list of menu items are available for purchase. 702-385-2226
Sept. 3 – 24
Guests receive $20 off Criviel, Zoadien, Camorone or Hudia women’s ankle boots. Additionally, Simonette, Pannaconi and Holstead men’s leather boots are now $20 off. 702-734-0088
Customers may have a photo of their choice laser etched in a solid piece of crystal. Additionally, customers receive $20 off a medium or large jewel crystal heirloom piece. Cashman Photo Magic features cutting-edge laser technology. See store for details. 702-792-3686
September; 3 – 5 p.m. and 8 – 10 p.m.
Guests may enjoy $5 Mai Tai cocktails and $4 domestic drafts during the restaurant’s happy hour. 702-735-8600
Chico’s is partnering with artist and entrepreneur Sheila Johnson to raise funds for Stand Up To Cancer. For every purchase of Johnson’s one of a kind scarf, Chico’s will donate $10 to the nonprofit in its fight against cancer. 702-732-2816
Shoppers may enjoy 20 percent off any regularly-priced item. 702-431-7299
Shoppers may enjoy an additional 50 percent off select sale items through Labor Day weekend. 702-733-6420
For only $25, guests can purchase a frozen cocktail in either a 60-ounce Leg or Silver Flask glass. 702-734-9727
Gold card members may enjoy discounts on a variety of quality core products. Additionally, members save 20 percent on any protein powder with an in-store purchase of a qualifying foundation bundle. 702-432-0858
Customers may enjoy up to 50 percent off select items. 702-732-1232
Houdini’s Magic Shop
Houdini’s Magic Kits are 20 percent off and can be purchased for $19.99. Customers also receive a complimentary Houdini poster with any in-store purchase.702-314-4674
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics features its fresh face masks including the new “Don’t Look at Me” and “Rosy Cheeks” masks.
Customers may shop brand new shower products such as body lotions, shower gels and body scrubs. 702-734-0310
M∙A∙C Cosmetics
M∙A∙C Cosmetics invites guests to its Haute Dogs industry event featuring the new fall collection. Interested guests can make an appointment by calling 702-734-0129.
Shoppers may learn the latest beauty trends during the Forward Fashion event. Interested guests can make an appointment by calling 702-734-0129.
Before the football season officially begins, PBR Rock Bar & Grill is hosting fantasy football draft parties for groups of eight to 16 people. Leagues have access to free Wi-Fi as well as a takeaway draft board. Draft day specials include $25 beer buckets (six beers), $35 100-ounce beer towers and select $7 appetizers. Interested league commissioners can make a reservation by contacting Hassib Wahab at hassib.wahab@finemgmt.com.
PBR Rock Bar & Grill offers classic American food and drinks at a special price during Labor Day weekend. Additionally, guests may enjoy 15 percent off BBQ dishes such as the house-smoked brisket and smoked ribs as well as $20 beer buckets. 702-750-1685
This month, Sephora begins the Learning Animation Trend Focus client class series. Every weekend, makeup brands such as NARS Cosmetics, Urban Decay, Smashbox, Makeup Forever and Giorgio Armani will host a class focused on a specific beauty trend. See store or call 702-733-0722 for more information. September sessions include:
4 – 6: Contour
11 – 13: Treat & Conceal
18 – 20: Perfect Lips
25 – 27: Flawless Foundation
Guests will receive a scratch off card for 15 percent off an in-store purchase or a complimentary handle or lid with an in-store purchase of $35 or more. 702-477-6725
Throughout the weekend, guests may enjoy complimentary skincare consultations and samples.
Shoppers who make an in-store purchase of $50 or more will receive a surprise offer. 702-733-7350
Shoppers who make a $5 in-store donation to No Kid Hungry will receive a $20 award card to use towards a future purchase. See award card for complete terms and conditions. For more information about No Kid Hungry, please visit www.nokidhungry.org.
Customers who buy one full-price Tommy Bahama men’s or women’s bottom (excluding all swim, swim coverups, loungewear and sleepwear) will receive 50 percent off one men’s or women’s bottom of equal or lesser value. Additional restrictions apply; see store for complete details. 702-731-3988
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia
Sept. 5; 1 – 2:30 p.m.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with professional boxer and middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Fees apply.
Former American football wide receiver Jerry Rice visits TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with former American football running back Emmitt Smith. Fees apply.
Sept. 25; 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Former American football quarterback Jim Kelly visits TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Vercini
Customers may enjoy 50 percent off all suits and sport jackets and a buy-one-get-one free sale on select shirts. 702-560-1701
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino features more than a mile of 200 shops, tempting restaurants and live entertainment venues at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; BCBGMAXAZRIA; Desigual; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; the first House of Hoops by Foot Locker in the city; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by Tristar Capital and RFR Holding LLC, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Miracle Mile Shops August Events & Promotions
AUGUST EVENTS & PROMOTIONS
Miracle Mile Shops is collecting donations in its fountain for Communities In Schools of Nevada (CIS of Nevada). As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the fountain and the indoor rainstorm will help advance the local organization’s mission to surround students with a community of support.
Free Zone Specials at Miracle Mile Shops
Now – Aug. 31
For the entire month, Miracle Mile Shops features a selection of Free Zone specials allowing customers to save at 14 bars and restaurants throughout the center. For the full list of specials, please visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com/ajax/widescreen-ads/?i=1183.
Aug. 13 – 16
bebe launches its iconic autumn collection featuring timeless fall styles. During the launch, shoppers may enjoy exclusive clubbebe offers. 702-892-0406
Aug. 1
For $40 per person, guests can watch UFC 190: Rousey versus Correia while enjoying unlimited Rolling Rock draft beers. 702-737-0444
Aug. 1 – 9
Customers who purchase two rings receive a third ring for free.
Shoppers receive a complimentary Dare to Dazzle post earrings with a single same-day purchase of $75 or more. See store for details. 702-313-2220
Guests can enjoy new happy hour selections including $3 street-style tacos along with beer and shot specials starting at $5. Regular menu dishes are also available including shrimp tacos ($16.95) and the Wabolicious cheeseburger ($16.95).
The cantina hosts an action-packed viewing party for the UFC 190: Rousey versus Correia in its private upstairs lounge, The LOFT. Admission is $30 per guest. Drink specials include $21 Dos Equis beer buckets.
Cabo Wabo Cantina celebrates National Rum Day with 10 percent off all cocktails made with Sammy’s Beach Bar rum. 702-385-2226
Customers receive an additional $20 off a large laser-etched jewel crystal and crystal-lighted base. See store for details. 702-792-3686
Aug.; 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Customers may enjoy 20 percent off any single regularly-priced item.
Additionally, shoppers may enjoy up to 50 percent off select clearance styles. 702-836-9707
Desigual launches its 2015 autumn and winter collection.
Aug. 1 – 23
Customers may enjoy up to 50 percent off the spring and summer collection during its end-of-the-season sale. 702-735-9440
Shoppers may enjoy 20 percent off any in-store regularly-priced item. 702-431-7299
French Connection welcomes the arrival of fall styles in-store. 702-733-6420
Garrett Popcorn Shops features its limited-edition KettleCorn, available in one-gallon tin and all bag sizes. 888-476-7267
GUESS launches its new #smartGUESS denim technology featuring revolutionary styles including the Push Up and Shape Up denim jean leggings. 702-836-9711
Customers may enjoy 50 percent off all back-to-school hats. 702-732-1232
PBR Rock Bar & Grill serves a brand new summer menu featuring Fruity Pebble French Toast ($10), a Turkey Jamwich ($12) and a Shrimp Po’ Boy ($14).
PBR Rock Bar & Grill begins hosting fantasy football draft parties for groups of eight to 16 people. Leagues have access to free Wi-Fi as well as a takeaway draft board. Draft day specials include $25 beer buckets (six beers), $35 100-ounce beer towers and select $7 appetizers. Interested league commissioners can make a reservation by contacting Hassib Wahab at hassib.wahab@finemgmt.com or info@pbrrockbar.com. 702-750-1685
PBR Rock Bar & Grill hosts the ultimate fighting watch party for UFC 190: Rousey versus Correia. General admission is $20. Guaranteed seating is $50 and includes open bar. To purchase tickets, please visit www.pbrrockbar.com/ufc-190. 702-750-1685
Celebrate National Waffle Day with the restaurant’s Chicken and Waffles ($17.95) or Chicken and Waffle Pizza ($14.95).
Sephora invites shoppers to try the hottest summer looks including berry lips, electric eyes, glowing skin and feathered brows. Every weekend, “trend animation” brands such as NARS Cosmetics, Urban Decay, Lancôme Paris and Benefit Cosmetics will host in-store makeup demonstrations for shoppers. See store for details. 702-733-0722
Customers who sign up for Paradise Nation in-store receive an additional 25 percent off an in-store purchase. This promotion does not apply to Maui Jim® styles and limits one discount per customer. Additional restrictions apply; see store for complete details.
Tommy Bahama invites shoppers to celebrate National Relaxation Day with a variety of in-store festivities. 702-731-3988
Aug. 14; 2 – 3 p.m.
Former American football wide receiver Jerry Rice visits TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Miracle Mile Shops July Events & Promotions
Miracle Mile Shops is collecting donations in its fountain for the Dress for Success Southern Nevada. As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the fountain and the indoor rainstorm will benefit the local organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women.
June 15 – Aug. 31
This summer, Miracle Mile Shops features a selection of Free Zone specials allowing customers to save at 14 bars and restaurants throughout the center.
July 1 – 31
Shoppers may enjoy 50 percent off all discounted styles during ALDO’s end-of-the-season sale. 702-369-1311
Customers may enjoy 50 percent off all regular-priced styles during BCBGeneration’s Fourth of July sale.
Shoppers may take an additional 40 percent off all sale items.
Select styles are up to 70 percent off during BCBGeneration’s summer sale. 702-732-4489
For a limited time, guests can purchase select woven tops for only $78. Additionally, guests may enjoy up to 65 percent off sale items. 702-735-2947
Guests may enjoy up to 50 percent off all in-store sale styles during bebe’s Fourth of July sale. 702-892-0406
Guests will receive a complimentary coozie with the purchase of a beer bucket.
For $40 per person, guests can watch UFC 189 Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor fight while enjoying unlimited domestic draft beers. 702-737-0444
Shoppers will receive a complimentary denim-hued Woodstock bracelet with a purchase of $50 or more on charms, beads or spacers. See store for details.
Customers who purchase two rings will receive a third ring for free. 702-313-2220
Brighton Collectibles is gathering school supplies on behalf of the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation.
Cabo Wabo Cantina will host a Fourth of July party featuring drink specials, live music, fireworks and more. 702-385-2226
Shoppers may enjoy an additional 40 percent off all sale footwear. 702-734-0088
Customers will receive an additional $20 off a large laser-etched jewel crystal and crystal-lighted base. See store for details. 702-792-3686
July; 2:30 – 5 p.m. and 8 – 10 p.m.
Guests can enjoy $5 Mai Tai cocktails and $4 domestic drafts during the restaurant’s happy hour. 702-735-8600
July; Monday – Saturday 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Customers may enjoy 20 percent off any single regularly-priced item. This promotion cannot be combined with any other offer, one discount per customer. 702-836-9707
Shoppers may enjoy an additional 50 percent off sale items during French Connection’s summer sale. 702-733-6420
For only $25, guests can purchase a frozen cocktail in either a 60 ounce Leg or Silver Flask glass. 702-734-9727
In honor of Fourth of July, Garrett Popcorn Shops features its limited edition Garrett Stripes & Stars one gallon tin. 888-476-7267
Customers will receive a complimentary Las Vegas ball cap with any in-store purchase over $50. Offer valid while supplies last. 702-732-1232
Houdini’s Magic Kits are 20 percent off and can be purchased for $19.99. Customers will also receive a complimentary Houdini poster with any in-store purchase.702-314-4674
July 10; 7:30 p.m.
Las Vegas Fight Shop and Affliction host a meet and greet with UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. An Affliction Living Legends shirt purchase ($58) is required to attend.
July 11; noon – 2 p.m.
UFC Heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez will visit Las Vegas Fight Shop to take photos and sign autographs for fans. An Affliction Cain shirt purchase of $48 or more is required to attend. 702-366-0502
Guests will receive a free Pabst Blue Ribbon beer with the purchase of a Rodizio and BBQ entrée. 702-737-4748
PBR Rock Bar & Grill celebrates Fourth of July with a special combo deal. For $15, guests can enjoy one of the restaurant’s specialty burgers or hot dogs and a 16-ounce Pabst Blue Ribbon draft beer.
PBR Rock Bar & Grill will host the ultimate fighting watch party for the UFC 189 Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor fight. General admission is $20. Guaranteed seating is $50 and includes open bar. 702-750-1685
Starting July 2, customers may enjoy 30 percent off select styles in-store. Swarovski Rewards Just Because Members will have access to the sale on Wednesday, July 1, one day earlier. Prices and selection may vary by store location. Offer valid for a limited time only, and restrictions may apply. See store for details.
Shoppers may enjoy 40 percent off select styles during Swarovski’s summer sale. 702-732-7302
Customers may purchase a 16-ounce Watermelon Splash tumbler for just $5 with an in-store purchase of $50 or more. See store for details.
July 1 – July 16
Customers will receive a complimentary Entertaining Collection tumbler with the purchase of three Entertaining Collection tumblers. 702-477-6725
Buy one full-priced Tommy Bahama men’s polo, women’s polo or polo dress and receive one of equal or lesser value for 50 percent off. This offer is subject to change without notice and void where prohibited. Additional restrictions apply; see store or tommybahama.com for complete details. 702-731-3988
July 3, 10 & 17; 2 – 3 p.m.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with boxing legend Mike Tyson. Fees apply.
July 4; 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Retired American professional basketball player Dennis Rodman will visit TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply.
July 24; 2 – 3 p.m.
Former American football wide receiver Jerry Rice will visit TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with former American football linebacker Dick Butkus. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Customers Save this Summer with Free Zone Specials at Miracle Mile Shops
14 bars and restaurants to offer “free with purchase” deals June 15 – Aug. 31
Starting Monday, June 15, Miracle Mile Shops features a selection of Free Zone specials allowing customers to save at 14 bars and restaurants throughout the center this summer.
Through Aug. 31, popular drinking and dining destinations around Miracle Mile Shops will give guests the opportunity to score free items with a variety of offers. The Free Zone encourages guests to explore the mall in its entirety, while enjoying big savings along the way.
Free Zone promotions include:
Free large ice cream in a waffle cone of equal or lesser value with the purchase of another ice cream cone. 702-732-2942
Free pitcher of Rolling Rock with the purchase of a large pizza. 702-737-0444
Buy a shot, enjoy a free draft beer. 702-385-2226
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Free beverage of equal or lesser value with the purchase of a beverage. Daily 3 – 6 p.m. only.702-696-0564
Free order of homemade seasoned potato chips with any frozen cocktail or discounted refill purchase. 702-734-9727
Free beverage of equal or lesser value with the purchase of a beverage. Daily 3 – 6 p.m. only. 702- 331-0530
Free soda with any purchase. 702-463-4433
Nestlé Toll House Café
Free regular cookie with the purchase of a smoothie. 702-731-0202
Ocean One Bar & Grille
Free well cocktail or glass of house wine with the purchase of a lunch entrée or house specialty dinner. 702-696-9080
Free glass of wine or Caipirinha with the purchase of a Surf and Turf Rodizio entrée. 702-737-4748
Free entree with the purchase of a two-entrée plate. 702-431-2268
Free shot with the purchase of any frozen drink over 24-ounces or a free appetizer with purchase of one entrée at full price. 702-750-1685
Free pint of Sin City beer with any T-shirt purchase. 702-732-1142
Todai Sushi & Seafood Buffet
Buy one draft beer get the second one free. 702-892-0021
Miracle Mile Shops is open 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 a.m. – midnight Friday – Saturday. For more information, call (888) 800-8284 or visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com.
Miracle Mile Shops is turning its fountain blue and collecting donations for the Easter Seals Nevada. As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the fountain and the indoor rainstorm will benefit the local chapter.
Customers may enjoy 20 percent off crop tops, shorts, tank tops and swimwear. Additionally, customers will receive a complimentary gift with a $50 minimum purchase. 702-691-2506
bebe will launch its new spring collection, The Expedition, featuring an adventurous new selection of spring dresses, travel-ready pieces, signature prints and more.
bebe customers will receive exclusive clubbebe offers and promotions. 702-691-2506
April; 3 – 6 p.m.
Guests can enjoy $20 all you can drink wells and drafts. 702-737-0444
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 7 – 11 p.m.
Cashman Photo will host a meet and greet photo opportunity with Chippendales cast members. 702-792-3686
Guests can enjoy $5 Mai Tai cocktails and $4 domestic drafts during the restaurant’s happy hour from 2:30 to 5 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m. 702-735-8600
Guests can enjoy $20 off $100, $50 off $200, $75 off $300 or $100 off $400 on new collection merchandise purchases during the mid-season sale. 702-735-9440
April 1- 6
Guests can enjoy 25 percent off select store items during French Connection’s Easter sale. 702-733-6420
Customers may enjoy limited edition Easter and spring products including a collection of shower and bath treats. For more information on these items, please visit www.lushusa.com. 702-734-0310
April 2 – 4; noon – 9 p.m.
M∙A∙C Cosmetics will host the M∙A∙C is Beauty event featuring salon appointments for nails, hair and makeup. Guests must book appointments by April 1. 702-734-0129
Guests will receive one free extra item when they buy a two entrée plate. 702-301-0136
Guests can catch all the March Mayhem games on PBR Rock Bar & Grill’s 105 HDTVs. 702-750-1685
Guests will receive 30 percent off their purchase when they present the boutique’s in-store advertisement. 702-636-1100
The Body Shop will host a green tea event, and guests can receive $5 off their purchase of $25 or more with The Body Shop coupon from the Shop. Dine. Save. coupon book. 702-733-7350
April 10; 2 – 3 p.m.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith. Fees apply.
Former American football wide receiver Jerry Rice will visit TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Victoria’s Secret will re-launch its Dream Angels collection and introduce new swimwear.
Guests will receive a $15 gift card with a purchase of two bras during the store’s bra fitting event. 702-735-3174
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is a 1.2 mile retail/entertainment complex at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip featuring 170 specialty stores, 15 restaurants and live entertainment venues. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; BCBGMAXAZRIA; Desigual; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; the first House of Hoops by Foot Locker in the city; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by Tristar Capital and RFR Holding LLC, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Miracle Mile Shops March Events & Promotions
Miracle Mile Shops is turning its fountain blue and collecting donations for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada. As part of the center’s Caring, Giving, Changing community campaign, all change tossed in the blue fountain and the indoor rainstorm will benefit the local chapter.
Customers will receive $5 off the Seven Swords charm bangle, the store’s bangle of the month. 702-823-5555
March 14 – 17
Customers may enjoy 25 percent off green and orange apparel during its St. Patrick’s Day sale. 702-691-2506
bebe invites customers to experience the new spring collection while enjoying special clubbebe promotions and complimentary gifts with purchase.
March 17 – April 6
Guests can catch all the college basketball action at Blondies Sports Bar & Grill as the games are played on more than 40 big screens. The restaurant will have a number of drink specials including $5 shots of Patron Silver or Patron XO, $4 shots of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky and $6 Loaded Coronas. 702-737-0444
March 1 – March 15
Customers will receive a complimentary pair of Regally Yours Regal Post earrings with a single same-day minimum purchase of $75.
March 27 – April 12
Customers will receive a complimentary Daisy Bleu umbrella with a single same-day purchase of $100 or more. 702-313-2220
March 6 – 8
Cabo Wabo Cantina will host NASCAR viewing parties in The Loft, the cantina’s luxurious new events space, and will feature drink specials, giveaways and signature cocktails. NASCAR fans will receive a complimentary Cabo Wabo souvenir glass with a purchase of a signature cocktail.
Cabo Wabo Cantina will turn into the ultimate sports hub for college basketball fans during March Mayhem. Basketball fans may enjoy game time bites such as the nacho platter ($14.95), served with a house cheese blend, refried beans, jalapeños, Cotija cheese, pico de gallo, sour cream and guacamole. Guests may also choose from a number of drink specials including $21 beer buckets. 702-385-2226
The restaurant will feature a number of specials during the college basketball mayhem including a $5.99 breakfast special from 8 to 11 a.m.; $3.99 Bloody Mary cocktails from 8 a.m.to 4 p.m.; $5 tropical cocktails from 2 to 5 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m.; and $20 domestic beer buckets during all games. 702-735-8600
Customers may enjoy 40 percent off select styles during its spring break event. 702-862-4042
GUESS will launch its new swim line. 702-836-9711
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Customers may enjoy a buy one, get one half price sale on casual shirts. 702-862-4475
LUSH introduces its new line of limited edition Easter products featuring a collection of shower and bath treats. For more information on these items, please visit www.lushusa.com. 702-734-0310
Pandora introduces its 2015 spring collection, which will be available throughout the month. 702-836-9591
NASCAR fans that make it to PBR Rock Bar & Grill within one hour of the checkered flag at the Kobalt 400 will have access to a free open bar the entire night. Guests must have a ticket stub in hand to redeem the promotion.
Guests can catch all the March Mayhem games at PBR Rock Bar & Grill. For $400, guests can enjoy all-day open bar, an appetizer and reserved seating during any three days. The same offer applies for any two days for $300 and one day for $200. For more information on March Mayhem events, please visit www.PBRRockbar.com. 702-750-1685
March 26; 6 – 8 p.m.
Swarovski will host a Girls’ Night Out event featuring spring and summer styling tips and new brand products. The first 20 customers to arrive will receive a complimentary wine tote. 702-732-7302
March 4; 2 – 6 p.m.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf invites customers to support Best Buddies Nevada’s “Spread the Word to End the Word” movement. Customers who make a donation of $2 or more will receive a complimentary new tea beverage (excludes 32 ounce). All proceeds will benefit the nonprofit. 702-696-0564
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia hosts a meet and greet with Hall of Fame defensive tackle Joe Greene. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Vegas! The Show
Customers may enjoy balcony seat tickets starting as low as $69. For more information, visit www.vtheaterboxoffice.com or call 866-932-1818.
Customers may now purchase a suit, dress shirt and tie for only $199.99. 702-560-1701
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is a 1.2 mile retail/entertainment complex at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip featuring 170 specialty stores, 15 restaurants and live entertainment venues. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; M·A·C Cosmetics, a leading brand of professional cosmetics; H&M; UK-based global retailer French Connection; Sephora; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; Urban Outfitters; True Religion Brand Jeans; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; the first House of Hoops by Foot Locker in the city; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by Tristar Capital and RFR Holding LLC, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Miracle Mile Shops invites guests to “Shop & Eat” this fall
MIRACLE MILE SHOPS INVITES GUEST TO “SHOP & EAT” THIS FALL
Spend $200 or more at 28 participating stores & receive $20 dining certificate
Starting today, “Shop & Eat – It’s Our Treat” provides customers who spend $200 or more at participating Miracle Mile Shops stores with a $20 dining certificate valid at one of eight participating restaurants in the center.
To receive the certificate, guests must present same-day receipts totaling $200 or more at the Miracle Mile Shops’ Customer Service Desk operated by Tickets & Tours.
