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Specializing in These 4 Tech Skills Isn’t Just Smart—It’s Lucrative
If you’re ready to ditch outdated 9-5 office schedules and salaries that bear a depressing resemblance to minimum wage, tech careers are one of the most direct ways to get there. But if tech is the way to workplace happiness, what exactly is the way toward working in tech? The answer is learning tech skills, of course!
On its own, that’s not a very helpful answer, but don’t worry, I won’t leave you hanging. In the spirit of narrowing down the nebulous idea of “tech skills” into an actionable list of things to learn, I’ve rounded up four tech skills that are both smart and lucrative specialties. Each of these individual skills can put you on the road to making money in tech—or to getting a salary bump even outside of tech—but stacking two or more together will blow open the doors to a tech career. And since a career in tech can run the gamut from a part-time tech side hustle to full-time employment, I’ve included examples of average full-time salaries from Glassdoor and hourly freelance rates from Upwork associated with the jobs linked to each skill.
If you’re ready to learn more about any of these skills after reading, you can find free beginner tutorials on sites like Codecademy and Coursera, while deeper dives can be had through instructor-led courses from online schools like Skillcrush.
1. HTML/CSS
While there are certainly non-coding roles and career paths available in the tech industry, the endless appetite for web content means that learning how to code and becoming a web developer is a guaranteed fast track to tech jobs. Research backs this up, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics citing a projected 15 percent growth in web developer jobs between now and 2026.
Among the different skills used to build websites, the two most foundational are a pair of markup languages called HTML and CSS. These two programming languages are used to create basic, static web pages, with HTML defining the parts of a page and CSS determining the style (things like fonts, colors, layout, etc.). On their own, these two skills won’t take you to the top of the tech payscale, but they have a huge return on investment when it comes to getting started in tech—particularly when you consider that HTML and CSS can actually be learned in a matter of weeks. After putting in those weeks and getting a handle on these basic skills, you’ll already have unlocked opportunities for paid side-hustle work. Meanwhile, adding HTML and CSS to your resume can lead to a potential pay bump even at non-developer specific jobs.
If you want to increase the amount of web developer work you can do and the money you can earn, you’ll need to stack additional skills on top of HTML and CSS (see JavaScript below). You can only get so far as a developer with the ability to create static web pages. But, considering how quickly you can specialize in these two skills, they’re a no-brainer to pick up.
Front-End Developer Average Yearly Salary (most positions require additional skills like JavaScript and WordPress): $88,680/year
Front-End Developer Average Hourly Rates on Upwork (most rates include additional skills like JavaScript and WordPress): $48/hour
2. JavaScript (jQuery/JavaScript Frameworks)
JavaScript (JS) is a skill that—if added to a foundation of HTML and CSS—will significantly boost your job and money making opportunities in tech. But what exactly is it? While HTML and CSS are used to build static web pages, JavaScript is the coding language used to bring sites to life with dynamic content. When you visit a website or web app with features like animated graphics, forms that offer autocomplete suggestions as you type, photo slideshows, and just about anything that involves web page content changing without requiring a user to manually reload the page, those features were likely built using JavaScript. And because these kinds of features are such ubiquitous parts of the internet landscape, you can see why knowing how to use JavaScript is among the web’s more sought after and lucrative skills. As of this writing, Glassdoor has nearly 25,000 JavaScript developer jobs listed.
In addition to JavaScript itself, there are a number of JS-related tools that you can learn after you’ve familiarized yourself with the language. JavaScript libraries like jQuery are collections of pre-written JavaScript code that can be plugged into web projects. This allows developers to save time on re-creating basic JS functions, like interactive forms and image galleries.
Meanwhile, JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js and React.js are collections of libraries that can be used as templates for web projects. JS frameworks not only provide pre-written code (similar to jQuery), but they also provide a structure for where your JS code should go, helping projects become more efficiently and uniformly arranged.
JS and its adjacent tools will level up your tech job prospects exponentially—but you’re probably wondering: Is JavaScript hard to learn? Surprisingly, not at all. While learning JS might take a bit longer than HTML/CSS, “longer” means a matter of months versus years. This short learning period combined with the overwhelming demand employers have for JS and JS framework skills means JS specialization is a must for breaking into tech and making all the money.
JavaScript Developer Average Yearly Salary: $72,500/year
JavaScript Developer Average Hourly Rate on Upwork: $51/hour
3. WordPress
You might already be familiar with WordPress.com, a blog hosting platform similar to sites like Wix and Squarespace that allows you to create websites using a series of pre-made templates and plugins. WordPress.com is designed to be used without any specific tech or web know-how, but that’s not where the WordPress story ends. For people looking to get more customization, WordPress.org lets users download the WordPress CMS (Content Management System) software program, a powerful tool for web development. Using the WordPress CMS, developers can create, publish, and manage digital content online, but they’re able to do so through a user interface where changes are reflected immediately after pressing a “Publish” button (as opposed to the less streamlined experience of coding sites from scratch).
The WordPress CMS platform can also accommodate a range of skill sets and skill levels. Tech newcomers can use pre-existing templates and follow menu cues through the user interface to build basic WordPress sites (similar to using WordPress.com), but as you layer on skills like HTML, CSS, and PHP (a scripting language used to create custom WordPress themes and behaviors), you’ll be able to create your own WordPress page templates and site features, giving you the same kind of options for customization you’d have when coding from scratch.
Because of this versatility, the WordPress CMS is a widely-used tool for building sites that will appeal to side hustle clients as well as full-time employers. (Web technology survey site W3Techs cites WordPress CMS as owning 60 percent of worldwide CMS usage.) Simply knowing how to build basic websites with WordPress is enough to open up work as a WordPress developer, and WordPress’ sliding skill scale will allow you to learn gradually as you go—all qualities that speak to the wisdom of WordPress specialization.
WordPress Developer Average Yearly Salary: $61,442/year
WordPress Developer Average Hourly Rate on Upwork: $51/hour
4. User Experience (UX)
All of the above skill examples have a return on investment that far outstrips the time and money it takes to learn them. However, they’re all skills that have to do with the hands-on part of building websites and web applications. So what if tech’s perks sound amazing to you, but you don’t see yourself as a web developer? No problem. There’s a lot more to tech than building websites, and you don’t even have to sacrifice high job availability (or high pay!). UX (User Experience) is a tech field that focuses on improving the experience that users have with products like websites and web apps. And this isn’t done by sitting in front of a screen and coding—it’s accomplished by interviewing users, listening to their feedback, understanding their problems with a product, and finding creative ways to solve those problems. While that might not sound like the most “tech” thing ever, UX is actually on the forefront of the tech industry with over 43,000 jobs currently listed on Glassdoor.
UX a different kind of specialization than the skills listed above—not only because it isn’t coding-forward, but because it doesn’t involve learning a single language or discrete set of rules. UX is a synthesis of communication and listening skills, UX-specific terminology and tools, critical thinking, and problem solving. But just like more coding-specific skills, you can start to tackle UX through tutorials like these from Lynda, or through paid, online UX classes.
UX Professional Average Yearly Salary: $86,927/year
UX Professional Average Hourly Rate on Upwork: $53/hour
Scott Morris is Skillcrush's staff writer and content producer. Like all the members of Skillcrush's team, he works remotely (in his case from Napa, CA). He believes that content that's worth reading (and that your audience can find!) creates brands that people follow. He's experienced writing on topics including jobs and technology, digital marketing, career pivots, gender equity, parenting, and popular culture. Before starting his career as a writer and content marketer, he spent 10 years as a full-time parent to his daughters Veronica and Athena.
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TCL S405 49" (49S405) vs Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900)
When comparing TCL S405 49" (49S405) vs Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900), the Slant community recommends Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900) for most people. In the question“What are the best TVs?” Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900) is ranked 135th while TCL S405 49" (49S405) is ranked 202nd. The most important reason people chose Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900) is:
The Samsung NU6900 offers smooth and lag-free gaming experience thanks to its low input lag and good motion handling capabilities. Gaming feels responsive thanks to the TV's low input lag that measures ar around 22.2 milliseconds - It is on par with what the other gaming TVs in this price range offer. The motion looks clear thanks to the TV's fast pixel response times that eliminates traces of motion blur. The full pixel response time of the Samsung NU6900 is only 16.2 milliseconds.
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TCL S405 49" (49S405)
Samsung NU6900 75" (UN75NU6900)
The S405 strikes a nice balance between picture quality, screen size, and input lag, all for an affordable price of below $500. It's a great choice for watching and gaming casually without breaking the bank.
Compared to its direct competitors, it offers decent picture quality that is a tad below them, bigger screen size, and lower input lag.
Content looks decent enough for most casual viewers - the black levels are sufficiently deep, colors are vivid, and it gets bright enough for most types of content in a dark room.
The size difference is pretty huge as options with similar size of 49", or even smaller, cost fairly more than the S405.
Its low input lag of ~15ms contributes to a more responsive gaming experience. It's barely noticeable, and it’s also one of the lowest among 4K TVs, which is an impressive feat in this price bracket.
Works well as a computer monitor
The S405 works well as a computer monitor thanks to its low input lag, barely noticeable motion blur, and full 4:4:4 color support. The 43" model can even be used up close due to its small minimal viewing distance.
The low input lag and low motion blur of ~15ms makes it highly responsive to input and gives it the ability to handle dynamic content well.
It also has full 4:4:4 color support, so text or shapes with hard edges on the screen won't be blurry.
Decent for watching sports
The S405 is a good pick for watching sports thanks to its low motion blur and reasonably consistent color uniformity.
Fast-moving objects, like footballs, won't leave any visible trails on the screen due to the low motion blur of ~15ms. While there are slight uniformity inconsistencies in the edges of the panel when displaying large, uniform objects on the screen, like football fields, the issues generally go unnoticed by most.
Intuitive and smooth user interface
The S405 runs on the Roku TV smart platform, touted for its simple, straightforward, and lag-free UI.
It’s easy for anyone to grasp how navigation works, thanks to its two-column design with the menu on the left and options on the right.
There’s also no noticeable lag during navigation or menu selection.
Excellent for gaming
The S405 is excellent for gaming - the overall experience will be very responsive and fluid, thanks to the really low input lag and barely noticeable motion blur.
It has an input lag of ~15ms that makes the TV highly responsive to user input - gamers will have no issues keeping their actions in sync with what's on the display. The panel can fully change its pixels color in under 15ms, resulting in fast-moving objects not leaving any trails on the screen, eliminating virtually all motion blur.
It's also suitable for HDR gaming because there is no increased input lag for HDR, and it has full 4K support @ 60 FPS, which makes it suitable for all new 4K games.
Main interface has no ads
The S405 has no ads on its main interface, although there can be ads in third-party applications. Third-party ads can't be blocked, but the tracking and personalization can be limited through the TV's settings.
Colors are accurate even without calibration
The S405 is excellent at reproducing colors accurately out of the box.
Even without calibration, the colors are spot-on - they're very close to what the source signal demands and any inaccuracies are generally considered imperceptible to most end users.
The overall average difference between the source signal and the panel's reproduction of the color is measured in Delta-E, where lower means better accuracy. The S405 has a Delta-E of below 2.0, and anything below 3.0 is generally considered accurate for most end users.
Decent picture quality
The S405 looks decent with adequately deep black levels, above-average color accuracy, and sufficient peak brightness levels for most content.
It’s especially great at reproducing dark scenes thanks to the panel’s contrast ratio of about 4000:1, which means blacks can get really dark at about 4000 times darker than the brightest white it can produce.
Colors are spot-on even without calibration, and the panel can get bright enough with a peak brightness level of ~200 nits to make them pop in dark environments.
The best viewing experience will be in a dark environment where the panel won’t have to compete with light. The S405’s screen can’t really get bright enough to perform as well in bright environments.
Well-balanced side inputs
Even when the S405 is mounted on a wall, you'll still have access to all essential inputs and outputs which are situated on the side of the unit.
Highly versatile
The S405 is versatile enough to be used as a general-purpose display.
The picture quality is decent for movies and TV shows, and it checks all the boxes that make a TV suitable for gaming, sports, and as a computer monitor: low input lag, low motion blur, good screen uniformity, and full 4:4:4 color support.
The Samsung NU6900 offers smooth and lag-free gaming experience thanks to its low input lag and good motion handling capabilities.
Gaming feels responsive thanks to the TV's low input lag that measures ar around 22.2 milliseconds - It is on par with what the other gaming TVs in this price range offer.
The motion looks clear thanks to the TV's fast pixel response times that eliminates traces of motion blur. The full pixel response time of the Samsung NU6900 is only 16.2 milliseconds.
Excellent dark room performance
The Samsung NU6900 is an excellent option for those looking for a home theater TV because of its excellent performance in a dark room where it can display deep, dark and inky blacks.
The blacks look genuine thanks to the TV's high overall native contrast ratio that measures at around 6100:1. Only a couple of the competitors in this price range can offer that high contrast ratio.
Can't fight glare very well
The S405 can deal with low amounts of light, such as sunlight through curtains, but it won't be able to deal with a significantly bright light.
Apart from being unable to get bright enough, its reflection handling is only average. The panel has a semi-gloss finish which helps in reducing reflections a little, but its peak brightness level of ~200 nits is not enough for fighting glare.
HDR support is basic
The S405 can't reproduce HDR pictures very well because it lacks various important features.
HDR won't look much different from SDR due to the lack of wide color gamut and low peak brightness. It can't reproduce the full range of colors necessary for HDR, and the brightness level of only ~200 nits is barely enough for HDR content to stand out.
The black levels are also insufficient for highlights to stand out, and it won't be as dynamic as one would expect for HDR due to the lack of local dimming.
Poor sound quality
The speakers on the S405 are too bassy, so distortion becomes a huge problem at high volumes. A relatively cheap speaker system or a soundbar will make a huge difference in sound quality.
Remote lacks functionality
The S405 has a basic remote that is only capable of navigation, playback control, and volume control. It doesn't have fancy stuff like voice command found in remotes of other TVs.
Lacks support for Dolby Vision
The S405 only supports the HDR10 format for HDR content.
Not suitable for group watching
The S405 has a narrow viewing angle that makes it unsuitable for watching with groups.
People sitting away from the center of the screen will not experience the same picture as those sitting in the center because the picture quality starts to deteriorate significantly when viewing from just ≥30° away from the screen's center.
Can't fight glare
The NU6900 doesn't look good in a bright room because it's brightness is too low to fight glare.
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Review: Mission to Mars
Is Mission to Mars an auteurist litmus test for the Y2K generation in the same sense that Baby Face Nelson or The Girl Can’t Help It were in the theory’s salad days? Or is Mission To Mars the ultimate in hackery? Is De Palma etched into every CGI-loaded frame? Or can’t his personality overcome a budgetary tidal wave in the shape and magnitude of $80 million? While it’s tempting to shrug such questions off with a “go fiddle with your Hatari and jerk your Steel Helmet somewhere else, there’s formalism to be seduced here” (yes, even in this context of a critical appraisal of a singular talent), the impulse would rob an already gravelly underrated movie of its context. It would suck the air out of Mission to Mars like space robs Tim Robbins of his every last droplet of essential moisture. Leave a movie like Mission to Mars to fester among the slaves to the genre, and you’ll wind up with a bloated and laughably irrelevant Web page of technical gaffes over on IMDb. So while an auteurist reading of Mission to Mars might invite self-involved chatter over whether the movie or the viewer is supplying the meaning, at least you won’t find yourself sharing an oxygen mask with a caste of Trekkie outcasts. And Trekkies can’t dance in outer space.
Buena Vista undoubtedly conceived of a very different film than the Mission to Mars it released in theaters. Its once and future pie-eyed protagonist is played by Gary Sinise, revealing executives’ intentions; this was meant to be a space movie aimed at those for whom Apollo 13, in which Sinise brooded and kicked clods of dirt while everyone else got to board the Good Ship Patriotism, was just a little bit too dark. Why they hired De Palma is beyond me, but they must’ve felt intensely pleased with themselves when the movie earned a kid-friendly PG rating. But Mission to Mars isn’t only a warm, up-with-people sci-fi actioneer in an Event Horizon era. It’s also a fearless twist on the sadly still controversial theory of evolution, a completely anti-James Cameronian epic with a blockbuster budget and a completely becalmed man at the helm, and maybe the first chapter in De Palma’s already richly rewarding “old man cinema” period. And did I mention that De Palma gets the chance to redux Fiona Lewis’s gothic pirouette of death from The Fury, only this time the limbs actually fly off?
Sure, De Palma may have been able to direct movies with an AARP card in his back pocket since 1992’s Raising Cain, but without Mission to Mars and Sinise’s haunted memories of Kim Delaney, De Palma could’ve never found it within himself to make Femme Fatale, his answer to that immortal one-two “old man cinema” punch of 1964: Hitchcock’s Marnie and Dreyer’s Gertrud. While the obvious connection between these three films won’t necessarily win over feminists for whom auteurism is another way of saying “no girls allowed,” all three mark a decisive point of psychological capitulation on the part of otherwise resolute personalities.
Mission to Mars’ redemptive coda opened the door for the subsequent film’s continuing figurative and literal sanguinity. There are few sights more disturbingly beautiful in the De Palma canon than Jerry O’Connell’s miniature globes of blood dancing in the air as they drift toward a hole in the Mars-bound shuttle’s structure. At once referencing bodily danger and assisting the crew and allowing them to repair a potentially greater danger, the fluidity of the film—from its blood to its serpentine cinematography—testifies to its elegance. Not to say there’s not a little hardening in De Palma’s heart even at this stage. It’s more a reflection of our culture’s reactionary values than of De Palma’s radicalism that this film airs on the Disney-owned ABC television network without its poetically direct 3D diorama of Earth’s evolution, suggesting the redolence of a corporation in hysterical self-censorship mode. But even De Palma turns the majority of the film’s saintly NASA heroes away at film’s end, leaving them to turn around and return to a planet of genetic inferiority. A planet where gravity makes it awfully difficult to dance through air.
Cast: Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Kim Delaney, Tim Robbins, Armin Mueller-Stahl Director: Brian De Palma Screenwriter: Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Graham Yost Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Running Time: 114 min Rating: PG Year: 2000 Buy: Video
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No Twitch for Wii U as Nintendo says it’s not fun
Chris Burns - Jun 12, 2014, 11:45 am CDT
It’s not fun to watch video games with Twitch, apparently – so says Nintendo this week after lighting up E3 2014 with a load of games that’d otherwise give great confidence to its audience. This comes immediately after Sony let loose a new update for their PlayStation camera made specifically for streaming in the same fashion Twitch does, and right after E3 2014 was streamed in its entirety by Twitch.
It was in a chat with Polygon that Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime let it be known that Twitch is not fun. “We don’t think streaming 30 minutes of gameplay by itself is a lot of fun,” said Fils-Aime, “[but] we’re looking to do a lot of great things with Twitch.”
Instead of allowing straight streaming in any way shape or form with Twitch on Nintendo Wii U, it’s apparent that Nintendo is aiming for a more Apple-esque control of the situation. Fils-Aime suggested that only certain types of gameplay are interesting to watch.
The “Smash Invitational” held this year at the Nokia Theater, for example, Fils-Aime suggested that “we loved [to have] streamed because that’s where you are able to see how these players perform, the moves the make, you can learn something.” In other words – if Nintendo approves, it can be streamed.
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SPL Midweek: Tusker Eye Top Spot, Leopards Out To Claw KCB
10th December 2019 - by Louis Kalinga
The brewers, who are fresh off an impressive 3-1 comeback win over struggling Kariobangi Sharks FC, will be looking to extend their unbeaten run to six matches when they take on the newly promoted side
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Tusker FC have the chance to go top of the SportPesa Premier League (SPL) table on Wednesday when they take on Wazito FC at the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos from 3pm
Third-place Kakamega Homeboyz FC will also need to maintain their proper form if they are to remain hot on the league leaders heels when they go up against troubled Bandari FC on Wednesday at the same time
On Thursday, an enticing encounter pitting eighth-place AFC Leopards SC (17) take on a Kenya Commercial Bank FC (KCB) that is beaming confidence after a stellar start to the 2019/20 season
NAIROBI, Kenya- Tusker FC have the chance to go top of the SportPesa Premier League (SPL) table on Wednesday when they take on Wazito FC at the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos from 3pm.
The brewers, who are fresh off an impressive 3-1 comeback win over struggling Kariobangi Sharks FC, will be looking to extend their unbeaten run to six matches when they take on the newly promoted side.
Champions Gor Mahia FC are still out of action having been relieved of their duties until all their players return from the ongoing CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup in Kampala, Uganda.
Wazito have only won once in their last five outings and sit only three points above the dreaded relegation zone.
Third-place Kakamega Homeboyz FC will also need to maintain their proper form if they are to remain hot on the league leaders heels when they go up against troubled Bandari FC on Wednesday at the same time.
Homeboyz (23) are the favourites to clinch all three points as the dockers have failed to find their footing, having not won a single match since a walkover victory over Chemelil Sugar FC in October.
Their drastic run of form sees Bernard Mwalala's charges sit lowly in 12th with 12 points from 11 matches.
Zoo FC (13) will not break into the top 10 even if they manage to beat Western Stima FC at the Moi Stadium in Kisumu but they will need not drop points they are to maintain their steady rise up the SPL table.
Stima (21) have only lost once this campaign and are hanging on to fifth place in the standings.
On Thursday, an enticing encounter sees eighth-place AFC Leopards SC (17) take on a Kenya Commercial Bank FC (KCB) that is beaming confidence after a stellar start to the 2019/20 season.
KCB (21) are coming off a resounding 5-1 thrashing of Posta Rangers FC courtesy of an Enock Agwanda hat-trick and will need to keep up the pace to maintain their top five place on the table.
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2 ideal destinations for Huddersfield Town’s stand out player from last season including Leeds United
by Mizgan Masani June 22, 2019, 1:20 am
Huddersfield opinion – Two ideal destinations for Philip Billing
According to a report in the Examiner, Huddersfield Town midfielder Philip Billing is working with a top agency to engineer a move away from the club during this transfer window.
The young Danish midfielder, who is currently playing for his nation’s U-21 team in the Euro U-21 Championship, is suggested to be looking for a move away from the John Smith Stadium. (h/t Examiner)
Billing played both Premier League seasons for the Terriers before their relegation back to the Championship at the end of last campaign. He was one of the key players for them throughout the course of the last 24 months.
Currently, the 23-year-old’s contract at the club expires next summer, hence, if Huddersfield are resigned to losing him, then selling him for some money this summer would be good for them as well.
Here are the two destinations where the midfielder can make an effective impact:
Knowing that Philip Billing is a tall and technically-sound midfield player, who can operate in central midfield or defensive midfield, Leeds United should be attracted by the fact that the Danish youth international is looking at the possibility of leaving Huddersfield Town.
Marcelo Bielsa’s men lacked variation in midfield in the second half of last season, which was one of the main reasons why they failed to reach the playoff final.
Hence, they should be tracking Billing’s progress and look to make a move for him during this transfer window.
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Boro were quite pedestrian in midfield and it was one of the main reasons why they either struggled to control games or create chances for the frontmen.
Now, with the change in manager, they must look to sign a midfielder, who has that technical and physical ability to control games for them on a regular basis.
Hence, they should be tracking the progress of Billing’s future and look to make a move for him this summer.
Written by Mizgan Masani
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Four College of Southern Maryland (CSM) women’s soccer players were named to 2019-20 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I All-Region XX teams, Region XX officials announced Nov. 15. In addition, CSM’s men’s soccer player Justin Miller was named a 2019-20 NJCAA Division I All-Region XX Honorable Mention and CSM women’s volleyball player Katelyn Kluh was named a 2019-20 NJCAA Division II All-Region XX Honorable Mention.
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Sophomore defender Cassidy Barnette was named to the All-Region XX Divison I First Team. Barnette scored two goals this season, with her first Sept. 17 against eventual 2019 Region XX champions CCBC Essex. The other came during CSM’s 11-1 win over CCBC Catonsville Oct. 8.
Maurizia Gianan
Sophomore forward Maurizia Gianan and freshman midfielder Ana Benitez were given All-Region XX Division I Second Team honors. Both finished the season with 10 points as they each scored four goals and two assists. Gianan recorded a career-high five points in a game when she registered two goals and an assist against Hagerstown Community College Sept. Benitez built up a three-game, goal-scoring streak when she scored against Cecil College, Hagerstown Community College and Patrick Henry College.
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Sophomore midfielder/forward Karleigh Cohen was named an All-Region XX Division I Honorable Mention. Cohen led CSM in goals (9), points (21), shots (56), and shots on goal (41) in 2019. She had a career game against CCBC Catonsville, tallying a career-high nine points with her career-high four goals and an assist.
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A freshman midfielder, Miller led CSM’s men’s soccer team in assists (10), shots (60) and shots on goal (33) this season. Among Region XX Division I players, Miller ranked first in shots, second in assists and tied for third in shots on goal.
Three times this year, Miller recorded two assists in a game.
Miller also tallied four or more points in a game four times this season. His season-high five-point performance came against Hagerstown Community College Sept. 27 when he netted two goals.
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Kluh ranks sixth among Region XX Division II players in solo blocks with 26 and ninth in total blocks with 38. She led CSM in those categories as well, along with kills (78), hitting percentage (.219) and block assists (12).
Kluh had a season-high five solo blocks against Union County College Sept. 7. She had two games with double-digit kills this year; recording 12 against Howard Community College Oct. 8 and 11 kills against Anne Arundel Community College Oct. 18.
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Kepler's First Satellite Hitched Ride on Last Week's Long March 11 Launch
By Caleb Henry 2018-01-26T11:39:27Z
Kepler's first satellite, Kipp, launched Jan. 19 on a Long March 11 as a precursor to a constellation of up to 140 cubesats.
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WASHINGTON — Kepler Communications, a Canadian startup designing a low-Earth-orbit constellation for satellite connectivity, says its first satellite is performing as expected following last week's launch on China's Long March 11 rocket.
Kepler's triple-cubesat satellite was one of six satellites that China Great Wall Industry Corp. launched Jan. 19 from China's oldest spaceport, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.
Nicknamed Kipp after a robot in the 2014 sci-fi movie "Interstellar," the 30-centimeter by 10-centimeter by 10-centimeter nanosatellite is the first of two demonstration satellites Scotland's Clyde Space built for Kepler, which aims to deploy a constellation of 140 satellites to connect devices on Earth and in space.
Kipp is the first Canadian satellite launched on a Chinese rocket, and according to Clyde Space and Kepler, also the first commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite to use Ku-band frequencies.
Kepler co-founder and CEO Mina Mitry told SpaceNews in a 2017 interview that one of the advantages of being a Canadian company is the freedom to launch from a wider range of vehicles than U.S. startups, which are barred from Chinese rockets by U.S. export-control laws. Dutch company Innovative Space Logistics arranged the launch of Kipp.
Kepler is one of 11 companies that followed OneWeb in asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for Ku- or Ka-band spectrum rights to provide non-geosynchronous satellite services in the United States.
The company is only the second of those 11 to launch a prototype satellite. Telesat, the Canadian satellite fleet operator, was first, launching a LEO smallsat built by Britain's Surrey Satellite Technology, Ltd. on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle that lifted off Jan. 11.
Mitry told SpaceNews by email Jan. 17 that Kipp is designed to last two years but is expected to stay in orbit 17 years before deorbiting from atmospheric drag. The satellite does not have its own deorbit system, he said.
Mitry said Kepler has pilot customers for Kipp who plan to use the satellite for "store and forward" backhaul, meaning the satellite will collect customer data as it passes over assets and store it in onboard memory until it passes over a ground station ready to accept the downlink.
"There are companies out there putting hard drives on helicopters and flying them around because there aren't alternatives to transport bulk data," Mitry said in a press release. "This standard practice will gradually be replaced by affordable connectivity solutions like ours to move data from remote locations, simplifying logistics and improving business sustainability in the long term."
Mitry told SpaceNews that Kepler's first satellite will be able to connect marine vessels, oil & gas platforms, mines, agriculture fields, and other businesses that are not latency-sensitive. Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and operators of very small aperture terminals seeking to limit their use of more expensive geostationary links can also use Kipp, he said.
Connecting devices on Earth is the initial focus of Kepler's business, to be followed by intersatellite links that connect other spacecraft around the planet. Kepler says its satellite will eventually be able to connect other satellites, space stations and space transport vehicles.
Kepler's second demonstrator, Case, is launching later this year and will include upgrades based on lessons learned while designing Kipp. Mitry said Case (named after another "Interstellar" robot) won't test intersatellite links. "That comes later in our roadmap," he said.
Like Telesat, Kepler has yet to place a large satellite order for its megaconstellation. Clyde Space was hired only for Kepler's first two satellites. At least two other companies anticipate having megaconstellation spacecraft in orbit this year. A SpaceX official said in October that the company planned to have the first of its 4,425 LEO broadband satellites launching "within the next few months," and OneWeb's first launch for its first-generation, 720-satellite fleet is scheduled for May on an Arianespace Soyuz.
More direct competitors for Kepler include Adeline, Australia-based Fleet and Vancouver, Canada-based Helios Wire, both of which have two IoT-focused satellites expected to launch this year.
Clyde Space said Kipp took 12 months to design, build and ship. Additional mission partners include: Bright Ascension, Comtech EF Data, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Innovative Solutions in Space, Nextologies, Enclustra and Comtech EF Data's AHA Products Group.
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Going Organic With the New Hampshire Fisher Cats
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats, a Double-A Affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, are playing ball when it comes to organic field maintenance! The beloved New Hampshire team have called Northeast Delta Dental Stadium home since 2005, and this beautiful ballpark has become the Granite State’s premiere outdoor entertainment destination for affordable family fun. Readers of Parenting New Hampshire Magazine have voted the Fisher Cats "NH's Favorite Sporting Event for Families" for seven years running, and the team has been voted New Hampshire Magazine's "Best New Hampshire Sports Team" for each of the last nine years. The franchise was nominated for the John H. Johnson President's Award in 2018, which recognizes Minor League Baseball's most complete franchise. And to top it all off, the Fisher Cats have won three Eastern League Championships in their 15 seasons in Manchester, including a title in 2018!
Stonyfield is proud to partner with its hometown team, making the Fisher Cats’ home field the first field to be organically managed in all of professional baseball. “We’re on a mission to convert parks and playing fields all across the country to organic grounds management, but we couldn’t overlook our own backyard,” says Stonyfield co-founder and Chief Organic Optimist Gary Hirshberg. “Converting the home field of our hometown team was a natural fit and we’re thrilled to help give our Fisher Cats the organic ball field they deserve. We hope it inspires other teams to do the same, for the health of their players and fans.”
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"Apex Predator" - Part Two
Penciller: Javier Fernandez and Bruno Redondo
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Variant Cover: Arthur Adams
As most of the Justice League prepares to battle Perpetua and help the World Forger find his brothers, the Monitor and Anti-Monitor, Shayne, the son of Hawkgirl and the Martian Manhunter, tries to find his place in the multiverse. J'onn confronts a robot duplicate of Lionel Luthor that was constructed by Professor Ivo. Ivo is studying Luthor's scientific notes on the human/Martian hybrid Apex Predators that comprised Perpetua's army. J'onn is being tortured so Amazo's creator can learn more. Hawkgirl's timely arrival saves him, and the pair battle Ivo's machines. J'onn wants answers, yet the landing of a spaceship interrupts any attempt to do so. The occupant is prepared to make the Martian Manhunter an offer of himself. That being is none other than Lex Luthor.
Story - 4: While this one is better than the last issue, it's missing Scott Snyder's storytelling. To James Tynion IV's credit, he is going on what Snyder has done and doing a good job of it. However, at this point in "Apex Predator," his work on this series does not flow as well with Snyder's as it did in the "Legion of Doom" fill-in chapters. I still like the story a lot, but Scott Snyder's absence from the title is too obvious. He's surprisingly done some great things for Justice League since the book launched.
Art - 3: The art hasn't been as good as it was in the previous serial. Some characters look strange. Even Batman looks off. Was this issue drawn in a hurry to meet the deadline? This is why I feel this title should be monthly. Otherwise, DC should get an artist who seems capable of working on a twice-monthly title.
Cover Art - 3: Something about the angle of this image looks off to me. The art itself is decent, but that flaw ruins its rating for me.
Variant Cover Art - 5: Remember those 'Faces of DC' covers some years ago? This image reminds me of those. The fact Arthur Adams drew Grodd makes it awesome. He's one of the greatest artists in comics.
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Diesel: the decline is gathering momentum and is expected to continue
In Europe, the main region for the production and use of diesel vehicles, the downward trend began in 2012, but seriously accelerated in 2017. Explanations.
Changes to emissions standards for pollutants, particularly the introduction of the Euro 6 Standard at end 2014, which requires a substantial reduction in emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) by diesel engines, have made manufacturers all but eliminate them from small city cars. The cost of diesel engines was no longer compatible with the selling prices of these categories of vehicles. So, in France and Spain, where diesel was particularly prevalent1 and where mid- and low-range small vehicles are very popular, the decline of diesel began well before the scandal of the rigged tests at Volkswagen at end 2015. In Germany and the United Kingdom, where sales of top-of-the-range vehicles are almost twice as high2 as in France, the peak of diesel sales has been far more recent and the drop only became truly apparent during 2017.
In the European market, petrol vehicles are now the most widely sold. Direct fuel injection (GDI) technology is the big winner in this new trend: inspired by common rail – which made diesel successful – GDI considerably reduces emissions of CO2... but at the expense of higher emissions of particles. From this point of view, diesel engines fitted with a particle filter would be the best bet.
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CHANGING BEHAVIOUR?
In view of the Climate-Energy transition plans of governments and the bigger European cities3, buyers seem to be changing their behaviour: many are moving away from diesel vehicles that they believe they might no longer be able to drive everywhere or sell second hand (but they are also buying more SUVs and crossovers!). This trend is encouraging manufacturers to further reduce their ranges. Toyota, and more recently Nissan, have thus announced their intention of no longer selling light diesel vehicles in Europe. The European manufacturers are revising their engine production forecasts downwards from 2025. Engine makers are not working on any new platforms and most of them are putting their engineers to work on petrol instead.
The hardest hit players are developing strategies to limit the decline in diesel. The Bosch Group has developed a system to drastically reduce NOx emissions, thanks to which it will easily be able to reach the emissions objectives of the future Euro 7 Standard. At the same time, the manufacturers are all busy working on mild hybrid projects, which could prolong the life expectancy of combustion engines. Lastly, the new regulations introduced in some big cities (e.g. Hamburg) ban polluting diesel engines predating the Euro 5 Standard, but allow “clean diesels”.
Whereas the decline of diesel is inevitable, it might not necessarily disappear altogether. Its future will depend, on the one hand, on the environmental, economic and driving performance of hybrid technologies and, on the other, on the speed of development of rechargeable electric solutions.
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Dream a Dream works directly with young people through its After School Life Skills and Career Connect programmes. The After School Life Skill programme uses Sport and Art as a medium to engage and develop critical life skills. These programmes serve as innovation labs, where new approaches to life skills development are introduced, demonstrated, documented and fed back into the larger framework for re-imagining learning for young people in the country. The Teacher Development programme taps the creative potential of adults like teachers, youth workers, community workers and facilitators so that they are equipped with skills to develop life skills amongst young people they work with.
Adding further credibility to the work of the organisation are the accreditations it has received from well-known institutions. For example, Dream a Dream was recognised as a Champion in the Re-imagine Learning Challenge hosted by Ashoka and Lego Foundation (2015), featured in the DASRA Report Power of Play that focussed on organisations doing innovative work in the field of Sport for Development and awarded the New Skills in Sports Instruction at Educasport World Forum (2013) as well as the Champions of Guidestar India – Platinum Level in the Guidestar India NGO Transparency Awards (2016).
