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Afghanistan: A Trillion Dollars’ Worth Of Lies
December 9, 2019 /36 Comments/in War /by Jim White
Jim here.
This morning, the Washington Post published The Afghanistan Papers, so-named as a tribute to Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers. It’s hardly surprising that what we learn from the collection of documents is that the US has been lying about Afghanistan since the very earliest days of the war:
A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
Sadly, the war has come at an unfathomable cost:
Since 2001, more than 775,000 U.S. troops have deployed to Afghanistan, many repeatedly. Of those, 2,300 died there and 20,589 were wounded in action, according to Defense Department figures.
/snip/
Since 2001, the Defense Department, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development have spent or appropriated between $934 billion and $978 billion, according to an inflation-adjusted estimate calculated by Neta Crawford, a political science professor and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
Those figures do not include money spent by other agencies such as the CIA and the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is responsible for medical care for wounded veterans.
Left out of these numbers are the lives lost by Afghan civilians and the lives disrupted by those families displaced by 18 years of hostilities.
John Sopko
These documents were obtained by the Post through a three year FOIA effort aimed at getting the raw materials generated by Inspector General John Sopko’s office, the Special Investigator General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Sopko came into this oversight job in 2012 and he has done incredible work in trying to hold the military and the politicians directing military policy to account for what has been going on in Afghanistan.
Much of my early blogging was centered on Afghanistan, and this false narrative from the military that we were “making progress” despite being in a situation that was clearly unwinnable (and that any check of a history book would have confirmed as an impossible task) was a frequent target. The persistence with which Sopko’s team documented and evaluated material coming from the military was impressive, especially as the military continually developed “new” tools for assessing progress on security and on training of Afghan troops, primarily so that they could make comparisons to previous data irrelevant. Eventually, the military essentially gave up on this approach and decided simply to classify the bulk of this sort of data so that their lack of progress would not be noted every six months as SIGAR came out with their Congressionally-mandated reports.
Around the time of this development, Sopko and his team embarked on a new strategy, interviewing various key figures in the military and in related efforts in Afghanistan to develop a series of “Lessons Learned” reports. The documents being released today are the raw materials from many of these interviews.
Finally, as a result of these materials, we now have extensive documentation that much of what we have been told by officials about Afghanistan is a lie:
Several of those interviewed described explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public. They said it was common at military headquarters in Kabul — and at the White House — to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case.
But then, some of us have known that for a long time. Back in 2010, I came across this interesting graphic on how the military engages in military deception. It turns out there’s a well-described process for it:
In the Post article, we learn that, of course, there was no lesson learned from Vietnam:
The specter of Vietnam has hovered over Afghanistan from the start.
On Oct. 11, 2001, a few days after the United States started bombing the Taliban, a reporter asked Bush: “Can you avoid being drawn into a Vietnam-like quagmire in Afghanistan?”
“We learned some very important lessons in Vietnam,” Bush replied confidently. “People often ask me, ‘How long will this last?’ This particular battlefront will last as long as it takes to bring al-Qaeda to justice. It may happen tomorrow, it may happen a month from now, it may take a year or two. But we will prevail.”
In those early days, other U.S. leaders mocked the notion that the nightmare of Vietnam might repeat itself in Afghanistan.
“All together now — quagmire!” Rumsfeld joked at a news conference on Nov. 27, 2001.
But throughout the Afghan war, documents show that U.S. military officials have resorted to an old tactic from Vietnam — manipulating public opinion.
In news conferences and other public appearances, those in charge of the war have followed the same talking points for 18 years. No matter how the war is going — and especially when it is going badly — they emphasize how they are making progress.
And yes, I was seeing that this “We’re making progress” claim was bullshit long ago. Here are posts from 2010, 2013 and 2016 on the futility of our efforts there. But there’s one more side of this that we need to bring front and center to get a feel for one of the primary driving forces for why we would flush a trillion dollars and so many lives down the toilet. Back in 2008, the New York Times documented how the military carried out an “information operation” (which would rely on military deception) on the status of the war in Iraq. A bevy of “military analysts” was rolled out to make pronouncements in the media about how well things were going (despite the reality that they weren’t) and they were described primarily as “retired military”. What wasn’t disclosed in most cases was that these same “analysts” were also lucratively employed by defense contractors.
This report from the Washington Post on lies from the military closes the loop with the report from the Times on lies from analysts in the media. Senior military figures lie about how wars are going. They eventually retire and then get lucrative jobs with defense contractors. From these positions, they sometimes pose as “analysts” to spout similar falsehoods in the media, prolonging futile wars but enriching the contractors. I wonder if the magnitude of the lies told while in the military determines the size of the salary once they are hired by the contractors. The net result, though, is futile wars that can’t be won, but with endless spending on them anyway.
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, John Sopko, lessons learned, military deception, SIGAR, Stanley McChrystal
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timbo says:
The question now is then is “What is the solution?” Does the US leave Afghanistan to the Taliban? The reason we went there in the first place is because they gave safe-haven to Al Qaeda and, frankly, because the Taliban was and is predisposed to cause further terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe.
PieIsDamnGood says:
Lets try 18 years of not murdering and terrorizing people and see how serious the threat is then.
Jim White says:
Yes, Piels nails it.
The original Taliban government fell within days of our invasion and al Queda (with bin Laden) left right then. And no, while the Taliban does attack what they see as invaders on their soil, I haven’t seen any credible information to say they foment attacks here or in Europe. That falls to al Qaeda and ISIS.
A huge part of the problem is that the US government and military believe that some sort of Western democracy is the answer, but the reality is that in this part of the world, there simply is no “nationalism”. That’s why the Taliban always re-emerge. They operate primarily as local organization and that’s all that matters to the locals, who often spend entire lives within a radius of remarkably few miles.
As someone who came to age during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars I have a strong smell of the bullshit surrounding these wars but am light on the details. So, thanks!
My pleasure. And note I wasn’t trying to lecture you. Those details were aimed at timbo’s claim about the Taliban.
I’m familiar with the history there. We seem to be making the same mistakes as all the other major powers that have tried to control the territory of Afghanistan directly. Is the mistake just asking if there’s a good way out other than immediate withdrawal?
P J Evans says:
The first mistake is assuming that Afghanistan is an actual nation – ti’s a lot of tribes in a geographical area.
The second is assuming they need Western-style democracy.
The third is assuming that Western-style democracy – or any kind of central government – can be imposed from outside.
Remember, Alexander the Great couldn’t do it, either.
Eureka says:
Yep, and thanks PJ and Jim 158p for throwing down the wisdom.
I’m reminded here too of all of the recent-ish threads and articles re the Kurds in various nation-states and how a particular group (in Syria IIRC, tho could be off) practiced their own egalitarian-democratic-style gov. Clearly “we” (well, Trumper foreign “policy”-wise) were not interested in seeing even that tribe thrive.
Rapier says:
The main lesson is that thousands of military officers from Lieutenant on up were silent, in public and probably even to their families, for 20 years. Still, I wouldn’t doubt that all of them and 90% of the living grievously wounded and disabled wouldn’t want it any other way. Only the suicides speak, so to speak.
The Bright Shining Lie has stupendous power. Young people will still gladly go to the wars, FOX NFL will still gush over their sacrifices, and the officer corp will continue to operate as ever as a reliable career path.
https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Shining-Lie-America-Vietnam/dp/0679724141
Petraeus is still lying about it.
Seouljer says:
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
I have never been so fricking bored. This all just seems like stupid bullshit. What is WRONG w/the Democrats? My goodness these GOP thugs just give them all butch haircuts! Damn!
Lester Noyes says:
“T’was ever thus” Department (from a long-time lurker):
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
– Part of the last verse of Kipling’s “The Young British Soldier”
AndTheSlithyToves says:
Wow–thanks for the reminder! Military-Industrial Complex, indeed.
I remember reading that the Brits lost two armies in Afghanistan – one had something like a dozen survivors.
Don’t mess with people who learn the use of weapons as young children.
orionATL says:
it’s called “mildec” in dod jargon, short for “military deception”.
it starts as a legitimate campaign or battlefield strategy (as with the wwII landing in normandy). but then expands as the military loses, or fears it will lose, popular support. the vietnam war was the american military’s media waterloo. after that mildec was practiced as needed by the american military, often by picking and choosing where reporters could go and which reporters. afghanistan has been bad enough, but iraq was the most egregious example. there the devil’s disciple, vice- president dick cheney, manipulated the cia and worked with secretary of defense don rumsfeld to spread the word thru the american mefia about iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
Mooser says:
And for extra added irony, the intelligence community’s deception or the ease with which it was suborned in the case of Iraq’s WMD is cited as a reason not to believe in the ‘Russian election-interference hoax’.
The US in WWII had a lot of ~ “food and well-being” propaganda, I’d say. Like I recall seeing a US-based newspaper clipping photo-boasting of this giant turkey for Thanksgiving dinner for folks in a camp (I forget now if POW or “Displaced Persons”). That kind of rich, hearty food would and did kill people in camps (incl. per the re-feeding instructions they had to develop)… US Signal Corps films of POW camps to be shown at home showed guys in much better shape than, say, an average sample might show (I recall one where a soldier was wiggling the belt-cinched waistband of his loose pants: he clearly started off at better weight than maybe average, let’s say. He looked good, not emaciated.) And so forth, like an “everything’s fine” or “don’t worry” type campaign. Meanwhile lots of soldiers were plain starving at times, especially as they went ahead of the food trains. There’s one who, in his oral history, talks about stealing a turnip from someone’s garden, peeling it with his machete, and eating it raw (blech).
And of course this is all counterposed versus Eisenhower’s campaigns to ensure that all knew of the atrocities in the camps, via films and photographs for dissemination, including of the locals they dragged in to bear witness.
Ed Walker says:
The story of the resistance of conscripts to the Viet Nam War is not widely known. This dissertation discusses the role of resistance in the development of the all-volunteer army. The resistance, for example, at Fort Bragg, was a significant factor. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/10533/Currin_duke_0066D_13125.pdf?sequence=1
[FYI, I’ve edited the URL to reduce tracking. :-) /~Rayne]
greengiant says:
Talked to a fellow who was in a group of Vietnam vets who were stripped of their medals and I understand dishonorably discharged. He said after Ford pardoned Nixon, their discharges were modified.
joel fisher says:
The lying is Viet Nam all over again, but let’s not confuse the Afganistan and Viet Nam: the US had every right to insist that the Taliban give up the Al Qaeda scum, and they wouldn’t. Thus, leading to the forever war. Whereas, what Viet Nam ever did to us is still foggy as far as I’m concerned. Opps, I’m sorry, not foggy at all: they helped us beat the Japanese in WW2.
bmaz says:
Does not explain Iraq though. That is where the WaPo article fails. It never addresses the bigger war the US unilaterally and affirmatively chose to engage in on the wings of a lie.
You are right; WTF about Iraq? There’s plenty of stuff on the record–“Curveball springs to mind–to prove that war was a hot mess from the start.
Phaedruses says:
Iraq had OIL;
Afghanistan had bin Laden,
Which is why they understaffed and funded Afghanistan to get ready for the war they really wanted, other wise even after the August 6th presidential daily briefing why would Rumsfeld on Sept 12 ask for evidence of Iraqi involvement.,
remember what they originally called the invasion of Iraq;
Operation Iraqi Liberation,
but quickly changed it because the acronym (OIL) gave a little bit too much away
As I understand it, when we badgered the Taliban about turning over people who they considered to be guests, we made ourselves their enemies.
I get the whole guests must be treated well thing, but these guests
were over the fucking top. Moreover, the Taliban wanted their money as much as, or more, than they were respecting a cultural norm.
Flatulus says:
War is big business. Our politicians have been bribed to establish military contractors in darn near every Congressional District. That’s most of what we now manufacture here. At some point, the military needs to fire some off.
Oh, we’re also big on marketing debt.
mrtmbrnmn says:
Once again we must salute Gen Smedley Butler, who knew what he was talking about when he declared way back when: “War is a racket”.
So is politics. We are constantly, endlessly spun through a feedback loop of official lies. From Vietnam to 9/11 and Saudi Arabia to Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria to Israel to Iran to Venezuela to PutinGate to UkraineGate to whatever comes next on the toxic agenda of the Wall Street/ War Street/ Washington DC Axis of Evil.
Geoguy says:
Yup, Maj. General Smedley Butler had it right. “War is a Racket” is a quick read at only 18 pages or so and ends with “…we can all make more money out of peace than we can out of war–even the munitions makers.” My view is that it’s all about resource extraction, transit routes and who profits, in US dollars of course. Afghanistan is crazy rich in minerals and some oil. A good place to start is the Wikipedia entry “Mining in Afghanistan.” No invading force in history has ever won in Afghanistan but it sure is a great place to perpetuate the military-industrial business.
Keith McClary says:
The US originally got into Afghanistan to attack Russia (then USSR). Can’t we blame all this on “the Russians”?
e.a.f. says:
Some one made a lot of money on this war and it wasn’t the solders. No one can win in Afghanistan. Just ask the Russians. Why the U.S.A. kept that war going is beyond me, but it always in my opinion had more to do with military contractors and weapons corporations making money. It leaves one wondering why people would actually risk their lives to fight in Afghanistan. It certainly can’t be because its going to make the U.S.A. a safer country. the real risk of being killed in the U.S.A. is by those living in the U.S.A.
Afghanistan doesn’t even have oil, that I know of. of course a war always keeps people’s attention diverted from other things going on in their country. For all the money the American government has spent on that war, they could have had a first class medical system, you know like they do in France.
Henry Turner says:
Might have something to do with the same reason we probably supported (instigated?) a military coup in Bolivia? https://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/ Yeah, I’m paranoid. But not without reason….
ken barker says:
https://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-Dereliction-of-Duty-II.pdf
[As an editor’s note Ken, in the future please explain what your link is and why you are posting it, or else it will not be let through.]
dadidoc1 says:
Maybe I’m cynical, but the never ending war in the middle East just seems like an enormous money laundering scheme in which tax payer dollars are pumped into weapons producers and military contractors who then fund the campaigns of our representatives in Congress.
Mprovd says:
Your comment, dadidoc1, reminded me of stories surrounding $9-billion of US currency that went missing in Iraq during that conflict.
“$12 billion in U.S. currency was transported from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad in April 2003 and June 2004, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. A Vanity Fair magazine report concluded that of this sum, “at least $9 billion has gone missing”. –Wikipedia
I don’t recall that the missing cash ever was recovered or adequately explained.
But as it went missing during the reign of Bush the Younger, I always suspected that it became the core of a GOP slush fund.
skua says:
Somewhere after 2001, as the consequences of GW Bush’s approach to terrorism bit into US military, one of the (retired) top generals said something like, “They’ve set us [the US military] back 30 years”. *
I think the time period was too short. And that the top military had been set back some 40 years to 1964, before lessons about self-deception had been learnt from Vietnam. To the extent this is accurate, Afghanistan was the American military’s reprise of Vietnam.
*I cannot find this quote using Google.
Nor can I find video of GW Bush going straight into talking about “crusade” at the start of his first official speech after 9/11, before pulling himself up and saying something like, “Let’s start that again”.
These were bad days, millions have died because of them, and the social destruction in the US wrought by the fear and lies spread by Bush/Cheney, I think, set the stage for Trump.
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Saudi Arabia expects to pump ‘well below’ usual oil output
Khalid al-Falih, Saudi Arabia's energy minister. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Saudi Arabia expects to reduce oil output once again in February and pump for six months at levels “well below” the production limit it accepted under OPEC’s oil-cuts accord, Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih said.
The world’s biggest exporter targeted production of 10.2 million barrels a day in January and is aiming to pump about 10.1 million in February, he said. Saudi Arabia’s voluntary limit under the December cuts deal with Russia and other producers was 10.33 million barrels a day.
“Saudi Arabia will be well below the voluntary cap that we agreed to” and will pump beneath its ceiling “for the full six months” of the December cuts accord, he said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Riyadh.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies including Russia, a coalition known as OPEC+, agreed to pare production starting this month in an effort to buttress sagging oil prices. Crude futures have gained this year as Saudi Arabia leads the way in curbing output amid a surge in U.S. shale-oil supplies. Benchmark Brent crude was trading 42 cents higher at $60.35 a barrel at 10:37 a.m. in Dubai.
“Demand will start picking up at the end of the first quarter and into the second quarter,” Al-Falih said. The impact of OPEC+ output reductions “will trickle down into the global markets over the next few weeks.”
U.S. Oversupply
The U.S. is currently “way oversupplied” with its own output and with oil from other Western hemisphere producers, Al-Falih said.
“So, as we look at the oil market, and we see it in the price differentials, it’s really not rewarding us to export a lot of oil to the U.S. And as a result, as we make adjustments, it makes commercial sense that that’s the market that gets the majority of our cuts.”
Saudi Arabia and like-minded countries are determined to drive inventories below the five-year historical average, he said. “We’re going to do it by ensuring that supply is below demand for 2019.”
It’s still unclear what effect political turmoil in Venezuela will have on crude markets, Al-Falih said. Output from the South American OPEC member has languished amid escalating tensions between forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro and those supporting opposition National Assembly leader Juan Guaido.
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Aberdeen Uni shows off carbon capture credentials
by Allister Thomas
Mohammed Imbabi from CCM explains the science behind the company's work to members of the U.S. Senate delegation
Aberdeen University showcased its pioneering work in carbon capture technology when it hosted a delegation of US Senators earlier this week.
The group was led by Lisa Murkowski, chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee touring the uni’s School of Engineering, along with Scottish Energy minister Paul Wheelhouse.
Carbon capture and conversion technology pioneered by a university spin-off company – Carbon Capture Machine (CCM) – was the focal point as the sole European entrant to reach the finals of Xprize, an international competition to develop ways to reduce C02 emissions.
The delegation following their visit to the University’s School of Engineering, where they toured the laboratories used by CCM (UK) Ltd
Emeritus professor Fred Glasser developed the technology over several years.
He said: ““We were delighted to meet the U.S. Senate delegation and Mr Wheelhouse to talk about our development of this technology, which has the potential to be a game-changer in carbon capture and utilisation, as our progression to the XPRIZE finals testifies.
“Our initial aim in developing the technology is to deploy it for use in large-scale industrial settings, de-carbonising at source from power stations, factories, and other major CO2 sources.
“In the future, we envisage that it can also be scaled down and miniaturised for use across a wide range of emission sources, from different transport platforms to people’s homes.
“By de-carbonising at source and converting CO2 into sustainable products and materials we can have a major impact in reducing global CO2 levels.”
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VIP Colosseum Arena and Ancient Rome
Coliseo, Foros imperiales, Palatino
Experience the Colosseum through the eyes of a gladiator with direct access to the arena floor through their reserved entrance. Tour the Forum and Palatine Hill with an official guide.
See the Colosseum from a different point of view
Enter the restricted area of the arena through the VIP gladiator gate
Get a fantastic overview of the dungeons
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Colosseum and Ancient Rome
This skip-the-line tour is a great way to see the Colosseum, Forum and Palatine Hill with an expert guide to explain all that you see.
Don’t waste time waiting in line to see the highlights of Ancient Rome
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Visit the private houses of the emperors on the Palatine Hill
Paseo nocturno por Roma - Coliseo, Foro Romano, Piazza Venezia, Fontana de Trevi, Panteón y Piazza Navona
Coliseo, Foros imperiales, Fuente de Trevi, panteón, Plaza navona
Descubra la magia de Roma de noche. Este paseo a pie le llevará a través de los lugares más destacados de Roma mientras el sol se pone sobre la ciudad. Recorreremos los lugares de visita imprescindible, empezando por el magnífico Coliseo y el Foro Romano. Su passeggiata (paseo en italiano) continúa hacia Piazza Venezia, Fontana de Trevi, el Panteón y Piazza Navona, los monumentos más célebres de Roma , que de noche se presentan bellamente iluminados. Un recorrido encantador, imprescindible para quienes visitan Roma.
Roma Desconocida - Visita a las catacumbas, la Vía Apia y la campiña romana
Catacumbas de San Calisto, Circo de maxentius, Mausoleo de Cecilia Metella, a través de Appia Antica, Acueducto de claudio
Explore algunos de los lugares más excepcionales que pueden visitarse en Roma: las catacumbas y la campiña romana. Este itinerario, que combina autobús y paseos a pie, le lleva más allá de los muros de la ciudad, en un viaje en el tiempo hacia la antigua Roma.
Este recorrido comienza con un cómodo trayecto en autobús, rumbo a la campiña romana. Empezaremos con las famosas Catacumbas de San Calixto y continuaremos con el Circo de Majencio, con una visita exterior al Mausoleo de Cecilia Metela. Esta bonita excursión de un día concluye con una visita a la increíble Via Apia y al acueducto Claudio. Unos lugares verdaderamente únicos e imprescindibles en su visita a Roma.
Roma Artística. Recorrido a pie y aperitivo en torno al Panteón – Una tarde con Caravaggio y Rafael
Iglesia de Santa Maria del Popolo, a través de Ripetta, Iglesia de Santa Maria della Pace, Iglesia de Sant'Agostino, San Luigi dei Francesi, panteón
Un guía experto le acompañará en un extraordinario recorrido a pie a través del arte romano, desde Piazza del Popolo hasta el Panteón, abarcando algunos de los lugares imprescindibles cuando se visita Roma.
Seguiremos los pasos de los pintores más prolíficos e influyentes del Renacimiento: Rafael Sanzio y uno de los artistas más rebeldes de la historia de Italia, Caravaggio, quien revolucionó la pintura renacentista. Descubriremos las obras de estos grandes maestros en algunas de las iglesias más hermosas del centro histórico.
Este recorrido a pie a través del arte romano finalizará con la degustación de un aperitivo típico romano en un restaurante de los alrededores del Panteón.
Un recorrido imprescindible en Roma - Trastevere y el Gueto Judío
Largo di Torre Argentina, Fuente de tortuga, Pórtico de Octavia, Templo mayor de Roma, Isla de tiber, Piazza di Santa Maria en Trastevere, Piazza Farnese, Campo de fiori
Esta visita, imprescindible en Roma, le conducirá a través del encanto y la historia de los barrios del Trastevere y del Gueto Judío, dos de los mejores lugares que visitar en Roma.
Nuestro paseo comienza en el centro, en Largo di Torre Argentina ,adentrándonos en el gueto, recorriendo sus lugares de interés más famosos y haciendo una visita exterior a la sinagoga. El siguiente itinerarios nos lleva al Trastevere, el famoso y artístico barrio en el que se encuentra la preciosa iglesia de Santa María.
Este maravilloso paseo finaliza en Campo de’Fiori, una plaza muy querida por los romanos, llena de artistas callejeros, música en vivo y animados cafés. El modo perfecto para ver y descubrir lo mejor de Roma.
Monuments: Palatine and Fori Imperiali Area
Palatine Hill (via di San Gregorio, 30, metro: Colosseo. Full price €9, concessions €4.50 for both tickets add a €3 supplement when temporary exhibitions are showing in the Colosseum. The ticket is valid for one entrance each to the Palatine Hill, Roman Forum, and the Colosseum within a 24 hour period).
As the place where Romulus legendarily founded Rome, the Palatine Hill is a great place to start your visit to Rome. There’s a good practical reason too; the Colosseum is probably somewhere near the top of your list of things to see in the city, and it is included on the same ticket as the Palatine and the Roman Forum. Plus the lines at the Palatine ticket office on the Via di San Gregorio are much shorter that those at the Colosseum, buy your ticket there and when you get to the Colosseum you can walk straight past the queues.
After the foundation of Rome by Romulus, the Palatine Hill remained inhabited for well over a thousand years. After the overthrow of the last king of Rome, and the foundation of the Roman Republic, it became the smart residential area of the city. After the Republican period, upon Octavian’s creation as the first of the Roman Emperors with the title Augustus, the hill took on an important propagandistic role. Augustus began to build a palace, which he built close to the area where Romulus had founded the city. He described himself as the “New Romulus” and sought to emphasise his glorious heritage; he was the nephew of Julius Caesar, who in turn claimed direct descent from the Trojan hero Aeneas. Building his palace where Romulus had lived, he claimed a link to a family tree which saw him as part of the line which from Venus, passed down through Aeneas and Romulus. What better right to rule? After Augustus’ palace was built, subsequent emperors modified and enlarged the palace buildings; most of the ruins which we see today are those of the vast and once spectacularly opulent palace which was built in the late 1st century by the mad, bad, and dangerous to know Emperor Domitian of the Flavian dynasty. A complex of great vaulted halls and open courtyards where fountains once played, Domitian’s palace has long since been stripped of the coloured marbles and granites which were brought back from the far parts of the Empire for its decoration. The opulent cladding now decorates countless of the city’s 957 churches, and the brickwork visible today is the skeleton of the buildings, the bare bones of the structure, never intended to be seen by Imperial eyes. From the Via di San Gregorio entrance, the steps lead to a view over the long sunken garden which was the culmination for visitors of state to the Imperial Palace (visitors originally entered from the Forum side of the hill). Because of its shape it has been called the Stadium, or Hippodrome, although it is undoubtedly far too small for horse races.
As well as offering a peaceful break from the bustle of the city, its the red-brick ruins sitting picturesquely amid pine trees, the Palatine Hill offers a good view over the Circus Maximus. Site of Ben Hur style chariot races for some eleven centuries, the Circus is now a rather scrubby piece of land, favoured by dog walkers (and all that entails). From down on the ground it is difficult to get an idea of what it must once have been like, but from up on the Palatine Hill (where the Emperors had their own private box) the scale is visible, but not the dog mess.
Continuing towards the westernmost corner of the hill, the mid-twentieth century excavations are visible. These revealed holes carved in the bedrock, which are believed to have been the supports for oval pre-historic huts, known as the Romulean Huts. Close to these excavations is the House of Augustus, where frescoes dating to the 1st century BC have been discovered. There are a number of other interior sites across the hill where Republican frescoes can be seen, including the House of Livia and the House of the Griffins. Like the House of Augustus however these are sporadically open to the public, and do not have guaranteed opening hours.
Via dei Fori Imperiali and highlights of the Imperial Fora
This street was razed through Medieval and Renaissance districts of the city by Mussolini in the 1930s, who originally named it the Road of Empire. It now bears the name of the Imperial Fora, the extensions to the Roman Forum added by assorted Emperors. Significant sections of the Imperial Fora are visible from the road, whilst others languish beneath the cobbles and the hurtling traffic.
It was Julius Caesar (who ruled as Dictator during the late period of the Roman Republic, just before the birth of the Empire and wasn’t an Emperor) who set the ball rolling, with his new Forum, behind the Senate House. The temple in his new Forum was dedicated to Venus Genatrix, a reference to Julius’ grand family line which he claimed reached right back to Aeneas, the Trojan hero and son of the goddess Venus. After Julius’ assassination, his nephew Octavian’s rise to power culminated in Octavian declaring himself the first of the Emperors with the title Augustus. Augustus followed his uncle’s lead by building an extension to the Roman Forum which would bear his name. What remains of the Forum of Augustus is a little further down towards the Colosseum, before the junction with Via Cavour, and on the other side of the road from the Roman Forum. It is identifiable by the wall made of hefty greenish blocks of tufa. In the wall grooves form a triangular shape which once supported a pediment of the Temple of Mars, the god Augustus chose for his forum, once again a reference to the family’s heroic lineage was being made; Mars, the god of war, was the father of Romulus, which fitted in nicely with Augustus’ claim to be the “new Romulus”.
Directly opposite the Forum of Julius Caesar, towards Piazza Venezia from the Forum of Augustus, is the addition, over a century after Julius built his Forum, of the Forum of Trajan. Trajan, ruling in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries, found himself needing to create a space for his Forum, which he did by removing the saddle of land which then joined the Quirinal Hill with the Capitoline Hill. To shore up the Quirinal, he built a large hemispherical terraced structure, thought perhaps to have contained areas dedicated to trade and merchant activity, and therefore known as Trajan’s Markets. Ever religious, Trajan was a little concerned about having muddled with nature and the will of the gods with his massive earthwork, and as an acknowledgment of his modifications, he erected a column exactly the same height as the land removed. Trajan’s Column bears carvings which spiral up, rather like an open scroll, and recount the triumphs of Trajan in Dacia (modern day Romania). The carvings are considered one of the greatest achievements of Roman art, and offer an enormously important view into military techniques of the period.
Trajan’s Markets, and part of Trajan’s Forum, are incorporated into the Museum of the Imperial Fora (9am-7pm Tues-Sun, €6.50/€4.50) entrance on Largo Magnanapoli where the red brick tower, the Torre della Milizie, is a reminder that the structure was converted into a fortress during the Middle Ages, one of the reasons it remains so well preserved.
At the opposite end of the Via dei Fori Imperiali from the Colosseum, the Piazza Venezia takes its name from the 15th century Palazzo di Venezia, the brown building along the western side of the square. It was built in the mid 1400s by the future Pope Paul II, who was then the Ambassador from the Venetian Republic in Rome, and bears the name of his city. During the period of Fascist rule Mussolini occupied the Sala del Mappamundo as his office. Italy’s entrance into the Second World War was announced from the balcony of this room, directly over the main doorway. Part of the Palazzo is the Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, entrance on via del Plebiscito (8.30am-7.30pm Tues-Sun, €4/€2) with a picture gallery, a collection of porcelain, and a collection of ancient, medieval and Renaissance carvings in the Lapidarium.
Dominating the piazza, is the incongruous white hulk of the Altare della Patria was inaugurated in 1911, and is often flippantly referred to as the Wedding Cake, for its tiered appearance, and rather fussy decoration. Built to commemorate the Unification of Italy, it houses the tomb of the unknown soldier, the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento (9.30am-6pm Tues-Sun, free) which documents the struggle for the 19th century Unification of Italy, a space for temporary art exhibitions (entrance by the Forum of Julius Caesar), and a glass lift inaugurated in 2007 (every day 9.30am-7.30pm, Fri and Sat in the summer open until 11.30pm, €7) which whisks you up to the top of the monument where you can enjoy fabulous views across the city centre, and beyond.
Capitoline Hill
To the right of the Altare della Patria, a shallow flight of steps (not the really steep one) leads up to the Piazza del Campidoglio. Once the site of the most important temple of the Roman world, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, it owes its current form to 16th century designs by Michelangelo. He modified and incorporated existing medieval structures into this harmonious piazza. The central building with the bell tower is the Palazzo dei Senatori, now home to Rome’s City Hall. The flanking Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the right, and Palazzo Nuovo, on the left, are home to the world’s oldest public museum, first opened in 1471. Michelangelo’s designs for the piazza also saw the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius moved from the Lateran palace (where it had survived the Middle Ages because it was believed to represent Constantine. Given that Constantine was considered to be the first Christian Emperor, the statue had a lucky escape, and was not melted down to make weapons). The statue which we now see in the centre of the piazza is a replica, made in the 1990s, when the original was moved inside the museum.
Capitoline Museums, Piazza del Campidoglio. (9am-8pm Tues-Sun, €7.50/€5.50; a supplement may be added to the ticket price when a temporary exhibition is showing). As well as the original statue of Marcus Aurelius, the vast archaeological collection of the Capitoline Museums contains the famous sculpture of the she-wolf which is the symbol of the city. The statue was long believed to be an Etruscan piece dating to about 500BC, although recent studies have suggested that it might in fact be a medieval piece. The discussion is still open, although there is no doubt that the suckling children, representing Romulus and Remus, were added in the 15th century. The Palazzo dei Conservatori (where you enter the museum) is connected to the Palazzo Nuovo (on the other side of the piazza) by a basement passageway with a collection of tombstones, and other inscriptions. From this passage take a brief detour to the Tabularium (the Roman archive building of the 1st BC, on which the Palazzo dei Senatori is built). From here you can admire one of the finest views across the Roman Forum towards the Palatine Hill and the Colosseum. As well as a wealth of antique sculpture, the Capitoline Museums also has a picture gallery with works by Caravaggio, Veronese, and Titian, and a nice café with a great view.
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[eBook] The Marco Effect
Penguin Group US 9 septembre 2014
The New York Times and internationally bestselling author returns with an astonishing and sinister case for Department Q All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body-'proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities-'he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll go to any lengths to keep Marco silent . . . forever. Meanwhile, the last thing Detective Carl Morck needs is for his assistants, Assad and Rose, to pick up a missing persons case on a whim: Carl's nemesis is his new boss, and he's saddled Department Q with an unwelcome addition. But when they learn that a mysterious teen named Marco may have as much insight into the case as he has fear of the police, Carl is determined to solve the mystery and save the boy. Carl's actions propel the trio into a case that extends from Denmark to Africa, from embezzlers to child soldiers, from seemingly petty crime rings to the very darkest of cover-ups.
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Speed the development of wearable devices with a solid, targeted platform
The IoT world is expanding on all fronts, including the demand for wearable devices for a range of consumer needs and also for medical devices that can free wearers from home confinement. A targeted MCU/RTOS combination with the proper features can speed development for successful designs.
by Kim Rowe, CEO and founder of RoweBots Ltd.
The world of wearable devices is becoming one of the most challenging and dynamic areas of the Internet of Things. A recent issue of Consumer Reports featured 27 wearable fitness devices—only one aspect of the wearable world. The combination of fitness monitoring on the consumer side and medical applications on a more specialized and serious side are leading to innovations that present the developer with an array of opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, advances in low-power, high-performance microcontrollers along with innovative and miniature sensors are presenting developers with a rich set of tools to approach the challenges.
On the other hand, a range of demands and constraints face the developer approaching the design of wearable devices, one of the more prominent being low power consumption and power management. Power consumption and management will involve the connected sensor(s), the local processor and its load and the external wireless link. Other constraints for wearable devices are, of course, that they be attached to the body, but also not obvious to view. They can be worn hidden under or concealed in clothing or disguised as fashion items like rings or bracelets. Many aspects of a design will depend on whether a device is primarily aimed at fitness monitoring, or has more specific medical application like glucose and blood oxygen monitoring, blood pressure, pulse and more. In many cases the latter classes will also require FDA certification. In such cases, security will also be a primary concern (Figure 1).
Then there is the matter of wireless connectivity. Perhaps the most familiar is Bluetooth LE connected to a smartphone that is also carried on the body. This has the advantage of providing a platform for apps that can process or pre-process data from the sensor(s) prior to sending it on to a gateway or ultimately to the cloud. However, this solution is not applicable to all situations, for example sporting events like football or a marathon race. Thus the selection and integration of a wireless solution will also entail design decisions involving size, weight and power.
A platform for development
Microcontrollers and processors, sensors and wireless connectivity solutions are available in rich and ever-growing variety. For example, in considering the hardware, one attractive choice would be a very low-power MCU with sleep modes that could be invoked to further save power. Parts of the design, such as A/D conversion or other frequent and relatively simple functions could be assigned to programmable logic, which inherently uses less power than a processor. A processor consumes power by needing powered memory, fetching and executing instructions, waking and going back to sleep, etc. On the other hand, putting too much function into logic takes longer to develop and once implemented, is difficult to update, which affects flexibility and adaptability. Functions implemented in software are easier to develop, and easier to adapt to meet changing demands, so some trade-offs between programmable logic and memory are required.
Fortunately, there is a growing selection of processors that have the performance to not only support trade-offs between programmable logic and powered memory. They also have the capacity to work with a fully functional RTOS. That then lets a you start with a solid platform—a matched pair of processor and RTOS—one that has all the capabilities you may need but from which you can select only those you do need. Building on the right RTOS/processor platform gets you started faster adding unique, innovative value and speeding time to market. It also assists in porting systems and applications to new hardware environments when that becomes necessary. The key is to find the right RTOS that can offer modularity, a familiar API such as POSIX and support for a lean development model.
Having an adaptable platform, such as one based on a family or families of processors sharing the same basic RTOS, lets you easily change modules and provide new functionality to quickly address changing markets. It lets you preserve, reuse and enhance the existing software offering to meet those challenges. For example, you could move the entire functionality to a compatible, more powerful processor and smoothly modify or add features including new sensors. That platform also needs to be complete in the sense that it supports such things as memory, mechanical, display, camera and other sensor systems. The availability of driver source code for a wide variety of sensors will make it straightforward to integrate them into a wearable design. For any devices you select, that code can be quickly compiled and the drivers ported for the specific MCU.
Such an inherently modular and configurable RTOS model can greatly streamline the development process by adopting a platform based on a lean or agile development model as that invented by Toyota for modular design and technology inclusion in automobiles. This model also works very well with other products. Combined with a platform consisting of the selected MCU or MPU with the RTOS already adapted and supplied, it can significantly reduce time to market and cost. A targeted RTOS like the WearableOS from RoweBots, Ltd. brings all these characteristics together in a targeted platform for wearable development.
Decisions about the user interface
A small device that is to be worn on a part of the body not normally in view or easily accessible limits the possibilities for an HMI—at least locally. It certainly can’t include a large display or keyboard. In some cases where, for example, a smart watch is part of the system, its touch display and buttons can be used for limited user interaction. This still does not add up to a very rich user interface. A true HMI depends on device connectivity to the wider infrastructure.
Wearable devices, even the most unobtrusive ones, are connected, either to other devices carried by the wearer and/or ultimately to the Internet. Thus the needs for a richer HMI become bound up with the connectivity architecture of the device and this can even result in different layers or versions of user interface (Figure 2).
Imagine a health monitoring device that measures heart rate and blood pressure. Normally it might simply sense that data and send it via Bluetooth to the wearer’s smart phone, which would then transmit it periodically to an Internet gateway and from there to a doctor’s computer. Such a device would not be set up directly but probably from the physician’s workstation using a rich graphical display. That same workstation and its HMI would be used to display and analyze the data. But there might also be a somewhat more limited interface on the smart phone or smart watch that could have a vibrating panel on the back to alert the wearer to contact the doctor or take some other action. In other words, there could be different levels of user interface depending on the connected devices and their role in the overall function of the application. This is in turn involved with the wireless connectivity model associated with the device—often in cases where the smartphone model is not appropriate.
Choosing connectivity and security
As we have noted, different forms of lifestyle, activity, application demands and situational circumstances will require different approaches to wireless connectivity and different radio types. The one thing, of course, that they will all have in common is the need for low power. While the Bluetooth connection to a smartphone may have many convenient aspects, it is not appropriate on a football or soccer playing field. In such situations, traditional Wi-Fi might look attractive but it consumes too much power. A good substitute would be the 6LowPAN protocol running on top of an 802.15.4 radio, which also allows group communication among teammates. For more spread-out events like marathons and road races, there is the emerging LoRaWAN radio with a range of some 15 kilometers. It depends on the presence of gateways, but these are becoming increasingly popular with city administrations for a range of management tasks from street lighting to waste management and more. Alternatively, a set of gateways could easily be set up along the course of a race. On the horizon are other technologies such as LTE CAT-M1, which uses a slice of the cellular network.
For wearables—especially the medically sensitive ones—security is essential. This is important not only for access, but also for communications in the form of transport layer security (TLS) along with secure SFTP and SSH for file transfer. Depending on the hardware, the RTOS should be able to work with secure processor features such as ARM trust zones and silicon supported encryption. Over the air updates also require secure boot. In addition, the RTOS must provide the ability to roll back to a previous release if an update is interrupted or doesn’t succeed.
A development platform made up of a selection of processor families supported by a portable RTOS will serve as a solid basis for building wearable devices. The RTOS should offer a well-understood API like POSIX or embedded Linux and rich features that can be selected and quickly integrated to form the image that best fits the target design. This means supporting a rich selection of sensors, peripherals and wireless communication alternatives along with security. Such a platform will also be accessible by a wide choice of development tool suites that will quickly fit into the existing environment of most development teams and speed the creation of unique value while shortening time to market, which are the keys to success.
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Chester, Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, UK | Social Inclusion
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Save the Family provides residential accommodation and support for Troubled Families that are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and who have multiple and complex needs. We are based outside Chester at Cotton Hall Farm, Cotton Edmunds with 32 self-contained residential units, a community hall, sports hall, training kitchen and a well-equipped Children’s Centre, including a Sensory Room. Almost half of our families are referred from within the Cheshire West and Chester area and others come from The Wirral, Merseyside, Warrington and even Manchester.
For some time, we have been in discussion with government (Breakthrough Britain 2015) about how best to provide help to the most troubled families in the UK. We are re-aligning our services by moving from costly intensive wrap-around services, which included care interventions and support that stakeholder agencies already provide such as cooking to a budget, back to a more effective basic regime, where we spend more time with the family, preparing them for independent living, by developing role-model family mentors and teaching basic life-skills, together with essential daily and weekly routines. We bring the family back together and prepare them for Multi-Agency support and move-on back into the community.
Our charity strives to address the issues of:
- Homelessness - our families will be resident. We have support from our Housing Association partner, Hilldale Housing
- Family breakdown – whole family supported
- Domestic abuse – our families are in a supported environment, with safeguarding and general safety paramount. We offer support and training sessions in how to deal with abuse, by providing a link to relevant agencies and partners
- Alcohol & substance misuse – our families are mentored by staff, volunteers and peers to prevent relapse. Our Occupancy Licence reinforces compliance to agreed drug and substance misuse support programmes, with organisations such as the Cheshire & Wirral Partnership.
- Debt – our families are supported by mentors to effectively manage their finances. In particular, options explored and worked through with families are Individual Voluntary Arrangements and Debt Write-Offs. Support to deal with debt is of paramount importance to our mentoring approach and we advocate discussions with partners such as CAB, Money Advice Service and with creditors.
- Mental health – our mentors will provide a strong link to the agencies supporting those individuals with mental health issues. As well as NHS Mental Health services, we have links with partners, such as 1st Enable, Richmond Court, Rowlands Lodge.
- Child protection – our families receive support from our mentors, particularly in their relationships with social services
- Poor parenting – our parents receive support from our mentors to develop their parenting skills, ensuring that they and their children can practically learn and demonstrate these skills, whilst on-site. They also take accredited course modules with our partners, The Manchester College, which combined with other relevant modules lead to NVQ qualifications in specific subjects, chosen by the family members.
Our homeless families are below the radar of published statistics, with complex multiple issues, often due to family breakdown and domestic abuse where children are at risk of being taken into care. Issues include alcohol and substance misuse, domestic violence, debt, mental health, child protection and poor parenting. Our project will mentor and support the families and help them work with the relevant agencies.
