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Come to NADA and Beta-Local's event this Friday
Sample San Juan's art scene courtesy of some Puerto Rico curators featured in Art Cities of the Future
Scaffolding 2011, installation of 15 structures made with books and wood - Tony Cruz Pabon
In our book Art Cities of the Future 21st Century Avant-Gardes the writer Pablo Leon de la Barra points out that “it’s impossible to write about Puerto Rico’s contemporary art scene without recognizing the immense contribution of Michy Marxuach, who has been the driving force behind the island’s avant-garde, especially in rethinking real possibilities for art’s impact.”
In the early 2000s Marxuach created and directed M&M Proyectos, artist studios and residences in a former department store in Old San Juan. As part of M&M Proyectos, she developed the Puerto Rico 2000, 2002 and Puerto Rico 2004 biennials which sought new ways for artists to engage with the local context. As Art Cities points out, “by establishing a network among participating artists, the PR biennials helped to break down local artistic isolation, not only through international exposure, but also by making the younger generation aware of its potential to develop projects despite infrastructural limitations.”
The daily routine t Beta-Local as featured in Art Cities of the Future
After the biennials, Marxuach briefly retired from the scene, but returned in 2009 to launch the nonprofit organization Beta-Local with artists Beatrice Santiago Munoz and Tony Cruz Pabon. Beta-Local emphasizes the development and exchange of knowledge through a series of initiatives: a study and production programme that functions as a postgraduate alternative to emigration abroad; a residency program for international artists, curators and other cultural practitioners; an experimental school open to the general public; and a reference library of art and design resources.
As part of its study programme, Beta-Local has been instrumental in supporting the development of the island’s next generation of artists, including Alana Iturralde, Michelle Gratacos-Arill and Joel ‘Yoyo’ Rodriguez. All of which is an introduction to the news that our friends at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) are hosting an event this Friday (February 14) in San Juan as part of their NADA con member conference this weekend.
The event flyer
The program, El Comedor de los Viernes is a monthly event. The ‘dialogue’ is not a formal lecture but more about the community coming together - Beta-Local celebrating their programs and artists, and in this specific case the NADA group interacting and meeting Beta-Local’s community. There will be food and drinks provided by independent Brooklyn-based food artisan Morris Kitchen for some cross cultural interaction. If you’d like to go it takes place between 6.30 and 9.30 at Beta-Local, Calle Luna 208 esquina San Justo, San Juan, Puerto Rico, or you can just find out more about it here.
And if you’d like to learn more about the Art Cities of the Future and how they are impacting on the global art world check out the book Art Cities of the Future 21st Century Avant-Gardes in our online store.
Art Cities of the Future Hardback | English USD$79.95
Art in Vienna 1898-1918 4th editionHardback | English USD$59.95
The Story of ArtPaperback | English USD$44.95
Erika Verzutti talks art and cities at NADA Miami
The São Paulo Art Cities of The Future artist finds domestic tranquility in Brazil's "infernal activity"
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Natriuretic peptide-guided treatment for heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis
McLellan J., Bankhead CR., Oke JL., Hobbs FDR., Taylor CJ., Perera R.
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Background: GUIDE-IT, the largest trial to date, published in August 2017, evaluating the effectiveness of natriuretic peptide (NP)-guided treatment of heart failure (HF), was stopped early for futility on a composite outcome. However, the reported effect sizes on individual outcomes of all-cause mortality and HF admissions are potentially clinically relevant. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to combine all available trial level evidence to determine if NP-guided treatment of HF reduces all-cause mortality and HF admissions in patients with HF. Study selection: Eight databases, no language restrictions, up to November 2017 were searched for all randomised controlled trials comparing NP-guided treatment versus clinical assessment alone in adult patients with HF. No language restrictions were applied. Publications were independently double screened and extracted. Fixed-effect meta-analyses were conducted. Findings: 89 papers were included, reporting 19 trials (4554 participants), average ages 62-80 years. Pooled risk ratio estimates for all-cause mortality (16 trials, 4063 participants) were 0.87, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.99 and 0.80, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.89 for HF admissions (11 trials, 2822 participants). Sensitivity analyses, restricted to low risk of bias, produced similar estimates, but were no longer statistically significant. Conclusions: Considering all the evidence to date, the pooled effects suggest that NP-guided treatment is beneficial in reducing HF admissions and all-cause mortality. However, there is still insufficient high-quality evidence to make definitive recommendations on the use of NP-guided treatment in clinical practice. Trial registration number: Systematic Review Cochrane Database Number: CD008966.
10.1136/bmjebm-2019-111208
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The Queen's Park 2018-19 Thread
By The Spider, May 7, 2018 in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
a lot at stake!
Mick1867 613
Third Division Sub
Location : Mount Florida
My Team : Queen's Park
7 hours ago, The Spider said:
More than competent goalkeeper but if true then he's clearly using us, so as a matter of principle I'd tell him where to go. Doubt if there's anything in it though as it would clearly be an act of desperation on his part to be seeking a safe haven for a third time.
It's probably just another shitey rumour.... but what if he and Gus have had a sit down and patched up their differences? I'd take him back, no problem at all.
By the way, I wouldn't hold it against him on how he returned to us the first time i.e his reasons for signing for East Fife then coming back. These things happen and his performances were one of the major reasons we stayed up that season.
Edited May 24, 2018 by Mick1867
williebraveheart 204
My Team : Queens Park
On 22/05/2018 at 00:36, Spidersmad said:
It was to consist of "red cap, black and white inch stripe jersey and stockings, and white knickerbockers."
I seem to remember I was present at that meeting!!!!!!!! That said, ma heid is spinning with aw they big words.
Look forward to the red caps at some away games.
Edited May 24, 2018 by williebraveheart
The Spider 530
Location : Shi'Kahr, Vulcan
Gamertag : live long & prosper
4 hours ago, Marshall13 said:
What was the reason he left ??
Filthy lucre M13, filthy lucre. Happy to give any player a second chance, but no matter how good any player is taking Muir back yet again would be sending out entirely the wrong message. Do we really want to get into the habit of allowing players to come and go as they please mid-season, and how did that work out for us last season?
We are a club with proud traditions that were put in place for good reason, so forgive me for not joining the clamour to encourage the return of someone who has already treated us contemptuously.
Marshall13 1
22 minutes ago, The Spider said:
It didn’t work out last season as gus didn’t play him for some reason!!
PASSANDMOVE 63
If Gus and him patch up there differences would gladly have him back, don't blame him leaving, although shouldn't have been allowed to go during the season. Scandalous decision to let him go , no comparison between him and White.
Definitely no comparison between muir and whyte
an86 2,319
First Division Superstar
40 minutes ago, PASSANDMOVE said:
Muir wanted to go. There are two stories, neither of which involve him being chased out of the club.
Yeah there is always two sides to a story but you don’t just stop playing the best keeper in the league for no reason we all know gus throws his toys out the pram!! Anyway if he did come back would be great and get us back up again!!
36 minutes ago, Marshall13 said:
Also worth saying that no player is entitled to a place in the side and that any toy throwing didn’t come from the manager. If someone wants to be a Queen’s Park player, it can’t be on their terms only. If he’d wanted to remain a Queen’s Park player, he would have remained one. As has been said, I hope a line is drawn under whatever may or may not have happened.
bobthespider 73
Don’t understand this other clubs are announcing signing our players. Our players are telling us on Twitter they are leaving but have we heard anything from our club?
Don’t even want to know who our potential signings are just want someone to tell us who has gone and which members of the squad from last year have indicated they are staying.
As for Muir if he had played last year for the full season we would still be in league one .
15 minutes ago, bobthespider said:
Yeah course we would still be up in league 1
There’s absolutely no basis for this. He’s a good keeper, not some sort of miracle worker. The fact that he was in goal when we conceded five at home to the worst team in the league points to this.
Sorry I thought he was previous player of the year . We were poor at the back last year and a good keeper would have saved us enough points to stay up .
4 minutes ago, bobthespider said:
We were losing horrific goals when he was playing, we were losing horrific goals when White played . He’s a better keeper than White, but Gianluigi Buffon couldn’t have kept us up given the way we defended all season.
Everyone is allowed their opinion and I for one would welcome Muir back next season.
As would I.
2 hours ago, bobthespider said:
It's simple Bob, it's the Queen's Park way! This comes up every single year and we moan and complain about it, but it ain't gonna change because knowledge is power, and they think that by keeping quiet about signings in particular that it reduces the likelihood of another club gazumping us before we can register them. If previous seasons are anything to go by then you can expect a list of re-signings in late June and a confirmed list of new signings (that we'll all already have identified from our own investigative work) on the day before the first official fixture.
Hampden Diehard's an expert on this topic. He'll be able to provide you with a less cynical version!
Hampden Diehard 1,585
Location : Baaadlands of Glasgow's south side
Gamertag : Games are for daft wee boys
Dead bloody simple. You keep the best til last; that way your close season ends with a bang. You should always have your most enjoyable experience at the end of a meal (or, in this case, close season). You wouldn't have your ice cream and jelly BEFORE your mince and tatties.
So...enjoy the Champions League, the World Cup and the two wet weeks in the caravan first.....and THEN you have the spanking new QP team to top it all off. A shuddering climax to the close season.
Personally, I'm not that bothered about hearing early on who we've signed unless it's someone like Messi (aka Davie Anderson). I'll look forward to whoever it is doing the business in the first official fixture.
Bring Your Own Socks 1,302
15 hours ago, The Spider said:
Do we really want to get into the habit of allowing players to come and go as they please mid-season, and how did that work out for us last season?
..."allowing players to come and go" eh? I recall asking the question in January, when the debate was about players coming in, was there any concern about key players leaving? You boldly predicted that nobody would leave unless Gus wanted to. Remember? So who's the villain in this pantomime?
14 hours ago, Marshall13 said:
Despite the alleged intervention of Mrs Muir, a one-eyed man with a white stick could see that there was serious friction between Gus and Wullie. I'm on record several times that the key players for getting us promoted were Muir, McGeever and Berry and our successful L1 campaign dependant on Muir, McGeever and McKernon. Muir was the last critical player we had last season and rightly would have thought a bit of respect was due but there were several public spats between the two during games, one notably where a heated conversation ended with Wullie advising Gus to "f**k off".
Wullie actually wasn't close to his previous years' performances but his confidence, like the rest of the team, would have been low and there can't be any doubt that the continous rotation of the defenders was a tension point for the goalie. No doubt in my mind that he was 'punished' for sharing his opinions with the boss, like so many others over the season. The fact that the starting XI was still getting tinkered with to the end of the season told a story. For Gus it's more important that he wins his personal battles rather than Queen's Park winning their battles on the pitch. Nothing will change this season.
12 hours ago, an86 said:
There’s absolutely no basis for this. He’s a good keeper, not some sort of miracle worker.
There isn't now because he played less than half a season. Had he been given the confidence, had a stable defence in front of him (bear in mind that's Gus' speciality) we might well have seen a resurgence in the second half of the season. Like the others on here I can only make a judgement based on what I saw from Muir and White over the course of the last 3 years. But we'll never know now. Thanks to that naughty Mrs. Muir. Nothing to do with Gus, right? I think the fact that White has been instanty released is damning evidence that he wasn't good enough to be a L1 first-choice keeper.
Edited May 25, 2018 by Bring Your Own Socks
Let's not over-complicate this! Muir wanted to break his season long contract mid-term to chase the silver dollar. My stance which has not wavered one iota is that we should not have allowed him to go. I made the additional point that he wouldn't be going unless Gus sanctioned it.
We can debate the rights and wrongs of that decision until the cows come home, as well as speculate on the repercussions, but which part of the above paragraph is it that you have an issue with me on?
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Home » Charles Mason Receives Memorial Stone at Burial Site
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Charles Mason Receives Memorial Stone at Burial Site
Surveyors Rendezvous pays tribute to famous surveyor and 250th anniversary of Mason-Dixon Line.
Attendees of the Surveyors Rendezvous kneel before a boundary stone memorial for Charles Mason at Christ Church Burial Ground. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
Chas Langelan, the vice chairman of the Surveyors Historical Society, speaks during a ceremony honoring Charles Mason at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia on Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
Reenactors from the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment prepare for a ceremony honoring Charles Mason at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia on Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is the site where many famous people, including Benjamin Franklin and Charles Mason, are buried. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
The Rev. Thomas Kinter, the chaplain for the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment, recites the Order for the Burial of the Dead from the 1760 Book of Common Prayer at the ceremony honoring Charles Mason on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
The newly unveiled plaque and original Mason-Dixon boundary stone honoring Charles Mason at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. (Photo credit: John Hetzler)
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KEYWORDS Mason-Dixon Line / Surveyors Rendezvous
The Surveyors Rendezvous made sure everyone will remember Charles Mason.
A British surveyor, astronomer and scientist, Mason received a posthumous honor Saturday when the Surveyors Rendezvous dedicated an original boundary stone from the Mason-Dixon Line in his memory at Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
Along with partner Jeremiah Dixon, Mason started surveying the famous line that set the boundary for Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia 250 years ago in 1763.
But Mason died penniless in 1786, shortly after he had moved his family to the United States. He was buried in an unmarked grave at the burial ground at the corner of 5th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia. The cemetery does not know the exact location of Mason’s grave, so the stone will serve as a memorial and not an actual tombstone. The stone and plaque sit just off the main pathway that leads to Benjamin Franklin's tombstone.
To honor him, attendees of the Surveyors Rendezvous—along with many others--dedicated the boundary stone in a special ceremony. Edwin Danson, a Royal Chartered Surveyor and author of “Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America,” read letters from British Prime Minister David Cameron and Lord Martin Rees, Royal Astronomer.
The ceremony blended religious, historical and cultural elements. The Rev. Katherine Spelman of Christ Church gave the opening invocation, and Richard Leu, Todd Babcock and Chas Langelan gave brief remarks highlighting Mason and his legacy.
Philadelphia singer-songwriters Dan May and Dan Kauffman performed “Sailing to Philadelphia,” which was originally sung by James Taylor and Mark Knopfler. Re-enactors from the 9th Pennsylvania Regiment took part as the Rev. Thomas Kinter recited the “Order for the Burial of the Dead,” and Langelan also led attendees in saying the Surveyor’s Prayer.
Saturday’s ceremony concluded the three-day Surveyors Rendezvous, which also included two other ceremonies honoring the Mason-Dixon Line’s 250th anniversary.
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What Happened in Mecklenburg?
by John Wynne | May 11, 2015 | 2014 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Demographic Trends, Features, NC House Races, NC Politics, NC Senate Races, NCGA | 3 comments
Note: This post was significantly enhanced through the efforts of Lawrence Shaheen, who assisted in writing the piece. Mr. Shaheen is a GOP political consultant and attorney based in Mecklenburg County who has run, consulted, and helped win a number of elections in and around the region over the past five years. PoliticsNC is grateful for his contributions to this post.
Mecklenburg County is North Carolina’s most populous county, containing the city of Charlotte and several well-populated bedroom communities. Both Democrats and Republicans need to make a good showing in key areas in order to do well both in statewide elections as well as the legislature. Republicans don’t typically win in Mecklenburg anymore (unless you are Pat McCrory), but if they can get to 40%, they’re in good shape statewide.
In 2008, Obama’s landslide victory in Mecklenburg, where he netted over 100,000 votes over John McCain, helped him achieve a tiny victory statewide. Four years later, seeking to put North Carolina in play once again, Democrats went so far as to hold their convention in the Queen City. Once again, Obama’s margin of victory in the county was over 100,000, but his percentage of the vote there overall went down. By winning more moderates in the suburbs of Charlotte, Mitt Romney was able to keep the losses down in Mecklenburg, helping him to win the state by 2 points.
President Obama and Senator Hagan had very similar performances in Mecklenburg. Obama won Mecklenburg by 22.4%, Hagan won it by 21.1%, so Tillis did slightly better than Romney. Despite Tillis’s district being in the northern part of the county, his improved performance can be almost solely attributed to large Democratic dropoff from 2012. While the Hagan campaign struggled valiantly to reassemble the Obama coalition, in the end they came up short. African American turnout in particular lagged behind 2012 levels.
The key to doing well in Mecklenburg County is the suburban vote. in 2014 the suburban vote made up a larger percentage of the votes cast in Meck, but voters in this group were less friendly to Tillis than they were to Romney. This is not surprising: Romney was a good fit for the fiscally conservative, relatively affluent, socially moderate voters in Charlotte’s suburbs. Tillis, on the other hand, spent weeks getting pounded by the Democrats and as a result was perceived by these important moderates as a much more divisive figure. The Hagan team spent millions of dollars in ads insisting that Tillis was trying to wreck their children’s education, and there was some unease about the conservative direction the General Assembly was taking the state.
Therefore, there were quite a few Romney/Hagan voters in suburban Meck; the same type of voters live in Wake County and similar patterns were seen there. Finding an Obama/Tillis voter, however, is like finding a needle in a haystack. If Hagan had completely reassembled the Obama coalition, she would have won because Tillis lost a number of Romney voters. In the end, Hagan did well with the urban, well-educated moderate types who populate the Raleigh and Charlotte areas, but lost because her base did not turn out in the right numbers.
Below are maps of the results in Mecklenburg for federal office for the last three election cycles: the Senate elections of 2010 and 2014, and also the presidential election of 2012.
The Congressional Races
Mecklenburg County contains parts of three congressional districts, with the Charlotte urban core mostly being in the 12th district, the suburbs outside being in the 9th, with a tiny sliver of Charlotte in the 8th.
Mecklenburg Congressional Popular Vote
62% GOP
4% Write-In
Thanks to Rep. Robert Pittenger running unopposed, Republicans won 62% of the congressional popular vote. Pittenger was reelected to a second term with opposition from write-ins; Rep. Richard Hudson won a second term against Antonio Blue, and State Rep. Alma Adams was elected to Congress for her first term, winning both the regular election and the special election, taking office right away (the totals above only take general elections into account).
NC Senate Races in Mecklenburg
The road to the majority in the state senate for NC Democrats has to run through NC State Senate District 41 in Mecklenburg County. Unlike Wake County, where three seats could be taken, Mecklenburg County is made up of four extremely partisan seats and one trending swing district NC-41, held by Republican State Senator Jeff Tarte.
The race in SD-41 was the closest of all the Mecklenburg Senate races, and the incumbent there took over 60% of the vote. This can be attributed directly to excellent campaigning on behalf of Senator Tarte. He was a prolific fundraiser, raising more than $300,000 for his campaign despite facing only a moderately challenging opponent. He was also able to contribute over $130,000 to the NC Senate Caucus, despite having to run his own race. However, over time Senate 41 in Mecklenburg will become more and more competitive as it grows. In 2014 it was an R+4 seat on the PVI. As the suburban cities of Cornelius, Davidson, Matthews, Mint Hill and Huntersville within the district continue to grow, the demographics of the district will likely take on a more moderate aspect, making this district one of the most important by 2020.
The remaining Senate districts were all uncompetitive due to the disproportionate makeup of the demographics. Senator Joel Ford (D) was the only other candidate to face general opposition, which he defeated handily. Senator Bob Rucho (R) faced primary opposition in the form of Charlotte trial attorney Matt Arnold, however that race was never in any doubt due to Rucho’s long history of service.
Senate District 37: Sen. Jeff Jackson (D) runs unopposed, wins first full term.
Senate District 38: Sen. Joel Ford (D) elected to second term against Republican Richard Rivette, with almost 80% of the vote.
Senate District 39: Sen. Bob Rucho (R) wins reelection unopposed.
Senate District 40: Joyce Waddell (D) wins seat of retiring Sen. Malcolm Graham. Unopposed.
Senate District 41: Sen. Jeff Tarte (R) wins a second term, beats Democrat Latrice McRae by 21%.
The popular vote for State Senate in Mecklenburg County: 58% Democrat, 42% Republican. Democrats won two-thirds, or 67%, of the seats.
NC House Races in Mecklenburg
The close results of the races run in Mecklenburg County strengthen the fact that the battle for the majority in the North Carolina House will likely bring Mecklenburg to the center stage in the next few election cycles. There are no less than four seats (HD 88, 92, 98, 103) that were won by Republicans in 2014 that could potentially be successfully challenged by strong Democratic challengers.
NC House District 88 Rep. Rob Bryan beat back a well-funded and organized effort to oust him from his suburban south Charlotte seat. He was the beneficiary of the NC House Legislative Partners, a 501c4 designed to assist House members, and ran a focused campaign against Margie Storch, a longtime activist within the Democratic Party. So long as Rep. Bryan continues to raise money, he will likely hold on to this R+2 seat, although his margins will continue to be close.
NC House Caucus Chairman and District 92 Rep. Charlie Jeter got off lucky this last race, facing off against an opponent, Robin Bradford, that he had defeated, albeit closely, in the previous cycle. Her inability to fundraise and lack of support from the caucus guaranteed Rep. Jeter’s reelection. However he currently represents a D+2 district and will be the most likely targeted Republican House rep in the state. With the right candidate and a well-run race, it would not matter how much money Rep. Jeter puts in to his race, he would be facing a serious uphill battle.
Freshman District 98 Rep. John Bradford faced a well-funded and organized opponent both in the primary and in the general, but was successful through excellent campaigning and fundraising. His seat will likely be the least challenging of the four in Mecklenburg due to his history of service in Cornelius and the R+4 nature of the district.
The biggest unknown of the four house districts is NC House District 103, represented by Senior Finance Co-Chairman Bil Brawley. Having not faced an opponent since his victory over Professor Anne Newman in 2010, Rep. Brawley has established himself as a fair minded advocate of the two towns in his district, Matthews and Mint Hill. He has been a friend to many legislative Republicans who had to run competitive races and has raised his profile through fundraising and public policy every session. While he holds this R+3 seat, it will be difficult to take.
All this being said, these house seats could become targets of an independent expenditure program much like what happened in Buncombe County. When IE efforts targeted Tim Moffitt and Nathan Ramsey, they spent in the same media market to get more bang for their buck in attacking two members with one ad. This likely attack could occur in Mecklenburg and be successful if the local Republican legislators are not prepared for their campaigns. The NC Democratic House Caucus has to know that there is no majority in NC without picking up at least two of these seats in Mecklenburg. It will be interesting to see in the coming years how both caucuses defend or attack these seats.
House District 88: Rep. Rob Bryan (R) wins a second term, beating Margie Storch (D) with 55% of the vote.
House District 92: In a rematch, Rep. Charles Jeter (R) wins a second term, beating Robin Bradford (D) with 53% of the vote.
House District 98: Incumbent and NC House Speaker Thom Tillis ran for U.S. Senate, leaving this an open seat. John Bradford (R) beats Natasha Marcus (D) with 55% of the vote.
House District 99: Rep. Rodney Moore (D) reelected, unopposed.
House District 100: Rep. Tricia Cotham (D) reelected, unopposed.
House District 101: Rep. Beverly Earle (D) reelected, unopposed.
House District 102: Rep. Becky Carney (D) reelected, unopposed.
House District 103: Rep. Bill Brawley (R) reelected, unopposed.
House District 104: Rep. Ruth Samuelson (R) retired, leaving open seat. Dan Bishop (R) beats Eric Cable (L) with 75% of the vote.
House District 105: Rep. Jacqueline Schaffer (R) wins a second term, unopposed.
House District 106: Rep. Carla Cunningham (D) reelected, beats Trey Lowe (R) with 87% of the vote.
House District 107: Rep. Kelly Alexander (D) reelected, unopposed.
The popular vote for NC House races in Mecklenburg broke down like this: 55% Democratic, 42% Republican, 3% Libertarian.
Mecklenburg is a strongly Democratic county, but was carried by Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, just barely, in 2012. The last time Meck went Republican in a Senate race was in 2002, where again it went just barely to Elizabeth Dole. The last Republican presidential nominee to carry Mecklenburg was George W. Bush, he won it by 2 points in 2000 and lost it by about the same margin four years later.
Even though 2010 was a strongly Republican year and she was at a considerable monetary disadvantage, Democrat Elaine Marshall carried the county in her 2010 race against Richard Burr by a comfortable margin. In federal races, Mecklenburg is pretty much lost for any GOP candidate, but successful candidates understand that if they can lose by less of a margin in Mecklenburg, they can rely on rural and more conservative regions to help make up those loses.
Below are three maps – all of Mecklenburg county, the first being the precinct map of the Burr/Marshall race in the county, the second being the Obama/Romney presidential race, and the third being the Hagan/Tillis contest:
New voters
The partisan breakdown of Mecklenburg County residents who registered to vote after November 6th, 2012 and were registered by the 2014 elections:
31,043 Unaffiliateds (42%)
27,855 Democrats (37%)
15,969 Republicans (21%)
Partisan ID is the best indicator of who voted for whom in partisan elections. Remove the unaffiliated voters from the equation and you have 64% of new Mecklenburg voters being Democrats and 36% being Republicans, an indication the county continues to trend to the left, nudged in part by an aggressive voter registration operation by the Hagan campaign.
The breakdown of the new voters by race: 53% White, 31% Black, 9% Other, 7% Unknown. Only 17% of new Mecklenburg voters were actually born in North Carolina. Another 13% were born in another state in the South (Florida excluded). 9% were born in New York. And 6% were born in another country. This means that 70% of newly registered Mecklenburg voters were born somewhere outside the Southern United States, an indication of the new demographic realities confronting North Carolina Republicans.
Racial Voting Patterns
The following was the racial breakdown of the electorate on November 4th:
White – 62%
Black – 32%
Unknown – 2%
Other – 2%
Asian – 1%
From these numbers and from the statewide exit polls, Thom Tillis won an estimated 59% of the white vote in Mecklenburg County. In 2012, Mitt Romney carried about 61% of this group. Thus, even though whites were less likely to support Tillis than Romney, Hagan failed to build on Obama’s margin in Mecklenburg because racial minorities made up a smaller portion of the electorate.
Mecklenburg County is the largest county in NC by population but has only the second-largest number of voters, after Wake. Hagan and Obama achieved almost the exact same performance in Mecklenburg in two separate electoral cycles. If Hagan had the turnout advantage enjoyed by Obama in his presidential campaigns, her vote share compared to Obama’s would have been higher. Going forward, the GOP needs to hold Democrats below 60% countywide in order to continue being successful in presidential cycles. Moderate, unaffiliated voters provide a path to growth for both parties and will continue to be influential, especially in the legislative races.
John Wynne is the “conservative voice” at PoliticsNC, where he also provides polling analysis and commentary on legislative campaigns. When not writing about politics, he enjoys gardening and listening to opera. Contact: johncwynne@gmail.com.
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Dan R on May 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm
The cut and paste didn’t work well on the numbers, but I think it is readable enough to show that the primary was competitive. Rucho didn’t coast to renomination.
Excellent post. For those of us who are pathological political junkies the slicing and dicing of the numbers and trends is just the ticket.
I would have to quarrel with the characterization of Rucho’s primary race never being in doubt. It was competitive by any objective standard.
NC STATE SENATE DISTRICT 39 – REP (VOTE FOR 1)
Precincts Reported: 55 of 55
NAME ON BALLOT PARTY BALLOT COUNT PERCENT
Robert (Bob) Rucho REP 7,281 55.18 %
Matt Arnold REP 5,914 44.82 %
I live just outside of Rucho’s district (one precinct over) and although lawn signs don’t vote they are something of an indicator of enthusiasm of support. I saw lots of Arnold signs while walking the dog into his district. Talking to some of the folks displaying those signs revealed Republicans who felt they needed a serious upgrade in representation. These were not unaffiliated voters thinking that, strategically, the best way to beat Rucho was in a Republican primary. These were solid Republican voters.
If Arnold runs against Rucho again I don’t see him doing any worse than last year’s showing. Rucho may be well advised to look over his shoulder.
cosmicjanitor on May 11, 2015 at 2:05 pm
The voters are prohibited from verifying the vote tabulations in NC. period. Until this glaring oversight is addressed, the rightwing corporate republikans will continuing their otherwise improbable election victories.
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Three and a half months to plug in our machines legally
Posted by Jan on 29 March 2012
Tags: engage your brain
This post is an account of the difficulties I have had for the past four months in getting permits to run our equipment at our new location, which we moved to in December of 2011. I am writing this partly as notes for myself and others at Pololu, but the main point of sharing this is to warn and commiserate with other businesses having to deal with such problems and to give other readers some awareness of the real-world ramifications of the regulations much of the public seems all too eager to embrace. I still have a hard time believing we really had to go through all of the hassle and expense, so I am also hoping that some readers might point me to some resources so that I can avoid this in the future. I realize there is speculation and hearsay in my report, but I want to emphasize that my impressions are based on many vendors, contractors, public employees, and manufacturers: in all, I spoke to dozens of people about our experience. I will try to be as specific as practical without unnecessarily exposing individuals who were trying to be helpful to undue scrutiny.
Scope of the installation
Our manufacturing consists primarily of laser cutting and electronics assembly. Our assembly equipment is on the entry-level side as far as electronics manufacturing goes, so most of the machines run on 120V available from regular wall outlets; the main exceptions are the reflow ovens, which typically use 3-phase power and need some kind of exhaust to get rid of the flux fumes. At our previous location on 3095 E. Patrick Ln., we had a single roof-mounted exhaust blower for one oven and three laser cutters. The picture below shows the main exhaust duct going to the ceiling, a branch going to the left to the assembly room, and a pair of ducts going to our laser exhaust filter, which is the white box at the bottom:
Warehouse exhaust ducts at 3095 E. Patrick.
On the other side of the wall on the left, the exhaust duct connected to the reflow oven:
Reflow oven exhaust duct at 3095 E. Patrick.
That work was all permitted, as far as I knew (more on that later), when we moved into that location in late 2009. The non-electrical part, including getting the crane out there to hoist the exhaust blower on the roof, took about two days and cost $2,300. (The electrical portion cost almost $9k, but there was a lot of other work involved.)
As I mentioned in my previous post, one of the features of our new location is better power, and we took advantage of that right away by getting a higher-power laser cutter and a bigger oven. To accommodate the extra equipment and the larger space, my plan was to install three exhaust blowers: two in the warehouse, where we now have four laser cutters, and one in the electronics manufacturing room, where we can have up to three reflow ovens. The completed setup looks like this (the third oven, on the right, is not connected; the duct sticks out a few inches from the ceiling to the right of the door):
Reflow oven exhaust ducts at 920 Pilot.
The complete warehouse exhaust ducts for the laser cutters look like this:
Warehouse exhaust ducts at 920 Pilot.
Target schedule
Our building leases gave us these restrictions: we could access our new space in November to start setting it up, we could start operating out of it in December, and we had the old location through the end of the year. My initial plan was to have the electrical work and duct work completed by early December so that we could have some machines up and running in the new location before taking down any machines at the old location. The new machines started arriving in November, and before Thanksgiving, we had the details of the layout figured out, HVAC guys and electricians selected, and landlord approval for the work. I was getting a little concerned because of the holidays slowing things down, but based on earlier experience and the contractors’ estimates, it seemed like basic work could be completed in the first full week of December, with everything getting wrapped up the week after that, leaving us two weeks to get the machines moved from the old location.
The contractors I was getting quotes from had varying degrees of concern about permits taking a longer time lately, but they all indicated the schedule was doable and that they could work on it in parallel, taking care of the paperwork while getting materials to the site and doing things like the sheet metal work for the ducts.
Besides completing the work in time to move our equipment, the other major scheduling concern had to do with installations of the new machines, which for tax purposes had to get completed in 2011. This was less of an issue with machines we could get up and running ourselves, but the new reflow oven in particular was a concern. One of the reasons I went with Heller was their assurance that I could have a 480V version delivered in the time frame I needed, and they could do that because they already had a 208V unit that they could convert to 480V. That modification would get done by the technician that installed the machine, and he would require power to be available at the machine to do his job.
Permit denied
The first indication that obtaining a permit would not be as trivial as in the past was when the HVAC contractor started coming back with more questions about the details of the machines we were connecting. In the past, general descriptions had been enough, but now we were being asked for more specifics and manufacturers and model numbers. I mentioned we had not had to provide that before, but I figured that there was nothing to hide and that perhaps providing the extra info would move things along, so I did not really think too much of it.
The project took a sudden turn into uncharted territory for me when the main electrician called, saying the Building Department was not even accepting his application for a permit (as opposed to accepting the application and then denying a permit). I do not know the workings of the permit process—I do not even know if I should refer to an electrician as a contractor or what to call his company without sounding like I’m talking about the electrical utility company—so I probably have some of the details wrong here, but the gist of it was that the electricians had hit a dead end of a sort they had not encountered before. The main contact I was talking to was basically saying he was at his wits’ end and was asking me to call some manager at the Building Department. I explained that I had no idea how this permit stuff works and that I had little hope of instigating any progress if he did not know what to do.
But, with no other immediate option, I called, figuring I could at least find out if the county viewed my electrical contractor as particularly incompetent. Apparently, some combination of the mechanical and electrical permits being applied for separately, combined with the amount of power and volume of exhaust, had raised some flags. I vaguely remember the guy saying something about being concerned about unsafe wood or cabinetry shops. I assured him that there was no sawdust involved in our operation and tried to explain what we do. He asked me and my contractors to meet with him the next morning, when we could make sure any concerns the inspectors raised could get addressed at once to expedite the process.
The next morning, I went to the Clark County Building Department main office as prepared as I could be: I had manuals for the machines, pictures of our old setup, including the pictures above, sample assembled boards to show the kinds of things we manufacture, and a plaque we received when we completed OSHA’s SHARP, a proactive safety consultation for small businesses. I was getting mixed advice from the contractors, but I was unsettled by the parts that sounded like other advice I generally hear about when dealing with the government: say as little as possible. My thought was that if I could establish that we weren’t doing anything shady and that we had been doing this kind of thing for years with the appropriate permits and government blessings, they might just need to double check some specifications about the machines, which would be covered by the manuals, and we’d be set. And, for the most part, that’s how it went. The manager seemed to agree that this was a small project that should be easy to get approved, and he understood that we had a tight schedule; he did not personally look over and approve permit applications, but he would make sure he was on top of the guys actually doing that.
One issue that the HVAC contractor was having even before the meeting had to do with UL labels on the machines. Apparently, the person reviewing the mechanical permit wanted confirmation that the machines had these labels, and the contractor made several trips to our facilities (old machines at old place, new machines at new place) to look for some kind of acceptable label. Unfortunately, none of the machines had UL or equivalent listing. I told the manager that these kinds of machines were being used all over the US and even in several places in Clark County. He sounded like we would have to work on getting that straightened out, but worst case, we could probably get some kind of provisional permit that would let the contractors start doing the work but would not allow us to actually operate the equipment.
I left the meeting optimistic that at least the work could get done but concerned about how to resolve the UL listing issue. The contractors had not wanted me to say outright that the machines weren’t UL listed, so the discussion on that point was hypothetical—how would we proceed if it turned out the machines weren’t listed, and so on. Basically, the answer seemed to be, talk to the manufacturers, who should know what to do. I had already started contacting them, though the questions had been about whether or not they had their equipment listed as opposed to figuring out what to do next.
More dead ends
I think it was still that same day that we got notified of the permits being denied, without even any provision for allowing some of the work to proceed. I talked to the manager again, who said he was not going to overrule a technical decision of his examiner: unless the machines were listed, there would be no permit. I told him the manufacturers did not know what I was talking about, and I pushed him for some kind of substantiation of how to proceed. These machines might be rare in Clark County, but it was inconceivable to me that their answer would just be, “You can’t use them, period.” This manager at the Building Department was always very polite and seemed kind and sympathetic to the frustrating absurdity of the situation: these machines were being used around town and all over the country, but I, trying to do things legitimately, was being prohibited from using them. He told me he would look into how I could possibly proceed.
He soon emailed me what amounted to a screenshot of OSHA’s NRTL page. While I was unclear on how that information would help me, the one hope it gave me was that I was now dealing with federal laws and directives, not some local ordinance. Now, the manufacturers would not be able to give me some run-around about not knowing the local laws, and there would likely be a lot more resources I could turn to.
Except that there weren’t. At least not ones that I could find, which is part of the reason I am posting about my experience. With the exception of one manufacturer, Heller, they still did not have any advice. The rep from Heller said that there was a UL-listed version of the oven available, which cost around $3k extra, and that they could exchange it for me at no extra cost. Still, that would have taken several months and involved re-crating and re-shipping a three thousand pound machine that was quite a hassle just getting unpackaged. I questioned their not having mentioned that option being available to me earlier, but they said it just didn’t occur to them since the vast majority of their customers get the normal version like I did. But even if I had exchanged ovens, I would still have been left with all of the other equipment, whose manufacturers and representatives were completely useless on this problem.
I also started contacting the Nationally Recognized Testing Labs (NRTLs) on that OSHA list. The list is actually pretty short, but if you click on those listings, you’ll see that the organizations tend to have many locations, followed by possibly hundreds of different standards to which they can certify a product. With neither the county nor the manufacturers giving me any guidance on what standards were applicable, it took days of calling around before getting to dead ends along the lines of, “we do not do field listings of that kind of machine”.
It was well into December, and I was starting to panic. I had hoped our old landlord would let us do a week or two extension, but they turned us down: if we were not out by the end of the year, we would be in violation of our lease and have to pay for all of January at some deadbeat rate that would have cost us almost $25k. With the holidays approaching, it would get more difficult to resolve the NRTL listing issue, and worst of all, I did not even have a specific next step to take. So I called Mr. Building Department Manager again, giving him the sob story of this potentially destroying a company with dozens of employees and imploring him to somehow direct me to some next step or a person who had some discretion and authority to help us out.
He had already been talking to his boss, Mr. Director, about our situation, and the only thing Mr. Manager could suggest was that I try talking to Mr. Director directly. Now, I do not know about the titles and hierarchies involved in the county organizational chart, and there are various modifiers like “deputy” that I am leaving out, but this guy was high enough up the chain of command that his name shows up on various Department letterheads, and he has his own secretary to keep people like me from bugging him too easily. She did a good enough job of it that after a day or two, I decided to go stake out his office in person.
Mr. Director’s office was in a different wing than Mr. Manager’s, but not having an appointment, the basic protocol of taking a ticket and waiting to be called on was still in play. After being called and variously explaining my situation and that I just wanted a few minutes of his time or to set up an appointment, the front office staff finally relented and let me talk to his secretary. Mr. Director was in a meeting, she said, but as she had told me on the phone, he would be in touch with me if appropriate. After pushing for something more definite or for just grabbing him after his meeting, she said I could try waiting. After maybe an hour, Mr. Manager appeared, apparently summoned by the secretary. We both knew he was the one that told me my only move was to get an audience with Mr. Director, so he just kindly confirmed that was the situation. I think he might have said something more to the secretary, though, because another half an hour or so later, I finally got to meet Mr. Director!
“I can’t remember everything you told me.”
At least it was worth it. Mr. Director, also very nice and polite, understood my situation and deadlines and indicated that I should go ahead without the permits. He did not say that, of course. But I am sure I understood him correctly. All of the words I am attributing to others here are just summaries, but I remember one thing quite specifically: when I asked him how I could proceed given that I had effectively notified him that I was about to defy the regulations, he said, “I can’t remember everything you told me.”
Despite the paranoid part of me wondering if I was getting set up, it was quite a relief to hear that from Mr. Director. The contractors had already been acting as if it would play out this way. Almost every contractor I had giving me bids recommended not getting a permit, and I heard from various vendors that it was standard operating procedure, even for major companies, to do the work first, get the permit later. With less than three weeks left in the year, there was no other answer. And though I understood that the conversation, which he could easily deny, gave me no formal or official protection, I was very grateful to him for making things clear.
I still pushed Mr. Director about a legitimate long-term solution, how to actually get the permits, and he helped me in an off-the-record way with that problem, too: he took me to some inspector, whom he told to give me a name and direct contact info for an NRTL representative that could help me. The total meeting time with Mr. Director was about 5 minutes. With the new information he gave me, I was able to proceed in parallel on getting the actual work done and on getting the NRTL listing. It took a little extra pushing to get installers to come out the week between Christmas and New Year’s, but we got the work done, the new machines installed, and our operation moved by the end of the year.
Getting the NRTL field listings
The direct contact the Clark County inspector had given me was for someone at Intertek, which according to Wikipedia is “the largest tester of consumer goods in the world”. They have a listing mark with “ETL” in a circle, which I had seen on our 3D printer when looking for listing labels on our machines. Working directly with the right person, who was familiar with Clark County, was much easier than trying to get somewhere starting from their main web page (though I am not sure if Intertek was one of the NRTLs I had gotten to a dead end with earlier). It was also nice to have a definite course of action, as opposed to most of my earlier interactions with the county and the machine manufacturers, which generally did not lead anywhere. Basically, I had to send the sales lady at Intertek a list of machines and their basic specs, and she gave me two quotes: one for their inspector to make one trip out here, and another quote for making two trips.
This brings me to one of the most frustrating aspects of this experience: I had no indication of how the inspection would go and what I was paying for. Was I paying for an inspector to fly out, look at our machines, and tell me, “These machines aren’t safe, so we won’t list them”? The idea behind the two-trip quote was that the inspector would come out, find some problems, we would then fix them, and the inspector would come back and verify that we had sufficiently addressed the issues. But what if the necessary changes required substantial redesigns of the machines? (Why would the Heller oven cost an extra $3k for the UL-approved version, and why would they bother with having two versions, if the required changes were minimal?)
I asked the Intertek sales lady about it. I understood that they could not know ahead of time what the state of our machines were, but if this is what they do all the time, surely they could tell me if they had approved a Heller 1707 Mark III oven before or what kind of modifications were required. But she wouldn’t tell me. So I decided to have them do one trip to inspect every non-trivial piece of equipment we have, even if it wasn’t really relevant to the Clark County building permits. At the very least, we could learn what kinds of things they checked, and I could hope to come away with some approved machines that I could show Clark County.
As I mentioned before, the 3D printer from Dimension Printing was the only special machine we had that was listed (more common machines, like printers, ultrasonic cleaners, the forklift charger, and small compressors were listed). So we had 16 machines inspected:
Two laser cutters from Epilog Laser (24TT and 36EXT)
Laser cutter from Beam Dynamics/Coherent (METABEAM 400)
Laser cutter from Full Spectrum Laser (FSL 48×32-80W)
Reflow oven from Heller (1707 Mark III)
Reflow oven from Manncorp (R-500)
Reflow oven from Dima (RO-0402)
Three pick-and-place machines from Autotronik/Manncorp (MC-383, MC-391, and MC-392)
Stencil printer from Autotronik/Manncorp (MC-1400)
Two small conveyors we also got from Manncorp
Chiller for large laser cutter from Polyscience
10 HP rotary screw compressor and dryer from Fiac/Werther (Silver D 10/300)
Small chiller for Full Spectrum laser cutter, obtained through Full Spectrum
Getting all of this looked at in one trip cost a little under $10k; the two-trip alternative was over $15k. I had all the machine info to Intertek on January 3rd, the first business day of the year. There were a few delays because they wanted to see the machines fully operational (I won’t even go into that Catch-22), and with the way availability and scheduling worked out, the field inspector got out here the second week of February.
Field inspection
The inspector was here for four days. I did not interact with her that much, but I had one engineer with her the whole time to observe what she was checking and to address any issues. Unfortunately, thanks to a scam I’ll get to later, I cannot reveal what was on her checklist because she could not reveal it to us. The general order of inspections was from most critical equipment to least so that we could have a few days to address any important issues. Fortunately, everything went quite smoothly, with only minor modifications along the lines of adding warning labels being necessary. I asked her for her general impression of our equipment, and she said it was very nice; I guess it’s fairly routine for her to see really dangerous equipment.
I was most concerned with the Full Spectrum laser cutter and corresponding chiller since they are basically made and designed in China and cost substantially less than our other equipment. And, sure enough, it did have the most issues. Other than labeling, there were some issues with extra power outlets that are on the machine for convenience and that we were not using anyway; blocking them off and labeling them was all we had to do rectify the issue to the inspector’s satisfaction.
The most concrete safety-related thing I learned was about power cords. Most of our machines just run off 120V wall power, and they have power cords that look like regular computer power cords. However, while computer cords are allowed to be of a lower “SVT” rating, we have to use “SJT”-type cords, which apparently have thicker insulation. It’s possible some of our cords got swapped around during various moves, but the Epilog laser cutters were the only ones that had the appropriate cord type (this does not apply to the higher-power machines, which have special cords and plugs or are hard-wired to power). By the way, the power cords we ordered from Grainger, where I initially thought we would do an in-store purchase, arrived with Monoprice labels on them; Monoprice’s prices were less than half of Grainger’s.
The upshot was that within the first two days, we basically knew that we would get the labels on all 16 machines. All the machines passed grounding and insulation tests. We had to make only minor modifications that we could easily do ourselves. The inspector spent most of her last two days writing up her report, and she did indeed apply the coveted labels to all of our machines before she left.
Final report and back to the permits
I emailed the HVAC contractor that day to let him know the machines were all labeled. That somehow still was not enough for the county examiner, who I guess wanted to see the actual report. That took another three weeks. And then it took another week to get the permit. So, it was well into March before the contractors were technically even allowed to be starting the work. The contractors touched up some stuff to make sure it matched the permits and endured another few cycles and weeks of coordinating inspections and making trivial changes to satisfy the inspector. But finally, on March 21, we received final approval!
Lingering questions
This year’s IPC APEX EXPO, one of the electronics assembly industry’s biggest trade shows, was held at the end of February and beginning of March. Since this was after Intertek came out for the field evaluation but before I had the county permits, I attended with a different perspective than in years past. I was still trying to reconcile Clark County’s absolute insistence on the NRTL label, apparently backed up by OSHA, and the fact that none of my equipment manufacturers or their representatives seemed to know what to do. I have now spoken to dozens of people from various reputable manufacturers, and not one of them could tell me anything about getting an NRTL label. With the exception of the occasional exhaust filter or similar supporting equipment, I did not see NRTL labels on any of the machines. The closest I got was a few people vaguely recalling having heard of similar problems in some specific cities or counties in California.
On the other hand, TUV Rheinland and UL had booths at APEX. I did not see the UL booth, but I stopped by the TUV booth, which I normally would not have noticed among the much more exciting exhibits filled with big machines. The guy manning the booth said he had anecdotally heard of local governments ramping up enforcement of field listing laws. I came away with the impression that it would have cost about the same amount to have gone with TUV and that a starting point to fly someone out for a minimal visit would probably run around $2500. I pressed him on this issue of publicizing which machines had been field labeled by them in the past to give future customers some idea of whether or not a machine was likely to be problematic, and I got one slightly believable explanation of why they also do not do that: A large part of these NRTLs’ business is to do extensive product testing and for the resulting listing to cover all instances of a tested product; maintaining public lists of products that had passed much less stringent field testing would effectively dilute the meaning of the main listings and also possibly expose the test labs to liabilities from someone misconstruing the meaning of a product appearing on a less stringent list.
