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Unreasonably-low Royalties in Top-down FRAND-rate Determinations for TCL v. Ericsson
As originally published by RCR Wireless, April, 2018
By: Keith Mallinson
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While Ericsson is a leading contributor to mobile communications standards, a US District Court in California has significantly undervalued Ericsson's standard-essential patents (SEPs) by relying heavily on flawed "top-down" valuation analysis that prorates royalties by company for 2G, 3G and 4G based on SEP counting. This analysis applies a series of inaccurate assumptions which whittle down royalty rates from an understated notional maximum in a succession of unreliable steps. The resulting rates derived are a lot lower than those found in a European court's FRAND determination for the same company in the same year (2017) and for the same 2G, 3G, and 4G patent portfolios. The differences between these US and European determinations are irreconcilable.
Two Nations Divided
In late 2017, Honourable James V. Selna, Judge of the District Court of the Central District of California, handed down a court-ordered fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) license in TCL v. Ericsson.[1] His Court's Decision used a top-down analysis, together with a comparable license analysis as a cross-check, to determine various FRAND rates. This approach might, at first glance, be perceived as similar to the FRAND determination in the UK's Unwired Planet decision.[2] However, in that case Honourable Justice Birss centered on Ericsson's comparable licenses and used top-down analysis only as a cross-check. This difference, among others, led to significantly different results.
In TCL v. Ericsson, the Court's tasks were to determine:
Whether Ericsson met its FRAND obligation,
Whether Ericsson's final offers before litigation, Offer A and Offer B, satisfy FRAND,
What terms are material to a FRAND license, and then supply the FRAND terms.
The Court was presented with two principal schemes for determining the proper royalty rates. TCL advocated a "top-down" approach which begins with an aggregate royalty for all patents encompassed in a standard, then determines a firm's portion of that aggregate. Ericsson used its existing licenses with similarly situated licensees (i.e. comparable licenses) to determine the appropriate rates. Ericsson also offered an "ex ante," or ex-Standard, approach which seeks to measure in absolute terms the value which Ericsson's patents add to a product by asking consumers how much they value certain product capabilities such as improved battery life.
Cap and Prorate
My critique focuses on the use of top-down analysis adopted by the court in the TCL v. Ericsson case, with reference to some metrics used in the UK Unwired Planet decision. One reason for doing so is that both courts were presented almost identical evidence, but each judge chose a different approach, leading to the US District Court granting rates for the Ericsson portfolio that are less than half the rates determined by the UK High Court. I have been critical of top-down methodologies as the key element to determine FRAND royalties in various articles for more than a decade.[3] This critique is the latest in this series. It also follows my work as a testifying expert witness on behalf of Ericsson in the US case.
Top-down apportionments are almost invariably based on the notions of a fixed royalty rate aggregate or cap and royalty-rate proportionality based on patent counts rather than patent value. Unlike in patent cases, where courts definitively determine validity, infringement and essentiality patent-by-patent; no such determinations were made by the Court on Ericsson's patents, or on the larger universe of all patents declared by their owners to be possibly essential to the cellular standards.
Therefore, any ostensible exactitude in the top-down figures derived is spurious. The Court notes that "The search for precision and absolute certainty is a doomed undertaking." (Decision, page14). I agree: no methodology can provide that in FRAND-rate setting. For example, it is impractical in terms of time or money to conduct -on hundreds or thousands of patents in SEP portfolios-the kind of patent-by-patent analysis typically carried out on no more than a handful of patents in patent infringement and validity litigation.
Significant failings in the Court's top-down FRAND-rate determinations include starting with aggregate royalty rate figures that were too low and then whittling these down with a succession of largely erroneous adjustments:
It mistakenly regarded announcements and other disclosures of companies' individual royalty rates and of expected aggregate royalties as multi-mode rates including two or more standards rather than as single-mode rates.
These aggregate rates were then prorated with much greater scrutiny and adjustments to the count of Ericsson's SEPs in the numerator and than for the "relevant universe" of all SEPs in the denominator of the apportionment calculations:
Only a subset of Ericsson's patents with claim charts were included in the numerator, whereas patents were counted in the denominator without any requirement for creation or submission of claim carts,
Whereas all Ericsson's SEPs counted -whether or not patent essentiality was contested by TCL's experts-were evaluated by the parties for at least 50 hours per patent family, the average time spent evaluating entire patent families counted in the relevant universe was a cursory 45 minutes,
Modest adjustments for SEP over-declaration in the relevant universe were based on highly unreliable "error rate" calculations,
Substantial and unwarranted geographic adjustments were made to Ericsson's SEPs and royalty rates,
Inapplicable adjustments were made for expiration of Ericsson's patents while disregarding significant value in new SEPs (e.g. for LTE Advanced).
Comps and Other Valuation Methods
Comparable licenses, with the prices in these firmly established by several years of commerce and billions of dollars in licensing payments already made, can provide the most accurate and reliable basis to establish FRAND licensing rates. The inaccuracies there are in interpreting and adjusting figures and terms so that comparisons can be made among licenses on an apples-to-apples basis. Comparable licenses are widely accepted pricing benchmarks in patent cases around the globe, including those involving SEPs. There is also much to comment upon with respect to the (lack of) rigor and accuracy in the Court's analysis and findings based on Ericsson's existing licenses: for example, how cross-licenses were "unpacked" to derive "one-way" licensing rates. Nevertheless, I am leaving this and the Court's rejection of Ericsson's ex-standard valuation method for others to analyze in detail right now, or for me to do so elsewhere in due course.
Following my review of the courts' decisions in both abovementioned cases, I continue to conclude that top-down valuation methodologies are subject to various shortcomings including inaccuracy (i.e. true error rates in determinations are unknown), unreliability (i.e. results are not reproducible consistently) and susceptibility to significant bias (because determinations are so subjective and devoid of an audit trail on how determinations are made). Centering on a top-down methodology that is largely based on only cursory standard-essentiality determinations by TCL's experts in this case, as the primary means of apportioning FRAND rates is untrustworthy.
The above is a summary of my critique of the Court's top-down analysis which is available in full, here, and also in the SSRN eLibrary.
http://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/documents/1/TCL-v.-Ericsson.Decision-part-1.pdf
Huawei v Unwired Planet, [2017] EWHC 711 (Pat), 5.April 2017 https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/unwired-planet-v-huawei-20170405.pdf
http://www.wiseharbor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Ezine-article-on-royalty-caps-April-2008.pdf,
http://www.rcrwireless.com/article/20111116/opinion/analyst-angle-no-consensus-on-which-patents-are-essential-to-lte/,
http://www.ip.finance/2013/11/absurd-frand-licensing-rate.html (Click through to full article, page 21), and http://www.ip.finance/2017/05/do-not-count-on-accuracy-in-third-party.html
Keith Mallinson has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecommunications Industry: as a research analyst, consultant and testifying expert witness. Complementing his industry focus, he has a broad skill set including technologies, market analysis, regulation, economics and finance. Prior to founding WiseHarbor in 2006, Mallinson led Yankee Group's global Wireless/Mobile research and consulting team as Executive Vice President, based in Boston, from 2000. Until then, he had overall responsibility for the firm's European division, as Managing Director from 1995. Prior to that he was the European Research Director.
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DEEPIKA PADUKONE broke down on the set of one of her popular movies, years before making her Hollywood debut in xXx: Return of Xander Cage; one of the writers has revealed.
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Posted by exurbe on September 14, 2013
“Make everyone read Beccaria!” is one of many sentiments I share with François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire.
This post was prompted by two things.
The first was this comment responding my post about the two recent Borgia TV series, which mentioned TV depictions of horrific pre-modern executions.
Jen: “I am watching the final episode of The Borgias, Season 2, in which Savonarola is tortured and burnt at the stake, and again I find myself wondering – what was the supposed justification and thinking behind these acts? What did the church think burning people achieved? I know it was meant to be symbolic in some way, but of what I don’t know. I just do not understand why people were capable of such hideous acts of evil and why they did not realise that it was evil? How on earth could they reconcile this acts with their supposed devout religious beliefs??? Why was torture used without a second thought? So many questions about humanity and religion. Why did it take so long for us humans to develop a moral compass, and to value compassion?”
Addressing all these questions would take me deep into fraught realms of psychology, speculation, and accusation, and also deep into unhappy contemporary controversies over torture and capital punishment, none of which I want to stick my foot in. I do believe I can respond in one useful way with an historical portrait of one important moment in the history of this question. This is also one of those great undersung moments of real history which is so unilaterally good that it can all make us feel that much more proud to be human.
My second prompt was a recent experience with jury duty. There was some excitement among my friends when I was summoned for jury duty, speculating about how exactly I would get myself disqualified, since they were confident no attorney in the land would want me. I did rather want to be on the jury, in the name of interesting life experiences, so I started out trying to be inert and quiet, but eventually the defense attorney brought up that he saw from the sheet that I was a professor and asked me what I taught, and it was clear from that that I was pre-disqualified whatever I did, so decided thereafter to be honest. The jury selection scene was so stereotypical as to be almost a parody of itself, with a clean-cut young city slicker prosecutor with a distinctively stylish haircut, black pinstripe suit, rimless glasses who had such a boyish face he might have passed for an undergrad, facing off against a gray-haired defense attorney in a corduroy jacket and jeans with a southern drawl and a giant belt buckle shaped like Texas.
In his slow, meandering style (and with a gratuitous, emotionally manipulative photo of a mother cradling a baby on his Powerpoint, which was absolutely unrelated to any aspect of the case at hand) the defense attorney proceeded to go along the line and ask each potential juror what they thought the purpose of judicial punishment was: deterrence or rehabilitation. When asked to define “deterrence,” he explained it as “punishment, let’s get ’em, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.” He went along getting a ratio of about two rehabilitations to one deterrence until he got to me. I froze a moment, pursed my lips, then delivered what was honestly absolutely the most restrained impassioned speech I could manage. “You’re conflating two different types of justice,” I said (rough reconstruction). “Eye for an eye justice isn’t deterrence, it’s retributive justice, and the two are radically different. Retributive justice selects punishments with the goal of inflicting some punishment on the guilty party in order to achieve some kind of justice, balance, repentance, or fairness. Deterrence-based justice instead selects punishments based on what effect the punishment will have on the general population as a disincentive discouraging the crime in question. The two are not only different but, from an historical perspective, directly opposed, and their opposition is at the heart of all post-Enlightenment judicial codes including our own, thanks to the influence of Voltaire and Cesare Beccaria.” By this point the court stenographer declared me her eternal enemy and halted the proceedings so I could spell Cesare Beccaria for her, slowly, twice. Both the lawyers gave that special sort of “And this is why we don’t put people with Ph.D.s on juries” smiles at me, but I was satisfied to find that two other prospective jurors after me did speak up and say, “I agree with the professor, retribution isn’t deterrence.”
It is the moment of the birth of this distinction that I want to visit today. This moment addresses Jen’s questions about why medieval governments and the Church used so much violent torture, not by analyzing the Middle Ages, but by revisiting the first moment that the very questions Jen asked were asked by someone else, and thereby entered the central conversation of European thought, with real and wonderful consequences.
Some other day I will sing the praises of the Enlightenment in their full glory. For now suffice to say that the Age of Reason deserved its title. In the seventeenth century, the new philosophers, especially Descartes and Francis Bacon, had birthed the new and exciting idea that, by applying Reason and systematic analysis to things, human beings could find ways to alter them to make them more rational and better, for the good of all humankind. They saw Reason as a tool supplied by Nature and/or God to let human beings govern themselves and improve their condition, with the power to achieve anything humanity could dream of if we work carefully enough and long enough. In this spirit, intellectuals investigated engines, spinning methods, the circulation of the blood, birthing procedures, baking chemistry, light, optics, physics, and refrigeration, and discovered many new things which promised greatness, and some which were already delivering. As the eighteenth century approached, the methods which had been being applied primarily to what we might call hard sciences (with the terrifying exception of the shadowy “Beast of Malmesbury” a.k.a. Thomas Hobbes, whose fascinating infamy I hope someday to treat as I have Machiavelli’s) began with increasing frequency to be applied to other matters: government, law, justice (see Montesquieu and Locke), religion (Rousseau, Paine), and eventually crimes and punishments. If human institutions are held up for examination before the Light of Reason, claims the Method, they can be revised to be more rational and better, also better in line with Nature – with these improvements we will make a better world. It was this effort which was spearheaded by the great lights we remember: the Encyclopedia Project, Voltaire, Diderot, d’Holbach, d’Alambert, Franklin, Jefferson, and taken even further by other more chilling figures like La Mettrie and Sade.
Cesare Beccaria was from Milan, a nobleman and jurist under the Hapsburgs. He and other excited young intellectuals were enthusiastic readers of the firebrand treatises of Voltaire and others which trickled down from France. In that spirit, they set up their own intellectual circle jokingly named “L’Accademia dei pugni” (the Academy of Fists). Beccaria was interested in applying Reason’s razor to the ancient law codes he was now empowered to enforce (in the name of foreign but theoretically enlightened rulers in a conquered but civilized land). The young Beccaria, who was only 26 at the time, collaborated with Pietro and Alessandro Verri and produced, in 1764, a tiny little treatise On Crimes and Punishments. It was released anonymously, to protect its radical authors. It was thereafter translated into French where it became an immediate sensation, particularly since Voltaire, The Pen Mightier than Any Sword, embraced the treatise like a long-lost child, wrote a commentary on it, and shoved it at everyone. Though there were three minds behind the treatise, Beccaria was chosen to author it because of his flare for rhetoric. You can see it in the opening lines, which precisely express the first time someone asked Jen’s big question “Why did Europe of that era use such gruesome punishments?”:
Some remains of the laws of an ancient conquering people, compiled on the authority of a prince who reigned twelve centuries ago in Constantinople, later mingled with Lombard customs and collected in hodge-podge volumes by unofficial and obscure commentators–this is what forms the traditional opinions that in a large part of Europe are nonetheless called “law.” Moreover, it is today as pernicious as it is common that an opinion of Carpzov, an ancient custom cited by Claro, or a torture suggested with irate complacency by Farinacci, should be the laws unhesitatingly followed by those who ought to dispose of the lives and fortunes of men only with diffidence. (Young translation, Hackett, 1986)
In On Crimes and Punishments Beccaria examined the purpose of extreme punishments, thereby exposing, certainly not the only answer, but a set of answers which he then used to propose a shocking new way to think about punishment: deterrence.
Beccaria begins from the extremely Enlightenment position of considering the pleasure-pain principle the natural core of human (and animal) life. Animals, people among them, pursue happiness and flee unhappiness: pleasures including food and love but also virtue and success; pains including physical pain, deprivation, shame, and death. The purpose of a legal system is to ensure and protect a situation which will secure the most happiness for the most people. Just as a farmer must examine his methods to choose the techniques that will produce the most wheat of the best quality, so must the jurist examine his laws and punishments and choose those which will best protect and cultivate the common happiness of the people.
Beccaria follows Montesquieu, following Locke, in his political fundamentals. He believes in Laws of Nature, among them the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. He believes that governments are instituted by a Social Contract, created by humans for mutual protection and benefit. Fearing their defenselessness in the State of Nature, early humans united together, sacrificing a small portion of their liberty to create the sovereignty of the state so it could protect them “against the private usurpations against each individual.” In this system, governments were not created by God with divine right, as was the traditional view, but they do have divine sources in that Reason and Nature are divine creations, and Reason is God’s gift to humanity to let humans protect and govern themselves. He therefore will not accept arguments that invoke religious justification against Reason, because in the dominantly Deist spirit of the Enlightenment, even an Italian Catholic believes that God is Light and Reason and therefore that if Reason and divine edicts seem to contradict there must be a mistake somewhere. Reason and religion, if both true, will always, the age believed, align. In his treatise on the small topic of crime and punishment, therefore, Beccaria sees himself contributing a footnote to preceding treatises on rational government, rational law and rational religion, Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws foremost among them. And by “he sees himself contributing a small footnote,” I mean in the most sweet and adorable way, as this passage sums up:
The immortal President de Montesquieu touched hastily upon this matter. Indivisible truth has compelled me to follow the shining footsteps of this great man… I shall count myself fortunate if I, as did he, can earn the secret gratitude of the little-known and peace-loving followers of reason and if I can inspire the sweet thrill with which sensitive souls respond to whoever upholds the interests of humanity! (Introduction)
And he took up this great topic with the overt intention of beginning an international dialog, inviting replies thus:
Whoever would wish to honor me with his criticisms, I repeat, should not begin, then, by supposing that I hold principles which are subversive either of virtue or of religion… But anyone who will write with the decency that becomes honorable men and with enough intelligence to free me from proving elementary principles, of whatever character he may be, will find me not so much a man eager to reply in his own defense as a peaceful friend of the truth. (Address to the Reader)
In all this, it is important to remember that, in Beccaria’s examinations of “Why do we use torture?” and “Why do we execute people?”, he does not have modern psychology in his analytic repertoire. He cannot, as we would, suggest that public executions were social catharsis, venting aggression in a controlled way, as sports would later. He cannot discuss the psychological relationship between the authority and the condemned, or talk about how sentences reinforce personal power or vent subconscious drives. He acts, as all pre-Freud thinkers do, on the belief that all human behavior is based on active, conscious decision-making. Some actions may be unexamined, i.e. based on bad logic and false conclusions, and actions based on imperfect information lead to error, but they are still based on some form of mental calculation, and the better examined they are, the more likely they are to be right. The judges enforcing the old mongrel legal code, part Roman, part Lombard, which Beccaria asks us to question, do so, in his view, in an unexamined way, falsely believing that that code is good and right in itself, or at least serves their ends. They have not examined it under the light of reason and asked what the utility is of each law and punishment. But they still decide to enforce this law code rationally, consciously, knowingly, not for hidden reasons deep in the root of the inaccessible mind.
What, Beccaria asks, is the purpose of legal punishment?
By Beccaria’s metric, all activities of the state must serve its primary function, that is, to provide the most happiness to the greatest number of citizens. This follows from the principle that the state is founded on the basis of reason for the protection and happiness of the people. Any aspect of the government, and within that of the legal system, which does not help serve this mandate to protect and distribute happiness will be rejected as irrational. All punishments, then, must serve to increase human happiness. He agrees with Montesquieu that “every punishment which does not derive from absolute necessity is tyrannical.” (ch. 2) From this he concludes three principles: (1) That only law, and not individuals with some kind of special authority, can justly impose punishments, (2) that if punishments derive from a social contract which binds all people equally, then all people equivalently bind the state equally and are entitled to the same treatment and the same punishment under the law, and (3) that excessively cruel punishments which have no benefit to public happiness have no justification and are tyrannical, and contrary to the virtue of reasoning people.
How do we determine the appropriate severity for a punishment? It should, he argues, be measured based on the harm done to the nation by the crime, and the punishment should be proportional, and focused on preventing the crime. In other words, deterrence. Ever the Enlightenment scientist, Beccaria likens self-interest to gravity, a powerful and universal force driving people toward action which can only be stopped by an opposing force. Thus when self-interest directs toward crime, that drive must be countered by an opposing one: fear of punishment. Prevention of crime, then, is the sole justification for judicial punishment in Beccaria’s analysis, not retribution, nor the at-this-point-largely-undreamed-of idea of rehabilitation.
Can the cries of a poor wretch turn back time and undo actions which have already been done?… The purpose of punishment, then, is nothing other than to dissuade the criminal from doing fresh harm… punishments and the method of inflicting them should be chosen that, mindful of the proportion between crime and punishment, will make the most effective and lasting impression on men’s minds and inflict the least torment on the body of the criminal. (ch. 12)
He does, however, review (in ch. 7) what he sees as other traditional justifications for proposing punishments, and it is here that his treatise gives us a snapshot of what one legal expert saw as the logic underlying the mass of gradually-accumulated law.
Some people, he says, have measured crimes on the basis of the dignity of the injured party (an interesting metric, and one the modern world has left far behind). Here he would be thinking of how a crime of a commoner against a nobleman is far more harshly dealt with than one against another commoner. If this is the system of logic, we can see why offenses against the Crown or against a lawful feudal lord could be punished with great severity, if they are read as injuring the Dignity, Grace, or Person of the sovereign. To use the Robin Hood example, if one hunts the king’s deer this seems like a minor injury if we see it as harming the deer, forest, or warden, but if the offense is seen as being one against the dignity and rights of the king then, by rank proportion logic, a punishment sufficient to avenge an offense against such great dignity must indeed be extreme. Yet, Beccaria argues, this type of reasoning cannot be the true metric people are using, because if so then crimes against God, i.e. blasphemy or irreverence, would be punished far more gruesomely and severely than the assassination of a monarch. Crimes against God were indeed punished very severely in his era (see the extreme examples of burning at the stake), but the assassin of a king was certainly regarded with more hatred, and executed with more gruesome creativity. In addition, actual burning at the stake for heresy or blasphemy or even witchcraft was, in the era of the Inquisition Beccaria was familiar with, exceptionally rare. Extreme cases like that of our dear Giordano Bruno did indeed end with blood and fire (a particularly visceral reality for me since he was burned alive a few paces from the apartment where I used to live in Rome). But in the Italian Inquisition such cases were rare, exceptions, usually examples brought on by some special political circumstance, and the usual sentence for blasphemy or even devil worship was being forced to sit through a bunch of boring religious re-education seminars and recite a lot of prayers (see the work of Nicholas Davidson on the Inquisition in Venice). Clearly, Beccaria concludes, the logic of the current law cannot always be that the punishment is chosen to be proportional to the dignity of the victim, but that type of thinking does seem, to him, to be an inconsistent but present factor in the thought behind the gore.
Other people, Beccaria says, have proposed that the punishment should be in proportion to the crime, i.e. “that the gravity of sin should play some part in the measurement of crimes.” In other words, that the purpose of punishment could be to achieve some kind of abstract balance or justice, righting wrongs, giving criminals their just deserts, etc. This reasoning he sees behind some aspects of the current law, and certainly it fits an eye for an eye and a life for a life, though doesn’t quite help us understand the practices of hacking off a hand for theft, or sawing a man in half from crotch to head for committing murder on a day that irritated the pope. But choosing punishments to balance the gravity of sin Beccaria says is also contrary to Reason. His argument? He asks us to look at “the relationships between men and men, and between men and God.” The former, he says, are relations of equality in which issues of common utility are primary, since those are what form the relationships between people. Thus utility, not abstract justice, should govern such relationships, and thus if punishments are to be based on relations between people, then utility, i.e. deterrence, should be the deciding factor. As for relations “between men and God,” it is here that Beccaria puts the idea of abstract, cosmic, or universal justness demanding that a crime be punished. He then argues that it is not humanity’s task to pursue universal justice.
If [God] has established eternal punishments for anyone who disobeys His omnipotence, what insect will dare to supplement divine justice? What insect will wish to avenge [wrongs against] the Being Who is sufficient unto Himself, Who cannot receive impressions of pleasure or pain from objects, and Who alone among all beings acts without being acted upon? The seriousness of sin depends upon the unfathomable malice of the human heart, and finite beings cannot know this without revelation. How, then, can a standard for punishing crimes be drawn from this? In such a case, men might punish when God forgives and forgive when God punishes. If men can be in conflict with the Almighty by offending Him, they can also be so by punishing.
Justice, one of the Virtues, along with Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude.
It is interesting for the modern observer to note how directly Beccaria equates notions of abstract justice or balance with the idea that crimes are offenses against God. At no point in his treatise does Beccaria undertake to argue against any concept of secular universal justice. Justice is, for him, either a question of balancing individual relations between people, where utility should reign, or it is a matter of religion. Sin, with all its religious weight, is the word he chooses when discussing the idea of proportional punishment–people, he says, think punishment should balance sin, not evil, or wrong. It does not occur to Beccaria that anyone might propose a secular moral code demanding that killers get their just deserts, etc. The only secular principles he would accept are those of Nature and Reason, though for him, as for so many Enlightenment figures, these factors are far from secular in his understanding. Despite Pierre Bayle’s comparatively recent but (in)famous argument to the contrary, Beccaria is still very much thinking in the era when even such a radical as Thomas Paine believed that an atheist could not be a citizen, would not respect the law, and would never have any reason to refrain from crime.
These, then, are Beccaria’s notions of what logic lay buried under the accumulated traditions and contradictions of pre-modern European law: avenging the dignity of the injured party, and proportioning punishment to sin. He rejects both of these as irrational, saying we may justly assign punishment only when it secures public happiness. For those who have read my Machiavelli entry on the three branches of Ethics, note here how Beccaria is arguing that human relations must be analyzed using utilitarianism, confining deontology to divine questions, though one can certainly make the case that he is applying a kind of deontology of his own, using his understanding of Nature and Reason as his abstract internal laws. This kind of Reason-based deontology, closely aligned to utilitarianism, is common among those Enlightenment figures who invoke Laws of Nature, or so-called self-evident principles.
Deterrence reigns, for Beccaria, as the keyword of the day. The purpose of punishment is to discourage crime, not to achieve balance or to avenge the dignity of the injured party. From this conclusion, Beccaria then derives a set of new and original guidelines for how punishments should be selected. Among them we find the following ideas:
Preventing crime is more valuable than punishing it.
Punishments for crimes should be proportional to the harm done to society by the crime.
Punishments should be as mild as they can be while still being an effective deterrent.
Every crime offends society, but only some crimes threaten the state with destruction, and it is on the latter that laws and punishments should focus.
Honor (the “despotism of opinion”) is not a clear and consistent moral code but a vague and blurry accumulation, hard for us to articulate and understand because it is so personal, much as an object too close to the eye is blurry and hard to focus on. Conflicts between honor, society’s self-interest, and the law have long caused strife.
Dueling is destructive, and in punishing those who cause strife by dueling the party who caused the offense should be held culpable, not the party who challenged him to the duel who “through no fault of his own, has been constrained to defend something that the laws on the books do not assure him, that is, the opinion which others hold of him.” (ch. 10)
Secret denunciations are more tools of calumny than justice and cause more harm than good (it was a widespread practice at the time to have boxes wherein citizens could deposit secret denunciations accusing each other of crimes, especially sodomy and blasphemy, and this was widely abused).
The more promptly punishment follows crime, the more powerful a deterrent it will be.
Since the criminal is doing pleasure-pain calculus, it is less important that the punishment be gruesome than that it be inescapable. The certainty of a mild punishment which is still bad enough to more than counter the benefit of the crime is more effective than a severe punishment which the criminal has a realistic hope of evading.
Crimes against property can be punished with fines, but crimes against persons must be punished with corporal punishment (which includes imprisonment/unfreedom) because otherwise people are reduced in dignity to objects bought and sold. He targets this sentiment particularly against the wealthy, who, in his era, generally paid a fine for crimes including murder, instead of suffering personal punishment.
Banishment is appropriate for those who have been accused of an atrocious crime which is not certain, and who cannot therefore be tolerated to remain. But the property of the banished person should not be confiscated by the state, since that is too powerful an incentive to corruption.
Punishments should be visited on individuals, not whole families, because punishing families as a unit encourages a spirit which thinks of the family as a political unit, rather than individual citizens, and this spirit is opposed to republican sentiment. Such a system would have people think of the paterfamilias as a monarch, and make the nation see itself as ten thousand tiny monarchies instead of fifty thousand free-thinking citizens. (From modern eyes, this is a great example of a sentiment widely agreed with in the modern era, that the individual and not the family should suffer for a crime, but justified by wholly period logic not present in modern legal discourse.)
Crimes are best prevented by combining enlightenment with liberty. The best possible preventative is perfect education.
Crimes can also be prevented by the state awarding rewards for virtue.
And, of course, at the heart of the new ground he intends to break, ground not treated by Montesquieu in whose footsteps Beccaria so reverently treads, lies torture:
What is the purpose of torture?
One proposed purpose, he begins, again trying to puzzle out what logic lies behind the present laws so he can point out its flaws, is that torture helps secure confession and extract truth. Torture’s usefulness as a method of extracting truth had long been a key assumption of the law, so much so that under some legal systems confessions were only admissible if they were extracted under torture, since that was considered the most reliable system (see Roman policies on interrogating slaves, where torture was a necessity before the court would listen). Beccaria then makes the argument (new in his day) that pain breaks innocent people too, so torture will force false confessions from the innocent. Thus, he concludes, torture is not a reliable path to truth, so the goal of extracting information does not rationally justify the use of torture. If torture has any real utility, it must therefore be as a punishment, rather than an interrogation tool. This leads to a very novel and yet, to us, very familiar argument:
A man cannot be called ‘guilty’ before the judge has passed sentence, and society cannot withdraw its protection except when it has been determined that he has violated the contracts on the basis of which that protection was granted to him. What right, then, other than the right of force, gives a judge the power to inflict punishment on a citizen while the question of his guilt or innocence is still in doubt?
In more familiar words, innocent until proven guilty. The argument is more utilitarian than moral: techniques which secure false confession are injurious to justice and society. He further argues that torture is better for the criminal than for the innocent man, a weird but interesting argument. Torture provides the criminal the chance to say “Hey, I deserve this pain, but if I endure it they’ll acquit me and I’ll be spared worse pain,” helping him bear it, while the innocent man suffers not only torture but the despair-inducing knowledge of knowing that he suffers unjustifiably, so if he is found guilty he suffers an injustice, and if he is acquitted he still suffers unjust torture. And on the practice, common in his day, of torturing the guilty to try to force him to confess to other crimes in addition to the one he is accused of, here Beccaria dips into some of his most biting rhetoric, writing: “This is equivalent to the following line of reasoning: ‘You are guilty of one crime; hence it is possible that you are guilty of a hundred others. This doubt weighs on me, and I want to reassure myself by using my criterion of truth. The law torments you because you are guilty, because you may be guilty, because I want you to be guilty’.”
Torture cannot therefore, Beccaria concludes, be useful before conviction, and must used only after conviction, as a punishment, not a tool. But what function does it serve then? The purpose of torture could be to purge or cleanse the soul with pain. This idea is closely tied to religion, not just to Christianity but to a much broader palette of belief systems which hold that pain can discipline the body, clarify the mind, and cleanse the soul. In a broader sense (placing Beccaria’s discussion in context) Christian ideas of Purgatory and Plato’s depiction of the soul’s cleansing before reincarnation both use this idea that fire and pain can burn away past sin and also past bad moral/intellectual development, removing the weight of sin and past dark thoughts, making the soul pure, light, and open to truth. This is also reflected in monastic practices of mortification of the flesh, in the West and East. In this model, the idea is that the pain of an excruciating death is actually good for the convict by helping cleanse the soul and increasing the chances that the criminal will reform, either mending wicked ways and leading a good life thereafter, or, in the case of lethal tortures, paying for the crime before death, increasing the chance of getting into Heaven. Beccaria is so concise and articulate that it keeps being most efficient to just quote him directly:
Another ridiculous reason for torture is the purgation of infamy; that is, a man judged infamous by law must confirm his deposition with the dislocation of his bones. This abuse should not be tolerated in the eighteenth century. The underlying belief is that pain, which is a sensation, purges infamy, which is simply a moral relationship… It is not difficult to go back to the origin of this ridiculous law… This custom seems to be taken from religious and spiritual ideas which have so much influence on the thoughts of men, nations and ages. An infallible dogma assures us that the blemishes which result from human weakness and which yet have not deserved the eternal wrath of the Great Being must be purged with an incomprehensible fire. Now infamy is a civil blemish, and, since pain and fire remove spiritual and disembodied stains, will the spasms of torture not remove a civil stain, namely infamy? (Ch. 16)
In other words, he believes that the concept of Purgatory, and related beliefs that spiritual suffering purges sin and cleans the soul, led people to presume that physical suffering could purge the worldly equivalent of sin, “infamy” or criminality.
This is linked to the idea of certain crimes–mainly intellectual crimes such as heresy, blasphemy, or witchcraft–being somehow contagious, or harming the community of people who contact the criminal, either by spreading, or by inviting divine wrath which might, when punishing one sinner, withhold blessings from neighbors as well, so the plague or famine affects the whole city, doing public harm. Thus the purpose of torture could be to cleanse, not the convict, but the city or society. Here we turn naturally to the questions of heresy, blasphemy, atheism and other crimes of thought which loom ever over the populace, especially over the intellectual. This question Beccaria… evades… for now.
What is the purpose of gruesome execution? Here again torture fails Beccaria’s utility test. Beccaria argues that death is a sufficiently ultimate punishment that anyone who would not be deterred from a crime by death would not be deterred from it by death plus agony. If the sole purpose of punishment is to deter crime, heaping extra punishment on top of death counts nothing. In fact, he goes further. Over time, he argues, as gruesome executions are repeated, and seen as spectacles, the hearts of people are hardened and the torture loses its edge as a deterrent. Since fear is at the heart of deterrence, Beccaria argues that what really matters in cases of Ultimate Punishment is not the actual severity of the punishment but the fact that it be Ultimate. Whatever the severest punishment of a society is, that will command the most fear from the would-be criminal. He posits two imaginary civilizations, one having as its Ultimate Punishment some brutal and protracted death, and the other perpetual slavery. He argues that the two will be equal in how successfully they deter crime, since in both the punishment will loom in the imagination as Ultimate Punishment, instilling the same fear. An interesting theory. As for making a public spectacle of executions, he argues that this trains people to think of execution with a mixture of fear, scorn, pity and perverse enthusiasm. With moderate punishments, though, fear is the only reaction, making them more effective deterrents. “The limit that the legislator should assign to the rigor of punishment, then, seems to be the point at which the feeling of compassion begins to outweigh every other emotion in the hearts of those who witness a chastisement…” (ch. 28). One flaw in the death penalty, he says, is that it means one crime supplies only one example of punishment to the nation, while a lifetime’s hard labor may let the nation continue to see and remember the crime, criminal, and punishment, and so be deterred lifelong. This, of course, posits a system in which the populace has the opportunity to see the “enslaved” prisoner at work, and thereby be constantly reminded of the fruits of crime – Beccaria’s world is one of rock pits and chain gangs, not closed prisons which keep the imprisoned populace out of the public eye and memory.
Beccaria therefore advocates mildness of punishments, and argues against the death penalty, not because he thinks it is immoral, but because he thinks it is less useful than lifelong punishments. He also argues that it might make people suspect the law of hypocrisy, when those employed to punish homicide commit it, and that this confusion could undermine public respect for the law. Executions, he says, encourage bloodlust in the populace, and decreases, he thinks, rather than increasing, deterrance. But his argument against it is not entrenched – he is far more interested in arguing against gruesome punishments than against death, which he presents simply as a reasonable option which is not to be preferred while others are more effective. He does throw the full flower of his rhetoric into his argument against the death penalty, but not in order to move the reader’s passions to horror at how terrible it is to execute people. Instead he stresses how much everyone would rejoice and love their monarchs if the monarchs discarded the old laws and instituted new laws based on the Light of Reason. “How happy humanity would be if laws were being given to it for the first time, now that we see beneficent monarchs seated on the thrones of Europe!” (ch. 29). Today’s enlightened princes, he argues, genuinely want to make good and better laws, and in this Age of Reason they could finally strike down the old and muddled law and replace it with something rational and good, saving all humanity from the tyranny of archaic and defective law codes. He finishes this section with a sentiment very alien and unexpected to the modern reader: “If such monarchs, I say, allow ancient laws to remain, it is the result of the infinite difficulty of stripping errors of the venerable rust of many centuries. This is a reason for enlightened citizens to desire more ardently the continued increase of their authority.” In other words, he believes that the best way to eliminate torture and gruesome executions is to have an absolute authoritarian monarch, who, moved by the spirit of the Enlightenment, and empowered to rewrite law and government as he will, will make a better, more rational government. Here modern readers, raised to associate “innocent until proven guilty” and bans on “cruel and unusual punishment” with democratic anti-authoritarian sentiments, experience a moment of healthy historical whiplash.
Toward the very end, after his outline of a new ethic of punishment and his declaration of confidence in enlightened monarchy, Beccaria at last turns, timidly, to that most dangerous of issues, that is the punishment of heresy, blasphemy, atheism, etc. I say most dangerous because this is the arena which could get our author in very deep and potentially lethal political trouble. At this moment, the violence of the Wars of Religion continues to flare, fresh religious persecutions and burnings are constantly in the news, and Beccaria must be a good Catholic or risk paying a lethal price which had become more and more common as Reformation concerns spread. If the pre-Reformation Inquisition’s most common punishment for heresy was a tedious course of lectures, this deep into the age of heavily politicized religious violence it was rarely the slow and methodical inquisitors and more often the swift secular magistrates, or the mob, who burned or massacred. Beccaria is a proud, free-thinking optimist who wants to reform and improve the human condition. His heart has thrilled at Voltaire’s calls for religious tolerance, at the pro-peace “Irenist” movement that had finally let England stop massacring its citizens over the differences between transubstantiation and consubstantiation. But he is also a Milanese Catholic and knows what fate awaits he who dares wake the barely-sleeping dragon. He does not even dare name the issue he addresses in “Chapter 39: On a Particular Type of Crime“. It is single brave paragraph, which I will quote almost in its entirety, so as to give you a full taste of the artful irony and quiet grief of this intellectual forced to bridle himself, to make the mandatory profession of support for religious persecution. Yet, through the coat of lies he must paint across his message, the passion of his objection shines, clear as a star:
The reader of this work will notice that I have omitted a kind of crime which covered Europe with human blood and raised those terrible pyres where living human bodies fed the fire. It was a pleasing entertainment and an agreeable concert of the blind mob to hear the muffled, confused groans of poor wretches issuing out of vortices of black smoke–the smoke of human limbs–amid the crackling of charred bones and the sizzling of palpitating entrails. But rational men will see that the place where I live, the present age, and the matter at hand do not permit me to examine the nature of such a crime. It would take me too long and too far from my subject to prove how a perfect uniformity of thought is necessary in a state, the example of many nations to the contrary not withstanding; how opinions that differ only in a few subtle and obscure points altogether beyond human comprehension can nonetheless disturb public order if one of them is not authorized to the exclusion of the others… It would take me too long to prove that, however odious the triumph of force over human minds may seem, since the only fruits of its conquest are dissembling and, consequently, degradation; however contrary it may seem to the spirit of gentleness and brotherly love enjoined by reason and the authority we most revere; it is still necessary and indispensable… [In this treatise] I speak only of crimes that arise from human nature and from the social contract. I do not address myself to sins; their punishment, even in this world, should be governed by principles other than those of a narrow philosophy.
A sad self-portrait peeks through here. Odious force has triumphed over human minds and degraded Beccaria. He, and his partners, must dissemble. Yet the conquest is not full. He has hope still that his little treatise will be read by kindred spirits, by those “sensitive souls [who] respond to whoever upholds the interests of humanity,” by those fellow readers of Locke and Montesquieu who will read between the lines and recognize him as a “peaceful friend of the truth.” His hope is not in vain.
What were the consequences of young Beccaria’s little treatise On Crimes and Punishments?
It spread like wildfire. There it penetrated the salon culture whose radical intellectual experiments had inspired Beccaria’s Accademia dei pugni. And it reached Voltaire. Voltaire, who exercised literally unprecedented influence, as a new age saturated with printing houses made it possible for the first time for an independent intellectual to support himself, and see that his ideas reached every corner of literate Europe with unheard-of speed. Voltaire, whose wit and incisiveness made everyone who could sit up and listen, not only intellectuals but the great public he entertained. Voltaire, who had just come through the terrible crisis of the Lisbon Earthquake, the death of his beloved Emilie, and in Candide (1759) proclaimed his conviction that it is the duty of a thinking person to cultivate the human garden. This moment began the latter stage of Voltaire’s career, when he moved from popularizing Enlightenment ideals to direct political activism. He campaigned against religious violence and judicial murder. He spoke out against particular cases and trials and fired France with outrage and calls for reform. And he made sure everyone read Beccaria.