The recent government troubled families' analysis highlights that these families need joined up holistic support, which we are able to facilitate. We also provide a residential base, to deliver support. With our help parents are often re-united with their children who had been in care.
Our mentoring approach, to gain the trust of families and prepare them for specialist support, has a better chance of tackling the intergenerational problems with these families.
Our service provision whilst extremely effective and much needed is costly and expensive to maintain. We fundraise as we know that family breakdown is increasing and is more difficult to address with the most vulnerable homeless families:
- 500,000+ children referred to social services in 2012-13 (NSPCC)
- 47% increase in child protection in last 5 years (Prof. Ray Jones 2014)
- 45% increase in “children in need” suffering abuse or neglect (Prof. Ray Jones 2014). Taking an increasing number of children into care is not the answer.
Our own research into what works with families has established that trust is the key to success with a family who has never trusted and empathy is a key requirement for staff.
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Evidence from extensive research conducted by The Centre for Social Justice (Ref: Breakthrough Britain 2015) supports our “family fostering” approach, where Family and Peer Mentoring is what opens up our troubled families to further essential services. This type of support cannot be effectively provided in the community and our research has shown that with homeless families, our approach captures their needs and provides a necessary safety-net from which to nurture their relationships with statutory agencies.
Our approach enables our families to grow in a mentoring environment, with emphasis on key life skills, routines, independence and building self-esteem. It will allow us not to judge, but to encourage and not to just provide rules, but to provide realistic challenges and objectives.
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ALEKSIC, MILUTIN
KK Buducnost 9 Forward
Height: 2.02 Born: 28 April, 1982 Nationality: Serbia
Totals 2 0 16:00 7 2/3 1/1 0/0 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 -1
Averages 2 0 8:00 3.5 66.7% 100% 0% 0.5 0 0.5 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 -0.5
13 vs Maccabi Elite 8:00 3 -3
14 at Montepaschi Siena 8:00 7 2/3 1/1 1 1 3 2 2
2 Totals 16:00 7 2/3 1/1 0/0 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 -1
Average 8:00 3.5 66.7% 100% 0% 0.5 0 0.5 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 -0.5
Index rating 2 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Points 7 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Offensive rebounds 1 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Defensive rebounds 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Total rebounds 1 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Assists 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Steals 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Blocks 0 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Minutes 8 Montepaschi Siena vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica 2/13/2003
Grew up with BC Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) juniors.
Made his debut with BC Red Star during the 2000-01 season.
Played there till January'02.
Signed on February'02 by KK Buducnost Podgorica.
Moved to Cyprus, signed by AEL Limassol.
On March'04 moved back to Serbia, signed by KK Hemofarm Vrsac.
Moved again to Cyprus, signed by AEL Limassol.
On April'05 moved to Belgium, signed by Spirou Charleroi.
Back to Cyprus for the 2005-06 season.
Played there till the 2007-08 championship.
Moved to Latvia for the 2008-09 season, signed by ASK Riga.
Won the 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2006-07 Cypriot National Championship with AEL Limassol.
Won the 2007 Cypriot Super Cup with AEL Limassol.
Played the 2006, 2007 and 2008 FIBA EuroCup All Star Game.
Has been member of the Yugoslav U-18 and U-20 National Team.
2002-03 KK Buducnost 2 7 3.5 2/3 66.7 1/1 100 0/0 0 1 0 0 0
Totals 2 7 3.5 2/3 66.7 1/1 100 0/0 0 1 0 0 0
Averages 2 7 3.5 2/3 66.7 1/1 100 0/0 0 0.5 0 0 0
2004-05 Hemofarm 5 24 4.8 9/11 81.8 0/0 0 6/8 75 10 2 3 0
2008-09 ASK Riga 2 19 9.5 5/8 62.5 3/5 60 0/0 0 12 2 7 0
Totals 7 43 6.1 14/19 73.7 3/5 60 6/8 75 22 4 10 0
Averages 7 43 6.1 14/19 73.7 3/5 60 6/8 75 3.1 0.6 1.4 0
1999/00 Red Star 6 15 2,5 3/4 75 1/2 50 6/6 100 2 0 2 …
2000/01 Red Star 19 101 5,3 20/43 46,5 14/36 38,9 19/27 70,4 41 30 32 …
2002/03 Buducnost 12 50 4,2 15/23 65,2 4/10 40 8/15 53,3 31 14 11 0
2003/04 AEL 8 139 17,4 49/82 59,8 2/19 10,5 35/49 71,4 52 12 12 2
Hemofarm 14 95 6,8 31/42 73,8 2/7 28,6 27/39 69,2 26 22 16 1
2004/05 Hemofarm 14 55 3,9 21/32 65,6 0/2 0 13/14 92,9 18 2 11 0
Charleroi 2 5 2,5 1/2 50 0/1 0 3/6 50 9 ... 1 ...
2007/08 Limassol 15 191 12,7 56/77 72,7 12/29 41,4 43/55 78,2 104 21 66 11
2002/03 Buducnost 2 7 3,5 2/3 66,7 1/1 100 0/0 0/0 1 0 0 0
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2004/05 Hemofarm 5 24 4,8 9/11 81,8 0/0 0/0 6/8 75 10 2 3 0
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Aloha Airline Flight Tickets
The foundation of Aloha Air was laid on July 26, 1946 and it started running its operations on that very day. Since the airlines made a switch from commercial flying to cargo carrying, it transferred all its operations to Aloha Air Cargo on the 31st of March in 2008. Its headquarters was located in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The air carrier company had two hubs, the primary one in Honolulu International Airport and the secondary hub in John Wayne Airport. The parent company that the airline had was Aloha Air Group.
Before the services were transferred, the airline flew to several destinations. It flew to over 12 destinations. In the United States of America it covered areas like-Sacramento, Phoenix, Hilo, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Lihue, Oakland, Kailua, Reno and Orange County. It also flew to several international destinations including Canada, Midway Atoll, Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Cook Islands.
While making attempts at increasing its potential, the airline made code –sharing agreements with United Airlines and Island Air.
Aloha Air received a lot of recognition from the passengers. The fleet that Aloha Airlines had in March 2008 that is when it transferred its operations to Aloha Air Cargo, for cargo flights composed of-Boeing737-200, Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800.At this time the average age span of the fleet of Aloha Airlines was 18.2 years.
Aloha Air Fare Structures and Aloha Air Flight Amenities
The airlines had both the coach and first class. Passengers could make decision according to their will and book the seating class arrangement before boarding the flight. In case of available seats in the first class they could pay to get upgraded to the first class even after they were onboard.
Passengers in the economy class enjoyed the services of an amiable staff and also got complimentary cookies. First class passengers had the privilege of comfortable reclining chairs a mouth watering cuisine and other amazing services and facilities
Aloha Air Baggage
Passengers who were flying in the domestic flights were allowed to carry one bag which could weigh up to 50lb.They could also carry a personal item but it could not exceed 62 linear inches/157cm (length+ width=height. Aloha airlines had also specified baggage rules for passengers traveling on the code share partners, their combined luggage could not weigh more than 23kgs.
Passengers were also allowed to take with them one carry bag and a personal item, which did not weigh more than 20lb.The rules for such baggage were that it should have been able to fit in the over head cabin or below the seat .The dimension limit was 8×14×22 inches.
Aloha Air Rewards
While the airline was operating it had established a way of rewarding its loyal customers. Their frequent flyer program was called Aloha Pass. It had been operating from 1983 till the time it gave over its functioning to Aloha Air Cargo. The passengers could redeem the miles for exciting prizes and rewards.
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Bank Reports
FIL-93-97
(Call Report Date)
TO: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
SUBJECT: Reports of Condition and Income (Call Reports) for Third Quarter 1997
The enclosed materials pertain to the Reports of Condition and Income (Call Reports) for September 30, 1997. Please complete the third quarter Call Reports as soon as possible and then submit them in accordance with the filing requirements discussed below. Completed reports must be received by October 30, 1997. No extensions of time for submitting reports are granted. Please note that the enclosed materials contain only one complete set of Call Report forms rather than two sets as in prior quarters.
As previously announced by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (see FIL-64-97, dated June 27, 1997), the banking agencies are phasing out their direct acceptance of hard-copy (paper) Call Report forms in two stages beginning with the third quarter Call Reports.
Each bank that had $50 million or more in assets as of June 30, 1996, must file its September 30, 1997, and subsequent Call Reports in one of the following two ways:
By using computer software to prepare its reports in automated form and then filing the reports directly with the banking agencies' electronic collection agent, Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), either by transmitting the Call Report data file electronically by modem or by sending EDS a computer diskette; or
By completing its reports in hard-copy form and arranging with EDS, a Call Report software vendor, or another party to convert its paper reports to automated form. If a party other than EDS performs this service, that party must electronically transmit the bank's Call Report data file to EDS.
A bank that is not required to file its September 30, 1997, Call Report in automated form may choose to submit a hard-copy report form directly to the appropriate federal banking agency for the final time this quarter. The electronic filing requirement will apply to all banks for the December 31, 1997, and subsequent Call Reports.
The filing of a Call Report that is submitted electronically to EDS by modem will be considered timely if it is transmitted to EDS by October 30, 1997. Any bank using the paper-based alternative method must ensure that it delivers its hard-copy report to the party with whom it has contracted for the conversion of its report to automated form in sufficient time for EDS to receive the automated Call Report data file by the October 30 submission deadline.
For a computer diskette sent directly to EDS to be considered filed on time, regardless of the date of its receipt by EDS, the diskette must be properly addressed and either mailed first class and postmarked no later than October 27, 1997, or entered into an overnight delivery system on or before October 29, 1997. Any Call Report sent to EDS on a computer diskette that EDS cannot read will not be accepted and resubmission will be necessary. Resubmission may result in EDS' receipt of the bank's Call Report data file after the submission deadline.
Similarly, if a bank that is not required to file its third quarter Call Report in automated form chooses to submit its report in hard-copy form directly to the appropriate banking agency, the report will be considered filed on time, regardless of when it is received by that agency, if it is properly addressed and mailed no later than October 27, 1997, or entered into an overnight delivery system on or before October 29, 1997. National banks and FDIC-supervised banks should return only the original signed hard-copy forms to the FDIC's data entry site in Crofton, Maryland. Original signed forms that are mailed to OCC District or FDIC Regional Offices are not considered properly addressed. The use of an improper address may cause a bank's forms to be received at the data entry site after the submission deadline. State member banks should return the original signed hard-copy Call Report forms and one copy to the appropriate Federal Reserve District Bank. The use of a telephone facsimile machine to transmit a copy of the original signed Call Report forms is not an acceptable method of submission.
In the absence of a postmark on either a computer diskette or hard-copy report sent by first class mail, a bank whose Call Report is received late at the appropriate destination may be called upon to provide proof of timely mailing. A "Certificate of Mailing" (U.S. Postal Service Form 3817) may be used as proof.
Any bank that has or has had more than one foreign office, other than a "shell" branch or an International Banking Facility, and that uses any of the additional 15 days allowed for the completion of its Call Report, is required to electronically transmit its report to EDS no later than November 14, 1997.
For further information or assistance concerning the Call Reports, state member banks should contact their Federal Reserve District Bank. National and FDIC-supervised banks should telephone the FDIC's Call Reports Analysis Section in Washington, D.C., toll free on (800) 688-FDIC or on (202) 898-6607, Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time.
Emory W. Rushton
Senior Deputy Comptroller
for Bank Supervision Policy
Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency Richard Spillenkothen
Division of Banking
Supervision and Regulation
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System Nicholas J. Ketcha Jr.
Division of Supervision
Supplemental Instructions
Regulatory Capital Worksheet - Introduction
Regulatory Capital Worksheet - Part 1
Regulatory Capital Worksheet - Part 2 Instructions and Part 3
Distribution: Insured Commercial Banks and FDIC-Supervised Savings Banks
Last Updated 07/16/1999 communications@fdic.gov
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TAP has a new route, a trip through time
And a new destination, the 1970s. A unique trip, with the memories of an unforgettable decade on board.
A journey to the past on the new A330 Retrojet
With the arrival of new planes for our fleet, we want to transport our passengers to a decade that is much missed by the world, and which is also one of the most important decades in TAP’s history.
This is why the inspiration for the paint job, of one of the new planes, was TAP’s first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet that took on its maiden flight in 1972. Just like the one in that time, it will be named — “Portugal”.
We will also recreate the 1970s on some special flights to Miami, Toronto, Brasília, São Paulo, Luanda and Maputo, with retro surprises and details alluding to the charm of that period.
Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the trip on the wings of memory lane, on board the past with a view of the future.
In a decade that was a turning point, TAP was in step with the change
The 1970s shook up Portugal and the world with historical, social and cultural transformations, and new lifestyles. It was a time of change for everybody, including for TAP.
New uniforms designed by French fashion designer Louis Féraud were presented.
The company’s services were transferred to the new facilities, at Lisbon airport.
The Porto-Paris line was inaugurated.
Boston was included on the New York route.
Operations involving jet planes between Lisbon and Lourenço Marques began.
The Golden Medal for Tourism was received.
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A modernization program was implemented and the company changed its name to: TAP Air Portugal.
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An organisational culture consists of employees’ shared basic values and assumptions about the surrounding world. These values and assumptions govern employees’ actions. Organisational culture is often described as a central part in managing an organisation and many studies on culture and information security view organisations as rationale instruments where management can mould the way employees act. Studies that employ approaches to understand how different patterns of attitudes and values, and hence prioritisations, can differ in different contexts are less common.
The Attitude research project investigated the relationship between organisational culture and employees’ attitudes and information security behaviour in different industries. We were also interested in a research methodological question concerning how surveys are designed with regards the measuring information security compliance. These studies are often designed without paying attention to situations when employees need to prioritise between information security rules and their core work tasks. Does it make any difference if a respondent has to answer yes or not to the statement “I follow the information security policy at my workplace” or if it is a question posed as “How often are you non-compliant with the information security policy because it worsen the quality in your work?”?
The study was sent out by Statistics Sweden as a survey targeting white-collar workers in private and public organisations in Sweden. It was based on two samples: one randomised sample of 2,000 white-collar workers in Sweden and one randomised sample targeting organisations in six industries (municipal social services, health care, universities and university collages, banking, chemical processing industry, and IT-consultants). For the latter, approximately 1,500 white-collar workers per industry were selected randomly. The analysis was carried out using Competing Values Framework in order to identify the organisations’ cultures.
The results show that organisational culture has some importance for information security. Thus, influencing organisational culture in a certain direction can be an effective way of increasing information security in an organisation. In addition, the results show that there is a difference whether or not information security is measured as an integrated part of a work situation. These results should be of importance when employees’ information security compliance is measure, even when practitioners carry out studies.
Karlsson F, Karlsson M, Åström J (2017) Measuring employees’ compliance - the importance of value pluralism. Information & Computer Security, Volume 25, Issue 3, 279-299.
Karlsson F, Åström J, Karlsson M (2015) Information security culture : State-of-the-art review between 2000 and 2013. Information Management & Computer Security, Volume 23, Issue 3, 246-285.
Karlsson M, Karlsson F, Åström J (2017) Organisationskulturens påverkan på informationssäkerhetsarbetet. I Hallberg J, Johansson P, Karlsson F, Lundberg F, Lundgren B, Törner M: Informationssäkerhet och organisationskultur. Studentlitteratur, Lund.
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The Best Easter Eggs in Video Games
Easter Eggs need no introduction! You’re not here for our eggy pandering, you just want the yolk!
Feast, dear reader. Gorge yourself on these Eggs:
25. The Very First Easter Egg
If you know video game history (or SPOILER ALERT recently saw Ready Player One) you’re familiar with the Easter Egg hidden in Adventure on the Atari 2600.
This egg is recognized as the first one to appear in a video game. The process for getting to the easter egg is a bit complex, which makes you wonder how anyone found it in the first place.
But, find it they did. The trick is to perform a specific sequence of events which reveal a “dot” (a hidden pixel) on the corner of one screen. Bring that dot to a specific area and you’ll be treated to the easter egg:
“Created by…Warren Robinett…”
Yeah, it’s just the creator’s name. Which might not be as exciting as other eggs on this list, but for the time it was fantastic. Games didn’t include a whole lot of “credits” back then (if they included any at all), so Robinett hid his name in the game. Genius.
Rumor has it that this easter egg may have been the first hidden and discovered in modern media, and many credit this secret with coining the term in the first place.
24. Head Knock, Who’s There?
Have you played Star Wars Battlefront 2? Seen the movies? Fan of both? One? Neither?
Well, a hard-to-spot egg hides on the neck of a stormtrooper in one cutscene in the game. It comes from A New Hope, where a stormtrooper comically bumped his head on a low-hanging door.
The game’s cutscene shows two stormtroopers walking far in the background of some imperial hangar, and, as they go to walk under a staircase, the stormtrooper bumps his head.
Same guy? Who knows!? Either way, it’s an easy thing to appreciate, even if you aren’t a diehard fan of the galaxy far, far away.
Eurogamer has a Youtube video that sums it up nicely.
23. Speaking of all-things-knocks…Ground Pound, anyone?
Time for some monkey business with this one…We travel back in time to a game that came out in November of 1999 on the Nintendo 64:
Donkey Kong 64.
There was a lot to like about the game, like an unforgettable rap in the beginning and a fun cast of characters.
And then there was something that went totally overlooked for 17 years…A rainbow coin.
The coin was hidden underground on a floating island. You had to use Donkey Kong’s ground pound move to reveal the coin, and never has a ground pound made so many so unhappy.
All of a sudden, all the speedrun records and completion records were….wrong. No one else had found this coin, and so no one else had technically hit 100% completion.
It makes you wonder….What else have we missed?!
22. About that Swimming Pool…
Here’s an Easter Egg that did not take 17 years to find.
In Uncharted 2, you can go to the top of the Hotel Shangri-La in chapter 6.
If you decide to go into the pool for some R and R, Nathan will start playing the classic game Marco Polo, with his female companion. She reluctantly provides a “polo” to answer his call.
21. Is that You, Mr. Ratman?
Portal 2 is a fun, distance-warping jaunt where you get to use a portal gun to navigate a series of challenges.
It’s a total blast, just like its predecessor.
When you do finally decide to fire it up, be on the lookout for some peculiar grafiti (and a mug collection).
If you walk up to the walls where you see these drawings (from a character named Ratman), you can actually hear faint noises playing in the background. Is it chanting? Is it a song playing? Is it Doug Ratman, giving you the runaround again?
No one is sure, but it’s a fun egg to hunt nonetheless.
20. It Doesn’t Matter How Dark it Gets, Someone Always Find the Cheese
Perfect Dark came out for Nintendo 64 and was a real blast, especially for players itching for gameplay similar to Goldeneye.
It didn’t take long for players to find curious additions to every level in the campaign…
Yes, a piece of swiss cheese.
No one knows what the cheese is for. To this day, gamers go back and forth on why the cheese is there.
Was it supposed to do something? Did its original purpose get cut? Was it for fun? Are we the butt of the ultimate video game cheese prank?
We might never know, but we can still find dat cheez.
19. Yosemite Bear
January 8th, 2010 was an incredible day for…rainbows?
On that day “it was rainbowing for at least an hour…It was incredible. The camera could not capture the vivid intensity and brightness. Look into the mirror, look into your soul!”
Yes, it was on this day that the infamous double rainbow blessed the world with its appearance. YouTuber Yosemitebear 62 went on about the double rainbow for over 3 minutes: marveling at its beauty, unpacking its meaning, enjoying the phenomenon like no one else could.
But we’re not talking about nature’s Easter Eggs, here. We’re just giving you context for a great little diddy hidden in Borderlands 2. Find a secret spot behind a Hyperion base and you’re treated to either ClapTrap or Handsome Jack recreating the original double rainbow reaction.
18. In Honor of Pacific Rim
With movies coming out every couple years where giant creatures rise from the depths (as if the ocean wasn’t terrifying enough?), it’s no surprise that some of that murky madness should find its way into video games.
In Saints Row 2, it’s possible to find a giant monstrosity, deep in the ocean. What is this magnificent, terrifying beast?
It’s not Godzilla. It’s a giant pink rabbit.
Once you catch the scent of this easter egg, you just follow the arrows until you make it to the rabbit’s resting place. It will slowly rise out of the water to reward you for your perseverance.
17. Whatcha’ Lookin’ at, Robbie?
It turns out size isn’t everything, gang.
There’s a character in the Silent Hill series that works its way into Silent Hill 4 as a plush doll.
This doll is Robbie the Rabbit. Robbie the Rabbit is a pink bunny with a bloody face.
You can peep Robbie in a room in your neighbor Eileen’s home. Take a look through the hole in the wall, and there it sits (watch without sound, you don’t need it), slouched over. Why would Eileen have a Robbie doll?
Who knows? Everyone has their own “stuff” to work out. Leave her be.
But, it gets worse for you. If you look after Eileen has gone missing, Robbie is staring right at you, fluffy, plush, murderous finger pointing right at you.
16. How Did this Get Here?
Nothing tickles us more than cross-IP Easter Eggs.
And X-men Origins: Wolverine doubles down on the references.
First, there’s a cross-medium reference to a hit television series: Lost. Hidden in the jungle for Wolverine to find is the famous hatch from the show.
If that’s not enough, how about a corrupting blade imbued with a sorrowful cold?
Frostmourne, the blade of World of Warcraft fame, lies hidden in the game as well. Not that Wolverine needs any additional blades or anything corrupting his spirit…
15. Is that Your Heart Beating?
You know who has fun with their Easter Eggs? Rockstar games, that’s who.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, you can get inside the Statue of Happiness (via a helicopter and some doors).
You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see a sign that says “no hidden content this way” (classic). Walk through that door and voila, you’ll be inside the statue and you’ll find the heart of the city.
Or at least the biggest heart in the city. Lady Happiness has an enormous beating heart chained up and suspended inside of her.
Where is the line, Rockstar?? And does nothing phase Niko?
Bonus: In GTA: San Andreas you can get to the top of Gant Bridge, via jetpack, and you’ll find a sign that says “there are no Easter Eggs up here. Go away.”
Really, these are just the tip of the iceberg for GTA Easter Eggs.
14. Should Have Read the Obits in Orbit
Spoiler alert, gang.
If, for some reason, you haven’t beaten Dead Space…. SKIP TO #13.
But, if you don’t mind having the ending ruined for you (or you’ve already finished the game), then read on!
You play as Isaac and you’re on a derelict space station looking for Nicole.
If you look at the chapter titles for each of the 12 chapters…
And take the first initial from each…
It spells out a foreboding message. You can learn the truth before experiencing it in the campaign:
Nicole is Dead.
13. A Link to Chris’s Secret Room
We always appreciate a good acknowledgment of a random kid in a video game. Who doesn’t love the thrill of someone being featured, or the excitement at the thought of worming your own way into a video game?
In the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, that lucky winner was Chris Houlihan. Nintendo held a competition back in 1990. The winner would get programmed into a future NES game. Chris won. So he was immortalized in the game in the form of a secret room.
As the Zelda Wiki points out, this room isn’t a normal part of the game. It exists in the game as a failsafe against the game crashing. If the game doesn’t know where to send Link (as in what room he’s supposed to go to next), the game will send him to Chris Houlihan’s secret room.
It’s not a total bust though–it has a whopping 45 blue rupees in there. What a hoard!
12. Who You Callin’ Turkey?
The assassin bloodline runs deep and wide through history in the Assassin’s Creed universe.
Sometimes the power of assassins crosses the gap into other species.
In Assassin’s Creed 3, you can get a turkey to come to you by whistling at a specific homestead.
When you find the turkey, you need to do the Konami code. The classic: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A.
Assassin Turkey! The turkey will put on an Assassin hood and take justice into his own hands (not really). Watch out, Templar scum!
11. Shoulda’ Left the Flying to Turkeys
You know who loves cross-game jabs? Definitely us, probably everybody.
In Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, you might come across a dead man lying next to a hay bale. Geralt of Rivia lives in a dangerous time, a dangerous world. Monsters, men–they both abound, and they can be violent and ruthless.
Closer inspection of this dead man reveals that his death likely wasn’t caused by monster or man (unless he was Lannister-ed).
No, the man, wearing a white assassin-style outfit, appears to have jumped and missed his target: the hay bale.
When you walk up Geralt will say something like “Hm…Guess they never learn” totally ribbing Assassin’s Creed for the jump-into-hay-bales gameplay mechanic.
10. Don’t Forget Your Sandwiches!
You were almost a Jill sandwich!
This A+ line appeared in Resident Evil. Not only did it work its way into a meme, it also worked its way into Dead Rising.
If you look at the names of some of the shops in the mall, you can find a restaurant named….you guessed it: Jill’s Sandwiches!
9. Still Better than Snakes?
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where Indy’s trapped in a nuketown as a nuclear test is about to go off.
To save himself, he climbs in a lead-lined fridge. The explosion launches him miles and miles from the town, until he eventually rolls out of the fridge onto some desert.
In the movie, he lives…But in the Fallout: New Vegas universe? Well…the fedora-wearing skeleton in an old fridge seems to tell a different story.
8. More Nuketown, Less Fridges!
In Call of Duty Black Ops 3, there’s a way to bring the mannequins to life on the Nuketown map.
The goal: shoot the heads off of every mannequin in two minutes or less.
Next step: fight for your life. The mannequins will start spawning and chasing you around, similar to the zombie play mode.
If it gets to be too much, you could always try hiding in a fridge…
7. Yeehaw!
What’s more fun than playing video games? Playing video games in style!
And few games let you do that better than this Gears of War 2 Easter Egg. In the chapter where you’re riding those big vehicles, there are 3 cowboy hats hidden in the beginning of the level.
If you manage to shoot all three with your pistol as you drive past, some real magic happens:
Everyone gets a cowboy hat! These hats instantly appear on everyone’s head in your unit.
It’s not just your unit that gets hats, though…The Corpser you fight has a hat, too!
Everyone could do with just a pinch more rustic charm.
6. From Rumor to Legend
In the original Diablo everyone believed these rumors that there was a “cow level.”
There wasn’t.
But that’s not where this story ends. When Diablo II came out, there was a cow level! Though traditionally a bit more benign than their minotaur cousins, the bovine on the cow level mean business.
They walk on their two back legs and all wield two-handed axes. And, they travel in serious herds.
Have you made it to the Secret Cow Level? Have you experienced the “bovine bliss” that can only be found in Diablo?
5. Southern Hospitality
In Hitman: Blood Money there’s an Easter Egg that lets you take a proper southern hootenanny from above-average get-together to “where did everyone’s pants go?”
And it only requires a single, well-placed bullet.
There’s a coin hidden near the outside of the mansion. If you find it and shoot it with your pistol, well…Some party guests figure congratulations are in order.
A bunch of male NPCs will run over to you and start clapping.
The catch? They’ve all stripped down to their underwear.
Can’t say for sure if that coin has anything to do with the titular blood money, we’ll leave that mystery for 47.
Bonus: There’s a great Easter Egg in Hitman: Absolution during a time when you have a tough decision to make.
In “End of the Road” you can either shoot your target or leave him alone to die in the middle of the desert.
But those actually aren’t your only two options… There are five vultures sitting around you. Walk near them until they take flight. If you shoot all five while they’re in the sky, an ice cream truck will come careening out of nowhere and drive right into the target.
I scream. You Scream.
We all scream for ice cream.
4. Guy Savage
Ever have a dream about vampires? What about zombies?
It was probably nothing like Snake’s from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
There is a minigame embedded in MGS3 that you can only access by saving at a very specific point in the game: at Groznyj Grad after Naked Snake is placed in the cell, right after his torture session with Volgin.
When you load that save up, you won’t be in the cell (at first). Instead, you’ll be in Snake’s dream. You’ll have two hook swords, and you’ll be chased by zombie-like, police uniform-clad characters. Oh, and they have hook-swords too.
These enemies seem zombie-like, but the conversation before and after Snake’s dream revolves around vampires.
This dream sequence doesn’t appear to work on the 3DS version or the MGS3: HD version.
Bonus: Also in MGS3: Snake Eater, there’s a character called The End. An old sniper fella’.
There are a few ways to kill him: snipe him early, sneak up and attack him, or….wait him out.
If you save your game after initiating your hunt of The End and wait one week (or adjust your console’s internal clock to reflect a week+ later), when you do find The End, he’ll have died from old age.
Such a cool way to deal with an old enemy!
3. Can’t Pick Just One
There are a number of fun Easter Egg inclusions worked into the Halo franchise over the years.
Some the game tells you about (i.e. the skulls). Others, the game does not.
Like when you stumble on two nondescript guards stationed near crates and a forklift in the beginning of chapter 6 in Halo 4. If you give it a minute, the guards will start talking. They’re voiced by Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien.
Or the “monkey” family with identical human faces in the first level of Halo 3.
If you want to see every Easter Egg from Halo: The Master Chief Collection in a condensed 22-minute video, you can do that too.
2. Just a Day Trip to the Lake
Ash Lake, that is…
There’s an entire zone in Dark Souls that’s easy to miss. It’s hidden behind a fake wall, where you’ll find a chest. And then behind that chest is another fake wall. Walking through will take you to Dark Hollow. From there it’s a long trip down trunks and roots and mushrooms until you reach the bottom and find Ash Lake.
There are all kinds of things to worry about: Little mushrooms. Giant mushrooms. Getting cursed. Falling off the narrow paths. And, when you do make it to Ash Lake, it turns out there’s a hydra down there.
Oh, and let’s not forget the Everlasting Dragon who calls Ash Lake home, too.
1. Binding of Isaac
For the penultimate Egg on our list, we wanted to pick something that took a lot of people, a lot of clever thinking, and a lot of physical, real-world searching to find.
The Binding of Isaac expansions did just that. People went on a real-life treasure hunt, decoded clues, looked for hints everywhere, and finally found what they were looking for in the real world. As a result, they unlocked a new character in the game.
The cleverness and dedication of both the game creators and the fans make you appreciate human ingenuity (and our propensity for both fun and solving problems).
You need to read the full story of the Binding of Isaac almost-goose chase.
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Tag: ROTC
Breaking Cadence interview w/ Rosa del Duca – Ep 45
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Rosa del Duca sits down with us today to discuss her new book, “Breaking Cadence – one woman’s war against the war”, a tale of a National Guard soldier turned ROTC cadet who became a conscientious objector. It’s an amazing tale of leadership and courage, which you can buy right here from Amazon.
Be sure to check out her podcast as well, “Breaking Cadence: Insights from a modern day conscientious objector.”
Rosa earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. Her shorter creative work has been published in CALYX, River Teeth, Cutbank, Grain, the Los Angeles Review, and other literary magazines. When she’s not writing creatively, Rosa is writing cold hard facts as a journalist, leading peer writers’ groups, or playing music.
While a solo singer-songwriter at the moment, Rosa founded the band Hunters with Will Decher in 2011. Over the course of five years they put out three albums: White Lies, Treeline and We All Go Up the Mountain Alone Together, before taking a break to focus on other projects.
Rosa lives in Castro Valley, California with her writer, professor, and craftsman husband, Nicholas Leither, and their two young children, Itasca and River.
Contact us direct by email at fortressonahill@gmail.com
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A special thanks to our honorary producers Matthew Hoh, Will Ahrens, Gage Counts, Fahim Shirazee, James Higgins, James O’Barr, Adam Bellows, Julie Dupris, Paul Appel, Eric Phillips, and Matt the Virgin Slayer. Without you guys, we couldn’t continue our work. Thank you so much!!!
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FOH is hosted and written by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, and Keagan Miller.
FOH is produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Nate Bethea.
Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Clifton’s Bandcamp page; Clifton’s Patreon page
Format AudioPosted on May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 Author HenriCategories FOH episodeTags Army National Guard, Breaking Cadence, Breaking Cadence - One woman’s war against the war, Rosa Del Duca, ROTC, US Army1 Comment on Breaking Cadence interview w/ Rosa del Duca – Ep 45
The hard path of resistance – conscientious objectors panel – Ep 35
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Conscientious objection is a time-honored part of military service. After reading about its history a bit, I decided we needed a closer look from the only people who can tell it right from the horse’s mouth: objectors themselves. Here, I chat with three of them, all with different backgrounds, but one overwhelming consensus among them: military service was unacceptable to their conscience. Here, we find out a few clues why.
Clifton Hicks enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen and served as an M1 Abrams tank crewman with C Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Iraq 2003-2004. In 2005 he was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He went on to earn a degree in anthropology from Appalachian State University and currently works as a musician and music teacher.
Rosa del Duca is a writer and musician. She grew up a tomboy in rural Montana, where she joined the Army National Guard when she was seventeen. During her six-year contract, she became not only a conscientious objector, but a feminist and unlikely rebel. That tumultuous time is the focus of her memoir, Breaking Cadence: One Woman’s War Against the War, forthcoming from Ooligan Press in May, 2019, and her companion podcast, Breaking Cadence: Insights From a Modern-Day Conscientious Objector.
Jorge Javier (JJ) Rodriguez is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where his time spent as a cadet solidified his stance as a conscientious objector. He is now stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, where he is going through the process of the Army’s conscientious objector program. For his full bio and a better look at his situation, click here.
Ramon Mejia enlisted in the Marine Corps out of economic necessity. He served in Supply Ops. and participated in the initial invasion of and deployment to Dhi Qar Province, Iraq in 2003. As a result of his experience in Iraq, he converted to Islam in 2008. He has been an active organizer in countering local manifestations of hate and racism by neo-Nazis and paramilitary groups in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Ramon is a Social Studies teacher and one of the founding organizers of #VetsVsHate, a national veteran grassroots initiative pushing back against racism and bigotry. He was recently recognized as part of the ‘MPower 100–Muslim Social Justice Leaders Building Power Across the United States.
GI Rights Hotline – 18774474487
Quakers House of Fayetteville – 919-663-7122
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General – 800-424-9098
Center on Conscience and War – 1-800-379-2679
Code Pink – 202-248-2093
Vets For Peace – 314-725-6005
About Face (Veterans against the war) – 929-430-4988
Courage to Resist – 510-488-3559
The Objector Church – 510-488-3559
A special thanks to our honorary producers Matthew Hoh, Will Ahrens, Gage Counts, Fahim Shirazee, James Higgins, and James O’Barr. Without you guys, we couldn’t continue our work. Thank you so much!!!
FOH is hosted, written, and produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, and BT Hampton
Format AudioPosted on February 6, 2019 May 9, 2019 Author HenriCategories FOH episodeTags About Face, About Face (Veterans against the war), Afghanistan, Center on Conscience and War, Chris Henrikson, Clifton Hicks, Code Pink, conscientious objector, Courage to Resist, Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, DOD OIG, GI Rights Hotline, Iraq, JJ Rodriguez, Militarism, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Quakers House of Fayetteville, Ramon Mejia, Rosa Del Duca, ROTC, The Objector Church, US Army, US foreign intervention, US military, Vets For Peace
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Cell phone video captures mob viciously beat and nearly carjack two men in Greektown
DETROIT (WJBK) - Two men are severely beaten and nearly carjacked in front of a Detroit hotel over the Labor Day weekend. It happened in the circular drive in front of the Atheneum Hotel in Greektown.
"I just so happened to look into my driver side mirror and I see a shadow. After the shadow, I just received a bunch of punches. He came from my left side, approached the vehicle and started punching me. Once my buddy finally figured out what was going on, he had guys on that (passenger) side and they got him out of the vehicle. It was history at that point," said Steven Gollman, victim.
Steven Gollman says about eight men from the mob wanted his Corvette. They circled his vehicle and began punching Gollman and his passenger. Gollman, beaten and bloodied, was able to drive off.
Hotel security acknowledged there was a disturbance on the 8th floor that spilled into the lobby and then out into the driveway when Gollman pulled up. He was there to inquire about a room.
"Actually, I still have to go back and forth to the eye doctor. My left side was exposed, so this is the side that he attacked. I did have a shut eye. Like I said, at this point I still can't see as well as I did before," said Gollman.
Detroit police are investigating.
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Police: drunk woman drives almost 100 mph with 2 kids in car
MILFORD, Mich. (WJBK) - Police say a woman whose blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit was driving with two toddlers in the car with her when she was caught speeding at almost 100 mph.
Milford Police pulled over the woman in her 2002 Ford going 93 mph on Sunday. She was headed west on General Motors Road when she was caught hitting the high speed. With the cops in tow, lights, sirens and all, nothing slowed her down. She passed a car in a no-passing zone and the chase continued.
She then blew through the light on Hickory Ridge and took her 13-year-old Ford into the GM Proving grounds.
There, the cops were finally able to put a stop to the speeding car. But they noticed something, not just alcohol on her breath, but two kids in the car with her, ages 1 and 3.
The police dashcam was released on Wednesday. She was driving so fast, the car wasn't even in the video until they got to the parking lot.
In the car with her was her brother, who was drunk, according to police. They said he blew a .43 BAC and his sister was trying to protect him. She could be heard on video saying he is the only babysitter she has and that she can't lose him.
An ambulance had to be called, and he and the woman were arrested. Prosecutors are contemplating charges of fleeing and eluding a police officer, drunk driving and child endangerment.
Labor Day is Monday and you may have seen a few ads that are running that police are cracking down on drunk drivers. Milford Police Chief Thomas Lindberg says this is a campaign they're taking seriously.
"Obviously, there are campaigns throughout the state, drive sober or get pulled over, but also in our small community we will be watching for drunk driving," Lindberg said.
Authorities are likely looking at this case and she may be deemed to be an unfit mother and could lose custody of her children.
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Scott McLaughlin on track for unprecedented Supercars point scoring milestone
Scott McLaughlin takes the chequered flag — a regular sight in 2019. Picture: Daniel KaliszSource: Getty Images
After narrowly missing out last season, Scott McLaughlin is well-placed to become the first driver under the current point scoring system to tally 4000 points in a Supercars season.
The reigning champion can clinch a second title this weekend at the Vodafone Gold Coast 600, with McLaughlin extending his lead to a season-high 622 points following his historic — yet controversial — Bathurst win alongside Alex Premat.
The current points system — with a maximum of 300 points available for an event — was brought in from 2008.
Via the current system, the winner has a larger points gain against second place before equal graduations between second and sixth, seventh to 11th and 12th through 32nd (note; there are just 24 full-time entries on the 2019 grid).
From 12 events so far in 2019, McLaughlin has only twice left an event with a smaller series lead than the one he entered with.
In another sign of McLaughlin’s dominance this season, he has won at least one race at every race weekend, with the 26-year-old recording clean sweeps in Adelaide, Winton, Darwin and Tailem Bend — and Bathurst, if you’re picky.
After the fifth round in Perth, McLaughlin held a steady 142-point lead over DJR Team Penske teammate Fabian Coulthard.
However, McLaughlin’s Winton clean sweep, coupled with finishes of 15th and second for Coulthard, saw the reigning champ’s lead blow out to 244 points.
The first ever Darwin Triple Crown win saw McLaughlin extend his margin to 319 points, which dropped to 292 following his Townsville coming-together with Penrite Racing’s David Reynolds.
From there, however, the rise has been exponential — it bulged to 433 points after Ipswich, swelled to 573 after The Bend sweep, was extended to 598 on home soil at Pukekohe, before pushing out to a season-high 622 points after the Bathurst breakthrough.
Coming into 2019, in the 11 seasons under the current point scoring system, just twice has the championship leader after 12 rounds failed to go on to win the championship.
McLaughlin can finish no worse than third in the standings in 2019, but such a suggestion would nearly prove trivial, such is the lead the Kiwi holds.
McLaughlin has form at Surfers Paradise, winning in 2017. Picture: Daniel KaliszSource: Getty Images
Only Shane van Gisbergen and Chaz Mostert can prevent McLaughlin from becoming the 13th multiple champion in ATCC/Supercars history, but it would require a number of miracles — and disasters — for either driver to stop the DJRTP pilot from taking the crown.
McLaughlin himself came close to breaking the 4000-point barrier last season — although the 2018 season featured 16 rounds, two more than 2019.
However, 18 wins from 24 starts has seen McLaughlin tally 3308 points after 12 rounds. Just twice in history has the 3000-point barrier been broken after 12 rounds (2012 and 2018).
To put McLaughlin’s 2019 dominance into perspective, his current tally — under the current pointscoring system — has already surpassed the season-end tallies of five previous champions (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017).
Jamie Whincup (2014) was the last to clinch a title before the final round. Picture: Robert CianfloneSource: Getty Images
Should McLaughlin break the 4000-point barrier, he must score 692 points across the Gold Coast, Sandown and Newcastle events. With 900 points on offer, and considering his form this season, you’d be brave to bet against him.
The three remaining venues — Surfers Paradise, Sandown and Newcastle — are all circuits McLaughlin has previously performed well at.
Three Gold Coast podiums in Volvos (2014, twice in 2016) were finally complemented by a win from 13th on the grid for DJRTP in 2017. Earlier in 2017, McLaughlin and Alex Premat combined to finish second in a truncated Sandown 500.
However, Newcastle — despite his 2017 final-day meltdown — is a McLaughlinring, with the Kiwi taking two wins, a second, and two poles at the new street circuit from just two visits.
After 12 rounds (under current pointscoring system):
2008: 2916 points (Whincup)
2010: 2662 points (Courtney)
2013: 2549 points (Lowndes)**
2015: 2779 points (Winterbottom)
2016: 2812 points (van Gisbergen)
2018: 3054 points (van Gisbergen)**
2019: 3308 points (McLaughlin)*
Champion’s winning haul:
2008: 3332 points (Whincup, 14 rounds)
2010: 3055 points (Courtney, 14 rounds)
2015: 3246 points (Winterbottom, 14 rounds)
2016: 3368 points (van Gisbergen, 14 rounds)
2018: 3944 points (McLaughlin, 16 rounds)
** driver did not win title
* ongoing season
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Not a lot went right for Marcus Foster and the Wildcats against West Virginia's high-pressure defense.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. — The nicest thing about West Virginia 65, Kansas State 59 would be to say nothing at all, but …
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Warm, yes.
Fuzzy, not so much.
On the heels of a beautiful, unseasonably toasty late-January afternoon, the locals at Bramlage Coliseum got restless in a hurry — and grew progressively surlier as the whistles blew fast and furious. The Wildcats (12-9, 5-3 Big 12 Conference) left the floor at the half to frustrated boos and were serenaded to the locker room after the game to furious ones.