I left APEX still bothered by this disconnect between the manufacturers and the testing organizations. The manufacturers of the equipment we use have generally given us good support, and they had already made the sales, so they had nothing to gain by lying to me if they actually knew about these field listing requirements. The same applies to exhibitors at the show; and, if any of them did have general listings or specific knowledge of their machines passing field inspections, it would give them a competitive advantage to publicize that.
Contributing to my unease about how this permit process went down is that it played out in the general format of a corrupt kickback scheme: government official blocks a project with little justification, government official confidentially directs applicant to third party, applicant pays third party a bunch of money, and government official unblocks the project. I don’t really think anything that unethical happened in my case, and I think the only reason Clark County did not publicly direct me to Intertek right away was because they were trying not to endorse one company over another.
That still leaves me wondering why getting the permit was much harder this time than in the past and involved steps so many relevant parties were unfamiliar with. Did the laws or enforcement of them change significantly since 2009? Was there some project size threshold that I exceeded this time, putting us under a higher level of scrutiny? Did I just happen to get tripped up by an overzealous inspector who had the discretion to allow this to play out differently? Was there some preexisting conflict between the examiners and one of my contractors, or were the contractors just particularly incompetent?
In my early conversations with Mr. Manager, I asked him some of these questions. The main answer I got was that perhaps my earlier permit was not as valid as it could have been since the equipment getting connected was not specified; in this instance, they would not allow that to happen. No one at the Building Department said anything to call into question the competence of the contractors, and I think I gave them ample opportunity for that. I don’t really know how good the contractors were, but in the case of the electricians, I could at least judge some of the basic electrical theory they sometimes let slip out, and the company I went with was the best of the ones I had interacted with. The contractors were not ones I had used before, but they were referred by reputable sources like previous landlords. In general, my impression is that construction-related companies in Las Vegas have been hurting, and I hope that surviving the downturn is an indication of at least some basic competence. The actual work they did was fine, as far as I can tell.
A large part of my frustration came from not knowing what the laws were. It would have been nice if the county officials had directed me to something specific, but they did not seem to be bothered by having to actually know what the laws were: they knew I needed a label, and they gave me no way of confirming that. With all kinds of information available online, I had become accustomed to laws becoming more and more accessible, so the lack of references was especially conspicuous. And that brings me to the scam I mentioned earlier about the Intertek checklist we couldn’t see.
Secret laws
It turns out that the US has many secret laws you and I cannot just look up and read. Organizations like UL put a bunch of effort into developing various standards, and they then want to charge a lot money to use those standards. For the government, it’s convenient to just use those standards. Unfortunately, the result is that the private standards become required by law, but looking at those standards, and by extension the laws, still requires paying the organization that made them.
I don’t know how the standard creator’s monopoly plays into this, but the fees are very high and the licenses restrictive far beyond what I suspect is most people’s notion of fair use. One standard that applied to us cost over $400 for a PDF file; I did not find a good site I could link to directly for the PDF downloads, but Intertek directs to a site that only has printed versions such as UL 1450 for compressors for $1,032 and UL 1995 for heating and cooling equipment for $1,148. I have seen requirements for a copy per person that looks at it, and if I buy a copy for an employee and he leaves the company, I would have to pay again to let his replacement look at it. I do not know how enforceable these terms are, but the licenses also restrict derived work, such as the Intertek inspector’s checklist, and she cited that licensing restriction as the reason we could not even look at her checklist.
It’s startlingly un-American that in a world with more and more access to free information, something as fundamental to basic justice as showing fellow citizens the laws is illegal.
Ramifications for small businesses and manufacturers
Some might view this post as excessive whining about what amounts to dealing with the government. While I am sure that many businesses and individuals have much worse experiences, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to spread awareness of specific problems. Perhaps some of the government employees I was working with at the Building Department could have given me more leeway than they did, but overall, they were very polite, professional, and even kind; I believe that for the most part, they were merely executing the orders and policies set in place by higher officials and the general public.
With the recent recession and general weakness of the US economy, there has been a lot of public hand wringing about American competitiveness in general and about the future of American manufacturing in particular. Having a strong local manufacturing base has significant implications for innovation, and while that might be most evident with large manufacturers and the latest technology, I think the general principle applies to small manufacturers like Pololu as well. Politicians often want to help manufacturers by adding more regulations and more special cases when the problem is the government getting in the way in the first place. A tax break on new equipment cannot help us if the local government does not let us install it.
In this case, the permitting process ended up just costing me a bunch of time and an extra ten grand, which isn’t going to break the company. But the reason I can even say “just” about that high of a cost is that the alternative of shutting down production for three months until we had the necessary permits could have done huge damage to the company, and I still do not know of a legal way to avoid that drastic scenario. The field labels we have on our machines apply only to their current location; if we move, we need to get an NRTL out again to inspect them. My hope is that in a future move, the county inspectors would be reasonable enough to use the existing NRTL labels to permit work to be done at a new location before the equipment gets moved there, but the inspectors should not have to bend the rules to allow that.
Similarly, a small business (or any entity) should not have to make the decision between possible destruction and breaking the law when it is doing nothing wrong. A just society should not put basic existence in conflict with conforming to the law, and we should not accept a legal framework in which everyone is a criminal. Yet the reality, as with traffic laws and speeding, is that everyone is constantly breaking the law. This in turn opens the door to actual crimes, like extortion and blackmail. While such problems affect everyone, small businesses in particular are less likely to have the resources to defend themselves if the government decides to come after them.
The current regulatory framework also hurts small businesses that make machines subject to the NRTL listing requirements. Spending $2,500 for a field listing trip is probably not going to hurt a $200,000 machine sale, but it is much more likely to impact a 3D printer that costs under $2,000, such as the offerings from MakerBot Industries. I suspect these do not have the general listing like our $40k 3D printer and all kinds of consumer products, so if we at Pololu wanted to get a MakerBot, we would be facing the choice of operating the machine illegally, as I suspect most organizations using MakerBots do, or paying more than the cost of the machine to make it legal. This unpalatable choice at least partially contributes to our tending toward the third route of just not getting a MakerBot, which, assuming it’s a useful machine, hurts both Pololu and MakerBot.
This post would be incomplete without some mention of safety, which I suspect starts out as the primary motivator of America’s burdensome regulatory environment. With every new disaster, whether real or a merely a circumstance perceived as such, someone with corresponding interests calls for more laws and regulations. When the calls come from those sincerely wanting to improve safety, I think they miss three important points:
Safety should not trump all other considerations.
Organizations desire safety independent of government requirements for it.
Government regulations frequently reduce safety.
“Safety first!” is easy to say, but unless you spend your entire life in your house wearing a helmet, you probably do not actually put safety first. As with most engineering problems (and life in general), running a viable organization requires trade-offs and finding an optimal balance among competing interests; therefore, it will always be easy to point to any safety-related policy or decision and demonstrate that things could be safer. Part of life is assessing risks and potential rewards, including enjoyment and happiness gained from doing something dangerous; free people should be allowed to make those choices for themselves. Ben Franklin’s quote about those who give up liberty for safety deserving neither, which I hear often in the context of national security policy discussions, applies just as well to everyday safety issues.
Because nothing is ever as safe as it could be and because businesses have to prioritize all kinds of things over minimal safety improvements, it’s easy to vilify them as greedy or uncaring. But the reality is that most businesses care about themselves without the government forcing them to. A landlord will want to make sure his tenant is not doing anything that will make it overly likely for the building to burn down. If it’s a small business, it’s quite likely that an owner or someone very important to him is constantly involved with the machinery, and they do not want to get crushed or electrocuted. Manufacturers want their products to be safe enough whether required by law or not, just like they want them to be of good enough quality and a good enough price. Examples of companies really not caring about safety are actually rare and contrived, and those who do not care enough will eventually get weeded out.
Finally, it’s important to be aware that government intervention frequently reduces actual safety. From a theoretical standpoint, it should be clear that the lack of transparency in the laws reduces safety. Would you take a new company safety initiative seriously if everyone was actively discouraged from knowing the safety policies? But even in everyday, practical ways, the government actively undermines improvement in safety.
I have two immediate examples. The first assumes that the building inspectors are actually useful (which I think they can be); in that case, the difficulty in obtaining a permit prevents many projects from getting inspected at all. My contractors could have done something really unsafe, and the building could have burned down before the county ever issued a permit. If they had some better approach, they could have at least permitted and inspected the contractors’ work while leaving the machine inspections to the NRTLs.
A more damning example has to do with our fire alarm system, which has one actual noise-making alarm that is not loud enough to cover the entire building. There is no doubt that adding some more sirens would be technically simple and would substantially improve the effectiveness of the alarm and therefore probably improve safety. But, you guessed it: we are not allowed to do that. (Having more than one alarm would put the building in some other class, which would then require all kinds of other things in the building to be overhauled, or something like that. One fire inspector suggested maybe we could put some baby monitors around the alarm.)
A last point I’ll mention is that government intervention reduces safety in the standard way any nanny state weakens its citizens: it creates a false sense of safety and makes people less vigilant and aware of their own circumstances and choices. Safety becomes something that is out of their control rather than something they should constantly be monitoring.
Well, if you read this far, it’s probably because some of what I wrote about is relevant to your life. I hope there is something useful here. I would appreciate any comments you have on the topics I raised, whether it’s just bitching about similar hassles you’ve experienced or if you have specific advice on how I should handle permitting issues better in the future.
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I've also run into the scam of not being able to find out if something is legal at the local level (in this case, zoning and noise issues) and not being able to see the standards without paying a standards body to see the specs on which the laws are based. Another anti-democratic twist on "laws for sale".
I don't feel like you're whining at all. It's no wonder that SMBs act (or simply don't start) the way that they do. Your frustration seems more than justified and just reinforces the "rules are for suckers" mentality.
Glad to see that you didn't end up having to hand out fast-food applications to employees as part of their outplacement assistance package.
Thank you very much for the informative and well-composed post.
Thanks for spending the time putting this post together; it's a very helpful insight into a lot of the inner workings of the "permits" system here in Vegas (and other towns).
Unfortunately my side project will also have interaction with the city for various permits over the next few months :-/
If we had to come up with $10k just for some permits, I don't know how we'd do it as just a starting non-profit community hackerspace!
Glad you guys made it through it in the end, it had to be a very frustrating journey.
The whole certification process is gamed to a point. I work for a fortune 5 company and the machines we make require TUV CSA UL RU VDE... certifications. Yes they will charge several thousand dollars for copies of the requirements. The trick is that the standards are 'harmonized' if you know what the certification is to there is a ISO number that they all refer to. So a ISO 61010 is the same as a CSA-61010-1 and a UL-61010. The difference is that UL is a for profit company and CSA is non-profit. You can show to an inspector that if it has certification to one standard "UL" is equivalent to "TUV" or "CSA". Personally "UL" and "TUV" have jerked me around so now I would go with "SGS" when certifying a machine. This said, if the machine is manufactured in a CE or North American country will have the correct certification (any VDE TUV CSA UL RU). The problem is with machines made in China that do not have any certifications, the SMD rework station I have on my desk at home has no certification markings and would cause audit and permit issues if I was to take it to work.
mindslight
I feel your pain, having looked too far into various code issues myself. Ultimately I learned to not even bother inquiring whenever possible, but in your situation they have you over the barrel for wanting to do right by your employees. I personally don't forsee any hope through democratic means - bureaucracy always grows, and tax cuts means they fire the highly visible teachers and firefighters instead of the middle management bureaucrats who sit around all day creating the cesspool of endless complexity.
FWIW, Carl Malamud has done wonderful things with some civic codes over at https://public.resource.org/ .
I worked for a local government and each of our inspectors had their own list of what they looked for. Each time a facility was reinspected or set of plans was reviewed, the owner was given a completely differnt list of what the inspector was looking for.
When we had a new building built, I kept pointing out the electrical code violations to the inspector, as I was verifying data-com cabling, and his response was that he never went on a ladder of got down on his knees to inspect something. So the electrical issues I pointed out, he would have never found and some were big fire or life/safety issues in the building he was going to move into for the new building inspection offices. Have a great Day.
Pete D.
Thanks for this write up. I am completely sympathetic but part ways with some of your points in the "Safety" section. For example, your conclusion that a regulatory regime "creates a false sense of safety and makes people less vigilant and aware of their own circumstances and choices" is much too coarse. Most stakeholders of your manufacturing installation in fact don't know how to make this assessment and have to rely on qualified and accountable people to make the determination.
I agree that the lack of transparency is frustrating. I'm wondering what requirements your insurance company needed with regards to these equipments. Perhaps they could have pointed you to what's needed sooner.
Thanks for that perspective. I am generally in favor of leaving room for discretion, but that leads to more room for abuse because of the government's monopoly. If we instead had private inspections (which the county basically deferred to, anyway), there would be a little more room for alternatives if one particular inspector were being unreasonable.
- Jan
I am not suggesting that "qualified and accountable" people should not be involved. However, I think that government should not have a monopoly on safety standards and that the existing government monopoly leads to sub-optimal results (just look at the post above yours for an example). For instance, we could have facilities rated by some private company, and employees could choose whether to work in a place that was not rated or had a lower rating than they were comfortable with. Your insurance example shows yet another way the private market incentivizes safety. (And doesn't your suggestion of going to the insurance company indicate that you think the private company might have been more effective than the government?)
Charley J.
I'm seriously disappointed that you got such a run around, but kudos to you for documenting it. The only way that things every change is by thoroughly document what went wrong and how to fix it. From my perspective, I'd look at machines that had certifications over ones that did not. It's criminal to pay $200,000 for a machine that's not certified for use. Might I suggest, when contacting equipment in future, make this a standard requirement of all contacts.
When I was young, many, many moons ago, I read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The book is thick and complex, but it basically describes how politics and lobby-ism destroy a nation. Sadly, this book gets truer and truer.
I am sorry for what you have went thru, and my hat off for your persistence. And thank you for sharing your story!
As a Clark County native who has worked in IT most of my life, and worked in other locals (I worked in CA for a while before getting disgusted and coming home, as well as having to deal with branch locations in other states) I can tell you that Nevada has the toughest electrical code in the US, a result of the publicized MGM Grand (now Balley's) fire, decades back, where a building maintenance person ran 220 thru low voltage cabling.
Electrical code enforcement for commercial enterprises can be exasperating, but, I think the issue you got snagged by is that the licensing of Electrical Contractors has changed since you had your prior building checked out.
As I understand it, Electrical Contractors are required to have a Master Electrician, and the Master's license is the one at risk if something goes wrong. This tends to make electricians a little more concerned about the rules then they used to be, where they were just risking a ding on the company's contractor license, it also means Electrical Contractors, who are not actually Master Electricians are at the mercy of their Master Electricans (how I learned this is a buddy was working a shop where the Master left, and they couldn't work until the owner either passed certification, or hired a new Master)
Jon W.
It's funny that the standards scam comes from those who have lobbied to outsource testing to private interests. If standards are government produced, FOIA means they would be free!
Codes come from the time when unsafe businesses burned down entire blocks. This still happens in places like China. If all US businesses had the integrity of pololu.com then all these rules wouldn't be needed for public safety. But history shows it only takes one corrupt utility to poison an entire city. ..
I don't really understand your first paragraph. Has someone like UL lobbied for the status quo? (And even if they did, I would object to the implication that it is their fault, as opposed to that of a government that will not disclose its own rules.)
I think the rest of your comment is predicated on some common assumptions that I suspect are not valid, so I'll just mention a few of them for each sentence:
"Codes come from the time when unsafe businesses burned down entire blocks."
* Safety is not binary.
* Safety was improving before and without government intervention.
* New codes are constantly being added.
* Some codes (e.g. that fire alarm thing) specifically prevent us from being safer.
"This still happens in places like China."
* Fires and other accidents still happen here in the US.
* Regading "entire blocks", are you referring to some specific recent incidents in China?
"If all US businesses had the integrity of pololu.com then all these rules wouldn't be needed for public safety."
* I appreciate your trust in our integrity, but I don't think that's a significant factor in our trying to do things well.
* Our "integrity" mostly comes from caring about our stuff, which I think most owners do.
* If you agree that the vast majority of businesses are safe enough out of their own self-interest, how much do you want to shackle them because of a few bad apples?
"But history shows it only takes one corrupt utility to poison an entire city."
* Can you point to specifics?
* Utilities in the US are so intertwined with government that I suspect instances of examples of bad behavior are more an indictment of government than of private business.
* Like safety, "poison" is not binary and tends to be used unfairly to incite emotional responses. There is a continuum to the tradeoffs between benefits a community gets from services provided by the utility and negative side effects like pollution.
* Utilities are a more difficult case, and it's somewhat unfair to bring that up in a discussion like this about codes. I'm fine with a lot of these rules existing and the processes for them as long as they apply only to public entities since the public is the owner or payer for those organizations. But private organizations should have way more latitude in their own policies.
More generally, the underlying premise of your post is that the codes are for some "public safety" kind of thing. But most of them, at least the ones I am writing about here, are about protecting individuals, who should be free to make decisions for themselves. Why should we be subject to rules intended to prevent "entire blocks" from burning down if there are no other buildings around us?
Lots of people want some kind of "regulation". I'm not sure if that's valid, but I think it's definitely invalid to assume that some detached bureaucrat will do a better job of it than a private owner.
From very early on I would have taken a different stance. I would have had an attorney involved at the outset. The inspectors are motivated to make it difficult, as a demonstration of due diligence and concern. There should be someone on your side that is concerned with the operation of your business and protect its equal right under the law.
Dustin T.
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Kris H
If it helps, it's just as bad in Canada, if not worse. The rules are such that anyone *selling* a machine w/o a certification stamp can be fined (including used machines), and I doubt that the manufacturers/resellers have any idea of that. At least in Ontario, specifically, the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) does the inspections, and every city has several inspectors that are capable of doing it, making costs more manageable. At least in theory, mileage may vary.
These issues with the hidden rules extend far beyond electronics, too; the standards for building code are hidden behind paywalls, so if you need to know specific information to do anything safely not outlined in the code book, you're screwed.
http://www.esafieldevaluation.ca/en/field-evaluation
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Broncos’ Danny Trevathan overcomes major blunder to gain redemption
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – As promised, Danny Trevathan has snuffed the showboat in him after his humiliating gaffe in the N...
Broncos’ Danny Trevathan overcomes major blunder to gain redemption ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – As promised, Danny Trevathan has snuffed the showboat in him after his humiliating gaffe in the N... Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/1mqN6U0
POU Published 12:00 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2014 | Updated 12:12 a.m. ET Jan. 22, 2014
Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan drops the ball before he crosses the goal line for a fumble against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5.(Photo: AP file)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – As promised, Danny Trevathan has snuffed the showboat in him after his humiliating gaffe in the NFL opener.
He morphed into a standout linebacker in his second season and led the Broncos in tackles after his inauspicious debut in Denver’s rout of the Ravens in September.
Trevathan blamed excitement over his first career start for his premature celebration of a sure pick-6 of Joe Flacco when he flipped the football aside just before crossing the goal line.
That decision left teammate Wesley Woodyard with an ankle injury and made Brandon Stokley the new Don Beebe. On the other hand, if Trevathan doesn’t pull a Leon Lett, maybe Peyton Manning takes the rest of the night off and doesn’t get a chance to make history with his seventh touchdown throw later on in Denver’s 49-27 win.
Trevathan’s miscalculation was reminiscent of Lett’s gaffe in the Super Bowl in 1993 when Dallas’ defensive lineman was returning a fumble for a score in the Cowboys’ 52-17 win over Buffalo. Beebe chased down a hotdogging Lett and knocked the ball loose just before he crossed the goal line.
This time, as Woodyard casually bent down in the end zone to pick up the souvenir for Trevathan, who was celebrating a few feet away, an alert Stokley dived for the football and knocked it out of the back of the end zone.
Instead of a touchdown, it was a touchback.
Instead of hugs and high-fives, Trevathan got harangues from teammates and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, a former linebacker.
“I promised myself I would never put my team in a place like that again,” Trevathan said this week. “I’ll make up for it. I’ll do whatever I’ve got to do. I promised those who were laughing at me, I’m going to make them suffer. I’m going to be here and grind it out, I’m going to pick it off next time, do whatever I’ve got to do to go ahead and get that off my back.”
Redemption came one month later in Dallas when Trevathan deked Tony Romo into throwing an interception at the Dallas 24 in the waning moments of a shootout, and it came just four days after he was carted off the practice field with a knee injury that at first had him fearing his playing days were over.
Trevathan briefly thought about jumping up and trying to score. Remembering the Ravens game, he decided to just stay down, allowing Manning to come on and run out the clock until Matt Prater’s field goal won it 51-48 as time expired.
That was one of many big plays for Trevathan, a sixth-round pick from Kentucky in 2012 who led Denver this season with 124 tackles and has a dozen more in the playoffs, where he’s helped hold the Chargers to 65 yards rushing and the Patriots to 64.
He’ll be a big part of Denver’s designs to throttle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch in the Super Bowl.
And it all goes back to his big blunder in the opener.
“Sometimes setbacks are setups for bigger things to come,” coach John Fox said. “I think in his case, it was a learning experience.”
Trevathan worked his way into the starting lineup this summer when the Broncos moved Wesley Woodyard to middle linebacker and inserted Nate Irving on the strongside with star Von Miller having to sit out the first six games on a drug suspension.
“Danny’s got things that you can’t coach. He’s got speed. He’s got instincts,” linebackers coach Richard Smith said. “So, this gave us the opportunity to get more speed on the field.”
A shoulder stinger would eventually render Woodyard, a fellow Kentucky alum, a backup.
“Even though he’s not on the field, he’s with me in my head all the time,” Trevathan said. “That’s how I’m going to carry him.”
There’s that maturity again, that growth that the Broncos believe will come in handy in the Super Bowl, where Trevathan can get the ultimate redemption.
“Life is a game. It’s ups and downs, highs and lows. But, you know, I like my lows and I like my highs because without my lows, I never know what my highs are,” Trevathan said. “It was a rough, roller-coaster year but we pulled it together. I’ve got a strong faith in God and I’ve got a strong faith within my team. We’re here now and we’ve just got to get this one more win.”
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Exploring Early Education Programs in Peri-urban Settings in Africa: Nairobi, Kenya
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) performed a study of preschools in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya, in May and June 2013. The study aims to present descriptive details on the access and quality of preschools in this growing sector as part of a four-city project including similar work in South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana, launched and sponsored by the UBS Optimus Foundation.
Note: This is not an impact evaluation, but a scoping study in four African cities designed to support future research. You can see the full Nairobi report here (PDF), the full 4-city report here (PDF), and the main page with links to the other summaries here.
Data collection was conducted in the Mukuru slum area, a large industrial community in the south east of Nairobi, where an estimated 75% of children aged 3-6 live in an informal dwelling, generally a tin structure. With the aim of documenting the scale, cost and quality and preschool education in this area, 221 household surveys, 29 headmaster surveys and 32 classroom observations were conducted.
Large preschool participation rates, even among the poorest
Preschools abound in Nairobi and can be found on many streets in slum neighborhoods. Over 80% of 4 and 5 year olds in the Mukuru area are attending preschools, with no significant gender gap. Children in the poorest quintiles still have participation rates over 70%.
These high attendance figures are achieved despite the fact that 41% of the 3-6 year-olds in the area live in households with a daily income of less than $2.50 per capita. All school-related costs come to about KES 1,500 ($18) per month per child on average.
Many private preschool options
The preschool sector is largely dominated by the growing private school industry: an estimated 94% of preschool students in the study area of Mukuru are attending private preschools. Parents generally give a high priority to sending children to preschool for primary school preparation, and put a great emphasis on academic study starting as soon as at age 3.
We also find strong evidence that parents perceive more expensive private schools as superior to low cost private schools, and private preschools to be superior to public preschools. On average, parents estimate that attending a low cost private preschool instead of a public preschool would be associated with higher educational achievement and a 33% greater income at the age of 30.
The average caregiver interviewed knows of 4.9 preschools that their child could walk to, which shows the large set of options that parents have when choosing a preschool. The vast majority of private primary schools have attached preschools. Amongst the major factors caregivers consider when selecting a school are proximity, teacher quality, fee level and school test results.
Gaps in infrastructure and services
The observed preschool classrooms had adequate infrastructure, with basic learning materials, seating options and teacher supervision in most settings. The average preschool student in Mukuru is in a class of 27 students, with a student teacher ratio of 32:1.
Classroom observations revealed very few cases where students had insufficient seating. An estimated 50% the preschools attended by the children in our sample have access to electricity, 87% have latrines, 66% have a playground or open space, and 65% are enclosed by a fence or a wall. Many preschools have little in the way of health or nutritional provision.
Strong emphasis on academic instruction
Notably, classroom observations revealed that 100% of instruction was teacher led, where the teacher provided instruction at the front of the class to students at desks. Children are taught literacy and numeracy, are given exams, and are ranked within the class from as early as age 3. Learning goals at young ages significantly outstrip those in place in Europe or America, and the teaching style of preschools mimics that of primary schools. In contrast, education experts underline the importance of developing a wide range of skills in preschool years, with equal emphasis being placed on social development, creativity, problem solving and emotional development.
There was no shortage of very basic learning materials, with an average of 100 exercise books per class. However, materials with additional content such as textbooks, storybooks, activity books, art materials or toys were generally limited or absent, which is in line with the strong academic emphasis of all preschools.
These findings indicate overall that the low cost private schools movement, particularly developed in urban Kenya, seems to also be reaching preprimary students. Most parents are aware of the value of early education, even in very low income areas, and a large majority of 3-6 year olds are attending academically-oriented preschools. There is evidence suggesting, however, that cost remains a barrier to good quality preschools, and that preschools might benefit from improved facilities and a more diverse curriculum focused on developing a broader range of skills.
IPA is eager to identify cost-effective programs successful at improving access and quality of preschool services with both public and private sector partners. For questions on IPA’s work in the early education sector, please contact Loïc Watine (lwatine@poverty-action.org).
Education Quality
220 households and 29 preschools
Suleiman Asman
Harrison Diamond Pollock
Loïc Watine
Claudia Casarotto
Research Implemented By IPA
Kelly Bidwell
J-PAL Global
Nairobi ECD Report
Exploring Early Education Programs in peri-urban Settings in Africa: Final Report
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Holed Stone
"I was walking on the western slopes of Croghan Hill at Knockaturnory when I came across this stone lying on part of a stone wall which was more than 1 metre thick".
"The stone with a rough surface, is about 45 cm square and 13 cm in depth.
The circular, hole which is towards one corner, is 5 cm in diameter and also 5 cm deep.
Could it be a Cup - Mark or perhaps some Ritual Stone, maybe a mortar for grinding or was it previously used in modern times as a base support for an iron gate.
The bleak open area in which it was discovered doesn’t suggest that iron gates would have been used here in the past
Also, these is no signs of concrete on the stone which would have been used to secure it in position.. Moreover, the hole appears a bit wider than what would have been used as a socket from which to swing gate".
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Baja Fresh Goes to Los Gatos, CA
Industry News January 9, 2012
Customers will notice a distinctly new interior incorporating the use of natural wood, stone, and warm colors, in addition to a more accommodating seating plan.
Additionally, the menu is designed to incorporate more customization.
First, guests select their choice of protein; fire grilled fresh chicken, steak, shrimp, Wahoo, or lean & slow roasted Pork Carnitas. Next they are offered a choice of a burrito, taco platter, or salad with numerous different flavor and signature recipe styles, with the option to “spice it up” or choose a milder Roasted Tomatillo salsa.
Guests are then invited to visit Baja Fresh’s signature salsa bar with 6 fresh salsas made throughout the day. Finally the guest will experience a new service style with entrees delivered tableside.
“We believe customers new and old will truly enjoy the new Baja Fresh experience!” says Charles Rink, Baja Fresh President.
The 1900 square foot Baja Fresh is located at 15466 Los Gatos Blvd. #111, Los Gatos, CA. It is owned and operated by Arun Sastry.
Sastry understands that the Los Gatos population is very conscious of healthy eating, as well as environmentally friendly, which is why in addition to an already extensive menu, the new Baja Fresh offers wheat tortillas as an option for carbohydrate-conscious customers.
“I am very happy to be able to open a Baja Fresh restaurant in the lovely town of Los Gatos, and offer a choice of healthy Mexican food to the residents of Los Gatos,” Sastry states. “We bring two years of experience, running a sister Baja Fresh restaurant in Palo Alto, and I firmly believe that that experience will be an added benefit to the new Los Gatos store.”
Brand President Charles Rink concluded by stating, "We are very happy to bring Baja Fresh to the Los Gatos neighborhood. We congratulate Arun Sastry on the opening of his Baja Fresh and we look forward to the success of this restaurant and our continued partnership.”
Baja Fresh Mexican Grill serves bold, fresh Mexican flavors for lunch, dinner, dine-in, or take-out all in a spacious and contemporary environment.
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V-8 Horsepower Performance Handbook
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Author: Scott Parkhurst
Publisher: Motorbooks
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A high-performance engine is more than the sum of its parts. It is an intricate system of interacting components and will reach its full power only if treated as such: an integrated whole. And this is precisely what the V-8 Horsepower Performance Handbook does. Approaching the engine as a system of interdependent components that must work in perfect harmony, the book provides the working knowledge for keeping a V-8 at the top of its form. And for those who’d like to understand how the engine works, the book also includes lucid explanations, beginning with the theory of cylinder head flow.
In clear, easy-to-follow terms, custom V-8 builder Scott Parkhurst offers detailed information and expert advice about block preparation, choosing a reciprocating assembly, and selecting a cam to compliment the heads and meet your own driving needs and performance goals. He also addresses ancillary components such as carburetion, fuel injection and header selection. Whether your V-8 powers a performance car, a truck, or even a boat, this fully charged handbook supplies all the know-how to get it--and keep it--running at its peak.
Scott Parkhurst's experience with high-performance V-8 engines began before he had his driver's license. Working as a technician in race-engine shops, he learned much about the professional preparation of high-output V-8s. Parkhurst then spent seven years as technical editor at Popular Hot Rodding magazine and co-founded the Engine Masters Challenge competition, developing its innovative format and writing its rules. The success of the Engine Masters Challenge led to Engine Masters Quarterly magazine, with Parkhurst as its founding editor. The opportunity to launch a new enthusiast magazine brought him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was the founding editor of Street Thunder. After some three years guiding this performance publication, Parkhurst left Street Thunder to pursue other gearhead interests. He still works directly with enthusiasts to develop custom V-8s to suit their specific needs, and of course, in his spare time he builds engines for his own projects.
Illustrations: 285 color photos
Size: 8.25 in x 10.625 in x 0.375 in / 209.55 mm x 269.88 mm x 9.525 mm
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Ultimate Sacrifice, by Damien Benoit-Ledoux
November 6, 2018 November 6, 2018 by scott
QSFer Damien Benoit-Ledoux has a new MM superhero book out, the penultimate book in his Guardians series: Ultimate Sacrifice.
More determined than ever, superhuman Quinn McAlester navigates the dramas of high school and family life while balancing the growing responsibilities of being the world’s first superhero. Having won over the respect and trust of the authorities who sought to capture him, Quinn unites a team of unique individuals and devises a plan to infiltrate The Order and rescue his best friend, Blake Hargreaves, from the clutches of mastermind Victor Kraze. When the people he loves discover his secret superhero identity, Quinn struggles to keep his friends—and his boyfriend—safe.
Unable to stop the violent, confusing thoughts plaguing his mind, Blake spirals out of control and enacts a violent plan of murder and destruction in a desperate attempt to find his place in the confusing world of The Order, even it if means wiping out the sinister organization. With his hands drenched in blood, an increasingly tormented Blake lashes out against Quinn and Victor, but the duplicitous and charismatic leader is ready for him.
While constantly manipulating the game pieces on the board, Victor becomes desperate to usurp The Order for himself and stop the monster they unwittingly unleashed. He pushes his team to carry out a series of experiments that recreate the freak accident that made Quinn and Blake. Frustrated with their efforts, Victor takes matters into his own hands and sets his sights on destroying both Blake and Quinn forever.
Quinn and his dads exchanged goodbyes with Mark and John and made their way outside to Bow Street. A light snow was falling, and it already accumulated an inch or so. Portsmouth was mostly quiet that night, except for some unusual commotion near the water’s edge.
“Want to check it out?” Daddio asked.
“Sure,” Dad said. They walked across the small park and deck nestled between the two brick condo structures and approached the metal railings at the bank of the river.
A massive cargo ship, the kind that brought salt to Granite State Minerals on the Portsmouth side of the river, was listing away from the dock, seemingly caught in the rushing waters of the mighty Piscataqua.
“Is that ship…coming loose?” Daddio asked, pointing at the scene.
Quinn studied it for a moment. Though the bow of the ship remained moored to the dock, the stern was pulling away from its moorings.”
“Oh, that’s not good,” Dad said.
Several sharp twangs pierced the night air and Quinn saw three moorings cables snap, spraying snow and ice into the air. The ship groaned in protest as the rushing river pulled the stern away from the docks.
Dock and ship crews scrambled together to secure the ship, but their efforts were in vain. Another set of cables snapped with a series of rippling twangs and the ship slowly swung out, pivoting at the bow, where only three cables remained. Caught in the outgoing tidal current, the ship rotated faster.
Oh crap.
“That thing’s big enough to do some serious damage to the Memorial Bridge when it slams into it,” Dad said.
“If only Blue Speaker were here,” Daddio replied.
The deck crews were scrambling to launch boats, but they looked too small and ill-equipped to stop the massive vessel without the help of the Moran tugboats—which were still in their berths.
They won’t get here in time. So, this is it, isn’t it? This is when I reveal my biggest secret to my dads.
It became clear his fathers wanted to watch the scene unfold, but Quinn knew he had to protect the bridge and save the ship. A pulsing alarm rang out from the Memorial Bridge and the road gates came down, shutting off the traffic flow. On each bank, blue lights flashed as police arrived and redirected traffic away from the bridge.
Quinn stepped back a few feet and checked the windows of the condo units around them. He didn’t see any gawking faces looking at him. He assumed most residents would be watching the cargo ship and not the ground. He pulled off his hat, gloves, scarf, and stuffed them into the left arm of his jacket.
He hesitated, swallowing nervously.
You can do this…even though it’s like coming out all over again.
The mighty cargo ship groaned as its aft section swung around and picked up speed, following the river’s course toward the bridge.
“Um, dads?”
“Yeah?” they said, not turning around.
“Uh…you know how I’ve been…um…lying to you recently?”
His dads looked at each other with confusion, then turned to face him. Quinn handed his jacket to Dad, who silently received it.
“You want to talk about that now?” Daddio asked. “Wait, what are you doing?”
“More importantly, what are you talking about, lying to us recently? Since when?” Dad asked.
“Um, since Labor Day,” Quinn answered, his voice slightly nervous. He shook his head as a thought rattled around in his mind. “More like, since the hospital.”
Quinn looked over his father’s shoulders at the fast-moving cargo ship. He shifted apprehensively on his feet and wiped his sweaty hands on his pants.
“Yeah, well, it’s because, um, I’m…well, there’s no easy way to say this…”
Shit, I didn’t know this would be so hard.
“Why have you been lying to us, Quinn?” Dad asked. “And why are you choosing this moment to tell us? Put your coat back on.”
“Because I’m Blue Spekter,” Quinn blurted out, igniting his eyes, then illuminating his body from head to toe. “And I need to go stop that ship from smashing through the bridge.”
Damien’s mind is a magical and nerdy place where fantastic heroes defend amazing worlds from dangerous villains who run amuck in an epic struggle to take over the universe. Recently, the brightest and best from this colorful cast of characters have made their way into notes, plots, stories, and novels for you to read and enjoy.
Damien strongly believes the real world we live in should be a place where LGBTQA equality and acceptance are second nature and never questioned. When he’s not working or spending time with his husband and their dog, Damien weaves this philosophy into the exciting lives of his characters and the fantastic space battles and romances they endure so they’ll stop taking over his dreams at night.
And finally, he wants you to remember a very important thing: No matter how bad your day is at work, it’s always important to be grateful that you don’t work for a Sith Lord.
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Muntu: An Outline of the New African Culture
By Janheinz Jahn, Marjorie Grenee
Whatever human beings think and do and produce concerns all other human beings. KARL JASPERS
I. QUO VADis AFRICA?
Africa is entering world history. There is a flow of books and articles dealing with this process in its political, economic, sociological and psychological aspects. But an these expositions have in common a single conviction; they are all persuaded that one single pattern of cultural change is forming. Through the influence of Europe, it is believed, Africa is adapting herself, giving up her traditions and adopting foreign ideas, methods of work, forms of government and principles of economic organization. The time of transition, whether short or long, is thought to be a time of crisis which will confront all Africans with the decision either to accept modern civilization and survive, or to perish with their own traditions. Some observers believe in a gradual, as others in a sudden, transition, but all are agreed that a fully Europeanized Africa will be the end product of the process. Europe is alleged to provide the model, Africa to copy it; Europe to be spiritually the giving, Africa the receiving partner.
Since Europe is held to be the teacher and Africa the pupil, Europe is to decide when Africa is ripe: ripe for a faith, ripe for action, ripe for freedom. Europe is thought to know what is good for Africa, better than Africa herself. Admittedly, Europe offers different and rival doctrines -- democracy or communism, Christi anity . . .
Publisher: Grove Press
Place of publication: New York
Janheinz Jahn
Marjorie Grenee
Includes content by:
Amos Tutuola
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization
Contents 5
Illustrations 7
Chapter 1 - Skokian? Problem and Method 11
Chapter 2 - Voodoo the Embodiment of the Gods 29
Chapter 3 - Rumba the Meaning of the Dances 62
Chapter 4 - Ntu African Philosophy 96
Chapter 5 - Nommo the Magic Power of the Word 121
Chapter 6 - Kuntu Immutability of Style 156
Chapter 7 - Hantu History of Literature 185
Chapter 8 - Blues the Conffict of Cultures 217
Bibliography 252
Index of Names 261
Index of Subjects 265
Pride, Faith, and Fear: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa By Charlotte A. Quinn; Frederick Quinn Oxford University Press, 2003
Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa By Toyin Falola; Adebayo O. Oyebade Greenwood, 2010
Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa By Philip W. Setel; Milton Lewis; Maryinez Lyons Greenwood Press, 1999
Precolonial Sub-Saharan Africa and the Ancient Norse World: Looking for Similarities* By Fuglestad, Finn History In Africa, Vol. 33, 2006
Did They or Didn't They Invent It? Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa By Alpern, Stanley B. History In Africa, Vol. 32, 2005
North and Sub-Saharan Africa at the Rencontres Internationales Pour Un Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, 1974: Background Notes By Saglier, Viviane Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 2015
Uncovering an Ancient Saharan Civilization: The Demise of Gaddafi Has, on a Positive Note, Helped Archaeologists to Explore the Country's Rich Pre-Islamic Heritage, Spearheaded by the Libyan Antiquities Department That Was Severely Neglected under Gaddafi By Abraham, Curtis New African, No. 563, July 2016
Africa: Imperialism Goes Naked By Bracking, Sarah Harrison, Graham Monthly Review, Vol. 55, No. 6, November 2003
Indian Ocean Nexus: The Atlantic and Pacific Now Dominate the World's Politics and Trade, but the Indian, Ocean Is Emerging as a New Locus of Power That Increasingly Unites China, India, the Middle East, and Africa By Walker, Martin The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2008
West Declining, Africa Self-Destructing, Korea By Beichman, Arnold The Washington Times (Washington, DC), January 6, 2002
Turn of Bush, Powell toward Africa Is a Promising Move By Weathersbee, Tonyaa The Florida Times Union, June 4, 2001
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The greatest Christmas movies of all time
RACQ's top five Christmas movies
It’s that time again which means a month of back to back Christmas movie viewing.
But how do we know which ones to watch and which are a waste of time? We’ve got your back with the top five greatest Christmas movies of all time – spoiler warning.
5. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1988)
Watch it on: Stan
Chevy Chase is the king of suburban family comedy and he’s in fine form in this classic Christmas movie. Watch the perfectly planned Griswold Christmas go down in flames as feuding family, marauding wildlife and Christmas lights come together to create a Christmas disaster of epic proportions. It’s a bit of an oldie but it still gets into the top five for its slapstick shenanigans and middle-class relatability.
4. Gremlins (1984)
Watch it on: Netflix
Gremlins? A Christmas movie? It sure is! Not only is the movie set at Christmas but the catalyst for the film’s gremlin troubles is our hero Billy Peltzer’s chrissie present – Gizmo the mogwai. Christmas decorations, shopping and frolicking are a backdrop to this movie giving it that wholesome yuletide vibe (for a bit). This one can be comfortably watched outside of Christmas which drops it down a few rungs to fourth place.
3. Elf (2003)
Who wouldn’t love a movie about Will Ferrel as an overgrown man child with daddy issues and some seriously contagious Christmas cheer? Be honest you sing along to ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’ with Zooey Deschanel when Santa’s sleigh runs out of Christmas spirit oomph. The movie gets marked down a bit for its cliché ending – who’s paying the bills when Buddy’s dad quits his job for family?
2. Home Alone (1990)
Watch it on: Google Play
This was tough – Home Alone definitely deserves a top spot but sometimes your best just isn’t good enough. In saying that, though, Home Alone is undoubtedly one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time, ask anyone. A kid with unfettered access to the TV, fridge and leisure time, while also creating elaborate traps to foil the bad guys, was the stuff of childhood fantasies and that’s a hard one to shake.
1. Love Actually (2003)
Rating: M
Love Actually has just clinched the top spot, purely because of that goosebump-giving opening scene at Heathrow Arrivals. If it doesn’t make you tear up, then you are clearly an unfeeling lizard person. It’s impossible to pick a favourite part in this film – is it Hugh Grant as PM, nativity scene lobsters or Liam Neeson re-enacting Titanic? We can’t forget Emma Thompson being the screen goddess she is and our outrage at Snape actor Alan Rickman for making her cry. This one will be the first and possibly the last movie on our Christmas movie rotation list.
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High News
High Times Greats: My Acid Trip With Groucho
In honor of Groucho Marx’s birthday, we’re bringing you a story from the February, 1981 issue of High Times, in which writer Paul Krassner remembers tripping with the comedy legend.
If you take the name of a certain former vice-president, Spiro Agnew, and scramble the letters around, you can rearrange it to spell out Grow A Penis. Such appropriateness can give your boundaries of coincidence permanent stretch marks. After all, when Sen. Charles Goodell came out against the war in Vietnam, it was Agnew who called him “the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party”—thus equating military might with the mere presence of a cock.
Years ago, when Mike Wallace interviewed me for “60 Minutes,” and asked about the difference between the underground press and the mainstream media, I told him about the above anagram and said, “The difference is that I could print that in the Realist, but it’ll be edited out of this program.”
My prediction was accurate, so naturally I took an immediate vow never to appear on any TV show again unstoned. Which in turn explains why eating magic mushrooms was practically a prerequisite for my being interviewed by Tom Snyder.
Now, Andy Friendly had only been doing his job when he was reading the Sex and Dope issue of HIGH TIMES in September 1978. As a producer for the “Tomorrow” show, he was always on the lookout for potential guests, and there was a particularly bizarre interview with me in that issue, so he called up to invite me on the show.
There were a few follow-up phone conversations to explore areas that the televised interview might cover. The subject of drug use came up, and I said, “Well, maybe we could talk about my old psychedelic macho. I’ve taken LSD in all kinds of unusual situations: when I testified at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial; on the Johnny Carson show—Orson Bean was guest host—I was sort of a guide for Groucho Marx once; while I was researching the Manson case I took acid with a few women in the family, including Squeaky Fromme and Sandra Good. It was a kind of participatory journalism….”
The interview was scheduled for November 30.
“That’s my birthday,” said Abbie Hoffman, still on the lam at the time. “Would you wish me a happy birthday on the show?”
The “Tomorrow” show flew me from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and a chauffeured limousine delivered me to a fancy hotel, where I proceeded to partake of those magic mushrooms. My mood was intensely sensual. What I really wanted was an exquisite massage. I called an old friend who is a professional masseuse.
Since she was also an old lover, it was not totally surprising that we began fucking on the bed before she even set up her table. She finally broke the sweet silence of our postcoital afterglow with this whisper: “But I’ll have to charge you for the massage.”
November 1978 was the month of that unspeakable Jonestown massacre and, a week later, the political assassination of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and gay supervisor Harvey Milk by ex-cop Dan White. The mushrooms were really coming on strong when Tom Snyder—who has an FM mind in an AM body and was apparently doing his impression of “Saturday Night Live’s” Dan Aykroyd doing him—asked me, in effect, to justify San Francisco as the locale of such sequential horror.
“Nyah, nyah,” I began, “my city’s more violent than yours….”
When he asked me about the trip with Groucho, I replied, “Well, there’s a whole context—but due to the demands of televised pacing, we barely got into it before Snyder wanted to know about my six months as publisher of Hustler and what it was I said to the Hare Krishna pushers at the airport. Just before the show ended, though, I managed to remember to wish Abbie Hoffman a happy birthday.
Recently, a HIGH TIMES editor recalled seeing that interview on TV and invited me to write the story, which finally completes this media cycle.
The Timothy Leary Connection
Think of this as a piece of combat history. To fully understand the context in which this battle for the will has been taking place, you need only retrace the chronological profile of G. Gordon Liddy—from his role as a Poughkeepsie district attorney who raided the Millbrook mansion where LSD was an experimental sacrament to his function as a CIA operative who offered to assassinate Jack Anderson on behalf of the Nixon administration.
Had Liddy been given the go-ahead, columnist Anderson wouldn’t have been around to embarrass the Carter administration into not invading Iran, and we might be in the middle of World War III at this very moment.
In 1963 in my capacity as editor and Zen bastard of the Realist, I had assigned Robert Anton Wilson to investigate the game being played at Millbrook. In my capacity as stand-up comic and drug virgin, I had been poking fun at all the highs I’d never tried.
Wilson came back and presented me with our cover story, “Timothy Leary and His Psychological H-Bomb.” After it was published, Leary called to invite me for a weekend at Milbrook. Working with him were Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert. Somehow, despite all the accoutrements of Eastern religion, the scene was quite American. Even this top level of the psychedelic hierarchy consisted of a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew.
Yet they were performing a cosmic task, this trio of Ph.D. dropouts, helping to spread the expansion of consciousness in the middle of a sadomasochistic empire whose perpetuation depended upon the mass contraction of consciousness.
Originally, the CIA had intended to use LSD as one more means of manipulating the population. That scenario backfired. A generation who trusted their friends more than their government deprogrammed themselves from the society that had shaped them, and then reprogrammed themselves into an infinite variety of incarnations.
The think tanks had not formulated a contingency plan for this counterculture that was refusing to be brainwashed into becoming consumer and military zombies. This—mutation!—would certainly have to be discredited.
LSD influenced music, painting, spirituality and the stock market. Tim Leary let me listen in on a call from a Wall Street broker thanking him for turning him onto acid because it had given him the courage to sell short.