And it worked.
Rarely in the history of thought do I have a chance to say the outcome was so simply good, but it worked. Within their lifetimes, Voltaire and Beccaria saw real reform, a sincere and solid transformation of the legal codes of most of Europe, the spread of deterrence-based justicial thought. Within decades, judicial torture virtually vanished from European law. The laws of America, and of the other new constitutions drafted in the latter 18th century, all show the touch of Beccaria’s call. It worked. The change was not absolute, of course. Torture, the primary target, retreated, as did the notions of retributive justice, avenging dignity, and purging sin. But prisons were still squalid, punishments severe, and other things Beccaria had campaigned against remained, capital punishment primary among them. But even here there was what Beccaria would call progress. The guillotine lives in infamy, but it too was a consequence of this call for enlightened justice: a quick, egalitarian execution, death with the least possible suffering, and equal for all, giving no advantage to the noble, who had long been able to hire an expert and humane headsman while the poor man suffered the clumsy hackings of an amateur who might take many blows to sever a writhing neck. Most states judged death still necessary, but agreed that law and punishment should bind all men equally, and that unnecessary pain did not serve the public good. It is strange to call the guillotine a happy ending, but it was in a small way, and even more victorious was the dialog that birthed it. The first country to ever abolish the death penalty was the Duchy of Tuscany, which did so on Beccaria’s utilitarian grounds rather than principle (Hey, look, Machiavelli! Your new branch of ethics, flourishing in Florence!).
Between them, Beccaria and Voltaire made people think seriously and critically about the tortures which had been employed so long without consideration of their purpose. Beccaria asked people to ask themselves why we use torture, and the reading public did just that. Judges examined the questions, jurists, even kings. And they did change things. Even the sad and careful chapter about “a particular type of crime” had its impact. After all, in the eighteenth century so many carried the torches of reform that even among the magistrates and priests and censors whose job it was to suppress threats to the status quo, many were secret sympathizers, in favor of the changes they were employed to slow, and willing to read Beccaria’s chapter “on a particular type of crime” and realize (as we can’t fail to) his true meaning, but give it the stamp of approval anyway, and hope wholeheartedly that it would do some good. It did. Not universal good, not perfect. It needed a next step, and there were many atrocities it did not manage to prevent, especially in the colonial world. But it did real good nonetheless. The days of European governments and Churches sawing men in half gave way. And when later on there were movements to reduce violence against slaves and conquered peoples, these too owe some thanks to the 26-year-old jurist from Milan who turned his friends’ idealistic ambition into such potent prose.
The target of Beccaria’s treatise was not torture itself, nor the death penalty, nor even the concept of retributive justice. His target was the unquestioning acceptance with which his age enforced the mass of traditional opinions which was then called “law.” We have not eliminated torture from the world, but, in the nations touched by the Enlightenment at least, that unquestioning acceptance of old laws has been conquered. We still have much to fix, many more steps to take in the footsteps of Voltaire and Montesquieu, but if, when I turn up for small town jury duty, the defense attorney begins by asking the jurors our opinions about the purpose of punishment, then, even if he blurs deterrence and retribution, even if the court stenographer doesn’t know how to spell Beccaria’s name, Beccaria is present in the conversation, and the fact that there is a conversation is his victory. And ours.
But Voltaire and I still agree: everyone go read Beccaria!
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11 Responses to “On Crimes and Punishments and Beccaria”
Jo Walton said:
Looking backwards at history, it’s so easy to see it as inevitable, one thing naturally leading to another. It takes this kind of analysis to show that it isn’t — that it was all individual people doing what they could and changing everything. We could have had technology without applying reason in this direction. I’m so glad we didn’t!
SamChevre said:
My knowledge is of Germany and its neighbors more than of Italy, but this seems to me to be unlikely:
At this moment, the violence of the Wars of Religion continues to flare, fresh religious persecutions and burnings are constantly in the news, and Beccaria must be a good Catholic or risk paying a lethal price which had become more and more common as Reformation concerns spread.
The Wars of Religion mostly end (as I understand it) with the Peace of Westphalia–that’s 100 years prior to Beccaria. The last listed Anabaptist martyr in Martyr’s Mirror is Hans Landis in 1614. I’m not aware of any executions for heresy in Europe after 1700.
I’m greatly enjoying this blog–thank you for all the education!
Ex Urbe said:
Indeed you are right – my language was vague.
The period refers to formally as the Wars of Religion had wrapped up by this point, but there was still a lot of Catholic-Protestant violence in the Eighteenth Century, though less open war official state violence than private violence, mob violence, and judicial murder, cases where someone would be arrested for a trumped up charge like kidnapping and die during the interrogation in what was not officially a heresy trial. The most famous case, of course, is that of Jean Calais, much publicized by Voltaire, a Huganot who was arrested nominally for murdering his son who had supposed to have wanted to convert to Catholocism. Calais died under torture in 1762, and his goods were confiscated and his widow and children forced to enter monasteries. Voltaire campaigned fiercely to have the sentence overturned and makde the case a great centerpiece for discussion of Beccaria’s ideas.
Thus the 18th century violence and smaller wars discussed by Voltaire, Beccaria and other Enlightenment sources were not the original wars of the Reformation, but they were read by those who experienced them as extensions of the same thing, since religious difference fueled the flames so much. After reading about them for a long time, it feels somehow right to me to call them the same Wars of Religion, much as some historians call the First and Second World Wars the “Second Thirty Years War,” to remind us of their close historical relationship.
Jen said:
Wow. What an amazingly educational and inspiring piece. It certainly answered my questions many times over! Thank you so much Ex Urbe. I took my time reading over it and absorbing it all and I learned a lot. Strangely, it fits in perfectly with the subject dealt with in a film I recently watched called ‘A Royal Affair’, about a physician called Johann Friedrich Struensee, and his time at the Royal Court of Denmark in the late 1700’s. He took control of the monarchy’s governance of the country, and brought in thousands of reforms, all of them in line with the beliefs of the Enlightenment movement. In one scene he is shown receiving a letter of approval from Voltaire. Ironically, he died at the hands of an inept axeman, who hacked at his head several times before it was struck off. (That was after having his hand cut off.) I wonder if you saw the film and if you enjoyed it?
Anyway, I was fascinated to read the thinking behind the methods of torture and death which were used in those days, and how they were genuinely thought to have a higher religious purpose. (At least initially.) I still suspect that sadism, revenge and cruelty for the sake of it had a lot more to do with it in many circumstances, than any ideas of “cleansing the soul” and “ensuring entry to Heaven.” Although these may have been the initial reasons given, I suspect they quickly became convenient excuses. Did Henry VIII really care if Anne Boleyn’s (or any of his other poor victims) souls entered Heaven? Or did he want to see them suffer as an act of revenge? The same goes for the Borgias Pope and Bishop Savonarolla and many other examples which I’m sure you know far better than me!
This leads onto Beccaria’s belief that “the best way to eliminate torture and gruesome executions is to have an absolute authoritarian monarch, who, moved by the spirit of the Enlightenment, and empowered to rewrite law and government as he will, will make a better, more rational government”. Also, this is exactly what Struensee did in Denmark! If we are to have a monarchy, far better than they fit Beccaria’s model than that they are greedy tyrant’s or (as we have today in Britain) useless figureheads who simply drain tax funds from the country.
Here are my favourite quote’s from your post, which I will take with me –
‘Beccaria likens self-interest to gravity, a powerful and universal force driving people toward action which can only be stopped by an opposing force.’
‘A man cannot be called ‘guilty’ before the judge has passed sentence, What right, then, other than the right of force, gives a judge the power to inflict punishment on a citizen while the question of his guilt or innocence is still in doubt?’
‘Can the cries of a poor wretch turn back time and undo actions which have already been done?’
‘The limit that the legislator should assign to the rigor of punishment, then, seems to be the point at which the feeling of compassion begins to outweigh every other emotion in the hearts of those who witness a chastisement…’
I hope you don’t mind me copying and pasting what was one of the most important passages in your post, it terms of explaining the point of punishment and it’s role in religion?
“The purpose of torture could be to purge or cleanse the soul with pain. This idea is closely tied to religion, not just to Christianity but to a much broader palette of belief systems which hold that pain can discipline the body, clarify the mind, and cleanse the soul. In a broader sense (placing Beccaria’s discussion in context) Christian ideas of Purgatory and Plato’s depiction of the soul’s cleansing before reincarnation both use this idea that fire and pain can burn away past sin and also past bad moral/intellectual development, removing the weight of sin and past dark thoughts, making the soul pure, light, and open to truth. This is also reflected in monastic practices of mortification of the flesh, in the West and East. In this model, the idea is that the pain of an excruciating death is actually good for the convict by helping cleanse the soul and increasing the chances that the criminal will reform, either mending wicked ways and leading a good life thereafter, or, in the case of lethal tortures, paying for the crime before death, increasing the chance of getting into Heaven.”
Douglas Knight said:
Maybe I’m reading in too much, but I find striking the places Beccaria models humans as rational and the places he doesn’t.
Since the criminal is doing pleasure-pain calculus, it is less important that the punishment be gruesome than that it be inescapable.
Today such fixation on certainty is considered irrational, but normal. Psychologists reject the premise and argument, but affirm the conclusion.
An example in the opposite direction, where Beccaria seems to have a specific irrational model is
the importance of an ultimate punishment, and the lack of importance of its details.
Keller Scholl said:
His commentary on adultery (Chapter 31) stands very strong against the rational model. It seems like he is modeling people as rational to the extent that he can reconcile that model with reality, and freely admitting the breaks from rationality without letting that diminish his confidence in the rational-creature model.
I went out and started to Read Beccaria. By page 10(linked translation, near the end of chapter III), I was slightly puzzled. He opposes appeals courts, for reasons that he doesn’t seem to give. Could anyone shed some light?
For anyone who wants a translation that doesn’t have missing pages (28 and 29 aren’t there on the linked version, and possibly more after that), I found http://constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm . That doesn’t have Voltaire’s comments, for which you would need to go back to the original link.
Interesting question about appeals. I don’t remember that part off the top of my head. I will try to review it next time I have a chance (not soon, unfortunately: conference this week). Does anyone else have that part in mind more freshly than I do?
I suspect that the adultery discussion is using the old model of the “passions” used by Plato, Aristotle and, modified, Descartes. In this model the Passions have the ability to overwhelm the reason, making one judge poorly, sort-of like water flooding a pocketwatch and gumming the clockwork. The Reason is still rational and is still what is in charge, but it can’t work properly when passions or appetites overhwelm it and cloud it (and especially cloud its sense data).
On Progress and Historical Change – Ex Urbe said:
[…] one idea reshaped our world. Readers have seen me do this here on Ex Urbe, describing how Beccaria persuaded Europe to discontinue torture, how Petrarch sparked the Renaissance, how Machiavelli gave us so much. Histories of agents, of […]
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LG one of the oldest smartphone manufacturer, who manufactures the best and a limited number of smartphones every year. To kick off the year 2017, LG coming with a flagship device that is named as LG G6, which is going to have a Massive display of 5’7” inches. The special feature of LG G6 is, it’s 5’7” full HD LCD with 1440×2880 resolution and made with 18:9 aspect ratio in a move sue to anger math nerds the world over.
LG G6 Smartphone Features Specifications
Full HD+ is one of the impressive features of LG G6. Apparently, in order to satisfy the customer, LG specially focussed on display. They also said LG G6 made with Ultra High Definition technology, with an LCD.
LG G6 will run on Android 7.0.
LG G6 will have 6GB RAM and the device available in two variants namely 64GB and 128GB.
This device may have 16MP primary camera. Actually its Dual Camera and has 12MP front facing camera to capture High quality selfies.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 platform used in LG G6.
Fast Charging, 4G LTE, Fingerprint sensor are few commonly observed features of LG G6.
Every smartphone manufacturer is trying to become the supreme of the smartphone market. In that practice, every smartphone manufacturer is trying different tactics. Samsung is in profits in the first quarter because of using OLEDs in their smartphone display. Now Samsung providing OLEDs and helping Apple to improve their smartphone’s display.
LG G6 Smartphone Price & Release Date
As per the source of information, this device currently under testing. This device yet to launch officially. We came to know that, this device going to release in the market at the end of February month. This device is supposed to release in an event named Mobile World Congress which is going to held in the month of February. Now even LG looking forward to strengthen themselves in the smartphone market. It’s first LG Flagship device in the year 2017. Currently, price of this device had not been officially revealed.
Now, LG taking special care on display and trying to grab the attention of buyers. However LG is using LCD with proper resolution, and aspect ratio, I believe people don’t show much interest in LCD’s because the whole world is currently running behind OLED’s. However, the device LG G6 yet to launch in the market. Hope this device attract some serious buyers. Keep visiting this space to know much more news regarding smartphones.
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County notes: Justice center planning moves forward
Story by: Arpan Lobo
WEST OLIVE — Ottawa County commissioners voted Tuesday to officially approve the planning of a new Family Justice Center that will be located in its Fillmore Street Complex in West Olive.
Following a 7-2 vote, the county will assign an integrated project delivery (IPD) team to plan the design and construction of the project. The project cost could be anywhere from an estimated $15-$22 million, depending on the final size of the building.
The IPD is for the first phase of a potential three-phase project, taking place over the course of many years. The first phase would be the construction of a new facility that would house the county Friend of the Court, the county juvenile court, and support staff for children involved in family court cases. Additionally, increased office space, conference rooms and holding cells would be included.
During a a previous study session, county staff detailed its reasoning for the new facility. Sandra Metcalf, county juvenile court director, told commissioners that current facilities in Grand Haven and at the Fillmore Street Complex in West Olive lack adequate space for typical court functions. A lack of appropriate meeting spaces for staff as well as attorneys and clients is an issue in both complexes. At the Fillmore complex, security issues persist.
Incarcerated individuals at the complex walk through public waiting areas when being transferred. Limited lobby space prevents separating conflicting parties, which can be traumatic for individuals involved in family cases, Metcalf said. A lack of accessible restrooms remains a problem as well.
Expansion on the current facility at Fillmore would be difficult, according to Deputy County Administrator John Shay. HVAC equipment on the roof of the building is expensive to move, which would be required if the building were to be expanded in height. Adding additional space by expanding the building outward would involve flattening parts of the surrounding wooded area or eliminating parking spaces, which Shay said are already limited.
The planned Family Justice Center was originally called the Juvenile Justice Center, but Ottawa County Chief Circuit Judge Jon Van Allsburg told the board that the new name more accurately reflects the building’s intended function.
Two commissioners voted against the motion. Commissioner Doug Zylstra, who represents much of the city of Holland and Commissioners Allen Dannenberg, who represents parts of Holland township, the city of Zeeland and parts of Zeeland township, voted no.
Both dissenting commissioners cited a lack of alternative options to the proposed project as a reason for voting no. Dannenberg added that he wondered if enough research had gone into updating existing security issues, like the lack of space. He said that any safety concerns at Ottawa County facilities need to be addressed immediately.
Zylstra told commissioners that he would have liked to have seen possible lower cost options as well.
County Administrator Al Vanderberg said that bidding for the project would likely take place later this fall, adding that it is a two year project.
The meeting also featured the approval of the purchase of a new mobile dental unit for its Miles of Smiles program. The current mobile dental unit has been in use since 2004, and provides dental servies 1,300 to 1,400 underserved Ottawa County residents, performed by volunteering dentists and dental hygiene students from Grand Rapids Community College.
The cost for the vehicle and dental equipment is an estimated $575,000. The county has received a $200,000 grant from Delta Dental Services, a $10,000 grant from the Holland/Zeeland Community Foundation, and expects to receive between $50,000 and $80,000 for the sale of the old vehicle. The added grants and potential sale revenue could place the final cost at closer to $285,000.
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Haiti Surgical Team - October 2010
Mission Dates: October 8-16, 2010
The following reports have been edited
REPORT FROM THE TEAM LEADER, MAXIME COLES, MD
We all arrived in Port-au-Prince on the week-end of October 9-10, 2010 and started our week of work after a short welcome at the Diquini Hospital. Our group, which consisted of three orthopedists, two general surgeons, one anesthesiologist, one nurse practitioner, one OR nurse and one clinical nurse did a fantastic job.
We rented a "Tap-Tap" to taxi us to and from the hospital every day from our modest accommodations at the Auberge du Quebec Hotel. Most tap-taps are pick-up trucks, where the back side is open-air, with some wooden planks setup to accommodate seating for passengers. Upon our first arrival, we were surprised to see the level of organization at the Diquini Hospital. Having been here many times, I have personally never seen so much activity and interaction between hospital departments in Haiti. Efficiently handling transfers between the ER, clinics and different services is a new practice for this under-developed country. The homogeneity of the forms used by all Haitian hospitals and clinics surprised me. We found a level of organization that will certainly need refinement with time, but was very functional for our purposes.
Each day started with a prayer at the Hospital Chapel followed immediately with rounds on all the orthopedic patients. I presume that the same mechanism was in place for the general surgical team. Physicians, nurses, therapists and other hospital employees were present during rounds to learn and discuss the management of each patient. Once rounds were over and typical instructions for discharge, cast change or dressing changes were given, a daily clinic with 30 to 40 patients was waiting for us.
After or sometimes during clinic, surgical cases were taken one after another to the operating room. Due to the high volume, we sometimes did not return to our hotel rooms until 8 or 9PM. Many of the Haitian orthopedic residents from the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince who worked with me through the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad were present at my request to help us in achieving our mission. Our lone anesthesiologist showed extreme dedication in trying to organize the operating theater that consisted of two functional rooms and helping us perform as many cases as it was feasible to handle. During only one afternoon did he receive support from a local anesthesiologist.
Some of the many cases we attended to included infections, poor healing of wounds, failure of hardware, mal-unions, non-unions, congenital cases like osteogenesis imperfecta, cerebral palsy, hernias, thyroglossal cyst, scrotal mass, incarcerated hernia, bone tumor, tendon and nerve injuries, compartment syndrome, angular deformity, amputation, complicated fractures, external fixators, etc.
As part of the re-structuring process of this institution, a new wing will provide expansion to allow an Orthotic and prosthetic team already on site to implement a department capable of manufacturing devices to help the 3000 amputees of the country.
In conclusion, for us, this has been an experience of a lifetime that we will cherish. At the end of our week of cooperation with the staff at Diquini Hospital, we graciously thanked them for their hospitality and the opportunity they have given us to work for the people of Haiti.
It has been a privilege to help the people of Haiti through this ICS sponsored Surgical Team. We want to thank the International College of Surgeons for allowing us to be part of this great experience.
REPORT FROM TEAM CO-LEADER, TONY JUMELLE, MD
This was the first surgical mission organized solely under the auspices of the ICS, US Section in years. The initiative and the site were carefully planned by Dr. Jay Bachicha, President of the ICS, US Section.
Site: Hopital Adventiste d’ Haiti (AHA), located in Carrefour, Haiti, a suburb of the Capital, Port-au-Prince, and epicenter of the January 2010 catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 250,000 people. The hospital was a 30 year-old facility manned by local and, mainly, volunteer medical personnel from the United States.
Pre-mission Coordination: The mission effort was meticulously coordinated by Dr. Jay Bachicha and Amy Russell of AHA. As Dr. Bachicha was unable to join the team, he appointed Dr. Maxime Coles as the team leader and Dr. Antoine (Tony) Jumelle as co-leader.
Team Composition and Specialties:
Dr. Maxime Coles, Orthopedics
Dr. Patrick Lecorps, Orthopedics
Dr. Geoffrey Miller, Pediatric Orthopedics
Dr. John Downey, Anesthesiology
Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike, General Surgery and Critical Care/Trauma
Dr. Antoine Jumelle, General Surgery
Elizabeth Leconte Hrico, RN
Michele Miller, RN
Monica Loelke, RN
Amy Russell provided the team members with general information about AHA, the program participation fee of $15.00 per night per volunteer, the austere accommodations at AHA, the needed immunizations, a short travel medication list, a list of the needed supplies and medications for the hospital, the contact information for a nearby hotel.
Accommodations:
Dr. Jumelle had a local contact visit and evaluate the accommodations at the Auberge du Quebec, at about 5-minute drive from the hospital without traffic jam. They were adequate for post-earthquake Carrefour/Port-au-Prince. The team members stayed at the hotel, but Dr. Dissanaike and Monica who stayed at the hospital. Lunch was served at the hospital Monday through Friday. Those staying at the hotel met for breakfast and, mainly, for supper.
Attire: casuals or scrubs
Hospital admission/procedure fees: free for children up to 5 years of age and all orthopedic patients. Patients in need of a general surgical procedure had to pay a fee in agreement with the hospital administration. Some of the patients seen by our surgical team could not have the needed procedure because they could not pay the fees.
Hospital Settings:
One-room ED
Ortho Clinic
Surgery Clinic/Outpatient wound care
One large room ward/preop area
One large room ward/postop area
Small X-ray Department area with one old X-Ray machine, old ultrasound, and old C-Arm
A few individual rooms on the second floor
Two “functional” operating rooms, one with a portable lamp: supplies as donated by previous teams.
Personnel Interaction: The local personnel, but the interpreters, seemed withdrawn from all these English-speaking volunteers.
The ICS, US Section, Team Work:
Dr. John Downey, Anesthesiologist, was the first member of the team to arrive in Port-au-Prince on October 7, 2010. He started working on October 8, 2010, organizing the anesthesia supplies, checking all the machines, cleaning up after the previous crew, and making sure that everything was ready for our team. John was the type of fellow who wanted things done the right way and provided optimum care with substandard equipment. He made himself available all the time. He had participated on previous surgical missions.
Dr. Antoine Jumelle, General Surgery, arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday, October 8, 2010. He was given a tour of the hospital on Saturday. This is a holiday for Adventists, however he was asked to evaluate a 16 year-old traumatic-paraplegic girl from the earthquake, with multiple decubiti, for possible debridement in the OR on Sunday. The patient needed appropriate wound care. Dr. Jumelle continued to perform and supervise the wound care throughout our mission. He provided an in-service on wound care and the use of the KCI wound V.A.C. device. At the time of our departure, the nursing staff was using his teaching to prepare PDF slides for the current and future nursing/wound care specialist staff. On Sunday, October 10, 2010, Dr. Jumelle evaluated patients in the surgical clinic for surgery on Monday.
Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike , General Surgery and Critical Care/Trauma, arrived in Port-au-Prince on October 10, 2010. A fellow of the College, she was enthusiastic about the mission. She stayed at the hospital and was available 24 hours a day. It was as if she was in her native Sri Lanka. A real delight to work with her! The nursing staff felt comfortable working with her. She and Dr. Jumelle worked as a team, assisting each other in the operating room, one covering the clinic as needed while the other one is in the operating room. She made things happen. She excised a thyroglossal cyst in a 3 year-old patient. When the word went out, close to the end of our mission, that she was releasing tongue frenulum under local anesthesia, parents were hurrying up to get access to her. Sharmila demonstrated a genuine interest in this mission and, possibly, future missions, as well as in the future of our organization.
Surgical Team Work:
Monday through Friday from 0730: staff meeting, OR, surgical clinic, wound care.
Surgical cases: 1 re-recurrent inguinal hernia
1 inguino-scrotal hernia
1 umbilical hernia
1 thyroglossal cyst excision
1 facial soft tissue mass excision
1 revision/debridement of infected BKA stump
2 hydrocelectomies
2 circumcisions
3 cases of release of tongue frenulum
Interesting cases evaluated , but not operated:
Thyroid goiter: incomplete work up
Incarcerated /strangulated inguinoscrotal hernia, one month post op: anesthesia not
available.
Orthopedic Team Work:
See previous report by Dr. Maxime Coles.
Dr. Maxime Coles and Patrick Lecorps: Personally known to me. We attended same primary and secondary schools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We were inducted into the College’s fellowship in 1989. Hard-working fellows who care about their patients. Maxime referred a scrotal mass and the
strangulated hernia to the surgical team.
Dr. Geoffrey Miller: our cameraman! Always excited about the events! Not a new comer to the surgical missions. He had just completed a mission in Peru and, yet, he joined his friend, Maxime, to provide more care to the needy Haitians.
Nursing Staff Contribution:
A special gratitude to Elizabeth, Monica, and Michele for their dedication! It took a team work to accomplish the mission and their contribution was most valuable. I would like to have them on my team in the future.
Challenges to Our Mission:
Patients evaluated by the surgeons and unable to afford surgery because they are poor. After all, we are volunteering to help the needy!
Lack of personnel: our team had one anesthesiologist for 5 surgeons
Supplies: Patient was not getting supplies for post op care from the hospital. They had to buy their own. They barely had the money to pay for their procedures! In future missions, we may need to dispense our supplies to the patients and not give them to the hospital unless we have a memorandum of understanding.
Was our Mission a Success?
Yes! You could see it on the face of our patients! They blessed me and they blessed our team over and over again. One could not help, but think that it was a worthy mission!
What Made our Mission a Success?
The personality and enthusiasm of our team along with the presence of providers, native to the country contributed greatly to the success of this project. The patients were happy to not just deal with English-speaking providers through interpreters, but through providers who spoke their language. Any future surgical mission must have such providers. By the way, the patients were happy to hear some Creole from our team.
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The 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014
By Jonathon Sturgeon
2014 will go down as a landmark year in independent literature, chiefly because a few longstanding “trends” or “developments” are hardening into verifiable traits of fiction and poetry beyond Big Publishing. To begin with, independent poetry, noted especially here in the works of Claudia Rankine and Andrew Durbin, is becoming more sophisticated in the way it encroaches upon other forms of visual and literary art. Elsewhere, in fiction, a greater tendency toward autofictional novels of emotional maturation — typically in a cruel world — is colliding with the arriving generation’s faith in the bending of genres. The increasing confidence these writers have in their forms is beginning to show in the way they assert themselves against an older generation, sure, but it’s also showing up in the quality of the books. Plainly put: line for line, stanza for stanza, independent writing, and therefore independent publishing, is better than it was just a few years ago.
I’ll add a single note: I’ve left out “literary non-fiction” because I didn’t want to navigate the huge expanse of books that could possibly fit within that category.
Citizen, Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
I’ll come out and say it: Rankine got robbed at the National Book Awards. (But I’ve already made that case.) No matter, this formally stunning lyric will stand the test of time. In a century, most of the books on any list will be forgotten, but Rankine’s Citizen will rest in our hands, like an astrolabe, measuring the distance between privileged and disenfranchised bodies, pushing us both forward and backward in time.
The Author and Me, Eric Chevillard, trans. Jordan Stump (Dalkey)
Perhaps the funniest literary writer in the world, Eric Chevillard outdid himself this year with The Author and Me, which takes the prevailing metafictional trend to new comedic (and literary) heights.
The Albertine Workout, Anne Carson (New Directions)
If I tell you that this is a 59-paragraph essay-poem on Albertine from Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, you may balk. If you’ve read Proust at least once, you’ll probably buy this excellent pamphlet right now. If you’re unsure, maybe just side with the latter option.
The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink (Dorothy)
I’ve already argued that this is the debut of the year, a claim later challenged (but not overturned) by Atticus Lish’s Preparations for the Next Life. Like Lish’s book, The Wallcreeper is raw. But there is an acerbic exuberance, barely contained, in Zink’s writing that countless writers aim for but fail to harness. And after watching Zink read in person, I’m convinced she’s endowed with the psychodramatic volatility of someone who cares more than most everyone else.
Leavetaking, Peter Weiss (Melville House Books)
This is the most under-covered, undervalued release of 2014. Weiss is one of the four or five greatest post-war European authors, and this autofictional masterpiece more or less superannuates all of the autofiction that follows. A brutally honest account of bourgeois decay, artistic development — Weiss was a polymath who painted, filmed, and wrote in virtually every form — and sexual maturation, Leavetaking forms one have of a larger novel called Exiles. I hope Melville House publishes the second half soon.
Made to Break, D. Foy (Two Dollar Radio)
The title of this book describes its form. It’s as if Foy first wrote the book as a treatment before breaking it up into something more transparently literary and intellectual. This is an assured first work — already compared to the early novels of Denis Johnson and others — from an author who may still find a deeper form
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante (Europa)
The independent translation “event of the year” may belong to Europa’s Elena Ferrante, the Neapolitan recluse and author of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third book in the Neapolitan Novels trilogy. Ferrante is a ferocious writer, and this series of books is giving notice to the world that she is one of the best writers that we have — even if we have no idea who she is.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride (Coffee House)
I’m still sitting with this devastating debut — it calls for several consecutive re-readings — but I can say that it deserves its comparisons to Faulkner and, more probably, Joyce. This is to say that, like Portrait of the Artist, McBride’s narrative language develops as its protagonist, a half-formed child, matures. One of the bravest books of the year, it may come to be seen as the best.
If the Tabloids are True What Are You?, Matthea Harvey (Graywolf)
More and more, the best poetry books meld visual art and poetry, often in prose stanzas. Matthea Harvey’s new collection is no exception. This urgent book, one that contains semi-magical concoctions like “The Backyard Mermaid,” is truer to our lives than any Buddha shoveling snow.
Blood Splatters Quickly, Edward Wood Jr. (OR Books)
I will never stop praising this book. You may know of Ed Wood Jr. as the worst filmmaker in Hollywood history, but you probably didn’t know that he spent his later life writing pulp for proto-porno mags that pushed the boundaries of sexual politics. This collection brings together the best of Wood’s writing, and every moment of it tantalizes.
Tristano, Nanni Balestrini, trans. Mike Harakis (Verso)
There are 109,027,350,432,000 variations of this novel, which uses an algorithm to reposition its paragraphs. The effect of the feat is magnified by the fact that, while reading it, it’s difficult to tell that it’s generated. This also means that unless it sells 200 trillion copies, no one will ever buy the same version as you. It’s also just a good book.
Preparation for the Next Life, Atticus Lish (Tyrant)
If Céline was a nice person instead of a fascistic asshole, he may have written a version of Atticus Lish’s Preparation for the Next Life. Dwight Garner has already called it “perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade.”
You Have to Fucking Eat, Adam Mansbach (Akashic)
The cover of this book more or less explains itself. It’s a children’s book for adults, by which I mean, you can give this to your friend who is also a parent, and he will entertain himself with, not distracting you, for at least thirty minutes.
Self-Portrait in Green, Marie NDiaye, trans. Jordan Stump (Two Lines Press)
One of France’s most startling new voices, NDiaye’s introduction to American audiences is a bravura collection of stories that may or may not double as autofictional memoirs: I simply can’t tell. This hypnotic book estranges life, marriage, motherhood, and memory like no other book in recent memory.
Wittgenstein Jr., Lars Iyer (Melville House Books)
One of the funniest books of the year, this philosophical bildung shows that intellectuality can be poignant, especially when its couched within a campus novel.
The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover (Dzanc)
A sequel to Coover’s first novel, Origin of the Brunists, this 1,100-page novel from an American treasure will unfortunately scare most readers away. That’s too bad, because it is without question of the best works of 2014. Just read the description:
West Condon, small-town USA, five years later: the Brunists are back, loonies and “cretins” aplenty in tow, wanting it all—sainthood and salvation, vanity and vacuity, God’s fury and a good laugh—for the end is at hand.
Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky, David Connerley Nahm (Two Dollar Radio)
In 2014, Two Dollar Radio emerged as one of the one of the small presses to beat, and one of their flagship books was David Connerley Nahm’s Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky. Nahm’s is one of the more impressive writers out of a growing group who are reclaiming the region as a literary hotbed. Measured, poetic, and propelled forward by its own logic, this novel should have a long life.
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books, Henri Michaux, trans. Gillian Conoley (City Lights)
The Belgian Michaux was a paragon of esotericism in the 20th century. A wildly traveled cultural polymath, Michaux wrote in a wide range of modes. These three books, collected by the legendary City Lights, bring together some of the artist’s best mergers of art and poetry.
The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, C.D. Rose and Andrew Gallix (Melville House Books)
This selection may appear to break the rules, but this hilarious “dictionary” of literary may not be as non-fictional as you think. It helped inspire my new favorite life-negating maxim: fail worse and go out on bottom.
A Little Lumpen Novelita, Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer (New Directions)
Now that the predictable series of needless Bolaño backlashes is over, we can quietly celebrate the arrival of this excellent little book, which, yes, has the best title of the year.
Diary of the Fall, Michel Laub, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (Other Press)
Many of the best contemporary novels — especially those overtly influenced by literary modernism — are postlapsarian: they hint to a world after the Fall, a time or historical moment beyond the pale. Laub’s Diary of the Fall is one of the finest expressions of this literary mode in 2014.
GB84: A Novel, David Peace (Melville House Books)
Peace is known more for his Red Riding Quartet, but, to my mind, this retronymic dystopia is his best book. Originally released in 2004 — twenty years, obviously, after 1984 — and set in Thatcherite England, the novel is an epic political hothouse and construction of genius that is, if anything, grossly underrated.
My Struggle: Book Three, Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. Don Bartlett (Archipelago)
Both better and worse than its proponents and detractors would want to admit, Knausgaard’s third entry in My Struggle handles the “boyhood island” of his childhood. It demonstrates Knausgaard’s propensity for formal paradox by virtue of its boring yet “crack”-like prose.
Running Through Beijing, Xu Zechen, trans. Eric Abrahamsen (Two Lines Press)
The best English translation of a Chinese language work in 2014, the hardboiled, cinematic Running Through Beijing stands out among a wealth of excellent translated literature.
Us Conductors: A Novel, Sean Michaels (Tin House)
Debut novel and winner of the prestigious (and lucrative!) 2014 Giller Prize, Michaels’ novel tells the story of Lev Termen, the Russian scientist and spy and inventor of the theremin.
The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Susan Bernofsky (New Directions)
Winner of the Hans Fallada Prize, this newly released novel about the five variegated deaths of an unnamed woman character is a stunner.
The Trace, Forrest Gander (New Directions)
I had Francisco Goldman’s excellent writings about the misunderstood Mexican “cult of death” on my mind while reading Gander’s second novel about a couple who navigates ruinous emotional trauma while on a road trip through Mexico.
Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel, Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. Melanie Mauthner (Archipelago)
This “prelude to the Rwandan genocide” recalls the closed world, preceding Fascism, of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which is all the more impressive considering this is Mukasonga’s novelistic debut.
A Different Bed Every Time, Jac Jemc (Dzanc)
These unsettling stories form one of the best short fiction collections released this year. It’s unsurprising that I’m finding it hard to summarize, for the soul of the book, as Jesse Ball has said, is protean, and this is a precondition for survival in an often terrible world.
Inside Madeline, Paula Bomer (Soho Press)
Bomer’s characters encroach upon the sort of emotional terrain that timid reviewers might call “hopelessly bleak,” but really she’s just unfailingly honest. Her second short-fiction collection, Inside Madeline shows Bomer reaching new heights.
Repast, DA Powell (Graywolf)
Graywolf brings together Powell’s amazing triple-course of poetry books — Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails — in a deserving collection that any serious lover of English poetry cannot deny.
I’ll Be Right There, Kyung-Sook Shin (Other Press)
As the NYT Sunday Review wrote, this book explores the relation between literature and influence. And it’s a welcome literary excursion away from genre stereotypes of Korean literature accidentally propagated by the American translation industry.
Mature Themes, Andrew Durbin (Nightboat Books)
I’d introduce Andrew Durbin, one the best of a crop of young poet-essayists who deserve immediate attention from the broader literary community, but he’s already done that work better than I ever could myself. This is one of the sharpest, most coherent works of form-jumping to come along in a bit.
All Days Are Night, Peter Stamm, trans. Michael Hofmann (Other Press)
This 2013 Man Booker Award finalist merges two great themes: art and not dying, and the art of not dying.
Baboon, Naja Marie Aidt, trans. Denise Newman (Two Lines Press)
Without question one of the best — and possibly the best — story collection(s) of the year, Aidt’s book appears for the first time in English after winning a major Nordic prize. Prepare to brave the darkness.
Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House Press)
This book, in part, landed Luiselli recognition as one of the five best writers under the age of 35. Sui generis, dextrous, and frequently groundbreaking, this is one of the must-read debuts of the year.
Midnight in the Century, Victor Serge, trans. Richard Greeman (NYRB Classics)
One of the great novels by one of the politically honest (and adventurous) souls of the 20th century. Anyone who cares about oppression, power, and the abuses that link the two, should read Midnight in the Century.
Ancient History, Joseph McElroy (Dzanc)
Nearly lost to history, this re-issue of the great Joseph McElroy’s Ancient History: A Paraphrase, is a godsend. I’ll only add that the introduction is by Jonathan Lethem, and this is the novel’s description:
An uninvited guest, entering the empty New York apartment of a man known to intimates as “Dom,” proceeds to write for his absent host a curious confession. Its close accounts of friendship since boyhood with two men surely unknown to Dom and certainly to each other is interleaved with the story of Dom himself.
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, Tim Earley (Horse Less Press)
This excellent collection straight robs its title from John Clare. That was enough for me to open the book, and I’m glad I did.
Sister Golden Hair: A Novel, Darcey Steinke (Tin House)
This book is one of the best of those that bring together several emerging trends: novella-length chapters, autobiographical and autofictional elements, and the maturation of the still-forming mind.
Crystal Eaters, Shane Jones (Two Dollar Radio)
One of the most intriguing genre collisions of the year, Jones’ book is almost Blakean in its allegorical fusion of a mythopoetic past and future.
Fat Man and Little Boy, Mike Meginnis (Black Balloon)
This genuinely new debut feature won the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, which landed Meginnis this publishing deal with Black Balloon. Meginnis’ predilection for genre mashing, as well as his interest in nuclear war in Japan, recalls the film work of Chris Marker and Alain Resnais.
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors, trans. Martin Aitken (Gray Wolf)
Perhaps 2014’s short story collection that best melds the universal or objective with the uncanny and strange, Dorthe Nors Karate Chop, I felt, was even better that Lydia Davis’ Can’t and Won’t.
Praying Drunk, Kyle Minor (Sarabande)
This collection comes from Louisville’s quietly amazing Sarabande books, a small publisher that should be protected by some government mandate. The collection also highlights a major 2014 trend of books that are set, at least in part, in Kentucky. The collection is bleak and imperfect, but I’d argue that it’s among the most urgent of the year.
Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones (Coffee House)
As far as I know, no debut collection of American poetry in 2014 comes close to Saeed Jones’ Prelude to Bruise. I can’t look at the cover without contemplating two opposed but linked things: Whitman’s bathers and the historical weight of the bruises left on black bodies, which is something Jones’ collection shares with Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.
Insel, Mina Loy (Melville House Books)
In a year of rediscoveries, Mina Loy’s Insel stands out. The Surrealist Loy’s only novel, it tells the story of a Bohemian German painter in 1930s Paris.
The Cold Song, Linn Ullmann, trans. Barbara J. Haveland (Other Press)
A Norwegian literary crime novel (sort of) that is actually good.