"We just didn’t do a good enough job," coach Bruce Weber lamented. "Obviously, I’ve got to do a better job; (ditto the) staff; and execution’s got to be better after that."
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In terms of matchups, No. 17 West Virginia’s press-first-ask-questions-later approach was the wrong dance partner for a K-State team that isn’t exactly confident in terms of ball security, nor assured enough at the free-throw stripe to make those constant hand-checks and slaps hurt the opposition.
Ergo, inbounding the rock was an adventure. Press-breaking sort of came and went, along with the ball.
And the foul shooting?
Oy. Also, vey.
"That’s what definitely hurts me the most right now, is free throws," guard Marcus Foster said after a night that included 15 points (good), six turnovers (less good) and four misses in nine trips to the charity stripe (very not good). "That’s something I’ve been working on, something that I’m not converting on right now."
Upside: The hosts went to the stripe early and often, taking 35 trips in all.
Downside: 20 makes.
The Mountaineers went to the stripe 29 times, making 21. If K-State had been on a similar clip, they would have netted five more points. Not enough to make up the difference, but maybe enough to make things more interesting. Or palatable.
From a tempo standpoint, the ‘Cats uglied it up, as the ‘Cats tend to do: 54 combined fouls, 45 combined turnovers, both teams shooting a collective 36.5 percent (38 for 104) from the floor. But West Virginia, with ice-for-veins lead guard Juwan Staten (11 points, three assists) in the backcourt and big Devin Williams (eight points, nine boards) in the post, seemed perfectly groovy with that. Bash away.
"I thought it was beautiful," Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said, straight-faced, as only Huggs can. "I’ve never had an ugly (win). Ever."
There were all sorts of applicable adjectives to describe the officiating, most of which were R-rated. The evening, two-and-a-half hours in all, hovered between scrappy and confusing, with all the charms of an ingrown toenail.
Staten had been slapped with two fouls before the contest was 12 minutes old. Weber’s January savior, Nino Williams, spent much of the first half rubbing his left knee painfully after scoring six points in just eight minutes. He opened the second half on the pine with a new wrap — "Hopefully, it’s not a season-ending thing; we don’t know right now," Weber said — but never returned to the floor. By the end of the night, big forward Thomas Gipson was limping, too.
"We told them it was going to be a barroom brawl, a barroom fight," Weber said. "That’s just how it was. (It’s) just how they play.
"You’ve got to play strong. You’ve got to deal with it, and you’ve got to make free throws when they do foul you."
Sort of. Not really. And nope.
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If you prefer your basketball to feel like an anvil dropped on your shin, the first half at the Octagon was for you: A combined 25 fouls, 27 turnovers — and 14 field-goal makes. The hosts missed on 22 of their first 29 attempts, many of them bunnies. K-State didn’t make a trey until two minutes and 43 seconds into the second half, a rainbow from the left corner by point guard Jevon Thomas.
We should’ve figured things would get strange when the tilt opened with a technical foul on Mountaineers forward Jonathan Holton, giving Foster two free throws just 17 seconds into the contest, and another foul on West Virginia’s Gary Browne some three seconds later. The zebras tried to take control from there, with mixed — actually, poor — results. It’s hard to find equilibrium, a happy center, when the goal posts are constantly on the move.
The Mountaineers kept moving, too, much to the chagrin of a ‘Cats team that loses its physicality — and confidence — when Williams isn’t on the floor.
K-State appeared gassed by the midway point of the second half, and a sequence with 9:21 left in the contest summed the proceedings as neatly as anything. With the Mountaineers up 46-41, West Virginia guard Tarik Phillip got a 3-point attempt along the left baseline blocked by Wesley Iwundu. The carom seemed to hang in the air forever, long enough for the smaller Phillip to rush in, grab his own miss on the descent, step to the lane and lay it in over Malek Harris — who ended up fouling him on the play. The visitors got three out of that sequence after all, pushing the lead to eight and exasperating a tired ‘Cats roster even further.
Beautiful? Not for Weber. Not after 25 turnovers.
"I think it’s awful, just bad basketball," the K-State coach said. "But (Huggins is) winning. They’re 17-3, so I’d be happy, too, and (say it’s) beautiful. It’s just their style."
Meanwhile, in Weber’s camp, the script flips, right along with the schedule. The ‘Cats take to the road for five of their next seven, starting with a trek to Allen Fieldhouse, Weber’s personal house of horrors, on Saturday afternoon. Then it’s on to Lubbock, where the Red Raiders (11-9, 1-6) already claimed an upset over No. 15 Iowa State just this past weekend, a home tilt with No. 19 Texas (14-6, 3-4) on Feb. 7, and then … at West Virginia on Feb. 11.
No one said living on the NCAA tourney fence was easy, or fair, but you lie in the nest you built. Tuesday didn’t pop that tenuous EMAW Bracketville Bubble, per se. But you could feel it start to deflate a little — one missed free throw at a time.
"It’s disappointing because we had made progress," Weber sighed. "And nothing gets easy, schedule-wise. But that’s part of this league."
No rest for the wicked. No mercy, either.
You can follow Sean Keeler on Twitter at @SeanKeeler or email him at seanmkeeler@gmail.com.
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A nostalgic view of a 1950's relationship through not so rose tinted spectacles, Object of Desire is a performance like no other. This unique, one woman show blends comedy and drama with authentic and contemporary elements that will leave you questioning issues of consent, relationships and sexism that still resonate today. Cora incorporates music, movement and puppetry to object to objectification. The audience also has an option to stay for a post-show discussion on the issues tackled in this performance. Object of Desire is truly a unique, diverse addition to the Edinburgh Free Fringe.
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College football's unacceptable bargain
It's time to rethink where football fits at the University of Michigan and other schools.
College football's unacceptable bargain It's time to rethink where football fits at the University of Michigan and other schools. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/1uz0nSh
Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor Published 12:00 a.m. ET Nov. 16, 2014 | Updated 1:22 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2014
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel is the second highest paid official at the school with an annual salary of $750,000.(Photo: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press )
At a recent party in Ann Arbor, conversation turned to the woeful local college football team, the school's then-embattled athletic director and the violent sport that enraptures millions each week.
I asked whether anyone there would let his or her son play, given the new attention to head injuries and long-term, debilitating effects.
A roomful of nos.
President Barack Obama has said the same thing: If his girls were boys, he'd keep them off the gridiron. LeBron James said last week that he won't let his kids play.
Would the risk of potential head injuries keep you from letting your child play football?
Someone at the party wondered: What if football is becoming like the military? A dangerous path forward for economically desperate college aspirants, but something that most people with options direct their children away from?
And if that parallel holds, is the university offering opportunity or indulging exploitation — and if the latter is true, does football still have a place on a college campus?
Those questions were still stuck in my mind this week when Mark Schlissel, the new University of Michigan president, raised some other serious questions about football's place at an academic institution. Schlissel, now looking for a new athletic director after Dave Brandon was shown the door, said he was concerned about the relatively poor academic performance among football players — with graduation rates that have been in the 50s and 60s — and said he'll take his time finding a new leader with the right academic sensitivities.
He was roundly panned, and within days was mouthing apologies to the school's players and coaches — eating turf, I suppose, if not crow.
But as an alumnus and a fan who is beginning to think harder about football's stark cultural contradictions, I want Schlissel to continue the inquiry he started. I want him to lead a serious discussion about how football and the university can co-exist, or whether they can. Remember, this talk of exploitation isn't new. Just think about the billions that college football programs bring in, and the fact that players are unpaid. That's problematic, but taking economic advantage of players doesn't compare to letting young men risk lifelong debilitation on the empty promise of academic fulfillment. And I want the university to contemplate what we might do to even out some of the disparities that have begun to glare more brightly.
We need to start asking ourselves whether we can love the game and still acknowledge its shortcomings while pushing for change.
And can we love our school, but be less enamored with the wild inconsistencies surrounding the whole notion of the football student-athlete?
The danger. The increasingly obvious failure of the academic conceit that football players are getting a shot at a world-class education.
The combination, to me, is harrowing and should shake all of our assumptions about the sport's place at U-M, or any other university.
Does that mean football should go? I'm not remotely that naive. The money made and the notoriety accrued make football a principal pillar of the university's self-image. My friend Mark Bernstein, one of the school's nine regents, recently described football as Michigan's "front porch," the figurative point at which we welcome people into the university's fold.
Fine. I get it.
But we shouldn't be OK with the unacceptable bargain that football has become. If kids are risking traumatic lifelong consequences to get a shot at an education that the school isn't really giving them, that's crushing hypocrisy for a university whose mantra is "leaders and best."
It's tragic that a lousy record is what inspired all this attention and got the university's president, for the first time in memory, to articulate some misgivings about where football fits.
But Schlissel is asking what we should all be thinking.
At the party where this subject came up, one guy told me he has stopped watching football altogether, as a way to protest what's going on in both college athletics and the NFL.
I wish I were that kind of strong.
I'm the kind of football fan who can watch just about any two teams play. I love the mix of physicality and the intricacy of play-making and scheming, of holes opening up in the offensive line while backs dart through to daylight. I marched in the U-M band for two years, and still go back as often as possible to follow the team's fortunes up close.
But when my son asks to play PAL football here in Detroit, my answer is not a no, it's a hell no. Too dangerous. Too much long-term risk. Even if he could be good (I doubt it, given his genes and slight physique), the obvious peril isn't worth the potential reward.
I have that luxury, though — the ability to waive off possible athletic opportunity as nothing more than that. My son doesn't need football to go to college. He doesn't need it to escape poverty. He'll suffer no life penalty because he can't quickly read a defense or sniff out an offensive play.
The contrast there is disturbing — my affinity for watching the sport, stacked against my horror at the thought of my own kid doing it for fun, much less for survival.
We're seeing those conflicts rear their heads all over the collegiate football landscape. I'd love for my alma mater to be among the first to truly address them.
Stephen Henderson is editorial page editor for the Free Press and the host of "American Black Journal," which airs at 12:30 p.m. Sundays on Detroit Public Television. Follow Henderson on Twitter @ShendersonFreep, or contact him at 313-222-6659 or shenderson600@freepress.com
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By Trystan L. Bass on December 5, 2014 in Top 5 Friday, Twentieth Century
In the United States, today has the dubious distinction of being Repeal Day, which is the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which had prohibited the sale of alcohol, took effect on January 17, 1920, ushering in the Roaring Twenties, which wound down with the stock market crash of 1929 and fully ended by the adoption of the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933.
The history of Prohibition and the ’20s have been fodder for period films almost as soon as they ended. In honor of this, let’s legally raise a drink to five favorite movies about the 1920s…
1. Some Like It Hot (1959)
This flick has everything. Cross-dressing, gangsters, sexual innuendo, great costumes, witty repartee, musical numbers, and Marilyn Monroe, set in 1929. You can’t ask for more, and you won’t need it. The American Film Institute has named this as the greatest American film comedy of all time, and it’s hard to disagree. The jokes are timeless; makes you think they must have been incredibly risque for ’59 because they’re still pretty racy today (catch that closing line, baby!).
2. Chicago (2002)
Based on the long-running Bob Fosse musical, this movie is set in 1927 and revolves around a seedy vaudeville/nightclub world as well as prison. The film is jam-packed with stars such as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger. Costumes are by Colleen Atwood, and she won the Oscar.
3. The Great Gatsby (1974)
Yes, the Robert Redford version, not the more recent Leonardo DiCaprio one. There’s been five of ’em, so you can all pick and choose which film of this book you prefer. I always found that Redford really captured the essence of Jay Gatsby’s beautiful but boot-legging character, and he and Mia Farrow (as Daisy) have great chemistry onscreen. This one won the Oscar for Best Costume too.
4. The Cotton Club (1984)
An under-appreciated gem of a film, this Francis Ford Coppola creation has a beautiful style that really evokes the period. Hard to go wrong with costumes by Milena Canonero, the Oscar-winning designer of Barry Lyndon and Chariots of Fire before this and Marie Antoinette later. She also designed costumes for Affair of the Necklace.
5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Set during the introduction of “talkie” movies (Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer was released in 1927), this movie showcases a ton of catchy songs from MGM musical films straight out of 1929 to 1939, and y’know, Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain. The American Film Institute rated it the best American musical movie of all time for a reason, dammit. If you don’t love this one, I don’t think we can be friends.
Those are my top five films about the 1920s, what are yours?
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Eleanor December 5th, 2014
One of my faves is Alan Rudolph’s 1988 film, “The Moderns.”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/dvd-of-the-week-the-moderns
Ree December 14th, 2014
LOVE the film… “The Shooting Party”…really the feel of the pre-1914 world…
ladylavinia1932 September 14th, 2015
[“Yes, the Robert Redford version, not the more recent Leonardo DiCaprio one.”]
I’d rather select the Leonardo DiCaprio version, thanks.
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Wood products used in the construction of low-rise nonresidential buildings in the United States, 2003
Low-rise nonresidential building construction is an important market for lumber, structural wood panels, nonstructural wood panels, and engineered wood products in the United States. This report examines low-rise nonresidential buildings of four or fewer stories only, because buildings with five or more stories are normally severely restricted by building code from...
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David B. McKeever; Craig Adair; Jennifer O'Connor
Supply and demand, market surveys, United States, wooden-frame buildings, wooden buildings, forest products, statistics, economic analysis, wood construction, wood utilization
Tacoma, WA : Wood Products Council, 2005.
2006 : Wood Products Used in New Residential Construction U.S. and Canada, with Comparisons to 1995, 1998 and 2003 : Executive Summary
The construction of new single family, multifamily, and manufactured housing is an important market for wood products in both the United States and Canada. Annual wood products consumption is dependent on many factors, including the number of new units started, the size of units started, architectural characteristics, and consumer preferences. In 2006, about 39 percent...
Craig Adair; David B. McKeever
House construction, Canada, United States, construction industry, statistics, wooden-frame houses, market surveys, building materials, prices, market prices, marketing, economic aspects, consumption, supply, demand, supply balance, wooden-frame buildings, wooden buildings, wood utilization, forest products, forest products industry, wood products, housing
Wood Products Council. 2009; 169 p.
Wood and Other Materials Used to Construct Nonresidential Buildings - Canada
Low-rise nonresidential building construction is an important market in Canada for lumber, engineered wood products, structural wood panels, and nonstructural wood panels. This report examines wood products consumption in 2012 for construction of selected low-rise nonresidential buildings types that have six or fewer stories. Buildings with more than six stories are...
David B. McKeever; Joe Elling
Nonresidential construction, wood products consumption, value of new construction, lumber, structural panels, nonstructural panels, engineered wood products, wood I-joists, glulam timber, structural composite lumber, engineered rim boards, cross-laminated timber
APA The Engineered Wood Association. 2014; 73 p.
Low-rise nonresidential building construction is an important market for lumber, structural wood panels, nonstructural wood panels, and engineered wood products in the United States. This report examines low-rise nonresidential buildings of four or fewer stories only. Buildings with five or more stories are normally severely restricted by building code from being wood...
David McKeever
Supply, demand, supply balance, market surveys, United States, wooden-frame builidngs, wooden buildings, forest products, statistics, economic aspects, wood utilization, forest products industry, wood products, marketing, wood construction
[Tacoma, WA] : Wood Products Council/Wood Works, 2010: 47 p.
Wood products and other building materials used in new residential construction in Canada, with comparison to previous studies
New residential construction is a critical driver of the demand for lumber, structural panels and engineered wood products in Canada. For the period 2010 through 2013, residential construction accounted for roughly 23 percent of the lumber consumed in Canada and 47 percent of structural panel usage. Insufficient data concerning imports and exports prevent estimates of...
Joe Elling; David B. McKeever
Residential construction, Canada, single family construction, multifamily construction, wood products consumption, value of new construction, lumber, structural panels, nonstructural panels. engineered wood products, wood I-joists, glulam, structural composite lumber
Tacoma, WA: APA - The Engineered Wood Association
Solid wood timber products consumption in major end uses in the United States, 1950-2009 : a technical document supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA assessment
Solid wood timber products provide important raw materials to the construction, manufacturing, and shipping sectors of the U.S. economy. Nearly all new single-family houses and low-rise multifamily residential structures are wood framed and sheathed. Large amounts of solid wood timber products are also used in the construction of new nonresidential buildings, and in...
David B. McKeever; James L. Howard
Production, timber products consumption, softwood lumber, hardwood lumber, structural panels, plywood, oriented strandboard, engineered lumber, housing, nonresidential construction, manufacturing, furniture, shipping, wooden containers, pallets, forest products industry, United States, lumber trade, statistics, wooden buildings, statistical analysis, timber trade, buildings, building construction, consumption, forest products, structural timbers
Soil density and moisture content on two unused forest roads during first 30 months after construction
Reports results of soil density and soil moisture measurements on two roads in the central Appalachians over a 30-month period. Density increased slightly during the measurement period at most locations. Almost all of the density changes occurred during the first few months after construction. Moisture content decreased during the first few months after construction,...
J.D. Helvey; J.N. Kochenderfer; J.N. Kochenderfer
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Wood and Other Materials Used to Construct Nonresidential Buildings in the United States 2011 Executive Summary
The construction of low-rise nonresidential buildings is an important market for lumber, engineered wood products, and structural and nonstructural wood panels in the United States. This report examines low-rise nonresidential buildings of six or fewer stories. Those with more than six stories are normally severely restricted by building codes from being wood framed....
David B. McKeever
APA-The Engineered Wood Association. Tacoma, WA. 2013; 15 p.
Wood and Other Materials Used to Construct Nonresidential Buildings in the United States 2011
Craig Adair; David B. McKeever; Chris Gaston; Margaret Stewart
In: APA - The Engineered Wood Association; 2013 A Cooperative study sponsored by Industry and Government; 2013. 123 p.
Estimated annual timber products consumption in major end uses in the United States, 1950-2006
Timber products are vital in the construction, manufacturing, and shipping segments of the U.S. economy. Nearly all new houses are built principally with wood. Wood building...
Forest products industry, statistics, lumber trade, wooden buildings, production, consumption, timber products consumption, solid wood consumption, wood use, softwood lumber, hardwood lumber, structural panels, softwood plywood, oriented strandboard, OSB, nonstructural panels, hardwood plywood, particleboard, medium-density fiberboard, MDF, hardboard, insulation board, construction, housing, new residential construction, single-family, multifamily, apartments, mobile homes, repair, remodeling, upkeep, improvements, expenditures, nonresidential construction, manufacturing, furniture, shipping, wooden containers, pallets.
General technical report FPL-GTR-181
Wood Products Other Building Materials Used in New Residential Construction in the United States
On average, new residential construction accounts for about one-third of all wood products consumed in the United States annually. During periods of robust housing activity, 45% or more of all wood products consumed are for new single-family and multifamily housing. This can fall to as low as 20% or less during times of economic recession. Unfortunately, 2012 was not...
Residential construction, single-family construction, multifamily construction, wood products consumption, value of new construction, lumber, structural panels, nonstructural panels, engineered wood products, wood I-joists, glulam, structural composite lumber
APA - The Engineered Wood Assoc. 2015; 75 p.
Design and construction of a low-cost stream-monitoring shelter
James N. Kochenderfer; Pamela J. Edwards
Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-135. Broomall, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 10 p.
Cost of and soil loss on "minimum-standard" forest truck roads constructed in the central Appalachians
A "minimum-standard" forest truck road that provides efficient and environmentally acceptable access for several forest activities is described. Cost data are presented for eight of these roads constructed in the central Appalachians. The average cost per mile excluding gravel was $8,119. The range was $5,048 to $14,424. Soil loss was measured from several...
J. N. Kochenderfer; G. W. Wendel; H. Clay Smith
forest roads, central Appalachians, construction costs, soil loss
Res. Pap. NE-544. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiement Station. 8p.
Carbon Mitigation Impacts of Increased Softwood Lumber and Structural Panel Use for Nonresidential Construction in the United States
More wood use in the United States to construct low-rise nonresidential (NR) buildings would increase consumption and production of softwood (SW) lumber, engineered wood products, and structural and nonstructural wood panels. Using a consequential life-cycle analysis, we estimated the change in net CO2 emissions thatwould be caused by increased...
Prakash Nepal; Kenneth E. Skog; David B. McKeever; Richard D. Bergman; Karen L. Abt; Robert C. Abt
non-residential construction, timber market, net CO2 savings, manufacturing emissions, forest C, harvested wood product C, logging slash C, timber price, market induced investments, consequential life cycle analysis
Forest Products Journal
Environmental impact of preservative-treated wood in a wetland boardwalk.
Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and industry partners are cooperating in a study of the leaching and environmental effects of a wetland boardwalk. The construction project is considered bworst casec because the site has high rainfall and large volumes of treated wood were used. Separate boardwalk test sections were constructed using untreated wood or wood...
Stan T. Lebow; Patricia K. Lebow; Daniel O. Foster; Kenneth M. Brooks
Wood preservatives--Environmental aspects, Bridges, Wood preservatives, Footpaths, Environmental impact, Wetlands, Copper arsenate, Leaching, Heavy metals, Water pollution, Florida, Copper zinc arsenate, Copper dimethyldithiocarbamate
(Research paper FPL ; RP-582):126 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Building codes : obstacle or opportunity?
Building codes are critically important in the use of wood products for construction. The codes contain regulations that are prescriptive or performance related for various kinds of buildings and construction types. A prescriptive standard might dictate that a particular type of material be used in a given application. A performance standard requires that a particular...
Alberto Goetzl; David B. McKeever
Building codes, building construction, performance standards
Forest products journal. Vol. 49, no. 9 (Sept. 1999): Pages 12-22
Uncertainty estimation for map-based analyses
Traditionally, natural resource managers have asked the question, ?How much?? and have received sample-based estimates of resource totals or means. Increasingly, however, the same managers are now asking the additional question, ?Where?? and are expecting spatially explicit answers in the form of maps. Recent development of natural resource databases, access to...
Ronald E. McRoberts; Mark A. Hatfield; Susan J. Crocker
Emerald ash borer, forest classification, forest inventory, logistic model, Monte Carlo simulation, spatial correlation.
In: Pye, John M.; Rauscher, H. Michael; Sands, Yasmeen; Lee, Danny C.; Beatty, Jerome S., tech. eds. Advances in threat assessment and their application to forest and rangeland management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-802. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest and Southern Research Stations: 637-646
Documenting the Durability and Service Life of Pressure-treated Wood
Estimates of service life are increasingly used to compare life cycle costs of building materials. Because of a lack of published data for treated wood, some users assume a relatively low service life for wood in comparison to alternative materials. Such bias against durable wood products may cause alternative materials to appear more economical. This paper discusses...
Stan Lebow; Bessie Woodward; Patricia Lebow
treated wood, life cycle, service life, long term durability
Proceedings, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Wood Protection Association, April 29 – May 2, 2012. Nashville, TN. 108: 2014; pp.166-170.
Cost and time study for constructing raised wood floor systems in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States
This report is the result of a co-operative effort between the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) Advanced Housing Research Center, the National Assocation of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center, and builder members of the Metropolitan Mobile and Baldwin County Home Builders Associations. The study was undertaken to further knowledge that will...
Marie Del Bianco; David B. McKeever; Lance Barta
Wooden floors, wooden buildings, buildings, estimates, cost, floors, buildings, building construction, residential areas, cost analysis, Gulf Coast, raised wood floor system, floor systems, construction costs, construction time, cost comparisons
Research paper FPL-RP-664. Madison, WI : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2012: 18 p.
Domestic market activity in solid wood products in the United States, 1950-1998.
Solid wood is important to the construction, manufacturing, and shipping segments of the U.S. economy. Nearly all new houses are built with wood, and wood building products are used in the construction of nonresidential buildings, and in the upkeep and improvement of existing structures. Solid wood is used extensively to produce and transport manufactured products. It...
Production, consumption, timber products consumption, industrial roundwood production, solid wood consumption, wood use, softwood lumber, hardwood lumber, structural panels, softwood plywood, oriented strandboard, OSB, waferboard, nonstructural panels, hardwood plywood, particleboard, medium-density fiberboard, MDF, hardboard, insulation board, engineered wood products, wood I-joists, gluelaminated timbers, glulam, structural composite lumber, laminated veneer lumber, LVL, parallel strand lumber, PSL, oriented strand lumber, OSL, fuelwood, construction, housing, new residential construction, single-family, multifamily, apartments, mobile homes, repair, remodeling, upkeep, improvements, expenditures, nonresidential construction, railroads, manufacturing, furniture, shipping, wooden containers, pallets, fuelwood
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The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde
Dassia N. Posner 2016
The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of the director and the Russian cult of Hoffmann closely coincided, Posner argues, many characteristics we associate with avant-garde theater—subjective perspective, breaking through the fourth wall, activating the spectator as a co-creator—become uniquely legible in the context of this engagement. Posner examines the artistic poetics of Meyerhold's grotesque, Tairov's mime-drama, and Eisenstein's theatrical attraction through production analyses, based on extensive archival research, that challenge the notion of theater as a mirror to life, instead viewing the director as a prism through whom life is refracted. A resource for scholars and practitioners alike, this groundbreaking study provides a fresh, provocative perspective on experimental theater, intercultural borrowings, and the nature of the creative process.
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Sergei Eisenstein, stage designs for Gozzi’s The Snake Woman (February 26, 1918). From top to bottom: stage-within-a-stage, ground plan of the forestage, and forestage “attendants” pulling back the curtain. Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, f. 1923, op. 1, ed. khr. 698: 11.
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Genevieve Strong (b. 1995) is currently undertaking a MLitt (Masters) in Art History at University of St Andrew's, Scotland. She graduated from BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, in 2019. Her degree show work was selected for the Clyde & Co. Art Awards 2019/2020. Her past works have also been exhibited at the Tate Modern in "Studio Complex: with Central Saint Martins" (2018), and at the Creative Debuts headquarters in "The Neoprotofeminist Show" (2018), curated by Cream Athens.
Genevieve Strong is a multimedia conceptual artist from Northumberland. She investigates the relationship between historical and contemporary art practices through the juxtaposition of traditional craft processes and digital media. This includes addressing issues of production and reproduction, physical and emotional labour, gender, memory, mental health and the domestic sphere. Her interdisciplinary practice has in the past included participatory interventions, performance, installation, textiles, ceramics and painting. Her aim is to subvert normative social constructs formed by capitalism, heteronormativity and patriarchy so as to promote an unashamedly matriarchal perspective.
2019, "Human Manifesto", Arts SU Space, Central Saint Martin's (King's Cross), London. Curated by Arts SU LGBT Society.
2018, "The Neoprotofeminist Show", The Black & White Building, 74 Rivington St., Shoreditch, London. Curated by Cream Athens and Creative Debuts.
2018, "Earthly Delights", Norman Rea Gallery, Derwent College, University of York, York.
2018, "Mythically Imagining King's Cross", Arts SU Space, Central Saint Martins (King's Cross), London. Curated by Beckie Leach.
2018, "Spillage: An interactive spillage of actions, objects, performances and events", Window Galleries, Central Saint Martins. Curated by BA Fine Art XD students.
2018, Tate Exchange: "Studio Complex with Central Saint Martins", Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern, London.
2017, "Queer Art(ists) Now", Archive Gallery, Mill Co. Project Space, Haggerston, London. Curated by And What? Festival.
2017, "I Will Hold Your Gaze", Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London. Curated by Lily Waite.
2017, Hypermigrationculture: "My Education is your culturation!", Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
2016, "CSM 3D / XD OPEN STUDIOS", Central Saint Martins, London.
2016, "SUARTS Earth Week eARTh", London College of Communication, London.
2015, "QEHS Journeys", Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, Northumberland.
2014, "QEHS Power of Ten", Queen's Hall Arts Centre, Hexham, Northumberland.
2008, "Royal Society of British Artist's National Students Exhibition", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
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December 19, 2019 Extremists ISIL
Born: 1978;
Place of Birth: Samarkand, Uzbekistan;
Gender: Male;
Nationality: Uzbek;
Rakhmat Akilov is a rejected asylum seeker and a citizen of Uzbekistan, is the perpetrator of the 2017 Stockholm truck attack who was apprehended several hours later. He had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State in a self-recorded video the day before the attack, and Uzbek authorities said he had allegedly joined the group.
Akilov traveled to Stockholm in 2014, where he submitted an application for asylum. While there, he reportedly communicated with Islamic State recruiters and even became a recruiter himself, encouraging fellow Uzbeks to travel abroad to join the Islamic State.
According to Uzbek foreign minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, Akilov “repeatedly sent propagandist videos to his relatives and other contacts in Uzbekistan, trying to induce them to commit acts of violence against representatives of public authority, leadership, and law enforcement of Uzbekistan.”
In December 2016, Akilov’s application for asylum was rejected, and he was given four weeks to depart the country. However, he did not depart and was consequently put on an official wanted list in February 2017.
A subsequent investigation found photos of downtown Stockholm on Akilov’s cell phone, and a memory card with Islamic State propaganda, including execution videos, that had been in his possession.
Authorities also discovered that Akilov had communicated with others about his intended activities over social media, and had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State on April 6, 2017, the day before the attack.
Terrorist Attack in Stockholm:
Akilov chose to attack during an afternoon as there were many people and tourists in the area. Akilov recorded a number of films in the Odenplan area where he is heard saying that it is time to kill “infidels” and that it grieved him how Muslims in the Levant and Afghanistan were dying. The attack took place at about 14:53 local time.
It began when a truck for the Spendrups brewery was hijacked while making a delivery on the street Adolf Fredriks kyrkogata in central Stockholm. According to a Spendrups press release, the driver attempted to stop the hijacker by standing in front of the truck, but had to jump out of the way and was slightly injured when the hijacker accelerated towards him.
The hijacker then drove the truck at high speed into a pedestrian street, going about 500 metres (1,600 ft) down Drottninggatan, one of Stockholm’s main shopping streets, hitting pedestrians along the way. Witnesses said the hijacker attempted to target children as he zigzagged on the street.
The attack ended when the truck rammed the Ahlens City department store on the corner of Drottninggatan and Master Samuelsgatan. The truck caught fire, but the flames were quickly doused by firefighters. The hijacker jumped out and fled the scene.
A homemade bomb was reportedly found in the truck after it was abandoned by the hijacker. Police sources said the device was found in a bag and had not been detonated, adding that the attacker had been burned by it. National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson later said they had found a suspicious object in the driver’s seat that “could be a bomb or an incendiary device”, and was further investigated.
In January 2018, Akilov was charged with attempted murder, terror-related murder, and endangering the lives of others. Uzbekistan also charged him with involving minors in antisocial behavior, distributing materials that pose a threat to public security, and participation in a prohibited group, though he was ultimately prosecuted in Sweden.
On June 7, 2018, he was found guilty of five counts of terror-related murder, 119 counts of attempted murder, and 24 counts of endangering the life of others. Akilov was given a lifetime prison sentence, which is the heaviest penalty in Sweden and equates to about 18 years. He was also sentenced to be banned from Sweden for life after he completes his prison sentence there.
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City of Houston Saving $110,000 a Year With EVs
Photo courtesy of City of Houston.
The City of Houston expects to save about $110,000 a year in fuel and maintenance costs by issuing 27 Nissan Leaf electric vehicles to city workers as part of a broader sustainability initiative that also includes car sharing.
Each Nissan Leaf costs $473.98 per year to fuel while gasoline-fueled Nissan Rogue SUVs in the fleet cost $1,925.25 a year to fuel, reports EV Obsession.
The city has been adding electric vehicles to its fleet of 9,277 cars, vans, and trucks to reduce cost and greenhouse gas emissions as well as "promote sustainable transportation options for residents and visitors," according to a report by the Electrification Coalition.
The city expects a more than 600,000-resident population increase by 2030, growth that has created air quality issues that have become increasingly difficult to manage.
The city plans to add even more EVs to its fleet in the coming years, said Laura Spanjian, the city's director of sustainability.
In 2010, the city converted 15 Toyota Prius hybrids to plug-in hybrid vehicles. A year later, the city was among the first to get the all-electric Leaf. In 2012, Houston and Austin were among the first cities to get the Ford Focus electric vehicle.
In August of 2012, the city launched a car-sharing program for its employees called FleetShare in a partnership wih ZipCar.
Read more about Sustainability City of Houston Greenhouse Gas Battery-Electric Vehicles Carsharing
FleetCor Allegedly Collected 'Hundreds of Millions' in Improper Fees
FleetCor Technologies, Inc. has collected "hundreds of millions" in improper fees from its fleet customers since at least 2014, according to a civil complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission against the Atlanta-based payment processor.
WEX Adds Valero's Fuel Card Program
WEX Inc. will begin managing the fleet fuel card program of Valero Energy Corp. under a new partnership, the Portland, Maine-based payment provider has announced.
Miss. Sheriff Makes Second Fuel Theft Arrest
The Lauderdale County, Miss., Sheriff has charged two county employees with fuel theft and expects to make more arrests.
2019 Fleet Forward Conference in Pictures
The 2019 Fleet Forward Conference, dedicated to mobility solutions for fleets, convened Nov. 11-13 at The Forager in San Jose, Calif.
Calif. County Increases Vehicle MPG by 7%
Nevada County, Calif., increased vehicle fuel economy by using SmartPedal, a device that stabilizes the gas pedal.
Bright Ideas to Improve Your Fleet
Government Fleet often shares programs and initiatives that lead to great success, but those ideas often require significant investments in time or money. Here, we turn to the smaller ideas that are simpler and easier to implement.
Okla. City Fuel Cards Compromised by Card Skimmers
The City of Madill, Okla., was affected by card skimmers at gas stations — 75% of the city's fuel cards were compromised.
How to Find the Best Fleet Fuel Card
Fleet fuel cards reduce costs by alerting when drivers pump expensive fuel grades to displaying gallons pumped vs. tank capacity. Read to find out how to find the best provider.
Ky. Officer Pleads Guilty to Fuel Theft
A Frankfort (Ky.) Police Department officer has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of stealing about $27,000 in gasoline from the city over six years.
Audit Urges Stricter Enforcement of Fleet Utilization, Fuel Tracking
The City of Sacramento (Calif.) Department of Utilities can save money by expanding its vehicle utilization criteria and more accurately track fuel transactions, according to a recent audit by the city auditor.
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Aegean Airlines takes top award
- by Jeremy Guest
Aegean Airlines takes top award.
Aegean Airlines, Greece's biggest airline, has won the Best Regional Airline Europe award at the 2011 World Airline Awards at the Paris Air Show. The airline was also runner-up in the World's Best Regional Airline category and in Airline Staff Service Excellence in Europe category. The Skytrax World Airline Awards are for front-line service standards with more than 200 airlines competing.
Mr. Dimitris Gerogiannis of Aegean said: 'All of us in Aegean are extremely proud, because we have been honoured with this award by the most important audience: our passengers.'
The awards are based on passenger surveys between July 2010 and May 2011 and included the largest international airlines to small domestic carriers.
The study analyses customer satisfaction from check-in to boarding, comfort, cleanliness, food and service.
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Garrison School Environmental Education
CREATING STEWARDS OF THE NATURAL WORLD
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Like text, maps speak to us in a language of lines and symbols. They convey a sense of place at a certain time. And, they tell us stories about the past and the present. Maps are essential spatial tools that help us way-find or navigate the world. They also help us learn about and to analyze various places and situations affecting our world. Maps help us to convey information and to tell stories in a visual way.
People have been making and sharing maps for thousands of years. The earliest known map is a nearly 14,000-year-old stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain. Listen to the podcast below. Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio talks with John Hessler of the Library of Congress about cartography (map-making) and the history of maps.
Maps may be printed on paper, or presented digitally so that they can be accessed on computers and mobile devices. Maps can focus on a large space, or a small space. Physical maps show land masses, bodies of water, mountain ranges, and other features of the Earth.
the power of maps
Topographic maps are a type of physical map. They show natural and man-made features on Earth, and they feature contour lines to show the elevation levels of land and the depth of bodies of water. Relief maps show contours and elevations in three dimensions. They may be shaded to produce an illusion of three dimensionality, or they can actually be made three dimensional by an impression process. Such maps can be made from rubber, vinyl, or plastic. Political maps show human-created features, borders of countries, states, counties, and cities, along with place names and the shapes of land masses and bodies of water. Thematic maps tell stories about specific places. Some thematic maps show wildlife habitats, invasive species, climate zones, or forested land in an area. A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of the earth. The oldest known globe was made more than 2,100 years ago.
Learn how to use maps and compasses, and how to make maps using a variety of digital tools. Explore geography resources and careers involving geography.
All About Maps, from National Geographic Education
Basic Map & GPS Skills, from National Geographic
How to Use a Map
How to Find Your Way With a Map and Compass
Introduction to GIS Technology
Navigation Basics from REI, includes excellent videos
Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems
Topographic Map Symbols — how to read and interpret the symbols on topographic maps
Latitude and Longitude — learn how to find the address of any place on earth by using latitude and longitude
These digital tools will help you to use maps and to create your own maps:
Avenza PDF Maps App — a free geospatial PDF, GeoPDF® and GeoTIFF reader for Apple iOS and Android smartphones and tablets
Elevations and Distances in the United States
Exploring Ecosystems Using GIS — a National Geographic exercise for grades 6-8 that examines how a nature preserve is affected by human and biological features within and surrounding it
FieldScope — a National Geographic online mapping program for citizen science investigations
GIS for Kids
GIS Education Community Website
Google Maps Education
Google Earth Tutorials
MapMaker Interactive — a National Geographic tool for creating customized maps on tablets, incorporating text, photos, and videos
North American Environmental Atlas
Overlap Maps — instantly compare any two places on Earth
Social Explorer — easy-to-use web interface that lets users create maps and reports using U.S. Census data to illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change
GEOGRAPHY & Careers
It all started with maps for Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. A distinguished scientist and astronaut, Dr. Sullivan explains how drawing maps in second grade opened her eyes to the storytelling power of maps. Dr. Sullivan loved poring over maps as a child. Later, maps led her to study oceanography. She now works as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator.
Maps are important tools created by and used by people who work in many different kinds of jobs. Learn about:
Nathaniel Kelso, a cartographer who works for The Washington Post newspaper
Rebecca Solnit, the author of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Geography on the Job: How different people apply geography to their work
map sources
Desmond-Fish Library Maps
Putnam County Historical Society Maps
New York Public Library Digital Collections
New York State Archives Digital Collections
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Maps
Appalachian Trail Map
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Library of Congress Map Collections
Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Library of Congress Blog
The National Geologic Map Database
NOAA National Weather Maps
Global Maps — NASA Earth Observatory
Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years, David Sobel, 1998
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[NHL] 2017-18 NHL - 100 Years (aka The Rise of the Golden Knights)
Tags 2018-19
It is officially the Off Season.
Time for:
The NHL Awards Ceremony
The Expansion Draft (Hello Las Vegas!)
The Entry Draft (aka the Nolan Patrick Sweepstakes)
Free Agent Frenzy
Rookie Orientation Camps
Oh, and the NHL GM's meeting to discuss rule changes, like what exactly wipes out a good goal...
I for one cannot wait for the Habs to blunder hardcore during the next month.
This time, Rinne for Price?
blotsfan
Rinne is too good for Montreal to do that.
They're evidently going to trade Beaulieu and Galchenyuk, what sad return Bergevin will get for these guys remains to be appreciated.
jwhouk said:
Cmon, you don't really blame Rinne for that series...you blame @DarkAudit [DOUBLEPOST=1497500933,1497500487][/DOUBLEPOST]Here's what I'm gonna say about the Pittsburgh Penguins, and I am NOT directing this at DA at all - I think he's a legitimate fan who is just happy his team won.
So, yeah, he's one of a very few. The Penguins almost folded and/or moved - TWICE EACH - and it took a cancer-ridden Mario Lemieux to keep them put. I do not like or trust most Pens fans, and I wouldn't be shocked if the team ends up in the same situation within 10 years of the golden boy retiring. It's not a good fan base and that sucks. I actually went back and forth about Chicago for the same reason but I decided to side with the fans because it's not their fault that a shitty owner wouldn't even air games because it cost too much. So good for them that people that actually care about hockey took precidence over things once the shit-head owner died. Still can't believe Joel Quenville is a multiple-cup winning coach.
...But anyway, Fuck Kid Sid and the Penguins.
Sorry. I had hockey takes.
I don't blame DA. I blame the refs.
Two calls gave the Pens the Cup. It also appears that James Neal was playing most of the final two rounds with a broken hand.
Hey @jwhouk do you have any opinions on Phil Housleys coaching? Asking for a friend.
Well you got Drouin. That's something.
blotsfan said:
It's something but depends if they plan to play him or Galchenyuk at center, permanently.
Sergachev was a stiff price though, he's our #1 prospect and is going to be a great puck moving d-man. Those aren't a dime a dozen but Habs really pined for Drouin and the local French media are elated to say the least.... so that buys Bergevin 2 years now... unless a huge disaster of a season.
New uniforms!
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-jerseys-by-adidas-unveiled-for-2017-18-season/c-290020400
Minnesota I think got the best upgrade of the bunch. Anihiem making the black design their primary home is a good move since it was probably the best third jersey in the league.
I'm kind of ambivalent about the black sleeves on the Hurricanes sweater. I liked the previous designs more than most maybe, but I want to see the new one with socks.
Is it so hard to go back to royal blue?
Also, I'm not sure how we ended up being the only team that does numbers on the front, but I'm glad we do.
Nashville and Columbus look like pajama tops, the Islanders sleeves seem too white, Buffalo's blue is too dark, Oilers are bleh. Fuck everything Adidas has ever done in jersey design.
DarkAudit
Expect UniWatch to have a feature article on this in the morning. With special attention to the return to the straight hem.
BErt said:
A lot of the extraneous piping is gone. They didn't go nuts with three-stripes all over the place. Hey, could be worse. They could have gone with Nike in full Oregon Ducks mode.
DarkAudit said:
I have personal reasons for Fuck Adidas
I see your point. It's why I say the same about Nike...
(Yeah that's supposed to be a 5.)
And for the big finish...
And did I mention EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT on the jersey has to have some compelling backstory behind it? Like how the numerals are supposed to represent the coal miner's pickaxe? FUCK NIKE. FUCK PHIL KNIGHT.