Leary had a certain sense of pride about famous folks he and his associates had introduced to the magic potion. Cary Grant had become a father at age 74, thanks to LSD, and likewise, Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute now talked about “spasms” of information.
Years later, I gave Kahn a superficial tour of the Lower East Side. We stopped in a bookstore. Among this thinker of the unthinkable’s purchases was LSD and Problem Solving by Peter Stafford.
Meanwhile, I had become a gung-ho acidhead, a public propagandist. I wrote a lot about LSD. Sometimes I would take a tab right onstage at the beginning of a performance, verbally sharing my journey with the audience, hoping I could get a few laughs while simultaneously maintaining my juggling act without dropping any chromosomes and damaging them.
The Charles Manson Connection
There’s a new-wave band whose name itself—Sharon Tate’s Baby—is a tribute to time warps everywhere. For it is now nearly a dozen years since Charles Manson, a victim-executioner sired by the prison system, dispatched his perverted commune to mutilate and kill a group of people in the privacy of their home. Among the slain was Sharon Tate, a pregnant actress.
Her husband, Roman Polanski, director of Rosemary’s Baby, was out of the country at the time. Now he is out of the country again, this time to avoid prosecution for consorting with a voluptuous 13-year-old.
Young idealists on their way to the Woodstock Festival that weekend in the summer of ’69 kept passing newsstands with headlines of the gory multiple murder. Not all the details emerged. Others dead:
Jay Sebring, hairdresser, dealer of marijuana and cocaine—earlier that evening, a member of a coke ring had appeared at the house—his body would later be found stuffed in a car trunk in New York;
Voytek Frokowski, who with Sebring was preparing to become U.S. distributors of MDA;
Abigail Folger, coffee heiress, girlfriend of Frokowski and campaigner for Tom Bradley, L.A.’s first black mayor—she was a far cry from the conservative image of Mrs. Olson in her father’s TV commercials.
Manson was an eclectic. He borrowed techniques from Transactional Analysis and Scientology alike. There was even a Scientology E-Meter (lie detector) on the blind man’s ranch where Charlie kept his harem. He used sex and music and isolation and ritual and fakery— whatever worked. He was a pimp and a hypnotist. He dispensed LSD tablets as though they were timed-release Dog Yummies.
I interviewed Preston Guillory, who had been a deputy with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department when they eventually busted the Manson ranch. He stated that before the murders, they had been told to leave Charlie alone—despite complaints about his violations of parole (including, ironically, statutory rape)—because “something big was coming down.”
“Why were you given such an order?”
“I don’t know,” Guillory replied. “We didn’t question our superiors.”
“Did you at least speculate as to the reason?”
“Oh, we just figured they were gonna kill Black Panthers.”
Thus did the racism of the sheriffs render them collaborators of Charles Manson, who had wanted to start a race war. He instructed his followers to leave clues making it appear that black militants were responsible for the killings. When the family was arrested, however, it merely served to give hippies a bad name.
Before Willie Nelson made the look respectable again, there was John Linley Frasier, a long-haired, headbanded freak in the Santa Cruz mountains who was involved in an awesome mass murder a year after Charles Manson. He later became a prison mate of Manson, mentioning in a letter that “me and Charlie are still trying to figure out how long our leashes were and who’s been pissin’ on them…
And so it came to pass that Charles Manson was stuck in solitary confinement at Folsom Prison when a new inmate was placed in the adjoining cell. It was Tim Leary, fresh from being hounded around the world. He was eventually captured with Joanna Harcourt-Smith, who later admitted working for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
“They took you off the streets,” Manson informed Leary, “so that I could continue with your work.”
Charlie couldn’t understand how Leary had given so many people acid without trying to “control” them. Still, I remember a certain vested interest Leary had in having been a catalyst for their transformation. He enjoyed whatever influence he had wielded in the change of attitude toward LSD that Henry Luce had brought to Time and Life.
But, Leary once remarked, “I consider Otto Preminger one of our failures.”
The Otto Preminger Connection
The FBI has been getting a bad press lately. They were being accused of hounding Jean Seberg to suicide. Documents proved they had spread a story that she was pregnant by a leader of the Black Panther Party. Then, in order to defend itself, the FBI released their tape of a tapped phone conversation wherein Jean Seberg tells a surprised Panther how pleased he should be that she’s carrying his baby.
It is enough to make the left and right lobes of your brain start humping each other. What will the next layer of reality be? Will yet another document reveal that the Black Panther was actually an undercover agent?
But the FBI was not the first to toy with Jean Seberg’s destiny. She was originally chosen from among thousands of contestants by Otto Preminger for the starring role in his film, Joan of Arc. While she was being burned at the stake, her garments actually did catch on fire. Jean Seberg screamed with such a passion for survival at that moment, it seemed to preclude the possibility of ever taking her own life.
And Otto Preminger, bless his professional heart, knew that this was one scene he had on the first take.
I’ve met Preminger on two occasions. The first was in 1960. I was conducting a panel on censorship for Playboy. Preminger had defied Hollywood’s official seal of approval by not censoring The Moon Is Blue.
In retrospect, it hardly looks courageous, but Preminger refused to take out the word “virgin.”
Anyway, at the end of our interview, he asked, “Ven you tronscripe dis, vill you fix op my Henglish?”
”Oh, sure,” I replied quickly. “Of course.”
He glared at me and shouted,
“Vy? Vot’s drong viz my Henglish?”
The second time I saw Preminger was a decade later. We were both guests on the Merv Griffin show (Orson Bean was guest host again). I had taken mescaline for the occasion. Another guest was comedian Jackie Vernon. Responding to the length of my hair, he said, “Why don’t you take a bath?”
Nobody had ever asked me that on network television before. Later, Monday morning quarterbacking, George Carlin would have an Aikido-like suggestion—”You should’ve said, ‘Why, thank you, Jackie, I hadn’t considered that'”—but at that instant I was caught off balance and just kept silent. So did the audience. The tension was broken by Otto Preminger.
“Dot iss duh seekness ov our society, dis stereo-typical ottitood.”
Now the audience applauded. And then we went to a commercial. There is a definite rhythm a director brings to a TV talk show…
Between those two occasions, Otto Preminger made a movie called Skidoo. It was proacid propaganda thinly disguised as a comedy adventure.
And the part of God was played by Groucho Marx.
Recently Tim Leary cheerfully admitted to me: “I was fooled by Otto Preminger. He was much hipper than I was.”
The Lenny Bruce Connection
Steve Allen became the first subscriber to the Realist in 1958. He sent in several gift subscriptions, including one for Lenny Bruce, who was busy fighting the press label ”sick comic.” Lenny and I developed a close friendship. In 1962, Playboy assigned me as editor of his autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, which they were serializing.
Traveling around with Lenny Bruce was an incredible delight. It was a theatrical education to watch him sculpt his offstage perceptions into onstage routines. But, as his environment became more and more the courtroom, so did the contradictions of the law become more and more the canvas for his craft.
Although Lenny was a tremendous influence on me as a performer, I was not at all into drugs at the time. Once I asked him about the apparent inconsistency between his free-form lifestyle and his having to stop everything in order to shoot up. He replied, “Well, you stop to eat, don’t you?”
He described heroin—It’s like kissing God.” And who could fault him for that?
In the winter of 1964, stoned on a combination of DMT and LSD, Lenny fell backward through the window of his San Francisco hotel room. At the precise moment that he was suspended in midair, he uttered: “Man shall rise above the rule!” Then he surrendered to the law of gravity and plummeted to the sidewalk below. Both legs had to be put in casts, and for a while he became the Hermit of Hollywood Hills.
Around that time, Jerry Hopkins—who had opened the first head shop in L.A., and later became the biographer of Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison—was producing the Steve Allen show. He arranged for me to do a one-night stand at the Steve Allen Theater. Lenny Bruce was in the audience, and so was Groucho Marx.
At one point in the show, I was talking about the importance of having empathy for other people’s perversions. During a question-and-answer session that followed, Lenny stood up on his crutches and asked what I had meant by that.
“Well, once I was sitting in the subway—it was rush hour and really crowded—and an elderly lady’s buttocks kept rubbing against my shoulder, and I began to get aroused…”
“You’re sick!” Lenny yelled.
“Thank you, Mr. President,” I responded, ending the show right there.
Later, I met Groucho Marx for the first time.
“That was very smart, the way you finished,” he said. “Besides, I was getting fidgety in my seat.”
The Ram Dass Connection
By the mid ’60s I had become such a dope fiend that I kept my entire stash in a bank-vault deposit box. Once a week I would don my Cosa Nostra sweatshirt (“We aim to please!”) and get my supply of LSD—to give away, sell, swallow, whatever.
It was, for you brand-name fans, Owsley White Lightning—300 micrograms of separate reality. I bought my acid from Dick Alpert to finance his trip to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass. “Come fuck the universe with me,” his postcard beckoned, but I already had an American guru—Mortimer Snerd, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s dummy. One time Bergen asked his main dummy, Charlie McCarthy, “What are you doing?” Charlie answered, “Nothing.” And then Mortimer Snerd said in his goofy buck-tooth country bumpkin style, “Well, how d’ya know when yer finished?”
Anyway, Ram Dass kept seeking illumination and having his feet kissed by strangers, while I stayed home and got a call from Groucho Marx.
He was going to be in an Otto Preminger film called Skidoo, and it was pretty much advocating LSD, and he had never tried it but was not only curious but also felt a responsibility to his audience not to steer them wrong, so could I get him some pure stuff and would I care to accompany him on the trip?
I did not play hard to get.
The acid with which Ram Dass—in his final moments as Dick Alpert—failed to get his guru higher was the same acid that I had the honor of taking with Groucho Marx. As I left the bank vault that week, I was breathing slowly and deeply so that I would not laugh my ass off in the lobby.
The Groucho Marx Connection
We ingested those little white tabs one afternoon at the home of an actress in Beverly Hills.
Groucho was interested in the social background of the drug. There were two items that particularly tickled his fancy.
One was about the day acid was outlawed. Hippies were standing around the streets, waiting for the exact appointed minute to strike so they could all publicly swallow their LSD the exact second it became illegal.
The other was how the tour bus would pass through Haight-Ashbury and passengers would try to take snapshots of the local alien creatures, who in turn would hold mirrors up to the bus windows so that the tourists would see themselves focusing their cameras.
I told Groucho about the first thing I ever sold to the old Steve Allen show. It was a sketch called “Unsung Heroes of Television.”
Among the heroes was the individual whose sole job it was to listen intently the whole half hour for somebody to say the secret word on You Bet Your Life and then to drop that decoy duck when the word was said.
He told me about one of his favorite contestants—”a gentleman with white hair, on in years but a chipper fellow. I inquired as to what he did to retain his sunny disposition. ‘Well, I’ll tell you, Groucho,’ he says, ‘every morning I get up and I make a choice to be happy that day.'”
We had long periods of silence, and of listening to music. I was accustomed to playing rock ‘n’ roll while tripping, but the record collection here was all classical and Broadway show albums. After we heard the Bach “Cantata No. 7” Groucho said, “I may be Jewish, but I was seeing the most beautiful visions of Gothic cathedrals. Do you think Bach knew he was doing that?”
Later, we were listening to the score of a musical comedy, Fanny. There was one song called “Welcome Home,” where the lyrics go something like, “Welcome home, says the clock,” and the chair says, “Welcome home,” and so do various other pieces of furniture. Groucho started acting out each line, as if he were actually being greeted by the clock, the chair and so forth. He was like a child, charmed by his own ability to respond to the music that way.
There was a point when our conversation somehow got into a negative space. Groucho was equally bitter about institutions such as marriage (“like quicksand”) and individuals such as Lyndon Johnson (“that potato-head”). Eventually, I asked, “What gives you hope?”
Groucho thought for a moment. Then he said just one word out loud: “People.”
After a while, he started chuckling to himself. I hesitated to interrupt his revelry. Finally he spoke: “I’m really getting quite a kick out of this notion of playing God like a dirty old man in Skidoo. You wanna know why? Do you realize that irreverence and reverence are the same thing?”
“Always?”
“If they’re not, then it’s a misuse of your power to make people laugh.”
And right after he said that, his eyes began to tear.
When he came back from peeing, he said, “Everybody is waiting for miracles to happen. The human body is a goddam miracle.”
He mentioned, “I had a little crush on Marilyn Monroe when we were making Love Happy. I remember I got a hard-on just talking to her on the set.”
During a little snack: “I never thought eating a fig would be the biggest thrill of my life.”
He held and smelled a cigar for a long time but never smoked it.
“Everybody has their own Laurel and Hardy,” he mused. “A miniature Laurel and Hardy, one on each shoulder. Your little Oliver Hardy bawls you out—he says, ‘Well, this is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into.’ And your little Stan Laurel gets all weepy —’Oh, Ollie, I couldn’t help it, I’m sorry, I did the best I could…'”
Five years later, my book, How a Satirical Editor Became a Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years, was published by Putnam’s. Editor William Targ sent an advance copy to Groucho, and he sent back a postcard that was as eerie as it was complimentary: “Thanks for the book. I am sending this card to you, because I don’t know where Mr. Krassner lives. Or even if he is alive. At any rate, it’s a hilarious book and I predict in time he will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.”
The year after that, I was heavy into my Manson investigation. During the acid trip with three of his family members—Squeaky Fromme, Sandra Good and Brenda McCann—I got an even more awesome compliment.
Sandy Good had once seen me perform at The Committee in San Francisco. Now she was saying to me, “When people used to ask me what Charlie was like, I would compare him to Lenny Bruce and Paul Krassner.”
My heart thumped rather strangely.
Sandy had been a civil-rights activist. But Charlie Manson stepped on her eyeglasses, threw away her birth control pills, remolded her personality and transformed her value system. So now she was parroting Charlie’s racism and asking me to tell John Lennon that he should get rid of Yoko Ono and “marry his own kind.”
I’ve never met Charlie Manson, although I’ve corresponded with him. But I have heard a tape of his rap, and he definitely used humor as a tool for evil.
For the first time I understood in my guts what Groucho Marx had meant about misusing the power to make people laugh.
The Jerry Rubin Connection
After our acid trip, I had only a couple of contacts with Groucho.
The first concerned a rumor that he had said, “I think the only hope this country has is Nixon’s assassination.” I wanted to verify whether he had actually said that.
“I deny everything,” he joked, then admitting he had indeed said it over a luncheon interview with a now-defunct magazine, Flash.
“Uh, sorry, Mr. Marx, you’re under arrest for threatening the life of the president. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed A Night at the Opera. Here, now, if you’ll just slip into these plastic handcuffs….”
I wrote to the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Justice, asking about the status of the case against Groucho, particularly in view of the indictment of Black Panther David Hilliard for using similar rhetoric. Here’s the reply I received:
Dear Mr. Krassner:
Responding to your inquiry, the United States Supreme Court has held that Title 18 U.S.C., Section 87) prohibits only “true” threats. It is one thing to say “I (or we) will kill Richard Nixon” when you are the leader of an organization which advocates killing people and overthrowing the government; it is quite another to utter the words which are attributed to Mr. Marx, an alleged comedian. It was the opinion of both myself and the United States Attorney in Los Angeles (where Marx’s words were alleged to have been uttered) that the latter utterance did not constitute a “true” threat.
/s/ James L. Browning, Jr.
United States Attorney
The second occasion was at the Los Angeles Book Fair in 1976, where Groucho was scheduled to speak, along with Tim Leary and Jerry Rubin.
Leary was dressed all in white except for a black string tie. He was now advocating suburban space colonies.
“Migration,” he proclaimed, “is the number one tool of the DNA code.”
There was speculation that this might really be a metaphor about the way we ought to behave on earth. Utopian planning for life on a celestial way station is bound to serve as a model for people changing themselves, their institutions and systems on our own planet, whether or not we actually start sending out satellites covered with Astroturf.
Leary took a slight swipe at Rubin, mentioning an ex-radical who said “Kill your parents” and had now written a book on how to contact your deceased parents through astral travel. Rubin had issued a press release requesting the media not to refer to him as a former Yippie leader. Somewhere there must have been a headline: FORMER YIPPIE LEADER ASKS NOT TO BE CALLED FORMER YIPPIE LEADER.
A few years previously, Jerry Rubin had helped organize a press conference to denounce Tim Leary as a snitch, although Leary insisted that he never got anybody in trouble. Now, Rubin was scheduled to appear at the Book Fair on the same evening as Leary but he rearranged it for the next evening in order to avoid a public confrontation—or, worse yet, a public embrace—in front of all those eagerly popping flashbulbs.
Nevertheless, Jerry Rubin served as a unifier at the Book Fair.
It had been announced that Groucho Marx would not speak from the stage in the Ambassador Hotel ballroom, but rather on a one-to-one basis with folks whose books he would be autographing. This turned into a mob scene. So Jerry found Groucho’s companion, Erin Fleming, and suggested that if they walked back around a certain way it would bring them directly onto the stage. She followed his advice.
Groucho looked frail and unsmiling, but he was alert and irreverent as the audience fired questions at him.
Was he working on a film now?
“No, I’m answering silly questions.”
What was his favorite film?
“Duck Soup.”
Nixon?
“He should be in jail.”
Is humor an important issue in the presidential campaign?
“Get your finger out of your mouth.”
What does he dream about?
“Not about you.”
What inspired him to write?
“A fountain pen; a piece of paper.”
I couldn’t stand it any longer. I called out, “Groucho, what gives you hope?”
This time he said, “The world.”
There was hardly any standing room left in the auditorium, but one man sat on the floor rather than take the seat occupied by a rubber Groucho Marx doll.
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Magician: the Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Chuck Workman (2014)
12A Certificate
by David Parkinson
There's no such thing as a dull anecdote about Orson Welles (who would have turned 100 in 2015), especially when it is related in stentorian tones by the man himself. Consequently, Chuck Workman's documentary is stuffed with fascinating details about the stage, radio and screen achievements of the wunderkind who never quite fulfilled his potential. Insights into the private and psychological sides of things aren't quite as acute, however. For those unfamiliar with tales about the Gate and Mercury Theatre companies, the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the clashes with RKO in the 40s over Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and the lengthy nomadic period that resulted in Welles becoming the accidental godfather of independent cinema, this is a fine place to start. Workman has uncovered numerous rare clips of Welles and key collaborators such as Robert Wise and John Houseman to go alongside interviews with the likes of Peter Bogdanovich and Steven Spielberg. He also makes amusing use of extracts from films like Woody Allen's Radio Days and Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, in which the great man features as a semi-fictionalised character. Numerous Welles profiles exist, but this wide-ranging chronology makes a fitting centenary tribute.
A profile of the actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, making use of archive interviews and clips from his stage, screen and radio work.
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Rediff.com » Business » Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel continue to lose users; Jio gains
Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel continue to lose users; Jio gains
By Romita Majumdar
August 20, 2019 16:56 IST
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,183.15 million at the end of May to 1,186.63 million at the end of June.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
The two older telecom majors, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, continued to lose subscribers - 4.17 million combined - during June, while rival Reliance Jio added 8.26 million users at a steady pace, according to data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).
Vodafone Idea still led in total subscriber tally at 383.4 million, even as its broadband market share and active subscriber base stayed stagnant, followed by Jio with 331.2 million and Airtel with 320.3 million.
As on end-June, the top five wired broadband service providers were Bharat Sanchar Nigam (9.05 million), Airtel (2.4 million), Atria Convergence Technologies (1.45 million), Hathway Cable & Datacom (0.84 million) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (0.74 million).
This picture is expected to change with the official launch of Jio’s fibre-to-home service in September.
Airtel and Jio have continued to gradually raise their market share in the wireless broadband space.
The total mobile broadband device user base also grew by 2.3 per cent in June, with 575.63 million devices reported in the system.
Bharti Airtel has the highest proportion (98.5 per cent) of active wireless subscribers.
Vodafone Idea and Jio are on par with 84 per cent.
Jio's addition of 8.26 million customers in June was higher than the 8.18 million it reported in May.
Vodafone Idea had subscriber market share of 32.9 per cent, Jio of 28.4 per cent and Airtel of 27.5 per cent.
Urban subscription increased from 674.66 million to 675.58 million; rural subscription from 508.49 million to 511.05 million.
Overall teledensity rose from 89.92 at the end of May to 90.11 at the end of June.
Urban teledensity fell from 160.79 to 160.78; rural teledensity rose from 56.74 to 56.99, picking up from a few months of slowdown since January.
The rural wireless subscriber base added 2.6 million users in the month after constant subscriber loss since January.
The share of rural and urban subscribers in the total number of telephone users at end-June was around 57 per cent and 43 per cent, respectively.
Ravinder Takkar is new Voda Idea CEO
The Board of merged telecom operator Vodafone Idea on Monday announced that it had accepted Balesh Sharma’s request to step down as chief executive officer (CEO) of Vodafone Idea for personal reasons.
Ravinder Takkar, currently Vodafone Group’s representative in India, will be appointed as his successor with immediate effect.
Over the past one year, Vodafone Idea has continued to be plagued by rapidly falling stock prices, dropping from Rs 32 same time last year to Rs 5.99 on the BSE when markets closed on Monday.
Sharma will be taking up a new role with Vodafone Group, which will be announced later.
He has been the CEO of Vodafone Idea since the completion of the merger of the two telcos in August 2018. Prior to that, he was the chief operating officer of Vodafone India.
He has also overseen the successful integration of Vodafone Idea, resulting in the estimated timescale to complete the integration process.
Sharma has driven the strategy of the combined business since its formation and has also spearheaded the largest-ever equity raise in India.
Vodafone Idea has lately received considerable flak for failing to turn around the minimum recharge strategy that was introduced by both Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel around the same time last year.
Airtel tapped the opportunity to improve average revenue per user and reduce subscriber churn, unlike Vodafone Idea.
Ravinder Takkar, an experienced global executive, is currently a Board member of Vodafone Idea and Indus Towers where he is responsible for all Vodafone Group interests in India, a role that he took on in 2017.
Before that, Ravinder was the CEO of Vodafone Romania for three years and CEO of Vodafone Partner Markets in London.
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Pacific Journal of Mathematics
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Volume 169, Number 2 (1995), 311-334.
Multiplicative functions on free groups and irreducible representations.
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Getting to know... The Snuts
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It's time to start getting excited, Dear Reader. We're less than a month away from the unofficial start of our 2019 festival season. That May Day Bank Holiday weekend means one thing - Live At Leeds. Packed with (literally) hundreds of the best new bands on the planet, it sees one of the country's most vibrant creative cities turned into a mecca of buzz, hype and awesome live music.
To celebrate, we're holding a special Live At Leeds takeover. Over the course of the day (11th April 2019, in case you're coming to this late - Ed), we'll be bringing you all kinds of stuff from and about the acts playing this year's event. If you're going, it'll help you plan out those all-important spreadsheets. If you've not yet picked up your tickets - well, what are you waiting for? You can grab 'em here, right now.
Scottish foursome The Snuts are gaining traction in all the right places - ridiculously huge sold-out gigs in their homeland, festival sets aplenty, massive indie tunes spreading like wildfire online. It’s all going on. Bassist Callum ‘29’ Wilson takes a break from recording to fill us in.
Hey Callum, how’s it going?
All good, can’t complain...
Congrats on signing with Parlophone last year, how are you finding life on the label?
Aye great! Recording right now in London. Just good for somebody that’s not just all your friends believing in the music.
So how did you guys meet and decide to form The Snuts? Were any of you in other bands beforehand?
We’ve known each other for like 15 years or something, Jordan, Joe and Me all went to primary school with each other, then met Jack at the start of secondary. We’ve played music together since we were 15. We’ve only ever really played music together so I can’t really imagine it any other way.
When did you first realise you wanted to make music, did you have a musical upbringing?
Not musical so to speak, always music around you affecting you but none of us were trained in music from an early age. Joe and Joko done music in school then that transferred loosely to me and Jack. We’ve all kind of learned together as one, and we learn more off each other than any formal lessons. Jack’s always been able to write songs though, and we’ve reached a stage where we’re all comfortable bringing our shit together.
What’s been the highlight of your time as a musician so far?
Honestly, it’s all pretty unbelievable, every month shit progresses for us, and it gets more unbelievable every time, insane to finally get to hand in my notice to my work and get out the building site thought that was pretty special.
You guys are at loads of festivals this summer, how do you prepare for so much travelling?
We spend a lot of time fucking with each other’s mental well-being, mainly our Tour Manager Gaz. Talk shit, generally just piss about and kill time. We’re really good mates, so it’s kind of no holds barred, sometimes it’s a laugh, sometimes it’s tense, but it’s sure as fuck better than having another winter on the tools. The main rule is to buy a portable phone charger and keep that fucker charged and don’t forget earphones.
What’s the best festival set you’ve ever seen?
Arctic Monkeys at TRNSMT last year was a master class in how to do indie rock n roll for me.
Is there anyone you’re especially looking forward to seeing this year?
Would love to catch Foals, but travel plans sometimes mean you miss the stuff you want to see. The Ninth Wave and Lucia are two Glasgow bands we’re really digging. Obviously, the sheer wonder voice of Lewis Capaldi is a must!
What are you working on at the mo?
New sounds, big beats hopefully have some shit out in the very near future.
You get sore arms hanging from apple trees.
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Construction is booming in Dallas and residential areas are being developed. New high-rise complexes are finding expensive artwork placed throughout. Why? The answer lies with the type of tenants the complex wants to attract. Dallas News covers the story and some additional details on the artwork.
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Builders of new residential buildings don’t want off-the-shelf art; instead, they are actually commissioning quality artwork to display. This is because the art is meant to elevate the atmosphere of these buildings. Some of these new Dallas high-rises will have the highest rents in the city. Every part of the building—including the artwork—should reflect the high-class aura the developers strive to present to people.
Steve Brown of Dallas News writes, “The first thing visitors see when they drive into the new Park District project in Uptown Dallas is a monumental silver sculpture. By Dallas artists Brad Oldham and Christy Coltrin, the polished steel artwork called Twist was commissioned for the office and apartment high-rise project.”
Then, when people go inside the Park District, they are treated to a massive piece of artwork that was created by Ólafur Elíasson, an Icelandic-Danish artist. In addition, there’s a large painting by Jennifer Losch Bartlett, an American artist.
Steve Brown continues, “And, Crow Co. commissioned two large lobby paintings — Cypress Trees and Cypress Swamp — by British artist Billy Childish. They are an explosion of color and shape in the white marble lobby of the office tower.”
Scott Krikorian is a senior managing director for Park District developer Trammell Crow Co. He’s one of the people responsible for fostering this new approach to displaying artwork. Scott was instrumental in getting Billy Childish to create the paintings. “We believe Billy is a bright star in this. We want it to where if somebody walks in the building, they see the quality of the work”, said Krikorian.
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Hall noted that up-and-coming Mexican artist Pedro Reyes has been chosen to create a major sculpture for the area. The sculpture will be located in an urban garden between a hotel and residential area. This will give the sculpture maximum exposure.
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Abandoned tents and human waste add to detritus on Mount Everest
Everest has so much garbage that climbers use it as a kind of signpost
Jun. 24, 2019 8:40 a.m.
This May 21, 2019, photo provided by climber Dawa Steven Sherpa shows Camp Four, the highest camp on Mount Everest littered with abandoned tents. (Dawa Steven Sherpa/Asian Trekking via AP)
After every party, it’s time to clean up and Mount Everest is no different.
The record number of climbers crowding the world’s highest mountain this season has left a government cleanup crew grappling with how to clear away everything from abandoned tents to human waste that threatens drinking water.
Budget expedition companies charge as little as $30,000 per climber, cutting costs including waste removal. Everest has so much garbage — depleted oxygen cylinders, food packaging, rope — that climbers use the trash as a kind of signpost. But this year’s haul from an estimated 700 climbers, guides and porters on the mountain has been a shock to the ethnic Sherpas who worked on the government’s cleanup drive this spring.
Moreover, the tents are littering South Col, or Camp 4, which, at 8,000 metres (26,240 feet) is the highest campsite on Everest, just below the summit. The high winds at that elevation have scattered the tents and trash everywhere.
“The altitude, oxygen levels, dangerously icy and slippery slopes, and bad weather of South Col make it very difficult to bring such big things as tents down,” said Dawa Steven Sherpa, who led an independent cleanup last month and has been a leading figure in the campaign to clean Mount Everest for the past 12 years.
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Exhausted climbers struggling to breathe and battling nausea leave heavy tents behind rather than attempt to carry them down. Sherpa said the logos on the ice-embedded tents that identify the expedition companies were deliberately ripped out so the culprits could evade detection.
“It took us an hour to dig out just one tent out of the frozen ice and bring it down,” said Sherpa. His expeditions have alone brought down some 20,000 kilograms (44,000 pounds) of garbage since 2008.
Sherpa estimated 30 tents had been left on South Col, and as much as 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds) of trash. Bringing it down is a herculean task when any misstep at such altitudes could be fatal.
It is impossible to know exactly how much litter is spread across Everest because it only becomes visible when the snow melts. At Camp 2, two levels higher than Base Camp, the campaigners believe that around 8,000 kilograms (17,637 pounds) of human excrement were left during this year’s climbing season alone.
Some climbers do not use makeshift toilets, instead digging a hole in the snow, letting the waste fall into small crevasses. However, rising temperatures have thinned the glacier, leaving fewer and smaller crevasses. The overflowing waste then spills downhill toward Base Camp and even communities below the mountain.
People living at the Base Camp use melted snow for drinking water that climbers’ toilets threaten to contaminate.
“During our expedition to Camp 2, eight of our 10 Sherpas got stomach illness from bad water at Camp 2,” said John All, a professor of environmental science at Western Washington University who visited Everest on a research expedition.
For the Nepalese who regard the mountain as “Sagarmatha,” or Mother of the World, littering amounts to desecration. Climber Nima Doma, who returned recently from a successful ascent, gets angry thinking that the sacred mountain is being turned into a garbage dump.
“Everest is our god and it was very sad to see our god so dirty. How can people just toss their trash on such a sacred place?” she said.
The trash is creating danger for future climbers and spurring calls for action now.
“When the snow melts the garbage surfaces. And when there is high wind, tents are blown and torn and the contents are scattered all over the mountain, which makes it even more dangerous for climbers already navigating a slippery, steep slope in snow and high winds,” said Ang Tshering, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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The Ramsey County Progressive Internship Partnership program just announced they have welcomed four new Progressive Interns into their organization from Saint Paul College. New interns Mohamed Ahmed, Javonda Jones, Kyu Kyu Myint, and Tom Martinson will be embedded in the departments of Finance, Health and Wellness Administration and Property Management at Ramsey County.
“Our Progressive Interns bring a wide range of talents and experiences and are truly representative of Ramsey County,” says Ryan O'Connor, County Manager, Ramsey County. “This two-year immersive experience has involved six students prior to the start of the new cohort, with three students continuing to work with Ramsey County in other capacities after their internship concluded. Ramsey County has benefitted tremendously from their talents.”
Established in 2015, the Progressive Internship Program is a partnership between Ramsey County, Saint Paul College and Metropolitan State University. The Progressive Internship provides on-the-job learning and networking opportunities with Ramsey County to students starting their education at Saint Paul College and then continuing to Metropolitan State University for their bachelor’s degree.
“I am grateful for the Progressive Internship Partnership with Ramsey County and Metropolitan State University,” says Dr. Rassoul Dastmozd, President/CEO, Saint Paul College. "The Progressive Internship model provides our students with the opportunity to earn a livable wage, be engaged in a very hands-on and meaningful work experience, and ultimately cultivate and establish the social connection that they need to be able to secure competitive employment."
The following information is a brief introduction of the four new interns in their own words:
My life started in Mogadishu, Somalia. I was there for the first part of my life until conflict took over almost everywhere. After several years of constant conflict in Somalia, I moved to Kampala, Uganda in my teenage years and eventually graduated with my high school diploma. Then I moved to America and enrolled in Saint Paul College. I will graduate with an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in Accounting in spring 2019. At Saint Paul College, I have been a mentor for new students and volunteer with the Cultural Learning Center. I have also volunteered in Ramsey County’s Health and Wellness Department to gain more experience. After earning my AAS degree, I will pursue my bachelor’s degree at Metro State University.
Javonda Jones
Originally from Ponchatoula, Louisiana, I am a first-generation college student in my family. I have three beautiful children at home, who motivate me every day to keep striving toward my goals. I graduated with an Associate of Arts degree from Saint Paul College in 2018, and I’m now attending Metropolitan State University as a psychology major. I am very grateful for this opportunity with the Progressive Internship in the Health and Wellness Division of Ramsey County. I look forward to learning and progressing in this program to maximize my educational experience.
Kyu Kyu Myint
My original country is Myanmar (Burma), which is located in Southeast Asia. I've resettled here in Minnesota since November 2013. I finished my Associate of Applied Science degree in Accounting in May 2016 at Saint Paul College. Now I am continuing with a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Metropolitan State University, and working as Progressive Intern at Ramsey County's Finance Department.
Tom Martinson
I grew up in Rochester, Minnesota with two older sisters and two parents. After high school, I earned certifications in Computer Aided Drafting & Design at Rochester Community & Technical College. A few years later, I transferred to Saint Paul College as a TRIO student, intending to earn a degree in accounting. I am considering graduating this fall with both a degree in accounting as well as finance. In order to gain experience in teamwork and leadership, last year I served as the secretary of the Student Senate at Saint Paul College. Next year I plan to attend Metropolitan State University while developing myself as an accounting/finance Intern with Ramsey County.
For more information about the Ramsey County Internship program go to https://www.saintpaul.edu/studentservices/ramsey-county-progressive-internship.
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Major Buyers Hear About Enhanced RISQS
Nearly fifty major buyers from across the GB rail industry heard about enhancements being delivered to the Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS).
Attendees were the first to see a demonstration of the new RISQS platform that is quicker, easier and more efficient to use and features significant new functionality.
Network Rail and TfL provided messages of support at the event held to explain the improvements which will be introduced on May 1, 2018.
Events for supplier members begin this Thursday (2nd) in Bristol; London on November 3 and 6; Doncaster on the 8th; Glasgow on the 13th; and finally Birmingham on the 16th. Some places are still available and can be booked via the RISQS website here under the “events” tab.
Members at the events will hear details of the state-of-the-art platform currently being developed by new provider Altius, including significant upgrades to the search functionality, tools that allow buyers to easily and quickly build additional information requests to suppliers, functionality to help suppliers with PAS91, and value-adding features like notice of EU tenders provided for free.
Capita, who will be providing audit services, will also be providing details of how their high-quality auditors, using the latest software, will provide consistency of audit experience.
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High Energy Rave Parties That End Tragically
On Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, organizers of raves at the county-run Fairplex in Pomona, California, canceled an upcoming event in the wake of two teenagers’ deaths at their Hard Summer festival at the same venue during August.
Eighteen-year-old Tracy Nguyen of West Covina and 19-year-old Katie Dix of Camarillo died during the first day of the two-day electronic dance music (EDM) festival. Ecstasy use was suspected, but autopsy results were still pending. Nguyen was majoring in pre-business economics at UCLA. She was known as a dancer and is quoted in one of her last tweets: “Biggest fear for hard summer: dancing with a guy that can’t keep up with me.” The Hard Summer festival was staged by Live Nation Inc. of Beverly Hills, which issued a statement saying that one victim suffered from cardiac arrest and the other from possible seizure symptoms. Hard’s annual Day of the Dead party, scheduled for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, will be scaled back, with reduced capacity each day, reduced hours, enhanced security, and increased the minimum age for party-goers, from 18 to 21. A proposal to ban the raves or make them safer is under consideration.
In recent years, a few exuberant young dancers have attended rave parties, become hyperthermic, or developed seizures, and have died. Ecstasy and energetic dancing may be the deadly combination.
The popularity of electronic dance music parties—“raves”—has exploded in recent years, by some estimates increasing 10-fold since 2007. Raves attract youth—most attendees are in their teens or early twenties. Older folks may find it harder to recover, go back to work, restore their hearing, or care for their young children after an all-night extravaganza of deafening, rhythmic, pulsating, electronic music that beckons dancing to the beat.
A Rave: A personal, close-up view
Near midnight on a warm tropical night in a southeast Asian country, I was picked up in an unmarked car by three undercover policemen, who escorted me to a rave. I had requested the experience of gracious hosts in the morning; at 11:30 pm a call came through on my hotel room phone requesting I meet them in the hotel lobby in 15 minutes. Dressed inconspicuously in black to blend into the crowd (deceiving no one), I witnessed this packed, hot rave party from midnight to 3:30 am, surveying, scrutinizing, and eavesdropping. It wasn’t scientific research, but a moment of reflection and a longing for authenticity: if I engage youths in discussions of raves and ecstasy, shouldn’t I know what they seek, what ambience and sensations of a rave are so compelling? What attracted them to dance all night, when others were deeply asleep recovering from long, tedious, laborious days?
The entrance was jammed with young, thin men and women, attired in skin-tight, fashionable clothing and edgy hair styles. Drugs were passed around surreptitiously, with handshakes, pocket-stuffing Then the party took off: the electronic harmonies started blaring, an overlay for a low pitched pulsating thunderous thud, and electronically coordinated with thin laser lights, expansive colored lights, zebra patterned, wavy, striped, swirling lights that swept and pranced across floors, walls, ceilings, the beat and visuals blending seamlessly. Up, down, sideways, walls, ceilings, floor—it was not possible to pinpoint my position in this three-dimensional space music-light continuum. I looked for walls to orient me, but they were shrouded in moving lights. The sensory overload was deliberate. It effectively erased time or space, obscured individuality, overwhelmed thoughts, and submerged intrusive instincts for self-preservation. In this mélange of blended, pulsating formless bodies, I could focus on a few people wearing striped shirts and at times watched them from a discrete balcony. They danced intensely, almost ferociously non-stop for at least three hours. No one spoke, no one communicated, no eye contact was made, no one faced each other, no one performed fancy footsteps for another, no one held hands, no one coordinated their moves with another, no couples danced, nor foursomes. The thunderous drumbeat, the pulsating lights, throbbing floors and walls depersonalized everyone. The sensorium was abducted by sound-light; nothing else could intrude. I wondered how the brain could process so much sensory input, how vision and hearing pathways were challenged to their limits, how drugs would magnify the experience, and what long-term consequences the combination would have on brain circuits.
Shortly after the rave began, the room became hot from the crush of people. Cold rooms on the margins of the main hall were refuges from sensorial and physiological excess; people sat in these rooms on lounges, staring ahead, mostly speechless, transfixed on images I couldn’t see or imagine.
At 3:30 am, I asked my reguardians to return to the hotel. With several presentations on the schedule for the following day, and a schedule beginning at 7 am, I needed some sleep. Yet it was impossible to sleep, as my head, eyes and ears pulsated with aftershocks for hours. Without formidable compensatory instincts, I wondered how many days it would take to restore lucid thinking to a frequent drug-using raver.
Raves and Drugs
Not everyone who attends raves will consume illegal drugs, and not everyone who uses illegal drugs attends raves, but rave attendance is associated with specific patterns of drug use. People who attend raves tend to have more drug experiences than non-attendees. A recent survey of rave party-goers reported high rates of drug use. One out of five college seniors reported ever attending a rave, with 7.7% attending at least monthly. Highly religious students and females were less likely to attend raves, whereas students with higher incomes, city-dwellers, and weekly “fun-seekers” were more likely to attend. Twice as many “ravers” reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana compared with “non-ravers,” and were also likelier to use more frequently.
After effects of drugs used at raves can include insomnia, exhaustion, muscle aches, sweating, listlessness, depression—effects from the combined use of drugs and excessive exercise. There is also evidence that chronic ecstasy use permanently damages the brain and impairs cognition.
Raves, Drugs, Medical Emergencies
Why do young people, albeit few, at the prime of their lives, develop medical emergencies or die at rave parties?
MDMA or ecstasy is among the most widely used drug at raves. It is a “hybrid” drug, producing amphetamine-like high-energy stimulation (teeth-grinding is a manifestation) and serotonin-like hallucinations, empathy, and euphoria somewhat unique to this molecule (3,4-methylenedioxy methamphetamine). The dangerous or even lethal combination of MDMA, high temperatures and high-energy dancing is most frequently associated with toxicity. In a significant number of people who died in Australia, MDMA triggered a strain on an underlying cardiovascular pathology (typically atherosclerosis), leading to cardiotoxic effects or cerebrovascular hemorrhage and hypoxia. The prevalence of these underlying pathologies confers risk to users of MDMA, as do other psychostimulants such as cocaine and amphetamine. Accordingly, monoamine (dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin) overactivity is implicated in the root causes of the medical emergencies. Most likely, crises arise because of a combined serotonin syndrome and sympathomimetic effects.
Yet the spectrum of reasons users die is not fully resolved. MDMA-induced toxicity is idiosyncratic and not dose-dependent. First-time users can develop a medical crisis with average doses, as can experienced users. Hyperthermia (high body temperature), hyponatremia (low blood sodium), dehydration, brain damage, cardiovascular collapse, and rhabdomyolysis are the most prevalent symptoms. Rhabdomyolysis or severe muscle injury or death is a serious condition. The death of muscle fibers releases their contents into blood, which challenges the kidneys to clear the waste products. Occasionally the kidneys fail and even this can cause death. Some users of “typical” dosages may experience serious life-threatening consequences.
The brain is another site of toxicity. MDMA-induced brain hyperthermia was recently shown to require social interactions in warm environments. Hyperthermia did not occur at normal room temperature, in a resting state. The mechanisms of elevated brain temperature are complex, but apparently require peripheral vasoconstriction, which prevents heat dissipation. Nontoxic doses of MDMA under cool, calm conditions can become lethal in the hot, crowded environments characteristic of rave parties. Because ecstasy is not necessarily the only drug in the pills or the only drug consciously used, it is sometimes difficult to attribute the cause of death solely to ecstasy. Research has shown that most substance-related problems were associated with ecstasy or alcohol use or both. Less serious medical care and not necessarily life-threatening emergency interventions can be encountered in rave-goers. In one study of 10,100 substance-related cases, 515 required professional medical care, of which 16 cases were life threatening. Other drugs that provoked medical intervention included alcohol, amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, and GHB. Although most problems were minor, people using GHB more often required professional medical care those using the other substances.
Can Rave Parties Be Made Safer?
Can providing cooling stations, shaded areas, misting stations and free water solve the problem? The producers of the raves involving two deaths plan to distribute anti-drug/drug education messaging, and possibly screen for drugs. This strategy is based on the assumption that the young attendees will be using drugs, drugs that raise body temperature to dangerous levels, drugs that, combined with vigorous, unceasing dancing, dehydrate the body or deplete it of essential sodium, especially if excess water is consumed to compensate water loss but not replenish minerals.
How likely will these precautions and messages stop attendees from using drugs? Will educating young people about the hazards they may encounter with drug consequences enable them to seek help when they’ve reached a crisis? Will these responses reduce the risks? How likely is it that the educational approach will be relevant if other drugs, and not just MDMA or ecstasy, will be distributed?
Another concern, based on my anecdotal experience, is the conceivably long-term damage (the week after, or months or even years later) associated with a potentially neurotoxic combination of uncharacteristic steady thunderous sound, flashing, swirling lights, and drugs. The research data are not in, but it is a worthy pursuit.
Bertha K. Madras, Ph.D.
Member, Rivermend Health Scientific Advisory Board. Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University.
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Cycling Past 60, Part 2: For Recreation
Focused Workout Programs for Endurance and Performance Cyclists
By Coach John Hughes
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Do you want to be a better cyclist? Do you want to do longer and/or harder rides? Are you looking for appropriate training programs for riders in their 60s and beyond, rather than riders in their 20s or 30s?
Cycling Past 60, Part 2: For Recreation builds on the foundation of information for 60+ riders in Cycling Past 60, Part 1: For Health and uses the concept of “Athletic Maturity” to design more rigorous programs for more athletically mature riders. Part 2 builds on Part 1 and assumes that you have read it and taken the test to determine your Athletic Maturity.
If you are relatively mature as a cyclist and scored 15 points or more on the Athletic Maturity test in Part 1, then you are ready for the programs in this eArticle. If you scored fewer than 15 points, then start with the appropriate training program in Cycling Past 60, Part 1: For Health and build your overall fitness until you can score at least 15 points.
As we age and our motivation changes from competitiveness when we were younger, we tend to become two somewhat different types of riders:
Endurance cyclists. Endurance riders love cycling so much that they ride more than health and fitness riders during the week, and their long rides range from two or three hours to a century or 200K. Endurance riders are less concerned about speed than having lots of fun on the bike.
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Performance cyclists. Unlike endurance cyclists, these riders want to improve their performance and do faster and/or harder rides. They want to know what to do to improve, to keep up with (and drop) other riders, even some club mates who are younger! They are typical performance riders.
This 23-page eArticle includes the six different health maintenance objectives for different components of your physiology, eight basic (and four advanced) training principles, types of rides, cross-training and recovery tips.
It includes six different structured workout programs, three each for Endurance and Performance cyclists, based on levels of athletic maturity.
Do you want to live a longer, healthier life and have more fun riding? Cycling Past 60, Part 1: For Health lays the foundation of how to exercise for a longer, healthier life.
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Your 15 Minute Google Ads Audit
by Garry Viner on November 15, 2018 | PPC Search
Looking at a new account in Google Ads can be overwhelming, with so many settings and reports that could indicate wasted spend or under-performance. What follows is a quick guide to some of the steps that I take when I audit a new account.
Branded & Non-Branded Keywords managed in separate campaigns
It makes no sense to view Google Ads account performance as a whole without separating this into branded and non-branded performance as a minimum. Branded keywords tend to have a higher click-through-rate (CTR), lower cost-per-click (CPC) and lower cost-per-acquisition (CPA) than other keywords. Splitting branded and non-branded into different campaigns not only gives you better clarity into performance, but also allows you to manage your budgets more effectively.
Most PPC practitioners know to do this, but I’ve reviewed accounts where the PPC specialist has failed, by overlooking some unusual circumstances. For the sake of this example, let’s assume our client operates in the Fitness industry and is called Acme Fitness.
An ad group is created including broad match keywords, which are those that work contextually, rather than by matching the words in the keyword against the search term of the user. An example keyword might be fitness companies, and a search term that matches this might be Acme Fitness Company (branded) while another search term matching this could be fitness companies sydney (non-branded).
A dynamic search campaign may exist. This is a campaign in which specific keywords are not entered, and instead Google Ads matches dynamically-created ads against search terms that it considers relevant to pages on a website. Again, in this instance, somebody searching for Acme Fitness and somebody searching for best fitness company could both be served ads from this campaign.
The solution to both these scenarios is to add brand terms (and misspellings) as negative keywords against these campaigns, and all campaigns other than those specifically targeting brand searches.