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree: A Novel, Wilma Stockenstrom, trans. J.M. Coetzee (Archipelago)
This novel tells the story of a slave who survives in the hollowed out trunk of a Baobab tree. Even if you’ve never heard of Stockenstrom, the novel is translated by J.M. Coetzee. And anyway, if you read this novel, you’ll keep the name Stockenstrom with you for the rest of your reading life.
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, Nicholas Rombes (Two Dollar Radio)
There are a lot of writers who explore the cinematic, but, frankly, most of them haven’t got a clue about what that means. Rombes, who has written eloquently about film for years, here debuts a novel about the intersection of writing and film, among other things. In a year of uncontrolled genre-jumping, Rombes’ novel stands out for its awareness of the intersection of artistic forms. Here’s a summary:
In the mid-’90s a rare-film librarian at a state university in Pennsylvania mysteriously burned his entire stockpile of film canisters and disappeared. Roberto Acestes Laing was highly regarded by acclaimed directors around the globe for his keen eye, appreciation for eccentricity, and creativity in interpretation. Unsure at first whether Laing is a pseudonym or some sort of Hollywood boogeyman, a journalist manages to track the forgotten man down to a motel on the fringe of the Wisconsin wilds. Laing agrees to speak with the journalist, but only through the lens of the cinema. What ensues is an atmospheric, cryptic extrapolation of movies and how they intertwine with life, and the forgotten films that curse the lost librarian still.
Cat Town, Sakutarō Hagiwara, trans. Hiroaki Sato (NYRB Classics)
This prose-poem novella by a Hagiwara, perhaps the great Japanese modernist, is one of the best translation discoveries of the year.
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Evidence-Based Programs and Strategies for Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) in CAHs (FMT Policy Brief #40)
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Author(s): Casey MM, Prasad S, Distel E, A Evenson
Research Center(s): Minnesota
Project: Evidence-Based Programs and Strategies for Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in CAHs
Topic(s): Quality
An estimated 5-10% of hospitalized patients experience a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) every year, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Prevention of HAIs is a top priority, and HAIs are the focus of multiple national and state reporting requirements and prevention initiatives. Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and other small rural hospitals generally have less experience in HAI reporting and fewer infection-control staff resources than larger facilities, however, which can make implementing HAI programs challenging.
This policy brief focuses on successful evidence-based programs and strategies for measuring, reducing, and preventing HAIs that can be replicated in CAHs. It focuses on the following types of HAIs: CLABSI, CAUTI, MRSA, and CDI.
Lack of trained infection control staff, multiple job responsibilities, and high turnover make it challenging to implement healthcare-associated infection (HAI) activities in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).
Collaborating across hospitals and leveraging existing resources are effective ways to help CAHs implement HAI-prevention initiatives.
CAHs have successfully participated in several national and state initiatives to reduce and prevent HAIs, including “On the CUSP” programs, Hospital Engagement Networks, and initiatives sponsored by Quality Improvement Organizations, state health departments, state hospital associations, and other key partners.
Many resources and tools are available online to help CAHs decrease HAIs.
A second policy brief in this series addresses reporting of HAIs by CAHs.
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PS4 videos of Ghost Recon Breakpoint
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Monday, October 7, 2019 | 5:00 PM
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It's the turn of the PS4 Pro version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint to be shown on Gamersyde. We chose to record our videos in the "Resolution" mode which simulates 4K (the game actually runs in 1800p). As with the other versions of the game, there are quite a lot of bugs, including the absence of audio tracks during some cutscenes and even the disappearance of some of the sound effects at times.
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Commented on 2019-10-07 21:19:39
Just read Eurogamer's review - they gave it an Avoid, lowest possible rating. The main reasons are a ton of bugs, unfinished state and very bland mechanics. Seems that in the effort to make it very realistic with you alone and having to survive, they also removed a lot of the fun.
Wildlands was released with a lot of bugs as well, but the developers patched them over time and also included a lot of features and QoL changes the community asked. Ubisoft doesn't abanddon their games - looking at you EA/BioWare - so I'm sure this will be much better 6-12 months from now.
September saw the release of a lot of games. October, November and December are packed as well. Then there's Q1 and Q2 of next year full great games. I love Ubisoft's games, but there's no need to play this game at the moment. Also, by the time many of the bugs have been patched, it will be cheaper.
Just read Eurogamer's review - they gave it an Avoid, lowest possible rating. The main reasons are a ton of bugs, unfinished state and very bland mechanics. Seems that in the effort to make it very realistic with you alone and having to survive, they also removed a lot of the fun. Wildlands was released with a lot of bugs as well, but the developers patched them over time and also included a lot of features and QoL changes the community asked. Ubisoft doesn't abanddon their games - looking at you EA/BioWare - so I'm sure this will be much better 6-12 months from now. September saw the release of a lot of games. October, November and December are packed as well. Then there's Q1 and Q2 of next year full great games. I love Ubisoft's games, but there's no need to play this game at the moment. Also, by the time many of the bugs have been patched, it will be cheaper.
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Gamersyde plz don't forget add some hq screenshots besides footages for all games you cover
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KORNdog What WOULD shock me is of Sony turns around and announces day 1 releases of exclusives on PC moving forward. That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to me. (9 Hours ago)
KORNdog Releasing on PC at that point allows them to make more money while not cannibalising sales on their platform. (9 Hours ago)
KORNdog By the time horizon hits PC it'll be 3 years old. It's bargain bin price on PS4 and it's used game circulation means it's effectively a dead title for Sony and their earnings. (9 Hours ago)
KORNdog @Sdarts: I imagine Sony's plan is release old games on PC at full retail to make money on titles that no longer drive sales or make them much money. (9 Hours ago)
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Sea turtle's 'bubble butt' fixed at Mall of America aquarium
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (KMSP) - A sea turtle at the Mall of America’s Sea Life Minnesota aquarium is getting some work done on her backside.
Seamour is a rescued green sea turtle who was hit by a boat off the coast of Florida, causing an air pocket to develop under her shell and giving her a buoyancy problem. The condition, known as “bubble butt,” can be lethal to sea turtles because it leaves them unable to swim properly and dive for food.
“Unfortunately, will the shell healing the way it does, that air pocket is not removable without disrupting the internal organs. So, unfortunately, it’s there to stay,” Sarah Meyers, an aquarist at the Sea Life Minnesota told Fox 9. “[Bubble butt] usually deems the turtle non-releasable because they cannot counter that buoyancy themselves and it leaves them more prone to getting struck by other boats in the future.”
On Tuesday, a team at the aquarium attached a weight to the back of Seamour’s shell to allow her to swim more naturally at the aquarium.
While the weight fixes the turtle’s buoyancy problem, it is not a permanent solution. A turtle shell sheds eventually and the weight is likely to fall off in the future, making Seemore unable to be released back into the wild.
“[Bubble butt] usually deems the turtle non-releasable because they cannot counter that buoyancy themselves and it leaves them more prone to getting struck by other boats in the future,” Meyers said.
Minnesota State Patrol: 683 crashes, 662 spinouts since snowfall began
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Minnesota state troopers to deliver care kits to homeless people
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CVDB repurposes a train station as a home for stones
Text Lauren Teague
Photos Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Tags Aluminium , Culture , CVDB Arquitectos , Museum , Perforation , Portugal , Renovation , Repurpose , Station , Timber , White
Megalithic Museum by CVDB Arquitectos. Photos Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
MORA – A disused train station and accompanying warehouse have been renovated into a museum for megaliths and prehistoric monuments in central Portugal. The country ranks in top place for the world’s most saturated concentration of megalithic remains and the town of Mora – and its wider region of Evora – is well known for its archaeological findings. Lisbon-based firm CVDB Arquitectos addressed the repurposing of the old railway station with care and consideration towards the building’s original 1908 design.
The Interactive Megalithic Museum of Mora aims to be a ‘local and national reference, and an important asset to the cultural regeneration of the town,’ says the architect. Looking at the smooth, white façade of the completed renovation, it’s difficult to believe that the buildings were inherited by the architect in such a state of disrepair.
As well as incorporating the two existing structures, the site has been expanded with two further volumes (a cafe and main exhibition space); subtle and barely noticeable as new additions, instead blending in as though they have been there all along. This was the explicit approach taken by the firm in order to protect the memory and the specific, traditional features of the original buildings and be respectful to the history of the place.
One obvious touch of modernity, however, is the ribbon of white, lacquered-aluminium panels that encloses the northern perimeter of the site. Forming a perforated walkway, the patterned, metal sheets create a physical link between the four individual building volumes.
Materiality plays a fundamental role in the success of the renovation. ‘We tried, as much as possible, to use original materials and construction techniques compatible with the existing buildings,’ the architect comments. ‘The presence of timber is a characteristic feature of this type of architecture. The roof was rebuilt according to its original design and we decided to extend the use of timber to the furniture and the main exhibition space.’ The primary exhibition space – crafted from cut sheets and arranged in a topographic style representation of the region’s archaeological importance – is now a contemporary intervention that brings the site back to life 30 years after the railway was closed down.
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Location Rua da Estação 4, Mora, Portugal
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New Zealand is set for a heatwave this weekend
Summer 21/09/2017
Shake out the short shorts and stubbies team, because we're in for the first taste of Summer this weekend.
Yep. This weekend Aotearoa is suspected to reap the benefits from Australia's recent heatwave as it drifts from Sydney, across the Tasman Sea and hits both the North Island & South Island on Sunday and Monday respectively.
So, no need to feel guilty about doing nothing all day with that NZ House Party hangover, just roll out of bed and go bake in the sun... probably with a litre or three of water on hand.
Newshub has reported that the temperatures in Oz are predicted to soar as high as 40C through inland New South Wales, and Sydney may hit 36C. Their Government forecaster, the Bureau of Meteorology, reported it would be the first time in history the state has reached 40C in the month of September.
The heatwave should lose around 10C by the time it reaches New Zealand, making for balmy temperatures in the late 20Cs and early 30Cs, WeatherWatch head analyst Philip Duncan said.
Fucking chur cuzzy.
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To celebrate the launch of the Rugby World Cup, adidas secured two highly covetable windows at Harrods, as well as a premium position on the House of adidas floor, within the store.
The brief was to create a stand-out window display, situated across two Harrods windows. The windows needed to add theatre, encouraging customers to stop and take-in the campaign, and both the windows and the launch zone needed to be connected in some way so that it was obvious to customers that they were part of the same campaign.
The concept focused on the ‘Force’ of the All Blacks. Playing on this, each window had a different focus; the first contained product-led content, the shirt heroed in the centre. The second window highlighted the strength and power of the All Blacks team. To convey this, we decided a digital execution was best, enabling movement and fluidity in the windows and capturing the attention of the public.
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MP Diana Johnson - Q&A
We caught up with Diana Johnson - Labour MP for Hull North - ahead of this years Pride festival...
1) What does Hull Pride bring to Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire?
It's great that people in our area in the LGBT community, and many others, can come together to celebrate freedom, progress and diversity. It also brings business to an area that urgently needs it.
2) Why is it important to continue to fight for LGBT rights?
Although progress has been made, including this week's law on same sex marriage, there is still prejudice and bigotry in our society and around the World that has to be fought if we are to keep these gains. There are still campaigns to be waged, such as on Gay Conversion Therapy.
3) What are you most looking forward to from this year's Hull Pride?
It's a good opportunity to celebrate progress that's been made on issues such as Equal Marriage and prepare for the work to come.
4) What would you say to encourage people to come and visit the area for Hull Pride weekend?
Come and enjoy Hull Pride and all the other attractions of Hull - a city in the running for City of Culture - and bring friends!
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Since standard home insurance doesn't cover flooding, it's important to have protection from floods associated with hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rains and other conditions that impact the U.S.
In 1968, Congress created the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to help provide a means for property owners to financially protect themselves. The NFIP offers flood insurance to homeowners, renters, and business owners if their community participates in the NFIP. Participating communities agree to adopt and enforce ordinances that meet or exceed FEMA requirements to reduce the risk of flooding. Find out more about the NFIP and how it can help you protect yourself.
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Lumia 920 image stabilization proven with remote control car
By Mark Raby 09.25.2012 :: 3:27PM EST 09.25.2012
One of the selling points of Nokia’s newly revealed Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia 920 is super image stabilization. Unfortunately for the Finnish phone maker, it came to light that one of the ads touting the new feature was actually doctored and not a real presentation of the device’s quality.
Usually when a scandal like that comes to light, it’s because the company had something to hide. However, a new video shows that the new Lumia’s ability to record content while being seemingly impervious to bumps and jerks is in fact as good as Nokia says it is.
A Russian user who goes by the Twitter handle @jenjaman uploaded a video to YouTube showing the Lumia 920 attached to a remote control car. The same test was then performed on a Samsung Galaxy S III. The video captured is quite different, with Nokia’s image technology clearly showing its superiority.
The origins of the video were a bit unclear when it was first posted, especially since the 920 has not yet been released. As a result, @jenjaman updated the video description to say that he is a gadget reviewer, not a Nokia employee.
So it looks like Nokia did carve out a differentiating factor for the next Lumia device, but the question remains whether or not Windows Phone 8 can be a viable competitor in today’s smartphone race.
The Lumia 920 is expected to be available later this month or in early November, depending on the carrier.
via The Verge
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As mentioned earlier, this application will help you in hacking the games and getting the items like coins and gold for free. For instance, you might be aware of the gold coins in the Subway surfers game. never thought that you can get an unlimited number of coins and then use it to buy other jetpacks and items in the game? Well, it is possible to get unlimited coins by using this application. Follow the simple steps given below and get the items for free. Note that all the coins, gems and other items are known as values.
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It is very easy to Download and Install the Lucky Patcher application on an Android smartphone. However, the application is not officially available on the Google Play Store because of policy violations. Hence, the users have to follow an alternate procedure for installing the application on the device. The easiest method of getting the application is by the APK procedure. Hence, you can easily download the lucky patcher APK and enjoy the features without any issue. Follow the simple steps given below and install the application using the APK procedure itself.
Go to a trusted developers website and download the latest version of Lucky Patcher APK Or You can Download from here below provided the link.
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Freedom APK Alternatives: Freedom APK is one of the best applications if you consider purchasing in-app items for free. The application is particularly used for making the upgrades and other features which are paid, free. There are millions of active Freedom APK users across the world and the application is really popular. However, there are many people who have been reporting and various issues with the app. This forced us to look for the best freedom APK alternatives. These alternatives are almost similar to the freedom app and will help you in bypassing the payment of the in-app items.
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Game killer is the last addition to our list of best freedom APK alternatives. It is also similar in function. This means that you can get unlimited coins and gems in any game that you want on the Android devices. However, the only downside of the game killer is that it requires root access for running on a particular Android device. But, the great thing is that it supports all the versions of Android which are currently available in the market and this makes it easily accessible by the users. Hence, you can consider downloading this application as an alternative as well.
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"Abandoned By Their Crews Without Firing A Shot"
At 7.30am on the 23rd, 2nd Suffolk went forward again for what was to be their last major action of the Great War.
The forward Companies advanced from their positions and set off for the village of Escarmain and their first objective: the “Red” Line. ‘Z’ Company, were on the left, ‘Y’ Company, were on the right. By 8.40am they had crossed it and were advancing onwards in a north-eastern direct towards the village of Arret de Vertigneul. The first objective had been taken successfully.
‘Z’ Company continued the advance through a series of orchards, keeping a steady pace, whilst on the extreme right of the Battalion’s frontage, ‘X’ Company came up to broaden the Battalion’s frontage.
Behind ‘Z’ Company, ‘W’ Company came forward. However, as they tried to move on, the enemy brought down a gas barrage between them and the frontal companies. Lieutenant Mann, the Company Commander was himself hit and had to be evacuated. In his place, C.S.M. Fayers took command.
However, despite the gas shelling, enemy resistance on the ground was at first slight. “No opposition was met with” recorded the War Diary and “2 enemy machine guns posted in an orchard were abandoned by their crews without firing a shot. An enemy M.G. firing from W.17.d. (trench map reference) central was dealt with successfully by concerted action of Y and X Coys and N.Z.R.B.”
‘Z’ Company now headed for a crossroads to the northeast. Here they were greeted with a remarkable sight. 3 German officers and over fifty ranks, sheltering in a sunken lane waiting to surrender to them. Now, with the K.O.R.L. safely protecting their left flank, all of ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ Companies continued the advance to the southeast corner of the village of Escarmain and by 11.45 am, they were close to a sunken lane near running into the village from the southeast. From here, the enemy could be seen retreating and moments later the “Green" line was taken, The second objective had been taken successfully.
Seizing the moment and seeing that he could exploit the enemies disarray, Captain Lummis, who had by then, come forward, ordered a continuation of the advance. ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ Companies to press onto the “Green Dotted" line some five hundred yards in front. The advance however was slowed by the Allied barrage falling short. “Our barrage dropped short on green line and continued dropping short all the way causing several casualties to our own men”. However, having crossed the open ridge, the frontal companies now were observed by the enemy artillery gunners who were firing at them across open sights. Machine gun fire now came from the right front, causing many casualties, but soon, they were over the small river St. Georges and were close to the enemies artillery. Dashing on ‘Y’ Company, found several enemy artillery pieces abandoned in their temporary scrapes. The enemy had “taken the breech blocks with them”.
By 1.30pm, Lieutenant W.G. Bailey MC, left the newly repositioned Battalion HQ at Le Trousse Minon, and went forward to find Captain Lummis. Finding ‘W’ Company on the left in disorganisation with every officer killed or wounded, he took command of it and alone, he pressed forward under heavy shell fire. For his actions that day, he was awarded a Bar to his MC. The “Green Dotted" line was reached at 2.00pm. The third objective had been successfully taken.
As consolidation began, ‘X’ Company, sent a patrol onwards towards Le Sablonnaire which seemed lightly defended. Though they were confident that they could take the small hamlet, the Allied artillery was again dropping short and causing many friendly casualties.
With the enemy now in disarray, there was a further chance to press on to the “Brown" line which lay beyond it. By 2.45pm, Captain Lummis ordered the advance to continue again. However, the artillery was still a problem and again, many friendly casualties were suffered.
‘W’ Coy under Lieutenant Bailey, who were on the left, went forward first with ‘X’ Coy, on the right. Though the Battalion could have advanced just after 2.30pm, they dared not start as the barrage was not moving. “Advance could not commence earlier as our barrage dropped short. Some 30 men of ‘W’ Coy and Coy Commander of ‘X Coy (Lieutenant Rolfe) were wounded by our own barrage. Up to this time our casualties had been extraordinarily few”. Lieutenant Streeter assumed command of ‘X’ Company.
Pressing towards a cluster of houses at Fond de L’Arbrisseau, enemy machine gun fire now came down upon the frontal companies. As the went to ground, enemy artillery now fired upon them as well, Lummis was forced to retire ‘W’ and ‘X’ Companies back to the sunken lane, but with the Northumberland Fusiliers behind them and not seeing their retirement, they pressed forward and became mixed with ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ Companies. However, the "Brown" line has been reached at the sunken lane.
All four of the Battalion objectives allotted that day had been taken. It was a rare and unique moment. Never had such an occurrence happened during the entire war.
Welcome to our online 'blog' charting the history of the many Battalions of the Suffolk Regiment and the part they played in the Great War.
Starting back in March 2014, we have recorded the events of 100 years ago on the centenary of their happening.
Keep checking back to see how the Great War is progressing for the men of the Suffolk Regiment.
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FIATA Announces “Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year” Regional Winners
"In the current challenging global trade environment, where supply chains are under increasing pressure to adapt quickly to regulatory, political and economic pressures, we at TT Club believe the training and professional advancement of young freight operators must be paramount."
“Encouraging more young professionals to join the FIATA community has always been a priority for me."
"...we at TT Club believe the training and professional advancement of young freight operators must be paramount."
Four regional winners for this year’s “Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year” awards were officially announced this week by FIATA, which serves as a collaboration between the TT Club – the competition’s sponsor, and International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations.
Regional winners of this year’s award were determined based on dissertation topics addressing specific and complex processes within the supply chain while demonstrating logistics-based knowledge in successful implementation of the processes.
FIATA President Babar Badat announced this year’s regional winners and made the following statemen:
“Encouraging more young professionals to join the FIATA community has always been a priority for me. I am encouraged again to see these excellent candidates presenting dissertations that cover a wide range of logistic subjects, which demonstrate the challenges that forwarders face every day and the customized solutions they are able to offer.
“My sincere congratulations to the four regional winners who are ….”
Europe – Mrs. Evgeniya Khokhlova Russia (FAR)
Africa/ Middle East – Mr. Enos Chapra Zimbabwe (SFAAZ)
Americas – Ms. Rachael van Harmelen Canada (CIFFA)
Asia Pacific – Mr. Phillip Burgess New Zealand (CBAFF)
“In the current challenging global trade environment, where supply chains are under increasing pressure to adapt quickly to regulatory, political and economic pressures, we at TT Club believe the training and professional advancement of young freight operators must be paramount,” added Mike Yarwood, TT Club’s Senior Loss Prevention Executive and Chairman of the Award Steering Committee.
Among the four regional winners is the final winner of the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (YIFFYA) 2019, which will be determined and announced during the FIATA World Congress in Cape Town from October 1-5.
This year’s prize will focus on academic training including one week at TT Club’s London, Hong Kong or New Jersey regional centres in addition to a week at the company’s head office in London. All four regional winners will receive a year-long subscription to the International Transport Journal (ITJ).
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In the Santa Clarita Valley, we like our well-lit roads, streets and parking lots. It makes us feel safer and makes it easier to get around after sunset. But how much do those fixtures cost us to run?
According to the International Dark-Sky Association, the most common street light fixture in America is “the 175 Watt dusk-to-dawn mercury vapor light” (2). The cost of the fixture itself is “$29.95 or even less”, it uses “210 Watts of overall energy when [you] consider ballast and other factors”, and “burns for approximately 4100 hours a year” (2).
If you multiply this approximate amount of Watts each street lamp requires (210 Watts) with the estimated 4100 hours the lights are in use per year, that’s 861 kiloWatt hours (kWh) per year per lamp (2). Now the industrial electricity rate in Santa Clarita is about “8.16 cents per kWh” (3). If you throw that number into the equation, you’ll find that it costs about $70.26 to power a single street lamp in Santa Clarita every year.
Now you can imagine when you multiply the ever-expanding amount of city street lamps by $70.26 that the costs become enormous. Of course, these high costs are paid through higher taxes on the citizens of Santa Clarita. But one researcher at the Barcelona College of Industrial Engineering, with the backing of Eolgreen, has invented a new kind of street lamp, powered by the Earth’s abundant sun and wind supply (1).
After years of research, Ramon Bargalló’s vision of an autonomous public lighting system has emerged in prototype form. According to ScienceDaily, each lamp stands “10 metres high and is fitted with a solar panel, a wind turbine and a battery...and reduces [costs] by 20% [when] compared with conventional public lighting systems” (1). The system still needs some fine tuning but the prototypes are definitely in working order and we most likely become a public works game changer.
When questioned about his creation, Bargalló states, "It takes very little wind to produce energy. The generator that’s been developed can start working at a wind speed of only 1.7 meters per second (m/s), whereas current wind turbines need more than 2.5 m/s… [and] this low intensity can provide six nights of electricity without wind or sun," he adds (1).
This combination of solar and wind is clearly a powerful one. It could save everyone an enormous amount of money and create more jobs if we start manufacturing and installing similar street lamps here in America. Eolgreen, the company supporting Bargalló, “plans to produce 700 of these street lights” this year (1).
Hopefully, policy makers and city planners around the world and right here in Santa Clarita will see the successes of Elogreen’s technology in the coming years. Maybe, we will adopt similar technologies, switch to affordably-powered city lights and lower the tax burdens on Santa Claritans.
(1) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120085819.html
(2)Economic Issues in Wasted and Inefficient Outdoor Lighting.pdf
(3) http://www.electricitylocal.com/states/california/santa-clarita/
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Polk County Developments
Ashton Woods takes over colorful Festival project along I-4
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Minto Communities, the original developer of Festival, has sold the undeveloped land to homebuilder Ashton Woods. (Rob-Harris Productions/Minto Communities)
Minto Communities has exited its candy-colored Festival resort community in Polk County, selling the undeveloped land along Interstate 4 to Ashton Woods.
Division President Bill Bullock told GrowthSpotter the Florida-based homebuilder was divesting of its only Orlando-area community in order to focus on the expansion of its Latitude Margaritaville-branded active adult communities in Daytona Beach and Hilton Head, S.C.
Minto had paid $11.5 million in 2014 to enter the Central Florida vacation home market with the highly-visible 216-acre land buy across I-4 from ChampionsGate. The project was previously approved for up to 900 multifamily units, but Minto redesigned it as an moderately-priced vacation home townhouse resort and started building in 2015. The community was divided into five phases, or pods.
“All the amenities are in,” Bullock said. “We fully built out and completed the first phase -- all the heavy lifting -- the spine road. There’s a really good runway for someone new to come in and pick it up."
New residents in the Ashton Woods section will have access to Festival's resort amenities, which were completed by Minto Communities during Phase 1. (Minto Communities)
Minto deeded the amenities to the HOA in May, and Ashton Woods bought the remainder of the community for just under $2 million.
Erik Peterson, land development director for Polk County, said the new owner initially considered building a single-family detached product in the community, but ultimately decided to tweak the townhouse design. Ashton Woods has renamed it “Enclave at Festival” and is marketing the townhomes for residential buyers.
“They looked at doing detached, but the land’s pretty tight and there’s a lot of wetlands,” Peterson said. “You wouldn’t have had much of a back yard. Plus, they would have had to do a major modification to the PD.”
Ashton Woods has filed environmental permit modification requests with the Southwest Florida Water Management District for Phases 2, 3 and 4 of the community, which add up to a combined 212 more units. The homebuilder also has filed preliminary plats with Polk County for phases 2 and 4. Company representatives were not available for comment.
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The new townhomes will range in size from 1,500 to 2,200 square feet and will have attached garages. New owners will have access to all the resort amenities, including the pool, water park, fitness center and miniature golf course. Prices will start in the mid $200,000s, according to the website.
Ashton Woods has built luxury 3-story townhomes in the Enclave at Altamonte, and is currently building a 203-unit community near College Park through its more affordable Starlight Homes brand. The company is also actively selling in Clermont’s Serenoa master planned community.
Have a tip about Central Florida development? Contact me at lkinsler@GrowthSpotter.com or (407) 420-6261, or tweet me at @LKinslerOGrowth. Follow GrowthSpotter on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Among the many sports that bring about solidarity and sportsmanship in various competitive activities, paintball ranks third among the most popular and highly stimulating games in the world.
According to the 2005 statistics of Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association International, paintball ranks third, next to inline skating and skateboarding.
This paintball hype is based on the premise that people who love “extreme sports” would most likely use activities that will stimulate adrenaline rush. Because every players aim is to win the game, they would most likely try to obtain all of the possible pointers and suggestions available just to achieve their goal.
Here is a list of some tips on how to play the game well and prevail in the battle:
Establish an optimistic approach
Paintball is, basically, a war game, where players can either win or loose; so there are instances where things may not always conform to the plans of the players. What must be observed is that each player must look at the results in a very optimistic way.
Por ejemplo, if a player was not able to win the game, he must accept the fact and identify the areas where he failed to perform, which contributed to his failure.
Remember that there is always another opportunity to win the game.
Learn by experience
Every failure is a learning experience: view it constructively as a learning experience. Work on the things that need more consideration and improvement.
Never play solo
In order to win the battle, it is better for a player to play on a team rather than playing solo. The concept that there are other players ready to cover up for you is a good indication that you will last throughout the game.
Do not hide forever
If you are trying to win the game by avoiding being seen and hit by your opponents, you will also have fewer chances of hitting the opponents. You will never learn the correct strategies needed to win the game unless you come out in the open and take action.
Just as in real battle, it is best not to surrender even if the odds of winning the game are probably higher. The point here is to stay in the game as long as you continue to be a “hard target.”
Winning a paintball game is not so much about how you stay in the game but about how you played the game.
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The Weekend Roundup: Nürburgring
Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe was back in action last weekend at one of the continent’s most historic venues. A pair of sprint races at the Nürburgring have set up a thrilling finale in Hungary, where class titles will go to the wire in Pro, Silver Cup and Pro-Am.
There was certainly nothing predictable about the German event. Both races were won from the third row of the gird, while a number of on-track incidents made for exciting viewing – particularly during the latter stages of each 60-minute contest. Even the weather was uncharacteristically hot.
As teams and drivers prepare for the deciding contest in Hungary, here are some of the key stats and stories from the penultimate Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe round of the season.
The Nürburgring event produced classic sprint racing. Both contests began with a relatively calm opening stint, while the second 30 minutes brought a deluge of action. Weather-wise it was a perfect weekend, with temperatures particularly high on Friday and Saturday. Conditions were cooler on Sunday, though a brief threat of rain did not come to pass and the full event was run on dry-compound Pirelli tyres.
Orange1 FFF Racing duo Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli became the first repeat winners in the Pro class this season. The #563 Lamborghini previously triumphed at Misano before adding a second in the opening Nürburgring contest. Their six podiums from eight races is also a high for the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe this season and has helped them to establish an eight-point cushion at the top of the standings.
Lamborghini's fine form continued at the Nürburgring, the highlight coming in race 1 when the brand scored a one-two finish. Though the Italian marque is represented by just two Pro class cars, it has nevertheless been on the podium in every Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race this season, with six for FFF and a further four scored by Grasser Racing.
Swiss squad R-Motorsport clinched victory in only its fourth weekend of Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe competition, giving Aston Martin a maiden win in the sprint-format series with its new Vantage AMR. It is the team's second overall win in Blancpain GT Series competition following an Endurance Cup triumph at Silverstone last term.
The victory was the first for both Ricky Collard and Marvin Kirchhofer. Indeed, neither driver had scored a Blancpain GT Series podium before Sunday's race. It was clear how much the win meant to 23-year-old Collard, who leapt on to the roof of his car to celebrate. The Briton is new to the team this season having previously driven a BMW for the ROWE squad at Endurance events.
Christopher Haase and Simon Gachet (#25 Sainteloc Audi) continued their fine form with a pair of top-three finishes at the Nürburgring, meaning they have now taken four podiums from the previous five races. They will travel to Hungary as Audi's sole championship challenger, a significant achievement for the French outfit and its driving duo.
Sunday's race saw a number of squads take their best result of the season. Aurelien Panis and Jack Hawksworth scored fifth place in the #23 Tech 1 Lexus, giving the Japanese machine by far its best result of 2019 in only the second outing for the pair. This equals the car’s best sprint-race finish in 2018, when Emil Frey ran a pair of RC F GT3s.
The Silver Cup winners also hit new highs. In race 1 the Attempto Audi of Mattia Drudi and Milan Dontje finished sixth overall to secure a maiden class win, a result that was mirrored on Sunday by Oscar Tunjo and Rik Breukers (#10 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT). Both crews were in excellent form, running with the overall leaders and keeping their cool when the action stepped up a gear.
Race 2 saw a breakthrough result for the #26 Sainteloc Audi duo of Steven Palette and Markus Winkelhock, who took P7 and their first points of the campaign. Nürburgring was an all-round improvement for the pair, who went the distance in both runs. The #5 Phoenix Audi also bagged its first points of the campaign as Kim Luis Schramm and Jamie Green finished P9 in Sunday's contest.
Perhaps the most contentious moment of the weekend came during race 2 when the leading Belgian Audi Club Team WRT machines made contact at turn 1. Charles Weerts was ultimately judged to have been predominantly to blame for the clash, which eliminated both cars from the contest. The youngster's move on teammate Ezequiel Perez Companc has earned him a reprimand and one behaviour warning point, while no further action was taken against the Argentine.
Dorian Boccolacci made his Blancpain GT Series debut in Germany, joining Stephane Ortelli in the #24 Sainteloc Audi. The 20-year-old Frenchman arrives in GT racing following an impressive junior single-seater career that included finishing second in the 2016 Formula Renault Eurocup standings. Boccolacci took a best finish of 11th at the Nürburgring and will compete once again at this weekend's Hungaroring finale.
The outright fastest lap of the Nürburgring weekend was set by Dries Vanthoor (#1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT), whose 1m54.439s qualifying effort set an unbeatable benchmark. Indeed, Dries was fast whenever he hit the track at the Nürburgring. The quickest racing lap was set by Ricky Collard, who recorded a 1m56.452s while hunting down the leading WRT Audis in Sunday's contest.
Mattia Drudi was the clear star of the Silver Cup class in Germany. The Attempto Audi driver set pole for Saturday's opening race and ran with the overall leaders throughout his stint. The Italian was also the fastest Silver Cup driver in both races, with his 1m56.906s on Sunday proving to be the best of the weekend. Such performances suggest that Drudi may soon be joining the Pro ranks.
Phil Keen was the fastest man in Pro-Am, recording a 1m57.026s lap in race 2. In terms of qualifying pace, David Perel led the way with a 1m55.109s that put him ninth on the overall grid. Indeed, both Perel and Keen have shown impressive speed throughout the season as they battle for Pro-Am honours.
The Am Cup was a two-car battle at the Nürburgring, with each car picking up a win at the German venue. They were also close in terms of lap times: Rory Penttinen set the best in the opening race with a 1m58.674s. In race 2, Wolfgang Triller was the pace-setter with a best lap of 1m58.692s – just 0.018s shy of his rival’s quickest the previous day.
After eight races staged over four weekends, the championship battles remain finely poised ahead of the Hungaroring decider. The closest contest is in the Silver Cup class, where just 1.5 points separate leaders Nico Bastian and Thomas Neubauer (#89 AKKA ASP Mercedes-AMG) from second-placed Mattia Drudi and Milan Dontje (#56 Attempto Audi). There is everything to play for in the Pro and Pro-Am categories as well, with multiple crews in contention for each class title. A full preview of the championship decider can be found here [link].
The season-deciding weekend will kick off with a pair of 80-minute free practice sessions on Friday, the first at 10.25 and the second at 15.20. Qualifying will take place at 10.30 on Saturday morning, with the penultimate race of the season following at 15.10. The season will on Sunday at 13.45 with a final 60-minute dash for glory. Support action comes from Formula Renault Eurocup, X-Bow Battle and the FFSA F4 French Championship.
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The attack disabled parts of Baltimore's Public Works Department and its Parks Department.
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After Second Ransomware Attack in 14 Months, Baltimore Refuses to Pay
The city is the latest government to be targeted by hackers and forced to decide whether to pay to restore vital public services.
J. Brian Charles | May 8, 2019
For the second time in less than 14 months, the city of Baltimore was hit by a ransomware attack on Tuesday.
The attack did not compromise the city's emergency services, or its police and fire services. But it forced the city to suspend customer support for its Public Works Department, billing for the Parks Department and overdue water bills, and intake of vehicles at an impound lot.
A ransom message that appeared on affected computers demanded the city pay 3 Bitcoins -- roughly $76,000 -- to restore the impacted services. Officials have not said whether they plan to pay.
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“As of now, we have no proof that any personal data has left the system,” Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott said in a statement Tuesday night. “As a measure of caution, the majority of city servers have been shut down."
The incident came at a time of leadership turmoil for Baltimore. Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned last week following a protracted scandal involving a children's book she had self-published. Many of the sales of the book went to companies and organizations that had direct dealings with the city. Pugh was succeeded by Jack Young, who had been serving as the city council president.
Tuesday’s attack appeared to be similar to one last month in the city of Greenville, N.C., where the RobbinHood virus crippled computers. In Baltimore, the virus did not appear to have gained access through spam email, although officials did not specify how it actually spread. As of Wednesday afternoon, the city's email server and portions of its phone systems were still inoperable.
Baltimore was hit by a similar ransomware attack in March 2018 that affected city phone systems, shutting down automated messages on the city's 911 and 311 services. The same month, Atlanta was the victim of an attack that knocked out internet service at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the world's busiest air traffic hub.
In the two-year period leading up to those incidents, U.S. local governments and public safety agencies were hit by 184 cyberattacks, according to the cybersecurity firm SecureLore Solutions. The attacks have impacted a range of government functions -- from transit and communications to billing and vital hospital services.
Should Cities Pay Ransom Demands?
It's become an unfortunately familiar scenario in recent years. A city is hit by malware that locks computers with an encrypted code. Attackers demand a ransom in order to remove it. Public officials are faced with a difficult question: To pay or not to pay?
The FBI and leading cybersecurity experts discourage government agencies and private corporations from agreeing to the payment demands.
“Paying a ransom not only emboldens current cybercriminals to target more organizations, it also offers an incentive for other criminals to get involved in this type of illegal activity,” former FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director James Trainor said in a statement in 2016.
Typically, the ransom demands are relatively modest, compared to city budgets. Attackers know that if the amounts are too high, governments would never pay. The attackers in Atlanta last year demanded $51,000; officials have declined to say whether they paid.
Email phishing scams are the most common way attackers gain access to a network. The emails are often made to look like official correspondence between city employees. But training employees to not open the emails probably won’t help much, says Oren Falkowitz, who spent seven years with the National Security Agency before co-founding Area 1 Security, a private firm.
“Humans are curious, and we are talking about organizations that have hundreds of thousands of people," Falkowitz told Governing last year. "Someone is going to click on a link.”
Information technology experts are largely in agreement that the best way to protect computer networks is to partition those networks. That would contain a computer virus to some portion of the system and prevent its spread across the network. Cities and government agencies should also avoid putting information that does not need to be internet-accessible on computers connected to the internet.
J. Brian Charles Staff Writer
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D. G. Todd and Co
of Cemetery Road, Southport, Lancs, (now Merseyside). Telephone: Southport 56188
1934 The company started making Roddy dolls, named after its owners Daniel G. Todd and Jack Robinson. The first dolls produced were of composition and unmarked.
WWII The production of the dolls ceased during the second world war and was resumed in 1945.
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Dolls, Sleeping Dolls, Harmonicas, Musical Toys, Plastic Toys, Miniature Clockwork Cars and Toys, Plastic Power Boats. Toilet Plastic Goods, Combs, Dust Combs, etc., etc. (Olympia, 2nd Floor, Stand No. 2259) [1]
1948 The company produced their first dolls made from hard plastic, this continued until the late 1950s when the Roddy company produced their first dolls made from vinyl.
In the mid 1960s the company was sold. The dolls were then sold under the name of 'Bluebell' dolls though the dolls themselves often had the name 'Roddy' on them as they were cast from the original moulds.
1974 Production of Bluebell dolls ceased and the company was then sold to Denys Fisher. [2]
↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p276
↑ [1] Doll Chitchat
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Stakes Analysis: Del Mar Mile, Summer Colony and Sky Classic
We are sure Lionel Richie wasn't thinking about Horse Racing when he wrote and sang Easy with the Commodores. Today is an easy Sunday on Stakes races in terms of the number of races, just three with purses of $100,000 or more. Yeah, I am easy, easy like Sunday morning.
C'mon be honest, you felt better after listening to that! Like the Commodores' melodic Easy, we hope to put you in a good mood with our analysis and horse racing tips on this easy Sunday morning.
The highest priced race is race at Del Mar, the Grade 2, $200K DEL MAR MILE HANDICAP. And let us tell you something, handicapping this race was anything but easy. But, with difficulty comes opportunity.
We have a dozen boys, three-year-old and up, running a mile on the Del Mar grass. The morning-line favorite, SHARP SAMURAI (PP: 4) is 7/2. Although he has won four of his last six races, and 50% of his turf starts, we have our eye on a Radar Horse in this spot.
