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Mumbai Crime: 37-year-old installs camera in women's washroom at Khar office, arrested
Updated: Jan 09, 2020, 11:52 IST | Vishal Singh | Mumbai
The accused was produced to court on Wednesday
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The Khar police arrested a 37-year-old man for installing a camera in the women’s washroom following a complaint from one of his colleagues.
On January 7, a 37-year-old woman lodged a complaint with the Khar police that someone had installed a camera in the women's washroom of her office. The police took cognisance in the matter and arrested Athar Hussain Saeed alias Danish (37), a resident of Malvani in Malad.
Athar was produced in Bandra court, on Wednesday. The police told the court that Athar had ordered the camera from an online shopping portal. They are yet to ascertain whether Athar filmed anyone from the camera.
The police were seeking remand of Athar but the court granted bail to him on a personal bond of Rs 15,000. The advocate representing Athar, Rekha Mehta, while speaking to mid-day denied the allegations, calling them "false and fabricated", and maintained that his client did not do anything wrong or illegal.
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Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg)
Pilot-Guided Suicide Fighter
The German Fieseler Fi 103R was the piloted version of the devastating and effective V-1 terror rockets launched against England during World War 2.
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Status: Retired, Out-of-Service
Manufacturer(s): Fieseler - Germany
Length: 26.25 ft (8 m)
Width: 18.73 ft (5.71 m)
Weight (MTOW): 4,806 lb (2,180 kg)
Power: 1 x Argus 109-014 pulse jet engine developing 772 lb of thrust.
Speed: 404 mph (650 kph; 351 kts)
Ceiling: 13,123 feet (4,000 m; 2.49 miles)
Operators: Nazi Germany
The Fiseler Fi 103R was, in essence, the piloted form of the successful V-1 rocket that terrorized London citizens throughout the Second World War. The piloted system was to be a type of suicide missile that the pilot could aim at his target with and bail out at the last possible moment. In theory, it was a sound plan for a nation on the brink of losing the global conflict yet in practice, the idea of the pilot bailing out in this fashion would yeild a pretty substantial loss rate.
The Fi 103 was born out of the idea that the system could be equally useful in precision strikes against Allied shipping in the Channel. An already proven weapon in th unmanned V-1 rocket version, the Fi 103R could just as easily be mass-produced in quantity and put into action with very little testing or training. The idea itself stemmed from a proposal that looked into delivering these suicide missiles from the underbelly of an advancing bomber.
Though comparable to the Kamikaze in the Pacific, the pilots of the Fi 103 would not be sealed into their cockpits. Once a target had been acquired through visual means, the pilot could aim the nose of the missile at a target area and, jettisoning the canopy, he would simply bail out and deploy a chute. One major problem with this action lay in the position of the canopy - resting just in front of the pulsejet engine. In practice, the jettisoning canopy would have interfered with the pulsejet and thus render a successful pilot extraction from the machine very unlikely.
The power of the Fi 103R came from the 772lb thrust pulsejet engine mounted in the upper rear of the fuselage. The pilots seating position was to be just before the opening of the pulsejet and basic wings were added for stability. Flight capabilities were rudimentary and only required the most basic of handling. Landing was only accomplished during testing and it was itself quite a challenge as the system was never intended to return safely to base. A powerful 850 kilogram warhead was packed into the nose assembly making for one inexpensive and easy-to-produce terror weapon.
With over 70 pilots tabbed for training in the Fi 103R, the project was never fully developed. This action stemmed from the low interest that German leaders had in such a system and the loss of two such aircraft during testing. Though nearly 200 aircraft of this type were produced, the system was never to see full operational action in the Second World War.
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Philosophy & Pedagogy Small Seminars Four-year Curriculum Majors & Courses Course Catalog Student Achievement
Social Sciences Major
The social sciences apply the methods of science to understand the way people think and act — individually, in groups, and in societies — and the way that biology and the environment interact to make each of us unique.
Research findings from the social sciences inform public policies on a wide range of issues, such as reducing crime, designing effective political campaigns, helping people overcome addictions, crafting economic/labor policies, and convincing people to conserve resources.
Cornerstone Courses
In their first year, Social Sciences majors complete their Cornerstone Courses.
In their second year, Social Sciences majors enroll in core courses that provide the foundation for the Social Sciences concentrations. They also take electives from core courses offered in other majors.
SS110 / Perception, Cognition and Reality
In this course we engage the concept of information processing to trace the sequence of events--at multiple levels of analysis--from sensory perception to high-level cognition. After these building blocks are in place, we discuss our nature as social and emotional beings, how language contributes to our thinking, and how unconscious habits can derail the most thoughtfully constructed plans. We will engage experimental studies in healthy people as well as people suffering from disorders of perception, attention, and memory. Our studies will lead us to examine theories of cognition, studies of behavior and perception, as well as some of the neural activity that we believe underlies these components of cognition.
Prerequisite: SS51
SS111 / Boom, Bust and Bubbles: The Free Enterprise System
How do economists address the challenge of allocating scarce resources to best serve the unlimited needs and wants of those in society? The first half of this course introduces the idea that markets can work efficiently to coordinate economic activity thereby addressing the problem of scarcity. However, when markets fail to work efficiently, an argument for government intervention in the market arises as a potential solution to better serve the needs of those in society. These concepts of scarcity, efficiency, and ultimately, trade-offs are then applied to the analysis of international financial markets in the second half of the semester where the drivers of manias, bubbles, and crises are explored.
SS112 / Government and Social Change
Governments greatly affect their citizens and, in turn, citizens may greatly affect government and their society. The course has four units to examine these influences. The first unit is a brief introduction to the discipline of political science. The second unit covers the rise of the modern state, seeking to understand the ideas, structural factors, and rational decisions that led to different political orders. The third unit examines how society can change the state through revolutionary and reformist social movements. We end by exploring ongoing struggles in the contemporary world to remake states and societies by critically examining case studies of both positive and negative social change. For the final project, students design a campaign to enact a specific social change (at the local, state, or federal level) and devise ways to assess its impact.
In their third year, Social Sciences majors select a concentration, begin taking courses within it and begin work on their capstone courses. They also take electives chosen from other Minerva courses (other concentration courses in Social Sciences, core and concentration courses in other colleges). Social Sciences offers concentrations shown in the table below.
In the fourth year, Social Sciences majors enroll in additional electives chosen from Minerva’s course offerings within or outside the major. Additionally, they take senior tutorials in the major, and finish their capstone courses.
Theory and Analysis in the Social Sciences
Empirical Approaches to the Social Sciences
Designing Societies
Cognition, Brain, and Behavior SS142 / Theories of Cognition and Emotion SS152 / Cognitive Neuroscience SS162 / Personal and Social Motivation
Economics and Society SS144 / Economic Theory and Tools SS154 / Econometrics and Economic Systems SS164 / Global Development and Applied Economics
Politics, Government, and Society SS146 / Constructing Theories of Good Government SS156 / World Political Systems in Practice SS166 / Designing Constitutions
Each row and each column of the matrix represent a different concentration, as noted above.
Cognition, Brain, and Behavior
Learn how to use cognitive science to illuminate questions about the mind, including the nature of thinking and emotion and how the two interact in human beings. Investigate the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain, how they relate to the mind, and what implications brain science more generally has for society as a whole. Explore how to use the science of psychology to become a more effective member of society: to be more persuasive, set better goals, lead effectively, and promote positive behavior changes in yourself and others.
Conflict Mediator
Congressional Staff Member
Designer of Tests and Measures for the College Entrance Exams
Science Writer
Devise ways to improve society, based on the science of influence and motivation, the challenges facing developing and developed economies, and the central components of government constitutions. Envision an ideal social order at the local, national, and global level and learn how to be a leader who develops guidelines — from ethical frameworks to legal policies — that would shape and support such a society.
Employment Specialist
Market Researcher
Member of Congress
Professor of Sociology
Public Relations Director for a Corporation
Economics and Society
Study the nature of capital, trade, taxation, economic growth, and the scientific analysis of economies. Learn the various tools and theories used for analyzing economic behavior. Understand the powerful ways in which local, national, and global economic activities impact the lives of world citizens, at every socioeconomic level.
CEO of International Trade Organization
Corporate Attorney
Economic Advisor for Industry or Government
Professor of Economics
Public Policy Analyst
Staff Member for Regulatory Agency
Treasurer for Major Industry or Start-Up
Learn fundamental concepts and methods across a range of topics in social science, including human cognition, group behavior, economics, and global political systems. Compare and contrast the scientific tools in these various domains and learn to interpret the findings produced by these tools.
Consultant, Organizational Design
Social Science Researcher
Staff in Government Office
Politics, Government, and Society
Investigate the factors that influence and define successful governments. Understand the ways in which distinct political systems influence outcomes in different places and times. Learn the elements of effective constitutional design and implementation.
Advisor to Financial Think Tank
Executive Director of an NGO
Legislative Analyst
Lobbyist for Environmental Protection
Political Campaign Manager
Staff Member, United Nations
Understand the various theoretical approaches in social science and learn how to use these approaches to analyze the individual mind and emotions, the community, and interconnected global economies and governments. Learn how to develop and test such theoretical frameworks in order to apply them to a spectrum of social issues.
Corporate Manager
Government Strategist
Journalist or News Commentator
Political Campaign Analyst
Strategic Planner
Concentration Courses
SS142 / Theories of Cognition and Emotion
We explore broad theories of cognition and emotion through the lens of psychology, also drawing on philosophy and artificial intelligence. Within cognition, we examine different kinds of thinking, including induction, deduction, problem solving, and decision making, and we learn how to integrate theories of different types of thinking (such as inductive reasoning and problem solving). We also combine theories of thinking with theories of other cognitive processes such as attention and memory—so that instead of many seemingly separate cognitive processes, we have a cognitive being who can perform many different types of cognitive tasks. In addition, we examine and evaluate theories of emotions, both traditional and contemporary. How do emotions influence a wide variety of cognitive processes such as problem solving and decision making, and how might this help us to understand cognition and emotion? Finally, we explore theories of creativity from both cognitive and emotion-based perspectives.
Prerequisite: SS110
SS144 / Economic Theory and Tools
We begin with a broad overview of why some economies grow faster than others, and use mathematical tools to illustrate growth dynamics. We then transition to macroeconomic and microeconomic theory by first analyzing macroeconomic models and then decisions made at the firm and individual level by exploring tools such as utility and profit maximization. From there we explore the field of game theory and apply tools such as Nash equilibrium and analyze games in strategic forms. We next progress to the field of international trade and assess trade agreements while applying tools such as graphical analysis and regression outcomes. The next unit focuses on developing economies and the use of modeling tools to compare the different economic development outcomes among countries. We end the class with an introduction to behavioral economics and learn to analyze various factors that impact behavior in real-world economic decision making.
SS146 / Constructing Theories of Good Government
What makes good governance? How can governments pursue worthy public policy aims successfully? What are the most innovative ideas and best practices governments can adopt to create positive outcomes for the communities and societies they govern? This course seeks to answer those and related questions by examining governance models at the subnational, national, and international levels. We will delve into the current practices of governance at all these levels in various regions around the world in order to learn what does and does not work. As we critically examine these practices and models, we will develop our own thinking and approaches to governance.
SS152 / Cognitive Neuroscience
Explore how the brain gives rise to the mind through the lens of cognitive neuroscience. Learn about the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain and consider the role of this physical substrate in neural computation. This course introduces the methodological foundations of cognitive neuroscience and their application to analyzing specific mental processes and events, with links to related fields such as genetics and computational neuroscience. In addition, it provides a framework for understanding cognitive disorders, mental thriving and human development, which supports student engagement in public policy or social ventures.Topics include the evolution of the brain, consciousness, vision, motor control, speech, memory, executive function, developmental psychology, and disorders of the brain such as depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and autism spectrum disorder.
SS154 / Econometrics and Economic Systems
Learn how to use core econometric and statistical methods to construct and validate economic and social models. Students will learn methods to conduct and critique empirical studies in economics and related fields. We apply these techniques to answer questions such as: What are the effects of class size on test scores in California schools? Do cigarette taxes reduce smoking? Do drunk driving laws actually reduce traffic deaths? Do mosquito nets reduce the incidence of malaria? Quantitative approaches used to answer such questions include multiple regression, nonlinear regression and instrumental variables regression. The aim of this course is not only to show students how econometric techniques could be applied to data, but also to build the mathematical foundation to analyze econometric theory.
Prerequisite: SS111; CS112
SS156 / World Political Systems in Practice
This course compares a wide range of representative countries from both democracies and non-democracies, and examines the ways in which people act individually and collectively within these countries to achieve their goals. Students mainly learn how institutions (formal and informal rules) shape outcomes by influencing diverse agent interactions in political processes that are created by various structural factors. Ultimately, students learn how political systems operate in practice and why they have different outcomes, such as corruption/transparency, political stability/instability, low/high inequality, security/insecurity, and low/high socio-economic standards.
SS162 / Personal and Social Motivation
How can we effectively change our own habits and behaviors? What is the best way to motivate and persuade others? Is it ethical to consciously motivate or persuade those around us? As the answers to these questions have become better understood, they are being used to help people adopt more beneficial practices across many fields such as medicine, business, and environmental activism. Drawing on personality psychology, health psychology, cognitive psychology, and social psychology, we gain a better understanding of what motivates us and learn why specific ways to influence people's beliefs and behavior are most effective in certain contexts.
SS164 / Global Development and Applied Economics
Examine important challenges facing both developing and developed economies. Explore the development of societies through the analysis of access to education and healthcare as well as sustainable mechanisms for economic growth. Identify the socio-economic impacts of rural to urban migration and technological progress while exploring the reasons for income inequality throughout the world. Generate and critique policies designed to address specific economic issues within an effective institutional and political framework.
SS166 / Designing Constitutions
This course is an overview of comparative constitution-making and implementation. What distinguishes a constitution from other types of law? What are its purposes? How should it be written, interpreted, and enforced? How do economic, social, political, and cultural context determine the process and substance of a constitution? What have been the most successful constitutional systems and why? These are the guiding questions of this course. In it, students will compare and contrast the constitutions of several different countries and critically examine the nuances of the daunting political tensions inherent to the founding of a new constitutional regime: how should one recognize the positive legacies of the past and the constraints of the present, all the while leaving room for legal development and adaptation to an uncertain future? Students will combine these lessons with their foundational knowledge early in the course to articulate their own framework for approaching constitutional design. Using this framework, they then participate in a multi-class final group project to write a constitution. By the end, the students should be able to think broadly and deeply about how institutions, rules, and structure can order complex social systems and maintain stability, efficiency and justice.
In their fourth year, Social Sciences majors finish their Capstone Courses.
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by Alasdair McPherson
Genre: Historical
Swearwords: One strong one only.
Description: When high-rise flats were first built, they reset the standard for housing. At the start of the Swinging Sixties, there were still people living in tenements that had been condemned in the Twenties.
A’m wabbit. It’s not surprising really since I was up at six gettin’ the last of the packing done. I left the old bureau ‘til last because it had a’ the secrets; the lock on the roll-top is no’ very strong but it kept the kids out. I would have liked to take it to the new place but its riddled wi’ woodworm. Just as well, really; it holds too many memories.
“A’ll jist pit the kettle on.” I said it out loud although there’s only me to hear. I usually have the wireless on but it went in the van yesterday with the bits I’m takin’ with me. I’ve noticed that I speak with a rougher accent when I’m alone or upset. Not that I’m ashamed that I have picked up a bit of Kelvinside in recent years. I think it’s because I had to hide it so long in this house.
“Half ten – A’ve time fur forty winks afore Judy comes.”
The clock is still on the mantelpiece. I suppose I’ll give in to Judy and take it with me. She was appalled when I said I was leavin’ it.
‘Presented to William J Hart on the occasion of his retirement. From the management and staff of J B Cartwright & Co.’
Judy’s a lovely wee lass. She was all business at first when the council sent her to get me out but we became friends the day she burst into tears because her fiancée dumped her. She has a lovely face and does her hair nice. In Victorian times she would have been considered a ravishing beauty.
She has nice skin that would have looked well in a long gown. She’s not so bonny in a mini skirt. She has thick ankles and when she sits you can see her fat thighs bulging over her stocking tops – her suspenders sink into the flesh. I know it’s the fashion but it’s a shame for her.
The room looks awful bare, with nothing but the bureau, two suitcases and a tea chest besides Willie’s old fireside chair. I could have had it recovered but I got a nice new Ercol for my new place. I take the photo album from the tea chest and sit thumbing through it while I wait for the kettle to boil.
Mostly the pictures are just family snaps taken with the box brownie but there are a couple of studio shots of us and the weans. There’s a picture of the four of us with nice neat white writing across the bottom: ‘Broughty Ferry – Summer 1925.’
Johnny would have been five, already showin’ signs of bein’ tall, and Myrna was just three, a wee cloutie dumpling in her frilly bathin’ suit. Willie looked proud and handsome and I have to admit that I looked quite pretty. At least the photographer thought so for he tried it on with me when I went to pick up the picture during the week! We took a flat for a month but Willie could only take a week off work so he came over for the weekends for the rest of the time. It was the first time that we had lived apart since we got married.
I was only seventeen when I met Willie the year after the war. He was on demob leave so he was still in his corporal’s uniform. He came into the shop and I fell for him right away. He was so handsome and gallus that I would have run away with him there and then if he had asked. I was a bit disappointed when he only asked me to go to the dancin’ with him.
I was right smitten so I didnae play hard to get when he asked me to be his. He had been apprenticed to Cartwrights before he joined up and they were happy to take him back. We stayed with my Mum at first but then he came home one day absolutely burstin’ with pride. He had bought this place and we moved in just before Myrna was born.
Here we’ve stayed ever since. The children know no other home. I have to be honest: it has not been a happy house. I had a miscarriage the year after our holiday in Broughty Ferry and they had to take bits away so I coudnae have any more weans. Willie was upset and started drinkin’ a bit more than was good for him. He didn’t exactly blame me but you would have thought that he was the only one to suffer.
There was a time when it was touch and go whether I would recover and I’ve had chronic back pain since but when I got home from hospital Willie expected me to sympathise with him! We settled back down again after a while but it always rankled with me. I started to think more of myself instead of deferring to Willie.
When the kids were both at school I wanted to go back to work but he wouldn’t hear of it. He was a foreman by this time and we didn’t need the money.
“I’m no’ to be shamed! Nae wife of mine is goin’ to work. Get a job and you can get oot.”
No point in arguing with him in that mood, so the next day after I walked the weans to the school I went on and joined the Burgh library. I was enthralled! All those books filled with learning and every one of them within my reach. Without leaving Govan I could explore the whole world. That first day I strayed into the history section and in a sense I have stayed in it ever since.
When I was at school they told us about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce but they never told us about where we lived. I set to work to find the history of Glasgow and when I was done with that I started on Govan, Hutchesons Town and Gorbals.
The Burgh library had plenty of books on Scottish history and a few on Glasgow but it had very little about our own local area. I was pals with the librarian by this time and he suggested that I went to The Mitchell Library in the middle of Glasgow. I bided my time until Myrna went to secondary school, then I put my pencil and notebook in my bag and took the tram to George Square.
I almost lost my nerve when I saw the Mitchell for the first time. I sat on a bench for nearly an hour talking myself into facing the ordeal of going up the steps to the door. When I finally plucked up courage and keeked round the door, I was met by a lad who invited me in. It turned out that it was his first week working in the library.
Alasdair had a degree in history and he was enthusiastic about my search. Every time I visited, he would have a wee list of books that I should take to the reading room. Most of these books were not allowed to leave the building; you had to sit and make notes then return them to the desk before you left. It could be quite awkward for I was often the only woman in the reading room but Alasdair had a wee office and he let me take the books in there to study.
You might think it was a big waste of time for a married woman to study history but it paid off. It started with Jamesie. He and his wife lived three doors down and we had been friends since they moved in. After his wife died I helped him a bit with the house but he began drinkin’ and let himself go so I gave up on him.
Judy was tryin’ to get him out but he was refusin’ to go. She would come to me in floods o’ tears after he had chased her down the street yellin’ abuse. I told her to leave it to me and I went to sort Jamesie out.
“Come away in, Elsie hen. Hiv ye come to gi’e me a wee cuddle?”
“Yer kiddin’, right? Ye’r clartie and ye’r smellin’ up this end o’ the street.”
Now I’m not averse to a white lie, so I may have given Jamesie the impression that if he cleaned himself up, went to the Fifty Bob Tailors and moved to the new flat, a certain amount of cuddling would be possible.
“Efter a’, Elsie, you’re a widow and A’m a widower….” More of a non sequitor, I have to say, than my idea of a match made in heaven.
The outcome was that Jamesie moved into a new High Rise. I was careful to take Judy with me when I visited him, I can tell you! The councillor that Judy worked for told the papers about the wonderful work they had done so she and Jamesie were both interviewed. Judy, bless her heart, felt guilty because she was getting all the praise but I was glad to keep out of it. I was less offensive than Jamesie and a good deal cleaner but I still hadn’t agreed to leave my home. There were only a handful of us left holding up the grand schemes of the council for turning the area into an earthly paradise of thirty storey concrete slabs.
They started by bullyin’ us but, after the residents barricaded the next street and the Polis got involved, Judy was appointed to wheedle us out. The councillor involved was standing for parliament and the last thing he wanted was bad publicity.
Judy came in all flushed the day after she had her picture in the Bulletin with Jamesie and Councillor Grey. He was going to honour me with a visit the next day. She had told me about splittin’ up with Graham but she refused to go into details. I took another look at the picture in the paper and I thought: ‘Ah ha!’
When I started in the shop the owner seemed to me like god. He wasnae that much to look at and he had a wife and children but I thought he had an aura. When he started feelin’ me up in the stock room A began tae get ideas aboot him runnin’ away with me. Excuse me, my accent slips a wee bit when I’m thinking back to how naïve I was.
Anyway, I was beginnin’ to think that Judy had fallen for the same load o’ mince from the Councillor. As soon as I saw them together I knew I was right. She was fussin’ around him, introducin’ me and helpin him off wi’ his Crombie coat. He managed to give her bum a wee squeeze in the process.
“Oh Judy love, A forgot tae get biscuits. Take a ten bob note oot ma purse and run doon and get some, hen. Make sure their Beatties, noo.”
He took my hand in both of his and bent at the waist to talk directly to me. He was the Labour candidate for parliament but I think he had been takin’ classes in suckin’ up to voters.
“I may call you Elsie, mayn’t I? It was so good of you to help little Judy that I just had to come round and thank you myself. James is so happy and so pleased to tell the press about his new flat with a magnificent view of the Clyde and the Kilpatrick hills in the background.
“Now we must just get you your very own little butt and ben, as you call it, then our job will be almost done. I think in the circumstances we will let you have a choice of the wonderful views when you pick your flat.”
“I’m not goin’ into one of your monstrosities.”
“Far from being monstrosities, they’re the last word in modern living...”
“Do you live in one?”
“Well, no actually, bit A wid if A didnae hiv a pokey wee hoose in Milngavie.”
The first wee setback, I thought, and the carefully groomed accent slips. I’ll just give him another wee push.
“I’m not going into a High Rise and that’s flat.”
“Aye ye wull! There’ sich a thing as cumpulsiry purchase an’ A’ll make sure ye get the worst o’ it. Nae auld biddy’s goanny stop me getting’ intae the Hoose.”
The polite veneer peeled off awful easy; I was almost ashamed of how easy it was going to be.
“You can’t tear down this house. It’s part of the history of the old village of Govan and they’ll slap a preservation order on it.”
“Whit the hell are ye talkin’ aboot ye dementit auld bitch?”
So I told him that the house was built of stones quarried locally to build houses for the gaffers in the coal mines that the Corporation dug in the eighteenth century. The preservation folk would jump at the chance of saving this bit of history. His face had been purple with rage but I got his attention. He needed us out so he could put up more High Rises and he knew that he would be delayed if not totally stopped if I was right.
“How wid an auld womin like you know that?”
So I told him of my years of research in the Mitchell Library and I even showed him some of the notes and references I had made. I could see that I had convinced him. He was in a cleft stick: if he checked whether I was right the word would leak out; I was bettin’ that he wouldnae take the risk.
“A don’t believe ye want tae stay in this dump. There’s damp half way up the walls.” As he calmed down his accent began to recover. He had recognised that I was ready to negotiate and that was what he did best.
“I want to move all right but I’ve got my eye on a nice wee place in Old Kilpatrick.”
He smiled at that, thinking that I had overreached myself.
“I can’t help you, I’m afraid. Old Kilpatrick is West Dunbartonshire – out of my jurisdiction.”
“I thought I read that you and John Lawrence were right pally thegither – did A no’ read that he wanted you on the Rangers Board?”
He thought for a few minutes, striding about my wee front room, and then he asked if he could use the phone.
“Certainly, I keep it in a big red box at the street corner.”
So that’s where I’m off to when Judy comes to get me. It’s a lovely wee place in Lusset Glen. A two-bedroom, mid-terrace facin’ the Glen and backin’ onto nice bungalows. My pal, Jenny, moved there about three years ago and she was keen for me to join her.
When Judy got back with the biscuits Councillor Grey decided not to stay for tea. He had had enough of me, I think. As I helped him on with his coat I dusted off an invisible hair and whispered in his ear.
“And keep your manky hands off wee Judy or I’ll let your wife know. Her daddy’s the provost, is he no?”
I told him no lies but I did fail to mention that the stones had been rescued when the original cottages were demolished in 1916. This house was new when Willie bought it. It didnae have a damp course because the bampot that built it didnae know about such refinements.
Old Cartwright was a joiner and he took the old historical properties to cover a bad debt. He employed a big dimwit called George Turnbull to demolish them so he could sell the land. Cartwright’s daughter took a fancy to George’s muscles and she talked her Daddy into keeping him on to build four new houses using the old stones. George fancied himself as a builder but he couldnae have built a sandcastle.
By the time Willie was demobbed, Mr Turnbull was the boss and old man Cartwright was settled in a nice house in Turnberry right beside the golf course. The old man had run the business from his work bench but George got himself an office with carpets, a bar and a secretary to keep the books. By 1917 when George gathered the reins, men were in short supply so he employed a lassie as bookkeeper.
Ruth was the daughter of a minister, brought up strictly in the manse. Only his patriotism induced her father to let her out into the wicked world. She was tall and angular with a face like a horse and she was innocent of the ways of the world. Mr Turnbull soon convinced her that it was part of her duties to become his mistress.
It upset her because it seemed to be against the teaching of her father although he was so circumspect in his approach to the sins of men that she had no clear idea if what she and George were up to was the thing her daddy had warned her against. She needed advice so she turned her trusting equine countenance to Willie. He was a good-lookin’ bloke with a sympathetic smile that could pass for genuine; I suppose she could have picked someone worse.
He assured her that not only was it all right to carry on doing what she was doing with Mr Turnbull it would be better if she allowed him the same favours. Friday afternoons, George travelled down to Turnberry to spend the weekend with his wife and father in law. Willie let Ruth buy him his lunch then took her back to the office and taught her a few tricks that George did not know.
He saw no reason to stop when he was courting me and he continued to impregnate Ruth even after we were married. She liked Willie better than her boss, perhaps because she had to call him Mr Turnbull even when her knickers were round her ankles and he was exercising droit de seigneur.
When the four houses were almost complete, Willie surprised George in flagrante and demanded a special price for our home as the cost of his silence. When that deal was done without demur Willie went on to require a promotion to foreman. I think he was going to ask for an office but George began to growl so he let that go. I knew nothing about the deal until after Willie’s funeral although I guessed that something unethical had happened.
Ruth didn’t come to the funeral although I thought I caught a glimpse of her in the road when we turned in at that lovely gate to the Southern Necropolis. Two days later she knocked at my door and asked if she could clear her conscience. She had always been thin but now she looked gaunt although she was wearing a smart coat and expensive boots.
She had gone back to religion and was going to a kirk where the minister had explained everything. His wife had died a wee while before leaving him to look after eight weans under ten – I should think the woman was quite pleased to go. Anyway, the minister told Ruth that sex was all right. Reading between the lines it was especially all right between a widower and a spinster. That just left adultery with Willie on her conscience.
I gave her absolution and, after she left, I got thinking about confession. I’ve done some things in ma life that society disnae approve off. To be absolutely honest there’s a few things A’ve done that A don’t approve of masel’! I did the things so it’s only right that I should suffer for them. Seein’ Ruth goin’ away happy because I forgave her made me wonder.
I don’t intend to tell my story to the Daily Record – if they can’t publish Lady Chatterley they’ll have trouble with my memoirs! I just got to thinking that I had treated Myrna awful badly. I was relieved when she went to America as one of the first GI brides not because I didn’t love her but because I would have had to tell her things that would shock her.
We wrote to each other every week but they were mostly just chatty letters with funny wee stories about our lives. In all the years she’s lived in the States there’s only been a handful of letters that showed the emotions we were feeling at the time. Like me, she keeps things to herself.
When she left school, Willie got her a job in the typing pool at Cartwright’s. They were progressive employers, to give them their due, and they paid for her to go to Stowe College to evening classes. She was happy enough, I thought, until the war started. She had always been a Daddy’s girl and even after she left school she would sit on Willie’s lap and cuddle him. Then she suddenly announced that she was a Landgirl.
She went first to a forest near Fort Augustus but there was nothin’ to do after work and she hated it. In 1942 she got a move to Rosneath Home Farm right next door to the castle where there were Americans working for Eisenhower. Our Myrna had one of the first pairs of American knickers in Scotland – you know the kind: one Yank and they’re down! She used to write about her ‘dates’ as she called them but we knew things were serious when she brought a Master Sergeant to see us.
Willie didn’t like Yanks and he certainly didn’t warm to Hank although he managed to be civil to him. The lad was very polite, calling Willie ‘sir’ and me ‘ma’m’ and he was clearly besotted with Myrna.
“I reckoned we had about everything in Oklahoma where I come from, ma’m, but we got nothin’ that is near as pretty as your daughter.”
Whether Willie would ever have come round, I don’t know but the telegram from the War Office ended any chance of him being reconciled to the Yankee Invasion, as he called it. Our son, Johnny, had signed professional for Partick Thistle but he never got a game before he went to end his life in the Western Desert. Twenty-two years old, on the threshold of life and snuffed out by a Nazi bullet.
When Hank came round to offer his condolences, Willie tried to throttle him.
“Ah don’t want yer sympathy – Ah want you lyin’ dead in the desert and Johnny here winchin’ oor lassies instead o’ you bloody Yanks.”
That was the first time Willie ever swore in our house. He used to say that he heard enough bad language at work. Myrna took Hank away and she didn’t come back until Willie was in the Southern General after he collapsed in the pub. That became his home in the years following Johnny’s death. He only came back to the house to sleep – in the spare room, I should add.
Her and me started writing our weekly letters as soon as she went away with Hank. She married him and went back on the first ship carryin’ GI brides. I went to the pictures to see ‘Oklahoma’ so I thought Hank must be a cowboy but it turned out that his family owned oil wells. Hank Junior was born in 1945 and Vivian in 1947, the same year as they divorced. She moved to California with Marcus and gave birth to Wayne in 1951.
That marriage also ended in divorce and she was separated from her third husband when he had a heart attack and she moved back in to nurse him. It was while they were living apart that she came back to see Willie in hospital and she cut the visit short when her husband took ill. He was an estate agent, what they call a ‘realator’, and Myrna had taken over the business.
She made her peace with Willie but she and me only talked about his illness before she had to rush back to the States. Her Daddy didn’t approve of her lifestyle: marriage is for life, he used to say. That was a bit rich considering that he was fuckin’ Ruth before and after our honeymoon and went on having affairs until he was too ill. He was always smooth and handsome so he specialised in innocent wee lassies that were impressed by his style. Myrna was the only sixteen year old ever to work for Cartwright’s that he didnae try to seduce and, if I’m totally honest, I’m no’ that sure that his thoughts about her were always pure.
I felt terribly guilty. It’s all my fault, you see. Myrna is just like me and I might have been able to guide her if she had stayed at home. As it was, I was pleased to see the back of her because she looked so much like her father that it broke my heart to look at her. She couldn’t get over for Willie’s funeral but she arrived three months later after buryin’ her own man.
She was stayin’ in the Central Station Hotel and I was to have lunch with her but I arrived early so I could confess. The man at the desk knew me and A nearly had him greetin’ when I told him that I wanted to surprise my daughter. I left my wee overnight case with him and went up to her room.
She was pleased to see me and we chatted for a wee while about things. I saw the latest pictures of my grandchildren and heard all the things they were up to. Hank Junior has his own car – automobile, he calls it! He was on the football team, but it’s more like rugby, she told me. Instead of settling me, this family gossip was making me more nervous. When I began pacing the floor, Myrna stopped talking and looked at me:
“Spit it out, Mom. Have you got a new guy?” Then she paled and clutched my hands. “You’re not ill, are you? We have great doctors in the States. I’ll take you back with me.”
“We have great doctors here too. No, hen, A’m no’ ill, just apprehensive about what I have to say.
“Willie wasn’t faithful to me you know.”
“Everybody knew that Mom. He even got fresh with me. That’s why I left home.”
“I did wonder at the time so I told him to try his charm on that Shonah, your mate’s big sister. She had the hots for him – that’s why she was so nasty to you. It’s no’ his infidelity I want to tell you about – it’s mine!”
I started with my boss feelin’ me up, admitting that I liked it but I was too scared to let him go the whole way. After the honeymoon I went back for a month to help train a new girl in the stockroom, at least that’s what I told my new husband! After I gave Willie his breakfast and saw him off to work, I went to the shop where I spent the day, naked in bed with my boss in a wee flat above the stock room. It only lasted a week before his wife came into the shop askin’ for him. Rose sat her down and came into the stockroom to make her a cup of tea, she said, but really to come up the stair and warn us. He had been feelin’ Rose up as well and she was glad to see the back o’ me and take my place between the sheets.
While I was speakin’, Myrna had gone white then red, pushing both hands into her hair.
“So Johnny might not have been Dad’s?” I held my breath waiting for the next question. “Was that the only time you strayed?” I let my breath out with a ‘whoosh’. She had missed the point, but only for long enough to let me get through the rest of the ordeal.
“I didnae stray, as you call it, very often.”
“How often is that, Mom?”
“You’ll no’ mind the holiday in Broughty Ferry. You and Johnny used to play in the photographer’s studio while him and me were at it like rabbits in the darkroom.”
Then I told her about the penny-a-week insurance man that paid out his own pocket, I wasnae the only one, of course, and he was put in jail when he couldnae afford to pay all the free insurance he was offering and his bosses found out. He wasn’t a very good lover; it was always over too quick for me but then he was workin’ to a very tight schedule.
Alasdair at the Mitchell was a right Mummy’s boy. I was the first woman he had touched since his Mum stopped tuckin’ him in. He was like a fresh canvas for a painter and I was quite pleased with the job I made of him. His Mummy found him a wife and A’ll bet the wee lassie’s eyes lit up when he showed her what he could do in bed!
“I gave Jamesie a few wee treats after Helen died…”
“You don’t mean Uncle Jamesie?” Myrna interrupted.
“Well he’s no’ your real Uncle. Anyway that’s my lot. A strayed wi’ just six men.”
“You’ve only told me about five. Did you forget the sixth?”
“Oh no. A’ll never forget your father. He is the best, the love of my life.”
She had been pulling at her hair so that her perm was in tatters. Now she sat very still, her mouth open and her eyes fixed on mine.
“It says William Hart on my birth certificate.”
“After Johnny was born A had whit the doctor ca’ed post-natal depression. Really A wis jist feelin’ guilty that Willie wisnae the faither. I went to see Doctor Munro and he explained it all to me. He had just started in practice then and he was very patient with me. Nowadays they just fill you up wi’ Vallium but he listened to me.
“He used to take my hand and reassure me but one thing led to another and before either of us knew what was happening we became lovers. He was so gentle and caring but strong and virile at the same time. He was engaged and I was married but we lived in a bubble that burst one day when we forgot to lock the door into the waiting room and a polis came in to get the doctor to a man that had fell under a tram.
“With all the others it was just lust – I like doin’ things wi’ men – but with Hamish it’s true love.”
“No wonder he was so nice to me when we went to the surgery!”
“You look awful like him, you know. He saw it too – that’s why he grew a beard, so folk wouldn’t see the resemblance.”
“I should feel shattered but, do you know what? I’m relieved. I never liked my Daddy – Willie. He was always too smarmy and the way he looked at me when I was growing up made me squirm. I always felt real comfortable with Doctor Munro; I often wished he was my Daddy.”
She came across to me then and we hugged each other. The last time we had done that was 1939 when she went off to be a Landgirl. Twenty-three years without a hug is far too long. It was after twelve so we checked our faces and did what we could to sort out her hair. Then we went downstairs to the restaurant for lunch.
I filled in a lot of details that kept me blushing and she told me about her marriages and her affairs. It turned out that she was just as bad as me so I felt a lot better. By the time we were at the coffee stage we were grinnin’ at each other like old friends. I can’t tell you what a weight was lifted from my heart.
“Would you like to meet your father?” Myrna turned white and I thought for a minute she was goin’ to faint.
“Do you know where he is?”
“Well not at this second but I know where he will be at half past seven. He’s taking me to the ‘Five Past Eight’ show at the Alhambra. I told him to get three tickets.”
I had lost touch with Hamish Munro when he retired. I stayed with his practice but we were careful never to be alone. When Willie died he sent me a condolence card with a wee note saying he and his wife were well. Then when she died I sent him a letter and we discovered that we still felt the same for each other after I agreed to meet him at the Willow Tea Rooms.
The problem now was his wife’s sister. After her man died she moved in with them, nursed Hamish’s wife and stayed put. She kept an even closer eye on him than her sister had and she kept dropping hints about what he should do when he got over his loss. The BMA now had a club for retired doctors that it didn’t even know about: Hamish was able to make an overnight stay in Glasgow once a month to attend.
“He hates lyin’ but I convinced him that it should be true. It’s just the sort of club the BMA should open.”
When we got back to Myrna’s room I was worn out. The nervous tension had left me limp.
“I was dreadin’ this, you know, but you’ve taken it really calmly. Are you no’ shocked to find that your mother has been a scarlet woman?”
She gave me a big hug, and then she held my face in both her hands and kissed me on my brow.
“It’s just a tremendous relief to find that I’m not the only one in the family that’s screwed up her love life. I’ve been beating myself up all these years thinking that my morals were way below the standard you set me.”
We were recovering from an attack of giggles at that idea when there was a knock on the hotel room door. Myrna opened it to Hamish standing there with his face brick red and lookin’ ready to run away if she said ‘boo’ to him. Instead she threw her arms round his neck.
That was a month ago and now I’m sitting waitin’ for Judy to come and get me. She let herself in pushing a glaikit big lad ahead of her.
“This is Graham. The engagements on again. Can ye manage that tea chest on yer own, honey? We’ve time for a cuppa afore we go.” As usual I just waited until she stopped to breathe.
“I thought we might have a cup at the airport sittin’ watchin’ the planes.”
Hamish and me’s goin’ to California for a wee holiday. Judy’s takin’ me to my new house where he’s waitin’ for us, then on to the airport. When Myrna heard that we were playin’ hide and seek with Hamish’s sister in law she gave us a right mouthful.
“I’m forty this year. You two have put other people first for far too long. I’ll go and tell my new Aunt if you won’t.”
So we missed the ‘Five Past Eight’ show and drove down to face our dragon instead. I wouldnae say she was happy about it but she cheered up when we told her she could have the house. Myrna left at the end of the week but only after we promised to come to see her and the weans in California. We took her to the airport and while Hamish went off to buy her a quarter of mint imperials to sook to stop her ears poppin,’ she had the last word.
“It’s really lovely to see you two so much in love. You don’t have to tell me, but do you still have a physical relationship?”
“Aye, we still have a wee bit of sex but the truth is that passion is less important than compassion when you get to our time of life.”
Originally from Dalmuir, Alasdair McPherson is now retired and living in exile in Lincolnshire.
He says he has always wanted to write, but life got in the way until recently. He has already penned six novels and many short stories. His three latest novels, The Island, Pilgrimage of Grace and Desert Ark, are McStorytellers publications.
You can read Alasdair's full profile on McVoices.
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Gospel catches fire in Miao minority group
By Reagan HoezeeJune 15, 2017
China (MNN) — To many people in the West, China may still seem like a land devoid of much Christian influence. While there is some truth to that, in one minority group, the Gospel is catching fire.
That’s what Erik Burklin, President of China Partner, says he witnessed on a recent visit to China’s Guizhou province. He was invited by the Miao minority group to visit one of their new churches.
(Photo courtesy of China Partner)
“As a result of this church now, many Miao people are coming to Christ,” Burklin says. “What’s so exciting is the people groups are very relational. Especially if a leader of a group like that accepts Christ, then what we have noticed is sometimes the whole village will accept Christ because the leader of that town had an encounter with Jesus Christ, and then he tells his friends and his family members about it.”
Burklin was also invited to teach at a Miao training center, where local pastors and lay leaders come for a week of training. Burklin says out of China’s 55 official minority groups, over 90 percent of attendees were from the Miao people group.
“So many times we look at China and the tremendous amounts of unreached people groups that are still living within China today that we think have no access to the Gospel,” Burklin says. “When I was there, I realized again that, that is not necessarily always the case. In this case, many of the Miao have come to faith over the last 100 years even, they were saying.”
The Miao people’s recently-found faith, Burklin says, is forging a radical change. This transformation is happening both on an individual and societal level.
“Before the Gospel came to them, they were drunkards, there was free sexual activity going on, very tribal, almost like Satanic,” Burklin says. “And then the Good News came and everything changed. So they have now become one of the stronger minority groups that have changed for the positive.
“Of course, that is filtering all the way down. In some cases, they even have good schools now in those villages that years ago the missionaries started. You see that Christianity not only just changes their destiny, that they’re born again and one day will be with Jesus — but then right away, practically, in society, it’s having a positive impact.”
China Partner comes alongside multiple people groups within China to train and equip leaders and churches for ministry. You can learn more about their work, and how you can get involved, by clicking here.
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Elvin Harden says:
I never heard of the Miao people before and I am thrilled that the impact that the gospel has made on these people
Pray that the Gospel would continue to spread throughout the Miao minority group.