2. Negative Keyword Strategy
It’s amazing how often negative keywords are not applied correctly. I’ve looked at accounts recently where a third of the total spent was going on searches that were not relevant. My approach to applying negatives is to go as broad as possible. There is no point in adding a long-tailed search term as a negative if that search occurs twice a quarter. Instead, try to find those words or phrases that occur relatively frequently, and compare the CPA of searches including that word of phrase over a long period against the overall CPA for non-branded keywords. Even if searches including that word do sometimes lead to conversions, be prepared to exclude it from searches if overall CPA is high.
Doing this properly does take some time, but when performed as part of a quick audit, it is usually possible to come up with some quick examples of wasted spend. A recent audit revealed that compared to the overall non-branded CPA of $72, search terms including one particular word had spent over $15,000 at a CPA over $600 in a six-month period. Adding that word as a negative was a non-brainer. Negative keywords should also not just apply at the campaign level. It is very helpful to apply negatives to the ad group level as well, in order to prevent cross-contamination of keywords and better attribute performance at the keyword level.
3. Targeting and Bid Adjustments Applied Correctly
In the same way that you want to prioritise spend on keywords that data suggest lead to better performance, your preferred spend should also be weighted towards those devices, demographic groups, days and times that perform the best.
A recent account I looked at advertised accommodation options to corporate travelers. Ads were shown across all age ranges, but unsurprisingly the CPA within the 12-25 age range was much higher than for older searchers. A sensible approach would have been to either exclude this cohort altogether or reduce the bid for these users. However, no such steps were taken.
Sometimes bid adjustments are made by device which make sense at the time, but less so at some later date. I’ve looked at accounts with large positive bid adjustments for mobile devices, despite the fact that data over the previous 6-12 months showed that these were the most expensive conversions. Now it’s possible that this was an attempt to gain a specific type of conversions, and the report was inaccurate, being for all conversions. But generally, the approach should be prepared to bid more to show ads that historically exhibit a low CPA, and so i’d expect a negative bid adjustment in this scenario.
For campaigns with proper automated bidding strategies applied (tCPA, tROAS), this is less relevant, as Google ignores all adjustments with the exception of device-based adjustments, which apply in all cases.
4. Automated Bidding Strategies
Talking of these, I’d recommend moving all search campaigns across to either tCPA or tROAS as long as they meet the following criteria:
there have been at least 30 conversions within that campaign in the past 30 days. These should not be all on one day, but rather a smooth pattern of conversions.
The campaign is not limited by budget
With Google having access to thousands of contextual signals at auction time to best identify the right searcher to put your ad in front of (including demographic, audience membership, browser, past history, browsing patterns, date and time), our ability to compete as human PPC specialists is severely limited. Wherever possible, we should rely on the advanced AI that powers Google Ads to make the right decisions. How many times have you heard a client say they want to dominate a space and ensure their ad appears 100% of the time.
What courts is not showing your ads at all times, but showing them at the right time, and to the right people.
I’d recommend moving campaigns over in small chunks, starting with those smaller campaigns. Accept the initial recommendation from Google in terms of target, and then once a month reduce tCPAor increase tROAS depending on results. For those accounts that fail the two criteria checks above, strategies might include combining more granular campaigns into larger campaigns, trying a strategy like Max Conversions, or simply making them less targeted.
5. Audiences Applied
Whether using automated or manual bidding strategies. the presence of some appropriate audiences on a campaign can really improve CPA. It used to be the case that you would build out separate RLSA campaigns targeted at relevant site visitors, and control budgets, bids and messaging in this way. Now Google advises that you are likely to get better results by stopping search campaigns targeted at specific audiences, and instead just apply the right audiences to all your search campaigns. These could be remarketing audiences, similar audiences based on site converters, affinity audiences with similar properties to site converters, or customer match audiences. Messaging can be different for audience members compared to regular searchers by using IF functions in your ad copy.
Depending on the level of relevance, a different positive bid adjustment should be applied to each audience. In the case of automated campaigns, as discussed in points 3 and 4, there is no point in manually adding bid adjustments. But the very presence of these audiences allows Google’s AI to make more informed decisions on bidding. Apparently, the method of creating separate RLSA campaigns is now our of favour with Google and their research indicates that doing it gets fewer impressions than by simply adding remarketing audiences to existing search campaigns.
So, there you have it – 5 points that you can quickly review when coming across in a new Google Ads account for the first time. Coming up with the right audience strategy or reviewing negative keywords properly will certainly take more than 15 minutes, but this should be enough time to perform the above steps at a high-level and see if there are any likely quick wins.
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Sartle Rogue Art History
Gris-Gris Box
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Got pesky ghosts? Got a culture diminished by neo-colonialism? Then you need the Gris-Gris Box!
There’s something blissfully therapeutic—and inexpensive—about cursing your troubles away. For the very low price of $30, for example, you can buy a 100% genuine gris-gris as used by those in West Africa (with $9 for a double cast, or twice the gris-gris power). A gris-gris, in case you didn’t know, is a highly versatile charm for good luck or protection. Betye Saar used her Gris-Gris Box of 1972 to ward off all those nasty stereotypes that came flying her way. And it worked like a charm. Because it was.
Faith Ringgold, another badass in the “I Want My Culture Back” Club of the '70s, channeled her messages through quilts and paintings. Saar, though, was the first woman to include actual historical relics in her art. Let’s start with a breakdown of the Gris-Gris Box, now at MOCA.
The three eyes on the outer rims of the box are especially important because many spiritual traditions view the third eye as one’s inner spirituality. Likewise, the blue box containing the black doll invites viewers to look beyond the larger box (aka popular beliefs) and into the smaller one (aka inner beliefs). The rocks, beads, hairs, feathers, and chameleon skin all provide good luck.
Saar got her “boxing” inspiration from Joseph Cornell, whose artwork-in-boxes influenced Yayoi Kusama mirrored rooms, and her “assembling” inspiration from Simon Rodia, who built the Watts Towers in LA.
Saar made this assemblage the same year she made her most famous “ancestral box,” The Liberation of Aunt Jemima. The new Jemima serves up justice, not hotcakes. The new Gris-Gris doll spews out honest-to-goodness, organic black magic, not that creepy, uncultured stuff you see in mass media.
Chosen weapons aside, they both try to reformulate the caricatured image of African Americans that America has upheld for so long. Saar saps any negativity away from the assumptions associated with voodoo dolls like an artistic fairy godmother who just so happens to also fight for human rights.
On a more metaphysical note, Saar has called the process of making her assemblages “power-gathering” because they give her a power greater than that of the individual objects. This power also comes from taking items pre-packaged with a story (she finds most of her things from thrift shops) and redefining their uses on her own terms. Look up defiance in the dictionary of an artist, and you’ll find creativity as a synonym.
But wait, there’s more! As Saar’s private spirituality became more political, she hoped to reach not just Louisiana, from where the gris-gris is mostly associated and where her grandparents grew up, but to anyone who could resonate with her images. You don’t have to be African-American to vibe with the Gris-Gris Box. And you certainly don’t need to be “all-American” to live in America.
Billingslea-Brown, Alma Jean. Crossing Borders Through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art. Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Collins, Lisa Gail., and Margo Natalie. Crawford, eds. New thoughts on the Black arts movement. New Brunswick (N.J.): Rutgers University Press, 2008.
"Gris-Gris Box | Betye Saar." Hammer Museum. November 07, 2016. https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/art/gris-gris-box/.
Murray, David. "Black Arts: Conjure and Spirit." In Matter, Magic, and Spirit, 102-26. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
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What Would Happen If Saturn Moved Past Earth?
Ashish 19 Apr 2016 (Updated: 9 Nov 2016)
Our solar system is quite a friendly neighborhood, so to speak. Planets revolve around a giant ball of fire alongside each other in complete harmony, smaller natural satellites revolve around their respective ‘guardian’ planets, and no one disturbs the equilibrium. Everyone is content with their own lives in their own segregated orbits.
However, what if one of the eight planets decide to rebel and break this carefully maintained harmony? What if a planet, say Saturn, decides to pay Earth a visit?
Saturn, the planet
Before we look at how Earth would react to such an uncalled-for visit by its galactic neighbor, let’s peek into the profile of the ringed gas giant.
The beautiful, ringed gas-giant (Image Source: Wikipedia)
When we think about Saturn, the first thing that comes to mind is its ring system, i.e. the spectacular rings that run around its diameter. Apart from that, Saturn is huge… really huge. In terms of sheer size, it stands second only to Jupiter. Its average radius is almost nine times that of Earth’s, but its density is only one-eighth of our home planet.
Saturn’s Visit to Earth
If Saturn were to come close to Earth, the consequences would be… well, unsavory. Let’s look at the consequences involved…
For the Moon
Credit : SkyLine/ Fotolia.com
First off, it would be bad news for our beloved moon. In a situation where three celestial bodies – namely Earth, the Moon and Saturn – are involved, the one with the lowest mass would bear the maximum brunt of the encounter. In this particular case, the Moon would be chucked right out of its orbit around Earth. What would follow for the moon can’t be claimed with certainty, but in most cases, it would go into a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun. This, again, is not desirable, as there would be chances of the moon crossing through Earth’s orbit, and in the worst scenario, it would run into Earth.
Moon’s letter to Earth, written just before it got chucked out of its orbit, makes me feel really sorry for them!
For Saturn
A significant portion of the iconic rings around Saturn would become history if it were to ever come close to our planet. You see, Saturn’s rings are mostly made up of ice particles, along with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. Earth’s gravitational pull would be more than enough to disturb and subsequently obliterate the rings by pulling the constituent particles ‘out’ of the rings. Now, where do you think these ‘pulled-out’ particles would head after being yanked out from their guardian rings…
Still, many of the particles of the ring would continue to orbit Saturn, giving it the appearance of a ‘damaged ring’, as Earth’s gravitational pull isn’t strong enough to completely strip it of those beloved rings.
For Earth
Now for the most important part, what would happen to Earth?
In one word: destruction!
There’s no way that Earth would survive such an encounter with Saturn. A major part of Earth is covered by oceans and tides are caused by the gravitational pull from another closely located and considerably large celestial body. The power and the height that tides rise and fall depends on the size of the celestial body causing them. Right now, it’s primarily the gravitational pull from moon that causes tides.
Unstoppable tidal waves will rage all over the planet (Photo Credit: Ig0rZh/Fotolia)
However, if Saturn were to come closer to Earth (after chucking the Moon out of orbit), imagine the scale of ocean tides then. There would be huge… no, apocalyptic tidal waves that would rage all over the planet and destroy everything in their path. After reaching a certain distance from Earth, the tidal force on Earth would be so strong that it would tear our planet apart – literally!
All of this would happen when Saturn was still more than a million kilometers away from Earth! Check out the video below for a more visual description of this hypothetical encounter.
The good thing, though, is that all of this is purely hypothetical. We are good neighbors and will continue to be so in the future. That being said, don’t be too worried about the beautiful ringed gas giant because, as always, it minds its own business.
The short URL of the present article is: http://sciabc.us/OAfbp
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Money for old rope? Ropemaker changes your emails AFTER delivery
Bringing the dynamic capabilities of the web to email sounds great until you learn that your emails can be changed after they have been delivered, corrupting your records and introducing malicious urls using the Ropemaker vulnerability which bypasses common security controls and can also fool sophisticated users.
ROPEMAKER is an acronym for Remotely Originated Postdelivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky. A report by Mimecast details how the attack works without needing direct access to your PC or your email application to achieve remote control ability, including making emails changeable post-delivery under the control of a malicious actor which is particularly concerning given that email-borne attacks are the most common entry point for attackers.
Discovered by Mimecast ‘s Francisco Ribeiro (@blackthorne), Ropemaker enables an attacker to remotely change the (perceived) content of an email, anytime, postdelivery. Whether it is a vulnerability which needs to be patched – or misuse of an application which needs to be defended against is up for discussion
Mimecast has issued a paper which explains the origin of Ropemaker, which is described as laying at the intersection of email and Web technologies, such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and hypertext. It explains: “While the use of these Web technologies has made email more visually attractive and dynamic relative to its purely text based predecessor, this has also introduced an easily exploitable attack vector for email. People commonly expect the content of Web pages to be dynamic – able to change moment-to-moment – but do not expect their email to do so as well. Email in many cases is treated more like a snail mail letter – once sent never changing – whereas Web pages are understood to be more like TV stations with a continuously changing flow of visual, audio, and text content. The techniques behind Ropemaker are thus another potential email-based attack vector that we expect attackers to leverage as they continually evolve from one technique to the next.”
The principle is that Web technologies interoperate over a network so resources housed remotely but linked by a network (including the internet can interoperate, one affecting the execution of the other. So web content/resources can be fetched and reference without the direct control of the local user – which is usually desirable, such as remote Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS enables the separation of presentation and content, and if the if presenting application supports it, a CSS file can be accessed remotely across the network (eg the Internet). So part of the system is controlled in an untrusted zone, and instead of controlling just the style of the email, the remote CSS can actually control the content of the email.
As an example of malicious use, an attacker could switch the display of an email from using a “good” URL to presenting an “evil” URL, or could change the “content” (the presentation of this content) of a delivered email, changing “yes” to “no” or “£1” to “£1 million”.
This article originally appeared on SC Media UK
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Cost is no longer main driver for cloud adoption
Organisations, public and private, want flexibility and business benefits
Anh Nguyen (Unknown Publication)
Just 16 percent of UK firms consider cost to be the main driver for initial cloud adoption, a new survey from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has found.
The majority of respondents (53 percent) said that the flexibility that cloud services enable in a business is now more likely to encourage them to start using cloud computing. This was particularly true for businesses with fewer than 20 employees.
However, cost became a more significant driver for organisations (69 percent) that were planning to expand their cloud service adoption or consider how they currently access technology through the supply chain.Generally, the survey found that cloud adoption was becoming widely accepted in UK organisations. The Cloud Industry Forum questioned 450 senior IT and business decision-makers in public and private sector end-user organisations and 200 people from the channel, including IT consultancies and systems integrators, for the survey.Nearly half (48 percent) of all organisations questioned use a cloud service, with companies with more than 20 staff more likely to adopt cloud than smaller firms and public organisations.Heads of IT also tend to be the people who take the decision to move to the cloud (65 percent), compared to 25 percent who said it was still the responsibility of CEOs or managing directors.
Meanwhile, organisations that have adopted cloud services are mostly very satisfied with them. The major cloud services being deployed are email, back-up and disaster recovery, storage and webhosting services.
Satisfaction was at 94 percent, which was encouraging existing users to expand their adoption to other areas of their IT operations.
Piers Linney, joint CEO for Outsourcery, a founder member of CIF, said: "With only two percent of respondents saying they would never consider cloud, it is clear that we are heralding a new era in business computing that will be disruptive for many of the existing providers of IT and comms solutions."
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SUBSPECIALTY NEWS: DRCR Protocol V, plasma kallikrein inhibitors, lifespan with AMD, and more.
By JERRY HELZNER, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
FDA Approves First AI Device to Detect Diabetic Retinopathy
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DRCR Protocol V: Eylea vs Laser or Observation
Study finds no clear advantage for anti-VEGF.
■ Data from the DRCR Protocol V study, led by Carl W. Baker, MD, and presented at the 2019 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) meeting, showed little difference in outcomes at year 2 in patients with center-involved DME and good baseline vision (20/25 or better) who were initially managed with either aflibercept (Eylea; Regeneron), laser, or observation. In this randomized clinical trial encompassing an initial 702 eyes, a 5-letter or more decrease in visual acuity at 2 years was not significantly different between groups initially managed with aflibercept (16%), laser photocoagulation (17%), and observation (19%). Eylea was added for the laser photocoagulation and observation cohorts if vision worsened. For eyes with visual acuity that worsened from baseline, aflibercept was started in 25% (60/240) and 34% (80/326) in the laser photocoagulation and observation groups, respectively.
In commenting on the Protocol V findings, Tunde Peto, MD, PhD, and Usha Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, of Queens University of Belfast, UK, caution that a rush to initiate anti-VEGF in these patients can be problematic.
“What Protocol V has not addressed is the effect of the 3 regimens on the patient’s quality of life,” they write. “It is important to understand the effect of the visit schedules, which differed between groups, and the challenge of frequent visits and injections in the prompt aflibercept therapy group, given that those with diabetes already have systemic comorbidities that often contribute to a burden of hospital visits. Prompt initiation of treatment with aflibercept almost certainly results in considerable excess costs, which, if implemented into routine clinical practice, would add to the strain and burden on the patient and overstretched health economies.”
They continue that participants in Protocol V had good control of diabetes and blood pressure, were carefully monitored, and may not reflect the profile of patients with diabetes in routine care. Moreover, real-world data from patients with good baseline VA demonstrated that VA is maintained in untreated eyes with DME over 1 year.
“Findings from Protocol V now give us the confidence to manage patients with DME and good VA conservatively, at least until there is documented reduction in VA,” conclude Drs. Peto and Chakravarthy.
Growing Interest in Plasma Kallikrein Inhibitors
Verseon joins companies pursuing the concept.
■ Another company has joined the ranks of those exploring the potential of plasma kallikrein inhibition as a therapy for diabetic retinal disease. These already include KalVista and Oxurion, which are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME), and Rezolute, which is in a preclinical stage.
Plasma kallikrein, an enzyme, is an important component of the body’s inflammatory response and in excess can lead to increased vascular permeability, edema, and inflammation. The latest entrant is Verseon, which has developed a new class of selective small-molecule plasma kallikrein inhibitors for the treatment of DME. In contrast to current customary DME treatments administered as recurring eye injections, Verseon develops drug candidates for oral dosing. The company says several lead candidates have demonstrated efficacy in reducing retinal thickening and retinal leakage, 2 hallmarks of the disease, when administered orally. The company is currently preparing a first DME development candidate for phase 1 trials.
At the 2019 ARVO meeting, Melissa Calton, PhD, Verseon’s ophthalmology program manager, presented preclinical data for the company’s lead development candidate for clinical trials from their new class of plasma kallikrein inhibitors. In preclinical models, the compound showed good efficacy against 2 important drivers of the disease — the kallikrein and VEGF pathways — following administration of a single oral dose.
Meanwhile, KalVista reported at the recent ARVO meeting that 2 of the company’s novel, orally administered plasma kallikrein inhibitors, KV998052 and KV998054, significantly reduced VEGF-stimulated retinal edema in mice. Both compounds provided protection of plasma kallikrein-mediated cleavage of high-molecular-weight kininogen.
Retinal Detachment Handoff Is No Problem
Diagnosing physician need not perform the procedure.
■ Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by vitreoretinal fellow Zackery Oakey, MD, set out to determine whether there was any appreciable difference in outcomes between rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) surgery performed by the diagnosing physician and RRD surgery performed by a surgeon who was not the diagnosing physician. Retrospective chart review was conducted for patients age 18 and older with minimum 2 months of follow-up who had surgery for RRD from 2012 to 2017. Patients were ineligible if they had other ocular disease that may have affected the repair outcome.
Outcomes compared primary anatomic success (PAS), visual acuity at diagnosis, final acuity, presence of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) before surgery, macular and lens status, gender, and days follow-up. The researchers recorded if the patient underwent surgery by the diagnosing physician or by a referred physician within the University of Wisconsin practice.
A total of 343 cases met the inclusion criteria, with 137 in the same surgeon group and 206 in the different surgeon group. Primary anatomic success was no different between the 2 groups. Preoperative and postoperative visual acuity was also very similar, even when stratifying for lens and macula status. Follow-up duration did not differ, as did preoperative PVR. There was one statistically significant difference between the 2 groups: the time from diagnosis to surgery, with those treated by a different surgeon having less time to surgery (mean 2.91 days) than those in the same surgeon cohort (mean 5.15 days).
The researchers, who presented their findings at the recent ARVO meeting, concluded that both the same and different surgeon groups did not demonstrate a difference in preoperative PVR, visual acuity, gender, or lens or macula status. These results suggest that it is safe for patients to undergo RRD repair without preoperative clinic assessment by the operating surgeon.
Wet AMD Does Not Appear to Affect Life Span
Long-term vision loss, but no increase in mortality.
■ A study initiated by the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, found that while wet AMD treated PRN was responsible for a significant long-term decline in vision, it did not have an effect on mortality. In this study, presented at the recent ARVO meeting, 232 eyes from 229 patients with wet AMD were included. Average annual mortality rate over the 10-year period was 4.7%. This compared with a national mortality rate of 7.5% for people older than 75 years. The average age at presentation was 77 and average age of death in the study cohort was 88.2. The most common causes of death were malignancy (36.2%) and circulatory disease (32.5%).
Following PRN anti-VEGF therapy (mean 84 months), there was a mean loss of vision of 33 letters in BCVA. Average BCVA at presentation was 59 ETDRS letters, and average BCVA at last clinic follow-up was 26 ETDRS letters. Patients received a mean of 2.3 injections a year. Approximately 21% of patients were discharged from clinic, 31% were still undergoing treatment, and 23.1% were registered blind.
The researchers found that this study highlights the long-term poor prognosis of wet AMD with this protocol of PRN anti-VEGF treatment. The mortality rate for the cohort appeared to be lower than the average national mortality rate. BCVA outcomes are likely worse than other long-term studies because of the reactive PRN treatment regimen in place in this unit and the relatively low number of anti-VEGF injections per patient per year.
Research and industry news in retina.
FDA Approves Eylea for Diabetic Retinopathy
■ The FDA has approved Eylea (aflibercept; Regeneron) to treat all stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR), following earlier approvals for wet AMD, DME, and macular edema following retinal vein occlusion.
“Millions of people have been robbed of their vision due to the progression of diabetic retinopathy,” said David Brown, MD, FACS, an investigator for the pivotal PANORAMA trial and director of research at Retina Consultants of Houston. “The prevention of worsening diabetic retinopathy with EYLEA provides a compelling rationale for early treatment of patients with this disease, particularly since eyes dosed with Eylea as infrequently as every 16 weeks showed significant improvements in the pivotal PANORAMA trial.”
“With this FDA approval, Eylea has once again set a high bar for the treatment of diabetic eye diseases. The PANORAMA trial showed that by 1 year, 20% of untreated patients developed proliferative diabetic eye disease, and Eylea reduced this risk by 85% to 88% when administered using an every 16-week or 8-week dosing regimen, respectively,” said George D. Yancopoulos, MD, PhD, president and chief scientific officer at Regeneron. “In fact, 80% of patients who received the Eylea 8-week dosing regimen had significant improvement in their diabetic retinopathy.”
Eylea is the only VEGF inhibitor approved with 2 dosing options for DR, allowing physicians to customize treatment to their patients’ needs. In DR, Eylea may be dosed every 8 weeks following 5 initial monthly injections, or every 4 weeks.
Early “Real World” Luxturna Results for IRD
■ Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear reported their first post-approval results with Luxturna (Spark Therapeutics) for the treatment of RPE65-mediated retinal dystrophy. They presented their data at the recent ARVO meeting.
Eight eyes of 4 patients with biallelic mutations in RPE65 (ages 13-34, visual acuity 20/50 to light perception) underwent bilateral subretinal injections of Luxturna at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. Pretreatment and post-treatment testing included visual acuity, full-field light sensitivity threshold, contrast sensitivity, reading speed, Humphrey visual field mean deviation, Goldmann perimetry, ERG, OCT, and autofluorescence.
Following injections of Luxturna, full-field light sensitivity threshold improved in all eyes tested (median change 2.3 logs, range 0.7-2.9 logs), including an eye with light perception vision that improved 2.1 logs. Visual acuity and visual field mean deviation either stabilized or improved in all eyes tested. All 4 patients tolerated the treatment well and with no complications.
Researchers concluded that the data confirm that Luxturna improves light sensitivity in patients with RPE65-mediated retinal dystrophy over a broad range of disease severity. The magnitude of the effect did vary in individual patients and may be associated with patient-specific factors such as age and baseline visual function.
Many AMD Patients Overestimate Their Vision Deficit
■ In a study initiated by researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine, AMD patients were asked to estimate their visual acuity on a scale of 0 (blind) to 5 (excellent). Of 56 participants with AMD, 21 (38%) displayed a discrepancy between visual acuity and self-reported vision and of those, 19 (90.5%) reported vision worse than their visual acuity. Discrepant and nondiscrepant participants did not significantly differ based on age, gender, race, years of education, depression score, cognition or AMD type (wet vs dry).
The researchers, who presented their findings at the recent ARVO meeting, concluded that future research is needed to investigate other potential contributors to this discrepancy, such as near visual acuity, timing and course of visual changes, and patient expectations.
The Value of Povidone-Iodine Prophylaxis
■ A UK study of 10,825 intravitreal injections found that patients who had no or reduced preoperative povidone-iodine prophylaxis were at greater risk for endophthalmitis (1 in 200 injections) than patients who received full-strength povidone-iodine prophylaxis (1 in 2,500 injections). The researchers, who presented their findings at the recent ARVO meeting, recommended that practitioners find prophylactic alternatives to patients with povidone-iodine sensitivity.
Gender Differences in Retinal Detachment Repair
■ Researchers at Stanford University’s Byers Eye Institute hypothesized that women have lower rates of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair and that surgical intervention is often delayed compared to men. To test their theory using a large-scale private payer claims base, they identified 21,807 documented RRD patients over a 9-year period: 9,600 women (44%) and 12,207 men (56%). Any surgical intervention occurred in 11,513 (53%).
There was a statistically significant gender difference in the rate of surgical intervention for RRD, with 48% of women receiving any surgery compared to 57% of men. The time from diagnosis to surgical intervention was longer for women compared to men. Among patients who received RRD surgical intervention, 59% received repeat surgical intervention within 3 months. There was no significant difference in the rate (60% women, 59% men) or time to secondary surgical intervention.
The researchers, who presented their findings at the recent ARVO meeting, concluded that in a broad commercial claims database, women were less likely than men to have surgery for RRD and that for women, intervention was more often delayed than for men. The reason for this gender difference remains poorly understood and requires further investigation.
Managing Wet AMD via a Telemedicine Program
■ Researchers from the Mayo Clinic set out to determine the success of a program that uses telemedicine to treat wet AMD patients in rural areas of Minnesota.
“This is an ongoing program,” said Sophie Bakri, MD, one of the researchers. “It is designed to make sure that the original diagnosis and decision to inject — and which medication and which paradigm is made by the retina specialist. After that, the general ophthalmologist can do the injections according to the request of the retina specialist.”
The researchers examined all patients with wet AMD who were receiving intravitreal anti-VEGF injections from September 1, 2015, through August 31, 2017, using electronic consults at a single academic center and health system. There were 200 electronic consults placed during this time period for 83 eyes of 59 patients. Data collected included the retina specialist recommendations: intravitreal agent, interval between injections, number of injections, and when the patient was to follow up. There were 14 (7.1%) consults that did not comply with the recommendations of the retina specialist. The majority of these were due to other medical comorbidities leading to missed appointments or scheduling errors.
The researchers, who reported their findings in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, concluded that in an integrated health care setting, patients with wet AMD were able to be effectively managed using a telemedicine system. They believe that in an appropriate setting, telemedicine could assist in the management of patients with wet AMD.
Eyenuk Launches 2-Step DR Screening Program
■ Eyenuk has launched the EyeScreen Human + AI Diagnostic Service for DR, which combines the proven accuracy of AI disease detection with expert human grading. The service connects primary care and diabetes care clinics with eye care specialists and is designed to increase access to DR screening, reduce wait times, and improve patient compliance with receiving necessary screenings. By offering DR screening in clinic, Eyenuk says any physician can identify silently progressing DR sooner and begin intervention faster, thus improving patient outcomes and reducing the incidence of vision loss due to DR.
Eyenuk says the EyeScreen service is a novel approach to disease detection that utilizes independent, unbiased interpretation by a human expert and a validated autonomous AI system that does not rely on humans interpreting complex assistive AI reports. After the retinal images are independently assessed by both the AI disease detection system and specialist human graders separately, an ICD-10 compliant report is sent to the physician. In the event that the AI and human graders disagree, the images are adjudicated by another experienced human expert.
Time to Failure in Retinal Detachment Surgery
■ Australian researchers set out to determine how much time needs to pass before retinal detachment surgery can be considered successful. The researchers studied 188 retinal detachment failures (both oil-filled and non-oil-filled) and found that the average time for oil-filled failure was 25 days and the average time for non-oil-filled failure was 28 days, calculated from date of surgery to date of failure. Overall, the researchers, who presented their findings at the recent ARVO meeting, concluded that if a surgery passed 4 months without failing, it could be considered a success, as eyes discharged at 4 months have a less than 1% chance of subsequently detaching.
Aerie to Conduct Trial for Its Sustained-Release Therapy
■ Aerie Pharmaceuticals said the IND for its sustained-release AR-13503 implant, a novel multikinase (Rho kinase/protein kinase C [ROCK/PKC]) inhibitor, is now in effect, allowing Aerie to initiate human studies in the treatment of wet AMD and DME. Aerie expects to initiate a first-in-human clinical study in 2019.
The AR-13503 implant is a bioerodible polyesteramide polymer implant that provides controlled release of AR-13503 over a sustained period. It is designed to be administered approximately once every 6 months by intravitreal injection. Preclinical studies suggest that AR-13503 has the potential to inhibit angiogenesis, preserve the blood–retinal barrier, and reduce retinal fibrosis in retinal diseases such as wet AMD and DME, while potentially reducing the treatment burden associated with more frequent intravitreal injections.
“While the standard-of-care anti-VEGF therapies are effective for many patients with wet AMD and DME, there are many patients who do not respond adequately to these therapies or who lose their initial gains in vision over time,” said Vicente Anido Jr., PhD, chairman and CEO, in a news release. “By targeting multiple disease processes that underlie progression in these common, sight-threatening retinal diseases, our research suggests that ROCK/PKC inhibitors such as AR-13503 may prove useful as alternative or additive therapies to the currently available treatments.” RP
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Mediaset, Vivendi still locked in talks as Friday deadline arrives
MILAN/PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Italian broadcaster Mediaset and shareholder Vivendi were still negotiating on Friday to find a deal to end a three-year legal battle after all-night talks failed to find a breakthrough, sources said.
Mediaset’s board has called a meeting to examine the details of a possible deal, the sources said, as the two sides face a Friday deadline set by a judge in Milan to settle their differences. “They’re still not there,” one of the people said.
Mediaset and Vivendi are locked in a series of disputes and recently fell out over the Italian broadcaster’s plans to create a pan-European TV champion through a Dutch-based holding company called MediaForEurope (MFE).
If the two sides do not show up with an agreement over disputed MFE bylaws, the court could rule on a request from Vivendi to suspend MFE operation.
The Mediaset board on Friday could give a conditional green light to a deal subject to a few conditions, one of the sources said.
In addition to the pricing of Mediaset shares Vivendi should sell, there has been disagreement over a five-year standstill clause the Milan-based broadcaster wants in the deal to stop Vivendi buying back MFE shares, a source previously said.
On Thursday sources said the two groups were close to ending their legal stand-off with a deal that would see Vivendi sell a 20% stake in the Italian broadcaster.
The Milan court hearing is scheduled to begin at 1130 GMT.
Reporting by Elvira Pollina in Milan and Gwenaelle Barzic in Paris; writing by Stephen Jewkes; editing by Jason Neely
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Polish watchdog accuses online marketplace Allegro of unfair practices
WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish online marketplace Allegro abused its dominant position by using its technical know-how to favor its own shop over other sellers, competition watchdog UOKiK said on Tuesday, threatening the company with a fine of up to 10% of revenue.
Allegro, a Polish equivalent of eBay which allows both professional retailers and members of the public to sell on its platform, used an algorithm not available to other sellers to favorably position offers from its own shop, UOKiK said.
“In our opinion, Allegro used information it had gathered, including an algorithm for deciding on the relevance of items, to favor its own shop,” UOKiK president Marek Niechcial told reporters.
“The company knew how to position products so buyers chose them more often than those from competitors’ shops.”
UOKiK also said that some sales or promotion functions were only available for the official Allegro shop.
Allegro said it would fully cooperate with UOKiK.
“We take compliance very seriously, especially since we fully support UOKiK’s objectives in protecting consumer rights and protecting fair competition,” it said in a statement.
“We are a Polish company, proudly supporting the development of the digital economy and we are convinced that the current proceedings will confirm the high standards that we follow in this regard.”
Bought by private equity funds Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa for $3.25 billion in 2016, Allegro is by far the most popular e-commerce platform in Poland, with 79% of Polish consumers using the site according to a Kantar study carried out for UOKiK.
Reporting by Alicja Ptak, writing by Alan Charlish, editing by Nick Macfie
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The top 3 Pi Day deals you can get online that aren't pizza
These deals are so clever, it's almost irrational!
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Written by Samantha Gordon
I grew up in a household that celebrated math, attending college math classes throughout my childhood thanks to having a super enthusiastic math professor for a father. So Pi Day is a pretty fun day for the Gordon family. While we typically celebrate by trading bad math puns back and forth via text, we're not the only ones marking the holiday.
A number of retailers across the nation run special deals in honor of the numerical day, the bulk of which are for in-store purchases of, you guessed it—pies. Pizza and fruit pies are marked down to or discounted by $3.14 at the likes of Whole Foods, BoJangles, Marie Callender's, Hungry Howie's, and Your Pie. But if you're not about to wreck your diet for an arbitrary math holiday, there are plenty of online shopping deals you might want to know about too.
1. ThinkGeek is nerding out with 31.4% off 314 items
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Leave it to the company that specializes in geeky products to have the biggest online sale for Pi Day. The niche retailer has discounted 314 different items, ranging from clothing and jewelry to home decor and toys, taking 31.4% off the list price of each. You can find things to reflect your love of math, science, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Pusheen the Cat, Marvel, Nintendo, and more. I may or may not have already ordered this math-themed shirt for my dad and this Star Wars necklace for myself.
Find the perfect fan favorites in ThinkGeek's Pi Day sale
2. eBay's got loads of items for $3.14, $31.40, and $314
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Today only, you can find a load of discounts on items that range from cheap to high-end at thematic prices. For instance, there's a refurbished Apple Macbook Air Core for $314 (69% off), a Garmin Fenix 3 HR Fitness Tracker for $314 (51% off), and a 2-pack of Gotham Copper Baking Sheets for $31.40 (55% off).
There are also dozens of items in the Under $10 store that are priced at a special $3.14 (or less!). Check out categories like Fashion Earrings, Fashion Rings, Women's Sunglasses, Cell Phone Cases, Car Mounts, Candles, Kitchen Tools, and Fairy Lights for fun buys under $5. The best part is that the entire Under $10 store has free shipping with no minimum order requirements, and there's no bidding, which means no waiting.
Bonus: You can also get a $30 Domino's gift card for just $25, saving 16%.
Check out all the eBay Pi Day deals here
3. Microsoft has laptops and PCs for $314 or 31.4% off
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Four years ago, Microsoft held its first Pi Day sale, and the tech giant has continued this tradition ever since. This year, they've discounted four laptops to $314 as well as dropped the prices of popular buys like the Surface by $200 or more. You can even find savings up to 31.4% on other select PCs and laptop sleeves and bags.
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Las Vegas major master plans outperform local market
Las Vegas’ four leading master-planned communities combined outperformed Southern Nevada’s housing market as a whole and have positioned themselves to again lead the way in 2020.
By Buck Wargo RJNewHomes.Vegas
Inspirada fell from ninth in the rankings in 2018 to 13th in 2019. It had 640 sales. (Inspirada)
Cadence in Henderson rose from 19th in 2018 to a tie for ninth in 2019 in the RCLCO report. (Cadence)
Skye Canyon in northwest Las Vegas was ranked 20th in the nation in 2019. It had 538 sales. (Skye Canyon)
The Lake Las Vegas community in Henderson. (Las Vegas Review-Journal file)
Summerlin President Kevin Orrock
Cadence Cadence in Henderson rose from 19th in 2018 to a tie for ninth in 2019 in the RCLCO report.
Cheryl Gowan
Sales in the master plans — Summerlin, Cadence, Inspirada and Skye Canyon — rose nearly 9 percent to 3,251 in 2019, up from 2,994 in 2018, despite a decline of 11 percent in Inspirada in Henderson. In contrast, overall net sales in Southern Nevada’s new home market were down about a 0.5 percent or some 55 sales in 2019, according to preliminary numbers from Home Builders Research President Andrew Smith.
The final 2019 numbers released by national real estate research firm RCLCO were bolstered by a strong and consistent sales volume in the second half of the year in Southern Nevada. When RCLCO released its report in July eyeing the first six months of 2019, sales in all four master plans were below their numbers in the January-through-June period of 2018 that was usually strong.
Summerlin in the west valley maintained its No. 3 ranking in the nation with 1,320 sales, two more than 2018.
The biggest change in the rankings came at Cadence in east Henderson that rose from 19th in 2018 to a tie for ninth with in 2019. Cadence recorded 713 sales, a 57 percent gain over the 481 sales in 2018.
Inspirada in west Henderson recorded the only decline falling from ninth in the rankings in 2018 to 13th in 2019. It had 640 sales, a drop from 717 in 2018 or 11 percent.
Skye Canyon in northwest Las Vegas ranked 20th in the nation in 2019. It had 538 sales, a gain of 13 percent over the 478 sales in 2018.
What happened in Southern Nevada in 2019 mirrored what took place across the country, according to RCLCO. The 2019 top-selling master-planned communities’ list had total sales 8.6 percent higher than 2018. The Villages in Florida, with 2,429 home sales, was once again ranked as the top-selling community in the country. Sarasota, Florida’s Lakewood Ranch claimed the second overall spot ahead of Summerlin, the firm noted.
Nevada and Arizona each made significant strides in the rankings this year, representing 25 percent of top-50 sales combined, according to RCLCO.
Gregg Logan, the managing director of RCLCO, said what helped master plans in Las Vegas and elsewhere around the country during 2019 was addressing strong price increases in 2018. Many realized the best way to continue with strong sales was to hold down the median home prices, which moderated some in 2019, he said.
In addition, interest rates, which spiked at the end of 2018 to 5 percent and carried over to early 2019 and slowed some sales, went back down to below 4 percent. That helped fuel sales in master-planned communities, Logan said.
“We’re finding there is more demand for master plans than there is supply, and the challenge is — a lot of that — is for product under $300,000,” Logan said.
“People like master-planned communities. They prefer them if they can afford them. They do a lot in terms of creating an environment with parks and open space and recreational amenities. All that costs money, however, and developers look to recoup that and get a premium in the market. That makes it tricky to hit that under $300,000 mark. It’s being done successfully in communities that are diversifying their product and doing more small-lot single-family product, triplexes and town homes to more creative and broaden their market share and increase sales.”
That’s been the strategy in Southern Nevada master plans that in the last couple of years have focused on building more affordable housing with town homes and homes on smaller lots. Logan said combined with strong consumer confidence, especially in Nevada, where the economy is good and attracts California buyers, sales should remain solid in 2020.
“I think we’re heading into 2020 pretty strong,” Logan said. “The builders have been careful not to keep driving product at the higher end of the market because there’s not as much room for them to grow. Our sense is there’s strong demand, and the key will be communities being able to deliver a more diverse product and prices and sizes to meet the diversity of the market.”
Logan added, however, he’s concerned about Las Vegas remaining affordable if median home prices increase too much. The market set a record when prices for new single-family homes surpassed $410,000 in October, but that fell back closer to $390,000 in November.
Summerlin, which has been on the RCLCO top 10 list some 18 times in 26 years of the list’s history and No. 1 eight times between 1994 and 2002, said a focus on more affordability is part of their strategy opening up hundreds of acres for development north of Far Hills Avenue west of the 215 Beltway in 2020. The community named Redpoint will have homes on smaller lots and town homes and other attached product. Some prices will be in the high $200,000s in a master plan where the average home price is about $640,000.
“Redpoint signals the dawn of a new era in Summerlin where the focus is shifting to create higher-density residential districts but still designed in harmony with the surrounding natural environment,” said Summerlin President Kevin Orrock.
Homes in these new neighborhoods include a mix of single-family detached homes, town homes, condominiums, attached two-story duplexes and a small single-family detached product with a mix of front- and alley-facing garages, Orrock said.
In 2020, 10 new communities are expected to open in Summerlin.
“Being right in that middle is a direction we want to go,” Orrock said. “We will always have the higher-priced product, but we want a diversity of prices and product and be a community for everybody.”
At Cadence, Cheryl Gowan, vice president of marketing, said it’s exciting to be on the top 10 list for the first time as the community is hitting its stride since the first home was sold in 2015.
“We had a great year in 2019,” Gowan said. “We had many more builder parcels that were ready and available and that’s helped. There was a good diversification of product available. Richmond American’s town home product created some affordability for those who were looking for lower than $300,000. The economy is doing well and people are feeling confident in buying a home.”
Gowan said they expect that trend to continue in 2020 with more builders offering products.
Richmond American Homes is launching another paired home project this month and single-family homes as well in January and February. Storybook Homes has a grand opening this month for single-family homes, Gowan said.
Brian Kunec, president and regional general manager of KB Home’s Las Vegas and Seattle divisions, attributes the decline from 2018 as part of the maturing of the master plan and not a reflection of any problems.
“Some of the other master plans have a lot of runway, but what you’re seeing is a shift at Inspirada,” Kunec said. “It’s a unique master plan owned by a builder group rather than development entities. We used to have five builders out there, and we’re down to three now because Beazer Homes is done and Century Communities is basically done. We’re down to Pardee, Toll and KB. Pardee and Toll have a little bit of runway in front of them, but in the next year or two they will be wound up and done as well.”
Kunec said that kept the numbers down but what’s positive is KB is the biggest player in Inspirada and has had consistent numbers and growth.
“For the last three to four years, we have done 400 to 500 homes consistently and that’s not slowing up,” Kunec said. “We’re actually seeing an uptick for KB because of everything going on in west Henderson (with retail and commercial development and Raiders corporate headquarters practice facility nearby).
The development opened prior to the Great Recession and some 3,500 homes have been closed and another 500 to 1,000 under construction, Kunec said. KB has about 2,000-plus more units it can build.
“That brings 4,500 sold and the maximum capacity out there is 8,500 units and will likely be 7,500 units,” Kunec said. “We are more than halfway through the master plan. Many of these others have five, six to seven builders and that helps them continue their volume.”
KB recently opened a 17-model supercenter, the first in about six years. It will open a 20-acre park in the next 18 months.
“Our bread-and-butter product is town homes that start in the mid-$200,000s all the way up to single-story in our upper price point in the mid-$300,000,” Kunec said. “If you look at what’s trading in west Henderson, we still have a very advantageous price point for someone looking to get into their first home.”
Chris Armstrong, a senior vice president with the Olympia Cos., the developer of Skye Canyon, said the community is starting to hit a maturity level since opening in 2016 and recording 323 sales in its first full year in 2017.
“We got Woodside, Pulte, Pardee, Century Communities, Richmond American, Lennar and we added Beazer. Beazer has added a different product type of the mix — our first attached product with an alley load,” Armstrong said. “We feel like we have a great cross-section of product available across the market, and that has helped us as well. The market is great and have a lot of confidence in it.”
Armstrong said they expect similar sales in 2020, in which they will add Toll Brothers to their mix of builders.
Lake Las Vegas isn’t on the top 50 list but had plenty of activity in 2019 and could move closer to cracking the list in 2020. Lake Las Vegas said it sold 192 homes in 2019.
In the upper end, luxury builder Blue Heron has sold 21 of 37 in its new community Vantage with a starting price of more than $800,000. The high point will be around $1.5 million.
Some six to seven homes will start construction in an adjacent custom-lot community with half-acre and one-acre lots. The one-acre lots on the lake cost $1 million and up.
Lake Las Vegas will start selling 26 quarter-acre lots in the community this year, starting about $350,000.
Pulte Del Webb is opening its first 55-plus community in more than a decade at Lake Las Vegas in 2020 with planned sales of 460 homes.
Lake Las Vegas has about 500 acres to build about 1,200 more homes.
Pat Parker, the president of RainTree Investment Corp., the master developer of Lake Las Vegas, said the master plan has sold more land to builders in 2019 than it has during the last eight years. It was 140 acres.
“We will have our fourth Lennar community opening because we sold them more land on the North Shore,” Parker said. “We also sold Richmond American Homes land, so they will be opening on the North Shore. And we have another community by Woodside Homes. They will all open in early 2020.”
Woodside will do single-family homes. Richmond American will do an attached duplex project and small-lot, single-family homes that Parker said will be in the low $300,000s. Lennar will do two-story homes with views of the Strip in the mid-$300,000s, Parker said. He said he expects Lake Las Vegas home sales to be 20 percent higher in 2020.
“Lake Las Vegas is trying to make sure we keep product in the $300,000 range,” Parker said. “All of the master plans are focused on affordability. There’s not an infinite supply of land, so you have to work with density and have to work with product. This is the most affordable, and we see it as a nice market for us. We were probably $350,000 so we’re trying to get a little lower than that.”
The supply of affordable land continues to be the biggest barrier for the Las Vegas market Parker said of the valley’s housing market for 2020. All of the builders are having to be more creative with density as a pivot to use the available land, he said.
“I think you will see more density and duplex product and small-lot product,” Parker said. “I think you will see everybody try and be in the attainable side of the market. I think you will see steady growth with a steady demand from California and internally from Las Vegas. We will see about a 10 percent increase in volume in permits. We can handle that growth, and we can absorb that into the market. Interest rates are low and the market will benefit from that.”
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Institute of Student Employers (ISE) has appointed Deborah McCormack, head of early talent at Pinsent Masons, as the new chair.
Deborah will take up the three-year role from Alison Heron, global university relations director at GlaxoSmithKline.
Following chairing the ISE Steering Group for Scotland and the North, Deborah became an ISE board director last year and has been heavily involved in developing the institute’s apprenticeship strategy.
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July 30, 2009 By Dave Hammer
In 1990, John Wiley & Sons, the second largest publisher of business books, asked me to write the first book dedicated solely to the subject of asset allocation for investment professionals. The book, Dynamic Asset Allocation, was a big seller, having been in print for eleven years. The following are some of my thoughts back in 1990 and they still hold true today.
Most people believe the more stocks a person holds in an equity portfolio, the lower the volatility (risk) of the portfolio because of the advantages of diversification. If that were true, then how come the Dow Jones Industrial Average (consisting of only 30 stocks) is no more volatile than the Standard and Poors 500; and why is the S&P 500 even less volatile than the Wilshire 5000? The answer is: the important thing is the correlation of price changes between the stocks, not the number of stocks in the portfolio.
Imagine a portfolio that consists of only two stocks, both of which are expected to double in ten years. But what if (in the short-term) every time Stock A went up by x-percent, Stock B went down by x-percent and vice versa. The portfolio would have an annualized, expected return of over 7% (plus dividends) yet have no volatility (short-term risk). Even if both stocks are expected to double in ten years, most people still care about short-term risk. This is because not everyone is going to buy a portfolio of stocks and close their eyes for the next ten years, even if they don’t plan on touching the money for a long time. Things usually change. The fundamentals of the stocks in the account can deteriorate or the investors’ level of risk-aversion can increase due to the possibility of having to withdraw money from the portfolio sooner than expected or wanting a decent night’s sleep when the market is gyrating all over the place.