From our bonus commentary: "FLY TO MARS ran the fastest 1 1/16 mile turf effort, meet-to-date at Del Mar, by more than a second. Ran his fastest speed first after a break, a favorite angle. MARS usually gets better second out; last was good enough." Watch the California Dreamin' Stakes on July 28:
Through Friday's racing, our Radar Picks produced 11 winners (42.31%) in 25 races. To break even with the sort of winning percentage, you need odds of 3/2. We've been averaging closer to 5/2. Maybe more impressively, 80.77% of our Radar Horse Racing Tips have finished in-the-money. They make for great wheel plays in exotics to help keep your costs per ticket down.
An example of a trifecta wheel might look something like:
3/4,5,6/4,5,6
4,5,6/3/4,5,6
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It looks like a two-horse race at Saratoga's $100K SUMMER COLONY STAKES. Speed horses have destroyed 1 1/8 runs on the dirt. An amazing 22 of 34 winners ran first or second at the quarter poll. That's 64.7%. So, if you can get a speed horse at 4/5 or higher, that's a positive ROI.
In our view, "MOONLIT GARDEN is likely to hold one of those spots after the gates open. If she comes off a short break ready, maybe one/two in this five has what it takes to get by GARDEN. If our top pick isn't on the lead, the AWESTRUCK is likely to hold that belt. She's faded late the last two races; so, she'll need to improve on the staying power."
If the is going to be an upset horse, it will most likely be NOMORERICHBLONDES. They paid a half-a-million dollars for this pony. So far, he's put more than $200,000 in the bank running in Dubai.
We end our easy Sunday of stakes racing north of the border: Woodbine Race 9 - Grade 2, $175K SKY CLASSIC STAKES.
This is an anomaly race for the Bine. Anybody that's ever watched their horse on the lead fade late, over-and-over-and-over again, knows closers rule at Woodbine. Yeah, except for race of 1 1/4 or more on the turf. The opposite of what one might expect. Our BIAS analysis found three of five winners went wire-to-wire in recent races of 1 1/4 miles or more.
DANISH DYNAFORMER looks like a vulnerable, morning-line favorite
Here is how we see it in our bonus commentary, "TIZ A SLAM is going to try to be on the lead as he's gone gate-to-wire in back-to-back races. A similar effort to either and it could be three. UTMOST is the other candidate to blast out of the gate in a flash. Last time, UTMOST gave it up at the wire; should be stronger in second outing after layoff. BLACK SEA should rate right behind our top two. If either or both falters, he'll be there to take advantage. DANISH DYNAFORMER is the morning-line favorite, coming off the bench. He looks vulnerable as his recent first start record is not impressive, no better than fourth."
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Saturday Stakes: Top Contenders for the DEL MAR HANDICAP and PACIFIC STAKES
by: Rich Bieglmeier
Where the surf meets the turf is where stakes racing will take most of the country deep into Saturday night. Del Mar racetrack is the home of five races with $100,000 in prize money, including the $1 million Pacific Classic.
The Del Mar Stakes card includes:
Race 3 - $100,000 GREEN FLASH HANDICAP - GRADE III
Race 7 - $250,000 DEL MAR HANDICAP - GRADE II
Race 8 - $100,000 TORREY PINES STAKES - GRADE III
Race 9 - $300,000 DEL MAR OAKS - GRADE I
Race 10 - $1 Million PACIFIC CLASSIC - GRADE I
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Two of the five races are part of the Breeders' Cup win and you are in challenge for 2019's Breeders' Cup races at Santa Anita. The DEL MAR HANDICAP and PACIFIC STAKES winners will be running in the Breeders' Cup Longines Turf and Breeders' Cup Classic, respectively. Both races look very competitive on paper without heavy favorites.
Let's look at some of the top contenders according to the morning line oddsmaker for THE DEL MAR HANDICAP and PACIFIC CLASSIC to see who might be running in November at Santa Anita.
THE DEL MAR HANDICAP
THE GREAT DAY (ARG) at Arlington Park
THE GREAT DAY (PP: 6) is the DEL MAR HANDICAP morning line favorite at 5/2. She is making her third start in the United States after beginning her career in Argentina. She finished second in her last race, the Grade III Arlington Handicap. She's yet to win in five trips on grass with two seconds and a third. THE GREAT DAY looks like a vulnerable favorite.
UNITED (PP: 5) is the oddsmaker's second choice at 3-1. She's stepping up in class after winning a $62,500 Optional Claiming race on turf at Del Mar. It was her first race since May 25th and she ran her highest, lifetime speed number. That's an interesting angle. From our experience, she'll improve as she's done in previous second starts or bounce hard and miss badly. She's won two of six with a second in six starts on turf and should be a strong contender.
MARCKIE'S WARRIOR (PP: 4) and ITSINTHEPOST (PP: 7) are next in line, both at 7/2 morning line odds. MARCKIE'S WARRIOR has had success on turf with six wins in 17 starts. She was bumped at the start of her last outing and first since late May. Despite the excuse, she rallied for a distant second, 2 1/4 lengths behind the winner. She's hit the board in four straight and is one for one at the distance. She should be charging late and could find the winners' circle if the pace is quick.
ITSINTHEPOST is switching back to grass after racing on Del Mar's main track in her last race. Trainer Jeff Mullins wins at just 9% with the dirt-to-turf angle; however, ITSINTHEPOST has finished in-the-money in 22 of 37 races on grass, including 10 wins. She recorded the top speed rating for this field in her dirt start. If she can carry the form to grass, she's a candidate to fill out exotic bets, maybe win.
THE PACIFIC CLASSIC
SEEKING THE SOUL at Churchill Downs
SEEKING THE SOUL (PP: 5) is the tepid morning line choice at 3-1. He hasn't raced since June 15th when he won the Grade II Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs. He doesn't have a recent history of winning fist starts after a layoff. He's finished 8th, 2nd, 13th, and 2nd in his last four first runs off the bench, from the most recent back. You see a pattern? He's likely to be a threat and could finally break the first race back losing streak.
PAVEL (PP: 3) in next on the leaderboard at 7/2. He's making his third start after a three-month rest. He popped a blistering speed figure in his last start and his best number. Despite the highest last race speed figure, he finished third in the Grade 2 Suburban at Belmont Park. Although, finishing behind PRESERVATIONIST and CATHOLIC BOY isn't unexpected. If PAVEL can repeat his last effort, he hits the tape first.
QUIP (PP: 2) rounds out the top three choices according to the oddsmaker. QUIP finished second by a neck to SEEKING THE SOUL in the Stephen Foster but gave up the lead in the stretch. Adding an 1/8 mile might not work to his favor. Odds are QUIP will finish in-the-money as he has in six of seven on a fast track, which he should get in the Pacific Classic.
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Facebook bans white nationalism, white separatism on its platforms
Facebook on Wednesday announced it will ban praise or support for white nationalism at the leading online social network and its image-centric messaging service Instagram. Joel Saget / AFP
MENLO PARK: Facebook Inc on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 people in mosques was live streamed earlier this month.
Civil rights groups have said social media giants have failed to confront extremism and that was under the spotlight this month after a suspected white supremacist broadcast live footage of his attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Facebook, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube have been under pressure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi content from their platforms, along with fake news and other types of abusive posts.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has called for social media platforms to be accountable for what users post, said material covered by the measures should arguably have already been banned under Facebook’s hate-speech rules.
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Facebook has long banned white supremacy under its rules on “hateful” content, but did not previously consider white nationalist or separatist content to be explicitly racist.
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This centrepiece (a table decoration incorporating cruets) was made in the early 18th century by Claude II Ballin and is one of three bought for the Russian court in France. The Louvre possesses a drawing of the design for this piece. Claude II Ballin (1661-1754) was an eminent Parisian jeweller who made his name with many works for the French court, including Louis XV's crown. This silver table ornament consists of a tray from which rises a gazebo that is topped by a figure of Bacchus squeezing juice into a cup from a bunch of grapes. The gazebo is surrounded by bacchantes with thyrsus-staffs and musical instruments. Placed in silver sockets around the curved supports of the gazebo are eight crystal-glass cruets embellished in coloured enamels with the monogram A on a mantle beneath a crown. This decoration was added in the 19th century and is associated with Alexandra Fiodorovna, the wife of Nicholas I. The glass containers were for oil, pepper, vinegar and other condiments that came into fashion with the rise in colonial trade. The elaborate composition of the piece is extended by the coiling branches of candle-holders. The tray is framed by silver basins for oysters. The refined asymmetrical shapes, rich invention and masterly execution that marked early 18th century when the Rococo style emerged are at their finest in the works of Claude II Ballin. The French plats-de-ménage now in the State Hermitage are considered the best in the world.
Master: Ballin, Claude II. 1661-1754
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Transferred to the Hermitage from the Office of the Marshal of the Court
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A-Lign Auditors Confirm Atlantic.Net Hosting Service is HIPAA-Compliant
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Atlantic.Net has announced it has been verified by a third party as fully compliant with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules and fully meets its responsibilities as a business associate of HIPAA-covered entities.
Atlantic.Net has developed a HIPAA-compliant hosting platform for the healthcare industry. The platform incorporates a range of technical safeguards to ensure that its customers’ data remains 100% secure at all times and protected against unauthorized access.
To ensure that all provisions of HIPAA had been satisfied, Atlantic.net engaged the third-party, full-service security, assurance, and compliance solutions firm A-lign to conduct a compliance audit to assess Atlantic.Net controls and safeguards against the HIPAA Security Rule.
“Our audit finds Atlantic.Net is in full compliance with the relevant controls and meets all HIPAA compliance standards and requirements for physical and environmental controls, and the management oversight of the environment,” said Gene Geiger, Partner, A-lign.
The Orlando-based hosting company has developed Windows and Linux cloud hosting packages specifically for healthcare providers. The service and its state of the art fast SSD cloud servers have been externally verified as compliant and are secured by a fully managed firewall, encrypted VPNs, and an intrusion detection system.
The latest confirmation of compliance confirms to healthcare organizations that the company is committed to security and ensuring its customers’ data remains 10% private and confidential and accessible at all times.
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Article | Harvard Business Review | October 2007
Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine
by Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh
Keywords: Health;
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Aspinall, Mara G., and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007).
Richard G. Hamermesh
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Dementia Discovery Fund
Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Sarah Gulick
The case is set in March 2019, and tells the story of the founding of the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF). The idea for the fund began in 2015, when then-Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the importance of making breakthroughs in dementia research, and pledged money from the UK government for research. This in turn led to the search for a venture capital (VC) firm that could lead manage a fund, and the selection of SV Health to do that, including having Kate Bingham as a managing partner. The case describes the social and scientific needs for more dementia research, as well as the fundraising and initial team building of the fund. After the fund grows beyond the expected size, the case describes the hiring of a CEO, and asks what the next investment for the fund should be: a start-up that might soon be able to launch clinical trials, or an early-stage company with promising new research?
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Mission and Purpose; Recruitment; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; London; England;
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Sarah Gulick. "Dementia Discovery Fund." Harvard Business School Case 820-045, September 2019. View Details
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Richard G. Hamermesh, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley
Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, and Julia Kelley. "Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-019, July 2019. View Details
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Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
It is early 2018, and Emily Park, managing director of impact for the Abreu Family Office, is meeting the next day with Tomás and Maria Abreu to discuss the various ways in which the Abreus can allocate a planned $100 million to make a meaningful difference in cancer patients’ lives. Park has spent the past few months working on this project and has uncovered a multitude of options, from supporting high-performing disease-focused organizations through venture philanthropy; to investing in a fund or directly into ventures and possibly earning a good return on investment in the process; to helping address system-wide issues such as the better organization and funding of clinical trials. As she prepares to present her findings to the Abreus, she wonders which one(s) will spark their interest as the way to have the most meaningful impact, and what implications their ultimate decision will have on the Family Office in terms of its capital outlays, structure, staffing, and many other categories.
Keywords: impact investing; Investment; Health Disorders; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Choices and Conditions;
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Matthew G. Preble. "Impact Investing for Cancer." Harvard Business School Case 818-068, April 2018. (Revised September 2018.) View Details
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Glycogen storage disorders, which affect the body’s ability to process sugar and store energy, are rare metabolic conditions that frequently manifest in the first years of life. Often accompanied by liver and muscle disease, this inability to process and store glucose can have many different causes, and can be difficult to diagnose. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri who have studied enzymes involved in metabolism of bacteria and other organisms have catalogued the effects of abnormal enzymes responsible for one type of this disorder in humans. Their work could help with patient prognosis and in developing therapeutic options for this glycogen storage disease.
“In February of this year, I found an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that caught my eye,” said Lesa Beamer, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at MU. “It was a landmark study identifying a new, inherited metabolic disorder in humans called phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) deficiency, and affects the human versions of the very same enzymes I had studied.”
The NEJM study was the first to characterize the multiple effects of the disorder in humans and pinpointed the enzyme involved. The disorder, described initially in 21 patients, is considered rare but will likely be found more often now that genetic tests have been developed. According to the study, the disease often affects patients in early childhood or adolescence, and can cause hypoglycemia, muscle disease, hormonal abnormalities, and cardiac problems. Many patients exhibit exercise intolerance and, because the condition could not previously be diagnosed, these problems sometimes led to early deaths.
Beamer’s lab researches similar enzymes in bacteria that play important roles in carbohydrate (sugar) metabolism, including sugars like glucose. These enzymes perform the same chemical reaction as the human protein involved in the newly identified inherited disease, and share many other similarities.
“Once the disease involving the human equivalent had been identified, we were able to put the knowledge we’ve gained to immediate use,” Beamer said. “Using the information provided by the NEJM study, we recreated the mutated proteins that cause the disorder in a test tube, and conducted detailed biochemical analyses. Our study was the first to systematically characterize and index these mutant proteins for comparison with the symptoms in human patients. Because patient studies are complex and time-consuming, our biochemical analyses are proving essential to understanding the complicated clinical presentation of this inherited disorder.”
The early-stage results of this research are promising. If additional studies are successful, Beamer believes that her bacterial enzyme research could assist with further research studying the development of human genetic health tests and therapeutics within the next few years. Her lab currently is collaborating with human medical researchers to “fast track” the study of this rare disease.
Beamer holds joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Science and the Department of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at MU.
The study, “Compromised catalysis and potential folding defects in in vitro studies of missense mutants associated with hereditary phosphoglucomutase 1 deficiency,” was funded in part by the National Science Foundation (Award: MCB-1409898) and was published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry.”
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Are Synthetic Pesticides More Dangerous than Natural Ones?
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Pesticide doesn’t just refer to the stuff you spray on plants or mosquitoes, there are plenty of natural pesticides which exist in plants too.
We fear anything that’s synthetic because we assume that it’s “bad for us”, but there’s plenty of stuff that’s “natural” that can be harmful at a certain dose.
Chemical toxicity is a sliding scale — whether a chemical is man-made or natural tells us nothing about its toxicity.
Source: urbancultivator.net
Plants and animals have evolved mechanisms to fight against their predators. Some of them are mechanical, like thorns or spines on a puffer fish, but some are chemical in nature. As a result, our food is full of natural pesticides and toxins.
It’s important not to let the term “pesticide” confuse you.
We’re used to thinking of pesticides as the stuff we spray on plants or around our house to get rid of bugs. But the term “pesticide” is much broader than that: it’s any substance that gets rid of or repels a pest. The term encompasses many different -cides: herbicides (to get rid of plants), fungicide (to get rid of fungi), insecticides (to get rid of insects), etc. A natural pesticide can be toxic to the pest that its evolved to target, so I use the term “toxin” in this piece as well.
Solanine levels increase when potato starts to green or sprout | Source: veganrus.com
One of the more common natural pesticides that we ingest is solanine. This compound is present in different parts of the potato plant, which is a member of the nightshade family of plants. This paper from Lancet published in 1979 states that potatoes have small amounts of solanine in the peel and none in the flesh, but when the potato starts to green or sprout (i.e. the ‘eyes’ start growing), then the amount increases significantly. Solanine levels also increase in potatoes when they’re diseased, such as with the blight, and is probably part of the plant’s defense system.
The Lancet paper documents several cases of solanine poisoning from eating potatoes, but they were not typical cases (for example, individuals may have been malnourished). Current guidelines from the NIH state that eating solanine in very small amounts can be toxic and recommends throwing out spoiled potatoes or those that are green below the skin.
But solanine is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to natural pesticides.
Here are a few others:
This paper suggests that caffeine inhibits insects from eating the plant. It “appears to suppress certain enzymes in insect nervous systems“. Attempts have been made at making a caffeine-based agricultural pesticide with mixed results.
Also present in the nightshade family of plants, nicotine is one of the very first agricultural pesticides developed, particularly because it is “toxic to most herbivores”. It was phased out of farming in the US as of 2014.
It’s what makes peppers hot. Does it really surprise you that it’s a natural pesticide? What animal in its right mind would want to punish itself by eating terribly spicy foods? Well, Homo sapiens do. The first pesticide containing capsaicin was registered with the EPA in 1962. As you know, it’s an irritant to most mammals, but it can also repel or kill insects.
2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one (abbreviated as DIMBOA)
A pesticide found in corn, wheat, rye and other grasses. It is released in these plants when a tissue is damaged and it’s toxic to a wide range of insects and bacteria.
The chemicals to which we attribute many of the flavors in herbs and spices:
Tetradecanoic acid in nutmeg has been tested as a potential larvicide against the yellow fever mosquito.
Pulegone in peppermint and catnip has been found to be a potent insecticide.
Carvacrol in oregano and thyme has antibacterial properties by making the cell membrane of bacteria permeable, including E. coli.
Eugenol in cloves, nutmeg, basil and others is used as a bait in many pesticides, data suggests that it can also cause liver damage.
The list is very long. In 1990, Bruce Ames published a paper entitled “Dietary pesticides (99.99 percent all natural)”.
We eat 1.5 grams of natural pesticides a day
In it, he and his coauthors outline that we eat an estimated 1.5 grams of natural pesticides a day, “which is about 10,000 times more” than the amount of synthetic pesticide residues we consume.
This amount would be significantly higher in vegetarians and vegans. As an example, the authors provide a list of 49 different pesticides found in cabbage alone. The concentrations of these pesticides are in parts per thousand or parts per million, whereas the amount of synthetic pesticides we find on our food are in the parts per billion range.
Despite the vast amount of toxins in our diet, only a handful of these have ever been tested (note that the paper was written in 1990, but the point still stands). Of all the chemicals tested for chronic cancer tests in animals, only 5 percent have been natural pesticides and half of these were carcinogenic.
Think about that for a moment.
While there’s an uproar about parts per billion amounts of synthetic pesticide residues on our food, there are more concentrated compounds in fruits and veggies actually known to cause cancer. In addition, some of the more commonly used pesticides in agriculture have mechanisms of action that are specific to the pests they’re targeting, making them far safer than many natural pesticides, which is one reason they’ve gained popularity in the past half century.
For example, glyphosate, which is often paired with herbicide-resistant GMO crops, shuts down a biochemical pathway in plants that simply doesn’t exist in mammals. In contrast many of the natural toxins found in plants can be harmful to mammals. Yet we’re far more concerned about glyphosate residues than we are about natural formaldehyde in pears. Check out the graphic below that highlights this point: we fear anything that’s synthetic because we assume that it’s “bad for us”, but there’s plenty of stuff that’s “natural” that can be harmful at a certain dose.
Source: compoundchem.com
I’ve read a lot of arguments from anti-GMO groups about how transgenic crops that have the Bt-toxin will kill us all, because it’s a registered pesticide with the EPA. “Do you want to eat something that’s a pesticide?” is what I’ve read time and time again. But as I’ve noted above there are plenty of “natural chemicals” that are registered pesticides, but no one seems to be freaking out about basil and mustard seeds.
The final point that I want to highlight is that the cross-breeding and “natural” hybridizations we’ve been doing for centuries has undoubtedly impacted the levels of some of these natural pesticides by unknown amounts because no one examines them. Going back to solanine, in the ’60s a new strain of potato known as the“Lenape” potato was developed through “natural” methods, but was found to be toxic due to increased levels of solanine: it had ~2-4x the amount of solanine found in other potato varieties and it had to be pulled off the shelves. But no one seems to be making noise about “unintended consequences” of traditional crossbreeding.
This should be a nuanced discussion. Just because an agricultural pesticide has a benign toxic profile does not mean that we shouldn’t try to minimize its use when possible. Just because a transgene for a natural pesticide added to a crop has no impact on mammals does not mean that we should not study its impact on the environment. Yet we shouldn’t consider our food to be “unsafe” or shun traditional farming practices because of the use of synthetic pesticides.
Remember: it’s all in the dose.
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Fakegate: Open Letter to Directors of the Pacific Institute
FEBRUARY 29, 2012 - Today, The Heartland Institute sent the letter below to the following members of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute: Peter Boyer, Trustee, The Ayrshire Foundation Gigi Coe, Trust for Conservative Innovation Joan Diamond,
FEBRUARY 29, 2012 - Today, The Heartland Institute sent the letter below to the following members of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute:
Peter Boyer, Trustee, The Ayrshire Foundation
Gigi Coe, Trust for Conservative Innovation
Joan Diamond, Chairperson, The Nautilus Institute
Anne Ehrlich, Senior Research Associate, Stanford University
Eric Gimon, Department of Physics, University of California - Berkeley
Corey Goodman, Managing Director, venBio LLC
Margaret Gordon, Second Vice-President, Port of Oakland
Malo Andre Hutson, Affiliated Faculty, University of California
Olivier Marie, Business Strategist, Haas School of Business
Richard Morrison, California Advisory Board, The Trust for Public Land
Robert Stephens, President, MSWG, Inc.
Michael Watts, Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley
We will post at www.fakegate.org any replies we receive. Previous press releases from The Heartland Institute plus links to dozens of news reports and commentary on Gleick's transgressions can be reviewed at Fakegate.org. The Heartland Institute is a 28-year-old national nonprofit organization with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, DC. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information, visit our Web site or call 312/377-4000.
Dear _________:
On February 27, the Pacific Institute made the following announcement:
The Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute is deeply concerned regarding recent events involving its president, Dr. Peter Gleick, and has hired an independent firm to review the allegations. The Board has agreed to Dr. Gleick’s request for a temporary leave of absence …
The Heartland Institute’s staff, directors, donors, and other victims of Mr. Gleick’s crime look forward to reviewing the outcome of your investigation. Please confirm that you intend to make public the results of your investigation.
I hope that you and the firm you have hired will pay special attention to the documents I have enclosed:
The emails Gleick exchanged with Heartland prior to committing his crime, in which he was respectfully invited to debate Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor on the issue of climate change at Heartland’s anniversary benefit event in August. In these emails, Gleick is informed of Heartland’s policies regarding the confidentiality of its donors and why we adopted that policy. Gleick declined the invitation to debate.
The emails Gleick used to steal documents intended to be read only by members of Heartland’s board of directors. Gleick falsely assumed the identity of a member of Heartland’s board on the same day (January 27) that he declined the invitation to debate climate change with Taylor.
The forged memo Gleick included with the stolen documents and falsely represented, in his message accompanying the documents to 15 allies and journalists, to have come from The Heartland Institute. I have highlighted the forger’s own words, as opposed to text that was copied and pasted from the stolen documents, and included my own analysis of this fraudulent document.
Gleick’s partial confession, in which he admits to having stolen the documents but claims that the memo, which he previously said came from The Heartland Institute, came “in the mail” from an anonymous source. He claims he stole documents because “a rational public debate is desperately needed,” a debate he had just declined to participate in. He offers his “personal apologies to all those affected,” presumably including people he knew his actions had put in harm’s way. He does not say or offer to do anything that would limit or undo the harm he caused.
I hope you will tell me, as you review these documents, if you recognize the author of the highlighted text of the forged memo, and if you believe Gleick received it from an anonymous source, and if you believe Gleick has shown any personal remorse for what he has done.
Finally, please pass along the following questions to the “independent” firm you hired to investigate Gleick:
Did Gleick use Pacific Institute computers to establish the Gmail email account under the name of a Heartland board member?
Did Gleick use Pacific Institute computers to establish the Gmail email account under the name of “heartlandinsider@gmail.com,” which he used to send the fake memo and the stolen documents to 15 media outlets?
Does the investigative firm intend to examine whether Gleick is the author of the fake memo?
Does the outside firm have access to all of the personal computers Gleick may have used to write and send the emails or to write the forged memo?
Is the fake memo or any trace of it on Gleick’s personal computer(s)?
Is the fake memo or any trace of it on the Pacific Institute’s computer system?
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Because the Senate made minor changes to H.R. 3606 since its passage in the House, the bill will be sent back to the House of Representatives for concurrence before heading to President Obama’s desk for signature. President Obama supports the measure, which stands to be one of few bipartisan bills to pass Congress during this politically contentious election year. The SEC will have up to one year to promulgate the rule to implement the changes.
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So you're curious what brought this about huh?
The artwork of Ryan Almighty has is fueled by isolation, individuality, madness and a taste for the morbid. Born to a single mother in rural Pennsylvania Ryan started life not knowing quite where he fit in. While the other kids played sports and enjoyed the treasures that small town America had to offer, Ryan spent much of his time alone drawing zombies and images of death.
Adolescence was also a challenge for Almighty.. An awkward and eccentric kid with a growing hatred for the jocks and cliques that tormented him on a daily basis Ryan found comfort in Horror Films, art and punk rock. Ryan made a point of provoking those that he felt tormented him through art, elaborate pranks, and self expression causing concern to his guidance counselors and teachers, When asked what he wished to be as he transitioned into adulthood he would proudly say "a mortician" Fueling the fire at this already awkward age the Satanic Panic of the 80 was in full swing mass hysteria was in full swing young Almighty (as well as any other teenager wearing black or riding a skateboard) was being pegged as a Cult member and child "sacrificing" ritual murderer by not only in other immature peers minds/imaginations but authority figures as well.. The torment festered and manifested itself in more dark antisocial fantasies, self mutilation, and isolation..
Upon graduation Ryan moved to Pittsburgh to attend art school where a whole new urban world of punk rock and fellow weirdos opened up to him. Fascinated by pop art and Warhol in particular, Ryan Started developing his style with portraiture and pop images, still holding on to punk ideals and dark sensibilities..
After his graduation Ryan headed back to rural Pennsylvania and landed a job at the Warren State Hospital for the insane where he found great inspiration for his artwork and started his first very own punk band called VIKTOR 44 & THE ACT OUTS. They were self destructive had a bleak outlook on life, and we're destructive and unmanagable. Almighty and his band (Heavily Influenced by GG Allin) set out to provoke and piss off all the "cool kids" and 20 somethings attending early 1990s shows and forming what reminded Almighty of high/middle school cliques. The shows were filled with anger, self mutilation and a use of blood for shock and assault on the audience. As a side note The guitar player of this band "Sonny" went on to be a long time member of The Murder Junkies who were GG ALLIN himself's last band. It was during this period where Ryan started tattooing and doing graphic art/illustrations for underground performers such as ANTiSEEN, Jeff Dahl, eXtreme elvis and countless others...
A trail of destruction, a couple suicide attempts and a fair share of illicit substances later Ryan had a choice to make was it time to die and allow himself to self destruct or use his natural talent for art to make a living in a confusing and unhappy world... Ryan chose the latter. In the Winter of 2001 Ryan opened up a tattoo studio in Jamestown NY and became a respectable business owner.. The studio was a success and Ryan managed to build a very successful business. He made the decision to modify himself with horns, split tongue, pointed ears, etc to thumb his nose at those that condemned him in his teenage years in the name of Christianity/"goodness" accusing him of being a satanist and member of a cult that never actually existed.
After 10 years of comfort, success, and notoriety Almighty started becoming disillusioned with the state of body modification. As an individual it was becoming more and more disheartening to see the trends, cliques and over saturation and popularity of the body art industry turn something so revolutionary into something so cutthroat and shady. After a trail of cutthroat business partners and bad relationships. Owning a tattoo studio was no longer fun and the ugly reality of cliques, drama, and status driven politics seemed to be permeating body art Almighty was suffering severe depression and burn out... After a particularly bad relationship Almighty decided to paint a Baphomet illustration commissioned by a friend in his own blood and the birth of Almighty's style of human blood painting was born. Almighty fell in love with a style he developed and knew he was on to something when his rivals tried to use the art to attack him and his colleagues chose to try to emulate his newly found style. It was about this time Almighty started traveling to The San Francisco CA area to promote his art and tattoo among artists with skill that challenged and renewed his interest in the medium.. Upon return from a CA trip Almighty returned to NY to face hostility and personal attacks from the local government over his paintings utilizing human blood. With threats of raiding his home and sore from too many stab wounds in his back Ryan moved his collection of Oddities to The Bay Area of CA and chose to start over in life leaving his business behind to start a new life and adventure. Almighty was not only welcomed by the Bay area locals with open arms but treated like family by a slew of talented artists at TIGERS BLOOD SOCIAL CLUB most notably owners Joe Parker (tattoo artist extraordinaire') and SAMMYTOWN (Fang)
But all good things come to an end. Tigers Blood closed its doors over the age old evil of a clash over money. Sammy and Joe parted ways. which meant no room for Almighty's Museum.... With that and an increasing disdain ffor PC culture, the obsessive political climate and the EXTREMELY high cost of living Almighty moved on again
Almighty can now be found traveling and enjoying the freedom of a traveling artist, He recently made international news by including the cremated ashes of Charles Manson in a series of blood paintings which has stirred interest and controversy among not only Manson critics but followers as well. The first of the series now resides in Zak Bagans Haunted Museum in Las Vegas..
Almighty's rendition of Poe is displayed in Richmond Va. at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum and many of his pieces are on display internationally in galleries and collections of distinction. Almighty is kept busy with commissioned work and new projects all the time the sky is the limit for the possibilities of this unusual work. Not too bad for an artist that left his home town over constant harassment and attacks from his colleagues and local authorities.......
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Cricket Tea Towel 'The Ins and Outs of Cricket'
You have two sides
Anonymous - traditional
The London Quartet
author of text
The London Quartet’s recognition of Estonian sacred music composer Arvo Pärt’s minimalist style, in this appealing demi-semi-drone which was put together at a stopover in Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 2nd, 2007. The towel—still available—was manufactured to explain to foreigners the fundamental comings and goings on the field of play. Game for a laugh…
from notes by David Allen © 2011
Songs of Cricket
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This album is an eclectic tribute to the very British obsession that is cricket. Featuring guest performances from the likes of Richard Stilgoe, Rory Bremner and Tim Rice, it should prove a must-buy for cricket- and music-fans alike.» More
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out,
and when he’s out he comes in
and the next man goes in until he’s out.
When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in
and the side that’s been in goes out
and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out
try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in
and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time
and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out,
and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in,
including those who are not out…
That is the end of the game.
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Shia-Sunni war over websites
Here is an interesting news item that talks about hacking wars between Sunnis and Shias (and also by extension between the Iranians and the Arabs). Apparently it has intensified since last September. Intelligence agencies of many countries have been playing (and preparing) for cyber-warfare. So this may simply be an internet skirmish (hey - it beats the actual bombs). On the other hand, this may be a sign of deteriorating relations between Iran and some of the Arab countries:
The cyberassaults temporarily defaced websites of prominent Muslim clerics, including those of Iraqi Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and the late Sunni mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Abdullah bin Baz.
More recently, Shiite hackers attacked the website of Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned channel based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For hours, site visitors were redirected to a page where, beneath an image of a burning Israeli flag, large red letters in English and Arabic declared: "Serious Warning. If attacks on Shia WebSites Continue, none of your WebSites Will be SAFE."
Middle East experts say that this online psychological battle should be seen in the context of Sunni dismay over what they see as Iran's strategic gains in Arab nations, especially Iraq.
Although it's hard to show any direct connection in the cloaked world of Web sabotage, the interreligious hacking really took off after prominent Sunni cleric Yousef al-Qaradawi called Shiites "heretics" and accused them of trying to "invade" Sunni communities in a Sept. 9 interview.
His remarks were "a green light" for Sunnis to go on the offensive against Shiite sites, says Ali Ahmed, director of the Washington-based Gulf Institute, a Saudi opposition think tank.
A couple of weeks later, an Iranian news agency claimed that 300 Shiite websites had been defaced by Wahhabis, as the austere Sunni Muslims in Saudi Arabia are known, including that of Mr. Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric.
Then came attacks on scores of Sunni websites. Shiite hackers often left the same calling card: a face painted with the colors of the Iranian flag, and a map of the Arabian Gulf labeled "The Persian Gulf."
Hmm...welcome to the global community - Now we can smoothly transfer our ideological hatred to the web. But wait - there was a truce during the last Eid:
During the religious holiday of Eid-al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan, some of the hackers, apparently Shiite, offered a truce of sorts on a Web page featuring a bouquet of flowers and two clasped hands. The olive branch did not last long.
Ok - so there is still some sense humor there (or at least I am interpreting it as a light moment).
Read the full story here (it also talks about the hacking of Al-Qaeeda websites last September 10th). By the way, the image with post is from the US Department of Justice Kids page. Seriously, can't trust anyone under 10!
Posted in politics of science and religion, science in muslim world on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 by Salman Hameed | 2 comments Edit
Questions About Faith, Etc. said...
Wow this cyber war stuff is very interesting, interesting how warfare can take different forms.
I love your blog and have posted it on my Blogs to Follow list.
Oct 26, 2008, 12:45:00 AM
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IT'S ALL INDIE
Ravellas share anthemic 'Worse Places' [IAI Premiere]
Posted by Alexa Wilde on April 10, 2019
Hailing from Wigan, indie-pop four-piece Ravellas have made themselves a staple of the music scene in the North and are steadily garnering acclaim both nationally and internationally. Their gritty, homegrown indie anthemia carries a songwriting prowess of seasoned greats and is yet delivered with an excited eagerness to prove their ever-evolving talents.
Premiering today, Worse Places is an ode to their isolated upbringing in the north, balanced by their distinct optimism - tune in below.
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Love Fame Tragedy kicks off the new decade in style with the release of latest single "Riding A Wave", out now via Good Soldier Songs/AWAL.
The track is the latest offering from The Wombats frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy’s solo project and the third from his sophomore EP "Five Songs To Briefly Fill The Void", which is out next month. If you're a fan of The Wombats this new project isn't too far off what they've sounded like over the past two albums, and don't worry, The Wombats aren't splitting up any time soon!
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Beabadoobee has had quite the rise so far, after being signed to Ditty Hit - home to Wolf Alice and The 1975 - she's gone on to get quite a fanbase here in the UK and back in her home country of Philippines. Known to her friends as Bea, she began recording music under the current guise in 2017 at just 16 years old. With some DIY bedroom-pop tracks recorded, later on in the same year she released her debut track, "Coffee".
Spring forwards to the end of 2019, a couple of solid EPs in the past 12 months has projected her into more people's heads and ears with the latest single "Space Cadet" being picked up by BBC Radio 1's Annie Back as her 'Hottest Record', and since has been selected to support The 1975 on their UK arena tour this year, what a rise!
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October Drift share new single "Oh The Silence"
October Drift have shared their new single, "Oh The Silence", which is the latest track to be lifted from their upcoming debut album, "Forever Whatever". The album has been eagerly awaited for a long time and is finally out on January 24th via Physical Education Records.
You can check out the intense track out below!
Chris Scholar’s Northside suggests the only way is up
Chris Scholar is a talented guy, clearly. If his latest single Northside is not enough, just check out the listens on his back catalog, and if that’s not enough, he has written for Chris Brown, 2 Chainz, and directed videos for Trippie Red, Lil Xan and French Montana. Impressive right?
Produced by Brandon Randolph and Dcember, Chris states that “Northside is an ode to my roots,'' discussing “a coming of age story” about “beginnings in love”. The easy going verses and falsetto chorus are designed to keep you moving, and is both cooly composed and highly commercial.
Tessie showcases her latest EP with new single 'Do Me Like That'
Hailing from the waterfront city of Vallejo, California, singer and songwriter Tessie first made her initial impressions last year with the release of her debut EP ‘Feel Trip’, featuring the memorable singles ‘The Way’ and ‘Can’t Wait’. And after a few months to refresh herself, she returns with her latest soulful offering ‘Do Me Like That’.
Lifted from her follow-up EP ‘Feel Trip II’, ‘Do Me Like That’ looks to continue the same vibrant and sweeping tones she first expressed on her previous collection. Taking cues from artists such as Alicia Keys, JoJo, and Jazmine Sullivan, this smooth and sultry new release sees her in a soft and intimate guise, using little more than a loosely played guitar, humbled drums and her own soaring vocals to create this rich and enticing new cut.
Speaking about her latest release, she added, “’Do Me Like That’ is an ode to all the hopeless romantics. The track encompasses the feeling of going all the way out on a limb for love and not getting the same lo…
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Amazing Grace: Can Redemption Come Too Late for a White Supremacist?
Christopher Pramuk July 6, 2019 Uncategorized
Note: In March, I spoke at the University of Portland on the life and legacy of John Newton, composer of the beloved Christian hymn “Amazing Grace.” With gratitude to my hosts at UP and all who attended, what follows is an excerpted version of the talk, “Amazing Grace: Diversity, Deep Listening, and the Anatomy of a Song.” The whole can be heard here.
WRITTEN IN THE MIDDLE of the 18th century by English pastor and composer John Newton, “Amazing Grace” has long been one of the most beloved hymns in the English-speaking Christian world. And yet there are parts of Newton’s story, darker chapters of his life, that not too many people know about. Before John Newton became a beloved pastor—indeed, so beloved that the church building had to be enlarged several times to accommodate his overflowing flock—before he wrote the hymn that would secure his legacy in Christian history and worship, John Newton was a slave trader.
John Newton (1725-1807)
From the age of 20 and for almost 10 years, he invested and worked in the slave trade, working the ships that carried newly captured African men, women, and children to North America across the Middle Passage. Even after his conversion to the Christian faith, Newton did not entirely separate himself from the slaveholding industry.
Thus his story, and the personal history behind the song, raises some hard questions still very much with us today: questions, for example, about the legacy of Christianity and white supremacy in America; questions about whether redemption can come too late for a person like John Newton, and indeed, if we are honest about our own moral failures, whether grace can come too hard or too late for us; questions about to what extent a beloved work or body of art can be separated from the artist, when history reveals the artist, after all, to be a deeply flawed person. (Think here of R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, or Pablo Picasso.)
So I’d like to ask you to consider with me the meaning of “grace” itself—to think about experiences or events in your own life that you might call graced, about which you might now say, “I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.” Grace is like that, I think. As we see in Newton’s story, grace doesn’t magically or mythologically change reality overnight or all in a flash; rather, grace reveals reality to us more clearly than we had seen it before (sometimes only bit by bit), and in the revelation of the truth, we are potentially set free.
For grace, too, is a powerful force in which we all live and move and have our being. Yet unlike the fear and violence that screams across our headlines, grace moves more quietly in the world; like the wind that blows through the trees and the sap that rises through frozen boughs at the end of winter, she moves in the rhythms of the earth herself—and in the goodness that dwells in the human heart. And so we’ve got to learn how to look and listen beneath the surfaces to catch the movement of grace in our own and in other people’s lives. Music can help us to do that. The song “Amazing Grace” can help us to do that.