Represent the miner's pickaxe? Nice try, but they can't seriously expect me to believe they think an upside-down 2 as a 5 is a pickaxe and not just being too damn lazy to have a 5 template and a 2 template.
I can understand not liking the design choices Nike makes, but I can almost certainly say laziness is not a factor.
Not sure how we managed to get Emelin and his overpriced contract off Habs books for NOTHING but that was a nice relief.
Still need to see how opening day roster shakes out, but you have to at least applaud the aggressiveness of Vegas as they attempt to hit the ground running and not just be a permanent marker W on other team's schedules. As of right now they're picking 6, 13, and 15 in the first round this year.
Tonight there are more Golden Knights fans in Pittsburgh than in Vegas. Here's one of them...
UrinatingTree reviews the Vegas expansion draft...
HCGLNS
Yeah yeah, seems like the Leafs are still trying to win the Cup like they did in '67: get a bunch of old guys together and pray that only four teams make the playoffs.
Habs blowing 10% of the team salary in a franchise goalie with a few injury plagued seasons as of late and mediocre playoff success. Brilliant.
Oh and signed a poor puck possession stay at home d-man for 5 mill a year for half a decade and won't cough up the $$$ for Radulov.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
That's 90ies hockey all right.
Right now, Hatcher would have gotten a few games and a few fists.
No they would toss him for a large amount. Back then he got the second longest suspension in NHL history for that hit; 7 games.
My boy PK getting a bit... "frisky"... at the ESPYs, I see.
They announced the Team Canada coaches and prospective roster for the Olympics.
I'm like, who?
Carl Hagelin knows how to host the Cup
So the NBC schedule is out. It's another lazy effort on their part, filled with uninspiring matchups that will do little to help the sport. On the bright side I only have 1 reason outside the playoffs to subject myself to Pierre McQuire this year.
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What is Offensive
Someone said something to me the other day (right here, actually, in a reply to another post) and... well....
The statement is:
"If we all expand our minds then "offensive" things don't actually exist, they are justifications and crutches."
At first blush it seems like a great statement.
But then I wondered, is that what Philip Greaves said when thousands of people threatened to boycott Amazon over his Pedophiles Guild to Love and Pleasure? It's not offensive, 'offensive' is just a crutch.
By the logic that no things are offensive, so long as we are open minded, than racial slurs are ok. Sexist comments are ok. Someone getting up on a soapbox and saying that homosexuals should be executed... well, it's not offensive, no one should be bothered by it. I suppose that even kiddie porn is ok, or at least no longer offensive.
I would like--no, I would love--to live in a world where everyone is open minded enough to accept everyone else's ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. But we don't. Until we do, I don't see any particular problem with being "offended" when someone tells me that I can't marry a woman because someone's religion says that marriage is strictly for a man and a woman. I don't think there's anything wrong with being offended by terms like (please pardon the following) "nigger", "towel head", "camel jockey", or... gosh, this shows how up on things like this I am, those are all the racial slurs I can think of. I'm sure more exist. But I'll bet somebody out there finds even this meager list offensive. That's because we know that "racism" is wrong--heck even the word "racism" is wrong! There is only one race, the human race. (Check out the vid. I posted a month or so back, Edward James Olmos addressing the United Nations.)
I don't think it's an especially bad thing to be offended by things that are... well... offensive. And yes, I realize that 'offensive' is incredibly subjective. I don't find steamy boy on boy sex offensive--I happen to find it pretty hot. I would be offended if it turned up in my kid's middle school library. I would even be unhappy if it showed up in my public library anywhere were kids could get their hands on it. I'm know that there are some people who are offended merely by its existence--that's ok, they have a right to be offended. They also have the right not to read it. I'm not forcing steamy boy on boy sex off on anyone. And I suppose, in fairness, Mr. Greaves wasn't actually forcing his book on anyone either... but I find a guide on how to get away with pedophilia pretty dang offensive. I'm not alone. Lots of people were offended by that one.
I'm a huge fan of the old saying about sticks and stones, but the truth is that words *can* hurt. They do hurt. To suggest that we shouldn't be offended by hurtful words and actions is to suggest that we should simply let the other guy say whatever he wants to and hope it goes away all on its own. How many of us think that's going to happen?
So I will continue to be offended by the idea the pedophilia is ok. I will continue to be offended by the idea that homophobia is ok--I will be just as offended when someone comes into my home and disrespects me or tries to insult my intelligence. And I will, though it's hard, respect the rights of those who are offended by homosexuality and just do my darnedest to educate the next generation in the most respectful way I know how.
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kitsa said...
Pretty much, I mean it is an awkward question but it is like freedom, your right to throw a punch ends at my face, so you have the right to say it, but I certainly have the right to be offended. There are also gradiations. If I don't want to read m/m sex, then I won't but I am not going to tell anyone else they can't. I would like them to give me the same courtesy.
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The issues of poverty and the distribution of wealth are ones that have been addressed by many.
The literature is voluminous especially since the nineteenth century, the issues are not new, so why has very little changed in terms of wealth distribution and poverty, and what are the connections to debt?
The causes of poverty at an individual level clearly present a wide range of possible explanations for poverty and unequal wealth distribution. Equally, it is possible to identify some clear structural causes of poverty, which in countries that espouse equality of opportunity is problematic.
The current system of taxation in the UK places the main burden on those people in society that generate and stimulate economic growth. Whilst different types of tax have different desirable and undesirable effects on the economy, there is a bias in this system that will not tackle the problem of poverty and socially unjust distributions of wealth.
The Henry George Foundation suggests that part of the structural problem that causes poverty and perpetuates a socially unjust distribution of wealth is the distribution of the tax burden. Tax falls more heavily on income to labour and capital (wages and interest), which creates economic disincentives. Shifting some of the burden away from labour and capital and onto those earning economic rents addresses one of the structural causes of poverty at its source. That is to say it tackles the socially unjust distribution of wealth that can arise from economic rent.
What are the connections of poverty to debt? At an international level debt has constrained economic development in many cases. Borrowing, with the hope of stimulating investment and reducing poverty has more often than not lead to a downward spiral into abject poverty. This is not true of all instances. However, where it has been the case the ways in which poverty and debt are addressed must be reviewed.
The philosophical basis of the approach employed by the Henry George Foundation that puts people at the heart of economics provides the starting point for such a review.
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Film Screening: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Romania)
We are kindly inviting all interested students and colleagues to the third film screening in the series of Post-Socialist Screenings at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) this autumn.
Time and place: Film Screening: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Romania) Oct. 9, 2019 6:00 PM–8:00 PM, Auditorium 3, Sophus Bugges hus
Photo: The Criterion Channel
The plot of the award-winning film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (written by Cristian Mungiu) is set in Communist Romania, and tells the story of two female students who try to procure an illegal abortion in the 1980s.
October 9, 6.00 PM, auditorium 3, Sophus Bugges hus. Tea and coffe will be served. All interested are welcome.
About Post-Socialist Screenings
After 1989, people in post-socialist countries faced extensive systemic changes on the economic and political levels, which affected their public and private lives. Sometimes the borders in-between were swept away relentlessly, leaving people behind. The film screenings shown at ILOS this autumn are about people who lived through socialism, and those who are trying to find their place and their identity in post-socialist society.
Read more about this autumn's program and the Post-Socialist Screenings.
The Post-Socialist Screenings are organized by Anastasia K. Røen and Mónika Dánél, with the support of Centre for Slavic and Easter European Studies, project Probing the Boundaries of the (Trans)National and Elisa Storchi and Randi Cathinka Neverdal from University of Oslo Library.
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In Conversation With Tommy Ton: On the Intersection of Streetwear & Luxury Fashion, Trends, & Shooting Levi’s Made & Crafted FW18
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By Sachin Bhola in Style
How we look at street style today has largely been shaped by photographer Tommy Ton. His coverage of fashion weeks for Style.com and GQ universalized an entire category of photography. Throughout his career arc he developed a vocabulary that includes outfit detail shots and portraits of both fashion personalities and unknowns that are as much a portrait of the subject’s character as they are of their taste.
In his time covering the scene, which spans over a decade, he also witnessed some of streetwear’s most significant milestones, notably its intersection with luxury fashion. We sat down with the renowned photographer in our New York City headquarters to talk about just that, as well as some of this year’s biggest trends.
We were also on the ground in New York City to witness Tommy shoot some of his favorite looks from the Levi’s® Made & Crafted® Fall/Winter 2018 collection. Levi’s Made & Crafted is Levi’s’ elevated line that combines the brand’s heritage with premium materials and forward-thinking designs. The collection was inspired by the uniform of a world traveler—a natural fit for Tommy—and features upgraded classics and oversize proportions all seen through Tommy’s lens. The clothes are reflective of what’s happening in streetwear today, and that served as the jumping point for our conversation.
What did streetwear look like when you first started shooting?
I guess it was 12 years ago. It was definitely more about being eclectic. There was no attachment to it in terms of the connotation of what streetwear is now. What it’s turned into is completely opposite, I think, of what was semi-nonexistent. I think there was no label of what streetwear was. It was just fashion as fashion, right?
If I think about what I was wearing, I was buying really rare colors of adidas Gazelles. I don’t think Nike was as influential as it was back then. And the same you could say about a lot of brands. I think what streetwear has become has happened because of social media and blogging and digital media. Being able to use it as a platform to take its reach globally. It’s much different from where it was back then.
What are some milestones you’ve seen in streetwear in its evolution?
If anything, the fact that people are more connected as a community in terms of an interest in fashion. It’s not just people who are interested in high fashion. Anyone from anywhere now knows who Raf Simons is or even Nicolas Ghesquiere. I think fashion is no longer as niche as it used to be.
There was a moment in 2000—I think 2012—when streetwear was kind of filtering into high fashion. This probably had to do with the idea of comfort coming back in. So Phoebe Philo started wearing—she wore sneakers when she exited her show. And that changed everything. That kind of meshed high fashion into streetwear and, obviously, what we’re seeing.
Top: Long-Sleeve Tee in Black Multistripe Bottom: Taper Trouser in Caviar
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You mentioned Phoebe Philo. That’s a great jumping point to look at how far the relationship between luxury fashion and streetwear has come. Why do you think those two worlds collided?
I think it’s because of the trickle theory. You use someone like Kanye West as an example. As someone who really wanted to be a part of high fashion. He created his line, not the Yeezy line, but the Kanye West line, like, six years ago. He really wanted to have the respect and I think his yearning to be a part of this fashion world definitely trickled down to his fans and followers wanting to monitor what he was wearing. I think because of someone like him, it’s broken barriers and opened doors for his friends. Look at Virgil or Jerry Lorenzo or Matthew Williams and that whole crew. Just the fact that what is defined as luxury and high fashion now is everyday fashion, which is streetwear.
It’s also a reflection of what pop culture is today. Rock stars are no longer actual rock stars; they’re rap stars or they’re DJs.
Or reality television stars.
You look at Kanye and he was very instrumental in the way that the Kardashians look. So he plays a huge role in terms of influence.
What do you think it means for the future of fashion? Do you think we’ll continue exploring the relationship between streetwear and luxury fashion?
I think we’ll continue to open more doors for people of different backgrounds and ethnicities to break into the luxury fashion scene. But I think there will be a resistance where people who [want] more of a sense of exclusivity and mystery. Everything now is based on, are you an art director? How many followers do you have? What is your overall vision for the brand? It’s all about surface-value, which sells. But I think there’ll be a yearning for that type of fashion, which is the era of Margiela.
Dress: Heirloom Dress in Heirloom Tulle Bottom: 501 Original Jean in Salt Bleached
Top: Pocket Tee in Pristine Outerwear: Shearling Ranch Coat in Bone Brown Bottom: 511 Slim Jean in Sundays Best
Let’s talk about your photography. What catches your eye today and how has that changed since you started, if at all?
It definitely has changed, because when you like fashion you become bored quite quickly. It changes based on personal experience and growing and meeting certain people and reevaluating why I like certain things or what I did. It’s one of those things you can’t explain—it’s a visual thing. I guess because I’m a product of this boom, I try to go back and realize why I liked fashion for the reasons that I did. And when I rewatch some of those television programs or those documentaries, then I start realizing, “Oh, that is what fashion was then”—
—like Fashion File. And Fashion Television with Jeanne Beker.
Oh, my gosh, yes. That’s right, you’re Canadian. Yeah, so what’s amazing is that you and I, we got to experience fashion not only from the print standpoint, but when there was that sense of anticipation of waiting for Fashion File on Saturday. Or, for me, what was exciting was reading the reviews when they came out in the newspapers on Thursdays. When someone was reporting it from abroad. I remember being in high school and, instead of doing my actual homework, I was sitting in the computer lab looking at FirstView.com trying to see—
—every look from the runway show.
On the subject of trends: we’ve noticed western wear coming back into styling. For instance, at the shoot we used cowboy boots. What’s your take?
I’ve always had an appreciation for that love of Americana, western wear, denim. I think what was really great about this shoot was, in the case of two of the models, to see some of these looks that were completely different from when they were styled, and just seeing that type of youth embody something that’s so opposite to them. I think that’s when it’s interesting: when you see someone that has such a distinct eye and wear these clothes. I’ve always thought this western thing has been around for quite some time, and I think it just takes a certain person with a sense of confidence, and definitely a unique sense of style, to wear it in a more fresh, new, kind of way.
Top: Pop Over in Pristine Knit: Travelers Jacket in Travelers Tweed Bottom: Passenger Pant in Gypsy Night
Another trend we’ve seen is the chunky sneaker, which has really defined 2018, and that similar silhouette in clothing: an oversize fit. One of the jeans we shot is a wide-leg pair of Levi’s Made & Crafted jeans. What do you think of that silhouette? What have you been seeing?
I love when younger men and women embrace different proportions and fits. In my own work I try to push for bigger silhouettes, but I think people are a little bit concerned about it, but it’s there. It takes someone with a certain sense of style to want to wear fuller pants. I think it’s interesting to see when they incorporate a larger, chunkier sneaker with a fuller pant. It’s really refreshing when I see a guy know how to alter his pants to the right length and cuff it the right way and wear those type of shoes. That look—there’s something alluring about it. It’s an elevated version of everyday jeans and T-shirt and sneakers.
What about craftsmanship and brand heritage? Are people still very interested in it?
Absolutely. I think having a better understanding of a house, such as Levi’s, and seeing how to find the perfect fit or how a pair of jeans is washed, you have a better understanding of that once you know how it’s done. Now they’re having this new practice where they’re using 3D—have you seen it?—like, 3D burnout. They’re able to recreate a pair of jeans that’s taken years to wash and do it in a second, which is amazing.
That’s impressive.
It is pretty impressive to get there, and I think that comes from having an understanding of why that type of heritage and look is so appealing. I think most people just want their jeans to be very clean and fresh, whereas others who really appreciate that heritage want that specific look and they appreciate why a tag is shredded or frayed, you know?
Let’s talk about travel: do you buy something or bring something back from each new country, city, and experience?
No. I’m actually not that type of person. I try to separate fashion with the idea of travel, because I’m not there to accumulate more clothes. If something is really, really interesting to me, then maybe I will. But, I’m not one to buy keepsakes or souvenirs. If we’re talking Japan, then it’s a completely different story.
What are some pieces you can’t travel without?
My Winnie the Pooh pillow, which I bought from Japan. It has nothing to do with the fact that it’s Winnie the Pooh; it has to do with this really soft material that they created in Japan. They call it mochi fabric. It feels like a marshmallow. That’s why I travel with it, but when I travel with it people that walk by me on the plane are like, “Wow. That guy, he needs to let go of that.” It’s important to have headphones. For me, wireless headphones, because I need to block out all the noise on the plane. I always need sneakers, because a lot of the time when I go to these airports the gate that I’m sitting in is just like at the very end.
Left: Outerwear: Type II Sherpa Jacket in Canyon Top: 8 OZ Tee in Bright White Bottom: 502 Regular Taper Jean in Cork Right: Outerwear: Type II Worn Trucker in Blue Black Top: 8 OZ Tee in Bright White Bottom: Taper Trouser in Neppy Denim Blues
Left: See Above Right: Pleated Trucker Dress in Irish Blues
Dress: See Left
Who’s the most memorable person you’ve shot?
I guess the memorable moments to me are the ones where I met someone for the first time, and I’m just completely smitten with them, because I’ve never seen them before and they’re just either drop-dead gorgeous or they have such an amazing sense of style. I think the memories that come with meeting someone that I wasn’t so sure of, and then you’re just completely blown away as you’ve grown together.
I guess I’ll just say Kanye. Meeting him and taking that picture nine years ago, and just seeing the progression of him and that crew. It’s just amazing to see that these guys just wanted to crash Fashion Week and manifested something for themselves.
What was one of the most memorable looks you shot?
You know, the funny thing is I only remember outfits when I am with the person, and I’m like, “You remember when you wore this outside of the show?” And they’re like, “I can’t believe you remember that.” It’s no longer just a select few anymore; it’s become such a huge album of moments. I don’t know if it’s the outfits that stand out, maybe it’s more the people and the relationships. Actually, do you know what I always remember? I always remember the outfits I didn’t get.
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1 dead, 1 injured Saturday in Jones County wreck
One driver was killed and another injured in a Saturday morning wreck at U.S. 84 and Eastview Drive in Jones County.
1 dead, 1 injured Saturday in Jones County wreck One driver was killed and another injured in a Saturday morning wreck at U.S. 84 and Eastview Drive in Jones County. Check out this story on hattiesburgamerican.com: https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/2019/01/05/1-dead-1-injured-saturday-jones-county-wreck/2492492002/
Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American Published 4:42 p.m. CT Jan. 5, 2019 | Updated 10:37 a.m. CT Jan. 8, 2019
The driver of a Hyundai was killed in a two-vehicle wreck on U.S. 84 in Jones County on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2018.(Photo: Courtesy of Jones County Fire Council)
One person was killed and another injured in a two-vehicle wreck Saturday in Jones County.
Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop J spokesman Travis Luck said troopers responded to the crash around 11:42 a.m. Saturday on U.S. 84 at Eastview Drive.
Rustin, Sandersville, Glade and Powers volunteer fire departments also responded to the scene to render medical aid and extricate an entrapped victim, said Dana Bumgardner, Jones County Fire Council public information officer.
A preliminary investigation shows a Hyundai passenger vehicle traveling south on Eastview was crossing the westbound lanes of U.S. 84, when a Ford pickup traveling west on U.S. 84 crashed into the driver’s side of the Hyundai, Luck said.
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The male driver of the Hyundai was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the pickup was transported to South Central Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries.
U.S. 84 was shut down for more than an hour, Bumgardner said.
The deceased male was identified as 41-year-old Brad Magee of Pascagoula. The pickup driver is 79-year-old Gary Staples of Laurel.
Both drivers were alone in their vehicles.
Jones County Sheriff’s Department and EmServ also assisted.
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PORTLAND, OR—Housecall Providers Inc., a Portland, OR-based nonprofit, has been selected as a demonstration site for the national health care study Independence at Home (IAH).
Independence at Home was developed in response to a growing body of evidence that suggests that many patients with multiple health concerns—especially homebound and elderly patients—enjoy a higher quality of life and make fewer hospital and emergency room visits when they receive medical care in their residence.
Since 1996, Housecall Providers has made over 100,000 medical home visits to patients, most of them medically fragile older adults. All are homebound. With a staff of 70 and growing, Housecall Providers made more than 12,000 medical home visits in 2011 to patients throughout the Portland metropolitan area. Housecall Providers also offers hospice services to its patients.
Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has been a major proponent of the project and supported Housecall Providers as a demonstration site. “The potential for billions in Medicare savings that Independence at Home offers will only be reached if the best healthcare providers are put in place,” Senator Ron Wyden said. “Housecall Providers is one of Oregon’s premier home-care organizations and I congratulate them for securing a spot in this highly competitive demonstration project. Their participation in IAH means that Portland-area Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get top flight home healthcare from a top flight organization. Their hard work and the example they have set were part of the inspiration for the IAH program and I know that their involvement will go a long way toward its success.”
Demonstration sites such as Housecall Providers will help determine whether a home medical care model can contain escalating health care costs by reducing the number of preventable hospitalizations, hospital readmissions and emergency room visits.
The project, which will begin on June 1st, 2012, will include 10,000 homebound Medicare beneficiaries and targets the 5% of that population that account for more than 43% of Medicare costs. IAH programs are funded entirely from the savings they achieve.
“We are thrilled to be selected as a demonstration site for IAH and to have the opportunity to show the nation what Housecall Providers has been offering Portland’s metropolitan homebound community members since 1996,” said Terri Hobbs, executive director of Housecall Providers. “Our own experience, backed up by data we have collected, shows that our established patients require fewer trips to the hospital and in general enjoy better health at a lower cost than patients who are not seen at home.”
Housecall Providers founder and Medical Director Dr. Benneth Husted praised Sen. Wyden for his role in shaping IAH. “We are very grateful to Senator Wyden for championing Independence at Home into the health care reform law, and to the American Academy of Home Care Medicine for helping to create the concept,” said Dr. Husted. “We believe the demonstration projects are just the beginning of a new model of health care delivery and payment that has the potential to bring costs under control while providing better care to the Medicare population.”
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Asia Minute: Thailand’s Baking Drought
By Bill Dorman • Jan 8, 2020
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As brush fires continue to devastate parts of Australia, dry weather is creating trouble in another part of the Asia Pacific. Parts of Thailand are suffering through their worst drought in nearly 40 years.
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This has been a busy week for developments in the royal family of Thailand. The king of Thailand has fired half a dozen officials — days after taking action against one of his closest confidantes.
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By Bill Dorman • Aug 23, 2019
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Late August is a popular time for vacation in many parts of the world, and a busy period for travelers to Hawaii. That’s not the case in Thailand, but this week the country’s top tourism official scaled back expectations for the rest of the year.
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By Bill Dorman • Jul 18, 2019
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Asia Minute: Thailand Weighs Payment Options for Rail
By Bill Dorman • Apr 29, 2019
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Asia Minute: 45 Years Later, Thailand and Cambodia Linked by Rail
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For the first time in nearly half a century, two neighboring Southeast Asian nations are connected by rail. The leaders of the two countries took a ceremonial ride together yesterday, but further progress in the relationship may be more complicated.
Asia Minute: Thailand’s Election on Sunday the First in 8 Years
By Bill Dorman • Mar 22, 2019
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While U.S. politicians are already lining up for next year’s presidential election, there are a series of elections coming up much sooner in Asia. And they start this weekend in Thailand.
Asia Minute: Region’s Largest Military Exercises Wrapping Up
By Bill Dorman • Feb 21, 2019
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One of the world’s largest multinational military exercises has been underway for more than a week. It hasn’t captured many headlines in the United States, but American forces from across the Asia Pacific are taking part.
Asia Minute: Bangkok Battling Unusual Air Pollution
By Bill Dorman • Feb 8, 2019
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Many in the United States remain focused on the continuing partial government shutdown. But in some parts of the world, attention is shifting to news about elections. And that includes one country that hasn’t had one for nearly a decade.
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Asia Minute: Thailand Considers Medical Marijuana
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Asia Minute: Thailand’s Political Tensions
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The mid-term elections are now less than a week away in the United States, but in Southeast Asia an election scheduled for next year is getting more attention. The location is Thailand — where a number of political developments are taking place, and quickly.
Asia Minute: Record Seizures of Methamphetamine in Asia
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Police in South Korea this week made the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the country’s history. Authorities say it was smuggled in by an international syndicate; it’s the latest reminder that the drug remains a potent threat in the Asia Pacific.
Asia Minute: Thai Takeout Food Goes to Space
By Bill Dorman • Jun 4, 2018
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Food preparation and space travel are two pursuits that have some unexpected links. That’s especially true for a new experiment that Thailand plans to try this summer. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
Asia Minute: Thailand Closing Popular Beach — For Now
Hawaii’s visitor industry reported another strong month in April, although any impact of the Kilauea Volcano won’t show up until the May figures come out next month. While authorities continue to encourage visitors to Hawaii, there’s another location in the Asia Pacific that is taking a different approach. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
Asia Minute: Thailand Protestors Mark Anniversary of Military Rule
By Bill Dorman • May 23, 2018
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Thailand has now been under military rule for four years. Several hundred protestors marked that anniversary yesterday in Bangkok—but the police had an even bigger presence. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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State tourism officials expect 2018 to be another record year for visitors to Hawai‘i. And while there’s a growing global market for travel and hospitality, parts of Southeast Asia are going in another direction: restricting tourism. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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Asia Minute: Thailand’s Growing Beach Ban on Smoking
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It’s been illegal to smoke on the beach in Hawai‘i for some time. It was nearly two and a half years ago that a state-wide ban on smoking at state parks and beaches went into effect. But that’s a new development on some popular beaches elsewhere in the Pacific. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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This is a national day of mourning in Thailand. It is part of a stretch of five days of ceremonies marking the funeral of Thailand’s king—who died a year ago. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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By Bill Dorman • Oct 4, 2017
As you’ve been hearing on NPR today, President Trump traveled to Las Vegas today—a day after going to Puerto Rico. His visits to those two places of recent human tragedy have dominated the news this week. But another presidential event that received very little attention was historic in a different way. HPR’s Bill Dorman explains in today’s Asia Minute.
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While rhetoric from and about North Korea has dominated the news lately, the United States is pursuing other strategies to try to influence the leadership in Pyongyang. That includes efforts to further isolate North Korea—but in some parts of Asia that may be challenging. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
Asia Minute: Rail Financing Gets Okay...In Thailand
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The government has approved a deal to finance a multi-billion dollar rail project. Unfortunately for backers of the Honolulu rail plan, this particular construction is thousands of miles from Hawai‘i. It’s a deal announced this week in Thailand for a project that will eventually go to China. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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This is National Nurses’ Week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are more than three and a half million nurses in the United States, while the Kaiser Family Foundation counts nearly 3,000 nurses working in Hawai‘i. It is challenging work—and in one Asian nation it’s also becoming more complicated. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.
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By Bill Dorman • May 9, 2017
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Daniel Levy, Contributor
Director, Middle East Task Force, New America Foundation
Want That Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal, Mr. President? Perform a C-Section
08/31/2010 06:34 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011
After more than 20 months of trying, the Obama administration will this week convene direct Israel-Palestinian peace talks in Washington D.C. Even if it is well founded (and it is), the administration must be understandably irked by the barrage of skepticism that is greeting this week's peace summit, with reaction mostly ranging from scorn to yawn -- with only a few exceptions.
This time around the parties are perhaps setting a record in starting the blame game even before they start the talks. And this unpromising picture got even more gloomy in the last days and hours with the shooting attack that left four Israeli settlers dead near Hebron and the comments over the weekend by an Israeli religious leader who has more Knesset members to deploy than any other (Shas spiritual guru Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who said of Palestinians that "God should strike them with a plague.")
While the Obama team is approaching these talks with requisite displays of caution, they are nonetheless engaged in an exercise that raises expectations and have now set a one year timeline for concluding peace talks. Don't expect "mission accomplished" banners either tonight during the Iraq address or tomorrow at the Iftar White House peace dinner. But this is an administration that set out its stall on the importance of Israeli-Arab peacemaking from day one and has doggedly pursued that goal ever since. The proximity of these two Middle East-related presidential diary entries -- the Iraq end of combat operations speech and the Middle East peace summit -- might be coincidental, though one hopes that they are not.
It was the Congressionally-mandated Iraq Study Group of wise elders (led by James Baker and Lee Hamilton) which most effectively connected the dots on America's involvement and national security interests in the Middle East. The Baker-Hamilton group's logic was that to re-stabilize the region, to reassert U.S. credibility and leadership, and to gain the cooperation of the neighbors in standing up a functioning Iraq, the U.S. would be need to be effectively and successfully proactive in Arab-Israeli peacemaking. That applies as much if not more today than it did when the report came out in December 2006.
This interconnectedness of regional issues has been made all the more pertinent in recent weeks with the heightened speculation on what the next American -- and just as important Israeli -- moves will be on Iran. The Obama administration is beginning to face the following equation in 2011: allow the hardliners at home to define your presidency as it relates to the Middle East and foreign policy as being a stark binary choice between "appeasement" or military action on Iran; and allow the hardliners in the region to feast on the wreckage of another failed peace effort; or drive the agenda on the President's terms by creating a new Israeli-Arab equilibrium based on comprehensive peace, two states, and the Arab peace initiative, thereby silencing the critics at home and abroad and placing Iran in front of a hard new choice of its own--get on board with the new peace and security dynamic or be out on a limb and lose your diplomatic trump card of American perfidy on Palestine.
So the administration has a keen interest in avoiding the fate of previous peace efforts, and indeed the events of this Wednesday and Thursday will be a demonstration of an ever deeper investment in achieving a peace breakthrough.
Why then all the doom and gloom?
Much of the pessimism surrounding this week's peace summitry derives from the rather stunning lack of originality in the approach being pursued by President Obama and his team. As currently structured, this peace process really does resemble the movie that we've seen before -- the one with the unhappy ending. It emphasizes the direct, bilateral negotiations with America as a facilitator and a cast of support characters that has a decidedly retro feel (the Jordanians and Egyptians). Special Envoy Sen. Mitchell's ongoing references to 700 days of failure in Northern Ireland are fast approaching their own expiration date--he has been at this task for close to 600 days already.
There is no approach to speak of thus far that bears a distinctive Obama imprimatur. There are not any terms of reference for the talks that will begin on Thursday. More specifically, the U.S. seems to be if not ignoring than at least currently wishing away the core and harsh Palestinian-Israeli realities that are most likely to undermine this effort.
On the Palestinian side this refers to just how narrow is the base of political legitimacy of the Palestinian interlocutor and how enfeebled is its political and implementing capacity. Leaving aside Hamas for a moment, much of Fatah, the other smaller factions that make up the PLO, and virtually all of organized and mobilized Palestinian civil society and diaspora groups have now placed themselves in opposition to this week's process and to the negotiations and negotiators.
A meeting of non-Hamas and broadly respected political and civil leaders was convened in Ramallah last Wednesday, but then disrupted and broken up by PA security personnel just before its opening. The Palestinian leadership is not even attempting to defend its presence at the talks in substantive terms. Rather, they are focusing on shifting the blame for their very presence in Washington to the Arab states who green-lighted their attendance and failed to support a further holdout, the donor states who they claim were threatening to bankrupt the PA, and of course the U.S. for insisting they attend -- or face having a dead cat placed at their door.
As for Hamas, they can largely relax, watch the PA leadership squirm, and clip the political coupons. No incentive has been created for Hamas to okay this new peace process; in fact quite the opposite. Their spoiler role is being encouraged. While the Northern Ireland analogy of an eventual IRA/Sinn Fein acceptance of ceasefire and democratic rules of the game is true, they were certainly never asked to recognize the legitimacy of Northern Ireland's union with the British mainland as a precondition for entering talks. Had that been the case, Senator Mitchell would have passed his 7,000th day of trying in Ireland. Yet that is essentially the pre-conditional ask being made of Hamas.
On the Israeli side it would be delightful if the Israeli leadership and body politic were chomping at the bit to end the occupation, take on the hard line settlers, and make way for an independent, viable Palestinian state based on '67 lines, including in Jerusalem. Imagine if the only thing holding that up were a Palestinian side ready to acknowledge Israel's right to exist (the PLO did that in 1993), competent Palestinian security forces (senior IDF officials have been praising the PA on that score) and transparent management of Palestinian pre-state institutions (Fayyad is getting high marks on that front, too).
It appears that the talks are predicated on just such a premise. It is though a wholly fantastical one. Israel is a deeply reluctant de-occupier--unless this reality is hard wired into any peace effort, it will fall woefully short. Israel has spent 43 years entrenching an occupation, Israel has controlled the territories for over two-thirds of its existence as a state, over 500,000 Israelis live beyond the Green Line, Israel has invested billions in infrastructure to serve that settler community, and Israeli companies benefit from this status quo. The settlers and their supporters constitute a formidable political foe in Israel. Left to their own devices, Israeli leaders (whether deep down they are pro- or anti-occupation) will prefer to avoid the moment of truth and of confrontation with the settler behemoth.
The talks may even collapse before they have barely begun over the settlement issue -- with the limited moratorium that has been in place since last November due to expire on September 26th. As the Prime Minister arrives in Washington, settler NGOs are launching a campaign to resume full and extensive settlement construction with robo-calls and adverts quoting the PM and other Likud leaders, speaking in favor of renewed of settlement growth. The leader of the settler movement, Dani Dayan, is due in the U.S. to drum up support for this project. The existing moratorium, which is threatening to end, is itself a compromise of a compromise with carve-out exemptions for East Jerusalem and for 3,000 units in the West Bank already under construction, guaranteeing that settlement expansion so far this year has kept apace with, or even outstripped, the average of previous years.
Settlement growth not only complicates realities on the ground but also crushes Palestinian belief in the process and the legitimacy of those Palestinians engaged in peace talks. A situation where settlements grow in parallel to peace negotiations is the continuation of an Israeli approach along the lines of: "what I consider mine you have already conceded is mine" (Israel inside of the Green Line), "part of what you consider yours is mine" (the settlement blocs), and "the rest of what you consider yours -- let's talk about it". While another fudge on the settlement issue allowing further Israeli exemptions (even if the settlers howl that this is not enough and stage visually dramatic showdowns with the government to protest) is perhaps likely and could be foisted on the Palestinians, this hardly helps matters.
Given the current Palestinian leadership's dependence on America and Israel, and their lack of an alternative political strategy to this dependence, another twist could always be applied to the Palestinian arm -- at some stage though we are likely to be carrying that arm severed from the body of the Palestinian public (if we are not there already).
Finally, this week's peace summit will not even have the warring parties in the room. While on the Israeli side it is true that the settlers and greater Israel maximalists are represented in the government, the same cannot be said of the Palestinian or Arab participants. The Fatah and other PLO-faction skeptics, let alone Hamas, have no voice -- direct or indirect -- and even the PLO leadership in attendance is there under duress. The Syrians, Lebanese and outer ring of Arab actors such as Saudi Arabia are absent. The Egyptian and Jordanian leaders represent countries already at peace with Israel, and the possible attendance of the Egyptian President's son Gamal Mubarak -- at a time when succession is so high on the Egyptian agenda -- may provide a hint as to what their not-so-concealed agenda really is. It seems almost petty to point out that peace is made with one's enemies, not with one's friends or dependents.
So Why Pay Attention to This? Why Maintain Hope?
The main reason anyone is showing up is that the American president is the one doing the hosting and the inviting. And the main reason for hope rests with the potential that President Obama, having taken ownership of this issue, will pursue decisive leadership down the line. As a candidate, Barack Obama flirted with a definition of pro-Israel that was more sophisticated and more relevant to contemporary realities than the standard fare served up by pandering politicians (at a campaign stop with Jewish leadership in Cleveland, Ohio, he suggested that pro-Israel need not only be defined as pro-Likud. In insisting that a two-state solution and comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace is in the U.S. interest, President Obama is advancing a narrative that was adopted rather late in the day by his predecessor and that is very much the consensus of the U.S. military (as General Petraeus pointed out earlier this year while still heading CENTCOM, a message that resonates very widely in Pentagon circles).
Resolving the conflict, hard as that might seem, is the best available option for the U.S. The alternatives essentially boil down to continuing to manage the consequences of the ongoing conflict and Palestinian grievance for which America is in large measure blamed and which emboldens America's adversaries, emaciates is allies, and sucks the oxygen of America's credibility in the region -- or America distancing itself from Israel's occupation, an act that would fundamentally rupture the Israeli-U.S. relationship and would present a far more politically foreboding challenge than an act of cajoling Israel toward de-occupation.
The seemingly plodding progress made by the Obama administration thus far can be more generously interpreted as the U.S. methodically walking the parties to a place where decisive U.S. intervention and presentation of U.S. proposals becomes more possible, more justifiable, and more likely to succeed. According to that view, this week represents another and particularly important step in that direction. American officials have openly acknowledged that bridging proposals might be forthcoming and are showing a greater commitment to being present in the room at negotiations than has been the case in past efforts.
Finally in the hopeful column, by convening this peace summit and setting this particular one year timetable, the President is voluntarily and consciously raising the bar of expectations. Deadlines have come and gone before, often unnoticed -- and so might this one. But there is a pointed difference between convening a "this is it" peace summit in the twilight of one's presidency (as President Clinton did at Camp David in July of 2000) or proclaiming one year to make peace (as President Bush did at Annapolis in November 2007 as he entered his 8th year in office), and doing so according to a political calendar whereby your timetable expires just as your re-election campaign is kicking into high gear (as President Obama has just done). No, this will not be the defining issue of the 2012 election. Yes, Obama has chosen to add pressure to himself by aligning the peace timetable with the political timetable in this way.
The other key variable in this is the Israeli side. Israel appears to be entering a period of increasing domestic political turmoil. There is an undoubted rise in extremism and erosion of Israel's democratic credentials. Alongside that, Israelis are cognizant of a growing global trend towards taking punitive measures in response to Israeli actions that violate international law and norms of behavior (a grassroots sanctions movement that includes cancellations of music concerts in Israel, divestment from Israeli companies, and boycotts of Israeli goods connected with the occupation). Israeli cultural icons have just taken a stand with a broadly signed petition of refusal to appear at, or cooperate with, a soon to be opened theatre in the settlement of Ariel (including Israel's most iconic writers Amoz Oz, David Grossman, and A.B. Yehoshua). While the debate is not new, its current incarnation has a blunt and bold edge that distinguishes it and is in tune with the zeitgeist of Israeli democracy approaching a point of no return. The popular Israeli playwright Anat Gov wrote this in today's Yedioth Ahronoth:
The democratic laws that apply inside the State of Israel do not apply anywhere beyond the Green Line. That is an area that is governed by the army, and the laws of apartheid apply there in practice. There are roads that are for Jews' use only, roadblocks and a regular regimen of curfew. To come and perform in Ariel is to grant one's tacit approval to this abnormal situation, which leaves Israel as the last country in the Western world that keeps another people under occupation.
The question being asked against this backdrop is where to pigeonhole Prime Minister Netanyahu. Is he a Likud Prime Minister of Yitzhak Shamir vintage, or is he maturing in the Menachem Begin mold? Shamir when PM in 1991attended the Madrid peace conference but later admitted that he intended to schlep the negotiations out at least a decade and concede nothing (that decade of course expired almost a decade ago, the unfolding of events exceeded his expectations!). Menachem Begin withdrew from every inch of the occupied Egyptian Sinai, removed every settler, and made an historic peace (although he did not budge on the Palestinian question and massively ramped up the settlement enterprise). Netanyhau has welcomed the peace talks, has reminded Likud activists of the Begin legacy, is keeping his negotiating team small and composed of his confidantes (suggesting seriousness and a leak-aversion), and is also a man with a track record of being easily pressured. As a Prime Minister during both terms, Netanyahu has eschewed what he would probably call both military adventurism (no wars--not Lebanon, not the Territories, minimum security deterioration) and peace adventurism (very limited agreements on Hebron and at Wye River in his first term). By entering these talks he is in somewhat new territory, both upping the ante and creating expectations.
On balance, however, Netanyahu's actions and statements do not suggest a man standing at the precipice of a bold move to peace and de-occupation. Netanyahu formed an extreme right-wing coalition out of choice not necessity, insisted on those settlement expansion exemption clauses, has refused to enter negotiations with the Palestinians or Syrians on the basis of previously achieved advances, and is insisting on security arrangements, timelines, and unreciprocated and unilateral Palestinian acknowledgement of Israeli claims.
The tantalizing thing that Obama will have to deliver here is an Israeli political yes. A solution cannot be imposed on Israel, clear choices can though be presented. If there is an Israeli yes to real de-occupation gestating somewhere in the Israeli public and body politic, then it is not going to emerge on its own, that much is clear today. If the Israeli yes is there, it is going to take a c-section to bring it out into the world, and the only available surgeon is President Barack Obama.
The U.S. will have to be smart in the content of the plan it is proposing, both sides have rights and need to emerge with dignity, de-occupation will have to be real, and Israel's legitimate security concerns will have to be met--but not more than that. The context in which the plan is proposed is no less important than its content. The administration will need to remove the mist from its eyes on Palestinian political realities and address those shortcomings. The Palestinians can be allowed or even encouraged to rebuild a unified, inclusive, and capacitated national movement. At the same time, the very real asymmetries between representatives of an occupying power and representatives of an occupied people should be built in to the structure of peacemaking--substituting for unreasonable or unreachable demands on Palestinian capacity where this is needed to advance a two-state outcome. And all of this would be helped not hindered by taking a broader, comprehensive approach to peacemaking and advancing a plan that incorporates Israeli-Syrian, Israeli-Lebanese, and overall Israeli-Arab peace.
To deliver that Israeli yes, the right question will need to be asked--one rooted in guaranteeing Israel's future, that does not avoid real clarity, real de-occupation and hard choices, one that is well-marketed, and that crucially re-calibrates the incentives and disincentives for Israel of the status quo versus the peace option. When President Obama is ready with that plan and with that message, he should get on a plane and take it directly to the Israeli people. This week might just prove to be a milestone in that journey.
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NIGERIA DIGEST 06 July 2019 (Volume 3 Issue 21)
Below please find the last week’s update on the Free Zakzaky campaign. New medical findings raised concerns about the further deteriorating life threatening medical condition of Sheikh Zakzaky and triggered massive protests across the Nigeria.
Click here to watch the weekly message from IHRC chair Massoud Shadjerah about our fundraising and campaigning for those injured by police and army violence and the families of those killed. Please CLICK here for more information to support the victims of police and army brutality in Nigeria and do share the fundraising video provided. They are in urgent need of our support please DONATE here and encourage others to do the same.
We request campaigners to demand the Nigerian authorities release Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife for urgent medical treatment abroad. Please forward any responses you receive to us on wajahat@ihrc.org and keep the pressure up by continuing to send follow-ups. Two model letters are provided below in the Action Alert.