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Birmingham Midshires pays compensation to mortgage customers
Naomi Schraer, News Reporter
Birmingham Midshires is paying compensation to some customers after wrongly calculating their monthly mortgage payments, and one customer has already received over £1,600. Here's what you need to know.
The affected customers were either charged too much or too little due to a "system error" – with some customers even being charged too much for some months and not enough for others.
Birmingham Midshires refused to tell us how many customers were affected by the errors, saying it was a "small number" of its 420,000 mortgage customers.
It also refused to say how much it has paid out in compensation – but one customer we spoke to, who didn't want to be named, received over £1,600.
The bank said it started reviewing cases where customers had been charged incorrect amounts last year, but wouldn't confirm how far back the problem dates.
It's confirmed financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is aware of the error and has been informed about the compensation being paid. The FCA refused to comment.
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'I've been paid £1,600 – but how long has this been going on for?'
One letter, sent to a Birmingham Midshires customer and seen by MSE, said the customer would be paid over £1,600 to his mortgage account, including more than £500 in compensation.
But the letter didn't say how these payments had been calculated, or how long the incorrect monthly repayments had been charged for.
This left the customer confused about what had happened and how to check the amounts were accurate, saying: "I'm not sure what to do – how do I know if the amounts they're saying are correct? And how do I know how long this has been going on for?"
Others have also reported receiving payments from Birmingham Midshires on social media:
Paid off a mortgage with Birmingham Midshires 4 years ago. Received a £260 cheque yesterday for interest they owed me. What a nice surprise! Good work @AskLloydsBank 😊
— Tim Guest (@Guest909) February 24, 2019
Anyone who had a mortgage with Birmingham Midshires and since moved might want to contact them. We got letter out of blue with cheque (small) as calculated interest incorrectly. Assume this was part of wider review.#BirminghamMidshires
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What payments is Birmingham Midshires making?
Birmingham Midshires is making payments to customers who were charged wrong amounts for their monthly mortgage repayments. Here's what it's offering:
Underpaid on your mortgage? Birmingham Midshires will make up the difference. If you've been charged a lower monthly payment than you should have been, you'd have been paying your mortgage off more slowly than you should, so your remaining mortgage balance will be higher than it should be.
Birmingham Midshires says it will make a payment to your mortgage account which will reduce the balance to the level it would have been at if you'd been charged the correct monthly payments.
Overpaid on your mortgage? You'll get compensation. If you've been charged a higher monthly payment than you should have been, you'll be paid 8% of the extra money you paid per year as compensation.
This will be paid towards your mortgage account – but as long as you're up to date with repayments, you can also ask for this to be paid to you directly.
But Birmingham Midshires says that if you choose to have the compensation paid to you directly, your mortgage balance will be higher than if you used it to reduce the outstanding balance – so your monthly repayments will also be higher than if you used it to reduce the balance, due to the way it is doing its calculations.
As some customers were both undercharged and overcharged at different times, you could receive both a reduction to your balance and a compensatory interest payment.
Birmingham Midshires says it's also recalculating the monthly mortgage payments of affected customers to make sure these are accurate going forward.
And if you've already paid off or switched your Birmingham Midshires mortgage, you'll be sent a payment by cheque. If you'd been charged a lower monthly payment than you should have, you'll be paid an amount to put you in the same financial position as if you'd been charged the correct amounts originally.
I've had a mortgage with Birmingham Midshires – what should I do?
Birmingham Midshires says it's in the process of contacting affected customers and ex-customers, so you shouldn't need to do anything to receive your payment – even if you've already closed your mortgage account.
It says it's also tracking down customers who have moved house or changed their contact details – but if you think you might have been affected and haven't heard anything, you can contact Birmingham Midshires on 0808 145 1776, or by writing to Birmingham Midshires Mortgage Servicing, PO Box 833, Leeds, LS1 9PU.
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Shows That Caught Our Eye in Toronto the Week of August 21st, 2017
Happy solar eclipse day, Toronto! For your theatre viewing pleasure this week, Toronto’s stages have Shakespeare, a dishonest Wizard, Pirates, GAGA, and much more! Check them out below the cut:
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Shakespeare in High Park: King Lear. (Canadian Stage/York U Theatre Dept). The classic tragedy is staged outdoors. Previews from Jun 29, opens Jul 13 and runs to Sep 2. Pwyc, $25 reserved seating. In the Amphitheatre, High Park. Show Info.
And everything else:
Lady Gaga: #Artbirth by Athena Reich and Jack Trinco (Sara Schwartz Geller Productions). AthenaReich plays the pop icon, who’s decided to give birth in front of fans as a performance art piece in pop/comedy show. Opens Aug 24 and runs to Sep 3, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $35-$45. At Berkeley Street Theatre. Show Info.
Shut Up, No One Cares. Anne and Paula present & host a live storytelling show combined with multimedia (video, photos, illustrations, etc). Aug 24 at 7:30 pm. $10, available on eventbrite.ca. At The Gladstone Hotel. Show Info.
Pippi: The Strongest Girl in the World. by Astrid Lindgren (Fourth Gorgon Theatre). In this adaptation, Pippi is surprised by her pirate crew who show up to take everyone on a musical sailing adventure. Opens Aug 23 and runs to Sep 4, Tue-Sun 7 pm, mat Sat, Sun (and Sep 4) at 1:30 pm. $25. At Pirate Life Toronto. Show Info.
Two Gentlewomen of Verona. Presented by Dauntless City Theatre. BFFs Proteus and Valentine find themselves interested in the same man in this adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare, performed outdoors in the park. Opens Aug 4 and runs to Aug 27, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. Pwyc. At Berczy Park. Show Info.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Ruff). The romantic comedy is performed outdoors. Previews from Aug 15, opens Aug 18 and runs to Sep 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm. Pwyc. At Withrow Park. Show Info.
Territorial Tales. Shakespeare In High Park presents three short plays based on themes of displacement, migration and the recapturing of spirit, penned by selected participants of Canadian Stage’s 2017 youth engagement program. Performed before the SIHP feature play (King Lear or Twelfth Night). Opens Aug 3 and runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. Free/pwyc. At the Amphitheatre in High Park. See website for more info on the show & cast. Show Info.
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical book by Douglas McGrath (Paul Blake/Sony/ATV Music). The story of King’s rise to stardom as a composer and singer-songwriter, marriage and divorce to writing partner Gerry Goffin and friendships with other musical artists. Opens Jun 27 and runs to Sep 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed, Sat-Sun 2 pm (no show Jul 1). $50-$149. At Ed Mirvish Theatre. Show Info.
The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, Harold Arlen and EY Harburg (LOT). A girl and her dog travel over the rainbow to discover the magical power of home in this musical based on the classic film. Opens Jun 16 and runs to Aug 27, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun noon and 4 pm. $50-$70. At The Lower Ossington Theatre. Show Info.
Pirate Life Children’s Theatre. Kids can dress in costume, get face paint tattoos and help discover the mystery of the treasure map in this interactive theatrical show/boat cruise. Opens May 6 and runs to Oct 8, Sat-Sun until Jun 25, daily Jun 26-Sep 4, weekends to Oct 9. Various times from 10:30 am-5 pm. $25. At Island Rogue. Show Info.
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MHP Muscles In On Energy Product
With its supercharged 8-Hour Alert #34 car, MHP flexes its muscle at the FedEx 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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MHP has muscled in on the growing energy supplement marketplace with the launch of its new 8-HOUR ALERT sustained energy tablet. This revolutionary product was introduced to the public for the first time at the FedEx 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway on June 2nd when it sponsored David Ragan’s 8-HOUR ALERT No. 34 car.
Ragan will next race his MHP 8-HOUR ALERT car at the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 7th, where he is the defending champion. He is also set to drive the No. 34 8-HOUR ALERT race car in the October 7th Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, where Ragan posted a top-10 finish earlier this season.
“8-HOUR ALERT is an exciting new energy product for MHP,” said company CEO Gerard Dente, “and we’re happy to have David Ragan behind the wheel of the 8-HOUR ALERT #34 car. Our objective with 8-HOUR ALERT is to offer longer energy at a lower cost to consumers. People are paying as much as $3-$4 per serving with energy shots. 8-HOUR ALERT costs under $1 per serving without compromising on its effectiveness." If car No. 34 performs as well as the people who take these sustained energy tablets, it's just a matter of time before we see it take the checkered flag.
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Museo dell'Ottocento
The last exhibition area, a “museum within the museum”, is comprised of five spaces illustrating the façade made for the Cathedral in the 19th century. The first of these, a corridor with showcases at right and left, introduces the history of the new façade beginning with the painted Duomo front done in 1688, the last traces of which are visible in mid 19th-century photographs. Damaged by exposure to the elements, this mural originally made as decoration for a Medici wedding evoked the distant past: the Medici dynasty had ceased to rule in 1737. Their successors, the grand dukes of the Lorena family, returning from the exile imposed by Napoleon, found a cultural climate eager for new social and artistic ideas.
Proposals for an architectural façade to replace the ruined painted front began to circulate in the early 1820s and were all in a gothic style that alluded to the Florence of Dante. The design process, occupying almost eighty years of time and marked by intense artistic and ideological debate, coincided with the national unification movement known as the Risorgimento, and the façade of Florence Cathedral in fact was the initial creative project of the new Kingdom of Italy. Its first stone was laid by Victor Emmanuel II in 1860 and the last of its bronze doors was unveiled in the presence of Victor Emmanuel III in 1903.
On view in this room are drawings, watercolors and prints by Giorgio Muller, Niccolò Matas and Emilio De Fabris belonging to the early stages of planning for the façade. A cast of Aristodemo Costoli’s circular relief in honor of Arnolfo di Cambio placed in the Duomo in 1844 evokes the renewed interest in the building’s early history in those years and the resulting neo-gothic trend in Florentine taste. Two large paintings by Niccolò Barducci then shift attention to the final phase of the planning process; realised in 1884-1885, they depict the two solutions finally proposed by the architect chosen, Emilio De Fabris: the “cusped” and the “basilican”.
The whole debate about the façade in fact revolved around which of these interpretations of gothic style was aesthetically and politically preferable. Many considered the cusped version to be “northern” and thus “Austrian”, in an Italy then still under the yoke of Vienna. By contrast the basilican version, more rectilinear, less pointy, seemed authentically “Italic”.
This room offers samples of the rich decoration realised or at least planned for De Fabris’s façade on the basis of Augusto Conti’s iconographic program, with Lot Torelli’s Adam and Eve, set on the front in 1886, and Giobata Tassara’s Aaron and Samuel statues, commissioned in 1882-1883. Also of interest is Amos Cassioli’s Founders of the Florentine Charitable Institutions, painted for the December 1879 unveiling of the façade’s left side, with plaster versions of the statues and canvases in place of the future mosaics. The mosaic finally realised was done to a design by Niccolò Barabino, but Cassioli’s painting, unfortunately damaged in the 1966 flood, is an important instance of the complexity of the planning process, and was among the works on display when the Museo dell’Opera opened its doors to the public in 1891.
In this fourth room visitors see a pencil and wash delineation of one of the bronze doors of the new facade, a work by Amos Cassioli and his son Giuseppe, and – in the showcase occupying the room’s far end - three bronze panels by Giusepe Cassioli, demonstration pieces for one of the doors. The final competition regarding the new façade was in fact that organised by the Promotional Deputation in 1887 for the three doors, the last of which, Augusto Passaglia’s main portal, was solemnly unveiled in 1903 in the presence of Italy’s King and Queen. This room also contains 19th-century vestments and liturgical furnishings.
Emilio De Fabris died in 1883 without seeing the completion of the façade to which he had dedicated almost his entire professional life, and here a period portrait of the architect seems to look at two paintings made a year later in preparation for the mosaics which would adorn the north and south portals: Charity with Representative of Florentine Charitable Institutions and Faith with Representatives of the Florentine Guilds, both by Niccolò Barabino. The cartoon for the mosaic above the center façade portal, Christ Entroned Among Saints, also by Barabino, is exhibited on the landing of the New Staircase.
In Barabino’s paintings, where Virtues are depicted with the appearance of Mary, and in the plaster models for the portraits of illustrious Tuscans set high on the façade, we hear an echo of the iconographic program articulated by the philosopher Augusto Conti, in which Marian devotion and civic culture interpenetrate and become one, as in the sentence from Conti’s program reproduced here in a wall text. After De Fabris’s death the task of completing the façade was entrusted to his assistant Luigi del Moro, appointed head architect of the Opera del Duomo in 1884. When the façade was officially inaugurated on 12 May 1887 it was in fact Del Moro who received both the praise and the criticism directed toward the work. Del Moro was the architect of the few exhibition spaces of the origianl Museo dell’Opera: his neo-Renaissance style is seen in the 19th-century staircase visitors descend to reach the Cappella Musicale, the Cortile di Ticciati and the exit.
1 - Ingresso storico
2 - Cortile del Ticciati
3 - Corridoio dell'Opera
4-5 - Galleria delle sculture
6 - Salone del Paradiso
7 - Sala dei frammenti
8 - Sala della Maddalena
9 - Cappella delle Reliquie
10 - Tribuna di Michelangelo
11 - Lapidarium storico
12-13 - Atrio del Teatro degli Intrepidi - Scalone nuovo
14 - Galleria del Campanile
15 - Galleria della Cupola
21 - Sala delle navate
23 - Sala delle Cantorie
24 - Sala del coro bandinelliano
25 - Sala del tesoro
26 - Museo dell'Ottocento
28 - Cappella Musicale
17 - Galleria dei modelli
18 - Belvedere della Cupola
19 - Teatrino mediceo
20 - Sala dei paramenti
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Warner Music UK hires Nina Bhagwat as head of inclusion & diversity
by George Garner
March 26th 2019 at 12:29PM
Today (March 26) Warner Music UK has announced that Nina Bhagwat has joined the company as head of inclusion & diversity.
In her newly created role at Warner Music UK, Bhagwat will be responsible for developing the group’s inclusion and diversity strategy as well as overseeing policies and initiatives that will help drive attraction, progression, and engagement of talent from under-represented groups.
Bhagwat joins from Channel 4 where she was most recently off-screen diversity executive, and delivered key diversity charter initiatives including the Year Of Disability, Spotlight On Directors and the C4 BAME Action Plan.
Commenting on her new role, Nina Bhagwat said: “It’s exciting and noteworthy that a company with the impact, influence and relevance of Warner Music is placing the inclusion & diversity agenda front and centre of who they are as a company. The team’s commitment to building an inclusive culture where all talent can flourish is clear, and I feel thrilled to be able to join Warner on their journey”.
An official press release stated that Bhagwat will report directly to Masha Osherova, EVP and chief human resources officer, WMG, and Mel Fox, chief transformation officer WMUK, EVP of transformation for recorded music.
Speaking about the appointment, Mel Fox, said: “It’s vital our company reflects the diverse world we live in, and that means ensuring this is an environment where people with different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and ideas feel valued, supported and championed. The creation of this important new role underscores our commitment to that promise and strengthens our ability to deliver on it.”
Masha Osherova added: “Nina is going to make a great addition to the Warner Music team; not only does she have an impressive track-record, but she has a clear understanding of how to accelerate change in a creative and fast paced organisation like ours. We’re excited to partner with her on the next step of this important journey towards true and meaningful change.”
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Jay Leno Drives The Porsche 918 Spyder
Jeff Glucker August 30, 2013 Comment Now!
It's the must-drive car on everyone's list right now. We're talking about the Porsche 918 Spyder, which is one of the most exciting cars of the year from a hype standpoint.
Of course, it's most likely also amazingly exciting from a reality standpoint, as it's the technologically advanced machine to flow forth from Porsche... ever. The 918 made an appearance at Pebble Beach recently, and that's where Mr. Leno got to learn more about the Stuttgart special before heading off on a quick trip through the town.
Frank Walliser, Head of the Porsche 918 Spyder program, was on hand to walk Jay through the ins and outs of the car. He learned that the total power output is 887 horsepower. That figure comes about when the 4.6-liter V-8 is working in concert with the pair of electric motors. The 918 Spyder is capable of running on pure battery power for between 10 and 16 miles, and it can then run in as a standard hybrid or in a full Race mode, both of which force the V-8 and the electric drivetrain to work together all the time.
Should the 918 owner decide to creep through town, he or she may do just that. When in full race mode, however, the car is at its most alive and a glorious noise barks forth from the rear-deck mounted exhaust outlets. These pipes take on the appearance of something you'd find on a top-secret military fighter jet, yet they look equally at home on the back of Porsche's latest high-speed all-star.
If all of that sounds interesting to you, you're in luck because the production run isn't quite sold out yet. At least, that was the case last we heard. Porsche will build 918 examples of the, ahem, 918 Spyder, and if you have the means we suggest adding this one to your stable. It's not very often a supercar pushes the evolution of the breed forward and that's exactly what is going on here with the 918 Spyder.
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Kahn Design’s Defender-Based 6x6 Can Be Yours For $310k
Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 10, 2015 Comment Now!
Fresh from its debut at March’s Geneva Motor Show, Kahn Design’s insane Flying Huntsman 110 WB 6x6 based on the iconic Land Rover Defender is now up for sale, and the very first example, marked the “Prototype Mission 1”, can be yours for £199,875 (approximately $309,835). That’s significantly less than what you had to pay for Mercedes-AMG’s G63 6x6, yet Kahn Design’s own six-wheeler is no less dramatic.
The vehicle is the flagship of Kahn Design’s new Flying Huntsman range of coachbuilt Defenders. The range includes the 105 Longnose and 105 Pick Up, and all feature an aggressive look accented with signature Kahn enhancements liked the bolted-on panels and satin paint finish. The 105 Longnose can be had for £125,000 ($193,425) and the 105 Pick Up can be had for just £58,875 ($91,090), making it a bit of a bargain.
As for this 110 WB 6x6, it’s powered by a 6.2-liter LS3 V-8 sourced from General Motors Company [NYSE:GM]. The engine is paired with a six-speed automatic, and has seen its output upped to 500 horsepower. Drive, as the vehicle’s name infers, is to all six wheels.
Inside, Kahn Design’s craftsmen have added sports seats lined in quilted and perforated leather with a bright red finish. Other trim materials include Harris tweed and Alcantara. You also get a panoramic sunroof, custom sill plates and special badging.
As this was the example Kahn Design used at a recent string of promotional events, the vehicle also includes a bit more than your normal delivery miles. At the time of the writing, there are 250 miles on the odometer.
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Kelly Mary Fauvrelle: Paramedics at first thought Croydon mum stabbed to death was suffering 'pregnancy-related incident'
Ms Fauvrelle, who was 33 weeks pregnant when knifed, died at her home in Thornton Heath
Adela Whittingham
Richard DugganContent Editor (Courts)
Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was stabbed to death at her home in Thornton Heath (Image: SWNS)
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Paramedics who treated a pregnant woman repeatedly stabbed at her home in Croydon at first thought she was suffering from "pregnancy-related" complications, a coroner heard.
Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, 26, died at the scene of the knifing which took place in the early hours of June 29.
Ms Fauvrelle's baby, with whom she was 33 weeks pregnant with, was delivered by emergency Caesarean-section at her home in Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath.
However, the baby boy, named Riley by his family, also died just four days later.
An inquest into their deaths, which opened at South London Coroner’s Court on Tuesday (July 16), heard from detective chief inspector Michael Norman, who recounted what happened after emergency services arrived.
'Pregnancy-related incident'
Police at the scene in Raymead Avenue, Thornton Heath (Image: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire)
The court heard that when 999 crews first arrived at the scene shortly after 3.30am, they thought Ms Fauvrelle was suffering a "pregnancy-related incident".
But he said that police, plus paramedics from the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and London Ambulance Service (LAS), quickly discovered from her family that she had been attacked.
DCI Norman told the court: “Initially it was thought she had some sort of pregnancy-related incident, but quickly the family who called this in made them presently aware that this was an assault.
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“Kelly Fauvrelle was 33 weeks pregnant and, despite the efforts of emergency services, she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
“Emergency services were given no option but to carry out an emergency C-section and delivered baby Riley, a boy, who was taken directly to the hospital.
“Sadly, unfortunately, despite best efforts of everyone involved, he tragically died on July 3 - four days after he was born."
The cause of baby Riley's death has not yet been established, the hearing was told, but that Ms Fauvrelle died of multiple stab wounds.
Suspect charged
An artist's sketch of Aaron McKenzie, 25, appearing at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court (Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire)
DCI Norman continued: “A murder investigation was launched under my direction.
“This culminated in the arrest on Thursday, July 11. A male was arrested, Aaron McKenzie.
"Subsequently, he has been charged in the early hours of Sunday morning, July 14."
The inquest into the deaths were adjourned while the criminal investigation continues.
McKenzie, 25, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday (July 17) to answer charges of murder and manslaughter in relation to Kelly and Riley's deaths respectively.
DCI Norman also told the court that McKenzie, of Peckham Park Road, Peckham, had already attended a hearing at Camberwell Magistrates’ Court.
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He added: “The matter has been sent to the Crown Court with a trial date to be fixed, but expected to be at the end of this year.”
The coroner added: “It being apparent that some individual has been charged with manslaughter or murder of both Kelly Fauvrelle and Riley Fauvrelle, I’m therefore required to suspend this investigation.
“The investigation will only be resumed when there is sufficient reason to do so.
"I therefore adjourn both inquests for a date to be specified.”
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Eur J Biochem. 1992 Apr 1;205(1):417-24.
Cloning and expression of an Arabidopsis nitrilase which can convert indole-3-acetonitrile to the plant hormone, indole-3-acetic acid.
Bartling D1, Seedorf M, Mithöfer A, Weiler EW.
Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenphysiologie, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany.
From an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA expression library, a cDNA clone was isolated, characterized and sequenced which, at the amino acid level, resembled the Klebsiella ozaenae bromoxynil nitrilase encoded by the bxn gene. The cDNA contained a long open reading frame, starting from two possible neighbouring ATG codons and capable of encoding 340 or 346 amino acids with calculated molecular masses of 37526 Da or 38176 Da, respectively. The sequence similarity between the deduced polypeptides from the Arabidopsis cDNA and bxn was clustered in three domains, one at the C-terminus, one in the center and one near the N-terminus of the two proteins, suggesting important functional elements in these parts of the proteins. The cDNA was cloned into different vectors under the control of the lacZ promotor and was functionally expressed by induction with isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside. Using a combination of high-performance liquid chromatography, monoclonal-antibody based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and mass spectroscopy, it was shown that the isolated cDNA clone encodes an enzymatically active nitrilase which is able to convert indole-3-acetonitrile to the plant growth hormone, indole-3-acetic-acid.
Publication type, MeSH terms, Substances, Secondary source ID
Aminohydrolases/genetics*
Aminohydrolases/metabolism
Blotting, Southern
Cloning, Molecular
Indoleacetic Acids/metabolism*
Indoles/antagonists & inhibitors
Indoles/metabolism*
Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism*
Plants/enzymology
Restriction Mapping
Indoleacetic Acids
indoleacetic acid
indole-3-acetonitrile
Aminohydrolases
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Mathew Ninan, MD, FACS
Nashville Lung Using Advanced Robotics
Nashville Lung Surgery - part of AdvancedHEALTH, Middle Tennessee's largest, independent, multi-specialty practice - continues to build its Thoracic Robotics program. This summer, specialists with Nashville Lung Surgery began using the latest da Vinci Xi Robotic system at Ascension Saint Thomas West Hospital.
"This minimally-invasive technology allows us to perform complex procedures with less recovery time, pain and surgical trauma for our patients," said thoracic surgeon Mathew Ninan, MD, FACS. "This technology also allows for high definition 3D visualization for more precise surgeries."
Ninan has personally trained the Thoracic Robotics OR team at Saint Thomas West, following the protocols used at Baylor Heart Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
With the da Vinci Xi Robot, Nashville Lung Surgery is able to perform advanced thoracic robotic procedures, including: lung resections for lung cancer; mediastinal and chest wall lesion removal; foregut surgery, such as robotic laparoscopic hiatal hernia repairs and anti-reflux procedures, like the Linx magnet procedure. Nashville Lung Surgery also has performed full esophageal mobilization in the chest, as well as resected benign esophageal tumors with the robotic technology. As the Thoracic Robotics program continues to expand, the practice will be performing esophagectomy with a total port access approach to avoid the traditional open surgery.
OneOncology: Building Partnerships to Drive Community-Based Cancer Care
This fall, three leading oncology practices - Nashville-based Tennessee Oncology, New York Cancer & Blood Specialists and Memphis-based West Cancer Center - joined forces to launch OneOncology, a patient-centric, physician-driven, technology-powered company with the mission of improving the lives of those with a cancer diagnosis in communities across the country.
Nearly 40 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime. With early diagnostic, research and treatment breakthroughs, survivorship has increased dramatically. For an increasing number of individuals, their cancer has become similar to managing a chronic disease and is cared for in a community-based setting close to home.
Key goals behind OneOncology are to support and empower partnering community oncologists through peer learning and collaboration to leverage a collective experience to address practice and care delivery challenges and to connect oncologist with resources to improve quality, reduce costs and improve the patient experience across the care continuum.
"With the launch of OneOncology, we hope to transform the future of cancer care," said the new company's President and CEO Tracy Bahl, a 20-year healthcare industry veteran with previous executive and board roles at CVS Health and Emdeon. "Cancer is increasingly being treated like a chronic condition rather than a terminal diagnosis. Working together with world-class oncologists, we will drive the change that community cancer needs through continual learning, creative and smart evolution, and a collective desire to positively impact the lives of every person touched by cancer."
The new company received $200 million from private equity firm General Atlantic and has partnered with Flatiron Health, an EHR developer specializing in oncology that has software in more than 275 practices around the country.
CET Companies Awarded more than $3 Million in Grants
Last month, Cumberland Emerging Technologies, Inc. (CET), an incubator of early-stage life science companies, announced more than $3 million in research grant awards for three company tenants at the CET Life Sciences Center.
"This significant funding points to the important role the CET Life Science Center is playing in supporting the creation of innovative biomedical technologies that stimulate economic development in Tennessee," said A.J. Kazimi, CEO of Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of CET's founders.
The total of $3,070,000 in funding includes:
A $2 million grant from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support a joint research program involving Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc., CET, and researchers at Vanderbilt University. The objective of the collaborative research program is to further develop a novel small molecule radiosensitizing agent for the treatment of certain lung cancers. By enhancing the cancer's sensitivity to radiation therapy, this technology addresses a significant medical need of improving clinical outcomes for these oncology patients. This Phase II grant is awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding mechanism and follows successful completion of an initial Phase I award.
A $750,000 grant to PATH EX, Inc. from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a fluidic platform for selective bacterial and endotoxin removal from blood. This technology can potentially serve as a novel blood cleansing therapeutic for diseases such as sepsis. This Phase II grant was also awarded under SBIR funding and follows successful completion of an initial Phase I award.
A $320,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund research by IQuity to predict and detect Alzheimer's disease. For more information on this project, see page xx.
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A.J. Kazimi, Alzheimer’s, CET, Community-based Cancer Care, Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, da Vinci Xi Robot, Flatiron Health, General Atlantic, IQuity, Lung Cancer, Lung Surgery, Mathew Ninan, National Cancer Institute, NCI, New York Cancer & Blood Specialists, OneOncology, PATH EX, Radiation Therapy, Saint Thomas West, Sepsis, Tennessee Oncology, Thoracic Robotics, Tracy Bahl, West Cancer Center
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Thai Union takes stake in cod-liver producer in Iceland
Thai Union CEO Thiraphong Chansiri
The world's seafood leader, Thai Union Group, has made a strategic investment in Aegir Seafood Company, one of the leading producers of cod liver in Iceland.
The investment in Aegir will support the growth of the cod liver business for Thai Union's King Oscar brand, a Norwegian-based manufacturer of cod liver, sardines and mackerel.
"Aegir has built a reputation over almost 25 years for manufacturing some of the most premium cod liver in the market today," said Thai Union CEO Thiraphong Chansiri.
"The strategic investment in Aegir will strengthen King Oscar's capacity and market position through the addition of the plant in Iceland, while also providing improved sourcing of cod liver for the brand."
Aegir sources all of its cod from Icelandic Responsible Fisheries, while its products are also certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). MSC certification is widely recognised by global experts as the best mark of seafood sustainability.
The investment will play an important role in King Oscar's strategy to create growth and help it take a leading position in the canned cod liver segment.
King Oscar has a strong brand heritage of more than 140 years and is one of the leading canned fish suppliers in Norway, the US, Poland, Belgium and Australia. King Oscar was acquired by Thai Union in 2014.
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Spot Gas Price Summary
Home » NM Pipe Safety Bill Sails through House
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NM Pipe Safety Bill Sails through House
House Passes Bills to Block Trump Offshore Drilling Plans, Senate Unlikely to Agree
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PHMSA Issues Three Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Rules
Intrastate pipeline safety legislation, which would give New Mexico authorities more oversight over lines running through the state, received unanimous support from the state's House last week. The bill comes six months after El Paso Natural Gas Co.'s South Mainline near Carlsbad exploded killing 12 people from an extended family who were camping on the Pecos River (see NGI, Sept. 4, 2000).
HB 279, sponsored by State Rep. John A. Heaton (D), amends the New Mexico Pipeline Safety Act and the current statutes related to public lands. The bill would add "hazardous liquid pipelines" in the law's regulatory scheme and would require compliance with federal law concerning internal and external surveillance of pipeline integrity. It also would require companies to install emergency flow restricting devices. New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission (PRC) rules also would have to "substantially conform" to federal pipeline safety rules under the legislation.
Following the El Paso explosion, an inspection by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the South Mainline had not been properly inspected for almost 48 years. It also found extensive corrosion within the pipe.
Both the federal government and states regulate pipeline safety, however, the federal government regulates interstate transportation while a state may regulate intrastate transportation if it is certified by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Currently, neither federal nor New Mexico laws specifically require internal and external surveillance of pipeline integrity nor do they require installing emergency flow restricting devices.
Heaton's bill would not cover existing pipelines unless the New Mexico PRC, after investigation and hearing, determined that a specific pipeline was hazardous to life or property.
Carolyn Davis, Houston
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LA Marathon: Record in the Rain
Rain and a few water puddles didn't slow Markos Geneti
By Julie Jessup and Jonathan Lloyd • Published at 10:28 am on March 18, 2011
Markos Geneti of Ethiopia set a new race record by almost two minutes Saturday to win the LA Marathon.
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Geneti clocked an unofficial time of 2:06:35 on the wet stadium-to-the-sea course. The old record was set by Wes Korir, defending two-time champ, in 2009.
Geneti has had a career as a middle distance runner. He was running his first 26.2 mile race.
Ethiopia's Buzunesh Deba won the women's division with an unofficial time of 2:26:34. The women's division was a seesaw between Deba and Amy Hastings, of Mammoth Lakes. Hastings was ahead for nearly the entire course before faltering at Mile 21, in Brentwood.
Deba's victory was her seventh marathon win in the nine races she has entered. She won $25,000 and a Honda sedan, while Geneti won $125,000 for his record time, as well as a Honda.
Krige Schabirt won the wheelchair division with a time of 1:35:12. The former soldier from South Africa, who lost his legs in a war on Angola, now lives in Georgia.
Runners Face Wet, Cold Conditions
A cold rain moved into Los Angeles early Sunday, and cases of mild hypothermia were reported later in the race.
The race started at Dodger Stadium on nearly-dry pavement, but soaking rain and driving winds developed a half hour into the race. There was ankle-deep water in Brentwood, and cold, wet winds lashed the finish line.
Six hours after the marathon began, Los Angeles paramedics were dealing with hundreds of soaked runners scattered between Hollywood and Santa Monica, some suffering mild hypothermia. At least 20 people were hospitalized for hypothermia, cramps or other problems, and another 70 treated and released on city streets.
The Santa Monica Fire Department said about 200 marathon runners who crossed the finish line were being evaluated inside the ballroom of the Fairmont Miramar Hotel at 1 p.m. Twelve of them had been taken to hospitals with hypothermia symptoms, a race spokesman there said.
Most of the complaints from runners were for cramps and hypothermia, said Capt. Judah Mitchell of the Santa Monica Fire Department.
"After they sit a while and we get a banana in them, they say they are good,'' he said.
Los Angeles firefighters said they were tallying the numbers of hypothermia cases, and said it is not yet apparent if the number of chilled runners is comparable to the numbers of sunstroke or dehydration cases on warmer day marathons.
During the first six hours of the marathon, .78 inch of rain fell at Santa Monica Airport. .
Spectator turnout along the route, from Dodger Stadium to downtown Los Angeles, and then west to Santa Monica, was significantly lower than in years past, no doubt due to the weather.
Check out a list of road closures/reopen times. Check the video, highlighting the electric new route for the marathon.
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National Guard Member Missing After Floods Devastate Ellicott City, Maryland
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has declared a state of emergency
By NBC Washington staff, Storm Team4 and Associated Press • Published at 5:52 am on May 28, 2018
A man remained missing Monday after flash flooding tore down a historic main street in a picturesque Maryland town and left a community heartbroken at seeing more devastation less than two years after rebuilding from another massive flood.
The missing man — 39-year-old Eddison Hermond of Severn, Maryland — was last seen trying to help a woman and her cat behind a restaurant while churning, brown waters ripped through Ellicott City's flood-prone downtown.
Howard County Police Chief Gary Gardner said the missing National Guard member and U.S. Air Force veteran had been with a group at the La Palapa Grill & Cantina. He said Hermond was trying to help others by holding a door open as brown floodwaters coursed through the restaurant when a woman approached, needing help.
"He, along with some other folks, went back to assist her and unfortunately during that effort they saw him go under and water and not surface," Gardner told reporters, adding that the others made it out of the area safely.
Simon Cortes, who owns the restaurant, described Hermond as "a super nice guy," who was frequently out in the community showing support when it worked to rebuild from the devastating flooding that ravaged the former mill town in July 2016.
Officials shared a photo of Hermond on social media Monday morning.
More than 8 inches of rain dumped down on Ellicott City in about five hours Sunday, causing powerful flood waters to turn Main Street into a river and sweeping away cars like they were toys.
Parts of Howard County remained under a flood warning Monday morning, but Storm Team4 says the threat for more heavy rain has passed, and the likelihood of more flash flooding is decreasing. However, residents and business owners will still have to deal with the damage left behind.
Howard County has opened a hotline at 410-313-2900 to help provide assistance for people affected by the flooding in Ellicott City. Officials also shared a hotline for those struggling with mental health or the emotional toll of the floods. Those in crisis or needing to talk to someone should call Grassroots Hotline at 410-531-6677, officials said. For emergencies, people should call still 911. The county also created a flood recovery website. People who need shelter, food or other necessities can call the Maryland United Way Helpline at 211.
Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said that his immediate priorities are finding the missing man and assessing the condition of damaged buildings that housed shops, restaurants and families.
For now, the Main Street area remained blocked off Monday, even to residents and business owners, as teams of authorities and engineers surveyed the heartbreaking mess.
"If you look at the devastation and the damage, I would certainly say it's worse than 2016," Kittleman said. "We've had areas that were not even damaged at all two years ago terribly damaged this time."
Ellicott City certainly got the worst of it. But torrential rains led to such bad flooding in Baltimore County, Baltimore City and the capital of Annapolis that Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday declared a state of emergency statewide in order to better coordinate support and assistance.
With floodwaters receded Monday, revealing the damage in Ellicott City, residents and business owners could see the scope of the next challenge ahead of them: They face another mammoth cleanup and another daunting comeback.
Local resident Nathan Sowers, owner of the River House Pizza Co., an outdoor eatery in the old mill town's business district, said that after all the hard work rebuilding from the destructive 2016 flood he's feeling a bit overwhelmed at the prospect of tackling yet another revival.
Asked whether he's committed to building back anew he said: "We'll see. It takes a lot of money and a lot of time."
But Sowers also said he saw other hard-hit locals laughing and joking about their troubles Monday morning — a good sign the Maryland town will launch yet another rebirth from raging floodwaters.
Sunday's dramatic flooding tore up streets and swept away dozens of parked cars in the city, which sits in a ravine on the west bank of the Patapsco River, about 13 miles west of Baltimore.
Mike Muccilli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sterling, Virginia, has said it was too early to make comparisons between the two floods. But he said both were devastating. In the July 2016 storm, Ellicott City received 6.6 inches of rain over a two- to three-hour period. On Sunday, the community received some 8 inches of rain over a six-hour period, but most of it fell during an intense, three-hour period, Muccilli said.
"In a normal heavy rain event, you wouldn't see this amount of flooding, where you see cars floating down the road," Muccilli said. "This was a true flash flood."
During the flood a handmade, white flag hung from an upper story of a Main Street building bearing the letters SOS.
"If you are trapped, we are coming," the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services tweeted at one point.
Ellicott City has been methodically rebuilding since the 2016 flooding damaged and destroyed businesses. Local officials recently said 96 percent of the businesses were back in operation and more than 20 new businesses had again opened in the Main Street area. Just two weeks ago, Hogan announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had awarded the state and county more than $1 million to pay for projects aimed at reducing the flood risk in areas around Main Street.
Some are already asking whether enough was done after the last flood to prevent a similar catastrophe. Hogan said temporary improvements were in place and more things were in the works to reduce the community's vulnerabilities. But he said big changes take time, and no one expected such a huge flood so soon after 2016.
People who need shelter can go to the Roger Carter Community Center at 3000 Milltowne Drive, Howard County Recreation and Parks tweeted.
United Way of Central Maryland reestablished the ECStrong Fund to raise money. The fund originally was created after the 2016 flood. To help, text "ECStrong" to 71777 or go to the fund's website.
Business owners are not yet permitted to claim property or assess damages at this time, Howard County officials said about 10:15 a.m. Monday. Business owners are asked instead to monitor social media for updates. The official Howard County government Twitter account is available here.
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Dr Tod Moore
Newcastle Business School (Politics)
Email:tod.moore@newcastle.edu.au
Out of the dust: Pamphlets and political pandemonium
Digging deep into the literary archives, Dr Tod Moore is seeking to understand and stimulate discussion about how contemporary politics has come to be.
Unlike many political scientists, who study pieces of legislation, policy documents, speeches made by elected leaders and other ideas in politics as they’re happening, Dr Tod Moore looks at the bigger picture – the thoughts and feelings that people express about politics on a meta level.
“At any given time, there will be quite a lot of us who have opinions about why things aren’t working in government and how things should be changed,” he suggests.
“I am always looking for these narratives, particularly in pamphlets.”
Problems with power
Tod’s research career began in 1990, when he commenced a PhD at the University of New England. Chiefly focusing on peace, the six-year probe sought to investigate the origin and evolution of sovereignty theory.
“I specifically studied the writers who invented it,” he recalls.
“The aim was to understand exactly what these English language sources were making of the idea when it first arose in the Late Renaissance.”
“In the end, I found that they were relatively uninterested in the notion and I concluded that that was because they had already been using it without necessarily knowing or realising for over a century.”
“So it wasn’t a surprise to them when it was first articulated.”
Picking up the keys to a bookshop after receiving his award in 1996, Tod looked to “get away” from academia for a little while. The animated scholar didn’t stray for too long, however, welcomed back into the fold at Griffith University in 2001.
“I then accepted a Research Fellowship at Monash University in Melbourne,” he elaborates.
“During this period, I worked with Professor James Walter on a book titled ‘What were they thinking?’ which is about the different currents of thought in Australian politics.”
“We actually found that our country has a long tradition of being creative with the subject.”
“To some extent, all of us had forgotten about this, however, especially considering the rise of various free market ideologies in the 1990s.”
“The disconnect was and continues to be very interesting.”
War and words
Tod relocated to the University of Newcastle in 2004, signing on to be a casual academic and then lecturer within its Business School. He began with an examination of approximately 100 pamphlets that were printed in London during the English Revolution (1642-51), and followed it up with a number of successful projects, most recently exploring intellectuals’ reactions to World War 1.
“I am also in the process of wrapping up an assignment on William Harrison Moore, who was a Cambridge man and the first professor to teach political science in Australia,” he shares.
“He wrote a chapter on the study of Australian government in 1913, which was published a year later and given to the delegates of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Congress.”
“It is clearly a foundation text but no one has studied it in depth until now.”
A celebrated wordsmith and workhorse, Tod is currently following the social media campaigns of Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom.
“These openly socialist candidates are receiving enormous amounts of support, particularly from young voters,” he comments.
“A lot of that is surfacing through Twitter and Facebook.”
“There’s really no difference between analysing old political pamphlets that were written centuries ago and analysing blogs that were written and uploaded yesterday.”
The future of preserving the past
In the longer term, Tod is planning to develop his ongoing research on some of the early Marxist documents that were published in Australia between 1900-10 – the period immediately before WW1.
“Other writers who have studied the philosophical tradition have never been able to figure out with clarity what its different factions were,” he explains.
“This is largely because there isn’t a lot of readily available information out there.”
“What I’ve been able to do over the years, however, is track down dozens of pamphlets by tracing the printers, not the authors.”
“Doing so has allowed me to cluster the groups in a much more satisfactory way.”
At the same time believing that we need to be “more aware” of these historical treasures, Tod is encouraging all of us to get involved in conservation efforts too.
“They tell us what the basic ideas of our evolving social consciousness actually are - where they come from and how they’ve changed,” he insists.
“A lot are disappearing though.”
“Many are printed on acid paper so they are literally crumbling.”
“It’s important that everyone work together to salvage as much as possible.”
Interested in a PhD in Politics?
Since my full time appointment in 2010, I have remained research oriented. I previously worked with Prof. Graham Maddox at UNE and then with Prof. James Walter at Monash before coming to Newcastle. Articles in A journals (both sole and co-authored), book chapters, and refereed conference papers, all solidify scholarship in Australian political ideas, Australian federal politics, history of political thought, and sovereignty theory in IR. Recent work combines sovereignty research with history of political thought to examine the nature and significance of liberal imperialism across time. Current projects involve Australian federalism, history of Australian political science, the Occupy Movement, and pamphlets of World War One and the Great Depression. Since 2009 I have been responsible for establishing and coordinating our large POLI3001 capstone course in business and government, and teaching comparative politics and IR courses. I am also involved in HONS and RHD supervision.