At my firm, Hammer Asset Management LLC (Gilford NH), and at Young Investments (Naples FL and Newport RI), we manage stock portfolios using only 16 to 32 securities. Dick Young likes 32 as a good discipline that extends the benefit of using two or more stocks from the same industry; and I use no more than 32 equities, even for my largest institutional clients. Here is why Dick and I use only 16-32 names (compared to dozens, if not hundreds of securities used by many mutual funds).
When you own a stock, there are two types of risk (reasons for volatility). The first is called systematic risk, caused by economic or sociological changes that affect all stocks, such as a change in interest rates, in the economic outlook, in investor confidence, in taxation, etc. Systematic risk cannot be reduced no matter how many stocks you own, which is why it is called non-diversifiable risk. This type of risk accounts for 50-70% of what makes an individual stock go up or down on any given month, week, day or hour.
The other type of risk is called diversifiable risk, the cause of a stock going up or down based on fundamentals affecting only that particular stock or its industry. For example, if the CEO of XYZ Corp. dies, that incident may have no effect on most other companies; or if the price of steel drops, that would be very detrimental to a steel producer but have almost no effect on a toothpaste manufacturer. It is this diversifiable risk that a portfolio manager can attempt to eliminate. If an investor owned nothing but oil stocks in the portfolio, the diversifiable risk would be high. But, if the portfolio owned stocks each in a totally different line of business, the diversifiable risk would be low.
With today’s computer capabilities, a professional portfolio manager doesn’t even need to look at the industries in which the stocks are involved or how closely their businesses are related to determine the diversifiable risk. The manager can measure the cross-correlation of periodic price changes between any two (or more) securities. The idea is to build a portfolio where the correlation of price changes between all the securities that make up the portfolio is at a minimum.
A portfolio of two stocks that have virtually zero correlation to each other would have half the diversifiable risk of a one stock portfolio. A four stock portfolio, where all four stocks had little relationship to each other, would have half the diversifiable risk of the two stock portfolio, and so on. So, if you own 16 stocks that are uncorrelated, the diversifiable risk would be half-of-half-of-half-of-half of a single stock portfolio. At that point, the investor has eliminated 94% of the non-market risk. In a 32 stock portfolio (assuming all 32 stocks were uncorrelated, which may be an unrealistic assumption in the real world) the diversifiable risk would be next to nothing. But with today’s technology, it is quite possible to find a dozen or more stocks that have little cross-correlation. In addition, the more stocks you own in your portfolio, the greater the likelihood that the portfolio will have an expected return no greater than that of the overall market.
So, why is the Dow Jones 30 less risky than the S&P 500 that, in turn, is less risky than the Wilshire 5000? The answer is, because the indices with the fewer components are actually more diversified than the indices with the greater components.
Therefore, I must conclude: a portfolio manager would be unproductive in trying to be an expert in hundreds of stocks if a 16-32 stock portfolio can have an above-average likelihood of beating the market and simultaneously have below-average risk (volatility).
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Chapter 4 Impact of Liberalisation on Life Insurance Sector
4.1 Reforms in the Insurance Sector
4.2 Benefits of Competition in the Life Insurance Sector
4.3 Evaluation of IRDA
4.4 Ten Strategies adopted by LIC to remain Market Leader
4.5 Selected References
4.1 Reforms in the Insurance Sector:
As a part of the economic liberalisation programme initiated in 1991, the Government of India appointed a Committee1 on Reforms of the Insurance Sector under the chairmanship of R. N. Malhotra in the year 1993, which recommended in 1994, the opening up of the insurance business to private participation. It also recommended the setting up of a separate regulatory and development authority for the insurance sector. Some of the key recommendations relating to insurance were: 1. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) should as early as possible publish a revised mortality table. Further revisions should be made every ten years. The first year and renewal cost ratios should be brought down to 60% and 11% respectively. 2. The investments of LIC should be modified as: (a) In central Government securities being not less than 20%, (b) In state Government securities and Government guaranteed securities inclusive of the central government securities being not less than 40%, (c) In socially oriented sectors as may be prescribed by the government from time to time inclusive of central government securities, state government securities and Government guaranteed securities being not less than 50%. 3. The marketing of life insurance to the relatively weaker sections of society, including working women who earn income of their own has to be tackled more effectively. 4. Reinsurance matters relating to life insurance business are relatively less complex as compared to general insurance. LIC by virtue of its financial strength has capacity to absorb the risks fully. As one of the largest life insurers in the Afro-Asian region, LIC should play a more dynamic role as a reinsurer than is the case at present. 5. An insurance company should have separate accounts and funds for its pension business, distinct from those relating to other life business. 6. The insurance companies should also have adequate professional capability and financial solvency. Insurers everywhere are therefore subject to regulation by the state in some form or the other. So there is an urgent need to activate the insurance regulatory apparatus even in the present nationalised insurance sector.
Government of India (1994), Report of the Committee on Reforms in the Insurance Sector, Ministry of Finance,
Department of Economic Affairs, Insurance Division, New Delhi.
7. Steps should be initiated for the establishment of a strong, effective, a highly professional and compact insurance regulatory authority in the form of a statutory autonomous board on lines of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). 8. The insurance regulatory authority should have an independent source for financing its establishment and activities. 9. LIC and GIC should improve their technical proficiency by upgrading their information support and by developing a strong research and development departments in their respective organisations. 10. Governments stake in LIC should to be brought down to 50%. 11. LIC has a capital of Rs. 5 crore, contributed entirely by the Central Government. This amount is not adequate for a life insurer of the size of LIC. The present capital may be raised to Rs. 200 crores. 12. The private sector should be allowed to enter insurance business. No single company should be allowed to transact both life and general insurance business. Number of new entrants should be controlled. Minimum paid up capital for a new entrant be Rs. 100 crore. 13. Regulatory and Prudential norms as well as conditions for ensuring level playing fields among insurers should be finalised early so that intending entrants into the insurance business would be aware of the stipulations they would have to comply with. 14. LIC should take steps to introduce regular term assurance plans, develop and market long term unit-linked life insurance plans with uniform risk covers. LIC should pay interest for the period of delay exceeding say, 30 days from the date of maturity or intimation of death, in settlement of claims, irrespective of cause of delay. The rate of interest should be around the average rate earned on life insurance funds. 15. To reduce litigation, institution of Ombudsman should be set up. 16. Licensing of insurance agents by the Controller of Insurance should be discontinued. The committee emphasised that in order to improve the customer services and increase the coverage, the insurance industry should be opened up to competition. But at the same time, the committee felt the need to exercise caution as any failure on the part of new players could ruin the public confidence in the industry. Hence, it was decided to allow competition in a limited way by stipulating the minimum capital requirement of Rs.100 crore. The committee felt the need to provide greater autonomy to insurance companies in order to improve their performance and enable them to act as independent companies with economic motives. For this purpose, it had
proposed setting up an independent regulatory body. Accordingly Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) was set up.
4.2 Benefits of Competition in the Life Insurance Sector:
By the end of March 2008-2009, there were 22 life insurance companies including LIC. These numbers of companies have given rise to competition between them. The biggest beneficiary of the competition between various life insurance companies has been the consumer. A wide range of products, customer-focused service and professional advice has become the important ingredient of every companys strategy. The introduction of ULIPs has brought about a new level of transparency and flexibility because the policyholders now have the choice of deciding how much premium they want to pay, the level of their sum assured and the fund in which they would like to invest their money. The life insurance sector has undergone a structural change from a purely traditional advisor driven business to a number of distribution channels like bancassurance, corporate agents, direct marketing etc. Many leading banks in India have tied up with insurance companies to distribute their products to account holders. Another area of substantial improvement is in the service attitude and delivery of insurance products. With IRDA making strict guidelines regarding time bound settlement of claims the service levels of insurance companies are steadily rising to make customer the focus of each initiative. Today the customers need not rely only on insurance advisor, but have multiple avenues in the form of websites of every company, premium calculator on every insurance company website, email service, facsimile and the traditional mailing service. As per IRDA, the insurance company is required to settle a claim within thirty days of receipt of all requirements. However, if the claim warrants further verification, the company should complete its procedures within six months from receipt of written intimation of the claim. If the company settles the claim beyond six months period, the interest is payable by the company on the claim amount. IRDA2 has issued grievances redressal guidelines for insurance companies to be implemented from 1st August 2010.
Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 30-07-2010.
Insurance companies will now have a system and procedure for receiving, registering and disposing of grievances in their offices. One of the innovations that the life insurers have introduced is opening up of call centres. These centres act not only as enquiry offices for new business to be developed but also function as points of reference and records for claims which have arisen. Some of the new insurers have found it possible to settle claims within 24 to 48 hours3. The institution of Insurance Ombudsman has great importance and relevance for the protection of interest of policyholders and also to build up their confidence in the system. To satisfy the various needs of customers, life insurance products are being customised. Insurance today has emerged as an attractive and stable investment alternative that offers not only life protection but also competitive returns when compared with traditional saving products like fixed deposits, recurring deposits and post office deposits. New technology is playing an important role in the insurance sector. Technology will help in reaching the customer quickly and with less cost which will help the company to tap niche markets as the company can offer benefits like riders, customer service effectively.
With the privatization of the insurance industry, the benefits are not restricted to the customer alone, but extend to the society at large, by generating employment opportunities to many. It is generally believed by the private life insurance companies that it is expensive to do business in rural areas. In rural areas mass marketing of life insurance products is required. There is a need to identify the right agents to harness the full potential of the rural markets. With a view to giving a fillip to micro insurance, the performance in these sectors has now been benchmarked to the insurance policies satisfying the definition of micro insurance. With the help of Group Micro Insurance Plans, an affordable life insurance cover can be provided to the people in the rural areas.
IRDA Annual Report 2000-2001.
Opportunities Created by Liberalisation:4 1. Privatization of insurance sector in India has eliminated the monopolistic business of Life Insurance Corporation of India. This may help to cover the wide range of risk in general insurance and also in life insurance. 2. Privatisation will also result in introduction of new and varied products as per the needs of consumers in India. 3. It would also result in better customer services and help improve the variety and price of insurance products. 4. The entry of new player with foreign equity participation would speed up the spread of both life and general insurance. It will increase the insurance penetration and insurance density. 5. Entry of private players will ensure the mobilization of funds that can be utilized for the purpose of infrastructure development. 6. Allowing of commercial banks into insurance business will help to mobilization of funds from the rural areas because of the availability of vast branches of the banks. 7. Most important not the least tremendous employment opportunities will be created in the field of insurance which is a burning problem of the presence day today issues.
4.3 Evaluation of IRDA:
IRDA has been doing a very good job in the insurance sector. Some of the recent positive moves by IRDA which has benefited the customers and life insurance industry are as follows: 1. IRDA5 has made it mandatory for all insurers to disclose their financial statements to the public, even if they are not to get listed on stock exchanges. This move will bring in transparency and enable policy-holders to gauge the financial strength of insurance firms. 2. As per IRDAs direction6, all the life insurers have to compute economic capital from end of March 2010. With this direction the life insurers will need to assess risks and compute the capital needed to cover them.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Effect-of-Liberalisation-in-Insurance-Industry&id=3760856 The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 29-1-2010. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 16-03-2010.
3. IRDA 7 is considering imposing an extra solvency margin requirement for insurance companies that do not lower management expenses below the prescribed ceiling. Life insurers have to cap management expenses at 22% of their overall expenses after five years of operations. An insurance company needs to have a solvency margin of 1.5% of the total sum assured. The insurance companies have to provide Rs.150, for risk worth Rs.100 that they underwrite. 4. The IRDA8 has asked all the life insurance companies to disclose out to the customers the commission they pay to the agents on each policy with effect from July 1, 2010. 5. IRDA9 brought out a new regulation called as Standardization of terms and conditions of ULIP and treatment of lapsed policies for the benefit of ULIP policy holders by capping the surrender charge on policies that are returned after a year at 15%. This is a big benefit for the policy holders as the maximum surrender charges are now 15% for the first year which comes down to 5% for the fourth year and 2.5% for the fifth year. 6. IRDA10 has suggested to the insurers that they should keep the policy document simple so that the customers are able to understand the products main features and are able to take an informed decision. 7. IRDA11 has made ULIPs more attractive to investors by raising the risk cover, by lowering charges and also to offer guaranteed maturity benefits to protect policyholders even when stock market crashes. There will now be a lock-in period of five years. 8. IRDA12 has announced that from September 1, 2010, ULIPs will offer a guaranteed annual return of 4.5% on pension plans. 9. IRDA13 launched the grievance call centre for insurance prospects and policy holders as well as an email service to register complaints about insurance companies on 20-07-2010 at Hyderabad.
Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 27-03-2010. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 28-04-2010. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 19-05-2010. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 05-06-2010. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 21-06-2010. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 29-06-2010. The Times of India, Mumbai Edition dated 21-07-2010.
10. Under the new guidelines14 issued by IRDA from 1st September 2010, for ULIPs insurance companies cannot load expenses (money deducted from premiums as expenses) during initial period of policy. They have to be distributed over the lock-in period of five years which is required to get tax benefits.
4.4 Ten Strategies adopted by LIC to remain Market Leader:
LIC was not self-made. It was chosen from among many, more than 50 years back Chosen to be made the only operator in life insurance. But the acid test came in 1999. The sector was de-regularised with multiple private operators entering the sector. But most predicted an end of LIC, if not an untimely demise. But Life Insurance Corporation of India has emphatic ally proven that it has a long life ahead. The private life insurers are yet to do a la Airtel or la RCom. A more honest statement would be that they are unable to do it. When even giants like AIG reeled, LIC found opportunity in distress. Their November 2008 launch, Jeevan Aastha, a close ended single premium plan went on to become a smash hit, with a record breaking first premium collection of Rs. 10,000 crore within 45 days. From its long-back status of the chosen insurer, LIC has become the choice insurer. LIC EDGE 1: Focus on Core Business: In an ever changing business and investment environment, where the temptations for losing ones way have been numerous for a financial company, it stands to LICs credit that it has never lost its focus on its core business insuring lives. This has ensured LICs edge against competing investment platforms like recurring deposits, mutual funds, or equities. Because the pitch is, an LIC policy does all that, but it also insures life. LIC EDGE 2: People Power: There is no doubt that people power continues to be LICs trump card. Even in 2008-09, LIC registered a 12.66% growth in its formidable army of agents, which now stands more than 13.44 lakh. Even while comparable financial organisations like SBI struggle to have a performance linked pay structure in place, this is a human resource pool that works entirely on performance status. LICs Post Recruitment Orientation Training (PROT) is reputed to make top performers from average sellers. It also goes to
The Times of India, Mumbai Edition dated 01-09-2010.
LICs credit that it didnt opt for Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) or retrenchment for its salaried employee base, instead making them productive through Human Resource Development (HRD) initiatives. LIC EDGE 3: Claim Performance: LIC continues to be the most believable life insurer around, based on actual claim performance. During 2008-09, LIC settled over 1.49 crore claims, with 97% maturity claims settled on or before date, and 93% of non early death claims settled within 20 days of intimation. Outstanding claims under death are 2.21% and that under maturity is just 0.26%. LIC EDGE 4: Technology Edge: Post de-regularization, LIC had moved swiftly to implement the latest paradigms in the area of Information Technology (IT) implementation, so that the new agile competitors dont have an advantage over it. Lately, LIC has started setting the standards in IT implementation, and its new Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) project all set to be completed shortly, it will be LIC who is going to enjoy a huge edge due to technology. LIC EDGE 5: Alternate Channels: It was once thought that alternate channels like bancassurance would sound the death-bell for LIC. Instead the company quickly adapted to the possibilities of the bancassurance model, and today has tie-ups with many banks on corporate agency model. LIC EDGE 6: Rural Reach: Instead of waiting for the urban markets to get more and more saturated, LIC early on diversified its attention to rural markets, and with excellent results. LIC continuously recruits and develops special rural agents, and the insurer has opened a lot of satellite office in rural areas. Some plans like Jeevan Mangal and the New Jana Raksha plan have been quick hits with farmers and rural people. LIC EDGE 7: Widest Portfolio: LIC has a variety of plans catering to the different needs of different segments of the society. LIC also has Pension Plans and Group Schemes. Whatever be the need, LIC has a suitable policy to match that need. From conventional plans like endowment assurance, and money back plans to the contemporary unit-linked plans to serve a wider category of customers, LIC offers Unit-Linked
Health Insurance Plan, Term Insurance Plans, Plans for Women, Pension Plans, and a wide range of Children's Plans, too. LIC EDGE 8: Investment Business: LIC continues to be the countrys largest investor.
LIC is also powering the nations
infrastructure, corporate debt, and government securities. Apart from profits, this gives the organization a lot of leverage with the Government, corporates, and the various funds. LIC EDGE 9: Sensing Dangers Ahead: LICs response to the Swaroop Committee ( which has recommended that the agents commission on life insurance and unit linked insurance products to be scrapped by 2011 ) has been quite rational. The organisation reiterated that insurance continues to be a sold product and not a bought one, and as such the agents should not be meted out a bad deal. LIC EDGE 10: Credible Ownership: Needless to say, LIC ownership continues to be a major competitive advantage. The 100% ownership by the government makes it risk proof and in the present economic climate, it is a huge advantage recognised by the customers.
4.5 Selected References:
1. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 05-06-2010. 2. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 06-08-2010. 3. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 19-05-2010. 4. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 27-03-2010. 5. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 29-06-2010. 6. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 30-07-2010. 7. Business Standard, Mumbai Edition dated 30-07-2010. 8. Government of India (1994), Report of the Committee on Reforms in the Insurance Sector, Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs, Insurance Division, New Delhi . 9. http://ezinearticles.com/?Effect-of-Liberalisation-in-Insurance Industry&id=3760856
www.ptc.india.com
10. IRDA Annual Report 2006-2007. 11. IRDA Annual Report 2007-2008. 12. IRDA Annual Report 2008-2009. 13. IRDA Annual Report 2009-10 14. IRDA Annual Report 2010-11 15. IRDA Annual Report 2011-12 16. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 16-03-2010. 17. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 19-05-2010. 18. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 21-06-2010. 19. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 28-04-2010. 20. The Economic Times, Mumbai Edition dated 29-1-2010. 21. The Times of India, Mumbai Edition dated 01-09-2010. 22. The Times of India, Mumbai Edition dated 21-07-2010. 23. www.ptc.india.com
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KFOG-FM, one of the few surviving links to San Francisco’s history of free-form radio on the commercial dial, has gutted its on-air staff in advance of a new format to be introduced April 20.
Four of the station’s six full-time DJs — Annalisa, Renee, Webster and Dred Scott — were laid off without notice Thursday morning. Also let go was weekend voice Rosalie, host of “Acoustic Sunrise” and “Acoustic Sunset” on Sundays. The layoffs were confirmed by a KFOG staffer who would not speak for attribution because of contingencies of the severance package.
The morning drive team of Irish Greg and No Name has been left intact for now, though its third wheel, Renee, is gone.
“There were a couple of centuries’ worth of musical knowledge and Bay Area history that went down in a matter of minutes,” said Rosalie Howarth, a 32-year KFOG veteran, when reached at her home in Walnut Creek. Her Facebook page read simply, “the sun has set ... on Acoustic Sunrise and Sunset.” Asked if there will be a farewell show, she said, “you never get to do it in radio, and it’s too bad because I already had all my songs picked out.”
KFOG is owned by Cumulus, a nationwide chain of stations that also owns KGO-AM, which underwent a similar bloodletting Thursday. The firings at KFOG were all veterans and mostly voices familiar and beloved by “registered Fogheads,” as the station’s loyal listeners are known. The DJs were let go in individual 10-minute sessions by Justin Wittmayer, vice president and marketing manager, according to the source.
Wittmayer did not return calls requesting comment.
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Numbers weren’t there
As of now, “they are using board operators to run the music programming while they get the new staff trained or come to town or who knows,” said Chronicle radio columnist Ben Fong-Torres, who was not surprised by the change. “The numbers have not been there for a good number of years. They’ve been around 20th in the market. I think the owners at KFOG have looked at it and said, ‘This is a stagnant station.’”
When KFOG, 104.5, switched from easy listening to rock in 1982, it was a contemporary take on the free-form, album-oriented, personality-driven radio pioneered by KMPX in the mid-1960s and later by KSAN in the ’70s. The first effusive personality who evolved at KFOG was M. Dung, an irreverent sort with a Wolfman Jack voice and the signature handle “A-waaay baby.”
Over time, M. Dung gave way in the morning to Dave Morey, considered the true soul of the station. Under Morey’s 26-year reign, KFOG popularized “10@10” and “My Three Songs.”
“10@10” ended Morey’s morning drive show with a string of songs from any year going back to the British Invasion of 1964. Morey created the set list, digging deep into B-sides. His push-button sidekick was Don Pardo. After much buildup and birthday shout-outs, Pardo would say, “Lets spin the big wheel and see which year we land on today, Dave,” and off it went.
“My Three Songs” used the theme music of the old Fred MacMurray TV show “My Three Sons” to string together three songs with a hidden link between them. The connection could be in the lyrics or the performer or the producer.
Another popular feature were the rabble-rousing and rapid-fire reports by “Scoop” Nisker, a counterculture figure and old KSAN hand known for his “audio collage.” He did morning news reports before his signature sign-off: “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
KFOG rode its cast of characters up the ratings, if never quite high enough.
‘Foghead’ freebies
But it was “dominant among its own target audience of 25 to 54,” Fong-Torres said. It had its own culture, powered by “Registered Fogheads.”
They were rewarded with tickets to private in-studio concerts with major acts performing in town. The best of these short, intimate sets were compiled on an annual CD for 22 years called “Live From the Archives” to raise money for food banks. The CD, released to much anticipation each Christmas and most recently available exclusively at Peet’s Coffee, always sold out and became a collectible.
KFOG also produced the annual KFOG KaBoom, a free concert and fireworks show that started in 1994 as the Sky Concert and drew up to 350,000 people to the San Francisco waterfront. The concert started charging admission to keep the crowds down, and it was discontinued in 2010.
“The call letters KFOG conjured up the city so well, and for a long time the station lived up to the imagery by way of their programming and branding,” Fong-Torres said.
Some Fogheads say the station started its slide in 2008, when Morey unexpectedly retired to the Michigan wilderness.
Now the morning drive shift was a three-way joke-fest by Irish Greg, No Name and Renee to represent the old guard. It still leads into “10@10,” which seldom reaches back to the ’60s and ’70s anymore. The introductory antics are gone, and so is the “10@10 Marathon” on Saturday mornings.
Up until this week, there were still remnants of the old KFOG late at night when Dred Scott was on, during “Acoustic Sunset,” and every Thanksgiving Day at noon, when it played the long version of “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo Guthrie.
No one knows yet what to expect on April 20.
Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: swhiting@sfchronicle.com Twitter:@samwhitingsf
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Crossing barriers to Filipinos
Ibrahim, a former Filipino Muslim, and his wife Mae are crossing cultural and religious barriers in Mindanao to support Islamic communities and the people who serve them. Through local arts, storytelling and the House of Barnabas retreat centre they are hoping to introduce Muslim Filipinos to the prophet Isa (Jesus).
Philippines in East Asia
He saw the group of university students from a distance and approached. They were packed into a crowded public area on a campus that is 98 percent Muslim students. Ibrahim approached them with a simple introduction.
"I am a storyteller," he said.
They looked intrigued as he told them the Bible story of Jesus healing the paralytic man. Ibrahim pointed out that like the crowded house in the story, the students were also sitting elbow to elbow in the tight space.
"We came to the part of the story where Jesus forgave the sins of the paralytic man," Ibrahim said. "One student said 'I didn't know that Isa (Jesus) can forgive sins.' I heard the sincerity in his voice. I knew that he is searching for forgiveness of his sins and God revealed to him through the story that Jesus is able to forgive his sins."
Ibrahim is indeed a storyteller. But he wasn't always. He grew up a Muslim on Jolo Island in the Philippines and it wasn't until his early 20s that he came to faith in Isa. In a region where religious hostilities have persisted for centuries, his faith cost him his relationships in his community and he was forced to sever ties.
Today, Ibrahim tells stories from the Bible to people who don't know Isa. He also teaches other Christians how to share the gospel to Muslims through story. According to Ibrahim and many of his colleagues, oral Bible methods are a powerful tool for building bridges and he has a passion to see many more follow Christ.
Ibrahim and his wife, Mae work for SIM Philippines, operating out of a southern city on Mindanao. A musician, Ibrahim leads a ministry to develop original short films, music and arts for the local people of Mindanao and also heads a mentoring project for youth using martial arts.
House of Barnabas
Building relationships in Muslim communities can be slow, challenging work. In some places of Mindanao, hostility to Christians can even be deadly. But there are many who continue serving in the region and Muslims are coming to faith in Isa.
For these workers, Filipino and International, SIM launched the House of Barnabas (HOB) ministry in 2006. HOB is a retreat home where workers from multiple organisations can stay, to find rest and encouragement in their lives and ministries. Mae manages the retreat home and has a passion to encourage workers in the region.
Ibrahim, Mae and others use HOB as a hub of encouragement, training and equipping. Small-scale conferences and retreats are held there along with important meetings. Numerous people are offered quiet rest and accommodation as well.
Among the activities, Ibrahim and Mae use HOB to lead a marriage enrichment class for local Muslim couples. They seek to weave Biblical principles into their teaching.
"I used to have vices," said Farouk, who attends the marriage class. "I drank, smoked and had girlfriends. I would hide my other phone so my wife would not see the text messages to my girlfriends. I thought life was just like that and I was hiding those activities for many years.
"I joined the marriage enrichment seminar to give way to my wife's request. In the seminar I learned a lot. I learned God's original design for marriage. I learned that God gave the Prophet Adam only one wife. My life was changed after the seminar. I destroyed all my hidden phones. I decided to love my wife. I was shocked because my wife loved me even more."
For each changed life there are difficulties too.
"Muslim ministry is challenging," Ibrahim says. "It is hard but it is not impossible."
For more workers. Muslim ministry is huge but the workers are few. Pray for a wave of new workers with a passion for this ministry.
For peace in the Philippines.
For the local church to stand up and be empowered to bless their Muslim neighbors.
Asunción Guest House & Conference Centre
The aim of this Guest House & Conference Centre in Asunción is to provide a place where rural SIM missionaries may stay and rest when in the capital city as well as providing a large meeting place.
Discipling and Training Mongolian Churches
This ministry is to equip Mongolian leaders with leadership skills, godly character, and capacity for impacting the society.
Mobilising leaders to engage in missions
SIM teams across Southeast Asia relate with local churches and church leaders, and plant new churches where there are none. God is calling us to further mobilise leaders in each country to join in reaching those still living and dying without Christ.
Equipping the Church for Missions
Teaching, discipling, modelling a faithful Christian walk in order to equip the church to reach their neighbours and the least reached for Christ.
Sharing the light of Christ with Filipino Muslims
It’s midday on a Tuesday. The day care for young children that Jo and two others run in a neighbourhood of Manila is coming to a close. Time for a break!
Empowering indigenous people to worship through the arts
Filipino Christians find unique cultural avenues for expressing their faith
New missions Centre carries SIM Philippines into new era
The time intensive plants take tending and patience, finally yielding a crop many years after planting. So it goes with ministry to minority religious groups in the Philippines.
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Collection of photos from "The City of a Thousand Spires". Magical city of bridges, cathedrals, gold-tipped towers and church domes.
View of Charles Bridge and Prague cityscape. Czech Republic
The Church of St. Nicholas. Prague, Czech Republic
Tourists walking along the Charles Bridge while sightseeing in Prague. Czech Republic
Fighting Giants. Statue above the gates of Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic
Interior of Saint Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
St. John the Baptist Statue on Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Singing fountain in Royal Garden (Kralovska zahrada) of Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic
Buildings along Masarykovo riverside. Prague, Czech Republic
Prague towers and Vltava river on sunny day. Czech Republic
Crowd of people walking on busy street of Prague. Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
Alegory of night - baroque sculpture at in front of Real tennis room. Royal Garden of Prague Castle, Czech Republic
Mihulka - Powder Tower at Prague castle. Czech Republic
Saint Vitus Cathedral facade, Prague Castle, Czech Republic
Statue silhouette at Charles bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Old town hall at old town square. Prague, Czech Republic
Statues of Emperor Charles IV
View of Palacky bridge at sunset. Prague, Czech Republic
View of Prague. Czech Republic
Group of tourists at Old Tow Square. Prague, Czech Republic, May 21, 2017
Wenceslas Square at night. Prague, Czech Republic. September 01, 2016
The Prague astronomical clock
Jirasek Bridge and Rasinovo Nabrezi. Prague, Czech Republic
Baroque interior of St Nicholas church. Prague
Silhouette of Legion Bridge on Vltava river. Prague, Czech Republic
People in front of the Old Town Hall. September 05, 2016
Ctirad and Sarka, installed at Vysehradske sady in Vysehrad (Upper Castle). Prague, Czech Republic
Saint Nicholas Church at Old Town Square. Prague, Czech Republic
Building Facade. Architectural Background. Somewhere in Prague
A late evening elevated view towers of the Church of Our Lady before Tyn and the Old Town Hall in Prague, Czech Republic
Stulcovy sady, Vysehrad (Upper castle): Statue of St Wenceslas by Johann Georg Bendl (Jan Jirн Bendl). Prague, Czech Republic
Cathedral of Saint Lawrence. Prague, Czech Republic
Wooden statue of crucified Christ. St Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Interior of Basilica of St. Peter and Paul. Vysehrad castle complex
Holy Trinity Column at Lesser Town Square (Malostranske namesti). Prague Czech Republic.
Prague rooftops and Obecni Dum (Municipal House), view from Poder Tower. Czech Republic
Smetanovo Embankment and National Theatre. Prague, Czech Republic
Changing of the Guard at Prague Castle, Hradcany, Castle District. Prague, Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Beautiful facade of old building in Jewish Quarter. Czech Republic, Prague.
Bedrich Smeatana museum on the right bank of the river Vltava. Old Town of Prague, Czech Republic
Statue of Charles IV at the square of the Knights of the Cross (Krizovnicke namesti). Prague, Czech Republic
Tourists walking in the Historic old town of Cesky Krumlov
The Chapel of the Holy Cross on the Third Courtyard at the Prague Castle. Czech Republic
Celetna street leading to Prasna brana (Powder Tower) in Prague, Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
Main nave of St Vitus's Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Sculpture decorates a facade of a building in Prague, Czech Republic
Dome of Obecni Dum (Municipal House). Prague, Czech Republic
Saint Giles' Church and Prague cityscape. Czech Republic.
Legion Bridge (Czech: Most Legiн). Prague
High angle view of the narrow streets. Prague old town, Czech Republic
Krizovnicke namesti square at sunset. Prague, Czech Republic
Window of Golden gate of Vitus cathedral
Seifertova street at sunset. Prague, Czech Republic
A pond with The Hercules' Fountain at Wallenstein Garden. Prague, Czech Republic
Stained Glass Window in the Powder Tower. Prague. Czech Republic
People walking across Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Maiselova Street at Jewish quarter. Prague, Czech Republic
Havelska Street Market and Church of St. Gallen on background. Prague, Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
Palacky Square, Czechoslovak Legion monument and Emmaus monastery on the background
Neo-gothic house near St. George's Basilica. Prague, Czech Republic
Sculpture in St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Overhead view of pedestrian crossing on Celetna street. Prague, Czech Republic
Basilica of Saint Peter and Paul on Vysehrad
The historic 14th century Charles Bridge in Prague over the river Vlatava
Prague, street view at night. Czech Republic
Facade of old building in Jewish Quarter. Czech Republic, Prague
View of Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral and Vltava river. Czech Republic
Rooftop view. Prague, Czech Republic
Armored knights lead the march of Charles IV at re-enactment of the Coronation of Charles IV in Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Stained-glass window designed by Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha in St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
View of the towers of the Tyn Church. Prague, Czech Republic
The Old Town Square at dusk. Prague, Czech Republic. September 05, 2016
Spire of St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Saint Vitus Cathedral interior. Prague, Czech Republic
The Royal Garden (Kralovska Zahrada) situated in Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Hus Munument at the Old Town Square. Prague, Czech Republic
Pedestrians Cross an Rytirska Street. Prague, Czech Republic
Celebration of the 700th anniversary of King Charles IV's coronation. Prague, Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Jan Hus monument in front of St Mary Church. Prague, Czech Republic
People at the entrance of St.Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Sven from Sweden with street performance at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic
Tourist signpost showing directions to popular attractions of Prague. Czech Republic
View of Mostecka street with St Nicholas church in the background. Mala Strana, Prague, Czech Republic. May 18, 2017
Statue of a fireman
Tourists touching a bronze plaque for luck on the St John of Nepomuk statue at Charles bridge. Prague, Czech Republic.
Silhouette of Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Sitkovska Water Tower. Prague, Czech Republic
Interior of St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Group of tourists in the third courtyard of Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic, May 18, 2017
Janackovo embankment (Janackovo nabrezi) at night. Prague, Czech Republic
Zizkov TV tower and Prague cityscape. Czech Republic
Charles Bridge over Vltava River against blue sky. Prague, Czech Republic
Travelers with backpacks taking photos of Prague at Legion Bridge (Most Legii)
Undefinable tourists taking pictures at Manes Bridge (Manesuv most). Prague, Czech Republic
Facades of Baroque building at the Old Town Square in Prague
Petrin Lookout Tower. Prague, Czech Republic
View of the Charles Bridge and Old Town. Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Castle, historic city with Hradcany. Prague, Czech Republic
High angle view of the narrow street and Obecni Dum (Municipal House). Prague Czech Republic
Winged Lion Memorial. Prague, Czech Republic
Statue of St John Nepomuk on Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Square of knights of the cross. Prague, Czech Republic, May 23, 2017
Old Town Hall. Prague, Czech Republic
Holy Trinity Column. Lesser Town, Prague
The Smetana Museum (Muzeum Bedricha Smetany) and Prague cityscape. Czech Republic
St. Vitus Cathedral and Old Town Cityscape. Prague, Czech Republic
Overlooking the historic town centre of Prague. Czech Republic
People enjoying a summer day. Strelecky ostrov, Prague, Czech republic
A decorated buildings facade on the southern side of Old Town Square (Staromestske Namesti). Prague, Czech Republic
People walking across the historical Charles Bridge
Silhouettes of Prague Cityscape on Cloudy Evening. Czech Republic
Personification of the Faculty of Law, decoration of the statue of Charles IV. Prague, Czech Republic
Tourists on pedal boat on the Vltava River. Prague, Czech Republic
Tourists and guards at the entrance to Prague castle. Prague, Czech Republic, May 18, 2017
Prague towers, Charles Bridge and Vltava river on sunny day. Czech Republic
St. Nicholas Church (Mala Strana). Prague, Czech Republic
Alley at Wallenstein Garden. Prague, Czech Republic
The Church of Saint Nicholas in the Old Town of Prague. Prague, Czech Republic
Sunset over Prague. Czech Republic. Monochrome photo
Prague National Theatre along the river Vltava. Prague, Czech Republic
Urban scene in front of National Theatre along Legion bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic
Group of people with a tour guide at the Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic. May 18, 2017
Third courtyard of Saint Vitus cathedral
Presidential Castle Guards in front of Prague Castle. Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Vltava, Charles Bridge, Old Town Bridge Tower and Ales Embankment. Prague, Czech Republic
Gargoyle On St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
People resting in street cafes at Old town square. Prague, Czech Republic
Crowd of tourists at the Charles Bridge (Karluv most), viewed from above. Prague, Czech Republic
Elevated view of the Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain (Kostel Panny Marie pod retezem). Prague, Czech Republic
Relief from the main gate of the National Monument in Vitkov in Prague, Czech Republic
Sven from Sweden, street performer at Old Town Square. Prague, Czech Republic. May 24, 2017
Masarykovo street. Prague, Czech Republic
Man with backpack walking on a town center pavement street. Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
Jindrisska Tower. Late Gothic tower, a part of the Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta
Spires of Neo Gothic Basilica of St Peter and St Paul
View of historical Prague cityscape. Czech Republic
Old-New (Staronova) Synagogue and Jewish Town Hall
Vltava river, Charles Bridge, St. Vitus Cathedral and Prague Castle
Krizovnicka street and Church of St. Salvator. Prague, Czech Republic. May 26, 2017
Panorama of Prague from the top of the Petrin gardens in Prague
Jirska street opposite to St. George's Basilica, a part of Prague Castle
Neo-gothic interior of Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul. Vysehrad castle complex. Prague, Czech Republic
Crowd at re-enactment of the Coronation of Charles IV in Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic. September 04, 2016
Lot of people on the street of Prague. Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
People in front of Saint Vitus cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic. September 07, 2016
National Theatre, Legii bridge and Vltava river. Prague, Czech Republic
People walking on the Celetna street. Prague, Czech Republic. May 25, 2017
The nave of Emmaus monastery. Prague, Czech Republic
Wrestling Titans sculptures
Undefined travelers with backpacks taking photos of Prague at Legion Bridge (Most Legii). Czech Republic
Fragment of stained glass window in Powder Tower.Prague, Czech Republic
Equestrian Statue of Jan Zizka at Czech National Museum on Vitkov hill
The Powder Tower. Prague, Czech Republic
Holy Trinity Column, Prague
View from above with St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
View of Seifertova street at sunset. Prague, Czech Republic
View of Prague Castle, Hradcany and Charles Bridge across the Vltava river
Statue of Saints John of Matha, Feliz of Valois, and Ivan on Charles Bridge
Personification of the Faculty of Arts, decoration of the statue of Charles IV. Prague, Czech Republic
Tourists at viewpoint. Mala strana, Prague, Czech Republic
St. Vitus Cathedral and Castle courtyard with tourists in a sunny day. September 07, 2016
Prague riverside. Czech Republic
Parking traffic sign at Wenceslas Square. Prague, Czech Republic
The Hanging Man. Sculpture depicting Sigmund Freud suspended by one hand
Prague cityscape
Panorama of Prague on a sunny day. Czech Republic
Panorama of the city on a sunny day. Prague, Czech Republic
Old new synagogue near High synagogue in Prague, Czech republic
View of the rooftops around the old town square of Prague, Czech Republic
Way signs for tourist attractions. Vysehrad Castle Complex. Prague
Old Town Hall in Old Town Square. Prague, Czech Republic. September 05, 2016
Baroque interior of St Nicholas church. Lesser town, Prague, Czech Republic
Woman enjoying panoramic view of Prague. Czech Republic
The magnificent stained glass in Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
Vysehrad Public Park and Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
Entrance to St Vitus cathedral, relief depicting crucifixion of Christ. Prague, Czech Republic
Astronomical clock. Prague, Czech Republic
The Old Town Hall. Prague, Czech Republic
Urban cityscape. Prague, Czech Republic
Detail of the Holy Trinity Column. Lesser Town, Prague, Czech Republic
View of Prague castle and Charles bridge over Vltava river, Czech Republic
Crowd of people on Charles Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Kralovska Zahrada the Royal Gardens park situated in Prague Castle. Prague, Czech Republic
Ministry of Industry and Trade
View of Karlova street. Prague, Czech Republic. May 21, 2017
Old hydropower plant on the island of Stvanice. Prague, Czech Republic
Gothic Pinnacle of St Vitus Cathedral. Prague, Czech Republic
View over the rooftops of Prague from St. Nicholas Church. Czech Republic
Old Town Square at dusk. Prague, Czech Republic
Interior dome of the Baroque St. Nicholas Church on Lesser Town in Prague
Jan Hus, the memorial in Old Town Square. Prague, Czech Republic
Elevated view of the K-shape crossroad in Republic Square in Prague, Czech Republic
Prague cityscape as seen from the The Old Town Hall. Prague, Czech Republic
Prague National Theatre at sunset along the river Vltava. Prague, Czech Republic
Trdelnik bakery on Karlova street in Old Town. Prague, Czech Republic
Interior and altar of St. Nicholas Church
View over the rooftops of Prague. Czech Republic
Jirasek bridge and embankment of Vltava river. Prague, Czech Republic, May 18, 2017
Statue of Saints John of Matha, Feliz of Valois, and Ivan on Charles Bridge. Prague, Czech Republic
Historic old town of Cesky Krumlov
Prague to Its Victorious Sons. Memorial at Palacky Square. Prague, Czech Republic
Houses and restaurants on the right bank of Vltava river. Czech Republic
People visiting Klausen Synagogue, largest synagogue in the former Prague Jewish ghetto. September 05, 2016
Elevated view of Strahov Monastery. Prague, Czech Republic
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Santa Monica Observer - Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
By Observer Staff
The End of Taco Tuesday: Whole Foods Market at Wilshire and Fifth to Close Sunday
Whole Foods Market is closing several stores after acquisition by Amazon
The Whole Foods Market at the corner of Fifth Street and Wilshire Blvd will close for good on Sunday, according to Pablo, a "team member" who works behind the oven. "It's sad," he said.
A manager said that nearly all employees who wish to continue working for Whole Foods market, have been given positions at other local Whole Foods stores. "I wouldn't count on the Montana Avenue store staying open much longer, though" he added.
The Whole Foods chain acquired local markets Wild Oats in 2013, adding the stores on 5th and Montana to it's growing list of stores. There is another whole foods on Wilshire and 22nd Street, and also a large facility in Venice on Lincoln and Rose Avenue.
Amazon.com Inc. announced in mid-July that it would acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion. It was, "a bombshell of a deal that catapults the e-commerce giant into hundreds of physical stores and fulfills a long-held goal of selling more groceries," said Bloomberg news.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-16/amazon-to-acquire-whole-foods-in-13-7-billion-bet-on-groceries
"Amazon agreed to pay $42 a share in cash for the organic-food chain, including debt, a roughly 27 percent premium to the stock price at Thursday's close. John Mackey, Whole Foods' outspoken co-founder, will continue to run the business -- a victory after a fight with activist investor Jana Partners that threatened to drive him from power," said Bloomberg.
Update 8/2: we received the following in an email from Janette Rizk, WFMs publicist:
"A few details reported in the story are not accurate:
· The subhead “Whole Foods Market is closing several stores after acquisition by Amazon” is incorrect; the store relocation has nothing to do with the Amazon deal and there are no plans to close the Montana store or “several stores”
· There is not a team member at the 5th and Wilshire store named Pablo
· The 5th and Wilshire store manager did not speak with anyone at the Observer about the Montana store closing; there are no plans to close that store so that quote is speculative and misleading
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Shelley Point Hotel & Spa (Hotel), West Coast, South Africa
Shelley Point Hotel & Spa
The Shelley Point Hotel and Spa nestles in St Helena Bay, along the West Coast of South Africa within the Western Cape.
This luxurious leisure and conference Shelley Point offer guests the ideal destination for a laid-back breakaway, synonymous with the West Coast's beautiful sandy beaches, world-class surf, and clear water.
Shelley Point is situated only a 90-minute drive from Cape Town, the hotel is the perfect destination for business and leisure travellers. Set on a private peninsula, the hotel is a family destination, catering for children of all ages, with a supervised play centre offering age-appropriate indoor and outdoor activities.
With the kids occupied, guests can enjoy some of the many facilities on offer at the resort, including a gymnasium, tennis courts, a bowling green, and a challenging 9-hole links golf course. For a relaxing afternoon, the hotel also offers two swimming pools, each with its lounging area, and poolside bars, perfect to unwind and soak up the sun. Guests staying at the hotel appreciate the chance to enjoy a pampering session at the exclusive Wellness Center & Spa, or a leisurely walk to one of the nearby beaches.
The country club at the Hotel offers one of the country's finest 9-hole links courses. The challenging 9-hole links golf course winds its way through the lush peninsula.
The exclusive hotel offers 88 elegantly decorated rooms, with special emphasis on luxury, privacy, and comfort. The spacious rooms all offer tasteful decor and state-of-the-art guest facilities and amenities.
The Sao Gabrielle Restaurant offers panoramic views over the golf course and the blue waters of the bay. This restaurant serves sumptuous breakfast buffets daily and delicious a la carte dining at night.
The Coffee Shop serves light meals and refreshments all day, for those preferring something lighter. Cocktails can be enjoyed at the Shelley Point Cocktail Bar, overlooking the 1st tee while witnessing the spectacular West Coast sunsets.
For succulent steaks and ribs, the Cattle Baron Grill and Bistro overlook the swimming pool and offers al fresco dinners and lunches that can be enjoyed on the pool deck.
The hotel offers a meeting room and boardroom that can accommodate between 60 to 80 business delegates. This beautiful hotel also caters for weddings, and custom made marquee can be set up on the swimming pool deck, able to host 200 guests for a banquet-style event.
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BEING a community volunteer is something Tess Thomas enjoys. Mrs Thomas is the president of the Illaroo Road Public School’s Parents and Citizens Association (P and C) and a perfect spokesperson for volunteering. “Thanks to volunteers for Girl Guides, netball and the Rock Eisteddfod I was given so many opportunities,” she said. She said community volunteers helped her become the person she is today. As P and C president she is committed to volunteering. “It’s important to be a part of the volunteering community. I see it as an opportunity to give something back,” she said. She often heard people say they can only spare an hour but said even an hour’s volunteering could help the community. “Someone is benefiting from your time and that hour can make a difference to someone,” Mrs Thomas said. Mrs Thomas once spent an hour volunteering in an Illaroo Road Public School classroom, sharpening pencils. It saved the teacher an hour and the children had sharp pencils to use. She said volunteering builds a person’s character and comes with many rewards. “Volunteering is also a good way to meet people who are in a similar stage in their lives,” she said. She started volunteering when she was growing up and was a St John Ambulance cadet and a volunteer netball coach. If Mrs Thomas was not a P and C volunteer she would look for other ways to help her community.
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How helping helped Tess
DAMIAN McGILL
FAMILY TRADITION: Like other family members Tess Thomas loves being a community volunteer and one day her eight-year-old son Max may carry on the tradition.
BEING a community volunteer is something Tess Thomas enjoys.
Mrs Thomas is the president of the Illaroo Road Public School’s Parents and Citizens Association (P and C) and a perfect spokesperson for volunteering.
“Thanks to volunteers for Girl Guides, netball and the Rock Eisteddfod I was given so many opportunities,” she said.
She said community volunteers helped her become the person she is today. As P and C president she is committed to volunteering.
“It’s important to be a part of the volunteering community. I see it as an opportunity to give something back,” she said.
She often heard people say they can only spare an hour but said even an hour’s volunteering could help the community.
“Someone is benefiting from your time and that hour can make a difference to someone,” Mrs Thomas said.
Mrs Thomas once spent an hour volunteering in an Illaroo Road Public School classroom, sharpening pencils.
It saved the teacher an hour and the children had sharp pencils to use.
She said volunteering builds a person’s character and comes with many rewards.
“Volunteering is also a good way to meet people who are in a similar stage in their lives,” she said.