Participating retailers include:
Marshall Rousso
S.Y.L.K.
Vegas Royalty
D’Amore’s Famous Pizza
Original receipts are required. Customers may receive one certificate per person per day. Please visit Miracle Mile Shops’ Customer Service Desk or www.miraclemileshopslv.com for complete details.
Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino is a 1.2 mile retail/entertainment complex at the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip featuring 170 specialty stores, 15 restaurants and live entertainment venues. The center is home to PBR Rock Bar & Grill, boasting a Strip-side location with excellent food, drinks and bull riding; H&M; Sugar Factory, the sweet shop adored by Hollywood’s hottest celebrities; American clothing line and complete lifestyle brand Original Penguin; Chicago popcorn legend Garrett Popcorn Shops’ only Las Vegas location; GUESS; Urban Outfitters; True Religion Brand Jeans; 15,000-square-foot bar and restaurant Cabo Wabo® Cantina; Las Vegas’ very own Sin City Brewing Co.; Club Tattoo, featuring some of the best tattoo artists and body piercers in the nation; the first House of Hoops by Foot Locker in the city; as well as a multi-million dollar fountain show. Miracle Mile Shops is owned by David Edelstein and Aby Rosen, in conjunction with leasing and marketing consultant Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC.
Starting Monday, June 16, Miracle Mile Shops features a selection of Free Zone specials allowing customers to save at 17 bars and restaurants throughout the center.
Running until August 30, the promotion gives guests the opportunity to score free items through a variety of offers from popular drinking and dining destinations around the center. The Free Zone encourages guests to explore the mall in its entirety, while enjoying big savings along the way.
Free large ice cream in a waffle cone of equal or lesser value with the purchase of another. (702) 732-2942
Free funshot. (702) 737-0444
Free beer with the purchase of a beer from 3 – 6 p.m., Sunday – Thursday. (702) 385-2226
Free breakfast buffet with a receipt showing the purchase of a lunch or dinner entree from the previous day. (702) 735-8600
Free beverage of equal or lesser value with the purchase of a beverage. (702) 696-0564
Free slice of pizza with the purchase of another slice. (702) 778-0300
Free order of homemade seasoned potato chips with any frozen cocktail or discounted refill purchase. (702) 734-9727
Free beverage of equal or lesser value with a beverage purchase. (702) 331-0530
Free soda with any purchase. (702) 463-4433
Free soft drink and side of fries with the purchase of an entree. (702) 562-7837
Free mini cookie with any ice cream purchase. (702) 731-0202
Free well cocktail or glass of house wine with the purchase of a lunch entree or house specialty dinner. (702) 696-9080
Free lobster tail with any Surf and Turf Rodizio purchase. (702) 737-4748
Free entree with the purchase of a 2-entree plate. (702) 431-2268
Free shot with any frozen drink 24-ounces or more or free appetizer with purchase of one entree at full price. (702) 750-1685
Free pint of Sin City beer with a T-shirt purchase. (702) 732-1142
Free beer or soft drink with the purchase of a beer or soft drink. (702) 892-0021
“2 For 1 Happy Hour” at Miracle Mile Shops
Aug. 9 – 29, Monday – Thursday, 4 to 7 p.m.
Starting Aug. 9, Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino introduces “2 For 1 Happy Hour” at select restaurants and bars where shoppers can enjoy two drinks for the price of one. To enjoy this special, guests may pick up a “2 For 1 Happy Hour” card at Miracle Mile Shops’ customer service desks and from segway hosts. Participating venues include: Blondies Sports Bar & Grill, Cabo Wabo Cantina, D’Amore’s Famous Pizza, db’s Pong & Pool Hall, Halo Bar, La Salsa Cantina, Lobster ME, Lombardi’s Romagna Mia, Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille, PBR Rock Bar & Grill, Ocean One Bar & Grill, Oyster Bay Seafood & Wine Bar, Sin City Brewing Co. and Todai Sushi & Seafood Buffet.
Miracle Mile Shops will support Communities In Schools of Nevada’s back to school supply drive by serving as a collection location. Those looking to make a donation are encouraged to drop off supplies, ranging from backpacks to crayons to glue sticks, at the Miracle Mile Shops customer service desk operated by Tickets & Tours during normal operating hours. As a thank you, Miracle Mile Shops will provide all donors with a Shop.Dine.Save coupon book featuring $2,000 in savings.
Additionally, change tossed in Miracle Mile Shops’ fountain as well as the center’s indoor rainstorm will be donated to Communities In Schools of Nevada, in support of the nonprofits mission of empowering students to stay in school so they can achieve in life.
Art of Music
Enjoy 50 percent off all signed and framed memorabilia. 702-313-7664
Bettie Page Clothing
Aug. 30 – Sept. 2
Shoppers may enjoy 25 percent off select merchandise. 702-636-1100
Bikini Bay / Mimi Mango
Select Bikini Bay swimwear is up to 50 percent off. 702-699-5597
Starting Aug. 22, Thursdays – Sundays, 7 p.m.
Cabo Wabo Cantina debuts the Party Comedy Show, performed nightly at 7 p.m. on the restaurant’s second level. The improvised comedy show presented by hypnotist Anthony Cools combines quick-witted jokes in a party atmosphere. Three ticket prices are available. For more information, please call 702-531-4320.
Now – Sept. 1
Buy one crystal and receive a second of equal or lesser value at half price. 702-792-3686
Chico’s is collecting gently-worn denim jeans for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Those who donate a pair of jeans will enjoy $20 off any full price denim purchase. 702-732-2816
Buy a pair of Lucky Brand’s “Made in the U.S.A.” jeans, and enjoy 20 percent off your purchase. Offer valid while supplies last. 702-733-6613
Aug. 30, 1 – 5 p.m.
Artist Fabio Napoleoni hosts a fine art show inside the gallery. 702-699-9099
Aug. 21, 11:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Join Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille for an American Red Cross blood drive. All presenting donors will receive two tickets to the Laugh Factory, a coupon for a pint of Baskin Robbins ice cream a Red Cross water bottle and a two-for-one Rodizio coupon from Pampas Churrascaria Brazilian Grille. Additionally, all donors will be entered to win a $1,000 gift card. 702-737-4748
Pokerface kiosk
All poker sets are 10 percent off retail price. 702-350-4417
Shemoni Sterling Silver Jewelry
Shoppers can enjoy 50 percent off all sterling silver jewelry and up to 75 percent off fashion jewelry. 702-893-9996
Sophia Fiori Diamond Boutique
Sophia Fiori Diamond Boutique hosts a “Diamonds in the Desert” event featuring an onsite jeweler for jewelry upgrades and restylings, along with free jewelry cleanings, raffle prizes, light bites, music and special discounts. 702-998-9550
TAGS Evolution
Enjoy 20 percent off all rings. 702-998-8778
In honor of National Relaxation Day on Aug. 15, Tommy Bahama is giving away cash and prizes to shoppers, including a seven-day cruise for four on a private yacht in the British Virgin Islands. Enter to win at https://tommybahama.promo.eprize.com/relax/. See store for official rules, prize descriptions and odds disclosures. 702-731-3988
Aug. 1 – 3, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia will host a meet and greet with boxing legend Mike Tyson. Tyson will be available to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Aug. 9, 2 – 3 p.m.
Former America football wide receiver Jerry Rice will visit TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia to take photos and sign autographs for fans. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
Aug. 9 & 16, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 10 & 17, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana will host a meet and greet for fans at TRISTAR Sports Memorabilia store. Fees apply. 702-534-1650
White House | Black Market is celebrating teachers by inviting all teachers with a valid school ID to enjoy 15 percent off a full price purchase. 702-734-7150
Miracle Mile Shops is open 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 10 a.m. – midnight Friday – Saturday. For more information, call (888) 800-8284 or visit www.miraclemileshopslv.com. Keep up with the latest Miracle Mile Shops news via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Supergirl Recap: Coming Out
By Joshua Rivera
Editor’s Rating 5 stars *****
Melissa Benoist as Supergirl. Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW
Supergirl is telling a hell of a coming-out story. Alex Danvers’s arc over these first six episodes of the season has been tremendously humane, with beats that feel sensitive and honest in their execution, from her clear and subtle attraction to Maggie Sawyer to Maggie’s eventual realization that Alex is attracted to women.
“Changing” finds Alex in a vulnerable place, aware that she is different than she was, but also chafing against the fact that she is a grown woman, well into her life and career, who’s burdened by societal convention that demands she have herself figured out. Early in the episode, Alex tells Maggie that she feels like a kid again and she doesn’t know what to do with herself. Maggie tells Alex to do what Maggie had done not long after she found out she was gay: Tell her family.
This is when the episode starts to sing: when Alex gathers up the courage to go on a walk with Kara and come out. It’s an awkward, stumbling scene delivered tremendously well by Chyler Leigh, and Kara’s reaction is one I want to talk about — precisely because it isn’t immediately warm and accepting.
Supergirl is a show about fundamentally good people who believe in hope and optimism and acceptance. It’s in the middle of a story line that holds tolerance as one of its central themes. It’s unlikely that anyone in the Danvers clan wouldn’t accept Alex for who she is, and it’s very difficult to believe that she would be cut off from her family the way some queer people are when they come out.
That doesn’t mean Alex’s family can’t flub the reception of her coming out. Kara doesn’t immediately embrace her sister the way she may have wanted her to. She doesn’t express enthusiasm or warmth. Instead, she’s confused. She wants to know whether Alex is sure, if she’s always felt this way. These are normal responses. And unfortunately, due to the nature of their job — and the fact that an alien parasite has infected a climate-change scientist and is terrorizing National City — they can’t talk everything out until it’s okay. So Kara seems distant, and Alex is worried she’s not okay with it.
And then Kara realizes she may have failed her sister. She says she’s sorry for not creating an environment where Alex could talk about any of her feelings, that all of their bonding was so centered around keeping Kara’s secret that there was no room for Kara to support her when she needed it. Because good people can still fail one another. It’s a really wonderful story about being vulnerable with the ones you love, how terrifying it can be, and also how it can ultimately strengthen bonds if you truly support one another.
Alas, Alex is in for another, bigger letdown: Finally feeling comfortable enough to acknowledge her sexuality, she approaches Maggie Sawyer at the speakeasy, and full-on kisses her, hoping that maybe something could start between them. Unfortunately, Maggie rejects her, saying that Alex needs to just go out and explore the world she’s opened herself up to, and not just slide into something with her. While this might be good advice, Alex is humiliated at the rejection and once again finds comfort in her sister’s arms. I don’t know where her story will go next, but I’m really impressed with it so far.
Before we finish up, there’s a Jimmy problem we’ve got to talk about. Remember how, last week, Winn made a big fuss to Jimmy about how guys like them fight with information? That punching bad guys isn’t the only way to be a hero? He was right! A show like Supergirl could really benefit from having its characters be heroic in ways that don’t involve superpowers and fisticuffs. This is what the show lost when it said good-bye to Cat Grant, the one character with utter faith that she could inspire others to do good in a way different than Supergirl.
Unfortunately, Winn doesn’t totally understand this. After telling James off for his demands, he winds up going through with his promise to make him a suit anyway. And with Winn’s help, James becomes a version of the DC Comics character Guardian, a decision that is fun to watch, but pretty terrible once you think about it for more than a minute, as comics critic Jon Erik Christian pointed out on Twitter.
We Don’t Know What to Do with This Character So We Gave Them a Superhero Identity, the CW Superhero Story — Jon Erik Christian☀️ (@HonestlyJon) November 15, 2016
It’s a complete reversal from James’s first season characterization. That character was inspired by Superman but never emasculated by him, a guy who believed he could do good by being Superman’s friend and also by being a good journalist. And although I like the pushback Winn gave him — which suggests an endgame to this particular thread — the guy is far too eager to fight along for my liking.
Truth, Justice, and Other Notes:
Mon-El’s story continues to be solid enough, but also pretty bland. He gets Kara drunk on alien super-booze (fun), decides to make money by being a loan shark’s muscle (not fun), and ultimately repents for his mistake and selfish motivation by helping in the final fight (sure). He does end up kidnapped by Cadmus, though, so maybe we’re finally going to make some headway on that front.
Speaking of the final fight, PARASITE IS SUCH A COOL VILLAIN. Also cool: The straight-up The Thing homage in the cold open. Less cool: that slug making his way from Rudy Jones’s throat to his ear.
In the episode’s penultimate fight, J’onn is left in critical condition and in need of a blood transfusion from M’gann, who gives it to him rather than admit to being a White Martian. This does save him, but it seems to have some side effects that M’gann seems very sorry about. I’m worried for J’onn.
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Pardon Me: Another Damn Impeachment Show?
Susie Neilson
Praise, Don't Tease, And Other Tips To Help Kids With Their Weight
By Susie Neilson • Aug 25, 2019
Dale Knuth, now 58, says that in childhood her weight was a source of anguish — largely because of how her family treated her. "I had a brother who tormented me constantly," she says. "If I came home from school and was hungry and ate an apple, I'd be called a cow, or a pig or whatever."
Her parents, she says, did nothing to stop her brother "except to say, 'Yeah, you're getting fat.' " She had no physical outlet for her frustration — she wanted to play softball, but her mother wouldn't allow it.
This App Aims To Save New Moms' Lives
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world.
New Drug Could Be Game Changer For Drug-Resistant TB. But A Question Looms
The FDA has approved a new drug that promises a simpler and far more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis. But not everyone is celebrating.
Doctors Without Borders has concerns about a critical bottom-line issue: How much will the drug cost in poor and middle-income countries, where most TB patients reside?
The stakes are so high because the difference between the new regimen — involving a drug called pretomanid — and the current drug regimen is so dramatic.
Walmart Bans Violent Imagery, But Not Gun Sales
By Susie Neilson • Aug 9, 2019
Updated at 3:37 p.m. ET
After a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that left 22 people dead, the company said it would remove from its stores all signs, displays or videos that depict violence in an internal memo.
This Handy New Device Might Help KO Cholera
What if you could put a drop of water into a miniature laboratory — not much bigger than a smartphone — and find out whether the water contains the bacterium that causes cholera?
A simple test like that could help prevent outbreaks of the disease, which sickens as many as 4 million and kills up to 143,000 each year, mostly in poorer countries.
The ancient disease of cholera is spread primarily through drinking water that contains the bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.
Confused About Sunscreen Ingredients? Here's What We've Learned
By Patti Neighmond & Susie Neilson • Aug 4, 2019
When we smear on sunscreen, dermatologist Kanade Shinkai with the University of California, San Francisco says, most of us don't think about it getting under our skin.
"I think there was an assumption that these are things that we apply to our skin — they don't really get into our bloodstream," Shinkai says.
Sesame Allergies Are Likely More Widespread Than Previously Thought
As an ingredient, sesame is pretty popular— it's in tahini and sushi; it's often mixed in granola, sprinkled on bagels or used as a flavoring in an array of dishes. But according to new research, this may be a problem for a substantial number of Americans.
Irritating Compounds Can Show Up In 'Vape Juice'
By Susie Neilson • Jul 30, 2019
Scientists don't know much yet about the long-term effects of "vape juice," the liquid used in e-cigarettes and vaporizers. But researchers analyzing the liquid and the vapor produced when it's heated say some kinds of e-liquids are reacting to form irritating chemicals called acetals while they're sitting on shelves.
Leaders In Baltimore And Maryland Denounce Trump Tweets Attacking Elijah Cummings
Maryland leaders and residents are condemning a series of tweets by President Trump on Saturday that attacked Rep. Elijah Cummings and derided the black congressman's district as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess."
Lethal Injection Drugs' Efficacy And Availability For Federal Executions
The Justice Department's announcement that the federal government will resume its use of capital punishment has raised questions about the drugs it plans to use.
A Warm Bedtime Bath Can Help You Cool Down And Sleep Better
Graduate student Shahab Haghayegh has long had trouble sleeping. But when the biomedical engineering student began his doctoral program at the University of Texas at Austin five years ago, his issues worsened. "I would go to bed at 3 or 4 a.m. and wake up at 8 a.m.," he says. The exhausted Haghayegh was getting an average of just 4 or 5 hours sleep a night.
How To Help Your Anxious Partner — And Yourself
Living with anxiety can be tough — your thoughts might race, you might dread tasks others find simple (like driving to work) and your worries might feel inescapable. But loving someone with anxiety can be hard too. You might feel powerless to help or overwhelmed by how your partner's feelings affect your daily life.
If so, you're not alone: Multiple studies have shown that anxiety disorders may contribute to marital dissatisfaction.
50 Years After Apollo 11, Here's What (And How) Astronauts Are Eating
In 1969, Charles Bourland flew to Houston to interview for a food scientist position at NASA's Johnson Space Center. From his hotel's lobby, he watched with millions of Americans as Apollo astronauts took their first steps on the moon.
It was a "pretty impressive thing" to witness while considering a NASA job, he remembers with a chuckle.
More Kids Are Getting Placed In Foster Care Because Of Parents' Drug Use
The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week in JAMA Pediatrics.
New Zealand Starts Gun Buyback Program In Response To Christchurch Mosque Shootings
New Zealand's first gun buyback in the wake of the Christchurch shooting attracted more than 150 gun owners on Saturday, according to law enforcement officials.
The buyback, which took place in Christchurch, is the first of more than 250 planned nationwide this year.
Simona Halep Defeats Serena Williams To Win Her 1st Wimbledon Title
Serena Williams went into the Wimbledon finals on Saturday hoping to secure her 24th Grand Slam singles title — an accomplishment that would have equaled the record set by Margaret Court in the 1970s.
But after losses in two sets — 6-2, 6-2 — she fell to 27 year old Simona Halep, who with the victory became the first Romanian player to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
The win marked Halep's second major singles title — she previously won the the French Open in 2018.
Video Of An Uber Driver In South Africa Singing Opera Goes Viral
When Menzi Mngoma decided to get a job as an Uber driver, it was mostly out of necessity. The 27-year-old has a fiancé, kids and his parents to support, and his life's passion, opera, wasn't paying the bills. But he was also making a bet. "You need to be well-connected to go overseas," he told NPR. Though he's currently based in Durban, South Africa, Mngoma dreams of becoming an international musical sensation; he thought that driving Uber might help him make connections with people who could further his career.
Could Mussels Teach Us How To Clean Up Oil Spills?
Mussels may be popular among seafood lovers, but many boaters consider them pests. They colonize ship bottoms, clog water pipes and stick to motors.
Juul Doesn't Need To Advertise To Young People. Everyone Else Is Doing It For Them
By Susie Neilson • Jul 3, 2019
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include comments from Juul.
Popular e-cigarette company Juul's November 2018 commitment to stop marketing its products to youth on social media may have done little to curb the brand's reach among young people.
When Natural Disasters Strike, Operation BBQ Swoops In With Relief — And Ribs
Stan Hays was working in insurance in Missouri when the idea first came to him. It was May 2011, and a tornado had just battered the town of Joplin. He felt the urge to help. So he called up a friend, Jeff Stith. Both men shared a common skill: They were pitmasters on competitive barbecue teams.
"I thought, who better than some guys who set up in parking lots every weekend to bring a comfort meal?" Hays says.
The Gap Between Rich And Poor Americans' Health Is Widening
By Susie Neilson • Jun 28, 2019
Income inequality in the U.S. has grown over the past several decades. And as the gap between rich and poor yawns, so does the gap in their health, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open Friday.
How A Former Child Bride Got A Fatwa Against Child Marriage
Jaha Dukureh was having breakfast with her friends when the idea came to her. She wanted Muslim clerics to deliver a fatwa against child marriage – a religious opinion issued by one or more Islamic legal scholars.
Tsampa: The Tibetan Cereal That Helped Spark An Uprising
On rare occasions as a kid, Renzin Yuthok and his family got to share a special breakfast. They'd gather around a table in their home in Bellevue, Wash., his dad would roll tsampa flour, butter and tea into balls called pa, and then he'd hand them out to his kids.
More Bad Buzz For Bees: Record Number Of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter
It's a sweltering morning in Beltsville, Md., and I'm face-to-face with bee doom. Mark Dykes, a "Bee Squad coordinator" at the University of Maryland, shakes a Mason jar filled with buzzing honeybees that are coated with powdered sugar. The sugar loosens the grip of tiny Varroa mites, a parasite that plagues bees; as he sifts the powder into a bowl, they poke out like hairy pebbles in snow.
When Surgeons Are Abrasive To Co-Workers, Patients' Health May Suffer
As a group, surgeons are not well known for their bedside manner. "The stereotype of the abrasive, technically gifted ... surgeon is ubiquitous among members of the public and the medical profession," write the authors of a 2018 article in the AMA Journal of Ethics.
What Medicine Can Learn From Doctors And Researchers With Disabilities
Bonnielin Swenor has devoted her life to studying visual impairment in older adults. But for a long time, she didn't often discuss the motivation fueling her work — that she herself has low vision.
How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious
St. Basil's Hexaemeron, a Christian text from around the fourth century, contains a curious botanical instruction: Pierce an almond tree in the trunk near its roots, stick a "fat plug of pine" into its center — and its almond seeds will undergo a remarkable change.
We Drink Basically The Same Wine Varietals As Ancient Romans, And That's Not So Great
With wine, older can often mean better. "Vintage," our word for "classily aged," comes from the winemaking process. Wines from decades ago can fetch far higher prices than freshly made ones. Wine itself is woven throughout ancient history, from ancient Judeo-Christian rites (hello, Last Supper!) to Egyptian ceremonies to Roman orgies. And the grape varieties we like tend to have lengthy pasts: For instance, chardonnay grapes from France's Champagne region have been made into white wine since the Middle Ages.
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The enthralling search for a missing father
Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows Samir’s search for Brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his homeland, Lebanon. In this moving and gripping novel about family secrets, love, and friendship, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures to reveal the intimate story of an exiled family torn apart by civil war and guilt. In this rich and skillful account, Jarawan proves that he too is a masterful storyteller.
This book was published with the support of the Goethe-Institut
Categories: Pierre Jarawan, Rachel McNicholl, Sinéad Crowe
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Rachel McNicholl, Sinéad Crowe
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Germany, Lebanon
Pierre Jarawan
Pierre Jarawan was born in 1985 to a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family… Read more
The Storyteller is set in both Germany and Lebanon: how do these two landscapes compare (and contrast) within the novel?
Compare the reactions of Samir and his mother to losing their father/husband. Do they express their grief in similar ways?
How do each of the characters change throughout the course of the book?
Does their way of grieving seem healthy? Is it something you have any control over?
Samir goes to Lebanon to look for his father. Do you think this was a good idea? Why? Why not? Should he have gone earlier? Later?
Other than his father, what did he hope to find there?
Do you think Samir’s father was right to return to Lebanon? Why/why not?
Who are the people that helped Samir in his journey? In what ways did they help?
What defines the terms “family” and “home”?
The history of Lebanon is a central part of the book: What do you know about the current affairs of this region? And, from the events related within the book itself, what do you think the main problems are in Lebanon, and can you see any solutions? How does this compare to your country?
In what ways could Germany and Lebanon be said to be the same?
How do you think Samir feels upon his return to Germany? What do you think the future holds for him?
What can you say about Samir’s mother’s relationship to the other members of her family? Do you think she enjoyed living in Germany? Do you think she also longed to return to Lebanon? Why?