As a young man in his early twenties working the slave ships, Newton established a reputation as one of the most crude and profane men in the business. But in March of 1748, the first stirrings of a change in Newton began to happen. He was on a ship in the North Atlantic when a violent storm came upon the vessel, so rough it swept overboard a crew member who was standing right where Newton had been just moments before. For 11 more hours, the crew fought to keep the ship from sinking, until at last, the storm subsided. Two weeks later the battered ship came to port in Ireland, Newton and the surviving crew near to starving.
But even then, after facing death, his conversion was not immediate. For two more years, he worked the ships until, at age 30, he grew gravely ill. Only then did he begin to ask himself “if he was worthy of God’s mercy . . . as he had not only neglected his faith but [he had] directly opposed it, mocking others who showed [any kind of faith],” and all the while “deriding and denouncing God as a myth.” In other words, when he wrote “Amazing Grace” decades later as a pastor, and would confess that grace had “saved a wretch like me,” he truly meant it; he felt himself to have been a wretch beyond all possibility of forgiveness.
In 1788, Newton finally broke his silence about his earlier years, publishing a pamphlet called Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade, in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage. The pamphlet sold so well that it required many re-printings. He allied himself to William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist, who was a member of his congregation, and he would live to see the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. But of himself, Newton did not hold out for much hope, writing in the pamphlet, “[My] confession…comes too late…. It will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument in a business at which my heart now shudders.”
Ironically, as he grew ill and approached death, Newton lost his eyesight—literally he became blind—yet he had been saved, arguably, from a much worse kind of blindness. And he had actively worked to save others from the same destructive blindness in his work for abolition. Perhaps, after all, his redemption had not come too late.
But would grace move Newton to alter his position on white supremacy? It was quite possible to be a committed abolitionist, to detest slavery for its barbaric cruelty, yet still to hold the belief that whites are superior to blacks, that European culture and the Christian religion are far superior to African culture and religion. I don’t know where Newton came down finally on such questions. For me, the more interesting question has to do with us, with our attitudes and commitments today.
To say it more personally, when we as individuals and as a people look back over the course of our lives and take an honest measure of the social histories we have inhabited, to what extent might we recognize with sadness, perhaps even with shock, our own blindness and complicity in realities happening today at which our heart will one day shudder? [1] Just as Newton did not change his ways overnight or in a singular flash of renunciation, the movement of grace in our lives seems to work quietly, by stealth, as it were; grace beckons our freedom but never overrides it. In the terms of Catholic theology, grace works according to nature—messy, broken, beautiful, sometimes painfully captive human nature. Grace meets us at least halfway to the truth and more, but the rest is up to us.
We can count ourselves as “woke” all day long—I can know all the right things to say and what not to say, and be ready to pounce on anyone who says or does the wrong thing—but until we risk moving beyond our comfort zones and practice deep listening with the stranger, until the eyes of our hearts have been opened through friendship and solidarity, until I learn not only to tolerate but to celebrate the God-given beauty and distinct gifts of other peoples and cultures, to count myself as “woke” may be little more than virtue signaling, window dressing, cheap grace. It’s not terribly creative, risky, or interesting. It creates little change.
On the other hand, to be truly “woke” in Newton’s sense would be to dedicate ourselves to the creation of communities of justice, diversity, and kinship in which we can authentically say, in the words of one of my students, that “no matter where you come from or what you look like, you are welcome here. We are part of each other’s story.” That, to my mind, is a vision worth living and fighting for.
Dare we strive to be instruments for this kind of more vulnerable, costly grace in our classrooms, in our churches, in our society? And what about our country, our nation, our world? Can grace lead us home as a people? If not now, when? When will it finally come, our revelatory moment, our graced moment?
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
I once was lost but now am found,
T’was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
‘Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.
[1] For example, the current horror unfolding at our southern border. The book The Line Becomes a River shines a disturbing light (at times, disturbingly beautiful) into the life of a former border control agent, Francisco Cantu’. “In the sixteen years between 2000 and 2016, the US Border patrol recorded over six thousand deaths of persons trying to cross into the United States. In Arizona’s Pima County alone, the remains of more than two thousand migrants were found. A sheriff in a rural Texas county said, ‘for every one we find, we’re probably missing five.'” Cantu’ cites one coroner who describes this grim work as follows, in a 2017 New York Times article, “No one deserves to be just a number. The idea is to figure out who they are, and give them their name back.”
This essay was first published in the University of Portland magazine (Summer 2019) and on its website.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman cooks up exciting new favorites from her life on the ranch in this glorious full-color cookbook that showcases home cooking at its most delicious (and most fun!).
Welcome to Ree’s new frontier! So much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Ree’s schedule is crazier than ever…and through it all, her cooking has evolved. While she and her family still love all the hearty comfort foods they’re accustomed to, Ree’s been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture she’s craving these days.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier features 112 brand new step-by-step recipes that bring fresh, exciting elements into your everyday meals. From super-scrumptious breakfasts, to satisfying soups and sandwiches, to deliciously doable suppers and sides—and, of course, a collection of irresistible sweets you’ll want to make immediately!—these pages will deliver a big list of fabulous new dishes for you to add to your repertoire.
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• 11-Carton Cake (uses a carton of yogurt, then the carton measures everything else!)
• Caramel Apple Quesadillas (beyond belief)
Filled with endless variations, ingredient discussions, and equipment suggestions sprinkled among sensational recipes that offer a mix of refined and down-home, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier offers a whole new world of “scrumptious” for you to explore!
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Hardcover)
By Mark Manson
Published: Harper - September 13th, 2016
Over 6 million copies sold
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.
For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.
There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
By Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton (Illustrator)
Published: Simon & Schuster - April 25th, 2017
Now a Netflix series!
New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards
Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by: NPR, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Rachel Ray Every Day, San Francisco Chronicle, Vice Munchies, Elle.com, Glamour, Eater, Newsday, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, Tampa Bay Times, Tasting Table, Modern Farmer, Publishers Weekly, and more.
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared “America’s next great cooking teacher” by Alice Waters.
In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. Master the use of just four elements—Salt, which enhances flavor; Fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavor; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food—and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.
Echoing Samin’s own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes—and dozens of variations—to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs.
Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavor by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you’ll ever need.
With a foreword by Michael Pollan.
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Sage Hospitality sells Halcyon brand, Denver property
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The Halcyon was the first hotel to open in Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood in more than a decade when it started welcoming guests in 2016. Photo credit: Sage Hospitality
Sage Hospitality, a Denver-based hotel investment, development and management company, along with Denver-based developer BMC Investments, announced the sale of the Halcyon hotel in Denver to Rockbridge Capital. Dallas-based Makeready will take over management of the property. In addition to the 154-key hotel, Rockbridge acquired the Halcyon and B&GC brands, which were developed and trademarked by Sage Hospitality.
“It is a tremendous success for Sage Hospitality to sell this hotel and two of the associated brands. Our teams put hard work into developing and operating these assets, and this transaction is evidence of their commitment and dedication to excellence,” Walter Isenberg, president/CEO of Sage Hospitality, said in a statement. “Additionally, the sale and significant price achieved is a testament not only to the depth of talent of our real estate investment team, but also the strength of Sage’s brand-development organization. We are proud to be able to hand off a successful business unit to Rockbridge and their partners.”
The Departure brand was not sold to Rockbridge, and as a result Sage Restaurant Group closed the Departure Restaurant + Lounge, effective March 11, 2019.
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“We thank the Denver community for their loyal patronage of Departure over the past three years,” Brent Berkowitz, COO of SRG, said in a statement. “Although this is an end for our Cherry Creek location, it is also the beginning of a new chapter—there are many exciting opportunities in the works, and we look forward to serving the Denver community again in the future.”
The Halcyon was the first hotel to open in Denver's Cherry Creek North neighborhood in more than a decade, with the intention of elevating the travel and community experience in the area.
“When we began the process of developing Halcyon, Cherry Creek North was in need of a new hotel to help anchor and elevate the neighborhood,” Matt Joblon, CEO of BMC Investments, said in a statement. “Since Halcyon opened, Cherry Creek North has evolved into an unparalleled hospitality, dining and entertainment destination in Denver. We are proud to be part of the team that has driven this growth, and we look forward to stewarding further progress in Cherry Creek and across Denver in the future.”
Sage opened Halcyon in Denver’s Cherry Creek North neighborhood in August 2016, along with modern Asian restaurant Departure Restaurant + Lounge and underground speakeasy B&GC.
“We look forward to continuing to grow Sage’s real estate investment program and delivering stellar outcomes like this to our investors in the future,” Jason Altberger, chief investment officer at Sage Hospitality, said in a statement. “My team is dedicated to the company’s continued growth and expansion in the real estate investment sector, and our primary focus will remain on acquiring and developing urban lifestyle hotels and restaurants within key markets.”
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Indigo Road to venture into hotels in 2020
The S.C.-based restaurant group picked hospitality veteran Larry Spelts to lead its new hotel management and consulting division.
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Four Seasons hotel adds in-room fitness center
The East Palo Alto, Calif., property features the intelligent gym and personal trainer in select guestrooms.
by Esther Hertzfeld Jan 17, 2020 4:29pm
Pechanga Resort Casino drives automation with new tech
Infor cloud solutions now connect siloed applications and reduce manual processes for the California resort.
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AIG sells medical stop-loss operations to Tokio Marine HCC
The lure of captives
New liability offering from AXIS
Sedgwick company veteran and care management expert Kimberly George has been named senior vice president, senior healthcare advisor.
In this new position, George will explore and work to improve Sedgwick's understanding of how healthcare reform affects its business models and product and service offerings. She will also serve as senior healthcare advisor to Stone Point Capital, one of Sedgwick's primary shareholders.
"The nexus between healthcare reform, occupational medicine, quality, and claims management is largely uncharted territory," said David North, Sedgwick's president and chief executive officer. "I can think of no one more qualified than our own Kimberly George to help us and our valued clients navigate this increasingly complex and ever-changing environment."
Over the course of her career, George has developed into a true thought leader on issues related to healthcare quality and containing the costs of risk. She became a registered nurse more than 20 years ago and since then has served in a variety of leadership roles in case management, integrated disability management, and managed care. Most recently, George was Sedgwick's managed care practice lead.
In 2011, Business Insurance magazine named George one of its Women to Watch in the insurance and risk management industry for her ground-breaking work on provider benchmarking. She is a sought-after presenter at national events covering care management and workers’ compensation and has published a number of articles on these topics in industry journals.
George's latest venture is moderating an active LinkedIn discussion group called “Transforming Healthcare for Tomorrow.” She also shares her perspective on healthcare issues and solutions, including preparing for healthcare reform, on the Sedgwick blog, Connection.
George will continue to be based in Sedgwick's office in downtown Chicago.
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Managing the risk of drug diversion
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Healthcare workers top injury stakes
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Corrupt conduct is deliberate or intentional wrongdoing, not negligence or a mistake.
The ICAC encourages members of the public and public officials to report suspected corrupt conduct involving or affecting the NSW public sector.
You are about to make a complaint to ICAC. Are you a member of the public, public official, principal officer of a NSW public authority or reporting on behalf of a principal officer of a NSW government authority?
Providing information about alleged corrupt conduct is commonly known as ‘blowing the whistle’.
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Blockchain Ethereum Industry Exchange Position to date Working Product
Liquid Exchange is the core product of Quoine, which is a Financial Technology (Fintech) company headquartered in Japan with offices in Singapore and Vietnam. The company’s mission is to revolutionize banking and financial services and to bring financial services to the un/under-banked.
Liquid Exchange is one of the largest exchanges in Asia, supporting fiat such as AUD, EUR, JPY, USD, and SGD along with 50+ cryptocurrencies. The exchange has reported a transaction amount which is more than $50 billion over the past 12 months (as of May 2019). One of the most important highlights of this exchange is that it has received regulatory approval from the Japan Financial Services Agency.
QASH token, the native currency of the exchange, can be used to have a 50% discount when paying for the trading fees. There are also some incentivizing mechanisms for holding the QASH token. An example case for the utility of the QASH token would be realized for the Telegram’s Gram token sale, which will be carried out on Liquid Exchange.
Liquid Exchange has partnered with Gram Asia for an exclusive sale of Telegram's Gram token, available only to Liquid customers. Users who would like to participate in the Gram Token Sale, need to register an account on Liquid.com and complete KYC procedures.
The details of the exclusive sale of Gram Tokens are as follows:
Token Name: GRAM
IEO Date: July 10th, 2019 (08:00 UTC)
IEO Price: 1 GRAM = $ 4.00 (by holding QASH, this can be reduced down to $3.50 per token)
Liquid has also planned a raffle campaign for Gram Token Sale participants, where 10 lucky participants will have the chance to receive up to $100,000 worth of Gram tokens from a prize pool of $545,000. The details and the terms of eligibility for this campaign can be found here
⬛️ Always do your own research and due diligence when considering your participation in any blockchain project.
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Website: https://www.liquid.com/
Public Sale: 2019-07-10 (4 USD)
Coin/Token Symbol: GRAM
Accepted Currencies: USDC, USD
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KYC: Yes
White List: No
Country Restrictions: Afghanistan, Albania, Bahamas, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Crimea, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, Serbia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United States of America (USA) and USA territories, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe
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Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Collaborative Autonomous & Resilient Systems
ICRI-CARS Vision
ICRI-SC (2012-2017)
University of Waterloo and Aalto University
Ruhr-University Bochum
Intel Labs Germany
Center for Research in Security and Privacy
CRISP is comprised of several partner institutions that include Technische Universität Darmstadt with its CYSEC profile area for IT security research, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, and the Fraunhofer Institutes for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) and for Computer Graphics Research (Fraunhofer IGD), both located in Darmstadt. This partnership represents the largest alliance of research institutes in the area of cybersecurity within Europe. CRISP is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Hessian Ministry for Science and the Arts.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Senior Principal Investigator and Director
+49 (0)6151 16 – 25328
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Associate Principal Investigator
buchmann(at)cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schneider
schneider(at)encrypto.cs.tu-darmstadt.de
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Apple sues mobile device virtualization company Corellium, cites ‘copyright infringement’
by Anthony Bouchard on August 16, 2019 — no comment yet
Apple is allegedly suing Corellium LLC on the grounds that its software virtualization techniques violate copyright infringement laws.
The state of the iOS 7.1 jailbreak
by Cody Lee on May 6, 2014 — 111 comments
If you are a frequent reader of iDB, or simply an avid jailbreaker, you probably already know that there is not currently a public jailbreak for iOS 7.1. But since we still get dozens of questions on this per day, we figured it was time to do a post on the topic to help clear the air.
For a little background, the evad3rs released evasi0n7 late last year to jailbreak devices running iOS 7. It had a pretty good run, lasting through 6 updates, but it was finally patched by Apple in March with iOS 7.1. So those who have updated to 7.1 have begun asking: now what?
JailbreakCon 2014: behind the scene
by Sébastien Page on April 19, 2014 — 82 comments
As I am trying to write a catchy intro for this post, I can’t help but feel the pressure. I’m feeling the pressure mainly because I wrote a similar piece a couple of years ago when I first attended JailbreakCon. To date, this post is still one of my favorites I have published on iDB. Having set the bar pretty high, this sequel could prove to be like most sequels: uninspired and thrown out there to cash in on a previous success. This is a risk I am willing to take today.
Maybe more importantly, I am feeling the pressure because I don’t want to disappoint readers by writing the same story I wrote a couple years ago. I guess I’m feeling like a musician that is incapable of finding a different sound for his next album, you know, kinda like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sometimes it’s good to keep the same sound. Sometimes it gets repetitive and boring. Hopefully, this time will still feel as refreshingly honest as it did the first time, while still entertaining readers, which really is my ultimate goal.
Yes, my goal is not so much to tell you about all the great workshops and talks I attended at JailbreakCon this year. My goal is to share the other side of the story. The side that no one not attending the event would be able to experience if it wasn’t for the words I’m typing on the keyboard right now. Let’s call it the behind the scene story of JailbreakCon.
So this is me, sharing my story of JailbreakCon 2014. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed living it…
Evasi0n 7 1.0.2 released, fixes iPad 2 Wi-Fi boot loop issue
by Jeff Benjamin on December 30, 2013 — 127 comments
Evasi0n 7 1.0.2 has just been released for OS X and Windows with a fix for the Wi-Fi reboot loop that’s plagued iPad 2 Wi-Fi users. The release, which is the third release of the jailbreak tool, is available for download right now.
Many iPad 2 Wi-Fi users have complained about the endless reboot loop at the Apple logo that results after using Evasi0n 7 to jailbreak their device. The problem gained notoriety on Twitter and on the JailbreakQA website.
Pod2g denies claims that jailbreak was stolen from evad3rs
by Cody Lee on December 15, 2013 — 83 comments
If you’ve noticed a shortage of jailbreak news on iDB lately, that’s simply because there hasn’t been any to give. While the evad3rs are hard at work hacking iOS 7, we’ve heard little about their progress since planetbeing’s ‘all the pieces’ tweet in October.
This changed, though, last week, when reports began surfacing that someone close to the group had stolen a jailbreak from them and sold it to a private buyer. But evad3rs member pod2g has denied the claim, and says the iOS 7 JB is progressing slowly…
Apple reiterates it can’t read your iMessages even if it wanted to
by Christian Zibreg on October 18, 2013 — 67 comments
Yesterday’s report by Quarkslab, a penetration testing company, has caused quite a stir among privacy watchers as iOS hacker Pod2g and Quarkslab’s team of researchers claimed at the Hack the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur they had successfully intercepted iMessage exchanges, indicating Apple has access to the public keys used to encrypt communication.
Given the ongoing NSA scare, Apple was quick to go on the record to dispute the claim, arguing end-to-end encryption employed to protect eavesdropping on iMessages communication is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it…
Researchers claim Apple has the ability to access encrypted iMessages
by Cody Lee on October 17, 2013 — 30 comments
Following the June report claiming that several tech companies were actively participating in the NSA’s PRISM data mining program, Apple issued a statement regarding government information requests and user privacy.
In the statement, the company suggested it was unable to access or decrypt iMessage messages, alleviating fears that Apple could monitor those conversations. But according to a team of researchers, that may not be the case…
Pod2g says he’s becoming increasingly confident in iOS 7 jailbreak
by Cody Lee on September 13, 2013 — 148 comments
Good news on the jailbreak front this evening, as pod2g has just tweeted out that he is becoming “more and more confident about an iOS 7 public jailbreak.” He’s careful to note, however, that this doesn’t mean one is coming soon.
Still, this is a great vote of confidence from pod2g, as there has been little said about the state of the iOS 7 jailbreak since word got out last week that the evad3rs were looking into it. Well, planetbeing provided a minor update on Wednesday…
pod2g is considering switching to Android
by Jeff Benjamin on June 17, 2013 — 425 comments
Frustrated with what he’s seen thus far with iOS 7 beta 1, iOS hacker pod2g has announced via Twitter that he’s considering switching to an Android device. Pretty surprising news for someone who is arguably the most famous iOS hacker of all time. This is significant, because pod2g has been at the forefront of the last few jailbreaks on iOS, and without him, it’s quite possible that we wouldn’t have any of the more recent jailbreaks to hit the scene.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that pod2g is totally giving up on iOS — as he acknowledges, it is just a beta after all. But with a switch to Android, the possibility exists that the iOS 6 jailbreak, dubbed evasi0n, was the renowned hacker’s swan song when it comes to Apple devices.
Pod2g: Apple could open up iOS by releasing alternate firmware for developers
by Cody Lee on May 31, 2013 — 31 comments
Earlier this week, Tim Cook turned some heads when he told folks at the D11 conference that they could expect Apple to “open up more” in the future, in regards to 3rd party developers. The company, as you well know, currently rules iOS with an iron fist.
Unsurprisingly, Cook’s comment has sparked some speculation in the jailbreak community, on what Apple’s plans might be for opening up iOS more. And earlier today, Pod2g weighed in, and he thinks it could do it by releasing alternate firmware…
Pod2g confirms evad3rs are not working on 6.1.3 jailbreak
by Cody Lee on April 2, 2013 — 64 comments
It’s been nearly two weeks now since Apple released iOS 6.1.3 that effectively killed the evasi0n jailbreak. It had a good run though, lasting for nearly 6 weeks, through 2 iOS software updates, and jailbroke close to 20 million devices.
And it looks like that’s it for jailbreaks for a while. We had an inkling there wouldn’t be a 6.1.3 jailbreak released—it doesn’t make sense to burn exploits before iOS 7— and the evad3rs’ pod2g just confirmed our suspicion on Twitter…
Pod2g: iOS 6.1.1 beta does not fix latest jailbreak
by Cody Lee on February 7, 2013 — 58 comments
This is pretty interesting. Pod2g just announced that the new iOS 6.1.1 beta that Apple seeded to developers yesterday does not actually patch the exploits used in the latest jailbreak.
The beta came just a week after Apple rolled out iOS 6.1 to the public, and two days after the release of evasi0n, so it was assumed that the two were related. But that may not be the case…
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UP Madarsa students to be trained in NCC, NSS
UP Govt is working on a plan to modernize Madarsas with NCC and NSS.
UPDATED: November 14, 2019 10:57 IST
UP Govt is working on a plan to modernize Madarsas with NCC and NSS (Representative image)
The Uttar Pradesh government is working on a plan to modernise Madarsas across the state and connect students with the social programmes of the government. It has now decided to impart a cadet training courses like NCC and NSS to these students. Madarsa Board Registrar Raghave Indra Singh said on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, that the National Cadet Corps (NCC) and the National Service Scheme (NSS) are now working to modernise Madarsas to instill a sense of discipline among students.
NCC and NSS now working to mordernise Madarsas
UP Madarsa Education Council has sent instructions to all Madarsas in this regard.
"The objective of the NCC is to inspire everyone for the sake of the nation. The Madarsa students will also get an opportunity to make a career in the Indian Army. In addition to education and training, the students will get lessons for the service of the nation." said Mr. Singh
"The Board will also see from time to time how many Madarsas have followed the instructions," Mr Singh added.
NSS training important for all-round development
The registrar said that NSS training is also very important for the all-round development of Madarsa students.
In its training, students will be made aware of topics such as prevention of social evils, environmental protection, cleanliness, emergency or assistance for a natural disaster.
Read: Delhi Nursery Admission 2019: Forms available from this date, check details here
Also Read: Culture, innovative ecosystem can create opportunities for students to develop and grow: Rajeev Gowda
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Violent Radicalisation and ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorists
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Maria Pia Conte | Carine Minne | Louis Brunet
The IPA in Violence Committee will introduce an overview of its work for the community and refer briefly to some of the active community projects worldwide that are psychoanalytically anchored. The webinar will then focus on one relevant aspect, with Louis Brunet presenting a psychoanalytic understanding of violent radicalisation that contributes to understanding what leads to acts of ‘lone wolf’ terrorism. He will propose that violent radicalisation serves to compensate the narcissistic identity suffering by the reversal of the function of the superego and ego ideal. The hope is that individuals vulnerable to such psychopathological developments could be identified and treated earlier, before any catastrophic violent acting out.
The Violence Committee would like to encourage more psychoanalysts to develop an interest in the applications of psychoanalytic thinking in the broader community and, in particular, in the areas of social violence.
Carine Minne – Dr Carine Minne is a Consultant Psychiatrist within the UK’s National Health Service, Psychoanalyst of the British Society and chair of the IPA Violence Committee. She is President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and co-editor of the recently launched International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy. For 3 decades, she has been passionate about providing psychoanalytic treatments to mentally disordered offenders as well as about the benefits of applying psychoanalytic concepts to mental health and criminal justice organisations. Everyone benefits, patients, prisoners, and society in general – but is society civilised enough yet for these approaches when understanding, hence prevention, is confused with condoning?
Louis Brunet – Louis Brunet is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and professor at the psychology department of Université du Québec à Montréal. He is an ex-president of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. He has published more than 150 papers and book chapters. His university research focuses on: individual and group violence, terrorism and radicalisation. His personal psychoanalytic research focuses on narcissistic identity, suffering and the functions of the analyst.
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‘Hustlers’ Review: Lorene Scafaria’s Wildly Entertaining Crime Thriller Will Change Stripper Movies Forever
TIFF: That Oscar chatter for Jennifer Lopez's revelatory, nuanced, and emotional turn as a brilliant con artist and better exotic dancer is no joke.
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Filmmaker Lorene Scafaria has made just three feature films over the course of the last seven years, pacing out her nifty dramedies like “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” and “The Meddler,” perhaps in hopes that the film world will move past its affection for genre conventions and stop attempting to slot everything into a single box. If Scafaria has a signature, it’s emotional comedy-dramas about good people pushed to crazy ends, a concept she’s approached from both extremes, moving from a literal apocalypse to an overbearing mother.
Considered from that vantage, Scafaria’s third film, “Hustlers,” is a natural fit for her oeuvre, even as its splashy plotline (incorrectly) hints at a wholly different experience. It’s not only Scafaria’s best film, it’s also a welcome twist on the crime thriller genre (if we must apply genre distinctions here) and the ripped-from-the-headlines, can-you-believe-this-is real drama. And, yes, it’s also a film about strippers, but more than that, it’s about women doing the best they can in a broken system. It’s also funny, empowering, sexy, emotional, and a bit scary, with most of those superlatives coming care of a full-force performance from Jennifer Lopez genuinely deserving of awards consideration.
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Adapted by Scafaria herself, the film is framed around the creation of the article it’s based on, Jessica Pressler’s viral New York Magazine story titled “The Hustlers at Scores.” All names have been changed — including Pressler’s; Julia Stiles stands in for her as a character named Elizabeth. Some roles have been condensed, but the truth of what Pressler wrote about the nutty, wily crimes of said hustlers hasn’t been altered. Mostly narrated by Destiny (Constance Wu) during the course of a chat with the empathic Elizabeth (a neat twist of narrative plotting), “Hustlers” easily moves back and forth between the past (divided into two segments) and the apparent future, in which Destiny has clearly shed her stripper ways.
What happens in between the present and those two pasts is key, and it all starts in a glitzy strip club in the hard of Manhattan. Destiny’s career path is not working out so well for her when the film opens, all banging Janet Jackson jams and a jittery Destiny doing her damnedest to stand out enough to earn some scratch from the sleazeballs who frequent the club. And then there is Ramona (Lopez), introduced during a brain-meltingly sexy and powerful pole dance in which she gyrates to Fiona Apple (!), makes stripping look like both an art and an athletic pursuit, compels the sleazeballs to unload their wallets, and turns Destiny into an eager-eyed puddle of envy and inspiration.
Lopez owns the film, just like Ramona owns the club, and the fine line Lopez walks between fierce queen and relatable everywoman is essential to the rare balance the film strikes. It’s impossible to imagine another actress giddily showing off her denim swimwear line (named “Swimona”) in her posh Upper East Side apartment with the kind of pathos Lopez strikes, but that’s just the sort of thing the actress does again and again (and better each time) in “Hustlers.”
Destiny (and Scafaria) take their time before getting down to the crimes, and the first half of “Hustlers” operates a bit like a coming-of-age story, with Ramona taking Destiny under her wing and teaching her how to excel in the clubbing, complete with pole-dancing lessons and more than a few tips on how to get the most bang for her “champagne room” buck. Surrounded by the rest of their sistren — a stacked supporting cast that includes Cardi B, Lizzo, Trace Lysette, Keke Palmer, Mercedes Ruehl, and later Lili Reinhart and Madeline Brewer — Destiny excels, and life is very sweet.
Until it’s not, and the real world intrudes on the unlikely idyll she and Ramona have created. It will not be the last time. Years later, Destiny returns to the club, only to find it — and Ramona — changed. As much a film about Wall Street troubles and the financial crisis of the late aughts as it is about exotic dancers, “Hustlers” soon blossoms into the kind of snappy sendup producer Adam McKay might make, with a deft and definite feminine touch.
The mechanics of the scheme that the reunited Ramona and Destiny eventually cook up are complex, both literally and morally, and Scafaria and her stars aren’t afraid to mine those narrative thickets for entertainment and intellect. Essentially, the gals (and some of their whip-smart pals) go hunting for big game (read: moneyed dudes), drug them up, take them to the club, and charge whatever the hell they want on their credit cards. Half horrifying and half wickedly fun, Ramona and Destiny breathlessly muscle their way through a system that doesn’t care for them, reaping the rewards, and growing less and less recognizable in the process.
Later in the film, Elizabeth tells Destiny that she doesn’t think they did anything wrong — maybe because she believes it, maybe because she wants to soften up a source growing more combative with each interview detail — and Destiny finally seems to snap out of her years-long fog. Wu looks at Stiles with such blazing disbelief that it wounds both of them. “Hustlers” doesn’t offer easier answers than that, instead trusting its audience to draw its own conclusions, believing that they’re smart enough to know the difference between compelling characters and real goodness they may or may not possess.
For all its touchy subjects and ambiguous answers, “Hustlers” is never anything less than energetic, freight-train-fast, and impeccably plotted. Eventually, Destiny shares a persistent nightmare with Elizabeth: she’s riding in a car, and realizes no one is driving, and as she attempts to chuck herself at the steering wheel and the pedals, it’s already too late. Nothing in “Hustlers” feel as out of control as that; instead it’s Scafaria and her ladies, one hand on the wheel, one hand throwing up a blinged-out middle finger to the world that doesn’t value them. No one will make that same mistake with “Hustlers.”
STX Entertainment will release “Hustlers” in theaters on Friday, September 13. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Kevin Pritchard: It's 'up to me' to put winning team around Paul George
Larry Bird spoke with the media Monday morning in a season-closing press conference.
Kevin Pritchard: It's 'up to me' to put winning team around Paul George Larry Bird spoke with the media Monday morning in a season-closing press conference. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/2po7HEb
Matthew VanTryon, matthew.vantryon@indystar.com Published 11:44 a.m. ET May 1, 2017 | Updated 3:05 p.m. ET May 1, 2017
Larry Bird addressed the media on May 1, 2017(Photo: Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar)
Larry Bird and Kevin Pritchard spoke with the media Monday morning in a season-closing press conference. Bird stepped down as the team's President of Basketball Operations, with Pritchard assuming the role.
Bird said that he will remain with the organization for another year in a scouting role, but emphasized that he doesn't want to impede on Pritchard's responsibilities.
"The one thing I don't want to do is get in Kevin's way," he said. "This is Kevin's team. I know how difficult this job can be. If he has a question or wants help on certain things, I'd be happy to do that."
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Pritchard said he and star forward Paul George sat down during an exit interview "for 45 minutes or an hour" last week.
"We talked about a lot of different things. In every scenario he talked about being here. That’s important," Pritchard said. "He wants to win. Picking up Lance late in the year made us a better team and got us into the playoffs. We want to win. We want successful teams year in and year out, and that has to do with Paul. He wants to win, the Pacers want to win, we’re on the same page.”
Pritchard added that whether or not George makes the All-NBA team is not the only factor determining whether or not he stays with Indiana.
"All NBA is somewhat important to keeping George, but we've got to show we can win," he said. "It's up to me to put the team around him."
Bird shied away from addressing Paul George's future with the team, saying that, "Paul is gonna do what Paul is gonna do."
On Nate McMillan
Both Bird and Pritchard endorsed Nate McMillan, who was hired before the season as head coach to replace Frank Vogel.
“We had a lot of conversations about Nate before we hired him," Bird said. "I think we both felt very comfortable with him. Kevin had some prior history with him and really liked him.”
On Pritchard
Bird said he is fully confident in Pritchard, who was Portland's general manager from 2007-2010 before joining Indiana.
"Kevin’s a worker. He’s going to be out there and knew every move that’s made," Bird said. "He knows the league. He loves this job. He wants to do well for Indiana because he’s from here. I’m happy that he’ll be able to take over the team. He’ll do a fine job.”
As Pritchard took the stage, he thanked Bird, Pacers owner Herb Simon and Donnie Walsh, Pacers front office adviser and former coach.
"He has a foundation that he feels you have to play at," Pritchard said of Bird. "You have to play tough, you have to play unselfish, you have to play the right way.
"I’m so grateful to work with him and learn next to him for the last five years.”
Addressing the upcoming NBA Draft, Pritchard said he isn't afraid to make moves.
“I like interchanging pieces, I like moving around in the draft," he said. "I want to be aggressive and understand all the deals.”
Bird steps down, Pritchard steps in
Indiana Pacers' Larry Bird announces that he is stepping down as President of Basketball Operations during a press conference at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Monday, May 1, 2017. Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Kevin Pritchard will be replacing Bird. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
As former Indiana Pacers President Larry Bird leaves the room, newly named Pacers President Kevin Pritchard makes his way to the stage to address media during a press conference at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Monday, May 1, 2017. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
Indiana Pacers President Kevin Pritchard speaks to media during a press conference at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Monday, May 1, 2017. Pritchard, the Pacers' former executive vice president, is replacing Larry Bird. Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
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INEOS Group Sites Rosignano News INEOS opens its new advanced polymer pilot plant in Rosignano, Italy,
INEOS opens its new advanced polymer pilot plant in Rosignano, Italy,
The new plant enables plastic waste to be diverted from landfill or incineration and instead transformed into new valuable polymers.
The plant creates a more circular and sustainable approach to plastic production helping to replace oil and gas as a raw material.
INEOS has today opened its new advanced polymer pilot plant in Rosignano, Italy. This plant will help to develop and produce advanced products which will incorporate plastic waste diverted away from landfill or incineration. One example of the many products it will develop will include light weight car parts.
The plant supports a more sustainable and circular approach to polymer production, saving CO2 as well as directing plastic waste from landfill back into valuable polymer products. The new plant is part of INEOS’s global 100 million Euro research and development program, which supports INEOS customers globally.
Dr. Gerd Franken Chairman of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe and Chairman of INEOS Polyolefins Catalyst said: “This pilot plant will help to use more and more plastic waste for new high value polymers which is the very core of the circular economy. It demonstrates INEOS commitment to develop this technology to full commercial scale” Dr. Iain Hogan CEO INEOS Olefins & Polymers South said: “I would like to thank those that have supported this key R&D project from the beginning, across regional and local authorities. This is an important investment in the Rosignano site and for the whole of INEOS O&P”
Earlier this month INEOS Olefins & Polymers also announced the introduction of the Recycl-IN polymer range to its portfolio. The range contains up to 50% Post-Consumer Recycled plastic compounded with new highly engineered virgin polymers.
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Toyota's Olympic robots offer virtual attendance and athlete assistance - Autoblog
TOKYO — A cart-like robot scuttles across the field to bring back javelins and discuses. A towering screen-on-wheels is designed for "virtual" attendance. The cute ones are, naturally, the likeness of the Olympic and Paralympic mascots. Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp., a major Olympic sponsor, is readying various robots for next year's Tokyo Olympics. The robots were shown to reporters for release Monday. The mascot robots have moving limbs and its eyes change to the image of stars and hearts. It cannot speak at all or walk very well. But the engineer in charge, Tomohisa Moridaira, suggested various possibilities, such as getting the robot to hold the Olympic torch using magnets. The T-TR1, developed by Toyota's robotics institute in the U.S., highlights "virtual mobility," taking the automaker's usual business of transportation to another dimension. It's a moving human-size display designed to represent people who can't be there. Think a faraway grandma at a child's birthday party or a legendary athlete not able to attend but "virtually" taking part in Olympic festivities. Like all the world's major automakers, Toyota uses robotics in production plants. But it has also designed human-like robots, including those that play musical instruments. The Cue 3, which computes a three-dimensional image with sensors and adjusts motors for the right angle and propulsion to accurately throw basketballs, recently got listed in the Guinness World Records for making 2020 free throws without missing, a record for a robot and an homage to the Tokyo Olympics. An earlier Toyota robot that glides around like R2-D2 is devoted to picking things up, to help the sick and elderly. The latest "field support robot," which looks like a cart, will also be picking things up: the javelin, discus or hammer on the Olympic field. Its intelligence helps it avoid obstacles as well as repetitive routes to minimize wear and tear on the grass. The catch is: It can't go find the objects or pick them up on its own. A person has to run in front of it. Once the object is loaded, by the human, the robot will return to its original position.
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Not knowing any international service volunteers, Thomas Dempsey was both excited and apprehensive about starting service in Parramos, Guatemala. “Sharing my concerns and hearing from people at the Krista Foundation conference who have been through it all was a real comfort to me,” he says. Now deep in the “whirlwind learning experience” of a new language, culture, and community, he is putting the wisdom of his peers to work.
Besides spending time with the youth who live in the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos community, Thomas has been asked to develop a recycling and composting system. The environmental sciences graduate was eager to begin but wasn’t certain whether the project was right for the home. His cohort’s orientation workshop “Staying for Tea” gave him practice grappling with the ethical complexities of serving effectively.
“The workshop’s ideas about entering a new community or culture and tapping into the human element of work and interaction helped,” he says, “especially the part about really sitting down and hearing from as many people as you can.” After slowing down and talking with stakeholders, he began to feel more comfortable about proceeding.
“Communicating the why of recycling has been challenging, but people are really taking to the idea and it seems like every week we are making progress.”
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Investigating the impact of heat pumps on the electricity grid
Summary: Kensa explains how plans for widespread deployment of heat pumps will help to reduce strain on the electricity grid.
A report found the electrification of domestic heating on the grid is far less problematic than previously thought.
Peak heat demand is 170GW, 40% lower than previously thought.
Maximum ramp rate is 60GW/h, around 50% lower than previously thought.
Dynamic electricity tariffs, heat storage and smart controls will help mitigate capacity problems.
Heat pumps produce more heat than the electric they consume, reducing the load on the grid.
Smart controls can help avoid peaks and shift load to off-peak times.
Ground source heat pumps are better suited to load shifting initiatives because of stable ground temperatures.
Read the full article at KENSACONTRACTING.COM
Dr. Matthew Trewhella, Managing Director of Kensa Contracting, comments:
The rapid decarbonisation of the electricity grid over the last five years has added more momentum towards the electrification of heat. Concerns have been expressed that shifting load from fossil fuels such as oil, LPG and ultimately mains gas, will unduly increase the strain on the electricity grid beyond its capacity – particularly at peak times.
By using smart controls that learn the occupant’s preferences and building heat physics, it is possible to avoid the peaks of grid strain and shift load to the times when the grid can best accommodate it. If you combine some energy storage local to the heat pump, it is possible to even further reduce the peak demand. This means that ground source heat pumps transform from being a potential strain on the grid to becoming part of the solution.
The ground-breaking Energy Superhub in Oxford as a prime example of how ground source heat pumps can be used with grid-scale energy storage and load-shifting initiatives.
Blog: Decarbonising the National Grid: why hybrid heat pumps aren’t the answer
Summary: In this interview, Dr Matthew Trewhella, Managing Director at Kensa Contracting, shares his thoughts on the role of hybrid heat pumps (a gas boiler coupled with an air source heat pump) compared to ground source heat pumps in future heat frameworks.
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February is Black History Month, and Adventure Dental is celebrating it by honoring Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, DDS. This incredible woman was a woman of firsts!
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, DDS was the first African American woman to:
Graduate from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Earn a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree
Practice dentistry in Chicago
Despite her achievements, not many people know much about Ida, so we think it is fitting to get to know a little bit about her here.
Who Was Ida Gray Nelson Rollins?
Ida was born on March 4th, 1867 in Clarkesville, Tennessee, only a few short years after the end of the Civil War. She became an orphan after her mother passed away before living with her aunt. Later in life, Ida began to work for a practice owned by Jonathan Taft, one of the cofounders of American Dental Association (ADA).