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James Hart Dyke's paintings of London
I have admired James Hart Dyke's work for many years. His work first came to my attention when it was included in the Sotheby's Exhibition 'The Artist and the Country House' in 1996. James trained as an architect before deciding his true path lay in painting. His early architectural grounding seems to have imbued his work with a rare understanding of how buildings are assembled, which he somehow manages to embody in his paintings.
Figurative without being timid, expressive without being self-indulgent, and with an unerring sense of composition, James's work is full of verve and impact. An exhibition, 'London: Cityscapes and interiors' is open at John Mitchell, 17 Avery Row, London W1K 4BF from the 1st - 17th November.
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Times Internet claims to have achieved 100% gender pay equality
MUMBAI: Times Internet, India’s largest digital products company with over 5000+ employees across eight cities, has claimed to have achieved the milestone of overall gender pay equality.
The company had commissioned Aon, a global leader in HR consulting, to conduct an independent pay equity audit across the entire organisation. The results showed that there is no gap between female and male employees with respect to pay, rewards, and promotions at the company.
In the “Global Gender Gap Report” released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) last year, India was ranked a lowly 108 out of 144 countries on the gender equality scale. A report by Aon shows that the overall gender pay gap across India Inc. is 24% today. Thus, Times Internet’s achievement will strongly resonate with everyone in India who believes in gender equality.
Elated at achieving this crucial milestone, Times Internet CEO Gautam Sinha said, “Pay equity is a huge issue across every industry in every country. We believe that each and everyone deserves respect and equal opportunities for growth. Which is why we worked towards creating a truly meritocratic work culture, wherein every employee is evaluated and rewarded solely on the basis of their work and performance, and nothing else.”
To drive gender pay equality, Times Internet started by first reviewing its compensation practices to eliminate any existing gender bias and discrepancies. The company switched to a simplified, online performance appraisal system, resulting in an open, fair and transparent process for all employees. It has also initiated diversity training workshops to help employees identify and eliminate conscious and unconscious gender biases.
“We looked at diversity not as an obligation, but as a catalyst for new ideas, growth, and innovation. Our vision is to create a culture of equality at the workplace where diversity in all its forms, is celebrated and encouraged across all our businesses, functions and domains,” Sinha added.
Aon Partner – Talent & Rewards Anandorup Ghose said, “As part of our Gender Pay Equity Report, we conducted a detailed regression analysis between performance and salary increase, bonus payout and appraisals for employees across all levels and businesses in Times Internet. What we discovered was that an employee’s pay, reward, and promotion were strongly correlated with performance, with the employee’s gender having no impact at all.”
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HOME Newsroom News Releases Takeda Completes Settlements With All Defendants in U.S. Patent Litigation Involving ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCI), ACTOplus met® (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl) and duetact® (pioglitazone HCl and glimepiride)
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Takeda Completes Settlements With All Defendants in U.S. Patent Litigation Involving ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCI), ACTOplus met® (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl) and duetact® (pioglitazone HCl and glimepiride)
DEERFIELD, III., December 21, and OSAKA, Japan, December 22, 2010 –Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) today announced that Takeda and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. (“TPNA”), have completed settlements with all defendants in patent litigation brought against the companies in response to their Abbreviated New Drug Applications (“ANDAs”) for generic ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl), ACTOplus met® (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl), and duetact® (pioglitazone HCl and glimepiride). Takeda filed the lawsuits to enforce several patents that expire in 2016 relating to ACTOS, ACTOplus met, and duetact.
Agreements have been reached with the following generic companies and their respective affiliates: Mylan, Inc. (“Mylan”), Alphapharm Pty. Ltd. (“Alphapharm”), Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Watson”), Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (“Ranbaxy”), Sandoz, Inc. (“Sandoz”), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. (“Teva”), Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited (“Torrent”), Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Limited (“Dr. Reddy”), Wockhardt Limited (“Wockhardt”), Synthon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Synthon”) and Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. (“Breckenridge”) (collectively, “the Synthon defendants”), and Aurobindo Pharma Limited (“Aurobindo”).
Based on these settlements, Takeda continues to operate in accordance with its Mid-Range Plan, announced in May 2010, which assumes that market entry of generic ACTOS will occur on August 17, 2012, and that market entry of generic ACTOplus met and generic duetact will occur on December 14, 2012. With these settlements, the forecasts of Takeda’s consolidated results for the full year of fiscal 2010 announced on October 29, 2010 will not be changed.
Takeda is the inventor and developer of ACTOS, which was launched commercially in the U.S. in 1999 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and has been prescribed for more than 10 million patients to date.
Summary of Settlements
Takeda has granted Mylan, Watson, and Ranbaxy licenses to enter the U.S. market with generic ACTOS on August 17, 2012, subject to regulatory approval, or earlier under certain circumstances.
Mylan, Watson, and Ranbaxy are first-filers of ANDAs with paragraph IV certifications for ACTOS, and it is anticipated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will grant these companies 180-day marketing exclusivity. Takeda has granted Alphapharm, Sandoz, Aurobindo, Dr. Reddy, Wockhardt, the Synthon defendants, Teva, and Torrent licenses to enter the U.S. market with generic ACTOS beginning 180 days after the first filers, subject to regulatory approval. Takeda has granted Teva a license to market an authorized generic version of ACTOS in the U.S. beginning on August 17, 2012, or earlier under certain circumstances.
Takeda also has granted Mylan a license to market generic ACTOplus met in the U.S. on December 14, 2012, or earlier, under certain circumstances, subject to regulatory approval. As a first-filer of a patent certification for this product, it is anticipated that Mylan will receive 180 days of marketing exclusivity. Sandoz, Ranbaxy, Torrent, Watson, Aurobindo, Wockhardt, and Teva have been granted licenses to enter the U.S. market with generic ACTOplus met beginning 180 days after the first filer, or earlier under certain circumstances, subject to regulatory approval. Takeda has granted Teva a license to market an authorized generic version of ACTOplus met in the U.S. beginning on December 14, 2012, or earlier under certain circumstances.
Lastly, Takeda has granted Sandoz a license to enter the U.S. market with generic duetact on December 14, 2012, or earlier under certain circumstances.
About ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl) Family of Products Indications and Usage
ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl), ACTOplus met® (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl), ACTOplus met® XR (pioglitazone HCl and extended-release metformin HCl), and duetact® (pioglitazone HCl and glimepiride) are prescription medications used with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar (glucose) control in adults (= 18 years of age) with type 2 diabetes.
ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, and duetact are not for everyone. Certain patients with heart failure should not start taking ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact. These medications can cause new, or worsen, heart failure. Patients should talk to their doctor immediately if they experience unusually fast weight gain, fluid retention (swelling), shortness of breath, unusual tiredness, or slow heartbeat.
Warnings Specific to ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR
Metformin, one of the medicines in ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR, can cause a rare but serious condition called lactic acidosis (a buildup of an acid in the blood) that can cause death. Lactic acidosis is a medical emergency and must be treated in the hospital. Because lactic acidosis occurs most frequently in people with kidney problems, ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR should not be used in people with kidney disease or in people 80 years of age or older whose kidneys do not work properly.
ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR should not be taken by people with metabolic acidosis or who drink excessive amounts of alcohol.
Patients should talk to their doctor if they are going to have an X-ray procedure using injectable dye and are taking ACTOplus met or ACTOplus met XR.
ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, and duetact are not for patients with type 1 “juvenile” diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis.
Warning Specific to duetact: The chance of death from serious heart or blood vessel problems may be higher when using a sulfonylurea, an ingredient in duetact.
ACTOS may cause low blood sugar when taken in combination with insulin or sulfonylureas. Lightheadedness, shakiness, dizziness, or hunger may mean that a patient’s blood sugar is too low. Patients should talk to their doctor if low blood sugar is a problem for them.
Some people taking ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact may experience mild-to-moderate swelling of legs and ankles, anemia, and weight gain.
If a patient is of childbearing age, they should talk to their doctor before taking ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact, as this could increase their chance of becoming pregnant. Patients should talk to their doctor if they are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to breastfeed.
Patients should not take ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact if they have active liver disease. A doctor should perform a blood test to check for liver problems before a patient starts therapy and periodically thereafter. Patients should talk to their doctor immediately if they experience nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, unusual tiredness, loss of appetite, dark urine, or yellowing of the skin or eyes.
Some patients have experienced visual changes while taking ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact. If a patient experiences vision problems, they should consult their doctor immediately.
Some people, particularly women, are at higher risk of having bone fractures while taking ACTOS, ACTOplus met, ACTOplus met XR, or duetact.
Precaution Specific to duetact: Taking glimepiride along with having an inherited condition where a patient doesn’t produce enough of the enzyme G6PD (G6PD deficiency) can cause hemolytic anemia, which causes red blood cells to be destroyed too quickly.
Other side effects of these products may include:
• ACTOS: cold or flu-like symptoms, headache, sinus infection, muscle pain, tooth disorder, and sore throat
• ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR: cold or flu-like symptoms, diarrhea, nausea, headache, urinary tract infection, dizziness, and sinus infection
• Duetact: cold or flu-like symptoms, headache, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, nausea, and limb pain
Patients are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
For ACTOS Complete Prescribing Information, including warning about heart failure, and Medication Guide, please click here.
For ACTOplus met and ACTOplus met XR Complete Prescribing Information, including warnings about heart failure, and lactic acidosis, and Medication Guide, please click here.
For duetact Complete Prescribing Information, including warning about heart failure, and Medication Guide, please click here.
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CSKA Moscow sweep Crvena Zvezda and claim Final Four berth
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CSKA Moscow is heading to their 13th Euroleague Final Four in 14 seasons.
Paced by Nando De Colo’s 20 points, the Muscovites completed a 3-0 series win over Crvena Zvezda with a 78-71 win in Belgrade on Monday night.
Nikita Kurbanov and Milos Teodosic both added 12 points with the latter dishing out seven assists in the win.
We know that nothing is going to be given to us, it’s not going to be a walk in the park,” said CSKA coach Dimitis Itoudis. “Congratulations to Crvena Zvezda for this effort. They played great basketball all over the season. But at the same time I have to congratulate all the players. Despite the fact that we played with a lot of missing, important players, such as Freeland, Khryapa and Korobkov, today is the players’ victory. They showed character in front of amazing crowd and a pressure that is good for basketball.
“I have to congratulate all the players for their dedication, for being focused and going back-to-back to the Final Four. That’s not an easy thing. It might be easy for you and me to say it. But it’s not an easy thing. Congratulations to our management. All the coaching staff did a great job to go to that Final Four. And there’s a long way to go still.”
After an intense and closely-fought battle of wits, CSKA pulled clear in the third period with Teodosic and Aaron Jackson the main protagonists in the run. And despite narrowing the gap to 70-68 in the final three minutes thanks to a vicious putback slam by Quincy Miller and an 18,000-plus fanbase roaring them on, Red Star could not drag themselves to Moscow’s supreme level of team play.
“I am a bad loser, I never want to be a loser,” said Miller, who led Crvena Zvezda with 15 points.
“CSKA made a lot of big stops, a lot of big plays. We made it tough for them in the end, but they continued to play hard and played through it.”
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TeamHealth Acquires Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine
TeamHealth Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of the operations of Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine, the group that manages and staffs the hospital emergency department for Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital in Elko, Nev. Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine’s clinicians provide care for approximately 24,000 cases annually.
“Our physicians and physician assistants have a passion for delivering excellent patient care in the Elko community,” said Daniel C. Jones, DO, director for Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine. “With TeamHealth’s extensive emergency medicine resources and unmatched support for physicians and clinicians, we are proud to join an organization that will enable us to continue providing patients with the highest level of service.” “We are pleased to welcome Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine to TeamHealth and to partner with Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital,” said Michael D. Snow, president and CEO of TeamHealth. “Ruby Crest Emergency Medicine provides excellent emergency department staffing and operational efficiencies for its hospital partner, and we look forward to working together to enhance emergency care for the Elko community.”
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OnePlus 5T Star Wars edition unveiled to rule the galaxy
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The flagship killer OnePlus is celebrating its third anniversary with the launch of a special edition of its stunning OnePlus 5T. Yesterday, the premium smartphones maker of China has unveiled its OnePlus 5T Stars Wars Limited Edition. The phone will go on sale in India from 14th of December.
OnePlus has partnered with Star Wars to launch its special edition smartphones with a Star Wars logo on the back. The phone will be available to purchase a day before the debut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in cinemas. OnePlus has also changed the side button which is now in a scarlet red color. It looks like that phone will also have a Star Wars theme in it as well.
Moreover, OnePlus is also hosting an event in Mumbai on December 14 at IMAX Wadala in Mumbai, to formally launch the latest special edition. The company has also presented a promo video, which shows Kylo Ren picking up his light saber which turns into the new Star Wars phone. The ad also says that phone is strong enough to rule the galaxy.
OnePlus 5T was launched last month and it comes with significant upgrades over OnePlus 5. With the launch of this device, OnePlus has also fallen into the ongoing trend of providing a bezel-less smartphone. OnePlus 5T comes with a 6.01-inch bezel-less display with 18:9 aspect ratio.
The OnePlus 5T has two variants, one with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage costs just $499, while the one with 8GB RAM & 128GB internal storage costs $559. This special edition of the phone might also come in Pakistan through the grey market. But it is not expected to launch with an official partner. However, Pakistani consumers can get the regular OnePlus 5T in around 65,000 PKR.
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Never mind your selfie sticks, Australia is now offering tourists massive selfies from hundreds of metres away.Tourism Australia hopes its GIGA...
A phone app that lets tourists take giant photos of themselves in iconic locations is the latest pitch to lure visitors to Australia
Never mind your selfie sticks, Australia is now offering tourists massive selfies from hundreds of metres away.Tourism Australia hopes its GIGA Selfies campaign will encourage Japanese tourists to come to Australia and use social media to share their experience with family and friends.
The selfie system works by having tourists stand on a designated spot and look towards a camera about 100 metres away.Using a smartphone app, tourists can direct the camera to record a short video, starting with a close-up and zooming out to reveal them standing in the surrounding landscape.
The videos are designed to be easily shared on social media thus encouraging conversation in Japan about Australia as a destination. Tourism Australia managing director John O'Sullivan said the high-tech system would appeal to the technologically savvy Japanese market.
"If you think about the selfie that you or I would normally take through our smartphone, this basically is that image on steroids," he said. "It has a longer range, it has far more high definition and really is able to bring a destination to life."
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The Gold Coast was once a thriving hub of Japanese tourists but numbers have dwindled over the past decades.Tourism Australia data showed Japan was Australia's sixth largest inbound market in 2014 and fifth largest in terms of spending. It was tipped that tourist numbers would grow 10 per cent in 2015 and up to 20 per cent in 2016.
"What we are now starting to see is the green shoot of recovery," O'Sullivan said. He said the GIGA Selfies campaign was another way to connect with Japan's youth market. "No one tells a story about a trip or a destination better than the person experiencing the Gold Coast or other parts of Australia through their cell phone and through their selfies," he said.
Big, big selfies
The local Japanese community thinks the campaign will prove a hit with tourists. Australia Japan Society Queensland committee member Taeko Matsunaga was excited by the selfies.
She said the campaign tapped into the incredible popularity of social media among Japan's youth. "I wish I was a tourist from Japan ... I want to do it myself," she said.
"For the young people, selfies are really good because they want to let everybody know what they are doing. The campaign has been rolled out to the Japanese market on digital media, television and newspapers and through airlines and travel agents. Now in a country, with a selfie obsessed PM, taking cues from the idea, India can also boost its tourism.
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Glen Keller, 84, of Grand Junction passed away Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, at the Hospice Care Center.
Glen was born May 28, 1925, in Meeker to Charles M. and Bertha (Murr) Keller. He grew up in and attended schools in Meeker. Glen served his country with the U.S. Army during World War II. On Feb. 29, 1948, he married Ruth C. Lloyd in Meeker. He was a field foreman for Chevron Oil Company. From 1961-1984, the family lived in Big Piney, Wyo.; 1984-1986, they lived in Evanston, Wyo.; and in 1986 they moved to Grand Junction. Glen enjoyed woodworking, hunting and gunsmithing.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth of Grand Junction; daughter, Deborah (John) Brown of Gunnison; sons, Kent (Jan) Keller of Meeker, and Jeffrey (Bertha) Keller of Rock Springs, Wyo.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Freda Dunbar and Doris Wise. His two brothers, Raymond and Jimmy, and an infant sister, Ruth, preceded him in death.
A graveside service was held Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, at Meeker Highland Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, 3090 B N. 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81506. Arrangements were under the direction of Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.
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Horror Crushes
The 30 Best Horror Films of the 2010's
6:38 PM Giovanni Deldio No comments
The 2010s have ended, and it's time to look back at the very best in horror that that decade had to offer. There weren't that many clear trends, as we had remakes, ghosts flicks (with way too many shitty jump-scares), home invasions, horror comedies, gorefests, and more. Whatever the case maybe, it was hard narrowing it down to just 30, but I feel very pleased with what I picked. Let's not waste anymore time and get right into it!
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30. You're Next (2011)- Adam Wingard's rollicking horror comedy has one of the best final girls in the gorgeous Sharni Vinson's Erin and ends up being one of the finest home invasion flicks in recent times.
29. The Woman (2011)- Arguably Lucky McKee's best film, The Woman is one fuck of a brutal and uncompromising viewing experience. It also stands has a powerful feminist view years before the current cinematic state. Throw in some excellent acting and you have one of the best hardcore splatter flicks of the last decade.
28. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017)- This chilling and intense supernatural horror flick is ghost (and witch!) horror done right. It builds tension and is genuinely creepy. The more the movie moves along the tighter you'll grasp your chair. Throw in some superlative acting from the small cast, and you have a real winner.
27. The Shallows (2016)- The Shallows is one of those films that has gotten better with time and viewings. It is a nail-biting horror-thriller that also happens to be beautiful looking, and just cause of its gorgeous star Blake Lively. Lively makes for a great heroine and proves that she is more than just a perfect body. Truth is this film is one of the best shark horror movies ever!
26. Incident in a Ghostland (2018)- From Pascal Laugier, the director of the vicious Martyrs comes this brutal and under-seen masterpiece. Hopefully, with Shudder starting to stream it last year, more have. My full review.
25. The Devil's Candy (2015)- A truly chilling and unnerving heavy metal/ horror movie from The Loved Ones (2009) writer/ director Sean Byrne. My full review.
24. Green Room (2015)- Another movie that gets better with repeated viewings, punk rock/ horror/ thriller Green Room is intense as fucking hell. It also features an amazing performance by Patrick Stewart as the lead neo-Nazi scumbag as one of the best bad guys (and easy to root against) in a genre film in the past decade.
23. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)- Wild horror/ comedy that works best with the less you know of it. My full and non-spoiler review.
22. Crimson Peak (2015)- A beautiful (in fact it is one of the most gorgeous horror movies of the last decade) and wonderfully acted horror/ Gothic romance from Guillermo Del Toro that is one of the very best ghost movies around. It is horribly underrated and should have been seen by more. Hopefully by now, you all have.
21. Train to Busan (2016)- Just when we were all ready to keep the zombie movie in the fucking toilet, comes this thundering ass kicker from Korea. A full throttle mix of action, gore, drama, and intensity that deserves all the praise it gets.
20. Get Out (2017)- A smart and timely horror movie from Jordan Peele got the rare kind of love (IE Oscar attention) for a genre movie. But, with its smart, deep, and. at times, funny script, excellent acting. and superlative directing it is more than worth it. Plus, it is highly entertaining, something completely missing, from most, if not all, of those other, so-called "elevated" (holy fuck, do I ever abhor that term!) horror movies.
19. It: Chapter One (2017)- This ridiculously successful horror flick, is one of the finest Stephen King adaptations ever made. It also has one of the best child casts ever, in any movie of any genre. The second chapter is alright, but a letdown, so let's just concentrate on our love for this one, OK?
18. Black Swan (2010)- Featuring an amazing performance by Natalie Portman, this is a nightmarish, searing, and, sometimes, sexy flick. Darren Aronofsky's modern masterpiece is really one of the best psychological horror movies ever made.
17. Raw (2016)- Alternately sexy, shocking, smart, and repulsive French horror movie is one of the best Euro-horror flicks of the last couple of years. Wonderfully acted and made, Raw shows us that the French are still kicking ass in our beloved genre.
16. The Conjuring (2013)- James Wan's scary modern classic (and his best movie to date) created its own world, the highly successful The Conjuring Universe, and is one of the best ghost movies ever fucking made. My mini review.
15. The Final Girls (2015)- A smart, loving horror comedy with a ton of heart. My full review.
14. Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)- Truly one of the greatest Christmas horror movies, this flick is one hell of mix of comedy, zombie, musical, and the holiday. And, unlike a lot of musicals, I actually love the tunes in it! Gory, funny, exciting, moving, and fun, with a wonderful turn by the lovely Ella Hunt as the title character, this is one I truly love.
13. Deathgasm (2015)- A gore drenched splatterfest, this headbanging and utterly hilarious fucker might just be the king of heavy metal horror movies. It has everything you could ever ask for: demons, metal love and music, hot babes, nudity, sex toys as weapons, and ton of fucking gore.
12. Piranha 3D (2010)- Blood drenched, sexy, and frequently funny remake might just be better than even Joe Dante's own cult classic. Filled to the brim with graphic gore, babes (including Elisabeth Shue, Riley Steele, Gianna Michaels, Kelly Brook, and more!), nudity, lesbianism, and an awesome cast, it is without a shadow of a doubt the best aquatic horror flick of the last decade.
11. Better Watch Out (2016)- This one ranks right next to Gremlins and the original Black Christmas as one of the greatest Christmas horror movies ever made. It also falls under the less you know about it, the better category. A nasty, fun, and twisted flick with great acting from its young leads, that is completely my cup of blood and excellent in repeated, and yearly, viewings.
10. Gerald's Game (2017)- Mike Flanagan's incredible adaptation of one of my favorite Stephen King books. My full review.
9. Evil Dead (2013)- Fede Alvarez' gorefest is one of the most fun moving going experiences of the last decade. It also might be the bloodiest big-studio film ever made. Combine it with Mia, who as played by the beautiful Jane Levy, is one of the absolute best horror heroines ever! Now, can we please get the fucking sequel, like right fucking now!!
8. Starry Eyes (2014)- A bloody, smart, and nightmarish horror flick with a killer performance by the beautiful Alex Essoe. My full review.
7. Happy Death Day (2017)- Talk about a movie for whom my love has grown and grown. Of all the movies, that are listed here, it is probably the one I have seen the most times, at least in terms of shortest period of time. Funny and wild this slasher/ comedy take on Groundhog Day holds a very special place in my heart. The awesome Baby-Face Killer has one of my favorite masks ever. And, its final girl Tree, as portrayed by the breathtaking Jessica Rothe, is honest to God one of the best the genre has ever seen.
6. Revenge (2017)- This superlative French, feminist badass of a movie is one of the greatest rape-revenge movies ever made. My full review.
5. Excision (2012)- An alternately twisted, funny, moving, sexy (in messed up sort of way), and gory coming of age film that with an amazing performance by the breathtaking goddess AnnaLynne McCord. Her character is one of my favorite, complex females in horror of the last decade. Playing her mom is Traci Lords in the greatest role she has ever had. The fact that this superlative masterpiece only gets better with multiple viewings is that much more impressive a feat.
4. American Mary (2012)- The Soska sisters introduced us horror fans to Mary Mason in this modern classic. My full review.
3. Mandy (2018)- A true masterpiece Mandy mixes Mad Max style revenge, with David Lynch and Dario Argento influences, gore, and a metal heart and style to deliver the most original horror movie of the 2010's. Gory, insane, is has an evil, hippie cult, demonic bikers, chainsaw mayhem, and an unhinged and awesome Nicolas Cage. There is no fucking movie quite like it. Plus, the Cheddar Goblin fucking rules!
2. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)- Speaking of Mad Max, this fucker combines that with the zombie flick,and the result is the absolute best zombie movie since Shaun of the Dead. My full review.
1. Doctor Sleep (2019)- Mike Flangan's adaption of the Stephen King book of the same serves as a sequel to both The Shining book and movie. And, dear friends, ain't easy to pull off. Yet, he does it so amazingly in this the best horror movie of all of the 2010's. If you were one of those who fucked up and missed it in the movies, be sure you correct that shit when it comes out digital download and Blu-ray (February 4, in a director's cut!).
I would love to know what your favorite horror movies of the 2010's were. Tell me in the comments section below.
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Security geek developing WinXP raw socket exploit
Has Steve Gibson finally lost his mind?
By Thomas C Greene 12 Jun 2001 at 05:36
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
-- Matthew 3:2
Security specialist Steve Gibson has created quite a fracas with his increasingly vocal opposition to the raw-socket connectivity planned for Windows-XP, and upon which he bases predictions of impending chaos for the entire Internet, so he's decided to exploit the very threat he claims will make the Internet permanently unstable.
The raw sockets which have Gibson so steamed enable a machine to send or capture data independent of the operating system -- quite handy if you're a software developer or an advanced hobbyist. And while it's true that this also enhances the packet-flooding capabilities of a Windows machine by making it easy to spoof packets, it's also true that this function is already included in most other operating systems, and can be added to an existing Win-9x, 'ME, or '2K machine quite easily with a library called WinPcap.
All right, we'll allow that there'll be a few s'kiddies who might prefer to use their Win-XP boxes for such purposes. But they can already do so simply by installing Linux and doing a bit of reading.
There will also be more Windows clients available for malicious misuse as 'XP grows in popularity; but one can already do heaps of packeting from Windows machines with SubSeven, and even launch the attack in bulk from IRC.
True, the boxes will eventually be found because their IPs are traceable, and admins will contact the owners and let them know they're infected -- but only long after the damage is done. Raw sockets in 'XP only marginally improve the situation for a malicious party. We really don't see an immense growth in packeting on the horizon.
Gibson, on the other hand, tells it like a loner in the desert, living, we would imagine, on locusts and wild honey for a bit too long a time.
After being packeted into submission last month by a thirteen-year-old computer enthusiast called "Wicked", he's become obsessed with the mission of dissuading Microsoft from outfitting 'XP with the same capabilities as most of its competitors.
He's written thousands of words on his Web site, denouncing Microsoft for putting something like real power into a consumer operating system. He's written memos to the company; he's warned all his site's visitors; but he's still not satisfied. The "XP Christmas of Death" is coming, he warns, immediately after which all the little s'kiddies will gleefully baptize us with fire.
According to Gibson's paranoid delusions, everyone with a computer is a potential criminal, and the only reason the entire Net population hasn't yet exploded in some mass orgy of evil is because Microsoft has thus far refrained from unleashing the uncontrollable power of the raw socket.
He'll show the bastards
Unfortunately, not enough of the right people are listening to him with the proper degree of attentiveness. So he's decided to show the bastards: Gibson is developing a free tool which he calls 'Spoofarino'.
"We need a tool to hold ISPs accountable and publicly demonstrate individual ISP irresponsibility," Gibson says.
"Given the universal reluctance they have demonstrated so far, I believe that only active public scrutiny will bring about the changes required to insure [sic] a reliable and secure future for the Internet."
From that we infer that Spoofarino will enable Netizens to test whether or not their ISP allows them to send spoofed packets to Gibson's site. We imagine that any ISP which fails to filter outbound spoofed packets will be identified for a solid public shaming.
It sounds like a tool with which one could generate raw packets, though probably in a controlled manner. But if that's the case, it would lay much of the ground work for an EZ malicious version leveraging the very threat Gibson is decrying.
"The threat represented by Microsoft's forthcoming Windows-XP operating system, with its confirmed ability to easily generate malicious Internet traffic -- for NO good reason -- can not be overstated," he warns.
"The proper executives within Microsoft MUST be reached with this message so that those plans can be reviewed in light of the potential for their system's massive abuse of the inherently trusting Internet."
And so Steve Gibson is going to show us all. ®
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UK.gov lambasted for ignoring peers' cybercrime report
Either stupid or ignorant, fumes security researcher
By John Leyden 30 Oct 2007 at 10:23
A leading security expert has criticised the UK government for ignoring recommendations on tackling cybercrime from peers.
The House of Lords' Science and Technology Committee produced a five point plan for tackling cybercrime and safeguarding e-commerce after extensive consultations with experts in industry and academia.
Proposals in the committee's Personal Internet Security report included establishing a centralised and automated system for the reporting of e-crime and enacting US-style data breach notification disclosure laws.
More controversially, the committee argued for moves towards making suppliers legally liable for damage resulting from security flaws.
The government responded last week to the August report of the committee that "turned down pretty much every recommendation", according to a security researcher who aided peers in their hearings.
Richard Clayton, a security researcher at Cambridge University and long-time contributor to UK security policy working groups, has expressed deep frustration at the government's lack of action. He accuses the government of complacency, or worse, in a strongly worded critique posted on the University of Cambridge security blog.
Among the peers' key recommendations - after hearing testimony from experts from Microsoft, Cisco, Verisign, and others - were measures designed to collate information on the extent of cybercrime. Policies introduced last April mean the public is advised to report incidents of credit card fraud to the banks instead of to the police.
The peers, and experts such as Clayton, disagree with this policy. But the government officials turned down calls for a rethink. "They don't think that having the banks collate crime reports gets all the incentives wrong; and they 'do not accept that the incidence of loss of personal data by companies is on an upward path'," Clayton writes.
He argues that the government is burying its head in the sand through a combination of either ignorance or stupidity. "If the government was up-to-speed on what researchers are documenting, they wouldn't be arguing that there is more crime solely because there are more users - and they could not possibly say that they 'refute the suggestion... that lawlessness is rife'," Clayton laments.
He expresses frustration at the government's lack of action. "That's more than a little surprising, because the report made a great deal of sense, and their lordships aren't fools," Clayton writes.
Clayton's frustration is understandable, but the government's lack of action on the recommendation of a parliamentary committee looking at internet security issues is far from unprecedented.
When the All Party Internet Group of MPs looked at the nuisance of junk mail it heard testimony that criminal sanctions were necessary and that legislation ought to deal with spam emails sent to businesses as well as private individuals. The recommendations were ignored, leaving huge loopholes that have rendered UK anti-spam laws toothless. ®
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‘True Detective’ Ratings Rise for Season 2 Premiere
HBO’s freshman offerings “Ballers” and “The Brink” also get strong starts
Tim Kenneally | June 23, 2015 @ 9:15 AM Last Updated: June 23, 2015 @ 2:02 PM
The case of whether HBO’s anthology series “True Detective” will sustain its audience has been solved.
Sunday night’s 9 p.m. Season 2 premiere of the series, which stars Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn during this go-round, racked up nearly 3.2 million total viewers, according to Nielsen — a considerable boost over the 2.3 million who tuned in for the series premiere last January.
The “True Detective” series debut was HBO’s most-watched series premiere since “Boardwalk Empire’s” bow in 2010, which amassed 4.8 million total viewers.
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Also on Sunday night, HBO premiered its new series “Ballers,” starring Dwayne Johnson, and “The Brink,” featuring Jack Black and Tim Robbins.
The freshman offerings started out strong in the ratings, though failed to match the numbers of “True Detective,” with “Ballers” drawing nearly 2.2 million total viewers and “The Brink” pulling in almost 1.6 million.
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Detectives Dave Starsky and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson, "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79)
Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Hutch (David Soul) represented a new era of TV. These two partners were not shy about drawing their guns and getting trigger-happy while on the chase. They acted recklessly and dressed sloppily. Hutch kept a cool head, while Starsky teetered on the erratic side. Critics of the series did not appreciate the elevated level of violence.
Sergeant Rick Hunter, "Hunter" (1984-91)
Because he had a habit of engaging in aggressive police chases, Fred Dryer's character was issued the worst cars in the department. Rick Hunter always made sure to get his suspect, whether by lethal force or otherwise.
Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett & Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs, "Miami Vice" (1984-90)
Don Johnson played cool-as-ice Crockett, while Philip Michael Thomas was bad-tempered Tubbs. Both men have hard exteriors and soft spots for victims. Both push the boundaries a bit. They eventually lose faith that every drug criminals can be caught, leading them to quit at the end of the series.
Sergeant Andy Sipowicz, "NYPD Blue" (1993-2005)
Dennis Franz played the drunk with a bad temper and racist leanings. Toward the end of the series, Sipowicz distances himself from his prejudice-packed past and embraces his role as a mentor to younger officers.
Detective Elliot Stabler, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999 - )
As a father with anger issues of his own, Stabler (Christopher Meloni) didn't take too kindly to the child molesters he arrested. When one pedophile posted his daughter's photo online, Stabler went to the man's apartment and assaulted him. Stabler left the show when he shot and killed a young girl who opened fire in the squad room.
Detective Raymond Caine, "CSI: Miami" (2002-12)
Played by Dean Winters in one episode and Christopher Stapleton in another, Horatio Caine's dirty cop brother developed a drug addiction while working in the narcotics division. The disgraced officer was forced to fake his own death and become an undercover narcotics investigator.
Detective Vic Mackey, "The Shield" (2002-08)
Michael Chiklis' character Mackey committed many crimes throughout his tenure, but the worst was perhaps murdering Detective Terry Crowley. Crowley was the newest addition who had been sent by the Justice Department to build a case against Mackey's team. Once he'd been informed, Mackey staged Crowley's death to make it appear as if a suspect had gunned the newbie down.
Detective Jimmy McNulty, "The Wire" (2002-08)
Dominic West's character had the best intentions, but the worst methods. Jimmy called a reporter, pretending to be a serial killer to bring attention to a bunch of unrelated murders that were otherwise ignored; he was fired for his efforts.
Sheriff Seth Bullock, "Deadwood" (2004-06)
Since the show's pilot, Timothy Olyphant's Sheriff Bullock skipped the judicial process. Knowing a mob was intent on hunting down his suspect, he hanged the man himself in a twisted version of justice.
Sheriff Andy Bellefleur, "True Blood" (2008-14)
Besides being addicted to vampire blood, Chris Bauer's character simply could not run the town he was tasked with protecting. He doggedly chased innocent people and allowed his drinking problem to get in the way of his work. For the record, he had good intentions.
Prohibition Agent Nelson Van Alden, "Boardwalk Empire" (2010-14)
Michael Shannon's character lived a pious lifestyle until Atlantic City got the best of him. Late in the series, he succumbed to corruption and adopted a "If you can't beat em, join 'em" mentality. He impregnated politician Nucky Thompson's former lover, became a mobster's hit man.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, "Justified" (2010-15)
Timothy Olyphant's trigger-happy lawman nearly compromises a few cases, such as when he gets romantically entangled with a suspect's sister-in-law.
Detective Chief Inspector John Luther, "Luther" (2010 - )
Idris Elba lays Luther, a detective with questionable tendencies. Finding a child killer named Henry Madsen dangling off a ledge in a warehouse after a chase, Luther calmly forces a confession out of Madsen and then allows him to fall to his death.
Detective Darren Wilden, "Pretty Little Liars" (2010 - )
Bryce Johnson played Detective Wilden, who used his status as a law officer to harass the show's four central high schoolers. He even used Hanna Marin's shoplifting charges to coax her mother, Ashley, into a brief romance.
Detective Stephen Holder, "The Killing" (2011-14)
Joel Kinnaman starred as the skeevy detective whose unorthodox tactics matched his disheveled appearance. Viewers learned he also had a drug addiction problem.
Detective Jane Timoney, "Prime Suspect" (2011-12)
Maria Bello starred as Timoney, a new addition to a squad that does not respect her. Her colleagues question how she landed the job -- believing she was transferred because she was involved with the Deputy Chief of Police -- a charge she can't escape. Timoney tended to be rude and reckless, earning her little recognition even when she made arrests.
Squad Commander Hank Voight, "Chicago P.D." (2014 - )
Jason Beghe's character was suspected of unorthodox tactics, but never officially labeled as a dirty cop. Voight always got his man, even if he had to rough him up in the process.