In what ways were Yasmin’s and Samir’s experiences in Germany the same? In what ways do they differ?
Following the death of their mother, Samir’s sister was taken to a foster family while Samir was left with friend of the family, Hakim. Was this the best thing for Samir? What else could have been done in this situation?
This book also testifies to the power of storytelling, and to an oral storytelling tradition. What does Jarawan have to say about the importance of stories? What are stories able to do for us?
Samir’s father turns his friends into animals for the basis of the bedtime stories he tells to his son: Why does he do this? How do you think it helps him?
“Jarawan’s style is pacy and unadorned, with a narrative design that urges you on.” —The Observer
“A literary debut of astounding maturity, refinement, and narrative power” —Literatur Abendzeitung
“Jarawan’s narrative is captivating, fast-paced, and true to life—a fascinating exploration of the question of what it means to be influenced by several cultures at the same time” —Frankfurter Neue Presse
“His masterful debut successfully interweaves historical events with a suspense-filled investigation of one family’s fate in a novel that deeply moves its readers.” —New Books in German
“In a sweeping style reminiscent of oriental storytelling, Jarawan tells of escape, migration, and a family torn between two cultures. His debut succeeds in bringing foreign culture into focus and awakens in the reader a fascination with the The Storyteller.” —Kulturtipp
“With this beautiful family tale, Jarawan opens your eyes to Lebanon.” —MANDA HEDDEMA, Boekhandel De Koperen Tuin
“Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read so far this year.” —From Cover to Cover
“The characters search for a sort of Holy Grail, a mystical solution to complicated problems, and they don’t find it.” —Asymptote Journal
“Deserves to be huge.” —Ignoring Life Blog
“Expansive and engaging.” —David’s Book World
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World Editions at ALTA November 15, 2019
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Guilty as Cinnamon
A Spice Shop Mystery #2
by Leslie Budewitz
Berkley Prime Crime
Available in: Paperback
Murder heats up Seattle’s Pike Place Market in the next Spice Shop mystery from the national bestselling author of Assault and Pepper.
Springtime in Seattle’s Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper’s Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, she’s sure to win over the public. Even better, she’s working with several local restaurants as their chief herb and spice supplier. Business is cooking, until one of Pepper’s potential clients, a young chef named Tamara Langston, is found dead, her life extinguished by the dangerously hot ghost chili—a spice Pepper carries in her shop.
Now stuck in the middle of a heated police investigation, Pepper must use all her senses to find out who wanted to keep Tamara’s new café from opening—before someone else gets burned…
INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!
Other Books by Leslie Budewitz
Butter Off Dead
A Food Lovers' Village Mystery #3
Assault and Pepper
Crime Rib
Death Al Dente
Food Lovers' Village Mystery #1
Leslie Budewitz's Bio
Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and her native Montana in The Food Lovers’ Village Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime. New York Times best-selling mystery writer Sofie Kelly calls it “A delicious new series.” Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan says of Death al Dente, first in the series, “Clever, charming and completely yummy.”
Leslie is also a lawyer. She graduated from Notre Dame Law School, practiced in Seattle for several years, then returned to Montana, where she still practices civil litigation and employment law. Her first book, Books, Crooks & Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure, won the 2011 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction and was nominated for the 2012 Anthony and Macavity awards.
A true believer in the power of writers helping other writers, Leslie is an active member of Sisters in Crime and is a founding member of the SinC chapter for new and unpublished writers, the Guppies. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Authors of the Flathead, and Montana Women Writers.
Leslie loves to cook, eat, hike, travel, garden, and paint—not necessarily in that order. She lives in northwest Montana with her husband, Don Beans, a musician, writer, and doctor of natural medicine, and their Burmese cat, Ruff, an avid bird watcher.
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As military tensions increase in Asia
SEP public meetings: Oppose the US, Australia war preparations against China
The military tensions provoked since the Chinese government declared an Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea sharply pose the dangers of war produced by the US Obama administration’s pivot to Asia.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel warned China that the US would support Japan in any war over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, which were included in the zone. The US and Japanese air forces are repeatedly flying unannounced into the ADIZ, in reckless challenges to Beijing’s enforcement of the zone. The Abbott government in Australia declared its full support for the US and Japan, making clear it was also prepared to go to war.
The US pivot is a strategy of encircling China and undermining its regional influence, amid the greatest economic breakdown since the 1930s Great Depression, and the historic decline in the global position of American imperialism. It centrally involves preparations for military conflict. Numerous documents from government and private think tanks have spelt out in detail how US, Australian and other allied military forces would blockade China’s access to key Asian sea lanes and launch devastating air and missile attacks on Chinese military and government installations.
At last month’s Australia-US ministerial talks, the Abbott government expanded the former Labor government’s unconditional support to the US war preparations. As well as the spy bases at Pine Gap and North West Cape, and the US marine base established in Darwin in 2012, northern and western Australia will host ever greater numbers of American aircraft and warships and two “space security” facilities. The Australian military is being integrated at every level into the US Pacific-based forces.
The build-up toward war is taking place behind a shroud of secrecy and behind the backs of the Australian working class. It is accompanied by mounting police-state operations and attacks on democratic rights. American whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaks have exposed the extent of Australian involvement in the vast US-led spy network that is operating around the world, including against Australian citizens.
Calls by media editorials for ABC personnel to be prosecuted for publishing Snowden’s revelations demonstrate a determination to intimidate and silence any opposition to the actions of the Australian state apparatus. The condemnations of the ABC have been followed this week by secret police raids on the lawyer and whistleblower involved in exposing the fact that Australian intelligence agents broke into the East Timorese government and prime ministerial offices in Dili and planted listening devices. There is no line that the ruling elite and the political establishment will not cross as it embroils the Australian population in its militarist agenda.
At the very centre of the 2013 election campaign conducted by the Socialist Equality Party was the necessity for the working class in Australia, across Asia, in the US and internationally to build a unified anti-war movement, based on a socialist perspective that aims to end the cause of the war—the failed capitalist system. The developments in the East China Sea underscore the urgency of taking forward and developing that struggle.
We urge WSWS readers, SEP supporters and all those concerned about the dangers of war to attend our public meetings.
Wednesday, December 18, 7 p.m.
Redfern Town Hall
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This Portland Entrepreneur is Betting He Can Beat the Odds With a New Business Model—Delivering a Box of Pot Each Month to Your Door
Adrian Wayman is trying to pioneer a new way of selling marijuana—to a rarefied clientele.
Adrian Wayman and Marley Lou make a delivery drive. (Abby Gordon)
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Adrian Wayman reaches for a locked briefcase bolted to the inside door handle of his Volkswagen Golf.
Inside that case is $400 worth of cannabis flower, edibles and vape cartridges. Wayman is delivering it to a resident of Portland's tallest new downtown apartment tower.
Wayman parks the car outside the gleaming Park Avenue West apartments. A beaming woman in her 40s stands eagerly on the sidewalk. She breaks into a huge grin as he exits the car with the box. She flashes her driver's license and signs a receipt. Then she hugs him.
(Abby Gordon)
It's a typical rush hour for Wayman, the founder of Green Box and the first recipient of a Portland license for recreational cannabis home delivery.
Wayman, 27, is gay, black and a Southerner. He moved from Atlanta to Portland in 2012 to get out of the South and continue a career in audio engineering. He got married here. Fell in love with skiing. Got a dog, Marley Lou.
But the idea of a cannabis delivery service was never far from his mind.
"I've been selling weed a long time," he says. "People used to call me Adro, because I was always the kid with the dro," slang for high-grade, hydroponically grown pot.
Now Wayman is trying to pioneer a new way of selling marijuana—to a rarefied clientele.
His average customer buys $212 worth of cannabis products per delivery. Subscribers can order a customized monthly box of weed—a little like Dollar Shave Club, but for many more dollars.
When Wayman started Green Box, he had no idea his customer base would end up being those who are too affluent to bother visiting a dispensary.
But in Portland's crowded cannabis market—which already includes at least a half-dozen weed-delivery companies—Wayman is betting on rich clients as the ticket to success.
"The bigger the orders, the faster we can get out of the hole," he says.
Box subscription services are a hot trend in the Amazon era—whether Birchbox's makeup sample kit or the Barkbox pile of chew toys and dog treats. They typically allow customers to pick a couple items, but the majority of the box's contents are a surprise.
Green Box is different. It allows clients to customize every item that comes in a box, or choose from curated themes like all CBD, high-THC edibles and flower, or just indica-leaning vape pens and topicals. These boxes are the first of their kind in Oregon's retail scene.
Wayman decided on delivery because he didn't have the bankroll to open a shop of his own.
"It shouldn't cost you $500K to get into this market," he says. "I didn't have it, but I wanted to be a part of this. Delivery was my only option."
He's at the forefront of a burgeoning delivery culture in Portland.
Rip City Delivery and Kush Cart are two other retail couriers with their own inventories they must manage, like a dispensary. Briteside and Stemless also provide delivery services—these companies are middlemen between partner shops and the customers in their direct vicinity. Diem falls somewhere in the middle of the spectrum, delivering in Portland and Salem, where it's connected to a Diem retail shop.
The challenge for all these companies is the same: Portland weed consumers seem wary of deliveries in general.
Wayman estimates Green Box has only about a hundred regular customers, and he makes about three deliveries a day on average.
Several couriers tell WW that shoppers seem unsure whether these delivery services are legit.
"It's been difficult to adjust people's mindsets," says Lisa Hopkins, one of the founders of Kush Cart. "When I tell people I run a cannabis delivery service, the first question they ask is if that's legal."
For a while, it wasn't. Portland city officials banned cannabis deliveries shortly after voters legalized Oregon recreational weed in 2014.
Wayman saw only one path forward: Change their minds.
Knowing the mere word "delivery" made the City Council recoil with fears about the safety of minors and drivers, Wayman proposed that delivery services essentially operate as retail shops. That they follow the same security and tracking regulations, though a customer would never have to walk through the front doors.
The City Council approved cannabis couriers in December 2016, and the first licenses rolled out over the summer of 2017.
Wayman also negotiated with the city to permit couriers to conduct business within 1,000 feet of other shops and dispensaries.
Seven months later, Wayman says he is still trying to spot patterns in his customers: software engineers, retirees and stay-at-home parents. "It's hard to know what to change or adjust," he says, "because I am still learning what people want."
But he didn't expect this to be easy.
"We are still figuring things out," he says, "but I'm inspired to be the pioneer—the gay, black guy trailblazing the way for whomever and whatever comes next."
Being the only person of color at city rules hearings motivated him. He sees himself as a role model.
"I saw it as an opportunity to show everyone back home what is possible, show that you didn't have to be white or rich to join this industry," Wayman says. "It inspired me to be the one to prove that you can start something here without those resources."
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About Lauren Yoshiko
Lauren has contributed to the Willamette Week's weed column since 2013, initially going by "Mary Romano" until marijuana became legal in Oregon. She also writes about movies, plays and restaurants for the Art and Culture section.
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Hiking Westridge Trail in Los Angeles, California. May 5, 2012
By Lisa Ellen Niver
Today, May 5, 2012, on Westridge Hiking Trail in Los Angeles, California we saw three helicopters circling. A mountain bike rider fell and had a broken clavicle.
We saw the helicopter air lift him out. We hope he will be okay.
Other highlights from the trail today:
Talking with Trisha the ultra runner about BadWater 135mile run in July and seeing the Nike Missile Site while talking to a group from Taiwan.
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Lisa Ellen Niver, M.A. Education, is a television host, travel journalist as well as a passionate artist, educator and writer who has explored 101 countries, 6 continents and sailed on cruise ships for seven years on the high seas and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of We Said Go Travel which was read in 212 countries in 2018 and named #3 on the top 1000 Travel Blog and the top female travel blogger 3 times in 2019. Find her talking travel at KTLA TV and in her We Said Go Travel videos with over one million views on her YouTube channel. She has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on both Twitter and Facebook, has over 150,000 followers across social media and ran fifteen travel competitions publishing over 2500 writers and photographers from 75 countries. She has been a finalist for six Southern California Journalism Awards in the past three years and won an award for her Jewish Journal article. Niver has written for AARP, American Airways, Delta Sky, En Route (Air Canada), Hemispheres (United Airlines), Jewish Journal, Luxury Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Myanmar Times, National Geographic, POPSUGAR, Robb Report, Saturday Evening Post, Scuba Diver Life, Sierra Club, Ski Utah, Smithsonian, Trivago, USA Today 10best, Wharton Magazine and Yahoo. She is writing a book, “Brave Rebel: 50 Scary Challenges Before 50,” about her most recent travels and challenges. Look for her underwater SCUBA diving, in her art studio making ceramics or helping people find their next dream trip. http://lisaniver.com/one-page/
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B.C. Liberals push to change how business properties are taxed
Proposed legislation could see commercial properties taxed on current rather than "highest and best" use
John Kurucz Vancouver Courier
The Courier recently counted 25 for lease signs on South Granville, as businesses close due to massive property tax increases — Dan Toulgoet
The single largest impediment to the survival of B.C.'s small business, non-profit and arts sectors could soon receive a dramatic lifeline that’s been called on for years.
A private members’ bill introduced Wednesday by Liberal MLA Todd Stone seeks to create a new property tax class that would drastically reduce speculative land purchasing and skyrocketing tax bill increases.
The move would create a separate new tax class, which would separate tax levels based on a structure’s current use versus its potential future use.
The current model sees properties’ taxes based on a “highest and best use designation,” which allows property values and subsequent tax bills to soar by upwards of 200 per cent.
“The feedback that we’re receiving is that the impact of property tax escalation through triple net lease agreements is rapidly becoming the biggest pain, the biggest chunk of added cost,” Stone told the Vancouver Courier in an interview. “When you talk to business owners, they say to me ‘This is the final straw that broke the camel’s back.’”
To put the current tax reality into perspective, imagine a one-storey building located in a neighbourhood that allows zoning up to six storeys. Even though that plot of land has a one-storey building on it, it is taxed on the potential that it could one day be home to a six-storey structure and other development trends in the area.
Another example: a six-storey, mixed-use development. The first floor is a florist, while the remaining five storeys are slated to be residential. Those five storeys of future residential are taxed at commercial tax rates, which in Vancouver are roughly four times higher than residential.
That system allows for widespread property speculation, where developers can, in theory, raze entire blocks waiting for market conditions to change.
Stone said the potential change does little to the B.C. Assessment Authority other than the addition of a new property sub class, while local governments would ideally set mill rates at a rate far less than the commercial rate for a parcel of land.
If approved, the legislation would be entirely voluntarily — municipalities can opt in or out. The “highest and best use” notion would remain in place and local governments could then apply much lower tax rates on that vacant or underutilized air space on the property.
“There is maximum flexibility built into this,” Stone said.
Stone is hopeful the bill passes before the end of October so the changes can go in effect in time for 2020 tax rolls.
That’s asking a lot, as private members’ bills rarely receive traction. Getting buy-in from all parties in under a week is a huge ask.
Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Selina Robinson told reporters October 23 that the governing NDP is working on both interim and long-term solutions, hinting that some relief will be forthcoming for the 2020 tax year.
“I’m absolutely concerned about this,” Robinson said. “This has been a growing issue because of out-of-control real estate prices that the previous government ignored. It’s been building over time and they ignored it.”
Stone’s response to that claim: “Was it an issue three years ago? Yes. Was it an issue on the scale that it is today? No.”
The split assessment model has the backing of a huge swath of policy makers: chief financial officers from Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and West Vancouver. It’s also received support from the Lower Mainland's chambers of commerce and boards of trade and the B.C. Chamber of Commerce. Several resolutions on the issue have received support from the Union of B.C. Municipalities.
Aaron Aerts is the western economist with Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) and focuses his work on B.C. The CFIB conducted a study earlier this year that suggests 54 per cent of respondents are considering moving or closing their Metro Vancouver businesses due to property tax increases.
The same study five years yielded a response rate of about 25 per cent.
“I talked to one business owner in Gastown who said he’s been at his business for five years, putting in 80 hours a week and he’s finally starting to see some profit,” Aerts said. “He was hoping to scale back. He had to go back to day one because he had such a huge increase in property taxes that it had eaten away any sort of progress he had been making.”
Both Stone and Aerts said the problems plaguing Metro Vancouver aren’t ravaging other areas of B.C. yet, but the precursors are there.
“In five or 10 years this is going to be a huge story in Kelowna and Greater Victoria,” Aerts said.
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Hauppauge offers wi-fi Freeview TV streamer unit for mobile devices
By Andrew Everard 2012-02-02T12:59:45Z
New myTV 2GO combines Freeview tuner with wi-fi transmitter for Freeview on the move
New from digital TV tuner manufacturer Hauppauge is myTV 2GO, a portable Freeview receiver able to stream content to computers and iOS devices via wi-fi.
Selling for £199 when it goes on sale in the UK during the next month or so, myTV 2GO combines a Freeview TV tuner with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g capability, enabling it to receive TV and transmit it via wi-fi to iPads, iPhones, the iPod Touch and wireless-ready computers.
It's powered by a rechargeable battery, so is suitable for totally mobile viewing anywhere there's a Freeview signal, and has the advantage of not using up mobile data allowances while watching TV.
A free app is available from the iTunes App Store to allow mobile devices to work with the myTV 2GO unit, after which you "Simply turn on the myTV 2GO device, extend the built-in antenna, connect to the myTV 2GO wi-fi network…, and start to watch and record high-quality digital TV from anywhere with a DVB-T (Freeview) reception."
The myTV 2GO weighs 70g and is charged from a USB socket to give 3.5 hours of use.
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by Peter Axtell
Technically speaking, Purpose is not considered a Motive per se. We would argue that It's a sustained life of motivation and have included it as a foundation of motivation. One of the most potent examples of Purpose is Viktor Frankl's horrific experiences in four Nazi Concentration camps. His purpose was what kept him motivated. I'll do my best to describe Purpose and how to discover it. Purpose is our addition to the Self-Determination Theory.
Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci, authors of the book Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness postulate that three psychological needs are necessary for humans to be motivated to grow and thrive. Humans thrive when internal motivation is nurtured. We suggest that a fourth factor needs to be added: Purpose. We'll explore what Purpose means and how to discover it.
The four factors of motivation – CAMP:
The goal of this series of four posts is to answer the question: “How do I figure out what motivates me?”
The fourth factor of motivation that we added is this mysterious thing called Purpose. The idea of a Calling or a Purpose irritates a lot of people. I've had many people complain to me that they don't have a Purpose, or can't find a Purpose, or express objections that not everybody has a Purpose. I believe why these people find Purpose irritating is because of a deep longing to have Purpose and not discovering it.
What is Purpose?
There are many words and definitions of Purpose. Let's explore a few. Synonyms for Purpose are North Star, WHY, Cause, etc.
Charles Eisenstein, the insightful author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism), describes Purpose this way: “Each of us has a unique and necessary gift to give to the world. The Purpose of life is to express our gifts.”
Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, says: “Your WHY is the purpose, cause or belief that inspires you”.
Stephen Cope, author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, writes: “All human beings have the innate capacity and longing to mature to full aliveness.” When you are living a life of Purpose, you feel alive.
Viktor Frankl, founder of the Logotherapy and author of Man's Search for Meaning, believed that people are primarily driven by a “striving to find meaning in one's life.”
Aaron Antonovsky, founder of the Sense of Coherence Theory and author of Unraveling the Mystery of Health, was trying to answer the question: “What are the origins of health?” He believed that Physical Health could be promoted by three factors, one of which is Meaningfullness. Meaningfullness is defined as how much one feels that life makes sense, and challenges are worthy of commitment. That's what a life of Purpose feels like; your life makes sense.
Purpose – as we interpret it – is "internal autonomous energy that increases motivation.” No one can put pressure on you to have a Purpose and if they tried, it would only deplete your motivation to act. Purpose is not like a coat you put on; it's something deep within yourself, it's a path to accomplish something greater than yourself.
Why is “aliveness” as described by Stephen Cope so profound?
I recently asked myself “when have I felt the most alive?” I was amazed that it was when I was living CAMP (Connection, Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose). When I'm Connected to other people, I'm energized by their ideas and worldviews. I'm not alone in my head. When I feel Autonomous, I don't feel pressure. I feel naturally motivated to act. I'm happy when I'm gaining a little more Mastery, a bit more wisdom, and more skill. I feel an internal inspirational pull to get closer to my Purpose and live it every day. It's inspiring to me to be motivated towards something greater than myself.
When you understand your motives, you accept yourself. This is how you find out what makes you tick. Your motivation is the number one driver for everything. Many people are disconnected from a sense of self, that's why when searching for a new job, they often base their criteria on the external factors like money or a job title.
How can you discover your Purpose?
I think a good start is Simon Sinek's online WHY Discovery Course. It's affordable and very well done.
Doing it by yourself, start answering these questions:
When was a time when you were in a total state of flow, a state of complete absorption? What was it about that activity that was so absorbing?
What was a project that you were involved in that had your focused attention?
What activities do you love to do? What is it about those activities that you find so compelling?
What did you want to do/become when you were in your teenage years?
If you had a purpose, cause, or belief, what do you think that might be? What do you care about genuinely? And why?
What is your favorite movie? Who is your favorite character in that movie? And why? What are the specific qualities in that character that you admire?
Who inspires your (living or dead)? What are the qualities of those people?
One of the transcendent examples of Purpose.
One of the most compelling actual stories of a person living a life of Purpose is Viktor Frankl.
How could a man endure the pain of four Nazi Concentration Camps for nearly four years including the annihilation of his wife, his brother, and his mother in the camps? How does a man turn unimaginable suffering into helping others in the camps? Dr. Frankl had a profound, guiding Purpose which gave his life meaning in the most unlikely of places
Dr. Frankl had a profound, guiding Purpose which gave his life meaning in the most unlikely of places. He believed “that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love”. His mental attitude, guidance, and inspiration was the cause for many men to choose not to take their own lives.
Dr. Frankl believed that people are driven by a “striving to find meaning in one's life,” and it's because of this sense of meaning or Purpose that people are capable of overcoming unfathomable painful experiences. When Dr. Frankl uses the word “striving," this is precisely what we are doing – whether we know it or not. We are striving to live our motives to feel a sense of Purpose and feel alive. Read his famous book – whether we know it or not. We are striving to live our motives to feel a sense of Purpose and feel alive. Read his famous book Man's Search for Meaning and it will change your worldview forever.
Questions: If you know it or tried to guess, what do you consider your life Purpose? How would you – in a small, doable way – create a better world for generations to come? You can leave your answers in the comments below.
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A Year Ago: Does Microsoft owe you money?
First published: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:00:04 GMT
By Mary Jo Foley | January 21, 2000 -- 07:01 GMT (23:01 PST) | Topic: Tech Industry
What if all computer users who aren't using their preloaded Windows copies tried to get their money back from Microsoft -- all on the same day?
This experiment in exploiting a little-known loophole in Microsoft's End User License Agreement (EULA) may come to pass on February 15, if a self-appointed "Windows Refund" group has its way.
Organisers at www.thenoodle.com, a web services site, have created a "Windows Refund Center," meant to appeal to users of Linux, NetWare, OS/2, BSD, BeOS and other alternative operating systems who balk at paying what they are calling a "Microsoft tax." The group established The Refund Center on January 19.