To find out more about the Zaria massacre of 2015, read IHRC’s submission to the International Criminal Court here
To find out how you can help further, please visit the IHRC FreeZakzaky campaign page here
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ACTION ALERT:
1. Click here to learn the five things you can do to support the victims of violence in Nigeria. You can donate to support the medical expenses of those recently injured by Clicking here
2. Campaigners are asked to demand the Nigerian authorities release Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife for urgent medical treatment abroad. Two model letters, one for individual campaigners and one for the organisations are provided below. Please forward any responses you receive to IHRC at wajahat@ihrc.org.
UK based campaigners please Click here to send an email to Mr Olukunle A. Bamgbose, acting Nigerian High Commissioner in London UK.
Please share following action alert link with your contacts to encourage more people demand freedom for Sheikh Zakzaky: https://www.ihrc.org.uk/activities/22927-urgent-alert-nigeria-demand-urgent-medical-treatment-for-life-threatening-medical-condition-of-sheikh-zakzaky/
ACTION ALERT FOR INDIVIDUAL CAMPAIGNERS: Demand urgent medical treatment for Sheikh Zakzaky
Model letter for Individual campaigners
Please adapt the model below depending on who you are sending it to. The contact details you need are presented below the model. Please forward any response you receive to IHRC on wajahat@ihrc.org.
If you are emailing, please use the following in the subject line:
URGENT MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR SHEIKH ZAKZAKY
[Your address]
[Insert name / address of
Person you are sending this to]
Dear [insert name],
I write to demand that Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Mallima Zeenah are allowed to leave the country for urgent medical treatment.
In the last few days, Sheikh Zakzaky’s health has further deteriorated. Last month doctors examining the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria have renewed pleas for him to be released in order to access medical treatment after finding high levels of lead toxicity in his body. The continued detention of both of these figures as well as hundreds of others has been a huge stain on the reputation of your government and Nigeria. By not allowing Sheikh Zakzaky and Mallima Zeenah, whose health continues to severely deteriorate as a result of injuries inflicted by your authorities, the medical treatment he needs, you are adding further evidence of your government’s inhumanity and cruelty.
I look forward to your confirmation of their release for treatment by return.
[Your signature if posting]
ACTION ALERT FOR ORGANISATIONS: Demand immediate release and offer to host Sheikh Zakzaky in your country for medical treatment.
Campaigning Organisations are requested to demand meeting with local Nigerian Embassy and offer to host Sheikh Zakzaky for urgent medical treatment in your country, using the model letter below.
Model letter for Organisations
Please adapt the model below and forward any response you receive to IHRC on wajahat@ihrc.org.
Click on following link to find the name, address and contact details of the relevant diplomat in your country: https://www.embassypages.com/nigeria
MEETING TO DISCUSS URGENT MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR SHEIKH ZAKZAKY
His Excellency [Insert Name]
Embassy Address
Your Excellency,
We are writing to you to raise our concerns about the life threatening medical condition and continued detention of Mu’allim Ibrahim Zakzaky. In the last few days, Sheikh Zakzaky’s health has further deteriorated. Last month doctors examining the beleaguered leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria have renewed pleas for him to be released in order to access medical treatment after finding high levels of lead toxicity in his body.
I am sure you are aware that Shaykh Zakzaky’s house was demolished and he was injured and arrested by the Nigerian military on 14 December 2015, and has been held since without any charges or a trial. Shaykh Zakzaky, whose health has rapidly deteriorated, is in need of special medical attention. Since his arrest, Shaykh Zakzaky has lost his sight in one eye and the use of one arm. Shaykh Zakzaky also suffered a stroke earlier this year which has further aggravated his dire condition.
The courts ordered Shaykh Zakzaky’s release and he should have been free since 15 January 2017, unfortunately the security services have continued to detain him contrary to court order.
Shaykh Zakzaky’s condition requires specialist medical attention and will need to go abroad to get the necessary treatment. We Name organization is happy to host Shaykh Zakzaky and his wife in Name Country and we will cover all the costs involved, including his travel, accommodation, medical expenses as well as any other expenses that may arise from the trip.
This matter has now dragged on for two years and has become a major blemish on Nigeria’s good name in the international arena. We urge you to use all your powers and influence to help bring about a swift and peaceful resolution.
We would like to request a meeting to discuss this matter further. Please provide a date and time you will be available to discuss how this matter can be resolved.
Nigerian Ambassador / High Commissioner in your country
Please find the name, address and contact details of the relevant diplomat in your country here:
https://www.embassypages.com/nigeria
IHRC Press Release: New medical findings prompt plea for urgent evacuation of Sheikh Zakzaky
Further examinations on the health of the illegally detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria have found that the levels of lead toxicity in his body are much higher than the already critical levels reported last week.
Doctors now say that lead levels in Sheikh Zakzaky’s blood are 25% higher than originally discovered and some 45 times over the normal acceptable limit.
Doctors also found worrying levels of cadmium in urine samples taken from Sheikh Zakzaky. Cadmium toxicity affects multiple organs particularly the lungs and the gastrointestinal tract (acute toxicity) and the bones and kidneys.
The latest findings are by specialists asked to look in more detail at the results of examinations undertaken by a IHRC-led medical team that flew to Nigeria in April in order to examine Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah, who is also in detention.
Free Zakzaky Protest at FCDA Mosque, Abuja
Daily free Zakzaky protest was staged on Friday the 5th of July 2019 at FCDA Mosque. Thousands called for the freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky who has been detention for over 3 years despite a court verdict to be released.
The protesters chanted various slogans condemning the unlawful detention of the revered Sheikh whose health condition gets worse daily.
Free Zakzaky Takes Case To National Assembly Yet Again
Not for the first time, the momentous Free Zakzaky Campaign Train today Thursday called at the gates of the National Assembly forcing a delegation to address the thousands that were part of the peaceful protest. They were received by a delegation of the national Assembly led by Alhassan Ado Doguwa representing Doguwa / Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State.
Ado Doguwa and other members listened to the grievances of the Islamic Movement and were even reportedly said to have shed tears on hearing about the plight of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife. Thereafter, he addressed the members of the Movement, pledging that the national Assembly would this time around do something urgent to see that Sheikh Zakzaky is accorded his rights to health.
Remembrance Day for Martyrs Marked in Kano
The falling martyrs of Kano zone of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria leads by Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky(H) were remembered today Friday the 5th of July, 2019, in the city of Kano.
It is an annual program which is organised to remember those martyred in the struggle since the inception of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, under the spiritual leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky(H).
URGENT ALERT: NIGERIA
Demand urgent medical treatment for life threatening medical condition of Sheikh Zakzaky
Islamic Human Rights Commission has received reports that Sheikh Zakzaky’s health has further deteriorated and given the current life threatening medical conditions of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife, we request campaigners to make dua and demand Nigerian authorities immediately release Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife for medical treatment abroad.
In the last few days Sheikh’s health has further deteriorated. The lead levels in Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky are described as so dangerously high as to render immediate treatment a medical emergency.
Click here for further details
Free Zakzaky Protest in Abuja on 4th July
Thousands protest continued detention of Sheikh Zakzaky in Abuja on Thursday the 4th of July 2019. The commitment to move forward no matter what can be seen in the thousands of people who daily fill the streets of Abuja calling on authority to release the Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Zakzaky who is suffering from various forms of illness due to massive deposit of lead in his body from gunshot wounds.
Free Zakzaky protest in Kaduna on 4th of July
Another fresh free Sheikh Zakzaky protest was staged in Kaduna on Thursday the 4th of July 2019. People carrying some banners took to the major street in Kaduna, the popular Ahmadu Bello Way, calling for the freedom of Sheikh Zakzaky.
An Impressive Free Zakzaky Procession In The Heart Of Abuja
A very impressive Free Zakzaky procession was yet again held today Wednesday July 3rd 2019, in the major streets of the heart of Abuja, the nations capital.
This is one of the series of incessant street actions calling for the immediate release of the ailing leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife. The Sheikh was recently found to have been poisoned while still in the detention of the Department of State Security (DSS). This has spurred a renewed call for his immediate release to enable him attend to his health condition.
Massive Protest in Abuja calling on Buhari to free Sheikh Zakzaky
Free Zakzaky Massive Protest was staged in Abuja on Tuesday the 2nd of July 2019 by thousands of people calling for the immediate release of Sheikh Zakzaky in order to access medical treatment after finding high levels of lead toxicity in his body.
A Medical Team lead by Islamic Human Right Commission ( IHRC) were in Nigeria in April in order to examine Sheikh Zakzaky and has already issued two reports saying that the specialist treatment he requires can only be fully accessed outside Nigeria. Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky lost sight in one eye and the use of one arm after receiving four gunshot injuries during the December 2015 massacre by the Nigerian military of over 1000 followers of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria. The toxicity is a direct result of the shrapnel from bullets left in his body.
Massive Free Zakzaky Protest in Abuja on 1st July
A monumental free Sheikh Zakzaky protest was staged in Abuja today Monday the 1st of July 2019. Thousands called on the Nigerian Government under Buhari to free Sheikh Zakzaky his wife and hundred others from unlawful detention for over three years as the health condition of the Sheikh deteriorates.
Appeal to Help Recent Nigeria Massacre Victims
Published on 01 November 2018 – IHRC Weekly
The Nigerian authorities have attacked the Islamic Movement of Nigeria leaving dozens dead. They need your help now.
The Zaria Massacre
On al-Quds Day in July 2014, a unit of the Nigerian army opened fire on one of the 33 al-Quds Day demonstrations in Zaria, Nigeria. 40 were killed and many injured. This is the story of that day as uncovered by an IHRC team.
Click here to read the Arzu Merali’s blog on Sheikh Zakzaky “Zakzaky is not Thomas Becket; Buhari be warned” published on 22 February 2019.
Click here to read the IHRC Press Release published on 02 July 1998 “Nigerian junta should release all political prisoners regardless of their faith”
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Producer(s) Statistics South Africa - Republic of South Africa
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Labour Force Survey 2004
The South African March 2004 LFS dataset was originally released in September 2004 as 3 data files (household, person and worker). A second version was downloaded from the Statistics South Africa website in August 2011 by DataFirst. This version differed slightly from the originally obtained release. Most notably, weights were recast to reflect population estimates released in February 2005. This version was also benchmarked to the 2001 South African census (whereas previously, it had been benchmarked to the 1996 South African census). As a result, the weight variables in each data file differ between versions 1.0 and 2.0.
The statistical release of this study presents a selection of key findings and tables from Stats SA’s ninth labour force survey (LFS), conducted in March 2004. The LFS examines various aspects of the labour market including the pattern of employment in both the formal and informal sectors of the economy, and the extent of unemployment. The survey gathered detailed information on approximately 68 000 adults of working age (15–65 years) living in 30 000 dwelling units across the country. This release also compares the employment and unemployment situation in March 2004 with data from the previous LFS of September 2003.
ZAF_2004_LFS_MAR_v01_M_ILO
The LFS is a twice-yearly rotating panel household survey, specifically designed to measure the dynamics of employment and unemployment in South Africa. It measures a variety of issues related to the labour market,including unemployment rates (official and expanded), according to standard definitions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). All editions of the LFS have been updated (some more than once) since their release. These version changes are detailed in a document available from DataFirst (in the "external documents" section titled "LFS 2000-2008 Collated Version Notes on the South African LFS").The first pilot round of LFS fieldwork took place in February 2000, based on a probability sample of 10 000 dwelling units. The sample was increased to 30 000 dwelling units in September 2000. The results of both these surveys, benchmarked to Census 1996, were published as discussion documents. The third round of the LFS took place in February 2001, using the same 30 000 dwelling units as in the second round. The results of this third round were again benchmarked to Census 1996 but published as official statistics. Since then all rounds have been published as official statistics.
For the fourth round, conducted in September 2001, a new sample of 30 000 dwelling units was visited, because of complaints about response fatigue following the LFS and the Income and expenditure survey undertaken at the same time in the same household. The benchmark used for both surveys was also Census ’96. Rotation of 20% of the new sample was implemented during the fifth round in February 2002. Of the 30 000 dwelling units visited during the fourth LFS, 80% were visited again. The remaining 20% comprised new dwelling units. The same rotation procedure has been implemented for all subsequent rounds. In this statistical release, key findings of the ninth round is presented, and in some instances, comparison is made with the results from the eighth round.
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- Households (dwellings) and
- Individuals
The scope of this study includes:
Household characteristics, household listing, demographics, education, economic activity, work for pay, business ownership, unemployment, employers, main work activity in the past week, wages, salary, employment, migration.
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Province (variable name: "Prov") - note that this variable is conspicuously absent from the Household data file, but is present in the Person and Worker data files.
Every person who has stayed in the households in selected dwelling units at least four nights a week in the four weeks prior the interview. The LFS sample covers the non-institutional population except for workers' hostels. However, persons living in private dwelling units within institutions are also enumerated. For example, within a school compound, one would enumerate the schoolmaster's house and teachers' accommodation because these are private dwellings. Students living in a dormitory on the school compound would, however, be excluded. The target population is all households and residents in workers' hostels. The survey does not cover institutions such as old age homes, hospitals, prisons and military barracks.
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Participants in the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub media sensitization activity held on 15 November 2019 at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu).
In the lead up to the World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2019 (#WAAW2019), which is celebrated every year in November, the CGIAR AMR Hub at the International Livestock research Institute (ILRI) jointly with Kenya’s ministries of Health and Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation hosted, at the ILRI campus in Nairobi, a media sensitization on raising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) awareness.
Twenty-five journalists from a cross section of Kenya’s media houses and magazine publishers attended the event and were joined by key speakers and observers from the Ministry of Health, the Directorate of Veterinary Services, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the University of Nairobi (UONBI).
Antibiotics are an essential part of treating human beings and animals; from the child who needs antibiotics to treat an infection from a graze in the knee, the elderly person who need antibiotics after a knee replacement surgery, to the sick cow in a farm that needs treatment. As Rudi Eggers, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Kenya says, ‘antibiotics are an essential part of our health and we cannot do without them.’
But AMR, which results from the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in both human and animal medicine, has led to a growing number of bacteria in humans, animals and the environment, that are resistant to antibiotics. AMR is now a serious threat to human and animal health.
The ILRI-hosted media sensitization sought to relay accurate research-based information on the challenge posed by AMR to humans, animals and environments both in Kenya and globally and what is being done to tackle the problem. The media practitioners were targeted because of their role as intermediaries of information between AMR researchers and the public. The half-day interactive session shared updates on Kenya’s progress in researching and tackling AMR and gave journalists the opportunity to ask key questions to a panel of experts to better understand the realities of AMR and how to communicate them to the public.
Held on 15 November, the event was a curtain-raiser to the official launch of #WAAW2019 regional AMR awareness activities in Kenya. This year, Kenya hosted Africa’s first World Antibiotic Awareness Week on 18–24 November in a campaign supported by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WHO.
‘This session was extremely helpful,’ said Nanjinia Wamuswa, a correspondent at the Standard Group PLC. ‘It has given me an upper hand on the knowledge of AMR, and I walked away with a lot of information about AMR from hearing it directly from the various stakeholders. I now realize that AMR is not just a Kenyan problem but rather a global issue and not addressing it can actually derail national efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including ending poverty, hunger and ensuring good health and well-being,’ he added.
He said the session brought together journalists and scientists working in AMR and representatives of government health and agriculture agencies who shared accurate information about the problem. ‘I am now keen to visit farmer(s) to see how they manage livestock and crops and from the conversation – armed with knowledge of AMR – I can now relate to the problem. I will also gauge farmers’ awareness on AMR, on the use of antibiotics and also get field doctors to share their experiences on AMR so that I can better disseminate the messages about the need to prevent and tackle AMR.’
Gilbert Nkweya, a science and technology journalist at SciDev.net said the even provided a snapshot of what was being carried in the fight against AMR. ‘It was a really good chance to meet experts working on AMR and we got a chance to interview scientists from various institutions and government officials. It clarified confusion in reporting which is very important.’
Milliam Murigi, a mother and writer for People Daily, was grateful for such an informative discussion with scientists, clinical doctors and government officials. ‘I take antibiotics all the time at the slightest sign of a flu. I even carry them in my handbag. I did not realize that antibiotics cannot treat viral infections. I will no longer take antibiotics for the sake of it,’ she said. She further added that she will be cautious and mindful of what is prescribed to her daughter.
Several journalists who attended this event are parents who were surprised at how often they have been giving their children over-the-counter antibiotics, which are sadly often readily sold in many pharmacies without a prescription. While most said they would change the way they use antibiotics, the journalists also called for stricter limitations on the availability of over-the-counter antibiotics, an issue that the Ministry of Health is already looking into. The FAO’s Africa regional representative Scott Newman, rightfully pointed out the need ‘to improve our control of regulations, management and access to these antibiotics.’
Read more about #WAAW2019 celebration in Kenya:
Antibiotic resistance: Africa Needs to increase investments by Sharon Atieno from Science Africa who attended the media sensitization activity
Kenya at the centre of Africa’s Antibiotic resistance fight, by Kimani Chege for the Exchange who attended the media sensitization activity
It will take joint efforts to beat antibiotic resistance by Lucy Mwangi at the Daily Nation
Ways to avoid unnecessary antibiotics by the People Daily
Over the counter drugs fuel deadly antibiotics resistance by Lilian Kaivilu at People Daily
For others, natural, herb-based antibiotics are preferred solutions by Grace Wachira at People’s Daily who interviewed a doctor working on alternative medicinal options to antibiotics
Concerns over increasing cases of antibiotic resistance, by Kenya Broadcasting Corporation who attended a media breakfast and had the opportunity to interview stakeholders such as Yewande Alimi, the AMR coordinator for Africa Centre for Disease Control.
Watch AMR video released during #WAAW2019
Bacteriophage-based alternatives to antibiotic to tackle Salmonella in poultry farms in Kenya, featuring ILRI scientists, Nicholas Svitek and Nicoline de Haan by IDRC|CRDI
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) educational video created primarily for an East African audience, funded by UK BBSRC/GCRF Public engagement grant supported by CGIAR Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Program.
More vaccination, not antibiotics, needed for Kenyan livestock—Straight talk by Sidai Chair Christie Peacock
Christie Peacock, founder and chair of Sidai Kenya Ltd. (photo credit: Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship). This interview was conducted and written up by ILRI communications staff Paul Karaimu and Susan MacMillan. The following interview of Christie Peacock was conducted at the February...
ILRI research on antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in smallholder livestock system in Vietnam
A message from Vietnam on One Health Day 2019
Typology of interventions to reduce use of antimicrobials in aquaculture systems in low- and middle- income countries
Health and antibiotics in Vietnamese pig production
Vietnam’s economy and population are growing rapidly. Production and consumption of animal products are increasing even faster. To manage pig diseases and increase meat production, farmers are turning to antibiotics and other antimicrobials, creating a hotbed for resistance to antibiotic drugs...
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Salem girls golfers eyeing D1 finals
Rocks — and Plymouth — have chance to qualify at Oct. 8 regional, slated for Fox Hills
Salem girls golfers eyeing D1 finals Rocks — and Plymouth — have chance to qualify at Oct. 8 regional, slated for Fox Hills Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/09/29/salem-girls-golfers-eye-spot-finals/73015816/
Tim Smith, Hometownlife.com Published 1:47 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2015 | Updated 1:57 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2015
Darby Scott
There's no denying that the Plymouth Wildcats are among the favorites to grab a spot in the Division 1 varsity girls golf state finals when all is said and done at the Oct. 8 regional.
But don't count out the Salem Rocks, firmly in the hunt to be one of three teams qualifying next Thursday at their home course — Fox Hills.
"Oh yeah, we're definitely in the mix," Salem head coach Ryan Nimmerguth said. "I told the girls this is a great opportunity for them, there's not many times you get the regional on your home course and you got an opportunity to qualify for states.
"We're going to have to play well and shoot one of our better scores of the year. But we are definitely among a handful teams that are in the mix to qualify for states."
Nimmerguth's team is sparked by junior Darby Scott (averaging 39 per nine and 76 per 18 holes) and seniors Hope Warkoczeski and Kiley Flynn.
"Darby's been very consistent all year," Nimmerguth said. "She's been our lead player throughout the year and she's done a good job of handling that."
Salem's 2-3 golfers have been almost as consistent as Scott.
"Their averages are very similar, right in the low 80s, around 40 for nine holes," he noted. "A great second and third player to have. They can shoot some low scores out here, hopefully both of them are on that day."
Nimmerguth added that Scott, Warkoczeski and Flynn have been "leading the way all year for us, and they've had a lot of pressure on them to shoot some good scores and they've come through."
Must play well
That regionals will be at Fox Hills could be a plus, but he stressed that it is not a "guarantee" of a spot in the state finals.
"It is a benefit for it to be on your home course, I think it just gives you a level of (comfort), you've played the holes before and you kind of know them a little bit," Nimmerguth explained. "But the bottom line is you still have to execute the day of, on that day.
"There's some pressure to do that. ... Just because we know the course doesn't guarantee we're going to be good that day."
If Salem does not qualify as a team, Scott, Warkoczeski and Flynn have a chance to make the cut as individuals.
The top three individuals not on one of the state-qualifying squads will earn tickets to the finals, slated for The Meadows at Grand Valley State University.
Also at regionals will be Canton, but the Chiefs are in a rebuilding season, head coach Tom Alles said.
Canton's top golfer so far this season has been freshman Nicole Dawson, who Alles estimated is averaging 47 per nine holes.
Before regionals roll around, however, is this week's KLAA tournament at Pontiac Country Club.
Salem is 0-5 in the KLAA Central Division, but Nimmerguth said the record might be misleading.
"We played very well in our division dual matches," Nimmerguth noted. "Unfortunately, our opponents played a little bit better. So we were 0-5 in the division and then we played six crossovers and continued to play well, we won five out of six.
"So we've been pretty consistent all year with our nine-hole scores."
Entering the KLAA tourney, he said the Rocks are "right in the middle of the pack in our conference. we're playing well and I think we can shoot a good score there."
Hope Warkoczeski
tsmith@hometownlife.com
Twitter: @TimSmith_Sports
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BTN and Comcast announce agreement
June 19, 2008 Chris Korman Just sayin' 17 comments
It’s official. Here’s a press release.
COMCAST, BIG TEN NETWORK REACH BROAD MULTIMEDIA AGREEMENT
FOR BIG TEN NETWORK CONTENT
Comcast customers to receive Big Ten Network HD, Big Ten Network high-speed
Internet content through Comcast.net, and condensed game replays and other
programs through Comcast On Demand
Philadelphia and Chicago — June 19, 2008 – Comcast Corporation and the Big Ten
Network announced today that they have reached a long-term multimedia agreement for
Comcast to carry Big Ten Network programming across television, broadband and
video-on-demand in time for the 2008 college football season.
Under the terms of the agreement, Comcast will initially launch the network as part of its
expanded basic level of service to promote it to the majority of its customers residing in
states with Big Ten universities (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin,
and Pennsylvania, with the exception of the Philadelphia region which will launch on a
broadly distributed digital level of service) starting August 15th. (Comcast does not have
systems in Iowa, the eighth Big Ten state.) In Spring 2009, Comcast may elect to move
the network to a broadly distributed digital level of service in most of its systems in these
states. Comcast’s digital customers in the Big Ten states will also have immediate access
to live Big Ten games and events in high definition, Big Ten programming via Comcast’s
video-on-demand platform, and a wide array of conference-related content through
Comcast.net.
Outside of the Big Ten states that Comcast serves, Comcast has the option to provide
Big Ten Network programming on any level of service, including its Sports Entertainment
Officials from Comcast and Big Ten Network said they look forward to utilizing both
traditional and emerging media to bring more Big Ten programming to fans than was
ever available to them before.
“We are very pleased with the agreement we have reached with the Big Ten Network to
carry hundreds of live Big Ten events,†said Madison Bond, Executive Vice President,
Content Acquisition, Comcast Cable. “We will be providing our customers with Big Ten
programming through our signature video-on-demand service, and will have lots of
highlights, replays, scores and more through Comcast.net so fans can keep pace with
Big Ten action whenever they want to.â€
Big Ten Network President Mark Silverman said the network is thrilled to have Comcast
as a distribution partner. “This agreement allows us to reach many more Big Ten fans
with our programming because of the high concentration of Comcast subscribers in Big
Ten states. With the Comcast deal now in place, the Big Ten Network will be available to
more than two-thirds of all homes in Big Ten Country.â€
Big Ten Network already produces more high-definition television content than any new
sports network in television history. Over the next year, more than 400 live Big Ten
sporting events will be carried by the Big Ten Network in high definition, including
football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball and soccer, as well as other
NCAA-sponsored sports.
Comcast’s digital customers who receive the network will have On Demand access to
programming such as weekly extended highlights and condensed game replays from
around the conference, classic Big Ten sporting events, bowl game coverage and
coaches’ shows, plus original campus programming and nightly studio shows from Big
Ten Network, most of which is available in high definition.
Comcast also has the ability to deliver much of that same content to its Comcast High
Speed Internet customers via the company’s Comcast.net portal. Additionally, Comcast
has the rights to carry certain network content on Fancast.com.
About Comcast Corporation: Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the
nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products
and services. With 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet
customers, and 5.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the
development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the
delivery of programming content.
Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style
Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast
SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates
Comcast’s Internet business. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-
Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the
Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in
About the Big Ten Network
The Big Ten Network is dedicated to covering the Big Ten Conference and its 11
member institutions. The Big Ten Network provides unprecedented access to an
extensive schedule of conference sports events and shows; original programs in
academics, the arts and sciences; campus activities; and associated personalities.
Sports programming includes live coverage of more major men’s and women’s events
than ever before, along with news, highlights and analysis, all complemented by hours of
university-produced campus programming. The network is available to all cable and
satellite carriers and television distributors nationwide, with most programs offered in
stunning high-definition television (HDTV). The Big Ten Network is a joint venture
between subsidiaries of the Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks.
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DD says:
Wait, did I read that right? Comcast will broadcast the BTN on expanded basic, but only for one year? Then they have the option of putting it on the digital sports package?
Sounds like the BTN sold their souls for one lousy year of expanded basic cable exposure.
Madison Hawk says:
No, Comcast can not put the BTN on a sports tier in the eight state Big Ten region. The press release states that after one year, Comcast can move the BTN to a “broadly distributed digital level of service”. While that phrase is not defined in the press release, in other context it is defined to mean that a minimum percentage of users (e.g. 80%) subscribe to that level of service. This agreement makes sense because over 80% of Comcast’s customers already have basic digital service and analog cable (i.e. expanded basic) is likely to be obsolete in a few years anyway.
Good news on the one year anniversary of terribly sad news…
Comcast sucks. Don’t waste your time. Get Fios or U-verse if possible. Comcast lags and my DVR has reset at least 3 times in the last year, so I’ve lost everything I recorded.
td says:
Too late Comcast. I just signed up for U-Verse this morning. My biggest complaint about Comcast is the lack of HD channels. And most the HD channels I was getting I didn’t even want (Food Network, Versus, HGTV, etc.) Why no Discovery, History Channel, Speed Channel, WGN, TBS?
At least lie to me and tell me they are coming soon or that you’re working on it. It’s like they just don’t care and that’s what really bothers me.
Doug T says:
Yes indeed td
All this talk about comcast has simply been a cheap advertising ploy for them all along. How many media accounts were there that only mentioned comcast and not all the others that did pick up BTN. Poor old Uverse is still not mentioned. Don’t get me wrong though BTN has really poor production values and Gene K. is absolutely bad along w/ most of their on air types, but hey you get to see all of the games and that is what comcast was and still is missing. They could care less what their customers want. If you haven’t given up on cable co.s by now then I hope your 8 track is still working well also.
TD,
I typed in my address online at the U-Verse site, and it says they do not offer it. My apartment is going to be located on 96th and College which is right near Carmel. Shouldn’t I get it there?
So this is completely off topic, but I came across this article regarding SE Missouri being slapped with 2 years probation for secdonary and major violations… It doesn’t really explain what the 2 years probation actually means, but hopefully it’s not a sign of things to come…
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/ncaa/women/06/18/bc.bkw.semissouripenalt.ap/index.html
You probably should be able to get U-verse at that location, but I know ATT has had to install a lot of different locations to be able to get U-verse, so it will probably be available soon….however, after being fed up with Comcast(then Insight) I switched to U-verse in November. As much as I could not stand Comcast (Insight at the time), I switched back in mid-January because the U-verse “glitched” A LOT. Live tv, or even recorded tv, there would be 3-10 second “glitches” where you would miss chunks of what happened. It made the BTN and any other station for that matter worthless when your constantly wanting to see what you are watching seemlessly. And this wasn’t a once every other week occurance, more like once every half hour or so. From the few people I “sold” on U-verse, they get the same thing, but 2 of them have stuck with it only because of the BTN….they are switching back to Comcast in August
don’t kid anyone your a comcast salesman.The freeze up problem is fixable w/ a new gateway/router, or simply unplugging the unit from all power. The freeze up was more of porblem early in uverse’s original release.
DougT
True, you can unplug ur gateway/router all your want, its real fun to do everytime you want to watch seemless TV….great technology, what was I thinking???? I guess I’ll just switch back now
don’t forget that if you are recording something on HD with ur DVR, you cannot watch another HD channel….GREAT technology DougT….I have no idea why I left U-verse…only 1 HD channel can be watched whether you have 2 DVR’s or 15, only one HD channel….man I just can’t wait to call ATT and be on hold for an hour just to sign-up
Calm down I don’t really care about HD channels over priced crap from anybody. I don’t really have problems w/ it any more. I guess I was right on the comcast salesman comment.
From what I understand, U-Verse now gives customers the ability to watch a program in HD and record another one in HD simultaneously.
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Comcast is not good. Unfortunately U-Verse and Fios are ‘infants’ and simply won’t do if you require your internet connection to be high speed. I work out of my house and i cannot afford to have my TV, Phone, and Internet coming in through the same wire. Slows down my development to a crawl!
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September 7, 2017 admin Entertainment 0
The time passes difficult when you are free. Especially when you have no out door activity and you are alone in the home. So why not enjoy some cinematic entertainment? But here is a problem again. To find a good movie you will have to waste time and have to spend hours on the Internet. But you do not worry we have to make your problem easier. Here we are trying to sort a list of 10 best Hollywood movies. So pick up one movie of your choice and enjoy your free hours. Good luck.
10. Split
9. T2: Trainspotting
8. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
7. Baby Driver
5. Life
4. John Wick: Chapter Two
3. Logan
2. The Lost City of Z
1. Wonder Woman
Inside the strategy of watching an M. Night Shyamalan movie, there exists a parallel and simultaneous strategy of trying to find its inevitable twist. This has been true of each movie the writer-director has made since his shock smash debut, “The Sixth Sense,” almost twenty years in the past. We marvel: How will he dazzle us? What clues ought to we be trying to find? Will it really work this time?
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Traditionally, the prevailing knowledge about Batman is that this: darkish and moody is sweet, comedic and foolish is dangerous. Simply examine and distinction the reputations of The Darkish Knight and Batman & Robin. The reality (as is often the case) is extra complicated than that, but it surely highlights the issue going through The Lego Batman Film — can this comedic tackle the Darkish Knight work?
That is the 3rd time Batman has featured in a significant cinematic launch previously eleven months. And, if something, with the discharge of The Lego Batman Film, these movies have reversed the prevailing knowledge: darkish and moody is dangerous, comedic and foolish is nice. Whether or not or not we deserve it’s irrelevant — that is the Batman movie we wanted proper now. And it delivers. This movie got 6th position in our list of 10 best Hollywood movies 2017.
Life movie based on the real story of the 6-member crew of the Worldwide Space Station that’s on the chopping fringe of one of the crucial discoveries in human historical past: the primary proof of extraterrestrial life on Mars. Because the crew begins to conduct analysis, their strategies find yourself having unintended penalties and the life type proves extra clever than anybody ever anticipated. Life movie is at number 5 in our list of 10 best Hollywood movies.
The Hollywood movie John Wick: Chapter 2 is the 1st true nice action film of this year. Larger and higher. It takes the whole lot you loved concerning the earlier movie to an entirely different degree of pleasure. There’s one thing stunning concerning the scope, the choreography and the joys of this movie’s violence, you simply cannot get sufficient of it. And Keanu Reeves is relentless.
In Logan movie, Hugh Jackman’s grand finale are acting as Wolverine is a component Western, half household drama and all enterprise with the outdated retired anti-hero dusting off the steel claws one final time. Jackman’s character is extra brutal than ever as he struggles together with his mortality, however, the spotlight is the connection together with his equally primal little-girl counterpart (Dafne Eager). They struggle, bicker and finally love one another with an unequaled grace within the super-powered style.
In this movie James Gray’s epic takes a look at the true story of an explorer from Britannia Percy Fawcett’s journey into the Amazon searching for a legendary metropolis is a robust tackle obsession and human protection. Gray additionally delivers beautiful pictures as he takes us from the luxury life of the English empire to the battlefield and deepest, darkish jungles. So we give the 2nd position to this movie in our list.
Earlier than she was Wonder Woman, she was known as Diana, Amazon’s princess. She was trained to be an unbeatable warrior. Brought up on a dangerous island. She meets an American pilot who tells her concerning the large battle that is raging within the exterior world. Satisfied that she can cease the risk, Diana leaves her residence for the primary time. Preventing alongside males in a struggle to finish all wars, she lastly discovers her full powers and true future. You must agree with us to give the 1st position to this movie in our list of 10 best Hollywood movies.
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Designing New York’s Most Iconic Eyewear Brand
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Since its inception in 1980, Robert Marc is a New York-based premium eyewear brand, known for its signature hinge and for outfitting some of the city’s most iconic personalities. Over the last few years, the brand perception shifted, and was seen as too mature and exclusive. Our goal was to reposition Robert Marc as a lifestyle brand, appealing to a younger audience and establishing a clear and consistent brand image that goes beyond its founder. Rather, we chose to leverage the brand’s NYC roots to craft its new story and transform Robert Marc into an icon of New York premium eyewear. To reinvent the Robert Marc brand, we defined the brand’s core values: unstoppable NYC flair, optician expertise, and exceptional craftsmanship. From that point, we developed the brand’s identity system, naming and core messaging. We transformed Robert Marc to Robert Marc NYC, in recognition of the powerful and enduring influence the city holds over the brand’s vision. The agency created a wide variety of materials for the brand, including design and development of a custom website, business collateral, point of sales materials, trade booth experience, a campaign video, trade sales tools and the brand’s very first lifestyle campaign and photoshoot.
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I'm starting an Insight Platforms-as-a-service Wave - Who should be included?
By Brian Hopkins
March 30, 2017, 6:29 a.m. EDT
Technology buyers have made it clear to us they want platforms for building data analytics applications. I call these insight platforms, and they were the No. 1 emerging technology of interest for enterprise architects in 2016.
Understanding why is easy — insight platforms provide a common toolset and a place to run what you have built. They accelerate both time-to-value and agility, which are crucially important for keeping up with markets and customers. See Tame The Beast: Forrester's Insight Platform Vendor Landscape and Want To Create Action From Big Data? Look At Enterprise Insight Platform Suites for more information.
Since using more public cloud is the No .1 big data priority, according to our 2016 survey of 3,000+ data and analytics decision makers, Insight Platforms-as-a-Service are next on my Forrester Wave agenda. We define Insight Platforms-as-a-service at multitenant platform-as-a-service cloud offerings that include tools for data management, several types of analytics and technology that help firms operationalize insight in other software and processes.
I already know the biggest players - Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle - but I’m also looking for other providers who want to give them a run for their money. Who else I should look at? For example, should I include:
Business service providers like FICO? They can lay claim to having an insight PaaS, and they definitely want a piece of Amazon’s cloud business.
Marketing tech and service providers like Adobe Marketing Cloud? Even though they use the word, I’m pretty sure they don’t really offer a PaaS, but I’m open to changing my mind if there is evidence to the contrary.
Indian SIs like Infosys, TCS, and Wipro? They are building platforms by adding IP to open source. I’m not sure if they are offering them as PaaS to customers, though.
Business consultancies like Deloitte and EY? They advertise cloud platforms, but again, I’m not sure they compare to what you would use Amazon EMR or Microsoft Azure/Cortana for.
Big data platform vendors like Pivotal and MapR? They are going beyond their Hadoop heritage to offer more and more analytics components. They are also partnering to offer their stack on cloud platforms in PaaS style.
Big-data-as-a-service vendors like Big Step, Cazena, and Qubole? They are also breaking out of just being big data infrastructure plays. They already offer data PaaS but increasingly look like an insight PaaS.
Cloud-native BI vendors like GoodData and Bime? Along with cloud offerings from Tableau, TIBCO, and others, they are adding in more data management and advanced analytics like machine learning. They kind of look like an insight PaaS as well.
I’m currently screening a bunch of these types of vendors in detail to see which to include in an Forrester Wave evaluation of insight PaaS tools that we will publish this summer.
If you know the names of any potential Insight PaaS providers, I’d like to hear from you so I can send them (or you) a screening survey and more information.
(About the author: Brian Hopkins is a vice president and principal analyst with Forrester Research. This post originally appeared on his Forrester blog, which can be viewed here).
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Infosecurity Magazine Home » News » UK Invests £22m in Army Cyber Centers as Russian Threat Looms
23 May 2019 News
UK Invests £22m in Army Cyber Centers as Russian Threat Looms
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The UK government has been sharing cyber-intelligence with 16 NATO allies and others outside the alliance on coordinated Russian attempts to probe critical infrastructure and government networks for vulnerabilities, according to Jeremy Hunt.
The foreign secretary will say today at the NATO Cyber Defence Pledge Conference in London that the Kremlin is engaged in a global campaign designed to find IT flaws that could be exploited to cause damage.
“The challenge today is therefore to apply the eternal verities at the heart of NATO’s success to the alliance’s newest operational domain. And that means deterrence – strengthening our joint ability to deter those who would harm our citizens in cyberspace,” Hunt will reportedly say.
The conference is itself testament to the growing threat to member nations from Russian state-sponsored hackers, allowing sharing of best practices and intelligence to counter the rogue nation to the east.
Hunt will also reaffirm the right of NATO states to enact a “proportionate response” to any further attempts to meddle in democratic elections, even if they fall below the Article V threshold which states that an attack against a member nation is considered an attack on all 29 allies.
Cyber was recently added as a legitimate military domain by the alliance.
In related news, the UK government is set to invest £22m in new cyber-operations centers for the army.
Set to launch in 2020, the facility will aim to bridge the gap in capabilities between the security services and the military.
“These new cyber centers will allow the army and defense to transform the way we use data, at speed, so that we can compete with our adversaries in a way fit for the 21st century,” said major general Tom Copinger-Symes, general officer commanding force troops command.
“Combining artificial intelligence with our military analysts will help us better understand threats and exploit opportunities, in turn enabling us to get the truth out much more rapidly, quashing the noise of disinformation from our enemies.”
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Transphagocytic T cells as anti cancer immunotherapyTransphagocytic T cells as anti cancer immunotherapy CSIC´s research group, in collaboration with scientists from the Centre of Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa” (CBMSO-CSIC), the Autónoma University of Madrid and the Health Research Institute of the “La Princesa” University Hospital, developed a new method for anti-cancer immunotherapy based on transphagocytic lymphocytes (tiCD4+ T cells) Companies interested in a patent license or investors for creation of a start-up are being sought. An offer for Patent Licensing
Biocompatible self-generating cell stimulatorCSIC through the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona - Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, has developed a device based on nanogenerators for electrical cells stimulation without the need of electrodes or bulky devices. The device is biocompatible and, among its multiple applications, is able to actuate in medical prostheses as enhancer of cellular growth and proliferation, which permits an early lesion recovery (such as a fracture or wound). Industrial partners dedicated to the development of medical devices for cells stimulation, in particular, focused onto therapeutic treatments of non-healing wounds, are being sought to collaborate through a patent licence agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing
Compounds for the treatment of optic neuritisCSIC and the University of Athens have found that secoiridoids, such as oleacein and oleocanthal, are useful to prevent or treat neuropathies that conduct to optic nerve injury, such as optic neuritis. A company dealing with pharmaceutical or nutraceutical compositions for ophtalmic applications is sought for licensing agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing
Regulatory compounds of synaptic transmission for the treatment of neurological diseasesThe CSIC and IRYCIS (Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research) have developed a group of compounds. These compounds have the ability to regulate the number of synapses that are formed between neurons, as well as the probability that neurotransmitters are released from these, because they have the capability of modulate the interactions that take place between the regulatory proteins NCS-1 and Ric8a that regulate these two independent processes. Due to these neuromodulatory properties, these compounds are useful for the treatment of neurological diseases as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington or Parkinson's diseases among others. Industrial partners from the ophthalmic or pharmaceutical industry are being sought to collaborate through a patent license agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing
Antibiotics to treat diseases caused by HelicobacterCSIC, the University of Zaragoza, Institute Pasteur, IISA and ARAID have developed chemical derivatives that act selectively against the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, managing to reduce the bacterial load and even eradicate gastric infections caused by it. Industrial partners from the pharmaceutical industry are being sought to collaborate through a patent licence agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing
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New compound to successfully treat degenerative diseases of the retinaThe research group "Neurobiología del sistema visual y terapia de enfermedades neurodegenerativas" of the University of Alicante has discovered the use of the compound 3-(2-isothiocyanatethyl)-5-methoxy-1H-indol, and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, for the preventive or therapeutic treatment of degenerative diseases of the retina, such as: pigmentary retinosis, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma or age-related macular degeneration. This compound has demonstrated, in vitro and in vivo, its neuroprotective capacity in various models under laboratory conditions. This compound is characterized by a 20% increase in neuronal survival, a 35% increase in visual acuity, and a 15% increase in contrast sensitivity. Therefore, it has very promising properties that could position it as the first effective treatment against degenerative diseases of the retina. We are looking for companies interested in acquiring this patent for commercial exploitation.
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Device for detecting early cervical and oral cancerThis device is used for detection of most of the early cancerous and high-grade precancerous lesions of cervix and oral cavity. It gives a complete white light spectrum (equivalent to day light 5500-6000 K) and provides magnification with interchangeable lenses with optical power from 1 to 4 dioptre. The light of this instrument goes deeper inside the mucosal folds and provides a clear view with magnification for the differentiation of various categories of lesions. The aceto-white lesions of the cervix are screened by means of this device after the application of 5% freshly prepared acetic acid on cervix. The oral cavity is rinsed with 1% acetic acid solution for 20 seconds followed by water to remove the mucous and saliva and the examination is done. If any lesion suspicious for cancer is identified by this device, the observations regarding location, size, morphology and colour of the lesion are recorded and then confirmed cytologically and histologically. It is proved from the validation studies that this low cost portable device is with sufficient sensitivity and specificity in detecting high grade pre-cancerous and early cancerous lesions of uterine cervix and oral cavity. The technology provides a high sensitivity with a specificity of 94.3% for precancerous and early cancerous lesions of uterine cervix and reduces false positive results.