Detective Derek Delaware, "Gotham" (2014 - )
Niko Nicotera's corrupt detective is a target of Good Guy James Gordon in his quest to clean up the Gotham Police Department. Delaware claimed to be part of a "sting operation" -- and was freed by the commissioner.
Detective Rustin Cohle, "True Detective" (2014 - )
In Season 1, Matthew McConaughey played the troubled detective who struggled with a drug addiction. Trigger-happy Cohle compromised a number of active murder investigations, including once when he stole evidence to work his way inside a meth gang. He also slept with his partner's wife.
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TONY HETHERINGTON, READERS’ CHAMPION: Beware, share cheats want to get you
By Tony HeTherington for The Mail on Sunday
Updated: 16:40 EST, 1 May 2010
I.R. writes: I was one of many who were duped by broker Pacific Continental Securities. I invested about £6,500. Among the shares I bought were those of Roaming Messenger and I have been contacted about them by Ian Crouch, who works for Washington Roberts Management.
I paid 24 cents (15p) per share and I am now being offered $5.35 per share. This would give me roughly £47,400. The transaction is being overseen by the Mergers & Acquisitions Regulatory Commission, but after checking its website and that of Washington Roberts, I'm dubious.
Don’t feel dubious - feel threatened. These people who you think are coming to your rescue are actually out to cheat you all over again.
Facade: Washington Roberts claims to be based in Prague
The now defunct Pacific Continental ripped you off the first time by selling you overhyped and overpriced shares in Roaming Messenger. This US company has since changed its name to Warp 9 and its mobile messaging service takes a back seat to providing internet catalogue and sales schemes.
Warp 9's accounts for 2009 show net income for the entire business of $151,000 - barely enough to buy every shareholder a cup of coffee and a doughnut, let alone attract a bidder.
Add to this the fact that Warp 9's shares trade at less than 1p each and you have to wonder why someone who still thinks the business is called Roaming Messenger is happy to hand over £3.77 a share. Unless it is a scam. Which it is.
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Washington Roberts Management claims to be an investment business based in Prague. But some people who have been rung up by the firm believe the callers are really in Canada, while its website is registered to an address in a village in the Netherlands.
And the website name has been bought only on a one-year deal that expires next February - a sign that the firm has no plans to stick around.
Roaming Messenger is not the only dud share that Washington Roberts Management says it wants. An investor in General Components Inc has been offered a way-over-the-odds £8 a share, on condition he first pays a 'registration fee' of 80p a share. Accupoll is another old favourite of Pacific Continental that is now fancied by Washington Roberts.
If you show any interest in selling your shares, you will be asked for cash up front for legal fees, registration or taxes.
Then you will be told that warrants attached to your shares mean you are entitled to ten times the sum originally promised, but of course you have to put up more money to convert those warrants into shares. And then the entire deal will collapse and your money will vanish.
As for the Mergers & Acquisitions Regulatory Commission, there is no such thing. It is a fake watchdog, supposedly located in Tokyo but in fact consisting of nothing more than a website at maregcom.org that is supposed to reassure you.
The website name is registered only until next January, and it traces back to that same village in the Netherlands as the Washington Roberts website.
In London, the Financial Services Authority has just added Washington Roberts to its warning list of unlicensed firms that have approached British investors. And Japan's genuine watchdog, the Financial Services Agency, says the Mergers & Acquisitions Regulatory Commission is 'fictitious' and simply doesn't exist.
Pacific Continental cheated you once. Don't let Washington Roberts make it twice.
I was told off after asking the Lloyds cashier for a receipt
J. R. writes: You have featured stories about banks denying that customers have made a deposit into their accounts, but I wonder whether other banks have done what mine has done.
Lloyds TSB has stopped issuing receipts for all deposits. Now you hand over your money at the counter and the cashier simply thanks you and says cheerio.
If there is any problem later, you have no evidence of the deposit.
Recently I found a batch of old paying-in slips at home, the kind with a perforated receipt for the customer to keep.
When I tried to use one, the curt young Lloyds TSB cashier told me off and ordered me not to use them again.
I wondered if this was an isolated incident affecting one branch, but you told me you use several branches of Lloyds TSB and have had the same experience everywhere.
The bank told me: 'Lloyds TSB stopped issuing counter receipts in 2007.' Apparently a survey found that less than ten per cent of customers completed the paying-in counterfoil or asked for a receipt.
However, the bank added: 'If a customer presents a completed deposit counterfoil or paying-in book, the cashier should stamp it and return it to the customer. If the customer asks for a receipt, one should be issued.'
I can only say that I am surprised there have not been problems since the bank adopted its policy.
What would happen if a member of staff simply pocketed cash paid in across the counter?
There would be nothing to show that any money was missing and the customer would have no proof that anything had been deposited.
It sounds very much like this is an accident just waiting to happen.
Missing cheque deposits
A. J. H. writes: My wife and I own a small company. Cash flow is important and every Friday we pay the week's cheques into NatWest.
Recently we deposited 25 cheques, but several days later we received four identical letters from the bank, each saying that one of the cheques had been 'delayed' and debited from our account.
This was obviously the fault of the bank and it is just fortunate that we did not go into overdraft.
The letters from NatWest gave a phone number to call for help, but when your wife rang she was asked for a PIN that she did not have because you have never needed one.
She was then told she should go to NatWest's online service, but your company does not use this either, so the helpline was no help at all. Even your local manager got nowhere when he called.
NatWest has admitted that all four cheques were 'mislaid' in the clearing process.
The missing money has already been credited to your account and the bank is now adding £50 by way of an apology.
If you believe you are the victim of financial wrongdoing, write to Tony Hetherington at Financial Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TS. Because of the high volume of inquiries, personal replies cannot be given. Please send only copies of original documents, which, we regret, cannot be returned.
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Root Metaphor
An Introduction to Punctuation
Humanities › English
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by Richard Nordquist
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
A root metaphor is an image, narrative, or fact that shapes an individual's perception of the world and interpretation of reality. Also called a basic metaphor, master metaphor, or myth.
A root metaphor, says Earl MacCormac, is "the most basic assumption about the nature of the world or experience that we can make when we try to give a description of it" (Metaphor and Myth in Science and Religion, 1976).
The concept of the root metaphor was introduced by American philosopher Stephen C. Pepper in World Hypotheses (1942). Pepper defined root metaphor as "an area of empirical observation which is the point of origin for a world hypothesis."
Examples and Observations
Stephen C. Pepper
A man desiring to understand the world looks about for a clue to its comprehension. He pitches upon some area of common sense fact and tries to understand other areas in terms of this one. The original area becomes his basic analogy or root metaphor...
If man is to be creative in the construction of a new world theory, he must dig among the crevices of common sense. There he may find the pupa of a new moth or butterfly. This will be alive, and grow, and propagate but no synthetic combination of the legs of one specimen and the wings of another will ever move except as their fabricator pushes them about with his tweezers.
Karou Yamamoto
The root metaphor is the comprehensive, organizing analogy that helps in making sense of experiences, interpreting the world, and defining the meaning of life...
Is the whole universe a perfect machine? Is the society an organism? ... Is life a long, arduous journey? Is the present a phase in the fateful karmic cycle? Is social interaction a game? Though mostly implicit, a large set of assumptions stem out of each of such root metaphors to form one's Weltanschauung [world view]...
Certainly, life will look very differently to a person whose metaphor is that of a ruthless, gladiatorial combat to the bitter end than to another who perceives an aspen grove wherein each tree grows individually while sustained by a common network of roots. Accordingly, the two lives will be lived very differently. Life seen as a cathedral to be built, as the gambling game of craps, or as the oyster that creates pearl out of an irritant grain of sand--each supposition generates its own script for life.
Needless to say, a collective life can be similarly influenced by some commonly held root metaphors, and a whole generation, organization, community, nation, continent, or even world may appear to fall under the spell of the so-called Zeitgeist (the spirit of the age) to reveal certain, particular perspectives, ideas, sentiments, attitudes, or practices.
Alan F. Segal
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Twist Bioscience Collaborates with Synbio Technologies to Supply Long DNA to Customers
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 11, 2017 – Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, today announced that it signed a non-exclusive agreement with Synbio Technologies. The companies will partner their respective capabilities to provide customers with access to long-length genes up to 70 kilobases.
“We are thrilled to partner with Twist Bioscience to provide next generation DNA manufacturing and long-length DNA assembly at a commercial scale to customers around the world,” commented Ping Yang, Ph.D., CEO of Synbio Technologies. “By leveraging our collective expertise in next-generation gene synthesis, we believe we will see new uses of DNA to improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Twist Bioscience will manufacture synthetic DNA up to 3.2 kilobases in length to Synbio Technologies, who will then create genes up to 70 kilobases in length. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“Partnering with Synbio Technologies provides another validation of the industry consolidating behind our disruptive, scalable DNA synthesis platform and confirms our ability to consistently deliver high throughput, high quality DNA,” said Emily M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO of Twist Bioscience. “In addition, the agreement adds geographic reach for our synthetic DNA into the Chinese marketplace where Synbio Technologies has an established foothold in multiple market segments.”
About Synbio Technologies
Synbio Technologies is a biotechnology company which focuses on both next generation DNA technology and its applications. Synbio Technologies’ world leading GPS platform is an advanced biotechnology transformation and application platform based on biology’s central dogma. This innovative GPS platform introduces Synotype (S), to be combined with Genotype (G) and Phenotype (P). With this Syno® platform we are confident in our ability to meet all of our customers’ various needs, which include the construction of a humanized antibody libraries, optimization of industrial enzymes, chromosome/genome synthesis, genetically engineered vaccines, molecular breeding and DNA informatics storage technology. For more information, please visit www.synbio-tech.com.
About Twist Bioscience
At Twist Bioscience, our expertise is accelerating science and innovation by leveraging the power of scale. We have developed a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process featuring a high throughput silicon platform capable of producing synthetic biology tools, including genes, oligonucleotide pools and variant libraries. By synthesizing DNA on silicon instead of on traditional 96-well plastic plates, our platform overcomes the current inefficiencies of synthetic DNA production, and enables cost-effective, rapid, high-quality and high throughput synthetic gene production, which in turn, expedites the design, build and test cycle to enable personalized medicines, pharmaceuticals, sustainable chemical production, improved agriculture production, diagnostics and biodetection. We are also developing new technologies to address large scale data storage. For more information, please visit http://www.twistbioscience.com. Twist Bioscience is on Twitter. Sign up to follow our Twitter feed @TwistBioscience at https://twitter.com/TwistBioscience.
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Analyst Predicts Apple’s AR Headset Will Launch In 2020
By Tyler Lee on 10/09/2019 03:04 PDT
For a while now we have been hearing rumors that Apple could be looking to launch an augmented reality (AR) headset. How true that is remains to be seen, but Apple’s interest in AR is pretty well-known, having launched features on iOS that takes advantage of the technology while also acquiring companies specializing in the tech.
So the question is, will we ever see this AR headset? The good news is yes, we will, and if analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is correct, it seems that the device might actually launch in the second quarter of 2020. Kuo has had a pretty excellent track record when it comes to Apple related rumors and predictions, so for him to offer up such an estimate means that we really could be getting close to such a launch.
Apple typically hosts a few events a year, where there will be an event at the early part of the year for MacBook related refreshes, which is followed by WWDC, which we suppose could be considered to be in the second quarter of 2020. If anything, we suppose it makes sense for the device to be announced at that time.
Kuo’s claim also seems to contradict an earlier report by DigiTimes who claimed that Apple might have paused development on the device. However, code found within iOS 13 has suggested that Apple is still working on it. Take it with a grain of salt for now, but hopefully we’ll have more details to share soon.
Filed in Apple >Gadgets >Rumors. Read more about Augmented Reality (AR) and Wearable Tech. Source: macrumors
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Disease-Causing Nibbling Amoeba Hides by Displaying Proteins From Host Cells
By Andy Fell on April 30, 2019 in Human & Animal Health
Entamoeba histolytica kills human cells through trogocytosis or “cell nibbling” where amoebae bite off and ingest fragments of human cells. UC Davis researchers Katherine Ralston, Hannah Miller and Rene Suleiman discovered that the amoebae use this process to acquire and display human cell membrane proteins on their own surface. This protects them from immune responses. This image shows amoebae (green) attacking human cells and displaying human proteins (red) on their surface. (Image credit: Hannah Miller)
A parasitic amoeba that causes severe gut disease in humans protects itself from attack by biting off pieces of host cells and putting their proteins on its own surface, according to a study by microbiologists at the University of California, Davis.
“We’re very excited about how this ties into amoebic infection and into broader themes in cell biology,” said Katherine Ralston, assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences. A paper describing the work appears today in the journal mBio.
Entamoeba histolytica causes severe diarrheal disease, mainly in tropical countries. It lives in the gut, causing ulcers and bleeding. In severe cases it can break out and invade other organs.
Ralston studied Entamoeba during postdoctoral work at the University of Virginia. Amoebae and many other cells — including some that protect us from disease — are known to “eat” other cells by engulfing them completely, a process called phagocytosis.
Ralston discovered that Entamoeba could also pinch off small pieces of human cells. She called this process trogocytosis or “cell nibbling.”
“The amoeba quite literally takes bites out of other cells,” Ralston said. “This nibbling is how it attacks individual cells, and we think this is how it causes ulceration and damage to the human intestine.”
Cell nibbling has also been described in other parasitic amoebae — and also in multicellular organisms. Immune system cells, for example, can swap pieces of their surface with each other by biting them off.
“We thought that if amoebae can take proteins from host cells and put them on their own surface this would have a functional effect on how they survive in the body,” said graduate student Hannah Miller.
Camouflage from complement
The body produces a set of proteins in the blood, called “complement,” that can attack parasites and bacteria. Your own cells carry proteins that prevent them from being attacked by complement.
Miller, Ralston and Rene Suleiman, another graduate student in the lab, found that when the amoebae were put in contact with human cells, they could take these protective proteins and put them on as a sort of “complement camouflage.” Regular Entamoebae were killed by human serum, but amoebae that had camouflaged themselves survived.
This camouflage could protect them from complement as they migrate through the blood around the body, Miller said.
Miller and Ralston are now working to understand which proteins are transferred, how they interact with complement and what happens to these proteins after they are nibbled off another cell. Do they go straight into the amoeba’s membrane, or are they processed internally first?
They also want to know more about trogocytosis in general. Why are some cases benign, but others lead to cell death? The process may also be important for understanding behavior of cancer cells and how they can be killed.
“We’re really excited that this decoration with acquired proteins might apply to trogocytosis in general, because we’re realizing that it’s important in so many contexts,” Ralston said.
The work was supported by a scholarship from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Katherine Ralston, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 530-752-5429, ksralston@ucdavis.edu
Hannah Miller, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, hwmiller@ucdavis.edu
Andy Fell, News and Media Relations, 530-752-4533, ahfell@ucdavis.edu
Read the paper (mBio)
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Anhar Setjadibrata, owner of Tugu Hotels & Restaurants and a long-time collector of Indonesian antiques, with daughter Lucienne, designed the restaurant and adjoining bar to capture the rich nuances of early 20th century Java. The result is a menagerie of period mementoes and paraphernalia, such as reclaimed teak furniture, rustic housewares (scales, meat grinders, pestles and mortars), and the signboard advertising Hap Liong Tailor, the shophouses’ original tenant. Rooms are painted in bold pastel-crayon combinations of red and green, black and red, purple and blue, while stone statues of Chinese, Hindu, and Buddhist gods smile down on diners.
All of these aspects of the culture are celebrated at Dapur Babah Élite, now one of the best dining addresses and the most romantic restaurants in Jakarta, elegantly decorated with photos of prominent Babah families, some fabulously wealthy, such as the powerful sugar baron Oei Tiong Ham, and many other artifacts of the colonial period, such as a bulky VOC emblem from the 17th century and a room separator from the Ming Dynasty.
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Home / Author / Dwaine Rieves / Shirtless Men Drink Free
Shirtless Men Drink Free
by Dwaine Rieves
Set amidst 2004’s polarizing election fears—immigrants and job takeovers, terrorists in waiting, homosexual and outsider agendas—Shirtless Men Drink Free makes vivid the human soul’s struggle in a world bedeviled by desire and the fears that leave us all asking—Why?
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ISBN: 9781946507044 Categories: Dwaine Rieves, Fiction, Leapfolio, New Releases Tags: Dwaine Rieves, Fiction, Leapfolio
In a vision above her mother’s deathbed, Doctor Jane Beekman sees her dying mother’s soul—a soul struggling with a decision, some undone task, something in this world too noble to leave. The sight was brief, but surely a lesson. The lingering question—Why?—prompts a shift in the doctor’s priorities. For in this election year Jane must do what her mother, an aspiring social activist, would have done.
Soon, Jane is deep in the world of Georgia politics, working to make sure her dynamic young brother-in-law Jackson Beekman is elected the next governor, regardless of what the soul of the candidate’s dead father or that of his living brother—Jane’s husband—might want done. Indeed, it is a mother’s persistence and a father’s legacy that will ultimately turn one Beekman brother against the other, a struggle with moral consequences that may extend far beyond Georgia.
Set amidst 2004’s polarizing election fears—immigrants and job takeovers, terrorists in waiting, homosexuals and outsider agendas—Shirtless Men Drink Free makes vivid the human soul’s struggle in a world bedeviled by desire and the fears that leave us all asking—Why?
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Dwaine Rieves was born and raised in Monroe County, Mississippi. Following a career as a research pharmaceutical scientist and critical care physician, he completed an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University. His poetry has won the Tupelo Press Prize for Poetry and the River Styx International Poetry Prize. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review and other publications. Visit his website at www.dwainerieves.com.
“Dwaine Rieves writes fiction with such authority that it’s hard to believe Shirtless Men Drink Free is a first novel and not a tenth. This is brilliant and rare work, as attentive to an absorbing plot as it is to a poetic, chiseled cadence.”—Paul Lisicky, award-winning author of The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
“These characters are all too real. Rieves, as Faulkner, McMurtry, and Larry Brown, writes people and story that will worm, burrow into you. Change you even.”—Adam Van Winkle, Founder and Editor, Cowboy Jamboree
“This is as haunting and wise a novel as any you will read this year.”—Margaret Meyers, author of Swimming in the Congo
INTERVIEW from Blogger News Network, Feb. 13, 2019:
1) Why don’t you begin by telling us a little about your writing background?
I am a very late bloomer for a writer, having spent nearly the first half of my life in medical training and practice. I began jotting down nonmedical thoughts when I was working as a critical care physician, ruminations that I scratched out on the back of my “to-do” list. Typically, these sketched out musings only appeared when I was fixed in an in-between time—such as awaiting completion of a patient’s CT or MRI scan, moments when I couldn’t actually attend the bedside. Odd, but I guess the musings were some form of attending myself. After a while, I thought these musings looked a little like poems, so I started sending them off to literary magazines. Some were published; a great many rejected and ultimately a collection won the 2005 Tupelo Press Prize for Poetry. In those days, I found that poetry was beginning to lose some of its challenge writing-wise—the process just seemed to flow too easily for some quirky reason.
I then put aside the poetry to develop Shirtless Men Drink Free, a novel that I labored over as if it were a poem, albeit one that took about twelve years to write. Indeed, here was the challenge! During this painful growth process, I trashed three fully fleshed-out novels because they simply didn’t work—my characters were not satisfied. Sometimes I think my characters matured over the many years of writing and re-writing, such that they eventually lowered their expectations—the result being a finished novel that left my crew of characters very satisfied.
2) When did you decide you wanted to become an author?
Writing for me is a somewhat odd variation on medical practice; that is, I perform a history and physical on my subject matter (sometimes myself!) during the writing process. My writing is an exploration, an attempt at discovering what’s wrong and what I can or cannot do about it, what’s right but vulnerable to calamity, what is changing despite me. In other words, my writing is about people and the world they’re trying to understand—in short, a record of what within my mind I find.
3) Tell us a bit about your latest book, and what inspired you to write it.
The novel began as an exercise in writing a long narrative that had, as its backbone, poetry. And, like most of my poetry, the impetus for the story came from images. Two images, one of a steam room where a man provocatively lifts a towel and the other a star-speckled Alabama night when I’m driving home to help care for my dying mother. In the first image, the man is (was) a prominent Southern politician; in the second image the sound is Talk Radio, irate callers from across the South attributing all the nation’s woes to the homosexual agenda. The images demanded a voice, and that voice speaks in Shirtless Men Drink Free. The title is, of course, a gay bar slogan. But its metaphor runs far deeper than the sensationalistic tone in the words.
4) How would you describe your creative process while writing this book? Was it stream-of-consciousness writing, or did you first write an outline?…..
The Local Voice, Jan. 2, 2019: North Mississippi Native, Doctor and Award-Winning Writer Pens Unforgettable Debut Novel
Shirtless Men Drink Free by Mississippi native and Ole Miss Alum Dwaine Rieves Slated for January 2019 Release
Published by Leapfolio, a division of Tupelo Press, Shirtless Men Drink Free will be available on January 8, 2019.
Award-winning writer, Ole Miss Alum and Mississippi native Dwaine Rieves will celebrate the release of his debut novel, Shirtless Men Drink Free, on January 8, 2019. Published by Tupelo Press joint venture partner Leapfolio, Shirtless Men Drink Free will be available where fine books are sold.
Rieves, a physician and winner of the River Styx International Poetry Prize and the Tupelo Press Prize for Poetry, delivers a captivating, confident, and assured debut novel in Shirtless Men Drink Free. Set against the backdrop of a wildly polarizing election, Shirtless Men Drink Free is the story of souls—and the bodies that won’t let them go.
About Shirtless Men Drink Free: Doctor Jane Beekman has seen her dying mother’s soul, a vision above the bed—a soul struggling with a decision, some undone task, something in this world too noble to leave. The sight, however brief, was surely a lesson. The question that lingers—why?—prompts a shift in the doctor’s priorities. In this election year, Jane must do what her mother, an aspiring social activist, would have done. Soon, Jane is embroiled in the world of Georgia politics, working to make sure her dynamic younger brother-in-law Jackson Beekman is selected as the next governor, regardless of what the soul of the candidate’s dead father or that of his living brother—Jane’s husband—might want done. Indeed, it is a mother’s persistence and a father’s legacy that will ultimately turn one Beekman brother against the other, launching a struggle with moral consequences that may extend far beyond Georgia. Set amidst 2004’s polarizing election fears—immigrants and job take-overs, terrorists in waiting, homosexuals, and outsider agendas—Shirtless Men Drink Free makes vivid the human soul’s struggle in a world bedeviled by desire and the fears that leave us all asking—Why?
Engaging, beautifully written and resplendent with realism, Shirtless Men Drink Free is a standout debut destined to stay with readers long after the final page is turned. Thoughtful and thought-provoking, poignant, poetic, and populated with unforgettable characters, Shirtless Men Drink Free explores the impact of a parent’s death and legacy on the lives of surviving sons and daughters. A meticulously crafted tale that showcases an outstanding new voice in Southern fiction, Shirtless Men Drink Free has garnered high advance praise…
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Council: No cannabis around Turlock
Kristina Hacker
Updated: Jan. 23, 2018, 8:15 p.m.
All cannabis operations in — and around — Turlock are now prohibited following City Council action on Tuesday.
The Turlock City Council voted to deny approval to three cannabis operations hoping to open near Turlock on county land. The Council also adopted a policy to deny approval to any future cannabis-related enterprise within Turlock’s sphere of influence.
Stanislaus County adopted a commercial cannabis ordinance in December 2017 within county-governed areas, but the ordinance also requires city approval for any application for commercial cannabis activities located either within a city’s adopted sphere of influence (the area directly outside of a city’s limits) or within a ½-mile radius outside of the sphere when that city has an ordinance banning such activities. The Turlock City Council voted to ban all commercial cannabis activities in the City limits in January 2017, and has not changed the ordinance since.
On Tuesday, the Council considered three permit requests within Turlock’s sphere of influence. Nate Tremble and Byron Bogard applied to operate a small-scale cannabis cultivation in the 1200 block of East Greenway Avenue through their company, Bynate Inc. Genobeva Maciel also applied for a permit to cultivate cannabis on two adjacent properties on East Linwood Avenue.
“I would hope that you guys would take this issue and put a hold on it and really understand the issue and talk with some of the people involved, including some of the members of the community,” said Bogard, who went on to appeal to the Council to come up with some kind of development agreement with cannabis cultivation operations.
Turlock resident Darren Silva addressed the Council on Tuesday and asked the City to reconsider allowing cannabis grows and dispensaries. Silva, who owns a dispensary in Modesto and a cannabis grow operation in Patterson, invited the Council members to visit his operations and see how the tax income will benefit those communities.
“You can maybe structure development agreements with these individuals who are here today … and put in a benefit for the police services,” said Silva.
Despite Bogard and Silva’s comments, the Council voted 4-0, with Councilman Gil Esquer abstaining, to adopt the policy denying cannabis operations.
Before the vote, Councilman Bill DeHart stated that he is categorically against any cannabis activities in Turlock or its sphere of influence and related a personal story about his brother.
“I got all the education I needed about marijuana about 1981 when I dropped my brother off at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. I don’t need any further education about marijuana,” said DeHart.
Other requests that are nearby but will not be considered by the City Council since they are not within Turlock’s sphere of influence include applications for locations on East Hatch Road in Hughson, North Mitchell Road in Turlock, Geer Road near Sante Fe Avenue, Swanson Road in Denair, Lyon Road in Hughson, South Faith Home Road in Turlock and Verduga Road in Hughson.
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The Republican Establishment's Major Divide
The Republican establishment always rallies behind one candidate. But not this time. Results from an exclusive survey of RNC leaders.
Scott BlandTim AlbertaNational Journal
Republicans for a generation have followed a reliable blueprint in choosing their White House nominees. In a crowded primary, as conservative candidates split votes, a single right-of-center contender—deemed "most electable" by the GOP elite—consolidates the support of moderates and, with the establishment's blessing and tactical aid, tallies enough delegates to secure the nomination.
Crumple up that blueprint and throw it away. Ahead of the 2016 election, according to a National Journal survey, the Republican establishment is divided every which way.
We put three questions to the Republican National Committee's 100 committeemen and women representing the 50 states: Whom would you vote for today? Who do you think is most likely to win the nomination? And who would be the best candidate to take on Hillary Clinton? In interviews with more than 50 of them, opinions on the 2016 field revealed a jarring lack of consensus among the party's ruling class.
Their answers show that no one candidate is poised to monopolize the structural and institutional support that has sustained every recent Republican nominee. This dynamic, enhanced by the historic size of the GOP field, threatens to produce precisely the scenario that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and his colleagues have plotted to avoid: a prolonged primary season in which candidates trade ugly, reputation-crushing attacks, resulting in a months-long slog to the nomination.
A plurality of the RNC members surveyed said Jeb Bush, once believed to be the party favorite, is their most likely nominee—but only a fraction say they would vote for him today. Scott Walker would take the largest number of primary votes today, yet startlingly few say he'd make a strong general-election candidate. And while Marco Rubio is seen as an unlikely nominee, he's also regarded as the strongest opponent Republicans could nominate to face Hillary Clinton.
These findings, and dozens of conversations with senior party officials, demonstrate a deep-rooted disagreement within the GOP's governing body that hasn't been visible in decades. A few outliers aside, RNC members overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 primary. Several even formally advised his White House campaigns. The opinions of RNC members, which were collected anonymously to allow for candor, are instructive because they come from those individuals who literally write the GOP's rules and collectively embody a party establishment that prioritizes order and electability.
"I have at least three favorites," said one RNC committeeman, naming Rubio, Walker, and Paul.
They are part of Republican tradition that has since 1980 promoted a "next-in-line" approach. From Ronald Reagan (lost the previous primary to Gerald Ford) to George H.W. Bush (Reagan's VP after losing the 1980 primary) to Bob Dole (lost to Bush) to George W. Bush (the former president's son) to John McCain (lost to Bush) to Romney (lost to McCain), the GOP has a definitive recent history of elevating those who have paid dues or are products of the D.C. Republican machine—or both.
That candidate was supposed to be Jeb Bush in 2016. A son and brother of the two most recent Republican presidents, Bush is armed with a dynasty-driven political network, an attendant behemoth fundraising operation, and restrained rhetoric aimed at appealing to the broadest possible cross-section of voters. Yet Bush clearly has not distinguished himself amid a talented field of Republicans, several of whom, including Walker and Rubio, are competing for those right-of-center supporters while simultaneously courting conservatives.
"I have at least three favorites," said one RNC committeeman, naming Rubio, Walker, and Sen. Rand Paul. Asked who he expects to become his party's nominee, the member replied: "I have zero idea, nor does anyone. Jeb certainly lost his front-runner status."
Indeed, while national conservative leaders have held discussions for months aimed at marshaling their resources and uniting behind a single candidate in order to finally buck tradition, it's suddenly the establishment wing of the GOP that finds itself divided. And it's Bush whose candidacy stands to suffer the most.
The survey was conducted over three weeks starting June 4, a bustling stretch that included Bush formally announcing his candidacy, South Carolina Republicans pledging to remove the Confederate flag from their statehouse grounds, and several other candidates (including Walker and John Kasich) firming up plans to launch campaigns in July.
In emails and follow-up phone calls, we asked 100 RNC committeemen and women—two from each state—to answer our survey. Responses from 51 of them demonstrate how fragmented opinions on the presidential field have already become.
Jeb Bush (Getty Images)Nearly a third of all RNC members who responded said they expect Bush to become the nominee, the most of any candidate, reflecting some lingering perception of inevitability. "People are desperate for leadership," one Bush supporter said. "They'd vote for Attila the Hun looking for a competent manager of Washington, D.C."
But the enthusiasm gap is telling: That figure includes a number of committee members who seem resigned to, not excited by, the possibility of Bush. The vast majority of those who said they expect Bush to win the nomination also said they wouldn't vote for him as of today. Nearly as many respondents said they were considering voting for Kasich as for Bush.
Bush's fundraising, though, has been a powerful signal to those RNC members about the direction of the 2016 campaign. "I hate to say it'll be Jeb, but the money will be a gigantic factor. And I know they're just putting up wood like crazy right now," said one respondent, echoing comments by several others.
Bush also has the advantage of stepping onto a political foundation that extends beyond finances and has been building for decades. "He's the best organized, he'll be the best funded, he has the best Rolodex, and for a lot of reasons, including the family experience, he will be less likely to put a foot wrong," said another RNC member.
Still, Bush isn't seen as a sure thing, even within the Republican establishment's inner sanctum. Walker is close behind, with one-fifth of the survey respondents saying they think the Wisconsin governor is the most likely nominee. While some of Walker's policy positions, such as his views on immigration or his push for a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage, have ruffled Republican moderates, the governor is perceived as the candidate most able to rally both wings of the GOP behind him.
"I think Scott Walker will appeal to the broadest spectrum of Republicans voting in our primary," one RNC member emailed. "He doesn't carry the Bush 'baggage,' and I think he is perceived as being more conservative than Jeb Bush." Another member, one who does not plan to vote for Walker, agreed: "Every faction wants a certain type of person, and I think he has a lot of those different characteristics."
Walker simply comes from a different place than Bush, too. While some see Walker's lack of a college degree as a liability—he left Marquette University to start a career before he graduated—about half of Republican primary voters similarly lack a degree, according to exit polls from 2012. "He is an average American in so many ways," one RNC member responded. "This gives hope to the middle class and to the downtrodden. "... People can relate to this man."
After Bush and Walker, the support of RNC members is scattered among a handful of other potential nominees.
But the responses on another survey question foreshadow an issue that might grow in importance to Republican voters and power brokers in the coming months: Which of these candidates can best take on Hillary Clinton?
While Rubio was basically an asterisk in the responses to the first two questions of our survey—almost no one sees him as the single-most-likely candidate to win the nomination—the senator from Florida was most likely to be named the GOP's best option against Clinton, just ahead of Bush.
"He's inclusive and can reach millions of voters Romney could not," said one committee member who nevertheless voiced support for a different candidate.
Certainly, Clinton looms over the Republican nominating contest, not least because of her fundraising potential and built-in tactical advantages. A surprising number of respondents predicted that any of the Republican candidates running could defeat Clinton, who has been dogged by controversies surrounding her email, Benghazi, the Clinton Foundation, and other issues so far in 2015.
"Any of our candidates will look new and fresh and can present a forward-looking, future-focused narrative against Hillary Clinton, with the exception of Jeb Bush," one RNC member said. "Hillary is loaded up with scandal and baggage," said another. "I think that any Republican candidate should stand a good chance of defeating her, if she turns out to be the Democratic nominee, which is not assured."
One RNC committee member who plans to vote for Fiorina, calling her "the complete package," suggested the field isn't as strong as advertised.
But as 2016 draws closer, the reality of Clinton's strengths could make Rubio's electability a bigger selling point for the elites who recognize it now but are still considering other candidates. "Side by side, everything from visual optics to messaging, he is the best contrast to Hillary," one respondent said of Rubio.
Bush, Walker, and Rubio garner the most support among establishment leaders, but they aren't close to locking down support or clearing the field. When RNC committee members were asked whom they support today, three-quarters of respondents named a candidate outside of that trio, or said they were undecided. In fact, respondents identified 11 different candidates as their first choice, and eight of those 11 received multiple mentions of support, including Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Rick Perry and Rand Paul.
One official named George Pataki, the former New York governor who barely registers in polls. An undecided committee member likes both Walker and Rubio, but named Ben Carson as first choice. A handful of respondents mentioned Carly Fiorina when asked who would be strongest against Clinton. And one committee member, asked which candidate would run best in the general election, was intrigued by Donald Trump. (This came, though, before Trump's campaign launch featured inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants.)
Such tremendous splintering of support, while testifying to the depth of the bench, also speaks to a reality less pleasant for the party: To some Republicans, there is no ideal—or "most electable"—candidate to support.
One RNC committee member who plans to vote for Fiorina, calling her "the complete package," suggested the field isn't as strong as advertised. "Whether it's Scott Walker and a college degree, or Jeb Bush and the Bush name, or Christie and Bridgegate, or Rubio and the immigration plan—everybody has something."
If these patterns hold, 2016 could look unlike any election in recent history. A party whose establishment wing has dominated primaries by identifying and rallying behind a single favorite may struggle in light of the reality that there is no "next in line" —and that their once-anointed favorite, Bush, is anything but.
To be fair, Rick Santorum, the 2012 runner-up who won 11 states in his battle against Romney, argues that he's the rightful heir apparent in 2016. He ends a typical stump speech by noting that, in the modern era, Republicans nominate someone "who checks one of three boxes," either as vice president, the son of a former president, or a candidate who "came in second last time and ran again." To predictable laughter, Santorum urges audiences to "keep that tradition rolling."
But it doesn't seem to be working. In our interviews, 15 of the 16 Republican candidates merited a mention from an RNC member. Santorum's name never came up once.
Scott Bland is the editor of National Journal's House Race Hotline.
Tim Alberta is editor of Hotline Last Call!, the afternoon newsletter of National Journal Hotline.
News and updates from the editors of National Journal magazine.
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“The Summer Wives is a sweeping story that spans several decades and details the lives of members of an island community where old money rules and the locals and summer families are not supposed to mix—but they do anyway. This is a story of secrets, power, loss, and love, with a bit of Shakespeare to round things out. I was engaged from page one and found myself reading both the print edition and listening to an audio edition in my car so I could spend every possible moment with the characters and their stories. Even the minor characters had depth beyond what I expected.”
— Myrna Mibus, Content Bookstore, Northfield, MN
“The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams’s signature vintage touch. It’s at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.”
—Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . .
In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.
But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.
Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.
Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Golden Hour, The Summer Wives, A Hundred Summers, and The Wicked Redhead. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.
— Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
“Longtime Williams fans, readers of historical fiction and mysteries, and anyone seeking engaging plot twists will find satisfaction in these pages.”
“With just the right touch of bitters, Williams mixes a satisfyingly tempestuous—and eminently beachworthy—[follow-up] to her beloved Schuyler Sisters series.”
— Kirkus (starred review)
“[A] satisfying simmer of a read.”
— USA Today
”Another hot book for summer from the prolific Williams... A romantic, multilayered tale.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“Engrossing and gripping, you will finish this book in one sitting.”
— St. Louis Post Dispatch
“The Summer Wives is a compulsively readable story that will make you swear you can smell the salt air.”
“This book is what the term “beach read” was made for.”
“Romance, class issues, dark secrets, and murder—it’s all here in this deliciously rich novel.”
“Williams has crafted a kaleidoscope of a novel – a mystery, a romance, and an utterly beguiling examination of the cost of secrets . . . The Summer Wives is a startling portrait of the courage it requires to make your own second chances.”
“The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams will give you the full order. It takes place on an exclusive island off Long Island Sound. Think: cocktails, sailing, croquet. A woman who visits as a teen falls in love with a local...who is later accused of murdering her stepfather. Intrigue, served.”
— SKIMM Reads
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Publication Date: July 10th, 2018
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Ficus trees line Second Street in Encinitas. Photo by Shana Thompson
Fate of downtown ficus trees up for debate — again
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by Aaron Burgin April 5, 2018 April 5, 2018 0386
ENCINITAS — The fate of downtown Encinitas’ canopy of ficus trees is once again up for discussion, as city officials question whether they should pay potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to maintain them or replace them with different trees.
The City Council recently voted to form a subcommittee to develop a plan for the city’s downtown tree canopy, which is currently dominated in areas by ficus trees. Downtown is home to 55 ficus, which were planted in the 1960s.
The plan could include eventual replacement of some of the ficus to make way for a more diverse tree canopy.
Ficus trees line Second Street in Encinitas on Wednesday morning. Photo by Shana Thompson
Encinitas 101 Main Street Association, which represents business owners in downtown, would be involved in the committee discussions.
Supporters love the ficus’ winding branches and broad canopies, which provide shade and a unique look to downtown, especially along 2nd Street. But some business owners have complained that the trees are a nuisance, the roots damage sidewalks and snarl sewer lines and litter the city with fruit and foliage droppings at least once a year.
The City Council made its decision after hearing a report from city arborist Chris Kallstrand about the cost of its current ficus-pruning efforts and the cost to expand it to the other 51 trees.
The city has spent upwards of $89,000 since 2016 on a pilot project to save four ficus in downtown — two on Third Street near E Street, and two along Second Street between I and J streets. This included special pruning, crown maintenance and root maintenance, in an effort to slow or reverse some of the damage and repairing the concrete and other damage the trees caused to city infrastructure.
Kallstrand said expanding that program to the other trees would in the worst case scenario cost the city $1.26 million over five years, a figure that several council members were not comfortable with.
“I’m not anxious to get out the chainsaw, but the reality is we’ve got a fiscal challenge here when we make these decisions and (with) the numbers I’m seeing, I think we might spend our money a little more wisely,” Councilman Tony Kranz said at last week’s meeting.
“What we desperately need is a comprehensive plan of how to deal with the aging ficus trees,” Kranz added.
The committee would also be charged to look at how to fill the 77 planting spots in downtown that currently don’t have any trees.
Several residents spoke at the March 21 council meeting — which stretched past midnight. Business owners urged the city to move away from the ficus trees, while members of the group Encinitas Save the Trees, which lobbied the city two years ago to preserve the four failing ficus, said the trees did not have to come down.
“If you cut down our beautiful ficus trees … you would prove to future generations that you would be, well, hypocritical, giving lip service to environmental causes but then acting in ways that directly damage the environment, bowing to shortsighted and selfish agendas of a few vocal opponents,” resident Bruce Ritchings said.
Tom Cozens, a local real estate agent, said the city needed to be more diverse with its tree selection.
“The worst thing you can do is have monoculture,” Cozens said. “It fails.”
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Pop Goes The Poetry - interview with Ralph Watley
Arkansas, author, podcaster, poet, songwriter
Ralph Watley is a 61 year-old poet, songwriter, and podcaster. He also is the author of Pop Goes The Poetry available at Amazon.com. We have conducted an interview with him.
What kind of music do you play on your show? Why did you choose this music?
I play most genres of music with the exception being the use of foul or abusive lyrics. I get most of my music from Airplay Direct a service used by stations to get new music.
What inspires you the most in songwriting?
My biggest inspiration in songwriting is failure. Because failure makes the world so real and to escape that reality I will write more songs.
How long have you been making the podcast?
I have been playing new Independent music for 7 years at www.blogtalkradio.com/xtrasound
Why did you want to write about emotions we go through in "Pop Goes The Poetry"?
Pop Goes The Poetry is revealing look at my life and thought. It's available at Amazon.com
Which do you prefer the most: writing songs, poetry or podcasting?
I like writing songs and poetry but there is nothing like the feeling of playing new music and being heard around the world. I greatly enjoy helping those that put so much talent into their music. I have over 930 shows all free to listen to anytime.
Podcast: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/xtrasound
Twitter: https://twitter.com/radiowatley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010407275152
Pop Goes The Poetry - interview with Ralph Watley Reviewed by JaamZIN on 11:49:00 AM Rating: 5
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NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED May 8, 1989
Three days ago, the Harvard baseball team was living in the EIBL basement. But over the weekend the Crimson had a change of address.
Harvard went on a road rampage, blasting Cornell, 4-1, 8-5, Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y., and then shocking second-place Princeton, 6-2, 8-5, yesterday in Princeton, N.J.
The weekend odyssey pulled the Crimson (14-17 overall, 7-9 EIBL) out of last place in the league, and knocked both the Big Red (15-18, 6-10) and the Tigers (25-14-1, 10-8) down in the standings.
Three days ago, the struggling Crimson had been hoping for consistent pitching. Hoping for comebacks. Hoping for big hits. Hoping for big innings. Hoping for wins.
Simply put, the Crimson had been hoping just to get out of the first inning without getting behind like it has in its last 10 games.
Harvard got everything it had been hoping for--and more.
Yesterday, the elusive comeback became reality, as the Crimson rallied from a 2-1 deficit with two outs in the top of the seventh for five runs.
With the bases loaded, freshman Nick Del Vecchio doubled to leftcenter off Princeton hurler Gary Waslewski for three RBI. The Tigers brought in Dan McPhee, but he didn't bring them any relief. After walking his first batter, McPhee met Crimson shortstop Dave O'Connell, who greeted him with a two-run single. McPhee dug himself out of the inning, but the Tigers couldn't dig themselves out of their hole.
Del Vecchio and O'Connell didn't save their stuff for just the big hits in the big innings. Del Vecchio went 4-for-6 in the two-game series at Princeton, while O'Connell had a six-hit weekend.
Harvard took a two-run lead in the first inning of the second game, but the Crimson gave up four runs during the next three innings to trail, 4-2, heading into the fifth.
Could the Crimson come through with another big inning?
Junior Tom Konjoyan doubled in two runs, senior Rich Renninger walked with bases loaded, and sophomore Ted Decareau sacrificed to left field, as Harvard turned two hits and four walks into four runs and a 6-4 lead.
Harvard practiced up on first-inning leads, big hits and big innings Saturday, taking a 1-0 advantage after the first inning of the first game. In the sixth inning, Harvard racked up three runs on three hits, including a Decareau homer.
But the real story of the day was righthander Mike Dorrington.
Dorrington went the distance--and then some. The junior pitched three-hit ball in the first game, as the Red scored its lone run on a fielding error. Dorrington came back to start the second game as well, but was relieved by Pete Rau after allowing four Cornell hits in the bottom of the first inning.
Rau didn't have better luck. The Red erased Harvard's 1-0 lead with four more hits that inning, eventually posting a 4-1 advantage.
After the Crimson chipped away at the deficit, John Boyer led off the fourth with a homer to knot the score, and then Jim Mrowka blasted a three-run homer as Harvard scored four runs on two hits in the top of the sixth.
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Lowe's taps ex-Taco Bell brand chief to lead 'exciting new chapter'
By Rebecca Stewart-08 January 2020 15:33pm
Thalberg arrives at North American retail business Lowe's as it continues a turnaround plan
Former Taco Bell global chief brand officer Marisa Thalberg is to take on the role of executive vice-president and chief brand and marketing officer at DIY chain Lowe's.
The marketer left Taco Bell in August 2018 but remained a strategic advisor to parent company Yum. She brings with her more than 25 years' industry experience, including various senior roles at Unilever, Revlon and The Estée Lauder Companies. The exec joined Taco Bell in 2015 as chief brand engagement officer.
She arrives at North American retail business Lowe's as it continues a turnaround plan which has seen it restructure operations in Canada (including shuttering stores); revamp its e-commerce offering; and focusing on the 'professional contactor' market.
In November, the DIY specialist beat analysts’ expectations and raised its forecast for the year, even as revenue fell short of projections.
In the Q3 the brand's net income rose to $1.05bn versus $629m the previous year.
Marvin R Ellison, Lowe’s president and chief executive (who Thalberg now reports to) said: “Marisa brings extensive experience in building culturally resonant brands and delivering business value through marketing innovation and fresh thinking to inspire and engage customers.
"We are confident Marisa will lead our brand into an exciting new chapter for our customers and associates.”
While at Taco Bell, Thalberg rose up the ranks and steered the business to success by pitching it to customers as a culture-centric lifestyle brand. In the final quarter before she left, sales were up 7%, continuing a steady 17-quarter-long incline of in-store sales for the firm.
Last year, the business said it would not seek a chief marketing officer to replace Thalberg, instead choosing to split her former remit between its two senior vice-presidents: Melissa Friebe and Tracee Larocca.
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Why the cannabis industry must address the plastics problem
MARK JUHASZ
As the Canadian cannabis industry prepares to roll-out its 2.0 offering of edibles, topicals, beverages, concentrates and vapes, it will also be rolling out thousands of kilograms of new plastic waste in the form of individual packaging.
Almost immediately after the legalization of recreational cannabis in October, 2018, the amount of non-recycled plastic waste became an issue for the young industry. Health Canada’s regulations were stringent when it came to safety, and include tamper-resistant packaging. While the use of plastic is not compulsory under the Cannabis Act for packaging, plastic became the cost-competitive material of choice for LPs. Health Canada does in fact encourage “the use of innovative and environmentally sound packaging approaches, provided the requirements in the Regulations are satisfied.”
But, it has been estimated that a 3.5-gram package of dried flower (the default size of most transactions), comes with more than 70 grams of plastic packaging.
However, like most problems, solutions to the abundance of plastic present a golden marketing opportunity for Canada’s cannabis companies. Conversely, the failure to offer greener packaging will almost certainly impact future bottom lines.
Some companies responded quickly after Oct. 17, 2018: TerraCycle partnered with several Canadian LPs and retailers to initiate recycle collection programs; Seattle-based retailer CannaWest incentivized customers to recycle by launching a loyalty program; and B.C.-based Tantalus Labs has been identified as a Canadian LP with focused reduction in its packaging sizes.
However, based on the estimated 95,850 kilograms of dried cannabis flower sales alone in Canada between October, 2018 and August, 2019, and assuming between 70-78 grams of plastic packaging are generated for every one gram of flower, an estimated 5.8 to 6.4 million kilograms of plastic cannabis packaging still ended up in Canadian landfills during this 11-month time period (from dried cannabis flower containers alone).
So, while the Canadian cannabis industry ramps-up its new product offerings using mostly plastic packaging, there is growing consumer demand for brands committing to greater sustainability. A 2018 New York University-Stern School of Business study found that sustainability-marketed products experienced a 29-per-cent growth rate between 2013 and 2018, growing more than five times faster than conventional products, and more than three times faster than general CPG products. In more than 90 per cent of CPG individual product categories, sustainably marketed products outpaced the growth of their respective categories.
Inspired packaging innovations are well underway with leading brands and partnerships in the CPG space. In September, Coca-Cola and its strategic bottling partners Coca-Cola HBC and Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) announced it will end the use of shrink-wrapped plastics on its beverage multipacks across Great Britain by the end of 2021, saving 2,000 tonnes of plastic and 3,000 tonnes of CO2 annually. In October, Danish brewer Carlsberg presented their Towards Zero Initiative designs for the world’s first paper beer bottle, created by Denmark-based Paboco, made with sustainable and recyclable wood fibres. The new bottles will provide a 30-per-cent reduction in their full value-chain carbon footprint. Both of these are options that Canadian cannabis beverage companies can take direction from. Furthermore, new packaging standards, such as the Cradle-to-Cradle Certification, is a globally recognized measure towards safer, more sustainable product packaging made for a circular economy, taking account of material health, material reutilization, renewable energy, water stewardship and social fairness.
In Canada, the failure to adopt more sustainable packaging practices could soon come with hefty costs. In Ontario, for example, the provincial government is exploring the options of further transferring recycling costs from municipal taxes, to producer companies. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) places the costs (and potential benefits) of recycling with brands, and brand coalitions. A 2019 ECCC (Environment and Climate Change Canada) study by Deloitte emphasized that to turn around the plastic industry in Canada and eliminate waste, the country needs actionable movement toward viable-end markets for recycled plastics, on-boarding of collection systems, and the extension of plastic life durability to incentivize greater reuse.
The federal government, meanwhile, has indicated potentially banning several single-use plastics, as soon as 2021, in line with EU regulations. According to the ECCC study, only 9 per cent of the 3.2 million tonnes of plastic waste produced in Canada annually is actually recycled.
Cannabis brands clearly have an opportunity to distinguish themselves on the material impact of their packaging. Those that do will build greater loyalty with consumers and investors – a worthwhile goal at a time when access to new capital has become significantly more challenging.
Mark Juhasz is a Toronto-based market and consumer insights expert, with direct experience in the cannabis industry.
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Ubuntu Forums Hack Exposed 2M Users’ Information
David Bisson
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A security breach at Ubuntu Forums exposed the information of as many as two million users.
Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical, which is the company that produces the Debian-based Linux operating system Ubuntu, published a statement about the hack on Friday:
“At 20:33 UTC on 14th July 2016, Canonical’s IS team were notified by a member of the Ubuntu Forums Council that someone was claiming to have a copy of the Forums database. After some initial investigation, we were able to confirm there had been an exposure of data and shut down the Forums as a precautionary measure. Deeper investigation revealed that there was a known SQL injection vulnerability in the Forumrunner add-on in the Forums which had not yet been patched.”
The attacker then went on to download portions of the Forums database “user” table, which included the email addresses, usernames, and IP addresses for two million users.
The table also stored users’ salted and hashed passwords. As of this writing, it is unclear what hashing algorithm Canonical used for members’ passwords.
Canonical’s information security term has determined the attacker was unable to gain access to any Ubuntu code repository, update mechanism, or valid user passwords. Silber also believes the attacker did not access any additional services or servers.
This is not the first time someone compromised Ubuntu Forum users’ information. Back in 2013, an attacker leveraged a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability to download 1.82 million usernames, email addresses, and salted and hashed passwords. The attacker also defaced the Forums.
In response to this latest breach, Canonical has wiped and restored the servers running vBulletin, brought vBulletin up to the latest patch level, and reset all system and database passwords.
Users don’t have to do anything at this time, but it wouldn’t hurt for them to change their passwords and to enable two-step verification (2SV) on their accounts.
News of this hack follows approximately two months after hackers breached a popular underground forum used by cybercriminals to trade and purchase leaked data, stolen credentials, and software vulnerabilities.
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V.C. Shapira
The well-heeled couple strolling arm and arm discussing the upcoming presidential race had already agreed that General Zachary Taylor would be elected the new president. All the newspapers were extolling the general’s triumphant exploits during the Mexican War, resulting in the annexation of a great swath of land connecting the territory of Texas with distant California. They agreed it was god’s will.
On one of those humid afternoons familiar to those who live in the South, the gracious lady was cooling herself with a silk fan when she stopped abruptly. In the most prosperous neighborhood in all of Richmond City, Virginia, a derelict was blatantly occupying a park bench reserved for her kind alone.
“Dear,” the gentlewoman whispered, elbowing her husband. “It’s preposterous what license these people take. We cannot allow these laggards to invade our community. Already they roam the city at will. Wave him away, will you dear?”
The wastrel, clad in a dusty wool overcoat, sat cupping his rather large head. “Let us leave it to the police, shall we, dear?” the elderly gentleman answered.
“I’d rather not have to walk past him on our return. It’s such a glorious afternoon, after all. Now please get rid of him.”
Patting her arm, adjusting his broad-brimmed hat, he reluctantly started toward the sluggard. Hearing approaching footsteps, Edgar Poe slowly raised his head. Nonplussed, the gentleman stopped short. He recognized the poet. Anyone who was someone would have. Although Poe had many failings, he was a famous son of Richmond. Street etiquette dictated that the gentleman should find at least a few courteous words to speak to the poet. Fingering the brim of his hat, he retreated to his wife for advice.
When Edgar looked up, he recognized the gentleman as well. Or rather, he saw right through the gentleman’s disguise. He had half-expected him. Earlier that day he had stumbled upon a shoeblack who as a slave boy had tended the garden at the house of Edgar’s stepfather, John Allan, when Edgar himself was a boy.
The shoeblack’s name was Ethan, and although Edgar was near forty, Ethan had not aged a day. The two had become compatriots of sorts back then—Ethan as well as his sister Rebecca, who helped with the daily housekeeping.
Edgar’s stepfather, a wealthy merchant, owned a number of plantations. During his youth Edgar had overheard stories from slaves working around his house about spirits and legends of the afterlife. After much prodding, Ethan had agreed to take Edgar to a slave cemetery in a plantation located in a marshy area unsuitable for plowing. Having heard the folktales about the undead who haunted the cemetery, the two boys wandered the field scattered with stones painted with curious markings. Asked about the images. Ethan explained they were emblematic of the persons who lay buried below. He said he was raised to believe the dead never died. They lived on as spirits, both good and bad. Above them stood a live oak many centuries old. Tremendously thick, it had a severed limb just far enough off the ground to serve as a natural sling for a rope when the need arose. One day they sneaked to the field and witnessed a hanging there. As he choked, a slim man, with canvas pants barely covering his knees, raised his feet as though climbing a ladder. Later Ethan showed Edgar his headstone: a perfectly round river rock with two feet climbing an invisible stairway.
As the fine gentleman retreated toward his companion, Edgar laughed. The man’s wide-brimmed hat was a clever attempt to conceal himself, but Edgar instantly recognized the crescent-shaped scar on his jaw that marked him as the overseer who decades earlier had directed his stepfather’s huge plantations. Here he was, smiling at Edgar. A man who had always greeted Edgar only perfunctorily was now pretending welcome—a collision of improbability, first Ethan and now the overseer, Edgar thought with amusement.
He was relieved when the overseer’s companion took his elbow and steered him off the way they had come. Edgar had much to do. He was scheduled to depart early the following morning on a ferry bound for Baltimore City to meet with his publisher. He had finished a novel that would finally make him wealthy. But first he had to secure passage and had only five dollars in his billfold. All the money to his name.
But he knew where to get some more money. He’d recently become engaged to a childhood sweetheart who happened to be one of the wealthiest widows in Richmond. His troth was more a hedge than anything. A pity she had become such a homely creature. How had Byron put it? Beauty, the fatal gift.
At least he thought they would marry. There was a slight problem. Following a well-attended reading of his famous essay “L’art pour l’art” a week before, he’d been seen walking away in the company of a lovely young girl. The widow had gotten word of it and had scheduled a dinner that very evening, intent on hearing his explanation. Edgar knew he would have to be persuasive.
It was not the first time. He had been in such straits before. A year earlier it was a rich socialite from New England, who, like many of his female admirers, had been taken in during a recitation of his famous poem “The Raven.” There were always a few who afterward asked to speak privately with him. She invited him to a grand mansion, where that night he conducted a thunderous séance—then a daily preoccupation of the coterie of the wealthy class—where hands were held and knees touched. By late summer there was talk of an engagement, but unfortunately Edgar had begun drinking again, and after his antics, her wealthy father had done some minor probing and spirited his young daughter off to the Continent.
Left penniless, Edgar had come home to Richmond and, reacquainting himself with his childhood sweetheart, had at her urging joined the Temperance Movement. It was the least he could do: a pledge of sobriety in return for affluence.
On top of it all, he was being followed. The publishing world had always been envious of his intellect. Word had gotten out that he had completed a novel written in the Dickensian style—a disgusting enterprise he had suffered through, but one he was sure the public would hail, one that would bring him fortune. There were those who wished to prevent this, those who would do what needed doing to see that his story was never published—the very reason he kept his story in a leather satchel he carried with him at all times.
After the handsome couple was out of sight, Edgar left the park bench and walked back to his room in a cheap boarding house. Certain that miscreants were eyeing the entrance, he slipped in through the back door. The dimly lit corridor stank of mildew. His room on the top floor cost half as much as a room at ground level but proved a grueling climb. With the rickety stairway loudly announcing his timid progress, he had nearly reached the top landing when he heard a latch drop, followed by the sound of muffled feet. His pursuers knew nothing of his prehensile intellect. Instantly he knew they had clad their feet in rags. Hired by jealous editors, the pariah Emerson or the fool Coleridge sometimes openly walked into taverns and, feigning companionship, plied him with rounds of drink while querying him about his latest work. Gripping the thin handrail, he leaned over. “Begone serpents!” Edgar cried. “If only I held in my hand Jeremiah’s almond branch I’d slay you all!”
The ruddy-faced hotel clerk had heard Edgar walk in the back door and now stood at the bottom of the stairs. “It’s only me, Mr. Poe,” he shouted up the stairs while touching the bowler hat perched tightly on his round head. “I’m here to report that I’ve done as you asked. No strangers entered our door today.”
Edgar knew better. He completed his climb and pushed inside the room sparsely decorated with a mule-hair mattress, washstand, and single olivewood chair. It was hot, and he quickly shed his old wool coat. Much too thick to be worn on such a warm day, but he had had no choice. No gentleman of his stature could be seen in public without a walking coat, and it was the only one he had.
He stood at the washstand, where water stains had marred the cross-sawed oak. The circles looked like tiny satellite circles fixed in position relative to the porcelain washbasin. Splashing tepid water over his face, he peered into the cracked looking glass, contemplating the evening to come, when he saw in the reflection that a young woman had concealed herself behind his door. He damned himself. He should have checked. She had on a thin, revealing bodice and wore a bewitching smile. He understood completely. Over the years his most ardent and trustworthy companions were prostitutes, outcasts like him. In taverns in every city he had drunkenly regaled them with his stories while they shared everything they had with him.
But he was tired. He needed to rest before meeting his fiancée that night. Ready to ask her to leave, Edgar flinched. He saw this was no innocent whore. She was his deceased wife Virginia. “Terra es, terram ibis,” he called to her.
“Not quite yet, Edgar,” she smiled as she locked the door.
“Fine then,” Edgar said as he crossed to the bed and patted the mattress. “Come on then,” he said. “Come sit with me. It’s no coincidence you are here. Go on then. Tell me I should not seal a promise of matrimony this evening. But what choice have I?”
They lay together on the bed. When Edgar mentioned he was leaving for Baltimore at dawn, she grew angry. Years earlier they had wed in Baltimore City. She had been thirteen. Then poor beyond words, she recalled how she had stuffed rags around the loose window frames to keep out the wind and chased behind B&O locomotives to collect coals shaken loose from cars as they passed. Anything to keep him writing. But then she became sick, gravely ill, and confined to her bed, all she could hear was the hiss of the wind mixing with the scratch of his pen. It drove her mad; she told him, and wondered how he had managed to remain focused on his work despite her deteriorating condition. Edgar calmly replied that he had no choice. His genius eclipsed all worldly concerns. He told her that she knew this and should not pretend differently. The passing of time did not shift algorithms of fixed memory; he scolded her before falling asleep.
Awoken by a sharp crack of thunder, Edgar raised himself. Through the window glass he saw a steel-colored sunrise and slapped the mattress. He’d slept right through the night. His betrothed would be furious. Rain rattled the windowpane as he drew on his overcoat. He’d have to bypass the widow completely. He could not chance missing the ferry to Baltimore.
There was no sign of the ferry at the dock. In fact the normally bustling pier was dead. Empty. Devoid of anyone expect a tall man wearing oilskins who stood wide-legged on the dock battling the gusts alongside a bobbing boat tied to the dock. Waving a hand, he signaled Edgar forward. Introducing himself as the captain of the sailboat tethered to the dock, he told Edgar he had waited an entire day for him. “I’ll not await another. I warn you. Not all the money in hell will make me stay . . .”
“You are mistaken, sir,” Edgar shot back. “I’ve billet on a seaworthy ferry. What would make you imagine I’d even set foot on that tiny boat of yours in this weather?”
“Perhaps you’ve noticed mine is the only boat docked here?” he said sweeping a hand up the dock. “Your ferry left yesterday.”
Edgar laughed crisply. “I slept deeply but not for an entire day, I assure you.”
“Have it your way,” the captain said, loosening the mooring rope. “I am an honest man, however. I’ve a duty to report that a gentlewoman of obvious high rank approached me yesterday with the oddest request. She said her fiancé, a famous poet, had gone missing. One look at you, and I would never have guessed it, but be that as it may . . .”
“—And to look at you would anyone guess you had sighed over Delphi’s long-deserted shrine. So tell me, Pytho. What was it she sought?”
The captain began looping the mooring rope in right-hand twists. “This poet of hers had apparently missed a dinner, and growing alarmed, she had come down to the docks and watched the ferry load and depart. Catching sight of me, she approached and told me you were missing and that you had important business in Baltimore, and paid me a great deal of money to take you there. But she did not pay me to be insulted. You and your Python be damned.
“There you have it,” he said with a prickly look. “Make up your mind. If I was you, I wouldn’t go. It’s such a tiny boat after all . . .”
They made their way quickly, but much later, when the storm stalled in the open Atlantic and its winds began sweeping up the James River from Norfolk, the waves began crashing over both bow and stern, and the captain announced he was pulling for shore.
Edgar had spent the entire day sick below deck. The few times he’d come up for air he was struck by the captain’s adroitness at sailing close-hauled against the overpowering gusts. Now, hands worn raw, he managed to glide them into a tiny bay on the lee side of a tall bank of trees, and in the relative calm he dropped two anchors.
Collapsing on the deck, the captain curled himself into a sail and slept. The wind was high above them, and Edgar could hear it in the trees. After a while, the steady rocking of the vessel put him to sleep as well, below. It was the shout from hell that awoke him. A hair-raising plea for help.
Crawling up the companionway, he saw the boat was spinning as if caught in a whirlpool. The captain stood holding the mast. “Both anchors worked loose during the night,” he yelled, pointing toward the stern, where the mainsail lay half-submerged.
“You have to help raise it,” the captain pleaded. “If not, we’ll sink.”
With the boom loose and swinging from side to side, the captain warned Edgar to keep his head down. When he had hold of the sail, he’d throw Edgar a rope and yell Now. Only then should he stand and pull with all his might.
Time and again the captain went for the foot of the sail, but each time it slipped back into the water. Finally he took a marlin spar and stabbed the sail, managing to pierce the thick canvas. Forming a spike hitch around the cloth, he ran the free end through a fairlead and tossed the line toward Edgar. “NOW!” he yelled. “Pull, you bastard, pull!”
The rope landed well within Edgar’s reach, but he did not take hold of it. It was one thing to be called godforsaken. To be referred to as a bastard was another thing entirely. He was many things, but baseborn he was not. As the captain stared in disbelief, a gust crossed the deck and caught the tail of the rope, whipping it against the boom with such force that it coiled perfectly around the wooden spar. The boom swung forward and, acting as a lever, began pulling the mainsail out the water. Still secured by the marlinspike, the sail rose, came vertical, and fluttered freely for a moment. Then a powerful gust caught it and sent it hurling forward. As it did, it swung the boom. The point of the marlinspike squarely struck the captain’s chest and sent him sprawling overboard. As the captain and mainsail sank, the stern rose and the bow plunged down, sending Edgar toppling into the boiling river.
When he found himself still in the boardinghouse, Edgar was pleased. He steadied himself on the mattress. Gazing out the window, he could see it was dusk. He was late but not a whole day late. His betrothed would be furious but not beside herself. Clutching his satchel, he threw on his coat and fled through the door.
The Italianate home was lined with marble pillars and corbels and a campanile tower. Raking his fingers through his thinning hair, Edgar bemoaned his missing top hat. No gentleman was seen in public without a top hat. Certainly not he. He pushed through the wrought-iron gate and lumbered up the walkway paved in a herringbone pattern. A vicious-looking satyr cast in brass served as a doorknocker. He detested it. A brass ring clamped in its jaws was intended to be raised and dropped, but he rapped a knuckle on the door instead. It fell open instantly. His fiancée, floating into view, dismissed the girl holding the door.
“Only two hours late this time, Edgar,” she said with an icy look. “Making progress, aren’t we?”
“I was struck with sudden fever,” he began. “I’ll make it up to you, I promise . . .”
“Enough with your excuses,” she said. “Come, Edgar.” She said, spun away dismissively and began marching down the marble foyer. Passing the breakfast room, garden room, and winter room, she halted before a large double door and let Edgar catch sight of the dinner table laid out with good china and silver. “Turkey. Potatoes and peas. All cold now, Edgar. Come,” she huffed, and led him into a mahogany-paneled reading room instead.
Lifting her satin skirts, she settled into a high-backed damask-covered chair made of English walnut and bid him to do the same, opposite her. As he sat down, Edgar noticed a gilt mirror on the far wall fashioned in the neoclassical style and callously accented with carved horn and flute. Her deceased husband had once had a stable of horses and been part of the foxhunting set. After she and Edgar married, after removing the satyr from the front door, he would immediately get rid of the mirror. He could see her reflection in the mirror. Her sharp nose and erect posture made her look younger.
“Is it fever or intemperance that was making you sway as you stood?” she said sharply.
“I’ve not had a drink in weeks,” Edgar replied, crossing leg over knee.
She was stern but not unkind. She’d fallen in love with Edgar when they were scarcely more than children. In some respects she had loved him ever since. Age had played its sentimental waltz on her, and she had often fabricated excuses for his drunkenness, but enough was enough. She was not to be made a fool of. But then again, maybe he was ill. She rose out of her chair and, pulling off her glove, felt his forehead.
Edgar saw her in the mirror, her chestnut hair falling past her face, her poise reminding him of the first time she had leaned down and they had kissed. The only time. Her perfumed mixed with the scent of burning whale oil that fueled the bronze sconces. Gusts of wind rattled the windowpanes.
She felt his forehead and drew back. She said he had a terrible fever. Taking hold of a tiny brass bell, she shook it, and when the girl appeared, she ordered hot tea and cake. When she warned Edgar that he would have to postpone his voyage, he said no and shook the satchel.
After the tea was poured, he watched the servant girl cut dark chocolate cake into perfect wedges. The widow continued to press him to remain in Richmond until his fever broke. When Edgar declined, in a fit of anger she brought up the subject of his being seen alone after a reading in the company of a beautiful young girl.
“Gossip,” Edgar replied. “She brought a book of my poems that she wished personally autographed. What was I to do?”
“And did you, Edgar?”
“Did I what?”
“Did you sign a personal autograph?”
“She offered me five dollars. What choice have I?”
“I see. Is that all the money you possess?”
“Not a penny more.”
“It is hardly enough, is it?” she snapped.
“A quandary, dear, I must admit.”
She fingered her thin pearl necklace. “I suppose you had ulterior motives for knocking on my door this evening then.”
“Of course not. But we are to be engaged. I would offer you what I had if you needed it. “
“I was afraid of this. Had you come pledging everlasting love, I would have given you the world, Edgar. But this you do not know how to do. You imagine the world owes you alms for perceived slights. But you wrongly perceive your own amour-propre. No one owes you anything. Especially me.”
From somewhere within the folds of her dress she withdrew a twenty-dollar bill and, with a great sigh of exasperation, held it out. “Take it. Twenty dollars. It’s all I’ll risk. That you will drink it away tonight I’ve no doubt. But if you do, then never again knock on my door.”
Edgar felt much better after he left. She was angry, but she was always angry, he told himself as he made his way toward the dock, intent on purchasing a ticket. The night was humid, and as he passed warehouses filled with freshly cut tobacco, the pungent smell mixed with the night air. Almost to the dock, he passed a brightly lit tavern. With a glance toward the ferry moored alongside the wharf, he stepped inside.
Two elegantly dressed gentlemen stood at the bar. At the rear of the shotgun-shaped room, four unescorted ladies in flamboyant skirts, their faces heavily powdered, saw him enter and waved him over. As he passed the gentlemen, Edgar touched his head as if he had a hat on. Only one glass of port, he told himself.
When the first bottle was empty, the second was purchased by the two gentlemen, who had moved closer to listen to the banter between Edgar and the four prostitutes. He was just beginning another story when a woman dressed in elegant white silk stepped through the door. Her face was shadowed by a wide-brimmed velvet hat with exotic trailing feathers. A boy in a white tunic followed holding two large upholstered bags. A gilded mirror ran the length of the wall behind the bar, and from his viewpoint Edgar could see how properly she held herself as she asked for a room and dinner. Taking a table, she sat and pulled her skirts close about her. The brightly feathered hat tipped to the side and revealed her face. Raising her head, she made no pretense of acknowledging Edgar’s presence.
The Baltimore-bound steamer left before dawn. Edgar had remained in the tavern all night, and again penniless, he managed to slip aboard with the slaves loading cargo in the dark. Stealthily he made his way down to third class. Unlike the room in the boarding house, the berths aboard ship descended in priority—the more expensive on top deck, the cheaper below the water line. There on the bottom of the ferry a large cargo room was already filled with passengers. Bags, coats, blankets were spread on the floor. He wormed his way through the human chaos and luckily found a space on a bench. He laid his head on his satchel to rest, as the ship’s propeller sent the ferry forward.
But it was stuffy in the room. He got up, climbed the stairway to the top deck, and was just in time to see the vessel leaving the muddy James River to enter the green water of Chesapeake Bay. Standing at the stern, he watched a flight of circling gulls dip and rise in the brightening sky. Behind the ferry, the wash thrown out by the propeller moved in a helix, like the twines of a rope being unfurled. The impelled water had a flexible constancy that struck him as an abstract marker. Rather then the unrolling of a rope as he had first perceived, he saw flowing tresses and within their axis the young face of his deceased wife Virginia. He cursed her. Pleaded with her to leave him alone. She winked innocently as coils of water brought up her arms and folded them back below the surface and brought them up again. On and on it went. So compelling was it that he had unknowingly climbed the rail and was almost at the point of falling overboard when the light of dawn breached the bank of low-hanging clouds. Instantly the water surface shimmered scarlet and erased her tresses. As her arms and face vanished, he readied to leap, but a woman called out to him. He took a step down and saw the voice belonged to the lady who had dined at the tavern the night before. She wore ivory-colored silk and had on the same wide hat with its trailing macaw feathers.
“Mr. Poe,” she exclaimed, “do step down off the rail before you accidentally fall overboard. It would be a pity to have to endure this entire voyage without the pleasure of your company.”
Her words elated him. He dropped to the deck. “Do I know you, madam?” he asked, bowing gingerly from the waist.
“We’ve never actually met,” she answered running a perfectly manicured finger across her top lip. “Still. I feel as if I know you.”
“Oh, yes. I’ve read everything you’ve written and listened with delight as you amused your colorful companions last evening. Fortunately I overheard you tell of your plans to take this ferry. It was I who arranged your passage.”
“Madam?” Edgar said taken aback. “I know I slipped aboard without paying but it was my intention all along to reimburse . . .”