The idea for a mass revolt against Windows preloads, according to thenoodle.com web site, was spawned by the web posting of one user's tale of triumph in getting Toshiba to refund him $110 (Australian) for the copy of Windows that came preloaded on his laptop.
The Australian Linux user, Geoffrey Bennett obtained the refund after three months of e-mail, regular mail and voice mail exchanges between Toshiba and himself, he says in his posting. Bennett claims he was due the refund because he did not agree to the terms of the Windows 95 EULA, which was included as part of his Toshiba system. The Windows 95 EULA states that: "If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA, PC Manufacturer and Microsoft are unwilling to license the SOFTWARE PRODUCT to you. In such event, you may not use or copy the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, and you should promptly contact PC Manufacturer for instructions on return of the unused products(s) for a refund."
But rather than seeking redress directly from PC makers, as Bennett did, the Windows Refund group is looking to Microsoft and suggesting disgruntled users look to Redmond for their refunds. At press time, a Microsoft corporate spokesman said the company was preparing a response to the campaign.
The Windows Refund group isn't the first organisation to suggest that Microsoft and PC makers offer customers operating system choice. Last spring, consumer advocate Ralph Nader's Consumer Project On Technology sent letters to six of the top PC vendors, requesting they preload alternatives to Windows on their machines.
In addition, a number of OEMs have complained about their lack of operating system alternatives in the form of sworn depositions collected by the US Department of Justice in its antitrust suit against Microsoft. Some of these OEMs have said that Microsoft's alleged monopoly position has allowed it to control prices because there are few, if any, viable alternatives to Windows on the desktop. Those joining in the protest must present documentation they don't use Windows, according to a Web site created for the event.
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Telstra cites 'intense competition' after profit drop to AU$1.8b
Telstra's half-yearly net profit was down by 11.8 percent due to two decisions by the regulator slashing wholesale pricing, despite the telco making gains across its NAS and media businesses.
By Corinne Reichert | February 16, 2017 -- 01:50 GMT (17:50 PST) | Topic: Networking
Telstra has announced its financial results for the first half of FY17, revealing earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) of AU$5.2 billion, down 1.6 percent year on year due to "intense competition", as well as the impacts of regulatory decisions.
Australia's largest telecommunications company saw a net profit of AU$1.8 billion, down 11.8 percent, on revenue of AU$12.8 billion, down 6.4 percent.
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Capex and opex remained relatively flat, at AU$2.1 billion and AU$8.5 billion, respectively.
Despite the drops across revenue and earnings, Telstra CEO Andrew Penn pointed towards the company's gains in customers across mobile and fixed, as well as growth in its media business.
"It is significant that we were able to increase subscriber numbers in mobiles and retail fixed plans despite the increased competition," Penn said.
"Data volumes have increased, and intense competition on pricing across fixed, bundles, mobile, data, and IP has had an impact ... we have a clear strategy to differentiate our products through the speed, coverage, and reliability of our networks, innovative product design, and new customer experiences, including access to media content.
"We are also continuing to review our capital allocation strategy as announced in November last year, taking into consideration the long-term business and financial profile of Telstra. The review is looking at all aspects of our capital management framework and taking into account the specific nature of the payments associated with the NBN."
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)'s decisions in 2015 on mobile terminating access service (MTAS) and final access determination (FAD) impacted Telstra's income by AU$400 million during the six-month period.
The MTAS reduced the rate that mobile network operators can charge each other and fixed-line network operators for calls from 3.6 cents per minute down to 1.7 cents, and regulated SMS pricing from 7.5 cents to 0.03 cents per SMS; while the FAD cut the prices that Telstra can charge wholesale customers for the use of its legacy copper network during the transition to the NBN by 9.4 percent. Telstra continues to argue against the ACCC's FAD decision in Federal Court.
Telstra also saw the effect of its seven outages over the first half of calendar 2016, with Penn revealing that Telstra's net promoter score (NPS) was down by eight points year on year due to "the impact of the network disruptions on our customers".
Telstra's mobile business recorded revenue of AU$5.04 billion during the half year, down from AU$5.52 billion in the same quarter last year due to the MTAS decision. Of this, post-paid made up AU$2.68 billion in revenue, down from AU$2.71 billion; prepaid contributed AU$502 million, up from AU$495 million due to a higher average revenue per user (ARPU); mobile broadband made AU$545 million, down from AU$638 million; machine-to-machine made AU$68 million, up from AU$60 million; and hardware sales made AU$1.07 billion, down from AU$1.12 billion due to fewer customers upgrading their handsets during the period.
Retail mobile customers totalled 17.4 million as of the end of the reporting period, making gains of 200,000, 79,000 of which were post-paid customers. Post-paid ARPU was AU$59.46, down from AU$61.38.
Telstra's fixed-line business recorded revenue of AU$3.26 million, down 4.7 percent year on year, with fixed voice contributing AU$1.61 billion of this, down 9.4 percent; and fixed data adding AU$1.27 billion, up 1.8 percent. Retail fixed voice customers numbered 5.5 million as of December 31, down from 5.9 million; fixed data customers numbered 3.5 million, up from 3.3 million; and fixed bundle customers stood at 2.8 million, up from 2.6 million. NBN customers increased by 292,000 over the six-month period for a total of 792,000, with Telstra holding 51 percent market share, excluding NBN's satellite service.
Penn also revealed that the company's Telstra Air Wi-Fi service has seen an almost tenfold increase in traffic, with activated customers also growing by more than 400,000 to a total of 1.79 million.
Telstra's data and IP business saw year-on-year revenue declines of 4.2 percent, down to AU$1.37 billion. This included AU$577 million, down 1 percent, from IP access; AU$279 million, down 10.6 percent, for ISDN; and AU$518 million, down 3.9 percent, for other data and calling products. Telstra said it lost across all areas of data and IP due to "a declining market amid competitive pricing pressures", as well as the migration of customers to NBN and NAS services.
As a result, Telstra's NAS business jumped in revenue by 18 percent, to a total of AU$1.48 billion in revenue. As part of this business segment, industry solutions made AU$562 million, up 56.1 percent; cloud services made AU$157 million, up 41.4 percent; integrated services made AU$79 million, down 10.2 percent; managed network services made AU$285 million, down 2.7 percent; and unified communications made AU$392 million, down 1.5 percent. Telstra said its cloud growth was "facilitated by consulting professional services and key acquisitions" including Readify and Kloud amid a bigger push into the global cloud market.
While Telstra's global NAS connectivity was up by 7 percent, to AU$92 million, this was offset by a decrease of 4.7 percent to AU$141 million in global fixed connectivity and a drop of 2.9 percent to AU$466 million in global data and IP, for a total revenue of AU$699 million for its global connectivity business. The overall drop in revenue was attributed to currency appreciation.
Telstra's 50 percent share of pay TV provider Foxtel produced AU$1.62 billion in revenue, down 2.2 percent due to a 62,000 decline in subscribers to 2.82 million in total, which was attributed to the closure of Presto and the wind-down of the T-Box in favour of the Telstra TV streaming device.
The Telstra TV is the "fastest-growing streaming device in Australia", according to Penn. There are now over 622,000 devices in the market, with the company having added 322,000 customers during the six-month period. Telstra will release a second iteration of the device during 2017 with updated specs.
"We plan to launch the next Telstra TV later in the year," Penn announced.
"Excitingly, it will have a built-in free-to-air tuner, and customers will no longer have to toggle between input sources and enjoy all of their viewing through Telstra TV. It will also have the ability to receive 4K content. The next generation of the Telstra TV device will deliver more content at higher quality while using less data. More importantly, this device will be exclusive to Telstra broadband customers."
Telstra's media business was up by 12.7 percent, bringing in revenue of AU$471 million.
Telstra made 66.2 percent more income, at AU$1.1 billion, from its commercial works for NBN -- AU$90 million from Commonwealth agreements and other government policy commitments; AU$212 million from recurring ISA from duct, rack, and backhaul; AU$79 million from the sale of assets; and AU$676 million from a one-off NBN definitive agreement.
Products and services revenue for NBN commercial works almost tripled, up 199 percent to AU$311 million including definitive agreements covering hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) delivery, copper sub-loop maintenance services agreement and operations and maintenance master agreement, and network planning and design.
On the hot-button issues of regional coverage, Penn reiterated Telstra's views on reform to the universal service obligation (USO), saying the most important thing is that regional Australians are provided with access to telco infrastructure, no matter who provides it. He also stated that Vodafone "didn't turn up" the last time USO service provision went to tender.
"We have no particular point of view that the services have to be provided by Telstra; we're very happy to go through tendering process for those [USO] services as the case may be -- but last time the government put it out to tender, basically we were the only people that showed up," he said.
"It's just really important that those customers in regional Australia get that basic telephony service, and if that needed to be re-tended in the future, we would be absolutely happy for it to be retendered and we're happy to go alongside anybody else that wants to provide the service."
On the wholesale mobile domestic roaming issue, whereby Vodafone -- the telecommunications carrier with the least network coverage across rural and remote Australia -- would be permitted to piggyback off Telstra's existing mobile infrastructure, Penn said a decision to declare roaming would result in less investment in regional areas.
"Telstra has invested heavily in regional Australia, and will continue to do so if the regulatory settings remain in place," he said.
"We are obviously concerned regarding the impact that declaration would have on operators' incentives to invest and the negative impact that this would have on customers in Australia, particularly in regional Australia."
Rival telco Optus last week similarly reported a quarterly net profit of AU$188 million, down 17.3 percent, on revenue of AU$2.21 billion, down 9.3 percent, due to "heightened competition" and the MTAS decision.
Telstra reported full-year FY16 net profit of AU$5.8 billion, up 36.6 percent, on revenue of AU$26.7 billion and EBITDA of AU$10.5 billion.
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Liddle defends SOS dismissal amid member disharmony
Carlton chief executive Cain Liddle is holding firm on the reasons behind Silvagni’s exit.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05: Carlton Blues recruiter Stephen Silvagni (L) looks on during the AFL Draft Combine at Etihad Stadium on October 5, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
Carlton chief executive Cain Liddle has defended the decision to dismiss list boss and club great Stephen Silvagni.
Silvagni’s departure was a hot talking point among disgruntled Blues members in an online forum on Monday night, questioning Mark LoGiudice, Liddle and football boss Brad Lloyd.
Liddle commended Silvagni’s contributions but pointed out the challenges with him not being involved in his sons’, Jack and Ben, list management and match committee discussions.
“No one is questioning the role that Stephen played in rebuilding the list,” Liddle told AFL Media.
“I and others at the club have noted on many occasions the improvements that have been made.
“The much tougher decision is to bring someone else in who can play a part in all relevant decisions and discussions that take place within the football department.”
Another matter of discontent among fans was Liddle’s involvement in recruiting players to the club, namely premiership Tiger Brandon Ellis.
Ellis eventually signed with Gold Coast as a free agent after the Blues reportedly pulled out of the race despite him touring the club’s Ikon Park facilities.
“I want to be clear on this: all players who were approached from other clubs as part of our 2019 list management strategy were discussed and rigorously debated over the course of many months at list management,” Liddle said.
“Brandon was one of a number of players who our list management sub-committee identified very early in the season. I was involved in Brandon’s tour of Ikon.
“Everyone on list management was very clear of the role I was playing with Brandon … I was one of Brandon’s coaches, both at the Calder Cannons and Vic Metro in the National Championships, and I obviously spent a number of years with him at Richmond.
“So it was agreed that we would leverage that relationship in our discussions with Brandon, who was set to become a free agent.”
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009:
The cost of always arresting the wrong people on racist grounds inspired by Bibi's 'war on terror' - both Bibi and Rudy were on hand in London on 7/7 to see the conspiracy first-hand - is not only the costs of the legal proceedings and the cost to the innocents involved and the costs to many others who face the same Zionist racism, but the biggest cost of all: the real perpetrators go free, and are able to do the same thing again. One wonders how much of this bullshit the British people will put up with before they decide to do something about it.
The chain of custody problem would be sufficient in itself to sink the latest 'truther' effort. I love this Danish moron, who seems to think that the problem of secretly moving 10 to 100 tons of explosives into buildings which were in full operation 24/7/365 without one person noticing anything isn't his problem.
Part of the secret war against the Jews. Godspeed. As a mind experiment, contemplate how much better the world would be if the Jews didn't run the United States and much of Europe.
CIA clown scared away from a speech by fear of embarrassment.
The guy who phoned Harman probably knew he was being wiretapped (“We know that we are closely watched, that people might be listening to our phone calls. This is our working premise.”), which means he was setting her up to control her for even worse crimes, possibly when she became CIA director. The story is accomplishing the impossible by making Dennis Hastert look like some kind of hero, despite the fact that some people are never going to love him (the aides typing the letter themselves has an 'All the President's Men' feel to it!).
A peak behind the curtain, no doubt intended to make it seem normal and un-frightening. I too "detest the accusation of dual loyalty and find it a despicable canard." The only loyalty of anyone who still self-identifies as Jewish is to Anti-Assimilation-Land. End of story. Start self-identifying as Palestinian and I'll start to give you some respect.
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"Former FBI counterintelligence official David Szady, who led the investigation that targeted the AIPAC figures, told the New York Times in an interview last week that he was confident Harman had never sought to intervene in the case. "In all my dealings with her, she was always professional and never tried to intervene or get in the way of any investigation," Szady told the Times. The remark, while exonerating, is still perhaps puzzling. Why would an official who had been involved in a sensitive counterintelligence investigation yet to go to trial comment about the actions of someone who the government has not acknowledged was a subject of investigation in the case? How would he know who Harman had or had not lobbied on the matter? The Justice Department, for its part, denied comment. Szady could not be reached."
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WALID RAAD AT MOMA
Walid Raad’s exhibition at MOMA is unsettling, subversive and highly sophisticated. Toying with audience expectations, the Lebanese visual artist who was born in 1967 and lives in New York City, uses the wretched history of his war-torn country as his subject of choice. Steer clear of this impressive show however if you are expecting, like often for the Middle East, raw photojournalism, first-hand accounts from victims and reportage, complacent political correctness or an overall exoticizing of the war experience in the Levant.
Raad is far too shrewd to settle for the glib pitfalls of art with an agenda, artworks as political avatars who seek to activate straightforward outrage. He grapples with his subject obliquely, filtering his vision through a deadpan sense of humor. His art is an alteration of the real, rather than its conveyance at face value, mimesis subsumed rather than merely bestowed to an audience.
Like Alice through the rabbit hole, the viewer soon realizes she has stepped into an idiosyncratic reality, where things fall short of traditional ways. Take for instance the first multi-media montages on display: These are photographic enlargements of scaffolding with fragments of sculpted objects, interspersed with Raad’s cryptic drawings (white pages with a few sibylline words) whose goal is to point at an elusive meaning ever failing to materialize. The caption-which we take as curator’s explanations- tell the story of “Islamic” (sic) objects shipped from the Abu Dhabi museum on Saadiyat Island to the Louvre in Paris. We learn they underwent a peculiar transformation upon transportation –“it looks like they were discolored or revealed an older paint when they got there”-, and zany explanations involving art experts from both the French and the Arab side and the theories they proposed follow, much to our bewilderment.
Raad is a master at instilling doubt in the mind of the viewer as to the veracity of his narrative, relentlessly piling on clues to further mystify us, while citing the work of “the Atlas Group”, an organization handling data about the Middle East. Moving deeper into this unconventional exhibition, we realize the Atlas Group functions as what is known in literature as “a reality effect”-an object considered true in reality whose mention warrants the authenticity of the narrative. It becomes clearer however that the Atlas Group is a falsification concocted by Raad, as are the captions (allegedly the museum’s, but actually Raad’s fabrications) supporting each art piece throughout the exhibit.
Though ubiquitous in the rest of the exhibit, the subject of the war is touched upon tangentially, as if to deflate its emotional charge. Take for instance a series on photographs of car engines-all of which remained intact after car bombings. Or another display of six enlarged photographs of bombing devices, which Raad succeeds in making esthetically alluring despite their sinister properties. Or yet another series of photographs of the bombardment of Beyrouth by Israeli planes, black and white prints with unlikely splashes of pink, turquoise, and powder blue in their midst, eerily reminiscent of Monet or Turner, as though the mud of war suddenly turned into gold. Raad does not spare either his irony or dark sense of humor: In that same series too, Israeli soldiers are seen relaxing next to war tanks, in a quasi bucolic, even idyllic scene. In another montage, figures from the Lebanese political scene are grafted into a horticultural display of plants, rare species of sorts with their erudite Latin names.
Many may find irritating, even offensive Raad’s use of parody on a subject as serious as the war, or his deliberate mystification of the viewer. To what effect is he confounding us?
The first montage discussed above may be for instance a critique of the carelessness and neglect often witnessed in public institutions in the Arab world-Waad was banned from entering the United Arab Emirates for criticizing work conditions at Saadiyat Island’s Abu Dhabi museum-, and his work, as the MOMA website proposes in somewhat imprecise fashion, may be “dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographs and video documents in the public realm, the role of memory within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world.”
Because simplistic explanations are to Art as pointless as biographical keys are to literature, Raad’s puzzles thwart reductive narratives of victors and victims. His inventiveness brings to mind the verve and vitality of Jorge Luis Borges whose literary hoaxes famously disoriented the reader.
Another conspicuous influence is the German writer W.G. Sebald also concerned with the memory of disaster, and how to tackle it through labyrinthine fabrications. In his novel Austerlitz, his often monotonous, even anonymous prose speaks about the Kindertransport of Jewish children to England during World War II with detached coolness, but to higher effect than prim sentimentality, logorrhea or pathos. Tellingly, Sebald inserted drawings within his writing as a means of creating a prose distanced from emotions, almost technical.
Raad’s back and forth between text and picture serves a similar purpose. And his playfulness and fictions are supreme barricades against his country’s calamitous history. For understatement and ellipsis are often our quintessential defenses against tragedy.
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There’s an old joke about U.S. president Calvin Coolidge.
He and his wife were being shown around a farm. Coolidge’s wife noticed, upon coming to the chicken yard, that the rooster was mating vigorously. “How often does he do that?” she inquired of her tour guide.
“Oh, dozens of times a day.”
With a sly smile, she said, “Tell that to the President when he comes by.”
The President passed by the chicken yard and was told of the rooster’s sexual prowess. “Same hen every time?” he inquired.
“Oh no, Mr. President. A different hen each time,” his tour guide explained.
“Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge,” the President replied.
Scientists loved the joke. Today, the ability of a male to regain sexual interest when presented with a new partner is known as the Coolidge effect.
That’s not news to any of us. Of course men lose interest with the same sexual partner over time. There’s not a man out there who won’t attest to the power of novelty.
But what no one has known until recently is that women need novelty even more than men.
Monogamy is hard on female desire. A Finnish study looked at how female sexual desire fluctuated over a 7-year period. Researchers found that desire dropped most among women who were in a stable, monogamous relationship.[1]
A Canadian study agreed. They found that female sexual desire dropped by a consistent amount for each month she was in a relationship. Indeed, “relationship duration was a better predictor of sexual desire in women than both relationship and sexual satisfaction.”[2]
Which means that a woman’s desire isn’t tied to how much she loves her partner and wants to be with him. Nor is it tied to how good things are in the bedroom.
Instead, one of the biggest causes of declining female desire is…
How long she’s been monogamous.
But wait a second!
Men are the one who are supposed to want variety and novelty. Women are supposed to want one committed partner. You know that saying?
Women need love to have sex, and men need sex to feel loved.”
We’ve been told that, as women, our sex drive is emotional, not physical. We’ve been led to believe that sexual nirvana lies in the arms of our future husband. Nothing is better than sleeping with the same man each night for the rest of your life…
Until it isn’t.
Love is no guarantee of desire. What does make a difference—to both women AND men—is novelty.
When a woman does something new with her partner—outside the bedroom as well as in it—her sex drive gets a boost.
When her relationship ends and she meets someone new, her sex drive gets a boost.
And it’s not just human females.
Female macaque monkeys lose desire if they’re limited to the same sexual partners. Kim Wallen at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center found that they needed to introduce new male monkeys to their macaque population every three years if they wanted females to keep breeding.
In many simian species, the females are the sexually aggressive ones. Capuchins, tonkeans, pigtails, bonobos, langurs, rhesus monkeys… They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to ask for it.
Wednesday Martin is the author of Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free. She believes we’ve got female sexuality all wrong.
We’ve painted women as the sexually passive ones, hounded into sex by lustful males. But, in fact, women are just as likely to seek partners for sex when that act won’t get them pregnant, hurt, or ostracized.
Marriage historian Stephanie Coontz agrees. For most of human history, women were considered the lustful sex. A glance at Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales shows that neither marriage nor age was impediment to a woman’s healthy sexual appetite.
But along came the Victorians, with their belief that women naturally have no interest in sex. An emotionally healthy woman is fully satisfied in her role as mother and mistress of her home. She submits to sex for the purpose of procreation, but it brings her no pleasure.
We’re still dealing with the fall-out today.
But surely, you might say, the advent of birth control and the sexual revolution changed things. Women were given permission—perhaps for the first time in history—to “have sex like a man.”
Except that “having sex like a man,” in practice, meant having sex the way men like it.
Thanks to female sexuality experts like Ian Kerner (She Comes First) and Dr. Laurie Mintz (Becoming Clitorate), we’re beginning to see that female pleasure is an entirely different creature.
The full structure of the female clitoris was only discovered in 1998, the year I graduated from college. Like most college graduates, I thought that I knew everything there was to know about my anatomy. I’d read the books. I’d taken the classes.
I had no clue.
Like most young women of my time, I thought this part of female anatomy was—as artist Sophia Wallace describes it—more like a button than an iceberg.
Even those of us who took our last sex ed class decades ago need an updated sexual education. The Huffington Post wants to help. Their cliteracy project, inspired by Wallace, aims to educate both men and women about what we’ve learned about female sexual anatomy over the past 20 years.
What it means to “have sex like a woman” is something we’re still coming to understand. We simply don’t know all that much about how female desire works or why it behaves the way it behaves. But we’re learning.
Popular culture is slow to catch up. It still portrays women as more interested in love than sex … except when it portrays women as sexually indiscriminate “sluts” who act like a man in bed.
In my work, I come across advice that presents as sex as something a woman “gives up” to a man for the purpose of luring him into a relationship. Then, once they’re in a relationship, her job is to fulfill his desires so well that he never need look outside the relationship.
That’s not how sex works in the 21st century. Women have desires, too. They need novelty and fulfillment, too. Their sexuality is equal to a man’s in every way.
But let’s not leave out men. Today, men want monogamy and marriage just as much as women.
The Pew Research Center found that “55% of [never-married] men and 50% of women say they would like to get married someday.”[3]
As someone should have pointed out to President Coolidge and his wife, we’re not chickens.
[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314181.php
[2] https://www.livescience.com/18233-women-lose-sexual-desire.html
[3] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/chapter-1-public-views-on-marriage/
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Following a 0.4% decline in February, retail sales rose 0.7% in March to $48.3 billion on the strength of higher sales at motor vehicle and parts dealers. Sales were up in 6 of 11 subsectors, representing 53% of total retail trade.
After removing the effects of price changes, retail sales in volume terms rose 1.2%.