She started volunteering when she was growing up and was a St John Ambulance cadet and a volunteer netball coach.
If Mrs Thomas was not a P and C volunteer she would look for other ways to help her community.
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26 October 1989 Chemically Vapor Deposited Silicon Carbide (SiC) For Optical Applications
Michael A. Pickering; Raymond L. Taylor; Joseph T. Keeley; George A. Graves
Michael A. Pickering,1 Raymond L. Taylor,1 Joseph T. Keeley,1 George A. Graves2
1Morton International/CVD Incorporated (United States)
2University of Dayton Research Institute (United States)
Proceedings Volume 1118, Space Optical Materials and Space Qualification of Optics; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960942
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States
Important physical, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties of cubic (β) silicon carbide produced via a bulk chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, developed at CVD Incorporated, are presented in this paper. The material's properties make it an ideal candidate material for optical components for LIDAR mirrors, solar collectors and concentrators, and astronomical telescopes. The CVD process has been scaled to produce large monolithic pieces of bulk SiC, i.e. disks up to 60-cm (24-in) diameter and plates up to 76-cm (30-in) long by 46-cm (18-in) wide with thickness up to 13 mm (0.5 in).
Michael A. Pickering, Raymond L. Taylor, Joseph T. Keeley, and George A. Graves "Chemically Vapor Deposited Silicon Carbide (SiC) For Optical Applications", Proc. SPIE 1118, Space Optical Materials and Space Qualification of Optics, (26 October 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960942
Chemical vapor deposition
Astronomical imaging
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Numerical simulation of polishing U tube based on solid liquid...
Thick, fine-grained beryllium optical coatings
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Ultra-Lightweight Quartzglass Mirror Blanks
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Fabrication And Use Of Silicon Carbide Mirrors For Synchrotron Radiation
Michael A. Pickering, Raymond L. Taylor, Joseph T. Keeley, George A. Graves, "Chemically Vapor Deposited Silicon Carbide (SiC) For Optical Applications," Proc. SPIE 1118, Space Optical Materials and Space Qualification of Optics, (26 October 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960942
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Patients and celebs take part in BGC Charity Day for Evelina London
As an exciting part of our 150th birthday celebrations, Evelina London is honoured to have been selected as one of the charities to take part in BGC Charity Day 2019
Dr Ranj at Evelina London
On Wednesday 11 September, three of our wonderful patients, Cruz, Evie and Arthur, will be joining brokers on the Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC trading floors, along with our very own Dr. Ranj Singh, former Evelina London doctor and TV presenter, and other celebrity ambassadors.
The Charity Day is hosted each year by global brokerage company BGC, to commemorate friends, colleagues and employees whose lives were tragically lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.
All revenue made on the trading floors is donated to charities around the world, so it’s extremely exciting to be one of them this year, as well as a fantastic way to celebrate Evelina London’s 150th birthday!
Cruz, Evie and Arthur have all been patients at Evelina London since they were born.
Let’s get to know them a little better…
Cruz and his mother Debbie
Cruz’s story
Cruz was born with a rare kidney condition and had a life-saving operation at the hospital when he was a tiny baby. He needed round-the-clock care for the first three months of his life and has been a regular patient at Evelina London ever since.
Cruz, now aged 5, visits the hospital three times a week for dialysis and he will eventually be ready for a kidney transplant.
‘Cruz refers to Evelina London as “his hospital” and is well known by lots of staff who make him feel at home,’ says his mum, Debbie.
‘We can’t wait to get involved in the BGC Charity Day to raise funds for Evelina London and all those that have been there for Cruz every step of the way. We need Evelina London now but also for Cruz’s future.’
Evie with dad, Justin, and mum, Jo
Evie’s story
Before she was even born, Evie was diagnosed with multiple complex heart defects whilst still in the womb.
Her mum and dad, Jo and Justin, were referred to Evelina London for the specialist care Evie would need and Jo had a planned birth at St Thomas’ Hospital, which adjoins Evelina London. Evie underwent two open heart surgeries and multiple procedures before her second birthday to mend her heart. She is now a happy, healthy and energetic little girl.
Evie’s care meant so much to Jo and Justin that they named her Evalina after the hospital that looked after her.
‘We’re so excited about being part of BGC Charity Day,’ says Jo. ‘Evelina London means so much to us and getting involved on 11 September will be another way of thanking staff for caring for our daughter Evie all of her life.
‘Evie loves meeting new people so we’re sure she’ll try and get involved in some selfie action with a celeb or two!’
Baby Arthur happily playing in his cot
Arthur’s story
Arthur has just had his first birthday and has spent over a quarter of his life so far at Evelina London with his parents James and Suzi, as well as his two brothers.
Following many admissions to the hospital with bronchiolitis, pneumonia and other respiratory problems, Arthur was made nil by mouth at 4 months old. He is now fed through an abdominal tube that goes directly into his stomach and is slowly making progress. He’s even starting to be allowed to try eating again!
“Evelina London has been like a second home for us and they have treated us like family”, says James, “Their care, equipment and facilities are amazing”
“Representing Evelina London at events like BGC Charity Day has a big place in our hearts, spreading awareness and raising money for such a great cause.”
And joining Cruz, Evie and Arthur…
Speaking of celebs, we’re thrilled to also have Dr. Ranj Singh at the Charity Day!
Dr. Ranj is a medical expert and TV personality who is resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning and co-presents Save Money Good Health, as well as appearing on various other shows. He also happens to be a good friend of Evelina London as he completed his training and worked there. The second series of his BAFTA award-winning CBeebies show Get Well Soon was even filmed at the hospital.
Dr. Ranj is also well known for his stint on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2018. Off air, he is a Sunday Times best-selling author and writes for numerous magazines and websites, where he gives expert opinions on a range of physical and mental health issues.
It’s very exciting to have Ranj there supporting Evelina London at the BGC Charity Day, and he’ll be joined by some other celebrity ambassadors yet to be revealed… watch this space!
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Event postponed Day 1. World’s best prep for the 7th Event
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Jeremy Flores © WSL / Robertson
Billabong Pro Tahiti
WSL World Tour Men’s event
Teahupo’o, Tahiti, French Polynesia
19 – 30 August, 2016
Defending event winner Jeremy Flores looks to rebound from difficult 2016
Surf News Network Hawaii, 18 August, 2016 – Though the forecast doesn’t look great especially in the first days of the holding period. The world’s best surfers are readying themselves to tackle one of the most dangerous waves on the planet in the infamous Teahupo’o for Stop No. 6 of 11 on the 2016 Samsung Galaxy WSL Championship Tour, the Billabong Pro Tahiti, from August 19 – 30, 2016.
We see small surf from the SSW Fri- Sunday and a better shot filling Monday. Hopefully 3-5′ SSW into Tuesday the 23rd. And a possible grand finale on the last 2 days of the holding period. It could get 10′ but it’s a long way out.
In a season defined by its unpredictability, a new class of heroes is rapidly emerging in 2016 as the standard bearers of the best surfing on the planet. Matt Wilkinson (AUS), following back-to-back wins to open the season, has maintained his position atop the WSL Jeep Leaderboard, but is being closely pursued by John John Florence (HAW) and Gabriel Medina (BRA).
While the race for the 2016 WSL Title continues to crystallize, the battle for requalification rages on with lower-ranked surfers looking to turn their respective seasons around through the back half of the year.
Jeremy Flores (FRA), defending event winner, has long had a special relationship with Tahiti and its razor-sharp reef passes. Having previously won the Andy Irons Performance Award (2011) at Teahupo’o, Flores was a well-established threat at the venue before his emphatic victory in 2015.
“I always loved this place,” Flores said. “I have been coming here for many many years. I have lots of friends and family from here. This is a special place for me. It reminds me of my island back in Reunion. It feels like home and that’s why I love it. The energy of this place is like no others and, of course, the waves…best waves in the world are here in Tahiti.”
“Winning here was a dream come true,” Flores continued. “I always wanted to win Pipe and Teahupo’o. I got to win Pipe few years ago then Tahiti was definitely the one that I felt like I could win. Eventually, when I retire, I will be happy no matter what now that I won my two favorite events in the world.”
Despite his success at the elite level in recent years, 2016 has not been as kind to the Frenchman. Currently ranked 31st on the WSL Championship Tour rankings, Flores will look to recapture the magic in Tahiti to turn his season around.
“I honestly don’t know what is happening this season,” Flores admitted. “I have had so many close calls. It’s hard to keep confidence when you lose often by so little. I feel like I have been surfing better this year. I think I showed some good surfing at the start of the year, but it wasn’t enough. Hopefully the year turns around soon, but if not, it’s all good. I’m just trying to have fun surfing without thinking of what’s around surfing.”
Flores will face Julian Wilson (AUS) and Nat Young (USA) in Round 1 of competition.
Taj Burrow (AUS) surfed his last Championship Tour event during June’s Fiji Pro. His position on the 2016 WSL Top 34 has been taken by Adam Melling (AUS).
Owen Wright (AUS) and Bede Durbidge (AUS) remain out with injury and have been replaced by Stuart Kennedy (AUS) and Sebastian Zietz (HAW).
Mick Fanning (AUS), three-time WSL Champion and winner of the previous event in Jeffreys Bay, continues his personal year in 2016 and has elected not to surf Tahiti this season. He has been replaced by Dusty Payne (HAW).
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Sports > High school sports
Idaho football: Rigby edges Coeur d’Alene in double-overtime thriller in 5A State title game
Sat., Nov. 23, 2019
By Peter Harriman peteharrima@gmail.com(208) 301-8853
MOSCOW, Idaho – For the rest of their lives, players from Coeur d’Alene and Rigby will have distinctly different reactions when they remember Saturday’s game at the Kibbie Dome.
Rigby slipped past Coeur d’Alene 57-56 in two overtimes in the Idaho 5A State championship at the University of Idaho’s dome.
Rigby won when it went for a 2-point conversion after its second overtime score because it did not believe it could stop CdA’s Colbey Nosworthy if the Vikings got the ball a third time.
“Our defensive coordinator said, ‘Go for it, coach, we can’t stop them,’ ” Rigby head coach Armando Gonzalez said after accepting the championship trophy.
Rigby quarterback Keegan Thompson emerged from a gleeful celebration on the dome turf to declare, “That was the craziest game I’ve ever been a part of.”
After trailing from the second play of the game – when CdA’s Jack Prka saw Nosworthy had outrun a Trojans safety and hit him with a 71-yard scoring strike – Rigby finally caught up at the end of the fourth quarter. Thompson bought enough time with his feet to allow Christian Fredericksen to work free in the corner of the end zone and grab a 20-yard pass as the game clock went black.
Still trailing by two because of a mishandled snap on the extra-point attempt after their first touchdown, the Trojans’ Trajen Larsen dove over the goal line for the tying 2-point conversion.
CdA won the overtime coin toss and elected to play defense. Rigby was looking at third-and-goal from the 13-yard line when Thompson found Fredericksen again for a touchdown.
The Vikings answered immediately. On their first play in overtime, Prka threw a 10-yard pass to tight end Cameren Cope in the end-zone corner. Eli Jolly’s extra point tied the game at 49.
In the second overtime, Prka’s 4-yard dive and a Jolly kick gave the Vikings a 56-49 lead. On Rigby’s possession, Thompson gained 8 yards, then running back Brigham Youngstrom carried it in from the 2. He got the call again on the final conversion play and, though CdA had it defended, he carried a tackler into the end zone.
“I knew he was going to push it in,” Thompson said.
“I told everybody (in the huddle before the play), ‘This one is for us,’ ” Thompson added. “I need every single one of you to do your job.’ ”
If the game had gone to a third overtime, CdA coach Shawn Amos said the Vikings, like Rigby, would have gone for the 2-point conversion to try to end it.
For the Vikings, Prka and Nosworthy were superb. Prka threw five touchdown passes and ran for two. Nosworthy caught three scoring passes. They also had two touchdowns called back when the Vikings had ineligible players downfield.
The Trojans scrambled continually to stay in contact with CdA. Rigby trailed 21-13 at halftime and got down by 15 on three occasions. But the Vikings could never quite put the Trojans away.
“It really was a great high school football game,” Amos said.
As his disappointed players trailed off the field to the locker room, though, he added, “There is nothing you can say to them right now that they are going to hear.”
Watching his team celebrate, an ebullient Gonzalez had a different perspective.
“What better way to end a high school game in Idaho at the highest level?” he asked.
Published: Nov. 23, 2019, 8:37 p.m.
Tags: coeur d’alene vikings, football, idaho preps, nwpreps, nwprepsnow, nwprepsnow. high school sports, sports, state championship
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NAB 2019 Reflections: AJA's Bryce Button Sees HDR, IP Transition Topping Trends List
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 4:37 pm
AJA Video Systems is one of those NAB exhibitors that always offers up some interesting new products (some as simple as a converter card) that can make a big difference in a production. The company also finds itself at the center of a wide range of users, meaning its executives have a chance to glean some of the wider market trends.
AJA’s Bryce Button says HDR was a top theme at NAB this year.
AJA’s Bryce Button, AJA Director of Product Marketing, says HDR was a top theme at NAB this year and that the HDR-related announcements were received really well across the board from customers.
“At this point in time we are one of the leading companies that takes a holistic view of HDR,” says Button. “In the past, the conversations were around confusion over how to approach HDR throughout a pipeline, but that has settled down, and products like our FS-HDR are a big success in bridging transition points. And we have HDR Image Analyzer, which we rolled out at IBC, that is becoming a go-to device for guiding HDR production throughout the chain with realistic analysis and guided monitoring for the new dynamics involved in a wider dynamic range and expanded color space world.”
Also well received was the Ki Pro GO, a genlock-free, multi-channel H.264 HD and SD recorder/player. It can record up to four channels of HD and SD content from SDI and HDMI sources.
“It has found a sweet spot for recording and that is a testament to the rise of OTT services and strong interest from the proAV markets for live events and integrators serving that market as well as broadcasters.”
For many exhibitors the move to IP was a big theme and Button says that this was the first NAB where he felt there was solid weight behind the transition to IP.
“We were showing the IPT-10G2-SDI and HDMI SMPTE ST-2110 transmitters at NAB, mini-converters which are baseband-to-IP converters that allows the user to take a current SDI or HDMI source infrastructure and integrate it with IP,” says Button.
AJA’s Ki Pro GO can record up to four channels of HD and SD via SDI or HDMI sources.
AJA’s efforts with 12G-SDI development were also on display as it offered up Corvid 44 12G, an I/O card that supports 12G-SDI connectivity.
“We started on that path a few years ago and accelerated in the past 18 months,” he says. “For point-to-point needs, especially in sports where 4K is being looked at more seriously as a means of capture, it simplifies the production process.”
AJA also introduced cross-platform support for Apple ProRes for AJA Control Room, answering a bunch of headaches for professionals. Button also saw excitement around integration of Unreal Engine and virtual sets, while AJA expanded support for Unreal Engine across its video I/O products including the KONA 5.
Button believes that a world where IP and SDI co-exist will be around for some time so the single-cable simplicity of 12G-SDI will continue to be very important, even if down the road it simply feeds a source delivered via 12G-SDI into an IP switcher environment.
“The cost of IP at higher bandwidths has been a headache and it is still an expensive exercise in part of the practical equation,” he says. “And there is also a natural need for engineers from the IP and Baseband far ends to combine their deep set of knowledge skills to bring the best together for Video over IP with the least latency and sacrifice of image integrity.”
Button says that getting the IP and baseband worlds to meet with these considerations in mind along with developments like NMOS, and auto-discovery of IP-connected devices will make a difference.
“Another interesting trend at NAB I kept an eye on is machine learning and AI,” he says. “It will be interesting to see how quickly AI implementations become pragmatic and start to gain more attention.”
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EDCSO investigating Christmas Eve attack on Meyers man; Reward offered
editor@tahoedailytribune.com
Alan Gregory
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — An attack on Christmas Eve in Christmas Valley left a Meyers man in the hospital.
El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call at 11 p.m. on Saint Nick Way and found Alan Gregory was assaulted by an unknown person while sitting in his vehicle in his driveway.
The assailant was described as a white man, six feet tall, 200 pounds with grey hair and a grey beard.
The case is still being investigated and a motive has not yet been determined.
For Christmas Valley residents concerned about safety, EDCSO Public Information Officer Sergeant Anthony Prencipe said, “[Be] aware of your surroundings and the people around you. If you feel that you are in danger or something is suspicious, get away from it and call 911.”
The victim was transported to Barton Hospital then transferred to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno.
According to a gofundme page set up by Gregory’s son, Griffin, on Dec. 30, Alan Gregory suffered trauma to his head, face, arms and hands and is recovering in the ICU.
Griffin Gregory is looking for information that could help find the perpetrator. He told the Tribune he is offering a $2,500 reward for information leads to an arrest.
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Nagel Farm Service
One of the few family-owned grain storage and marketing facilities on Maryland’s eastern shore
Written by: Molly Shaw
Produced by: Drew Taylor
In Preston, Maryland, situated on the Delmarva Peninsula, Nagel Farm Service is running on nearly 70 years of family ownership and the kind customer-first business values synonymous with a multigenerational operation. Since inception in 1946, Nagel Farm Service has grown from a small livestock and dairy farm to a feed mill and now multifaceted grain company with five facilities and more than 6.5 million bushels of capacity. Despite the expansion, Chad Nagel, third-generation at Nagel Farm Service, says the company is just the right size.
“We’re large enough to stay relevant and invest in our facilities that support some of the most productive land in the mid-Atlantic, but we’re small enough to run it with a focus on customer service that’s really responsive,” he says. “There aren’t a lot of layers here, as you might see with some of the extremely large companies. We’re here on-site, on the job and able to react to our customers quickly with well-run facilities in good shape in terms of equipment and capacity.”
When the Nagel family first entered the grain handling business there were many similar-sized operations, but through years of industry consolidation, Nagel Farm Service remains one of the few family-run businesses in the category. “Others have sold out to larger poultry integrators such as Mountaire and Perdue who have locked up a lot of the region’s grain storage,” says Chad. “We work very closely with these large corporations to provide a local supply of grain, but we’re one of the few grain businesses that are still independently owned.”
Making the shift from livestock and feed to grain
The first generation to launch Nagel Farm Service begins with Chad’s grandfather, C. Brooks Nagel in the late 1940s. “My grandfather was a poultry farmer with some land and other livestock such as hogs and dairy cows,” recounts Chad. “He bought a feed mill in the late ‘40s across the street from his home and he started producing feed, mainly for his own animals.”
This eventually blossomed into feed production for other area farmers. As the feed mill grew, he added grain storage to accommodate the feed mill’s needs through the ‘50s and ‘60s. “In the ‘70s, my grandfather built another grain facility a few miles away and added a hardware store,” says Chad. “This location remains one of our five today.”
In the ‘80s the livestock industry began to consolidate from small single-farm operators to larger contract operations for national poultry names. With larger players moving in, David Nagel, Chad’s father, saw an opportunity to take the family business in a different direction, making the shift from feed production for livestock and dairy to grain handling and marketing.
“One of the catalysts that sparked the shift was the government came out with a dairy buyout deal because there was an oversupply of dairy,” explains David, now president of Nagel Farm Service. “The deal required dairy farmers to sell their cows for beef and at the time the dairy side was the largest aspect of our business. I saw the trend and thought it was a good time to focus our efforts on something else.”
“It was the best decision I’d ever made for the business,” says David. Nagel Farm Service started rapidly expanding its grain operations, from one location to two, and on, purchasing area operations that were preparing to sell out. “Since then, most independent grain dealers have gone out of business, which has created opportunities for us,” says David.
After college, David’s sons returned. “Chip is the oldest and he has a knack for engineering and operations,” he says. “Chad is the youngest of my children, but he’s a CPA and he does all of our financing and trading.”
“Their strengths really complement one another in running the business,” adds David, who now takes more of a backseat, oversight role in Nagel Farm Service while his sons manage the day-to-day operations.
Complementary consulting services
David’s decision to focus on grain has certainly paid off for Nagel Farm Service. Now the company has a network of five elevators strategically located throughout the Delmarva Peninsula and more than 6.5 million bushels in storage capacity for corn, beans, wheat, barley and milo. “Corn makes up the majority of our business at more than 50 percent of our volume; wheat and soybeans are about 25 percent and barley and milo are a very small percentage,” details Chad.
In terms of capacity and services, Chad says there’s always room to grow. “We’re in the process of adding additional grain bins and about 800,000 bushels to bring our total bushel figure closer to 7.3 million,” he notes.
“We’ve started offering other services,” says Chad. “Over the last five years we have built our Nagel Crop Insurance business, tying in the grain marketing and merchandizing and marrying the crop insurance process with risk management for the farmer and his marketing decisions; it’s a nice addition.”
“We’ve been very fortunate to have the support and expertise of ARMtech Insurance Services in helping build this part of our business,” adds Chad. “They are one of the top insurance firms approved by the government to offer crop insurance and have been instrumental in providing outstanding service to our clients.”
Nagel Farm Service has also recently started offering profitability consulting to the farm community. “This is a fee-based service, but it takes a really close look at profitability and a farmer’s hedging strategy; that ties into all decisions as far as inputs, crop insurance, forward contracting and more,” explains Chad. “Our goal is to pull it all under one roof and help give our farmers some direction, but it’s a process and we’re taking a slow approach to make sure farmers are ready for these services.” Overall, Chad says the time is right as producers look at a new approach to farm economics.
The importance of a core group
Expansion wouldn’t be possible without a core group of key personnel making Nagel Farm Service run day in and day out. The company now has around35 employees and Chad says it’s important to reinvest in people as Nagel Farm Service grows.
“At our annual company picnic we really tried to get the message across that we’re doing well in customer service and new growth opportunities, but moving forward, we want an equal emphasis on investing in our staff and ensuring we’re attracting the best and brightest,” he says. “We want everyone to have the same clear vision and mission.”
While Nagel Farm Service has its sights set on expansion, the company remains deeply rooted in small-town, family values and the integrity that comes with being one of the few independently-owned operations left in the business.
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Bernie Sanders rallies draw crowds in Tallahassee
Two rallies in Tallahassee for the Democratic presidential candidate coincided with 3,500 others across the nation.
Bernie Sanders rallies draw crowds in Tallahassee Two rallies in Tallahassee for the Democratic presidential candidate coincided with 3,500 others across the nation. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: http://on.tdo.com/1I2Z57M
Jeff Burlew, Democrat senior writer Published 8:48 p.m. ET July 29, 2015 | Updated 10:24 p.m. ET July 29, 2015
A couple hundred Bernie Sanders supporters gathered Wednesday night in Railroad Square.(Photo: Joe Rondone/Democrat)Buy Photo
Tallahassee supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders' underdog campaign to capture the Democratic nomination for president came out in sizable numbers Wednesday night to cheer on their candidate.
'Tallahassee Wants Bernie'
Landon Glover, the head grassroots organizer of Florida for Sanders, and Alison Metcalf sell raffle tickets for the Bernie Sanders t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers that they were giving away at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square for a live streamed address given by the Democratic presidential hopeful, part of a nationwide event sponsored by his campaign on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Joe Rondone/Democrat
Bernie Sanders signs, buttons, and t-shirts were out on display at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square for a live-streamed address given by the Democratic presidential hopeful, part of a nationwide event sponsored by the campaign on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Joe Rondone/Democrat
Landon Glover, the head grassroots organizer of Florida for Sanders, speaks to a crowd gathered at Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square on Wednesday in support of Bernie Sanders' presidential run. Joe Rondone/Democrat
Landon Glover, the head grassroots organizer of Florida for Sanders, sells raffle tickets for the Bernie Sanders t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers that they were giving away at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square for a live streamed address given by the Democratic presidential hopeful, part of a nationwide event sponsored by his campaign on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Joe Rondone/Democrat
An attendee photographs the scene at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square where people have gathered in support of the Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. Joe Rondone/Democrat
Neil Spencer, president of Noles want Bernie, addresses a crowd on Wednesday at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square gathered in support of the Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. Joe Rondone/Democrat
A Bernie Sanders supporter photographs cookie swag with his name at the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square on Wednesday. Joe Rondone/Democrat
An overflowing crowd of 200 or so people crammed outside the Crum Box Gastgarden in Railroad Square, and more supporters rallied at the Leon County Public Library downtown. The events coincided with 3,500 other grass-roots gatherings across the country attracting more than 100,000 people, the campaign said.
Sanders, a 73-year-old independent from Vermont, addressed the crowds himself in a live-stream video, touching on issues from income disparity to campaign-finance reform, health care and college-student debt. He pledged, among other things, to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United, which allows corporations to give unlimited campaign contributions, and to increase the minimum wage.
"The American people are saying loudly and clearly enough is enough," he said. "This great country and our government belongs to all of us and not just a handful of millionaires."
The event in Railroad Square attracted numerous students along with older adults, some who drove in from South Georgia. They wore Sanders buttons and T-shirts with slogans like "#feelthebern" and "Join the political revolution today."
"All of us want a change in the way our nation is going," said Kelly Maere, who attends Tallahassee Community College. "A lot of us here are students who are either in debt or can't go to college because of money issues. And Bernie Sanders is a candidate who supports (fixing) that, among other issues."
Landon Glover, a TCC student who helped organize the event, said he's drawn to Sanders because he has refused to accept Super PAC money and supports campaign-finance reform.
"Democracy shouldn't be run by how much money you have — it should be run by the ideas you have," Glover said.
Sanders is running behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state, in both polls and fund-raising. Nationwide polls show Clinton leading Sanders by as much as 49 percentage points, though Sanders has been out-performing the rest of the actual and possible Democratic field, including Vice President Joe Biden.
Earlier this month, Sanders reported raising a little over $15 million, and he said Wednesday the money has come in from more than 325,000 individual contributors, more than any of the other candidates. Clinton's campaign raised more than $47 million, with an additional $15-plus million coming from outside groups, according to media reports.
Neil C. Spencer, president of Noles Want Bernie, said he supports Sanders because of his stance on raising the minimum wage, addressing police brutality and allowing students to attend college tuition-free.
"He talks to me as a person, not as a politician," Spencer said. "He has had the same positions his entire political career that are just getting into the political mainstream."
Nancy Bennett of Winslow, Illinois, traveled to the Railroad Square event with three friends she's visiting from Colquitt, Georgia.
"We have to elect Bernie Sanders because we have to take our democracy back," she said. "Bernie Sanders is a man of principle. And he is not owned by anybody. He's a man of conscience."
Sanders on the issues
•Supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next several years.
•Supports legislation that would expand paid family and medical leave for workers and introduced legislation that would give workers a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation time.
•Introduced legislation he says would create at least 13 million jobs by investing $1 trillion over 5 years to modernize the country's infrastructure.
•Supports measures to reduce "wealth inequality;" says the top one-tenth of 1 percent of the nation owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined.
•Would nominate U.S. Supreme Court justices who promise to overturn the Citizens United ruling, which allows unlimited corporate political donations.
•Supports a tax on carbon and methane emissions and led opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Studies at Sunset in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
St Peter’s Sketchbook
Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 65
This page contains several sketches taken at sunset incorporating the gardens of the Villa Borghese. Turner’s viewpoint may have been the terrace of the Villa Medici. From here he could look north across the Borghese park (top) and west across the city towards the sun setting behind the distant silhouette of St Peter’s (second from top). The proliferation of buildings, sculptures and trees, includes some recognisable landmarks from the gardens such as the arcade of the Orangery (top) and the Casino dell’Orologio (Clock tower) in the Piazza di Siena (third sketch from bottom right). Meanwhile the classical sculpture with a raised arm (bottom centre) is a statue of the Dea Roma which in the present day can be found in the gardens of the Villa Medici near the walkway from the Pincio.1 A further sketch can be found in the Small Roman C. Studies sketchbook (see Tate D16410; Turner Bequest CXC 12a). The primary focus of Turner’s attention, however, is the appearance of the sky above the park and the transformation of the landscape by the approaching dusk. The artist has used the soft edge of the pencil and vigorous cross hatching to create areas of shadow and dark tone. He has also peppered his drawings with notes describing the brilliant colours created by the sunset. Similar sky studies can be found on folios 65 (D16272; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 64) and 67 verso (D16277; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 66a). For other sketches of the Borghese Gardens and a general discussion see folio 62 (D16267; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 61). For sketches of the Villa Medici see folio 66 verso (D16275; Turner Bequest CLXXXVIII 65a).
Ascending the edge of the page in the bottom left-hand corner is a separate study of an unidentified architectural detail.
Nicola Moorby
See Hans Naef, Ingres in Rome, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington 1971, no.12 p.10, reproduced p.12. The statue was moved in 1822 to a position near the Aurelian wall.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Building in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner Casa Cenci, in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner View in the Grounds of Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome, with the Temple of Antonino and Faustina
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Casino di Raffaello, near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner Via Pinciana, Rome, in between the Borghese Gardens and the Aurelian Walls
Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches ?in the Grounds of the Villa Borghese, Rome, including a Distant View of St Peter’s
Joseph Mallord William Turner In Gardens of Villa Borghese [Turner]
Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of the Grounds and Casino Nobile of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Porta Pinciana, Rome, near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese
Joseph Mallord William Turner View of St Peter’s, Rome, from the Casino di Raffaello, near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese
Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the Casino di Raffaello, near the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
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TAVR Superior to Surgery at Getting High-Risk Patients Home Sooner
As TAVR moves into lower-risk patients, with a less obvious survival advantage over SAVR, softer metrics gain importance, say researchers.
By Michael O'Riordan
The length of stay following surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement for high-risk patients with aortic stenosis has declined in recent years, but the decline in average stay has been steeper for TAVR, according to the results of a new analysis.
Additionally, there has been an increase in the proportion of TAVR-treated patients discharged directly home, with fewer patients being transferred skilled nursing facilities. In contrast, there has been no change in the proportion of surgically treated patients discharged home or to home nursing care, although there was a small decrease in transfers to skilled nursing facilities, report investigators.
“With the initial trials of TAVR in high-risk patients, the goal was to look at the mortality difference [compared with surgery], but as we move into lower-risk patients, we’re not going to be able see a difference in mortality,” lead investigator Sameer Arora, MD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), told TCTMD. “In the low-risk trials, they are younger, healthier patients who are going to live longer and the mortality from the procedure, from the surgery, is going to be low compared with the high-risk trials. So, given the two options we have—surgery and TAVR—we wanted to see if there was any difference in some of the other prognostic indicators.”
The new study, which was published September 14, 2018, in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, is an analysis of high-risk patients with aortic stenosis treated between January 2012 and September 2015 who were identified using the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database.
In TAVR-capable hospitals, 7,266 patients underwent TAVR, including 1,159 who were treated with the transapical approach, and 10,833 patients underwent isolated SAVR. The TAVR-treated patients were more than 10 years older than the surgical patients (mean, 81.3 vs 70.1 years), were more likely to be female, and tended to have more comorbidities as reflected by a higher Charlson score. From 2012 to 2015, the rate of TAVR per 100 patients undergoing aortic valve replacement increased significantly, up from 27.8 procedures to 49.5 procedures.
The median length of stay after TAVR and SAVR was 4 and 6 days, respectively (P < 0.0001). From 2012 to 2015, the average length of stay for TAVR-treated patients declined from 6.3 days to 4.6 days. Similarly, the length of stay also declined for surgical patients, down from 7.5 days in 2012 to 6.8 days in 2015. Overall, the decline was significantly larger among the TAVR-treated patients (P < 0.0001).
The analysis focuses on a period in which TAVR was indicated solely for aortic-stenosis patients at high-risk for death or severe complications with surgery. “Even though the indication remained the same during the study years, there was a significant reduction in the hospital length of stay,” said Arora. It suggests the procedures has become safer, he added, as well as more streamlined as operators employ conscious sedation/local anesthesia, for example.
Between 2012 and 2015, there was a significant increase in the number of TAVR patients discharged home (67.7% to 77.4%) and a reduction in the number of patients discharged to a skilled nursing facility (27.1% to 20.7%). Additionally, there was a significant reduction in the rate of in-hospital mortality, declining from 4.2% in 2012 to 1.6% in 2015. Among the surgical patients, there was a decrease in the number of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (20.9% to 18.7%), but no change in the number of patients discharged home and no change in the in-hospital mortality rate.
In a standardized model that accounted for patient and hospital characteristics, TAVR patients were less likely to be transferred to a skilled nursing facility (OR 0.45; 95% CI 0.40-0.51) and spent nearly 3 days less in hospital than if they had undergone surgery. However, in a standardized model stratified by access, the benefit was limited to those treated via the endovascular approach (transfemoral, direct aortic, and axillary/subclavian). Transapical TAVR patients had a similar incidence of discharge to a nursing facility and slightly lower length of stay, but a higher risk of in-hospital mortality, compared with the surgical approach.
TAVR: Predictable Procedure Performed in Cath Lab
In an editorial, Adedapo Iluyomade, MD, and Mauricio Cohen, MD (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL), say the trends observed are “likely the result of rapid technology development and inception of newer-generation TAVR devices during the steep portion of the procedure learning curve.” They point out that the evolution of TAVR is similar to that of PCI and that it is now a predictable procedure that can be performed in the cath lab without the need for surgical standby, a cardiopulmonary bypass machine, general anesthesia, or routine transesophageal echocardiography.
“New transcatheter heart valves are easier to deploy, allow more precise positioning, and provide better annular sealing, minimizing paravalvular leaks, and residual aortic insufficiency,” write the editorialists. “As expected, the simplification of TAVR has resulted in lower hospital cost, reduced length of stay, and patient satisfaction.”
To TCTMD, Arora said that given the low mortality rate of low-risk patients, as well as the lower risk of complications, focusing on prognostic indicators such as length of stay and discharge disposition is critical. He also noted that SAVR is a mature procedure, so large improvements in length of stay or discharge disposition wouldn’t be expected. But the researchers felt it was important to document the improvements with TAVR and compare outcomes against the surgical approach, especially since the healthcare landscape is changing. For example, focusing on length of stay is particularly important given that healthcare payments are moving towards bundled fixed payments, said Arora.
“Length of stay is a huge deal right now,” said Arora. “Hospitals are trying to minimize the number of days a patient stays in the hospital for obvious reasons. One reason is obviously for improving outcomes, but the other is for financial purposes.” Discharge disposition—for example, sending a patient directly home or to a skilled nursing facility—has an impact on resource utilization, but is also an important indicator for patient prognosis, he added.
One of the advantages of restricting their analysis to 2015 is that investigators captured only high-risk patients, which made comparisons with surgery easier. However, hospital length of stay for TAVR has only declined further given improvements in the technology, with many centers discharging patients within 24 or 48 hours, Arora said, and the difference with surgery is likely even more pronounced.
In their editorial, Iluyomade and Cohen stress that early discharge decisions must be “weighed against the risk of complications, in particular in patients at risk of complete heart block, who may require thorough electrophysiology evaluations, and frail patients who may be at risk of readmission.”
Arora S, Strassle PD, Kolte D, et al. Length of stay and discharge disposition after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in the United States. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2018;11:e006929.
Iluyomade A, Cohen MG. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: the evolution of simplicity. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2018;11:e007169.
Arora and colleagues report no relevant conflicts of interest.
Cohen reports consulting for Medtronic and reports research support from Edwards Lifesciences and Boston Scientific.
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The ostentatious limousine pulls up and out steps the starlet. As the cameras flash, she flashes her smile and diamonds and slowly walks towards the cinema for the premiere of her latest movie.
Every inch of the way she is on show. This moment has taken hours of preparation, with her stylist, publicists and hairdressers fussing around to get every detail right.
As she turns and gives her final wave before entering the building, the last thing she’ll be thinking about is the red carpet she has just walked along. But that carpet is what has made the occasion special. It has been her stage. It is what has magically transformed the starlet from young actress to celebrity!
Yet, what an odd custom to a lay a carpet on a pavement for such an occasion and why red?
By tradition, kings, queens and emperors proceed along red carpets to their coronations. When heads of state arrive in foreign countries for official visits the red carpet is an essential protocol. It might stretch for many metres along the tarmac at the airport and right up the aircraft steps.
To give someone the red carpet treatment is a phrase that has gone into the English language. It means to welcome someone with all the respect and dignity required to emphasise their importance.
In ancient times it was only the Gods who were permitted to walk along red coloured roads. It signified their deity, as the lifeblood of mortals lay beneath their feet.
Two and a half thousand years ago a Greek legend was written down as a verse drama. It told of how, when Agamemnon returned from the Trojan Wars, his wife Clytemnestra rolled out the red carpet. She ordered her attendants to lay out a richly coloured tapestry for her husband to walk on as he descended from his chariot. ‘Let not the proud foot, that trod down Troy touch the Earth,’ she said.
Agamemnon was very wary, and so he might be as he was about to be murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover. ‘A mortal man to set his foot on these rich dyes? I hold such pride in fear. Honour me as man, not a god.’
Throughout the history of art, red or purple have been the colours used by artists to denote power and wealth and in many great historical paintings artists have depicted rich carpets for important or scared figures to walk upon.
One of the first cases in more modern times of a red carpet being used to welcome a political leader dates from the early 19th century when one was rolled out to greet the USA’s fourth president James Madison on an official visit.
Red Carpets have played starring roles in films as well as at film premieres. Probably the most famous example is found in the Charlie Chaplin classic, The Great Dictator. It is a barely disguised spoof on the self-importance of the Second World War European dictators and contains a wonderful scene involving a red carpet welcome at a railway station and a train that can’t quite stop at the right point.
Should the red carpet treatment go wrong, it is not just injurious to pride. The wind was so strong when Pope Benedict’s plane was due to arrive at Edinburgh airport in 2010 that the red carpet was in danger of being lifted off the ground. It had to be removed in the interests of safety and the pope had to forgo the usual symbolic VIP welcome
On glitzy Hollywood occasions, the red carpet ritual can take hours, with each mega-star, celebrity and wannabe being allocated their time. Blasé mega-stars will waft between the crowds and cameras as if it is all beneath them. Professional celebrities will oblige with poses at every angle. Wannabes will milk the moment and hope someone will want to take their picture. In show business the red carpet is the stage for maximum self-publicity. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen arrived at the Oscars in 2012 dressed in mock military uniform carrying the supposed ashes of Kim Jung Il, which he proceeded to spill on the red carpet. He explained that it was what the late North Korean leader ‘would have wanted’.
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Reintegration of Ex-Offenders
This program includes both Prisoner Reentry Initiative (PRI) grants to serve adult returning offenders and Youthful Offender grants aimed at youth involved or at risk of involvement in crime and violence.
The objectives of the PRI grants include increasing the employment rate, employment retention
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rate, and earnings of released prisoners, and decreasing their recidivism.
The objectives of the Youthful Offender grants include preventing in-school youth from dropping out of school, increasing the employment rate of out-of-school youth, increasing the reading and math skills of youth, reducing the involvement of youth in crime and violence, and reducing the recidivism rate of youth.
Examples of Funded Projects
PRI Grants: Grants of $660,000 to community and faith-based organizations to support a project director, three job counselors, one job developer, a mentoring supervisor, an administrative assistant, tryout jobs for participants, materials and supplies.
Youthful Offender Grants: Grants to school districts, community-based organizations, and juvenile justice agencies to start or enhance alternative school serving juvenile offenders.
Grants for this Program
Reentry Projects (RP)
Pathways to Justice Careers for Youth (PJC)
REENTRY DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
LINKING TO EMPLOYMENT ACTIVITIES PRE‐RELEASE THROUGH SPECIALIZED AMERICAN JOB CENTERS (AJCS) – (“LEAP-2”)
Training to Work 3 – Adult Reentry , FOA-ETA-15-07-A
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Agency - Department of Labor
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of job seekers, wage earners and retirees by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities, protecting their retirement and health benefits and generally protecting worker rights and monitoring national economic measures.
Office - Contact the nearest Employment and Training Administration regional office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.
http://www.doleta.gov
Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories
I02.13
Youth Violence Prevention
Ex-Offender Services/Supervision
Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Selected Recipients for this Program
Recipient Amount Start Date End Date
Workforce Development, Wisconsin Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Labor And Workforce Development, Massachusets Executive Office Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Employment Security, New Hampshire Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Labor, Connecticut Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Labor & Employment, Colorado Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Labor, Nebraska Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Labor, Delaware Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Employment Development, California Department Of $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Missouri Division Workforce Development $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Office Of Employment And Training $ 100,000 2019-07-01 2023-06-30
Program Accomplishments
Now in their third year of operation, PRI grants have thus far enrolled 13,881 participants, with 8,778 of these participants finding employment. The recidivism rate for the participants in the program is 15 percent. Youthful Offender grants typically serve about 9,000 individuals each year, and these programs have placed 56 percent of out-of-school participants in jobs, education, or training. The recidivism rate in Youth Offender programs is 12 percent for 14 to 17 year-olds and 11 percent for participants ages 18 and above.
Uses and Use Restrictions
Services under the PRI grants include assistance in finding employment, mentoring, job training, remedial education, and other comprehensive transitional services.
Services under the Youthful Offender grants include a wide array of educational, employment, mentoring, case management, and violence reduction efforts.
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Eligible applicants for PRI grants are faith-based and community organizations (FBCOs) that are located in, or have a staff presence in, the urban community being served.
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Beneficiary Eligibility
PRI grants serve individuals, 18 years old and older, who have been convicted as an adult and have been imprisoned for violating a state or federal law, and who have never been committed a sex-related offense. Depending on the solicitation, enrollment may be limited based on whether the presenting offense was violent or whether the individual has previously committed a violent crime. Individuals eligible for Youthful Offender grants vary depending on the solicitation.
Credentials/Documentation
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Aplication and Award Process
Preapplication Coordination
None except as specified in solicitations.
This program is excluded from coverage under E.O.
Grants for projects are awarded on a competitive basis, announced in Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGAs) in the Federal Register and also on ETA's Web site at http://www.doleta.gov. To compete for a grant, organizations develop a proposal and budget that demonstrate how the organization will provide services to a targeted population. The SGA provides all of the necessary information for applying for Federal assistance. Please note that competitions for PRI and Youth Offender grants do not necessarily occur every year, depending on availability of funds and the extent to which existing grants are continuing.
Award Procedures
Procedures for each project are specified in the applicable request for proposals. The general procedure is as follows. A technical review panel composed of staff from ETA program offices as well as peer reviewers evaluates eligible submitted applications. The panel prepares a report for the ETA Grant Officer identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the application and the cumulative rating. Once selections are made by the Grant Officer, an Award Notification is sent through the appropriate congressional channels for notification. After awardees are notified, the list of awardees is posted on the ETA Web site at www.doleta.gov. If an application is rejected, a letter is sent to the applicant as notification that they were not selected as a recipient of the grant.
Specified in the applicable request for proposals, but generally 45 days from announcement.
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Title I, Subtitle D, Section 171, Public Law 105-220.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time
From 45 to 90 days.
Procedures for each project are specified in the applicable request for proposals.
Extensions available upon approval; renewals are not automatic.
Assistance Considerations
Formula and Matching Requirements
Matching requirements vary by grant announcement.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance
The period of performance varies by grant announcement. The possibility of additional years of funding varies by grant announcement. Payments to grantees are usually made by Letter of Credit draw-down procedures.
Post Assistance Requirements
Quarterly progress and financial reports and final reports are required.
Depending on the solicitation, grantees also may be required to participate in DOL's Management Information System data collection system.
In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised June 27, 2003), audits of states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations, non-Federal entities that receive financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards must have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year.
Recipients are required to maintain books, records, documents, and other evidence of accounting procedures and practices sufficient to reflect properly all direct and indirect costs of whatever nature claimed to have been incurred for the performance of the grant. Records are to be retained for three years from the date of final payment unless the grant officer authorizes earlier disposal.
Account Identification
16-0174-0-1-504.
Obigations
(Project Grants) FY 07 $74,000,000; FY 08 est $73,000,000; FY 09 est $40,000,000.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance
Initial awards for PRI Grants have ranged from $130,000 to $667,000 a year. Initial awards for Youthful Offender grants have recently ranged from $1 million to $3.2 million a year.
Regulations, Guidelines, and Literature
Specified in SGA Announcement.
Information Contacts
Regional or Local Office
Contact the nearest Employment and Training Administration regional office listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.
Division of Youth Services, Office of Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., N.W., Room N-4511, Washington, DC 20210. Contact for PRI Grants: Jenn Smith. Telephone: (202) 693-3597, E-mail: Smith.Jenn@dol.gov. Contact for Youthful Offender Grants: Richard Morris. Telephone: (202)-693-3603, E-mail: Morris.Richard@dol.gov.
Criteria for Selecting Proposals
Criteria for each proposal are specified in the applicable request for proposals.
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Here are the African presidents with the most expensive private jets. Whilst it is tempting for the outside world to think of Africa as the “dark continent” where “people live with animals in mud huts, it will be really surprising for them to realize the luxury enjoyed by African presidents.
Should we say on top of moving faster and wasting less time, it’s easier to get work done in the air when you’re alone. Even in first or business class, Cass pointed out, it’s risky to have confidential conversations, because you don’t know who may be around. Does this apply to African presidents?
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OAKLAND — The two proposed school calendars for 2020-21 presented to the Garrett County Board of Education at its recent meeting can be reviewed at https://www.garrettcountyschools.org/resources/public-information/pdf/calendars/GCPS-Proposed-Calendars-2020-2021.pdf.
Middle school students Come to the Table at Garrett College
MCHENRY — The eighth grade students from Northern and Southern middle schools attended the recent Come to the Table event at Garrett College, which was a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of Elements.
BW student to attend HOBY Seminar
CUMBERLAND — Bishop Walsh student Sydney Bearinger was selected as this year’s Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Ambassador for the sophomore class. She will represent BW at the HOBY Seminar at Towson University from June 11-14.
Cresaptown college senior completes research at Yale University
CRESAPTOWN — McDaniel College senior Jade Enright of Cresaptown conducted summer research at Yale University after being named an Amgen scholar.
Braddock Middle School students named to honor roll
CUMBERLAND — The following students from Braddock Middle School were named to the honor roll for the first marking period of the school year:
Fort Hill sophomores learn about health careers at medical center
CUMBERLAND — The 18 sophomores at Fort Hill High School who participate in the Next Generation Scholars program toured Western Maryland Health System recently for career inspiration.
FSU student to participate in physician assistant conference
FROSTBURG — Calvin Richards of Hagerstown, a student in Frostburg State University’s physician assistant program, was selected from thousands of PA students across the country as one of 18 to participate in the American Academy of Physician Assistant House of Delegates National Conference in…
FSU announces local scholarship recipients
FROSTBURG — Frostburg State University announces the following area students received scholarships for study at the university.
Focusing on true meaning of Christmas
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Christmas is here once again. To prepare for the big day, many of us have purchased gifts, done some baking and decorating and all of the other activities associated with getting ready for the special occasion.
Cash Valley names honor students
LAVALE — The following students from Cash Valley Elementary School were named to the Principal’s List and honor roll for the first marking period of the school year.