“—I paid the bartender last night to see you were aboard. He told me he had to carry you himself.”
Puzzled, Edgar scratched his head. “Even if it was true, why do such a thing?”
“A few hours’ colloquy with the famous Edgar Allan Poe? For this I would have paid a fortune.”
Tugging at his frayed lapels, smiling broadly, he advanced.
“Mary Reynolds,” she said primly, stretching out a gloved hand.
“Morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness . . .” she said as he took her hand.
“Their rising senses chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason . . .” he finished, with an even more radiant smile.
She had just withdrawn her hand when a gust blew across the deck and swept off her hat. They watched it sail away and come to rest brim up on the water like some exotic seabird.
“A hat for Poseidon,” she laughed. A strand of her hair had worked loose and delicately licked the ivory skin of her neck. When she saw him staring, she excused herself. “I must fetch another hat from my bag. After I do, will you join me for breakfast, Mr. Poe?”
“Edgar. Please call me Edgar. And yes. I’d be delighted.”
When she emerged from her room, she looked radiant in a red hat with purple plumes, her hair held back on her neck with a satin ribbon.
When they entered the dinning room, two sleepy waiters snapped to attention. She chose a table to starboard. As the waiters held their chairs, no sooner had they sat when Edgar bolted upright. In a great show, he patted his breast pocket, lamenting that he had been robbed while asleep and no longer had his billfold. Begging forgiveness, he started to go.
“Please sit, Mr. Poe,” she said, patting his seat. “What is spent this morning pales in comparison to the value of your company.”
Beaming, Edgar flipped back the tail of his coat and sat. She ordered for them, and as they ate she told Edgar she had been an admirer of his for years. Her husband was a prominent politician in Baltimore who had succumbed to cholera a few years earlier.
“With no children, I’ve taken to traveling. In fact I am just back from Italy.”
“Sei fortunata signora,” he said.
“Grazie,” she replied.
When they were served coffee, she revealed that she had read much of his work but confessed to being puzzled by the philosophy he espoused in his essay “The Poetic Principle.” She wondered if his argument for l’art pour l’art was more ideal rather than a true measure of the effort involved in crafting a well-reasoned poem.
“Is it not simply a wishful aesthetic?” she asked. “Can this ideal of the absolute expressed in your essay remain so detached from the hard work that goes into a poem’s creation?”
“It is and must be,” he exclaimed. “But Ars gratia artis,” he mumbled, “artistic attachment would embed a rotting . . .”
“As does idealism,” she countered.
In that case he told her she might wish to hear a few chapters from his latest work, a novel he had recently completed. The very reason he was traveling to Baltimore was to see to its publication.
She clapped her hands softly and said she would be delighted, but when Edgar bent to retrieve his satchel, he realized he had left it below. “Forgive me, signora,” he said as he shot to his feet. “I used the satchel for a pillow . . .” Then he stopped himself and eyed her with suspicion. “There are those who would pay a great deal to learn what is in my book. Have I misread you?”
Fleeing the dining hall, he upset a waiter and pushed past a family just entering the hall, leaving behind a chorus of shouts. Reaching the lowest level, he found the room was still dark and humming with a mix of snores. Plowing through the tangle of limbs, he heard curses as he made his way to the bench. Someone had taken his spot and lay prone on the bench, clutching his satchel like a pillow. Edgar grabbed hold of the young boy, who looked up, startled, and began to cry. Someone caught Edgar’s right arm, bending it back almost to the point of breaking. “Confederate!” Edgar railed as he dropped to a knee and felt a thud against his skull.
When he awoke again, the ship’s propeller was silent. The dimly lit lower deck was all but empty save for a few lone souls gathering their belongings. There was a mirror on the opposite wall he had not noticed before, and in it he saw that Mary Reynolds was seated next to him, cradling his head on her lap.
“Ah, so you’ve awakened?” she said, touching his cheek. “Poor thing. You slipped in the dining room after breakfast and struck your head on the table. I considered taking you to my room, but propriety prevented it. Nonetheless, we’ve arrived safely. I’ve a carriage waiting. Please avail yourself of my home. It is both large and very empty. Too empty, I think. And not so distant. Just up Druid Hill. Bathe and rest yourself there, Mr. Poe. Rest and regain your strength.”
She helped him up the stairs, and they walked out into the sunlight. Baltimore City was alive with sound. They passed coils of rope and skirted gantry cranes unloading nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper, tobacco, wheat, and other grains. Rowing men in small boats slowly searched for dock space. A mountain of glassy oysters had been spilled onto the dock. A Negro boy in a white shirt pulling a wooden-wheeled cart cried out: “Rock fish! Fresh rock fish! ” High up on the top of Federal Hill, a limp flag barely fluttered. Edgar was gladdened by the prospect of free room and board and was just then beginning to hope that the remainder of his journey would turn out as well, when a sharp cry rang out.
“Poe!” a deep voice called. “Of all the sinners in the world!”
Edgar froze. He knew this voice. Knew it belonged to someone to whom he owed a great deal of money. A tall bearded man, deeply tanned, stood in uniform aboard a darkly lacquered brigantine. Raising his chin, he signaled toward two sailors, who disembarked, strode up to Edgar, and took hold of his arms. But Mary Reynolds waved toward her carriage at the foot of the dock. Her teamster leaped off and quickly made his way down the planks toward them.
“What say you, Poe?” the uniformed man called out again. “Have a visit with your old captain, shall we?” he said with a coarse laugh.
“What’s going on?” Mary said, shaken, as the two sailors held Edgar. The teamster neared and asked if he could be of assistance. Hoping to defuse the danger, Edgar asked her to go. He would hurry along as soon as possible and warned the teamster: “These are men you would do well not to confront.”
The teamster stepped forward anyway, and one of the sailors shoved him back.
Edgar called toward the uniformed captain and told him he would board, and promised Mary Reynolds he would follow as soon as he was able. As he went up the gangway to the deck of the brigantine, he could see her staring from her carriage, but then the captain drew him into an embrace and Edgar felt his ribs crack.
“How long has it been?” the captain whispered coldly.
Edgar struggled to catch his breath. “Years. Many years,” he coughed.
The captain’s fingernails were filed into sharp points, and as he raked them across Edgar’s scalp he said, “You’ve a knot on your head the size of Java. Always in some sort of trouble, aren’t you, Poe. Have I made a mistake, or do I recall giving you a handful of coins the last time we met? In return you promised to create for me a story, but you vanished instead. I waited some days, but you never appeared. Have you this story or no?”
Edgar rattled his satchel. “I have. I do!”
“For your sake I hope it’s a good one,” he said, pulling Edgar by the arm. “Let’s slip below deck where it is cooler and give it a listen.”
They made their way down into the cabin. In darkness, Edgar fumbled through a narrow corridor and was glad to enter a well-lit room paneled from floor to ceiling in oiled teak. A sofa covered in magenta-colored velvet stood before a table of lignum vitae that held two large jeweled boxes.
The captain sat down heavily. Patting the mattress, he indicated to Edgar to sit beside him and then clapped his hands sharply. A dark-skinned woman emerged from behind a beaded curtain. Instantly Edgar recognized her as Ethan’s sister Rebecca. What a turn of events. As a young girl she had worn a dirt-colored smock while scrubbing the floors of their plantation house in Richmond. Now here she was brightly clad in a gown of iridescent silk.
The captain addressed her in a tongue Edgar did not understand. She nodded and left, returning quickly with crystal goblets she had filled with absinthe. Kneeling before them, she opened one of the jeweled boxes, and from among loose, rare black pearls she extracted an azure-colored satin sack. Loosening a cord of golden twine, she spilled out a brick of tar-colored opium. From somewhere inside the folds of her skirt she withdrew a sparkling stiletto and began studiously carving thin ribbons from the thick block.
As they drank and smoked, the captain eased back on the sofa and regaled Edgar with tales of faraway islands; black-sand beaches rimmed with opalescent pearls, jungle temples mortared in pure silver, ivory-skinned mermaids skimming the surface of the sea. And as he spoke in a melodic voice, daylight passed. As sweet-smelling oil lamps were lit, the captain told Edgar that it was now his turn.
Edgar had never felt better. He stared at the girl, who now stood above him waving a palm frond. Behind her a tapestry woven of rubies illuminated an erotic scene involving a unicorn and a maiden. Tossing back his head, in sotto voce, he began a story concerning a meditative man named Egaeus who lived in a castle with his attractive cousin Berenice. Egaeus was an anemic, eremitic personality, he told the captain, while Berenice was lovely and affable.
The two shared a happy life together until her fifteenth year, when during a bitter winter storm she took ill. In no time at all she was struck by a rare debilitating malady that rapidly stripped her of her youthful beauty. As Egaeus saw her fair skin pus and blister, a half-numbing dementia took hold of him. As weeks passed, he called in doctors from distant lands. Priests and bishops, too, but no good came of it. Distraught by her increasing frailty, reflecting only on her metamorphosis, he asked her to marry him. They were set to wed the following morning, but when he awoke that day he found her cold and still.
Carrying her down to his library, he closed her open eyes with his fingers and pushed at her loose jaw, but her mouth kept falling open. Up he sent it and down it fell. The harder he pushed, the looser became her jaw. He was at wit’s end when a ray of sunlight struck her teeth. Despite weeks and months of deterioration of her body, despite her black blistered lips, her teeth that were still perfect, still shining brilliantly.
Startled awake by a flash of lightning, Egaeus found himself in his own bed. Someone was crying for him. He heard shouts and pleading. As he stood, he saw it was well past dusk. He did not recall having retired to his room, but the violent shouts hurried him out from it. Donning a velvet robe, he raced down the long alabaster stairway and was almost out of breath when he reached the library and heard his name called once again. When he pushed through the paneled door, he was surprised to find the eminent doctor he had paid well to call in nightly on Berenice. The doctor was kneeling over her, but seeing Egaeus enter, he rose and with a shaking hand pointed toward him.
Bewildered, Egaeus looked down and saw that his robe was stained with blood. Now the shaking doctor was pointing toward Berenice. Egaeus brushed past him and snatched from a table a jeweled box. But in his haste he stumbled, and it fell and spilled out its contents. Out tumbled thirty-two perfectly shaped teeth.
The ship captain howled with delight and told Edgar he had done well. He waved at the native girl. She knelt, tilted her head, slipped the lit pipe inside her fine lips, and began to blow a steady stream of smoke from her mouth into Edgar’s while her fingers unbuttoned his trousers. The last time he had seen her, she had been standing before a washboard near the well at his home in Richmond. On that hot summer day her dirty smock had ridden up her thighs, and when Edgar had pushed into her, she gasped. “Go ahead,” she said. “Just like you daddy done.”
Edgar awoke to the prodding of a policeman’s billystick. He lay on his back in a damp alley, shivering uncontrollably. Luckily the policeman’s comrade had pulled the cape from his own shoulders and draped it over Edgar’s naked body before walking into the nearby tavern. Having recognized Edgar, he returned with two whores, who with great care took hold of Edgar and carried him inside.
The prostitutes knew him or knew of him, and while some took him to a room, others collected clothing and then washed and dressed him. He emerged wearing wide-fitting cotton trousers, a canvas shirt many sizes too large for his small frame, a very wide-brimmed straw hat with a black band around its crown, and a scuffed pair of women’s shoes on his tiny feet.
Sitting him regally at a corner table, they fed him spooned broth and lima beans. He was told that if he finished his dish they would bring drink, so he ate with gusto. By this point the patrons were looking his way as rumor spread of Baltimore’s favorite son’s return.
In no time he was regaling the ever-growing crowd with stories and recitations, until finally he bewitched them with the conspiracy tale of his recent kidnapping by a pirate captain, lamenting how once again his chance at love had been preempted.
Hearing the story, a gang of drunks stormed outside, intent on bringing the captain of the brigantine to justice. By now the tavern was overflowing with new arrivals. A jar was passed that soon filled with coins to assist the famous writer, while promises of more suitable clothing and pledges to shelter him for the night rang out.
Shortly, the gang of drunks returned dragging behind them a sleepy-eyed sailor badly beaten about the face. They pushed their way through the crowd and righted him. They asked Edgar if this was the pirate. Before Edgar could manage a reply, a ruddy-cheeked fellow wearing a tight bowler hat on a very wide head butted his way forward.
“Pardon the intrusion!” he said, gripping his lapels. “Everyone knows me here, Mr. Poe,” he continued, as he swept his eyes around the room. “I’ve served twenty years as harbor signalman here. Spent half my damn life perched on Federal Hill staring out over open water. My task is to give fair warning of approaching vessels. Training my brass telescope on the open water, I study the approach of a vessel until its outline draws clear and I can say with certainty if it is a barge or barque. Clipper or cutter. Whaling ship or frigate. When I’m certain, I hoist a flag high on Federal Hill so all the merchants of Baltimore stand alerted. We are a harbor town, Mr. Poe. Our very existence depends on our ability to offload goods quickly and get them to market. So it is incumbent on me to offer fair warning to the hundreds of stevedores and riggers, laborers and bailers, liveries and cart men, icemen and railroad men, who require knowing what sort of vessel approaches. I’ve listened to this story of yours and regret to say that no brigantine has docked in our harbor today. Nor this week. Nor the week previous. As far as the steamer goes, allow me a postscript. The ferry steamer was the last boat in today. I watched it dock, and by the time I made my way down Federal Hill it had emptied save for a lone reprobate found lying naked and beaten in the bottom hold. He had no ticket, and the shipmaster had no record of his boarding. They did what they always do to trespassers who smuggle themselves aboard ships without paying. I did not pay it much mind, but now that I see you closer, there is a resemblance. So why don’t we agree that your story was just that? Release this poor innocent sailor. What do you say? Shake hands and buy him a drink, Mr. Poe?”
Edgar rose slowly. He felt unbalanced. His head ached. “Tell me,” he began, “do you peer through your looking glass with both eyes or just one?”
“Why, of all the strangest things I have ever heard,” the signalman began.
“One eye or two?”
“Just one eye, for god’s sake.”
“Tell me then. Polyphemus! What worldly optician gives you license to impugn me with this malicious tale of prevarication? Tell me. Tell us all, for that matter,” he said, sweeping an arm toward the crowd. “Does your myopia blind you from also hearing? Is there anyone you personally know who is able to fabricate such a story as I have just told my friends here?”
As he smiled triumphantly, the crowd began to cheer for Edgar. The signalman, sensing the turn, judiciously began worming his way out, but as he did, something caught Edgar’s eye. “Wait a moment, Cyclops!” he said scornfully. Edgar’s attention had focused on a Masonic symbol pinned to the signalman’s lapel. “Stonecutter!” Edgar called out. “This explains your duplicity, you confederate.” He pointed toward the lapel pin. “No wonder he lied!” he called to the crowd.
With nothing to lose, the signalman leaped toward Edgar. His weight drove Edgar back with such force that when his head struck the table behind him, he blacked out.
Roused from his bed, the physician wearily drove his one-horse carriage through the pouring rain to attend to the famous poet. But when he got to the hospital, he saw it was useless. The patient had suffered severe brain trauma. Still in street clothes, the doctor pushed back his broad-brimmed hat, took off his gloves, and felt for a pulse. Raising a gilt-framed rectangular mirror to Poe’s mouth, he saw a faint breath cloud the mirror and fade.
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Thermaltake Unveils Eye-Popping RGB Keyboard, Mouse and Desk
By Avram Piltch 2019-01-09T09:38:02Z
You can never have too much RGB. Long a leader in RGB-enabled gear, Thermaltake took the wraps off several new and attractive peripherals at CES, including an RGB desk, a sleek aluminum keyboard and a mouse with a pair of buttons on both of its sides.
Though the company showed off some new peripherals from its TT eSports brand, the coolest new gear is part of its premium Level 20 line.
Level 20 RGB Gaming Keyboard
The Level 20 RGB Gaming Keyboard may be the most intriguing. It has a very classy-looking aluminum top surface that comes in black or titanium gray shades and a sleek, slightly-rounded shape. As you might expect, it supports a slew of dynamic lighting effects and works with Thermaltake’s control software or even Amazon Alexa.
An app will allow users to customize the keyboard controls from their mobile devices, using either touch or voice commands. The app will also provide a virtual keyboard and game controller that allow you to control PC games from your phone.
What you don’t see everywhere else, is the extra lighting the Level 20 keyboard brings. There’s a light strip that rings around the top and side surfaces and an RGB line that artfully separates the numpad keys from the rest of the keyboard.
The bottom of he keyboard features not one but two different sets of flip out feet that raise it to two different heights. This is a really key feature we’d like to see on more keyboards, because it allows you to have more control over the typing experience and your ergonomic setup. There are also passthroughs for a second USB port and 3.5mm audio.
Shipping this month, the Level 20 RGB Gaming Keyboard will come with a choice of Cherry MX Silver, Cherry MX Blue or Razer Green switches. So, if you like the clicky feel of Razer’s switches, but want a different aesthetic and feature set than you find on Razer keyboards, you’re in luck. The model with the Razer Green switches will cost $129 in the U.S. while the blue and silver switch models will go for $139 and $149.
Level 20 RGB Gaming Mouse
One of the most intriguing new peripherals, the Level 20 RGB RGB Gaming Mouse seems to be flying under the radar, because the company did not even mention it in press materials and reps were unable to provide exact specs or availability info.
However, this vibrant wired mouse has a couple of truly standout features. Where most gaming mice have a pair of thumb buttons on the left side, the Level 20 has a second pair on the right side. Reps told me that having these extra buttons makes the mouse friendly to left-handed users,, but as a righty, I was more intrigued by the possibility of having two more buttons to program.
The Level 20 RGB Gaming Mouse also has more bling than most, with RGB light strips on the top surface, sides, under the scroll wheel and in a TT logo on the base. The side buttons themselves are RGB so you can not only watch the rainbow, but also click it.
There’s no word on the DPI range for this mouse and it appeared not to have a way to add or remove weight. It’s fairly light, but felt really good in my hand. A company rep told me the mouse will end up costing around $60 whenever it comes out.
RGB Desk
We first saw Thermaltake’s RGB desk back at Computex in June 2018. Back then, it was a prototype with no name, price or release date. Now it’s called the Level 20 RGB BattleStation and it will carry a price of $1,099 in the U.S. when it ships this month.
While $1,100 is a lot of money for a desk, the Level 20 RGB Battlestation could be worth it. Yes, there’s a thick RGB border that frames the top of the desk, but bright lights and rainbow animations are just the beginning. The desk also has hydraulic height adjustment which lets you use it while either standing or sitting. It has built-in cable management in the back and a soft mouse pad that covers the entire desktop.
This is also a huge desk, measuring 64.9 x 29.5 x 27.5 inches (164.8 x 74.9 x 69.8 cm). That leaves you plenty of room for a large tower case and all of your peripherals.
If you can live without the RGB lights and hydraulic motors, the Level 20 BattleStation GT desk goes for only $399. However, it measures a much smaller 59 x 27.5 x 28.9 (149.6 x 69.7 x 73.4 cm).
At its booth Thermaltake also showed off a new RGB headset stand, a soft fabric mouse pad with RGB edges and Water RAM RGB, a set of two or four DIMMs that comes with its own RGB waterblock. There were also new radiators some new RGB cases and some improved case fans. However, the keyboard, desk and mouse were the real stars of the show.
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Forty years ago, the Eisenhower and Johnson Memorial tunnels became the state’s transportation linchpin
On Dec. 21, 1979, both tunnels opened to four lanes of traffic and changed how Colorado travels and how the Vail Valley grew
News | January 5, 2020
Pam Boyd
pboyd@eaglevalleyenterprise.com
On Dec. 21, 1979, both bores of the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels opened, forever changing traffic flow and economic conditions in the Colorado high country.
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Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels facts
Traveling through the tunnels the public saves 9.1 miles by not having to travel over U.S. Highway 6, Loveland Pass.
The electric bill averages approximately $70,000 per month.
The tunnels operate 24-hours a day, seven days a week, employing 52 full-time employees with job duties that range from round-the-clock television surveillance, emergency response, tunnel washing, ventilation maintenance, tunnel sweeping, snow removal, heavy equipment servicing and repair, and water treatment.
During construction, approximately 1 million cubic yards of material was cleared from each bore. 190,000 cubic yards of concrete were used for each tunnel lining.
There were three fatalities on the first bore; four fatalities on the second bore.
The pilot bore was completed in 1964. The Eisenhower Memorial Bore took five years to complete and was dedicated March 8, 1973. The eastbound Edwin C. Johnson Bore took four years to complete and was dedicated December 21, 1979.
Courtesy of the Colorado Department of Transportation
EAGLE COUNTY — During the busy holiday season, an important Colorado milestone passed.
Dec. 21, 1979, was a historic day for the entire state, and particularly for Colorado’s Western Slope. That’s when the eastbound bore of the Eisenhower and Johnson Memorial Tunnels opened to traffic. The first tunnel had already been in operation for six years but, as noted on the Colorado Department of Transportation website, “The Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel westbound bore hardly had gone into two-way service March 8, 1973, when the need for a second bore under the Continental Divide became evident.”
“When four lanes of Interstate 70 were squeezed to a single lane each direction through the tunnel, the predictable result was a bottleneck impacting summer tourist traffic and wintertime ski rushes, particularly the Denver-bound motorists on Saturday and Sunday evenings,” the CDOT website continues.
Today, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to navigate Interstate 70 through the Colorado High Country without the tunnel in service. According to CDOT, more than 13 million vehicles — an average that hovers around approximately 40,000 vehicles per day — travel through the tunnels each year.
“When you look at today’s traffic, I don’t know what we would do without the tunnels,” said Kent Rose, who moved to Vail back in 1972 to take the job as the town’s engineer. “If we were down to two lanes now, with the traffic we have, it could take a week to get down to Denver.”
Two-hour rule
The legacy of the Eisenhower and Johnson Memorial Tunnels is very personal for Merv Lapin of Vail. He staked his financial future on the project.
“It was one of the things that kept me in Vail,” Lapin said. “It made me realize that the trip to Denver would only take an hour and a half or two hours. I knew the tunnel project would make Vail more popular. It was one of the elements that told me there was a potential business for me.”
In his case, that business involved accumulating land and doing land partnerships for properties in the path of development. For Lapin, I-70 defined that path.
By the numbers, the Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels cut 9.1 miles from the trip to and from Denver. But that number doesn’t really measure the impact. Before the twin tunnels opened, motorists had to travel two-lane Loveland Pass to cross the Continental Divide.
“It used to take four hours to get to Vail. When you lived here, you would make a trip every two to four weeks to go to Denver to get what you needed to buy,” Lapin said.
Cutting two hours off the trip time was a game-changer in both directions. For Vail, it meant more people could reasonably access its famed slopes. As motorists know, there are two major I-70 features that pave the way to Eagle County. Vail Pass dates back to the 1940s and the roadway was upgraded to four-lane I-70 in 1978. But it wasn’t until the twin tunnels opened that all the pieces were in place to easily get to the resort town.
“On the East Coast, the rule of thumb is for a ski area to make it, it has to be located within two hours of a major metropolitan area,” Lapin said. “Everyone around Vail was very supportive of it (the tunnel construction). The town of Vail looked at it as a project that would cause more people to come to Vail.”
Corridor linchpin
Eventually, completion of the Eisenhower and Johnson Memorial Tunnels meant that more Denver-area dwellers invested in second homes in the Vail Valley because they could more easily visit the area, Lapin said.
“It also became a lot easier and cheaper to get goods delivered here. It became a more competitive market.”
Forty years later, CDOT officials note that the twin tunnels remain a vital part of Colorado transportation and commerce.
“The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels is a critical facility since the I-70 Corridor is the primary east/west highway in Colorado,” said Patrick Chavez, the coordinator of CDOT’s Statewide Traffic Incident Management Program. “We see that when there is a closure anywhere on the corridor with alternate routes quickly becoming congested from the volumes being diverted from I-70.”
He said the twin tunnels are key to the management of highway operations and the linchpin of the corridor.
“What happens at the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels has huge impacts from Golden to Vail and the enormous volumes of traffic that flow through that area,” Chavez said. “The I-70 Corridor is one of the main drivers of economic benefit for Colorado that supports both internal/external state commerce but also internal and out-of-state recreation travel. Because the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels is at the center of this corridor, it makes it extremely critical to the overall effective operations of the corridor.”
As technology has advanced, the twin tunnels have become even more important to the state.
“The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels provides the infrastructure for fiber optic communications and we are also working on a project to provide better cell service coverage throughout the tunnel with antennas,” said CDOT Region 1 Tunnel Resident Engineer Neal Retzer.
The twin tunnels also serve the I-70 corridor as a dispatch/operations center from Dotsero to Golden.
“We also respond to emergencies in the area since we have several response vehicles like firetrucks and employees with EMT training,” Retzer said. “We have our own domestic water supply and treatment facilities. We also house several types of avalanche management supplies and provide support for those operations in the area such as the west side of the continental divide and along US 6 over Loveland Pass.”
According to the CDOT website, the total cost of the project was $108 million. In today’s dollars, that sounds like a deal, considering the Grand Avenue Bridge replacement project in Glenwood Springs it cost $125.6 million. But the tunnel construction was a monumental financial and engineering challenge.
During the height of construction of the Eisenhower bore, as many as 1,140 construction workers were employed in three shifts, 24 hours a day, six days a week. More than 800 workers built the Johnson bore, some 480 of them in actual drilling operations. Today, 40 years after they became fully operational, the structures are more vital than ever.
“Construction of both tunnels has attracted international attention; engineers and rock mechanics from free world and communist countries alike have toured the site 60 miles west of Denver,” notes the CDOT website. “The technical aspects will continue to fascinate engineering professionals. But for hundreds of thousands of highway users, the tunnels will continue to save 30 minutes to an hour in drive time compared to U.S. 6 over Loveland Pass. After 12 years of construction time, the task that seemed impossible to some persons and improbable to many others had been accomplished.”
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Nearly 9bn tons of plastic has been produced since it first went on sale as a mass-manufactured product in the early 1950s – and most of it is still around with some 8 million tons of plastic ending up in the planet’s oceans every year.
There are fears that by 2050 there could be more plastic in the oceans by weight than fish.
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As Pope Francis says in his encyclical “Laudato Sì. On Care for Our Common Home,” we all need to acknowledge and take action on “our duty to care for the oceans as part of an integrated vision of human development”.
He points out that the oceans unite us and summon us to work together as “everything is interconnected” and oceans represent a crucial resource in the fight against poverty and climate change, both of which are intrinsically linked.
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Partnering with an increasing number of multi-national and local brands, The Plastic Bank is a startup that aims to stop ocean-bound plastic and at the same time fight poverty by making plastic too valuable to discard.
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So, in partnership with the Plastic Bank, plastic recycling centers have sprung up mainly in poor Asian and African contexts in collaboration with a host of multi-national companies. When local waste collectors bring plastic to the centers, it is exchanged for cash, digital savings, healthcare, tuition, food, and other needs.
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How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain. ***** Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the British landscape has been transformed form a European peninsula of glacier and tundra to an island of glittering cities and exquisite countryside. In this geographical journey through time, we discover the ancient relationship between people and place and the deep-rooted tensions between town and countryside. From tsunamis to Roman debacles, from henge to high-rise and hamlet to metropolis, this is a book about change and adaptation. As Britain lurches towards a more sustainable future, it is the story of our age. 'A geographer's love letter to the British and the land that formed them ... dramatic, lyrical and even inspiring' Sunday Times 'A magnificent, epic work by a national treasure ... A tour de force' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
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This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.
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There is a great and honourable tradition of finding God in landscapes. Many who have given up on church appreciate the spiritual benefits they gain from climbing a mountain or walking in nature. But how and why do we encounter God in land, forest, river, mountain, desert, garden, sea and sky? That is what Graham Usher explores in this captivating volume which takes us from the giant Redwoods of the Californian Sierra Nevada to the jagged New York skyline; from the wilds of the ancient Scottish Highlands to the rolling pastures of English Shropshire. Drawing on material from biblical and church history traditions - as well as scientific research and contemporary art - he seeks to ascertain how such encounters support our Christian pilgrimage and challenge our assumptions.
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For centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day. It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape, culture and policy that underlie the activities of the National Park, Cumbria Tourism and the proposals to recognise the Lake District as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It examines all aspects of the Lake District's history and identity, brings the story up to date and looks at current issues in conservation, policy and tourism marketing. In doing so, it not only provides a unique and valuable analysis of this region, but offers insights into the history of cultural and heritage tourism in Britain and beyond.
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In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In Home, the Time Team expert explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans' departure. Tracing the settlement of domestic communities, he shows how archaeology enables us to reconstruct the evolution of habits, traditions and customs. But this, too, is Francis Pryor's own story: of his passion for unearthing our past, from Yorkshire to the west country, Lincolnshire to Wales, digging in freezing winters, arid summers, mud and hurricanes, through frustrated journeys and euphoric discoveries. Evocative and intimate, Home shows how, in going about their daily existence, our prehistoric ancestors created the institution that remains at the heart of the way we live now: the family. 'Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today . . . Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' - Guardian Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent over thirty years studying our prehistory. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of The Making of the British Landscape, Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.
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Nov. 15, 2019 / 7:30 AM / Updated Nov. 15, 2019 at 1:12 PM
Big Machine Records denies Taylor Swift's claims, rep fires back
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Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Taylor Swift's former label Big Machine Records has denied claims the singer made about not being able to use or perform her older music that the company owns. A representative for Swift then fired back, stating that the label owes her money.
On Thursday Swift said on Twitter she is being prevented from using or performing her older music up to her 2017 album Reputation at the 2019 American Music Awards and in an upcoming Netflix documentary.
The pop star is set to perform and receive the Artist of the Decade award at the AMAs on Nov. 24.
The performance was set to be a melody of her greatest hits but Swift said that the new owner of her old music, Scooter Braun, and the founder of Big Machine Scott Borchetta, are preventing her from doing so.
The representative backed up Swift's claims by citing a message Big Machine sent over to her team about not being allowed access to her catalogue and called into question the company's rebuttal.
"Please notice in Big Machine's statement, they never actually deny either claim Taylor said last night in her post. Lastly, Big Machine is trying to deflect and make this about money by saying she owes them but, an independent, professional auditor has determined that Big Machine woes Taylor $7.9 million dollars of unpaid royalties over several years," the rep said.
Swift said on Twitter that she will only be allowed to access her master recordings if she agrees to not record new, copycat versions of her old songs and stops mentioning Braun and Borchetta by name.
The 29-year-old is contractually permitted to re-record and release her earlier material as a way to obtain a form of ownership again.
"The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you'll be punished. This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs," she tweeted.
"I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That's it. I've tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMAs, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to playing November of 2020 are a question mark. I love you guys and I thought you should know what's been going on," Swift continued.
Don't know what else to do pic.twitter.com/1uBrXwviTS— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 14, 2019
Big Machine responded with a statement on its website Friday, saying that the label never told Swift that she could not perform at the AMAs and did not attempt to block the Netflix special.
"Taylor, the narrative you have created does not exist. All we ask is to have a direct and honest conversation. What that happens, you will see there is nothing but respect, kindness and support waiting for you on the other side. To date, not one of the invitations to speak with us and work through this has been accepted," Big Machine said.
"Rumors fester in the absence of communication. Let's not have that continue here. We share the collective goal of giving your fans the entertainment they both want and deserve," the label continued.
Swift on Friday released a new song from the Cats soundtrack, "Beautiful Ghosts."
The track, written by Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber, is available on YouTube in the form of a lyric video and music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, Tidal and Deezer.
"All that I wanted was to be wanted/ Too young to wander London streets, alone and haunted/ Born into nothing/ At least you have something, something to cling to/ Visions of dazzling rooms I'll never get into/ And the memories were lost long ago/ But at least you have beautiful ghosts," she sings.
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umterp03 replied to Aughie's topic in Norfolk
So I thought I'd chime in, I agree with most and think if this project is done right, it will tremendously benefit the downtown area, even though I think the economy needs to pick up first... However, something needs to be done with Tidewater Gardens and their associated structures I feel it's long overdue. Anyways, I guess the Postal Service is sending out mixed signals about their processing facility on the NE corner, should they decide to consolidate all operations to Richmond and vacate this plot is there a chance the city tries to obtain and incorporate it into the master plan?
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umterp03 replied to brikkman's topic in Norfolk
I can give him credit about being persistent throughout all this, but I wonder how the people who put deposits down feel about him. Obviously it looks like those people aren't going to move in anytime soon.. I hope they all get their deposits back after this whole mess is figured out.
Actually his house is still for sale on Colonial Avenue in Ghent, I jog by it almost everyday, he's only asking for 1.2 million
It's funny I think one of the first buildings he developed/renovated was next door to me, it's an old style condo building on Colonial Avenue.. He did a fantastic job, but it only has 6 units.. I think he should have taken baby steps instead of the leap into the 300 unit Granby Tower. I like how he keeps telling people financing is coming.. he gave it a decent shot, but he needs to step aside and give way to the big boys to make this happen. That land is a wasted opportunity for another developer who can deliver, I wonder how much longer the city will put up with his antics?
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umterp03 replied to urbanvb's topic in Norfolk
I work on the base so I've seen pretty much firsthand on what could happen if LR were to extend it's root to there. First of all, I think the route from Downtown to NS would be beneficial, but I think it would benefit more of the ODU and EVMS students who would use it as a way of getting downtown for entertainment purposes without having to drive, and ODU students can use it to get to their classes from Ghent since it seems like that's where a good amount of ODU students live. I still find it hard to believe NSU doesn't want this, I graduated from the University of Maryland and they are getting two metro stops on campus when Metro introduces the purple line, the benefits far outweigh the negatives. It's not like NSU is in a great area anyway, anyone can walk their and commit crime on campus. With that being said, there are many sailors that live on base and if the lightrail were run in the right hours, I would see a large amount using the LR as a way of getting downtown to shop, eat, go out to bars, the Navy has really been cracking down on DUIs, and I think the LR would be a good deterrent against that. I think as a commuter line it would be fairly limited to do that as was stated previously with the rush hour traffic on hampton and the amount of time it would take to get to work, but with rising gas prices you never know, as long as gas prices keep rising more and more people will be looking to the idea of mass transportation. The true way I see this working is if the LR connected beyond Norfolk, like Newport News and Portsmouth, which is a long shot, but it would seriously cut the travel time required because of the tunnel traffic congestion.
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umterp03 replied to umterp03's topic in Norfolk
How about something of a mixed seafood/farmer's market like Pike Place in Seattle? I could see that.. but yeah, green space will always be a challenge downtown, I'd honestly like to see them turn Fort Norfolk where they tore down all the cotton warehouses into a park, it would offer a nice view and kind of tie in Ghent to Freemason and Downtown.
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Article from the pilot this morning about the future of the waterside marketplace Pilot Link Any ideas what should be done to this place? It seems like a ghost town there during the day
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Cloak & Dagger Atari 1984 If this is truly still in development, then the release year is [i]way[/i] wrong and should be corrected and prototype flag is therefore wrong as well (a game demo/beta can be considered a prototype, but for the sake of not flagging all games with public beta/demo with prototype, this shouldn't either). Possibly adding external links verifying that claim.***CX-52xx (no product number). Homebrew. North America NTSC. 1player only.
After the success of [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/]the movie[/url] and the [game=#1319]arcade version[/game], Atari assigned Dave Comstock to do the Atari 2600, 5200, and 8-bit versions. The 2600 version was quickly (and laughingly) abandoned. He began on the 8-bit version first, as was standard practice. He lobbied Atari to approve the first ever 32K cartridge for an 8-bit game. He was only 50% done when, Atari laid off nearly all of its computer programmers in 1984. Dave quietly slipped a disk into his pocket on the way out (it would have most certainly been destroyed otherwise). (This is the reason the 1984 date is used in this entry. This was the last time It was worked on for [i]Atari[/i] and this is how the disk was labeled. This information will be updated when Cloak & Dagger is finally released.) Work on Cloak & Dagger ceased when Dave got a new job in a different field. The current status of the game is: No enemies, no death animation, no forklifts, no shooting, no light bombs, no status display, no game end sequence. Recently, Dave Comstock announced that he is working on this game again and will finish it with all the above features ans as even hinted at adding more. Dave Comstock's original task with the 5200 version was only to adapt the 8-bit computer version to the "360° controller". He's never hinted at making any different or additional features for the 5200 version that the computer version will not have.