History of political thought, History of Australian political thought, Puritanism and politics in the 1640s, sovereignty theory, Australian political pamphlets, Australian federalism, and Australian ideologies.
Teaching Expertise
international relations (IR), comparative politics, business and politics, Australian politics, Australian political culture, Marxist theory.
Administrative Expertise
Since 2014 I have been Head of Discipline in the Discipline of Politics, Policy, and International Relations.
Invited speaker on federalism at recent conferences. Also maintaining contacts with a number of historians of Australian political thought and IR. Regular at APSA Conferences. Please email me if you want to discuss recent publications or research.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England
Australian political thought
history of political thought
sovereignty theory
160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy 45
160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified 50
220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified 5
UON Appointment
Organisation / Department
Lecturer University of Newcastle
Newcastle Business School
Academic appointment
1/08/2002 - 1/12/2003 Research Assistant (Academic) Monash University
Political and Social Inquiry
1/08/2001 - 1/09/2002 Senior Research Assistant Griffith University
PVC Unit (Humanities), Mt Gravatt
Chapter10Journal article14Conference4Other1
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (10 outputs)
2019 Moore TW, 'Once as Tragedy and Again as Farce: Hansonism, Backlashers, and Economic Nationalism After 20 Years', The Rise of Right-Populism in Australia, Springer, Singapore 203-216 (2019) [B1]
10.1007/978-981-13-2670-7
2019 Jose JW, ' Manning Up with Pauline Hanson: Playing the Gender Card, Again', The Rise of Right-Populism: Pauline Hanson s One Nation and Australian Politics, Springer Nature, Singapore 167-178 (2019) [B1]
Scopus - 1
Jim Jose
2015 Moore TW, Williams H, 'Class and Courage: Anti-conscriptionists in the Hunter, 1916', Radical Newcastle, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney 60-68 (2015) [B1]
2013 Maddox G, Moore TW, 'Mainline Calvinists, Pamphlets and Democracy in Revolutionary Britain 1641-1646', Not So Strange Bedfellows, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne 26-44 (2013) [B1]
2010 Moore TW, 'A civic order', What Were They Thinking? : The Politics of Ideas in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 133-174 (2010) [B1]
2010 Moore TW, 'Life is not meant to be easy', What Were They Thinking? : The Politics of Ideas in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 248-288 (2010) [B1]
2005 Moore TW, 'Unificationism in Australian Political Thought', A Passion for politics: essays in honour of Graham Maddox, Pearson Australia, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales 75-85 (2005) [B1]
1997 Moore TW, Maddox G, 'In Defence of Parliamentary Sovereignty', Power, Parliament and the People, Federation Press, Sydney 67-83 (1997)
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Journal article (14 outputs)
2017 Moore TW, 'The transformation of the Occusphere', Social Identities, 23 674-687 (2017) [C1]
10.1080/13504630.2017.1291091
Scopus - 2Web of Science - 2
2017 Moore TW, 'Born in Melbourne? Considerations on the origins of Australian political science', Australian Journal of Political Science, 52 450-464 (2017) [C1]
© 2017 Australian Political Studies Association. In a pioneering academic discussion of Australian politics written just before the First World War, William Harrison Moore reinfor... [more]
© 2017 Australian Political Studies Association. In a pioneering academic discussion of Australian politics written just before the First World War, William Harrison Moore reinforced the image of Australia as an increasingly autonomous part of a slowly evolving but essentially liberal British Empire. In this 34-page account of ¿Political Systems of Australia¿ published in George H. Knibbs, ed., Federal Handbook (Melbourne, 1914), the Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Melbourne arguably created the ur-text of the Australian Politics textbook. It is argued that there is an unbroken thread of Cambridge-inspired political science teaching and writing at Melbourne from Harrison Moore onwards. The early Australian politics textbooks and ¿Political Systems of Australia¿ are cut from the same cloth, making the latter an important precursor.
2016 Moore T, 'SOVEREIGN STATES, SEPARATE SPHERES AND VISIONS OF REGIONAL AUSTRALIA', AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF REGIONAL STUDIES, 22 9-26 (2016) [C1]
2015 Moore TW, 'Saving Private Hegel: Australian Liberalism and the 1914 1918 War', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 61 501-514 (2015) [C1]
10.1111/ajph.12115
2015 Moore T, 'Liberal Imperialism in Australian Political Thought, 1902 14', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43 58-79 (2015) [C1]
2012 Moore TW, 'The 'Morpeth Mind' and Australian politics 1927-1934', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 20-33 (2012) [C1]
2011 Moore TW, 'Indivisible sovereignty: A reply to Pitty and Smith', Australian Journal of Political Science, 46 551-553 (2011) [C3]
2010 Moore TW, Maddox G, 'Participation, democracy, and the split in revolutionary Calvinism, 1641-1646', Nebula, 7 103-113 (2010) [C1]
2009 Moore TW, 'Violations of sovereignty and regime engineering: A critique of the State Theory of Stephen Krasner', Australian Journal of Political Science, 44 497-511 (2009) [C1]
2006 Moore T, Walter J, 'State socialism in australian political thought: A reconsideration', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 52 13-29 (2006)
10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00405a.x
2004 Moore TW, 'Melbourne and Mars: the Australian All Electric Communist Utopia', Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, No. 87 209-220 (2004) [C1]
1998 Moore T, Bourke S, Maddox G, 'Australia and the emergence of the modern two-party system', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 44 17-31 (1998)
1995 Moore TW, Maddox G, 'Rights, Jurisdiction and Responsible Government - the Spectre of Capital Television', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 33 400-415 (1995)
1993 Moore TW, 'Recycling Aristotle: the sovereignty theory of Richard Hooker.', History of Political Thought, 14 345-359 (1993)
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Conference (4 outputs)
2009 Moore TW, 'Kevin Rudd's Monthly essay and the essaying of an Australian tradition of political thought', Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009: Refereed Papers, Sydney, NSW (2009) [E1]
2008 Moore TW, 'McMockracy and sovereignty lite: The organised world of Stephen Krasner', APSA 2008: Abstracts and Refereed Papers, Brisbane, QLD (2008) [E1]
2007 Jose JW, Moore TW, 'The concept 'governance' within Parliamentary Discourse 1983-93', Australasian Political Studies Association Conference. Refereed Papers, Melbourne (2007) [E1]
2006 Moore TW, 'The 'Morpeth Mind' and Australian Politics 1927-1934', APSA Conference 2006, Newcastle (2006) [E1]
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Other (1 outputs)
2013 Moore TW, 'Australasian political thought (Australia And New Zealand)', Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought ( pp.47-54). Thousand Oaks, CA: QC Press (2013)
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The debate that tore Australia apart: reviewing conscription pamphlets 1916-1917.$5,000
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2019 PhD UK Voters' Behaviour Analysis of the 2016 Referendum PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2018 PhD Neo-liberal Globalisation, Environmental Degradation, and the Rise of Populism: an Existential Crisis for Social Democracy? PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2017 PhD The Australian Way of War: Post-Cold War Justifications and Rationalisations PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2017 PhD Examining Factors Affecting Environmental, Social, and Financial Performance (Triple Bottom Line Reporting) of Listed Companies in Australia PhD (Accounting & Finance), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2017 PhD THE POLITICS OF ELECTORAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2016 PhD Embracing Birth: Subjectivitis of Homebirth in Australia and Chile PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2016 PhD New Resistances: Women at the Intersections of Austerity and Gender Violence PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2014 PhD The Political Participation of Traditional Landowners in the Development of Mineral Resource: The Case of Ramu Nickel Project in Papua New Guinea PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2013 PhD Toward a Cooperative Eastern Central Europe PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
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2019 PhD The Politics of Gender Roles and Ethnic Nationalism in Pakistan PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
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2018 PhD The Confrontational ‘Us and Them’ Dynamics of Polarised Politics in Venezuela: A Post-Structuralist Examination PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2013 PhD Building States, Failing Nations: The Failure of Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Iraq PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2013 PhD Grappling with the Democratic Transition: Parliamentary Accountability and the House of Representatives of Zanzibar, Tanzania PhD (Politics), Faculty of Business and Law, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
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Humanities Tour
In Week 10 of Term 2, the Year 10 Humanities Tour group set off for eight days of adventure on the east coast, managing to pack in experiences that linked to all four facets of the Humanities curriculum.
Sydney proved extremely popular with the iconic Harbour Bridge providing us with a brisk evening walk as well as multiple photo opportunities.
We enjoyed mass at St Patrick’s in the Rocks, a church built in the 1840’s on land bequeathed by William Davis who had obtained land in the Rocks in 1809 and whose home became a centre of Catholic prayer years before there was a resident priest in Sydney.
After mass, the history of the Rocks became even more real with a guided tour through the area. The students’ engagement and pleasant manner was commended by the guide, who took the trouble to contact the Tour company to tell them what a pleasure it had been. It was the first commendation of many that students received on the tour. As staff, we cannot fault their behaviour or enthusiasm despite their busy days.
The snow and the mountain ranges were another highlight. From the Blue mountains, we traveled to Canberra where we spent three days experiencing the delights of the capital. The most popular visits here were to the Governor General’s house and to Old Parliament House where the Civics and Citizenship the students have learned this year was brought to life.
A much quieter group returned to Perth, exhausted but rich with experiences.
Cath Bagg, Leader of Learning – Humanities
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By Justin Swanson | NB Indy
The Newport Beach Dock Owners Association, the group behind the “Stop the Dock Tax” campaign, filed a lawsuit against the city Tuesday, alleging that city council members have violated the Ralph M. Brown Act.
The lawsuit claims that council members have been meeting privately about harbor fees and posting no legal notice since 2010.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of a recent increase in residential dock fees, approved by the council after weeks of meetings, numerous hours of heated discussions, and facing threats of boycotting the Christmas Boat Parade, in a 5-1 vote on Dec. 11.
The final vote, with Councilwoman Leslie Daigle dissenting and Councilman Ed Selich recusing himself, came after more than two hours of discussion with the public during a special meeting in the old council chambers.
During the meetings over the few months prior to the council’s decision, the group’s attorneys, Kristine Thagaard and Steve Baric, both threatened to sue.
The city council carried on with its plans to change fees from $100 annually to 52.5 cents per square foot, of usable dock space, per year. The fees will increase over a five-year phase plan.
In a closed session on Jan. 22, the council unanimously rejected the contention by Baric that the Brown Act was violated.
The city will host two public meetings where Newport Beach City Manager Dave Kiff will discuss the new dock fee. The first of the two meetings was held Thursday night. The second will be held Tuesday, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the old city hall, at 3300 Newport Blvd.
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'They don’t make things like they used to!'
Consumers are sticking with their 'antique' appliances after the publication of Choice's longevity guide.
by Seniors News
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THEY don't make them like they used to.
Never has that phrase rung truer than after Australia's leading consumer advocacy group, Choice, published its guide to the longevity of appliances.
Examining items such as fridges, washing machines and phones, Choice broke down how long each appliance should last depending on the money you spend.
But it wasn't too long before it became clear that the latest models just don't stack up against the old favourites.
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Taking to the organisation's Facebook page, Aussies consumers were quick to scoff at some of the ratings, such as a modern washing machine lasting just five years at the 'budget/entry level'.
"Nope. Washing machines, the pre-historic ones (sic) lasted and lasted," Helen Valen wrote.
"25+ (sic) years and still working … had to get replace them just cos we got sick of waiting for them to fail."
What about fridges? Choice rated them with a six-year lifespan on the budget level which topped out at 13 years on the 'high-end'.
"Our fridge now is 38 years old," Wak Julet remarked. "We bought it second hand then - still going excellently."
Jenny Schultz agreed, bemoaning the loss of her beloved Kelvinator.
"It was still going strong 20 years after we bought it second hand when it was years old," she wrote.
And what about the appliances that didn't even make the list? Sure, it's great to know how long the television will last, but what about replacing the sewing machine?
"I have an antique singer sewing machine," Angelica Frandsen commented. "It's about 103 years old and still works amazingly!"
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The final days of the Manrique-Lutz family, killed in their beds by their father
In the hours before she died Maria Lutz had no idea her husband was rigging up her Sydney home to be deathtrap to kill her and her two kids.
Benedict Brook@BenedictBrook
news.com.auApril 14, 20196:57am
Davidson murder-suicide: dad had secret lover
An inquest has hear that A Sydney father suspected of killing his family was having an affair with a teen.
A floor plan of the former home of the Manrique-Lutz family in Davidson in Sydney's north where mum, dad and the kids died. Picture: Realestate.com.auSource:Supplied
At about 11am the day before she died, Sydney mum Maria Lutz topped up her phone credit.
Maria then called her own mum in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, where she had grown up. On a carefree Sunday in late spring, the pair chatted about the different birds in their gardens on opposite corners of the globe.
Maria’s husband Fernando Manrique was busy with his own chores that Sunday. Recently, he’d made multiple trips to Bunnings to buy all manner of hardware. Now, he was using the things he’d bought to connect two tanks of carbon monoxide, out of sight in the shed, to the home’s various bedrooms.
He was constructing a brutally effective death trap to kill his family.
About 16 hours after Maria put down the phone to her mother, probably some time before dawn, Manrique’s contraption sprang into action delivering a colourless, odourless but lethal dose of poison gas to the home in Davidson on the city’s north shore.
Maria likely died as she slept, as did her children Elisa, 12, and Martin, 11, known to all as “Tin”.
A probable murder-suicide, Manrique also perished, sprawled in the hallway of their single storey home.
Even Tequila, the family pet, succumbed. He was found at the foot of Tin’s bed.
Maria Lutz with her children Martin and Elisa. Source: FacebookSource:Facebook
At an inquest into the four deaths, a lawyer for the Manrique family dubbed the events, the “silent deaths in the night”.
But also at the inquest, it was described another way; as an “evil plan” hatched by a man in financial “dire straits” whose marriage was as good as over and was having an affair with a teenager in the Philippines. Manrique lied to his family and colleagues, and even managed to bluff his way past two major companies to commit murder.
More than two years after the deaths, a timeline has emerged of how the Manrique-Lutz family spent their final tragic days and hours.
The inquest held last week looked into the deaths of the four and how the father was able to, almost casually, get hold of huge amounts of deadly, pure carbon monoxide and have it delivered to a residential home.
Tragically, while the family was struggling financially, Maria was about to come into money. Enough, perhaps, to start her life over.
The Davidson home of Fernando Manrique and his wife Maria Lutz where the family delayed in October 2016.Source:News Corp Australia
For four days this week, a band of Maria’s closest friends made the trek to the coroner’s court in the city’s west to observe the inquest.
They were all mums of students at St Lucy’s Wahroonga, a school for children with intellectual disabilities. Sarina Marchi arranged a clutch of pictures created by Elisa and Tin around the courtroom.
One was a striking image of singer Jason Derulo, head cocked to one side. The pop star was Elisa’s favourite performer, Sarina said.
The young girl was so talented, her mum Maria had told Sarina, that she hoped she might become a graphic designer.
“They really are quite extraordinary given their ages,” coroner Elaine Truscott said. “Astounding really.”
Elisa and Martin Manrique (pictured in the frames) were talented young artists. Elisa’s painting of singer Jason Derulo is on the right. St Lucy’s school held an exhibition that include their work.Source:AAP
BEGINS TO UNRAVEL
Maria met the man who would become her husband as a teenager in Colombia. By the time the couple moved to Australia, she was a successful lawyer and he worked in adverting.
Elisa and Tin were born in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Both were diagnosed with autism when they were three, leading Maria to give up work to care for them.
Manrique worked for multinational Fuji Xerox with his wage of more than $300,000 a year enough to support the four of them. But things began to unravel he was made redundant.
He took on a role with IT firm Drake Business Services. The job saw him travel to the Philippines where the company was expanding. But by 2016, Drake had still not broken even and with Manrique having a 10 per cent stake in the firm, it was impacting the family’s finances.
The inquest heard Manrique owed $28,000 on a credit card, the pair owed the Australian Taxation Office about $20,000 and the family trust contained just $6.
Detective Sargent Tim Pooley, who led the investigation, put it plainly: “They were in financial dire straits. He had massive tax issues, a credit card that was maxed out and two home loans reduced to interest only payments.”
Elisa Manrique in her St Lucy's School photos.Source:Supplied
Martin Manrique’s class snap.Source:Supplied
PHILIPPINES ‘HOOK UPS’
The couple’s relationship was also disintegrating. The inquest heard Manrique confided in a friend that his marriage was “strained” and he would “hook up” with other woman in the Philippines.
One of those woman, the court heard, was named Jamielyn. Just 17 years old, Manrique met her in 2015 in a bar on Burgos Street, a seedy strip of strip clubs and massage parlours in Manila.
Manrique had been frequenting and ‘hooking up’ in seedy Manila bars. Picture: iStock.Source:istock
Jamie, as she was known, told police that the relationship eventually progressed to the point he promised to support her and buy her a house. He didn’t.
On a final trip to the Philippines in September 2016, Jamie noted Manrique seemed “particularly stressed”.
As for Maria, she had told her friends she and Manrique were sleeping in different rooms and hadn’t had sex since 2014.
In 2016, she told Manrique she wanted a divorce but if he shaped up she would consider giving him another chance.
This also didn’t happen. Maria found out about Jamie and was exasperated that, even when he was at home, he was little help with the kids. Eventually, she asked him to move out.
Fernando, Maria and kids Martin and Elisa in happier times. Source: FacebookSource:Facebook
‘FATHER OF THE YEAR’
Days later on Sunday 2 October, two weeks before the deaths, Manrique asked to move back temporarily while he found somewhere new to live.
Something miraculous occurred, Maria told her friend Nichole Brimble — he was a changed man.
“He was good at home and Maria said if he’d been like this throughout their marriage she would never have told him to go,” Mr Casselden said .
“During that week, Maria described him as ‘father of the year’.”
In reality, he was as far from that as it was possible to be. While the kids and Maria were at St Lucy’s, Manrique was setting to work on an elaborate plan to murder them all.
On 6 October he placed an order with gas company BOC for two canisters of carbon monoxide. Rather than have them delivered to his home — where his family might spot the delivery — he asked a colleague, Jairo Campos, if he could have them dropped off at his home in Parklea, a 45-minute drive away.
He told a curious Mr Campos he needed the gas to calibrate carbon monoxide levels in a covered car park and couldn’t store the tanks in the office. He paid his colleague around $400 for the bother.
But chemical experts at the inquest said the particularly pure form of carbon monoxide Manrique ordered was entirely unsuitable for testing background gas levels, which are often full of other substances.
Maria and Martin. Picture; supplied.Source:News Corp Australia
GAS DELIVERIES ‘A BIT ODD’
On 7 October, Robert Lamont of logistics firm Linfox had the first canister of carbon monoxide on his truck.
Surprised to be delivering a gas with usually only niche industrial uses to a new customer at a residential address, he phoned the number on the docket. A man, presumably Manrique, answered and told him he was just storing them at the residential address and would shortly take them to a job on the Central Coast.
With no reason or company guidance not to, Mr Lamont completed the delivery.
On 10 October the second canister was delivered by Daniel Reilly, another Linfox driver. He told the inquest he also thought the delivery was a “bit odd”. In his 10 years of delivering gases and chemicals he had only delivered carbon monoxide around four times, and never to a home. He too called Manrique and was reassured.
On the 11 October, Manrique collected both tanks from the Mr Campos’s home.
“It is inescapable that the information relayed to BOC, Linfox and the Camposes was false,” Mr Casselden said.
In the meantime, Manrique had become an avid Bunnings shopper.
“Fernando went to Bunnings in Belrose on the 8th, 11th, 12th and 13th October to purchase materials to pump carbon monoxide into his house,” he said.
There were hoses and pipes, but one of those materials was just a simple padlock to lock the garden shed and hide the canisters.
Mr Casselden dismissed any suggestion Maria knew what her husband was up to.
“Why would he take these steps if Maria had evidence of Fernando’s evil plan?” he said.
“Police found the (gas) cylinders behind the house connected with hoses up to the roof where they were connected with metal clamps and then into the bedrooms.”
For at least five days they went about their lives as, just metres away, Manrique busily constructed the means for their death.
Maria’s friends with artwork from Elisa and Martin. From left: Peta Rostirola, Sarina Marchi, Nichole Brimble and Kerrie Dietz.Source:News Corp Australia
MUM ABOUT TO COME INTO MONEY
Maria was just as energetically planning for their future. She had completed a TAFE certificate 3 in education support opening up job opportunities as a teacher’s aide.
Doctors appointments were in the diary. She had just been approved for $25,000 worth of NDIS support for Elisa. She would never live to know it, but the NDIS had approved $25,000 for Tin as well.
“Her financial situation going forward would have been better off than it was for years,” said Mr Casselden.
“She was looking forward to life without Fernando and looking after the kids with assistance.”
Maria’s phone call home, at around 11am, was the last confirmed sign of life from the mum. At a similar time, Manrique was spotted in the garden.
At about 2.30am the next day a neighbour said they heard a dog barking from the direction of the house. It’s possible it was Tequila and may have been the final noise uttered from the home.
The inquest heard it was likely Manrique went to the shed and, as Maria, Elise and Tin slept, turned on the gas.
When carbon monoxide enters the body it attaches to haemoglobin, which delivers oxygen around the body, to form carboxyhaemoglobin which actively inhibits that process. Levels of 30 per cent or more of carboxyhaemoglobin in the body can be fatal. Toxicity levels in the Manrique-Lutz family were close to 70 per cent.
Flowers left outside the Davidson home of the family. Picture: Craig GreenhillSource:News Corp Australia
Questions remain around whether Manrique intended to flee, perhaps to the Philippines. But Jamie said he had never discussed moving to Manila. Besides, he knew how lethal the gas was so why return to the house? Every door in the home was locked.
On the Monday morning, Ms Brimble became concerned when Maria and the kids didn’t arrive at St Lucy’s. She phoned police and asked them to perform a welfare check at the Davidson home.
When officers arrived the home at 10.55am, everything appeared immaculate.
Ms Brimble insisted they look further — the cars shouldn’t be there at this time on a Monday and why wasn’t Tequila barking?
The Police forced entry and found Fernando unresponsive, face down in the hallway, “grey in colour and firm to the touch”.
Maria and Elisa were unresponsive in one bed, Tin in his. Tequila lay dead in Tin’s room.
Fans in each of the rooms were on full pelt — possibly to spread the gas all the more effectively.
“For reasons we may never know, Fernando carefully planned this tragedy, the silent deaths in the night of his wife, two children and himself,” said Douglas Spencer, representing the family of Manrique.
A mass for the family.Source:News Corp Australia
CAN ANOTHER TRAGEDY BE PREVENTED?
Since the Davidson deaths, BOC has tightened its rules around the purchase of carbon monoxide. Customers must be registered and approved by BOC, should be a business, and a declaration has to be completed to detail how the gas will be used.
But drivers have no access to this declaration and still have little guidance on dealing with deliveries of dangerous substances to homes.
“There is no legislation to stop carbon monoxide being delivered to residential addresses yet it has no known domestic use,” said Mr Casselden.
He asked the coroner to consider listing carbon monoxide over a certain purity level on the poisons standard, which would further beef-up restrictions.
But whether it would have prevented the Manrique-Lutz family deaths is debatable. Manrique ordered the carbon monoxide through his company and could easily have filled out the declaration with a plausible use. And deciding what constitutes a business, rather than residential address, is fraught with difficulty.
As the inquest came to an end Peta Rostirola spoke fondly of her friend.
“Maria faced the challenge of two young children with autism with fire, grace and an enduring sense of humour,” she said.
“She knew Elisa and Martin loved her and that made her love them harder. Life loving Elisa and Martin was all she needed”.
The coroner will hand down her findings on 17 May.
If you or someone you know is affected by family violence, call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au In an emergency, call triple-0
benedict.brook@news.com.au
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Kavi Nagar Station House Officer Mohammad Aslam said that the SUV driver perhaps wanted to shock the victim by driving close to him but lost control of the vehicle.
Updated:December 14, 2019, 10:54 PM IST
Ghaziabad: In an attempt to scare his friend, a Ghaziabad resident crushed the man's leg under his SUV in an inebriated state. The incident occurred at a petrol pump, where his friend worked.
Kavi Nagar Station House Officer Mohammad Aslam said that the SUV driver perhaps wanted to shock the victim by driving close to him but lost control of the vehicle. The victim, Sanjay, was on duty on Wednesday evening when the SUV passed through the filling station and crushed his leg, he said.
The accused, identified as Ankit, was known to the victim and fled after the incident, the SHO said.
Sanjay was rushed to a nearby hospital which referred him to All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), the SHO said. At AIIMS Delhi, Sanjay's right leg had to be amputated, he added. Police have detained Ankit's father for questioning, the SHO said.
A case has been registered against Ankit and efforts are on to arrest him, the officer said.
(With PTI inputs)
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Roanoke Times publisher Jamerson retiring
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Terry Jamerson, publisher of The Roanoke Times and a regional vice president of parent company BH Media Group, announced Monday she is retiring.
Jamerson’s newspaper career spanned four decades. She held senior leadership roles with several media companies, including Worrell Enterprises, Media General and BH Media Group.
Jamerson was named publisher of The Roanoke Times in 2013 when BH Media purchased the newspaper from Landmark Communications of Norfolk. In addition to Roanoke, she directed BH Media’s Virginia Community Group, which includes daily and weekly newspapers including Bristol, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Waynesboro, Danville and Martinsville.
Jamerson, a native of Martinsville and a graduate of Mary Baldwin College, got her start in the business by selling advertising at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville.
During her career, Jamerson held leadership roles in advertising and publishing at Worrell Enterprises newspapers in Charlottesville, the New River Valley and Marion, and later became publisher of a daily publication in Bryan-College Station, Texas. She arrived as publisher of the The News & Advance in Lynchburg in 1994. Media General purchased Lynchburg and other Worrell papers in 1995 and named Jamerson part of its leadership team in Virginia. Media General sold its newspaper holdings to Berkshire Hathaway in 2012.
“I’ve had a grand experience in a variety of leadership roles in newspapers, but most important to me is the positive impact our newspapers have had on the communities we serve,” Jamerson said. “And that means not only informing our readers on a daily basis, but also by serving in volunteer roles outside our institutions.”
In Roanoke, Jamerson served as board president of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the United Way and is on the board of directors of Center in the Square. Jamerson serves on the GO Virginia Southside Board and is currently serving as President of The Roanoke Regional Partnership. She also is a longtime member of the board for the University of Lynchburg, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, and she is a former president of the Virginia Press Association.
“I congratulate Terry on a career full of achievements,” said BH Media Group Executive Vice President Julie Bechtel. “In addition to her accomplishments as a newspaper publisher, Terry has made lasting contributions to the Roanoke and Lynchburg communities through her volunteer work. She is to be commended.”
John Jordan, BH Media’s vice president of digital and sales, will oversee the Virginia Community Group and The Roanoke Times on an interim basis. Jordan has been with the company since 2018. Jamerson will assist with the transition.
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And the Wiener Is: Chestnut Wins Nathan's Dog-Eating Contest
Thursday, 04 July 2013 04:13 PM
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut devoured 69 hot dogs, breaking his own record to win the traditional Fourth of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island for the seventh straight year.
With thousands of spectators cheering him on, Chestnut downed the 69 dogs -- and their buns -- in 10 minutes, improving on his previous personal best of 68.
He retained the Mustard Yellow International Belt for a seventh straight year, his title run surpassing that of Japanese speed-eating great Takeru Kobayashi, who won six straight Coney Island crowns before he was beaten by Chestnut in 2007.
Matt "Megatoad" Stonie was a distant second, scarfing 51 hot dogs.
Sonya Thomas retained the women's title, downing almost 37 dogs to win by a fraction of a frankfurter.
The "Black Widow" of competitive eating couldn't equal her feat of last year, when she matched her age by consuming 45 hot dogs.
Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs says the Independence Day contest has been running since 1916 -- when the winner consumed 13 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
This year the contest was a welcome signal that Coney Island, the slice of Brooklyn famed for its boardwalk and the Cyclone wooden rollercoaster, has rebounded from the destruction of Superstorm Sandy nearly nine months ago.
Joey Jaws Chestnut devoured 69 hot dogs, breaking his own record to win the traditional Fourth of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island for the seventh straight year.
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Home Investigations INVESTIGATION: How FG’s Abandoned Calabar-Itu Highway Cuts off A’Ibom from Cross River...
INVESTIGATION: How FG’s Abandoned Calabar-Itu Highway Cuts off A’Ibom from Cross River State, Others (Part I)
Ibanga Isine
A portion of the dualised highway cutt off by gully erosion at Ntak Inyang being fixed by Akwa Ibom state government. (Photo by Ibanga)
The Calabar-Itu Highway project, which was abandoned by the Federal Government, has cut off Akwa Ibom and Cross River states, the NEXT EDITION can authoritatively report today.
Experts insist that the road, which was constructed in the 70s when the two states were under the former South Eastern State, has long expired.
Records show the road was constructed shortly after the Civil War when late Brigadier General Udokaha Esuene served as the military administrator of the erstwhile South Eastern State.
It was built as a Trunk A-4 Highway to link Calabar which was then and still is the state capital to what was then called the Mainland part of the state.
Now, the road connects not only Cross River and Akwa Ibom states but also Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State, all in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
The gridlock along Calabar-Itu Federal Highway in a village close to the headquarters of Itu Local Government Area. (Photo by Ibanga Isine)
About forty years after it was opened to traffic, the forces of wear and tear have set in and badly too.
Except for the Nkim Itam-Uyo spur, which former Governor Godswill Akpabio dualised in 2009, almost every section of the highway is now dotted with long and deep craters, deadly gallops and uneven patches.
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Video of a hanging vehicle along the dilapidated Calabar Itu Federal Highway (Video by Ibanga Isine)
Tears and sweat of commuters and residents
Living along and travelling through Calabar-Itu Federal Highway in the past three years have become frightening experiences, especially during the rainy seasons.
But the situation has worsened in recent months as travellers spend more than six hours in a journey that should ordinarily, take about an hour.
The calculated flying distance from Calabar to Uyo is twenty-eight miles which is equal to forty-four kilometres.
However, the driving distance between the two cities is approximately ninety kilometres.
Running at an average speed of 112 kilometres per hour, a traveller from Calabar can conveniently arrive Uyo under 50 minutes.
But that was in the past when the road was in its top form and commuters often boasted of going to “Calabar or Uyo by air.”
Today, the deplorable state of the highway is further compounded by unruly drivers, who constantly struggle to manoeuvre through relatively good spots on the highway.
Many heavy-duty truck drivers conveying cement and stones stubbornly go against the flow of traffic thereby causing avoidable accidents and total blockade of the road.
And the result has been tears, sweat and untold hardship for commuters who have to spend hours trying to link the two states and or get to Rivers and or Abia states.
In the course of this investigation, our correspondent, who went from Uyo to Calabar and back on a Saturday witnessed firsthand, the difficulty faced by commuters and people living along the dilapidated highway.
Our correspondent, who set out from Itam Market Flyover on a Toyota Pickup Van at about 10 am on Saturday (November 9), spent over two hours to go through Ntak Inyang diversion where gully erosion had cut off the road.
After escaping from the gridlock at the diversion, the vehicle was again trapped in a village located less than five kilometres to Mbak Itam, the headquarters of Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Hundreds of vehicles including heavy-duty trucks, commercial buses, private cars and siren blaring convoys of top government functionaries waited for hours.
The sight of this gridlock was most disturbing as vehicles conveying people who were going for weddings and ambulances conveying corpses and mourners got stuck as time ticked away.
A former member of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Ayang Ayang, whose vehicle was trapped at the location, blamed the Federal Government for the deplorable state of the road.
Mr. Ayang said he had been trapped for over three hours
“I begin to wonder whether we are still in this country called Nigeria because as far as I am concerned, federal roads in these parts are nothing to write home about.
“We got so disappointed when the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola said roads in the country are not as bad as people talk about.
“I remember some time when a presidential aide was on the radio talking about the award of contract for the construction of Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Highway. He was also talking about a spur to Ididep.”
Laughing loud, he continued, “I don’t know whether that spur to Ididep has been constructed because I haven’t seen any road done here or anywhere. It is sad when our people are going through this kind of suffering and politicians are still dishing propaganda.”
Another commuter who gave her name simply as Eno bares her frustration, “We’ve been stuck here for over 45 minutes without movement. We are going to Itu for a wedding.
“We have been hearing on the news that this road had been awarded by the Federal Government but I haven’t seen any construction work going on here.
“The Federal Government should do something urgently to solve this problem. As you can see, cars, buses and trailers are stuck here and people can no longer get to their destinations on time.”
A truck driver, Lucky Udo, lamented the suffering on the road and called on the relevant agency of the government to fix the road.
“I drive chippings along this road and I have been doing this for a long time. But since this road got so bad, it has not been easy for us. I loaded these stones on Thursday and today is Saturday. I am still stuck in this ‘holdup.’” Mr. Udo lamented.
“I appeal to the government to repair the road so we can move freely. Before now, I normally load in Akamkpa and get to Port Harcourt same day and upload the stones and return to Akamkpa the next day.”
“Now I can only do one trip in a week because I spend almost four days trying to pass-through this bad portion of the road on my way to Port Harcourt and back.”
It was at about 3 pm that our correspondent arrived in Calabar, a journey that could have taken less than an hour if the road was in good shape.
However, the return trip was scarier as more vehicles got trapped at Nkim Itam, a situation that led many drivers to attempt the impossible including meandering through very deep gullies.
A fallen diesel tanker, broken down and stranded commuters along calabar Itu highway on saturday. (Photo by Ibanga Isine)).
Some of the vehicles could not make it out of the gullies, thereby worsening the already bad situation of the road.
The traffic started moving after soldiers and some concerned commuters started pushing broken down vehicles out of the way while police officers controlled vehicular movements.
Our correspondent, who left Calabar at 4.05 pm was again trapped at Nkim Itam village and only arrived Uyo at about 11.45 pm.
Stranded commuters on the failed highway expressed their frustration to our correspondent.
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Audio report from the road produced by Ibanga Isine
Akwa Ibom State intervention
Currently, Akwa Ibom State Government through its Ministry of Works has intervened at the Ntak Inyang gully erosion site which cut off the dualised portion of the road.
Our correspondent reported that Nigerpet Structures Limited has since mobilised to the site and is constructing underground drainage in the area.
Unfortunately, the Federal Government which had awarded a contract for the dualisation of the road from Calabar to Ikot Ekpene with a spur to Ididep in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area had abandoned the project.
Weeks before the last general elections, the federal government had announced the award of a contract to Julius Berger for the construction of the highway.
The construction giant had immediately moved some equipment to the site and started excavating some damaged parts of the highway.
Not long after the elections were concluded, Julius Berger was said to have abandoned the project and moved its equipment from the construction site.
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Video of commuters helping a driver pull out of a vehicle trapped in a dangerous ditch along Calabar Itu Highway (Video by Ibanga Isine)
Speaking while inspecting work at the Ntak Inyang intervention site, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Works, Ephraim Inyangeyen lamented the neglect of the federal roads in the state.
He argued that if Ecological Fund was made available to the state, it would have been used to check the gully erosion that led to the collapsed of the dualised highway.
You can see that this is an environmental problem. It has happened and it has taken this road. If we were to have access to the Ecological Fund like other states, we would have used it to tackle the problem.
We are going to find a way to stop the erosion from cutting away the road. I wish that the Federal Government will consider Akwa Ibom as a part of Nigeria and get the Federal Ministry of Environment to make Ecological Fund available for us to handle this kind of problem.
Asked what the state is going to do in view of the Federal Government’s directive that states should no longer construct its road, Mr. Inyangeyen said Akwa Ibom is yet to get full refunds for the dualisation of the road.
“I heard Senator Ita Enang saying the other day that N78 billion has been refunded to the state.
“I want to state before all Nigerians that I was the one the governor sent to receive the money and I processed and approved N78 billion. But they have only given this state N20 billion. Where we are standing is one of the roads they were supposed to do the refund.
“Are we saying that Akwa Ibom State Government should be silent and allow the erosion to cut off the road so that our people will suffer? The Calabar-Itu which this road links has been closed and the same person that N74 billion had been released to Julius Berger.
“At the time I had said the contract was awarded because of the election. Today, Julius Berger is gone and nobody is saying anything.
“All the federal roads constructed in Akwa Ibom are done by the state government. I want the Federal minister of works to refute what I am saying here.”
“There is no federal road project anywhere in Akwa Ibom State. Not even one. But we are contributing at least 41 per cent revenue to the Federal Government,” Mr. Inyangeyen said.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Cross River State Governor, Christian Ita, also lamented the deplorable condition of the federal road and called for urgent intervention by the Federal Government.
Asked whether it is possible for Akwa Ibom and Cross River state governments to redesign and construct the road, Mr. Ita answered in the negative.
“It is a federal road and as such before the two states can do anything on it, they must first get the permission of the Federal Government,” he argued.
“Let me state that the idea of the two states coming together to fix it, is an idea that is not new. The reality is that it involves a lot of money, which a state like Cross River may not be able to afford.
“The other option would have been to bring in investors to fix the road and then toll. But that too is almost impossible as you can toll a road that is the only one available to commuters.
“Thirdly, how come roads in other regions are being fixed by the federal government and ours can’t be fixed. Are we any less Nigerians? So place the responsibility where it should be placed; doorsteps of the Federal Government. It is unhelpful when you seek to shift responsibility,” Mr. Ita argued.
He said the state government has consistently carried out remedial work on the road for which the Federal Government was yet to make refunds.
When contacted, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Ita Enang said the contractor handling Calabar-Itu Highway had abandoned the project due to lack of funds.
Mr. Enang, however, insisted that a total of N78 billion has been refunded to Akwa Ibom State Government and advised Governor Udom Emmanuel to plough to the funds to reconstruct Calabar-Itu Highway.
“I can tell you that the Federal Government has refunded over N78 billion to the Akwa Ibom State Government. Instead of waiting for the Federal Government to fix the road, the state government can plough part of the refunds to construct the road based on the design and terms agreed to by the Federal Government.
“Why is the governor not using the money so far refunded in working on the road instead of waiting for the Federal Government? The essence of the refunds was partly that the state government will plough it to reconstruct the road and get refunded later,” Mr. Enang argued.
A Nissan Jeep that got stuck in a ditch while trying to meander through the gridlock along the damaged federal higheway near Mbak Atai village in Itu Local Government Area
As the dry season sets in, many residents of the two states and commuters are calling on the Federal Government to reconstruct the road and save the economy of the two oil-producing states from imminent collapse.
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Lime’s rise in micro-mobility
Interview with co-founders Toby Sun, CEO, and Brad Bao, Executive Chairman of Lime
Insights, Smart Mobility, Founder Stories
Anniina Sulku, Head of Marketing, NGP Capital
Lime’s co-founders, Toby Sun and Brad Bao, on growing up in China, building a business in the US and how they want to change the culture of mobility globally.
How Lime became one of the pioneers in smart mobility
Lime, formerly LimeBike, was founded in January 2017 on the idea that all communities deserve access to smart, affordable mobility. Based in San Mateo, California, Lime now operates a large fleet of shared scooters and bikes across North America and Europe.
At first, Lime started by sharing pedal bikes; scooters came into the picture later. Still, starting from day one, co-founders Toby Sun and Brad Tao had a bigger vision than just renting bikes — they wanted to reduce the dependence on personal automobiles for short-distance transportation and leave a cleaner environment for future generations.
A different sort of background
Toby and Brad both grew up in China and met as alumni of the University of California, Berkeley. Both of them have extensive business experience in marketing, product development, and business development prior to launching Lime.
Toby worked in product innovation for PepsiCo helping to deliver a world-class brand in a local market and after that for Deloitte Consulting, monitoring Deloitte Strategy Service Line. Brad’s experience is in marketing and business development; he was VP of business development for Tencent Games and before that a general manager for the Tencent US branch. Also, prior to founding Lime, they worked together in a venture firm they started, investing in internet start-ups.
Brad and Toby both have a background in venture capital.
Today, Brad handles the internal aspects of the company, such as product technology and operations, and Toby takes care of external duties, such as stakeholder relationships and marketing.
TS: Our backgrounds affect how we think about Lime. We believe that branding and culture are important ingredients for Lime’s success. Also, our experience in the venture capital industry gave us a higher-level perspective on global competition, as well as experience looking into exciting product areas like autonomous vehicles and dock-based bike-sharing.
“We believe that branding and culture are important ingredients for Lime’s success.”
Toby and Brad wanted to create a micro-mobility platform to move people efficiently and cost-effectively within a metro area. They call Lime a user-centric mobility platform that asks, “what more can we do for our users.”
What makes their scooters, which travel at a maximum of 15 mph, so popular?
BB: I think the scooter is an interesting product that solves a problem from both a mobility and a flexibility perspective. Scooters are really the best fit for a distance of just a few blocks. Also, they’re a lot of fun; they make people smile. And you don’t have to worry about traffic on a scooter in the same way you do when driving a car.
From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, Lime helps people to move in an affordable and convenient way.
Hitting the global road
Lime now operates in more than 100 markets in the US, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand and recently announced a $335 million funding round led by GV with participation from Uber at a $1.1 billion valuation.
Clearly, a lot has happened in a short time. Toby and Brad believe that Lime’s rapid growth has been due to several factors, including perfect timing and technology that was ready for adoption.
TS: We are excited to have Uber as our strategic partner in the electric scooter space. We are very complementary to each other. Uber has great product expertise and has focused for years on online systems and building marketplaces. The global footprint they provide and the potential user overlap represent huge opportunities for us.
“We are excited to have Uber as our strategic partner in the electric scooter space.”
The partnership between Lime and Uber reinforces the importance of first and last-mile transportation. Consumers want clean, convenient transportation alternatives to driving a car. With increasing evidence of the catastrophic impacts of global warming, people have started demanding cleaner products and services.
BB: Global warming is real and it will happen even faster
if we don’t step up and take action. Lime is doing pioneering work to make our product lifecycle greener and more eco-friendly. We just announced that all of our scooters and electric bike rides globally will be carbon neutral. We are also taking proactive steps to build green energy partnerships and have hired a VP of sustainability.
Changing the culture of mobility
Leading a fast-growing company is not easy and there are a number of challenges that keep the co-founders awake at night.