After graduating high school in 1887, Ida had already found her calling and desire to become her dentist. The three years she spent working with Taft’s dental office gave her strong knowledge about dentistry. She was able to easily pass the entrance exam for the Dental College of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her reputation bloomed quickly at the college due to her high marks and outstanding work.
Upon graduating with her DDS in 1890, Ida — now officially Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, DDS — opened her private dental practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. Five years later, she would move to Chicago and become the first African American — male or female — to practice dentistry within the Windy City. For decades, she practiced and refined her abilities as a dentist until she retired in the 1930s, likely around 1935. After enjoying years of retirement, Ida passed away in 1953 at the age of 86.
From all of us at Adventure Dental, we thank and honor you, Ida, for being a trailblazer! By opening an all-inclusive dentistry clinic that helped patients of all races and walks of life, you helped show a struggling world a sense of togetherness and compassion.
Would you like to schedule a dentistry appointment with Adventure Dental? Call our Santa Clarita pediatric dentistry office at (661) 276-8755 to learn about our services, including orthodontics. You can also use an online contact form if you prefer.
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A machine-woven carpet where an enormous variety of colors are used to produce colorful patterns.
The term Berber is applied to carpet that has the off-white, heathered look of cloaks used by the Berber tribes of North Africa. Berber carpets use flecked yarns most often in loop styles. The size of the loops varies from large nubby ones to smaller styles. Patterned Berbers are multi-level-loop as well as cut-and-loop styles. Berber styles are also available in pastels and dark tones as well as naturals.
A strip sewn over a carpet edge for protection against unraveling. Carpet is bound to form rugs.
A term originally used to denote carpet produced in widths wider than six feet. Today carpet comes in 6-foot, 12-foot, and 15-foot widths.
A carpet or rug in which a raised pattern or engraved effect is formed using heavy twisted yarn tufts on a ground of straight fibers.
Fabrics or yarns forming the back of the carpet as opposed to the carpet pile or face. In tufted carpets, there are two backings: a primary backing into which the pile yarn is inserted and a secondary fabric backing laminated to the back of the carpet for reinforcement and dimensional stability.
A variety of materials placed under carpet to provide softness and longer wear when it is walked on. In some cases, the carpet cushion is attached to the carpet when it is manufactured. Terms also used: lining, padding, or underlay.
Carpet Pile
Fibers that form the upper surface of carpet.
Loose laid or self-adhesive backed "tiles" of carpet.
Made from clay or a mixture of organic materials, ceramic tile is finished by kiln firing. Made in many shapes and sizes, it is glazed or unglazed. For floors, tiles are set in a cement or mortar type mixture.
One of the earliest of modern resilient floor coverings, the flooring is made from the bark of cork oak trees, a replenishable material. Cork flooring is available in tiles and sheets. Varieties of natural unfinished cork, waxed cork, resin-reinforced waxed and vinyl impregnated cork come in many colors including natural shades.
Cut-and-Loop Carpet
A multi-level loop carpet, where the taller loops are sheared. The resulting uncut loops and sheared top loops create a sculptured pattern. The texture and often subtle, variegated colorings help hide soil and traffic wear.
The face of a carpet where the surface is composed of cut ends of yarn.
Flat Weave rugs and carpets are flat woven items traditional to India, made of cotton or silk. They are noted for soft colorations and varied patterns.
(Pronounced "free-zay") A tightly twisted yarn is used to give a rough, nubby appearance to carpet pile. Frieze carpets may be loop or cut styles.
Clay shaped into tiles, fire-hardened, and then covered with a matte or glossy glaze to make the tiles more resistant to moisture.
Hooked Rug
Rugs made by pulling yarns or fabric strips through a mesh backing. Many are designed in various colors to create a scene or design.
Indoor/Outdoor Carpet
Carpet designed to be used outdoors.
Kilim or Kelim
A flat, woven rug, usually reversible.
Laminates have a dense fiberboard core with a paper pattern layer sealed both top and bottom under high pressure with a plastic-like substance. Sold as planks and panels in wood, stone, tile, and other looks.
Level Loop Carpet
A carpet style - woven or tufted - with a same-height loop surface.
One of the first resilient floors, it was introduced in the 1800s. Made of linseed oil, gums, cork, or wood dust and pigments. Often the term is used incorrectly to describe resilient floors made of vinyl.
Loop Carpet
Carpet style having a surface made up of uncut loops.
Luxury vinyl tile is exceptionally enduring and is available in a limitless selection of artistic designs and designs inspired by nature, such as stone, marble and wood. The durable construction of luxury vinyl tile includes a protective wear layer which resists scuffs, tears, gouges, rips and scratches. Additionally, luxury vinyl tile is affordable, durable, resilient, resistant to water, and can be installed virtually anywhere in your home. Suitable for both residential and commercial applications.
Limestone flooring known for its elegant appearance created by polishing its very hard surface. Now available in tiles.
Small ceramic tile, hard porcelain or glass, glazed or unglazed mounted on a backing for ease of installation. Often mosaic tiles are used to create designs for walls and floors.
Hand-woven or hand-knotted rugs native to the Middle or Far East, available in many patterns and known for their colorations. Many machine-made rugs, made using Oriental rug designs, are also referred to as Oriental rugs.
Carpet designed to be used outdoors on patios, walks and decks. Usually made of polypropylene to withstand the weather and ultra-violet rays of the sun, most outdoor carpet is designed for glue-down installation.
Patterned or Printed Carpet
Carpet having patterns applied by methods similar to printing paper. These include flatbed screen printing, rotary screen printing, Stalwart printing and modern computer programmed jet printing.
The upright ends of yarn, whether cut or looped, that form the wearing surface of carpets or rugs. Sometimes called the face or nap of the carpet.
Plank Flooring
Wood flooring made of long boards more than 3 inches wide.
A smooth, dense, cut pile carpet in which individual tufts are only minimally visible, and the overall visual effect is a single level of fiber ends.
Glazed or unglazed ceramic tile made using an extrusion process. An example is the terra-cotta squares used in the Southwest.
Rag Rug
A sturdy, colorful rug hand-woven from cotton scraps.
Random-sheared Carpet
Textured pattern created by shearing some of the top or higher loops and leaving others looped.
A short piece of carpet from a roll of carpet that usually measures less than nine feet long.
Resilient Floor
Smooth surfaced flooring (tiles, strips, or sheet goods) manufactured by first combining a plastic material with filler and pigments, and then processing them into sheets of different thickness. If a backing material is used, the plastic sheet is joined to the backing. Types include solid vinyl, backed or cushioned vinyl, rubber, cork, and linoleum.
Today rubber flooring tiles and sheet goods are made from synthetic rubber. It comes in ribbed, studded, or other raised patterns.
Carpet made or cut and bound into room dimensions and loose laid.
Saxony Carpet
Cut-pile carpet in a relatively dense construction, with well-defined individual tuft tips. Smoother finished saxonies are called "plushes".
Any carpet pattern formed from high and low pile areas, such as high-low loop or cut-and-loop.
A deep-pile texture with long-cut surface yarns. Shag carpet was popular in the 1970s, and a new type of contemporary shag in more up-to-date colors is gaining in popularity today.
Sisal Flooring
Rugs, mats, and matting made from sisal, a natural plant material. Available woven and dyed in various colors, as well as machine- and hand-painted. Similar flooring is made of jute, coconut, and sea grass.
A naturally laminated rock that is often used in regular and irregular shapes, and is embedded in cement or mortar to create a hard-surface, patterned floor.
Soil Retardant
A chemical finish applied to carpet and fabric surfaces which inhibits attachment of soil to fiber. It is usually a topical treatment but may also be inherent in the fiber.
Solid Vinyl Flooring
This smooth-surfaced plastic floor is a mixture of vinyl resins, plasticizer, fillers, and stabilizers with color added throughout the product. Produced in either square tiles or sheet goods.
A chemical finish applied to or inherent in carpet fibers which inhibits specific stains from adhering to or dyeing (staining) carpet fibers.
A carpet installation term for the give in carpet when it is pulled over the pad onto tackless strips.
Strip Flooring
Strip flooring is made of narrow (typically2 1/4. 3-inches wide) tongue-and-groove boards that are end-matched. Strip flooring wider than 2 1/4 inches is called plank flooring.
Tackless Installation
Where carpet is laid over pad and stretched to fit over tack strips of wood with implanted tacks to hold the carpet snugly to the wall. Also called wall-to-wall installation.
A smooth, multicolored floor made of marble or stone chips embedded in a cement binder, and then highly polished. Traditionally terrazzo floors are poured and set on site, but manufactured terrazzo tiles are also available.
Carpet manufactured by tufting machines, which insert pile tufts with needles that penetrate a primary backing fabric, thus forming tufts. About 90% of all North American carpet is tufted.
These floor tiles are made from vinyl resins and filler materials to create resilient flooring in assorted colors and patterns.
Woven carpet made in a variety of patterns and textures but with a limited number of colors per pattern.
Most wood flooring is made of hardwoods, such as oak, maple, pecan, hickory, beech, and birch as well as beautiful exotic species. There is solid wood flooring and laminated flooring, which combines wood layered in different directions for strength and to inhibit shrinkage or expansion. Most wood flooring today is prefinished at the factory for ease of installation and uniformity of finish.
Woven Carpet
Looms interlace warp (lengthwise) and filling (widthwise) yarns to create a sturdy textile for the floor. Much woven carpet is produced in intricate, colorful patterns. Types of woven carpet include Axminster and Wilton.
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Central Coast robbery spree suspects at large
Felix Cortez
WEBVTT FELIX: THOSE ROBBERIES NOWTURNING VIOLENT.A SEARCH NOW UNDERWAY TO FINDTHE SUSPECTS BEFORE SOMEONE GETSKILLED.TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THESE MEN.THEY ARE WANTED IN CONNECTION TOAT LEAST FIVE ROBBERIESSTRETCHING FROM THE MONTEREYPENINSULA TO SALINAS OVER THELAST TWO WEEKS.THE VICTIMS -- GAS STATIONS,CONVENIENCE STORES, A MOTEL,EVEN A STUDENT WALKING WITH AFRIEND.>> THEY DEMAND A FIREARM ANDDEMAND PROPERTY FROM THEVICTIMS.FELIX: THE STRING OF ROBBERIESNEARLY TURNING DEADLY AFTER ONEVICTIM WASN'T SHOT IN SAND CITY.>> THAT IS A VERY BIG CONCERNFOR US THE FACT THAT ONE OF THEVICTIMS WAS SHOT.ANY ARMED ROBBERY ON THEPENINSULA IS VERY CONCERNING FORUS, NOW THAT WHEN YOU ADD INTHAT ONE OF THE VICTIMS WASINJURED.WE'RE THROWING EVERYTHING WEHAVE INTO THIS INVESTIGATION.WE HOPE YOU WILL HAVE SOMERESOLUTION.FELIX: THE INVESTIGATIONCONTINUES TO UNFOLD BY THE DAY.A TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED ATGUNPOINT AT A MARINA MOTELTUESDAY AFTERNOON.AND MONDAY NIGHT, A MAN AND ATEEN WERE ARRESTED AND TWO GUNSCONFISCATED.POLICE, CHECKING TO SEE IF THEPERSONS OR THEIR GUNS PLAY ANYROLE IN THE ROBBERIES. >> I DON'T WANT TO SAY THESE ARETHE SUSPECTS IN OUR CASE.WE ARE STILL ACTIVELYINVESTIGATING THESE ROBBERIES.AND WE WILL HAVE TO INVESTIGATETHE FIREARMS WE HAVE RECOVERED.FELIX: WE WANT TO SHOW YOU THESUSPECTS THE POLICE ARE LOOKINGFOR.SOMEONE KNOWS THEM -- ESPECIALLYTHE GUY ON THE RIGHT, WEARING ARED HOODIE WITH THE WORD COOKIESON IT. POLICE HAVE REACHED OUT TO DOJAND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO HELPPROCESS KEY EVIDENCE THAT MIGHTLEAD TO THE SUSPECTS.THIS INCLUDES FINGERPRINTS, DNA,AND BALLISTICS.DAN: THE ROBBERIES ARE BEINGINVESTIGATED BY THE PENINSULAREGIONAL VIOLENCE AND NARCOTICSTEAM -- THEY'VE REACHED OUT TOOTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIESOUTSIDE THE AREA TO SEE IF THE
A string of robberies stretching from the Monterey Peninsula to Salinas has turned violent, and now an all-out search is on for the two men responsible.“That is a very big concern for us the fact that one of the victims was shot. We’re throwing everything we have into this investigation and we hope that we’ll have some resolution shortly,” said Lt. Ethan Andrews of the Peninsula Regional Violence and Narcotics team.The robbery spree started two weeks ago, when the suspects held up three businesses in one day: a Salinas Motel 6, a Marina 7-11 and a Seaside 76 gas station."In several robberies they do brandish a firearm and they basically demand property from the victims,” said Andrews.Police say the duo then robbed an MIIS student who was walking with a friend near the college. Four days later two victims sitting in a car in Sand City were approached by the robbers who then shot one of the victims. The gunshot was not fatal.The string of robberies may have continued Tuesday afternoon when a truck driver was robbed at gunpoint at a Comfort Inn in Marina.“Pointed the gun at me cocked the shell into the chamber, and came over the fence, with the gun three feet from my face, and asked for my wallet,” said Rick Ellis.Ellis handed over his wallet, but he asked if he could have his driver's license back. He told the thief he needed it because he worked as a truck driver, and the thief handed the license back. On Monday night, the ongoing investigation lead to the arrest of a man on Monterey’s Wharf number two after he was found in possession of drugs and a gun.That arrest lead to a search warrant being served at a Seaside home where a juvenile was arrested and another handgun recovered.Investigators now looking to see if the pair or their guns played any role in the robberies.Police have reached out to the Department of Justice and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office for help in testing key evidence that includes fingerprints, DNA and ballistics.Surveillance video of the suspects shows one man wearing a red hoodie with the word “cookies” on the front.The men are considered armed and dangerous.
SEASIDE, Calif. —
A string of robberies stretching from the Monterey Peninsula to Salinas has turned violent, and now an all-out search is on for the two men responsible.
“That is a very big concern for us the fact that one of the victims was shot. We’re throwing everything we have into this investigation and we hope that we’ll have some resolution shortly,” said Lt. Ethan Andrews of the Peninsula Regional Violence and Narcotics team.
The robbery spree started two weeks ago, when the suspects held up three businesses in one day: a Salinas Motel 6, a Marina 7-11 and a Seaside 76 gas station.
"In several robberies they do brandish a firearm and they basically demand property from the victims,” said Andrews.
Police say the duo then robbed an MIIS student who was walking with a friend near the college. Four days later two victims sitting in a car in Sand City were approached by the robbers who then shot one of the victims. The gunshot was not fatal.
The string of robberies may have continued Tuesday afternoon when a truck driver was robbed at gunpoint at a Comfort Inn in Marina.
“Pointed the gun at me cocked the shell into the chamber, and came over the fence, with the gun three feet from my face, and asked for my wallet,” said Rick Ellis.
Ellis handed over his wallet, but he asked if he could have his driver's license back. He told the thief he needed it because he worked as a truck driver, and the thief handed the license back.
On Monday night, the ongoing investigation lead to the arrest of a man on Monterey’s Wharf number two after he was found in possession of drugs and a gun.
That arrest lead to a search warrant being served at a Seaside home where a juvenile was arrested and another handgun recovered.
Investigators now looking to see if the pair or their guns played any role in the robberies.
Police have reached out to the Department of Justice and the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office for help in testing key evidence that includes fingerprints, DNA and ballistics.
Surveillance video of the suspects shows one man wearing a red hoodie with the word “cookies” on the front.
The men are considered armed and dangerous.
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Members of Kansas State University’s 2019 horse judging team include (l to r) Clarissa Conrad, assistant coach; Krissy Isle, Coffeyville; Alley Leslie, Inman; Lauren Greiner, Papillion (Nebraska); Taylor Bachtel, Leavenworth; Emily Prugh, Elkhart (Indiana); Emily Meier, Goddard; Erin LeKamp, New Berlin (Illinois); and head coach James Lattimer. Assistant coach Rachel Sorenson is not pictured. (Courtesy photo) | Download this photo.
University becomes the first ever to pull off the double win
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas State University horse judging team captured a bit of history this fall when the squad won two of the most prestigious contests offered for collegiate competitors.
K-State won the American Paint Horse Association title in September and followed that up with a victory at the American Quarter Horse Association contest in mid-November. It’s the first time that any four-year school has pulled off the judging double, according to head coach James Lattimer.
“It’s always great to see young people succeed,” said Lattimer, an assistant professor of animal science. “I attended K-State and judged here just as they did and had some success on the judging floor, but it pales in comparison to the pride you have as the coach and seeing a young person succeed.”
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Like other livestock judging contests, horse judging requires team members to evaluate any of a dozen classes of horses, place them according to pre-determined criteria, and provide oral reasons for those placements to judges.
“At a collegiate level, it’s very difficult,” said team member Emily Prugh, a senior from Elkhart, Indiana. “You really have to step up your game and you have to be creative in the reasons room. But we practice intensely so that we are ready for the contest and we really know our stuff when we walk into that contest. You’re no longer scared of what might happen, but excited to show your abilities.”
In addition to Prugh, team members included Taylor Bachtel of Leavenworth, Kansas; Lauren Greiner of Papillion, Nebraska; Krissy Isle of Coffeyville, Kansas; Erin LeKamp of New Berlin, Illinois; Ally Leslie of Inman, Kansas; and Emily Meier of Goddard, Kansas.
K-State graduate students Clarissa Conrad and Rachel Sorensen were assistant coaches.
“I think what makes these two wins even more special is just knowing that we were a group of young people coming from different states and different backgrounds and we all came together and grew a tight-knit bond,” Meier said. “It really was ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things.”
Added Leslie: “We all got into this last spring and we were hoping to come back with wins. But I don’t think any of us truly thought we could pull it off. Being able to do that…I’m really proud of that.”
The AQHA contest has been held for 40 years. K-State has won that contest four times in the past 11 years, most recently in 2017. The APHA contest is just in its fourth year.
K-State’s prep for the national contests is a lot like what sports teams go through. The team was practicing 10-12 hours a week outside of class time, sometimes between classes or early in the morning.
“We all had to work together outside of the contest, during practice, sharing reasons terms and talking about classes (of horses),” Prugh said. “By working together, we were able to give ourselves a competitive edge and I think that makes our win even more special.”
“You have great years and world championship years and then you have years that are quite opposite of that,” Lattimer said. “And the difference between those is work ethic, dedication and a competitor’s spirit.”
More information about K-State’s horse judging team is available online.
K-State pulls off a first-ever collegiate judging double with wins at the American Paint and American Quarter Horse contests.
K-State Horse Judging Team
“I think what makes these two wins even more special is just knowing that we were a group of young people coming from different states and different backgrounds and we all came together and grew a tight-knit bond. It really was ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things.”
-- Emily Meier, K-State senior, Goddard, Kansas
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Syrian government forces arrive in Kobani to prevent Turkish attack
Syrian government forces in the north of the country. (Photo: Archive)
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A senior Kurdish official in the northern Syrian city of Kobani confirmed on Wednesday evening that Syrian government forces had just arrived to counter a Turkish assault on the embattled city as Ankara continues a week-long incursion over its southern border against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
“Yes, now before 10 minutes, the Syrian army has entered Kobani and went towards the border,” Shahin Janib Ali, a member of the legislative council of the city, told Kurdistan 24.
The Syrian Kurdish leadership reached a deal on Sunday with Damascus for the national army to step in following an announcement by US President Donald Trump that he was withdrawing all American troops from Syria.
Read More: Syrian Kurdish leader says deal reached with Damascus and Moscow
The North Press agency reported that the first batch of Syrian government forces traveled to the city on five buses and that civilians remaining in Kobani welcomed the news. Many had already fled to nearby villages or southwest to the city of Manbij in anticipation of a full-scale attack.
“They were around 500 that went to secure the border,” Ali continued.
“Since Turkey started its operation, many people have been displaced,” she said. “But when SDF reached to an agreement with the regime, Kobani became better, safer, and people came back. Now it’s safe and there is nothing.”
“Undoubtedly, people of Kobani prefer the Syrian army over these armed groups because the Syrian army is Syrian and we never called for separation. We'd rather be with the unity of Syrian soil. Undoubtedly, Kobani will prefer [the] Syrian army. We will never accept the people of Kobani to live under the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries.”
A civilian from Kobani, a city famous for resisting an Islamic State takeover for months in 2014, told Kurdistan 24, “The regime is better than these mercenaries. Mercenaries kill, humiliate, torture, impose ransoms, and sell people. The regime doesn’t kill us.”
“Erdogan and his backed groups are ISIS. Why [would] we sacrifice 11,000 martyrs [and then] let Turkish mercenaries enter here?”
“We will not allow our martyrs’ blood to go to waste. We called the regime here via an agreement to prevent what happened to our people in Afrin,” he said, referring to the Turkish occupation of another prominent Kurdish-majority city.
According to the United Nations and multiple human rights organizations, Turkish-backed rebels have been committing multiple and sustained human rights abuses in the Afrin region since taking control in March 2018.
Read More: UN: Turkish-backed forces continue to commit war crimes in Afrin
Rauf Mammadov, an Energy Expert at the Middle East Institute, told Kurdistan 24, “Kurds and the Assad regime will be aiming to slow down the Turkish army instead of defeating it.”
On Friday, Turkish armed forces shelled near positions held by the US military on Mistenur Hill, outside Kobani. On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed threats to attack both Kobani and Manbij.
Later on Monday, Trump spoke – for the first time – with the SDF commander, Gen. Mazloum Kobani. After this discussion, according to Vice President Mike, Trump then spoke to Erdogan and “received a firm commitment” that there would be no attack on Kobani.
Read More: Trump speaks with Gen. Mazloum; calls for Syrian ceasefire; imposes sanctions on Turkey
Yet Erdogan claimed on Tuesday that he had told Trump he would not accept a ceasefire before Turkey had achieved its goals in Syria.
Read More: Pence, Pompeo to visit Ankara as Russian forces move into northeast Syria, with US departure
Moreover, Turkish-backed militias then advanced towards the Lafarge Cement Factory, only 30 minutes from Kobani, forcing US forces to deploy helicopters in a show of force. The action raised fears that Ankara was indeed still planning to attack the city.
On Tuesday, the US representative of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) told Foreign Policy that Turkish backed forces were “attacking Kobani and kidnapping civilians.”
US troops have withdrawn from Kobani just as the Syrian army was preparing to enter, with a US coalition official telling Kurdistan 24 that American forces had left the areas of Tabqa, Raqqa, and the LaFarge factory.
The official added that the US military is “deconflicting with Russia to keep both sides safe.”
Editing by John J. Catherine
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Update #7: Bills We're Tracking In The 2007 Kentucky Session
Update #7: Bills We're Tracking In The 2007 Kentucky Session Posted: March 13, 2007
2007 REGULAR SESSION: Bills We're Tracking Update #7
This list profiles the significant environmental, conservation, consumer and general government bills that are being tracked by the Council during the 2007 session. This is the seventh update. It will be updated once more, on Wednesday, March 28, and will be supplemented with more detailed analysis on key bills.
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TWO DAYS LEFT: 795 BILLS AND 443 RESOLUTIONS FILED
On January 3, 2006, the General Assembly convened in Frankfort for the regular "short" legislative session. The General Assembly reconvened for Part II of this short session, and is now on break until the veto days on March 26 and 27. While those days are set aside to consider overriding any vetos from the Governor, it is anticipated that the rules will be suspended and a number of bills may be adopted at that time.
Please note that the Council does not have a position on each bill listed. Some bills are tracked for general interest; others simply to assure that they do not become vehicles for polluter-sponsored amendments. KRC's position concerning bills is indicated with a plus (+) or minus (-). The primary sponsor and current status of the bill are also noted by Committee or chamber.
KRC has deleted those bills that have not been considered and approved by the originating committee, since it is unlikely that they will be voted on by both chambers in the remaining 2 days. To see a description of all bills that KRC tracked this session, visit Update #5.
Senate Bills
SB 10 (Tapp) (Passed both Houses, To Governor)
Creates uniform state permit and inspection process for installation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
SB 25 (Angel) (Passed both Houses, To Governor)
Creates a Kentucky Farmers Market Nutrition Program to enhance nutrition by providing for introduction of locally-grown fresh produce in schools and in programs for low-income citizens.
SB 47 (Stivers) (To Governor)
Allows reciprocal certification of miners licensed in other states.
SB 55 (Kelly) (H. Rules)
Administration bill codifying the reorganization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet.
SB 56 (Kelly) (To Governor)
Administration bill codifying the reorganization of the Department of Parks Office of Project Administration.
Administration bill codifying reorganization of the Department of Education.
Administration bill codifying reorganization of the Personnel Cabinet.
Administration bill codifying reorganization of the Transportation Cabinet.
SB 74 (Harris) (To Governor)
Bill directs Department for Local Government to track deployment and adoption of telecommunications and information technology in Kentucky, enable public-private partnerships among providers and governments to encourage deployment of advanced services. Bill also enables DLG to contract with a nonprofit organization to accomplish the objectives of the bill.
KRC has concerns that any nonprofit organization with whom the Department contracts to monitor and advocate deployment and adoption of telecommunications and information technology is free from conflicts of interest, that all meetings and records are open, and that the contract is competitively bid.
SB 75 (Williams) (H. Judiciary) (-)
Would move the venue for numerous actions involving appeals of administrative agency actions and enforcement by administrative agencies of orders and determinations from Franklin Circuit Court. Among the adverse impacts of the bill would be a loss of continuity and consistency among judicial decisions interpreting and applying agency statutes, and significant additional costs to agencies of traveling to 120 venues in order to defend appeals and to enforce agency orders.
Administration bill confirming Executive Order reorganizing Department for Local Government and abolishing several commissions, including the Kentucky Flood Control Advisory Commission.
SB 78 (Kelly) (H. Eco Dev. Tourism)
Reenacts Commission on Small Business Advocacy and confirms Economic Development Partnership Board Resolution 06-02.
Administration bill codifying Executive Order reorganizing several departments within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
SB 82 (Leeper) (Passed both Houses, To Governor)
Agency bill amends KRS Chapters 132 and 141 regarding financial incentives available for redevelopment of brownfields property. Bill updates definitions and qualifications for a three-year reduced ad valorem tax rate, and for a tax credit, for qualifying voluntary environmental remediation property.
SB 85 (Kelly) (H. Rules with committee sub)
Reorganization bill confirming executive Order 2006-1299 moving the Office of Energy policy from Commerce Cabinet to the Governors Office.
SB 91 (Pendleton) (To Governor)
Bill would broaden existing preemption of local government regulation of pesticides to preempt local government enactments regulating the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use or application of fertilizers.
KRC was initially concerned that the preemption language could be read as preempting local governments from adopting siting and operation ordinances regulating land application of manures from industrial-scale poultry and livestock operations.
KRC negotiated alternative language that resolved this issue and also clearly protects both any reporting obligations under state and federal law and local government powers under KRS Chapter 100.
SB 92 (Boswell) (To Governor)
Senate counterpart to HB 136, would amend law governing Soil and Water Conservation Districts to address the purchase or lease of buildings and equipment for districts with state funds.
SB 96 (McGaha) (H. Local Govt)(posted)
Substantial amendments to existing laws governing management and membership of water districts and allowing water districts greater authority over sewage disposal.
SB 125 (Jensen) (To Governor)(+)
The initial bill muddled the application of state law to waste tires eventually processed for fuel. A revision negotiated by proponents and KRC resolved these concerns, and provided a narrow exemption from local solid waste consistency determinations for end users of processed TDF but requiring that the air permit applications for use of such TDF is subject to public notice and comment. Use of whole tires or unprocessed TDF remains subject to air permitting and local solid waste board determinations.
SB 144 (Kelly)(To Governor)
Administration bill reorganizing Justice Cabinet.
SB 155 (Harris) (H. Rules with committee sub) (-)
Would reverse current state policy against cutting trees in rights-of-way in order to assure visibility of billboards, and would create permit system for destroying public trees in order to assure visibility of billboards from interstates and other highways and turnpikes.
Bill would also weaken existing prohibitions against extending the life of a nonconforming billboard by allowing the billboard to be damaged up to 60% of the value of the structure and repaired.
Agency bill updating the state statutes concerning expenditures of monies under the abandoned mine land program.
SB 196 (Stivers) (To Governor)(-)
Committee Substitute for original bill that would exempt from siting board review and provide local circuit court venue rather than Franklin circuit Court for appeals of permitting actions, for industrial energy facilities, which would include any facility using coal gasification to produce transportation fuels, syngas, chemicals, electricity or other useful products costing over $750 million. KRC believes it inappropriate to seek to incentivize new industrial facilities by abridging citizen rights, and that such an approach will result in more, rather than less, controversy regarding such proposals.
Senate Resolutions
SR 1 (Kelly)
Senate Rules of Procedure for 2007 Session. Adopted.
SR 5 (Thayer) (Adopted)
Commends Toyota Hybrid Team for hybrid Camry assembly pilot production at the Georgetown, Kentucky facility.
SJR 16 (Became law)(+)
Names I-65 in Jefferson County as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Highway.
SJR 109 (Jensen) (Passed both Houses)
Administration bill creating task force on drought mitigation and response. Committee substitute transformed the task force to a council.
HB 1 (Richards and others) (S. A&R)
Would reinstate appropriations and line-item measures vetoed by the Governor from the 2006 budget.
HB 3 (Wilkey and others) (S. State & Local Govt)
Proposed state constitutional amendment limiting governors pardon power.
HB 5 (Adkins and others) (Passed both houses, to House for concurrence with Senate committee substitute and amendments)
Originally an energy bill creating various tax incentives and credits for coal-to-liquids through gasification, and for renewable energy used for electricity generation.
KRC worked with the sponsor to broaden availability of incentives for renewables by lowering the eligibility for renewables from 10 mW down to 1 mW for all renewables other than solar, which would be eligible for the financial incentives at 50 kW of generating capacity.
In the Senate, HB 5 morphed into an act relating to the sciences more specifically, alchemy, since it emerged from the Senate with SB 1 and 2, the enabling legislation for the new Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky to be located at WKU, an Energy Development Authority whose purpose is to assist in financing, locating and constructing alternative fuel or renewable energy facilities, a new ethanol production credit, a new fund and strategies to increase offerings of AP math and sciences,
HB 8 (Yonts)(S. A&R)
Amends various statutes relating to personal service and other government contracts.
HB 46 (Thompson) (To Governor)
Creates requirement for continuing education for engineers of 15 hours per year; exempts those licensed before 1972.
HB 53 (Burch) (S. Transp) (+)
Mandates use of booster seats for children under 8 years of age; provides that failure to do so is not evidence of negligence nor admissible at trial.
HB 62 (Cherry) (S. State & Local Govt) (+)
Reforms several provision of state merit laws, including increasing by 2 the classified employee representation on the state Personnel Board.
HB 64 (Cherry & others) (S. Judiciary)
Would require each school to adopt policies and staff training programs to address harassment, intimidation and bullying.
HB 67 (Owens) (H. Rules)(+)
Requires state Department of Corrections to inform eligible offenders of the process for restoration of civil rights and to initiate that process for them unless instructed otherwise.
HB 69 (Arnold) (To Governor)(-)
Would include among economic revitalization projects entitled to tax credits, those existing coal mining operations that resume after temporary closure and which have raw production of at least 3 million tons of coal and employ over 500 persons. With a boom market for coal, public subsidies for opening or reopening mines are not needed or justified.
HB 70 (Crenshaw)(S. A&R)(+)
Proposed constitutional amendment would automatically reinstate the civil rights of those convicted of a felony once the period of probation or final discharge from parole or maximum expiration of a sentence occurred.
HB 89 (Edmonds) (S. A&R) (-)
Originally a bill dealing with illumination of car headlights, the Senate Transportation Committee amended the bill to include language that would allow construction of a new bridge across a portion of the Rockcastle River that has been designated as a state wild river.
There appears to be some confusion as to the effect of the language included by the Senate Transportation Committee. Senator Guthrie has responded to several emails received from individuals by stating that the language in the Senate Committee Substitute "is not intended to approve a new crossing, merely to name the KY -80 the I-66 Crossing." Yet the language does more than rename the existing KY 80 crossing - it allows construction of new I-66 bridges "near" the KY-80 bridge. The current state wild rivers law contains language that exempted a crossing built years ago for the rerouting of KY-80. That bridge was built and the former KY-80 bridge and roadway was renamed KY 1956. The HB 89 SCS language allows relocation and construction of KY 80 "or the proposed Interstate 66" including "the construction of bridges at a point near the existing Ky. 80 bridge." The plain meaning of the language in the bill is to authorize new bridges near the KY-80 bridge, not a renaming of the existing KY-80 Bridge. Leaving aside the more fundamental policy issue, which is that the proposed I-66 segment from London to Somerset is not needed, the environmental impact statement process for I-66 has not yet been completed and the question of whether it is ecologically and economically appropriate to construct new bridge(s) near the KY-80 bridge through a protected river corridor, deserves reasoned study and discussion by the legislature that has not yet occurred.
HB 94 (Pullin & Denham) (To Governor)
Bill would create standards and procedures for remediation of properties contaminated from methamphetamine labs.
KRC suggested language clarifying the purpose of the bond or financial assurance and the process for forfeiture of the contractors bond, and or requiring a liability insurance policy for personal or property damage associated with the decontamination of inhabitable properties by a certified contractor. A floor amendment incorporated a number of KRCs recommended changes and was approved.
HB 102 (Pullin) (To Governor)
Expands existing law on Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority to include oil and refined petroleum products within the definition of gas whose pipelines can be financed under the current law. Committee substitute adds carbon dioxide to eligible gases, in order to allow pipelines transporting sequestered CO2 to oil fields for secondary recovery.
HB 108 (Hoffman) (S. Eco Dev, Tourism)
Creates an account to provide funding for preservation of historic rock fences and construction of new rock fences.
HB 109 (Brinkman & others) (S. A&R)
Comprehensive legislation on autism spectrum disorders.
HB 116 (Meeks) (recommitted to H. A&R)
Amends existing laws to encourage interlocal agreements between counties for essential services.
HB 117 (Meeks) (Recommitted H. A&R)
Bill creates a permitting process for an excavation of archaeological sites on private properties; increases penalties for desecration of human remains; provides right of access to private cemeteries for family members; provides procedures for notification and disposition of accidental disturbances or disinterment cases.
HB 120 (Wayne) (Passed both Houses, to Governor)
Creates a new category of health department permits for sales of food associated with farmers markets.
HB 123 (Pullin) (S. Ag & NR)
Mandates that the Public Service Commission initiate a 3-year pilot program for installation of next-generation electric meters in residences, with interior readouts and remote reporting to utilities of energy use; provides for compilation and reporting of study results. Committee amendment includes TED devices which convert usage to dollars and cents.
HB 127 (Meeks) (S. State & Local Govt)
Would create a new standing committee of the legislature for International Business Relations, to oversee and assist the state economic development efforts overseas and to attract foreign businesses.
HB 136 (Pasley & Moberly) (S. Ag & NR)
Amends law governing Soil and Water Conservation Districts to address the purchase or lease of buildings and equipment for districts with state funds.
HB 137 (Yonts) (To Governor) (+)
Would extend currently-expired deadline for registration of old underground storage tanks, allowing the removal of those tanks to be reimbursed by the state petroleum storage tank account.
Floor amendment drafted by KRC for Rep. Yonts at his request extended deadlines for eligibility for reimbursement for tank removals and remediation of contaminated properties, thus assuring that as properties continue to be discovered, they will be eligible for remediation under the publicly-funded program.
HB 186 (B. Smith)(S. Ag & NR)
Would amend KRS Chapter 351 to allow the state mining board to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to allow miners certified in other states to perform similar duties here without needing recertification.
HB 190 (Adkins) (S. Judiciary)
Confirms reorganization of various division and branches within the Office of Attorney General.
HB 202 (McKee) (Recommitted to S. A & R)
Would amend various definitions to allow lands of five or more acres used for agriculture to be included in agricultural districts.
HB 207 (Yonts) (Passed both Houses, to Governor)
Amends existing KRS Chapter 351 regarding mine safety prosecutions, to guarantee right of full intervention for spouses and miners in hearings on violations of mine safety laws; increases frequency of mine inspections, and makes other changes.
HB 219 (Jenkins)(H. Rules) (+)
This bill would amend existing KRS 337.423 to prohibit sex-based wage discrimination on jobs of comparable worth.
HB 226 (Wilkey and Hoover) (recommitted to H. A&R) (+)
Would create a program to defray student loan debt for persons employed as staff attorneys for the Attorney Generals office, Department for Public Advocacy, nonprofit legal services organizations and county or commonwealth attorneys offices.
Legal services advocates have asked supporters of this bill to contact House leadership and A&R Chair Harry Moberly to ask that this bill be heard and sent to the House floor for a vote.
HB 227 (Wilkey) (Recommitted to H. A&R)
Bill would eliminate the Kentucky Economic Development Partnership as the governing body of the Cabinet for Economic Development.
HB 231 (Adams) (H. Rules) (-)
Bill would allow coyotes to be live-trapped and sold, presumably to businesses for fox hunting. Bill is opposed by Department for Fish and Wildlife Resources.
HB 240 (Denham) (S. Rules)
Would amend Chapter 109 to allow local governments to enact ordinances allowing for collection of outstanding solid waste taxes and fees through motor vehicle liens.
HB 261 (Belcher and Ballard) (Recommitted to H. A&R) (+)
Original bill would have modified laws governing rate cases for natural gas utilities to allow gas utilities to avoid rate cases by electing to operate within a certain bandwidth of .5% above or below of an approved return on equity and to report and adjust earnings annually where they fall above or below the approved range. Would eliminate the scrutiny of revenue and expenses that would otherwise occur during traditional rate cases before the PSC, and potentially result in overearnings.
Bill was heard on two separate occasions in committee and was opposed by KRC and the Attorney Generals Office. The sponsor converted the bill to a study resolution to study the matter during the interim, and KRC is part of that study group.
HB 281 (Damron) (S. Rules)(consent)
Would broaden obligation of local governments to notify the State Local Debt Officer before entering into any financing obligations
HB 284 (Damron) (Passed both Houses, to House for concurrence in Senate amendment) (-)
Original bill provided exceptions to requirement for use of seat belts.
In Senate Transportation Committee, bill was amended to include an exception to the Kentucky Wild Rivers law protection of the Rockcastle River corridor, in order to allow construction of new bridges for proposed London to Somerset leg of I-66.