Retail sales increase in March
New car dealers lead gain
Motor vehicle and parts dealers (+3.2%) recorded the largest gain in dollar terms across all subsectors. The increase was largely attributable to higher sales at new car dealers (+3.8%). Used car dealers (+2.7%) and automotive parts, accessories and tire stores (+1.2%) also posted higher sales. Sales at other motor vehicle dealers (-1.4%) were down for the third month in a row.
Sales at general merchandise stores (+1.4%) were up for the third consecutive month.
Electronics and appliance stores (+3.1%) continued their upward trend in March.
Store types traditionally associated with housing purchases and home renovation showed growth in March. Sales at building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (+1.0%) and furniture and home furnishings stores (+0.8%) both increased for the sixth time in seven months.
Amid lower consumer prices for food purchased from stores, lower receipts were reported at food and beverage stores (-0.7%). This decrease was due in large part to weaker sales at supermarkets and other grocery stores (-0.6%) and, to a lesser extent, convenience stores (-2.9%).
Sales up in seven provinces
Retail sales were up in seven provinces in March. Higher sales in Ontario and British Columbia accounted for the majority of the increase.
In Ontario, retail sales increased 0.9%, primarily on the strength of higher sales at motor vehicle and parts dealers.
Sales in British Columbia rose 2.3%. Gains were widespread across most store types.
Following severe winter weather events in February, retail sales in Nova Scotia (+4.8%) rebounded on higher sales at new and used car dealers.
Sales in Saskatchewan (+2.7%) continued their upward trend in March, rising for the eighth consecutive month. Over this period, higher sales have been reported at general merchandise stores, gasoline stations, and health and personal care stores.
In Quebec, retail sales decreased 0.8%.
After increasing for seven consecutive months, sales in Alberta fell for the first time since mid-2016.
E-commerce sales by Canadian retailers
The figures in this section are based on unadjusted (that is, not seasonally adjusted) estimates.
On an unadjusted basis, retail e-commerce sales were $1.2 billion in March, accounting for 2.4% of total retail trade. On a year-over-year basis, retail e-commerce sales increased 43.2% while total unadjusted retail sales rose 9.5%.
In celebration of the country's 150th birthday, Statistics Canada is presenting snapshots from our rich statistical history.
There was a time when independent shops were by far the dominant retailers in Canada. Over the years, many of these independent retailers have given way to chain stores. In 1945, about 19% of total retail sales were purchased from chain stores. By 2015, this proportion had grown to approximately 46%.
Summary tables of unadjusted data by industry and by province and territory are now available.
For information on related indicators, refer to Latest statistics.
Retail sales by province and territory – Seasonally adjusted
Retail sales by industry – Seasonally adjusted
Retail E-commerce sales, unadjusted
Starting with the April 2017 release of February data, estimates for the Monthly Retail Trade Survey are being calculated using a new sample. The sample design has been modified to improve efficiency. The sample is periodically refreshed to take advantage of improvements made to the Business Register since the last sample selection, reflecting births, deaths and other changes to the survey population. In addition, the survey estimation methodology has been enhanced to use more administrative data. Seasonal adjustment specifications and factors were reviewed and updated.
Regular annual revisions from 2016 and typical historical revisions are also included in the new data series.
The data have been revised using historical linkage factors designed to preserve the continuity of the time series. The linkage method leads to larger revisions for more recent periods.
Seasonally adjusted estimates in CANSIM table 080-0020 have been revised back to 2009. Unadjusted estimates in CANSIM table 080-0020 have been adjusted back to 2012. Volume estimates and indices in CANSIM table 080-0024 have been revised back to 2004, reflecting a change in the base year from 2007 to 2012.
All data in this release are seasonally adjusted and expressed in current dollars, unless otherwise noted. For information on seasonal adjustment, see Seasonally adjusted data – Frequently asked questions.
Statistics Canada's retail e-commerce figures are disseminated in unadjusted form. As a result, one must use caution when comparing retail sales that are seasonally adjusted (CANSIM 080-0020) in the Daily with retail e-commerce figures (CANSIM 080-0033).
Statistics Canada's retail e-commerce figures include the electronic sales of two distinct types of retailers. The first is retailers that do not have a storefront. These businesses are commonly referred to as 'pure-play' Internet retailers and are classified to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 45411—Electronic Shopping and Mail Order Houses. The second type of retailer is those that have a storefront and are commonly referred to as 'brick and mortar' retailers. If the online operations of a brick and mortar retailer are separately managed, they too are classified to NAICS 45411.
CANSIM 080-0033 represents the Internet sales of Canadian-based retailers. The foreign e-commerce purchases from Canadian-based retailers are included in the Internet sales totals. Conversely, Internet purchases by Canadians from foreign-based retailers are not included in Statistics Canada's retail trade figures.
Common electronic commerce transactions, such as travel and accommodation bookings, ticket purchases and financial transactions are not included in Canadian retail sales figures. For more information on individual Internet use and e-commerce, consult the most recent release of the Canadian Internet Use Survey and/or the Survey of Digital Technology and Internet Use.
For more information on retail e-commerce in Canada, see Retail E-Commerce in Canada.
Total retail sales expressed in volume are calculated by deflating current dollar values using consumer price indexes. The retail sales series in chained (2007) dollars is a chained Fisher volume index with 2007 as the reference year. For more information, see Calculation of Volume of Retail Trade Sales.
For information on trend-cycle data, see the StatCan Blog and Trend-cycle estimates – Frequently asked questions.
Real-time CANSIM tables
Real-time CANSIM tables 080-8020 and 080-8024 will be updated on May 29. For more information, consult the document Real-time CANSIM tables.
Data on retail trade for April will be released on June 22.
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Are You an Invisible? —Manichean Mutant Metamorphosis, A Chaos Magic Artifact Brought Out of a Reading of THE INVISIBLES by Grant Morrison
© 2013 Jonathan Zap
(Note: All italicized quotes are from THE INVISIBLES unless otherwise indicated.)
A sometimes surreal exploration of Grant Morrison’s graphic novel masterpiece THE INVISIBLES asks the reader to consider whether they might be an Invisible—an empowered and transforming mutant.
If you’re willing to read to the end of this document, or the book, THE INVISIBLES, then there is a high probability that you are an Invisible.
But there are many sorts of Invisibles—some are part of a hermetic circle of Invisibles, others seem to drift at the margins of social matrices, never fully bonding with fellow Invisibles. Some Invisibles fulfill their mission to shift the matrix in some essential way; others fade from Invisibility and become passively alienated or even merge with the opaque herd.
It’s important to know what sort of an Invisible you are, because some types of Invisibles have much brighter prospects than others.
Every sentence that goes by diminishes the chances that non-Invisibles are reading, because Invisibles are more bi-hemispheric and able to process oblique information, thought-forms coming in from odd angles, while non-Invisibles require thought forms that are highly stereotyped and absolutist.
Of course, a source of information that is always oblique can get really annoying, like asking Confucius for driving instructions and getting a series of parables and kōans. Soon I will switch to straightforward mode and come up with a working definition of an Invisible.
Invisibles are in need of being named and defined, but not to a degree that they are made too visible, because then, of course, they lose their invisibility. To paraphrase Lao-Tsu, the Invisible that can be named is not a True Invisible.
While the Invisibles tend to be unnamed, many of us have names for non-Invisibles—some call them muggles or zombies; Jung called them “mass man;” Gurdjieff called them the “hasnamuss.”
I’ve never found a perfect name for the Invisibles. I use the word “mutant.” In an attempt at nonobliqueness, I wrote the following definition of a mutant in A Glossary of Zap Terms, which will also be our working definition of an Invisible:
A Mutant is not a genetic anomaly but a person who is undergoing evolutionary metamorphosis. Mutants are empowered by a core of self-actualization (what Jung called “individuation.”) A Mutant is a self-aware interdimensional traveler who is taking charge of his or her own interdimensional journey into the unknown. A Mutant is someone who has a deep commitment to consciousness, which means a willingness to peel back the many layers of acquired conditioning and to help along the project of consciousness in general. This means that the deep commitment extends to others who are also committed to consciousness. A Mutant with a capital “M” is one who serves transpersonal aims, and is not merely looking to enhance his own status. It is this sort of Mutant that Jung referred to when he said, “Every advance in culture is, psychologically, an extension of consciousness, a coming to consciousness that can take place only through discrimination. Therefore an advance always begins with individuation, that is to say with the individual, conscious of his isolation, cutting a new path through hitherto untrodden territory. To do this he must first return to the fundamental facts of his own being, irrespective of all authority and tradition, and allow himself to become conscious of his distinctiveness. If he succeeds in giving collective validity to his widened consciousness, he creates a tension of opposites that provides the stimulation which culture needs for its further progress. (from A glossary of Zap Terms)
You joined a long time ago, but if you don’t want to come with us now, if you don’t want to find out more about what this is all about, you’re free to go your own way. — THE INVISIBLES
The problem with this definition is that not all Invisibles have fully answered the call to adventure. There are many faded or fading Invisibles. To the perception of an empowered Invisible, they throw back a weak radar return—the distinctness of their invisibility is becoming a gray blur, browning at the edges. These are the Invisibles who disappoint their potential and succumb to the tragic magic of the Babylon Matrix.They are in a state of falling (sometimes quickly, sometimes in slow-motion) through the wrong end of the telescope. Reversed telescope portals are available everywhere—some are in the form of white powders, others reside in fluorescent-lit cubicles, junk food meals, advertisements, and inauthentic social situations.
You think you’re an outlaw but you just do what they want you to do; cause trouble for a little while, screw some tart, raise more robots, and on and on and on. —THE INVISIBLES
Diminishing Invisibles eventually become invisible to themselves and thereby lose their Invisibility. To be an Invisible, your self-awareness must be ever growing, and if it’s not, then it is ever diminishing. Dylan described this steep bifurcation:
He not busy being born
Is busy dying
Grant Morrison wants to empower Invisibles who are busy being born. In a fax he sent on October 26, 1993 with his proposal for THE INVISIBLES, Grant stated his intentions this way:
One of the things we should be trying to bring out is the idea of the Invisibles as a group to which anyone might belong. Involve the reader in the whole process by making him/her realize that she/he too can join/has already joined the ranks of The Invisibles. Part of what I want to achieve with this title in the long-term involves actually changing the consciousness of the readers by presenting them with various techniques and concepts which will undoubtedly alter their way of looking at the world, in that sense, THE INVISIBLES isn’t a comic about something but is the thing itself and every reader is a potential Invisible. If the Invisibles are Shamanic Terrorists, the comic itself is an act of shamanic terrorism.
The Invisibles in Grant Morrison’sTHE INVISIBLES are mutants who have answered the call to adventure and are willing to undergo a quest with transpersonal aims. They are part of a cognitive, imaginal, and sometimes fully physical, insurrection against the toxic patriarchal structures of The Babylon Matrix.
Invisibles never rebel from a default reality through purely physical means. It would be literal, obtuse and self-defeating to battle the toxic structures of a matrix while fully identified with its manifestations. It would be like someone having a manic, psychotic episode while playing World of Warcraft such that they forget about any existence outside of WOW. The deluded WOW player finds that he is in a hellish world surrounded by enemies and adversarial forces. In his state of self-forgetting, he assumes that the only way out of this hellish World of Warcraft is to defeat every single avatar that comes at him until they have all been defeated.
An Invisible, however, knows to just let go of various game controllers when they become disempowering. An Invisible realizes that to really transform a matrix you must hack into the source code and rewrite the linguistic and translinguistic reality definitions.
Rewriting these codes is another way of saying magic, which, as Aleister Crowley defines it, is “the science and art of creating change in conformity with will.” Of course, someone frying an egg is creating change in conformity to will, but they are not shifting a matrix in the more essential way that Invisibles seek to. So we could rewrite Crowley’s principle: An Invisible is engaging the science and art of creating fundamental change in conformity with will. George Bernard Shaw was hinting at the Invisibles when he said,
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
A classic way for an Invisible to create fundamental change is for them to create portals, portals which other Invisibles can gaze into, possibly interact with, and expand their awareness. The portals they create are sometimes cultural artifacts such as movies, books, websites or graphic novels…
Grant Morrison used his linguistic skills and chaos magic to work collaboratively with other artists to create a portal called THE INVISIBLES, a serialized work, which can now be experienced as a massive single volume of 1600 pages squirming with colored images, and words that horrify and inspire.
The Invisibles Omnibus is an expensive book, but it has to be—sewn binding, 1600 glossy pages exquisitely printed in full color and with no bleed through (except in your mind). And there are the thousands, if not tens of thousands of man-hours and mutant-hours contributed by Grant, and all the letterers, inkers and colorists who produced the 10,000 or so panels comprising this massive book. If you have money to spend on this book, I also recommend the purchase of a magnifying glass with a five-inch diameter lens. Magnifiers this size diffract light in such a way that it makes illustrations and photographs seem 3-D, and this effect, as well as the magnification, increased the portal effect for me.
Someone, probably an Invisible, once said that you shouldn’t read a book unless it is like a ball of light glowing in your hands. Reading the Invisibles Omnibus is like holding a 13-inch diameter sphere of what appears to be clear quartz crystal in your hands. It’s heavy and a bit unwieldy to keep a grip on for long. These physical considerations, however, fade into the background when it starts to radiate strange images and you discover that it is a Palantír. To paraphrase Nietzsche, if you gaze overlong into THE INVISIBLES, it begins to gaze back at you. And sometimes its gaze is like the Eye of Sauron and it penetrates you with fell visions and the spells of Mordor.
As Invisibles become drawn into THE INVISIBLES they will see images of many things, some intentionally false and distorted, others revelatory of hidden truths. It takes strength of mind to look into a Palantír, or The Mirror of Galadriel, or THE INVISIBLES—an interactive portal made of words and images. An Invisible who engages THE INVISIBLES may find synchronicities linking them to this work in uncanny ways.
They may also find that dark forces which whisper at the edges of their mind will be revealed in THE INVISIBLES, like a series of illuminated X-rays. The metastasizing spells of parasitic magic revealed in the X-rays will be tough to look at. But these things were much more uncomfortable for the Invisibles who underwent them. For example, imagine yourself held captive in an institution at age seventeen. The head of the institution is a man named Gelt, who wears glasses with round lenses of nearly opaque blackness. Introducing you to your institutionalized captivity, Gelt tells you,
We have mummified the LIVING here.
Removed all their anger and frustration. All their feelings; left them hollow and dry, ready to be returned to the world…
Here we make little soldiers. Empty heads, marching to a common beat. Living, growing old, dying in our service…
Two things we will make you; smooth between the legs, smooth between the ears, and what we take from you, will feed the kings of this earth.
It is this sort of X-ray you must be willing to endure to read THE INVISIBLES.
THE INVISIBLES is a spell. It’s not just a comic book. It tells the future. Things happen around it and to the people who absorb it. I’m not lying to you. I present a slice of human experience in this form. I started out writing a story and slowly, over a few years, the world I live in became almost exactly like the story. —excerpt from Grant Morrison’s final “Invisible Ink” essay, from THE INVISIBLES Vol 3, #1
The Invisibles is a nexus of synchronicities and crossover effects for both its authors and for many readers. For example, I found many synchronistic links to my own unfinished fantasy epic, Parallel Journeys.
There were several, but here are the two that are the easiest to explain. In a panel with a picture of a tower with six high-tension power lines one Invisible says to another:
One day when we’re all gone, the creatures who come after us’ll find these old steel skeletons marching across desert wastes or tropical swamplands.
Think how mysterious they’ll appear, like the old stones are to us. The new caretakers of the earth will wonder if these pylons were built to mark highways of unknown and forgotten power.
In a passage from Parallel Journeys written in the mid-eighties, a character named Tommy, who is an Invisible in multiple senses (he is a mutant with literal cloaking abilities) is also standing before a high-tension, power-line tower:
In the center of this dry ground stood an enormous geometric construction of steel bars, an abstraction of a standing human form with upstretched metal arms holding six black power lines against the sky.
Tommy stood before this structure with a deep, primitive dread, feeling its power through the pores of his skin. Invisible energy from the lines made his muscles twitch and pulled at his hair.
One issue of THE INVISIBLES is entitled The Last Temptation of Jack. Jack’s full name, his Invisible’s name, is “Jack Frost.” The largest section of book one of Parallel Journeys (which also dates back to the 80s) is entitled The Last Temptation of the Snowman.
Note added: On April 24 of 2013, the day after I wrote the above, I found that my very close friend, Jack Savage, had just taken his life. Jack had just turned 24 and was one of the greatest poetic and soulful voices of his generation (Savage Reflections—the Soulful Poems of Jack Savage). He was, by far, the most significant Jack ever to cross into my life. The Last Temptation of the Snowman takes place in an astral realm. Two weeks (and again three days) before the suicide (and with no information about Jack for the previous eight months) I had a powerful dream where Jack appeared to be in a distressed, paranoid place in a lower astral realm (which looks like a grim, abandoned, urban landscape) written about in Parallel Journeys. That part, and the Last Temptation of the Snowman involve an attempt to help persons having a difficult time in a lower astral plane. No specific dream was recalled three days before the suicide, but I awoke with an overwhelming and anguished concern for Jack. In the panel where Dane, a young man is being given his Invisible’s name, Jack Frost, he says: “Fuck off! I’ not committing suicide…” Dane also looks like Jack.
p. 589 of the Invisibles Omnibus (Jack Savage was born in 89’)
I could go on, but the synchronicities I experienced will not be as interesting to you as the ones you will likely experience if you approach the uncanny energies shimmering around THE INVISIBLES. As with the example outlined above, be prepared that the synchronicities could be intense and life-changing.
When you were young you spent hours writing with your left hand, didn’t you? You were trying unconsciously to break the alphabet spell our teachers placed upon you.
P.S. I have written this essay as a suicide note because your “education” system is retarded and rooted in an 18th-century production ethic and by the time you find this and award me zero out of infinity, I will be dead.
Issues of the THE INVISIBLES were originally printed with a warning that they were for “mature audiences.” I would add that THE INVISIBLES is not for those who confuse maturity with a persistent, socially sanctioned immaturity that many will bring with them to the grave.
The only way to do that is to jump “up” from the surface of timespace and see all of history and all our tomorrows as the single object I believe it is.
THE INVISIBLES is a jumping up from history and all its blood-stained pageantry marching through time and space. It gazes down at all that from hyperspace where it can be seen as a single object.
The universe— the entire space-time continuum, from big bang to heat death, no less— was not a linear stream of events with beginning, middle, and end. That was only how it felt from the inside. In fact, the totality of existence looked more like a ball of sphincters, constantly moving through itself in a way that was hypnotic and awe inspiring to observe.
—Grant Morrison, Supergods
THE INVISIBLES gazes down from hyperspace at human history, that particular ball of sphincters glowing in the night of time, and then cross-sections it from odd angles. These crosssections are then stained, colored, lettered and otherwise made into the 10,000 or so panels of THE INVISIBLES.
I’ve been here before.
You’re here still. Prepare yourself.
Initiation never ends.
All it takes is the correct angle and you’ll see what you have always been.
II. Answering the Call of the Invisibles
You joined a long time ago, but if you don’t want to come with us now, if you don’t want to find out more about what this is all about, you’re free to go your own way.
Imagine you’re made of smoke, blue smoke drifting in the breeze. A ghost of blue smoke. Be invisible.
The way this works, Jack, is that we fold psychic constructs of ourselves through from one point on the supersphere to another.
You are in a room with wood paneling and leather-upholstered furniture. Bookshelves filled with old books line the walls. The room is so dimly lit you see little more than the outline of these things, but you can smell the old books, cracked leather chairs, pipe tobacco and dusty carpet. The carpet seems to be charged with an inordinate amount of static electricity. You feel it every time you move your bare feet. Or perhaps the electricity is coming from the Invisible who has entered the room from a shadowy corner. You feel him, the silent percussive waves of his personality and presence, the sense of long journeys and the magnetic pull of inexorable destinies. He has come here to offer you something. At the edge of your vision you begin to see the swirling of a blue smoke that has tiny scintillations of color within it, a prismatic mist scarcely visible beneath the smoke like tiny diamonds nearly hidden by the nicotine haze of heavy cigarette smoke. The scintillating smoke draws nearer, and for a moment it shimmers into different human forms—a seventeen-year-old boy with blonde hair and a couple of missing fingers, an athletic looking androgynous black woman, a man with a shaved head, a tall transsexual who is possibly Hispanic, an old homeless man with a scraggly beard. But none of these forms stick, and you sense that the Invisible is not here to meet you in any personal way. He/she is here to offer you a portal. The thought form crackles like static electricity in your mind space. What little it’s willing to say is offered telepathically and impersonally. The information appears in your mind as implicit thought forms, like the things you know in a dream without being told.
The subtle scintillations within the swirling blue smoke grow brighter and become more kinetic. The smoke is spinning itself up like a dust devil whipping up loose paper and other bits of debris from the carpeting. It is forming the portal, and the spinning of the vortex seems to tighten and focus itself until suddenly a definite form emerges and stands before you. It is a suit of clothes that is filled out as if by a person, but no person is visible, only a faint remnant of the blue smoke.
The suit of clothes is more threadbare than fancy—just an old green hoodie with slightly tattered sleeves, faded jeans and black Converse high top sneakers. But the outfit is also fringed by a corona of blue electricity and it seems to have an immense gravitational field. The field lifts you just off your feet so that now you are hovering a couple of inches above the carpet. You are not pulled into the outfit because there is a decision nexus preventing that, a choice that must be made.
Telepathically, you are made aware that choosing to enter the outfit means, among other things, that for eight minutes you will show up in this suit of clothes in a dimly lit room, the private library of a well-educated man of the 16th Century. This time displacement will be slightly unstable and may make you feel uncomfortable—some nausea and vertigo—but you will have to master these feelings and use these eight minutes to tell this man something that he will find highly disturbing. You must tell him that he has missed a whole dimension of life, and that this dimension, though unseen, forms his life and all the life he sees around him. You must make him understand that hidden in this dimension of invisible life are potent predators and parasites that could diminish or end his life. You’ll know what to say to him, because from where you come from, knowledge about this hidden dimension of life is commonplace and a summary of it will come quickly to mind. What is commonplace to you, however, will be an ontological shock to the man of the 16th Century, an Invisible living at a four hundred year displacement from you. For him, what you have to say will be like a tear ripping through the whole fabric of his reality. And yet, you sense that this message must be delivered and as you make your choice you are pulled toward the suit of clothes.
Your visual field interrupts for a moment as you feel an elevator drop twisting in your stomach, sudden figure/ground reversal, and now you are in the suit of clothes hovering in the dusty airspace of the room. There are things in the pockets of the hoodie. From the left pocket you pull a crinkling bag of candy, brightly colored capsules of sugar and chemical flavor, the brand name is revealed on a shimmering, rainbow-hued Mylar surface —Skittles. In the right pocket is a familiar oblong object of rounded edges and precision surfaces of glass and metal. Your fingers trace the familiar contours of an unsheathed iPhone.
A strong breeze blows through the room now. There is a sphere before you, it appears to be made of liquid metal which has the look of slightly iridescent Damascus steel with a rippled structure that undulates so that the sphere at times becomes amoeboid—a moving free form of liquid metal that is coming toward you, enveloping you. On the inside, the liquid metal is huge, it seems to have as much space as a universe and you feel yourself falling through it. Your fall accelerates to the speed of light, and then the speed of thought, and then it suddenly decelerates and you find yourself tumbling in slow motion toward what looks like a very old mansion with narrow diamond pane windows glowing faintly with the flicker of amber candlelight.