Garrett Teacher of Year to lecture at global IT conference in California
ACCIDENT — Garrett County Teacher of the Year Amy Rowan has been selected to present an interactive lecture at the 2020 International Society for Technology in Education conference in June in Anaheim, California.
A Snoopy Christmas brings happiness to more than one
Being associated with the Toys for Happiness campaign is rewarding. We who comprise Fire and Ice Rods & Customs meet the nicest, kindest people during our weekly gift wrapping opportunities at the Country Club Mall.
• The Allegany College of Maryland Foundation announces that the following students were awarded College Achievement Award scholarships to attend ACM: Sydney Crawford, Frostburg; Allison Cutter, Cumberland; Jessica Farrell, Frostburg; Katelyn Felker, Frostburg; Gavin Hershberger, Cumberland;…
Alzheimer's foundation offers essay contest
CUMBERLAND — High school seniors across the country who have been impacted by Alzheimer’s disease are invited to share their experiences to raise awareness and have the chance to earn a college scholarship through the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America’s annual Teens for Alzheimer’s Awareness…
Teachers, coaches invited to boot camp
CUMBERLAND — The United States Marine Corps is inviting high school educators and coaches to an educator workshop scheduled March 10-13 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina.
Mountain Ridge High School honor roll students named
FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge High School announces its honor roll for the first marking period of the school year.
School Briefs
• The West Virginia University School of Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at Potomac State College is accepting applications for fall 2020 admission. The application period spans through Jan. 15, 2020. Acceptance into the program is competitive and spaces are limited to 24 stud…
Fort Hill establishes endowed scholarship
CUMBERLAND — Fort Hill High School and the Fort Hill Scholarship Committee announce the establishment of a new scholarship, the Oscar R. and Monna J. Goldsborough Scholarship, to aid students in achieving higher education after high school.
Bel Air school recognizes honor students
CUMBERLAND — Bel Air Elementary School recognizes the following students during the first nine weeks of the school year.
Students attend National College Fair
BALTIMORE — Nearly 150 11th grade students from Maryland Business Roundtable for Education’s Next Generation Scholars program participated in the recent National College Fair, sponsored by the National Association for College Admission Counseling at the Baltimore Convention Center.
BW Middle School students earn honors
CUMBERLAND — Bishop Walsh School announces middle school students named to the honor roll for the first trimester of the school year.
Health screenings set Dec. 16
CUMBERLAND — Residents can learn about their risk for cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and other chronic, serious conditions with health screenings set for Dec. 16 at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 930 Frederick St. in Cumberland.
Mountain Ridge inducts 70 in National Honor Society
FROSTBURG — The Mountain Ridge High School Chapter of the National Honor Society recently held its induction ceremony for the 2019-2020 school year welcoming 70 new members to the organization.
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6 big Warriors watch parties around the SF Bay…
6 big Warriors watch parties around the SF Bay Area
After a watch party for Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Golden State Warriors fans watch fireworks at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, June 8, 2018. The Warriors swept the series to win their second consecutive NBA championship. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
By Lisa Herendeen | | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 7, 2019 at 2:13 pm | UPDATED: June 7, 2019 at 2:15 pm
OK, Wednesday night’s Dubs game was a debacle, but there’s always hope. Here’s where to watch the next game at sports bars around the Bay Area.
Warriors vs. Raptors Game 5 @ Mad Oak: 4-10 pm. June 7 and 10, 135 12th St., Oakland. $20 entry includes two drink tickets. http://bit.ly/2WoSHId
NBA Finals Watch Party: Warriors vs Raptors: 6-9 p.m. June 7 and 10, 13 and 16 (if necessary) , SoMa StrEat Food Park, 428 11th St., San Francisco. Join the largest outdoor viewing party with a DJ, huge TVs, local craft beer, covered seating, heaters and tons of food trucks. http://bit.ly/2EQNMoE
Game 4 and 5 Watch Party: 5-9 p.m. June 7 and 10, Prestige SF Social Club, 1524 Powell St., San Francisco. Watch the game on six 72-inch HD screens, while you enjoy a full bar and food menu. Free admission. http://bit.ly/2MwXFOB
Warriors’ Huge Oracle Arena NBA Finals Watch Party, Game 5: 6-9 p.m. June 10, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland. Includes performances from the Warriors Dance Team, Jr. Jam Squad, GS Breakers, Hardwood Classics and Flyin’ Dubs. In addition, fans will have access to a variety of giveaways, including cheer cards courtesy of NBC Sports Bay Area and thundersticks. $38 and up. http://bit.ly/2Z9BWgZ
NBA Finals at Pedro’s Cantina: 5-10 p.m. June 10, 128 King St., San Francisco. Come watch the Warriors take on the Raptors and enjoy $1 wings and $20 Bud Light pitchers. Free admission. Reservations. http://bit.ly/2Wgywav
San Francisco’s Corridor Dub Nation Happy Hour: 3 p.m. to closing for all NBA finals games, 100 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Menu highlights include two specialty Warriors cocktails, plus wine, beer and food specials. http://corridorsf.com/
Oliveto To-Go Menu on Warriors Game Night: Oliveto Restaurant and Cafe, 5655 College Ave., Oakland. There are no TVs at this Cal-Mediterranean hot spot, but you can pre-order and pick up a variety of dishes for your game night party. www.oliveto.com
Lisa Herendeen is an events writer for the Bay Area News Group. She started her journalistic career 40 years ago as the first female "copy boy" at the San Mateo Times.
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TENNESSEE OVERDOSE PREVENTION
Educating, Implementing and Developing Resources for TN's Good Samaritan and Naloxone Laws
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Tennessee has passed legislation that will allow authorized pharmacists statewide to dispense naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, without a prescription.
TN - SB2403, Pharmacist Dispensing law, which will allow pharmacies who follow the protocol created by the Chief Medical Officer with the Department of Health,was signed by Governor Haslam on March 27, 2016. TOP does not know when this protocol will be implemented.
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In September 2015, CVS announced that Tennessee was one of the 12 states in which CVS would dispense Naloxone through a standing order. As of September 2015, you can walk into any CVS pharmacy in Tennessee and either purchase or order Naloxone. To ensure that your local CVS is aware of this policy, we recommend you to bring the article below by CVS describing this policy.
CVS Press Release
Walgreen's announced that their Tennessee locations would have Naloxone available to purchase without a prescription by the end of the year in 2016. Though they have not reported a specific date when Naloxone will be available, linked below is the Walgreen's press release announcement of this program.
Walgreen's Press Release
In Ohio and Kentucky, Kroger announced that 200 stores would have Naloxone available without a prescription. One article said that the program would be national, but TOP has not been able to verify when that would occur.
Kroger - News Article
Rite Aid has announced Naloxone is available without a prescription in select states. Though TOP has not been able to determine an exact date for when this program will be enacted in Tennessee, linked below is Rite Aid's press release listing all the states where Naloxone is available.
Rite Aid News Release
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Members Vote To End CSCR On Wednesday
NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED November 1, 1972
The members of the Committee on Students and Community Relations (CSCR) unanimously voted to dissolve the Committee in its present form at a meeting held yesterday.
"The committee was ineffective because it was only composed of Harvard and Radcliffe College students and Faculty instead of being university-wide," CSCR member Josh Schwartz '73, said yesterday.
Disbanding
Before officially disbanding the Committee members will meet Wednesday to decide how to transfer the committee's functions to other committees.
In the past, Committee functions concerned the University's relations to the community, admissions and scholarship policy, and Harvard's investment policy.
"The University never seriously intended to give students a voice concerning the University's relations to the community," Schwartz said, in explaining the Committee's decision.
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Snow this morning will transition to snow showers this afternoon. High 32F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 90%. Snow accumulations less than one inch..
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Shweta Karikehalli | The Daily Star Inside the Otsego County Department of Motor Vehicles in Oneonta on Thursday, Jan. 2, a sign with the tip line for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is seen next to a sign detailing new requirements for original permits, licenses or non-driver IDs since the passing of the Green Light Law.
Shweta Karikehalli | The Daily StarA sign stating no Green Light Law license or permit applications will be accepted until training is complete is shown in the security window of the Otsego County Department of Motor Vehicles in Oneonta on Thursday, Jan. 2.
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State DMV blasts Otsego County's ICE tip-line signs
By Shweta Karikehalli Staff Writer
Shweta Karikehalli
The state Department of Motor Vehicles has condemned the placement of Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line signs next to signs mentioning the Green Light Law in the Otsego County DMV in Oneonta.
The Green Light Law, which took effect Monday, Dec. 16, allows anyone in the state 16 years and older to apply for a driver’s license or learner permit, regardless of their citizenship or lawful status in the country.
Another sign in the Oneonta DMV states it won’t process any applications under the Green Light Law, pending formal training. Oneonta DMV employee Barb Dulkis said the training already happened but that the Oneonta DMV isn’t obligated to process applications under the Green Light Law because the county’s other DMV in Cooperstown is doing so.
Otsego County Clerk Kathy Sinnott Gardner called the issue “old news” and said the ICE tip line signs have been up for 20 years. She declined to answer further questions, including why ICE tip line signs were placed directly next to signs at the Oneonta DMV reading “Due to the Green Light Law, we are now required to have proof of residence for any original permit, license or non-driver I.D. Please see form ID44 for acceptable proofs.”
“While Clerk Gardner may choose to process permit applications in only one office within the county and not another, as an agent of the NYS DMV and as mandated by law, she must process those transactions for all eligible customers,” Lisa Koumjian, assistant commissioner of communications for the state DMV wrote in a Jan. 2 email to The Daily Star.
Neither the DMV nor the county clerks who run DMV offices can ask an applicant about their citizenship or lawful status, she wrote.
“In regards to the ICE signs, Clerk Gardner’s fear-mongering ploy to keep customers she dislikes out of her offices doesn’t change her legal obligation to issue licenses and permits to eligible applicants,” Koumjian wrote. “Like all public officials, she is obligated to carry out her duties properly and fairly. As we have previously stated, if any clerk doesn’t wish to do so, they should resign their position.”
Dulkis said she and the other Oneonta DMV employees would have preferred more comprehensive training than the one-hour powerpoint presentation they were given.
“I don’t consider comprehensive training to be sitting watching a Power Point, not being allowed to have discussion, not being allowed to handle documents,” Dulkis said. “We want hands-on training. How do you verify documents and the authenticity of them? We don’t see these types of documents up here.”
Dulkis denied that the placement of ICE tip line signs directly next to signs mentioning the Green Light Law is an intimidation tactic. She said the placement in each security window at the office is for customer convenience.
“People come up to the register to ask questions,” she said. “That’s where the majority of the signs are. When people open the door they come right up to us. They don’t turn around and look around the wall.”
She added that one of the signs could be moved, but two would remain up front.
Under the law, there are also privacy protections that limit data sharing including to agencies that primarily enforce immigration laws, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicle’s website. It also requires that license holders are made aware when when immigration enforcement agencies request data from the DMV, according to the website.
Longtime Oneonta resident Marty Van Lenten Becker said she and other members of the Grey Matters Social Action Group at First United Methodist Church in Oneonta are taking action to get the signs removed.
“What they’re saying without saying it is, they’re asking other county residents to spy on people and report people because they have overheard their conversation with the clerk, which you’re not supposed to be listening to anyway,” Van Lenten Becker said. “To me it’s just outrageous.”
Van Lenten Becker said she’s reached out to Otsego County Representative Clark Oliver, D-Oneonta about the signs. Oliver said within the next day or two, he will send an email to Sinott-Gardner expressing his concern over the placement of the signs and their existence there at all.
Shweta Karikehalli, staff writer, can be reached at skarikehalli@thedailystar.com or 607-441-7221. Follow her @DS_ShwetaK on Twitter.
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COOPERSTOWN - A Celebration of Life for Ann B. Clinton, who passed away on Dec. 27, 2019, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, 82 Chestnut St., Cooperstown, with the Rev. Terry Brant, pastor of the First Christian Church of South Valley, o…
DELANEY JR., Thomas M. Jul 14, 1964 - Jan 15, 2020
GILBERTSVILLE - Thomas Michael Delaney Jr., 55, of Gilbertsville, was called to be with the angels while surrounded by his family on Jan. 15, 2020. Tom was born on July 14, 1964, in Norwich, Connecticut, the a son of Thomas and Anita (Lemire) Delaney Sr. On Aug. 19, 1989, he married Bernadet…
WARLEY, Chester W. Aug 19, 1931 - Jan 15, 2020
GARRATTSVILLE - Chester W. Warley, 88, of Garrattsville, passed away at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown on Jan. 15, 2020. He was the son of Reginald and Beatrice Warley. Chester is survived by his wife, Simonne. His family has entrusted his care to Johnston & Stanimer Funeral Home …
GOMEZ, Gloria J. Apr 24, 1931 - Jan 14, 2020
NORTH HARPERSFIELD - Gloria J. Gomez, 88, formerly of Garnerville and Stony Point, passed away on Jan. 14, 2020, following a short illness. She was born on April 24, 1931, in Brooklyn, the daughter of the late Raimundo and Segunda (Gainza) Altonaga. She married Angel P. Gomez in 1956. She wa…
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Home Business TAB expands to Edinburgh
TAB expands to Edinburgh
The app company TAB (The App Business) is expanding further in Europe with a team based in Edinburgh.
TAB believes there is an immense opportunity to help ambitious organisations in Edinburgh accelerate digital innovation and product delivery. They will be based in the new WeWork space in the heart of the city centre from late July 2019.
Their client list includes RBS, Tesco, Visa, BMW, Kingfisher, Met Office, ING and Santander providing services such as product delivery, innovation and digital strategy. They also have expertise in areas including financial services,retail and utilities.
The founding team led by Sam Dods, Euan Muir and Kasia Swiatek will be supported by a 200-strong team of designers, engineers and strategists based at the London King’s Cross HQ. TAB is now recruiting for a variety of positions in Edinburgh.
David Tuck, Managing Director of TAB said : “Choosing Edinburgh as the location for our second office outside of London was a no brainer for us. There’s a thriving tech scene, one of the UK’s leading Artificial Intelligence hubs, world-class universities, and a strong community of talented designers and developers who want to work on products and services that have real-world impact. We’re excited to bring TAB culture and ways of working to many of our clients who are already here in this beautiful city.”
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Wed., November 30, 2011
Survey: Iowans favor more access to public records, meetings
803 Iowans participated in a telephone poll conducted from Sept.19-22
The House room in the Des Moines Capitol Building on March 9, 2001. (Sourcemedia Group)
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Two of three Iowans favor creating a state government board to handle citizen complaints about violations of Public Records and Open Meetings laws, according to statewide survey results released Wednesday.
The survey found most Iowans know little about the state’s Public Records and Open Meetings laws, but nevertheless value more openness than is practiced.
The poll results reveal “an overwhelming amount of support from people for open and transparent government,” said Kathleen Richardson, executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, which commissioned the poll.
“The citizens get it,” she said. “They understand why this is such a valuable part of our way of life and are supportive of any way to make government more transparent.”
The telephone poll was conducted from Sept. 19-22 by Selzer & Co. of West Des Moines. Of those reached on their landlines and cell phones, 803 agreed to complete the survey by answering 18 questions about open government and additional demographic questions, Richardson said.
Key findings included:
- Sixty-seven percent of participants favor creation of a board to handle citizen complaints about access to meetings and records.
- Sixty-nine percent said they know little or nothing about the state’s open government laws. Only 5 percent expressed a great deal of familiarity with the laws.
- Eighty-five percent expressed confidence the purpose of the laws is to provide access to all citizens, not just the news media.
- Sixty-three percent said government should do more to open meetings and make records accessible.
- Ninety-six percent said public officials’ expense reports should be available.
- Ninety percent said list of candidates under consideration for major state and local government jobs should be available.
- Only about one-third (36 percent and 32 percent, respectively) favored public availability of autopsy reports and the names of crime victims.
An Iowa Public Information Board would provide a place to which citizens, government officials and the media could direct questions about access, said Chris Mudge, executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association.
Her organization has proposed creation of such a board for at least five years. The newspaper group and the freedom of information council have called for the board to have enforcement powers.
“The fact 67 percent of Iowans see that as something they would support I view as very positive,” said Mudge.
Iowans reacted strongly and favorably to the idea their tax dollars are the price of admission to government meetings and their ticket to review government records, pollsters concluded.
Those surveyed were “little concerned that requiring document requesters to pay the costs of copies imposes any barrier to access,” the poll found. “Rather they see charging requesters as a legitimate way for government offices to recover the costs of providing copies.”
Iowa’s Public Records law restricts copying fees to actual cost of providing the service.Overall, “Iowans seek more openness even at the expense of privacy of government employees and officials, more effort to make access to government records and meetings easier and more opportunities to have input into government decisions,” the polling company concluded.
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The Love Story MissionThe Love Story CreativesAugust 15, 2014 September 28, 2019
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all that I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13, NIV, Apostle Paul’s Love Letter to the people of Corinth.
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About The Love Story
The Love Story Media, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 grounded upon 1 Corinthians 13, that fuses journaling, journalism, and the personal journey, designed to inspire the broken hearted to transform pain into passion, self-destruction into creative expression, and our love loss into the love story. We exist to shift the perception of what pain is–not as something to be ashamed, dismissed, or avoided, but as an opportunity to grow emotionally, spiritually, and creatively.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults ages 25-34 and depression is the leading cause of suicide. Depression is a major symptom of heartbreak.
According to the World Health Organization, Depression is the number one disability worldwide. That said, our non-profit serves an international audience. We offer DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Artist-Inspired Journaling online. We provide virtual courses on how to fuse journaling, journalism, with the personal journey. Our Producer’s Program is also international, as we train people how to pitch, produce, and publish stories that validate and inspire both the artist, the producer, and the audience. We co-work virtually online through #Slack, Trello, and Facebook groups. We welcome all nationalities, cultures, and creeds on the mission to inspire the broken hearted to transform pain into passion and our heartbreak into The Love Story.
We believe that social isolation comes from depression, and depression comes from suppressed expression.
Our mission is to shift the narrative in our scripts from:
“Nobody Understands Me” into “I Am Not Alone”
“There’s something wrong with me” into “Pain is a catalyst for self-realization”
“What’s the point of ____(pain, living, working, loving, etc.)?” into “The point is to discover who I truly am”
Through creative expression, we are able to create a love story through our adversities.
The Love Story stands to arc the hero’s character through the principles and mastery of love as defined in 1 Corinthians 13, verse 4-7 (1 Corinthians 13 in the Holy Bible KJV).
Over 200 Creative Contributors to date…
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The Producer’s Playbook is designed for the Producer to discover and discern the duality of desire, design, and destiny inside the mystery of love revealed in 1 Corinthians 13, Verse 12:
For now, we see a reflection, as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
–1 Corinthians 13:12, NIV
The Journal-Artist Producer:
Transform your life tragedies into your life’s The Love Story by first journaling in the narrative voices (1st= id, 2nd=ego, 3rd=superego) through Artist-Inspired Journaling.
The Documentary Producer:
aka: The Journal Producers
The Producer’s Collective comprises of documentary producers, creative directors, graphic designers, and illustrators working collectively to build the next Love Story Interactive Journal. The Producer’s inside The Producer’s Collective will be contributing their time, talent, and tithing for a collective stand for transpersonal transformation.
The Showcase Producer
As a Showcase Producer, you will be taken through the steps of producing your own showcase in your local community. We show you how to gather indie and featured artists, partner with social cause organization and local businesses, and inspire people to engage in intimate conversations through audience artist-inspired journaling during the showcase. Most importantly, you will break your own heart open by telling your story through this platform. You are the host, the mirror, and the container of the party.
Founded in 2015, The Love Story Media, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 multimedia publisher and educational platform, inspiring the broken hearted to transform pain into creative expression.
Mingjie “MJ” Zhai, a former educator, a social entrepreneur, and a suicide attempt survivor, discovered how to transform her heartbreak into creative expression by interviewing people about theirs. While learning how to build a public benefit business lean, MJ made it her life’s mission to encourage, inspire and empower others to turn pain into a creative force for social good.
More About –> Mingjie
On February 2016, The Love Story Project became an official 501(c)3 California non-profit corporation. We are now fusing digital and print together with the help of our partners, Live Portrait, to create a new way of journaling designed to inspire the broken hearted. To date, we have interviewed over 40 artists and we have over 200 contributors involved, including associate producers, interviewers, filmmakers, editors, photographers, illustrators, and advisors propelling this movement forward. For more information about joining, go to→ The Love Story Creatives
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Home/Top News/Gujarat Government Ordered School To Ban PUBG Online Game
TPI Staff January 23, 2019
318 1 minute read
Mumbai: PUBG one of the most renowned online games, Battlegrounds received positive reviews from critics, who found that while the game still was not fully finished and had some technical flaws, it presented new types of gameplay that could be easily approached by players of any skill level and was highly replayable.
But in recent times it has been facing controversies, were recently the Gujarat government has issued a notice to the district authorities to ban on online multi-player games PUBG because children were becoming addicted to the game and this had adverse effects on their studies.
Officials said that this circular was implemented by the Primary Education Department of the state and the Gujarat State was released after the recommendation of the Child Rights Protection Commission. The circular ordered the District Primary Education Officers to take the necessary steps to ban sports in primary schools.
Chairperson of the Gujarat child rights body, Jagruti Pandya said “The NCPCR had sent a letter to all the states and recommended a ban on the game. All the states are required to implement it. Looking at the negative effects of the game, we had recently sent a letter to the state government recommending a ban on the game.”
At the beginning of this month, online game addiction brought a fitness trainer to the hospital in Jammu. Allegedly, fitness trainers became accustomed to playing PUBG and after completing around, they started killing themselves and had to be hospitalized and thus they themselves injured.
Allegedly, it is one of the many cases recorded in the state. A doctor of the hospital of Jammu said, “These are cases where patients have been examined and diagnosed after being brought to the hospital, but we acknowledge that there may be many other cases which are ignored Has not been understood or not. “
Game developer Tencent Games also announced one of its biggest tournaments for the country. The PUBG Mobile India Series 2019 is the second big tournament.
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Upcoming at the Trumbull libraries
Published 3:36 pm EDT, Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Monday-Thursday, 9-8
Friday and Saturday, 9-5
NOW OPEN SUNDAYS 1-5
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Fairchild Nichols Memorial Branch
Monday and Wednesday, 10-8
Tuesday and Thursday, 10-5
Saturday, 10-2
Main library now open — Sundays, 1-5 p.m.
Small Businesses and 2018 Tax Changes — Thursday, Sept. 13: Check-in 6 p.m.; presentation 6:30-7:30 p.m. Review the key changes in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and the implications they have for small businesses and their owners. Details online. Free. Register.
Database Discovery: ResearchIT CT — Friday, Sept. 14, 10-11:30 a.m. Join us as we showcase the multitude of databases that the State of CT gets free for you. Discover new resources and ways to find out information. Lecture/demo led by Walter Dembowski, head of Reference Services. Free. Register.
Mindful Meditation at Lunchtime — Monday, Sept. 17, noon-1 p.m., or 1-2 p.m. Use your lunch hour to destress. For both new and experienced meditators. Intro, instruction on mindfulness practice, and guided meditation. QandA. Details online. Free. Register for noon or 1 p.m.
TAG-Teen Advisory monthly meeting — Grades 6-12. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 4-4:45 p.m. The Teen Advisory Group helps the library: Teens plan programs, make purchase suggestions, get special volunteer opportunities, and make new friends. If interested in joining, fill out an application from our volunteer opportunities page: trumbullct-library.org/volunteer-opportunities.
24-years of the Danbury Railway Museum — Tuesday, Sept. 18, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Discover the museum's history and background, participation in the 100th anniversary of Grand Central Terminal and more in a photo presentation. Led by Steven Gould. QandA. Free. Register.
YA Book Brigade — New book club. Teens Grades 8-12. Thursday, Sept. 20, 4:30-5:15 p.m. September’s book is Warcross, by Marie Lu. When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks into the Warcross Championships, there are major consequences for the empire. Club meets every third Thursday. Register each month; first 10 registrants get free copy early in Children’s. Details online.
Baby Café — Ages 6-months to 2-years. Tuesday, Sept. 18 and Wednesday, Sept. 19, 11-11:30 a.m. Baby's first introduction to the library. Babies and caregivers can expect a jam-packed session of stories, rhymes, and fingerplays guaranteed to enchant our youngest explorers. Drop in.
Toddler Time for 2’s and 3's — Wednesday, Sept. 19, 9:30-10:15 a.m. Toddlers will explore learning stations, music and movement, and great stories in our new storytime format. Free. Register.
4- and 5-year-old storytime — Thursday, Sept. 20, 10-10:45 a.m. Sharing books, songs, and making a craft has never been so much fun. Free. Register.
Upcoming: Indoor Fall Carnival — Families. Saturday, Sept. 22, 1-3 p.m. Free. Drop in; register for reminder.
Fairchild Nichols Branch
Butterflies storytime — Ages 1-2 ½ years. Monday, Sept. 17, 11-11:30a.m. Children will enjoy this fun morning storytime with music and puppets. Drop in.
Turn It UP — All ages. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 10:30-11 a.m. A fun and entirely interactive music program that gets kids up and moving. Drop in.
Storytime for 2's and 3's — Wednesday, Sept. 19, 10:30-11 a.m. We will have a little bit of music and dancing, a lot of stories and a show-stopping craft. Drop in.
Toddler Yoga — Ages 1-4. Thursday, Sept. 20, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Children and parents join Jyothi for Yoga. Children will learn postures, breathing techniques, meditation, and relaxation in a fun, age-appropriate setting with a supportive musical playlist. Mats not required. Free. Register once for all five sessions.
Check out our website at trumbullct-library.org, to see details on upcoming events from the home page, and to register online.
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The principles for processing of personal data
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Data protection by design and by default
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There shall be accountability in all processing activities.
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TRUSS EDGE is committed to complying with the applicable Data Privacy and Protection requirements in the countries in which it operates. Because of differences among these jurisdictions TRUSS EDGE has adopted a Data Protection policy which creates a common core of values, policies and procedures intended to achieve generic compliance, supplemented (where applicable) with additional guidance applicable in jurisdictions which require additional guidance.
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TRUSS EDGE will use reasonable efforts to correctly establish its status for all Data Processing as either a Data Controller, or Data Processor acting for another Data Controller.
Group Compliance
TRUSS EDGE is committed to ensuring the adherence to the policy and will implement procedures, as well as any duties required by applicable law, including:
determining whether notification to one or more Data Protection authorities is required as a result of the TRUSS EDGE’s Data Processing activities, then making any required notifications, and keeping such notifications current.
designing and implementing ongoing programs for training employees in Data Protection rules and procedures.
establishing procedures and standard contractual provisions for obtaining compliance with this Policy by group companies, affiliates, suppliers, and third parties who receive Personal Data from TRUSS EDGE, have access to Personal Data collected or processed by TRUSS EDGE, or who provide information to TRUSS EDGE, regardless of geographic location.
establishing mechanisms for periodic audits of compliance with this Policy, implementing procedures, and applicable law.
establishing, maintaining, and operating a system for prompt and appropriate responses to Data Subject requests to exercise their rights.
establishing, maintaining, and operating a system for the prompt and appropriate automatic disclosure to the relevant authorities and Data Subjects of any loss of Personal Data.
informing senior managers, officers, and directors of TRUSS EDGE of breaches or suspected breaches to the policy.
ensuring that the risk management plans in relation to Data Protection are implemented effectively and promptly.
ensuring that adequate assurance regarding the effectiveness of Data Protection procedures and audits is provided to the Board, management and other stakeholders.
TRUSS EDGE has adopted the following principles to govern its use, collection, and transmittal of Personal Data, except as specifically provided by this Policy or as required by applicable laws:
Personal Data shall only be processed fairly and lawfully.
Personal Data shall be obtained only for specified, explicit, lawful, and legitimate purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with those purposes.
Personal Data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or processed.
Personal Data shall not be collected or processed unless one or more of the following apply:
the Data Subject has provided Consent;
processing is necessary for the performance of a contract directly with the Data Subject, or to which the Data Subject is an affiliate of a party;
processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation;
processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the Data Subject;
processing is necessary for legitimate interests of TRUSS EDGE or by the third party or parties to whom the Data are disclosed, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Data Subject.
The appropriate physical, technical, and procedural measures shall be taken to:
prevent and/or to identify unauthorised or unlawful collection, Processing, and transmittal of Personal Data; and
prevent accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, Personal Data.
Transfers to Third Parties
Personal Data shall not be transferred to another entity, country or territory, unless reasonable and appropriate steps have been taken to establish and maintain the required level of Data Security.
Personal Data may be communicated to third persons only for reasons consistent with the purposes for which the Data were originally collected or other purposes authorised by law.
All transfers of Personal Data to third parties for further Processing shall be subject to written agreements supporting the security of the data transfer.
EU Personal Data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the European Economic Area (EEA) unless the transfer is made to a country or territory recognised by the EU as having an adequate level of Data.
Subject to the provisions of the above, Personal Data may be transferred where any of the following apply:
The Data Subject has given Consent to the proposed transfer;
The transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between the Data Subject and TRUSS EDGE;
The transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in the interest of the Data Subject between TRUSS EDGE and a Third Party;
The transfer is necessary or legally required on important public interest grounds, or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims;
The transfer is required by law;
The transfer is necessary to protect the vital interests of the Data Subject.
Personal Data shall be collected only from the Data Subject unless the nature of the business purpose necessitates collection of the Data from other persons or bodies.
If Personal Data are collected from someone other than the Data Subject, the business unit collecting the Data must have confirmation, in writing, from the supplier of the Data that the Data Subject has provided Consent to the transfer to TRUSS EDGE.
Data Subjects shall be entitled to obtain the information about their own Personal Data upon a request made in writing to TRUSS EDGE who will establish a system for logging each request under this Section as it is received and noting the response date
TRUSS EDGE shall provide its response to a request above within 40 days from the date of the written request, or within a shorter timescale if required by any country legislation.
Data Subjects shall have the right to require TRUSS EDGE to correct or supplement erroneous, misleading, outdated, or incomplete Personal Data.
TRUSS EDGE may establish reasonable fees to cover the cost of responding to requests from non-employee Data Subjects.
Sensitive Personal Data should not be processed unless:
processing is specifically authorised or required by law.
the Data Subject expressly and unambiguously Consents.
data relating to criminal offenses may be processed only by or under the control of the Legal Department.
Personal Data must be kept only for the period necessary for permitted uses. TRUSS EDGE has established local Record Retention Policies which determine applicable timescales for Data deletion.
Personal Data shall be erased if their storage violates any Data Protection rules or if knowledge of the Data is no longer required by TRUSS EDGE, or at the request of the Data Subject.
Intra-Group Processing
Where TRUSS EDGE relies on another group company to assist in its Processing activities, TRUSS EDGE will enter a data transfer process is in place with that other group company to ensure that responsibility for the data are clearly identified, as both parties may be considered as Data Controllers.
Where the other group company is located abroad, the group companies involved in the Processing shall be known as a Data Exporter and a Data Importer respectively, although there may be more than one Data Importer involved in the Processing.
Third Party Processors
Similarly, where TRUSS EDGE relies on third parties to assist in its Processing activities, TRUSS EDGE will choose a Data Processor who provides sufficient security measures and take reasonable steps to ensure compliance with those measures.
TRUSS EDGE will enter into a written contract with each Data Processor requiring it to comply with Data privacy and security requirements imposed on TRUSS EDGE under local legislation.
Audits of Third Party Data Processors
As part of TRUSS EDGE’s internal Data auditing process, TRUSS EDGE shall conduct periodic checks on processing by third party Data Processors which will included reconfirming current security measures.
Notice to Directors, Managers, and Officers for Non-Compliance
The compliance team shall notify directors, managers, and other officers of TRUSS EDGE that:
failure to comply with relevant Data Protection legislation may trigger criminal and civil liability, including fines, imprisonment, and damage awards; and
they can be personally liable where an offence is committed by TRUSS EDGE with their Consent or is attributable to any neglect on their part.
TRUSS EDGE has documented Data Protection and Electronic Communications policies, under which it shall adopt physical, technical, and organisational measures to ensure the security of Personal Data, including the prevention of their alteration, loss, damage, unauthorised Processing or access, having regard to the nature of the Data, and the risks to which they are exposed by human action or the physical or natural environment. These measures will be documented within the Data Protection and Electronic Communications, which will be reviewed at least annually, or when necessary to reflect significant changes to security arrangements.
Security measures should include all the following:
prevention of unauthorised persons from gaining access to Data Processing systems in which Personal Data are processed.
preventing persons entitled to use a Data Processing system from accessing Data beyond their needs and authorisations.
ensuring that Personal Data during electronic transmission during transport or during storage on a Data carrier cannot be read, copied, modified or removed without authorisation.
ensuring Personal Data is protected against undesired destruction or loss.
ensuring data collected for different purposes can and will be processed separately.
Ensuring data not kept longer than stipulated in the Data Retention Policy, including by requiring that Data transferred to third persons be returned or destroyed.
Compliance Measurement.
TRUSS EDGE shall establish a schedule for and implement a Data Protection compliance audit for all locations. TRUSS EDGE shall devise a plan and schedule for correcting any identified deficiencies within a fixed, reasonable time.
TRUSS EDGE shall review annually its Data collection, Processing and Security practices. Subject to these reviews it shall determine what Personal Data the business unit is collecting including that held in manual systems that constitute “Relevant Filing Systems”
Information collected in this annual review shall be reviewed and appropriate action including, without limitation, the following:
recommendations relating to improvement to policies and procedures to improve compliance with this Policy and applicable law.
satisfying the requirements for self-certifying compliance within local Data Protection Authorities.
This Policy shall be available at TRUSS EDGE’s website. This Policy may be revised at any time but at least annually and the latest copy will be website.
Consent means any freely given specific and informed indication of his wishes by which the Data Subject signifies agreement to Personal Data relating to him being processed. Consent may be obtained by a number of methods. These may include clauses in contracts, check boxes on replies to application or forms, click boxes contained in online forms/forums where Personal Data is entered.
In most European Union countries, Consent to the Processing of Sensitive Personal Data needs to be clear and unequivocal. This generally means that some form of specific, active Consent) is required. This requirement is sometimes found to be less unequivocal beyond the EU.
Data (whether or not having an initial capital letter) as used in this Policy shall mean information which either:
is being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose;
is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of such equipment;
is recorded as part of a Relevant Filing System or with the intention that it should form part of a Relevant Filing System;
does not fall within any of the above, but forms part of a readily accessible record covering an individual.
Data therefore includes any digital Data by computer or automated equipment, telephone recordings, and any manual information which is part of a Relevant Filing System.
Data Controller means a person who (alone or with others) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any Personal Data are, or are to be, processed.
Data Exporter means the Data Controller or Data Processor who transfers the personal data abroad.
Data Importer means the Data Controller or Data Processor who agrees to receive from the Data Exporter personal data for further processing in accordance with the terms of this Policy and the relevant Data Transfer Agreement.
Data Processor means any person, other than an employee of the Data Controller, who processes the Data on behalf of the Data Controller. A company may be a Data Processor if defined as such under contractual terms with the Data Controller.
Data Subject means the person to which Data refers. Data Subjects include customers and web users, individuals on contact /e-mailing lists or marketing Databases, employees, affiliates, contractors and suppliers.
Personal Data means Data related to a living individual who can be identified from the Data or from the Data and other information in the possession of, or likely to come into the possession of, a Data Controller or Data Processor. Personal data does not include information that has been anonymized, encoded or otherwise cleaned of its identifiers, or information which is publicly available, unless combined with other non-public personal information.
Processing covers a wide variety of operations relating to Data, including obtaining, recording or holding the Data or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the Data, including:
organisation, adaptation, or alteration;
disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise; and
alignment, combination, blocking, erasure, or destruction.
Relevant Filing System means any set of information relating to individuals, whether kept in manual or electronic files, structured, either by reference to individuals or by reference to criteria relating to individuals, in such a way that specific information relating to an individual is readily accessible.
Therefore, any digital Database and/or organised manual files relating to identifiable living individuals fall within the scope of Data Protection laws and regulations, while a Database of pure statistical or financial information (which cannot either directly or indirectly be related to any identifiable living individuals) will not.
Sensitive Data means Personal Data containing information as to the Data Subject’s:
Race or ethnic origin;
Religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature;
Political opinions;
Physical or mental health or condition;
Sexual history or orientation;
Trade union membership.
Commission or alleged commission of any offence and any related court proceedings.
Technology: Technology is to be interpreted broadly, to include any means of collecting or Processing Data, including, without limitations, computers and networks, telecommunications systems, video and audio recording devices, biometric devices, closed circuit television, etc.
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When a visitor provides personal data to us, we will use it for the purposes for which it was provided to us as stated at point of collection (or as obvious from the context of the collection). Typically, personal data is collected to:
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Unless we are asked not to, we may also use your data to contact you with information about TRUSS EDGE’s business, services and events, and other information which may be of interest to you.
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TRUSS EDGE uses technical and organisational security measures to reasonably protect personal data against unauthorised access, accidental or intentional manipulation, loss and destruction.
The internet is not typically considered as a secure environment and therefore information sent can be accessed by unauthorised entities, potentially affecting the integrity of the communication itself.
Please note that TRUSS EDGE accepts no responsibility or liability for the security of your information whilst in transit over the internet. To protect your privacy, we would like to remind you that you may choose another means of communication if you deem it appropriate.
Personal data collected via our website will be retained by us for as long as it is necessary (e.g. for as long as we have a relationship with the relevant individual). By accessing the TRUSS EDGE Website, you are accepting this Privacy Statement and acknowledging the Data Protection Policy of TRUSS EDGE (“Statement”).
If you do not agree to this Statement, do not proceed to further web pages of the TRUSS EDGE website or any associated TRUSS EDGE Company Website as listed within this site.
This Statement may be subject to change from time to time, therefore it is advised that you consult it on a regular basis.
*This policy is based upon the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which operates within EU Regulation 2016/679, which provides a model for global Data Protection and privacy compliance. TRUSS EDGE has adopted this policy for TRUSS EDGE affiliated entities
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How Prince Albert is Preserving His Mother Grace Kelly's American Legacy
Monaco's beloved Princess was an American girl at heart.
Prince Rainier and Princess Grace with their children Albert, Caroline, and Stephanie.
When the news broke in October that Prince Albert had purchased his mother Princess Grace's childhood home in Philadelphia, local preservationists were elated. Her family had sold the red brick townhouse at 3901 Henry Avenue in 1974, and in the ensuing 40 years it had fallen into disrepair. Albert scooped up the property for a relatively modest $775,000 (the original asking price was more than $1 million) and quickly made clear that the home's status as a beloved area landmark was guaranteed.
"We're looking at having it contain some museum exhibit space and maybe use part of it for offices for our foundation work," he said at the time of the sale. "I'm looking forward to showing the house to the kids [his and Princess Charlene's twins, Jacques and Gabriella], sharing it with them, having them see the garden."
A renewed focus on honoring Grace's legacy has become a theme of late. A few weeks after buying the house the prince was 60 miles northeast of the City of Brotherly Love, in New York, to inaugurate the Princess Grace Salon at the newly refurbished Cartier Mansion. The cream-and white carpeted room is filled with never-before seen pictures of the princess donated by the government of Monaco. As documented in the photographs, Grace was no stranger to Cartier. "She would have appreciated the choice of jewels," Albert told the crowd, which was made up of friends of Cartier and guests from the principality.
Prince Albert examines a book of Cartier designs.
Angela Pham/© BFA
Later that evening he was the guest of honor at a dinner, prepared by Jean- Georges Vongerichten (Meyer lemon gelée with caviar, diver scallops, spiced lamb chops, and dark chocolate and passion fruit torte), on one of the mansion's private floors overlooking Fifth Avenue. "The souvenirs [in the new salon] recall many happy moments shared with my mother," Albert told the applauding crowd. At a time when political dynasties of all kinds are in the spotlight—and in some cases under the microscope—it seems that the princess' is one legacy everyone can agree is worth preserving.
Princess Grace with her son Albert on the cover of T&C, 1963.
This article originally appeared in the February 2017 issue of Town & Country.
Whitney Robinson Editor-in-chief, ELLE Decor Whitney Robinson is Editor in Chief of ELLE Decor, covering everything related to the global interior design world, furniture, home accessories and travel, and currently appears on Bravo’s new interior design competition series, Best Room Wins.
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'Fixer Upper' star Joanna Gaines is remodeling Jennifer Lopez's house
Abigail Rosenthal, Austin American-Statesman
Joanna Gaines of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” fame has a new and very well-known client. Gaines will be helping with a remodel of Jennifer Lopez’s $6.6 million Malibu beach mansion, reports E! News.
Lopez appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” last month, talking about how she had hoped Gaines would work her shiplap magic on a beach property Lopez had purchased.
“We actually got a little fixer upper next to the water and we were like, ‘Oh we gotta fix this up.’ It’s really a house that needs work,” Lopez told DeGeneres. “I was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to have (Joanna Gaines) do it for us?’ But she doesn’t do anything outside of Waco. Like, nothing.”
But Lopez’s boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez, surprised her for their second anniversary by getting Gaines on board. Lopez and Gaines were seen checking out the property last week, followed closely by TV cameras.
Jennifer Lopez joined forces with Joanna Gaines for her own beach-side fixer upper, and we NEED this to be a show.https://t.co/T3nqRMZW1gpic.twitter.com/WLNikYRds2
— E! News (@enews)March 5, 2019
It’s not the only major project Gaines has right now. Gaines and her husband Chip Gaines recently purchased a Waco castle built in 1890 known as the “Cottonland Castle,” and Joanna Gaines is releasing a children’s book called “We Are the Gardeners” later this month.
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Newport state of mind...
Thread starter Dooby
ddraig
dros ben llestri
miiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawww brockers!
can see where dic is coming from tbh
still like the vid mind
bonathanjishop
ddraig said:
can see where dic is coming from
What happens in your private life is no concern of this forum!
hurhur
humour as well as factoids now!
you are indeed spoiling us
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I read it as a lyrical and video parody, not a municipal credibility test.
Well it's not intended to be bitchy. It's a valid point, I think. Dic believes in No Borders but gets upset when people mention Cardiff and Llanfair PG in a song that's meant to be about Newport. Feck knows what he'll be like when Newport actually gets swallowed up by the CAPITAL CITY and becomes... Cardiff East. And as someone has already mentioned the target of this video is Jay-Z's grandiose hymn to NY not Newport.
Dic Penderyn
Newport Civic Pride!
Brockway said:
Bit of a shallow critique there Brockway. The fact I oppose immigration controls has fuck all to do with the fact I celebrate and defend Newport's unique cultural identity.
I get the same shit when I support Wales at rugby. This muddling of important political issues (that are quite literally a matter of life and death) with cultural interests is both silly and tiresome.
quimcunx
protestant traybake
I can see that the video is less funny if you're from there and the lyrics have glaring inaccuracies. I'm sure they would sully my enjoyment of a song about my home town. Although I'm not sure they were trying to make us believe all famous Welsh people are from Newport or anything.
But they just had an idea for a parody of the Jayzee song that they thought might be fun to do* and they did it and people liked it.
*maybe they also wanted publicity but whatever. I get the impression they found it fun.
Col_Buendia
Culture is, ahem, politics. Not just cos I work in it, but because it is an expression of how we imagine our relationship (or lack of) to the people & society around us. Your antagonism to the video makers seems to be based on them being "outsiders" - if you can't see the overlap/conflict with NB concerns, then I'm surprised!
I have to say I go with Brockway's shallow critique - I think you're being oversensitive about something that doesn't strike me, as a reasonably well-informed, locally-based "outsider", as something that is particularly aiming to rip the piss out of Newport and make it look shit. FFS, you could do a hundred times worse with my home town! Straight off it struck me as affectionate, although I did suspect some of the references were wide of the mark. But that suggests rather that it is aimed at an outside audience who therefore will know nothing of Newport and therefore will not be in a position to take it as a laser-sighted critique of your fair town.
And frankly, the whole thing seems designed more with the idea of being able to rip the piss out of Jay-Z - I mean, how many towns in UK rhyme with New York? They saw their moment and grabbed it. You ought to roll with the humour brah.
It's an affectionate piss take of the parochial nature of provincial Britain.
It resonates in the same way as Peter Kay.
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Calling Newport, Cardiff east, would give it a respectibility that it doesn't deserve. The port is like the bastard offspring of Cardiff and Bristol. It doesn't really know if it wants to be Welsh or English and gets stuck in some sort of wierd identity crisis.
paolo999 said:
The video or Dic Penderyn post . . .
To be fair, who gives a fuck about Newport. It shares the first syllable of its name with somewhere else hence it's the setting for the vid. Nothing more.
Col_Buendia said:
Oversensitive bollocks. I'm not that bothered. I've just pointed out why I thought the GLC should start a beef. It would be the proper hip hop thing to do. I don't think these people set out to have a go at Newport at all. I just don't think what they did was very clever.
I am bothered by this idea that my opinions on immigration and my cultural interests are contradictory though. The concept is fucking retarded.
Dic Penderyn said:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!!
NEWPORT! NEWPORT! NEWPORT!
Gavin Bl
terrible awful baaad
Some of it was a bit vaguely welsh, as opposed to Newport specific, but I thought it was fantastic, really funny, warm, clever. The female singer had a great voice.
zenie
>^^<
Jeez it's only a joke
fogbat
The Talibum
affectionate? don't care. Newport isn't affectionate. When 'our own' do self deprecating it's fair enough and if it's done well like the GLC its all good.
But when people from out of town take the piss, it's taking the piss. When it's patronisingly copying a ten year old joke it just shows how limited their imagination is.
More than anything it's the total lack of local knowledge, it's just not very Newport.
1. it's the wrong accent, what the fuck is with his H's.
2. There is no Debenhams in Newport, they tried, there was a campaign against it. "Debenhams: Don't Destroy Dock street"
3. Craig Bellamy is from Cardiff.
4. Gavin Henson never goes out in Newport unless you count the Celtic Manor, (which I don't)
5. Plaid Cymru are less popular than the BNP in Newport. Sad but True.
6. Shirley Bassey is Cardiff
7. "small Welsh town" it's a fucking city.
8. It's NEWPORT Gwent Dragons. Basic.
9. Tom Jones, Steve Jones, Catherine Zeta Jones. Not Port.
10. 50 for the toll booth? where?
11. EVERYONE knows Josie is Port. Used to work in the Riv.
12. that village in North Wales with the long name: fuck off.
13. Our shopping centre is old and shit. This isn't one opening in December.
a bit of research wouldn't have done any harm. or perhaps they should have fucked off to the isle of wight and done it there.
If you want real Newport comedy hip hop, try this for size, if your not local you might not get all the jokes. good.
I'm not really that bothered. honest.
And yes some other outsiders could do a proper anti-newport video, wouldn't be hard. Best of luck with that if you ever want to visit.