This is the second bill that the Senate Committee amended to include language that would allow construction of a new bridge across a portion of the Rockcastle River that has been designated as a state wild river. The other is House Bill 89, which was sent to Senate Appropriations. Unlike HB 89, HB 284 was passed by the Senate with the I-66 amendment and is back in the House for concurrence. There appears to be some confusion as to the effect of the language included by the Senate Transportation Committee. Senator Guthrie has responded to several emails received from individuals by stating that the language in the Senate Committee Substitute "is not intended to approve a new crossing, merely to name the KY -80 the I-66 Crossing." Yet the language does more than rename the existing KY 80 crossing - it allows construction of new bridges "near" the KY-80 bridge. The current state wild rivers law contains language that exempted a crossing built years ago for the rerouting of KY-80. That bridge was built and the former KY-80 bridge and roadway was renamed KY 1956. The HB 89 SCS and this HB 284 language allows relocation and construction of KY 80 "or the proposed Interstate 66" including "the construction of bridges at a point near the existing Ky. 80 bridge." The plain meaning of the language in the bill is to authorize new bridges near the KY-80 bridge, not a renaming of the existing KY-80 Bridge. Leaving aside the more fundamental policy issue, which is that the proposed I-66 segment from London to Somerset is not needed, the environmental impact statement process for I-66 has not yet been completed and the question of whether it is ecologically and economically appropriate to construct new bridge(s) near the KY-80 bridge through a protected river corridor, deserves reasoned study and discussion by the legislature that has not yet occurred.
HB 289 (Graham and Rollins) (S. Ag. & Nat Res)
Adds Kentucky State University president to Agricultural Development Board.
HB 305 (Gray and others) (Passed both Houses, to Governor) (+)
Bill would increase state minimum wage to $7.00 an hour and provide for annual adjustment keyed to consumer price index increases.
HB 354 (Webb and others) (S. A&R)(Needs clarifying amendment)
Creates a credit against income taxes for donation of easements for conservation purposes; authorizes Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to oversee program.
HB 355 (Simpson) (Passed both Houses, to Governor) (+)
Authorizes planning commissions to enter into agreements with public or private entities for administration of zoning and planning statutes, code enforcement, and urban renewal programs.
The inclusion of private agencies and organizations in this bill was troublesome, since it appeared to authorize the privatizing of governmental planning and zoning and code enforcement functions; where previously interlocal agreements have been limited to public agencies. KRC discussed with the sponsor an amendment to remove that private agency reference, and House Floor Amendment 1 was adopted to remove the word private.
HB 399 (McKee and Pasley) (Recommitted to S. A&R)
House counterpart to SB 91. Bill would broaden existing preemption of local government regulation of pesticides to preempt local government enactments regulating the registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use or application of fertilizers.
HB 444 (Weston and others) (H. Rules)
Broadens the Binding Elements Enforcement Act to allow fines for violations of other land use provisions, including zoning regulations, and to delegate enforcement of these conditions to Boards of Zoning Adjustment.
HB 472 (Miller and others) (H. Rules)
Would allow local governments to adopt and enforce ordinances and regulations more stringent than state provisions for regulating junked cars.
HB 496 (Jenkins) (H. Rules)
Would allow first class mail instead of certified mail for planning and zoning notices.
HB 543 (Collins) (H. Rules) (-)
In an apparent effort to avoid a civil judgment similar to that awarded by a West Virginia Court over the manner in which gas royalties were calculated and paid to lessors, this bill would in a constitutionally-suspect manner abridge existing natural gas leases by limiting the royalty payments for lessors to the actual sale price of the natural gas rather than the market value of the gas. Presently and historically, most such leases require payment6 of an amount equal to 1/8 of the market price of the gas produced, and that volume of gas is metered at the well. HB 543 would change existing law by specifying that the royalty is paid on the volume of has at the point of first sale, so that the line losses during transmission would be subtracted from what the lessor is paid. Additionally, the bill would allow the gas company to charge post-production marketing expenses against the lessor.
Additionally, the original bill attempted to shorten from 15 to 5 years the opportunity for a lessor to sue for any violations of lease terms; KRC and several committee members voiced opposition to this provision and it is proposed to be removed by a floor amendment.
House Resolutions
HR 2 (Richards) (Adopted)
House Rules of Procedure for the 2007 Session.
HJR 11 (Marzian) (Adopted)
Provides for development by a work group of recommendations for changes in core content of public school curriculum relating to the Holocaust.
HCR 12 (Gray) (S. Eco Dev.)
Resolution encouraging Congress to extend the maintenance of summer water level at Lake Barkley through the first week in September.
HJR 14 (Pullin) (S. Ag &NR)
Would direct the Kentucky Recreational Trail Authority to study illegal use of ATVs on public and private property.
HCR 16 (Meeks) (H. Rules)
Resolution urging Congress to press for strong measures to end the violence in the Sudan and to urge the SEC to provide guidance to fund managers to avoid investments in nations that support terrorism or human rights violations.
HCR 18 (Pullin) (H. Rules)
Resolution encouraging the Transportation and Economic Development Cabinets to promote and market the availability of Amtrak stations in Ashland, Fulton, Maysville and South Shore.
HCR 47 (Denham) (H. Rules)
Resolution directing interim committee on Agriculture and Small Business to review necessity for creation of a State Rural Development Council.
HJR 130 (Webb)(Recommitted to H. A&R)
Resolution directs Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to require development and implementation of Emergency Action Plans by all significant and high hazard impoundments regulated by the state.
HCR 131 (Webb) (Recommitted to H. A&R)
Would establish a task force examining ways to increase e-scrap recycling in the state.
HR 146 (Weston and others) (Adopted)
Would commend LGE, KU and E.oN for their investment in the FutureGen project.
HCR 155 (Wayne) (H. Rules)
Would direct LRC staff to study the suitability of using public broadcast publication as an alternative to newspaper publication to meeting advertising requirements.
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We consider a diverse Board to be extremely important, be that diversity of thought, background, experience or gender.
In 2012 we published our Board diversity policy which the Nominations Committee considers throughout the candidate search process.
The Committee encourages female candidates and candidates of diverse backgrounds by:
Engaging an executive search firm that is a signatory to the executive search firms' Voluntary Code of Conduct
Liaising with the search firm to produce a brief that includes an appropriate emphasis on diversity of skills and background, independence of approach and other personal qualities, in addition to career experience and compatibility with the values and behaviors of existing Board members, with a view to enhancing the overall effectiveness of the Board
Encouraging the search firm to produce long lists which include women and other diverse candidates of appropriate merit
The Committee will also consider high-performing women and other diverse senior executives who may not have previous board experience for executive and non-executive directorship roles, subject to potential candidates meeting the regulatory requirements for a board director of a financial services firm.
The Committee is also working to further strengthen the representation of women among the non-Board senior management who may be the Board members of tomorrow.
Board Diversity Policy
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The Eisenhower Diaries edited by Robert Ferrell. Norton, 445 pp., £15.25, April 1983, 0 393 01432 0
The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography by Thomas Reeves. Blond and Briggs, 819 pp., £11.95, June 1983, 0 85634 131 2
The past has another pattern by George Ball. Norton, 544 pp., £14.95, September 1982, 0 393 01481 9
Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders and James Southwood. Sidgwick, 361 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 283 98946 7
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert Caro. Collins, 882 pp., £15, February 1983, 0 00 217062 0
The Politician: The Life and Times of Lyndon Johnson by Ronnie Dugger. Norton, 514 pp., £13.25, September 1982, 9780393015980
Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger. Weidenfeld/Joseph, 1312 pp., £15.95, March 1982, 0 7181 2115 5
Richard Nixon: The Shaping of his Character by Fawn Brodie. Norton, 574 pp., £14.95, October 1982, 0 393 01467 3
Haig: The General’s Progress by Roger Morris. Robson, 458 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 9780860511885
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President by Jimmy Carter. Collins, 622 pp., £15, November 1982, 0 00 216648 8
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency by Hamilton Jordan. Joseph, 431 pp., £12.95, November 1982, 0 7181 2248 8
Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-81 by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Weidenfeld, 587 pp., £15, April 1983, 0 297 78220 7
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘Chicken Feathers’
Jon Elster
Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism by Steven Collins. Cambridge, 323 pp., £22.50, June 1982, 0 521 24081 6
Le Bonheur-Liberté: Bouddhisme Profond et Modernité by Serge-Christophe Kolm. Presses Universitaires de France, 637 pp., £150, January 1983, 9782130373162
Poem: ‘The book of my enemy has been remaindered’
Michael Neve
Is Michael Neve paranoid?
Frank Cioffi
Philosophical Essays on Freud edited by Richard Wollheim and James Hopkins. Cambridge, 314 pp., £25, November 1982, 9780521240765
The Legend of Freud by Samuel Weber. Minnesota, 179 pp., $25, December 1982, 0 8166 1128 9
Jon Halliday
In the Service of the Peacock Throne: The Diaries of the Shah’s Last Ambassador to London by Parviz Radji. Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £12.50, April 1983, 0 241 10960 4
Malise Ruthven
The Helen Smith Story by Paul Foot and Ron Smith. Fontana, 418 pp., £1.95, February 1983, 0 00 636536 1
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The Fragrance of Guava: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Ann Wright. Verso, 126 pp., £9.95, May 1983, 0 86091 065 2
Anita Brookner
Porky by Deborah Moggach. Cape, 236 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 224 02948 7
The Banquet by Carolyn Slaughter. Allen Lane, 191 pp., £6.95, May 1983, 0 7139 1574 9
Binstead’s Safari by Rachel Ingalls. Faber, 221 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 9780571130160
In Good Faith by Edith Reveley. Hodder, 267 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 340 32012 5
Cousins by Monica Furlong. Weidenfeld, 172 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 297 78231 2
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro. Allen Lane, 233 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 7139 1549 8
On the Stroll by Alix Kates Shulman. Virago, 301 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 86068 364 8
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Women’s Press, 244 pp., £3.95, March 1983, 0 7043 3905 6
Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz. Sidgwick, 531 pp., £8.95, May 1983, 0 283 98987 4
Diary: On A.J.P. Taylor
D.A.N. Jones
Story: ‘Popping’
Godfrey: A Special Time Remembered by Jill Bennett. Hodder, 186 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 340 33160 7
Matthew Sweeney
Poem: ‘The Servant’
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Save the date:The 7th of October-Official Opening of Laura I.Art Gallery
Laura I.Gallery is thrilled to announce the official opening of its first exhibition "Blessings of Life" on the 7th October 2016 in the lead up to the Frieze Art Fair and the beginning of the London Art Season.
Blessings of Life is the inaugural Exhibition for Laura I. Gallery displaying a compilation of remarkable paintings from different collections by the inimitable Laura Iosifescu.
"Blessings of Life" is a collection of dynamic, sculptural paintings by Laura Iosifescu, playing on themes of nature, the human world and technology; this powerful exhibition celebrates the synergy and wonder of the world we live in.
In a world where mass media and social media revel in the darkness "Blessings of Life" celebrates the best of human kind. Here the artist wonders at the diversity of cultures, faith and our love for our environment. Our connection with the natural, with each other and even with technology is celebrated in evocative layered paintings.
Laura has already attracted considerable praise and attention in the art world following her creation of ‘Blossom Escape’, a dress sculpted entirely from paint. Showcased at a Princes Trust Event, hosted by the Saatchi Gallery, this creation highlights the artist’s passion for pushing the boundaries of art and her innovative application of paint. This unique piece was displayed alongside the work of well known artists such as Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn and Xavier Mascaro.
"Blessings of Life" is a textural exploration of painting inspired by the world around us and our connections. A vivid colour palate jars against stark backdrops to create imposing and rich imagery. The use of innovative painting technology means shapes and ideas literally leap from the canvas creating sculptural depth. In this exhibition the artist has strived to create a living Eden that arrests the senses and challenges traditional views of painting.
Laura draws on imagery and shapes from the natural world to create paintings that are both familiar and otherworldly. The paint becomes alive through the deliberately-formed, organic shapes which characterise Laura’s radical 3D paintings. Sculpted flowers and intertwining leaves are playful manipulated through paint to create an unusual but intense beauty.
The pieces in this exhibition show not only great artistic feeling but reflect technological advances in the use of paint. Laura has developed unconventional tools and harnessed machines to create her exquisitely crafted works. She believes, “Technology is a very important tool of our survival. That is why I use it in my work”. Her unique set of artistic tools are a closely guarded secret meaning her creations are one of a kind
Laura is influenced by issues affecting the world today including poverty, violence and human trafficking. These human stories have inspired her intense and emotionally complex artwork. Her artistic journey is driven by a desire to create impactful work that drives change and positive progress. She hopes to inspire others through her own journey and the energetic images she creates.
"Blessings of Life" marks an important step for this exciting artist. This exhibition marks the largest display of her work to date and celebrates a vision of modern painting that embraces both the natural and the contemporary with remarkable synergy. The future certainly looks bright for Laura Iosifescu.
"An artwork is a prophecy of possibilities"Laura Iosifescu
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There are all kinds of benefits to eating ginger, but using it directly on the skin can increase skin's radiance and decrease inflammation that may contribute to conditions such as psoriasis and acne. It's also an antioxidant, which means it inhibits harmful free radicals that cause skin damage and aging.
Ginger is a native plant of Southeast Asia. It's mentioned in ancient Chinese writings, and has been used as a medicinal food in Asian cultures for thousands of years.
People can experience the benefits of ginger on the skin by eating ginger in foods, drinking ginger tea, consuming ginger supplements or using a ginger-infused skin care product.
Ginger's antioxidant, gingerol, not only fights skin-damaging free radicals, but also promotes smoothness and evenness in skin tone. Blue ginger from Madagascar is a type of ginger that is a particularly potent antioxidant.
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Ginger also has the ability to lighten age spots while acting as an energy-booster in aromatherapy spa treatments. Because it's energizing and is believed to improve circulation, it is often used in cellulite-reducing treatments as well.
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Ginger is an anti-inflammatory, which makes it a natural acne fighting ingredient. Ginger is also an antiseptic, which means it is effective in killing the bacteria that causes acne.
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Family Constellations Immersion Retreat: Healing The Family Shadow • February 14th-19th
with Nick Werber
February 14th-19th, 2020
IN MAZUNTE, MEXICO
Exchange: $850
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G. Jung
Immerse yourself in a deeply healing and memorable winter Family Constellations retreat in beautiful Mazunte Mexico. This 4-day event offers a powerful journey into an often overlooked or misunderstood aspect of the human experience: the effect your family of origin has on your present-day life.
Using Family Constellations, a profound and experiential healing process, you’ll uncover how the challenges you face today did not necessarily start with you. Instead, many of the blocks you've come up against are generational patterns, coping mechanisms and survival tools that were created or otherwise supported by the particular family template you were born into. Through this unique form of personal and family shadow work, you’re empowered to address these echoes of the past directly and truly rewrite the script for yourself.
In practice, Family Constellations is as flexible as it is healing. The work provides support for a vast range of issues including barriers arising around romantic partnership, money, sexual barriers, personal boundaries, adoption, addiction, anxiety, depression, inadequate parenting, trauma and many more.
This retreat is right for you if you connect with one or more of the following…
• You want to experience a healing retreat that is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before
• You’re someone who knows your story backwards and forwards yet somehow you’re still feeling stuck
• You have a sense that your upbringing or the relationship you have to your family is a contributing factor to the challenges you’re witnessing today
• You’re looking for a reason to get away, be in nature, and feel deeply restored by a retreat
• You want to show up as your authentic self and make new friends in a safe and supportive environment
Why Family?
Family Constellations is supported by two decades of epigenetic research which has repeatedly shown that what your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents experienced in life has a significant impact on how you move and act in the world today. By working directly with the bonds you have to your family and the experiences of past generations, you’re given an extraordinary opportunity to create healing at a root level. The result is that you not only heal yourself, you change your family tree and set the foundation for future generations to benefit.
What Happens in the Retreat?
Family Constellations is an eyes-open, experiential approach, in which fellow participants will be asked to stand and represent relevant aspects of your life. Depending on the blocks you’re experiencing, representatives may be chosen for specific family members, your partner, a boss, an ex, or other entities in your life. As these individuals stand in representation, they will be gently guided to tap into an awareness that allows them to become a mirror that reflects back the dynamics you’re exploring.
At first, the accuracy of these maps or constellations may be surprising. But as we progress through the weekend, we’ll go beyond creating visual representations and move towards how you can free yourself from the barriers that are preventing you from creating a life that’s aligned with your larger intentions.
Some of the Intentions of This Retreat:
• Engage in a process of connecting with consciousness awareness that is beyond the ordinary
• Rewrite the script that pulls you toward recreating echoes of the past in your present day life
• Offer practical steps to move forward and make meaningful shifts in your life outside of the retreat
• Create a healing container in nature that expands each participant in a manner that supports them for many months to come
• Enjoy healthy and lovingly prepared food from Maha’s chefs
• Connect with like-minded individuals and build beautiful new friendships
Testimonials for Family Constellations with Nick Werber:
"I believe this was the one thing missing in my self-help journey. I have been feeling better than I have in a long time - clear, strong and focused." - Elaine B.
“The work I did with Nick was wildly transformative for me. He holds space like I’ve never seen in anyone I’ve ever worked with. And I’ve seen a lot of people on my journey.” – Jocelyn R.
"That was really a very powerful session for me. My partner has told me at least three times that he sees a difference in my presence/energy - as if a big weight has been lifted or something large has been released." -Brian M.
Retreat Itinerary
Friday February 14th
3pm-6:30pm: Check-in
6:30pm – 7:30pm: First dinner
7:30pm – 8:30pm: Opening the container ritual, intention setting and introductions
Saturday February 15th
8 – 9am: Breakfast
9:15am – 1pm: Family Constellations on the terraza celestial
1pm – 2pm: Lunch
2 pm – 4pm: Free time to process and be in nature
4pm – 6pm: Constellations work on the terraza celestial
6pm – 7pm: Free time to process and be in nature
7:15pm – 8:30pm: Dinner
8:30pm: Free time / bed time
Sunday February 16th
1pm – 2p: Lunch
2pm – 4:00pm: Free time to process and be in nature
4pm – 6pm: Family Constellations on the terraza celestial
OPTIONAL: 8:30pm – 9:30pm | Open session time for sharing gifts with fellow participants
Monday February 17th
2pm – 6:15pm: Full afternoon given to relax, and safely explore the surrounding area.
6:15pm – 7:30pm: Sunset viewing gathering from the beach
Tuesday February 18th
4:15pm – 7pm: Family Constellations on the terraza celestial
Wednesday February 19th
9:15am – 10:15am: Closing ritual
12pm: Checkout and departure
Please Note –This schedule is flexible and may change according to the shifting energy levels of the group and to support the overall flow of the event.
Nick is an integrative coach and healer specializing in family and inherited trauma, mindfulness, applied neuroscience and energy work. He is a leading practitioner and trainer of Focalizing, a powerful mind-body approach to trauma resolution.
Nearly five years into his work in trauma healing, a mixture of intuition and serendipity moved him to work with several world renowned facilitators of Systemic Family Constellations including Suzi Tucker, Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld. Today, he has become a prominent voice for Family Constellations and is one of the most active FC facilitators in the Northeast. Nick’s greatest strength is in the sacred space he holds for healing. Those who work with him are given the gentle support they need to allow the deepest aspects of their being to shine. For more information, visit nicknwerber.com
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All five members of *NSYNC reunited for JC Chasez's 40th birthday party.
Sara Nachlis
Good news for *NSYNC fans, bad news for everyone who doesn’t want to feel like they’re a million years old.
On August 8th, all five members ―Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Justin Timberlake ― of early aughts boy band *NSYNC got together to celebrate member JC Chasez’s 40th birthday.
You read that right. 40.
Timberlake took to Instagram early this morning to share a snap of the reunion with the caption “JC’s 40th… And, if you don’t know now you know…”
JC’s 40th… And, if you don’t know now you know…
A photo posted by Justin Timberlake (@justintimberlake) on Aug 8, 2016 at 11:05pm PDT
Timberlake even gave a speech during the dinner at Mr. Nice Guy in Beverly Hills, CA.
Happy birthday JC! It was so cool to see #NSYNC back together in one room! Justin's speech was hilarious! pic.twitter.com/TBReT1EjtN
— Alex Valley (@_Alex_Valley_) August 9, 2016
This is the first time the group has publicly (they all attended Kirkpatrick’s wedding in November 2013) been seen together since they appeared with Timberlake during his 2013 MTV Video Music Awards performance.
Timberlake’s selfie has a lot of people talking about a possible reunion but my main reaction was ‘Oh yeah, there were four other guys in *NSYNC.’
nsync got back together ????https://t.co/eTZDt1Plvd
— MTV News (@MTVNews) August 9, 2016
So I think it’s time we play a little game I like to call:
Wait, which one was he? – *NSYNC edition.
Photo via Facebook
Lets start with the birthday boy himself.
JC Chasez.
Front and center. Photo via Facebook
He was the one that was billed as the co-lead singer of *NSYNC with Justin Timberlake.
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After *NSYNC he released two solo albums, tried his hand at acting, dated Eva Longoria, and served as a judge on America’s Best Dance Crew.
Oh, you mean the guy that made out with Tara Reid in the music video for “Blowin’ Me Up (With Her Love)”!
Yeah, I remember that guy.
The Bass. Photo via Facebook
He was the one that was hiding the fact that he was gay the entire time.
After *NSYNC, Bass came out of the closet, started acting in films and on Broadway, got married in an E! network special, competed on Dancing with the Stars and announced he was hosting a gay version of The Bachelor.
Basstronaut. Photo via NASA
Oh, you mean the guy that almost went into outer space with the Russian Space Agency!
Chris Kirkpatrick and Joey Fatone
Remember these two? Photo via Facebook
They were the one with the increasingly terrible haircuts and the one you always confused him with, with the unfortunate last name
After *NSYNC, Krikpatrick did some animation voiceover work and Fatone was in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
See you this weekend LA! pic.twitter.com/5muYHNYDQG
— Chris Kirkpatrick (@IamCKirkpatrick) August 5, 2016
Oh, you mean the guys I saw at #ScareLA!
Yeah, I remember those guys.
Justing Timberlake
J. Timberlake. Photo via Facebook.
Yeah, I remember *NSYNC.
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Guidebook for Ontario Geological Excursion to Kettle Point – Owen Sound – Waubaushene, June 21, 22, 23, 1946 by W. A. Roliff, C. S. Evans and J. F. Caley
• Intinerary
• Core Descriptions
• Road Log with Descriptions
Guidebook for Ordovician Stratigraphy of the Cincinnati, Ohio and Richmond, Indiana Areas, June 12, 13, 1953
by W. H. Shideler and B. T. Sandefur
• The Ordovician of Ohio
• Faunal Lists of Fossils and Photographs
Guidebook for the Stratigraphy of the Silurian Rocks in Western Ohio, May 31-June 2, 1963
by C. H. Summerson, Jane L. Forsyth, Karl V. Hoover and J. R. Ulteig
• Itinerary for Serpent Mound Structure Field Trip
• Serpent Mound Structure, Adams County, Ohio, A Summary by C. H. Summersono
• Itinerary and Road Log by C. H. Summersono
• A Resume of the Silurian Stratigraphy of Ohio by C. H. Summersono
• Brassfield Limestone by Karl V. Hoovero
• Upper Niagaran and Cayugan Stratigraphy in the subsurface of Northeastern Ohio by J. R. Ulteigo
• A Brief Summary of Ohio’s Pleistocene Glacial Story by Jane L. Forsyth
Guidebook for Cambrian Stratigraphy in Western Wisconsin, May 21, 22, 1966 by Merideth E. Ostrom
• General Discussion
• Short Geological History of Wisconsin
• Short History of the Ice Age in Wisconsin
• Road Log and Stop Descriptions
Geology of the Manitoulin Area, Special Papers #3, September 29, 30 and October 1, 1978 by J. T. Sanford and R. E. Mosher
• General Introduction by J. T. Sanford and R. E. Mosher
• Road Logs by J. T. Sanford and R. E. Mosher
• Paleoecological Observations on Manitoulin Island by M. J. Risk and B. A. Liberty
• General Stratigraphy of the Manitoulin Area by J. T. Sanford
• Ordovician Nomenclature of Manitoulin Island by B. A. Liberty
• Paleoenvironments and Paleocommunities in the Ordovician-Silurian sequence of Manitoulin Island by P. Copper
• Ordovician and Silurian Conodont Biostratigraphy. Manitoulin Island and Bruce Peninsula, Ontario by C. R. Barnes, P. G. Telford and G. A. Tarrant
• Towards an Ordovician Trilobite Biostratigraphy of Southern Ontario by R. Ludvigsen
• The Manitowaning Bioherm: An Early Silurian Patch Reef by D. J. Grawbarger
• Sheguiandah and Early Man by T. E. Lee
• Notes on the Quaternary Geology of the Bruce Peninsula, Entrance to Georgian Bay and Manitoulin Island by W. M. Tovell
• South Bay, Manitoulin Island – A Preliminary Report by T. W. Anderson
• The Ordovician-Silurian Boundary by J. T. Sanford, R. E. Mosher and J. W. Kennedy
• The Lithostratigraphy of the Wiarton Silurian Section. Bruce Peninsula. Ontario, Canada by R. E. Mosher. R. T. Lilienthal and J. T. Sanford
• The Collection and Quantitative Analysis of Sedimentary Rocks for Stratigraphic Purposes by R. E. Mosher and J. T. Sanford
Middle Devonian Cratonic Carbonates and Shales in Southwestern Ontario, November 14, 1987 by Bruce Wilkinson
The Richfield Challenge, A Review of the Richfield Developments in Michigan, 1952 by Gordon H. Hautan
A Theory of Rogers City and Dundee Relationships in Central Michigan, Masters Thesis, 1947 by Tom Knapp
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Consumer Trends: Beer Boosts Canadian Economy
The Conference Board of Canada estimates that total beer sales in the country averaged $12.3 billion annually between 2009 and 2011. Consumption accounted for $13.8 billion annually in economic activity during this period.
OTTAWA, Nov. 5, 2013 /CNW/ - Every dollar that Canadians spend on beer generates $1.12 in the Canadian economy, according to a Conference Board of Canada report issued today, From Farm to Glass: The Value of Beer in Canada .
Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the country, accounting for 8.1 per cent of all household spending on food and beverages.
The beer economy supports 163,200 jobs across the country, or 1 out of every 100 jobs in Canada.
Beer consumption generates $5.8 billion in annual tax revenues for federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments.
Canadians bought the equivalent of 235 bottles of beer per person in 2012 at beer and liquor stores and agencies.
In 2012, residents in Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and the Prairie provinces consumed more beer than the Canadian average; British Columbians consumed the lowest amount.
"Beer has been a part of Canadian life for hundreds of years," said Pedro Antunes, Director, National and Provincial Forecast. "The beer economy is a significant employer. No matter where people buy beer, they support jobs across the country."
The Conference Board estimates that total beer sales — including stores and on-premise-sales at restaurants, pubs, airports, trains, concerts and sporting events — averaged $12.3 billion annually between 2009 and 2011. Consumption accounted for $13.8 billion annually in economic activity during this period, equal to $1.12 for every dollar spent in real-dollar terms.
The beer economy in Canada is much larger than the brewers themselves — it includes retail sales, transportation and wholesale distribution, and the agricultural products needed to make beer. The beer economy supports more than 163,000 jobs across the country — one out of every 100 jobs.
Provinces such as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia act as brewing hubs, while other parts of Canada supply grains, electric power, transportation and packaging.
The Atlantic provinces (with more than 10,000 jobs supported by the beer economy) have a number of large brewers in the region, but thousands of jobs are also supported through the supply chain, including paperboard manufacturing and in transportation.
Central Canada is the brewing hub of the country, home to the head offices of the three largest Canadian brewers. In addition, financial firms that support the industry are headquartered in the region, as are rental and insurance services. Almost 87,000 jobs in Ontario and Quebec are supported by the beer economy.
While the three Prairie provinces are not large brewers, they supply energy, water and grains for production, and support the distribution and warehousing of beer, supporting more than 20,000 jobs in total.
British Columbia has 72 breweries, second only to Ontario. Almost 19,000 jobs in B.C. and the three territories are due to beer consumption locally and across Canada.
Beer consumption generates $5.8 billion in annual tax revenues for federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments. For every dollar spent, 44 cents goes to government in the form of personal income taxes, corporate income taxes and taxes on products (such as sales taxes).
The study was commissioned by Beer Canada. It is publicly available at www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/default.aspx.
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By Max Bernhard
Published: Dec 18, 2019 2:23 a.m. ET
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Peugeot SA have signed a binding agreement to move forward with their $50 billion tie up, the two companies said Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Peugeot’s UG, -0.23% board backed a binding merger agreement with Fiat Chrysler FCA, -0.42% FCAU, -1.01%. The two companies said Wednesday that long-term shareholders EXOR NV EXO, -0.14%, Bpifrance, the Peugeot family and China’s Dongfeng 489, -0.43% have all committed to vote in favor of the deal at the companies’ respective extraordinary general meetings.
Under the signed agreement, Fiat Chrysler will hold on to its Comau division until after completion of the deal and separate it “promptly” after, for the benefit of the new company’s shareholders. Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot said China’s Dongfeng Group has agreed to sell 30.7 million Peugeot shares back to Peugeot, reducing its stake in the merged company to 4.5%, confirming the earlier report in The Wall Street Journal.
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Feuilleton: “Cellulite on the bumpers and cavities in the paint on the doors.”
What do a masterpiece by Picasso, grandma’s settee and a classic car have in common?
Text: Alex Iwan | Photos: Andreas Kühlken
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“Cellulite on the bumpers and cavities in the paint on the doors”
Protective cover.
Simple — they all have a protective cover. Or they’re locked in a safe which is intended to maintain their condition. Not just protecting it from thieves but above all from reality. What the safe is to the Japanese Picasso collector, what the throw on the sofa is to Nanna, the garage or the hall is to classic car owners (a garage being a bright, friendly, clean, well-aired and dirt-free space; a hall being a type of gallery for cars with neon light tubes, air conditioning and even security).
Parked out of the way, locked away.
In essence, they are places in which great effort is invested in ensuring one’s beloved vehicles are kept in top condition: those beloved vehicles are Mercedes-Benz classic cars. Parked out of the way, locked away. Under lock and key, with neon lights. A protected existence — like a bank account without a card, like pieces of gold on the Pacific Ocean’s floor. There they stand, basking in their own aura — and yet they appear lifeless and somehow boring.
Aren’t cars built to be driven?
Aren’t cars built to be driven? After all, food isn’t prepared for the sole purpose of being photographed. Let’s leave behind the idea of theoretical encapsulation and take a look at my driving schedule: off to work in the morning, always stuck in traffic five times along the route, then an open road over the bridges across the Rhine — time for full throttle with lots of throat, sunroof open, and finally a spot of acrobatics on the car park. Lunchtime: stunt time — just three minutes to get to the famous Kö in Düsseldorf, under time pressure, hard on the brakes, some more tight manoeuvres. Evening: same as mornings, just backwards. Not nice, and when you see it written down, it’s even less pretty.
A garage-shaped cage.
Nevertheless, the car needs to get out, with me. “Means of transport” is the complete opposite to a garage-shaped cage with paranoid parents. Admittedly, “classic car” is also synonymous with a special appreciation of value. My classic isn’t handled with silk gloves, my 380 SLC is like a schoolbook, a beer, a kiss. Present in everyday life, used, loved, with cellulite on the bumpers and cavities in the paint of its doors. Terrible really, but love is blind. When I drive a new car, its youth conceals itself behind my age; I feel old and invisible. Going about my daily business in my classic is indecent and irrational, especially driving it every day whatever the weather. If there were an aptitude test for drivers of classic vehicles, I certainly wouldn’t pass it!
A whale of a time driving.
But I have a whale of a time driving. At the latest film shoot for Mercedes-Benz, we were supposed to elegantly roll into a Japanese garden. The whole rolling thing worked, but it was more the nerves of my passenger that it affected. I somehow managed to “jump” over a bump in the entrance road. I really don’t know how my SLC puts up with me. Car washes are something I find dangerous, but I’m good at vacuuming. The whole cleanliness thing is a bit like trading indulgences. My other classic, a Stroke Eight from 1972, has to live in a garage as he has a nasty bodywork illness. I don’t see him very often because he lives abroad. He’s actually not doing too well. But when I kindly ask him after six months of prison to start and pull off straight away, he does so and comes with me to grab a spot of fresh air.
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What is a golden shower? Here’s what to know about the term, act and more
By Will Drabold
Yes, this is gross. But it involves the president-elect. So, please, read on.
One of the most explosive and embarrassing allegations against Donald Trump following reports by CNN and BuzzFeed is the charge that the president-elect watched a "'golden showers' (urination) show" at a fancy hotel in Russia. Unverified documents posted by BuzzFeed said Trump paid sex workers to urinate on a bed that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama had previously slept in at a Moscow hotel.
The allegation is unconfirmed and one of many unflattering details in a 35-page document — "prepared for political opponents of Trump by a person who is understood to be a former British intelligence agent" — posted by BuzzFeed. The story followed another by CNN stating that top U.S. intelligence officials had told Trump the Russians have personal information which compromises the president-elect.
Define a golden shower
"Golder shower" is slang for a kind of sex act involving urine, where one or more sexual partners pee on one person or, if there is enough bladder room to go around, several people. This "urine play" is well-known, with an anonymous confessional published in Cosmopolitan and an explainer on AskMen about people who engaged in the practice.
Similar to concerns around other sexually-transmitted diseases, urinating on someone can transmit disease, like hepatitis and herpes.
Donald Trump and golden showers
The incident with Trump allegedly occurred in 2013, at the presidential suite of an upscale Moscow hotel. The Obamas had stayed in the room on an official government visit, the document contends. The incident was allegedly recorded by Russian intelligence officials, who are said to have cameras and audio devices throughout the hotel.
Rumors about potential blackmail information Russians held over Trump has circulated for months. In late October, Mother Jones published a column referring to the documents posted Tuesday evening by BuzzFeed and cited by CNN.
Golden shower vs. piss voyeurism
A note of caution: The hashtag #goldengate really took off on Twitter, but it's still not entirely clear what Trump engaged in was actually a "golden shower." These terms can be quite fluid, but golden shower has, in every context we're familiar with, referred to the specific act of getting peed on. One could be also be said to be participating in a golden shower if they were doing the peeing, of course.
But simply watching some people pee on a bed? That would seem to be a form of what could be called piss voyeurism — a cross-over sub-genre of two different fetishes. That, though, isn't the end of this: If the sex workers purportedly hired by Trump were on the bed and peeing on each other while Trump watched, that could indeed be considered a "'golden showers' (urination) show."
This supposed British spook, however, can probably be pardoned for being confused about what's what. We'll all just have to wait for the video to come out to see exactly what went down in that Moscow hotel room.
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By Jeff Todd | July 30, 2015 at 2:04pm CDT
The Cardinals have designated veteran first baseman Dan Johnson for assignment, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on Twitter. The 35-year-old lost his roster spot to make way for the just-acquired Brandon Moss.
Johnson has seen only scattered big league action for most of his career, and has not taken more than 100 MLB plate appearances since 2010. All told, he’s slashed .234/.335/.405 over 1,625 plate appearances in his career. While waiting for his next chance at the big leagues, Johnson has swatted 250 total minor league home runs.
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Does a higher offshore allowance necessarily require a response?
Inge Lamprecht / 24 April 2018 10:15
A change to the asset allocation limits does not necessarily mean that investors should immediately take advantage of the opportunity, a portfolio manager says. Picture: Shutterstock
The offshore allocation limits for institutional investors like pension funds were recently increased from 25% to 30% and the special allocation to African investments (outside South Africa) from 5% to 10%.
This means that investors may now allocate up to 40% of assets outside South Africa in terms of Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act, which governs the maximum exposure retirement funds may have to various asset classes. Effectively investors could also invest this full 40% in the rest of Africa.
The announcement, made in the Budget in February, came in the wake of criticism that asset allocation caps – particularly the 25% related to offshore exposure – were negatively impacting investment returns and the outcomes for members in retirement.
But a change to the asset allocation limits does not necessarily mean that investors should immediately take advantage of the opportunity and rush offshore or even that they will be in a better position in the long run if they were to do so, a portfolio manager says.
Richo Venter, portfolio manager of STANLIB Multi-Manager’s balanced funds, says over the past few years, low-equity balanced funds had an average offshore exposure of around 15% to 17%. Medium-equity and high-equity balanced funds had an average offshore allocation of just above 20%.
Thus, even in an environment where the offshore exposure was capped at 25% (excluding Africa), a lot of managers did not utilise the maximum limits allowed.
Venter says recent discussions with fund managers suggest most managers believe there is an opportunity to increase global exposure to 30%, but since certain managers expect the rand to remain relatively strong for some time, they don’t think it is currently a good tactical option.
However, a handful of managers – one of them Clyde Rossouw who manages the Investec Opportunity Fund – have already moved closer to the 30% allocation.
With regards to Africa, there hasn’t historically been an appetite to invest aggressively into the continent, Venter says.
Managers like Allan Gray have made small allocations to Africa from time to time, but it does not seem that the higher limit of 10% would make any real difference at this stage since managers are generally nowhere near an allocation of even 5%.
Venter says African investments are new territory to most local managers. Most managers don’t have dedicated resources to analyse opportunities on the continent. Currency, political and liquidity risk should also be considered and it may be expensive to trade and transact.
“But that said, there is obviously huge opportunity in Africa for investors that are willing to do the appropriate investment research and take on calculated risks.”
While the asset management industry has welcomed the increased offshore allocation of 30%, there are a number of things investors should consider.
Venter estimates that at least 50% of the earnings of locally listed stocks are derived from abroad. A share like Naspers has the highest weighting in the JSE All Share Index at about 18%. Through its holdings in Tencent and other offshore businesses, a vast majority of Naspers’ income is now derived from abroad. Thus, if investors utilise a higher offshore allocation, their portfolios will increasingly be exposed to a foreign earnings stream. It will therefore be important to consider potential mismatches between assets and liabilities (for example the portfolio earns income in foreign currency but pensioners incur costs in rand).
Importantly, Venter says, the currency exchange rate pass through (ERPT) has come down over time, with most studies attributing this effect due to the introduction of inflation targeting by the Sarb. ERPT is now estimated at only 20%. In other words, if the rand depreciated by 10% (causing imports to become more expensive), inflation is expected to increase by roughly 2% due to this depreciation, with a lag of a few months. Some global exposure is therefore helpful to hedge liabilities and provide diversification, but too much might not be appropriate. Alternatively, investors could invest as much offshore as they require for maximum diversification and hedge out the currency risks, but hedging is typically complex when many currencies are involved and comes at a cost.
Global exposure offers great diversification options and provides exposure to shares and instruments that can’t be accessed locally. However, Venter expects South African stocks to marginally outperform global equities (as measured by typical global indices like the MSCI World) in the very long run due to the developing attributes of South Africa versus the developed markets bias of global equities. This thinking is based on STANLIB Multi-Manager’s long-term equilibrium asset class return expectations.
STANLIB Multi-Manager’s optimisation model – which is used as one of multiple inputs in their portfolio construction process – suggests that a 25% global allocation is probably sufficient for investors in a typical high-equity balanced fund with an inflation plus 6% target. Venter says their initial analysis shows that a high- or medium-equity balanced fund doesn’t necessarily need more than 25% global exposure in the long run. In a low equity portfolio, 20% is probably enough to provide investors with enough diversification and an appropriate return over time.
However, this doesn’t mean that STANLIB Multi-Manager or its managers won’t make use of the higher 30% (40% with Africa) limit to take advantage of shorter-term opportunities.
Venter says their modelling suggests that in the long run, global exposure should primarily focus on equities and that fixed income assets like cash and bonds should primarily be accessed in the local market. However, from a qualitative perspective global bonds can be a great diversifier during a financial crisis and should not be dismissed as an investment when constructing a portfolio. Tactically, asset managers can also add alpha or manage risk by shifting between global asset classes.