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Home / Work / STEM Innovation Partnerships
Schools collaborating to solve system challenges at scale
STEM Innovation Partnerships
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Education system leaders around the world are rethinking how the STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are taught in schools.
Driven by global economic competition and rapid advances in technology and lobbied by business and industry, governments everywhere recognise the need to radically increase the STEM knowledge and skills of the generation of young people currently in schools; the workforce, leaders and problem solvers of the future.
In Western Australia (WA) in 2016, 27 schools began collaborating in Innovation Partnerships to design powerful new STEM learning experiences with and for their students. In 2017, a further 34 schools joined. In 2018 the STEM Innovation Partnerships program expanded again, this time to include 30 schools and 3 new priority focus areas.
A vibrant community of practice
91 schools over 3 years
in rural and remote communities across WA as well as the metropolitan areas of Perth.
4 innovation partnerships
following a common design-led methodology but each with a different focus.
5 powerful workshops
where school teams learn disciplined innovation, share their progress and ideas and challenge each other’s thinking.
Around the world systems tend to take a centralised approach to investment in STEM education. New organisations or agencies, government grants to individual institutions and national improvement programs to which schools sign up all feature. In WA there has been a different approach.
In 2012 the Department of Education (DoE WA) began identifying Teacher Development Schools (TDS) as part of their school improvement strategy. Understanding that educators learn best from other educators, DoE WA decided that instead of centralising expertise – appointing brilliant educators into system roles – they would leave their experts where they could make their biggest and most direct contribution to improving learning – in school.
The challenge then was to make such expertise available to the whole system. By identifying and highlighting practitioner experts in teaching and learning that could develop and deliver a range of professional learning opportunities for a range of contexts and learning areas, DoE WA began to identify, develop and share expertise in and across schools to achieve the best possible outcomes for students. Brokering and facilitating the sharing of expertise. This profession-based model of support provided through TDS creates opportunities for teachers to collaborate effectively and learn directly from the successful practice of other teachers.
In 2016 to progress the STEM agenda, DoE WA looked to use the profession-based model to meet the STEM challenge head on. Unlike other TDS programs, which are often characterised by the sharing of effective existing expertise and practice, TDSs and DoE WA realised that really making headway on STEM would require something new and different; it would require schools to innovate new learning experiences for their students.
With advice and support from Innovation Unit ANZ, DoE WA introduced a design-led approach to supporting disciplined innovation in schools. Clustered and convened as Innovation Partnerships, TDSs with expertise in STEM collaborated with schools keen to learn with and from them in a series of powerful workshops, which modelled tools and methods for disciplined innovation. Using ethnography and horizon scanning to develop design briefs; generating ideas and prototypes to test and improve in their contexts; and evaluating the impact of their learning designs for students using a wide range of evidence, educators built on their knowledge of STEM, of teaching and learning and of their students, challenging themselves with refreshing new techniques and with inspiration and ideas from elsewhere as well as each other.
The enthusiasm of school teams for this approach and the progress they made led DoE WA to invite another group of schools to take part in 2017, taking the total number of schools in STEM Innovation Partnerships in WA to 61 by the end of the year.
In 2018, with new priorities making their way up the agenda, DoE WA further expanded the program, this time with 3 new foci as well as 30 new schools:
Digital technologies – introducing a new digital curriculum and innovation in the use of digitech to achieve improved learning outcomes
Support for Aboriginal students – optimising learning outcomes in urban and rural and remote communities
Secondary engagement and retention – increasing the number of students eligible to progress to tertiary education
STEM continues to be a priority focus area bringing the total number of 2018-2019 Innovation Partnerships to 4. DoE WA also expanded the range of support available to this growing number of schools with the addition of a new partner – Knowledge Society – working alongside Innovation Unit ANZ.
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The team at DoE WA identify five areas of impact attributable to TDS Innovation Partnerships.
1. Access to consistently high quality professional learning for educators has been a critical feature in the success of the program; an ideal blend of external methodological and content expertise combined with facilitated peer support within the partnerships.
“Innovation Partnerships is not a project, it is an innovation journey; a way of being where people learn together along the way.” DoE WA Team Member
2. There have been far reaching changes to culture and practice in participating schools, where initial scepticism and nerves caused by the unfamiliarity of the language and methods of innovation were overcome first by curiosity and, as the program progressed, by enthusiasm, as educators grew in confidence and felt the powerful difference design thinking could bring to their practice.
3. Working alongside Innovation Unit ANZ and Knowledge Society introduced the team at DoE WA to new ways of thinking and working, with access to global perspectives and fresh approaches informing their work beyond the program. They particularly valued being part of a multi-disciplinary team working together to create something new and exciting for schools
4. Last but by no means least is the brilliant work on STEM by schools in TDS Innovation Partnerships for which there has been political and public recognition. Four schools won prizes in the 2018 State Governor’s Award for leadership in STEM education.
“Championing STEM learning in our schools is an important commitment to ensure students are equipped with the right skills and knowledge to productively enter the workforce of the future. Taking action now will make a huge difference to the well-being of Western Australia and its continued economic sustainability. The leaders acknowledged by the Governor’s School STEM Awards have shown dedication to and passion for providing amazing opportunities for their students and their future.” Ms Deb Hancock
Scitech Chief Executive Officer, Sponsors of the Governor’s Award
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Shay Mitchell Is the First to Admit Her Instagram Doesn’t Reflect Reality
By Isabel Jones
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The world is a very different place today than it was when Shay Mitchell snagged the role that would come to define her early career, as one of ABC Family’s titular Pretty Little Liars, Emily Fields. Mitchell, newly 31, has broadened her platform considerably since the series first aired in 2010, adding fitness guru, travel vlogger, and Instagram influencer—19.5 million followers strong—to her résumé.
But Mitchell is also aware of the pitfalls that come with a mega fan base. Which is why she wants you to take what you find on social media with a grain of salt. Mitchell fields bizarre stories and online rumors on a daily basis, like the recent claim that she was dating Kendall Jenner’s NBA star ex Blake Griffin.
Her fail-safe method for dealing with the gossip? Humor.
I’ve never met @blakegriffin23 but if he was at Carbone at the same time I was, I hope he ordered the spicy rig and enjoyed it as much as I did🍝 https://t.co/SjOvPUnDiZ
— Shay Mitchell (@shaymitch) May 7, 2018
“It’s funny!” she says with a chuckle. “If I read something about me that’s so blatantly untrue, I want to set the record straight—and I have the power to and the voice to. That’s the one way that we can use social media in a positive light." But, she says, you can't always change people's minds, in which case, letting things roll off her shoulder keeps her sane. "It’s like I’m living a real life Gossip Girl. You can think I’m with whomever or this or that … Go do it. At the end of the day, everybody’s going to have their own opinions anyway. I can’t set the record straight for everybody.”
Though her teen drama days are behind her (mostly—she wants to wait at least five years before entertaining the idea of a PLL reunion), Mitchell’s new project places her alongside a familiar face in the teen soap annals, Gossip Girl himself, Penn Badgley. You, set to premiere in September, is what Mitchell describes as a “modern-day romance,” focusing on the thin line between casually viewing someone’s Facebook page and becoming an full-on social media stalker.
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We put on our dressy clothes to celebrate our new show, “YOU”, premiering on @lifetimetv SEPTEMBER 9th! Can't wait for YOU all to see! #🍑 #whatwasJohnlookingat ?!
A post shared by Shay Mitchell (@shaymitchell) on Mar 17, 2018 at 10:28pm PDT
“He is just such a great artist and he played this character so well—too well,” Mitchell says of Penn’s Internet-savvy character.
When doing your own social media stalking, she wants you to remember that even the narratives people post about themselves aren't always true to life. Mitchell herself was recently called out for posting vacation images that she'd culled from other online sources, with critics questioning whether her trips were real. They are, in fact. But that doesn't mean her Instagram account actually reflects her day-to-day life, she admits.
“I think we all have to realize and recognize the fact that Instagram and social media in general is, a majority of the time, our highlight reel—it’s certainly my highlight reel,” she says of her more than 5,000 FOMO-inducing posts. “That’s not my everyday life. Now, are those real life moments? Yes, absolutely. But are they heightened? Have those photos been taken 5,000 times to get the right angle? Do I have full makeup, lighting … ? One-hundred-percent.”
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Early morning cartoon reading in paradise. #tbt
A post shared by Shay Mitchell (@shaymitchell) on May 24, 2018 at 12:11pm PDT
Polly didn’t want kisses...or a cracker. Just a casual Qatar rooftop picnic.
A post shared by Shay Mitchell (@shaymitchell) on May 21, 2018 at 11:46am PDT
Knowing that is key, Mitchell says. "It can get really dangerous if you start to believe that [social media is] realistic." But, she adds, "If you can go into it knowing there’s filters behind each and every one of those, or this is a photo that was professionally shot, then I feel like it allows yourself to be less harsh on your own photos. Everybody’s life in general isn’t maybe always what it seems.”
BOAT DAY. Thanks to @cabo_adventures @loscabostourism #LosCabos #Cabosadventures
A post shared by Shay Mitchell (@shaymitchell) on Apr 14, 2018 at 11:52am PDT
Don't call Mitchell a role model, though. “Role means I’m taking on this role of what I think is the right way to do things, for other people,” she explains. “So if you want to call it a ‘real model,’ that’s a new term that I feel is more appropriate for it. I want to live my life as real and as authentic as I can, and from that, yes, hopefully I make the right decisions and inspire other people to take more chances, to say yes to more experiences—whatever that is, encourage people to do in a positive way, I think that’s great.”
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Green Teas And Their Powerful Active Components
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By Health & Medical Last updated Saturday, April/06/2019
Although scientists have just recently directed their attention to researching the relationship between drinking tea, specifically green tea, and its influence on weight reduction, the Chinese have however already been savoring a lot of these benefits for more than 5,000 years. It is nevertheless reassuring realizing that plenty of people are presently starting to acknowledge and value the health and also weight reduction benefits of making use of green teas.
A number of the fat reduction advantages of consuming green tea consists of its metabolism enhancing influence that assists the body to burn off a lot more excess fat; cholesterol and triglyceride reduction; hunger reduction; and equally its calming and stress lowering benefits.
Various research studies have discovered that green tea has three key ingredients that have been demonstrated to possess significant effect on fat reduction. Even though these three active ingredients are in and of themselves powerful weight reduction agents, it is nonetheless their collective influences that truly give green teas their amazing weight reduction abilities.
1. Caffeine
Green tea does really contain some quantity of caffeine just like all other type of teas. Like in prescription hunger suppressing medications, caffeine influences the central nervous system. This stimulation influence of caffeine has been found to enhance a procedure called thermogenesis - the production of heat in the human body. Thermogenesis plays a significant function in fat reduction because it brings about a considerable elevation in the general metabolism of the body.
Essentially, caffeine increases energy levels, momentarily raises mental attentiveness, and also helps to burn fat. In the estimation of several fitness professionals, caffeine even assists to buffer muscle pain, which could enable an individual to exercise for a longer period of time.
Caffeine is generally incorporated in many slimming pills because of these effects but it is regrettable that there are a lot of weight reduction supplements which claim to be effective while they simply utilize really excessive levels of caffeine, howbeit deceptively, as their main ingredient. Having said that, it is a well-recognized fact that an excessive amount of caffeine intake is harmful to health and comes with unintended side effects like irritability, nervousness, frequent urination, stomach problems, restlessness, and sleep disruptions.
The caffeine content of green tea (which is approximately 25mg for a 6-ounce cup) may nonetheless be looked at as insignificant and also incapable of creating any kind of considerable side effects and it is in actual fact counterbalanced by another active ingredient in green tea.
2. The Catechin - Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG)
Tea leaves have several polyphenols especially the flavonoids - flavan-3-ols. The flavonoids inside green tea happen to be of two main kinds specifically the (+)-catechin and ()-epicatechin with both having its related gallate offshoots.
Although there are actually six major catechins, it is the Epigallocatechin gallate (often called EGCG), which has been researched mostly as it is thought to be by far the most effective antioxidant of the green tea catechins.
There are now a considerable amount of scientific studies which have acknowledged that the epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) found in green teas can affect genetic signaling and able of helping to boost thermogenesis which can equally help in increasing the body's metabolic rate and total energy expenditure by around 4%.
EGCG similarly assists in regulating glucose levels and as a consequence has the dual impact of inhibiting the release of insulin (a hormone that is known to generally encourage the storage of body fat) and raising insulin sensitivity. This leads to a greater burning of stored body fat and as well, a reduced capability of the body to stow glucose as fat.
Regarding the dispute over the effect of epigallocatechin gallate and caffeine in boosting thermogenesis, the authors of a 1999 research publication in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition came to the conclusion that green tea's thermogenic properties could reside primarily in an interaction between its high content in catechin-polyphenols and caffeine..." This study showed that EGCG helps to burn off fat even if you're doing nothing other than sitting around consuming green tea all day long.
3. L-Theanine
Other than one relatively unknown mushroom, the tea plant, Camellia sinensis (from which green tea and various other teas are manufactured from) is the only recognized plant that makes L-theanine. It is a naturally occurring non-protein-based amino acid found in green tea.
It has been discovered that the major reason why the caffeine in green teas seem to have just a brief influence is as a result of the countering effect of L-theanine on the central nervous system. It is today understood that L-theanine has the capability of increasing brain functions, improving attentiveness, calming and reducing anxiety, while also enhancing moods without the need of sedation.
Consequently, while the caffeine in green tea stimulates the process of thermogenesis and as a result increasing fat burning, the L-theanine in the same ingested green tea neutralizes mainly the unwanted side effects of the caffeine as L-theanine induces a state of relaxation and effortless attentiveness.
It may thus be said that the mix of these three ingredients inside green tea procured from one specific plant on earth is simply a miracle on its own. This actually reveals the reason why the Chinese have throughout the centuries relished the health and weight reduction added benefits of their tea drinking lifestyle.
Scientific research suggests that to obtain the greatest weight loss benefits from consuming green teas, an individual need to drink at least three cups of green tea daily. All there is to it is to make use of green tea as an addition to a healthy lifestyle involving regular exercises and eating of a nutritious diet.
Getting rid of all the theory, it can readily be conjectured that the consumption of green tea or green tea extracts truly has the capability of helping men and women achieve and sustain a healthful weight. Green tea does not just allow you to lose weight, but actually aids you to burn it naturally and in a healthy manner.
To take full advantage of the effect of green tea, it is strongly recommended that you make use of Tava Tea - an established weight reduction tea brand designed to provide you the highest possible added benefits. Tava Tea is actually a mix of three of the best Japanese and Chinese teas in one healthy pack and in fact admired as being the "strongest weight loss tea ever created."
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Differences in Warfarin Dosing Decisions
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Differences in Warfarin Dosing Decisions
Study Objectives: To assess the accuracy of warfarin dosing decisions and the degree of numeric bias between two point-of-care devices using a local reference laboratory's international normalized ratio (INR) as the standard measure, and to determine the relationship between dosing decisions and INR values obtained with the point-of-care devices.
Design: Prospective study.
Setting: Outpatient anticoagulation clinic.
Subjects: Two hundred two patients taking oral warfarin and 10 control subjects.
Interventions: For the two point-of-care devices, AvoSure and ProTime, the finger-stick method was used to collect capillary blood samples in each subject. At the same visit, one venous blood sample was collected from each subject for the laboratory analysis.
Measurements and Main Results: Dosing agreement was assessed as the proportion of agreement between each device and the laboratory in terms of maintenance dosage adjustments (increase, decrease, or no change). The level of agreement between each device and the laboratory was evaluated by dosing agreement analysis, bias analysis, and concordance coefficient analysis. In the dosing agreement analysis, 78% of INR values from the AvoSure device would have resulted in the same dosing decision as that with the laboratory INR values compared with 66% from the ProTime device (p<0.001). The mean bias for the ProTime device (0.5 ± 0.4 INR units) was significantly higher (p=0.005) than that for the AvoSure device (0.4 ± 0.5 INR units). The ProTime device overestimated low INR values to a greater extent than did the AvoSure device. Concordance between the laboratory measurement and each device was similar (rc = 0.82 for ProTime, rc = 0.76 for AvoSure).
Conclusions: Assessing dosing decisions yielded distinct, useful clinical information. The AvoSure device is associated with less systematic bias and a higher degree of clinical agreement with our reference laboratory measurement than those of the ProTime device.
Point-of-care testing devices are commonly used for measuring the international normalized ratio (INR) in patients who are taking oral anticoagulation therapy. These devices are less invasive than traditional laboratory methods that require a venous blood sample and provide nearly instantaneous results. This allows for immediate assessment of the INR and adjustment of the anticoagulant dosage, if necessary, during the patient encounter.
Whether a point-of-care device is interchangeable with (i.e., leads to the same dosing decisions as) a standard method is important to assess. This is especially true when the point-of-care device is used to make dosing decisions for drugs with narrow therapeutic indexes, such as warfarin. To make this assessment, accuracy (or the degree to which the point-of-care device and the standard agree) has been analyzed in various ways. Common assessments involve visual analysis of bias plots and a determination of whether the laboratory and the point-of-care measurements agree that a patient's INR is within a given therapeutic range or an expanded therapeutic range. Although some of these analyses include clinical assessments, they rely on mathematic formulas as criteria for clinical evaluations. Little consistency exists among these analytic methods, however, and the various formulas that determine clinical significance have not been validated. Therefore, whether these mathematic methods of assessing clinical agreement are reasonable estimates of clinical decision making is unknown.
Furthermore, the relationship between measurement error and clinical decisions as a function of the INR value is not known. It is widely reported that accuracy and precision decrease as INR increases. Therefore, much of the focus in previous studies has been on large discrepancies between standard methods and point-of-care testing devices at high INR values. The impact of smaller differences in INR measurements at the lower end of the INR range goes largely unexplored.
No known published studies directly measure whether a point-of-care device leads anticoagulation providers to make the same dosing decision as they would if using a reference standard INR value, or whether differences in dosing decisions occur systematically as a function of the INR value obtained with the point-of-care testing device. We assessed the accuracy of warfarin dosing decisions and the degree of numeric bias between two point-of-care devices using a local reference laboratory's measurement of INR as the standard measure. In addition, we sought to determine the relationship between dosing decisions and INR values obtained with the point-of-care devices.
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Committee lambasts GDS for digital strategy delay
The government has 'failed to addressed' the country's digital skills shortage
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The Science and Technology Committee has sent a letter of complaint to digital minister Matt Hancock, saying the government has not been fast enough to roll out its digital strategy plans.
The plan was supposed to address concerns that the UK lacks the essential skills and equipment to train younger generations to participate in the UK's growing digital economy.
The strategy was laid out after the Government Digital Service was awarded 450 million in November 2015 to help improve resources and train the additional 745,000 workers the sector needs to be successful. However, it was delayed until spring 2016 and then again when Brexit took priority.
Stephen Metcalfe MP, chair of the committee, said its major complaint was that the government took more than six months to provide a response to its Digital Skills Crisis report, which means none of the points have been actioned and the problem has not improved.
"Our disappointment over such a long delay is compounded by the continued absence of the Government's long-promised 'Digital Strategy' because much of the focus for our report was that Digital Strategy - seven of our 27 recommendations explicitly addressed it," Metcalfe wrote.
According to Ed Vaizey, the digital economy minister at the time of the Digital Skills Report's publication, the strategy had already been written and was merely awaiting publication in the Downing Street 'grid.'
However, the latest response seems to contradict this and now Metcalfe and the Science and Technology Committee is calling for the government to tell the group why it has taken so long to respond and when the strategy will be published for review.
"We have maintained a hope that this indicated that the government was taking our recommendations on-board in this strategy - redrafting it as necessary. But the recently provided Government Response to our report provides no information on how recommendations bout the strategy will be addresses," Metcalfe said.
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Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist whose sculptures expand on the rich history of pre-Columbian ceramics, spanning thousands of years from Cupisnique culture of 1500 BC to 15th century Inca. Classical shapes are oversized and adapted into female form to create self-portraits of the artist in different historical eras and stylistic guises.
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian artist whose sculptures expand on the rich history of pre-Columbian ceramics, spanning thousands of years from Cupisnique culture of 1500 BC to 15th century Inca. Classical shapes are oversized and adapted into female form to create self-portraits of the artist in different historical eras and stylistic guises. Kukuli’s practice examines how cultural memory forms an integral part of identity, and how artefacts lend shape not only to lost civilisations, but also to erased histories. Peru’s colonial past is important: it is a culture which for centuries was obliged to imitate the Catholic art introduced by the Other. Within this context Kukuli uses indigenous art history not just as a nod to the past, but as a vessel to channel a pugnacious and independent spirit. Questions of race, of colonial history, of gender and power hierarchies – these all find voice through a suite of subversive sculptures that underline the importance of our relationships with our cultural objects.
Selected Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2015
Grand Prize Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale. Icheon, South Korea 2013
Franz and Virginia Bader Fund 2015
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2012
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"Girl Meets World" Has Come To An End
Posted: Jan 5 2017, 1:30pm CST | by Noel Diem , Updated: Jan 5 2017, 9:06pm CST , in Latest TV News
Just a week after Rider Strong announced it on his podcast, Disney has announced that its Boy Meets World spinoff, Girl Meets World, has been canceled. The sequel series will end after its third season.
The season finale, entitled “Girl Meets Goodbye”, will also have a Boy Meets World reunion with Strong, Ben Savage, William Daniels, Will Friedle, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Lee Norris, Danny McNulty, William Russ, and Betsy Randle all showing up at some point, according to Deadline.
“Disney Channel will present the series finale of “Girl Meets World” on FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 (6:00 p.m. EST). In the episode, “Girl Meets Goodbye,” the Matthews family contemplates a life-changing decision,” the network said in a statement. “We are proud that for over 70 episodes, Michael Jacobs, April Kelly and the talented creative team, cast and crew entertained viewers with an authentic and heartfelt look at navigating adolescence.”
It is with incredible pride in our work and complete sadness that things end, that I report to this wonderful audience that our show is over— Girl Meets Writers (@GMWWriters) January 5, 2017
I just officially got the call, and would like to thank this audience for its incredible love and loyalty. Please watch our January episodes— Girl Meets Writers (@GMWWriters) January 5, 2017
We leave you with three incredible souvenirs of a show we couldn't be more proud of. As I look back I can tell you with absolute certainty -— Girl Meets Writers (@GMWWriters) January 5, 2017
After the official announcement, the cast also took to Twitter and Instagram:
pic.twitter.com/fhBGWocyMX— Rowan Blanchard (@RowanBlanchard) January 5, 2017
The last time I had in n out burger and didn't eat it, I had just been cast in a show called girl meets world! Tonight I sit here and I can't eat my in n out burger because life comes full circle. We speak in the language of love, heartbreak, friendship, family, sadness, and laughter. Wherever we are in the world, whatever we believe in, whoever we love, we all speak that language. We had the privilege of growing up in front of your eyes. The privilege of teaching the lessons we were learning ourselves and beyond that. To the family that was created on our set, between the cast and crew, thank you for giving us the ability to make mistakes and to grow. I felt so safe in that bay window. People thought it was weird that I was excited to go to work. People thought it was weird that we really did and still do love each other. That's a rare entity, we hold that tight. Thank you Disney for giving this show and these characters the chance to see the light of day. I know I feel very lucky to have given life to Maya hart. MJ- without you I wouldn't know most of what I do. I also probably would have never had 2 paint fights in my lifetime. We live in an intricate world. We can be adversaries whilst being allies. To everyone that watched our show and felt something, thank you. To everyone that grew up watching Boy Meets World and decided to give our story for a new generation a chance, thank you. And to the little girls reading this, You can do whatever you put your mind to. You're gonna meet the world now, and I think you'll love it. "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." - Fellini
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I tip my glass to the cast and crew of GMW. You did us proud. I love you all. https://t.co/VSh4iniLy6— Will Friedle (@willfriedle) January 5, 2017
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JL Boston Celebrates Our Veterans: Spotlight on Anna Hart, US Coast Guard Commanding Officer and JL Boston Member! by: Stephanie Lincoln
In honor of Veteran’s Day today, this month’s member spotlight is Anna Hart- Junior League member since 2012 and US Coast Guard Commanding Officer. Read below to learn more about one of our incredible members who serves both her country and community in amazing ways! Today of all days, JL Boston thanks Anna and all our Veteran members, as well as Veteran’s everywhere, for their service!
Hometown: Searcy, Arkansas
Current City: Boston, MA
JL Boston Committee/Title: Underwriting Committee and Diversity/Inclusion Task Force
What inspired you to join the US Coast Guard in 2004?
My short and funny answer to this is that I didn’t want to work at a bank and I wanted to live by the water…all true but not the full picture. My family comes from a long-line of military service to include my Grandmother. I was raised with the values that life should be full of adventure and we are put on this earth to make it better— I love that the Coast Guard lets me do both. I truly enjoy my career. The Coast Guard has many missions from search and rescue, law enforcement, and environmental protection but at its heart it is a humanitarian service. I know when I wake up in the morning I will be given the opportunity to make a difference. And yes, so far I have always lived really close to the water : )
You became a Commanding Officer this year! What is your experience as a woman leader in the military?
As a Commanding Officer, I am in charge of over a million dollars worth of assets, have the privilege to lead and serve with dedicated service men and woman , and I know that every day I get to make a difference…it is AWESOME! The Coast Guard is a wonderful military service that has always valued women and has been way ahead of the curb when it comes to supporting its members regardless of gender. My gender has never limited to opportunities within the Coast Guard. There are obvious struggles, choices, and balances that my male colleagues don’t necessarily have to consider, but I believe I would be faced with many of those same choices regardless of my profession. I feel truly honored to serve my country.
How did you first get involved with the Junior League?
One element of military life is that about every 2-4 years, I transfer to a new job which for me as always meant transferring to a different state. I have been station in DC, Texas, FL, Boston, CT, and now back to Boston. Through all those moves, I found that I was lacking a sense of community connection and a social network outside work. I joined the Junior League in 2010 in Pensacola, FL. Like many women in the League, I had several friends who had joined and shared how much fulfillment they received from serving in their community and working with such talented woman. All those things interested me as well as being part of an organization that I could be a part of regardless of where I transferred. I have now transferred multiple times– twice to JLB and once to JL Rhode Island. The JLB has allowed me to instantly be connected to the community in a way that no other organization could provide. I am so grateful for all the support and friendships that are a result from being part of JL.
How has your experience as a woman serving her country in the Coast Guard compared/related to your experience as a JL Boston member serving her community?
Speaking with my female colleagues I find that our values for joining the Coast Guard are very similar to those values of joining JLB: service, leadership opportunities, and a sense of community. It is a natural fit. When I transferred to JLB in 2012, the first person from the JLB to reach out to me was Christian Sullivan as part of the transfer committee. Christian, who transferred to JL Seattle this summer, is also an officer in the Coast Guard. Neither one of us knew each other before and only discovered our professional connection after we spoke on the phone. There are many women who are like me, serve their country and their community by being part of Junior Leagues throughout the country. I take pride in the fact that I have helped influence several very talented women into joining the League here in Boston and in Virginia.
Do you have a mentor and/or have you ever been a mentor?
I have been blessed to have many mentors over my career and personal life. I think it is an important element in growing as a leader. I encourage others to have at least one mentor that has nothing to do with your profession; diversity of thought and experiences can only make a person stronger. I hope I am a mentor for others. I try to always keep an open door, ask engaging questions, and provide an environment that people feel empowered to develop into their best version of themselves.
What would you tell someone who is thinking about joining the League?
DO IT! The leadership and opportunity to connect and serve the community is something you cannot receive in any other volunteer organization.
Lastly, what is your favorite thing about New England?
I really love that there are 4 seasons! Spending most of my life in the south, I grew up with more like 2ish seasons…hot and not so hot. I LOVE hot weather, but enjoy that each season brings it new activities to do.
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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft: A Journey's End
Cassini's Last Looks at Saturn
Videos | September 15, 2017
Final Moments in Cassini Mission Control
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, awaited the final transmission from the Cassini spacecraft as it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere ending its 20-year voyage of discovery.
Mission Control: Systems ACS 1. We just had condition high rate mode. And we are in the atmosphere. We have loss of signal at [unintelligible].
Project manager. Flight director.
Julie Webster: We call loss of signal at 11:55:46.
Earl Maize: This is project manager on FSO co-ord. There may be a trickle of telemetry left, but you just heard the signal from the spacecraft is gone and, in the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft.
I hope you're all as deeply proud of this amazing accomplishment. Congratulations to you all! This has been an incredible mission, an incredible spacecraft, and you're all an incredible team!
I'm going to call this the end of mission. Project manager off the net.
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Toyota Camatte57s is a build-it-yourself concept car for kids
June 19, 2013 by William
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Showcased at last week’s Tokyo Toy Show 2013 was the Camatte57s, a concept car by Znug Design for Toyota.
The brainchild of Kenji Tsuji and Kota Nezu, the minimal Camatte57s is not only designed for kids to drive (obviously not on the road!), but also for them to be able to have fun personalizing and playing around with the car aesthetic.
The car has outlandish tires that poke out, plus the whole thing has this funky retro vibe that both hipsters and kids will love. The three-seater is very cozy — deliberately so, since the idea is to make driving in the car fun for kids again.
A previous version was introduced at last year’s Toy Show but this year there was an improved model which can be customized with fifty-seven lightweight panels. You don’t need complicated tools to attach and switch the panels — it’s so simple, even a child can do it.
The idea is the driver’s parents sit in the back, supervising their child while being taken for a ride. Just in case, there is an extra brake in the back so if the little one has trouble, daddy or mummy can stop the vehicle. Naturally you cannot have your kid drive on the real road so it is intended for large gardens or other special sites — not ideal for Japan, but surely tenable in America, Australia, Europe and other markets.
This is one of the first generation models.
To demonstrate, they also showcased a “sports” version of the Camatte57s with stripes and snazzy colors. It’s based on a Tamiya toy released last year.
Here are Toyota’s other suggestions for how to customize the colors. “Infinite possibilities”, as they say…
Why so much effort being put into inspiring the next generation to love cars? Surely they would automatically taken an interest, no? Not so in Japan, which for years has been suffering from a downward trend in new car sales among younger consumers known as kuruma-banare. Car rental services are very convenient and reasonably priced in Japan, and with most of population living in cities, people feel like they don’t need to own a vehicle. (Car-share programs are more limited, due to legal issues that tie a car officially to a specific parking space.) There is some irony in Toyota being the biggest car manufacturer in the world but its cars are bought less and less by drivers in its own country. Projects like the Camatte57s are an attempt to reverse the trend and get new drivers interested in having their own car again.
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New KHs Still Being Built!
by blondie 18 Replies latest jw friends
I enjoyed your comments Newshhep.
I didn't know that Sanderson claimed he was anointed as a teenager although I'm not at all surprised. I imagine he craves the attention.
keinlezard
just a remark, in this case ... the construction is rather a refection no ?
even if they destroy the old KH ... and the WT/CC will count it in "new KH construction" then
JW believe obviously that there are new building but in fact there -1 and +1 and finally no real construction
sir82
That Mark wasn't even an MS yet and in his late teens partaking of the emblems.
Always wondered when he started to partake.
In a sense, you have to admire his tenacity, being such a young kid and enduring all the side-eyes & snickers when he reached for the plate, year after year, but keeping his head down and not doing anything overtly goofy. Lots of self-discipline.
There was no guarantee he'd grow up to be a GB member - in fact, in the 80's, everyone expected the end "soon" because of the [old light] generation teaching and it had been 70+ years since 1914.
Don't get me wrong, he's just as delusional as any of the on the GB, but it's kind of impressive that he "stuck to his story" despite undoubtedly intense scrutiny & discouragement at the beginning.
It's a shame he didn't / couldn't channel that tenacity to do something at least vaguely beneficial instead of following a silly "theocratic career path".
People have been grabbing up corner lots for at least 50 yrs. now anywhere possible -- nothing new re/commercial or residential.
Sounds like a piss poor investment to me. Flin flon is a company town and the mine is slated to close in 2021
waton
I didn't know that Sanderson claimed he was anointed as a teenager
L: traditionally anointed, became so at their baptism , like their example, jesus, and except Cornelius
who managed it even earlier.
so, like Franz and Sanderson situation has serious consequences for the "Overlapping Generation Group Doctrine", pushes THE date to 2075,
What will that corner in Flin Flon look like then? , right now wt had overlapping worship houses there, before the overlapping demolitions .
H: Northern Canadian mining towns have been re making themselves (The second-b resurrection)
as retirement comnunities, see Uranium rich Elliot Lake ON.
Would be perfect fit for wt to build a jw senior home complex on the old kh site, across the lane from the corner hall.
captive audience in every way. cultivating estates to harvest, government subsidies.
Yes, let me add my thanks, newsheep, for the info on Mark Sanderson.
As for new KHs being built, don't you think that if they are going to keep up the line that all those being sold are for building new ones, they had better publicize the few new ones that apear? Otherwise, some of the "faithful" might start using their heads and start thinking some UN-faithful things!
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careful - "As for new KHs being built, don't you think that if they are going to keep up the line that all those being sold are for building new ones, they had better publicize the few new ones that appear?"
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Flooding on Jekyll Island can be caused by severe weather, including tropical storms and hurricanes and it’s important to be prepared in the event flooding impacts your property. The areas most prone to flooding are along the beach and marshes. Flood waters can cover streets up to two or three feet deep, and can come with little warning.
Please take heed of any storm and hurricane warnings on Jekyll Island.
Download our Flood Preparedness Pamphlet for information on how to protect your property.
For a base elevation certification, contact Fire Marshal Reid Trawick (912.635.2930) or Conservation Land Manager Yank Moore (912.635.4187)
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Jekyll Island experiences a range of weather. Being situated on the coast, Jekyll is particularly at risk for hurricanes. Storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico have the potential to affect our island. Every resident should know how to stay safe when hurricanes strike. In cooperation with the Glynn County Emergency Management Agency, the Jekyll Island Authority has plans and procedures, for both natural and man-made disasters, to help residents prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of disasters.
Below are links to help you prepare for hurricanes and severe weather:
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Flooding on Jekyll Island can be caused by tropical storms and hurricanes. Flood waters can cover streets up to two or three feet deep. The areas most prone to flooding are along the beach and marshes. In other areas of the island floodwaters are not as deep, but may still cover streets and yards and can flood cars, garages, basements and lower floors. Flooding can come with little warning. Please take heed of any storm and hurricane warnings on Jekyll Island and follow the outlined protocol to ensure you and your families safety.
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Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) and Homeland Security (HS) have established a new statewide re-entry system and certification process following a disaster in Georgia. House Bill 405 established a new, state-wide re-entry system during a state of emergency declared by the Governor. The system will be managed by GEMA/HS, and Jekyll Island will abide by this new system. This new system replaces the re-entry systems previously used by the JIA and Glynn County following Hurricanes Matthew and Irma.
Please carefully read and review the details regarding new re-entry system below. For more information about permits and re-entry, please review the GEMA Re-Entry Standard Operating Guide.
It is important to note, under the new re-entry system, phases 2 and 3 require permits that can only be issued by GEMA/HS, not Glynn County or the Jekyll Island Authority. Organizations, businesses, and non-profits wishing to seek re-entry access to Jekyll Island during phases 2 and 3 are now required to apply through the state. The purpose of this permitting process is to control access so that those responding to life-threatening hazards, repairing critical infrastructure, and restoring essential commerce can perform those necessary tasks prior to public re-entry. For more information about permits, review the GEMA Re-Entry Standard Operating Guide.
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Phase 1: Render Safe Task Force Team Entry
During this phase, authorized teams from state and local response agencies, as well as private sector utility providers, will gain access to impacted areas. The primary objective of operating personnel during this phase is to render the area safe for the first responders who will follow them to conduct life safety operations. Most likely, members of the Render Safe Task Forces will be co-located immediately before re-entry operations begin in inland-defined Forward Staging Areas (FSAs). These teams will be the first officials to enter restricted areas; therefore, re-entry permits will not be required (as the task forces will have embedded law enforcement officials).
Phase 2: Emergency Response and Life Safety Workforce Re-Entry
Personnel conducting life safety operations in impacted areas. These operations include, but are not limited to: search and rescue, emergency medical services, fire suppression, hazardous materials control and containment, preliminary damage assessment, essential relief staff to critical medical facilities, and immediate utility restoration to critical incident facilities. Personnel entering impacted areas during Phase 2 should be prepared to present an Official State of Georgia Re-Entry Permit, employee credentials, and a valid state-issued identification card to public safety personnel controlling access. All personnel and equipment entering an impacted area during Phase 2 and beyond must maintain self-sustaining capabilities.
Phase 3: Essential Public and Private Sector Personnel Re-Entry
Individuals in the public and private sectors that can restore essential operations, services, and commerce in support of re-entry by the general public. These systems and networks include, but are not limited to: petroleum distributors, food distributors, non-emergency medical facilities (such as dialysis centers), pharmaceutical providers, members of the media, medical facility support staff, and local government essential workers. Re-entry permit issuance for this phase will require close coordination among state and local emergency management and with local public safety officials to ensure that the appropriate individuals and private sector partners are being allowed access to damaged areas.
Phase 4: Local Residents, Property Owners, and Business Owners
Local residents and those who own property or businesses in the impacted areas. The timeframe of this phase is dependent upon the extent of the damage caused by the hazard and the status of recovery and restoration operations in the preceding phases. During Phase 4 of re-entry, access may be limited to certain portions of impacted counties, and restrictions may be in place that only allows access during daylight hours. Residents and individuals attempting to gain access during this phase will be expected to present valid state-issued photo identification that includes an address in the impacted area; or, valid state-issued photo identification along with a property deed, recent utility bill verifying an address, current voter registration card, recent property tax statement, business credential, or paystub from a local business. No Official State of Georgia Re-Entry Permits are issued for Phase 4 of re-entry. All personnel and equipment entering an impacted area during Phase 4 and beyond must maintain self-sustaining capabilities.
Phase 5: Open to Public with Limited Access
In Phase 5, local officials will determine that a county or portions of the county are relatively safe for entrance by the general public. Restrictions may remain in place for a period of time limiting access to daylight hours.
Hurricane Recovery
In September of 2019, Jekyll Island, and the Southeast coast of the U.S., were impacted by Hurricane Dorian. For a summary of Jekyll Island’s response to the storm please visit our Hurricane Dorian page.
In September of 2017, Jekyll Island, and the Southeast coast of the U.S., were impacted by Hurricane Irma. For a summary of Jekyll Island’s response to the storm please visit our Hurricane Irma page.
Police protection is provided by the Georgia State Patrol. The patrol post is located adjacent to the Guest Information Center at 901 Downing Musgrove Parkway. Always dial 911 for emergencies and tell the dispatcher that you are on Jekyll Island. Non-emergency calls can be made by calling 912.635.2303.
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The Department of Justice is seeking to appoint six Independent Board Members to the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
Appointment of NIPB Independent Board Members - Part-time
The Policing Board is an independent public body established under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000. The Board is responsible for securing the maintenance of the police in Northern Ireland, and has a key role in ensuring the provision of an effective, efficient, impartial and accountable police service which will enjoy the support of all sections of the community. It consists of both political members and independent members.
Board members will be required to commit a minimum of four days per month to Policing Board business and be required to perform a representative role on behalf of the Board at a variety of events. Remuneration is £15k per annum. Travel and incidental expenses will be reimbursed for costs necessarily incurred on Policing Board business.
A short film by the Policing Board about the role of an Independent Board Member can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEWRrec6v4&feature=youtu.be
For further information on the role and the application form contact the Appointment Team:
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The Closing date for applications is 12:00 GMT on Friday 22 November 2019.
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U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, Pakistani Prime Minister discuss Afghan peace process
The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan held talks on Afghan peace process during a meeting in Islamabad on Monday. Prime Minister Khan told Ambassador Khalilzad that Pakistan...
By Khaama Press on Oct 29th, 2019
Karzai met with Khalilzad in the presence of U.S. Ambassador and Afghanistan’s political elites
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with the U.S. envoy for Afghan Peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in Kabul. The Office of the Former President said in a statement that the meeting took place in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador...
By Khaama Press on Sep 2nd, 2019
Pompeo’s latest remarks regarding Afghan peace after high level White House meeting
The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is diligently on the path forward in Afghanistan, reaffirming close cooperation with Afghanistan on peace process. Secretary Pompeo said in a Twitter post President Donald Trump convened...
By Khaama Press on Aug 17th, 2019
Trump to meet senior U.S. officials to review peace plan with Taliban
The U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet with senior U.S. officials to review a potential peace plan with Taliban. U.S. official privy of the development have told CNN that President Trump will meet with Secretary of State...
Khalilzad hopes this will be the ‘Last Eid where Afghanistan is at War’
The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace Zalmay Khalilzad has expressed hopes that this will be the last Eid where Afghanistan is at war. Ambassador Khalilzad said in a Twitter post “Eid Mubarak. I hope this is the last Eid where #Afghanistan...
NATO and Allies help the Afghans create the conditions for peace: Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivering speech at the Lowy Institute (Sydney) The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said the alliance strongly support efforts achieve a negotiated settlement to end the conflict in Afghanistan....
By Khaama Press on Aug 7th, 2019
Indian External Affairs Minister’s tweet hints at ‘useful discussions’ on Afghan peace
The Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said he had ‘useful discussions’ with the U.S. envoy for Afghan peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad regarding peace efforts in Afghanistan. Dr. Jaishankar said in a Twitter...
Khalilzad, Gen. Bajwa agree to continue working towards agreed goals: Pakistan military
The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace and Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa agreed to continue working towards the mutually agreed goals regarding the Afghan peace process. The Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the military of Pakistan...