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Boston starts war on non-Hubway rental bikes
The Globe reports Boston is not going to let some bike startups do to Hubway/Blue Bikes what Uber and Lyft did to local cabs - the city's started seizing bikes from companies that let users just dump their bikes anywhere as they begin to infiltrate the city.
Free tagging:
Hubway
Bluebikes
By JW on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 11:59am.
Why is the city allowing Hubway to have a monopoly? Whats wrong with other bike companies coming in town they are much cheaper! Give consumers a choice. $7/hr vs. $1/hr, we need more competition!
Saying hubway is $7 an hour is pretty misleading
Hubway is $99 for a years worth of 45 minute rides. Now its even cheaper since they offering $15 off. Saying hubway is $7 an hour is pretty misleading.
So if you are going to use it more than 3 roundtrips a month hubway is cheaper, and has many more bikes.
I've used a hubway bike once,
I've used a hubway bike once, from Davis Sq to Teele. Figured it'd be easier than an uber. It was more than $7 and the bike was barely workable. If they're getting a sponsorship to advertise by changing their name, and Ant bike, limebike, owo, etc aren't even allowed to operate, the service should be free.
It's all about being misleading
By Brian Daniels on Tue, 04/30/2019 - 8:46pm.
I just rented a bike using the one time ride option for $2.50. I rode the bike for fifteen minutes and then returned it to a docking station. I later received a text when I was on a train home. Bluebikes sent me a text saying that I had not returned the bike. They then explained to me that my 15 minute rental will now cost me between $20 and $1200. When I asked how that could be, they asked if I had read the terms of service. Caveat emptor. This seems like a shady scam or a very poorly run company.
By BostonDog on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 5:07pm.
The city owns the bikes and system with the goal of making enough money to cover the private management and upkeep of the bikes. Having competition won't help that. Boston signed an exclusive deal back when they didn't even consider there might be an alternative and they are bound by that contact.
In all likelihood, had dockless bikes been a possibility when Hubway was proposed it's just as likely they would have used that system. The suburbs waited longer and have more choices.
It's all a mess and only going to get worse. Hubway has it's problems but at least the bikes don't get left in the middle of the sidewalk or piled in a mess. But I've been screwed and missed the train several times when all the hubway docks were used up.
Voting closed 11
By anon² on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 2:14pm.
How can they waste bikes like that?
Don't they realize that there are obese children in the United States?
By Wiffleball on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 7:09pm.
Children don't eat bikes.
Well indeed
Wow. Look at These Astounding Photos of Abandoned Dockless Vehicles in America.
Now you make me sad
RIP Frau Swag.
She's probably in the giant lineup of these vehicles at the former NAS South Weymouth.
*sob*
Walk and chew gun
By anon² on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 12:06pm.
Boston can be much more bike/pedestrian oriented, while we also make sure these hipster startups don't distrupt their problems onto the community and taxpayers.
We could do both.
By spin_o_rama on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 12:52pm.
While we're making Boston much more bike/pedestrian oriented, can we also make sure these car companies don't distrupt their problems onto the community and taxpayers?
Cause we really can't seem to do both.
We've Learned
By NorthEnd3r on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 2:43pm.
Fortunately, we've learned from the experience in China and can balance common sense regulations against complete prohibition (or chaos).
DC has 5+ companies operating today and they are complementing the existing docked Capital Bikeshare system.
The city only allows each operator to have a set number of bikes (so you never get the piles seen in some Chinese cities), mandates data sharing, and more.
See "Dockless bikeshare helped grow the total shared bicycle trips in DC": https://ggwash.org/view/67638/dockless-bikeshare-helped-grow-the-total-s...
There is a theory
By Tim Mc. on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 10:15am.
that certain services are best served by monopolies, such as mail delivery. This is part of why the USPS is granted a monopoly on delivery of first-class mail; if it had competitors, there would be a race-to-the-bottom that would not serve the populace well.
I don't know if this is *true* for Hubway, but it might be the legal theory at work.
I've been a Hubway member for years....
By BennyWu on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 10:22am.
...but they STILL haven't expanded into my neighborhood in Dorchester! Maybe a little competition will force them to better serve the communities they operate in. I use hubway a few times a week, but I welcome the dockless bikes!
I started to notice
Bikes from ride sharing programs in Cambridge being left around the Greenway. I believe one was Ant Bike......
By surprisefries on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:36pm.
Weird, that is not the ANT bike I was expecting. Don't think you'd ever see one of those just lying around.
(edited for herf)
Was stealing the name
By Former Brightownie on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 4:38pm.
A clueless move, or just a dick move?
And how does a business get incorporated using the name of a company that's in a similar space? Yes, the business models are different, but still: bikes is bikes. I'm assuming I probably couldn't name my restaurant Boca Grande, even if it served Norwegian food.
By surprisefries on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 10:36am.
I assumed clueless. ANT (the real one) is pretty small/niche, I wouldn't expect anyone who's not pretty into cycling to know it.
However, I am very surprised it got past the lawyers.
By Banrion on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 1:54pm.
I walk the Greenway early in the morning and it looked more like Ant Bike was selectively placing their bikes in high visibility areas than it did random riders leaving them where they shouldn't be. Even if they were left where they shouldn't be, the bikes should have been collected overnight, no?
By Scauma on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:25pm.
Got to protect those revenue sources I guess though.
Hubway is a lot more
Hubway is a lot more expensive than Ant for one-off trips ($2.50 vs $1). Either Hubway is charging too much, or Ant is charging too little.
If Hubway is charging too much, then it's going to have a hard time keeping lower-cost competitors from popping up.
Hubway is (was?) loosing money
The previous management company went bankrupt.
Hubway bikes are better built and the docks add a lot of cost. They also don't require a smartphone which not everyone has. I'm curious if the dockless companies are actually making money or just hoping to build a following before raising prices.
The previous company went
By MattyC on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 10:53am.
The previous company went bankrupt because they owed a ton of money to other municipalities. Boston owns this system here and the actual management was never provided by Biki.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/01/bixi-files-bankruptcy-bik...
Soon, bike medallions will be
By tcf098 on Sun, 05/20/2018 - 8:44pm.
Soon, bike medallions will be a reality, worth thousands of dollars each.
By Roman on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 1:07pm.
the ban hammer will come down on privately owned bikes...
and maybe a tax on walking with your own two feet...
and just for laughs, a prohibition on carrying more than 10 lbs...sorry 5kg--got to be PC about units of measurement you see... of groceries without engaging the services of a licensed and insured schlepper.
Metric isn't PC
Metric is a far more useful and consistent measurement system used by most of the world and by scientists, too.
That's not "PC" - that's rational.
English Units are Politically Correct
The Metric System is just sensible, internally consistent, and rational.
Science uses it. Most countries use it. The only reason the US doesn't use metric is ... politics!
There is nothing rational about metric units
Basing your standards on water and the length of the quarter-meridian through Paris is just as arbitrary as basing it on human anatomy...and slightly less convenient for everyday use.
Metric units are designed to be rational. They multiply with orders of magnitude. They are based on weight and volume of water. They have inherent interoperability. That is why they are standard in scientific measurements and engineering systems. Simple.
https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/metric.html
You are just incapable of understanding rationality.
There's nothing special or extra rational about water, the quarter meridian through Paris, or the number 10. They are completely arbitrary choices. You might not understand what 'arbitrary' means but that's not for me to correct.
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Rational Thoughts
By frobot on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 9:21am.
Water - The basis of the metric units for mass and volume. Pure water has the exact same properties worldwide if measured under the same conditions. Not arbitrary.
Paris Meridian and the Meter - I admittedly didn't know the history here, so I looked it up:
...the Paris meridian was also a sound choice for practical scientific reasons: a portion of the quadrant from Dunkirk to Barcelona (about 1000 km, or one-tenth of the total) could be surveyed with start- and end-points at sea level, and that portion was roughly in the middle of the quadrant, where the effects of the Earth's oblateness were expected to be the largest
Somewhat arbitrary, yes, but not completely.
The Number 10 - This is arguably the biggest advantage to the Metric system. With few exceptions, the base-10 number system is used worldwide for nearly everything. That includes both the English and Metric measurement systems. Metric units can be changed with a simple movement of the decimal point. The English system requires unique multipliers to do the same, depending on what units you're working with. That seems overly complicated. 10 may not be "special", but it is certainly a rational basis for a measurement system. How anybody can deny that is beyond me.
Nothing rational about 10?
Ok, quick and without a calculator, convert 300 feet into miles.
Now convert 300 meters into km.
Which was easier?
What if I'm carrying over 5
By tofu on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 3:54pm.
What if I'm carrying over 5 kilos of groceries on my private bike?
...and the market will
...and the market will eventually be dominated by a handful of Bicycle Tycoons.
Seems like a series of easy solutions
By spin_o_rama on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:43pm.
This sounds like a solid argument for the city installing bike corals on most blocks, just like we install free resident parking for cars. There might be someway to tie a fee to it like we do for metered spots in high demand areas but in general, the precedent has already been set. And we already have public parking spaces that have been rented out to ZipCar, so theres another option.
Enforcement could be quite easy since each bike as unique company identity and serial number. The bike companies could be fined/bikes confiscated and pass along those costs to the particular users who improperly park their bikes, just like we do with cars. As a ZipCar member, those are things we have to take into consideration already.
And we can let the free market dictate the volume of bikes that different areas would demand, based on the usage and needs of the bikeshare members. This might be more ideal for neighborhoods in parts of the city that haven't been deemed worthy of Hubway/Blue Bike expansion yet. Again this is similar to how we have allocated public space for private vehicles and demand for those spots overtime is influenced by how its used.
Just seems like a much better option to encourage not only competition but give alternative transit options for peoples mobility in the city. Of course that'll mean taking away some parking spaces from cars and as a result, I expect some very logical and well-worded rebuttals to these ideas.
Doesn't make sense
Parking spots for bicycles are not scarce like parking spaces for cars.
By spin_o_rama on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 9:17am.
Its illegal for us to tie up to public property, unless its a bike rack and frequently you will see signs saying we can't lock to private property. In both cases we risk having our locks cut and bikes confiscated, just like cars risk getting towed for illegally parking.
So really we are limited to the few bike racks around town that we've been graced with and thats just not enough. Parking spots for bicycles are far scarcer than parking for cars.
By eekanotloggedin on Sat, 05/19/2018 - 9:49am.
In Boston, you can lock to any signpost that isn’t a sign for accessible parking.
Totally Bogus
By Stevil on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:43pm.
I smell a lawsuit - don't waste your time or your money. Like your stupid taxi rules, the world will move faster than the city and the city will lose in the end.
Now if we can just do something about restrictions on the number of liquor licenses...
Under what authority?
I can rent a bike from whoever I want, and leave it or lock it anywhere legal. Why should it matter if I'm renting it from a company for a short amount of time?
You would think........
but much like Marty and the AirBnB scenario, big gov't will tell you what's best, especially if they're not getting a cut.
It is already illegal to lock
By RWC on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 8:05am.
It is already illegal to lock a bike to public property that is not a bike rack. Always has been. That is how they remove them all when there is a parade or the Marathon, etc. Mostly it doesn’t get enforced against people who do it with private bikes. Now we are talking about someone who’s business model is to use public space for private profit. Different thing.
I don't think so...
By JonT on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 10:04am.
...and neither does the City of Boston. According to https://www.boston.gov/departments/boston-bikes/park-your-bike it is perfectly fine to lock a bike on most sign posts, "except for those used to designate accessible parking (HP) spaces, loading zones, or bus stops."
I have never read that page
I have never read that page before. Thank you for posting it.
By TiminCharlestown on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 12:57pm.
- Monopolies are rarely best for the customer in the long run
- Innovation is going to happen. As someone mentioned up above, had dockless systems been available earlier, it might have been selected by the municipalities
- Shockingly, where people need or want to go is not governed by municipal / political boundaries and to pretend otherwise is bizarre.
I hope that the municipalities come up with a better answer than "BAN THE INSIPID INFIDEL BIKE AGITATORS IN OUR MIDST."
I'm not against some sort of reasonable regulation and monitoring, but protectionist, political boundary oriented approaches doesn't seem like the answer to me.
Of course, this is Boston.
By Gary C on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 1:25pm.
Boston (et al) paid good money to create a nice bike-share system, part of which states that Hubway/Bluebikes will be the sole provider. Boston's confiscation of competing bikes is merely living up to the agreement they signed. The idea is to have one well-funded and maintained system for bike sharing, which I'd say they have mainly achieved, yes at the expense of competition.
Going forward, there is nothing to say that Bluebikes can't incorporate dockless bikes or perhaps migrate to being all dockless (it's been done elsewhere.) When the next renewal of the contract comes up, if Ant (or someone else) wants to offer a better deal to the cities, then by all means let's have a contest. But for now, a deal is in place and it's the city's obligation to uphold the arrangement that they signed with Bluebikes.
Honestly I understand your
Honestly I understand your point. I think the concern is the City limiting people's option to one choice, and now you are bound to Hubway regardless. Competition is a good thing. The City is way to entrenched in Uber, AirBnB and other little nonsense instead of focusing on violence, roads, MBTA and other necessities. The City keeps shoving bike lines into this world-class City, but we only have room for one vendor.
The biggest problem I see is
The biggest problem I see is the wealthy and hipster segments have had Hubway for YEARS while the inner suburbs and urban areas that are less white have been sitting around waiting for bike access. Many of these areas still do not have that access... which means if you want to bike from Roxbury to Downtown or Everett to Downtown you will not be able to if the city of Boston swoops in and junks the bikes.
There is ONE way
By Gary C on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 8:45am.
You can BUY a bike and ride from point A to point B, no matter where they are located.
There are plenty of Blue Bike stations in Roxbury, though there are still large sections of Dorchester that aren't covered.
Need a different analogy
This isn't like Uber and Lyft disrupting cabs.
This is more like banning non-Zip Car rental cars from parking in Boston.
Actually its more like
By Marco on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 3:31pm.
them banning you from running your own personal train on the MBTA tracks, or charging fares on your own gypsy-bus using the existing bus stops.
Hubway is a city owned transportation infrastructure mode of transit. They own the bikes, they own the stations, they own the trucks that move the bikes, and they contract out Hubway to run it for them. No one is saying you can't rent bikes from somewhere else and ride them into the city, you would just have to lock it up, bring it inside, etc, just as you would your personal bike. If you just dump the bike on a sidewalk it is within the city's rights to pick up abandoned property. If the rental company wants to get there before the public works truck that's on them I suppose.
If a mom and pop storefront operation rented out bikes you would have to return it to them no? Or else be charged for the price of the bike? If you were renting from Joey's Bike Rentals would you ride their bike to work then toss it behind the bushes or on the lawn? No you would not.
These other bike rental services are allowed by law to exist, but if they wanna play ball in Boston they are gonna have to come up with a different model than "just throw this where ever you want, it's fine"
By Oscar Worthy on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 9:03pm.
The City and the State both operate public swimming pools. Some require admission fees of different sorts, presumably to offset maintenance costs. This bike crusade would be like banning hotels from also providing access to their pools for a fee, because it may theoretically cut into the 'business' that the City is doing, under the pretense that it would be starving the public of the revenue needed to maintain the publicly-run parks and pool system.
The problem here, is the City competing with private companies in the free market in an area where it shouldn't be. I mean, it's bikes for crapssakes! This is the government that won't compete against drug companies that are bilking the public beyond belief re prescription medicines - but they'll go after some little bikeshare start-up in the 'public interest'?
there is something
By Luke Warm on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 1:45pm.
crazy about the city confiscating rented bikes for the purposes of an exclusive contract. I am not an attorney but I am really wondering how they can get away with that for very long
what if the city had a contract with Honda or Toyota, and was going to confiscate all other cars? At some point, the principle has to shine through **even if and despite of** ya'll being used to might makes right
cars are not going to be here in 100 years, and you all know it
You have drivers essentially
By Kinopio on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 1:50pm.
You have drivers essentially stealing thousands of dollars by illegally using handicap placards on a daily basis which get them free parking, yet there is no enforcement of that. But someone rides a non blue bike into Boston? CAN'T HAVE THAT!!1!
One, Two, Three, Four...
By tachometer on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 2:02pm.
Adam declares a bike war!
(in the comments here that is)
Washington DC allows both and
By J on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 2:10pm.
Washington DC allows both and has actually helped their docked system.
A "rising tide" effect.
https://ggwash.org/view/67638/dockless-bikeshare-helped-grow-the-total-s...
People try the dockless and eventually decide they want a docked memebrship
I don't get this reaction
(Sorry, this is kind of rambly, tl;dr: the operation costs for a dockless system are probably pretty high and they only scale by putting a lot of bikes in to the system and probably won't make money.)
I'm not sold on dockless bikes, really. The big problem with Hubway is peak hour balance (heck, that's a problem with all transportation). But at least the bikes go somewhere predictable (a bike station) and the operator can pick them up and bring them back for the next round of commuters (Hubway does just this).
A dockless bike share operator would have the same issue, except that the bikes wouldn't go anywhere predictable, so the only way to get bikes from one place to another would be to pay someone to drive around and find them wherever they are. That's not scalable or feasible. So most of these bikes will wind up getting one ride a day from commuters, if that (but probably a lot less). And they'll pile up in places during the day. The point of Hubway as an operator is to help rebalance the system (which they don't always do a great job of). Plus there's the question of: if each of these bicycles has a single user, why not just buy your own bike? And when there's a foot and a half of snow, do these bikes just sit in ice until they melt, or does someone schlep around with a shovel to rescue each one? Maybe they're a gateway drug to biking more, but I sort of wonder.
What Hubway might be concerned about is losing some of the lucrative tourist business. I pay $99 a year for Hubway (well, less, my employer subsidizes it) for all the rides I can take. A lot of tourists are happy to $8 per day to ride, and then to pay overtime fees, because what's a $20 ride when you've dropped $250 on a hotel room and $600 on flights and $40 for a trolley tour duck tour or—good lord—$60 for an hour-long Segue tour. The city probably wants to soak the tourists, and I'm kind of okay with that to subsidize a service that actually works for commuters.
The dockless bike finance model seems to be the Lyft/Uber model (or the Underpants Gnome model): put a lot of things out on the road, ???, profit. $350 per bike capital cost, so if you can get 4 rides per day you'll pay it back within 90 days, hooray! Except that you have to have some staff, the bikes are going to get abused, rebalanced, etc, and the operational costs of a dockless system are higher than the a dock system (albeit with lower capital costs). If each bike has to get "rescued" from somewhere and brought back in to the system once a week and serviced once a month, that's five touches a month. If each takes an hour of personnel time (to get to the bike, and then bring it somewhere) and you can get away with paying someone $20 per hour (with overhead costs included, this isn't much) you're looking at an operational cost of $1200 per year. Now you'd need those 4 rides per day (apparently, in China, it's 3.2 rides per bike per day, and the company started because people kept stealing bikes) just to cover these costs. And you can't afford to have bikes parked in people's yards, or pushed in to the bushes, or thrown in the river, or just parked behind a wall where it's hard to find them and they can't get a great GPS signal, because then they generate no money. And at least right now there's no price discrimination, so there's no upside for tourist business. Plus if they're getting this much ridership, people probably figure out they can just buy a goddamn bike and a U-lock.
Boston/Cambridge/Brookline/Somerville probably realizes that if these bikes are basically abandoned property and removed, it pretty quickly kills off the questionable business model once and for all. The dockless companies can suggest that people leave them in allowable spaces (bike racks, street signs, public property not blocking sidewalks) but they have no enforcement mechanism. And the city does have an interest in keeping the sidewalks clear. I'd say the cities' policy should be something along the lines of "We'll let these bikes in, but if they're left somewhere illegal, we're removing them, just like we would with any other bicycle." Except since the dockless bikes (generally) don't have to be locked up, they don't have to get someone out from DPW with an angle grinder.
So anyway, this was a total ramble, but I don't believe the dockless bike hype.
Good rant
Good points. Rummer has it Hubway is trying to figure out some combo bike which would dock in the city and be dockless in the suburbs. Other cities require dockless bikes be locked to something so hopefully they don't cause as much clutter. Both are good better alternatives.
Thank you for calling them rentals
"Bike-sharing" is too much like that "sharing economy" newspeak, made up by people who never learned sharing in kindergarten, but must have gone to a kindergarten where they were taught to lie, cheat, and exploit the masses. Maybe in Connecticut.
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Pork for the poor
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By Amanda Carpenter The Washington Times - July 20, 2009, 12:37PM
Is pork for the poor the sort of fatty government spending everyone is supposed to hate? The Obama Administration hopes not.
Government contracts for canned meats and hams paid with millions worth of stimulus money made available on recovery.gov sure looked porky to Matt Drudge. He highlighted a handful of them on his highly-trafficked Drudge Report as means of criticizing the spending.
Some of those items included a contract for more than $16 million to purchase canned pork from the Wisconsin-based Lakeside Foods, Inc and others worth more than $3 million that went to the California-based Clougherty Packing for hams.
But the Obama Administration said their critics were too quick to judge the merits of the spending by just skimming the contract. The Department of Agriculture issued a statement explaining those meats were purchased to feed the hungry via food banks, food pantries and soup kitchens.
The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed earlier this year for the purpose of jumpstarting the economy and job creation. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack maintains the pork purchases are in line with that goal
He said in a statement “While the principal purpose of these expenditures is to provide food to those hardest hit by these tough times, the purchases also provide a modest economic benefit of benefiting Americans working at food retailers, manufacturers and transportation companies as well as the farmers and ranchers who produce our food supply.”
John Hart, a spokesman for the fiscally conservative Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, isn’t buying it. “Few things would benefit low-income families more than having Washington join in the real world of fixed budgets and tough choices,” he said. He menionedt there were millions in other wasteful projects included in the stimulus like the $2 bililon for the “FutureGen” power plant for Matoon, Illinois.
“Congressional leaders have no interest in sharing their pork with those less fortunate,” Mr. Hart said. “These examples show yet again that stimulus funds are not being used for job creation but are subsidizing Congress’ refusal to make tough choices and prioritize spending.”
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Amanda Carpenter writes the daily “Hot Button” column for The Washington Times. She was formerly a national political reporter for Townhall.com, the leading online publication for news, opinion and talk. Prior to that, she was a reporter for Human Events. Ms. Carpenter has made numerous media appearances that include segments on the Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC and other ...
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Talking Racing And Watches With Red Bull Racing’s Pierre Gasly
It’s not easy breaking into Formula One’s exclusive field of 20 drivers. Fortunately, Pierre Gasly doesn't crack under pressure.
By Josh Shanks
Managing Editor US
When Daniel Riccardo left Red Bull Racing at the end of 2018, he left behind a much coveted F1 race seat. Having a place on a top-tier team such as Red Bull puts you at the tip-top echelon of motor racing. With F1’s current roster of 10 teams (two cars per team), there aren't a lot of opportunities for even the most experienced of drivers. Luckily, Pierre Gasly isn’t your average racer.
Pierre Gasly © Sutton Images
The French-born Formula One driver has excelled at nearly every level of motorsport. The GP2 and Formula Renault champion joined the Red Bull program in 2014 when he became the team’s reserve driver. In 2017, Gasly was promoted to Red Bull’s sister team Toro Rosso. After multiple points finishes in 2018, Gasly was formally promoted to Red Bull’s parent team, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing. On the occasion of the Canada Grand Prix, Watchonista was given the opportunity to speak with Gasly about his love of watches and much, much more.
Pierre Gasly at the Canadian Grand Prix © beyondtheflag.com
Joining Team TAG Heuer
A cool side benefit of joining Red Bull was the team’s association with TAG Heuer. Partners since 2016, Red Bull Racing, and TAG Heuer recently renewed their partnership into 2019 and beyond. Gasly joins Max Verstappen as ambassadors of sorts for TAG Heuer's 'Don't Crack Under Pressure' campaign.
TAG Heuer Calibre 01 on Pierre Gasly's wrist
Another benefit is the watch! Most young adults are adjusting to the pressures of a post-college 9 to 5. The thought of spending thousands of dollars on a wristwatch hasn’t even entered their minds. Yet, Gasly, at the age of 23 received a TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 01 upon his arrival at the team. Thus far, his 2019 results on track have been impressive given the enormous pressure he's under.
TAG Heuer Monaco 1969-1979 Limited Edition
Interview with Pierre Gasly
Just seven races into the 2019 season and Gasly has scored five top 10 finishes. He's certainly a driver worth keeping an eye on, which is why we were so thrilled to be able to sit down with him!
Pierre Gasly with Josh Shanks
Josh Shanks: Pierre! A pleasure to meet you. Thanks for taking the time for Watchonista. How are you finding your first season with Red Bull?
Pierre Gasly: I must say it's been pretty good. Starting at the beginning of the year [with Red Bull], only my second season in Formula One, and being on a top team for sure felt amazing. Also, because, since I joined the Red Bull program back in 2014, was like my dream as a young driver to join this team. So, yeah, it's clearly something special to be part of this team, and I would say it's going well, but every weekend I'm always looking to improve.
JS: It was a good day today! [Gasly qualified 5thfor the Canadian Grand Prix]
PG: Yeah, it was good [laughs]. I'm never satisfied, so I always look at how I could have done a bit better. But the overall feel was decent.
Pierre Gasly's Pit Stop at Monaco (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images)
JS: What was your first nice watch?
PG: I always liked watches, but when you don't have the money to buy them, you look at them, and it's kind of a dream. So, I would say that for the past 18 months I've gotten more into the differences between all of them. I like fashion in general. I love clothing and accessories, so watches are part of that.
Pierre Gasly talking about his dream of owning a hundred TAG Heuers
JS: Racing and timekeeping are intrinsically linked, what's your relationship with time?
PG: Well, as you said, timing is our whole lives because we're always looking at how to go faster. I think life, in general, everybody is time efficient and looking at how they can be more efficient in everything they do. So, especially as a racing driver, I think that's the primary correlation that we have with time. The whole time we are in the car we are looking for thousandths of a second - a couple of hundredths or tenths - and that makes a huge difference in my life. Like today, two-tenths [of a second], would have put me third and I would have a much bigger smile than I have now [laughs]. It's all about time in our lives. Everything is about time. I always feel like I never have enough, like 99% of people. But, as a driver, you are always connected with time.
JS: What is your go-to watch?
PG: I would say there are a couple I like. Of course, the Formula One models that we wear pretty often. But I quite like the Monaco, which is a classic.
JS: A lot of your fellow racers have nice watches. Are there any good watch stories from the pit lane or paddock?
PG: For sure. You know, the more experienced drivers, the world champions, as soon as you start to earn [money], that's part of the [lifestyle]. For many, it's something really elegant, you know, to have nice watches and to have quite big collections. I don't really have any stories in mind. I'm not going to say any names [laughs], but I know top drivers have big collections with different brands and expensive pieces. Hopefully, I'm going to be in that position one day where I will have my room with….
JS: A hundred TAG Heuers…
PG: Exactly [laughs]. I mean the good thing is, of course in Formula One, as it's related to time, you always see a lot of different watches. It's clearly something, for me, it excites me, and I would like to get more into it.
JS: With TAG Heuer you join pretty prestigious company, I mean, there's been a long line of drivers that have raced under the TAG Heuer banner. One of those drivers is Ayrton Senna. What would you say, as a driver, you’ve learned from Senna?
PG: For me, it's pretty amazing to represent a brand that he represented since he's my idol in Formula One. Of course, I'm a different generation. I was born after he had his crash, unfortunately. But the legacy he left in Formula One and what people say about the kind of driver he was and the kind of person he was. For me, he was my idol since I was really young and in carting. He was really special, really talented, really fast, but with a lot of charisma as well. And, he just managed to touch a lot of people in Formula One but also outside the sport. He was a legend of Formula One.
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Embraer announces bumper 300 aircraft deals worth $15.3bn
Gasps as new contract announcements brings Farnborough 2018 total to 300 aircraft
Embraer made a host of new contract announcements on Tuesday, bringing its Farnborough 2018 totals to 300 aircraft, worth a total of $15.3bn.
An audible gasp came from the crowd in Embraer's packed media centre after its announced deal after deal with Mauritania Airlines, NAC, Wataniya Airways, Helvetic Airways, Azul, Republic Airways and an undisclosed Spanish Airline.
The deals announced were for:
Two firm E175 orders for Mauritania Airlines
A letter of intent (LOI) for three E190s for NAC
A five-aircraft (three firm, two purchase rights) E195-E2 order for an undisclosed Spanish airline
An order for 20 E195-E2 (10 firm, 10 purchase rights) for Wataniya Airways
A 24 E190-E2 (12 firm, 12 purchase rights) aircraft order from Helvetic Airways in Switzerland
A 21 E195-E2 firm order letter of intent from Azul
And a massive 200 E175 (100 firm, with the right to convert to E175-E2, and purchase rights for an additional 100) letter of intent for an order from Republic Airways in the US.
These announcements joined Monday's news that Embraer has signed United Airlines for 25 E175s in a 70-seat configuration, bringing the total aircraft ordered at Farnborough to the magic 300.
An ecstatic John Slattery, President and CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation, said: "We established momentum with the E1, and are continuing now with the E2. We have an 85 per cent market share in our segment, and that is certainly continuing to move in the right direction."
Demand worth $600bn over next 20 years
And the run of good news has probably not ended. Embraer forecasts demand for 10,550 new aircraft with up to 150 seats worldwide, worth $600 billion, over the next 20 years.
It says the in-service fleet is set to increase to 16,000 aircraft, up from the 9,000 aircraft currently in operation. It also predicts market growth will drive 65 per cent of this demand, while the remaining 35 per cent will replace ageing aircraft.While region-specific outlooks vary considerably, it says efficiency and sustainability remain the underlying drivers of the projected market demand. Embraer says the up to 150-seat segment will form an ever more integral part of the global air transport ecosystem.
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Why we love Star Wars: an explainer for 'normal' people
Star Wars is not just for kids and infantile, middle-aged men - it's so much more than that
Dear 'normal' people,
We know that for as many of us who were in the queue to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening night and will be first in line for this week's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, there’s an equally sizeable proportion of our planet-dwelling populace who will be raising a collective shrug, taking to the streets to enjoy the sudden dearth of traffic, get a table at that busy restaurant, and do anything they can to avoid mentions of The Force. (As for the rest of us, we find your lack of faith disturbing.)
Loving Star Wars can be misunderstood as simplistic: the love of a sci-fi trilogy – of Empire aside – debatable greatness, and a prequel trilogy infamous in its mediocrity. But listen, nerf-herders: it’s so much more than that. Here's why:
Because it’s about friendship
"For me, Star Wars wasn’t ever about the films. The prequels came out when I was a teenager, and I’d seen the Original Trilogy – and recognised their inherent superiority – a little earlier. But for me, the immersion came mostly from games: from early memories of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, to playing out epic Battlefront II space battles with my brother and later, as a retro fix with my best friend at university. I remember adoring the Knights Of The Old Republic games with their sheer volume of lore: wise-cracking robots, sleek spaceships piloted by brave rogues, traitorous Sith Lords. The films will always be a cultural touchstone (and Episode I, I will always insist, is cruelly underrated). But for me Star Wars means more than who shot first, or doing Chewie impressions. It’s the universe that A New Hope started. And it’s being a kid with my friends, our imaginations fired by a galaxy far, far away."
Oliver Franklin-Wallis, assistant editor, WIRED
I was a Stormtrooper for 15 minutes and it was awesome
"Stepping stone of my childhood; great, classic storytelling that still works nowadays. It features interesting and complex characters. Leia was a role model – a strong lady who doesn't take any BS and leads an army to freedom. Also, it got (kid!) me interested in SF which is a big passion to this day, and it got me to bond with my father. It's a universal story that helped make SF a globally appreciated genre. It's got the right formula of high stakes and action, romance and angst. It's got funny characters, too, and classic tropes – and it's infinitely entertaining."
@Hockeyfied
"Adventure, fun, good v evil, strong female character, lightsabers, memorable quotes, the unity you feel with others who love it. And specifically this ewok."
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By Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Because it's about childhood
"It was the first sci-fi franchise I ever watched. I was so young, I don't remember my first time watching. I was raised on it. Leia was a different type of Princess than those in most movies shown to girls my age. She was a political & military leader. It showed me a girl who was like me: rough and tumble and loud and brash and demanding. That felt unique and rare at the time. Star Wars and Leia and Padme became fundamental parts of my childhood and identity. They showed me it was okay to just be me. Plus, laser swords and telekinesis and JEDI and battles in space. That was pretty cool too."
@WhovianFeminism
"Because it's fucking brilliant. Good vs evil, vehicles & weapons that make wicked noises, brilliant cast, effects...and crazy-cool creatures and settings. Loved all the toys and merch, the whole universe created around it. Plus cocky Han Solo in leather trousers with his blaster and lopsided smile was my 'Princess Leia gold bikini'."
@AnnieRich75
"Epic story of good vs. evil, totally immersive worlds, Leia & Han's dynamic, plus lightsabers & spaceships are cool. Also, at 12, when I first saw Star Wars, I totally wanted to be a Jedi. (That may still be true.)"
LEGO's £650 Star Wars Millennium Falcon set is its biggest ever
By Mike Dent
@DuncanAlexandra
"9yo in 1977. Blew my fucking mind. Walked out of 25th St theater in Waco TX calculating yrs to be Leia's age, own blaster."
@ejwillingham
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Because it's all about the build-up
"I love Star Wars for the build-up. The joy of seeing a first trailer, for me, outstrips the experience of seeing the entire film that follows. No Star Wars movie can hope to completely match the feeling of watching the original trilogy, simply because you’re no longer a child but a grown up who knows Chewie is a man in a suit and that you’ve probably missed your chance to grow up to be an intergalactic bounty hunter. But in the build-up, as much for The Phantom Menace as The Force Awakens, it’s all potential. Everything you want is possible. You get fleeting reunions with favourite characters, hints of new ones to come, and for those moments the excitement is the one you remember from so long ago. It almost doesn’t matter what follows, that belief that something great might be coming is one of the best parts of being a film fan. And no series delivers that thrill like Star Wars."
This lightsaber will turn you into a augmented reality Jedi master
By Matt Burgess
Olly Richards, WIRED contributor
Because gadgets
"Because despite the continued meddling from Mr Lucas and his many updates (Hey, George, bring back Yub Nub!) nothing can dull the child-like excitement the series has given me for all things sci-fi. Plus, as product editor, I have been searching the tech companies high and low for someone to make a working Dejarik table. I think with the arrival of proper home VR, the time might be upon us."
Jeremy White, product editor, WIRED
Because it's about the real world
"I like its parallels to Rome, to the Odyssey, nods to the dark side being Nazi, it's very nuanced if you look."
This tricked-out R2 Unit lets you become a master droid builder
@BronwynRugby
"Parallels with Weimar Republic’s fall, clunky yet fascinating dialogues -- 'That’s how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.'"
@GMVolpi
Because it teaches us the value of stories
"Every culture rewrites its folk tales, layering on new characters' faces to ancient bones. Heroes, monsters, prophets and prophecies, and love – these are universal. Religions have risen and fallen on the likeability of their characters. (There is a reason that Thor is a member of the Avengers.) And Star Wars – for all that it is an old, arbitrary plot, told with uneven balance across six, mostly bad films – is one of the best. We adapted it, shared it, venerated it and consumed it, but now it lives inside us, between us, binding us together. Fan or not, Star Wars is part of you, and you are part of it. Like the travels of Odysseus, the ravages of our ancient, meddlesome gods, the trials of Superman and the heroic journeys of Mario, you can't avoid it.