BB: For me, the biggest challenge is the battle around changing the culture of mobility. I’m constantly thinking about what we can do here in the US to make eco-friendly transportation compelling and battle the culture of cars. Changing the prevailing car culture is the hardest thing.
“With almost 500 employees, Lime is no longer a startup, yet growth continues at a breakneck pace.”
TS: I’m challenged by the complexity of our business. I wake up every day thinking about how to build a strong core to support business growth, find like-minded people who share the same mindset and vision and keep up Lime’s inspirational culture.
When I worked in venture capital, one of the things I noticed was that a surprisingly large number of companies concentrate primarily on their product and how to get that product to users. For Lime, it has been all about our users and how we tailor our products and services to them and their needs.
“For Lime, it has been all about our users and how we tailor our products and services to them and their needs.”
BB: We are very proud of our company culture and people’s belief in our vision. We have had some difficult discussions in the past about core values. Today, we look above and beyond profit, guiding the company by first asking, “What is the right thing to do?” We were the first to carry insurance on our bikes and scooters and we were the first to provide cash access. It’s important for us to be authentic.
Having founded multiple startups — two for Toby, four for Brad — Lime’s co-founders have some advice for first-time entrepreneurs.
TS: Being an entrepreneur doesn’t necessarily mean founding an internet startup. An entrepreneur can be anyone, even a kid taking the initiative to open a shop that fills a need in a neighborhood. That kid is as much of an entrepreneur as anyone.
BB: The most exciting thing about founding a company is seeing the impact you make. You should remember that it’s not just about a good financial return, it’s also about doing good things for society, your community, and your employees.
“The most exciting thing about founding a company is seeing the impact you make.”
Without the support from each other, Toby and Brad are not sure they ever would have founded Lime.
TS: What I appreciate about Brad is that he has a very wide range of interests. He has been, by far, my most important mentor. Brad is active, involved in running and hill-climbing, and he is curious about life. In college, he formed a rock-and-roll band; I remember the iconic hairstyle, which was a bit beyond the normal look he has nowadays.
BB: Toby and I are both runners, and are inspired to live a healthy and active lifestyle. We both work 120 hours a week, so we need to stay active in order to keep up our spirits. Not many people know that Toby made a new year’s resolution to run a minimum of one mile every day.
Lime, along with other new mobility services such as Uber and Lyft, has started to reshape how people make transportation choices. But the vision for Lime over the next few years is bigger than just a mobility platform.
TS: We want to become the default short-trip, on-demand service for getting people around cities. After that, we hope to transform our mobility platform into a lifestyle brand, where people can use Lime to make friends and live healthier lives.
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Panthers goalie prospect motivated by 2019 experience to prosper in lead role for this year's tournament
by Mike G. Morreale @mikemorrealeNHL / NHL.com Staff Writer
Spencer Knight, chosen by the Florida Panthers with the No. 13 pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, has waited an entire year for another opportunity to represent the United States at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
This time, he's expected to play a larger role for the U.S. after not playing in any of the seven games as the third goalie in the rotation during a second-place finish at the 2019 World Junior Championship in Vancouver.
The 2020 WJC begins Thursday and runs through Jan. 5 in Ostrava and Trinec, Czech Republic. The U.S. plays its preliminary-round games in Group B, along with Canada, Czech Republic, Germany and Russia. The U.S. opens the tournament against Canada at Ostravar Arena on Thursday (1 p.m. ET; NHLN).
"I learned a lot in Vancouver," Knight said. "It was a huge stage with how much the tournament means to people. Just being in the locker room and knowing how much it takes to really get that far, getting all the way to the championship game, was great. Making sure you have all the little details in order are so important. Every practice, every game, just paying attention to the small things, and then it begins to build."
Knight has done his part to ensure the little things haven't kept him down this season as a freshman at Boston College in Hockey East.
"He's a student, very Type A, and knows his game better than anybody," Boston College goaltending coach Mike Ayers said. "But what I find amazing about him is his ability to maintain his feet as long as he does. That's pretty special because that's hard to teach. His efficiency around the crease is good. He's waiting for the shooter to shoot or make a decision, and his patience, drive and work ethic are top notch."
Knight said the experience he gained at the 2019 WJC was great and has motivated him in his first college season. He's 11-4-0 with a 1.73 goals-against average, .940 save percentage and four shutouts in 15 games.
Though Knight is expected to take on more of a leadership role as one of five returning players from the 2019 WJC, he'll receive plenty of competition in goal from Isaiah Saville (Vegas Golden Knights) of the University of Nebraska Omaha in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and Dustin Wolf (Calgary Flames) of Everett in the Western Hockey League.
All three goalies are part of the final 23-player tournament roster.
"I think you have to be respectful of each other but if we all compete to the best of our ability and make each other better, at the end of the day, whoever plays, that's how the team improves," Knight said. "We're going to have the best goalie in net and whether that's me, [Wolf], or Isaiah, we're going to support each other. If everyone is pushing for that net, that's a good thing and makes us all better."
Knight (6-foot-3, 192 pounds) has started every game for Boston College while proving an ability to overcome adversity. After allowing six goals on 26 shots in a 6-2 loss to Providence on Oct. 25, he allowed 10 goals in his next 10 games, going 9-1-0.
"That game against Providence was probably the worst game he's played," Ayers said. "When I asked him what he wanted to do with the film, since we normally go through it, he said, 'You know what? Let's just put that one away.'
"I actually thought it was a great way for him to just turn the page, and from that point I think we found some things within his game that needed to get better, worked on that and he started to get more confident with those changes."
Knight begins each game with good energy, which he said was key to his turnaround.
"I think you need to make sure you have energy entering the game right away and from the puck drop," he said. "You want to be into it and be more on top of it, just really focus and dial it in. That's kind of what I've changed from the beginning of the year."
U.S. general manager John Vanbiesbrouck said he's been impressed with Knight's ability and the experience he brings to the 2020 WJC.
"He had a time there where he struggled but overcame his own adversity, got back on the horse again for Boston College," Vanbiesbrouck said. "People expect a lot out of him and he's a first-round pick of the Florida Panthers, so with that comes a different set of expectations.
"But I don't think that'll affect Spencer because one of his best assets is between his ears. He's a very sound thinker, has a good approach to the game. I can see that in him and believe he's ready for this."
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You’ve seen our crummy train tunnel. We need money for Gateway, senators tell feds.
Updated Nov 06, 2019; Posted Nov 06, 2019
By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Now that U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao secretly toured the ancient, crumbling Hudson River train tunnels used by thousands of NJ Transit and Amtrak commuters daily, two U.S. Senators want her to fund and cut red tape to build new tunnels.
U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., also invited Chao in a letter sent Wednesday to talk to commuters who are “impacted each week by countless delays to understand the urgency of moving the Gateway Tunnel project ahead by committing federal funding."
Last month, Politico reported that Chao took a secret ride through the Hudson River tunnels in April 2018, without telling the region’s four Democratic senators who had invited her in 2017 on a tour with them. The tour was part of a broader Amtrak train ride of the Northeast Corridor, an Amtrak official told Politico.
A copy of the Booker-Menendez letter sent to Chao on Nov. 6 was obtained by NJ Advance Media. It renews requests to approve applications for federal grants to fund a portion of the Gateway Tunnel project. It has been mired in political back and forth between New Jersey and New York officials and the Trump administration since 2017.
Thanks for replying to one of your NJ7 constituents! NJT service has deteriorated markedly in the 12 years I’ve lived here. Only way to improve is to build a new #Gateway tunnel—please accelerate your efforts, and let us know what we can do to help get federal $ commitment back https://t.co/DN0aYQNHLW
— Eva Weinstein (@bronxgirl120) November 5, 2019
The letter also questions why approvals that would allow tunnel design work to start have been delayed. Booker and Menendez also asked about grant applications to replace the ancient Portal Bridge that carries tracks over the Hackensack River in Kearny.
Both the tunnels and bridge are owned by by Amtrak and are part of the larger Northeast Corridor rail line between Boston and Washington D.C. Federal officials characterized Gateway as regional rather than national projects.
Five years ago, Amtrak officials warned the tunnels could be closed in the near future to repair damage by flood waters driven by Hurricane Sandy. They’re not going to collapse, but the guts of the steel tunnels, concrete walls, electric wiring, signals, track and support structure for the rails, were damaged by corrosive water.
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7 years ago today, Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast with flooding rains and devastating storm surge. For the first time in its 100+ year history, water inundated Amtrak’s North River Tunnel, severing rail service into and out of New York City. (1/9) pic.twitter.com/pNhbaODGwa
— Gateway Program News (@GatewayProgNews) October 29, 2019
If one tunnel had to be closed, train traffic would be reduced by 75% to six trains an hour, crippling the flow of commuters to and from New York and harming the nation’s gross domestic product. The New York-New Jersey region generates 20% of the country’s GDP, tunnel supporters said.
Now that the secretary’s trip was revealed, Booker and Menendez said they want to use it as a jumping off point to talk about funding two new tunnels and rehabilitating the 109-year old tubes under the Hudson.
“We would have welcomed the opportunity to join you on the tour to discuss how we could partner to advance the Gateway Project…invitations we have previously extended (in 2017) still stand,” the senators wrote.
Booker and Menendez also asked why a final decision hasn’t been made on an environmental review that was expedited and finished in March 2018. A decision on that review would allow engineering and design work on the tunnels to start.
The senators also asked Chao to justify continued low rankings for the project grant applications after the states and Amtrak cut $1.4 billion from the estimated $12 billion tunnel project. Amtrak committed an additional $1.3 billion to the tunnels.
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They also asked why grants to replace Portal Bridge were given low rankings. All that’s needed is a federal grant to match the $600 million pledged by New Jersey and Amtrak’s share of the estimated $1.2 billion construction cost. NJ Transit filed a new grant application last month reiterating the larger non-federal funding commitment.
The senators reminded Chao that “the Gateway Program is absolutely critical to public safety, the nation’s economy, and the quality of life for regional commuters.”
Officials also are investigating if an idea that saved L train riders from a total shutdown for tunnel work can be used. That plan uses a “racking system” to suspend new electric cables now located inside deteriorating concrete bench walls inside the tunnel.
But that solution won’t fix all the problems resulting from flooding in the Hudson River tunnels, such as damage from salt and chemical-laden water, officials said.
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Dynamite Entertainment Announces Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro Crossover
The wild, wild west was just that: wild. It was tough on everyone and criminals typically had a free run of the place with very few willing to stand up to them. Things were even tougher for women, so finding any women who had the ability to step up was pretty rare as well. Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro aren't like other women, but they are willing to step up and stop the bad guys. And they get their chance in Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro #1 from Dynamite Entertainment March 2015. Written by Shannon Eric Denton and featuring interior artwork by Rey Villegas, Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro #1 features cover artwork by Lady Rawhide co-creator, Mike Mayhew.
Denton says, "Women were a huge part in the settlement of the Old West but are often overlooked in the historical context. With characters like Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro, they don't let you overlook them. They're two powerful characters with equally powerful personalities that tamed what is now Southern California. As a current Los Angeleno, I couldn't be happier to contribute to their mythology and the mythology of this part of California."
In Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro #1, the two female vigilantes must live up to the legend of Zorro after the inspirational hero is murdered! When brutal slavers descend upon a village and steal away all its adolescent girls, Lady Zorro and Lady Rawhide - who would sooner ride alone than ride together - must put aside their ideological and methodical differences to free the missing girls from a fate worse than death.
Lady Rawhide (along with her alter-ego Anita Santiago) was introduced into the Zorro mythos by writer Don McGregor and Mayhew in 1994, a masked vigilante skilled with swords, guns, and her signature bullwhip. Driven to avenge her brother's suffering at the hands of a crooked government, she first had an antagonistic relationship with Zorro, but eventually became his confidante and staunch ally. Lady Rawhide's popularity as a Zorro regular grew, leading to her headlining several Lady Rawhide comic series. Lady Zorro is a more recent addition to the Zorro mythos, created in 2012 as a strong supporting cast member of the Zorro Rides Again series by Matt Wagner and John K Snyder III. Seeking vengeance after her husband was murdered by corrupt government officials, Lady Zorro cut a bloody swath across the countryside until the elder swordfighter calmed her rage. The character appeared in a successful 2014 self-titled series by Alex De Campi and Rey Villegas.
Regarding his contribution to the overall Zorro mythos, Denton says, "I'm honored and thrilled. Outside of growing up loving the comics and TV shows, my life has intersected with the character several times. I've lived in places where they filmed Zorro like Cerrillos, NM, and my current home in Los Angeles. I currently live near frequent movie site Vasquez Rocks, which is named after notorious bandit Tiburcio Vasquez, the inspiration for Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro). Zorro roamed what is now Los Angeles, so I'm surrounded by his mythology all the time. Being able to contribute to characters within Zorro's mythology, like Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro, is incredibly rewarding!"
"The folks here at Dynamite love two-fisted, gun-blazing, whip-cracking action, and that's exactly what Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro delivers," says Nick Barrucci, CEO and Publisher. "With his flair for pulp action, Shannon is a perfect choice to take up the reins on the new miniseries. And there's no one better suited for bringing these two pistoleras together than Rey Villegas, whose supreme skill brought both characters to life in their respective solo series. Buckle up, comic fans - it's going to be a wild ride!"
Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' January 2015 Previews catalog and slated for release in March. Lady Rawhide/Lady Zorro will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse and Dark Horse Digital. Full press release below.
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT FORGES A NEW LEGEND
OF THE WEST IN THE LADY RAWHIDE / LADY ZORRO
MINISERIES, DEBUTING IN MARCH
December 16, 2014, Mt. Laurel, NJ - Dynamite Entertainment proudly announces the March 2015 debut of Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1, the first chapter of a four-part miniseries that will see two of the comic book industry's Western heroines cross paths for the first time. Written by Shannon Eric Denton and featuring interior artwork by Rey Villegas, Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1 features cover artwork by acclaimed artist and Lady Rawhide co-creator, Mike Mayhew.
In Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1, the two female vigilantes must live up to the legend of Zorro after the inspirational hero is murdered! When brutal slavers descend upon a village and steal away all its adolescent girls, Lady Zorro and Lady Rawhide - who would sooner ride alone than ride together - must put aside their ideological and methodical differences to free the missing girls from a fate worse than death.
Writer Shannon Eric Denton says, "Women were a huge part in the settlement of the Old West but are often overlooked in the historical context. With characters like Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro, they don't let you overlook them. They're two powerful characters with equally powerful personalities that tamed what is now Southern California. As a current Los Angeleno, I couldn't be happier to contribute to their mythology and the mythology of this part of California."
Lady Rawhide (along with her alter-ego Anita Santiago) was introduced into the Zorro mythos by writer Don McGregor and artist Mike Mayhew in 1994, a masked vigilante skilled with swords, guns, and her signature bullwhip. Driven to avenge her brother's suffering at the hands of a crooked government, she first had an antagonistic relationship with Zorro, but eventually became his confidante and staunch ally. Lady Rawhide's popularity as a Zorro regular grew, leading to her headlining several Lady Rawhide comic series.
Lady Zorro is a more recent addition to the Zorro mythos, created in 2012 as a strong supporting cast member of the Zorro Rides Again series by Matt Wagner and John K Snyder III. Seeking vengeance after her husband was murdered by corrupt government officials, Lady Zorro cut a bloody swath across the countryside until the elder swordfighter calmed her rage. The character appeared in a successful 2014 self-titled series by Alex De Campi and Rey Villegas.
The violent origins of the fictional heroines very much reflects the history of the region, which will be incorporated into the new series. Denton says, "There was so much hardship and adventure in the Old West, even when you aren't dealing with heroes like Lady Zorro and Lady Rawhide, so adding them to the mix really sets the stage for truly captivating story. I'm trying to tell a good story first, and trying to be as true to the history of the period as I can without being beholden to it."
Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' January 2015 Previews catalog, the premiere source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in March. Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1 with their local comic book retailers. Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital.
About Dynamite Entertainment:
Dynamite was founded in 2004 and is home to several best-selling comic book titles and properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Red Sonja, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, A Game of Thrones, and more. Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over 3,000 characters (which includes the Harris Comics and Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles and bestselling comics, Dynamite works with some of the most high profile creators in comics and entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman, Andy Diggle, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner, Gail Simone, Steve Niles, James Robinson, and a host of up-and-coming new talent. Dynamite is consistently ranked in the upper tiers of comic book publishers and several of their titles - including Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Project Superpowers - have debuted in the Top Ten lists produced by Diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005, Diamond awarded the company a GEM award for Best New Publisher and another GEM in 2006 for Comics Publisher of the Year (under 5%) and again in 2011. The company has also been nominated for and won several industry awards, including the prestigious Harvey and Eisner Awards.
All characters, names, logos, etc. are ™ and © their respective owners. Press release written by Keith Davidsen.
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Florida Gators gymnastics advances to 2015 NCAA Super Six, looks to defend back-to-back titles
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he has delivered on his campaign promises in spite of doubts by the opposition. Buhari stated this on Friday in Uyo at the flag-off of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential campaign in the South-South geo-political zone. According to him, Nigerians will not regret voting for APC candidates in 2019.
He said he had specifically delivered in the area of security, economy and fighting of corruption in line with his promise to Nigerians. The president said although the menace of Boko Haram remained a challenge in some parts of the country, the insecurity posed by the group would eventually be eradicated.
security and encouraged Nigerian farmers to achieve food security. Buhari said that his administration would continue to fight corruption if voted into office for a second term in 2019. “We are arresting corrupt people and prosecuting them and we will not stop. I assure you that we have collected property and collected cash.
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We have put the money into the Single Treasury Account (TSA) and all are going into government account which can be traced and accounted for. “Nigerians will be informed from time to time how much we recovered and from who and how we are going to use it to develop the country,’’ he said.
He said that APC’s campaign was based fundamentally on three fundamental issues of enhancing the economy, ensuring security and fighting corruption. He noted that Boko Haram had no stronghold in any local government area in Nigeria at the moment. Buhari assured Nigerians that Boko Haram would be “a thing of the past’’ if Nigerians re-elected him in 2019. Also, Mr Ini Okopido, the Akwa Ibom Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured that the state would be the first opposition state to be captured by the APC in the 2019 elections.
Okopido gave the assurance in his welcome address on Friday at the flag-off of the APC South-South Presidential Campaign held at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo. He said with the support the party was receiving from Akwa Ibom the party would win the state come 2019. He commended President Muhammadu Buhari, the party’s flag-bearer for the Presidential poll, who also addressed participants at the campaign flag-off, for the appointments he gave to the sons and daughters of the state in his Government.
“We want to assure you that Akwa Ibom loves you. Akwa Ibom people appreciate you for all the appointments you have given our sons and daughters. “We assure you that Akwa Ibom people will vote for you and vote to deliver all APC candidates in 2019. “Akwa Ibom will be the first state to be captured by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections,” Okopido said. According to him, this shows the confidence President Buhari has in the state and its people.
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Hookah regulations adrift in a haze
Vancouver Island's top doctor issues warning on smoking vegetable products as smoking lounges gain following in Victoria
Natalie North
Aug. 24, 2012 3:00 p.m.
Six twenty-somethings are cozied around two water pipes. As they inhale, the water bubbles within each pipe’s glass base and as they exhale, the cloud of smoke around them grows thicker.
The scene may look familiar to those from the West Coast, but the smell is a foreign one.
Cleopatra Hookah & Coffee Lounge on Broughton Street is overwhelmed with the fragrance of burning molasses – not an ounce of tobacco and not a fleck of cannabis – a trend that finally made its way to Victoria after gaining popularity across the country.
“It’s relaxing,” says Derek Sivorot, who had smoked vegetable-based products from hookah pipes while travelling and was excited to light up a double apple pipe back at home. “It’s always good to sit down with a friend, like having a beer.”
Across the table, Daniel Cormier pulls the hose from his mouth.
“I remember hearing about this place when it was moving here and I said ‘Not in Victoria, no way,’” Cormier says.
Kareem Serry opened the doors to the late-night lounge this spring, when he saw an untapped market in Victoria. Serry differentiated Cleopatra, one of three places in Victoria offering hookahs at that time, from its competition by adhering to the highest standards for cleanliness and safety, he says.
“We really want to educate people on what hookah is all about, which is clean, rinse, sanitize and does not contain narcotics,” Serry says.
Serry, a 29 year-old trained in hotel management backs up his claim by bustling around behind the counter of the living room-sized lounge with bright red walls and slick black furniture. He points to a high temperature sanitation machine, three compartment sink and stainless steel canisters galore – each one labelled and tucked into place. Mouthpieces are replaced and water is changed for each customer, he says. All hookahs are served on a base designed not to tip. His list of voluntary precautions is long.
“It’s the new way of smoking hookah,” says the Egyptian-born, B.C.-raised businessman. “We’re still holding up the same culture, but we’re taking it to the next level of hygiene an cleanliness.”
But the health concerns from the Vancouver Island Health Authority don’t centre on sanitation, rather, the potential harm caused by inhaling burning vegetable matter.
This spring VIHA’s medical health officers began canvassing municipal councils across Vancouver Island in hopes of garnering support for updated and consistent clean air bylaws – suggestions that range from the prohibition of smoking tobacco on beaches to the public use of hookah pipes.
“You can get up to 30 times the amount of carbon monoxide in that (vegetable) smoke than what you would get from cigarette smoking,” says Dr. Richard Stanwick, VIHA’s chief medical health officer.
“Some people have speculated is that the reason people are using hookahs is because you get this sensation of disorientation and lightheadedness. What they might be experiencing is not a high from the vegetable material, but carbon monoxide poisoning.”
When an event organizer contacted VIHA last year to obtain a permit to offer hookah pipes to his guests, Stanwick wouldn’t issue one. Not because he wouldn’t issue a permit, but because he couldn’t.
Stanwick soon learned that although the Capital Regional District was a leader in regulating tobacco use in public spaces, the entire Island is curiously void of any restrictions on smoking anything else, including the vegetable-based flavoured molasses products used freely in water pipes in Victoria.
The request sparked a fact-finding mission for Stanwick, who has since uncovered early reports he says reveal a real risk to those enticed by the North America’s adoption of an age-old Middle Eastern tradition. Stanwick points to an American study that showed a group of medical students were smoking hookah under the belief that it was safer than smoking cigarettes and were unaware of the high levels of carcinogenic poly-aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, present in the smoke.
“We were quite surprised to find that in places like Montreal and Toronto, where maybe there’s a bigger ethnic community, this is emerging as a major public health issue,” Stanwick says. “It’s quite fascinating that this is an issue that for once, didn’t start in British Columbia.”
Cleopatra was the city’s second designated hookah lounge, following Fernwood’s Darband Tea House, which the owner recently closed for personal reasons. Wild Coffee on Yates Street also offers hookah to guests.
Back in Cleopatra, nearing 1 a.m., Serry demonstrates the lock mechanism on a hookah that prevents smokers from enjoying anything other than his flavoured molasses products and water in pipes. He has some customers, like Sivorot and his friends, who smoke a pipe over all natural coals instead of going out for drinks. Others, in their attempts to quit smoking cigarettes, he says, smoke a hookah once a week to ease the process.
“The way I see it, it’s more of a tax concern than a health concern,” Serry says of the recent attention from VIHA. “If you really cared about health, you would ban cigarettes. … Here, if you get addicted, it’s in your head.”
Sivorot and his crew pay the bill for their two hookahs and coffee, which amounts to about the same cost of a single beer each at a pub. They thank Serry and step out onto the sidewalk, leaving behind the loud electronic beats on Serry’s sound system and a table of Muslim men celebrating the end of Ramadan.
“It’s better than the usual downtown stuff,” Sivorot adds.
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The province is exploring changes to the Employment Standards Act that could offer paid leave for employees experiencing domestic violence (File photo)
Victoria councillors endorse idea of paid leave for people experiencing domestic violence
A motion coming this week supports changes to the B.C. Employment Standards Act
Apr. 3, 2019 5:30 p.m.
Victoria city councillors are endorsing a provincial consideration for paid leave as an option for people experiencing intimate, personal and relationship violence, also known as domestic violence.
Currently, the province is considering amendments to the Employment Standards Act which could create this option.
The idea was originally introduced in 2017, and proposed that employees experiencing domestic violence could request up to 10 days paid leave time, and up to 17 weeks unpaid leave time.
Currently both Ontario and Manitoba follow this protocol.
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In a motion put forward by Coun. Ben Isitt, Coun. Jeremy Loveday and Coun. Sarah Potts, the city could endorse the idea of a minimum of five days paid leave to provide economic stability for employees leaving violent relationships in order to keep themselves and their families safe.
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The decision comes after the city opted to “advocate for adequate income and supports to ensure everyone has access to a decent quality of life” in the City’s 2019-2022 Strategic Plan.
Currently, if a B.C. employer is aware that a worker is experiencing domestic violence at home they are expected to help connect them to helpful third-party resources.
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heat of the month
Oct. 31, 2019 09:34PM EST
Nadia Nakai in "Amai"
The 19 Best South African Songs of the Month
Featuring Major League DJz, Zoocci Coke Dope, Kabza De Small and more.
Our list of the best South African songs of the month includes new singles that dropped in October, alongside those that were highlighted by getting the music video treatment.
Check out our selections below, which feature Major League DJz, Zoocci Coke Dope and Kabza De Small among others.
The list is in no particular order.
Follow our MZANSI HEAT playlist on Spotify here and Apple Music here.
Major League DJz (ft. Nasty C) “Bandz Up”
Nasty C pulls out different tools out of his arsenal—he raps and sings about the joys of being moneyed. "Bandz Up" is the perfect soundtrack for payday.
Nadia Nakai "Amai"
For the "Amai" visuals, Nadia Nakai gets as vulnerable as she is on the song. The video shows the process of Nadia getting immortalized by an artist who creates a bust of the South African/Zimbabwean rapper.
Sliqe ft. Emtee and K.O "Injayam”
One of the strongest songs from Sliqe's new album Injayam, Vol. 2. "Injayam" is one of those collaborations that was clearly started from scratch and both rappers were in studio at the same time to create magic.
AKA x YoungstaCPT "Main Ou's"
One of the most anticipated collaborations of the year didn't disappoint. AKA and YoungstaCPT drop standout verses and share the hook, resulting in an exquisite banger that your playlist deserves.
Yanga Chief 'Utatakho Remix' ft.. Riky Rick, Dee Koala and Boity
A remix that lived up to all the hype around it. Every verse stands out, and once again, Boity proves she can actually rap.
Shane Eagle ft. Nasty C “PARIS”
Two of the country's top lyricists make strong cases for being the greatest of their generation, and it's the listener who wins. "PARIS" is just bars and bars and only.
Bongeziwe Mabandla “Jikeleza”
As is always the case with Bongeziwe's music, "Jikeleza" blends the tingly traditional folk music guitar with modern contraptions like synths and pads.
Zoocci Coke Dope (ft. Ami Faku)
An unlikely collaboration, "Regrets" is somber in mood, as it's built over a gloomy piano. Ami Faku's verse glides over the keys, before the drums kick in with Zoocci's verse.
Focalistic (ft. Emtee) “Klippa”
Focalistic and Emtee share a trap instrumental for the catchy and banging track that sadly only lasts for less than three minutes. Which is a good excuse to run it back.
Laliboi “Emonti”
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Solo “Two by Two” (ft. Buks)
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Watch the First Episode of Flame’s Documentary Series ‘Welcome To My Life’
Flame takes fans behind the scenes in his new documentary series.
From interviews to smoking sessions, performances, studio sessions and a visit to the hair salon, Flame gives fans a glimpse into his life and adventures.
The South African hip-hop artist and producer shared the first episode of an ongoing documentary series titled Welcome To My Life. The first episode, which he shared today, shows Flame and his affiliates—the likes of Ecco, Mellow and others—going about their business.
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uSanele Releases a New Project ‘uMvelase’ Featuring ASAP Shembe, Windows 2000, Manelisi and Others
Listen to uSanele's new project 'uMvelase.'
South African hip-hop artist uSanele's recently released project is titled uMvelase. "This project," says the artist, "is in honor of my father and family, abakwa Mthembu; all my siblings, extended family and my roots in the heart of KZN, kwaNongoma. It is a calling—if you will—a completion of my journey and all things coming full circle."
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In Conversation with Congolese NBA Player Emmanuel Mudiay: 'I want more African players in the NBA.'
The Utah Jazz player talks about being African in the NBA, supporting basketball in the DRC and how 'everybody knows about Burna Boy'.
Inspired by his basketball-playing older brothers, by second grade, Emmanuel Mudiay already knew that he wanted to play in the American National Basketball Association. Then in 2001 his family, fleeing the war in Democratic Republic of Congo, sought asylum in the United States.
In America, Mudiay saw basketball as a way for him to improve his situation. After impressive high school and college careers, he moved to China to play pro ball. Picked 7th overall in the 2015 NBA draft, the now 23-year-old guard has made a name for himself this season coming off the bench for the Utah Jazz.
Mudiay attests to the sport having changed not only his life but that of his siblings. Basketball gave them all a chance at a good education and the opportunity to dream without conditions. Now he wants to see other talented African players make it too.
We caught up with him to talk about his experience as an African player in the NBA, his hopes for basketball on the African continent and who he and his teammates jam out to in their locker rooms.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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University lecturer and activist Doctor Stella Nyanzi (L) reacts in court as she attends a trial to face charges for cyber-harassment and offensives communication, in Kampala, on April 10, 2017. (Photo by GAEL GRILHOT/AFP via Getty Images)
Jailed Ugandan Activist, Stella Nyanzi, Wins PEN Prize for Freedom of Expression
The outspoken activist, who is currently serving a prison sentence for a poem she wrote about the president's mother's vagina, won for her resistance "in front of a regime that is trying to suppress her."
Stella Nyanzi, the Ugandan academic, activist, and vocal critic of President Yoweri Museveni has been awarded the 2020 Oxfam Novib/PEN International award for freedom of expression, given to writers who "continue to work for freedom of expression in the face of persecution."
Nyanzi is currently serving a 15 month sentence for "cyber harassment" after she published a poem in which she wrote that she wished "the acidic pus flooding Esiteri's (the president's mother) vaginal canal had burn up your unborn fetus. Burn you up as badly as you have corroded all morality and professionalism out of our public institutions in Uganda."
According to the director of PEN International, Carles Torner, her unfiltered outspokenness around the issues facing her country is what earned her the award. "For her, writing is a permanent form of resistance in front of a regime that is trying to suppress her," said Torner at the award ceremony.
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Watch Yilian Canizares & Paul Beaubrun's Beautiful Video For 'Noyé'
"Cuba and Haiti come together to share the love and heritage of our deep rooted culture and spirituality."
Kenyan Athlete Eliud Kipchoge Nominated for Sportsman of the Year Award
The record-breaking marathon runner has been nominated for the top prize in the 2020 Laureus World Sports Awards alongside Lionel Messi, Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton and Rafael Nadal.
Thousands of Gambians Protest for Former President Yahya Jammeh's Return from Exile
Supporters of the former statesman want the current Gambian government to guarantee his right to return from self-exile in Equatorial Guinea.
'Journey With Me' Is a Window Into the Ups and Downs of Traveling by Train In South Africa
In his new photo series, South African artist Luxolo Witvoet, speaks to everyday people in Cape Town about their experiences commuting via the city's fragile, yet vital train system.
Things Take Time In The Empire of Sheep
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Police: burglars cut hole in Best Buy roof, steal merchandise
Several other locations across the U.S. have been burglarized the same way
by: Kate Jordan
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KFTA) — Fayetteville Police Department detectives and other detectives across the nation said they are searching for burglars who’ve cut holes in Best Buy roofs and stolen merchandise.
Several electronics were stolen from Best Buy in Fayetteville, 464 E. Joyce Blvd., according to police.
Police said they are working to identify the suspects.
Several other Best Buy locations including Tulsa, Okla.; Simi Valley, Cali.; Abiliene, Texas; Murfreesboro and Brentwood, Tenn. were also burglarized.
All the burglaries are similar and in all instances, thousands worth of items were stolen.
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(AP) — Players from two teams at the center of baseball’s sign-stealing scandal faced their fans on Saturday for the first time since the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox ousted their managers amid the fallout from the investigation into Houston’s elaborate scheme.
The Astros and Red Sox held their annual fan fests on Saturday, and instead of discussing preparations for the season, players from both teams were left to answer questions about the sign-stealing that left them without managers.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KFTA) — Dozens of people in Fayetteville honoring MLK weekend with a special service project to help students in need.
More than 100 students from Asbell elementary school will be getting brand new accessories to keep them comfortable during the colder temperatures.
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Courts 'let down' dog victim
Ben Oliver. Photo / Greg Bowker
Herald on Sunday
Owner fights for life of dog that left child with 24 stitches.
Four-year-old Ben Oliver still has scars from the day a bull mastiff-great dane cross named Wolfie lunged at him.
His father, David Oliver, wants Wolfie destroyed. However, dog owner Tamsin Orr-Walker is fighting to keep him alive.
The case has been before the courts for 17 months but, last week, Orr-Walker was discharged without conviction in the Waitakere District Court.
Orr-Walker was scheduled for a defended hearing but she changed her plea to guilty to owning the dog that attacked and left the boy needing 24 stitches, outside the Hardware cafe in Titirangi.
A decision on the destruction of the dog has been deferred until the end of next month.
Auckland Council prosecutions team leader Vernon Tamatea said a dog cannot be destroyed during a prosecution unless ordered by the court under exceptional circumstances. He said Wolfie was seized on the day of the attack but later returned to Orr-Walker under strict conditions.
Judge Russell Callander said the consequences of a conviction were out of proportion with the offence. "Her CV is self evident in terms of involvement over a considerable period of time working with animal welfare issues."
Oliver told the Herald on Sunday his family had been let down by the justice system.
"It seems wrong something like this can happen and, almost a year and a half down the line, the dog is still alive and no decision has been made on it," Oliver said. "The person responsible for the dog has pleaded guilty and that is it. I'm disappointed. The whole system is ridiculous."
He said a discharge without conviction sent a weak message to dog owners.
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"We need a message that says this isn't okay and you can't have dogs in a public place doing things like that to kids."
Orr-Walker told the Herald on Sunday Wolfie was a family pet that had not been aggressive before. "He has since been assessed by a qualified animal behaviourist who believes the incident was an atypical response for a dog of his high level of sociability," Orr-Walker said. She did not want her beloved dog killed and suggested alternative solutions such as a muzzle order or continued separation from the public.
"Driving for the destruction of a dog for a one-off incident only appears to be retaliatory."
Victim awarded $5000 in emotional reparation
The scarred survivor of a vicious dog attack has told a court "I want my face back".
"Every day I look in the mirror it reminds me of the attack. I see a smile that isn't mine. I want my smile back."
Dannevirke mother-of-two Katrina Smith said her 5-year-old daughter was afraid to come near her because of the horrific facial wounds.
The attack also left her with a fractured and dislocated shoulder, a broken arm, irreparable nerve damage to her face and injuries to her eye.
After arriving at a client's property to clean his house on April 18 this year, she was set upon by an American bulldog sharpei cross. Hooch jumped at her from behind, knocked her to the ground and began biting her face.
At the sentencing of the dog's owner in the Hastings District Court on Friday, Smith, 45, told of emotional and physical struggles.
After two hours of facial surgery in Hutt Hospital, a surgeon lost count of how many stitches he'd put in.
She said she'd also been growing her hair longer to cover scars, had trouble sleeping, felt anxious to be by herself and had a "droop" to the right side of her face. Last month her former client - and the dog's owner - Daryn Paul Boyden, 29, defended a charge of not having his dog under proper control, and claimed the dog had been on a chain tied to a tree at his home in rural Dannevirke.
Smith said the dog could run the length of the driveway on a lead attached to a wire.
Judge Richard Watson found the charge proven in a reserved decision.
At Friday's sentencing Boyden's lawyer, Sam Cowan, said his client was "extremely remorseful" . He said Boyden had visited his former cleaner to apologise for the attack and had set up an account at a Dannevirke osteopath to help with her recovery.
At the time of the attack, he was at his parents' home nearby, but when called by a neighbour he returned and shot the dog.
Judge Watson said he accepted Boyden's good character but he should have warned his cleaner.
Boyden was ordered to pay $5000 in emotional reparation.
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G Adventures’ Adds 12 Tours to its ‘Jane Goodall Collection’ to Support Conservation and Responsible Wildlife Tourism
G Adventures is updating its exclusive Dr. Jane Goodall-endorsed collection of wildlife-focused tours for 2020.
12 new adventures in Indonesia, Botswana, Belize, the Northwest U.S., mainland Ecuador, the Arctic and Antarctic, and other diverse destinations around the globe bring the full program of experiences to 20 trips.
All trips in the collection are endorsed by the renowned U.N. Messenger of Peace, whose Institute protects endangered species through conservation strategies that incorporate the needs of local communities, with the understanding that helping people saves wildlife.
In addition, to date, G Adventures has donated more than $100,000 in funds and travel assistance to support the conservation mission of Dr. Goodall’s nonprofit institute.
Dr. Goodall supports to the G Adventures ANIMAL WELFARE POLICY which governs our more than 750 trips in 120+ countries around the globe, ensuring the protection and freedom of all animals when traveling. That operational commitment, along with Goodall’s endorsement, paved the way for the first-of-its-kind partnership in the tourism industry: the Jane Goodall Collection.
Itineraries added to the Jane Goodall Collection by G Adventures for 2020 span several of G Adventures’ travel styles, and include the following tours:
EXPLORE BELIZE - Visit a community baboon sanctuary and see howler monkeys in the wild, go cave canoeing in an ancient Mayan waterway, go snorkeling above the Belize barrier reef to watch sharks and rays. 9 days, from $1519 USD/ 1,695 CDN.
SOUTHERN TANZANIA SAFARI - Explore less-crowded Ruaha National Park, sometimes described as Tanzania’s best-kept secret, and the Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where guests can experience a walking safari. 6 days, from $3654 USD / 4,300 CDN.
BOTSWANA & ZIMBABWE SAFARI - Observe the lions and elephants of Hwange National Park, fly to the panhandle of the Okavango Delta for a wildlife walk with a local guide, and cruise along the banks of the Chobe River to watch the elephants drink along its banks. 10 days, from $5039 USD/ $6,425 CDN.
INDONESIA: FLORES & KOMODO - Gaze with wonder at the multi-colored crater lakes of Kelimutu, admire community-owned rice fields that look like they were spun by a spider, trek through the rainforest, jump into waterfall pools and scan for Komodo’s famed dragons from the safety of a boat. 9 days from $1402 USD / $1,529.
NEPAL: HIMALAYA HIGHLIGHTS - Overnight at a Buddhist monastery, explore Royal Chitwan National Park first by boat down river in search of birds & crocs, then by jeep safari in search of elephants, monkeys, leopards and rhinos. Meet a local tiger technician to learn about tracking and protection. 10 days, from $2,079.
FALKLANDS, SOUTH GEORGIA & ANTARCTICA - Board the G Expedition polar ship and get up close to a place that fascinated famed explorer Ernest Shakleton. Watch for penguins, whales and seals from deck or shore zodiac. 22 days from $12,299 USD / $14,599 CDN.
About G Adventures - Because Our World Deserves More You
Founded in 1990 by social entrepreneur Bruce Poon Tip, G Adventures is a socially-responsible travel operator that offers life-changing, small-group tours for people of all ages, interests and budgets in 100+ countries, on all seven continents. Its 700+ award-winning trips support local communities, giving travellers immersive and meaningful experiences with people, cultures, landscapes and wildlife, while offering the freedom and flexibility to explore on their own. With a nonprofit foundation partner called Planeterra that helps kickstart local communities’ development, G Adventures’ approach to small-group travel is intimate and sustainable.
“For many years we have been committed to ensuring that no people or animals are harmed either intentionally or unintentionally by our tours. Jane Goodall’s recognition of our work to protect animals spurred us to take our work in this area to the next level. Together with World Animal Protection, the World Cetacean Alliance and the Jane Goodall Institute we have strengthened our protections even further. We strive to be the best we can be in this vital area of our business, and empower our travellers to do the same in their own adventures.”
About the Jane Goodall Institute
Founded in 1977, the Jane Goodall Institute continues Dr. Goodall’s pioneering research on chimpanzee behavior—research that transformed scientific perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals. Today, the Institute is a global leader in the effort to protect Great Apes and their habitats. It also is widely recognized for establishing innovative community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, the global environmental and humanitarian youth program that has groups in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit: www.janegoodall.global.
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
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This dictionary is a key reference for those who need familiarity with—and comprehensive knowledge of—Australian legal terms. Designed specifically for students, it uses clear and concise language and explores the terms encountered in everyday practice, focusing on core legal knowledge and practice areas. Written, reviewed, and edited by legal experts, this edition features new terms relating to taxation, business law, and company law and has been updated to include relevant cases and legislation.
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Trischa Mann has a BA and an LLB from the Australian National University, and graduate diplomas in editing and publishing from RMIT, and in managing legal organisations from the University of Melbourne. She has submitted a PhD in judicial professional development at the University of Melbourne and in addition to legal writing and editing is principal consultant at Contrarium, a legal practice and communications consultancy.
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Openfit / Fitness / Cardio
How to Do the Parallel Squat With Perfect Form
By Andrew Heffernan CSCS, GCFP • Sep 23, 2019
Humans are born to squat: Infants do it. Athletes do it. In some parts of the world, adults do it while conversing or working, sometimes for hours on end. But in first-world countries, most of us stop squatting when we reach adulthood, and that’s a shame, because the parallel squat is one of the most effective, functional movements you can do, bar none. It strengthens your legs and glutes, mobilizes your hips and ankles, and improves overall power and athleticism.
There are, however, a surprising number of ways to screw up this seemingly simple movement. Read on for how to do a proper parallel squat, every time.
How to Do a Parallel Squat
Most of us squat to sit multiple times a day but that doesn’t mean we’re always doing it properly. Here’s how to use correct form when you’re parallel squatting in the gym:
• Stand with your feet between hip and shoulder width apart, toes pointed forward (slightly pointed out is OK too), arms extended in front of you.
• Keeping your chest up, gaze forward, feet flat, and your lower back in its natural arch, bend at your hips and knees until your thighs are parallel to the floor. Your knees should be tracking in line with the middle of your feet.