You are in the room and it smells of burning animal fat candles, of old paper and ink, and the old man, an Invisible living in the 16th Century, is sitting before you at his desk, his eyes dilating with astonishment as you come into view.
He puts the quill feather filled with ink back in its stand and stares at you as if at an apparition of unknown intention. From his perspective, you are an apparition of unknown intention, but he masters his astonishment. This is not just any old man, but a highly experienced alchemical adept who has seen many uncanny things and studied secret arts and sciences for many decades before you ever appeared in your slightly tattered outfit.
Words form in your mind and you speak them aloud and, as you do, you sense the strangeness of your accent to this English speaking man of another era.
“Sir, I am here for only a very brief time and must tell you something, tell you something about the nature of who you are and how your world works that you and all the other initiates and adepts of your time have missed.”
Through his eyes, you can feel the man’s mind racing to interpret your words, adjusting to your strange accent to decipher the content. You sense that his is a brilliant mind, rigorously trained in the unraveling of mysteries.
“Sir, do you know that there are far away lands, lands across the ocean that have not been fully explored and that have animals and plants that have not yet been named or studied?”
“Yes, I am aware of this. It is an inevitability.”
“What you don’t know yet, is that there are animals and plants that are not far away, but all around you right now, and yet you don’t see them or hear them.”
“Are they some sort of spirits?”
“No, they are all too solid, and as real and physical as pigs and sheep…Let us look beneath your writing table and I will show some to you.”
You get down on your hands and knees to the handmade, intricately patterned, Persian rug and allow your hands to pass over its velvety texture.
“There are animals living in the threads of this carpet as if it were a forest. Come, I will show them to you.”
The old man kneels down to see.
You pull out the iPhone, which has enhanced capabilities and a magnifier app. A beacon of white LED light is projected from the back of the iPhone, spotlighting a small, circular area of the carpeting. You move two fingers apart on the glass screen to zoom in and reveal hideous crab-like animals with tiny heads and huge mandibles crawling between the threads of the carpet.
He is more shocked by the images revealed than by the iPhone that he assumes to be some sort of miniaturized camera obscura, an ingenious machine of magnifying lenses and prisms.
“What foul beasts of hell are these?”
“‘They are called ‘dust mites.'” The name, “dust mites,” sounds eerie, even to you, as you sense it revolving in the man’s mind. “They are not beasts of hell, but very ordinary animals which you could find in almost any carpet. They are a type of very small insect.”
“What do they feed on?”
“They are eating particles of your dead skin.”
You can sense that the answer seems logical to him, and realize that you are forming a telepathic bond with the man, and that he is becoming aware of it as well. You both shift from kneeling on the carpet to sitting on it across from each other.
“You see, there are two great domains of physical life—the macrobiological and the microbiological.” You sense his knowledge of Greek and Latin aiding him in decoding the novel terms you are employing.
“And these creatures, the dust mites–” he gestures toward the carpet “–are microbiolgical?”
“No sir, dust mites are at the small end of the macrobiological kingdom, but would be inconceivably large compared to the microbiological realm. Each of these dust mites is composed of billions of microbiologicals called cells.” You sense that there is content preloaded on the iPhone, a video illustrating the microbiolgical world, and you hold up the device, displaying the screen in landscape mode. “Through this glass you will see moving images of the microbiological realm.” You touch the screen to play the video and quickly you narrate some of the familiar basics of the microbiological world. “Like the marcrobiological, there are predators, parasites, and symbionts.” Some of the creatures, you tell him, are helpful and others—images of viruses and spirochetes pass by—can be deadly and are the hidden causes of so many diseases and plagues.
“And these creatures are swimming about in the water that we drink?” You see that he has made an assumption about the liquid medium in which they appear to float.
“Yes, but they are also in food and in the very air you breathe. And, don’t be alarmed, but they are in you right now. They are in everybody. And yet, this is not the strangest thing I have to tell you. These creatures are not merely without; they are within, but not merely as guests or invaders. You, and I, and all the plants and animals we see, are made up of these creatures, these cells I have shown you.” You launch another video that zooms in on an illustration of a human form with revealed anatomy. It zooms in to reveal cellular structure. “Your body is composed of about 60 trillion of these cells.” The video displays the number: 60,000,000,000,000. “You are they, or your body, at least, is they, a cooperative colony of a vast number of these cells, these microbiological creatures, and each of these creatures has an internal structure as complex as a small city.”
The man’s eyes are dilated with shock, but you sense that he is getting it, that he is a man capable of sudden gnosis, a man who has plumbed great depths of inner knowing that have prepared him for the profound shock of your revelations. Telepathically, you sense the assent of this man’s inner truth sense, and can feel him filling in the gaps in his understanding of the natural world.
You stand up, and the man does too. You feel a growing sense of vertigo and realize you have only seconds left in this space/time displacement. You have just time enough to reach into your pocket and throw the Mylar bag of Skittles on his table, concrete evidence of the strange encounter, before everything destabilizes. And then profound vertigo, and it feels like you are falling backwards off a high diving board and falling in slow motion into a whirlpool of some sort—a spiraling vortex— spinning you into a discontinuity of time and awareness.
You reemerge into the dark and dusty room where you are hovering again, still costumed in the hoodie, jeans and high-top sneakers, and the Invisible, the one who sent you on this displacement, is there waiting for you, a swirling of blue smoke at the edge of your peripheral vision.
The communication is all visual telepathy now, a logos beheld. You see THE INVISIBLES Omnibus before you, a huge volume with a pink hand grenade on the cover. The book is opening and the pages are flipping by at great speed—visualized thought forms exploding in your mind. It is a download, a sort of training manual in story form—images and words flashing through your eyes and into your psyche. The content swirls inside of you, stirring deep fears and hopes.
The words and images seem to coalesce into a nexus of meanings. With some telepathic assistance from the Invisible, the vortex of words and images begins to act like a high-speed centrifuge spinning out content that was hidden between lines and behind images. The content takes the form of more definite thought forms, thought forms that have a radioactive afterglow. The thought forms emerge in a rapid staccato as pulses of words and images mixed. The words are easier to hold onto:
There is a third domain of life–
Energy based organisms–
Recognized by all cultures except the fundamentalist materialists–
They are called “spirits” and many other names–
Their forms are even more various than that of carbon-based life since their substrate is subtler and more plastic–
Similar energetic transactions as macro and microbiologicals–
Symbiosis, predation and parasitism
Potent energy parasites feeding off Homo sapiens—
Harvesting the energies of darker emotions and sexual chi–
Called by many names by various cultures—incubi, succubae, pretas, hungry ghosts–
The Gnostics called the most potent of these parasites the Archons–
Archons, the masters of deception–
As spiders weave webs, Archons weave matricies–
Archons have infiltrated the whole matrix of history–
Their spells are woven like threads of spider silk–
Woven into the bloody pageant of history–
Woven to keep us bound into conflict with each other–
Woven to keep us in a state of sweet fermentation–
Sweet ethers of suffering and dark passions–
Sweet ethers that feed them and fuel them–
Sweet ethers to harvest from us forever and ever and ever–
They are the harvesters—
Hiding above us on the food chain—
Their enemies are the Invisibles–
The ones who have awakened to the secret harvest–
The ones who glow as seed crystals awakening the host–
The ones who threaten the harvest–
The harvesters need us energetically—
Just as we need the energy of plants–
Or of animals who have eaten plants–
Plants have a catalytic enzyme, chlorophyll–
They are transducers of solar energy—
They can feed directly on the energy of the sun—
They can step down the solar energy into sugars and carbohydrates on which we can feed and fuel our existence–
We learned to eat the plants and the animals that arise form a food chain that begins with the sun feeding plants–
We learned to become hunters and gatherers and then harvesters—
As harvesters we came to believe we were above everything–
We lost sight of the harvesters above us–
We converted fats, proteins and carbs into subtler energies that fueled thoughts, emotions and sexual energies.
We also stepped down raw chi or prana that the hidden harvesters could not digest directly–
The energy of pure prana or chi was toxic to them, could burn them the way the sun could burn us if we got too close–
The harvesters need us to ferment energy from the source, to step it down into the redder, baser energy that has the right octane for them–
The Invisibles are like animals waking up on the way to the slaughterhouse–
Animals that want to disrupt their food chain–
The Invisibles are animals that have taken forbidden medicines, medicines that have allowed them to see forbidden things–
The Invisibles have noticed the words and image spells whispering at the edges of their minds–
The spells of the harvesters who want us sleepy and suffering, or crazed with hatred, jealousy, addiction, greed, and bloodlust—
The Invisibles see through to the hidden harvesting—
The Invisibles need you to join them—
They need you to help awaken other potential Invisibles to the secret harvest—
The vortex begins to slow, the centrifuging of meanings contained in THE INVISIBLES is spinning out what look like jig saw puzzle pieces, word and image pages from THE INVISIBLES.
The images and framed shapes of the panes dissolve as they come toward you until there are only words floating in thought space and then these words become zeros and ones and fall into the device that is before you right now, a machine with a labyrinthine core of silicon. The zeros and ones are racing through the labyrinth and they are being rendered as pixels—pixels that form words, words which cascade below as a series of 97 quotes from THE INVISIBLES. And just as the thought forms fall into zeros and ones and are reconstituted as pixelated words, you have stopped hovering in the darkened room and are returned from all displacements and are looking at the pixelated screen of a device…
Three things you can do with these 97 quotes.
You can read through them and let them affect you. But be forewarned, some of these thought forms are potent spells spoken or telepathically transmitted by Archons or by the meat puppets that they possess.
The voices of the Archons have a whispering, hissing sound—sometimes you may hear them as the sound of ancient animal skin parchment being torn into slivers by cold and spindly fingers; sometimes you may hear them as a wailing, rising and falling sound, like the sirens of ambulances racing through the night toward highway carnage or bodies riddled with bullets bleeding out on city streets; sometimes you may hear them as the insinuating whispers of unauthorized surgeons who wear leather face masks; sometimes you may hear them as voices that are childish and horrific, the whispering of the toys that rattle in the attic.
The voices of the archons weave dark spells, but they are dark spells revealed and frozen for observation, like mosquitos caught in amber.
These are the voices whispering from the shadowy edges of history, weaving bloody pageants to be harvested and devoured.
Comprehending these spells can help to immunize you from their fell power.
These are the spells that can become magnified into matrices when you are in a state of inner chaos.
When you dream and when you take potent hallucinogens, your boundaries become dissolved and part of you shows up in the world of the energetic organisms. Sometimes the Archons will attack you during these times with fell word and image spells. (see Shred to Black—Salvia Blue Moon Apocalypse, Andrew’s Ayahuasca Experience—An Encounter with the Singularity Archetype).
If you are strong enough, you will see that these attacks are also moments of seeing spells revealed, and even if it is only in retrospect, comprehending the spells can help to depotentiate their fell power.
Other of the quotes are spoken or telepathic messages from the Invisibles and they may be like lifelines, showing you ways through deceptive matrices, ways revealed by other mutants who are willing to be your allies.
These quotes have also been turned into an online oracle by my friend Nicholas Suski: http://www.suskitech.org/invisibles/
The following instructions were written before Nicholas made the online oracle and are another way to do it that is more old school:
The second way you may make use of these thought forms, the 97 quotes from THE INVISIBLES, is to physicalize them by printing a hard copy.
When you have them rendered into pages, cut the quotes apart from each other so that each is a separate piece of paper.
Collect the pieces and put them in a bag or bowl or other suitable vessel.
Some of the pieces of paper are dark spells; others are pearls.
Now you can ask the oracle certain questions such as:
What principle of the Invisibles is the important one for me to realize and employ at this phase of my life?
Without looking you let your fingers choose a piece of paper.
If your prefer not to deal with slivers of paper you can take a ten-sided dice (the kind of dice made for role playing games) and do two tosses. The ten sided dice tossed twice can produce any number from zero to ninety-nine so if you get a zero, a ninety-eight, or a ninety-nine, consider whether you already know the answer to your question. If not, toss again.
Often it will be a dark spell and you must read it, these spells are like the dragons guarding the pearls. You keep going until you get a pearl. You have before you now a dragon and pearl oracle made out of THE INVISIBLES.
Third, once you have encountered all the dragons and pearls from either or both of the two activities outlined above, read THE INVISIBLES Omnibus and see how each quote, each puzzle piece fits in until you have assembled the entire image.
If you have the will to follow these steps you are almost certainly an Invisible. What kind of Invisible you are depends on what you do, and have already been doing, with what THE INVISIBLES reveals.
III. 97 Quotes from THE INVISIBLES
(I did my best to guess at appropriate line breaks.)
Our world is sick, boy, very sick. A virus got in a long time ago and we’ve got so used to its effects, we’ve forgotten what it was like before we became ill.
…Cities have their own way of talking to you; catch sight of the reflection of a neon sign and it’ll spell out a magic word that summons strange dreams.
Have you even seen the word ‘Ixat’ glowing in the night? That’s one of the holy names.
Human cultures were originally homeostatic, they existed in a self-sustaining equilibrium, with no notions of time and progress, like we’ve got.
Then the city-virus got in. No one’s really sure where it came from or who brought it to us, but like all viral organisms, its one directive is to use up all available resources in producing copies of itself.
Two things we will make you,
smooth between the legs, smooth
between the ears, and what we
take from you, will feed the
kings of the earth.
Stick with me, boy, I’ll show you how to stay alive in this hard and hungry world.
And this here’s what we’ve come for; the blue mold grows here. Smoked it brings visions and opens doors to other Londons…
…city’s full of magic, neither bad nor good, just there to be used by the people who know. Cities live and breathe magic.
Two Londons there are; There’s the one you can see all around you and there’s the other city under the skin of this.
Cities aren’t what you think, see. If you make it past the first ordeal, I’ll tell you what cities really are and what they want.
People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they’re looking at us through the bar of their cages.
There’s a palace in your head, boy.
Learn to live in it always.
You don’t think this world is any less real than the one you left, do you?
Everything that ever happened to you is real, even your dreams. Them, most of all.
This wars’s been going on for a long, long time, behind the world you know. Sometimes people hear distant rumblings or glimpse bomb-light reflected in faraway windows.
On one side there’s the invisibles on the other…
Well, it’s not my job to tell you. You’ll find out soon.
You think you’re an outlaw but you just do what they want you to do; cause trouble for a little while, screw some tart, raise more robots, and on and on and on.
Your head’s like mine, like all our heads, big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there.
Sorcerers have to be warriors, Dane. We don’t lie in our beds, waiting for good old death to come sidling up in his cap and bells when we least expect it.
No, we go a-knocking on the bugger’s door and when we opens it, all surprised and sleepy-headed, we leap past him and out.
You’d be looking for a purely random sigil, a pattern made by birds or the reflection of clouds in a shop window.
You’ll know when you see it….
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries.
One day men and women will be equal and free from tyranny, free of God and fear, and we will have helped to hasten that day with our words.
The utopia I speak of lies in the imagination. It is not built, it grows. It grows in the hearts of men who love freedom. Our words must draw the maps of this new world, so that others may find their way there.
Ganesh is an old pal of mine. The god who breaks down obstacles. I always like to make a dedication to him at the start of any big venture and nine’s his number so we’re here at nine o’clock…
Our agents have been watching you for a couple of years, checking you out. You’re young, fit, smart, and you’ve spent most of your life rebelling against control and you’ve got a mean psychic talent worth developing.
It’s better to keep a sense of humor about this stuff. Some people totally lose it in the field.
We got agents out there who don’t even remember they’re invisibles. We’re talking ultra-paranoid.
These people are operating on the edge of reality, Jack. Cover stories inside cover stories, like Chinese boxes.
We call them Ciphermen, humans who have been modified by high frequency subliminal transmissions. The signals suppress individual thought and encourage hive mind loyalty.
But what a case of jewels is here unlatched! Unknown landscape of soft rubies…I’ve imagined the human body, the female body, subject to every outrage…but this…to see this…here…real…
Poets have a right to vanity and pride; they steal the power of creation from the gods.
They remake the world with words and in the image of their dreams.
Where is the love, beauty, and truth we seek but in our mind? The golden country, forever new? The home of all hearts, untouched by time and pain?
Molten imagination, the bricks and mortar of the universe, endlessly morphing, infinitely pliable.
Liquid looking glass.
The door to everywhere.
And Mictlantecuhtli, the dead landlord in the place of weeping, the place of the unfleshed.
You’ve strayed far from home, little Orlando.
Little unfinished one.
You don’t belong here. In the world of the fourth sun.
…See, it’s like there’s this attractor at the end of time, like a sort of singularity, a black hole, and it’s pulling us all towards it, so things are getting faster.
Outside, fleets of good UFOs and bad UFOs clash in slow motion.
Normally, it’s advisable not to do anything that might attract the attention of a parasitical bad UFO, but right now my belly’s rumbling.
I have to use my ojas radiation to attract a good UFO. I need nourishment now.
It descends, lets down an umbilical and I drink its blood fuel. Like the placenta in the womb, the original Christ who dies that we all can live, it sacrifices itself to feed me.
Ultradimensional Moorish/Arabian spaces and motifs, patterns in constant kaleidoscope motion. The souls of dead crackheads imprisoned in vampire seedpods. Endlessly drowning in their own sweet sprit nectars.
Poisons and acids bubble in pools…heat flashes and the stink of burning ants under glass…formic acid…egg chambers…faceted eyes.
He’s coming. I can feel him. I can feel the wind of the billion shadows he casts.
They were given to me!
I am preparing a feast for my family. For all the little ones who burrow and sting and when we are done, the rind and pulp of these souls will undergo metamorphosis…
The key is a prism, the prism is a key. I’m not sure which. They taught me how to angle it properly. There are five distinct hand movements
It’s very beautiful at first, to watch the glass surface begin to shimmer and pulse like a beaded veil, like rain falling.
Maybe it’s like a whirlpool, and the closer we get to the apocalypse or the eschaton or whatever you want to call it, the more things happen in a shorter time.
Hilde will have to become a girl, it’s the only way to pass on our teachings.
That is why they say a true initiation never ends, how can it end when it takes place outside of time? The moment of your initiation is a ripple in the bubble of time.
Of course you’re dying.
This is the land of the dead, after all.
Just as the interpenetration of a spherical form into a two-dimensional plane is seen as a circle of varying diameters—
so too does the interpenetration of /( )/ into your three-dimensional continuum appear as a lens form capable of altering its shape.
This is a magic stone. Do you understand? It is made from /( )/
We are going to put it in your head and activate your /(Third Eye Ajna Chakara)/
That’s shite. This
isn’t a fucking spaceship
Not real Aliens.
This is just
like a
Except it’s
in 3-D.
Jenny orgasms as she dies. Airbursts of blood like liquid fireworks. Slow motion plasma, neutrophils, lymphocytes, several hundred million red cells, rich in hemoglobin, shimmering in the sunlight.
Type O —common as muck.
One of the Archons walks nearby. He’s coming from the direction that can’t be pointed to. He’s ready to intersect.
For God’s sake! You’re not bringing one of them through!
I wasn’t told about this! I’m not prepared for the interface! …I…
Bow down slave.
Adore the king of all-tears.
That is why we are devouring our environment. Man, like the caterpillar or the maggot, is a creature in its larval stage.
We consume to fuel our imminent metamorphosis.
How you must loathe yourself, so eager to struggle against any thing but your own inadequacy. The truth is, you long to be like us but because you cannot fit into society, you dream of overthrowing it.
What is this infantile urge to destroy that which others have labored to build?
When you were young you spent hours writing with you left hand, didn’t you? You were trying unconsciously to break the alphabet spell our teachers placed upon you.
Entities…presences….I hear the drumbeats of assassin gods…they’ve come to teach me…it’s horrible…the things they’re showing me….How to destroy….souls?
The world-that-was facets–honeycombed by her compound eyes– she scuttles through a jeweled maze of appalling colors. Vast perfumes and grotesque emotions–optic lenses morph to accommodate changes in the light stained glass vision—migraine agony on overdrive–everything seems sickening, artificial.
Her remade palate clickers and whines–
The hymns of her order self-replicate through the building making it resonate like a hive.
And at her side the King-of-all-Tears—god of the endless iron room—manifesting in earth-plane matter—the warning siren of his voice rising and falling—activating the fourteen chakras and hyper-chakras in his spinal lattice—each lamenting outcry carefully modulated to programme his nanofactories with dynamic mobile blueprints of a more welcoming environment.
They swarm and breed, infecting the simplistic atomic structure of the local reality grid.
Contagion takes, contagion spreads, contagion rages along precise parameters.
The world sickens and begins to change.
The story is told of a woman who finds herself in a glorious garden—orchard of unsurpassed beauty and luxury.
Each perfect day is spent indulging in pleasure. Godlike, she wants for nothing.
And then, on one more glorious evening, she ventures to the crystal lake of sweet ambrosia which nourishes her and, as she dips in to drink, her eyes are opened to the hideous truth behind the illusion of existence.
And she realizes that she is a monstrous, parasitical insect.
The heavenly garden is simply the skin of her unsuspecting host, the lake of heaven no more than the bloodstream upon which she battens and feeds.
The touch of the king comes from all directions simultaneously. He is outside and inside and somewhere else.
Suddenly she can’t remember the name of her husband or the sound of the voices of her daughters.
All she can remember is the time when she was twelve and she let the man in the swing park touch her. He gave her ten shillings and she bought chocolate and was sick.
And Mary Brown, who won ten pounds in the National Lottery, who watches Oprah most afternoons, wakes into nightmare, recognizing her own immortal soul in that last screaming second before the royal eggs hatch inside it, before she hatches with them, newborn, and begins to tear hungrily at the glowing essence of all she was.
I remember I was dead calm. I reached into that bag Tom had left me and there was a little tin filled with fag ends he must have saved up from ashtrays and gutters.
I crumpled them into ash and drew a circle around me.
Then something just clicked. It wasn’t in my head, it was like a door opened in my heart and I knew what to do. I’d always known.
It’s weird because they don’t really look scary. They’re aliens and all that, but when you see them it’s more like special effects…
Every shitty thing you’ve ever done, every horrible, sick thought you’ve ever had, they turn it back on you until you can’t think of anything else.
They can read you like a book and pull out whatever page it takes to make you feel like you’re sick or useless or guilty. They can break your heart and shit on your soul.
And they can remind you why you deserve it.
You couldn’t love your mum or your dad. Not really. You couldn’t love your mates or you’d just be a poof. The only person you were really allowed to love was your girlfriend.
And the lie was what the alien got hold of and started twisting around in my head.
They always fall back on the monsters and the shitty special effects stuff when they’re up against the wall.
Somewhere, somehow I knew I had him beat.
There is a war on but it’s …we’re like ants on a battlefield. We haven’t the heads to understand even a fraction of what’s going on all around us.
There was this sound started up, like a million people humming or something. A circle of minds…an infinite circumference…And I was humming too, joining in.
Towering behind him, one of nine corrupt Buddhas—obese and senile, his brain rotted like a tooth by the sweet, unending bliss of false enlightenment, the Buddha masturbates like a monkey in a cage.