Post of the fucking month.
I'll be giggling about this all day. Cheers, Dic.
...and meanwhile, back in the real world, it's nice to know Newport folk aren't po-faced...
The makers have been invited to perform at the opening of the Transporter Bridge:
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8294136.YouTube_Newport_stars_to_perform_at_Transporter_Bridge_opening/
Transporter bridge.
And play they did...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-10823390
I'll take it, Dic, that the big cheer is how Newport people show how they are
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Tune..
"The bridge was built during the industrial revolution!" Er, no. It was built in 1906.
Industrial revolution came late to the BBC.
I saw this featured on the S4C news. They even found 3 Welsh-speaking locals to share the joy. One of them was speaking Welsh with a proper "rewnd and rewnd the rewndabout in Newport" accent. Impressive.
Clearly people having been appropriating Newport's culture for decades. If you watch the beginning of the movie, Tiger Bay, the hero rides across the transporter bridge to magically arrive in Butetown. The transporter bridge also features in Jane Arden's weird and wonderful, LSD fuelled, film, The Other Side of the Underneath.
tbh, I wish they'd made it about Newquay now.
Flagwaver
Negative Capability
The anarchist fella Dic Penderyn has it about right methinks.
Such a lame attempt at a pisstake that most Welsh people dont seem to have cottoned-on that this is anothing less than a slur. The only reason it cannot be taken as an ethnic slur is that its knowledge is so piss-weak. Thumbs down.
Here's a version about n. Wales -
Ymerodraeth State of Mind... Booked for Ryder Cup gig at Millennium Stadium.
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8306229.Newport_s_YouTube_spoof_seen_by_over_2_6_million/
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The Chicken Doesn't Skate
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Gordon Korman Recorded Books, Inc.
4.52 Hours • 01/09/2015 • Unabridged
Sixth-grader Milo Neal plans to do a science project on "The Complete Life Cycle of a Link in the Food Chain." But when he brings his specimen-a baby chick-to class, everyone falls in love with the cute ball of fluff. Soon she has a name: Henrietta. Not only is Henrietta the class pet, she's even chosen as mascot for the school hockey team! How can Milo finish his project, which calls for frying up his specimen and serving it to the judges of the science fair? Each day, as Henrietta gets bigger, so does Milo's dilemma. And students are hatching plans to rescue their feathered friend. Gordon Korman, author of more than 20 books for middle school and young adult audiences, based this hilarious story on his own experiences while visiting a middle school classroom. Through the talented narrators' performances, Henrietta's adventures will have you cackling with laughter.
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Gordon Korman is the bestselling author of more than eighty books for children and teens, including his popular 39 Clues series. In 1999 the Disney Channel created The Jersey, a television series based on his Monday Night Football Club books.
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How Sears CEO Lampert cashes in as stores cash out
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Eddie Lampert, the press-shy CEO, chairman and largest shareholder of Sears Holdings, may be all that’s standing between the beleaguered department store chain and bankruptcy.
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Through a series of transactions over the last several years, Lampert has extracted significant value from Sears and may secure additional assets if the company goes belly up, according to public filings and interviews.
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Lampert owns about 48% of Sears stock, according to the company's annual report, including holdings through his hedge fund, ESL Investments. Besides his stock, Lampert holds about $381 million in unsecured notes issued to Sears. Those holdings could be obliterated in bankruptcy.
USA TODAY estimates that the value of Lampert’s Sears stock has declined by roughly $519 million since the end of 2014. That estimate was derived by calculating the value of his Sear’s holdings at the end of each year since 2010, using Sears closing stock price for the year and the number of shares Lampert owned at the time, culled from S&P Global Market Intelligence data. Using that methodology, the highest year-end value of Lampert’s Sears holdings was $760.3 million.
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"If they go bankrupt, he remains in control of the company because, though he loses his equity stake, he’s their principal creditor," former Sears Canada CEO and Columbia Business School Professor Mark Cohen said an interview. But Lampert has cordoned "off an enormous amount of assets through the loans he’s made, which have essentially protected him from what is eventually (going to) occur."
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He has spun off divisions, provided secured financing in exchange for real estate collateral and transferring valuable properties to an investment trust, all while retaining ownership stakes in those assets.
Here's how Lampert has retained assets even as Sears has shriveled:
•Lands' End: Sears spun off retailer Lands’ End in 2014, but Lampert's hedge fund owns 59% of the company. That stake was worth nearly $360 million as of Wednesday morning.
•Real estate: Sears sold 235 store properties and its interest in another 31 properties to a newly formed real estate investment trust (REIT) called Seritage Growth Properties for $2.7 billion in 2015. The deal gave Seritage control of some of Sears’ best properties in a sale-leaseback transaction. Lampert’s ESL owns 43.5% of the limited partnership units of Seritage and 7.9% of the REIT’s voting power.
The move was similar to transactions favored by investors in legacy retailers whose real estate is considered more valuable than their actual business.
The problem is that "then you end up signing leases" and saddling the company with lease liabilities, said Neil Stern, senior partner at retail consulting firm McMillanDoolittle.
Sears agreed to pay Seritage $134 million in annual base rent for the first year, with 2% annually increases beginning in the second year.
•Real estate collateral: Entities affiliated with Lampert's hedge fund extended $500 million in credit to Sears in January, secured by at least 46 Sears properties and possibly more. That means that in the event of bankruptcy, the lender may be awarded the property rights, giving Lampert control of those store sites.
•Additional secured financing: ESL lenders provided Sears up to $500 million through a secured letter of credit facility in December, from which Sears has already drawn $200 million. ESL lenders also hold $336 million in secured debt issued to Sears in April through a separate facility and term loan, as well as $300 million in a second lien term loan issued in September. Secured lenders are paid first in bankruptcy.
•Sears Canada: Sears partially spun off its Canadian division in 2012, but Lampert's ESL owns about 45% of the company. That stake was worth nearly $80 million as of Wednesday morning.
•Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores: Sears spun off the franchise in 2012, but ESL retains 57% ownership of the company. That stake was worth about $45 million as of Wednesday morning.
Also, Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores still acquires “a significant amount of its merchandise” from its former parent company “at cost,” according to a filing.
Sears Holdings also provides certain logistics, warehousing, human resources, information technology and transportation costs to Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, which is invoiced weekly and also pays its former parent royalties on sales of certain brands.
•Paid-off financing: Affiliates of ESL and another Sears investor, Fairholme, made a $400 million short-term loan to Sears in 2014 that has already been paid back in full.
Corporate filings reveal that Lampert, who disclosed in a corporate filng that he owns all of ESL and makes all of its investment decisions, has made moves to protect his position.
"Financially he’s moved a lot of levers that have kept this company going longer than some of us thought it could," Stern said. But with "some of those levers you’re setting the furniture on fire to keep the house alive."
Sears did not respond to a request for an interview with Lampert, who rarely speaks to the press.
Lampert has insisted that Sears has a path to viability, despite analysts predicting the company's demise. He has steered the company into a new loyalty program called Shop Your Way, approved store closures, authorized a supply chain overhaul and announced cost cuts.
"I firmly believe we will succeed in becoming a new kind of retailer as we provide real value to members with value offerings, personalized services and easy access to the brands, convenience and value they want, whenever and wherever they want," Lampert said March 9 in a letter.
The company, however, hasn't been shy about noting that Lampert's financial prospects may be different than those of the average investor.
“Affiliates of our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, whose interests may be different than your interests, exert substantial influence over our Company,” Sears told investors Tuesday in the public filing.
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To begin with, it is probably easier to describe what cremation isn’t. Cremation is not final disposition of the remains, nor is some type of funeral service. Rather, it is a process of reducing the human body to bone fragments using high heat and flame.
How long does the actual cremation take?
It depends on the weight of the individual. For an average size adult, cremation takes from two to three hours at normal operating temperature between 1,500 degrees F to 2,000 degrees F.
What happens after the cremation is complete?
All organic bone fragments, which are very brittle, as well as non-consumed metal items are “swept” into the front of the cremation chamber and into a stainless steel cooling pan. All non-consumed items, like metal from clothing, hip joints, and bridge work, are separated from the cremated remains. This separation is accomplished through visual inspection as well as using a strong magnet for smaller and minute metallic objects. Items such as dental gold and silver are non-recoverable and are commingled in with the cremated remains. Remaining bone fragments are then processed in a machine to a consistent size and placed into a temporary or permanent urn, selected by the family.
What do the cremated remains look like?
Cremated remains resemble coarse sand and are whitish to light grey in color. The remains of an average size adult usually weigh between four to eight pounds of cremated remains.
In what kind of container are the cremated remains returned?
The cremated remains are placed in a basic container at no charge to you. Or they may be placed in the urn of your choice from our large selection of urns available for purchase.
Are all the cremated remains returned?
With the exception of minute and microscopic particles, which are impossible to remove from the cremation chamber and processing machine, all of the cremated remains are given back to the family.
There are many options. Remains can be buried in a cemetery lot or cremation garden, inurned in a columbarium, kept at home, or scattered on private property. Our staff will be happy to discuss these options with you and make any arrangements.
Concerns About Cremation
Are there any laws governing cremation?
Cremation regulations vary from state-to-state.
Can two cremations be performed at once?
Never. Not only is it illegal to do so, most modern cremation chambers are not of sufficient size to accommodate more than one adult. Thus it would be a practical impossibility to conduct multiple cremations simultaneously.
Can the family witness the cremation?
Yes, for a nominal fee. Our state-of-the-art cremation facility is set up to allow family members to be present when the body is placed into the cremation chamber. In fact, some religious groups include this as part of their funeral custom.
How can I be sure I receive the correct remains?
We have developed the most rigorous set of operating policies and procedures in order to maximize our level of quality and minimize the potential for human error. Positive identification of the deceased is assured throughout each stage of the cremation process. We only allow certified professionals to operate our cremation equipment.
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An urn is not required by law. However, an urn may be desired if there is to be a memorial service or the cremated remains are to be interred in a cemetery. If an urn is not selected, the cremated remains will be returned in a temporary cardboard container.
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The Bachelorette recap: Desiree Hartsock makes her debut
By Bill BriouxSpecial to the Star
Tues., May 28, 2013timer5 min. read
Could there be a more perfect candidate to play The Bachelorette than Desiree Hartsock? The 27-year-old Colorado native works as a bridal stylist, for heaven’s sake. Her whole deal is about being the perfect bride.
Then there’s her name: Desiree — Hart — sock. Her heart is so full of desire, it is spilling out her socks. It’s almost as if this show was scripted or something.
That meanie, Sean Lowe, didn’t pick her on the last Bachelor, opting for some other woman, so Desiree gets her own chance to romp with 25 hunky bachelors is an attempt to find true happiness and a happy ending amid gardens of unicorns. “I want my fairytale to come true!” she tells bland host Chris Harrison.
We see the men frolicking in the sea and riding on horseback and doing all kinds of manly things. Then, one-by-one, they get out of a stretch limo to meet Desiree, who is dressed to kill in a silver gown.
The dudes start popping out of the Lincoln. Many know her from the Bachelor and are already fans. These guys should be eliminated right away for watching this drivel, but I digress.
MEET THE BACHELORS
Drew, 27, a digital marketing analyst from Arizona, gushes how “as soon as I found out it was you I couldn’t be happier.” Analyzing digital marketing will do that for a person. Brooks, 28, didn’t even bother to shave. Brad, an accountant from Denver, brings a wish bone. She snaps the bigger half, and he hopes her wishes come true. Cue the Col. Saunders ad.
Michael G., 33, is a federal prosecutor. He looks in the fountain for the penny she threw away over Sean but can’t find it so gives her a new penny. Good thing this is shot in the States — that would cost at least a nickel now in Canada.
Kasey, 29, is a California ad exec. For the rest of the show, he makes Twitter jokes putting “hashtag” in front of everything he says. For example, “#marriagematerial,” “#letthejourneybegin.” Meanwhile, on Twitter, “#attentionseekingloser” started trending.
Will, 28, a banker, gives her the nickname Athena, after the goddess of wisdom. Back at the bank, Will’s nickname is “Foreclosure.”
Jonathan, 26, is a lawyer from North Carolina. He brazenly gives her a key to the Fantasy Suite/makeout room. This is at least four episodes too early so Desiree tells him she’s not that kind of girl. The dude is so horned up, however, he comes back later and tried to drag her into the suite. Creepy!
Also off-putting is Zak from Texas, a 31-year-old drilling fluid engineer. That has to be a euphemism, am I right, people? Zak steps out of the car shirtless, practically rippling the spray-on tan right off his six-pack. “Will you accept these abs?” he reads off the TelePrompTer. Then he goes and sits down shirtless.
More dudes do the walk up. James, 27, is an ad exec from Chicago. Larry, an ER doc, tries to teach her a dance move. He dips, the dress nearly rips. #awkward.
Nick R, a magician/tailor, makes a white rose appear. He’s too GOB for the room.
Zack W, a publisher, wears sneakers.
In the show’s dorky high point, Diogo, 29, steps awkwardly out of the car in a full suit of armour. “Welcome to Medieval Times,” snarks one of the other suitors. This is the very definition of trying too hard. The shirtless stripper guy is suddenly off the hook.
It goes on and on. Ten more guys appear. Mortgage broker Chris gets down on one knee — to tie his shoes. Michael, a dental student, wears a white lab coat in a bid to look more McDreamy (hey, this is on ABC). Robert only takes his hands out of his pockets to remove his tie.
Former pro soccer player Juan Pablo gives her a pin while Spanish music plays. Hola! Brandon, a painting contractor, rides up on a motorcycle. Brian’s a financial advisor. Michael, a law student from Denver, made his own suit. Case dismissed! Nick M. offered a poem. Dan is in beverage sales.
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Ben, 28, arrives with the biggest surprise of all — his little boy, Brody. The kid, also in a suit, is a babe magnet. Ben explains he was never married and that the mom is looking for love elsewhere, too.
The show goes on for another hour. All the dudes get five minutes to hit on Desiree. Nick tries more magic but he’s the one who disappears. As somebody says later, what’s less cool than magic tricks?
Painter Brandon butts in and gives Desiree his mom’s seven-year sobriety pin. Nothing makes a chick hotter than knowing her perspective hubby comes from a family of alcoholics.
The dude with the kid is the first to get a rose from Desiree, who starts handing them out early, Sean style. This makes the other guys nuts. Why didn’t we bring a kid?
Zak strips down to his undies and jumps in the pool. “Hashtag shrinkage,” says the hashtag guy. Desiree gives him a rose for his efforts but doesn’t know where to pin it.
Bryden, an Iraq War veteran, talks about his dog. He gets a rose. Juan Palo takes Desiree out to the front of the mansion and teaches her some soccer moves. “I can take a ball,” she says. #sneakingonepastthecensors.
Larry the dance guy apologies for his dorky move. It gets worse when he asks how it feels to “be in the big Bachelorette shoes.”
Back comes creepy Jonathan trying to drag Desiree off to the Fantasy Suite. He admits he has no filter but also seems to have no class. There’s a scene where he’s sitting with candles, talking about his large “love tank” and how his mom tells him he’s good looking. The dude is creepier than that Liberace bio-pic.
Desiree doesn’t even bother taking him to the rose ceremony and throws him out of the mansion early. “Hashtag Fantasy Suite fails,” says Hashtag guy.
At the rose ceremony, Desiree hands out flowers to Brandon, Zack K, Will, Brooks, Juan Pablo, Brad, Kasey, James, Robert, Bryden, Dan, Chris and Mikey. Joining creepy Jonathan in Loserville are Nick , Micah, Larry and suit of armour guy Diogo.
At the end, scenes are shown from future shows. Desiree goes all over the world on romantic getaways. Somebody is exposed as a super creep and is hiding a girlfriend. There are fist fights, tears and fireworks. All in all, #twohoursIllnevergetback.
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‘It’s hard to believe.’ Kade Foster, 11, meets Maple Leafs one week after lonely birthday party tweet went viral
Out of sadness, stupendous joy.
Because Kade Foster has made a whole whack of new friends — including the entire Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team.
Players welcomed the just-turned-11-year-old into their dressing room on Saturday morning, before their game-day skate.
“It’s hard to believe,” said Kade. “They were all really nice to me.”
The kids back in Massey Drive — a hamlet outside Corner Brook, N.L. — must be green with envy as Kade was drawn into a big blue and white embrace. Most of all, no doubt, the kids who failed to turn up for the boy’s birthday party last weekend.
Not a single one of the invited guests showed for the festivities his parents had organized.
“He kept going back and forth to the window, to see if anybody was coming,” says mom Sara. “He didn’t cry, not that I saw. He was pretty brave about it.”
But how heartbreaking is that?
Kids can be so cruel. Or just thoughtless. Except the invitations had been delivered to their parents and adults are expected to be wiser about such things. Nobody called to say they couldn’t make it either.
Kade’s father, Jason, was so dismayed he tweeted out his disappointment the following day. “My son Kade had his 11th birthday party last night. None of his invited friends came. That hurt. I’m asking my Twitter friends to show him some love today. If you have a minute, please send him a birthday wish.”
Like “It’s a Wonderful Life,” updated for the modern social media universe, the response was staggering.
As of late Saturday afternoon, there were 180,000 likes, more than 53,000 replies and nearly 26,000 retweets, sending Kade birthday greetings. His mother said the original tweet had been seen seven million times.
“Overwhelming,” said Jason, in his thick Newfoundland accent. “I figured maybe we’d get a dozen or so, from the local community. But it was picked up everywhere.”
Indeed, Kade heard from NHLers, Major League Baseball players, actors Mark Hamill, Ben Stiller and Zach Braff, CNN anchor Jake Tapper, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
But the responses that really sent the youngster over the moon were from Mitch Marner and Leaf captain John Tavares — the two players depicted on his birthday cake — who Jason had tagged on the tweet.
“Obviously, no one likes to see that,” said Tavares, who recently became a first-time father himself.
“I think every birthday experience, especially at that age, is always special. So when that came across, we wanted to do something, give him something to celebrate and be happy about.
“It was awesome to see him being such a big Maple Leaf fan, wanted to give him an incredible experience. Great to have him and his family here to celebrate his birthday.”
Hockey players, bruh.
Marner, who has notably connected with many young fans — flips pucks to them over the glass during the warm-up, has befriended in particular youngsters who are grievously ill — got the ball rolling, with the help of GM Kyle Dubas and the Leafs’ PR staff.
“That was our big surprise, to bring him down here, get him in the locker room, get him to the game tonight,” said Marner. “It’s a cool moment for him and for us.”
Marner explained why he’d been so moved.
“I mean, I know growing up, all those birthday parties, they mean a lot to you as a kid. Especially having all your friends over for whatever is planned — usually pizza and some other snacks involved. So when we saw it, our group chat-texted each other and said, let’s try and plan something up here for a surprise.
“He was pretty quiet. I think he was a little stunned, a little shocked. We gave him a gift and I’m sure he’s going to love that too. Through our eyes, it looked like he had a lot of fun in the locker room.
“Any time you have a chance to change someone’s life, you want to do it.”
On Friday, as an early Christmas present, the Foster parents gave both their son and eight-year-old daughter Leaf jerseys with Marner’s name on the back. Marner signed these ones. The entire family was ushered into the locker room for a 20-minute visit and team photo. Then, in the corridor, the players gave Kade fist-bumps as they made their way onto the ice.
Kade watched practice from behind the Leaf net, frankly in awe, and flinching every time a puck banged off the ice. He retrieved two of them that came over the glass.
Why Mitch Marner chooses to make a difference in the lives of kids like Kade Foster
The real birthday party for an 11-year-old happens on Twitter, with Maple Leafs idols Mitch Marner and John Tavares
The Leafs spent a week on the Rock during training camp but tickets were sold out before the Fosters could buy any. This was so much more memorable anyway.
The family’s adventure began on Friday when they were flown to Toronto courtesy of Air Canada — first time on a plane for Kade and Emily. The plane was full of balloons and “Happy Birthday” sung by the passengers.
Both Jason and Sara were careful not to remonstrate anyone over not attending the party. “Everybody’s busy. I’m sure they had other things to do,” said Jason. “Newfoundlanders are friendly people. I’m sure they didn’t mean to hurt Kade.”
And Kade, a Grade 6 student at tiny J.J. Curling Elementary School, said he’s forgiven his no-show friends. “At school last week, they told me they were sorry they didn’t come and they even gave me some presents.”
From the team, Kade received a goodie bag of Leaf swag, Adidas gear and tickets for the Hockey Hall of Fame. There was a further prize midway through the first period, when Carlton the Bear wheeled out a birthday cake and Kade blew out the candles as nearly 19,000 well-wishers serenaded him with “Happy Birthday.”
The Foster family watched their first live NHL game from the posh platinum seats.
Kade just started playing organized hockey last year. “I can play any position.”
And one thing the boy definitely wanted to make clear: “I’m a big Toronto Maple Leaf fan.”
No kidding, kiddo.
Rosie DiManno is a columnist based in Toronto covering sports and current affairs. Follow her on Twitter: @rdimanno
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Chance the Rapper lives as an anomaly within the context of today’s music industry. He’s a 27-year-old independent artist with three projects under his belt, three Grammy’s, and loads of critical and commercial success. His eccentricity redefined the way mainstream listeners consume music-blurring the lines between an album and a mix-tape in the process. 2013’s Acid Rap and 2016’s Coloring Book showcased Chance’s knack for developing unique rhyme schemes, playful choruses, and uplifting Gospel production.
Neither of those records were treated as Chano’s “debut album” however. Which is crazy to think about, especially considering how tightly woven each concept was. Neither followed the conventional erraticism of a mix-tape-nor were the songs loosely put together.
Instead, Chance recognizes his newest release, The Big Day, as a precursory album. Ironically, it’s his longest record to date, clocking in at 22 songs and 75 minutes. The Big Day is everything you wouldn’t anticipate in an “album;” capricious, relaxed and easy-going. There’s an ongoing theme of marriage, family and religion-all topics you’d expect from a Chance project. Except here, they’re curated to fit a marathon, not a sprint. Each track is notably longer (even the more “fun” ones), more feature-heavy and conspicuously self-absorbed.
Now, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially when Chance delivers some of his most deliciously-textured sonics to date-like on the nostalgic-heavy Ben Gibbard track, “Do You Remember,” or the beautifully-orchestrated intro “All Day Long.” The latter packs the same punch as every other signature Chance intro (Gospel-inspired, heavy percussion, fast rapping). John Legend’s chorus carries the ability to make anyone want to dance and sing to their loved ones; something that’s sort of become a Chance staple this past decade (“All We Got;” “Good Ass Intro”). His emotional highs have always been unapologetically sweet, and the start of The Big Day is no different. By “Eternal,” listeners start to feel another instant classic unfolding.
There are times when Chance meanders a bit on his newest endeavor. Sometimes it feels like he’s spearheading a balancing act between saying something meaningful, and becoming an internet meme. A tongue-in-cheek song like “Hot Shower” has no business following the ephemeral beauty of “Eternal.” If there were any tears of joy from the first four tracks, they’re quickly dried up after Chance’s lame attempt at writing lyrics for meme culture (“Hot damn, hot water, hot shower/Hotlanta, smoking green cauliflower”). Comparatively speaking, “Hot Shower” is too playful for its own good, even by Chance’s standards. Which is why Dababy’s fire verse feels so out of place. He’s rapping about the perception of African Americans, while Chano spits eye-rolling lyrics about his wife sending nudes during a meeting. It almost feels like two different songs.
In a nutshell, “Hot Shower” represents how unfocused The Big Day can be at certain moments. When Chance sticks to his script, the results are exhilarating. “I Got You (Always and Forever)” has an upbeat 90s R&B feel to it; almost reminiscent of Brandy’s heyday. Ari Lennox is undoubtedly a highlight, displaying the exuberance of marriage through a heartwarming chorus. Chance’s unorthodox flow reminds me a lot of Acid Rap, where his passion and fervor stood out like a sore thumb (“All rightly mine, the bottom line is right on top of they text/You gotta remember that thy enemy is not of the flesh/You gotta remember that our imagery is made from the best”).
Chance also exhibits his signature melancholy feel on tracks like “Sun Come Down,” and “Town on the Hill.” Chano adds a protective side to his repertoire; specifically when it comes to his significant other (“I don’t want nobody to be at my wedding/That won’t be there for my marriage, he deftly spits on “Sun Come Down”). These are some of Chance’s most mature musical moments to date, even if they don’t always fully develop.
The record is at its strongest when the 27 year-old unpacks all of his relationship’s nuances. “Big Fish” neatly analyzes the image of a celebrity marriage, and the common stereotypes that go with it. Chance is clearly battling the common person’s perspective of what his relationship should look like (problematic, short-lived). His persistence harkens back to the idea of living with one “eternally.” Gucci Mane swiftly moves in and out of the track with a passable verse comparing his trapping days to his rapping days. Nonetheless, ‘Big Fish” is vintage Chance through and through. Good-natured with serious undertones.
That same playfulness can sometimes work against Chance on The Big Day. “Slide Around” presents modern rap in its worst form. Too many feature verses (Nicki Minaj and Lil Durk), way too long (over four minutes), and way too repetitive (the chorus plays five times). His idea of fun runs dry by the time Nicki enters the fold. “Get a Bag” is another example of a lackluster chorus from Chance, despite the killer James Taylor sample.
There are other times where Chance’s friskiness is admirable. Let’s be honest, only he can pull off a song like “Found a Good One (Single No More).” The breakbeat at the tail end of the track is glorious, despite the obvious lyrical shortcomings preceding it. It’s playfulness with a purpose; kind of reminiscent of a song like “All Night.”
Minaj pops up again one more time on the finale, “Zanies and Fools.” Her verse to end the album is the Queen’s best work since “Monster” on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Fantasy record. It’s thoughtful, relevant, and eye-opening all at once. Not to mention, Chance provides his own world-building elements on the first leg of the track over a densely-prodcued Afro beat. Both rappers sound coherent together, with Nicki mulling over her arrival in the United States, and Chance singing about meeting his wife. It’s the perfect ending to a flawed love story.
And yes, there are many flaws-probably more than any other Chance the Rapper project. But that’s alright. It’s unfair to think Chano can carry the same emotional energy for 22 straight tracks. It’s also unfair to think he can completely emulate the cultural phenomenon that was Coloring Book and Acid Rap. Those were two records ahead of their time. The Big Day on the other hand is Chance attempting to gain an even broader audience; specifically the young kids. At its best, the album perfectly incorporates the plight of the American Dream for an African American. It’s a theme not too often explored in hip hop nowadays. Thankfully, Chance is finally living that dream. And for the most part, it’s a wonderful thing to be a part of.
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Brown defies false prophets
By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail
Updated: 19:00 EST, 25 February 2004
WHEN Gordon Brown gets on his hind legs to deliver his spring budget on 17 March he will once again have something to crow about.
Despite severe scepticism in the City, the Chancellor managed to bring growth in on target last year. What is even better from his point of view was that the economy was accelerating in the final quarter with growth running at
2.8% year on year.
This means his upbeat forecast for 2004, on which the public finances hang, also looks a little more credible. No doubt the Treasury would claim such pinpoint forecasting is a tribute to its forecasting model.
But those in the know suggest that it is Gus O'Donnell, the Permanent Secretary, who is the man with the golden slide rule.
The main contributors to growth in the final months of 2003 were construction and financial services. Building, partly fuelled by government investment, boomed last year, climbing by 7.1%. Financial services also have picked up.
Detailed data shows an important contribution to the economy is being made by business recovery. Corporate profits surged last year by 9.7% when pay levels have been stagnant. This means there has been a shift in the way income is distributed in the economy from households to business.
This should be good for business investment, which is rising strongly, and should also be good for investors who can expect to see better returns now that retrenchment, following the three-year stock market meltdown, is being followed by greater earnings power.
Where does all this leave the interest rate debate? The inflation risk looks minimal but there is a danger of supply bottlenecks. Many experts are predicting further rate rises this year as the Monetary Policy Committee seeks to dampen consumption - without provoking a crisis among consumer borrowers.
Banking choice
AT HBOS a more cautious view of the consumer already is being taken. Halifax, the market leader in mortgages, is trimming back its exposure to new home loans. This came down from 31% to 25% over the last financial year and it is aiming for around 22% in 2004.
James Crosby, chief executive, knows HBOS has the capacity and the distribution but recognises the risks. He points out, however, that his mortgage loans are on average 61% of the property's value and a modest 2.5 times income - when there are alarming reports of much higher multiples.
Strangely, the stock market took fright at HBOS's caution-and initially marked the shares down sharply. But there is much encouraging news at HBOS, which is seeking to break the mould among Britain's high street banks.
Costs of running the bank have come down nicely from
45.2% of income to 41% in 2003 and could drop to below 40% in 2004, making HBOS the most cost-efficient of the bigger banks.
Its skill has been to offer its customers, many of whom are shareholders, a better deal. Interest on current accounts, the 9.9% credit card and 6% interest on some deposits are big draws.
In the investment arena the focus on distributing simple savings products means that it is building market share and now has as much as Aviva - with around 11%.
Banks generally have tipped the balance towards shareholders and away from customers. That is certainly the impression one has of Royal Bank of Scotland, where navigating the call centres is a nightmare while Fred Goodwin, the chief executive, enjoys the good life.
HBOS is producing a better balance between serving the consumer and shareholder.
Sure, its systems too may have glitches and it may have been too eager to raise interest rates in the wake of the Bank's changes. But in the longer run, HBOS looks as if it might develop into the bank of choice for younger customers from the top income groups.
The right call
THERE has been much handwringing over the shift of some 50,000 call centre jobs to India. This has proved particularly frustrating in that many of the tasks, notably directory inquiries which require local knowledge, could be done better in Britain.
Nevertheless, Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt was right to point out at the Mansion House that in a globalised world, Britain needs to move up the economic ladder and compete on skills not wages. She also notes that one more job in India also means 'one less Indian family in poverty, one more customer for our goods'.
Brave words from a minister making an effort with business.
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The Amity Affliction - Manchester Academy 07.10.2018
Endless Heights
Tonight is my first show in over three months, so it goes without saying I am just a little bit excited to be back and with a four band bill no less.
The night starts with openers Endless Heights. Hailing from Australia the band are a tight group, who offer up heartfelt lyrics and some great melodies. Lead singer Matt Jones not only has a great voice but uses it to command his audience. The task of opening up any show has to be a daunting one, but they take it in their stride and make a great first impression.
Next up is DREAM STATE, a band who's reputation proceeds them, they've been on my radar now for the better part of the year so as always in situations like this, I want to see if they live up to the hype.
And then some, fronted by CJ, they are holding the torch for female fronted Rock. And while yes I have read the argument that singling out the fact that a band falls into the category of Female Fronted, only adds to the stigma surrounding girls in Rock bands and that I should instead just label them as a Rock band. Bit I disagree, there is a surge of incredible Rock bands hitting the scene that are indeed fronted by females and it is amazing to see. They're strong, empowered and are casting shadows on the more sexiest points of view within the scene. DREAM STATE are leading the charge and CJ is having her battle cry heard. Her energy is infectious as she bounces around the stage showcasing her harsh and clean vocals to a crowd who laps it up. Occasionally I will come across a band, relativity new to the game and know that their journey is only just beginning. DREAM STATE will be headlining Academies in the next couple of years and it will only be up from there.
Then we have THE PLOT IN YOU, another band that have long been known to me but one I have never had the pleasure of seeing. The vocals are on point and the melodies flow but after the energy that DREAM STATE have just given, the bands set falls a little flat. Don't get me wrong, the band have got the songs and their new album 'Dispose' was on download as I was waling back to my car. But the overall set felt somewhat sombre and didn't quite bring the energy I was hoping for.
Finally the reason we're all here. To enter the beautiful yet often sorrowful world of The Amity Affliction.
I have long been a fan of these guys and have had their new album 'Misery' on constant rotation in my 'Man Cave' as I edit and write away. I had high hopes for the evening and they made sure as hell not to let me down. Lead singer Joel Birch has always left me captivated with his live performances, he lets the music take hold, he acts like a man possessed as tonight is no different as his album perfect vocals echo around Academy 2. The audience despite not quite being at capacity sing back every word. I often see the atmosphere at shows described as electric and rarely do I find myself feeling that vibe. But tonight the room ignites with an energy so pure. An energy that I believe that only a band like TAA can produce. Much like the other bands on tonights bill, it is all about the lyrics. Depression, heart ache, generally not being ok play a central theme in the world of Amity. But so does hope, acceptance and finding the way forward and I think that's why the crowd respond as they do.
Like many bands these days, fans are less fans but more family. Tonight the Amity family gave it their all and the band gave it back ten fold.
After a three month break, I'm back and fuck me what a way to get back into it.
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How to fall back in love with your partner all over again
After years together, how can you reignite that intense sense of intimacy and fan the flames of love all over again? Here are some tips to try…
There is nothing like the first flush of love to make us feel good about ourselves and the world around us.
Shrouded in the blissful bubble of unabashed affection and sexual attraction, a fledgling love affair puts a spring in our step and boosts our self-esteem, cocooning us in a rosy glow.
Carefree and willing to be spontaneous, we cast aside the mundanities of life to immerse ourselves in an exciting new coupled-up existence. We forget about the boring stuff, like supermarket shopping and housework, and exist in a highly charged world where food and laundry are simply obstacles to passion.
Love versus reality
But in even the most wonderful, intimate relationships, that initial euphoria fades as we settle into the routine of everyday life. The thrill of dating is replaced by the reality of living together: sharing the responsibilities of running a household exposes all those personality traits that remained under wraps when your relationship existed solely in restaurants, cinemas, parks and concert venues.
Setting up home together is not only about committing to being a couple; it’s the start of accepting compromise in your relationship. Those cute habits that were endearing when you first met can start to niggle when you wake up with them every morning. His daily ritual of gargling after cleaning his teeth that made you giggle as a love-struck 20- or 30-something? It’s now just an irritant when you’re trying to catch the weather forecast on the radio as you dress for work.
And when children come along, the partner you committed yourself to with absolute certainty somehow disappears, and becomes the person who sorts the recycling, mows the lawn and ferries the kids to football – and forgets you had a girls’ night out booked when he said he’d join his colleagues for a drink after work.
Falling in love again
Sound familiar? We’ve all been there – including those friends who seem to have the most amazing marriage. The ones who still hold hands when they’re watching the kids at the school sports day? They’ve had moments when they wondered if they had a future, questioning whether they’re still ‘in love’ even though they love each other dearly.
After all, years down the line, the novelty of a new relationship is hard to replicate, and familiarity can make spontaneity challenging. But it can be done, and you might discover that love is even better second time around.
Rediscover your own passions
Whether it’s music or a hobby such as netball or painting, rediscovering your own personal passions will help you start to feel more like your youthful self.
You’ll come alive again and start to see the world (and your partner) with fresh eyes.
Don’t be afraid to pursue things independently – a little time apart, doing something for you, brings out the best side of you, and will help you both recall why you fell in love.
Someone who has a zest for life and enjoys their own interests is very appealing to others – and the space will make your partner more attractive to you, too.
Take good care of yourself
As we age, it can be hard to feel as confident about ourselves as when we were younger. We watch our bodies changing and worry our partners won’t find us as attractive as before.
But remember they have their insecurities too. And as long as you take good care of yourself, you will look your best.
Exercise, eat well, and look after your skin and hair with products specially designed for your needs. For example, Pantene Age Defy Expert Collection is specially formulated to help thicken and add shine to ageing hair, and there’s nothing like gorgeous hair to make you feel great about yourself.
Remember the people who fell in love
It’s all too easy to moan about how your partner has changed or become dull, but it happens to all of us when we’re in a long-term relationship. When we want something to change, we have to realise that it takes a bit of effort on our part, too.
Try to notice the things that initially drew you to each other – because they’re still there somewhere. His humour? Your sense of mischief? Your ability to talk about the merits of Bond films together for hours on end?
Remind yourself of the people you both were when you fell in love, and you’ll place yourself solidly in the frame of mind to do it all over again.
Choose your battles
Yes, it is annoying that he’s always leaving his socks on the floor, but your habit of filling the shower with all your hair and body products drives him mad, too.
Accept you both have flaws and let them go. Stop judging and start living. Once you can come to terms with the small niggles, you can get on with enjoying each other’s company once more.
A long-term relationship often suffers from the silent treatment, where lines of communication gradually shut down as you begin to take each other for granted. And, in the digital age, we’re all guilty of texting or emailing each other when previously we might have picked up the phone to talk.
Make a point of practising the art of conversation over meals or shared car journeys: ask questions, share news and views and actively rediscover each other’s personalities.
You’ve both evolved since those early days: don’t let yourselves drift apart, but nurture the relationship by talking. Enjoy your differences and celebrate your compatible opinions.
Make a bucket list together – and do it
Sit down together and share your dreams. Make a list of things you want to do, and then work out how to make them happen – together. The sense of satisfaction and achievement in sharing those challenges and experiences will bring you closer together.
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Google settles with Immersion over haptic technology, licenses it for use in Motorola devices
Google settles with Immersion over a patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility
By: Trace Hagan from Nov 27, 2012 @ 16:09 CST
Google has settled with Immersion just nine months after it was sued by Immersion, a company that develops touch feedback systems. The deal sees Google licensing the patents for use in future Motorola devices, along with compensating the company for using the technology in prior Motorola devices.
The lawsuit was filed against Motorola before Google officially acquired them in May 2012. The original lawsuit alleged that Motorola infringed upon six of Immersions patents and was filed with the US ITC, which has the power to block imports should a device be found to be infringing. CEO Victor Viegas:
The successful resolution of this case is a critical step in our overall strategy of enforcing and monetizing our intellectual property, including Basic Haptics, and we're pleased to achieve a settlement that is consistent with our business model, which is largely based on per unit running royalties.
We remain fully committed to enforcing our IP rights while continuing to innovate and create new technology and solutions for the mobile space. While the terms of the settlement will remain confidential and are not anticipated to have a material impact on our financial results for 2012, this settlement is a great step forward in validating the value of our IP portfolio and the investments we have made in the mobile market.
Immersion has outstanding lawsuits over similar technology against HTC. Google's licensing agreement does not cover Android devices made by other manufacturers, at least not yet, so that lawsuit is unaffected by Google's settlement.
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Could Pence Clobber Cruz? A Bettor’s Guide to the 2020 Republican Primary
A fair and balanced overview of the G.O.P.’s most prominent ambulance chasers.
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Sensators Ted Cruz and Ben Sasse attend a Senate Judiciary Committee on F.B.I. oversight, featuring testimony by James Comey on May 3, 2017.By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.
Right now, odds are decent that Donald Trump will run for re-election, if only to show the haters and losers. But he doesn’t love being president, his popularity isn’t high, and the haters and losers could wind up being federal prosecutors, which always have the upper hand. So it isn’t surprising that Republicans are eyeing 2020 more greedily than is customary when you have an incumbent from the same party. Don’t let the following cheat sheet ruin Christmas—take care of that on your own—but here are a few thumbnail sketches with which to tide you over in lieu of deeper thinking. Meet the contenders who could make Trump a distant memory:
Tom Cotton: Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton might be just the thing for voters who would like Donald Trump in a smoother, if awkward, package, like “When a Man Loves a Woman” rendered by Michael Bolton instead of Percy Sledge. To be sure, Cotton rejects the Trumpist idea of less foreign intervention. But so does Donald Trump. So why not a version of the current president cleaned up for the American market? Cotton can win over traditional conservatives with border vigilance, and he can win over the neocons by going to town on missile strikes. It’s Trump, but with a little oomph.
Ben Sasse: There’s something about the goofy grin of Ben Sasse that makes you wonder if Donald Trump will try to stuff him in a Senate locker. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Sasse has emerged as one of Trump’s biggest Republican critics, which is courageous of him, but breaking ranks makes his odds of triumph in 2020 low, and he has been castigated as “just useless” by Sean Hannity, for whom political usefulness is a journalistic priority. In Sasse’s favor, he’s known to complete 10,000 push-ups a month, which is less impressive than eating 72 hotdogs in 10 minutes but still more interesting than holding the record for the Senate’s curliest hair. (See next candidate.)
Rand Paul: After a lackluster run in 2016, Rand Paul might be ready for another lackluster run in 2020. Paul is one of the Senate’s most principled political figures, which would be a great asset if anyone agreed with his principles. Paul wants less foreign intervention; the Republican base is O.K. with more. Paul is dovish on immigration; the Republican base is hawkish. Rand Paul wants to toss out the welfare state; the Republican base prefers to denounce but keep it. It’s impressive that Paul sticks to his beliefs, but mainly because it makes him less electable.
Nikki Haley: Anyone who wants the opposite of Rand Paul’s foreign policy can look to U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who keeps an eye on countries that Trump hasn’t antagonized and adds them to the list. Journalists and Republican insiders call Haley a star, because other journalists and Republican insiders call Haley a star. She’s also, according to one Republican consultant, a “demographic dream,” a classic Lincolnian vision. When you’re a lunchpail voter dealing with opioids and joblessness, a star in the form of a demographic dream is just what you’re looking for.
Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz’s dislikeability was once famous mainly in Washington, but in 2016 Cruz managed to make it renowned in much of the world. Can you make everyone hate you so much that they start loving you instead? If anyone can find an answer to that, it’s Cruz, whose quest to push through to the other side could rock the fundamentals of social science.
Marco Rubio: Rubio managed to distinguish himself among Republicans when he campaigned hard against immigration amnesty as a candidate, campaigned hard for immigration amnesty as a senator, and then campaigned hard against immigration amnesty once more as a candidate. Some suspected hollowness, while others blamed a faulty line of code that can occasionally trip up the Rubiobot. But Republican users seem to have migrated to other applications.
John Kasich: Here’s your man if you want a less automated version of Rubio in a more grandfatherly package. Kasich will bring back everything you liked about the George W. Bush White House but with a more aw-shucks approach to it all. Kasich is your ticket to unremitting feelings of hopelessness, boredom, and anger, a reassuringly familiar combination to anyone on Twitter. Also, the menace of the movie Fargo, about which Kasich once telephoned Blockbuster to complain, will finally be addressed from the bully pulpit.
Mike Pence: When did we last have a white-haired president? Not since Ike, and Ike was cool. Pence is the ideal candidate for people who hate Trump but want to pretend they love him. He will voice support for Trump’s ideas on trade and immigration and relations with Russia, while doing the opposite on all of them. If you love Paul Ryan and want to see him cry from pure joy, consider putting a Pence in his Christmas stocking. On the other hand, if you just want to see Paul Ryan cry, consider the next guy.
Steve Bannon: This is your man if you think it’s time to stop shaking up America and instead give it a good rogering. Where Donald Trump commissioned prototypes for a border fence, Steve Bannon will pour a 3000-mile river of petroleum and set it ablaze. Where Trump tried to decertify the Iranian nuclear deal, Bannon will establish diplomatic relations with Tehran just to be able to meet its ambassador and shove any pre-existing agreement into his rear end. Where Donald Trump endorsed the election of Roy Moore in Alabama, Steve Bannon will make him chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. People say that Donald Trump was a form of punishment. No. Trump was your warning. Just wait for President Steve.
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Analysis: Toothless Everton fail to break Merseyside Derby hoodoo
Analysis from the 0-0 Merseyside Derby draw at Goodison Park.
ByConnor Bennett 9 April 2018 17:45
Everton finished Saturday’s Merseyside Derby with one shot on target when Yannick Bolasie was denied, unbelievably, by an outstretched Lorius Karius.
They’d come closer, agonisingly so, with a late second-half flurry but they weren’t able put the ball away nor register a second shot on target.
The Blues had their best chance to pick up a derby day win for the first time since 2010 but let it slip away from their grasp.
Toothless Blues lacked edge
When the Liverpool team sheet was handed to Sam Allardyce, the Blues boss should have been rubbing his hands at the prospect of being able to add the end of Everton’s Merseyside Derby drought to his CV.
There was no Mohamed Salah. Roberto Firmino was relegated to the bench and Sadio Mane started as the lone representative of the now ‘fab three.’
With Mane supporting Danny Ings, returning from injury and youngster Dominic Solanke - the Blues backline had little to no issue defending their net.
Defensively, Jurgen Klopp made changes as he opted to start Nathaniel Clyne and Ragnar Klavan at full-back.
The Blues should have been giddy at the thought of getting at Klavan, who isn’t a natural left-back and Clyne, who was making his first Premier League appearance of the season after fighting a niggling back injury for the longest period of time.
Yet, they didn’t.
Theo Walcott failed to make his presence felt until that late second-half flurry - operating more as a double up right-back next to Seamus Coleman instead of in front of him.
Yannick Bolasie’s performance can be best described as disastrous with his second-half withdrawal being cheered by pockets of the Goodison Park crowd.
Only when Bolasie was replaced by Dominic Calvert-Lewin, a natural striker, did the Blues start to impose a threat on the left-hand side.
For Allardyce’s team selection, it’s back to the drawing board before the end of the season.
Pickford saves, defensively better
Barring injury or an utterly disastrous end to the season, Jordan Pickford looks all but set to be England’s number one at the World Cup.
Whilst he has conceded a staggering 53 Premier League goals this season, he has still been Everton’s shining light and will almost certainly win Player of the Year honours at the annual end of season awards night.
Saturday’s display showcased just why both of those things are the case and both deserved.
His superb first-half save from James Milner’s curled effort was an example of his effortless shot-stopping ability. His distribution was fine and would have been helped by his teammates looking to start attacks much quicker than they did.
The much-maligned Michael Keane was given man of the match honours and capped off his solid defensive performance with a second-half double slide tackle that raised the noise levels inside Goodison Park as they looked to go flat.
Next to Phil Jagielka, Keane has looked like the player Everton splashed out for last summer.
However, unlike Pickford, he isn’t likely to be on the plane for the World Cup unless something dramatically changes.
Rooney, Rooney, Rooney?
How do you solve a problem like Wayne Rooney? It’s a question that has raised a big debate in the fallout of the Derby.
Since rejoining Everton in the summer, the issue with Rooney hasn’t been regarding his goalscoring ability or, for the most part, his performances - but where he actually fits into the Blues’ team.
The old Wayne Rooney - the Manchester United Wayne Rooney - is gone. He is no longer able to lead the line as a striker so that’s out of the question.
His playmaking ability is fine but Gylfi Sigurdsson is a longer term answer as a creative midfielder so playing as a number ten, when the Icelandic international returns from injury, is also out of the question.
Having him play as a central midfielder is fine when Everton are in the position to control the tempo of a game - his performance in the win over Brighton and Hove Albion a few weeks ago was perhaps his best since returning to the club.
Yet, putting him in against much better midfields - like he has in the past two weeks against Manchester City and Liverpool - is going to be a problem.
Perhaps he needs to be man managed better. Perhaps game plans need to be curated and managed better too.
Or, perhaps, in the near future, Rooney is destined to make his move across the Atlantic to the MLS where he can see out his days doing whatever he wants.
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