• Pause, and return to the starting position.
What is Considered a Parallel Squat?
A true parallel squat is one where the exerciser lowers their hips until the tops of their thighs are parallel to the floor while keeping their lower back flat and their chest up.
The parallel position is lower than you think, and most people — even longtime lifters — stop a few inches short of a true parallel position. One cue: think of lowering your hips until the crease of the hip is just slightly lower than your knees. Made it? That’s parallel. Anything less isn’t.
Common Mistakes on the Parallel Squat and How to Fix Them
1. Too much weight: Many exercisers put a bar on their back before they’ve mastered the bodyweight version of the move. That’s asking for injury.
How do you know if you’re using too much weight? As you descend into the squat, says Openfit Fitness Advisor Cody Braun, CSCS, “You want a parallel line between your shins and your spine.” Seen from the side, in other words, your torso shouldn’t pitch forward more than your lower legs. If that happens (film yourself or have a buddy check your form), take some weight off the bar, or ditch the bar altogether, and build up gradually from there, using picture perfect form on every rep.
2. Poor form due to lack of mobility: Other problems that arise on the parallel squat aren’t due to lack of strength but lack of mobility. Since most of us sit in chairs rather than on the floor, we lack the ankle- and hip-mobility needed to sink all the way to the parallel position.
As a result, many people compromise squat form by rounding their lower back (instead of keeping it slightly arched), raising their heels (instead of keeping them flat on the floor), or collapsing their knees inward (instead of tracking in line with the middle of the foot) as they rise from the squat. Here are a few solutions to try:
Heels-Elevated Squats: Place a pair of ten-pound weight plates (or a board up to an inch-thick) underneath your heels. This simple trick frees up the ankles, allowing most people to parallel squat without limitation or pain. This is a good tip to use when teaching or learning the bodyweight squat. However, you should be aggressively working on other exercises that help increase ankle mobility.
Suspension Trainer Squat, leaning back while holding the handles of a TRX (or equivalent). This modification activates the extensor muscles of the spine, helping you to keep the torso upright throughout the move. This also helps people sit back lower into the squat because of the counterbalance for weak glutes.
Still struggling? Perform either or both modifications to the depth you can accomplish with good form, and without pain. Over time, you’ll develop the mobility and strength you need to squat deeply. Can’t make parallel? Don’t force it — just go with the depth you have.
Variations on the Parallel Squat
Once you’ve mastered the parallel squat using your bodyweight (15-20 reps is a good target rep range for the beginner), you can start adding weight to the movement, first with a dumbbell held vertical in front of your chest (a goblet squat), then with a pair of dumbbells at your sides, and finally, if you choose to, with barbell back or front squats. Add weight slowly over time — and don’t lose the depth you developed while performing parallel bodyweight squats.
Are Parallel Squats Effective?
“Squats are one of the best exercises for assessing how the body moves, because it relates to everyday movement, and requires the entire body to be active,” says Braun. “It is also a great full body exercise.”
Some lifters swear by heavy barbell squats as the ultimate leg-builder; for others, they’re primarily a source of joint and back pain. So keep the bodyweight version in your rotation — as a warm-up, a thigh-building exercise, or both — but evaluate your own response to barbell varieties. If the move leaves you with painful knees or a bad back for days on end — have a trainer or physical therapist look at your form. No pain or problems? Full speed ahead.
What Muscles Do Parallel Squats Work?
Parallel squats are a terrific all around lower-body movement, focusing primarily on your front thighs (quadriceps), which extend your legs at the knee joint, and your glutes (butt muscles), which extend your hips.
Secondary players include your hamstrings (back-of-thigh muscles), which help with hip extension, and the core muscles of your lower back and abdomen, which provide stability throughout the move.
About Andrew Heffernan CSCS, GCFP
Andrew Heffernan, CSCS, GCFP is a fitness coach, Feldenkrais practitioner, and an award-winning health and fitness writer. His work appears regularly in Men's Health and Experience Life. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Learn more at andrewheffernan.com
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Attorneys for Oregon Ducks basketball players, alleged assault victim trade accusations; university conduct questioned
Oregon Ducks men's basketball rape investigation
Gallery: Oregon Ducks men's basketball rape investigation
EUGENE -- Calling it "good political cover, bad principle," attorneys for three former Oregon basketball players criticized the University of Oregon's discipline for their clients and the actions of an alleged victim of sexual assault in a strongly worded joint statement Tuesday evening.
The joint statement by the Eugene-based attorneys for Damyean Dotson, Dominic Artis and Brandon Austin is the first version of events from all players' perspective since news of accusations of a March sexual assault against the three broke May 5. It came one day after the players were barred from campus for at least four years, and up to a decade, after an internal UO review.
In April, the Lane County District Attorney declined to charge any of the three, citing conflicting claims by the alleged victim that made it impossible to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt.
"This determination was carved in stone the day the University's president, in response to a hail of local and national criticism, all but declared these young men guilty and dismissed them from the team," wrote attorneys Greg Veralrud, Laura Fine Moro and Shaun McCrea. The lawyers argued in a three-page statement that the players did not receive the due process they deserved by a UO disciplinary board and called into question the actions of the alleged victim.
Veralrud represents Artis, McCrea represents Dotson and Fine Moro is Austin's attorney.
The university, through a spokeswoman, said Tuesday evening it would not yet have its own statement in response to the claims.
John Clune, the attorney for the alleged victim, called the statement in part "a pretty poorly spun version of the night in question which noticeably omits all of the facts that incriminated their clients."
What no one involved in the case disagrees on is that the alleged victim and three players engaged in sexual activity the night of March 9, after Oregon knocked off then-No. 3 Arizona in the home basketball finale. In its "no-charge" document, the DA added there was "no doubt the incidents occurred."
The disagreement centers on consent. In a 24-page police report the alleged victim -- who recently finished her freshman year at Oregon and plans on returning to school, Clune said -- says she told the players to stop at several instances and began to cry while at an apartment where two of the players lived.
In their statement, the players' lawyers criticized the actions of the alleged victim as "laughing, chatting and flirting." They wished to bring this point of view to the attention of the UO's review board, but claim they were not allowed to.
"Testimony from independent guests at the party who witnessed certain behavior, a cab driver who likewise made relevant observations, and witnesses who had information about the accuser's subsequent statements about these events were not available," the players' lawyers wrote.
The university, citing federal privacy laws, said in May it could not reveal what disciplinary measures or course of review it was taking in response to the allegations.
Clune, the alleged victim's lawyer, rebutted the claims.
"The description doesn't mention that two of the men admitted in police recorded phone calls that what they did to the victim that night was wrong with one of the men calling their behavior 'very inappropriate and not something he would want to happen to his mother or sister,'" he said.
Before their suspension from campus Austin, Artis and Dotson were dismissed from the team April 30. That punishment was made public May 9 when UO athletic director Rob Mullens cited "conduct that wasn't befitting a University of Oregon student-athlete" for their dismissal.
According to several reports Artis has come closest to finding a new home since his exit from Oregon. Last weekend he visited the campus of St. John's in New York, but Tuesday several outlets reported the Red Storm decided to pass on Artis due to concerns stemming from fallout from the sexual assault accusation.
-- Andrew Greif | @andrewgreif
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Orion to present four posters on oral levosimendan in patients with ALS at the 30th International Symposium on ALS/MND
Orion Corporation Press release 2 December 2019 at 1.00 p.m. EET
Orion Corporation will present four posters on oral levosimendan at the 30th International Symposium on ALS/MND held on 4–6 December 2019 in Perth, Australia. The presentations will include biomarker and pharmacokinetic data from previous studies such as the LEVALS phase 2 trial, a systematic literature review on pharmacological effects of levosimendan and baseline characteristics and status update on the progression of the ongoing REFALS phase 3 study.
The effects of Orion’s oral levosimendan on diaphragm function suggest a possible clinical value in treating patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Orion has studied the effects of oral levosimendan on respiratory function in patients with ALS.
Respiratory decline is one of the biggest challenges in ALS and a major cause of disability, fatigue, morbidity and - eventually - mortality in ALS. There is currently no efficacious medicinal treatment for the respiratory problems, and patients have to rely on assisted ventilation when the symptoms get worse. Orion’s phase 2 LEVALS pilot study with 66 patients with ALS showed promising results as supine slow vital capacity (SVC), which reflects respiratory function, was better on levosimendan compared to placebo.
The following list of posters will be presented at the 30th International Symposium on ALS/MND on 5th of December, 2019
·Mechanism of action of the cardiovascular drug levosimendan in the management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (abstract TST-43)1
Session: Preclinical therapeutic strategies | 10:30-11:30 | Kira M. Holmström
·Baseline characteristics and status update of REFALS: a phase 3 study comparing oral levosimendan to placebo in patients with ALS (abstract CLT-18)2
Session: Clinical trials and trial designs | 10:30-11:30 | Chris Garratt
·Oral levosimendan for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: pharmacokinetic considerations (abstract CLT-26)2
Session: Clinical trials and trial designs | 10:30-11:30 | Valtteri Aho
·Biomarker analysis in oral levosimendan phase 2 clinical trial LEVALS (abstract BIO-11)3
Session: Tissue Biomarkers | 11:30-12:30 | Kira M. Holmström
About levosimendan
Intravenous levosimendan is an inodilator that has been used to treat acute heart failure since 2000 and is approved in nearly 60 countries worldwide. Levosimendan was discovered in Orion in 1990’s. Phase 3 clinical trial REFALS (NCT03505021) studying the effects of oral levosimendan in patients with ALS is ongoing.
Orion is a globally operating Finnish pharmaceutical company - a builder of well-being. Orion develops, manufactures and markets human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The company is continuously developing new drugs and treatment methods. The core therapy areas of Orion's pharmaceutical R&D are central nervous system (CNS) disorders, oncology and respiratory diseases for which Orion develops inhaled Easyhaler® pulmonary drugs. Orion's net sales in 2018 amounted to EUR 977 million and the company had about 3,200 employees at the end of the year. Orion's A and B shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. For more information, go to www.orion.fi/en.
Taru Blom, MD, Vice President, Therapy Area CNS, Research and Development, Orion Corporation
taru.blom@orionpharma.com
Terhi Ormio
Vice President, Communications, Orion Corporation
terhi.ormio@orion.fi
Abstract TST-43: (2019) Theme 7 Pre-clinical therapeutic strategies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 20:sup1, 217-245, DOI: 10.1080/21678421.2019.1646995
Abstracts CLT-18 ja CLT-26 (2019) Theme 9 Clinical trials and trial design, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 20:sup1, 262-288, DOI: 10.1080/21678421.2019.1646997
Abstract BIO-11: (2019) Theme 6 Tissue biomarkers, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 20:sup1, 206-216, DOI: 10.1080/21678421.2019.1646994
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Kharian, Berga Kharia, Dhelki Kharia, Dudh Kharia, Erenga Kharia, Munda Kharia, Oraon Kharia, Khadia, Pahari Kharia
Region: Forests of Mayurbhanj and plains in Jharsuguda, Sambalpur and Sundergarh
Language: Kharia
Origin: The Kharia are believed to have migrated to the region from river valleys north of the Vindhya and Kairmur ranges.
Occupation: The tribe is split into three groups; the Hill Kharia being the most primitive still survive as hunter-gatherers. Forest produce such as resin, honey and tussar cocoons forms their major source of income. The Dhelkai Kharia work as agricultural labour and the Dudh Kharia are settled cultivators; Spinning is another allied occupation and Kharia women also make mats of date palm leaves and bamboo and ropes of sabai fibre and aloe leaves.
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Quetico Campsite 1EE on Silence
On 8/12/2019 12:29:57 PM, Mike R said:
Unfortunately a storm brought down several trees, impacting the usability of this site, which I have enjoyed many times over the past 20 years. One tent site unaffected, but the rest buried beneath downed trees. Someone with a good camp saw could free up an additional site. Landing on south end of site blocked, but there is a second landing at the north end. Kitchen unaffected. Bummed.
On 4/4/2016 2:22:16 PM, jlockard said:
Overly built fire-ring with 2 long benches. Sure, it made cooking and wind-break fantastic, but it really sort of killed the feel of the wilderness. Swimming access was fantastic, with the Ontario shield sloping at an easy angle into the water. Views of the lake to the south and west were quite beautiful.
On 9/30/2014 10:50:03 AM, jcavenagh said:
Excellent views from southeast across to northwest. Nice fire pit and cooking area. Nice swimming access. Tent pads allow some room between tents. Good trees for hammocks. We laid out on the rock face late at night and watched the stars for a long time.
On 9/10/2012 4:29:02 PM, BillConner said:
September 2012 - nice site in good condition
On 8/7/2007 8:55:29 PM, NJScout said:
Stayed 2-nights July 2007 - Site seemed to be suffering from overuse. We cleaned up some garbage left behind by previous campers. It's proximity to portage apparently made it a convenient 'pit stop'. Poor fishing. Next time I would opt for another site further south on Silence.
On 9/21/2005 2:44:31 AM, dentondoc said:
Access to this site is on the western tip of the peninsula. The point provides excellent views of the south and northwest arms of the lake. Nice bench with decent fire ring. Tent pads are in separate clearings and offer a bit of privacy, as well as wind potection. Area next to fire ring for cooking. Only a short paddle from here to the portage into Agnes.
This page was last updated on August 12, 2019
Oyster Lake morning by TuscaroraBorealis
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Wednesday's Wayne County arrest log
Wayne County law enforcement jailed eight individuals Wednesday.
Wednesday's Wayne County arrest log Wayne County law enforcement jailed eight individuals Wednesday. Check out this story on pal-item.com: https://www.pal-item.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/26/wayne-county-law-enforcement-jailed-eight-individuals-wednesday/3774052002/
Mike Emery, Richmond Palladium-Item Published 10:43 a.m. ET Sept. 26, 2019
RICHMOND, Ind. — Law enforcement agencies in Richmond and Wayne County jailed eight people Wednesday.
►CRIME: Tuesday's Wayne County arrest log
The people booked into the Wayne County jail Wednesday are:
James A. Bussell, 49, 1300 block of Parkamo Avenue, Hamilton, Ohio: Failure to appear, 3:05 p.m.
Donald Edward Cosner, 25, 3200 block of Indiana 1 North, Pennville: Conversion (Class A misdemeanor), 3:47 p.m.
Casey R. Cupp, 26, 15700 block of Turnpike Road, Hagerstown: Invasion of privacy (unspecified), 9:20 a.m.
Timothy Keith Lahrman, 61, 200 block of North 10th Street, Richmond: Failure to appear, 2:35 p.m.
James Edward Lineberry, 51, no address provided: Failure to appear and hold for other jurisdiction, 12:15 p.m.
Travis Charles Reed, 38, 1100 block of South B Street, Richmond: Failure to appear, 7:12 p.m.
Dustin M. Voiles, 28, first block of North Sixth Street, Hamilton, Ohio: Hold for other jurisdiction, 4:08 a.m.
Christopher R. Wells, 34, 200 block of North 13th Street, Richmond: Theft (Level 6 felony) and fraud (Level 6 felony), 1:30 p.m.
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Estate Contests & Litigation
Juvenile Law & Administrative Hearings
On behalf of Pedder, Hesseltine, Walker & Toth, LLP | Jan 28, 2016 | Firm News
Baby Doe was born out of wedlock. Baby had severe birth defects, allegedly caused by improper birthing procedures by the physicians and hospital involved. The mother brought a lawsuit and received a substantial sum. The moneys were placed in a Special Needs Trust with a bank trustee. The child lived five years in the custody of the mother and then passed away. With the balance of the Special Needs Trust, the baby left a large estate. The mother claimed 100%. The father, our client, claimed 50%.
The law on the subject is Probate Code §6452 “out of wedlock birth”. If a child is born out of wedlock, neither a natural parent nor a relative of that parent inherits from or through the child on the basis of the parent and child relationship between that parent and the child unless both of the following requirements are satisfied:
[a] The parent or a relative of the parent acknowledged the child.
[b] The parent or a relative of the parent contributed to the support or the care of the child.
In this case the mother qualified under both [a] and [b]. The mother claimed the entire inheritance. The father qualified under paragraph [a] but [b] was a question.
The father acknowledged paternity qualifying under [a] after the blood test conclusively proved his paternity. He acknowledged to all that the child was his. The problem was under [b], did the father provide “support or care” to the child.
The father claimed that he had paid cash for child support [no receipts] to the mother. The mother denied it.
The father said he was not allowed to see the child, but brought gifts for the child and promised to pay support arrearage to the County for the child, and further that his mother had babysat the child one time. He said he offered to pay for the funeral but that was rejected by the mother. What are your thoughts on father’s chances?
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Pelican Introduces The 1740 and 1770 Long Cases
Torrance, CA · September 03, 2009
To meet the demand for long, deep and versatile shipping cases, Pelican™ Products, Inc., has introduced the 1740 and 1770 Long Cases.
For easy one-person transport, the 1740 comes standard with several mobile-friendly features including two rugged double-wide handles for easy steering and team lifting. Wide-track, polyurethane wheels (for stable mobility) with ball bearings and nylon hubs ensure extended towing durability. Designed to either be moved manually or stacked on pallets, the 1740 features four extra-deep base-to-lid locking cleats that ensure maximum stacking stability.
Built for longer equipment and weapons such as .50 caliber guns and survey drill kits, the 1770 Long Case is Pelican’s longest case to date with a length of 54.58”. It features the same transit friendly attributes as the 1740. With more than 6,600 (1740) and 7,300 (1770) cubic inches of usable storage space and an infinite number of internal storage possibilities, both casesfeature an open cell core, polymer wall construction engineered to protect sensitive equipment from some of the harshest conditions on Earth.
Additional standard features include a lid equipped with a polymer o-ring for a dust and water tight seal and six dual action latches that have been tested to withstand nearly 400 pounds of pulling force (but open with a light pull). Genuine Pelican Protector™ Cases can always be spotted by their distinctive, trademarked “Dual Band” design.
Due to their large internal volumes both casesfeature dual integrated automatic pressure equalization valves that keep moisture out and prevent vacuum lock so they’re easy to open at any altitude.
The 1740 Long Case (with manually customizable Pick N Pluck™ foam) and the 1770 Long Case (with manually customizable Pick N Pluck™ foam) are available in black and desert tan. OD Green is available by request.
Both are backed by the Pelican Products legendary lifetime guarantee of excellence.
Pelican Products, Inc. is a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco.
Pelican Products, Inc. is the global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance protective cases, temperature controlled packaging solutions, advanced portable lighting systems and rugged gear for professionals and outdoor enthusiasts. Their products are used by professionals in the most demanding markets including fire safety, law enforcement, defense / military, aerospace, entertainment, industrial and consumer. Pelican™ products are designed and built to last a lifetime. The company operates in 21 countries, with 22 international sales offices and six manufacturing facilities around the globe. In Europe, the company does business under the name Peli Products, S.L.U. For more information, visit www.pelican.com or www.behrmancap.com.
All trademarks and logos displayed herein are registered and unregistered trademarks of Pelican Products, Inc.
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Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where we attended as usual the Duke of York and there was by the folly of Sir W. Batten prevented in obtaining a bargain for Captain Cocke, which would, I think have [been] at this time (during our great want of hempe), both profitable to the King and of good convenience to me; but I matter it not, it being done only by the folly, not any design, of Sir W. Batten’s. Thence to Westminster Hall, and, it being fast day, there was no shops open, but meeting with Doll Lane, did go with her to the Rose taverne, and there drank and played with her a good while. She went away, and I staid a good while after, and was seen going out by one of our neighbours near the office and two of the Hall people that I had no mind to have been seen by, but there was no hurt in it nor can be alledged from it. Therefore I am not solicitous in it, but took coach and called at Faythorne’s, to buy some prints for my wife to draw by this winter, and here did see my Lady Castlemayne’s picture, done by him from Lilly’s, in red chalke and other colours, by which he hath cut it in copper to be printed. The picture in chalke is the finest thing I ever saw in my life, I think; and did desire to buy it; but he says he must keep it awhile to correct his copper-plate by, and when that is done he will sell it me.
Thence home and find my wife gone out with my brother to see her brother. I to dinner and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office (it being a fast day and so a holiday), and then to Mrs. Turner’s, at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas Harvy’s coming to lodge there, which I think must be submitted to, and better now than hereafter, when he gets more ground, for I perceive he intends to stay by it, and begins to crow mightily upon his late being at the payment of tickets; but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy. Thence home, and there find Mr. Batelier come to bring my wife a very fine puppy of his mother’s spaniel, a very fine one indeed, which my wife is mighty proud of. He staid and supped with us, and they to cards. I to my chamber to do some business, and then out to them to play and were a little merry, and then to bed.
By the Duke of York his discourse to-day in his chamber, they have it at Court, as well as we here, that a fatal day is to be expected shortly, of some great mischiefe to the remainder of this day; whether by the Papists, or what, they are not certain. But the day is disputed; some say next Friday, others a day sooner, others later, and I hope all will prove a foolery. But it is observable how every body’s fears are busy at this time.
Tue 6 Nov 1666
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Terry Foreman on 7 Nov 2009 • Link
The Royal Society today at Gresham College — from the Hooke Folio Online
Nouemb: 7. 1666. (Persalls paper about a Loadstone Rock in anglesey). English Loadstone by mr Stroud out of Deuonshire)
Bishop Braybrooks corps [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Braybrooke ] ) Croon a like story.) Moray a like at the Couse) Oldenburg Colwall, churchyards of Innocents at paris consuming bodys in 24 howres)
Directions for seamen printed & recommended to trinity house)
[ http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/10531/ ]
mr. Hooke was orderd (vpon the suggestion of taking vp earths from the bottom of the sea) to think vpon & prouide an easy Instrument for that Purpose (.
The Inclining pendulum being againe spoken of it was orderd that it should by mr Hooke be fitted against the next meeting for all Inclinations to bring it at Last to Rest.
Dr. Pope to speake to Sr Tho: Bloodworth for a room on Election Day
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/cell/Hooke/hooke_folio.…
The Royal Society's projects
Navigation (loadstones, directions for seamen, penduluns)
Rebuilding London (soils resources)
CGS on 8 Nov 2009 • Link
nice phrase, from the Anglias:
"god did in Mrs Eldred"
Michael Robinson on 8 Nov 2009 • Link
" ... my Lady Castlemayne’s picture, done by him from Lilly’s, .... which he hath cut it in copper to be printed. ..."
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland
by William Faithorne, after Sir Peter Lely
line engraving, 1666. 14 in. x 11 in. (356 mm x 280 mm) plate size;
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait…
" ... there find Mr. Batelier come to bring my wife a very fine puppy of his mother’s spaniel, a very fine one indeed, which my wife is mighty proud of. "
The puppy's shandean conception:
" ... to my Lady Pooly’s, where my wife was with Mr. Batelier and his sisters, and there I found a noble supper, and every thing exceeding pleasant, and their mother, Mrs. Batelier, a fine woman, but mighty passionate upon sudden news brought her of the loss of a dog borrowed of the Duke of Albemarle’s son to line a bitch of hers that is very pretty, but the dog was by and by found, and so all well again, ..."
A. De Araujo on 8 Nov 2009 • Link
"But is observable how every body's fears are busy at this time"
Like post 9/11!
JWB on 8 Nov 2009 • Link
Bishop Braybrooks corps:
"Bishop Braybrooke died in the year 14Q4 (his
epitaph says 1405), and he was buried in the Ladye
Chapel of his cathedral, under "a faire marble
stone inlaide with letters made every one of a
several piece of brasse. " Two-and-a-half centuries
after his burial the cathedral was destroyed in
the great fire of London, and on the removal of
the rubbish for the rebuilding the tomb was
found open, with the slab broken. " The body,"
as Camden states, " was found entire, the skin
still inclosing the bones and fleshy parts ; only in
the breast there was a hole (made, I suppose, by
accident) through which one might view and
handle his lungs. The skin was of deep tawny
colour and the body very light, as appeared to
all who came to view and touch it, it being
exposed in a coffin for some time without any
offensive smell : and then reinterred." p 260, "Bygone London", Frederick Ross, 1892
http://www.archive.org/stream/bygonelondon00rossi…
"The distinguishing characteristic of Braybrooke's
career was his unrelenting persecution of the
Lollards. It was enacted, 5 Richard II., that
any person preaching against the Catholic Faith
should be imprisoned until he could "justify
himself;" and 2 Henry IV. that all persons
" suspected " of heresy should be imprisoned until
they were " canonically purged," or until they
abjured their errors, and that if they persisted in
their heresy they should be delivered to the
secular arm and " burnt to death before the
people." Ibid,p259
Sam had fun playing then he bought a guilt ridden nick nack.
Mandate of Robert Braybrooke, 28 June 1391
"Robert, by Divine permission Bishop of London, sends greetings, gramercy [gram'] and blessings to all his rectors, vicars and curates whosoever, wherever established within our jurisdiction through our City of London. We declare that it has been laid down by the sacred canons that it is proper for all loyal Christians to be held and effectively constrained to keep holy Sundays and the principal festivals of our Christ Jesus and his most glorious mother the chaste virgin, the apostles and sacred martyrs whose vigils are observed as fasts according to the instruction and advice of the church of England, and to abstain from their tasks and duties and to hear mass and the divine offices in their parish churches and to serve God constantly....." [details by trade follow]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?comp…
What we in the colonies call a "Blue law"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law
ticea on 8 Nov 2009 • Link
I grew up with "Blue Law" restrictions in New Jersey and always found them faintly ridiculous. The supermarkets would be forced to relegate restricted (i.e., "non-essential" items) to certain aisles, then block them off with a chain and a sign saying "No Sunday Sales - Blue Law". As a child with two working parents, we'd usually end up doing the weekly shopping on Saturdays - but I always wondered about Jews who observe the Sabbath (Saturday) - did they have to make an extra shopping trip to buy cotton swabs and the like?
I lived in Connecticut for several years, where Jewish markets closed on Saturday when others were open, and vice-versa on Sunday: there were always grocery-stores open, making a mockery of the Blue Laws.
Robert Gertz on 9 Nov 2009 • Link
Georgia still has hers to a certain eroding extent...
I wonder how Bess liked the idea of Castlemaine hanging in her parlor...Or Sam's study.
Gimme that old time repression. Just one Sunday without leaf-blowers.
Michael Robinson on 20 Nov 2009 • Link
" ... it being fast day, there was no shops open, ..."
Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.
A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margarets Westminster, Nov. 7 being the fast-day appointed for the plague of pestilence. By Richard Perrinchief, D.D.
London : printed by E. T[yler]. for Richard Royston, bookseller to the Kings most Excellent Majesty in St. Bartholomews Hospital, 1666.
4to., [4], 59, [1] p. The first leaf verso, [A]1v., reads: "Jovis, octavo die Novembris, 1666. Ordered, that the thanks of this house be returned to Doctor Perrinchief; and Doctor Sandcroft, Dean of St. Pauls; for the sermons by them preached...with the desire of the house to each of the to print their sermons. Will. Goldisbrough, Cler. Dom. Com."
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), P1606
O.T., Leviticus XXVI, 18.
Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.
A sermon preached before the peers, in the Abby Church at Westminster, November 7. 1666. Being a day of solemn humiliation for the continuing pestilence. By Edward Lord Bishop of Norwich.
London : printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for John Durham, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain, 1666.
4to.; [4], 50 p. ; Order-to-print on leaf [A]1v: Die Jovis 8⁰ Novembris, 1666. Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the thanks of this House be given to the Lord Bishop of Norwich, ... and that his Lordship be, and is hereby desired to print and publish his said sermon. Jo. Browne Cleric. Parliamentorum.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R1281
N.T., Philippians IV, 5.
"to Mrs. Turner’s, at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas Harvy’s coming to lodge there" [instead of the Turners]
L&M: Harvey's plan to live there dated back over a year: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1665/02/15/ But in the event Brouncker took the lodgings: http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1667/02/10/
"some great mischiefe to the remainder of this day; whether by the Papists, or what, they are not certain."
L&M: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/11/10/ and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/11/10/?c=54…
Terry Foreman on 28 Apr 2019 • Link
L&M: Faithorne's drawing, and the engraving for which it was made, were basd on the portrait by Lely of which a version had been given to Lord Sandwich:
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/07/11/
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/07/10/ and https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/07/10/#c158…
Marquess on 8 Oct 2019 • Link
Doll Lane, what a name! At first I thought it must have been a wind up.
San Diego Sarah on 7 Nov 2019 • Link
Pepys is trying to earn his hemp commission:
"Then out to the ‘Change to speak with Captain [Cocke], who tells me my silver plates are ready for me, and shall be sent me speedily; and proposes another proposition of serving us with a thousand tons of hemp, and tells me it shall bring me 500l., if the bargain go forward, which is a good word."
L&M: Cocke is promising hemp futures WAY beyond his ability to deliver, and refers us to 27 July, 1666 http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1666/07/27/ etc.
L&M: Cocke was asking an inflated price of £57 per ton for this, making the whole deal worth £57,000.
Diary of Ralph Josselin
All diary entries from November 1666
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Gothic castles, rococo churches and art nouveau theatres, Hungary’s sights are an architectural marvel.
Hungary is where the Danube River flows beneath the nation’s capital, reflecting the imposing neo-gothic façade of Parliament. It’s where the hilltop Royal Palace and the Matthais Church compete for sightseers’ awe, and where streets are studded with Turkish baths. No other city on earth boasts this pastiche of art and architecture. But inside the old-world buildings of Budapest, a contemporary scene of art and culture thrives.
Hungary travel highlights
Heal in the Széchenyi Baths of Budapest
Budapest's slew of natural springs were turned into luxurious Turkish baths as early as the 16th and 17th century. Szechenyi is the largest and most beautiful of these, and said to have healing properties.
Visit the Museum of Fine Art in Budapest
Here you’ll see a collection of art superstars from Goya to Gauguin, El Greco to Monet.
Stroll through Statue Park
This park has been filled with the monuments remaining from Hungary’s soviet era. See Lenin, Stalin and other communist icons at their most benign.
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Local culture of Hungary
Hungary has an interesting blend of folk traditions and high culture. Villagers and urbanites still practice aspects of their folk culture like traditional dance, music and crafts such as embroidery, pottery and carvings. At the same time, Hungary has a sophisticated history involving the avant-garde arts and literature. About half the population is Christian, predominately Roman Catholic, but many are non-practicing except at important events such as weddings, baptisms and funerals.
Hungary is a Central European country bordered by Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. Although it’s a landlocked country, Hungary is intersected by the famous Danube River, the Tisza, and hundreds of smaller rivers and lakes. Most of Hungary is flat and the countryside is covered in vineyards, orchids and farms. Near the border with Austria, Hungary has some mountainous ranges, and about a fifth of the country is covered in forest.
Shopping guide to Hungary
Shoppers in Hungary will love everything from the folk art souvenirs to the high-end designer fashion. You’ll find items typical of Hungarian folk traditions such as embroidered clothing and pillowcases, dolls and ornate floral porcelain. For a lavish European shopping experience, try Vaci Street and Andrassy Avenue, where you’ll find the likes of Armani, Cavalli and Vuitton. Hungarian wine is celebrated as some of the best in all of Europe, so be sure to bring a bottle back with you.
Hungary festival calendar
The Danube Carnival
Hundreds of people fill Vorosmarty Square for this vibrant culture and arts festival in Budapest. The parade involves folk music and dance not just from Hungary but from greater Europe. The celebrations last for 10 days, during which time there are street acts, concerts and parties aplenty.
Budapest Christmas Fair and Festival
Celebrate a white Christmas like no other in Hungary. Locals fill advent with carols, parades and craft making. They also make special traditional dishes for the holiday.
Budapest International Circus Festival
For five days a year, Budapest becomes the world capital for the circus. With too many performances to view in a single season, acts involve all the circus favourites like clowns, fire-eaters, trapeze artists and more.
Food & drink in Hungary
All Hungary trips should include an authentic local dining experience. Hungarians take great pride in their cuisine, citing theirs as among the top three next to French and Chinese. Main elements of any Hungarian cooking are hearty soups, meat dishes and distinctive use of paprika. While goulash is one of the most iconic Hungarian dishes, few outsiders realize how many variations there are from region to region. Other notable dishes include stuffed cabbage, Hungarian pasta and turogomboc or cottage cheese dumplings.
Embers by Sándor Márai,
The Tree That Reached the Sky: Hungarian Folktales by Elek Benedek
The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat by Paul Lendvai
Grappling with National Identity: How Nations See Each Other in Central Europe by Gyorgy Csepeli
The Dream Thief (Drakon #2) by Shana Abe
Hungary travel FAQs
What nationalities need a visa for Hungary?
Hungary is part of the Schengen Area for travel and visa purposes. The following nationals have visa-free access to Hungary:
Nationals of EU member states
Is tipping in Hungary customary?
Tipping is common practice in Hungary. Add about 10% to your bill at restaurants and for services like taxis and porters.
Can I access the internet in Hungary?
Hungary has good internet service except in some rural and remote areas. You’ll find plenty of Wi-Fi hotspots and internet cafes around the cities and towns.
Will my cell phone/mobile work in Hungary?
Mobile phone service is good in Hungary except in some rural and remote parts of the country. Remember to activate global roaming with your provider if you wish to use your mobile while traveling.
What are the toilets in Hungary like?
Hungary has Western-style flush toilets. Public toilets are hard to come by and usually charge a small fee to use. Soap and toilet paper aren’t always provided so you may like to carry some with you.
How much do things cost in Hungary?
Slice of cake in a cafe = 300-400 HUF
Public transport ticket = 320 HUF
Bottle of local beer = 600 HUF
Bowl of hearty soup = 600 HUF
Simple fast food meal = 1,000-1,500 HUF
Three-course meal in a restaurant = 3000-10,000 HUF
Is water in Hungary drinkable?
Drinking tap water is considered safe unless otherwise stated. For environmental reasons, avoid buying bottled water and bring a bottle or canteen with you.
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You should always be polite to an officer. Being rude, offensive or belligerent to an officer will not help your cause. Additionally, the officer will perceive this kind of behavior as evidence that you were DUI.
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I have never had an officer say that my client did “pass” the field sobriety tests. When an officer gives you field sobriety tests, whatever they are, they are looking for “clues” that you failed to perform the tests properly. Officers always find these clues. Every time. Even when you are not DUI.
True story: I represented a client who was stopped by an officer because she was “swerving” in traffic. The officer thought she was DUI. She had consumed ONE drink, hours before the stop, and she had then eaten a full meal. He asked her to do the field sobriety tests, and she did. She thought she performed all of the tests extremely well, but the officer found that she failed every test! He put her in handcuffs and took her to the station. At the station, the officer requested she take a breath test. She initially refused, as she had no confidence in the results given that she felt that she had been wrongfully arrested. A short while later, after much deliberation, she told the officer that she would take the breath test. She did take the test and blew .02, or 75% UNDER THE LEGAL LIMIT. She was not charged with DUI, but was charged with improper lane useage! I had the charges dismissed. The main point of this tragic story is that although she was extremely sober, the officer had found that my client failed every field sobriety test. That is why I advise my clients that in most cases, they should not agree to perform any field sobriety tests.
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Fourth Circuit Extends CWA Liability to Cover a Wholly Past Pipeline Spill
By Nash E. Long & Kate Perkins on May 22, 2018
Posted in Environmental, Judicial/ Administrative Decisions
Last month, in Upstate Forever v. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., 887 F.3d 637 (4th Cir. 2018), a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by citizen environmental groups regarding a 2014 pipeline leak.
In a decision issued on April 12, 2018, the panel held (2-1) that (1) even though the leak has been repaired and remediation is ongoing under the supervision of the state environmental agency, plaintiffs have standing to sue, and (2) plaintiffs’ allegation that groundwater continues to carry discharged pollutants to jurisdictional waters through a “direct hydrological connection” supports liability under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
As industry members and several state attorneys general explained in amicus briefs, this ruling allows citizen groups to second-guess remedial strategies employed by state environmental agencies and expands the CWA’s regulatory reach beyond the text of the statute and congressional intent.
Factual and Legal Background
In December 2014, the Plantation Pipe Line—a 3,100-mile pipeline network running from Louisiana to Washington, DC—began to leak in Anderson County, South Carolina, and discharged gasoline and petroleum products below ground into the soil. The leak was repaired within a matter of days. Remediation efforts began promptly and continue today under the supervision of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). But in December 2016, environmental groups sued the pipeline owners under the CWA. These groups claim that the state-supervised remediation effort is inadequate and insufficient to abate the migration of pollutants through groundwater from the spill site into nearby Browns Creek and Cupboard Creek.
Under the CWA, citizens have standing to sue for injunctive relief and statutory penalties if they adequately allege an ongoing violation that the agency charged with enforcing the CWA has failed to remedy. The Supreme Court has held that the statutory text does not provide federal courts with subject matter jurisdiction to hear citizen suits regarding wholly past CWA violations. The Supreme Court reasoned that allowing citizens to sue for wholly past violations would be inconsistent with the supplementary role the citizen suit is intended to play in CWA enforcement.
The CWA prohibits pollution that is conveyed from a “point source” to navigable waters, unless the discharge has been authorized by a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. As detailed in 33 U.S.C. § 1362(14), a “point source” is “any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance,” including pipes, ditches, channels and tunnels. Regardless of the origin of the pollutant, the CWA prohibits discharges from point sources without a permit where pollutants enter navigable waters via a discernible, confined and discrete conveyance.
In contrast, courts have long recognized that the CWA does not regulate nonpoint source pollution. Congress instead assigned that responsibility to the states. Nonpoint sources are not “discernible, confined and discrete.” As the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated, “nonpoint source pollution… generally results from land runoff, precipitation, atmospheric deposition, or percolation.” In the 1970s, despite being aware that pollutants in groundwater enter navigable waters, the House and Senate rejected EPA’s request to extend the CWA’s reach and grant EPA authority to regulate groundwater.
The Ruling
The majority found that “the fact that a ruptured pipeline has been repaired, of itself, does not render the CWA violation wholly past”— even though the pipeline in question has not leaked since 2014. “The CWA’s language does not require that the point source continue to release a pollutant for a violation to be ongoing. The CWA requires only that there be an ongoing ‘addition… to navigable waters,’ regardless whether a defendant’s conduct causing the violation is ongoing.” Although the Second and Fifth Circuits have both held that past discharges with continuing effects on groundwater cannot confer CWA citizen-suit jurisdiction, the majority rejected those cases as factually distinguishable and found that the plaintiffs have standing to sue.
As to the district court’s ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to state a claim, the majority reasoned that, for liability under the CWA, the “starting point need not also convey the discharge directly to navigable waters.” All that is needed, the majority continued, is a “direct hydrological connection” via groundwater from the discharge to navigable waters. Plaintiffs alleged a cognizable violation of the CWA, the majority reasoned, because they alleged a connection between the point source and navigable waters, as well as a “traceable discharge.”
The majority relied on the recent Ninth Circuit decision in Hawaii Wildlife Fund et al. v. County of Maui. There, the court held that processed water that seeps from an underground injection well and then migrates to navigable waters through groundwater is subject to CWA NPDES permitting. The majority found “no merit” in the defendants’ concern that the holding “will result in unintended coverage under the CWA of any discharge of a pollutant into ground water.”
The majority acknowledged that existence of a “direct hydrological connection” is a fact-specific inquiry, but provided little workable guidance on what constitutes “direct.” The ruling therefore adds to the already complicated and uncertain CWA regulatory landscape. In practice, the petroleum pipeline in this case is indistinguishable from other critical infrastructure from which pollutants may seep into soil and groundwater, including groundwater recharge systems, green infrastructure, treatment ponds and landfills. Public water supply pipelines, recycled water pipelines and sanitary sewer pipelines could also affect groundwater as a result of age or episodic failures. And household septic tanks, used by 22.2 million American homes, typically release pollutants into soil and groundwater. Under the majority’s ruling, owners of all of these types of infrastructure could be subject to CWA regulation if the groundwater surrounding them is hydrologically connected to navigable waters.
Making the hydrologic and geologic determinations necessary to apply for NPDES permits to cover potential seeps to groundwater—and then implementing that permit program—will strain industry and homeowner resources. Meanwhile, state agencies that enforce the CWA will face immense administrative burdens in developing and issuing NPDES permits for so many previously-unregulated sources, likely to the detriment of other state and federal groundwater regulatory programs. Due to the nature of groundwater, it may often be infeasible or even impossible to make the determinations necessary to issue a permit. This could thwart the construction of important private and public infrastructure.
As amici argued, and Judge Floyd noted in dissent, allowing a citizen suit to proceed under the “direct hydrological connection” theory is not necessary to protect navigable waters. Indeed, the CWA places primary enforcement responsibility with the state governments. Accordingly, SCDHEC directed the pipeline owner to determine the impact of the spill and implement corrective action plans and continues to oversee that process today. And other federal environmental protection laws, such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, provide citizen-suit jurisdiction for effectuating cleanup of groundwater contamination. State law also addresses accidental spills; South Carolina law, for example, makes polluters liable for money damages and broadly authorizes SCDHEC to mandate and oversee remediation.
On April 26, 2018, Kinder Morgan filed a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc. That petition was supported by several amici, including local government organizations and a broad range of industry interests. Should the decision stand, it would potentially expand the scope of liability under the CWA for pipeline operators in two ways: First, it would expand liability under § 402 of the CWA to the migration of pollutants to groundwater if the groundwater at some point conveys those pollutants to navigable waters. Second, citizen suits under the CWA may be brought only for ongoing violations. Even if the conduct at issue is long past—the spill has been stopped and the discharge ceased—under this ruling a citizen suit may still be brought if the migration of groundwater continues and that migration later carries pollutants into navigable waters. The implications for state environmental agencies are also significant. The plaintiffs in Kinder Morgan explicitly seek to have the federal court second-guess the remedial plans the state environmental agency adopted to address the pipeline spill. Under this ruling, the forum for making these complex remedial decisions may shift from the expert agencies to federal court.
Tags: Clean Water Act, CWA, Fourth Circuit, Groundwater, Point Source Discharge, standing
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Break away without breaking the bank: Top camping and caravanning trends for 2012
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Holidaying at home is more popular than ever, with spend on domestic camping and caravan trips up 11%1 in 2011. As purse strings tighten, Pitchup.com presents a round up of holiday trends for 2012 that won’t break the bank - Brits spend an average of only £1492 during their caravan or camping breaks.