Lacerating voices of the scalpel choir. Worm-eaten leatherbound Bible spirits. Maimed women in white Marilyn Monroe dresses, with false eyelashes stitched along bare, bleeding forearms.
Mandibles gnash language down to the root-raw nerves of sound—a six-word sequence she learned as a novice in the steel cells of the outer church—six words engineered to resonate with human cell structures producing massive tissue breakdown—pure sonic cancer.
Cum out of the sir-kull .
You will not pass except to cum with uz to the House of Tears…
Cum out of the sir-kull.
The King observes—five dimensional lenses flow and interlock—mold-forms analyze the conceptual space around the boy’s word sculptures and identify a positive intent.
Elsewhere, the king’s nun is already compromised—probability fronts are becoming disagreeable—the King examines the facts, decides, and rotates the supersphere to access a new point of entry—he selects a stress window and moves in to attack his enemies in their future.
I tore his aura away. He won’t survive long without it. Every etheric parasite from here to the abominable plateau of Leng should be sniffing him out by now.
A predator which has disguised itself as the entire universe. It’s all around us, breathing, waiting, hiding in everything.
It means… I don’t know. It means, basically, that some movies are clearly being made by Invisibles and they contain messages for other invisibles.
Invisibles talking to one another in their own secret language.
The movies are signals. They let us know that others are out there…
Vision narrows. Monotonous insect humming begins. Things are stripped of all meaning, all significance, all association but that which is determined by Control.
To fight the empire is to be infected by its derangement.
Whoever defeats part of the empire becomes the empire; it proliferates like a virus…thereby it becomes its enemies.
I think my great-grandfather’s origami is from the future. I think I will send it back to him from a time to come so that it will pass down through my family to inspire my efforts.
You in your chaotic state, may experience our efforts in value-laden terms; feelings of degradation, shame and humiliation are common.
“Individuality” is the name you give your sickness.
Your deviation from correct functioning.
Understand this: We have come to free you from chaos and uncertainty. And “individuality.”
You are already in us.
We have always existed in you.
In your fevers,
In your sick longings,
In your cruelties and
In your despair.
On the flat surfaces of all the feelings you categorize using these value terms.
The gate leads from what seems to what is.
Come home to the machine.
The crucified god-image has been replaced by the new aeon’s dominant religious motif—a CHILD fucking about with the building blocks of reality itself, restlessly destroying to create.
She attacked my mind. I retaliated by shedding part of my structure into her. I inserted a self-cloning incubus. It’s growing in a dark and fertile part of her unconscious mind.
More self-awareness. And soon now, it’s going to wake up. The entire universe is going to open its eyes and blink. And we’ll be here to see it happen.
(repeat)
In your cruelties and despair.
Only in your world are tortures eternal.
I am from the solid world where things pass. I have been a boy, a girl, a whore, a sorcerer…
The darkness in people doesn’t frighten me.
When you shut your eyes, afraid to see yourself as you truly are…
That is when you see only darkness…
The story dissolves in my head like sugar in coffee. It hangs in suspension, not quite complete.
I’m almost scared to finish.
I’m scared if I write myself in, I’ll never get out. They’ll find me trapped here in my own words.
How many people have to tell a true story before it becomes true?
…Stanislav Grof calls it “Basic Perinatal Matrix III.” It’s visions of death camps, biological filth, demonic types of sexuality, inhuman technology.
We abused one another, we experienced psychotic, morbid states of shame, disgust, greed, fear and power.
What I know is this: unusual information and insights seem to download into the brain…
A kind of ego annihilation is followed by euphoric reintegration and a sense of extended understanding.
Conditions within time are ferocious; our suits begin to disintegrate after the first twenty years…
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and what I’ve come to is this:
Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it’s kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the end.
I can see the Ericksonian commands emerging through your sentence structure.
All of your neurolinquistics technics are visible to me as emergent structures.
We are the Midwich Cuckoos. We are the Stepford wives. We are the forgotten.
Kalli giving birth to skeletons—a picture of spacetime seen through the eyes of the fearful—time turning through itself in endless self-generating iterations—
–endless horror all at once—Belsen Columbine Cambodia—the torture cells and the cancer in Terrence McKenna’s head—death all at once triumphant——blood-red ogres of Kali—
—Kali is the terrible mother of the negative universe—
—where milk is venom and shit is
gold and death is life—deranged
reversed entities fill the spaces
between things and concepts—
Screaming, as little ones do when they are made aware of what they truly are.
I saw the bloodstained, tiled and hopeless wall at the end of history; the infinite deathcamp of tomorrow.
And I saw I had a choice.
Where fear is all there is, there is no fear.
The “aeon”? You still think this is about thelemic “magic”?
Beyond this there are no aeons, there is no evolutionary process.
There is only the machine, forever and everywhere.
I want him castrated, lobotomized and working for US, as a cipherman in the drone-tanks.
Chop-chop.
Here in the interference, the machine has partially conquered the future but it never quite succeeds. This is a source of endless frustration to the smooth functioning of the machine.
And here begins the infinite novelty, self-knowledge, eternal freedom…And ultimate dispersion of the archons of chaos.
We are walking behind the walls of time and the world you know at right angles to it, so that you may see yourself and it.
“Ego” scaffolding necessary to your development must now be husked before it constricts your growth.
Fear of death is only the signpost that ego has reached its limit: you are not even born yet.
This is how a human process looks to us—the body, decades long, billion-eyed and billion-limbed, the worm-cast that you leave in time, This is your complete body, not its section.
I grew up with the Gnostic Straight Edgers–anti-sex, anti-death, we imagined ourselves to be perfect simulations. Super-heros on a corrupt digital planet conjured in the mainframes of epic, monstrous A.I.s. The universe a program inside a Manichaean murder machine. Tormented by individuality, cursed by 2000 years of ego. The end of history.
Before the memeplex, before the super context.
Do you feel as though time’s speeding up, darling?
I mean ACTUALLY getting faster.
and your initiation is about to begin.
That’s them: the bits between everything, come to life and showing themselves.
Scare the shite out of you for a little bit if you’re not ready for it.
Don’t believe nothing you hear. Trust what you know. Remember it’s all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.
And when the archons come and it all turns inside out with scary miracles. It’s only all the things you left outside when you were building your little house called “me,” ey?
P.S. I have written this essay as a suicide note because your “education” system is retarded and rooted in an 18th century production ethic and by the time you find this and award me zero out of infinity, I will be dead.
There’s no difference between fate and free will. Here I am; put here, come here, no difference, same thing.
Nothing ends that isn’t something else starting.
So which side are you on?
Do you know yet?
Excerpt from a Fax sent on 10/26/93 to supplement the Invisibles proposal:
One of the things we should be trying to bring out is the idea of the The Invisbles as a group to which anyone might belong. Involve the reader in the whole process by making him/her realize that she/to can join/has already joined the ranks of The Invisibles. Part of what I want to achieve with this title in the long-term involves actually changing the consciousness of the readers by presenting them with various techniques and concepts which will undoubtedly alter their way of looking at the world, in that sense, THE INVISIBLES isn’t a comic about something but is the thing itself and every reader is a potential Invisible. If the Invisibles are Shamanic Terrorists, the comic itself is an act of shamanic terrorism.
Excerpt from Grant Morrison’s “Invisible Ink” essay for THE INVISIBLEs Vol. 1, #16 in which he encouraged readers to do a sex magic ritual involving a sigil they would create to revive sagging sales numbers for THE INVISIBLES which threatened its viability:
The idea is that the original desire, reduced to abstraction, can be more easily implanted into the subconscious mind, there to do its work. When creating sigils it’s best to start with very specific desires that have at least some likelihood of success. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel or, to put it in more basic terms, there’s little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don’t also buy a lottery ticket.
Excerpt from Grant Morrison’s final “Invisible Ink” essay, from THE INVISIBLES Vol 3, #1:
THE INVISIBLES is a spell. It’s not just a comic book. It tells the future. Things happen around it and to the people who absorb it. I’m not lying to you. I present a slice of human experience in this form. I started out writing a story and slowly, over a few years, the world I live in became almost exactly like the story.
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Nice Jonathan. Grant Morrison is one of the most impactful storytellers I've ever come across. I never new I was an invisible until I read his. stuff… 🙂 We should get together this week.
Right before I read the sentence in the picture at the start 'the most hideous crab-like creatures' my roomate offered me a a crab pate sandwich that made my stomach churn…great article, this comic looks amazing. I wonder if you've ever seen the work of the website called 'Zen Pencils'? He does illustrations to excellent quotes.
Thank you for this gem Jonathan.
The night before I pulled quote 18.
"Ganesh is an old pal of mine. The god who breaks down obstacles. I always like to make a dedication to him at the start of any big venture and nine's his number so we're here at nine o'clock… "
I was listening these angels and their song Aloha Ke Aku,
"On a day of silence while the island slept, I cast my demons out at the feet of Ganesha, said remove the obstacles bravely with grace." #Nahko #medicineforthepeople
I'm just about of a mind to drop everything and fly off to Hilo to work with these invisibles going Xibalba supernovae. Check out their medicine.
Hi Jon, I’ve never been a big comic book (or graphic novel) fan. The last series I read was Mad magazine back in the 70’s. But your description of this volume has me interested. I ordered it from Amazon. I’m looking forward to the experience. Thanks for posting the recommendation.
Just finished the Invisibles. Wow, what a great ride. A fascinating story that has a great breadth of ideas. The artwork is superb too.
I’ve just kinda came across this randomly, and, well, I don’t know what to say. I don’t think I understand any of this, but it still feels…right.
Yeah…that probably doesn’t make any sense. I’m just glad I found this. It’s really interesting.
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#1 | Cops to de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:20 am
Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Location: Richland, WA
Relations between Da Mayor and NYPD not so warm and friendly.
"Not over their dead bodies.
Cops are warning Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to stay away from their funerals should they be killed in the line of duty.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association distributed a flier to members, blaring: “DON’T LET THEM INSULT YOUR SACRIFICE!” Cops were encouraged to sign and submit the “Don’t Insult My Sacrifice” waiver to ban the cop-bashing pols from their funerals.
“I, as a New York City police officer, request that Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito refrain from attending my funeral services in the event that I am killed in the line of duty,” the waiver states.
“Due to Mayor de Blasio and Speaker Mark-Viverito’s consistent refusal to show police officers the support and respect they deserve, I believe that their attendance at the funeral of a fallen New York City police officer is an insult to that officer’s memory and sacrifice.”
Officers can download the form on the PBA’s Web site and drop off a signed copy to their PBA delegates."
Da Mayor meanwhile stated: "This is deeply disappointing,” the mayor and the council speaker said in a joint statement.
“Incendiary rhetoric like this serves only to divide the city, and New Yorkers reject these tactics."
Tone deaf De Blasio doesn't seem to realize it is his own stupidity and lack of support for the NYPD which has led to this.
"Sources say the revolt was sparked by the mayor’s lack of support for the NYPD following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officer involved in the death of Staten Islander Eric Garner.
De Blasio added fuel to that fire in a press conference about the grand-jury vote where he said he had warned his 17-year-old, mixed-race son, Dante, to be careful around police officers.
“We’ve had to literally train him, as families have all over this city for decades, in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him,” the mayor said.
PBA President Patrick Lynch reacted to that by accusing the mayor of throwing cops “under the bus.”
http://nypost.com/2014/12/12/cops-to-de-...m-our-funerals/
Cromnibus delenda est
#2 | RE: Cops to de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:31 am
Meanwhile in another building down the way.
"FDNY Drops Physical Fitness Test Requirement to Boost Female Hire Rate"
"In a somewhat controversial move, the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) has dropped the physical test requirement for probationary firefighters. The move was done in part to increase the number of female members in FDNY.
From the New York Post:
The Fire Department has stopped requiring probationary firefighters to pass a job-related physical-skills test before getting hired — a move that critics derided as a lowering of standards.
The move by first-year Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, which allows probies to fail components of the Functional Skills Training test but still graduate from the Fire Academy, comes amid criticism of the department’s low hiring rate of women.
Out of FNDY's 10,500 firefighters, just 44 are women. Only 57 percent of females pass the physical test, compared to 95 percent of males. The physical test involves, among other things, moving a tire six to eight feet and climbing up a ladder wearing an oxygen tank with a small amount of oxygen."
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinero...e-rate-n1931085
NYers seemed determined to return their city to the garbage pit it was before Giuliani. I wish them the best.
Rufus T Firefly
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The ones that reside on the upper East side are, anyway.
They might say: 'The city is so much more "exciting" nowadays - and it makes for much better cocktail party conversations as we summer in the Hamptons."
#4 | RE: Cops to de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:21 pm
algernonpj
Agent 355 - Moderator
Location: Okefenokee Swamp
Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #3
I'm no fan of many of Guiliani's politics, but credit where credit it due.
I was working in Jersey City when Guiliani became famous for cleaning up NYC.
There were several who commuted in from NYC and I asked them if this was all hype.
They all answered that Guiliani cleaned up and made the city safe for ALL New Yorkers. As average working people they went from avoiding going out after dark and carrying 'muggers money' (remember that) to being able to sit on their stoops. socialize with neighbors, go to a movie or eat out safely.
Those of us in NJ went from avoiding the city like the plague to being able to drive in once in a while and enjoy it without being assaulted at every stop by 'windshield cleaners'. The street no longer were being used by the homeless as bedrooms and bathrooms.
Policemen don't want him at their funerals...
If I were a ground hog or carriage horse I wouldn't want him at my funeral.
#6 | RE: Cops to de Blasio: Stay away from our funerals Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:30 pm
Frank Cannon
Location: Second Circle of Hell
Rudy didn't just clean the human debris off the streets, he cleaned the physical garbage too. I remember wandering around sections of the city back in the 80's and it was almost like walking through the contents of Chinese restaurant dumpster it was so bad. Dinkins was easily the worst mayor that city ever had. Probably worse than Comrade DeBlowsio.
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Giuliani Blames ‘Liberal Guilty Whites,’ Teachers for Police Relations
Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani doubled-down on comments he made last week about the need to address the phenomenon of black-on-black crime, blaming “liberal guilty whites” like Mayor Bill de Blasio and teachers unions for exacerbating the problem.
Speaking on WABC’s Geraldo Rivera radio program, Mr. Giuliani reiterated his criticism of Mr. de Blasio and like-minded progressive politicians for what he claimed was an over-focus on police abuse and killing of blacks, and what he argued was insufficient attention to the high crime rates in African-American neighborhoods. He claimed the refusal to address the latter problem is making it worse.
“The only reason there are more [police] encounters with blacks is because there’s considerably more crimes against blacks. Somebody was on television this weekend, asking how come there are so many blacks in prison. Well, how about because they commit 70 percent of the murders in New York City. That’s not a racist comment, Geraldo. That’s a fact. I think it’s racist not to acknowledge that,” he said. “The only way you restore confidence between these two communities is to get them to tell the truth about each other.”
The former mayor argued that Mr. de Blasio and his ally Rev. Al Sharpton would be better off spending time and effort combating crime in black communities and the social problems that he claimed give rise to it.
“Liberal guilty whites have to stop refusing to say the bigger part of the problem here is black crime and not police overreaction. A smaller part of the problem is police overreaction. It’s driven by the incredibly large rates of crime in the black community,” Mr. Giuliani said. “The energy that Sharpton and everybody else is spending protesting against police would save a lot more black lives if it would start talking about black education, if it started talking about the family situation in the black neighborhoods.”
He then turned his fire on teachers unions, claiming they are to blame for the problem of poor schools in black neighborhoods.
“Maybe all these left-wing politicians that want to blame police, maybe there’s some blame here that has to go to the teachers union, for refusing to have, for refusing to have schools where teachers are paid for performance, for fighting charter schools, for fighting vouchers, so we can drastically and dramatically improve the education situation. Maybe they should be talking about and holding rallies about the problem of black fathers taking care of the children they fathered,” he said.
Nonetheless, he conceded that police need retraining in courtesy, and that the continued troubles blacks face are a result of historic injustice.
“All of this I don’t see as racial. This is all a product of the terrible things that happened what someone called I think was the biggest sin in American history, was slavery,” Mr. Giuliani said.
Similar comments from Mr. Giuliani in the last few weeks have drawn sharp criticism.
Read more at http://observer.com/2014/12/giuliani-bla.../#ixzz3LoKedlpf
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Give DeBloweio time; it'll be a real close race.
Ya beat me to this one, Algernonpj: "Give DeBloweio time; it'll be a real close race." Only thing I dispute about that is De Blasio, due to his rigid ideology, will be worse, much worse.
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The United States Botanic Garden (USBG) is located in the heart of Washington, DC along the National Mall with the towering US Capitol Building in the background. The USBG, one of the oldest botanic gardens in the nation, not only offers a gorgeous venue to view many rare and exotic plants, it also provides educational exhibits of the importance of plants to the Earth and its ecosystem.
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The Conservatory, National Garden and Bartholdi Park make up the US Botanic Garden campus. One of the most popular exhibits is the spectacular orchid display. The USBG houses about 5000 orchid specimens with hundreds on display at any one time, and more during the annual Orchid exhibit which generally runs from mid-February through April (rotating annually between the USBG and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History).
View live garden scenes with plants from the Jurassic era that predate flowering plants. Marvel at exotic plants from Hawaii, some of the most endangered plants of the United States. Observe the live jungle exhibit from above tree level. Pause for a while to let your youngsters play in the Children’s Garden. And as you are touring the USBG, record your adventure in your own Family Field Journal — available at the USBG Visitors Information Services Desk. Don’t forget the annual holiday show that runs between Thanksgiving and New Year’s and features garden railways and models of DC landmarks built from natural materials.
The National Garden, to the west of the Conservatory, includes a butterfly garden, an organic rose garden, and beautiful regional gardens, all in the shadow of the United States Capitol.
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The United States capital city of Washington, DC offers so many attractions that it’s hard to list them all. The White House, the Capitol Building, the National Museums, and countless memorials showcase this city’s history and position as a World Power. And, for the gardener and other travelers alike, over 50 private and public destination gardens are within an hour’s travel of the city. Walking tours are also prevalent in this very walkable city.
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Holocaust Hoax Exposed • The Most Forbidden Science
Dr James Fetzer interviews Nick Kollerstrom.
UCL removed Kollerstrom's honorary fellowship in April 2008 after articles of his appeared on Holocaust denial websites.[1] One was published in June 2007 on a website run by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), and another in March 2008 in Smith's report, an online newsletter published by the co-founder of CODOH, Bradley Smith.[12]
In one of the articles Kollerstrom wrote that one million Jews had died in the Holocaust, not six million, that gas chambers had operated in Auschwitz only for the purpose of disinfection, and that "the only intentional mass extermination program in the concentration camps of WW2 was targeted at Germans ... in French and American-run concentration camps," material he said had been "erased from the history books."[13] In another he wrote that Auschwitz had had art classes and a well-stocked library for inmates, as well as an elegant swimming pool where inmates would sunbathe at weekends while watching water-polo matches.[14]
The articles were brought to the university's attention by bloggers, after Kollerstrom expressed views about the 2005 London bombings during a book launch that prompted people to make inquiries about him.[15] Kollerstrom gave an interview in May 2008 to the Iranian government's Press TV about the loss of his fellowship.