By Khaama Press on Aug 3rd, 2019
Peace will require reliable assurances from Afghanistan and Pakistan: Khalilzad
The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has said that peace will require reliable assurances from Afghanistan and Pakistan that neither side’s territory is used to threaten the other. Ambassador Khalilzad made...
By Khaama Press on Aug 2nd, 2019
NATO insists on ‘preserving gains’ as U.S.-Taliban peace talks gain momentum
The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg insisted on ‘preserving gains’ in Afghanistan as the U.S. and Taliban peace talks gain momentum. Stoltenberg said “First of all I strongly support and welcome the talks which...
Karzai declares his full opposition to upcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared his opposition to upcoming presidential elections. Speaking during a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said Afghans do not have control over election affairs, claiming that foreigners,...
By Khaama Press on Aug 1st, 2019
Imran Khan may visit Afghanistan in the near future: report
The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan may visit Afghanistan in the near future in a bid to help the process, it has been reported. Sources close to Mr. Khan has told The Nation media outlet that the PM Khan will visit Afghanistan...
By Khaama Press on Jul 29th, 2019
Kabul administration to partake as political side in intra-Afghan negotiations: Taliban
The Taliban group has said the Kabul Administration would partake as a political side in intra-Afghan negotiations, not as a government. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in a statement said Sunday that the intra-Afghan negotiations...
Gen. Dunford cautiously optimistic about Afghan peace amid Doha talks, positive Islamabad statements
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Military Gen. Joe Dunford has said higher degree of positive statements are coming out of Islamabad about the Afghan reconciliation process. Gen. Dunford made the remarks during...
Intra-Afghan negotiations to take place after U.S.-Taliban agreements: Khalilzad
The U.S. envoy for Afghan peace Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has said the intra-Afghan negotiations will take place after U.S.-Taliban agreements. Ambassador Khalilzad said in a Twitter post “Lot of chatter in Kabul about intra-Afghan...
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Alpenrose Dairy in court: Deal ‘seemed deceitful’
Members of the family are fighting over whether or not to sell
by: Danny Peterson
Posted: Sep 19, 2019 / 10:28 AM PDT / Updated: Nov 20, 2019 / 06:27 PM PST
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A member of the family trying to block the sale of the Alpenrose Dairy to a Seattle-area business testified people were “trying to hypnotize my father” over what seemed like a “deceitful” deal.
Cary Cadonau took the stand in a Multnomah County courtroom Tuesday, the second day of a show-cause hearing about the sale that pits family members against each other.
The older and younger generation of the Cadonau family are facing off over the potential sale.
“My aunt Barb berated me…I was stunned and saddened,” Cadonou said as he recalled the struggle to prevent his father from being fired as co-president.
Carl Cadonau Jr., the former co-president of Alpenrose Dairy, allegedly financed his childrens’ proposal to buy the dairy, his son said. That was an effort to prevent the dairy being sold to Washington-based Smith Brothers.
Cary Cadonau’s practices as Alpenrose’s former lawyer were questioned by opposing council during the hearing over the dairy’s future. They said he used the Smith Brothers letter of intent to craft a “superior” purchasing proposal.
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Coming to the Cadonau siblings’ defense was Union Shop Steward for Alpenrose Zachary Bye, who told KOIN 6 News 115 of the 150 employees have now signed their support. He testified that employees found out in mid-August their jobs could be at stake with the sale and so far only 70 of them have reapplied to the new buyers.
Backing the employees was Alpenrose General Manager Bryce McKinnon, who credited them with the success of the company.
McKinnon confirmed in testimony that he had made 50 unauthorized photo-copies of a press packet he found on President Rod Birkland’s desk about the dairy sale to an out-of-state farm and distributed it to employees.
McKinnon, who is former co-president Carl Cadonau Jr.’s son-in-law, also testified he’d heard months before Birkland tell employees that his intent with the sale was to eventually sell the land. McKinnon worked with the Cadonau siblings to create their counter proposal to buy Alpenrose, which was voted down at a company board meeting in June.
Birkland also testified, saying the business has been on the decline the last few years. He said he’d hoped to negotiate on purchasing terms with the other family owners one-on-one before it turned to the courts.
“My mindset was we can figure this out,” Birkland said. He also described Carl Cadonau Jr. as an “equal partner” for a long time, when it came to dairy sale negotiating responsibilities.
In the first day of proceedings, Alpenrose Dairy employees and community groups attended in support of those who don’t want to sell.
Alpenrose is not just a locally known brand and business, it’s a huge part of the community, hosting Christmas and Easter events, the Softball World Series, go-cart and bicycle racing events.
A community fundraiser has already brought in nearly $25,000 to help in the legal fight.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One person was stabbed in a bar in Southwest Portland Saturday evening and police are still looking for the suspect, according to Portland Police.
Officers from the Central Precinct responded to the stabbing at SW Morrison around 8 p.m. They found a victim who had been stabbed, but the suspect had taken off. That person was sent to the hospital with what police described as non-life-threatening injuries, however, police are not identifying the victim at this time.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two women are in the running for late Commissioner Nick Fish's now vacant seat on the city's Board of Commissioners. On Saturday, KOIN 6 News sat down to speak to both of them.
Robin Castro and Diana Gutman are both passionate about the position of City Commissioner 2 and excited about the opportunity to work with the Portland public.
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Feature: Ju.D's Fruitcake
Saturday, December 9, 2017 • dessert, Feature, food, fruit cake, Ju.D Blue, Ju.D Coffee Prune Cake, Ju.D Gold, Ju.D's Fruitcake, Lifestyle
You know that Christmas is just around the corner if you see well-loved desserts are on display on store shelves or in reunions and gatherings. Fiesta ham, queso de bola, 'bibingka and puto bumbong' are a few but the stars of this season.
For the so-called "Titos and Titas of Manila", there's a holiday dessert that screams Christmas- fruitcake! Fruitcake is a cake that is made from dried fruits and nuts and spirits. It's a classic and well-loved cake by many and there's one name that you can trust when it comes to authentic fruitcakes. Meet Ju.D's Fruitcake after the jump!
Ju.D's Fruitcake
It was in 1975 when Ju.D Lao started selling fruitcakes. A two-pound loaf was only P50 at the time. The Philippine population was at 35 million and the average salary was just a bit more than a hundred pesos a day. Ju.D’s business has endured the scarcity of imported ingredients, devaluation of the peso, and all sorts of calamities. She recalls baking at midnight during the period of rotating brownouts.
Through it all, she has maintained the quality of her products. “We have been consistent and have never changed any ingredient, we always see to it that what we offer is the best,” she guarantees.
Her classic recipe was inspired by a trip to Switzerland where she was introduced to fruitcake that she enjoyed. “It was the first time that I tasted fruitcake that was so good, I wanted very badly to bring that experience to the people back home,” she reveals, admitting that she was once among those who took no delight in eating fruitcake.
After months of hard work in the kitchen, she was able to come up with a recipe that attracted the attention of family and friends. Being a Fine Arts graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, she also took care of her own branding and packaging design.
“I’ve never attended cooking classes, but I love to read cook books. I do a lot of experimentations on recipes that catch my fancy. And since I’m from a big family, I am never never short of guinea pigs or should I say, brave and curious souls,” explains Ju.D who has authored two Vegetarian cookbooks for the TzuChi Foundation which are available in the different TzuChi chapters all over the world.
Ju.D Classic Fruitcake (Original Recipe)
2-lb loaf, sealed in plastic bag, inside red gift box P1,200
Her workforce of 10 has been composed of neighbour’s maids, out of school youth, parents from public schools who are financially strapped but cannot take on regular jobs. “We only produce a lot of fruitcakes during Christmas season and we cannot afford to hire regular employees so this arrangement has been a win-win situation for all of us,” she reasons. “I remember a few years back, we had a group of young ladies from the El Shaddai Choir who came to help us, and from time to time they’ll burst into a song while working. That was a very lovely and memorable Christmas for us,” she muses.
Ju.D's Creations
1980- fruitcake cookies which she calls “Chewy Chewkies” that tastes like fruitcake but without the brandy.
8 x 150g mini loaves, individually wrapped, inside a stone-grey box
2 Classic, 2 Ju.D Blue (Blue Mountain Coffee Fruitcake), 2 Coffee Prune Cake, 2 Golden Fruitcake (with Apricots and Red Cranberries) P950.00
1990- Ju.D experimented some more and worked on different flavors for fruitcakes giving birth to Ju.D Gold- with apricots and red cranberries, Ju.D Blue- Blue Mountain Coffee fruitcakes, and Ju.D Coffee Prune Cake. Her box of mini fruitcakes contains a sampling of the different flavors.
For orders and inquiries, you may call (02) 633-1188 or (02) 633-0260.
Products may be picked up from #50 Greenmeadows Avenue, Quezon City or shipped via courier.
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City councilman's tweets about endorsements spark fire in Boise mayoral race
The contentious race became more heated after a Twitter thread between Boise City Councilman TJ Thomson and an Idaho Press reporter.
Author: Joe Parris
Boise City Councilman TJ Thomson got a lot of attention on Twitter on Thursday night as called out Idaho Press reporter Margaret Carmel about her coverage of the Boise mayoral race.
KTVB spoke with Carmel on Friday so she could explain what happened.
"The specific story he wanted me to write was saying that City Council President McLean had not received any endorsements from city council members," Carmel said.
Carmel explained that the type of article Thomson wanted her to do isn't something she would write. She explains however she did write a story explaining who did endorse Bieter and McLean.
"I don't really write about, here is a story of everybody who didn't endorse someone it's kind of like you look at who is endorsing people. It's kind of unusual to write a story about who is not endorsing," Carmel said.
Thomson went back and forth with several people, but has since said he didn't go about making his point in the best way.
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In a statement he said, in part, "I am extremely passionate about this city and it's future. In this instance my emotions got the best of me. Regardless of who wins this election, I look forward to working with the next mayor to improve the lives of all of Boise’s citizens."
Boise State political analyst Dr. Stephanie Witt agrees this race is emotional and the most contentious since at least 1993.
"I do remember a lot of healthy competition and back and forth between Coles and Andrus, Tracy Andrus, many years ago, but yes this is definitely the meaner of several of the last elections," Witt said.
Witt explained that endorsements, or lack thereof, are important in this race, but it’s tough to tell now what the effect will be.
"It may be, 'Oh I've always really liked him and he likes David, so maybe that's how I should vote'. I think that is the hope," Witt explained. "We've got two highly motivated, highly competent candidates and so they are really scrapping."
That scrapping continued as both campaigns put out statements Friday about the endorsements.
McLean campaign wrote, "The current culture set by the mayor doesn't encourage dissent or difference of opinion. I knew that when I got into this race and I knew that I wouldn't be running for public endorsements from elected officials: I would be running for Boise's people."
Bieter's campaign responded saying, "To have the endorsement of 6 current and former Boise City Council members, all of whom have served alongside my opponent and I, speaks volumes to the type of leadership Boise needs. My colleagues recognize the need for a strong leader, one who is able to make hard decisions for the long-term best interest of our city and our people."
The runoff election for Boise mayor is on Tuesday, Dec. 3. Early voting is now open.
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Whale meat fetches ‘celebration prices’ after Japanese hunt
by: MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 4, 2019 / 01:22 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 4, 2019 / 05:28 AM CDT
Brokers check whale meat before its auction in Taiji, western Japan, Thursday, July 4, 2019. Chunks of meat from the first two whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week have fetched “celebration prices” at auction. The meat came from minkes caught off the northern coast on Monday when Japan resumed commercial whaling after 31 years. Whale meat sellers celebrated the good start but expressed uncertainty about the future of their business amid slim demand. (Kyodo News via AP)
TOKYO (AP) — Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week fetched “celebration prices” at auction Thursday.
The fresh meat sold for up to 15,000 yen ($140) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), several times higher than the prices paid for Antarctic minkes, at a wholesale market in Sendai, one of several cities on Japan’s northern coasts to hold the auction.
The meat came from two minkes caught by a fleet of five catcher boats off the northern city of Kushiro on Monday when Japan resumed commercial whaling after 31 years. During those years it conducted research hunts in the Antarctic and the northwestern Pacific that conservations criticized as a cover for banned commercial hunts.
Japan left the International Whaling Commission on June 30 and has promised the whalers will stay within its 200-mile exclusive economic zone waters. The Fisheries Agency set the catch quota through the end of the year at 227 whales — fewer than the 627 Japan had hunted in those distant waters for its research program in recent years.
At Thursday’s auction, the high-priced fatty belly meat called “unesu” was part of the 120 kilograms (264 pounds) purchased by Sendai Suisan Co., the company said. It also put in 10,000 yen ($92) per kilogram for red meat. The prices were much higher than the average 2,000 yen per kilogram ($18 per 2.2 pounds).
Separately, 66 kilograms (145 pounds) of whale meat was auctioned in Taiji, one of the traditional whaling towns also known for its dolphin hunts that were shown in the documentary film “The Cove.”
Meat from whales hunted by the other fleet in the Antarctic will be frozen and distributed separately.
“They were celebration prices for a special occasion,” said company spokesman Masamitsu Sato, referring to the prices that are significantly higher than those of whales hunted in the Antarctic. He expects the prices to drop to “appropriate levels” to attract a wide range of consumers.
Despite the good start, whaling communities are uncertain about the future and whether their business is commercially viable after a decadeslong hiatus.
“We are all worried if our businesses can be profitable,” Sato said.
Whale meat sellers are also worried about slim demand. Whale meat was an affordable source of protein during the lean times after World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 223,000 tons in 1962, but whale was quickly replaced by other meats. Today, annual supply is down to about 4,000-5,000 tons, according to the Fisheries Agency.
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Venezuela is a land of great natural beauty. Few countries can boast majestic Andes Mountains, idyllic Caribbean coastline and the great rivers Amazon and Orinoco. Venezuela is a land of astonishing variety, ancient table-top mountains, waterfalls and vast grasslands. The diversity of wildlife species is one of the highest in the world. Yet a turbulent past and political and economic instability means visitors are few. For those who venture, there are plenty of treats.
The capital Caracas is a vibrant city where lofty skyscrapers sit beside sprawling shanties. A few crumbling colonial facades remain. There are excellent museums; the food is some of the best in South America and the nightlife famous. Do consult your government website on safe areas to travel.
Outside of the capital almost half the country lies in national parks and reserves. The great Orinoco River separates the vast plains from the tabletop mountains of the Gran Sabana. This is one of the best wildlife destinations you can go. The plains are home to a staggering variety of flora and fauna, including the scarlet ibis, pumas and Orinoco crocodile.
At the heart of the country are Los Llanos or plains. Llaneros, like gauchos in Argentina, are herders by trade. During wet season they drive their cattle to higher grounds as the plains annual flood. You can stay at one of the hatos ranches and learn about their way of life, traditional food, dance and annual festivals.
Further west is the Andean town Mérida, the unofficial adventure capital of Venezuela. The clear sunny mountain skies are an attractive alternative to the humid south. It’s a focus for hiking, mountain biking, rafting and even paragliding. Pull on your boots and march out onto the trails of the páramo highland pastures with wild flowers. Take the impressive cable car from the town to a viewpoint at almost 5,000 metres above sea level.
The final frontiers are the rainforest and savannas of the south east. A wild and untamed environment that has not changed much since The Spanish arrived in 1498. Columbus so overwhelmed by what he saw that he described it as ‘paradise on earth’. Angel Falls (the highest in the world) tumbles over a kilometre from the plateau to the rainforest floor. The journey by land and river to the base is still an adventure. To reach the top warrants a major expedition, or a plane. Roraima is the most well known of the Tepuis or table-topped mountains. It was the inspiration for Conan Doyle’s ‘Lost World’.
For a beach paradise visit Mochima National Park, where you can hire a boat and chug round the islands until you find a deserted cove. You can drop anchor and spend day padding across your own beach. The ultimate is perhaps the Los Roques archipelago. These have miles of pristine white-sand beaches, coral lagoons surrounded by turquoise water.
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Capital: Caracas
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For a country whose capital boasts sophisticated culinary delights, Venezuela’s favourite food is a lump of fried maize flour about the size of a fist. Yes, the arepa is the ubiquitous fast food. The cheap and filling arepa is eaten by everyone, everywhere, and it seems, at every hour of the day. Arepas are sliced open and stuffed with just about anything imaginable. On the coast are excellent fish like pargo red snapper, crayfish and shellfish. At Christmas are hallacas, maize pancakes stuffed with chicken, pork, olives and boiled in a plantain leaf.
Venezuelan rum is very good, try Cacique, Pampero or Santa Teresa; the local beer is not bad either. Chicha de arroz is a sweet drink made of milk, rice starch, sugar and vanilla.
Carnival: this popular festival takes place in February or March from the Friday before Ash Wednesday. It is celebrated with parades, music and dancing. Carúpano has one of the most famous carnivals and that of El Callao is also well known for its Caribbean influences. 5 July is Independence Day and 24 July is Bolivar’s birthday. For Christmas and New Year everything closes and transport can be a problem.
The dry season runs between November and April and is the best season for hiking and wildlife watching. Venezuela’s wet season is between May and October, although downpours are limited to a few hours in the afternoon. Venezuela is out of the Caribbean hurricane belt, so its northern coast enjoys almost dry weather year round. The best time for Los Llanos is just after the rains also an ideal time to visit Angel Falls as the water level is high.
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Confirmed: First evidence of Iranian-controlled militia involvement in southern Syria
By Caleb Weiss | June 27th, 2018 | [email protected] | @Weissenberg7
A photo released by Liwa Zulfiqar on Facebook with the caption “Men of the Syrian Arab Army and the Islamic Resistance Liwa Zulfiqar from the heart of Busra al Harir.”
The Iraqi Shia militia Liwa Zulfiqar, which is controlled by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, released a picture of its forces in the southern Syria town of Busra al Harir. The photo offers first confirmed evidence of the Iraqi militia’s – and thereby Iran’s – involvement in the current Syrian offensive on rebel-held areas in southern Syria.
Released on its Facebook page, the Iraqi Liwa Zulfiqar advertised its presence in the current offensive with several photos and videos. It also released celebratory photos from Busra al Harir yesterday. One video depicted its fighters advancing on the front alongside Syrian regime troops. Further proving its presence in Deraa, the group also released photos of a purported assassination attempt of its leader in the province.
Other photos and videos circulating online purporting to show Liwa Fatemiyoun or Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in Deraa are several years old.
Last week, the Assad regime launched it offensive in southern Syria, a zone that was ostensibly under a Russian-American ceasefire. The regime and allied forces have pushed into various areas in Deraa province, while the regime has dropped dozens of barrel bombs on various villages and Russia has reportedly launched several airstrikes in the region. Hospitals have reportedly been targeted in the barrages. The town of Busra al Harir, which sits in a strategic position in rebel-held eastern Deraa, reportedly fell to the regime yesterday.
Article updated with new information.
Video of Liwa Zulfiqar’s troops in Deraa:
Footage released by the Iranian-controlled Iraqi Shia militia, Liwa Zulfiqar, reporting to show its troops near Busra al Harir as part of the current Syrian regime offensive in Deraa – more LWJ #Syria analysis coming: pic.twitter.com/DjnSvx1ayY
— Long War Journal (@LongWarJournal) June 27, 2018
Caleb Weiss is a contributor to FDD's Long War Journal.
Tags: Deraa, Iraq, IRGC, Liwa Zulfiqar, Syria
Virgile says:
The Iranians and the Russsians have all the rights to be in Syria. They have been officially invited by the UN recognized Syrian government.
The USA’s supposed “advisors” are in Syria illegally. Their presence and their military support has been confirmed and reconfirmed.
The Syrians army has all the legal rights to use all the resources they have access to to get rid of these parasites and their proxies in the region.
When the Syrian government and military resorted to using chemical weapons on civilians they lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of God. This is also a classic overreach by Iranian Government forces and they will pay dearly for their current foreign policy strategy and lack of military preparedness. they are not ready to acquire, hold and defend a land bridge from Iran to Syria.
Hey: so what; they are invited and stand on soverign Syrian land; Guess what YOU are doing; send some high school syudents to do your foreign office job
Robin Morritt says:
Al Qaeda have never been covered by any deescalation zone agreement. Same for ISIS.
timeisaflatcircle says:
I always assume that any time there is a government offensive, Iranians and a coalition of Shia militias are involved by default.
Even in areas deep in government territory, they are always tying up loose ends and they have training facilities and weapons storage there, this has been known for years.
Those guys are pretty lightly equipped. They better hope they don’t run into a firefight. Perhaps the guy with the camera was holding all their gear so they could move quicker for the camera.
namenotrelevant says:
Read the book by HJ Poole titled Tactics of the Crescent Moon, it provides a rundown of the light infantry style of warfare being used by the Iranian-affiliated militias in Syria and Iraq. It’s a good read and I think pretty relevant to the conflict if anyone has remembered the book too.
Mark Matis says:
Before Carter, Iran was our staunch ally. And the Shah treated the decent citizens of the country well. He was rough on the terrorists. But what seems to be the problem with that?
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DavidZanilonia
Progressive Folk music
From : Baltimore, United States
Joined : Tue 18th Jul 2017, 2 years ago
So, who is DavidZanilonia
Former rock/pop ho, playing the hits for tourists and bar-goers. After a few non-popular CDs, now recording my "bucket list" music that I don't think has any commercial potential, just for me. Convinced that the world wants nothing from me except for me to play an endless stream of overplayed hit songs from 60s to 80s, so now I make recorded music for myself that I enjoy listening to in my car. Maybe somebody else will like it? Don't know.
Piano and other keyboards. Acoustic guitar.
An ancient version of Logic (Logic 7) on Mac OS 10.4.11
An ancient Mac Pro from about 2005 running OS 10.4.11. I hire outside engineers for final mixes, cuz it's not my strong suit.
A few Michelle Branch hits these days. Stuck in my head.
Yes - Close to the Edge
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
70s Prog, folk/rock, random quirky singer/songwriter
I'm too close to it to judge. Please tell me.
I gave up a lifetime of full-time gigging to work in an office. Mostly because I got older and stopped being in demand as a bar musician.
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Versatile Knowlton A Top-notch Linebacker For Natick High
KEN HAMWEY, Staff Sports Writer
Aedan Knowlton personifies versatility and leadership on a variety of fronts.
The 6-foot, 205-pound Natick High senior competes in three sports — football, lacrosse and skiing — and he’s a captain in all three. A linebacker or tight end in football, he excels as a defender in lacrosse, and he’s ranked No. 2 on the Redhawks’ ski team. He’s been a Bay State Conference all-star twice in lacrosse and once as a skier.
The 17-year-old Knowlton not only is a leader in athletics, but that ability also extends to the classroom and other activities. Knowlton is a high-honor student (3.55 GPA) who also serves as co-president of the Ski and Outdoors Club, which schedules hikes and skiing and camping trips. A mentorship captain, he’s involved in advising, assisting, and counseling freshmen.
Knowlton likes all the sports he plays but when the fall rolls around, it’s football that captures his heart. “I love the team aspect of the game,’’ he emphasized. “Football promotes brotherhood. And, it’s a sport where there’s a game plan and you strive to adhere to that.’’
So far, Knowlton and his teammates have been very effective sticking to coach Mark Mortarelli’s structure and system. The Redhawks were 5-0 at Local Town Pages deadline and poised to make a playoff run later this month.
“Our short-term goals are to keep improving and to beat Framingham on Thanksgiving,’’ Knowlton said. “Long-term, our goals are to qualify for the playoffs, get to the Super Bowl and win it. Winning a Super Bowl is realistic because we’ve got talent, we’re competitive and we’re hungry after losing our last three games last year.’’
Knowlton’s personal objectives include a BSC all-star berth, an increase in tackles and added consistency in his play. The Winthrop native is in his third varsity grid campaign, having started at linebacker since he was a sophomore. Through the team’s first five games, he has 38 tackles, 3 tackles for losses and 4 sacks.
Adean is a terrific kid,’’ said Mortarelli. “The biggest compliment I can give him is to label him as ‘a throw-back football player.’ He’s very smart and very physical. A strong-side linebacker, he’s played exceptionally well this season. A natural leader, all the players respect him.’’
Teammates trust and respect Knowlton for his stellar play and also for his leadership style. His gridiron strengths include athleticism, a high football IQ, size, closing speed, field awareness and an instinctive nature. As a captain, he leads by example, he’s communicative and most importantly, he’s supportive.
Two major victories — against Needham (42-0) and Brockton (35-25) — are good examples of Knowlton’s football savvy. “The Needham game was memorable,’’ he said. “Coming off three straight losses last year, we were motivated and we all competed well. I had a sack and three tackles but I was consistent containing the opposing backs. Against Brockton, we rallied to win and I was fortunate to get a big sack when they were deep in our territory. I was pleased with my pursuit in that game.’’
Knowlton’s style at linebacker is both physical and technical. “Being physical helps me make plays and being technical helps me make plays at the right spot,’’ he noted. “The key to success in football is preparation and our coaching staff provides lots of details.’’
Knowlton is quick to credit Mortarelli for Natick’s success but he isn’t bashful to heap praise on others, especially when Natick’s other captains or its linebacking corps is mentioned.
“Coach Mortarelli is incredible,’’ Knowlton said. “He knows what it takes to win, he’s approachable and he’s an excellent motivator. He focuses on preparation but he also insists that his players focus on academics, too.’’
Natick’s other captains are all seniors and they include linemen Josh Atwood and Jakobi Holiday and safety Felix Ferrucci. “They’re extremely talented and they all work hard,’’ Knowlton noted. “They lead in a variety of ways and they’re all team-first players. Our linebackers are very team-oriented. We’re all brothers who have each other’s back and we work to make each other better.’’
Calling his parents (Julie and Scott) role models for their support and encouragement, Knowlton hasn’t settled on a college yet but the University of Vermont, New Hampshire, Merrimack or the University of Rhode Island head his list. “I plan on majoring in business,’’ he said. “And, I plan to play sports at the club level. However, varsity football and lacrosse are still a possibility.’’
Relying on a competitive philosophy that stresses reaching his potential and enjoying athletics, Knowlton firmly believes that “if those things are occurring, then winning will be the by-product.’’
A three-sport athlete, Knowlton embraces speed while skiing and he admires the way lacrosse enables him to react instinctively. And, he’ll be the first to attest that sports have helped him learn valuable life lessons.
“Time management is so important,’’ he emphasized. “You’ve got to be on time for practice and also manage your time effectively. Sports also have taught me to be a capable leader, how to overcome adversity and how to be resilient and flexible. Mental toughness is valuable and that helps when you’re trying to overcome losing.’’
A fan of former Patriots’ linebacker Tedy Bruschi because “he was fierce on the field and he’s a great person off the field,’’ Knowlton possesses all the attributes necessary to excel in football — he’s fearless, mentally and physically tough, trustworthy and strong at the point of attack. But, what makes him a rare breed is his versatility on so many fronts. He’s at the head of the class in athletics, academics and assisting others.
Aedan Knowlton is a dynamic ambassador for Natick High.
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Lieff Cabraser Civil Justice Blog
Law360 Profiles Michael Sobol as a 2017 MVP for Cybersecurity and Privacy
December 15, 2017 by Lieff Cabraser
Law360 has named Lieff Cabraser partner Michael W. Sobol a 2017 MVP for Cybersecurity and Privacy. Mr. Sobol is one of over 100 attorneys across 38 practice areas who have “distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.”
Law360’s profile highlights Michael’s work on the Anthem Inc. case, where a 2015 data breach left the personal and medical records of 80 million Anthem customers exposed. An August 2017 settlement in the case valued at $115 million provides “very granular relief to protect consumers’ records and privacy going forward, with a compensation package that is very thorough, and an ability for people to take the steps necessary to mitigate the exposure that they faced as a result of the breach,” as Michael notes. The deal provides victims of the breach with two years of credit monitoring, coverage of out-of-pocket expenses stemming from the breach, and cash compensation to those who’ve already gotten their own credit monitoring.
The profile also discusses new cases against companies like Disney and Viacom alleging privacy violations under the federal COPPA statute over the companies’ collection of children’s data via mobile apps and games. As Michael explains, “We allege they’re not taking people’s names and Social Security numbers, but they are taking the personal identifiers that function as well as, if not better than, those other kinds of markers and allow for the tracking of children’s activities across different platforms. I think it will be an important development to see how it is that technology can be very, very invasive even if at the surface it looks like it’s very benign.”
The full profile is online at Law360 (subscription).
With more than 1,000 submissions, Law360 narrowed their list to just 157 attorneys from 78 firms across 32 practice areas to distinguish the 2017 class of MVPs. Earlier this year, Michael was also named a 2017 Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer by the National Law Journal.
Congratulations Michael!
About Michael Sobol
As the chair of Lieff Cabraser’s consumer protection practice group for the past thirteen years, Michael W. Sobol leads novel and challenging consumer protection class action lawsuits of first impression. Within the last few years, Michael’s cases have recovered over one billion dollars and have reformed the business practices for the benefit of tens of millions consumers nationwide.
The Consumer Attorneys of California have repeatedly honored Michael as a finalist for the organization’s Consumer Attorney of the Year Award. In 2011, the CAOC recognized Michael for Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo, a class action trial that proved Wells Fargo deceptively represented its accounting of debit card transactions. Those findings were affirmed on appeal, and a $203 million judgment for restitution has been entered on behalf of a class of over one million California consumers.
Michael currently represents consumers asserting that Facebook violated their privacy rights by scanning private email messages, and residents of Detroit, Michigan in a class action lawsuit against Morgan Stanley for actively ensuring the proliferation of high-cost, high-risk mortgage loans to bundle and sell mortgage-backed securities to investors.
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All-Stars #47 Luke Gromen: It’s not Stocks or Bonds but the USD that is the “odd man out”
All-Star Luke Gromen and Erik discuss:
Recap of Luke’s viewpoints expressed in prior All-Stars Interviews for context
Why USD liquidity squeeze explains apparent disagreement between stock and bond markets
Why this is a U.S. Fiscal problem in the making, despite crashing bond yields
Luke’s outlook for risk assets
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Luke Gromen began his career in the mid-1990s in the Research Department at Midwest Research before moving over to institutional equity sales and becoming a partner. While in sales, Luke was a founding editor of Midwest’s widely-read weekly summary (“Heard in the Midwest”) for the firm’s clients, in which he aggregated and combined proprietary research from Midwest with inputs from other sources.
In 2006, Luke left FTN Midwest to become a founding partner of Cleveland Research Company. At CRC, Luke continued to work in sales and edit CRC’s flagship weekly research summary piece (“Straight from the Source”) for the firm’s customers.
In 2014, Luke left Cleveland Research to found FFTT, LLC (“Forest for the Trees”), a macro/thematic research firm catering to institutions and high net worth individuals that aggregates a wide variety of macroeconomic, thematic and sector trends in an unconventional manner to identify investable developing economic bottlenecks for our customers, as we have found that excess investment returns tend to accrue to economic bottlenecks over time.
Our vision for FFTT was to create a firm that would address the opportunity we saw created by applying what customers and former colleagues consistently described as our “unique ability to put the big picture pieces together” during a time when we saw an increasing “silo-ing” of perspectives occurring on Wall Street and in corporate America.
Luke Gromen is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University. He earned the CFA designation in 2003.
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Hipster Whale’s ‘Crossy Road Castle’ Coming Soon to Apple Arcade
Chris Hauk - Oct 9, 2019
Hipster Whale, the development team behind the uber-popular game “Crossy Road” have announced they’re expanding the franchise with a new title, “Crossy Road Castle,” coming to Apple Arcade later this year.
The developer announced the news today via a trailer for the upcoming game. The game looks to sport Crossy Road-style gameplay, but in a platform game-like castle setting. No specific release date has been announced, only that it is “coming soon.”
The original Crossy Road game was first released on iOS devices and the Apple TV in 2014, and quickly rose to the top of the gaming charts, thanks to a simple tap-based gameplay and numerous unlockable characters.
While Crossy Road is available on multiple platforms, Crossy Road Castle will be available solely on Apple devices, thanks to Apple Arcade’s mobile exclusivity restrictions, preventing the game form being available on the Android platform.
Apple Arcade Games are available on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, although not all games make an appearance on all of those platforms. However, GameSpot says Crossy Road Castle will be available on all Apple Arcade platforms.
The new game will be available as part of the $4.99 per month Apple Arcade subscription fee, and will include no in-app purchases or additional costs. Up to 4 players can play the game collaboratively via a local connection.
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Electronic prescriptions: could Amazon get a taste of its own medicine?
Amazon is eyeing up a lucrative new sector, the multibillion pound pharmacy industry; but, the UK medicines market might leave Amazon with a nasty taste in its mouth, warns e-commerce home delivery experts ParcelHero
The e-commerce giant Amazon has turned its attention to a healthy new market, online pharmacies.
The e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero says Amazon is reportedly hiring a pharmacies market general manager to formulate its strategy, and is in deep discussions with industry experts ready for a major pharmaceutical launch.
ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks MILT, says pharmaceuticals are a hugely lucrative market: “In the US alone, more than 4 billion prescriptions are ordered every year; and in 2015, an estimated $300 billion was spent on prescription drugs.” And David thinks the UK pharmaceuticals market may also be an alluring option for Amazon … if ultimately unwise.
Explains David: “The UK pharmacy market is worth £12 billion a year and is growing by around 2%. Those are numbers Amazon will be eyeing enviously. The UK is often used as a test bed by Amazon for new services and Amazon may consider a trial UK pharmaceutical launch.”
“Of course, the health sector is vastly different this side of the Pond; but Amazon could certainly be successful in the non-prescription drugs market; and might also find a way in to the huge prescriptions market through the National Health Service electronic prescription service.”
However, David cautions, the UK’s pharmacy industry has already started to develop online services significantly. “Amazon’s arrival in a busy marketplace could be a drug on the market,” says David: “Though there are currently more than 5100 largely High Street chemist businesses in the UK; a move online is already taking place.”
“UK companies such as Pharmacy2U deliver prescription items to patients’ door, and offer an online questionnaire-based consultation for approval by a Pharmacy2U-employed GP. The resulting prescription is then delivered to the patient.”
Continues David: “And long-established companies have also been swift to adapt. Boots has also already enthusiastically embraced the repeat prescription delivery option; with doctor’s prescriptions collectable at your nearest store, or delivered to your home. Lloyds Pharmacy and others have a similar service.”
Observes David: “So, unlike many other markets Amazon is setting out to capture, the UK online pharmacy market has already been hugely shaken up by the NHS electronic prescription service, and the extended offering chemists have introduced around it. Amazon might not find this UK market in as sickly a state as many others it has moved into.”
Added to this, the UK pharmacy market is one of the most highly regulated in the world, with very strict rules surrounding who can dispense medicines, and proof of identity of the patient – whether online or in store.
In brief, to comply with UK law and ensure consumer trust, Amazon’s pharmacy and online consulting business would need to be registered in the UK. This would mean Amazon would have to register with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which is responsible for the Register of authorised online sellers of medicines in the UK.
If Amazon bases its online doctor service in the UK, it must be approved by the UK Care Quality Commission using UK registered GPs. Additionally, Amazon’s UK pharmacy service would not be able to sell medicines authorised in the US but not authorised in the UK.This would include any potential Amazon own label medicines not authorised for Britain.
“Make no mistake,” warns David: "This is a market Amazon are serious about. Its model is already working overseas; in Japan, Amazon’s Prime Now service already includes a section for pharmaceuticals, and even sells drugs to patients with approval from a pharmacist. But when it comes to the UK chemists market, Amazon might get a taste of its own medicine.”
And, surprisingly, Amazon doesn’t have the heathiest record when it comes to online drug sales.
Concludes David: “Amazon previously backed Drugstore.com in the late 1990s. At that time, it was believed that Amazon could take a large slice of the US pharmacy market. But it could find no cure for the fast-ailing business, which was soon sold off. If Amazon is to succeed this time, it’s a case of physician, heal thyself.”
Novartis to revamp manufacturing with the help of Amazon
Amazon poised to make huge strides in healthcare
Corporate heavyweights to tackle healthcare
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McDs serves a reo happy meal
7:22pm, Thursday 13 September 2018
McDonald's employee Janine Eru-Taueki will be serving happy meals again after receiving an apology from her Hamilton manager for not allowing her to speak Māori.
Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
The sky is the limit for te reo Māori
Continuing our search for language warriors in everyday life to celebrate Māori Language Week, Te Kāea met with Ranginui Rikirangi-Thomas, a teacher of the Māori language and Physical Education, who is promoting the use of te reo Māori in his mainstream school.
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Mayor Meng Foon grew up with te reo Māori
7:22pm, Wednesday 12 September 2018
Gisborne mayor Meng Foon is the only mayor in the country who is a fluent speaker of Te Reo Māori. He gives Te Kāea an insight into his upbringing and te reo Māori journey.
Meng Foon
ANZ bank kicks off te reo classes
Over the next five weeks, ANZ will continue to open its doors to people wanting to learn.
McDs upsizes their reo Māori
12:55pm, Wednesday 12 September 2018
A Hamilton McDonalds worker has been told by her manager not to speak Māori in the restaurant. The 19-year-old Māori speaker says she was shocked and saddened at the directive as she was keen to celebrate Māori Language Week.
Sky TV holds bilingual storytelling workshop
On Monday Sky Television ran a storytelling workshop called KIWA at Ellerslie Primary School for Māori Language week.
More Māori place names across Tāmaki Makaurau
Auckland Council has made plans to rename parks and places across the city with Māori names.
Keepa keeping it reo in world of sport
To celebrate Māori Language Week we have been following exponents of the language from the world of sports.
Te reo Māori a gift from mother to baby
11:18am, Thursday 3 January 2019
A group of Whanganui mothers are putting a spotlight on the importance of inter-generational language transmission in the preservation of te reo Māori.
Join the social media pepehā challenge!
2:32pm, Tuesday 11 September 2018
The challenge has been launched and participants are being asked to share their videos using the hashtag #1miriona.
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H2 boat will show zero-emissions are achievable
‘Water-Go-Round’ will show hydrogen power is viable
Incat Crowther
The quirkily named Water-Go-Round will demonstrate the viability of hydrogen fuel cells onboard supply vessels, ferries and a range of workboats.
Joe Pratt of Golden Gate Zero Emission Marine (GGZEM) told MJ his company GGZEM and a range of partners are on a mission “to show our communities there is a long-term solution” to pollution and climate change emissions. In fact, Dr Pratt originally developed the concept for the boat when working at the Sandia National Laboratories, and has recently set up GGZEM “because it was just too good an idea to let go, I wanted to see it through to reality”.
Supported by a $3m California Air Resources Board grant, this will be the first commercial hydrogen fuel cell vessel in the United States.
The boat is being designed by Incat Crowther has a 22-knot top speed and will be built by Bay Ship & Yacht Co of Alameda. Dual 300 kW electric motors using independent electric drivetrains from BAE Systems will be installed, with power generated by a 360 kW Hydrogenics proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell bank and Li-ion battery packs.
Hydrogen tanks from Hexagon Composites, with valves and hardware from OMB-Saleri, are installed on the upper deck, and contain enough hydrogen to go up to two days between refuelling. GGZEM’s ‘zero infrastructure’ flexible bunkering arrangement allows the Water-Go-Round to be fuelled anywhere with truck access.
After the vessel is launched it will be operated for three months in San Francisco Bay. During this period Sandia National Laboratories will independently gather and assess performance data. CARB will use the real-world data to verify the suitability of the technology for marine use. The partners will also collect feedback from passengers and operators to assess the best commercial markets.
Red and White Fleet will operate the multi-purpose vessel for the demonstration and plans to purchase the Water-Go-Round as the first of several vessels with GGZEM integrated powertrains in order to meet its commitment to a 100% zero emission operation.
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Global Offshore Wind Turbine Market - Segmented by Location, Foundation Type, Capacity, and Geography - Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2018 - 2023)
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The wind power sector has progressed significantly since the installation of the first offshore wind farm in 1991, by Elkraft (now Orsted) at Vindeby, Denmark. Although, offshore wind accounts for marginal 0.2% of the global electricity generation, factors such as technology advancement, policy support, and a maturing supply chain are making offshore wind an increasingly viable option for renewables-based electricity generation. In 2017, the global offshore wind power installations reached 4,334 MW, thereby increasing the cumulative installed capacity of offshore wind capacity to 18,814 MW. Although 84% of the total offshore wind installations are in the European waters, the governments outside the European region, particularly in the Asia-Pacific and North America have set an ambitious target for the installation of offshore wind farms in their respective territorial waters. Installations are also moving further from shore into deeper waters with a substantial increase in the height of the turbine and the associated capacity. Moreover, growing investments for the development of offshore wind farms is expected to further supplement the demand for offshore wind turbines during the forecast period, which in turn, is expected to offer enormous potential for growth for the market players.
Falling Cost Supplementing Offshore Wind Installation
The cost of offshore wind projects in 2016 on an average were considered 150% higher than onshore wind and slightly more than 50% higher than utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. However, the outcome of recent auctions in Europe that are scheduled to enter into operation in the early 2020s depicts a step reduction in costs, with an increasing trend toward unsubsidized offshore merchant wind power. The cost of subsidies has halved in the United Kingdom since 2015, witnessing a record decrease from GBP 120 per MWh to GBP per 57.50 MWh in 2017. A similar drop in bids was also seen in Netherlands and Denmark, for offshore wind farm development. Improved logistics and O&M costs, coupled with turbines getting bigger in size, have resulted in significant cost-reduction. With offshore wind installation being in the development phase as compared to other forms of renewables, the cost of offshore wind utilization is expected to fall further. Such a dramatic improvement in costs is expected to be a powerful stimulus for policy support and investment across the globe, resulting in an increased demand for wind turbine during the forecast period.
Europe to Maintain High Growth Rate
In 2017, a 3.14 GW of record installation was witnessed in the European offshore wind industry, corresponding to 560 new offshore wind turbine installations across 17 wind farms. Although, the share of Europe reduced from approximately 90% in 2016 to 84% in 2017 in the total wind power installations, the total turbine installation was 13% higher than the previous record in 2015. Fourteen projects came online in 2017 including Europe’s first floating offshore wind farm. Furthermore, 6 new offshore wind project received Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2017, with numerous new projects are scheduled for FID in the coming year. This, in turn, is expected to present Europe as an excellent business destination for players involved in the wind farm business during the forecast period.