A vast array of alternative accommodation options is now available, and glamping remains all the rage for a luxurious, inexpensive get away in 2012. No-frills campsites, offering a more self-sufficient style of holiday, are also enjoying a revival.
One in three UK residents reports having been on a camping or caravanning holiday in the last three years, according to 2011 research by Mintel3 - a significant increase from February 2009, when one in five had done so.
Shorter, closer, later is set to be the booking trend for this year, as people trade the set-piece fortnight away for a series of more casual short breaks. In 2011, 44% of bookings on Pitchup.com were for within one week of departure, with an average stay of three nights and many within one to two hours of home.
There has been a 50% increase in 'glamping' sites listed on Pitchup.com in 2011. Camping pods offer affordable glamping from £30 per night - with their sheep's wool insulation and double glazing, these cosy 'wooden tents' were spectacularly successful in 2011. Try The Quiet Site in the Lake District. The site's facilities are housed in old converted farm buildings, including a fantastic seventeenth century barn, housing the cosy Quiet Bar. Pods sleeping up to four people are priced from £35 per pod per night.
In 2011 green campsites were among the most popular, as Pitchup.com saw an increase in searches for eco-friendly campsites all over Britain and Ireland. With travel abroad down 20%4 in the last three years, the environment is already benefiting from the rise in domestic tourism: Pitchup.com estimates that, compared to a holiday in the Med, travel to a typical camping or caravan site generates 95% less CO2 and takes 61% less time5.
British destinations are pushing their green credentials – check out Buzzards Bridge in Cornwall where fuel is provided by willow grown on site, the off-grid electricity supply is powered by solar energy and the toilet is a “tree bog”, high up in the willows. Trundle your luggage to your pitch courtesy of the site's wheelbarrows and stay from £20 per night per pitch. Bell tents sleeping up to four adults cost from £30 per night.
Pitchup.com has seen a sharp rise in the number of adult-only trips. Between 2006 and 2010 the number of domestic camping and caravan trips in England taken without children rose from 44% to 50%6, and Pitchup.com now lists over 200 adult-only sites. Longnor Wood Holiday Park in Derbyshire is surrounded by woodland and farmland in the heart of the Peak District. This four-star park is dog friendly and near the charming village of Longnor - once a market centre for the region, and now home to four pubs and a dolls' hospital – as well as numerous villages, markets and stately homes in the area. Pitches are priced from £8 per night.
The allure of traditional camping remains strong and no-frills camping is holding its own against glamping and eco-chic camping options. In a recent poll by Pitchup.com, 49% of respondents preferred traditional tent camping7. Redlands Farm in Dorset makes for the ideal traditional family camping adventure. Offering back-to-basics camping at its best, the site is set only six miles from the Olympic sailing event at Portland, with a well-stocked farm shop and a tea room serving a cracking fry-up. Pitches priced from £12.50 per night for up to four people.
1 January – September 2010-11; includes static caravans, motorhomes, campervans, touring caravans and camping. Source: GB Tourism Survey (GBTS)
2 Pitchup.com estimate based on 2010 UK Tourism Survey (UKTS) and 2011 GBTS data. Relates to all expenditure during trip including accommodation, eating and drinking out and transport. Average domestic camping and caravan trip length = 4.3 nights (source: UKTS)
3 'Camping and Caravanning – UK' report, April 2011, Mintel
4 Holiday trips by UK residents 2008-11e. Source: International Passenger Survey (December 2011 Pitchup.com estimate)
5 Pitchup.com analysis based on trips from London to Norfolk compared to London to Malaga. Source: Pitchup.com estimates and research, JPMorgan ClimateCare
6 Source: GBTS
7 Polls for this survey were carried out in summer 2011 on the Pitchup.com Facebook Fanpage and there were 1,162 responses
Winner of the Travel Journalists’ Award for Best UK Travel Website of the Year at the British Travel Press Awards 2011 and Best Travel Information Site at the 2010 Travolution awards, Pitchup.com is the most comprehensive website in the camping and caravanning sector. Launched in July 2009, the site features 5,000 campsites and holiday parks in the UK and Ireland, including many in hard-to-find locations. The website enables users to search and book using more than 80 search criteria to fine-tune their holiday requirements, and features mapping technology to make getting there simple too. The site also lists accommodation near nine National Parks, hundreds of beaches, 17 World Heritage Sites and the main UK festivals and can view nearby Good Pub Guide pubs, National Trust properties and National Cycle Network routes. Website owners can also add custom Pitchup.com listings to their site.
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Jason Davis • September 6, 2018
Orion's third flight will haul two pieces of a space station to lunar orbit
NASA says astronauts will haul two pieces of a small space station to lunar orbit in 2024, during the second crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft.
Plans for the station, which is now referred to as the Gateway, have been shaping up since 2017. The Gateway, Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule represent the core of NASA's plans to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars. The Gateway is designed to host astronauts for short-term stays, serve as a waypoint for crewed surface missions and receive samples robotically collected from both the Moon and Mars.
The first piece of the Gateway is a power and propulsion module, scheduled to launch on a commercial rocket in 2022. The first crewed Orion mission, a lap around the Moon that will not stop in orbit, is scheduled a year later, in 2023. Then, in 2024, another Orion crew will fly to lunar orbit and visit the power and propulsion module, with two more pieces of the Gateway in tow.
"NASA plans to deliver two modules on the third integrated flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, targeted for 2024," said Kathyrn Hambleton, a NASA public affairs officer, in an email.
She also confirmed the mission will mark the debut of a new SLS upper stage and launch from a second, yet-to-be-built mobile launch platform.
Lunar Gateway artist's concept (Feb. 2019)
From left: Orion spacecraft, Mutli-purpose Module with airlock, U.S. Habitation Module, International Habitation Module, U.S. Utilization Module, ESPRIT, Power and Propulsion Element.
One of the two modules Orion will deliver in 2024 mission is ESPRIT, which stands for European System Providing Refueling Infrastructure and Telecommunications. As the name implies, ESA is the likely provider, though a formal agreement with NASA has not been announced.
ESPRIT, according to Hambleton, includes a science airlock, fuel storage, refueling capabilities for the power and propulsion module, additional communications equipment, and external payload stowage. The science airlock seems to be separate from an airlock that would be used to receive Moon and Mars samples set to be shipped back to Earth aboard Orion.
The second Gateway piece Orion will deliver is a U.S.-built utilization module that will provide extra space and consumables for visiting astronauts, as well as "external robotic interfaces" — presumably, a modified version of the beloved Canadarm.
Blasting Orion and both modules into space all at once will require SLS with its new Exploration Upper Stage. (Up to three initial SLS flights will use an interim upper stage.) Since the new upper stage is taller and has different interfaces, it will require use of a second, yet-to-be-built mobile launcher authorized by Congress earlier this year.
Getting all this ready in six years will be very, very difficult. Somewhere amid these lunar activities, NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper as early as 2023 — meaning there could be two SLS flights in one year.
The budget is tight, too: The White House proposed $504 million for the Gateway in 2019, and $2.7 billion over the next 5 years. That seems like a sizable amount of money until you consider it has to cover two or three new human spaceflight modules. (ESPRIT could be provided as some sort of bartering arrangement with ESA.)
As currently envisioned, the 2024 Orion mission would last 30 days from launch to splashdown, with half of that time spent at the Gateway.
Tight timelines
Exploration Mission 1 SLS Block 1 / Orion 2020
Gateway power and propulsion module Commercial rocket 2022
Europa Clipper SLS Block 1 2023
Exploration Mission 3 SLS Block 1B / Orion 2024
The Gateway will start out in a multi-day, elliptical orbit roughly perpendicular to the direction back to Earth. This will keep it out of the Moon's shadow and in constant contact with mission control. It also optimizes the Gateway for the south pole, where water ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters could provide resources and scientific targets for future astronauts. NASA confirmed this means the long part of the Gateway’s elliptical orbit would be beneath the Moon, visible to the south pole for the majority of an orbit.
The Gateway's power and propulsion module, or PPE, launches in 2022 aboard a commercial rocket. It uses solar-electric propulsion, or SEP, an alternative to chemical propulsion that trades short-term punch for long, sustained acceleration. This will enable it to move between lunar orbits that support a variety of missions, including a low, 2-hour orbit similar to what the Apollo astronauts used.
The final call for PPE proposals is scheduled to go out on Thursday, with an award to come as soon as March 2019. That will leave just three years to build the PPE in time for a 2022 launch — another difficult deadline.
SEP is a proven technology thanks to NASA's highly successful Dawn mission, and communications satellites use SEP for station-keeping in Earth orbit. But the PPE is hardly an off-the-shelf module. It will have a 50-kilowatt-class propulsion system — an order of magnitude more powerful than SEP systems in use today.
NASA / Jamie Peer
SLS Mobile Launcher at pad 39B
The Space Launch System’s mobile launcher sits atop pad 39B during a test rollout on Aug. 31, 2018.
Right now, NASA's biggest short-term challenge is simply getting Orion and SLS up and running.
The Orion capsules for both Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), an uncrewed 2020 lunar test flight, and EM-2, the crewed 2023 flight, are at Kennedy Space Center. Technicians installed the EM-1 heat shield in July — an important milestone because it can't be bolted in place until access is no longer needed to certain parts of the spacecraft.
The EM-1 Orion service module, which is being furnished by ESA, is still in Germany, but it's supposed to ship to Florida this month. The crew capsule and service module are scheduled to be mated in March 2019 and sent to Plum Brook Station in Ohio for testing.
The EM-2 Orion is still a shell — but a completed one, which is still a step worth noting. Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana recently finished all seven welds that make up the pressure vessel before shipping it to KSC. The next step is installing some additional aluminum and titanium structural components.
Another upcoming Orion milestone is an in-flight abort test scheduled for April 2019. For that, a generic Orion capsule will blast off from Cape Canaveral atop the first stage of a retired Peacekeeper missile. Fifty-five seconds into flight, Orion's launch abort system will fire, pulling the capsule away from the missile. After the abort motor finishes firing and detaches, Orion will eject its data recorders on parachutes and free-fall into the ocean. Only the data recorders will be recovered, since it’s the performance of the abort system that’s being tested.
Meanwhile, the first SLS continues to come together at Michoud. NASA presentations show the liquid oxygen tank and intertank already have their spray-on foam applied, while the gigantic liquid hydrogen tank is primed and ready for foam, judging by a picture taken last month.
And last but not least, the ground systems team at KSC marked a big milestone last week when it rolled the modified SLS mobile launcher out to pad 39B for the very first time. It will spend several days undergoing fit checks at the pad before heading back to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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Messy: 2018/09/09 02:42 CDT
We are approaching the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8. Which went into lunar orbit, did ten laps, and then came home safe and sound. Now, five years hence, we will not be able to do even THAT? The abort test seems a bit of a waste. Why not have the parachutes? They did it before when they last launched the damn thing FOUR YEARS AGO. Jeez!!!! IT took NASA less than two years between the Apollo 1 fire and the triumph of Apollo 8. Heck, it took slightly more between the first launch of an Apollo boilerplate (the other Apollo 1) and the manned Apollo 7 mission. Is there going to be an "Apollo 7" for the Orion program? I don't think it will ever fly. The unmanned thing in '14 will be it. Sad.
Whereas Messy points out the trouble of SLS and Orion, my concern is more for the purpose of Gateway. A space station around the Moon is somewhat controversial enough when we don't have a means of accessing the surface yet. Gateway, if pursued, should be given a more exploration-oriented purpose and not created as haphazardly as Space Station Freedom was forcibly downgraded to the ISS. It could be made into something useful and not just a political stunt or white elephant, so I am only 3/4 against it versus 1/4 seeing potential.
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Ridesharing. Carsharing. Bikesharing. In the "shared economy," shared and for-hire vehicle services are on a roll. But what are the rules of the road for these new services? Planning for Shared Mobility offers answers for communities on the move.
This PAS Report, by a pair of UC Berkeley researchers, tracks the path short-term transportation access has taken so far. Authors Adam Cohen and Susan Shaheen look at how shared mobility is shaping — and being shaped by — local plans and policies. The report also shares the tools planners can use to manage mobility, such as zoning, permits, variances, and discretionary review. Profiles of eight cities, from New York to Seattle, show the plans they've put in motion and lessons they've picked up along the way.
Sharing wheels is more than a convenience, the authors argue. It can boost mobility, cut vehicle emissions, and create links between walking, cycling, and transit. Ready to move forward? Read Planning for Shared Mobility to learn what's next — and how to roll out the long-term benefits of short-term transportation access.
Adam Cohen is a shared-mobility researcher at the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley. Since joining the group in 2004, he has focused his research on worldwide carsharing, bikesharing, ridesharing, and emerging technologies. He has coauthored numerous articles and reports on shared mobility in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His academic background is in city and regional planning and international affairs.
Susan Shaheen is an adjunct professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a research engineer with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley. She was the policy and behavioral research program leader at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, a special assistant to the director's office of the California Department of Transportation, and the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, where she served as the endowed chair until 2012.
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Shared Mobility and Planning
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Data Challenges in Understanding Shared Mobility
Impacts of Ridesharing
Impacts of Carsharing
Impacts of Bikesharing
Impacts of Ridesourcing/Transportation Network Companies and Taxi Sharing
Overview: Impacts of Shared Mobility on Planning
Chapter 3. Shared Mobility Policies
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Developing Shared Mobility Policies
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Shared Mobility and Planning Processes
Policy Planning for Shared Mobility
Planning and Policy Making for Shared Mobility
Chapter 5. Supporting Shared Mobility
Becoming Partners of Shared Modes
Allocating Funds for Shared Mobility
Forming Risk-Sharing Partnerships
Giving Developer Incentives for the Inclusion of Shared Mobility
Supplying Access to Public Rights-of-Way
Issuing Requests for Proposals
Incorporating Shared Mobility into Plans and Planning Processes
Addressing Key Public Policy Issues Affecting Shared Mobility
Shared Mobility: Looking Forward
Appendix A. Selected City Profiles of Shared Mobility
Appendix B. Shared Mobility Resources for Planners
Appendix C. Unweighted Aggregate Shift in Public Transit, Shared, and Non-Motorized Modes (Free-Floating One-Way Carsharing)
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Peru's Anti-Corruption Prosecutor interrogates businessmen
18 de noviembre de 2019, 10:47Lima, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) Two of Peru's wealthiest businessmen will be interrogated on Monday, out of 17 summoned by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office to offer statements on their electoral contributions to neoliberal candidate Keiko Fujimori, currently imprisoned and under investigation.
The first respondents will be Dionisio Romero, of the Grupo Crédito, with interests in Bolivia and other countries, and Roque Benavides, mining entrepreneur, former president of the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (CONFIEP) and linked to the neoliberal Aprista Party.
They are called to offer testimony regarding their contributions to a US$2 million fund, to which the Brazilian company Odebrecht contributed US$200,000, for the 2016 Fujimori campaign.
According to sources from the Public Ministry, the defendants must explain how they made each contribution, the source of the money and explain what their companies did individually, issues which the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has investigated, with findings undisclosed to the respondents.
The investigation is part of a larger inquiry on a major asset laundering operation, through the masking the CONFIEP contributions, an individual million-sum contribution from Odebrecht and other suspicious contributions.
CONFIEP former president Ricardo Briceño, who held the position when funds were raised for Fujimori, insisted that this was not a contribution to Keiko Fujimori, but to a campaign in defense of private companies, allegedly threatened by Fujimori's rival and ultimate winner in 2011, Ollanta Humala.
The list of respondents also includes the most important businessman in the country, owner of the Grupo Interbank and the bank of the same name, Carlos Rodriguez Pastor, with interests in many areas, such as the Grupo Crédito.
Likewise, Vito Rodriguez, of Rodriguez Banda group, and the builder associated with Odebrecht, Jose Graña Miro Quesada, are included in another investigation for bribes paid to officials during the government of Alan Garcia (2006-11).
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Students keep audiences up to date at the Port Eliot Festival
English and creative writing and illustration students will work alongside Cornish-based publishing company Guillemot Press
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Audiences at the Port Eliot Festival this summer will be kept up to date with the latest news and views thanks to a project involving students at the University of Plymouth.
English and creative writing and illustration students will work alongside Cornish-based publishing company Guillemot Press to produce a free festival newspaper, the Murmuring Guillemot.
It will include reviews of live performances, interviews with some of the headline acts and updates about events taking place all around the festival site.
From a base within the estate’s walled garden, five BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing students will write the articles featuring in the eight-page publication while five BA (Hons) Illustration students will produce eye-catching images to adorn its pages.
It will be designed and printed on site by Guillemot Press overnight during the three day event and made available to festival goers every morning.
Ben Smith, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, and John Kilburn, Lecturer in Illustration, are coordinating the project for the University. They said:
“This is a fantastic challenge for our students and a chance for them to gain experience of working at a major event. They will have to work to tight deadlines in conjunction with a professional publisher, producing something that they are proud of but which also meets the demands of a public audience. With many of them perhaps considering jobs in journalism or publishing, this is an opportunity get a taste of what their future careers might have in store.”
Dr Luke Thompson, Editor at Guillemot Press, added:
“We love working with young writers and artists, encouraging them to play and think and make new things. And we love messing about with different methods of printing - in this case a risograph. The festival has a wonderful line up and always has a great atmosphere, so with any luck The Murmuring Guillemot will be a lot of fun to make.”
The newspaper is the latest element of the University’s expanding partnership with the festival, with its Faculty of Arts and Humanities being the event’s creative and cultural partner.
The collaboration is coordinated by the University’s Creative Cultivator unit, which exists to nurture and support external engagement, knowledge transfer and collaborations between academia, the creative industries and wider community.
Port Eliot aims to inspire and surprise as it draws an unmatchable collection of artists, musicians, writers, comedians, performers, thinkers, makers, protagonists, agitators and scribblers to one of the most beautiful corners of the country.
This year’s event will run from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 July on the rolling park and woodland of the ancient estate at St Germans, on south-east Cornwall’s Rame Peninsula.
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Creative Cultivator with Plymouth University exists to nurture and deliver engagement and knowledge transfer between academia and the creative industries. It is the creative and innovation partner at the heart of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Web: www.plymouth.ac.uk/creative-cultivator
Tel: +44 1752 585060 / +44 1752 585063
Email: creativecultivator@plymouth.ac.uk
Colin Midson, Associate Director of Port Eliot Festival, said:
“Our partnership with the University has undoubtedly brought an extra level of energy to the festival. Its creative team has helped programme a string of memorable science happenings that have really lived up to their unique backdrop in the Round Room. And we’re glad to have enabled students to experience at close range how the festival is planned, managed and brought to life. We look forward to continuing our fruitful relationship this year and beyond.”
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Skipper Gary Sawyer promises Plymouth Argyle will play for the badge in relegation run-in
The 20th-placed Pilgrims are away to Accrington Stanley on Saturday
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Skipper Gary Sawyer has promised he and his Plymouth Argyle team-mates will do their utmost for the club as they fight for League One survival over the final two games of the season.
The 33-year-old left-back insisted everyone was pulling in the same direction and playing for the badge.
Argyle are one position and a point above the drop zone going into their penultimate game of the season, away to Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
The Pilgrims will then meet relegation rivals Scunthorpe United at Home Park on May 4.
It promises to be a very tense conclusion to the campaign, with pressure on the Argyle squad to deliver the goods.
Sawyer said: “That’s what we have got to deal with That’s what the boys have got to get their heads around and work towards now.
“Everything else before this, that’s done. It is what it is now, and we have got two cup finals (to play).”
Argyle sank deeper into relegation trouble by losing both of their games over Easter – 3-1 at Gillingham and 3-0 to Barnsley at Home Park.
Sawyer said: “It’s not just Easter, there is many a game where you look back and think ‘We could have made everything easier.’
“One more win in the bad run that we were having at the start (of the season).
“Everything like that, you can go through it and dissect the whole season, but this is what we have got left.
“We have got two massive games and it’s something that we are ready to go for.”
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Sawyer started his career at Argyle and returned to Home Park in 2015 after a five-year spell away.
He has now made more than 250 appearances for the club in his two stints so brings a lot of experience to his role as captain.
Sawyer said: “I try and do that. I think it’s important for the older boys, the more experienced players, to do that.
“That’s what I will be doing again, along with likes of Foxy (David Fox), Tayls (Ryan Taylor), G (Graham Carey), Sarce (Antoni Sarcevic).
“Everyone is pulling in the same direction and we are all going for the same prize at the end of this.”
He continued: “This is for the club. It has got nothing to do with individuals.
Gary Sawyer (right) battles for the ball with Tyrese Campbell during the Sky Bet League 1 match between Plymouth Argyle and Shrewsbury Town on Tuesday 12th March 2019 at Home Park, Plymouth, Devon - Photo: Dave Rowntree/PPAUK (Image: Dave Rowntree/PPAUK)
“It’s just to do with the club and the badge you play for. That’s what everyone has to keep in mind and work for.
“You should have a pride about who you are playing for. Everyone enjoys it down here.
“I consider this my club. When I left here, it was the first score I checked for after games, and it will continue to be if I move on.
“When I finish my career, this will be the club that I come and watch football at, so to be part of it is important for me.”
The pressure is on Argyle to retain their League One status which they worked hard so achieve with promotion from League Two in 2016/17.
Sawyer said: “It’s not an easy thing to deal with, but everyone in football would have dealt with it at some point.
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“Obviously, the young boys not as much. The older boys a bit more.
“It’s something that is hard to deal with. There is no easy way round it, but you have to draw on your experiences from previous games and use that to your benefit.
“It’s a privileged position to have pressure because it means you care about what you are doing.”
Argyle are sure to have a good number of fans at Accrington, while thousands and thousands of others will be rooting for the team from afar.
Sawyer said: “That helps everything. We are going to try everything we can to get this over the line.
“I’m sure the fans will help us with that, which they always do. We need to put the performances in for the last two games and go from there – it’s in our hands.”
Accrington took a massive step towards securing their League One survival with a 2-1 win at Doncaster Rovers on Tuesday.
Sawyer, though, does not believe that will have any impact on the game on saturday.
He said: “At the end of the day, we have got two games left and if we win them both we know we are safe.
“I don’t think it really makes any odds that they won their last game.
“They are still going to want points to be able to cement themselves to be safe. We need points to do the same thing.
“That’s the truth of it and we have got to work with that.”
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The researchers treated human pancreatic islets with substances produced by the body and thought to be involved in the diabetes disease process.
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Outplay's Emma Turner on the importance of HR for great company culture
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Emma Turner Head of HR Outplay Entertainment
Emma Turner is head of HR for the UK-based independent games studio Outplay Entertainment
October 29th, 2019 - 02:30pm
By Matthew Forde, Staff Writer
The games industry plays host to a colourful cast of diverse individuals, from artists and coders to narrative designers and studio heads.
The skills to pull off these roles, however, are complex and differing, with each position requiring mastery in its field.
To highlight some of the brilliant work that goes on behind the screen, and help others who may be keen to dive in, PocketGamer.biz is reaching out to the individuals who make up the games industry with our Jobs in Games series.
This time we spoke with Dundee-based Outplay Entertainment's head of HR Emma Turner.
PocketGamer.biz: Can you tell us about your current role and what it entails?
Emma Turner: I lead our HR team at Outplay, the UK’s largest independent mobile games company.
As a team, our goal is to attract, inspire and develop the industry’s top talent whilst ensuring that our unique culture is upheld and evolved to make Outplay an amazing place to work.
My role is therefore specifically focused on identifying and delivering various initiatives that can meet these goals.
How did you first get into games and how did you progress into the role?
I always wanted to work in a creative environment and the games industry seemed like the perfect place to experience real creativity. But I knew at the time that I lacked the specific skillset to pursue a career in that area.
It’s an incredibly dynamic industry and I relish being able to observe trends, plan, evolve and react to the challenges it throws up.
So, I set about exploring other ways that I could contribute to the games industry and started my first role in HR and Office support at Visual Science in Dundee in the early 2000s.
From there I developed my HR and recruitment experience and joined Cohort Studios as their HR Manager.
When Outplay opened in 2011, I joined the team to focus on talent attraction – and creating and enhancing a culture at Outplay that is as inclusive, ambitious and compelling as our portfolio of games.
Is it something you ever imagined yourself doing?
I didn’t really have a desired career path when I left school and even in my early career in HR I didn’t have a set plan. I was just focused on gaining exposure to creative businesses. Quickly I felt the games industry was where I wanted to be and where I wanted to build my career.
It’s an incredibly dynamic industry and I relish being able to observe trends, plan, evolve and react to the challenges it throws up - it keeps things continually interesting.
Castle Creeps was one of the several games made at Outplay during Turner's eight plus years at the company
It is also an industry that operates like a family, with a unique and eclectic workforce who are passionate about bringing entertainment to players.
What did you study (if anything) to get your role? What courses would you advise for aspiring professionals in the area?
I studied a post graduate in Human Resource Management through the CIPD which is the chartered professional body for the HR sector. Part of this pathway was studying business awareness and advanced professional study. This gave me an incredibly useful insight into business strategy and research
It is very easy to see the games industry as an impenetrable sector if you don’t have the right skillset or industry exposure.
This type of professional qualification allows you to study and apply your learning directly into a work setting. It therefore creates a positive learning experience where you can apply academic theory directly to the work you are delivering.
What part of your role do you find most fulfilling?
I am fortunate in that my role is exposed to all areas of the employment experience. This allows me to define and shape what it is to be a part of our studio, to manage the recruitment experience, onboarding and most importantly the culture we have in place, encouraging people to then go onto thrive in the studio and in their career.
It’s incredibly fulfilling to be able to influence all stages of the journey for our team.
Talent development at Outplay is integral to our ability to achieve our goals as a studio and we are on a mission to create an unbeatable, supportive culture of excellence where everyone can achieve their potential.
Having such a high-level commitment towards opportunities for continual development and an inclusive culture at Outplay makes it extremely rewarding.
Do you think there are any misconceptions, public or professional, surrounding your area of expertise?
I think it is easy to overlook just how wide the remit of HR is and the direct impact it can have in a forward-thinking and people-orientated studio like Outplay.
In the right company, where people are recognised as being the company’s most important asset, HR plays a fundamental part in a business’s ability to engender a high-performance culture where both business and individuals can achieve their goals.
Is there anything about the job/industry you wish you would have known when first joining?
However, with the enormous growth of the sector there are so many opportunities on offer if you have a passion for games alongside your area of expertise.
What other advice do you have for someone looking for a job in this profession?
As well as in-depth knowledge of HR best practice, it’s imperative that you understand the industry, its products and the people working within it.
Understanding all facets of a company and the challenges and opportunities allows you to tailor your talent strategy to align with people, business and industry goals.
Check out all our Jobs in Games articles here.
And you can check out Outplay's open positions via its Careers page.
Matthew Forde
Matthew Forde is a freelance writer from Yorkshire, who's work has been published for Tech Radar, Nintendo Life, Kotaku UK and more. He regularly attends Smash Bros. tournaments, while trying to keep up-to-date on everything pop culture related - particularly superheroes. You can find him on Twitter @Forde999.
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Pittsburgh City Paper: A roundup from around the Web of Day 1 of the Republican National Convention
Posted By Charlie Deitch on Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:54 AM
Pittsburgh City Paper Photo by Aaron Petan
We have reporters and photographers in Cleveland starting today both inside the Quicken Arena and outside. They'll start filing reports today, although photographer CP photographer Aaron Petan did file some images from the event's first day.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the first day of the RNC was a fairly peaceful one with only
two arrests and one was for an outstanding warrant. Petan did catch this image of a woman being detained by police, but it's unclear if this is one of the arrests on the Cleveland PD's tally sheet.
While this Washington Post columnist was deeply in love with Melania Trump's night one speech, others, including other journalists at the same newspaper, remarked how much they liked it the first time they heard it — from Michelle Obama in 2008.
Earlier this morning, Donald Trump's campaign, apparently deciding not to let the truth start screwing things up now, denied that Melania Trump plagiarized any part of Obama's speech calling the claims "just really absurd," according to CNN.
"To think that she would do something like that knowing how scrutinized her speech was going to be last night is just really absurd," Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort told CNN's Chris Cuomo on New Day.
Who are we to pass judgment on this issue. Oh yeah, we're the media! But don't take our word for it, give it a look for yourself from CNN:
Politico is calling the convention's first day "disastrous," citing poor scheduling and an attempt to portray this country as a "dark and dystopian portrait of an America in decline" without any signs of "signs of outreach across the aisle or to independents. For most of the night, the convention lineup felt and sounded more like a Tea Party rally on the statehouse steps — with little-known speakers delivering hardline speeches — than a traditional national convention."
And it's kind of hard to say they're too wrong. The day started out with anti-Trump Republicans causing a commotion on the convention floor.
USA Today says there weren't as many protests on the first day as organizers and police thought they would be on the first day, but that doesn't mean it wasn't interesting. A group of armed men calling themselves the West Ohio Minutemen walked through downtown openly carrying rifles and pistols, as is supported by Ohio law, despite Cleveland PD's best attempts to keep it from happening.
"To be honest, we did not expect this kind of media attention," said minuteman Bryon Hennon, 37, a contractor from, Lima, Ohio, who was carrying a loaded 9 mm carbine. "There's a lot of demonization going around about people carrying guns and guns in general, and not everybody who open carries ... has an evil agenda. You don't have to be afraid. It's part of our society. It's always going to be part of our society."
10 armed men (West Ohio Minutemen - not police) are in Cleveland to "make sure everyone is safe, including police." pic.twitter.com/d9tRJi6vMw
— Natalie DiBlasio (@ndiblasio) July 18, 2016
Finally as we move into Day 2, there's no telling what the day holds. We will be running a live blog throughout the day from events around the city of Cleveland. So, while we wait for chaos, please enjoy this adorable photo of baby bunnies living in my garden.
Photo by Charlie Deitch
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Philadelphia's runaway-turtle epidemic continues in Mount Airy
The third reported incident this month does not feature an uplifting tale of reunification
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Photo Courtesy of Deborah Wilson/for PhillyVoice
A third turtle went missing in Philadelphia in August 2018. In this case, the creature was released into the wild.
Alright, this is getting out of hand.
Earlier this month, we brought you two separate stories about pet turtles that went missing in Philadelphia only to be reunited with their concerned human families. Today, we bring you a third that has not reached the same happy conclusion, as of yet.
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Deborah Wilson was kind enough to share the details of an Aug. 10 discovery in the driveway of her home near Ardleigh Street and Wadsworth Avenue in the city's Mount Airy neighborhood. We’ll let Deborah take it from here.
“Around 3:30 p.m., my husband and I were in the garage engaged in conversation when his eyes began to look over my right shoulder out towards the driveway,” she recounted. “I thought that he was just doing that thing that husbands do when their wives are saying something that they have no interest in hearing.”
Sure, this is a common concern, but her husband Leroy – an aquarium hobbyist who has nurtured their family amphibian for more than a dozen years – was doing nothing of the sort.
“He happened to have a legitimate reason for not paying attention to my chatter: This time, he was watching in disbelief as a large turtle walked down the driveway,” she shared. “We had no idea where the turtle came from.”
Leroy immediately put the reptile into a storage bucket with food, water and a piece of driftwood. That is nice.
Though they’ve asked around in an attempt to reunite turtle and family, they have not yet found the owner. That is not nice.
"He may have been a pet or was swept up in recent rain downpours," Deborah surmised.
After searching for about a week, Deborah's husband and son released the creature into a creek near Valley Green Drive in Fairmount Park.
"The funny thing is that this species predominantly spends most of the time in water, so he had to travel quite a distance to find our driveway," she said.
Godspeed, wayward terrapin.
And please, turtle owners of Philadelphia and beyond, start keeping a better eye on your pets. To help, we're linking a tipsheet from The Humane Society regarding the proper care of pet turtles, as this is not only a Philly-centric issue.
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EST. 2007, BKLYN, NY
The Tone Deaf Emcee
by Angel Gonzalez
Last week we celebrated legendary Queens rapper Nas’ esteemed career by commemorating the 18th anniversary of his classic debut release ‘Illmatic’. Widely regarded as one of the greatest albums in Hip Hop history ‘Illmatic’ solidified the beginning of a prolific rap career. Nas, however, is a walking contradiction, as Jay-z pointed out during their feud “Is it Oochie Wally Wally or is it One Mic”. We’re here, however, to point out another contradiction. For every Nas song that is a lesson in lyricism there is another that is a complete shit show.
Phresh presents: 5 of The Worst Nas Songs EVER!
Nas is Coming
You’d think a Dr. Dre/Nas collabo would result in auditory hotness, two artists who were already ascending to legendary status at the time coming together to release one of the greatest songs ever. Then you realize Nas has a knack for bringing out the worst in whoever he’s working with who is HOT at the moment. I can point out collabos between Nas and DMX or Nas and Timbaland or… well you get the point. This song makes the list not because of what it was, which was a mediocre song on a pretty solid album, but for what it wasn’t, a smash hit. Sure Nas has dropped way worse songs in his storied career, but this song simultaneously lowered both his and Dre’s stock. It was amazing that they came together to even put out ‘The Firm’, which yielded some solid songs (but didn’t live up to expectations). If I had to make an analogy, this song is like getting 3 superstars on the same team and promising a championship, but then you go 0 for 82…. and shit ain’t gravy.
Shoot ‘Em Up
What do you get when you take the melodies of Christmas classic staples like ‘Silver Bells’ and ‘Jingle Bells’ and mix them with gentle rap lyrics like “There that nigga go, hiding in the crowd/Let the trigger blow, 7 shots/now he lying on the ground” well, that would be the disaster of a track called ‘Shoot Em Up’. This song almost seems like he lost a bet. Actually it seems as if someone who completely hates Nas took a few years out of his life to befriend him and gain his confidence, then said ‘Yo I got this dope Idea that will take your career to the next level. Gangsta Christmas Shit’. Then once it was recorded Nas never heard from or saw him again. That hasssss to be what happened here as this song scrapes the bottom of the port-a-potty for inspiration. The thing is, the “Nastradamus” album this song is off of was so bad this technically isn’t the worst song off of it. That esteemed honor would fall to…
If there was sexual predator rap this would be it. Nas uses his improved quick flow (enhanced from a prior song Big Things in which Nas struggled to keep up with the beat like he had half a mouth full of peanut butter) to convey the sentiment you’d get from a sleeze bag trying to convince a drunk chick at the bar to let him smash behind the dumpster out back by forcibly whispering in her ear ‘it’s not dirty, it’s Spontaneous’. With a chorus revealing such gems as “You a big girl now (in a world, where these niggas are foul)/You could be aborting the next Michael Jordan/Your man don’t wanna be around”. I suppose you shouldn’t expect much. And yet even when you expect nothing, Nas finds a way to give you less than that on this track. Half-man half-amazin indeed.
BraveHeart Party
Nas managed to douse the Queen of Soul, Mary J. Blige, in wack juice for the disaster that was ‘Braveheart Party’. While collaborations between Mary J., Jay-z and Method Man produced classics like ‘Can’t Knock the Hustle’ and ‘All I Need’ respectively, Nasir went above and beyond to achieve the lowest common rap denominator. Jungle being on the track should be the first sign something is horribly amiss. BraveHeart Party was so awful you got the sense it was a leftover track that didn’t quite make the standard of excellence his worst album “Nastradamus” demanded, but then someone found a copy of it under a radiator and said ‘This latin infused calypso sounding shit might be the new hotness now. Let’s throw it on Stillmatic’. And that person didn’t have any fucks to give about the overall trajectory of Nas’ career. And that person was most likely Nas himself.
Another Black Girl Lost
Some artists need some time to develop musically, eventually evolving their voice to put out an opus that is both critically acclaimed and a commercial success. Nas in a similar manner has managed to evolve his knack for making an occasional piece of garbage to astounding depths. I present to you ‘Another Black Girl Lost’. This song is so bad that I’d rather listen to the previous 4 on a continuous loop while voluntarily filling out paperwork for strangers at the DMV. The producer on this track is the lava-hot Hit Boy, whose production work can be heard on a number of hits including Jay-Z and Kanye’s ‘Niggas in Paris’, yet and still Nas managed to find a complete brick. I imagine Nas went to the studio and demanded to browse through the recycle bin on Hit Boy’s macbook pro to find the perfect sound he was looking for. To add insult to injury this song is to serve as a sequel to one of Nas’ best records, ‘Black Girl Lost’ from the 1996 classic album ‘It Was Written’. In case you don’t click play and give this piece of shit a listen, the best way I can describe it is to say this is probably what nightmares sound like, nightmares mixed with metal being ripped apart and distant groans of pain.
Few artists this talented manage to put out this many bad songs. Actually no artist this talented does this except Nas and this list could have been part 1 of a 5-part series. That is the beauty of Nas’ music though. He’ll hit a home run like ‘Nas is Like’ or ‘Nasty’ and then drop a turd in your headphones with his very next release. It lets his fans know he is indeed human, perhaps the most human artist we’ll ever see.
Nas… We salute you.
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Denver youth poet laureate to teach in Roaring Fork Valley this week
Entertainment | February 13, 2017
Toluwanimi Obiwole, Denver's Youth Poet Laureate, will be teaching poetry workshops in valley schools this week through the literary nonprofit Aspen Words.
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What: Youth Poetry Slam, presented by Aspen Words
Where: Third Street Center, Carbondale
When: Friday, Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m.
More info: www.aspenwords.org
Two years ago, Toluwanimi Obiwole was named the inaugural youth poet laureate for Denver, making her something like an official voice of young people in the city and around Colorado. This week the 22-year-old will be working with students from Aspen to Glenwood Springs, helping them find their own voices as poets.
“The most amazing thing is how confident the students already are in themselves, but how much more self-confident they get,” she said recently from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, where she is a senior. “It’s amazing for them to discover things that maybe they didn’t even know were lurking in their hearts. And also to see how encouraged they are to say, ‘Oh, my god, I wrote a poem! I’m a poet!’”
Obiwole is the newest member of a growing team of teaching poets who spend a week in Roaring Fork Valley schools annually through Aspen Words’ poetry project. She joins Myrlin Hepworth of Phoenix, Mercedez Holtry of Albuquerque, and Logan Phillips of Tucson. The quartet will be working with some 3,000 students in 16 middle and high schools this week, including bilingual workshops. The student workshops and assemblies culminate in the fourth annual Youth Poetry Slam in Carbondale on Friday.
Born in Nigeria and raised in Colorado, Obiwole writes largely about identity, penning fierce and vivid self-portraits that explore what it means to be an immigrant, a Coloradan and a young black woman in America. Her role as youth poet laureate has given her a substantial platform and a public profile, performing at civic events and teaching poetry workshops for young people. But she’s continued to forge ahead as independent artist — she’s already published two chapbooks and given a TED Talk.
Last month she performed in Civic Center Park at the Denver Women’s March, at the center of a crowd of more than 100,000 people protesting President Trump’s inauguration.
Like a lot of the students she meets, Obiwole was initially shy about sharing her work and her story. But as she found her voice, and an audience grew around her in Colorado and at national poetry slams, she learned her work could be both personally and politically empowering.
Poetry, she believes, can provide a path forward for young people who are afraid during this tumultuous moment in American history or who feel anxious about the president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.
“I want people to have a sense that we can get through this, we can thrive through this,” she said. “Being not only the child of immigrants but an immigrant myself, I’ve dealt with these things all my life. Poetry has helped me work through them. Giving the students the notion that, hey, I have survived by doing art and writing as my outlet. Art itself is going to be one of the important tools that’s going to help shape this country and bring it where the youth want it to go, not just where the power structure does.”
After she graduates from college this spring, Obiwole plans to teach and to devote herself to a handful of collaborative projects with photographers, artists and musicians.
“I want to get a lot more artwork out there,” she said.
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DER-Grid Edge, DISTRIBUTECH, Executive Insight, News, Policy & Regulation, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Solar
The world is burning, but energy needs to think local
By Joshua Wong | 11.26.19
A violent weather event, a critical piece of infrastructure down, a population left without power for hours or even days. And then the necessary repairs to get everything back up and running as they were before.
That’s the new normal in California and elsewhere around the world. Most recently, 100,000 acres have been charred in the state’s third straight destructive wildfire season. A similar story has been repeated from the Bahamas toCanada toBritain in the past few months, and right now in Australia, as weather and climate crises have plunged homes, businesses and entire economies into blackouts and chaos.
These outages are also amplified by our outdated energy network models, where utilities distribute electricity in one direction, from a single hub to a giant, sprawling network of customers. These aging facilities are typically inefficient and reliant on fossil fuels – and when an unexpected storm or accident threatens the hub, the entire network is at risk.
Piling on to the issue, our antiquated energy networks and utilities can be the actual spark for wildfires in our bone-dry forests, and they can also help the fire spread through downed electrical wires. Californians know this story too well, and that’s why PG&E’s new policy is to preemptively shut down the grid when it becomes too risky to keep the lights on.
To help mitigate this problem and plan for a new normal of extreme weather events, our utilities and energy grids need to be cleaner, meaner and leaner. To accomplish that, they need to get more local.
Local energy means investing in the “edge” of the grid, the last few miles between the hub and end customers, towards local community microgrids – autonomous, distributed power networks that serve as primary or backup energy sources for smaller communities of users. Microgrids use renewable energy like solar, wind or hydro and to store energy in devices such as batteries. They’re capable of running independently or connecting with the wider grid to give or take power in what is becoming known as a “transactive” energy network.
Home chargers were the microgrids Tesla tycoon Elon Musk had in mind when he jumped into the fray, pitching his company’s solution: “Order Tesla Solar + Powerwall battery for 24/7 clean power & no blackouts!” Musk tweeted, offering Californians $1,000 off a Tesla system that retails for up to $35,000.
That raised some eyebrows, but Musk wasn’t wrong about the big picture. While home batteries and other flexible microgrids can be pricey to install upfront, they are among the smartest energy investments going – both for their owners and for our energy utilities, which can use them to not only enable clean energy, but also to offset expensive infrastructure costs and drive down rates.