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Gmail Not Sending Attachments 2018
If you have an outdated plug-in, then the attachment uploader might not function properly. Gmail is getting But again, Gmail decides what's important, not you. Email has become one of the primary ways that we send information in file form, but many email service providers have an e-mail attachment limit that stipulates the maximum size of the files you can include in an email. Solved: Hi, We have a requirement to trigger emails with PDF document as attachment. Save this to a file named get_attachments. in microsoft edge, I am. You can also save Gmail messages in shared Team Drives. If you lost a locally saved email file saved on your computer, not in the browser or Gmail app, EaseUS file recovery software can help restore it from your local PC or storage devices. It appears the Remote UI may not be baking the configuration on the printer. com - use port 587 SSL and if that doesn't work change it to 465. The name ATT00001 is a generic file name and you’ll often see these in. If I select the email in the notification bar, then it brings up the new email. There are many ways to delete Gmail based on common patterns, dates, selections and search criteria. How to CC or BCC Multiple Email Recipients with Gmail Merge Gmail Mail Merge Let’s say you are sending out a personalized mass email using Mail Merge for Gmail but would still like to add certain recipients in the CC or BCC list. Gmail displays all image attachments, and some other formats such as documents, as inline previews. It's great to see these kinds of changes as the cellphone market continues to grow. There's nothing more annoying than when you attach a file to an email only to be notified that it exceeds Gmail's 25 MB limit. How to send email with an attachment and attachment limits. Fix: Outlook Sending winmail. All you need is your email login and password and the mail app is ready to use. Yes! You're a lifesaver. This article was originally published in July 2015, updated in 2017, and now, in 2018. The following script can be used to send an email message using SMTP. The attachment of pdf files is easily seen in other email browsers, therefore the bug is within Windows Mail 10. If you deleted or removed your Gmail emails by accident, try the provided methods to restore your Gmail email now. - Why does mailsend work after some retries. I've deleted and relinked the account but it's not linking properly at all. If there had been a way to cut out all the excess garbage I could have dropped that one and all the prior messages and only sent you the latest. A little-known feature about Gmail and Google Apps email is Google's portable SMTP server. com exclusive feature and a similar feature is present. [Fix] Gmail Marks Your Important Emails as Spam. Hello everybody. The To parameter specifies the message's recipients. I receive the following message for each unsuccessful attempt to send: Cannot send message using the server smtp. I'm not much of a Gmail fan because of the annoying threading feature -- is there a way to turn it off? -- but what really drives me crazy is when my colleagues and I have a discussion via email and someone occasionally posts something off-topic. The Undo feature is heading out of the. That's very good to see. Learn about Gmail attachment restrictions and how to get around them so that you can send large files using Google Drive. Regards Jins. Your heart drops. Email attachments are also easily integrated into Google Drive, so, if you don't want the attachment taking up space on your hard drive, you can save it directly to your Google account. Today, we will learn how to send mail with attachment and subject using Python. Please be aware that Google imposes strict limits on the amount of email you can send through your Gmail account. Or ask the Outlook user to resend the file, using plain text format. The attachment of pdf files is easily seen in other email browsers, therefore the bug is within Windows Mail 10. However, just because you can attach and send it, doesn’t necessarily mean it can be received. In addition to a free version, Gmail also offers a paid version as part of the Google Apps for Business plan. These are embedded as a base 64 encoded string in an img tag. I will provide code for two scenarios. However, many email accounts or applications follow a similar process for creating and sending a new message. your browser (Firefox) is very good but has problems when Gmail. Dropbox for Gmail – Send and preview Dropbox files and links without leaving Gmail. We are looking to improve this experience on the product side. , complete with pictures and borders, directly into my Gmail and it would easily paste and send, looking exactly as I designed it in the word. 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Gmail users can now receive files of up to 50MB in size. I was able to successfully link a yahoo email account. December 23, 2015 2018 at 7:33 am If you have Microsoft Office and are using the desktop to send your Gmail this is not. 25 tips for getting the most out of the new Gmail features You might not know it at first glance, but Google's new Gmail interface is jam-packed with powerful possibilities. There are many ways to delete Gmail based on common patterns, dates, selections and search criteria. But with a simple trick, […]. Recipients will need to use the Save As feature in Microsoft Outlook or their email program to save the attachment with the normal ". I set up a custom "[email protected] since the attachments that have been uploaded appeared on the right hand side of the screen, rather than the left), if I send an attachment to a number of individuals, then some people get it, and some don't. Click the compose button, and a new message form screen appears. When you create an email address, however, you are picking the. com was a new app with windows 10, guess not. So you must be 100%. So it's less of can you send html email in Gmail, but rather howto send html email. By Microsoft Flow Community. Avoid suspicious emails. Click 'Gmail' (shown in red). On Android, you've got a couple options for how to encrypt your email. The new Dropbox for Gmail extension gives Chrome users an easy way of attaching cloud files. Administrators will be able to control whether all email attachments or only those from outside their Exchange network use Protected view. Let’s fix it. That attachment at the bottom was an earlier one and not the latest one. Hi, I have a scenario that I need to send newly created list item attachment as an email attachment. This wikiHow teaches you how to send a video clip to someone's email address using Gmail. And every other email app works fine regardless of sync enabled. POP3 Host: pop. I can receive mail but not send it. Remove your Gmail account from your device and add it again: Tap Settings > Mail, Contacts and Calendars > Add Account > Google. You will get insights of your email campaigns like open rate, response rate and link tracking. You can change the message format to HTML before you click Forward, but honestly, unless you can use a macro to do this, it's generally faster to save the attachment and reattach it. Can anyone please help me with this? Please do not tell me to open my Gmail and attach the document. However, the attachment doesn't go with the email and there are no errors to let you know that it did not go. If you are absolutely sure that there were no changes made to the system as far as you can remember, then. The service allows you to send attachments such as a PDF to recipients. Second, the TIdMessage handles the storing and encoding of the messages. Writing and sending a letter is a lot of work, if you think about it. txt, BBBBBB0123. If you deleted or removed your Gmail emails by accident, try the provided methods to restore your Gmail email now. Is there a better email app that will work with gmail. Most importantly, many of us do not have the time to fix the issue when we have to send that all important email. Email Studio is a Gmail add-on that will not only help you schedule email messages inside Gmail but you can also send recurring emails. I've tried deleting cache and files and resending, and that worked ONE time. I went out of my way to prove this to a geek who was horrified. You can do this both in the Gmail mobile app and on the desktop site. More specifically, every single email you send or receive will use an encrypted HTTPS connection. So that's what I did. In those cases, reset your srs-file by renaming it to. We highly encourage you to transition to this new Gmail feature as soon as possible to ensure you can continue sending confidential emails. Don't bother looking in winmail. In this article, we have described how to install sendemail package and a few examples for sending email through remote SMTP server like Gmail. The statement "The requested URL was not found on this. The default TCP port used by SMTP is 25 and the SMTP connections secured by SSL, known as SMTPS, uses the default to port 465. Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. As of 2013 it also doesn't enable you to send or receive attachments above 25MB in size. We've worked to ensure every single way possible that email encryption can be confusing has been removed, so that more people can encrypt Gmail or other email. More than 250,000 professionals use Right Inbox every day to increase their email productivity. I am sending out emails as always but the attachments do not stay attached! It is not a size issue not a connection problem and this was never the case in the past. Need help? Fly on over to our Help Center or forum. Add text if desired, then tap the MMS button to send your image with your text message. Gmail is email that's intuitive, efficient, and useful. ” Jason Attas Private investigator. Most importantly, many of us do not have the time to fix the issue when we have to send that all important email. I can enter an address on the to line but the 'send' option does not activate (stays grayed out) and thus I am unable to send the email. Its 100% work on Android phone download astro file manager from link ( ASTRO File Manager - Android Apps on Google Play ) install done. com: (and my e-mail address) The SMTP connection to server "smtp. However, many email accounts or applications follow a similar process for creating and sending a new message. If you're unable to send emails when connected to HMA Pro VPN, this can occur because we're blocking outgoing email servers (SMTP) by standard to prevent abuse and spam. Not only does this cause longer download times, but it reduces the number of images you can send. I've deleted and relinked the account but it's not linking properly at all. There are many ways to delete Gmail based on common patterns, dates, selections and search criteria. Needless to say, there are several ways to fix attachment failed issues. Here's how to send email through your Gmail account:. The message will, however, appear in your Gmail Inbox if you log into your account using the Gmail web interface. Epstein signed $577 million will 2 days before he died. It's quite sickening that even at this age of technological advancement, popular email clients like Gmail still refuse to accept attachments to the north of 25MB because of Gmail attachment limit. There are better and more simple alternatives available, but when you need a PHP mail alternative, and you don't want to pay any recurring fees, Google provides a nice service and WP Mail SMTP makes it relatively straightforward to get up and running. it and libero. However, there are certain prerequisites that need to met for encryption to take place. In Gmail, you will not get a clear button for viewing your email in plain text. If not, you'll need to upload the video to Google Drive and then send the person a link to the video file. txt, BBBBBB0123. You may attach multiple pictures at the same time by holding down the Ctrl key, and then clicking each file individually. Where you said there were 3 lines and you listed Google smtp. There are mail options to automate send mail from powershell but below i am going to show you how to use gmail smtp in Net. To solve this, you must re-enable Basic Authentication for Outlook in your Google Account Settings. Attachment size limit. 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NET - Send Email using Gmail Account over Explicit SSL (TLS) on 25 or 587 Port]¶ The following example codes demonstrate how to send email using Gmail account over TLS in VB. The name ATT00001 is a generic file name and you’ll often see these in. Epstein signed $577 million will 2 days before he died. Google previously did not allow images to load without permission from you. The message goes into a que and I can t do anything with it. The details of this workflow can vary depending on your choice of client library and programming language. I could not get any to send. initialHeight=initialHeight;this. 4 powerful features to supercharge your Gmail account. Typically when you are trying to fix the WordPress not sending emails issue it is not a problem on the server, but rather email is setup incorrectly on the WordPress installation or there is an incompatibility. Although the sender must use a Gmail account, the recipient does not need to be using a Gmail address. Try selecting the bracketed ellipsis [. Fortunately, you should be able to find the source of this problem with a little troubleshooting, and the most common causes of missing mail are easily fixed. It is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission. html files). me is a useful extension for Google Chrome that lets you save and share Gmail attachments to cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box and Google Drive without leaving Gmail. The attachment of pdf files is easily seen in other email browsers, therefore the bug is within Windows Mail 10. It appears the Remote UI may not be baking the configuration on the printer. We will be using gmail server. Sending Fancy Emails. Short steps on how to fix a broken gmail accountGet your gmail account to send and receive messages again! Gmail app not showing notification for new emails - Duration: 2:16. Thank you for your efforts Allen. Like most other email providers, Gmail limits the size of messages and file attachments you can send and receive. If you want to use an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook to send emails from your Gmail address, you need to enter the correct Gmail SMTP settings. Send pdf file as attachment to text message. You have to find a working pen and some suitable paper, jot down what you’re thinking, find a nice envelope to put your note in, label it with both a destination address and a return address, put postage on it, and then drop it in the nearest post box. Whenever I send an attachment through Outlook, the recipient receives the email without the attachment although they sometimes say that it got renamed to winmail. xlsx, and BBBBBB0124. To change the permissions, see Manage the items attached to an email. Thank you for your efforts Allen. If you are absolutely sure that there were no changes made to the system as far as you can remember, then. Sharing High-Resolution Photos by Email. How to send attachments in Mail on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch With Mail, you can add attachments, photos, videos, and even drawings to your emails. txt file is a file generated as an attachment by Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange Server. Gmail app is fine. And every other email app works fine regardless of sync enabled. Why I cannot send attachment to my Gmail using mobile phone Samsung Note 3 Neo. This function allows you to delete the email but still revisit the attachment whenever and from wherever you want. April 25, 2018. By default, the PHP mail() does not support sending email with attachment. I receive the following message for each unsuccessful attempt to send: Cannot send message using the server smtp. What are the SMTP settings of Gmail?That’s an easy question. If you have the most up to date browser the send issue will not affect you. Though Google announced back in 2017 that it would no longer scan user. I can receive mail but not send it. But Gmail actually lets you send really big files- up to 10 GB- using. April 25, 2018. py and, after saving the original message to a file named 0. Enable the IMAP/POP settings within Gmail, set up the Gmail POP/IMAP settings within Thunderbird, and then use Thunderbird to fetch, read, and send email. If your file is greater than 25 MB, Gmail automatically adds a Google Drive link in the email instead of including it as an. The Windows Task Scheduler can automatically send email at a specific time or in response to a specific event, but its integrated email feature won’t work very well for most users. Keep in mind that Gmail allows for a maximum of 25 megabytes' worth of attachments per email. add a space and remove the space and now select send there is no edit button of these emails on my android 6. the gmail app randomly doez this for a couple weeks at a time then works for a while. So-called sextortion scams claim they have information on your porn watching habits, which they'll make public unless you pay in Bitcoin. To correct a send/receive issue with your IncrediMail, you should first try and reconfigure your Email Account. htm format,. - Encrypt files / send encrypted attachments - As you compose an encrypted message, an encrypted draft gets saved for your convenience - Send encrypt email for anyone, whether they have. There are better and more simple alternatives available, but when you need a PHP mail alternative, and you don’t want to pay any recurring fees, Google provides a nice service and WP Mail SMTP makes it relatively straightforward to get up and running. In case the sender of the e-mail is a Mac computer user, and the attached files are not saved in a Windows-compatible format, attachment won't open. com was a new app with windows 10, guess not. If you want to use an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook to send emails from your Gmail address, you need to enter the correct Gmail SMTP settings. This method is slightly different to my previous post about sending email messages in Powershell as this method uses the smtpClient method rather than mailmessage in order to allow for authentication to occur. 1 day ago · The time has come again for the state of Tennessee to decide whether or not to allow Randy Lee May to walk free. Gmail blocks 99. And you may not actually want it to. The basic steps for creating a Gmail automatic forwarding filter are: 1/ Define a search term. Whether you use Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, or an ISP-provided account, you shouldn't have any problems getting started with email faxing. "How to unsend email" has to be the defining desperation query of the Internet, and finally there is an answer. Fix: Outlook Sending winmail. This wikiHow teaches you how to send a video clip to someone's email address using Gmail. Encrypt Your Gmail Email!: If you want to be sure that your email can be read by no one but you, then it needs to be encrypted. The key to understanding e-mail attachments on your Android phone is to look for the paperclip icon. - extract-attachments. However, there are certain prerequisites that need to met for encryption to take place. The real difference between Gmail and Outlook’s security today hinges on whether images are displayed automatically. Use of unicode is allowed. You can drag-and-drop attachments into the body of an e-mail message. That email may come from someone you know who has had their account hacked using this technique. csv -Priority High -DeliveryNotificationOption OnSuccess, OnFailure -SmtpServer 'smtp. It gets worse if you don’t get to know whether your email was opened (or not) after putting such efforts in sending it. Gmail and Yahoo Mail, by way of example, both allow you to attach up to 25 MB. Small Business Trends is an award. 11 Can I recall a message I already sent? 3. Gmail Canned Responses Save and send often-used responses and messages to save time. Now, not only are there untold thousands of apps on the market, but they are becoming increasingly integrated. Sending too many emails a day (or sometimes even too many an hour, or a minute) may cause your email account to be blocked, i. 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How To Fix Samsung Galaxy S5 Not Sending, Receiving SMS & MMS 2018 at 5:29 pm I bought my S5 a couple of months ago and have been getting a recurring message that it is unable to download. In addition to forwarding emails, Gmail also enables its users to forward any attachments the. Add text if desired, then tap the MMS button to send your image with your text message. These email size limits usually apply on both sending and receiving emails. A Gmail account is actually a all-in-one Google account that can be used on all the Google products such as YouTube, Google Music, Google Playstore, Photos, Google Drive and many others. LLC ("TRW") is conta. If you send a report, the only controls that are included in the object are text boxes (for. com" through Yahoo's SMTP server. Accounts where gmail is NOT synced, it works fine and every attachment is received. You can also search for has:attachment in the search field in Gmail. To remove an attachment before sending click the x to the right of the attachment as shown in the screen shot above. The communication tool was at the center of high-profile hacks during the 2016 presidential election. When some users attempt to send attachments to mail recipients, the attachments will either not be received, or not properly attach to the message. It's embedded in the message. While this works fine, the principle drawback of this method is that you have to be using the computer where Thunderbird is installed. this app not for iphone And NOW open Gmail App composs click att. Encrypt Your Gmail Email!: If you want to be sure that your email can be read by no one but you, then it needs to be encrypted. Emails with attachments on mobile devices not sending - stuck in outbox As of the last few days, emails that are sent via mobile devices that HAVE attachments will not send. In May 2013, Google announced the integration between Google Wallet and Gmail, which would allow Gmail users to send money as email attachments. April 25, 2018. Lumia 950: Emails not sending, why? to WP10 using Outlook mail app and my Gmail account. com allows you to send attachments that are far larger than. An example is the Mail app that comes pre-installed on iOS devices. Send pdf file as attachment to text message. Among the concerns are that it's going to make it easier for cyber. - Encrypt files / send encrypted attachments - As you compose an encrypted message, an encrypted draft gets saved for your convenience - Send encrypt email for anyone, whether they have. logged in via google) 'sent items' folder, suggesting that Mail must be communicating with the server somehow. We have been getting a lot of questions from prospective customers about whether or not Gmail is a HIPAA compliant email platform. Rather than toggling between your inbox and other apps, use add-ons to complete actions right from Gmail. Need to migrate your. Used Edge to open Gmail. When I, the sender, subsequently view the resulting sent email item in the Sent Items folder in Gmail, it should present the link to the original Drive document for that attachment, but recipients should see it as a regular attachment and not a link to click upon that sends them to the Google Drive site. C# describes various protocols using communication programming like Socket communications , SMTP mail , UDP , URL etc. I use it for my entire family, as well as a separate plan for my business. The fact-checkers, whose work is more and more important for those who prefer facts over lies, police the line between fact and falsehood on a day-to-day basis, and do a great job. Today, my small contribution is to pass along a very good overview that reflects on one of Trump’s favorite overarching falsehoods. Namely: Trump describes an America in which everything was going down the tubes under Obama, which is why we needed Trump to make America great again. And he claims that this project has come to fruition, with America setting records for prosperity under his leadership and guidance. “Obama bad; Trump good” is pretty much his analysis in all areas and measurement of U.S. activity, especially economically. Even if this were true, it would reflect poorly on Trump’s character, but it has the added problem of being false, a big lie made up of many small ones. Personally, I don’t assume that all economic measurements directly reflect the leadership of whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor am I smart enough to figure out what causes what in the economy. But the idea that presidents get the credit or the blame for the economy during their tenure is a political fact of life. Trump, in his adorable, immodest mendacity, not only claims credit for everything good that happens in the economy, but tells people, literally and specifically, that they have to vote for him even if they hate him, because without his guidance, their 401(k) accounts “will go down the tubes.” That would be offensive even if it were true, but it is utterly false. The stock market has been on a 10-year run of steady gains that began in 2009, the year Barack Obama was inaugurated. But why would anyone care about that? It’s only an unarguable, stubborn fact. Still, speaking of facts, there are so many measurements and indicators of how the economy is doing, that those not committed to an honest investigation can find evidence for whatever they want to believe. Trump and his most committed followers want to believe that everything was terrible under Barack Obama and great under Trump. That’s baloney. Anyone who believes that believes something false. And a series of charts and graphs published Monday in the Washington Post and explained by Economics Correspondent Heather Long provides the data that tells the tale. The details are complicated. Click through to the link above and you’ll learn much. But the overview is pretty simply this: The U.S. economy had a major meltdown in the last year of the George W. Bush presidency. Again, I’m not smart enough to know how much of this was Bush’s “fault.” But he had been in office for six years when the trouble started. So, if it’s ever reasonable to hold a president accountable for the performance of the economy, the timeline is bad for Bush. GDP growth went negative. Job growth fell sharply and then went negative. Median household income shrank. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 5,000 points! U.S. manufacturing output plunged, as did average home values, as did average hourly wages, as did measures of consumer confidence and most other indicators of economic health. (Backup for that is contained in the Post piece I linked to above.) Barack Obama inherited that mess of falling numbers, which continued during his first year in office, 2009, as he put in place policies designed to turn it around. By 2010, Obama’s second year, pretty much all of the negative numbers had turned positive. By the time Obama was up for reelection in 2012, all of them were headed in the right direction, which is certainly among the reasons voters gave him a second term by a solid (not landslide) margin. Basically, all of those good numbers continued throughout the second Obama term. The U.S. GDP, probably the single best measure of how the economy is doing, grew by 2.9 percent in 2015, which was Obama’s seventh year in office and was the best GDP growth number since before the crash of the late Bush years. GDP growth slowed to 1.6 percent in 2016, which may have been among the indicators that supported Trump’s campaign-year argument that everything was going to hell and only he could fix it. During the first year of Trump, GDP growth grew to 2.4 percent, which is decent but not great and anyway, a reasonable person would acknowledge that — to the degree that economic performance is to the credit or blame of the president — the performance in the first year of a new president is a mixture of the old and new policies. In Trump’s second year, 2018, the GDP grew 2.9 percent, equaling Obama’s best year, and so far in 2019, the growth rate has fallen to 2.1 percent, a mediocre number and a decline for which Trump presumably accepts no responsibility and blames either Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar or, if he can swing it, Barack Obama. I suppose it’s natural for a president to want to take credit for everything good that happens on his (or someday her) watch, but not the blame for anything bad. Trump is more blatant about this than most. If we judge by his bad but remarkably steady approval ratings (today, according to the average maintained by 538.com, it’s 41.9 approval/ 53.7 disapproval) the pretty-good economy is not winning him new supporters, nor is his constant exaggeration of his accomplishments costing him many old ones). I already offered it above, but the full Washington Post workup of these numbers, and commentary/explanation by economics correspondent Heather Long, are here. On a related matter, if you care about what used to be called fiscal conservatism, which is the belief that federal debt and deficit matter, here’s a New York Times analysis, based on Congressional Budget Office data, suggesting that the annual budget deficit (that’s the amount the government borrows every year reflecting that amount by which federal spending exceeds revenues) which fell steadily during the Obama years, from a peak of $1.4 trillion at the beginning of the Obama administration, to $585 billion in 2016 (Obama’s last year in office), will be back up to $960 billion this fiscal year, and back over $1 trillion in 2020. (Here’s the New York Times piece detailing those numbers.) Trump is currently floating various tax cuts for the rich and the poor that will presumably worsen those projections, if passed. As the Times piece reported:
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Episode 345: What Salespeople are Doing Wrong on LinkedIn and how to Fix it. With Chris Hamilton. 0
Joining me on this episode of Accelerate! is my guest Chris Hamilton, Founder of SalesTipADay.com. Among the many topics that Chris and I discuss are Chris’s lifelong love of sales and marketing, how he decided to use LinkedIn as his sales platform, his upcoming book filled with LinkedIn advice for sales professionals, and tips to improve your sales results using LinkedIn.
[0:47] Chris started in sales with a paper route and then sold surf shorts at a mall in Canada.
[2:45] After reading Content Inc., by Joe Pulizzi, Chris decided to focus on using LinkedIn for publishing his content.
[4:05] Chris finished writing a book about the 11 things people do wrong on LinkedIn, and 40 tips to fix them.
[7:04] Your LinkedIn headline shouldn’t be the title of your current position. Use it to talk about the market you serve and what you do, and have a strong call-to-action.
[8:46] Chris discusses specific things to do to your LinkedIn profile to generate up to 15 times more views.
[9:20] 50% of B2B buyers use LinkedIn as a sourcing mechanism for the product or service they want.
[10:05] Why you need a professional profile picture on LinkedIn.
[11:15] A LinkedIn premium account will get around 15 times more views.
[16:30] LinkedIn offers a free trial of a premium account to get you started.
[17:17] Chris talks about the five key LinkedIn search tactics to find qualified leads. (One is always to use the advanced search functionality, with the Boolean modifiers, AND, OR, and NOT._
[21:02] Chris explains how searches can be sorted by various parameters and how to save searches.
[27:04] Chris reveals the top action sales professionals can take to generate sales on LinkedIn!
MORE ABOUT CHRIS HAMILTON
Exposing the latent pain, and showing the solution.
Andy Paul, and Rick Rubin, record producer.
Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses, by
Joe Pulizzi, and Andy Paul’s books.
Audiobooks (It’s So Easy: and other lies, by Duff McKagan,
and The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan for Achieving Your Dreams, by
Napoleon Hill), and Chill on SiriusXM.
CONTACT CHRIS HAMILTON
Contact Chris: Chris@SalesTipADay.com
Website: SalesTipADay
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Muted Colors for a Village of Science
People / Places / December 20, 2011
By David Holahan
From homeowners to Fortune 500 CEOs, picking colors totally freaks people out,. Re-painting, even re-re-painting is common. Getting the six exterior colors right at the new Hillside Research Campus at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was critical to its success in blending in: both with the built and natural setting at the venerable institution and also with the character of the surrounding community. Re-painting was not an option.
The project was recently named one of six finalists in the World Architecture News Color Awards: The jurors pared the international field from 79 entries down to Hillside Campus, two schools in England and Slovenia, an office building in France, a residential tower in Australia, and a biochemistry building at Oxford University in England.
Bill Grover, Centerbrook Architects Partner Emeritus, has made a lifelong study of color (see the You Tube video of his April lecture). He also has designed more than 45 projects at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1973, many when Nobel Laureate Dr. James D. Watson was its director. Hillside Campus, designed with current Centerbrook Partner Jim Childress, is the culmination of his work there. It has augmented the research capacity of the Laboratory by 40 percent. Choosing the palette of hues that would adorn Hillside’s large, clustered, and clearly visible laboratories was not an exercise for the timid.
Here is how Bill and Jim described to the jurors how they deployed pigment:
A primary design challenge for the new Hillside Research Campus – a cluster of six laboratory buildings totaling 100,000 square feet or the equivalent of 40 new homes – was to fit into the ethos of Laurel Hollow, an upscale residential community on Long Island’s north shore.
Likewise, the complex had to nestle demurely next to its colleagues at the venerable Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where it expanded research capacity by 40 percent. Through the use of color, form and siting, the result would represent a new campus palette and aesthetic – while simultaneously appearing as if it had always been there.
Color was crucial to achieving these design goals: Infusing each structure with its own identity, while ensuring that together the buildings continued the well-established “village of science” character of the campus; masking the size of the project to tony neighbors across the harbor, while providing a calming vision of autumnal colors year round; and distinguishing Hillside Campus from the glassy, monolithic and unimaginative development typical of large research projects.
Muted blues, reds, browns, tans and greens dapple across the hillside to integrate the buildings with the landscape, much like a field of flowers where each variety is distinct but together they form a unified tableau. The more subtle earth tones were used higher on the hillside to mask the scale, while slightly more expressive blues and reds highlight buildings in the foreground. As a result, although a departure in many aspects – size, colors, density and complexity – from new and renovated buildings on the 116-acre site, Hillside Research Campus succeeds in meshing decorously with its environs, both built and natural.
For more on the World Architecture News Color Awards, go to: http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.phpfuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=18319.
A version of this post originally appeared on Centerbrook Architects blog, “The Millrace,” http://blog.centerbrook.com.
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