And as a tale of the 20th century, it could hardly be more relevant: it is there to warn us about the dangers of Fascism, to chide us for our greed, and remind us of the need for patience, balance with nature, and friendship. Star Wars confirms the eternal value of stories, our human ability to share our wisdom, and our willingness to settle down together in a dark place and have someone spin us a tale we already know. And how could you not love that?"
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Michael Rundle, former wired.co.uk editor
"The epic adventure crossed language, gender and race. It was a universal experience and made us all want to be brave."
@DebStanish
"The universe is so detailed and brilliant it's easy to picture yourself in it. And who doesn't want to be a Jedi?"
@AuthorBJPearson
When neural networks name planets, they call them Tina
Because its cultural impact is unparalleled
"Love may be the wrong word, but I'm fascinated by Star Wars because in many, many parallel worlds, George Lucas had a career as a respected documentary filmmaker, or a totemic editor. In maybe one of a million universes does his combination of the narrative structure of a fairy tale with the model-making and aesthetic of the downbeat, broken future sci-fi movies of the 70s even get made.
In one out of a billion it turns out to be the most successful independent creative enterprise of all time. I'm fascinated by Star Wars because of what a world without Star Wars would look like. No Star Wars means no LucasFilm or LucasArts. Would there still have been a golden age of video adventure games without Monkey Island, Full Throttle or Sam and Max? Would there be a Mass Effect without Knights of the Old Republic? Would JJ Abrams be making Star Trek movies, never mind Star Wars movies, without the hunt for the next space sensation that relaunched the franchise? Would Harrison Ford have become Hollywood's most sought-after carpenter? And what would be filling that hole in Disney's plan for world media domination?
One of many incredible things about Star Wars is that every time you think you've mapped out every aspect of how different a world without Star Wars would be, you think of something else."
Daniel Nye-Griffiths, contributing editor, WIRED
Ron Howard is the new director of the Star Wars Han Solo spinoff
"The birth of ILM."
@viewdata
Because it contains wisdom
“My son’s current motto for life is Yoda’s ‘Do, or Do Not; there is no Try.’ He’s 7."
Steve Peck, director of photography, WIRED
"It's a better story than the bible to tell you how to live."
@Fabien_UX
We want to hear your stories. Tweet @WIREDUK and include #WhyILoveStarWars to tell us why. This story was originally published ahead of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and has been reworked for Star Wars day on May 4
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Home Z_ARCHIVE WB Summary (WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 11 April 2008
(WisBusiness) FRI News Summary — 11 April 2008
— Madison-based Famous Footwear is moving its corporate headquarters to St. Louis, home to its parent company, Brown Shoe. The relocation had been rumored for months and will affect 270 workers at the Famous Footwear offices on Mineral Point Road.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he was “very disappointed” by the Brown Shoe decision.
“The City of Madison worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce and others to develop an attractive package of incentives for Brown Shoe.
“I personally traveled to St. Louis to make the case for Madison, and City staff and I were in frequent communication with the company,” he said.
See story: http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=123326
— Midwest Airlines, which grounded 13 of its Boeing MD-80 airplanes for wire inspections and cancelled 14 flights on Thursday, is going to furlough 35 pilots and downgrade another 22 from the rank of captain to first officer.
The Airline Pilots Association, which represents Midwest’s pilots, said it was told of the plans yesterday. The group said the rank reductions means the former captains will receive pay cuts.
The inspections, which were for safety reasons and mandated by the FAA, left several thousand passengers stranded.
See story: http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/4/10/#midwest-grounds-flights-lays-off-pilots
— SABMiller plc and Molson Coors Brewing Co. has named two executives to key positions in the MillerCoors joint venture, effective upon the closing of the transaction.
Tim Wolf was named chief integration officer-designate and Gavin Hattersley was appointed chief financial officer-designate of the prospective U.S. joint venture announced by SABMiller and Molson Coors last October.
Leo Kiely, current chief executive officer of Molson Coors, will be the CEO of the joint venture, and Tom Long, current CEO of Miller, will serve as president and chief commercial officer.
See story: http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/4/10/#millercoors-adds-more-pieces-to-leadership-team
— Kohl’s Corp. is reporting that sales for the five-week period ended April 5 decreased 7.9 percent over the five-week period ended April 7, 2007.
On a comparable store basis, sales decreased 15.5 percent. For the nine weeks ended April 5, 2008, total sales decreased 3.2 percent and comparable store sales decreased 11.1 percent.
The company now expects its first quarter comparable sales to be in the negative high-single digit range and its earnings to be 40 to 42 cents per diluted share.
UPCOMING WISPOLITICS/WISBUSINESS EVENTS
WisPolitics.com and WisBusiness.com have four events scheduled for April and May.
— April 14: University Research Park Director Mark Bugher
— April 22: Dale Van Atta, author of the new biography “With Honor; Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics.” (See an excerpt from the book: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=122814)
— May 5: Branding expert Marsha Lindsay
— May 6: Wis. Elections expert Robert Booth Fowler
See details on all the events:
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=122773
Wisconsin Bankers Association
A. O. Smith Schedules Conference Call Webcast to Review 2008 First Quarter Financial Results
Air Wisconsin Reports March Traffic
Brown Shoe Company, Inc. to Create Interconnected Footwear Company by Joining Madison, St. Louis Employees in St. Louis Headquarters
CellCast Urges FCC to Include Proven Cell Broadcast Technology in National Emergency Alert System for Cell Phones
National Insurance Services Selects The Standard for Nebraska School District Sole 403(b) Provider Plan
RF Technologies Assists Healthcare Providers in Avoiding Preventable Injury Conditions to be Denied Reimbursement by Medicare
State Patrol wins national award for improving large truck safety
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Possible Acquisition of Enodis plc (‘Enodis’)
United Heartland Group Program Earns Record Dividend
UW-Whitewater students come together to fund a cure for PLGA
Famous Footwear to leave Madison: Brown Shoe, the parent company of Famous Footwear, is consolidating its corporate headquarters in suburban St. Louis, a move that will cost Madison some 270 jobs. The company announced Thursday that it would begin immediately closing its offices at 7010 Mineral Point Road and moving those positions to Clayton, Mo. It plans to complete the move by the fall of this year. Employees here will be offered jobs in St. Louis or a buyout package of 1.5 weeks of pay per year of service. The company also will offer relocation or outplacement assistance. “Moving our Madison office, which has the smaller population of the two, will be the least disruptive to our business and our employees, enabling us to continue providing great products and service to our customers,” said Famous Footwear President Joe Wood.
http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/281119
Plexus to move to new $18M office building in downtown Neenah: Plexus Corp. announced today that it will move its corporate headquarters to a new $18 million office building on the site of the former Glatfelter paper mill in downtown Neenah. The four-story, 94,000-square-foot office building will bring 325 employees into Neenah’s central business district. “This is great news for the economic health of Neenah and the continued revitalization of our downtown,” Mayor George Scherck said. “It is important for our community to retain and support successful companies like Plexus, whose roots run deep in Neenah but whose market extends worldwide.”
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/OSH0101/304110019/1987
Grants link regional resources: WIRED fund helps create partnerships… A regional effort to reform the Milwaukee area economy through its work force takes a step forward today at Pier Wisconsin. That’s where the Regional Workforce Alliance of Southeastern Wisconsin will inform an expected 150 stakeholders about a $2.5 million fund to seed collaborations seeking novel ways to build talent in the Milwaukee 7 region. The WIRED Innovation Fund aims at fostering partnerships that will form sustainable, replicable approaches to accelerate development of a globally competitive work force in the region. The money is part of a federal Department of Labor initiative – Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development – that combines efforts in education, work force development and economic development.
Wis. attorney general asks FCC to block satellite radio merger: Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen wants the FCC to block a merger of the nation’s only two satellite radio companies. The U.S. Justice Department decided earlier this month to permit Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.’s proposed $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. The FCC still has to sign off. Van Hollen, a Republican, sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Wisconsin’s congressional delegation on Monday complaining the deal would eliminate competition in the satellite radio industry, drive up prices for services and reduce channels available to Wisconsin listeners. “Broadcast radio is no substitute for satellite radio,” Van Hollen wrote in the letter. Sirius wants to buy XM for about $5 billion.
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/04/11/wi/2wi11.txt
Cancellation headache continues: Midwest halts another 21 flights; American grounds hundreds more… Kevin and Peri Kerber and their 4-year-old daughter, Hannah, were looking forward to their Caribbean cruise. The ship left port Thursday afternoon. But the Kerbers weren’t on it, after their flight was canceled by Midwest Airlines. “We’ll try to catch up with the boat” once the family arrives in Florida, several hours late, Kevin Kerber said. They were among 3,600 Midwest Airlines passengers – along with around 250,000 American Airlines passengers – whose flights were canceled this week because of a Federal Aviation Administration order concerning MD-80 jets. Midwest Airlines canceled 21 Thursday flights and five flights on Wednesday involving its MD-80 aircraft so the jets could be inspected.
‘Earn while you learn’: State apprentice program seeks to train critically needed workers for the future: Cathy Mrotek’s eyes light up as she describes her new baby — an SNM, six-spindle, inch-and-a-quarter automatic screw machine. The $225,000 high-speed lathe can create a variety of lubricating and hydraulic equipment components out of brass, aluminum and steel. “It’s a never-ending learning process,” Mrotek, 45, said Tuesday of her job and the less than year-old machine at LDI Industries on Nagle Avenue in Manitowoc. Mrotek is one of 235 adults whose thirst for knowledge — and usually higher pay — has motivated them to take part in state-approved apprenticeship instruction this spring at Lakeshore Technical College.
http://www.htrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/MAN0101/804110472/1984
Midwest Composite to receive $7.2M in expansion aid: Midwest Composite Technologies Inc. in Hartland will be awarded a $7.2 million industrial revenue bond allocation to help finance an expansion, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. The company, which manufactures composite products, including molds, tooling, models and prototypes, will use the funds to help acquire an existing 69,000-square-foot plant. The more than $7.7 million project will create 13 jobs, Doyle said. The project is expected to allow Midwest Composite to streamline its manufacturing flow for increasing business. It will also enable the company to eliminate outsourcing, pursue its private label products with proximity to local medical corporations, and allow for future growth.
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/04/07/daily43.html?surround=lfn
– Innovation group sets session Thursday
– NAAB to Hold Annual Convention & Tech Conference in Milwaukee
http://wisconsinagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=453&yr=2008
– Farm Technology Days Heads Back to Marathon County in 2011
– Wintry March sends retail sales down
– Manpower to release earnings April 18
– Printing center gets $250,000 state grant
http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2008/April_08/04102008_10.asp
– Pierce unveils expanded PUC line
– Plexus news sets Neenah abuzz
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/APC0101/804110489/1979/APCnews
– GRC Logics gets $1.3 million upgrade
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/GPG03/804110579/1247/GPGbusiness
– United Industries plant closure will cost 109 jobs
– An investment in the work force
– Midwest to lay off pilots
– New beauty salon chained to green business approach
– Dow up despite weak retail numbers
– Two local businesses decide to impose their own smoking ban
– Program aims to be win-win for renters, landlords
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/04/11/news/z03renters11.txt
– Onalaska returns to riverfront venture
http://www.dailyreporter.com/item.cfm?recid=20048341&snippet=t&forward=%2Fitem%2Ecfm%3Frecid%3D20048341%26snippet%3Df
– Home sales drop
– NASS Weekly Cheddar Cheese Survey Prices Mixed
– Producers Display Their Best at Pioneer Showdown
– FAA taking heat for airline industry crisis
http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/281129
– Synchronized lights have fewer drivers seeing red
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/GPG0101/804110609/1207/GPGnews
– Local flights so far unaffected by nationwide cancellation crisis
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/04/11/news/03flights11.txt
– Kohl’s same-store sales plunge; firm cuts 1Q outlook
– Bon-Ton same-store sales down 5.3 percent
– Empty stores echo woes
– Costco’s neighbors multiplying rapidly at Grafton Commons
– Mexican chain opening in West Bend next week
– Marshfield Clinic works with Kwik Trip on new food lines
http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/MNH0101/804110402/1980
– DNR delays action on mercury rule
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/281111
– Permanent VHS rules get green light in Wisconsin
– Local travel agencies unaffected by mass flight cancelations
– Herons to inhabit area: Thirty-five colorful statues aim to promote arts and tourism
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/04/11/news/z02herons11.txt
– Fox Cities agencies prep for utility shut-off
– Swamped MMSD allows combined sewer overflows, blending
– Power outages hit 13,000
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080411/GPG0101/80411003/1206/GPGnews
– $140 million hospital to be built in Janesville
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/281105
– St. Mary’s to add hospital in Janesville
– Brideau says two hospitals ‘makes no sense’
– Measles outbreak brewing, officials say
– UW System is looking for donations
– Waukesha group seeks audit of teacher retirement funding
– Marcus Hotels’ Otto joins Ministry Health board
– John Oncken: Dairy ag sales reps provide labor of love
http://www.madison.com/tct/business/281048
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Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt make final pitch to Conservatives
Conservative party leadership candidate Boris Johnson gestures while delivering his speech during a Conservative leadership hustings at ExCel Centre in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The two contenders, Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are competing for votes from party members, with the winner replacing Prime Minister Theresa May as party leader and Prime Minister of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
LONDON (AP) — The two men competing to be Britain’s next leader have held their final televised event in front of Conservative Party members who will decide the winner.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s former and current foreign secretaries, spoke and answered questions Wednesday in front of hundreds of Tories at a London conference center.
Johnson, the strong front-runner according to pollsters and bookmakers, repeated his vow to take Britain out of the European Union on the currently scheduled date of Oct. 31, with or without a replacement for Prime Minister Theresa May’s “defunct” divorce agreement.
May announced her resignation last month after her Brexit deal was rejected by Parliament three times.
Johnson drew applause and cheers with a speech that was short on details but high on energy, at one point waving a kippered herring as part of a convoluted point about EU trade regulations.
He said Britons wanted the government to “get on and deliver Brexit.”
Hunt, a less charismatic politician who has pitched himself as the serious, stable candidate, argued that he was the best person to revive talks with the EU.
“I want to get a deal, and so we have got to make some profound changes to that withdrawal agreement,” he said.
The EU says the deal it struck with May is not up for renegotiation, and neither candidate has been able to say how they plan to secure changes.
Both say they are prepared to leave the bloc without an agreement, a course most economists say would cause economic turmoil.
About 160,000 Conservative members have until Monday to vote by postal ballot. The winner will be announced Tuesday and will replace May as party leader and prime minister.
AP’s full coverage of Brexit and the Conservative Party leadership race: https://www.apnews.com/Brexit
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — New avalanches falling on a popular trekking route in Nepal forced rescuers to halt their search for four South Korean trekkers and three Nepali guides who were believed to have been swept by a snowslide, an official said Sunday.
Some 200 climbers have been rescued from other parts of the trekking trail and flown to safety by helicopters over the weekend, Department of Tourism official Meera Acharya said.
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Martine Gutierrez, Front Cover from Indigenous Woman, 2018. (c) Martine Gutierrez; courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
Martine Gutierrez, installation view of Indigenous Woman, 2018, courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
Martine Gutierrez, Demons, Tlazoteotl ‘Eater of Filth,’ p91 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. (c) Martine Gutierrez; courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
Martine Gutierrez, Covertgirl, Ad p44 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. (c) Martine Gutierrez; courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
Martine Gutierrez, Demons, Xochiquetzal ‘Flower Quetzal Feather,’ p94 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. (c) Martine Gutierrez; courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
Martine Gutierrez, Neo-Indeo, Unclockable In Ixinca, p21 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. (c) Martine Gutierrez; courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.
New York Art, October 11, 2018
Martine Gutierrez’s Glittering, Glossy, and Gutsy “Indigenous Woman”
For Martine Gutierrez’s current show at Ryan Lee Gallery in New York (on view through October 20), the artist created a large-format glossy magazine entitled Indigenous Woman. In the project, Gutierrez wore many hats—editor in chief, creative director, model, photographer, stylist, hair and makeup, and more. She celebrates Mayan Indian heritage, indigeneity, and the fluidity of self-image from front cover to back, and even the ads in between.
Whitewall caught up with the transgender Latinx artist about creating political, personal, and beautiful work that can travel, and therefore connect, beyond the gallery.
WHITEWALL: What was the starting point for Indigenous Woman? How long has this been in the making?
MARTINE GUTIERREZ: Over three years at this point. The magazine was conceived at the same time as my first billboard campaign in New York City. A public installation titled MartineJeans, made with support from International Studio and Curatorial Program.
WW: Why did you want to work through the frame of a glossy fashion magazine?
MG: Because everyone has flipped through a magazine. It’s a format that can travel without me, without a gallery, without the Internet.
WW: You work within all the roles—creative director, editor, photographer, model, stylist, and even, as you describe, schlepper. Do you see them all as one role, or is there one you really love?
GT: I see them all as one job. To make me into a glittering star, I gotta do it all, because no one else was offering to put me on the cover of their magazine. I love doing it, which is fortunate considering it’s still an obligation.
WW: We loved the series “Masking.” Can you tell me more about the inspiration and process for those spreads?
GT: Every notable fashion magazine has an iconic beauty feature, so I wanted to incorporate a kind of do-it-yourself face-mask spread that could speak to the practice of self care, but also the masks we wear. Not literal, but the figurative masks we hide behind. I love personifying identity as something alien or unfamiliar, it feels the most truthful.
WW: The editorials are full of color, fantasy, fashion, beauty…did you have a favorite to conceptualize and shoot?
GT: I like them all differently. But page 21 is most dear to me because I possess at least one thing from every cherished family member in the photograph.
WW: Indigenous Woman features both fashion editorials and ads (which you really have to do a double take with!). What was your approach for the ads, as they tell a different story from the editorials?
GT: The ads were an opportunity to be more outspoken, but also more explicit politically. They illustrate themes that are already throughout the magazine more directly.
WW: In the exhibition, certain images are blown up, framed specifically, grouped a certain way, etc. How did you want to translate the pages of Indigenous Woman onto the gallery walls?
GT: I wanted diversity in the gallery, a chance to acknowledge some of my favorite moments from the magazine.
WW: In a recent interview with Vice, you touched upon how emotionally taxing it is that your very existence is political whether you want it to be or not. How do you like to use humor to address that?
GT: I believe I said to Vice, “We’re living in an era where my existence is political whether I want to be or not. It’s really hard and emotionally taxing, and humor is my savior.” And it’s true, most days I gotta laugh to keep from crying.
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Ideas For Business Owners, Executives And Affluent Families
Family Receives Sound Financial Guidance Through Liquidity Event
How To Invest Proceeds Might Unite Or Divide Husband And Wife
By Robert Legan. Click here to view his bio >
The situation presented here is an illustration based on real life circumstances. It demonstrates the approach Whitnell might use to resolve a complex set of issues related to the transition of a privately owned business. Please note that we have changed the names and details of this client to protect their privacy.
The Client Situation
Andy is a 43-year old executive in the garment industry. He is an intelligent and capable senior leader in a private company which is about to be acquired. Andy has worked in the same company for nearly 20 years now and has advanced through the ranks to become the CEO. While the company has several stakeholders, Andy’s equity is about to be worth several million dollars after the company is sold. Andy was not an original investor or founder. He earned equity in the company through hard work.
Andy has two wonderful children and a loving wife of 23 years named Michelle. Their family lifestyle has always been Michelle’s responsibility to manage and she has been pleased to see their personal net worth grow as Andy’s career has grown. Michelle is a happy wife, but she has some concerns.
Michelle was raised in a lower-middle class family and never expected to have anything more than what they have today. Through diligence, saving and wise investments, Andy and Michelle now have more than $400,000 in retirement accounts. The opportunity to see this number grow by more than 10 times is almost more than Michelle can comprehend. Andy, however, thinks this might be just the beginning.
Andy always expected to be successful in business. His father raised him to have a strong work ethic and Andy has been diligent in his career. Andy has come to have a high degree of confidence in his ability to shape the outcomes of his business ventures. This is why he wants to roll the dice. Michelle does not agree.
The company that is acquiring Andy’s garment business has made an attractive offer. They want Andy to take on a senior VP role in the new company. They have even offered him the opportunity to forego a cash payment on his current equity and instead convert 100% of it to equity in the new company. This is highly attractive to Andy, but it makes Michelle very nervous.
Andy sees it this way. He could take the $4 million in cash from the sale of the garment company and continue working the rest of his life. Or, he could convert the entire $4 million into equity in the new company and work for another 10 years and help that company grow. Andy believes his $4 million in equity would then be worth over $20 million. Andy is an optimist, but he has a strong track record of producing results.
Michelle sees it this way. She never expected anything but the quality of life they have today. Their home, children, family-life and financial security are far more important to her than anything else. She believes that they will not need more than the $4 million cash that Andy is about to receive. To Michelle, it simply doesn’t make sense to risk any of that in a new company over which Andy will have less control.
Andy loves Michelle and wants to give her the peace of mind that she desires. Andy recognizes that he would be putting the family’s nest-egg at risk if he converted it all to equity in the new business. If that equity lost value, Andy would feel horrible, as if he let his family down.
Michelle loves Andy and wants him to have even more career success. She knows that work is an important part of Andy’s life and he needs a challenge. Michelle also recognizes that, if they did not convert their equity and if the stock in the new company were to increase substantially in value, they would miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Key Insight
We could sense the weight of the decision and how it was impacting their family and marriage. Their personalities and childhood experiences predisposed them to lean in opposite directions.
Our Analysis & Recommendations
When we first met Andy and Michelle, we had several in-depth conversations about their situation and their goals. It became clear to us that Andy had the unbounded optimism of an entrepreneur. Michelle was far more conservative in her outlook.
It was also clear to us that Andy and Michelle were equity-rich and cash-poor. How they managed the $4 million in equity from the garment business was a very important decision. The right plan could produce multi-generational wealth. The wrong plan could leave them devastated.
While both Andy and Michelle were willing to discuss middle ground, they were not certain what that middle ground would look like or how it might impact their net worth in the long-run and their financial security in the short-term.
We gathered all of their financial information and began to build models for several different scenarios. We modeled three approaches:
Investing 100% of the equity in the new company.
Investing only a portion of the equity in the new company.
Investing none of the equity in the new company.
We also took into account how Andy’s salary and retirement accounts might perform in each of these scenarios, given that he intended to keep working. As a high income earner with a good retirement plan, Andy would continue to add to their net worth through his work.
We presented the scenarios and our assessment of the upside and downsides to all three models. We then awaited their decisions.
Our Services For This Client
After carefully considering our analyses, Andy and Michelle opted for a multi-tiered approach.
We converted 25% of the equity from the garment business into equity in the new business.
We converted 50% into a diversified investment portfolio with an appropriate allocation strategy to achieve their long-term goals.
We converted 25% into a safety-net of bonds.
This approach felt right for Andy because it allowed him to invest in the new business and demonstrate to his new colleagues that he had a stake in the game. But it also allowed him to diversify his holdings by investing in other companies, thus reducing his risk of exposure.
This approach felt right for Michelle because the family’s core needs were accounted for in a nest-egg that could be drawn upon if necessary. Michelle also liked how the diversified investment portfolio prepared them for the future.
The Client’s Results
We believe we helped his family realize greater peace of mind through what was a very difficult decision process. On their own, they struggled to see how any position except the one to which they were predisposed could produce a happy outcome for their family.
Our careful analysis, based on realistic projections, made the decision much easier for both of them. Our financial models gave them opportunities to talk about how each scenario might meet their individual needs. The raw numbers took the mystery and uncertainty out of the picture.
The financial models made it easier for Andy and Michelle to feel their way through each scenario and achieve common ground. Instead of a house divided, they became a house united with a shared vision for their future.
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Ralph is a 72 year old man from the Midwest who is the second generation owner of a very successful food processing company. His oldest son is now CEO of the company and his daughter is VP of sales. However, he has two other children who need to be taken care of as he transitions the business. He also doesn’t want to cede complete control just yet.
Ralph wants to leave the business to his children and grandchildren as a family legacy. But he is concerned that they cannot afford to buy it from him. He is also well aware of potential tax consequences. However, he is not aware that he is placing everything he cares about at risk by taking no action.
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Fred is a 62-year old entrepreneur who is now facing a very difficult situation that puts his net-worth at tremendous risk. Fred is the minority share-holder in a steel manufacturing business that comprises the majority of his net worth. While Fred has a healthy investment portfolio, it pales in comparison to the value of his equity in the company.
The steel manufacturing business is worth more than 50 million dollars and it has provided a very comfortable living for Fred and his family for over two decades. However, the majority share holder in the firm, Steven, recently passed away, very unexpectedly.
Steven was far more than a business partner to Fred. When Fred was just out of college, Steven became his mentor and saw some things in Fred that he didn’t see in himself. Steven believed in Fred and taught him a great deal about business. Steven even offered Fred a minority share when they opened the steel manufacturing business together.
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James McClain
Variety December 27, 2019
Highly influential architect Cliff May pioneered the California ranch house, that quintessentially SoCal architectural style, and one of the best-preserved examples of his work recently sold for a considerable $8 million. Located in the bucolic and equestrian-oriented Sullivan Canyon preserve — a quiet community tucked between Brentwood and Pacific Palisades — the U-shaped structure last transferred way back in 1970 for just $104,500, according to records. For nearly 40 years, the property was home to Tony Award-winning film and stage choreographer Michael Kidd, a legendary figure in the world of dance. Following his 2007 death, the property continued to be owned by his children until its sale earlier this month.
The new owners are married couple David Fredston and Rochelle Gores Fredston, he a private equity guru and founder of L.A.-based investment firm Sole Source Capital, she the founder of the Philanthropic Society of Los Angeles and eldest child of multibillionaire Alec Gores. For those unfamiliar, the extended Gores clan is one of the wealthiest families in the greater L.A. area, and additionally includes fellow billionaire Tom Gores and Paradigm talent agency chief Sam Gores.
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As for the property itself, the May-designed house was originally built in 1941, per records, and the single-story rambler includes five bedrooms and five baths in 3,245 square feet of living space. A long gated driveway offers off-street parking for several vehicles, plus an attached two-car garage. Inside, the well-scaled public rooms have hardwood floors, and the master suite includes a vaulted ceiling with a fireplace and sitting area. The house is oriented around a central swimming pool and patio area, where a red tile deck offers plenty of room for alfresco dining and the pool features an old-school diving board.
Unfortunately for classic ranch house lovers, marketing materials gently imply that the house is a likely teardown candidate. “These lots don’t come available often … transform this vibrant lot into your own private paradise,” listing remarks note. The .68-acre property is relatively large and completely flat — ideal for construction purposes — and it’s worth noting that a similar ranch-style house immediately next door was recently demolished by its owner, real estate mogul Rick Caruso. While the Fredstons’ plans for the property aren’t currently known, the existing home would likely require costly alterations to install the contemporary amenities expected by buyers in this price range.
For now, however, the pristine property still stands and harks back to simpler bygone times. Surrounded by vast lawns and a towering canopy of mature trees, the park-like estate remains a rural oasis, a rare country retreat that’s happens to sit just seconds away from bustling Sunset Boulevard.
The Fredstons currently reside in the nearby Mandeville Canyon neighborhood of Brentwood, where back in 2016 they paid Academy Award-nominated film producer Michael De Luca $6.5 million for a large and luxurious East Coast-style mansion with a movie theater, library and an elaborate children’s playhouse.
Marc Noah of Sotheby’s International Realty held the listing; Simon Beardmore of Compass repped the Fredstons.
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Mr Collin Ang, Managing Director of digital marketing consulting group Decision Science Agency, keeps a verse from the Tang dynasty poem《将进酒》by Li Bai close to his heart: “天生我材必有用，千金散尽还复来”. Loosely translated, the verse suggests that each person is naturally endowed with certain talents; even if he spends all his funds, he will eventually be able to recover them by using these talents.
Over the years, this verse has continued to anchor Mr Ang’s convictions about philanthropy. “If you have a talent, you don’t have to be afraid of spending money, because you know how to make your money and you will be able to earn back whatever you spend,” he remarked.
“Many people think giving is a zero-sum game – in reality, it is not. The money you spend on philanthropy will benefit someone, and that someone will become more productive in the economy,” he added.
In living out these beliefs, Mr Ang recently set up the need-based Decision Science Agency Study Award at Yale-NUS College.
“I am trying to make sure that everybody has an equal chance at getting an education, and I was thinking of where the money will be able to make the most impact,” he said, adding that he has always wished to see poverty eradicated through investments in education.
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Mr Ang also identified and addressed one factor that might make people think twice before making a gift – the preference for keeping wealth within the family, or, in other words, leaving money only to one’s children instead of giving to philanthropic causes. However, while he understands this innate parental desire to look after one’s children, he also questions if there is a need for this at all.
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With the Decision Science Agency Study Award set to be awarded in the upcoming academic year, Mr Ang hopes that its future recipients will similarly pay it forward through their actions and give back to their communities too.
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LNG: The Long, Strategic Play For Europe
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LNG: The Long, Strategic Play for Europe: Interview with Robert Bensh
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe isn’t a get-rich-quick scenario for the impatient investor: It’s a long, strategic play for the sophisticated investor who can handle no small amount of politics and geopolitics along the way. When it comes to Europe, Russia’s strategy to divide and conquer has worked so far, but Gazprom is a fragile giant that will eventually feel the pressure of LNG.
Robert Bensh is an LNG and energy security expert who has over 13 years of experience with leading oil and gas companies in Ukraine. He has been involved in various roles in finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and government for the past 25 years. Mr. Bensh is the Managing Director and partner with Pelicourt LLC, a private equity firm focused on energy and natural resources in Ukraine.
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James Stafford: Where does LNG fit into the overall European energy picture?
Robert Bensh: A better question might be, “When does LNG fit into the European energy picture?” When the price is right, it fits into the picture across the European Union, with new import terminals under construction, plenty of transmission lines to deliver it to land-locked countries and the prospect of deliveries from rising energy hub Turkey. And while it may not be a reality at this very moment, it is the prospect of cheaper LNG and the pace of LNG infrastructure development that has Gazprom worried about maintaining its monopoly.
James Stafford: So from an investor’s perspective, what do we need to know here?
Robert Bensh: Listen, the LNG economics are marginal. LNG is about long-term, steady supply. It’s a low-margin, long-term supply of gas to Europe. This is not a play for impatient investors who are looking to get rich quickly. This is a play for investors with longer-term vision, patience and strategic capabilities on a regional level. Those are the people who are going to make money off of this and, along the way, help reshape the balance in Europe away from Russia.
James Stafford: Who are the buyers in this scenario?
Robert Bensh: The countries that primarily take LNG are the Eastern European countries that are paying the highest gas prices and feeling the most significant strategic energy crunch from Russia. They can purchase large amounts of LNG on five 10-year contracts.
James Stafford: And what will Gazprom’s response to more LNG for Europe be? What are its options?
Robert Bensh: Gazprom will either see its supply reduced, or it will be forced to reduce prices to limit economic impact. But once we can start getting LNG through the Turkish-controlled Bosphorus Strait, it is game over for Gazprom in terms of pricing. You’ll still have LNG coming into Europe simply because demand will always exceed supply with long-term contracts in place. That’s when you’ll start to see significant amounts of Canadian and American LNG entering the European and Asian markets, which will affect gas prices in Europe.
James Stafford: Has Russia’s, or Gazprom’s, energy strategy in Europe really been as sinisterly brilliant as is often suggested?
Robert Bensh: In many ways, yes; but it has its limitations. Financially, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is a fragile giant.
Russia’s European energy policy is to approach different EU states on an individual basis in order to discriminate with price and get the maximum price possible from each. Beyond that, Russia also attempts to lock in supply by consolidating control over strategic energy infrastructure throughout Europe, as well as Eurasia.
In 2002, for example, Russia attempted to buy major energy infrastructure holdings in the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia. When both countries refused to cede control, Moscow sharply cut oil deliveries to both states. The final piece of Moscow’s strategy is to maintain control of energy corridors, thus denying Europe any alternative energy routes.
Russia gets away with this because its divide-and-conquer energy strategy is made easy by the fact that the European Union is anything but unified.
James Stafford: How does Gazprom’s controversial South Stream pipeline play into the crisis in Ukraine?
Robert Bensh: The South Stream pipeline is now coming into much clearer focus against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis. This pipeline, which would run from the Black Sea to Austria and bypass Ukraine, is both a frightening and exciting proposition for Central and Eastern Europe. The specter of this pipeline makes the fractures in Europe highly visible.
The annexation of Crimea was significant on numerous fronts. The Ukraine crisis provided Russia with the opportunity to achieve important the economic and geopolitical goals of promoting alternative energy supplies that bypass Ukraine. And the results have been quick: Already, some EU countries have indicated that they are willing to drop their objections to the South Stream pipeline in order to increase the percentage of gas shipped directly from Russia.
James Stafford: What about Bulgaria’s recent back-and-forth over South Stream? What can we read into this?
Robert Bensh: For the South Stream pipeline, which is largely a macrocosm of the Ukraine crisis, the front line is Bulgaria, where Russian influence is now at its strongest, and where there is already talk of the country becoming the next Ukraine. The wider EU is trying to block the South Stream project, while Central and Eastern Europe are very torn. Bulgaria is where this pipeline will enter the EU, and accusations persist that Gazprom has had a hand in framing Bulgarian legislation that would circumvent EU competition directives. All of Europe wants this pipeline, but Brussels doesn’t want it to be majority-Russian owned — they want to enable other suppliers to bring gas through it.
The Bulgarian story is getting very interesting. Last week, the Bulgarian government said it was suspending working on South Stream, under pressure from the EU over the project and U.S. sanctions against Russian firms working on the project. Bulgaria is caught in a very bad place here—between Russia and the EU. On the one hand it is suspending work—for now, as it consults with the EU. On the other hand, it is making sure everyone knows it still intends to go ahead with South Stream.
James Stafford: How much of a threat to Russia is the European Commission’s pending investigation into Gazprom’s monopolistic activities?
Robert Bensh: Europe has argued that Gazprom manipulates prices for political gain and the European Commission is set to release the results of a two-year investigation this month, which is expected to demonstrate substantial evidence that Gazprom is breaking European laws. After that report is released, the EC could take action relatively quickly with up to10 billion euros in fines, which Gazprom cannot afford. Again, the Bulgaria question will figure prominently in his debate.
James Stafford: How does Russia take advantage of the divisions within the EU?
Robert Bensh: The problem within the EU is that Western European countries have more supply opportunities, while Central and Eastern Europe are stuck with Russia. There is no common policy among the EU countries, so there can be no unified front to take on Russia in the energy sphere. Russia takes full advantage of this bifurcation. While talking of interdependence and dialogue, Russia has insisted on providing demand guarantees for the producers and sharing responsibilities and risks among energy supplier’s consumers and transit states. Russia’s actions have not backed up its visions for a new global energy security due to the state policy of not budging from monopolizing gas production or oil and gas pipeline transportation. Europeans are wholly energy dependent on Russia.
Russia conducts geo-economic warfare on Europe. Russia’s vast oil and gas resources and strategic geographic positioning has translated into increased influence in global energy markets and political clout in its relations with the numerous states that remain more or less dependent on Russian energy. Lawsuits and rulings from the European Commission will prove to be well intended, yet ultimately failed efforts to control Russia’s policy aims driven by control of energy supply and transportation. Here is where efforts to reduce dependence by one client state will have a concomitant benefit for other client state consumers. The European Union lacks a coherent, unified energy strategy and policy towards Russia. Russia thus wisely triangulates client states and the EU to achieve their policy goals either through cheaper supply or infrastructural development.