Globally, the power and utilities industry is set to spend$20-trillion (U.S.) on large power infrastructure projects between 2016 and 2040. Utilities can spend that money on old school centralized network infrastructure, like they always have. Or they can take a good, hard look at our future climate and consider microgrid technologies that offer cleaner supply, greater efficiency and much better network resilience against catastrophic disruptions.
At a basic economic level,renewables are winning on cost. The average global cost of adding new generation based on hydroelectric, onshore wind, solar, biomass or geothermal energy is now competitive with or better than oil, gas and coal.
Battery storage has also reached a critical threshold. For example, large investments in storage technology have driven cost and performance improvements that are obviating the need for new natural gas plants.
Yet Musk’s battery powered local microgrid is only a fraction of the solution. Not everyone can afford microgrid solutions to buy resiliency. As we learned from any platform business, building individual silos of capabilities – whether they be computing power, data, or energy – is not cost efficient nor functionally superior unless they’re connected together in a network.
Meanwhile, advanced and AI-driven software analytics are now capable of managing distributed energy resources much more efficiently and inexpensively than ever before. Our ownresearch has found that digitization can add 38 to 43 percent more distributed energy to the capacity of an existing network without the need for massive development costs of new infrastructure.
Utilities need to look at microgrids and distributed energy resources as alternatives when they rebuild after an extreme weather event, and when capital upgrades are planned. It just doesn’t make sense to continue building energy infrastructure designed for an era with a more stable climate.
Last year, former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a microgrid bill that requires publicly owned utilities to create separate rates and tariffs for microgrids, that streamlines interconnection standards and that reduces cost barriers to development.
That’s a good start, but let’s connect them together. To prosper in this unpredictable new world, energy needs to be more local, more networked, and it needs to be more resilient.
Joshua Wong is speaking at DISTRIBUTECH International (January 28-30, 2020 – San Antonio) in a session titled, Utility Planning for DER Integration and Management. Register today.
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IRGC’s intelligence unit arrests several armed instigators of Mahshahr riots
Tuesday, 24 December 2019 7:28 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 24 December 2019 8:04 AM ]
Iranians gather around a charred police station that was set ablaze by rioters in the central city of Isfahan on November 17, 2019. (BY AFP)
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says its intelligence arm has arrested several armed instigators of the violent riots that hit Mahshahr County in the southwestern Province of Khuzestan last month.
The IRGC said in a statement on Monday that a number of the armed elements behind the violence in Mahshahr had been taken into custody in coordination with the Judiciary.
In mid-November, several Iranian cities witnessed protests prompted by a government decision to increase gasoline prices.
The protests were initially peaceful but soon turned ugly after riotous elements, taking advantage of the circumstances, started vandalizing private and public property and randomly shooting at everyone on the streets, including civilians and security forces.
The riots were, however, quickly subdued thanks to the timely response of security forces and the mass participation of people in pro-government rallies held countrywide in condemnation of the violence.
During the unrest in Khuzestan Province, the IRGC statement added, the rioters blocked roads in and out of Mahshahr in an attempt to create traffic jams on highways linking the province’s cities and towns.
According to the statement, the rioters were also preventing the entry of aid vehicles and trucks carrying basic supplies into Mahshahr.
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Taking advantage of the mayhem, the armed elements opened fire on civilians and security forces, leaving several of them dead and injured, said the IRGC, adding that the shooting spree stoke fear among people and disrupted public order in Mahshahr and its districts — namely Bandar-e Emam Khomeini, Taleghani and Chamran.
In response to the incident, the IRGC’s intelligence forces identified “the key elements behind the shootings that targeted civilians as well as law enforcement and military forces” during a meticulous operation, the statement said.
According to the statement, the suspects have confessed to their acts of sabotage, which include encouraging the blocking of routes, disrupting security and crippling the region’s exports and imports.
Adversaries pursued plot for false-flag killings in Tehran riots: Iran top security official
Iran’s top security official sheds light on an enemy plot to increase the number of fatalities during the recent riots that several cities.
Hundreds of arrests have so far been made in connection with the violence nationwide. Many of the rioters were found to have links to the notorious US-backed Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, according to Iranian officials.
No official death toll from the violence has so far been released. Officials say there was an enemy plot to increase the number of fatalities during the riots, and that most of those killed had not even been involved in any protest gatherings.
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(A Must Read) How Ondo State Senator Escaped Death In Ghastly Road Crash
The senator representing the Ondo South Senatorial District of Ondo State, Nicholas Tofowomo, escaped death on Friday as his vehicle was involved in a road accident on Ilesa-Akure Expressway in Igbara Oke, the headquarters of Ifedore Local Government Area of the state.
The accident also involved a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, in the state, Mr. Banji Okunomo and two other members of the party, who were said to be with the senator.
A source, however, said nobody died in the accident but the senator and other victims were injured. They were said to have been quickly rushed to the Trauma Center Ondo where they were receiving treatment.
The State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Zadok Akintoye, who confirmed the incident to journalists on Saturday said, the senator and four others involved in the accident were returning to Akure, the state capital from Ibadan, Oyo State.
Akintoye, who appreciated the efforts of the medical team at the Trauma Centre in Ondo and a public ambulance for coming to the victims’ rescue, said the victims were recovering at the hospital.
He said, “Our party yet again commend the brilliance of our doctors and medical professionals for their efforts.”
The senator is now in good condition and responding to treatment in hospital, Mr Olumide Akunrinlola, the Senator’s media aide has said.
Akunrinlola, in a statement on Sunday in Okitipupa, said although the auto crash was serious but no life was lost in the accident which involved four occupants.
He said: “Although the accident is fatal but no life was lost and I can confirm to you that the senator and other occupants in the vehicle were responding to treatments.”
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Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks/Washoe
ending retail store puppy sales in northern Nevada
Doing our most to close loopholes in the upcoming Reno ban
Are sick ‘puppy mill’ dogs being disguised as rescues to sidestep new California law?
We’ve been in on meetings to develop the ordinance language for the Reno ban that City Council Members voted unanimously t0 not include a grandfathering clause. The entire council aims to end puppy and kitten sales in retail stores as soon as possible.
We’ve submitted to City Staff ordinances with very strong penalties per instance per day, ($2500) and strong definitions of rescues to spear the problem California is having with David Salinas.
Our immense local hardcopy signature petition of 20,000 stated on each and every page the retail sales of:
We also now would include:
pot-bellied pigs
long-lived birds
large reptiles
certain turtles
certain chicks
Royal Oak, MI: Ferrets
§ 195-36 Sale of dogs, cats, rabbits and ferrets by retail pet stores prohibited.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful for a retail pet store to sell or offer for sale a dog, cat, rabbit, or ferret. A retail pet store may provide space to an animal control shelter, as defined in MCLA § 287.331(f), or an animal rescue organization, as defined in this article, to offer to the public dogs, cats, rabbits, or ferrets, provided that the retail pet store shall not have any ownership interest in the animals offered and shall not receive any fee for providing space or for the adoption of any of the animals.
Royal Oak Municipal Code
Pot-Bellied Pigs from Mesquite and North Las Vegas bans
6.13.145 – Limitations on pet shop sales
A. No pet shop shall display, sell, deliver, offer for sale, barter, auction, give away, broker or otherwise transfer or dispose of a dog, cat, rabbit or potbellied pig, except for a dog, cat, rabbit or potbellied pig obtained from an animal shelter, nonprofit humane society or nonprofit animal rescue organization.
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Guinea Pigs from Key West Florida
Pet means a dog, cat, rabbit, ferret, or guinea pig.
Sec. 10-255. – Prohibitions.
(a) Sale or transfer of pets. No pet store shall display, sell, trade, deliver, barter, lease, rent, auction, give away, transfer, offer for sale or transfer, or otherwise dispose of pets on or after the effective date of this section unless the pet store is exempt under [section] 10-256.
Key West Municipal Code
Certain Chicks and Turtles from Sandy City and Midvale, Utah bans:
(e) Fowl:
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, barter or give away any fowl under two (2) months of age in any quantity less than six (6). Such animals shall not be artificially dyed or colored. Nothing in this provision shall be construed to prohibit the raising of such fowl by a private individual for his personal use and consumption, provided that he shall maintain proper brooders and other facilities for the care and containment of such animals while they are in his possession.
Midvale Municipal Code
(g) Pet turtles:
It shall be unlawful for any petshop or other business or person to raise or sell any turtle, tortoise or terrapin under four(4) inches front to back carapace length
Sandy Municipal Code
Cambridge MA: arachnids, birds, mammals, amphibians, or reptiles
6.20.020 – Prohibition on Retail Sales.
A. A pet shop may offer for sale only those arachnids, birds, mammals, amphibians, or reptiles that the pet shop has obtained from or displays in cooperation with:
1. An animal care facility, as defined in section 6.20.010 of this chapter; or
2. An animal rescue organization, as defined in section 6.20.010 of this chapter; or
3. An animal sold or displayed for agricultural uses; or
4. Dead animals sold or displayed as breeder animals.
Cambridge Municipal Code
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AKC “Licensing” is a Sham. Everybody knows that, right?
Quite awhile ago now, NBC’s TODAY show presented a scathing exposé on ACK registration of puppies coming out of puppy mill pet stores, proving that the piece of paper a customer gets from a puppy store that shows the pup as AKC licensed is bought and paid for by the breeder. The huge revenue AKC gets from automatic licensing of any puppy in a puppy mill pays for their extravagant yearly dog show.
Despite the national terrible press for the AKC, nothing has changed.
A three-month investigation by The Canine Review found that the go-to authority on dogs is designating thousands of breeders as “Breeders of Merit” without any prerequisite onsite inspection, even as the AKC assures the public on its website that it considers them “the most conscientious and most committed breeders.”
The Canine Review has found that the world’s authority on dogs is making promises on its website about its quality controls that it cannot possibly be keeping.
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They can’t possibly keep up inspections with only a dozen or so inspectors for 11,000 registered breeders.
Any puppy miller can go online and get the license as long as they pay the proper fee.
Dupes who go to puppy stores because they didn’t do their homework so don’t know any better see AKC REGISTERED on a pup’s paperwork and believe that justifies the $2,000 (and up) price tag.
And that’s why ending puppy sales in retail stores is an animal welfare issue as well as a consumer fraud issue.
Author pmfrPosted on November 27, 2019 Categories history, informationLeave a comment on AKC “Licensing” is a Sham. Everybody knows that, right?
Is Sparks setting itself up to be a puppy store ban juggernaut?
We’ve written several time directly to Mayor Smith and City Manager Krutz asking for a meeting with Sparks residents in tow, including one who submitted papers to the DA for a bad situation she had with her Puppies Plus purchase.
Activists have even gone to a Council meeting asked to meet with Council members during public open comments. The response? There hasn’t been one.
Photo: Sparks Mayor Ron Smith
We did have one meeting with Ward 1 Council Member Donald Abbott. He heard our position graciously and thoughtfully and then mentioned that other Council Members would also meet with us and then we’d see what the next steps might be. He, caring though he is and wise beyond his years, was wrong. No one else has returned our numerous emails and phone calls.
Back in 2015, Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks asked activists to join us at the Washoe County Commission meeting wherein Regional Animal Services Manager (not the Director) was giving an update on regulations they had hoped to codify from the 2014 public meetings they hosted in order to meet NRS where the NV Legislature required all counties in Nevada to update their animal code to the strength of state animal laws, or make the stronger. Curiously, Washoe County was the last county in the state to make the updates which came years after all other Nevada counties updated theirs. Incompetence much?
And we were there to simply make the statement: The public doesn’t want more rules and regulations or loopholes through which puppy stores can wriggle. The public, in the form of 20,000 local hardcopy signatures, wants an end to the sales of dogs, cats, rabbits and ferrets in retail stores. End of story.
The local and very small anti-animal rights activist network responded as if there were a vote being made that day to ban puppy stores in the County, which was not the case. They came there to defend the Schneiders, which on the whole, didn’t go over well, except with activist Commission member Jeanne Herman.
One of the anti-animal rights activists was Sparks City Council Member Charlene Bybee who made waves when she used her 3 minute public comment period to proclaim, complete with gestures:
Photo: Activist Council Member Bybee
Should Mr. Schneider want to have a store in our town, Sparks welcomes a puppy store with open arms!
Activist Sparks Council Member Charlene Bybee
Sure that Reno was about to pass a ban on the sales of dogs, cats and rabbits (we were, too), Schneider took Bybee up on the offer—can’t help but wonder if the City gave him an incentive—and he opened Puppy Love in the back of a sparsely occupied strip mall in the northern reaches of the city without signage facing the main roads. Puppies are often an impulse purchase and the store being stuck “in a booth in the back in the corner in the dark” makes you wonder….
Photo: Sparks City Manager Krutz
But Reno finally is passing an ordinance that will end the store’s legal trade in puppies by late Spring 2020, latest.
But the Schneiders will be able to continue to sell to Reno residents and have them pick their puppy mill puppies up at the Sparks store. Just as now you see CA license plates, where puppy stores have been illegal since the first of the year, at Puppies Plus.
Reno’s ban will be effective in ending impulse purchases in the brick and mortar, but the Sparks Council’s welcome mat might make the whole thing moot. Why?
BECAUSE THE SPARKS CITY COUNCIL IS PUTTING BUSINESS INTERESTS AND PROFITS (IN OTHER WORDS $$$$) OVER THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF PUPPIES
We were forwarded a response, the one and only, it appears, from a community member who Mrs. Bybee responded to, in which she stated the Council was awaiting the outcome of the jury trial to see what their next steps are. Seems likely, as in the case of Reno, if the accused are found guilty the City has the ability to pull their license.
But with Mrs. Bybee being an activist for their cause and is not a person, so we are told, who tackles kindly to losing face, the Council may not do anything whether guilty or not. It could be Mrs. Bybee’s device to ride out the prolonged time to trial (Schneiders waived their right to a speedy trial so they could continue selling through the holiday impulse purchase season), and then choose to let Washoe County Regional Animal Services use their newly instituted Commercial Animal Welfare Permit to take the store to task in the end with Sparks taking a hands off approach.
And if all else fails, we can hope the Draft Bill being presented by Senator Julia Ratti, a champion of us when she was Council Member for Ward 1, and a Sparks resident, will pass in the 2021 session and end this long-term cock-up once and for all.
Photo: Nevada State Senator Julia Ratti
Write to all the members of the Sparks City Council and the City Manager and ask them to please meet with Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks to discuss a proposal that 350 other US cities and counties have undertaken in the interest of animal welfare and consumer protection.
Puppy Mill Free Reno website with email link.
Author pmfrPosted on November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 Categories history, ordinancesLeave a comment on Is Sparks setting itself up to be a puppy store ban juggernaut?
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Brrr! How to keep warm during a cold protest
75 people came out for our April 2014 protest of puppy mill stores.
Temps projected for Black Friday in Reno are shaping up to below freezing.
But the pups need our voices!
See the details of PMFR’s Black Friday protest on the Facebook event page.
1 – 4 p.m
Puppies Plus in Reno
Activists hope to have a box of coffee out there to help. And waving and fist-raising will help keep the chill at bay.
Stop by for just a little while and help lend your voice to those who don’t have one.
The ground will have been frozen for a few days, so wear the most insulated shoes/boots you have with thick soles. A thin layer of socks over a thick one can help keep the tootsies warm.
Mittens v. Gloves
Gloves can make life a little easier for tactile utility, but gloves separate your fingers. That isolation can make them susceptible to the cold. Mittens cover your entire hand and the fingers being close together helps keep them warmer longer.
But being in those kinds of temps for any length of time, your hands are bound to get cold. As soon as you notice your hands feeling a little bit uncomfortable, take one off and stick your hand deep in your jacket’s armpit to warm them up. Don’t let them get too cold before you do this.
Some mittens can do double time if you have a thin insulating layer under them, such as a silk liner mitten or glove.
Black Friday, 2015. Cold, but worth every minute even with only two die-hards: Billy Howard (L) and Harry Thomas.
They work. A thin layer of silk tops and bottoms or “thermals” with a warming top over them and tucked into your britches will help keep your natural body warmth going and insulated. A “hard shell” type skiing jacket can keep the cold off of those layers and help keep you toastie for some time.
HAT!
Must have a hat! A good warm one. The tall knitted tuchs are good to keep the considerable heat coming off the top of your head in circulation and loft over the top of your head. In this cold, you’ll want something coming down over your ears or wear ear-muffs on top of the hat. Not sure what we mean? Check out this Carhartt page [not a sales link, just informational].
They are a thing and they work…. for a little while. You can get a pack of 8 or 10 for about $1 each like these on the REI site [not a sales link, just informational].
If you see fur around a jacket hood or sleeves as trim, that’s probably dog fur. Since dog fur is not considered a luxury “fur” like a gross mink stole or something, it actually comes under the category of “fake fur.” So if you check the label and think that’s synthetic fur, it probably isn’t, especially if sourced from China.
The trim is only for looks, it isn’t in a place to keep you any warmer, it’s just an unnecessary accessory. So you might want to avoid if you can.
Author pmfrPosted on November 25, 2019 November 25, 2019 Categories actions, protests2 Comments on Brrr! How to keep warm during a cold protest
Writ to be heard 12/03/19
Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 10:00am
Second Judicial District Court
State of Nevada, Washoe County
75 Court Street, Reno, NV, 89501
Scott N. Freeman
Lawyers for the accused were presenting the case that the owners should have all charges dropped when court was evacuated with the building reportedly under a bomb threat. The hearing was reset for 12/03/2019, 10a.
Pet store owners want charges dropped, KOLO 8 News Now
Big frickin’ waste of time, but their Liars have to at least make a pretense of earning the big sums they command.
Rick Cornell, according to his website, has made a career out of getting people off or into retrials based on technicalities, including getting murderer Darren Mack a hearing for a retrial on the technicality that his lawyers didn’t do their job. Guess who that lawyer was? That’s right, none other than the judge in this case, Judge Freeman.
You won’t need much memory jogging to remember who Darren Mack is if you were anywhere in Northern Nevada in the Spring/Summer of 2006.
Darren Mack became the subject of an international manhunt in June 2006 after being charged with the stabbing death of his 39-year-old estranged wife, Charla Mack, in the garage of their Reno, Nevada home. Mack was also suspected of, and later charged with, the sniper shooting of Family Court Judge Chuck Weller, who was handling the couple’s acrimonious divorce. Charla Mack was murdered after 9:00 a.m. on June 12, 2006, and Judge Weller was shot around 11:05 a.m. the same day.[1] Judge Weller spent time recovering,[2] and returned to his courtroom on August 16.[3]
Those who remember the case might relive the horror associated with these reprehensible deeds as it was said at the time that the Macks’ young daughter was in the condominium while her mother was brutally and viciously stabbed to death. The word on everyone’s lips at the time: there doesn’t seem to be any way the child would not have heard her mother begging for mercy, crying out in pain and soon falling silent.
Not sure what happened with his daughter next, but within 1-2 hours Mack shot the divorce judge in sniper-fashion, aiming at his courthouse window from the parking lot structure in downtown Reno. And then this pathetic excuse for a spoiled brat took off for Puerta Vallarta. He was arrested at a resort lounge/bar swimming pool, cocktail in hand? Seems Mack thought he was going to get away with it all, especially with his family’s wealth and connections. Not so fast, p.o.s.
What kind of a bucket of nasty juice would help someone like that get a retrial hearing? Ah, what some will do for the sound of clinking coin. And the Mack Family has considerable wealth, having run the Palace Pawn & Jewelry Shop in the heart of the downtown casino district for decades, preying and profiting off of those with a gambling jones.
Cornell is defending Leilani, the one accused of murdering a puppy. Our guess is Leilani will switch lawyers when it comes down to the trial as maneuvering through a courtroom defense is not Cornell’s specialty. As in the Mack retrial, he got the technicality accepted, but he did not litigate the (unsuccessful) retrial itself. Nor does his website indicate he’s done much of that, and certainly not in his later career. In fact, he’s done a lot more opera singing than court time, or so it seems from his vanity website.
Cornell and King are trying their best to get the case dismissed on technicalities, but, so far, their whiny pleas about how the DA and the State did everything wrong is pretty pathetic even from a novice court room observer’s point of view. “But your honnnor….” Eye roll.
Schneider’s lawyer, Carter King, has erased his history from the Internet. Not a habit of highly successful people…. What is he hiding, one wonders? Public has no way of tracking his success rate. Which usually means there isn’t one. Unless you count, of course, his 1 star rating on Yelp.
Not knowing who Mr. King was at the time, several activists have told us they thought he was a street person when they were approached aggressively by him during a filming of activists by a local news station outside the Reno City Council.
Carter King was smoking heavily, dressed shabbily, and all three remarked on the smell of alcohol on his breath. He came in close to interfere with the chanting being filmed and nearly burned a female by waving his cancer stick close to her face. Well, no one says a lawyer has to be dignified or even sober to do their job…..
See the Court Docs section to read the writ. Quotes some of the evidence presented to Grand Jury. Guaranteed to make your blood boil.
Author pmfrPosted on November 25, 2019 December 3, 2019 Categories court, historyLeave a comment on Writ to be heard 12/03/19
Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks/Washoe 2013-2015
Our hard work paid off in getting the Meadowood Mall puppy store to convert to pet supplies with no sales of puppies. We made headway in Reno, Carson City, Douglas County towards bans, but Reno’s ban was pushed-back by a Washoe County employee who was a friend of the stores. He convinced Sparks and Reno that the so-called “Interlocal Agreement” prevented cities from passing ordinances to do with animals. We made a case at meeting-after-meeting that we were requesting a business licensing change, not an animal ordinance.
Everyone decided to let Washoe County Animal Services try passing stronger regulations with stricter oversight, even as we protested that the vast majority in our community (we collected 20,000 local hardcopy signatures) just wanted the stores shut down! But the August 2019 indictments of puppy store owners for animal cruelty brought the issue—as we knew it would time-and-time again—to the forefront of public outrage.
In early July 2013, San Diego passed the 37th ban in the country. Reno and Washoe County were already on the maps as animal friendly when a 2003 referendum by popular vote, directed Washoe County Regional Services to be provided with a new building complex in which the Humane Society of Nevada (founded in Reno in the early 19th century when Reno was the city of Nevada) to have an equal facility provided within the same complex and for both to be “no-kill,” which at the time actually meant “low-kill.”
Thinking a puppy store ban ordinance would be a quick slam dunk, activist Billy Howard set about getting the Reno City Council to get behind a ban. Howard had earlier graduated from the Reno Citizens Institute and the Washoe County Engaged Leadership Academy and had met many of the staff and Council and Commission.
After building an FB page, extensive website and saw how quickly the idea garnered local support through the summer, Howard approached Reno Council Member Sharon Zadra in late August. She agreed to become the champion for the ordinance and brought up a council resolution in October 2013 to be added to the December 2013 Agenda for a vote.
The December agenda item included a moratorium on issuing new licenses to stores while considering the fate of the three local pet stores: one in midtown, one in Meadowood Mall, and the newly opened Puppies Plus on S. Virginia and Neil Road, owned by the former manager of Pets R Us in the mall, Mike Schneider. The resolution was passed unanimously and an ordinance was ordered to be presented.
In late January 2014, KOLO news reporter Angele Chen, with the support of anchor Amanda Schieve, broke a story of employees on camera crying over the situation in the back of the store, where sick puppies were left untreated to suffer and die, alone in a dark room, with no relief for their pain.
The community rallied and the ordinance moved ahead.
Howard began gathering signatures at every puppy adoption and fund-raising event and garnered the support of every rescue, shelter, doggy day care, dog training and pet supply store in the area which all helped get signatures.
In early April 2014, a mass rally against puppy stores on the corner of Neil and S. Virginia, not far from 2 stores, had attendance from 75 people, an astonishing turnout.
The community was clear: end the sales of dogs, cats and rabbits in retail stores.
But a newly elected council member, who had financial interests in Midtown, wanted the pet store there, Best Friends, shut down pronto. She arrived at the store one morning with a battery of code enforcement officers and the owner was charged with not having the proper hot water heater and isolation rooms for sick puppies. The owner spent in the neighborhood of $30,000 to update his store to code. A week later the code enforcers came and cited for more troubles. They were fixed. A week later code enforcement popped the store for having too many plugs in an outlet. The store owner could see the writing on the wall, as there were other tenants in the same building who were not being targeted. He closed the store and doubled down on the Meadowood Mall store, ripe for the impulse purchase.
Howard approached Schieve with the concern that targeting a business could get the city in trouble, and why not get behind the ordinance to end puppy and kitten sales through legislation. Lawsuits that were being lodged against jurisdictions by puppy stores were failing every which way. This could be the win win.
Author pmfrPosted on November 22, 2019 November 22, 2019 Categories historyLeave a comment on Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks/Washoe 2013-2015
Northern Nevada’s growing reputation for getting away with (animal) murder January 15, 2020
4th Statewide Puppy Mill Store Ban in World, 3rd in US January 15, 2020
2020 State of the State: Bye-Bye Puppy Stores! January 9, 2020
Of course you know the next move: Move the trial December 22, 2019
Clown show of dismissing case against Schneiders is over December 20, 2019
Nearly ½ year until the Schneiders’ trial December 2, 2019
Cruelty to animals is now a federal crime December 1, 2019
Doing our most to close loopholes in the upcoming Reno ban November 29, 2019
AKC “Licensing” is a Sham. Everybody knows that, right? November 27, 2019
Is Sparks setting itself up to be a puppy store ban juggernaut? November 26, 2019
Felony Charges Animal Abuse November 26, 2019
Brrr! How to keep warm during a cold protest November 25, 2019
Writ to be heard 12/03/19 November 25, 2019
Puppy Mill Free Reno/Sparks/Washoe 2013-2015 November 22, 2019
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Smoking rates falling, but smokers still puffing away savings
Alex RitchieJun 1, 2017( 3 min read )
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have released Australian smoking rates this World No Tobacco Day, highlighting the theme of ‘Tobacco – a threat to development’.
Smoking rates have dropped nearly 10 percentage points over the last two decades.
“Just over one in seven (14.5 per cent) adults were smokers in 2014-15 compared with nearly one in four (23.8 per cent) in 1995,” said Louise Gates, Director of Health at the ABS.
“In particular, rates of daily smoking have decreased considerably among younger adults (18-44 year olds). In 2014-15, 16.3 per cent of 18-44 year olds smoked daily compared with 28.2 per cent in 2001.
“This drop is due to people quitting and people not starting to smoke. In 2014-15, 60 per cent of younger adults (18-44 years) had never smoked and 23 per cent were ex-smokers,” Gates said.
ABS statistics also illuminate the highest rates of smoking across the country, with the Northern Territory continuing to have the highest smoking rate at one in five (21 per cent) in 2014-2015. However, this has decreased since 2001 where rates were as high as 30 per cent.
The rates of Australians in Outer Regional and Remote areas who smoke daily have also decreased over the past 10-15 years to 20.9 per cent. Although these rates are still almost 10 percentage points higher than that of Major Cities (13 per cent).
Source: ABS Data
Burning down the house:
Forget giving up your smashed avo on toast, people who smoke are puffing away their savings.
RateCity research, released for World No Tobacco Day, shows the average pack-a-day smoker spends $9,125 a year on cigarettes.
Money Editor Sally Tindall said it was surprising how much a cigarette habit costs.
“If you swap smoking for saving, you could save a 10 per cent deposit on a unit in just nine years, without contributing an extra cent,” she said.
“For home buyers in Sydney, if you give up cigarettes today and save the money, it will take you 13 years to save a 10 per cent deposit, while those living in Melbourne could take just 8 years to save for a deposit.
“Smokers who want real value for money should consider buying your first home in Hobart. Swap your smokes for savings and it will take just over four years to achieve your deposit.” She said.
ABS data also indicated that Tasmania had a high rate of daily smokers, at 18 per cent in 2014-2015.
“For those who already have an average sized mortgage, giving up smoking will also save you $135,000 in repayments and help you pay off your property 13 years sooner,” she said.
Alex RitchiePersonal Finance Writer
Alex is a personal finance writer and PR professional at RateCity, and has been writing about finance for over three years. She is passionate about closing the gender pay and superannuation gap, and aims to help young Aussies to overcome their financial apathy and better manage their finances. Alex has been published in numerous print and online outlets, including Money Magazine, Lifehacker Australia, and Business Insider.
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22 Outdated Wedding Rules No One Follows Anymore
Erin Kayata
They say some rules are meant to be broken and we couldn’t agree more.
You need to get married in a house of worship
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“We have had a few couples who opt to get married in a church and then come to our venue for their reception,” says Kate Elder who owns Overlook Barn, a wedding venue in North Carolina. “But by far the majority are skipping the church ceremony altogether and opting for a beautiful outdoor ceremony or ceremony in one of our barns.” If you need inspiration for a place to hold your ceremony, try looking at these unique wedding venues.
Your wedding party has to be all women or all men
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“It is perfectly acceptable to have either gender as bridesmaids and groomsmen,” says Kristin Watkins, owner and lead planner at Stephanie Rose Events. “We have started using the term entourage to describe the wedding party.”
You need to mail printed invitation and RSVP cards
“More couples are moving to email and digital invitations,” Watkins says. “It was common for my couples with international guests to email information rather than mail an invitation, but now it is acceptable for all weddings. Couples like that the responses are easier to track and emailing saves on costs. Guests like that they can respond by clicking a link rather than mailing back a response card.”
You need to have a big, formal rehearsal dinner
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“Without the traditional financial roles or financial help from the parents, this formality becomes an unneeded expense as modern couples see that they are essentially paying for two receptions,” says Amy McCord Jones, owner of Flower Moxie which helps brides make their own DIY floral creations. “Instead, couples are opting for a quiet dinner with immediate family.”
The bride’s parents pay for the wedding
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“Most of my couples pay for part or all of their wedding themselves, including the rehearsal dinner,” says Sarah Bradshaw, a Washington D.C.-based wedding and engagement photographer. “If the parents pay, it’s usually for specific things.” No matter who’s paying, you still want to keep costs low using these 10 creative budget-cutting methods for your wedding.
Bridesmaids have to wear the exact same style dress in the same color
“All the bridesmaids wearing the identical, solid color dress is less common as couples opt for more personal wedding party attire,” says Lindsey Nickel, a wedding planner at Lovely Day Events. “Couples are really embracing making the wedding feel like their own wedding and personalizing as much as possible. This is one of my favorite wedding trends because it allows people to pick a dress that flatters their figure and that they would realistically wear again.” Here’s how this tradition began in the first place.
Each family has to sit on separate sides during the ceremony
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“Guests used to be required to sit on the left side of the aisle if they were from the bride’s side, and on the right side of the aisle if they were on the groom’s side,” says wedding and event planner Ashley Gelfound. “However, nowadays the wedding couple does not uphold this tradition. Instead, guests sit wherever they feel comfortable and the bride’s side and groom’s side intermingle.”
The bride walks down the aisle with her father and the groom walks down the aisle alone
“More and more we’re seeing brides wanting to walk down the aisle with both parents which is beautiful,” says José Rolón of José Rolón Events. “We’re making more room for three person aisle. Also, grooms are now wanting to feel included in this and want to walk down with their parents as well.”
The couple can’t see each other before the ceremony
People say seeing your spouse-to-be before the ceremony is bad luck, but you can try using some of these wedding traditions that are supposed to be lucky to even things out if you want a look at your partner before you walk down the aisle. “Most couples do a first look and portraits now to help ease the stress of the wedding day schedule,” Bradshaw says.
Every guest needs a plus one
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“A general rule of thumb is that any couples who are engaged or live together should get a plus-one,” says Ranu Coleman, chief marketing officer of online bridal retailer Azazie. “In this day and age, most couples live together before they get married—or never get married at all—you need to show respect for their union.”
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Transport regulation grace period extended to all livestock sectors
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Ontario announces interim animal protection model
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Flash Season 2: First Female Speedster Set to Enter Central City
Finally, the Flash will do an episode on a female speedster who is a meta-human intend to create chaos in the Central city, and make people believe that Flash is responsible for the entire fiasco. She is known by the name Eliza Harmon a.k.a “Trajectory” to be played by Allison Paige (Days of Our lives fame). She will guest star in the show and based on fans response, may get another shot in future seasons.
She has been a minor character in 52 comics series, a weekly comic that came right after “Infinite crisis” but before final crisis. She is an artificial speedster created by Lex Luthor under Everyman project. The difference between Trajectory and other speedsters is that she cannot stop until she takes a special drug. In DC comics, she is not a villain but in the latest teaser released by CW, she is shown to be working in Mercury Labs, she found a way to attain speed-force but ended up using for mischief. She will probably be like Golden Glider who is a villain first, then persuaded to come back to the right path. Similarly, Captain Cold is a villain but he does’nt have a sinister design to kill Flash.
The episode will air on March 22, 2016 as the TV show is on a long break.
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Rackspace Expands Private Cloud Capabilities with Adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation
SAN ANTONIO – August 21, 2017 – Rackspace® today announced the general availability of Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware®, which will now be built on VMware Cloud Foundation™. With this, customers can enhance the foundational technology that is enabling their move out of the data center and into the cloud with the newest VMware capabilities. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware built on VMware Cloud Foundation will enable full software defined data center (SDDC) capabilities including compute, storage and networking that span the public and private cloud.
VMware Cloud Foundation accelerates IT’s time-to-market by providing a factory-integrated cloud infrastructure stack that is simple to use and includes a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking and security. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware helps businesses maximize their VMware deployments by helping build, operate and optimize customers’ physical and virtual infrastructure, freeing IT resources from day-to-day infrastructure management so they can focus on their core business. Rackspace is one of the largest global providers in the VMware Cloud Provider™ Program and has partnered with VMware for more than 10 years delivering valuable solutions for mutual customers.
Built on VMware Cloud Foundation, Rackspace Private Cloud provides mutual customers with enhanced capabilities and management benefits including:
Standardized Architecture: Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware is built on VMware Validated Designs, which are based on best practices, making deployments more predictable and lower risk.
Continuous Updates and Lifecycle Management: Continuous updates allow for the most up-to-date VMware capabilities through lifecycle management of VMware components, thereby helping to improve users’ security posture.
Leverage Existing VMware Investments: Users leverage the control, flexibility and choice needed to run VMware as easily as they would in their own data center. IT departments can migrate or extend to the VMware cloud with consistent tooling and skills. Consistent infrastructure architecture can be leveraged across multiple locations without the need to refactor code. Mutual customers maintain value of existing investments made in training, VMware technology and familiar tools by accelerating adoption of software-defined infrastructure.
Offload Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Operations: Rackspace delivers a hosted model, which eliminates many of the procurement and integration challenges that IT organizations face in their own data centers. Mutual customers also benefit from the ability to scale their solution quickly and as needed without the need for significant upfront capex investments in data centers and hardware.
Managed by Rackspace, Powered by VMware: With Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware, customers have access to Fanatical Support® provided 24x7x365 from more than 150 VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs) to help migrate, architect, secure and operate Rackspace hosted clouds powered by VMware technologies.
“Provisioning hardware quickly is no longer considered a value for customers, it’s expected,” said Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of VMware at Rackspace. “The enhancement in our VMware private cloud delivery model through VMware Cloud Foundation will provide further value to new and existing Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware customers by giving them access to the most streamlined and innovative VMware SDDC capabilities and lifecycle management. We are excited to use VMware Cloud Foundation and look forward to continued innovation on the platform.”
“With a decade of proven success in helping customers meet their business demands, VMware and Rackspace are taking another step together to help mutual customers dramatically shorten the path to hybrid cloud,” said Geoffrey Waters, vice president of Global Cloud Sales at VMware. “VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s most advanced cloud infrastructure platform that unlocks the benefits of hybrid cloud by establishing a common, simple operational model across private and public clouds. Together with Rackspace and its renowned Fanatical Support, we will add great value to mutual customers in their digital transformation journey.”
Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware, now built on VMware Cloud Foundation, is generally available in all regions. For more information, please visit http://www.rackspace.com/vmware/private-cloud.
Rackspace, the #1 managed cloud company, helps businesses tap the power of cloud computing without the complexity and cost of managing it all on their own. Rackspace engineers deliver specialized expertise, easy-to-use tools, and Fanatical Support® for leading technologies including AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenStack and VMware. The company serves customers in 150 countries, including more than half of the FORTUNE 100. Rackspace was named a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service Providers, Worldwide, and has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, and others as one of the best companies to work for. Learn more at www.rackspace.com.
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Rediff.com » Sports » Football Briefs: Conte wants more signings; Lallana injured
Football Briefs: Conte wants more signings; Lallana injured
Last updated on: August 04, 2017 20:31 IST
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Conte wants more signings
IMAGE: Antonio Conte speaks to the media. Photograph: Claudio Villa/Getty Images.
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says he is not satisfied with the depth of his squad, a week ahead of the defence of the Premier League title won in May.
"It's very important to try to improve our squad, we have a small squad," he told a news conference ahead of Sunday's
Community Shield match against FA Cup holders Arsenal at Wembley.
"I think only one player is not enough to improve our team. We need more players, not at top level like Neymar, more players to improve our quality."
Conte, who took the title to Stamford Bridge in his first season, has so far signed four players: defender Antonio Rudiger from Roma, midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko (Monaco) and striker Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid), plus back-up goalkeeper Willy Caballero (Manchester City).
Chelsea have lost former captain John Terry to Championship (second tier) club Aston Villa and Nemanja Matic to Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, as well as a number of squad players.
They have a net spend estimated at only 22 million pounds, compared to Arsenal's £43 million, Manchester City's £182 million and United's £136 million.
The chances of striker Diego Costa staying at the club diminished further this week when reports in Spain quoted Costa's lawyer as saying the player would formally ask for a transfer.
Costa has claimed that the manager only told him by text message in June that he no longer figures in Chelsea's plans, but a Chelsea spokesman described that as "nonsense" on Friday, adding that the player and his agent knew in January that he would be allowed to leave.
Liverpool's Lallana out injured for a couple of months
IMAGE: Adam Lallana. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images
Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana could be out of action for a couple of months after suffering a thigh injury, manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday.
The 29-year-old England international was hurt during Liverpool's pre-season loss to Atletico Madrid on penalties in Munich on Wednesday.
"This is certainly not news we would have wanted," Klopp told the club website.
"Unfortunately, the damage is such that it will likely mean Adam is out for a couple of months not weeks, so I think we can pretty much rule him out of August and September.
"Beyond that we will monitor and wait and see. He is a boy with a world-class attitude to everything professionally and he has always come back in good time from injury setbacks since I have been here."
Lallana joined Liverpool from Southampton in July 2014 and scored eight league goals last season.
He will now miss the start of Liverpool's next Premier League campaign, which begins at Watford on Aug. 12, three days before the first leg of their Champions League playoff against Hoffenheim.
He will also be a major doubt for England's next two World Cup qualifiers, against Malta and Slovakia in September.
Netherlands to face Denmark in Women's Euro final
IMAGE: Netherlands’ Danielle van de Donk celebrates scoring their second goal with teammates during their Euro semi-final on Thursday. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Host nation Netherlands swept England aside 3-0 on Thursday to reach their first Women's European Championship final and set up a showpiece encounter against Denmark.
The Dutch took the lead in the 22nd minute as Vivianne Miedema rose to head home Jackie Groenen's pinpoint cross from the right wing, as England struggled in the absence of influential midfielder Jill Scott due to suspension.
England went close to equalising minutes later but Netherlands captain Sherida Spitse turned Jade Moore's header from a corner onto the post, with the ball eventually bouncing away to safety.
Danielle van de Donk doubled the Dutch advantage in the 62nd minute, pouncing on Fara Williams's headed back pass and deftly lifting the ball over the despairing dive of England goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain.
England peppered the Dutch penalty area with long balls and went close to scoring on several occasions, but they could not find the goal that would get them back in the game in front of the partisan sell-out crowd.
Lieke Martens had the final say, firing home a deflected shot deep into injury time to give the Dutch a measure of revenge for their 2009 semi-final loss to England and set up a mouth-watering tournament decider on Sunday.
Earlier, Denmark reached the final of the women's European championships on Thursday after beating Austria 3-0 on penalties as goalkeeper Stina Lykke made two superb saves and Simone Boye confidently fired the decisive spot kick into the top corner.
The shootout win, after the match finished 0-0 following extra time, put the Danes in the final of the Euros for the first time after they lost their previous five last-four encounters.
Having blown the competition wide open in the quarter-finals by beating reigning champions and eight-times Euro winners Germany 2-1, the Danes looked the better side against an Austria team competing at their first major finals.
Both sides had plenty of chances to score over the 120 minutes, with Austria's Sarah Puntigam missing the best of them as she blasted a penalty high over the bar early in the first half.
Austria had beaten Spain 5-3 on penalties to reach the semis, but this time around they failed to hold their nerve, with Laura Feiersinger missing and Lykke diving to her right to deny both Viktoria Pinther and Verena Aschauer.
Leicester sign striker Iheanacho from Man City
IMAGE: Manchester City Kelechi Iheanacho (foreground). Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Leicester City have signed striker Kelechi Iheanacho from ManchesterCity on a five-year contract, the Premier League clubs have said.
No financial terms were disclosed, but British media reported that Leicester paid 25 million pounds ($32.84 million) for the 20-year-old Nigerian and that City had inserted a 50 million pound buy-back clause into his contract.
He is Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare's fourth signing since the end of last season, following the arrivals of centre back Harry Maguire, goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic and midfielder Vicente Iborra.
"It's a great signing for us. Kelechi is an enormously talented player that has shown a huge amount of promise at every level in which he's played," Shakespeare told Leicester's website.
Iheanacho, who has scored 21 goals in 64 appearances for ManchesterCity, made his senior debut for Nigeria in 2015 and has scored six times in 10 appearances for his country.
While he struggled for minutes after City signed Brazilian Gabriel Jesus last season, he was also a target for West Ham United and Shakespeare spoke of his delight in beating Leicester's Premier League rivals to his signature.
"We've tracked his progress for some time, so we know how much quality he'll bring to the squad," the manager added.
"He's young, he's hungry, he's ready for the next stage of his development and I'm delighted that will be with LeicesterCity."
Milan brush aside Craiova at packed San Siro
AC Milan brushed aside Univesitatea Craiova in front of a euphoric crowd who packed the San Siro for a Europa League qualifier on Thursday.