Other potential opportunities include global property and African equity.
“We’ve seen in the past there is a lot of diversification benefits when you bring in African equity into your portfolio, which is something we are also researching at the moment to see if we can access great African equity managers cost efficiently.”
Venter says while the higher offshore allocation is a positive development, it doesn’t mean that every investor should utilise the maximum 40% immediately.
“Think quite carefully. Get the right mix of assets. Understand that local equities are becoming more and more globalised so you do get a lot of exposure to global through many of the local listed equities. It [a higher offshore allocation] is not necessarily a decision that you need to make overnight.”
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langezand 2 years ago
So the reason to invest most of our capital in SA companies , rather than global , is a marginally higher projected return in SA , since we are a developing country versus the first world countries . I cannot agree with that view , since the risk of investing in SA is much higher than going global . Surely , the vested interests of local fund managers is here at play .
I agree that SA bond and money market investments now give better returns , than their global counter parts , but that is also a dangerous assumption for the long term . Again our riks there also remain high due to our constant long term weakening currency . I simply dont think the man from Mars , should he
arrive tomorrow , will consider placing 70% of his capital in SA .
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financial virgin 2 years ago
If most balanced fund managers think the rand is going to remain strong, then its time to get your money out of their hands and do it yourself. Like Stanlib they will probably take money out only when the rand is closer to R15 than R12.
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This morning we also hear from hospital chaplain J.S. Park, author of the upcoming book, The Voices We Carry: Finding Your One True Voice in a World of Clamor and Noise.
J.S. Park
J.S. Park is a hospital chaplain, a chaplain for the homeless, former atheist/agnostic, sixth-degree black belt, a recovered porn addict, intense introvert, suicide survivor, Korean-American, and loves Jesus. He has a B.A. in Psychology from USF and a Master's from SEBTS.
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Kate Bruington is the co-host of Kurt and Kate Mornings, Midday host, and can also be heard on Music for Sunday. Originally from East Hartford, Conn., Kate brings years of TV and radio experience to Moody Radio in Florida. She attended Boston Conservatory of Music and traveled the country singing before entering the broadcasting field. Kate's pastimes are reading and writing, and she currently spends much of her free time writing a novel. She has two daughters and two grandchildren.
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Alex Kenyon's goalkeeping ambitions began with a joke.
SHRIMPS' midfielder Alex Kenyon said his goalkeeping ambitions all began with a joke before last season's FA Cup tie against Dover.
The midfielder was forced to go into goal after Barry Roche was sent off against Hartlepool on Saturday with The Shrimps without a substitute stopper due to Kieran O’Hara’s ankle knock.
Kenyon couldn’t keep out Luke James’ penalty and also conceded a second late when Rhys Oates scored from close range.
The 23-year-old said: “Last year when we went to Dover in the FA Cup we hadn’t got a goalkeeper until the day.
“We got Joe Lumley (on loan from Queens Park Rangers) in the end but I bought a pair of ‘keeper gloves and turned up wearing them saying ‘don’t worry lads, I’m here’.
“Since then it’s sort of stuck that I think I can be a goalkeeper.
“I don’t mind going in, but it was just disappointing that we lost.”
"That’s the first time I’ve ever been a goalkeeper.
“We’d said before the game when Kieran was struggling with his ankle that it’d be me to go in goal because I’ve done in it the past when I’ve been messing around and stuff.
“The gaffer asked if I would and I said ‘obviously, I’ll play anywhere’.
“I didn’t really have much to do apart from pick it out of the goal twice.”
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Big Little Lies: How A Star-Studded Cast and Moody Monterey Soundtrack Tackled Issue Of Domestic Violence & Its Aftermath
By Monica Tong
17 June, 2019 11:46pm GMT+8 / MYT
HBO has released the second season of Big Little Lies, more exciting soundtrack to match dark drama.
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Big Little Lies Season 2 returns to HBO
– Big Little Lies season 2 premiere episode featured songs including Joan Jett’s ‘Bad Reputation’ and Diana Ross’ ‘It’s My House’
– Michael Kiwanuka’s Cold Little Heart hit 60 million views on YouTube
The Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning HBO series, Big Little Lies, returned to TV screens with season 2 this June, showcasing new cast Meryl Streep on top a Hollywood royalty line-up featuring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoe Kravitz.
Big Little Lies is a poignant and beautiful show about the ugly cloak-and-dagger lives of troubled women in Monterey, California, linked through a murder. Kidman plays Celeste. A lawyer who’d given up a high-flying career to take on full time motherhood to twin sons and wife to an abusive husband. She hides her bruises from friends and struggles to admit that she might well be in real danger.
Created and written by David E Kelley (Ally McBeal), the series’ acting and writing remains first-rate, and so does its soundtrack. Music supervisor Susan Jacobs (season 1) and director Jean-Marc Vallée expanded and diversified layers of expression to the overcast scenes with a heavy dose of soul — from Elvis Presley, Joan Jett, Diana Ross and Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Cold Little Heart’, the theme song that backs the iconic drive by the bay in every episode’s prologue.
Music Press Asia: Big Little Lies won 4 Golden Globe Awards in 2017. George Pimentel/WireImage
Joan Jett’s 1981 classic ‘Bad Reputation’ was used in the premiere episode of season 2 in a scene where Jane (Shailene Woodley) was seen dancing with her son Ziggy. She seems undeterred by what has happened in the past (involving rape and conceiving Ziggy), and despite the bad reputation as a single mother, is moving forward.
These women, prior to this series, have held outstanding award-winning roles portraying and leading strong figureheads in successful motion pictures and theatrical productions worldwide. Breaking away from traditional ‘film’ sets, the actors’ stellar acting held intense moments that captivated fans — enough momentum to run a second season.
Reviews of their roles have, so far, been extremely apt and nothing less than remarkable. By casting them on the series, intrinsically, established a significant and immediate lifeline to the success of the show — both financially and of repute. Both Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have, over the course of their professional career, amassed diverse repertoire of work, mostly films.
[Music Press Asia] Meryl Streep plays mother-in-law to Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies
Also in season 2, Diana Ross ‘It’s My House’ is the song Renata (Laura Dern) lip-synced to while she was shooting the “Women in Power” story. The song, written by husband and wife duo Ashford & Simpson, was recorded by Diana Ross in 1979. A truly Renata song.
The theme tune for Big Little Lies comes from British singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka, a track that came from Kiwanuka’s 2016 Love & Hate album which also includes the title track and ‘Black Man in a White World’.
Michael Kiwanuka’s album ‘Love & Hate is now available on Amazon.
Music Press Asia: Michael Kiwanuka’s track ‘Cold Little Heart’ from the album Love & Hate is the theme song in Big Little Lies.
“‘Cold Little Heart’ was the first song I wrote for this album,” Kiwanuka told NME, “and it helped direct where the music was going. It’s really influenced by classic ‘60s and ’70s British guitar bands like The Who and Pink Floyd, as well as by a lot of soul music, particularly songs like ‘Walk On By’ by Isaac Hayes.”
Under the new director Andrea Arnold, season 2 continues to leave audience in a trance-like state every time a song plays prompting curiosity and creating the “I wish to Shazam that song right now” moment.
In the second season, Big Little Lies examine how the effects of abuse linger even after the perpetrator is long gone. Mourning over Perry’s death even though she knows that she deserved a life free from his brutality and fury.
And while Celeste remembers the happier moments with Perry, at the same time, struggles to admit that she no longer want to tolerate the abuse. The scene plays the haunting cover of Neil Young’s 1992 track ‘Harvest Moon’ — the version recorded by Cassandra Wilson in 1995 from her album ‘New Moon Daughter’.
Another character that resembles a more humane and logical perspective is her therapist. Her wise words remain a life support that helped her understand her longing for him as a kind of PTSD — a strikingly similar ordeal soldiers suffer from when it comes to adapting to a less exciting civilian life.
While her delirious dreams of Perry continue to keep her awake in the night, she decided that Ambien may be the quick-fix — a decision that she soon regretted; she drove herself off the rail when she feel asleep behind the wheels. ‘Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere’ by Canadian folk singer, Neil Young, certainly sets the woozy tone. According to Young, the song was written when he was bedridden with a fever while he was in California’s Topanga Canyon.
‘Somewhere Not Here’ comes from Alpha’s album ‘Come From Heaven’. This song literally underlines the scene where she was preparing dinner for her sons. It was a flashback of a date with Perry earlier in their relationship. It foreshadows the violence that came after through the given lyrics: I remember when you came, I can just recall that day / Unexpected, undetected, if I’d have known I still would have done it…”
Although the portrayal of women trauma has become more nuanced in more recent shows, the response of audience can often be depressingly neglected or tone deaf when it comes to violence against women as a legitimate concern. Rather than openly discuss the subject of domestic violence, audience may see that lack of compliance resulting in physical abuse is naturally due to an unlikable personality. According to YouTube discussions on the matter, some are even misinterpreting Perry’s character as rather sexy.
Domestic violence remains a widening problem in our culture precisely. In many ways, we still fail to place the blame where it is due and continue to ask the superficial question of why the woman is still in the relationship, rather than probing why the violence can’t seem to stop manifesting from man. Assuming that victims must have played a part in provoking the rage — we judge women who begin to propitiate the scenario and the abuser out of fear.
The show deftly points out a contrast to a culture that regularly undermines victims and their candor dealing with such abuse. Not only it offers a dramatisation, in all forms of fictitious creativity, of how abuse can be tucked and hidden away, it is also providing a bold solution to a shameful truth that gradually sees clear sky ahead.
Episode 2 (season 2) closes with Sufjan Stevens’ track ‘Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)’ from the 2003 album “Michigan” — a 15-track tribute to the musician’s home state. The evocative piano instrumental plays as the dialogue-free scene depicts a sweet moment when Celeste and her twins arrive at Jane’s apartment. It highlights a strong storyline that advocates the evolving friendship between the women’s complicated and intertwined lives.
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Watch Point Blank's Ski Oakenfull deconstruct New Order's Blue Monday
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Iconic track gets dissected at Sónar +D 2016 in Ableton Live
To coincide with New Order headlining last month's Sónar 2016 in Barcelona, Point Blank were asked to take part in Sónar +D - the educational arm of the famous festival.
Naturally, Lead Course Developer Ski Oakenfull jumped at the chance to deconstruct the band's classic Blue Monday. Watch the video to see how it all went down and, as a special treat, you can also download the project used by Ski once you register with Point Blank.
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May 16, 2019· Secondary steelmaking involves treating the molten steel produced from both BOS and EAF routes to adjust the steel composition. This is done by adding or removing certain elements and/or manipulating the temperature and production environment. Depending on the types of steel required, the following secondary steelmaking processes can be used:
United States Steel Salaries | Glassdoor
Jun 18, 2019· 825 United States Steel employees have shared their salaries on Glassdoor. Select your job title and find out how much you could make at United States Steel.
What do Steelworkers do? (with pictures) - wisegeek.com
May 10, 2019· I have always been under the assumption that steel workers were the people that work in the steel mills and create the steel that is used. I do not know why I assume this, because there has to be other aspects of the steel worker profession that just does not relegate them to the factories, but has many different jobs or duties.
How Did Andrew Carnegie Treat His Workers? | Reference.com
How Did Andrew Carnegie Treat His Workers? Many accounts of Andrew Carnegie state that he exploited his workers, subjecting them to long hours, a dangerous workplace, and low pay. Many workers in his steel mills worked for 12 hours per day, seven days a week, and were cast aside when they were no longer physically able to meet the demands of ...
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Jan 10, 2019· The average salary for United States Steel Corporation employees is $71,643 per year. Visit PayScale to research United States Steel Corporation salaries, bonuses, reviews, benefits, and …
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Apr 25, 2012· J & L Steel (known to its employees as simply "J & L") provided the most competition to the Carnegie Steel Company in the Pittsburgh vicinity. Back in those days a man could go to work at the local steel mill and provide a decent living for his family …
How much money do steel mill workers get - answers.com
How much money do steel mill workers get? I live in Pittsburgh - Steel CITY USA. The LOWEST Paying Job in the mill is $19.23 an hour.. The Highest is around $50/hr for WORKERS of non-management jobs.
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How much does oilfield workers get paid after 5 to 10 years? The can get paid as much as $150,000. Oil field workers are one of the highest paying jobs you can have without a degree.
How much does United States Steel pay? | Indeed.com
May 31, 2019· The average United States Steel salary ranges from approximately $47,013 per year for Machine Operator to $102,137 per year for Senior Application Analyst. Average United States Steel hourly pay ranges from approximately $14.40 per hour for Utility Worker to $80.00 per hour for Senior Application Developer.
United Steelworkers - Wikipedia
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, commonly known as United Steelworkers (USW), is a general trade union with 860,294 members across North America.Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the United Steelworkers represents workers in Canada, the Caribbean and the United States.
Labor 1875-1925 - Georgetown Preparatory School
The National Labor Union attacked the wage system as unfair and degrading and they urged workers to manage their own factories. The NLU pushed energetically for an 8-hour day. Ranks swelled to more than 600,000 but wilted during the depression that began in 1873 and the Great Railroad strike of 1877..
STEEL: From Start to Finish - YouTube
Aug 12, 2009· A narrated description of the steelmaking process.
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Outside its sprawling steel mills, Duquesne, for example, had only one other manufacturer, a small factory that at capacity employed only about seventy workers. The situation was not much different in Homestead, Braddock, Clairton, and other steel towns anchored to a single employer.
The Workers World- Making a Living - Johnstown Heritage ...
Molten steel could splash and burn. Most horribly, when workers fell into a furnace, no body was left for a funeral! Out of respect, the whole load of iron or steel was buried right at the mill site. Workers hurt on the job didn't receive disability, though Cambria Iron and Steel Company did build a company hospital to treat injured employees.
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The starting pay for apprentices is usually about 50 percent of what journeymen ironworkers make. They receive pay increases as they learn to do more. The majority of ironworkers work full time. Structural ironworkers who work at great heights do not work during wet, icy, or extremely windy conditions.
steel mill - MSU Department of Geography
Iron and Steel: a trip inside a steel mill Pure iron, prepared by the electrolysis of ferrous sulfate solution, has limited use. Commercial iron invariably contains small amounts of carbon and other impurities that alter its physical properties, which are considerably improved by the further addition of carbon and other alloying elements.
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A "steel man" is a steel worker who helps put together the physical infrastructure of a steel-framed building. An apprenticeship is common and steel workers may also complete certifications in welding or rigging for this career, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Steel Mill Workers - Mesothelioma & Asbestos Exposure Risks
AK Steel, USX Corporation, Porter Hayden Co., a former installer of asbestos-containing insulation products, LTV Steel, Weirton Steel and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. have been involved in asbestos litigation for exposing steel mill workers. Keystone Steel & Wire Co. also manufactured asbestos products used by steel mill works.
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What is the average hourly rate for a factory worker in China?
Oct 03, 2017· According to Euromonitor, Chinese hourly wage hit USD3.6 in 2016. > Chinese factory workers are now getting paid more than ever: Average hourly wages hit $3.60 last year, spiking 64 percent from 2011, according to market research firm Euromonitor....
Steel mill - Wikipedia
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also describe plants where steel semi-finished casting products (blooms, ingots, slabs, billets) are made, from molten pig iron or from scrap.
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This statistic gives figures about steel production in the United States between 2006 and 2018. In 2018, around 87 million metric tons of steel was produced here. Basic oxygen furnaces accounted ...
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Employment []. The steel industry provided about 159,000 wage and salary jobs in 2008. Employment in the steel industry is broken into two major sectors: iron and steel mills and ferroalloy production, which employed 98,900 workers; and steel products from purchased steel, which employed 60,100 workers.
What is an estimated cost for starting a steel mill? - Quora
Feb 19, 2018· I was part of a team that designed and built of a greenfield steel plant in the mid-1980’s. That plant cost $2.5b (not counting land cost), and it would be about $5b if built today. Of course, that was an integrated plant (coke ovens, blast furnac...
Salary of Steel Plant Workers | Chron.com
Most Popular Jobs. The two types of jobs that employed the largest number of steelworkers, according to the bureau, were the production occupations, with 41,820 workers -- nearly half of all steel plant employees -- and the installation and maintenance jobs for equipment, with 16,640 workers.
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May 31, 2019· Average United States Steel Utility Worker hourly pay in the United States is approximately $14.40, which is 16% above the national average. Salary information comes from 73 data points collected directly from employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.
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School Led by Dilhani Uswatte (AL '09) Wins $20K National Grant
Rocky Ridge Elementary School in Hoover, Alabama, led by Dr. Dilhani Uswatte (AL '09), has won a $20,000 UNthink My School grant from the Wahl Foundation, in partnership with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). The grant is the program's top award this year, with $2,000 grants going to an additional 10 schools.
The $20,000 will support implementation of a K-12 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) curriculum called Project Lead The Way (PLTW). The PLTW program for students in grades K-5, called PLTW Launch, introduces students to concepts in computer science, engineering and biomedical science, while helping them develop communication, critical and creative thinking, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
"To be selected as THE grand prize winner of $20,000 from hundreds of applications across this great country is such an honor for the students, staff and parents at Rocky Ridge Elementary," said Uswatte in a prepared statement. "Winning this national grant will help us to build on our school focus: 'Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead.' With this new partnership, we will unleash creative problem-solving and innovation and hope to bring much deserved recognition to Hoover City Schools and the state of Alabama."
The Wahl Foundation, in collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), launched "UNthink My School" as a way to reward elementary schools that approached a challenge with a creative solution. The grant was created as a way to reinforce themes in Erik Wahl's book, UNThink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius.
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Giant sculptural installations and memorial alleys are a tribute to the heroic work of Soviet people who won the Great Patriotic War.
The Museum of the Great Patriotic War contains authentic war memorabilia, dioramas depicting major battles and an exhibition of military hardware.
Another monument honors Russia’s allies in World War II.
Five terraces making up the alley symbolize five years of war and 225 fountains are equal to the number of weeks that the war lasted.
The huge and picturesque park is a great place to relax, to roller skate, to skateboard, to go for a bike ride or to join a sports group.
Victory ParkRussian: Park Pobedy or Парк Победы on Poklonnaya HillRussian: Poklonnaya gora or Поклонная гора is a tribute to the memory of soldiers who fought in World War II, and the victory that was bought so dearly by Soviet people. Moscow suffered a lot in 1941–1945: hunger, aerial attacks, and daily back-breaking labour. Hundreds of thousands of Muscovites died during those black years. The victims of that dreadful war are commemorated in the colossal sculptures, the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic WarRussian: Tsentralnyi muzey Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny or Центральный музей Великой Отечественной войны with its collection of military equipment, memorial avenues and religious objects in Victory Park. Picturesque greenery makes the park a wonderful place for a walk, and the wide avenues and paths make it Moscow’s rollerblading stomping ground.
Concerts, festivals and firework displays are held on Poklonnaya Hill on holidays. Yet, the most important date is the 9th of May, Victory Day, on which the hill gets crowded. People lay flowers at the foot of memorials, enjoy performances by Russia’s best artists, and look forward to seeing the fireworks which signify the climax of this public holiday.
Poklonnaya Hill, where Victory Park is situated, is an important place in the history of Moscow. Its name dates back to ancient times, when the hill was used to meet important guests from the West (poklon means ‘bow’ in Russian). As Napoleon and his army entered Moscow in 1812, he set up a camp on Poklonnaya Hill to await the keys to Moscow, and did so in vain – the Russian army chose to cede the abandoned city and muster its strength for a decisive attack. Symbolically, the hill is just opposite the Triumphal ArchRussian: Triumfalnaya arka or Триумфальная арка in Kutuzovsky AvenueRussian: Kutuzovskiy prospekt or Кутузовский проспект, built to commemorate Russia’s victory over Napoleon.
The idea to establish a huge memorial on the hill to commemorate the heroic deeds of the Soviet people was born even before the end of World War II. A sign reading, ‘A monument to the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 is going to be erected here’, appeared on Poklonnaya Hill in 1958. Plans to reconstruct the park were underway the same year; trees were planted and avenues were re-designed. However, it was not until 1984 that the construction of the memorial on the hill began. The designers were ambitious in their goal to tell the entire history of war through the use of architectural elements, in so doing creating a memorial to all those who fought the enemy for the common goal.
Even if you are in a beautiful historic area or a tidy park, walking around the huge city takes up a lot of energy. For you to have a rest in the best way, on the pages of our website there is a lot of information about places to eat in Moscow.
Whilst Poklonnaya hill is a tribute to a terrible war, there are also wonderful things to do here. Thanks to the terrain and the abundance of paved slopes, the park is popular with bike riders, skateboarders and rollerbladers. Sporting equipment rentals are available in the park. Free group exercise classes are also available on a regular basis. In addition, you can have a snack, a rest on a bench, or just stroll along the avenues.
The central part of the park has a regular geometric shape, manicured lawns and flower beds. However, if you walk a little away from the main avenues, you will enter a ‘wilder’ part of the park where you can walk under the trees or ride a bike or rollerblade on the slopes.
Monuments and museums in Victory Park
The Victory MonumentRussian: Monument Pobedy or Монумент Победы is the central point of the park and the highest monument in Russia. Located in Pobediteley SquareRussian: ploshchad’ Pobediteley or площадь Победителей, it represents an obelisk in the form of a 141-m spiked bayonet. The Eternal FlameRussian: Vechnyi ogon or Вечный огонь lit from the flame above the Grave of the Unknown SoldierRussian: Mogila Neizvestnogo Soldata or Могила Неизвестного Солдата in Alexander GardenRussian: Aleksandrovskiy sad or Александровский сад burns close by. Right behind the obelisk, you will see the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, which contains authentic war relics and presents dioramas of the key battles. It is not just the exhibits which explain the chronology of the battle but also a huge memorial that commemorates the fallen. The Memory HallRussian: Zal Pamyati or Зал Памяти keeps 385 volumes of the Book of RemembranceRussian: Kniga Pamyati or Книга Памяти that lists the names of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War. The museum holds temporary exhibitions dedicated to military history. Military equipment from both the Soviet Union and the Allies is exhibited nearby.
If you follow Guerilla AvenueRussian: alleya Partizan or аллея Партизан from the museum, you will see a monument to the Allied powers. This is another symbol of the unity of numerous peoples that fought for what they believed to be right. A chapel consecrated to Spanish volunteers who fell in the Soviet ranks during World War II can be found in the depths of the avenue nearby. In addition, there is a sculptural monument called ‘In the Fight of Fascism We Were Together’ that you will see if you turn right to follow Memory AvenueRussian: alleya Pamyati or аллея Памяти.
If you keep walking along Memory Avenue, you will reach a synagogue. Its permanent exhibition is dedicated first of all to the victims of the Holocaust and also to the history of Jewish people in Russia.
An Orthodox church consecrated to St. George, a patron saint of the military, is located across the central square. The nearby monument is called ‘To the Missing Soldiers without Graves’. It depicts a fatally wounded foot soldier with his knees half bent, who is about to fall. There is nothing like pathos or solemnity in this monument, rather, it simply reminds us of the cruelty of war and the millions of individual tragedies.
The central Wartime AvenueRussian: ‘Gody Voyny’ or «Годы войны» with memorial steles commemorating various fronts and fleets leads to Park Pobedy metro station. The avenue offers an incredible perspective of the monuments. Its five terraces refer to each of the five years of war, and its 225 fountains indicate the duration of the war in weeks.
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Children's Middle Grade Book Picks (9-12yrs) April 2017 - UK Post Two
Bobbie Peers - William Wenton and the Luridium Thief - Published by Walker Books (6 April 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1406371703
Packed full of magical code-breaking skills, wisecracking robots and a young hero who might just be too clever for his own good, this tech-savvy adventure is perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Alex Rider. Twelve year-old code breaking genius William Wenton, is trying to make sense of his family's dramatic escape from their home in London. But when his extraordinary talent for cracking codes is suddenly revealed, William must face the danger that has been lurking around him for years.
Dan Walker - Sky Thieves (Sky Thieves 1) - Published by OUP Oxford (6 April 2017) ISBN-13: 978-0192747013
Love Pirates of the Caribbean? Then prepared to be swept away by this new swashbuckling adventure series.
Talented debut author, Dan Walker, creates an imaginative world where thieves sail the skies in flying galleons-an action-packed adventure of epic scale.
Zoya DeLarose has no idea her life is about to change forever when a band of sky thieves 'steal' her away from her orphanage, landing up in the clouds, on board The Dragonfly's deck. There, Zoya discovers a world of meteorite storms, sword fights, midnight raids, floating islands, and long lost treasure. But with a deadly enemy closing in, will Zoya find the strength to face her fears and unlock the key to her destiny, or will she fall from the skies with no one left to break her fall?
Andrew Beasley - The Mummy's Revenge (S.C.R.E.A.M.) - Published by Usborne Publishing Ltd (1 April 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1474906920
In the dark and winding streets of Edinburgh, a burglar is on the prowl. But this is no ordinary thief.
Three thousand years old and risen from the grave, this rampaging robber is a rotting Egyptian Mummy - and he wants rubies and revenge!
There's only one crime-fighting force who can deal with a menace like this: Billy Flint & Charley Steel AKA S.C.R.E.A.M. - top-secret investigators of Supernatual Crimes, Rescues, Emergencies And Mysteries.
Joshua Khan - Dream Magic (Shadow Magic) - Published by Scholastic (6 April 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1407172095
In a world ruled by six ancient Houses of Magic, a girl and a boy begin an epic and dangerous journey of discovery . . . Lileth Shadow, princess of darkness, is struggling with her growing powers. Castle Gloom is filling with ghosts, zombies roam the country and people throughout Gehenna are disappearing. Then Lily is attacked in her own castle by a mysterious sorcerer known as Dreamweaver and his army of jewel-spiders whose bites send victims to sleep. Thorn, and his giant bat Hades, must save Lily from the realm of sleep and help her overcome the evil Dreamweaver in order for her to reclaim her kingdom.
M . G . Leonard - Beetle Queen (The Battle of the Beetles) - Published by Chicken House (6 April 2017) ISBN-13: 978-1910002773
Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies. When Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt discover further evidence of her evil, they're determined to stop her. But the three friends are in trouble. Darkus' dad has forbidden them to investigate any further - and Lucretia's disgusting crooks, Humphrey and Pickering, are out of prison. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead ...
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Labels: Action, Adventure, April 2017, Book Picks UK 2017, Fantasy, Middle Grade Books, Mystery, New Book Releases, UK
MARIA TURTSCHANINOFF - #NAONDEL BLOG TOUR - My Road to Translation
Welcome to Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books and my stop on the “Naondel” blog tour. “Naondel” is the second book in the critically acclaimed “The Red Abbey Chronicle Series” published by Pushkin Children's Books. Naondel will be hitting the bookshops on the 6th April, 2017 so it's not too long to grab yourself a copy and give it a read.
Here Maria shares with us how the book came to be translated - My Road to translation.
Have a read and enjoy...
I owe quite a bit to my translator Annie Prime. It was she who, many years ago, contacted me and told me she was working on translating a sample from my novel Arra as a part of her translator’s exam, and would I like to see it? I did, and thought it was better than the sample translation my agency was using at the time, so I told my agent about it. She ended up asking Annie Prime to do the sample translation of Maresi, when that book came out, and later commissioned a translation of the entire book. It helped that Maresi is such a short novel, I think. And Annie did a fantastic job, which I think is one of the main reasons the sales abroad took off. The fact that the book won the prestigious Finlandia Junior 2014-award helped, too. It’s a testament to the quality of the translation that it’s the one my British and American publishers ended up using. And Annie has done the translation of Naondel, too. I very much hope to be able to continue working with her in the future! As I write this, Maresi has been sold to 20 territories and the trilogy to about 13 or so. And the big news last year was of course that Maresi was optioned for a movie by Film4.
Next stop on the #Naondel blog tour is: thepewterwolf.blogspot.com
About the author - Website: https://www.mariaturtschaninoff.com/english
Maria Turtschaninoff is a Swedish-speaking Finn who has been writing fairy tales from the age of five. However, there was often a twist: the poor farmer boy and the princess he had just saved from the evil witch did not end up marrying, because they "didn’t feel like it". Her biggest grief as a child was that no wardrobe led to Narnia.
After a detour as a journalist for a few years Turtschaninoff debuted in 2007 with a middle-grade portal fantasy and has since published four more novels, all YA fantasy. Pushkin Press has acquired world English rights to Maresi and the subsequent two novels in the Red Abbey Chronicles.
Book Synopsis: In the opulent palace of Ohaddin, women have one purpose - to obey. Some were brought here as girls, captured and enslaved; some as servant; some as wives. All of them must do what the Master tells them, for he wields a deadly and secret power. But the women have powers too. One is a healer. One can control dreams. One is a warrior. One can see everything that is coming.In their golden prison, the women wait. They plan. They write down their stories. They dream of a refuge, a safe place where girls can be free.
And, finally, when the moon glows red, they will have their revenge.
Labels: April 2017, blog tour, Faith, Fantasy, Female Perspective, Guest Post, Magical, Pushkin Press, Red Abbey Chronicles, Translation
Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: Children's Middle Grade Book Picks (9-12yrs) April 2017 - UK Post One
Sarah Driver - Sea (The Huntress Trilogy) - Published by Egmont (6 April 2017) - ISBN-13: 978-1405284677
The first book in a stunning new fantasy adventure trilogy, perfect for readers aged 9+ and fans of Philip Pullman, Piers Torday, Abi Elphinstone, Katherine Rundell and Frances Hardinge.
In the sky, the fire spirits dance and ripple. Grandma says they showed our Tribe that I’d be a captain, before I was even born.
Ever since Ma died, Mouse has looked after her little brother, Sparrow, dreaming of her destiny as captain of the Huntress. But now Da’s missing, Sparrow is in danger, and a deathly cold is creeping across Trianukka . . .
Sea-churning, beast-chattering, dream-dancing, whale-riding, terrodyl-flying, world-saving adventure.
Justin Fisher - The Gold Thief (Ned's Circus of Marvels, Book 2) - Published by HarperCollins Children's Books (6 April 2017) - ISBN-13: 978-0008124557
From the author of bestselling debut NED'S CIRCUS OF MARVELS… Roll up, roll up, and prepare to be AMAZED AGAIN by Ned and the marvellous, magical, monstrous flying circus!
Ned and his family are trying to be ordinary except for the small fact that they AREN’T. AT ALL. Because on the run up to Christmas everything is ruined when all the world’s gold goes missing, along with its leading scientists. Which doesn't really have anything to do with Ned… until it does. When an oily thief and his pet monster turn up at Ned's door, Ned finds himself on the run again… and racing to find out what this new villain wants.
Meanwhile, in the shadows, a machine with a mind of its own vies for power, and mysterious men in grey suits are watching the Circus of Marvels' every move. Together with his best friend Lucy, his clockwork mouse and his shadow, Ned must use his growing magical powers to try to uncover a secret that could end them all…
Dave Rudden - The Forever Court (Knights of the Borrowed Dark Book 2) - Published by Puffin (6 April 2017) - ISBN-13: 978-0141356617
The second book in the brilliant Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant.
Life is returning to normal for Denizen Hardwick. Well, the new normal, where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops and constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy, the daughter of the Endless King. But Denizen may need those powers sooner than he thinks - not only are the Tenebrous stirring again but the Order of the Borrowed Dark face a new threat from much closer to home...
Scarlett Thomas - Dragon's Green: Worldquake Book One (Worldquake Sequence 1) - Published by Canongate Books (6 April 2017) - ISBN-13: 978-1782117025
Effie's world comes to life with a magical GLOW-IN-THE-DARK cover
'Some people think opening a book is a simple thing. It's not.
Most people don't realise that you can get truly lost in a book. You can.
Especially you.'
AFTER THE WORLDQUAKE, MAGIC IS SEEPING INTO OUR WORLD
Effie Truelove is a new pupil at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange, with its twisted grey spires and an English teacher so frightening she gives the class nightmares.
When her beloved grandfather is brutally attacked, Effie promises to look after his magical books. But then shady book-collector Leonard Levar gets his hands on them and Effie has to embark on the most dangerous adventure of her life . . .
Effie must travel to the mysterious Otherworld, unlock the hidden meaning of an old book called Dragon's Green, and brave the terrifying Diberi, a secret organisation with plans that could destroy the entire universe.
But Effie can't face the Diberi alone. Can her new school-friends Maximilian, Wolf, Lexy and Raven combine their gifts and discover their true powers in time?
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Home GCC Kuwait Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in talks over Divided Zone
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in talks over Divided Zone
25 June 2015 12:13 PM By Wil Crisp
Kuwaits Oil Minister says a joint committee has been formed
Joint committee held its first meeting in Riyadh
No timeframe set for talks
Three major projects have been derailed in the zone over the past two years
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have started talks designed to find a resolution to the dispute that stopped hydrocarbons production in the Divided Zone, a border region shared by the two countries.
A joint committee formed by the two countries
has recently held its first meeting in Riyadh, Kuwaits Oil Minister Ali al-Omair told the countrys state-controlled news agency KUNA on 23 June.
Omair said there was no official timeframe for the talks.
Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian Chevron wound down its operations at the Wafra field, the last operational oil field in the region.
The $5bn field development scheme is the third major project to be derailed in the region in two years, in a shutdown that contractors are blaming on a political dispute between the two countries over how land in the shared territory is used.
In August 2013, the Dorra gas field development project, which had an estimated budget of more than $2bn, was shelved. Although no satisfactory official explanation for the project delays was given, at the time sources told MEED it was abandoned after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait failed to agree on the best way to extract the gas.
The second project to be derailed was the operational 310,000 barrel-a-day (b/d) Al-Khafji oil field, which was unexpectedly taken offline on 16 October 2014 on the orders of Saudi Arabia.
Officially, the kingdom said this was due to the fields failure to comply with environmental standards, but this fails to explain the sudden and unexpected nature of the shutdown and insiders have claimed Riyadhs intervention was politically motivated.
Kuwaiti oil production dropped by 42,000 b/d in May, falling to 2.73 million b/d, according to data collected by UK oil and gas research company Energy Aspects.
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Home GCC Qatar Qatar extends bid deadline for West Bay people mover
Qatar extends bid deadline for West Bay people mover
15 March 2011 12:00 AM By Meed
The new bid deadline for project management contract is 29 March
State-owned Qatari Diar is extending the deadline to 29 March for companies to submit prequalification documents for the project management consultancy contract for a $2.2bn automated people mover in West Bay.
The initial deadline for companies to submit prequalification documents was 8 March.
The automated people mover will connect the Doha Convention Centre & Tower to major points in the West Bay area. The first phase will transport 5,900 passengers an hour in each direction with 10 stations and about 42 cars.
The project is a part of Qatar’s $25bn plans to develop an integrated railway network. The rail network includes the Doha metro, a freight rail line and also a high-speed passenger line.
Automated people movers are also planned in other areas of Doha, including Education City and Lusail City where the Fifa World Cup will be centred in 2022.
Qatari Diar is developing the railway projects together with Germany’s Deutsche Bahn. The two firms signed a memorandum of understanding in 2009 to develop the design for the country’s railway network.
The pair has now finished forming the joint venture Qatar Railways Development Company.
Ghanim bin Saad al-Saad is chairman of Qatar Railways Company board of directors and is also managing director of Qatari Diar. Abdulla al-Subaie has been appointed as managing director of Qatar Railways Company.
Qatar Railways Company will now be responsible for managing all of the design and construction work for Qatar’s metro and rail projects.
Energy markets underestimate Gulf oil supply risks
12 January 2020 6:24 PM By MEED
The apparent desire of both Washington and Tehran to avoid a wider conflict in the region does not mean that the risk to Gulf oil supplies is reducing
Contractors express interest in Sharq crossing
Ashghal invited local and international contractors to attend a meeting to discuss the Sharq Crossing project in December
South Korean firm wins office tower construction deal
05 January 2020 8:02 AM By Colin Foreman
Hyundai Engineering & Construction has been awarded the contract to build an 80-storey office tower at Lusail
Joint venture wins airport terminal expansion contract
04 December 2019 3:33 PM By Jennifer Aguinaldo
Contract covers expanding the northern end of the existing passenger terminal building and other works at Hamad International airport
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Minneapolis City SC Defeats Dakota Fusion FC 5-0
Minneapolis City SC laid down a marker on Saturday, routing Dakota Fusion FC 5-0 behind a Whitney Browne hat trick and surging to the top of the conference table. It was expected to be a close game, with only two points separating the sides at the end of last season. It was not a close game.
As head coach Adam Pribyl had promised, City were quick out of the game. The central midfield pairing of Max Stiegwardt and Ian Smith was effective on both sides of the ball, and in fact it was Stiegwardt, showing a level of impudence that would get a lesser man banished from the land, who nipped in to steal a Fusion pass, looked up, and found the tiniest of spaces to place the loveliest of chips past a despairing Nate Levy in the Fusion goal.
It was pure inspiration.
A legitimate golazo.
It was just the beginning.
The 10 minutes after the opener were the best spell for Fusion, and there were able to work the wings and find a few crosses in behind the City defense. However, “Big Game” James Neher commands his box and was able to scoop up anything that came his way.
The one time it was played out of his reach, the big goalkeeper produced a full-stretch stop of astonishing agility to keep the away team at bay.
The Crows had been looking dangerous, but the second goal appeared as if conjured from thin air.
Whitney Browne, acting as a footballing Albus Dumbledore, chased what seemed to be a last cause. His movement and feints, though, were just enough to throw of the Fusion defender, and a mishit backless was easily snaffled up by the speedy winger. He made no mistake when one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
2-0 to Minneapolis City with less than a half hour gone.
Browne, playing in the stadium of his alma mater, wasn’t finished yet.
With the Crows completely in the ascendency, great work from Stiegwardt and Kidd were enough to release Whitney Browne and, again one-on-one with Levy, he again made no mistake.
The first half ended 3-0 to Minneapolis City.
Fusion had comeback against the Crows last season, and the home side was keep to ensure that didn’t happen again.
Once more, they were out the blocks like lightning.
Stiegwardt continued his impressive shift in the midfield, spraying the ball across the field with pinpoint accuracy and cavalier insouciance.
In the 56th minute, Will Kidd cut the ball back for Stiegwardt. His stinging shot was somehow palmed out of the goal by Levy, but only as far as Whitney Browne. The winger made no mistake from close range and completed his hat trick.
Mere minutes later Martin Browne, elder brother to Whitney and introduced at halftime in place of Ben Wexler, produced a moment of brilliance.
Hardworking forward Branden McGarrity laid the ball off for Browne nearly 25 yards from goal. Browne, sensing opportunity like a dog senses bacon, fired a veritable Exocet missile of a shot into the top corner of the net.
Levy, despairing, was able to get fingers to the ball, but it was hit with such power that there was only ever one outcome.
Minneapolis City were up 5-0 with an hour gone.
At that point, with a frustrated Fusion team becoming slightly chippy, Pribyl began to ring the changes. The raft of substitutions changed the character of the game, but without City losing any sense of control of the outcome.
It was only in the dying embers of extra time that Fusion truly threatened.
A free kick from 20 yards out was fired in and went off the underside of the crossbar and out. No goal, and an impressive clean sheet to match the offensive performance.
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Photo Credit: Tyler Birschbach/Minneapolis City SC
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