China Set to Become New Hotspot
In 2017, China alone witnessed an offshore installation of 1.16 GW with installation spread across 18 wind farms. The Jiangsu province alone leads the total installation with 968 MW in 2017. The country has set a target of 5 GW of offshore wind installation by 2020, which in turn, is expected to supplement the demand for wind turbines in the country. Policy support, falling cost, and improving logistics are expected to be instrumental in growing offshore wind turbine installation.
Key Developments in the Market
April 2018: Jan De Nul Group and Hitachi Ltd, has signed a contract for the manufacturing and installation of 21, 5.2MW wind turbines for the Changhua Offshore Wind Farm Project in Taiwan
January 2018: Imenco won the contract for world’s largest offshore wind farm
The major players include - Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA, General Electric Company, Nordex SE, Senvion SA, Suzlon Energy Ltd, Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. Ltd., Guodian United Power Technology Company Limited, Enercon GmbH, Envision Energy Limited, Hitachi, Ltd., among others.
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2.1 Scope of the Report
2.3 Study Assumptions
2.4 Study Deliverables
2.5 Research Phases
3.2 Market Size and Demand Forecast until 2023
3.3 Installed Offshore Wind Capacity in MW (2010-2017)
3.4 Key Offshore Wind Projects
3.5 Recent Trends and Developments
3.6 Government Policies & Regulations
3.7 Investment Opportunities
5. Value Chain Analysis
6. Industry Attractiveness – Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
6.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
6.2 Bargaining Power of Consumers
6.3 Threat of New Entrants
6.4 Threat of Substitute Products and Services
6.5 Intensity of Competitive Rivalry
7. Market Segmentation and Analysis (Overview, Market Size and Demand Forecast until 2023)
7.1 By Location
7.1.1 Shallow Water
7.1.2 Deepwater
7.2 By Foundation Type
7.2.1 Monopile
7.2.2 Tripod
7.2.3 Gravity Base
7.3 By Capacity
7.3.1 < 5 MW
7.3.2 > 5 MW
8. Regional Market Analysis (Overview, Market Size and Demand Forecast until 2023)
8.1.3 Rest of North America
8.2.5 Rest of Asia-Pacific
8.3.1 United Kingdom
8.3.2 Netherlands
8.3.4 Denmark
8.3.5 Belgium
8.3.6 Rest of Europe
8.4 Rest of the World
8.4.1 Middle East & Africa
8.4.2 South America
9. Key Company Analysis* (Overview, Products & Services, Financials**, Recent Development, and Analyst View)
9.1 Vestas Wind Systems A/S
9.2 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA
9.3 General Electric Company
9.4 Nordex SE
9.5 Senvion SA
9.6 Suzlon Energy Ltd
9.7 Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. Ltd.
9.8 Guodian United Power Technology Company Limited
9.9 Enercon GmbH
9.10 Envision Energy Limited
9.11 Hitachi, Ltd.
10. Competitive Landscape
10.1 Mergers and Acquisitions
10.2 Joint Ventures, Collaborations, and Agreements
10.3 Market Share Analysis
10.4 Strategies Adopted by Leading Players
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Mortgage rates went up, but geopolitics could expand Americans’ home-buying power
By Jacob Passy
Published: Jan 16, 2020 12:43 p.m. ET
The ‘phase one’ trade deal between the U.S. and China didn’t significantly boost optimism among investors
Uncertainty around the globe could be a boon to brave home buyers.
JacobPassy
Mortgage rates edged up slightly over the last week amid continued uncertainty about the state of global affairs.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.65% during the week ending Jan. 16, up a single basis point from the previous week when rates dropped amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Freddie Mac FMCC, +2.34% reported Thursday.
The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage increased two basis points to an average of 3.09%, according to Freddie Mac. The 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable mortgage averaged 3.39%, rising nine basis points from a week ago.
The direction of mortgage rates tends to reflect movement in the 10-year Treasury yield. Before this past week, investors had rushed to purchase Treasury notes as a precautionary measure when it looked likely that a conflict could emerge between the U.S. and Iran. As a result, the yield on these notes fell, causing mortgage rates to drop to their lowest levels in a month.
Read more: Will 2020 be a good year to buy a home? Here’s what the experts say
But this week, the yield on the 10-year Treasury noted improved somewhat as tensions in the Middle East abated and the U.S. and China signed the first phase of their trade deal. While an improvement, the investor response nevertheless was somewhat muted, said Zillow ZG, +1.60% economist Matthew Speakman.
“Wednesday’s signing of an initial trade deal between China and the U.S.— a major development in what has been the most impactful story in bond markets over the past several months — prompted only a small response from investors that are otherwise cautiously digesting the news,” Speakman said. “The fact that many tariffs will remain in place illustrates the distance that still remains between the two nations and that will need to be covered in order to come to an enduring agreement.”
If global geopolitical uncertainty continues, the 10-year Treasury yield and mortgage rates could continue their roller-coaster ride. That could benefit Americans willing to take a risk and enter the housing market, said Mark Fleming, chief economist at financial services company First American FAF, +0.82% .
“While global uncertainty can reduce domestic consumer confidence in their own economic future and cause potential home buyers to hesitate before purchasing the largest durable consumer good of their lifetime, a home, there is a benefit too,” he said in a recent report.
That benefit could come in the form of increased buying power. If increased uncertainty were to push the 10-year Treasury yield down to 1.6% from where it is now at 1.8%, that could send the 30-year fixed mortgage rate as low as 3.3%, Fleming said.
Also see: Renting is more affordable than buying in almost 50% of these housing markets — and they tend to have one thing in common
“Assuming no change in household income, that would mean a house-buying power gain of $21,000, a five percent increase,” he said. “Amid uncertainty, the house-buying power of U.S. consumers can benefit significantly.”
Of course, Americans have pressures here at home that make buying a home more challenging. “While the outlook for the housing market is positive, worsening homeowner and rental affordability due to the lack of housing supply continue to be hurdles, and they are spreading to many interior markets that have traditionally been affordable,” said Sam Khater, chief economist at Freddie Mac.
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Jacob Passy is a personal-finance reporter for MarketWatch and is based in New York.
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Wed, 05 Dec 2012 | Ancient Egypt
By the time of the Roman Empire (27 b.c.e.-476 c.e.), both men and women had largely given up the customs of simplicity and frugality that characterized early Rome. One of the most popular ways for people to ornament themselves was through hair dyes. The many traders and slaves that came to Rome and other Roman cities as a result of the empire's great expansion exposed the Romans to a wide variety of hair colors.
The most popular hair coloring in ancient Rome was blond, which was associated with the exotic and foreign appearance of people from Gaul, present-day France, and Germany. Roman prostitutes were required by law to dye their hair blond in order to set themselves apart, but many Roman women and men followed suit. The other most popular hair colors were red and black. The most striking hair coloring effects of all could only be afforded by the very wealthiest Romans; some of them powdered their hair with gold dust. The emperor Commodus (161—192 c.e.), who ruled from 180 to 192 c.e., was especially famous for powdering his snow-white hair with gold.
Romans used a variety of methods and ingredients for dyeing their hair. Some used henna, a plant-based reddish brown dye, and others used berries, vinegar, or crushed nutshells. Perhaps the strangest hair dye was a preparation used to turn the hair black that was made from leeches mixed with vinegar. Women would allow this awful mixture to ferment; after two months they would apply it to their hair and sit in the sun to allow it to bake in. People have continued to color their hair throughout history, but thankfully dyeing techniques have become a bit more pleasant.
Batterberry, Michael, and Ariane Batterberry. Fashion: The Mirror of History. New York: Greenwich House, 1977.
"Coma." Smith's Dictionary: Articles on Clothing and Adornment. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/ Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Coma.html (accessed on July 24, 2003).
Cosgrave, Bronwyn. The Complete History of Costume and Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.
[See also Volume 3, Sixteenth Century: Hair Coloring; Volume 5, 1946-60: Hair Coloring]
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Why The Mystics Matter :
Absence, Presence and Discovery In Our Muddled World
'Strive to preserve your heart in peace; let no event of this world disturb it', wrote Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, known more commonly as John Of The Cross (1542-1591). A tough ask might come the reply when one reflects with any degree of sensitivity on the events in today’s troubled world! The months of May and June 2017 were particularly dark periods of unimaginable loss and pain for many communities in the UK. The Manchester and the London terror attacks, followed by the ‘Grenfell Tower’ fire left citizens shaken, angry and fearful. Our screens - TV that now records the moment and the magnitude of the moment - floored us with images, both horrific and shocking. The individual accounts of people caught up in the terrible realities cast long, solemn and uncomfortable shadows. Youth, talent, wisdom, beauty…..stolen from us within a matter of minutes. Time seemed locked in despair. Families left bereaved, communities left isolated. Our buildings, our streets, our neighbourhoods, felt more vulnerable, more exposed than ever. Our powerlessness in the face of tragedy, more palpable.
Those same media networks that relayed images of brutality and loss were then, poised and ready, to record immediate reactions and responses to the unfolding events, but seemed only to meet with responses that were often muddled and searching. In the aftermath of the incidents some politicians, civic leaders and social commentators seemed distant from the reality of suffering and unable to convey people’s sense of fear, despair and loss. Any stock answer provoked more questions. There was a kind of void - an 'absence' - as we struggled to come to terms with the human pain inflicted by such human cruelty, and human neglect. An absence of leadership, an absence of direction, an absence of truth seemed more obvious than ever in an already troubled world.
Muddled and confused responses, as distinct to clear visions and proactive measures, were perhaps nothing new to many British people. Here was a nation still deliberating on the significant vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 (....along with the ubiquitous term 'Brexit', and the subsequent discussion as to what that might mean in practice) and the prospect of further regional fragmentation of the UK, with continuing fallout from the referendum on Scottish independence in September 2014.
Major challenges remain ahead of us as a nation, but by returning to John’s plea to ‘preserve peace in our hearts’, his words might offer an added ring of meaning when we consider their wider historical context. His 16th century world was a troubled and most turbulent place. The Reformation period had opened up people's deepest fears about the direction of their material and their spiritual life, it had threatened existing political and religious hierarchies and left thousands of innocent people massacred across Europe. John himself was imprisoned and physically maltreated for nearly a year as courageous reformers within the Church asked searching and critical questions about the basis of theological truth and any moral outlook on the future. New ideas and ethical codes, promoted by the rapid developments in printing at the time and by charismatic and outspoken figures, along with the ever looming threat of further brutal conflict, had shaken people from their comfort zones in spectacular ways. Religious visions and political posturing went hand in hand as ordinary people were left at the mercy of factional power bases. However, there was something quite distinct that marked the little Carmelite friar, John, out from the times in which he lived. He was a poet and a mystic, ready to turn beyond language, rhetoric and doctrine, to search for truthful and trustful relationships.
One of the key elements of the mystical tradition of which writers like John of The Cross, Teresa Of Avila (1515-1582) and Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) are part, is a readiness to confront the truth within themselves regardless of how hurtful and upsetting that process might be. They maintained, in the face of mayhem and misery, that both joy and suffering can lead us to shining points of discovery or broader understandings of who we are and our real purpose. Teresa of Avila implored her community of reforming sisters to remember in trying times that 'all things pass' and affirmed the principle that 'through sorrow God calls to us'. The thirteenth century Islamic scholar and poet, Rumi (1207-1273), echoes this sense that any present darkness in our lives will never shut out truth completely when he writes, 'the wound is the place where the Light enters you'. Layers of anxiety and uncertainty - fueled by our constant stream of 24 hour news - should similarly not push us towards a bleak and solely pessimistic view of human potential and progress. In simple terms we should never lose that appreciation of our secret adventure to discover, or seek out, what John called the 'flame' or the near presence of the Eternal.
Perhaps the key to understanding some of the mood of gloom and confusion that currently pervades the UK is to be honest enough to admit to a sense that decisions made at a socio-political level have too often stemmed from an absence of perseverance and of trust. For what preceded the Manchester and London attacks was a particularly trying and testing phase. An election in the UK in June 2015 left many disillusioned with the state of British politics, and raised questions about how an unfair electoral system and an adversarial style could ever spark any real lasting change. There were the serious challenges of a chronically underfunded health and social care system, and a wider distrust of the political elite caused in part by a series of 'Parliamentary Expenses' scandals that left the public bewildered. People became sceptical about other people's motives, there seemed little if any 'faith' in people's potential to unite and to transform lives. It is credit to the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, that despite much doubt and apathy, he has mobilised many young people to consider what they can do themselves from a grass roots level to affect change.
On a wider scale too, war and the ‘legacy of war’ continue to have their impact. The world has undoubtedly begun to feel smaller and circumstances witnessed some years ago in countries such as Iraq, Libya and Syria, now feel just that little bit nearer to our everyday lives. It is indeed tougher than ever 'to let no event in this world disturb the peace of the heart'. There is (….as we write) the continuing refugee crisis and the ongoing tensions on the Korean peninsula. And of course there was in November 2016 the surprise election of President Trump to the White House. Still cousins, still friends? Both within these shorelines and beyond, here was some further uncertainty....if it was ever needed, about the role that our neighbours should play in our island lives. People of all ages and all backgrounds seem to have grown tired and uneasy as they were confronted by the stream of ‘negative news’. And as they struggled to find positives amid the negatives, along came the incessant storm around the ‘fake news’ agenda!
In a world of ‘absences’ we can too easily fill the spaces with words and self-proclaimed truths for the sake of it. It doesn’t need any definite ‘agenda’ as such; we now do it all the time for ourselves. At the workings of our fingertips, we can, more rapidly than ever, select the precise information that allows us to pitch the best representation of ourselves online. Information, text and images that help us project our version of 'the self' into an arena of ‘competing selves’! Technology has brought such challenging and disturbing information now to our attention, and yet it fuels and releases the various perceptions we hold of ourselves. Energies are naturally sapped in this non-stop cycle. We live and breathe in our crowded computerised space. The danger becoming that there remains little or no ‘wide, sweet spaces’ kept open for higher beauty and for encounter ‘….where fervent longings watch and wait thy coming’ (Julian Of Norwich, 1342-1416).
Maybe there is a basic issue that lies within our political and cultural life working as an obstacle to deeper progress, confidence and understanding. That is the absence of a genuine openness, or what the Zen Buddhist author, Thich N. Hahn (b.1926), calls 'deep listening’ in the here and the now. This is not just the capacity to sit down with another for a prolonged period of time and absorb their important information, their experiences or their emotional state. It is rather an approach to building trust so as we can serve others in need and encourage our own potential and others' potential more effectively. It begins with less of a rigid view on time and involves a journey around the simplicity and the sincerity of the human heart.
In many ways there are parallels with music here as a means of giving us renewed energy and purpose, something that allows us to move beyond 'the here and now'. Singer/Songwriter Van Morrison writes on his album ‘Beautiful Vision’ (released 1982) about the value of the search for truth and deeper contemplation. ‘Let your flame burn into the night.…for I saw you knocking with your heart’. Music can help us convey and express emotions and ideas, but it can also help us listen in a completely unique way, to appreciate pain, to open us up to joy, to company. True listening experiences are associated with live performances and the presence of others, with intimate recorded moments and ‘bodies’ of work. These collections still reach out to us and help us to listen more deeply, to see the 'flame' of the artist and be open to their journey, their sway on us.
Listening with patience is critical in an age of puzzlement and muddle, of technology and non-stop talk. Searching for presence behind the absence, a human necessity. There is sadly no modern framework that encourages ideas such as ‘discernment’, 'receptivity' and ‘vocation’. These terms were of course traditionally held within almost exclusively religious structures and defined accordingly along with rigid doctrines, a centralised power base and often extremely limited choices for the majority of people. They were embedded within wider religious language and vocabulary inaccessible to vast numbers of ordinary men and women.. And yet, they are terms which could be re-discovered as ‘springs’ of deep listening, opportunities that stem from real time and space that we give others and make for ourselves.
Carmelite nun, Teresa of Avila, wrote about the ‘expansion of the heart’, Dominican Meister Eckhart about the goal of a ‘peaceful heart’, but both emphasise that these new ways of being are achievable only through a new approach to listening. Technology might present so much more for us to ‘listen to’, but it cannot help us to ‘listen more deeply’. Listening with patience involves courage to step aside of ourselves - a going behind and beyond the words, encountering new inner dimensions. Perhaps it involves starting from the perspective that all humans are merely searching for value - in complex, simple, false and truthful ways during the course of a lifetime.
Mystics point to the 'Presence' of goodness in our world (realities tinged with traces of the Eternal) as a means of measuring our lives and our worth. Instinctive responses to kindness, to care, to nature, to humour, to open and sincere conversation, to childlike prompting, become the barometer by which we can gauge truth afresh.
After the terror attacks and the Grenfell fire there came an overwhelming sentiment to fill the void – the loss and the sadness – with compassion, steady perseverance and solidarity. By taking small steps, with the support of other human beings - near and afar – those same affected communities initiated the long journey of healing, restoring value, seeking truth, identifying again with goodness and with love. The events that unfolded over those difficult weeks seemed to resonate profoundly with many on a spiritual and a personal level.
Embracing times of uncertainty, or the unknown, with a spirit of reflection, followed by a spirit of doing - acting in the interest of others directly - can remind us of our capacity to reach one another on a higher level, to extend hands, ears and hearts towards people of faith or of no faith. Religion is essentially about parameters, spirituality about possibilities and it is here that the mystical traditions (within all our major world faiths) can offer models for a considered and pragmatic way forward. Children murdered at a pop concert by those little older than children themselves could suggest that an absence of love and truth has a firm hold. But that is never the whole story. Our very breath and the dawn light remind us of different possible paths.
The mystical traditions have always worked around this confidence in, and understanding of, ‘Presence’; that which can and does lift us gently, often silently in our daily lives, beyond those temporal dilemmas and anxieties. This ‘Presence’ could be in the form of light, in food, in song, in prayer, in company. Our search for it is satisfied by discovering and forging that human bond with others in the face of common tragedy, in public spaces, in personal conversation, in peaceful moments.
However, there is no romanticism here, or loose attempt to ‘escape' from situations and events that take place around us. Any sense of ‘Presence’, as a permanent source of comfort and ease is unfeasible. It is not something that is continually manifest in our lives. ‘Presence’ can fade in and fade out; it can re-surface and then seem distant again. Living with the fading in and fading out of ‘Presence’ is what mystics do. They acknowledge human pain, and they point to the positive influences on us that remain numerous in this world. The mountain, the coast, the breeze, the multi-layered colours of nature, intimacy, friendship, all play their part. And yet the mystics push for, and speak up for, a peace and a stillness like no other – a joyful union – that belongs to all of us.
Witnessing our fellow beings clinging to life in the summer of 2017, and us knowing its great preciousness again through suffering, may have marked a small watershed in the way the British public defines ‘common humanity’. Individual and communal actions and kindness have left their impression and probed us around the ways we might fill the lives of those in need, not just with sympathy and with donations, but with our gifts and creative talents, our active love and compassion.
Anglican priest and poet George Herbert (1593-1633) urged, ‘Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command…..for better tools will be found as you go along’. Perhaps the 'tools' he writes of are the tools of self-discovery, of self-knowledge, necessary to preserve a sense of inner peace, and yet they are the very same tools that enable us to make a lasting difference to our community and society around us.
To take the necessary steps aside, away from the pressures and the anxieties of the world is the challenge - in terms of making time and space, in finding a genuine distance away from our overwhelming thoughts and emotions. It is the pace and the demands of the world that sap our energy…..and somehow the news, the media and information technology ‘bubble’ have become 'our world'. The call of the mystics is to discover again what lies in proximity to us, to return to the simple and the pure sources of joy:
''The silent music,
The murmuring solitude,
The supper which revives, and enkindles love' (John Of The Cross)
There and then, refreshed, newly aware, we can move confidently back into the world without it unduly disturbing us.
September 2017 :
For Sr. Judith and all the community at Maryton Grange
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Charitable Giving and Helping
If you continually give, you will continually have . . .
This I’ve learned with time -
What you give, you always get back;
What you sow, you reap in kind.
Always be helpful to others
And give what you can spare;
For by being kind to strangers,
We may help angels unaware.
“The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.” -Leonard Nimoy (1931 - 2015)
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” -Clara Lucas Balfour (1808 - 1878): “Sunbeams for All Seasons: Counsels, Cautions, and Precepts” (1861)
A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad,
The more he cast away the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part Two, Section VII
In modern parlance, the above would be as follows.
A man there was, and they called him mad;
For the more he gave, the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part 2, Section 7
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Middlemarch” (1871)
“Givers get given to.” -Russell Simmons
“We are not put on this Earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.” -Jeff Warner
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We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
Love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the mind:
Ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals, principles, plans, inventions, projects, poetry.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the spirit:
Prayer, vision, beauty, aspiration, peace, faith.
We give of ourselves when we give the gift of words:
Encouragement, inspiration, guidance.
by Author Unknown
“What counts most in life is what we do for others.” -Author Unknown
“It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.” -George Albert Smith
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward Heaven.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Al’s wife devoted a lot of her time to nursing sick birds, and Al was tired of it. One evening, he came home to find an oil-soaked seagull in his favorite chair while a duck on the ottoman pecked listlessly at a piece of fruit. He strode into the kitchen, where his wife was comforting a shivering little wren. “I can’t take it!” he yelled. “Please, dear,” she interrupted, “not in front of the children.”
“Give help rather than advice.” -Luc de Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747))
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” -John Andrew Holmes, Junior
“It’s not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.” -Patti Thor, website www.PattiThor.com
“The giver receives more than the receiver gets.” -Author Unknown
“I wondered why somebody didn’t do something, and then I realized I am somebody.” -Lily Tomlin (born 1939)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.” -A. P. Gouthey (Aldolph Philip Gouthey (some sources show Adolph Philip Gouthey (1892 - 1963)))
Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948), the Indian statesman and spiritual leader, was noted for his humanity and selflessness. Gandhi was boarding a train one day, with several companions and followers, when his shoe fell from his foot and disappeared in the gap between the train and platform. Unable to retrieve it, he took off his other shoe and threw it down by the first. Responding to the puzzlement of his fellow travelers, Gandhi explained that a poor person who finds a single shoe is no better off - what is really helpful is for a poor person to find a pair of shoes.
“The hand that gives is the hand that gets.” [English translation]
“An làmb a bheir, ’s i a gheibh.” [original Scots Gaelic]
“Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.” -Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek (1944 - 2019))
“When you find yourself in the position to help someone, be happy and feel blessed because God is answering that person’s prayer through you.” -Alberto P. Casing (similar quotation attributed to Becky Hernley Brown)
“What the poor need is not a hand-out, but a hand-up.” -Author Unknown
Riddle: Where is the best place to find a helping hand?
Answer: At the end of your own arm.
“The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.” -Fred Dehner
“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960)): in an interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, as quoted in S. J. Woolf (Samuel Johnson Woolf): “Drawn from Life” (1932)
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” -Sally Koch
“When you help someone up a hill, you get nearer to the top yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” -Frank A. Clark (1911 - 1991)
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy of about six or seven years of age was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes on and his clothes were mere rags. A young woman passing by saw the little boy and could read the longing in his pale blue eyes. She took the child by the hand and led him into the store. There she bought him new shoes and a complete suit of warm clothing. They came back outside into the street and the woman said to the child, “Now you can go home and have a very happy holiday.” The little boy looked up at her and asked, “Are you God, Ma’am?” She smiled down at him and replied, “No son, I’m just one of His children.” The little boy said, “I knew you had to be some relation.”
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Thomas Morell
“Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.” -Carmelia Elliott
“The best gifts cost so little: the gift of your presence, your welcoming smile, a pleasant greeting, a handshake or embrace, a nod of acknowledgement, a moment in time, a listening ear, a simple joke, a hearty laugh.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” -Sidney J. Phillips
A big, strong man visited a church and asked to see the pastor’s wife, a woman well known for her charitable inclinations. “Madam,” he said in a broken voice, “I wish to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district. The father is dead, the mother is too ill to work, and the nine children are starving. They are about to be turned into the cold, empty streets unless someone pays their rent, which amounts to $2,400.” “How terrible!” exclaimed the pastor’s wife. “May I ask who you are?” The sympathetic visitor applied his handkerchief to his eyes. “I’m the landlord,” he sobbed.
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Acts,’ chapter 20, verse 35
A policeman was taking an accident report at an elementary school when he was interrupted by a six-year-old girl. She looked up and down at his uniform and asked, “Are you a policeman?” “Yes, I am,” he said. “My mother told me that if I ever needed help I should ask a policeman - is that right?” the girl asked. “Yes, it is,” said the policeman. The girl extended her foot to the policeman and said, “Okay, then, would you tie my shoe?”
Overheard: Sharing is caring!
“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.” -Author Unknown: “The Talmud”
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco (born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith; also known as Elizabeth Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1945))
“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” -Author Unknown
“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” -Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” -Flora Edwards
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933))
“Don’t do for others what, given the chance, they wouldn’t do for themselves.” -Author Unknown
“One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but ends up impoverished.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Proverbs,’ chapter 11, verse 24
“Givers need set limits because takers rarely do.” -Rachel Wolchin
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
“There are people in life, and there are many of them, whom you will have to help as long as they live. They will never be able to stand alone.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“You have to give before you get.” -Author Unknown
“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.” -Catherine Hall
“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs (Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1877 - 1862)): “England Speaks” (1935), page 328
A minister soliciting for a worthy cause was turned down by a curt letter that ended, “As far as I can see, this Christian business is one continuous give, give, give.” The clergyman wrote back, “Thank you for the best definition of the Christian life I have ever heard.”
“A candle lights others and consumes itself.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade.” -George Eliot -George Eliot (pseudonym of Marian Evans Cross, also known as Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Daniel Deronda” (1876)
“Keeping from falling, is better than helping up.” -Author Unknown
“Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others, only to discover we have made a difference in our own.” -Ellie Braun-Haley
The Old Woman of Leeds
There was an old woman of Leeds,
Who spent all her time in good deeds;
She worked for the poor
Till her fingers were sore,
This pious old woman of Leeds!
“Giving opens the way for receiving.” -Florence Scovel Shinn (1871 - 1940)
“He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Always help someone. You might be the only one who does so.” -Author Unknown
“Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960))
“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.” -Bryant McGill (born 1969)
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” -Homer
“It is in giving that we receive.” -Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226): “The Prayer of Saint Francis”
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
-Doctor Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (1971)
“The good you do for others will eventually find its way back to you, as echo returns to sender.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.” -Grace Spear
“He belongs to so many benevolent societies that he is destitute.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.” -Theocritus (about 300 B.C.E. - after 260 B.C.E.)
“You can get anything you want in this life if you help other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” -Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994): “Too Sensitive” (1967)
Thank you for joining us today on MFOL! . . . may the bluebird of happiness always be perched upon your windowsill . . .
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Valletta take on F91 Dudelange
Valletta will be facing F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg in the first leg of the first qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League at the Stade Josy Barthel in Luxembourg on Tuesday, kick-off at 20:00.
The winners from this stage would face Ferencváros or Ludogorets while the losers move on to the UEFA Europa League where they would face either Nõmme Kalju of Estonia or Shkëndija of North Macedonia.
It will be no easy match for the Citizens considering that F91 Dudelange became the first club from Luxembourg to reach the group stage of the UEFA Europa League last season.
This summer, Valletta made only minimal changes to their squad, signing Kevin Tulimieri and Douglas Packer. On the other hand, Raed Ibrahim Saleh and Miguel Angel Alba moved elsewhere. Darren Abdilla has been appointed as their new coach, taking over from Gilbert Agius who led the team in the final six weeks of last season after replacing Danilo Doncic.
F91 Dudelange is a professional football club based in Dudelange, Luxembourg and plays in the Luxembourg National Division. It was formed in 1991 as a merger between three teams in the city: Alliance Dudelange, Stade Dudelange and US Dudelange. Domestically, it has won the Luxembourg National Division 15 times and the Luxembourg Cup eight times.
They won the championship last season after finishing nine points clear of Fola Esch and went on to win the Cup after defeating Etzella Ettelbrück 5-0
Since their first participation in UEFA club competitions, they reached a further round on three occasions apart the fine run in the UEFA Europa League last season. In 2005/06, they eliminated Zrinjski Mostar from the UEFA Champions League; in 2011/12, they eliminated FC Santa Coloma of Andorra in the UEFA Champions League; in 2012/13, they managed to eliminate Tre Penne of San Marino and Red Bull Salzburg from the UEFA Champions League. Last year, they were eliminated from the UEFA Champions League by MOL Vidi of Hungary with a 2-3 aggregate score but in the UEFA Europa League, they defeated Drita of Kosovo 3-2, Legia Warsaw of Poland 4-3 and CFR Cluj of Romania to make it to the group stage where they finished fourth behind Real Betis, Olympiakos and AC Milan.
Last season, Valletta were eliminated from the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round by Kukësi on the away goals rule while in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, they lost 2-3 on aggregate to Zrinjski Mostar of Bosnia Herzegovina.
In all, Valletta qualified for a second round of a UEFA competition on seven occasions, eliminating Barry Town of Wales in 1999, Keflavik of Iceland in 2009, Tre Fiori of San Marino in 2011, FC Lusitans of Andorra in 2012, La Fiorita of San Marino in 2013, B36 Torshavn of the Faroe Islands in 2016 and SS Folgore of San Marino in 2017.
This will only be the second time teams from Malta and Luxembourg were drawn together. In the 1968/69 Cup Winners Cup, Sliema Wanderers eliminated Rumelange on the away goals rule.
The second leg will be played at the Centenary Stadium on Tuesday 16, kick-off at 20:00.
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October 24, 2018 10:24 am Geraldine Strawbridge
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Charities are increasingly under attack and are proving to be a very attractive target for cybercriminals. They have access to sensitive data, receive huge amounts in donations and will typically have a lower level of cybersecurity than larger organisations.
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Cybercriminals don’t care about the good causes that the charities support, they see an easy target that they can profit from and will try all avenues to gain a foothold within the organisation.
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Laverna Brandt
Laverna Brandt, age 97, of York, died Friday, April 14, 2017 at York.
She was born Jan.19, 1920 at Woodruff, Kan. to Arley Edgar Hageman and Florence (Bradley) Hageman. She was a bookkeeper for Montgomery Wards in McCook and Denver, Colo. Her enjoyment came with genealogy, bird watching and the coffee club in Superior. She played on a girl’s baseball team; she loved to dance especially Ballroom, played piano and was a member of a small local band with her sisters. On Jan. 31, 1942 she was married to John B. Brandt at Oberlin, Kan.
She is survived by son, John W. (Kami) Brandt of Ogallala and his children, Suzie (Aaron) Dexter of Thornton, Colo., Logan and Jacob Dexter; Jodi Deaver of Denver, Colo. and her children, Arianna, Elliana, Alliyah, Chelsea and Regie; Jonathan (Mimi) Brandt of Kearney, their children Jonas Burton Brandt, August Emerson Brandt and a great-granddaughter to be born in May; Daughter, Joyce (David) Samson of York and her children, Jay Nelson of Bradshaw and his friend Deb Bray; Jill (Randy) Shaw of Crete and their children, Tyler (Katy) Shaw and their baby daughter, Collins Rosella Shaw of Pleasant Dale, Tristan Shaw and Taryn Shaw both of Crete; Jackie (Clay) Bittinger of Henderson and their children Tori Bittinger and fiancé Kendall Gierhan of Utica and Jordan and Ashley Bittinger of Lincoln. Laverna was blessed to hold and enjoy her great-great-granddaughter, the fifth generation; son, Jim (Faith) Brandt of Colorado Springs, Colo.
She is also survived by her brothers, Glenn (Jeanne) Hageman of Denver, Colo. and Wayne (Lois) Hageman of Torrington, Wyo. and a sister, Marylou Hartzog of Ogallala, many nieces, nephews, and their families, along with their Texas and Nebraska friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one brother, Raymond Bradley Hageman; brother-in-law, Ron Hartzog; one sister, Bernice (Jim) Turner; sister-in-law and brothers, Morris (Virginia) Brant, Ruth (Don) Bridgmon and Marge (Curtis) Ely; nephews, Bradley Wayne Hartzog, James Clayton “Butch” Brandt and Gary Hageman and her parents-in-law, J. Arthur and Anna Brant.
Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 2017 at the Metz Chapel in York with the Reverend Art Phillips officiating. Burial will be in York’s Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 to 8 p.m., Friday. Family will greet friends one hour prior to services Saturday. Memorials may be sent to the family for later designation.
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Hain Celestial Group sells Hain Pure Protein to private equity firm
Source: Hain Celestial Group Inc.
By Keith Nunes
NEW YORK — Aterian Investment Partners III LP, a private equity company that focuses on turning around middle market companies, has agreed to buy the Hain Pure Protein Corp. from the Hain Celestial Group, Inc. for $80 million.
The Hain Pure Protein business includes such brands as Empire Kosher and FreeBird. The transaction is expected to close before June 30.
“We are pleased to have entered into an agreement for the sale of our remaining Hain Pure Protein businesses,” said Mark L. Schiller, president and CEO of Hain Celestial. “This divestiture is another step forward in simplifying our organization aligned with our transformational strategic plan as we aggressively pursue margin enhancing initiatives to fuel long-term sustainable growth and profitability.
“We expect the sale of Hain Pure Protein to also help improve our balance sheet as we generate cash from the sale with which we plan to use in part to pay down debt. We believe these non-core brands will generate better results under the ownership of an organization that is focused on the protein category.”
This is the second divestment the Hain Celestial Group has made this week. On May 6, the company said it has sold its WestSoy plant-based food business to Keystone Natural Holdings, a portfolio company of Keystone Capital, a private equity firm. Keystone Natural Holdings manufactures and sells plant-based protein products, including tofu, meatless veggie burgers and other soy-based and vegetarian items, into the retail and food service channels under the Nature Soy, VeggieLand, Franklin Farms, Jens & Marie and Superior Tofu brands.
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Times Internet's lifestyle websites are offline in Europe due to GDPR non-compliance
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By Trisha Jalan ( @trishajalan trisha@medianama.com ) March 14, 2019
Times Internet’s Lifestyle division websites – Indiatimes.com, MensXP, iDiva, WhatsHot – are currently unavailable in Europe. It is unclear since when the websites have been down. We have reached out to Times Internet about this and will update this when we hear from them.
The company took down the websites since some of its modules were non compliant with GDPR, Angad Bhatia, the COO of IndiaTimes & Lifestyle brands at Times Internet, told MediaNama. “We want to ensure that we are compliant with all the recommendations of the GDPR,” Bhatia said, explaining that the company is self-regulating to ensure compliance.
Bhatia added that it wasn’t sure when the websites would go back live in Europe since it was a secondary market, and “not really a focus.” He said that the websites’ focus for its brand and content was India. Times Internet is working with Ernst & Young as Indiatimes Lifestyle Network’s GDPR compliance auditor.
Requirements under the GDPR
The GDPR came into effect in May 2018 and laid out how companies could use the personal information of its customers, gave greater protection and control to users/customers, and boosted their right over their data.
Under the GDPR effect, the websites would have to meet several requirements such as disclosing to users what data the company is collecting about them, how the company will process or use that data, among many others.
Under the GDPR, personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently, and must be collected only for legitimate purposes. The data must also be stored only as long is necessary and must be processed with appropriate security.
Hotstar’s UK launch with an expanded privacy policy
Last September, Hotstar launched in the United Kingdom, with pricing at £11.99/month (Rs 1,225). Hotstar’s privacy policy in the UK is significantly bigger from what it follows in North America and India, due to the Data Protection Act, 2018, the UK’s implementation of Europe’s GDPR. The policy breaks down, in detail, what information Hotstar collects from customers in Britain, and how they deal with requests to restrict automated processing of personal data.
Interestingly, if users want to restrict Hotstar from processing their personal data, the service will simply terminate their subscription. In comparison, Netflix’s implementation of that GDPR rule is giving users the option to opt out of promotional messages and push notifications. Hotstar also gives users the right to data portability and erasure, which users will have to email the company to take advantage of.
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NYSportsJournalism.com: Russell Athletic Builds Presence In College Gridiron
The first-ever Russell Athletic Bowl is a sign of where the athletic gear brand is going and how it's ramping up sponsorships and marketing, according to NYSportsJournalism.com. The Russell Athletic Bowl is played under the auspices of Florida Citrus Sports. In June of this year, Russell Athletic signed a deal for title sponsorship through 2015. Russell Athletic will use the game to support its current marketing campaign, "Together We R," from lead agency The Richards Group, Dallas, via TV commercials, signage, social media and fan and client activation in the days leading to the game. The deal also gives Russell Athletic apparel rights to all FCS events. In this Q&A, NYSportsJournalism spoke with Gary Barfield, EVP for Bowling Green, KY-based Russell Athletic (a division of Berkshire Hathaway), about the challenges, rewards and strategies behind the brand's first college football Bowl title sponsorship.
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Communicating sustainability
The topic of sustainability has become a strategic and competitive incentive for the companies subject to the new European regulatory framework (Law No 12345) who want to build relations based on trust and transparency with their stakeholders.
During the years, Mediatyche specialised in two main processes:
Supporting the companies who already draft the sustainability balance in communicating their current commitments, their achievements and their future commitments.
This kind of communication is different from the traditional one because it requires specific approaches and expertise both in defining the message and in managing media. The mission of Mediatyche is to translate complex topics into clear facts, using communication as the main incentive to promote the sustainable brand reputation; this requires specific strategies on products as well as a specific focus on people, communities and environment.
Lead the companies who haven’t started their process of sustainability yet to create the basis and the cultural requirements for it.
Starting from an initial analysis, the process leads to the definition of the sustainability standards and the identification of the areas to be reported back, the promotion of the participation of the reference stakeholders, to the drafting of the balance.
MEDIATYCHE IS THE IDEAL PARTNER TO DEVELOP SPECIFIC AND CUSTOMIZED COMMUNICATION PROJECTS
BECAUSE IT CAN RELY ON:
Solid relations with opinion leaders, researchers, lecturers and sustainability specialists (environment, economy, society)
Monitoring and deep knowledge of media and specialised reporters
Solid contacts with the main reference Institutions
Constant monitoring of data and the main information about sustainability: daily press review and access to specialised data banks
Multichannel communication routes in order to enhance and communicate sustainability
Also, since May 2017, Mediatyche has started Osservatorio Sostenibilità, in collaboration with Format Research,
the only observatory specifically founded and developed to explore the world of companies in terms of sustainability.
The mission of the Observatory is to examine the sustainable status of the companies in Italy every year,
checking their changes and looking for their trends.
It’s a tool that allows companies to compare their status to the ones of other companies,
collecting incentives and suggestions as well as identifying their most successful routes.
The second edition of the Observatory is scheduled during Spring 2018.
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Secret Shoppers in Healthcare What Next?
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Written by: Darlene D'Altorio-Jones (1959-2015) on Monday, July 25, 2011 Posted in: Outpatient Rehab
How do you respond when your office is called and you’re asked, ”Are you accepting patients and how long will the wait be?”
Do you answer that question after you’ve gathered demographic information and after you know who the insurer is?
I ask this because I recently stumbled upon a Huffington News Post that cited the Federal Government is about to go undercover, and will gather information, on how primary care doctors respond to these questions.*
In the name of research, these secret shoppers will pose as new patients to gather data on the availability of primary care physicians’ willingness to accept privately insured patients over federally and state insured patients, such as Medicaid and Medicare. They will block the caller ID and will gather data on the proposed ability to access care. Is this required to see the long term effects of healthcare reform?
How does that make you feel? Do you believe federal dollars are used prudently to gather this data? Do you believe, if polled blindly, they can obtain similar results? Do you think this can spread to hospitals, therapy practices and all other venues of patient care access? I do!
If you are a registered Medicare provider, does it make you appear as though you are “cherry picking” the best case load?
Given this type of information, should you examine how your staff would answer these questions on a blind call? Let’s find out.
Answer YES if you believe it is a good idea to see how your staff would answer these questions, and NO if you feel it isn’t a concern as to how the question is answered.
*Fox News did the initial story.
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Where in the World is Norman Van Aken?
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Aniece Meinhold | November 8, 2010 | 9:00am
There were rumors that father-son chef duo Norman and Justin Van Aken had been fired from Norman's 180 a couple weeks ago. So we decided to stalk em. Or at least their Twitter.Yes, this is indeed sick and disturbing behavior, but someone had to put the rumors to bed.
Norman Van Aken does a great job of documenting his travels and promoting events, his restaurants and other chefs; it's his brand after all. He even sprinkles positivity and compassion along the way. though his name is on the sign at 180, one thing is for sure - he's rarely there. That could very well be the reason the rumors started. Case in point, the week before Eater posted on the firing, both chefs were seen, as Padma Lakshmi would say, "packing their knives." But couldn't it have been because they were going on a week long trip to launch the grand opening of the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio? Perhaps...
The reality is, Van Aken is always traveling. His last tweet from #Normans180 was on October 4 along with a pic of a "Norman Van Aken-designed burger." He did a week-long stint in San Antonio with the CIA, cooked a dinner in Nashville the following weekend, spent a few days chill-axing by the water in Key West, and then returned to the MIA at the tail end of the month for a demo at the Fairchild Garden.
That was 20 days spent out of town. So what does this all mean for the alleged firing? Well, we did some fact checking...
When calling the restaurant and asking to make a reservation on a night that Van Aken was in-da-house, the hostess inform me the wandering chef would return towards the end of the month.
One day, we asked to speak with Chef Justin. The person who answered the phone said he would be in at noon if we called back. (We didn't get around to making the call.)
Their New York-based publicist confirmed the Van Akens are still actively involved in the Norman's 180 project.
Van Aken's very own Twitter feed proves he's still promoting and engaged in Norman's 180.
It is common for chefs to travel these days. It's safe to say, we can give this whole Norman thing a rest -- he's part of the restaurant.
It's also safe to say he has one of the most entertaining online brands out there; he is a marketing machine! Van Aken posts about relevant topics and events, great photos of his beloved Key west. He engages with his audience, promotes other restaurants, and writes a wonderful blog. This started off as a mission to poke holes in what appeared to be a PR charade, but turned into a re-discovery of a chef many people have disregarded.
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