Giacomo Bonaventura and Patrick Cutrone scored early in each half to give Milan a 2-0 win as they completed a 3-0 aggregate victory in their third qualifying round tie.
Milan's spending spree since the end of last season has revived interest in the side and generated a feeling of unbridled optimism among their supporters.
Their first home European tie for more than three years pulled in a 65,000 crowd to watch them face opponents who finished fifth in Romania last season, the supporters clearly believing that the years of midtable mediocrity are over.
"It's been a great night and the fans deserved it for the love which they have shown the club," said coach Vincenzo Montella.
"We hope to have many more evenings like this and will work hard to make it happen.”
The seven-time European champions threw themselves onto the attack and went ahead after nine minutes when Bonaventura fired in a loose ball from 12 metres.
The hosts survived a scare when goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma denied Ionit Mitrita, who had a clear run on goal.
Cutrone made the game safe in the 52nd minute when he turned the ball in after Mateo Musacchio flicked on Ricardo Rodriguez's free kick.
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You are here Top Attractions Sogndalstrand
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Sogndalstrand Kulturhotell
Season: All year. This small community is one of Rogaland’s most visited destinations. It was previously a seaport for sailing ships. Today it is a listed area oozing of charm and hospitality. In this rustic cultural landscape among peaceful wooden houses from 17-1800s, you can unwind and recharge your batteries.
In Sogndalstrand you can take time out from everyday routines and enjoy the good and relaxed way of life in one of the seven listed cultural environments in Norway. With a membership in the Cittaslow movement, Sokndal municipality distance themselves from the standardised and uniform way of life and embrace the small and the local. They wish to portray the unique and characteristic feeling in a place where the environment and the laidback life are in focus. In Sogndalstrand you get a taste of both the traditional and the historical in the middle of spectacular landscapes. Enjoy memorable hikes or rides on bike, or simply enjoy the silence of this charismatic, tiny community. The hotel industry in Sogndalstrand has contributed to the growth of businesses in the small coastal environment, and there is an increased focus on recreating the ancient trade environment there. Today’s industries consist of a gallery, souvenir shop, coffee shop, country store and a museum. There are 80 people living there and all the houses in the prehistoric seaport are privately owned.
History of Sogndalstrand
Originally, this little community was a docking port for sail ships. A docking port was a community where the locals worked in trading of goods both inbound and outbound, especially logs and lumber. Already in the 1660s, the name Sogndalstrand is mentioned as one of the most important trading docks in the country. With the strong growth in shipping, fishing and trading during the 1700s, Sogndalstrand was recognised as a seaport in 1798. The community’s grand era was in the 1800s, when there were 20 businesses, four bakeries, two liquor outlets and four taverns in Sogndalstrand. In addition, you could find a customs house, a bank, a spinning mill, a sail ship park and a prison that was extensively used to imprison the drunks from Saturday’s commotion in the public square. In the 1900s when the industrialisation hit Norway, the road replaced the role of the sea. The main route of traffic and the centre of trade moved from Sogndalstrand to Hauge i Dalane – people moved, and shops were closed down. In the 1970s and 1980s, an enormous amount of people moved away from Sogndalstrand and in 1994, the last shop closed down. Several of the wharf houses, industrial buildings and homes were characterised by decay and poor maintenance, and an entire community was endangered.
A new era begins
The enthusiasts Eli and Jan Omdal discovered this little gem, and in 1994, they initiated the business Krambua, as an idealistic volunteer effort to give new life to this distinctive settlement. The same year the entire area became listed, and an exceptional hotel was established. Sogndalstrand Kulturhotell consists today of 10 different houses, where the oldest dates all the way back to 1831. All rooms are different and restored back to their former 1800-style glory. "Our wish is to maintain the best of the long-gone days. Our main philosophy has been to remain quirky and original, but with all the modern commodities. We are constantly ready to welcoming our guests with smiles and warmth." - Eli and Jan Oddvar.
Det gode liv i Sokndal
Format : 4K. Laget for Sokndal Kommune av http://www.raimedia.net v/Raimond mydland. Tilleggsfoto : Leo Larsen, og Skydrone v/Kjetil Tønnesen og Sigve Andersen. http://www.skydrone.no . For mer info om Sokndal, besøk : http://www.sokndal.kommune.no og http://wwwcittaslow.no Foruten video fra luft, er alt tatt opp med Panasonic GH4 i 4K. Objektiver : Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 og Samyang 7,5mm fisheye. Objektivene koblet til Metabones Speedbooster.
Getting to Sogndalstrand
The Cittaslow movement
Things to do in Sokndal municipality
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Escritórios flexíveis em Perth St Martins Tower
Perth St Martins Tower
Level 27, St Martins Tower, 44 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, 6000
The Perth St Martins Tower Centre is in one of the tallest buildings in the city. Located in the centre of Perth, it is in the business and retail precinct of St George's Terrace, one of the most sought after addresses in the city. The centre is popular with legal firms, mining and financial services companies while also hosting a wide variety of other tenants. As well as offices, the tower contains a revolving restaurant and cocktail lounge on the top floor, the only revolving restaurant in Western Australia. With the centre placed on the 27th floor, there are wonderful views from the offices and meeting rooms. The Economist magazine recently nominated Perth joint eighth place in its list of the world's most liveable cities.
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Our goals for safety
If people cannot find safety, they will struggle to improve their lives. The International Rescue Committee helps those who are recovering from conflict and disaster seek protection from harm, build safer communities, and understand their human rights.
A woman and her daughter from Syria in their shared house in Jordan.
Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/IRC/Panos/EU-ECHO
Learn more about our goals for safety and how we are working to meet them:
Ensure that people are safe in their homes and receive support when they experience harm
How we get there:
Supporting women and girls in having healthy and safe relationships, and working with men to change violent behavior and stop intimate partner violence;
Ensuring children are not physically, sexually, or psychologically abused, or neglected or exploited, within their homes;
Training frontline caseworkers and health workers to ensure survivors of violence have access to essential health, safety, and psychosocial services;
Ensuring people in the United States reside in safe communities that welcome refugees, and that they know how to respond appropriately when in an unsafe environment or situation.
Ensure that students are safe in their schools and receive support when they experience harm
Making classrooms safe spaces for healing and learning for both girls and boys;
Supporting teacher well-being, and incorporating social and emotional learning into school curricula to enhance student well-being in the short and long term;
Training frontline caseworkers and health workers to ensure students in schools who require them have access to essential health, safety and psychosocial services;
Ensuring that students in the United States are enrolled in schools that are welcoming, sensitive to their full emotional needs, and have zero tolerance for bullying.
Ensure that people are safe in their work places and receive support when they experience harm
Ensuring women, girls, men and boys are safe from violence at work;
Developing knowledge and skills of employers and employees to maintain a safe physical workplace;
Ensuring employers are motivated to create a workplace free from violence and exploitation, including that no children are engaged in exploitative work;
Ensuring that, when people are victims of violence in the workplace, they are able to access quality services to help them heal and recover.
Séraphine Nsekanabo Musanga and Marie Jeannette, who work with the IRC assisting survivors of violence, stand outside the United States Capitol building.
Photo: Meredith Hutchison/IRC
Ensure that people are safe in their wider communities and receive support when they experience harm
Ensuring that women, men, girls and boys are not experiencing violence, abuse, coercion or exploitation in the communities where they live;
Mobilizing communities to protect themselves and each other, and supporting governments and local organizations to protect civilians, build a safe environment, and respond to violence when it occurs;
Providing adolescent girls with safe spaces, mentors, and safety networks that protect them from violence;
Providing lifesaving services to survivors of rape and sexual assault, and other forms of torture, violence and abuse.
Ensure that women and girls are equally safe from harm as men and boys where they live, learn and work
Advocating for the international community to redouble its efforts to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls as a priority that is lifesaving, not optional;
Leading research to better understand drivers of violence against women and girls and interventions that best end this violence, empower women and girls, and support the recovery of survivors;
Meeting the most significant threats and vulnerabilities that women and girls face in crises by ensuring tailored services and safe, equal access to humanitarian assistance.
Explore our work on safety.
Outcomes and evidence
The IRC's Outcomes and Evidence Framework supports people working in development and humanitarian aid to design effective programs. It delivers key information on outcomes related to health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power through theories of change that demonstrate how to achieve these outcomes, evidence for which interventions work or don’t work to achieve the outcomes, and guidance on how to measure progress against the outcomes.
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One of the most popular Japanese manufacturers of all time, Nintendo have been a dominant force in the games industry since the early 80's, producing some of the most popular platforms of all time. Retro Nintendo consoles such as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64 (N64), Nintendo GameCube and an array of Game Boy models are very popular amongst collectors and gamers alike.
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Police: 1 arrested after shooting wounds 7 near Ball State
A shooting at an off-campus party near Ball State University in Indiana Saturday left seven people injured, three of them critically, police said.
Police continue to investigate the scene of a shooting, Saturday, May 18, 2019 in Muncie, Ind. A shooting at an off-campus party near Ball State University in Indiana early Saturday left seven people injured, three of them critically, police said. (Doug McSchooler/The Star Press via AP)
MUNCIE, Ind. — A shooting at an off-campus party near Ball State University in Indiana early Saturday left seven people injured, three of them critically, police said.
It’s not clear how many people might have opened fire, but police said one man was in custody. One of the wounded had to be airlifted to a hospital in Indianapolis, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Muncie, Police Chief Joe Winkle told WXIN-TV.
Winkle said it appears the shooting happened after “some kind of confrontation inside the house.” Some of the victims were Ball State students, he said.
“I think anytime you have a DJ and you get word out there that there’s a party there, you are gonna draw a bunch of different people from all over town, so I think that’s probably what’s happened,” Winkle said.
VaShaun Harnett, 19, of Muncie, was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder, police told The (Muncie) Star Press.
Harnett is not a Ball State student, the university said in a statement. One of the shooting victims is a student who has been treated and released from a Muncie hospital, the statement said.
“Keeping all members of our campus community safe is a top priority,” University President Geoffrey S. Mearns said. “This is a very unfortunate event. We wish all the victims a full and prompt recovery.”
Stella East, a Ball State sophomore and a Muncie native, told The Star Press that she was in the home’s backyard when the shooting took place. She said about 50 people were inside and 50 outside when she and a friend heard five to 10 shots from inside the house. After a brief pause, they heard about 30 more shots, moving from inside to outside.
“Everyone just ran in opposite ways when the shooting started. I just grabbed my friends and ran as far as I could. I was trying to stay calm but knew it was very serious and just had to get away,” East said.
Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered the commencement address Saturday at Taylor University in nearby Upland, commented on the shooting on Twitter.
“Landed in Muncie, IN this morning and was briefed on last night’s shooting,” the former Indiana governor wrote. “My prayers are with the injured and their families. God bless them all.”
Ball State issued a campus alert shortly after the shootings warning members of the university community to stay clear of the area.
The university said it was making counselors available to assist the campus community in dealing with the shootings.
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Crackdown on sale of home-made food at market
5:15 pm on 17 April 2010
The Kapiti Coast's deputy mayor, Ann Chapman, hopes a meeting next week will settle the issue of who is entitled to sell home-made food at an Otaki market.
Under updated food hygiene rules the district council has cracked down on the Otaki Womens' Community Club craft market, stipulating that only charities or vendors whose entire proceeds go to a charity are allowed to prepare the food they sell in their own kitchens.
The council's manager for assets and services, Gary Simpson, says all others must have registered kitchens, no matter what their size. This, he says, is to guard against outbreaks of illness.
But the market's convenor Sherryl Gray, who describes the new decree as a kick in the guts, says the cost of setting up a commercial kitchen is prohibitive.
She says the cooks are furious because their food, such as cakes and preserves, has never generated a complaint. She also says the market has given $63,000 to community causes since 1996.
Similar venture allowed last year
The council is standing by its decision, saying that food sellers and market operators need to be made more accountable. Mrs Chapman says a public meeting will be held next Friday, but she would also like to call for a private meeting.
Last year, a charity jam-making venture by a woman in Northland was threatened in a similar manner but officials then bent the rules to allow it to go ahead.
Otaki's home cooks are hopeful their case may go the same way after next Friday's meeting.
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Eco Art and Science Camp 2017: Day 5
After over a year of planning and anticipation, the final morning of camp seemed to arrive all too soon. Yet, though the week had flown by with breakneck speed, we’d certainly made the most of it; in spite of rain, mosquitoes and early starts, it had been a packed four days of art, science and agriculture. Today, we would be displaying the week’s efforts in a culminating celebration, inviting the campers’ families out to the farm to join us for a strolling gallery show on the trails.
That Friday, there was no hushed morning studio session, no slow process of waking up in the cool shadows of the Pasture Barn. We had a full day planned, with lots to create and prepare before the afternoon’s exhibition. Our young artists reported straight to the trail that loops around the pastures, selecting patches of earth that spoke to them and getting to work on their Andy Goldsworthy-inspired natural sculptures.
These sculptures, or “earthworks,” are both made from and nested within natural spaces, and after being captured in a few photos they are left to the forces of entropy, claimed by weather and decay and time. Goldsworthy likes to bend his foraged materials to precise geometric forms, simultaneously asserting a meticulous human sensibility of control and submitting to the inevitable law of ephemerality as he leaves his work to dissolve back into the landscape it rose from. There’s an ethos and a poetry there that we wanted to share with our young campers, as throughout the week we wove between themes of art, scientific inquiry, the craft of farming, and—a common thread throughout them all—conservation.
Each of the campers’ sculptures reflected their own take on the project—each was unique, looking like neither Goldsworthy’s work nor each other’s. Naia focused on her favorite Michigan wildflowers, Queen Anne’s Lace and the dark, seedy crimson heads of curly dock. Zaina integrated both living and dead plants into a sculpture steeped in quiet symbolism, while Taylor ingeniously engineered an assemblage of rocks and worn, fallen branches into a graceful tower taller than she is. Meanwhile, Carlie had been eyeing the spare rolls of wire fencing that hung about the pastures all week; with some help from her friends, she wrestled one of them to her chosen site, then fearlessly set to felling a dead sapling that caught her fancy. Art is an unstoppable force, and Carlie was bent on taking mixed media to the next level!
Ben fetched Carlie and accomplices a saw to ease the process, while Jen, Amanda and Naomi each kept an eye on the nearest camper while cheerfully assembling our own sculptures to fill out the long trailside. When each petal, twig and stone was placed to everyone’s satisfaction, Jen and the campers filed back into the barn to add the finishing touches to the week’s two-dimensional works. The young artists learned to matte their masterpieces, and began to arrange them on easels and fenceposts along the trail.
In the meantime, Ben continued to zip about heroically on his golf cart, lending a hand (or staple gun, as the case may be) wherever needed. Amanda and Naomi reported to the garden to harvest snacks for the afternoon’s “reception”—basil, cucumbers, carrots, beets, spicy nasturtium flowers, and an improvised twist on fruit salad that included ground cherries, currants, raspberries (both wild and cultivated) and purslane, a garden weed with crisp, succulent little leaves and a mildly tart flavor. Simple and seasonal!
Around 3 o’clock, the campers’ families trickled in for the festivities. We all walked the trail together, admiring each work of art in turn, as each camper presented her vision, process, and handwritten artist statement. Though they’d all received the same instruction from Jen, and observed & drawn upon the same landscapes, specimens and subjects for their work, each had emerged as different artists, with their own perspectives and distinct styles that became clear as we moved through the “gallery.”
Afterward, everyone converged on the Pasture Barn patio, while Amanda and Naomi made a hasty second round of the trail, collecting everyone’s work to send home with them. The campers lingered in the last moments of that special, short-lived summer-camp atmosphere that we’d all built together throughout the week– then, as is the inevitable way of things, they each in turn packed into their parents’ cars and left, with hugs and thanks and eager waves, and—best of all—promises to come back next year.
As the trees begin to turn, and the nights grow cold, we’re already looking forward to it! A big thanks to Jen Koppin, artist, scientist, and teacher extraordinaire, for making our first Eco Art & Science Camp a success. Next year will be even bigger and better!
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Informing and connecting businesses in New Jersey
N.J. companies using organization’s platform to find nonprofits in need of skilled aid
By Anjalee Khemlani
New Jersey | Aug 6, 2018 at 11:53 am
Catchafire, a New York based for-profit benefits corporation, wants to change how companies promote corporate social responsibility.
Rather than simply engaging in a day of volunteering at a nonprofit nearby, cutting a check or participating in a donation collection, the organization wants people to donate their time and skills.
That has manifested itself, in the past seven years since the organization launched the project platform, in pro bono work, long-term donors and even some individuals ending up as board members of nonprofits, according to Chief Operating Officer Katherine Brady.
The program has been growing by word-of-mouth, as well as help from financial backers like the Princeton-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and corporate partners like Kenilworth-based Merck, Brady said.
In addition, Catchafire has partnered with LinkedIn for Good — which offers similar skills-based volunteering opportunities.
Bristol-Myers Squibb already has a Skill 2 Give group within the company, collecting the pool of talent interested in engaging with nonprofit projects.
The company has existing projects on the continent of Africa, according to BMS Foundation President John Damonti.
A group of six employees from around the world are teamed up and sent to an area in Africa to share knowledge of their expertise. Employees from the financial and business development group train others on financial management and microfinancing. The medical group helps share best medical knowledge and helps create develop registries of patients.
But that comes at a cost to BMS.
Now, the pharmaceutical company is paying Catchafire for access to its database of volunteer opportunities and allowing individuals in the company to find volunteer opportunities that match their skill set.
BMS successfully used Catchafire to link up with the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad to help grow its social media presence.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has become a major partner, helping to sponsor access to the site for nonprofits.
The access fee is $2,000 annually, which allows nonprofits to post an unlimited number of projects they need help with, according to Brady.
Companies that want access to the project list also pay a fee, which Catchafire declined to disclose.
The company has served nearly 10,000 nonprofit organizations in seven years, but refused to disclose how many nonprofits are signed up on the site.
“There has simply been an increase in the number of professionals who are seeking ways to give back in meaningful ways,” Brady said.
“We want to get the work done, but we want to create that critical network … that is really important for society that is focused on addressing the community’s most pressing needs.”
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Bob & Roberta Smith, Vote, 2015.
Billboard print.
Our pick of this week’s art events: 10 – 16 April
By Eleanor Mills
From Vote Art at Peckham Platform to Jo Baer’s paintings at Camden Arts Centre, here are six shows to see this week.
Gillian Ayres – New Paintings and Prints
Alan Cristea, London, 13 April – 30 May 2015
As a welcome break to the sobriety of the General Election, head to Cork Street to see a collection of joyous new paintings (below) by eminent abstract artist, Gillian Ayres RA. The show sets new canvases in the context of four significant paintings from Ayres’s 65-year career as an artist, including Sabrina (1978), a wonderful mass of coloured daubs that looks as if one of Seurat’s Pointillist masterpieces has been magnified 500 times. Prints with similar jostling shapes in vibrant colours will also be on display.
Gillian Ayres, Dawn-bright Lawn, 2013.
Oil on canvas. 122 x 244 cm. Courtesy Gillian Ayres and Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
John Stezaker – The Projectionist
The Approach, London, until 19 April 2015
A master of ambiguity, John Stezaker splices vintage photographs to make new, enigmatic compositions. His latest show in London presents black and white filmic scenes superimposed with solid black geometric shapes, as if obscured by the light from a projector.
John Stezaker, Projection, 2015.
Silkscreen on black cotton. 164 x 195 cm.
Jo Baer – Towards the Land of the Giants
Camden Arts Centre, London, until 21 June 2015
American artist Jo Baer was a key figure in 1960s American Minimalism, but made a step-change to figuration in the 1980s. This show tracks her career from stark square paintings of the 1960s and 70s, consisting of white canvases bordered with black, to a new series of paintings that depicts cryptic scenes, some peopled and highly symbolic. Inspired by the ancient marks of man in Paleolithic caves, the series ‘Towards the Land of the Giants’ (below) is a vast leap from Baer’s earliest work.
Jo Baer, Royal Families (Curves, Points and Little Ones), 2013.
Oil on canvas. 185 x 185 cm.
Vote Art
Peckham Platform, London, until 7 May 2015
The Cass Bank Gallery, Aldgate East, London, until 7 May 2015
Soon billboards across the country will be plastered with artworks encouraging us to vote at the General Election. Artists Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith RA, Fatima Begum and Janette Parris have made commanding, text-based poster-works to persuade the non-voters to vote. The posters will appear across the UK, but the originals are on display at Peckham Platform.
For those engaged with the state of the arts, there’s a chance to delve further at Cass Bank Gallery with their exhibition and programme of events, ‘The Arts Emergency Response Centre’. By confronting critical challenges facing the arts, education and their funding, the artists are urging any new UK government to put the arts at its heart. Bob and Roberta Smith RA is central to the programme, as well as celebrities and well known musicians including Jarvis Cocker.
Jeremy Deller, Vote, 2015.
From Centre
Slate Projects, London, 11 – 26 April 2015
A group show of contemporary approaches to geometric abstract art, this exhibition takes in work by Tess Jaray RA, as well as two current second-year RA Schools students, Rhys Coren (Midnight Cocktail, 2015, below) and Robin Seir.
Rhys Coren, Midnight Cocktail, 2015.
Acrylic, spray-paint, chalk, laser, cut wood. 91 x 66 cm.
Last Chance, Viviane Sassen – Pikin Slee
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 11 – 26 April 2015
The subject of Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen’s exhibition at the ICA is the remote rainforest village of Pikin Slee in the country of Suriname, on the northern coast of South America. Its community live with no modern luxuries, nor running water, but the simplicity of their lives appealed to Sassen. The ICA show the results of her trip, including photos of people in profile, details of bodies, snippets of daily life and images of nature’s wares. Warrior (2013, below) frames rainforest leaves in a painterly way to evoke the form of a flexing spear-thrower.
Viviane Sassen, Warrior, 2013.
C-Print photograph. © Viviane Sassen Courtesy the artist and Stevenson Gallery.
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Qucit launches world’s first bikeshare predictive API
By Louis Dorard Published on 22 October 2014 at 15 h 10 min
Bordeaux-based big data startup Qucit released this month the world’s first bikeshare predictive API. It is tightly integrated in iPhone and Android app La Bonne Station (the new iPhone version was released yesterday).
The app uses the API to power a visualization of predicted bike availability over 12 hours in the future, at any given station of Bordeaux’s public bikes network. The technology behind the API comes from 3 years of Research & Development effort and will continue its development in collaboration with the Labri and the IMB research institutes in Bordeaux. It is based on custom machine learning techniques applied to 4 years of historical data on bikeshare usage, enriched with additional contextual data such as weather conditions.
Predictive apps for a smart city
La Bonne Station is an app (available in French and in English) that is edited by Keolis, the public transport operator in Bordeaux. The new predictive functionality has been largely promoted by Keolis as they’ve put promotional seat covers on bikes all over the city.
In a previous article, we saw how predictive technology was being used in connected objects. This new app by Qucit and Keolis is a great example of how predictive apps are also being adopted by end users in their daily lives. It addresses two major problems for those who rely on public bikes for transportation: arriving at an empty station when on foot, and arriving at a full station when on a bike. Users can now anticipate and directly go to the right station — hence the name “la bonne station” in French!
What would be even cooler would be to have an integration with Snips’ Pocket Brain (another French startup) which will predict when you need the bike app — and potentially predict where you’re going. Speaking of this, Uber recently published a blog post in which they explained how they manage to predict a user’s destination address with 74% accuracy.
Another important aspect of Qucit’s technology is its “smart city” impact. Qucit works in close collaboration with Effia, Keolis’ subsidiary which deals with the maintenance of the bikes network. They’re looking at ways to improve load balancing, performed by maintenance trucks that move bikes around the city.
An idea could be to equip staff with tablets that leverage the predictive API to anticipate bike usage and to better decide where maintenance/load-balancing trucks should go — before stations become empty or full. This could both improve maintenance’s operations and the end-user experience.
These days, Qucit is also monitoring calls to its API in order to get insights into how the predictive feature is being used: which requests are made, how far in advance, how far from the current position of the user, etc.
Future challenges
To me, the logical next step for the company would be to replicate what they’ve done in Bordeaux to other cities that are also operated by Keolis. Hopefully they will also be able to bring the technology to Paris’ velibs soon (operated by JC Decaux). The current revenue model mixes a fixed fee for setting up the API and a recurring fee for access to the API. If Qucit decides to focus on replicability and scaling, I’m guessing they should be able to lower the setup fee and to transition to a recurring model.
On a technical aspect, they may need to keep updating their predictive models since people’s habits may change, as more of them will adopt the new predictive feature. Let me explain. The current models assume that, in any given context, users’ behavior is fixed. Overall, it’s probably true that behavior hasn’t changed much since the predictive feature came out. But when adoption reaches a critical level, this assumption won’t be reasonable any more. Consider this example: if many users ask for predictions of available bikes at a given station A, and predictions say there will be none at A but plenty at next station B, then all these users will go to B instead of A; as a consequence, there will be more bikes available at A than predicted, and less at B.
This won’t be a problem at first, but when the predictive app reaches a critical mass of users, Qucit may need to transition from predictive to prescriptive: instead of telling users what’s going to happen, they could recommend them what to do (i.e. they will just tell you which station to go to).
Qucit (for “Quantified Cities”) was founded a year ago by CEO Dr Raphaël Cherrier, a former physics lecturer and researcher at ENSAM. The startup now counts 7 people, it is self-funded and it has received grants from Bpifrance for being a laureate of the Concours National d’Aide à la Création d’Entreprises Innovantes [in French] and of the Concours Mondial de l’Innovation (“worldwide innovation challenge”) in which any company — big or small — that is based or has a subsidiary in France can compete.
If you’re interested in finding out more about predictive APIs and predictive apps, check out the PAPIs.io conference in Barcelona on 17–18 November 2014. Qucit and other innovative companies will be showcasing their technology. Use discount code RBPAPIS to get 20% off on registration.
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Sanctuary then and now
Will America learn from or repeat history under Trump?
Sanctuary then and now Will America learn from or repeat history under Trump? Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2016/12/26/sanctuary-then-and-now/95847706/
Times Writers Group Published 3:34 p.m. CT Dec. 26, 2016
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One of my fondest Christmastime memories is my mother setting up the crèche with us kids. A wooden stable with straw roof, papier-mâché cows, sheep and a manger. Then the three wise men — Balthasar, Melchior and Caspar, who was black. Joseph and Mary next.
Finally my mother would place baby Jesus in the manger, as she told us the story of the young family — Mary giving birth in a stable far from home and then, hunted by ruthless King Herod, fleeing to Egypt.
All was not as idyllic as it appeared in our nativity scene. Behind the joy and innocence of the figurines was a life of ordeals, resilience and perseverance.
My mother has passed. But I still think about her lessons of life’s tests and experiencing another’s struggles by stepping into their shoes.
I taught this fall at St. Cloud Technical College, St. Cloud State, and St. John’s University/College of St. Benedict’s and hear from students who are fearful for their families. Will the temporary ID and work authorization they got under President Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” be revoked? Will their parents or brothers and sisters be deported?
During the campaign, Donald Trump spoke harshly about people who sought a new beginning in the United States — from Mexicans to Somalis to Syrians. He promised mass deportation of whole groups of people, including many brought here as children, who know only American life and nothing of their parents’ home country.
Some ask, “why don’t they [those here illegally] just get in line?” Many Americans do not realize that for many there is no line or that others have been waiting in line for more than a decade — a lifetime to families.
For too long, Congress has failed to fix our broken immigration system. So, in this time of political transition, it is time for our local governments and universities to stand together and press for change.
For inspiration, they might look to our history. During slavery times, many African-Americans fled to northern states literally as “illegal immigrants” escaping bondage. Federal law permitted slaveholders to recapture fugitive slaves living in free states.
People of conscience considered this a great injustice and vowed noncooperation. Several northern states passed “personal liberty” laws, withholding use of state and local resources to enforce national fugitive slave laws.
In 1842 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not require states “to carry into effect the duties of the national government." Without violating federal law, cities, states, and counties could decline to participate in the act of slave-catching.
Massachusetts, for example, passed a law that “no sheriff, deputy-sheriff... or other officer of Massachusetts, shall hereafter arrest or detain, or aid in the arrest or detention or imprisonment in any jail” of any person “claimed as a fugitive slave.”
Similarly today, our local governments and universities have no duty — moral or legal — to enforce our broken immigration laws.
By declining voluntary assistance in deportations, they can send a strong message that they want Congress to fix our immigration system.
•Inform federal authorities who among us is undocumented?
Not without a court order. Better yet, apply a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. If you don’t ask immigration status, you have nothing to tell.
•Turn people over to federal immigration authorities if they encounter local police or sheriff’s deputies?
Not unless they have been convicted of a serious crime or are individuals for whom an arrest warrant has been issued. A simple traffic stop should not trigger deportation. See what cities and counties can do at https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/local_options-20161215.pdf, from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
•Federal immigration raids on campus property?
Court order, please. Follow the policy announced by Wesleyan University president Michael Roth: The university “will not voluntarily assist in any efforts by the federal government to deport our students, faculty or staff solely because of their citizenship status.”
At Christmastime, my mother brought alive the nativity scene with tales of people who became, in a sense, members of our own family.
Today we face a moral choice. Will we stand with immigrants who work and live as valued members in our community, as many Americans in the 19th century did with runaway slaves? Or will we remain silent as politicians threaten massive deportation separating families and tearing people from our communities?
As the new year approaches, let’s make it clear through our actions that Central Minnesota is a welcoming and sanctuary place for all of our residents.
This the opinion of Pia Lopez, whose column is published the fourth Tuesday of the month.
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VW gives startup infusion of cash, talent, potential to grab global AV leadership
by Luke Patterson 15.07.2019, 15:17 676 Views
From left, Ford CEO Jim Hackett, Argo AI CEO Bryan Salesky and VW Group CEO Herbert Diess. The automakers now own equal stakes in the self-driving tech company. When Bryan Salesky was in charge of hardware development for Google’s self-driving car project, he quickly grasped not just the value, but the necessity of close collaboration with automakers.
“I certainly gained in my appreciation for why timelines are long on the hardware side, gained in my appreciation for the difficulties on setting up new manufacturing and building parts that are cost-effective,” he told Automotive News .
Those lessons were foremost in mind when he co-founded Argo AI in 2016, and now they’re paying off.
Argo AI received a $2.6 billion investment from Volkswagen Group last week in a blockbuster deal that gives the Pittsburgh company the potential to scale its self-driving systems on at least two continents across a variety of vehicle platforms and uses.
The company had received a $1 billion commitment from Ford Motor Co. If it wasn’t already considered one of the front-runners in the global push to develop autonomous driving technology, it is now.
“For us, this is a huge boost for our team, and it cements us as a self-driving platform that can reach globally,” Salesky, Argo’s CEO, said. “Two of the largest automakers aligning around our technology is a really big deal.”
Waymo, the commercial-minded descendant of Google’s self-driving car project, in June announced an agreement to explore the use of its self-driving technology with Renault-Nissan in Japan and France. Honda in October announced a $2.7 billion investment over 10 years in General Motors’ Cruise subsidiary.
Now investment from the world’s largest automaker provides the potential for Argo to scale at a global level.
“The fact that Volkswagen has been at it long enough, since the days of the DARPA challenges, when they supported a Stanford team, I think they probably have a pretty good idea of what they’re looking for,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a principal research analyst at Navigant Research. “The fact they opted to go with Argo and use that technology really validates what Argo is doing and how they’re doing it.”
With the Volkswagen investment, Argo AI is valued at $7 billion, the companies said last week.
One of the more notable aspects of VW’s investment is that $1.6 billion of it comes from the transfer of the company’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving, or AID, division, which had been part of the Audi brand, to Argo. The transfer includes 200 employees, intellectual property and technology, Salesky said.
AID’s Munich headquarters becomes Argo’s European base. That Volkswagen was willing to fold its in-house efforts into the deal underscores its commitment to — and now reliance upon — Argo.
The combination of Argo and AID creates a company with 700 employees and an infusion of talent in an industry that craves experienced software and hardware engineers. It also ups the risk. Salesky says it’s too early to say which components of the group’s intellectual property and technology will be most useful.
“The Argo tech stack is what we’re aligning around,” he said. “The question is where that [intellectual property] fits in and complements ours. We’re going to work with them to understand our opportunities, and I’m sure there will be some integration.”
Argo tests self-driving vehicles in Miami, Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Palo Alto, Calif. With VW, testing is expected to begin in Europe next year. Commercial deployments of the self-driving technology are expected with Ford in 2021, and Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said similar uses are on an “early 2020s” timetable.
As much as global scale remains a focus and a benefit of the partnerships with Ford and VW, Salesky emphasized last week a less-appreciated aspect of building self-driving technology: One size does not fit all locations, and often, developing and vetting the technology requires a city-by-city approach.
“We believe it’s one city at a time, and you can do that globally, working in multiple locations simultaneously,” he said. “But I say city by city in relation to customizing self-driving systems to fit in with local driving behaviors and patterns. It can literally vary intersection by intersection whether it’s acceptable to ‘block the box.’ We want to take our time and understand at a local level what the needs are.”
Ford and Volkswagen now own equal stakes in the self-driving tech company. Both companies will hold two board seats, while Argo has three. Argo remains open to further outside investment.
Before landing on Argo, Volkswagen had considered a number of self-driving partners. Last fall, Reuters reported that VW held discussions with Waymo. In June, Volkswagen officials announced the end of an exploratory partnership with Aurora Innovation. In Argo, the company finally found its match. Consumers are being exposed to massive change within the automotive industry. In this rapidly moving environment, the ability to monitor consumer sentiment has emerged as a critical discipline. As innovations across industries continue to elevate consumer awareness, automotive players must be ready to adapt quickly to evolving consumer behaviors, sentiment and expectations.
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I was reading a new book on Shakespeare today, which mentioned a campaign (led by a Scottish Member of Parliament, Alex Johnstone) to make the public more aware of what the Macbeth of history was like, and how different he was from the Macbeth of Shakespeare's play. I wonder what its members would think of "City of Stone", if they knew of it.
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Wed, Mar 15, 2017 10:32:19 pm EDT from 68.231.85.113
Check out chapter twenty-seven of my fanfiction story Gargoyles Time's Changeling -
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11105220/27/Gargoyles-Time-s-Changeling
Celgress - [odues dot oddities at gmail dot com]
posted @ Wed, Mar 15, 2017 6:08:47 pm EDT from 174.117.82.216
Disneyland Anaheim has some leftover watch art of the Manhattan clan in the store near the Lincoln ride.
Lonnie - [Anarkylantern at icloud dot com]
posted @ Tue, Mar 14, 2017 9:19:43 pm EDT from 70.211.3.116
When watching Owen, I never really thought about his personal life. I'm not even sure Owen thought about his personal life. He stuck his own hand in the pot and turned it stone. He should really be more careful. He's making his own human life far too expendable than it should be.
Green Lantern's Nightlight
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 10:19:54 pm EDT from 82.36.244.121
GNL: My guess is that Greg would/will have Lex spending a lot of time with his "friend" Amp away from the rest of the clan, and leave it to us to fill in the blanks. Then again, shows like Steven Universe and Legend of Korra have gotten a lot closer to outright saying "they're gay" than shows did in the 90's.
Jurgan - [jurgan6 at yahoo dot com]
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 10:16:39 pm EDT from 184.96.189.175
@April
I don't think you could find more information on Preston Vogel besides the wiki, except for asking Greg something.
B - [brownie2 at buffalo dot edu]
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 10:10:41 pm EDT from 72.228.171.41
The way I see it Owen identifies as asexual but as said before that doesn't mean aromantic. Since Puck takes on many different faces if he could take a shot at playing the straight-man why not as an asexual too?
Muscles fade and the mind dulls.But as long as the heart is willing, strength remains.
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 8:26:39 pm EDT from 64.85.229.140
I see the situation in Turf as similar to the one in Upgrade. Did Lexington or Broadway REALLY want to be Second in Command, or are the Trio just prone to occasional bouts of hyper-competitive sibling rivalry?
I guard your death
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 8:03:22 pm EDT from 109.76.241.160
Thanks for all the Owen advice and info...next question (or rather a question about directions)...besides the wiki, where can find more info on Preston Vogel?d9e54c
April - [Apryl8229 at Yahoo dot com]
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 5:11:11 pm EDT from 70.195.201.40
Sixth.
BrooksBabe
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 4:03:44 pm EDT from 209.171.88.83
I was talking about on-screen, not on-comic. I'm not completely in "the know" about the comic, so unfortunately I might sound out dated on some things.
About doing it for the sake of it, I just meant it just seems like, well, how do you make a team more diversified? Make one of them gay. Nobody's going to going to really question that now. But I'd find that interesting if the cartoon did get a proper third season, because Disney would've never allowed that. It would end up being something for the fans to fill up his character more, rather than any real character development.
Remember, nothing's canon until it shows up on screen or in a Weisman-written comicbook. I didn't see Greg say Owen was asexual, but I have no problem with it. In fact, I really like him being ace but also having a romantic relationship, as a lot of people wrongly think that's impossible.
"It's just like making someone gay for the sake of it."
What's wrong with that? Personally, I think it's great when a character isn't defined by their sexuality, it's just one aspect of them. It doesn't need to be a huge production. Also, if you look back at "Turf," it does seem like Lex is just playing "follow the leader." Brooklyn has long been looking for love, and Broadway ends up with Angela, but Lex never showed any sexual interest at all up until then. He didn't seem like he was genuinely interested in Angela so much as he got caught competing with his brothers. Note that Brooklyn gets his dejected "parting is such sweet sorrow" line when Angela gets with Broadway, but Lexington barely notices.
Also, have you read the SLG comics? I'd say it's strongly hinted that Lex is attracted to Amp.
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 2:54:44 pm EDT from 130.253.30.207
Fifth.
Owen's supposed to be asexual, which has never been confirmed or denied on-screen. And then there's apparently Lex, who's gay, but has actually shown interest in Angela. I've been wondering ever since I saw Greg make the comment that Lex is gay, what would make Lex gay when there's no proof whatsoever to back that up? It's just like making someone gay for the sake of it. Beast Boy's mom in YJ is also gay, which also serves as a plot point, but has never been completely acknowledged. The only way I could see Lex(ington) as being gay is that he's the least brash of the Trio, he's kind of like the sweet, quiet, intellectual type (although he did want payback against the Pack, giving him an edge), but that just sounds like a stereotype. About him showing off to Angela when she first joined the Manhattan clan, is that he was trying to hide it.
It's also kind of a spoiler, because it's revealing something that hasn't happened yet, and something that's never been hinted at. Or it's like when Greg revealed that Goliath will one day die, just not how he dies. So Greg can say that Lex is gay, but won't reveal what leads up to that.
It's something I wanted to ask Greg, because I've just wanted to know why he decided to do that?
@Jurgen I see. Since you said, "Owen could have a girlfriend/boyfriend/friend with benefits that we just never see. Conversely, there's nothing to say that he isn't asexual," it wasn't clear if you knew about the confirmed offscreen girlfriend and asexuality.
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 9:31:30 am EDT from 72.228.171.41
FOURTH!
Plus Asexual does not necessarily mean Aromantic.
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 8:53:56 am EDT from 109.76.241.160
I get all that. I was just saying that when Weisman apparently said he was ace, my reaction was neither "hah, I knew it!" nor "what, no way!"
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 12:55:27 am EDT from 71.218.133.49
Make that third. When I began writing, there was only Vinnie.
Second.
@Jurgan - Greg Weisman has said both that Owen is asexual and that he's dating a woman offscreen (someone we don't know) and that the two are not mutually exclusive.
Two, I guess.
One(1st)First!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
posted @ Mon, Mar 13, 2017 12:20:57 am EDT from 172.14.186.123
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Morning ferry sailings are cancelled as high winds hit terminals. (Black Press Media file photo)
UPDATE: BC Ferries resumes service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay
Sailings resume with 3 p.m. departures from Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay
Nina Grossman
Jan. 10, 2020 6:48 a.m.
Service has resumed on ferries travelling between North Saanich and the Lower Mainland after sailings were cancelled Friday morning and afternoon.
As of 1 p.m., BC Ferries said service will resume with the 3 p.m. departures from Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen.
Heavy winds caused BC Ferries to cancel all 7 and 9 a.m. sailings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay. The 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. sailings between the two destinations as well as the 2 p.m. sailing from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay were also cancelled.
READ ALSO: A dozen sailings between Greater Victoria and Greater Vancouver cancelled during first week of 2020
“The safety of our passengers and crew is of primary importance to us,” BC Ferries said in a service notice Friday morning. “We don’t take the decision to cancel sailings lightly, as we know customers rely on us to get to their destinations.”
⚠️ There's a high probability that the windstorm predicted by @ECCCWeatherBC to hit the coast on Friday will impact service from morning through early afternoon. As a result, some sailings may be cancelled for safety reasons. View travel advisory: https://t.co/4DkE13LNrU ^js
— BC Ferries (@BCFerries) January 10, 2020
Customers with cancelled reservations had their reservation fees fully refunded.
Once sailings resume, BC Ferries said customers will be loaded on a standby basis in their order of arrival at the terminal, after customers with a reservation have checked in.
The 3 p.m. sailings from Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay are 1oo per cent full and as of 2:05 p.m. the Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay ferry at 5 p.m. was 76 per cent full.
#CurrentConditions as of 2:05 pm #Tsawwassen – #SwartzBay now ticketing for the 5pm sailing – 76% full. Reserved traffic moving normally. Keep updated here: https://t.co/FH08bdHXLH ^ta
Environment Canada issued a wind warning for the region around 5 a.m., advising that a pacific frontal system moving across Vancouver Island would cause “strong winds that may cause damage.”
Southeast winds of 60 to 80 km/h were predicted to develop in the morning over Greater Victoria near Haro Strait, the Southern Gulf Islands, the north and central sections of east Vancouver Island, and the Sunshine Coast.
The winds were expected to ease up by noon.
Environment Canada warned that “loose objects may be tossed by the wind and cause injury or damage.” Drivers may need to adjust their driving with changing road conditions.
BC Ferries requests customers with reservations check-in at the terminals in accordance with scheduled sailing times to maintain reserved status.
READ ALSO: More B.C. Ferries sailings cancelled as windy weather persists
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