James Stafford: Will other countries in the region follow the example of Lithuania and Poland—both of which are aggressively pursuing alternatives to Russian piped gas?
Robert Bensh: Some, yes, out of necessity. The wisest ones, of course, will develop what they can internally of their own resources in an effort to reduce or possibly even remove the need for Russian oil and gas.
James Stafford: Where in Europe is there the potential to actually develop domestic resources to reduce Russian dependence?
Robert Bensh: Ukraine has the potential to do so. Poland, potentially, as well. Other countries, the Baltics in particular, will have a much harder time reducing dependence through internal resource development. For this reason, the development of LNG and additional transportation routes to the region are vital strategically to reduce the dependence on Russian energy.
James Stafford: How should we perceive Lithuania’s recent success in negotiating down gas prices with Gazprom?
Robert Bensh: The country has very earnestly pursued LNG and is close to signing a supply deal with Norway’s Statoil. This, in turn, has forced Russia into price concessions for fear of losing market share. But for now, it’s a luxury that the poorer members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe cannot afford, economically or politically.
Unfortunately, most countries will not play ball. Either they have enough of an internally generated resource base to help reduce dependence on Russian energy, or they have multi-integrated economic ties to Russia. Or both.
The crisis in Ukraine has taught us a devastating lesson: The failure to reduce dependence on Russia, in combination with a multi-integrated economic union with Russia, exposes a client state to geo-economic warfare. In Ukraine, this situation eventually led to President Viktor Yanukovych refusing to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, which in ignited the Maidan protests that led to the president’s overthrow and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
James Stafford: Where will politics and geopolitics head this off? What is Russia’s weak point, it’s Achilles’ heel?
Robert Bensh: Russia has done a good job of tactically focusing on each client state, recognizing their weaknesses and exacerbating them to suit their needs. The only countries that can head this off are those with independent economies and diversified energy supplies. Russia can only provide oil and gas supplies and energy infrastructure development. It cannot provide expertise in oil and gas drilling or service, which really comes from the United States.
And Gazprom’s Achilles’ heel—that which makes it a fragile giant—is the prospect of losing the European market to LNG. And it eventually will, at least in part, though it won’t be tomorrow.
James Stafford: What does the LNG pricing look like right now?
Robert Bensh: LNG is always about $1 less than Gazprom. The U.S. wants to sell their LNG, period. Asian prices are higher, anywhere from $3-$4 higher. But long, steady supply will always get sold. Unless Gazprom comes down in its prices, to make LNG uneconomic, there will always be an LNG marketplace in Europe. There will always be enough supply to meet demand in Europe. All Gazprom has to do is drop its prices down $1 and LNG will be uneconomic. But you have some countries in Europe who are willing to pay a premium to reduce their dependence on Russian gas. LNG supply and the development of internal resources is a strategic decision being made by each country.
There won’t really be U.S. LNG hitting Europe until 2017-2018. There isn’t enough LNG coming from the U.S. to supply both Asia and Europe. Until there are more export terminals built in the U.S., there will always be significantly more demand than supply, from a U.S. standpoint. For now, U.S. LNG does not impact Europe—we’re not transporting enough in the next five years.
James Stafford: Last month, amid the crisis in Ukraine, Russia and China inked what is viewed as a highly significant gas deal. What are the implications of this deal for Europe?
Robert Bensh: Let's put this into perspective a bit: This Russia-China deal might not be squeezing out potential supply to Europe, but making up for the likely disappearance of the market for gas from Ukraine. A decade ago, Ukraine was buying 52 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia, and last year, this was down to 28bcm. The take-or-pay agreement signed in 2009 was for 42 bcm, which is more than the annual supply as per the China deal. It is not unreasonable to think of Ukraine being totally self-sufficient in gas over the next decade as rational energy pricing reduces very inefficient consumption, while Ukraine has lot of opportunities to hike production -- assuming it remains unified.
This is part one of a three-part series of interviews examining the prospects for Black Sea LNG.
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Poulton Balvanera defeated Tayto 8-3 and won The Queen Mother Trophy on Ivy Lodge, Cirencester Park Polo Club's main ground.
Seven English polo stars head into the semis – the statistics...
In the 2015 Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup, thirty two games will be played in total, with top goal scorers to date including Pablo MacDonough, Pelon Stirling and Luke Tomlinson. Qualified into the quarter finals with four straight league match wins were teams Dubai, King Power Foxes, El Remanso, UAE and Apes Hill, joined by Zacara, RH Polo and Salkeld (following a penalty shoot-out). Now into a rather unexpected semi-final short list go UAE, Apes Hill, King Power Foxes and Zacara (who knocked out the 2014 defending champions in the quarters).
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Rolls Royce Montecarlo beat Power Infraestructure 11-9 and captured the 15-goal International Polo Cup, following the final that took place on ground 1, at St. Tropez Polo Club. It was a fantastic final day of a very well organised tournament, and that was praised by all the players for both the level of play and the brand new infraestructure (new fields and stables, among others).
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UAE, Apes Hill, Zacara and King Power Foxes all qualify The Semi Finalists for The Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup have been decided following the completion of the Quarter Finals.
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HB Polo, King Power and Salkeld face a penalty shootout for the remaining place The league games in The Jaeger-LeCoultre Gold Cup have now been completed. La Indiana, Talandracas, Thai Polo and VPS Healthcare Sifani all suffered a clean sweep of defeat against their opponents, knocking them out of the running for the Quarter Finals.
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Mixed weather conditions seemed to be the order of the day as King Power and RH Polo took to the pitch at Trippetts Farm for the first of the last three league matches to be played. As the heavy pre-match shower turned to sun, a slightly altered King Power lined up (Tal Srivaddhanaprabha, Matt Perry, Sebastian Merlos and Marcos Di Paola) against RH Polo (Ben Soleimani, Francisco Elizalde, Nico Pieres and Santiago Von Wernich). With his two elder brothers already through to the quarter-finals (Facundo and Gonzalito with King Power Foxes), Nico Pieres looked set to try and make it three.
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Douglas County DA Says No Charges Against Patterson
Patterson Charged In Connection With Kidnapping, Killings
By WPR Staff
Friday, January 25, 2019, 5:20pm
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that prosecutors don’t plan to file any criminal charges against Jake Patterson, the man accused of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents.
Patterson, 21, is charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of kidnapping and one count of armed burglary in Barron County, where he is accused of kidnapping Jayme from her home in Barron on Oct. 15 and killing the teen’s parents, James and Denise Closs. Authorities said that Jayme escaped 88 days later.
A criminal complaint said Patterson told investigators that he saw Jayme getting on a school bus near her home and decided to abduct her.
After escaping, Jayme said that she was being held against her will in a Town of Gordon home by Patterson. The Town of Gordon is located in Douglas County. The announcement is significant because it could mean that details of any abuse Jayme suffered while in captivity may be kept private.
Douglas County District Attorney Mark Fruehauf said in a press release that prosecutors do retain the ability to charge Patterson "at any time within the statute of limitations for any crime it determines Patterson has committed."
"A prosecutor’s decision whether to file criminal charges involves the consideration of multiple factors, including the existence of other charges and victim-related concerns," the statement read, adding, "The matter remains under review at this time."
Patterson is currently being held on $5 million bail.
Editor's Note: The original version of this story contained an error that has been corrected.
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Yunel and Dialogbild honour Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus with happiness map
Berlin/Hamburg. Exactly 10 years after the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, two German companies have now honored Muhammad Yunus' life's work with a personal 'World Map of Happiness'. By illustrating continents, rivers, oceans and personal symbols that represent all those elements that help(ed) Yunus to unleash his potential, the maps serve as constant reminders of a "life well lived".
How to become happy? What can we learn from Muhammad Yunus in this regard? These questions were the starting point for the creation of the map. The idea came to Kerstin Humberg, the founder of Yunel, in a conversation with her former fellow student Wolfgang Wienecke, who is now the CEO of Dialogbild GmbH in Hamburg.
According to Positive Psychology, the Science of Happiness and Wellbeing, human beings need PERMA to flourish: Positive emotions like inspiration and joy, Engagement based on their values and strengths, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishments.
Yunel is a Berlin-based start-up with the mission to unleash human potential and happiness. In short: "to make happiness work". Inspired by Muhammad Yunus and Nelson Mandela, Yunel offers a novel approach to biography for people in their middle age. Unique happiness maps are the centerpiece of Yunel’s work.
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NAB remains persistent in technology push
National Australia Bank has seen a decline in its cash earnings for the 2014 full year to September 30, 2014, but the bank remains confident that its technology strategy will help drive success.
By Aimee Chanthadavong | October 30, 2014 -- 01:38 GMT (18:38 PDT) | Topic: Banking
Technology will continue to be a "critical enabler" for National Australia Bank (NAB) as it persists in executing a customer-focused strategy.
NAB has reported for the 2014 full year that on a statutory basis, net profit attributable to owners of the company was AU$5.3 billion, a 1.1 percent decrease from the previous year . Cash earnings declined to AU$5.18 billion during the year, which is 9.8 percent below the September 2013 full year.
Despite the declines, NAB group chief executive officer Andrew Thorburn remains optimistic, with the belief that technology will play a key role in pushing the company's success.
"I am pleased to announce that over 2015 and 2016, the benefits of our banking platform upgrade will become increasingly apparent to our retail banking customers, and around one third of our business customers who take out new personal banking products," he said.
NAB saw year-on-year spend in Australian banking and wealth increase by AU$98 million due to additional spend on compliance and infrastructure projects.
During 2014, the group continued to make upgrades across its digital channels, with particular focus on improving the customer's banking experience and mobile capability. For instance, upgrades were made to the Australian banking payments infrastructure to enable intraday settlement; a number of the banks' product information databases were consolidated into one to enable staff to service customers more quickly, reducing the number of branch support calls to customer contact centres; and an additional two NAB smart stores that give customers the choice to use the self-service channels onsite were rolled out.
Additionally, NAB completed the delivery of its core banking foundation, which included the migration of 300,000 UBank customers, and deployed a new credit risk engine that led to the decommissioning of 37 legacy servers.
The spend on New Zealand banking also increased by AU$40 million or 98 percent to AU$81 million, driven by spend on infrastructure, mainly on Nextgen NZ.
The Nextgen project commenced in 2009 , with Oracle selected to provide the backbone of the system. In its full-year filings, NAB said that with its Nextgen program is nearing completion, an external review has found in its preliminary findings that the benefits of the program have been delivered to date, and smaller, more frequent drops of capabilities will be required.
Thorburn also noted that the company has accelerated exiting from non-core businesses, such as its NAB UK portfolio and Great Western Bank business.
Last month, NAB unveiled that due to a string of misconduct by its UK business , it was predicted that its cash earnings for the full year would be affected.
Based on NAB's current timetable for technology delivery, 2015-16 will see the complete rollout of NAB view, a single customer view for business bankers that is expected to improve sales conversions and deepen relations, and the launch of the NAB Now platform for small business customers so they are able to complete sales anytime, anywhere, and be able to accept card payments from a smartphone or tablet.
"Benefits include a single application for multiple products, loan application progress checked online or via regular updates, and faster approval times. Future decisions on how we invest in technology will be based on what our customers needed, what we can afford, and what is doable," Thorburn said.
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NextDC racks up year of growth
Australian datacentre provider, NextDC, has seen more than 200 percent in order growth over the past financial year, along with a AU$25 million surge in its revenue pipeline compared to last year, according to its latest preliminary results.
By Leon Spencer | July 10, 2014 -- 04:56 GMT (21:56 PDT) | Topic: Data Centers
Australian-listed datacentre-as-a-service provider, NextDC, today revealed that it expects to report a 201 percent year-on-year increase in orders — to 722 — and a 21 percent, AU$25 million, increase in its revenue pipeline, to AU$144 for the financial year ending June.
Today's announcement (PDF) precedes NextDC's 2014 financial report, which will be released on 25 August, and outlines a number of non-financial key performance metrics for the full financial year ending 30 June 2014.
The company has also revealed that it expects to report 132 percent growth in customers, to 302 — picking up an extra 172 customers over the course of the year, and a 190 percent boost in cross connects, recording 975 for the year, bringing its total up to 1,488.
While today's market update does not indicate what the company expects its operating profit for the year to be, it does set a reassuring scene for investors in advance of the company's final FY14 results.
In February, NextDC told investors that, despite a sixfold rise in revenue for the second half of last year, it had recorded a AU$3.4 million loss in earnings before interest and tax (EBITDA) for the six months ending December 2013 — a whopping 150 percent tumble from the previous year's result of AU$7.3 million for the same period.
NextDC also revealed today that its contracted customer utilisation rate for the year at the end of June had increased by 22 percent, or 2.12 megawatts (MW), at an average rate of over AU$5 million per MW per annum, up to 11.86 MW.
Meanwhile, NextDC's increase in contracted utilisation in the second half was 24 percent higher than the increase in the first half, up to 1.18MW at AU$5.6 million per MW from 0.94MW at AU$4.7 million per MW.
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The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap. I picked it up back in March at 99p, thought I'd step outside my comfort zone, I wouldn't normally choose a book maked in the "Romance" genre, I dunno, I may have been drunk at the time.
The story is centred around examining what might happen if a blind person became able to see and is a first novel. Let's get the romance out the way: it wasn't too bad. IME "romance" differs from a novel in the superfluity of relationships and too much detail in the "dot dot dot"bits. With that in mind, I'd classify it as a novel, pleasingly the "dot dot dot" was just that.
The main relationship is an exploratory lesbian one, I found it sympathetic to the point where you feel invested in the outcome, which is always positive. Since finishing I have checked to see that Joe Heap is a man, he is and that surprised me.
The writing is fair to good, and I was mostly able to forgive the pace (staccato) and plot issues (incredulous, predictable) that you may find. The central character who creates the Rules for Seeing is almost too good to be true in many ways, but none the worse for that. Overall, I'd recommend it.
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Sight Unseen ~ Graham Hurley. Second of his Enora Andressen series and I fear there will be more to come. I know They say "Write what you know" but recycling bits of your back catalogue is not what They meant. Hayden Prentice is Bazza Mackenzie v2.0 and Ms Andressen stretches credibility far beyond its elastic limit. Bah!
Still, Philip Pullman's "The Secret Commonwealth" is sitting on the coffee table making "read ME next" noises
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Quote from: Mr Larrington on October 06, 2019, 10:04:37 pm
Ah, now I remember why I don’t have that on my radar. I read the synopsis of the first one and decided it sounded too trippy even for my low standards.
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)
Alistair Reynold's House of Suns, which I found unread in the summer house (I know, apt). While an interesting story (so far), my gripe is the two main protagonists are inseparable and have precisely the same voice, and the first-person perspective swaps between them, so I keep having to check back which one is which since the only way to figure it out is to look for a mentioned name or a gender pronoun. The flipping points of view doesn't in any way benefit the story so far and since they're effectively the same, it offers no additional incite of perspective. It would have been a lot better if he'd just picked the one. There are not so many writers who can really do multiple first-person perspectives.
Mine's a pipe, er… pint!
Fielding's Tom Jones – and yes, even on the first page I'm being flummoxed with words such as: eleemosynary, calipee, contemning. It's going to be a long 636 pages.
Have started also, John James Audubon's biography by Richard Rhodes.
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Anybody read the more recent Alistair Reynolds books?
I read them up to On The Steel Breeze and didn't finish that trilogy as I wasn't finding them that engaging.
I see there's another Prefect book and the Revenger series out since then. Any good? Or is he just doing it for the money now?
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I enjoyed the Prefect one, I've not looked at the Revenger stuff.
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Quote from: Mrs Pingu on October 08, 2019, 06:47:23 pm
I gave up with the elephant books. Don't get me wrong, I like elephants and they've as much right as anything to be in space, they were just mostly dull and to be honest, he doesn't have the writing chops to write from the perspective of African characters. Or elephants. Write what you know, they say.*
I didn't mind The Prefect (or whatever the second one was called, they for some unknown reasons faffed around with the titles) and the first Revenger book (not read the second yet).
I confess I'm struggling with House of Suns, seriously every chapter I have to go back and check which character's first-person perspective I'm in this time, and considering I can see what the ending will be, that will make it more annoying. It would have been far better if he'd picked the one character and run with it. Ironically, I was looking in the summer house for Century Rain which I have read and I'm sure I enjoyed. I'm sure I saw it in there. I figure I must have read House of Suns as I bought it, but that said, it lacked the usual signs of molestation by my grubby paws and evidently didn't make a crater in my brain.
*which is why I'm a female, undead librarian with a taste for fresh blood and weapons-grade sarcasm.
I've read "House of Suns", but can't remember the plot, which is probably not a good sign.
I enjoyed "Century Rain" very much, but for some reason he's said he won't write any more in that setting
spesh
Quote from: ian on October 08, 2019, 08:45:30 pm
I gave up with the elephant books. Don't get me wrong, I like elephants and they've as much right as anything to be in space, they were just mostly dull and to be honest, he doesn't have the writing chops to write from the perspective of African characters. Or elephants. Write what you know, they say.
Elephants in space? I thought Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle had killed that idea utterly to DETH with "Footfall" (Elephantine aliens attempt to invade and terraform Earth. Hilarity doesn't ensue).
Here's a review, which is more interesting than the book itself: https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/footfall
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Elephants in space. Pah! Reynolds should always be honoured for giving us Pigs In Spaaaace ! I don't think Link Hogthrob would really have gotten on with Scorpio though......
https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Scorpio Contains Spoilers for those who haven't read the Revelation Space books.
Ashaman42
I liked Footfall. My first introduction to the Orion Drive.
I'm just about to read today's chapter of Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. A friend put me onto it, apparently it's a thing to read it a chapter a day throughout October. Though yesterday I had to read two chapters as I forgot the night before.
And coming tomorrow I've got Marcus Aurelius'seseses Meditations that I bought on a whim from Amazon today.
Miles cycled 2014 = 3551.5 (Target 7300 )
Miles cycled 2013 = 6141.4
Quote from: spesh on October 08, 2019, 09:05:15 pm
Honestly, I never got as far as the elephants being in space, since that was the third book in the inevitable trilogy and I'd given up by then. Possibly the reviews lied. Elephants in space would have relieved the boredom of some seriously dull and two-dimensional protagonists.
Reynold's is a bit hit and miss, he can't really do characters well and tends the labour the exposition and description, but I quite like the broad canvases of the universes he creates.
Tea tank
Yeah, I've bounced off a couple of Reynold's operas. And that other fellow, wossisface, McDivitt? (Takes his name from a divot, a small clod of earth?) Very workmanlike authors.
Following Spesh's mention of Neuromancer & C° I'm re-reading it and chuckling at the idea of someone in the future thinking 3 Mb of RAM worth the pinching. Still, it's OK otherwise.
I've dusted all those old bottles and set them up straight.
Having just re-read Sir Phil's "The Book Of Dust" for familiarisation purposes I am now well into part two the second, viz. "The Secret Commonwealth". Good so far.
Edit: perhaps I should have gone to sleep instead of finishing it, especially coz it'll be another two years before the denouement comes out. Usual mixture of beguiling fantasy and sharp digs at the Church, the Military-Industrial Complex, IS and, on page 592, Bloody Stupid Johnson.
"Many Rivers To Cross", the umpty-threeth of Peter Robinson's Banks novels. County Lines drug-dealing seems all the rage these days. If Mr Rankin does it in the next Rebus, which must be due shortly, Harsh Words will be uttered.
Edit: Thin. Identity of murderer telegraphed in big flashing neon letters. Time Banks took early retirement.
telstarbox
Loving the lanes
I'm really looking forward to reading this
Excellent Essex by Gillian Darley – a long-overdue celebration
Beyond white vans and stilettos ... an original and beautifully written celebration of a much-maligned county
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/excellent-essex-gillian-darley-review
2019 🏅 R1000 and B1000
Quote from: Riggers on October 07, 2019, 01:06:48 pm
One of my all-time favourite books. I remember being similarly flummoxed by eleemosynary - a word he seems particularly fond of, uses it often - but if you can get over that, it's a rollicking good read.
And incredibly smutty.
The Three Kings by Leo Moynihan
Not normally a fan of biographies but we got a review copy sent to the office and I'm interested in the subjects, so thought I'd give it a go... It's about the three greatest British football managers of the 20th century - Matt Busby, Jock Stein and Bill Shankly - focusing on their common heritage growing up in mining communities in the Scottish lowlands, showing how it made them the men they became. Stirring stuff. Really enjoying it. You can imagine it being made into a TV miniseries, combining archive footage with a narrative voiceover by Ken Stott or Robbie Coltrane. Maybe some atmospheric Celtic tunes in the background.
Because of you, one of my emails today featured the word eleemosynary. Admittedly, the last time I emailed that person, I used the phrase lacunaceous diatribe.
Quote from: telstarbox on October 11, 2019, 09:14:19 am
I know what my wife is getting for Christmas.
The Institute ~ Stephen King. Think "The Dead Zone" meets "Firestarter". Better than some of his other recent offerings.
Oh, do let me know how it goes, M. le Maire. I've not read The Outsider yet... would it be best not to?
"The Outsider" was OK too. I'm thinking more along the lines of "Mr Mercedes" and sequels, which started promisingly enough and then turned smelly and brown.
Still getting through Tom Jones. God, it's a heavy book!!!
Quote from: Riggers on October 15, 2019, 11:49:59 am
Books from back then had bigly, clause-infested sentences.
That said, there's a monster from Gabriel García Márquez somewhere that I think tops 2,500 words. OK, I lied, Google says it's 2,156.
I dedicate this one to Spesh, who noted my occasional breathless and lengthy flights of consciousness.
Quote from: The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, Gabriel García Márque
Now they’re going to see who I am, he said to himself in his strong new man’s voice, many years after he had first seen the huge ocean liner without lights and without any sound which passed by the village one night like a great uninhabited place, longer than the whole village and much taller than the steeple of the church, and it sailed by in the darkness toward the colonial city on the other side of the bay that had been fortified against buccaneers, with its old slave port and the rotating light, whose gloomy beams transfigured the village into a lunar encampment of glowing houses and streets of volcanic deserts every fifteen seconds, and even though at that time he’d been a boy without a man’s strong voice but with his’ mother’s permission to stay very late on the beach to listen to the wind’s night harps, he could still remember, as if still seeing it, how the liner would disappear when the light of the beacon struck its side and how it would reappear when the light had passed, so that it was an intermittent ship sailing along, appearing and disappearing, toward the mouth of the bay, groping its way like a sleep‐walker for the buoys that marked the harbor channel, until something must have gone wrong with the compass needle, because it headed toward the shoals, ran aground, broke up, and sank without a single sound, even though a collision against the reefs like that should have produced a crash of metal and the explosion of engines that would have frozen, with fright the soundest‐sleeping dragons in the prehistoric jungle that began with the last streets of the village and ended on the other side of the world, so that he himself thought it was a dream, especially the, next day, when he. saw the radiant fishbowl. of the bay, the disorder of colors of the Negro shacks on the hills above the harbor, the schooners of the smugglers from the Guianas loading their cargoes ‐of innocent parrots whose craws were full of diamonds, he thought, I fell asleep counting the stars and L dreamed about that huge ship, of course, he was so convinced that he didn’t tell anyone nor did he remember the vision again until the same night on the following March when he was looking for the flash of dolphins in the sea and what he found was the illusory line, gloomy, intermittent, with the same mistaken direction as the first time, except that then he was so sure he was awake that he ran to tell his mother and she spent three weeks moaning with disappointment, because your brain’s rotting away from doing so many things backward, sleeping during the day and going out at night like a criminal, and since she had to go to the city around that time to get something comfortable where she could sit and think about her dead husband, because the rockers on her chair had worn out after eleven years of widowhood, she took advantage of the occasion and had the boatman go near the shoals so that her son could see what he really saw in the glass of; the sea, the lovemaking of manta rays in a springtime of sponges, pink snappers and blue corvinas diving into the other wells of softer waters that were there among the waters, and even the wandering hairs of victims of drowning in some colonial shipwreck, no trace of sunken liners of anything like it, and yet he was so pigheaded that his mother promised to watch with him the next March, absolutely, not knowing that the only thing absolute in her future now was an easy chair from the days of Sir Francis Drake which she had bought at an auction in a Turk’s store, in which she sat down to rest that same night sighing, oh, my poor Olofernos, if you could only see how nice it is to think about you on this velvet lining and this brocade from the casket of a queen, but the more she brought back the memory of her dead husband, the more the blood in her heart bubbled up and turned to chocolate, as if instead of sitting down she were running, soaked from chills and fevers and her breathing full of earth, until he returned at dawn and found her dead in the easy chair, still warm, but half rotted away as after a snakebite, the same as happened afterward to four other women before the murderous chair was thrown into the sea, far away where it wouldn’t bring evil to anyone, because it had. been used so much over the centuries that its faculty for giving rest had been used up, and so he had to grow accustomed to his miserable routine of an orphan who was pointed out by everyone as the son of the widow who had brought the throne of misfortune into the village, living not so much from public charity as from fish he stole out of the boats, while his voice was becoming a roar, and not remembering his visions of past times anymore until another night in March when he chanced to look seaward and suddenly, good Lord, there, it is, the huge asbestos whale, the behemoth beast, come see it, he shouted madly, come see it, raising such an uproar of dogs’ barking and women’s panic that even the oldest men remembered the frights of their great‐grandfathers and crawled under their beds, thinking that William Dampier had come back, but those who ran into the street didn’t make the effort to see the unlikely apparatus which at that instant was lost again in the east and raised up in its annual disaster, but they covered him with blows and left him so twisted that it was then he said to himself, drooling with rage, now they’re going to see who I am, but he took care not to share his determination with anyone, but spent the whole year with the fixed idea, now they’re going to see who I am, waiting for it to be the eve of the apparition once more in order to do what he did, which was steal a boat, cross the bay, and spend the evening waiting for his great moment in the inlets of the slave port, in the human brine of the Caribbean, but so absorbed in his adventure that he didn’t stop as he always did in front of the Hindu shops to look at the ivory mandarins carved from the whole tusk of an elephant, nor did he make fun of the Dutch Negroes in their orthopedic velocipedes, nor was he frightened as at other times of the copper‐skinned Malayans, who had gone around the world, enthralled by the chimera of a secret tavern where they sold roast filets of Brazilian women, because he wasn’t aware of anything until night came over him with all the weight of the stars and the jungle exhaled a sweet fragrance of gardenias and rotter salamanders, and there he was, rowing in the stolen boat, toward the mouth of the bay, with the lantern out so as not to alert the customs police, idealized every fifteen seconds by the green wing flap of the beacon and turned human once more by the darkness, knowing that he was getting close to the buoys that marked the harbor, channel, not only because its oppressive glow was getting more intense, but because the breathing of the water was becoming sad, and he rowed like that, so wrapped up in himself, that he. didn’t know where the fearful shark’s breath that suddenly reached him came from or why the night became dense, as if the stars had suddenly died, and it was because the liner was there, with all of its inconceivable size, Lord, bigger than, any other big thing in the world and darker than any other dark thing on land or sea, three hundred thousand tons of shark smell passing so close to the boat that he could see the seams of the steel precipice without a single light in the infinite portholes, without a sigh from the engines, without a soul, and carrying its own circle of silence with it, its own dead air, its halted time, its errant sea in which a whole world of drowned animals floated, and suddenly it all disappeared with the flash of the beacon and for an instant it was the diaphanous Caribbean once more, the March night, the everyday air of the pelicans, so he stayed alone among the buoys, not knowing what to do, asking himself, startled, if perhaps he wasn’t dreaming while he was awake, not just now but the other times too, but no sooner had. he asked himself than a breath of mystery snuffled out the buoys, from the first to the last, so that when the light of the beacon passed by the liner appeared again and now its compasses were out of order, perhaps not even knowing what part of the ocean sea it was in, groping for the invisible channel but actually heading for the shoals, until he got the overwhelming revelation that that misfortune of the buoys was the last key to the enchantment and he lighted the lantern in the boat, a tiny red light that had no reason to alarm anyone in the watch towers but which would be like a guiding sun for the pilot, because, thanks to it, the liner corrected its course and passed into the main gate of the channel in a maneuver of lucky resurrection, and then all the lights went on at the same time so that the boilers wheezed again, the stars were fixed in their places, and the animal corpses went to the bottom, and there was a clatter of plates and a fragrance of laurel sauce in the kitchens, and one could hear the pulsing of the orchestra on the moon decks and the throbbing of the arteries of high‐sea lovers in the shadows of the staterooms, but he still carried so much leftover rage in him that he would not let himself be confused by emotion or be frightened by the miracle, but said to himself with more decision than ever, now they’re going to see who I am, the cowards, now they’re going to see, and instead of turning aside so that the colossal machine would not charge into him he began to row in front of it, because now they really are going to see who I am, and he continued guiding the ship with the lantern until he was so sure of its obedience that he made it change course from the direction of the docks once more, took it out of the invisible channel, and led it by the halter as if it were a sea lamb toward the lights of the sleeping village, a living ship, invulnerable to the torches of the beacon, that no longer made invisible but made it aluminum every fifteen seconds, and the crosses of the church, the misery of the houses, the illusion began to stand out and still the ocean liner followed behind him, following his will inside of it, the captain asleep on his heart side, the fighting bulls in the snow of their pantries, the solitary patient in the infirmary, the orphan water of its cisterns, the unredeemed pilot who must have mistaken the cliffs for the docks, because at that instant the great roar of the whistle burst forth, once, and he with downpour of steam that fell on him, again, and the boat belonging to someone else was on the point of capsizing, and again, but it was too late, because there were the shells of the shoreline, the stones of the street, the doors of the disbelievers, the whole village illuminated by the lights of the fearsome liner itself, and he barely had time to get out of the way to make room for the cataclysm, shouting in the midst of the confusion, there it is, you cowards, a second before the huge steel cask shattered the ground and one could hear the neat destruction of ninety thousand five hundred champagne glasses breaking, one after the other, from stem to stern, and then the light came out and it was no longer a March dawn but the noon of a radiant Wednesday, and he was able to give himself the pleasure of watching the disbelievers as with open mouths they contemplated the largest ocean liner in this world and the other aground in front of the church, whiter than anything, twenty times taller than the steeple and some ninety‐seven times longer than the village, with its name engraved in iron letters, Halalcsillag, and the ancient and languid waters of the sea of death dripping down its sides.
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Advocates want PayPal to take down accounts of hate groups linked to Ku Klux Klan
Rights and anti-bigotry groups in social media have been reporting accounts associated with white supremacists and hate groups, saying that these individuals and organizations are…
Business, Current Events September 3, 2019
China slowly implementing new tariffs; lodges case against the U.S. at WTO
China has started imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products. The Chinese government has pushed ahead of its plan to increase the duties on various American…
Business, Technology August 31, 2019
Electronic companies has lost $10 billion over US-China trade war; expected to worsen by September 1
On September 1, consumers will be greeted with the imposition of the Trump administration’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imports from China. Electronic…
Business August 31, 2019
Best Buy shares drop after missing Q2 expectations and incoming tariffs
After missing analysts’ expectations of its second-quarter revenue and same-sales growth and the looming tariffs, Best Buy’s shares dropped to 8%, closing at $63.49 last…
Hang Seng Index drops; U.S. and China expects talk to resume in September
Stocks in Asia plummet following the intensifying trade war between the US and China. Just recently, the Hang Seng Index fell 1.7% for the week…
India pursues foreign companies amid the US-China trade war
As the trade war between the United States and China intensify, India is targeting foreign companies in its attempt to encourage them to move their…
TSA puts these Coca-Cola Star Wars-inspired bottles in the no-fly list
Arguably, the Coca-Cola bottles collaboration with Star Wars are replicates of grenades, which allows the TSA to put a ban of them in flights
Startups August 29, 2019
Satellite plasma thruster startup Orbion raises $9.2 million
Michigan-based space tech company Orbion has just reported that it had secured $9.2 million in a Series A Funding roundup within the week. The funds…
B2B, Business August 28, 2019
Russian Firm Sues Boeing Over Max Jet Issue
A Russian aircraft leasing company confirmed last Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit against Boeing. Avia Capital Services, a subsidiary of Russian conglomerate, Rostec, highlighted…
B2B August 28, 2019
Elroy Air successfully demonstrates heavy cargo drone
Earlier this month, Elroy Air successfully flew its autonomous delivery drone. This wasn’t just any drone, as it was several magnitudes more massive than your…
Business, Current Events August 28, 2019
Judge orders Johnson & Johnson to pay the state of Oklahoma $572 Million
A judge in Oklahoma ruled that Johnson & Johnson is liable for intentionally overselling opioid benefits and ordered the company to pay a total of…
Satellite startup Astranis preps for its Falcon 9 launch
Astranis Space Technologies Corp. is now finally making headway preparations for the scheduled launch of its smallsat aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The launch time…
Nvidia unveils VMware partnership in cloud GPU virtualization
Nvidia revealed in an announcement yesterday that VMware was an official business partner with its new updates to its virtual GPU technology. Namely, a hybrid…
Thailand to Tax eCommerce Businesses
Thailand seeks to introduce value-added-tax to eCommerce businesses by next year, intending to collect ฿3 to ฿4 billion or around $98 to $131 million a…
China’s yuan falls to its lowest in 11 years
On Monday, China’s yuan fell to its lowest since February 2008. The value of the Chinese currency slid to its lowest point in 11 years…
US and France close to a compromise deal over digital tax, Trump said
Amid the escalating tension between the U.S. and France over the latter’s proposal to levy a digital tax that would affect tech companies in the…
Hasbro to buy Entertainment One for $4 billion
US toymaker giant Hasbro will acquire Entertainment One, owner of long-running children’s series Peppa Pig, for $4 billion. According to Hasbro, the arrangement will magnify…
Disney stores are opening inside Target
Target has announced the opening of Disney stores within its stores. Starting this October, shoppers would be able to shop for Disney merchandise inside some…
B2B, Cybersecurity August 25, 2019
Hostinger may have exposed data of 14 million users
Popular website hosting platform, Hostinger, has initiated a password reset on all accounts after the company has been notified that there was a third-party intrusion…
B2B, Technology August 25, 2019
FTC, AT&T reached a settlement over internet throttling
The legal battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the telecom giant, AT&T, has come to a conclusion after the two parties have reached…
B2B, Current Events August 25, 2019
BTC exchange, BitPay, blocks Amazon fire donations
Bitcoin exchange company, BitPay, caught Twitter fire presumably as large as the Amazon rainforest fire after the platform has rejected a $100,000 donation to the…
Huawei’s phone division set to lose $10 billion following US ban
Huawei is set to lose about $10 billion from its phone division. This was revealed during a news conference held at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China…
At Google, employees can’t talk about politics anymore
Amid the polarizing, political and social issues surrounding the world these days, California-based tech giant, Google, told their employees that they could no longer engage…
Amazon also says Tesla solar panels caught fire
Technology and manufacturing giant, Tesla, came under fire earlier this week after retail giant Walmart filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit regarding the shoddy installation of…
Cloud app giant VMware acquires Pivotal and Carbon Black for $5 billion
VMware has just revealed via official documentation the finalization of its proceedings to acquire both Pivotal Sofware and Carbon Black, for $2.7 billion and $2.1…
China announces $75 billion tariff on U.S. goods
The trade war between the United States of America and China has further intensified. On Friday, Beijing announced that it would be imposing a new…
Amazon vows to stop using tips to pay drivers minimum wage
While food delivery startup, DoorDash, is trying to rebuild its reputation after the company came under fire earlier this week for not changing its pay…
DoorDash makes new promise to pay tips next month
Following the backlash against DoorDash after reports that the company, who previously did not pay their employees their tips, is still not implementing the reforms…
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